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Australia: The Secret Country Again Wages War on Its Own People
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Australia’s Racist Assault on Aboriginal People – They are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of years. In Western Australia, where mining companies make billion dollar profits exploiting Aboriginal land, the state government says it can no longer afford to “support” the homelands.
→ read full articleOklahoma Mysterious Iron Cup Embedded in Million-Year-Old Coal
Universe Explorers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
It’s a perfect piece of metal and it was discovered in 1912 in a mine in Wilburton, Oklahoma. The coal that originated from those mines is estimated to be around 300 million years old. This is where the story ignites and goes cold according to some.
→ read full articleGlobal Capitalism and the Global Police State: Crisis of Humanity and the Specter of 21st Century Fascism
Prof William I. Robinson - Global Research,
27 Apr 2015
The world capitalist system is arguably experiencing the worst crisis in its 500-year history. World capitalism has experienced a profound restructuring through globalisation over the past few decades and has been transformed in ways that make it fundamentally distinct from its earlier incarnations.
→ read full article(Castellano) Honrando a Eduardo Galeano
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Premio Nobel de la Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Cuando un amigo se va… Nos deja su abrazo solidario y la alegría de la resistencia en construir nuevos amaneceres junto a los pueblos. Así partió Eduardo Galeano hacedor de la palabra que camina, abriendo sendas de luces y esperanza a contrapelo del sistema de dominación.
→ read full article5 Shockingly Advanced Ancient Buildings That Shouldn’t Exist… Even If Built Today
Eric Yosomono, Welldone Quibranza & Alaric Penname – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
The achievements of ancient cultures tend to be woefully unappreciated — we think of the people as loincloth-wearing savages, and when we’re proven wrong by some impressive feat of engineering, we just make a bunch of documentaries about aliens. But the engineers of times past were nothing to sneer at, and some of their accomplishments make ours seem slightly embarrassing.
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Chopin “Fantasie” Impromptu (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Yundi Li – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Li Yundi, born Oct 7 1982 in China, was the youngest pianist to win the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in 2000 at the age of 18. He resides in Beijing.
Did you know that Chopin disliked this piece? He composed it when he was 24 years old and regretted it.
War Journalism and News Distortion
Michael Krona – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
For example: what do you think is the conflict from its inception in 1998 has had over five million dead, has had involvement of military forces from nine countries and played out in an area the size of Western Europe, but few in the West even noticed?
→ read full articleFreedom in Martyrdom
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir – The Huffington Post,
27 Apr 2015
Reconciliation must begin by recognizing and admitting to past mistakes. Regardless of the extent of the West’s abuse and exploitation of Arab resources and people, acknowledging its long history of misguided policies is critical to establishing a dialogue that is still largely missing in the strategy of countering violent extremism.
→ read full articleMillay’s “Epitaph for the Race of Man”
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
The beautiful red-haired American poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), is known for her lyric poetry. In “Epitaph” she speculates on what will be the final cause of the extinction of the human race and concludes that Man will die by his own hand since nothing has persuaded humankind “to lay aside the lever and the spade, and be as dust among the dusts that blow”.
→ read full articleThe West against Itself
Johan Galtung, 27 Apr 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Take the 70th anniversary demarcation of the victory over nazism… Poland lost 20% of its population; the Soviet Union 27.1 million, 16%, with 1,710 cities and 70,000 villages erased; UK 1.1%; USA 0.4%; Norway 0.32%.
→ read full articleThe Word That Cannot Be Uttered (It’s Drones)
Dan Froomkin – The Intercept,
27 Apr 2015
Over and over again, Obama called the drone strike that killed two al Qaeda hostages a “counterterrorism operation.” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest: Q: How will this incident affect specifically the U.S. policy, government policy on usage of drones?MR. EARNEST: Well, Jeff, there are certain aspects of this specific operation that I’m not going to be able to discuss, including how this specific operation was carried out … If they cannot even say the word, how can they even begin to tell the truth?
→ read full articleThe Effects of Marijuana on the Body
Healthline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
When you smoke marijuana, there’s an almost immediate effect on your brain, sense of perception, and heart rate. There may be long-term effects as well.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mare nostrum è di tutti
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Aosta 20 aprile 2015. Fiaccolata per le/i migranti morte/i in mare
→ read full articleBritain’s Colonial Shame: Slave-Owners Given Huge Payouts after Abolition
Sanchez Manning - The Independent,
27 Apr 2015
The British government paid out £20m to compensate some 3,000 families that owned slaves for the loss of their “property” when slave-ownership was abolished in Britain’s colonies in 1833. This figure represented a staggering 40 per cent of the Treasury’s annual spending budget and, in today’s terms, calculated as wage values, equates to around £16.5bn.
→ read full articleThe Least We Can Do for Syria
Lakhdar Brahimi, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
In a conflict as bitter, protracted, and complex as the war in Syria, it is all too easy to become overwhelmed by despair. And yet, however grim or upsetting the situation becomes, people around the world, rather than tuning out the war, should pressure their governments to protect and shelter Syria’s refugees.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Ukrainekonflikt und kein Ende?
Andreas Zumach, Blätter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Mit dem Abschluss von „Minsk II“ ist es, wenn auch unter großen Schwierigkeiten, zu einem höchst fragilen Waffenstillstand in der Ostukraine gekommen – inklusive einer Entzerrung der Frontlinien, des Abzugs schwerer Waffen und weiterer Deeskalationsschritte.
→ read full articleGaleano Died. But the Revolution Goes On!
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Eduardo Galeano died. My eyes are full of tears. Personally, I feel devastated. But Revolution is spreading all over the world and that is what matters. Thanks to him, and to others like him, fewer and fewer people will betray the cause. And more and more will dream and fight for the survival of our Planet, more and more will “keep walking”!
→ read full articleEurasia as We Knew It Is Dead
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
27 Apr 2015
Move over, Cold War 2.0. The real story, now and for the foreseeable future, is a new, integrated Eurasia forging ahead. China’s immensely ambitious New Silk Road project will keep intersecting with the Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union, a booming trade/commerce axis stretching from St. Petersburg to Shanghai.
→ read full articleEurope Should Protect People, Not Borders
Maximilian Popp – Der Spiegel,
27 Apr 2015
The EU registers everything that happens near its borders. In contrast to the claims that are often made, they do not look away when refugees die. They are watching very closely. And what is happening here is not negligent behavior. They are deliberately killing refugees.
→ read full articleGirls, Not Brides
Graça Machel and Mabel van Oranje, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Urging governments to combat child marriage by setting the minimum age for marriage at 18.
→ read full articleNobel Women Initiative’s Conference – Building Global Support for Women Human Rights Defenders
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Breaking the silence on Israel’s human rights abuse of Palestinians is the best way to help Palestinian women human rights defenders and peacemakers.
→ read full articleMediterranean Migrant Crisis: ‘EU and US Have to Own Up to What They Have Done in Libya’
Abayomi Azikiwe - Russia Today,
27 Apr 2015
The West should recognize that the situation with African migrants trying to escape to Europe is a serious crisis which needs to be addressed on an international level, Abayomi Azikiwe, editor, Pan-African News Wire, said.
→ read full articleAsian, African Nations Challenge ‘Obsolete’ World Order
Eveline Danubrata and Charlotte Greenfield, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Leaders of Asian and African nations called on Wednesday [22 Apr 2015] for a new global order that is open to emerging economic powers and leaves the “obsolete ideas” of Bretton Woods institutions in the past at the opening of a meeting in Jakarta to mark the 60th anniversary of a conference that made a developing-world stand against colonialism and led to the Cold War era’s non-aligned movement.
→ read full articleHindu Rashtra and Two-Nation Theory
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
A debate has recently gained momentum in India around the idea of Hindu Rashtra or Hindu nation-state… Hinduism is not dogmatic; it embraces pluralism. It believes in coexistence with other religions. Mahatma Gandhi was a proponent of this coexistence.
→ read full articleSide Effects: Popping Pills and Pop-Up Politicos
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Used to be, when I flipped channels, I’d go from one movie to another, one drama to another, one news show to another, etc. These days, I’m more likely to go from one commercial to another—and more likely than not, it’s a prescription pill commercial! Every third time I flip, I land on a “news” program where there are yakking heads (used to be talking, now they just yak—kind of like real yaks!)—giggling, oohing, ah-ing, laying odds on latest announcements by Hillary Shrillary, Jeb the Bush, Rand the Paul, Ted the Harvard-Hispanic guy, and Marco the Cuban-American guy.
→ read full articleChurch Pushed to Place Itself within BDS Movement
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
The Episcopal church in the USA (nearest relative, the Church of England) has been asked by its new group, the Episcopal Committee for Justice in Israel and Palestine, to adopt a policy of divestment from ‘companies that profit from Israel’s illegal occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands’. This is premised on the fact that Netanyahu has rejected the two-state solution and thus there is a new political landscape.
→ read full article(Português) Um Amigo Que Se Foi
Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
27 Apr 2015
19 de abril de 2015 – Durante várias horas, em silêncio, um grupo de chimpanzés, com aspecto sombrio e olhar entristecido, circula em volta de corpo de um querido amigo que acaba de morrer inesperadamente, fulminado por um ataque cardíaco.
→ read full articleIPRA 2016 Global Peace Conference to Be Held in Freetown, Sierra Leone
International Peace Research Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
The 26th biennial conference of the Interna¬tional Peace Research Association (IPRA) is billed to take place in Freetown, Sierra Leone in November 2016, marking the second time Africa has hosted the conference since the founding of IPRA in 1964.
→ read full articleYouTube at 10: The Archive of Now
Mark Little – Al Jazeera,
27 Apr 2015
Ten years on, YouTube has put the power in our hands: eyewitnesses and journalists. Before YouTube, you needed a journalist, a satellite dish, and a TV network to spread news. Today, all you need is a camera-phone and internet connection, a YouTube account and a social network.
→ read full articlePowerful Nonviolent Resistance to Armed Conflict in Yemen
Stephen Zunes and Noor Al-Haidary – Open Democracy,
27 Apr 2015
As with the initial uprising against the Saleh regime four years ago, an unarmed civil society movement rises up to challenge the Huthi militia.
→ read full articleThe Heart of the Hawaiian Peoples’ Arguments against the Telescope on Mauna Kea
Doug Herman, Smithsonian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
23 Apr 2015 – Native Hawaiians are not protesting science, but instead are seeking respect for sacred places, and our planet. At this moment all over the Hawaiian Islands, but especially atop Mauna Kea volcano, there are protests against the building of a new Thirty-Meter Telescope on this sacred mountain.
→ read full articleA Trade Rule That Makes It Illegal to Favor Local Business? Newest Leak Shows TPP Would Do That and More
David Korten - YES! Magazine,
27 Apr 2015
The leaked text is full of dense legal jargon. But a close reading makes its corporate agenda crystal clear.
→ read full articleMigrants´ Right to Live Should Not Be Killed
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Humankind may boast of many a life-saving technological invention,
but does it succeed, when challenged by migrant death prevention?…
The Now Show – Dr Seuss at Copenhagen
Marcus Brigstocke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
HILARIOUS! Read as you listen to podcast. A Dr Seuss-style take on events at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
→ read full articleThe Oslo Conference to End Myanmar’s Persecution of the Rohingyas
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Venues: The Nobel Institute and Voksenaasen
Oslo, Norway
26-28 May 2015
At this Oslo Conference, global leaders including George Soros and Desmond Tutu will call on the international community, both international investors, European Union and governments with close ties to Myanmar, to help end Myanmar’s Rohingya persecution.
Legacy of War
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Sometimes when we reflect on war, we talk about sacrifice for a good cause. Other times, we talk about the cost, in lives or liberties lost. Occasionally, we talk about the horror. Sometimes we talk about the gains, nationally or internationally, for freedom and democracy. And rarely, we analyse the causes of war and lament that one day we might end it.
→ read full articleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Death of the Republic
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
On April 22, 2015, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to fast-track the TPP, a massive trade agreement that would override our republican form of government and hand judicial and legislative authority to a foreign three-person panel of corporate lawyers. The TPP would elevate the rights of investors – also called the rights of “capital” – above the rights of the citizens.
→ read full articleIf Writers Are Necessarily Right…
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Who Are the “Rongers”, So Necessarily Wrong? The focus of this reflection is on the curious phonetic relationship in English between “writer” and “right”. Is the exercise of “writing” surreptitiously assumed to be one which endeavours to make “right”? Can it be readily assumed to have this purpose, as in the sense of “setting things right” — “putting the world to rights”?
→ read full articleA New Deal for Greece
Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
None of this means that common ground cannot be achieved immediately. The Greek government wants a fiscal-consolidation path that makes sense, and we want reforms that all sides believe are important. Our task is to convince our partners that our undertakings are strategic, rather than tactical, and that our logic is sound. Their task is to let go of an approach that has failed.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Early Nuclear Deceit Damages Iran Nuclear Talks Today
Richard Silverstein – Middle East Eye,
27 Apr 2015
Instead of demonising Iran and treating it as a pariah state, wouldn’t there be more to gain from collaboration and cooperation? American Jewish money built Israel’s bomb.
→ read full article(Norsk-Norwegian) Johan Galtung, verdens første fredsforskar om konflikten mellom Vesten og Islam
Jonas Sætre, Uten Filter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
14 Apr 2015 – Nyheitsdekninga det siste året har i svært stor grad vore prega av konflikt mellom Islam og Vesten. Frå terrorangrepa i Paris og København og terrortrugsel på norsk jord, til framveksten av IS, norske framandkrigarar og Vestens krigføring i Midtausten. Sjølv for den verdskjende norske professoren og fredsmeklaren Johan Galtung er dette dramatiske tider i tilhøvet mellom Vesten og Islam.
→ read full articleOn the Historic Role of the Peace Movement
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
One can distinguish between four forms of power: military, economic, cultural and political. Military power says, “If you don’t do what I want, I will hurt you.” Economic power says, “If you do what I want, I will reward you.” Cultural power says, “If you do what I want, I will praise you, and if you don’t do what I want, I will criticize you.” Political power manipulates the other three forms of power to achieve goals.
→ read full articleThe Myth of ‘Value-Free’ Social Science or The Value of Political Commitments to Social Science
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
For many decades, mainstream social scientists, mostly conservative, have argued that political commitments and scientific research are incompatible. Against this current of opinion, others, mostly politically engaged social scientists, have argued that scientific research and political commitment are not contradictory. For the serious critical academic, in answering the question of ‘knowledge for whom?’: they would do well to follow Karl Marx’s wise adage, ‘The object of philosophy is not only to study the world but to change it.’
→ read full article(Deutsch) Günter Grass: Was gesagt werden muss
Günter Grass (Literatur-Nobelpreisträger) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Günter Grass (16 Oktober 1927-13 April 2015) warnt in der “Süddeutschen Zeitung” vor einem Krieg gegen Iran. In seinem Gedicht mit dem Titel “Was gesagt werden muss” fordert der Literaturnobelpreisträger deshalb, Israel dürfe keine deutschen U-Boote mehr bekommen. Dieses Gedicht hat eine hitzige Debatte in Deutschland und Israel.
→ read full articleWhat’s Obama Up to, with His TPP & TTIP?
Eric Zuesse, Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
It is instead to transfer political power away from the public in a democracy. The global aristocratic stockholder votes of the international aristocracy who elect the corporate directors of international companies will then be selecting the members to the international-trade-panels which, in TPP and TTIP, will, in their turn, be determining the rules and enforcements regarding especially workers’ rights, product-safety, and the environment.
→ read full articleMost Europeans ‘Totally Distrust’ Mainstream Media Coverage of Ukraine Crisis – Poll
End the Lie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
21 Apr 2015 – The majority of Europeans – UK, French, German and Greek residents among them – distrust mainstream media coverage of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, a recent poll conducted by the British ICM Research agency for Sputnik News, targeting over 4,000 people, reveals.
→ read full articleSomething’s Happening in Latin America – A Review
Kim Scipes, New Politics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Apr 21, 2015 – With the Middle East in flames, NATO trying to start World War III in Ukraine while the European Union’s economy stagnates, Africa torn by low-level wars, and China re-entering the world stage in an assertive manner, there’s one region of the world that is relatively quiet: South America.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Atomic Cities: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Kazumi Matsui and Tomihisa Taue, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
On April 27 [2015], the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’s 190 member countries will meet in New York for a review of the 45-year-old pact. The attendees would be wise to consider the important fact that a wide legal gap still remains when it comes to eliminating nuclear weapons: disarmament negotiations. This year also marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6 and 9.
Kazumi Matsui is the mayor of Hiroshima, Japan.
Tomihisa Taue is the mayor of Nagasaki, Japan.
Solution
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
One reverend complained to the other, “I have no people coming to listen to my sermon.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Apr 27–May 3 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Good morning… this is God. I will be handling all of your problems today. I will not need your help. So, have a good day.” – Unknown
→ read full articleSex, Drugs, and Dead Soldiers: What U.S. Africa Command Doesn’t Want You to Know
Nick Turse – TomDispatch,
27 Apr 2015
Six people lay lifeless in the filthy brown water. It was 5:09 a.m. when their Toyota Land Cruiser plunged off a bridge in the West African country of Mali. For about two seconds, the SUV sailed through the air, pirouetting 180 degrees as it plunged 70 feet, crashing into the Niger River.
→ read full articleAustralia to Authorize Guards to ‘Beat Asylum Seekers to Death’ – Report
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The new powers, applying to immigration officers, would let them use “reasonable force against any person” to maintain order and security, which in fact could lead to “beating asylum seekers to death.” The immunity from civil and criminal liability will include private contractors – people, who are less trained than police officers.
→ read full articleThe Geopolitical Right of Exception at the United Nations
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Overcoming the geopolitical right of exception would require its repudiation by the United States, in particular, through a recognition that it is incompatible with a peaceful, just, sustainable, and more participatory world order. This geopolitical right is also a vehicle of influence by private sector corporate and financial interests contrary to the global public interest.
→ read full article[Physics Nobel Laureate] Professor Peter Higgs Backs Anti-Trident Call
Edinburgh News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
12 April 2015 – Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Higgs has joined leading figures in music, the arts and science to call for the UK to scrap its nuclear deterrent.
→ read full articleScholar Maung Zarni Defines Genocide in ‘Holocaust and Human Rights Project’ Lecture
David Reich - Boston College Law School Magazine,
20 Apr 2015
15 Apr 2015 – The word genocide calls to mind events like the Jewish and Armenian holocausts, but according to Maung Zarni, a Burmese scholar affiliated with Harvard and the London School of Economics, smaller-scale killing can also fit the definition “if done in an attempt to destroy a people.”
→ read full articleSafety—The Overlooked Crucial Issue in Iranian Nuclear Negotiations
Ariane Tabatabai – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
20 Apr 2015
Nuclear safety is about preventing and mitigating accidents, and making sure that nuclear facilities operate properly and don’t pose a radiation hazard to people or places. It is not a sexy topic. But along with proliferation, it is one of the most pressing issues to consider in the context of any nuclear program.
→ read full article(Português) Por que e a quem Paulo Freire incomoda?
Ana Luiza Basílio – Pragmatismo Político,
20 Apr 2015
“Ao invés de ‘basta de Paulo Freire’, precisamos de mais Paulo Freire para um país mais decente”. Especialistas explicam por que o patrono da educação brasileira incomoda conservadores e desavisados.
→ read full articleU.S. Blocked Declaration of a Right to Health Care, Says Bolivia’s President
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has blamed U.S. President Barack Obama for the failure of the recent Organization of American States Summit of the Americas to issue a final declaration, and he says that a major sticking point was Obama’s opposition to a provision that health care is “a human right.”
→ read full articleWhy War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
“As long as all international conflicts are not subject to arbitration and the enforcement of decisions arrived at by arbitration is not guaranteed, and as long as war production is not prohibited we may be sure that war will follow upon war. Unless our civilization achieves the moral strength to overcome this evil, it is bound to share the fate of former civilizations: decline and decay.” — Einstein
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Apr 20-26 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.” (Quoted from Desiderata) – Max Ehrmann
→ read full article12 Strategic Questions for Europe Regarding Forced Immigration from Africa
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
in the light of the continuing influx and the associated fatalities.
→ read full article‘Fukushima Lessons: Any Notion That Nuclear Power Is Clean Is Obsolete’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The world must phase out nuclear power because it is absolutely not clean from the mining processing of uranium to the generation of high-level radioactive waste, Kevin Kamps for the radioactive waste watchdog Beyond Nuclear, said.
→ read full articleYemen Peace Plan Deserves Strong Support and Speedy Action
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The Yemen Peace Plan in its four steps is similar to an earlier Appeal of the Association of World Citizens (AWC). However, it is unlikely that Iran was influenced by the AWC Appeal; rather independent and objective analysis of the armed conflict leads to the same approach.
→ read full articleWeakening and Discrediting the UN: The Mission of Israeli QGOs [Quasi-Government Organizations]
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
This is the full text of my presentation at the conference “The Israeli Lobby: Is it good for US? Is it good for Israel?” National Press Club, April 10, 2015. Although there were many illuminating presentations during the day, I would call particular attention to the memorable remarks of two highly informed Israelis, Gideon Levy and Miko Peled.
→ read full articleUS Cops Only Do Bad Things When They’re Being Filmed
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
This Modern World – Satirical Comic Strip
→ read full articleThe Google/China Hacking Case: How Many News Outlets Do a Original Reporting on a Big Story?
Jonathan Stray – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
From 800 news stories researched online about the hacking story, all but 121 were identical, 13 contained at least one personal or unique quote, and just seven represented original journalistic work. In other words, 85% of the [800] news articles were verbatim rewrites from other journalists whereas only about 1% constituted original stories.
→ read full articleWhy Lincoln Still Matters Today
Allen L. Roland, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
On the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865, 150 years ago, I pause to reflect on this giant of a man and 16th President who represents all the moral qualities we would hope our current Presidents embody ~ and yet we remain so bitterly disappointed when few if any of these Presidential pretenders can approach the moral timbre of our greatest president.
→ read full articleOpen Veins, Healing Wounds, in Latin America [R.I.P. Eduardo Galeano]
Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
20 Apr 2015
As British writer John Berger has said of Eduardo Galeano, “To publish Eduardo Galeano is to publish the enemy: the enemy of lies, indifference, above all of forgetfulness. Thanks to him, our crimes will be remembered. His tenderness is devastating, his truthfulness furious.”
→ read full articleHuman Guinea Pigs
Want to Know – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
How much are government and business risking our lives and health with dangerous technologies like nuclear power, genetically modified foods, inadequately tested vaccines, and other even worse “experiments”? The American Medical Association and many doctors sided with the tobacco industry long after the harmful effects of smoking were proven. Some scientists also once believed radiation had little danger, putting volunteers at risk to prove it.
→ read full articleThe Future of International Law
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Abstract: After the invention of agriculture, roughly 10,000 years ago, humans began to live in progressively larger groups, which were sometimes multi-ethnic. In order to make towns, cities and finally nations function without excessive injustice and violence, both ethical and legal systems were needed. Today, in an era of global economic interdependence, instantaneous worldwide communication and all-destroying thermonuclear weapons, we urgently need new global ethical principles and a just and enforceable system of international laws.
→ read full articleHadi: A Hollow President Whose Masters in Riyadh Are Killing Us
Hossain al-Bokheiti – Middle East Eye,
20 Apr 2015
The self-exiled Yemeni president supports a Saudi-led bombing campaign that is destroying the country that he betrayed and then fled.
→ read full articleWhy Is Syriza Demanding Reparations from Germany?
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The demand for reparations for such crimes resonates amongst sections of the Greek, as well as the German, population. The arrogance with which the media and politicians in Germany are demanding drastic social cuts in Greece plays a role in this. It recalls the ruthless behavior of the Nazis. Moreover, the surviving victims of Nazi crimes are especially hard hit by the austerity measures in Greece.
→ read full articleHow Worker Co-ops are Moving beyond Capitalism
David Morgan, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
11 Apr 2015 – The explosion of worker cooperatives in recent years has social justice organizers talking. Transitioning to a people-powered economy will require the work of many different social movements and worker co-ops have come to the center of the conversation due to their ability to address multiple issues at once.
→ read full articleThe Active Defense of the Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
There are periods in the history of humanity when some great new ideas are introduced, beneficial for all. Such ideas mark the beginning of a new era with far-reaching effects, creating new conditions for cooperation. The Roerich Pact for the protection of the cultural heritage of humanity signed by 21 States in a Pan-American Union ceremony is such a sign of a new era which transcends all obstacles, prejudices and intolerances.
→ read full articleGünter Grass (16 Oct 1927–13 Apr 2015): ‘What Must Be Said’
Günter Grass (Nobel Literature Laureate) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Poem published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung created a heated debate in both Germany and Israel.
→ read full article(Português) Como Reproduzimos a Cultura do Capital
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Quem não tem, quer ter, quem tem, quer ter mais e quem tem mais diz: nunca é suficiente. E para a grande maioria, a competição e não a solidariedade e a supremacia do mais forte prevalecem sobre qualquer outro valor, nas relações sociais, especialmente, nos negócios.
→ read full articleThe Bank of International Settlements: Meet the Secretive Group That Runs the World
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
When it comes to the historic record, nothing comes closer to the stereotypical, secretive group determining the fate of over 7 billion people, than the Bank of International Settlements, which hides in such plain sight, that few have ever paid much attention. -This Is Their Story-
→ read full articleYou Cannot Bomb Me Anymore
Ada Aharoni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
For International Women’s Day – 8 Mar 2015
Listen, little big man,
you cannot bomb me anymore
because I don’t allow you
to bomb me anymore
China, Russia Coming Closer to Create a New World Order
Vikas Shukla, Value Walk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
China continues to expand its geopolitical influence and military power, challenging the United States’ position as the world’s superpower. Meanwhile, economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies have prompted Russia to move closer to Asian countries to alleviate the impact of sanctions.
→ read full articleWorld Famous German Author [Nobel Literature Laureate] Günter Grass Dies at Age 87
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
14 April 2015 – German author Günter Grass has died at the age of 87 in Lübeck, Germany following an infection. He is one of the most important German writers of the 20th century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
→ read full article(Italiano) Di sola andata. Per i migranti morti ieri nel Canale di Sicilia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Nessuno potrà dire che non sapeva
E che per organizzare una mobilitazione collettiva autoconvocata ci vogliono 48 ore dal naufragio di 700/900 migranti nel Canale di Sicilia
Ad Aosta. In Valle d’Aosta.
La ricca Valle d’Aosta che non può ospitare i migranti. Anzi ne può ospitare solo uno.
Moment of Truth for the Nobel Peace Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl and Tomas Magnusson, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
In recent years the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize have not reflected the hope of the award’s founder – Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) – that the world be freed of weapons, warriors and war, or promoted the vision of preventing future war by what Nobel called “creating the brotherhood of nations”.
→ read full articleThe Black Hole
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
When Johan Galtung, widely recognized as the founder of the academic discipline of peace research, founded the first International Peace Research Institute in Oslo in 1959, he and his colleagues sent copies of their working papers regularly to about 400 social science institutes around the world, including the Institute for World Economy and International Relations in Moscow.
→ read full article‘World Bank Projects Serve for Industrial Ambitions, Not Alleviate Poverty’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
World Bank projects in developing countries have had a dramatic impact, forced displacement and the impoverishment of local communities and indigenous people, political analyst Josh Klemm from International Rivers said.
→ read full articleGermany is the Tell-Tale Heart of America’s Drone War
Jeremy Scahill – The Intercept,
20 Apr 2015
A top-secret U.S. intelligence document obtained by The Intercept reveals that the sprawling U.S. military base in Ramstein, Germany plays a critical role in the American drone program, relaying commands from drone operators to their remote aircraft in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and other targeted countries.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report 6 (Apr 2015)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015 – Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
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DARPA Building Real Life Terminators, Military Robots
Documentary & Discovery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military.
→ read full articleHow a Gay Man Saved 14 Million Lives – Alan Turing
Captain Paul Watson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
This gay atheist man saved the lives of over 14 million people in World War II. He broke the “unbreakable” Nazi ‘Enigma Code.’ And yet in 1952 he was sentenced to two years in prison. His crime: he was a homosexual. He was offered an alternative to prison – chemical castration. It destroyed his health and caused depression. In 1954 he was dead at 41 of suspected suicide.
→ read full articlePope Francis’ Latest Mission: Stopping Nuclear Weapons
Elizabeth Dias – Time,
20 Apr 2015
April 10, 2015 – The Vatican has long opposed nuclear weapons, but Pope Francis is making the cause one of the top diplomatic priorities of his two-year-old papacy. The U.S. State Department is revving up its efforts to work with the Holy See.
→ read full articleFukushima Storage Facility Drone Video – Nuclear Waste in Bags Near Ocean
Jennifer Baker, Revolution News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Drone footage captured by Ruptly shows millions of tons of radioactive soil and debris packed in black bags in a temporary storage site at Tomioka, Fukushima prefecture. This incredible video shows the haphazard manner in which this temporary storage facility is stacking up nuclear waste in what appears to be less than 100 yards from the Pacific Ocean.
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Clair De Lune (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Annling Wang – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Recorded at home in 2007. Seven-year-old girl plays one of the most beautiful compositions of Claude Debussy. A classic.
→ read full articleDrone Victims Take Germany to Court for Abetting U.S. Murders
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Their suit argues that it is illegal under German law for the German government to allow the U.S. air base at Ramstein to be used for drone murders abroad. The suit comes after the passage of a resolution in the European Parliament urging European nations to “oppose and ban the practice of extrajudicial targeted killings.”
→ read full articleChinese Logic
Baher Kamal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Henry Kissinger once asked Chou En-Lai to theorize on what might have happened if Nikita Khrushchev had been assassinated instead of John F. Kennedy.
→ read full articleArmenians 1915: The Genocide Controversy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
According to the great American novelist William Faulkner, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” This year being the centenary of the contested events of 1915 makes it understandable that was simmering through the decades has come to a boil, with the anniversary day of April 24th likely to be the climax of this latest phase of the unresolved drama.
→ read full article(Português) A Mídia Está Perdendo a Grande História dos Animais
Peter Fricker - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
20 Apr 2015
Em 2012 um grupo de cientistas proeminentes assinou algo chamado Declaração de Cambridge sobre a Consciência, na qual eles expressam seu apoio à visão de que os animais são conscientes do mesmo modo que os humanos. Enquanto isso, evidências científicas de inteligência e senciência animal continuam a se acumularem.
→ read full article(Italiano) Gandhi e Mandela: due sudafricani
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Il SudAfrica offrì ai due avvocati un tirocinio per mutare la legge in uno strumento di libertà trasgredendola – implicito anche nel concetto di Legge – operando contro l’aspetto del castigo che diede a tutti e due l’aura di icone sofferenti per la propria causa.
→ read full articleNot Fit to Print: When Good Design Goes Bad
Anna Flagg and Moiz Syed, AJ+ On the News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
A Lesson from The New York Times on How to Mislead with Numbers – What follows is a breakdown of some ways that design can be misused to tell a biased story. This New York Times article reminds us that design is just as much an editorial tool.
→ read full articleWho’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bomb?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
4 Apr 2015 – I must start with a shocking confession: I am not afraid of the Iranian nuclear bomb. I know that this makes me an abnormal person, almost a freak. But what can I do? I am unable to work up fear, like a real Israeli. Try as I may, the Iranian bomb does not make me hysterical.
→ read full articleSummary of False Flag Operations and False Flag Terrorism
Want to Know – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
“False Flag Terrorism” occurs when elements within a government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people. The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to justify going to war against that enemy.
→ read full articleWar on Yemen: Where Oil and Geopolitics Mix
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Russia Today,
13 Apr 2015
9 Apr 2015 – Everything about the war on Yemen is a smokescreen. Concealed behind the smoke is a tale of geopolitics and petro-politics that aims to control the Gulf of Aden. The irony should not be lost on observers that the Saudi-led coalition is comprised of an unhealthy mixture of backward family dictatorships and corrupt governments that essentially are the antithesis of democracy.
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