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“Rebuilding America’s Defenses” PNAC – A Summary
Compiled by Bette Stockbauer – PNAC Library & Resources,
25 May 2015
Blueprint of the Project for the New American Century Plan for U.S. Global Hegemony – Not since “Mein Kampf” has a geopolitical punch been so blatantly telegraphed, years ahead of the blow. A summary of the document presented.
→ read full articleIs China Reclaiming the Law of the Sea?
Mira Rapp-Hooper – Lawfare Institute,
25 May 2015
In the last year, China has undertaken extensive efforts to transform at least 6 of these 7 reefs into artificial islands. China is not the only Spratly claimant to have engaged in serious construction efforts. Indeed, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam have all performed significant construction of some sort on the features that they occupy.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele, Germania, e tre vicini parenti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Nel bel mezzo del Medio Oriente c’è Israele, che culla sogni di un Israele ancor più grande che quello di re Davide. Gli stati seguiranno l’autorità morale del mondo d’oggi, papa Francesco, temendo di riconoscere la Palestina troppo tardi, tanto quanto temevano di farlo troppo presto. Il sionismo di Netanyahu è sconfitto, non militarmente ma moralmente.
→ read full articleScientific Responsibility in Counting the War Dead – A Response to Washington Post and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The more I looked into the matter, the more perturbed I became by Iraq Body Count’s odd relationships to US and European government agencies, questionable public statements, and pathological obsession with defending IBC methodologies. My investigation showed, for the first time, that Spagat’s work itself is false, fraudulent, and unreliable.
→ read full articleEight Years in the Making: Power without Borders in Europe
Rachel Morison and Weixin Zha – Bloomberg,
25 May 2015
Germany, France and central-western Europe connected their electricity markets on Wednesday [20 May 2015] under a system that lets prices dictate where power flows between countries. Flow-based market coupling matches supply and demand across borders, sending electricity to where prices are highest.
→ read full articleAnthem to Human Love
Guy Crequie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
For The Harmony of Our Lives
→ read full articleThe Oak Tree and the Reed Grass
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A mighty oak tree ridiculed the soft thin reed grass bending back and forth in the lake.
→ read full article[Banksters Mafia Orgy] Major World Banks Hit by Record Fine for Rigging Forex Markets
Jill Treanor in London and Dominic Rushe in New York – The Guardian,
25 May 2015
The reputation of the banking industry took another hammering on Wednesday [20 May 2015] as record fines imposed on Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Citi, JP Morgan and UBS, which pleaded guilty for rigging foreign exchange markets and over collusion by traders in several countries, topped [£6.3bn.] [€ 8.8bn.] [US$ 9.86bn.].
→ read full article(Italiano) L’anno 2015: rapporto sul primo quadrimestre
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
La Cina è proattiva nei “cortili” UE e USA; realizzando guadagni in modo nonviolento quando altri ci perdono violentemente per inazione e sfruttamento. Perché? Forse la Cina considera Africa e America Latina in ascesa come più competitive che UE e USA in declino; pensando in grande, a lungo termine, come fanno loro.
→ read full articleTexans Propose to Adopt Threatened African Rhinos
Lisa Vives, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
May 13 2015 -Thefts, murders and mutilation of Africa’s wildlife, from white rhinos to elephants with their prized horns and tusks, are at an all-time high, say conservationists who are keeping track of the poaching of species by fortune-seeking hunters.
→ read full articleWhistleblower Warns on Safety of UK Nukes, Goes on the Run
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
17 May 2015 – A UK Navy Seaman has warned that the UK’s nuclear submarine system, Trident, are a “disaster waiting to happen” and is now in hiding. In coming months, the UK government will decide whether to spend £100bn (US$150bn) on upgrading its nuclear weapons system.
→ read full articleNew Lives in Uruguay – Freedom Elusive after 12 Years at Guantanamo
Marian Blasberg – Der Spiegel,
25 May 2015
Six former Guantanamo prisoners have been sharing a house in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo for the last six months. The planned closure of the US detention facility could hinge on the outcome of this experiment.
→ read full articleWomen and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The two great ecological challenges of our times are biodiversity erosion and climate change. And both are interconnected, in their causes and their solutions. Industrial agiculture is the biggest contributor to biodiversity erosion as well as to climate change. According to the United Nations, 93% of all plant variety has disappeared over the last 80 years.
→ read full articleHow to Make Use of Our Suffering: Simone Weil on Ameliorating Our Experience of Pain, Hunger, Fatigue, and All That Makes the Soul Cry
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
There is almost a Buddhist undertone to Weil’s insistence on accepting everything that is, as it is, without compounding pain with “the second arrow” of our tendency to resist any unpleasantness and judge it as a kind of personal failure, which in turn precipitates an even graver sense of dissatisfaction.
→ read full articleWhy Aren’t the Banksters in Prison?
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The financial impact on JPMorgan and the other banks for pleading guilty to a felony will be effectively zero. As part of the deal, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued waivers exempting the banks from the legal repercussions arising from their status as criminal organizations, giving them continued preferential treatment in issuing debt, as well as the continued right to operate mutual funds.
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Dear Future Generations: Sorry (Legendado em Português)
Prince Ea – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
An Apology Letter to Future Generations (Um Pedido de Desculpas às Gerações Futuras)
→ read full articleNon-Proliferation Talks Fail over Mideast Nuclear-Weapons Free Zone Plan
Carole Landry – Middle East Eye,
25 May 2015
23 May 2015 – United States, Canada and Britain opposed a plan to set up a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East.
→ read full articleDestroying What Remains: How the U.S. Navy Plans to War Game the Arctic
Dahr Jamail - TomDispatch,
25 May 2015
The bottom line on all this is simple, if brutal. The Navy is increasingly focused on possible future climate-change conflicts in the melting waters of the north and, in that context, has little or no intention of caretaking the environment when it comes to military exercises.
→ read full article(Français) Haïti-Népal : regards croisés sur la mondialisation
Frédéric Thomas – Centre Tricontinental,
25 May 2015
On aura à nouveau parlé d’Haïti, suite au récent séisme du Népal. Il est vrai que des correspondances existent entre les deux situations. À cela s’ajoute le voisinage encombrant de grandes puissances, qui pèsent lourd sur la souveraineté de ces deux pays…
→ read full article‘They Hit Us, with Hammers, by Knife’: Rohingya Migrants Tell of Horror at Sea
Kate Lamb – The Guardian,
25 May 2015
Up to 8,000 are believed to be stuck off Thai, Indonesian and Malaysian coasts, and those who made it to shore describe violence and starvation.
→ read full articleChecking for Accuracy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
→ read full articleMinorities Threatened More by Governments than Terrorist Groups, Says Study
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A new study released Wednesday [20 May 2015] by the London-based Minority Rights Group International says populations in the region were more at risk from their own governments.
→ read full articleMegadeath [Rhino-Elephant-Hippo Extinction]
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The destruction of some of the last of the huge animals that shaped us inflicts a great wound in our lives.
→ read full articleAn Impact Assessment of a Great Earthquake in Nepal
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25, 2015 disrupted the lives of nine million people – almost a third of the population. A second one of magnitude 7.3 on May 12 further complicated getting aid to survivors mainly in the central Nepal. Thus, the challenge of quake is being turned to opportunity to make a new Nepal forming a national Government headed by a clean, dynamic and honest leadership.
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Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Overture (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Boston Symphony Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
→ read full articleU.S. Wakes Up to New (Silk) World Order
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
25 May 2015
15 May 2015 – The real Masters of the Universe in the U.S. are no weathermen, but arguably they’re starting to feel which way the wind is blowing. History may signal it all started with this week’s trip to Sochi, led by their paperboy, Secretary of State John Kerry, who met with Foreign Minister Lavrov and then with President Putin.
→ read full articleImplications for Australia of Aljazeera Program Condoning Genocide in Syria
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The program targeted an Arabic speaking audience, and it would have a significant number of viewers in Australia. The host of the Al-Jazeera program and one guest express support for the killing of Alawis in Syria. They do not exclude women and children.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
May 25-31 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” – Richard Bach
→ read full articleU.S. Honeybee Population Plummets by More Than 40%, USDA Finds
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
According to the latest annual government study, U.S. beekeepers reported losing 42.1 percent of the total number of colonies managed from April 2014 through April 2015, much higher than the 34.2 percent from the year prior.
→ read full articlePalmyra, Syria: Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Periods of Armed Conflict
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
It seems that the ISIS forces have taken control of the city and some of the area around it. Thus, the Appeal of the Association of World Citizens must be addressed to its leadership, although the AWC has no direct communication avenues to the ISIS. The protection of the cultural heritage of humanity is an important element of world law binding on States, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: NSA Reform in the US Is Only the Beginning
Alan Rusbridger, Janine Gibson and Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
25 May 2015
In an exclusive interview from Moscow, Snowden cautions that more needs to be done to curb NSA surveillance two years after his disclosures.
→ read full articleGovernor of Japan’s Okinawa to Press U.S. for Removal of Base
Elaine Lies, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The governor of the Japanese island of Okinawa said on Wednesday [20 May 2015] he will travel to the United States next week to press his demand that a U.S. military base be removed from his island to lighten the burden of a people weary of hosting U.S. troops.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Worst Fear May Be Coming True
Jonathan Latham – Independent Science News,
25 May 2015
For Monsanto and GMOs the situation suddenly looks ominous. Chipotle may well represent the beginnings of a market swing of historic proportions. GMOs may be relegated to cattle-feed status, or even oblivion, in the USA. And if GMOs fail in the US, they are likely to fail elsewhere.
→ read full articleMore Than a Newsman – Behind the Media’s Assault on Seymour Hersh
Shamus Cooke - CounterPunch,
25 May 2015
19 May 2015 – He’s the most respected journalist in U.S. history, and for decades Seymour Hersh has consistently broken major international stories, winning him the Pulitzer Prize among other prestigious awards of journalism. Hersh’s recent report on the killing of Osama Bin Laden and his prior investigation of Obama’s aborted 2013 bombing of Syria have attracted a synchronized media smear campaign.
→ read full articlePeace Education: Source of National Unity and Global Harmony
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Peace education consists in enabling people to lead a happy life through the development of their human resources for constructive purposes.
→ read full articleThe Silencing of Prof. Hector Valenzuela: University of Hawaii, GMO, Monsanto
Paul Koberstein and Eliza Murphy - Cascadia Times,
25 May 2015
Valenzuela, who in 1990 received his Ph.D. in vegetable crops from the University of Florida, established the first long-term organic farming research project in Hawai‘i and the Pacific region to determine whether it’s possible to grow crops in the state without synthetic pesticides. But it all came to an end inexplicably in 1998 when the university shut down the organic farming research project.
→ read full articleTwo Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran
Zia H. Shah, MD – The Muslim Times,
25 May 2015
Here I want to stress the Quranic message of compassion, love and kindness by cataloging as many verses as I can, realizing that it can never be an exhaustive list as other readers will continue to find new ideas of mercy and grace in other verses of the Holy Quran.
→ read full article(Português) A controvérsia do zoológico humano
Daniel kirjner - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
25 May 2015
18 maio 2015 – Nos últimos dias os ânimos se exaltaram em uma discussão acerca das intersecções entre racismo e especismo. Um vegano postou uma imagem que mostrava uma criança negra exibida em um zoológico há cerca sessenta anos atrás.
→ read full article(Castellano) Itaca
C. P. Cavafis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Ten siempre a Itaca en tu mente.
Llegar allí es tu destino.
Mas no apresures nunca el viaje.
US Press Blacks Out Israeli Defense Minister’s Citation of ‘Nagasaki and Hiroshima’ as Model for Dealing with Iran
Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
“I do remember the story of President Truman was asked, How do you feel after deciding to launch the nuclear bombs, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, causing at the end the fatalities of 200,000, casualties? And he said, When I heard from my officers the alternative is a long war with Japan, with potential fatalities of a couple of millions, I thought it is a moral decision. We are not there yet. But that what I’m talking about.”
→ read full articleOn Being Sane in Insane Places: “If Sanity and Insanity Exist, How Shall We Know Them?”
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The now famous (some offended or embarrassed psychiatrists preferred to call it “infamous”) experiment that was carried out involved 12 different psychiatric hospitals and 8 different people, mostly professionals (including the author). Each of the eight were totally and certifiably sane “pseudo-patients”.
→ read full articleAustralia’s Closing of Aboriginal Communities Sparks Protests
Lauren Williams – USA Today,
25 May 2015
24 May 2015 – Government moves to close remote indigenous communities because of alleged social problems and the cost of maintaining them is triggering a new wave of protests planned for next week across Australia. Prime Minster Tony Abbott backed the move, telling national radio it was not the taxpayers’ job to “subsidize lifestyle choices.”
→ read full articleThe Path to Zero: Dialogues on Nuclear Dangers – A Review
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The Path to Zero: Dialogues on Nuclear Dangers, by Richard Falk and David Krieger – This book ought to be required reading for college students everywhere in the world, and also for decision-makers. It shakes us out of our complacency and makes us realize that widespread, immediate and dedicated public action is urgently needed if we are to save human civilization and the biosphere from a thermonuclear catastrophe.
→ read full articleCompassion Fatigue?
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
So did humans develop compassion fatigue and does this bode ill for our future as a species? I do not know and cannot predict the future. I can only act against the negative trends and draw closer to other activists. When we do find people who still cares, we latch onto them and try to do something together to keep our sanity. We must never give up. We must “stay human” as Vittorio used to write to us.
→ read full articleMacedonia, the New U.S.-Russia Battlefield
Leonid Bershidsky - Bloomberg,
25 May 2015
19 May 2015 – Macedonia is a poor, landlocked Balkan country of about 2 million. To the Kremlin, it’s also the newest front in an ideological battle, with the U.S. fomenting regime change to counter Russia’s influence.
→ read full articleScience, Time and Hawaii’s Mauna a Wākea: The Thirty-Meter Telescope’s Capitalist-Colonialist Violence
David Maile – The Hawaii Independent,
25 May 2015
The TMT is, in fact, a part of a legacy of colonial-capitalist violence committed against Hawaii and Hawaiians, regardless of its scientific merit.
→ read full articleFugitive Facts Escape from American Psychological Association Headquarters – Colluding with Torturers
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Although preliminary reports have now identified many of the fugitive facts, the APA continues to warn that extreme caution should be exercised until the Association has provided specific safety guidelines. Without adequate precautions, close contact has been linked to a variety of psychological symptoms, including denial, defensiveness, and despair.
→ read full articleWhy Are We in the Middle East?
Jeff Faux – Common Dreams,
25 May 2015
When pressed for more specifics, our governing class offers four rationales for this endless war:
1. Fighting terrorism
2. Containing Iran
3. Securing oil
4. Defending Israel.
(Português) Cuba já Tem Vacina Contra Cancro [Cancer] do Pulmão
Notícias ao Minuto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Esta descoberta pode salvar milhões de vidas em todo o mundo.
→ read full articleThe Journalism and Scholarship of Attachment – Ethiopia, Africa
Tedla D. Tekle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The journalism or academia of attachment has been widely popularised by Martin Bell in the 1990s, however the genre had existed even before he officialised it. The argument of this genre of journalism, it does work well in the academic sector too, is that journalists or academics can be neutral and objective but they should not remain detached in the face of injustice.
→ read full articlePeace Is What We Make of It? Peace-Shaping Events and ‘Non-Events’
Gëzim Visoka, Pax in Nuce – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Almost all post-conflict societies that have been subject to liberal peace experiments continue to suffer from dysfunctional democracy, ethnic disagreements, and under-development. This raises the question.
→ read full article(русский-Russian) Вашингтон признал, что поддерживал радикальных исламистов в Сирии
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Как отмечает в своей статье обозреватель НВО Тони Карталучи, как отмечается в одной из недавних публикаций авторитетного Брукингского института, который является одним из главных центров геополитического планирования в США, на территории Турции на протяжении долгого времени действовал (и продолжает действовать по сей день) командный центр разведки США, который осуществлял контроль за всеми операциями поддерживаемых США различных групп, включая ИГИЛ и так называемую «умеренную оппозицию».
→ read full articleLouise Diamond: ‘The Courage for Peace’
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
24 May 2015 – From TMS editor: As a memorial to a peace worker known for her efforts at multi-track diplomacy and on the relations between inner and outer peace, we publish this review of ‘The Courage for Peace’ by Louise Diamond, who passed away this week.
→ read full articleNuclear Proliferation Is Still the Greatest Threat We Face
Valerie Plame Wilson - Reader Supported News,
18 May 2015
Twenty-six years after the end of the Cold War, the world still has more than 15,000 nuclear weapons. Whatever other issues people care about — poverty, the environment, inequality and so many others — if we don’t get this one right, and soon, nothing else will matter. We are at a crossroads on this issue and the decisions we make over the next 10 years will set us on a course either toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons or toward expanding arsenals and proliferation.
→ read full articleEmirates Becomes Latest Airline to Ban Transport of Big Game Hunting Trophies
Taylor Hill – TakePart Magazine,
18 May 2015
15 May 2015 – Watch out, big game hunters: The options for bringing back animal trophies from your African safaris are dwindling. Emirates SkyCargo, the world’s third-largest cargo carrier behind FedEx and UPS, has announced it will stop carrying trophies of elephants, rhinos, lions, and tigers aboard its planes.
→ read full articleOrganic Is Going Mainstream
Anna Lappé – Al Jazeera America,
18 May 2015
Food-Industry-Funded Spin on Health and Sustainability Is Losing Traction
→ read full articleThe 30-Meter Telescope Project on Top of Mauna Kea, Hawai’i Sacred Mountain
Karin Louise Hermes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
This isn’t about being “local” to the islands, this is about being sprung from the kalo and the earth. This is about defining oneself and one’s culture from the life of the land, the kama‘āina. The concept of cultural identity being tied to the land is shared with many indigenous cultures.
→ read full article18 May: International Museum Day – The Advancement of Learning and Culture
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
18 May has been designated by UNESCO as the International Day of Museums to highlight the role that museums play in preserving beauty, culture, and history. We have seen the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage in the museum of Mosul by ISIS factions. Today, there is deep concern for Palmyra as ISIS and government troops battle near Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
→ read full articleThe Kids Aren’t All Right – Presidential Waivers, Child Soldiers, and an American-Made Army in Africa
Nick Turse – TomDispatch,
18 May 2015
17 May 2015, South Sudan — I didn’t really think he was going to shoot me. There was no anger in his eyes. His finger may not have been anywhere near the trigger. He didn’t draw a bead on me. Still, he was a boy and he was holding an AK-47 and it was pointed in my direction. It was unnerving.
→ read full articleDefying U.S., Colombia Halts Aerial Spraying of Crops Used to Make Cocaine
William Neuman – The New York Times,
18 May 2015
The government of Colombia on Thursday [14 May 2015] ordered a halt to the aerial spraying of the country’s vast illegal plantings of coca, citing concerns that the spray causes cancer. Colombia is one of the closest allies of the US in Latin America and its most stalwart partner on antidrug policy, but the change of strategy has the potential to add a new element of tension to the relationship.
→ read full articleNew Missions for the UN and a Secretary-General to Fit
Rene Wadlow – Toward Freedom,
18 May 2015
What should be the role for the UN in dealing with the changing scene of world politics? What qualities should the Secretary-General and the leadership team around him possess? The UN system is operating in a world of much greater complexity today than when it was founded. Thus to be effective, the UN, its program and Specialized Agencies need leadership which can promote world interests without undue influence of individual states.
→ read full articleFukushima Workshop at the World Uranium Symposium in Quebec City
Fairewinds Energy Education – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
April 2015 – Fairewinds chief engineer Arnie Gundersen introduces new scientific evidence to prove high radiation exposures in Japan due to the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster.
→ read full articleIsrael to Force Bedouin Village to Pay for Its Own Demolition
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The Israeli state is claiming that the town, razed to the ground 83 times, should pay for the 1,000 police deployed to carry out the destruction.
→ read full articleThai Military Sends Boat Carrying Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees “Out to Sea”
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
16 May 2015 – An aging fishing boat packed with hundreds of refugees, mostly ethnic Rohingya fleeing poverty and violent persecution in Myanmar (Burma), is drifting further out to sea on Friday [15 May 2015], after the government in Thailand prevented them from reaching land.
→ read full articleThe Fog of Empire
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Surprising win for Cameron with greater mandate
Right-wing ideology dominates discourse in Britain
Transcendent Integrity via Dynamic Configuration of Sub-Understandings?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Interactive Orbital Animations of World Views Using Data-Driven Documents – The domains tentatively explored as an illustration for comprehension of some form of transcendent integration include: world religions, philosophies, natural sciences, cultural modalities, cognitive modalities, ruling elites, global governance, environmental conditions, conditions of change.
→ read full articleNGOs Urge Commission of Inquiry to Probe Sexual Abuse in U.N. Peacekeeping
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
“The truth is startling and simple: No new mechanisms, no new methods of operation, no new policies can ever work in practice to prevent or punish sex abusers on staff who commit sexual offenses at present, because the U.N. bureaucracy responsible for implementing changes is completely dysfunctional.” — Paula Donovan, co-director at AIDS-Free World
→ read full articleMay 18-UNESCO International Museum Day
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Further, the Vatican will now recognize the State of Palestine. Things are changing and Zionists need to realize that they can change nicely to move towards justice and equality or they will be forced to do so. The USA, the largest enabler of this rogue “Jewish state,” needs to change its foreign policy very quickly.
→ read full article‘Guilty of Embarrassing Government’: CIA Whistleblower Gets 42-Month Sentence
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
18 May 2015
A federal court in Virginia sentenced former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling to three and a half years in prison on Monday [11 May 2015] in a case that has received widespread condemnation for revealing the “rank hypocrisy” of the U.S. government’s war on whistleblowers, as it stands in stark contrast to leniency granted to former CIA director General David Petraeus.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Servie,
18 May 2015
May 18-24 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Reserve your right to think, for even think wrongly is better than not to think at all.” Hypatia of Alexandra
→ read full articleBoatloads of Migrants Could Soon Be ‘Floating Graveyard’ on Southeast Asian Waters
Kanya D'Almeida, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
“We don’t have a flotilla to go out and help them, but there are plenty of countries in the region that do, and plenty of reasons for them to do it – if they don’t, they’ll be dealing with a floating graveyard soon, rather than a flotilla of ships.” — Leonard Doyle, director of media and communications for the International Organisation for Migration.
→ read full articleHonesty and Insight
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
An Indian Guru realized that he was getting old and could not teach much longer.
→ read full articleU.S. Hosts Arms Bazaar at White House Arab Summit
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
According to Colin Kahl, national security advisor to Vice-President Joe Biden, the United Arab Emirates flies the most advanced U.S.-made F-16 fighter planes in the world. “They’re more advanced than the ones our Air Force flies,” he told reporters, without going into specifics.
→ read full articleWhy the Media Ignores Jeremy Hammond While Praising Edward Snowden
Kit O'Connell – Mint Press News,
18 May 2015
Jeremy Hammond’s hack of Stratfor, a corporate intelligence agency, created global solidarity by revealing how the 1% targets activists worldwide.
→ read full articleDon’t Think the US Military Is Concerned with the Climate? Think Again
Dane Wigington, Geoengineering Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
All available data indicates that the US military has been experimenting with weather modification for over 60 years. Their interest and involvement with climate engineering is all about power and control. There is nothing benevolent behind manipulating Earth’s life support systems.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks: German Government Aided NSA Spying in Europe
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
A new document contradicts the German government’s claims that it was not aware of the NSA spying activities in Europe. The government of Angela Merkel actively helped the massive surveillance of the U.S. National Security Office, WikiLeaks revealed on Tuesday [12 May 2015].
→ read full articleVatican Recognizes State of Palestine in New Treaty
Nicole Winfield, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The Vatican officially recognized the state of Palestine in a new treaty finalized Wednesday [13 May 2015], immediately sparking Israeli ire and accusations that the move hurt peace prospects.
→ read full articleA Sharp Spike in Honeybee Deaths Deepens a Worrisome Trend
Michael Wines – The New York Times,
18 May 2015
13 May 2015 – A prolonged and mysterious die-off of the nation’s honeybees, a trend worrisome both to beekeepers and to farmers who depend on the insects to pollinate their crops, apparently worsened last year.
→ read full articleA New Dark Age of Militarism
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
13 May 2015 – “What struck me,” journalist Christian Parenti said in a recent Truthout interview, referring to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, “was the fact that these local towns and states around the region were sending the only resources they had to New Orleans: weapons and militarized gear.
→ read full articleAluminum Toxicity and Vaccines – Recent Basic Neuroscience Research
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Connecting Vaccine Adjuvants and Mitochondrial Injury with Autism, Alzheimer’s Dementia, Autoimmune Disorders, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Gulf War Syndrome, ASIA Syndrome, Schizophrenia, Diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
→ read full articleDrone Warfare in ‘Good Kill’
David Walsh, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
‘Good Kill’ opens in theaters in the US on May 15 [2015]. A roundtable interview with writer-director Andrew Niccol and actor Ethan Hawke. Drone strikes carried out by the US military and CIA have killed thousands of civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and other countries. The barbaric strikes are illegal under international and US law and amount to war crimes.
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Ian Ralby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The security situation in the vital Pacific basin trade route is escalating rapidly at the same time that tensions are rising in Washington over Obama’s Pacific trade pact.
→ read full articleThe Lyric You Write and the Song You Sing
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The sky wrote an amazing lyric
The cloud composed a heavenly melody
In the night I saw the moon sings softy
With the chorus stars all around
The Secret Corporate Takeover
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Economics Nobel Joseph E. Stiglitz shows why today’s “trade” agreements are about much more than free trade.
→ read full articleThe Nakba: A Crime Watched, Ignored and Remembered
Ilan Pappe – Middle East Eye,
18 May 2015
The steadfastness of the Palestinians is like the age-old olive trees in Palestine that succeed in resurfacing between the European pines. The 15th of May is usually a trigger for a journey back in time. And for an unfathomable reason each such journey conjures up a different aspect of the Nakba.
→ read full articleLife-Saving Drugs for All
Peter Singer, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
A proposal to create incentives to develop treatments for poor people’s diseases. A company that develops a product would earn a share of reward money based on its share of the health improvements achieved by all the products competing for the available funds.
→ read full articleThe Killing of Osama bin Laden
Seymour M. Hersh – London Review of Books,
18 May 2015
The White House’s story might have been written by Lewis Carroll: would bin Laden, target of a massive international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from Islamabad would be the safest place to live and command al-Qaida’s operations? He was hiding in the open. So America said.
→ read full articleIsraeli Court Says Arab Village Must Make Way for Jewish Town
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
15 May 2015 – Israel’s Palestinian minority is preparing to hold a “day of rage” to protest against a court ruling last week that cleared the way to destroy an entire Bedouin village so that it can be replaced by a Jewish town. Palestinian minority fears decision will revive legislation to drive tens of thousands of Bedouin off their lands in Negev.
→ read full articleIsraeli Soldiers Cast Doubt on Legality of Gaza Military Tactics
Peter Beaumont – The Guardian,
18 May 2015
Testimonies of Israeli combatants about last year’s war show apparent disregard for safety of civilians.
→ read full articleUS “Operation Rooms” Backing Al Qaeda in Syria
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
US policy think-tank Brookings Institution confirms that contrary to propaganda, US-Saudi “moderates” and Turkey-Qatar “Islamists” have been coordinating all along.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The director of a prison tells the warden, “Tomorrow, everything has to be perfectly clean, the chief justice is coming.”
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Sputinik International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
A Canadian advisory panel on Wednesday [6 May 2015] approved a plan to bury nuclear waste at a site just steps away from Lake Huron, saying it had concluded the project would pose no danger to the environment.
→ read full articleRichard Feynman on Science vs. Religion and Why Uncertainty Is Central to Morality
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
“It is impossible to find an answer which someday will not be found to be wrong. I do not believe that science can disprove the existence of God; I think that is impossible. And if it is impossible, is not a belief in science and in a God — an ordinary God of religion — a consistent possibility?”
→ read full articleProtecting and Restoring Syria’s Trains, Part of Her Cultural Heritage
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
With Daish (ISIS) advancing (5/15/2015) toward the gates of Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmur), an irreplaceable treasure for the Syrian people and for the world, where this observer has been honored to spend many inspiring awe-filled hours these past few years observing and contemplating its unique blend of Greco-Roman and Persian influences, another global archeological tragedy may be unfolding.
→ read full articleParodies of Parity: Israel & Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Peace will come to Israel and Palestine, and be sustained, if and only if the oppressor becomes ready to dismantle its oppressive regime by withdrawing, not merely by disengaging Gaza style. So long as this is not so, direct negotiations and these periodic calls issued by Washington to resume direct talks have one main effect–to free Israel to realize its ambition to establish ‘Greater Israel’ while keeping the Palestinians in chains.
→ read full articleObama’s Gulf Meeting Protocol: Shake Hands, Smile, Ignore Repression, Repeat
Medea Benjamin & Nalini Ramachandran – Common Dreams,
18 May 2015
One could rattle off a plethora of Saudi abuses, yet the biggest question remains: Why does the US, the alleged beacon of liberty and freedom, maintain such close ties with such an oppressive regime?
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Microbeads – The Story of Stuff Project
storyofstuffproject – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
In two quick minutes we let viewers know all about microbeads—the tiny bits of plastic increasingly found in everything from facial scrubs and soap to toothpaste and makeup. Microbeads escape most water treatment plants and end up in our rivers, lakes and oceans by the billions.
→ read full articleTargeting Solutions Rather Than Crises, a San Francisco Gathering Asks, “What’s Possible?”
Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
15 May 2015 – At a time of overwhelming discontent with our leaders, our businesses, corporate media, freedom of speech and privacy, health, healthcare and wellness, could there be a brighter light at the end of the tunnel? A gathering of people from around the world at the first ever event known as PossibL, happening later this month in San Francisco, hopes the answer to be Yes.
→ read full article(Français) Partenariat Trans-Pacifique et mort de la République
Ellen Brown, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
La juge Ellen Brown relève comment cet accord ferait passer le droit des multinationales avant celui des citoyens. Un problème qui se pose aussi à travers le TTIP.
→ read full articleGeopolitics Is a Fluid Game: Negotiations and Their Enemies
Immanuel Wallerstein – Toward Freedom,
18 May 2015
We must always remember that geopolitics is a fluid game, and most particularly in this time of structural crisis of the modern world-system with its chaotic and rapid swings in all arenas, not least in geopolitical alignments.
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