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Australia’s Ambivalence toward Muslims
Greg Austin – The Diplomat,
26 Jan 2015
Where does the Muslim community fit in Australia’s self-images of war and peace? Several Australians have figured prominently as participants and even leaders in the military campaign of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
→ read full articleIberia a Thousand Years Ago
Johan Galtung, 26 Jan 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
A time machine set on the long haul backward may be useful to understand the present in the light of the past. For instance Iberia, the peninsula, today with two states, Spain and Portugal.
→ read full articleMessenger of the Gods
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
Our ‘Impartial’ Broadcasters Have Become Mouthpieces of the Elite – The illusion of neutrality is one of the reasons for the rotten state of journalism, as those who might have been expected to hold power to account drift thoughtlessly into its arms.
→ read full articleAre We All Lebanese Porn Stars? On Freedom of Speech and Mohammed Cartoons
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
26 Jan 2015
If depicting Mohammed in a cartoon is a noble act of freedom of expression, then why isn’t porn on prime time? And a WARNING. This article contains an image that some readers may find offensive.
→ read full articleSlavoj Žižek: The Urgent Necessity of a Syriza Victory in Greece
Slavoj Žižek – In These Times,
26 Jan 2015
Debt is an instrument to control and regulate the debtor, and, as such, it strives for its own expanded reproduction. Only a split from the European Union by Greece can save what is worth saving in the European legacy: democracy, trust in people and egalitarian solidarity.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
January 26–February 1
Quote of the Week: “When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” — Peace Pilgrim
How Al Qaeda’s Biggest Enemy Took Over Yemen (and Why the U.S. Government Is Unlikely to Support Them)
Casey L. Coombs and Jeremy Scahill – The Intercept,
26 Jan 2015
22 Jan 2015 – Yemen’s president, his prime minister and entire cabinet resigned, giving unprecedented power to the Houthis, a Shiite minority from the country’s northern highlands.
→ read full articleGalant’s Gallant Act
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
There used to be a joke about a sadist and a masochist. “Hit me! Beat me! Kick me!” the masochist pleads with the sadist. The sadist smiles a cruel smile and slowly answers: “No!” That, more or less, reflects the situation on Israel’s northern border at this moment.
→ read full articleGCHQ Captured Emails of Journalists from Top International Media
James Ball – The Guardian,
26 Jan 2015
Emails from the BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, the Sun, NBC and the Washington Post were saved by GCHQ and shared on the agency’s intranet as part of a test exercise by the signals intelligence agency, analysis of documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum
Kamran Mofid - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
26 Jan 2015
I notice that you hope the 2015 WEF meeting will be a “starting point for a renaissance of global trust”. This is a noble aim, very important and timely. Trust surely comes from the experience of a relationship – an in-depth experience – which by its nature is rooted in values that are not necessarily economic or monetary.
→ read full articleDrones and the New Ethics of War
Neve Gordon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
If Guantanamo was the icon of George W. Bush, drones have become the emblem of the Obama presidency. He has adopted a totally different doctrine: kill rather than capture, replace torture with targeted assassinations. Drones change the ethics of war. To kill exposing one’s life to danger is bad; to kill without endangering one’s own is good.
→ read full articleThe Muslim Catch-22
Jen Sorensen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
Not your free speech, buddy. – Satirical Comic Cartoon
→ read full articleTo Strike or Not to Strike: Israel’s Electoral Calculus
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
An Israeli air strike in Syria on Sunday [18 Jan 2015] that killed 12 commanders from Hizballah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard follows a long and ignoble tradition in Israeli politics. Prime ministers facing poor ratings have been tempted to launch a major military offensive in the middle of an election campaign. The strike was the biggest against Hizballah since summer 2006 and Israel’s first undisguised military clash with Iran.
→ read full articlePentagon Agency Wants Drones to Hunt in Packs, like Wolves
Dan Lamothe – The Washington Post,
26 Jan 2015
“Just as wolves hunt in coordinated packs with minimal communication, multiple CODE-enabled unmanned aircraft would collaborate to find, track, identify and engage targets, all under the command of a single human mission supervisor.”
→ read full articleAfter Charlie Hebdo Attack, France Announces Draconian Anti-Terror Law
Alex Lantier, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
After a cabinet meeting yesterday [21 Jan 2015] morning at the Elysée presidential palace, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls unveiled a draconian new anti-terror law.
→ read full articleCanadian Expert: What Occurred in Paris Was Theater on a Grand Scale
Tehran Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
“Extremists groups are the instrument with which the West and its closest allies seek to transform the Middle East without violating international law or asking the UN Security Council to approve military incursions on sovereign countries to achieve desired political outcomes.” — Leader of Human Rights Party of Canada, Kevin Galalae.
→ read full articleWhy Myanmar Is Committing a Slow Genocide against Nearly 2 Million Rohingya Muslims
Maung Zarni, Rohingya Blogger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
Jan 18, 2015 – Myanmar’s slow Rohingya genocide is a brilliant strategy that kills several birds with a single stone – as far as the country’s ruling military Bama regimes.
→ read full articleCharlie Hebdo Fired ‘Anti-Semitic’ Cartoonist for Ridiculing Judaism in 2009
We Are Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
The cartoon world’s double standards on freedom of speech… 80-year-old Maurice Sinet, political cartoonist with Charlie Hebdo for 20 years, was fired in 2009 for his ‘anti-Semitic’ cartoons mocking the relationship of former French President Sarkozy’s son with a wealthy Jewish woman.
→ read full articleExactly!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
A reporter asked an American,
→ read full article(Deutsch) Vom Langen Ende Der Friedensforschung … Und Wie Ihr Gesellschaftskritik Abhanden Kam
Werner Ruf - Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung,
26 Jan 2015
Debatten über Krieg und Frieden sind nicht allein von geopolitischen Interessenkonstellationen und Konfliktlagen beeinflusst, sondern ebenso von der gesellschaftlich organisierten Wissensproduktion zu diesen Fragen – in erster Linie an Hochschulen und außeruniversitären Forschungsinstituten.
→ read full articleSyria Strike Caps Israel’s Provocations in Middle East
Chris Marsden, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
21 Jan 2015 – Israel’s strike on leading Hezbollah figures near the occupied Golan Heights is the latest move in a campaign to escalate Middle East tensions. It has been accompanied by a series of provocative actions against the Palestinians and European powers now considered to be too “pro-Palestinian.”
→ read full articleFrance Begins Jailing People for Ironic Comments
Ali Abunimah – Electronic Intifada,
26 Jan 2015
It may sound like an ironic joke, but it isn’t. Less than a week after the massive rallies in defense of “free expression,” French authorities have jailed a youth 16 year-old for irony. His alleged crime? He posted on Facebook a cartoon representing a person holding the magazine Charlie Hebdo, being hit by bullets, and accompanied by an ‘ironic’ comment.
→ read full articleSatire and Democracy: The Problem with Charlie Hebdo
Giacomo Bianchino – New Matilda,
26 Jan 2015
It’s hard to maintain satire as ‘comedy’ when it becomes the enfranchised attacking the disenfranchised. The injury done by the violence of the CH calamity to “free speech” is enough to warrant a fundamental question: what role does satire play in democracy?
→ read full articleGenocides, Not Wars
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
What followed WWII were not really true wars, anymore, but genocides; holocausts. All perpetrated mainly through carpet-bombing, poisonous chemicals, enlisting corrupt foreign military, US-trained and financed death-squads, and most recently by using ‘smart bombs’, stealth fighters, cruise missiles and drones, as well as ‘Muslim terrorists’ (created in NATO camps).
→ read full articleAl Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Develops Its Own Version of Reddit’s AMA and Twitter’s Blue Checkmark Verification
Jeremy Scahill – The Intercept,
26 Jan 2015
AQAP has deployed social media operatives on Twitter to spread its message and to engage with its followers and critics alike. Despite U.S. government attempts to shut down its accounts, AQAP has proven effective at maintaining its own bizarro verification methods.
→ read full articleHow Saudi Arabia’s Harsh Legal Punishments Compare to the Islamic State’s
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post,
26 Jan 2015
Documents Show Saudi Arabia and ISIS Administer Nearly Identical Punishments for Crimes
→ read full articleOdds of Escaping Poverty in India, U.S. Same: World Bank
Puja Mehra – The Hindu,
26 Jan 2015
21 Jan 2015 – A World Bank report has challenged the conventional understanding of India’s inequality. It has found that the probability of a poor person moving out of poverty in India in 2014 was as good as that in the U.S. A.
→ read full articleIt Is 3 Minutes to Midnight in the Doomsday Clock
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
23 Jan 2015: Unchecked climate change and the nuclear arms race have pushed the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock forward to three minutes closer to midnight, announced in Washington DC members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the body behind the calculations and creation of the Clock of Doom in 1947.
→ read full articleFinancial Markets Celebrate European Central Bank Launch of €1 Trillion Quantitative Easing Program
Nick Beams, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
[Quantitative Easing: euphemism for ‘printing more money for benefit of banks, financial vultures.’ – TMS Editor] The measures will have little or no impact on the real economy. Rather, they are aimed at making available further supplies of ultra-cheap cash for financial speculation.
→ read full articleUN: Israel Illegally Demolished 77 Palestinian Houses This Week
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
24 Jan 2015 – The UN said in a statement on Friday [23 Jan 2015] that 77 Palestinian families, half of them children, have been rendered homeless in the past three days. Some demolished structures were provided by the international community to shelter poor Palestinian families.
→ read full article$$$$$s in Their Hearts: An Exposé of Wars in All Their Complexity – Highly Recommended
Ronald Stein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
$$$$$s in Their Hearts, by Alberto Portugheis, (Opus, London, Nov 2014) – He has had many years to gather all his data and shows how various situations have developed by considerations of politics, religion, military necessities, and the ever present malignant influence of the now worldwide Military Industrial Complex.
→ read full articlePope Francis, Salman Rushdie, and Charlie Hebdo
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
The Associated Press reports that despite present tensions and the public celebration of free speech the government in Paris has “ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism, and glorifying terrorism.” But no message by the French government mentioning ‘hate cartooning’ or the surge of ‘Islamophobia’ in the country.
→ read full articleEliciting Insight from Covert Operations by US
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
The argument here therefore explores the dynamic within a reappropriated US, understood as Universal Synthesizer or Universal Sympathizer — aspiring to global organization and expression of identity, through the embodiment of the highest values. This cognitive dynamic is recognized as challenged by the negativity of Terrifying Hypothetical External Mentalities (THEM) seeking to undermine the coherence articulated and sustained so positively by US.
→ read full articleRussia and US End Collaboration on Nuclear Disarmament
Clara Weiss, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
Russia and the United States ended their collaboration in the disposal of nuclear waste in mid-December, according to a report in the Boston Globe on Monday [19 Jan 2015]. After the US, Russia is the second largest nuclear power in the world. Together Washington and Moscow own 90 percent of global nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleIndia: Fifty Shades of Terror
Suhas Chakma - Asian Centre for Human Rights,
26 Jan 2015
The massacre of the Adivasis shows once again India’s typical responses to terror. There is the usual failure to prevent terror even when there are actionable inputs. Once killings start, security forces seldom respond on time to prevent further killings.
→ read full articleMurdering Journalists … Them and Us
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
Where has all this Islamic fundamentalism comes from? Most of it comes – trained, armed, financed, indoctrinated – from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. These four countries had been the most secular, modern, educated, welfare states in the Middle East. In the 1980s, the USA overthrew the Afghan government that was progressive, with full rights for women, believe it or not , leading to the creation of the Taliban and their taking power.
→ read full articlePrison Trauma
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
In an exercise of
Psychopathology
Students are told
To find
A safe place
And to go in
A Population Perspective on the Steady State Economy
Herman Daly – Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy,
26 Jan 2015
A steady state economy is defined by a constant population and a constant stock of physical capital. The population problem should be considered from the point of view of all populations–populations of both humans and their things (cars, houses, livestock, crops, cell phones, etc.)–in short, populations of all “dissipative structures” engendered, bred, or built by humans.
→ read full articleWhy Can’t the World’s Greatest Minds Solve the Mystery of Consciousness?
Oliver Burkeman – The Guardian,
26 Jan 2015
Philosophers, spirituality practitioners, and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots.
→ read full articlePost-Sentence Statement: Journalist Barrett Brown – 63 Months [5 Years] Imprisonment for Association with ‘Anonymous’
Sparrow Media Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
22 Jan 2015 – “The U.S. government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex. Wish me luck!” — Barrett Brown
→ read full articleNorman Finkelstein: Charlie Hebdo Is Sadism, Not Satire
Mustafa Caglayan – Anadolu Agency News,
26 Jan 2015
World renowned political science professor says he has ‘no sympathy’ for staff at Charlie Hebdo.
→ read full articleIsraeli Think-Tank Holds Anti-BDS ‘Hackathon’
Ben White – Middle East Monitor,
26 Jan 2015
16 Jan 2015 – Pro-Israel activists have vowed to fight back against a growing global boycott campaign. Improving Zionist groups’ “toolbox” in the fight against Palestine solidarity campaigners means “develop[ing] methodologies to be able to penetrate, with messaging and for other purposes, often protected and niche internet-mediated worlds.”
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Newly Discovered 1964 MLK Speech on Civil Rights, Segregation & Apartheid South Africa
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
26 Jan 2015
Jan 19, 2015 – The Entire Lost Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Speech from 1964 – 11 Min.
→ read full article(Português) A Jaula de Aço, Max Weber e o Marxismo Weberiano
Jorge Costa, Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
No seu novo livro, Michael Löwy aborda a paradoxal influência de Max Weber, pensador pessimista e resignado, sobre a teoria crítica e revolucionária. Um estudo cativante, nesta época de submissão total a forças impessoais – mercados, finança, dívida, austeridade – em que a barbárie moderna identificada por Weber volta a apresentar-se como destino inevitável.
→ read full articleLook Back to Move Forward: Advice to the New Sri Lanka President
Jared Genser – The Diplomat,
19 Jan 2015
While the face of Sri Lankan politics is changing, the challenges of restoring human rights to the war-torn country remain. With this change in power comes an opportunity for a turning point in the country’s troubled history.
→ read full article#Freespeech, but We Won’t Cover Your Skin or Honor Your God
Maung Zarni, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
A poem in solidarity and honor of persecuted and targeted Muslims, the latest victims of the “Civilization.”
→ read full articleRussia Cuts Off Ukraine Gas Supply to 6 European Countries
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
14 Jan 2015 – The EU raged that the sudden cut-off to some of its member countries was “completely unacceptable,” but Gazprom later added that Russia plans to shift all its natural gas flows crossing Ukraine to a route via Turkey; and the Russian Energy Minister stated unequivocally, “the decision has been made.”
→ read full articleSectarianism Rears Its Head as Asean Launches Community
Michael Vatikiotis - The Straits Times,
19 Jan 2015
Without a doubt, South-east Asia’s traditional models of pluralism and tolerance are under stress. Before Asean can really become a community, its leaders must move fast to shore up and protect long-established traditions of tolerance and coexistence.
→ read full articleCalling All Whistleblowers: afriLeaks Offers a Secure Platform
Mail & Guardian Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
In the post-Snowden world with government and corporate surveillance a reality, it has become critically important for journalists and whistleblowers to ensure their digital safety. Enter afriLeaks, a joint project of the African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting and the Hermes Centre for Transparency and Digital Human Rights.
→ read full articleThe Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today… The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being.
→ read full articleMemetic Analogue to the 20 Amino Acids as Vital to Psychosocial Life?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Number 37 as indicative of fruitful pathways of transformation? With respect to the number 37, as the key feature of the report, Kemp notes the discovery that: “37 recurs frequently within the code. For example, the mass of the molecular ‘core’ shared by all 20 amino acids is 74, namely 37 doubled”.
→ read full articleEuropean Powers Implement Police State Measures in Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack
Ulrich Rippert, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Governments throughout Europe have responded to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in France by moving quickly to push through a raft of anti-democratic measures that have long been prepared, but that have so far encountered resistance.
→ read full articleHow Americans Can Help Preserve Our Shared Cultural Heritage in Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
To date, it has been primarily the Syrian people themselves, without much international and practically no American help, taking the lead to protect and preserve this cradle of civilization which has hosted nearly a dozen empires over ten thousand years.
→ read full articleIn France, Prisons Filled with Muslims
Molly Moore – The Washington Post,
19 Jan 2015
About 60 to 70 percent of all inmates in the country’s prison system are Muslim, according to Muslim leaders, sociologists and researchers, though Muslims make up only about 12 percent of the country’s population.
→ read full articleCast Into the Depths: Perilous Waters for the American Psychological Association
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
The brutal treatment of detainees was not merely the isolated and abhorrent inspiration of two so-called rogue psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen; indeed, from the start the Office of Legal Counsel “torture memos” were drafted with key roles for psychologists specifically in mind.
→ read full articleGas Theft and Auschwitz Snub… Russia’s Every Right to End the Insults
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
19 Jan 2015
In January 1945, it was the Russian Red Army that liberated thousands of Poles, Jews and other European nationals from Auschwitz. Russia saved Europe’s neck from fascism and continues to save Europe’s neck from freezing every winter with its natural gas supplies. And yet for all this, Russia has to endure insults and provocations from a thankless European elite.
→ read full articleOnce Again, American Weapons-Makers Are Making a Killing in Iraq
Peter Van Buren – Mother Jones,
19 Jan 2015
Our battle with ISIS lacks goals and direction, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a profit to be made.
→ read full articleWaving in the First Row
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
One has to understand what pushes young local-born Muslims to commit such acts. Who are they? What do they think? What are their feelings? In what circumstances did they grow up? What can be done to change them? It takes time and effort, with results uncertain. Much easier for politicians to march in the street in front of the cameras. And who marched in the first row, beaming like a victor? Our own and only Bibi.
→ read full articleTurkish Military Says MIT-National Intelligence Service Shipped Weapons to Al-Qaeda
Fehim Taştekin – Al Monitor,
19 Jan 2015
New documents have been leaked online, prompting the government to immediatey ban reporting on the scandal and order the content deleted.
→ read full articlePeculiarities of Russian National Character
Dmitry Orlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Byzantine cultural influences, which came along with Orthodox Christianity, first through Crimea (the birthplace of Christianity in Russia), then through the Russian capital Kiev (the same Kiev that is now the capital of Ukraine), allowed Russia to leapfrog across a millennium or so of cultural development…. Russia has just offered the EU a deal. Why freeze yourselves out when we can all freeze out Washington instead?
→ read full articleTrade Secrets*
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Why will no one answer the obvious, massive question about the TTIP-Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership? The UK government, like that of the US and 13 other EU members, wants to set up a separate judicial system, exclusively for the use of corporations.
→ read full articleThe Charlie Hebdo ‘Hot Takes’
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Cartoon – This Modern World – Comic Satirical Strip
→ read full article(Italiano) Parigi – e poi?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
C’è un altro valore, un’altra norma nel campo dell’ espressione: la considerazione. La decenza. Il rispetto per la vita. Abbiamo leggi sui libelli che chiedono non solo “è vero?” ma “è rilevante?”, per smorzare la malignità per esempio nel “dibattito” politico. Escludiamo discorsi di odio, propaganda per la tortura, il genocidio, la guerra, la pornografia che coinvolga bambini. Molti, incapaci di capire o argomentare con i convertiti all’Islam in Francia, oltrepassano invece le norme della decenza; la facile soluzione.
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Lisboa Antiga – Old Lisbon (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Amália Rodrigues – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
FADO: Alma Portuguesa – Portuguese Soul
Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) is the greatest Portuguese ‘Fadista-Interpreter of Fados’ of all time.
The Year 2015-What Are We In For?
Johan Galtung, 19 Jan 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Three, maybe four dramatic, global processes are unfolding. And then this: the Silk Railway Freight Train Yiwu from coastal China to Madrid, 8,111 miles, connecting all markets in Eurasia from one end to the other–and from Madrid on to Latin-America, of course.
→ read full articleThere Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History
Terrence McNally - AlterNet,
19 Jan 2015
It is an industry that produces huge profits and countless wasted lives. To those who say we’re not really making progress, many might point to the fact that at least we’ve eliminated slavery. But sadly that is not the truth.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
January 19-25 – Quote of the Week: “At the center of nonviolence stands principle of love.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
→ read full articleThe Importance of Being Angry
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
If we want obedient and hardworking students, reliable and pliant employees/soldiers and submissive law-abiding citizens, then we must terrorize people out of being angry. Social control is not easy with people who are powerful and you need your anger to be powerful.
→ read full articleHell on Earth: Massacre in Nigeria
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Massacre of somewhere north of 2000 people in the Nigerian fishing village of Baga. The details are horrifying. People fleeing the violence and drowning in a lake. Bodies still littering the streets and bushes. The idea that all of these individual acts of savagery are linked and there is one solution for the infinite facets of the problem — “More NSA spying!” “More torture!” “Immigration quotas!” — is as dangerous as it is fanciful.
→ read full article(Nederlands-Dutch) Waar rook is, is Vitol
Tomas Vanheste – De Correspondent,
19 Jan 2015
In olierijke landen als Nigeria, Irak, Libië rommelt het vaak. Te midden van alle chaos is één ding duidelijk: de olie moet verkocht. De Nederlandse oliereus Vitol heeft er zijn specialiteit van gemaakt. ‘Ze zijn niet immoreel, maar amoreel.’ Deel 3 in het Vitol-dossier.
→ read full article(Français) Ce qu’il y a de non Charlie en moi
Rony Brauman – Le Monde,
19 Jan 2015
Je suis Charlie, je ne suis pas Charlie. Le Charlie en moi est accablé par l’assassinat de figures familières, chantres de la grivoiserie et de la dérision, il est bouleversé par la mort de ces bouffeurs de religion dont l’outrance et le mauvais goût rigolards étaient la marque de fabrique.
→ read full articleImperialist War, the “War on Terror,” And the End of Democracy
Chris Marsden, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
For decades, the US, France and other imperialist powers have rained down bombs on defenceless civilians, carried out assassinations, and committed horrible war crimes.
→ read full article(Français) Une Tribu Guaranis de la Forêt Amazonienne Se Suicide
Center Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Pourchassés, harcelés, destitués et privés de leurs espaces de vies séculaires, de leurs droits et légitimité, n’acceptant pas le tribut sous forme de Diktat avilissant de la civilisation, ne pouvant plus lutter contre les intérêts des systèmes d’exploitation de la forêt Amazonienne : ils choisissent la Mort !
→ read full articleFaith
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
A mountain climber slipped down a slope and barely got hold of a small branch at the edge of an abyss.
→ read full articleTo Change Everything: Change Anything, Start Everywhere
CrimethInc – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
An Anarchist Appeal – Our private financial and emotional struggles mirror global upheaval and disaster. We could spend the rest of our days trying to douse these fires one by one, but they stem from the same source. No piecemeal solution will serve; we need to rethink everything. All it takes to find each other is to begin acting according to a different logic. The secret is to begin. Don’t cling to the old world.
→ read full article2000 Estimated Dead in Nigeria from Boko Haram Massacre. But Who Is Arming Them?
Cassius Methyl, The Anti Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
While recognizing how intense and horrific this event is, the only logical thing to do now is find out why this happened. A good first question might be: Who armed these people? Please keep in mind there is a lot of background information ignored by the mainstream media. It’s much more complicated than it seems.
→ read full article(Português) Charlie Hebdo: Uma reflexão difícil
Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Carta Maior,
19 Jan 2015
Esta análise é urgente, sob pena de continuarmos a atear um fogo que amanhã pode atingir as escolas dos nossos filhos, as nossas casas e as nossas instituições.
→ read full articleDenied Visa by Israel, UN Rights Expert Cancels Visit to Palestine
Ma’an News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
An official visit by Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, was cancelled Friday [16 Jan 2015] after Israeli authorities refused to give her a visa to enter Palestine. She had been invited on a fact-finding mission by the Palestinian Authority.
→ read full articleThe Complete History of Monsanto, “The World’s Most Evil Corporation”
E Hanzai, Waking Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Of all the mega-corps running amok, Monsanto has consistently outperformed its rivals, earning the crown as “most evil corporation on Earth!” Not content to simply rest upon its throne of destruction, it remains focused on newer, more scientifically innovative ways to harm the planet and its people.
→ read full articleInvestigation – Secret America
Alex Jordanov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Over 1 million people inhabit the parallel world created by the US Secret Services after September 11.
→ read full articleCountries Ranked by Military Strength: 2014
Global Firepower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
The Military Powers of the World in Full Perspective – The GFP list makes use of over 50 factors to determine each nation’s Power Index (“PwrIndx”) score.
→ read full articleJe Suis Martin Luther King
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Today, January 19, 2015, is Martin Luther King Day here in the US. The world has changed quite a bit since our former great civil rights leader was with us.
→ read full articleI Am a Marxist, Dalai Lama Says
The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
“As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist,” the spiritual leader said adding that he admires Marxism because of its focus on reducing gap between the rich and the poor.
→ read full articleSlavoj Žižek on the Charlie Hebdo Massacre: Are the Worst Really Full of Passionate Intensity?
Slavoj Žižek – New Statesman,
19 Jan 2015
How fragile the belief of an Islamist must be if he feels threatened by a stupid caricature in a weekly satirical newspaper, says the Slovenian philosopher… Those who do not want to talk critically about liberal democracy should also keep quiet about religious fundamentalism.
→ read full articleThe Unmourned: Another Mass Killing by the Nobel Peace Prize Prez
Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
A U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed at least 50 Syrian civilians late last month when it targeted a headquarters of Islamic State extremists in northern Syria, according to an eyewitness and a Syrian opposition human rights organization.
→ read full articleSan Francisco Buses Running Islamophobic Ads
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Once again, an anti-Islam organization has bought ads on San Francisco buses, this time comparing Islam to Nazis.
→ read full articleU.N. Helpless as Saudi Flogging Flouts Torture Convention
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
“His flogging [1000 lashes, 50/week] and 10-year sentence are testament to the extreme lengths to which the Saudi Arabian authorities will go in order to crush dissent.”
→ read full articleI Am Not Charlie Hebdo
David Brooks – The New York Times,
12 Jan 2015
Let’s face it: If they had tried to publish their satirical newspaper on any American university campus over the last two decades it wouldn’t have lasted 30 seconds. Student and faculty groups would have accused them of hate speech. Public reaction to the attack in Paris has revealed that there are a lot of people who are quick to lionize those who offend the views of Islamist terrorists in France but who are a lot less tolerant toward those who offend their own views at home.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Maus Comportamentos
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Educação, palavra mágica onde todo mundo diz que está a solução, mas quase ninguém se importa. Educação não é somente adquirir habilidades. Abrange ética e civilidade. Do contrário, o mau comportamento prevalece no calçadão onde caminho e nos descaminhos do país.
→ read full articleHow a Tibetan Monk Brings Free Education to Herdsmen’s Children with Cheese Revenue, Government Funding
Zhou Yu - Global Times,
12 Jan 2015
For 20 years, a Tibetan monk-cum-teacher in Qinghai Province has explored a new way to combine traditional and modern educational methods to open new horizons for the children of poor herdsmen. His success story has shown how a community can improve itself through social responsibility, ideas of equality and hard work.
→ read full articleThe Bankster International
Mark Hackard – The Soul of the East,
12 Jan 2015
In their quest to liquidate the American, the Russian, and every other unique people, the predators from the bankster international consider themselves above all laws human and divine. Yet the swelling arrogance of sociopaths brings about their downfall – and the sooner their crime spree comes to an end, the better chance we all might have for peace and reconciliation.
→ read full articleOn Freedom of Speech
David van Mill, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
The discussion moves on from the harm principle to assess the argument that speech can be limited because it causes offense rather than direct harm. [From TMS Editor – Of interest, in view of recent atrocities in Paris: 3.3 HATE SPEECH AND THE OFFENSE PRINCIPLE]
→ read full articleU.N. Confirms Palestinians Will Be ICC Member on April 1, 2015
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has confirmed the Palestinians will formally become a member of the International Criminal Court on April 1 and the court’s registrar said on Wednesday [7 Jan 2015] that jurisdiction would date back to June 13, 2014.
→ read full articleFighting Disease, Not Terrorism, Will Save More Lives in 2015
Charles Kenny – Bloomberg Business Week,
12 Jan 2015
The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism & Responses to Terrorism reported 11,000 killed by terror worldwide in 2012 compared with around 4,000 in 2000. The definition of a “terror attack” is endlessly debatable, but let’s take those numbers at face value and compare them with other violent deaths.
→ read full articleJan 17, 1893: Americans Overthrow Hawai’ian Monarchy
History & Wikipedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
In January 1893, a revolutionary “Committee of Safety,” organized by Sanford B. Dole, staged a coup against Queen Liliʻuokalani with the tacit support of the United States. The Queen was deposed on January 17, 1893, and temporarily relinquished her throne to “the superior military forces of the United States”.
→ read full articleOn Love (from The Prophet)
Kahlil Gibran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
The Satyagraha of John Brown
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
In popular memory, Brown is known for taking an unwavering stand against the evil of slavery, to the point of killing civilians who stood in his way. In academic circles, Brown serves as the centerpiece of discussions regarding the use of violence for moral ends. As such, the John Brown story can easily become an aspect of cultural violence, meaning those beliefs, ideologies, and cosmologies that legitimize and perpetuate direct and structural (indirect) violence.
→ read full articleCharlie Hebdo Massacre: a Tragic, Universal Failure
Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Imagine if Charlie Hebdo drew a big-nosed Moses sitting amid buckets of cash. Does no one understand why if one is wrong the other is as well? In fact, a Hebdo cartoonist derided Nicholas Sarkozy’s son for “doing well” by converting to Judaism to marry a wealthy Jewish heiress. The cartoonist was fired. But cartoonists ridiculing the Prophet are now folk heroes.
→ read full articleJanuary: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
12 Jan 2015
January 2015 – Nuclear Threat in History
→ read full articlePope Francis and Religious Cosmopolitanism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
It has never been more important to counter the widely disseminated view that religion is ‘inherently’ responsible for political extremism, and more destructively, to blame Islam as a religion for sociopathic violence when the culprits are Muslim. True, religious doctrine can be twisted to serve any values, however demonic, as can secularist thinking.
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