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Our SecureDrop System for Leaks Now Uses HTTPS
Micah Lee – The Intercept,
13 Apr 2015
The new setup helps assure leakers they are connecting with the authentic Intercept SecureDrop and not an impostor.
→ 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.
→ read full article(Italiano) Un rapporto ONU: il 2014 ha visto il maggior numero di palestinesi uccisi dall’esercito israeliano dal 1967
Amira Hass – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
7 apr 2015 – Le forze di sicurezza israeliane hanno ucciso 2.312 palestinesi, la maggiore parte dei quali l’estate [scorsa] nella guerra di Gaza. Circa due terzi erano civili.
→ read full articleNew Spring in Russia-Greek Ties: Tsipras
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Putin and Greek Prime Minister Tsipras discussed bilateral trade, economic, investment ties. Tsipras on Wednesday [8 Apr 2015] said Greece “openly disapproves” of European anti-Russian sanctions, because the EU economic war against Russia could lead to a new Cold War.
→ read full articleWhat Can Be Done to Abolish War?
International Peace Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Photography and Essay Competitions – £100 prize for the winners. Write an essay answering the following question: WHAT CAN BE DONE TO ABOLISH WAR? Or: Take an original photograph that interprets the question: WHAT DOES PEACE MEAN TO YOU?
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Piano Recital: Launching of ‘Universal Abolition of Militarism’
Alberto Portugheis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
TRANSCEND Member, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and world renowned international pianist Alberto Portugheis will perform a recital to launch his International Peace Campaign. 30 May 2015, at 5pm, Wesley Centre, Harrogate, England.
→ read full article290 Million-Year-Old Human Footprint Has Researchers Scratching Their Heads
Ivan Petricevic, Ancient Code – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Is it possible that we have history all wrong? That the dates that conventional history is giving us regarding mankind are all incorrect? That humans lived on Earth much sooner that science originally thought so?
→ read full articleBook Review: Love and Resistance, by Theresa Wolfwood
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Her poems at times are so powerful that if they were printed in the next morning’s newspapers in some parts of the world, civil disobedience movements would rally to press for justice.
→ read full articleWhy Are We Planning to Walk Across the Demilitarized Zone That Separates North and South Korea?
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Seventy years ago, as the Cold War was being waged, the USA unilaterally drew the line across the 38th parallel—later with the former USSR’s agreement—dividing an ancient country that had just suffered 35 years of Japanese colonial occupation. Now the conflict on the Korean peninsula threatens peace in the Asia Pacific and throughout our world.
→ read full articleThe Real Nuclear Threat
Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Three privatized nuclear laboratories — Los Alamos, Sandia and Livermore — are behind the immense investment (as much as $1 trillion over 30 years) in upgraded, more destructive nuclear warheads. This aggressive pressure from the American business sector is a lot more frightening than any aggression emanating from Iran, and may indicate where the real push for war comes from.
→ read full articleMy Missing Family in Syria: Naming and Shaming in Yarmouk
Ramzy Baroud – Middle East Eye,
13 Apr 2015
10 Apr 2015 – We must remember that there are still 18,000 people trapped in Yarmouk, and even if it is untimely, we must do something – anything. The refugees of Yarmouk – whose population once exceeded 250,000 – is a microcosm of the story of a whole nation, whose perpetual pain shames us all, none excluded.
→ read full articleThe Pentagon Plan to ‘Divide and Rule’ the Muslim World
Nafeez Ahmed, Ph.D. – Middle East Eye,
13 Apr 2015
Yemen is the latest casualty of a neoconservative strategy commissioned by the US Army to ‘capitalise on Sunni-Shia conflict’ in the Middle East – the goal is nothing short of ‘Western dominance’.
→ read full articleBlessed Ambiguity
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
King Louis XI of France was superstitious. One time, his astrologer predicted nice weather.
→ read full articleLatin America and the Anglo-American Booby-Left
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Numerous prominent progressive US pundits, whose political pronouncements carry great weight in the alternative media, have proclaimed ‘Latin America’s decisive break’ with US domination and have gone on to announce the beginning of a new ‘post-imperial epoch’.
→ read full articleSaving Passengers of the Good Ship Titan… Earth
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
So what can we learn from the sinking of the Titanic and its huge death toll that can help us to avert sinking the Good Ship Earth and killing off most, if not all, humans and many other species besides? Let me consider each item above in turn.
→ read full articleCounteracting Extremes Enabling Normal Flying
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Insights for Global Governance from Birds on the Wing and the Dodo – I wish the eagle had not been chosen as the representative of this country. He is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly. Too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the fishing hawk and, when that diligent bird has taken a fish and is bearing it for his young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes the fish. With all this injustice, he is never in good case.
→ read full article(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra: venti raccomandazioni
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
La criminalizzazione è ambigua e può anche inasprire e prolungare le guerre; dovrebbe accompagnarsi agli approcci positivi al diritto alla pace, alla rimozione delle cause di guerra e alla rimozione della guerra quale mala istituzione in termini sociali.
→ read full article(Italiano) Stalin il comunista e Mao il comunitarista
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Churchill e Hitler fecero la storia ma non la cambiarono; dopo la guerra le loro società ritrovarono le proprie vecchie forme. Stalin e Mao cambiarono sostanzialmente le loro società molto più grandi, e conferirono nuove linee di faglia e alleanze al sistema statuale westfalico.
→ read full articleExplaining the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry in Yemen
Shahir Shahidsaless – Middle East Eye,
13 Apr 2015
While many observers view the conflict in Yemen as rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia, this view may not reflect the entire picture.
→ read full articleFormer Ambassador: 40 Years Ago, US Handed Cambodia to ‘Butcher’
Denis D. Gray, AP, Stars and Stripes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
John Gunther Dean recalls what he describes as one of the most tragic days of his life: April 12, 1975, the day the United States “abandoned Cambodia and handed it over to the butcher. We’d accepted responsibility for Cambodia and then walked out without fulfilling our promise. That’s the worst thing a country can do,” he says in an interview in Paris. “And I cried because I knew what was going to happen.”
→ read full articleDeir Yassin to Yarmouk and Beyond: Reflections in a Flight to Paris
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
The scientist in me wants to find logical explanations for why people kill each other and do not simply share and care for one another. I try to convince myself with my own words to visitors to Palestine: lighting a candle better than cursing the darkness, first do no harm, travel the path of your conscience even if few are doing it, etc. Maybe lack of sleep makes my mind wonder into Buddhist philosophies (Joyful participation in the sorrows of this world) and to mystic philosophies (Rumi’s words come slushing around my brain).
→ read full articlePower and Resistance at the World Social Forum in Tunisia
Hamza Hamouchene – Middle East Eye,
13 Apr 2015
The World Social Forum, held between 24 and 28 March, succeeded in gathering around 50,000 people from 125 countries representing all continents. That the anti-globalisation forum was vibrant, youthful and dynamic was a testimony to the still-burning flame of hope for a better world. But attempts by regional states to hijack this unique political gathering again expose how governments seek to co-opt the global justice movement.
→ read full articleThe State of The World’s Human Rights 2014/15
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Amnesty International’s Annual Report provides a comprehensive overview of the state of human rights in 160 countries and territories during 2014. It also celebrates those who stand up for human rights across the world, often in difficult and dangerous circumstances.
→ read full articleSecurity versus Peace Discourse (after Johan Galtung)
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
The prevailing discourse used by governments today is the security discourse, which briefly is the following: “We have a problem, our enemies. Through military superiority we can deter or prevent their evil designs and achieve security–and through this peace.”
→ read full articleWhen Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence – The Israel Lobby and a Cowed Academia
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
8 Apr 2015 – The sudden cancellation of an academic conference on Israel, as well as the lack of outcry from ‘mainstream’ media, demonstrates once again the skewed limits to ‘free speech’ in ‘advanced’ Western democracies. ‘Je suis Charlie’ already feels like ancient history. It certainly does not apply when it comes to scrutiny of the state of Israel.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
April 13-19 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now–always.” – Albert Schweitzer
→ read full articlePassphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess
Micah Lee – The Intercept,
13 Apr 2015
It’s getting easier to secure your digital privacy. iPhones now encrypt a great deal of personal information; hard drives on Mac and Windows 8.1 computers are now automatically locked down. But none of this technology offers as much protection as you may think if you don’t know how to come up with a good passphrase.
→ read full articleThe American Psychological Association and Guantanamo: Actions, Not Words
Roy Eidelson and Dan Aalbers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Yet again the APA fails to honor its commitments. It is time for the APA to devote as much energy to getting psychologists out of Guantanamo as it has devoted to getting psychologists into the halls of power.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to University of Sydney to Reject Calls to Punish Palestine-Justice Supporters
Jake Lynch, Sydney Staff for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Calls are principally focussed on having Associate Professor Jake Lynch and Dr Nick Riemer dismissed from the university. In Lynch’s case, this is the demand explicitly being made by the Australasian Union of Jewish Students. We call on you, Dr Spence, not to allow yourself to be made the agent of the Israel lobby’s persecution of those committed to a just peace in the Middle East.
→ read full articleOslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
On March 1, 2015, a group of experts in international law, human rights law, environmental law, and other law adopted the Oslo Principles on Global Obligations to Reduce Climate Change. Based on extensive legal research and discussions over a period of several years the undersigned experts adopted the following principles:
→ read full articleIran Accord and Momentum-Building
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
A steady, systematic momentum is needed in everything. Now, motion is needed to develop a broad security and cooperation system for the Middle East, somewhat on the lines of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
→ read full articleUN Report: 2014 Saw the Most Palestinians Killed by Israel’s Military Since ‘67
Amira Hass – Haaretz,
13 Apr 2015
27 Mar 2015 – Israeli security forces killed 2,312 Palestinians, most in the Gaza war over the summer. Roughly two-thirds were civilians.
→ read full articleRussia-China Interests Aligned: Putin to Chinese FM
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
8 Apr 2015 – In a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Sino-Russian ties “meet the demands of the day” and Moscow will support the Chinese Silk Road project. Chinese President Xi Jinping will be in Moscow on May 8 for the 70th anniversary of Russia’s defeat of Nazi Germany. Heads of 26 countries have confirmed their attendance.
→ read full articleSituation Assessment of Yarmouk Refugee Camp: What Happens Next?
Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies & Consultations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
8 Apr 2015 – Sudden fighting broke out at the Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Damascus between groups affiliated to ISIS and the Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis group. ISIS took control of nearly 80% of the RC area. While the Palestinian groups remain under siege by ISIS in the south and the regime in the north, the option to withdraw could be unlikely, meaning the Palestinian groups’ options boil down to reaching either settlement or engaging in a suicidal battle with ISIS or the regime.
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John Oliver Interviews Edward Snowden: Government Surveillance
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Apr 5, 2015 – There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics.
→ read full articleSpiritual Warmth
Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Unifying the bond of human ‘love’
Pulling me from the illusion’s grove;
God! The cradle of dreams You awoke,
And on a spiritual path, I fell awake.
Don’t Arm Pakistan’s Teachers
Maham Javaid – Al Jazeera America,
13 Apr 2015
Distributing guns and weapons training to students and school staffers is the wrong way to fight terrorism. Requiring teachers to defend their schools against attack while awaiting security forces reveals the government’s utter failure to develop effective policies.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mao e Gandhi: due asiatici
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Cominciamo col riassumere. Stiamo considerando sei importanti capi di forze e movimenti che plasmano i secoli – Churchill-Hitler-Stalin-Mao-Gandhi-Mandela – confrontandoli, due alla volta.
→ read full articleUnworthy Victims: Western Wars Have Killed Four Million Muslims Since 1990
Nafeez Ahmed – Middle East Eye,
13 Apr 2015
Landmark research proves that the US-led ‘war on terror’ has killed as many as 2 million people, but this is a fraction of Western responsibility for deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last two decades.
→ read full article(Italiano) Hitler e Stalin: due europei
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Hitler riguardava la razza, Stalin la classe. Due secolarismi genocidi versati in vecchie bottiglie di chiesa.
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Could You Be Loved – Happy 70th Birthday Bob Marley! (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Bob Marley Israel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Could You Be Loved – A capella by Israel artists celebrating Bob Marley’s birthday on Feb 6, 2015.
→ read full articleThe Spiritual Precondition of Peace in Israel-Palestine
Zeki Ergas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
I believe that the conditio sine qua non of a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is taking the higher spiritual road. The Israelis, and their Jewish and other supporters around the world, must accept the reality that the creation of a Greater Israel is unachievable; they must withdraw from the occupied Palestinian land and make peace with the Palestinians even if that means sharing Jerusalem as the capital and a reasonable solution of the refugee problem.
→ read full articleDid Israel Lobby “Bullying and Threats” Push Univ. of Southampton to Cancel Conference?
Ali Abunimah – The Electronic Intifada,
13 Apr 2015
2 Apr 2015 – Organizers of an academic conference on Israel are proceeding with an urgent legal challenge after the UK’s University of Southampton today confirmed that it has canceled the event. More than 900 academics from all over the world have signed on to a statement in support of the conference.
→ read full articleCasualty Figures after 10 Years of the “War on Terror” – Body Count
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Nobel Peace Laureates, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Editors:
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Physicians for Global Survival
Destroying the Greek Economy in Order to Save It
Mark Weisbrot – Al Jazeera America,
13 Apr 2015
Blackmail is actually an understatement of what the troika is doing to Greece. It is trying to harm the Greek economy in order to pressure the new Greek government to agree to its demands. Recent European Central Bank actions are not about money or fiscal sustainability but about politics. European authorities are using dirty tactics to bring Greece to heel.
→ read full articleNuclear Talks: Israel Demands Equality
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
The Israeli government yesterday demanded that it receive “equal treatment” to that in any agreement between Iran and the “P5+1” concerning Iran’s nuclear program. A possible further complication is that US agreement with the new Israeli position might lead the Iranian President to demand an invitation to explain to Congress why the Israeli government can’t be trusted.
→ read full articleFlying Lessons
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2015
A flock of birds that could not fly met in a nice hotel on top of a cliff overlooking the sea for a training workshop on flying.
→ read full articleMao and Gandhi: Two Asians
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
Gandhism went beyond India, Maoism stopped at the borders of China. Hinduism sees itself as universal whereas China sees itself as unique. What remains from both of them is the fight against oppression-exploitation, the search for horizontality, and from Gandhi nonviolent struggle, satyagraha.
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(Português) Espiritualidade e Virtude como Corolários para a Paz
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
Quando conheci o autor de O Tao da Física, Fritjof Capra, na Universidade do Havaí nos anos 80, ele me disse, sorrindo: “Quando nós, os físicos, chegarmos ao cume da montanha, seremos recebidos por místicos e espiritualistas que dirão: ‘porque demoraram tanto‘”? Estudos de Paz e de Conflito, entre outros fatores civilizadores para os seres humanos, representam a receita, o mapa para o cume da montanha. Tudo tem início e cresce dentro do indivíduo, manifestando-se depois na sociedade. Ou não.
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Algarabías (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Vasco Hernández – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
From the new album: “Luz de otra manera”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
Apr 6-12 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Whatever you deeply accept this moment as it is – no matter what forms it takes – you are still, you are at peace.” – Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks.
→ read full articleReplacement
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
An attorney telephoned the governor just after midnight, insisting that he talk to him regarding a matter of utmost urgency.
→ read full articleJerusalem
Yehuda Amichai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
The late Israeli poet captured this urban division well.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
The time has come for “peace journalists” to write not only about war, but also about its causes, prevention, and ways to restore peace. They need not invent solutions to conflicts themselves–in the same way as health journalists need not invent cures for diseases themselves; they ask specialists.
→ read full articleAbout This Issue of the TMS Weekly Digest
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
Last week I was abroad working practically around the clock with Johan Galtung. It proved impossible to do the usual selection for our readers and 10,000 subscribers; please accept our apologies…
→ read full articleMiddle East Conflicts Give Hefty Boost to Arms Merchants
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
The ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen have helped spiral arms sales upwards to the Middle East, according to a study released Monday [Mar 16 2015] by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
→ read full articleSecretive and Seedy: How Aid Donors are Opening the Agribusiness Flood Gates
Ian Fitzpatrick - Common Dreams,
30 Mar 2015
When big agribusiness [Syngenta] teams up with international aid organizations [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, US Agency for International Development] to corner the market on seeds, everyone loses. To give it a more succinct description, this is a meeting where corporations will discuss how to increase their control of the global seed sector.
→ read full articleThe Costs of War, the Price of Peace
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
30 Mar 2015
What price would you pay not to kill another human being? At what point would you commit the offenses allegedly perpetrated by Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was charged Wednesday [25 Mar 2015] with desertion and “misbehavior before an enemy?”
→ read full articleDoes Coffee Harm Your Gut?
Dr. Edward F. Group III – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
We know that coffee is full of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, plant-compounds, fats, and carbs. In small amounts, coffee can actually be beneficial for most healthy individuals. The main downside to coffee is that it’s highly acidic, and this acidity can have possible repercussions on the gut.
→ read full articleYemen Beware as It Threatens US-Backed Order
Finian Cunningham - Strategic Culture Foundation,
30 Mar 2015
The old order has been backed by the United States and its allies among the Persian Gulf Arab dictatorships as a bulwark against a popular uprising that could lead to democratisation in the poorest Middle Eastern country. If such an outcome were to succeed, the repercussions for the autocratic Gulf monarchies would be deeply destabilising.
→ read full articleNATO’s Creepy New Plan to Infiltrate Twitter and Facebook
Adam Johnson - AlterNet,
30 Mar 2015
On Sunday [22 Mar 2015], NATO commander General Philip Breedlove said in an interview that NATO must do more to “counter Russian propaganda online”.
→ read full articleAmerican Sniper and America’s “War on Terror”
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
The issue I want to emphasize here is how extreme focus, eliminating both breadth and depth, historical context and psychological motivation, afflicts our general approach to the “War on Terror” and effectively rules out conflict resolution.
→ read full articleHow Haiti Abolished Its Military
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
A soft spoken, retired Quaker couple from Troy, New York, took a crucial step that led to the complete abolition of Haiti’s army, which in 1991 had violently overthrown the democratically elected government of President Aristide and arbitrarily arrested, tortured and murdered many Haitian citizens.
→ read full articleFinancial Feudalism
Dmitry Orlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
We should expect the social hierarchy among the owners of capital to become unstable and capsize. A few among them have the talents to become warlords and fleece the rest out of existence. But in a situation where financial institutions have failed, factories are no longer functioning, and real estate holdings have been overrun by marauding mobs and/or invaded by squatters, one’s net worth becomes rather difficult to compute.
→ read full articleEmpire and Colonialism: Rich Men in London Still Deciding Africa’s Future
Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
In return for receiving aid money and corporate investment, African countries have to change their laws, making it easier for corporations to acquire farmland, control seed supplies and export produce.
→ read full articleNazi Extortion: Study Sheds New Light on Forced Greek Loans
Manfred Ertel, Katrin Kuntz and Walter Mayr – Der Spiegel,
30 Mar 2015
Is Germany liable to Athens for loans the Nazis forced the Greek central bank to provide during World War II? A new study in Greece could increase the pressure on Berlin to pay up.
→ read full article(Italiano) PP, Pace e Conflitto – Non si tratta del Commercio , ma di come commerciamo
Patrick T. Hiller, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Chiariamo subito una cosa. Il commercio è cosa buona. Commerciamo da sempre. E’ stato sempre parte della storia umana e ci sono le prove di vie commerciali preistoriche in molte parti del mondo. La questione se il commercio con l’estero promuova la pace e lo sviluppo oppure conflitti distruttivi è stata dibattuta a lungo.
→ read full articleChange versus Continuity in the Philippines
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
When I asked how was it possible that the Marcos past has been so cleanly erased from the contemporary blackboard of Filipino awareness, I received various answers: “They have lots of money” “They never lost popularity in their home province where lots of development took place while Marcos governed ” “The past no longer matters; it is the present that counts” “the oligarchy still rules the country and includes all leading families regardless of their political affiliations.”
→ read full articleGreece: Fascists at the Gate
Conn M. Hallinan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
While Golden Dawn—with its holocaust denial, its swastikas, and Hitler salutes—makes it look like it inhabits the fringe, in fact the organization has roots deep in the heart of Greece’s political culture. Which is precisely what makes it so dangerous. Its penchant for violence is what led to the charge that it is a criminal organization.
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The Battle for Compassion – A Short Film
Jonathan Leighton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Mar 16, 2015 – The Battle for Compassion is a film by Jonathan Leighton about what matters and how we can have greater impact in shaping a gentler future for our planet. He advocates the reduction of intense human and animal suffering as our highest ethical priority, and the creation of compassionate and rational decision-making structures that meet the needs of all.
→ read full articleVictims of Clerical Sex Abuse Join Forces in Latin America
Marianela Jarroud, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
20 Mar 2015 – Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Latin America are taking the first steps towards grouping together in order to bolster their search for justice – a struggle where they have found a new ally: filmmaking.
→ read full articlePresidents, Bankers, the Neo-Cold War and the World Bank
Nomi Prins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Behind the bravado of today’s sanctions and austerity measures lies the decision-making alliance that private bankers enjoy in conjunction with government and multinational entries like NATO and the World Bank. Today, the ECB’s QE program funds swanky Frankfurt headquarters and prioritizes Germany’s super-bank, Deutschebank and its bond investors above Greece’s future.
→ read full articleStalin the Communist and Mao the Commune-ist
Johan Galtung, 30 Mar 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Churchill and Hitler made history but did not change it; after the war their societies found their old forms. Stalin and Mao changed their much bigger societies basically, and gave the Westphalian state system new fault-lines, alliances: anti-Russia-USSR, anti-China-DPRC.
→ read full articleSolidarity Not Fear: World Social Forum Opens in Tunisia
Sarah Lazare – Common Dreams,
30 Mar 2015
Tens of thousands of people marched in the pouring rain through Tunisia’s capital on Tuesday [24 Mar 2015] to kick off the 14th World Social Forum and bring the message of peace and solidarity to the site of last week’s deadly attack on the National Bardo Museum.
→ read full articleTorture Dinner: Slave-Caught Seafood Winds Up in US Restaurants, Food Chains
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
25 Mar 2015 – Seafood caught by slaves forced to fish on a tiny island in Indonesia is ending up at major supermarkets, restaurants and even pet stores across the United States, a year-long investigation has revealed.
→ read full articleGates Foundation Slammed for Plan to Privatise African Seed Markets
Josh Butler, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Mar 23 2015 – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has been attacked by activists over alleged support of a plan to privatise African agricultural markets.
→ read full articleEaster Dress
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Towards the end of the Sunday morning service, a pastor invited all the children to come forward for a children’s prayer.
→ read full articleWestern ISIS Adventurism, Israel behind Hamas – New Assange Revelations
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
24 Mar 2015 – Julian Assange has given an interview to an Argentinian paper from his Ecuadorian embassy asylum where he spent more than 1,000 days. He spoke about why US meddling in Ukraine led to civil war, how the West helped ISIS and Israel supported Hamas.
→ read full articleA Poem for the Crossroads
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
I would like to write a poem and nail it
to a stake at humanity’s crossroads.
It would say: choose your path wisely.
Dangerous Disintegration of Yemen
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
The Somalia “solution” may not be a model desired for Yemen. There have been calls for “negotiations” and “political solutions” in the Yemeni conflict, though it is unclear what there is to negotiate or what political solutions mean. The further disintegration of an already highly fractured Yemen is dangerous.
→ read full articleGlyphosate, Favored Chemical of Monsanto & Dow, Declared ‘Probable’ Source of Cancer for Humans: WHO
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
30 Mar 2015
World’s most widely used herbicide ingredient shown to cause variety of cancers by research arm of World Health Organization.”This increasingly dangerous pesticide treadmill calls into question the logic of genetically engineered herbicide technologies that rapidly lose their utility to farmers and put human health at risk.”
→ read full articleMonsanto Asks World Health Organization to ‘Retract’ Cancer Link
Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
25 Mar 2015 – Just days after the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer released a report publicly declaring the well-known link between Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide and cancer, the GMO leviathan is already calling on the entire agency to issue a ‘retraction.’ Will the WHO Make the Change?
→ read full articleEurope Must Not Be Forced Into a Nuclear War with Russia
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
In an important recent lecture, Institute Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT has pointed out that our leaders act to preserve their own power, and the power of the state. They seem to have little interest in protecting the general population from destruction.
→ read full articleBREAKING: WikiLeaks Leaks TPP Draft!!!
Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
25 Mar 2015 – This is an advanced January 2015 version of the confidential draft treaty chapter from the Investment group of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks between the United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei Darussalam.
→ read full articleSecrecy and Democracy Are Incompatible
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Obama, who has proved himself to be a fairly weak character from the start, certainly has given the CIA anything it wants. The dirty business of ISIS in Syria and Iraq is one project. The coup in Ukraine is another. The pushing of NATO’s face right against Russia’s borders is another. Several attempted coups in Venezuela are still more. And the creation of a drone air force for extra-judicial killings in half a dozen countries is yet another.
→ read full articleWestward Ho on China’s Eurasia BRIC Road
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
30 Mar 2015
The real story is not how China will collapse, as peddled by David Shambaugh, the so-called second top China expert in the U.S. (who’s the first? Henry Kissinger?) This is a line that’s been soundly debunked. The real story is how the myriad aspects of the New Silk Road will be configuring a new Eurasian dream. Have vision, will travel. Bon voyage.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Mar 30–Apr 5 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” – Louise D. Brandeis
→ read full articleMagna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It
Noam Chomsky – The Nation,
30 Mar 2015
The “logic” of capitalist development has left a nightmare of environmental destruction in its wake. In a few months, we will be commemorating the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta—commemorating, but not celebrating; rather, mourning the blows it has suffered.
→ read full articlePalestine and Zionism: Historic Consequences
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Only in that context can we understand things ranging from JSIL (Jewish State of Israel in the Levant) to ISIS/Daesh and in between. We can then understand why Saudi Arabia is keen to intervene in domestic affairs of a fellow Arab Country like Yemen with military might while it was silent in foreign invasions by Israel of other Arab Countries (e.g. Syria, Palestine, Lebanon).
→ read full article(Français) France: L’Assemblée vote l’interdiction de produits phytosanitaires réputés toxiques pour les abeilles
Francetv info avec AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Cette interdiction votée en première lecture porte sur la famille des néonicotinoïdes. Le gouvernement n’y est pas favorable.
→ read full articleCanadian Intelligence Caught Clandestinely Backing Islamic State
Justin King, The Fifth Column – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
22 Mar 2015 – This is just the latest in a string of bizarre incidents that have led many to believe the West is funding, arming, and assisting the Islamic State so the war continues to destabilize regimes in the area.
→ read full articleA Desolate World without GMO Crops: Inside Monsanto’s Demented Spin Campaign
Anna Lappe, Earth Island Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Fifty years after “Silent Spring” hit bookstores, Big Ag is still trying to win the public’s hearts and minds.
→ read full articleWhat’s Religion Got to Do With It? German Co-Pilot as Terrorist
Juan Cole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
26 Mar 2015 – Once it became clear that Andreas Lubitz, 28, deliberately crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, a reporter immediately asked “what was his religion?” (Parent company Lufthansa said they didn’t know). Authorities said there was no evidence it was “terrorism.” It isn’t political terrorism, likely, but certainly it was a terroristic act of killing.
→ read full articleVykom: Strategic Nonviolent Action against Untouchability – A Review
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
King is well qualified to undertake this study of the previously neglected Vykom satyagraha. She participated in the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1960s led by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr and has been a prominent scholar in the field of nonviolence ever since. Moreover, she is thorough, as the extensive footnotes in her book illustrate.
→ read full article(Français) La méditation comme outil pédagogique
Manon Rescan – Le Monde,
30 Mar 2015
Au Canada, de nombreux établissements ont fait entrer la « pleine conscience » à l’école. Cette technique permettrait d’améliorer le bien-être et les performances scolaires des élèves.
→ read full articleFight the Real Killers: Meet the Real Nuclear Terrorist Organization
Miriam German - CounterPunch,
30 Mar 2015
The Nuclear Terrorist Organization has cells in many countries with the main branch and leaders in the United States. Each cell has a different name, each one unique to its own killings: TEPCO, Areva, Duke, GE, Dominion, Westinghouse, Energy NW, Sellafield, Cameco, Nukem (yes, their real name from Germany), and these are just a few. This is a war of the zealots, cashing in the Earth for dominance, power and greed where there is such blindness as to not see that the end for one is the end for all.
→ read full articleAnother World Is Possible, Without the 1% – Tunis World Social Forum 2015
Winnie Byanyima, OXFAM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
23 Mar 2015 – Activists from around the world will defy the terrorists to attend the World Social Forum in Tunis on March 25, determined to make the occasion a beacon for free speech, justice and equality.
→ read full articleHold the Super Rich Accountable, Say OXFAM at the WSF
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
London-based charity Oxfam unveiled a report with an alarming statistic: the world’s richest one percent will own more than 50 percent of the world’s wealth by 2016. And just 80 of the world’s richest will control as much wealth as 3.5 billion people: half the world’s population.
→ read full articleReflections by an Arab Jew
Ella Habiba Shohat, Bint Jbeil - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
This piece is written with the intent of opening up the multicultural debate, going beyond the U.S. census’s simplistic categorization of Middle Eastern peoples as “whites.” I am an Arab Jew. Or, more specifically, an Iraqi Israeli woman living, writing and teaching in the U.S. Most members of my family were born and raised in Baghdad, and now live in Iraq, Israel, the U.S., England, and Holland.
→ read full article(Português) Somos todos animais sensíveis [sencientes]
Philippe Regné - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
23 Mar 2015
O psicólogo britânico Richard Ryder, defensor da causa animal, cria o termo “especismo”, que designa “o preconceito que consiste em acordar mais consideração moral ao representante de uma espécie (com frequência a nossa, mas nem sempre) pelo único motivo de pertencer a esta espécie”.
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