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Noam Chomsky on the Era of the Drone
Steven Garbas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
“And of course now data can be collected endlessly. In fact Obama supposedly has a data storage system being constructed in Utah somewhere where all kinds of data are being poured in. Who knows what? And so slowly the foundations of liberty are ripped to shreds, torn apart.”
→ read full articleFinancial Core of the Transnational Corporate Class
Peter Phillips and Brady Osborne, Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
In this study we decided to identify in detail the people on the boards of directors of the top ten asset management firms and the top ten most centralized corporations in the world. There is a total of thirteen firms with 161 directors on their boards. They collectively manage $23.91 trillion in funds and operate in every country in the world. Western governments and international policy bodies work in the interests of this financial core to protect the free flow of capital investment anywhere in the world.
→ read full articleThe Westgate Mall Massacre: Reflections
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
The Westgate Mall Massacre: The Rage of Fanaticism – Imagine deciding on the life or death of any person, but particularly a child, by whether or not they could name the mother of Mohammed or recite a verse from the Koran. Of course, even fanatics have a certain logic of justification that makes their acts congruent with a warped morality.
→ read full articleUS Websites Should Inform EU Citizens about NSA Surveillance, Says Report
Bryan Glick, Computer Weekly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
All existing data sharing agreements between Europe and the US should be revoked, and US web site providers should prominently inform European citizens that their data may be subject to government surveillance, according to the recommendations of a briefing report for the European Parliament.
→ read full articleNairobi Tragedy – Carnage Foretold
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
In 2010, one year before the invasion by Kenya of Somalia, Kenyan opposition leader Mwandawiro Mghanga, predicted trouble: “…Look at our foreign policy, our involvement with Somalia on behalf of the United States. The way it is going right now, it can only cause us much harm. We are the ones who will pay the big price for following instructions and defending U.S. interests in the region… Somalia is suspected of having an enormous amount of oil under the ground.”
→ read full articleThe Violence of Psalm 21
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Psalm 21 and the Human Predicament – If a religious text nurtures morally unacceptable impulses that are acted upon either consciously or sub-consciously in political domains, how can these adverse influences be repudiated without purporting to claim a hegemonic status for a secular reader?
→ read full articleUS Caught Spying on Greek Diplomatic Communications in 2004-2005
WikiLeaks Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
September 23, 2013 – The following post is a summary of events from the “Athens Affair”, which was widely reported on in 2007. In particular, an investigation was re-opened and concluded in 2011, of which we found almost no reference in English media.
→ read full articleBreaking: Whistleblower Reveals U.S. State Dept. Ships Arms Directly to al-Qaeda
Kit Daniels, Infowars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
A former CIA gun runner revealed that the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in order to cover up the U.S. State Department’s direct arm shipments to al-Qaeda.
→ read full articlePolice Harassment of PMANE Leaders Continues in Koodankulam
Anuj Wankhede – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy has been leading a long and completely non-violent struggle against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project. Their struggle has been highly appreciated for its length and non-violence all across the globe. The government of India and the state government of Tamil Nadu unleashed massive police repression against these innocent protestors.
→ read full articleEncountering Otherness as a Waveform
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Human civilization has a serious “otherness problem” — as indicated by the media on a daily basis. The problem is evident in the relationships between the principles and the adherents of the Abrahamic religions in particular. It is also evident in the relations between science and alternative perspectives, one political ideology and another, or “development” and “environment”.
→ read full articleScience Changes the Character of War
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Our ideas and our political institutions adjust much too slowly to the realities of technology. A nuclear war today could destroy human civilization and much of the biosphere. But politicians continue to risk the future of the world by initiating potentially catastrophic wars.
→ read full articleCutting Controversy: German Court Sets New Circumcision Rules
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
In the latest twist in a controversy that has divided Germans, a regional court has ruled that doctors need to discuss circumcision procedures with the child before they can be carried out.
→ read full articleHouse Arrest
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
For Indian women who live an occupied life under marriages of honour.
→ read full article(Italiano) Bravo – Papa Francesco!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
La Chiesa Cattolica romana è diventata “ossessionata” da aborto, matrimoni gay e contraccezione. La chiesa dovrebbe trasformarsi in una casa per tutti e non in una cappella per pochi. “Dobbiamo trovare un nuovo equilibrio”, ha affermato il Papa, “diversamente, con la perdita della freschezza e della fragranza del Vangelo, anche l’edificio morale della chiesa crollerà come un castello di carte.”
→ read full articleLife on the Line: Can Humanity Survive?
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
As we approach the International Day of Nonviolence on 2 October, which recognizes Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, one challenge we face is to celebrate his life in a way that Gandhi himself would have found meaningful.
→ read full articleA Poor
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
A word No vowels
A song No rhythms
Old Dog, Old Trick: US, Saudis, Qatar Attempt “Arab Spring” Retread in Sudan
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Protests are smokescreen for unfolding US-Saudi-Qatari backed violence seeking regime change in Sudan.
→ read full articleNo New Nuclear Threats in India
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
The Indian government is currently planning to develop and install nuclear power plants in several states. In a statement, the International Socialist Organization extends its solidarity to those fighting to stop the new nuclear threats in India.
→ read full articleHow the Nobel Prize Was Born: A Surprising Story of Bad Journalism, Existential Guilt, and Dynamite
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
How a deplored “tradesman of death” brought to life the highest accolade of human achievement.
→ read full articleHenry Hikes to Fitchburg: Lovely Illustrated Children’s Adaptation of Thoreau’s Philosophy, Full of Universal Wisdom for All
Maria Popova, BrainPickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
An existential walk into what money can and can’t buy. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her sublime meditation on presence vs. productivity.
→ read full articleFasted Training: Should You Eat Before Exercise?
The Guardian Running Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Traditional research states that runners need carbohydrate to train effectively, but new studies show the benefits of fasted training. A nutritionist explains the ‘train low, compete high’ concept.
→ read full articleMorales: Obama Can Invade Any Country for US Energy Needs
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
In his dramatic speech in New York, Bolivian President Evo Morales called for the UN to be moved out of the US and for Barack Obama to be tried for crimes against humanity. In his most controversial demand, Morales said that Obama should face an international trial with human rights watchdogs among the judges. He accused his US counterpart of instigating conflicts in the Middle East to make the region more volatile and to increase the US’s grip on the natural resources it abounds in.
→ read full articleIran Says It Has Finished Decoding Downed CIA Drone
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
“All the memories and computer systems of this plane have been decoded and some good news will be announced in the near future not just about the RQ-170 and the optimizations that our forces have done on the reversed engineered model of this drone, but also in area of other important defense achievements,” Fars quoted Hossein Salami, the lieutenant commander general of Iran’s Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution.
→ read full articleCarter, Elders Call for End to Burma Violence
Voice of America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Jimmy Carter and other former world leaders known as “The Elders” have called on Burma to end violence against the country’s minority Muslim population. Before ending a three day visit to Burma in Rangoon Thursday [Sep 26, 2013], the former U.S. president said the problem cannot be ignored.
→ read full articleThe Best Countries in the World for Vegetarians
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Glasgow has been heralded as the best city in the world for vegans, but where are the best nations for travellers on a meat-free diet?
→ read full article‘Staged and Scripted’: Mother Agnes Finalizes Chronology of Damascus Chemical Attack
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
26 Sep 2013 – A new version of a study pointing to a number of fabricated videos used as evidence against the Assad government in a recent chemical attack is in the works. The report by the Christian nun, Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib, mother superior of St. James Monastery in Qara, Syria, has alleged that many videos featuring supposed victims of the chemical weapons attack in the Syrian village of Ghouta in August were in fact staged and scripted.
→ read full article(Castellano) Inauguración del Parque por la Paz Johan Galtung
El Periodic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
28 Sep 2013 – El parque donde se erige la escultura de Agustín Ibarrola es denominado desde hoy el parque por la paz Johan Galtung tras un acto que ha contado con la presencia del pacifista internacional noruego, el alcalde de l’Alfàs, el cónsul noruego, y una representación de la corporación municipal.
→ read full article(Português) Vitórias da Multipolaridade Mundial
Emir, Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
O que parecia impossível há 3 semanas, agora é uma realidade consolidada. O Conselho de Segurança da ONU aprovou o acordo da Rússia com os EUA para a crise síria. Perdem Israel, a oposição síria, a Arábia Saudita, o Qatar. Ganham os que pregam o enfraquecimento da hegemonia norte-americana em favor da multipolaridade mundial.
→ read full articleAbe Eager to Lift Japan’s Ban on Collective Defense
Jiji Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his resolve on Wednesday [25 Sep 2013] to change the interpretation of the constitution [Article 9] in order to allow his country to exercise the right to collective self-defense.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Chemical Arsenal under New Scrutiny
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
A plan to inspect and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons has focused new attention on Israel’s undeclared WMDs.
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House Extends Monsanto Protection Act
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Sep 19, 2013 – House passes a rider which protects biotech giants like Monsanto from being sued in federal court.
→ read full articleRemembering Sabra and Shatila Massacre
IMEMC & Agencies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The massacre lasted for three days (16, 17 and 18 of September 1982). Approximately 3500-8000 persons, including children, infants, women and elderly were slaughtered in this horrific and gruesome massacre perpetrated by the Israeli army and its allied criminal militia. Back then, around 20.000 refugees lived in the refugee camp that was supposed, as any other camp, to receive international protection.
→ read full articleHappy Peace Day [21 September]
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
On this peace day
I wish and pray
31 Years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatila
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The Sabra-Shatila massacre took place September 16-19th in Beirut, a well-documented 48 hours of slaughter that saw the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp surrounded and sealed off by the occupying Israeli army, whose intent was to block and force back inside the killing field anyone seeking to escape the predicted orgy of butchery.
→ read full articleTop 1% Getting 95% of Income Gains: Is Washington Responsible?
Lauren Lyster, Daily Ticker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The study by economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty also found that the top 1% of earners enjoyed 95% of the income gains since the recession ended. Why have incomes for most Americans hardly moved while those of the top earners took off? It could come down to that old adage: it takes money to make money.
→ read full articleDentist Economics
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Betty goes to a dentist and asks him how much it will cost to extract a wisdom tooth. “Eighty Euros,” the dentist says.
→ read full articleNSA Signals Intelligence – Industrial and Diplomatic Espionage
WikiLeaks Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Communications between aides of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, as well as those of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, were also of interest to the NSA, according to a recent TV Globo interview with Glenn Greenwald. Brazil Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo called the spying “an attack on our country’s sovereignty.”
→ read full article(Português) “Superpotência Moral”? Dá Um Tempo.
Gideon Levy, Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
É impossível afirmar que os Estados Unidos, país responsável pela maior parte do derramamento de sangue desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial na Ásia, América do Sul, Afeganistão e Iraque, seja dirigido por considerações morais. O ataque à Síria seria um Iraque II. Os EUA nunca foram punidos pelas mentiras do Iraque I e pelas centenas de milhares de mortos em vão nessa guerra.
→ read full article(Português) Celso Amorim: “Precisamos Nos Preparar Para Evitar Uma Guerra Cibernética”
Martín Granovsky, Pagina/12 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Ministro de Relações Exteriores, no governo Lula, e ministro da Defesa, no governo Dilma, Celso Amorim, em entrevista ao jornal Página/12, explica por que a América do Sul necessita de uma visão comum sobre a defesa baseada na cooperação e na preservação dos recursos naturais. E também o que fazer diante de uma guerra cibernética. “Estamos pensando em realizar um grande esforço na área da defesa cibernética”, anuncia.
→ read full articleNSA Spied on Brazil Oil Company, Petrobras—What WikiLeaks Cables Reveal About Possible Motivation
WikiLeaks Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The article quotes a large number of cables which suggest that, for a number of years, the US government has been very interested in helping US companies to win contracts to make investments in Brazil, against Petrobras.
→ read full articleThe Distrusted and Discredited Indian Prime Minister Should Cancel His US Trip!
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The drama will be called “Nuclear Bhopal All over Again!” This dilution of liability is nothing but seditious. This makes us wonder who this Prime Minister and his government are working for? For the people of India? Or for America, Russia, France and other foreign countries and their corporations? All this makes us wonder if Dr. Manmohan Singh is the Prime Minister or the Crime Minister of India?
→ read full articleToo Big to Fail Is Now Bigger Than Ever Before
Michael Snyder – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The six largest banks in the United States have gotten 37 percent larger over the past five years. Meanwhile, 1,400 smaller banks have disappeared from the banking industry during that time. What this means is that the health of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley is more critical to the U.S. economy than ever before.
→ read full articleA Wind Gives Ear
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
It rains
From the sky
To the earth
To have a relief
The Myth of the “Free Market” and How to Make the Economy Work for Us
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
One of the most deceptive ideas continuously sounded by the Right is that the “free market” is natural and inevitable, existing outside and beyond government. So whatever inequality or insecurity it generates is beyond our control.
→ read full articleThe Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction from Derivatives
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Five years after the financial collapse precipitated by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, the risk of another full-blown financial panic is still looming large, despite the Dodd Frank legislation designed to contain it. As noted in a recent Reuters article, the risk has just moved into the shadows.
→ read full articleThe Syria Deal: Dangers and Opportunities
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Commentators tell us that there is a palpable sense of relief in Damascus and in other parts of Syria in the wake of the Russia-US deal over Syria’s chemical weapons. The citizens of Damascus — the world’s oldest, continuously inhabited city — know that they will not be bombed for the time being.
→ read full article(Castellano) Diputados de Brasil Negocian Viaje a Rusia Para Entrevistarse Con Snowden
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
La delegación se reunirá este martes [17 Sep 2013] con el embajador de Rusia en Brasil, Sergey Pogóssovith Akopov, con el fin de concretar las condiciones en las que se reunirán con el exanalista de la CIA, Edward Snowden, para conocer más en detalle el caso de espionaje de EE.UU. contra la nación.
→ read full articleIsrael, Syria and the United States
Stephen Zunes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
For now, US and Israeli policies toward Syria have only allowed Assad to play his nationalist card, strengthen his otherwise dwindling domestic support and weaken democratic Syrian forces hoping to bring down their tyrannical regime.
→ read full articleSeeing Food as a Commons Opens Up Creative New Possibilities
David Bollier – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
What would the world look like if we began to re-conceptualize food as a commons? Jose Luis Vivero Pol of the Centre for Philosophy of Law at Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium has done just that in a recent essay, “Food as a Commons: Reframing the Narrative of the Food System.”
→ read full articleIn an Age of ‘Realists’ and Vigilantes, There Is Cause for Optimism
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Understanding Kissinger’s criminality is vital when trying to fathom what the US calls its “foreign policy”.
→ read full articleLook at ‘Liberated’ Libya and Despair
Abdel Bari Atwan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Welcome to the new Libya, a country ‘liberated’ by NATO which now finds itself without the oil revenues which could make it rich, with no security, no stability and assassinations and corruption at unprecedented levels.
→ read full articleOil and Fracking Chemicals Spill into Colorado’s Floodwaters
John Upton, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The floods have also triggered other problems that have gotten a lot less media attention: Fracking infrastructure has been inundated and its toxic contents have spilled out. Pipelines that transport fossil fuels are sagging and snapping under pressure. Tanks that store chemicals and polluted water are being overwhelmed and toppling over. Oil and gas wells are flooding.
→ read full articleChaotic Libya Appeals for Help to Restore Security
Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Julia Payne, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Libya’s prime minister on Tuesday [17 Sep 2013] appealed to the outside world to help restore security, as it combats political chaos and tries to restart oil exports crippled by protesters at a cost of $130 million a day in lost income.
→ read full articleHow Occupation Was Dressed Up As Peace
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Twenty years this month after the signing of the Oslo Accords, conditions for Palestinians have worsened, and Israel has tightened its colonial domination.
→ read full article(Castellano) EE.UU. Acusa a Siria Pero Tiene Uno de los Mayores Arsenales Tóxicos del Mundo
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
El país que más acusa a Siria de poseer armas químicas, es propietario de uno de los mayores arsenales tóxicos del mundo y ha incumplido dos fechas límite para destruir sus reservas. EE.UU. posee tres mil 100 toneladas de armas químicas.
→ read full articleEthics for the Future
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
In the long run, because of the enormously destructive weapons, which have been produced through the misuse of science, the survival of civilization can only be ensured if we are able to abolish the institution of war. The world which we want will be a world of changed values, where human qualities will be valued more than material possessions.
→ read full articleSyria, Prepare Yourself for Rape!
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Syria is next! She is already marked, cornered, psychologically ravished, and now petrified. She is tied, exposed, and told to expect the worst. She is where we tried to get her for years, where our regime has wanted her to be.
→ read full article(Castellano) Evo Morales Promulgó Ley de Control de Armas en Bolivia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
El presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, promulgó una Ley para el control de armas en Bolivia, a través de la cual se busca regular el porte y tenencia de armas de fuego por parte de civiles y militares en ese país suramericano. La norma establece un nuevo tipo penal que es el tráfico ilícito de armas, que tendrá una pena de hasta 30 años de cárcel según quien lo efectúe, en este caso miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas y la Policía.
→ read full articleStolen Wars
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
This week Israeli TV screened a documentary film about the life of the Israelis in the Shah’s Iran. It was sheer paradise (“paradise” is also a Persian word). The Israelis lived off the fat of the land. They built the Shah’s dreaded secret police (the Savak, not to be confused with Shabak, its Israeli model). They befriended his generals, most of whom were trained in Israel. They built his industries and started to construct his nuclear installations. Sheer nostalgia.
→ read full articleFive Lies Invented to Spin UN Report on Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
A barrage of suspiciously worded headlines attempt to link in the mind of unobservant readers the UN’s “confirmation” of chemical weapons use in Syria and Western claims that it was the Syrian government that used them. The US, British, and French governments have quickly assembled a list of fabrications to spin the UN report to bolster their still-unsubstantiated accusations against the Syrian government.
→ read full article(Italiano) Siria: Tre Livelli di Conflitto. Soluzioni?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Da vari anni, in questa rubrica abbiamo argomentato a favore di un Parlamento di due Camere in Siria, con un Camera Alta rappresentativa di 8 o più nazioni – come i millet ottomani – e un governo di coalizione. Assai lontano dalle “soluzioni progressiste” USA, le nostre si basano sull’incriminare invece che sull’uccidere il regime, con Assad processato dalla Corte Penale Internazionale (escludendo gli americani), etc.
→ read full articlePetition Campaign to Open the Rafah Crossing
Gaza Solidarity Organizations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Open the Rafah Crossing Permanently and Unconditionally. Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine. SIGN THE PETITION HERE!
→ read full articleBravo – Pope Francis!
Johan Galtung, 23 Sep 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
In an interview to the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica (IHT, 20 Sep 13), Pope Francis says that the Roman Catholic Church has become “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception. The church should become a home for all and not a small chapel. “We have to find a new balance”, the Pope says, “otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the gospel”.
→ read full articleOptimism Is Your Choice
Maxim Varfolomeyev, ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Optimism is not something emotional. It’s a very practical tool, a mindset. It’s like a morning workout, an exercise. It took you years to train your brain to look at the problems, now start training it to look at the opportunities. It takes time, but as they say, practice makes perfect.
→ read full article(Português) Por Que Controlar os Fluxos de Capitais
Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo, Carta Capital – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Keynes repetiu seguidamente nos trabalhos preparatórios da Conferência de Bretton Woods: “O controle de capitais deveria ser uma característica permanente da nova ordem econômica mundial”. O Plano Keynes postulava a criação de uma moeda internacional. Perdeu a parada para os interesses do establisment americano.
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President al-Assad Interview with Dennis Kucinich (Part I) مقابلة الرئيس الأسد مع قناة فوكس نيوز الأمريكية – الجزء الأول
Syrian Presidency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
17 Sep 2013 – President Al-Assad’s interview with Dennis Kucinich, former U.S. Congressman, and Greg Palkot, senior foreign affairs correspondent of Fox News.
→ read full articleUS Struggle with Iran’s Peace Offensive
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Iran’s newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, has lost no time in trying to end the 34-year old political and economic siege imposed on his nation by the United States and its allies. President Barack Obama, having just been wrong-footed over Syria, now faces a surprise Iranian diplomatic and public relations offensive that will be hard to resist. America’s war party is furious.
→ read full articleUpdating International Nuclear Law
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
For Those Interested in Nuclear Liability Issues in Various Countries – Nuclear research and nuclear industry have managed to grow and survive because of highly favourable structures found in international law and institutions.
→ read full articleVoyager Probe Reaches Interstellar Space
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The US space probe Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming humanity’s first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, NASA has said. Thirty-six years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the plutonium-powered spacecraft is more than 11 billion miles from the Sun in interstellar space.
→ read full article(Castellano) Centro de Arbitraje de UNASUR Promoverá Mediación y Solución de Conflictos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
El Centro de Solución de Controversias que proyecta crear la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas promoverá también la utilización de mecanismos de solución de contenciosos, como la mediación y la facilitación, con la finalidad de sumar a aquellas naciones que “no aceptan el arbitraje” internacional. La Unasur está integrada por Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Guayana, Paraguay, Perú, Surinam, Uruguay y Venezuela.
→ read full articleThe Metamorphosis of Colombia’s Medellin: Once Most Dangerous, Now “Most Innovative City”
Andrew Gold, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Medellin has worked hard to negate its former harmful image. Now, tourists flock to the city for the first time in its history.
→ read full articleEndless Fukushima Catastrophe: 2020 Olympics under Contamination Threat
Dr Helen Caldicott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
How can Japanese Prime Minister Abe possibly say that Tokyo will be safe for the Olympics? He actually said that “there is absolutely no problem” and “the situation is under control.” Does he not understand that parts of Tokyo are already radioactively contaminated and that his government is dumping ashes from the incineration of thousands of tons of radioactive debris from the tsunami and earthquake into Tokyo Bay? Is this what the athletes will be swimming in?
→ read full articlePolice Are More Dangerous to the Public Than Are Criminals
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The worse threat every American faces comes from his/her own government. At the federal level the threat is a seventh war (Syria) in 12 years, leading on to the eighth and ninth (Iran and Lebanon) and then on to nuclear war with Russia and China.
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Vaccine Pioneer Admits Adding CANCER-CAUSING VIRUS to Vaccine!
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
In this interview Dr. Maurice Hilleman makes some astounding revelations. He admits that Merck drug company vaccines (Polio) had been deliberately contaminated with SV40, a cancer-causing monkey virus from 1953 – 63.
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Robert Gallo: The Man Who Created AIDS
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Where did AIDS come from? Some say it doesn’t matter, as long as we find a cure. But what if the man and money that created it, are still spreading it along with lies and half-truths?
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Five Years after Lehman Brothers Fall, Big Banks Even Larger
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
In contrast to workers and homeowners, banks fully recover from the financial crisis.
→ read full articleSyria in Search of a Political Solution: Toward Functional Coexistence
Tatsushi Arai, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The extensive use of chemical weapons in Syria, the commitment and readiness expressed by US President Barak Obama to launch airstrikes against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and the Russian diplomatic initiative that has led to a US-Russian framework agreement on safeguarding and dismantling Syrian chemical weapons are all important developments in the prolonged war in Syria.
→ read full articleCritical Flaws in UN Report on Syria
Australians for Mussalaha (Reconciliation) in Syria – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Response to the Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic Dated 16 August 2013
→ read full articleContinuity of Agenda: Syria Catastrophe Engineered Under Bush, Executed Verbatim Under Obama
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The rise of Al Qaeda in Syria and the predictable bloodbath that followed is the documented work of US, Israel, & Saudi Arabia.
→ read full articleAmerican Bombing Still Likely – “Go Tell It on the Mountain, From the Peaks of Qasioun!”
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
At the height of the war scare here in early September, a group 9 primarily Sunni, Christian, and Alawite students and activists, led by a charismatic and agnostic pro-Hezbollah Lebanese Shia woman from Hermel in Lebanon’s North Bekaa Valley, set up a Human Shields and Observers camp to protect the Syrian TV channels, radio and communication towers situated at the crest of Mount Qasioun which rises up 1,151 meters (3,776 ft) at its crest.
→ read full articleNSA Masqueraded As Google to Spy on Web Users – Report
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The NSA used ‘man in the middle’ hack attacks to impersonate Google and fool web users, leaks have revealed. The technique circumvents encryption by redirecting users to a copycat site which relays all the data entered to NSA data banks.
→ read full articleDrones
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Drones are fun, so let’s enjoy them,
from safe distance fast deploy them.
Blow up people easily
(Italiano) Il Caucaso lascia la guerra fredda
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Tbilisi, Georgia – Per loro il vecchio pensare-parlare-agire basato sull’egemonia tra stati e e all’interno di singoli stati – nella compensazione di quanto perdono in autonomia nei confronti di un Grande Potere negandolo ad altri all’interno – è fuori questione. Quello che è ammesso –i dettagli non sono chiari in nessun modo – è l’equità fra gli stati all’interno del sistema statale globale, e l’autonomia all’interno degli stati per le nazioni.
→ read full articleResolving the Syrian Chemical Weapons Crisis: Sunlight and Shadows
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Not only did Vladimir Putin exhibit a new constructive role for Russia in 21st statecraft, spare Syria and the Middle East from another cycle of escalating violence, but he articulated this Kremlin initiative in the form of a direct appeal to the American people. For Putin to be so forthcoming, without being belligerent, was particularly impressive.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full articleFairness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Two colleagues went to a restaurant and ordered fish. The waiter brought a plate with a bigger and a smaller fish.
→ read full articleSyria: Three Conflict Levels, Solutions?
Johan Galtung, 16 Sep 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
This column has for years been arguing for a two-chamber parliament in Syria having an upper house with eight or so nations—like the Ottoman millets–and a coalition government. Very far from US “progressive solutions,” ours are based on criminalizing rather than killing the regime, with Assad for the International Criminal Court (Americans ruled out), etc.
→ read full article“Humanitarian” Missile Strikes against Syria?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The issue of chemical weapons is obscuring the more important issues of legality and the question of whether an attack on Syria would not greatly increase the suffering of the people of that region because of escalation. A large-scale war in the Middle East would cause immense suffering to the people of the region, and it might turn into a Third World War. It would be a criminal act to initiate such a war, violating both the United Nations Charter and the Nuremberg Principles.
→ read full articleWar May Be Over but Sri Lanka Is Still Far from Peace
UCANews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
“After the war people expected a lot from the government, that there would be reconciliation, peace. But the people have been deceived,” says Father Regno, director of HUDEC Jaffna, the social arm of the Catholic Church of Jaffna. “There has been no sign of reconciliation. Without a political solution, we have no future.”
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Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (Music Video of the Week)
Wilhelm Kempff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Just listen… and enjoy your senses.
→ read full articleHow PPP Helped Stop a War!
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Overwhelming public opinion and people-power protest action, both in the U.S. and around the world, against a U.S. attack on Syria, including an appeal by the Pope, and a diplomatic proposal from the Russians all helped to call off the planned illegal U.S. military attack on Syria in the 11th hour.
→ read full articleTEPCO Official Denies Abe’s Claim That Nuclear Crisis Is ‘Under Control’
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
“We regard the current situation as not being under control,” Kazuhiko Yamashita, an executive officer of Tokyo Electric Power Co., told a meeting in Fukushima Prefecture. The comment contradicts the well-publicized assurance that Abe gave at an IOC general meeting in Buenos Aires on Sep. 7, before Tokyo was selected as the host city for the 2020 Olympic Games.
→ read full articleWhat Does “Agree” Mean?
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Sometimes words lose their meaning and purpose because we abuse them. I suppose the same can be said for refugees and internally displaced people trying to survive.
→ read full articleBeing a Waveform of Potential as an Experiential Choice
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The variety of disciplines and beliefs suggest a multiplicity of ways through which an individual may choose to be framed and identified — or have experience of life defined. With the explosion of variously available knowledge to which it is only minimally possible to attend, incomprehension and uncertainty become ever more significant experientially.
→ read full articleMyanmar Peace and Ceasefire-101
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The single most important factor in understanding peace-building and ceasefire negotiations in Myanmar is how the most powerful stakeholder, namely the Burmese generals view peace with the country’s 2 dozen ethnic resistance movements.
→ read full articlePlease Mr. President: “No more “War Tactics.” We want a “Peace Strategy”
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Mr. President: Develop a foundation for domestic and global peace. Restore confidence in the USA, not because of its fearful military, political, and economic might, but because of its commitment to the enduring human values, and its constitutional guarantees.
→ read full articleNetherlands Close Eight Prisons Due To Lack of Criminals
Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
As prison populations surge in the UK, with overcrowded cells and repeat offenders, the opposite is happening in the Netherlands where declining crime rates mean that although the country has the capacity for 14,000 prisoners, there are only 12,000 detainees.
→ read full articleThe Happiest (and Saddest) Countries in the World
LiveScience – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
The United Nations General Assembly’s second World Happiness Report ranks countries based on several measures of well-being and analyzes the factors that contribute to that well-being.
→ read full articleA Blue Pearl
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
It is a tear drop
In the Indian Ocean
Justice is a drop
In the darkness heaven
She is a blue pearl
To the voice of rights
Unilateral US Action in Syria Is Illegal
Karen Pimentel Simbulan, Sharnoff’s Global Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
While obtaining US Congress authorization may legalize military strikes that President Obama conducts in Syria within the US legal system, such authorization has no bearing on the legality of US military engagement in Syria from the standpoint of international law.
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