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Glyphosate, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 articleUniversities and the Challenge of Climate Change
Harvard President Drew Faust – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
There is a proverb that the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago—and the second best time is now. When I first visited Tsinghua seven years ago, I planted a tree with President Gu in the Friendship Garden… Universities have the unique capacity and a special responsibility to fulfill the promise of that dream. Let us not waste a moment. It is already the second best time to plant a tree.
→ 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”.
→ read full articleWhy Europe Defies the US to Join a China-Led Bank
Gabriel Domínguez – Deutsche Welle,
23 Mar 2015
18 Mar 2015 – Despite US pressure to stay out, Europe’s four-largest economies, Germany, France, Britain and Italy, are set to join a China-led regional bank, seen as a potential rival to the US-based World Bank. But why?
→ read full articleHitler and Stalin: Two Europeans
Johan Galtung, 23 Mar 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Hitler was about race, Stalin about class. Two genocidal secularisms poured into old Church bottles.
→ read full articleWhat You Need to Know about Venezuela
George Ciccariello-Maher – Jacobin Magazine,
23 Mar 2015
Venezuela is a “national security threat” only because it refuses to be controlled by the US.
→ read full articleGrassroots Movement Blocks Water Privatization in Mexico
Alfredo Acedo, Americas Program – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
With this victory of grassroots mobilization, legislators loyal to the Peña Nieto government have been temporarily prevented from formalizing the privatization of water, which would have given large companies broad control of the precious resource, to set rates and boost their profits.
→ read full articleThe NSA’s Plan: Improve Cybersecurity by Hacking Everyone Else
Trevor Timm – The Guardian,
23 Mar 2015
The NSA’s plan to protect America by starting cyberwars is absurd. Their argument that they need more power to do it is more so.
→ read full articleWhat Would Happen If an 800-Kiloton Nuclear Warhead Detonated above Midtown Manhattan?
Steven Starr, Lynn Eden & Theodore A. Postol – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
23 Mar 2015
After one second, the fireball would be roughly a mile in diameter. It would have cooled from its initial temperature of many millions of degrees to about 16,000 degrees Fahrenheit, roughly 4,000 degrees hotter than the surface of the sun.
→ read full article2014: USA Leads Upward Trend in Arms Exports – Asian, Gulf States Lead Imports
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute-SIPRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
16 Mar 2015 – The United States has taken a firm lead as the major arms exporter globally according to new data on international arms transfers published today. Overall, the volume of international transfers of major conventional weapons grew by 16 per cent between 2005–2009 and 2010–14.
→ read full article10 Reasons to Eat Cherries
Diana White – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Spring is here, and that means you will soon enjoy cherries and their incredible benefits. In fact, there are many reasons that you should eat more cherries and use them in your recipes, but the major reason is their health benefits.
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(Português/Español) Bilderberg: O Clube Secreto dos Poderosos
Cristina Martín Jiménez – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
“O clube Bilderberg, que se reúne há 61 anos, congrega as individualidades mais poderosas do mundo”, afirma a jornalista sevilhana Cristina Martín Jiménez. Explica que eles “têm o poder como ideologia” e implementam “planos secretos para governar o mundo, destruindo gradualmente as soberanias nacionais e tirando aos países a capacidade de decidir.” A Grécia como teste-piloto.
→ read full articleTransitional Justice for Rank-And-File Combatants in Colombia
Silke Pfeiffer, Norwegian Peace Building Resource Center-NOREF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
As the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Colombian government negotiate a viable transitional justice formula, they will need to devise a solution for combatants who do not fall into the category of being most responsible for the most serious crimes, but are involved to a lesser extent with serious crimes.
→ read full articleContradictions Beset U.N. Response to Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers
Lyndal Rowlands, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
An internal United Nations expert report released Monday [16 Mar 2015] by the non-governmental organisation AIDS-Free World reveals serious contradictions in the U.N.’s reporting of sexual exploitation and abuse by U.N. peacekeepers.
→ read full articleIraq and the Media: A Critical Timeline
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting-FAIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
19 Mar 2015 – On 12th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion, Recalling Corporate Media’s Deception – It’s hardly controversial to suggest that the mainstream media’s performance in the lead-up to the Iraq War was a disaster.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
March 23–29 – Quote of the Week: “Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.” – Óscar Romero
→ read full article19th World Congress of International Association of Educators for World Peace Will Be in India
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
May 29-31, 2015 – New Delhi, India – The theme of the congress is “Peace Education for Nonviolence and Solution of Terrorism,” Friends of Our Mother Earth!
→ read full articleNon-Proliferation Treaty: US Attempts to Bully Allies into Inaction
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Mar 18, 2015 – The Norwegian Under Secretary of State admitted that Norway has been ‘demarched’ by the USA to not sign the pledge to fill the legal gap on nuclear weapons. This revelation follows a recent story exposing similar pressures directed towards Japan to prevent them from supporting the pledge.
→ read full articleLetter to Palestinian Women
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
We have dulled our consciences and lost our moral compass. Humanity, for all its new found knowledge, was never more lost for a united purpose and vision than perhaps any generation before us. Without wisdom, moral values and principles, such knowledge could lead to our very destruction.
→ read full articleSwitzerland, Luxembourg Apply for China-Led Infrastructure Bank
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
21 Mar 2015 – Despite negative noises from the US, Switzerland and Luxembourg have become the latest European nations to apply to join the Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Chinese Finance Ministry announced.
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The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program-HAARP Weapon
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Short Video covering some of the events that the HAARP Weapon Technology is doing.
→ read full articleAustralian PM Attacks “Lifestyle Choice” of Poverty-Stricken Aborigines
Susan Allan, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
To claim that Aborigines are indulging in a “lifestyle choice,” akin to that of layers of the upper middle class moving to an idyllic rural setting, is grotesque. The conditions in remote Aboriginal communities, which lack jobs, proper housing and essential services, are frequently described as “third world” or even “fourth world.”
→ read full articlePlanet Earth
Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
In the deep woods, stunning and beautiful
The black cuckoo sings a song, remorseful;
The “Naturalness” of the Commons
David de Ugarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Why so much sudden love for Elinor Ostrom? No, to understand the shared economy, to work together to manage the needs of all in a community economy, we don’t need great treaties or consultation with university technicians. We just need to go back home, back to basics.
→ read full articleThe Myth of Biological Weapons as the Poor Man’s Atomic Bomb
Gregory D. Koblentz – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
23 Mar 2015
In his recent column, “Deterrence, without nuclear winter,” Seth Baum concludes that non-contagious biological weapons are one of two viable alternatives to replacing nuclear weapons in order to achieve what he calls “winter-safe deterrence.”
→ read full articleThe Big Dick School of American Patriotism – And What We Make of It
Nan Levinson - TomDispatch,
23 Mar 2015
The BDSP is based on a bedrock belief in how America should work: that the only strength that really matters is military and that a great country is one with the capacity to beat the bejesus out of everyone else. Unless there just might be a better way to go through the world than by carrying a big dick?
→ read full articleThe Healing Poison
Yang Jwing Ming – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
A long time ago, a girl named Li Li got married and went to live with her husband and mother in law. In a very short time, Li Li found that she couldn’t get along with her mother in law at all.
→ read full articleInsurance
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Three retirees were sitting on a bench in Miami.
→ read full articleBook Review: Excavating Palestine’s “Hidden Histories”
Marcy Newman - The Electronic Intifada,
23 Mar 2015
The layers of colonization in Palestine run as deep as the layers of the country’s mythologized and distorted history. This emanates from many sources and continues to be perpetuated by academics whose methodologies maintain this phenomenon.
→ read full articleBeware of the Corporate GMO Spin Doctors
Wenonah Hauter – Common Dreams,
23 Mar 2015
Just because the industry has launched a charm offensive in the media when it comes to GMOs doesn’t change the basic facts: GMOs are largely untested, and their long-term effects on our health and our planet are still unknown.
→ read full articleDiary: Israel
Yonatan Mendel – London Review of Books,
23 Mar 2015
19 Mar 2015 – Every time Israel makes it into the news for the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza, or of Turkish civilians in international waters, I propose a piece to the LRB. The response is usually that I’m too late, or someone better qualified is already writing about it. This never happens with Israeli elections. So every few years I sit down to write a piece for the LRB on a topic that seems less and less attractive for both the reader and the writer.
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Hawai’i 78′ (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Hawai’i 78′ by Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole
Originally titled: Hawai’i 77′
Greece: Memory & Debt
Conn Hallinan, Dispatches from the Edge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
As Germany squeezes Greece, it’s in denial about the skimpy reparations it paid Greece for World War II.
→ read full articleFrom Basic Income to Social Dividends: Sharing the Value of Common Resources
Rajesh Makwana, Sharing the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
18 Mar2015 – It’s time to broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income by including options for sharing resource rents, which is a model that can be applied internationally to reform unjust economic systems, reduce extreme poverty and protect the global commons.
→ read full articleFlush the TPP
Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
23 Mar 2015
The TPP, if passed, would implement trade rules that make it illegal for governments to create and enforce regulations on everything from environmental standards, to wage and labor laws, to the duration of copyrights. A law prohibiting the sale of goods made in sweatshops in Vietnam could be ruled illegal, for example, as a barrier to trade.
→ read full article(Português) Obra completa de Paulo Freire grátis para download
Luis Soares, Pragmatismo Político – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Acervo digital disponibiliza toda a obra de Paulo Freire. Estão disponíveis para download gratuito vídeos de aulas, conferências, palestras, entrevistas, artigos e livros do educador.
→ read full articleDementia Now Affects over 47 Million People Worldwide, 75 Million by 2030, and Expected to Triple by 2050
UN World Health Organization – Human Wrongs Watch,
23 Mar 2015
Participants in this first ministerial conference on this issue included 80 Member States, 80 philanthropic foundations, 45 NGOs and 4 UN Agencies.
→ read full articleTactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe
John Scales Avery - Danish Pugwash Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
A thermonuclear war would be not only genocidal but also omnicidal. It would kill people of all ages, babies, children, young people, mothers, fathers and grandparents. Such a war would be the ultimate ecological catastrophe, destroying not only human civilization but also much of the biosphere. Each of us has a duty to work with dedication to prevent it.
→ read full articleWhy Is Israel So Vulnerable?
Deepak Tripathi – Middle East Eye,
23 Mar 2015
How can a state be democratic and claim to be legitimate if it treats half its population differently, maintaining Jewish supremacy?
→ read full article(Deutsch) Friedensgepräche: Kritischer Gegenpol zu “Lobbyarbeit”
Holger Scheerer - Heidenheimer Zeitung,
23 Mar 2015
Auf reges Interesse stießen am Donnerstagabend [12.3.2015] die ersten Königsbronner Friedensgespräche im evangelischen Gemeindehaus. Gedacht sind diese Gespräche als kritischer Gegenpol zu den vom Bundestagsabgeordneten Roderich Kiesewetter initiierten Königsbronner Gesprächen, in deren Mittelpunkt die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik steht.
→ read full articleStatement from the Family of Rachel Corrie on the Twelfth Anniversary of Her Murder by Israelis in Gaza
Rachel Corrie Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Rachel was crushed to death March 16, 2003 by an Israeli military, US-funded, Caterpillar D9R bulldozer in Rafah, Gaza, while nonviolently protesting the impending demolition of the home of a Palestinian family.
→ read full articleObama’s Double-Standard on Russia
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
For Ukraine to become anti-Russian would be like for Mexico to become anti-American: even worse than when Cuba became anti-American in 1959. During Barack Obama’s second term, Ukraine did, indeed, become anti-Russian. It happened not via any democratic revolution (such as American propaganda pretended), but via a bloody coup. Here is how it transpired.
→ read full articleSpirituality in the New World Order: Is a One World Religious Authority in Formation?
Matthew Butler – The Conscious Reporter,
23 Mar 2015
Various theorists have suggested a “One World Religion” will emerge as part of a “New World Order”. Is it possible that powerful people in the global elite desire – if not an actual monolithic world faith – then a global hegemony over the world’s spirituality, so that religions, and their followers, can be influenced through a central authority?
→ read full article(Português) Mujica: “A luta de classes é como o sol e as estrelas. Negá-la é negar a realidade”
Igor Carvalho e Vinicius Gomes - Revista Fórum,
23 Mar 2015
Pregando a união da América Latina e atacando o consumismo, o ex-presidente uruguaio alerta para os novos métodos da direita e faz uma avaliação de seu governo. “Não devemos lutar por uma utopia de que em algum dia teremos uma sociedade melhor, temos que lutar para que as pessoas vivam mais felizes hoje”.
→ read full article(Italiano) Churchill e Hitler: due europei
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
La Germania è diventata filosemita, combatte il razzismo, non ha colonialismo residuo, nega la guerra come strumento (salvo che a scopo difensivo), e cerca la cooperazione con la Russia. L’Inghilterra, con gli USA, sfida la Russia. L ’Anglo-America è la più belligerante nel mondo d’oggi, un colonialismo residuo sopravvive nel Commonwealth e nell’uso dell’inglese per la conquista; il razzismo è rampante in Inghilterra.
→ read full articleBreaking News: The New York Times Reports on What the Rest of the Western Hemisphere Thinks about the Conflict between the US and Venezuela
Mark Weisbrot – Center for Economic and Policy Research,
23 Mar 2015
13 Mar 2015 – In a significant change in reporting at The New York Times, the newspaper yesterday became the first major news outlet in the English language media to report on what the rest of the governments in the Western Hemisphere think of U.S. policy toward Venezuela.
→ read full articleKiev Shifts Goalposts as Merkel Skews Wide
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
23 Mar 2015
If Merkel cannot see the truth by now, and how the Kiev regime is an incendiary time-bomb for EU-Russia relations, there is no hope for a realistic political position on Ukraine. How can she not see that the Ukrainian time-bomb has been planted by Washington, aimed precisely at destroying European-Russian relations?
→ read full articleIran’s Nuclear Program: Diplomacy, War, and (In)Security in the Nuclear Age
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Iran is expected not only to forego the option to acquire nuclear weapons, but to agree to a framework of intrusive inspection if it wants to be treated as a ‘normal’ state after it proves itself worthy. As indicated, this approach seems discriminatory and hypocritical in the extreme.
→ read full articleWhy I’m Relieved Netanyahu Won
Ali Abunimah – Electronic Intifada,
23 Mar 2015
18 Mar 2015 – Many had hoped that Benjamin Netanyahu would be defeated in yesterday’s Israeli election. I was not one of them. The Israeli Jewish public’s choice to re-elect Netanyahu should make it clear to people around the world that Israel does not seek peace and does not seek justice. It will continue to oppress and ethnically cleanse Palestinians until it is stopped.
→ read full articleStalking Netanyahu’s Victory: Palestine and Iran
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
My immediate reaction to the outcome of the Israeli elections is that for Palestinian solidarity purposes, it was desirable for Netanyahu to receive this electoral mandate. It exhibits as clearly as possible that the long discredited Oslo ‘peace process’ is truly ‘discredited.’
→ read full articleRadicalisation of Existence and Identity
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Recognizing the Global Emergence and Influence of Daimonic Dynamics – This follows from previous exploration of the condition of “radical” as being increasingly considered highly problematic for society — and the consequent demonisation of radical action (Radicalisation versus Demonisation? Enabling radical initiatives under conditions of strategic stalemate, 2015).
→ read full articleThe 10 Happiest Countries Are All in Latin America
Laura Geggel, Live Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
20 Mar 2015 – For the first time in a decade, the top 10 happiest countries in the world are all in Latin America, according to the 2014 Gallup Positive Experience Index.
→ read full articleBrazil: The Dictatorship’s Perfect Crime
Marcelo Pellegrini, Upside Down World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015 – Discovered in 1990, the clandestine grave contained 1,049 remains, all unidentified. Among the unidentified skeletons are disappeared political activists, victims of the Esquadrão da Morte—the infamous Death Squad of rogue police active in the 1960s and 1970s—, and children who died from an outbreak of meningitis in the early 1970s, suppressed by the dictatorship.
→ read full articleWealth and Power May Have Played a Stronger Role than ‘Survival of the Fittest’
Science Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Study led by scientists from Arizona State University, the University of Cambridge, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, and published March 13 [2015] in an online issue of the journal Genome Research.
→ read full articlePatriarchy Is Killing Our Planet – Women Alone Can Save Her
Nafeez Ahmed – The Ecologist,
23 Mar 2015
The systemic marginalization and repression of women is not an accidental feature of our civilizational crisis. It is inherently bound up with our male-dominated system of violence toward the natural world as a whole.
→ read full articleThreats Everywhere
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
The President: Well, now that we’ve dealt with the Venezuelan threat, I guess the world is a safe place for the Homeland again? Or are there any other dangers?
The Secretary of State: Well, there are some threats in Iraq. And Syria – those ISIS terrorists. Perhaps we should impose sanctions on their leaders.
The Chief NSB Advisor: We’re already bombing them. That’s stronger than sanctions.
Don’t Want NSA to Spy on Your Email? 5 Things You Can Do
Michael Liedtke, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Pew researchers found that a majority of those surveyed don’t know about online shields that could help boost privacy or believe it would be too difficult to avoid the government’s espionage.
→ read full articleHow Exciting: The Birth of a New Official Enemy!
Jacob G. Hornberger, The Future of Freedom Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Through an official decree by President Obama declaring that Venezuela now poses a grave threat to the “national security” of the United States, a new official enemy — Venezuela — was brought into existence as the latest Official Enemy of the U.S. Empire. How exciting is that!
→ read full articleChurchill and Hitler–Two Europeans
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Germany has become philo-semitic, fights racism, no residual colonialism, rejection of war as instrument (except defensive), and seeks cooperation with Russia. England, with the USA, challenges Russia. Anglo-America is the most belligerent party in today’s world, residual colonialism survives in the Commonwealth and in the use of English for conquest; racism is rampant inside England.
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Data and Goliath: Bruce Schneier on the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Mar 13, 2015 – Leading security and privacy researcher Bruce Schneier talks about the golden age of surveillance and how governments and corporation have built an unprecedented surveillance state. While the leaks of Edward Snowden have shed light on the National Security Agency’s surveillance practices, less attention has been paid to other forms of everyday surveillance.
→ read full articleCorporations That Benefit People and the Planet
Mary Turck – Al Jazeera America,
16 Mar 2015
Though they are still for-profit businesses, public benefit companies focus on environmental and social benefits. B Corps offer an alternative to capitalism run rampant – a choice to make profit just one of many corporate goals rather than the only or primary goal.
→ read full articleHow The Guardian Told Me to Steer Clear of Palestine
David Cronin, Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015 – When I started out as a journalist in the 1980s, I asked an experienced Irish reporter for advice. “Read The Guardian,” he told me. The message that there was no better newspaper had a lasting effect. For years, I wanted to write for The Guardian. Eventually, this desire was realized.
→ read full articleThe ECB’s Noose around Greece: How Central Banks Harness Governments
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Remember when the infamous Goldman Sachs delivered a threat to the Greek Parliament in December, warning them to elect a pro-austerity prime minister or have central bank liquidity cut off to their banks? The European Central Bank (headed by Mario Draghi, former managing director of Goldman Sachs) has now made good on the threat. ECB goons are demonstrating once again that toxic central banking is a mortal enemy of democracy.
→ read full article(Português) Direitos Animais, uma exclusividade humana?
Sônia T. Felipe - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
16 Mar 2015
Tirar a vida dos animais é considerado um direito humano universal. Dez vezes a população de humanos é o número de animais mortos por ano ao redor do mundo para alimentar pouco mais de cinco bilhões de humanos que consomem, através de seus alimentos animalizados, 80% de toda proteína vegetal nobre cultivada ao redor do planeta e dada de comer aos animais que são mortos para virar bife.
→ read full articleOligarchy and Climate Change: A Catastrophic Coincidence
Naomi Klein - The Guardian,
16 Mar 2015
It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.
→ read full articleLo! What Can I Do
Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
The night spreads a carpet of darkness
Over the far off hillock, the moon rises,
The eerie silence is intermittently broken
By the barking dogs from a far-off den.
The Convergence of Three Fundamentalisms
Ebrahim Rasool – Al Jazeera,
16 Mar 2015
Muslims Do Not Have a Monopoly on either Fundamentalism or Extremism – All three have the capacity for devastating violence. All three read texts literally, whether their scriptures or constitutions. All three feed on fear and ignorance and exploit an instinctive suspicion of those who are different.
→ read full article(Português) Festas de Primeiro Aniversário
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Sendo de outra geração, celebrei todos os aniversários do meu filho com festa pequena e alegria grande. Em casa. Não faltava o bolo ritual com velinhas, nem as fotos documentais, sem precisar de pau de selfie, pois um amigo sempre se oferecia para bater foto onde pai, mãe e aniversariante pudessem sair juntos.
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Kenyan Boys Choir – Homeless (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Kenyan Boys Choir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
The Kenyan Boys Choir is a youth group that performs traditional and contemporary African music. It is composed of 25 students aged 13 to 24 from different high schools, colleges and universities, and various Kenyan backgrounds and tribes. Enjoy their virtuosity and grace.
→ read full articleRadiating the Pacific: Why Fukushima Ended All Debate about Nuclear Power
Miriam German - CounterPunch,
16 Mar 2015
We can protest loudly inside the UN that we are in the midst of the most international Earth Crisis ever faced in the history of Earth from the triple meltdown at Fukushima-Daiichi. With no Pacific, we have no life. We need our oceans to remain alive in order for us to live.
→ read full articleWorld at a Crossroads: Stop the Fast Track to a Future of Global Corporate Rule
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Humankind is proceeding on a path to global corporate rule where transnational corporations would not just influence public policy, they would write the policies and vote on them. The power of nation-states and people to determine their futures would be weakened in a system of corporate rule.
→ read full articleObama’s War in Our Hemisphere and Venezuela’s National Liberation Struggle
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Why did Obama declare a ‘national emergency’, claim that Venezuela represents a threat to US national security and foreign policy, assume executive prerogatives and decree sanctions against top Venezuelan officials in charge of national security, AT THIS TIME?
→ read full article(Italiano) Il “Nuovo Ordine Mondiale”
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
…è il titolo della nostra conferenza. Non ci sarà mai qualcosa del genere. “Nuovo”, sì; “Mondiale”, sì; “Ordine”, no. Dovunque ci sia vita, c’è contraddizione, dialettica, forze e contro-forze. A livello quanto mai ovvio, si pone la domanda: Ordine, nell’interesse di chi, contro chi?
→ read full article[Nobel Economics Laureate] Joseph Stiglitz on the Trans Pacific Partnership: “This Is a Big Deal”
Alexandros Orphanides – In These Times,
16 Mar 2015
12 Mar 2015 – Trade agreements are about more than business—they’re about who has final say in the way people around the world live, what they eat, how much they are paid, what medicines they can buy and whether they have jobs. Such agreements shape economic policies that impact billions of people. The discussions surrounding these agreements are far too important to done in secret.
→ read full articleCNN Is Beating the Drums of War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Wolf Blitzer (CNN, March 13) used the cover of a news program to broadcast a propaganda performance straight out of the Third Reich or perhaps from George Orwell’s 1984. The orchestration presented Russia as a massive, aggressive military threat. The screen was filled with missiles firing and an assortment of American General Strangeloves urging provocative measures to be deployed against the Russian Threat.
→ read full articleWhy Are White People Expats when the Rest of Us Are Immigrants?
Mawuna Remarque Koutonin – The Guardian,
16 Mar 2015
Surely any person going to work outside their country is an expatriate? But no, the word exclusively applies to white people. Africans are immigrants. Arabs are immigrants. Asians are immigrants. However, Europeans are expats because they can’t be at the same level as other ethnicities. They are superior. Immigrants is a term set aside for ‘inferior races’.
→ read full article(Italiano) La Grecia può salvare l’Europa?
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel per l'economia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Chi pensava che l’euro non avrebbe potuto sopravvivere si è sbagliato. Ma i critici hanno ragione su una cosa: o ci sarà l’Europa politica – gli Stati uniti d’Europa – o non ci sarà l’euro. Un articolo del premio Nobel per l’economia.
→ read full articleUN: Millions of Children Subjected to Sexual Abuse, Sold and Trafficked for Prostitution, Forced Labor, Illegal Adoption or Organ Theft
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Millions of children are subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation, an independent UN expert on 11 March 2015 told the Human Rights Council, calling for a real breakthrough to end such crimes.
→ read full articleThe Time for a New Economics Is at Hand
Julie Matthaei – Al Jazeera America,
16 Mar 2015
The crises we now face illustrate the limits of neoclassical orthodoxy. With capitalism beset by multiple interconnected crises, the hegemony of neoliberalism appears to have peaked.
→ read full articleArab Village Fears Being Wiped Off Israel’s Map
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
While industrial parks, shopping malls and estates of luxury villas have sprung up all around them, Dahmash’s residents have been treated like “illegal squatters”. What distinguishes Dahmash from the communities around it is that it is Arab, an unwelcome relic from a time when the country was called Palestine.
→ read full articleLet Clowns Be Clowns and Elephants Be Elephants
Lori Gruen – Al Jazeera America,
16 Mar 2015
Ringling Bros. finally bows to public distaste for its exploitation of highly intelligent, social animals.
→ read full articleCivilizations out of Nowhere
Tashi Javed, Ancient Origins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Graham Hancock, in his famous work ‘The Fingerprints of the Gods’ argues that certain civilizations around the globe showed these signs of unusual intelligence in their architecture, science and writing systems. Intelligent human civilization extends much farther than we originally believed. The following is a presentation of some of the strange aspects of humanity that have been long forgotten.
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