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Look Out America: The Venezuelans Are Coming
Matt Carr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Obama’s declarations were inane, dishonest, and devoid of any meaning beyond their usefulness as a marketing strategy for a new campaign of regime change in Venezuela and sanctions to undermine the Maduro government. Obama’s order is deeply hypocritical as well as semantically void, like Reagan before him on Nicaragua.
→ read full articleThe CIA Campaign to Steal Apple’s Secrets
Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley – The Intercept,
16 Mar 2015
10 Mar 2015 – Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept.
→ read full articleDetail
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
The difference between philosophy and theology…
→ read full article(Italiano) I Von Weizsäcker, Kennedy di Germania
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Il Presidente Richard von Weizsäcker è deceduto il 31 gennaio u.s., molto celebrato in Germania per la sua brillante presidenza nel normalizzare una Germania con un passato turbolento e per giunta divisa. Escludendo però ampiamente le sue prospettive globali menzionate qui sotto.
→ read full articleFukushima’s 4th Anniversary Brings Hope Amidst Radioactive Ruins as Renewable Energy Revolution Soars
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015 – Fukushima’s Anniversary Should Remind Us Nuclear Power Poses Threat to Human Survival – The catastrophe that began at Fukushima four years ago today is worse than ever. But the good news can ultimately transcend the bad—if we make it so.
→ read full articleThe CIA’s Torturers and the Leaders Who Approved Their Actions Must Face the Law
Chelsea E Manning – The Guardian,
16 Mar 2015
According to the Senate Torture Report these programs were authorized at the highest levels of government and carried out in foreign places to avoid domestic detection and the issues of custody and jurisdiction: a premeditated and intentional conspiracy to violate US law and to avoid oversight and criminal liability.
→ read full articleUK Snubs US to Join China-Led Asian Bank
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
13 Mar 2015 – Overlooking US censure, the UK has announced its decision to join China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, becoming the first “major western country” to apply for membership. China and BRICS have long protested against their limited voice at the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Asian Development Bank.
→ read full articleA Binational Zone
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
We need a UN Agency for Mediation, with several thousand professionals, who can detect emerging conflicts and help transform them peacefully before they lead to war. That would be an excellent and inexpensive investment for a more peaceful world.
→ read full articleDoomsday Clockwork
Kennette Benedict – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
16 Mar 2015
Over the last 68 years, the Bulletin has reset the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock 21 times, most recently this year when we moved it from five minutes to midnight to three. Every time it is reset, we’re flooded with questions about the internationally recognized symbol. Here are answers to some of the most frequent queries.
→ read full articleIndia’s Daughter: From Nonviolent Demonstrations to People’s Revolution
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
‘India’s Daughter’ invokes, rather than provokes, the ideas and sentiments for people to change their views of women; it is just another signpost in India’s quest for true equality and liberty. In the end, there is no revolution that surpasses a revolution in the hearts and minds of individuals themselves.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Deep Legacy of Corruption and Cover-Up
Barbara Minton, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
6 Mar 2015 – The History of a Chemical Company – Monsanto is now instantly recognized as the company dominating the global food supply with its more than 7000 current worldwide patents. But today’s Monsanto is not a corporate newcomer.
→ read full article(Português) Medo: matéria-prima da indústria farmacêutica
Martha Rosenberg – Outras Palavras,
16 Mar 2015
Como os laboratórios globais manipulam insegurança e desemparo quotidianos para multiplicar vendas — desrespeitando, se necessário, a saúde dos pacientes.
→ read full articleA Year of Progress for “Children, Not Soldiers”
Leila Zerrougui, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Mar 7 2015 – One year ago the last governments of the world named for the recruitment and use of children gathered at the UN to declare they would take the steps necessary to be child-free. The countries are Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Yemen.
→ read full articleChina’s Mega International Payment System Is Ready, Will Launch This Year – Report
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
10 Mar 2015 – The China International Payment System (CIPS) is due to kick off this year, bringing the yuan a step closer to becoming a global trading currency, as the new system will make payment transfers just as easy as in dollars and euro.
→ read full articleThe Myth of Religious Violence
Karen Armstrong, tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Modern Society Has Made a Scapegoat of Faith
→ read full articleAndré Gide on Sincerity, Being vs. Appearing, and What It Really Means to Be Yourself
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
‘Dare to be yourself.’ I must underline that in my head too. Don’t ever do anything through affectation or to make people like you or through imitation or for the pleasure of contradicting.
→ read full article(Português) Contra a Legalização da ‘Sorte de Varas’ nos Açores, Portugal
Dr. Rui Silva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Esta prática bárbara e sangrenta, que constitui a parte inicial dos espetáculos tauromáquicos, consiste em perfurar o lombo do touro com uma vara pontiaguda e muito cortante para o sangrar, acto este desenvolvido durante cerca de 15 minutos. Com isto, o touro fica severamente ferido e deixa de conseguir levantar a cabeça.
→ read full articleU.S. Solar Energy Industry Achieves Record-Shattering Year
Rhone Resch, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
America’s solar energy industry, which continues to grow at a very brisk pace, now has more employees than tech giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter combined. And to top it all off, 2014 turned out to be another record-shattering year!
→ read full articleChina’s Defense Spending: Facts vs Hyperbole
Xu Guangyu, The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
China’s military budget is $142 billion this year, $ 61,800 per capita. The US defense budget is $ 600 billion for its 1.44 million military personnel or $ 416,666 per capita. Japan spent $ 41.5 billion for the 247,000 personnel in its self-defense forces, or $168,016 per capita. So China’s per capita spending on its armed forces is much smaller than both the US and Japan.
→ read full articleUN Expert Slams US as Only Nation to Imprison Kids for Life without Parole
Natasja Sheriff – Al Jazeera America,
16 Mar 2015
A sentence of life without parole means life and death in prison — a practice considered cruel and inhumane punishment for juveniles under both international and U.S. law.
→ read full articleThe Untold Story of How the Sugar Industry Shaped Key Government Research about Your Teeth
Roberto A. Ferdman – The Washington Post,
16 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015 – Decades-old documents have surfaced showing that the powerful U.S. sugar industry skewed the government’s medical research on dental care. More recently, the industry attempted to influence changes to the nutrition facts label, for the inclusion of “added sugar,” to communicate how much sugar was added during processing. The industry is vehemently opposed.
→ read full article‘Blood on Your Hands’: EU Defends Training for Myanmar/Burma Police Force
Laignee Barron – Myanmar Times,
16 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015 – The European Union last night defended itself against allegations of complicity in police brutality following a violent crackdown on students. The EU has been training Myanmar’s police in crowd management and riot control since 2013 following requests from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the government.
→ read full articleAn ‘Obvious and Conspicuous’ Injustice, says Assange on Asylum
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
14 Mar 2014 – In an exclusive interview with teleSUR, Julian Assange talks about why he chose Ecuador for asylum and the ongoing U.S. investigation into WikiLeaks. “They are trying many, many different ways to attack the organization and me using conspiracy on the one hand but also non-espionage charges that make it easier to extradite people.”
→ read full articleViolence against Women: Why We Keep Getting it Wrong
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
So let me briefly explain the fundamental cause of violence in our world, including the cause of violence against women, and invite you to do something very personal and effective about it.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
March 16–22 – Quote of the Week: “Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.” – Unknown
→ read full articleThe Hidden Lives of Chickens
PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Leading animal behavior scientists from around the globe know that chickens are inquisitive and interesting animals whose cognitive abilities are in some cases more advanced than those of cats, dogs, and even some primates.
→ read full articleWikimedia vs. NSA: Challenge to Mass Surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act
ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are: Wikimedia Foundation, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, PEN American Center, Global Fund for Women, The Nation Magazine, The Rutherford Institute, and The Washington Office on Latin America.
→ read full articleRussia’s Remarkable Renaissance
F. William Engdahl – New Eastern Outlook,
16 Mar 2015
Something remarkable is taking place in Russia. Rather than feel humiliated and depressed it is undergoing what I would call a kind of renaissance, a rebirth as a nation. In the process, Russia is discovering positive attributes about her culture, her people, her land that had long been forgotten or suppressed. It may be the factor that saves our world from a one world dictatorship of the bankers and their military.
→ read full articleCollusion? Where the APA Investigator Should Look
Roy Eidelson Ph.D., Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Is Accountability and Reform within the APA on the Horizon? – The past decade has witnessed persistent claims that the American Psychological Association crafted its ethics policies in order to support the Bush Administration’s use of psychologists in abusive and torturous detention and interrogation operations.
→ read full articleChinese Premier Backs Russia on Crimea
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Mar 15, 2015 – China’s premier reiterated Beijing’s backing for Russian interests in Crimea, saying China hopes the Ukraine issue will be settled through dialogue.
→ read full article7 Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Colon Cancer
Dr. Edward F. Group III – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Not only is there a sharply increasing rate in patients under 50, but also advanced stages of the cancer are being developed.
→ read full articleRed-Dead Pipeline Is the Wrong Answer, Politically and Environmentally
Keren Simons - +972 Magazine,
16 Mar 2015
Pumping Red Sea water into the Dead Sea to save it from drying up ignores environmental consequences, experts warn. Rights groups decry the plan as an ‘attempt to force the Palestinian population to consent to their own dispossession.’
→ read full articleWhy We Occupy: Dutch Universities at the Crossroads
Nicholas Vrousalis, Robin Celikates, Johan Hartle, and Enzo Rossi – Open Democracy,
9 Mar 2015
The upshot is the bureaucratic equivalent of a sausage-factory: the production of the knowledge-sausage at minimum cost for the maximum number of consumers. The process by which one arrives at knowing thus becomes insignificant and secondary: means (degrees) and ends (the free pursuit of knowledge) are completely inverted.
→ read full articleFossil Fuel Divestment Movement Pledges Nonviolent Direct Action
Allyson Gross, Miles Goodrich – Common Dreams,
9 Mar 2015
Just as in the struggles against the Vietnam War, for a living wage, and for divestment from apartheid, our movement is powerful because we have risen up together.
→ read full articleAmerican Drone Operators Are Quitting in Record Numbers
Pratap Chatterjee - TomDispatch,
9 Mar 2015
An internal Air Force memo reveals that the US military’s drone wars are in major trouble. The pilots themselves say that it’s humiliating to be scorned by their Air Force colleagues as second-class citizens. Some have called drone war a “coward’s war.” Perhaps a sense of dishonor in fighting from behind a screen is having an impact that psychologists never before witnessed.
→ read full articleGandhi as an Economist
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
After his death, someone collected and photographed all his worldly goods. These consisted of a pair of glasses, a pair of sandals and a white homespun loincloth. Here, as in the Swadeshi movement, we see Gandhi as a pioneer of economics. He deliberately reduced his possessions to an absolute minimum in order to demonstrate that there is no connection between personal merit and material goods.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
March 9-15 – Quote of the Week: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
→ read full articleBiodiversity or GMOs: Will the Future of Nutrition Be in Women’s Hands or under Corporate Control?
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Declaration for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2015 – Women have been the primary growers of food and nutrition throughout history, but today, food is being taken out of our hands and substituted for toxic commodities controlled by global corporations.
→ read full articleMarch 5, 1871: Rosa Luxemburg Is Born
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac – The Nation,
9 Mar 2015
5 Mar 2015 – Rosa Luxemburg, founder of the Spartacus League, brutally murdered by proto-fascists in January 1919, was born on this day in 1871, just two weeks before the Paris Commune took hold.
→ read full articleParks and Occupation: Archaeology Is the New Security for East Jerusalem Settlers
Natasha Roth - +972 Magazine,
9 Mar 2015
The Biblical blueprint is being dragged up around our feet, seeking to use what is under the ground as evidence of divine right and the political and territorial sovereignty it supposedly affords us.
→ read full articleTPP, Peace and Conflict – It’s Not about Trade, It’s about How We Trade
Patrick T. Hiller, Ph.D., War Prevention Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
The current debate on the Trans Pacific Partnership suggests that the agreement will lead to immense social conflict, unrest and instability. Trade is not the issue. People and societies have always traded and will continue to do so. The trade relationships and mechanisms are at the core of whether trade drives violent conflict and war or contributes to peace.
→ read full article(Svenska-Swedish) Lay Down Your Arms
The Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Hemlighetsmakeriet kring Nobels fredspris har missbrukats och måste upphöra. Detta är en av flera krav som den nybildade föreningen “Lay Down Your Arms” har skickats till de tre organ som ansvarar för tilldelning av fredspris: Nobelkommittén i Oslo, parlamentet som väljer kommittén, och Nobelstiftelsen i Stockholm, som har den överlägsna ansvar att se till att alla markeringar överensstämmer med Alfred Nobels krav.
→ read full articleRole of Women for Nonviolence through Peace Education
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
The International Women’s Day started from the activities of labor movements in the beginning of the twentieth century in North America and across Europe. The Socialist Party of America designated 28 February, 1909 to honor the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York. In 1910, the Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women’s Day, international in character.
→ read full articleNetanyahu: The Day After
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
4 Mar 2015 – My reaction to Netanyahu’s theatrical performance yesterday in Congress led me to recall that the deepest thinkers turned against democracy in ancient Greece because of the susceptibility of the Athenian citizenry to demagogic oratory from opportunistic politicians. Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides all became sensitive to the degree to which the rhetoric of demagogues contributed to the decline, and eventual downfall, of ancient Athens.
→ read full articleNuclear Notebook, the Interactive Edition
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
At the click of a mouse, our new multimedia presentation tracks world nuclear arsenals over seven decades.
→ read full article(Português) Após o SwissLeaks, é preciso lutar contra a fuga de capitais nos países pobres
Denis Cogneau - Le Monde,
9 Mar 2015
Estudioso da London School of Economics estima que um terço dos patrimônios africanos está em contas offshore – e um quinto do patrimônio latino-americano.
→ read full articleWar, Peace, Justice: An Unfinished Tapestry…
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
War, peace, and justice are the eternal threads of human history – each thread with distinct symbols, colors, and appeals, each thread with its defining events, forces, heroes, and villains. History is the story of efforts to complete our unfinished tapestry. Until such time, we remain, as Bishop Tutu of South Africa poignantly stated in speaking of survival amid violence and oppression, “Prisoners of hope.”
→ read full articleThe Fantasy World of Benjamin Netanyahu: Responses to His Talk to Congress
Rabbi Michael Lerner – Huffington Post,
9 Mar 2015
3 Mar 2015 – Netanyahu’s speech to Congress was brilliantly deceitful because it played to the fantasies that Israeli propaganda and right wing militarists in the US have been popularizing for the past thirty years.
→ read full articleTragedy of Nemtsov’s Death Hijacked by Denigrators of Putin
William Dunkerley – Oriental Review,
9 Mar 2015
2 Mar 2015 – The day following Boris Nemtsov’s murder on Friday, February 27, Western media were in a gluttonous frenzy over the tragedy. The death is being offered as affirmation of the nearly-unanimous villainous image that Putin has in the West.
→ read full articleOut of the Nuclear Shadow: Scientists and the Struggle against the Bomb
Zia Mian – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
9 Mar 2015
Mian argues that absent an aroused and insistent public demanding an end to nuclear weapons, which the early scientists believed was necessary to curb the nuclear danger, the prospects for nuclear disarmament in the foreseeable future appear grim. He concludes: “This is where the scientist has to step aside and the citizen has to step forward.”
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Turn! Turn! Turn! (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The Byrds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
–1960’s the Golden Decade–
A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time for love, a time for hate
A time for peace, I swear it’s not too late!
China and Its Economic and Geopolitical Eurasian Strategy
Gulam Asgar Mitha – Oriental Review,
9 Mar 2015
“….in the meantime it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger (to the US) emerges capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America.”
Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, April 1997
US and Venezuela: Decades of Defeats and Destabilization
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
US policy toward Venezuela is a microcosm of its larger strategy toward Latin America. The intent is to reverse the region’s independent foreign policy and to restore US dominance; to curtail the diversification of trading and investment partners and re-center economic relations to the US; to replace regional integration pacts with US centered economic integration schemes; and to privatize firms partly or wholly nationalized.
→ read full article“Radioactive Cover-Up” at Fukushima — Experts Believe “Other Sources of Contamination” Are Flowing into Ocean
ENENews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Emergency hearing with plant officials — “TEPCO decided long ago there was no need to monitor” the water with high-level radioactive materials.
→ read full articleU.S. Standing Alone against Children
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
The United States will soon be the only nation on earth that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. And why not?
→ read full articleUS War on ISIS a Trojan Horse
Ulson Gunnar, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
ISIS could not be a more effective part of America’s plans to overthrow the Syrian government and destroy the Syrian state if it had an office at the Pentagon. A Hollywood villain this popular and effective is surely destined for a sequel in neighboring Iran or southern Russia, coincidentally where the US would like to create strife and carnage the most.
→ read full articleFifty Years of Imperial Wars: Results and Perspectives
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
1 Mar 2015 – Over the past 50 years the US and European powers have engaged in countless imperial wars throughout the world. The drive for world supremacy has been clothed in the rhetoric of “world leadership”, the consequences have been devastating for the peoples targeted.
→ read full articleSlavoj Žižek: Whither Zionism?
Slavoj Žižek – In These Times,
9 Mar 2015
In order to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we should not dwell in ancient past—we should forget it. The constitution of the State of Israel was, from Europe’s standpoint, effectively the realized “final solution” of the Jewish problem (getting rid of the Jews) entertained by the Nazis themselves.
→ read full articleShock: Fracking Used to Inject Nuclear Waste Underground for Decades
Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
5 Mar 2015 – Unearthed articles from the 1960s detail how nuclear waste was buried beneath the Earth’s surface by Halliburton & Co. for decades as a means of disposing the by-products of post-World War II atomic energy production.
→ read full articleAfter Netanyahu Speech, Congress Is Officially High School
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
9 Mar 2015
Israeli Prime Minister’s visit inspires bitchy barbs and insults, and nobody came out of this week looking good except Obama because he mostly stayed off camera and kept his mouth shut. It was a depressing, circus-like demonstration of how schizoid and dysfunctional Washington politics have become.
→ read full articleCommentary on Netanyahu’s Visit to the United States
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
2 Mar 2015 – It is far too simple to be merely outraged by the arrogant presumptuousness of tomorrow’s speech by the Israeli Prime Minister to a joint session of Congress two weeks prior to national elections in Israel. The Netanyahu visit has encouraged various forms of wishful thinking.
→ read full article“It’s Ugly, It’s Vicious, It’s Brutal”: Cornel West on Israel in Palestine — And Why Gaza Is “The Hood on Steroids”
David Palumbo-Liu – Salon,
9 Mar 2015
Cornel West speaks with a Stanford professor about the divestment effort and Palestinian activism.
→ read full articleInternational Women’s Day – 8 March
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
2015: Empowering Women – Empowering Humanity: Picture It! – A time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.
→ read full articleMarch: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
9 Mar 2015
March 1, 1982 – President Ronald Reagan watched the Pentagon’s National Military Command Center rehearse a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and Soviet Union…
→ read full articleTime Banks: A Tool for Restorative Justice and Community Strength
Beverly Bell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Timebanking is mutual credit, where whenever somebody provides a service to a member in a timebank, they get credit, which they can redeem for that same amount of time to get something they need from someone else in the network. It’s fluid and flexible. Timebanking doesn’t have to involve a direct exchange between two people, and it doesn’t have to happen in the same span of time.
→ read full article‘A Consciousness Free of Occupation’: Bil’in Marks 10 Years of Popular Nonviolent Struggle
Haggai Matar - +972 Magazine,
9 Mar 2015
The village that managed to unite the world behind the spirit of nonviolent Palestinian protest marks not only a decade of tear gas, night raids and tragedy, but also of co-resistance and victories in its struggle against settlements, the separation barrier and the occupation.
→ read full articleOhio Students Approve Israel Divestment Vote by Landslide
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
On Tuesday [3 Mar 2015] the student government at the University of Toledo in Ohio approved a resolution to divest from companies which profit from Israeli violations of Palestinians’ rights. The resolution passed with 21 student senators in favor and only four against.
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Robert Reich Takes On the Trans-Pacific Partnership
MoveOn.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the largest–and worst–trade deal you’ve never heard of and Republicans in Congress want to work with the Obama administration to “fast track” its passage.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Charlie und die Heuchler
Peter Vonnahme - Neue Rheinische Zeitung,
9 Mar 2015
Millionen behaupteten am 11. Januar 2015, dass sie Charlie sind („Je suis Charlie“). Die meisten von ihnen hatten bis zur Nachricht über die Ermordung der zehn Journalisten keine Ahnung, dass es eine Satirezeitschrift namens Charlie Hebdo überhaupt gibt. Dessen ungeachtet nahmen sie über Nacht eine neue Identität an.
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Breedlove’s Bellicosity – Berlin Alarmed by Aggressive NATO Stance on Ukraine
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
US President Obama supports Chancellor Merkel’s efforts at finding a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis. But hawks in Washington seem determined to torpedo Berlin’s approach. And NATO’s top commander in Europe hasn’t been helping either.
→ read full articleU.S. Missile Officer Who Ran ‘Violent Street Gang’ Gets 25 Years
Kristin Davis – Air Force Times,
9 Mar 2015
Capt. Leon Brown IV, a USAF nuclear missileer, was tried for crimes committed while leading a violent street gang and convicted of “two counts of sexual assault of a child younger than 16; distribution of marijuana and psilocybin; use of psilocybin; willful dereliction of duty; conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman; pandering; unlawful entry; and four specifications of communicating threats.” He was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison and dishonorably discharged.
→ read full articleInterview: Mildred Aristide, Former First Lady of Haiti
Haiti Solidarity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Mildred Aristide is an attorney who as former First Lady of Haiti headed the country’s National AIDS Commission and authored a book on the root causes of child domestic service.
→ read full articleFormer Guantanamo Detainee David Hicks Speaks Up
Richard Phillips, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Hicks, an Australian citizen, was captured in Afghanistan by the Northern Alliance in late 2001, sold to the US military and sent to Guantanamo Bay. He spent five and a half years in the prison hellhole where he was subjected to sleep deprivation, beatings, solitary confinement and was injected with unknown substances.
→ read full articleThe Cultural Heritage of Iraq and Syria: “Destroyed by Human Ignorance − Rebuilt by Human Hope”
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
There have been iconoclastic movements in the past, especially among Muslims and early Protestants holding that the spiritual world cannot (and thus should not) be represented in forms. The iconoclastic reasoning can be defended, but not the destruction of objects which represented other philosophies, cultures and levels of understanding.
→ read full articleKnow the Enemy
Jon Taylor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
A terrorist is someone
who opposes the dictates of imperialism;
an extremist is someone who defends
his country against foreign invasion.
Saudi Arabia Becomes World’s Biggest Arms Importer amid Regional Concerns
I24News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
8 Mar 2015 – Saudi Arabia has become the world’s largest arms importer, surpassing India, amid increased tensions in the Middle East. Spending rose to $6.5 billion, rising 54 percent as compared to last year.
→ read full articleStudents Occupy University of Amsterdam (De Nieuwe Universiteit)
De Nieuwe Universiteit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
The general motivation behind all these demands is discontent with the current ways of management. Top-down, efficiency-oriented management damages the very thing a university should revolve around: research and education.
→ read full articleSyria, Lebanon, and the Middle East: Enabling a War-to-Peace Transition
Tatsushi Arai, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
A key to realizing these measures is a sustained, systematic effort to build public awareness and capacity. Developing Arabic instruction materials on peace building and using them to train capable trainers who can effectively disseminate relevant skills and knowledge are two of the most urgent immediate tasks to enable the rest of the suggested measures to unfold.
→ read full articleRadicalisation versus Demonisation?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Enabling Radical Initiatives under Conditions of Strategic Stalemate – In a period in which radicalisation is upheld as a matter of ever increasing political concern, there is seemingly little understanding of the condition of being a radical — other than as perceived and labelled by others according to some convention of normality.
→ read full article(Português) Amnistia Internacional denuncia desrespeito pelos Direitos Humanos em Portugal
Visão Solidária – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
3 Mar 2015 – O relatório anual da organização de defesa dos Direitos Humanos Amnistia Internacional (AI) alerta Portugal para persistência de problemas em áreas como as condições prisionais, a discriminação de comunidades ciganas ou a violência contra as mulheres.
→ read full articleSheherazade
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
A cruel prince in 8th century Baghdad returned early from hunting and surprised his wife in the company of another man. He ordered both of them executed.
→ read full articleA Tribute to Professor Yasuhiro Okudaira (1929–2015)
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
An Academic Defender of the Peace Constitution of Japan – This coming Sunday, on 15 March 2015, will mark the 49th day after Professor Yasuhiro Okudaira’s death.
→ read full articleWashington and ISIS: The Evidence
Tim Anderson - TeleSur,
9 Mar 2015
8 Mar 2015 – Reports that US and British aircraft carrying arms to the Islamic State group – better known as ISIS – have been shot down by Iraqi forces have been met with shock and denial in western countries.
→ read full articleNew Zealand Spying on Pacific Allies for ‘Five Eyes’ and NSA, Snowden Files Show
Toby Manhire – The Guardian,
9 Mar 2015
5 Mar 2015 – New Zealand is spying indiscriminately on its allies in the Pacific region and sharing the information with the US and the other “Five Eyes” alliance states, according to documents from the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleWhat BRICS Plus Germany Are Really Up To?
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Winston Churchill once said, “I feel lonely without a war.” He also badly missed the loss of empire. Churchill’s successor – the ‘Empire of Chaos’ – now faces the same quandary. Some wars – as in Ukraine, by proxy – are not going so well.
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Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of tomorrow’s children. Should they stop before it’s too late? “You can do it. But there really isn’t a medical reason. People say, well, we don’t want children born with this, or born with that—but it’s a completely false argument and a slippery slope toward much more unacceptable uses.”
→ read full articleChildren of South Africa’s Liberation Icons Condemn Israeli Apartheid
Pambazuka News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
It is the Israeli Apartheid Week in South Africa. The children of celebrated liberation heroes have come out to support the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel, denouncing the Jewish state’s brutal colonial occupation of Palestine. The campaign is supported by 85 South African organizations and institutions.
→ read full article(Português) A Vida Secreta das Galinhas
Gabriel Gasperin - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
9 Mar 2015
Os principais cientistas do comportamento animal do mundo sabem que as galinhas são animais curiosos e interessantes de serem estudados, cujas habilidades cognitivas são, em alguns casos, mais avançadas do que as dos gatos, cães e até mesmo de alguns primatas.
→ read full articleIran President: World ‘Too Intelligent’ To Be Fooled by Netanyahu’s ‘War-Mongering’
Jon Queally - Common Dreams,
9 Mar 2015
Hassan Rouhani presses for optimism amid ongoing nuclear talks, but offers sharp retort to Israel’s prime minister.
→ read full article(Svenska-Swedish) Burma: ”Rohingyas utsätts för ett långsamt folkmord”
Ivar Andersen – Amnesty Press,
2 Mar 2015
Maung Zarni kommer från en militärsläkt och lämnade Burma för att göra karriär. Det var först i exilen han blev dissident och aktivist, och en förkämpe för landets mest utsatta minoritet – den muslimska folkgruppen rohingyas. Amnesty Press träffade Maung Zarni när han gästade Stockholm.
→ read full article‘Lawfare’ and Liberation
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
In opposition to a law-oriented foreign policy for the United States are arguments of ‘American exceptionalism.’ Such arguments condition its applicability to American behavior and insist on the implementation of international law in relation to the alleged unlawful conduct of adversaries (e.g. Russia involvement in eastern Ukraine)
→ read full article(Italiano) L’ipocrisia occidentale della libertà d’espressione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Stato-Legge, Capitale, e Cultura. Che sono al loro meglio quando indipendenti l’uno dall’altro. Lo Stato non dovrebbe interferire con il mercato, il Capitale non con la politica, né con la Cultura. Guardiamo anche solo come il Capitale cambi parti importanti della Cultura come gli sport, le arti e la scienza, trasformandoli in prodotti d’acquisto, vendita e investimento, esigendo dalle università che servano il Capitale, non la Verità.
→ read full articleThe Von Weizsäckers, Germany’s Kennedys
Johan Galtung, 2 Mar 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
President Richard von Weizsäcker passed away 31 January and was very much celebrated in Germany for his brilliant presidency to normalize a Germany with a troubled past, even divided on top of that. But, by and large leaving out his global perspectives mentioned below.
→ read full article(Italiano) Volti, sguardi, voci dall’India…ci invitano ad una difesa comune della terra
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
2 Mar 2015
Una carrellata di testimonianze di proteste nonviolente in India contro un modello di sviluppo distruttivo, e qualche riflessione sulle implicazioni globali della perdita di ‘natura’.
→ read full articleHow Gazan Natural Gas Became the Epicenter of an International Power Struggle
Michael Schwartz – CounterPunch,
2 Mar 2015
The Great Game in the Holy Land – After 25 years and five failed Israeli military efforts, Gaza’s natural gas is still underwater and, after four years, the same can be said for almost all of the Levantine gas.
→ read full articleThe Neoconservative Threat to World Order
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
26 Feb 2015 – This week I was invited to address an important conference of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Scholars from Russia and from around the world, Russian government officials, and the Russian people seek an answer as to why Washington destroyed during the past year the friendly relations between America and Russia that President Reagan and President Gorbachev succeeded in establishing.
→ read full articleWho Built the Underground City of Derinkuyu?
Paul Darin - Epoch Times,
2 Mar 2015
In the Cappadocia region of Turkey there is a town called Derinkuyu; and beneath Derinkuyu there is a city, vast and deep, of ancient design, preserved to this day. The mystery of who built it and why remains, although scholars have their theories.
→ read full articleThe Warming World: Is Capitalism Destroying Our Planet?
Alexander Jung, Horand Knaup, Samiha Shafy and Bernhard Zand – Der Spiegel,
2 Mar 2015
25 Feb 2015 – World leaders decided in Copenhagen that global warming should be limited to 2 degrees Celsius. Achieving that target, though, would take nothing less than a miracle. With another round of climate negotiations approaching, it is becoming increasingly clear that mankind has failed to address its most daunting problem.
→ read full articleNaomi Klein: ‘The Economic System We Have Created Global Warming’
Klaus Brinkbäumer – Der Spiegel,
2 Mar 2015
Can we still stop global warming? Only if we radically change our capitalist system, argues author Naomi Klein. In an interview with SPIEGEL, she explains why the time has come to abandon small steps for a radical new approach.
→ read full articlePentagon Provocation on Russia’s Border
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
US armored vehicles flying American flags were paraded Tuesday [24 Feb 2015] through the Estonian city of Narva, just a few hundred yards from the Russian border. The provocative action, coming on the heels of the first anniversary of the US-orchestrated coup in Kiev, underscores the potentially catastrophic implications.
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