Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Administration’s Syria Problem: U.S. Can’t Find Non-Al Qaida Rebels
World Tribune – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The United States has withheld at least $50 million worth of aid to Sunni rebels in Syria. The reason: neither Congress nor the administration of President Barack Obama can find rebel militias not linked to Al Qaida.
→ read full articleCommunal Tensions in Burma Continue
John Roberts, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
“A recurring theme from locals is that ‘outsiders’ are bussed in by trucks and nearly all of them are armed with sticks, swords and machetes. An incident soon happens between a Muslim and a Buddhist that provides the spark and then the gangs swing into action, agitating and enlisting locals to join the ensuing riot. Muslim homes and shops are demolished and along with them previous inter-communal and religious harmony.”
→ read full articleIndiana’s Anti-Howard Zinn Witch-Hunt
Bill Bigelow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, one of the country’s most widely read history books, died on January 27, 2010. Shortly after, then-Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels got on his computer and fired off an email to the state’s top education officials: “This terrible anti-American academic has finally passed away.”
→ read full article(Português) Veja Mapa da Corrupção pelo Mundo
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Segundo a pesquisa feita pelo Transparency International em 95 países, uma em quatro pessoas já subornou algum orgão público no último ano.
→ read full article(Castellano) Unesco Reconoce Obra del Che Guevara y la Incluye en la “Memoria del Mundo”
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
El registro de la Memoria del Mundo comprende casi 300 documentos y colecciones de los cinco continentes, los trabajos de Guevara figuran entre las 54 nuevas adiciones de este año.
→ read full articleFrom the Women of Idinthakarai-Koodankulam, India
Sisters of Idinthakarai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Please think of us and come visit us when you can. Remember the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant is gaining momentum and not dying. It is not and will never be a losing battle. Because it has raised the real questions on justice and human welfare.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Wins Peace Prize
David Swanson, War Is a Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
19 Jul 2013 – U.S. whistleblower and international hero Bradley Manning has just been awarded the 2013 Sean MacBride Peace Award by the International Peace Bureau, itself a former recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, for which Manning is a nominee this year.
→ read full article(Castellano) Evo Morales: Mi Secuestro Demuestra la Soberbia de los Países Europeos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
El presidente de Bolivia consideró que ”hay cierta soberbia en los gobiernos de Europa” que se demostró con su secuestro, acción que no representa nada en comparación con las políticas de exterminio que los europeos realizaron en Latinoamérica en el pasado.
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The 4th Dimension
Carl Sagan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies.
→ read full article(Português) Por Que a Indústria Farmacêutica Evita Curar
Richard J. Roberts, Nobel da Medicina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
“As farmacêuticas bloqueiam medicamentos que curam, porque não são rentáveis”. O Prémio Nobel da Medicina Richard J. Roberts denuncia a forma como funcionam as grandes farmacêuticas dentro do sistema capitalista, preferindo os benefícios económicos à saúde, e detendo o progresso científico na cura de doenças, porque a cura não é tão rentável quanto a cronicidade.
→ read full articleA World Citizen Passport and Edward Snowden’s Catch 22
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
To break out of Snowden’s “Catch 22” situation of no passport-to travel-no travel- no asylum – a world citizen passport was issued to Snowden on July 7, 2013 by Garry Davis, who founded the Registry of World Citizens in 1949, and today is the president of the World Government of World Citizens. The world passport is now reportedly in Snowden’s hands.
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Activist and Iraq War Veteran Vincent Emanuele Speaks Out
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Vince Emanuele is a former US Marine of two tours to Iraq who refused to go again by laying down his weapon. He is now organiser for the Michigan chapter of Veterans for Peace and serves on the national board of directors of Iraq Veterans Against War. He hosts the Veterans Unplugged program on Radio WMS, Michigan.
→ read full articleGlobal Big Brother and the Snowden Hollywood Chase
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
We will miss the most crucial point of Snowden’s ‘crimes’ if we do not devote our attention to these fundamental political challenges directed at human security, democratic ways of life, and a pluralist world order. To be distracted by the circus of the Snowden chase any longer is to play along with a shameless geopolitical caper!
→ read full articleThe Destruction of Barack Obama
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Some people have been surprised or disappointed by certain decisions of President Barack Obama. His war-making, his use of illegal drone strikes, his failure to close Guantanamo, his failure to genuinely help those ordinary Americans who voted him into office, and even his pursuit of whistleblowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden have all raised concerns among those with the audacity to hope that he would be different.
→ read full articleBlond Stewardess
TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
An airline captain was breaking in a new blonde stewardess. The route they were flying had a layover in another city.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 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 articleGlobal Power Project, Part 6: Banking on Influence with Bank of America
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
What is clear is that Bank of America, like all big banks in our era, isn’t merely a financial institution but simultaneously acts as an influential institution in the media, military industrial complex, think tanks, chemical companies and government circles. The bank is too big to fail. Too big to jail. And too connected to change.
→ read full articleCall On President Putin and Russians to Grant Asylum to Edward Snowden
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Edward Snowden, by revealing the existence and extent of the surveillance by the US government and exposing their spying programme that violates national and international laws, has done a great service to humanity. We can all be grateful to this courageous man of conscience for his personal sacrifice in revealing the secret NSA spying programmes. 55 percent of US citizens support his action.
→ read full articleBe the Change: Why Myanmar’s Subversive Band “Side Effect” Is Inspiring Freedom
Matt Carter, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
“Now there’s no censorship, but there’s no guarantee that we won’t go to jail, of course,” explained Side Effect’s lead singer Darko, during the band’s recent concert stopover in Berlin. “The laws are tricky, we’re not sure yet if they would protect us. It’s still dangerous to sing – not even the political but the controversial stuff – to criticize culture or conservatism.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Brasil Considera Insuficientes Explicaciones de EE.UU. sobre Espionaje
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
El canciller de Brasil, Antonio Patriota, afirmó este lunes [15 Julio 2013] que son insuficientes las explicaciones que el Gobierno de Estados Unidos ha dado sobre las denuncias de espionaje contra el exconsultor de inteligencia norteamericano, Edward Snowden. “Fueron hechas algunas aclaraciones, las consideramos insuficientes”, dijo el canciller brasileño a periodistas.
→ read full articleMonsanto Virtually Gives Up On Growing GMO Crops in Europe
John Upton, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Monsanto has pretty much given up any hope (at least for now) of selling its genetically engineered seeds for corn, sugar beets, and other crops in Europe, where opposition to GMO food is overwhelming.
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John Lennon – Give Peace a Chance (Music Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Released in 1969, when the Vietnam War was ravaging. Wake up Anglo America, you changed for the worse!
→ read full articleSyrians Fleeing War at Rate Not Seen Since Rwandan Genocide: U.N.
Michelle Nichols, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The number of people fleeing the conflict in Syria has escalated to an average of 6,000 a day during 2013 – a rate not seen since the genocide in Rwanda nearly two decades ago, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday [16 Jul 2013].
→ read full articleDo Scientists Pray? Einstein Answers a Little Girl’s Question about Science vs. Religion
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.”
— Albert Einstein
Patience Running Out in Bulgaria
Nick Thorpe, BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Protesters in Bulgaria pack the streets of Sofia each evening, but after 35 days in a row, their patience with Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski’s government is wafer-thin.
→ read full articleBritish Aid for Myanmar/Burma Ethnic Cleansing
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Britain, the largest donor country and former colonizer of Myanmar, is effectively aiding and abetting the unfolding “ethnic cleansing” of Muslim Rohingya by helping to finance the country’s controversial 2014 national census.
→ read full articleJudge Retains “Aiding the Enemy” Charge against Bradley Manning
Matthew MacEgan and Joseph Kishorej, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The US military judge presiding over the court martial of Private Bradley Manning decided Thursday [18 Jul 2013] against dropping the most draconian charge sought by the prosecution, that of “aiding the enemy.”
→ read full article(Português) América Latina Está Bastante Furiosa e a Europa, Um Pouquinho
Juan Gelman, Página 12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Diante da espionagem dos EUA e do constrangimento causado a Evo Morales, nações latino-americanas elevaram o tom contra os norte-americanos e ofereceram asilo a Snowden. Mas depois se descobriu que também europeus haviam sido espionados. Eles tiveram de reclamar, ainda que num tom mais baixo.
→ read full articleFree Syrian Army Arming Al Qaeda, ISIL Commander Claims
Bill Roggio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Buried at the end of this Al Jazeera story on tensions between the Free Syrian Army and an al Qaeda affiliate, a leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed that the FSA is selling weapons to the terror group:
→ read full articleNever Worried about a Nuclear Disaster in India? Do It Now, Koodankulam Has Started
Prajnya K – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The Koodankulam nuclear plant went critical this weekend [14 Jul 2013] despite stinging criticism from both pro and anti-nuclear experts. Shouldn’t we be terrified that the plant has been dealing with Russian conmen suppliers, missing wiring and electrocution deaths? Shouldn’t we be scared that the nuclear establishment itself admits that they have no disaster management plans?
→ read full articleEuropean Commission President Meets Religious Leaders
Kumari Kunti Sherreitt, ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Eighteen senior religious leaders from all over Europe met on May 30, 2013 to discuss the EU’s yearly theme of “citizenship” hosted by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, President Van Rompuy and Vice Presiden Laszlo Surjan, and organized by the Bureau of European Policy Advisors.
→ read full articleFull Text of the European Union’s Israeli Settlement Guidelines
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The new European Union directive concerning EU funding for entities established beyond the 1967 border lines including the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
→ read full articleCNDP Statement on Koodankulam Reaching Criticality
Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The Koodankulam reactor was made critical despite the massive and sustained peaceful popular protests against the plant, and despite numerous warnings by nuclear experts, including former AERB chairman A Gopalakrishnan, about the plant’s vulnerability to hazards and the use of substandard equipment supplied by Russian company Zio-Podolsk. This is profoundly anti-democratic and totally unacceptable.
→ read full article(Português) “Porquê o Socialismo?”
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
“Será aconselhável para quem não é especialista em assuntos económicos e sociais exprimir opiniões sobre a questão do socialismo? Eu penso que sim, por uma série de razões”, afirma Einstein. O artigo foi publicado na edição de lançamento da revista “Monthly Review”, em Maio de 1949.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 5: Banking on Influence with Goldman Sachs
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
One of the largest banks in the United States, Goldman Sachs was central to the process of creating the housing bubble that popped in 2007-8, which led to the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression. As Matt Taibbi famously documented in Rolling Stone, Goldman has been involved in “every major market manipulation since the Great Depression,” profiting along the way as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
→ read full articleSecond FAC Clearance a Preemptive Attempt of Nuclear Authorities to Circumvent Legal Notice and Action
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The people of India will hold the Government of Tamil Nadu and the Government of India squarely responsible for any untoward incidents that may happen at the KKNPP. They are all playing a dangerous game with the lives of millions of people without complying with several important legal and safety measures such as CRZ clearance for the desalination plants, effluent outlet pipes and so on.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 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 articleArgentina’s President Kirchner: US Industrial Espionage Gave Me Chills down My Spine
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The relationship between the United States and Latin America may have just plunged to its lowest level since the 1910s and 1920s, the height of US imperialism in the area, when United Fruit and the Marines imposed themselves on the region.
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Rapper Yasiin Bey (Aka Mos Def) Force Fed under Standard Guantánamo Bay Procedure
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
In this four-minute film made by Human Rights organisation Reprieve and Bafta award-winning director Asif Kapadia, US actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), experiences the procedure. Warning: Some Viewers May Find These Images Distressing – Guantánamo inmates are submitted to this horrible procedure TWICE DAILY.
→ read full articleWould Jesus Now Be Prosecuted by US?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
As a Law-Breaker — Like Manning, Assange and Snowden — Yes We Can! The pattern follows proceedings by the House Un-American Activities Committee — McCarthyism –, the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without evidence… It is noteworthy that presidents of countries originally named as “terrorists” were subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat. Barack Obama is unique in being labelled “terrorist” subsequent to being awarded that distinction.
→ read full articleECHELON Today: The Evolution of an NSA Black Program
Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
While the public is angered by the illegal, unconstitutional nature of NSA programs which seize and store data for retrospective harvesting including the content of phone calls, emails, geolocational information, bank records, credit card purchases, travel itineraries, even medical records, in secret, the historical context of how, and why, this vast spying apparatus came to be is often given short shrift.
→ read full articleNSA Casts Massive Surveillance Net Over Latin America
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
According to Rio de Janeiro-based daily O Globo, the most intensive surveillance has been conducted against US allies Brazil, Colombia and Mexico—and against Venezuela. Also subjected to the NSA surveillance net have been Argentina, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Paraguay, Chile, Peru and El Salvador, according to the O Globo report.
→ read full article(Português) Problemas no Paraíso
Slavoj Žižek, Boitempo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Problemas no Inferno parecem compreensíveis – sabemos por que as pessoas estão protestando na Grécia ou na Espanha, mas por que é que há problemas no Paraíso, em países prósperos ou que, ao menos, passam por um período de rápido desenvolvimento, como a Turquia, a Suécia e o Brasil?
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Free Syrian Army Place Food Embargo on Aleppo
SyrianGirlpartisan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Jul 9, 2013 – Interview with a resident. 2-3 million people in Aleppo are threatened with starvation and terror NOW. Famine feared as US/West-supported FSA and Al-Qaida block food from being transferred to government held parts of Aleppo.
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Guantanamo Inmate Accuses Military of Rape
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
A detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison is accusing the US military of sexual assault under the guise of maintaining security. In a letter to his lawyers, the inmate claims the practice is widespread.
→ read full articleEndless War
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
When a war has just begun
it can seem like lots of fun—
hunting down the evil prey,
killing bad guys every day.
“External Interference” Complicating Syrian Situation
ABC TV Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
17 June 2013 – Syrian peace activist Mother Agnès-Mariam de la Croix, head of Mussalaha (Reconciliation in Syrian), says that Syrian solutions ought to lie in the hands of the Syrian people, not of foreign governments and terrorists.
→ read full articleAn Unfolding Tale of Two Genocidal “Buddhist” Hells: Myanmar and Sri Lanka
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The Burmese Bama Buddhists are not alone in Nazi “Buddhist” Hell. They are in good company of the equally genocidal “Buddhists” of Sri Lanka.
→ read full articleGlobal Corruption Barometer 2013
Transparency International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The Global Corruption Barometer 2013 is the biggest ever survey tracking world-wide public opinion on corruption. We asked over 114,000 people in 107 countries for their views on corruption. Find out what they said in our Global Corruption Barometer 2013.
→ read full articleThe Re-Emergence of Japanese Militarism
John Chan, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The latest Japanese defence white paper, released on Tuesday [9 Jul 2013], is another unmistakable sign of the resurgence of militarism under the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s right-wing government. The Obama administration in the United States has deliberately fostered the re-emergence of Japanese militarism as part of its “pivot to Asia” aimed at encircling China.
→ read full articleThe Unreported War in the Congo Killing Millions with the Aid of the United States
Kambale Musavuli, Stop the War Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
So how do you get away with arming a rebel force that attacks UN peacekeepers, rapes women and recruits children? You need powerful friends.
→ read full articleThe Infrastructure of a Police State Emerges in Europe
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Former NSA employee Edward Snowden has exposed the infrastructure of a police state whose surveillance powers far exceed those of totalitarian dictatorships such as the German Nazi regime.
→ read full articleAn Experience of Current Life in Syria
Mother Agnes Mariam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
This report was written from the monastery Mother Agnes headed in Qara, presenting a very human perspective of the ‘revolution’ in Syria.
→ read full article(Italiano) Umanità 2050: Costruire la Pace con i Nostri Futuri
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Discorso di apertura, 40° Anniversario del World Futures Studies Federation (Federazione per gli Studi sui Futuri del Mondo) – Bucarest, Romania – “L’Islam offre solidarietà e condivisione di cui l’Occidente ha bisogno, l’Occidente offre diversità e libertà di cui l’Islam ha bisogno. Mutuo apprendimento”.
→ read full articleMisreading the Snowden Affair
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
So far in the Snowden Affair it is small Latin American countries, including Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, that have risked the ire of the United States by pursuing independent policies with respect to Snowden, and acting correctly from the perspective of law and morality.
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GeoEngineering Watch – The Most Important Topic of Our Time
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Dane Wigington presents hard data that reveals what these catastrophic programs have done to our planet and what they will do if they are allowed to continue. Please take the time to watch this video and share this information far and wide.
→ read full articleHow Unchecked Capitalism Has Brought the World to the Brink of Apocalypse — and What We Must Do Now
Robert Jensen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
If there is to be a decent future, we have to give up on the imperial fantasy of endless power, the capitalist fantasy of endless growth, the technological fantasy of endless comfort. Those systems have long been celebrated as the engines of unprecedented wealth, albeit for a limited segment of the world’s population.
→ read full articleBoy Recovers from Autism by Removing Dairy & Gluten. Strong Evidence Links Vaccines to Autism
Joe Martino, Collective Evolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Global autism rates are on the rise and many are beginning to ask questions about how they can best treat or remedy symptoms to increase quality of life overall.
→ read full articlePeople Who Pretend to be Your Friend: Collaborators and Traitors
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
One version of this occurs when collaborators justify their collaboration with perpetrators of violence in terms of an ‘obligation to obey’, although many collaborators will characterise their obedience as ‘loyalty’, ‘support’ or ‘helpfulness’ to mask the fear driving their submissive behaviour.
→ read full articleThe Secret War: Cyber
Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Inside Fort Meade, Maryland-USA, a top-secret city, as if designed by Kafka and with tens of thousands of people moving through more than 50 buildings, sits among a forest of trees, surrounded by electrified fences and heavily armed guards, protected by antitank barriers, monitored by sensitive motion detectors, and watched by rotating cameras. To block electromagnetic signals the inner walls of the buildings are wrapped in copper shielding and the one-way windows are embedded with a fine copper mesh.
→ read full articleLiability Issue Puts Doubt on Rosatom Role in Next Indian Reactors
The Moscow Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
07 July 2013 – Russia’s further participation in India’s multibillion dollar Kudankulam nuclear power plant looks uncertain as the two sides have failed to resolve liability in the event of an accident, an Indian official said Friday [5 Jul 2013].
→ read full articleThe Military Coup in Egypt: Challenges of the Transition
Dr. Lakhdar Ghettas, Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
The ousting of President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian army is a military coup d’état pure and simple. Morsi’s ousting qualifies for a military putsch which is by definition the illegal removal of the head of the state by the army or a faction within it, or the security services, through the use of force or the threat to using it.
→ read full article(Français) Le Coup d’Etat en Egypte: Les Défis de la Transition
Dr. Lakhdar Ghettas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
L’éviction du président Mohamed Morsi par l’armée égyptienne est un coup d’Etat militaire pur et simple. En effet, cette éviction répond à la définition d’un renversement illégal de la tête de l’Etat par l’armée, une faction interne, ou les services de sécurité, par l’utilisation de la force ou de la menace de l’utiliser.
→ read full articleHow Do We Defend Ourselves from the Corporate and Imperial Forces That Threaten Our Existence?
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Surveying the terrible conflicts in the world, it’s clear that almost all are the residue of imperial crimes and the borders they drew in their own interests. Who owns the global atmosphere being polluted by the heat-trapping gases? Who will defend the Earth? Who will uphold the rights of nature? Who will adopt the role of steward of the commons, our collective possession?
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 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 articleMy Drone
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
I know that I am not alone
in wishing I had my own drone.
Jeremy Irons Talks about the Eurocrisis (Legendas em Português)
RTP1 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
“Does anyone understand to whom we owe so much money?”
→ read full articleDepositors Beware: Bail-In Is Now Official E.U. Policy
Ellen Brown, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Shifting the burden of a major bank collapse from the blameless taxpayer to the blameless depositor is another case of robbing Peter to pay Paul, while the real perpetrators carry on with their risky, speculative banking schemes.
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald Speaks Out
WeAreManyMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
28 June 2013 – Glenn Greenwald on Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillance program. Introductions by Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater and the filmmaker behind Dirty Wars, and Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism.
→ read full article10 Causes of Bad Breath
Dr. Edward F. Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Bad breath plagues everyone at some time or another. If you are aware of it, hopefully you try to get rid of it, or at least try to hide it. If you are not aware of it, you may be wondering why people keep their distance.
→ read full articleWorld Futures Conference as Catastrophic Question
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
How to engage with the conference of an organization held in the same academic facility as on the occasion of its foundation 50 years previously — in this case that of the World Futures Studies Federation in Bucharest (2013)? The question has a particular poignancy for a writer involved in the processes of its original creation — meeting the remaining handful of those from that time.
→ read full articleHSBC Wins OK of Record $1.92 Billion Money-Laundering Settlement
Jonathan Stempel, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
2 Jul 2013 – A federal judge has approved HSBC Holdings Plc’s (HSBA.L)(HBC.N) record $1.92 billion settlement with federal and state investigators of charges that it flouted rules designed to stop money laundering and thwart transactions with countries under U.S. sanctions.
→ read full article(Português) Por Que os Médicos Cubanos Assustam [os Brasileiros]
Pedro Porfírio, Cebes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Elite corporativista teme que foco na prevenção abale mercantilização da saúde. Números revelam injustiça orçamentária no ensino e prática da Medicina.
→ read full articleInterview with al-Assad: “In Egypt, the Fall of So-Called Political Islam”
Syrian Arab News Agency-SANA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
“The rifts we have witnessed in modern history have come with the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood and the negative role they have played. They created a split between Pan-Arabism and Islam to form a country for Islamists and another for nationalists.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Unasur Exige Pronunciamiento de la ONU Sobre el Atentado Contra Evo Morales
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
El Canciller boliviano reiteró el deseo de los mandatarios de la Unasur de exigir disculpas públicas a los gobiernos de Francia, España, Portugal e Italia, por la acción violatoria del Derecho Internacional a la que fue sometido el mandatario Evo Morales.
→ read full articleEgypt: The Sphinx and the Muslim Brotherhood
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Al-Afghani was a Sufi but wanted to build a pan-Islamic movement. Thus al-Bamma created the Brotherhood on the model of a Sufi Order with an initiation ritual, a Murshid as leader to whom loyalty is due, a broad ideology with strict organizational control. Al-Afghani was also a French Mason with a tradition of ‘secret’ membership, of loyalty to the leader and a spirit of cooperation and mutual help among its members who recognize each other by codes but who do not advertise their membership.
→ read full articleThe Trans Pacific Partnership: Be Cautious
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
The US already has 320,000 troops in the Pacific region. That is the military arm of Pacific Power. The TPP is designed to secure the economic dimension of Pacific Power.
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Maksim Mrvica Plays Chopin (Music Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Nocturne in D-flat Op.27 No.2 – Maksim Mrvica, born May 3, 1975 is a Croatian pianist. He plays classical crossover music.
→ read full articleProtecting Snowden
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
What seems most dismaying about the Snowden affair is the prosecutorial zeal of the Obama presidency, supposedly liberal in its outlook on matters of personal freedom and the values of constitutional government. What Snowden has done is so clearly ‘a political crime,’ if it is a crime at all, and in recognition of this there has existed since the French Revolution been seen as inconsistent with the generally desirable policy of inter-governmental cooperation in the apprehension of suspected criminals.
→ read full article(Português) Eurodeputadas Questionam Comissão Europeia Sobre Veto a Sobrevoo de Avião de Evo
Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
As portuguesas Marisa Matias e Alda Sousa, juntamente com outros eurodeputados da esquerda e dos verdes, questionaram a Comissão Europeia e o Conselho sobre o escândalo da proibição de sobrevoo do avião do presidente da Bolívia, Evo Morales, por parte de Portugal, França, Espanha e Itália.
→ read full articleFlatland: Understanding Multiple Dimensions from Our Third Dimensional Perspective
Arjun, Collective Evolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
We are not only on the verge of confirming intelligent extraterrestrial life and extraterrestrial worlds, we could be on the verge of confirming extra-dimensional worlds, and extra dimensional life, if we haven’t already.
→ read full articleI am Bradley Manning
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Appearances: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Roger Waters, Oliver Stone, Daniel Ellsberg, Phil Donahue, and other personalities
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 4: Banking on Influence with JPMorgan Chase
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
In May [2013], JPMorgan Chase was listed as the largest bank in the world with assets at roughly $4 trillion — some $1.53 trillion of it in derivatives. In the midst of the financial crisis in 2008, JPMorgan Chase became not only a major criminal, but also a prime beneficiary of people’s suffering.
→ read full article(Italiano) Reinvenzione del Fascismo
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
L’atroce Seconda Guerra Mondiale ha provocato danni durevoli abbassando i nostri standard per ciò che è marginalmente accettabile. La guerra è male; ma se non è nucleare, il limite non è stato ancora raggiunto. Il fascismo è male; ma se non si accompagna alla dittatura e all’eliminazione di una categoria di persone, il limite non è stato ancora raggiunto.
→ read full articleIn the Flood of Disinformation, the Situation in Syria
Mother Agnès-Mariam de la Croix – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
The media announces to us with a lot of bravura that in the ashes of the dying Arab world a son has been born whose name is Revolution. With America as his midwife, the United Nations and the Arab League his godmothers, presided by France and England, the newborn has been declared a legitimate child by the international community. His father is Arab anti-nationalism, and his mother is liberty. To be acknowledged as legitimate he had witnesses in his princely cousins in the Persian Gulf and Qatar.
→ read full articleMasterCard Breaks Ranks in WikiLeaks Blockade
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
MasterCard has broken ranks in the US-linked banking blockade against WikiLeaks and made clear to VALITOR that it no longer desires to blockade WikiLeaks. Donations by credit cards to WikiLeaks through https://paygate.datacell.com are therefore fully re-instated as of Monday, July 1, 2013
→ read full articleHas Washington’s Arrogance Undone Its Empire?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
No one likes a bully, and Washington’s NATO puppets have been bullied for six decades. British prime ministers, German chancellors, and French presidents have to salute and say “yes sir.” They all hate it, but they love Washington’s money; so they prostitute themselves and their countries for Washington’s money.
→ read full article(Castellano) ONU Revela que Latinoamérica Es la Región de Mayor Progreso Este Siglo
TeleSur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
La Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU) reveló que América Latina y el Caribe es la única región del mundo con grandes avances en el cumplimiento de los Objetivos del Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) establecidos en el año 2000, mientras que los recortes y la crisis impedirá que regiones como Europa logren las metas planteadas.
→ read full articleStatement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should be.
→ read full articleTalk Nation Radio: Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Says Syrians Oppose Intervention
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Mairead Maguire speaks about her recent trip to Lebanon and Syria where she met with refugees, combatants, members of the opposition and members of the government. She found that supporters and opponents of the government, including those working for political changes, overwhelmingly oppose foreign interference and violence.
→ read full articleLawlessness Is the New Normal
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Although the individual countries still retain some sovereignty from the EU government, they are all under Washington’s thumb, as demonstrated by the recent illegal and hostile action taken on Washington’s orders by France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Austria against the airliner carrying Bolivia’s President Evo Morales.
→ read full articleEnergy Efficient Process Discovered to Turn Seawater into Freshwater
Nathan August, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
The new method – electrochemically mediated seawater desalination – uses no membranes, is considerably simpler than conventional methods, and is so low-energy that it can be performed with the energy provided by store-bought batteries.
→ read full articleThe Social Responsibility of Scientists
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
It has been proposed that graduates in science and engineering should take an oath, analogous to that taken by graduating medical students. They should promise never to use their education in the service of war, nor for the production of weapons, or in any way that might be harmful to society or to the environment.
→ read full articleOh Thank God—Finally, War With Syria
Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Probable factors, almost none of which have been reported by the major media, include
1) the desire to create new bases in the Middle East to watch over the Iraqi oilfields without taking flak for maintaining a permanent presence in Iraq;
2) eliminating one of the last non-Western-dependent pan-Arabists left;
3) getting rid of a regime that works closely with China and Russia; and especially
4) weakening one of Iran’s few and most important allies.
Forcing Down the Bolivian President’s Plane Was an Act of Piracy
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Imagine the aircraft of the President of France being forced down in Latin America on “suspicion” that it was carrying a political refugee to safety – and not just any refugee but someone who has provided the people of the world with proof of criminal activity on an epic scale.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 2: Identifying the Institutions of Control
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. In Part 1 I provided an overview examining who and what constitute the global ruling elite – often referred to as the Transnational Capitalist Class. In this second part, I will attempt to identify some of the key, dominant institutions that have facilitated and have in turn been supported by the development of this oligarchic class. This is not a study of wealth, but a study of power.
→ read full article(Italiano) Parco Johan Galtung
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Il 15 giugno scorso Vicente Arques, sindaco di Alfaz, ha inaugurato un monumento, ideato dal famoso scultore basco Augustin Ibarroa in memoria delle vittime degli atroci attacchi terroristici di Oslo e Utoya in Norvegia del 22 Luglio 2011. Il monumento si trova in un parco a cui è stato dato il nome del prof. Johan Galtung , da molti anni residente a Alfaz.
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(Deutsch & Português) “Água – Operação Secreta”: UE Promove a Privatização da Água
Antonio C. S. Rosa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
German TV programme “ARD MONITOR: Geheimoperation Wasser – EU fördert Wasserprivatisierung”
(Alemão com legendas em português e inglês)
(Deutsch with Portuguese and English subtitles)
(Italiano) Pensare-Agire, Localmente-Globalmente: Alfaz, Spagna
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Cooperazione per beneficio mutuo, empatia, risoluzione dei conflitti e riconciliazione dei traumi: compiti fondamentali di pace ovunque, in famiglia, a scuola, al lavoro, in un villaggio-città come Alfaz, come esempio per il paese, per i rapporti Occidente-Islam.
→ read full articleActing, Gaming, Simulating for Peace
Peace Is Sexy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Who says that violence is cooler and more fun than peace? Sure, with all the violence glorified in movies, TV shows, and video games, by toy guns and action hero dolls it’s easy to see how violence has been made more attractive and why it’s the “easy” alternative to use in case of conflict. But there is actually a growing body of games and activities for peace, whether they are a fun alternative to violent games or teach concrete peacebuilding skills.
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