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Why the Rise of Fascism Is Again the Issue
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
In a major essay, John Pilger describes a ‘Faustian Pact’ that allows the suppression of a modern fascism in the West and its reliance on propaganda as news, and the beckoning of a war that rarely speaks its name.
→ read full articleCommunity Response: A Danish Answer to Radical Jihad
Manfred Ertel and Ralf Hoppe – Der Spiegel,
2 Mar 2015
The murders in Copenhagen have refocused attention on a thorny question for Europe: How can radical jihadists returning from Syria be reintegrated? The Danish city of Aarhus may have found an answer.
→ read full article33 Latin American and Caribbean States Call for a Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Latin American and Caribbean states [CELAC] have once again shown a united front and a clear vision for the future of nuclear disarmament.
→ read full articleThe Federal Communications Commission Approved Net Neutrality
Inae Oh – Mother Jones,
2 Mar 2015
On Thursday [26 Feb 2015], the FCC voted to categorize the internet as a public utility and thereby uphold strong net neutrality regulations, a victory for internet consumers, blocking the creation of internet “fast lanes” for companies willing to pay more for high-speed service.
→ read full article(Italiano) Diagnosi & Prognosi: Valutazione del conflitto ucraino. Formazione da una prospettiva di pace
Naakow Grant-Hayford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
La riuscita espansione dei codici e delle istituzioni economico-politico-militari dell’UE e della NATO nella direzione generale della Russia sin dalla fine della Guerra Fredda, confligge di nuovo apertamente, come nel caso della Georgia nel 2008, con gli interessi russi nella sua orbita immediata e ha incendiato l’Ucraina orientale.
→ read full article(Italiano) Perché è inevitabile l’estinzione del genere umano a breve termine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
L’espressione “estinzione umana a breve termine” è relativamente recente nella letteratura scientifica, ma a differenza di altre realtà che le ‘élite’ nazionali e i canali d’informazione dominanti sono riusciti a soffocare, questa continuerà a filtrare finché non inizierete a sentirla regolarmente. Perché?
→ read full articleEnabling Fruitful Multiplication of Global Population
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Eliciting Massive Social Consensus by Unconstrained Reframing of Strategic Priorities – This reflects the strategic adage: ‘If you cannot beat them–then join them’ and is consistent with subtler philosophies of ‘Going with the flow’ or ‘Guiding the canoe, rather than pushing the river.’ It could also be understood as ‘Going for broke.’
→ read full article(Italiano) Quando un terrorista non è un terrorista
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Ciò che la polizia di Chapel Hill, nella Carolina del Nord ha inizialmente pubblicizzato nel mondo come ‘un litigio per un parcheggio’, è stata l’uccisione deliberata di tre giovani e devoti studenti musulmani americani per mano di un assassino, ‘nuovo ateo’ di nome Craig Stephen Hicks, motivato ideologicamente. Quello che The Economist chiama senza esitazione ‘terrorismo a Copenhagen ha implicato il tentativo di sparare a un vignettista danese che ripetutamente deride il Profeta e le convinzioni islamiche e ha implicato anche l’uccisione con arma da fuoco di una guardia di sicurezza ebrea davanti a una sinagoga.
→ read full articleRohingya and National Identities in Burma [Myanmar]
Carlos Sardiña Galache, New Mandala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Rather than attempting to defend Rohingya claims, I argue that the notion of “national races” itself, and thus the set of assumptions hitherto determining the terms of the debate, are fundamentally false and do not facilitate any understanding of the history and present social realities of Burma.
→ read full articlePush Back the Doomsday Clock!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
We Are All Down Winders! March 1st is known as “Nuclear-Free & Independent Pacific Day.” It commemorates the tragic 15 megaton U.S. nuclear bomb test, code named Bravo, at Bikini atoll in the Marshall Islands of Micronesia, on March 1, 1954. Many people died in the Marshall Islands from radiation contamination and fallout downwind of the Bravo blast and the 66 additional U.S. nuclear weapon tests there.
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Mr. Tambourine Man (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Bob Dylan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1964 – A Classic
→ read full articleTPP Chief Negotiators to Meet in Mid-March in Hawaii
Jiji Kyodo – The Japan Times,
2 Mar 2015
The chief negotiators’ meeting is being arranged from March 9 to 15, according to the sources. The 12 TPP negotiating countries are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, USA, Japan and Vietnam.
→ read full articlePeace and Freedoms for Indian Women in the Digital Era
Dr. Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Happy International Women’s Day on 8 March! On the one hand, women in India are at the peak of their success like Indira Gandhi who became Prime Minister of India. On the other hand, the vast majority is suffering silently. Violence and prejudice against them are dying, but the rate is painfully slow.
→ read full articleUS Offering Its ‘Assistance’ to Push GMOs on Africa: Report
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
2 Mar 2015
U.S. is ‘assisting African nations to produce biosafety laws that promote agribusiness interests instead of protecting Africans.’
→ read full articleGerman Newspaper BILD Gets inside US-NATO-Nuland Planning Session
Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Feb 19, 2015 – The Bild headline: “Cold Feet” “Bullshit,” “Angst” – What US Politicians REALLY think about the Germans in the Ukraine Crisis. Nuland set the tone at the prelude to the evening: “We can fight against the Europeans, we can fight with rhetoric against them.”
→ read full articleChinese Diplomat Tells West to Consider Russia’s Security Concerns over Ukraine
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
27 Feb 2015 – Western powers should take into consideration Russia’s legitimate security concerns over Ukraine, a top Chinese diplomat has said in an unusually frank and open display of support for Moscow. Qu Xing, China’s ambassador to Belgium, was quoted as blaming competition between Russia and the West for the Ukraine crisis, urging Western powers to “abandon the zero-sum mentality” with Russia.
→ read full article(Svenska-Swedish) Debattartikel: Sverige och EU – stöd demokrati i Burma, inte diktaturen!
Svenska Burmakommittén – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Burma är fortfarande en diktatur. Trots att Sverige och EU har uttalade mål att stödja demokratisering i landet signaleras istället stöd för samma gamla politiska elit, genom tystnad om människorättsbrott, bistånd till statliga myndigheter, handelsavtal och lyfta sanktioner. Omvärlden måste visa att man står på de demokratiska krafternas sida.
→ read full articleRadioactive Fukushima Water Leak Was Unreported for Months: Official
Arata Yamamoto - NBC News,
2 Mar 2015
25 Feb 2015 – The operator of Japan’s tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant admitted it failed to report a radioactive rainwater leak from the facility for about 10 months.
→ read full article(Português) Baleeiras Japonesas: Um Choque para o Sistema
George Monbiot – ANDA-Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
2 Mar 2015
Uma das maiores piadas na área de conservação é a afirmação vinda do governo japonês de que está praticando “pesca científica de baleias”. Todas as mortes causadas por sua frota de lançadores de arpões acontecem sob o pretexto de serem “pesquisa”, já que esta é única justificativa disponível sob regras internacionais.
→ read full articleLay Down Your Arms
The Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
The secrecy surrounding the Nobel Peace Prize has been misused and must cease. This is one of several demands that the newly formed association “Lay Down Your Arms” has sent to the three bodies responsible for awarding the Peace Prize: the Nobel Committee in Oslo, the Parliament that chooses the committee, and the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, which has the superior responsibility to ensure that all selections conform with Alfred Nobel’s stipulations.
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Johan Galtung: Transition from a Unipolar to a Multipolar Octagonal World
World Public Forum – Dialogue of Civilizations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Feb 17, 2015
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU. He is author of over 160 books on peace and related issues, including ‘50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives,’ published by the TRANSCEND University Press-TUP.
→ read full articleYear of the Sheep, Century of the Dragon?
Pepe Escobar - TomDispatch,
2 Mar 2015
Seen from the Chinese capital as the Year of the Sheep starts, the malaise affecting the West seems like a mirage in a galaxy far, far away. On the other hand, the China that surrounds you looks all too solid and nothing like the embattled nation you hear about in the Western media.
→ read full articleWhy Do We Fear Challenging Authority?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
I want to ask you three questions: Are you scared to make your own judgment (irrespective of the number of others, including experts, who make a similar judgment)? Are you scared to be labelled a ‘conspiracy theorist’ if you believe something contrary to the official (that is, the elite) narrative? And why?
→ read full articleAn Expensive Speech
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
President Obama, who is being insulted, humiliated and obstructed in his most cherished policy move, the agreement with Iran, would be superhuman if he did not brood on revenge. Even a movement of his little finger could hurt Israel grievously. Does Netanyahu care? Of course he cares. But he cares more about his reelection. Much, much more.
→ read full articleGemalto Doesn’t Know What It Doesn’t Know
Jeremy Scahill – The Intercept,
2 Mar 2015
25 Feb 2015 – Gemalto, the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, launched an internal investigation after The Intercept six days ago revealed that the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ hacked the company and cyberstalked its employees. In the secret documents, provided by Edward Snowden, the intelligence agencies described a successful effort to obtain secret encryption keys used to protect hundreds of millions of mobile devices across the globe.
→ read full articleReview of ‘Confessions of a Terrorist – A Novel’
Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
In this novel, Jackson raises the confronting question: Is the fear and insecurity of Western societies and their violent abuse of people of other countries and cultures causing a violent defensive reaction? In which case, are Westerners the ones who need to de-‘radicalise’ their extremist capitalist and militarist ideologies and behaviour in order to reduce fearful extremist responses to these?
→ read full articleSlavoj Žižek: A Note on Syriza – Indebted Yes, but Not Guilty!
Slavoj Žižek, Potemkin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
The idea one gets from our media is that the Syriza government in Greece is composed of a bunch of populist extremists who advocate “irrational” and “irresponsible” populist measures. It is, on the contrary, EU politics which have been, and continue to be, obviously irrational.
→ read full articleMyanmar (Burma): Rights That Should Be Upheld
Soe Myint – Mizzima Media,
2 Mar 2015
In a sense the historical roots of the term “Rohingya” are irrelevant and the discussion moot, because any ethnic group has the basic right to self identify. It is one of the human rights the UN is supposed to uphold.
→ read full articleNATO Finds Arab Backdoor to Arm Kiev
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
2 Mar 2015
The tiny UAE with its $13 billion military budget is a NATO arsenal par excellence. The weapons sales deal is just a backdoor for NATO to embark on further warmongering in Ukraine and toward Russia.
→ read full article[Nobel Prize Economic Sciences] Joseph Stiglitz Stands against Trade Agreements
Pressenza Int’l Press Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Feb 25 2015 – The United States is trying to impose a strong investment pact within two big, so-called “partnership” agreements that are now being negotiated, one bridging the Atlantic, the other the Pacific. The TPPs are going to be about regulation. Corporations have an interest at lowering regulatory standards that protect the environment, protect consumers, protect workers, and protect health.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
March 2–8 – Quote of the Week: “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
→ read full articleEstablish a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy
Article 19 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
5 Feb 2015 – The undersigned organisations, a coalition of international non-governmental organisations working to protect human rights, write to encourage your government to support the creation of a new Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy at the Human Rights Council (HRC) 28th ordinary session in March [2015].
→ read full articleReading the Greek Deal Correctly
James K. Galbraith – Common Dreams,
2 Mar 2015
Alexis Tsipras stated it correctly. Greece won a battle and the war continues. But the political sea-change that SYRIZA’s victory has sparked goes on. Greece has already changed; there is a spirit and dignity in Athens that was not there six months ago. Soon enough, new fronts will open in Spain, then perhaps Ireland, and later Portugal, all of which have elections coming.
→ read full articleCyber-Security Firm: NSA-Linked Spyware Found in Hard Drives Worldwide
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
2 Mar 2015
The targets included government and military institutions, telecommunication companies, banks, energy companies, nuclear researchers, media, and Islamic activists. They said the Equation Group “worm” was closely linked to Stuxnet, the cyberweapon the U.S. used to attack Iran’s uranium enrichment facility.
→ read full articleTesting Nuclear Weapons in the Marshall Islands
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
The islands were alive
with the red-orange fire of sunset
splashed on a billowy sky.
‘100yrs to Repair Gaza’: Oxfam Says Blockade Remains, Aid Almost Non-Existent
Russia Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
27 Feb 2015 – Reconstructing Gaza could take an entire century, if Israel doesn’t stop the siege, leading charity Oxfam warned. And that’s just the time frame for essential projects. The NGO’s regional director calls the situation “deplorable.”
→ read full articleSyria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
“Syrians Speak” would be a more accurate title for this valuable collection of essays, poems, drawings, posters, and photos by intellectuals and artists. The artistic response to the Syrian uprising is far more than a litany of turmoil; it illustrates the accelerated experiences of a people, many of whom have been fighting for their survival.
→ read full articleAfter Thousands of Years, Earth’s Frozen Life Forms Are Waking Up
Maddie Stone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
What’s happening in Siberia’s thawing permafrost and Greenland’s melting glaciers sounds borderline supernatural. Ancient viruses, bacteria, plants, and even animals have been cryogenically frozen there for millennia—and now, they are waking up.
→ read full articleCitizenFour – Full Documentary
Laura Poitras & Glenn Greenwald, LeakSource – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
The film, which has been hailed as a real-life thriller, chronicles Snowden’s effort to securely contact Poitras and Glenn Greenwald in 2013 and meet them in Hong Kong, where Poitras filmed Snowden discussing the thousands of classified NSA documents he was leaking to them, and his motives for doing so. The film takes its title from the pseudonym Snowden used when he contacted Poitras in encrypted emails that were revealed in her documentary.
→ read full articleThe Circus: How British Intelligence Primed Both Sides of the ‘Terror War’
Nafeez Ahmed – Middle East Eye,
2 Mar 2015
‘Jihadi John’ was able to join IS for one simple reason: from Quilliam to al-Muhajiroun, Britain’s loudest extremists have been groomed by the security services.
→ read full articleThe Loving Husband
TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
A man had two tickets for the best seats of the Rugby World Cup Final.
→ read full articleMulticulturalism and Its Dilemmas
Immanuel Wallerstein – Toward Freedom,
2 Mar 2015
And then there are in-migrations of wealthy persons from the Global North into zones where they buy out the desirable land, raise costs generally, and force groups that had been previously there into marginal existences. This is now happening around the globe in zones that are climatically more desirable.
→ read full articleHow to Pay for Social Programmes
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Chapter Eight of: Economic Theory and Community Development – Where we are going with our analysis: What we need is not so much a new economics as a new psychology. We need alignment with the common good. We need community.
→ read full articleBanksy In Gaza: Haunting Images among Ruins of War
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
27 Feb 2015 – The English graffiti artist has taken his politically charged message to the bombed-out neighborhoods of Gaza, where a series of murals amid a backdrop of devastation attempts to give voice to the desperation felt by Palestinians.
→ read full articleNonviolent Communication
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg (born 1934) was invited to speak at a meeting of a group of young Palestinians in a refugee camp on the West Bank. The Israeli police had recently entered the camp to quell protests. The ground was strewn with tear gas shells labeled “Made in USA”.
→ read full article(Português) Internet de banda larga como ‘bem público’ nos EUA
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Por três votos contra dois, a neutralidade da rede ganhou uma importante batalha nos EUA contra os grandes distribuidores e produtores de conteúdos online.
→ read full articleFresh Nuclear Leak Detected at Fukushima Plant
OneIndia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant’s operator announced on Sunday [22 Feb 2015], highlighting difficulties in decommissioning the crippled plant.
→ read full articleThe Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley – The Intercept,
23 Feb 2015
19 Feb 2015 – American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleSecrecy around Police Surveillance Equipment Proves a Case’s Undoing
Ellen Nakashima – The Washington Post,
23 Feb 2015
An FBI-imposed gag order about the StingRay, a sophisticated surveillance device that mimics cell towers, endangers some criminal cases when its use is questioned by defendants or judges.
→ read full articleAlive and Bleeding
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
“We’re killing a lot of them, and we’re going to keep killing more of them. So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians — they’re in this fight with us. But we cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups, whether it’s a lack of opportunity for jobs, whether…”
→ read full articleGaza Homes Flooded after Israel Unbolts Dam Gates
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Scores of Palestinian family homes east of blockaded Gaza were flooding after the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) opened dam gates at dawn Sunday [22 Feb 2015]. This is not the first time Israeli occupation authorities have opened the Gaza Valley dams.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Machtkämpfe – Eine antimilitaristische Sicht auf den Krieg in der Ukraine (Part-Teil 1)
Vadim Damier – graswurzelrevolution,
23 Feb 2015
Im November 2014 hat der Moskauer Sozialwissenschaftler Dr. Vadim Damier in Veranstaltungen in acht deutschen Städten vor zahlreichen ZuhörerInnen seine alternative Sicht auf den Krieg in der Ukraine dargelegt. Der GWR-Autor und Anarchosyndikalist hat uns sein Redemanuskript zum Abdruck angeboten. Wir dokumentieren den redaktionell überarbeiteten Text in zwei Teilen.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Machtkämpfe um die Ostukraine: Eine antimilitaristische Sicht auf den Konflikt (Part-Teil 2)
Vadim Damier – graswurzelrevolution,
23 Feb 2015
Im Januar 2015 flammten die blutigen Kämpfe zwischen ukrainischen Truppen und russlandnahen Separatisten in der Ostukraine wieder verstärkt auf. Mehr als 4000 Menschen wurden in diesem Krieg bisher getötet, Hunderttausende sind auf der Flucht. Dem Protest vieler Angehöriger zum Trotz verkündete die ukrainische Regierung eine Verstärkung ihrer Truppen und eine Teilmobilmachung. Eine Einstellung aller Kampfhandlungen ist nicht in Sicht.
→ read full articleAnti What? The Hoax of Rising Antisemitism in Europe
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Anti-Semitism is on the rise. All over Europe it is raising its ugly head. Jews are in danger everywhere. They must make haste and come home to Israel before it is too late. True? Untrue? NONSENSE!
→ read full articleThe Atlantic Ignores Muslim Intellectuals, Defines “True Islam” As ISIS
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
23 Feb 2015
In the piece, author Graeme Wood makes the case that the militant group represents a highly authentic version of Islam. Far from being an aberrant or deviant offshoot of traditional Islamic beliefs, it is described as being a faithful expression of them — representing “a coherent and even learned expression of Islam.”
→ read full articleThe Struggle of Venezuela against ‘A Common Enemy’
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
There are straightforward principles and dynamics at work here. Washington wants to get rid of the Venezuelan government because it is independent of US designs for the region and because Venezuela has the greatest proven oil reserves in the world and uses its oil revenue to improve the quality of ordinary lives.
→ read full articleThe Assassination of Greece
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The Greek government is currently locked in a life and death struggle with the elite which dominate the banks and political decision-making centers of the European Union. What are at stake are the livelihoods of 11 million Greek workers, employees and small business people and the viability of the European Union.
→ read full article(Português) SwissLeaks: revelações sobre um sistema de fraude fiscal internacional
Fabrice Lhomme e Gérard Davet - Le Monde,
23 Feb 2015
19 Fev 2015 – Os números são de tirar o fôlego. A série de reportagens publicada pelo jornal Le Monde, espetacular e inédita, é fruto de investigações realizadas entre Paris, Washington, Bruxelas e Genebra, e revela os bastidores de um grande sistema de evasão fiscal aceito, e até encorajado, pelo britânico HSBC, o segundo maior banco do mundo, através da sua filial suíça HSBC Private Bank.
→ read full articleHow to Read Intelligently and Write a Great Essay: Robert Frost’s Letter of Advice to His Young Daughter
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
«Take it easy with the essay whatever you do. Be as concrete as the law allows in it — concrete and experiential. Don’t let it scare you. Don’t strain. Remember that any old thing that happens in your head as you read may be the thing you want. If nothing much seems to happen, perhaps another reading will help.»
→ read full articleMyanmar’s [Burma’s] Buddhist Terrorism Problem
Usaid Siddiqui – Al Jazeera America,
23 Feb 2015
18 Feb 2015 – The country’s Rohingya minority is one of the most persecuted groups in the world. Burmese activists and leaders such as Suu Kyi must stand up for the human rights of the Rohingya community.
→ read full articleUS Imperialism and the Catastrophe in Libya
Joseph Kishore, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Prior to the intervention of NATO, there were no sectarian murders of Christians in Libya and Islamist militias tied to Al Qaeda were small groups with no broader influence. These forces were armed and promoted when, in 2011, the Obama administration and its allies in Europe, led by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, took the decision to topple Gaddafi.
→ read full articleThe Western Freedom of Expression Hypocrisy
Johan Galtung, 23 Feb 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
State-Law, Capital, and Culture. They are at their best when independent of each other. State should not interfere with the market, Capital not with politics, neither with Culture. Just look at how Capital changes such important parts of Culture as sports, arts and science, transforming them into products for buying, selling and investing, demanding of universities to serve Capital, not Truth.
→ read full articleRemember Your Humanity
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
This year, 2015, marks the 60th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which contains the following words: “There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise. If you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.”
→ read full articleLibya’s Chaos Is Obama’s Shame
Timothy P. Carney – Washington Examiner,
23 Feb 2015
Obama’s illegal, ill-considered, and immoral drive-by war in Libya ought to be a permanent stain on his presidency. The recent video of masked ISIS killers beheading 21 Egyptian Christians [and burning many alive] in Libya deserves to be the emblem of this president’s rash foreign policy.
→ read full articleFebruary 19, 1942: FDR Orders the Internment of the Japanese
The Almanac and Richard Kreitner – The Nation,
23 Feb 2015
19 Feb 2015 – The Nation’s response to the president’s evacuation, relocation and internment order was not nearly as firmly opposed as one now wishes it had been.
→ read full articleNaive Acquisition of Dual-use Surveillance Technology
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Progressive market-driven transformation of personal appliances into spyware? February 2015 has been witness to worldwide news coverage of the manner in which new “Smart TVs” were designed to listen to, if not visually record, those watching them. The major issue of concern was how the information acquired in this way was used, by whom, and with what constraints.
→ read full articleRussia Creates Its Own Payment System
Ian Welsh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
15 Feb 2015 – Domestic credit institutions have been incorporated into the new Russian financial system, the analogous of SWIFT. The new service will allow Russian banks to communicate through the Central Bank of Russia in response to repeated threats by Moscow’s Western partners to disconnect Russia from SWIFT.
→ read full articleSeed Bombers Can Plant an Entire Forest of 900,000 Trees A Day!
John Vibes, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Here’s a good use for old military planes! Planting trees EVERYWHERE! Seed bombing or aerial reforestation is a farming technique where trees and other crops are planted by being thrown or dropped from an airplane or flying drone.
→ read full articleCrimea: Was It Seized by Russia, or Did Russia Block Its Seizure by the U.S.?
Eric Zuesse, Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Both before and after Crimea left Ukraine and joined Russia in a public referendum on 16 March 2014, the Gallup Organization polled Crimeans on behalf of the U.S. Government, and found them to be extremely pro-Russian and anti-American, and also anti-Ukrainian. (Neither poll was subsequently publicized, because the results of each were the opposite of what the sponsor had wished.)
→ read full articleWorld Press Freedom Index 2015: Decline on All Fronts
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that include media pluralism and independence, respect for the safety and freedom of journalists, and the legislative, institutional and infrastructural environment in which the media operate.
→ read full articleUS-NATO War Games Prepare Massive Military Escalation in West Africa
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
U.S. and NATO forces launched massive war games Monday [16 Feb 2015] in West Africa. The exercises, known as Operation Flintlock 2015, are to serve as the spearhead for a comprehensive military escalation by the US and European powers and their client regimes throughout the resource-rich Lake Chad Basin.
→ read full articleYanis Varoufakis: No Time for Games in Europe
Yanis Varoufakis – The New York Times,
23 Feb 2015
Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players. Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece’s new finance minister I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
→ read full article700th Consecutive Weekly Hilo [Hawai’i] Peace Vigil
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Friday, Feb. 20, 2015 marks the 700th consecutive weekly Hilo, Hawaii Peace Vigil held from 3:30-5PM at the downtown Post office/federal building sponsored by Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action based in Kurtistown, Big Island, Hawai’i.
→ read full article‘Islamic State’ Mystery: The Anti-History of a Historic Phenomenon
Ramzy Baroud – Middle East Eye,
23 Feb 2015
The IS phenomenon is ahistorical and raises questions about its rapid geopolitical expansion despite lack of enthusiasm for its cause among ordinary people. Thanks to IS’ despicable act of burning the pilot, Jordan is no longer polarised about their country’s war in Syria. Egypt is following the same path of intervention, thanks to the butchering of the Egyptian workers.
→ read full articleIsrael Killed 108 Preschoolers and 19 Babies Last Year According to New Report
Joe Fletcher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Feb14, 2015 – “Children younger than 16 made up one-third of the total: 280 killed, including 19 babies and 108 preschoolers between the ages of 1 and 5. In 83 strikes, three or more members of one family died. Among those killed were 96 confirmed or suspected militants — or just over 11 percent of the total.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
February 23–March 1 – Quote of the Week: “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible’!” — Audrey Hepburn
→ read full articleWhen a Terrorist Is Not a Terrorist
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
What the Chapel Hill police in North Carolina initially pitched as ‘a parking dispute’ was the deliberate killing of three young and devout Muslim American students by an ideologically driven ‘new atheist’ killer named Craig Stephen Hicks. What the The Economist unhesitatingly calls ‘terrorism in Copenhagen’ involved the attempted shooting of a Danish cartoonist who repeatedly mocks the Prophet and Islamic beliefs as well as the lethal shooting of a Jewish security guard outside a synagogue.
→ read full article(Français) La chasse aux sorcières des ‘’Charlies’’: Dérive ou prélude aux bruits rampants des bottes du fascisme?
Amir M. Maasoumi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
28 janvier 2015, Radio Canada et Médias internationaux : ‘’Un enfant de 8 ans interpellé par la police française’’ pour refuser ”d’être Charlie”. Non. Moi non plus; Je ne suis ni Charlie, ni un Assassin hors-la-loi et sans foi! Je refuse cette dichotomie artificielle, simpliste et réductrice.
→ read full articleTen Enduring Mysteries of the Longyou Caves
April Holloway, Ancient Origins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
In China lies the Longyou caves – an extensive, magnificent and rare ancient underground world considered in China as ‘the 9th wonder of the ancient world’. Despite decades of research, very few answers have emerged to explain its enigma. Our ancient ancestors have achieved many wondrous things, but this truly is an unexplained mystery.
→ read full articleSaint Francis and the Wolf
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
We must understand the causes of violence, in our own interest, to prevent it in the future. In no way does this justify violence, or blame the victims.
→ read full articleWeimar on the Aegean
Paul Krugman, Nobel Economics Laureate - The New York Times,
23 Feb 2015
You can argue that Greece brought its problems on itself, although it had a lot of help from irresponsible lenders. The simple fact is that Greece cannot pay its debts in full. Austerity has devastated its economy as thoroughly as military defeat devastated Germany — real Greek G.D.P. per capita fell 26 percent from 2007 to 2013, compared with a German decline of 29 percent from 1913 to 1919.
→ read full article(Português) Morrem Três Jornalistas Que Investigavam a Participação dos EUA na Demolição das Torres Gêmeas
Diário Liberdade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Três jornalistas que trabalhavam em um documentário sobre o envolvimento do governo norte-americano na demolição das torres gêmeas morreram nos últimos dias. Trata-se do ex-repórter internacional da NBC Ned Colt, o correspondente da CBS News [60 Minutes] Bob Simon, e o jornalista do New York Times David Carr.
→ read full articleBan Greyhound Racing Now
Lori Gruen – Al Jazeera America,
23 Feb 2015
Empathy for animals demands an end to the practice. When people treat greyhounds as disposable things, they are not only hurting the dogs but also furthering a culture of cruelty and indifference toward animals.
→ read full articleUkraine Agrees To Monsanto Land Grab for $17 Billion IMF Loan
Christina Sarich, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are helping biotech run the latest war in Ukraine. Make no mistake: what is happening in the Ukraine now is deeply tied to the interests of Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and other big players in the poison food game.
→ read full articleThe Intercept’s Laura Poitras Wins Academy Award for ‘Citizenfour’
Peter Maass – The Intercept,
23 Feb 2015
“The disclosures that Edward Snowden revealed don’t only expose a threat to our privacy but to our democracy itself,” Poitras said in her acceptance speech. “Thank you to Edward Snowden for his courage and for the many other whistleblowers.” Snowden, in a statement released after the award was announced, said, “My hope is that this award will encourage more people to see the film and be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world.”
→ read full articleFrom ‘Demos’ to ‘Podemos’: Popular Uprisings in Greece and Spain
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
23 Feb 2015
“Austerity in Greece means 50 percent increase in male suicides. It means real wages fell by 25 percent in five years … 300,000 families who can’t afford electricity.” Interviewed in Der Spiegel, Varoufakis called austerity “fiscal waterboarding.”
→ read full article(Português) O Bem Comum Foi Enviado ao Limbo
Leonardo Boff – Carta Maior,
23 Feb 2015
O neoliberalismo demoliu a noção de bem comum. Em seu lugar, entraram as noções de rentabilidade, de flexibilização, de adaptação e de competitividade.
→ read full articleWhy I Have Resigned from the Telegraph
Peter Oborne – Open Democracy,
23 Feb 2015
The coverage of HSBC in Britain’s Telegraph is a fraud on its readers. If major newspapers allow corporations to influence their content for fear of losing advertising revenue, democracy itself is in peril.
→ read full articleObama Administration to Allow Sales of Armed Drones to Allies
Missy Ryan – The Washington Post,
23 Feb 2015
This is a disastrous decision for human rights and arms control,’ says William Hartung of Center for International Policy. The new policy, announced Tuesday [17 Feb 2015] after a long internal review, is a significant step for U.S. arms policy.
→ read full article(Português) Por que o ocidente não admite as verdadeiras raízes do terrorismo?
Mediapart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
A violência política se alimenta da violência de Estado e da violência social. O radicalismo se alimenta das presepadas geopolíticas ocidentais.
→ read full articleIronman Varoufakis’s Revolutionary Plan for Europe
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
23 Feb 2015
The ongoing dispute between the German and Greek governments is nothing less than a democratic revolution against German hegemony and the attempt of the Germans and their paladins in the EU to dictate Greek domestic policy.” Varoufakis’s plan in a nutshell: Revolution from within. Just don’t tell anyone in Berlin.
→ read full articleA Pre-History of Boko Haram: The Long Shadow of Usman dan Fodio
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
There has been growing concern with the activities of Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and its spillover into northern Cameroon, Niger, and in the Lake Chad area.
→ read full articleMarx, Syriza and the Future of Greece – The Not So Erratic Philosophy of Yanis Varoufakis
Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer - CounterPunch,
23 Feb 2015
He has just written a smashing op-ed for The New York Times that forcefully outlines his government’s approach to the negotiations. It deserves a standing ovation. Varoufakis has described himself as an “erratic Marxist.” He is far more of a Marxist than a Kantian. It’s the only moral thing to be.
→ read full articleRetraction
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
A member of the United States Senate, known for his hot temper and acid tongue, exploded one day in midsession and began to shout, “Half of this Senate is made up of cowards and corrupt politicians!”
→ read full articleExtinct—Extincter—Extinctest
Dmitry Orlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The USA is best characterized as a decomposing corpse of a nation lorded over by a tiny clique of oligarchs who control the herd by wielding Orwellian methods of mind control. So far gone is the populace that most of them think that things are just peachy—there is an economic recovery, don’t you know.
→ read full articleUS “Easing Into” War with Syria Using ISIS Boogeyman
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
As early as June of last year, it was reported that ISIS would be used as a means to incrementally draw in US forces in preparation for a direct military intervention aimed at Damascus itself.
→ read full articleThe Putin-Did-It Conspiracy Theory
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
23 Feb 2015
The New York Times – much as it did when it was falsely reporting breathlessly about ‘aluminum tubes’ for Iraq’s non-existent nuclear weapons program – continues to promote U.S. government propaganda about Ukraine as fact and dismisses any rational assessment of the situation as crazy.
→ read full articleAthenae Delenda Est
Paul Krugman, Nobel Economics Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Rather than give any ground, they prefer to see Greece forced into default and probably out of the euro, with the presumed economic wreckage as an object lesson to anyone else thinking of asking for relief. That is, they’re setting out to impose the economic equivalent of the “Carthaginian peace” France sought to impose on Germany after World War I. The lack of wisdom is astonishing and appalling.
→ read full articleWhere Does Iran’s Supreme Leader Really Stand on Nuclear Negotiations?
Ariane Tabatabai – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
23 Feb 2015
“Not reaching a deal would be better than a bad deal.” – Khamenei. This moment is a unique opportunity for Iranian negotiators to make a comprehensive deal they can sell to domestic hardliners, using the momentum provided by the country’s highest political authority.
→ read full articleInterview with William Schabas, Former Chair, UN Commission of Inquiry for 2014 Israeli Attack on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Interview with Prof. William Schabas, recently resigned under pressure as Chair of the Commission of Inquiry appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to Investigate Allegations of State Crimes associated with Israel’s military attack on Gaza, code named Operation Protective Edge.
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