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See Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas through the Lens of Young Residents’ Pinhole Cameras
Fabiano Post, Oximity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The “Mão na Lata” (Hand on can) project consists of distributing pinhole cameras to teenagers from 12 to 18 years old in Complexo da Maré, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro comprising of 16 favelas where about 130,000 people live.
→ read full articleUN Presses Myanmar over Rohingya Rights
ReliefWeb – UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),
24 Nov 2014
The United Nations adopted a resolution Friday [21 Nov 2014] urging Myanmar to grant citizenship to its Rohingya Muslim minority, ramping up pressure on Yangon to scrap a controversial identity plan.
→ read full articleInvitation for Nominations to the International Bremen Peace Award 2015 – Crossing Boundaries/Breaking Vicious Circles
Schwelle Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
With this award we want to honour people and organizations that set an example through their work contributing to reconciliation, human rights, overcoming of racism, sustainable handling of nature and environment as well as to intercultural and inter-religious understanding.
→ read full articleIt’s No Accident: Afghan Opium Production Hits All-Time High
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
24 Nov 2014
The proliferation of drugs helps to keep the “little people” in line so the adults can get on with the business of looting.
→ read full articleBirgitta Jonsdottir, Democracy and Freedom of Information
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Believing that lack of free information was the main cause of the corruption behind Iceland’s 2008 crisis, Birgitta Jónsdóttir convinced her colleagues in the Althingi, the oldest parliament in the world, to pass unanimously a law calling for complete freedom of information in Iceland. She also worked closely with Julian Assange to produce the video “Collateral Murder”.
→ read full articleUS Joins Somalia and South Sudan in Failing to Support Child Rights
Arjun Sethi – Al Jazeera America,
24 Nov 2014
25 years later, as the world celebrates Universal Children’s Day, only three countries bear the shame of not having ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Somalia, South Sudan and the United States.
→ read full articleNo Escape for Civilians in Syria
David Miliband – Al Jazeera,
24 Nov 2014
The number of Syrians able to flee violence in their country has dropped dramatically. The responsibility to shelter those fleeing lies with the whole world. Meeting it grows daily more urgent.
→ read full articleBuilding a Racially Just Society: Psychological Insights
Roy Eidelson, Mikhail Lyubansky, and Kathie Malley-Morrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Racial Injustice Poses a Difficult yet Increasingly Urgent Challenge – As three white psychologists, we offer this brief essay with the awareness that our perspective is necessarily limited by our lived experience as members of the privileged racial class.
→ read full articlePeace Is Possible in a World without Violence, Militarism and War
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti and Commune of Assisi, Italy
→ read full article(Castellano) Cadena Perpetua para Homosexuales en Gambia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
En el continente africano hay al menos 36 países que condenan la homosexualidad. Este viernes en Gambia fue aprobado un proyecto de ley que podría condenar a cadena perpetua a algunos homosexuales.
→ read full articleNuremberg Trials
History.com – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
20 Nov 2014 – Today marks the 69th anniversary of the start of the famous Nuremberg Trials. 24 Nazis, including the head of the Nazi Air Force, the Nazi party secretary, the chief ideologue and others were put on trial in Nuremberg on 20 November 1945.
→ read full articleBritain Is All Talk and No Action on Human Rights
Andrew Smith, New Internationalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Prince Andrew’s visit to Saudi Arabia to ‘reinforce ties’ is only the most recent expression of the extremely close relationship between the British establishment and the Saudi autocrats and a reminder that Britain may talk tough on human rights and democracy, but is all too happy to work closely with one of the most despotic regimes in the world.
→ read full articleWhat Sexual Harassment?
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
This Modern World – Satirical Comic Strip
→ read full articleMyanmar [Burma] Says Plight of Rohingya Minority a Media Fabrication
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
According to the Arakan Project, which plots migration across the Bay of Bengal, about 100,000 Rohingya have left Rakhine since 2012. Violent clashes with ethnic Rakhine Buddhists that year killed hundreds and left 140,000 homeless, most of them Rohingya. Some Rohingya, as Reuters reported last year, are held for ransom by trafficking gangs at jungle camps in Thailand until relatives pay to secure their release.
→ read full articleRethinking Economics: From Scarcity to Abundance
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The coming crash may be humanity’s golden opportunity to transition to post-economic society. Or it may be the beginning of endless misery, violence, confusion, ignorance parading as technocracy, repression and –what is worse– ecocide.
→ read full articleThe Commons and Defending the Public
Marina Sitrin - TeleSur,
24 Nov 2014
Can one move from public to commons by going through the state?
→ read full articleAfter 13 Years, 2 Wars and Trillions in Military Spending, Terrorist Attacks Are Rising Sharply
Christopher Ingraham – The Washington Post,
24 Nov 2014
Worldwide, the number of terrorist incidents increased from less than 1,500 in 2000 to nearly 10,000 in 2013.
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(Castellano) El Planeta Tierra Eres Tú
Carlos Chavira – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Legendado em Português
→ read full articleBrave Little Denmark Leads War against Coal
Paul Hockenos – Al Jazeera America,
24 Nov 2014
Danish energy policies offer model even more admirable than Germany’s. A coal-free Denmark would be a beacon not just for the rest of Europe but also for a world gradually coming to grips with the reality of climate change.
→ read full articleConstruction of Nicaraguan Canal to Begin in December [2014]
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The controversial canal will run through Lake Nicaragua, other sensitive ecosystems, and will have adverse effects for many communities.
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Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Orwellian War in Iraq
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
24 Nov 2014
We Created the Very Threat We Claim to be Fighting
→ read full articleGreece – No Excuse for Caging Children
Eva Cossé – Human Rights Watch,
24 Nov 2014
Is it acceptable for children with disabilities to be kept in caged beds? As shocking as it may sound, for the government of Greece the answer appears to be yes. Last Friday [14 Nov 2014], the BBC reported on the horrific plight of children with disabilities living in the Children Care Center of Lechaina, in Southern Greece.
→ read full article(Castellano) Palestina Agradece Reconocimiento del Congreso Español
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
El documento fue aprobado la víspera por 319 votos a favor, dos en contra y una abstención y sigue a otro similar pasado por la Cámara de los Comunes británica días atrás.
→ read full article(Italiano) Aosta. Quarant’anni sempre per la verità
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Memorie e attualità della strage di Piazza Loggia (28 maggio 1974- 28 maggio 2014). Seconda Parte
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar’s Missing Millions [of People]
Guy Horton, DVB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The elephant in the room is government policy. Widespread, systematic human rights violations, i.e. crimes against humanity, have been identified and condemned by successive UN Special Rapporteurs and General Assembly Resolutions since 1992. Genocide, we should remind ourselves, involves the physical “Destruction of ethnic, racial, religious or national groups in whole or,” significantly, “In part.”
→ read full articleWhy Is Russia Going to Skip the Nuclear Security Summit in the US?
Vladimir Kozin – Oriental Review,
24 Nov 2014
The Russian Foreign Ministry explained that its aversion to taking part in the preparations for the fourth summit, to be held in the US, has nothing to do with the Ukrainian crisis or even some other circumstances unrelated to this forum, but rather stems from the following:
→ read full articleBlazing the Terrorism Trail: The US War Industry
CJ Werleman – Middle East Eye,
24 Nov 2014
New York Times investigative reporter, James Risen, has released his latest investigation into the hidden costs of the war on terror.
→ read full articleWhy NATO Is a Danger to World Peace
Immanuel Wallerstein - Toward Freedom,
24 Nov 2014
NATO and what it symbolizes today represents a severe danger because it represents the claim of western countries to interfere everywhere in the name of western interpretations of geopolitical realities.
→ read full articleThe Outpost That Doesn’t Exist in the Country You Can’t Locate – Why Is the US Military So Interested in Chad?
Nick Turse – TomDispatch,
24 Nov 2014
The US military continues a long series of mistakes, missteps and mishaps across Africa. A base camp, an authoritarian regime, and the future of U.S. blowback.
→ read full article(Português) Ciclo de governos à esquerda continua em toda a América Latina, diz professor
Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
A América Latina passou por diversos processos eleitorais em 2014. Além do Brasil; Bolívia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá e Colômbia escolheram seus novos mandatários [de esquerda], faltando apenas o Uruguai, que deve realizar seu segundo turno ainda neste mês.
→ read full articleUS Police Visit Israel to Learn New Strategies
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Chicago officers attend the third Homeland Security Conference in Tel Aviv to learn on cyber-crime and counterterrorism from one of the most questioned police corps in the world.
→ read full articleWall Street Banks and Commodities Fraud
Joseph Kishore, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
On Wednesday [19 Nov 2014], the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a detailed report documenting yet another aspect of the insider dealing, price-fixing and general criminality that pervades the American financial system.
→ read full articleJohn Kerry Conducted a Theatre of the Absurd in Amman
Mazin Qumsiyeh – Middle East Eye,
24 Nov 2014
No one takes US ‘peace plan’ efforts seriously anymore – Amman meetings were proof of that. US Secretary John Kerry met in Amman with King Abdullah, PM Netanyahu, and PA leader Mahmoud Abbas for the umpteenth episode of the ongoing theatre saga dubbed the “peace process.”
→ read full articleUS and Europe Conceal Their Bankruptcy with Hostility to Russia
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
24 Nov 2014
18 Nov 2014 – US President Obama was joined by European leaders last weekend in trying to turn the G20 summit in Australia into a forum for baiting Russia, rather than dealing with the more onerous problem of a failing world economy.
→ read full articleDramatic Correlation Shown Between GMOs and 22 Diseases
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers – Popular Resistance,
24 Nov 2014
As Use of GMO’s Crops Glyphosate Rise So Do Critical Diseases
→ read full articleTanzania Accused of Backtracking over Sale of Masai’s Ancestral Land
David Smith, Africa correspondent – The Guardian,
24 Nov 2014
Masai told to leave historic homeland by end of the year so it can become a private hunting reserve for the Dubai royal family.
→ read full articleBurma: Tears That Tell Tales
Khaingmar Kyawzaw – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
In a hut used as a hiding spot
Sat a little boy
Who was crying silently
With tears rolling down his cheeks.
Surprised?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
A little boy got lost at the gym and found himself in the women’s locker room.
→ read full articleBehind The Barbarism: Misreading Online Militant Magazines
Rafia Zakaria – Al Jazeera America,
24 Nov 2014
In focusing narrowly on ISIL’s barbarities, the media are missing crucial insights on the group’s evolution. The proliferating militant magazines offer rare glimpses into the ascent of militancy, their appeal to Western youth and shifting political realities in the Muslim world.
→ read full articleUS, Canada, and Ukraine Reject Russia’s UN Anti-Nazi Proposal
Josh Paniagua – Mass Report,
24 Nov 2014
22 Nov 2014 – A Russian proposal condemning all glorification of Nazi ideology and denial of Nazi war crimes was passed by the UN General Assembly. Of the 173 countries voting, 115 said yes and 55 abstained. The only three countries to vote against: United States, Canada, and Ukraine.
→ read full article(Português) Se Conhecêssemos os Sonhos do Homem Branco
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
A crise econômico-financeira que está afligindo grande parte das econonomias mundiais criou a possibilidade de os muito ricos ficarem tão ricos como jamais na história do capitalismo, logicamente à custa da desgraça de países inteiros como a Grécia, a Espanha, Portugal e outros e de modo geral toda a zona do Euro, talvez com uma pequena exceção, da Alemanha.
→ read full articleFrench Government Will Not Sign TTIP Agreement in 2015
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
France will not support the inclusion of the Investor State Dispute Settlement mechanism in a potential TTIP agreement. The ISDS is a point of heated debate between the EU and the United States.
→ read full articleWhere Has All Ukraine’s Gold Gone?
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
20 Nov 2014 – Ukraine’s Central Bank chief has divulged some shocking intel: its gold stockpile has reached a new nadir – almost zero. Since the beginning of the year, gold reserves have dropped nearly 16-fold, which begs the question, where did all of it go?
→ read full articleSon of Stuxnet: The Digital Hunt for Duqu, a Dangerous and Cunning U.S.-Israeli Spy Virus
Kim Zetter – The Intercept,
18 Nov 2014
It was clear to them immediately that Duqu was the work of master programmers.
→ read full article(Italiano) La cristianità fra l’attività bancaria ebraica e quella islamica
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
Il capitalismo ha due contraddizioni fondamentali: la classe, capitale vs lavoro, con una diseguaglianza crescente; la finanza vs l’economia reale, con crescente dominanza dell’economia finanziaria. Le alternative? Cooperative che condividano benefici e rischi, non aziende per azioni con compratori di manodopera e venditori di manodopera che (si) procurino “posti di lavoro”. E criminalizzazione dei rapporti puramente monetari, guidata dal sistema bancario islamico.
→ read full articleWhat Happened to the Humanitarians Who Wanted to Save Libyans With Bombs and Drones?
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
18 Nov 2014
Just three years after NATO’s military intervention in Libya ended and was widely heralded by its proponents as a resounding success, that country is in complete collapse.
→ read full articleWine, Blood and Gasoline
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
Kafr Kanna, a village near Nazareth, is probably the place where Jesus – according to the New Testament – turned water into wine. Now it is the Arab village where the Israeli police is turning stones into blood.
→ read full articleThe Siege of Julian Assange Is a Farce – A Special Investigation
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
John Pilger investigates the rise of WikiLeaks and the Kafkaesque saga that has enveloped its founder, Julian Assange, since he blew the whistle on the dangers and lies of great power and its courtiers.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Multiplication of Western Walls
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
While NATO regimes celebrate the ‘Fall of the Berlin Wall’ as the highest expression of freedom, these same political leaders support, finance and promote Israel’s Separation Wall dividing and caging millions of Palestinians.
→ read full articleGoodbye G8, Hello BRICS. Out with the Old, In with the New
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Nov 2014
From one side, a tired, imperialist and arrogant top-down, holier-than-thou approach with political strings attached; on the other, genuine friendship, cooperation, development, the desire for sincere cultural and economic ties. From the former, deployment and military bases; from the latter, development and education.
→ read full articleArt in a Time of Surveillance
Peter Maass – The Intercept,
18 Nov 2014
Art Prof. Hasan Elahi has taken about 70,000 pictures of the buildings he’s visited, the beds he’s slept in, the food he’s eaten, the toilets he’s used, the roads he’s travelled on. “By disclosing mundane details about my daily life, I am simultaneously telling everything and nothing about my life,” he writes. “I am flooding the market with banal information, and questioning its inherent meaning and value for intelligence purposes.”
→ read full articleSenator Who Put Pentagon Papers into Public Record Urges Udall to Do Same with Torture Report
Dan Froomkin – The Intercept,
18 Nov 2014
Mike Gravel is urging Sen. Mark Udall to read the CIA torture report into the Congressional Record.
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La Gitana (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Tasmin Little – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Tasmin Little (violin) and John Lenehan (piano) play La Gitana by Fritz Kreisler
→ read full article(Português) Amigo – Palavra Séria
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Há amigos de Facebook, amigos sociais, amigos afetivos e amigos profundos. Com os sociais você vai a eventos, enturma para alguma coisa de interesse comum, mas não desabafa nem oferece o ombro, como no caso dos afetivos – categoria mais densa, mais próxima. Amigo profundo é o raro “amigo-irmão”, confidente, diante de quem não temos medo nem vergonha. Sabe ser presença, escutar, falar, calar.
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Dr. Mads Gilbert Speaks Out on Gaza, Israeli Occupation
Truls Lie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
What can now be said about the massive Israeli attacks on Gaza summer 2014? The Norwegian medical doctor Mads Gilbert was there at Al-Shifa hospital. Warning: The film contains graphic images.
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Planet Earth Is You
Carlos Chavira – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
This video was created to raise your awareness on the conservation of our planet. Don’t let your INDIFFERENCE take over you. There’s still time.
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Arundhati Roy: Debunking the Gandhi Myth – Glenn Greenwald: The Intercept
The Laura Flanders Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Author/activist Arundhati Roy on the Annihilation of Caste, B.R. Ambedkar and the Western myth of Mahatma Gandhi.
Glenn Greenwald addresses diversity concerns about his new media venture TheIntercept.com.
Betting on Famine: Why the World Still Goes Hungry
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Ziegler also stresses relatively new dangers to a just world food system. In many developing countries, the urban elite have been buying farm land as an investment, not necessarily to increase agricultural production with improved techniques, but to resell later when prices go up.
→ read full articlePeaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
Christoph Vogel, African Arguments – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Peaceland helps us understand the culture(s) of expatriates and the respectively uneasy relationship between the foreign interveners and the local population. While it does not bring up a new grand theory to analyse external intervention in a larger sense, it is certainly by far the best ‘thick description’ of the expatriate world.
→ read full articleIsrael Refuses to Cooperate with UN Gaza Probe
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
An Israeli spokesperson Wednesay [12 Nov 2014] declared that Israel will not participate in the U.N. inquiry into its 50-day attack on Gaza last summer. Netanyahu refused to allow the investigative team to cross Israeli borders. It had arrived in Amman, Jordan and was originally planning to travel through Israel to reach the Gaza Strip.
→ read full articleSodaStream to Close Illegal Settlement Factory in Response to Growing Boycott Campaign
Palestinian BDS National Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
– SodaStream to benefit from Israel’s displacement of Palestinians in Naqab
– Retailers and investors dropped SodaStream over BDS pressure
Two Interviews [of mine] on Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
14 Nov 2014 – Two recent interviews seek to assess the Palestinian national movement as it is unfolding at this critical time.
→ read full articleIsrael Bans Norwegian Doctor Mads Gilbert from Gaza
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
A Norwegian doctor has been permanently banned from entering the Gaza Strip by the Israeli government. Dr Mads Gilbert says he was stopped trying to cross into Gaza in October. He called the move “totally unacceptable”. Israel cited security reasons for imposing the ban.
→ read full article(Português) Os 5 Muros Que Ainda Dividem Populações no Mundo
Felipe Amorim, Opera Mundi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Israel, EUA, Coreia, Grécia e Ceuta: 25 anos após queda do Muro de Berlim, episódio que simbolizou diminuição de fronteiras, barreiras físicas ainda existem em diversos continentes. Conheça cinco muros que ainda estão de pé.
→ read full articleThe Psychology of Victimhood: Obama, Cameron, Netanyahu, Clinton, Kissinger
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
All children are victims of chronic violence and while a rare individual survives this violence, most acquire a victim status that leaves them psychologically crippled for life, doing a lifetime of soul-destroying work that is far removed from any pursuit that might be described as ‘Self-realizing’.
→ read full articleCorrespondences between Traditional Constellations and Pattern Languages
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Requisite Simplexity for Sustainable Comprehension of Complexity – It is assumed here that people derive more personal meaning and sense of identity from reference to their astrological sign than from any complex pattern of explanation formulated by qualified authority. The appeal of such symbols might be due to the perception that they have “more soul”.
→ read full articleCarnegie/Nobel – Stipend/Prize – US$ 1 500!
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Why the similarities? Were Carnegie and Nobel ever in contact? Why is the connection so interesting – and consequential? The best reply to these questions will receive from me a stipend of US$ 1 500.
→ read full articleBurma: What Obama Should Tell Thein Sein
Maung Zarni – Asia Times,
17 Nov 2014
The country’s various oppressed constituencies are intensely resentful of both meek, mild and ineffectual UN officials and China’s narrow interests and slanted policies in favor of their common oppressor in Naypyidaw. They still hold out hope that the US’s involvement and pressure on the country’s current military leaders will eventually bring genuine democratic reforms and an end to decades of internal conflict.
→ read full articleMainstream Media Silences Debate on US New Wars
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
New analysis finds little opposition in mainstream media to latest US military attacks on Middle East nations. In total, 205 sources appeared on the programs discussing military options in Syria and Iraq. Just six of these guests, or 3 percent, voiced opposition to US military intervention. There were 125 guests (61 percent) who spoke in favor of US war.
→ read full articleWhat Really Happened in Beijing: Putin, Obama, Xi — And the Back Story the Media Won’t Tell You
Patrick L. Smith – Salon,
17 Nov 2014
Ukraine, Iran’s nukes, the price of oil: There are ties worthy of a Bourne film, if the media connected the dots.
→ read full articleWar Making and Class Conflict
Joseph T. Salerno - Ludwig von Mises Institute,
17 Nov 2014
The ruling elites who control and benefit from the state recognize the utmost importance of concealing its oligarchic and exploitative nature from the masses.
→ read full articleISIS Is America’s Dream Rebel Army
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
US policy paper reveals desire for construction of full-scale extraterritorial army to invade Syria. Such an army is being built in Iraq and Turkey and it’s called “ISIS.”
→ read full articleHollywood Takes on Corporate Giants over Bhopal Gas Disaster
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Hollywood movie star Martin Sheen will join Amnesty International’s battle to finally hold Union Carbide accountable for what is widely considered to be one of the world’s worst industrial disasters as he launches his latest film in Los Angeles on Friday [7 Nov 2014].
→ read full articleMerkel Rules Out Further Sanctions on Russia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
The German official nonetheless plans to extend travel bans to newly elected Ukraine officials.
→ read full articleEU Democratic Deficit: It’s Time to Put Juncker on the Hot Seat
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Can the European Commission be led by a man who transformed his own country into a tax oasis? The debate is long overdue and Jean-Claude Juncker can no longer afford to shirk the question.
→ read full articleLooking Back on WW-I One Hundred Years Later: Four Mixed Messages
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Dorothy Brown Memorial Lecture, Auckland, New Zealand, November 8, 2014
→ read full articleRussia to Launch Alternative to SWIFT Bank Transaction System in Spring 2015
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Russia intends to have its own international inter-bank system up and running by May 2015. The Central of Russia says it needs to speed up preparations for its version of SWIFT in case of possible ”challenges” from the West.
→ read full articleUN Secretary-General Calls for Greater Rohingya Rights Protections
Sean Gleeson & Kyaw Hsu Mon – The Irrawaddy,
17 Nov 2014
“I encouraged Myanmar leaders to uphold human rights, take a strong stance against incitement, and ensure humanitarian access to Rohingya living in vulnerable conditions,” he said. Ban says he will reiterate this message when he meets with President Thein Sein Thursday [13 Nov 2014] morning.
→ read full articleRight!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
A beggar walked up to a well‑dressed heavy woman shopping on Fifth Avenue in New York and said,
→ read full articleFalluja Corpse
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
I will lie here,
buried below Falluja
for a long time.
Being dead,
I am in no hurry.
Myanmar [Burma]: Rohingya Not Welcome
Ivan Watson and Tim Schwarz - CNN,
17 Nov 2014
“There couldn’t be a clearer case of ethnic cleansing,” said Matthew Smith, executive director of Fortify Rights, a human rights group that has extensively researched the crisis in Rakhine state. “The authorities and local Buddhist populations are trying to change the ethnic demographics of the state through terror-inspiring means, and in some cases violence.”
→ read full articleSvoboda Nazi Apologist Quits Party to Become Head of Security Service Propaganda
Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
One of the most notorious Ukrainian members of parliament for the far-right party ‘Svoboda,’ Yuri Michalchyshyn, quits the party so that he can become head of the propaganda and analysis of the Ukraine Security Service, SBU. Mikhalchyshyn is an open nazi apologist holding an honorary medal of the SS Division Galychna.
→ read full articleEight Dangerous Warning Signs of Genocide in Burma-Myanmar [Infographic]
Rachel Monteagudo, United to End Genocide – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Hundreds have been killed, tens of thousands have fled under the most hazardous conditions, and 140,000 have been forced into horrible, overcrowded camps where they face severe restrictions and are denied basic necessities, including medical care. Many experts are warning of genocide. Here’s why:
→ read full articleMigratory Birds, Fish and Mammals Get New UN Protection
Agence France Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
10 Nov 2014 – Polar bears, whales, sharks and gazelles were among 31 new species granted new protection status by the UN conservation body, following six days of “intense” talks by leading conservationists. A record 21 species of shark, ray and sawfish were added to the list.
→ read full articleBurkina Faso: The (In)Significant Coup
Ian Ralby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
While it looks as though the political transition is being handled peacefully, concerns remain that the country could descend into violent conflict. It is important, then, to ask what effect such instability could have on neighboring states, particularly Mali and Côte d’Ivoire, and the region at large. The answer, however, is probably “none.”
→ read full articleChina’s Silky Road to Glory
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
17 Nov 2014
APEC once again has shown that the more geopolitics change, the more it won’t stay the same; as the exceptional dogs of war, inequality and divide and rule keep barking, the China-Russia pan-Eurasian caravan will keep going, going, going – further on down the (multipolar) road.
→ read full articleDog Fighting Organizer and Co-Conspirators Sentenced to Prison
Andrew Emett – Nation of Change,
17 Nov 2014
The FBI along with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Humane Society had raided a dog fighting ring in Alabama. Organizer and co-conspirators were charged with animal cruelty and conspiracy.
→ read full articleClass Interests as Economic Theory
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh – CounterPunch,
17 Nov 2014
Mainstream/neoclassical economists failed miserably to either predict the 2008 financial implosion, or provide a reasonable explanation when it actually arrived. Neoclassical economics has created more confusion than clarification, more obfuscation than elucidation. Economic “science” has, indeed, become “an ideological construct which serves to camouflage and justify the New World Order”
→ read full articleIllegal Killing of Elephants for Their Ivory Is Now at “Critically High Levels” in Africa
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
The illegal killing of elephants for their ivory is now at “critically high levels” in Africa with increased involvement by organized crime groups, leading to their possible extinction in parts of the continent, the UN Office for Drugs and Crime said.
→ read full articleA Minor Footnote to Australia’s Shameless Persecution of Asylum Seekers
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
17 Nov 2014
When it comes to Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers, I think it is impossible to overstate the sadism of government policy. From the savagery of the conditions in offshore processing, to the cruelty of onshore indefinite mandatory detention, we destroy people.
→ read full articleSome Very Initial Thoughts on the US-China Deal
Naomi Klein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
The fact that both governments felt the need to make this pledge speaks to the growing power of social movements in China and the US demanding pollutions controls.
→ read full articleThe Ebola Virus and the Islamic State
Jude Fernando – Colombo Telegraph,
17 Nov 2014
The scarcity of resources for managing the Ebola crisis is a not a natural problem, but a systemic and manufactured one, upon which rests profits of the bio-medical industrial complex. The same is true of IS as its surge didn’t come about “naturally,” but it is closely tied with the military industrial complex and geopolitical interests.
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Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
As most Americans, if not the financial media, are aware, Quantitative Easing (a euphemism for printing money) has failed to bring back the US economy. The extent of financial corruption involving collusion between the mega-banks and the financial authorities is unfathomable. The Western financial system is a house of cards resting on corruption.
→ read full article(Português) Assim se constrói o Estado Global de Vigilância–e como sabotá-lo
Tom Englehardt entrevista Laura Poitras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Diretora de “Citizenfour”, o documentário sobre denúncias de Edward Snowden, alerta: controle social e esvaziamento da democracia ampliaram-se, após revelações. Esperança é consciência.
→ read full article(Italiano) Aosta. Quarant’anni sempre per la verità. Memorie e attualità della strage di Piazza Loggia (28 maggio 1974-28 maggio 2014)
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Il progetto culturale “Collettivamente memoria” è dedicato ai deportati politici Ida Désandré e Italo Tibaldi e alla partigiana Anna Dati oltre che a tutte le donne e uomini Resistenti, intende riaffermare i valori democratici di un vivere collettivo antifascista che era alla base della manifestazione di piazza Loggia del 28 maggio 1974.
→ read full article(Français) LuxLeaks : L’évasion fiscale, un sport national pour les géants américains
Anne Michel - Le Monde,
10 Nov 2014
Luxembourg, Pays-Bas: Profitant d’une législation fiscale souple aux Etats-Unis, et poussées par des actionnaires avides de rentabilité, elles franchissent l’Atlantique, pour dissimuler une partie de leurs juteux profits, réalisés hors des Etats-Unis, dans ce paradis fiscal pour grandes entreprises.
→ read full articleCyberPeace Demands from Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility
Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility-FifF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Political Measures Demanded by FIfF:
1) Renouncement of first strikes and offensive acts in cyberspace: States should publicly abandon the preventive use of cyber weapons to attack.
Myanmar Policy’s Message to Muslims: Get Out
Jane Perlez – The New York Times,
10 Nov 2014
The Myanmar government has given the one million Rohingya people a dispiriting choice: Prove your family has lived here for more than 60 years and qualify for second-class citizenship, or be placed in camps and face deportation.
→ read full articleBurma [Myanmar] Genocide: Case of Burmese Rohingyas Presented at Harvard
Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Burma’s Rohingya people are being slowly squeezed from their homeland by decades-long government policies that critics say deny them citizenship, health care, work, and schooling, with such tactics punctuated by killings, destroyed homes, and tens of thousands sent to camps.
→ read full articleWestern Nuclear Terrorism
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
The use of nuclear coercion by the US and its allies has long roots, going right back to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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