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Conventional Prompt Global Strike Weapons
Amy F. Woolf, Congressional Research Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
CPGS weapons represent Washington’s preparation for military aggression for maintenance of world hegemony. They would allow the United States to strike targets anywhere on Earth in as little as an hour.
→ read full articleFor the Occupied and Oppressed Palestinians UN Means Useless Nations
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
What President Truman feared could happen did happen. On dealing with the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel the Security Council was put out of business by Zionism.
→ read full articleA Gazan’s Wishes for 2015
Alaa Radwan, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Medi a Service,
5 Jan 2015
Why can’t we dream of things other than having a year without another bloody war with Israel, having 24/7-electricity, and having the freedom to travel abroad? Why can’t Gazans just have a normal life? Why can’t we enjoy a festive beginning to the New Year as all other people around the world do?
→ read full articleRichard Jackson: Terrorism, Torture, and the Problem of Evil in Our Time
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Richard Jackson, a professor of peace studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, has written a probing political essay that takes the form of an imagined dialogue between a British interrogator and an Egyptian terrorist who is apparently thought at the time of their conversation to be the mastermind of an imminent attack on Great Britain.
→ read full articleAfghanistan: Skulking Away from a Failed War
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
The ceremony, commemorating the war’s shutdown, was secret because authorities feared the possibility of a Taliban attack. The USA and NATO, as everyone knows, are the losers, despite the bloated enormity of their military superiority. What a mockery the reality of war makes of the rhetoric that blesses it.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Arundhati Roy by an American
P.K. Willey Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
I now see that a misinformed view of his thought and action has led you to misrepresent Gandhi unfairly to the public around the planet. Churchill said, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Thoughts are another type of food, and our food, both mental and physical, determines our health, as individuals and as a society.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Stellungnahme des friedenspolitischen Sprechers des Komitees für Grundrechte und Demokratie zur Situation der deutschen Friedensbewegung
Prof. Dr. Andreas Buro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Zum Jahreswechsel werden viele Fragen zur Situation und Zukunft der deutschen Friedensbewegung gestellt. Hier der Versuch zu antworten.
→ read full articleCan GMOs Save the World?
Anna Lappé – Al Jazeera America,
5 Jan 2015
Monsanto Claims That Biotech Can Feed the Planet. Here’s Why It Won’t
→ read full articleMonks & Politicians
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
A politician was campaigning for reelection and visited all kinds of people, trying to be folksy.
→ read full articleDeliberation on Post MDG (2015) Development Agenda
Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development-CSEND – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
CSEND, a think tank focusing on the development nexus of trade, poverty, employment and social equity, is contributing to these deliberations through its engagement in both the global, national and regional levels.
→ read full articleThe Limitations of Strategic Nonviolence
Timothy Braatz, Peace Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
If the goal is to reduce violence of all types, to create a society where tomorrow is less violent than today, strategic nonviolence is insufficient and, thus, not pragmatic. For such a transformation, the principled approach—identifying and rejecting any and all forms of violence—is also the pragmatic one.
→ read full article(Italiano) 2014 nulla di buono. 2015 meglio?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
La tragedia del 2014 è stata la mancanza di autentici amici degli USA che gli dicessero: guarda, questo non funzionerà – meglio cambiare; prendetevi miglior cura della vostra meravigliosa società e dei vostri vicini, ritrattate. La speranza per il 2015 è che molti alleati lo facciano.
→ read full articleUN Security Council Rejects Resolution on Palestinian State
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Bid to end Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by 2017 garners eight votes, one short of total needed to pass:
YES: Jordan, China, France, Russia, Luxembourg, Chad, Chile, Argentina.
NO: United States, Australia.
ABSTAINED: United Kingdom, Lithuania, Nigeria, South Korea, Rwanda.
Climate Deniers, like Big Tobacco, Thrive behind a Smoke Screen of Doubt
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
5 Jan 2015
“Doubt is our product,” states a 1969 memo from the tobacco giant Brown and Williamson, “since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public.” It was a member of “Big Tobacco,” with Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard Tobacco Company, U.S. Tobacco, Liggett Group, and American Tobacco.
→ read full article(Italiano) AOSTA. “ANTEPRIMA ASSOLUTA de IO STO CON LA SPOSA all’ Espace Populaire”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Il loro passaporto nelle ambasciate europee vale carta straccia. Così ogni mese, migliaia di Siriani e Palestinesi si affidano ai contrabbandieri libici ed egiziani, per attraversare il Mediterraneo su imbarcazioni di fortuna. Fuggono dalla guerra in Siria e vengono a chiedere asilo politico in Europa.
→ read full article2015: Defending Humanity by Reason or Force
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Ideals are being spat on, dragged through dirt by the omnipotent manufacturers of obedience and by their most powerful tools – the mass media, religious entrepreneurs, the private education system, and the pop entertainment machine. Only consumerism, commercialism, business achievements and loyalty to the regime are glorified. There is nothing that encourages people to dream of a much better world, or to struggle for a new, just and egalitarian society.
→ read full articleInstitutional and Cultural Inertia
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Today we are faced with multiple interrelated crises, for example the threat of catastrophic climate change or equally catastrophic thermonuclear war, and the threat of widespread famine. These threats to human existence and to the biosphere demand a prompt and rational response; but because of institutional and cultural inertia, we are failing to take the steps that are necessary to avoid disaster.
→ read full article5,000 Year Old Subterranean City Found in Turkey
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
A massive 5,000 year old underground city has been discovered in Turkey according to reports Sunday [28 Dec 2014]. The finding has been regarded as the biggest archeological discovery of 2014.
→ read full articleThe Rock of Our Existence
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
On the connection between Archeology and Ideology. The Bible is not real history. It is a monumental religious and literary document, that has inspired untold millions throughout the centuries. It has formed the minds of many generation of Jews, Christians and Muslims. But history is something else. History tells us what really happened. Archeology is a tool of history, an invaluable tool for the understanding of what took place.
→ read full articleCuban Province Records World’s Lowest Infant Mortality Rate
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
The central province of Cienfuegos, Cuba, ended 2014 with a rate of infant mortality of three deaths per thousand live births, the lowest in the world, local health authorities reported Friday [2 Jan 2015].
→ read full articleOn the New Year
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
What then
if it is a New Year.
This day is the same
as any other day of last week
even last year.
Obama’s Lists: A Dubious History of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Combat operations in Afghanistan may be coming to an end, but a look at secret NATO documents reveals that the US and the UK were far less scrupulous in choosing targets for killing than previously believed. Drug dealers were also on the lists.
→ read full articleLeonardo’s Brain: What a Posthumous Brain Scan Six Centuries Later Reveals about the Source of Da Vinci’s Creativity
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
An astonishing intellectual, and at times spiritual, journey into the particular brain of one undereducated, left-handed, nearly ambidextrous, vegetarian, pacifist, gay, singularly creative Renaissance male who was able to attain a different state of consciousness than “practically all other humans.”
→ read full article(Português) Ecolinguagem
Francisco Gomes de Matos, Elza Kioko N. N. do Couto, Adilson Marques & Hildo Honório do Couto, A Arvinha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
A primeira ideia que vem à mente quando ouvimos a palavra ‘ecolinguagem’ é a de que ela seria a “linguagem ecologicamente correta”. Essa é a opinião do leigo. Porém, ela é apenas parcialmente correta e pode levar a interpretações equivocadas, como sói acontecer. Usar ecolinguagem é admitir e assimilar a visão ecológica do mundo.
→ read full articleWhen Is Civil Society a Force for Social Transformation?
Michael Edwards – Open Democracy,
5 Jan 2015
There are more civil society organizations in the world today than at any other time in history, so why isn’t their impact growing?
→ read full articleThe Irrelevance of Liberal Zionism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Frustrated by Israeli settlement expansion, excessive violence, AIPAC maximalism, Netanyahu’s arrogance, Israel’s defiant disregard of international law, various Jewish responses claim to seek a middle ground.
→ read full articleWho’s The True Enemy of Internet Freedom – China, Russia, or the US?
Evgeny Morozov – The Guardian,
5 Jan 2015
Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens’ online access – but it’s the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty. One’s man internet freedom is another man’s internet imperialism.
→ read full articleSuicides Spread Through a Brazilian Tribe
Charles Lyons – The New York Times,
5 Jan 2015
The 15-year-old boy, Dedson Garcete, had hanged himself — one of 36 suicides among tribe members in 2014 through September. Indigenous peoples suffer the greatest suicide risk among cultural or ethnic groups worldwide.
→ read full article2015, Conversion to Hinduism
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
India currently has witnessed intense debates on religious conversion particularly after some people converted into Hinduism. I am against forceful conversion. I apply this principle to all religions. Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, Jews, and people without religion, have all called India their home. This is the beauty of India.
→ read full articleIs Cancer Risk Mostly Affected by Genes, Lifestyle, or Just Plain Bad Luck?
Jenna Birch, Yahoo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
While cancer can strike anyone — young or old, unhealthy and healthy — we do have some idea of what can affect risk.
→ read full articleAmerica Stumbles through another Year, Spreading Chaos and Trivia Everywhere in Its Path
John Chuckman – Pravda,
5 Jan 2015
In another example of chaos mixed with farce, the United States pretends to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and while that charade continues, planes loaded with American weapons keep flying out of Turkey to make the seeming lunatics even stronger.
→ read full articleWind Supplied 98% of Scotland’s Household Power in 2014 and Other Amazing Green Energy Stories
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Scotland is well on its way to getting 100% of its energy from renewable sources by 2022. Germany is rapidly replacing nuclear and coal with wind and solar, so much so that coal use was down 11% last year.
→ read full article(Português) Passagem de Ano
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
O fim do ano e o começo do outro deve ter a marca de uma alegria interior, que dispensa agitação e multidão, embora a presença das pessoas queridas seja coisa boa. A celebração da mudança de ano não precisa conter amargor de desejos não realizados ou cenários irreais.
→ read full articlePeru Is Now Giving Free Solar Power to Its 2 Million Poorest Citizens
Bill Ottman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Dec 21, 2014 – The National Photovoltaic Household Electrification Program will cost about $200 million, which is basically nothing in the scheme of most international budgets. Peru also leads the way in national dedication to organic food and doesn’t allow GMO.
→ read full articlePalestinians Granted Observer Status at International Criminal Court
JNS-Jewish and Israel News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
The ICC upgraded the Palestinians’ status to “non-state observer” at its summit meeting in New York on Monday [8 Dec 2014]. While largely symbolic, the move gives the Palestinians the right to ratify the Rome Statue, the founding treaty of the ICC.
→ read full article(Castellano) Decir Todo, Decir Nada (LA Guerra Que No Es)
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
En la novela clásica del más importante ensayista inglés del siglo XX el Ministerio del Amor era el encargado de torturar a los disidentes, el Ministerio de la Verdad escondía los hechos y tergiversaba la información y el Ministerio de la Paz se encargaba de hacer la guerra. Las fantasías del literato devinieron en realidad cuando se normalizaron conceptos como comunidad internacional, terrorismo y comunismo. ¿Qué significan estas palabras?
→ read full articleThe NY Court of Appeals Granted the Vulture Funds Request of Information on Argentine Assets
Télam - Agencia Nacional de Noticias de la República Argentina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
28 Dec 2014 – The New York Second Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed Judge Thomas Griesa’s ruling, which had granted to vulture funds their request of seeking official information (discovery) on Argentine assets in the United States, as part of their litigation against the Argentine Republic.
→ read full articleHow Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us to Greater Harm
Cory Doctorow, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
The Internet isn’t just the world’s most perfect video-on-demand service. It’s not simply a better way to get pornography. It’s not merely a tool for planning terrorist attacks. Those are only use cases for the net; what the net is, is the nervous system of the 21st century. It’s time we started acting like it.
→ read full articleFox Affiliate Apologizes to Editing Protesters’ Chants to Say ‘Kill a Cop’
Walter Einenkel, Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
23 Dec 2014 – A Baltimore Fox station had to apologize to Black Lives Matter protester, Tawanda Jones, after they were busted for deceptively editing a protest chant to say “Kill a cop.”
→ read full articleChina Steps In as World’s New Bank
William Pesek – Bloomberg View,
29 Dec 2014
Beijing’s move to bail out Russia, on top of its recent aid for Venezuela and Argentina, signals the death of the post-war Bretton Woods world. It’s also marks the beginning of the end for America’s linchpin role in the global economy and Japan’s influence in Asia.
→ read full articleDisdain and Belligerence Define IDF Leaders’ View of Palestinians
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Palestinians may feel anger and hatred towards their oppressors – but those oppressors regard them as contemptible sub-humans who can be ignored – if not rushed. Ya’alon in particular regards all filmed evidence of police and IDF brutality as faked. The refusal to deal with reality infects the whole country.
→ read full articleChina’s Second ‘Cultural Revolution’
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
China is in the midst of its second ‘cultural revolution’ in a half century. While the first (under Chairman Mao Tse Tung) was intended to ‘revitalize socialism’; the current is directed to ‘moralizing’ capitalism.
→ read full articleDoublespeak – Unpleasant Reckoning Looming for America’s Current Syrian Strategy
Prof. William R. Stanley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Washington and its European allies have known for at least three years of the flow of their nationals to the Middle East to join jihadist groups fighting against the Syrian regime. Only recently have these same governments expressed alarm at the prospects for domestic violence at such time that battle hardened jihadists return home.
→ read full articleRemembering 2014 (Badly)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
A posture of cynical hopelessness or despair worsens prospects for positive future developments, however empirically based such a negative assessment seems. All of us should recall that those who struggle for what seems ‘impossible’ today often turn out to be the heroes of tomorrow.
→ read full articleAnother MH17 Cover-Up: Hiding a Key Autopsy
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Decisive evidence as to how the July 17 [2014] shooting-down of the MH17 Malaysian airliner occurred is being hidden by the four-nation team that’s doing the official ‘investigation’ into the plane-downing incident.
→ read full article(Castellano) Catar 2022 un mundial empañado por la corrupción y la muerte
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
El Mundial de Fútbol 2022 se ha visto empañado por casos de corrupción, compra de votos en favor de la sede en Catar y la muerte de trabajadores durante la construcción de los estadios para el evento.
→ read full articleHappy New Year of 2015!
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
I would like to take this opportunity—change of year, New Year—to wish you, esteemed TMS reader, happiness, prosperity, health, peace in 2015.
→ read full articleIn the Right Place at the Right Time: The Lifting of the Cuban Embargo
Nuno Ramalho – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
I am overwhelmed with emotion as I rush my way through Montreal’s Pierre Eliot Trudeau International Airport, headed to La Habana…. Less than 48 hours after my arrival I was surprised by the Raul Castro/Obama simultaneous announcements that the diplomatic relations between Cuba and the US are to be reestablished.
→ read full article(Português) A Tortura Também É Terrorismo
Luis Matías López – Publico, Espanha,
29 Dec 2014
Aquele que planta uma bomba é tão terrorista quanto o que aplica choques nas genitálias de um preso ou afunda sua cabeça na água até o limite do afogamento.
→ read full articleIsrael Approves 380 New East Jerusalem Settler Homes
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Israeli authorities gave final approval on Wednesday [24 Dec 2014] to the construction of 380 new settler homes in two areas of occupied east Jerusalem, a local official said.
→ read full articleSocialism and Man
Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
March 1965 – Written in the form of a letter to Carlos Quijano, editor of Marcha, a weekly published in Montevideo, Uruguay. Guevara wrote it while on a three-month overseas trip, during which he addressed the UN General Assembly and then visited a number of countries in Africa.
→ read full articleShame Is Good. Shame Is Right. Shame Works
Lynn Stuart Parramore – Al Jazeera America,
29 Dec 2014
Shaming may not bring America’s corporate Scrooges immediately around to a Dickensian redemption, but it can play a key role in creating a societal consensus that certain behaviors are indeed disgraceful — and that’s a start. No shame, no blame, you might say.
→ read full articleIs The New UN Arms Treaty a Boon for German Industry?
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
24 Dec 2014 – Over Christmas, the UN treaty on arms trade (ATT) will enter into force, but the German arms industry explicitly welcomes the additional regulations. Industry leaders hope the treaty could spell access to new markets.
→ read full articleMore Than 220 Ukrainian Jewish Immigrants Land in Occupied Palestine
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Some 226 Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, among dozens of families fleeing fighting in eastern Ukraine, landed in Occupied Palestine on Monday [22 Dec 2014]. They are the first in an expected group of over 400 Ukrainians who will arrive before the end of the year. A second flight is scheduled for Dec. 30.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Wo steht die zivile Konfliktbearbeitung?
Christine Schweitzer - Zeitschrift LuXemburg,
29 Dec 2014
Begründung der Notwendigkeit einer zivilen Politik
→ read full articleNSA Releases Christmas Eve Surprise
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
29 Dec 2014
26 Dec 20145 – The NSA on Christmas Eve day released twelve years of internal oversight reports documenting abusive and improper practices by agency employees. Releasing bad news right before a holiday weekend is a common tactic for trying to minimize press coverage.
→ read full article(Castellano) Las victorias de Cuba
Emir Sader – TeleSur,
29 Dec 2014
Cuba y Berlín eran las dos esquinas más tensas de la guerra fría. La caída del muro sacó a Berlín de esa condición. La normalización de las relaciones entre La Habana y Washington hace lo mismo con Cuba. Se cierra la última página de la larga guerra fría de la segunda pos guerra. Y de la mejor manera posible para Cuba y para todos los que le apoyaron en contra del injusto bloqueo.
→ read full articleMy Glorious Brothers
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
When I was 15-year-old and a member of the Irgun underground (by today’s criteria, an honest-to-goodness terrorist organization), we sang “(In the past) we had the heroes / Bar Kochba and the Maccabees / Now we have the new ones / The national youth…” The melody was a German military marching song. Why did we look for heroes in the remote past?
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Impero Del Consumo
Eduardo Galeano, Come Don Chisciotte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Società dei consumi. La bocca è una delle porte dell’anima, dicevano gli antichi. Ma se da lì passa solo cibo spazzatura, la vita è ridotta a un insieme infinito di acquisti di merci usa e getta. E lo struscio domenicale nel centro delle città è sostituito dal pellegrinaggio negli shopping mall che accerchiano le periferie.
→ read full articleOn Enlightened Self-Interest
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
What is the nature of activism? Why do we do what we do? How much self-sacrifice are we really willing to take? What do those of us feel after lost jobs, after time in jail, after being beaten and gassed by Israeli soldiers, or after all of the above? How does one distinguish between selfishness and enlightened self-interest? Is activism for peace and justice the ultimate love of humanity or the triumph of optimism over experience? Is activism and living life simply the ultimate love of Mother Nature or of God? The following rambling thoughts do not intend to give answers but hopefully give us time to reflect and think.
→ read full articleSelling ‘Peace Groups’ on US-Led Wars
Margaret Sarfehjooy and Coleen Rowley – Consortium News,
29 Dec 2014
More and more “peace and social justice” groups are being twisted into “democracy promotion,” U.S. militarism style. But rarely do we see as clearly into how this Orwellian transformation occurs as with the “Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria,” a spin-off of “Friends for a Nonviolent World.”
→ read full article2014 No Good. 2015 Any Better?
Johan Galtung, 29 Dec 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
The tragedy of 2014 was the lack of true friends telling USA: look, this is not going to work–better change; take better care of your own wonderful society, and your neighbors, retract. The hope for 2015 is that many allies will do that.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cuba – e poi?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
La reazione immediata all’ordine esecutivo di Obama del 17 dicembre 2014 di ristabilire rapporti diplomatici, agevolare i viaggi, scambiarsi prigionieri, è stata un senso di sollievo: finalmente correttivo di una stupidità vecchia d’oltre 50 anni. Ma perché adesso? Lo vediamo dopo; prima torniamo al giugno 1960.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Dec 29/Jan 4 – Quote of the Week: “Be not forgetful to cherish the gifts each moment brings.” – Unknown.
→ read full articleMerry Christmas: UN Declares Arms Trade Treaty to Go Into Effect Dec. 24 [2014]
Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. – The New American,
29 Dec 2014
On its official website, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (yes, that’s really a thing and yes, it is housed right here in the United States) announced that the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) “will enter into force on 24 December 2014.” Merry Christmas!
→ read full articleAlan Lightman and ‘The Accidental Universe’
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Science does not reveal the meaning of our existence, but it does draw back some of the veils. Theoretical physics is the deepest and purest branch of science. It is the outpost of science closest to philosophy, and religion.
→ read full articleUkraine Crisis: Playing Russian Roulette with All the Bullets in the Cylinder
Alexander Nekrassov, The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
There are two main schools of thought in Russia these days about the reasons for the crisis in Ukraine. The first states that the Cold War never really ended, but lay bubbling in the shadow of the supposedly ‘improving’ relations between Russia and the West.
→ read full articleGaza: One War, One Family. Five Children, Four Dead
Sarah Helm - Newsweek,
29 Dec 2014
People nowadays call Gaza a giant prison, and as I saw the new perimeter wall, built since I was last here, looming through the torrential rain, I could see why. And yet Gazans on the other side are not there for committing a crime. The vast majority are descendants of Palestinians who came to Gaza 66 years ago for refuge.
→ read full articleThought Experiment
Jen Sorensen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Cartoon – Comic Strip
→ read full articleRussia, China Mock Divide and Rule
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
29 Dec 2014
Essentially, the Empire of Chaos is bluffing, using Europe as pawns. The Empire of Chaos is as lousy at chess as it is at history. What it excels in is in upping the ante to force Russia to back down. Russia won’t back down.
→ read full article
The Messiah – Hallelujah Chorus (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
George Frideric Handel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
From Andre Rieu’s “Live From Radio City Music Hall” in New York City, with the Johann Strauss Orchestra and the Harlem Gospel Choir.
→ read full articleThe Mysterious Case of Prisoner 212
Cora Currier and Margot Williams – The Intercept,
29 Dec 2014
That al-Libi was held by the CIA is long established. After all, al-Libi’s name is notorious as the source of bad information used by the Bush administration to tie Saddam Hussein to Al-Qaeda to support the US invasion of Iraq — information he provided while being tortured in Egyptian custody, and later recanted.
→ read full articleJesus, a Muslim Prophet
Sufyan bin Uzayr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Islam and Christianity: Two Faiths, One God – Islam views Jesus as a Prophet of God, rather than Son of God. Jesus, or Isa as he is called in Arabic, is referred to by name in nearly 25 different verses of The Quran, with titles such as Messenger, Prophet, and even Messiah. In fact, all Muslim theologians view Jesus as a precursor to Prophet Muhammad.
→ read full articleHacked Corporations Don’t Deserve Our Sympathy
Joshua Kopstein – Al Jazeera America,
29 Dec 2014
There is no cyber Pearl Harbor. Sony has been falling on its own sword for a long time.
→ read full articleEight Stellar Surveillance Scoops: 2014 in Review
Dave Maass - Common Dreams,
29 Dec 2014
Oversight boards and congressional subcommittees can occasionally be effective, but nothing keeps the government in check like investigative reporting. Here are eight stories about surveillance that made our jaws drop this year.
→ read full articleChange Them as Humans
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
A poem written on conversions especially in India.
→ read full articleThe 2014 P.U.-litzers
FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2014
Some of the Stinkiest Reporting from the Past Year – It’s that time of year again, when FAIR looks back at the year and recalls some of the stinkiest media moments. There were, of course, many contenders– but only a select few can make the list.
→ read full articleGaza’s Doctor Mads Gilbert Named Norway’s Person of the Year
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2014
20 Dec 2014 – An outspoken Norwegian doctor whose efforts to treat Palestinians wounded in the Gaza conflict garnered worldwide attention has been named person of the year by the country’s largest tabloid, Verdens Gang (VG).
→ read full articleClassified Evidence: US Soldiers Raped Boys In Front of Their Mothers
John Vibes – Mint Press News,
22 Dec 2014
19 Dec 2014 – Now, over a decade later the evidence of these events are beginning to surface. According to a number of global mainstream media sources, the Pentagon is covering up a disturbing video that was never made public with the rest of the recent torture report.
→ read full articleThe Torture Report: American Exceptionalism for the Win!
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
This Modern World – Satirical Comic Strip
→ read full articlePutin Shot Down a Plane! Putin Shot Down a … What? Never Mind
World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
The world outside of the U.S. media is full of evidence suggesting that Russia did not do it. The silence is deafening. Dutch plans to produce a dubious report by next summer are being outpaced by steps toward war.
→ read full article“Now Put Blair and Straw on Trial for Torture” – Ex-British Diplomat
Craig Murray, Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan – The Daily Mail,
22 Dec 2014
Diplomat Craig Murray Was Fired When He Warned Labour Government of UK Collusion with US Abuse – We don’t need an inquiry into British complicity in torture. We need a trial. And it should be Tony Blair and Jack Straw in the dock.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
December 22 -28
→ read full articleCoexisting with Our Differences in a Civilized Manner
Pres. Raul Castro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Cuban President Raul Castro’s address to the nation on the developments in the Cuba-US relations, broadcast on radio and television on 17 Dec 2014.
→ read full articleIs the World View of a Holy Father Necessarily Full of Holes?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Mysterious Theological Black Holes Engendering Global Crises – The argument has been variously presented: Which problems currently associated with global crisis would not be significantly reduced if the level of population was much lower? Presented otherwise: Is there every probability that global problems will be significantly aggravated by expected levels of population in the future?
→ read full articlePolicing Is a Dirty Job, but Nobody’s Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World
José Martín – Rolling Stone,
22 Dec 2014
It’s time to start imagining a society that isn’t dominated by police. While law enforcers have existed in one form or another for centuries, the modern police have their roots in the relatively recent rise of modern property relations 200 years ago, and the “disorderly conduct” of the urban poor.
→ read full articleEurope Has Lost Its Compass
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
With the fall of the Swedish government orchestrated by the far-right and centre-right opposition, a symbol of civic-mindedness and democracy in Europe has fallen, and the grip of an irrational fear of immigrants tightens as Europe’s politicians seek a scapegoat.
→ read full articleSplendid Isolation
Uri Avnery - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
20 Dec 2014 – A Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital, an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty, the end of the occupation, peace between Israel and the entire Arab and Muslim world. Or a Greater Israel, continuous occupation or annexation, more settlements and ethnic cleansing, permanent war. Israel has to choose. So has the world.
→ read full articleA Life Worth Living: Albert Camus on Our Search for Meaning and Why Happiness Is Our Moral Obligation
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
“To decide whether life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus wrote in ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ in 1942. “Everything else … is child’s play; we must first of all answer the question.” If the question abides, it is because it is more than a matter of historical or biographical interest.
→ read full articleVenezuela’s Maduro: ‘US Knows Where It Can Stick Up Its Sanctions’
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
22 Dec 2014
Speaking at rally to commemorate constitution anniversary, Maduro also calls for investigation of ‘imperialist nations which have bombed Libya, Iraq and Syria’
→ read full articleFinancial Market Manipulation Is The New Trend: Can It Continue?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
It is too risky for the US to take on Russia militarily. Instead, Washington is using its unique symbiotic relationship with Western financial institutions to attack an incautious Russia that foolishly opened herself to Western financial predation.
→ read full articleThe Oil Coup – US-Saudi Subterfuge Send Stocks and Credit Reeling
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
22 Dec 2014
Washington has persuaded the Saudis to flood the market with oil to push down prices, decimate Russia’s economy, and reduce Moscow’s resistance to further NATO encirclement and the spreading of US military bases across Central Asia. The US-Saudi scheme has slashed oil prices by nearly a half since they hit their peak in June.
→ read full articleFidel’s Legacy
Stephen Lendman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
At age 88, he’s Cuba’s [and Latin America’s] elder statesman. A legend in his own time and then some. Defying critics. Outwitting them. Outliving them. This article a snapshot of some of his achievements. Impressive by any standard.
→ read full articleArchitects of Atrocity Remain at Large, and Unrepentant
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
22 Dec 2014
We know who the torturer-in-chief was, and we know his vice-torturer has said George Bush was as fully informed as he, Dick Cheney, was. Along with everything else we know about these men who still defend their criminality, why isn’t that enough for probable cause and a criminal indictment? There’s much more to be said about this defining moment in our history.
→ read full article(Português) Uruguai: como funciona um “clube de maconha”
Denise Mota, Desentorpecendo a Razão – Outras Palavras,
22 Dec 2014
Sai o crime organizado; entram, no cultivo e venda da planta, cidadãos articulados em cooperativas. Publicidade é vedada. Organizam-se mutirões, debates e “asados”…
→ read full articleHead of Stratfor, the ‘Private CIA’, Says Overthrow of Ukraine’s Yanukovych Was ‘The Most Blatant Coup in History’
Eric Zuesse, OEN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
This statement contradicts the description asserted by the White House, the EU and the Western press that Yanukovych’s overthrow was the result of the U.S. Government’s $5+ billion expense since 1991 to establish ‘democracy’ in Ukraine.
→ read full articleHamas Calls for EU Talks after Court Ruling
Andrew Rettman, EUObserver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
17 Dec 2014 – Hamas wants the EU foreign relations chief, Federica Mogherini, to come to Gaza to start a new dialogue after the EU court said it should be taken off the terrorist register.
→ read full articleSaving the ICC from African Thugtators
Alemayehu G. Mariam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
When an African president accused of multiple crimes against humanity walks out of court by orchestrating an unprecedented and audacious obstruction of justice, it is not just a flagrant denial of justice to the thousands of victims. It is an outrage against all humanity. It is an affront to the rule of law. It is the triumph of injustice.
→ read full articlePhysicians’ Group Details Psychologists’ Role in CIA’s “Extensive System of Torture”
Matthew MacEgan, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
Health professionals violated a series of international treaties, laws, and ethical codes including the Geneva Conventions, the UN Convention Against Torture, the War Crimes Act of 1996 and the Nuremburg Code. “In certain instances,” the report states, “such as in the crime of unethical research on human subjects, these alleged crimes may rise to the level of crimes against humanity under international law.”
→ read full articlePassword
Baher Kamal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
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