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Mayan People’s Movement Defeats Monsanto Law in Guatemala
Christin Sandberg, Intercontinental Cry - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The unjust neo-liberal law would have given exclusivity on patented seeds to a handful of transnational companies. But Mayans resisted it relentlessly. The success of these protests is an inspiring example of what the people can achieve for themselves when they rise up to confront power in defense of their own interests.
→ read full articleWho Profits from Our New War? Inside NSA and Private Contractors’ Secret Plans
Tim Shorrock - Salon,
29 Sep 2014
A massive war operation is being waged to track and kill ISIS — and it’s a lot more than cruise missiles.
→ read full articleStreet Scenes from a Damascus Neighborhood
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Da’ish (IS), Free Syrian Army and al Nusra Compete for Dwindling Support…
→ read full articleThe Lesson Hollywood Cannot Teach Us
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Possibly the most insightful statement ever made by a journalist was from Gary Webb, who killed himself in 2004, years after the CIA and media rivals destroyed his career and credibility. Now Hollywood is making a film, called ‘Kill the Messenger’, about the San Jose Mercury News reporter.
→ read full article(Português) ECOmetaforizando para o BEM
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Um monte de problemas temos que enfrentar ?
Rios de boas soluções saibamos encontrar
(Italiano) USA, il riarmo nucleare del Premio Nobel per la pace
Manlio Dinucci – Il Manifesto,
29 Sep 2014
23 set 2014 – Cinque anni fa, nell’ottobre 2009, il presidente Barack Obama fu insignito del Premio Nobel per la Pace in base alla «sua visione di un mondo libero dalle armi nucleari, e al lavoro da lui svolto in tal senso, che ha potentemente stimolato il disarmo». Motivazione che appare ancora più grottesca alla luce di quanto documenta oggi un ampio servizio del New York Times :
→ read full articleThe Intellectual Battle against ISIS
Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum – Gulf News,
29 Sep 2014
Enlightened thinking, open minds, tolerance and improved service delivery to provide a better quality of life will help eliminate this barbaric extremist outfit.
→ read full articleCoalition of the Clueless
Sharmine Narwani – Russia Today,
29 Sep 2014
The airwaves are still heaving with spin two days after US airstrikes against Syria. Undoubtedly they were timed to the eve of the gathering of world leaders at the UN, so ‘Coalition’ partners could cluster behind the decision to bomb a sovereign state, uninvited. The goal this week will be to keep the ‘momentum’ on a ‘narrative’ until it sinks in.
→ read full articleOn the Eve of UN International Day of Peace: The Mother of Peace Yet to Be Born
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Here I would like to enlighten the people, especially those who are not aware, about the beginning of the UN Day and Year of Peace before to start to write on the theme of the event – “The Mother of Peace yet to be born”.
→ read full articleFormal Complaint to the Australian Broadcasting Commission
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Breaches on ABC Code of Practice in Accuracy, Impartiality and Diversity of Perspectives. Does a ‘moderate’ rebel kill differently to an ‘extremist’ rebel? – Ahmad Al-Rahal, a ‘moderate rebel’, declared in March 2014, “There is no sectarianism in this revolution. Syria only has two sects: that of the regime and that of the revolution.”
→ read full articleArgentina v. the Hedge Funds
Andrés Cala – Consortium News,
29 Sep 2014
Argentina will go down in history as the country that first stood up to America’s most powerful weapon, its control over global finances, a battle that may catalyze the end of an era for U.S. financial hegemony.
→ read full article32 Years after the Sabra-Shatila Massacre: Tension Mounts in Lebanon’s Camps
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Established during the Nakba 66 years ago, the Palestinian camps in Lebanon—initially intended as “temporary”—have undergone a 400% population increase over the years, and today they are literally overflowing with nearly a quarter of a million desperate Palestinians and Syrians.
→ read full articleEl Salvador: Total Ban on Abortion is Killing Women and Girls and Condemning Others to Decades Behind Bars
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
27 Sep 2014 – The government’s repressive and outdated total ban on abortion is blighting the lives of women and girls, pushing them to unsafe, clandestine abortions or forcing them through dangerous pregnancies. Those terminating their pregnancies could face years in prison.
→ read full articleJosé Mujica: Is This the World’s Most Radical President?
Giles Tremlett – The Guardian,
29 Sep 2014
Uruguay’s José Mujica lives in a tiny house rather than the presidential palace, and gives away 90% of his salary. He’s legalised marijuana and gay marriage. But his greatest legacy is governing without giving up his revolutionary ideals.
→ read full articleUS Military, Obama Administration Plan Massive Military Escalation in Syria and Iraq
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
29 Sep 2014 – The comments this weekend by spokesmen for the White House, the Pentagon and US Congress are part of a carefully orchestrated campaign to prepare public opinion for full-scale war in the Middle East.
→ read full articleSpying and Storing: Assange Says ‘Google Works like NSA’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange equated Google with the National Security Agency and GCHQ, saying the tech giant has become “a privatized version of the NSA,” as it collects, stores, and indexes people’s data. He made his remarks to BBC and Sky News.
→ read full articleFrom the Editor’s Desk
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Dear friends, I am still experiencing jetlag from last week’s trip to South Korea; came back yesterday evening. We managed to select and put together the most important and relevant pieces of news, analysis, info, and commentary from around the web–in addition to Johan’s Editorial. Next week we shall return in full force.
→ read full article(Português) E Sem Democracia?
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Prestigiemos a democracia que é “o pior regime com a exceção de todos os outros”, segundo Winston Churchill. Qualquer coisa fora dela é pior do que ela defeituosa e tortuosa.
→ read full articleHow to Make Isis Fall on Its Own Sword
Chelsea E Manning – The Guardian,
22 Sep 2014
Degrade and destroy? The west should try to disrupt the canny militants into self-destruction, because bombs will only backfire.
→ read full articleNo, Snowden’s Leaks Didn’t Help the Terrorists
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
22 Sep 2014
Did Edward Snowden’s revelations on NSA surveillance compromise the ability of intelligence agencies to monitor terrorist groups? Contrary to lurid claims made by U.S. officials, a new independent analysis of the subject says no.
→ read full articleResponse to Questions at US Presidential Press Conference
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
So, are we at war with the TVBP (those very bad people)? I am glad someone asked that question, because it allows me to make perfectly clear that this is not a new war we are embarking upon. And no, it is not the old war, even though it’s happening in more or less the same place. Because I ended that war.
→ read full articleTraces of Evil
Robert C. Koehler – Common Wonders,
22 Sep 2014
Hurray! God bless drones and “mission accomplished” and a million Iraqi dead and birth defects in Fallujah. God bless torture. God bless the CIA. But guess what? “Still we continue to face a terrorist threat. We cannot erase every trace of evil from the world, and small groups of killers have the capacity to do great harm.”
→ read full articleHannibal ad Portas
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
The last war has come to an end, the next war has not yet started, so let’s use the time to speak of many things. Of Hannibal, for example.
→ read full articleHigh Time to Build a Movement of Solidarity to End UN Occupation of Haiti
Ajamu Nangwaya – Pambazuka News,
22 Sep 2014
On October 15, the UN occupation force in Haiti will be up for renewal by the Security Council. Urgent and swift efforts are now needed to demand an immediate withdrawal of the decade-old army of occupation that has turned Haiti into a UN colony.
→ read full articleNATO Makes War – NATO Is Not an Alliance for Peace
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
NATO’s summit in Wales (September 4-5, 2014) was BAD NEWS for peace makers, and bad for all world citizens. Are the NATO Nuts going to invade Ukraine? Do they want to create a new European war? Dangerous rhetoric and dangerous ideas lead to dangerous actions.
→ read full articleKingdom of Slaves
Sam Badger and Giorgio Cafiero - Foreign Policy In Focus,
22 Sep 2014
In the smallest Gulf kingdoms, upwards of 90 percent of residents are immigrant laborers. Many face unspeakable abuse.
→ read full articleUkraine – Truce or Trojan Horse: Retreat, Re-Armament and Relaunch
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
The NATO proxy war in the Ukraine started with the violent US-EU-sponsored overthrow of the elected government via a mob putsch in February 2014. This was well financed at $5 billion, according to President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.
→ read full articleIndian PM Backs Russia, China Ahead of US Trip
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
22 Sep 2014 – Days ahead of his US visit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has backed BRICS members Russia and China, refusing to criticise Moscow for its annexation of Crimea and reiterating trust in China’s handling of territorial disputes in the east and south China seas.
→ read full articleScotland on the Euphrates: The Obsolescence of the Nation-State
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Two countries competed this week for first place in news programs all over the world: Scotland and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. There could not be a greater difference than between these two countries.
→ read full articleUSA/UK Committed Genocide against Iraq People
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
USA/UK committed genocide against Iraq people between 1990/2012 killing 3.3 million including 750,000 children through sanctions and war.
→ read full articleReimagining Tesla’s Creativity through Technomimicry
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
His genius is known to have derived in part from his unusual capacity to imagine models and run them as simulations — mentally — without any need to articulate them in conventional design plans and test prototypes.
→ read full articleU.S. Falling into the Islamic State’s Trap
Dan Froomkin – The Intercept,
22 Sep 2014
There are many reasons the U.S. shouldn’t go to war with the Islamic State — and the best one may be because that is exactly what they want us to do.
→ read full articlePeace and Freedoms for Indian Women in the Digital Era
Dr. Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Democracy has brought a new light for repressed classes, but sorrowfully it has not kept its promise for a promised land for women.
→ read full articleThe New (Religious) Face of Civil Disobedience
Sanford Levinson – Al Jazeera America,
22 Sep 2014
A resurgent sanctuary movement may complicate the precepts of the Christian right. Conservatives and liberals might find themselves rethinking some of their views about the meaning of religious freedom and the responsibilities of good citizenship.
→ read full articleNew ISIS Propaganda Film Features Canadian-Sounding Fighter
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
22 Sep 2014
The militant group Islamic State released a slick and disturbing new propaganda film, “Flames of War,” narrated entirely in English and featuring an Islamic State fighter who speaks with an American or Canadian accent.
→ read full article(Português) O Mel
Sérgio greif – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Ainda que as propriedades medicinais do mel fossem comprovadas cientificamente, ainda assim a exploração apícola não poderia se sustentar pelo ponto de vista ético. Mas a presença de grande número de plantas medicinais que possuem propriedades semelhantes torna o uso do mel e outros produtos apícolas completamente dispensáveis.
→ read full article(Português) Keynes Está Morto – Viva Marx!
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
22 Sep 2014
Muitos economistas liberais viram uma nova aurora para o keynesianismo no desastre financeiro de 2008. Quase seis anos depois, já é claro que as muito aguardadas prescrições keynesianas foram e são completamente ignoradas. Por quê?
→ read full article(Italiano) L’ombra lunga della storia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
USA, vi piace emettere certificati di pariah ai vari paesi; giù e fuori. Il nostro certificato a voi dice irrilevanza – ci è impossibile cooperare con voi. Non possiamo costringervi a cambiare, dovete volerlo voi stessi. Ma possiamo togliervi la palla dal vostro cortile e giocarcela per conto nostro. La leadership dovrebbe essere collettiva, come nei BRICS; la leadership non dovrebbe mai essere di un solo paese, o una sola persona.
→ read full articleGlobal Commission Urges Decriminalisation of Drug Use
Jim Lobe, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
A top-level international panel called Tuesday [9 Sep 2014] for a major shift in global drug-control policies from prohibition to decriminalisation and regulation. In a 43-page report, the Global Commission on Drug Policy denounced what has been known for more than four decades as the “war against drugs” as a failure and argued that new approaches prioritising human rights and health were urgently needed.
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Child Piano Prodigy – Outstanding Natural Talent! (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
4-Year-Old Chinese Boy Plays Piano like a Master
→ read full articleCoordinating Human Rights Development in China
Cai Mingzhao - China Daily,
22 Sep 2014
Editor’s Note: Cai Mingzhao, director of the State Council Information Office of China, addressed the opening ceremony of the 7th Beijing Forum on Human Rights on Wednesday [17 Sep 2014]. The following are excerpts of his speech.
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Gitmo Exclusive: Media Brainwashing, Sham Trials & Closing Gitmo for Good (Part II)
Abby Martin, breakingtheset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Sep 3, 2014 – On Gitmo ‘Transparency’, Review Board Red Tape, Military Commissions Sham, Zero Dark Thirty Lies and Closing Guantanamo for Good.
→ read full articleWar, Circus and Injustice Down Under
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Australia is awash with knowledge of the “needs” of its first people. Every week, it seems, yet another study adds to the torrent of information about the imposed impoverishment of and vicious discrimination against Indigenous people: apartheid in all but name.
→ read full articleWar
Rifet Bahtijaragić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
How could you say people deserve war!
Where did you get such a grotesque idea?!
How to Be Alone: An Antidote to One of the Central Anxieties and Greatest Paradoxes of Our Time
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
“We live in a society which sees high self-esteem as a proof of well-being, but we do not want to be intimate with this admirable and desirable person.”
→ read full article(Português) O que há por trás do “desafio do balde de gelo”
Dr Aysha akhtar - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
22 Sep 2014
Por que então, após 7 décadas do corajoso embate de Lou Gehrig contra essa doença, não existe um único tratamento efetivo ou cura à vista para a Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica? Grande parte do dinheiro de pesquisa tem sido canalizada para os assim chamados “modelos animais” de ELA. Aí está o problema: a ELA é uma doença exclusivamente humana.
→ read full articleThe NGO-ization of Resistance
Arundhati Roy, Massalijn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.
→ read full articleJesus!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
A burglar broke through a window and entered a pitch-dark room.
→ read full articlePhilosophy of Life: Some Propositions
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
One needs to contribute to society in his own capability. A person who has no food needs to be busy to find means of subsistence. But a person who has no such worry should contribute to society.
→ read full article(English/Portuguese) Ecolinguisticamente Rimando em Português e Inglês
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Ecolinquistical Rhymes in English and Portuguese
→ read full articleMemo on the Evaluation of the Community Work Program
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
This memo stresses the importance of evaluating CWP´s compliance with its mandate to use public employment to catalyse community development. It also underlines the importance of issues in economic theory that bear on CWP´s contribution to society.
→ read full article15 Years after Liberation, Australia Is Still Screwing the East Timorese
Tom Clarke – New Matilda,
22 Sep 2014
21 Sep 2014 – As East Timor marks the 15th anniversary of its independence, it still has no maritime boundaries. They can thank their greedy neighbours for that.
→ read full articleThe Language of ‘Evil’ Doesn’t Help Us Defeat IS
Myriam Francois-Cerrah – Middle East Eye,
22 Sep 2014
Understanding what motivates the belief of so-called Islamic State militants in ‘violence as progress’ is central to defeating them.
→ read full articleGerman TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers
NBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Germans were confronted with images of their country’s dark past on Monday [8 Sep 2014] night, when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast.
→ read full articleWill NATO Liberate Jihadistan?
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
15 Sep 2014
Caliph Ibrahim, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, self-declared leader of Islamic State, really sports a mean PR vein. So The Caliph is not exactly quaking in his Made-in-USA desert boots. He’s even dreaming of taking on the Slavic Caliph himself. How come Marvel Comics never thought about that?
→ read full articleIsraelis: Stop Swimming in Our Shit! – Destroying Gaza’s Water System
Sam Bahour - CounterPunch,
15 Sep 2014
One product is making its way freely across the border into Israel. Actually, this product flows undetected by the almighty Israeli military and rolls right up on to the shores of Tel Aviv. The product is Palestinian shit, or more accurately, to maintain the media bias of the times, Palestinian terrorist shit.
→ read full articleNo to US/NATO and Yes to Peace
Mairead Corrigan Maguire , Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
While US/UK/NATO are pushing for war with Russia, it behoves people and their governments around the world to take a clear stand for peace and against violence and war, no matter where it comes from.
→ read full articleWhy Is the West Destined to Decline?
Adam Lesak – Oriental Review,
15 Sep 2014
It is not quite correct to refer to the increasing Western hostilities against Russia as a Cold War, because that connotes the idea of an antagonism between opposing ideological camps, as used to be the case between the Soviet block and the West.
→ read full articleWhat I Saw and Experienced In Gaza
Mustafa Barghouti – Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
15 Sep 2014
What happened is beyond description. Even describing it as an act of disproportionality is an insult to humanity. Describing it as an imbalance of power is also an insult. After slaughtering thousands of people and destroying thousands of homes and to speak about reconstruction and to immediately allow Israeli companies to make a profit from this is also an insult to humanity.
→ read full articleExpensive?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
A foreign tourist’s car got stuck in a small Russian village.
→ read full articleNaomi Klein: The Hypocrisy behind the Big Business Climate Change Battle
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
15 Sep 2014
I denied climate change for longer than I care to admit. I told myself the science was too complicated and the environmentalists were dealing with it. And I continued to behave as if there was nothing wrong with the “elite” frequent-flyer card in my wallet. A great many of us engage in this kind of denial.
→ read full articleMalaysia Airlines flight MH17 Whodunnit Still a Mystery
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
15 Sep 2014
More than seven weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed in eastern Ukraine killing 298 people, a preliminary report failed to address the mystery of who shot the plane down. The Dutch investigators didn’t even try to sort through conflicting allegations and evidence.
→ read full articleCarney Still White House ‘Propagandist’ Now Posing as Tie-Less CNN Analyst
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is essentially doing the same job since being taken on by CNN – serving as propagandist for the government, award-winning journalist Ben Swann told RT.
→ read full articleIraq: Yazidis’ Genocide?
René Wadlow, UN Geneva Association of Word Citizens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
With the incomplete evidence at hand, I would maintain that the ISIS policy is genocide and not just a control of territory. Although the UN “track record” of dealing with genocide is very mixed, the first immediate step is for a State to raise the issue within the UN.
→ read full article(Italiano) Difetti nel pensiero USA – e qualche rimedio
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Difetto 2. Confondere il conflitto con la violenza. O i “disordini”. Trattare il conflitto diventa gestire la violenza verso una tregua o la capitolazione, poi ripulire la situazione “post- conflittuale”, solo per scoprire che la violenza riappare, forse sotto forma di vendetta. Nulla di risolto. Rimedio: Separare i concetti.
→ read full articleIndia’s PM Modi towards World’s Top Leader Keeping Confidence with Neighbors
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The principal reason of insecurity to Modi is that he is speeding up his social doctrine to respect, protect, preserve, and promote poor, marginalized, disadvantaged, and vulnerable people, not limiting him within the border, but beyond of it.
→ read full articleOverthrowing Other People’s Governments: The Master List
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Rabbi Ira Youdovin
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Serice,
15 Sep 2014
We have exchanged views frequently in the last few years, most often by way of adversary comments. I write now an ‘open letter’ because of your most recent comment objecting to my support for Steven Salaita in his campaign to have his tenure faculty appointment reinstated at the University of Illinois.
→ read full articleBreaking the Last Taboo – Gaza and the Threat of World War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Nothing has changed since the Zionists’ infamous “Plan D” in 1948 that ethnically cleansed an entire people. Recently, on the Times of Israel were the words: “Genocide is Permissible”. A deputy speaker of the Knesset demands a policy of mass expulsion into concentration camps. An MP, Ayelet Shaked, calls for the extermination of Palestinian mothers to prevent them giving birth to what she calls “little snakes”.
→ read full articleNATO Loses Ukraine
Margaret Kimberley, BAR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Peace is the last thing that the Nobel Peace Prize winning president wants to see. Putin is the winner by any standard but the United States won’t admit what is obvious.
→ read full articleThe Fourth Branch – The Rise to Power of the National Security State: Who Rules Washington?
Tom Engelhardt – TomDispatch,
15 Sep 2014
As every schoolchild knows, there are three check-and-balance branches of the U.S. government: the executive, Congress, and the judiciary. That’s bedrock Americanism and the most basic high school civics material. Only one problem: it’s just not so.
→ read full articleDefeating the Violence of Psychiatry
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
As the movement to abolish psychiatry continues to gather momentum it is worth reviewing its delusional foundation, the history of its violence and its function as a weapon of elite social control. According to research, in the USA ‘prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer’ and it ‘is inescapable that their availability creates more harm than good’.
→ read full articlePoking Russia with a Stick? NATO Approves Military “Spearhead” for Eastern Europe
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
15 Sep 2014
Despite warnings from Russia that such a move would be interpreted as a provocation, a plan to deploy thousands of additional US and European troops closer to its border will now become a reality.
→ read full articleIsis Jihadis Aren’t Medieval – They Are Shaped by Modern Western Philosophy
Kevin McDonald – The Guardian,
15 Sep 2014
We should look to revolutionary France if we want to understand the source of Islamic State’s ideology and violence. Contemporary jihadism is not a return to the past. It is a modern, anti-traditional ideology with a very significant debt to western political history and culture.
→ read full articleAcademics and Israel
Johnny E. Williams – CounterPunch,
15 Sep 2014
Why Remaining Silent about the Perils of Zionism is Not an Option
→ read full article(Português) Qual Português?
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Sei que a Língua é um naipe de possibilidades, mas sei também do que aprendi como sendo certo e errado. Regras para honrar a clareza, coerência, concisão, elegância. Mesmo na linguagem falada, mais solta e rica de desvios.
→ read full articleSteven Salaita and Zionist McCarthyism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The outcome of the Salaita case will exhibit the current balance of influence as between Zionist McCarthyism and academic freedom. That such a struggle should be in doubt is itself a national disgrace that suggests the worrisome fragility of academic freedom as reinforced by the potency of money and regressive ideology.
→ read full articleSpiritual Leaders for Nonkilling
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Spiritual leaders,
Most powerful is what you teach
spiritually you guide and inspire
people East and West you reach
(Galego) A paz é o camiño… 21 de Setembro, Día Internacional da Paz
Manuel Dios Diz - Fundacion Cultura de Paz,
15 Sep 2014
A paz é o camiño, e facemos camiño ó andar. A paz é un descubrimento, non unha conquista. A guerra e a violencia non son fatalidades biolóxicas. Aprendemos a ser violentos. Por iso temos que “desaprender” para ser pacíficos, que non submisos, nin súbditos, nin mansos. A paz é moito máis que unha toma de postura, é unha auténtica revolución, un modo de vivir, un modo de habitar o planeta, un modo de ser persoa.
→ read full articleLeo Tolstoy: The Law of Love
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
9 September marks the birth of the multi-dimensional Count Leo Tolstoy, an aristocratic land owner, a young military officer, a distinguished author of War and Peace, a spiritual-moral philosopher, and a champion of non-violent action. It is this last aspect and the link with Mahatma Gandhi that I would like to stress.
→ read full articleMessage from the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Dear friends, TMS subscribers & readers, on Sep 15, when this edition of TRANSCEND Media Service goes online by default at 12 noon GMT, I will be onboard an airplane heading for Beijing on my way to the WARP-World Alliance of Religions for Peace Summit in Seoul, South Korea.
→ read full articleHow the West Created the Islamic State
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed - CounterPunch,
15 Sep 2014
Missing from the chorus of outrage has been any acknowledgement of the integral role of covert US and British regional military intelligence in directly sponsoring the Islamist militants in Iraq, Syria and beyond, which broke away from al-Qaeda to form the Islamic State (IS).
→ read full articleThe Long Shadows of History
Johan Galtung, 15 Sep 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
USA, our certificate to you says ‘irrelevance.’ You always too quickly resort to violence, no good at deeper causes. We cannot force you to change, you have to will that yourself. But we can take the ball out of your court and play it ourselves. Leadership should be collective, like BRICS; leadership should never be one country, or one person.
→ read full articleReligions for Peace
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Religions for Peace
A mission never to cease
To Recruits
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
You are pawns–
don’t you understand that?
It’s a game
and you aren’t worth much,
The Disturbing Story from Within: 43 Israeli Elite Veterans Testify for Palestinians
Meron Rapoport – Middle East Eye,
15 Sep 2014
43 veterans from Unit 8200, the top unit of Israeli intelligence, testify how they use information to blackmail Palestinians.
→ read full articleI understand why Westerners are joining jihadi movements like ISIS. I was almost one of them.
Michael Muhammad Knight – The Washington Post,
15 Sep 2014
We are raised to love violence and view military conquest as a benevolent act. The American kid who wants to intervene in another nation’s civil war owes his worldview as much to American exceptionalism as to jihadist interpretations of scripture. I grew up in a country that glorifies military sacrifice and feels entitled to rebuild other societies according to its own vision. Before I even knew what a Muslim was, let alone concepts such as “jihad” or an “Islamic state,” my American life had taught me that that’s what brave men do.
→ read full articleTerror and the Patriot Act of 2001, Implemented in the Immediate Wake of 9/11
Graeme MacQueen - Global Research,
15 Sep 2014
In the fall of 2001 members of the U.S. executive branch terrorized Congress into passing the Patriot Act that assaulted the rights of citizens. This essay is adapted from his new book: “The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy.”
→ read full articleJapan Still Hobbled by Racism and Militarism
Michael Walker – Foreign Policy In Focus,
15 Sep 2014
Not only has Japan been unable to face its past, it’s weighed down by a staggering national debt.
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David McReynolds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The problem is that, as always happens in these cases, there is a certain “selective outrage”, a kind of “willed amnesia” about our own role in such matters. Not all of the sins of America, taken together, justify the beheading of a single journalist – but memory may help us understand the roots of that horror.
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Medea Benjamin – Common Dreams,
15 Sep 2014
For the past six months, fighting between the Moscow-backed eastern Ukrainian resistance and the NATO-backed nationalists has led to thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Instead of seeking to reduce tensions, British Prime Minister David Cameron used the Summit to announce the creation of a new rapid-reaction force of 4,000 troops.
→ read full articleU.S. Threatened Hefty Fines to Make Yahoo Hand Over User Data
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The U.S. government in 2008 threatened to fine Yahoo Inc $250,000 a day if it failed to turn over customer data to intelligence agencies, according to documents unsealed on Thursday [11 Sep 2014].
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Orly Noy - +972 Magazine,
15 Sep 2014
The Tunnels Israel Doesn’t Want You Talking About – While everyone is preoccupied with the Hamas tunnels in Gaza, Israel continues to dig under Palestinian houses in Jerusalem. The excuses are questionable, residents are angry and fearful, and a religious conflagration appears imminent.
→ read full articlePeace Ecology
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
With serendipitous timing, as a big march for the climate, and various related events, are planned on and around the International Day of Peace [21 Sep 2014], Randall Amster has just published an important book called Peace Ecology.
→ read full articleIsrael Appropriated 1,000 Acres of the West Bank. Why Now?
Dimi Reider, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Ser ice,
15 Sep 2014
Appropriation of Palestinian land has been a consistent policy of every Israeli government since Israel became a state in 1948. In the West Bank alone, close to 250,000 acres were appropriated since 1979, using a legal mechanism based on an interpretation of Ottoman law.
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Andy Müller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Michael Sontheimer and Christian Grothoff – The Intercept,
15 Sep 2014
The NSA and GCHQ Campaign against German Satellite Companies – “Fuck!” That is the word that comes to the mind of Christian Steffen, the CEO of German satellite communications company Stellar PCS.
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Gwyn Topham – The Guardian,
15 Sep 2014
9 Sep 2014 – Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 broke up in mid-air as a result of structural damage caused by “a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside”, according to the Dutch investigators’ preliminary report.
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Gitmo Exclusive: An Untold History of Occupation, Torture & Resistance (Part I)
Abby Martin, breakingtheset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Sep 2, 2014 – Abby Martin Breaks the Set on the History of Gitmo, Methods of Torture, the Remaining Detainees and the Ongoing Hunger Strikes by Prisoners.
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David Kirby, takepart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
12 Sep 2014 – As the annual dolphin-killing season begins at the cove at Taiji, Japan, the focus will be on the slaughter. Far less attention will be paid, however, to the fate of dolphins captured and sold to marine-mammal entertainment parks worldwide.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Protection: Small Steps but No Turning Back
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The effectiveness of United Nations action to promote human rights and prevent massive violations grows by small steps. However, the steps, once taken, serve as precedents and can be cited in future cases. Once the steps taken, it is difficult to refuse such action later.
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