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Two Paths in the Wood: “Choice” of Life or War
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
There is an urgent need for new ideological foundations to replace our nation’s historic reliance on war and destruction to achieve ends. Our nation’s history is stained with the blood of indigenous peoples, with the blood of slavery, and with the blood of world wars whose resolutions (victories?) produced a heritage of continued reliance on military solutions and revenge from those who “lost” or from those who now see the intentions of the USA and its allies.
→ read full articleU.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS
Jamie Dettmer – The Daily Beast,
27 Oct 2014
Not only are foodstuffs, medical supplies—even clinics—going to ISIS, the distribution networks are paying ISIS ‘taxes’ and putting ISIS people on their payrolls.
→ read full articleThe Zombie System – How Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails
Michael Sauga – Der Spiegel,
27 Oct 2014
Six years after the Lehman disaster, the industrialized world is suffering from Japan Syndrome. Growth is minimal, another crash may be brewing and the gulf between rich and poor continues to widen. Can the global economy reinvent itself?
→ read full articleUnderstanding and Defeating Resurgent Fascism
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
As fascism is being intruded more widely and deeply into key areas of world politics, it is important to identify this trend, to explain the psychology of fascism and to nominate key elements of any strategy to defeat it.
→ read full articleThe Sunni-Shia Conflict: Any Solution?
Johan Galtung, 27 Oct 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Drawing on the rich experiences of all Islams, focusing on the best, weeding violent weeds making some Muslims non-Islamic in their recourse to violence; much directed against each other. Time is there to work from both sides, on the basis and the theology, to go beyond.
→ read full articleAnti-Assad Warmongers Drag in the Holocaust
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
“The irony is that the Nazi holocaust has now become the main ideological weapon for launching wars of aggression,” Norman Finkelstein tells in “Defamation,” the award-winning 2009 documentary on how perceptions of anti-Semitism affect Israeli and U.S. politics.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden and the Golden Age of Spying
Tom Engelhardt interviewing Laura Poitras – TomDispatch,
20 Oct 2014
19 Oct 2014 – Having seen her film in a packed house at the New York Film Festival, I sat down with Poitras in a tiny conference room at the Loews Regency Hotel in New York City to discuss just how our world has changed and her part in it.
→ read full articleUnder Cover of Reconstruction, UN and PA Become Enforcers of Israel’s Gaza Siege
Ali Abunimah – The Electronic Intifada,
20 Oct 2014
17 Oct 2014 – The UN has agreed to become the chief enforcer of Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza. Under the guise of reconstruction, the UN will be monitoring and gathering private information about Palestinian households to be passed onto Israel, which will have a veto over which families get aid to rebuild their homes. Truly revolting.
→ read full articleAmira Hass Banned from Bir Zeit University
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Servicce,
20 Oct 2014
University’s Exclusion of Journalist Amira Hass Raises Questions about Boycott Policy
→ read full article(Italiano) ISIS: Negoziato, non bombardamento
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Altri bombardamenti insensati di musulmani, altre sconfitte per USA-Occidente, altri movimenti di tipo ISIS, altra polarizzazione Occidente-Islam. Qualche via d’uscita?
→ read full article(Português) A Doença Ebola e os Cães
Marcelo Quinzani – ANDA-Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
20 Oct 2014
14 Outubro 2014 – Nesta semana tivemos contato com a primeira notícia sobre um cão supostamente infectado com o vírus Ebola. O caso aconteceu na Espanha, onde um animal de propriedade de uma enfermeira espanhola com a doença teve que ser eutanasiado, causando muita consternação e preocupação com a possibilidade de animais domésticos participarem da disseminação do vírus.
→ read full article(Italiano) Gabriele Del Grande su “Io sto con la sposa”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Dopo la proiezione torinese di sabato 11 ottobre presso il cinema Fratelli Marx di Torino, ho incontrato informalmente Gabriele Del Grande.
→ read full article(Italiano) Come fece Gandhi a vincere?
Mark Engler e Paul Engler – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
20 Oct 2014
Nella prima mattinata del 12 marzo 1930 Gandhi, accompagnato da un gruppo addestrato di 78 seguaci del suo ashram, iniziò una marcia di più di 200 miglia verso il mare.
→ read full articleSystemic Equivalences between Ebola, Alien Invasion and Dissidence
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Strategic Implications of Seemingly Disparate Forms of Terrorism – Current preoccupation with the strategic measures required in the response to the threat of ebola bear a strange similarity to the manner in which the response to terrorism is framed — especially as exemplified in the case of ISIS.
→ read full articleThe Academic Boycott of Israel: A Policy of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Thinking about a Better Conflict Resolution for the Palestine/Israel Conflict in relation to the Centre of Peace and Conflict Studies of the University of Sydney.
→ read full articleFriedrich Nietzsche on Why a Fulfilling Life Requires Embracing Rather than Running from Difficulty
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
A century and a half before our modern fetishism of failure, a seminal philosophical case for its value. “The most fulfilling human projects appeared inseparable from a degree of torment, the sources of our greatest joys lying awkwardly close to those of our greatest pains…”
→ read full articleThe Case for a Europe of Regions
Paul Hockenos – Al Jazeera America,
20 Oct 2014
The critical lessons that Europe’s political elite would do well to take away from Scotland and Catalonia should be the same as the ones that invigorated European integration from the beginning: more democracy, fewer borders. There’s a middle road between out-and-out separatism and rigid centralized states, even if finding it will be time-consuming and contentious.
→ read full articleOslo Is Dead! Long Live Oslo! The UK House of Commons Supports Diplomatic Recognition of Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
On October 13 [2014] the House of Commons by an overwhelming vote of 274-12 urged the British government to extend diplomatic recognition to Palestine. At first glance, it would seem a rather meaningless gesture. It is a non-binding resolution.
→ read full articleThe Paradoxical Consequences of USA Counter-Terrorism Programs
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Jihadist Terrorist Perceived Motives and Successes – “While nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer, nothing is harder than to understand him.”
Fyodor Mihailovich Dostoevsky, The Possessed, 1872
A Noble Surprise
Vithal Rajan, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Despite the twinning of Pakistan and India by the Nobel Committee, peace between the two countries will remain as illusory as their hope that Obama, America’s first black president, will be more peaceful than the other warlords who have shown their patriotism by bombing hapless people around the world.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Without a War Is like an Apple Pie without Apples
William Boardman – Reader Supported News,
20 Oct 2014
A Nobel Peace Prize recipient is among the loudest voices for war nowadays. Better, this Nobel Peace prize recipient has unchecked power to wage war and uses it willfully in a variety of nations. Perhaps best, this prize-winning peace president has set out to a plan to make a desert and call it peace, for which a grateful power structure might well give him yet another prize.
→ read full articleObama Fights Ebola with a Czar and Soldiers
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
17 Oct 2014 – The public continues to be reassured that ebola is not a problem for the US, but CNN reports that Obama has appointed an Ebola Czar. The Czar is not a medical person but an insider lawyer who served as chief of staff to Vice President Biden.
→ read full articleBriefing
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Donald Rumsfeld is giving President Bush his daily briefing.
→ read full articleFrom Mars Mission to Navigation Satellites to N-Capable Missiles: India Scores Big Scientifically
Rajeev Sharma – Russia Today,
20 Oct 2014
After last month’s success of its maiden Mars Orbiter Mission, India has just notched up two more back-to-back scientific feats on October 16 and 17 [2014], both of which will beef up Indian military might in a big way.
→ read full articleNew Evidence Links CIA to the American Psychological Association’s “War on Terror” Ethics
Roy Eidelson and Trudy Bond – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Based on revelations in James Risen’s new book, ‘Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War.’ The only matter of dispute is the extent to which the APA collaborated with and worked to support the program of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.
→ read full articleWhy I Can’t Celebrate Malala’s Nobel Peace Prize
Middle East Revised - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Sure, we must acknowledge the efforts of those who are fighting for a better world, but when it is done in a way that feels so calculated, unidimensional, loaded with secret agendas and tons of hypocrisy – I just can’t celebrate it.
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Pacific Islands: “We Are Not Drowning — We Are Fighting!” (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
350.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Warriors across 14 Pacific island nations answered a call, brought on by the threat of climate change. “We’re not giving up. We’re going to fight for what is ours – our island homes and cultures.”
→ read full articlePathways to Reconciliation: Between Theory and Practice
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Reconciliation is a process that requires spiritual understanding beyond the pragmatism that rests in the calculation of causes and consequences. It needs to be seen not only as reconciliation between two persons or groups, but for something. It is not merely the repair of the past, but a bridge to the future.
→ read full articleISIS Is Hiring
Ted Rall – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The US is scared that ISIS is recruiting young American Muslims.
→ read full article(Português) A Preocupante Expansão do Complexo Industrial Militar
Mairead Maguire, Prêmio Nobel da Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Como se pode justificar que no século 21 continuemos treinando milhões para engrossar os exércitos e mandá-los à guerra? Estados Unidos e Grã-Bretanha cometeram genocídio entre 1990 e 2012, que se estima ter custado a vida de 3,3 milhões de iraquianos, incluindo 750 mil crianças. E todos vimos em nossas televisões o horrível espetáculo dos 50 dias de bombardeio pela força militar de Israel sobre Gaza, entre julho e agosto deste ano.
→ read full articleAssange to Open Human Rights Film Festival in Barcelona
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The WikiLeaks founder will answer questions from an open floor on the first night of the festival, Wednesday [22 Oct 2014], which is comprised of films on humanitarian themes, from transsexuality to international conflicts.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks-Leaked Draft Confirms TPP Will Censor Internet and Stifle Free Expression Worldwide
OpenMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
16 October 14 – This morning WikiLeaks published a second leaked draft of the Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It confirms people’s worst fears about Internet censorship.
→ read full articleColumbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery
Eric Kasum – The Huffington Post,
20 Oct 2014
The stunning truth is: If Christopher Columbus were alive today, he would be put on trial for crimes against humanity. Columbus’ reign of terror, as documented by noted historians, was extremely bloody, his legacy unspeakably cruel.
→ read full articleEpistemology: On the Use of Dichotomies
Johan Galtung, 20 Oct 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Sometimes the use of dichotomies, simple cuts, male-female, democracy-dictatorship, negative-positive peace is criticized: the world is more complicated. That the organic world with life, individual and collective, is complex, there is no doubt. That a simplistic us-them division of the world in two blocs or poles, polarization, is a step on the way to violence and war, is clear.
→ read full articleUS Army Drafts Blueprint for World War III
Bill Van Auken and David North, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The Pentagon is preparing for unlimited global warfare and military dictatorship within the United States. The document was formally released at this week’s Association of the United States Army conference.
→ read full articleCycle of Death, Destruction and Rebuilding Continues in Gaza
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon implicitly warned of the futility of the continuing exercise when he said: “We cannot continue to build and destroy – and build and destroy – like this. This should be the last reconstruction conference”. But will it?
→ read full articleThe Criminal Side of Ebola
Ian Ralby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The Health Crisis is only one effect of the Ebola outbreak. International efforts should take a holistic approach at addressing the effect Ebola is having on organized crime in West Africa.
→ read full articleObama Should End the Embargo on Cuba
Editorial – The New York Times,
20 Oct 2014
Scanning a map of the world must give President Obama a sinking feeling as he contemplates the dismal state of troubled bilateral relationships his administration has sought to turn around. He would be smart to take a hard look at Cuba, where a major policy shift could yield a significant foreign policy success.
→ read full articleChina Contributes Greatly to Global Food Security
Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
As the most populous country in the world, China has successfully delivered millions of people from hunger and is helping other countries achieve food security.
→ read full articleClimate Change: How to Make the Big Polluters Really Pay
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
20 Oct 2014
By dropping Shell, Lego shows new ways to target the astronomical profits of the fossil fuel industries.
→ read full articleThe Top 1% Own Half of Global Wealth
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
20 Oct 2014
While wealthiest top one percent own nearly fifty percent of all world’s assets, the entire bottom half of the global population hold less than one percent of the wealth, new financial analysis shows.
→ read full articleThe New Economy versus Today’s Flat Earthers
Eric Zencey – Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy,
20 Oct 2014
Only madmen and economists, Kenneth Boulding once said, believe exponential growth can go on forever. Beyond all reason and evidence, standard economics remains dedicated to the idea of perpetual increase in our species’ stock of wealth, income, and material wellbeing.
→ read full articleCrusade
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Living in this Christian land,
it isn’t hard to understand
our President was not elected,
but was by God himself selected.
We Need Medical Boots on the Ground Now
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
20 Oct 2014
We need tens of thousands of boots on the ground dealing with Ebola: boots of doctors, nurses, health professionals, dealing with this wholly preventable global health disaster.
→ read full articlePacific Islanders on Canoes Blockade Australia Coal Export Terminal
Al Jazeera and Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Environmental activists teamed up with Pacific islanders in eastern Australia on Friday [17 Oct 2014] in an attempt to block the world’s largest coal export terminal by forming a blockade of canoes, surfboards and kayaks.
→ read full articleOnly 4% of Drone Victims in Pakistan Named as Al Qaeda Members
Jack Serle – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
20 Oct 2014
The Bureau’s Naming the Dead project has gathered the names and, where possible, the details of people killed by CIA drones in Pakistan since June 2004. On October 11 [2014] an attack brought the total number of drone strikes in Pakistan up to 400.
→ read full articleWind Blows Away Fossil Power in the Nordics, the Baltics Next
Nerijus Adomaitis, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
15 Oct 2014 – Wind power is blowing gas and coal-fired turbines out of business in the Nordic countries, and the effects will be felt across the Baltic region as the renewable glut erodes utility margins for thermal power stations.
→ read full articleWhy We Should Be Seething with Anger over Inequality
Paul Buchheit – Common Dreams,
20 Oct 2014
Each of nine individuals (Gates, Buffett, 2 Kochs, 4 Waltons, Zuckerberg) made, on average, so much from his/her investments since January, 2013 that a median American worker would need a quarter of a million years to catch up. For the most part it was passive income, new wealth derived from the continuing productivity of America’s workers.
→ read full articleUkraine’s Neo-Nazis Demand Respect
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
20 Oct 2014
15 Oct 2014 – Thousands of Ukraine’s neo-Nazis surrounded the parliament in Kiev demanding that the government honor Ukrainian paramilitary forces who fought for Adolf Hitler in World War II, another embarrassing reminder of the extremism unleashed by last February’s U.S.-backed coup.
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(Castellano) Torero arrepentido defensor de los derechos del animal
Álvaro Múnera, ex-torero – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Álvaro Múnera, ex-torero, actual defensor de los derechos del animal y contrario a las corridas de toros:
→ read full articleLatin America’s ‘Made in USA’ 2014 Recession
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Three major economies of Latin America—Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela—entered recession in 2014. And in all three cases their recessions may be subtitled, ‘Made in the USA’.
→ read full articleRepresentation of Creative Processes through Dynamics in Three Dimensions
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Global Insight from Spherical Reframing of Mandalas, the Zodiac and the Enneagram – The argument developed here derives from an exploration of the creativity of Nikola Tesla (Reimagining Tesla’s Creativity through Technomimicry: psychosocial empowerment by imagining charged conditions otherwise).
→ read full articleBarriers to Sustainable Farming Put Burden on World’s Poor
Prof. Vandana Shiva, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The conflict between “free trade” and food rights came to the fore again at the WTO negotiations in September [2014], when India did not back down from its stance that a permanent solution be found for food security issues before signing the Trade Facilitation Agreement.
→ read full articleSyria-to-Ukraine Wars Send U.S. Defense Stocks to Records
Richard Clough, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Led by Lockheed Martin Corp. the biggest U.S. defense companies are trading at record prices as shareholders reap rewards from escalating military conflicts around the world. Investors see rising sales for makers of missiles, drones and other weapons as the U.S. hits Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize 2014: Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay
The Norwegian Nobel Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 is to be awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
→ read full articleThe Love Jihad Nightmare
Vithal Rajan, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Islamophobia is creating anger among Muslims in many nations, anomie in minority pockets, and breeding irrational hatred in a few.
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Friends of Orphans – Free the Children Slave Soldiers
FROchildsoldiers's channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
[Note from Antonio, TMS editor:] I met Anywar Ricky Richard in Seoul, South Korea in Sep 2014 at the World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit. He is doing an extraordinary, pioneering work with ex-child soldiers in Uganda, himself being one of them. I was deeply impressed as were those in attendance. Anywar is a remarkable human being and deserves all support we can give to his cause.
→ read full articleUS to Deploy 3000 Troops to Ebola Crisis Areas
Jeff Mason and James Harding Giahyue, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
President Barack Obama called West Africa’s deadly Ebola outbreak a looming threat to global security and announced a major expansion of the U.S. role in trying to halt its spread, including deployment of 3,000 troops to the region.
→ read full articleIsrael Is Cautiously Arming Syria’s Rebels — And Has a Fragile Unspoken Truce With an Al Qaeda Affiliate
Ehud Yaari, The Washington Institute For Near East Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The Israeli government has decided against action to repel al-Qaeda affiliates or disrupt their military strength, in light of the U.S. and allied campaign to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS, which has included attacks on Jabhat al-Nusra (JN) targets.
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Cabaret (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Liza Minnelli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
From the Movie Cabaret – Mein Herr (1972) – A Classic! Lisa Minelli at her best.
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Cabaret (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Louis Armstrong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Louis Armstrong and his All Stars in Antibes – Juan le Pins, France – 1967
→ read full articleSaint Francis and the Sow
Galway Kinnell, Brain Pickings - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report 5 (Oct 2014)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
→ read full articleInvestigators Find Islamic State Used Ammo Made in 21 Countries, Including USA
Julia Harte and R. Jeffrey Smith – The Center for Public Integrity,
13 Oct 2014
A new report from an arms tracking group highlights how readily arms shipped to the Middle East are transferred from allied groups to hostile ones.
→ read full article(Italiano) Hong Kong e oltre
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
A Pechino va una lode non piccola per mantenersi imperturbata. Non c’è stato nulla come la brutalità della polizia militarizzata USA contro il movimento Occupy. La Cina non è sprofondata al livello di “Come Israele zittisce il dissenso”: cantando Morte agli arabi, Morte ai sinistrorsi; picchiando i dimostranti senza protezione della polizia, minacciando assassinii, difendendo lo status quo con ogni mezzo, “fascismo strisciante”.
→ read full articleCore Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany
Peter Maass and Laura Poitras – The Intercept,
13 Oct 2014
The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use “physical subversion” to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
→ read full articleThe Sordid Contra-Cocaine Saga
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
13 Oct 2014
If you ever wondered how the mainstream U.S. media changed from the hard-nosed Watergate press of the 1970s into the brown-nose MSM that swallowed the Iraq War lies, a key middle point was the Contra-cocaine scandal of the 1980s/1990s, the subject of a new movie.
→ read full article(Português) União Homoafetiva
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Seria sábio manter Igreja e Estado separados, neste e noutros assuntos, porque onde são entremeados, pelo mundo a fora, não dá certo. Infelizmente, ao tratar de gays e lésbicas, certos cristãos tendem a esquecer ensinamentos basilares do cristianismo: o não julgar e a misericórdia.
→ read full articleFrom Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything That Flies on Everything That Moves”
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
In transmitting Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on everything that moves”. As Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger’s murderous honesty.
→ read full articleToxic Fallout from US War Produces Record Child Birth Defect Rates in Iraq
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
A report presented at the University of Michigan last Wednesday [8 Oct 2014], showed that rates of cancer, child cancer and birth defects have reached historically unprecedented levels in Fallujah and other Iraqi cities since the 2003 US invasion.
→ read full articleHope for Myanmar Democracy Now Fading
Editorial, The Nation (Thailand) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Crackdowns on ethnic armies and journalists have raised fears that the reform process is going into reverse.
→ read full articleDestabilization – US Weapon in Energy War
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Russia Today,
13 Oct 2014
The US is doing its best to estrange the EU from Russia to get the upper hand in a free trade deal, and also, to manipulate European countries into buying America’s relatively more expensive natural gas.
→ read full articleIt’s Not Too Late to Save Syria’s Cultural Heritage
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
As Marcus Aurelius instructs us: “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.” Our shared global heritage, which has been in the custody of the Syrian people for ten millennia, belongs to all of us and each of us must work to preserve it for our progeny.
→ read full articleA Billion Tons of Food Wasted Yearly While Millions Still Go Hungry
A. D. McKenzie, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
“Even if just one-fourth of the food currently lost or wasted globally could be saved, it would be enough to feed 870 million hungry people in the world” – SAVE FOOD Initiative. Some solutions:
→ read full articleOn the “Academic Boycott of Israel” Claimed by University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Regarding Prof. Jake Lynch’s article, “Please Help Us Save the University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies,” posted on TMS on 6 Oct 2014, allow me to raise some questions.
→ read full articleThis Country [Germany] Just Abolished College Tuition Fees
Joaquim Moreira Salles, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
“We got rid of tuition fees because we do not want higher education which depends on the wealth of the parents,” Gabrielle Heinen-Kjajic, the minister for science and culture in Lower Saxony, said in a statement.
→ read full article(Italiano) IO STO CON LA SPOSA – Torino 11 ottobre 2014
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Frammenti di una storia di extra ordinaria umanità
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Keiser Report: Financial Ebola
Max Keiser – Russia Today,
13 Oct 2014
Oct 4, 2014 – “For the first time in history we have a true global empire.”– Perkins. Max interviews John Perkins, author of ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman,’ about ‘peak bankster.’ They also discuss the financialization of Ebola.
→ read full articlePolice Go Nuts over Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Remote Speech in Vermont
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
13 Oct 2014
When Goddard announced that students had chosen Mumia to be the commencement speaker at their graduation, Philadelphia police, politicians, media, and Fox News went crazy with angry rhetoric aimed at curbing free speech.
→ read full articleEU Bans Import of Israeli Dairy Products Made in Palestine
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The ban is expected to have only minimal economic impact, but it is one of the boldest moves taken by western nations to put pressure on the Israeli government to change its policies toward Palestine.
→ read full articleDid Israel Commit Genocide in Gaza?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
In a special session of the Russell Tribunal, Israel’s Operation Protective Edge was critically scrutinized from the perspective of international law, including the core allegation of genocide through testimonies by legal and weapons experts, health workers, journalists and others who experienced the 50 days of military assault.
→ read full articleDuvalier: Dead but Not Gone
Charlie Hinton – Haiti Action Committee,
13 Oct 2014
Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier, responsible for thousands of deaths and theft of millions, who moved openly among Haitian elites, died Oct 4 [2014] a free man. Meanwhile former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, twice elected president with huge majorities only to be overthrown by U.S. backed coups, and who created more schools in a decade than in Haiti’s 200-year history, lives under house arrest surrounded by heavily armed police wearing black ski masks.
→ read full articleIn the Medical Response to Ebola, Cuba Is Punching Far Above Its Weight
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post,
13 Oct 2014
While the international community has been accused of dragging its feet on the Ebola crisis, Cuba, a country of just 11 million people that still enjoys a fraught relationship with the United States, has emerged as a crucial provider of medical expertise in the West African nations hit by Ebola.
→ read full articleWhither China’s Democracy? Democratization in China since the Tiananmen Incident
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
This review of an in-depth look at democratization in China was written before the recent protests in Hong Kong that highlight shifting attitudes toward governing practices. Democratization is a bumpy but ongoing process.
→ read full article6 Ways Technology is Helping to Fight Ebola
Timo Luege – The Institute for Technology and Social Change,
13 Oct 2014
In addition to the life saving work of medical staff, logisticians and community organizers, information and communication technology (ICT) is also playing a vital part in supporting their work. I pulled together six examples of how ICT is already making a difference in the current Ebola crisis.
→ read full articleQuestioning Sweden’s ‘Bold’ Diplomatic Initiative
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The new center-left Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven, in his inaugural speech to Parliament indicated on October 3 [2014] the intention of the Swedish government to recognize Palestinian statehood.
→ read full article(Castellano) Refugiados Sirios ya Estarían en Uruguay
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Un total de 42 refugiados sirios, en su mayoría niños habrían llegado este jueves [9 octubre 2014] a Uruguay, indicó una fuente de la Presidencia anónima. Uruguay es el primer país latinoamericano en implementar un plan de reasentamiento de este tipo.
→ read full articleChina Just Overtook the US as the World’s Largest Economy
Mike Bird – Business Insider,
13 Oct 2014
8 Oct 2014 – Sorry, America. China just overtook the US to become the world’s largest economy, according to the International Monetary Fund.
→ read full articleThe University of Al-Qaeda? America’s “Terrorist Academy” in Iraq Produced ISIS Leaders
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
13 Oct 2014
“Since 2003, Anglo-American power has secretly and openly coordinated direct and indirect support for Islamist terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda across the Middle East and North Africa. This ill-conceived patchwork geostrategy is a legacy of the persistent influence of neoconservative ideology, motivated by longstanding but often contradictory ambitions to dominate regional oil resources, defend an expansionist Israel, and in pursuit of these, re-draw the map of the Middle East.”
→ read full articleISIS: Negotiation, Not Bombing
Johan Galtung, 13 Oct 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
More senseless bombing of Muslims, more defeats for USA-West, more ISIS-type movements, more West-Islam polarization. Any way out?
→ read full articleWhy Obama Must Bomb ISIS
Steve Breyman – Palestine Chronicle,
13 Oct 2014
Every peace group (large and small, new and old, religious and secular) opposes Barack Obama’s war against ISIS. The groups also advance positive agendas of alternatives to bombing. Sound as this advice is, for Obama, Congress and the Pentagon, there is no alternative to airstrikes on the Islamic State, and to arming Syrian rebel moderates. Why?
→ read full articleCuba to Send Doctors to Ebola Areas
Smitha Mundasad - BBC News,
13 Oct 2014
Cuba is sending 165 health workers to help tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, officials say. Doctors, nurses and infection control specialists travel to Sierra Leone in October and stay for six months.
→ read full articleCrusaders and Zionists
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Lately, the words “Crusaders” and “Zionists” have been appearing more and more often as twins. In a documentary about ISIS I just saw, they appeared together in almost every sentence uttered by the Islamist fighters, including teenagers. Some sixty years ago I wrote an article whose title was just that: “Crusaders and Zionists”.
→ read full articleFull Text of Alfred Nobel’s Will
Nobelprize.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
I, the undersigned, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, do hereby, after mature deliberation, declare the following to be my last Will and Testament with respect to such property as may be left by me at the time of my death:
→ read full article‘Hostile to Privacy’: Snowden Urges Internet Users to Get Rid of Dropbox
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
12 Oct 2014 – “When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights – you don’t have to justify why you need freedom of speech.”
→ read full articleAre You Doing Your Part to Support Endless War?
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
This Modern World – Comic Strip
→ read full articleFighting Ebola American Style
Ted Rall - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Comic Strip
→ read full articleInstead of Columbus Day, some U.S. Cities Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day
Emanuella Grinberg - CNN,
13 Oct 2014
Columbus Day often brings to mind the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. This Monday [13 Oct 2014], some cities and states would rather you think of the Sioux, the Suquamish and the Chippewa. For the first time this year, Seattle and Minneapolis will recognize the second Monday in October as “Indigenous People’s Day.”
→ read full articleIsrael Starts Building 600 New Settlement Houses
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Israel began to build hundreds of new housing units in East Jerusalem and seized land in the West Bank on Saturday [11 Oct 2014], despite international condemnation.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Occupation Is More Complex Than a Genocide
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
And what to make of a plan just disclosed by the Israeli media indicating that Mr Netanyahu and his allies have been secretly plotting to force many Palestinians into Sinai, with the US arm-twisting the Egyptians into agreement? Such a policy would certainly satisfy Lemkin’s definition of genocide.
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