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The Ethics of Climate Hope
Naomi Klein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
According to Elizabeth Kolbert’s review of my book, ‘This Changes Everything,’ humans are too selfish to respond effectively to the climate crisis. “When you tell people what it would actually take to radically reduce carbon emissions, they don’t want to give up air travel or air conditioning or HDTV or trips to the mall or the family car.”
→ read full article12 Things to Keep in Mind When You Read the Torture Report
Dan Froomkin – The Intercept,
8 Dec 2014
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report will be released “in a matter of days,” a committee staffer tells The Intercept. Should something emerge, here are some important caveats to keep in mind.
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Celebration (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Kool & The Gang – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
The Classic from 1980 LIVE
→ read full articlePutin Gobsmacks Obama and Euro-Leaders with Surprise Gas Deal – Talking Turkey
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
8 Dec 2014
Putin has once again outmaneuvered the US on both the energy and geopolitical fronts adding to his long list of policy triumphs. Here’s a brief summary.
→ read full articleThe 50-Year-Old ‘One-Dimensional Man’: Affirming Marcuse
Nick Thorkelson – Dissent Magazine,
8 Dec 2014
A cartoon by Nick Thorkelson accepting and supporting Herbert Marcuse’s theories.
→ read full articleThe Rise of German Imperialism and the Phony “Russian Threat”
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
The principle Nazi ideological prop that secured massive financial and political support from Germany’s leading industrialists was the Communist and Soviet threat. The main Nazi military drive, absorbing two-thirds of its best troops, was directed eastward at conquering and destroying Russia.
→ read full articleLaunching of Kairos Palestine in Bethlehem – 11 December 2009
Kairos Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
In this historic document, we Palestinian Christians declare that the military occupation of our land is a sin against God and humanity.
→ read full articleUkraine’s Made-in-USA Finance Minister
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
8 Dec 2014
A top problem of Ukraine has been corruption and cronyism, so it may raise eyebrows that new Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, an ex-U.S. diplomat and newly minted Ukrainian citizen, was involved in insider dealings while managing a $150 million U.S. AID-backed investment fund.
→ read full articleThe Importance of the Cancellation of South Stream
Alexander Mercouris – Oriental Review,
8 Dec 2014
The reaction to the cancellation of the South Stream project has been a wonder to behold and needs to be explained very carefully. In order to understand what has happened it is first necessary to go back to the way Russian-European relations were developing in the 1990s.
→ read full articleNepal’s Gadhimai Animal Slaughter Festival: Never Again
Compassion in World Farming – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Please note that this picture story contains graphic images of animal slaughter that may cause distress.
→ read full articleThinking Frantz Fanon
Nigel C. Gibson – Pambazuka News,
8 Dec 2014
Fanonian Translations In and Beyond ‘Fanon Studies’- Translations are not neutral; they are products of history and are highly charged politically. Yet despite this, Fanon’s thought in his translated works has remained clear, inspiring people from Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo.
→ read full articleRefusing Marcuse: 50 Years after ‘One-Dimensional Man’
Stephen Whitfield – Dissent Magazine,
8 Dec 2014
‘One-Dimensional Man’ was published just half a century ago, catapulting a rather obscure professor in his sixties to international fame. Once the domination of technocracy was overcome, Marcuse believed, the people would be free to discover their authentic needs.
→ read full articleNew G20 Rules: Cyprus-style Bail-ins to Hit Depositors AND Pensioners
Ellen Brown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Warren Buffett called derivatives “weapons of financial mass destruction;” they are a time bomb waiting to explode. When that happens, our deposits, our pensions, and our public investment funds will all be subject to confiscation in a “bail in.” Perhaps it is time to pull our money out of Wall Street and set up our own banks – banks that will serve the people because they are owned by the people.
→ read full articleIsrael Nature Reserve Oil Spill ‘One of Country’s Worst Environmental Disasters’
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Oil spill floods Israeli nature reserve. Three people hospitalized after inhaling fumes from oil gushing out of a breached pipeline near Evrona reserve.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Important/relevant dates to observe this week.
December 7 (Sunday):
1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
December 8:
A Quick Glance at Indonesia-Malaysia
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
Muhammadiyah University – Yogyakarta, Indonesia
→ read full articleUS Control Is Diminishing, but It Still Thinks It Owns the World
Noam Chomsky – The Guardian,
8 Dec 2014
The United States has long assumed the right to use violence to achieve its aims, but it is now less able to implement its policies.
→ read full articleIran Deal More Than a Nuclear Issue
Trita Parsi – Middle East Eye,
8 Dec 2014
Concern in Washington and Tehran over who is seen as ‘winner’ in negotiations is a key obstacle to finding solution.
→ read full articleEbola Epidemic Continues to Ravage West Africa
Niles Williamson, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
The Obama administration dispatched several thousand soldiers to Liberia, exploiting the crisis as a means of gaining a military foothold on the African continent. While foreign troops have been deployed to construct Ebola treatment centers, the responsibility for staffing these facilities has been left to an ad hoc grouping of NGOs, missionaries and local workers.
→ read full articleAfghanistan: The Making of a Narco State
Matthieu Aikins - Rolling Stone,
8 Dec 2014
After 13 years of war, we haven’t defeated the Taliban, but we have managed to create a nation ruled by drug lords.
→ read full articleBusiness and Entrepreneurs Seize Opportunities in Rise of Veganism
Damien Clarkson – The Guardian,
8 Dec 2014
With a growing consumer interest in plant-based healthy eating, vegetarian and vegan options present a chance new business and competitive advantage.
→ read full articleThirty Years On, Bhopal’s Ghost Haunts India
Gulf News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
1 Dec 2014 – Even after three decades, the memory of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster is kept alive by “mini Bhopals” that occur across India.
→ read full articleUN Urges for Rohingya Citizenship in Myanmar
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
UN rights committee urges Myanmar government to scrap its identity plan and grant Rohingya access to citizenship.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Demolition of Palestinian Homes ‘Contrary to International Law,’ UN Experts Warn
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
25 Nov 2014 – The Israeli Government’s use of house demolition as a punitive measure must end immediately, UN experts urged today. The practice – which targets Palestinian homes in both Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory – is a violation of human rights law.
→ read full articleWhat “Free Trade” Has Done to Central America
Manuel Perez-Rocha and Julia Paley – Foreign Policy In Focus,
1 Dec 2014
Warnings about the human and environmental costs of “free trade” went unheeded. Now the most vulnerable Central Americans are paying the price.
→ read full articleEU Parliament Votes for Break-Up of Google
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
EU lawmakers have voted in a favor of a resolution that would force Internet companies to separate search engines from commercial services. Though not named, Internet search giant Google, was the target of the vote.
→ read full articleCould Your Smart Tablet Be Damaging to Your Health?
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
A new report is showing that many tablets and phones are using chemicals that are drastically affecting the health of consumers.
→ read full articleSecret Malware in European Union Attack Linked to U.S. and British Intelligence
Morgan Marquis-Boire, Claudio Guarnieri, and Ryan Gallagher – The Intercept,
1 Dec 2014
Complex malware known as Regin is the suspected technology behind sophisticated cyberattacks conducted by U.S. and British intelligence agencies on the European Union and a Belgian telecommunications company, according to security industry sources and technical analysis conducted by The Intercept.
→ read full articleZionists Throw Themselves onto the Messianic Wagon
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
No archaeological evidence for (the first temple’s) existence, let alone its location, has been discovered, and no extra-biblical records of it have survived…In fact there is no archaeological evidence of the modest Second Temple either.
→ read full article(Português) Não Culpem as Telinhas
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Os críticos de smartphones, tablets, ipads, ipods e ipuds têm o direito de lamentar a utilização destes instrumentos como a coisa mais importante na vida de muitas pessoas. O conhecimento de nova técnica (é simplesmente este o significado da palavra “tecnologia”), sempre chega desarrumando o jeito de viver, para depois instituir outro jeito irrevogável, que se torna hábito, saudável ou não.
→ read full articleHow the Pentagon’s Skynet Would Automate War
Nafeez Ahmed, Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Pentagon officials are worried that the US military is losing its edge compared to competitors like China, and are willing to explore almost anything to stay on top—including creating watered-down versions of the Terminator.
→ read full articleGambia: Life Sentence for ‘Aggravated Homosexuality’
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
New Law Threatens LGBTI Community – “Arresting and torturing people based on their sexual orientation is shameful, and inventing new crimes with even harsher sentences is scandalous. Gambia’s new law not only flouts African human rights obligations, it violates its own constitution, which says that all people must be equal and free from discrimination before the law.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Bienes Comunes y la Defensa de lo Público
Marina Sitrin – TeleSur,
1 Dec 2014
¿Se puede pasar de lo público a los comunes a través del Estado?
→ read full articleUS Intervenes in South China Sea Dispute
Peter Symonds, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
26 Nov 2014 – In a direct intrusion into territorial disputes in the South China Sea, the US has called on China to halt construction activity in the Spratly Islands. The comments, which Beijing has already rejected, will only exacerbate the already sharp tensions between China and its neighbours.
→ read full articleThe Steady Decline of Social Europe
Roberto Savio - Human Wrongs Watch,
1 Dec 2014
After the Italian sea search-and-rescue operation Mare Nostrum has rescued nearly 100,000 migrants – although perhaps up to 3,000 have died – from the Mediterranean since October 2013, Europe is now presenting its new face in the Mediterranean.
→ read full article“Judeo-Nazism” and the Prospects for a Comprehensive Agreement with Iran
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
If a non-Jew had coined the phrase “Judeo-Nazism” he or she would have been verbally crucified by Zionism’s attack dogs and the mainstream Western media. The actual inventor of it was Yeshavahu Leibowitz, one of the most outspoken and controversial Jewish intellectuals of modern times.
→ read full articleThe Largest Solar Plant in the World Is Now Fully Operational in California
Eric Wesoff , GreenTechMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Nov 24, 2014 – Late last month, the Topaz Solar project achieved full commercial operation. This is the first 500-megawatt plus solar farm to come on-line in the U.S. and the largest solar plant on-line in the world.
→ read full articleThe Epic Ideological Struggle of Our Global Era: Multiculturalism versus Homogenization
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
In contrast to homogenization, the preferred ideology of those in power and position seeking control and domination, Multiculturalism embraces the reality of life’s diversity and differences – the beauty of variation. All other ideologies “pale” in complexion, complexity, and comparison.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Worst Fear: A Political Settlement
Matt Peppe - CounterPunch,
1 Dec 2014
If Israel cared about stopping violence and protecting its population, it would end the occupation and accept a political settlement. Instead it is exploiting the violence to tighten its control of the West Bank and Gaza and crush Palestinian aspirations for an end to the 66-year dispossession and conquest.
→ read full articleIn Praise of Buffer States
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Buffer states keep armies apart and allow important countries to trade in peace.
→ read full articleMemoir Sketch: Championing Lost Causes
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
To contemplate death without the metaphysical painkillers of an imagined afterlife is to be finally alone. In a sense learning to die is equivalent to learning to live alone, and takes courage and fortitude.
→ read full articleGreat Number of Animals Killed in Hindu Festival in Nepal
PressTV- TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Starting on Friday [28 Nov 2014], tens of thousands of birds and other animals are killed during a Hindu festival in Nepal, where worshippers believe the act brings them good luck.
→ read full articleMyanmar and Its Manufacturing Genocidal Racism towards Rohingya
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
There was inter-ethnic solidarity for the Rohingya/Muslims of Arakan dating back to 17 May 1978. Now in 2014, even the Kachin Independence Organization’s spokesperson ex-Colonel James L. based in BKK denied any knowledge of Rohingya and denied showing any sympathy for the Rohingya.
→ read full article(Português) Socialismo e comunismo, modo de uso: manual didático
Rita Almeida – Carta Maior,
1 Dec 2014
O capitalismo deu muito certo, pelo menos para as 85 pessoas mais ricas do mundo ou cerca de 1% da população. Ainda me surpreendo com gente que afirma repudiar os ideais comunistas ou socialistas porque eles “não deram certo”. Em resposta, o que me vem em mente é uma pergunta: Então o capitalismo deu certo?
→ read full articleSave the Children from Tony Blair and Others like Him
Joe Emersberger - TeleSur,
1 Dec 2014
Save the Children gave Tony Blair, a man who contributed massively to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis during the decade he was the UK prime minister, a “global legacy award.” How can this charity get away with doing something so monstrous? The reason is simple: money.
→ read full articleIn the Awesome World of the Future
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Satirical Comic Strip – This Modern World
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Paganini – Variations for 2 Pianos (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Rosey Chan & Grace Fong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Two of the Most Exciting Female Pianists of Our Generation
→ read full articleThanksgiving: Celebrating the Genocide of Native Americans
Gilbert Mercier - ConterPunch,
1 Dec 2014
The sad reality about the United States of America is that in a matter of a few hundred years it managed to rewrite its own history into a mythological fantasy. The concepts of liberty, freedom and free enterprise in the “land of the free, home of the brave” are a mere spin.
→ read full articleA Vision for Nature
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
As governments tear down the rules that defend our wildlife from extinction, here’s a positive attempt to stop the wreckage.
→ read full articleBurma’s Struggle for Democracy: A Critical Appraisal (DRAFT)
Maung Zarni with Trisha Taneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Reclaiming Activism – Drawn upon the author’s direct political engagement in Burma’s pro-change opposition, and on his own research, to reflect critically on the struggle of the last twenty-five years between the ruling military and the opposition movements.
→ read full articleRussia’s Biggest Bank Launches Financing in Chinese Yuan
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Sberbank, Russia’s largest lender, will be the first bank in the country to start issuing credit guarantees denominated in Chinese yuan. The new yuan-based letters of credit ensure payments between buyers and sellers, with the bank acting as a router.
→ read full articleAdhering to God’s Plan in a Global Society
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
The concern here is whether the Christian perspective from which the Pontiff and the President of the European Commission choose to offer strategic guidance to the peoples of the world is as appropriate or legitimate as many would like to assume. Potentially more challenging is the possibility that the Pope is unknowingly addressing the “haggard” condition of the Catholic Church for which he considers wider society to be a mirror.
→ read full articleDemand from the Nepalese Government That the Terrible Gadhimai Animal Slaughter Festival Must Never Happen Again
Compassion in World Farming – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
‘The scale of the suffering is vast – before me lie the bodies of thousands of buffalo, staining the earth, and the soles of the slaughtermen’s feet, red. What I’ve seen can only be described as a massacre. These animals have suffered great pain at the hands of an army of unskilled men and this is just the start….thousands of chickens, goats and other animals are next up in this 48 hour frenzy of killing [500.000 this year].
→ read full articleJust Torture?
Shunzo Majima, Journal of Military Ethics – Centre for Digital Philosophy,
1 Dec 2014
The purpose of this paper is to develop and analyse a possible theory of “just torture”, by reference to the framework of just war theory, which proposes moral criticism of war, in order that we can critically consider the morality or otherwise of torture, including that undertaken for interrogation purposes.
→ read full articleCivilization Clashes Occident-Orient?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
The conflict? Buddhist historical rights vs Muslim human rights. No religious conversion to the other, no secular neither-nor, no half-Buddhist/half Muslim compromise, no both-and amalgam: Buddhism with State power is also exclusive . How about political solutions?
→ read full articleThe Mobilization of Nonkilling: A Needed Global Effort
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
When terrorists kill people who are praying,
It is also Humankind that those killers are slaying.
(Castellano) Cigarrillos electrónicos contienen sustancias cancerígenas
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Investigadores del Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública de Japón afirman, en un estudio dado a conocer este jueves [27 nov 2014], que el vapor de algunos cigarrillos electrónicos contiene agentes cancerígenos.
→ read full articleGermany’s Deutsche Welle Reports ISIS Supply Lines Originate in NATO’s Turkey
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Nov 28, 2014 – Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) published a video report of immense implications – possibly the first national broadcaster in the West to admit that the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS) is supplied not by “black market oil” or “hostage ransoms” but billions of dollars worth of supplies carried into Syria across NATO member Turkey’s borders via hundreds of trucks a day.
→ read full articleBRICS and the SCO Challenge U.S. Global Dominance
Asad Ismi – Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives,
1 Dec 2014
United States military aggression globally is stimulating the creation of a new international economic order that could serve as a viable alternative to the present Western-dominated version.
→ read full articleI Support Israel’s National Bill
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Finally Israel has acknowledged its true Jewish nature. Instead of pretending to be a ‘Jewish Democracy” – a contradiction in terms, the Jewish State admits that it is a theocracy guided by Jewish racial supremacist ideology.
→ read full articleAt Home and Abroad, UN Report Details Abysmal US Record of Abuse
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
1 Dec 2014
Torture, indefinite detention, excessive force, and systematic discrimination and mistreatment have become part of the nation’s modern legacy.
→ read full articlePrivate Oncologists Being Forced Out, Leaving Patients to Face Higher Bills
Gina Kolata – The New York Times,
1 Dec 2014
Because of quirks in the payment system, patients and their insurers pay hospitals and their doctors about twice what they pay independent oncologists for administering cancer treatments.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dalla Carovana Migranti | Niscemi, 24 novembre [2014]
Karen Sampò – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
1 Dec 2014
In sosta a Niscemi, provenienti da Lampedusa, mentre eravamo alla base MUOS degli Stati Uniti c’era un militare statunitense nascosto dietro ai cespugli che ci ascoltava. Di norma quando qualcuno si avvicina alla base parte subito la segnalazione alla polizia di Niscemi che viene a fare un controllo, ti ferma e chiede i documenti.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden Awarded Stuttgart Peace Prize 2014
Iran English Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
24 Nov 2014 – Edward Snowden has been awarded Stuttgart Peace Prize 2014, established by citizens’ initiative Die AnStifter, RIA Novosti said.
→ read full articleOn Ferguson
First Dog on the Moon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Cartoon – Satirical Comic Strip
→ read full article41 Men Targeted but 1,147 People Killed: US Drone Strikes – The Facts on the Ground
Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
1 Dec 2014
New analysis of data conducted by human rights group Reprieve raises questions about accuracy of intelligence guiding ‘precise’ strikes. ‘They are only as precise as the intelligence that feeds them.’
→ read full articleGaza 2014 Compilation
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
A POMEAS Compilation of Writings Relating to Israel’s 50-Day Attack on Gaza
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Futuro della Mediazione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Per il miglioramento di sé competere con se stessi, non con altri, per una società di vincitori e sconfitti. Se s’impara il baricentro positivo, auto-miglioramento, buoni rapporti con equità e armonia, capacità di riconciliazione dei traumi e soluzione dei conflitti, si sarà ampiamente ricompensati con felicità e benessere.
→ read full articleAnother Case of Coercive Diplomacy: The Failure of the Iran Nuclear Negotiations
Gareth Porter – Middle East Eye,
1 Dec 2014
The US posture in talks with Iran has reflected the perspective of a dominant power accustomed to employing coercive power.
→ read full articleDoes the Name “Strauss-Kahn” Ring a Bell? – Trotsky at the IMF
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
1 Dec 2014
Let’s face it; Strauss-Kahn was headed in a direction that wasn’t compatible with the interests of the cutthroats who run the IMF. That much is clear. Now whether these same guys concocted the goofy “honey trap” at the Sofitel Hotel, we may never know.
→ read full articleNonviolent Action: Minimizing the Risk of Violent Repression
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
I would like to identify ways in which the risk of police or military personnel using illegal and violent tactics can be minimized and, in many cases, thwarted, wherever in the world the nonviolent action takes place. If we are going to take the necessary risks to save our world, we might as well do it strategically.
→ read full articleInternational Arms Transfers in 2013
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute-SIPRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
The volume of international transfers of major weapons grew by 14 per cent between 2004–2008 and 2009–13. The five largest suppliers in 2009–13—the United States, Russia, Germany, China and France—accounted for 74 per cent of the volume of exports.
→ read full articleLaying the Foundations of a World Citizens Movement
Anthony George, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
How can civil society organizations (CSOs) build a broad movement that draws in, represents and mobilises the citizenry, and how can they effect fundamental, systemic transformation, rather than trading in incremental change?
→ read full articleThe Jump
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were watching TV in the evening.
→ read full articleDominique Strauss-Kahn’s Concern for the Poor Got Him Destroyed
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
That Strauss-Kahn was so easily done in with the complicity of the American left-wing demonstrates that it is impossible for anti-elite leadership to rise in the West. Any time anti-establishment leadership shows its head, it is cut off.
→ read full articleRemembering Yoshikazu Sakamoto (1927-2014)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
I am sharing these words of appreciation, and hope that anyone from Japan who comes across this text will contact me, especially if they have a way of putting me in touch with either Yoshi’s family or Japanese media. I would like to believe that ‘an American appreciation’ of Professor Sakamoto, an important public intellectual, would be of interest to those who knew and admired him.
→ read full articleThe ‘Nation-State’ Bill: Jews Should Know Exactly Where It Leads
Daniel Blatman – Information Clearing House,
1 Dec 2014
One need not be a historian to see the resemblance between the controversial bill and nationality laws of in 1930s Europe.
→ read full articleSummit of Failure: How the EU Lost Russia over Ukraine
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
One year ago, negotiations over a Ukraine association agreement with the European Union collapsed. The result has been a standoff with Russia and war in the Donbass. It was an historical failure, and one that German Chancellor Angela Merkel contributed to.
→ read full articleWhistleblowing for Equitable Geopolitics Part 2: Project Camelot
Keil Eggers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
The period between the introduction of Project Camelot and its ultimate demise [1964-65] raises interesting questions about the relationship between government, the military, and social sciences. It exposed many of the U.S. government’s assumptions about the U.S. role in Latin America and the world at large.
→ read full articleSurviving Scarcities in Bulengo: Women’s Trial in Displaced Camps in North Kivu (D. R. Congo)
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
I reflect on the challenge of the Doctors Without Borders staff at the clinic. They are at the frontline of hope, they treat the disabled, do a regular follow up of the AIDS patients, support psychologically the women in distress. They are a group dedicated to provide free health care to everyone. They are also exposed to insecurity.
→ read full article8 Lessons Learned from the Million Mask March That Can Benefit All Activists
Justin King – Anonymous Headquarters,
1 Dec 2014
24 Nov 2014 – The Million Mask March in Washington, DC provided many teachable moments for activists.
→ read full article(Português) Guerra sem fim no Oriente Médio
Reginaldo Nasser, Fórum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
De certa forma, pode-se argumentar que não houve uma série de guerras no Oriente Médio durante esse período de 40 anos, mas sim uma única e longa guerra.
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The House of Rothschild Money’s Prophets
Prof. Niall Ferguson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family’s phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family’s vast political network, which gave it access to and influence over many of the greatest statesmen of the age.
→ read full article(Italiano) Territori malesi: sicurezza e sovranità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
La Malaysia ha recentemente esperito la massima insicurezza per due territori sovrani extra-territoriali: i voli Malaysian Airlines MH370 per Pechino e MH17 da Amsterdam. Se la Malaysia è stata vittima di un’aggressione, la risposta è la criminalizzazione. Per altri problemi la risposta è la rimozione delle cause di guerra, la soluzione dei conflitti sottostanti, e la costruzione della pace.
→ read full articleUsing Terrorists for Regime Change Is Unacceptable – Lavrov
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Moscow condemns efforts to overthrow Syria’s political regime using terrorist groups in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “The fight against terrorism should be conducted without ‘double standards.’”
→ read full articleThe Dangers of Nuclear Materials Entering into Space
Karl Grossman – Nation of Change,
24 Nov 2014
Inserting nuclear material into space flight is a dangerous venture, yet the U.S. and Russia are considering doing so. The recent crash of Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship Two and explosion on launch three days earlier of an Antares rocket further underline the dangers of inserting nuclear material in the always perilous space flight equation as the U.S. and Russia still plan.
→ read full articleFinancial Sector Invests Over US$ 402 Billion in Nuclear Weapons Producers
Wilbert van der Zeijden, Don’t Bank on the Bomb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The report Don’t Bank on the Bomb, published today [7 Nov 2014] by Dutch peace organization PAX, identifies 411 banks, insurance companies and pension funds with investments in 28 companies involved in the production, maintenance or stockpiling of nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleIsraeli Cabinet Approves Legislation Defining Nation-State of Jewish People
Peter Beaumont – The Guardian,
24 Nov 2014
23 Nov 2014 – A controversial bill that officially defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people has been approved by cabinet despite warnings that the move risks undermining the country’s democratic character.
→ read full article(Français) Burkina Faso : les armées africaines, entre prédation et rédemption
Philippe Leymarie, CETRI – TRANSC END Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
C’est la septième fois dans l’histoire de ce pays enclavé en bordure du Sahel où – comme ailleurs en Afrique – les militaires balancent entre leurs rôles de prédateur et de rédempteurs…
→ read full article(Castellano) Los contaminadores deben pagar
Naomi Klein, CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Las empresas de combustibles fósiles, que desde hace tiempo son tóxicas para nuestro entorno natural ¿están volviéndose tóxicas también para el entorno de las relaciones públicas?
→ read full articleFivefold Increase in Terrorism Fatalities since 9/11, Says Report
Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
24 Nov 2014
Terrorism is on the rise, with an almost fivefold increase in fatalities since 9/11, in spite of US-led efforts to combat it in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world, according to a report published on Tuesday [18 Nov 2014].
→ read full articleMore than 100,000 Libyans Flee Fighting in Oct. 2014 — 400,000 since Last May
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The UN refugee agency on 14 Nov 2014 reported that intense fighting among rival armed groups in western, eastern and south-eastern Libya has forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes in the past month
→ read full articleMH 17: Why Is Malaysia Not Part of the Probe?
Chandra Muzaffar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Why is Malaysia not in the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the MH 17 crash of July 17 2014? Our participation in the investigation will at least help to check any attempt to conceal or camouflage the real story behind one of the most heinous crimes in recent times.
→ read full articleRichard Katz on the Failures of ‘Voodoo Abenomics’
Jeff Kingston - The Japan Times,
24 Nov 2014
Richard Katz, editor-in-chief at The Oriental Economist, is the author of “Voodoo Abenomics: Japan’s Failed Comeback Plan,” an article published in the July/August [2014] issue of Foreign Affairs magazine.
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Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
24 Nov 2014
The economically devastated EU is a joke; the only thing that counts for the US is NATO – and the overwhelming majority of its members are in the bag, sharing the prevailing mood in Washington of treating Putin as if he were Milosevic, Saddam Hussein or Gaddafi. There are no signs whatsoever Team Obama is willing to de-escalate.
→ read full articleHow to Encrypt the Entire Web for Free
Micah Lee – The Intercept,
24 Nov 2014
If we’ve learned one thing from the Snowden revelations, it’s that what can be spied on will be spied on. Since the advent of what used to be known as the World Wide Web, it has been a relatively simple matter for network attackers—whether it’s the NSA, Chinese intelligence, your employer, your university, abusive partners, or teenage hackers on the same public WiFi as you—to spy on almost everything you do online.
→ read full articleThe Unholy City
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
In its long and checkered history, Jerusalem has been occupied by dozens of conquerors. Babylonians and Persians, Greeks and Romans, Mamluks and Turks, Britons and Jordanians – to mention just a few. The latest occupier is Israel, which conquered and annexed Jerusalem in 1967.
→ read full articleGrowth: The Destructive, Insatiable God That Can Never Be Appeased
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The blind pursuit of economic growth stokes a cycle of financial crisis, and wrecks our world. Another crash is coming. We all know it, now even David Cameron acknowledges it. The only questions are what the immediate catalyst will be, and when it begins.
→ read full articleSee Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas through the Lens of Young Residents’ Pinhole Cameras
Fabiano Post, Oximity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
The “Mão na Lata” (Hand on can) project consists of distributing pinhole cameras to teenagers from 12 to 18 years old in Complexo da Maré, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro comprising of 16 favelas where about 130,000 people live.
→ read full articleInvitation for Nominations to the International Bremen Peace Award 2015 – Crossing Boundaries/Breaking Vicious Circles
Schwelle Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
With this award we want to honour people and organizations that set an example through their work contributing to reconciliation, human rights, overcoming of racism, sustainable handling of nature and environment as well as to intercultural and inter-religious understanding.
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