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Ecolinguistic Communication
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Rhymed Reflections
→ read full articleAgent Orange Lives On in Vietnam, Poisoning Children and Ruining Lives
The Advocacy Project – Peace & Collaborative Development Network,
8 Sep 2014
While Le Ba Thuan was recruiting soldiers for the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, he would watch American planes spraying herbicide and try to avoid the contaminated areas. He never quite succeeded and for the past fifty years he has suffered from heart disease, high blood pressure, constant headaches, and skin rashes.
→ read full articleUS Analysts Conclude MH17 Downed by Aircraft
Haris Hussain – New Straits Times, Malaysia,
8 Sep 2014
Bociurkiw is a Ukrainian-Canadian monitor with OSCE who, along with another colleague, were the first international monitors to reach the wreckage after flight MH17 was brought down over eastern Ukraine. “There have been two or three pieces of fuselage that have been really pockmarked with what almost looks like machinegun fire; very, very strong machinegun fire,” Bociurkiw said in the interview.
→ read full articleGet Ready for the ‘Internet Slowdown’
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
8 Sep 2014
Next Wednesday, Sept. 10 [2014], if your favorite website seems to load slowly, take a closer look: You might be experiencing the Battle for the Net’s “Internet Slowdown,” a global day of grass-roots action.
→ read full articleIraq Has WMDs and Russia Has Invaded!
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The U.S. media has repeatedly been claiming that Russia has invaded Ukraine. They claim it for a while, and there’s obviously been no invasion, so they pause. Then they claim it again. Or they claim that a convoy of aid trucks constitutes an invasion.
→ read full articleMilitary Recruiters
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Ghouls troll school halls
preying on the young
who have no better options.
Nuclear Weapons Do Not Make Us Safer
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Rather than continuing to posture with its nuclear weapons in Europe, the United States should be leading the way in convening negotiations to eliminate all nuclear weapons for its own security and that of all the world’s inhabitants.
→ read full articleHow to Boycott Israel: Updated Guidelines for Academics
Ali Abunimah – Electronic Intifada,
8 Sep 2014
2 Sep 2014 – The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) recently updated its guidelines on how to apply the international academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
→ read full articleSeeds of Truth: A Response to Michael Specter’s Article in The New Yorker
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Michael Specter’s piece is poor journalism. I wonder why a journalist who has been Bureau Chief in Moscow for The New York Times and Bureau Chief in New York for the Washington Post, and clearly is an experienced reporter, would submit such a misleading piece. Or why The New Yorker would allow it to be published as honest reporting, with so many fraudulent assertions and deliberate attempts to skew reality.
→ read full articleLeaving Democracy to the Experts
Slavoj Žižek – In These Times,
8 Sep 2014
TISA’s secret trade negotiations quietly restructure our global economy. The key decisions concerning our economy are negotiated in secrecy, out of our sight, with no public debate. And such decisions set the coordinates for the unencumbered rule of capital.
→ read full articleIs Israel Bad for the Jews?
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
8 Sep 2014
Let’s recall that Israel’s reason for being was to give Jews shelter from the ravages of anti-Semitism. Indeed, with but very few exceptions, it is hard to imagine anywhere less safe for Jews than present-day Israel. And, there is growing evidence that Israeli behavior is a major source of today’s increasing anti-Semitism.
→ read full article(Português) Banco Mundial: Cuba Tem o Melhor Sistema Educativo da América Latina e do Caribe
Salim Lamrani - Opera Mundi,
8 Sep 2014
As conclusões do relatório são implacáveis. O Banco Mundial enfatiza “a baixa qualidade média dos professores da América Latina e do Caribe”, o que constitui o principal obstáculo para o avanço da educação no continente.
→ read full articleCrushing Debt: Argentina in the Shadow of the Vultures
Emiliano Gullo – CounterPunch,
8 Sep 2014
President Cristina Fernandez launched a legislative proposal to make Buenos Aires the place of payment for creditors and in this way, get out from under U.S. legislation that has trapped the country in a financial-judicial labyrinth. Now the government’s problem is internal: the opposition refuses to approve the law in Congress.
→ read full articleIn Azerbaijan, ‘Family Is the First Fear’ of LGBT Community
EurasiaNet Correspondents, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
“For his own safety,” a gay man “constantly” has to think about “what to wear so that he does not look different,” or otherwise attract attention. Many Azerbaijanis often presume that men who wear an earring or unusually colourful clothing are homosexual.
→ read full articleRecurring Nightmares: Genocide and the Long Shadow of Colonialism in Burma
Steven Kiersons, MA – The Sentinel Project,
8 Sep 2014
Why countries with a history of Western colonial influence are at a higher risk of genocide.
→ read full articleGod Wills It!
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
National conflicts are basically rational. They concern territory. They can usually be solved by compromise. Religious conflicts are irrational. Each side believes in an absolute truth, and automatically considers everybody else as infidels, enemies of the only true God.
→ read full articleMali: The Forgotten War
Pape Samba Kane – Al Jazeera,
8 Sep 2014
6 Sep 2014 – As representatives of the Malian government and various rebel groups meet in Algiers for peace talks, violence in northern Mali continues and so does the French military presence. France launched its military intervention in Mali in January 2013.
→ read full article(Português) Jihadistas na Casa Branca e os Gasodutos da Eurásia
Nazanín Armanian – Carta Maior,
8 Sep 2014
Um dos objetivos da atual ofensiva lançada contra a Rússia pelos EUA é forçar a Gazprom Germania a suspender cerca de 25 projetos que desenvolve na Europa.
→ read full articleLearning for Nonviolence and Better Governance versus Teaching for Violence and Worst Governance
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
I advise the teachers of our nation and the world to consider themselves as learners leading to the formation of sustainable genuine democracy, performance of good governance and practice of nonviolence. , “May we both (the teacher and the taught) attain fame together” as cited in Taittiriyopanishad.
→ read full articleShould Journalists Trust Themselves to Figure Out Which Sources Are Trustworthy?
Reg Chua - (Re)Structuring Journalism,
8 Sep 2014
It’s an important question for all of us. But it’s even more important for journalists, who talk to strangers on a regular basis and need to make snap judgments about how much faith we should have in what they say. So here’s the bad news: You shouldn’t trust yourself to figure out who you should trust.
→ read full articleXi, Modi, Jokowi: The Rise of a New Triad
Kishore Mahbubani - The BRICS Post,
8 Sep 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indonesia’s President-elect Joko “Jokowi” Widodo could end up ranked among their countries’ greatest modern leaders.
→ read full articlePenetrating the Darkness Covering Two Malaysian Airplane Disasters
John Chuckman - Pravda,
8 Sep 2014
The second great mystery is the US silence surrounding the disappearance, despite being the very nation able to offer the best information from the world’s most sophisticated surveillance radars and spy satellites.
→ read full articleCancer Behind 70% Deaths in India’s Atomic Energy Hubs
V Narayan & Malathy Iyer, TNN – The Times of India,
8 Sep 2014
7 Sep 2014 – Cancer caused almost 70% of the 3,887 health-related deaths in the atomic energy hubs across the country over the last 20 years, an RTI reply has revealed.
→ read full articleUN Secretary General “Alarmed” at Israel’s Announced Seizure of West Bank Land
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 1 September 2014 voiced his alarm at the announcement by Israeli authorities to declare nearly 1,000 acres of land in Bethlehem as so-called “state land.”
→ read full articleRare Insights from Inside Journalism in China: Dai Qing
Dai Qing – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
8 Sep 2014
A self-confessed “accidental” reporter, Dai Qing has been making waves in Chinese media and society for more than three decades with fearless story-telling and outspoken opinions.
→ read full articleAs I Age . . . Thoughts on Memory and Cosmos
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The reality is the omnipresence of memories — as we recall them, as wish to recall them, and as we wish to forget them. Memories are always present — waiting to be released. And with each memory, comes an endless flow of associations. Memories work their way to the surface — the immediacy of the present moment.
→ read full articleIran Didn’t Create ISIS; We Did
Ben Reynolds – The Diplomat,
8 Sep 2014
Instead of shifting blame for ISIS’s rise, the West and its allies should look in the mirror.
→ read full articleFukushima Crisis Continues, Was Worse Than First Reported
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Sep 2014
Nobody in the world knows how to dispose of radioactive waste safely and permanently. That’s a given. So Tokyo announced on August 29 [2014] that the Fukushima waste would be stored for 30 years in Fukushima prefect, in an “interim facility.” In Japanese, “Fukushima” means “Island of Good Fortune.”
→ read full articleHow America Made ISIS – Their Videos and Ours, Their “Caliphate” and Ours
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
8 Sep 2014
Looking back, it’s hard not to think of it as a kind of American jihadism and an attempt to establish what might have been an American caliphate in the region. In the process, the U.S. effectively dismantled and destroyed state power in the countries in which it intervened [Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya], while ensuring the destabilization of neighboring countries and finally the region itself.
→ read full articleClimate Change Means Lifestyle Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Scientists are unanimous in warning us that unless we very rapidly reduce CO2 emissions, we risk passing a tipping point beyond which we will be powerless to prevent uncontrollable global warming.
→ read full articleThe Whys behind the Ukraine Crisis
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
8 Sep 2014
Given the very high stakes of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, some analysts wonder what’s the real motive for taking this extraordinary risk over Ukraine. Is it about natural gas, protection of the U.S. dollar’s dominance, or an outgrowth of neocon extremism?
→ read full articleMedia Should Be Challenging Arguments for War, Not Baying for Blood
Dan Froomkin – The Intercept,
8 Sep 2014
Pundits and reporters are competing for who can be more scornful of President Obama for his insufficiently militaristic response to IS. They are gleefully parsing Obama’s language for weakness, while failing to ask the tough questions about what if any good it could actually accomplish.
→ read full articleTwo Types of Anti-Semitism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
This second type of supposed anti-Semitism is a tactic deployed to discredit critics of Israel by insisting that criticism of Israel and hatred of the Jewish people should not be distinguished.
→ read full articleMysterious Fake Cellphone Towers Are Intercepting Calls All Over the US
Jack Dutton, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
3 Sep 2014 – Every smart phone has a secondary OS, which can be hijacked by high-tech hackers. Seventeen fake cellphone towers were discovered across the U.S. last week, according to a report in Popular Science.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Council – Opening Statement
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
My first address to this Council takes place at a time when conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa regions, in particular, are escalating dramatically… My Office will be open to dialogue with all stakeholders; and within the limits of our resources, we will extend every possible assistance to States, to heighten their protection and promotion of human rights.
→ read full articleFlaws in US Thought–And Some Remedies
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Flaw #2: Confusing conflict with violence. Or “trouble”. Handling conflict becomes handling violence toward cease-fire or capitulation, then tidying up the “post-conflict” situation, only to discover that the violence reappears, perhaps with a vengeance. Nothing solved. Remedy: Separate the concepts.
→ read full articleRussell Tribunal Session on Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
On September 24 [2014] a special session of the Russell Tribunal will examine war crimes allegations against Israel arising from the 50-day Operation Protective Edge military operation that commenced on July 8th.
→ read full articleChild Trafficking Rampant in Underdeveloped Indian Villages
K. S. Harikrishnan, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
“Many families are unable to afford the basic necessities of life, which forces parents to sell their children. Some children are abandoned by families who can’t take care of them. Some run away to escape abuse or unhappy homes. Gangsters and middlemen approach these vulnerable children.”
→ read full articleThe Other 9/11
Mickey Z. - World News Trust,
8 Sep 2014
Sep. 11, 1973: “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.” — Henry Kissinger. Allende was dead. In his place, the people of Chile now faced brutal repression and human rights violations, book burnings, a powerful secret police, and more than 3,000 executions.
→ read full articleObama Is a Liar. Fake NATO Evidence. OSCE Confirms That No Russian Troops, No Tanks, Have Crossed the Russia-Ukraine Border
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
8 Sep 2014
Obama confirmed on September 3 that “Russian combat forces with Russian weapons in Russian tanks” had been deployed in Eastern Ukraine. That’s not only a Lie; it is Lie which could potentially precipitate humanity into a Third World War.
→ read full article(Italiano) Da Vicenza e Aviano parà Usa per war games in Ucraina
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
5 Set 2014 – War games: Oltre duecento paracadutisti statunitensi stanno per essere trasferiti in Ucraina per partecipare ad una vasta esercitazione militare multinazionale. I parà appartengono tutti al 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, il reparto d’élite aviotrasportato dell’esercito Usa di stanza a Vicenza.
→ read full articleBeheading versus Befooting
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
In Quest of the Lesser Evil for the Greater Good – Much is currently made of beheading of individuals by ISIS militants as being an act of pure evil. Framed as “pure evil”, such assertions raise the question of other degrees of evil of lesser “purity”. What makes that evil so pure?
→ read full article(Italiano) La caduta dell’Impero USA – e poi che cosa?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Fascismo USA? Sì, indubbio. Un’evoluzione profondamente tragica. Un paese così innovativo con null’altro da offrire che macro-bombardamenti, meso-droneggiamenti e micro-cecchinaggio. Percepiamo il complesso militare-industriale all’opera – l’industria delle bombe in prima fila.
→ read full articleExamining
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Two students went drinking late into the night before an exam.
→ read full articleWashington Piles Lie Upon Lie
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery. One reason is that Putin has invested heavily in diplomacy backed by unprovocative behavior. He would not risk his bet on diplomacy by sending in troops too few in number to have a decisive effect on the outcome.
→ read full articleNATO Attacks!
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
8 Sep 2014
You don’t need to be a neo-Foucault hooked on Orwellian/Panopticon practices to admire the hyper-democratic “ring of steel” crossing average roads, parks and even ringing castle walls to “protect” dozens of NATO heads of state and ministers in Newport, Wales. Once again, the battle lines are drawn. NATO vs SCO. NATO vs BRICS. NATO vs Global South. Therefore, NATO attacks!
→ read full articleIsrael Plans Largest West-Bank Settlement Expansion in ’30 Years’
Jeffrey Heller, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Israel announced on Sunday [31 Aug 2014] a land appropriation in the occupied West Bank that an anti-settlement group termed the biggest in 30 years. Some 400 hectares (988 acres) near Bethlehem were declared “state land, on the instructions of the political echelon” by the military-run Civil Administration.
→ read full articleThe War for Nothing
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
On the Israeli side: 71 dead, among them 66 soldiers, 1 child. On the Palestinian side: 2,143 dead, 577 of them children, 263 women, 102 elderly. 11,230 injured. 10,800 buildings destroyed. 8,000 partially destroyed. About 40,000 damaged homes. Among the damaged buildings: 277 schools, 10 hospitals, 70 mosques, 2 churches. Also, 12 West Bank demonstrators, mostly children, who were shot. Celebrating a similar triumph long ago, Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, remarked: “Another such victory and we will be lost!”
→ read full articlePresident Mukherjee Rejects 97% of Mercy Pleas as India Gives Two Death Sentences Each Day
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
The empirical evidence establishes that death penalty does not act as deterrent. ACHR called upon the Government of India to amend all laws that provide death penalty and replace them with imprisonment for life.
→ read full articleU.S. Identifies Citizens Joining [Mercenary] Rebels in Syria, Including ISIS
Michael S. Schmidt and Eric Schmitt – The New York Times,
1 Sep 2014
American intelligence and law enforcement agencies have identified nearly a dozen Americans who have traveled to Syria to fight for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
→ read full article300 Americans [Terrorists] Fighting Alongside IS
The Nation, Pakistan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
30 Aug 2014 – The US government is tracking and gathering intelligence on as many as 300 Americans who are fighting side by side with the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, according to senior US officials.
→ read full articleMonty Python State Department
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
No actual diplomats were harmed in the making of this production. Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets.
→ read full articleDon’t Read This Book: A History of Literary Censorship
Leo Robson – New Statesman,
1 Sep 2014
Reviews of Three New Works Concerned With Banned Literature
→ read full articleThe First Taiwan International Queer Film Festival Comes Out
Victor Stevenson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Taiwan International Media and Education Association and Portico Media created ‘The First Taiwan International Queer Film Festival,’ which will be held in Taipei Sep 26 to 30, 2014 and in Kaohsiung Oct 3 to 7. In the inaugural year, the organizers have programmed 60 movies from 30 countries.
→ read full articleColonization by Bankruptcy: The High-stakes Chess Match for Argentina
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Argentina is playing hardball with the vulture funds, which have been trying to force it into an involuntary bankruptcy. The vultures are demanding what amounts to a 600% return on bonds bought for pennies on the dollar.
→ read full articleStop Playing the Anti-Semitism Card & Get Real about the Rise of Fascism in Israel
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Each time the subject of Israel’s on-going genocidal treatment of Palestinians, many Jewish individuals throw around the anti-Semitism card, and non-Jews take a default position: self-censorship, rather than frank and brutally honest look at the empirically genocidal situation.
→ read full article(Italiano) Praticare la nonviolenza come strumento di lotta e difesa del territorio
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
1 Sep 2014
La Valsusa e il rifiuto della violenza. Campo MIR-MN – 10-17 agosto 2014
→ read full article(Português) A OTAN Desenterra o Machado de Guerra
Flávio Aguiar – Carta Maior,
1 Sep 2014
Nas semanas próximas haverá mudança de comando e definições importantes em matéria da estratégia da OTAN para os próximos anos.
→ read full articleAmerica Frightens Us
Roman Baudzus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Political Europe Suppressed Under Washington’s Thumb Is Waking Up – In the aftermath of the downing of the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine, the Western media followed Washington’s lead and manipulated reports in order to make Europeans believe that Russia and Russian-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine were responsible for downing the airliner.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the US Empire-And Then What?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
US Fascism? Yes, indeed. A deeply tragic development. Such an innovative country and nothing better to offer than macro bombing, meso droning and micro sniping. We sense the military-industrial complex at work–the bomb industry upfront.
→ read full articleOn Course for Holocaust II…?
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
I believe that what I am going to say needs to be said and should be widely debated if the rising, global tide of “anti-Israelism” (I prefer the term anti-Zionism) is not to be transformed into anti-Semitism on a scale that could lead, in a foreseeable future, to Holocaust II.
→ read full article
That’s What Friends Are for – Diane Warwick & Friends (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
With Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Kick back, relax, enjoy…
→ read full articleEradication as the Strategic Final Solution of the 21st Century?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Indicative Checklist of Possible Domains of Application – The purpose of this exercise is to collect together the domains in which “eradication” is somehow considered the most appropriate manner of responding to what is framed as a problem.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Jewish Community, Amoral Familism and the Crisis of Palestine
Steve Koppman – Huffington Post,
1 Sep 2014
A Judaism that treasures Jewish lives and devalues Arab lives is no longer Judaism. The U.S. Jewish community had its political identity hijacked by an influential minority, including many community leaders and rabbis, who advocate for Israel no matter what it does.
→ read full article(Português) De que solidariedade nos fala a União Europeia?
Emir Sader – Carta Maior,
1 Sep 2014
Não se sabe bem por que razão a América Latina teria que ser solidária com a UE e com os EUA, que decidiram sanções contra a Rússia, sem nenhuma consulta a AL.
→ read full articleKilling Civilians
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
In Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions, Articles 51 and 54 outlaw indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations, and destruction of food, water, and other materials needed for survival.
→ read full articleSanctions & the Dollar: A Fall from Grace?
Conn Hallinan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
The recent round of sanctions aimed at Moscow over the crisis in the Ukraine could backfire on Washington by accelerating a move away from the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
→ read full articleCivil Resistance and Conflict Transformation: Transition from armed to nonviolent struggle
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
What if the original armed violence does not produce results? Can groups move from armed violence to other techniques? Should one modify if armed violence is blocked? TRANSCEND member Manish Thapa is one of the authors featured on this ‘Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution.’
→ read full article(Castellano) Islamistas toman embajada de EE.UU. en Trípoli [Libia]
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
31 Ago 2014 – La información fue reseñada por la agencia RT, portal que precisó-citando a un periodista de AP- que aunque las ventanas en el complejo han sido destrozadas, la mayoría del equipo que había sido dejado por los estadounidenses permanecieron intactos.
→ read full article(Italiano) USA-Israele vs. mondi arabo-musulmano: che succede?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Nulla di buono. Ma diamo uno sguardo con le modalità standard degli studi per la pace: diagnosi-analizzare, prognosi-prevedere, e terapia–rimedi, perfino soluzioni.
→ read full articleAmerican History
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
It was the first day of school and a new student named Yuki entered the fourth grade.
→ read full articleWashington’s “Pivot” Hits a Brick Wall: Obama’s “Catastrophic Defeat” in Ukraine
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
1 Sep 2014
Barack Obama has pushed Ukraine to the brink of political, economic and social collapse. Now he wants to blame Russia for the damage he’s done. It’s absurd. That’s all Washington’s doing, just as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria were Washington’s doing.
→ read full articleDethrone ‘King Dollar’
Jared Bernsteinaug – The New York Times,
1 Sep 2014
What was once a privilege is now a burden, undermining job growth, pumping up budget and trade deficits and inflating financial bubbles. To get the American economy on track, the government needs to drop its commitment to maintaining the dollar’s reserve-currency status.
→ read full articleRevolutionary Rats
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
You’re a rat in a maze and you can’t get out.
The rats are eating the other rats.
How do you like this luscious rat food?
The Changing Face of Europe’s Mafia
Benjamin Fox – EUObserver,
1 Sep 2014
What is arguably more disturbing, not to mention much harder for law enforcement agencies to trace, is the infiltration of mafia groups in the legitimate business world.
→ read full articleCause of New Mexico Nuclear Waste Accident Remains a Mystery
Ralph Vartabedian – Los Angeles Times,
1 Sep 2014
23 Aug 2014 – A 55-gallon drum of nuclear waste, buried in a salt shaft 2,150 feet under the New Mexico desert, violently erupted late on Feb. 14 and spewed mounds of radioactive white foam contaminating the nation’s only dump for nuclear weapons waste — and gave the nation’s elite ranks of nuclear chemists a mystery they still cannot unravel.
→ read full articleLet’s Wave the Nonkilling Flag: A Global Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
When the Nonkilling Flag we wave
We show our community how to be brave
The Meltdown
Bret Stephens – Commentary Magazine,
1 Sep 2014
The president was supposed to be ending wars, pressing resets, pursuing pivots, and restoring America’s good name. Instead, the foreign policy of the United States is in disarray. Failed policy has given way to an absence of policy. So it is in Libya, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and, at least until recently, Ukraine.
→ read full articleFearing Political Islam: Why Arabs Betrayed Gaza
Ramzy Baroud – Toward Freedom,
1 Sep 2014
Some Arab rulers continue to declare their strong support of Palestine and its cause. ‘Operation Protective Edge,’ however, has exposed beyond a doubt that such solidarity is just a mere show of words.
→ read full articleThe Difference between Children
Gideon Levy – Information Clearing House,
1 Sep 2014
After the first child, nobody batted an eye; after the 50th not even a slight tremor was felt in a plane’s wing; after the 100th, they stopped counting; after the 200th, they blamed Hamas. After the 300th child they blamed the parents. After the 400th child, they invented excuses; after (the first) 478 children nobody cares.
→ read full article(Italiano) Unirsi per la pace, costruire una pace sostenibile con valori universali nel centenario della I guerra mondiale – criminalizzando la guerra
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
La Pace di Westfalia del 1648 stabilizzò due cristianesimi al prezzo di un sistema statuale con il “diritto alla guerra”. Quel mandato istituzionale deve sparire.
→ read full articleGeneva Accords?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
I must admit that I am bored
by each arcane humane accord.
The Death Grip of Neoliberalism – Keynes Is Dead; Long Live Marx!
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh - CounterPunch,
1 Sep 2014
Marx characterized capitalism’s ability to create a big pool of the unemployed (in order to create a poor and meek working class) as “immiseration” and submission of labor force—a built-in mechanism that is essential to the “general law” of capitalist accumulation: It follows that in proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the labourer must grow worse.
→ read full articleThe Fukushima Nuclear Accident as Told by Plant Manager Masao Yoshida
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
The document remains the only available official transcript of the testimony by Yoshida, the on-site commander of efforts to bring the situation under control, who died in July 2013 of esophageal cancer without having disclosed much to the media.
→ read full article(Italiano) Galtung: Erdogan dovrebbe concentrarsi sulla politica estera
Yonca Poyraz Dogan intervista Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Galtung ha parlato con noi trattando più ampiamente la tematica durante la sua recente visita a Istanbul per la conferenza biennale dell’ International Peace Research Association (IPRA).
→ read full article90% of TEPCO Workers Defied Orders, Fled Fukushima Plant in 2011
Hideaki Kimura – The Asahi Shimbun,
1 Sep 2014
Almost all workers, including managers required to deal with accidents, defied orders and fled the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant at a critical juncture when the disaster was unfolding in March 2011, documents showed.
→ read full articleNisteling: The Art of Deep Listening
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
I believe that this is the essential foundation step in any strategy to end human violence (in all of its manifestations).
→ read full articleDutch Intellectuals Apologize to Putin for Lies on MH17, Syria, Ukraine…
Macedonian International News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
27 Aug 2014 – A letter sent by a prominent Dutch Professor to Russian president Vladimir Putin has attracted much media attention in Europe. The letter was written by Professor Cees Hamelink and signed by dozens of Dutch intellectuals and professors. Below is the letter in its entirety.
→ read full articleObese Intelligence – The NSA Search Engine
Binoy Kampmark - CounterPunch,
1 Sep 2014
The Intercept was already getting the intelligence community excited with its revelations that the NSA decided to mimic inspector Google. The revelations have a few implications, the most obvious one confirming the transition between intelligence work and the policing function.
→ read full articleContinuing Media Silence on the Fate of Flight MH17
Stefan Steinberg, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
With a handful of exceptions, a shroud of silence has been drawn by the international media regarding the fate of Malaysian Airlines MH17, which crashed over Ukraine nearly six weeks ago.
→ read full articleThe Truth about the IS
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Many of those who have condemned the Islamic State (IS) do not want to know how this terrorist outfit came into being in the first instance. It is a direct consequence of the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.
→ read full articleThe Fall of France
Paul Krugman, Nobel Economics Laureate – The New York Times,
1 Sep 2014
It’s a remarkable spectacle. France isn’t Greece; it isn’t even Italy. But it is letting itself be bullied as if it were a basket case.
→ read full articleA Poem on the 74th Anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s Murder
Kevin Higgins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
Today [21 Aug 2014] is the 74th anniversary of the murder in Mexico City, by an agent of Soviet Military Intelligence, of the exiled co-organiser of the Russian Revolution.
→ read full articleObama Buggers Europe: Sanctions Deepen the Recession
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
By submitting to Washington’s doctrine of permanent wars, Europe eschews the only road out of permanent crisis: peaceful co-existence. The mega-buggers in Washington and the bootlickers in Europe have chosen sanctions over trade and destruction over prosperity.
→ read full article(Português) Acusemos Israel
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
A criação do Estado judaico de Israel configura um crime continuado cujos abismos mais desumanos se revelam nos dias de hoje. Declarada a sua extinção, os cidadãos do mundo propõem a criação na Palestina de um Estado secular, plurinacional e intercultural, onde judeus e palestinos possam viver pacifica e dignamente.
→ read full articleThe Historical Perspective of the 2014 Gaza Massacre
Ilan Pappé – The Plymouth Institute for Peace Research,
25 Aug 2014
The Israeli strategy of branding its brutal policies as an ad hoc response to this or that Palestinian action is as old as the Zionist presence in Palestine itself. It was used repeatedly as a justification for implementing the Zionist vision of a future Palestine that has in it very few, if any, native Palestinians.
→ read full articleNSA Planned Automated Cyberwarfare Program
Jack Gillum, Associated Press – Christian Science Monitor,
25 Aug 2014
13 Aug 2014 – The NSA secretly planned a cyberwarfare program that could automatically fire back at cyberattacks from foreign countries without any human involvement, creating the risk of accidentally starting a war, according to a new report based on interviews with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleNo Hope for AIDS-Free Generation in Uganda as Controversial HIV Bill Is Signed into Law
Amy Fallon, IPS – TRANCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
21 Aug 2014 – The act, HIV/AIDS activists say, will lead to people shunning testing and treatment, but will particularly drive sex workers and gay men underground, and make women more vulnerable to domestic violence.
→ read full articleU.N. Prepares for Overhaul of Arms Trade Reporting
Joel Jaeger, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
18 Aug 2014 – The Arms Trade Treaty is about to provide the biggest shake-up to conventional arms trade transparency since the end of the Cold War.
→ read full articleWar in the Hundred Acre Woods
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
“To renounce aggression is not enough,” writes Milne. “We must also renounce defence.” What do we replace it with? Milne depicts a world of nonviolent dispute resolution, arbitration, and a changed conception of honor or prestige that finds war shameful rather than honorable. And not just shameful, but mad.
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