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Human Life’s Price-Tag for General Motors: 10 Bucks
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
I am opposed to the death penalty, but to every rule there is usually an exception. If their top people crunch the numbers and can show that they will save more money by NOT fixing or replacing the part, then that is what they are going to goddam well do. F*** you, f*** me, and f*** everybody they sent to their deaths.
→ read full articleWhy Did GM Take So Long to Respond to Deadly Defect? Corporate Culture May Hold Answer
Michael A. Fletcher and Steven Mufson – The Washington Post,
7 Apr 2014
It’s relatively cheap and easy to replace the flawed ignition switch that has been blamed for at least 13 deaths, including a fatal June 2013 crash in Quebec newly linked to the defect. Yet General Motors waited more than a decade before recalling 2.6 million Chevrolet Cobalts and other small cars.
→ read full articleA Quarter of Europe’s Bumblebees, Vital to Crops, Face Extinction: Study
Alister Doyle, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Almost a quarter of Europe’s bumblebees are at risk of extinction due to loss of habitats and climate change, threatening pollination of crops worth billions of dollars, a study showed on Wednesday [2 Apr 2014].
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia Declares All Atheists Are Terrorists in New Law to Crack Down on Political Dissidents
Adam Withnall – The Independent,
7 Apr 2014
Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report from Human Rights Watch. The new “terrorism” provisions contain language that prosecutors and judges are already using to prosecute and convict independent activists and peaceful dissidents.
→ read full articleShocking Court Documents Expose SeaWorld’s Continued Cruelty of Orca Whales
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
SeaWorld has faced intense criticism since the release of Blackfish, a documentary telling the story of orca whales kept in captivity at SeaWorld theme parks. Now court documents reveal that SeaWorld is pumping these marine animals full of psychotropic drugs.
→ read full articleDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Why He Died & Why It Matters!
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the apostle of non-violence, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. Few people remember him for his work for economic justice and an end to the U.S. war in Vietnam. Very few people realize that a jury in the wrongful death suit brought by the King family found that Dr. King’s death was “an act of State.”
→ read full articleFIFA Threatens to Expel Israel over Restrictions on Palestinians
The Jerusalem Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
According to Inside World Football, FIFA has given Israel until the summer to improve travel and playing conditions for Palestinian soccer players.
→ read full articleThe US-Russia Ukrainian Deal
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
7 Apr 2014
4 Apr 2014 – By the time you read this Russia will have invaded Ukraine. Well, that’s what the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, General Philip Breedlove, is spinning. Breedlove Supreme says the Russians are “ready to go” and could easily take over eastern Ukraine. Western corporate media have already dusted off their Kevlar vests.
→ read full articleBeing neither Dead nor Alive
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
How do such questions relate to the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as embodied in the US Declaration of Independence? Does the sense of being alive relate to the experience of happiness or rather to some more profound and inexplicable engagement with life?
→ read full articleEgypt in the Rear Mirror (II): Who Are the Not-So-Invisible Powers Behind the Troglodytes?
Baher Kamal - Human Wrongs Watch,
7 Apr 2014
Cairo, 26 March 2014 – “If you cannot win them, join them” seems to be the old British political principle that Washington has been applying to its plans to re-design the Arab region, always under the recurrent public pretext of the “war on terrorism.”
→ read full articleVenezuela: A Call for Peace
Nicolás Maduro – International New York Times,
7 Apr 2014
The claims that Venezuela has a deficient democracy and that current protests represent mainstream sentiment are belied by the facts. The antigovernment protests are being carried out by people in the wealthier segments of society who seek to reverse the gains of the democratic process that have benefited the vast majority of the people.
→ read full articleBrazil Marks 50 Years since US-Backed Coup
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Brazil marks the 50th anniversary of the April 1, 1964, military coup that subjected Latin America’s largest country to 21 years of brutal dictatorship. The events were orchestrated by the CIA, the State Department, the Pentagon and the White House under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
→ read full articleWhy I Am Not Going to Iraq
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
I am not going to Iraq
because I might see
a ten year-old girl get her face blown off
Boycott of Israel Moving to Next Level
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Apr 2, 2014 – Shir Hever: “BDS movement including large scale divestment by big corporations and approaching the level of government sanctions.”
→ read full articleSri Lanka Retaliates Against UN Call for War Crimes Investigation – List Tamil Groups as Terrorists
World News Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Chief among them is Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, which held internationally supervised elections among Tamils around the world to elect over 120 Members of Parliament and is leading a campaign for non-violent and democratic approach to solve Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict.
→ read full articleClimate Science’s Dire Warning: Humans Are Baking the Planet
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
7 Apr 2014
The IPCC, over 1,800 scientists from around the world, collects, analyzes and synthesizes the best, solid science on climate and related fields. The prognosis is not good. Evidence is mounting that we will experience more extreme weather events, including hurricanes and droughts, mass extinctions and severe food shortages globally.
→ read full articleBritish Aid for Myanmar Ethnic Cleansing
Maung Zarni – Asia Times,
7 Apr 2014
Britain, the largest donor country and former colonizer of Myanmar, is effectively aiding and abetting the unfolding “ethnic cleansing” of Muslim Rohingya by helping to finance the country’s controversial 2014 national census.
→ read full articleHappy 80th Birthday, Jane Goodall: The Beloved Primatologist on Science, Religion, and Our Human Responsibilities
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Legendary British primatologist Jane Goodall (b. April 3, 1934) is celebrated not only as humanity’s greatest expert on chimpanzees but also as a remarkable mind that bridges the rigor of science with the sensitivity of spirituality.
→ read full articleSecret Weapon
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
One day Satan challenged Heaven to a baseball game. Peter took a quick look at the rosters and accepted.
→ read full article‘Cuban Twitter’ Heads to Hearings in Congress
Jack Gillum, Desmond Butler and Alberto Arce, Associated Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
4 Apr 2014 – The head of the U.S. government agency that secretly created a “Cuban Twitter” communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba is expected to testify next week before a senator who thinks the whole idea was “dumb, dumb, dumb.”
→ read full articleThe Struggle for Humanity
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Insanity is widely understood to refer to a state of mind that prevents normal perception, behaviour or social interaction; it describes someone who is considered to be seriously mentally ill. And this is an accurate description of the global elite and those who serve it whether they be in political, business, legal, psychiatric, corporate media, academic or other circles.
→ read full articleLeak the CIA Report: It’s the Only Way to Know the Whole Truth about Torture
Trevor Timm – The Guardian,
7 Apr 2014
Unless, of course, you think spies redacting 6,300 pages of their own sins is transparency. Look how much leaks told us this week.
→ read full articleGeorge Hewitt – Discordant Neighbours: A Reassessment of the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South-Ossetian Conflicts
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Creating new types of political association takes time, goodwill and a willingness to compromise, to do with “less than the best”. Unfortunately, the years of Soviet rule did not create these traits in the leadership of the republics now become independent, nor within the ethnic-based regions within the new republics as we see currently in Ukraine.
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Hungarian Dance No.5 (Music Video of the Week)
David Garrett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Composition: Johannes Brahms. David Garrett: Violin
→ read full articlePeace Pilgrimage to Syria and Iran
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Peace People, N. Ireland delegation Ms. Ann Patterson and Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire will join an International delegation visiting Iran and Syria from 4th – 16th April, 2014.
→ read full article(Italiano) Stati Uniti d’America — Uno stato fallito?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Dipende, ovviamente, dai criteri. Uno stato ha una politica interna verso i propri cittadini, e una esterna verso il sistema statuale. Dipende dalla politica interna ed estera, in altre parole. Questo vuol dire che può fallire in due modi, col non occuparsi dei propri cittadini e col non venire a patti con altri stati. Effettivamente i due aspetti sono strettamente correlati come sovente è stato fatto notare.
→ read full articlePrison of the Past: A Reporter Revisits His ‘Shameful’ Coverage of Rwanda
Bartholomäus Grill – Der Spiegel,
7 Apr 2014
Twenty years ago on April 6, the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda began. At the time, many Western reporters played it down as “ethnic warfare,” including Bartholomäus Grill, now a correspondent for SPIEGEL. He looks back with shame.
→ read full articlePeace Education in Boston
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
That’s what life, and peace education looks like in Boston. It also serves as a stark reminder that the citizens, teachers, and students of any nation are often far removed from the militarism and violence that their federal governments promote in their foreign (and/or domestic) policies.
→ read full article15 Plants to Help Save Bees
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
With spring upon us, it’s a perfect time to think about what we can plant to help save the bees. Here’s a list of 15 plants to consider if you’d like to help.
→ read full articleThe End of the Capitalist Era, and What Comes Next
Jeremy Rifkin - Reader Supported News,
7 Apr 2014
The capitalist era is passing… not quickly, but inevitably. A new economic paradigm — the Collaborative Commons — is rising in its wake. We are already witnessing the emergence of a hybrid economy, part capitalist market and part Collaborative Commons. The two economic systems often work in tandem and sometimes compete.
→ read full articleW.H. Auden: (1907-1973) Poet of the Age of Anxiety
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Wystan Hugh Auden, is appreciated as a bridge builder by two separate groups of poetry readers. Each group celebrates half of his poetic life and rather tries to forget about the other half, seeing one part of his life as the perfect image of the modern poet who then lost his way.
→ read full articleDon’t Count on It – Myanmar’s Course Is Leading in the Wrong Direction
Banyan – The Economist,
7 Apr 2014
The trouble is that the census uses an eccentric list of 135 recognised nationalities, inherited from the British colonialists and incorporated into a 1982 citizenship law. Of its many inaccurate or debatable features, the most egregious is the exclusion of a group known as the Rohingyas—of whom Myanmar has about 1million.
→ read full articleYOU Can Stop the Slow Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya and Muslims!
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
One of the legacies of the 50 years of military rule and societal isolation (from the world) is multifold: ultra-conservative versions of various faiths, particularly Buddhism, thrive there; the high level of public ignorance is matched only by the extremely low level of critical popular thoughts.
→ read full articleHow Australia’s “Media Watch” Lost its Teeth, Backing the War on Syria
Prof. Tim Anderson – Global Research,
7 Apr 2014
A turn to reactionary politics is nowhere more clearly seen than in a formerly independent voice moving away from criticism of the high and mighty towards attacks on little people. Australia’s public broadcaster Media Watch bought into the propaganda war on Syria.
→ read full articleBRICS Countries Oppose Ban on Putin Attending G20 Summit
Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014 – Brazil, India, China and South Africa today opposed any restrictions on participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Australia later this year in the wake of Russia annexing Crimea from Ukraine.
→ read full articleInternational Court of Justice Upholds Australia’s Bid to Ban Japanese Whaling in Antarctica
Andrew Darby – The Sydney Morning Herald,
31 Mar 2014
31 Mar 2014 – The International Court of Justice president Peter Tomka said the court concluded the scientific permits granted by Japan for its whaling program were not scientific research as defined under International Whaling Commission rules. The ICJ’s judgements are binding and cannot be appealed.
→ read full articleIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report: ‘No One Will Be Untouched by Climate Change’
Danielle Demetriou in Yokohama – The Telegraph,
31 Mar 2014
Flooding, storm surges, droughts and heatwaves are among key risks of global warming. The warnings were published by the IPCC Working Group II report on Monday [31 Mar 2014], which was compiled by more than 300 authors from 70 countries and thousands of global experts.
→ read full articleSniper
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
One man, one gun, one shot, one corpse.
That is how Ernie Pyle died on Okinawa,
caught in the crosshairs….
and how many others
in how many wars?
Does the Academy Matter?
Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Do policymakers listen? Should you get a Ph.D.? And where are all the women? In mid-February, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof kicked over an ivy-covered hornet’s nest when he complained that too many professors sequester themselves in the ivory tower amid “a culture that glorifies arcane unintelligibility while disdaining impact and audience.”
→ read full articleWhat’s the Difference between Force Feeding and Waterboarding?
Zak Newman, ACLU – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
24 Mar 2014 – The Department of Defense this month publicly released its newest rationalization for the abusive force-feeding program at Guantánamo Bay. In this latest memo on hunger strike policies, the abusive force-feeding program is referred to as “medical intervention.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
→ read full articleThe WIPP-Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Problem, and What It Means for Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal
Robert Alvarez – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
31 Mar 2014
“It’s a surprise when there are no surprises,” a cleanup worker told me a few years ago at the Hanford site in Washington state, once the world’s largest producer of plutonium for nuclear weapons and now home to a massive effort to stop leaking nuclear waste tanks from poisoning the Columbia River.
→ read full articleBanking Union Time Bomb: Eurocrats Authorize Bailouts AND Bail-Ins
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
“As things stand, the banks are the permanent government of the country, whichever party is in power.”
→ read full articleUkraine’s Inconvenient Neo-Nazis
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
31 Mar 2014
When Ukrainian neo-Nazis – infuriated over the killing of an ultranationalist leader – surrounded the Parliament in Kiev, the incident presented a problem for the U.S. news media which has been trying to airbrush the neo-Nazis out of the Ukraine narrative.
→ read full articleBig Win Looms for Anti-Whaling Activists: Japan’s Whaling in the Antarctic Ocean Might Be Over
Reid Singer - Outside Magazine,
31 Mar 2014
This Monday, March 31 [2014], a ruling at The Hague on Japan’s whaling activity in the Antarctic Ocean might mark the end of an era.
→ read full articleChild Abuse: The Cardinal Who Knew Nothing
Adam Brereton – New Matilda,
31 Mar 2014
Cardinal George Pell’s extraordinary testimony yesterday [24 Mar 2014] before the Australian Royal Commission into child abuse confirms that the church is not fit to govern itself in child abuse matters.
→ read full article(Castellano) Países del BRICS condenan imposición de sanciones contra Rusia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Los Gobiernos de BRICS (Brasil, India, China y Sudáfrica) se reunieron este lunes [24 Mar 2014] in La Haya, al oeste de los Países Bajos, y condenaron las amenazas y sanciones unilaterales impuestas por Estados Unidos y sus aliados europeos contra Rusia.
→ read full articleSwiss Decide Against Russian Sanctions
The Local, Switzerland – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
The Swiss federal government on Wednesday [26 Mar 2014] decided not to impose sanctions against Russia for its seizure of Crimea, claiming it wanted to find a “balance” between international law and Switzerland’s interests.
→ read full articleReport Exposes Products Driving International Killing and Trade of Whales
Whale and Dolphin Conservation, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Whale and Dolphin Conservation released a new report [23 Mar 2014] which highlights the global scale of killing and trade in whales in the twenty-first century. WDC demonstrates that consumption of whale and dolphin meat and by-products is not confined to just a few nations, as many believe.
→ read full articleBDS: Non-Violent Resistance to Israeli Occupation
Marjorie Cohn – Common Dreams,
31 Mar 2014
Thanks to Scarlett Johansson, the American Studies Association and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has entered our national discourse. Unless and until Israel ends its brutal occupation of Palestinian lands, grants full equality to all its people, and recognizes the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their land, the non-violent BDS movement will continue to grow and cripple the Israeli economy.
→ read full articleEgypt in the Rear Mirror (I): The Irresistible Temptation to Analyse What One Ignores
Baher Kamal - Human Wrongs Watch,
31 Mar 2014
Simply one thing is to live the events, witness them, be immersed in them, having been born there and understanding the culture and language of the people, and quite a different thing is to just surf in Internet and watch TV as a way to asses and further judge what is going on in a very far away country.
→ read full articleLawyer Good Samaritan
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
One afternoon a wealthy lawyer was riding in his limousine through the country-side when he saw a man along the roadside eating grass. Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and got out of his car.
→ read full articleIsraeli Boycott Case: Sydney Academic’s Lawyers Say Claims Are Pumped Up
Michael Safi – The Guardian,
31 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014 – Lawyers for a Sydney University academic who is accused of unlawful discrimination for his boycott of Israel say the case against [TMS advisor, TRANSCEND member] Jake Lynch is full of “pumped-up claims” that are “embarrassing in the legal sense, and embarrassing in the non-legal sense”.
→ read full article(Português) Otan na Ucrânia é o mesmo que mísseis em Cuba, diz Moniz Bandeira
Marco Aurélio Weissheimer – Carta Maior,
31 Mar 2014
Em entrevista à Carta Maior, o historiador Moniz Bandeira fala sobre a crise na Ucrânia, suas implicações geopolíticas e possibilidades de escalada.
→ read full articleAdam Curle: Tools for Transformation
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Adam Curle was the first chair of the School of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK in the early 1970s. He had been active in mediation efforts in conflicts in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe, usually on behalf of the Society of Friends (Quakers). He stressed the need to train mediators, and as he points out, one of the first steps for a potential mediator is to look deeply into one’s self, into one’s values and experiences.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full article25th IPRA General Conference LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
Nesrin Kenar, IPRA Secretary General – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
On the occasion of IPRA’S 50th anniversary – Istanbul, Turkey, August 10-14, 2014 – Uniting for Peace: Building Sustainable Peace through Universal Values – Deadline for Proposals: APRIL 30, 2014.
→ read full articleChile Derails ‘Monsanto Law’ That Would Privatize Seeds
Asha DuMonthier - New America Media,
31 Mar 2014
This month, rural women, indigenous communities and farmers in Chile found themselves on the winning end of a long-fought battle against a bill that had come to be known by many in this country as simply, the “Monsanto Law.”
→ read full articleKenneth Roth and “Human Rights Watch”: Campaigners for War and Terror in Syria
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
HRW avoids informing us of the extent of the suffering of ordinary Syrian people at the hands of 1,000 or more militant groups dominated by foreign fighters and Al-Qaeda. Instead it focuses principally on the alleged crimes of the Syrian government, thus fomenting more outrage against the government and the country’s president.
→ read full articleOnline Dating for Lesbians: Has Dattch Rewritten the Rules?
Eleanor Margolis – The Guardian,
31 Mar 2014
The award-winning UK-based app Dattch says it’s the first of its type designed specifically for women. So has it improved the online dating experience for lesbians?
→ read full articleAnatomy of the Deep State
Mike Lofgren – Moyers & Company,
31 Mar 2014
There is the visible government in Washington and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists. The former is the tip of the iceberg that is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power.
→ read full articleBRICS Rejects Sanctions against Russia over Ukraine
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
27 Mar 2014 – The group of five major emerging national economies known as the BRICS has rejected the Western sanctions against Russia and the “hostile language” being directed at the country over the crisis in Ukraine.
→ read full articleAdam Smith’s Invisible Hand Is at Our Throats
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
As everyone knows, Adam Smith invented the theory that individual self-interest is, and ought to be, the main motivating force of human economic activity, and that, in effect, it serves the wider social interest. He put forward a detailed description of this concept in an immense book, “The Wealth of Nations” (1776).
→ read full articleWorld’s First Battery-Powered Bus Transports 135,000 Passengers in 10 Days
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Electric buses have been rolled out at trade shows in recent years, but a suburb of São Paulo, Brazil began picking up riders earlier this month in what officials say is the world’s first battery-powered public transit bus.
→ read full articleThe Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight
Bill Moyers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Mike Lofgren, a congressional staff member for 28 years, joins Bill Moyers to talk about the “Deep State,” in which elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests. “It is how we had deregulation, financialization of the economy, the Wall Street bust, the erosion or our civil liberties and perpetual war.” (26:40)
→ read full articleUruguay’s Public Transport Goes Electric
Inés Acosta, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Uruguay plans to gradually replace oil-based fuels with electric energy in its public transport system, and is currently assessing the costs and benefits of the shift. Tests indicate that the running costs of electric buses can be six- to eight-fold lower than for diesel buses.
→ read full article‘A’ for Angela Merkel: GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies
Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark – Der Spiegel,
31 Mar 2014
Documents show that Britain’s GCHQ intelligence service infiltrated German Internet firms and America’s NSA obtained a court order to spy on Germany and collected information about the chancellor in a special database. Is it time for the country to open a formal espionage investigation?
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Loucura (Music Video of the Week)
Mariza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Mariza sings the Fado Live at Union Chapel, London. Mariza canta o Fado ao vivo na Union Chapel, em Londres.
→ read full articleDestroyer of Worlds
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
New research suggests there was no state of grace: for two million years humankind has been the natural world’s nemesis.You want to know who we are? Really? This article, if you have any love for the world, will inject you with a venom – a soul-scraping sadness – without an obvious antidote.
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It Doesn’t Make Sense to Buy Bottled Water
Yarra Valley Water – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Did you know you can get 6,000 glasses of tap water for the same cost as a bottle of water? It’s kinda like buying Bottled Fresh Air.
→ read full articleChina Demands Explanation from U.S. on Huawei Spying Report
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
China wants a clear explanation from Washington over reports that the U.S. National Security Agency infiltrated servers at the headquarters of telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co HWT.UL, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday [24 Mar 2014].
→ read full article(Italiano) Non abbastanza bene, signor Putin!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
La storia conta, non solo il diritto; come il modo in cui Crimea e Abkhazia-SudOssetia – fondamentalmente russo-ortodosse – divennero ucraina-georgiane. Due dittatori sovietici, Khrushchev e Stalin, attaccati rispettivamente all’Ucraina e alla Georgia, decisero così, per editto. Non chiesero alla gente del posto, come neppure agli hawaiiani quando gli USA si annessero il loro regno nel 1898 – per editto.
→ read full article(Português) O Jornalismo de Hoje: Uma Escolha Entre o Mercado e as Pessoas
Roberto Savio – Carta Maior,
31 Mar 2014
O verdadeiro problema é que o jornalismo se converteu em tão somente um espelho de nosso tempo, abdicando de qualquer função social, para limitar-se a ser um abastecedor da informação como uma mercadoria. Nossos temos estão marcados pelo neoliberalismo, e vícios como a cobiça e o individualismo se transformaram em virtudes exaltadas por Hollywood e pela homogeneização dos meios de comunicação.
→ read full articleWhat Do Children Need?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Apart from having its physical needs met, the primary needs of children are for stimulus and attention. The most important form of attention that anyone, including a child, requires is listening. Listening, in this context, has a precise meaning and it is invariably done extremely badly, particularly by parents in relation to their own children.
→ read full articleU.S. Sailors and Marines Allege Fukushima Radiation Sickness
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
24 Mar 2014
In an unusual development, more than 100 U.S. Marines and Navy sailors have joined a class action suit, charging TEPCO with lying about the severity of the disaster as they were rushing to the scene to provide humanitarian assistance.
→ read full articleObama to Putin: Do as I Say Not as I Do
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Every day, presidential actions by you violate international law because they infringe upon national sovereignties with deadly drones, flyovers and secret forays by soldiers – to name the most obvious. “Do as I say, not as I do,” is hard to sell to Russians who are interpreting your words of protest as disingenuous.
→ read full article‘US Foreign Policy Blowback’: How US Disregard for Intl Law Set Stage for Crimean Crisis
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
24 Mar 2014
Critics charge that US history of cherry-picking international rules gives license for other powers to do the same.
→ read full articleCan Washington Overthrow Three Governments at the Same Time?
Thierry Meyssan – Voltaire Network,
24 Mar 2014
23 Feb 2014 – The power of a state is measured by its ability to defend itself and to attack on one or more fronts. In this context, Washington is trying for the first time to show it can overthrow three governments simultaneously: Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela. If it succeeds, no government would be henceforth able to resist it.
→ read full articleUS Continues to Militarize Space
Douglas Lyons, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
In its effort to encircle China and control the former states of the Soviet Union, the American military has been increasingly worried about maintaining supremacy over any adversaries who are developing anti-satellite weapons.
→ read full article(Português) O Ressurgimento do Determinismo Biológico na Era Neoliberal
Pankaj Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
A história está repleta de exemplos aterrorizantes sobre o abuso da genética (e da teoria da evolução) para justificar a dominação e a desigualdade: as justificativas evolutivas da escravidão e do colonialismo, as explicações científicas da violação e do patriarcado, e as explicações genéticas da superioridade inerente à elite governante.
→ read full articleTony Benn – The Vegetarian
Nitin Mehta, Gandhi Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Tony was a passionate campaigner for stopping all wars and advocated pacifism. The following quote shows his concern for animals: ‘The case for animal testing is now being directly challenged by scientists and doctors and their judgement must be taken seriously.’
→ read full articleEurope’s Sin: Caribbean States Call for Slavery Reparations
Samiha Shafy – Der Spiegel,
24 Mar 2014
The leaders of 15 Caribbean countries are calling for reparations from European countries relating to the slave trade that took place 200 years ago. A lawyer representing them says the legacy of slavery still plagues the region today.
→ read full articleStudent Deaths Spark Debate Over Hazing at Portugal’s Universities
Raphael Minder – International New York Times,
24 Mar 2014
18 Mar 2014 – At Portugal’s oldest public university, founded in 1290 in Coimbra, about 110 miles from Lisbon, hazing has a strong and storied tradition, and it is that legacy that universities with far shallower histories have tried to emulate.
→ read full articleThe Obsolescence of Ideology: Debating Syria and Ukraine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
To insist that the left/right distinction obscures more than it reveals is not the end of the story. To contend that ideology is unhelpful as a guide for action is not the same as saying that it is irrelevant to the public debate.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Überlegungen zum Ukraine-Konflikt – eine Diskussionsvorlage
Prof. Dr. Andreas Buro - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Die Diskussion über den Konflikt um die Ukraine und ihre autonome Provinz die Krim ist voll entbrannt. In der öffentlichen Berichterstattung dominiert die Verurteilung des russischen Vorgehens. Härteres Auftreten gegen Russland als Brecher des Völkerrechts wird gefordert. Eine friedliche Lösung ist möglich, wenn die alten Verhaltensweisen der Konfrontation zugunsten einer Politik der Kooperation und der zivilen Konfliktbearbeitung in Europa aufgegeben werden. Abbau von Misstrauen und Aufbau von Vertrauen sind erforderlich.
→ read full articleArgentina Accuses US, UK of Hypocrisy over Crimea
Thomas Adamson, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Argentina’s president said Wednesday [19 Mar 2014] that the U.S. and Britain displayed double standards with their positions on Crimea and the Falkland Islands, undermining efforts to preserve Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
→ read full articleFar From Good Enough, Mr. Putin!
Johan Galtung, 24 Mar 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
History matters, not only law; like how Crimea and Abkhazia-South Ossetia–basically Russian-Orthodox–became Ukrainian-Georgian. Two Soviet dictators, Khrushchev and Stalin, attached to Ukraine and Georgia, so decided, by dictate. The local people were not asked, nor were Hawaiians when the USA annexed their Kingdom in 1898–by dictate.
→ read full articleA Hundred Years Later
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
The majority of the Crimean population is Russian, and undoubtedly wishes now to return to Russia. It expressed this wish in a referendum that, on the whole, seems to be quite authentic. So the annexation may be justified. For this reason I supported the independence of Kosovo and believe that the same principle applies now to Catalonia and Scotland, Tibet and Chechnya.
→ read full articleUkraine as Stalking Horse: The Rise of Fascism in the West
Norman Pollack - CounterPunch,
24 Mar 2014
We can say that the primal factor in fascism’s internal composition is capitalism, not your everyday Smithian variety happily ensconced in Econ. 101 textbooks, but the real thing at an advanced form of development.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il cinquantenario del Gruppo dei 77. Congratulazioni!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Per uno che ha lavorato molto sulla teoria e la pratica del cambiamento da sistemi di gerarchia a sistemi di equità, il 15 giugno 1964 non sarà mai dimenticato. Quelli in fondo al sistema mondiale degli stati, frammentati gli uni dagli altri da strutture coloniali e imperiali, marginalizzati, sfruttati, si adunarono, 77 di loro, e formarono un Gruppo – termine non proprio rivoluzionario.
→ read full article(Português) Žižek: O Desejo e o Fascismo Contemporâneos
Slavoj Žižek, Outras Palavras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Assange se auto designa um “espião para o povo”: “espiar para o povo” não é uma negação direta da espionagem (o que seria antes agir como um agente duplo, vendendo nossos segredos para o inimigo) mas sua auto-negação, isto é, ele mina o próprio princípio universal da espionagem, o principio do sigilo, já que seu objetivo é tornar públicos os segredos. Funciona portanto de forma semelhante à forma pela qual a “ditadura do proletariado” marxiana deveria ter funcionado (mas raramente o fez, é claro).
→ read full articleUkraine Coup Lawful, Crimea Referendum Unlawful?
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
For US officials and press to claim that the coup in Ukraine complied with law, while the referendum in Crimea did not, is utter hypocrisy. “Imagine the response from Washington if Russia or China or some other sizable world power had worked hard to build a military and/or political alliance near U.S. borders.” — Norman Solomon
→ read full articleMauna Kea Park & Hawaii Island: Contaminated with Military Radiation
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Regardless of who is liable –federal, state, and/or county governments, there are potentially serious health and safety concerns for residents and visitors with the increased use of Saddle Road, frequent strong winds and occasional flash flooding in the area, and military bombing of a base known to be contaminated with depleted uranium and other military toxins.
→ read full articleUS and Russia Top World Arms Exporters List
RIA Novosti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
17 Mar 2014 – The United States and Russia combined supplied over half of all arms exports worldwide in the past five years, according to new data compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, founded in 1966 as an independent think tank for research on conflicts, weapons, arms control and disarmament.
→ read full articleU.S. Boycotts U.N. Drone Talks
Colum Lynch – Foreign Policy,
24 Mar 2014
Pakistan is pushing a resolution through the UN Human Rights Council for greater scrutiny of whether U.S. drone strikes violate international human rights law. Washington, though, doesn’t want to talk about it. The Geneva-based human rights council held its third round of discussions about the draft on Wednesday [19 Mar 2014], but the Obama administration boycotted the talks.
→ read full articleVictory in Sight for Defend Free Speech and Support BDS
Jake Lynch, Australians for BDS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Tomorrow (March 25th, 2014) is scheduled as a full day in the Australian Federal Court as I defend myself against the application to have my stance on the academic boycott of Israel declared illegal. The court proceedings have been going well up to now, but the case is a complicated one, and the legal bills are rolling in. If you haven’t contributed yet, now would be a good time to do it. Thank you!
→ read full articleFlight into Egypt
Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Ann Patterson, from Peace People, agreed to join the International Women’s Delegation to Gaza via Egypt. However, we were not allowed to enter Cairo and held for 8 hours in detention at the airport. We were given no reason for being deported except being told that we were ‘blacklisted’ though no reasons given. Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink and leader of the delegation, was also refused entry and after being held for many hours had her arm dislocated by Egyptian police and deported.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleFive Myths about the Crimean Referendum
Anatoly Karlin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
16 Mar 2014 – As voting gets underway – and by all accounts, it seems to be overwhelmingly heading for the pro-secession choice – it’s worthwhile to dispel five common but erroneous beliefs about it.
→ read full articleUS Tech Giants Knew of NSA Data Collection, Agency’s Top Lawyer Insists
Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
24 Mar 2014
NSA general counsel Rajesh De contradicts months of angry denials from big companies like Yahoo and Google.
→ read full articleSocial Media: Terms and Conditions May Apply – (Must Watch)
Hyrax Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Official Trailer – A documentary about what you’re really agreeing to when you click “I accept”.
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