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Fukushima’s Shameful Cleanup
The Editorial Board - International New York Times,
24 Mar 2014
A pattern of shirking responsibility permeates the decommissioning work at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. An increasing proportion of the 3,000 contract laborers at Fukushima are poorly trained, with little technical expertise or knowledge of radiation.
→ read full articleUS Proxy Terror War on Venezuela
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Protest, dissent and terrorist wars are obviously very distinct forms of expressing opposition and bringing about change. The Obama-Kerry regime claim that the opposition in Venezuela is a “protest movement” a “peaceful democratic opposition” expressing discontent with economic conditions and that the democratically elected Maduro Administration is an ‘authoritarian regime’ violently repressing dissent.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Torture Doctors
Philip Giraldi – The American Conservative,
24 Mar 2014
For me one of the most horrifying revelations about the torture carried out by the CIA at its black sites, and the military at its prisons, was that medical doctors not only stood by to monitor the process but were also involved in providing advice to make the torture both mentally and physically more effective.
→ read full articleWhose Revolution Gets Televised?
Christian Tym – New Matilda,
24 Mar 2014
While anti-government protests rage in Venezuela, across the border in Colombia a genuine uprising of the rural campesinos has gone almost unreported. Comparing Colombia and Venezuela shows whose side our major media outlets are on. We need to be careful whose revolution we are cheerleading.
→ read full articleWhat Is Left of Honor
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
After the IED blew
on the bridge over the Tigris River
the medics scraped the body parts
that had once been Jeffrey R. Wallace
The Vegans Are Winning. It’s OK to Give In – And Still Eat Mcdonald’s Sometimes
Emma Brockes – The Guardian,
24 Mar 2014
Veganism’s benefits have been sold, bought, taken mainstream. You’re probably eating animal-free more often than you thought.
→ read full articleWhy the Exxon Valdez Spill Was a Eureka Moment for Science
US National Public Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine water. Twenty-five years of research following the disaster has led to some startling conclusions about the persistent effects of spilled oil.
→ read full article(Português) Ucrânia: como o blefe do Ocidente fracassou
Pepe Escobar, Asia Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Sob influência dos “falcões” neoconservadores, Obama lançou-se a nova aventura arrogante. Nem toda histeria da mídia ocultará sua derrota.
→ read full articleTargeting Huawei: NSA Spied on Chinese Government and Networking Firm
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
According to documents viewed by SPIEGEL, America’s NSA intelligence agency put considerable efforts into spying on Chinese politicians and firms. One major target was Huawei, a company that is fast becoming a major Internet player.
→ read full articleOnce Again, Australia Is Stealing Its Indigenous Children
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
21 Mar 2014 – Today, the theft of Aboriginal children – including babies taken from the birth table – is now more widespread than at any time during the last century. As of June last year, almost 14,000 Aboriginal children had been “removed”. This is five times the number when ‘Bringing Them Home’ was written.
→ read full articleIndia Remains the Biggest Arms Buyer
Business Standard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
India remains the biggest buyer of arms in the world, importing nearly three times as many weapons as its nearest competitors China and Pakistan over the last five years, a Swedish think tank said on Monday [17 Mar 2014].
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Concierto Aranjuez – Adagio (Music Video of the Week)
Paco de Lucía – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Composición para guitarra y orquesta del compositor español Joaquín Rodrigo.
→ read full articleViolence and Terror: The Ukrainian and Colombian Road to Empire Building
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
The two paths to 21st century empire-building-via-proxies are illustrated through the violent seizure of power in the Ukraine by a US-backed junta and the electoral gains of the US-backed Colombian war lord, Alvaro Uribe. We will describe the ‘mechanics’ of US intervention in the domestic politics of these two countries and their profound external effects – that is how they enhance imperial power on a continent-wide basis.
→ read full articleSuffer the Poor – Shameful, Cowardly European Art
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
I stood in front of bizarre, sick and cold religious artwork, full of adult looking, perverse baby Jesus’s, or of some saints with daggers sticking out grotesquely from their heads. It was mostly total kitsch, created to order from the Christian church – a morally corrupt religious entity responsible for the extermination of entire nations, of entire races, worldwide!
→ read full articleIsrael Approves 184 New [Illegal] Settlement Homes
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Israel’s Jerusalem municipality approved building plans on Wednesday [19 Mar 204] for 184 new homes in two Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, land that the Palestinians want for a future state.
→ read full articleEncryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance
Micah Lee – Freedom of the Press Foundation,
24 Mar 2014
Defending yourself against the NSA, or any other government intelligence agency, is not simple, and it’s not something that can be solved just by downloading an app. But thanks to the dedicated work of civilian cryptographers and the free and open source software community, it’s still possible to have privacy on the Internet, and the software to do it is freely available to everyone. This is especially important for journalists communicating with sources online.
→ read full articleThe Truth about Venezuela: A Revolt of the Well-Off, Not a ‘Terror Campaign’
Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian,
24 Mar 2014
John Kerry’s rhetoric is divorced from the reality on the ground, where life goes on – even at the barricades. It’s not just the poor who are abstaining – in Caracas, it’s almost everyone outside of a few rich areas like Altamira. The only place where the opposition seems to be garnering broad support is Washington.
→ read full articleIsrael Guilty of Ethnic Cleansing and Apartheid, Says UN Rapporteur
Umberto Bacchi – International Business Time,
24 Mar 2014
21 Mar 2014 – Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said Israel carried out a “systematic and continued effort to change the ethnic composition of East Jerusalem”.
→ read full articleKenya Legalizes Polygamy without Wife’s Consent
Peter Martell, AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Kenya’s parliament has passed a bill allowing men to marry as many women as they want, prompting a furious backlash from female lawmakers who stormed out, reports said Friday [21 Mar 2014].
→ read full articleRussia 1, Regime Changers 0
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
24 Mar 2014
The Obama administration’s “strategic” gambit to subcontract the State Department’s “Khaganate of Nulands” to extricate Ukraine from the Russian sphere of influence – and ultimately annex it to NATO – by instrumentalizing a coalition of willing neo-nazis and fascists with a central bank veneer (prime minister “Yats”), is in utter shambles.
→ read full articleInside the NSA’s Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators
Ryan Gallagher and Peter Maass – The Intercept,
24 Mar 2014
According to a secret document provided by Edward Snowden, the NSA tracks down the private email and Facebook accounts of system administrators (or sys admins, as they are often called), before hacking their computers to gain access to the networks they control.
→ read full articleHow California Will Use Renewables to Replace Massive Nuclear Plant
Sierra Martinez, Natural Resources Defense Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
California took another major and symbolic step this month [Mar 2014] with its decision to rely significantly on energy efficiency and other clean energy resources to help replace electricity once generated by the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station serving San Diego and the greater Los Angeles area.
→ read full article(Français) L’accord transatlantique menace le modèle éducatif européen
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
L’accord commercial UE-États-Unis risque de mettre en concurrence les modèles éducatifs des deux partenaires. Un écueil que veulent à tout prix éviter les représentants européens de l’enseignement, qui exigent que l’éducation soit totalement exclue de l’accord.
→ read full articlePETA Accuses Two Trainers of Cruelty to Horses
Joe Drape – International New York Times,
24 Mar 2014
Over a 26-year career, the trainer Steve Asmussen ranks second in career victories, with more than 6,700; has earned more than $214 million in purses. The undercover inquiry was conducted by a PETA investigator who worked for Asmussen for four months in the spring and summer of 2013. PETA filed complaints with federal and state agencies in Kentucky and New York on Tuesday [18 Mar 2014].
→ read full articleTrade and Investment Partnership ‘Threatens’ European Education Quality, Teachers Say
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Driven by concerns about privatisation, European students and teachers demand that education be excluded from the EU-US free trade deal.
→ read full articleN.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat
David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlrothmar – International New York Times,
24 Mar 2014
The NSA pried its way into the servers in Huawei’s sealed headquarters in Shenzhen, China’s industrial heart, according to documents provided by Edward J. Snowden. It obtained information about the workings of the giant routers and complex digital switches that Huawei boasts connect a third of the world’s population, and monitored communications of the company’s top executives.
→ read full articleThe Rise of Anti-Capitalism
Jeremy Rifkin – International New York Times,
24 Mar 2014
The inherent dynamism of competitive markets is bringing costs so far down that many goods and services are becoming nearly free, abundant, and no longer subject to market forces…. We are entering a world partly beyond markets, where we are learning how to live together in an increasingly interdependent, collaborative, global commons.
→ read full articleRevelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies
Claire Cain Miller – International New York Times,
24 Mar 2014
Microsoft has lost customers, including the government of Brazil. IBM is spending more than a billion dollars to build data centers overseas to reassure foreign customers that their information is safe from prying eyes in the US government. And tech companies abroad, from Europe to South America, say they are gaining customers that are shunning US providers, suspicious because of the revelations by Edward J. Snowden.
→ read full article(Português) Em sua primeira aparição ao vivo desde as delações, Snowden faz um “chamado às armas”
Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
De acordo com a programação do evento, a plataforma serve para “encorajar os empreendedores, inovadores, fabricantes, hackers, nerds, fundadores, investidores e pensadores que estejam assistindo à videoconferência do SXSW para construir sistemas mais eficientes na proteção da privacidade do usuário”.
→ read full articleWelcome to Sweden
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Condoleezza Rice was going to come to Sweden for a state visit. The Swedish foreign minister, who had to go and greet her on arrival at the airport, did not speak English.
→ read full articleUganda and the Reconstruction of a Homophobic Colonial Legacy in Africa: Which Way Progressives?
Horace Campbell – Pambazuka News,
24 Mar 2014
African progressives must stand up and speak out against the wave of anti-gay laws now blowing across the continent – aided by American Christian fundamentalists pursuing a white supremacist agenda. The rights of same-gender loving persons are human rights that are inextricably linked with the rights of every person in society.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Preserving Western Domination
Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince – Foreign Policy In Focus,
24 Mar 2014
Despite the Western claim that the dispute with Iran over nuclear research rests on it, the NPT is largely a means of maintaining Western nuclear-weapons superiority.
→ read full articleNSA Surveillance Program Reaches ‘Into the Past’ to Retrieve, Replay Phone Calls
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
24 Mar 2014
The NSA has built a surveillance system capable of recording “100 percent” of a foreign country’s telephone calls according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleWireless Electricity? It’s Here
Matthew Ponsford and Nick Glass - CNN,
17 Mar 2014
The idea of eliminating cables would allow us to re-design things in ways that we haven’t yet thought of, that’s just going to make our devices and everything that we interact with, that much more efficient, more practical and maybe even give brand new functionality.
→ read full articleMainstream US Media Is Lost in Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
17 Mar 2014
The U.S. mainstream news media is reaching a new professional low point as it covers the Ukraine crisis by brazenly touting Official Washington’s propaganda themes, blatantly ignoring contrary facts and leading the American public into another geopolitical blind alley.
→ read full articleIn Contrast to Huffington Post, the New York Times Misleads the Readers on Myanmar Government’s Central Role in the Rohingya Pogroms
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
It is in fact Burma or Myanmar military leadership that has self-consciously pursued what amounts to genocidal policies towards the Rohingya, in fact, a borderland people of Burma like Karen, Chin, Kachin, Rakhine, etc, whose roots spread across new boundaries of the post-WWII nation-states.
→ read full articleASEAN and the New Orwellianism
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Human rights harm Asean harmony.
Profits unite, human rights divide.
Thank you, Mr. Orwell.
“War is Peace”, no more.
Washington’s Back-to-the-Future Military Policies in Africa: America’s New Model for Expeditionary Warfare
Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
17 Mar 2014
Despite repeated assurances by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) that military activities on the continent were minuscule, a 2013 investigation by TomDispatch exposed surprisingly large and expanding U.S. operations — including recent military involvement with no fewer than 49 of 54 nations on the continent.
→ read full articleThe Rich Complain That We Do Not Love Them
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said “The rich are different from you or me”, yet in his days, in the early years of the 20th century, the rich were not subject to public scrutiny, and were generally an object of envy, not resentment. Fast forward to the 21st century and the Occupy Wall Street movement.
→ read full articleTruth and Reconciliation Commission: Trap or Trajectory for Sri Lanka?
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka,
17 Mar 2014
Recommendations: • Independent international investigation into mass atrocities that took place throughout the armed conflict in the island of Sri Lanka. • Immediate steps to stop the structural genocide of the Tamil nation, particularly the demographic changes through land grabbing, military occupation, Sinhala settlements process and sexual violence against Tamil women…
→ read full articleUK: Tony Benn Dead – ‘Five Questions on Power’ and Other Memorable Quotes
Ewan Palmer – International Business Times,
17 Mar 2014
14 Mar 2014 – Tony Benn, the veteran Labour politician and left wing campaigner, has died at his home at the age of 88, his family confirmed. “When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?”—Tony Benn
→ read full articleSwiss Step Up Arms Exports, Peacefully
Ray Smith, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Switzerland’s army doesn’t go to war – but its military equipment does. In 2011, Saudi Arabia used Swiss Piranha tanks to crack down on protests in Bahrain. Libyan rebels used Swiss ammunition against Muammar Gaddafi’s troops, and Syrian rebels have been throwing Swiss hand grenades against President Bashar Assad’s soldiers. Swiss assault rifles were exported to Ukraine and have now been used against civilians.
→ read full articleGlobal Military Spending Is Now an Integral Part of Capitalism
Richard Seymour – Gulf News,
17 Mar 2014
The idea of a ‘peace dividend’ is gone, high levels of military spending are an entrenched part of the global landscape.
→ read full articleMuch Bank Crime, Little Punishment
Danny Schechter – Consortium News,
17 Mar 2014
Wall Street banks made a bundle on securitized subprime mortgages until the bubble began to burst in 2007 inflicting devastating harm on average people around the world. Yet, despite government rhetoric to the contrary, the key culprits have escaped punishment.
→ read full articleUkraine and the Danger of Nuclear War
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
World War I had its roots in the fanatical and quasi-religious nationalist movements that developed in Europe during the 19th century. Nationalism is still a potent force in today’s world, but in an era of all-destroying weapons, instantaneous worldwide communication, and global economic interdependence, fanatical nationalism has become a dangerous anachronism.
→ read full articleAll Give and No Take
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Do those negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership have any interest in democracy? Here’s a test. Nothing threatens democracy as much as corporate power. Nowhere do corporations operate with greater freedom than between nations, for here there is no competition. With the exception of the European parliament there is no transnational democracy, anywhere.
→ read full articleUS to UN: We Can Disregard Int’l Human Rights Treaty
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
17 Mar 2014
US tells human rights panel that treaty that bans torture, arbitrary killings and detention doesn’t apply to its military operations. The grilling happened Thursday [13 Mar 2014] in Geneva during the first of a two-day session held by the 18-member UN Human Rights Committee.
→ read full article(Português) O capitalismo global está destruindo a raça humana
Paul Craig Roberts – Carta Maior,
17 Mar 2014
Fora as armas nucleares, o capitalismo é a maior ameaça que a humanidade já enfrentou. Ele levou a ganância a um patamar de força determinante da história.
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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Three Years Later, Who is Responsible?
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Mar 10, 2014 – Nuclear power engineer Arnie Gunderson and journalist Chiho Kaneko discuss a lawsuit to hold General Electric and other reactor manufacturing companies responsible and the Japanese public’s attitude toward nuclear energy.
→ read full articleWashington Has Set the World on a Path to War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Why is Washington so opposed to Crimean self-determination? The answer is that one of the main purposes of Washington’s coup in Kiev was to have the new puppet government evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base in Crimea. Washington cannot use the government Washington has installed in Ukraine for that purpose if Crimea is no longer part of Ukraine.
→ read full articleForests around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying Properly
Rachel Nuwer – Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Mar 2014
It wasn’t just people, animals and trees that were affected by radiation exposure at Chernobyl, but also the decomposers: insects, microbes, and fungi.
→ read full articleInformation on Aspects Related to the Fukushima Nuclear Reactors Three Years after the Accident
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
A great amount of information on “Fukushima” has been released since the day of the accident. The information below is only a few pieces of them, published or broadcasted by Japanese mass media in March 2014.
→ read full article3 Years after Fukushima: How Survivors’ Mental Health Continues Deteriorating
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
“After the Chernobyl disaster children were diagnosed many years later,” she told the BBC. “My boys may be fine now, but if there is any risk I need to find out as soon as possible.” She’s not comfortable relying on the government for information. Just two weeks ago, Japanese officials announced plans to restart reactors that were closed after the incident, calling nuclear energy a “vital source” of power.
→ read full articleThe New Great (Threat) Game in Eurasia
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
17 Mar 2014
In Ukraine, the West supported an unconstitutional putsch against an elected government perpetrated, among others, by fascist/neo-nazi storm troopers (Svoboda, Right Sector) instrumentalized by US intelligence. This is just the latest instance in the serial rape of “international law”.
→ read full articleThe Group of 77 at Fifty. Congratulations!
Johan Galtung, 17 Mar 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
For one who has worked much on the theory and practice of change from systems of hierarchy to systems of equity, June 15 1964 will never be forgotten. Those at the bottom of the world system of states, fragmented away from each other by colonial and imperial structures, marginalized, exploited, came together, 77 of them, and formed–not a very revolutionary word–a Group.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden Full Video Interview 10 Mar 2014
Russia Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Speaking remotely from Russia on Monday 10 Mar 2014, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden told attendees at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas that encryption is still a powerful deterrent against government surveillance. (1:01:23)
→ read full articleEdward Snowden Discusses NSA Leaks at SXSW: ‘I Would Do It Again’
Jon Swaine and Jemima Kiss – The Guardian,
17 Mar 2014
He encouraged ordinary internet users to protect themselves against surveillance by encrypting both their hard drives and their online activity, describing encryption as “the defence against the dark arts in the digital realm”. He also advised people to browse the web anonymously using the Tor system.
→ read full articlePeople Over Profit: Why These Two Small Countries Stood Up to Big Mining
Robin Broad, John Cavanagh – YES! Magazine,
17 Mar 2014
If the governments of Costa Rica and El Salvador can resist the mining industry, maybe we all can. Would a government of a poorer country ever choose to say “no” to short-term economic profits because of concern for long-term environmental impacts? Surprise: that is precisely the case with at least two national governments that have said no to certain kinds of mining.
→ read full articleBeyond Ukraine: Russia’s Imperial Mess
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Russia’s occupation of Crimea has violated international law and created a new crisis among world leaders. Now the EU and the US are fighting over the best means to address Russia’s reawakened expansionary ambitions.
→ read full articleResearchers Confirm: When NSA Watches Your Metadata, It Is Watching You
Sarah Lazare – Common Dreams,
17 Mar 2014
Stanford University researchers have confirmed what civil liberties advocates have warned since the NSA scandal broke: metadata surveillance is a window to highly sensitive personal information, including medical issues, financial history, and even marijuana cultivation.
→ read full articleLegal Fund for Academic Boycott of Israel
Jake Lynch, Australians for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
UPDATE March 17, 2014 – Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Director of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies [and TMS advisor], has been taken to the Federal Court of Australia due to his support of the Palestinian call for academic boycott of Israel. The court case is now entering a crucial phase. Over 250 of you have made a donation to the legal fund so far. Please make your donation here—however small. Thank you!
→ read full articleThe Systematic Repression of the Rohingya Minority Continues
Maung Zarni – The Dissident Blog,
17 Mar 2014
In my view, despite growing evidence, the international community has avoided calling this “genocide” because none of the permanent five members of the U.N. Security Council have the appetite to forego their commercial and strategic interests in Myanmar to address the slow-burning Rohingya genocide.
→ read full articleWhy Do I Persist?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
I have been asked recently why do I persist in working hard for the things that I believe in, knowing that I will die in the next several years, and am almost certain not to be around for the catastrophic future that seems to cast its dark shadow across the road ahead, and can only be removed by a major transnational movement of the peoples of the world.
→ read full articleThe Plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya
Editorial Board – Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar 2014
The U.N. says the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in an overwhelmingly Buddhist country, are one of the most persecuted groups in the world. Recently violence has escalated according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Two attacks in January left an estimated four dozen Rohingya dead in a village in Rakhine. Myanmar’s response has been to deny that it happened.
→ read full articleThe Children of Japan’s Fukushima Battle an Invisible Enemy
Toru Hanai and Elaine Lies, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, barely know what it’s like to play outside – fear of radiation has kept them indoors for much of their short lives. Koriyama recommended shortly after the disaster that children up to two years old not spend more than 15 minutes outside each day. Those aged 3 to 5 should limit their outdoor time to 30 minutes or less.
→ read full article(Italiano) Ucraina-Crimea-Georgia: l’Occidente e la Russia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
In modo anche più importante, la linea divisoria dell’Impero romano fin dal 395, confermata dallo scisma fra cristianesimo cattolico e ortodosso nel 1054, si riflette nella storia estremamente complessa dell’Ucraina. Odessa è a ovest, Donets a est, Ucraina a ovest, più russa a est. E Kiev, la capitale – culla della Russia, Rus – nel mezzo. Un paese spaccato in due, due uniti in uno: entrambi veri.
→ read full articleYellowstone Announces End to 2014 Bison Slaughter Following One-Man Blockade
Buffalo Field Campaign, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Comfrey’s action demonstrated strong public opposition to the buffalo slaughter. The day following Jacob’s blockade, Yellowstone National Park issued their only press release for this year’s controversial bison operations, announcing that Yellowstone had no further plans to capture this season. “My action raised enough public awareness that Yellowstone announced a cease to their operations the following day,” Jacobs said.
→ read full article(Français) Le partenariat transatlantique risque d’accentuer les poursuites contre les États
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Des investisseurs réclament plus d’1,7 milliard d’euros à la Grèce, à l’Espagne et à Chypre. Le phénomène pourrait s’aggraver si l’accord du partenariat transatlantique avec les Etats-Unis était ratifié en l’état.
→ read full articleLifeism: Beyond Humanity
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Lifeism is very relevant to our relentless savaging of life across the world. We need to identify with life — this is the most important identity. Identification with gender, ethnicity, race, nations is secondary. We are first and foremost creations of life.
→ read full articleWhat We Can Learn from Child Soldiers
Jonathan Rozen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Because he was a child, Moses Otiti was the only one to survive. For the next 12 months, he was forced to serve the LRA as a soldier. “The reason why they didn’t kill me was because they were really [looking for] people who were young…they really wanted to groom them as soldiers who can fight the battle against the government,” he told IPS.
→ read full articleAn Online Magna Carta: Web Inventor Berners-Lee Calls for an Internet Bill of Rights
Jemima Kiss – The Guardian,
17 Mar 2014
The inventor of the world wide web believes an online “Magna Carta” is needed to protect and enshrine the independence of the medium he created and the rights of its users worldwide. Sir Tim Berners-Lee said that the web had come under increasing attack from governments and corporate influence and that new rules were needed to protect the “open, neutral” system.
→ read full articleRevisiting Nuclear Industry Failures on Third Anniversary of Fukushima Disaster
Dr. Rianne Teule, Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
The nuclear industry is trying its hardest to make us forget by downplaying the impacts of the accident, ignoring the fact that the Fukushima reactors are still not under control and claiming that lessons have been learned. Nothing is further from the truth. So business continues as usual and in many countries the same mistakes are being made that played a role in Fukushima.
→ read full articleGMOs: Ban Them or Label Them?
Ronnie Cummins, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Since the controversial introduction in the mid-nineties of genetically engineered (GE) food and crops, and the subsequent fast-tracking of those crops by the federal government—with no independent safety-testing or labeling required—there has been a lively debate among activists, both inside and outside the U.S., about how to drive these unhealthy and environmentally destructive “Frankenfoods” off the market.
→ read full articleHuman Security and Human Rights Harmonious to Inharmonious Relations
Dr. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Abstract – Human security and human rights are universal phenomena, poor to rich and individual to all people in the universe. Human security and human rights are harmonious to inharmonious natures. Human security is state to people-centered notion, whereas human rights are human-centered more.
→ read full articleCreativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Crucial Difference Between Success and Mastery
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate — perfectionism — an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success — an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 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 articleDisaster Militarism: Rethinking U.S. Relief in the Asia-Pacific
Foreign Policy In Focus - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Disaster relief has increasingly become part of the justification for increased U.S. troop deployments in the Asia-Pacific region.
→ read full articleWhy You Should Eat Fermented Foods
Delia Quigley, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Every culture in the world has some form of fermented foods they eat with meals to aid in digestion. It isn’t necessary to eat very much, just enough to provide the proper enzymes to help break down food and make the nutrients available for absorption in the small intestine.
→ read full articleSafe!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
The head of a Mexican drug cartel recently took three suitcases full of money to a Swiss bank and demanded to see the bank president. He asked him,
→ read full articleArchbishop Tutu Adds Voice to Israeli Apartheid Week
Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
“In South Africa, we could not have achieved our democracy without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the apartheid regime. I associate myself with the objectives of the 10th international Israeli Apartheid Week.”
→ read full articleWomen, Education and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
The author dedicates this article to all women of the world on the eve of UN International Day of Peace. Dr. Prasad advises to foster in education and women an essential portion of our perception of life with fearless enthusiasm for improvement of the moral and physical state of mankind by profound and sound education for women’s freedom and against women’s sequestration and war.
→ read full articleNASA-Funded Study: Industrial Civilisation Headed For ‘Irreversible Collapse’?
Nafeez Ahmed – The Guardian,
17 Mar 2014
A new study sponsored by Nasa has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution. Noting that warnings of ‘collapse’ are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that “the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history.”
→ read full articleSpanish Government Abolishes Prosecutions under Universal Jurisdiction Laws
Alejandro López, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Spain’s right-wing Popular Party (PP) government has placed a ban on attempts to pursue justice for crimes under universal jurisdiction laws. PP spokesman Alfonso Alonso declared it was necessary to eliminate universal jurisdiction because it “only brings conflict.”
→ read full article$3 Billion for Ukraine to Go Straight to…Russia
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
As Western leaders prepare a bailout package for embattled Ukraine, they face a startling irony: Thanks to the almost bizarre structure of a bond deal between Ukraine and Russia, billions of those dollars are almost certain to go directly into the coffers of the Putin government.
→ read full article(Português) Amazonas: como os índios vão testar turismo ecológico
Instituto Socioambiental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Em experimento inédito, comunidades do Rio Negro criam projeto para pesca turística que não devasta nem natureza, nem cultura — mas gera ocupações, serviços e renda compartilhados. Iniciativa nasceu da luta de organizações e lideranças indígenas, com apoio do Ministério Público, para retirar pescadores ilegais da região.
→ read full articleCIA Spies and Tortured Lies
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
17 Mar 2014
“With Sen. Dianne Feinstein we’re seeing another ‘Merkel Effect,’ where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it’s a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.”
→ read full articleHaiti/Honduras: Same System, Different Players*
Charlie Hinton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Since the days of the Monroe Doctrine, the U.S. has considered all of Latin America its exclusive “back yard.” It’s maintained a regionally consistent imperial policy to guarantee subservient governments and business arrangements that submit fully to the discipline of global financial markets at the expense of democracy and human rights.
→ read full articleVoices Blast Dow Chemical’s ‘Agent Orange’ Seed Warfare
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
17 Mar 2014
Pending approval of the GE Seeds, Dow prepares to roll out seed-herbicide combination package, spelling ‘catastrophe’ for farms and farmers.
→ read full articleThe Taliban Fight for Religious and Cultural Identity
Mathilde Simon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Afghan Women as Symbols of Group Identity and Power Relations – This article studies the Taliban’s emphasis on women bodies as a symbol of their identity, which has been violated several times by foreign occupations imposing their own conception of human rights on Afghan culture.
→ read full articleThe UN Is Not Above the Law
Lauren Carasik @ajam – Al Jazeera America,
10 Mar 2014
The US should support accountability claim for the cholera epidemic in Haiti.
→ read full articleGod Bless Putin
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Binyamin Netanyahu is very good at making speeches, especially to Jews, neocons and such, who jump up and applaud wildly at everything he says, including that tomorrow the sun will rise in the west. The question is: is he good at anything else?
→ read full articleJulian Assange “We Are Headed Towards a Transnational Dystopian Total Surveillance Society”
Mox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
March 07, 2014 MSNBC News
→ read full articleHacking Team Spy Software Identified on U.S. Servers
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Two U.S. companies – Linode of New Jersey and Rackspace of Texas – have been hosting surveillance software designed by Hacking Team of Italy, according to a new report. The software was allegedly been used by governments in Ethiopia, Morocco, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to track dissidents.
→ read full articleZap! Australian Scientists Look at Lasers to Cull Space Junk
Pauline Askin, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
It may sound like science fiction but an Australian team is working on a project to zap orbital debris with lasers from Earth to reduce the growing amount of space junk that threatens to knock out satellites with a “cascade of collisions”.
→ read full articleIndependence of Scotland from a Crimean Perspective
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Emerging Strategic Logic of the New Century Understood Otherwise? – The question is what might be learned from the Crimea situation of relevance to that of Scotland. Is a new mindset being used to frame such situations — one which merits a degree of attention? Is there a case for a more systemic perspective rather consideration of such crises in an ad hoc, fire-fighting mode?
→ read full articleSilent Grace: A Film Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Silent Grace is an award-winning 2004 film, directed by filmmaker Maeve Murphy. It documents a disturbing chapter of Northern Ireland’s nonviolent dirty protests and hunger strikes by republican female prisoners in 1980 that were never made public.
→ read full article(Castellano) Uruguay: Mujica defiende legalización del aborto y matrimonio igualitario
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
El presidente de Uruguay, José Mujica, concedió una entrevista al diario brasileño O Globo publicada este domingo [9 Mar 2014] en donde aseguró que la legalización de la marihuana, el aborto y el matrimonio entre personas del mismo género son políticas para reconocer la realidad y los hechos en la actualidad.
→ read full articleResisters of Sykes-Picot Land Grab Perform Key Fighting Roles in Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Lots of them were never even religious. They are drug addicts who get high and lose their fear of dying so they are dangerous to confront. The “imported Jihadists” die in high numbers because they ignore the battlefield realities. Their average number of dead is estimated to be five times the number of Hezbollah casualties, three times the number of PFLI fighters, and twice the number of casualties than the regular Syrian army.
→ read full articleThe War on Emotions is Driving Us Insane
Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Have you ever been provoked by someone into fear, anger or pain, and then blamed, punished or humiliated for feeling and expressing these feelings? This is a form of psychological torture which has very serious consequences. Here are three stories that demonstrate how commonly this form of torture occurs in human society.
→ read full articleU.S. Foreign Assistance: More Guns than Butter
James Kennedy – Foreign Policy In Focus,
10 Mar 2014
Aid to foreign militaries is quickly eclipsing development assistance in the U.S. foreign aid budget. Even as President Obama has promised to get the country off a permanent war footing, the United States continues to deliver more and more money, guns, equipment, and training to foreign military and police forces around the globe.
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