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Why the White Americans Got the ‘Secret’ Ebola Serum
Michael Daly – The Daily Beast,
11 Aug 2014
Never mind that there seem to have been no more than eight doses of the serum in existence. The scandal is not that two white people got an untested serum, but that the deaths of so many black people were ignored until two white people got sick.
→ read full articleHiroshima: The Myth of “Military Necessity”
Ronald Takaki – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Harry S. Truman was an accidental president. He had been sworn into office only months earlier, when Franklin D. Roosevelt suddenly died on April 12 [1945]. Feeling inadequate to fill the shoes of the great F.D.R., he had to face indignities and sarcasm. In the streets, people asked, “Harry who?” and mocked him as “the little man in the White House.”
→ read full article1914: The Great War Has Become a Nightly Pornography of Violence
Simon Jenkins – The Guardian,
11 Aug 2014
The centenary has been seized as a military propaganda opportunity. So-called lessons learned have been ignored or forgotten. Britain’s commemoration of the Great War has lost all sense of proportion. It has become a media theme park, an indigestible cross between Downton Abbey and a horror movie.
→ read full articleOver 400 Ukrainian Troops Cross into Russia for Refuge
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
More than 400 Ukrainian troops have been allowed to cross into Russia after requesting sanctuary. It’s the largest, but not the first, case of desertion into Russia by Ukrainian soldiers involved in Kiev’s military crackdown in the east of the country.
→ read full articleUS Suppressing Satellite Images Which Implicate Kiev in MH17 Crash: Petras
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Professor James Petras, who has written several books on the Latin America and Middle East, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday [9 Aug 2014], commenting on a statement by former US Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul in which he says Washington is “hiding” the truth about the downing of the Malaysia Airlines MH17.
→ read full articleConclusive: Two Ukrainian Government Fighter-Jets Shot Down That Malaysian Airliner
Eric Zuesse, OpEd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
August 5, 2014 – We’ll go considerably farther than has yet been revealed by the professional intelligence community, to provide the actual evidence that conclusively shows that (and how) the Ukrainian Government shot down the Malaysian airliner, MH-17, on July 17th [2014].
→ read full articleIsrael’s Colonialism Must End
Ali Jarbawi – The New York Times,
11 Aug 2014
In the eyes of an occupying power, the humanity of those under its thumb depends on the degree of their submission to, or collaboration with, the occupation. If the occupied population chooses to stand in the way of the occupier’s goals, then they are demonized, which allows the occupier the supposed moral excuse of confronting them with all possible means, no matter how harsh.
→ read full articlePalestinian Open Letter to UNSG Ban Ki-moon on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Open letter to Mr. Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon: stand for law and Justice or resign!
→ read full article(Italiano) Marx e Freud, il Taoismo e Gandhi
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Lo Stato stabilizza con il controllo esterno – punizione e ricompensa; lo Spirito con il controllo interiore – buona o cattiva coscienza. Voler fare ciò che va fatto semplifica l’esistenza umana.
→ read full articleSystemic Reliance of World Religions on Human Sacrifice
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
This is not intended as a condemnation of religion. The concern is rather to highlight a mode of operation of systems of belief in general of which awareness appears to be variously discouraged. Scientism and atheism therefore merit related consideration as forms of belief — as “religions”, understood metaphorically.
→ read full articleCamiño de Santiago: Soul Searching and Commerce on the Way of St. James
Juan Moreno on the Camino de Santiago – Der Spiegel,
11 Aug 2014
Not long ago, only a few people would make the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Now, over 200,000 people a year spend several grueling weeks along the route. Traditionalists turn up their noses at the crowds, but the rewards are still vast. (Photos: TMS editor Antonio C. S. Rosa 2003 pilgrimage.)
→ read full articleHow Can We Destroy Love?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
What is love? In essence, love is a feeling. It is not something you experience as a thought, although a thought might arise from the feeling… Self-love is true love. The individual who does not truly love her/himself cannot love another.
→ read full articleHow Many Minutes to Midnight? Hiroshima Day 2014
Noam Chomsky - TomDispatch,
11 Aug 2014
The latter era opened on August 6, 1945, the first day of the countdown to what may be the inglorious end of this strange species, which attained the intelligence to discover the effective means to destroy itself, but not the moral and intellectual capacity to control its worst instincts.
→ read full articleThe Universal Abolition of Militarism
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
I was thrilled to read Mairead Maguire’s defence of a demilitarized world, something I’ve been talking about and campaigning for during the last fifty years!!!! However,…
→ read full articleObjectivity vs. Neutrality on Gaza
Suhail H. Patel – Open Democracy,
11 Aug 2014
The Palestine-Israel conflict poses a moral dilemma for journalists. Being objective does not necessarily mean being neutral, and being fair does not mean refraining from making a judgement. While the two may be interlinked, when the facts are laid out in front of us, free of political spin and misleading narratives, the truth does not and should not allow us to remain impassive.
→ read full articleNATO Is Desperate for War
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
11 Aug 2014
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is desperate; it is itching for a war in battlefield Ukraine at any cost. Let’s start with Pentagon supremo, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who has waxed lyrical over the Russian Bear’s “threat”:
→ read full articleSanctions for Russia and a Green Light for Israel to Continue War Crimes
Ajamu Baraka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
A permanent solution will not come from the U.S. or the Israeli colonial state, and with over 80% of Israeli civil society in support of the military assault on Gaza no justice will come from that sector either. A just solution of the Palestine/Israel issue can only be facilitated by the international community (international meaning beyond the U.S. and Europe).
→ read full articlePrinciples of International Co-Operation in the Detection, Arrest, Extradition and Punishment of Persons Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Adopted by General Assembly resolution 3074 (XXVIII) of 3 December 1973
→ read full articleWhy Aren’t ISIS and Al-Qaeda Attacking Israel?
Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
It is important to examine Israel’s central role in helping to create the very same organizations that it claims to be threatened by.
→ read full articleRussia, China Agree on More Trade Currency Swaps to Bypass Dollar
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
9 Aug 2014 – The Russian and Chinese central banks have agreed on a draft currency swap agreement, which will allow them to increase trade in domestic currencies and cut the dependence on the US dollar in bilateral payments.
→ read full articleKhmer Rouge Verdicts Bring History Alive for Cambodian Students
Preeti Jha, AFP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
On Thursday [7 Aug 2014], Cambodia’s UN-backed court found “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea, 88, and ex-head of state Khieu Samphan, 83, guilty of crimes against humanity, sentencing them to life in prison.
→ read full articleLatin America Closes Ranks in Solidarity with the People of Gaza
Humberto Márquez, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Latin America is the region whose governments have taken the firmest stance in support of Gaza in face of the battering from Israel, withdrawing a number of ambassadors from Tel Aviv and issuing harsh statements from several presidents against the attacks on the Palestinian people.
→ read full article(Türk) İsrailli insan hakları grupları, devam eden savaşta stratejik tercihler yapmak zorunda
Dahlia Scheindlin – Open Democracy,
11 Aug 2014
İsrail-Gazze savaşı devam ederken, Filistinlilerin haklarını ilerletmek ve savunmak için çalışan insan hakları örgütlerinin karşılaşacakları ikilemler neler? Daha önce olanlar yüzünden zarar görmüş olan güvenilirliklerini kaybetmeden bir etkileri ve hatta söz hakları olabilir mi? Kolay değil.
→ read full articleRussia Sanctions Accelerate Risk to Dollar Dominance
Rachel Evans - Bloomberg,
11 Aug 2014
U.S. and European Union sanctions against Russia threaten to hasten a move away from the dollar that’s been stirring since the global financial crisis. The greenback’s share of global reserves has already shrunk to under 61 percent from more than 72 percent in 2001.
→ read full articleGaza Blockade Must End
Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson – The Guardian,
11 Aug 2014
The UN should mandate an end to the siege of Gaza as a first step towards a settlement. There is no humane or legal justification for how the Israeli Defence Force is conducting this war, pulverising with bombs, missiles and artillery large parts of Gaza, including thousands of homes, schools and hospitals.
→ read full articleFr. George Zabelka’s Message for Peace
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
The former US Air Force chaplain who blessed the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and later became a peacemaker.
→ read full articleThe Hero
Felix Pollak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
I did not want to go
They inducted me.
I did not want to die
They called me yellow.
I tried to run away
Leaked Files: German Spy Company Helped Bahrain Hack Arab Spring Protesters
Cora Currier and Morgan Marquis-Boire – The Intercept,
11 Aug 2014
7 Aug 2014 – A notorious surveillance technology company that helps governments around the world spy on their citizens sold software to Bahrain during that country’s brutal response to the Arab Spring movement, according to leaked internal documents posted this week on the internet.
→ read full articleFrom Conflict Avoider to Conflict Expert
Marianne Perez de Fransius – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
I’ve learned that instead of avoiding (or fleeing) conflicts, I can engage with them and even gain something fruitful from them. I’ve learned how to navigate dreaded conversations with ease, how to create win-win opportunities, how to monitor my media intake to stay informed without getting depressed, and so many other skills that are vital to living a balanced and meaningful life.
→ read full articlePower to the People: Extending the Israel Boycott
Hatem Bazian – Al Jazeera,
11 Aug 2014
Every consumer is empowered by a moral imperative to boycott nations which support the subjugation of Palestine.
→ read full article(Italiano) BRIC(K)S [mattoni] per un Nuovo Ordine Economico Mondiale!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Ce l’hanno fatta, con alternative costruttive – la Nuova Banca di Sviluppo e il Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA) – alla banca Mondiale e al Fondo Monetario Internazionale dominati dagli USA, due pilastri fondamentali degli accordi di Bretton Woods nell’infrastruttura economica dell’ impero USA, nelle mani del proprio Congress (parlamento).
→ read full articleChoice: The Measure of All Things . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Reflecting on Human Nature and Oppression – What then is the measure of a person’s life? By what criteria should we judge, evaluate, and/or assess a person’s life?
→ read full article(Português) Os abutres, isolados do mundo
David Cufré, Página/12 –TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
É digno de nota que a Argentina obtenha apoio do editorialista estrela do Financial Times. “O caso da Argentina é uma temática proeminente para a comunidade internacional, que evidencia um vazio jurídico e deve dar lugar para reformas que permitam proteger os bens comuns.”
→ read full articleBoycotting Israel: The Situation Has Changed and I Have Changed My Mind Too
Martin Shaw – Open Democracy,
11 Aug 2014
Israel’s claim to self-defence is much too easily accepted by western governments and media. The present crisis arises following the murder of Israeli teenagers, which Israeli officials now admit was not carried out by Hamas. The killing is an almost routine police action as the Israeli euphemism “mowing the lawn” suggests. The recent escalation of rocket attacks was a response to these Israeli actions.
→ read full articleThe Uphill Battle to Hold US Corporations Accountable for Abuses Abroad
Lauren Carasik – Al Jazeera America,
11 Aug 2014
Big companies employ their considerable resources to invoke the protections of international law when it suits them, taking advantage of free trade agreements that grant corporations the right to sue governments. Yet they aggressively resist efforts to impose accountability across borders.
→ read full article‘I’m Not a Spy:’ Reporters Reveal Surveillance Fears
Hamish Boland-Rudder - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
11 Aug 2014
U.S. government surveillance programs are scaring away sources, making journalists feel like criminals and spies, and impacting the public’s access to quality news reporting, according to a new report released today [28 Jul 2014].
→ read full articleBarack Obama’s Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers
Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
11 Aug 2014
5 Aug 2014 – Nearly half of the 680,000 people on the U.S. government’s widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group, according to classified government documents obtained by The Intercept.
→ read full articleDeviant and Proud: Sick of This Market-Driven World? You Should Be
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
The workplace has been overwhelmed by a mad, Kafkaesque infrastructure … whose purpose is to reward the winners and punish the losers. So if you don’t fit in; if you feel at odds with the world; if your identity is troubled and frayed; if you feel lost and ashamed, it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.
→ read full articleChile Taps Solar Thermal Energy with Latin America’s First Plant
Marianela Jarroud, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
“Thermal solar plants are capable of generating and storing energy, and in practice that means they can operate around the clock for most of the year, solely based on energy from the sun.” — Professor Roberto Román
→ read full articleMay I Come In?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Servie,
11 Aug 2014
After a long illness, a woman died and arrived at the Gates of Heaven.
→ read full articleSoros Fund Drops Shares in Israel’s SodaStream
Mahmoud Kassem – The National,
11 Aug 2014
A number of big international investors, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, join in a burgeoning financial boycott of Israel amid a push by the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. SodaStream, headquartered in the Israeli city of Lod, has its main factory in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim.
→ read full articleHatred in the Nuclear Era
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
August 6th, 2014 – “Why are we violent but not illiterate?” asked columnist Colman McCarthy. Well, for one thing, we don’t wrap illiteracy in a shroud of glory and call it war or self-defense or national security; nor have we developed a multi-trillion-dollar industry called the Illiteracy Industrial Complex (or maybe we have, and call it television).
→ read full articleWikiLeaks: Ban ki-Moon Worked with Israel to Undermine UN Report
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
WikiLeaks released documents on Friday [8 Aug 2014] that revealed that Ban wrote a letter to the UN Security Council asking its members not to take recommendations by the UN Board of Inquiry about Israeli bombings in Gaza into account.
→ read full articleIsrael, Genocide, and the ‘Logic’ of Zionism
Justin Raimondo - AntiWar,
11 Aug 2014
In Our Bizarro World, “Judeo-Nazism” Is for Real
→ read full articleHow Western Aid Bungled Syria’s Opposition & Paved the Way for ISIS
Hisham Safi – Foreign Policy In Focus,
11 Aug 2014
The U.S. and its allies have funded a host of Syrian opposition councils that are more interested in seeking Western aid than serving the Syrian people.
→ read full articleThe Case Mounts for an Educational Boycott of Israel
Jeff Sparrow – New Matilda,
11 Aug 2014
The deaths in the UN facilities epitomize the barbarity of Operation Protective Edge, not only because so many of the slain were children but also because they were killed after having fled their homes, precisely as they had been instructed by the Israelis. A boycott is not a magic solution. But it’s a simple and non-violent way of saying that we want no part in the crimes that are taking place.
→ read full articleHiroshima Peace Declaration
Mayor Matsui Kazumi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
August 6, 1945 – 8:15 a.m.: A single atomic bomb renders Hiroshima a burnt plain. Mayors for Peace, now with over 6,200 member cities, will work through lead cities representing us in their parts of the world and in conjunction with NGOs and the UN to disseminate the facts of the bombings and the message of Hiroshima.
→ read full articleViolence and Mediation Opportunities in the Wider Middle East
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Sue and Steve Williams have written a very useful study on mediation efforts in politically violent situations by drawing on the experiences of Quaker mediators usually working under the direction of Quaker Peace and Service (UK) or the American Friends Service Committee (USA).
→ read full articleCircular Debate: Israel/Palestine Edition
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Comic Strip – This Modern World
→ read full articleThey Made Them Do It…. – What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?
Robert Bonomo - CounterPunch,
11 Aug 2014
Assume for a moment that instead of Palestinians, over 1.8 million Jews were crammed into the 11 mile Gaza strip and the state of Palestine, subsidized and supported by a superpower, was administering the calories to the Jews in Gaza, keeping them to a limit of 2,300 a day. Imagine that instead of Palestinian children, it was Jewish children being denied toys, books, music and until a few years ago, even pasta.
→ read full article(Castellano) Israel pide ayuda a EE.UU. para evitar ser juzgado por crímenes de guerra
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
El primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, ha solicitado ayuda a EE.UU. para evitar enfrentarse a cargos de crímenes de guerra por ofensiva en la Franja de Gaza.
→ read full articleThe Dubious Colombia Exports of German Arms Manufacturer Sig Sauer
Volkmar Kabisch, Georg Mascolo, Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer – Süddeutsche Zeitung International,
11 Aug 2014
Military experts estimate that German small arms have killed more people than were killed by the atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. In just the past decade small arms and ammunition exports have been nearly 1 billion euro. In 2013 the German government allowed exports amounting to 135 million euro, some 43 percent more than the year prior.
→ read full articleHiroshima August 6, 1945: A Silence Broken
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
In Japanese the survivors of injuries from the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are called “hibakusha”. The Sokka Gakkai Hiroshima Peace Committee’s most recent book, “A Silence Broken”, contains the testimonies of 14 men who are among the last few remaining hibakushas. The nuclear destruction of Hiroshima was a tragedy in itself, but its larger significance is that it started a nuclear arms race which today threatens to destroy human society and much of the biosphere.
→ read full articleIf a Genocide Falls in the Forest
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
There’s a wide and mysterious chasm between the intentions of the Israeli government as depicted by the U.S. media and what it has been doing in Gaza, even as recounted in the U.S. media. With the morgues full, Gazans are packing freezers with their dead children. Meanwhile, the worst images to be found in Israel depict fear, not death and suffering.
→ read full articlePrivacy 2014: Google as an Arm of the Surveillance State
Thomas L. Knapp - CounterPunch,
11 Aug 2014
There’s a pretty large gap between “we’ll let the government look at your stuff if they insist” and “we’ll keep an eye out for stuff that the government might want to see.” The latter, with respect to privacy, represents the top of a very slippery slope.
→ read full articleThe Syrian War Spills into Lebanon
Jonathan Woodrow Martin - CounterPunch,
11 Aug 2014
Security Council’s Hollow Warning: “Don’t Get Involved” – This was the message delivered to the Lebanese government by the UN Security Council, do not get involved in the conflict in Syria. Anyone with even a basic grasp of the Syrian conflict and the entwined history of Lebanon and Syria will know that this is unrealistic at best and already a moot point.
→ read full articleWant to Have a Real Impact on Climate Change? Then Become a Vegetarian
Travis McKnight – The Guardian,
4 Aug 2014
Millennials who care about the environment should put their money where their mouths are and stop eating meat. It’s time to start a dietary revolution.
→ read full articleMarx and Freud, Daoism and Gandhi
Johan Galtung, 4 Aug 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
The State stabilizes through outer control with punishment and reward; the Spirit through inner control with bad or good conscience. Wanting to do what has to be done simplifies human existence.
→ read full article
Rabbi Henry Siegman, Leading Voice of U.S. Jewry, on Gaza: “A Slaughter of Innocents”
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Jul 30, 2014 – Given his background, what American Jewish leader Rabbi Henry Siegman has to say about Israel’s founding in 1948 through the current assault on Gaza may surprise you.
→ read full articleFive Things Each of Us Human, Jews and Non-Jews, Can Do for Gazans/Palestinians
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
I will personally not have anything to do with any Zionist, who whitewashes, justifies, or actively supports Israel and its Nazi conduct towards Gaza. I urge you to show your solidarity by engaging daily in people-to-people boycott of Israel. Here are five things you can do – and this list is only suggestive.
→ read full article
Slave Workers Dying in Shocking Numbers in Qatar
Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
After visiting labor camps in Doha an international federation of trade unions called Qatar a country with only “a facade of government,” saying that migrant workers are living in squalid conditions as employers keep their passports and exit visas. Working in “unbelievable heat” six days a week they are now dying in “unprecedented numbers,” according to the report’s authors.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Javier Bardem sobre la masacre en Gaza
Javier Bardem – El Diario,
4 Aug 2014
25 Jul 2014 – Solo las alianzas geopolíticas, esa máscara hipócrita de los negocios -por ejemplo, la venta de armas- explican la posición vergonzosa de EEUU, la UE y España.
→ read full articleGaza Operation Sparks Latin American Rebuke
The Star – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Five Latin American governments have withdrawn their ambassadors from Israel in recent days, in protest against that country’s ongoing ground and air assault in Gaza where the horrors just keep mounting, the horrors and the dead.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Gaza Backlash Targets Arab Minority
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Record levels of incitement, street violence and harassment at places of work and universities has Israel’s Palestinian citizens feeling the heat.
→ read full articleLet’s Open a Nonkilling Door: A Global Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
When we see or read/hear about many innocent persons being brutally killed in a current war
Let´s plead guilty globally for Humankind is becoming more shamefully destructive than before
For Many Asian LGBT Youth, Homophobia Starts at Home
Jassmyn Goh, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
“I felt betrayed. It was the time when I needed my parents the most and they were not there for me. They chose to turn their backs on me.” — Alex
→ read full articleLatin American States Use Security Council Seats to Show Strong Support for the ICC and International Justice
Coalition for the International Criminal Court – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
With its mandate to oversee peace and security in the world, the UN Security Council is a prime forum for states to promote justice and accountability. A look at the different votes and initiatives put forward by Latin American Council members over the past few years bears witness to the region’s commitment to justice.
→ read full article(Português) Harvey: A violência nas ruas e o fim do capital
David Harvey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Trecho editado do mais recente livro de David Harvey, 17 contradições e o fim do capitalismo, onde o britânico identifica e disseca didaticamente todas as contradições do capital segundo a análise feita por Marx – para ele, seriam exatamente dezessete.
→ read full articleSomething Sinister Going On? – The Unanswered Questions of MH17
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
4 Aug 2014
Why hasn’t Washington been more forthcoming with the information they have? Why are they basing their judgment on the nonsense they’ve gleaned from social media and Twitter feeds instead of spy-in-the-sky photos and satellite imagery? Why are they dragging their feet and obstructing the investigation?
→ read full articleObama Should Release Ukraine Evidence
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
We believe you need to seek out honest intelligence analysts now and hear them out. Then, you may be persuaded to take steps to curb the risk that relations with Russia might escalate from “Cold War II” into an armed confrontation. In all candor, we see little reason to believe that Secretary Kerry and your other advisers appreciate the enormity of that danger.
→ read full articleCruelties of Ceasefire Diplomacy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Devastation and violence has continued in Gaza, with Palestinians deaths now numbering over 1000 (overwhelmingly civilians) and Israeli deaths latest reported at being 43 (almost all military personnel). Such casualty figures and disparities raise questions of state terrorism in a stark manner.
→ read full article(Português) Galeano: Pouca Palestina Resta. Pouco a Pouco, Israel Está Apagando-a do Mapa
Eduardo Galeano – TRANCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Desde 1948, os palestinos vivem condenados à humilhação perpétua. Não podem sequer respirar sem autorização. Têm perdido a sua pátria, as suas terras, a sua água, a sua liberdade, tudo. Nem sequer têm direito a eleger os seus governantes.
→ read full articleGerman Pilot’s Shocking Analysis of the ‘Shooting Down’ of Malaysian MH17: “Aircraft Was Not Hit by a Missile”
Peter Haisenko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
The cockpit shows traces of shelling in pictures! You can see the entry and exit holes, most likely of a 30 millimeter projectile. This corresponds with the statement of Spanish controller ‘Carlos’ that he has seen two Ukrainian fighter aircraft in the immediate vicinity of MH 017. The shelling of the cockpit of air Malaysia MH 017 is definitely not speculation.
→ read full articleMeeting in a Tunnel
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
On one of the archery boards every single arrow had hit a bull’s eye. A curious visitor asked the owner: how is this possible? The reply: “Simple. First I shoot the arrows, and then I draw the circles around them.” In this war, our government does the same.
→ read full articleA Nail in Zionism’s Coffin?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
If, against all odds, a genuine ceasefire were to actually take place, the pause would allow time for both sides’ fighters to regroup and re-arm. But what of the civilian population of a now substantially destroyed Gaza? This region, and increasingly the global community as a whole, is planning for a post-Zionist Middle East and how best to achieve it without further suffering.
→ read full articleHow the West Chose War in Gaza
Nathan Thrall – The New York Times,
4 Aug 2014
The current escalation in Gaza is a direct result of the choice by Israel and the West to obstruct the implementation of the April 2014 Palestinian reconciliation agreement. The road out of the crisis is a reversal of that policy.
→ read full articleNot Losing to the Rain (Amenimo makezu)
Kenji Miyazawa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
This inspiring poem was written by Japanese school teacher, geologist, poet and writer Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933); it was found posthumously in a notebook in one of the poet’s trunks.
→ read full article1984 by George Orwell – Full Movie
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
A film from 1956 based on the novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell. This is the first cinema rendition of the story, directed by Michael Anderson. Big Brother Is Watching You! – Ring any bells? The book and the movie were supposed to be warnings, NOT GUIDELINES!
→ read full articleCrime (Israel) and Punishment (Russia)
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
4 Aug 2014
Israel gets away with unlawful premeditated mass murder of civilians, while Russia gets framed for a (smaller-scale) airborne mass murder of civilians.
→ read full articleRecruiting to Kill – It Is Not Just an Israeli War on Gaza
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
The list of participating countries is growing as is the number of war criminals killing in the name of Israel. There are reportedly over 1,000 US citizens fighting in the Israeli army. The French government imposed a ban on French society from showing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The British government is shamelessly on the Israeli side as Gaza is being pulverized by western weapons and military technology.
→ read full articleJavier Bardem: Genocide in Gaza
Javier Bardem – El Diario,
4 Aug 2014
In the horror happening right now in Gaza there is NO place for distance or neutrality. It’s a war of occupation and extermination waged against a people with no means, confined in a minimum territory, with no water, and where hospitals, ambulances, and children are targets and presumed to be terrorists.
→ read full articleThe Libyan Catastrophe
Alex Lantier, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
“We came, we saw, he died,” then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bragged, laughing on CBS News after Gaddafi was captured, tortured, and murdered by US proxy forces. The catastrophe in Libya is an indictment not only of the imperialist powers, but also of pro-imperialist academics and pseudo-left parties they mobilized to support the war.
→ read full articleStop the River of Blood!
Ada Aharoni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Stop the river of blood in Gaza and Sderot
Before it becomes an ocean!
The Emperor’s Rage: Let Chaos Envelop the World!
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Chaos reigns and spreads as enraged leaders in the US, Europe and their clients and allies pursue genocidal wars. Mercenary wars in Syria; Israel’s terror bombing on Gaza; proxy wars in the Ukraine, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia.
→ read full articleThe Peace Movement’s Vision – A Universal Call for Peace through the Abolition of Militarism
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
We the Peace Movement are the alternative to militarism and war, and as we want a different world, we must be part of building it. We must not be satisfied with improvements and reform to militarism but rather offer an alternative. Militarism should be outdated and go like hanging and flogging!
→ read full article(Português) Dieta Vegetariana Pode Ser Adotada para Crianças desde o Desmame
Dr. Eric Slywitch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Uma alimentação vegetariana desde a infância promove o uso de alimentos mais diversificados que a dieta onívora, assim como hábitos alimentares saudáveis que tendem a acompanhar a criança até a idade adulta.
→ read full articleFascinating: The Universe, “Branes,” and the Science of Multiple Dimensions
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
How a needle, a shower curtain, and a New England clam explain the possibility of parallel universes. Gradually physicists and cosmologists are coming to see our ten billion light years as an infinitesimal pocket of a stupendous megaverse.
→ read full articleFrom Auschwitz To Sderot: The Decline Of Our Humanity
Marcelo Svirsky – New Matilda,
4 Aug 2014
Jewish–Israeli scholar Marcelo Svirsky questions the humanity of people celebrating the death and destruction in Gaza.
→ read full articleImagining Order as Hypercomputing
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
For 75 years, computers have worked within limits defined by the mathematician Alan Turing — although he had also foreseen the possibility of a form of universal computing machine. A recent report draws attention to new investigations into the possibility of such a machine — one that can solve the unsolvable.
→ read full articleWar Journalism Leads the Bleeding in Gaza
Erin Niemela, City Watch L.A. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
War journalism gives us two sides to choose from, but it only offers one option for resolving conflict: violence. As media often frame the Israeli government and its citizens, and Hamas and Palestinians, as one and the same, we get to choose the violence of either Hamas or Israel.
→ read full articleGaza Genocide and Arab Fratricide
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
According to the Convention on the Crime of Genocide, persons committing or in complicity with genocide shall be punished “whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.” The US supports, funds and replenishes Israel with more weaponry on the ongoing genocide in Gaza; it also uses its political clout to enable Israel to continue its crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleIsrael Provoked This War
Henry Siegman – Politico Magazine,
4 Aug 2014
Israel’s assault on Gaza was not triggered by Hamas’ rockets directed at Israel but by Israel’s determination to bring down the Palestinian unity government that was formed in early June, even though that government was committed to honoring all of the conditions imposed by the international community for recognition of its legitimacy.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Defies Australian Court’s ‘Blanket Censorship Order’ by Publishing It
Nadia Prupis – Common Dreams,
4 Aug 2014
WikiLeaks has revealed a secret court order in Australia to censor reporting on a massive, years-long political bribery and corruption scandal in the country involving its central bank and several international leaders. Founder Julian Assange says unprecedented government gag order is ‘blindfolding the Australian public’.
→ read full articleEdna St. Vincent Millay on the Death Penalty and What It Really Means to Be an Anarchist
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
An Anarchist is a person who believes that human beings are naturally good, and that if left to themselves they would, by mutual agreement, govern themselves much better and much more peaceably than they are being governed now by a government based on violence. [TMS editor: The 12-Step self-help Anonymous groups as examples]
→ read full articleUkraine MH17 May Be CIA False Flag and It Ain’t Flying
William Engdahl – Russia Today,
4 Aug 2014
The world has seen all this theatre before. We saw it with the false flag Gulf of Tonkin incident during the Vietnam War. We saw it with the CIA-Saudi faked Sarin gas episode in 2013 that brought the world to the brink of a world war. We saw it in the fake Niger uranium yellowcake episode to bully a US Congress into war against Iraq in 2003—the so-called Weapons of Mass Destruction that were never found. Now the world is seeing it again.
→ read full articleBolivia Declares Israel ‘Terrorist State’, Scraps Visa Exemption Agreement
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
South America Takes Moral Leadership Away From the Immoral West: 30 Jul 2014 – Bolivia has declared Israel to be a “terrorist state” and renounced a visa exemption agreement with the country in protest over the ongoing Israeli military offense in Gaza which already killed more than 1,300 dead and left over 7,000 wounded.
→ read full articleJoint Declaration on International Law & Gaza – Final List of Endorsers
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
With only a voluntary effort the Joint Declaration on International Law in relation to the Gaza Attacks by Israel has elicited an encouraging response from legal experts from around the world, including some of our most distinguished colleagues. Others without formal legal credentials have also indicated their support, and expressed their desire to endorse the Joint Declaration.
→ read full articleArgentina Must Not Follow NY Court’s Dictated Path to Bankruptcy
Peter Koenig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Why would a New York Court have jurisdiction over a sovereign country? There is no bankruptcy law for sovereign nations. Argentina must not obey judge Griesa, or any US ruling interfering in its sovereignty – in its handling of sovereign debt.
→ read full article(Français) Le BRICS, l’UNASUR et la CELAC dessinent une nouvelle carte du monde multipolaire
Alberto Cova– TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Le 22 juillet 1944, il y a exactement 70 ans, s’achevait la réunion dans un hôtel du New Hampshire dans laquelle les Etats-Unis firent prévaloir leurs intérêts devant les délégués de 44 pays et imposèrent la planche à billet illimitée du dollar pour remplacer l’or en tant qu’étalon de la valeur de chaque monnaie dans le monde.
→ read full articleA Venerable Jewish Voice for Peace
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
4 Aug 2014
As the United States resupplies Israel with ammunition, more than 250 children in Gaza have been killed. Instead of providing weapons, the U.S. and the rest of the world should pressure Israel to stop the slaughter.
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