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The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley – The Intercept,
23 Feb 2015
19 Feb 2015 – American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleSecrecy around Police Surveillance Equipment Proves a Case’s Undoing
Ellen Nakashima – The Washington Post,
23 Feb 2015
An FBI-imposed gag order about the StingRay, a sophisticated surveillance device that mimics cell towers, endangers some criminal cases when its use is questioned by defendants or judges.
→ read full articleAlive and Bleeding
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
“We’re killing a lot of them, and we’re going to keep killing more of them. So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians — they’re in this fight with us. But we cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups, whether it’s a lack of opportunity for jobs, whether…”
→ read full articleGaza Homes Flooded after Israel Unbolts Dam Gates
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Scores of Palestinian family homes east of blockaded Gaza were flooding after the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) opened dam gates at dawn Sunday [22 Feb 2015]. This is not the first time Israeli occupation authorities have opened the Gaza Valley dams.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Machtkämpfe – Eine antimilitaristische Sicht auf den Krieg in der Ukraine (Part-Teil 1)
Vadim Damier – graswurzelrevolution,
23 Feb 2015
Im November 2014 hat der Moskauer Sozialwissenschaftler Dr. Vadim Damier in Veranstaltungen in acht deutschen Städten vor zahlreichen ZuhörerInnen seine alternative Sicht auf den Krieg in der Ukraine dargelegt. Der GWR-Autor und Anarchosyndikalist hat uns sein Redemanuskript zum Abdruck angeboten. Wir dokumentieren den redaktionell überarbeiteten Text in zwei Teilen.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Machtkämpfe um die Ostukraine: Eine antimilitaristische Sicht auf den Konflikt (Part-Teil 2)
Vadim Damier – graswurzelrevolution,
23 Feb 2015
Im Januar 2015 flammten die blutigen Kämpfe zwischen ukrainischen Truppen und russlandnahen Separatisten in der Ostukraine wieder verstärkt auf. Mehr als 4000 Menschen wurden in diesem Krieg bisher getötet, Hunderttausende sind auf der Flucht. Dem Protest vieler Angehöriger zum Trotz verkündete die ukrainische Regierung eine Verstärkung ihrer Truppen und eine Teilmobilmachung. Eine Einstellung aller Kampfhandlungen ist nicht in Sicht.
→ read full articleAnti What? The Hoax of Rising Antisemitism in Europe
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Anti-Semitism is on the rise. All over Europe it is raising its ugly head. Jews are in danger everywhere. They must make haste and come home to Israel before it is too late. True? Untrue? NONSENSE!
→ read full articleThe Atlantic Ignores Muslim Intellectuals, Defines “True Islam” As ISIS
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
23 Feb 2015
In the piece, author Graeme Wood makes the case that the militant group represents a highly authentic version of Islam. Far from being an aberrant or deviant offshoot of traditional Islamic beliefs, it is described as being a faithful expression of them — representing “a coherent and even learned expression of Islam.”
→ read full articleThe Struggle of Venezuela against ‘A Common Enemy’
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
There are straightforward principles and dynamics at work here. Washington wants to get rid of the Venezuelan government because it is independent of US designs for the region and because Venezuela has the greatest proven oil reserves in the world and uses its oil revenue to improve the quality of ordinary lives.
→ read full articleThe Assassination of Greece
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The Greek government is currently locked in a life and death struggle with the elite which dominate the banks and political decision-making centers of the European Union. What are at stake are the livelihoods of 11 million Greek workers, employees and small business people and the viability of the European Union.
→ read full article(Português) SwissLeaks: revelações sobre um sistema de fraude fiscal internacional
Fabrice Lhomme e Gérard Davet - Le Monde,
23 Feb 2015
19 Fev 2015 – Os números são de tirar o fôlego. A série de reportagens publicada pelo jornal Le Monde, espetacular e inédita, é fruto de investigações realizadas entre Paris, Washington, Bruxelas e Genebra, e revela os bastidores de um grande sistema de evasão fiscal aceito, e até encorajado, pelo britânico HSBC, o segundo maior banco do mundo, através da sua filial suíça HSBC Private Bank.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s [Burma’s] Buddhist Terrorism Problem
Usaid Siddiqui – Al Jazeera America,
23 Feb 2015
18 Feb 2015 – The country’s Rohingya minority is one of the most persecuted groups in the world. Burmese activists and leaders such as Suu Kyi must stand up for the human rights of the Rohingya community.
→ read full articleHow to Read Intelligently and Write a Great Essay: Robert Frost’s Letter of Advice to His Young Daughter
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
«Take it easy with the essay whatever you do. Be as concrete as the law allows in it — concrete and experiential. Don’t let it scare you. Don’t strain. Remember that any old thing that happens in your head as you read may be the thing you want. If nothing much seems to happen, perhaps another reading will help.»
→ read full articleUS Imperialism and the Catastrophe in Libya
Joseph Kishore, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Prior to the intervention of NATO, there were no sectarian murders of Christians in Libya and Islamist militias tied to Al Qaeda were small groups with no broader influence. These forces were armed and promoted when, in 2011, the Obama administration and its allies in Europe, led by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, took the decision to topple Gaddafi.
→ read full articleThe Western Freedom of Expression Hypocrisy
Johan Galtung, 23 Feb 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
State-Law, Capital, and Culture. They are at their best when independent of each other. State should not interfere with the market, Capital not with politics, neither with Culture. Just look at how Capital changes such important parts of Culture as sports, arts and science, transforming them into products for buying, selling and investing, demanding of universities to serve Capital, not Truth.
→ read full articleLibya’s Chaos Is Obama’s Shame
Timothy P. Carney – Washington Examiner,
23 Feb 2015
Obama’s illegal, ill-considered, and immoral drive-by war in Libya ought to be a permanent stain on his presidency. The recent video of masked ISIS killers beheading 21 Egyptian Christians [and burning many alive] in Libya deserves to be the emblem of this president’s rash foreign policy.
→ read full articleRemember Your Humanity
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
This year, 2015, marks the 60th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which contains the following words: “There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise. If you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.”
→ read full articleFebruary 19, 1942: FDR Orders the Internment of the Japanese
The Almanac and Richard Kreitner – The Nation,
23 Feb 2015
19 Feb 2015 – The Nation’s response to the president’s evacuation, relocation and internment order was not nearly as firmly opposed as one now wishes it had been.
→ read full articleNaive Acquisition of Dual-use Surveillance Technology
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Progressive market-driven transformation of personal appliances into spyware? February 2015 has been witness to worldwide news coverage of the manner in which new “Smart TVs” were designed to listen to, if not visually record, those watching them. The major issue of concern was how the information acquired in this way was used, by whom, and with what constraints.
→ read full articleRussia Creates Its Own Payment System
Ian Welsh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
15 Feb 2015 – Domestic credit institutions have been incorporated into the new Russian financial system, the analogous of SWIFT. The new service will allow Russian banks to communicate through the Central Bank of Russia in response to repeated threats by Moscow’s Western partners to disconnect Russia from SWIFT.
→ read full articleSeed Bombers Can Plant an Entire Forest of 900,000 Trees A Day!
John Vibes, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Here’s a good use for old military planes! Planting trees EVERYWHERE! Seed bombing or aerial reforestation is a farming technique where trees and other crops are planted by being thrown or dropped from an airplane or flying drone.
→ read full articleCrimea: Was It Seized by Russia, or Did Russia Block Its Seizure by the U.S.?
Eric Zuesse, Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Both before and after Crimea left Ukraine and joined Russia in a public referendum on 16 March 2014, the Gallup Organization polled Crimeans on behalf of the U.S. Government, and found them to be extremely pro-Russian and anti-American, and also anti-Ukrainian. (Neither poll was subsequently publicized, because the results of each were the opposite of what the sponsor had wished.)
→ read full articleWorld Press Freedom Index 2015: Decline on All Fronts
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that include media pluralism and independence, respect for the safety and freedom of journalists, and the legislative, institutional and infrastructural environment in which the media operate.
→ read full articleUS-NATO War Games Prepare Massive Military Escalation in West Africa
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
U.S. and NATO forces launched massive war games Monday [16 Feb 2015] in West Africa. The exercises, known as Operation Flintlock 2015, are to serve as the spearhead for a comprehensive military escalation by the US and European powers and their client regimes throughout the resource-rich Lake Chad Basin.
→ read full articleYanis Varoufakis: No Time for Games in Europe
Yanis Varoufakis – The New York Times,
23 Feb 2015
Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players. Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece’s new finance minister I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
→ read full article700th Consecutive Weekly Hilo [Hawai’i] Peace Vigil
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Friday, Feb. 20, 2015 marks the 700th consecutive weekly Hilo, Hawaii Peace Vigil held from 3:30-5PM at the downtown Post office/federal building sponsored by Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action based in Kurtistown, Big Island, Hawai’i.
→ read full article‘Islamic State’ Mystery: The Anti-History of a Historic Phenomenon
Ramzy Baroud – Middle East Eye,
23 Feb 2015
The IS phenomenon is ahistorical and raises questions about its rapid geopolitical expansion despite lack of enthusiasm for its cause among ordinary people. Thanks to IS’ despicable act of burning the pilot, Jordan is no longer polarised about their country’s war in Syria. Egypt is following the same path of intervention, thanks to the butchering of the Egyptian workers.
→ read full articleIsrael Killed 108 Preschoolers and 19 Babies Last Year According to New Report
Joe Fletcher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Feb14, 2015 – “Children younger than 16 made up one-third of the total: 280 killed, including 19 babies and 108 preschoolers between the ages of 1 and 5. In 83 strikes, three or more members of one family died. Among those killed were 96 confirmed or suspected militants — or just over 11 percent of the total.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
February 23–March 1 – Quote of the Week: “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible’!” — Audrey Hepburn
→ read full articleWhen a Terrorist Is Not a Terrorist
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
What the Chapel Hill police in North Carolina initially pitched as ‘a parking dispute’ was the deliberate killing of three young and devout Muslim American students by an ideologically driven ‘new atheist’ killer named Craig Stephen Hicks. What the The Economist unhesitatingly calls ‘terrorism in Copenhagen’ involved the attempted shooting of a Danish cartoonist who repeatedly mocks the Prophet and Islamic beliefs as well as the lethal shooting of a Jewish security guard outside a synagogue.
→ read full article(Français) La chasse aux sorcières des ‘’Charlies’’: Dérive ou prélude aux bruits rampants des bottes du fascisme?
Amir M. Maasoumi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
28 janvier 2015, Radio Canada et Médias internationaux : ‘’Un enfant de 8 ans interpellé par la police française’’ pour refuser ”d’être Charlie”. Non. Moi non plus; Je ne suis ni Charlie, ni un Assassin hors-la-loi et sans foi! Je refuse cette dichotomie artificielle, simpliste et réductrice.
→ read full articleTen Enduring Mysteries of the Longyou Caves
April Holloway, Ancient Origins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
In China lies the Longyou caves – an extensive, magnificent and rare ancient underground world considered in China as ‘the 9th wonder of the ancient world’. Despite decades of research, very few answers have emerged to explain its enigma. Our ancient ancestors have achieved many wondrous things, but this truly is an unexplained mystery.
→ read full articleSaint Francis and the Wolf
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
We must understand the causes of violence, in our own interest, to prevent it in the future. In no way does this justify violence, or blame the victims.
→ read full article(Português) Morrem Três Jornalistas Que Investigavam a Participação dos EUA na Demolição das Torres Gêmeas
Diário Liberdade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Três jornalistas que trabalhavam em um documentário sobre o envolvimento do governo norte-americano na demolição das torres gêmeas morreram nos últimos dias. Trata-se do ex-repórter internacional da NBC Ned Colt, o correspondente da CBS News [60 Minutes] Bob Simon, e o jornalista do New York Times David Carr.
→ read full articleBan Greyhound Racing Now
Lori Gruen – Al Jazeera America,
23 Feb 2015
Empathy for animals demands an end to the practice. When people treat greyhounds as disposable things, they are not only hurting the dogs but also furthering a culture of cruelty and indifference toward animals.
→ read full articleUkraine Agrees To Monsanto Land Grab for $17 Billion IMF Loan
Christina Sarich, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are helping biotech run the latest war in Ukraine. Make no mistake: what is happening in the Ukraine now is deeply tied to the interests of Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and other big players in the poison food game.
→ read full articleWeimar on the Aegean
Paul Krugman, Nobel Economics Laureate - The New York Times,
23 Feb 2015
You can argue that Greece brought its problems on itself, although it had a lot of help from irresponsible lenders. The simple fact is that Greece cannot pay its debts in full. Austerity has devastated its economy as thoroughly as military defeat devastated Germany — real Greek G.D.P. per capita fell 26 percent from 2007 to 2013, compared with a German decline of 29 percent from 1913 to 1919.
→ read full articleThe Intercept’s Laura Poitras Wins Academy Award for ‘Citizenfour’
Peter Maass – The Intercept,
23 Feb 2015
“The disclosures that Edward Snowden revealed don’t only expose a threat to our privacy but to our democracy itself,” Poitras said in her acceptance speech. “Thank you to Edward Snowden for his courage and for the many other whistleblowers.” Snowden, in a statement released after the award was announced, said, “My hope is that this award will encourage more people to see the film and be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world.”
→ read full articleFrom ‘Demos’ to ‘Podemos’: Popular Uprisings in Greece and Spain
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
23 Feb 2015
“Austerity in Greece means 50 percent increase in male suicides. It means real wages fell by 25 percent in five years … 300,000 families who can’t afford electricity.” Interviewed in Der Spiegel, Varoufakis called austerity “fiscal waterboarding.”
→ read full article(Português) O Bem Comum Foi Enviado ao Limbo
Leonardo Boff – Carta Maior,
23 Feb 2015
O neoliberalismo demoliu a noção de bem comum. Em seu lugar, entraram as noções de rentabilidade, de flexibilização, de adaptação e de competitividade.
→ read full articleObama Administration to Allow Sales of Armed Drones to Allies
Missy Ryan – The Washington Post,
23 Feb 2015
This is a disastrous decision for human rights and arms control,’ says William Hartung of Center for International Policy. The new policy, announced Tuesday [17 Feb 2015] after a long internal review, is a significant step for U.S. arms policy.
→ read full article(Português) Por que o ocidente não admite as verdadeiras raízes do terrorismo?
Mediapart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
A violência política se alimenta da violência de Estado e da violência social. O radicalismo se alimenta das presepadas geopolíticas ocidentais.
→ read full articleIronman Varoufakis’s Revolutionary Plan for Europe
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
23 Feb 2015
The ongoing dispute between the German and Greek governments is nothing less than a democratic revolution against German hegemony and the attempt of the Germans and their paladins in the EU to dictate Greek domestic policy.” Varoufakis’s plan in a nutshell: Revolution from within. Just don’t tell anyone in Berlin.
→ read full articleA Pre-History of Boko Haram: The Long Shadow of Usman dan Fodio
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
There has been growing concern with the activities of Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and its spillover into northern Cameroon, Niger, and in the Lake Chad area.
→ read full articleWhy I Have Resigned from the Telegraph
Peter Oborne – Open Democracy,
23 Feb 2015
The coverage of HSBC in Britain’s Telegraph is a fraud on its readers. If major newspapers allow corporations to influence their content for fear of losing advertising revenue, democracy itself is in peril.
→ read full articleMarx, Syriza and the Future of Greece – The Not So Erratic Philosophy of Yanis Varoufakis
Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer - CounterPunch,
23 Feb 2015
He has just written a smashing op-ed for The New York Times that forcefully outlines his government’s approach to the negotiations. It deserves a standing ovation. Varoufakis has described himself as an “erratic Marxist.” He is far more of a Marxist than a Kantian. It’s the only moral thing to be.
→ read full articleRetraction
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
A member of the United States Senate, known for his hot temper and acid tongue, exploded one day in midsession and began to shout, “Half of this Senate is made up of cowards and corrupt politicians!”
→ read full articleExtinct—Extincter—Extinctest
Dmitry Orlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The USA is best characterized as a decomposing corpse of a nation lorded over by a tiny clique of oligarchs who control the herd by wielding Orwellian methods of mind control. So far gone is the populace that most of them think that things are just peachy—there is an economic recovery, don’t you know.
→ read full articleUS “Easing Into” War with Syria Using ISIS Boogeyman
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
As early as June of last year, it was reported that ISIS would be used as a means to incrementally draw in US forces in preparation for a direct military intervention aimed at Damascus itself.
→ read full articleThe Putin-Did-It Conspiracy Theory
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
23 Feb 2015
The New York Times – much as it did when it was falsely reporting breathlessly about ‘aluminum tubes’ for Iraq’s non-existent nuclear weapons program – continues to promote U.S. government propaganda about Ukraine as fact and dismisses any rational assessment of the situation as crazy.
→ read full articleAthenae Delenda Est
Paul Krugman, Nobel Economics Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Rather than give any ground, they prefer to see Greece forced into default and probably out of the euro, with the presumed economic wreckage as an object lesson to anyone else thinking of asking for relief. That is, they’re setting out to impose the economic equivalent of the “Carthaginian peace” France sought to impose on Germany after World War I. The lack of wisdom is astonishing and appalling.
→ read full articleWhere Does Iran’s Supreme Leader Really Stand on Nuclear Negotiations?
Ariane Tabatabai – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
23 Feb 2015
“Not reaching a deal would be better than a bad deal.” – Khamenei. This moment is a unique opportunity for Iranian negotiators to make a comprehensive deal they can sell to domestic hardliners, using the momentum provided by the country’s highest political authority.
→ read full articleInterview with William Schabas, Former Chair, UN Commission of Inquiry for 2014 Israeli Attack on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Interview with Prof. William Schabas, recently resigned under pressure as Chair of the Commission of Inquiry appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to Investigate Allegations of State Crimes associated with Israel’s military attack on Gaza, code named Operation Protective Edge.
→ read full article(Português) Atletas de remo britânicos posam sem roupa para combater a homofobia
Estilo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
19 Fev 2015 – Desde 2009, os atletas da Warwick University, umas das principais universidades do Reino Unido, combatem a homofobia com uma série de eventos, projetos e um calendário em que aparecem sem roupa. Este ano, a equipe de remo aceitou o desafio de fazer o calendário para uma nova campanha de crowdfunding. (fotos)
→ read full articleThe Word
Pablo Neruda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The word was born
in the blood,
it grew in the dark body, pulsing,
and took flight with the lips and mouth.
New Report on Lynching Reveals America’s Sinister Legacy of ‘Racial Terrorism’
Lauren McCauley – Moyers & Company,
23 Feb 2015
Feb11, 2015 – Capital punishment and ongoing racial injustice in the United States are “direct descendents” of lynching, charges a new study, which found that the pre-World War II practice of “racial terrorism” has had a much more profound impact on race relations in America than previously acknowledged.
→ read full articleUSA: Accused of ‘Terrorism,’ Animal Rights Activists Head to Federal Court
Deirdre Fulton – Common Dreams,
23 Feb 2015
“The profits of these industries depend not only on keeping animals inside cages but, more significantly, on keeping the idea of animal rights marginalized.” — Rachel Meeropol, Center for Constitutional Rights
→ read full articleBritain and Canada Involved in Foiled US Venezuelan Coup Plot
Stephen Lendman - Global Research,
16 Feb 2015
16 Feb 2015 – Britain and Canada were co-conspirators in the latest plot to topple Venezuela’s government. TeleSur provided detailed coverage of Washington’s war on Venezuelan democracy.
→ read full article$$$$$S in Their Hearts
Stefano Manfreo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
This book is an effort to strike at the roots of what is probably the most brutal and devastating way through which evil manifests itself in the world: War. $$$$$S in Their Hearts by Alberto Portugheis, OPUS BOOKS, November 2014
→ read full articleIsrael’s Obsession for Monopoly on Middle East Nuclear Power
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Feb 13 2015 – As the Iranian nuclear talks hurtle towards a Mar. 24 deadline, there is renewed debate about the blatant Western double standards underlying the resurrection of a longstanding proposal for a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction.
→ read full articleThe Casino Republic
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Who is the ruler of Israel? Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, of course.
WRONG. The real ruler of Israel is one Sheldon Adelson, 81, American Jew, Casino king, who was rated as the world’s tenth richest person, worth 37.2 billion dollars at the latest count. But who is counting?
EU and Russia: No Option but Peace and Coexistence
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
At the moment of writing, the ink on the second Minsk agreement has not yet dried. Closer EU-Russia relations would create a nightmare scenario for the Washington elite, writes a former Belgian lawmaker.
→ read full articleDon’t Blame Greece for the EU’s Woes
Stephen Kinzer – Al Jazeera America,
16 Feb 2015
The pan-European project is waning because of its inherent flaws. The deepest flaw in the EU concept was the fantasy that Europeans would steadily become less nationalistic.
→ read full articleJunk the Phrase ‘Human Capital’
Branko Milanovic – Al Jazeera America,
16 Feb 2015
It has added nothing but conceptual confusion for the last 50 years. The term “capital” should be used as it is used in common parlance and as it was used during more than 200 years of economics: for property distinct from one’s labor.
→ read full articleOscars Make History, So Hollywood’s War Stories Need to Be True
Peter Maass – The Intercept,
16 Feb 2015
Cultural critics like to tell us that movies are just movies, but the “calm down it’s just a movie” attitude is chiefly used to protect narratives — like Zero Dark Thirty or American Sniper — that confirm our prejudices.
→ read full articleMy Gitmo Client’s Interpreter Worked for the CIA
Ramzi Kassem – Al Jazeera America,
16 Feb 2015
Latest embarrassing incident demonstrates that military tribunals cannot mete out justice to detainees. This revelation should undercut any trust the public retains in the integrity of the military commissions system at Guantánamo.
→ read full articleYour Samsung SmartTV Is Spying on You, Basically
The Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
You may be loving your new Internet-connected television and its convenient voice-command feature—but did you know it’s recording everything you say and sending it to a third party?
→ read full articleTerrorism: Ultimate Weapon of the Global Elite
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
The usual definition of a ‘terrorist’ is simple: a person who uses violence in the pursuit of a political objective. By this definition, the two major categories of terrorist are those political leaders who perpetrate state terror by attacking other countries (ranging from launching a war, perhaps following a false flag operation, to conducting a drone strike).
→ read full articleDiagnosis & Prognosis: The Ukrainian Conflict-Formation
Naakow Grant-Hayford - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
The successful expansion of the economic-political-military codes and institutions of both EU and NATO in the general direction of Russia since the end of the cold war, has again, as in the case of Georgia in 2008, openly clashed with Russian interests in its immediate orbit and set ablaze Eastern Ukraine.
→ read full article
Radio Morobo: “A Welcome [South Sudan] Community Asset”
Dominik Lehnert, Xchange Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Feb 12, 2015 – As community based radio station, it is run by volunteer community reporters from all parts of the county and all walks of life.
→ read full article500 Rabbis Urge Israel to Stop Demolition of Palestinian Homes
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
9 Feb 2015 – Over 500 rabbis from Israel, Britain, the US and Canada have called on the Israeli prime minister to stop demolishing Palestinian homes. Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) say Benjamin Netanyahu’s stance is against “international law and Jewish tradition.”
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Tamil Province Charges Colombo with Genocide
Meera Srinivasan – The Hindu,
16 Feb 2015
Sri Lanka’s Northern Provincial Council on Tuesday [10 Feb 20125] passed a strongly worded resolution accusing successive governments in the island nation of committing ‘genocide’ against Tamils.
→ read full articleThe Witch-hunt Staged by the ‘’Charlies’’: Off the Rails Excess or Prelude to the Marching Boots of Fascism?
Amir M. Maasoumi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
28 January 2015, Radio Canada et Médias internationaux : ‘’An eight year old kid questioned by the French police’’ for refusing “to be Charlie”. No. Count me out. I’m neither Charlie, nor a lawless faithless Assassin! I reject this artificial, simplistic, crude dichotomy.
→ read full articleIceland Convicts Bad Bankers and Says Other Nations Can Act
Alistair Scrutton and Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
13 Feb 2015 – Iceland’s Supreme Court has upheld convictions of market manipulation for four former executives of the failed Kaupthing bank in a landmark case that the country’s special prosecutor said showed it was possible to crack down on fraudulent bankers.
→ read full articleEmbodying Global Hegemony through a Sustaining Pattern of Discourse
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Cognitive Challenge of Dominion over All One Surveys – This is an exploration of possible global organization of the pattern of value-based polarities by which discourse is significantly characterized: big-small, win-lose, nice-nasty, hot-cold, friend-enemy, clean-dirty, expensive-cheap, and the like.
→ read full articleArmy Agrees to Provide Chelsea Manning Transition-Related Care
Mitch Kellaway – The Advocate Magazine,
16 Feb 2015
13 Feb 2015 – Chelsea [Bradley] Manning, the former Army private and transgender whistleblower serving 35 years in military prison for exposing U.S. security secrets to website WikiLeaks, has reportedly been approved by the Defense Department to begin hormone therapy in military prison, reports USA Today.
→ read full articleMisunderstanding Myanmar’s Military
Tim Heinemann – Asia Times,
16 Feb 2015
It is troubling to hear assertions that the panacea for what ails Myanmar is the mere “professionalization of the military.” This is profoundly off the mark in grasping what Burman-dominated armed forces both have been: a brutally armed enterprise, a profit-making military machine.
→ read full articleThe CIA’s Secret Psychological Profiles of Dictators and World Leaders Are Amazing
Dave Gilson – Mother Jones,
16 Feb 2015
Psychoanalyzing Strongmen, from Hitler, Castro to Saddam
→ read full article(Italiano) Che cosa comportava il colonialismo: il caso della Malesia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Uno sguardo a questa dichiarazione di Cecil Rhodes: La mia idea favorita è una soluzione al problema sociale, vale a dire, al fine di salvare i 40.000.000 d’abitanti del Regno Unito da una sanguinosa guerra civile, noi statisti coloniali dobbiamo acquisire nuove terre per insediarvi la popolazione di troppo che fornisca nuovi mercati per le merci prodotte nelle fabbriche e nelle miniere. L’IMPERO: È UNA QUESTIONE PANE E BURRO. SE SI VUOLE EVITARE UNA GUERRA CIVILE, BASTA DIVENTARE IMPERIALISTI.
→ read full articleTimeline: The IPCC’s Shifting Position on Nuclear Energy
Suzanne Waldman - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
16 Feb 2015
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed in 1988 as an expert panel to guide the drafting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, ratified in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The treaty’s objective is to stabilize greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a safe level.
→ read full articleKamikaze
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
they win every war, even when
they explode babies and grandmothers,
whilst their tanks play songs, inspire them,
“kill the motherf**, kill…!”
Payback Time? Greek PM Seeks Reparations over Nazi Occupation & War-Time Loan
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015 – Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, referring to Nazi Germany’s four-year occupation of Greece and a forced war-time loan during World War II that saddled the Greek economy in huge debt, wants Berlin to pay reparations.
→ read full articleLynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
Equal Justice Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
The 27-page report published on 10 Feb 2015 is fruit of the multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve Southern states during the period between Reconstruction and World War II.
→ read full articlePortugal Cut Addiction Rates in Half by Connecting Drug Users with Communities Instead of Jailing Them
Johann Hari – YES! Magazine,
16 Feb 2015
Fifteen years ago, the Portuguese had one of the worst drug problems in Europe. So they decriminalized drugs, took money out of prisons, put it into holistic rehabilitation, and found that human connection is the antidote to addiction.
→ read full article700 British Artists Pledge to Boycott Israel
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
15 Feb 2015 – A group of over 700 British artists signed a pledge to culturally and professionally boycott Israel to pressure an end to its aggressive and discriminatory practices against the Palestinians.
→ read full articleFull Text of the Minsk-II Agreement on Ukraine
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Marathon negotiations in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, resulted in a new ceasefire for eastern Ukraine.
→ read full articleIs Your Child a Terrorist? U.S. Government Questionnaire Rates Families at Risk for Extremism
Murtaza Hussain, Cora Currier, and Jana Winter – The Intercept,
16 Feb 2015
Are you, your family or your community at risk of turning to violent extremism? That’s the premise behind a rating system devised by the National Counterterrorism Center, according to a document marked For Official Use Only and obtained by The Intercept.
→ read full articleNuclear-Weapon Free Zones: Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons at a Regional Level
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
It is an unfortunate aspect of world politics that constructive, institution-building action is usually undertaken only because of a crisis. The Treaty of Tlatelolco is a fine example of the necessary team work between political advocacy and expert knowledge.
→ read full articleEducation Has Little to Do with Knowledge
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Together, in unison, openly or anonymously, we should give a hand to the outspoken Chinese education minister, Yuan Guiren, and write about this appalling but taboo (in the West) topic: “How education became yet another weapon of war, used by the West.”
→ read full articleA Presumption against Intervention
Richard Falk, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
It is important to recall that self-determination remains the most significant anti-intervention norm in a post-colonial global setting, and is so often marginalized in debates for or against intervention.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’arte della Pace (Review-Recensione)
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
“L’arte della Pace” di Alberto L’Abate, ovvero la crescita dei movimenti di base dallo spirituale al politico. Come sostituto del sostituto (Rocco Altieri) dell’autore (Alberto L’Abate) del libro da presentare, occorre che innanzitutto mi presenti.
→ read full articleWretched US Journalism on Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
16 Feb 2015
The U.S. news media has failed the American people often in recent years by not challenging U.S. government falsehoods, as with Iraq’s WMD. But the most dangerous violation of journalistic principles has occurred in the Ukraine crisis, which has the potential of a nuclear war.
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Manhã de Carnaval (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Baden Powell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Virtuoso Brazilian Guitarist
→ read full articleA Shock to the System
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
One of the biggest jokes in conservation is the Japanese government’s claim to be engaged in “scientific whaling”. All the killing by its harpoon fleet takes place under the guise of “research”, as this is the only justification available, under international rules.
→ read full articleAcross 100 Miles of Ocean
Akio Tanaka, University of Massachusetts Boston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
In 1989 the Soviet Union collapsed, and the United States saw it as a victory of Capitalism over Communism. The Democratic Party joined the Republican Party’s full embrace of the corporate agenda, and the corporations felt empowered to seek profits with absolutely no regard for the consequences to Earth and all its life forms. The US became a corporate-military empire using its military to secure oil for its oil based economy.
→ read full articleOn the North Carolina Killings
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
14 Feb 2014 – A short interview on how to interpret the ghastly murder of three young Muslims living in the North Carolina university town of Chapel Hill.
→ read full articleAccountability for Armed Contractors
Dr. Ian Ralby, Fletcher Security Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
The proliferation of private armed contractors was followed by a proliferation of initiatives o establish accountability for the industry… Failing to address foreseeable complications may prove detrimental to the industry, to the credibility of governments employing them, and to the overarching aims of international security.
→ read full articleCan Syria’s Cultural Heritage Be a Fulcrum for Ending Its Civil War?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
This country is home to some of the world’s first cities, as well as globally important sites from the Akkadian, Sumerian, Hittite, Assyrian, Persian, Greco-Roman, Ummayyad, Crusader, and Ottoman civilizations and to some of the oldest, most advanced civilizations in the world.
→ read full articleFramework or Fragmentation of Standards for Private Security Providers?
Human Analytics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
A response to ‘Accountability for Armed Contractors,’ by Dr. Ian Ralby [ABOVE]
→ read full articleEarth Charter+15 Kickoff Webinar with Federico Mayor and Alexander Likhotal
Earth Charter International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Please, join us on the 25th of February to hear these great speakers and participate in a question and answer with them afterwards. We look forward to seeing you there!
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