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(Italiano) IO STO CON LA SPOSA – Torino 11 ottobre 2014
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Frammenti di una storia di extra ordinaria umanità
→ read full articlePolice Go Nuts over Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Remote Speech in Vermont
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
13 Oct 2014
When Goddard announced that students had chosen Mumia to be the commencement speaker at their graduation, Philadelphia police, politicians, media, and Fox News went crazy with angry rhetoric aimed at curbing free speech.
→ read full articleDid Israel Commit Genocide in Gaza?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
In a special session of the Russell Tribunal, Israel’s Operation Protective Edge was critically scrutinized from the perspective of international law, including the core allegation of genocide through testimonies by legal and weapons experts, health workers, journalists and others who experienced the 50 days of military assault.
→ read full articleEU Bans Import of Israeli Dairy Products Made in Palestine
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The ban is expected to have only minimal economic impact, but it is one of the boldest moves taken by western nations to put pressure on the Israeli government to change its policies toward Palestine.
→ read full articleDuvalier: Dead but Not Gone
Charlie Hinton – Haiti Action Committee,
13 Oct 2014
Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier, responsible for thousands of deaths and theft of millions, who moved openly among Haitian elites, died Oct 4 [2014] a free man. Meanwhile former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, twice elected president with huge majorities only to be overthrown by U.S. backed coups, and who created more schools in a decade than in Haiti’s 200-year history, lives under house arrest surrounded by heavily armed police wearing black ski masks.
→ read full articleIn the Medical Response to Ebola, Cuba Is Punching Far Above Its Weight
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post,
13 Oct 2014
While the international community has been accused of dragging its feet on the Ebola crisis, Cuba, a country of just 11 million people that still enjoys a fraught relationship with the United States, has emerged as a crucial provider of medical expertise in the West African nations hit by Ebola.
→ read full articleWhither China’s Democracy? Democratization in China since the Tiananmen Incident
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
This review of an in-depth look at democratization in China was written before the recent protests in Hong Kong that highlight shifting attitudes toward governing practices. Democratization is a bumpy but ongoing process.
→ read full article6 Ways Technology is Helping to Fight Ebola
Timo Luege – The Institute for Technology and Social Change,
13 Oct 2014
In addition to the life saving work of medical staff, logisticians and community organizers, information and communication technology (ICT) is also playing a vital part in supporting their work. I pulled together six examples of how ICT is already making a difference in the current Ebola crisis.
→ read full articleQuestioning Sweden’s ‘Bold’ Diplomatic Initiative
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The new center-left Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven, in his inaugural speech to Parliament indicated on October 3 [2014] the intention of the Swedish government to recognize Palestinian statehood.
→ read full article(Castellano) Refugiados Sirios ya Estarían en Uruguay
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Un total de 42 refugiados sirios, en su mayoría niños habrían llegado este jueves [9 octubre 2014] a Uruguay, indicó una fuente de la Presidencia anónima. Uruguay es el primer país latinoamericano en implementar un plan de reasentamiento de este tipo.
→ read full articleChina Just Overtook the US as the World’s Largest Economy
Mike Bird – Business Insider,
13 Oct 2014
8 Oct 2014 – Sorry, America. China just overtook the US to become the world’s largest economy, according to the International Monetary Fund.
→ read full articleThe University of Al-Qaeda? America’s “Terrorist Academy” in Iraq Produced ISIS Leaders
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
13 Oct 2014
“Since 2003, Anglo-American power has secretly and openly coordinated direct and indirect support for Islamist terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda across the Middle East and North Africa. This ill-conceived patchwork geostrategy is a legacy of the persistent influence of neoconservative ideology, motivated by longstanding but often contradictory ambitions to dominate regional oil resources, defend an expansionist Israel, and in pursuit of these, re-draw the map of the Middle East.”
→ read full articleISIS: Negotiation, Not Bombing
Johan Galtung, 13 Oct 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
More senseless bombing of Muslims, more defeats for USA-West, more ISIS-type movements, more West-Islam polarization. Any way out?
→ read full articleCuba to Send Doctors to Ebola Areas
Smitha Mundasad - BBC News,
13 Oct 2014
Cuba is sending 165 health workers to help tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, officials say. Doctors, nurses and infection control specialists travel to Sierra Leone in October and stay for six months.
→ read full articleWhy Obama Must Bomb ISIS
Steve Breyman – Palestine Chronicle,
13 Oct 2014
Every peace group (large and small, new and old, religious and secular) opposes Barack Obama’s war against ISIS. The groups also advance positive agendas of alternatives to bombing. Sound as this advice is, for Obama, Congress and the Pentagon, there is no alternative to airstrikes on the Islamic State, and to arming Syrian rebel moderates. Why?
→ read full articleCrusaders and Zionists
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Lately, the words “Crusaders” and “Zionists” have been appearing more and more often as twins. In a documentary about ISIS I just saw, they appeared together in almost every sentence uttered by the Islamist fighters, including teenagers. Some sixty years ago I wrote an article whose title was just that: “Crusaders and Zionists”.
→ read full articleFull Text of Alfred Nobel’s Will
Nobelprize.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
I, the undersigned, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, do hereby, after mature deliberation, declare the following to be my last Will and Testament with respect to such property as may be left by me at the time of my death:
→ read full article‘Hostile to Privacy’: Snowden Urges Internet Users to Get Rid of Dropbox
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
12 Oct 2014 – “When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights – you don’t have to justify why you need freedom of speech.”
→ read full articleAre You Doing Your Part to Support Endless War?
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
This Modern World – Comic Strip
→ read full articleFighting Ebola American Style
Ted Rall - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Comic Strip
→ read full articleInstead of Columbus Day, some U.S. Cities Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day
Emanuella Grinberg - CNN,
13 Oct 2014
Columbus Day often brings to mind the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. This Monday [13 Oct 2014], some cities and states would rather you think of the Sioux, the Suquamish and the Chippewa. For the first time this year, Seattle and Minneapolis will recognize the second Monday in October as “Indigenous People’s Day.”
→ read full articleIsrael Starts Building 600 New Settlement Houses
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Israel began to build hundreds of new housing units in East Jerusalem and seized land in the West Bank on Saturday [11 Oct 2014], despite international condemnation.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Occupation Is More Complex Than a Genocide
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
And what to make of a plan just disclosed by the Israeli media indicating that Mr Netanyahu and his allies have been secretly plotting to force many Palestinians into Sinai, with the US arm-twisting the Egyptians into agreement? Such a policy would certainly satisfy Lemkin’s definition of genocide.
→ read full articleThe Life of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on Thinking vs. Knowing and the Crucial Difference Between Truth and Meaning
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
The questions raised by our thirst for knowledge arise from our curiosity about the world, whatever is given to our sensory apparatus, in principle all answerable by common-sense. But the questions raised by thinking and which it is in reason’s very nature to raise — questions of meaning — are all unanswerable by common sense and the refinement of it we call science.
→ read full articleWhat We’ve Learned from Four Years of Diving into Dollars for Doctors
Charles Ornstein, Eric Sagara and Ryann Grochowski Jones – ProPublica, Journalism in the Public Interest,
6 Oct 2014
Payments from pharmaceutical companies touch hundreds of thousands of doctors. The 17 companies we’ve tracked spent $1.4 billion in 2013 alone. Here are our top five takeaways from following all that money.
→ read full articleThe Genie
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
A New Zealander, a South African and an Australian were the only survivors of a shipwreck on a small South Sea island, surviving on coconuts.
→ read full articleMakers of ‘Crush Porn’ Videos in Philippines Sentenced to Life in Prison
PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Scantily clad girls—one of whom was just 12 years old at the time—were filmed skinning a dog alive and burning another with a clothes iron, cutting off rabbits’ ears and setting the rabbits on fire while they flailed and screamed, hitting a monkey in the eye with the sharp end of a stiletto heel, and crushing puppies until they vomited their own internal organs.
→ read full article(Português) O Retorno de George Orwell
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Como despolitização, mídia submissa ao Estado e cinismo dos intelectuais estão produzindo, nas antigas democracias ocidentais, um ambiente “1984 high-tech”.
→ read full articleHong Kong and Beyond
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
No small praise goes to Beijing for keeping its cool. There has been nothing like the US militarized police brutality against their Occupy. China has not sunk to “How Israel silences dissent”: chanting Death to Arabs, Death to leftists, beating demonstrators with no police protection, threatening murder, defending status quo by all means , “creeping fascism”.
→ read full articleHypocrisy: Saudi Arabia Beheads 26 People in 1 Month, Some for ‘Sorcery’ – The West Has Nothing to Say about It (Images)
Richard Rowe, AATP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
We condemn ISIS’ public beheadings, but in 2012-13, our allies in Saudi Arabia cut the heads off of 79 people [in public]. Let’s play “Compare and Contrast” for a moment:
→ read full articleRevolutionaries of the Soul: Reflections on Magicians, Philosophers, and Occultists
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
The development of a deeper or higher consciousness has often been compared to a journey toward an ultimate goal with steps along the way and with entries into an inner dimension of the person, called by some ‘the Spirit’, by others ‘the Soul.’
→ read full articleUS Could Topple My Government, Kill Me: Argentina’s Kirchner
Daniel Merolla, AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
2 Oct 2014 – Just hours after the US embassy warned its citizens to take extra safety precautions in Argentina, an aggravated Kirchner said, “When you see what has been coming out of diplomatic offices, they had better not come in here and try to sell some tall tale about ISIS trying to track me down so they can kill me.”
→ read full articleGermany’s Energy Model Can Save the World
Paul Hockenos – Al Jazeera America,
6 Oct 2014
The US and China can switch to renewables now – and prosper from it. The shift to citizen-owned energy in Germany has dethroned the big utilities that for so long put the brakes on anything that looked like a threat to fossil fuels.
→ read full articleCreating a World Culture That Is Nonviolent
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
As we celebrate Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday on 2 October, the International Day of Nonviolence, we have the chance to reflect on our progress in creating a nonviolent world. Culture is not just something we inherit; it is something we create. It can be violent or nonviolent. What sort of culture do you create? Happy birthday Bapu. We are trying!
→ read full articleCan China and Russia Squeeze Washington Out of Eurasia? The Future of a Beijing-Moscow-Berlin Alliance
Pepe Escobar - TomDispatch,
6 Oct 2014
Think of China as a magnet for a new world order in a future Eurasian century. The same integration process Russia is facing seems increasingly to apply to India and other Eurasian nations, and possibly to a neutral Germany. In the endgame of such a process, the U.S. might find itself progressively squeezed out of Eurasia.
→ read full articleReview of Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate’ – Extracting Ourselves from the Extractivist Mindset
Robert Jensen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Naomi Klein has written a brave book that not only confronts the calamity of climate destabilization but also examines the deep roots of the crisis in the perverse logic of capitalism and the dehumanizing values of the “extractivist” high-energy/high-technology world.
→ read full articlePlease Help Us Save the University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Jake Lynch, Australians for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
I am writing to ask you, who stood with us over our support for the Academic Boycott of Israel, to now write to the University of Sydney to help save the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in its present form.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’ambiente: molto olistico, molto dialettico
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Il sottoscritto non è in grado di prendere posizione pro o contro l’ipotesi sulla CO2, o che cosa sia meglio per la vita, se il riscaldamento o il raffreddamento rispetto al livello attuale. La posizione assunta qui è per opinioni più complesse e in particolare più dialettiche.
→ read full articleCall on Pope Francis to Reopen Vatican for Changes in the Church
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
On October 4th we celebrated the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi. When HH the Pope took the name of St. Francis he spoke with passion, calling for justice for the poor, for peace, and an end to violence and war. I hope he will open the windows of the Vatican, let in some fresh air, and let the spirit of love and truth touch the hearts of all people, so that meaningful dialogue and true change can come about.
→ read full articleUS Exploiting West Africa Ebola Outbreak to Establish Military Foothold
Niles Williamson, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Under the guise of a humanitarian mission aimed at containing the spread of the Ebola virus, the Obama administration is exploiting the outbreak to establish a solid military footing on the African continent.
→ read full articleGandhi, Nonviolence and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
On the Eve of International Day of Nonviolence – I would like to end my article with the advice my Mahatma Gandhi who himself said, “I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.”
→ read full article(Français) Afrique et droits des minorités sexuelles
Frédéric Thomas – Centre Tricontinental-CETRI,
6 Oct 2014
L’Ouganda et le Nigéria ont adopté début 2014 de nouvelles lois pénalisant l’homosexualité, confirmant ainsi une tendance générale en Afrique. Ce refus de l’homosexualité provoque de vives tensions dans les débats Nord-Sud, tant sur sa signification que sur les stratégies pour y faire face.
→ read full articleHung Out to Dry
Georg Hodel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
With Hollywood poised to release “Kill the Messenger,” a movie showing how the mainstream U.S. media destroyed journalist Gary Webb for reviving the Contra-cocaine scandal in the mid-1990s, we are reposting Georg Hodel’s 1997 account of how Webb was betrayed by his own editors.
→ read full articleChanging the Political Climate: A Transitional Imperative
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
The most daunting challenging of adapting to the realities of the anthropocene era is achieving a soft transition from state-centric world order to a geo-centric reconfiguring of political community to enable the emergence of effective and humane global governance.
→ read full articleFrom Ukraine to Syria: UN’s Selective Defense of Human Rights
Ulson Gunnar, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
When international law is enforced selectively by certain UN member states, using it as a platform to legitimize otherwise illegal actions, the world teeters on the edge of global lawlessness leaving the remaining members of the UN to ponder alternatives in resolving injustices perpetuated rather than challenged by the UN and its Charter.
→ read full articleOn Writing: A Nonkilling View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Writing is not a fight
It is rather a light
The Fake Terror Threat Used to Justify Bombing Syria
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
6 Oct 2014
Administration officials suddenly began spoon-feeding their favorite media organizations and national security journalists tales of a secret group that was even scarier and more threatening than ISIS, one that posed a direct and immediate threat to the American Homeland: “The Khorasan Group.”
→ read full articleHard Choices: Hillary Clinton Admits Role in Honduran Coup Aftermath
Mark Weisbrot – Al Jazeera America,
6 Oct 2014
Clinton’s embrace of far-right narrative on Latin America is part of electoral strategy.
→ read full articleThanks Anyway. A Report on the First World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit
Teresa Langle de Paz, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
We, feminists, want unity above all, because we know that gender marks the lives of all women profoundly. But not all of us are mothers, not all mothers are happy being mothers, not all women who are mothers want their role as peace-builders reduced to motherhood and giving and loving, not all mothers want to be seen as mothers first in their societies and communities.
→ read full articleHonouring Gandhi’s Legacy, UN Reaffirms Power of Peaceful Protest
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
2 October 2014 – UN urges the international community to reaffirm the power and potential of change through peaceful means, following Mahatma Gandhi who inspired today’s International Day of Non-Violence.
→ read full article(Italiano) Caro Johan…
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
6 Oct 2014
Leggere il tuo editoriale (The environment very holistic …) mi ha sconcertato e avvilito. Non credo sia utile andare a leggere le opinioni favorevoli o contrarie sulle variazioni di temperatura della Terra, come tu suggerisci: il problema va ben al di là dei sintomi, e per affrontarlo non basta schierarsi da una parte o dall’altra.
→ read full article
Kill the Messenger Official Trailer (2014)
MovieClips – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA’s role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
→ read full articleNos Morituri Te Salutamus
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Salute of Iraqi Citizens to the Coalition of the Willing–Once Again – Hail and Salaam to your Leaders, to your Senators, and to your Citizens! We who are about to die salute you was the phrase traditionally used by those about to die in the gladiatorial circus arenas of that time. We salute you….
→ read full articleThe CIA/Main-Stream-Media Contra-Cocaine Cover-up
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
6 Oct 2014
With Hollywood set to release a movie about the Contra-cocaine scandal and the destruction of journalist Gary Webb, an internal CIA report has surfaced showing how the spy agency manipulated the mainstream media’s coverage to disparage Webb and contain the scandal.
→ read full article‘Africa’s Arms Dump’: Following the Trail of Bullets in the Sudans
Charlton Doki in Juba and Adam Mohamed Ahmad in Khartoum - The Niles, The Guardian Africa network,
6 Oct 2014
Sudan and South Sudan are among the most heavily armed countries in the world. The Niles investigates how this came about and the consequences of spiraling bloodshed.
→ read full article4+ Logics of Living Together on Planet Earth
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
It is misleading to describe ‘world order’ as consisting exclusively of sovereign territorial states. This misimpression is further encouraged by the structure of the United Nations, whose members are states, and only states.
→ read full articleRight Livelihood Awards 2014 – ‘Alternative Nobel’ Goes to Edward Snowden
Society for the Right Livelihood Award – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
25 Sep 2014 – The 2014 Right Livelihood Honorary Award goes to EDWARD SNOWDEN (USA) “for his courage and skill in revealing the unprecedented extent of state surveillance violating basic democratic processes and constitutional rights”.
→ read full articleIndia: Stop Harassing Anti-Nuclear Protesters
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Udayakumar, convener of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy [and of the TRANSCEND Network], was on his way to Nepal on September 16 [2014] to participate in a United Nations consultation on human rights, but was detained and interrogated at the New Delhi airport for over five hours.
→ read full articleMuslim Minority Bears Brunt in Burma as Radical Monk Stirs Sectarian Pot
Mary Fitzgerald – The Irish Times,
29 Sep 2014
Controversial Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu has been stoking hatred against Muslims to poisonous effect.
→ read full articlePredatory Capitalism and Poverty, Culprits in the Ebola Catastrophe
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
These three countries are among the poorest in the world, ranking 161st (Sierra Leone), 176th (Guinea) and 181st (Liberia) in per capita GDP (185 countries total). Their people live in misery, but the countries themselves are rich in natural resources that have been ruthlessly exploited by major corporations and the governments that enforce their interests.
→ read full articleEdited Text of Mr. Obama’s Speech to the UN Turning Him from an American Cheerleader into a World Peace Statesman
Poka Laenui - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
President Obama: “Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: We come together at a crossroads between war and peace; between disorder and integration; between fear and hope.”
→ read full articleWEEDS . . . Metaphors . . . WARS
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
I speak here of weeds growing across our land,
Wild, uninvited, unwelcome, festering!
I speak here of weeds inhabiting gardens and lawns,
Growing amidst driveways, sidewalks, curb cracks.
‘US Funded and Trained Jihadists in Syria – And Now It Wants to Fight Them’
Russia Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The US is creating in Syria a perpetual state of war, funding jihadists on one side and then attacking them on the other, while the civilian casualties are just a part of the game, investigative reporter Ben Swann told RT.
→ read full articleMove Over Keynes, Make Room for Marx – Radical Ideas for Radical Times
Carl Finamore – CounterPunch,
29 Sep 2014
To save the earth, declare young activists, we need earth-shaking change going beyond the narrow constraints of a system that unapologetically prioritizes profits over people.
→ read full article(Italiano) La pace possa prevalere sulla Terra! — Giornata Internazionale della Pace 2014
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Che buona idea, questa giornata! Per riflettere, fare l’inventario, godersi la pace, deplorare la non-pace.
→ read full article3,000 European Jihadis Now in Syria, Iraq: EU Counterterrorism Head
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
In an exclusive interview with AFP, Gilles de Kerchove said the flow of Europeans may have been boosted by the Islamic State militant group’s declaration in June of a caliphate straddling Syria and Iraq.
→ read full articleDesperately Seeking in Libya: Outside Mediation
Jason Pack – Middle East Eye,
29 Sep 2014
The only viable solution for peace and prosperity in Libya is a dialogue among all foreign and domestic stakeholders – but will mediators help?
→ read full articleInternational Peace Day 21/9/2014 – Peace through Disarmament
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 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, which is an aberration and a system of dysfunction which must urgently be abolished and replaced by Law.
→ read full articleIsraeli Occupation’s Dark Underbelly Exposed
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
A letter signed by 43 veterans of an elite intelligence unit has sent shockwaves through Israeli society. The implication of their revelations is that the success of Israel’s near half-century of occupation depends on a vast machinery of surveillance and intimidation, while large numbers of Israelis benefit directly or indirectly from industrial-scale oppression.
→ read full articleObama Inches US Closer to Accepting Land Mine Ban
Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate – Al Jazeera America,
29 Sep 2014
Land mines are illegal, indiscriminate weapons that can kill long after the end of armed conflicts, which means that those affected by this lethal detritus of war are civilians.
→ read full articleUruguay’s Legalization of Marijuana Makes Sense in a Senseless Drug War
Benjamin Dangl, TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
In December of last year [2013], Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize and regulate the cultivation, sale, distribution and use of marijuana.
→ read full articleThe NSA Is Renting Its Technology to U.S. Companies
Kevin Collier – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
26 Sep 2014 – The National Security Agency (NSA), which develops surveillance tools that are both dazzling and terrifying, has been making money on the side by licensing its technology to private businesses for more than two decades.
→ read full article(Português) ONU diz que racismo no Brasil é estrutural e institucionalizado
Jorge Américo, Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Documento sobre a discriminação racial no país constatou que os negros são maioria entre as vítimas de assassinatos. Também revelou que possuem menor nível de instrução, menores salários e menor acesso a saúde.
→ read full articlePope Honours Achievements and Sufferings of Albanians
Paddy Agnew – The Irish Times,
29 Sep 2014
‘Peaceful coexistence and collaboration’ of religions highlighted on one-day trip.
→ read full articleUntil the Rulers Obey: Learning from Latin America’s Social Movements
Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
A wave of change rolled through Latin America at the turn of the twenty-first century, sweeping away neoliberal two-party governments, bringing calls to re-found the states based on broad participation and democratically drafted constitutions.
→ read full articleThe Agony of Iraq
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
“Modern warfare particularly depends on oil, because virtually all weapons systems rely on oil-based fuel – tanks, trucks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery pieces, airplanes, and naval ships. For this reason, the governments and general staffs of powerful nations seek to ensure a steady supply of oil during wartime, to fuel oil-hungry military forces in far-flung operational theaters.”
→ read full articleAh, If I Were 25
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Research shows that one of the most often used words in Hebrew is “Shalom”. It is based on the root “whole” and conveys the sense of wholeness, safety, wellbeing. In Arabic, Salaam has the same meaning. Two weeks ago, on my 91st birthday, I asked myself: if I were 25 and straining for action, how would I go about trying to create a new Left?
→ read full articleU.S. Ramping Up Major Renewal in Nuclear Arms
William J. Broad and David E. Sanger – The New York Times,
29 Sep 2014
This expansion comes under a president who campaigned for “a nuclear-free world.” Mr. Obama spoke in Prague saying the United States had a moral responsibility to seek the “security of a world without nuclear weapons.” The Nobel committee, citing his disarmament efforts, announced it would award Mr. Obama the Peace Prize.
→ read full articleThe United Nations Climate Summit
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Throughout the world, peoples of all countries need to act with urgency to switch to an economy that aims at sustainability rather than endless consumption and growth, an economy based on renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, an economy devoted to life rather than to profits.
→ read full articleTackling the Climate Catastrophe Strategically
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
If you like to ask or beg your oppressor to go easy on you, then you do not need to read this article. And if you like to do what makes you feel good at the time, irrespective of its strategic impact, then this article is not for you either. My interest in tackling violence has always been to take action that leaves the perpetrator powerless (but, hopefully, a convert too).
→ read full articleBacksliding on Nuclear Promises
The Editorial Board – The New York Times,
29 Sep 2014
The administration is making a foolish trade-off — pouring money into modernization while reducing funds that help improve security at nuclear sites in Russia and other countries where terrorists or criminals could get their hands on nuclear materials.
→ read full articleEnduring Territorial Disputes
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The book is about evenly divided between a general analysis of enduring territorial disputes followed by useful case studies including the ongoing law-of-the-sea delimitation disputes among China, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam, the border disputes among Israel, Syria and Lebanon concerning the Golan Heights, and the now quieter Sino-Soviet/Russian border dispute.
→ read full articleThe Scots Back Off
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
If the Scots had not backed off they might have helped the English to break away from their imperial past and start living in the present as Europeans. Unfortunately [they] kept the English psychologically locked into a dysfunctional past, losing them a key role in the shaping of new Europe, and making them nothing but a subservient de facto colony of the USA.
→ read full articleThe Purpose and the Pretence – Bombing Isis
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Traditionally, claims that an Official Enemy is uniquely Evil rise to a deafening crescendo just prior to an attack on that enemy. The USA does not bomb countries for humanitarian objectives. Humanitarianism is the pretense, not the purpose.
→ read full articleGlobal Warming and Global Warring
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
29 Sep 2014
“In today’s wars, many more civilians are killed than soldiers; the seeds of future conflict are sown, economies are wrecked, civil societies torn asunder, refugees amassed, children scarred.” These words were spoken on Dec. 10, 2009, by that year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, President Barack Obama. Five years later, his pronouncement reads like a daily headline. The peace group Code Pink is calling on President Obama to return his Nobel medal.
→ read full article(Português) Zoológicos
Sérgio Greif - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
29 Sep 2014
Um pouco de história: A visão de animais como “coisas” ou “objetos” a serem utilizados para nossos propósitos não é recente na história humana, e como todas as demais “coisas”, animais parecem ter sido sempre colecionados por seres humanos, mesmo no período pré- histórico.
→ read full articleHow Did The British Get An Empire?
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
It makes perfect sense then that the sepoys, from the ‘untouchable’ or lower castes, discriminated against by a caste-ridden society, gravitated to a service that treated them honourably. They fought for their own honour, and created an empire for foreigners from kingdoms that gave them little respect or social opportunity.
→ read full articleWrong Comparison
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
A mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a Harley Davidson, when he spotted a world‑famous heart surgeon in his shop.
→ read full articleJulian Assange: ‘When you post to Facebook, you’re being a rat’
James Camp – The Guardian,
29 Sep 2014
Assange said: “Compare the mission statements of Google and the NSA – the NSA say, ‘We want to collect all private information, pool it, store it, sort it, index it, and exploit it.’ Whereas Google says, ‘We want to collect all private information, pool it, store it, sort it, and sell those profiles to advertisers.’ “Really, they’re identical. Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you’re being a rat. You’re being a narc.”
→ read full articleThe War on ISIS: Views from Syrian Activists and Intellectuals
Danny Postel – Dissent Magazine,
29 Sep 2014
20 Sep 2014 – Conspicuously absent from the debate about ISIS and U.S. intervention—both in the mainstream and in the leftosphere—are Syrian voices. ISIS and U.S. officialdom occupy center stage, leaving the perspectives of Syrian civil society activists and writers out of the equation. While hardly surprising, this omission is troubling.
→ read full articleEU Backpedaling on Anti-Russian Sanctions Not to Freeze in Winter
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
According to Russia’s permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov, the damage from the EU sanctions for EU economies is comparable to the damage that they cause to the Russian economy.
→ read full articleThe Myth of Religious Violence
Karen Armstrong – The Guardian,
29 Sep 2014
The popular belief that religion is the cause of the world’s bloodiest conflicts is central to our modern conviction that faith and politics should never mix. But the messy history of their separation suggests it was never so simple.
→ read full articleAustralian Power Company Caught Overcharging Customers to Make Up for Lost Revenue Due to Solar
Kelmeny Fraser & Sarah Vogler - The Courier-Mail,
29 Sep 2014
Energex documents reveal that the company last year planned to “recover” $469.8 million in “under-recovered revenue” over the next two years, with the amount to be tagged on to future prices.
→ read full articleIsis’ Letter to the West
First Dog on the Moon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Isis has sent a heartfelt letter of encouragement to the west. We give you the best extracts.
→ read full articleFatah and Hamas Agree Deal for Unity Government to Take Control of Gaza
Peter Beaumont – The Guardian,
29 Sep 2014
25 Sep 2014 – The two main Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, have reached a “comprehensive” agreement that would turn over the civil administration of Gaza immediately to officials of a Palestinian unity government led by President Mahmoud Abbas. Breakthrough agreement negotiated in Cairo is designed to ease blockade and open way to reconstruction after Gaza war.
→ read full articleThe West and the Fascist Mindset Within: Romani Folk under Fire
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The Rom folk face a wide range of often interrelated problems: citizenship, political participation, racially-motivated violence, poverty, unemployment, and an image which arouses ancestral fears of Gypsies.
→ read full articleChilean Art of Civil Disobedience: Review from V&A, London
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The Disobedient Objects exhibition is on display at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, London, until 1st February 2015.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Council Backs Argentina on US Debt Row
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
26 Sep 2014 – The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution in Geneva condemning a group of American hedge funds that took Argentina to court.
→ read full articleMayan People’s Movement Defeats Monsanto Law in Guatemala
Christin Sandberg, Intercontinental Cry - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The unjust neo-liberal law would have given exclusivity on patented seeds to a handful of transnational companies. But Mayans resisted it relentlessly. The success of these protests is an inspiring example of what the people can achieve for themselves when they rise up to confront power in defense of their own interests.
→ read full articleWho Profits from Our New War? Inside NSA and Private Contractors’ Secret Plans
Tim Shorrock - Salon,
29 Sep 2014
A massive war operation is being waged to track and kill ISIS — and it’s a lot more than cruise missiles.
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