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Brazil Farmers Say GMO Corn No Longer Resistant to Pests
Caroline Stauffer, Reuters in São Paulo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Genetically modified corn seeds are no longer protecting Brazilian farmers from voracious tropical bugs, increasing costs as producers turn to pesticides, a farm group said on Monday [28 Jul 2014]. Producers want four major manufacturers of so-called BT corn seeds to reimburse them for the cost of spraying up to three coats of pesticides this year.
→ read full articleHenry Frowde, the Mysterious OUP Publisher of Zionist Scofield Bible, Was a Lifelong Darbyite Plymouth Brother
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
In a 2009 piece entitled “Zionism’s Un-Christian Bible,” I wrote that “it remains a mystery” why the reputable Oxford University Press had a century earlier published The Scofield Reference Bible, the highly influential but controversial work whose annotated Zionist commentary on the Authorized King James Version has “induced generations of American evangelicals to believe that God demands their uncritical support for the modern State of Israel.”
→ read full articleIsrael’s Losing Narrative
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
4 Aug 2014
The Israel government still has most U.S. politicians and pundits under its thumb, but the Zionist narrative – excusing the latest slaughter of Palestinians – is losing the hearts and minds of millions of others around the world.
→ read full articleFoundation of the US Empire: Axes of Evil
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Empires are not easy to sustain given the multiple enemies that they provoke: at the international level (imperial rivals and emerging new powers), at the national level (national resistance movements, unreliable clients and untrustworthy ‘Sepoy’ armies) and at the local level (boycotts, sabotage and strikes).
→ read full article(Castellano) Los buitres, aislados del mundo
David Cufré, Pagina/12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
La pelea de Argentina con los fondos buitre viene a completar una etapa que arrancó en 2008, con la crisis de las hipotecas subprime en Estados Unidos. “El de Argentina es un caso testigo para la comunidad internacional, que pone de manifiesto un vacío legal y debe dar lugar a reformas que permitan proteger el bien común”.
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Everybody’s Talkin’-Midnight Cowboy (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Harry Nilsson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
This great song became a massive success performed by Harry Nilsson in 1969 as featured song for the film “Midnight Cowboy” starring Dustin Hoffman and John Voight, Oscar for Best Picture plus 15 other awards. (Plot: a con man and a Texas hustler try to survive on the tough streets of New York). Voight, of course, is the father of iconic actress Angelina Jolie.
→ read full articleIQ
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
A team of psychologists has developed a new measure of intelligence, a metric measure. The basic unit is the tary.
→ read full articleThe Slow Death of Nuclear Power and the Rise of Renewables
Jeffrey Cavanaugh – Mint Press News,
4 Aug 2014
Six decades ago, the head of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission forecast an era of electricity that would be “too cheap to meter,” so what happened? The technology known as nuclear power today is a lumbering giant utterly dependent on state-based largesse for its existence.
→ read full articleSecrecy News – Identity Intelligence and Special Operations
Steven Aftergood - Federation of American Scientists,
4 Aug 2014
“Identity intelligence” is a relatively new intelligence construct that refers to the analysis and use of personal information, including biometric and forensic data among others, to identify intelligence targets of interest and to deny them anonymity.
→ read full articleWhy Sport Hunting Is Cruel and Unnecessary
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals-PETA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Although it was a crucial part of humans’ survival 100,000 years ago, hunting is now nothing more than a violent form of recreation that the vast majority of hunters do not need for subsistence. It has contributed to the extinction of animal species all over the world, including the Tasmanian tiger and the great auk.
→ read full articleThe NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
28 Jul 2014
25 Jul 2014 – The NSA last year significantly expanded its cooperative relationship with the Saudi Ministry of Interior, one of the world’s most repressive and abusive government agencies. An April 2013 top secret memo provided by Edward Snowden details the agency’s plans “to provide direct analytic and technical support” to the Saudis on “internal security” matters.
→ read full articleNever Again to Us
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
“Israel regrets every injury to civilians. I call on the residents of Gaza: Don’t stay there. Hamas wants you to die; we want you to be safe.” – Netanyahu. Glenn Greenwald compared this remark to a 1941 comment by Joseph Goebbels: “One suddenly has the impression,” the Nazi propaganda minister wrote, “that the Berlin Jewish population consists only of little babies whose childish helplessness might move us, or else fragile old ladies.”
→ read full article(Français) Discours de la guerre et double pensée. L’exemple de la Syrie.
Jean-Claude Paye et Tülay Umay – Mondialisation,
28 Jul 2014
Les médias nous mentent, mais, en même temps, nous montrent qu’ils nous mentent. Il ne s’agit plus de modifier la perception des faits afin d’obtenir notre adhésion, mais de nous enfermer dans le spectacle de la toute puissance du pouvoir. L’exhibition de l’anéantissement de la Raison repose sur des images qui ont pour fonction de se substituer aux faits.
→ read full articleHannah Arendt: Born in Conflict, Israel Will Degenerate into Sparta, and American Jews Will Need to Back Away
Philip Weiss –TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Zionism Reconsidered, 1944: Note her predictions of the Nakba, of unending conflict, of Zionist dependence on the American Jewish community, of ultimate conflict with that American Jewish community, and the contribution of political Zionism to world anti-semitism.
→ read full articleAustralian Government: Pirates of the Indian Ocean
Fiona Broom – Al Jazeera,
28 Jul 2014
As Australia’s conservative government falls further in opinion polls, it is willing to eschew international refugee conventions to cling to what is winning it support – the illegal and inhumane treatment of asylum seekers.
→ read full articleWe Need a New Understanding of the Security Council
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The permanent members of the UN Security Council are certifiably sick entities suffering from bouts of psychoses. They are all suffering from imperial syndrome of various versions.
→ read full article‘No Safe Place for Civilians’ in Gaza, U.N. Says
Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Palestinian civilians in densely-populated Gaza have no place to hide from Israel’s military offensive and children are paying the heaviest price, the United Nations said on Tuesday [22 Jul 2014].
→ read full articleBeyond Propaganda: Discourse of War and Doublethink. “When the Lie Becomes the Truth”
Jean-Claude Paye and Tülay Umay - Global Research,
28 Jul 2014
The media are lying to us, but at the same time, they show us that they are lying. It is no longer a matter of changing our perception of facts in order to get our support, but to lock us in the spectacle of the omnipotence of power. Showing the annihilation of reason is based on images that serve to replace facts.
→ read full articleBRIC(K)S for a New World Economic Order!
Johan Galtung, 28 Jul 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
They made it, with constructive alternatives–the New Development Bank and the Contingency Reserve Agreement–to the US-dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Those two parts of Bretton Woods were basic pillars in the economic infra-structure of the US Empire in the hands of the US Congress.
→ read full articleFukushima and Cesium
Leslie Corrice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
A summary of the facts concerning the radioactive Cesium at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station. The synopsis comes from postings in the Fukushima Updates and Commentary blogs of this website. This shows that the Cesium risks have been exaggerated and much contrary “evidence” has been intentionally presented out of context.
→ read full articleHow Does Sodastream Treat Its Palestinian Workers When the Media Isn’t Looking?
Niv Hachlili – +972 Magazine,
28 Jul 2014
According to Palestinian workers at the West Bank factory, they were provided with meager and unsuitable food at the end of a day of fasting; those who complained were fired immediately. SodaStream: ‘The termination process was done legally’
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Jon Snow’s Return from Gaza, Palestine – Heartbreaking Account of What He Saw
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
26 July 2014 – Jon Snow (Channel 4 News, UK anchor) recounts the scene in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, where doctors struggle to treat adults and children wounded by Israeli attacks.
→ read full articleBoth Israelis and Palestinians Are Losers in This Conflict
Daniel Barenboim – The Guardian,
28 Jul 2014
There can be no military solution. Both sides need to acknowledge the other’s suffering and their rights.
→ read full articleDrone Warfare: Who Is Dying in Afghanistan’s 1,000-Plus Drone Strikes?
Alice K Ross – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
28 Jul 2014
Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan researcher for Amnesty International, said operations could increasingly rely on the CIA and special forces, which both operate under high levels of secrecy, posing even bigger challenges for those attempting to track casualties.
→ read full articleThe Attack on Gaza
First Dog on the Moon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
How does one respond to a message stating that your house will be destroyed in 10 minutes? asks First Dog on the Moon.
→ read full articleHow US Evangelicals Are Shaping Development in Uganda
James Kassaga Arinaitwe – Al Jazeera,
28 Jul 2014
US evangelical groups are increasingly shaping Uganda’s development policies to suit their religious agenda.
→ read full article“Not Only– “
Dr Kyi Maung Kaung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
A Poem on Burma by a Rightly Angry Poet
→ read full articlePETA’s Undercover Shearing Videos Expose Horrific Sheep Abuse in U.S. and Australia
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
It would be tough to think of any disgusting, gutless acts that aren’t featured in new videos about brutal sheep shearing in Australia and the U.S., produced by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
→ read full articlePalestinian Recourse to the International Criminal Court: The Time Has Come
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The political plausibility of invoking the International Criminal Court to investigate allegations of criminality directed at Israel increases with each passing day.
→ read full articleIsraeli Operation Security Bottom
Gilad Atzmon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Osama Gil-laden in Jerusalem – Avi Dichter, former head of the Israel Security Agency declared earlier this week that “there is no Iron Dome against the terror tunnels.” The bottom front is bare and widely open. The Israeli Gay leaders saved Israel once again. Butt-Plug was their answer. “The Jewish homeland needs to seal its bottom and there is only one cheap method to do so”
→ read full article(Português) Português – Língua Internacional
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Segundo a Linha do Tempo, no Museu da Língua Portuguesa em São Paulo, a história do Português remonta a quatro mil anos antes de Cristo, mas foi tomando jeito de língua distinta lá pelos séculos VI e VII desta era.
→ read full articleThe Bullets Fell in Love with You
Maryam Youshizade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
You see now?
You were so sweet
You sent kisses to the world
Shadow Boxing or Filling an Empty Diplomatic Space? Track II and Security in the Middle East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The term “Track II” was coined in 1981 by Joseph Montville in an article “Foreign Policy according to Freud” as being “unofficial, informal interaction among members of adversarial groups or nations with the goals of developing strategies, influencing public opinion, and organizing human and material resources in ways that might help resolve the conflict.”
→ read full articleThe Boomerang Effect: Sanctions on Russia Hit German Economy Hard
Matthias Schepp and Cornelia Schmergal – Der Spiegel,
28 Jul 2014
21 Jul 2014 – The United States and Europe last week announced the imposition of stronger sanctions against Russia in response to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. German industry may be among the losers.
→ read full articleI Am Not a Jew
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
A poem in honor of the indomitable spirit of fellow humans who are being killed by Israel while being locked up in the Zionist concentration camp – called Gaza.
→ read full articleSetting Aside Your Humanity to Cheer “Team Israel”
MJ Rosenberg – Tikkun Daily,
28 Jul 2014
3000 years and it’s come to this. Go Blue (and White). If you defend this war, you are defending atrocities because, when it comes to Israel, you suspend all moral judgement. Fine. Just don’t think you are fooling anyone.
→ read full articleWhen BBC Calls, Don’t Answer
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
That is, don’t answer, if you are a certified critic of Israeli policies and practices.
→ read full articleOvercoming the Media Blockade in Gaza
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
28 Jul 2014
“We are disgustingly biased when it comes to this issue. Look at how [much] airtime [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and his folks have on air on a daily basis, Andrea Mitchell and others. I never see one Palestinian being interviewed on these same issues.”
→ read full articleUS Navy Thanks Ukrainian Rebels
News From Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
US Navy Admiral Boris K. Orloff, head of the Navy’s Department of Shortening Memories (formerly Public Relations) today announced the intention to present a medal to whomever among the Ukrainian rebels was responsible for the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. “We have been waiting for something like this for 26 years now,” he explained.
→ read full articleVital Collective Learning from Biased Media Coverage
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
This is an exploration of exposure to media reports on the Israeli military ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, ordered on 17 July 2014 — only hours after the destruction over Ukraine of the Malaysian Ariines flight MH17 by missile. Both cases have given rise to conflicting, unconfirmed reports by a variety of authorities. Justifications for any interpretation are readily — even assertively — offered.
→ read full articleThe Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist
Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
28 Jul 2014
23 Jul 2014 – The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept.
→ read full articleLawyers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
A woman called a lawyer in despair and explained, “I have never called a lawyer in my life.
→ read full article(Castellano) Galeano: Ya poca Palestina queda. Paso a paso, Israel la está borrando del mapa
Eduardo Galeano – Sin Permiso,
28 Jul 2014
Desde 1948, los palestinos viven condenados a humillación perpetua. No pueden ni respirar sin permiso. Han perdido su patria, sus tierras, su agua, su libertad, su todo. Ni siquiera tienen derecho a elegir sus gobernantes.
→ read full articleOnce And For All!
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
To put an end to the launching of rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip, Once And For All! To put an end to the blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel and Egypt, Once And For All! So why don’t the two sides come together without foreign interference and agree on tit for tat? Once And For All?
→ read full articleThe Court of World Opinion
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Israel, an apartheid regime far more evil than it South African counterpart ever was, justifies its genocidal atrocities by claiming that it “has a right to self-defense”; and the clarity of the situation is lost. I believe that even in an era such as ours, where the mainstream media are so thoroughly failing us, Gandhi’s nonviolence is still relevant.
→ read full articleC.S. Lewis on Suffering and What It Means to Have Free Will in a Universe of Fixed Laws
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
If the universe operates by fixed physical laws, what does it mean for us to have free will? That’s what C.S. Lewis considers with an elegant sidewise gleam in an essay titled “Divine Omnipotence” from his altogether fascinating 1940 book The Problem of Pain.
→ read full articleBrazil Recalls Ambassador from Israel over Gaza Assault
The Daily Star – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Brazilian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday [23 Jul 2014], “We strongly condemn the disproportionate use of force by Israel in the Gaza Strip, from which large numbers of civilian casualties, including women and children resulted.”
→ read full articleAs Western Power Diminishes, BRICS Rises
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
July 21, 2014 – The 6th BRICS Summit was a resounding success. While major Western newspapers had consistently neglected the yearly gatherings in the past (or generally described it as a misguided idea), leading global voices such as The Economist and The Financial Times both reported on last week’s meeting.
→ read full article{MUST READ} Letter from Gaza by a Norwegian Doctor
Dr. Mads Gilbert – Middle East Monitor,
28 Jul 2014
17 Jul 2014 – The last night was extreme. The “ground invasion” of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying – all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent. The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza’s hospitals are working 12-24 hour shifts, grey from fatigue and inhuman workloads, they care, triage, try to understand the incomprehensible chaos of bodies, sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, breathing, not breathing, bleeding, not bleeding humans. HUMANS!
→ read full articleWhy Is the 2022 World Cup Being Held in a Country That Practices Modern-Day Slavery?
Michelle Chen – The Nation,
28 Jul 2014
Even when migrant contract workers lose their jobs, they may end up stranded indefinitely if their employer does not give permission for them to return home. Workers who run away or are “abandoned” by their bosses might wind up homeless, unemployable and trapped on foreign soil.
→ read full article(Castellano) El 30% de los candidatos a elecciones en Brasil son mujeres
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
El Partido de los Trabajadores, liderado por la actual presidenta brasileña, Dilma Roussef, es el que presenta un mayor número de candidaturas entre hombres y mujeres. En segundo lugar se encuentra el Partido Socialista Brasileño (PSB).
→ read full articleBangladesh Sending Its Death Squads for the UN Peacekeeping Missions
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Serving in a UN peacekeeping mission is deemed so lucrative [as a Bangladesh Army officer earn upwards of US $2,200 a month in addition to other allowances and parks for an officer against Taka 15,000 (about US $200) for an officer in the country and US $1,100 for a soldier, against Taka 7,717 (about US $100)] that Bangladesh Army has systematically monopolised the UN postings.
→ read full articleSolidarity with Palestinians in Gaza Begins in Lebanon’s Camps
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Gaza isn’t the only open air prison; Lebanon has 12 of its own. And the people there are denied the most elementary right to apply for a job in more than 50 professions. Solidarity—credible, genuine solidarity—is within our grasp; let us reach for it.
→ read full articleInterview with Johan Galtung: The Pioneering International Peace Research Association He Founded in 1964
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Interview conducted on the occasion of IPRA’s 50th anniversary celebration at the Istanbul Conference, Turkey, August 11-15, 2014.
→ read full article(Italiano) La violenza strutturale riesaminata
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Il saggio “Galtung’s Structural Violence and the Sierra Leone Civil War c. 1985-1992″ Philip Leech pubblicato nella newsletter di TRANSCEND del 14 luglio 2014 tra tutti i commenti il più profondo, è un’ottima opportunità per chiarire e sviluppare ulteriormente alcune delle premesse teoriche.
→ read full articleElite Insanity on Display in Ukraine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
There are some standard and frequently repeated dysfunctional behaviours on display here with the usual unconscious emotional drivers of this behaviour hidden from view. Let us then consider some obvious aspects of the conflict and analyse them from a psychological perspective.
→ read full articleGaza Interview
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
[Prefatory note: This is an interview with a knowledgeable Greek journalist covering a range of issues associated with the Gaza ordeal] – “Blood on American Hands”: Richard Falk on Palestine
→ read full articleThe Path to a New 1914? How America Chose War after 9/11
Jonathan Schell - TomDispatch,
28 Jul 2014
Then came the attack of September 11 [2001]. Like the starting gun of a race that no one knew he was to run, this explosion set the pack of nations off in a single direction — toward the trenches.
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Israel and Palestine – A Very Short Introduction
Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Easy to understand, historically accurate. Why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting, why the US-backed peace process has been an impediment to peace, and what you can do to make a difference. This conflict is essentially about land and human rights, not religion and culture.
→ read full article“A Story of Love and Obsession Gone Bad”: How the U.S. Navy Is Killing the World’s Whales
Lindsay Abrams - Salon,
28 Jul 2014
Author Joshua Horvitz on the epic showdown between marine life and national security.
→ read full articleStatement of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The new United Nations Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, undertook her first official visit to the country from 17 to 26 July 2014 to gather first-hand information on the current human rights situation in Myanmar.
→ read full articleWashington Is Escalating the Orchestrated Ukrainian “Crisis” to War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
There we have it again: Russian Aggression. Repeat it enough and it becomes real.
→ read full articleStudy: Diet, Exercise May Prevent Dementia
Gary Stix – Scientific American,
28 Jul 2014
New research suggests a multi-pronged approach may be most effective in preserving brain health long-term.
→ read full articleGoogle Doesn’t Want You to Limit Its Ability to Follow You around the Internet
Dan Gillmor – The Guardian,
28 Jul 2014
Behind our screens, tech companies are racing to extract a price for what we read and watch on the web: our personal information.
→ read full articleThe Truth!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
A 10 year old boy asked his recently divorced mother, “How old are you?” The mother told him, “This is not a question you should ask, never ask it again.”
→ read full articleTranscending an Asystemic View of Life
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
A truly remarkable analysis of why things ought to work in theory is provided in a magnum opus by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi as The Systems View of Life: a unifying vision (2014). It is however also a remarkable example of why the global system is in such dire straits — through failure to apply systemic insights to why they do not work in practice.
→ read full articleThe Spanish Town Where People Come Before Profit
Liam Barrington-Bush and Jen Wilton, Contributoria – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The town of Marinaleda, often called Spain’s “communist utopia,” is proof that an economy built on mutual aid is possible. Manuel Gutierrez Daneri says, “Assembly is a place for people to discuss problems and to find the solutions,” pointing out that even minor crimes are collectively addressed via the assembly, as the town has no police or judicial system since the last local cop retired.
→ read full articleAn appeal to BBC and Mainstream Western Media to End Bias against Palestinians: Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Collective punishment, the breaking of the Geneva Convention, and the bombing of Palestinian women and children do not deter US President Obama and UN Ambassador Samantha Fox from assuring Israel that it will always be their good friend and support it to the tune of billions for its military and illegal occupation of Palestinian land.
→ read full article18 Jul 2014 – World Marks 1st Mandela Day since His Death
News24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
People around the world celebrate “Mandela Day” on Friday [18 Jul 2014] for the first time since the iconic former president’s death, by doing good deeds on what would have been his 96th birthday.
→ read full articleBorder Children: ‘They Don’t Speak English, but They Understand Hate’
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
21 Jul 2014
The United States has a long and sadly bloody history of destabilizing democratic governments in the very countries that are now the sources of this latest wave of migration: most notably in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. In the 1980s and 1990s, U.S.-supported military regimes and paramilitaries killed hundreds of thousands of citizens in those countries.
→ read full articleThe UK Ministry of Defence Says Life in 2045 Will Be Unequal and Violent
Victoria Turk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Large private, or semiprivate, companies and non-governmental organisations will grow in number and power. Major changes: an increase in population of three billion, scarcity of resources, increased vulnerability of overpopulated cities. “Inequality will endure, and the world will remain fraught with conflict and complexity.”
→ read full articleOperation Bibi Rescue
Gilad Atzmon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The IDF launched a vast ground operation in Gaza last night [17 Jul 2014]. Until now, Israel has failed to articulate its military objectives or a definition of what a victory would look like. The military objective is obvious: saving Netanyahu’s political career.
→ read full article(Castellano) Bolivia es declarada territorio libre de analfabetismo por la Unesco
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
La nación suramericana alcanzó esta meta tras la aplicación del método Yo Sí Puedo, diseñado por Cuba y empleado en naciones como Venezuela, que fue declarada libre de analfabetismo en 2005.
→ read full articleBRICS Set Up $100-Bln Bank to Counter West in Global Finance
Today’s Zaman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Leaders of the BRICS emerging market nations launched a $100 billion development bank and a currency reserve pool on Tuesday [15 Jul 2014] in their first concrete step toward reshaping the Western-dominated international financial system.
→ read full articleIncubating a Non-Dollar Architecture
Akshay Mathur –Indian Council on Global Relations,
21 Jul 2014
Can the mandate of the new [BRICS] bank be extended to incubate a non-dollar financial architecture for emerging countries? If so, what would the design look like?
→ read full articleUS Terrorist Database Growing at Rapid Rate
Matthew Barakat, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The U.S. government is rapidly expanding the number of names it accepts for inclusion on its terrorist watch list, with more than 1.5 million added in the last five years, according to numbers divulged by the government in a civil lawsuit. About 99 percent of the names submitted are accepted, leading to criticism that the government is “wildly loose” in its use of the list.
→ read full article“Buddhists Betray the Teachings” — Jack Kornfield on the Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma
Jack Kornfield, Shambhala SunSpace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
A religion known for nonviolence is being used to fuel a genocidal campaign against the Muslims of Burma. Inside the coming, September 2014 Shambhala Sun, Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, who recently returned from Burma, urges us to join the call for peace.
→ read full articleHow the Mexican Drug Trade Thrives on Free Trade
Christy Thornton and Adam Goodman – The Nation,
21 Jul 2014
Reversing this trend will require recognizing the extent to which Mexico’s “good” and “bad” capital are increasingly inextricable. Elite politicians, businessmen, and cartel leaders aren’t strange bedfellows in Mexico—they share the billions under the mattress.
→ read full articleFacts Needed on Malaysian Plane Shoot-Down
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
21 Jul 2014
As usual, the mainstream U.S. media is rushing to judgment over the crash of a Malaysian airliner in war-torn eastern Ukraine, but the history of U.S. government’s deceptions might be reason to pause and let a careful investigation uncover the facts, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
→ read full articleThe Political Objective and Strategic Goal of Nonviolent Actions
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Whether or not activists achieve their political objective is strategically irrelevant. This is because an effective nonviolent action is designed to achieve its strategic goal, irrespective of the response of opponents or the authorities to the political objective of the action. Whether or not activists achieve their strategic goal, however, is always strategically determinative.
→ read full articleA Brief History of How Bees Sexed Up Earth and Gave Flowers Their Colors
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
How a striped, winged, six-legged love machine sparked “the longest marketing campaign in history.”
→ read full articleBRICS Bank Is First Step towards New International Economic Order [NIEO]
Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava - CounterCurrents,
21 Jul 2014
China is now an important country in financial terms. India has huge middle class with purchasing power equal to European people. Russia has potential to control the EU affairs in its sphere of influence. Brazil is instrumental in promoting the socialist model, influencing adjoining countries. South Africa has vast natural resources with impact upon the whole continent.
→ read full articleNo Exit from Gaza: A New War Crime?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
As the casualty totals continue to mount while the world looks on in stupefied inaction, the attacks go on; at the very least, from a humanitarian perspective, there should be a global outcry demanding that children, mothers, and those sick and disabled be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip until current hostilities end. Yet this is a gap in international humanitarian law and refugee law.
→ read full articleStructural Violence Re-Explored
Johan Galtung, 21 Jul 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The essay “Galtung’s Structural Violence and the Sierra Leone Civil War c. 1985-1992” by Philip Leech [TMS-Analysis 14 Jul 2014],–of all the commentators the deepest–is a very welcome opportunity to clarify and develop further some of the underlying thinking.
→ read full articleWho is Winning?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
What would history look like if it were written in the style of the “Solid Cliff (a.k.a. Protective Edge) operation? For example: Winston Churchill was a scoundrel.
→ read full article100 Years of War-100 Years of Peace and the Peace Movement, 1914-2014
Peter van den Dungen, World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The West, and the rest of the world, would indeed be a great deal more civilised if war – ‘the foulest blot upon our civilization’ in the words of Andrew Carnegie – was abolished. When he said so, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still Japanese cities like any other.
→ read full articleTop Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Jeremy R. Hammond – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Myth #8 – God gave the land to the Jews, so the Arabs are the occupiers.
Myth #10 – The U.S. is an honest broker and has sought to bring about peace in the Middle East.
Sixth BRICS Summit – Fortaleza Declaration
Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
July 15, 2014 – Fortaleza, Brazil – To inaugurate the second cycle of BRICS Summits, the theme chosen for our discussions was “Inclusive Growth: Sustainable Solutions”, in keeping with the inclusive macroeconomic and social policies carried out by our governments and the imperative to address challenges to humankind posed by the need to simultaneously achieve growth, inclusiveness, protection and preservation.
→ read full articleI, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile
Alan Rusbridger and Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
21 Jul 2014
He doesn’t drink, he’s reading Dostoevsky and, no, he doesn’t wear a disguise. A year after blowing the whistle on the NSA, America’s most wanted talks frankly about his life as a hero-pariah – and why the world remains ‘more dangerous than Orwell imagined’.
→ read full articleMH17: World See Tragedy, US Sees “Game Changer”
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
NATO needed a “game changer,” because it was playing a game it was clearly losing. The dubious circumstances surrounding the downing of MH17 – occurring just as Kiev’s forces were deteriorating across the country and additional US sanctions against Russia fell flat – is more than a mere coincidence.
→ read full articleAmerica: Where the “Good Guys” Torture – A Nation of Cowards?
Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch,
21 Jul 2014
Once upon a time, if a character on TV or in a movie tortured someone, it was a sure sign that he was a bad guy. Now, the torturers are the all-American heroes. There is a word for people whose first concern is always for their own safety and who will therefore permit anything to be done in their name as long as it keeps them secure. Such people are sometimes called cowards.
→ read full article(Italiano) Con che cosa ha che fare la storia – Guardate questa mappa della storia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Tentiamo una spiegazione basata sui concetti di impero e dinastia; gli imperi in espansione e contrazione nello spazio, le dinastie nel tempo. Entrambi si basano su contraddizioni, forze e contro-forze, dialettica; ma negli imperi la dialettica è esterna, nelle dinastie interna.
→ read full article(Português) Cientistas fazem macacos ter AIDS [SIDA] pela primeira vez: vitória ou derrota?
Sérgio Greif - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
21 Jul 2014
Após 30 anos do início da pandemia de AIDS em todo o mundo e milhões gastos em pesquisa, finalmente cientistas comemoram a noticia . . . não de que conseguiram a cura para a doença em seres humanos, mas que conseguiram criar a doença em outros primatas. Há algo de tolo e irracional na ciência tal como a entendemos hoje.
→ read full articleTormenting Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
There is so much regional turbulence at present that it is unlikely to hope for anything more than scattered verbal denunciations from authorities in the region preoccupied with other concerns, but given the gravity of the situation, attention needs to be refocused on the Palestinian ordeal.
→ read full articleSweetheart Deal among Mafiosi: Citigroup to Pay $7 Billion for Its “Egregious Misconduct”
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
21 Jul 2014
Banking giant sold “toxic financial products,” reaped profits; critics say it now gets a “sweetheart immunity deal.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Elicotteri Agusta all’Uganda dei diritti violati
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Nuovi sistemi d’arma italiani per il continente africano.
→ read full articleHow Eating Less Meat Can Help Feed the World
Lindsay Abrams - Salon,
21 Jul 2014
Small reforms could have a major impact on hunger, a new study finds.
→ read full articleThe Gaza Massacre: The Underlying Motives
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Massacre has become a habit. Every two or three years, Israel launches a massive military assault upon largely unarmed Palestinians in Gaza. Every time, Israel claims the moral high ground for its brutal, barbaric action. It blames Hamas, an important component of the Palestinian liberation movement, for the present cycle of violence.
→ read full articleIt Was Putin’s Missile!
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
21 Jul 2014
And here’s the spin war verdict: the current Malaysia Airlines tragedy – the second in four months – is “terrorism” perpetrated by “pro-Russian separatists”, armed by Russia, and Vladimir Putin is the main culprit. End of story. Anyone who believes otherwise, shut up. Why? Because the CIA said so.
→ read full articleIsrael: An Obstacle to World Peace
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The nation yesterday we over empowered
Today is out of control of any super power
Neither any law works there, nor any order
The US, UN, NATO, EU, all are now weaker