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US Military Intervention in Africa: The East African Response Force, a Creation of the Pentagon
Abayomi Azikiwe - Global Research,
17 Feb 2014
Growing instability in East and Central Africa will be the focus of Washington’s intervention.
→ read full articleTen Reasons That I Support Alan Dershowitz, Not
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Ethnic cleansing enthusiast Alan Dershowitz is unhappy with the current BDS efforts (boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel). Earlier today [12 Feb 2013] Haaretz published Dershowitz’ diatribe on the BDS. For the first time, I have to admit, I agree with the elder Zionist mouthpiece.
→ read full articleThe Role of Africa in Halting Supply of Illegal Ivory
Henry Oryem Okello – The Independent,
17 Feb 2014
Nations must co-operate and educate their citizens, says the Foreign Minister of Uganda. A growing demand for ivory from Asia – despite its sale being illegal in many Asian countries – is often cited as the root cause of the escalation in poaching of elephants and rhinos.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia Criminalizes ‘Terrorists’ Defaming State’s Reputation, Disturbing Order
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Actions that threaten Saudi Arabia’s unity, disturb public order, or defame the reputation of the state or the king – will be considered acts of terrorism under a new counterterrorism law which has come into force in the gulf kingdom.
→ read full articleOver Half of Population Opposes Japan Engaging in Collective Self-Defense: Survey
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
More than half of the public opposes Japan exercising the right to collective self-defense, or coming to the aid of an ally under attack, compared with more than a third who favor it, a survey said Sunday [26 Jan 2014].
→ read full articleThe New US-Russia Cold War
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
17 Feb 2014
Meet the new (cold) war, same as the old (cold) war. Same same, but different. One day, it’s the myriad implications of Washington’s “pivoting” to Asia. Then, the denigration of all things Sochi. Yet Nulandgate – as in US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria “neo-con” Nuland uttering her famous “F**k the EU” – was way more serious. Not because of the “profanity” (praise the Lord!).
→ read full articleLife-Skill Learning from Animal Shareholders and Collaborators
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Cognitive Opportunity for Engaging Radically With a Complex World in Crisis – The ultimate “authorities” in thriving through systemic crises are however the millions of species in the biosphere — whether plants or animals. It is evident that these have explored and developed every variety of “trick” to adapt to the challenges to which they have been exposed.
→ read full articleThe Boycott Isn’t Economic Warfare, It’s Psychological
Larry Derfner - +972 Magazine,
17 Feb 2014
It does not have to bring the Israeli economy to its knees, or even close, to force an end to the occupation.
→ read full articleAbout Courage: I Am Scared, Therefore I Am Brave!
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
“Many see you as a very courageous person. They would like to imitate you at that, at least a little bit, but they feel they are not courageous, say, ‘by nature’ and they cannot learn courage. What do you think about that? Can people train themselves to be courageous?
→ read full article(Português) Portugal Ajuda a Viabilizar Entrada de Milho Transgénico na Europa
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
A abstenção de Portugal e de outros três países significou dar luz verde ao cultivo do milho Pioneer TC1507, contra a vontade de 19 países e do Parlamento Europeu.
→ read full articleTranscendental Meditation Significantly Reduces PTSD in African Refugees within 10 Days
Science Codex – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
New research shows that Congolese war refugees who learned the Transcendental Meditation® technique showed a significant reduction in posttraumatic stress disorder in just 10 days, according to a study published today [10 Feb 2014] in the Journal of Traumatic Stress.
→ read full articleConflict, Conquest and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Proselytization in the Middle East was exceedingly complex. As the authors note “Muslim opposition and the enforcement of regulations against apostasy as well as Jewish disinterest quickly forced the missionaries largely to abandon that goal and to substitute for it the attempt to ‘improve’ the state of the Eastern Christian churches.”
→ read full articleMale Sexual Orientation Influenced by Genes, Study Shows
Ian Sample, science correspondent – The Guardian,
17 Feb 2014
A study of gay men in the US has found fresh evidence that male sexual orientation is influenced by genes. Scientists tested the DNA of 400 gay men and found that genes on at least two chromosomes affected whether a man was gay or straight.
→ read full articleThe Vampire Squid Strikes again: The Mega Banks’ Most Devious Scam Yet
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
17 Feb 2014
Banks are no longer just financing heavy industry. They are actually buying it up and inventing bigger, bolder and scarier scams than ever.
→ read full articleIn West Bank Settlements, Israeli Jobs Are Double-Edged Sword
Jodi Rudoren – International New York Times,
17 Feb 2014
The personal conflict that thousands of Palestinians face working for Israeli companies in the occupied West Bank is particularly stark for Hassan Jalaita, who for 18 years has repaired Israeli Army jeeps at the Zarfati garage here. Those are the very same jeeps that confront Mr. Jalaita at the checkpoint he crosses each morning. The same ones that sweep through villages where his friends and relatives live.
→ read full articleMajority of Americans Favor Ties with Cuba, Poll Finds
Rick Gladstone – International New York Times,
17 Feb 2014
After more than a half-century of official United States hostility toward Cuba punctuated by a comprehensive trade embargo, a majority of Americans — and an even greater majority of Floridians, home to this country’s largest Cuban-American population — now favor normalizing relations or engaging more directly with the Cuban government, according to a nonpartisan survey.
→ read full articleCaught Red-Handed: Secret Tape Reveals US-backed Plot to Topple Ukraine’s Democratically-Elected President
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
17 Feb 2014
The taped conversation demonstrates in clear detail that while Secretary of State John Kerry decries any foreign meddling in Ukraine’s internal affairs, his State Department is virtually managing the entire process.
→ read full articleThe Archaeological Heritage in Syria throughout the Crisis 2011-2013
Syrian Ministry of Culture – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The book sheds light on the current situation of the Syrian antiquities by documenting the extent and nature of the damage affecting the museums and archaeological sites. In addition, it reviews the measures and policies to protect the Syrian heritage based on the paper presented at a meeting held at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris.
→ read full article‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ War – And the Struggle of Memory against Forgetting
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Historians, like journalists, play their most honourable role when they myth-bust. The powerful would like us to believe that the likes of Thompson, Zinn and Galeano are no longer necessary: that we live, as Time magazine put it, “in an eternal present”, in which reflection is limited to Facebook and historical narrative is the preserve of Hollywood. This is a confidence trick.
→ read full articleSyria-Bound Trucks Filled with US Dollars, Says Opposition Party Leader
Today’s Zaman, Istanbul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The trucks, which were stopped by the Turkish gendarmerie, were reportedly filled with weapons and ammunition. The Turkish government claimed that the Syria-bound vehicles contained humanitarian aid supplies for Syrian Turkmens. “Within those aid supplies there were dollars; those dollars were being transported to Syria, to al-Qaeda.
→ read full articleThe Salvadorian Elections and Beijing’s Rising Star in Central America
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
17 Feb 2014
The Salvadorian oligarchy has for all purposes operated as a comprador elite class, serving as local representatives or managers of foreign corporations, governments, and interests. In this case the Salvadorian oligarchy has acted collectively as a comprador elite class serving the elites of the United States.
→ read full articleThe Five Criminals – In America, the Gestapo Has Replaced the Rule of Law
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Russia Today is the best English language news source available to Americans. On January 29, RT published a photo of 5 presidential appointees lying through their teeth to Congress. All five of these Gestapo wannabes are in violation of their oath of office to protect the Constitution of the United States.
→ read full articleThe Nordic Light – A Poetry Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The Nordic Light is a collection of poetry accompanied by photography, a seldom used combination, but a very impactful and much needed one. All of the poems are contributions from historic or prominent Norwegian poets, with the exception of one Danish and one Finnish poet.
→ read full articleNo to the Recolonization of the Central African Republic
Colonialism Reparation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Currently there is a permanent presence in four new bases (Gao, Niamey, N’Djamena and Ouagadougou) that add to the four historical ones (Dakar, Abidjan, Libreville and Djibouti) thus allowing a full control of the territory of the former French colonial empire.
→ read full articleRand Paul Sues the NSA in the Most Elaborate Email Collection Scheme in History
Philip Bump – The Wire,
17 Feb 2014
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul will on Wednesday [12 Feb2014] announce a class action suit against the NSA for unconstitutionally (by some estimations) scooping up Americans’ telephone call data.
→ read full articleThe Trillion Dollar Road to Armageddon
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
While asking the non-nuclear weapons states to respect the NPT and refrain from building nuclear weapons, the two main nuclear powers are ignoring their responsibilities under the treaty and expending vast sums of money they cannot afford to make sure they have thousands of nuclear weapons for the foreseeable future.
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Dr Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism
Leeds Metropolitan University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Feb 6, 2014 – Jake Lynch, former BBC newsreader, political correspondent for Sky News and Sydney correspondent for the Independent, is Associate Professor of Peace Journalism and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and the advisor for TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS.
→ read full articleUN Denounces Vatican over Child Abuse and Demands Immediate Action
Lizzy Davies and Henry McDonald – The Guardian,
10 Feb 2014
The Vatican has failed to acknowledge the huge scale of clerical sex abuse and has implemented policies that have led to “the continuation of the abuse and the impunity of the perpetrators”, a UN panel said on Wednesday [5 Feb 2014] in a scathing rebuke of the Holy See’s handling of the global scandal.
→ read full articleTerrorist Groups in Syria Treat over 700 of Their Injured in Israeli Hospital
Al Manar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The Israeli occupation army established a field hospital on the Golan Heights to treat the Syrian injured militants who belong to the terrorist groups in Syria. The Zionist army prevented the media outlets from broadcasting the activities of the field hospital yet allowed the Second Channel to prepare a report about it in order to promote the “humane Israeli step towards the Syrians.”
→ read full articleSyria: At Least 50 Americans Have Joined Terrorist Units, US Says
Ken Dilanian - McClatchy,
10 Feb 2014
At least 50 Americans have joined the mix of extremist groups that are fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, and some could try to mount terrorist attacks at home, U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday [4 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleSyria: “There are Terrorists from 83 Countries, Armed and Funded by Saudi Arabia”
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Syria Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi said Saudi Arabia’s decision that Saudi citizens who fight in conflicts outside the Kingdom would face harsh punishment does not mean that the Kingdom will stop funding and arming terrorist groups.
→ read full articleOne Food Parcel & One Polio Vaccination at a Time – Lifting the Siege of Yarmouk
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
“For the past more than five months I have sold my body for one hour to whoever would give me a kilo of rice which sometimes costs as much as 14,000 s.p. (close to $ 100). I was proud to be a whore for these terrorists in order to keep my parents alive and who are still trapped and I also prevented complete starvation of my children.” She continued, “God did not help me and my family but I promise if I live and ever see one of those dogs I will kill him and he can learn if his God exists or not. None existed for me!” Two young lady volunteers from the PRCS held her, still sobbing, as she and her little ones made their way out to a waiting PRCS ambulance.
→ read full articleSelling Your Secrets: The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters
Pratap Chatterjee - TomDispatch,
10 Feb 2014
Imagine that you could wander unseen through a city, sneaking into houses and offices of your choosing at any time, day or night. Imagine that, once inside, you could observe everything happening, unnoticed by others — from the combinations used to secure bank safes to the clandestine rendezvous of lovers. Imagine also…
→ read full articleNew Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time
Craig Timberg – The Washington Post,
10 Feb 2014
A surveillance system designed by a Dayton, Ohio-based company can track crimes in real time, as they occur.
→ read full articleMicrosoft, Facebook, Google and Yahoo Release US Surveillance Requests
Spencer Ackerman and Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
10 Feb 2014
Tens of thousands of accounts associated with customers of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Yahoo have their data turned over to US government authorities every six months as the result of secret court orders, the tech giants disclosed for the first time on Monday [3 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleJudges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet
Kevin Poulsen, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
How does the NSA get the private crypto keys that allow it to bulk eavesdrop on some email providers and social networking sites? It’s one of the mysteries yet unanswered by the Edward Snowden leaks.
→ read full articleThe Pope’s Sex Problem – Catholic Survey Reveals Frustrated Flock
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The Vatican last year sent out a survey to Catholics around the world focusing on attitudes to sex and sexuality. The responses are now in — and they show that the Church is badly in need of reform. Can Pope Francis meet such expectations?
→ read full articleWe Are a Cosmic Accident: Alan Lightman on Dark Energy, the Multiverse, and Why We Exist
Maria Popova, BrainPickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Questions like ‘why our world exists’ and ‘what nothing is’ have occupied minds great and ordinary since the dawn of humanity, and yet for all our scientific progress, they continue to do so, yielding only hypotheses rather than concrete answers.
→ read full articleWill Boycotting Israel Go Mainstream?
Steve Weissman - Reader Supported News,
10 Feb 2014
If peace talks failed, Kerry warned, the effort to delegitimize Israel would go ‘on steroids.’ “Today’s status quo absolutely, to a certainty, I promise you 100 percent, cannot be maintained,” Kerry warned like an Old Testament prophet and the grandson of Eastern European Jews who converted to Catholicism. “It’s not sustainable. It’s illusionary.”
→ read full articleWelcome To The United King-Doom
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Dieudonné M’bala M’bala , the genius outspoken French comedian who rebelled against the primacy of Jewish suffering has been banned from entering Britain. Humour is seemingly the last pocket of resistance. They are really afraid of being laughed at, after all, Dieudonne is telling the truth that The Guardians of Zion can no longer suppress.
→ read full articleSentenced to Life at Birth: What Do Palestinian Refugees Want?
Paula Schmitt – +972 Magazine,
10 Feb 2014
For more than 66 years, Palestinian refugees have been languishing in squalid conditions across camps in the Middle East. But do all of them agree that a return to Palestine is necessarily the best solution? Through her extensive research, Paula Schmitt finds that while different refugees may have different desires, hopelessness remains everyone’s worst enemy.
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Imagine / Playing For Change (Music Video of the Week)
John Lennon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Playing for Change Foundation – Music around the World: promoting peace across borders through music.
→ read full articleJapanese Government Promotes Militarism in Media and Schools
John Watanabe, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In line with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s boosting of the military and aggressive stance toward China, his government is seeking to refashion both the media and school curriculum to promote Japanese nationalism and militarism.
→ read full articleThe Accessories to War Crimes Are Those Paid to Keep the Record Straight
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The media cover-up has been a weapon in the crimes of western states since the first world war. But a reckoning is coming for those paid to keep the record straight.
→ read full articleBitcoin: Revolutionary Monetary Game-changer or Financial Trojan Horse?
Washington's Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Reddit, Virgin Galactic, and Overstock.com now accept Bitcoin. So do dating site OKCupid and travel site CheapAir.com. Game giant Zynga is now in the testing phase. Two big Las Vegas hotels accept Bitcoin. Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas) accepts Bitcoin for 2014 campaign contributions. As does a law firm in Australia. Already, 21,000 merchants are using Coinbase to accept Bitcoin from customers.
→ read full articleJewish Groups Condemn New Presbyterian Study Guide on Zionism
The Ugly Truth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The study guide titled “Zionism Unsettled” posits that a “pathology inherent in Zionism” drives the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and rejects theologies that uphold Zionism. It was released ahead of the church’s biennial General Assembly that will once again consider recommendations that it divest from companies that deal with Israel’s military.
→ read full articleThe Moral Cost of Torture
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Psychologists for Social Responsibility is a national organisation but it is now establishing an international network. Its members are psychologists around the world who are concerned with issues of peace and social justice. At the moment we are particularly concerned with the use of psychologists in the exercise of torture and the use of psychology in violation of human rights.
→ read full article(Sinhala) Overall Checkup – The Ideological Triangle of Sri Lanka’s Left Politics දෘෂ්ටිවාදී ට්රයියෑංගලයේ සර්වාංග පරීක්ෂාව
Udaya R. Tennakoon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Based on conflict theory and TRANSCEND approach of Johan Galtung.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele-Palestina: 1-2-6-20
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
La pace non si ottiene costringendo la Palestina in un ambiente bi-statale con controllo israeliano militare-politico-economico e intervento USA negli altri stati vicini. Per tale via non c’è equilibrio stabile, ma solo lotta senza fine.
→ read full articleAIPAC and the Israel Lobby: Down, but Not Yet Out!
Steve Weissman - Reader Supported News,
10 Feb 2014
To this day, Washington has not shown that the horrific use of gas came from Assad’s forces rather than from the Sunni rebels. But, no matter, AIPAC and its pro-Israel allies led a massive campaign to support U.S. military intervention. They pushed and they failed.
→ read full articleOMAR: Uncovering Occupied Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
OMAR is the second film directed by Hany Alu-Assad to be a finalist among foreign language films nominated to receive an Oscar at the 2014 Academy Awards ceremony on March 2nd.
→ read full articleNo Wonder the World Is Terrified of America – We’re the Biggest Threat
Noam Chomsky – AlterNet,
10 Feb 2014
As the year 2013 drew to an end, the BBC reported on the results of the WIN/Gallup International poll on the question: “Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?” The United States was the champion by a substantial margin, winning three times the votes of second-place Pakistan.
→ read full articleIndustrial Band Skinny Puppy Demand $666,000 after Music Is Used in Guantánamo Torture
Sean Michaels – The Guardian,
10 Feb 2014
“We sent them an invoice for our musical services considering they had gone ahead and used our music without our knowledge and used it as an actual weapon against somebody,” keyboardist Cevin Key recently told CTV News.
→ read full articleGandhi and the Middle East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In the light of continuing tensions in the Middle East, it is useful to recall the efforts to have Mahatma Gandhi play a bridge-building role in the Jewish-Arab conflict of 1937 in Palestine. Mahatma Gandhi was a man of dialogue and compromise.
→ read full article“Atoms for Peace”?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
It is interesting to review the way in which Israel, South Africa, Pakistan, India and North Korea obtained their nuclear weapons, since in all these cases the weapons were constructed under the guise of “atoms for peace”, a phrase that future generations may someday regard as being tragically self-contradictory.
→ read full articleWhy Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Is So Scary
Seth Mnookin, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The root causes of addiction are frustratingly elusive, a nebulous mixture of genetics, exposure, and environment. Addiction runs in families, but plenty of addicts come from families with no history of the disease. Availability plays a role, too. The science about recovery is also hazy: Alcoholics Anonymous, the most widely used form of treatment, has no set structure or methodology, which makes it tough to evaluate its effectiveness.
→ read full articleEileen Babbitt and Ellen Luts – “Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context”
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
To prevent wars and massive human rights violations and rebuild societies in their aftermath, an approach that incorporates the perspectives of both human rights advocates and conflict resolution practitioners is required. This goal is easier to assert than to achieve.
→ read full articleComputers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
A French teacher in the USA explained to her class that in French every noun is either masculine or feminine. A student asked, “How about a computer?”
→ read full articlePrioritize This: Mediation to Manage School Conflicts
Matt Johnson – Waging Nonviolence,
10 Feb 2014
Administrators and counselors have reported a positive impact on school culture, observing students independently using skills learned in mediation to self-manage conflict. We expect the trend to continue as we strengthen and standardize our program so that it can be easily replicated.
→ read full articleWill Mobocracy Triumph in Ukraine?
Patrick J. Buchanan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Despite our endless blather about democracy, we Americans seem to be able to put our devotion to democratic principles on the shelf, when they get in the way of our New World Order.
→ read full articleTen Principles to Guide the Young Activist
Ramzy Baroud – Toward Freedom,
10 Feb 2014
They say people who live for a higher cause are happier than those who don’t. May you always find your happiness in alleviating the pain of others by standing up for what is right and honorable.
→ read full articleShould David Cameron Be Prosecuted for Recruiting Brits to Fight in Al Qaeda Ranks in Syria?
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
10 Feb 2014
A top British prosecutor has “warned that Britons who travel to join the Syrian conflict will face prosecution and potential life sentences on their return.” What she fails to address is that the British “freedom fighters” are being recruited with the full support of Prime Minister David Cameron in defiance of UK laws.
→ read full articleWashington Destabilizes Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The control freaks in Washington think that only the decisions that Washington makes and imposes on other sovereign countries are democratic. “Fuck the EU.” So much for Washington’s attitude toward its captive allies and the peoples of the world.
→ read full articleZionist Ultras Tend to See Anti-Semites Everywhere
Eamonn McCann – Irish Times,
10 Feb 2014
Majority in Israel and majority of US Jews seem to dissent from extreme positions. We are all anti-Semites now, including US secretary of state John Kerry.
→ read full articleChina Ready to Work with CELAC
Prensa Latina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
China declared today [7 Feb 2014] to be ready to work with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States to establish, before the end of 2014, the common forum approved at the recent summit of the regional body held in Havana.
→ read full article14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax for the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization
Mawuna Remarque Koutonin, Silicon Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
For historical comparison, France made Haiti pay the modern equivalent of $21 billion from 1804 till 1947 for the losses caused to French slave traders by the abolition of slavery. African countries are paying the colonial tax only for the last 50 years, so I think one century of payment might be left!
→ read full articleThe Continuing Al-Qaeda Threat
Ron Paul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Why is al-Qaeda as much a threat as it was ten years ago? Perhaps it is that we continue to fight the wrong war in the wrong manner. After ten years of no progress, is it not time to try something new, non-intervention and a strong defense rather than drone strikes and pre-emptive attacks?
→ read full articleNegotiations with Iran Require Mutual Restraint
Jan Oberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Iran is a 7000 year old civilisation that deserves to be treated with respect. The P5+1 and Iran are in this together now. War and sanctions talk is immature.
→ read full articleThe Global Elite is Insane
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
As anyone who pays even the slightest realistic attention to the global elite already knows, the elite’s efforts to maximise its political and economic clout, and hence its wealth, at the expense of everyone else and the Earth itself, are carefully crafted. And this is not going to change on our recommendation or because we talk to them, or even because we listen to them. Moreover, the reason is simple. The global elite is insane. And it is incredibly violent.
→ read full articleUS Increases Pressure on Sri Lankan Government over War Crimes
K. Ratnayake, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia Nisha Desai Biswal announced in Colombo on Saturday [1 Feb 2014] that Washington will move another resolution—the third in three years—on Sri Lankan war crimes next month in the UN Human Rights Council.
→ read full articleBayer CEO Says Drugs Developed for “Western Patients Who Can Afford It”
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Bayer, the German pharmaceutical giant, is in hot water after CEO Marijn Dekkers told a Financial Times conference that the company designed medicines “for western patients who can afford it” not for the “Indian market.”
→ read full articleHappy 50th Birthday! Kenya is Chronically Sick
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
At independence, they say, you used to be richer than Korea, and there was real hope that you will flourish after getting rid of that brutal British colonial regime. You were never called a ‘rainbow nation’, but you really were, consisting of many different tribes, races, cultures and religions. You were truly ‘multicultural’, long before this expression became iconic and constantly used and abused in the West.
→ read full articleA Meeting with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 35 Years Ago
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Khomeini by insisting on all or nothing against the Shah did create an Iranian transition to a new political order. In contrast the 2011 militants in Tahrir Square were content with the removal of Mubarak and promises of reforms, and ended up succumbing to a counter-revolutionary tsunami that has reconstituted the repressive Mubarak past in a more extreme form.
→ read full articleSaddam, Osama, Gaddafi, Chavez–And Obama
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Who is this Obama, by the way? Reported, by Nick Turse of The Nation, killing in 134 countries, sowing 134 blowbacks? A president with left wing Democrat rhetoric and right wing Republican foreign policies, betraying his voters and democracy itself, with no world vision.
→ read full articleProtesters Resist an ‘Indian Fukushima’
Ranjit Devraj, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
According to PMANE leader [TRANSCEND member] S.P. Udayakumar, the Kudankulam project built with Russian technology is unsafe and threatens the delicate marine ecology of the Palk straits. “A Fukushima-type accident at this mega plant, which is due to generate 9,200 MW when complete, would be truly catastrophic.”
→ read full articleArms Exports: Berlin Backs Large Defense Deal with Saudi Arabia
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Berlin has often been criticized in recent years for selling weapons to questionable regimes. Now, the German government is backing a billion-euro deal for 100 patrol boats.
→ read full articleMetascience Enabling Upgrades to the Scientific Process
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In the light of the argument in the main paper, the question is how to extend “science” from its narrow focus to one which encompasses what is implied by the term, namely a particular approach to knowing — irrespective of the domain to which it may be applied. This therefore includes preoccupation with psychosocial intangibles whose very existence is so vigorously challenged by some forms of science.
→ read full article50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Fukushima’s missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret. Japan’s harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a global corporate media blackout aimed—successfully—at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye. But that doesn’t keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets … or our bodies.
→ read full articleAs TPP Opposition Soars, Corporate Media Blackout Deafening
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
10 Feb 2014
Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership—dubbed ‘NAFTA on steroids’—is receiving unprecedented popular opposition and nearly no news coverage by major outlets.
→ read full articleWar on the Poor in Honduras: Social Control, Gangs and the US’s Role in Remilitarizing Central America
Dawn Paley – Toward Freedom,
10 Feb 2014
Election day in Tegucigalpa kicked off on November 24th last year with the feel of a carnival, a rare sensation in a city where the vast majority of residents are faced with grinding poverty, regular gang extortion and a murder rate that is among the world’s highest.
→ read full articleBulgaria’s ‘Chilly Welcome’ to Syrian Refugees
Rayna Stamboliyska – Open Democracy,
10 Feb 2014
As the civil war in Syria continues, refugees are desperately seeking refuge. It seems that Bulgaria has consistently preferred to engage in exacerbating the situation. Bulgarians have built a wall and are allowing far-right xenophobic rhetoric to prevail.
→ read full articleBig Media Again Pumps for Mideast Wars
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Feb 2014
Official Washington’s neocons still influence U.S. foreign policy despite their Iraq War disaster. Forever pushing what they view as Israel’s strategic needs, the neocons now are stoking fires of war against Iran and Syria by piling on old and new arguments.
→ read full articleFrom Egypt, Ukraine, the Turkish-Syrian Border, Cuba and Thailand: West Manufactures “Opposition Movements”
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
What is going on? Are popularly elected administrations all over the world becoming irrelevant as the Western regime creates and then supports thuggish ‘opposition movements’ designed to destabilize any state that stands in the way of its desire to fully control the planet?
→ read full articleWhy Israel Fears the Boycott
Omar Barghouti – International New York Times,
3 Feb 2014
These days, Israel seems as terrified by the “exponential” growth of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (or B.D.S.) movement as it is by Iran’s rising clout in the region.
→ read full articleReturn, Return oh Shulamit
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Pete Seeger touched my life only once. But what a touch.
→ read full articleIsrael-Palestine: 1-2-6-20
Johan Galtung, 3 Feb 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Peace does not come by forcing Palestine into a two-state setting with Israeli military-political-economic control and US intervention in the other neighboring countries. Along this road there is no stable equilibrium, only endless strife.
→ read full articleHow Kiev Became a Battleground
Charles McPhedran – New Matilda,
3 Feb 2014
High profile European politicians are worried that the skirmishes in the Ukraine are the start of another major revolution. Charles McPhedran explains what led protestors to occupy Kiev.
→ read full articleNationalism Returns to Japanese Politics
Jacob Lynagh – New Matilda,
3 Feb 2014
Nationalism is on the rise around the world, but Japan’s tense relations with China make it a special case. The West needs to tread very carefully, writes Jacob Lynagh.
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The Story of Solutions
storyofstuffproject – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal.
→ read full articleBlow to Obama as Sen. Reid Opposes Trade Authority
The Wall Street Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
“I’m against fast track,” Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters about so-called trade promotion authority legislation. The proposal would ensure an up-or-down vote, speeding up the passage of trade deals.
→ read full articleMiddle East Turmoil and the Disintegration of a Nation State
Prof. William R. Stanley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
What is taking place i is no longer only the response of disaffected Syrians endeavoring to change their country’s leadership. More and more, it is an international effort to disassemble the Syrian state as presently exists and to continue a process that had its seeds in the 1953 Anglo-American orchestrated overthrow of PM Mohammad Mosaddeq of Iran.
→ read full articleSkipping: Is There Anything Wrong with Taking the Food That Supermarkets Throw Away?
Emine Saner – The Guardian,
3 Feb 2014
Three men will appear in court for allegedly ‘dumpster diving’ – taking food from a supermarket dustbin. But isn’t the crime the vast amount of food being put into skips in the first place?
→ read full articleThe Missing Monarch Butterflies and Monsanto’s Roundup
Warren Cornwall, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The butterfly’s life cycle is exquisitely synchronized to the seasonal growth of milkweed, the only plant its larvae will eat. In a game of hopscotch, successive generations of monarchs follow the springtime emergence of milkweed from Mexico as far north as Canada.
→ read full articleDark Lands: The Grim Truth behind the ‘Scandinavian Miracle’
Michael Booth – The Guardian,
3 Feb 2014
Television in Denmark is rubbish, Finnish men like a drink – and Sweden is not exactly a model of democracy. Why, asks one expert, does everybody think the Nordic region is a utopia?
→ read full articleGrowing Concern over Japan’s Dolphin Hunt Leads to Widespread Outcry
Andy Butter – YES! Magazine,
3 Feb 2014
The dolphin massacre depicted in the Oscar-winning film The Cove took place again this year. But the reaction to it shows a changing public mindset toward the rights of sea mammals.
→ read full articleEx-Marlboro Man Dies from Smoking-Related Disease
Daisy Nguyen, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads, has died. He was 72. He died Jan. 10 of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, his wife, Susan Lawson said Sunday [26 Jan 2014].
→ read full article(Italiano) Ginevra I-II: la cattiva gestione dei conflitti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Diciamo, semplificando brutalmente, che ci sono sette conflitti, non uno solo, tutti quanti direttamente o indirettamente violenti, che si svolgono in Siria… Per trattare una complessità a tale livello – più complessa che il VietNam – ci vuole una conferenza di lunga durata gestita dall’ONU, con tutti i contendenti, ovviamente con Iran e Israele partecipanti, e solo quelli coinvolti, senza spettatori e senza condizioni.
→ read full articleIsrael Losing the Propaganda War: Apartheid Label Is Beginning to Stick
Hirsh Goodmanjan – International New York Times,
3 Feb 2014
Boycott, divestment and sanctions’ message has started to resonate with trade unions, churches, universities and international companies in Europe and the United States, who see Israel as oppressing Palestinians and violating their human rights.
→ read full articleDebunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hour Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellence
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The main predictor of success is deliberate practice — persistent training to which you give your full concentration rather than just your time, often guided by a skilled expert, coach, or mentor. It’s a qualitative difference in how you pay attention, not a quantitative measure of clocking in the hours.
→ read full articleCoup in Western Ukraine: The Arab Spring Unleashed in Europe
Andrew Korybko , Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The Libyan method has apparently been ‘perfected’ to the point where outside actors feel comfortable deploying this Pandora’s Box inside of Europe itself. Gene Sharp is the mastermind of the seemingly innocuous strategies that serve as a prelude and ‘dog whistle’ to this viral outbreak, and George Soros is the financier.
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