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Archbishop Desmond Tutu Urges US Presbyterians to Adopt Divestment
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Israel will either end its occupation through a one or two state solution, or live in an apartheid state in perpetuity. The latter option is unsustainable and an offense to justice. We learned in South Africa that the only way to end apartheid peacefully was to force the powerful to the table through economic pressure.
→ read full articleTooling Up for War: Can Japan Benefit from Lifting the Arms Export Ban?
David Mcneill - The Japan Times,
7 Jul 2014
28 Jun 2014 – Abe’s decision to end the nation’s four-decade ban on selling weapons in April reflected an intention to take a hard-nosed approach that builds military and technical alliances to counterbalance China’s rise. But what does it all mean? And, more importantly, who is expected to benefit from the deal?
→ read full articleShifts in the Climate Change Debate: Hope and Suspicion
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The intense lobbying efforts by climate deniers, reinforced in the United States by a right wing anti-government tsunami that has paralyzed Congress, succeeded in blocking even modest market-based steps to induce energy efficiency.
→ read full articleIsis Announces Islamic Caliphate in Area Straddling Iraq and Syria
Mark Tran and Matthew Weaver – The Guardian,
7 Jul 2014
Jihadist group challenges al-Qaida as it changes name to Islamic State and pledges to free Palestine in video.
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The Slow Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya
Dr Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
London Conference on Decades of Persecution and Destruction of Myanmar’s Rohingya
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Moonlight Rumba (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Gustavo Montesano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
A Virtuoso Popularizing a Classic – Art Beautiful — Composition: Ludwig van Beethoven
→ read full articleHow the Public Was Manipulated Into Believing the Teens Were Alive
Noam Sheizaf - +972 Magazine,
7 Jul 2014
2 Jul 2014 – Details under gag order could have suggested early on that the abducted teens were murdered. The government-led campaign calling for their release helped the legitimacy of Israel’s military operation in the West Bank. Local and even international media played along.
→ read full articleRevealed: ‘Collect It All’ NSA Targets Those Seeking Web Privacy
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
7 Jul 2014
‘Merely visiting privacy-related websites is enough for a user’s IP address to be logged into an NSA database,’ says new report. Other platforms targeted by the program include LINUX, TOR, HotSpotShield, FreeNet, Centurian, FreeProxies.org, MegaProxy, privacy.li, and an anonymous email service called MixMinion.
→ read full articleWhat Did $7 Billion Spent on Opium Eradication in Afghanistan Buy? More Opium.
Dan Murphy – The Christian Science Monitor,
7 Jul 2014
Opium production and heroin addiction are soaring in Afghanistan.
→ read full article(Italiano) Buona Governance, innovativa: che cos’è?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Oggi la Cina combina il meglio del marxismo-comunismo, l’attenzione centrata sui bisogni fondamentali dei più bisognosi, con il meglio del liberalismo-capitalismo, lo spirito imprenditoriale innovativo. Sollevando le sorti delle fasce più misere, forse 400 milioni dal 1991 al 2004, affinché partecipino a un mercato fiorente.
→ read full articleArab Spring, Jihad Summer
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
7 Jul 2014
So 13 years ago Washington crushed both al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Then the Taliban were reborn. Then came Shock and Awe. Then came “Mission Accomplished”. Then al-Qaeda was introduced in Iraq. Then al-Qaeda was dead because Osama bin Laden was dead. Then came ISIL. And now there’s IS. What’s not to like? If anyone thinks this whole racket is part of a new live Monty Python sketch ahead of their reunion gig this month in London, that’s because it is.
→ read full articleThe World is NOT a U.S. Colony!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
In a host of countries around the world the U.S. portrays itself as “the good guy” instead of the problem. It’s a classic colonial attitude. The U.S. must stop intervening in the internal and domestic affairs of independent nations all over the world, including the U.S. occupied Kingdom of Hawai`i.
→ read full articleIsrael’s SodaStream Closes Main UK Store after 2-Yr Boycott Campaign
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
“The news that SodaStream is closing its main UK store and that John Lewis is taking Soda Stream products off its shelves is a major success for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.”
→ read full articleAbsolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War
Jim Wright, Americans Against the Tea Party – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The same old motley cast of characters, the warhawks and the chickenhawks and the billionaires and the simple-minded saber-rattlers and the same old hate-filled pundits, they just can’t wait to jump back into Iraq…. Why? Is it to end terrorism? Is it to enforce peace at the muzzle of a gun? Is it it to make defense contractors rich? Is it for jobs? Or is it for magic flying bunnies who shoot rainbows and cheap gasoline out of their … to the sound of Yankee Doodle Dandy?
→ read full articleSri Lankan Minister Confirms Australia’s Handover of Tamil Refugees
Mike Head, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Canberra is forcibly handing over Tamil refugees to the Sri Lankan navy on the treacherous high seas of the Indian Ocean. This operation is a criminal violation of the fundamental legal and democratic rights of asylum seekers, as well as a blatant violation of international law, including the international Refugee Convention and the UN Convention Against Torture.
→ read full articleUNREDACTED: Declassified Documents Given by Biden to Rousseff Detail Secret Dictatorship-Era Executions, “Psychophysical” Torture in Brazil
Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
“One of the most detailed reports of torture ever declassified by the US government,” it was among 43 State Department documents that Vice President Joseph Biden turned over to President Dilma Rousseff during the World Cup competition on June 17 [2014], for use by the Brazilian National Truth Commission.
→ read full articleUS Presbyterian General Assembly Votes to Divest from Israeli Occupation
End the Occupation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
20 Jun 2014– Following a ten-year process, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has voted 310 to 303 to divest from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett Packard as a result of the companies’ involvement in the Israeli military occupation.
→ read full articleIraq Crisis: Divide-And-Rule in Defence of a Neoliberal Political Economy
Ali Al-Jaberi – Open Democracy,
7 Jul 2014
The roots of the most recent crisis in Iraq can be traced to the US-led invasion of 2003 and western meddling in Syria. At stake, is the neoliberal blueprint of post-invasion Iraq, now defended in an effort coordinated between the Baghdad government and its western backers.
→ read full article(Português) Diferenças entre ESCREVER e REDIGIR
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Posso saber escrever, mas redigir, saberei?
As diferenças entre os dois processos, explicar saberei?
(Italiano) Il mondo in questo preciso momento: rapporto di metà anno
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Perfino i media mainstream oggi si preoccupano molto della violenza strutturale, che chiamano disuguaglianza, pur non curandosi del numero dei morenti (140.000 al giorno, di fame e malattie prevenibili-curabili, niente denaro a disposizione). Chiamare un paese, una regione del mondo pacifica con tali atrocità rampanti di morte e disuguaglianza è violenza culturale.
→ read full articleClimate Change Fact Sheet
Earth Policy Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
COAL, mainly used for electricity generation, accounts for 44 percent of global fossil-fuel-related CO2 emissions.
OIL, used primarily for transportation, accounts for 36 percent of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.
NATURAL GAS, used for electricity and heating, accounts for the remaining 20 percent of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning.
Non-State Actors in International Relations
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
There is a growing interest in the role of non-governmental organizations in the making and the implementation of policies at the international level. A group of international relations scholars from the Netherlands looks at the increasing role of NGOs in day-to-day politics at the United Nations and the European Union.
→ read full articleUS Signals Intention to Eliminate Its Land Mines, Join Treaty
Renee Lewis – Al Jazeera America,
7 Jul 2014
The U.S. military will not be expanding its land mine stockpile and aims to eventually eliminate its entire supply so that it can accede to the Ottawa Convention, a 15-year-old international treaty on mines, the White House announced Friday [27 Jun 2014].
→ read full articleObama’s Fickle Gitmo Policy
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
This Modern World – Comic Strip
→ read full article(Italiano) Intervista – Johan Galtung
Al McKay, E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Quel che importa è come le macroregioni si rapporteranno fra loro e la lotta contro la violenza del sistema economico – “potere morbido” che uccide ben più che il potere militare – e lo stato, addirittura il mondo, “securitario”, di marca USA – e Cinque Occhi! – la sorveglianza, ora allo stadio NSA.
→ read full articleFacebook Denies Emotion Contagion Study Had Government and Military Ties
Samuel Gibbs – The Guardian,
7 Jul 2014
Researchers say the study was not funded by Minerva Research Initiative, which engaged scientists in national security issues.
→ read full articleAnticipating When Blackbirds Sing Chinese
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Conversion from Tweets to Songbites to Ensure Integrity of Communication – Blackbirds are renowned for the imaginative quality and complex variety of their song, as well as their capacity for mimicry. Such song invites speculation on how information could be encoded into it.
→ read full articleSave the Bees, Ban Neonic Pesticides
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Bees may be small, but they play a big role in human health and survival. The insects pollinate everything from apples and zucchini to blueberries and almonds. If bees and other pollinators are at risk, entire terrestrial ecosystems are at risk, and so are we.
→ read full articleProtecting Organic Seeds from GMO Contamination
Pamela Coleman, Ph.D. – The Cornucopia Institute,
7 Jul 2014
Growers of organic seed crops are taking a pro-active stance to prevent contamination. They are educating themselves about prevention methods, implementing management practices, and testing their own seed crops.
→ read full articleJapan Announces a Military Shift to Thwart China
Martin Fackler and David E. Sanger – The New York Times,
7 Jul 2014
Japan’s prime minister announced a reinterpretation of the country’s pacifist Constitution on Tuesday [1 Jul 2014], freeing its military for the first time in over 60 years to play a more assertive role in the increasingly tense region.
→ read full articleHindering Restoration of Global Heritage in Syria – EU Sanctions Target Humanitarian Aid
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Today, a civilization that used to lead the world and for centuries was the beacon of learning, tolerance and trade, and that still protects our global cultural heritage, is damaged—and only the Syrian people can rebuild it for all of us. We need to help them.
→ read full articleThe Risk of a Ukraine Bloodbath
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
7 Jul 2014
Pressured by neocons and the mainstream U.S. media, the Obama administration is charting a dangerous course by seeking a military solution to Ukraine’s political crisis and possibly provoking Moscow to intervene to protect ethnic Russians.
→ read full articleIsaac Asimov on Optimism vs. Cynicism about the Human Spirit
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
It’s insulting to imply that only a system of rewards and punishments can keep you a decent human being. Isn’t it conceivable a person wants to be a decent human being because that way he feels better?
→ read full articleMy Thoughts on Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire’s Speech on 6th June, 2014 in Sarajevo
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
As much as I agree with Mairead Maguire’s emphatic call for a world without weapons and admire her for making this call, I feel that her suggestions for action are insufficient. It is not enough to shout in all directions “I don’t want a militarized world”! whilst the games we buy for our children and grandchildren, the films they watch on television, the teaching at schools of Nationalism, Patriotism, Religious superiority, etc, etc., are all promoting violence and a militarized world.
→ read full articleSyrian Students Restore Our Global Heritage, Tesserae by Tesserae…
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
The Damascus Citadel, Syria
→ read full articleU.S. Officials Scrambled to Nab Snowden, Hoping He Would Take a Wrong Step. He Didn’t.
Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
30 Jun 2014
For weeks, senior officials from the FBI, the CIA, the State Department and other agencies assembled nearly every day in a desperate search for a way to apprehend the former intelligence contractor who had exposed the inner workings of American espionage then fled to Hong Kong before ending up in Moscow.
→ read full articleSnowden Gets German Fritz Bauer Award for Exposing US Intelligence
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
21 Jun 2014 – Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has been awarded the Fritz Bauer Prize of the German Humanist Union, a prominent civil rights organization, for exposing the controversial surveillance practices of the NSA and its accomplices.
→ read full articleNew NSA Revelations: Inside Snowden’s Germany File
Der SPIEGEL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
17 Jun 2014 – The National Security Agency has turned Germany into its most important base of operations in Europe, according to a story published by Der Spiegel this week.
→ read full articleGrowing Jewish Support for Boycott and the Changing Landscape of the BDS Debate
Paul Duffill and Gabriella Skoff - Mondoweiss,
30 Jun 2014
Unfortunately the extent of this new reality of Jewish criticism of Israel’s policies towards Palestinians that is taking hold appears largely unreported by mainstream media.
→ read full articlePentagon Preparing for Mass Civil Breakdown
Nafeez Ahmed – The Guardian,
30 Jun 2014
Social science is being militarised to develop ‘operational tools’ to target peaceful activists and protest movements.
→ read full articleMapping Militarism
World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
World Beyond War has created a set of online interactive maps to help us all see where and how war and preparations for war exist in the world today. We’ll be updating some of these maps with new data every year and displaying animation of the progress away from war or the regress toward more war as the case may be.
→ read full articleThe Devil’s Dynamo
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Why is the military-industrial complex sometimes called “The Devil’s Dynamo”? Today, the US government is taking actions that seem almost insane, risking a nuclear war with Russia and simultaneously alienating China. In the long run, such hubris cannot succeed. Overspending on war will lead to economic collapse.
→ read full articleReflections on Sports, Education and Peace
Prof. Alicia Cabezudo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
On the World Football (Soccer) Cup and Education for a Culture of Peace
→ read full articleComprehension of Numbers Challenging Global Civilization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Number Games People Play for Survival – It could seem strange to use “numbers” to frame the challenge of global civilization. The obvious arguments for doing so may no longer have adequate traction.
→ read full articleUkraine: The Dogs of the Cold War Are Awakened
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Without a well-organized movement of pan-European peace-green-human rights movements, “Europe from Below” has been unable to act in the Ukraine crisis. Individual governments, in particular Russia and the USA, have taken a highly visible role. The media in both countries dusted off the Cold War vocabulary and political analysis.
→ read full articleThe World’s Most Important Spectator
David Bromwich – London Review of Books,
30 Jun 2014
‘If we have to use force,’ Madeleine Albright said, ‘it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future.’ Very much in that spirit, Obama told the graduating West Point cadets that the US must lead the world even though it cannot police the world.
→ read full articleThe Fog Machine of War: The U.S. Military and Media Freedom
Chelsea Manning – The New York Times,
30 Jun 2014
I believe that the current limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance.
→ read full articleZulfiya Tursunova: Women’s Lives and Livelihoods in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan–Ceremonies of Empowerment and Peacebuilding
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Zulfiya Tursunova, a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment, on the basis of extensive field research, has written an important book highlighting the ways in which women deal with socio-economic change in post-USSR Uzbekistan.
→ read full articleUnited Behind So-Called ‘Rohingya” Genocide
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
A poem in memory of the two Rohingya infants who became the well-publicized victims of Myanmar’s “Buddhist” genocide.
→ read full article(Português) Ucrânia e Síria: Eleições de Destruição em Massa
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Eleições avançam na Ucrânia, obstruídas na Síria, para que assassinatos em massa continuem. O armamento ocidental da democracia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Studi per la Pace: dieci punti fondamentali
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Grazie per volere un compendio dei punti chiave nei “Galtung Peace Studies”. Sono appena stato onorato con un “Premio alla carriera” (Lifetime Award) della sociologia mondiale, oltre 60 anni; in breve, tempo sufficiente per un compendio con un avvertimento: non un surrogato alla lettura dei libri.
→ read full article(Italiano) Messico: 50 Pacifiche Politiche di Pace
Johan Galtung & Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Toluca, Stato di México; Seminari su narcotraffico e violenza – Di seguito presentiamo 50 idee su come fare quanto sopra, divise in 10 settori con 5 proposte ciascuno; alcune di esse basate su esperienze positive all’estero.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los países de Colombia: violencia(s), conflicto(s), lo rural y lo urbano
Adriana Roque, Hoja Blanca – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
9 Jun 2014 – Desde Amsterdam, Adriana Roque inicia una serie de reflexiones sobre los diferentes países que Colombia es para ella. En esta primera entrega, previa a las elecciones presidenciales, un oportuno texto sobre la violencia y el conflicto armado.
→ read full articleThe Syrian Election and ISIS in Iraq
Judy Bello, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
ISIS (The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), a violent, fanatical organization of religious extremists, supposedly a breakaway from al-Qaeda, is not new to Iraq. It was born there during the US occupation. The man who currently leads ISIS spent several years in the US prison camp at Bucca.
→ read full articleISIS (DAASH) Now Recruiting in Palestinian Camps in Lebanon–Who Are Those Guys?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
As Washington and London were affirming the past few days their intentions to continue to arm “moderate rebel factions” in Syria, Tel Aviv just announced it would like to be helpful by joining with “moderate Arab nations” to battle their mutual Muslim enemies.
→ read full articleThe “Just Enough” Policy: Behavioral Control of Collective Protest through Minimum Reward
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
“A society can assume unlimited diversity, as long as it provides equal access to opportunity.” It is the disproportion in opportunity, rights, and freedoms that lead to resentment, struggle, and violence.
→ read full articleThe Journey to Self-Awareness
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
What causes this damage? Terror. And what makes a mind react with terror thus disrupting all other functions simultaneously? Violence. And particularly the unrelenting onslaught of ‘invisible’ violence and ‘utterly invisible’ violence inflicted on children throughout their childhood.
→ read full articleSome Myths about Muslims
Nivedita Menon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
In the context of massive propaganda campaigns, the subtle use of stereotypes, and the fact that both the Western and the Indian media share certain basic biases, many people end up believing in a range of myths about the adherents of the world’s second largest religion. This is a quick attempt at exposing those myths.
→ read full articleAre Nanoparticles from Packaging Getting into Your Food?
Tom Philpott – Mother Jones,
30 Jun 2014
One list of packaging that could contain nanoparticles includes beer-bottles, aluminum foil, sandwich bags, and even a salad bowl.
→ read full articleBrazil Has Done More To Stop Climate Change Than Any Other Country, Study Finds
Emily Atkin – Think Progress,
30 Jun 2014
Thanks to its effort to reduce tropical deforestation, Brazil has kept 3.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere since 2004. That’s more than any other country has done to reduce climate change, according to a new study published Thursday [5 Jun 2014].
→ read full articleThe World Right Now: A Mid-Year Report
Johan Galtung, 30 Jun 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Even mainstream media are today deeply concerned with structural violence, under the heading of inequality, staying away from the numbers dying (140,000/day from hunger and preventable-curable diseases, no money). Calling a country, region or the world peaceful with such atrocities of death and inequity being rampant is cultural violence.
→ read full article60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Poem-Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Sixty years ago the UDHR was proclaimed
Humankind’s living conditions to improve
The Ethnic Cleansing Going On Right Now You Probably Haven’t Heard About: Burma, aka Myanmar
Joseph Allchin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes, their leaders tortured and killed. Is this what democracy in Burma was supposed to look like?
→ read full articleChina’s Subversive Propaganda War against the Dalai Lama
Gerardo E. Martinez-Solanas – Open Democracy,
30 Jun 2014
The Chinese government is engaged in an intense propaganda war to disrupt or prevent the Dalai Lama’s visits to every country he travels to.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleHonesty about Lies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
A reporter asked the mother of Jimmy Carter whether he ever lied. She said, “Maybe once in a while a white lie.”
→ read full articleThe Journey of One Hijab
Daniel Horgan and Hibak Hussein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Hibak is grateful for everything she has in the U.S., but as a young Muslim woman who wears a hijab in a Western society, she strives to have her religion, culture, and identity understood and respected.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: Former intelligence contractor interviewed in Brazil
ABC News Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
6 Jun 2014 – Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by US authorities and currently living in Russia, has told Brazil’s Globo TV network he would “love to live in Brazil”.
→ read full articleAn Appeal for More Whistleblowers
Norman Solomon – Consortium News,
16 Jun 2014
As more and more secrecy envelopes the U.S. government – with millions of hidden records concealing both past and present – there is no practical alternative for democracy but to fight back with “unauthorized” disclosures, as Norman Solomon explains in an appeal for more whistleblowers.
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Exposed: Killing Dolphins – Dying for Lobsters
Link TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
1-Thousands of dolphins are killed solely for shark bait each year off the coast of Peru. 2-The epidemic of decompression disease or bends suffered by Miskito Indians involved in commercial lobster diving off Nicaragua’s coast. (27:17)
→ read full articleForeign Aid Funding Luxury Hotels in Myanmar
Michelle Tullo, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
New investments from the World Bank’s private-sector investment arm may perpetuate economic inequality rather than alleviate poverty in Myanmar. “A significant factor contributing to the urban versus rural income inequality is that the vast majority of investment in Burma is concentrated in the urban sector, despite the fact that only one-third of the population lives in these areas,”
→ read full articleSuccessful Elections
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
President Carter was worried about his prospects for reelection.
→ read full articleHow Not to Pay the Price for Free Wi-Fi
Stephanie Rosenbloom – The New York Times,
16 Jun 2014
Part of globe-trotting nowadays is flitting from one free Wi-Fi network to the next. From hotel lobby to coffee shop to subway platform to park, each time we join a public network we put our personal information and privacy at risk.
→ read full articleAustralia: ‘Ag-Gag’ Laws Backed to Hide Animal Cruelty
Ben Latham – New Matilda,
16 Jun 2014
A push for new legislation that will force animal rights activists to hand over footage to police rather than media. Out of sight and out of mind, the Australian meat industry benefits from keeping consumers in the dark about what happens behind the closed doors of factory farms and slaughterhouses.
→ read full articleA Hard Won Victory… The Story of 68 Palestinian Families in Lebanon
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Masnaa Border Crossing (Syria/Lebanon)
→ read full article2.8-Billion-Year-Old Spheres Found in South Africa: How Were They Made?
Tara MacIsaac - Epoch Times,
16 Jun 2014
Spheres found in the mines of South Africa have piqued the curiosity of researchers for decades. According to Michael Cremo and other researchers of prehistoric culture, these spheres add to a body of evidence suggesting intelligent life existed on Earth long before a conventional view of history places it here.
→ read full articleUkraine’s Kiev Regime Is Not “Officially” a Neo-Nazi Government
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
16 Jun 2014
There are “ultra-conservatives” in the Kiev government but “they are not Neo-Nazis,” says the Western media. The alternative media says that the Kiev regime is integrated by two Neo-Nazi parties (Svoboda and Right Sector) “but it is not a Neo-Nazi government”. When the Kiev regime “officially” displays Nazi emblems to identify entities of their National Security and Military apparatus one would normally assume that it is a Neo-Nazi government.
→ read full articleEmpire of Prisons
James P. Jordan – CounterPunch,
16 Jun 2014
How the United States Is Spreading Mass Incarceration around the World
→ read full articleSpain 2050–Ten Predictions
Johan Galtung, 16 Jun 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Can we know the future? Rhetorical answer: can we know the past? We rewrite history all the time, not because facts become dubious and new facts appear, but because our angle, perspective, changes.
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An Explanation of Syria’s Nightmarish Situation
Mint Press News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Based on the World Café Methodology – Written by Mnar A. Muhawesh, editor in chief of Mint Press.
(5:42)
There’s a Kind of Hush
Nicholas Kristof - The New York Times,
16 Jun 2014
Aung San Suu Kyi should be one of the heroes of modern times. Instead, as her country imposes on the Rohingya Muslim minority an apartheid that would have made white supremacists in South Africa blush, she bites her tongue. It seems as though she aspires to become president of Myanmar, and speaking up for a reviled minority could be fatal to her prospects. The moral giant has become a calculating politician.
→ read full articleThey Knew Our Secrets. One Year Later, We Know Theirs.
American Civil Liberties Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
One year ago, the world had never heard of Edward Snowden, and we knew very little about the breathtaking scope of U.S. government surveillance. One year later, we know more than ever before about our government’s mass surveillance apparatus. We now have the power to rein it in.
→ read full articleLooted
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
I suppose there was looting in 331 B. C.
when Alexander the Great “liberated” Babylon.
(Português) Copa de Quem?
Tereza Halliday – Diário de Pernambuco,
16 Jun 2014
Sediada no Brasil em 2014, a Copa do Mundo Fifa torna-se o nosso mundo. Impensável e insensato não torcer pelo Brasil. Eu torço, mas sem perder a consciência de que, enquanto a bola rola, nós somos enrolados.
→ read full articleI Quit Drinking, Then I Got Addicted to Food
Jenny Chu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Recovering alcoholics and addicts often become “transfer-addicted” to food: After years of flooding the reward centers of our brains with chemicals, we continue to seek the same kind of high elsewhere.
→ read full articleLeo Tolstoy on Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
“For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite… In complete contrast to my ignorance, [they] knew the meaning of life and death, labored quietly, endured deprivations and sufferings, and lived and died seeing therein not vanity but good…”
→ read full articleVodafone Privacy Report Reveals State Access to Its Networks
Mike Ingram, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
The world’s second largest mobile phone group, Vodafone, revealed the existence of secret permanent access to its networks from governments in six of the 29 countries in which it operates. Vodafone did not name the countries, citing fear that they could revoke licenses and pursue legal action.
→ read full articleSaving Threatened Species
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Current [atmospheric] CO2 values are more than 100 ppm higher than at any time in the last one million years (and maybe higher than at any time in the last 25 million years)… These increases in atmospheric CO2 are causing real, significant changes in the Earth system now, not in some distant future climate, and will continue to be felt for centuries to come.
→ read full article(Português) Como O Reino Unido Ensinou os Militares Brasileiros a Torturar
Emily Buchanan, BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
A BBC encontrou evidências de que o Reino Unido colaborou ativamente com os generais e os treinou com técnicas sofisticadas de interrogatório.
→ read full articleObama Pledges $1bn for More Troops, Military Drills in Eastern Europe
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
President Obama has announced a plan to invest $1 billion in stepping up its military presence in Eastern Europe amid the Ukrainian crisis. “I cannot think of anything more dangerous in the current circumstances than to have a deployment of UK and US troops alongside Ukrainian troops this summer,” John Rees, British political analyst and national officer at Stop the War Coalition, told RT.
→ read full articleGood for the Jews?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Seriously, the claim by Binyamin Netanyahu that he has a right to pick and choose the Palestinian government is rather astonishing.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the Graduates of West Point: Refuting President Obama’s Lies, Omissions and Distortions
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
On May 2014 President Obama delivered the commencement address to the graduates of United States Military Academy at West Point. Beyond the easy banter and eulogy to past and present war heroes, Obama outlined a vision of past military successes and present policies, based on a profoundly misleading diagnosis of the current global position of the United States.
→ read full articleWhat’s Really at Stake in the Sydney University BDS Affair?
Jake Lynch – New Matilda,
9 Jun 2014
People in Israel should realise that in the 21st century the world will not keep tolerating the Israeli occupation. This is realised by many in Israel and the responses include using the courts of other countries to close down political action intended to signal a refusal to tolerate the occupation, such as BDS.
→ read full articleN.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces from Web Images
James Risen and Laura Poitras – The New York Times,
9 Jun 2014
The spy agency’s reliance on facial recognition technology has grown significantly over the last four years as the agency has turned to new software to exploit the flood of images included in emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other communications, top-secret documents reveal.
→ read full articleSonia Bridi Entrevista [Interviews] Edward Snowden
Globo News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Portuguese Subtitles – Legendado em Português –
Interview conducted in English with Comments in Portuguese –
Entrevista em inglês com comentários em português
Misogyny, Guns, and Their Lethal Confluence
Tom Tomorrow - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
This Modern World
→ read full articleDeath’s Rainbow
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
I walked upon the battlefield
and saw a grotesque scene revealed:
the corpses there, both friend and foe,
all formed a sort of weird rainbow.
Revealed: GCHQ’s Beyond Top Secret Middle Eastern Internet Spy Base
Duncan Campbell – The Register,
9 Jun 2014
Snowden Leaks That UK Government Suppressed – Government pressure has meant that some media organisations, despite being in possession of these facts, have declined to reveal them. Today [3 Jun 2014], however, the Register publishes them in full.
→ read full articleOne Year of Edward Snowden’s Revelations
Eric London and Barry Grey, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Thursday [5 Jun 2014] marked one year since evidence of the US government’s mass surveillance programs first began appearing in the Guardian newspaper. The international surveillance apparatus Snowden has uncovered is more powerful than any in history.
→ read full articleChina Leads from the Shadows
Felix Imonti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
While the West tries to preserve the power and the glory of another time, the people with the plans and the determination to reshape the world are in Beijing and Moscow. It has been a gradual, cautious journey from obscurity to the second most important currency in the world. The Chinese yuan achieved that standing at the end of 2013.
→ read full article