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Speech in La Habana, Cuba
Nelson Mandela – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of a vicious imperialist-orchestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gains made in the Cuban revolution. You are with us because both of our organizations, the Communist Party of Cuba and the ANC, are fighting for the oppressed masses, to ensure that those who make the wealth enjoy its fruits.
→ read full articleGreen Parties in Transition
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
With the campaign for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament starting, it is useful to look at the ways political parties structure themselves for pan-European elections.
→ read full articleWhy Our Debate about Surveillance Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Tom Engelhardt – Mother Jones,
20 Jan 2014
In the wake of Snowden’s revelations, we’ve been narrowly focused on whether or not we should have more security or more privacy. We need to start thinking about the problem differently.
→ read full article(Italiano) 2014: Dieci conflitti, soluzioni, conciliazione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Gli USA si auto-ingannano costruendo magazzini anziché fabbriche. Il punto non è la clemenza per Snowden bensì mollare la NSA e punire i trasgressori ai diritti umani, anche alleati. L’Occidente tenta di guadagnare terreno propizio a livello morale cambiando il discorso su qualcosa che ritiene di possedere che altri non hanno: la democrazia. Che gestisca un enorme sistema colonial-imperiale contro la propria volontà? Un po’ di democrazia!
→ read full articleFrom a Rolling Stone to Moving Mountains: The Process of Democratic Change in Bulgaria
Nikolay Nikolov – Open Democracy,
20 Jan 2014
Democracy has solidified into a brittle façade of the actual political system in Bulgaria; the future has become a laughing matter; access to truth is contested and politics has become the dirtiest word of all.
→ read full articleThe President on Mass Surveillance
Editorial – The New York Times,
20 Jan 2014
Jan. 17, 2014 – The collection of all this data may not be making us any safer, concluded the president’s review panel, as a federal judge ruled the program unconstitutional, and an extensive report by the New America Foundation found that the program “has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism.”
→ read full articleIn Honor of the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Answering ML King’s call, and the call of the thousands of others who have responded to injustice in our time, will not be easy! It will add burdens to your conscience, responsibilities to your daily rounds, and threats to your safety. In answering the call, your life will not be the same.
→ read full article(Português) A Atualidade de Uma Marxista Rebelde
Antonio Martins – Outras Palavras,
20 Jan 2014
Como Rosa Luxemburgo, morta há 95 anos, ajuda a reinventar, em tempos de crise do capitalismo, o pensamento de Marx. “Rosa tem uma concepção aberta do marxismo. Para ela, Marx não era uma Bíblia com verdades prontas e imutáveis, mas manancial que permite levar adiante trabalho de compreensão do mundo contemporâneo”.
→ read full articleSupreme Court Hands Monsanto Victory over Farmers on GMO Seed Patents, Ability to Sue
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The US Supreme Court upheld biotech giant Monsanto’s claims on genetically-engineered seed patents and the company’s ability to sue farmers whose fields are inadvertently contaminated with Monsanto materials.
→ read full articleNSA Collects Millions of Text Messages Daily in ‘Untargeted’ Global Sweep
James Ball – The Guardian,
20 Jan 2014
The untargeted collection and storage of SMS messages – including their contacts – is revealed in a joint investigation between the Guardian and the UK’s Channel 4 News based on material provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleN.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway into Computers
David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker – International New York Times,
20 Jan 2014
The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.
→ read full articleHaiti: Four Years On From the Quake
Ama Biney – Pambazuka News,
20 Jan 2014
The people of Haiti continue to suffer the economic tremors of a post-earthquake reconstruction programme that has failed to transform the lives of the majority of the people, despite the fact that it is the people of Haiti who must not only construct the future of Haiti but also decide that future.
→ read full articleRelax!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
On a flight from New York to Sydney, the pilot announced that they had engine trouble and would have to make an emergency landing at sea near a small uninhabited South Pacific island.
→ read full articleYa’alon’s Jab at Kerry Proves Israel Isn’t in the Peace-Making Business
Mairav Zonszein - +972 Magazine,
20 Jan 2014
Moshe Ya’alon, the man charged with defending the State of Israel, was quoted calling U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry “obsessive and messianic” on Tuesday [14 Jan 2014]. “They say time is working against us. We should not be alarmed by all kinds of fear mongering,” the “they” apparently referring to Washington and the “fear mongering” to “the peace process” that Kerry is so damn obsessed with.
→ read full articlePETA’s [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals] Donation to Help Save Lives, Animal and Human
Donald G. Mcneil Jr. – International New York Times,
20 Jan 2014
Jan. 13, 2014 – An animal welfare group is donating $1 million worth of costly training mannequins to medical schools in nine countries to accomplish two goals: giving doctors more modern training, and saving the lives of about 1,000 animals a year.
→ read full articleA Day of Infamy!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
On January 17, 1893 U.S. Marines assisted wealthy sugar barons to illegally overthrow the independent nation and lawful Hawaiian government of Queen Lili’uokalani. 120 years of continuous illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai’i does not make the occupation legal.
→ read full articlePlastic Waste: EU Parliament Sounds the Alarm
European Parliament – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The most hazardous plastics and certain plastic bags should be banned by 2020, as part of an EU strategy to reduce plastic waste in the environment, says the European Parliament in a resolution voted on Tuesday [14 Jan 2014]. The EU should also introduce binding plastic waste recycling targets, MEPs add.
→ read full articleThe Mafia’s Deadly Garbage: Italy’s Growing Toxic Waste Scandal
Walter Mayr = Der Spiegel,
20 Jan 2014
For decades, the Mafia has been dumping toxic waste illegally in the region north of Naples. Recently declassified testimony shows that leading politicians have known about the problem for years, yet done nothing about it — even as the death toll climbs.
→ read full articleHonduras: Audit Slams World Bank Agency
Kate Woodsome – Al Jazeera,
20 Jan 2014
Investigation says loan to Honduran palm oil magnate, alleged to be linked to activist deaths, violated bank’s rules.
→ read full articleInvisible Borders
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
For Aya, my friend from Israel.
How can I forget
the words we have exchanged?
Violence, Infectious Disease and Climate Change Contributed to Indus Civilization Collapse
Science Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
A new study on the human skeletal remains from the ancient Indus city of Harappa provides evidence that inter-personal violence and infectious diseases played a role in the demise of the Indus, or Harappan Civilization around 4,000 years ago.
→ read full articleUS Appeals Court Strikes Down “Net Neutrality” Rules
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-to-1 Tuesday [14 Jan 2014] that the Federal Communications Commission’s 2010 Open Internet regulations were based on a wrong legal argument and are void. The ruling represents a significant blow against “net neutrality.”
→ read full articleThe Special Ops Surge: America’s Secret War in 134 Countries
Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
20 Jan 2014
Since Sep. 11, 2001, U.S. Special Operations forces have grown in every conceivable way, from their numbers to their budget. This presence — now, in nearly 70% of the world’s nations — provides new evidence of the size and scope of a secret war being waged from Latin America to the backlands of Afghanistan, from training missions with African allies to information operations launched in cyberspace.
→ read full articleChelsea Manning Awarded Sam Adams Integrity Prize for 2014
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
16 Jan 2014 – The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence have voted overwhelmingly to present the 2014 Award to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning. A Nobel Peace Prize nominee, U.S. Army Pvt. Manning is the 25 year-old intelligence analyst who in 2010 provided to WikiLeaks the “Collateral Murder” video.
→ read full articleCONFIRMED: The DEA Struck a Deal with Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel
Michael Kelley – Business Insider,
20 Jan 2014
An investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels.
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El Día Que Me Quieras (Music Video of the Week)
Daniel Barenboim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
From the Album ‘Mi Buenos Aires Querido’
Tango, Sensual Dance
High Levels of Molecular Chlorine Found in Arctic Atmosphere
Science Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
How the sea salt is transformed into molecular chlorine is unknown. “The mechanism is a mystery to us right now. There is definite climate change happening in the Arctic,” Huey said. “That’s changing the nature of the ice, the volume of the ice, the surface area and the chemistry of the ice.”
→ read full articleMajor Parts of World Ignored by U.S. TV News in 2013
Jim Lobe – Toward Freedom,
20 Jan 2014
If people outside the United States are looking for answers why Americans often seem so clueless about the world outside their borders, they could start with what the three major U.S. television networks offered their viewers in the way of news during 2013.
→ read full articleFukushima: An Ongoing Warning to the World
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
20 Jan 2014
The triple-edged disaster of the earthquake, tsunami and ongoing nuclear disaster will last for generations. The dangerous trajectory from nuclear weapons to nuclear power is now being challenged by a popular demand for peace and sustainability. It is a lesson for rest of the world as well.
→ read full articleThe Year Palestine Became a Zero-Sum Game – 1929
Ran Greenstein - +972 Magazine,
20 Jan 2014
After 1929, Arabic-speaking Jews who had lived in peace and cultural affinity with fellow residents, and orthodox Jews who had shunned Zionism, could no longer feel safe among their erstwhile neighbors and friends. Introducing new information and highlighting forgotten facts, a new book by Hillel Cohen brings fresh context to the 1929 massacres in Mandate Palestine.
→ read full articleBrazilian Hacker Creates Twitter-like App Shielded from NSA Gaze
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
In a post-Snowden world where NSA surveillance has been exposed as ubiquitous, one man decided to invent a networking system akin to Twitter, but with one key difference: It would be surveillance-proof and completely decentralized. Meet ‘Twister.’
→ read full articleToday [11 Jan 2014] Marks the 12th Anniversary of America’s Guantánamo Prison Disgrace
Molly Crabapple – The Guardian,
13 Jan 2014
We must reject indefinite detention and offshore prisons. We must no longer use our fear of terror to inflict terror on the world. In case anyone needs a refresher, $4.7bn has been spent running Guantánamo. Nearly 800 men have been imprisoned, many losing over a decade of their lives. Nine have died.
→ read full article(Português) Youtube Encerra o Maior Canal de Touradas e Promete Combater o Abuso Animal
João Miguel Ribeiro, ptjornal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Um pequeno clique para o Youtube, um avanço gigante na luta contra as touradas. A conta do utilizador PabloLopezRiobo, que detinha aquele que era considerado o maior canal de promoção da tourada, foi encerrada por promover o abuso animal.
→ read full articleA Global Contract: The Case for World Citizenship
Garry Davis and Greg Guma – Toward Freedom,
13 Jan 2014
The World Government of World Citizens, which was established in 1953, is both an extension of the individual and an expression of humanity as a whole. It grows from your sovereignty and mine as world citizens, and from our commitment to each other’s protection and survival.
→ read full articleModernizing the United Nations System: Civil Society’s Role in Moving from International Relations to Global Governance
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Professor John Trent of the Department of Political Science, University of Ottawa, Canada sets out clearly the framework of this important study of the possible reforms of the United Nations.
→ read full articleKoodankulam: An Unfettered Struggle
Anitha S, People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
We are proud that our dear sister Sundari who lost many months in jail and on conditional bail away from home has penned her thoughts as a book: Unfettered Struggle (Sirai Paadal Porattam). She has lucidly written about her experiences with the police, in jail ,and as a strong fighter for justice and life in this village.
→ read full article(Português) Paradigma Mecanicista versus Paradigma Organicista
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
13 Jan 2014
No final da vida, Michel Foucault ministrou um curso no Collège de France manifestando simpatia pelo neoliberalismo. Como anarquista, Foucault vislumbrou no neoliberalismo uma arma de destruição do Estado. Na verdade, o neoliberalismo enfraquece o Estado e o transforma em instrumento para seus objetivos.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nove Milioni per Una Nuova Politica di Pace Nel Mondo: Quale?
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Nella recente legge di stabilità approvata dal Parlamento, sono stati inseriti 9 milioni [euro] in tre anni per “… l’istituzione di un contingente di corpi civili di pace, destinati alla formazione e alla sperimentazione della presenza di 500 giovani volontari da impegnare in azioni di pace non governative nelle aree di conflitto o a rischio di conflitto o nelle aree di emergenza ambientale”.
→ read full articleReturn of Al-Qaida
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
How did al-Qaida, a tiny anti-Communist group in Afghanistan with no more than 200 members in 2001 become a worldwide threat? The answer is simple. As an organization and threat, al-Qaida barely exists. But as a name, al-Qaida and “terrorism” have become the west’s handy universal term for armed groups fighting western influence, corruption or repression. Al-Qaida is nowhere – but everywhere.
→ read full article(Castellano) Acuerdo Nuclear entre Irán y EE.UU. Entrará en Vigor Este 20 de Enero
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, informó este domingo [12 Enero 2014] que el acuerdo sobre el programa nuclear iraní entre Teherán (capital de Irán) y las grandes potencias se aplicaría a partir del 20 de enero.
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Did You Know the BOOK?
PopularLibros - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Spanish with English Subtitles – Book-Bio Optical Organized Knowledge is a revolutionary device. Take a look at its amazing advantages!
→ read full article(Italiano) Chi gestisce il mondo? Il subconscio (*)
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Non una persona o un gruppo di persone, non un paese o un gruppo di paesi. Ma essi possono servire come strumenti per copioni incisi nei più profondi recessi delle loro menti, non a livello conscio, facilmente recuperabile. Copioni troppo banali, ovvi, troppo dolorosi/vergognosi e quindi repressi. Jung li chiama archetipi; si presentano sovente come sindromi.
→ read full articleVengeance
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Hatred like a high velocity bullet
pierced my skin, gathered my organs
(heart, brain, the rest)
Japan’s Response to Fukushima Should Worry Us All
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
13 Jan 2014
Japan has created a funhouse of distorting mirrors from which emerging information about the ongoing disaster cannot be considered credible without reliable, independent verification.
→ read full articleYou Can’t Opt Out: 10 NSA Myths Debunked
Peter Van Buren - TomDispatch,
13 Jan 2014
Pundits, columnists, and present as well as former officials offer bumper-sticker slogans like “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear,” all the while claiming our freedom is in direct conflict with our security. It’s time to face these arguments directly. So here are ten myths about NSA surveillance that need debunking.
→ read full articleOut of the Abyss: Looking for Lessons in Iceland’s Recovery
Guido Mingels – Der Spiegel,
13 Jan 2014
In 2008, Iceland experienced one of the most dramatic crashes any country had ever seen. Since then, its recovery has been just as impressive. Are there lessons to be learned? SPIEGEL went to the island nation to find out.
→ read full article(Português) Martin Schulz: Capitalismo Selvagem Destruiu Estados e Indivíduos
Guillermo Altares, El País - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Martin Schulz, presidente do Parlamento Europeu desde 2012 e candidato dos socialistas para presidir a Comissão Europeia desde novembro, é um político bastante insólito. Por sua franqueza em discursos e declarações, recebeu a fama de sincero, mas também de duro.
→ read full article[Crise? Austerities?] Jaguar Land Rover Reports Record Sales for 2013
Press Association, The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Britain’s largest car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, owned by India’s biggest carmaker, Tata Motors, has reported record-breaking global sales for 2013. Together the British brands sold 425,006 vehicles in 2013 – up 19% on 2012 – setting new sales records in 38 international markets.
→ read full articleParis Conference on Syria: US, European Allies Renew Push for Regime-Change
Alex Lantier, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Top US and European diplomats assembled Sunday [12 Jan 2014] in Paris for a two-day meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria group amid reports that US officials are preparing renewed shipments of supplies to Syrian Islamist opposition forces.
→ read full articleRecognizing Israel as a Jewish State Is Like Saying the US Is a White State
Juan Cole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is adding a fifth demand to his negotiations with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas: That the Palestinians recognize Israel as a “Jewish state.”
→ read full articleFlowering of Civilization — Deflowering of Culture
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Flow as a Necessarily Complex Experiential Dynamic – Produced in memory of the cut flowers arranged to enhance the quality of the deliberations at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum focused on The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business (Davos, 22-25 January 2014).
→ read full articleAnti-Whaling Activists Stage Season’s 1st Attack against Japanese Fleet
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Anti-whaling activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society tried to disrupt the operations of Japan’s whaling fleet in Antarctic waters on Jan. 10 [2014], the Fisheries Agency said.
→ read full article(Italiano) Una Pace Cristiana?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Che dono natalizio a tutti noi da quel sorprendente papa Francesco, il suo primo Messaggio per la Giornata Mondiale della Pace, Fraternità, fondamento e via per la pace. Un testo rigoroso suddiviso in dieci sezioni. Ecco un tentativo di riassumerne alcuni punti chiave.
→ read full article(ελληνικά-Greek) Πολιτισμική Βία
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Translation from English to Greek of Johan Galtung’s academic paper “Cultural Violence” (1990).
→ read full articleCivil Disobedience (Part 3 of 3)
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
[Parts 1 & 2 in preceding weeks] It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with — the dollar is innocent — but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance.
→ read full articleAfter 20 Years of NAFTA Poverty, Lawmakers Move to Fast-Track TPP
Sarah Lazare – Common Dreams,
13 Jan 2014
On the heels of NAFTA’s “20 years of regret” anniversary, U.S. lawmakers are aggressively pushing legislation to fast-track what has been called NAFTA on steroids: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
→ read full articleThe West Contracting to “Middle Ages”? Fine!
Johan Galtung, 13 Jan 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
The Enlightenment transformed the theologic of an omnipotent-omniscient-omnipresent God to the state logic of an omnipotent State, the capital logic of an omnipresent Market, and the aristotelian logic of an omniscient Science. Predictably, the West, and the USA in particular, try to fuse the three logics and powers more than ever into a copy of divine unity.
→ read full articleToyota’s New Hydrogen Car to Emit Only Water Vapor
AP, msn news – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Toyota said Monday [6 Jan 2014] that a hydrogen-powered vehicle that emits only water vapor as exhaust will go on sale in the U.S. in 2015, a year earlier than it promised just two months ago.
→ read full articleVarieties of Scientific Experience: Carl Sagan on Science and God
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
“If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.”
→ read full articleHarassment of Climate Scientists Needs to Stop
Richard Schiffman – The Guardian,
13 Jan 2014
When Michael Mann chose a career in science, he didn’t think that he would be denounced on billboards, grilled by hostile legislators on Capitol Hill and in the British House of Commons, have his emails hacked and stolen, receive letters laced with an anthrax-like white powder, and become the target of anonymous death threats.
→ read full articleBreaking the Silence
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Broad Support for Footballer’s Coming Out – Former German national team player Thomas Hitzlsperger on Wednesday [8 Jan 2014] became the first professional footballer in the country to acknowledge his homosexuality. The upcoming Winter Olympics in Russia, he said, was a reason for going public now.
→ read full articleChina Outstrips US as World’s Biggest Goods Trader
Li Anne Wong, CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
China’s annual trade in goods topped $4 trillion for the first time last year, surpassing the U.S. as the world’s largest trader.
→ read full articleEurope’s Leaders Visit Athens to Celebrate Their Failure
Apostolis Fotiadis, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
The start of Greece’s six-month presidency of the EU was marked by a ceremony Wednesday [8 Jan 2014] in the Greek capital attended by the EU commissioners. But protests were banned.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Black-Ops Blackout: Unraveling the Secrets of the Military’s Secret Military
Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
13 Jan 2014
SOCOM is tasked with carrying out Washington’s most specialized and secret missions, including assassinations, counterterrorist raids, special reconnaissance, unconventional warfare, psychological operations, foreign troop training, and weapons of mass destruction counter-proliferation operations.
→ read full articleGerman Star Footballer Thomas Hitzlsperger Announces He Is Gay
BBC Sport – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
The ex-Aston Villa midfielder, 31, who retired because of injury in September, revealed his sexuality on Wednesday [8 Jan 2014]. “We still have a long way to go before there will be an openly gay man playing in a top league because we fear a reaction and we don’t know what will happen,” Hitzlsperger, who won 52 caps for Germany, said.
→ read full articleFundamentalism: A Psychological Problem
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
While religious fundamentalism is recognisable to most people, fundamentalism has many non-religious manifestations as well. These are widespread, even if they often occur in less readily identifiable ways.
→ read full articleThe Emergent Palestinian Imaginary
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
It is often overlooked that as early as 1988, and possibly earlier, the unified Palestinian leadership has decisively opted for what I would call a ‘sacrificial’ peace. By sacrificial I mean an acceptance of peace and normalization with Israel that is premised upon the relinquishment of significant Palestinian rights under international law.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia: A Retrograde Rentier Dictatorship and Global Terrorism
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Saudi Arabia has all the vices and none of the virtues of an oil rich state like Venezuela. The country is governed by a family dictatorship which tolerates no opposition and severely punishes human rights advocates and political dissidents. Hundreds of billions in oil revenues are controlled by the royal despotism and fuel speculative investments the world over.
→ read full articleJP Morgan Chase to Pay More Than $2bn in Penalties for Madoff Ties
Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
13 Jan 2014
The settlements, announced Tuesday [7 Jan 2014], included a so-called deferred prosecution agreement that allows it to avoid criminal charges. No individual executives were accused of wrongdoing. Total fines in the past three years = $28.7bn
→ read full article(Castellano) Snowden Robó 1.7 Millones de Archivos: Pentágono
Tele SUR tv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Jan 10, 2014 – Un informe clasificado del Pentágono concluyó que el ex contratista de la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, Edward Snowden, descargó 1.7 millones de archivos de inteligencia de las agencias estadounidenses, convirtiéndose en el robo de secretos más grande en la historia de ese país.
→ read full articleBibi & Libie
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Perhaps I am too stupid, but for the heck of me I cannot understand the sense of the Israeli demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
→ read full articleFearless Psychology and Fearful Psychology: Principles and Practice
Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Since the mid-1990s, Robert J. Burrowes and I have practised and further researched a form of psychology based on the principle of ‘fearless awareness of the self’. If people wish to know the underlying emotions that have caused me to write this account and critical analysis, they are love and anger. I love the truth and hope that what Robert and I have discovered through our research is useful to others who wish to truly love and understand themselves.
→ read full articleObsession
Richard Wiseman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
A psychoanalyst shows a patient an inkblot, and asks him what he sees. The patient says: “A man and woman making love.”
→ read full articleTotal Information Control: Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Science Journalism
Jonathan Latham - CounterPunch,
13 Jan 2014
Good journalism examines its sources critically, it takes nothing at face value, places its topics in a historical context, and it values above all the public interest. These statements about journalism are especially applicable to the science media.
→ read full articleKerry Threatens to Cut Palestinian Authority Aid if No Peace Deal Signed
Adiv Sterman – Times of Israel,
13 Jan 2014
US Secretary of State John Kerry has threatened to discontinue all American aid to the Palestinian Authority if the current round of negotiations does not result in a peace agreement, a senior Palestinian official claimed Thursday [9 Jan 2014].
→ read full articleCrackdown in Cambodia
Mu Sochuajan – International New York Times,
13 Jan 2014
For almost three decades, Hun Sen — a Khmer Rouge defector who was put in power after Vietnam toppled Pol Pot’s regime in 1979 — has convinced foreign governments to pour aid into the country, while his Party has rigged elections, sold off our natural resources, imprisoned journalists, union leaders, opposition politicians and human rights activists. Some 250,000 people have been evicted because of land concessions that favor the rich and well-connected.
→ read full articleSyria: Who Is the West Supporting?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
6 Jan 2014
After over a year of anti-Assad hype, lies, fiction peddled as truth, false flag events, manipulation of facts and photographic evidence, the west has gone suddenly silent on Syria. What is going on, and who or what is the west supporting? Those playing soccer with the heads of their victims?
→ read full articleTransformative Harmony and Inharmony in Nepal’s Peace Process
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Abstract: Two lines of thoughts: ‘first, the Maoist Army integration either into Nepal Army or society is an end of peace process and second, the integration is a part of it’ are available in Nepal. The parties empowered by power, politics and property argue as former and majority of general people and other forces believe on latter.
→ read full articleNeutral – In Whose Favor?
Uri Avnery – Transcend Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Former Israeli army Chief of Staff, a man of limited intelligence, was told that a certain individual was an atheist. “Yes,” he asked, “but a Jewish atheist or a Christian atheist?”
→ read full articleThe Way Forward for South Sudan
Mahmood Mamdani – Al Jazeera,
6 Jan 2014
How does one understand the current conflict in South Sudan? Two major explanations are on offer.
→ read full article(Português) A Revolta de Chiapas, 20 Anos Depois
Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Já se passaram anos, balas e mortos, prisões e injustiças. Ocorreram críticas e zombarias, mas o Subcomandante Marcos e os zapatistas seguem presentes.
→ read full articleResearchers Find 7,300-Sq-Mile Ring of Mercury around Tar Sands in Canada
Peter Moskowitz – Al Jazeera,
6 Jan 2014
Scientists have found a more than 7,300-square-mile ring of land and water contaminated by mercury surrounding the tar sands in Alberta, where energy companies are producing oil and shipping it throughout Canada and the U.S.
→ read full articleNew Study Refines View of Sarin Attack in Syria
C. J. Chivers – International New York Times,
6 Jan 2014
“It is clear that if the U.S. government’s claims that the allegedly observed launches came from ‘the heart’ of Syrian government controlled areas, there is a serious discrepancy between the meaning of this claim, the technical intelligence it relies on, and the technical properties of this munition,”
→ read full articleNew York Times Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
6 Jan 2014
For months, the “slam-dunk” evidence “proving” Syrian government guilt in the Aug. 21 [2013] Sarin attack near Damascus was a “vector analysis” pushed by the New York Times showing where the rockets supposedly were launched. But the Times now grudgingly admits its analysis was flawed.
→ read full articleVolgograd and the Conquest of Eurasia: Has the House of Saud Seen Its Stalingrad?
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
6 Jan 2014
The events in Volgograd are part of a much larger body of events and a multi-faceted struggle that has been going on for decades as part of a cold war after the Cold War—the post-Cold War cold war, if you please—that was a result of two predominately Eurocentric world wars.
→ read full article(Português) Chiapas: Injustiça, Pobreza, Luta e Dignidade
Eduardo Febbro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
O ano velho se vai em meio a névoa. A garoa e o frio cobrem o local onde o Exército Zapatista de Libertação Nacional celebrou os 20 anos do levante.
→ read full articleShopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox
Jacob Appelbaum, Judith Horchert and Christian Stöcker – Der Spiegel,
6 Jan 2014
After years of speculation that electronics can be accessed by intelligence agencies through a back door, an internal NSA catalog reveals that such methods already exist for numerous end-user devices.
→ read full article2014: Ten Conflicts, Solutions, Conciliation
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
USA is cheating itself, building warehouses, not factories. The point is not clemency for Snowden but to drop the NSA and punish those, also allies, who broke human rights. The West tries to get the moral high ground by changing discourse to something they think they have and others not: democracy. Running huge colonial-imperial system against their will? Some democracy!
→ read full articleSorry for Letting Them Snoop? Dell Apologizes for ‘Inconvenience’ Caused by NSA Backdoor
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Dell told an irate customer on Monday [30 Dec 2013] that they “regret the inconvenience” caused by selling to the public for years a number of products that the intelligence community has been able to fully compromise in complete silence up until this week.
→ read full articleAmerican Jihad 2014: The New Fundamentalists
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
6 Jan 2014
Imagine what we call “national security” as, at heart, a proselytizing warrior religion. It has its holy orders. It has its sacred texts (classified). It has its dogma and its warrior priests. It has its sanctified promised land, known as “the homeland.” It has its seminaries, which we call think tanks. It is a monotheistic faith in that it broaches no alternatives to itself. It is Manichaean in its view of the world. As with so many religions, its god is an eye in the sky, an all-seeing Being who knows your secrets.
→ read full articleAnti-War Demonstration
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Instead of going to Baghdad
I strolled four blocks
to a convenient anti-war demonstration
Civil Disobedience (Part 2 of 3)
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
[Part 2 last week – Part 3 next week] The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur. Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.
→ read full articleFukushima, a Global Conspiracy of Denial
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
6 Jan 2014
Does anyone in authority anywhere tell the truth about Fukushima? If there is any government or non-government authority in the world that is addressing the disaster at Fukushima openly, directly, honestly, and effectively, it’s not apparent to the outside observer what entity that might be.
→ read full articleLynne Stewart Coming Home
Stephen Lendman – Media With Conscience News,
6 Jan 2014
For Lynne, husband Ralph, their children, other family members, and legions of worldwide supporters, New Year’s Day 2014 is special. It’s reason to celebrate. On December 31, Lynne wrote from Carswell federal prison as follows.
→ read full articlePoint of View
Uta Frith – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Psychiatrist to patient: “Don’t worry. You’re not deluded.
→ read full articleNSA’s Secret Toolbox: Unit Offers Spy Gadgets for Every Need
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
The NSA has a secret unit that produces special equipment ranging from spyware for computers and cell phones to listening posts and USB sticks that work as bugging devices. Here are some excerpts from the intelligence agency’s own catalog.
→ read full articleThe Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.
→ read full articleBeholding 2014
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
2013 was not a happy year in the chronicles of human history, yet there were a few moves in the directions of peace and justice. What follows are some notes that respond to the mingling of light and shadows that are flickering on the global stage, with a spotlight placed on the main war zone of the 21st century—the Middle East, recalling that Europe had this negative honor for most of the modern era.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Nomination 2014: Mother Agnes Mariam and Mussalaha
The Peace People– TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Press Release 4 Jan. 2014 – Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross (civil name Fadia Laham) and the Mussalaha Reconciliation Initiative in Syria have been nominated by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
→ read full article2014 and Beyond: Chaos or Community?
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Nearly 50 years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.” That choice is becoming ever more profound as we enter the new year of 2014.
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