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Does the Road to Mideast Peace Run through Tehran?
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
It is not too soon to begin considering what the Middle East would look like if relations between Iran and the West (the United States and Europe) were to improve.
→ read full article(Italiano) Galtung: è un impero di assassini, il mondo ora si ribella
Libre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
Il mondo si sta ribellando agli Usa: lo scandalo Datagate conferma che il centro dell’impero sta perdendo il controllo della periferia. Nel suo libro “This Town”, Mark Leibovich ritiene improbabile che il conglomerato politica-media di Washington riesca a trovare soluzioni a calamità tanto drammatiche come quelle che oggi ha di fronte Obama.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks: TPP Secretive Corporate Deal to Establish Special Closed Door Courts for Big Business
Thomas Mc Donagh – The Democracy Center,
2 Dec 2013
The WikiLeaks revelations have shone a new light on the TPP agreement. The deal revealed plans to expand the tribunals that deal with what is called ‘investor-state dispute settlement’. These are closed-door courts that take direct aim at the ability of governments across the world to enact environmental, public health and other protections for their citizens.
→ read full article(Français) BDS : Lettre de soutien au Pr. Jake Lynch, remise à l’Ambassade d’Australie (Text also in English)
CAPJPO-EuroPalestine, France – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
Ci-dessous la lettre de soutien au Pr. Jake Lynch, que nous sommes allés remettre ce mercredi 27 novembre [2013] à l’ambassade d’Australie à Paris, tandis que se tenait à Sydney la première audience de fixation au tribunal fédéral, concernant la plainte déposée par un cabinet d’avocats israéliens contre cet universitaire australien.
→ read full articleClashing Views of Political Reality: Chomsky versus Dershowitz
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
The book is much more than a comparison of two influential voices, one critical the other apologetic, with respect to the Israel/Palestine struggle and the subordination of private liberties to the purveyors of state-led security at home and abroad.
→ read full articleAttempts to Silence Environmentalists Continue
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
A recent report by human rights organization Global Witness documents the murders of more than 700 environmental and indigenous-rights activists over the past decade—more than one killing a week, on average. They reviewed databases, academic studies and news reports, and consulted with the UN and other international agencies.
→ read full articleLeakers, Privacy Activists Find New Home in Berlin
Michael Birnbaum – The Washington Post,
2 Dec 2013
During the Cold War, Berlin was one of the most spy-ridden cities in the world. An international cadre of privacy advocates is settling in Germany’s once-divided capital, saying they feel safer here than they do in the United States or Britain, where authorities have vowed to prosecute leakers of official secrets.
→ read full articleBDS: Letter of Support to Prof. Jake Lynch Delivered to the Australian Embassy
CAPJPO-EuroPalestine, France – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
We, French teachers, academics, researchers and intellectuals, wish to inform you of our support for Prof. Jake Lynch (of Sydney University), who has been subjected to legal proceedings by Israel, for refusing to collaborate with the Israeli occupier.
→ read full articleWhy Don’t We Try to Understand and End Human Violence?
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
Most of us want to use violence when it suits us and to ‘get away with it’ when we do. This is why most of us find ways to inflict our violence in socially legitimized ways or we do it in relative secrecy. Apart from inflicting violence on our own children and the natural environment, society has created whole sectors of activity in which ‘legitimized violence’ can be inflicted.
→ read full article(Italiano) Niscemi, la Mafia e il MUOS
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
Il processo di militarizzazione e la proliferazione di basi USA e NATO in Sicilia hanno contribuito così a rafforzare il potere economico e politico delle organizzazioni criminali, propostesi sin dallo Sbarco Alleato del 1943 come un partner credibile di Washington per il controllo sociale dell’Isola. La costruzione della base missilistica nucleare a Comiso o i programmi “Mega” a Sigonella per consolidare il suo ruolo strategico nel Mediterraneo hanno assicurato affari milionari alle aziende contigue a Cosa Nostra.
→ read full articleGaza: Life and Death under Israel’s Drones
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
There are many things to fear in Gaza: Attacks from Israel’s Apache helicopters and F-16 fighter jets, growing isolation, blackouts from power shortages, polluted drinking water, rivers of sewage flooding the streets, and the anxiety-inducing constant buzz of the remotely piloted aircraft – better known as “drones” – that hover in the skies above.
→ read full articleWhy We Shop: The Neuropsychology of Consumption
Bret S. Stetka, MD & Kit Yarrow, PhD, Medscape – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
The reasons for shopping might seem simple: acquiring goods that provide enjoyment, assist with everyday life and activities, or meet a cultural expectation (eg, gift-giving). But the work of neuroscientists and consumer psychologists suggests that the motivations driving purchasing and consuming are more complex.
→ read full articleGotcha!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
One evening, a husband brings his wife a glass of water and an aspirin.
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GMO-Free Hawaii: ‘Big Island’ Bans Biotech Companies
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Nov 22, 2013 – A Hawaian island has passed a law banning companies which produce genetically modified food from operating on its territory. Modified crops will also be restricted to indoor structures, and experimenting with new types of plants has been prohibited.
→ read full articleQatar World Cup: Over How Many Dead Bodies?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
25 Nov 2013
Qatar, one of the richest countries in the world, just because it sits on massive resources of hydro-carbons, and the pariah of the international community with its alleged funding and aiding of terrorist groups in Chechnya, Libya and Syria, has been accused in a recent report of abusing migrant workers and having a deplorable safety record. Is this what FIFA stands for?
→ read full articleStay: The Social Contagion of Suicide and How to Preempt It
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
“In my experience, outside the idea that God forbids it, our society today has no coherent argument against suicide. Instead, many self-described open-minded, rationalist, sophisticated thinkers emphatically defend people’s right to do it. How did those in the modern world – who fight death so fiercely elsewhere – come to accept or at least leave unchallenged an ideology that kills”?
→ read full articlePrivate Firms Selling Mass Surveillance Systems around World, Documents Show
Nick Hopkins and Matthew Taylor – The Guardian,
25 Nov 2013
One Dubai-based firm offers DIY system similar to GCHQ’s Tempora programme, which taps fibre-optic cables. Private firms are selling spying tools and mass surveillance technologies to developing countries with promises that “off the shelf” equipment will allow them to snoop on millions of emails, text messages and phone calls, according to a cache of documents published on Monday [18 Nov 2013].
→ read full articleAfrican Continent: Contrasts and Paradoxes
Pierre Celestin Bakunda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
When one analyses the bankruptcy of the African continent, one could wonder why since its independence of 1960s, it did not produce effective elite to manage their countries accordingly.
→ read full articleZuma Silent on Sri Lankan Human Rights Abuses
Ruki Fernando – Mail & Guardian,
25 Nov 2013
The Canadian and Mauritian heads of state and more than half the leaders of the 53 Commonwealth Heads of Government boycotted the 2013 meeting held in Sri Lanka. Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said that it should not be held in Sri Lanka. South African President Jacob Zuma, by contrast, was among the heads of state who refused to consider a boycott against Sri Lanka, to speak out about human rights abuses or to show symbolic solidarity with the victims.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Medio Oriente: diretto dove?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Siamo di fronte a un processo di distacco USA da un Israele lanciato verso un’illimitata espansione, che corrompe senatori e deputati con denaro e magari altro per le loro campagne? A un distacco USA dalle monarchie del Golfo e del G7 con l’Arabia Saudita che ora inscena proteste ovunque? Se così, stiamo vivendo in diretta un punto di svolta della storia mondiale.
→ read full article(Castellano) NSA Intentó Acceder al Sistema Operativo Linux
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
La Agencia de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos (NSA) le demandó a Linus Torvalds, fundador de Linux, crear “puertas traseras” para acceder al sistema, según reveló su padre, el eurodiputado finlandés Nils Torvalds.
→ read full articleViolence against Women: Walls That Imprison
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
It is available worldwide evidence that violence against women exists to an alarming degree. It is an attack upon their bodily integrity and their dignity. As NGO representatives stressed, we need to place an emphasis on the universality of violence against women, the multiplicity of its forms and the ways in which violence, discrimination against women, and the broader system of domination based on subordination and inequality are inter-related.
→ read full articleThe Warsaw Walkout and the Climate Movement
Sasha Reid Ross, Earth First! Newswire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
The story is now part of climate history. Yesterday [21 Nov 2013], as climate talks degraded into a sideshow for the coal industry, more than 800 conference participants walked out. Wearing T-shirts adorned with the word, Volveremos (We will return), the activists handed in their registration badges and abandoned the United Nations Climate Change Summit.
→ read full articleThe M23 Surrenders: A Pyrrhic Victory in Eastern Congo
David Zarembka – Foreign Policy In Focus,
25 Nov 2013
Given the roots of the ongoing conflict in North Kivu, military victory amounts to exchanging one group of exploiters for another.
→ read full articleRiots in Saudi Arabia: ‘The Kingdom Expels the Same People It Exploited’
Mansi Hassoun – France24,
25 Nov 2013
Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia are considered clandestine when they lack either a residency permit allowing them to work or a ‘sponsor’ [like other countries in the region, Saudi Arabia uses the ‘kafala’ system, according to which each worker must be taken charge of by a ‘kafil’, or a sponsor].
→ read full articleThe Wahhabi-Likudnik War of Terror
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
25 Nov 2013
For the moment though, enough of Orwellian newspeak. What happened in Beirut was a terror attack, cheered by Israel, and fully enabled by Saudis; a graphic display by the Likudnik-House of Saud axis.
→ read full articleCorporate Lobbyists Flood Warsaw Climate Talks
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
25 Nov 2013
“This is perhaps the most corporate climate talks we have ever experienced. But what’s different this time is the level of institutionalization, the degree to which the Polish government and the U.N., the UNFCCC, have welcomed this with open arms and have actively encouraged it.”
→ read full articleNSA Asked Linus Torvalds to Install Backdoors into GNU/Linux
Christian Engström, Infopolicy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
19 Nov 2013 – The father of Linus Torvalds, Nils Torvalds, is a Member of the European Parliament for Finland. This week he took part in the EP’s hearing on the ongoing mass surveillance and brought a revelation: The United States security service NSA has contacted Linus Torvalds with a request to add backdoors into the free and open operating system GNU/Linux.
→ read full article(Português) Por Que Deixamos Varsóvia
Jamie Henn, YES! Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Ao retirarem-se das negociações climáticas, movimentos por justiça global mandaram recado: não aceitaremos mais farsas. E voltaremos mais fortes. Pela primeira vez, parece que realmente sabemos quem são os inimigos. É a indústria de combustíveis fósseis – e estamos começando a ir atrás deles seriamente, fazendo de campanhas de desinvestimento à obstrução de dutos.
→ read full articleWal-Mart Asks Workers to Donate Food to Its Needy Employees
Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
“That Wal-Mart would have the audacity to ask low-wage workers to donate food to other low-wage workers — to me, it is a moral outrage.” Wal-Mart has been criticized for paying low wages to its 2.2 million employees. It turned a profit of $15.7 billion last year.
→ read full articleFukushima Fallout Damaged the Thyroids of California Babies
Chris Busby, Ecologist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
A new study finds that radioactive Iodine from Fukushima has caused a significant increase in hypothyroidism among babies in California, 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean.
→ read full articleAmbition Silences Myanmar’s Freedom Icon
Roger Mitton – The Manila Times,
25 Nov 2013
Throughout history, prominent political and even religious leaders and institutions have kept silent about enormities which they had vehemently opposed in the past. So it is right and just for many human rights advocates across the globe to attack Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi for her public acquiescence in the persecution of Muslims in her country.
→ read full articleSyrian Nun Seen as Threat to War Resistance
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
25 Nov 2013
Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross is a Carmelite nun and mother superior of the Monastery of James the Mutilated in Qara, Syria, which has a community of three monks and twelve nuns. Born in Lebanon in a refugee camp 61 years ago, she is Palestinian on her father’s side and has worked in Syria for about 20 years. She is the spokesperson for the Catholic Information Center in Beirut, where the Musalaha Initiative also has its office.
→ read full articleGeneva 3 Talks: Iran Nuclear Negotiations 4 Dummies
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
The third round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and P5+1 is well under way in Geneva. They present a unique opportunity – not for the United States, but for the revival of international law and treaties – and the rejection if imperialism. Let us hope that the opportunity is not plundered.
→ read full articleOwen Jones & Mother Agnes: A Lesson on Conciliatory “Leftists”
Phil Greaves – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
[Outrageous] – Following the news that Mother Agnes Miriam, a nun who heads the Musalaha (reconciliation) initiative in Syria, was due to speak at the Stop The War conference in London, two journalists also due to speak at the event, Jeremy Scahill and Owen Jones, decided to withdraw participation unless Mother Agnes was removed from the speaking list.
→ read full articleSome People Are Gay: How Do We Get Over It?
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
The word ‘gay’ has come to symbolise far too many images of people than what it originally meant. It has become one of the most offensively progressive terms in the English language, where it suggests much more than ‘light-hearted and carefree’ or simply suggesting the sexual orientation of some men.
→ read full articlePeace in Colombia?
Johan Galtung, 25 Nov 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
In this conference a highly counter-productive word is being used: postconflict, instead of post-violence. Do not confuse them: violence means hurting-harming; conflicts are incompatible goals. “Postconflict” sounds like all is solved with the end of violence, oblivious to reducing flagrant inequality, to harmony through empathy, trauma reconciliation, and capacity for ongoing conflict resolution.
→ read full article‘Royal Concierge’: GCHQ Monitors Diplomats’ Hotel Bookings
Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark – Der Spiegel,
25 Nov 2013
When diplomats travel to international summits, consultations and negotiations on behalf of governments, they generally tend to spend the night at high-end hotels. When they check-in, in addition to a comfortable room, they sometimes get a very unique form of room service that they did not order: a thorough monitoring by the British Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ in short.
→ read full articleG77 Walk-out at COP19 as Rich Countries Use Delaying Tactics
Claudia Ciobanu, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
The G77+China group of 133 developing countries negotiating a new international deal at COP19 in Warsaw to combat climate change walked out of the talks in the wee hours of Wednesday morning [29 Nov 2013] to protest developed countries’ reluctance to commit to loss and damage.
→ read full articleUS and UK Struck Secret Deal to Allow NSA to ‘Unmask’ Britons’ Personal Data
James Ball – The Guardian,
25 Nov 2013
• 2007 deal allows NSA to store previously restricted material
• UK citizens not suspected of wrongdoing caught up in dragnet
• Separate draft memo proposes US spying on ‘Five-Eyes’ allies
Australian Spying on Indonesian President Provokes Diplomatic Storm
Peter Symonds, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Angry Indonesian officials threatened to retaliate after a leaked document yesterday [18 Nov 2013] revealed that the Australian Signals Directorate illegally tapped the phones of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and other members of his inner circle. Jakarta has already recalled its ambassador to Canberra.
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‘I Saw Rebels Beheading Men for Religion’ – Syrian Cleric
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
RT talks to mother Agnes Mariam, founder of monastery in Qara in Syria and witnessed what the people went through when the first sparks of trouble ignited the war.
→ read full articleCivilization as a Global Configuration of Silences: Recognizing Silence of a Higher Order
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
The concern here is whether the matters on which there is collective silence can be understood as being configured “globally” in some way — such as to sustain civilization in an unsuspected manner. This approach contrasts with any assumption that civilization is primarily characterized by the pattern of what is openly and fruitfully said.
→ read full articleLove and Math: Equations as an Equalizer for Humanity
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
“Mathematics is the source of timeless profound knowledge, which goes to the heart of all matter and unites us across cultures, continents, and centuries.” Georg Cantor, creator of the theory of infinity, wrote: “The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.” Mathematics teaches us to rigorously analyze reality, study the facts, follow them wherever they lead. It liberates us from dogmas and prejudice, nurtures the capacity for innovation.
→ read full articleCarbon Emissions on Tragic Trajectory
Stephen Leahy, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Burning of fossil fuels added a record 36 billion tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere in 2013, locking in even more heating of the planet.
→ read full articleAyn Rand’s Vision of Idiocy: Understanding the Real Makers and Takers
Sean McElwee - Salon,
25 Nov 2013
Sorry, but making a profit off something that’s useless to society is not morally superior to helping others. Because the wealthy are no longer willing to use their wealth for good, they have decided to glorify the wealth itself as good.
→ read full articleJohn F. Kennedy
Oliver Stone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
History is a struggle of the memory. But when the counter evidence cannot be introduced into that memory, then we are closer to a Soviet-era propaganda mindset, in which the mainstream media, in their consensus to cover this up as if it were a Reichstag Fire, deeply discredit our country and continue to demean our common sense. We must question those who tell us what to think.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: The Time for an International Investigation Is Now
JS Tissainayagam, Asia Correspondent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
An international investigation into Sri Lanka’s war crimes is long overdue. It is time for the rest of the Commonwealth and the international community to stop treating Sri Lanka with kid gloves and follow the lead of Mauritius whose prime minister said world leaders must act because Sri Lanka’s total lack of accountability was unacceptable.
→ read full articleJPMorgan Says ‘Mea Culpa’ in $13 Billion Record Settlement with U.S.
Aruna Viswanatha, David Henry & Karen Freifeld, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
But even after the settlement, the bank faces at least nine other government probes, covering everything from its hiring practices in China to whether it manipulated the Libor benchmark interest rate. It may still also face criminal charges linked to mortgage matters. The bank said last month it had set aside $23 billion to cover litigation expenses.
→ read full article(Português) Experimentação em Animais
Ricardo Laurino – ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
25 Nov 2013
Talvez uma frase de Thomas Edison, famoso cientista americano, resuma por que cada vez mais pessoas desaprovam a experimentação animal: “a não violência nos leva à mais alta ética, a qual é o objetivo de toda a evolução. Até pararmos de ferir outros seres vivos, seremos ainda selvagens”.
→ read full articleThe Battle of the Titans
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
This is not merely a fight between Israel and the US. Nor is it only a fight between the White House and Congress. It is also a battle between intellectual titans. (I commented at the time that both sides were right, and that this is a unique dog-tail relationship. I even quoted the old Jewish joke about the rabbi who tells a plaintiff that he is right, and then says the same to the defendant. “But they can’t both be right!” remonstrates his wife. “You are right, too!” he answers.)
→ read full articleThe Bloody Disaster of Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan Is Laid Bare
Simon Jenkins – The Guardian,
25 Nov 2013
Bombs and militia violence make clear the folly of Britain’s wars – the removal of law and order from a nation is devastating.
→ read full article‘Syria Is Not a Revolution Any More – This Is Civil War’
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports from Turkey and Syria – The Guardian,
25 Nov 2013
Rivalry between rebels and Islamists has replaced the uprising’s lofty ideals, leaving veteran commanders despairing. The goals of the first war – freedom, Islam, social equality of some sort – were replaced by betrayal, defeat and anger towards rival militias, jihadis and foreign powers fighting in Syria.
→ read full articleThe U.S. National Security State-CIA Killed J.F.K. in 1963
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Kennedy was killed by multiple shooters with the killing shot coming, not from the school book depository building in the rear, but from the front, behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll. Dr. Robert N. McClelland, MD, the surgeon that treated Kennedy, stated frankly that the killing shot came from the front causing a massive exit wound in the right side of the President’s skull.
→ read full articleJust 90 Companies Caused Two-Thirds of Man-Made Global Warming Emissions
Suzanne Goldenberg – Mother Jones,
25 Nov 2013
The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies that produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions since the dawning of the industrial age. The companies range from investor-owned firms—household names such as Chevron, Exxon, and BP—to state-owned and government-run firms.
→ read full article(Castellano) ‘Los Parias del Caribe’ [Haitianos]
Mario Vargas Llosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Carta de la Paz Dirigida a la ONU – 4 Nov 2013. El racismo aparece cuando hacen falta chivos expiatorios que oculten los verdaderos problemas.
→ read full articleThe Truth
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Young Son: “Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of India and Middle East…”
→ read full articleNew York Times Mourns Death of Al Qaeda-Linked Syrian Opposition Fighter
Alex Lantier, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
The article, titled “Death of Pragmatic Leader Further Muddles Syrian Rebellion,” exemplifies the Orwellian character of the US media. Examining the Times piece critically, what emerges is a devastating picture of how the US media embedded itself in a layer of Al Qaeda allies, falsely promoting a bloody US-backed proxy war in Syria fought by far-right Islamist forces as a “democratic” uprising.
→ read full articleIn Afghanistan, ‘Security Deal’ Means US Occupation Forever
Sarah Lazare – Common Dreams,
25 Nov 2013
In addition to immunity, US demands right to enter Afghan homes in ‘bi-lateral security agreement.’ If you reduce the amount of occupation forces but keep them there forever, then the occupation continues and the war on people’s everyday lives is not actually over — no matter what the US government or mainstream media tells us.
→ read full articleFight or Flight: Chilean Socialism 1- Indonesian Fascism 0
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Jakarta is a concept, an enormous experiment on human beings. What happens to a poor country that is hit by a brutal military coup, then thrown to religious zealots, and forced to live under the heel of extreme capitalism and fascism? You get your Indonesian model: almost no production, a ruined environment, collapsed infrastructure, endemic corruption, not even one sound intellectual of international caliber, and frankly speaking, a ‘functionally illiterate’ population, ignorant about the world, about its own history, and about its own position in the world.
→ read full articleSome People Are Gay: How Do We Get Over It?
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
The word ‘gay’ has come to symbolise far too many images of people than what it originally meant. It has become one of the most offensively progressive terms in the English language, where it suggests much more than ‘light-hearted and carefree’ or simply suggesting the sexual orientation of some men.
→ read full articleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty Is the Complete Opposite of ‘Free Trade’
Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian,
25 Nov 2013
The TPP would strip our constitutional rights, while offering no gains for the majority of Americans. It’s a win for corporations.
→ read full article(Italiano) Eppur si muove! – Il caso dell’educazione alla pace in Messico
Johan Galtung & Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
25 Nov 2013
E ora? Beh, dopo sei anni di “guerra alla droga” (che in realtà ha 42 anni, ha iniziato nel 1971 sotto Pres. Nixon. Sei anni è conteggio del governo messicano ‘ufficiale’) aggiungiamoci giusto circa centomila persone uccise, trentamila sparite, milioni di traumatizzati, un quarto dei messicani che vivono negli USA come profughi economici, sei su dieci che vivono in povertà, e dieci milioni di questi, su una popolazione di 120 milioni, vivono in miseria, e avremo così un’immagine aggiornata della situazione.
→ read full articleJapanese Govt’s Websites Hacked by Anonymous over Dolphin Hunt
Tokyo Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Various Japanese government websites, including the prime minister’s, have been cyber attacked by Anonymous. “STOP these slaughters IMMEDIATELY, or get ready to face the extent of our wrath,” was the online message. The group has given this warning to put an end to dolphin slaughter and has 22 websites on their hit list.
→ read full articleNorway Admits It Carried Out Phone Surveillance for NSA
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Norway’s intelligence services said they, not the US National Security Agency, collected data on more than 33 million phone conversations in Norway over the space of one month last year.
→ read full article(Castellano) Brasil Insiste en Crear “Una Nueva Arquitectura de Control en la Red”
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
El ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Brasil, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, subrayó este miércoles [20 Nov 2013] la necesidad de crear una nueva arquitectura de control en la red digital, tomando en consideración que Estados Unidos intenta frenar la iniciativa sobre vigilancia conjunta de Alemania y Brasilia en el seno de ONU.
→ read full articleInside Emergency Damascene Shelters
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Palestinian Sisters as Keepers of Their Brothers – This brief update it seeks to highlight the esprit de corps, solidarity, resistance, and good will among Palestinians here in Damascus who were forced from Yarmouk and other camps and how they are huddled and preparing for a harsh winter which one senses these frigid nights it not far off.
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☢ Fukushima: Beyond Urgent ☢ (Must Watch 11 min. Video)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Oct 29, 2013 – What experts say about the Fukushima nuclear accident.
→ read full articleA Conversation with Jeremy Hammond, American Political Prisoner Sentenced to 10 Years
Vivien Lesnik Weisman – Huffington Post,
25 Nov 2013
On September 10 [2013] I visited Jeremy Hammond at Manhattan Correctional Center where he had been incarcerated for 18 months. Mr. Hammond, who was denied bail, was also disallowed all visitors, including family members. I am the first journalist with whom Mr. Hammond met since his arrest in March 2012. This interview was held months before sentencing. At the request of Mr. Hammond’s attorneys, who feared his words would be used at sentencing against him, I delayed publishing.
→ read full articleWHO 2014 Violence Prevention Meeting Report
Joam Evans Pim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
The Center for Global Nonkilling, a member of the World Health Organization’s Violence Prevention Alliance, participated Nov. 11-15 in the 6th Milestones in a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention Meeting, organized in Mexico City by the country’s ministries of Health, State and Foreign Affairs.
→ read full articleSleepwalking to Extinction: Capitalism and the Destruction of Life and Earth
Richard Smith, Adbusters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Capitalism is, overwhelmingly, the main driver of planetary ecological collapse. Economic systems come and go. Capitalism has had a 300 year run. The question is: will humanity stand by and let the world be destroyed to save the profit system?
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Strawberry Fields Forever (Music Video of the Week)
Carlos Bonell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Carlos Bonell – Guitar. Masterpiece by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
→ read full article5 Reasons to Never Eat Shrimp Again
Leah Zerbe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
“Shrimp is one of the most — if not the most — damaging fisheries around,” says Andy Sharpless, CEO of Oceana, the world’s largest conservation group focused solely on oceans. Shrimp farms are breeding grounds for bacteria and viruses.
→ read full articleSix Powers Clinch Breakthrough Deal Curbing Iran’s Nuclear Activity
Parisa Hafezi and Justyna Pawlak, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Aimed at easing a long festering standoff, the interim pact between Iran and the United States, France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia won the critical endorsement of Iranian clerical Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. U.S. President Barack Obama said the deal struck after marathon, tortuous and politically charged negotiations cut off Tehran’s possible routes to a nuclear bomb.
→ read full articleTurkey Shoot
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Some say turkeys are dumb birds
and get what they deserve.
Dump It in the Ocean: TEPCO’s Plan for Radioactive Fukushima Water
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
25 Nov 2013
‘There’s no risk to public health and safety,’ pronounces consultant working for the nuclear plant’s owner.
→ read full articleNSA Infected 50,000 Computer Networks with Malicious Software
NRC Netherlands – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
23 Nov 2013 – The NSA infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information. Documents provided by Edward Snowden and seen by this newspaper prove this.
→ read full articleIsrael’s ‘Exceptionalism’ and the UN
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Israel ended a 20-month boycott of the UN Human Rights Council last month under pressure from Western allies. However, it did so only after securing promises of reforms that human rights groups fear will further weaken international efforts to hold Israel accountable for its illegal occupation.
→ read full articleFBI Warns That Anonymous Has Hacked US Government Sites for a Year
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The news comes a day after an Anonymous activist received a 10-year sentence for his role in releasing thousands of emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor. On Friday [15 Nov 2013] Jeremy Hammond told a Manhattan court he had been directed by an FBI informant to break into the official websites of several governments around the world.
→ read full articleThe Dark Side of Migration – Spotlight on Qatar’s Construction Sector ahead of the World Cup
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Qatar’s population is increasing by 20 people every hour. Most of those arriving in the country are low-income construction workers from Asia. These migrant workers are to build massive projects worth up to US$220 billion, which will contribute, directly or indirectly, to the staging of the 2022 World cup. This Amnesty International report looks at how a permissive legal framework in Qatar allows unscrupulous employers to exploit and abuse migrant workers.
→ read full articleLibya: On the Brink of Abyss
Solomon Dersso – Al Jazeera,
18 Nov 2013
Libya’s dangerous slip into anarchy will have serious implications for Africa. Overshadowed by the events in Egypt and Syria, Libya’s multidimensional crisis attracts little attention.
→ read full articleLuke
Mary Oliver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
I had a dog
who loved flowers.
Quantum Physics Proves That There IS an Afterlife, Claims Scientist
Victoria Woollaston – Daily Mail,
18 Nov 2013
Robert Lanza claims the theory of biocentrism says death is an illusion
He said life creates the universe, and not the other way round
This means space and time don’t exist in the linear fashion we think it does
He uses the famous double-split experiment to illustrate his point
And if space and time aren’t linear, then death can’t exist in ‘any real sense’ either
Thanks to WikiLeaks, We See Just How Bad TPP Trade Deal Is for Regular People
Dan Gillmor – The Guardian,
18 Nov 2013
The more you know about the odious Trans-Pacific Partnership, the less you’ll like it. It’s made for corporate intellectual property and profits.
→ read full articleA Visit with Julian Assange—And Some Proposals
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The British and Swedish governments should move to unblock the present impasse on humanitarian grounds so that Julian can be questioned in reference to the Swedish case. And both governments should, regarding the US administration, protect Julian by blocking any retaliation against him thus guaranteeing his human rights.
→ read full articleBoycott Movement under Attack in Australia
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The right of academics in Australia to join the boycott of Israel is under threat from an Israeli law centre that has filed suit against me under anti-discrimination laws… A legal victory will present a great opportunity to spread the boycott campaign among Australian academics. My hunch is that there is a large potential constituency, silenced up to now by fear. Our job is to dispel that fear.
→ read full articleWealth of World’s Billionaires Doubles Since 2009
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The collective wealth of the world’s billionaires hit $6.5 trillion, a figure that is nearly as large as the gross domestic product of China, the world’s second-largest economy. The number of billionaires has grown to 2,170 in 2013, up from 1,360 in 2009, according to the report.
→ read full articleIt’s Business That Really Rules Us Now
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Lobbying is the least of it: corporate interests have captured the entire democratic process. No wonder so many have given up on politics. Nothing will change until we confront the real sources of power.
→ read full articleTwo Forms of Lethal Polarization: Egypt and Turkey
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
I am arguing that these instances of polarization amount to a deadly virus that attacks the body politic in countries with weak constitutional traditions, especially if such societies are beset by economic disappointment and significant regional and global hostility due to ideological and political tensions.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mare Monstrum: Guerra ai Migranti nel Mediterraneo
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Nel Mediterraneo l’Italia fa la guerra ai migranti. Non dichiarata, certo, ma di guerra indubbiamente si tratta. Perché le strategie, gli attori, gli strumenti, le alleanze e le modalità d’intervento sono quelli di tutte le guerre. E causano morte. Morti, tanti morti.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Neo-Nazi Buddhists Get Free Rein
Maung Zarni – Asia Times,
18 Nov 2013
Burma/Myanmar’s radical “969 movement” has been central in the recent brutal pogroms against minority Muslims that have left at least 40 dead and 12,000 displaced. The Buddhist monk-led group, however, cannot be understood outside of the interface between President Thein Sein’s government and the country’s racist society at large.
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The Mass (Music Video of the Week)
eraofficial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
ERA – Official Video
→ read full articleAlbert Camus at 100: Stoic Humanist and World Citizen
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Albert Camus (1913-1960) would have been 100 this November had he lived beyond the car crash which took his life in 1960. In 1948, he was still a highly regarded editorial writer for Combat, which began as a clandestine newspaper in 1941 when France was partly occupied by the Nazi troops, and half of France was under the control of the anti-democratic regime of Vichy.
→ read full articlePublic Banking in Costa Rica: A Remarkable Little-known Model
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been available for so long and work so well that people take for granted that any country that knows how to run an economy has a public banking option.
→ read full articleThe Case of Education for Peace in Mexico
Johan Galtung & Fernando Montiel T.,
18 Nov 2013
And now? Well, after six years of the “war on drugs” (which in fact is 42 years old; it started in 1971 under Pres. Nixon; six years is the Mexican government ‘official’ count) just add a hundred thousand people killed, thirty thousand disappeared, millions traumatized, the fact that one out of four Mexicans live in the US as economic refugee, that six out of ten live in poverty, and that ten million of them –out of a population of 120 million- live in misery, and we will have an updated image of the situation. Hopeless? No. Certainly not.
→ read full articlePrecision
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Three boys went into a drug store.
→ read full articleEnding Hunger in Caring Communities
George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
When people care about one another’s well being, and do not exploit one another, people don’t go hungry. This is true even where people have little money. The challenge, then, is to find ways to increase the caring. The approach suggested here is based on three propositions.
→ read full articleThe Plight of Benin’s Vidomègon Children
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Nov 2013
Not surprisingly, the name “Vidomègon” will probably only raise an eyebrow among readers who find the word strange, not because it describes the plight of over one hundred thousand children, mainly girls, sold into slavery, prostitution and child pornography rings from Western Africa, undergoing rape, mutilation and murder.
→ read full article(Português) Por Que Experimentos em Animais Não São Necessários
Corina Gericke - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
18 Nov 2013
Cientistas, políticos e cidadãos estão cada vez mais reconhecendo que as experiências com animais não cumprem o que prometem, e que os seus resultados não são diretamente aplicáveis aos seres humanos. Não é possível prever como um ser humano irá reagir com base nos resultados de experiências realizadas em animais.
→ read full articlePublic Banking in Costa Rica: A Remarkable Little-known Model
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been available for so long and work so well that people take for granted that any country that knows how to run an economy has a public banking option.
→ read full article