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Norway 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 articleQuantum 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
Luke
Mary Oliver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
I had a dog
who loved flowers.
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 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 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 articlePrecision
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Three boys went into a drug store.
→ 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 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 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 articleThe Killing Fields of Myanmar
Kate Linthicum – Gulf News,
18 Nov 2013
Buddhist hardliners’ call for an ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Muslims may end up radicalising the minorities too. The Rohingyas have never been recognised as citizens of Myanmar. In some areas they are barred from travelling, marrying or giving birth without state permission.
→ read full articleAtheist ‘Mega-Churches’ Take Root across US, World
Gillian Flaccus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
It looked like a typical Sunday morning at any mega-church. Several hundred people, including families with small children, packed in for more than an hour of rousing music, an inspirational talk and some quiet reflection. The only thing missing was God.
→ read full articleThe Polytechnic Uprising of Nov 1973: A Greek Nonviolent Movement against the Greek Junta
Vasilis Migkos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
On 17 November 2013 Greece celebrated 40 years from the “Polytechnic Uprising of 1973” as is commonly known the student uprising against the Junta of the time for Democracy and Freedoms.
→ read full articleCorporate Profits Soar. The Super Wealthy Reinvent American Capitalism
Shamus Cooke - Global Research,
18 Nov 2013
As U.S. corporate profits soar to record highs, food stamps for the neediest were quietly cut. The politicians who are demanding endless cuts to social programs insist that the U.S. is broke, all the while conveniently ignoring the mountains of tax-free wealth piling up in the pockets of the super rich.
→ read full articleTrans-Atlantic Free Trade: US Pushes for Deal despite NSA Scandal
Gregor Peter Schmitz – Der Spiegel,
18 Nov 2013
The NSA spying scandal has many in Europe calling for the suspension of negotiations on an EU-US free-trade deal. Officials in Washington are undeterred, and continue to push forward with talks despite growing skepticism this side of the Atlantic.
→ read full articleThe Portuguese and the Crisis: An Analysis
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Nov 2013
The key word for the survival of Portugal over all these years is “solidariedade”. In English, it is “solidarity”. This informal manifestation of socialism is endemic in Portuguese society, and persists whatever the social or economic climate. It is self-regulatory, it does not need a top-down approach.
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The Alarming Truths about GMOs
Dr. Mercola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The hidden truths about Genetically Modified Organisms and potential harm to health, the environment and ecosystems.
→ read full articleThe Euro Zone Profiteers
CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
A new CorpWatch report shines a light on the role of six major banks in Greece, Ireland and Spain in the EuroZone crisis.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Publishes Secret Draft Chapter of Trans-Pacific Partnership
Alex Hern and Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
18 Nov 2013
Treaty negotiated in secret between 12 nations ‘would trample over individual rights and free expression’, says Julian Assange. 13 Nov 2013 – WikiLeaks has released the draft text of a chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, a multilateral free-trade treaty currently being negotiated in secret by 12 Pacific Rim nations.
→ read full articleAbuse Accusations Overshadow Commonwealth Meeting in Sri Lanka
Malavika Vyawahare - The New York Times,
18 Nov 2013
Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, tried to pre-empt criticism of his government’s human rights record on Friday [15 Nov 2013] as he welcomed leaders of Commonwealth countries to a summit meeting in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, that was overshadowed by persistent allegations of state-sponsored abuse during a long civil war by the Sinhalese-dominated government against ethnic Tamils.
→ read full articleGCHQ Snoops on Hotel Reservations Targeting Diplomats – Snowden Leaks
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
17 Nov 2013 – A UK spy agency infiltrated international hotel booking systems for some three years, tracing high profile officials and wiretapping their suites, new leaks reveal. GCHQ’s top secret ‘Royal Concierge’ program tracked 350 hotels across the globe.
→ read full articleThe Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Allied regimes have uniformly condemned NSA espionage as a violation of trust and sovereignty, a threat to their national and economic security and to their citizens’ privacy. The ever-expanding technology of spying strengthens the police state. The list of targets is endless and bizarre. Nothing and no one will be missed!
→ read full articleSecret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP.
→ read full articleWhy Ain al Hilweh?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Because it Exists – A modest tempest is brewing in Lebanon among some supporters of Palestine and the US State Department over the decision by the Sabra-Shatila Scholarship Program , which intends to grant an additional 150-200 tuition scholarships to Palestinian students for spring semester enrolled in Lebanon’s dozen colleges and universities.
→ read full articleThe Assassination
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
From the first moment, I did not have the slightest doubt that Yasser Arafat was assassinated. It was a matter of simple logic. He was the man who was ready to make peace and who was able to get the Palestinian people to accept it. He also laid down the terms: a Palestinian state with borders based on the Green Line, with its capital in East Jerusalem. This is exactly what his assassins aimed to prevent.
→ read full articleNonkilling or 9mm Tacos for Breakfast
Joam Evans Pim – Huffington Post,
18 Nov 2013
Mexico’s government has teamed up with the World Health Organization’s Violence Prevention Alliance to look at stopping violence, particularly lethal violence, before it happens using the WHO’s definition of violence as “a preventable disease.”
→ read full articleNeither an Army nor Free
Ali Örnek, International Network for Justice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The “Free Syrian Army”, acting as an umbrella organization for the rebels, is composed of dozens of factions, each of which is distinct from the other and is independent of a central leadership. Being infamous for their war crimes, these groups act upon the interests of the countries that fund them.
→ read full articleFront Groups Exposed: 50 Industry Groups Form a New Alliance to Manipulate Public Opinion about Junk Food, GMOs and Harmful Additives
Dr. Mercola – Nation of Change,
18 Nov 2013
The groups comprising this new alliance represent multi-national food companies, biotech industry and chemical companies that generate hundreds of billions of dollars worth of revenue from food related sales every year.
→ read full articleVandana Shiva on Resisting GMOs: “Saving Seeds Is a Political Act”
Sarah van Gelder – YES! Magazine,
18 Nov 2013
Why the fight for biodiversity is about protecting life itself. Trained in physics and philosophy, [TRANSCEND member] Vandana Shiva is renowned for her activism against GMOs, globalization, and patents on seeds and traditional foods.
→ read full articleJeremy Hammond’s Court Statement upon Receiving a 10-Year Prison Sentence: Criminal Exploits by FBI Handlers
The Sparrow Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
It has taken a lot for me to write this, to explain my actions, knowing that doing so — honestly — could cost me more years of my life in prison. I am aware that I could get as many as 10 years, but I hope that I do not, as I believe there is so much work to be done.
→ read full articleAffinity, Diaspora, Identity, Reunification, Return
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The question explored here is whether there are other ways of imagining fruitful association with countries, lands and “places”, however distant or virtual — or possibly divided in some way. Of particular interest is the possibility that this might be recognized through refining the pattern of formalities by which such associations are currently defined and restricted.
→ read full articleWhy France Is Playing ‘Stupid’ on Iran
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
18 Nov 2013
Torrents of bytes have already detailed how Israel routinely hijacks US foreign policy. Here’s yet one more graphic demonstration of how Wag the Dog works… Hollande is a joke. This week he’s on the cover of the Courrier International (headline: “The Art of the Fall”), with pan-European media judging him “incoherent”, “paralyzed” and “incompetent” (and these are the merciful epithets).
→ read full articleA Showdown for War or Peace
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
11 Nov 2013
In pressing for negotiated settlements to the Iranian nuclear dispute and the Syrian civil war, President Barack Obama is challenging the imposing lobbying, propaganda and financial clout of the new Saudi-Israeli alliance, with the future direction of U.S. foreign policy – and geopolitical stability – at stake.
→ read full articleUS Is a State Sponsor of Terrorism
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
11 Nov 2013
Drone attacks are raw terror tactics that terrorize civilian populations.
→ read full articleIndonesia – Torn Apart but Glorified by Washington
Andre Vltchek and Crista Priscilla – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
After the 1965 military coup, planned and sponsored by the West, between 2 and 3 million Indonesian citizens vanished, were murdered in a several months long orgy of terror. The military and the NUs (the largest Muslim organization in the country) youth wing, Ansor, participated zealously in the killings, along with hundreds of thousands of ordinary Indonesian citizens.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Advocate: Censor Them!
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
On November 4th, Iranian lawyer and the 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate [Shirin Ebadi] announced that the United States and Europe should ban Iran from using broadcast satellites. Censor them, is what this ‘human rights’ advocate is suggesting. Shocking as this is, given Ebadi’s track record, the call for censorship comes as no surprise. She is, after all, a former judge.
→ read full articleRussia Implores UN to Take Control of Libya’s ‘Unguarded’ Yellowcake Uranium
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Russia has asked the UN Security Council to look into the dangers posed by a badly-guarded stockpile of yellowcake uranium in the Libyan Desert. Recent reports have said that Al-Qaeda is interested in the supply as a potential nuclear weapon component.
→ read full articleIf…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun and Napoleon met in hell.
→ read full articleMission Accomplished: Peace Is Drone-Bombed
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
It would appear the Empire has succeeded in both preventing peaceful negotiations and continuing the drone bombing that stirs up hatreds and foments that which our mainstream press label as “terrorism,” without including the drone attacks.
→ read full articleExclusive: Iceland’s ALDA Movement Seeks a Roadmap toward Systemic Change
Steve Rushton, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Kristinn Már Ársælsson, a founder of Iceland’s Association of Sustainability and Democracy, advocates measures that enable participatory decision making, democratize the workplace, protect the environment and restructure the financial system.
→ read full articleUS Drone Strike In Pakistan Blows Up Afghanistan Peace Talks
DSWright, FDL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
So as America looks to withdraw and peace talks take place between the Afghanistan Taliban and Karzai government – the US government orders a drone strike on a major figure in the Pakistani Taliban enraging both the Afghanistan Taliban and Pakistani government. Why would the US do this if not to derail the peace talks?
→ read full articleThe Roots of the European Court of Human Rights and Democracy
Ersan Sen and Mahmut Can Senyurt – Open Democracy,
11 Nov 2013
Marco Duranti claims that the aims of the founders of the European Court of Human Rights were not democratic ones, and that the ECHR was in fact designed to secure the concept of “property rights” instead of social rights such as “the right to labour and social security” or “the right to health” as set forth under European Convention on Human Rights.
→ read full articleInterrogation-Torture and Dual Loyalty – Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror
Institute on Medicine as a Profession – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Medical, Military, and Ethics Experts Say Health Professionals Designed and Participated in Cruel, Inhumane, and Degrading Treatment and Torture of Detainees; Seek Policies To Assure Conformance With Ethical Principles
→ read full articlePatriot
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
I never guessed that my friend Howard
would turn out to be a coward.
The Great Austerity Shell Game: Here’s How the Capitalist Scam Works
Prof. Richard Wolff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
When capitalist economies crash, most capitalists request – and governments provide – credit market bailouts and economic stimuli. However, corporations and the rich oppose new taxes ‘on them’ to pay for stimulus and bailout programs. They insist, instead, that governments should ‘borrow’ the necessary funds. Since 2007, capitalist governments everywhere borrowed massively for those costly programs.
→ read full articleMike Michaud: Yes, I am gay. ‘But why should it matter?’
Bangor Daily News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
That may seem like a big announcement to some people. One thing I do know is that it has nothing to do with my ability to lead the state of Maine.
→ read full articleStatement from Edward Snowden
ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The German magazine Der Spiegel published a statement Sunday [3 Nov 2013] from Edward Snowden that it translated from English to German. Snowden has provided the ACLU with the original English text.
→ read full article(Italiano) NSA e caduta dell’Impero USA
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Eppure, essendoci una cerchia interna di élite auto-nominate, c’è anche una cerchia interna di alleati di cui ci si può presumibilmente fidare, i “Cinque Occhi”: Regno Unito, USA, Canada, Australia, Nuova Zelanda; Anglo-America per esteso. Un circolo di paesi selezionati su base razzista-culturalista. Bianchi e anglo, uccisori di popoli indigeni ovunque: gli USA degli indiani nativi, il Canada un po’ meno degli appartenenti ai Popoli Nativi, l’Australia degli aborigeni, la Nuova Zelanda un po’ meno dei Maori, Il Regno Unito dappertutto – facendo sì che gli altri si lanciassero su quel pendio scivoloso del genocidio e del sociocidio.
→ read full article(Castellano) La Magnitud del Desastre: Los Datos del Neoliberalismo
Pedro Salmerón Sanginés – La Jornada,
11 Nov 2013
Martí Batres exhibe el fracaso neoliberal con datos duros: en ninguna esfera de la economía los tecnócratas neoliberales han ofrecido buenos resultados, salvo en el indescriptible, inaudito crecimiento de las fortunas de las familias más ricas y de los altos funcionarios que para ellas gobiernan.
→ read full articleThe 10 Best and Worst Foods to Eat for Sleep
FITNESS Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Ah, sleep. It’s something we relentlessly crave, but we never seem to get enough of it. Aside from the daily stressors in life, there’s one big thing that can keep you from snoozing — your diet. Here, the best and worst foods to eat for sleep.
→ read full articleThis Transatlantic Trade Deal Is a Full-Frontal Assault on Democracy
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
A global ban on left-wing politics: That’s what the new rules being smuggled into trade agreements are delivering. Brussels has kept quiet about a treaty that would let rapacious companies subvert our laws, rights and national sovereignty.
→ read full article(Castellano) Congreso Internacional sobre Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina sin indígenas
Ollantay Itzamná, Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Ni los zapotecos estuvieron presentes en el Instituto Cultural Oaxaca. ¿Por qué? ¿No existen investigadores/académicos indígenas en Latinoamérica? ¿Racismo académico? ¿Vergüenza de investigadores indígenas de autoafirmarse como tales?
→ read full articleIsrael Issues 1,859 Settler Home Tenders ahead of Kerry Visit
Channel NewsAsia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Israel issued tenders to build 1,859 settler homes on Sunday [3 Nov 2013], angering Palestinians ahead of a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry aimed at pushing the peace process forward.
→ read full articleUN Climate Change Summit Kicks Off in Poland
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
World leaders launch new round of talks in Warsaw to pave way for 2015 deal to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. The 12-day United Nations Climate Change Conference began on Monday [11 Nov 2013] in Poland’s capital amid a slew of warnings about a potentially disastrous rise in greenhouse-gas emissions.
→ read full article(Português) Experimentação Animal: Necessidade ou Especismo?
Hugo Chusyd e Katia Sendra Tavares - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
11 Nov 2013
É possível construir uma sociedade e uma medicina que não explora e abusa de outros animais. A história tem nos mostrado incansáveis vezes que sempre encontramos um meio de resolver aquilo que em certo momento parecia impossível.
→ read full article10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy — This Chart Shows How
Chris Miles – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
According to this chart called “The Illusion of Choice,” these corporations create a chain that begins at one of 10 super companies. You’ve heard of the biggest names, but it’s amazing to see what these giants own or influence.
→ read full articleCongress Is Making a Critical Decision
Peter G Cohen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The Pentagon is lobbying the Congress to provide funds for the “Modernization” of the B-61 gravity bombs now stored in Europe. At the same time, many experts and some European nations would like to see the bombs withdrawn from Europe.
→ read full articleInside the Outrageous World of Child Cage Fighting: Tiny Boys Who Are Trained to Attack Each Other in America’s Baby MMA Arenas
James Nye – Daily Mail,
11 Nov 2013
It is estimated that three million boys and girls, some as young as five-year-old launch themselves at each other weekly across the nation engaged in Pankration – some wearing no head protection and throwing punches boasting gloves little more than one-inch thick. Prominent critics of MMA call it ‘human cockfighting.’
→ read full articleThe Bank Guarantee That Bankrupted Ireland
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The Irish have a long history of being tyrannized, exploited, and oppressed. Today, Ireland is under a different sort of tyranny, one imposed by the banks and the troika—the EU, ECB and IMF. The oppressors have demanded austerity and more austerity, forcing the public to pick up the tab for bills incurred by profligate private bankers.
→ read full articleNSA Spying Revelations Exacerbate Australian-Indonesian Tensions
Peter Symonds, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The Indonesian government is threatening to wind back intelligence sharing with Australia and the US after revelations last week, based on leaked documents provided by Edward Snowden, that their embassies in Jakarta were used as electronic listening posts for the US National Security Agency.
→ read full articleIsraelis Plan New Colonies, Oil Drilling, on Palestinian Land During “Peace Talks”
Juan Cole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The current round of so-called peace talks between Israel and Palestine is marked by so much bad faith on the part of the Israelis that only the corruption and perfidy of the Mahmoud Abbas government in the West Bank can explain why the Palestinians should subject themselves to such exploitation and humiliation.
→ read full articleEt Tu, UK? Anger Grows over British Spying in Berlin
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
First it was the US — and now it turns out the UK might have been spying from its embassy in Berlin, too. Officials at Germany’s Foreign Ministry responded Tuesday by inviting Britain’s ambassador for a lecture.
→ read full articleShelter in Europe: Court Orders Asylum for Persecuted Gays
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
An EU court ruled Thursday [7 Nov 2013] that gays and lesbians persecuted in other countries have the right to asylum in Europe, as long as they fulfill certain conditions. The decision came in a case involving three African men seeking safe haven in the Netherlands.
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Rhapsody in Blue (Music Video of the Week)
The 5 Browns – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
5 Pianos – The 5 Browns play Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin.
→ read full articleI Believe There Will Not Be a United Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Our peace process will be only as strong and safe as long as we all, particularly our political leaders, refuse to play politics with our volatile emotions, and use rhetoric that can move others to kill, and as long as we together continue to build a nonviolent truly democratic Northern Irish society for every one of us and our children.
→ read full articleCoalition Endorses Recommendations of New Report on Health Professional Involvement in Torture, Calls for APA Action
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The Coalition for an Ethical Psychology applauds the release yesterday [4 Nov 2013] of an important new report titled “Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror,” funded by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) and the Open Society Foundations.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Nuclear Ambiguity Prodded
Pierre Klochendler, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
As Palestinian-Israeli peace talks and nuclear talks on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme continue, a unique international conference, “A Middle East without Weapons of Mass Destruction”, was held in Jerusalem. “The nuclear issue is Israel’s last taboo.”
→ read full articleU.S., Israel Lose Voting Rights at UNESCO over Palestine Row
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
UNESCO has suspended the voting rights of the United States and Israel, two years after both countries stopped paying dues to the U.N.’s cultural arm in protest over its granting full membership to the Palestinians.
→ read full articleNo Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A.
Scott Shane – The New York Times,
11 Nov 2013
From thousands of classified documents, the National Security Agency emerges as an electronic omnivore of staggering capabilities, eavesdropping and hacking its way around the world to strip governments and other targets of their secrets, all the while enforcing the utmost secrecy about its own operations. It spies routinely on friends as well as foes, as has become obvious in recent weeks.
→ read full articleLGBT Americans Need Congressional Protection
US Pres. Barack Obama - Reader Supported News,
11 Nov 2013
Millions of LGBT Americans go to work every day fearing that, without any warning, they could lose their jobs — not because of anything they’ve done, but simply because of who they are. It’s offensive. It’s wrong. And it needs to stop, because in the United States of America, who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
→ read full articleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA): When Foreign Investors Sue the State
Martin Khor, Third World Economics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The investor-state dispute system, whereby foreign investors can sue the host-country government in an international tribunal, is one of the issues being negotiated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
→ read full articleThe Saudis Are Mad? Tough!
Fareed Zakaria – Time Magazine,
11 Nov 2013
Over the past four decades, the kingdom’s immense oil wealth has been used to underwrite the export of an extreme, intolerant and violent version of Islam preached by its Wahhabi clerics. Go anywhere in the world–from Germany to Indonesia–and you’ll find Islamic centers flush with Saudi money, spouting intolerance and hate. Saudi Arabia was one of only three countries in the world to recognize and support the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan until the 9/11 attacks.
→ read full articleArt and the Building of Peace
George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Meanings are not inherent in things, but are socially negotiated. Like the meaning of a work of art, the meaning of a conflict is not inherent in it. Its meaning depends on what the observers bring to it… The joint exercise of imagination by parties to conflict is the exercise of the art of peacefulness.
→ read full articleHedge Fund Giant Led by Jewish Billionaire to Pay Biggest Penalty in History
Larry Neumeister and Marcy Gordon – The Times of Israel,
11 Nov 2013
Pending deal would see company headed by Steven A. Cohen pay out $1.8 billion for insider trading, cease operating as investment adviser.
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