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(Português) Ciclo de governos à esquerda continua em toda a América Latina, diz professor
Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
A América Latina passou por diversos processos eleitorais em 2014. Além do Brasil; Bolívia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá e Colômbia escolheram seus novos mandatários [de esquerda], faltando apenas o Uruguai, que deve realizar seu segundo turno ainda neste mês.
→ read full articleUS Police Visit Israel to Learn New Strategies
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Chicago officers attend the third Homeland Security Conference in Tel Aviv to learn on cyber-crime and counterterrorism from one of the most questioned police corps in the world.
→ read full articleWall Street Banks and Commodities Fraud
Joseph Kishore, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
On Wednesday [19 Nov 2014], the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a detailed report documenting yet another aspect of the insider dealing, price-fixing and general criminality that pervades the American financial system.
→ read full articleJohn Kerry Conducted a Theatre of the Absurd in Amman
Mazin Qumsiyeh – Middle East Eye,
24 Nov 2014
No one takes US ‘peace plan’ efforts seriously anymore – Amman meetings were proof of that. US Secretary John Kerry met in Amman with King Abdullah, PM Netanyahu, and PA leader Mahmoud Abbas for the umpteenth episode of the ongoing theatre saga dubbed the “peace process.”
→ read full articleUS and Europe Conceal Their Bankruptcy with Hostility to Russia
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
24 Nov 2014
18 Nov 2014 – US President Obama was joined by European leaders last weekend in trying to turn the G20 summit in Australia into a forum for baiting Russia, rather than dealing with the more onerous problem of a failing world economy.
→ read full articleDramatic Correlation Shown Between GMOs and 22 Diseases
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers – Popular Resistance,
24 Nov 2014
As Use of GMO’s Crops Glyphosate Rise So Do Critical Diseases
→ read full articleTanzania Accused of Backtracking over Sale of Masai’s Ancestral Land
David Smith, Africa correspondent – The Guardian,
24 Nov 2014
Masai told to leave historic homeland by end of the year so it can become a private hunting reserve for the Dubai royal family.
→ read full articleBurma: Tears That Tell Tales
Khaingmar Kyawzaw – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
In a hut used as a hiding spot
Sat a little boy
Who was crying silently
With tears rolling down his cheeks.
Surprised?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
A little boy got lost at the gym and found himself in the women’s locker room.
→ read full articleBehind The Barbarism: Misreading Online Militant Magazines
Rafia Zakaria – Al Jazeera America,
24 Nov 2014
In focusing narrowly on ISIL’s barbarities, the media are missing crucial insights on the group’s evolution. The proliferating militant magazines offer rare glimpses into the ascent of militancy, their appeal to Western youth and shifting political realities in the Muslim world.
→ read full articleUS, Canada, and Ukraine Reject Russia’s UN Anti-Nazi Proposal
Josh Paniagua – Mass Report,
24 Nov 2014
22 Nov 2014 – A Russian proposal condemning all glorification of Nazi ideology and denial of Nazi war crimes was passed by the UN General Assembly. Of the 173 countries voting, 115 said yes and 55 abstained. The only three countries to vote against: United States, Canada, and Ukraine.
→ read full article(Português) Se Conhecêssemos os Sonhos do Homem Branco
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
A crise econômico-financeira que está afligindo grande parte das econonomias mundiais criou a possibilidade de os muito ricos ficarem tão ricos como jamais na história do capitalismo, logicamente à custa da desgraça de países inteiros como a Grécia, a Espanha, Portugal e outros e de modo geral toda a zona do Euro, talvez com uma pequena exceção, da Alemanha.
→ read full articleFrench Government Will Not Sign TTIP Agreement in 2015
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
France will not support the inclusion of the Investor State Dispute Settlement mechanism in a potential TTIP agreement. The ISDS is a point of heated debate between the EU and the United States.
→ read full articleWhere Has All Ukraine’s Gold Gone?
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
20 Nov 2014 – Ukraine’s Central Bank chief has divulged some shocking intel: its gold stockpile has reached a new nadir – almost zero. Since the beginning of the year, gold reserves have dropped nearly 16-fold, which begs the question, where did all of it go?
→ read full articleSon of Stuxnet: The Digital Hunt for Duqu, a Dangerous and Cunning U.S.-Israeli Spy Virus
Kim Zetter – The Intercept,
18 Nov 2014
It was clear to them immediately that Duqu was the work of master programmers.
→ read full article(Italiano) La cristianità fra l’attività bancaria ebraica e quella islamica
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
Il capitalismo ha due contraddizioni fondamentali: la classe, capitale vs lavoro, con una diseguaglianza crescente; la finanza vs l’economia reale, con crescente dominanza dell’economia finanziaria. Le alternative? Cooperative che condividano benefici e rischi, non aziende per azioni con compratori di manodopera e venditori di manodopera che (si) procurino “posti di lavoro”. E criminalizzazione dei rapporti puramente monetari, guidata dal sistema bancario islamico.
→ read full articleWhat Happened to the Humanitarians Who Wanted to Save Libyans With Bombs and Drones?
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
18 Nov 2014
Just three years after NATO’s military intervention in Libya ended and was widely heralded by its proponents as a resounding success, that country is in complete collapse.
→ read full articleWine, Blood and Gasoline
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
Kafr Kanna, a village near Nazareth, is probably the place where Jesus – according to the New Testament – turned water into wine. Now it is the Arab village where the Israeli police is turning stones into blood.
→ read full articleThe Siege of Julian Assange Is a Farce – A Special Investigation
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
John Pilger investigates the rise of WikiLeaks and the Kafkaesque saga that has enveloped its founder, Julian Assange, since he blew the whistle on the dangers and lies of great power and its courtiers.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Multiplication of Western Walls
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
While NATO regimes celebrate the ‘Fall of the Berlin Wall’ as the highest expression of freedom, these same political leaders support, finance and promote Israel’s Separation Wall dividing and caging millions of Palestinians.
→ read full articleGoodbye G8, Hello BRICS. Out with the Old, In with the New
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Nov 2014
From one side, a tired, imperialist and arrogant top-down, holier-than-thou approach with political strings attached; on the other, genuine friendship, cooperation, development, the desire for sincere cultural and economic ties. From the former, deployment and military bases; from the latter, development and education.
→ read full articleArt in a Time of Surveillance
Peter Maass – The Intercept,
18 Nov 2014
Art Prof. Hasan Elahi has taken about 70,000 pictures of the buildings he’s visited, the beds he’s slept in, the food he’s eaten, the toilets he’s used, the roads he’s travelled on. “By disclosing mundane details about my daily life, I am simultaneously telling everything and nothing about my life,” he writes. “I am flooding the market with banal information, and questioning its inherent meaning and value for intelligence purposes.”
→ read full articleSenator Who Put Pentagon Papers into Public Record Urges Udall to Do Same with Torture Report
Dan Froomkin – The Intercept,
18 Nov 2014
Mike Gravel is urging Sen. Mark Udall to read the CIA torture report into the Congressional Record.
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La Gitana (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Tasmin Little – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Tasmin Little (violin) and John Lenehan (piano) play La Gitana by Fritz Kreisler
→ read full article(Português) Amigo – Palavra Séria
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Há amigos de Facebook, amigos sociais, amigos afetivos e amigos profundos. Com os sociais você vai a eventos, enturma para alguma coisa de interesse comum, mas não desabafa nem oferece o ombro, como no caso dos afetivos – categoria mais densa, mais próxima. Amigo profundo é o raro “amigo-irmão”, confidente, diante de quem não temos medo nem vergonha. Sabe ser presença, escutar, falar, calar.
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Dr. Mads Gilbert Speaks Out on Gaza, Israeli Occupation
Truls Lie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
What can now be said about the massive Israeli attacks on Gaza summer 2014? The Norwegian medical doctor Mads Gilbert was there at Al-Shifa hospital. Warning: The film contains graphic images.
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Planet Earth Is You
Carlos Chavira – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
This video was created to raise your awareness on the conservation of our planet. Don’t let your INDIFFERENCE take over you. There’s still time.
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Arundhati Roy: Debunking the Gandhi Myth – Glenn Greenwald: The Intercept
The Laura Flanders Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Author/activist Arundhati Roy on the Annihilation of Caste, B.R. Ambedkar and the Western myth of Mahatma Gandhi.
Glenn Greenwald addresses diversity concerns about his new media venture TheIntercept.com.
Betting on Famine: Why the World Still Goes Hungry
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Ziegler also stresses relatively new dangers to a just world food system. In many developing countries, the urban elite have been buying farm land as an investment, not necessarily to increase agricultural production with improved techniques, but to resell later when prices go up.
→ read full articlePeaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
Christoph Vogel, African Arguments – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Peaceland helps us understand the culture(s) of expatriates and the respectively uneasy relationship between the foreign interveners and the local population. While it does not bring up a new grand theory to analyse external intervention in a larger sense, it is certainly by far the best ‘thick description’ of the expatriate world.
→ read full articleIsrael Refuses to Cooperate with UN Gaza Probe
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
An Israeli spokesperson Wednesay [12 Nov 2014] declared that Israel will not participate in the U.N. inquiry into its 50-day attack on Gaza last summer. Netanyahu refused to allow the investigative team to cross Israeli borders. It had arrived in Amman, Jordan and was originally planning to travel through Israel to reach the Gaza Strip.
→ read full articleSodaStream to Close Illegal Settlement Factory in Response to Growing Boycott Campaign
Palestinian BDS National Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
– SodaStream to benefit from Israel’s displacement of Palestinians in Naqab
– Retailers and investors dropped SodaStream over BDS pressure
Two Interviews [of mine] on Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
14 Nov 2014 – Two recent interviews seek to assess the Palestinian national movement as it is unfolding at this critical time.
→ read full articleIsrael Bans Norwegian Doctor Mads Gilbert from Gaza
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
A Norwegian doctor has been permanently banned from entering the Gaza Strip by the Israeli government. Dr Mads Gilbert says he was stopped trying to cross into Gaza in October. He called the move “totally unacceptable”. Israel cited security reasons for imposing the ban.
→ read full article(Português) Os 5 Muros Que Ainda Dividem Populações no Mundo
Felipe Amorim, Opera Mundi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Israel, EUA, Coreia, Grécia e Ceuta: 25 anos após queda do Muro de Berlim, episódio que simbolizou diminuição de fronteiras, barreiras físicas ainda existem em diversos continentes. Conheça cinco muros que ainda estão de pé.
→ read full articleThe Psychology of Victimhood: Obama, Cameron, Netanyahu, Clinton, Kissinger
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
All children are victims of chronic violence and while a rare individual survives this violence, most acquire a victim status that leaves them psychologically crippled for life, doing a lifetime of soul-destroying work that is far removed from any pursuit that might be described as ‘Self-realizing’.
→ read full articleCorrespondences between Traditional Constellations and Pattern Languages
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Requisite Simplexity for Sustainable Comprehension of Complexity – It is assumed here that people derive more personal meaning and sense of identity from reference to their astrological sign than from any complex pattern of explanation formulated by qualified authority. The appeal of such symbols might be due to the perception that they have “more soul”.
→ read full articleCarnegie/Nobel – Stipend/Prize – US$ 1 500!
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Why the similarities? Were Carnegie and Nobel ever in contact? Why is the connection so interesting – and consequential? The best reply to these questions will receive from me a stipend of US$ 1 500.
→ read full articleBurma: What Obama Should Tell Thein Sein
Maung Zarni – Asia Times,
17 Nov 2014
The country’s various oppressed constituencies are intensely resentful of both meek, mild and ineffectual UN officials and China’s narrow interests and slanted policies in favor of their common oppressor in Naypyidaw. They still hold out hope that the US’s involvement and pressure on the country’s current military leaders will eventually bring genuine democratic reforms and an end to decades of internal conflict.
→ read full articleMainstream Media Silences Debate on US New Wars
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
New analysis finds little opposition in mainstream media to latest US military attacks on Middle East nations. In total, 205 sources appeared on the programs discussing military options in Syria and Iraq. Just six of these guests, or 3 percent, voiced opposition to US military intervention. There were 125 guests (61 percent) who spoke in favor of US war.
→ read full articleWhat Really Happened in Beijing: Putin, Obama, Xi — And the Back Story the Media Won’t Tell You
Patrick L. Smith – Salon,
17 Nov 2014
Ukraine, Iran’s nukes, the price of oil: There are ties worthy of a Bourne film, if the media connected the dots.
→ read full articleWar Making and Class Conflict
Joseph T. Salerno - Ludwig von Mises Institute,
17 Nov 2014
The ruling elites who control and benefit from the state recognize the utmost importance of concealing its oligarchic and exploitative nature from the masses.
→ read full articleISIS Is America’s Dream Rebel Army
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
US policy paper reveals desire for construction of full-scale extraterritorial army to invade Syria. Such an army is being built in Iraq and Turkey and it’s called “ISIS.”
→ read full articleHollywood Takes on Corporate Giants over Bhopal Gas Disaster
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Hollywood movie star Martin Sheen will join Amnesty International’s battle to finally hold Union Carbide accountable for what is widely considered to be one of the world’s worst industrial disasters as he launches his latest film in Los Angeles on Friday [7 Nov 2014].
→ read full articleMerkel Rules Out Further Sanctions on Russia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
The German official nonetheless plans to extend travel bans to newly elected Ukraine officials.
→ read full articleEU Democratic Deficit: It’s Time to Put Juncker on the Hot Seat
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Can the European Commission be led by a man who transformed his own country into a tax oasis? The debate is long overdue and Jean-Claude Juncker can no longer afford to shirk the question.
→ read full articleLooking Back on WW-I One Hundred Years Later: Four Mixed Messages
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Dorothy Brown Memorial Lecture, Auckland, New Zealand, November 8, 2014
→ read full articleRussia to Launch Alternative to SWIFT Bank Transaction System in Spring 2015
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Russia intends to have its own international inter-bank system up and running by May 2015. The Central of Russia says it needs to speed up preparations for its version of SWIFT in case of possible ”challenges” from the West.
→ read full articleUN Secretary-General Calls for Greater Rohingya Rights Protections
Sean Gleeson & Kyaw Hsu Mon – The Irrawaddy,
17 Nov 2014
“I encouraged Myanmar leaders to uphold human rights, take a strong stance against incitement, and ensure humanitarian access to Rohingya living in vulnerable conditions,” he said. Ban says he will reiterate this message when he meets with President Thein Sein Thursday [13 Nov 2014] morning.
→ read full articleRight!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
A beggar walked up to a well‑dressed heavy woman shopping on Fifth Avenue in New York and said,
→ read full articleFalluja Corpse
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
I will lie here,
buried below Falluja
for a long time.
Being dead,
I am in no hurry.
Myanmar [Burma]: Rohingya Not Welcome
Ivan Watson and Tim Schwarz - CNN,
17 Nov 2014
“There couldn’t be a clearer case of ethnic cleansing,” said Matthew Smith, executive director of Fortify Rights, a human rights group that has extensively researched the crisis in Rakhine state. “The authorities and local Buddhist populations are trying to change the ethnic demographics of the state through terror-inspiring means, and in some cases violence.”
→ read full articleSvoboda Nazi Apologist Quits Party to Become Head of Security Service Propaganda
Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
One of the most notorious Ukrainian members of parliament for the far-right party ‘Svoboda,’ Yuri Michalchyshyn, quits the party so that he can become head of the propaganda and analysis of the Ukraine Security Service, SBU. Mikhalchyshyn is an open nazi apologist holding an honorary medal of the SS Division Galychna.
→ read full articleEight Dangerous Warning Signs of Genocide in Burma-Myanmar [Infographic]
Rachel Monteagudo, United to End Genocide – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Hundreds have been killed, tens of thousands have fled under the most hazardous conditions, and 140,000 have been forced into horrible, overcrowded camps where they face severe restrictions and are denied basic necessities, including medical care. Many experts are warning of genocide. Here’s why:
→ read full articleMigratory Birds, Fish and Mammals Get New UN Protection
Agence France Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
10 Nov 2014 – Polar bears, whales, sharks and gazelles were among 31 new species granted new protection status by the UN conservation body, following six days of “intense” talks by leading conservationists. A record 21 species of shark, ray and sawfish were added to the list.
→ read full articleBurkina Faso: The (In)Significant Coup
Ian Ralby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
While it looks as though the political transition is being handled peacefully, concerns remain that the country could descend into violent conflict. It is important, then, to ask what effect such instability could have on neighboring states, particularly Mali and Côte d’Ivoire, and the region at large. The answer, however, is probably “none.”
→ read full articleChina’s Silky Road to Glory
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
17 Nov 2014
APEC once again has shown that the more geopolitics change, the more it won’t stay the same; as the exceptional dogs of war, inequality and divide and rule keep barking, the China-Russia pan-Eurasian caravan will keep going, going, going – further on down the (multipolar) road.
→ read full articleDog Fighting Organizer and Co-Conspirators Sentenced to Prison
Andrew Emett – Nation of Change,
17 Nov 2014
The FBI along with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Humane Society had raided a dog fighting ring in Alabama. Organizer and co-conspirators were charged with animal cruelty and conspiracy.
→ read full articleClass Interests as Economic Theory
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh – CounterPunch,
17 Nov 2014
Mainstream/neoclassical economists failed miserably to either predict the 2008 financial implosion, or provide a reasonable explanation when it actually arrived. Neoclassical economics has created more confusion than clarification, more obfuscation than elucidation. Economic “science” has, indeed, become “an ideological construct which serves to camouflage and justify the New World Order”
→ read full articleIllegal Killing of Elephants for Their Ivory Is Now at “Critically High Levels” in Africa
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
The illegal killing of elephants for their ivory is now at “critically high levels” in Africa with increased involvement by organized crime groups, leading to their possible extinction in parts of the continent, the UN Office for Drugs and Crime said.
→ read full articleA Minor Footnote to Australia’s Shameless Persecution of Asylum Seekers
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
17 Nov 2014
When it comes to Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers, I think it is impossible to overstate the sadism of government policy. From the savagery of the conditions in offshore processing, to the cruelty of onshore indefinite mandatory detention, we destroy people.
→ read full articleSome Very Initial Thoughts on the US-China Deal
Naomi Klein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
The fact that both governments felt the need to make this pledge speaks to the growing power of social movements in China and the US demanding pollutions controls.
→ read full articleThe Ebola Virus and the Islamic State
Jude Fernando – Colombo Telegraph,
17 Nov 2014
The scarcity of resources for managing the Ebola crisis is a not a natural problem, but a systemic and manufactured one, upon which rests profits of the bio-medical industrial complex. The same is true of IS as its surge didn’t come about “naturally,” but it is closely tied with the military industrial complex and geopolitical interests.
→ read full articleA Global House Of Cards
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
As most Americans, if not the financial media, are aware, Quantitative Easing (a euphemism for printing money) has failed to bring back the US economy. The extent of financial corruption involving collusion between the mega-banks and the financial authorities is unfathomable. The Western financial system is a house of cards resting on corruption.
→ read full article(Português) Assim se constrói o Estado Global de Vigilância–e como sabotá-lo
Tom Englehardt entrevista Laura Poitras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Diretora de “Citizenfour”, o documentário sobre denúncias de Edward Snowden, alerta: controle social e esvaziamento da democracia ampliaram-se, após revelações. Esperança é consciência.
→ read full article(Italiano) Aosta. Quarant’anni sempre per la verità. Memorie e attualità della strage di Piazza Loggia (28 maggio 1974-28 maggio 2014)
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Il progetto culturale “Collettivamente memoria” è dedicato ai deportati politici Ida Désandré e Italo Tibaldi e alla partigiana Anna Dati oltre che a tutte le donne e uomini Resistenti, intende riaffermare i valori democratici di un vivere collettivo antifascista che era alla base della manifestazione di piazza Loggia del 28 maggio 1974.
→ read full article(Français) LuxLeaks : L’évasion fiscale, un sport national pour les géants américains
Anne Michel - Le Monde,
10 Nov 2014
Luxembourg, Pays-Bas: Profitant d’une législation fiscale souple aux Etats-Unis, et poussées par des actionnaires avides de rentabilité, elles franchissent l’Atlantique, pour dissimuler une partie de leurs juteux profits, réalisés hors des Etats-Unis, dans ce paradis fiscal pour grandes entreprises.
→ read full articleCyberPeace Demands from Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility
Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility-FifF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Political Measures Demanded by FIfF:
1) Renouncement of first strikes and offensive acts in cyberspace: States should publicly abandon the preventive use of cyber weapons to attack.
Myanmar Policy’s Message to Muslims: Get Out
Jane Perlez – The New York Times,
10 Nov 2014
The Myanmar government has given the one million Rohingya people a dispiriting choice: Prove your family has lived here for more than 60 years and qualify for second-class citizenship, or be placed in camps and face deportation.
→ read full articleBurma [Myanmar] Genocide: Case of Burmese Rohingyas Presented at Harvard
Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Burma’s Rohingya people are being slowly squeezed from their homeland by decades-long government policies that critics say deny them citizenship, health care, work, and schooling, with such tactics punctuated by killings, destroyed homes, and tens of thousands sent to camps.
→ read full articleWestern Nuclear Terrorism
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
The use of nuclear coercion by the US and its allies has long roots, going right back to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
→ read full article“Death to Iran” Over Airline Passenger Safety
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
OFAC Jeopardizes Air Traffic Safety While Congress Prepares Sanctions Coup de Grâce on Iran
→ read full articleJournalism and Reality
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Nov 2014
So, when I discovered the Contras engaging in a variety of criminal activity, from extrajudicial killings, rapes, torture and drug trafficking, my reporting was unwelcome both inside and outside the AP (and later I encountered the same hostility at Newsweek). The usual response was to challenge my journalism and to pretend that the ugly reality wasn’t the reality.
→ read full articleThe Military-Industrial Complex Blasts Its Way into the Civilian Market
Jim Hightower – Nation of Change,
10 Nov 2014
This push into combat gear and the militant mentality that accompanies it is now on the hips and the minds of hundreds of thousands of police officers. How do we protect ourselves from such militarization?
→ read full articleThe Day LBJ Ordered Cover-Up of Israeli Attack on US Ship
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Having seriously damaged the ship and killed 34 of its crew, the Israelis said it was an accident. President Johnson accepted what he knew was not true, thus ditching the surviving crew in favour of keeping the USSR out of the conflict and of maintaining US support for Israel.
→ read full articleChristianity between Jewish and Islamic Banking
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Capitalism has two major contradictions: class, capital vs labor, with increasing inequality; finance vs real economy, with increasing finance economy dominance. The alternatives? Cooperatives sharing benefits and risks, not companies with labor-buyers and labor-sellers getting “jobs”. And criminalization of purely monetary relations, guided by Islamic banking.
→ read full articleICC: Israel Committed ‘War Crimes’ but It’s Not Our Problem
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
According to court papers seen by Reuters on Wednesday [5 Nov 2014] and to lawyers, the court’s decision confirms that Israel has a ‘special status’ in regards to international law.
→ read full articleTransatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership-TTIP: A Gunpowder Plot against Democracy
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
This bill of rights for corporations will blow up the sovereignty of parliaments. So outrageous is this arrangement that even the Economist, usually the champion of corporate power and trade treaties, has now come out against calling its investor-state dispute settlement “a way to let multinational companies get rich at the expense of ordinary people”.
→ read full articleTime to Take the Russia-China Axis Seriously
Ankit Panda – The Diplomat,
10 Nov 2014
Under Putin and Xi, China and Russia have come together organically as both countries’ ideological directions and geopolitical impulses have converged. While the two aren’t formal allies (and won’t be anytime soon), their potential combined impact on international relations in Asia and the world at large should not be understated.
→ read full articleWhy Obama’s Courtship of Myanmar Backfired
Josh Kurlantzick - Bloomberg,
10 Nov 2014
On Nov. 11, 2014 President Obama will travel to Myanmar for the ninth East Asia Summit, a meeting of leaders from across the Pacific Rim. It will be the president’s second trip to a country that, for decades, was seen as a pariah in Washington, run by a brutal and xenophobic military regime that gunned down protestors in the streets and jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
→ read full articleUN Report Condemns US Government’s “International Criminal Program of Torture”
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
The report, prepared by the “Advocates for US Torture Prosecutions” and The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, states unequivocally that entire sections of the state apparatus are responsible for “breathtaking” crimes against international law.
→ read full article(Português) O Funil da Desigualdade
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi, OpinionSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
A desigualdade de poder (econômico, político, midiático, judicial, repressivo) opera como um tipo de funil que, sem descanso, extrai e concentra riqueza e renda nas mãos de uma ínfima fração da população mundial. Vale revisar como e porquê se gera o funil da desigualdade e a diversidade de medidas que existem para desarmá-lo.
→ read full articlePeace as a Human Right
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
In the beginning was the word. OK. This is the beginning, and these are the words, but they haven’t arrived yet — at least not officially, with full force of meaning. It’s our job, not God’s, to create the new story of who we are, and millions — billions — of people fervently wish we could do so. The problem is that the worst of our nature is better organized than the best of it.
→ read full articleAvoiding Western Networks
Ramesh Thakur – The Japan Times,
10 Nov 2014
How should the institutions of global economic governance reflect the changed balance of economic power? Given toxic Washington politics, can any U.S. administration recalibrate policies to the new geopolitical realities?
→ read full article[Obscene] US Sends ‘Lessons Learned’ Team to Model Israel Tactics in Gaza Operation
Michael Wilner – The Jerusalem Post,
10 Nov 2014
The United States sent a team of senior officers to Israel to learn from tactics in Operation Protective Edge in Gaza last Summer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey said on Thursday [6 Nov 2014]. He praised the Israel Defense Forces for taking “extraordinary lengths to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties” in its war against Hamas.
→ read full articleCreditors Use New Devices to Put Squeeze on Debtors
Jathan Sadowski & Frank A. Pasquale – Al Jazeera America,
10 Nov 2014
Technologies of control promise dystopian future if public doesn’t fight back. The device allows lenders to track and monitor the location of the vehicle — both in real time and over time — and provides them with the ability to remotely shut off vehicles if, say, the borrower falls behind on payments (sometimes by just a few days) or drives outside an approved area.
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Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Israelis, like Americans, are practical people. They don’t appreciate the power of ideas. They think like Stalin who, when warned of the Pope, asked: “How many divisions does he have?” It is ideas that change the world. Like those of the legendary Moses. Of Jesus of Nazareth. Of Muhammad. Of Karl Marx.
→ read full articleThe $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase’s Worst Nightmare
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
10 Nov 2014
Fleischmann is the central witness in one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history, possessing secrets that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon paid $9 billion to keep the public from hearing. That’s why the more important part of Fleischmann’s story is in the pains Chase and the Justice Department took to silence her.
→ read full articleLooking for a Leader in the Caribbean to End Discrimination against Homosexuals
Robin Guittard, CPNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Trinidad and Tobago’s laws prohibit entry of “homosexuals” into the country and consensual same-sex relationships can be punished with prison sentences of up to 25 years… Positive change on the island could reverberate across the region.
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Stephen J. Sniegoski – Consortium News,
10 Nov 2014
Has anyone seen a hint that our vital regional ally could be of any assistance at all in the supposedly civilizational battle against ISIS? This is quite in contrast to the complaints about other Middle East countries such as Turkey that are being harshly criticized for their failure to become actively involved in fighting the Islamic State.
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Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict: Johan Galtung
University of California Television (UCTV) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
A noted pioneer in the field of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung makes the case for incorporating human rights as key to successful peace building around the world. University of San Diego.
→ read full articleAs Germany Marks Fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev Warns of New Cold War
Philip Oltermann – The Observer,
10 Nov 2014
9 Nov 2014 – Ex-Soviet leader backs Putin over Ukraine as Germany celebrates the 25th anniversary of a seminal moment in European history.
→ read full articleGermany’s New Right: The Unholy Alliance of Neo-Nazis and Football Hooligans
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
The riots in Cologne at the end of October [2014] show there is a new danger on Germany’s extremist right. Neo-Nazis and football hooligans have teamed up to go after Islamist Salafists. Many are wondering why officials didn’t recognize the development sooner.
→ read full articleMark Udall’s Loss Is a Blow for Privacy, but He Can Go Out With a Bang: ‘Leak’ the CIA Torture Report
Trevor Timm – The Guardian,
10 Nov 2014
The outgoing Senator and champion of civil liberties has one last chance to read the truth about American atrocities out loud, for the world to see – before it’s too late.
→ read full articleHarper’s Plan Means Canada Will Be Associated With War Crimes Instead of Peacekeeping
Mark Taliano – Huffington Post,
10 Nov 2014
Author, poet, academic, and former Canadian diplomat Prof. Peter Dale Scott recently disclosed a WikiLeaks cable indicating that the International Republican Institute, an off-shoot of the CIA, and a subsidiary of the National Endowment for Democracy helped install Stephen Harper as Canada’s Prime Minister. This was the coup.
→ read full articleA Brief History of US-Israel Relations
Amb. Andrew I. Killgore - CounterPunch,
10 Nov 2014
How Zionists Outmaneuvered and Replaced State Department Experts
→ read full articleLuxembourg Tax Files: How Tiny State Rubber-Stamped Tax Avoidance on an Industrial Scale
Simon Bowers – The Guardian,
10 Nov 2014
Leaked documents show that one of the EU’s smallest states helped multinationals save millions in tax, to the detriment of its neighbours and allies.
•What do you want to know about Luxembourg’s tax secrets?
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Not Education for Peace, Not Peace for Education, but Education As Peace
Walid Lotfy and Gal Kleinman – TRANSCENSD Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Education as a gown for peace would enable us to comprehend the dynamic and uncertain world. Deconstructing the normative understandings of peace is another quest to address peace not as a fixed concept throughout history, but rather as an interactive notion.
→ read full articleCuba Is a Medical Superpower
Elio Delgado Legón - Havana Times,
10 Nov 2014
David Nabarro, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General, declared: “When deployment is complete (…) you will have sent 255 frontline workers to West Africa. This is more than those sent by Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross, the United States, United Kingdom or China (…)” Nabarro said that the sending of thousands of specialists to more than 39 countries in Africa and other nations in recent years demonstrates Cuba’s solidarity. I would add: it also demonstrates that Cuba is, without a doubt, a medical superpower.
→ read full articleForeword to “$$$$$$s in Their Hearts”, the New Book by Alberto Portugheis
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
[TRANSCEND member] Portugheis argues for a total change of organisational and individual perception, stressing that even most of the human rights organisations (such as Amnesty International, Human Rights groups, anti-war campaigners, including political leaders) do not speak of a weapon-free world. His motto of Enlightenment is to launch a campaign to educate and to promote a world free of militarism, thus free of war.
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