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Relativity
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Albert Einstein asked the conductor,
→ read full articleCuba, the Empire and Ebola
Prof. Tim Anderson - Global Research,
10 Nov 2014
3 Nov 2014 – In early October, as a first group of 165 Cuban doctors arrived in Sierra Leone, the Wall Street Journal recognised that Cuba was ‘at the forefront’ of the battle against Ebola in Africa. This was unusual North American praise for Cuba. The imperial approach has been to present a militarised and self-referential response to Ebola, as a security threat to ‘Americans’.
→ read full articleScotland Produced Enough Wind Energy to Power Every Home in October [2014]
Ari Phillips, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
10 Nov 2014
“While nuclear power plants were being forced to shut because of cracks, Scotland’s wind and sunshine were quietly and cleanly helping to keep the lights on in homes across the country.”
→ read full articleUS Military’s ‘Defense Clandestine Service’ to Deploy Hundreds of International Spies
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
The recently formed Defense Clandestine Service, the elite in-house spying operation of the US Department of Defense, is training a large force of new CIA-trained intelligence agents. Overseen by an agency widely understood to be targeting the Chinese military, it represents another stride in the direction of world war.
→ read full articlePutin to Western Elites: Play-Time Is Over
Dmitry Orlov – Oriental Review,
10 Nov 2014
Regardless of what you think or don’t think of Putin this is probably the most important political speech since Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech of March 5, 1946.
→ read full articleConflict as an Opportunity: Transforming Myanmar’s Inter-Communal Conflicts
Khin Su Wai – Myanmar Times,
10 Nov 2014
Most fundamentally, senior religious leaders on both sides must come face to face to openly discuss the historical roots of their unprocessed fears about the other side’s threatening presence, and encourage their community members to do the same at the grassroots level.
→ read full articleDiscovering Iran
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
As Khalil Gibran rightly observed: “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” With every wrong policy, America adds to the scars, strengthens the character and spirit of this unbreakable nation. This is what Washington is not able to grasp.
→ read full articleBreaking the Rules: Working for the UN can be fun. And it can also do some good provided one is ready to lie, fib, obfuscate and break all the rules
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Alexander Casella has written a lively account of his years first as a journalist for the Journal de Genève covering events in Vietnam and China and then as a staff member of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
→ read full articleGorbachev, the Man Who Changed the World
Federico Mayor Zaragoza – Other News,
10 Nov 2014
Twenty-five years ago the initial dismantling commenced at the Berlin Wall. And with its fall the immense Soviet empire was transformed practically overnight into a Commonwealth of Independent States… And all of this was accomplished without shedding even one drop of blood, thanks to Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the “magician of the unexpected”.
→ read full articleThe 2000th Death
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Although George died as victim of a bomb
let’s greet his death with patriots’ aplomb.
There’s nothing in his death that’s grim or stark,
for he is just an artificial mark
William James on Choosing Purpose Over Profit and the Life-Changing Power of a Great Mentor
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
“After all, the great problem of life seems to be how to keep body and soul together.” Life spoke to him in even more ways than to most men, and he responded to its superabundant confusion with passion and insatiable curiosity. His spiritual development was a matter of intense personal experience.
→ read full articleWhen Is a Corporate Media Group Too Powerful?
Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Last June GFR Media, Puerto Rico’s largest media company, gave a five-million-dollar grant to the Communications School of Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, one of the country’s leading private universities. Upon receiving the grant, the university changed the school’s name to Ferré Rangel School of Communication, after the Ferré-Rangel family, which owns GFR Media.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cristianesimo vs Islam: controciclicità?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
PROGNOSI I: conversione massiccia all’islam; meno dogma, più azione.
PROGNOSI II: il sistema bancario islamico ispirerà l’economia occidentale.
PROGNOSI III: il cristianesimo si volge all’amore di Gesù-Maria, l’islam segue.
New European Commission Marred by Corporate Conflicts of Interest
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Jean-Claude Juncker was elected as European Commission president after eight years as prime minister of Luxembourg, where he helped transform the country into the largest tax haven on the continent. “He has dedicated his career to ensuring that society becomes less fair; that wealthy institutions and individuals can avoid the taxes little people and small businesses must pay,”
→ read full articleLawsuit Spotlights U.S. Charities That Fund Israel’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Program
PR Newswire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Oct. 28, 2014 – Lawsuit seeks release of a government report about how American branches of Israeli charitable and educational institutes fund secret nuclear weapons research and development programs.
→ read full articleAsia for the Asians
Gilbert Rozman – Foreign Affairs,
10 Nov 2014
Why Chinese-Russian Friendship Is Here To Stay
→ read full articleFlorida: Police Arrest 90-Year-Old and Two Pastors for Feeding Homeless People
Andrew Emett – Nation of Change,
10 Nov 2014
9 Nov 2014 – In an act of compassion and civil disobedience, a 90-year-old man and two pastors in Fort Lauderdale openly defied a new city ordinance barring anyone from feeding homeless people in public. “One of the police officers said, ‘Drop that plate right now,’ as if I were carrying a weapon,” recalled Abbott. “It’s man’s inhumanity to man is all it is.”
→ read full articleIsraeli Ministers Pass Bill Jailing Stone Throwers for 20 Years
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
If Israeli courts can prove that someone threw a stone with the intent of causing serious bodily harm, they may be able to impose a jail sentence of 20 years. The law would also allow the conviction of people who hurl rocks at police cars or police officers with the aim of hindering them from carrying out their duty.
→ read full articleBrazil Builds Internet Cable to Portugal to Avoid NSA Surveillance
Kathleen Caulderwood – International Business Times,
3 Nov 2014
1 Nov 2014 – The move is one of many ways the Brazilian government is breaking ties with American technology companies — but it won’t come cheap. The 3,500-mile fiber-optic cable will stretch from Fortaleza to Portugal, with an estimated cost of $185 million. Of course, none of this will go to American vendors.
→ read full articleKahlil Gibran on the Absurdity of Self-Righteousness
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
A short poem that speaks with great subtlety and great insight to our illusion of separateness and the self-righteousness it produces, our lamentable tendency to mistake others for interruptions and nuisances, to forget that everybody is simply doing their best in this shared experience called life.
→ read full articleAt Home with Themselves: Sage Sohier’s Moving Portraits of Same-Sex Couples in the 1980s
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
A Tender, Thoughtful Lens on Life and Love in the Margins
→ read full articleAustralian Immigration
First Dog on the Moon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Comic Strip – Satirical Cartoon
→ read full articleSegregating the Evening Commute to the West Bank
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man - +972 Magazine,
3 Nov 2014
It’s not really segregation. Not on paper at least. Or at least the paper doesn’t use the word “segregation.” In practice, however, people of one national origin will not be allowed to ride on the same bus lines as people of another national origin — for the benefit and at the request of one group, at the expense and against the desires of the other. Call that what you will.
→ read full articleThe Fizz Is Going Out of SodaStream as Boycott Shakes It Up
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Famous for using Scarlett Johansson to pitch its carbonated-beverage makers and for drawing the wrath of the boycott movement, the company has seen sales decline in its key U.S. market.
→ read full article(Português) Trauma de Discurso
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Quando recebo convite para ritual de posse em alguma academia que não seja de ginástica, envio presente e/ou cartão como assertiva de meu apreço, mas não compareço à solenidade.
→ read full article(Castellano) El embudo de la desigualdad
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi, OpinionSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
La desigualdad de poder (económico, político, mediático, judicial, represivo) opera como una suerte de embudo que, sin pausa, extrae y concentra riqueza e ingresos en manos de una ínfima fracción de la población mundial. Vale revisar cómo y porqué se genera el embudo de la desigualdad y la diversidad de medidas que existen para desarmarlo.
→ read full articleOctober 22, 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre Becomes the First Person to Decline the Nobel Prize
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
My reasons for refusing the prize concern neither the Swedish Academy nor the Nobel Prize in itself, as I explained in my letter to the Academy. In it, I alluded to two kinds of reasons: personal and objective.
→ read full articleJob Brokers Steal Wages and Entrap Indian Tech Workers in US
Matt Smith, Jennifer Gollan and Adithya Sambamurthy – The Center for Investigative Reporting,
3 Nov 2014
Investigation documents how exploitation persists – through humiliation, intimidation and legal threats.
•Techsploitation: a graphic novel
•Brokers exploit workers on taxypayers’ dime
Christianity vs Islam: Countercyclicity?
Johan Galtung, 3 Nov 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
PROGNOSIS I: massive conversion to Islam; less dogma, more action.
PROGNOSIS II: Islamic Banking will inspire Western economy.
PROGNOSIS III: Christianity turns to Jesus-Mary love, Islam follows.
In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis
Eric Lichtblau – The New York Times,
3 Nov 2014
CIA Allen Dulles believed “moderate” Nazis might “be useful” to America, records show. J. Edgar Hoover, for his part, personally approved some ex-Nazis as informants and dismissed accusations of their wartime atrocities as Soviet propaganda.
→ read full articleThe Inequality Funnel
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi, OpinionSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Inequality of power (economic, political, media, judiciary, repressive) operates as some kind of funnel that, permanently, extracts and concentrates wealth and incomes in the hands of a minimal fraction of the global population. It is worth analyzing how and why the inequality funnel is generated and the diversity of measures available to dismantle it.
→ read full articleUN Review of US “International Criminal Program of Torture”
The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Since the United States last reported to the Committee Against Torture in 2006, even more evidence has emerged confirming that civilian and military officials at the highest level created, designed, authorized, and implemented a sophisticated, international criminal program of torture.
→ read full article(Deutsch) “Cyberpeace”-Kampagne engagierter InformatikerInnen wird gefördert
Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Das Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung wird für seine Kampagne gegen Cyberwarfare mit 13.600 Euro unterstützt.
→ read full articleNo Country for Refugees
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
No British rescue missions for drowning Afro-refugees.
Really, it’s in their Karma, in their DNAs to suffer.
Give them Burmese “Buddhism” or cheap opium from Afghanistan.
Have they no wit to know Foreign Policies ain’t about human welfare?
Governments ain’t no churches. We ain’t your Messiah.
Stoning in Somalia: Recent Incidents Highlight Continued Brutality
Pambazuka News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Call for action from both parties within and outside Somalia to prevent stoning and other form of torture and violence from continuing to cripple the ability of Somali people to lead viable lives.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il conflitto sunniti-sciiti: soluzioni?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Attingere alle ricche esperienze di tutti gli islam, focalizzarsi sul meglio, estirpare le erbacce violente che rendono alcuni musulmani non-islamici nel loro ricorso alla violenza; molto diretti l’uno contro l’altro. Il tempo è un fattore per lavorare con entrambe le parti, sui fondamenti e sulla teologia, per andare oltre.
→ read full articleInterrelated Threats to Humans and to the Biosphere
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
To avoid the inevitable downturn caused by excessive inequality, our oligarchic governments resort to what might be called “Military Keynesianism”. To prevent the crash of stock markets and banks of our corporate-controlled governments, enemies have to be found: communists, terrorists, the Islamic world, Russia, Iran, China, and so on. The corporate press keeps the public perpetually in fear of these “enemies”.
→ read full articleWhy Do Banks Want Our Deposits? Hint: It’s Not to Make Loans
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
The reality of how money is created today differs from some economics textbooks: Rather than banks receiving deposits when households save and then lending them out, bank lending creates deposits. While banks do not need [real] deposits to create loans, they do need to balance their books; and attracting customer deposits is usually the cheapest way to do it.
→ read full articleForeign Jihadists Flocking to Iraq and Syria on ‘Unprecedented Scale’ – UN
Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
3 Nov 2014
30 Oct 2014 – A report by the UN Security Council finds that 15,000 people have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside the Islamic State (Isis) and similar extremist groups. They come from more than 80 countries, “including a tail of countries that have not previously faced challenges relating to al-Qaida”.
→ read full articleFor 23rd time, UN General Assembly Votes to End US Blockade against Cuba
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
3 Nov 2014
28 Oct 2014 – Today the UN General Assembly once again voted overwhelmingly in favor of ending the blockade of Cuba by the USA. 188 countries voted in favor with only the United States and Israel voting against it. The 3 Pacific island nations Palau, Marshall Islands and Micronesia abstained. The voting result was identical to last year’s.
→ read full articleSunni-Shia Bellum Sacrum Faultlines Deepen: Gloves Come Off in Lebanon
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
“Everyone in Lebanon, and for many generations, will have their families’ lives negatively affected by the sectarian hostility. The Sunni-Shia hatred is poisonous. Can it be eradicated? And forget about the Christians! In a few years there will probably not be enough of them left in the Middle East to matter.”
→ read full articleViolence against Children: UN Gets it Wrong
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
The United Nations has just issued a report, ‘Why Children’s Protection from Violence should be at the Heart of the Post-2015 Development Agenda.’ This is a worthy ideal. Unfortunately, the UN Report does not identify the fundamental cause of violence. Given that human violence now has us on the brink of precipitating our own extinction, it is time we faced the truth and responded meaningfully to it.
→ read full articleDeath of Endangered Northern White Rhino Leaves Just Six of the Animals Left in the World
Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith – The Independent,
3 Nov 2014
The northern white rhino has become a step closer to extinction after one of its last breeding males died in Kenya, leaving only six of the species now left in the world. Suni, 34-year-old, was found dead on Friday [17 Oct 2014]. Gangs of poachers ship their stolen ivory to Asia, where rhino horn was valued higher than gold or platinum last year.
→ read full articleSpace Launch Privatization Costing Taxpayers Dearly
Bruce Gagnon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Why the US privatized the NASA launch program? The agenda is clear – privatize space operations and rewrite space law to allow the aerospace industry to claim ownership of the heavens. But clearly they want the taxpayers to pay the freight charges.
→ read full article‘Europe to Pay for the Whole Mess in Ukraine’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
The gas deal between Ukraine and Russia became possible because Europe realized that it wouldn’t get the gas if it didn’t get behind Ukraine.
→ read full articleUN Launches Global Campaign to End Female Genital Mutilation
Voice of America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
30 Oct 2014 – The U.N. secretary-general has launched a global media campaign aimed at putting an end to female genital mutilation.
→ read full articleThe Pentagon and Big Oil: Militarism and Capital Accumulation
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
There is no question that, in the immediate aftermath and for several years following US military conquests, wars, occupations and sanctions, US multi-national corporations lost out on profitable sites for investments.
→ read full articleIndian Laborers in the Gulf
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
I am puzzled at the Indian government’s apathy at the deplorable situation of Indian laborers in the Gulf. Why does not India take a note of this situation and raise the issue with the Gulf countries with which it has diplomatic relations?
→ read full article(Italiano) Epistemologia: sull’uso delle dicotomie
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Talvolta viene criticato l’uso delle dicotomie, tagli netti come maschio-femmina, democrazia-dittatura, pace negativa-positiva: il mondo è più complicato. Che il mondo della vita organica, individuale e collettiva, sia complesso, non v’è dubbio. Che una divisione semplicistica noi-loro del mondo in due blocchi o poli, una polarizzazione, appunto, sia un passo verso la violenza e la guerra, è chiaro.
→ read full articleEbola: Are U.S. Bioweapons Labs the Solution, or the Problem?
Institute for Public Accuracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
“If, as the Liberian press is claiming, this outbreak of Ebola is from one of the labs in West Africa run by the Center for Disease Control, it could be an unprecedented human disaster. Recall that the 2001 weaponized anthrax attacks were traced to a U.S. government lab.
→ read full articleChina-Led New Bank Challenges Japanese, US’ Influence
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
The AIIB-Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will boost China’s global influence and enhance its soft power.
→ read full articleWhy Foreign Military Intervention Usually Fails in the 21st Century
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
We have reached a stage in the political development of life on the planet where civilizational and species survival itself depends on the urgency of building an effective movement against the war system that remains indispensable to sustain hierarchy and exploitation, wastes huge amounts of resources, and dangerously diverts problem-solving priorities.
→ read full articleNumber of Global Billionaires Has Doubled Since the Financial Crisis
Jamie Merrill – The Independent,
3 Nov 2014
The number of billionaires has doubled since the start of the financial crisis, according to a major new report from anti-poverty campaigners. According to Oxfam, the world’s rich are getting richer, leaving hundreds of millions of people facing a life “trapped in poverty” as global “inequality spirals out of control”.
→ read full articleSecret Manuals Show the Spyware Sold to Despots and Cops Worldwide
Cora Currier and Morgan Marquis-Boire – The Intercept,
3 Nov 2014
There are already methods to bypass encryption, thanks to off-the-shelf digital implants readily available to the smallest national agencies and the largest city police forces — easy-to-use software that takes over and monitors digital devices in real time, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
→ read full articleJailed Israeli Conscientious Objector Starts Hunger Strike
Yael Marom - +972 Magazine,
3 Nov 2014
Udi Segal, who refuses to enlist in the IDF due to its human rights violations in the occupied territories, declares he will go on hunger strike until his release from military prison.
→ read full articleEbola and the Paradox of Human Rights
Ian Ralby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
We have become so obsessed with romanticized notions of “human rights” that we forget there are boundaries to when and how certain rights may apply.
→ read full articleThe Caliph Fit to Join OPEC
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
3 Nov 2014
The Caliph’s oil prices are to die (be beheaded?) for; after all, he’s implementing the same low-price strategy concocted by the people he wants to dethrone, the House of Saud. And oh, the irony Top customers for The Caliph’s cheap oil happen to be “Sultan” Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Earthly paradise, aka Turkey – a North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally – and that King “Playstation” Abdullah II ibn al-Hussein’s domain impersonating a country, aka Jordan.
→ read full articleNew Arrivals
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
A pope arrived at the gate of heaven.
→ read full articleResource Insights from Plus or Minus 12 People on a Liferaft
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
The argument here arises from the observation that crises involving millions evoke a form of psychic numbing. Suffering on the larger scale does not connect with ordinary comprehension. Disasters involving millions are essentially meaningless to most. When the dilemmas are presented on a more human scale, involving very few, they then become far more comprehensible and meaningful.
→ read full articleMajor Banks Prepare to Pay Billions for Foreign Exchange Manipulation
Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
1 Nov 2014 – Some 19 investigations of multinational banks in ten different legal jurisdictions are on their way to completion and the final tally may hit $41 billion to settle charges of foreign exchange manipulation.
→ read full articleA Small Band of Activists Is Humiliating an Israeli Shipping Giant
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
3 Nov 2014
Capping a series of victories by a modest band of pro-Palestinian activists, an Israel-based shipping company has re-routed a container ship from the Port of Oakland, where protestors had vowed to keep the ship from unloading, to an alternate destination in Russia.
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Wave – José André Plays Tom Jobim (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
José André Jazz Trío – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
He is just nine years old… and blind. Jazz prodigy José André Montano Baina takes Bolivia and the world music scene by storm.
→ read full articleCowardly Lions: Missed Opportunities to Prevent Deadly Conflict and State Collapse
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
There are always warning signs before the outbreak of a crisis. But one must be able to read the signs — thus the need for courage, intelligence and heart. In light of the continuing crisis and disintegration of State structures in the Central African Republic, in Libya and elsewhere, this analysis of State collapse remains of value.
→ read full article(Português) Cuba: 23ª Votação na ONU Contra Bloqueio Evidencia Isolamento dos EUA
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
3 Nov 2014
As votações na ONU contra o bloqueio econômico que os Estados Unidos mantêm contra Cuba evidenciam o isolamento internacional de Washington. 188 países votam A Favor de levantar o bloqueio. 2 Contra: EUA e Israel. 3 Abstenções: Palau, Ilhas Marshall e Micronesia. Votação idêntica à do ano passado.
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The Art of Symbolism in Peace Building
Kya Kim | TED Talks - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
[Former TMS Resident Journalist], peace activist and Peace Mask Project team member Kya Kim reminds us of the powerful role of symbolism in creating change towards lasting peace. Kya and her team strive to spark this lasting peace across Japan, China and Korea with the current Peace Mast East Asia Project.
→ read full articleThe Basis of It All, H and N: Joy of Humanity and Nature (JoHaN)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Prof. John Galtung’s Blissful 84th Birthday, 24 Oct 2014
→ read full articleKudankulam Nuclear Power Plant a ‘Stillborn Child’, Says S P Udayakumar
The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
The Kudankulam nuclear power project is a ‘stillborn child’ and it may never be commissioned to produce electricity, S P Udayakumar, convenor of People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, said at a protest organised by the Social Democratic Party of India on Saturday [25 Oct 2014].
→ read full articleData Secrecy Company [Whisper] Accused of Sharing Information with Media and Military
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Whisper – a new social network that claims to provide anonymity – has been accused of secretly tracking users. The allegations were made by the Guardian newspaper, provoking renewed scrutiny of a multitude of data privacy claims made by software companies.
→ read full articleResisting U.S. Bases in Okinawa
Ayano Ginoza, Michiko Hase and Gwyn Kirk – Foreign Policy In Focus,
27 Oct 2014
Despite intense crackdowns, activists on the Japanese island of Okinawa continue to resist the construction of new U.S. military bases.
→ read full articleJournalist Risen: ‘Mercenary Class’ Now Permanent Fixture in National Security State
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
27 Oct 2014
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist James Risen said Sunday [19 Oct 2014] that the secretive and multi-billion dollar war on terror has sparked an entire “mercenary class that feeds off unending war.”
→ read full articleA Caliph in a Wilderness of Mirrors
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
27 Oct 2014
He’s invincible. He beheads. He smuggles. He conquers. He’s the ultimate jack-of-all-trades. No Tomahawk or Hellfire can touch him. He always gets what he wants; in Kobani; in Anbar province; with the House of Saud (which he wants to replace).
→ read full articleEU Fines JP Morgan 61 Million Euro for Collusion
Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
The European Union on Tuesday [21 Oct 2014] fined U.S. banking giant J.P. Morgan more than 61 million euro (about 78 million U.S. dollars) for its participation in an illegal cartel aimed at influencing the benchmark interest rate.
→ read full articleFinancial Terrorism: The Wonga Payday Lending Experiment
Binoy Kampmark - CounterPunch,
27 Oct 2014
Keeping people poor in a world of seedy abandonment. Borrowing at phenomenal rates. Loan sharks running wild, dressed by the language of assistance and salvation.
→ read full article(Português) Sotaques Regionais
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Troquemos a gozação e má vontade face ao diferente, por um olhar positivo quanto à diversidade: variações de pronúncia são riqueza linguística, seja entre os países que usam um mesmo idioma, seja nas diversas regiões de um mesmo país.
→ read full articleThe Entry of Ebola into the US Has Hallmarks of a Planned Happening
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
More information is available that suggests the the government had advance information that ebola was coming to the US and that the government expects a much larger outbreak of the disease in the US than it admits.
→ read full articlePrison Writings: The Roots of Civilization
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Abdullah Ocalan is a Marxist in the tradition of Antonio Gramsci. For him, ideology is the basis of change. Technology and the means of production come to fill the spaces first opened by ideas. Thus his prison writings are a history of the Middle East as ideology. The next steps in history must come through a new ideological construction.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’autoproduzione secondo Marinella Correggia alla festa dei Gas valdostani
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
L’autoproduzione come utopia concreta e realizzabile
→ read full articleSri Lanka Revisited: The Whitewashing of a War Crime by Corporate Lobbyists
Andrew Buncombe – The Independent,
27 Oct 2014
The Sri Lankan government is hurriedly trying to boost the country’s image by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire corporate lobbyists as it awaits a UN report into alleged war crimes.
→ read full articlePeace May Come
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
From what I have seen of the human race
I calculate that peace may come to the world
when about ten people are left,
Is the US Government the Master Criminal of Our Time?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
The test consists of giving an ebola vaccine and then exposing the unaware person to ebola, an engineered version for bio-warfare. Drs. Boyle and Broderick in their articles below are correct that experimentation with ebola by the US government is underway in Africa.
→ read full article(Castellano) Tiempo de Acabar el Embargo de Cuba
Editorial – The New York Times,
27 Oct 2014
Cuando mira un mapa del mundo, el Presidente Obama debe sentir angustia al contemplar el lamentable estado de las relaciones bilaterales que su administración ha intentado reparar. Sería sensato que el líder estadounidense reflexione seriamente sobre Cuba, donde un giro de política podría representar un gran triunfo para su gobierno.
→ read full articleChina’s Imperial President – Xi Jinping Tightens His Grip
Elizabeth C. Economy – Foreign Affairs,
27 Oct 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping has articulated a simple but powerful vision: the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It is a patriotic call to arms, drawing inspiration from the glories of China’s imperial past and the ideals of its socialist present to promote political unity at home and influence abroad.
→ read full articleOld Masters
Lewis H. Lapham – The New York Times Magazine,
27 Oct 2014
After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign.
→ read full articleMuhammad, Where Are You?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
When the statisticians saw the results, they were flabbergasted. The name that topped the list was Muhammad. Muhammad? The most popular name in the Jewish state? What to do? Simple: you just omit the Arab names. No Muhammad. When this became known, many Israelis laughed. How silly can you get?
→ read full articleThe Decline of Journalism from Watergate to ‘Dark Alliance’
Nick Schou – Al Jazeera America,
27 Oct 2014
What if Ben Bradlee had overseen Gary Webb’s investigation into the CIA, Contras and crack cocaine? “We are trying to follow in Gary Webb’s footsteps not only because the reporting he did was so important and fearless, but how vindictive the way the CIA and media reacted underscores how urgent it is to shine a light on what they are doing.” –Glenn Greenwald
→ read full articleRethinking Strategy: Some Reflections on Political Structures and Accountability in Sri Lanka
JS Tissainayagam – Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka,
27 Oct 2014
J. S. Tissainayagam at the meeting of the International Association of Tamil Journalists held in London, 11 October 2014. “So why are we here? We are here because such an exchange of ideas and opinions is impossible in Sri Lanka today. The trend of suppressing free institutions, including the media, has continued.”
→ read full articlePeace and Security through the United Nations
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
On the Eve of United Nations Day, 24 Oct 2014 – The United Nations needs peace education for sustainable peace and security, but not the current one teaching predetermined values through knowledge, attitude and skill. Peace education ought to be based on universally inherent elements: body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit in all men and women everywhere without any discrimination.
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Robert Parry – Consortium News,
27 Oct 2014
For months, Western governments and media have accused Russia of supplying the anti-aircraft missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 killing 298 people. But now German intelligence has reportedly determined the missile came from a Ukrainian military base.
→ read full articleCompetition
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
On the last day of school before summer, when all children were itching to go home and play, a teacher promised that those children who could answer her questions correctly could leave earlier.
→ read full articleUS Army Withheld Promise from Germany That Ebola Virus Wouldn’t Be Weaponized
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
German High Government Official Seeks Washington’s Reassurance That the US Did Not Weaponize the Species of Ebola That Germany Made Available to Washington
→ read full articleNot Only Coal ‛Good for Humanity’
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
“Death is the basic source of jobs in Australia’s funeral industry,” the Prime Minister declared. “My government is determined to protect those jobs against the fantasist-terrorist doctors who are trying to prevent it.”
→ read full articleHong Kong’s Umbrellas are ‘Made in USA’
F. William Engdahl – New Eastern Outlook,
27 Oct 2014
The Occupy Central Hong Kong movement is being nominally led by a 17-year-old student, Joshua Wong, born the year Britain ended its 99-year colonial occupation. Wong is accompanied by a University of Minnesota-educated hedge fund man, Edward Chin; by a Yale University-educated sociologist, Chan Kin-man; by a Baptist minister who is a veteran of the CIAs 1989 Tiananmen Square, Chu Yiu-ming.
→ read full articleJames Risen vs. the American Psychological Association
Roy J. Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Relying on never-before-disclosed emails involving senior officials from the APA and the CIA, Risen makes the case that the two organizations secretly colluded to craft the APA’s ethics policies for psychologists, policies that provided support and cover for the Bush Administration’s “enhanced interrogation” torture program.
→ read full articleFrom Subjects to Citizens: The Great Transition – UN Day 24 October
Federico Mayor Zaragoza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Article I of the UNESCO Constitution proclaims that education creates people who are “free and responsible”. Education for all throughout life. For all, and not merely for a chosen few. And this all is very dangerous, because people with education will not remain passive, resigned and in subjugation. They will not be spectators, but rather actors.
→ read full articleAt the Pentagon
First Dog on the Moon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Cartoon – Comic Strip
→ read full articleWhy the USA May Go to War in the South China Sea
Ian Ralby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
As China seeks to exercise its control over disputed islands and maritime waters it may seek to block US warships and military aircraft from crossing through large swathes of the South China Sea. This restriction will prove unpalatable to the US who considers it a legal right to cross these waters.
→ read full articleTwo Paths in the Wood: “Choice” of Life or War
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
There is an urgent need for new ideological foundations to replace our nation’s historic reliance on war and destruction to achieve ends. Our nation’s history is stained with the blood of indigenous peoples, with the blood of slavery, and with the blood of world wars whose resolutions (victories?) produced a heritage of continued reliance on military solutions and revenge from those who “lost” or from those who now see the intentions of the USA and its allies.
→ read full articleU.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS
Jamie Dettmer – The Daily Beast,
27 Oct 2014
Not only are foodstuffs, medical supplies—even clinics—going to ISIS, the distribution networks are paying ISIS ‘taxes’ and putting ISIS people on their payrolls.
→ read full articleThe Zombie System – How Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails
Michael Sauga – Der Spiegel,
27 Oct 2014
Six years after the Lehman disaster, the industrialized world is suffering from Japan Syndrome. Growth is minimal, another crash may be brewing and the gulf between rich and poor continues to widen. Can the global economy reinvent itself?
→ read full articleUnderstanding and Defeating Resurgent Fascism
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
As fascism is being intruded more widely and deeply into key areas of world politics, it is important to identify this trend, to explain the psychology of fascism and to nominate key elements of any strategy to defeat it.
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