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USA/UK Committed Genocide against Iraq People
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
USA/UK committed genocide against Iraq people between 1990/2012 killing 3.3 million including 750,000 children through sanctions and war.
→ read full articleReimagining Tesla’s Creativity through Technomimicry
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
His genius is known to have derived in part from his unusual capacity to imagine models and run them as simulations — mentally — without any need to articulate them in conventional design plans and test prototypes.
→ read full articleU.S. Falling into the Islamic State’s Trap
Dan Froomkin – The Intercept,
22 Sep 2014
There are many reasons the U.S. shouldn’t go to war with the Islamic State — and the best one may be because that is exactly what they want us to do.
→ read full articlePeace and Freedoms for Indian Women in the Digital Era
Dr. Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Democracy has brought a new light for repressed classes, but sorrowfully it has not kept its promise for a promised land for women.
→ read full articleThe New (Religious) Face of Civil Disobedience
Sanford Levinson – Al Jazeera America,
22 Sep 2014
A resurgent sanctuary movement may complicate the precepts of the Christian right. Conservatives and liberals might find themselves rethinking some of their views about the meaning of religious freedom and the responsibilities of good citizenship.
→ read full articleNew ISIS Propaganda Film Features Canadian-Sounding Fighter
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
22 Sep 2014
The militant group Islamic State released a slick and disturbing new propaganda film, “Flames of War,” narrated entirely in English and featuring an Islamic State fighter who speaks with an American or Canadian accent.
→ read full article(Português) O Mel
Sérgio greif – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Ainda que as propriedades medicinais do mel fossem comprovadas cientificamente, ainda assim a exploração apícola não poderia se sustentar pelo ponto de vista ético. Mas a presença de grande número de plantas medicinais que possuem propriedades semelhantes torna o uso do mel e outros produtos apícolas completamente dispensáveis.
→ read full article(Português) Keynes Está Morto – Viva Marx!
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
22 Sep 2014
Muitos economistas liberais viram uma nova aurora para o keynesianismo no desastre financeiro de 2008. Quase seis anos depois, já é claro que as muito aguardadas prescrições keynesianas foram e são completamente ignoradas. Por quê?
→ read full article(Italiano) L’ombra lunga della storia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
USA, vi piace emettere certificati di pariah ai vari paesi; giù e fuori. Il nostro certificato a voi dice irrilevanza – ci è impossibile cooperare con voi. Non possiamo costringervi a cambiare, dovete volerlo voi stessi. Ma possiamo togliervi la palla dal vostro cortile e giocarcela per conto nostro. La leadership dovrebbe essere collettiva, come nei BRICS; la leadership non dovrebbe mai essere di un solo paese, o una sola persona.
→ read full articleGlobal Commission Urges Decriminalisation of Drug Use
Jim Lobe, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
A top-level international panel called Tuesday [9 Sep 2014] for a major shift in global drug-control policies from prohibition to decriminalisation and regulation. In a 43-page report, the Global Commission on Drug Policy denounced what has been known for more than four decades as the “war against drugs” as a failure and argued that new approaches prioritising human rights and health were urgently needed.
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Child Piano Prodigy – Outstanding Natural Talent! (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
4-Year-Old Chinese Boy Plays Piano like a Master
→ read full articleCoordinating Human Rights Development in China
Cai Mingzhao - China Daily,
22 Sep 2014
Editor’s Note: Cai Mingzhao, director of the State Council Information Office of China, addressed the opening ceremony of the 7th Beijing Forum on Human Rights on Wednesday [17 Sep 2014]. The following are excerpts of his speech.
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Gitmo Exclusive: Media Brainwashing, Sham Trials & Closing Gitmo for Good (Part II)
Abby Martin, breakingtheset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Sep 3, 2014 – On Gitmo ‘Transparency’, Review Board Red Tape, Military Commissions Sham, Zero Dark Thirty Lies and Closing Guantanamo for Good.
→ read full articleWar, Circus and Injustice Down Under
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Australia is awash with knowledge of the “needs” of its first people. Every week, it seems, yet another study adds to the torrent of information about the imposed impoverishment of and vicious discrimination against Indigenous people: apartheid in all but name.
→ read full articleWar
Rifet Bahtijaragić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
How could you say people deserve war!
Where did you get such a grotesque idea?!
(Português) O que há por trás do “desafio do balde de gelo”
Dr Aysha akhtar - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
22 Sep 2014
Por que então, após 7 décadas do corajoso embate de Lou Gehrig contra essa doença, não existe um único tratamento efetivo ou cura à vista para a Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica? Grande parte do dinheiro de pesquisa tem sido canalizada para os assim chamados “modelos animais” de ELA. Aí está o problema: a ELA é uma doença exclusivamente humana.
→ read full articleHow to Be Alone: An Antidote to One of the Central Anxieties and Greatest Paradoxes of Our Time
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
“We live in a society which sees high self-esteem as a proof of well-being, but we do not want to be intimate with this admirable and desirable person.”
→ read full articleJesus!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
A burglar broke through a window and entered a pitch-dark room.
→ read full articleThe NGO-ization of Resistance
Arundhati Roy, Massalijn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.
→ read full articlePhilosophy of Life: Some Propositions
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
One needs to contribute to society in his own capability. A person who has no food needs to be busy to find means of subsistence. But a person who has no such worry should contribute to society.
→ read full article(English/Portuguese) Ecolinguisticamente Rimando em Português e Inglês
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Ecolinquistical Rhymes in English and Portuguese
→ read full articleMemo on the Evaluation of the Community Work Program
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
This memo stresses the importance of evaluating CWP´s compliance with its mandate to use public employment to catalyse community development. It also underlines the importance of issues in economic theory that bear on CWP´s contribution to society.
→ read full article15 Years after Liberation, Australia Is Still Screwing the East Timorese
Tom Clarke – New Matilda,
22 Sep 2014
21 Sep 2014 – As East Timor marks the 15th anniversary of its independence, it still has no maritime boundaries. They can thank their greedy neighbours for that.
→ read full articleThe Language of ‘Evil’ Doesn’t Help Us Defeat IS
Myriam Francois-Cerrah – Middle East Eye,
22 Sep 2014
Understanding what motivates the belief of so-called Islamic State militants in ‘violence as progress’ is central to defeating them.
→ read full articleGerman TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers
NBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Germans were confronted with images of their country’s dark past on Monday [8 Sep 2014] night, when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast.
→ read full articleWill NATO Liberate Jihadistan?
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
15 Sep 2014
Caliph Ibrahim, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, self-declared leader of Islamic State, really sports a mean PR vein. So The Caliph is not exactly quaking in his Made-in-USA desert boots. He’s even dreaming of taking on the Slavic Caliph himself. How come Marvel Comics never thought about that?
→ read full articleIsraelis: Stop Swimming in Our Shit! – Destroying Gaza’s Water System
Sam Bahour - CounterPunch,
15 Sep 2014
One product is making its way freely across the border into Israel. Actually, this product flows undetected by the almighty Israeli military and rolls right up on to the shores of Tel Aviv. The product is Palestinian shit, or more accurately, to maintain the media bias of the times, Palestinian terrorist shit.
→ read full articleNo to US/NATO and Yes to Peace
Mairead Corrigan Maguire , Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
While US/UK/NATO are pushing for war with Russia, it behoves people and their governments around the world to take a clear stand for peace and against violence and war, no matter where it comes from.
→ read full articleWhy Is the West Destined to Decline?
Adam Lesak – Oriental Review,
15 Sep 2014
It is not quite correct to refer to the increasing Western hostilities against Russia as a Cold War, because that connotes the idea of an antagonism between opposing ideological camps, as used to be the case between the Soviet block and the West.
→ read full articleWhat I Saw and Experienced In Gaza
Mustafa Barghouti – Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
15 Sep 2014
What happened is beyond description. Even describing it as an act of disproportionality is an insult to humanity. Describing it as an imbalance of power is also an insult. After slaughtering thousands of people and destroying thousands of homes and to speak about reconstruction and to immediately allow Israeli companies to make a profit from this is also an insult to humanity.
→ read full articleExpensive?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
A foreign tourist’s car got stuck in a small Russian village.
→ read full articleNaomi Klein: The Hypocrisy behind the Big Business Climate Change Battle
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
15 Sep 2014
I denied climate change for longer than I care to admit. I told myself the science was too complicated and the environmentalists were dealing with it. And I continued to behave as if there was nothing wrong with the “elite” frequent-flyer card in my wallet. A great many of us engage in this kind of denial.
→ read full articleMalaysia Airlines flight MH17 Whodunnit Still a Mystery
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
15 Sep 2014
More than seven weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed in eastern Ukraine killing 298 people, a preliminary report failed to address the mystery of who shot the plane down. The Dutch investigators didn’t even try to sort through conflicting allegations and evidence.
→ read full articleCarney Still White House ‘Propagandist’ Now Posing as Tie-Less CNN Analyst
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is essentially doing the same job since being taken on by CNN – serving as propagandist for the government, award-winning journalist Ben Swann told RT.
→ read full article(Italiano) Difetti nel pensiero USA – e qualche rimedio
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Difetto 2. Confondere il conflitto con la violenza. O i “disordini”. Trattare il conflitto diventa gestire la violenza verso una tregua o la capitolazione, poi ripulire la situazione “post- conflittuale”, solo per scoprire che la violenza riappare, forse sotto forma di vendetta. Nulla di risolto. Rimedio: Separare i concetti.
→ read full articleIraq: Yazidis’ Genocide?
René Wadlow, UN Geneva Association of Word Citizens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
With the incomplete evidence at hand, I would maintain that the ISIS policy is genocide and not just a control of territory. Although the UN “track record” of dealing with genocide is very mixed, the first immediate step is for a State to raise the issue within the UN.
→ read full articleIndia’s PM Modi towards World’s Top Leader Keeping Confidence with Neighbors
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The principal reason of insecurity to Modi is that he is speeding up his social doctrine to respect, protect, preserve, and promote poor, marginalized, disadvantaged, and vulnerable people, not limiting him within the border, but beyond of it.
→ read full articleOverthrowing Other People’s Governments: The Master List
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Rabbi Ira Youdovin
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Serice,
15 Sep 2014
We have exchanged views frequently in the last few years, most often by way of adversary comments. I write now an ‘open letter’ because of your most recent comment objecting to my support for Steven Salaita in his campaign to have his tenure faculty appointment reinstated at the University of Illinois.
→ read full articleBreaking the Last Taboo – Gaza and the Threat of World War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Nothing has changed since the Zionists’ infamous “Plan D” in 1948 that ethnically cleansed an entire people. Recently, on the Times of Israel were the words: “Genocide is Permissible”. A deputy speaker of the Knesset demands a policy of mass expulsion into concentration camps. An MP, Ayelet Shaked, calls for the extermination of Palestinian mothers to prevent them giving birth to what she calls “little snakes”.
→ read full articleNATO Loses Ukraine
Margaret Kimberley, BAR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Peace is the last thing that the Nobel Peace Prize winning president wants to see. Putin is the winner by any standard but the United States won’t admit what is obvious.
→ read full articleThe Fourth Branch – The Rise to Power of the National Security State: Who Rules Washington?
Tom Engelhardt – TomDispatch,
15 Sep 2014
As every schoolchild knows, there are three check-and-balance branches of the U.S. government: the executive, Congress, and the judiciary. That’s bedrock Americanism and the most basic high school civics material. Only one problem: it’s just not so.
→ read full articleDefeating the Violence of Psychiatry
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
As the movement to abolish psychiatry continues to gather momentum it is worth reviewing its delusional foundation, the history of its violence and its function as a weapon of elite social control. According to research, in the USA ‘prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer’ and it ‘is inescapable that their availability creates more harm than good’.
→ read full articlePoking Russia with a Stick? NATO Approves Military “Spearhead” for Eastern Europe
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
15 Sep 2014
Despite warnings from Russia that such a move would be interpreted as a provocation, a plan to deploy thousands of additional US and European troops closer to its border will now become a reality.
→ read full articleIsis Jihadis Aren’t Medieval – They Are Shaped by Modern Western Philosophy
Kevin McDonald – The Guardian,
15 Sep 2014
We should look to revolutionary France if we want to understand the source of Islamic State’s ideology and violence. Contemporary jihadism is not a return to the past. It is a modern, anti-traditional ideology with a very significant debt to western political history and culture.
→ read full articleAcademics and Israel
Johnny E. Williams – CounterPunch,
15 Sep 2014
Why Remaining Silent about the Perils of Zionism is Not an Option
→ read full article(Português) Qual Português?
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Sei que a Língua é um naipe de possibilidades, mas sei também do que aprendi como sendo certo e errado. Regras para honrar a clareza, coerência, concisão, elegância. Mesmo na linguagem falada, mais solta e rica de desvios.
→ read full articleSteven Salaita and Zionist McCarthyism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The outcome of the Salaita case will exhibit the current balance of influence as between Zionist McCarthyism and academic freedom. That such a struggle should be in doubt is itself a national disgrace that suggests the worrisome fragility of academic freedom as reinforced by the potency of money and regressive ideology.
→ read full articleSpiritual Leaders for Nonkilling
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Spiritual leaders,
Most powerful is what you teach
spiritually you guide and inspire
people East and West you reach
(Galego) A paz é o camiño… 21 de Setembro, Día Internacional da Paz
Manuel Dios Diz - Fundacion Cultura de Paz,
15 Sep 2014
A paz é o camiño, e facemos camiño ó andar. A paz é un descubrimento, non unha conquista. A guerra e a violencia non son fatalidades biolóxicas. Aprendemos a ser violentos. Por iso temos que “desaprender” para ser pacíficos, que non submisos, nin súbditos, nin mansos. A paz é moito máis que unha toma de postura, é unha auténtica revolución, un modo de vivir, un modo de habitar o planeta, un modo de ser persoa.
→ read full articleLeo Tolstoy: The Law of Love
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
9 September marks the birth of the multi-dimensional Count Leo Tolstoy, an aristocratic land owner, a young military officer, a distinguished author of War and Peace, a spiritual-moral philosopher, and a champion of non-violent action. It is this last aspect and the link with Mahatma Gandhi that I would like to stress.
→ read full articleMessage from the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Dear friends, TMS subscribers & readers, on Sep 15, when this edition of TRANSCEND Media Service goes online by default at 12 noon GMT, I will be onboard an airplane heading for Beijing on my way to the WARP-World Alliance of Religions for Peace Summit in Seoul, South Korea.
→ read full articleHow the West Created the Islamic State
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed - CounterPunch,
15 Sep 2014
Missing from the chorus of outrage has been any acknowledgement of the integral role of covert US and British regional military intelligence in directly sponsoring the Islamist militants in Iraq, Syria and beyond, which broke away from al-Qaeda to form the Islamic State (IS).
→ read full articleTo Recruits
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
You are pawns–
don’t you understand that?
It’s a game
and you aren’t worth much,
The Long Shadows of History
Johan Galtung, 15 Sep 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
USA, our certificate to you says ‘irrelevance.’ You always too quickly resort to violence, no good at deeper causes. We cannot force you to change, you have to will that yourself. But we can take the ball out of your court and play it ourselves. Leadership should be collective, like BRICS; leadership should never be one country, or one person.
→ read full articleReligions for Peace
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Religions for Peace
A mission never to cease
The Disturbing Story from Within: 43 Israeli Elite Veterans Testify for Palestinians
Meron Rapoport – Middle East Eye,
15 Sep 2014
43 veterans from Unit 8200, the top unit of Israeli intelligence, testify how they use information to blackmail Palestinians.
→ read full articleI understand why Westerners are joining jihadi movements like ISIS. I was almost one of them.
Michael Muhammad Knight – The Washington Post,
15 Sep 2014
We are raised to love violence and view military conquest as a benevolent act. The American kid who wants to intervene in another nation’s civil war owes his worldview as much to American exceptionalism as to jihadist interpretations of scripture. I grew up in a country that glorifies military sacrifice and feels entitled to rebuild other societies according to its own vision. Before I even knew what a Muslim was, let alone concepts such as “jihad” or an “Islamic state,” my American life had taught me that that’s what brave men do.
→ read full articleTerror and the Patriot Act of 2001, Implemented in the Immediate Wake of 9/11
Graeme MacQueen - Global Research,
15 Sep 2014
In the fall of 2001 members of the U.S. executive branch terrorized Congress into passing the Patriot Act that assaulted the rights of citizens. This essay is adapted from his new book: “The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy.”
→ read full articleObama and ISIS
David McReynolds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The problem is that, as always happens in these cases, there is a certain “selective outrage”, a kind of “willed amnesia” about our own role in such matters. Not all of the sins of America, taken together, justify the beheading of a single journalist – but memory may help us understand the roots of that horror.
→ read full articleJapan Still Hobbled by Racism and Militarism
Michael Walker – Foreign Policy In Focus,
15 Sep 2014
Not only has Japan been unable to face its past, it’s weighed down by a staggering national debt.
→ read full articleUkraine Conflict: Red Meat for Anemic NATO Alliance
Medea Benjamin – Common Dreams,
15 Sep 2014
For the past six months, fighting between the Moscow-backed eastern Ukrainian resistance and the NATO-backed nationalists has led to thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Instead of seeking to reduce tensions, British Prime Minister David Cameron used the Summit to announce the creation of a new rapid-reaction force of 4,000 troops.
→ read full articleU.S. Threatened Hefty Fines to Make Yahoo Hand Over User Data
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The U.S. government in 2008 threatened to fine Yahoo Inc $250,000 a day if it failed to turn over customer data to intelligence agencies, according to documents unsealed on Thursday [11 Sep 2014].
→ read full articleIsrael’s Very Own Tunnels of Dread in Jerusalem
Orly Noy - +972 Magazine,
15 Sep 2014
The Tunnels Israel Doesn’t Want You Talking About – While everyone is preoccupied with the Hamas tunnels in Gaza, Israel continues to dig under Palestinian houses in Jerusalem. The excuses are questionable, residents are angry and fearful, and a religious conflagration appears imminent.
→ read full articlePeace Ecology
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
With serendipitous timing, as a big march for the climate, and various related events, are planned on and around the International Day of Peace [21 Sep 2014], Randall Amster has just published an important book called Peace Ecology.
→ read full articleIsrael Appropriated 1,000 Acres of the West Bank. Why Now?
Dimi Reider, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Ser ice,
15 Sep 2014
Appropriation of Palestinian land has been a consistent policy of every Israeli government since Israel became a state in 1948. In the West Bank alone, close to 250,000 acres were appropriated since 1979, using a legal mechanism based on an interpretation of Ottoman law.
→ read full articleMH17 Crash Caused by ‘Objects Penetrating Aircraft from Outside’
Gwyn Topham – The Guardian,
15 Sep 2014
9 Sep 2014 – Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 broke up in mid-air as a result of structural damage caused by “a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside”, according to the Dutch investigators’ preliminary report.
→ read full articleMap of the Stars
Andy Müller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Michael Sontheimer and Christian Grothoff – The Intercept,
15 Sep 2014
The NSA and GCHQ Campaign against German Satellite Companies – “Fuck!” That is the word that comes to the mind of Christian Steffen, the CEO of German satellite communications company Stellar PCS.
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Gitmo Exclusive: An Untold History of Occupation, Torture & Resistance (Part I)
Abby Martin, breakingtheset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Sep 2, 2014 – Abby Martin Breaks the Set on the History of Gitmo, Methods of Torture, the Remaining Detainees and the Ongoing Hunger Strikes by Prisoners.
→ read full articleWhere Slaughtered Dolphins Go to Be Sold
David Kirby, takepart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
12 Sep 2014 – As the annual dolphin-killing season begins at the cove at Taiji, Japan, the focus will be on the slaughter. Far less attention will be paid, however, to the fate of dolphins captured and sold to marine-mammal entertainment parks worldwide.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Protection: Small Steps but No Turning Back
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The effectiveness of United Nations action to promote human rights and prevent massive violations grows by small steps. However, the steps, once taken, serve as precedents and can be cited in future cases. Once the steps taken, it is difficult to refuse such action later.
→ read full articleEcolinguistic Communication
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Rhymed Reflections
→ read full articleAgent Orange Lives On in Vietnam, Poisoning Children and Ruining Lives
The Advocacy Project – Peace & Collaborative Development Network,
8 Sep 2014
While Le Ba Thuan was recruiting soldiers for the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, he would watch American planes spraying herbicide and try to avoid the contaminated areas. He never quite succeeded and for the past fifty years he has suffered from heart disease, high blood pressure, constant headaches, and skin rashes.
→ read full articleUS Analysts Conclude MH17 Downed by Aircraft
Haris Hussain – New Straits Times, Malaysia,
8 Sep 2014
Bociurkiw is a Ukrainian-Canadian monitor with OSCE who, along with another colleague, were the first international monitors to reach the wreckage after flight MH17 was brought down over eastern Ukraine. “There have been two or three pieces of fuselage that have been really pockmarked with what almost looks like machinegun fire; very, very strong machinegun fire,” Bociurkiw said in the interview.
→ read full articleGet Ready for the ‘Internet Slowdown’
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
8 Sep 2014
Next Wednesday, Sept. 10 [2014], if your favorite website seems to load slowly, take a closer look: You might be experiencing the Battle for the Net’s “Internet Slowdown,” a global day of grass-roots action.
→ read full articleIraq Has WMDs and Russia Has Invaded!
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The U.S. media has repeatedly been claiming that Russia has invaded Ukraine. They claim it for a while, and there’s obviously been no invasion, so they pause. Then they claim it again. Or they claim that a convoy of aid trucks constitutes an invasion.
→ read full articleMilitary Recruiters
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Ghouls troll school halls
preying on the young
who have no better options.
Nuclear Weapons Do Not Make Us Safer
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Rather than continuing to posture with its nuclear weapons in Europe, the United States should be leading the way in convening negotiations to eliminate all nuclear weapons for its own security and that of all the world’s inhabitants.
→ read full articleHow to Boycott Israel: Updated Guidelines for Academics
Ali Abunimah – Electronic Intifada,
8 Sep 2014
2 Sep 2014 – The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) recently updated its guidelines on how to apply the international academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
→ read full articleSeeds of Truth: A Response to Michael Specter’s Article in The New Yorker
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Michael Specter’s piece is poor journalism. I wonder why a journalist who has been Bureau Chief in Moscow for The New York Times and Bureau Chief in New York for the Washington Post, and clearly is an experienced reporter, would submit such a misleading piece. Or why The New Yorker would allow it to be published as honest reporting, with so many fraudulent assertions and deliberate attempts to skew reality.
→ read full articleLeaving Democracy to the Experts
Slavoj Žižek – In These Times,
8 Sep 2014
TISA’s secret trade negotiations quietly restructure our global economy. The key decisions concerning our economy are negotiated in secrecy, out of our sight, with no public debate. And such decisions set the coordinates for the unencumbered rule of capital.
→ read full article(Português) Banco Mundial: Cuba Tem o Melhor Sistema Educativo da América Latina e do Caribe
Salim Lamrani - Opera Mundi,
8 Sep 2014
As conclusões do relatório são implacáveis. O Banco Mundial enfatiza “a baixa qualidade média dos professores da América Latina e do Caribe”, o que constitui o principal obstáculo para o avanço da educação no continente.
→ read full articleIs Israel Bad for the Jews?
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
8 Sep 2014
Let’s recall that Israel’s reason for being was to give Jews shelter from the ravages of anti-Semitism. Indeed, with but very few exceptions, it is hard to imagine anywhere less safe for Jews than present-day Israel. And, there is growing evidence that Israeli behavior is a major source of today’s increasing anti-Semitism.
→ read full articleIn Azerbaijan, ‘Family Is the First Fear’ of LGBT Community
EurasiaNet Correspondents, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
“For his own safety,” a gay man “constantly” has to think about “what to wear so that he does not look different,” or otherwise attract attention. Many Azerbaijanis often presume that men who wear an earring or unusually colourful clothing are homosexual.
→ read full articleCrushing Debt: Argentina in the Shadow of the Vultures
Emiliano Gullo – CounterPunch,
8 Sep 2014
President Cristina Fernandez launched a legislative proposal to make Buenos Aires the place of payment for creditors and in this way, get out from under U.S. legislation that has trapped the country in a financial-judicial labyrinth. Now the government’s problem is internal: the opposition refuses to approve the law in Congress.
→ read full articleRecurring Nightmares: Genocide and the Long Shadow of Colonialism in Burma
Steven Kiersons, MA – The Sentinel Project,
8 Sep 2014
Why countries with a history of Western colonial influence are at a higher risk of genocide.
→ read full articleGod Wills It!
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
National conflicts are basically rational. They concern territory. They can usually be solved by compromise. Religious conflicts are irrational. Each side believes in an absolute truth, and automatically considers everybody else as infidels, enemies of the only true God.
→ read full articleMali: The Forgotten War
Pape Samba Kane – Al Jazeera,
8 Sep 2014
6 Sep 2014 – As representatives of the Malian government and various rebel groups meet in Algiers for peace talks, violence in northern Mali continues and so does the French military presence. France launched its military intervention in Mali in January 2013.
→ read full article(Português) Jihadistas na Casa Branca e os Gasodutos da Eurásia
Nazanín Armanian – Carta Maior,
8 Sep 2014
Um dos objetivos da atual ofensiva lançada contra a Rússia pelos EUA é forçar a Gazprom Germania a suspender cerca de 25 projetos que desenvolve na Europa.
→ read full articleLearning for Nonviolence and Better Governance versus Teaching for Violence and Worst Governance
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
I advise the teachers of our nation and the world to consider themselves as learners leading to the formation of sustainable genuine democracy, performance of good governance and practice of nonviolence. , “May we both (the teacher and the taught) attain fame together” as cited in Taittiriyopanishad.
→ read full articleShould Journalists Trust Themselves to Figure Out Which Sources Are Trustworthy?
Reg Chua - (Re)Structuring Journalism,
8 Sep 2014
It’s an important question for all of us. But it’s even more important for journalists, who talk to strangers on a regular basis and need to make snap judgments about how much faith we should have in what they say. So here’s the bad news: You shouldn’t trust yourself to figure out who you should trust.
→ read full articleXi, Modi, Jokowi: The Rise of a New Triad
Kishore Mahbubani - The BRICS Post,
8 Sep 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indonesia’s President-elect Joko “Jokowi” Widodo could end up ranked among their countries’ greatest modern leaders.
→ read full articlePenetrating the Darkness Covering Two Malaysian Airplane Disasters
John Chuckman - Pravda,
8 Sep 2014
The second great mystery is the US silence surrounding the disappearance, despite being the very nation able to offer the best information from the world’s most sophisticated surveillance radars and spy satellites.
→ read full articleCancer Behind 70% Deaths in India’s Atomic Energy Hubs
V Narayan & Malathy Iyer, TNN – The Times of India,
8 Sep 2014
7 Sep 2014 – Cancer caused almost 70% of the 3,887 health-related deaths in the atomic energy hubs across the country over the last 20 years, an RTI reply has revealed.
→ read full articleUN Secretary General “Alarmed” at Israel’s Announced Seizure of West Bank Land
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 1 September 2014 voiced his alarm at the announcement by Israeli authorities to declare nearly 1,000 acres of land in Bethlehem as so-called “state land.”
→ read full articleRare Insights from Inside Journalism in China: Dai Qing
Dai Qing – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
8 Sep 2014
A self-confessed “accidental” reporter, Dai Qing has been making waves in Chinese media and society for more than three decades with fearless story-telling and outspoken opinions.
→ read full articleAs I Age . . . Thoughts on Memory and Cosmos
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The reality is the omnipresence of memories — as we recall them, as wish to recall them, and as we wish to forget them. Memories are always present — waiting to be released. And with each memory, comes an endless flow of associations. Memories work their way to the surface — the immediacy of the present moment.
→ read full articleIran Didn’t Create ISIS; We Did
Ben Reynolds – The Diplomat,
8 Sep 2014
Instead of shifting blame for ISIS’s rise, the West and its allies should look in the mirror.
→ read full articleFukushima Crisis Continues, Was Worse Than First Reported
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Sep 2014
Nobody in the world knows how to dispose of radioactive waste safely and permanently. That’s a given. So Tokyo announced on August 29 [2014] that the Fukushima waste would be stored for 30 years in Fukushima prefect, in an “interim facility.” In Japanese, “Fukushima” means “Island of Good Fortune.”
→ read full articleHow America Made ISIS – Their Videos and Ours, Their “Caliphate” and Ours
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
8 Sep 2014
Looking back, it’s hard not to think of it as a kind of American jihadism and an attempt to establish what might have been an American caliphate in the region. In the process, the U.S. effectively dismantled and destroyed state power in the countries in which it intervened [Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya], while ensuring the destabilization of neighboring countries and finally the region itself.
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