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Israeli Operation Security Bottom
Gilad Atzmon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Osama Gil-laden in Jerusalem – Avi Dichter, former head of the Israel Security Agency declared earlier this week that “there is no Iron Dome against the terror tunnels.” The bottom front is bare and widely open. The Israeli Gay leaders saved Israel once again. Butt-Plug was their answer. “The Jewish homeland needs to seal its bottom and there is only one cheap method to do so”
→ read full article(Português) Português – Língua Internacional
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Segundo a Linha do Tempo, no Museu da Língua Portuguesa em São Paulo, a história do Português remonta a quatro mil anos antes de Cristo, mas foi tomando jeito de língua distinta lá pelos séculos VI e VII desta era.
→ read full articleThe Bullets Fell in Love with You
Maryam Youshizade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
You see now?
You were so sweet
You sent kisses to the world
The Boomerang Effect: Sanctions on Russia Hit German Economy Hard
Matthias Schepp and Cornelia Schmergal – Der Spiegel,
28 Jul 2014
21 Jul 2014 – The United States and Europe last week announced the imposition of stronger sanctions against Russia in response to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. German industry may be among the losers.
→ read full articleI Am Not a Jew
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
A poem in honor of the indomitable spirit of fellow humans who are being killed by Israel while being locked up in the Zionist concentration camp – called Gaza.
→ read full articleSetting Aside Your Humanity to Cheer “Team Israel”
MJ Rosenberg – Tikkun Daily,
28 Jul 2014
3000 years and it’s come to this. Go Blue (and White). If you defend this war, you are defending atrocities because, when it comes to Israel, you suspend all moral judgement. Fine. Just don’t think you are fooling anyone.
→ read full articleWhen BBC Calls, Don’t Answer
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
That is, don’t answer, if you are a certified critic of Israeli policies and practices.
→ read full articleOvercoming the Media Blockade in Gaza
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
28 Jul 2014
“We are disgustingly biased when it comes to this issue. Look at how [much] airtime [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and his folks have on air on a daily basis, Andrea Mitchell and others. I never see one Palestinian being interviewed on these same issues.”
→ read full articleShadow Boxing or Filling an Empty Diplomatic Space? Track II and Security in the Middle East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The term “Track II” was coined in 1981 by Joseph Montville in an article “Foreign Policy according to Freud” as being “unofficial, informal interaction among members of adversarial groups or nations with the goals of developing strategies, influencing public opinion, and organizing human and material resources in ways that might help resolve the conflict.”
→ read full articleUS Navy Thanks Ukrainian Rebels
News From Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
US Navy Admiral Boris K. Orloff, head of the Navy’s Department of Shortening Memories (formerly Public Relations) today announced the intention to present a medal to whomever among the Ukrainian rebels was responsible for the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. “We have been waiting for something like this for 26 years now,” he explained.
→ read full articleVital Collective Learning from Biased Media Coverage
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
This is an exploration of exposure to media reports on the Israeli military ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, ordered on 17 July 2014 — only hours after the destruction over Ukraine of the Malaysian Ariines flight MH17 by missile. Both cases have given rise to conflicting, unconfirmed reports by a variety of authorities. Justifications for any interpretation are readily — even assertively — offered.
→ read full articleThe Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist
Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
28 Jul 2014
23 Jul 2014 – The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept.
→ read full articleLawyers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
A woman called a lawyer in despair and explained, “I have never called a lawyer in my life.
→ read full article(Castellano) Galeano: Ya poca Palestina queda. Paso a paso, Israel la está borrando del mapa
Eduardo Galeano – Sin Permiso,
28 Jul 2014
Desde 1948, los palestinos viven condenados a humillación perpetua. No pueden ni respirar sin permiso. Han perdido su patria, sus tierras, su agua, su libertad, su todo. Ni siquiera tienen derecho a elegir sus gobernantes.
→ read full articleOnce And For All!
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
To put an end to the launching of rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip, Once And For All! To put an end to the blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel and Egypt, Once And For All! So why don’t the two sides come together without foreign interference and agree on tit for tat? Once And For All?
→ read full articleThe Court of World Opinion
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Israel, an apartheid regime far more evil than it South African counterpart ever was, justifies its genocidal atrocities by claiming that it “has a right to self-defense”; and the clarity of the situation is lost. I believe that even in an era such as ours, where the mainstream media are so thoroughly failing us, Gandhi’s nonviolence is still relevant.
→ read full articleC.S. Lewis on Suffering and What It Means to Have Free Will in a Universe of Fixed Laws
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
If the universe operates by fixed physical laws, what does it mean for us to have free will? That’s what C.S. Lewis considers with an elegant sidewise gleam in an essay titled “Divine Omnipotence” from his altogether fascinating 1940 book The Problem of Pain.
→ read full articleBrazil Recalls Ambassador from Israel over Gaza Assault
The Daily Star – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Brazilian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday [23 Jul 2014], “We strongly condemn the disproportionate use of force by Israel in the Gaza Strip, from which large numbers of civilian casualties, including women and children resulted.”
→ read full articleAs Western Power Diminishes, BRICS Rises
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
July 21, 2014 – The 6th BRICS Summit was a resounding success. While major Western newspapers had consistently neglected the yearly gatherings in the past (or generally described it as a misguided idea), leading global voices such as The Economist and The Financial Times both reported on last week’s meeting.
→ read full article{MUST READ} Letter from Gaza by a Norwegian Doctor
Dr. Mads Gilbert – Middle East Monitor,
28 Jul 2014
17 Jul 2014 – The last night was extreme. The “ground invasion” of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying – all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent. The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza’s hospitals are working 12-24 hour shifts, grey from fatigue and inhuman workloads, they care, triage, try to understand the incomprehensible chaos of bodies, sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, breathing, not breathing, bleeding, not bleeding humans. HUMANS!
→ read full articleWhy Is the 2022 World Cup Being Held in a Country That Practices Modern-Day Slavery?
Michelle Chen – The Nation,
28 Jul 2014
Even when migrant contract workers lose their jobs, they may end up stranded indefinitely if their employer does not give permission for them to return home. Workers who run away or are “abandoned” by their bosses might wind up homeless, unemployable and trapped on foreign soil.
→ read full article(Castellano) El 30% de los candidatos a elecciones en Brasil son mujeres
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
El Partido de los Trabajadores, liderado por la actual presidenta brasileña, Dilma Roussef, es el que presenta un mayor número de candidaturas entre hombres y mujeres. En segundo lugar se encuentra el Partido Socialista Brasileño (PSB).
→ read full articleBangladesh Sending Its Death Squads for the UN Peacekeeping Missions
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Serving in a UN peacekeeping mission is deemed so lucrative [as a Bangladesh Army officer earn upwards of US $2,200 a month in addition to other allowances and parks for an officer against Taka 15,000 (about US $200) for an officer in the country and US $1,100 for a soldier, against Taka 7,717 (about US $100)] that Bangladesh Army has systematically monopolised the UN postings.
→ read full articleSolidarity with Palestinians in Gaza Begins in Lebanon’s Camps
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Gaza isn’t the only open air prison; Lebanon has 12 of its own. And the people there are denied the most elementary right to apply for a job in more than 50 professions. Solidarity—credible, genuine solidarity—is within our grasp; let us reach for it.
→ read full articleInterview with Johan Galtung: The Pioneering International Peace Research Association He Founded in 1964
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Interview conducted on the occasion of IPRA’s 50th anniversary celebration at the Istanbul Conference, Turkey, August 11-15, 2014.
→ read full article(Italiano) La violenza strutturale riesaminata
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Il saggio “Galtung’s Structural Violence and the Sierra Leone Civil War c. 1985-1992″ Philip Leech pubblicato nella newsletter di TRANSCEND del 14 luglio 2014 tra tutti i commenti il più profondo, è un’ottima opportunità per chiarire e sviluppare ulteriormente alcune delle premesse teoriche.
→ read full articleElite Insanity on Display in Ukraine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
There are some standard and frequently repeated dysfunctional behaviours on display here with the usual unconscious emotional drivers of this behaviour hidden from view. Let us then consider some obvious aspects of the conflict and analyse them from a psychological perspective.
→ read full articleGaza Interview
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
[Prefatory note: This is an interview with a knowledgeable Greek journalist covering a range of issues associated with the Gaza ordeal] – “Blood on American Hands”: Richard Falk on Palestine
→ read full articleThe Path to a New 1914? How America Chose War after 9/11
Jonathan Schell - TomDispatch,
28 Jul 2014
Then came the attack of September 11 [2001]. Like the starting gun of a race that no one knew he was to run, this explosion set the pack of nations off in a single direction — toward the trenches.
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Israel and Palestine – A Very Short Introduction
Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Easy to understand, historically accurate. Why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting, why the US-backed peace process has been an impediment to peace, and what you can do to make a difference. This conflict is essentially about land and human rights, not religion and culture.
→ read full article“A Story of Love and Obsession Gone Bad”: How the U.S. Navy Is Killing the World’s Whales
Lindsay Abrams - Salon,
28 Jul 2014
Author Joshua Horvitz on the epic showdown between marine life and national security.
→ read full articleStatement of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The new United Nations Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, undertook her first official visit to the country from 17 to 26 July 2014 to gather first-hand information on the current human rights situation in Myanmar.
→ read full articleWashington Is Escalating the Orchestrated Ukrainian “Crisis” to War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
There we have it again: Russian Aggression. Repeat it enough and it becomes real.
→ read full articleStudy: Diet, Exercise May Prevent Dementia
Gary Stix – Scientific American,
28 Jul 2014
New research suggests a multi-pronged approach may be most effective in preserving brain health long-term.
→ read full articleGoogle Doesn’t Want You to Limit Its Ability to Follow You around the Internet
Dan Gillmor – The Guardian,
28 Jul 2014
Behind our screens, tech companies are racing to extract a price for what we read and watch on the web: our personal information.
→ read full articleThe Truth!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
A 10 year old boy asked his recently divorced mother, “How old are you?” The mother told him, “This is not a question you should ask, never ask it again.”
→ read full articleTranscending an Asystemic View of Life
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
A truly remarkable analysis of why things ought to work in theory is provided in a magnum opus by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi as The Systems View of Life: a unifying vision (2014). It is however also a remarkable example of why the global system is in such dire straits — through failure to apply systemic insights to why they do not work in practice.
→ read full articleThe Spanish Town Where People Come Before Profit
Liam Barrington-Bush and Jen Wilton, Contributoria – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The town of Marinaleda, often called Spain’s “communist utopia,” is proof that an economy built on mutual aid is possible. Manuel Gutierrez Daneri says, “Assembly is a place for people to discuss problems and to find the solutions,” pointing out that even minor crimes are collectively addressed via the assembly, as the town has no police or judicial system since the last local cop retired.
→ read full articleAn appeal to BBC and Mainstream Western Media to End Bias against Palestinians: Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Collective punishment, the breaking of the Geneva Convention, and the bombing of Palestinian women and children do not deter US President Obama and UN Ambassador Samantha Fox from assuring Israel that it will always be their good friend and support it to the tune of billions for its military and illegal occupation of Palestinian land.
→ read full article18 Jul 2014 – World Marks 1st Mandela Day since His Death
News24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
People around the world celebrate “Mandela Day” on Friday [18 Jul 2014] for the first time since the iconic former president’s death, by doing good deeds on what would have been his 96th birthday.
→ read full articleBorder Children: ‘They Don’t Speak English, but They Understand Hate’
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
21 Jul 2014
The United States has a long and sadly bloody history of destabilizing democratic governments in the very countries that are now the sources of this latest wave of migration: most notably in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. In the 1980s and 1990s, U.S.-supported military regimes and paramilitaries killed hundreds of thousands of citizens in those countries.
→ read full articleThe UK Ministry of Defence Says Life in 2045 Will Be Unequal and Violent
Victoria Turk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Large private, or semiprivate, companies and non-governmental organisations will grow in number and power. Major changes: an increase in population of three billion, scarcity of resources, increased vulnerability of overpopulated cities. “Inequality will endure, and the world will remain fraught with conflict and complexity.”
→ read full articleOperation Bibi Rescue
Gilad Atzmon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The IDF launched a vast ground operation in Gaza last night [17 Jul 2014]. Until now, Israel has failed to articulate its military objectives or a definition of what a victory would look like. The military objective is obvious: saving Netanyahu’s political career.
→ read full article(Castellano) Bolivia es declarada territorio libre de analfabetismo por la Unesco
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
La nación suramericana alcanzó esta meta tras la aplicación del método Yo Sí Puedo, diseñado por Cuba y empleado en naciones como Venezuela, que fue declarada libre de analfabetismo en 2005.
→ read full articleBRICS Set Up $100-Bln Bank to Counter West in Global Finance
Today’s Zaman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Leaders of the BRICS emerging market nations launched a $100 billion development bank and a currency reserve pool on Tuesday [15 Jul 2014] in their first concrete step toward reshaping the Western-dominated international financial system.
→ read full articleIncubating a Non-Dollar Architecture
Akshay Mathur –Indian Council on Global Relations,
21 Jul 2014
Can the mandate of the new [BRICS] bank be extended to incubate a non-dollar financial architecture for emerging countries? If so, what would the design look like?
→ read full articleUS Terrorist Database Growing at Rapid Rate
Matthew Barakat, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The U.S. government is rapidly expanding the number of names it accepts for inclusion on its terrorist watch list, with more than 1.5 million added in the last five years, according to numbers divulged by the government in a civil lawsuit. About 99 percent of the names submitted are accepted, leading to criticism that the government is “wildly loose” in its use of the list.
→ read full article“Buddhists Betray the Teachings” — Jack Kornfield on the Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma
Jack Kornfield, Shambhala SunSpace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
A religion known for nonviolence is being used to fuel a genocidal campaign against the Muslims of Burma. Inside the coming, September 2014 Shambhala Sun, Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, who recently returned from Burma, urges us to join the call for peace.
→ read full articleHow the Mexican Drug Trade Thrives on Free Trade
Christy Thornton and Adam Goodman – The Nation,
21 Jul 2014
Reversing this trend will require recognizing the extent to which Mexico’s “good” and “bad” capital are increasingly inextricable. Elite politicians, businessmen, and cartel leaders aren’t strange bedfellows in Mexico—they share the billions under the mattress.
→ read full articleFacts Needed on Malaysian Plane Shoot-Down
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
21 Jul 2014
As usual, the mainstream U.S. media is rushing to judgment over the crash of a Malaysian airliner in war-torn eastern Ukraine, but the history of U.S. government’s deceptions might be reason to pause and let a careful investigation uncover the facts, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
→ read full articleThe Political Objective and Strategic Goal of Nonviolent Actions
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Whether or not activists achieve their political objective is strategically irrelevant. This is because an effective nonviolent action is designed to achieve its strategic goal, irrespective of the response of opponents or the authorities to the political objective of the action. Whether or not activists achieve their strategic goal, however, is always strategically determinative.
→ read full articleA Brief History of How Bees Sexed Up Earth and Gave Flowers Their Colors
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
How a striped, winged, six-legged love machine sparked “the longest marketing campaign in history.”
→ read full articleBRICS Bank Is First Step towards New International Economic Order [NIEO]
Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava - CounterCurrents,
21 Jul 2014
China is now an important country in financial terms. India has huge middle class with purchasing power equal to European people. Russia has potential to control the EU affairs in its sphere of influence. Brazil is instrumental in promoting the socialist model, influencing adjoining countries. South Africa has vast natural resources with impact upon the whole continent.
→ read full articleNo Exit from Gaza: A New War Crime?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
As the casualty totals continue to mount while the world looks on in stupefied inaction, the attacks go on; at the very least, from a humanitarian perspective, there should be a global outcry demanding that children, mothers, and those sick and disabled be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip until current hostilities end. Yet this is a gap in international humanitarian law and refugee law.
→ read full articleStructural Violence Re-Explored
Johan Galtung, 21 Jul 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The essay “Galtung’s Structural Violence and the Sierra Leone Civil War c. 1985-1992” by Philip Leech [TMS-Analysis 14 Jul 2014],–of all the commentators the deepest–is a very welcome opportunity to clarify and develop further some of the underlying thinking.
→ read full articleWho is Winning?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
What would history look like if it were written in the style of the “Solid Cliff (a.k.a. Protective Edge) operation? For example: Winston Churchill was a scoundrel.
→ read full article100 Years of War-100 Years of Peace and the Peace Movement, 1914-2014
Peter van den Dungen, World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The West, and the rest of the world, would indeed be a great deal more civilised if war – ‘the foulest blot upon our civilization’ in the words of Andrew Carnegie – was abolished. When he said so, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still Japanese cities like any other.
→ read full articleTop Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Jeremy R. Hammond – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Myth #8 – God gave the land to the Jews, so the Arabs are the occupiers.
Myth #10 – The U.S. is an honest broker and has sought to bring about peace in the Middle East.
Sixth BRICS Summit – Fortaleza Declaration
Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
July 15, 2014 – Fortaleza, Brazil – To inaugurate the second cycle of BRICS Summits, the theme chosen for our discussions was “Inclusive Growth: Sustainable Solutions”, in keeping with the inclusive macroeconomic and social policies carried out by our governments and the imperative to address challenges to humankind posed by the need to simultaneously achieve growth, inclusiveness, protection and preservation.
→ read full articleI, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile
Alan Rusbridger and Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
21 Jul 2014
He doesn’t drink, he’s reading Dostoevsky and, no, he doesn’t wear a disguise. A year after blowing the whistle on the NSA, America’s most wanted talks frankly about his life as a hero-pariah – and why the world remains ‘more dangerous than Orwell imagined’.
→ read full articleMH17: World See Tragedy, US Sees “Game Changer”
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
NATO needed a “game changer,” because it was playing a game it was clearly losing. The dubious circumstances surrounding the downing of MH17 – occurring just as Kiev’s forces were deteriorating across the country and additional US sanctions against Russia fell flat – is more than a mere coincidence.
→ read full articleAmerica: Where the “Good Guys” Torture – A Nation of Cowards?
Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch,
21 Jul 2014
Once upon a time, if a character on TV or in a movie tortured someone, it was a sure sign that he was a bad guy. Now, the torturers are the all-American heroes. There is a word for people whose first concern is always for their own safety and who will therefore permit anything to be done in their name as long as it keeps them secure. Such people are sometimes called cowards.
→ read full article(Italiano) Con che cosa ha che fare la storia – Guardate questa mappa della storia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Tentiamo una spiegazione basata sui concetti di impero e dinastia; gli imperi in espansione e contrazione nello spazio, le dinastie nel tempo. Entrambi si basano su contraddizioni, forze e contro-forze, dialettica; ma negli imperi la dialettica è esterna, nelle dinastie interna.
→ read full article(Português) Cientistas fazem macacos ter AIDS [SIDA] pela primeira vez: vitória ou derrota?
Sérgio Greif - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
21 Jul 2014
Após 30 anos do início da pandemia de AIDS em todo o mundo e milhões gastos em pesquisa, finalmente cientistas comemoram a noticia . . . não de que conseguiram a cura para a doença em seres humanos, mas que conseguiram criar a doença em outros primatas. Há algo de tolo e irracional na ciência tal como a entendemos hoje.
→ read full articleTormenting Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
There is so much regional turbulence at present that it is unlikely to hope for anything more than scattered verbal denunciations from authorities in the region preoccupied with other concerns, but given the gravity of the situation, attention needs to be refocused on the Palestinian ordeal.
→ read full articleSweetheart Deal among Mafiosi: Citigroup to Pay $7 Billion for Its “Egregious Misconduct”
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
21 Jul 2014
Banking giant sold “toxic financial products,” reaped profits; critics say it now gets a “sweetheart immunity deal.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Elicotteri Agusta all’Uganda dei diritti violati
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Nuovi sistemi d’arma italiani per il continente africano.
→ read full articleHow Eating Less Meat Can Help Feed the World
Lindsay Abrams - Salon,
21 Jul 2014
Small reforms could have a major impact on hunger, a new study finds.
→ read full articleThe Gaza Massacre: The Underlying Motives
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Massacre has become a habit. Every two or three years, Israel launches a massive military assault upon largely unarmed Palestinians in Gaza. Every time, Israel claims the moral high ground for its brutal, barbaric action. It blames Hamas, an important component of the Palestinian liberation movement, for the present cycle of violence.
→ read full articleIt Was Putin’s Missile!
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
21 Jul 2014
And here’s the spin war verdict: the current Malaysia Airlines tragedy – the second in four months – is “terrorism” perpetrated by “pro-Russian separatists”, armed by Russia, and Vladimir Putin is the main culprit. End of story. Anyone who believes otherwise, shut up. Why? Because the CIA said so.
→ read full articleIsrael: An Obstacle to World Peace
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The nation yesterday we over empowered
Today is out of control of any super power
Neither any law works there, nor any order
The US, UN, NATO, EU, all are now weaker
Storage of Radioactive Spent Fuel Rods Still Haunts Nuclear Industry
Paul Brown – Climate News Network,
21 Jul 2014
Nuclear power is seen as one of the possible solutions to climate change, but the recent closure of five US power stations is forcing the industry to face up at last to the damaging legacy of how to deal with radioactive waste.
→ read full articleSanctions and Airliners
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Before you say Washington is too sophisticated to mistake one airliner for another, keep in mind that when Washington shot down an Iranian airliner over Iranian air space, the US Navy claimed that it thought the 290 civilians that it murdered were in an Iranian fighter jet, a F-14 Tomcat fighter, a US-made fighter that was a mainstay of the US Navy.
→ read full articleBRICS Forges Ahead With Two New Power Drivers – India and China
Shastri Ramachandaran, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Two external groups defined by divergent interests closely watched proceedings: on the one hand, emerging economies and developing countries, and on the other, a group comprising the United States, Japan and other Western countries thriving on the Washington Consensus and the Bretton Woods twins (the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund).
→ read full articleEdward Snowden Urges Professionals to Encrypt Client Communications
Alan Rusbridger and Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
21 Jul 2014
Whistleblower says NSA revelations mean those with duty to protect confidentiality must urgently upgrade security. Watch Snowden’s interview with the Guardian in Moscow.
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(Castellano) Dónde Jugarán los Niños (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Maná – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Maná es una banda mexicana de rock en español que ha obtenido múltiples premios por su labor a favor de la ecología. [En Vivo]
→ read full articleForget or Forgive or Fight
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
If I would ask
Just to forget the past
Who I am and
Who will I be?
30th Anniversary! Hilo Bay Nuclear Warship Blockade (Hawai’i)
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
For three years the Navy repeatedly violated the law. In June of 1984 peace activists announced a nonviolent blockade of the next nuclear ship visiting Hilo. Three people entered the water and held their hands up in a symbolic message to the ship –”STOP.” Jim Snyder, Warren Wineman and Jim Albertini were imprisoned and/or fined for their nonviolent protest.
→ read full articleThreatening Whales and Planet, US Opens Up Offshore Oil Exploration
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
21 Jul 2014
The Obama administration on Friday [18 Jul 2014] gave the greenlight for fossil fuel companies to begin exploring for oil in the waters off the east coast of the U.S., a move said to have a dire consequences for marine life in the short term and on our global climate for years to come.
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Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz Hails New BRICS Bank Challenging U.S.-Dominated World Bank & IMF
Democracy Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
“The BRICS countries today are richer than the advanced countries were when the World Bank and the IMF were founded. We’re in a different world — but the old institutions haven’t kept up.”
→ read full articleNobel Literature Laureate Nadine Gordimer Dies Aged 90
David Smith – The Guardian,
21 Jul 2014
Nobel-prize-winning chronicler of apartheid died peacefully in Johannesburg on Sunday [13 Jul 2014].
→ read full articleDeploying Drones to Get an Overview of Factory Farms
Peggy Lowe, NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
An independent journalist says he’s found a way around the so-called “ag-gag” laws by flying drones over large livestock operations to document animal welfare problems and pollution.
→ read full articleCould the Use of Rockets Be Banned in the Middle East?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The use of rockets by Islamic groups from Gaza toward Israel and the more deadly use of rockets and bombs by Israeli forces toward Gaza have raised in a dramatic way the possibility of banning rocket use in the Middle East. Arms control in the ME has always been difficult as there is no equivalent of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe there.
→ read full articleBolivia Makes Child Labor Legal from Age 10
The Associated Press – Al Jazeera America,
21 Jul 2014
Child labor has been common in a nation that ranks as one of the poorest in the Americas.
→ read full articleTime for BDS to Oppose Israeli War Crimes
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
16 Jul 2014 – I have spent the last year defending my right, through Australia’s Federal Court, not to take part in fellowship schemes that link the University of Sydney, where I direct the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, and two institutions from Israel. This week, Judge Alan Robertson dismissed the case against me and awarded costs.
→ read full articleClimate Change: Will a Disaster Wake Us Up?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
In a 2011 interview in The Guardian, Sir David Attenborough was asked: “What will it take to wake people up about climate change?” He replied “Disaster. It’s a terrible thing to say, isn’t it? And even disaster doesn’t always do it.
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“Evacuate to Where?” – Report from Gaza and Israel
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Jul 17, 2014 – Gaza-based blogger Nalan al Sarraj and TRNN’s Lia Tarachansky report on the mood of the people in Gaza and Israel as Israeli ground troops join the attack.
→ read full articleThe Last Days of Che Guevara: A Graphic Novel – Book Review
Paul Buhle – Toward Freedom,
21 Jul 2014
No iconic, rebellious image of anyone from the 1960s, it is safe to say, looms larger than that of Che Guevara, even today, so long past his death. Che is the one in museums, and on towels in Italy, posters in Vietnam, statues and assorted monuments in Venezuela and so on.
→ read full articleThe Oxymoron of Peace
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Austerity is for losers. There’s always money to wage war and build weapons, indeed, to continue developing weapons, generation after generation after generation. The contractors are adept at playing the game. Jobs link arms with fear and patriotism and the next war is always inevitable.
→ read full articleWhat Is Israel’s End Game in Gaza?
Dennis Kucinich – Consortium News,
21 Jul 2014
Israel can kill, injure, humiliate Palestinians at will, with impunity, which is exactly what gave rise to Hamas and strengthens Hamas’ hold in Gaza, even as the IDF advances… Since the U.S. is helping to pay Israel’s bills, we cannot avoid the consequences of paying the price for Israel’s actions against the Palestinians.
→ read full articleBuddhist Economics: How to Stop Prioritizing Goods Over People and Consumption Over Creative Activity
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
What does it really mean to create wealth for people — for humanity — as opposed to money for governments and corporations? That’s precisely what the influential German-born British economist, statistician, Rhodes Scholar, and economic theorist E. F. Schumacher explores in his seminal 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
→ read full articlePositive Thoughts on Dark Times
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Despite this generally gloomy picture, important positive developments have emerged raising the possibility of fundamental changes to reverse the current reactionary wave. I will proceed by outlining these positive developments, taking account of the retrograde context in which they occur.
→ read full articleVICTORY! Anti-BDS Case against Jake Lynch Falls Apart
Max Chalmers – New Matilda,
14 Jul 2014
VICTORY! Israeli radical law centre pursuing Centre for Peace and Conflict studies director Jake Lynch signed an agreement to request the case be dismissed. Shurat HaDin have now agreed to pay his costs after taking him to the Australian Federal Court for his support of BDS. Lynch said he was excited and relieved that the case was being abandoned.
→ read full articlePope Francis: ‘About 2%’ of Catholic Clergy Paedophiles
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
The Pope said that abuse of children was like “leprosy” infecting the Church, according to the Italian La Repubblica newspaper. He vowed to “confront it with the severity it demands”.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Watch – Murder’s Apologists
Norman G. Finkelstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
It takes considerable talent to describe Hamas’s firing of primitive “rockets” that to date have indirectly killed one person (she died of a heart attack) as a “war crime,” while describing Israel’s killing to date of 120 Palestinians, overwhelmingly civilians, and its systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure, as mere “collective punishment.”
→ read full articleUS-German Relations Reach Breaking Point
John Batchelor – Al Jazeera America,
14 Jul 2014
Berlin holds the whip hand in the EU. The way Berlin goes, Paris, London, Rome and the other NATO members will follow. Berlin’s inclination since well before the Ukraine crisis was to move closer to Moscow in the “Common Eurasian home” narrative.
→ read full articleThe Return of George Orwell and Big Brother’s War on Palestine, Ukraine and the Truth
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
In everyday discourse, political language is turned on its head, as Orwell prophesised in ‘1984’. “Democracy” is now a rhetorical device. Peace is “perpetual war”. “Global” is imperial. The once hopeful concept of “reform” now means regression, even destruction. “Austerity” is the imposition of extreme capitalism on the poor and the gift of socialism for the rich: an ingenious system under which the majority service the debts of the few.
→ read full articleInside Yingli, the Giant Chinese Solar Company Sponsoring the World Cup
James West and Jaeah Lee – Mother Jones,
14 Jul 2014
You’ve seen its logos on the sidelines. Now get a peek inside the company trying to transform the world.
→ read full articleSave Gaza Today – Tomorrow May Be Too Late!
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
With the growing extremism in Israeli military, their “holy wars” and nukes, it is not just Gaza that is burning – this is a war on humanity and perhaps even human race. If we do not stop it today, tomorrow may be too late.
→ read full article(Italiano) Sette vie alla felicità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
• Piaceri negativi: godiamoci i problemi che non abbiamo.
• Piaceri positivi: godiamoci ancor di più quelli che abbiamo.
• Competizione con noi stessi, non con gli altri – ponendoci obiettivi di auto-miglioramento.
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