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Uruguay Becomes First Country to Legalize Marijuana Trade
Malena Castaldi and Felipe Llambias, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Uruguay became the first country to legalize the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana on Tuesday [10 Dec 2013], a pioneering social experiment that will be closely watched by other nations debating drug liberalization.
→ read full articleNot Too Bad
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
An elderly man went to the doctor for his annual checkup.
→ read full articleAloha Nelson Mandela!
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Mandela was a political activist and agitator. He did not shy away from controversy and he did not seek — or obtain — universal approval. Before and after his release from prison, he embraced an unabashedly progressive and provocative platform.
→ read full articleThe Earth Dialogues Geneva Declaration on Action for a Peaceful and Sustainable World
Green Cross International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
We, the participants of the Earth Dialogues 2013 are deeply concerned by the failure of the world community to act decisively to avert the mounting risks of ecological, environmental and climatic disaster.
→ read full articleScientists Sign Declaration That Animals Have Conscious Awareness-Just Like Humans
Higher Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
An international group of prominent scientists has signed The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in which they are proclaiming their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are — a list of animals that includes all mammals, birds, and even the octopus.
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O Holy Night (Music Video of the Week)
Libera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
The boys who make up the vocal band Libera have been described as “normal” and “ordinary”. However, as their recordings and performances demonstrate, the music they produce is truly extraordinary. These are truly sounds to lift the soul. The singers are aged seven to sixteen, attend different local schools in South London and come from a variety of backgrounds. Although they are boys and they sing, they do not think of themselves as choirboys, but rather as an alternative kind of boy band.
→ read full articleReports on Syrian Paramilitary Groups
The Carter Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
The reports are part of the Center’s Syria Conflict Mapping Project, which analyzes the unprecedented volume of online citizen-generated information about the conflict in an effort to better inform peace-building efforts.
→ read full article(Português) Veja Como a NSA Acessa Seu Gmail
Alberto Sicilia, Principia Marsupia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Procuramos explicar de maneira simples como funcionam os dois programas do governo dos Estados Unidos que recolhem os nossos dados na Internet.
→ read full articleFrance Fuels Sectarian Killing in the Central African Republic
Finian Cunningham - PressTV,
16 Dec 2013
Hollande is distorting the facts. The carnage in the CAR erupted after heavily armed French soldiers began patrolling the streets. French troops are not preventing mayhem; they are inflaming it.
→ read full articleWashington Drives the World toward War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Exceptionalism Killing America’s Soul – A person might wonder what is exceptional and indispensable about a government that is a reincarnation of Nazi Germany in every respect. People propagandized into the belief that they are the world’s special people inevitably lose their humanity.
→ read full articleNew Documents Show How the NSA Infers Relationships Based on Mobile Location Data
Ashkan Soltani and Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
16 Dec 2013
Everyone who carries a cellphone generates a trail of electronic breadcrumbs that reveal a wealth of information about who we are, where we live, who our friends are and much more. The NSA is collecting location information in bulk — 5 billion records per day worldwide — and using sophisticated algorithms to assist with U.S. intelligence-gathering operations.
→ read full articleWar No More
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
A poem-plea dedicated to Johan Galtung.
→ read full articleWhy You Should Be Outraged About the TPP
Luke Bacon - NewMatilda,
16 Dec 2013
Openness in negotiation is a key component of democratic politics. Without it, the public can’t make sound decisions. The anti-democratic nature of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
→ read full articleUnderstanding Syria: From Pre-Civil War to Post-Assad
William R. Polk – The Atlantic,
16 Dec 2013
William R. Polk offers an updated report on the grim prospects in Syria. Like his previous offerings, it is long and detailed—but as with the others, it offers both a coherent perspective and a myriad of facts and insights you will not find elsewhere.
→ read full articleHow Journals like Nature, Cell and Science Are Damaging Science
Randy Schekman, 2013 Medicine Nobel Laureate – The Guardian,
16 Dec 2013
The incentives offered by top journals distort science, just as big bonuses distort banking. I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity. But it is disfigured by inappropriate incentives. The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.
→ read full article(Русский-Russian) Евромайдан – новое слово в цветных революциях
Правда – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
12 декабря 2013 – Напряжение в Киеве, кажется, спадает: милиция освобождает город и государственные учреждения от активистов очередной увядающей цветной революции.
→ read full articleMaxine Kaufman-Lacusta
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Refusing to be Enemies: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation (Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, 2011). The book of Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta comes at an opportune time when the US Secretary of State John Kerry is making a concerted effort to mediate in the Israeli-Palestine tensions.
→ read full articleThe West Needs to Bite Ukraine Off from Russia at All Costs
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
12 Dec 2013 – Tension in Kiev seems to be subsiding. The city police are vacating the city and government agencies from activists of another fading color revolution. Ara Stepanyan, the executive secretary of the Academy of Geopolitical Issues, talked about it in a live feed.
→ read full articleAnalysis of STRATFOR Leaks Misrepresents Nonviolent Movements
Stephen Zunes, WarIsACrime - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Many of us were becoming concerned that, despite some very valuable contributions he and his colleagues at CANVAS have made to the field, Srdja Popovic appeared to be increasingly into self-promotion and lacking much discernment regarding those with whom he was willing to work.
→ read full articleFresh Doubts about Syria’s Sarin Guilt
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
16 Dec 2013
Exclusive: A new analysis, buried in a UN report, reveals that one of the two missiles at the center of the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, which nearly led to a U.S. military attack, showed no evidence of Sarin, further undermining Official Washington’s certainty that the Syrian government was to blame.
→ read full articleStop Giving the West a Bad Name!
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Syria responded to the chemical arms issue by giving a Nobel Peace Prize to an NGO for the prohibition of chemical weapons; in line with Nobel’s testament, reduction of standing forces. But why not shared with Putin, the politician who focused on the arms not on “who done it” (with two good candidates), and WMD to boot, when Obama had nothing but missile attacks on Assad strongholds to offer? But no; a NATO country gives a prize to the West, not to Russia.
→ read full articleNelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi
Nitin Mehta- The Gandhi Foundation,
16 Dec 2013
The death of Nelson Mandela at the age of 95 has moved people all over the world. The outpouring of grief is similar to the one when Mahatma Gandhi died. It is one of those inexplicable quirks of history that both these giants who shaped the modern world started their long march for justice in South Africa.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dove vanno gli Stati Uniti d’America?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Da dove possono provenire controforze di rinnovamento capaci di spostare il paese su un’altra rotta? Economicamente: non si riesce a ripeterlo abbastanza: sollevare i ceti più bassi, dando loro speranza e dignità, portandoli dentro l’economia e soprattutto cambiando l’ethos dell’ economia dall’arricchimento dei ricchi all’empowerment dei poveri.
→ read full articleNSA Uses Google Cookies to Pinpoint Targets for Hacking
Ashkan Soltani, Andrea Peterson and Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
16 Dec 2013
The agency’s internal presentation slides, provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, show that when companies follow consumers on the Internet to better serve them advertising, the technique opens the door for similar tracking by the government. The slides also suggest that the agency is using these tracking techniques to help identify targets for offensive hacking operations.
→ read full articleEscaping the Abusive State: After Snowden
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
We can and must do better, above all as citizens engaged in the protection of the sort of society we wish to live in; without civic activism of a militant character we can wave goodbye to the promise of genuine democracy.
→ read full articleBibi and Bandar Badger Obama: Better Six Billion than Six Trillion!
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—along with certain Arab League countries, plus Turkey and Israel, have this past week reportedly committed themselves to raising nearly $6 billion to “beef up” the just-hatched Islamic Front (IF) in Syria.
→ read full articleFBI Can Secretly Turn On Laptop Cameras Without the Indicator Light
Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer’s camera “without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording” for years now.
→ read full articleOn Nelson Mandela`s Legacy to the History of Dignity
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Nelson Mandela left us physically
but he is still among us dignifyingly
In Memoriam: Howard Clark
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Howard Clark, long time co-editor of Peace News and “coordinator” of War Resisters International died Nov. 28, 2013. He was more tuned to broader social change — “Nonviolent Revolution” became a subtitle on the Peace News masthead and Making Nonviolent Revolution was Howard’s most widely circulated booklet within WRI.
→ read full articleConvention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (9 Dec 1948)
William A. Schabas – UN Library of International Law,
9 Dec 2013
The text of the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948. After obtaining the requisite twenty ratifications required by article XIII, the Convention entered into force on 12 January 1951.
→ read full articleKilled Beaten Raped: Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia
Graham Peebles – Counter Currents,
9 Dec 2013
Employers confiscate passports, money and mobile phones of new arrivals; workers who want to change jobs or leave the country must seek their employer’s consent who universally refuse to give it. A “sub-contracting” scheme is also in operation with employers selling workers on.
→ read full articleJapan Enacts Strict State Secrets Law despite Protests
Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Japan enacted a state-secrets law toughening penalties for leaks on Friday [6 Dec 2013]. Media, publishers, lawyers and even entertainers have denounced the bill, which drastically expands the definition of state secrets and for some has echoes of Japan’s harsh authoritarian regime before and during World War Two.
→ read full articleNation’s Libraries Warn of NSA’s ‘Ravenous Hunger’ for Data
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
9 Dec 2013
“We don’t want [library patrons] being surveilled because that will inhibit learning, and reading, and creativity.” The world’s largest library association is warning against the NSA’s “ravenous hunger” for information and is urging the passage of legislation to rein in the agency’s vast surveillance powers.
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Pathways to Peace: Talk with Johan Galtung
The Stream – Al Jazeera,
9 Dec 2013
Dec 5, 2013 – In a world full of conflict, how does one manage to negotiate peace? Al Jazeera’s “The Stream” talks to the father of peace studies, Prof. Johan Galtung, about the future of peace studies and conflict resolution, US foreign policy, and issues facing the world.
→ read full articleApple, Google, Microsoft and More Demand Sweeping Changes to US Surveillance Laws
Dan Roberts and Jemima Kiss – The Guardian,
9 Dec 2013
AOL, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple and LinkedIn to call for reforms to restore the public’s trust in the internet.
→ read full articleUN, EU Subsidize French Crimes in Africa
Finian Cunningham – PressTV,
9 Dec 2013
French neo-colonialism in Africa is now official fact after the deployment this weekend of hundreds of its troops in the poverty-stricken Central Africa Republic. The manipulation of events and public opinion to justify this French intervention has all the garish choreography of a can-can dance troupe.
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Remembering Nelson Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it is done.”
350.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Dec 5, 2013 – Nelson Mandela inspired all of us with his courage, his unyielding resistance, and his grace. Inspired by his vision climate activists from around the world helped make this video.
→ read full article(Português) O Antigo Jovem Marx e o Novo Velho Marx Renascem em Berlim
Flávio Aguiar – Carta Maior,
9 Dec 2013
O Marx que provavelmente emergirá do projeto MEGA, edição integral de Marx/Engels, será menos apocalíptico e teleológico, mais profético e analítico.
→ read full articleMandela and Gandhi
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Nelson Rohihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) and Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) were two of human history’s greatest leaders in the struggle against governmental oppression. They are also remembered as great ethical teachers. Their lives had many similarities; but there were also differences.
→ read full articleNelson Mandela’s “I am Prepared to Die” Speech on Being Sentenced to Life Imprisonment with Hard Labor
The History Place – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
In 1962 Mandela was arrested for his opposition to the white government and its apartheid policies against the nonwhite majority. In 1964 the government brought further charges including sabotage, high treason and conspiracy to overthrow the government. This is Mandela’s statement from the dock at the opening of his defense in the 1964 trial.
→ read full articleNelson Mandela’s Inspiration
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Fifteen years ago I had the extraordinary pleasure of meeting Nelson Mandela in Cape Town while he was serving as President of South Africa. His journey, like that of Gandhi, was not without its major disappointments.
→ read full articleLobbying Elites: The Fast Track to Extinction
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
The evidence teaches us that elites want us to lobby (or vote for) them so that they can ignore us, and that mobilizations of people in one place provide easy targets for repression. So we need to develop strategies that primarily allow us to organise collectively in small local groups, to work with people whose values we share and to minimize the opportunities for military and police repression.
→ read full articleAnother Batch of Wall Street Villains Freed on Technicality
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
9 Dec 2013
You can send a guy away for life on a murder charge based on a speck of blood and an old lady who saw a piece of a license number on a car screeching away from the scene. But you need to build a massive rhetorical case from scratch just to indict someone for being part of a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy.
→ read full articleThe Lies behind This Transatlantic Trade Deal – Managing Transparency
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
* Politicians and officials are desperately seeking to justify their transatlantic assault on democracy.
* Plans to create an EU-US single market will allow corporations to sue governments using secretive panels, bypassing courts and parliaments.
Ivana Milojevic – Breathing: Violence In, Peace Out
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Ivana Milojevic analyses the long-term impact of trans-generational trauma by looking at the personal experience of her family over three generations caught up in the Stalinist repression in the Soviet Union, the Second World War, especially in Yugoslavia, and the 1990s breakup of the Yugoslav federation.
→ read full articleLaziness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
A foreman at a construction site told a new worker, “Your two colleagues carry two buckets of cement at a time…
→ read full articleMandela: Never Forget How the Free World’s Leaders Learned to Change Their Tune
Chris McGreal – The Guardian,
9 Dec 2013
Among those eulogising Mandela are people who once damned him as a terrorist and supported apartheid.
→ read full articleConfronting the Nuke-Colonization of India
People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
National Convention of Anti-Nuclear Movements – The PMANE and the Idinthakarai Village will host this convention on January 4-5, 2014 (Saturday & Sunday) here at Idinthakarai. We can make arrangements for everyone’s room and board. Please make your own travel arrangements as soon as possible.
→ read full articleUN Launches Its Own Spy Drone Program
Allen McDuffee, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
The United Nations has turned to spy drones for the first time in its history in an effort to increase pressure in militias in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, marking both a major technological advancement in the organization’s peacekeeping arsenal as well as a shift in how it views the use of unmanned aerial vehicles.
→ read full articleTransforming the Cycle of Violence in Rakhine State: Toward Inter-Communal Peace in Myanmar
Tatsushi Arai, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
The inter-communal violence we have seen in Myanmar’s Rakhine State since 2012 is a manifestation of the deep-rooted structural inequity and unhealed traumas that have continuously grown in scope and intensity over generations.
→ read full articleThe Jason Bourne Strategy: CIA Contractors Do Hollywood
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Global Response Staff is a new unit set up by the CIA to hire private security contractors to accompany dangerous spying missions. Unlike Jason Bourne – the fictional character on which they appear to be modeled on – this gang cannot shoot straight.
→ read full articleThe Surprising Republican Civil War That Erupted Over Nelson Mandela and Apartheid
Sagar Jethani, Policymic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Ronald Reagan appeared on TV to warn Americans against the Anti-Apartheid Act, decrying it as “immoral” and “utterly repugnant.” Congress disagreed, and one month later it overrode Reagan and passed tough new measures against South Africa’s Apartheid government.
→ read full articleDefeated by the Taliban, Washington Decides to Take on Russia and China
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
It is a good bet that the Ukrainian protests are a CIA organized event, using the Washington and EU funded NGOs and manipulating the hatred of Ukrainian nationalists for Russia. The protests are directed against Russia.
→ read full articleEurope Sending Armies to Stop Immigrants
Apostolis Fotiadis, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
A Nov. 19 [2013] paper by the European External Action Service, the EU diplomatic corps, considers the possibility of the European military getting involved in the south Mediterranean in an effort to curb the influx of irregular migrants and refugees into Europe.
→ read full articleA Taste of the Horrible Things to Come for Windows XP
Zach Epstein, Yahoo News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Windows XP is now more than 12 years old but is still used on more than 31% of desktop and laptop computers around the world. Those tens of millions of PC users could be in for a very rude awakening next year once Microsoft cuts off support for the aged operating system.
→ read full articleNSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide, Snowden Documents Show
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
9 Dec 2013
Dec. 4, 2013 – The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dove va l’economia globale?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Amici degli USA: date consigli assennati; ma de-americanizzatevi, prendete le distanze. L’economia globale è diretta a est e a sud: BRCS+altri, con una UE stagnante. Crescita con distribuzione, non stagnazione con disuguaglianza.
→ read full articlePeace Education for Protection of Human Rights and Global Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
This article of Prof. Prasad is on the eve of UN Day of Human Rights which annually falls on December 10. The job of conscientization to the citizens and people of the different nations of the world about their rights can be done very successfully through the knowledge and practice of peace education leading to global peace.
→ read full articleThe United States of America–Heading Where?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Where would renewal, counter-forces that might get the country on another course come from? Economically: cannot be said often enough: lifting the bottom up, giving them hope and dignity, bringing them into the economy and above all changing the ethos of the economy from enriching the rich to empowering the poor.
→ read full article‘Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach’: Evil Octopus Strangling the World Becomes Latest US Intelligence Seal
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
The latest spy satellite to be sent into orbit by the NRO can be recognized by its seal: a malevolent octopus with furrowed brows that also happens to be wrapping its tentacles around all corners of the Earth.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden Revelations Prompt UN Investigation into Surveillance
Nick Hopkins and Matthew Taylor – The Guardian,
9 Dec 2013
The UN’s senior counter-terrorism official is to launch an investigation into the surveillance powers of American and British intelligence agencies following Edward Snowden’s revelations that they are using secret programmes to store and analyse billions of emails, phone calls and text messages.
→ read full articleTribunal Issues Landmark Verdict against Israel for Genocide
Yoichi Shimatsu - Global Research,
9 Dec 2013
1 Dec 2013 – The landmark ruling against Israel for its genocide against the Palestinian people rendered by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal is significant for several reasons.
→ read full articleWhose Sarin?
Seymour M. Hersh, London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
8 Dec 2013 – The White House’s misrepresentation of what it knew about the attack, and when, was matched by its readiness to ignore intelligence that could undermine the narrative. Al-Nusra and its Islamist allies could end up as the only faction inside Syria with access to the ingredients that can create sarin, a strategic weapon that would be unlike any other in the war zone.
→ read full articleSpain’s Anti-Protest Bill Criticized as Anti-Democratic
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Spain’s conservative government agreed on Friday [29 Nov 2013] to toughen penalties for unauthorized street protests up to a possible 600,000 euro ($816,000) fine, a crackdown that belies the peaceful record of the anti-austerity protests of recent years.
→ read full articleEU Commission Fines Banks $2.3 Billion for Benchmark Rigging
Foo Yun Chee, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
EU antitrust regulators vowed to keep investigating rate- rigging on Wednesday [4 Dec 2013] as they slapped a record 1.7 billion euro ($2.3 billion) penalty on six financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, RBS and JPMorgan.
→ read full articleIsrael Destroys More Houses and Wells in the Jordan Valley
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
3 Dec 2013 – Local sources claim that the Israelis are on standby to carry out even more demolitions on the pretext that the buildings do not have planning permission. This is often used as an excuse by the Israelis who are trying to drive Palestinians off their land so that more illegal Jewish settlers can be moved in.
→ read full articleHere Is Why Deconstructing Zionism Is Important
Michael Marder – Al Jazeera,
9 Dec 2013
First, the biggest threat to the wellbeing and security of Israeli Jews (and, often, by implication of Jews who live elsewhere in the world and are assumed to be the supporters of Israeli policies) is neither Iran nor Syria; it is the State of Israel itself.
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(Français) [BDS] Soutien au Pr. Jake Lynch
CAPJPO-Europalestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Nous sommes allés à une trentaine remettre à l’ambassade d’Australie en France, une lettre de soutien au Pr. Jake Lynch de l’université de Sydney, qui est attaqué en justice par un cabinet d’avocats israéliens parce qu’il applique le boycott académique, dans le cadre de la campagne internationale BDS (Boycott, Désinvestissement, Sanctions), et refuse donc de collaborer avec des universités israéliennes.
→ read full articleThe Continuity of Wars in World History
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
When we analyze carefully the sources of each war we generally discover that it was waged by those in the government. The vast majority of people across every continent always yearned to live at peace on a permanent basis.
→ read full article‘Modern Slavery’: Int’l Delegation Decries Migrant Rights Abuses in Qatar
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
2 Dec 2013 – Qatar has made no progress in abolishing laws that effectively force foreign workers into slavery, an international delegation has said. A worker’s rights group has estimated 4,000 migrant workers could die if nothing is done before the 2022 World Cup.
→ read full articleUS Government Considered Nelson Mandela a Terrorist Until 2008
Robert Windrem, Investigative Producer, NBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
From the White House to the halls of Congress, U.S. government officials have responded to the death of Nelson Mandela with a hail of testimonials to the late South African president’s leadership in the struggle for freedom and human rights. Until five years ago, however, the U.S. officially considered Mandela a terrorist.
→ read full articleRevealed: How the NSA Targets Italy
Glenn Greenwald and Stefania Maurizi – L’Espresso,
9 Dec 2013
A file mentions the “Special Collection Service” sites in Rome and in Milan, the very same service which, according to the German weekly “Der Spiegel “, spied on the mobile phone of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.
→ read full articleIt’s Outrageous to Accuse the Guardian of Aiding Terrorism by Publishing Snowden’s Revelations
Ben Emmerson – The Guardian,
9 Dec 2013
The Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, is due to appear before the House of Commons on Tuesday [3 Dec 2013]. Unlike the directors of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, who gave evidence recently, Rusbridger will not be provided with a list of questions in advance.
→ read full article10 Foods That Cause Polyps
Oxy-Powder – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Colon polyps, or colorectal polyps, are fleshy growths which can develop on the inner lining of the colon or rectum. They may be benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous). Malignancies can take years to develop. Proper screening usually creates ample time to identify pre-malignant polyps; if not caught, however, they can develop into colorectal cancer, one of the leading causes of death in North America and Western Europe.
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Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (Music Video of the Week)
Lang Lang – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Liszt – Virtuoso. Classical Pop – Pop Classic
→ read full article(Un)holy River
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
So here comes John Kerry again, for the umpteenth time (but who is counting?) to make peace between us and the Palestinians. Unfortunately, it is based on a false premise. To wit: that the Israeli government wants peace based on the two-state solution.
→ read full articleWhen the Messenger Is the Killer
Joam Evans Pim – Huffington Post,
9 Dec 2013
Video games escalate lethal socialization among younger generations. Military psychologist Dave Grossman pointed out how violent video games “act just like police and military simulators, providing conditioned responses, killing skills and desensitization, except they are inflicted on children without the discipline of military and police training.”
→ read full articleSnowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets
Janet Reitman – Rolling Stone,
9 Dec 2013
How Two Alienated, Angry Geeks Broke the Story of the Year – In June…Edward Snowden, the mysterious source, would hand over many thousands of top-secret documents: a mother lode laying bare the architecture of the national-security state.
→ read full articleResolution on Academic Boycott of Israel
American Studies Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
It is resolved that the American Studies Association endorses and will honor the call of Palestinian civil society for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. It is also resolved that the ASA supports the protected rights of students and scholars everywhere to engage in research and public speaking about Israel-Palestine and in support of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement.
→ read full articleElected Leader
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Sitting on the throne
Having the crown
Dwindles the brain
Having power Crane
Tom Daley Reveals He’s In a Relationship with a Man
The Sydney Morning Herald – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
British diving star Tom Daley said Monday [2 Dec 2013] he was in a relationship with a man but that he still “fancied” girls as he became the latest sports star to make a public declaration regarding their sexuality. The 19-year-old, a bronze medallist at last year’s London Olympics and one of the faces used in the pre-Games publicity, made the announcement in a YouTube clip.
→ read full articleExposed: Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated With Intelligence Firm Stratfor
Steve Horn and Carl Gibson, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
Serbia’s Srdja Popovic is known as a leading architect of regime changes in Eastern Europe since the late-1990s. Lesser known investigation reveals that Popovic and the Otpor! offshoot CANVAS have maintained close ties with a Goldman Sachs executive and the intelligence firm Stratfor, as well as the U.S. government. Popovic’s wife also worked at Stratfor for a year.
→ read full article(Italiano) Pace in Colombia?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
In questa conferenza si sta usando una parola molto controproducente: post-conflitto, invece di post-violenza. Non confondetele: la violenza significa fare del male, nuocere; i conflitti sono obiettivi incompatibili. “Post-conflitto” suona come se tutto fosse risolto con la fine della violenza, senza la consapevolezza di dover ridurre la diseguaglianza flagrante, e procedere verso l’armonia attraverso l’empatia, la riconciliazione dei traumi, e la capacità di risoluzione ricorrente dei conflitti.
→ read full articleImagining Attractive Global Governance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
The argument is that this pattern might help to frame the “language” through which attractive global governance of any viability can be usefully envisaged — prior to articulating the content of any global governance proposal. The approach is partly inspired by the initiative of Johan Galtung with respect to Forms of Presentation in the context of the UNU project.
→ read full articleBrazil Confirms Secure Satellite Deal to Stifle U.S. Spying
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
Brazil’s state-owned telecom provider Telebras signed a $560 million contract to deliver a satellite for secure communications on Thursday [28 Nov 2013], following months of outrage over revelations of US cyber-spying.
→ read full articleSpecial Report – Deformities, Sickness and Livestock Deaths: The Real Cost of GM Animal Feed?
Andrew Wasley, The Ecologist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
Much of our meat and dairy produce is made from animals raised on GM feeds. Alarming new claims suggest that the GM diet is affecting animal health – prompting fears over human safety.
→ read full articleMonsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment and our financial system will be in the hands of transnational corporations.
→ read full articleWorld Press Photo 2013: Exhibition Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
The World Press Photo 2013 exhibition, currently on display at London’s Southbank Centre is a tribute to a diverse global civilisation pre-occupied with ceaseless challenges, chaos, celebration and reflection.
→ read full articleShifty Shinzo’s Corporate Welfare Program: Boosting Profits While Wages Sag
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
2 Dec 2013
Abenomics is based on the idea that if you give rich people a lot of money, they’ll spend it and the economy will get better. There are a few minor flaws to the theory, however, like the fact that it doesn’t work.
→ read full article(Italiano) La compassione dei vegetariani
Kapil Komireddi – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
2 Dec 2013
In Asia il vegetarianismo è una forma di rifiuto della violenza che ha radici nella Cina delle dinastie imperiali e nell’India dei Maurya. Non mangiare carne è un modo per esercitare con disciplina il proprio potere sugli animali.
→ read full articleGenetically Modified Crop Could Migrate Dangerously
Ranjit Devraj, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
Food security activists who secured a moratorium on introducing GM brinjal (aubergine) into India fear that their efforts are being undermined by release of same in neighbouring Bangladesh. “India and Bangladesh share a long and porous border and it is easy for GM brinjal varieties to be brought over.”
→ read full articleHARDTalk – Glenn Greenwald – Journalist
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
28 Nov 2013 – HardTALK speaks to journalist Glenn Greenwald – he broke the Snowden story. His mission, he says, is to hold power to account. Is this a journalistic crusade that has gone too far?
→ read full articleThe Debacle
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
The greatest danger to Israel is not the putative Iranian nuclear bomb. The greatest danger is the stupidity of our leaders. Let us start from the end.
→ read full articleBitcoin Puzzle: Heads, It’s Excitement. Tails, It’s Anxiety.
Jeff Sommer - CNBC,
2 Dec 2013
Bitcoin isn’t ready for popular consumption, and it may never be. It doesn’t fit into a neat product category. Often called a virtual currency, it’s not legal tender anywhere on the planet. It’s not an income-generating asset class suitable for most investors. Its value, in dollars, fluctuates wildly from one minute to the next.
→ read full article(Castellano) Ecuador Es Referente Mundial en Inclusión de Personas con Discapacidad
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
La directora de la División de Política Social y Desarrollo de Asuntos Sociales y Económicos de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), Daniela Bas, elogió que Ecuador posea hasta 21 artículos de la Constitución en favor de los grupos vulnerables o especiales, hecho que lo convierte como un referente mundial en la inclusión integral de personas con alguna discpacidad.
→ read full articleDelhi Accord: BRICS for Fair Play
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
Recently the competition authorities of the BRICS countries signed the Delhi Accord, in which the members expressed “resolve and commitment to exchange views on different aspects of competition policy.”
→ read full articleCan You Hack It? Everything Electronic You Own Can Be Hacked
Amy Webb, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
After the annual Black Hat Internet security convention a few months ago in Las Vegas, I asked a group of my friends—a Navy engineer, a professional hacker, and a hobbyist—to help me come up with a quick list of devices that will be vulnerable. Here’s our (incomplete) list. (Entries with a * are those we’ve tried hacking at home, for fun.).
→ read full articleWhy Is Sweden Closing Its Prisons?
Erwin James – The Guardian,
2 Dec 2013
Sweden’s prison population has dropped so dramatically that the country plans to close four of its prisons. What lessons can the UK learn?
→ read full articleThe Arab Spring Three Years On
Noam Chomsky – Social Europe Journal,
2 Dec 2013
In the past I’ve described it as a “work in progress.” Now, regrettably, the phrase “work in regress” would be more appropriate. Syria is hurtling to suicide and likely partition, Yemen is subjected to Obama’s global drone terror campaign, Tunisia is in a kind of limbo, Libya lacks a government that can control the militias, and in Egypt, the major country of the Arab world, the military have acted with extreme brutality.
→ read full articleThanksgiving: A National Day of Mourning for Indians
Mahtowin Munro and Moonanum James, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
We object to the “Pilgrim Progress” parade and to what goes on in Plymouth because they are making millions of tourist dollars every year from the false pilgrim mythology. That money is being made off the backs of our slaughtered indigenous ancestors.
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