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(Português) E Assim Está Sendo a Copa…
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Em campo, 22 homens bonitos e feios, pés e panturrilhas maceteados, alguns com penteados carnavalescos, correm atrás de uma bola, empurram-se, cospem, caem (e como caem!), permutam suores em abraços de regozijo, levantam as mãos para o céu quando seu time faz gol, num gesto de “Alá é grande!”.
→ read full articleBefore the Next ISIS, We Need Nonviolent Counterterrorism Strategies
Erin Niemela, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
All violent counterterrorism-intervention policies have completely failed. We’re sowing and reaping perpetual tragedy with this violence machine and the only people benefitting are sitting on top of a mountain of cash in the conflict industry (I’m looking at you, Lockheed Martin.)
→ read full articleWhistleblower: NSA Stores 80% of All Phone Calls, Not Just Metadata – Full Audio
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
“At least 80 percent of fiber-optic cables globally go via the US,” Binney said. “This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80 percent of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores.”
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Cities: Istanbul and Rome
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Symbolically and culturally Istanbul deserves to be privately christened as the global capital of the 21st century. It is only world city that qualifies by virtue of its geographic and civilizational hybridity, Western by history and experience, Eastern by culture and location, Northern by stage of development, modernism, and urban dynamism, Southern by affinities, outreach, and partial identification.
→ read full articleNomads of the Digital Age
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
14 Jul 2014
At the heart of his case, and of so many others, is the question of whether the Internet will remain a free and open platform for communication, or a commodity controlled by a few corporations, censored and surveilled by the U.S. national-security apparatus.
→ read full articleParis’s Return to Public Water Supplies Makes Waves beyond France
Geert De Clercq, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Nearly five years after Paris took the management of its water supply back into its own hands, the move is inspiring other cities at home and abroad and hurting profits at private water firms Veolia and Suez Environnement.
→ read full article(Castellano) Lo que la independencia de Cataluña representa y lo que debemos aprender de ella
Daniel Marty, TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
¿quién se beneficia de la independencia política y económica? ¿Será el pueblo en general o una pequeña élite? ¿será la independencia del Estado de Cataluña otorgada y protegida? ¿quién se beneficia de la división, no solamente de los catalanes, pero de los españoles también?
→ read full articlePsychologists Have Uncovered a Troubling Feature of People Who Seem Nice All the Time
Eileen Shim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Those who are described as “agreeable, conscientious personalities” are more likely to follow orders and deliver electric shocks that they believe can harm innocent people, while “more contrarian, less agreeable personalities” are more likely to refuse to hurt others.
→ read full articleBlackwater’s Death Machine – The Privatization of Repression
Norman Pollack - CounterPunch,
14 Jul 2014
Blackwater on one hand, Obama, with his hit list and targeted assassination on the other, and in between, CIA-JSOC paramilitary operations geared to regime change, together constitute the package of Obama’s liberal humanitarianism, bringing democracy to the ignorant at gunpoint.
→ read full article(Português) Quando Jerusalém-2014 Faz Lembrar Berlim-1933
Chemi Shalev – Outras Palavras,
14 Jul 2014
A publicação de artigos como esse em Israel, embora chocantes, pode ser vista com esperança de que setores existentes na própria sociedade israelense poderão, um dia, virar o jogo. Mas isso só ocorrerá se houver também forte pressão internacional.
→ read full articleHow to Distinguish a Genuinely Practising Buddhist Monk from a Nazi with a Shaven Head in Saffron Robe
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Nazi “Monk” Wirathu versus the Good Buddhist Monks of Mandalay – Mandalay Peace Committee meeting, Moe Gaung Monastery, Mandalay, 6 Jul 2014
→ read full articleGaltung’s ‘Structural Violence’ and the Sierra Leone Civil War c.1985-1992
Philip Leech, Globalization Café – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
This paper, however, also notes that no theoretical concept can tell the whole story and while Galtung’s concepts and terminology are useful, awareness and appreciation of their short comings is also fundamental for full appreciation of a case study such as Sierra Leone.
→ read full article(Français) A la Coupe des BRICS, la Chine part favorite
Sylvie Kauffmann – Le Monde,
14 Jul 2014
Les 15 et 16 juillet [2014] donc, les dirigeants des BRICS réunis à Fortaleza puis à Brasilia devront se mettre d’accord sur le lieu du siège de la future banque de développement qu’ils prévoient de créer. Et devinez ? Shanghaï tient la corde.
→ read full article(Português) Documentos secretos dos EUA revelam técnicas de tortura durante ditadura militar no Brasil
National Security Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Em junho/2014 o Vice Presidente Joseph Biden entregou à presidenta Dilma documentos que revelam técnicas de tortura empregadas durante a ditadura militar brasileira.
→ read full articleChild and Forced Marriage – Manifestation of Gender Discrimination
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
“In the absence of viable legal remedies, discriminatory cultural practices based on stereotypical views of women’s roles and sexuality are among the structural causes of child and forced marriage.”
→ read full articleInfographic: Who Is Who in the 2014-2019 European Parliament?
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
After a first plenary session and a series of committee meetings in early July 2014, key positions were distributed in the European Parliament. Find an overview of its key new faces in our infographic.
→ read full articleEmbodying a Hypercomplex of Unhygienic Nescience
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
The argument focuses on the unfruitfulness of global discourse in response to current crises — as exemplified by the political and religious doublespeak enabled by science (Enabling Suffering through Doublespeak and Doublethink, 2013).
→ read full articleNO to Currency Slavery
Michael Hudson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Western support will allow more IMF and European lending to prop the Ukrainian currency so the Ukrainian oligarchs can move their money safely to British and US banks.
→ read full articleBRICS to Open Alternatives to World Bank, IMF
Valentina Pop, EU Observer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
The “New Development Bank” to rival the World Bank will be launched at a BRICS summit in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza next week, with all agreed except where to put the main headquarters, Russian finance minister Anton Siluanov said Wednesday (9 July, 2014).
→ read full articleRussia Proposes Energy Association within BRICS
Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Russia plans to establish an energy association within the BRICS countries, the Kremlin said Thursday [10 Jul 2014]. “Russia is going to propose the establishment of the BRICS energy association, which would guarantee energy security of the member countries, conduct integrated research and analysis of global markets.”
→ read full articleBRICS Bank, Ukraine Likely to Dominate 2014 BRICS Summit
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
The annual BRICS Summit in the Brazilian cities of Brasilia and Fortaleza on July 14-15 [2014] comes at a time in which the global political scene is arguably more unsettled than at any other point in the past 20 years. Given the inherent diversity of the BRICS members, each country will therefore – and understandably – pursue very different goals and agendas at the Summit.
→ read full articleThe Marching Season: A Call for a New Vision in Northern Ireland
Mairead Maguire – Open Democracy,
14 Jul 2014
Ahead of the climax of the ‘marching season’ in Northern Ireland tomorrow [12 Jul 2014], Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire recalls how the cycle of violence was broken when the civil community united during the Troubles and called for an end all the violence. Today she calls upon politicians to listen to the voices of women and youth.
→ read full articleJihadists in Lebanon: Can Hezbollah Prevent DAASH (IS) from Pulling Lebanon into Its Caliphate?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
The answer to that question is—perhaps. But for a number of reasons, some suggested below, it’s not a happy picture, and it won’t be a walk in the park.
→ read full articleWhat Was History About-Look at the Histomap
Johan Galtung, 14 Jul 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Let us try an explanation based on empire and dynasty; empires expanding and contracting in space, dynasties in time. Both are based on contradictions, forces and counter-forces, dialectics; but in the empires the dialectic is external, in the dynasties internal.
→ read full articleKashmir Back in New Delhi’s Radar
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Modi is perhaps the first prime minister of India who visited the conflict-torn state even before completing two months in office. This is an indication of seriousness of the new government to prioritize Kashmir. Modi’s visit to Kashmir and emphasis on peace and prosperity in the region needs to be viewed in a new light.
→ read full articleDepends
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
A Chinese businessman arrived on his first flight to the United States.
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Nation Editor Stuns ‘Architect of Catastrophe’ Bill Kristol: “Join Iraqi Army if You Want War “
ABC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Jun 29, 2014 – Katrina vanden Heuvel and Bill Kristol tussled over Iraq on ABC’s This Week today when vanden Heuvel lumped in Kristol with the Iraq “architects of catastrophe” and suggested he enlist in the Iraqi army if he’s so serious about fixing the region.
→ read full articleThe Long, Winding History of Prison Camps – Where Does Gitmo Fit In? Infographic
Infographic World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
The U.S. spent US$ 454 Million in 2013 on Gitmo’s detention center. Get a better grasp on Guantánamo–from the history of prison camps to the financial, political and human toll it takes.
→ read full articleWhy Are Most Human Beings So Powerless?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Unless someone lives in a cave secluded from all news, the evidence that human beings are in deep trouble – with violence in its many forms intruding on all aspects of our lives and threatening our very existence – is readily available.
→ read full articleAlan Watts on the Difference between Belief and Faith
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would “lief” or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on the condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown.
→ read full articleWe Do Not Believe in Violence… We Are the Real Patriots: SP Udayakumar
Jiby J. Kattakayam, DNA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
SP Udayakumar, leader of the anti-nuclear agitation against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, talks about the movement, his name featuring in the Intelligence Bureau report on NGOs harming India’s economic interest, and his foray into politics.
→ read full articleRemember Haiti?
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Four years after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, it is time to move from a largely humanitarian approach to a development based drive, a United Nations human rights expert on 4 July 2014 said, while calling for durable solutions for the internally displaced and the vulnerable segments of the population of the island nation.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Creative Extortion
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Servicde,
14 Jul 2014
Admittedly, America has always devised creative means to execute its vast array of crimes against other nations – coups, wars, occupation, exploitation, terrorism, genocide, and so forth. One crime often neglected is America’s creative extortion. America has made a legal judgment to rob Iran of $1.75 billion.
→ read full articleNSA-Intercepted Data of Innocent Bystanders Far Outnumber Targeted Names
Barton Gellman, Julie Tate and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
14 Jul 2014
Files provided by Snowden show extent to which ordinary Web users are caught in the net.
→ read full articleCNN: Palestinians Want to Die
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
William Westmoreland once remarked on Vietnam, where the United States killed 4 million men, women, children, and infants: “The Oriental doesn’t put the same high price on life as does a Westerner.” Banastre Tarleton stood up in Parliament and defended the slave trade on the grounds that Africans did not object to being slaves. President William McKinley said little brown Filipinos appreciated being conquered and dominated.
→ read full articleJewish Hate of Arabs Proves: Israel Must Undergo Cultural Revolution
Haaretz, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Without a revolution based on humanist values, the Jewish tribe will not be worthy of its own state.
→ read full articleRemembering Fouad Ajami
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
For me Fouad Ajami’s legacy is that of ‘sleeping with the enemy.’ And it is an enemy that is politically, morally, and legally responsible for millions of deaths, displacements, and devastating losses.
→ read full articleThe 35 Most Powerful Militaries in the World
Amanda Macias, Jeremy Bender and Skye Gould – Business Insider,
14 Jul 2014
Global Firepower Index, a ranking of 106 nations based on more than 50 factors including overall military budget, available manpower, and the amount of equipment each country has in its respective arsenal, as well as access to resources.
→ read full articleOur Wretched Jewish State
Gideon Levy – Information Clearing House,
14 Jul 2014
Now we know: In the Jewish state, there is pity and humane feelings only for Jews, rights only for the Chosen People. The Jewish state is only for Jews.
→ read full articleCountries Spending the Most on the Military
Thomas C. Frohlich and Alexander Kent – USA Today,
14 Jul 2014
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the U.S. spent $618 billion on its military last year, more than three times the $171 billion budget of second place China. Based on SIPRI’s 2013 data, these are the countries with the largest military budgets.
→ read full article(Português) Por Uma Pedagogia dos Humilhados
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Uma Reflexão Rimada
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This Land Is Mine
Nina Paley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
It tells the story of the wars in the land called Israel/Palestine/Canaan/the Levant, since the cavemen until today.
→ read full article(Français) Dédollarisation: approche technique ou approche géostratégique
Jean-Paul Baquiast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Il se constituerait ainsi une zone monétaire (que nous appellerons pour simplifier zone roren) qui constituerait une alternative aux deux grandes zones se partageant aujourd’hui le monde, la zone dollar et la zone euro.
→ read full articleFake Identity
Mahdi Jalili – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
I was beheaded in Africa
My corpse was set on fire in Vietnam
And I was left in pieces in Palestine
A Social Justice Issue We Can Sink Our Teeth into: Factory Farming
Josh Balk – Common Dreams,
14 Jul 2014
The majority of our meat and eggs now come from massive windowless factory-like sheds. Farmers’ pride in animal husbandry has been replaced with agricultural systems treating animals as if they were machines in an assembly line.
→ read full articleRecord Levels of Solar Ultraviolet on Earth’s Surface Hit South America
Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
8 Jul 2014 – A team of researchers from the US and Germany has measured the highest level of ultraviolet radiation ever recorded on earth’s surface. The extraordinary UV fluxes, observed in the Bolivian Andes, are far above those normally considered to be harmful to both terrestrial and aquatic life.
→ read full articleHate Crime, Racism on the Rise in Southeast Asia
Abby Seiff, UCANews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Global Minorities Report Highlights Resurgence of ‘Ethno-Religious Nationalism’
→ read full articleClimate Refugees: An Entire Island Nation Is Preparing to Evacuate to Fiji Before They Sink Into the Pacific
Gwynn Guilford, Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The seas around Kiribati’s 32 atolls are rising 1.2 centimeters a year—about four times faster than the global average—thanks to the flux of ocean currents. Some residents expect the sea to subsume their homes within 20 or 30 years.
→ read full articleThe Great Human Delusion: All Parents Love Their Children
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Evolution’s great trick was to connect reproduction with intense but transitory sexual pleasure, not love. Many children are conceived outside the loving long-term relationship necessary to nurture a child and even those children who are conceived within this framework will routinely suffer parental violence.
→ read full articleFreedom
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Bishnu Pathak’s introduction to Alberto Portugheis’ book, ‘$$$$$s in Their Hearts,’ which will be launched soon. “Portugheis puts emphasis on the fact that weapons do not exist “for Peace”. They will never bring about Peace. Some of his aims are: to ensure basic support for the needy, (to stop them being “needy”) restrict weapon manufacturing to cover Police needs, abolish the Arms Trade and the disbanding of all armed forces.”
→ read full articleAfter Losing Vote, U.S.-EU Threaten to Undermine Treaty
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Jun 28 2014 – The USA and the 28-member EU have assiduously promoted – and vigorously preached – one of the basic tenets of Western multi-party democracy: majority rules. But at the United Nations, they have frequently abandoned that principle insisting on “consensus” when they are clearly outvoted.
→ read full articleWhat Is Israel’s Shurat Hadin and Why Is It Suing a Sydney University Academic?
Michael Brull - Crikey,
7 Jul 2014
Shurat HaDin, a pro-Israel law centre, is taking legal action over an Australian academic’s support for the boycott, divestment, sanctions movement against Israel. Juris doctor student Michael Brull takes a look at the case.
→ read full articleAnti-NSA “Blackphone” Arrives on Market, Immediately Sells Entire Supply
Waqas, HackRead – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Blackphone is the result of collaboration between Silent Circle, an anti-NSA encryption powerhouse, and Geeksphone a company founded and owned by an ex tech prodigy. The phone is already being shipped around the world and the initial inventory reveals that it is “sold out.”
→ read full articleProblems Inspire Ingenious Solutions in Peruvian Amazon Town
Milagros Salazar, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
He may look like a rapper, but 33-year-old José Antonio Bardález is the mayor of Jepelacio, in the Peruvian Amazon. His ingenious innovations in the municipality include transforming waste management into a source of income and making spring water a source of drinking water.
→ read full articleIn Flanders Fields
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
This remains to this day one of the most memorable war poems ever written. It is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the Ypres salient in the spring of 1915.
→ read full articleCourt Gave NSA Broad Leeway in Surveillance, Documents Show
Ellen Nakashima and Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
7 Jul 2014
Virtually no foreign government is off-limits for the National Security Agency, which has been authorized to intercept information “concerning” all but four [anglo] countries, according to top-secret documents: Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
→ read full article(Italiano) Spagna 2050 – Dieci Predizioni
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Come possiamo gettare un po’ di luce sul futuro? Fondamentalmente ci sono due approcci: quello cartesiano basato su tendenze estensive, e il taoismo basato sull’olismo e la dialettica. Che non si escludono reciprocamente.
→ read full articleSome Deaths Really Matter – The Disproportionate Coverage of Israeli and Palestinian Killings
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Israeli deaths matter much more than Palestinian deaths. This has long been a distinguishing feature of Western news media reporting on the Middle East. The recent blanket coverage afforded to the brutal killing of three Israeli teenagers highlights this immutable fact.
→ read full articleThe Guns of August – Lowering the Flag on the American Century
Chalmers Johnson | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
I wish I had a crystal ball to peer into and see what historians will make of our own guns of August in 2060. The fog of war, after all, is just a stand-in for what might be called “the fog of the future,” the inability of humans to peer with any accuracy far into the world to come.
→ read full articleThe Soaring Profits of the Military–Industrial Complex and the Soaring Costs of Military Casualties
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
There are two major beneficiaries of the two major wars launched by the US government: one domestic and one foreign. The three major domestic arms manufacturers, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have delivered record-shattering returns to their investors, CEOs and investment banks during the past decade and a half.
→ read full articleFukushima’s Children Are Dying
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people—nearly 200,000 kids—tested by the Fukushima Medical University near the smoldering reactors now suffer from pre-cancerous thyroid abnormalities, primarily nodules and cysts. The rate is accelerating.
→ read full article(Português) E Lenin Tinha Razão: A Grande Guerra Interimperialista
Emir Sader – Carta Maior,
7 Jul 2014
Com a segunda guerra – na realidade o segundo round de uma mesma guerra, com as mesmas características e um intervalo de poucos anos – e a segunda derrota do bloco formado pela Alemanha, a Itália e o Japão – se abria o caminho para a hegemonia imperial norteamericana.
→ read full articleOAS Declares Solidarity with Argentina in U.S. Hedge Fund Dispute
Ewan Robertson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
4th July 2014 – The Organization of American States has declared its solidarity with Argentina in its debt repayment dispute with a U.S.-based hedge fund. The only countries in the hemisphere to not support the resolution were the United States and Canada.
→ read full articleU.S. Retailers Look to Limit Pesticides to Help Honeybees
Carey Gillam, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
U.S. companies are working to eliminate or limit use of a type of pesticide suspected of helping cause dramatic declines in honeybee populations needed to pollinate key American crops, officials said on Wednesday [25 Jun 2014].
→ read full articleChile to Build Largest Solar Farm in Latin America
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
A large solar power plant is coming to Chile’s Atacama Desert, and the U.S. is providing financial support to make it happen.
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Israeli Government and Press Knew Teenagers Were Dead for Weeks
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
TRNN Middle East Correspondent Lia Tarachansky says Palestinian anger towards the Palestinian Authority has reached unprecedented levels, and that the Israeli government is now trying to instigate a third intifada in order to legitimate military actions in the West Bank and Gaza.
→ read full articleThe Malaysian Link to Terror in Syria
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
We are told that they see themselves as “jihadis” who are fighting for an Islamic cause. A lot of Malaysian Muslims may also harbor some of the misconceptions and prejudices which impelled some of these jihadis to take the road to Damascus.
→ read full article7 Weird Things Money Does to Your Brain
Lynn Stuart Parramore – AlterNet,
7 Jul 2014
Money is packed with meaning, and it impacts our personalities, our relationships, and how we think. As you might imagine, a lot of stuff is going on in our brains when we think about money, and some of it is surprising.
→ read full articleOn Israel-Palestine and BDS
Noam Chomsky – The Nation,
7 Jul 2014
The UN may harshly condemn South Africa, but, as the ambassador put it, “what mattered perhaps more than all other votes put together was that of [the] U.S. in view of its predominant position of leadership in [the] Western world.” For forty years, ever since it chose expansion over security, Israel has made essentially the same judgment.
→ read full articleWashington’s War Crimes Spread from Africa and the Middle East to Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
A person might think that revulsion in “the world community” against Washington’s wanton slaughter of civilians in eight countries would have led to War Crimes Tribunal warrants issued for the arrest of presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and many officials in their regimes… Putin has done what he can to avoid conflict. Now he needs to do the right thing, as he did in Georgia and Crimea.
→ read full articleArchbishop Desmond Tutu Urges US Presbyterians to Adopt Divestment
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Israel will either end its occupation through a one or two state solution, or live in an apartheid state in perpetuity. The latter option is unsustainable and an offense to justice. We learned in South Africa that the only way to end apartheid peacefully was to force the powerful to the table through economic pressure.
→ read full articleTooling Up for War: Can Japan Benefit from Lifting the Arms Export Ban?
David Mcneill - The Japan Times,
7 Jul 2014
28 Jun 2014 – Abe’s decision to end the nation’s four-decade ban on selling weapons in April reflected an intention to take a hard-nosed approach that builds military and technical alliances to counterbalance China’s rise. But what does it all mean? And, more importantly, who is expected to benefit from the deal?
→ read full articleThe Watch on the Jordan
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The thousand-year old conflict between Muslim Sunnis and Muslim Shiites is reaching a new climax. A historic drama is unfolding around us. And what is the reaction of our government? Binyamin Netanyahu put it succinctly: “We must defend Israel on the Jordan River, before they reach Tel Aviv.” Simple, concise, idiotic.
→ read full articleIsis Announces Islamic Caliphate in Area Straddling Iraq and Syria
Mark Tran and Matthew Weaver – The Guardian,
7 Jul 2014
Jihadist group challenges al-Qaida as it changes name to Islamic State and pledges to free Palestine in video.
→ read full articleShifts in the Climate Change Debate: Hope and Suspicion
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The intense lobbying efforts by climate deniers, reinforced in the United States by a right wing anti-government tsunami that has paralyzed Congress, succeeded in blocking even modest market-based steps to induce energy efficiency.
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The Slow Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya
Dr Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
London Conference on Decades of Persecution and Destruction of Myanmar’s Rohingya
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Moonlight Rumba (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Gustavo Montesano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
A Virtuoso Popularizing a Classic – Art Beautiful — Composition: Ludwig van Beethoven
→ read full articleRevealed: ‘Collect It All’ NSA Targets Those Seeking Web Privacy
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
7 Jul 2014
‘Merely visiting privacy-related websites is enough for a user’s IP address to be logged into an NSA database,’ says new report. Other platforms targeted by the program include LINUX, TOR, HotSpotShield, FreeNet, Centurian, FreeProxies.org, MegaProxy, privacy.li, and an anonymous email service called MixMinion.
→ read full articleHow the Public Was Manipulated Into Believing the Teens Were Alive
Noam Sheizaf - +972 Magazine,
7 Jul 2014
2 Jul 2014 – Details under gag order could have suggested early on that the abducted teens were murdered. The government-led campaign calling for their release helped the legitimacy of Israel’s military operation in the West Bank. Local and even international media played along.
→ read full article(Italiano) Buona Governance, innovativa: che cos’è?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Oggi la Cina combina il meglio del marxismo-comunismo, l’attenzione centrata sui bisogni fondamentali dei più bisognosi, con il meglio del liberalismo-capitalismo, lo spirito imprenditoriale innovativo. Sollevando le sorti delle fasce più misere, forse 400 milioni dal 1991 al 2004, affinché partecipino a un mercato fiorente.
→ read full articleWhat Did $7 Billion Spent on Opium Eradication in Afghanistan Buy? More Opium.
Dan Murphy – The Christian Science Monitor,
7 Jul 2014
Opium production and heroin addiction are soaring in Afghanistan.
→ read full articleArab Spring, Jihad Summer
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
7 Jul 2014
So 13 years ago Washington crushed both al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Then the Taliban were reborn. Then came Shock and Awe. Then came “Mission Accomplished”. Then al-Qaeda was introduced in Iraq. Then al-Qaeda was dead because Osama bin Laden was dead. Then came ISIL. And now there’s IS. What’s not to like? If anyone thinks this whole racket is part of a new live Monty Python sketch ahead of their reunion gig this month in London, that’s because it is.
→ read full articleAbsolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War
Jim Wright, Americans Against the Tea Party – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The same old motley cast of characters, the warhawks and the chickenhawks and the billionaires and the simple-minded saber-rattlers and the same old hate-filled pundits, they just can’t wait to jump back into Iraq…. Why? Is it to end terrorism? Is it to enforce peace at the muzzle of a gun? Is it it to make defense contractors rich? Is it for jobs? Or is it for magic flying bunnies who shoot rainbows and cheap gasoline out of their … to the sound of Yankee Doodle Dandy?
→ read full articleSri Lankan Minister Confirms Australia’s Handover of Tamil Refugees
Mike Head, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Canberra is forcibly handing over Tamil refugees to the Sri Lankan navy on the treacherous high seas of the Indian Ocean. This operation is a criminal violation of the fundamental legal and democratic rights of asylum seekers, as well as a blatant violation of international law, including the international Refugee Convention and the UN Convention Against Torture.
→ read full articleThe World is NOT a U.S. Colony!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
In a host of countries around the world the U.S. portrays itself as “the good guy” instead of the problem. It’s a classic colonial attitude. The U.S. must stop intervening in the internal and domestic affairs of independent nations all over the world, including the U.S. occupied Kingdom of Hawai`i.
→ read full articleIsrael’s SodaStream Closes Main UK Store after 2-Yr Boycott Campaign
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
“The news that SodaStream is closing its main UK store and that John Lewis is taking Soda Stream products off its shelves is a major success for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.”
→ read full articleUNREDACTED: Declassified Documents Given by Biden to Rousseff Detail Secret Dictatorship-Era Executions, “Psychophysical” Torture in Brazil
Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
“One of the most detailed reports of torture ever declassified by the US government,” it was among 43 State Department documents that Vice President Joseph Biden turned over to President Dilma Rousseff during the World Cup competition on June 17 [2014], for use by the Brazilian National Truth Commission.
→ read full articleIraq Crisis: Divide-And-Rule in Defence of a Neoliberal Political Economy
Ali Al-Jaberi – Open Democracy,
7 Jul 2014
The roots of the most recent crisis in Iraq can be traced to the US-led invasion of 2003 and western meddling in Syria. At stake, is the neoliberal blueprint of post-invasion Iraq, now defended in an effort coordinated between the Baghdad government and its western backers.
→ read full articleUS Presbyterian General Assembly Votes to Divest from Israeli Occupation
End the Occupation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
20 Jun 2014– Following a ten-year process, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has voted 310 to 303 to divest from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett Packard as a result of the companies’ involvement in the Israeli military occupation.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il mondo in questo preciso momento: rapporto di metà anno
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Perfino i media mainstream oggi si preoccupano molto della violenza strutturale, che chiamano disuguaglianza, pur non curandosi del numero dei morenti (140.000 al giorno, di fame e malattie prevenibili-curabili, niente denaro a disposizione). Chiamare un paese, una regione del mondo pacifica con tali atrocità rampanti di morte e disuguaglianza è violenza culturale.
→ read full article(Português) Diferenças entre ESCREVER e REDIGIR
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Posso saber escrever, mas redigir, saberei?
As diferenças entre os dois processos, explicar saberei?
Non-State Actors in International Relations
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
There is a growing interest in the role of non-governmental organizations in the making and the implementation of policies at the international level. A group of international relations scholars from the Netherlands looks at the increasing role of NGOs in day-to-day politics at the United Nations and the European Union.
→ read full articleUS Signals Intention to Eliminate Its Land Mines, Join Treaty
Renee Lewis – Al Jazeera America,
7 Jul 2014
The U.S. military will not be expanding its land mine stockpile and aims to eventually eliminate its entire supply so that it can accede to the Ottawa Convention, a 15-year-old international treaty on mines, the White House announced Friday [27 Jun 2014].
→ read full articleClimate Change Fact Sheet
Earth Policy Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
COAL, mainly used for electricity generation, accounts for 44 percent of global fossil-fuel-related CO2 emissions.
OIL, used primarily for transportation, accounts for 36 percent of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.
NATURAL GAS, used for electricity and heating, accounts for the remaining 20 percent of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning.
Obama’s Fickle Gitmo Policy
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
This Modern World – Comic Strip
→ read full article(Italiano) Intervista – Johan Galtung
Al McKay, E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Quel che importa è come le macroregioni si rapporteranno fra loro e la lotta contro la violenza del sistema economico – “potere morbido” che uccide ben più che il potere militare – e lo stato, addirittura il mondo, “securitario”, di marca USA – e Cinque Occhi! – la sorveglianza, ora allo stadio NSA.
→ read full articleJapan Announces a Military Shift to Thwart China
Martin Fackler and David E. Sanger – The New York Times,
7 Jul 2014
Japan’s prime minister announced a reinterpretation of the country’s pacifist Constitution on Tuesday [1 Jul 2014], freeing its military for the first time in over 60 years to play a more assertive role in the increasingly tense region.
→ read full articleHindering Restoration of Global Heritage in Syria – EU Sanctions Target Humanitarian Aid
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Today, a civilization that used to lead the world and for centuries was the beacon of learning, tolerance and trade, and that still protects our global cultural heritage, is damaged—and only the Syrian people can rebuild it for all of us. We need to help them.
→ read full articleFacebook Denies Emotion Contagion Study Had Government and Military Ties
Samuel Gibbs – The Guardian,
7 Jul 2014
Researchers say the study was not funded by Minerva Research Initiative, which engaged scientists in national security issues.
→ read full articleAnticipating When Blackbirds Sing Chinese
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Conversion from Tweets to Songbites to Ensure Integrity of Communication – Blackbirds are renowned for the imaginative quality and complex variety of their song, as well as their capacity for mimicry. Such song invites speculation on how information could be encoded into it.
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