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Save the Bees, Ban Neonic Pesticides
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Bees may be small, but they play a big role in human health and survival. The insects pollinate everything from apples and zucchini to blueberries and almonds. If bees and other pollinators are at risk, entire terrestrial ecosystems are at risk, and so are we.
→ read full articleProtecting Organic Seeds from GMO Contamination
Pamela Coleman, Ph.D. – The Cornucopia Institute,
7 Jul 2014
Growers of organic seed crops are taking a pro-active stance to prevent contamination. They are educating themselves about prevention methods, implementing management practices, and testing their own seed crops.
→ read full articleIsaac Asimov on Optimism vs. Cynicism about the Human Spirit
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
It’s insulting to imply that only a system of rewards and punishments can keep you a decent human being. Isn’t it conceivable a person wants to be a decent human being because that way he feels better?
→ read full articleThe Risk of a Ukraine Bloodbath
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
7 Jul 2014
Pressured by neocons and the mainstream U.S. media, the Obama administration is charting a dangerous course by seeking a military solution to Ukraine’s political crisis and possibly provoking Moscow to intervene to protect ethnic Russians.
→ read full articleMy Thoughts on Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire’s Speech on 6th June, 2014 in Sarajevo
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
As much as I agree with Mairead Maguire’s emphatic call for a world without weapons and admire her for making this call, I feel that her suggestions for action are insufficient. It is not enough to shout in all directions “I don’t want a militarized world”! whilst the games we buy for our children and grandchildren, the films they watch on television, the teaching at schools of Nationalism, Patriotism, Religious superiority, etc, etc., are all promoting violence and a militarized world.
→ read full articleSyrian Students Restore Our Global Heritage, Tesserae by Tesserae…
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
The Damascus Citadel, Syria
→ read full articleU.S. Officials Scrambled to Nab Snowden, Hoping He Would Take a Wrong Step. He Didn’t.
Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
30 Jun 2014
For weeks, senior officials from the FBI, the CIA, the State Department and other agencies assembled nearly every day in a desperate search for a way to apprehend the former intelligence contractor who had exposed the inner workings of American espionage then fled to Hong Kong before ending up in Moscow.
→ read full articleSnowden Gets German Fritz Bauer Award for Exposing US Intelligence
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
21 Jun 2014 – Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has been awarded the Fritz Bauer Prize of the German Humanist Union, a prominent civil rights organization, for exposing the controversial surveillance practices of the NSA and its accomplices.
→ read full articleNew NSA Revelations: Inside Snowden’s Germany File
Der SPIEGEL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
17 Jun 2014 – The National Security Agency has turned Germany into its most important base of operations in Europe, according to a story published by Der Spiegel this week.
→ read full articleGrowing Jewish Support for Boycott and the Changing Landscape of the BDS Debate
Paul Duffill and Gabriella Skoff - Mondoweiss,
30 Jun 2014
Unfortunately the extent of this new reality of Jewish criticism of Israel’s policies towards Palestinians that is taking hold appears largely unreported by mainstream media.
→ read full articlePentagon Preparing for Mass Civil Breakdown
Nafeez Ahmed – The Guardian,
30 Jun 2014
Social science is being militarised to develop ‘operational tools’ to target peaceful activists and protest movements.
→ read full articleMapping Militarism
World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
World Beyond War has created a set of online interactive maps to help us all see where and how war and preparations for war exist in the world today. We’ll be updating some of these maps with new data every year and displaying animation of the progress away from war or the regress toward more war as the case may be.
→ read full articleThe Devil’s Dynamo
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Why is the military-industrial complex sometimes called “The Devil’s Dynamo”? Today, the US government is taking actions that seem almost insane, risking a nuclear war with Russia and simultaneously alienating China. In the long run, such hubris cannot succeed. Overspending on war will lead to economic collapse.
→ read full articleReflections on Sports, Education and Peace
Prof. Alicia Cabezudo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
On the World Football (Soccer) Cup and Education for a Culture of Peace
→ read full articleComprehension of Numbers Challenging Global Civilization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Number Games People Play for Survival – It could seem strange to use “numbers” to frame the challenge of global civilization. The obvious arguments for doing so may no longer have adequate traction.
→ read full articleUkraine: The Dogs of the Cold War Are Awakened
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Without a well-organized movement of pan-European peace-green-human rights movements, “Europe from Below” has been unable to act in the Ukraine crisis. Individual governments, in particular Russia and the USA, have taken a highly visible role. The media in both countries dusted off the Cold War vocabulary and political analysis.
→ read full articleThe World’s Most Important Spectator
David Bromwich – London Review of Books,
30 Jun 2014
‘If we have to use force,’ Madeleine Albright said, ‘it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future.’ Very much in that spirit, Obama told the graduating West Point cadets that the US must lead the world even though it cannot police the world.
→ read full articleThe Fog Machine of War: The U.S. Military and Media Freedom
Chelsea Manning – The New York Times,
30 Jun 2014
I believe that the current limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance.
→ read full articleZulfiya Tursunova: Women’s Lives and Livelihoods in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan–Ceremonies of Empowerment and Peacebuilding
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Zulfiya Tursunova, a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment, on the basis of extensive field research, has written an important book highlighting the ways in which women deal with socio-economic change in post-USSR Uzbekistan.
→ read full articleUnited Behind So-Called ‘Rohingya” Genocide
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
A poem in memory of the two Rohingya infants who became the well-publicized victims of Myanmar’s “Buddhist” genocide.
→ read full article(Português) Ucrânia e Síria: Eleições de Destruição em Massa
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Eleições avançam na Ucrânia, obstruídas na Síria, para que assassinatos em massa continuem. O armamento ocidental da democracia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Studi per la Pace: dieci punti fondamentali
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Grazie per volere un compendio dei punti chiave nei “Galtung Peace Studies”. Sono appena stato onorato con un “Premio alla carriera” (Lifetime Award) della sociologia mondiale, oltre 60 anni; in breve, tempo sufficiente per un compendio con un avvertimento: non un surrogato alla lettura dei libri.
→ read full article(Italiano) Messico: 50 Pacifiche Politiche di Pace
Johan Galtung & Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Toluca, Stato di México; Seminari su narcotraffico e violenza – Di seguito presentiamo 50 idee su come fare quanto sopra, divise in 10 settori con 5 proposte ciascuno; alcune di esse basate su esperienze positive all’estero.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los países de Colombia: violencia(s), conflicto(s), lo rural y lo urbano
Adriana Roque, Hoja Blanca – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
9 Jun 2014 – Desde Amsterdam, Adriana Roque inicia una serie de reflexiones sobre los diferentes países que Colombia es para ella. En esta primera entrega, previa a las elecciones presidenciales, un oportuno texto sobre la violencia y el conflicto armado.
→ read full articleThe Syrian Election and ISIS in Iraq
Judy Bello, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
ISIS (The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), a violent, fanatical organization of religious extremists, supposedly a breakaway from al-Qaeda, is not new to Iraq. It was born there during the US occupation. The man who currently leads ISIS spent several years in the US prison camp at Bucca.
→ read full articleISIS (DAASH) Now Recruiting in Palestinian Camps in Lebanon–Who Are Those Guys?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
As Washington and London were affirming the past few days their intentions to continue to arm “moderate rebel factions” in Syria, Tel Aviv just announced it would like to be helpful by joining with “moderate Arab nations” to battle their mutual Muslim enemies.
→ read full articleThe “Just Enough” Policy: Behavioral Control of Collective Protest through Minimum Reward
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
“A society can assume unlimited diversity, as long as it provides equal access to opportunity.” It is the disproportion in opportunity, rights, and freedoms that lead to resentment, struggle, and violence.
→ read full articleThe Journey to Self-Awareness
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
What causes this damage? Terror. And what makes a mind react with terror thus disrupting all other functions simultaneously? Violence. And particularly the unrelenting onslaught of ‘invisible’ violence and ‘utterly invisible’ violence inflicted on children throughout their childhood.
→ read full articleSome Myths about Muslims
Nivedita Menon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
In the context of massive propaganda campaigns, the subtle use of stereotypes, and the fact that both the Western and the Indian media share certain basic biases, many people end up believing in a range of myths about the adherents of the world’s second largest religion. This is a quick attempt at exposing those myths.
→ read full articleAre Nanoparticles from Packaging Getting into Your Food?
Tom Philpott – Mother Jones,
30 Jun 2014
One list of packaging that could contain nanoparticles includes beer-bottles, aluminum foil, sandwich bags, and even a salad bowl.
→ read full articleBrazil Has Done More To Stop Climate Change Than Any Other Country, Study Finds
Emily Atkin – Think Progress,
30 Jun 2014
Thanks to its effort to reduce tropical deforestation, Brazil has kept 3.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere since 2004. That’s more than any other country has done to reduce climate change, according to a new study published Thursday [5 Jun 2014].
→ read full articleThe World Right Now: A Mid-Year Report
Johan Galtung, 30 Jun 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Even mainstream media are today deeply concerned with structural violence, under the heading of inequality, staying away from the numbers dying (140,000/day from hunger and preventable-curable diseases, no money). Calling a country, region or the world peaceful with such atrocities of death and inequity being rampant is cultural violence.
→ read full article60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Poem-Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Sixty years ago the UDHR was proclaimed
Humankind’s living conditions to improve
The Ethnic Cleansing Going On Right Now You Probably Haven’t Heard About: Burma, aka Myanmar
Joseph Allchin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes, their leaders tortured and killed. Is this what democracy in Burma was supposed to look like?
→ read full articleChina’s Subversive Propaganda War against the Dalai Lama
Gerardo E. Martinez-Solanas – Open Democracy,
30 Jun 2014
The Chinese government is engaged in an intense propaganda war to disrupt or prevent the Dalai Lama’s visits to every country he travels to.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleHonesty about Lies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
A reporter asked the mother of Jimmy Carter whether he ever lied. She said, “Maybe once in a while a white lie.”
→ read full articleThe Journey of One Hijab
Daniel Horgan and Hibak Hussein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Hibak is grateful for everything she has in the U.S., but as a young Muslim woman who wears a hijab in a Western society, she strives to have her religion, culture, and identity understood and respected.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: Former intelligence contractor interviewed in Brazil
ABC News Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
6 Jun 2014 – Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by US authorities and currently living in Russia, has told Brazil’s Globo TV network he would “love to live in Brazil”.
→ read full articleAn Appeal for More Whistleblowers
Norman Solomon – Consortium News,
16 Jun 2014
As more and more secrecy envelopes the U.S. government – with millions of hidden records concealing both past and present – there is no practical alternative for democracy but to fight back with “unauthorized” disclosures, as Norman Solomon explains in an appeal for more whistleblowers.
→ read full articleForeign Aid Funding Luxury Hotels in Myanmar
Michelle Tullo, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
New investments from the World Bank’s private-sector investment arm may perpetuate economic inequality rather than alleviate poverty in Myanmar. “A significant factor contributing to the urban versus rural income inequality is that the vast majority of investment in Burma is concentrated in the urban sector, despite the fact that only one-third of the population lives in these areas,”
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Exposed: Killing Dolphins – Dying for Lobsters
Link TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
1-Thousands of dolphins are killed solely for shark bait each year off the coast of Peru. 2-The epidemic of decompression disease or bends suffered by Miskito Indians involved in commercial lobster diving off Nicaragua’s coast. (27:17)
→ read full articleSuccessful Elections
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
President Carter was worried about his prospects for reelection.
→ read full articleAustralia: ‘Ag-Gag’ Laws Backed to Hide Animal Cruelty
Ben Latham – New Matilda,
16 Jun 2014
A push for new legislation that will force animal rights activists to hand over footage to police rather than media. Out of sight and out of mind, the Australian meat industry benefits from keeping consumers in the dark about what happens behind the closed doors of factory farms and slaughterhouses.
→ read full articleHow Not to Pay the Price for Free Wi-Fi
Stephanie Rosenbloom – The New York Times,
16 Jun 2014
Part of globe-trotting nowadays is flitting from one free Wi-Fi network to the next. From hotel lobby to coffee shop to subway platform to park, each time we join a public network we put our personal information and privacy at risk.
→ read full articleA Hard Won Victory… The Story of 68 Palestinian Families in Lebanon
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Masnaa Border Crossing (Syria/Lebanon)
→ read full article2.8-Billion-Year-Old Spheres Found in South Africa: How Were They Made?
Tara MacIsaac - Epoch Times,
16 Jun 2014
Spheres found in the mines of South Africa have piqued the curiosity of researchers for decades. According to Michael Cremo and other researchers of prehistoric culture, these spheres add to a body of evidence suggesting intelligent life existed on Earth long before a conventional view of history places it here.
→ read full articleEmpire of Prisons
James P. Jordan – CounterPunch,
16 Jun 2014
How the United States Is Spreading Mass Incarceration around the World
→ read full articleUkraine’s Kiev Regime Is Not “Officially” a Neo-Nazi Government
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
16 Jun 2014
There are “ultra-conservatives” in the Kiev government but “they are not Neo-Nazis,” says the Western media. The alternative media says that the Kiev regime is integrated by two Neo-Nazi parties (Svoboda and Right Sector) “but it is not a Neo-Nazi government”. When the Kiev regime “officially” displays Nazi emblems to identify entities of their National Security and Military apparatus one would normally assume that it is a Neo-Nazi government.
→ read full articleSpain 2050–Ten Predictions
Johan Galtung, 16 Jun 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Can we know the future? Rhetorical answer: can we know the past? We rewrite history all the time, not because facts become dubious and new facts appear, but because our angle, perspective, changes.
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An Explanation of Syria’s Nightmarish Situation
Mint Press News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Based on the World Café Methodology – Written by Mnar A. Muhawesh, editor in chief of Mint Press.
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There’s a Kind of Hush
Nicholas Kristof - The New York Times,
16 Jun 2014
Aung San Suu Kyi should be one of the heroes of modern times. Instead, as her country imposes on the Rohingya Muslim minority an apartheid that would have made white supremacists in South Africa blush, she bites her tongue. It seems as though she aspires to become president of Myanmar, and speaking up for a reviled minority could be fatal to her prospects. The moral giant has become a calculating politician.
→ read full articleThey Knew Our Secrets. One Year Later, We Know Theirs.
American Civil Liberties Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
One year ago, the world had never heard of Edward Snowden, and we knew very little about the breathtaking scope of U.S. government surveillance. One year later, we know more than ever before about our government’s mass surveillance apparatus. We now have the power to rein it in.
→ read full articleLooted
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
I suppose there was looting in 331 B. C.
when Alexander the Great “liberated” Babylon.
I Quit Drinking, Then I Got Addicted to Food
Jenny Chu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Recovering alcoholics and addicts often become “transfer-addicted” to food: After years of flooding the reward centers of our brains with chemicals, we continue to seek the same kind of high elsewhere.
→ read full article(Português) Copa de Quem?
Tereza Halliday – Diário de Pernambuco,
16 Jun 2014
Sediada no Brasil em 2014, a Copa do Mundo Fifa torna-se o nosso mundo. Impensável e insensato não torcer pelo Brasil. Eu torço, mas sem perder a consciência de que, enquanto a bola rola, nós somos enrolados.
→ read full articleLeo Tolstoy on Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
“For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite… In complete contrast to my ignorance, [they] knew the meaning of life and death, labored quietly, endured deprivations and sufferings, and lived and died seeing therein not vanity but good…”
→ read full articleVodafone Privacy Report Reveals State Access to Its Networks
Mike Ingram, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
The world’s second largest mobile phone group, Vodafone, revealed the existence of secret permanent access to its networks from governments in six of the 29 countries in which it operates. Vodafone did not name the countries, citing fear that they could revoke licenses and pursue legal action.
→ read full articleSaving Threatened Species
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Current [atmospheric] CO2 values are more than 100 ppm higher than at any time in the last one million years (and maybe higher than at any time in the last 25 million years)… These increases in atmospheric CO2 are causing real, significant changes in the Earth system now, not in some distant future climate, and will continue to be felt for centuries to come.
→ read full article(Português) Como O Reino Unido Ensinou os Militares Brasileiros a Torturar
Emily Buchanan, BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
A BBC encontrou evidências de que o Reino Unido colaborou ativamente com os generais e os treinou com técnicas sofisticadas de interrogatório.
→ read full articleObama Pledges $1bn for More Troops, Military Drills in Eastern Europe
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
President Obama has announced a plan to invest $1 billion in stepping up its military presence in Eastern Europe amid the Ukrainian crisis. “I cannot think of anything more dangerous in the current circumstances than to have a deployment of UK and US troops alongside Ukrainian troops this summer,” John Rees, British political analyst and national officer at Stop the War Coalition, told RT.
→ read full articleGood for the Jews?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Seriously, the claim by Binyamin Netanyahu that he has a right to pick and choose the Palestinian government is rather astonishing.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the Graduates of West Point: Refuting President Obama’s Lies, Omissions and Distortions
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
On May 2014 President Obama delivered the commencement address to the graduates of United States Military Academy at West Point. Beyond the easy banter and eulogy to past and present war heroes, Obama outlined a vision of past military successes and present policies, based on a profoundly misleading diagnosis of the current global position of the United States.
→ read full articleWhat’s Really at Stake in the Sydney University BDS Affair?
Jake Lynch – New Matilda,
9 Jun 2014
People in Israel should realise that in the 21st century the world will not keep tolerating the Israeli occupation. This is realised by many in Israel and the responses include using the courts of other countries to close down political action intended to signal a refusal to tolerate the occupation, such as BDS.
→ read full articleN.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces from Web Images
James Risen and Laura Poitras – The New York Times,
9 Jun 2014
The spy agency’s reliance on facial recognition technology has grown significantly over the last four years as the agency has turned to new software to exploit the flood of images included in emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other communications, top-secret documents reveal.
→ read full articleSonia Bridi Entrevista [Interviews] Edward Snowden
Globo News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Portuguese Subtitles – Legendado em Português –
Interview conducted in English with Comments in Portuguese –
Entrevista em inglês com comentários em português
Misogyny, Guns, and Their Lethal Confluence
Tom Tomorrow - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
This Modern World
→ read full articleDeath’s Rainbow
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
I walked upon the battlefield
and saw a grotesque scene revealed:
the corpses there, both friend and foe,
all formed a sort of weird rainbow.
Revealed: GCHQ’s Beyond Top Secret Middle Eastern Internet Spy Base
Duncan Campbell – The Register,
9 Jun 2014
Snowden Leaks That UK Government Suppressed – Government pressure has meant that some media organisations, despite being in possession of these facts, have declined to reveal them. Today [3 Jun 2014], however, the Register publishes them in full.
→ read full articleOne Year of Edward Snowden’s Revelations
Eric London and Barry Grey, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Thursday [5 Jun 2014] marked one year since evidence of the US government’s mass surveillance programs first began appearing in the Guardian newspaper. The international surveillance apparatus Snowden has uncovered is more powerful than any in history.
→ read full articleChina Leads from the Shadows
Felix Imonti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
While the West tries to preserve the power and the glory of another time, the people with the plans and the determination to reshape the world are in Beijing and Moscow. It has been a gradual, cautious journey from obscurity to the second most important currency in the world. The Chinese yuan achieved that standing at the end of 2013.
→ read full article(Castellano) De la Fiesta del Futbol a la Fiesta de la Tolerancia
Profesora Alicia Cabezudo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
La “fiesta del Mundial” es también una extraordinaria oportunidad en la labor educativa para convertirla en un aprendizaje diferente . Aprendizaje donde la educación para la tolerancia, el respeto hacia el otro, las diferencias culturales y el esfuerzo colectivo como valor social adquieren una dimensión pedagógica actual y necesaria.
→ read full articleObama Advisor Susan Rice: US Providing ‘Lethal’ Aid to Syrian Rebels
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
President Barack Obama’s top foreign policy advisor Susan Rice on Friday [6 Jun 2014] said Washington was providing “lethal and non-lethal” support to select members of the Syrian opposition, offering more detail than usual on US assistance.
→ read full articleThe Enemy Within – Beware of Kicking the Dragon and Bear!
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The North Americans are the extremists of the capitalist system. We must hope that the skilful diplomacy of both Russia and China, their bilateral cooperation and their steps to achieve multilateral cooperation from Latin American to Africa and Europe and Asia will change the power dynamics of the world.
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Acrobatic Female Quartet (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Salut Salon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
SPECTACULAR!! – “The Summer”, composed by Antonio Vivaldi, becomes the stage for a musical competition. Salut Salon, a Hamburg quartet, ‘fights’ acrobatically and with a special sense of humor.
→ read full articleSyria’s Twin Jihads
Mona Alami, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Armageddon ideology used in the Syria conflict has fanned Shiite-Sunni fires in Lebanon as well as across the region. Reducing the conflict to a battle within Islam, as portrayed by jihadists on one side and by Hezbollah on the other, could portend a greater conflict that would wreak havoc in region where the Muslim divide runs deep, and religious identities prevail over nationalism.
→ read full articleNew Whistleblower Organization Launched on Anniversary of Snowden Revelations
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Jun 4, 2014 – Former whistleblowers Radack, Wiebe, Coleman-Adebayo and Ellsberg speak out at the launch of ExposeFacts.org a US based independent media organization that encourages whistleblowers to expose government and corporate malfeasance.
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The Age of Climate Warfare Is Here. The Military-Industrial Complex Is Ready. Are You?
Nafeez Ahmed – The Guardian,
9 Jun 2014
30 May 2014 – During his speech at West Point Military Academy earlier this week, President Barack Obama described climate change as a “creeping national security crisis” that will require the armed forces to “respond to refugee flows, natural disasters, and conflicts over water and food.”
→ read full articleFour Ways Edward Snowden Changed the World – And Why the Fight’s Not Over
Trevor Timm – The Guardian,
9 Jun 2014
Encrypted Gmail. Transparency from mobile providers. Maybe even a legal ‘revolt’ against ‘Orwellian’ surveillance. But until we get real reform, NSA and Co may survive in the shadows.
→ read full articleBusted Pilot Forgets to Turn Off CHEMTRAILS while Landing
TruthTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
A pilot of a commercial airliner made a mistake that PROVES the existence of CHEMTRAILS — by forgetting to turn them off before he landed! We have video of the plane landing while still spraying chemtrails as it hits the runway. See for yourself.
→ read full articleUSDA Reports Honeybee Death Rate Too High for Long-Term Survival
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Honeybees in the U.S. are dying at a rate too high to ensure their long-term survival, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
→ read full articleGenetically Modified Crops Fueling Decline of Monarch Butterflies: Report
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
9 Jun 2014
The monarch butterflies’ numbers have been plummeting in recent years, and a new study has pointed to the likely main culprit: loss of its summer habitat as a result of genetically modified crops.
→ read full articleDemocracy’s Crisis – 10 Points
Jan Oberg, TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Democracy requires a reasonable level of knowledge and information, freely available. The “world’s largest democracy” [India] also has the world’s largest population who can’t read and write (26%, 287 million people). In comparison, China illiterate citizens make up about 3% and is regularly called a dictatorship.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung on Language & Peace Education
Donna J. McInnis, Soka University – Japan Association for Language Teaching,
9 Jun 2014
There has been a general shift in emphasis in peace education since the Cold War ended: from peace/war knowledge to conflict competence. Conflict competence can be taught from kindergarten to Ph.D. to old age.
→ read full articleObama Success, or Global Shame?
Nicholas Kristof – The New York Times,
9 Jun 2014
What’s odious about what is happening here is that the suffering is deliberately inflicted as government policy. The authorities are stripping members of one ethnic group of citizenship, then interning them in camps or villages, depriving them of education, refusing them medical care — and even expelling humanitarians who seek to save their lives.
→ read full article(Castellano) Portugal, Un País Sin Abrigo
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
La mistificación consiste en hacer creer a alguien una mentira como si fuera verdad. La mentira es que el proceso de la troika terminó con éxito, que Portugal goza hoy de mejores condiciones para desarrollarse como país europeo.
→ read full article(Português) Flaskô, a Fábrica Brasileira Sob Controle Operário
Paloma Rodrigues, Carta Capital – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Quebrada por patrões, recuperada pelos trabalhadores, indústria reduziu jornada, estabeleceu democracia interna e criou centro cultural. Após onze anos, luta entra em nova fase.
→ read full articleNATO Troops and Bases Not Welcome In Slovakia and Czech Republic
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Two Eastern European nations, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, have refused to host foreign troops and military bases. The prime ministers of both countries have consecutively spoken against the proposal voiced by US President Barack Obama.
→ read full articleIsraelis Deny Palestinian Ministers-Elect West Bank Entry
Gulf News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The Israeli occupation has denied three future Palestinian ministers from the Gaza Strip entry to the West Bank ahead of the unveiling of a new unity government, a senior source said on Sunday [1 Jun 2014].
→ read full articleObama’s Legacy: “Don’t Do Stupid Stuff”
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Cautioning against militarism at West Point President on May 22nd Obama in a speech mostly notable for its reassertion of what might be best understood as imperial nationalism of global scope declared the following:
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Beverly Bell and Jessica Hsu – Toward Freedom,
9 Jun 2014
[As Eduardo] Galeano, the Uruguayan writer, said: “Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.”
→ read full articleSri Lanka: War Remembrance, Reconciliation and Nonviolent Resistance
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka,
9 Jun 2014
The Government of Sri Lanka has become more vigorous in its attempts to curtail the [Tamil] Diaspora’s moves, but this has only served to make committed activists in the Diaspora more confident in facing the challenges thrown towards them by the GoSL through further nonviolent strategies.
→ read full articleWe Need the Dissolution of NATO – It Has No Mission”
Karina Boeckmann, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Subrata Ghoshroy, an engineer of Indian descent, describes how sophisticated weapon systems are being used as dominant instruments of U.S. foreign policy. He had worked in the field of high-energy laser before he turned defence analyst and whistleblower against faked ‘Star Wars’ missile defence tests by U.S. government contractors.
→ read full articleCalifornia University Passes Divestment Resolution against Israel
JTA – The Times of Israel,
9 Jun 2014
The University of California, Santa Cruz student government passed a non-binding resolution calling for divestment from companies involved in alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank including Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Hewlett Packard and General Electric.
→ read full articleRich Getting Richer as the Poor Crawl Slowly Out of Poverty
Diana Cariboni, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Are we returning to the Middle Ages? Gaps in income and wealth are growing wider, including in places with well-established middle classes, like Europe or the United States.
→ read full articleU.S. Pledges Millions More in Aid to Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The United States pledged millions of dollars in additional aid to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia on Saturday [7 Jun 2014], deepening American support to the Western-leaning countries on Russia’s border.
→ read full articlePeace Movements’ Common Vision: The Abolition of Militarism
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
If our common dream is a world without weapons and militarism, why don’t we say so? Why be silent about it? It would make a world of difference if we refused to be ambivalent about the violence of militarism. We should no longer be scattered attempts to modify the military, each one of us would do our thing as part of a global effort. Across all divisions of national borders, religions, races. We must be an alternative, insisting on an end to militarism and violence.
→ read full articleRadical Cognitive Mirroring of Globalization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Dynamically Inning the Unquestioningly Outed – There is no lack of references to the complexity of global society and to the challenges it faces — nor to the manner in which people experience an increasing sense of disempowerment and uncertainty. The question is whether it is possible to think otherwise about this experience — to reframe it more fruitfully in some way.
→ read full articleA Message From Edward Snowden, One Year Later
Edward Snowden – American Civil Liberties Union,
9 Jun 2014
4 Jun 2014 – Below is an email ACLU supporters received from Edward Snowden this morning, one year to the day since The Guardian broke the first in a series of revelations exposing the breathtaking scope of U.S. government surveillance.
→ read full articleUK Referred to International Criminal Court for War Crimes in Iraq
Jean Shaoul, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has accepted the complaint lodged in January [2014] alleging that UK military personnel committed war crimes against Iraqis in their custody between 2003 and 2008. She has ordered a preliminary investigation.
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