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Hawking and the Growing Israel Boycott Movement
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
May 12, 2013 – Activists in Gaza consider renowned physicist Stephen Hawking’s decision to cancel his participation in an upcoming conference in Israel as part of an academic boycott “a huge victory for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) movement”.
→ read full articleConcert Review: Anoushka Shankar at The Royal Festival Hall, London
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The genre of Shankar’s music has roots in ancient Hindu philosophy and Indian culture, but her compositions, positioned in the twenty-first century world, astonishingly connect the inner microcosm of the individual to the expansive macrocosm of the universe.
→ read full articleThe Ukraine in Turmoil
Israel Shamir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
It is not much fun to be in Kiev these days. The revolutionary excitement is over. The Maidan street revolt and the subsequent coup just reshuffled the same marked deck of cards, forever rotating in power. As Russia procrastinates, as the US doubles the risks, the world draws nearer to the nuclear abyss. Who will chicken out?
→ read full articleEurope: 1, Google: 0 – EU Court Ruling a Victory for Privacy
SPIEGEL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
20 May 2014 – A ruling by the European Union’s highest court last week ordering Google to provide people with the right to be forgotten has generated fiercely divergent responses in the US and Europe. Germans are celebrating the decision, which buttresses privacy.
→ read full articleFree Speech and BDS Case: Applicants Wanting to Run!
Jake Lynch, Australians for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
At the Australian Federal Court, four of the five applicants to have me found guilty of racial discrimination applied to pull out of the action. That would leave only Shurat HaDin, the right-wing Israeli law centre. But I still need your help in meeting my legal bills, which are well into six figures.
→ read full articleInternational Whaling Commission to Consider Imminent Extinction of Maui’s Dolphins
Independent News Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
In the past two years, the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission had issued urgent recommendations about the need to protect the dolphins’ from fishing nets. With less than 15 breeding females, Maui’s dolphins are amongst the rarest and most endangered mammals on earth.
→ read full articleIn Their Own Juice
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
According to press reports, President Barack Obama has decided to let Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas “stew in their own juice.” What does it mean for “both” to stew in their own juice?
→ read full articleBreak the Silence: A World War Is Beckoning – In Ukraine, the US Is Dragging Us Towards War with Russia
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Washington’s role in Ukraine, and its backing for the regime’s neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world.
→ read full article(Português) Anistia Internacional: 80% dos brasileiros têm medo de tortura em prisão
Agência Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
A pesquisa entrevistou 21 mil pessoas de 21 países de todos os continentes e concluiu que o Brasil é o mais atingido por esse temor. A Anistia Internacional pede ainda a criação de mecanismos que facilitem a prevenção e a punição da tortura.
→ read full articleNorway 2050: An Image
Johan Galtung, 19 May 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Two major contradictions: between ranking as No. 1 on Quality of Life indicators, yet having a high and increasing loneliness and not only at old age; and between having a country but increasingly letting others do the work. How come? Because interaction nets dissolve. Extended families disappeared long time ago.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Va’ pensiero, storie ambulanti.” Collettivamente memoria 2014. Aosta 9 maggio 2014
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
“Va’ pensiero, storie ambulanti” è il racconto, lucido e struggente, di due aggressioni razziste avvenute a Milano e a Firenze e del tentativo di ricostruzione che ognuno degli aggrediti, sopravvissuti, sta tentando di agire su di sé, pur nella difficile convivenza con l’impossibilità di lavorare e con l’incertezza quotidiana, sempre presente, di rivivere, attraverso sguardi o gesti, il momento dell’aggressione.
→ read full articleWelcome Modi Sarkar…!!!
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
While forgetting and forgiving old scars
Let’s welcome from heart, Modi sarkar
Let’s give him a chance as a changed man
And help him to change the fate of nation
The Birth of a Eurasian Century: Russia and China Do Pipelineistan
Pepe Escobar - TomDispatch,
19 May 2014
And no wonder Washington is anxious. That alliance is already a done deal in a variety of ways: through the BRICS group of emerging powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa); at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Asian counterweight to NATO; inside the G20; and via the 120-member-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
→ read full articleWest Antarctic Glaciers in Irreversible Decline
NASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
In that region, six glaciers hang in a precarious balance, partially supported by land, and partially floating in waters just offshore.
→ read full articleWhales: Their Emerging Right to Life
Anthony D'Amato (with Sudhir K. Chopra) - American Journal of International Law,
19 May 2014
Writers of science fiction have often speculated about what it would be like to discover, on a planet in outer space, a much higher form of intelligence. How would we react to those creatures? Would we be so fearful of them that we would try to kill them? Or would we welcome the opportunity to attempt to understand their language and culture?
→ read full article(Castellano) “Europa en su encrucijada”
Francesc P. Baldo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Es cierto que nunca han sido fáciles las cosas para Europa, a quien ya en la mitología se le atribuían unos orígenes convulsos , abducida y ultrajada por Zeus. En su suelo, además, han tenido lugar miles de batallas, algunas decisivas para el futuro de la humanidad, y es posible que se esté librando ya la penúltima, sin que nos hayamos percatado aún de ello..
→ read full articleThe Fate of Animals: Genocide in Indonesian Zoo
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
What is happening in Surabaya is shocking by all standards. Here, massacres in the local zoo do not involve ‘just a few animals’, but half of their entire population. “Originally there were some 4,400 animals. Now there are only approximately 2,100 of them left…”
→ read full articleThe U.S. Military’s New Normal in Africa
Nick Turse – TomDisptach,
19 May 2014
A Secret African Mission and an African Mission that’s No Secret
→ read full articleThe Wall Street Bonanza
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
The vast redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top that has taken place since the 2008 crash is expressed in the colossal rise in stock prices, which have nearly tripled since March 2009.
→ read full articleThe Snowden Saga Begins
Glenn Greenwald - TomDispatch,
19 May 2014
“I Have Been to the Darkest Corners of Government, and What They Fear Is Light” [This essay is a shortened and adapted version of Chapter 1 of Glenn Greenwald’s new book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Security State.]
→ read full articleThe End of Democracy as We Know It
Bernd Hamm – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Abstract: This paper starts with summarizing the major theoretical elements in the definition of a global ruling class. It then examines how neoconservatives in the US took power and used regime change to create chaos in other regions. A strategy of tension is used to press the population into conformity. But the real revolution is to what extent factual politics escape any attempt to democratic control. Three case studies show how far the Deep State already goes. Democracy is on the brink of survival.
→ read full articleUS Marines Deploy to Italy Due to Libya Threat: Official
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
The US military has moved a team of marines from Spain to southern Italy as a precautionary step in case the US embassy in Libya comes under threat, officials said Wednesday [14 May 2014].
→ read full article(Fançais) En Ukraine, feu Blackwater fait reparler de ses « mercenaires »
Camille Polloni – Le Nouvel Observateur/Rue89,
19 May 2014
Le journal allemand Bild am Sonntag affirme ce dimanche que parmi les gros bras ukrainiens qui combattent les miliciens pro-russes se cachent 400 mercenaires d’Academi, le nouveau nom de Blackwater.
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Hungarian Dance No. 5 (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Martynas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Virtuoso Martynas on Acordeon – Composition of Johannes Brahms – Martynas Levickis, 24, is one of the brightest young musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards.
→ read full articleWhat Does The US Government Want in Ukraine?
Ron Paul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
We are broke. We cannot even afford to fix our own economy. Yet we want to run Ukraine? Does it really matter who Ukrainians elect to represent them?
→ read full articleChina Signs Mega East Africa Rail Deal
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
China on Sunday [11 May 2014] signed a deal to build a $3.8 billion rail link between Kenya’s Indian Ocean port of Mombasa and Nairobi, the first stage of a line that will eventually link Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.
→ read full articleChaos in Libya: How the US-NATO War Destabilized North Africa and Now Threatens Europe
Timothy Alexander Guzman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Former Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has warned, “Libya is in danger of becoming an Al-Qaeda terror base for attacks targeting European countries from Italy to Britain, to France, to Spain, to Morocco, to everywhere. Weapons are everywhere, ammunition is everywhere.”
→ read full articleDear Salman
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Years ago I was invited to a UN conference on the Palestinian refugees in Paris.
→ read full articleThe Limits of US Military Power
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Perhaps military enthusiasts in the United States and other nations should consider whether military power is a reliable source of influence in world affairs. After all, just because you possess a hammer doesn’t mean that every problem you face is a nail.
→ read full articleOur Duty to Future Generations
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Many traditional agricultural societies have an ethical code that requires them to preserve the fertility of the land for future generations. This recognition of a duty towards the distant future is in strong contrast to the shortsightedness of modern economists.
→ read full articleWelcome to Nulandistan: A Multimedia Look at What the US and EU Have Unleashed on Ukraine
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
19 May 2014
The discourse about “pro-Russian” separatists is a misleading attempt to hide the real nature of the protests against the regime, which is opposition to a coup. The main issue is one of anti-coup protesters versus a junta and not separatists and federalists versus Kiev. To refer to the junta in Kiev as the government of Ukraine is to reject or ignore its illegality.
→ read full articleA Look at the European Court Ruling on Google
Toby Sterling, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Questions and answers over the European Court ruling on Google and the ‘right to be forgotten.’
→ read full article12 Shocking Facts about the Dangers of Psychiatric Drugs
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
The disorders range from depression and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder) to bipolar and anxiety disorders. The sordid story behind how these medications work, how they come to market, and how they interfere with the lives of users is a complicated web.
→ read full articlePleader
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
I, too, am a pleader,
but insane, groveling,
inarticulate, nearly mute or shrieking,
Success Story
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
A retired mathematics teacher met the worst student he had ever had during his 40 years of teaching.
→ read full articleWhat Is Boko Haram and Whence Did It Arise?
Gary K. Busch – Pambazuka News,
19 May 2014
The terrorist group Boko Haram is a vital element in the fight over state power by various political groups in Nigeria. Both Nigeria’s continued politics of corruption and the Al Qaeda link to Boko Haram point to a grim future of continued insecurity.
→ read full articleUganda Passes another Repressive Law — This Time Criminalising HIV Transmission
Amy Fallon, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Ugandan AIDS bodies and campaigners have warned that the “ugly clauses” of an HIV bill passed by Parliament late Tuesday [13 May 2014], which includes the criminalisation of the “wilful and intentional” transmission of the disease, will see many in this East African country “shun the healthcare system”.
→ read full articleConUNdrum: The Limits of the United Nations and the Search for Alternatives
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
The book is worth reading for a better understanding of a strong, if misguided, current in U.S. politics. These criticisms need to be taken seriously, but, I believe, that reforms must be taken within the U.N. and not in alternative —as yet uncreated— institutions.
→ read full article(Português) O determinismo biológico e os interesses do capital
Leandro Módolo P. - Carta Maior,
19 May 2014
De Gobineau e sua teoria eugênica à Spencer e as corridas coloniais, de Charles Davenport e Harry Laughlin e as políticas de esterilização estadunidense à Eugen Fischer e Alfred Ploetz e a Lei de Proteção à Saúde Hereditária do Povo Alemão, ao menos a história ocidental moderna está recheada de ‘cientistas’ que advogaram causas naturais para diferenças e problemas sociais.
→ read full articleThe Soma Mine Disaster or Privatization Gone Wild in Turkey
Dr. Can Erimtan – Russia Today,
19 May 2014
The mine is owned and operated by Soma Holding A.Ş following its privatization in the 1990s. Turkey’s Minister for Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz expressed his grief: “We are moving toward the worst mining disaster in Turkey but the death toll figures are not important,” as an indication that human costs in search for greater profits are negligible and even inevitable.
→ read full articleBankers Killing Bankers for the Insurance Money and another Look at 9/11
Max Keiser – Russia Today,
19 May 2014
It turns out that banks take out life insurance policies on their employees, and those policies pay out death benefits to the banks – not the families. Should we be surprised by this banker-on-banker death scam? After all, wasn’t this what 9/11 was all about?
→ read full articleThe Free-Trade Regime: Oligarchy in Action
Moritz Laurer – Foreign Policy In Focus,
19 May 2014
Economic elites and special interest groups enjoy tremendous sway in Washington, while “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureates Call For Preemptive Ban on “Killer Robots”
Nobel Women’s Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
We, the undersigned Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, applaud this new global effort and whole-heartedly embrace its goal of a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons that would be able to select and attack targets on their own. It is unconscionable that human beings are expanding research and development of lethal machines that would be able to kill people without human intervention.
→ read full articlePortugal Leaves Bailout Program with 214bn Euro Debt, 4% Lower GDP
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Portugal exited its international bailout program on Saturday [17 May 2014] regaining its economic sovereignty. While many people are struggling with tough austerity measures, a disproportionate amount of people are getting richer and richer. The top 20 percent make six times more than the bottom 20 percent.
→ read full articleU.S. Intervention in Nigeria?
Jacob G. Hornberger – The Future of Freedom Foundation,
19 May 2014
The best solution is for the American people to restore the founding principles of a limited government republic to our land by dismantling the Cold War national-security state apparatus, so that the U.S. government lacks the means to engage in foreign interventionism in any respect.
→ read full articleChevron Uses Deep Pockets to Win Ecuador Legal Battle
Lauren Carasik – Al Jazeera America,
19 May 2014
Chevron’s bid to embolden transnational corporations to use their deep pockets to thwart justice underestimates the tenacity and resourcefulness of their opposition.
→ read full articleMultinational Corporations Play Key Role in Qatar Labor Abuses
Arezo Yazd – Al Jazeera America,
19 May 2014
While many cited the Qatari government’s responsibility for labor-related abuses that resulted in over 500 deaths of Indian migrant workers since 2012, few mention the importance of corporate responsibility, primarily in light of construction for World Cup 2022.
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No Turning Back – West Antarctic Glaciers in Irreversible Decline
NASA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Over the years, as temperatures around the world have ratcheted upward, climate change researchers have kept a wary eye on one place perhaps more than any other: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and particularly the fastest melting part of it, the glaciers that flow into the Amundsen Sea.
→ read full articleReports of Blackwater Swarming Kiev as East Vows Independence
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
19 May 2014
Mercenaries contracted by the U.S. firm Academi, formerly Blackwater, have been deployed to Kiev. According to German news source Bild on Friday [9 May 2014], and repeated by Der Spiegel, Ukrainian security forces are being supported by over 100 “elite soldiers” involved in a “punitive operation mounted by Ukraine’s new government.”
→ read full article10 Reasons to Love Uruguay’s President José Mujica
Medea Benjamin – Huffington Post,
19 May 2014
Mujica’s influence goes far beyond that of the leader of a tiny country of only 3 million people. In a world hungry for alternatives, the innovations that he and his colleagues are championing have put Uruguay on the map as one of the world’s most exciting experiments in creative, progressive governance.
→ read full articleWilliam Worthy, a Reporter Drawn to Forbidden Datelines, Dies at 92
Margalit Fox – International New York Times,
19 May 2014
A close ally of Malcolm X, in 1955 he spent six weeks in Moscow, interviewing ordinary citizens and the future Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. Defying a United States travel ban, he crossed into mainland China in 1956 and spent 41 days traveling the country, interviewing the premier, Zhou Enlai. In 1961, without a passport, he went to Cuba, debarking in Havana from a ship bound for Mexico. In 1962 he was found guilty and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment plus nine months’ probation.
→ read full articleComplicity: Psychology and War on Terror Abuses
Roy Eidelson, Trudy Bond, Stephen Soldz, Steven Reisner, Jean Maria Arrigo and Brad Olson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Given that psychologists have been central figures in the abuse and torture of our country’s “war on terror” detainees, and that the American Psychological Association has worked to guarantee psychologists’ positioning in detention and interrogation roles, examining the APA’s involvement is an appropriate starting point for this crucial work.
→ read full articleRwanda’s Proxy Wars for Imperialist Interests
Samir Amin – Pambazuka News,
19 May 2014
Rwanda, a military dictatorship, plays a key destabilising role in the Great Lakes region to benefit its imperialist partners, US and UK, whose primary interest is the mineral wealth in Eastern DR Congo. Democratic forces should work had to expose imperialist agendas and weaken Western influence in the region.
→ read full articleMichael Sam Is First Openly Gay NFL Player as St Louis Rams Draft Pick
Martin Pengelly – The Guardian,
12 May 2014
Michael Sam, the college defensive end who made headlines earlier this year by coming out, is set to become the first openly gay player to play in the National Football League. Sam was picked in Saturday’s [10 May 2014] final round of the NFL Draft, by the St Louis Rams.
→ read full articlePalestine – Chronicle of a Foretold Death
Baher Kamal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
A quick look at the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would suffice to conclude that the process leading to creating a Palestinian State living side by side with Israel had already been sentenced to failure 117 years ago.
→ read full article(Italiano) Omaggio all’International New York Times
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Perché omaggio? Non per la trattazione delle notizie; di solito, quelle “adatte alla stampa”, che non contraddicono troppo apertamente le visioni del mondo insite nelle politiche estere USA e israeliana. . E neppure per gli editoriali, che sono spesso sulla stessa linea e anche francamente noiosi molte volte. No, l’omaggio è per gli articoli, addirittura i saggi, ad altissimo livello.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cooperazione fra università per l’equità e l’empatia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Immaginate un seminario cooperativo di quattro settimane con molte università su come pensare (ri-cercare), parlare (anche insegnare) e agire (prassi) nei campi delle relazioni internazionali e dell’epistemologia; una gran NOVITA’!
→ read full articleThe Three Faces of Drone War – Speaking Truth From the Robotic Heavens
Pratap Chatterjee - TomDispatch,
12 May 2014
Obama’s remote control campaign, is a failure; that it is not clinical but bloody and riddled with error; that it creates enemies even as it kills others; that it is, above all, no more a video game for those who fly the planes and loose the missiles than it is for those who die in distant lands.
→ read full articleDignity: A Compelling Notion for Chile
William Alexander Yankes - The Santiago Times,
12 May 2014
Researcher in early Chilean literature William Alexander Yankes writes on hierarchy and social injustice from the colonial period to modern times.
→ read full articleJournalism Can Be an Agent of Peace
David Robie – New Matilda,
12 May 2014
Embracing ‘peace journalism’ will help journalists be part of the solution. The study of wars and news media portrayal and reportage of conflict has been well developed as an academic discipline, termed by some as “war journalism”. But the study of peace journalism lags far behind. War journalism often focuses on violence as its own cause and is less open to examining the deep structural origins of the conflict. Heavy reliance on official sources leads to a general zero-sum analysis and deepens divisions.
→ read full articlePalestinians Take the Tough Path towards Unity
Khaled Alashqar, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The move for reconciliation between Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip could change the balance in the Middle East – if it were to proceed and deliver as promised. The Israeli government still in shock over this unexpected agreement and the new political calculations it would bring.
→ read full articleNigeria: Boko Haram Kidnappings Used to Justify US Military Build-Up in Africa
Jean Shaoul, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The kidnapping presents Washington, whose requests to mount military and intelligence operations from Nigeria had repeatedly been rebuffed, with a golden opportunity to secure a foothold in the oil-rich country, now Africa’s largest economy.
→ read full articleIsraeli President Peres: Netanyahu Blocked 2011 Peace Deal with Palestinians
Agence France-Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
“Netanyahu told me to wait a few days because he thought that Tony Blair could get a better offer,” Peres said, referring to the envoy of the peacemaking quartet of the EU, Russia, UN and USA. “The days passed and there was no better offer.”
→ read full articleRevenge
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The moon is low and casts its shadows long,
and in this gloom what God can say I’m wrong?
Armaments, Disarmament and International Security – Arms Transfers to Syria
Pieter D. Wezeman - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute-SIPRI,
12 May 2014
Rebel forces repeatedly called in 2012 for governments supporting their cause to supply them with weapons and other military equipment. As of January 2013 the actual volume of foreign military aid to the rebels is hard to measure.
→ read full articleU.S. Recognizes Syria Opposition Offices as ‘Foreign Mission’
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The US said on Monday [5 May 2014] it would recognize the main opposition Syrian National Coalition offices as a diplomatic foreign mission and announced a $27 million increase in non-lethal assistance to mercenaries fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad. Syrian forces have made gains on the battlefield and Damascus announced a presidential election for June 3, expected to be won by Assad.
→ read full articleCan the Kochs Hold Back History?
Timothy Egan – International New York Times,
12 May 2014
The modern equivalent of Hearst is the Koch Brothers, David and Charles — known without affection as the Kochtopus. According to one study, the Kochs have already spent $61 million on various front groups dedicated to the flat-earth proposition that the globe is not warming. But so far, the only return on that investment is a cohort of people flopping around in the waters of stupidity.
→ read full article“The Russians are coming … again … and they’re still ten feet tall!”
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Putting the Ukraine Crisis in Context – When the Ukraine crisis began, the mainstream U.S. media cast aside any pretense of objectivity and joined in the service of State Department propaganda. But – given the emergence of the Internet – a far more honest and nuanced story is possible to detect.
→ read full articleDrug Resistant Superbugs a Serious Threat Worldwide, Says WHO
Kate Kelland, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The spread of deadly superbugs that evade even the most powerful antibiotics is no longer a prediction but is happening right now across the world, United Nations officials said on Wednesday [April 30 2014].
→ read full articleJournalism Is the Novel of Reality
Antonio Castillo – New Matilda,
12 May 2014
Reality was central to Gabriel García Márquez’s fiction, which was magically nourished by his journalism. So while much has been written about his best known works of fiction, One Hundred Years of Solitude, or Love in the Time of Cholera, many have forgotten that García Márquez was first a journalist, “the best job in the world”, as he described it.
→ read full articleWar Is Good for Us, Dumb New Book Claims
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Ian Morris maintains that the only way to peace is to make large societies, and the way to large societies is through war. From peace prosperity follows and from prosperity flows happiness. Therefore, war creates happiness. But if you want peace, prosperity and joy you must never stop engaging in — you guessed it — war.
→ read full articleRecent Trends in Arms Transfers
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
SIPRI – 17 March 2014. South Asia and the Gulf lead rising trend in arms imports. Russian exports grow.
→ read full articleCitizens versus Subjects in a Democratic Society: The American Case
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
In my understanding silence is passivity as a way of being. Silence can be much more than the avoidance of speech and utterance, and is most poignantly expressed through evasions of body, heart, and soul.
→ read full article(Português) As revelações de O Capital no Século XXI
Paul Mason, The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Sucesso internacional, livro de Thomas Piketty expõe engrenagens que produzem desigualdade e pobreza, sugere alternativas e desafia: elites aceitarão debatê-las?
→ read full articleThe Current and Future Consequences of Global Climate Change
NASA-National Aeronautics and Space Administration – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The potential future effects of global climate change include more frequent wildfires, longer periods of drought in some regions and an increase in the number, duration and intensity of tropical storms. It has already observable effects: Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner.
→ read full article(Português) Paramilitares Americanos [Blackwater] Treinam Policiais Brasileiros para a Copa do Mundo de Futebol
Patrícia Campos Mello – Folha de São Paulo,
12 May 2014
A empresa americana Academi, que antes se chamava Blackwater, está treinando policiais militares e agentes da Polícia Federal para a Copa. A Blackwater ficou conhecida por agir como um exército de mercenários nas guerras do Iraque e do Afeganistão.
→ read full articleDesperate Gazans Turn Plastic into Fuel
Khaled Alashqar, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The fuel crisis in Gaza has been ongoing for eight years now as Israel controls the amount of fuel entering Gaza. Its only power plant also runs on scarce diesel. Blackouts that last hours are a daily feature.
→ read full articleHow to Criticize “Big Philanthropy” Effectively
Joanne Barkan – Dissent Magazine,
12 May 2014
They intervene in public life but aren’t accountable to the public; they are privately governed but publicly subsidized by being tax exempt; and in a country where money translates into political power, they reinforce the problem of plutocracy—the exercise of power derived from wealth.
→ read full articleKapital for the Twenty-First Century?
James K. Galbraith – Dissent Magazine,
12 May 2014
Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a weighty book, replete with good information on the flows of income, transfers of wealth, and the distribution of financial resources. Piketty rightly argues that good economics must begin—or at least include—a meticulous examination of the facts.
→ read full articleHuman Emotions: Genetically Programmed or Socially Learned?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
It is easy to fall into the trap of assuming that each human being has a more or less identical range of emotions. This is not so. The outcome for each individual is based on the unique genetic potential of that individual and, more importantly, the social terrorisation experience of that individual within its particular culture, community and family.
→ read full article(Português) Linhas vermelhas na Ucrânia e no mundo
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
A anexação da Crimeia por Putin assusta os líderes dos EUA, porque desafia a sua dominação global. O mundo considera os Estados Unidos um Estado pária e a maior ameaça à paz mundial, sem um competidor que esteja sequer próximo.
→ read full articlePreventing a Human-Initiated 6th Geological Extinction Event
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
In 2012 the World Bank issued a report warning that without quick action to curb CO2 emissions global warming is likely to reach 4 degrees C during the 21st century. This is dangerously close to the temperature which initiated the Permian-Triassic extinction event: 6 degrees C above normal.
→ read full article(Castellano) Celac rechaza que EE.UU. incluya a Cuba en lista de promotores del terrorismo
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
La Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (Celac) repudió este miércoles [7 mayo 2014] la decisión de los EE.UU de incluir nuevamente a Cuba en la lista de Estados Promotores del Terrorismo Internacional e insta a EE.UU. a ponerle fin a esta práctica.
→ read full article(Português) Augusto Boal e o Teatro do Oprimido: “Vários outros mundos são possíveis”.
Léa Maria Aarão Reis - Carta Maior,
12 May 2014
O Teatro do Oprimido alia teatro e ação social, prepara o ator com esse viés e busca permanentemente a transformação da realidade através do diálogo.
→ read full articleAntivirus Software Is Dead, Says Security Expert at Symantec
Samuel Gibbs – The Guardian,
12 May 2014
Information chief at Norton developer says software in general misses 55% of attacks and its future lies in responding to hacks.
→ read full articleBoko Haram vs. Nigeria’s Crooks
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The US wants its troops there before the Chinese arrive. Screaming “Islamic terrorism” won’t defuse Nigeria’s coming explosion. Considered one of the world’s most corrupt nations, Nigeria has to clean up its act – and fast.
→ read full articleWhy the White House is Desperate to Bury Benghazi
Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The true purpose behind the cover-up is being obfuscated – the fact that an annex near the U.S. embassy was being used by the CIA to transfer surface to air missiles to terrorists in Syria.
→ read full articleInvesting Attention Essential to Viable Growth
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Radical Self-Reflexive Reappropriation of Financial Skills and Insights – As framed, the question is whether the cognitive skills deployed can be radically re appropriated. The argument is itself an invitation to a speculative investment of attention — potentially offering a valuable return on investment.
→ read full articleUkraine Crisis: Mercenaries, NATO M16 Cartridges and US Military Meals – Evidence of Western Involvement
Kim Sengupta in Andrievka – Belfast Telegraph,
12 May 2014
Allegations of soldiers of fortune operating in the east of the country first surfaced months ago when well-armed masked men in combat uniforms, with no insignias, were used against pro-Moscow demonstrators in Donetsk who chanted “Blackwater! Blackwater!” at them.
→ read full articleTwo Cities, Shared History
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The book Tales of Two Cities is about the journey of two prominent South Asians – Kuldip Nayar from India and Asif Noorani from Pakistan. Theirs are not simply stories of travel but voyages – physical, emotional and spiritual – deeply embedded in the history of partition of the British India.
→ read full articleThe Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The Chapter ‘Language, Peace, and Conflict Resolution’ is by TRANSCEND Media Service contributor, Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos, a poet, peace linguist and human rights educator from Recife-Brazil. “This handbook is a classic. It helps connect the research of academia to the practical realities of peacemaking and peacebuilding like no other.” —Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
→ read full articleMinnesotans vs. McDonald’s Toxic Taters
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
McDonald’s french fries are suspected of killing farm animals and poisoning wildlife and Minnesotans, including students and farmers.
→ read full articleConflict Assessment and Peacebuilding Planning: Toward a Participatory Approach to Human Security
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Lisa Schirch sets out clearly the aim of this handbook: “Strategic peacebuilding requires long-term actions at all levels, from local to global, by multiple actors coordinating an approach that is led locally and based on explicit decision making informed by a systems approach.
→ read full article(Castellano) El terrorismo en el mundo, según el Departamento de Estado
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
El gobierno estadounidense desprecio por la opinión pública doméstica e internacional es tan grande como su adicción al “doble standard moral”: junto con la condena de Cuba y a los otros países el Informe erige a la teocracia gobernante en Arabia Saudita como un ejemplar bastión de la lucha contra el terrorismo y exalta su colaboración con Washington en este terreno.
→ read full articleEnd the War on Drugs, Say Nobel Prize-Winning Economists
Matt Ferner - The Huffington Post,
12 May 2014
The decades-long global war on drugs has failed and it’s time to shift the focus from mass incarceration to public health and human rights, according to a new report endorsed by five Nobel Prize-winning economists.
→ read full articleHumor but Not Humiliation: Finding the Sweet Spot in Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
Michael Nagler and Karen Ridd – Open Democracy,
12 May 2014
Humor is a time-honored strategy in the repertoire of nonviolence, but we must learn to use it properly. Poke fun at the problem not the person.
→ read full articleJapan Prepares to Enter the Arms Market
Bruce Einhorn and Matthew Philips – Business Week,
12 May 2014
In April [2014], the government of Japan’s conservative prime minister, Shinzo Abe, lifted a ban from the 1970s that restricted arms exports. The country’s contentious relations with China, which claims Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea, made getting rid of the ban politically much easier for Abe.
→ read full articleBrazil Greenlights Plan to Unleash Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
12 May 2014
Amid criticism, Brazil this month gave the OK to its first commercial release of genetically modified mosquitoes in an effort to combat dengue fever.
→ read full articleWhy You Should Eat More Cucumber
Monica Bologna, Eco News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The cucumber is a fruit that often gets overlooked. Like its friend the tomato, it isn’t sweet, it isn’t fancy, but it can do amazing things for your body. Cucumbers contain an incredible amount of vitamins and minerals that are essential for optimal health.
→ read full article2014 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling — Edward Snowden & Laura Poitras
The Nation Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras receive the ‘Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling,’ with introduction by James Bamford – April 30, 2014.
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