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‘Children in Cages’: Human Rights Group Accuses Israel of Torture
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
An Israeli human rights organization has accused the country of torturing Palestinian minors, with reported cases of public caging as well as threats and acts of sexual violence.
→ read full articleNAFTA: 20 Years of Regret for Mexico
Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian,
6 Jan 2014
Mexico’s growth has been weak since the ‘free trade’ deal was signed, and it missed out on the region’s poverty reduction. It was 20 years ago that the North American Free Trade Agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico was implemented.
→ read full articleLynne Stewart Freed from Prison, Granted “Compassionate Release”
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
31 Dec 2013 – Earlier today, federal Judge John Koeltl ordered the “compassionate release” of [74-year old] Lynne Stewart. He wrote that “Stewart’s “terminal medical condition [cancer] and very limited life expectancy constitute extraordinary and compelling reasons that warrant the requested reduction [of her sentence].
→ read full articleConfused About the NSA’s Quantum Computing Project? This MIT Computer Scientist Can Explain.
Timothy B. Lee – The Washington Post,
6 Jan 2014
To understand how quantum computers could work and what the implications would be if they did, I talked to Scott Aaronson, a Computer Science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has written extensively about quantum computation and its implications.
→ read full articleThe Eleventh Hour – Decision Time
R. Teichmann – News Beacon Ireland,
6 Jan 2014
It is a well-known fact in biology that pressures of an existential nature on a species result in two possible outcomes. The first outcome is that the species evolves. It adapts by way of biological evolution to the new conditions and survives. The second is that the species does not evolve and thus perishes.
→ read full article2014: International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
In a little noted initiative the General Assembly on November 26, 2013 voted to proclaim 2014 the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
→ read full article2014 Will Bring More Social Collapse
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
In terms of surveillance technology, we are far beyond Orwell’s imagination. In terms of the unaccountability of government, we exceptional and indispensable people now live a 1984 existence. In America today citizens have become subjects, an indication of social collapse.
→ read full articleInside TAO-Tailored Access Operations: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit
Der Spiegel* – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
The NSA’s TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency’s top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.
→ read full articlePalestinians Have No Partner for Peace in Israel
Haaretz Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Dec. 29, 2013 – Rejection of the Palestinian partner is a deception aimed to delude the public into thinking the Israeli government’s hands are clean.
→ read full articleMandela Is Dead – So, Why Hide the Truth about Apartheid?
Fidel Castro Ruz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Why do they try to hide the fact that the Apartheid regime –that brought so much suffering onto Africa and arouse so much indignation in most nations throughout the world– was the fruit of European colonial powers and was turned into a nuclear power by the United States and Israel, something Cuba, who supported Portuguese colonies in Africa fighting for their independence openly condemned?
→ read full articleEnd the U.S. National Security State!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
The U.S. military has begun to use the phrase “harvest” to describe the killing done by drones. The U.S. has now become a National Security State, a global empire, “harvesting” children – Holy Innocents, at home and abroad. When will it end?
→ read full articleBusiness as Usual
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Luigi (the father) says to his son, “I want you to marry a girl of my choice.”
→ read full articleCivil Disobedience (Part 1 of 3)
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
[Part 2 next week – Part 3 following one] The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government.
→ read full articleIn No One We Trust
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences – The New York Times,
30 Dec 2013
Trust is becoming yet another casualty of our country’s staggering inequality: As the gap between Americans widens, the bonds that hold society together weaken. So, too, as the 1 percent ascend to ever more distant heights, this vital element of our institutions and our way of life is eroding.
→ read full articleSamer Issawi, Hunger Strikes, and the Palestinian Struggle
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
For the last three years Palestinian prisoners unlawfully detained in Israeli jails have been engaged in hunger strikes to protest administrative detention, imprisonment without indictment, charges, and access to allegedly incriminating evidence, abusive arrest procedures…
→ read full articleThe Changing Contours of US Imperial Intervention in World Conflicts
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Following the Vietnam War, US imperial intervention passed through several phases: In the immediate aftermath, the US government faced a humiliating military defeat at the hands of the Vietnamese liberation forces and was under pressure from an American public sick and tired of war. Imperial military interventions, domestic espionage against opponents and usual practice of fomenting coups d’état (regime change) declined.
→ read full articleSome Cartoons Aren’t Funny
A. D. McKenzie, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
We can’t talk about political correctness and say cartoonists must draw certain groups only in a certain way. You’ll find someone offended by anything.
→ read full articleI Am Outraged – A Christmas Poem
Rudi Teichmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
I am outraged
Because every second children die of hunger by design
Because every second old people die lonely
Because brother fights against brother
Jeff Unsicher
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
“Policy advocacy is the process by which individuals, NGOs, other civil society organizations, networks, and coalitions seek to attain political, economic, cultural and environmental rights by influencing policies, policy implementation and policy-making processes of governments, corporations and other powerful institutions.”
→ read full articleUN Votes to Protect Privacy in Digital Age
Edith M. Lederer, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
The U.N. General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution to protect the right to privacy against unlawful surveillance on Wednesday [18 Dec 2018] in the most vocal global criticism of U.S. eavesdropping. Germany and Brazil introduced the resolution.
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John Lennon – Happy Xmas [War Is Over] – (Music Video of the Week)
John Lennon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Official Video – “An eye for an eye will make us all blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
→ read full articleIsrael’s New Settlements Will Coincide with the Release of Palestinian Prisoners
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
28 Dec 2013 – According to Maariv newspaper half of the settlement units will be built in occupied East Jerusalem. Israel is preparing to announce a plan to build 1,400 settlement units by the time the third batch of Palestinian prisoners is released.
→ read full articleMandela and Cuba: Another Memory Hole
Alex Doherty – Open Democracy,
30 Dec 2013
The media’s careful avoidance of the contrasting Cold War roles of the United States and Cuba regarding South Africa is not of mere academic consequence. As George Orwell understood, control of historical narratives gives elites a powerful grip over public perceptions of present realities and grants those elites greater latitude in their future action.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden’s 2013 Christmas Message (Video & Transcript)
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Dec 25, 2013 – Former US NSA contractor Edward Snowden in a televised Christmas message released by British TV Channel 4. (1:35)
→ read full articleSuper- Market
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Beloved customer
Consume! Consume!
As much as open your mouth
As much as move your body
6 Crimes against Nature Perpetrated by the Food Industry
Martha Rosenberg, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Treating animals like heads of lettuce—“forget it’s an animal” says one farming magazine—has created institutionalized ruthlessness toward animals, workers and the environment, harming humans who eat the products thanks to meat-related obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer, and greedy, short-sighted land-use policies.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden, after Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished
Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
30 Dec 2013
24 Dec 2013 – “For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,” he said. “I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”
→ read full article(Português) O Funesto Império Mundial das Corporações
Leonardo Boff – Carta Maior,
30 Dec 2013
Muitos como J. Stiglitz e P. Krugman esperavam que o legado da crise de 2008 seria um grande debate sobre que tipo de sociedade queremos. Erraram feio. A discussão não se deu. Ao contrário, a lógica que provocou a crise foi retomada com mais furor.
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald Calls For Snowden Asylum at Chaos Computer Club Congress
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
27 Dec 2013 – Glenn Greenwald delivered the keynote speech at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg. Organizers attributed record attendance of around 8,000 to revelations from Greenwald’s most famous source, Edward Snowden. Tim Pritlove: “We need to reinvent the Internet. We need to imagine the Internet anew. Now, have fun and go save the world!”
→ read full article(Português) Esgotos Chineses Estão a Alimentar Bactérias Que Nenhum Antibiótico Consegue Matar
Greensavers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Por paradoxal que pareça, com o aumento da administração de antibióticos as bactérias estão a tornar-se mais resistentes, o que pode representar consequências letais. Um exemplo desta resistência é a New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase(NDM-1), uma enzima descoberta em 2010 que faz com que bactérias como a Escherichia coli e as salmonelas proliferem imunes aos antibióticos.
→ read full articleObama’s New Normal: The Drone Strikes Continue
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
30 Dec 2013
There has been yet another violent attack with mass casualties. This was not the act of a lone gunman, or of an armed student rampaging through a school. It was a group of families en route to a wedding that was killed. The town was called Radda—not in Colorado, not in Connecticut, but in Yemen.
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Gun or Gandhi
Martin Arnold - TED Talks,
30 Dec 2013
Nov 25, 2013 – TRANSCEND member Martin Arnold worked at the vocational school Essen-West as a protestant vocational pastor until 2010. From 2004 to 2009 he led a project funded by the German Foundation for Peace.
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9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out
911ExpertsSpeakOut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Public Broadcasting Station, Colorado Public Television, have courageously thrust themselves at the forefront of our nation’s public service media network. This is the 1-hour version of our 1 ½ hour groundbreaking documentary.
→ read full articleTime to Be Bold and Make Peace in Syria
Jimmy Carter and Robert A. Pastor – The Washington Post,
30 Dec 2013
23 Dec 2013 – We would need Russia and the United States to agree to this approach, Iran and other regional powers to stop supporting their proxies and the United Nations to elevate this issue to a top priority. It is time to change the agenda, the preconditions and the strategy on Syria — and end the war.
→ read full articleWho Runs The World? The Subconscious(*)
Johan Galtung, 30 Dec 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Not one or a group of persons, not one or a group of countries. But they may serve as instruments for scripts engraved on the deeper recesses of their minds, not the conscious, easily retrievable ones. Scripts that are too trivial, obvious, too painful/shameful and hence repressed. Jung calls them archetypes; they often come in syndromes.
→ read full articleOligarchs, Demagogues and Mass Revolts … against Democracy
Prof. James Petras - Global Research,
30 Dec 2013
In ancient Rome, especially during the late Republic, oligarchs resorted to mob violence to block, intimidate, assassinate or drive from power the dominant faction in the Senate. While neither the ruling or opposing factions represented the interests of the plebeians, wage workers, small farmers or slaves, the use of the ‘mob’ against the elected Senate, the principle of representative government and the republican form of government laid the groundwork for the rise of authoritarian “Caesars” (military rulers) and the transformation of the Roman republic into an imperial state.
→ read full articleAmericans Waking Up to Real Nature of US-Israel Relationship
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Political analyst Maidhc Ó Cathail: “A lot of people may have the feeling that America’s change of attitude toward Israel is purely theatrics, but I think that’s a mistake. Americans are beginning to realize that Israel is not and has never been a strategic asset of America [and] that it has always been a liability.”
→ read full article(Português) Snowden Aceitaria Asilo no Brasil, mas Não em Troca de Informação
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Edward Snowden negou condicionar a entrega de dados à concessão de refúgio: “Nunca vou trocar informações por asilo, e não acredito que o governo brasileiro faria isso”. O programa da Rede Globo, “Fantástico”, disse ter entrevistado o ex-analista por e-mail através de seu advogado em Nova York, para evitar interceptações.
→ read full articleGlobally Needed: A Nonkilling Musical Conscience
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
If in a song we hear the life-destructing verb to kill
Does it mean that its composers make life stand still?
Guidelines for Leading a Spiritual Life: Some Resolutions for the New Year
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
The term “spirituality” should not be limited to “ecclesiastical” contexts. “Secular spirituality” has emerged to describe non-materialistic individuals or ways-of-being that are not necessarily associated with membership or belief in a formal religion.
→ read full articleIs BDS Campaign against Israel Reaching a Turning Point?
Omar Barghouti – Al Jazeera,
30 Dec 2013
The movement calling for the boycott, divestiture and sanction of Israel is gaining momentum globally.
→ read full articleExclusive: Secret Contract Tied NSA and Security Industry Pioneer
Joseph Menn, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.
→ read full articleSyria: Harrowing Torture, Summary Killings in Secret Isis Detention Centres
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Torture, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, an armed group that controls large areas of northern Syria, said Amnesty International in a briefing published today [19 Dec 2013].
→ read full article(Italiano) Smettere di dare una connotazione negativa all’Occidente!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Siria ha risposto alla tematica delle armi chimiche dando un premio Nobel per la Pace a una ONG impegnata nella proibizione delle armi chimiche; in linea con il testamento di Nobel, riduzione delle forze permanenti. Ma perché non condiviso con Putin, il politico che ha focalizzato la sua azione sulle armi anziché su “chi l’ha fatto” (con duecandidati validi), e inoltre su tutte le Armi di Distruzione di Massa, quando Obama non aveva altro da offrire che attacchi missilistici alle fortezze di Assad? E invece no; un paese NATO dà il premio all’Occidente, non alla Russia.
→ read full articleUkraine: NATO’s Eastern Prize
Wayne Madsen – Strategic Culture Foundation,
23 Dec 2013
Across Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, Belarus, Romania, and other countries of eastern and central Europe, the new generation of Soros agitators and provocateurs are trying to launch another series of «themed revolutions.» This time the goal is, once again, prying Ukraine away from Russia and into the EU and NATO.
→ read full articleDoes Opposing Western Intervention in Syria Make the Anti-War Movement “Assad Apologists”?
Lindsey German – Stop the War Coalition,
23 Dec 2013
From Iraq to Afghanistan, from Libya to Syria, the accusation is that by opposing western intervention the anti-war movement is giving tacit support to dictators or despots: but is it?
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureates’ Statement: Nuclear Abolition Is a Humanitarian Imperative
World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
The 13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, meeting in Poland from 21-23 October 2013, adopted a powerful declaration on nuclear abolition as a humanitarian imperative.
→ read full articleMandela and Vanunu – Men of Courage
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
In 1986 Vanunu, the Israeli Nuclear whistle-blower, told the world about Israel’s secret nuclear weapons. For this he served 18 years in an Israeli prison, 12 in solitary confinement, and since his release in 2004 he has been forbidden to leave Israel, speak to foreigners, and is constantly under surveillance.
→ read full articleChina vs US ‘sea-to-shining-sea’
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
23 Dec 2013
The paper spelt it loudly; “If the American navy and air force always encroach near China’s doorstep, confrontation is bound to take place.”
→ read full articleA Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons – Mexico, Feb 2014
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
On February 13 and 14, 2014, the government of Mexico will host a conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. The global peace movement must think carefully about how best to use the opportunities offered by the Mexico conference and by other recent breakthroughs in the struggle to eliminate the danger of a catastrophic thermonuclear war.
→ read full articleWashington’s New Islamic Front: Expanded U.S. Support to Al Qaeda Rebels in Syria
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
23 Dec 2013
What the US and its allies are establishing are new effective “direct channels” for increasing their support to their Al Qaeda foot soldiers, essentially using the new Islamic Front as a “Go Between”. This procedure is contemplated following the apparent demise of the Supreme Military Command of the FSA.
→ read full articleDefeating the Violence in Our Food and Medicine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Apart from exposing the medical industry, there has been much effort to expose the way in which the pharmaceutical and agribusiness food industries (particularly the meat industry) have ensured that little in the way of health-enhancing advice and treatment is available to patients who risk all by subjecting themselves to a ‘doctor’.
→ read full articleFriendly Fire: How GCHQ Monitors Germany, Israel and the EU
Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark – Der Spiegel,
23 Dec 2013
Documents from the archive of whistleblower and former NSA worker Edward Snowden show that Britain’s GCHQ signals intelligence agency has targeted European, German and Israeli politicians for surveillance.
→ read full articleN.S.A. Spied on Allies, Aid Groups and Businesses
James Glanz and Andrew W. Lehren – The New York Times,
23 Dec 2013
While the names of some political and diplomatic leaders have previously emerged as targets, the newly disclosed intelligence documents provide a much fuller portrait of the spies’ sweeping interests in more than 60 countries.
→ read full articleThat Woman
Mahdi Jalili – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Dedicated to Syrian Women
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Silent Night (Music Video of the Week)
Libera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
The boys who make up the vocal band Libera have been described as “normal” and “ordinary”. However, as their recordings and performances demonstrate, the music they produce is truly extraordinary. These are truly sounds to lift the soul. The singers are aged seven to sixteen, attend different local schools in South London and come from a variety of backgrounds.
→ read full articleThe Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder
Alan Schwarz – The New York Times,
23 Dec 2013
The Number of Diagnoses Soared Amid a 20-Year Drug Marketing Campaign – “This is a concoction to justify the giving out of medication at unprecedented and unjustifiable levels,” Keith Conners, a psychologist and early advocate for recognition of A.D.H.D., said of the rising rates of diagnosis of the disorder.
→ read full articleNorthern Ireland and the Israel/Palestine ‘Peace Process’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
I visited Belfast the last few days during some negotiations about unresolved problems between Unionist and Republican (or Nationalist) political parties, I was struck by the absolute dependence for any kind of credibility of this process upon the unblemished perceived neutrality of the mediating third party.
→ read full article(Português) Pela Dignidade Terminológica: Um Apelo
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Reflexões rimadas traduzidas-adaptadas do original (inglês) “On terminological dignity for human beings”. A tradução é dedicada aos terminológos que se dedicam à língua portuguesa.
→ read full articleThe Washington Post and Amazon are “Doing Business with the CIA”
Norman Solomon - Global Research,
23 Dec 2013
News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them. But the owner of the Washington Post is now doing big business with the Central Intelligence Agency, while readers of the newspaper’s CIA coverage are left in the dark.
→ read full articleIt’s the Government, Stupid: Appraising Ethiopia’s Saudi Arabia Policy
Alemayehu F. Weldemariam and Hassen Mohammed - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Since November 13, 2013, Saudi Arabia has been deporting Ethiopian migrant workers after committing unspeakable atrocities by security forces and vigilantes. The total number of deportees so far has reached a staggering 130,000 and is expected rise up to 150,600 within a few days.
→ read full articleThe Palestinian National Movement Advances
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
The Palestinian shift toward Legitimacy Wars is a recognition that in this kind of conflict the decisive battles are generally not won by the side with the superior weaponry and technology but rather by the side that prevails in the realm of ideas and symbols of just cause.
→ read full articleSettled!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3.
→ read full articleBoycott by Academic Group Is a Symbolic Sting to Israel
Richard Pérez-Peña and Jodi Rudoren – The New York Times,
23 Dec 2013
An American organization of professors on Monday [16 Dec 2013] announced a boycott of Israeli academic institutions to protest Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, signaling that a movement to isolate and pressure Israel that is gaining ground in Europe has begun to make strides in the United States.
→ read full articleGlobal Capitalism is the Real Enemy: Why Environmentalists Should Support Working Class Struggles
Stephanie Mcmillan - CounterPunch,
23 Dec 2013
First, we must recognize the fact that global capitalism is driving ecocide.
→ read full articleFred Halliday
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
It is useful to have an overview of the life and thought of others working in the same vineyards of political analysis and conflict resolution. Fred Halliday was such a co-worker.
→ read full articleLynne Stewart, Our Lady Mandela
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
She is ten feet tall… and dying in her cage.
While Obama and Cameron take “selfies,”
shedding crocodile tears,
our Lady Mandela gazes over
the path she has made by her walking.
Johan Galtung – Russell Tribunal on Palestine, New York
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
What is Sociocide?
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Vandana Shiva & Jane Goodall on Serving the Earth & How Women Can Address Climate Crisis (1 of 2)
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
16 Dec 2013
Dec 4, 2013 – At the recent International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative Summit, Jane Goodall and Vandana Shiva discuss their decades of work devoted to protecting nature and saving future generations from the dangers of climate change.
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Vandana Shiva & Jane Goodall on Serving the Earth & How Women Can Address Climate Crisis (2 of 2)
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
16 Dec 2013
Dec 4, 2013 – At the recent International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative Summit, Jane Goodall and Vandana Shiva discuss their decades of work devoted to protecting nature and saving future generations from the dangers of climate change.
→ read full articleTimothy Leary’s Liberation, and the CIA’s Experiments! LSD’s Amazing, Psychedelic History
Richard J. Miller - Salon,
16 Dec 2013
The U.S. psychedelic drug scene was kickstarted by spies and spooks, just as much as Timothy Leary and Jerry Garcia.
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George Galloway Speaks with Mother Agnes of the Cross on Syrian Situation
Gallowayist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
30 Nov 2013 – Episode 3 of Sputnik with George Galloway and Gayatri on Russia Today.
→ read full article(Português) Fórum Mundial dos Direitos Humanos Reúne Mais de 5 Mil em Brasília
Najla Passos – Carta Maior,
16 Dec 2013
Com a presença de 5.987 pessoas de diferentes segmentos sociais de diversos países, o Fórum Mundial dos Direitos Humanos foi aberto nesta terça (10 Dez), em Brasília, na data em que se comemora o Dia Internacional dos Direitos Humanos e os 65 anos da Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos.
→ read full articleNew Evidence of Contra-Cocaine Scandal
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
16 Dec 2013
Special Report: Since journalist Gary Webb died in 2004, the story that destroyed his life has slowly come into clearer focus, revealing how President Reagan’s beloved Contras really were enmeshed in cocaine trafficking. On this ninth anniversary of Webb’s suicide, new corroboration has emerged.
→ read full articleSpy Agencies in Covert Push to Infiltrate Virtual World of Online Gaming
James Ball – The Guardian,
16 Dec 2013
NSA and GCHQ collect gamers’ chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life.
→ read full articleSome Examples of Genocide
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Last Monday [9 Dec 2013], 65 years ago, the United Nations adopted a convention prohibiting genocide. It therefore seems appropriate to recall some examples of genocide, many of which have occurred since 1948.
→ read full articlePeace as a Break between Wars and Preparation for New Wars
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Of course, there should be a reason why wars continue to take place, especially when the population as a whole never wants to experience the tragedies of such events by all means.
→ read full articleThe Nobel for Peace – An Expanding Scandal
Fredrik S. Heffermehl, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
A March 2012 decision by the Swedish authority supervising foundations is a ticking box of dynamite under the Nobel Peace Prize. Even presented in an official, open document, the decision has not reached the general public and become the news story it actually is.
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Mother Agnes: “Nobody is Safe-Foreign Forces Need to Stop Fueling Violence in Syria”
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Dec 10, 2013 – RT’s Meghan Lopez speaks with Mother Agnes-Mariam de la Croix, founder of the James the Mutilated Monastery in Syria, who says that the videos show the chemical weapons were used by Syrian rebels.
→ read full articleIs America’s ‘Passionate Attachment’ to Israel Coming to an End?
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
In an analysis piece entitled “Israel’s New Strategic Position,” Stratfor’s George Friedman claims that Tel Aviv has already lost its stranglehold over the U.S. political system.
→ read full articleWomen Lead to Peace in Syria
CODEPINK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria, continues to ignore the call by prominent international organizations for women to be fully represented at the peace table. Resolution 1325 states that the UN must recognize the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts.
→ read full articleLurid Subprime Scams Unveiled in Long-Running Fraud Trial
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
16 Dec 2013
12 Dec 2013 – Lost amid the hoopla over JP Morgan Chase’s record-setting $13 billion settlement was news of another monster court resolution – a $2.46 billion judgment, the largest ever awarded after trial in a securities fraud class action case, handed down against a HSBC acquisition.
→ read full articleA Man and an Ant
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
An ant
In a hurry
Runs alone
Israel and Apartheid: Confused? You Will Be
Mira Bar Hillel – The Independent,
16 Dec 2013
Accused of enacting ‘apartheid’ itself, in the past Israel aided the South African regime. Maps show how the Israelis plan to create bantustans for the Nomadic Bedouin in its southern Negev region. Tens of thousands of them would be forced into ghettoes to make way for new Jewish towns and military zones. A-word, anyone?
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Intelligence Employees after Snowden
Thomas Drake, Daniel Ellsberg, Katharine Gun, Peter Kofod, Ray McGovern, Jesselyn Radack, Coleen Rowley – The Guardian,
16 Dec 2013
By Former Whistleblowers – Blowing the whistle on powerful factions is not a fun thing to do, but it is the last avenue for truth, balanced debate and democracy. There IS strength in numbers. Courage is contagious.
→ read full articleSyria’s War: The Next Phase
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
While the initial conflict was disingenuously portrayed as the spontaneous militarization of unarmed protesters fighting against a “brutal regime,” in reality Al Nusra was already inside the country and operating on a national scale. The US State Department itself would reveal this in its December 2012.
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Heating Your Home Office Almost for Free
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
[Note from TMS editor: I post this video because I have tested the efficacy of the Flower Pot Heater in my own office/apartment. IT WORKS!]
→ read full articleDealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
I personally hope we do not choose to have a truth commission, and hope that we can move on as a people and society to a better future. Perhaps in its place we could deploy the resources into training and job creation to give people opportunities for work.
→ read full articleUN Claims Uruguay Not Allowed to End Marijuana Prohibition
Alex Newman, New American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
UN narcotics bureaucrats, whose generous tax-funded salaries depend on the perpetuation of the war on various plants and substances, have responded with outrage and concern. The controversial global body is now under fire after claiming that Uruguay’s recent decision to end marijuana prohibition violates “international law.”
→ read full articleUndercover Video Exposes Alleged Cruelty at Digiorno Dairy Supplier
Lindsay Abrams - Salon,
16 Dec 2013
DiGiorno, the nation’s largest it’s-not-delivery frozen pizza industry, has cut ties with Wiese Brothers Farm after a video surfaced depicting alleged abuse of the farm’s dairy cows.
→ read full articleThe Stomach-Churning Reason That Meat Is So Cheap
Lindsay Abrams - Salon,
16 Dec 2013
Rolling Stone Lifts the Veil on Animal Abuse at Factory Farms – It covers, in horrific detail, the extent to which meat and dairy producers will go to raise the estimated 9 billion broiler chickens, 113 million pigs, 33 million cows and 250 million turkeys consumed each year in the U.S.
→ read full articleJapan’s New ‘Fukushima Fascism’
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
The site has been infiltrated by organized crime. There are horrifying signs of ecological disaster in the Pacific and human health impacts in the U.S. But within Japan, a new State Secrets Act makes such talk punishable by up to ten years in prison.
→ read full articleMandela: The Man and the Movement
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
16 Dec 2013
Mandela was a devoted friend of Fidel Castro, who always supported the ANC. The U.S., on the other hand, did not remove Mandela from its “terrorist watch list” until 2008, 14 years after he was elected president of South Africa.
→ read full article(Português) Ninguém É Gay Por Escolha!
Silvana Macedo, Debates Culturais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Esta semana recebi em meu consultório um rapaz de 19 anos que queria se curar de sua homossexualidade.
→ read full articleJP Morgan Facing $2bn Fine for Involvement in Madoff Ponzi Scheme
Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
16 Dec 2013
JP Morgan Chase, the biggest bank in the US, is facing another multi-billion dollar fine, this time deriving from its involvement with notorious Ponzi scheme fraudster Bernard Madoff.
→ read full articleMetaphors to Die By
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Correspondences between a Collapsing Civilization, Culture or Group, and a Dying Person – Produced on the occasion of the G8 Dementia Summit (London 2013) attended by world leaders after participating in commemoration of the death of Nelson Mandela.
→ read full articleLeaked: Pussy Riot, Greenpeace Activists Will Be Freed Under Amnesty
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
The members of the Pussy Riot punk band, Greenpeace activists and protesters jailed after the May 2012 Bolotnaya demonstration will be freed in an amnesty dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Russian Constitution, Russian media report. Russia celebrates the 20th anniversary of the country’s Constitution on December 12.
→ read full articleOfficials Say U.S. May Never Know Extent of Snowden’s Leaks
Mark Mazzetti and Michael S. Schmidt – The New York Times,
16 Dec 2013
A senior N.S.A. official has told reporters that he believed Mr. Snowden still had access to documents not yet disclosed. The official, Rick Ledgett, who is heading the security agency’s task force examining the leak, said he would consider recommending amnesty for Mr. Snowden in exchange for those documents.
→ read full articleUruguay Becomes First Country to Legalize Marijuana Trade
Malena Castaldi and Felipe Llambias, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Uruguay became the first country to legalize the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana on Tuesday [10 Dec 2013], a pioneering social experiment that will be closely watched by other nations debating drug liberalization.
→ read full articleNot Too Bad
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
An elderly man went to the doctor for his annual checkup.
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