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Brainwashed: The Indoctrinated West
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Now, please, I am not trying to be funny and I am not trying to play with words: I am honestly wondering… I am humbly asking: “Are people in the West, particularly in Europe… are they pretending that they don’t know what is happening in Syria, Venezuela, Thailand and now, particularly, in Ukraine? Or have they simply turned into a cynical assembly of brainwashed degenerates?
→ read full articleUS Policy of Isolating Russia and Expanding NATO Is a Dismal Failure
Rodrigue Tremblay – Dissident Voice,
10 Mar 2014
What would the United States do if a hypothetical Russian Empire were to incorporate Mexico or Canada into a military alliance? To ask the question is to answer it. Why is it so difficult to understand that the best way to start a war is to threaten a country’s vital interests?
→ read full articleDiplomacy NOT War!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Author, historian, and former U.S. State Dept. employee, William Blum, in his book “Killing Hope” documents U.S. military and/or CIA interventions in 77 countries since WWII. Ukraine makes #78. Today, there is increasing danger of world war and financial collapse by miscalculation or design over the crisis in the Ukraine which the U.S. helped to create.
→ read full articleUnelected Power: Democracy on the Retreat in Europe (and not just in Ukraine)
Neil Clark – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
The hailing of a foreign-backed coup d’état in a country where fresh elections were only 12 months away as a “victory for democracy” was truly Orwellian. The wishes of the 2 million people who marched against the Iraq war in London in February 2003 were arrogantly dismissed, but the protesters in Maidan, though far fewer in number, simply had to have their way.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 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 article25th IPRA General Conference Call for Papers
Nesrin Kenar, IPRA Secretary General – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
On the occasion of IPRA’S 50th anniversary – Istanbul, Turkey, August 10-14, 2014 – Uniting for Peace: Building Sustainable Peace through Universal Values – Deadline for Proposals: March 15, 2014
→ read full articleSpring Fails in Ukrainian Plunderland
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
10 Mar 2014
The endgame: Moscow controls an autonomous Crimea for free, and the US/EU “control”, or try to plunder, disaster capitalism-style, a back of beyond western Ukraine wasteland “managed” by a bunch of Western puppets and oligarchs, with a smatter of neo-nazis. So what is the Obama/Kerry strategic master duo to do? Start a nuclear war?
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Granada (Music Video of the Week)
Carlos Bonell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Guitar par excellence! Composed by Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
→ read full articleThe Sultan of Brunei Intends to Stone Adulterers (Wait, What Century Is This?)
Charlie Campbell - Time,
10 Mar 2014
A new Sharia penal code for the Southeast Asian sultanate is set to include death by stoning, severing of limbs and flogging. Brunei was already struggling to walk the tightrope between authoritarianism and progress. Last year, noted Burmese scholar [TRANSCEND member] Maung Zarni resigned from his post at Darussalam Brunei University after he was instructed to stop extolling the merits of democracy in his homeland.
→ read full articleWorld’s Largest Grid Operator Reveals Why Increased Wind Energy Means Increased Savings
Michael Goggin, American Wind Energy Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
The largest grid operator in the world, serving 60 million customers, issued the final results of a major wind integration study on Monday [3 Mar 2014] and they are even better than the preliminary results.
→ read full articleThe Ukraine Crisis through the Whimsy of International Law
Neil Macdonald - Radio Canada CBC News,
10 Mar 2014
This is the commander-in-chief of a military that operates a prison camp on Cuban soil, against the explicit wishes of the Cuban government, and which regularly fires drone missiles into other countries. He is a president who ordered that CIA torturers would go unprosecuted, of a nation that has invaded other countries whenever it wished, regardless of what the rest of the world might think.
→ read full articleThe ‘We-Hate-Putin’ Group Think
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Mar 2014
7 Mar 2014 – The only foreign policy show on the U.S. media dial this past week has been the bashing of Russian President Putin over the Ukraine crisis – with a slap or two at President Obama for having worked with Putin on Syria and Iran. Lost in this “group think” is the why behind this demonization.
→ read full articleImplication in Any Strategic Roundtable of Its 12 Knights
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Each Circulating Globally in Quest of Sustainability and Immortality – Use is frequently made of “roundtable” as a metaphor to suggest a configuration of a fruitful diversity of stakeholders and contrasting perspectives — vital to an integrative perspective.
→ read full article25th IPRA General Conference Call for Papers
Nesrin Kenar, IPRA Secretary General – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2014
On the occasion of IPRA’S 50th anniversary – Istanbul, Turkey, August 10-14, 2014 – Uniting for Peace: Building Sustainable Peace through Universal Values – Deadline for Proposals: March 15, 2014
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 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 articlePakistan – What Now?
Johan Galtung, 3 Mar 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Islamabad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (28 Feb 2014) – The basic point is that Pakistan will not get that commodity called “peace” in Kashmir, Afghanistan and Central Asia by pursuing the ends and means of Washington and some local elites only. For peace to blossom the goals of other parties also have to be considered; and they are many.
→ read full articleOn The Third Anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi Catastrophe
Karl Grossman, Nuclear News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
3 Mar 2014 – With the third anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe coming next week, the attempted Giant Lie about the disaster continues—a suppression of information, an effort at dishonesty of historical dimensions.
→ read full article(Português) Civilizados, Bárbaros e Selvagens
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Os ingleses do século XIX classificaram os povos e raças em Civilizados, Bárbaros e Selvagens, com base nas respectivas “evoluções”. Eles baseavam-se primariamente em três factores: a Teoria da Evolução, de Charles Darwin; a Revolução Industrial, nas origens do capitalismo industrial; e a Reforma da Igreja Católica, o cisma de onde surgiu o Protestantismo. Falsas premisas que levaram a falsas conclusões.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil – Experiência com animais: Opinião contrária
Laerte fernando levai – ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
3 Mar 2014
O resgate de quase duzentos cães beagles no Instituto Royal de São Roque/SP, realizado por ativistas, surge como divisor de águas de um tema ainda considerado tabu no direito brasileiro: a experimentação animal.
→ read full articleGigabytes Gone Wild
Neil Richards and Jonathan King – Al Jazeera America,
3 Mar 2014
Big data has outpaced our legal system’s ability to control it — we need a new ethics for a new digital age.
→ read full articleFive New Reasons Monsanto’s ‘Science’ Doesn’t Add Up
Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
As new studies surface it’s become increasingly clear that among credible physicians and scientists the consensus is that we’d better wake up to the risks and threats posed by a reckless technology that has been allowed to dominate our food and farming systems.
→ read full articleUkraine Will Reveal the True EU
Charles McPhedran – New Matilda,
3 Mar 2014
3 Mar 2014 – A week after the president was deposed and with Russian invasion looming, protesters hope for an end to Ukraine’s cronyism, reports Charles McPhedran, who visited Kiev last week.
→ read full article(Castellano) Ovacionan en Sudáfrica documental sobre la amistad entre Mandela y Castro
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
La Fundación Nelson Mandela y la embajada de Cuba en Sudáfrica estrenaron en ese país el más reciente documental de la cineasta estadounidense Estela Bravo: Mandela y Fidel Castro, un homenaje al legado de la amistad entre estos dos líderes.
→ read full articleFracking Siberia: Gazprom Teams Up With Shell
Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Gazprom of Russia has begun fracking in western Siberia with Anglo-Dutch giant Shell to tap a reserve of oil under a 2.3 million square kilometer expanse. Ironically Russia Today, a state run television station, has been actively broadcasting protests against the fracking industry in Europe, where companies like Chevron have been aggressively trying to get a toehold in countries like Bulgaria, Poland and Romania.
→ read full articleFDA Panel Debates Technique That Would Create Embryos with Three Genetic Parents
Ariana Eunjung Cha and Sandhya Somashekhar – The Washington Post,
3 Mar 2014
The provocative notion of genetically modified babies met the very real world of federal regulation Tuesday [25 Feb 2014], as a government advisory committee began debating a new technique that combines DNA from three people to create embryos free of certain inherited diseases.
→ read full articleThe Crisis in Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
The moderates have certainly lost control. They cannot protect public monuments, and they are forced to try to pre-empt the neo-nazis by legislating the neo-nazi program. The captive Ukrainian parliament has introduced measures to ban any official use of the Russian language. This, of course, is unacceptable to the Russian provinces.
→ read full articleChina Issues Retaliatory Report on US Human Rights
Voice of America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
February 28, 2014 – China has issued a report documenting alleged human rights abuses in the United States after an annual State Department global rights survey strongly criticized Beijing.
→ read full articleSome Thoughts on Creativity . . . And Life
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Diversity, though life itself, is considered too difficult to accommodate, and so they are moving us toward, uniformity and conformity. How easier to control! How much easier to dominate! Consider the pantheon of “Big” in our world today – Big Pharm, Big Ag, Big Energy, Big Transportation, Big Education, Big Auto, Big Med, Big Government, Big Military, and “Banks too Big to Fail,” so they remain in control of our lives and life.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Roundup Found in 75% of Air and Rain Samples
John Deike, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
A new U.S. Geological Survey has concluded that pesticides can be found in, well, just about anything.
→ read full articleReconciliation, Reform and Resilience: Positive Peace for Lebanon
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Syria and Lebanon have been historically entangled — economically, politically and socially, both having been parts of the Ottoman Empire. At the end of the First World War, the Ottoman Middle East was divided between France and England and placed under the mandate system of the League of Nations.
→ read full articleThe Other Story of Venezuela’s Riots
Antonio Castillo – New Matilda,
3 Mar 2014
Venezuela’s opposition have never accepted defeat at the ballot box. The riots in Tachira are a sign that they can’t wait until 2015 for another legitimate tilt at power.
→ read full articleChannel 4 Refutes Sri Lankan “Propaganda Offensive”
Channel 4, UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Channel 4 has today [28 Feb 2014] taken the step of publishing a refutation of “an international propaganda offensive” by supporters of the Sri Lankan government against its reporting. Channel 4 and Current Affairs journalists led the way in exposing the country’s war crimes, culminating in the broadcast of the documentary No Fire Zone – a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka.
→ read full articleAlexandre Marc (1904-2000)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Marc was a complex man, one of the bridges who helped younger persons to understand the debates which surrounded the Russian Revolution, the rise and decline of Fascism and Nazism, and the post-Second World War hopes for a united Europe.
→ read full articleJohn Scales Avery – Collected Essays, Volume 2
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
The pdf file for “Collected Essays, Volume 2” has been published on the website of the Danish Peace Academy.
→ read full article(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra di aggressione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Pochi, o nessuno, lo sostengono con forza oggi come Mahathir Mohammad, quarto primo ministro della Malaysia, da 22 anni. Egli confronta quello che facciamo quando una persona ne uccide un’altra con tutto quello che non facciamo quando milioni ne uccidono milioni in guerre di aggressione.
→ read full articleImelda Marcos Stamp
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
For Imelda’s 50th birthday, President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines ordered as a surprise for her that a postage stamp with her picture be issued.
→ read full articleHow the GDP Measures Everything ‘Except That Which Makes Life Worthwhile’
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
“Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” —Robert F. Kennedy.
→ read full articleSyria: What to Do Now
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
It is not only that the interventionists, and perhaps the anti-interventionists are motivated by a convergence of humanitarian/moral considerations with geostrategic ambitions, but that the nature of these hidden calculations are discussed in governmental circles behind locked doors and transcribed in secret policy memoranda.
→ read full articleUK – Optic Nerve: Millions of Yahoo Webcam Images Intercepted by GCHQ
Spencer Ackerman and James Ball – The Guardian,
3 Mar 2014
• 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone
• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk
• Yahoo: ‘A whole new level of violation of our users’ privacy’
• Material included large quantity of sexually explicit images
Sabadell Flashmob – Ode to Joy (Music Video of the Week)
Vallès Symphony Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
100 people from the Vallès Symphony Orchestra, the Lieder, Amics de l’Òpera and Coral Belles Arts choirs.
→ read full articleNo Big Deal
Paul Krugman – International New York Times,
3 Mar 2014
It’s far from clear that the T.P.P. is a good idea. The first thing you need to know about trade deals is that they aren’t what they used to be. The glory days of trade negotiations are long behind us. Why? Basically, old-fashioned trade deals are a victim of their own success: there just isn’t much more protectionism to eliminate.
→ read full articleWorld Bank Postpones Uganda Loan Over Anti-Gay Law
Anna Yukhananov, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
The World Bank on Thursday [27 Feb 2014] postponed a $90 million loan to Uganda’s health system over a law that toughened punishment for gays, an unusual move for an institution that typically avoids wading into politics.
→ read full articleSupport Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions-BDS Until Palestinian Right to Self-Determination Is Recognized by Israel
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
We all know the Jewish Narrative, particularly the story of the holocaust, but our sadness for this one of humanity’s greatest acts of inhumanity, should not stop us from speaking out on Israel’s current policy of a ‘silent genocide’ of the Palestinian people, and currently today of the people in Gaza.
→ read full articleEurope May Be the Lesser of Ukraine’s Two Evils
Sasha Shtargot – New Matilda,
3 Mar 2014
If you watch the TV news and read the tabloid newspapers in the West, you would understand the crisis that has been playing out in Ukraine as a conflict between the Ukrainian people demanding freedom and a corrupt, pro-Russian government desperately clinging to power. The reality is actually far more complex.
→ read full articleOmar and the Israeli Checkpoint: The Essential Story That Is Rarely Told
Ramzy Baroud – Toward Freedom,
3 Mar 2014
Omar is a 7-year-old boy from Gaza. His family managed to obtain the necessary permits that allowed him to cross the Erez checkpoint to Jerusalem, through the West Bank, in order to undergo surgery. On the way back, the boy and his father were stopped at the Qalanidya checkpoint, separating occupied East Jerusalem from the West Bank.
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U.S. Christian Right behind Anti-Gay Law Passed in Uganda
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Feb 24, 2014 – Rev. Kapya Kaoma: “New Ugandan law that makes homosexual acts punishable by life imprisonment was modeled after the talking points of right-wing U.S. evangelicals.”
→ read full articleNuclear Fallout – Blast from the Past: Lucky Dragon 60 Years On
Jeff Kingston – The Japan Times,
3 Mar 2014
Sixty years ago, on March 1, 1954, a Japanese fishing boat named Lucky Dragon No. 5 was doused by radioactive fallout from a U.S. hydrogen-bomb test, codenamed Castle Bravo, on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
→ read full articleIn the Name of “Peace”, the European Union Readies for War
Jean Shaoul, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
A series of EU discussion papers and meetings made it clear that the European powers are pushing for a more assertive militarist policy. A recent brief, “Why Europe needs a new global strategy,” sets out their military ambitions, not just in former colonial possessions but in areas further afield.
→ read full articleNew Report Details ‘Brutal’ Israeli Policies
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Remember that the defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, said that the army’s job was to ‘burn into the consciousness’ of the Palestinians their defeat. The only aim one can infer from that is that the army’s role is to use force to make the Palestinians weak and compliant.
→ read full articleDoctors Without Borders (MSF) Activities in Myanmar Ordered to Close Down
Médecins Sans Frontières Holland – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
On February 27 [2014], Médecins Sans Frontières received a written order from the Union Government of Myanmar to cease all operations in the country, which led to a full closure of all MSF Holland clinics on February 28. This act left patients confused and desperately concerned across the whole country.
→ read full article(Português) 6 Notas para Compreender o que se Passa na Crimeia, Peça Chave do Conflito na Ucrânia
Alberto Sicília, de Kiev - Principia Marsupia (Espanha),
3 Mar 2014
27 fev 2014 – Depois do ocorrido durante a última semana em Kiev, o foco do conflito na Ucrânia translada-se à Crimeia. O que acontecer nesta região será determinante: pode a situação degenerar numa guerra civil? Putin intervirá militarmente? Continuará a Ucrânia a ser um país ou caminha para a secessão?
→ read full articleMexico Building Latin America’s Largest Solar Farm to Replace Old, Dirty Oil-Power Plant
Ari Phillips, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
“Mexico can reduce the environmental impact of old, dirty sources of energy, while taking the long view and building a sustainable future economy.”
→ read full article(Français) Halte au « BRICS bashing »!
Gérard Wolf - Le Monde,
3 Mar 2014
Certes, dans les BRICS (Brésil, Inde, Russie, Chine et Afrique du Sud), comme dans d’autres marchés émergents, la croissance est moindre que celle envisagée il y a deux ans. Mais soyons réalistes.
→ read full articleGCHQ Revealed: Inside Her Majesty’s Listening Service
Christoph Scheuermann – Der Spiegel,
3 Mar 2014
The Snowden files have brought the shocking espionage activities of the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters into the open. Former employees describe an agency with shifting goals, a strong honor code — and an inferiority complex.
→ read full articleFighting Fund for Academic Boycott of Israel
(Jake Lynch) Australians for BDS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
February 2014 – Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Director of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies [and TMS advisor/peace journalist], has been taken to the Federal Court of Australia by the Israel Law Centre, due to his support of the Palestinian call for academic boycott of Israel. We call on our supporters to MAKE A DONATION to support Jake Lynch’s fight for our democratic rights.
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(Castellano) Mandela y Fidel
CubaVisión– TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
La Fundación Nelson Mandela y la embajada de Cuba en Sudáfrica estrenaron en ese país el más reciente documental de la cineasta estadounidense Estela Bravo: Mandela y Fidel Castro, un homenaje al legado de la amistad entre estos dos líderes.
→ read full articleUganda’s Anti-Gay Bill Puts U.S. Aid at Risk
Bryant Harris, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
26 Feb 2014 – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s authorisation of the so-called “kill the gays” bill has led Washington officials to review U.S. aid to the African country. U.S. evangelicals such as Scott Lively claimed that gays were responsible for the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide, and asserted that they were now targeting Uganda by trying to “convert” Ugandan children.
→ read full articleWestern Media Cheering a ‘Democratic’ Coup in Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
3 Mar 2014
In the upside-down world that has become the U.S. news media, the democratically elected president was a dictator and the coup makers who overthrew him were “pro-democracy” activists. Events in Ukraine and Venezuela suggest that the idea of respecting the results of elections and working within legal, albeit flawed, political systems is no longer in vogue, unless the “U.S. side” happens to win, of course.
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God Loves Uganda – Trailer
Ford Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
The feature length documentary God Loves Uganda is a powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with sexuality values imported from America’s fundamentalist Christian Right.
→ read full articleAmnesty International Accuses Israeli Armed Forces of Possible War Crimes
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Human rights group says soldiers have killed dozens of Palestinians with virtual impunity in West Bank.
→ read full articleBrazil and EU Agree to Lay an Undersea Cable to Avoid US Internet Surveillance
MercoPress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Brazil and the European Union agreed on Monday [24 Feb 2014] to lay an undersea communications cable from Lisbon to Fortaleza to reduce Brazil’s reliance on the United States after Washington spied on Brasilia.
→ read full article(Français) Que se passe-t-il au Venezuela ?
Simón Rodríguez Porras – CETRI-Centre Tricontinental,
3 Mar 2014
Les images de milliers de manifestants dans les rues des principales villes vénézuéliennes, du déploiement de troupes et des actions de groupes de civils armés ont été diffusées à l’échelle internationale au cours des deux dernières semaines.
→ read full articleThe Moazzam Begg Arrest: Part of the Effort to Criminalize Muslim Political Dissent
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
3 Mar 2014
Moazzam Begg, a native-born British citizen of Pakistani descent, spent three years incarcerated in Guantánamo without ever being charged with any crime. On Tuesday [25 Feb 2014], Begg was arrested in an “anti-terror raid” on his home outside Birmingham, charged with “terrorism” offenses for having allegedly traveled to Syria to assist Syrian rebels.
→ read full articleThe Most Beautiful and Timelessly Bewitching LGBTQ Love Letters in History
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West,
Margaret Mead & Ruth Benedict,
Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky,
Edna St. Vincent Millay & Edith Wynn Matthison,
Eleanor Roosevelt & Lorena Hickok,
Oscar Wilde & Sir Alfred “Bosie” Taylor.
The Geopolitical History of Ukraine
Alfred Mendes - Global Research,
3 Mar 2014
It is first necessary to place this amorphous region known as the Ukraine within its historical context: The Catholic/Orthodox schism in the region around 1024 AD had led the newly-formed Jesuits of the 16th century to alleviate this festering wound in the side of the Roman Catholic church by creating the hybrid Uniate Church which would acknowledge the supremacy of the Pope.
→ read full articleAt Last! Brazil Begins Long-Awaited Operation to Save Earth’s Most Threatened Tribe
Survival International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Soldiers, field workers from Brazil’s indigenous affairs department FUNAI, Environment Ministry special agents and police officers are being dispatched to notify and remove the illegal settlers, ranchers and loggers – many of whom are heavily armed – from the Awá indigenous territory in the North-Eastern Brazilian Amazon.
→ read full articleWorst Spill in 6 Months Is Reported at Fukushima
Martin Fackler – International New York Times,
24 Feb 2014
About 100 tons of highly radioactive water leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks at the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator said Thursday [20 Feb 2014], calling the leak the worst spill at the plant in six months.
→ read full articleUganda’s President Signs Anti-Gay Bill into Law
Faith Karimi - CNN,
24 Feb 2014
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed into law Monday [24 Feb 2014] a bill that criminalizes homosexuality. The law toughens the penalties for certain acts, including life imprisonment. Rights groups worldwide have condemned the bill as draconian.
→ read full articleExxon CEO Joins Lawsuit against Fracking Project Because It Will Devalue His $5 Million Property
Rebecca Leber, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
As Exxon Mobil’s CEO, it’s Rex Tillerson’s job to promote the hydraulic fracturing and fight regulatory oversight. Yet he has joined a lawsuit that cites fracking’s consequences in order to block the construction of a 160-foot water tower next to his and his wife’s Texas home.
→ read full articleHumane Society Uncovers Unconscionable Animal Cruelty in Kentucky
John Deike, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
The object of posting this undercover exposé isn’t about shock value or sensationalizing an activist cause; rather, it has been published to convey a sad and simple truth—unspeakable animal cruelty heavily permeates America’s food industry.
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Kids for Cash: Inside a US Shocking Juvenile Justice Scandal (Part 1 of 3)
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
24 Feb 2014
Today a special on “kids for cash,” the shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities.
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Kids for Cash: Inside a US Shocking Juvenile Justice Scandal (Part 2 of 3)
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
24 Feb 2014
Second part of a special on “kids for cash,” the shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities.
→ read full articleTamarind Mem
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Tamarind Mem, a Canadian bestseller novel from 1997, written by Indian-born Anita Rau Badami is an infectious and unforgettable story of an extensively engaged childhood, family, identity, culture and its inherent oppression of women, narrated through genius storytelling.
→ read full articleTaking Your Brain for a Walk: The Secret to Delaying Dementia
Ian Sample – The Guardian,
24 Feb 2014
Regular brisk walking three times a week increases the size of brain regions linked to planning and memory, a study has shown.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden Elected Rector of Glasgow University
Steve James, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Students at the University of Glasgow in Scotland voted Tuesday [18 Feb 2014] to elect Edward Snowden as Rector of the University, in a powerful display of opposition to attacks on democratic rights by the NSA and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
→ read full articleUK Fraud Agency Charges 3 Ex-Barclays Bankers over Libor
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Britain’s fraud agency has started criminal proceedings against three former bankers of Britain’s Barclays Plc for the alleged manipulation of Libor interest rates, it said on Monday [17 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleU.S. Now Bugging German Ministers in Place of Merkel – Report
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
The NSA has stepped up its surveillance of senior German government officials since being ordered by Barack Obama to halt its spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bild am Sonntag paper reported on Sunday [23 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Bt-Toxins Found to Kill Human Embryo Cells
Christina Sarich, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
New research from Canada show that BT toxins are showing up in pregnant women, and low and behold – they are killing human embryo cells.
→ read full articleFighting Disparity: The Dream of Davos Elites
Farooque Chowdhury – Pambazuka News,
24 Feb 2014
The world’s richest nations have admitted that global inequality is appalling. But are they prepared to radically tackle the capitalist system that harbours rich tax thieves and appropriators of labour, who increase their wealth with political favours? A system that safeguards the interests of the minority at the expense of the majority poor?
→ read full articleChina in Africa: Devil or Angel?
Luo Jianbo and Zhang Xiaomin – Pambazuka News,
24 Feb 2014
One of the most outstanding features of China’s policy is its aspiration to promote South-South cooperation and to achieve the renaissance of Asia and Africa. Unlike the former colonial masters, China’s engagement provides Africa with new development opportunities.
→ read full articleDrone Killing the Fifth Amendment: How to Build a Post-Constitutional America One Death at a Time
Peter Van Buren – TomDispatch,
24 Feb 2014
The Divine Right of President Obama?
Terrorism (ter-ror-ism; see also terror) n. 1. When a foreign organization kills an American for political reasons.
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Kids for Cash: Inside a US Shocking Juvenile Justice Scandal (Part 3 of 3)
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
24 Feb 2014
Final segment of a special on ‘kids for cash,’ the shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities.
→ read full articleRoundup Linked to Global Boom in Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance
Sustainable Pulse – TRANSCEND Media Servicde,
24 Feb 2014
Celiac disease, gluten intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome are on the rise worldwide, and that rise has taken place in parallel with the increased use of glyphosate (Roundup) herbicide, shows a new US peer-reviewed paper from Dr. Anthony Samsel and Dr. Stephanie Seneff. The review has been published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Toxicology.
→ read full articleExposed: Viral “I Am a Ukrainian Video” Produced by PR Company Linked to ‘Regime Change’ NGO
Paul Joseph Watson, InfoWars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
The video features an attractive woman insistently claiming that the Ukrainian uprising is solely about freedom and democracy. It is typically glib and simplified emotional propaganda which purports to explain that “there is only one reason” behind the protests in Ukraine, a bald faced lie which ignores the multi-faceted geopolitical factors behind the uprising.
→ read full articleUS Support for Regime Change in Venezuela Is a Mistake
Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian,
24 Feb 2014
The US push to topple the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro once again pits Washington against South America. On Sunday [16 Feb 2014], the Mercosur governments (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Venezuela) released a statement and described “the recent violent acts” in Venezuela as “attempts to destabilize the democratic order”. They made it abundantly clear where they stood.
→ read full articleRemembering Malcolm X 49 Years On
Ama Biney – Pambazuka News,
24 Feb 2014
Malcolm X, otherwise known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was a fierce African American human rights crusader with an international agenda. Progressive people commemorating his assassination this week [21 Feb 1965] reflect on his legacy to the Black struggle and to all people around the world who are oppressed by imperialism and capitalism.
→ read full articleAustralia, US Accessing Indonesian Telephone Data, Leaked Documents Show
Philip Dorling – The Canberra Times,
24 Feb 2014
16 Feb 2014 – Newly disclosed documents from Edward Snowden have revealed that Australian intelligence efforts against Indonesia do not just target suspected terrorists or key political figures but involve massive penetration of Indonesia’s phone networks and data collection on a huge scale.
→ read full articleGlobal Capitalism Has Written Off the Human Race
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Economic theory teaches that free price and profit movements ensure that capitalism produces the greatest welfare for the greatest number. This theory doesn’t work when the US government socializes cost and privatizes profits as it has been doing with the Federal Reserve’s support of “banks too big to fail” and when a handful of financial institutions have concentrated much economic activity.
→ read full articleFrench Scholar Denounces Coup Attempt in Venezuela
Prensa Latina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
The current violent actions taking place in Venezuela are a troubling reminder of events in April 2002, which turned out to be an attempted coup against President Hugo Chavez, Professor Salim Lamrani charged today [21 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleOutrage over American Psychological Association’s Decision to Exonerate Dr. John Leso
Division 39-Psychoanalysis, APA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
I am writing on behalf of Division 39 to express grave concern over the decision of the Ethics Committee to exonerate Dr. John Leso, despite his role in directing the torture of Mohammed al-Qahtani [in Guantanamo].
→ read full article(Italiano) L’International Peace Research Association ha 50 anni
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Nota come IPRA, fondata nel 1964 a Londra, e il sottoscritto, 34enne a quel tempo, unico fondatore ancora in vita. L’IPRA ruota ogni due anni da un centro di ricerche per la pace all’altro, ed è ora in mani turche molto competenti. E che cos’è più naturale che tenere il 50° anniversario del fulcro degli studi per la pace in quel fulcro del mondo, Istanbul, dal 10 al 14 agosto di quest’anno!! Affrettatevi, iscrivetevi!!!
→ read full articleEncycling Problematic Wickedness for Potential Humanity
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Imagining a Future Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential – With the possibilities now offered by technology and the web, the question is how to reframe for the future an “Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential”. What recent instances of “new thinking” can be cited as an inspiration to the world — capable of eliciting collective confidence in the future?
→ read full articleJudaism and Zionism: A Divorce in the Making…?
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
A highly armed regional power, with nearly every kind of weapon at its disposal, economically and scientifically advanced, a member of nearly every important international organization and with global influence that far outstrips its size, an ally of the world’s sole superpower, claims that its existence is under threat. That’s bullshit.”
→ read full articleSaudis Agree to Provide Mercenary Jihadists in Syria with Mobile Antiaircraft Missiles
Maria Abi-Habib and Stacy Meichtry – The Wall Street Journal,
24 Feb 2014
U.S. Also Giving Fighters Millions of Dollars for Salaries – Washington’s Arab allies, disappointed with Syria peace talks, have agreed to provide rebels there with more sophisticated weaponry, including shoulder-fired missiles that can take down jets, according to Western and Arab diplomats and opposition figures.
→ read full articleExtremist Tourists: 250 Jihadists Reportedly Return to UK
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
17 Feb 2014 – Around 250 British jihadists have returned to the UK after training and fighting in Syria, a senior Whitehall security official told the Sunday Times. Security services are monitoring the “extremist tourists”, fearing they might carry out attacks at home.
→ read full articleSilence as Myanmar ‘Genocide’ Unfolds
Nancy Hudson-Rodd - Asia Times,
24 Feb 2014
The term “bystander nation” was originally used to describe Allied governments’ lack of response to early knowledge of the unfolding destruction of European Jews, the reluctance to believe allegations of genocide, and the refusal to adopt policies for action. Today, genocide is an unfolding reality in Myanmar and the complicit silence of Western donor nations is deafening.
→ read full articleJapan’s Odd Pro-Western ‘Nationalism’
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Can one be a nationalist, while faithfully serving the interests of a foreign country or an empire? Anywhere else in the world the answer would be resolute and loud “No!” But in Japan, such a pirouette is apparently imaginable, acceptable and for many it is even perfectly ‘normal’.
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Protect Paradise: An Animation about Palm Oil
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Palm oil has a dirty secret: forest destruction. Every year, thousands of hectares of Indonesian rainforest and peatlands – some of the most biodiverse regions on the planet – are being destroyed to make way for new palm oil plantations. We don’t have to clear forests for palm oil – solutions exist and some companies are on track to supply clean, responsible palm oil.
→ read full article(Português) Quem rotula nossa sexualidade?
Marília Moschkovich – Outras Palavras,
24 Feb 2014
E se formos muito mais que gays ou héteros? E se houver uma galáxia de identidades sexuais, que devem ser definidas, antes de tudo, por cada um@? Na sexta-feira [14 fev 2014] a atriz Ellen Page se assumiu lésbica em um discurso público pela primeira vez. Entre tantas coisas lindas que disse, refletiu sobre a dificuldade em “sair do armário”.
→ read full articleAre African Conflicts Exclusive to Africans?
Abdul Ghelleh – Pambazuka News,
24 Feb 2014
A Critical Look at the Role of Western Mainstream Media – The Western media misdiagnoses the root causes of African conflicts and reduces them to tribalism and religion as in the respective case of South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
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