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Pierre Omidyar Commits $250m to New Media Venture with Glenn Greenwald
Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
21 Oct 2013
Decision to set up news organisation fuelled by ‘concern about press freedoms in the US and around the world’. Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, has revealed more details of the media organization he is creating with journalist Glenn Greenwald.
→ read full articleElite Insurgency
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
The real threat to the national interest comes from the rich and powerful. Subversion ain’t what it used to be. Today it scarcely figures as a significant force. Nation states are threatened by something else. Superversion: an attack from above.
→ read full articleIs Homosexuality Really An Import?
Devika Mittal – Counter Currents,
21 Oct 2013
The Gulf nations are planning to conduct “gay tests” for foreign tourists. It is claimed that the test will “recognise” gays and transgenders who will be then denied entry. This will be applicable in all the GCC or Gulf Cooperation Council countries that includes Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. In all the GCC countries, homosexuality is outlawed.
→ read full articleThe US Calamities: There Are Solutions
Johan Galtung, 21 Oct 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
How about USA making a deal with the Chinese and the Russians? 50 Percent Chinese debt forgiveness against 50 percent US reduction of the most offensive military components– the 800 bases around the world–over 5-10 years? Accompanied by a similar multilateral and balanced reduction in offensive arms in all three, building on the Russian chemical arms momentum?
→ read full articleBankrupt at Home and Abroad, Syria Shows Washington is a Spent Geopolitical Player
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
21 Oct 2013
Having largely created a quagmire of terrorism and lawlessness in Syria through covert insurgency operations over the past two and half years, the US government looks like a hapless Doctor Frankenstein who has lost control of the beast, or should we say beasts…
→ read full articleThe Not-So-Noble Past of the Nobel Prizes
Mark Jackson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
The Nobel Prize has had its controversies, and its combination of science and politics can create unusual relationships.
→ read full articleThe In Amenas “Cover Up”
Jeremy Keenan – International State Crime Initiative,
21 Oct 2013
What is going on? Why is one of Al Qaeda’s biggest ever terrorist attacks being swept under the carpet? Some very significant new evidence of Algerian involvement in the attack and Western complicity in its “cover-up” has come to light, to the extent that it is questionable whether we can really even ascribe the terrorist attack to Al Qaeda.
→ read full articleUS Increases Military Operations in Africa for ‘Strategic Interests’
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
The US military is stepping up its military activity “in Africa to seize control of natural resources and strategic waterways and also to block the People’s Republic of China from enhancing its relationship with various African states,” the editor of Pan-African Newswire, Abayomi Azikiwe, said.
→ read full articleThe Disappearance of Palestine
Jonathan Cook: the View from Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
The idea that a financial lifeline – whether Kerry’s plan or Netanyahu’s economic peace – is going to smooth the path to the conflict’s end is an illusion. Peace, and prosperity, will come only when Palestinians are liberated from Israeli control.
→ read full articleU.S. Science Reporters Becoming an Endangered Species
Zofeen Ebrahim, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
The news for environmental journalism in the United States is grim and getting grimmer.
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Michio Kaku on War, Peace, and the All-Powerful Will of the People
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Dr. Michio Kaku is an American thinker, physicist, professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York, futurist, and communicator. He has written several books and made frequent appearances on radio, television and film worldwide.
→ read full article1993-2013: Is the Twenty-Year Long “Pas de Deux” of Russia and the USA Coming to an End?
The Saker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
While tensions have reached some sort of climax over the Syrian issue, problems between Russia and the USA are really nothing new. A quick look at the recent past will show that the western corporate media has been engaged in a sustained strategic campaign to identify and exploit any possible weaknesses in the Russian “political armor” and to paint Russia like a very nasty, undemocratic and authoritarian country, in other words a threat to the West.
→ read full articleA Young Syrian Al-Qaeda Member: “It is too late, I cannot come back anymore.”
International Network for Justice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
NGOs have been protesting the fact that young people from the eastern cities of Turkey are being taken to war in Syria. How come Syria-based organizations are able to run so easily? We will make an appeal to the parliament to ensure that the organizations recruiting troops from Turkey to Syria will be busted and those young people will be taken back to Turkey.
→ read full articleUS vs. Lavabit
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
21 Oct 2013
Now we have a police state apparatus of almost unimagined dimension, most of which is kept secret and remains unknown, despite the efforts of a few reporters and whistleblowers who tell the truth at their personal peril.
→ read full articleWhy Bad Movies Keep Coming Out and What to Do About It
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
David Cameron saw the hyped ‘The Fifth Estate’ and declared: “Brilliant, fantastic piece of acting. The twitchiness and everything of Julian Assange is brilliantly portrayed.” Neither he nor the makers of this fiction have ever met Assange. Based on a dodgy, axe-grinding book, the DreamWorks juggernaut is a perfidious, unethical exploitation of a man fighting for his freedom, if not his life.
→ read full articleDifference Maker – Glenn Paige’s Simple Idea: A ‘Nonkilling’ World
Beverly Deepe Keever – The Christian Science Monitor,
21 Oct 2013
A “nonkilling world” as one without killing, threats to kill, or conditions conducive to killing – and one in which there is no dependence on killing or the threat of killing to produce change.
→ read full article‘Our’ Weaponized Wahhabi Bastards
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
21 Oct 2013
Life is good if you’re a member of the Gulf Counter-revolution Club, officially known as Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). You can crush the Arab Spring at will. You can hire goons all across dar-al-Islam to advance a sectarian Sunni-Shi’ite divide. You can be deeply implicated in the destruction of Syria. You can treat a significant part of your own population as third-class citizens. Not only you get away with it; you get rewarded with expensive toys. And in one particular case – Saudi Arabia – even with a two-year seat at the UN Security Council.
→ read full articleJPMorgan, Department of Justice Strike Tentative $13B Deal
Julian Hattem – The Hill,
21 Oct 2013
JPMorgan Chase has reached a tentative $13 billion deal to settle charges with the Justice Department and other regulators over mortgage-backed securities, according to reports. The settlement reportedly does not release JPMorgan from criminal liability.
→ read full articleFrom England, One Man Feeds Western Media on Syria
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
It boggles the mind that a man living in Coventry is somehow able to count and categorize the dead in Syria hour by hour, every day of the week. “Something is going on which is quite fishy.”
→ read full articleThe Deep Roots beneath 1,000,000 Dead Iraqis
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
21 Oct 2013
Iraq continues to suffer the legacy of two decades of US military intervention and meddling, with little end in sight.
→ read full articlePeace in Syria
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
XIII World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Warsaw, Poland Oct 21-23, 2013 – We pay tribute to the great work of so many of the religious leaders, both Muslim and Christian, and to many in the Syrian civil society who in spite of so much suffering have continued to bravely work for an end to violence and engage in dialogue with everyone.
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The Story of Solutions
storyofstuffproject – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
But what if we changed the point of the game? What if the goal of our economy wasn’t more, but better — better health, better jobs and a better chance to survive on the planet? Shouldn’t that be what winning means?
→ read full articleOil, Azerbaijan and the Strange Case of Rick Bourke
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
21 Oct 2013
As a senior investigator on the Senate Watergate Committee, Armstrong uncovered the existence of President Richard Nixon’s secret taping system. He considers Bourke a genuine whistle-blower and summed up the case: “This elaborate set of frauds that Kozeny was involved in were in essence covered up by the United States government, who chose instead to bring the full weight of their investigative enthusiasm against the whistle-blower. And that just shocks the conscience.”
→ read full articleA Very Perfect Instrument: The Ferocity and Failure of America’s Sanctions Apparatus
Andrew Cockburn – Harper’s Magazine,
21 Oct 2013
At the beginning of World War I Britain set up a blockade designed, according to Winston Churchill, to “starve the whole population of Germany — men, women and children, old and young, wounded and sound — into submission.” By January 1918 the country’s civilians were dying almost at the same rate as its soldiers.
→ read full article30 Million Modern Slaves around the World, Finds Global Index
Counter Currents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Nearly 30 million people around the world are living as slaves, according to the Global Slavery Index 2013, a new index ranking 162 countries. Even, Iceland, Ireland and the UK are not slave-free. This is the first year of the GSI.
→ read full articleAmerican Apocalypse: The Case for Divine Retribution
Justin Raimondo - Antiwar,
21 Oct 2013
Bound by no law but that which they legislate, Washington’s reckless hubris defies the laws of nature and the gods themselves. One cannot go on committing evil without reaping a whirlwind or two. Eventually Nemesis overtakes Hubris, and the results aren’t pretty.
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Made In France (Music Video of the Week)
Aquarelle Guitar Quartet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Recorded Live in Manchester – Aquarelle Guitar Quartet. Composer: Bireli Lagrene.
→ read full articleBloomberg News — Americans Sell Body Parts for Income
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Americans who lost their jobs have experienced dramatic reductions in their incomes and access to medical care. They have used up their savings and now have to sell parts of their bodies for money. This crisis will worsen as the American economic collapse proceeds. Income and wealth are concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs.
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald Announces Departure from the Guardian
Guardian staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke a string of stories about widespread electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency based on files leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, has announced that he is leaving the Guardian.
→ read full articleInequality Is a Choice
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate – The New York Times,
21 Oct 2013
It’s well known by now that income and wealth inequality in most rich countries, especially the United States, have soared in recent decades and, tragically, worsened even more since the Great Recession. But what about the rest of the world?
→ read full articleReplacing Violence, Armed Rebellions, Militarism, and War with Nonviolence and International Law
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Address to the 13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Warsaw, Poland, October 21-23, 2013 – Stand in Solidarity for Peace: Time to Act
→ read full articleCommentary on Prof. Galtung’s Editorial “Balkan Integration Process in a Global Framework”
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
For the convenience of the arguments in this comment, allow me to briefly describe (but not comprehensively) some aspects of the Balkan areas, together with some background information.
→ read full articleFresh Leak on US Spying: NSA Accessed Mexican President’s Email
Jens Glüsing, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark – Der Spiegel,
21 Oct 2013
The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. It hacked into the president’s public email account and gained deep insight into policymaking and the political system. The news is likely to hurt ties between the US and Mexico.
→ read full articleGood News: $2 Billion NSA Spy Center is Going Up in Flames
Brianna Ehley - The Fiscal Times,
21 Oct 2013
October 8, 2013 – Technical glitches have sparked fiery explosions within the Utah Data Center, NSA’s newest and largest mega spy center and data storage facility, destroying hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, and delaying the facility’s opening by one year.
→ read full articleChevron Sues Rainforest Communities It Contaminated
Kevin Koenig, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
The implications of Chevron’s tactics are immense and should send shivers down the spine of anyone concerned about justice, human rights, the environment or corporate responsibility. The U.S. oil giant has taken “blame the victim” to a new extreme in its attempt to avoid the $19 billion guilty verdict handed down by an Ecuadorian court in February 2012.
→ read full articleJeremy Scahill Talks about Glenn Greenwald Website
Jack Mirkinson - The Huffington Post,
21 Oct 2013
Jeremy Scahill spoke out for the first time on Thursday [17 Oct 2013] about the much-hyped website he is launching with fellow journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras.
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Palestine before 1948
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
The video contains pictures of different Palestinian cities during the 1920’s and 1930’s, before the creation of the state of Israel by the Zionists in 1948.
→ read full articlePlummeting Morale at Fukushima Daiichi as Nuclear Cleanup Takes Its Toll
Justin McCurry – The Guardian,
21 Oct 2013
Staff on the frontline of operation plagued by health problems and fearful about the future, insiders say.
→ read full articleReport: Documents Show NSA Involvement in Drone Program
Melanie Eversley - USA Today,
21 Oct 2013
Documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show NSA ties to killing program.
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Oprah Winfrey Talks with Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace IsTheWay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Oprah Winfrey talks to Vietnamese Zen Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh about being nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr, the powers of mindfulness, insight, concentration and compassion.
→ read full articleBlood and Tourism in Kashmir
Mehboob Jeelani – Dissent Magazine,
21 Oct 2013
Until 1989, before the start of the armed rebellion against Indian rule, foreign and Indian visitors flocked to the valley. In 1987, according to a government survey, Kashmir welcomed 700,000 tourists. Three years later, as violence gripped Kashmir, the number fell to just 6,000. The gun-toting militants became a common sight near butcher shops and corner stores.
→ read full articleEgypt: End of Hope
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Instead of passion and hope, all there is left on the streets of Cairo is depressing defeatism, frustration and hate.
→ read full articleWhere Journalism Collides With State ‘Security’: BBC News, MI5 and the Mantra of ‘Keeping People Safe’
David Cromwell – Media Lens,
21 Oct 2013
We make no apology for again citing the American writer H. L. Mencken: ‘The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.’
→ read full articleOriginal Pakistani TV Bashir Interview and Massimo Mazzucco’s 9/11 Documentary
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Original Bashir interview that contradicts Washington’s account of killing bin Laden.
→ read full articleHow US Pressure Bends UN Agencies
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
21 Oct 2013
Exclusive: Lost in the celebration over the Nobel Peace Prize to the UN agency eliminating the Syrian government’s chemical weapons is the question of who was really behind the Aug. 21 poison-gas attack near Damascus. Relevant to that mystery is the recent U.S. pressure to control key UN agencies including the prize recipient, reports Robert Parry.
→ read full articleHow the World Health Organisation Covered Up Iraq’s Nuclear Nightmare
Nafeez Ahmed – The Guardian,
21 Oct 2013
13 Oct 2013 – Last month, the World Health Organisation (WHO) published a long awaited document summarising the findings of an in-depth investigation into the prevalence of congenital birth defects (CBD) in Iraq, which many experts believe is linked to the use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by Allied forces. According to the ‘summary report’.
→ read full articleReport: EU to Bypass Its Own Anti-Settlements Guidelines
Noam Sheizaf, +972 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Israeli and European officials are reportedly nearing an agreement that would allow Israeli institutions to continue operating freely in the West Bank while enjoying EU grants.
→ read full articleIt’s Time to Put an End to Israel’s Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell Nuclear Policy
Pam Bailey & Medea Benjamin – Al Jazeera,
21 Oct 2013
Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona, a city in the Negev desert, has six underground floors to plutonium extraction and production of tritium and lithium-6, for use in nuclear weapons. Whereas Iran has signed the Non-proliferation Treaty, giving the international community the right to demand inspections and controls, Israel has not – and is therefore not subject to external oversight.
→ read full articleGreece and the Neo-Nazis
Vasilis Migkos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Golden Dawn is the main nationalist extremist party in Greece. Created in 1980, its principles are neo-Nazi, with hymns to Hitler and propaganda of Aryan race superiority. Ironically, like-minded extremists in Germany were fond of killing immigrants, especially Greeks and Turks who inhabit Germany in vast numbers and are considered inferior.
→ read full articleHistory Class
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
The teacher said, “Let’s begin by reviewing some History. Who said ‘Give me Liberty, or give me Death’?”
→ read full articleChemical Weapons in Focus
Judith Bello – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
I tend to be a skeptic when it comes to the use of formal processes and international agencies to rein in imperial abuses. In many cases these efforts target only the weak while the powerful continue to pursue their interests. Examples are the International Criminal Court targeting Africa and the International Atomic Energy Agency being used to target Iran.
→ read full articleHow Mega-Corporations like Nestlé Threaten Colombia’s Coffee Farmers
Andrew Gold, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Colombia’s Zona Cafetera, or coffee zone, is one of the most prominent providers of coffee in the world. But a predicament now faces its native producers – who never even taste the coffee – and threatens to destroy them. Nestlé has a huge presence in Colombia. But it has no fair trade policy to ensure its coffee producers are paid a living wage.
→ read full articleVideo: Edward Snowden Wins Sam Adams Award
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
11 Oct 2013 – This week Edward Snowden received the Integrity Award from the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. These videos from the award ceremony are the first of Mr Snowden after being granted asylum in Russia.
→ read full articleMillennium Development Goals: The Failure of the Debt System
Daniel Munevar & Eric Toussaint, CADTM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
As the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund hold their annual meeting in Washington 11-13 Oct 2013 it is necessary to take a look at the state of the Millennium Development Goals
→ read full articleSyrian Opposition Group Refuses to Attend Geneva Peace Talks
Al Arabiya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
The main Syrian opposition group within the Syrian National Coalition said Sunday [13 Oct 2013] it would not attend a proposed peace conference in Geneva and would quit if the whole coalition participated. The Syrian opposition has said it will not negotiate until Assad’s regime steps down.
→ read full articleObscuring the Details: A Panoramic Look at America’s Case against Syria
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
14 Oct 2013
The US federal government and the various agencies, media organizations, individuals, foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, lobbies, forces, and other entities that are tied to it have done everything in their power to obscure the details involving the chemical attacks that took place in Syria on August 21, 2013.
→ read full articleVideo: Edward Snowden Wins Sam Adams Award
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
11 Oct 2013 – This week Edward Snowden received the Integrity Award from the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. These videos from the award ceremony are the first of Mr Snowden after being granted asylum in Russia.
→ read full articleGrowing Backlash to NSA Surveillance
Martha Mendoza, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Policy makers, privacy advocates and political leaders around the world have been outraged at the near weekly disclosures from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden that expose sweeping U.S. government surveillance programs.
→ read full articleThe Desert of Israeli Democracy: A Trip Through the Negev Desert Leads to the Heart of Israel’s National Nightmare
Max Blumenthal - TomDisptach,
14 Oct 2013
While the prime minister ranted against Iran in New York City and in a meeting with President Obama, his government was preparing to implement the Prawer Plan, a blueprint for the expulsion of 40,000 indigenous Bedouin citizens of Israel from their ancestral Negev Desert communities that promised to “concentrate” them in state-run, reservation-style townships.
→ read full articleHow Mind-Wandering and “Positive Constructive Daydreaming” Enhance Creativity and Improve Our Social Skills
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
The science of why fantasy and imaginative escapism are essential elements of a satisfying mental life.
→ read full article(Castellano) Brasil Implementará Servicio Propio de Correo Electrónico Antiespionaje
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
La presidenta de Brasil, Dilma Rousseff, anunció este domingo [13 Oct 2013] a través de la red social Twitter que los correos electrónicos del Gobierno tendrán un sistema de protección. Esta medida es adoptada después de las denuncias del espionaje de Estados Unidos hacia la propia mandataria e instituciones de su país.
→ read full articleStorm Warning: The Disappearing State of the Central African Republic
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
On 10 Oct 2013, the UNSC in a resolution issued a “storm warning” calling for help to the CAR and its UN Peacebuilding Office. The skies have been so often cloudy since its independence in 1961 that the new dark clouds are hardly noticed. However, there are currently danger signs and storm warnings concerning the disappearance of all State structures.
→ read full article‘De-Americanised’ World Needed after US Shutdown: China Media
AFP – The Times of India,
14 Oct 2013
“As US politicians of both political parties (fail to find a) viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time for the befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanised world,” the state news agency Xinhua said Sunday [13 Oct 2013]. “Such alarming days when the destinies of others are in the hands of a hypocritical nation have to be terminated.”
→ read full articleCash-for-Castles: Italy Sells Off Historic Sites to Plug Budget Holes
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
A Grand Inquisitor’s villa, a Pope’s fort and a Venetian island will be sold off to fill Italy’s depleted state coffers, local media reports. It’s hoped the 50 historic sites will raise 500 million euros needed to obey strict EU austerity rules.
→ read full articleChina’s Official Press Agency Calls for New Reserve Currency, and New World Order
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
China’s official press agency Xinhua decries the “US fiscal failure which warrants a de-Americanized world” and flatly states that the world should consider a new reserve currency “that is to be created to replace the dominant U.S. dollar, so that the international community could permanently stay away from the spillover of the intensifying domestic political turmoil in the United States.”
→ read full articleReview: ‘The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body’
Roger Griffin, Library of Social Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Working with case studies and sources, Wittman collates the conflicting ‘receptions’ of the tombs and their incorporation into the collective psyche. She explores their impact upon national consciousness—swollen with pride rather than diminished by the war’s human cost and bottomless grief generated by its futility and mind-numbing destructiveness.
→ read full articleNSA Wiretapped Senate Candidate Obama in 2004
The Western Center for Journalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
And here is the rest [beginning?] of the story…
→ read full articleDivided N United
Rosa Parks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Bang bang bang!
Rang out the shots
Stand up if you’re Muslim
Wall Street Bets a Quadrillion Dollars of Everybody Else’s Money
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
“Even if the whole planet were offered as collateral, it could not cover Wall Street’s bets… Derivatives are valued at six times more than the total accumulated wealth of the world.”
→ read full articleSnowden Accepts Whistleblower Award
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
14 Oct 2013
Though former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has been indicted for leaking secrets about the U.S. government’s intrusive surveillance tactics, he was honored by a group of former U.S. intelligence officials as a courageous whistleblower during a Moscow ceremony, reports ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern who was there.
→ read full articleRacism, Colonialism and Exceptionalism
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
“What makes America different, what makes us exceptional, is that we are dedicated to act.” (Barak Obama, Sep 2013) It seems to be possible for nations, and the majority of their citizens, to commit the worst imaginable atrocities, including torture, murder and genocide, while feeling that what they are doing is both noble and good.
→ read full articleThe Real “Global South” Today: BRICS*
Johan Galtung, 14 Oct 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Two basic facts stand out in the world economic development, leaving aside military, political, cultural and social development:
* The BRICS–an acronym becoming a social fact–are emerging;
* The USA-EU are declining; not only as markets, also as producers.
Fifteen Minutes an American President
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Obama’s rhetorical exercise in ‘peace talk’ at the United Nations General Assembly impressed few delegations and even fewer Americans: Far more eloquent are his five years of wars, military interventions, cyber-spying, drone murders, military coups and the merciless prosecution of patriotic truth tellers.
→ read full articleThe Data Hackers: Mining Your Information for Big Brother
Pratap Chatterjee - TomDispatch,
14 Oct 2013
Big Bro is watching you. In your mobile phone and behind your web browser are little known software that can follow you around. No longer the wide-eyed fantasies of conspiracy theorists, these technologies are routinely installed in all of our data devices by companies that sell them to Washington for a profit.
→ read full articlePost-Intervention Libya: A Militia State
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
We can only wonder whether Libya as of 2013 is not better understood as a ‘militia state’ rather than a ‘failed state,’ which seems like an emerging pattern for societies that endure Western military intervention. The parallels of Libya with Iraq and Afghanistan are uncomfortably suggestive.
→ read full articleJapan Asks for World’s Help on Fukushima Leaks
Al Jazeera and The Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday [6 Oct 2013] that Japan is open to receiving overseas help to contain widening disaster at the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima, where radioactive water leaks and other mishaps are now reported almost daily. “My country needs your knowledge and expertise,” he said.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Politics of Fragmentation
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
If the politics of deflection exhibit the outward reach of Israel’s grand strategy of territorial expansionism and regional hegemony, the politics of fragmentation serves Israel’s inward moves designed to weaken Palestinian resistance, induce despair, and de facto surrender.
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Allegro Molto Appassionato (Music Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Nicola Benedetti – Violin
Author: Felix Mendelssohn
Whistleblowing: A Practical Guide – By Brian Martin
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
You may be not a Snowden or Manning, but you discover some wrongdoing such as corruption, injustice or danger to the public. What should you do? If you do nothing, the problem will continue. If you speak out, you become a target for attack. Whistleblowing: A Practical Guide tells how to assess your options, prepare for action, use low-profile operations, negotiate official channels, leak, build support and survive the experience.
→ read full articleSmart Help
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
During a heavy rainstorm, you come with your car to a bus stop where three people are waiting:
→ read full articleTrapped in Qatar: Footballers Describe Nightmarish Treatment
Maik Grossekathöfer – Der Spiegel,
14 Oct 2013
Qatar, the host of the 2022 soccer World Cup, is spending a lot of money to attract players and coaches. SPIEGEL spent time with a handful who have gone to the emirate and say they aren’t getting paid, but have been prevented from leaving the country.
→ read full articleImperialism Destabilizing Africa
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
The African continent is being ravished as it was in the darkest days of direct colonialism. There are no exact statistics available, but at least 6 million people have died in war-ravaged DR Congo since 1995. But some say that 10 million is a much more precise figure.
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Nuclear Engineer: Japan’s PM “Lying to the Japanese People” About Safety of Fukushima
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Oct 1, 2013 – Arnie Gundersen: Japan’s PM claims Fukushima is safe but the nuclear disaster is underfunded and lacks transparency, causing the public to remain in the dark.
→ read full articlePacific Pact – a Minefield for Health Care
Emilio Godoy – Inter Press Service-IPS,
14 Oct 2013
The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), the negotiation of which is set to conclude this year, could drive research into new drugs and improve access to medicines. Except – it won’t.
→ read full articleEmpire under Obama (Part 1): Political Language and the ‘Mafia Principles’ of International Relations
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
In the first part of this essay series on ‘Empire Under Obama,’ I will aim to establish some fundamental premises of modern imperialism, or what is often referred to as ‘international relations,’ ‘geopolitics’, or ‘foreign policy.’ Specifically, I will refer to George Orwell’s writing on ‘political language’ in order to provide a context in which the discourse of imperialism may take place out in the open with very little comprehension on the part of the public which consumes the information; and further, to draw upon Noam Chomsky’s suggestion of understanding international relations as the application of ‘Mafia Principles’ to foreign policy.
→ read full article(Português) Espanha: Cruel Festival “Toro Jubilo” Ateia Fogo em Touros Para o Entretenimento Local
Vinicius Siqueira – Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
14 Oct 2013
Neste festival, o touro, sua vitima indefesa, é chamado de “toro de fuego” por um motivo brutal. O animal é amarrado, imobilizado e pedaços de pano de algodão embebidos em alcatrão são fixados em um suporte que é, anteriormente, preso em seus chifres para que um participante, por fim, ateie fogo. Esta bárbara festa é considerada um marco cultural da região de Soria.
→ read full articleSlavoj Žižek: “Most of the Idiots I Know Are Academics”
Luke Massey – New Statesman,
14 Oct 2013
The cultural theorist and ideas machine on Obama, stupidity and his favourite quasi-fascist industrial metal outfit – Rammstein.
→ read full articleEuropean Union at the Crossroads
Massimo D'Alema – Inter Press Service-IPS,
14 Oct 2013
“One of the fundamental contradictions: that whereas economic life has internationalism as a necessary premise, state life has developed in the direction of ‘nationalism,’ of ‘self-sufficiency’.” With global financial capitalism the crisis of democracy linked to the loss of sovereignty by nation states has reached breaking point.
→ read full article(Português) A Inovadora Vila Solar da Alemanha
Outras Palavras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Em Friburgo, bairro tem painéis coletores em todas as casas, casas multifamiliares e automóveis compartilhados. Habitantes produzem quatro vezes mais energia do que consomem.
→ read full articleCanadian PM Says ‘Very Concerned’ by Brazil Spying Allegations
David Ljunggren, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed concern on Tuesday [8 Oct 2013] about allegations that Canada’s intelligence agency had targeted Brazil. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Monday demanded Canada explain a report that said the Communications Security Establishment Canada – the equivalent of the top-secret U.S. National Security Agency – had spied on Brazil’s Mines and Energy Ministry.
→ read full articleHuman Violence: Understanding it. Ending it.
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
What is violence? Let me define this phenomenon more precisely so that we might tackle it more effectively. It is social interference in the genetically programmed feelings, thoughts, sensing and/or behavior of another organism. It might be inflicted by an individual or an institution.
→ read full articleIsrael & BDS – A Note from Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
On Sep 7, 2013 Roger was interviewed by Alon Hadar for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. Below is an open letter to the editor from Roger. -“Without wishing to fan the flames, I feel I owe it to my fans in Israel to correct the record on a number of points. The article was a serious distortion of the actual interview I gave. Both questions and answers were changed. I can only assume to suit an editorial agenda.”
→ read full articleWhy the Corporate Media’s Climate Change Censorship Is Only Half the Story
Sarah van Gelder – YES! Magazine,
14 Oct 2013
Of course the media needs to start talking honestly about climate change. But there’s more to the issue than just gloom and doom. Solutions journalism must investigate not only the individual innovations, but also the larger pattern of change.
→ read full articleHow the NSA Deploys Malware: An In-Depth Look at the New Revelations
Electronic Frontier Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
The template for attacking people with malware used by the NSA is in widespread use by criminals and fraudsters, as well as foreign intelligence agencies, so it’s important to understand and defend against this threat to avoid being a victim to the plethora of attackers out there.
→ read full articlePrescription Drug Abuse Now More Deadly Than Heroin, Cocaine Combined
Mark Guarino – The Christian Science Monitor,
14 Oct 2013
A new study shows that deaths from prescription drug overdoses have quadrupled during the past decade, suggesting that a stronger response is needed.
→ read full articleThe Cape of Good Hope: Russia, Syria and the Decline of American Hegemony
Israel Shamir - TomDispatch,
14 Oct 2013
American hegemony is over. The bully has been subdued. We cleared the Cape of Good Hope, symbolically speaking, in September 2013. It was touch and go, just as risky as the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. The chances for total war were high, as the steely wills of America and Eurasia had crossed in the Eastern Mediterranean.
→ read full articleGuardian’s NSA Revelations: Spies to Go under Spotlight
Patrick Wintour, Rowena Mason and Dan Roberts – The Guardian,
14 Oct 2013
British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is to start conversations in government about how to update the legal oversight of the UK’s security services in the light of disclosures by the Guardian that powerful new technologies appear to have outstripped the current system of legislative and political oversight.
→ read full article40 Percent of Your Chicken Nugget Is Meat. The Rest Is…
Tom Philpott – Mother Jones,
14 Oct 2013
Marketing isn’t about giving people what they want; it’s about convincing people to want what you’ve got—that is, what you can buy cheap, spiff up, and sell at a profit. Take the chicken nugget, that staple of fast-food outlets and school lunches.
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Myanmar: Can the Religious Violence Be Ended?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
3 Oct 2013 – TRANSCEND member Dr. Maung Zarni and Debbie Stothard: A 25-minute analysis of Myanmar’s “Communal or Religious Violence.”
→ read full articleMedia Repression and Tamils in Sri Lanka
Daniel Kitts, TV Ontario – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Sri Lanka has gained a reputation as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists alongside Afghanistan, Somalia, Eritrea and North Korea. By way of preview of a forthcoming Tamils Against Genocide (TAG) report on media violence in Sri Lanka, we’d like to share our perspective.
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