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It’s the Drugs, Stupid!
Dr. Charles Gant and Greg Lewis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
And where illegal drugs such as cocaine and “speed” are often cited for their negative effects, in fact, among the drugs that are often prescribed for ADHD, Ritalin is chemically similar to cocaine and Adderall is a mix of four powerful amphetamines. We’re addicting more than ten percent of our children — overwhelmingly boys — to these drugs because they have difficulty sitting still and paying attention in class.
→ read full articleTruth versus Power
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Henry David Thoreau said
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth”.
Why did Thoreau prefer truth to all else?
(Castellano) Maduro: No es una campaña de conspiración, es un golpe de Estado continuado
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
El jefe de Estado venezolano sostuvo este domingo [23 feb 2014] que el intento de golpe de Estado continuado, del cual es víctima, es “decidido desde el poder de Estados Unidos, dirigido en la calle por sectores de la derecha venezolana y respaldado por la cúpula empresarial del país”.
→ read full articleConflict Resolution: Dynamics, Process and Structure
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
“One of the most serious global problems facing the world as it lurches into the new millennium is how to manage destructive and protracted conflict between groups with differing identities who are interacting within the same political system…”
→ read full articleG8 New Alliance Condemned as New Wave of Colonialism in Africa
Claire Provost, Liz Ford and Mark Tran – The Guardian,
24 Feb 2014
A landmark G8 initiative to boost agriculture and relieve poverty has been damned as a new form of colonialism after African governments agreed to change seed, land and tax laws to favour private investors over small farmers. Ten countries made more than 200 policy commitments, including changes to laws and regulations after giant agribusinesses were granted unprecedented access to decision-makers over the past two years.
→ read full articleWill India Abolish Death Penalty?
Hindustan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
19 Feb 2014 – After the January 2014 verdict of the Supreme Court laying down guidelines on disposal of mercy pleas, the commutation of death penalty of Rajiv Gandhi’s killers was almost a foregone conclusion.
→ read full articleSri Lanka’s War Crimes and the US “Human Rights” Charade
WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
While Rajapakse is undoubtedly implicated in crimes, no credence should be placed in Washington’s bogus “human rights” charade, an ideological banner used by the US for its intrigues, provocations and wars of aggression around the world. The US is no more concerned about war crimes in Sri Lanka than it was in Iraq, or Libya or Syria.
→ read full articleGermany, France to Mastermind European Data Network – Bypassing US
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande will review plans to build up a trustworthy data protection network in Europe. The challenge is to avoid data passing through the US after revelations of mass NSA spying in Germany and France.
→ read full articleMyanmar Journalists on Trial for Reporting Alleged Chemical Weapons Factory
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Myanmar police have charged five journalists with “disclosing state secrets” after their newspaper carried a story about an alleged chemical weapons factory, state media reported Sunday [16 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleThe Spoils of War: Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
24 Feb 2014
In the course of the last four years, there has been a surge in Afghan opium production. The Vienna based UN Office on Drugs and Crime reveals that poppy cultivation in 2012 extended over an area of more than 154,000 hectares, an increase of 18% over 2011. A UNODC spokesperson confirmed in 2013 that opium production is heading towards record levels.
→ read full articleCaptain Boycott Rides Again
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
It has always been a secret ambition of mine to have a bagatz ruling bearing my name. Whatever the outcome, the decision in the case of “Uri Avnery and Others v. the State of Israel” will be quoted for a long time. Some satisfaction, at least.
→ read full article(Português) Johan Galtung – Transcender e Transformar: Uma Introdução ao Trabalho de Conflitos
Prof. Rafael Salatini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
São Paulo: Palas Athena, 2006 -Tradução Antonio Carlos Silva Rosa – Um dos autores mais importantes da teoria das relações internacionais no pós-guerra, Johan Galtung, dedicou toda sua profícua carreira intelectual ao estudo da paz e da solução pacífica de conflitos, que divulgou sob o epíteto de peace research, iniciados nos anos 1960.
→ read full articleKerry’s Laughable Remarks in Beijing
Eric Sommer – Russia Today,
24 Feb 2014
US Secretary of State John Kerry delivered remarks both laughable and frightening after meeting with Chinese officials in Beijing on Friday [21 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleSoon, the Battle for Venezuela
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
They are already sewing your funeral gown, Venezuela. They are now ready to welcome you back to that world of the lobotomized, destroyed nations that are fully submissive to Western political and economic interests – Indonesia, Philippines, Paraguay, Uganda, Kenya, Qatar, Bahrain, and almost the entire Eastern Europe.
→ read full article9 Shocking Dangers of Fluoride Exposure
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Ingested in high doses, fluoride is indisputably toxic; it was once commonly used in rat poison. So why is it in our drinking water? Using non-fluoride toothpaste can immediately reduce your fluoride exposure. Maintaining healthy iodine levels can help protect the thyroid from fluoride.
→ read full articleDivorcing
Dietrich Fisher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
An elderly man in Phoenix calls his son in New York and says, “I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty five years of misery is enough.”
→ read full articleOld Testament Armed Forces
Philip Giraldi – The American Conservative,
24 Feb 2014
Religious zealotry runs rampant in the U.S. military, and among those wishing to deploy it. The connection between America’s wars with the more fundamentalist forms of Christianity in the US is striking. Opinion polls suggest that the more religiously conservative one is, the more one will support overseas wars or even war crimes.
→ read full articleIs a Boycott of Israel Just?
Sonya Michel – International New York Times,
24 Feb 2014
B.D.S. is, in fact, a legal, moral and inclusive movement struggling against the discriminatory policies of a country that defines itself in religiously exclusive terms, and that seeks to deny Palestinians the most basic rights simply because we are not Jewish.
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Insensatez (Music Video of the Week)
Mariza & Iván "Melón" Lewis– TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Wonderful interpretation of a masterpiece composed by Brazilian legends Antonio Carlos “Tom” Jobim and Vinicius de Morais. Mariza is a Portuguese singer of Fado.
→ read full articleIsrael Jittery over Global Boycotts
Dalia Hatuqa – Al Jazeera America,
24 Feb 2014
But never has the issue of boycotts caused so much vexation inside Israel’s corridors of power. Israeli politicians have been trading barbs about who is fueling the situation.
→ read full articleUK Ruling against David Miranda Escalates Assault on Democratic Rights
Robert Stevens, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
In what was clearly a politically motivated judgment, the High Court in London ruled Wednesday [19 Feb 2014] that David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, was detained lawfully when he was held for nine hours last August at London’s Heathrow Airport. The 28-year-old Brazilian was in transit from Germany to Brazil when he was arbitrarily detained by the Metropolitan Police.
→ read full articleBerlin and Washington Foment Civil War in Ukraine
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Recent events in Ukraine make clear that political leaders in Washington, Berlin and Brussels are prepared to split the country, drive it into civil war and risk a conflagration across the entire region to achieve their geopolitical goals.
→ read full article(Português) Os Animais Têm Emoções?
Marc Bekoff - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
24 Feb 2014
Quando comecei meus estudos há três décadas atrás, a pergunta era: “Qual é a sensação de ser um cão ou um lobo?” Pesquisadores, quase todos céticos, passavam o tempo se perguntando se os cães, gatos, chimpanzés e outros animais sentiam, mas sentimentos não se encaixam sob um microscópio.
→ read full articleRounding Up Scientific Journals
Adriane Fugh-Berman and Thomas G. Sherman – The Hastings Center Report,
24 Feb 2014
Bioethics Forum – Scientific journal publishing reached a low point in November, when the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology retracted a study by Gilles-Eric Séralini and colleagues at Caen University in France. The retraction of the Séralini study is a black mark on medical publishing, a blow to science, and a win for corporate bullies.
→ read full articleThe Comcast-Time Warner Merger Threatens Democracy
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
24 Feb 2014
The public has confronted monstrous mergers before, and blocked them. So, too, have they faced corporate attempts to stifle the fundamental freedom of the Internet. Freedom of speech, freedom to connect and communicate, is the lifeblood of a democracy. The fight to preserve and expand the diversity and vibrancy of our media system is one that cannot be left to bought-out regulators and corporate lobbyists.
→ read full articleDemocracy Murdered by Protest: Ukraine Falls to Intrigue and Violence
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Who’s in charge? Certainly not the bought-and-paid-for-moderates that Washington and the EU hoped to install as the new government of Ukraine. Americans have no idea that the neoconservative regime of the White House Fool is leading them into a Great Power Confrontation that could end in destruction of life on earth.
→ read full articleWhy Do We Fear the Truth?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
The bottom line is this: Can you still hear your inner voice? And do you, like Gandhi, have the courage to follow it ‘whatever the consequences’?
→ read full articleNew Book on Truman & American Zionists
Paul L. Scham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
John Judis’s Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict is a superbly researched book that succeeds in being remarkably fair and even-handed.
→ read full articleThank You, Rolling Stone
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
24 Feb 2014
20 Feb 2014 – Today is my last day at Rolling Stone. As of this week, I’m leaving to work for First Look Media [The Intercept], the new organization that’s already home to reporters like Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras. I wish there was something I could say that is stronger than Thank You. No journalist has ever been luckier than me. Thank you, Rolling Stone.
→ read full articleRise of the Anti-Government Flash Mobs: First Ukraine, Now Venezuela
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
24 Feb 2014
Failing to win any of Venezuela’s elections by earning a popular mandate from the majority of the population in the last few years, the leaders of the mainstream opposition are now resorting to colour revolution tactics and a Ukraine-style disruption strategy.
→ read full articleDespite Majority Opposition, GMO Corn Gets Green Light in Europe
John Deike, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
On Feb. 11, 2014 the European Commission gave DuPont Pioneer the green light to freely grow insecticidal corn, also known as TC1507. Nineteen of the European Union’s 28 states voted against the cultivation and openly criticized the commission.
→ read full article1.1 Million Brazilians Petition Government to Give Edward Snowden Asylum
Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times,
17 Feb 2014
Edward Snowden is a popular guy in Brazil. The NSA leaker received 1.1 million signatures in a petition that aims to convince its president to grant him asylum. The Brazilian government had said it required a formal request from Snowden to grant asylum.
→ read full articleTalking Roles
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Daughter: “Mother, what is an ‘extra’ in the theater?” Mother explains,
→ read full articleWhere Is Thoreau Now That We Need Him?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
I think it’s time for us to go
and pay a visit to Thoreau.
In times like this we need a sage,
US Drones Reaping Death by SIM Card
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Feb 16, 2014 – Michael Ratner: Eliminating Targets Based on NSA spying but not verified by human intelligence demonstrates Obama’s false promise of oversight.
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Tragedi Rohingya – The Rohingya Tragedy in Burma/Myanmar
Agenda Awani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya ethnicity explained. Participation of TRANSCEND member Dr. Maung Zarni, Burmese scholar and expert on the issue.
→ read full articleNuke Summit Agenda Circumvents Armed Powers
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
When over 50 world leaders meet in the Netherlands next month [March 2014] for a Nuclear Security Summit (NSS), the primary focus will be on a politically-loaded question: how do we prevent non-state actors and terrorists from getting their hands on nuclear weapons or nuclear materials?
→ read full articleTerrorism with a “Human Face”: Syria Al Qaeda “Freedom Fighters” are “Not Killing Civilians”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
17 Feb 2014
The attacks by opposition forces largely integrated by Al Qaeda terrorists can no longer be denied. What is now occurring is a re-branding of the various terrorist formations covertly support by Western intelligence. The latest slur of media disinformation consists in providing a “human face” to Al Qaeda.
→ read full articleSuicides of Bank Executives, Fraud, Financial Manipulation: JPMorgan Chase Advisor Tony Blair Is Not Involved
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
17 Feb 2014
JPMorgan Chase is the unspoken architect of fraud, corruption, not to mention the establishment of the largest Ponzi scheme in World history. The agenda is to steal and appropriate wealth through market manipulation.
→ read full article(Português) O Sigilo Sobre Fukushima
Ralph Nader – Carta Maior,
17 Feb 2014
Sob suas disposições, somente o governo decide o que é considerado segredo de estado e qualquer civil que divulgue algum segredo pode ser preso por até 10 anos. Jornalistas pegos tornando o assunto público podem ser presos por até 5 anos.
→ read full articleGMOs Are Killing the Bees, Butterflies, Birds, and . . . ?
Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins - Organic Consumers Association,
17 Feb 2014
“It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.” – Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
→ read full articleUsurious Returns on Phantom Money: The Credit Card Gravy Train
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The credit card business is now the banking industry’s biggest cash cow, and it’s largely due to lucrative hidden fees.
→ read full articleThe Tide Turns against Israel
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely been so politically embattled. His travails indicate the Israeli right’s inability to respond to a shifting political landscape, both in the region and globally. The delegitimisation of Israel is truly under way, and the party doing most of the damage is the Israeli leadership itself.
→ read full articleKeeping Your Chocolate Slave-Free
Marianne Perez – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
With a product as good as chocolate, it’s hard to imagine that it can have a part in modern day slavery. But the good news is that there is an industry-wide response to tackle the issue.
→ read full articleFrance’s Aggressive Foreign Policy
Immanuel Wallerstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
France led the way to intervene in Libya, has pushed the hardest line of all Western powers on Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and has intervened unilaterally in Mali. Hollande was received as a hero in Israel because of his hard line on negotiations with Syria and with Iran. And now France has sent troops to try to restore order in the Central African Republic.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung, 17 Feb 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 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 articleWill Thorium Save Us from Climate Change?
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
If the choice is between keeping nuclear power running or replacing them with coal-fired power plants, the nuclear option is best for the climate. But, for now, investing in renewable energy and smart-grid technologies is a faster, more cost-effective and safer option than building new nuclear facilities, regardless of type.
→ read full articleTen Reasons That the Anti-Apartheid Movement Is Immoral, Hinders Peace
Sol Salbe - +972 Magazine,
17 Feb 2014
Alan Dershowitz published an op-ed in Haaretz on Wednesday [12 Feb 2014] giving his top 10 reasons that boycotting Israel is immoral. What if he wrote the same article in 1974 about the anti-Apartheid movement? It might look something like this.
→ read full articleAnglo Irish Bankers on Trial for Scheme That Led to National Collapse
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Three top executives at Anglo Irish bank are on trial for a secret scheme to buy their own bank’s shares that eventually triggered the 2008 collapse of the Irish economy. The bankers allegedly hatched the plan to cover up bets made by Sean Quinn, once Ireland’s richest man.
→ read full articleThe NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program
Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
17 Feb 2014
The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes – an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people. Obama once told his aides that it “turns out I’m really good at killing people; didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”
→ read full articleFour Latin American Countries Agree $85 bn Free-Trade Deal
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico have signed a treaty to eliminate tariffs on 92 percent of goods and services. The Pacific Alliance is free trade area of some 210 million people, accounting for more than a third of all Latin American and Caribbean GDP.
→ read full articleNuclear Issue in Limbo as Indecision Grips Japan
Martin Fackler – International New York Times,
17 Feb 2014
Several industrialized countries have turned their backs on nuclear power as a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, including one that has already begun permanently shutting functioning plants. That country is not Japan.
→ read full articleCluster-Bomb Imperialism: The Lethal Legacy of US Interventions
Sheldon Richman - CounterPunch,
17 Feb 2014
“The tragic upsurge of violence in Iraq in recent months, including the temporary takeover of two major cities by al-Qaida, is a direct consequence of the repression of peaceful dissent by the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad and of the 2003 U.S. invasion and occupation…” 40 years after America’s war of aggression against the people of Southeast Asia, American munitions continue to kill people.
→ read full articleObama’s Arms Sales Policy: Promotion or Restraint?
William D. Hartung – Foreign Policy In Focus,
17 Feb 2014
The United States is far and away the world’s leading arms trafficking nation, with $60 billion in arms transfer agreements last year [2013] alone. In 2011, the last year for which full global statistics are available, U.S. companies and the U.S. government controlled over three-quarters of the international weapons trade.
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Street Piano: Alla Turca Jazz (Music Video of the Week)
Ayse Deniz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
I performed my version of Fazil Say’s Alla Turca Jazz (based on Mozart’s Turkish March) on 50 pianos presented by the City of London Festival.
→ read full articleUganda to Authorise Life Sentence for Homosexuals
Mail & Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for some homosexual acts, officials said Friday [14 Feb 2014], alarming rights activists who have condemned the bill as draconian in a country where homosexuality already has been criminalized.
→ read full article(Italiano) Studi per la pace e risoluzione dei conflitti: necessità della transdisciplinarietà
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Gli studi per la pace cercano di capire come evitare la violenza attraverso la trasformazione dei conflitti, la cooperazione e l’armonia prendendo spunto da molte discipline, tra cui psicologia, sociologia e antropologia, scienza politica, economia, relazioni internazionali, diritto internazionale e storia.
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World Beyond War
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Feb 3, 2014 – The video is mightier than the hellfire missile. Make this one go viral. Learn more at http://worldbeyondwar.org
→ read full articleWelcome to ‘The Intercept’ [Newest Online Magazine by Star Investigative Journalists]
Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
10 Feb 2014 – Our short-term mission is to provide a platform and an editorial structure in which to aggressively report on the disclosures by our source, Edward Snowden. Our longer-term mission is to provide aggressive and independent adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues.
→ read full articleIsn’t the Nationalist a Mental Patient?
Dr E W Adikaram - Groundviews,
17 Feb 2014
Species of birds differ by birth from one another. Between the eagle and the dove, between the quail and the peacock there is a natural difference. Is there such a difference between the Sinhalese and the Tamil, between the Englishman and the German? There are natural characteristics that differentiate the tiger from the bear and the horse from the bull. Is there such a difference between the Japanese and the Jew or between the Chinaman and the Eskimo?
→ read full article(Italiano) Saddam, Osama, Gheddafi, Chavez – e Obama
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Chi è questo Obama, a proposito? Responsabile, secondo Nick Turse di The Nation, di uccisioni in 134 paesi, e come tale seminatore di 134 contraccolpi (blowbacks)? Un presidente con una retorica da democratico di sinistra e politiche estere da repubblicano di destra, che ha tradito i suoi elettori e la democrazia stessa, senza alcuna visione mondiale.
→ read full articleUS Military Intervention in Africa: The East African Response Force, a Creation of the Pentagon
Abayomi Azikiwe - Global Research,
17 Feb 2014
Growing instability in East and Central Africa will be the focus of Washington’s intervention.
→ read full articleTen Reasons That I Support Alan Dershowitz, Not
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Ethnic cleansing enthusiast Alan Dershowitz is unhappy with the current BDS efforts (boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel). Earlier today [12 Feb 2013] Haaretz published Dershowitz’ diatribe on the BDS. For the first time, I have to admit, I agree with the elder Zionist mouthpiece.
→ read full articleThe Role of Africa in Halting Supply of Illegal Ivory
Henry Oryem Okello – The Independent,
17 Feb 2014
Nations must co-operate and educate their citizens, says the Foreign Minister of Uganda. A growing demand for ivory from Asia – despite its sale being illegal in many Asian countries – is often cited as the root cause of the escalation in poaching of elephants and rhinos.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia Criminalizes ‘Terrorists’ Defaming State’s Reputation, Disturbing Order
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Actions that threaten Saudi Arabia’s unity, disturb public order, or defame the reputation of the state or the king – will be considered acts of terrorism under a new counterterrorism law which has come into force in the gulf kingdom.
→ read full articleThe New US-Russia Cold War
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
17 Feb 2014
Meet the new (cold) war, same as the old (cold) war. Same same, but different. One day, it’s the myriad implications of Washington’s “pivoting” to Asia. Then, the denigration of all things Sochi. Yet Nulandgate – as in US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria “neo-con” Nuland uttering her famous “F**k the EU” – was way more serious. Not because of the “profanity” (praise the Lord!).
→ read full articleOver Half of Population Opposes Japan Engaging in Collective Self-Defense: Survey
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
More than half of the public opposes Japan exercising the right to collective self-defense, or coming to the aid of an ally under attack, compared with more than a third who favor it, a survey said Sunday [26 Jan 2014].
→ read full articleLife-Skill Learning from Animal Shareholders and Collaborators
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Cognitive Opportunity for Engaging Radically With a Complex World in Crisis – The ultimate “authorities” in thriving through systemic crises are however the millions of species in the biosphere — whether plants or animals. It is evident that these have explored and developed every variety of “trick” to adapt to the challenges to which they have been exposed.
→ read full articleThe Boycott Isn’t Economic Warfare, It’s Psychological
Larry Derfner - +972 Magazine,
17 Feb 2014
It does not have to bring the Israeli economy to its knees, or even close, to force an end to the occupation.
→ read full articleAbout Courage: I Am Scared, Therefore I Am Brave!
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
“Many see you as a very courageous person. They would like to imitate you at that, at least a little bit, but they feel they are not courageous, say, ‘by nature’ and they cannot learn courage. What do you think about that? Can people train themselves to be courageous?
→ read full article(Português) Portugal Ajuda a Viabilizar Entrada de Milho Transgénico na Europa
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
A abstenção de Portugal e de outros três países significou dar luz verde ao cultivo do milho Pioneer TC1507, contra a vontade de 19 países e do Parlamento Europeu.
→ read full articleTranscendental Meditation Significantly Reduces PTSD in African Refugees within 10 Days
Science Codex – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
New research shows that Congolese war refugees who learned the Transcendental Meditation® technique showed a significant reduction in posttraumatic stress disorder in just 10 days, according to a study published today [10 Feb 2014] in the Journal of Traumatic Stress.
→ read full articleConflict, Conquest and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Proselytization in the Middle East was exceedingly complex. As the authors note “Muslim opposition and the enforcement of regulations against apostasy as well as Jewish disinterest quickly forced the missionaries largely to abandon that goal and to substitute for it the attempt to ‘improve’ the state of the Eastern Christian churches.”
→ read full articleMale Sexual Orientation Influenced by Genes, Study Shows
Ian Sample, science correspondent – The Guardian,
17 Feb 2014
A study of gay men in the US has found fresh evidence that male sexual orientation is influenced by genes. Scientists tested the DNA of 400 gay men and found that genes on at least two chromosomes affected whether a man was gay or straight.
→ read full articleThe Vampire Squid Strikes again: The Mega Banks’ Most Devious Scam Yet
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
17 Feb 2014
Banks are no longer just financing heavy industry. They are actually buying it up and inventing bigger, bolder and scarier scams than ever.
→ read full articleIn West Bank Settlements, Israeli Jobs Are Double-Edged Sword
Jodi Rudoren – International New York Times,
17 Feb 2014
The personal conflict that thousands of Palestinians face working for Israeli companies in the occupied West Bank is particularly stark for Hassan Jalaita, who for 18 years has repaired Israeli Army jeeps at the Zarfati garage here. Those are the very same jeeps that confront Mr. Jalaita at the checkpoint he crosses each morning. The same ones that sweep through villages where his friends and relatives live.
→ read full articleMajority of Americans Favor Ties with Cuba, Poll Finds
Rick Gladstone – International New York Times,
17 Feb 2014
After more than a half-century of official United States hostility toward Cuba punctuated by a comprehensive trade embargo, a majority of Americans — and an even greater majority of Floridians, home to this country’s largest Cuban-American population — now favor normalizing relations or engaging more directly with the Cuban government, according to a nonpartisan survey.
→ read full articleCaught Red-Handed: Secret Tape Reveals US-backed Plot to Topple Ukraine’s Democratically-Elected President
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
17 Feb 2014
The taped conversation demonstrates in clear detail that while Secretary of State John Kerry decries any foreign meddling in Ukraine’s internal affairs, his State Department is virtually managing the entire process.
→ read full articleThe Archaeological Heritage in Syria throughout the Crisis 2011-2013
Syrian Ministry of Culture – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The book sheds light on the current situation of the Syrian antiquities by documenting the extent and nature of the damage affecting the museums and archaeological sites. In addition, it reviews the measures and policies to protect the Syrian heritage based on the paper presented at a meeting held at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris.
→ read full article‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ War – And the Struggle of Memory against Forgetting
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Historians, like journalists, play their most honourable role when they myth-bust. The powerful would like us to believe that the likes of Thompson, Zinn and Galeano are no longer necessary: that we live, as Time magazine put it, “in an eternal present”, in which reflection is limited to Facebook and historical narrative is the preserve of Hollywood. This is a confidence trick.
→ read full articleThe Salvadorian Elections and Beijing’s Rising Star in Central America
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
17 Feb 2014
The Salvadorian oligarchy has for all purposes operated as a comprador elite class, serving as local representatives or managers of foreign corporations, governments, and interests. In this case the Salvadorian oligarchy has acted collectively as a comprador elite class serving the elites of the United States.
→ read full articleSyria-Bound Trucks Filled with US Dollars, Says Opposition Party Leader
Today’s Zaman, Istanbul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The trucks, which were stopped by the Turkish gendarmerie, were reportedly filled with weapons and ammunition. The Turkish government claimed that the Syria-bound vehicles contained humanitarian aid supplies for Syrian Turkmens. “Within those aid supplies there were dollars; those dollars were being transported to Syria, to al-Qaeda.
→ read full articleThe Five Criminals – In America, the Gestapo Has Replaced the Rule of Law
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Russia Today is the best English language news source available to Americans. On January 29, RT published a photo of 5 presidential appointees lying through their teeth to Congress. All five of these Gestapo wannabes are in violation of their oath of office to protect the Constitution of the United States.
→ read full articleThe Nordic Light – A Poetry Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The Nordic Light is a collection of poetry accompanied by photography, a seldom used combination, but a very impactful and much needed one. All of the poems are contributions from historic or prominent Norwegian poets, with the exception of one Danish and one Finnish poet.
→ read full articleNo to the Recolonization of the Central African Republic
Colonialism Reparation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Currently there is a permanent presence in four new bases (Gao, Niamey, N’Djamena and Ouagadougou) that add to the four historical ones (Dakar, Abidjan, Libreville and Djibouti) thus allowing a full control of the territory of the former French colonial empire.
→ read full articleRand Paul Sues the NSA in the Most Elaborate Email Collection Scheme in History
Philip Bump – The Wire,
17 Feb 2014
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul will on Wednesday [12 Feb2014] announce a class action suit against the NSA for unconstitutionally (by some estimations) scooping up Americans’ telephone call data.
→ read full articleThe Trillion Dollar Road to Armageddon
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
While asking the non-nuclear weapons states to respect the NPT and refrain from building nuclear weapons, the two main nuclear powers are ignoring their responsibilities under the treaty and expending vast sums of money they cannot afford to make sure they have thousands of nuclear weapons for the foreseeable future.
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Dr Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism
Leeds Metropolitan University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Feb 6, 2014 – Jake Lynch, former BBC newsreader, political correspondent for Sky News and Sydney correspondent for the Independent, is Associate Professor of Peace Journalism and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and the advisor for TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS.
→ read full articleUN Denounces Vatican over Child Abuse and Demands Immediate Action
Lizzy Davies and Henry McDonald – The Guardian,
10 Feb 2014
The Vatican has failed to acknowledge the huge scale of clerical sex abuse and has implemented policies that have led to “the continuation of the abuse and the impunity of the perpetrators”, a UN panel said on Wednesday [5 Feb 2014] in a scathing rebuke of the Holy See’s handling of the global scandal.
→ read full articleTerrorist Groups in Syria Treat over 700 of Their Injured in Israeli Hospital
Al Manar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The Israeli occupation army established a field hospital on the Golan Heights to treat the Syrian injured militants who belong to the terrorist groups in Syria. The Zionist army prevented the media outlets from broadcasting the activities of the field hospital yet allowed the Second Channel to prepare a report about it in order to promote the “humane Israeli step towards the Syrians.”
→ read full articleSyria: At Least 50 Americans Have Joined Terrorist Units, US Says
Ken Dilanian - McClatchy,
10 Feb 2014
At least 50 Americans have joined the mix of extremist groups that are fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, and some could try to mount terrorist attacks at home, U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday [4 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleSyria: “There are Terrorists from 83 Countries, Armed and Funded by Saudi Arabia”
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Syria Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi said Saudi Arabia’s decision that Saudi citizens who fight in conflicts outside the Kingdom would face harsh punishment does not mean that the Kingdom will stop funding and arming terrorist groups.
→ read full articleOne Food Parcel & One Polio Vaccination at a Time – Lifting the Siege of Yarmouk
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
“For the past more than five months I have sold my body for one hour to whoever would give me a kilo of rice which sometimes costs as much as 14,000 s.p. (close to $ 100). I was proud to be a whore for these terrorists in order to keep my parents alive and who are still trapped and I also prevented complete starvation of my children.” She continued, “God did not help me and my family but I promise if I live and ever see one of those dogs I will kill him and he can learn if his God exists or not. None existed for me!” Two young lady volunteers from the PRCS held her, still sobbing, as she and her little ones made their way out to a waiting PRCS ambulance.
→ read full articleSelling Your Secrets: The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters
Pratap Chatterjee - TomDispatch,
10 Feb 2014
Imagine that you could wander unseen through a city, sneaking into houses and offices of your choosing at any time, day or night. Imagine that, once inside, you could observe everything happening, unnoticed by others — from the combinations used to secure bank safes to the clandestine rendezvous of lovers. Imagine also…
→ read full articleNew Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time
Craig Timberg – The Washington Post,
10 Feb 2014
A surveillance system designed by a Dayton, Ohio-based company can track crimes in real time, as they occur.
→ read full articleMicrosoft, Facebook, Google and Yahoo Release US Surveillance Requests
Spencer Ackerman and Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
10 Feb 2014
Tens of thousands of accounts associated with customers of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Yahoo have their data turned over to US government authorities every six months as the result of secret court orders, the tech giants disclosed for the first time on Monday [3 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleJudges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet
Kevin Poulsen, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
How does the NSA get the private crypto keys that allow it to bulk eavesdrop on some email providers and social networking sites? It’s one of the mysteries yet unanswered by the Edward Snowden leaks.
→ read full articleThe Pope’s Sex Problem – Catholic Survey Reveals Frustrated Flock
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The Vatican last year sent out a survey to Catholics around the world focusing on attitudes to sex and sexuality. The responses are now in — and they show that the Church is badly in need of reform. Can Pope Francis meet such expectations?
→ read full articleWe Are a Cosmic Accident: Alan Lightman on Dark Energy, the Multiverse, and Why We Exist
Maria Popova, BrainPickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Questions like ‘why our world exists’ and ‘what nothing is’ have occupied minds great and ordinary since the dawn of humanity, and yet for all our scientific progress, they continue to do so, yielding only hypotheses rather than concrete answers.
→ read full articleWill Boycotting Israel Go Mainstream?
Steve Weissman - Reader Supported News,
10 Feb 2014
If peace talks failed, Kerry warned, the effort to delegitimize Israel would go ‘on steroids.’ “Today’s status quo absolutely, to a certainty, I promise you 100 percent, cannot be maintained,” Kerry warned like an Old Testament prophet and the grandson of Eastern European Jews who converted to Catholicism. “It’s not sustainable. It’s illusionary.”
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