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Carmina Burana (Music Video of the Week)
Carl Orff ~ André Rieu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
May 5, 2010: Oh Fortuna | Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi – 13,360,498 YouTube Hits
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Soldiers with ‘Mental Health’ Issues
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Are you a soldier or veteran who is supposed to have a ‘mental health’ issue such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia or PTSD? If you are, then I have some suggestions for you to consider.
→ read full articleMyanmar Leaders and Their 34 Concrete Ways of Control, Deception, and Manipulation
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Here is MY list of concrete, empirically verifiable acts the Burmese generals and ex-generals have been engaged in over the past 50 years since General Ne Win introduced the military rule on 2 March 1962. These acts are a given, irrespective of which general is in charge. They are getting worse.
→ read full article(ελληνικά-Greek) Βία, Ειρήνη και Έρευνα της Ειρήνης
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Translation to Greek by Mariana Kapetanidou of Johan Galtung’s paper “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research” (1969).
→ read full articleUganda’s Anti-Gay Bill, Unsigned but Still Effective
Faith Lokens, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Uganda’s president has reportedly refused to sign a controversial anti-gay bill that would mean life in prison for people convicted of homosexual acts. But many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersex people, and NGOs trying to help them, say many have been suffering discrimination for years and it is getting worse.
→ read full articleUS Government Privacy Board Says NSA Bulk Collection of Phone Data Is Illegal
Spencer Ackerman and Dan Roberts – The Guardian,
27 Jan 2014
23 Jan 2014 – The US government’s privacy board has sharply rebuked President Barack Obama over the NSA’s mass collection of phone data, saying the program defended by Obama last week was illegal and ought to be shut down.
→ read full articleDavos Billionaires: Oblivious to the Coming Revolution
Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
You guys already own half the planet. In fact, a cultural revolution is creating a new global collective conscience between capitalism and inequality, the Haves and the Have-nots. A powerful virus is spreading.
→ read full articleThe Fragility of Our Complex Civilization
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Science is not competitive. It is cooperative. It is a great monument built by many thousands of hands, each adding a stone to the cairn. This is true not only of scientific knowledge but also of every aspect of our culture, history, art and literature, as well as the skills that produce everyday objects upon which our lives depend. Civilization is cooperative. It is not competitive.
→ read full articleIndia-Japan Nuclear Deal?
Fr. Thomas Kocherry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
It was in 1986 Chernobyl accident took place in Russia. 3% of the Nuclear Plant only got burst. 97% is still alive. The Russians were not able to kill the plant completely. 90 million children were born deformed. 26 European countries were affected by radiation. It was in this context India entered into nuclear deal with Russia in 1988. In a similar way the Indo-Japanese nuclear deal is in the making. Japan cannot find an answer to Fukushima nuclear disaster.
→ read full articleLiterary Project Honours Baghdad’s Devastated Bookselling District
Ellie Violet Bramley – The Guardian,
27 Jan 2014
Hundreds of writers and artists prepare tributes to Iraq’s historic books hub, Al-Mutanabbi Street, hit by car bomb in 2007. It’s said that when Baghdad was sacked by the Mongols in 1258, the river Tigris ran red one day with the blood of those killed, and black the next with the ink of their books.
→ read full articleGandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi on 30 January 1948 – Unfortunately, Gandhi surrounded himself only with “yes men” and more often by “yes women” who were not in touch with the violent movements among the Hindus. There were no representatives of orthodox Hinduism in his entourage nor did orthodox Hindu religious leaders take part in his satyagraha campaigns.
→ read full articleCuba Will Propose CELAC to Declare Latin America a Peace Zone
Cuban News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Cuban deputy foreign minister Abelardo Moreno said that his country will propose the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, to take place January 28 and 29 [2014] in Havana, to declare this region a peace zone.
→ read full article85 Richest People Own the Wealth of Half of the World’s Population
OXFAM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Wealthy elites have co-opted political power to rig the rules of the economic game, undermining democracy and creating a world where the 85 richest people own the wealth of half of the world’s population, worldwide development organization Oxfam warns in a report published today [20 Jan 2014].
→ read full articleDown and Out in Paradise: Homeless in Hawai’i
Cosme Caal - CounterPunch,
27 Jan 2014
There are countless blog postings by tourists complaining about the police not mobilizing enough force to get rid of homeless people. Truth be told it takes a particular sense of entitlement to travel another land and expect for local people to reproduce a world likeable to the tourist, because they can always encroach on another people’s land, somewhere else in the world.
→ read full articleIsak Svensson and Peter Wallensteen
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The Go-Between: Jan Eliasson and Styles of Mediation, Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace, 2010 – “The lessons on mediation resources can all be connected to one key word—cooperation.” There is a need for cooperation with local efforts and forces for peace and between official and unofficial mediators.
→ read full articleHawks for Humanity
Chase Madar – Al Jazeera,
27 Jan 2014
To be fair, Human Rights Watch and Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., are far from alone in warmongering: In 2012, Amnesty International USA went so far as to put up bus-stop advertisements in Chicago during the NATO conference to urge the military alliance to “keep the progress going.”
→ read full articleUnder Pressure, Whole Foods Agrees to Stop Selling Produce Grown in Sewage Sludge
Rebekah Wilce – Center for Media and Democracy,
27 Jan 2014
Certified organic produce cannot be fertilized with sewage sludge, which is the industrial and hospital waste and human excrement flushed down the drains and later — in some cases — spread on some crops.
→ read full articleThe Global Plutocracy
Andre Damon and Barry Grey, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The impoverishment of the working class and enrichment of the financial elite accelerated since the 2008 Wall Street crash. While the wealth of the world’s billionaires has doubled, there are today over 1 billion people living on less than a dollar per day, and nearly half the world’s population, more than 3 billion people, subsist on less than $2.50 per day.
→ read full articleDavos’ Elite Message Deserves ‘Fierce Resistance’ Not Applause
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
27 Jan 2014
As the World Economic Forum kicks off its global summit in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday [22 Jan 2014], critics of the annual gathering are eager to show that the well-polished public image of the event should not be allowed to eclipse the nefarious and destructive role played by the many corporate elites that sponsor it.
→ read full articleWorld’s Poorest Suffer from Radioactive Sickness as Areva Mines for Uranium
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
More than 60 percent of Niger’s population lives on less than $1 per day, and even more have no electricity. Still, French company Areva keeps contaminating those residents and their environment while mining away for uranium—one of the few resources the world’s poorest country still has.
→ read full articleAn American Idol: The United States Should ‘Govern’ the World?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
This post consists of a much expanded text of an opinion piece that was published by AJE on January 18, 2014; it seeks to discredit imperial and neoliberal claims that the United States is a benevolent hegemon, providing global public goods to the world as a whole, including supposed geopolitical and ideological rivals.
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US Largest Cocaine Smuggler Revealed: The Drug Enforcement Agency-DEA
NextNewsNetwork – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Jan 15, 2014 – For decades, it has been rumored the United States government was secretly sponsoring the smuggling of cocaine into the country. Newly released documents, and testimony from Justice Department and DEA officials now show the stories of government running cocaine are true.
→ read full articleDavos: The Shifting Nature of Power and the Shifting Power of Nature
Kumi Naidoo - Greenpeace,
27 Jan 2014
One of the most challenging weeks of my working life starts today [22 Jan 2014]: the week of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Over 2,500 presidents, prime minsters, CEOs, celebrities and academics with a smattering of civil society, will be holed up in a small and posh mountain resort in Switzerland.
→ read full article(Castellano) Coordinadores de la Celac proclaman a América Latina como zona de paz
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
El documento “deja claro que la América Latina como zona de paz respetará los principios y normas del derecho intrernacional, se compromete a la solución pacífica de controversias, a fin de desterrar para siempre la amenaza y el uso de la fuerza en nuestra región”, explicó el vicecanciller de Cuba.
→ read full article(Français) 20e Anniversaire de la Rebellion du Chiapas
Bernard Duterme , Jérôme Baschet – Centre Tricontinental-CETRI,
27 Jan 2014
« Le goût de la liberté des zapatistes » – Historien médiéviste reconnu internationalement, Jérôme Baschet est sans doute aujourd’hui l’observateur francophone le plus proche de la rébellion des indigènes zapatistes du Sud-Est mexicain.
→ read full articleAre You Opposed to Fracking? Then You Might Just Be a Terrorist
Nafeez Ahmed – The Guardian,
27 Jan 2014
Over the last year, a mass of shocking evidence has emerged on the close ties between Western government spy agencies and giant energy companies, and their mutual interests in criminalising anti-fracking activists.
→ read full articleGeneva Will Fail but Don’t Blame Only the Syrian Parties
Jan Oberg, TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The meeting in Geneva about Syria resumes today [24 Jan 2014]. It is destined to become a historic failure. Most observers will blame either of the armed Syrian parties – the government or the rebels – for adhering unbendingly to their mutually exclusive positions.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Watch’s Syria Dilemma
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
27 Jan 2014
Human Rights Watch, which has pushed for a U.S. military intervention in Syria, continues to blame the Assad government for the Aug. 21[2013] Sarin attack even though the group’s high-profile map supposedly proving the case has been debunked.
→ read full articleOpen Ended Dead End
David Colquhoun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip?
→ read full articleSurveillance and Scandal: Time-Tested Weapons for U.S. Global Power
Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch,
27 Jan 2014
It’s About Blackmail, Not National Security – With a few computer key strokes, the agency has solved the problem that has bedeviled world powers since at least the time of Caesar Augustus: how to control unruly local leaders, who are the foundation for imperial rule, by ferreting out crucial, often scurrilous, information to make them more malleable.
→ read full articleUS Psychology Body Declines to Rebuke Member in Guantánamo Torture Case
Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
27 Jan 2014
America’s professional association of psychologists has quietly declined to rebuke one of its members, a retired US army reserve officer, for his role in one of the most brutal interrogations known to have to taken place at Guantánamo Bay, the Guardian has learned.
→ read full articleFrom Galileo to Sagan, Famous Scientists on the Art of Wonder, the Mystery of the Universe, and the Heart of Science
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavor in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. . . . To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. –- Einstein conversing with Tagore.
→ read full articleWhy Single Out the Case of the Rohingya Vis-A-Vis Other Unfolding Atrocities Around the World?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
I am singling out the case of the Rohingya, subject to a 35-year state-policy which rests on the INTENT to erase the Rohingya as a group, a memory, an identity and the literal existence.
→ read full articleMediation in Schools: A Response to New Federal Priorities
Matt Johnson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Benefits of Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Schools
→ read full articleThe Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) vs. Syria’s “Moderate” Al Qaeda Terrorists
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
27 Jan 2014
The Western media has tacitly acknowledged, faced with overwhelming evidence, that the opposition rebels have not only committed countless atrocities, they were also behind the chemical weapons attack of August 21. The evolving media narrative –which coincides in a timely fashion with the Geneva 2 Peace Conference– consists in distinguishing between two categories of Al Qaeda affiliated rebel organizations.
→ read full articleThe Fukushima Secrecy Syndrome – From Japan to America
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
24 Jan 2014 – Last month, the ruling Japanese coalition parties quickly rammed through Parliament a state secrets law. Under its provisions the government alone decides what are state secrets and any civil servants who divulge any “secrets” can be jailed for up to 10 years. Journalists caught in the web of this vaguely defined law can be jailed for up to 5 years.
→ read full articleCongenital Hypothyroidism and Fukushima Fallout in the US
Dr Mae-Wan Ho – Institute of Science in Society,
27 Jan 2014
A new study finds congenital hypothyroidism in the US rising 28 % in the two and a half months after the arrival of the Fukushima fallout of radioactive iodine . Researchers and authors Joe Mangano and Janette Sherman from the Radiation and Public Health Project have done a thorough job based on data from the US government.
→ read full articleA Countryside of Concentration Camps: Burma Could Be the Site of the World’s Next Genocide
Graeme Wood – New Republic,
27 Jan 2014
The Palestinian example shows that conflicts like this can stay frozen for decades. And that may be one of the worst options of all. Those Rohingya camps, with their muddy impermanence and bored desperation, contain children and young people growing up full of resentment and grievance.
→ read full articleSleep of Fools
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
So will this be the magic, blissful year
when finally all wars will disappear?
Geneva I-II: The Mismanagement of Conflicts
Johan Galtung, 27 Jan 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Let us say, brutally simplified, that there are seven conflicts, not only one, all directly or indirectly violent, unfolding in Syria… To handle a complexity at this level–more complex than Vietnam–a long-lasting UN-managed conference with all parties, of course with Iran and Israel participating, and only those involved, no spectators, and no conditions, is needed.
→ read full articleImperiled Polities: Egypt and Turkey—Two Visions of Democracy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The recent disturbing political turmoil in Turkey and Egypt, each in its own way, is illustrative. In both countries there are strong, although quite divergent, traditions of charismatic authoritarian leadership, reinforced by quasi-religious sanctification. Very recently, however, this authoritarian past is being challenged by counter-traditions of populist legitimacy.
→ read full articlePeoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Bremen, Germany, 7-10 December 2013. Organized by International Human Rights Association and Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka. Conducted by Permanent People’s Tribunal – Fondazione Lelio Basso Sezione Internazionale, Roma- Italia.
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The People Guarding US Nukes Will Shock You
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
20 Jan 2014
Jan 17, 2014 – Calling attention to thirty four officers at Malstrom Airforce Base in Montana who were caught cheating on a proficiency exam related to nuclear launch procedures.
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Eisenhower Farewell Address – 17 Jan 1961
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
→ read full articleFive Minutes Is Too Close
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
From: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board.
To: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, members of the UN Security Council.
Re: It is still five minutes to midnight.
Leaked: Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) – Environment Chapter
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs’ Report.
→ read full articleTPP: Poison for Local Community Resilience
Richard Heinberg – Common Dreams,
20 Jan 2014
If a city, county, or state were to ban fracking within its jurisdiction, oil companies could overturn the ban and sue for millions of dollars in lost profits. Want to label GM foods? Sorry, that’s a barrier to trade. Want local schools to buy healthy food from local farmers? Nope, that might violate the rights of Big Ag. Want to protect a forest? Stand aside, you’re in the way of profits.
→ read full articleNAFTA at 20: A Model for Corporate Rule
Manuel Perez-Rocha and Stuart Trew – Foreign Policy In Focus,
20 Jan 2014
NAFTA and treaties like it grant transnational companies total freedom of movement for capital, goods, and services, coupled with the ability to sue countries in secret courts when governments attempt to get in their way.
→ read full articleThe Siege of Yarmouk
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Crimes against Humanity Warranting Prosecution of the Guilty, Not Blame for the Victims…
→ read full articleNew Analysis of Rocket Used In Syria Chemical Attack Undercuts U.S. Claims
Matthew Schofield, McClatchy – Star-Telegram,
20 Jan 2014
16 Jan 2014 – A series of revelations about the rocket believed to have delivered poison sarin gas to a Damascus suburb last summer are challenging American intelligence assumptions about that attack and suggest that the case U.S. officials initially made for retaliatory military action was flawed.
→ read full articleMIT Study of Ghouta Chemical Attack Challenges US Intelligence
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
A new MIT report is challenging the US claim that Assad forces used chemical weapons in an attack last August, highlighting that the range of the improvised rocket was way too short to have been launched from govt controlled areas.
→ read full articleThe Monks’ Army
Eric Ellis – The Global Mail (Australia),
20 Jan 2014
A founder of Sri Lanka’s Army of Buddhist Power tries to explain his militant views on Muslims, and how they fit with the government’s triumphant story of post-war reconciliation.
→ read full articleThe Bosnian Knot: Conflicts Unchanged in Birthplace of WWI
Walter Mayr – Der Spiegel,
20 Jan 2014
The 1914 assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo came in the midst of a bitter power struggle among major European powers in the Balkans. One hundred years and three devastating wars later, peace still eludes the multi-ethnic region.
→ read full articleCan Brazil Help Roll Back US Surveillance?
Robert Valencia – Open Democracy,
20 Jan 2014
Brazil has become a staunch and vocal critic of US espionage, asking Google and Facebook to install local servers. But will this really work? The US eavesdropped on Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil. The former wrote letters of protest, but in Sep. 2013, President Dilma Rousseff took the issue up with the UN General Assembly.
→ read full articleBeyond Reform: It’s Time to Shut Down the World Bank
Cyril Mychalejko – Toward Freedom,
20 Jan 2014
16 Jan 2014 – The World Bank came under fire again last week when its ombudsman revealed that the bank’s investment in a palm oil project in Honduras worsened human rights abuses and violent conflicts.
→ read full articleUganda President Blocks Anti-Gay Bill
Agence France-Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said there were better ways to cure the “abnormality” on Friday [17 Jan 2014]. Homosexuality was caused by either “random breeding” or a need to make money. And lesbians, he said, choose female partners because of “sexual starvation” and the failure to marry a man.
→ read full article250 Dolphins Captured, Prepared for Slaughter in Japan
Hawaii Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
17 Jan 2014 – Five separate pods of Bottlenose dolphins were driven into Taiji’s infamous killing cove yesterday and held overnight. This now massive pod of more than 250 dolphins includes babies and juveniles, including a rare albino calf that has been clinging as closely as possible to the mother.
→ read full articleNetanyahu Rolls Out New Roadblock to Peace
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
To the surprise of observers, given the many issues blocking progress in the current Middle East peace talks, Israel and the United States now appear to regard the Palestinian refusal to recognise Israel as a Jewish state as the key obstacle to an agreement.
→ read full articleClimate Activists Slapped With Terrorism Charges for Devon Energy Protest
Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
10 Jan 2014 – Two climate activists who staged a protest at the headquarters of Devon Energy, a Fortune 500 company based in Oklahoma city, have been charged with a “terrorism hoax” after black powder drifted down from a banner that they unfurled.
→ read full articleNigerian Leader Signs Anti-Gay Law, Drawing U.S. Fire
Felix Onuah, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill on Monday [13 Jan 2014] that criminalizes same-sex relationships, contains penalties of up to 14 years in prison and bans gay marriage, same-sex “amorous relationships” and membership of gay rights groups.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Occidente si contrae in un “Medio Evo”? Bene!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
L’Illuminismo trasformò la nozione teologica di un Dio onnipotente-onnisciente-onnipresente nella logica statuale di uno Stato onnipotente, nella logica capitalistica di un Mercato onnipresente, e nella logica aristotelica di una Scienza onnisciente. Come prevedibile, l’Occidente, e gli USA in particolare, cercano di fondere le tre logiche e i tre poteri più che mai in una copia dell’unità divina.
→ read full articleSpeech in La Habana, Cuba
Nelson Mandela – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of a vicious imperialist-orchestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gains made in the Cuban revolution. You are with us because both of our organizations, the Communist Party of Cuba and the ANC, are fighting for the oppressed masses, to ensure that those who make the wealth enjoy its fruits.
→ read full articleGreen Parties in Transition
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
With the campaign for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament starting, it is useful to look at the ways political parties structure themselves for pan-European elections.
→ read full articleWhy Our Debate about Surveillance Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Tom Engelhardt – Mother Jones,
20 Jan 2014
In the wake of Snowden’s revelations, we’ve been narrowly focused on whether or not we should have more security or more privacy. We need to start thinking about the problem differently.
→ read full article(Italiano) 2014: Dieci conflitti, soluzioni, conciliazione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Gli USA si auto-ingannano costruendo magazzini anziché fabbriche. Il punto non è la clemenza per Snowden bensì mollare la NSA e punire i trasgressori ai diritti umani, anche alleati. L’Occidente tenta di guadagnare terreno propizio a livello morale cambiando il discorso su qualcosa che ritiene di possedere che altri non hanno: la democrazia. Che gestisca un enorme sistema colonial-imperiale contro la propria volontà? Un po’ di democrazia!
→ read full articleFrom a Rolling Stone to Moving Mountains: The Process of Democratic Change in Bulgaria
Nikolay Nikolov – Open Democracy,
20 Jan 2014
Democracy has solidified into a brittle façade of the actual political system in Bulgaria; the future has become a laughing matter; access to truth is contested and politics has become the dirtiest word of all.
→ read full articleThe President on Mass Surveillance
Editorial – The New York Times,
20 Jan 2014
Jan. 17, 2014 – The collection of all this data may not be making us any safer, concluded the president’s review panel, as a federal judge ruled the program unconstitutional, and an extensive report by the New America Foundation found that the program “has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism.”
→ read full articleIn Honor of the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Answering ML King’s call, and the call of the thousands of others who have responded to injustice in our time, will not be easy! It will add burdens to your conscience, responsibilities to your daily rounds, and threats to your safety. In answering the call, your life will not be the same.
→ read full article(Português) A Atualidade de Uma Marxista Rebelde
Antonio Martins – Outras Palavras,
20 Jan 2014
Como Rosa Luxemburgo, morta há 95 anos, ajuda a reinventar, em tempos de crise do capitalismo, o pensamento de Marx. “Rosa tem uma concepção aberta do marxismo. Para ela, Marx não era uma Bíblia com verdades prontas e imutáveis, mas manancial que permite levar adiante trabalho de compreensão do mundo contemporâneo”.
→ read full articleSupreme Court Hands Monsanto Victory over Farmers on GMO Seed Patents, Ability to Sue
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The US Supreme Court upheld biotech giant Monsanto’s claims on genetically-engineered seed patents and the company’s ability to sue farmers whose fields are inadvertently contaminated with Monsanto materials.
→ read full articleNSA Collects Millions of Text Messages Daily in ‘Untargeted’ Global Sweep
James Ball – The Guardian,
20 Jan 2014
The untargeted collection and storage of SMS messages – including their contacts – is revealed in a joint investigation between the Guardian and the UK’s Channel 4 News based on material provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleN.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway into Computers
David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker – International New York Times,
20 Jan 2014
The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.
→ read full articleHaiti: Four Years On From the Quake
Ama Biney – Pambazuka News,
20 Jan 2014
The people of Haiti continue to suffer the economic tremors of a post-earthquake reconstruction programme that has failed to transform the lives of the majority of the people, despite the fact that it is the people of Haiti who must not only construct the future of Haiti but also decide that future.
→ read full articleRelax!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
On a flight from New York to Sydney, the pilot announced that they had engine trouble and would have to make an emergency landing at sea near a small uninhabited South Pacific island.
→ read full articleYa’alon’s Jab at Kerry Proves Israel Isn’t in the Peace-Making Business
Mairav Zonszein - +972 Magazine,
20 Jan 2014
Moshe Ya’alon, the man charged with defending the State of Israel, was quoted calling U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry “obsessive and messianic” on Tuesday [14 Jan 2014]. “They say time is working against us. We should not be alarmed by all kinds of fear mongering,” the “they” apparently referring to Washington and the “fear mongering” to “the peace process” that Kerry is so damn obsessed with.
→ read full articlePETA’s [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals] Donation to Help Save Lives, Animal and Human
Donald G. Mcneil Jr. – International New York Times,
20 Jan 2014
Jan. 13, 2014 – An animal welfare group is donating $1 million worth of costly training mannequins to medical schools in nine countries to accomplish two goals: giving doctors more modern training, and saving the lives of about 1,000 animals a year.
→ read full articleA Day of Infamy!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
On January 17, 1893 U.S. Marines assisted wealthy sugar barons to illegally overthrow the independent nation and lawful Hawaiian government of Queen Lili’uokalani. 120 years of continuous illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai’i does not make the occupation legal.
→ read full articleThe Mafia’s Deadly Garbage: Italy’s Growing Toxic Waste Scandal
Walter Mayr = Der Spiegel,
20 Jan 2014
For decades, the Mafia has been dumping toxic waste illegally in the region north of Naples. Recently declassified testimony shows that leading politicians have known about the problem for years, yet done nothing about it — even as the death toll climbs.
→ read full articlePlastic Waste: EU Parliament Sounds the Alarm
European Parliament – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The most hazardous plastics and certain plastic bags should be banned by 2020, as part of an EU strategy to reduce plastic waste in the environment, says the European Parliament in a resolution voted on Tuesday [14 Jan 2014]. The EU should also introduce binding plastic waste recycling targets, MEPs add.
→ read full articleHonduras: Audit Slams World Bank Agency
Kate Woodsome – Al Jazeera,
20 Jan 2014
Investigation says loan to Honduran palm oil magnate, alleged to be linked to activist deaths, violated bank’s rules.
→ read full articleInvisible Borders
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
For Aya, my friend from Israel.
How can I forget
the words we have exchanged?
Violence, Infectious Disease and Climate Change Contributed to Indus Civilization Collapse
Science Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
A new study on the human skeletal remains from the ancient Indus city of Harappa provides evidence that inter-personal violence and infectious diseases played a role in the demise of the Indus, or Harappan Civilization around 4,000 years ago.
→ read full articleUS Appeals Court Strikes Down “Net Neutrality” Rules
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-to-1 Tuesday [14 Jan 2014] that the Federal Communications Commission’s 2010 Open Internet regulations were based on a wrong legal argument and are void. The ruling represents a significant blow against “net neutrality.”
→ read full articleThe Special Ops Surge: America’s Secret War in 134 Countries
Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
20 Jan 2014
Since Sep. 11, 2001, U.S. Special Operations forces have grown in every conceivable way, from their numbers to their budget. This presence — now, in nearly 70% of the world’s nations — provides new evidence of the size and scope of a secret war being waged from Latin America to the backlands of Afghanistan, from training missions with African allies to information operations launched in cyberspace.
→ read full articleChelsea Manning Awarded Sam Adams Integrity Prize for 2014
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
16 Jan 2014 – The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence have voted overwhelmingly to present the 2014 Award to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning. A Nobel Peace Prize nominee, U.S. Army Pvt. Manning is the 25 year-old intelligence analyst who in 2010 provided to WikiLeaks the “Collateral Murder” video.
→ read full articleCONFIRMED: The DEA Struck a Deal with Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel
Michael Kelley – Business Insider,
20 Jan 2014
An investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels.
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El Día Que Me Quieras (Music Video of the Week)
Daniel Barenboim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
From the Album ‘Mi Buenos Aires Querido’
Tango, Sensual Dance
High Levels of Molecular Chlorine Found in Arctic Atmosphere
Science Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
How the sea salt is transformed into molecular chlorine is unknown. “The mechanism is a mystery to us right now. There is definite climate change happening in the Arctic,” Huey said. “That’s changing the nature of the ice, the volume of the ice, the surface area and the chemistry of the ice.”
→ read full articleMajor Parts of World Ignored by U.S. TV News in 2013
Jim Lobe – Toward Freedom,
20 Jan 2014
If people outside the United States are looking for answers why Americans often seem so clueless about the world outside their borders, they could start with what the three major U.S. television networks offered their viewers in the way of news during 2013.
→ read full articleFukushima: An Ongoing Warning to the World
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
20 Jan 2014
The triple-edged disaster of the earthquake, tsunami and ongoing nuclear disaster will last for generations. The dangerous trajectory from nuclear weapons to nuclear power is now being challenged by a popular demand for peace and sustainability. It is a lesson for rest of the world as well.
→ read full articleThe Year Palestine Became a Zero-Sum Game – 1929
Ran Greenstein - +972 Magazine,
20 Jan 2014
After 1929, Arabic-speaking Jews who had lived in peace and cultural affinity with fellow residents, and orthodox Jews who had shunned Zionism, could no longer feel safe among their erstwhile neighbors and friends. Introducing new information and highlighting forgotten facts, a new book by Hillel Cohen brings fresh context to the 1929 massacres in Mandate Palestine.
→ read full articleBrazilian Hacker Creates Twitter-like App Shielded from NSA Gaze
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
In a post-Snowden world where NSA surveillance has been exposed as ubiquitous, one man decided to invent a networking system akin to Twitter, but with one key difference: It would be surveillance-proof and completely decentralized. Meet ‘Twister.’
→ read full articleToday [11 Jan 2014] Marks the 12th Anniversary of America’s Guantánamo Prison Disgrace
Molly Crabapple – The Guardian,
13 Jan 2014
We must reject indefinite detention and offshore prisons. We must no longer use our fear of terror to inflict terror on the world. In case anyone needs a refresher, $4.7bn has been spent running Guantánamo. Nearly 800 men have been imprisoned, many losing over a decade of their lives. Nine have died.
→ read full article(Português) Youtube Encerra o Maior Canal de Touradas e Promete Combater o Abuso Animal
João Miguel Ribeiro, ptjornal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Um pequeno clique para o Youtube, um avanço gigante na luta contra as touradas. A conta do utilizador PabloLopezRiobo, que detinha aquele que era considerado o maior canal de promoção da tourada, foi encerrada por promover o abuso animal.
→ read full articleA Global Contract: The Case for World Citizenship
Garry Davis and Greg Guma – Toward Freedom,
13 Jan 2014
The World Government of World Citizens, which was established in 1953, is both an extension of the individual and an expression of humanity as a whole. It grows from your sovereignty and mine as world citizens, and from our commitment to each other’s protection and survival.
→ read full articleModernizing the United Nations System: Civil Society’s Role in Moving from International Relations to Global Governance
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Professor John Trent of the Department of Political Science, University of Ottawa, Canada sets out clearly the framework of this important study of the possible reforms of the United Nations.
→ read full articleKoodankulam: An Unfettered Struggle
Anitha S, People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
We are proud that our dear sister Sundari who lost many months in jail and on conditional bail away from home has penned her thoughts as a book: Unfettered Struggle (Sirai Paadal Porattam). She has lucidly written about her experiences with the police, in jail ,and as a strong fighter for justice and life in this village.
→ read full article(Português) Paradigma Mecanicista versus Paradigma Organicista
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
13 Jan 2014
No final da vida, Michel Foucault ministrou um curso no Collège de France manifestando simpatia pelo neoliberalismo. Como anarquista, Foucault vislumbrou no neoliberalismo uma arma de destruição do Estado. Na verdade, o neoliberalismo enfraquece o Estado e o transforma em instrumento para seus objetivos.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nove Milioni per Una Nuova Politica di Pace Nel Mondo: Quale?
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Nella recente legge di stabilità approvata dal Parlamento, sono stati inseriti 9 milioni [euro] in tre anni per “… l’istituzione di un contingente di corpi civili di pace, destinati alla formazione e alla sperimentazione della presenza di 500 giovani volontari da impegnare in azioni di pace non governative nelle aree di conflitto o a rischio di conflitto o nelle aree di emergenza ambientale”.
→ read full articleReturn of Al-Qaida
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
How did al-Qaida, a tiny anti-Communist group in Afghanistan with no more than 200 members in 2001 become a worldwide threat? The answer is simple. As an organization and threat, al-Qaida barely exists. But as a name, al-Qaida and “terrorism” have become the west’s handy universal term for armed groups fighting western influence, corruption or repression. Al-Qaida is nowhere – but everywhere.
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