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HSBC Wins OK of Record $1.92 Billion Money-Laundering Settlement
Jonathan Stempel, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
2 Jul 2013 – A federal judge has approved HSBC Holdings Plc’s (HSBA.L)(HBC.N) record $1.92 billion settlement with federal and state investigators of charges that it flouted rules designed to stop money laundering and thwart transactions with countries under U.S. sanctions.
→ read full article(Português) Por Que os Médicos Cubanos Assustam [os Brasileiros]
Pedro Porfírio, Cebes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Elite corporativista teme que foco na prevenção abale mercantilização da saúde. Números revelam injustiça orçamentária no ensino e prática da Medicina.
→ read full articleSix-Month Update: US Covert Actions in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia
Jack Serle and Chris Woods – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
8 Jul 2013
• Bureau data suggests the CIA is killing fewer people in each strike in Pakistan.
• Lack of official transparency means it remains unclear who is carrying out strikes in Yemen.
• No reports of US operations in Somalia but al Shabaab continues to launch attacks.
Interview with al-Assad: “In Egypt, the Fall of So-Called Political Islam”
Syrian Arab News Agency-SANA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
“The rifts we have witnessed in modern history have come with the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood and the negative role they have played. They created a split between Pan-Arabism and Islam to form a country for Islamists and another for nationalists.”
→ read full articleEgypt: The Sphinx and the Muslim Brotherhood
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Al-Afghani was a Sufi but wanted to build a pan-Islamic movement. Thus al-Bamma created the Brotherhood on the model of a Sufi Order with an initiation ritual, a Murshid as leader to whom loyalty is due, a broad ideology with strict organizational control. Al-Afghani was also a French Mason with a tradition of ‘secret’ membership, of loyalty to the leader and a spirit of cooperation and mutual help among its members who recognize each other by codes but who do not advertise their membership.
→ read full article(Castellano) Unasur Exige Pronunciamiento de la ONU Sobre el Atentado Contra Evo Morales
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
El Canciller boliviano reiteró el deseo de los mandatarios de la Unasur de exigir disculpas públicas a los gobiernos de Francia, España, Portugal e Italia, por la acción violatoria del Derecho Internacional a la que fue sometido el mandatario Evo Morales.
→ read full articleWhen Privacy Jumped the Shark
Frank Rich – New York Magazine,
8 Jul 2013
Note to Edward Snowden and his worrywarts in the press: Spying is only spying when the subject doesn’t want to be watched. R.I.P. the contemplative America of Thoreau and of Melville; this is the America [world?] that puts a prize on networking, exhibitionism, fame, shopping, hooking up, seeking instant entertainment and information, and finding the fastest car route—not to mention being liked (or at least “liked”) and followed by as many friends (or “friends”) and strangers as possible, whether online or on basic cable.
→ read full articleA Prayer
TMS editor,
8 Jul 2013
When I die, I want to go peacefully…
→ read full articleThe Trans Pacific Partnership: Be Cautious
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
The US already has 320,000 troops in the Pacific region. That is the military arm of Pacific Power. The TPP is designed to secure the economic dimension of Pacific Power.
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Maksim Mrvica Plays Chopin (Music Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Nocturne in D-flat Op.27 No.2 – Maksim Mrvica, born May 3, 1975 is a Croatian pianist. He plays classical crossover music.
→ read full articleProtecting Snowden
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
What seems most dismaying about the Snowden affair is the prosecutorial zeal of the Obama presidency, supposedly liberal in its outlook on matters of personal freedom and the values of constitutional government. What Snowden has done is so clearly ‘a political crime,’ if it is a crime at all, and in recognition of this there has existed since the French Revolution been seen as inconsistent with the generally desirable policy of inter-governmental cooperation in the apprehension of suspected criminals.
→ read full article(Português) Eurodeputadas Questionam Comissão Europeia Sobre Veto a Sobrevoo de Avião de Evo
Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
As portuguesas Marisa Matias e Alda Sousa, juntamente com outros eurodeputados da esquerda e dos verdes, questionaram a Comissão Europeia e o Conselho sobre o escândalo da proibição de sobrevoo do avião do presidente da Bolívia, Evo Morales, por parte de Portugal, França, Espanha e Itália.
→ read full articleFlatland: Understanding Multiple Dimensions from Our Third Dimensional Perspective
Arjun, Collective Evolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
We are not only on the verge of confirming intelligent extraterrestrial life and extraterrestrial worlds, we could be on the verge of confirming extra-dimensional worlds, and extra dimensional life, if we haven’t already.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 4: Banking on Influence with JPMorgan Chase
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
In May [2013], JPMorgan Chase was listed as the largest bank in the world with assets at roughly $4 trillion — some $1.53 trillion of it in derivatives. In the midst of the financial crisis in 2008, JPMorgan Chase became not only a major criminal, but also a prime beneficiary of people’s suffering.
→ read full articleI am Bradley Manning
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Appearances: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Roger Waters, Oliver Stone, Daniel Ellsberg, Phil Donahue, and other personalities
→ read full article(Italiano) Reinvenzione del Fascismo
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
L’atroce Seconda Guerra Mondiale ha provocato danni durevoli abbassando i nostri standard per ciò che è marginalmente accettabile. La guerra è male; ma se non è nucleare, il limite non è stato ancora raggiunto. Il fascismo è male; ma se non si accompagna alla dittatura e all’eliminazione di una categoria di persone, il limite non è stato ancora raggiunto.
→ read full articleIn the Flood of Disinformation, the Situation in Syria
Mother Agnès-Mariam de la Croix – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
The media announces to us with a lot of bravura that in the ashes of the dying Arab world a son has been born whose name is Revolution. With America as his midwife, the United Nations and the Arab League his godmothers, presided by France and England, the newborn has been declared a legitimate child by the international community. His father is Arab anti-nationalism, and his mother is liberty. To be acknowledged as legitimate he had witnesses in his princely cousins in the Persian Gulf and Qatar.
→ read full articleMasterCard Breaks Ranks in WikiLeaks Blockade
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
MasterCard has broken ranks in the US-linked banking blockade against WikiLeaks and made clear to VALITOR that it no longer desires to blockade WikiLeaks. Donations by credit cards to WikiLeaks through https://paygate.datacell.com are therefore fully re-instated as of Monday, July 1, 2013
→ read full articleHas Washington’s Arrogance Undone Its Empire?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
No one likes a bully, and Washington’s NATO puppets have been bullied for six decades. British prime ministers, German chancellors, and French presidents have to salute and say “yes sir.” They all hate it, but they love Washington’s money; so they prostitute themselves and their countries for Washington’s money.
→ read full article(Castellano) ONU Revela que Latinoamérica Es la Región de Mayor Progreso Este Siglo
TeleSur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
La Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU) reveló que América Latina y el Caribe es la única región del mundo con grandes avances en el cumplimiento de los Objetivos del Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) establecidos en el año 2000, mientras que los recortes y la crisis impedirá que regiones como Europa logren las metas planteadas.
→ read full articleStatement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should be.
→ read full articleTalk Nation Radio: Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Says Syrians Oppose Intervention
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Mairead Maguire speaks about her recent trip to Lebanon and Syria where she met with refugees, combatants, members of the opposition and members of the government. She found that supporters and opponents of the government, including those working for political changes, overwhelmingly oppose foreign interference and violence.
→ read full articleLawlessness Is the New Normal
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Although the individual countries still retain some sovereignty from the EU government, they are all under Washington’s thumb, as demonstrated by the recent illegal and hostile action taken on Washington’s orders by France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Austria against the airliner carrying Bolivia’s President Evo Morales.
→ read full articleEnergy Efficient Process Discovered to Turn Seawater into Freshwater
Nathan August, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
The new method – electrochemically mediated seawater desalination – uses no membranes, is considerably simpler than conventional methods, and is so low-energy that it can be performed with the energy provided by store-bought batteries.
→ read full articleWhen States Monitored Their Citizens We Used to Call Them Authoritarian. Now We Think This Is What Keeps Us Safe
Suzanne Moore – The Guardian,
8 Jul 2013
The internet is being snooped on and CCTV is everywhere. How did we come to accept that this is just the way things are?
→ read full articleThe Social Responsibility of Scientists
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
It has been proposed that graduates in science and engineering should take an oath, analogous to that taken by graduating medical students. They should promise never to use their education in the service of war, nor for the production of weapons, or in any way that might be harmful to society or to the environment.
→ read full articleWho Is An Objective Journalist?
Ann Robertson & Bill Leumer - CounterCurrents,
8 Jul 2013
In a recent New York Times article David Carr questioned [Glenn Greenwald] whether someone could be both a journalist and an activist. This was Greenwald’s response: “It is not a matter of being an activist or a journalist; it’s a false dichotomy. It is a matter of being honest or dishonest. All activists are not journalists, but all real journalists are activists. Journalism has a value, a purpose – to serve as a check on power.”
→ read full articleForcing Down the Bolivian President’s Plane Was an Act of Piracy
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Imagine the aircraft of the President of France being forced down in Latin America on “suspicion” that it was carrying a political refugee to safety – and not just any refugee but someone who has provided the people of the world with proof of criminal activity on an epic scale.
→ read full articleOh Thank God—Finally, War With Syria
Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Probable factors, almost none of which have been reported by the major media, include
1) the desire to create new bases in the Middle East to watch over the Iraqi oilfields without taking flak for maintaining a permanent presence in Iraq;
2) eliminating one of the last non-Western-dependent pan-Arabists left;
3) getting rid of a regime that works closely with China and Russia; and especially
4) weakening one of Iran’s few and most important allies.
Global Power Project, Part 2: Identifying the Institutions of Control
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. In Part 1 I provided an overview examining who and what constitute the global ruling elite – often referred to as the Transnational Capitalist Class. In this second part, I will attempt to identify some of the key, dominant institutions that have facilitated and have in turn been supported by the development of this oligarchic class. This is not a study of wealth, but a study of power.
→ read full article(Italiano) Parco Johan Galtung
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Il 15 giugno scorso Vicente Arques, sindaco di Alfaz, ha inaugurato un monumento, ideato dal famoso scultore basco Augustin Ibarroa in memoria delle vittime degli atroci attacchi terroristici di Oslo e Utoya in Norvegia del 22 Luglio 2011. Il monumento si trova in un parco a cui è stato dato il nome del prof. Johan Galtung , da molti anni residente a Alfaz.
→ read full articleBig Brother, Not Snowden and Greenwald, Is the Story
Sheldon Richman – The Future of Freedom Foundation,
1 Jul 2013
“Instead of being adversaries to government power … [the media of Washington, D.C., are] … servants to it and mouthpieces for it.” Snowden and Greenwald have not “aided the enemy” — unless the American people are the government’s enemy. What they have done is embarrass the Obama administration by exposing criminal activity.
→ read full articleWelcome to the (Don’t Be) Evil Empire: Google Eats the World
Rebecca Solnit - TomDispatch,
1 Jul 2013
Imagine that it’s 1913 and the post office, the phone company, the public library, printing houses, the U.S. Geological Survey mapping operations, movie houses, and all atlases are largely controlled by a secretive corporation unaccountable to the public. Jump a century and see that in the online world that’s more or less where we are. A New York venture capitalist wrote that Google is trying to take over “the entire fucking Internet” and asked the question of the day: “Who will stop Google?”
→ read full article(Italiano) Pensare-Agire, Localmente-Globalmente: Alfaz, Spagna
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Cooperazione per beneficio mutuo, empatia, risoluzione dei conflitti e riconciliazione dei traumi: compiti fondamentali di pace ovunque, in famiglia, a scuola, al lavoro, in un villaggio-città come Alfaz, come esempio per il paese, per i rapporti Occidente-Islam.
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(Deutsch & Português) “Água – Operação Secreta”: UE Promove a Privatização da Água
Antonio C. S. Rosa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
German TV programme “ARD MONITOR: Geheimoperation Wasser – EU fördert Wasserprivatisierung”
(Alemão com legendas em português e inglês)
(Deutsch with Portuguese and English subtitles)
Acting, Gaming, Simulating for Peace
Peace Is Sexy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Who says that violence is cooler and more fun than peace? Sure, with all the violence glorified in movies, TV shows, and video games, by toy guns and action hero dolls it’s easy to see how violence has been made more attractive and why it’s the “easy” alternative to use in case of conflict. But there is actually a growing body of games and activities for peace, whether they are a fun alternative to violent games or teach concrete peacebuilding skills.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
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New Israeli Law Will See Biggest Ethnic Cleansing of Arabs since 1948
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Jun 26, 2013 – A highly controversial bill has been passed by a narrow margin in the Israeli Knesset which will lead to the second largest ethnic cleansing of Arab Bedouins since 1948.
→ read full articleThe Task before Us
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
As a result of the Fukushima catastrophe, world public opinion now increasingly rejects nuclear power generation. We can hope that the disaster will also contribute to a rejection of nuclear weapons. We must feel that all of nature is part of the same sacred family; meadow flowers, blowing winds, rocks, trees, birds, animals, and other humans, all these are our brothers and sisters, deserving our care and protection.
→ read full articleThe Anti-Empire Report
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Before there was Edward Snowden, William Binney and Thomas Drake … before there was Bradley Manning, Sibel Edmonds and Jesselyn Radack … there was Philip Agee. What Agee revealed is still the most startling and important information about US foreign policy that any American government whistleblower has ever revealed.
→ read full articlePolitical Infernos: United States, Turkey, Egypt
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
A New Political Inferno: Polarization of Immature Democracies – Most importantly, some forces of opposition despair of ever succeeding by democratic procedures, while others pin their hopes on the next election, or the one after that.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Mairead Corrigan-Maguire – The Guardian,
1 Jul 2013
As a peace prize winner myself, I am nominating Manning for this honor for his work to help end the Iraq War and other conflicts. I hope American leaders will embrace the U.S. constitution, and base their national and foreign policies on ethical values, human rights and international law.
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Calling All Rebels!
Chris Hedges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
An amazing and powerful speech by activist and journalist Chris Hedges. We need to dissent through rebellion, civil disobedience, nonviolent actions. Actively!
→ read full articleLatin America: New Coalition of Countries to Take On the Multinationals
Martin Khor - IDN-InDepth News,
1 Jul 2013
Leaders of several Latin American countries have set up a new coalition to coordinate actions to face the growing number of international legal suits being taken against governments by transnational companies. A ministerial meeting of 12 countries held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, decided on several joint actions to counter the threat posed by these law suits, which have claimed millions or even billions of dollars from governments.
→ read full articleUnquestionable Adoration of Obama Is Ludicrous
Clare Daly – Irish Examiner,
1 Jul 2013
What was really so “outrageous” about the points I made regarding the visit of President Obama and the G8 summit on Tuesday morning [18 June 2013]? The Government lackeys are not doing any favours for American people by offering Obama unquestionable adoration. We would serve them better by highlighting the tax havens which Ireland has kindly provided for big US corporations so that they can avoid paying tax in the US.
→ read full articleProtests in Bulgaria: Yet another Early Election?
The Economist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
24 June 2013 – Every day, for the last ten days, at exactly 6.30pm, Independence Square, a busy intersection in the centre of Sofia, has been the starting point for a protest march that passes by the parliament building, the Eagles’ Bridge and the National Palace of Culture. Around 10,000 people participate every evening. They are calling for more transparency, less corruption and an end of the local oligarchs’ rule.
→ read full articleIndia’s Guilt-Free Makeup: Testing Cosmetics on Animals Banned
Janani Sampath – The Times of India,
1 Jul 2013
It may be just the first step, but it certainly has brought smiles to the faces of animal right activists. The Bureau of Indian Standards on Friday [28 June 2013] approved the removal of animal tests from the country’s cosmetics standard. India becomes the first country in Southeast Asia to end the practice.
→ read full articleA Brazilian Autumn?
Miguel Borba de Sa – Jacobin Magazine,
1 Jul 2013
In the course of two weeks, what started as protests against public transit fare hikes has spread into mass demonstrations across Brazil that are presenting a challenge to the Workers Party (PT) government, led by Dilma Rousseff, whose record as a left-wing activist includes time spent in prison under the military dictatorship.
→ read full article6 Causes of Flatulence
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Just as everyone goes to the bathroom, everyone also passes gas; it’s simply a biological reality. Your body is able to absorb a limited amount of the gas it ingests or produces. The rest has to come out somewhere.
→ read full articleEminem Reveals He Was Two Hours from Death on Prescription Drugs
Irish Examiner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
“When I took my first Vicodin, it was like this feeling of ‘Ahh.’ Xanax, Valium, tomato, it’s same thing … F**k it, take it… They were gonna have to put me on dialysis. They didn’t think I was gonna make it. My bottom was gonna be death.” While the rapper is now clean, he admitted detoxing was a huge struggle.
→ read full articleA Bad Day Indeed
TMS editor,
1 Jul 2013
There was this guy at a bar, just looking at his drink. He stays like that for half of an hour.
→ read full articleMetta for “Mus”?!! You must be kidding!: A New Myanmar and its “Buddhist” Tales
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
In our Myanmar A-wee-zi (an abode of Buddhist Hell) – He is our national hero in place of your ‘fallen (liberal) idol’. Mighty is he, commanding 3,000-strong Buddhist monastery amongst the Order of 500,000. “Honestly, I felt I wanted to fight weapons with weapons. I am a Burmese bin Laden”.
→ read full articleOccupy Movements Around the World: How Is Brazil’s Different?
Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Michael D. Kennedy - HuffPost,
1 Jul 2013
Spain’s Indignados. Egypt’s Tahrir Square. The U.S.’ Occupy Wall Street. Now, Turkey’s Occupy Gezi and Brazil’s own distinctive movement. “Horizontalist” movements like these, which emphasize direct democracy and collective decision making over specific parties, transcend the political spectrum.
→ read full articleWorld’s Most Evil and Lawless Institution? The Executive Branch of the U.S. Government
Fred Branfman - AlterNet,
1 Jul 2013
America has a secret. It is not discussed in polite company or at the dinner tables of the powerful, rich and famous. The courageous few who do not keep this secret, who try to break through to their fellow citizens about it, are marginalized and ignored by society at large.
→ read full articleCircumventing Invasive Internet Surveillance with Carrier Pigeons
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Extensive use has been made in the past of carrier pigeons for secure communications, notably in arenas of threat, and most notably in World War I, continuing into World War II, but to a lesser degree. The founder of the news agency Reuters made use of carrier pigeons for the delivery of vital financial data in parallel with introduction of the telegraph. Other little-known examples are cited in what follows.
→ read full articleAfter the NSA Leak: A “National Conversation” Without Information
James B. Rule – Dissent Magazine,
1 Jul 2013
No serious privacy-watcher was surprised, I suspect, at Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency revelations. Major New York Times stories at the end of 2005 had already implied that Washington was monitoring virtually all Americans’ telecommunications traffic—both phone calls and e-mails.
→ read full articleCarl Sagan on Science and Spirituality
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
“The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.”
→ read full articleFull Spectrum Dominance: Weaponising the Weather
Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is carrying out electromagnetic experimentations with the ionosphere and developing electromagnetic weaponry. It is claimed that HAARP intends to induce ionospheric modifications with a view to altering weather patterns and disrupting communications and radar.
→ read full article(Français) Nous Refusons le Silence Face a l’Apartheid et au Nettoyage Ethnique en Birmanie
Maung Zarni, Noam Chomsky et Lilian Thuram – Le Monde,
1 Jul 2013
Les minorités sont exclues du renouveau démocratique et, pour beaucoup, le calvaire a empiré avec des offensives militaires au nord et à l’Est tandis qu’à l’Ouest des populations sont séquestrées sous un régime d’Apartheid.
→ read full article20 Years of Human Rights Progress – Yet a Long Road Ahead
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
The World Conference on Human Rights was held in Vienna 14-25 June 1993 to look at how well human rights were protected and promoted. These days there is a “Vienna plus 20” conference to review the advances of the past 20 years. It would be wrong to overlook the real progress made.
→ read full articleIron Wings
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
For the residents of London Hounslow who live under constant pollution of Heathrow flight path.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 3: The Influence of Individuals and Family Dynasties
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. In this third part, I examine the dynastic influence wielded by prominent corporate and financial families. This is not a study of wealth, but a study of power.
→ read full articleOn DIGNITechnologizing
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Since Literacy has been called the Technology of the Intellect
Dignity could be referred to as the Technology of Deep Respect
The Criminal N.S.A.
Jennifer Stisa Granick and Christopher Jon Sprigman – The New York Times,
1 Jul 2013
We may never know all the details of the mass surveillance programs, but we know this: The administration has justified them through abuse of language, intentional evasion of statutory protections, secret, unreviewable investigative procedures and constitutional arguments that make a mockery of the government’s professed concern with protecting Americans’ privacy. It’s time to call the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance programs what they are: criminal.
→ read full articleOrigin and Development of Human Security
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Human security is complementary to human rights. It is a comprehensive, interrelated, and coordinated concept that encompasses freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom to live in dignity, and freedom to inherit pro-nature environment for forthcoming generations as fundamental rights.
→ read full articleObama Called “War Criminal” & “Hypocrite of the Century” in Irish Parliament
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
21 June 2013 – Rep. Clare Daly in the Irish Parliament
→ read full articleNo Good Guys among Syrian Rebels – Paulo Sergio Pinheiro
InSerbia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
It is impossible to choose unequivocally good guys among the groups of Syrian rebels and send weapons to them. This warning was voiced by chairman of the UN independent panel investigating possible violations of human rights in Syria Paulo Sergio Pinheiro on Friday [21 June 2013].
→ read full articleHelen Keller on Optimism
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
“Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.”
→ read full articleThe Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
24 Jun 2013
It’s long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s helped trigger the meltdown. A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how they did it.
→ read full articleScience vs. Scripture and the Difference between Curiosity and Wonder
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
From Aristotle to St. Paul, or how rational thought and religion battled over knowledge.
→ read full articleStasi in the White House
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
When the Berlin Wall came down, the Stasi Spy State that suffocates the soul moved to Washington. The Stasi is alive and well in the Obama regime.
→ read full article(Português) “Nossos Sonhos Não Cabem no Capitalismo”
Fernando Meirelles – Outras Palavras,
24 Jun 2013
Para Fernando Meirelles, reconstrução da política exige superar lógicas que associam felicidade e sucesso a consumo e acumulação sem fim.
→ read full articleThe Uprising against Brother Erdogan
Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The Turkish people are not protesting against Recip Tayyeb Erdogan’s autocratic style, but against his policies; in other words, against the Muslim Brotherhood, of which he is the mentor. What started on Taksim Square is not a color revolution over a new building project, but an uprising that has spread across the entire country; in short, it is a revolution that calls the “Arab Spring” into question.
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“Adagio in G Minor” (Music Video of the Week)
Dominic Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Guitar – A delight to the senses! – Composer: Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751)
→ read full articlePerspectives on the Surveillance Scandal
Lawrence Davidson, Ph.D, Brave New World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The existence of men like Manning, Snowden and a handful of others demonstrates that there are employees of the government who have a superior sense of morality as well as the courage to act on their principles. However, the numbers are very small and they are invariably considered as dangerous mistakes within the system. What of the rest of the government’s personnel?
→ read full articlePentagon Bracing For Public Dissent over Climate and Energy Shocks
Nafeez Ahmed – The Guardian,
24 Jun 2013
Top secret US National Security Agency (NSA) documents disclosed by the Guardian have shocked the world with revelations of a comprehensive US-based surveillance system with direct access to Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants. New Zealand court records suggest that data harvested by the NSA’s Prism system has been fed into the Five Eyes intelligence alliance whose members also include the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
→ read full articleHappiness on the Streets
Nasim Banaei – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Iran – The streets could be a good place for people to share their happiness and spend time with each other. A government with a wise policy and plan can create this Happiness on the streets.
→ read full articleGulf War Memorial
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
With its 750 oil well fires
burning like giant votive candles
on a vast sand altar,
Firefox Web Browser to Move Ahead Plan to Block Tracking
Craig Timberg – The Washington Post,
24 Jun 2013
The maker of the popular Firefox browser is moving ahead with plans to block the most common forms of Internet tracking, allowing hundreds of millions of users to eventually limit who watches their movements across the Web, company officials said Wednesday [19 June 2013].
→ read full articleWhat is Andropause?
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The phenomena of the biological clock isn’t exclusive to women, it seems men also are prone to age related changes in hormone levels, sexual function, physical features, and quality of life. These changes, dubbed “andropause” (and sometimes “male menopause”) are due to a progressive decrease in testosterone production.
→ read full articleThrough the Wall of Fire — Reconciliation
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Reconciliation is a process which requires spiritual understanding as it goes beyond the type of pragmatism that rests in the careful calculation of causes and consequences. Reconciliation needs to be seen not only as reconciliation between two persons or groups, but as reconciliation for something. It is not merely the repair of the past, but reconciliation is a bridge to the future. Reconciliation has to do with how antagonists construct a new future together.
→ read full articleThe Chimerica Dream: Two Nations, Two Dreams, One Pacific
Pepe Escobar - TomDispatch,
24 Jun 2013
Beijing was very much aware of Washington’s deep plunge into China’s computer networks over the past 15 years. Yet Xi merrily allowed Obama to pontificate on hacking and cyber-theft as if China were alone on such a stage. Enter — with perfect timing — Edward Snowden, the spy who came in from Hawaii and who has been holed up in Hong Kong since May 20th.
→ read full articleYoga for Peace
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Swami Vivekananda in his book Raja Yoga, first published in 1896, elaborated this Yoga. He argued that Yoga is scientific. Even an atheist by following its rules can sharpen his mind, increase his mental power, develop a healthy body and maintain composure in worst situations.
→ read full articleFrom Times of War to Times of Peace in Syria
Alejandro Bandaña – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
No idea and no ideal, however heroic it might be, can possibly justify the death of thousands of innocent people. Nothing is important enough to justify the fact that millions are fleeing their homes just because they want to survive. And no war should continue if it results in the destruction of one’s own country.
→ read full articleThe War on Crime Is Enforcing Safety or Insecurity?
Federica Riccadonna – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Comparison between Nepal and Iceland
→ read full articleFormer Enron CEO Skilling’s Sentence Cut to 14 Years
Kristen Hays and Anna Driver, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
A federal judge slashed 10 years off the prison sentence of former Enron Corp Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling on Friday [21 June 2013], a decision that could set him free as early as 2017.
→ read full articlePalestinian Children Tortured, Used As Shields by Israel: U.N
Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
A United Nations human rights body accused Israeli forces on Thursday [20 June 2013] of mistreating Palestinian children, including by torturing those in custody and using others as human shields.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 1: Exposing the Transnational Capitalist Class
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. By studying the relationships and varying levels of leadership that govern our planet’s most influential institutions — from banks, corporations and financial institutions to think tanks, foundations and universities — this project seeks to expose the complex, highly integrated network of influence wielded by relatively few individuals on a national and transnational basis. This is not a study of wealth, but a study of power.
→ read full article(Castellano) Homo Oeconomicus
Enrico Euli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
“la capacidad de la mente humana para formular y resolver problemas complejos es muy pequeña en comparación con el tamaño de los problemas que debe resolver para obtener un comportamiento objetivamente racional en el mundo real o incluso una aproximación razonable a la racionalidad”.
→ read full articleWhy Do People Lie? And Why Do Other People Believe Them?
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The purpose of fear is to suppress awareness of the truth. People always lie for the same reason: fear. But the precise fear that makes a person lie in one circumstance might be different from the fear that makes them lie in another.
→ read full articleGod, Guns and Automobiles
MaxMotorsDirect – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
[BEYOND DECADENCE: SURREAL VIOLENCE PROMOTION] On 21 July 2009 TRANSCEND Media Service published this story: Missouri Car Dealer Offers Free Ak-47 with Purchase of New Truck – The president of Max Motors (slogan: “God, Guns, Guts, and American Pick-Up Trucks”) says the response has been very strong. On 8 July 2013 History Channel will launch its newest show: God, Guns and Automobiles. WATCH TRAILER.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: O Preço da Gota d’Água
Luís Leiria, Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Vinte centavos de aumento fizeram transbordar “um pote até aqui de mágoa”, como diz a canção do Chico Buarque. Mas o Brasil não é agora um país rico? De que se queixam, então? De 20 centavos? Não, não é de 20 centavos (apenas), tal como os turcos não se queixam (só) da destruição do Parque Gezi de Istambul.
→ read full articleUnderstanding the Latest Prism Leaks Is Understanding the Rise of a New Fascism
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, was an adviser to Condoleezza Rice, who lied that Saddam Hussein could attack the US with nuclear weapons. Cohen and Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt – they met in the ruins of Iraq – have co-authored a book, The New Digital Age, endorsed as visionary by the former CIA director Michael Hayden and the war criminals Henry Kissinger and Tony Blair.
→ read full articleSpy Drone Can See What You Are Wearing From 17,500 Feet (5,334 Meters)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
A new camera developed by the Pentagon’s research arm was highlighted in a recent special on PBS’ “Nova” in an episode called “Rise of the Drones.” It is a camera system so detailed it can discern specific movements and even what a subject is wearing.
→ read full articleInfographic: The United Kingdom’s Tax Havens – Interactive
Simon Hooper and Ben Willers – Al Jazeera,
24 Jun 2013
About one-fifth of the world’s tax-free shelters are UK territories and crown dependencies.
→ read full articleCircumcision
TMS Editor,
24 Jun 2013
Two five year old boys are sitting in a hospital waiting room. One leans over to the other and says, “What are you in here for?”
→ read full article(Italiano) La Turchia si Sta di Nuovo Bloccando?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
La Turchia ha fatto l’impossibile, passando quasi senza violenza da una dittatura militare laica a una democrazia civile a maggioranza sunnita. La Turchia si è sbloccata.
→ read full articleSensible Thinkers Think about Leaks
Tom Tomorrow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Satirical Strip – This Modern World
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full articleIs Naomi Wolf Working for the NSA?
Dave Lindorff, This Can’t Be Happening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Just wondering…
I hate to do this, but I feel obligated to share, as the story unfolds, my creeping concern that the writer Naomi Wolf is not whom she purports to be, and that her motive in writing an article on her public Facebook page speculating about whether National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden might actually be still working for the NSA, could be to support the government’s effort to destroy him.