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My Vision for the Future Development of Sociology at the University
Pierre Celestin Bakunda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Like any individual, I am sensitive as to how society defines and labels me. I am a black, heterosexual middle class male and I have a strong attachment to each of these personal descriptors. However as a social anthropologist, I am able to detach myself from these labels and look objectively at my function within a greater social structure.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 8: Banking on Influence with Wells Fargo
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
For a mega-money laundering, drug war profiteering, prison-industry enlarging global bank like Wells Fargo, the evidence is obvious: it helps to have affiliations with individuals and institutions that make up the U.S. and increasingly the international power elite. Like the other big banks, Wells Fargo is too big to fail, too big to jail, too criminal to control — and too tumorous to tolerate.
→ read full articleHiroshima, Fukushima, and the Global Crisis of Violence: Where Do We Go from Here?
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
There are now 9 countries with nuclear weapons –the U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. Add to this the violence of climate change, the plundering of the earth resources, and even the genetic modification of our very food supply. All for what? Ever increasing short-term profits? Ever increasing consumption, energy demands? Addictions eventually kill. And greed and our addiction to war may prove to be the worst addictions of all.
→ read full article“Big Brother” Crying “Wolf”?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
But them “wolves” are a-changin’ — them’s becomin’ “werewolves”! In commentary on CNN (4 August 2013), in response to questioning, Robert Baer, a former CIA case officer, indicated that “They’re coming after us”. The challenge for the world would appear to be how to evaluate the claims for the credibility of such warnings — given the source and the potential strategic agendas.
→ read full articleConfessions of a Climate Change Denier
Yotam Marom – Waging Nonviolence,
12 Aug 2013
It wasn’t really until I was standing on the west side of Hoboken, N.J., in water and oil up to my thigh, that climate change really made sense.
→ read full articleCharles Bukowski’s “Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men,”
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
“The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.”
→ read full articleEthiopia: Rapid Development Destroys Lives
Graham Peebles – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
A term overflowing with contradictions, development is often employed to dignify corporate activities, which are commonly no more than exploitation and profiteering, as in the case of the worldwide appropriation of land, usually to irresponsible, profit-driven foreign corporations and private hedge funds and equity fund managers, who boast of returns between, 20% to 40% on investments.
→ read full articleCIA Assassin Application
TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
After all of the background checks, interviews, and testing were done there were three finalists for the CIA assasin position — two men and one woman.
→ read full articleHey man!
Mahdi Jalili – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
A fire doesn’t burn if it’s turned into ashes
Take a look at yourself, unfaithful!
You’re a horse with a broken leg
Why run?
Why race?
5 Surprising Genetically Modified Foods
Maggie Caldwell – Mother Jones,
12 Aug 2013
Leaving aside the question of whether they’re good or bad for a moment, what exactly are GMOs, and which foods are they in?
→ read full articleWhy No Revolution Exists in Syria
Shamus Cooke, Workers Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
This watered down definition of a revolution would qualify the U.S. Occupy Movement as a revolution, which of course it was not. A nation can be inhabited by entirely revolutionary-minded people, but there is no revolution unless people are massively asserting their power in the streets, workplaces, and neighborhoods. This is not the situation in Syria, where no revolution exists at this time.
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Amazing Grace (Music Video of the Week)
Il Divo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Il Divo performing Amazing Grace at the magnificent Coliseum in Rome.
→ read full articleMarx’s Lesson for the Muslim Brothers
Sheri Berman – NYT International Herald Tribune,
12 Aug 2013
KARL MARX wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. In 1848, workers joined with liberals in a democratic revolt to overthrow the French monarchy. However, almost as soon as the old order collapsed, the opposition fell apart, as liberals grew increasingly alarmed by what they saw as “radical” working class demands. Those same patterns are playing out in Egypt today — with liberals and authoritarians playing themselves, and Islamists playing the role of socialists.
→ read full articleFederal Judge Sentences Lynne Stewart to Death
Stephen Lendman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
On August 9 [2013], The New York Times headlined “Dying Lawyer’s Request for Release From Prison Is Turned Down,” saying: “A federal judge in Manhattan declined on Friday to order the release of Lynne F. Stewart, an outspoken former defense lawyer who is dying from cancer in a federal prison in Texas.”
→ read full article120 Children Slaughtered in Syria’s Tal Abyad
Fars News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Terrorists affiliated to the al-Nusra Front massacred 120 children and 330 men and women in Syria’s Northern district of Tal Abyad on Monday [5 Aug 2013]. As the foreign-backed insurgency in Syria continues without an end in sight, the US government has boosted its political and military support to Takfiri extremists. Washington has remained indifferent about warnings by Russia and other world powers about the consequences of arming militant groups.
→ read full articleI Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
12 Aug 2013
The Crime of the Century – Hey, let’s talk spying! In Surveillance America, this land of spookery we all now inhabit, what else is there to talk about? In a sense, Manning and Snowden could be said to have “defected” — from the U.S. secret government to us. However informally or individually, they could nonetheless be imagined as the people’s spies.
→ read full articleWe Are All Connected: Hearing the Message of Indigenous Tribes
Deni Leonard, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
In the current United States, from the Indigenous point of view, it is as though a chief can have 99 buffalos for himself while he looks down at the community trying to live on one buffalo. This is a model for community or Tribal extinction.
→ read full articleAl-Qaeda to the Rescue
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
12 Aug 2013
Imagine a rushed crisis meeting at the highest levels of the Orwellian/Panopticon complex: “Gentlemen, we have a golden opportunity here. We are under siege by defector spy Edward Snowden – liberated by the Soviets – and that terrorist hack Greenwald. Snowden may be winning: even among US public opinion, there’s a growing perception we may be more of a threat than al-Qaeda. So we must show we are vigilantly protecting our freedoms. Yes; we’re gonna scream Terra, Terra, Terra!”
→ read full articleLooking at My Fingers
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
In my room
I saw my fingers
That I have never thought of
General and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 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 articleIsrael-Palestinian Talks: Washington Acts Like Matchmaker… Between Rapist and Victim
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
12 Aug 2013
Washington is part of the problem. John Kerry, like so many of his predecessors, may pose as an even-handed matchmaker between two quarrelling sides. But the simple fact is that the US is not a neutral arbiter. It is the patron, sponsor, architect, advocate and accomplice of one side – Israel.
→ read full articleObama’s Diplomatic Blunder, the Cowardice of Western Democracies and What Sweden Should Do
Board Members, The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research-TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
President Obama’s decision to cancel the meeting with Putin is yet another indicator of Washington’s intellectual weakness and the U.S. empire’s future dissolution. People like Assange, Manning and Snowden should be seen as heroes and treated with respect. Before the Swedish prime minister meets Obama he should announce that Sweden is willing to host Snowden.
→ read full articleEthiopia: Where is Religious Freedom Headed?
Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
The fear of an Ethiopian Spring has to be factored in the internal security matrix of a dictatorial regime such as Ethiopia’s, since the populist “spring” events in the MENA region have proven to be a potent means of removing dictatorships in North Africa. The lesson is powerful.
→ read full articleRichard Dawkins’ Tweets on Islam Are As Rational As the Rants of an Extremist Muslim Cleric
Nesrine Malik – The Guardian,
12 Aug 2013
My Eid was interrupted by Richard Dawkins tweeting about how few Nobel prizes Muslims have won. His logic rings a bell …
→ read full articleThe Fukushima Nightmare Gets Worse
Harvey Wasserman – The Progressive,
12 Aug 2013
Just when it seemed things might be under control at Fukushima, we find they are worse than ever. Immeasurably worse. Massive quantities of radioactive liquids are now flowing through the shattered reactor site into the Pacific Ocean. And their make-up is far more lethal than the “mere” tritium that has dominated the headlines to date. Tepco has all but admitted it cannot control the situation.
→ read full articleAnother Encrypted Internet Service Shutting Down after Lavabit
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Shortly after the owner of Lavabit.com wrote that his nine-year-old encrypted email service was shutting down to avoid becoming “complicit in crimes against the American people,” Silent Circle said Thursday [8 Aug 2013] they’d be following suit. “We see the writing the wall, and we have decided that it is best for us to shut down Silent Mail now,” founder Jon Callas wrote in a blog post.
→ read full articlePlease Read Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 on Your Vacation, Mr. President
Amy Goodman – The Guardian,
12 Aug 2013
Senator Obama’s objection to ‘a dumb war’ won him nomination. As commander-in-chief, he has reneged on opposing militarism.
→ read full articleWhat Replaces the “Free Market” in a Sharing Economy?
John Spritzler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
The sharing economy as described in Thinking about Revolution is based on sharing, according to need, among those who contribute to the economy reasonably according to ability.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Emerging Police State: A Brief History
Justin Raimondo – AntiWar,
12 Aug 2013
It Didn’t Start With the NSA – Blackmail, theft, crimes of a sexual nature – all are pregnant possibilities in the world of Surveillance State. A nightmare world in which you can never be sure when government will be into your emails, or eavesdropping on your calls: where writers can’t be sure what they are typing aren’t being read before they are published.
→ read full article(Português) Costa Rica Se Livra de Seus Zoos, Favorecendo a Consciência Ambiental Natural
ElephantVoices Brasil - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
A Costa Rica dá um grande passo com a decisão de transformar seus zoos em jardins botânicos e libertar seus animais. Depois de quase 95 anos, o governo decidiu colocar um fim à exibição de animais enjaulados em zoos.
→ read full articleMass Data: Transfers from Germany Aid US Surveillance
Hubert Gude, Laura Poitras and Marcel Rosenbach – Der Spiegel,
12 Aug 2013
German intelligence sends massive amounts of intercepted data to the NSA, according to documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden, which SPIEGEL has seen. The trans-Atlantic cooperation on technical matters is also much closer than first thought.
→ read full articleGreenwald Tells Brazilian Authorities Up To 20,000 Snowden Documents Are in His Possession
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Glenn Greenwald testified before a Brazilian Senate foreign relations committee on Tuesday [6 Aug 2013]. The Brazil-based American reporter – who was approached by Snowden while the whistleblower still worked as a contractor for the NSA – alleged that Brazilian companies have agreements in place with American telecoms to collect data for the NSA, and stressed that their complicity should be investigated by that country’s government.
→ read full article(Português) O Discurso da Servidão Voluntária
Flávio Ricardo Vassoler – Carta Maior,
12 Aug 2013
O darwinismo social de nosso capitalismo não sentencia que aquilo que sobrevive e sobrepuja é a única força possível – e válida? Sendo assim, por que as vítimas deveriam se identificar com outras vítimas? Daniel Balint reproduz o discurso da servidão voluntária, “contanto que eu possa escarrar o meu ódio contra o outro que é tão impotente quanto eu mesmo”.
→ read full articleWhat If a Russian Snowden?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
‘Political Crimes’ Are Non-Extraditable and Snowden’s Transfer to the United States for Prosecution Would Have Been a Setback for Human Rights and International Law
→ read full articleAbe Sanctions Government Funding to “Freeze” Fukushima with Giant Ice Wall
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Ripped from the pages of Marvel Comics, Japanese Anime, or Game of Thrones; the cunning solution to the ongoing emergency in Fukushima. Now that TEPCO has been shown to be inept, Abe and his government have sanctioned the funding of a 1.4 Km wall of ice to surround the building that holds Reactors 1 to 4.
→ read full articleVows of ‘Occupation until Martyrdom’
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Seven of Syria’s Thirteen Palestinian Camps Now Controlled by Salafi-Jihadists who are entering the country at an accelerating pace, according to Syrian, UNWRA and Palestinian officials as well as residents in the refugee camps here. For the now-estimated 7000 imported foreign fighters, Palestinian camps are seen as optimal locales for setting up bases across Syria.
→ read full articleHawaiian Mind Games: American Psychological Association Fiddles While Psychology Burns
Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz, Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
More consequential will be the APA leadership’s latest victory in its long-running campaign: the stubborn obstruction of all efforts to meaningfully address the central role psychologists played in U.S. government torture and abuse of national security detainees.
→ read full articleFive Theses about Assange-Manning-Snowden
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
What Manning and Snowden revealed are the death throes of the US empire; what Assange et al. revealed are the death throes of the state system as we know it. Both processes will take time; the former less than the latter. But make no mistake: the three made history. Three names that will be remembered after some US presidents recede into an oblivion so well deserved.
→ read full articleTop Ten Ways Bradley Manning Changed the World
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Whatever one thinks of Manning’s actions, that we deserved to know some of what he revealed and that his revelations changed the world are undeniable.
→ read full articleWhen Polarization Becomes Worse than Authoritarianism Defer Democracy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
We may be living at a historical moment when democracy as the government of choice gives rise to horrifying spectacles of violence and abuse. These difficulties with the practice of democracy are indirectly, and with a heavy dose of irony, legitimizing moderate forms of authoritarian government.
→ read full articleDo We Want School or Education?
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
The tragic reality of human life is that few people value the awesome power of the individual Self with an integrated mind (that is, a mind in which memory, thoughts, feelings, sensing, conscience and other functions work together in an integrated way) because this individual will be decisive in choosing life-enhancing behavioural options (including those at variance with social laws and norms) and will fearlessly resist all efforts to control it or coerce it with violence.
→ read full articleThat Most Charming of Couples: Nationalism and Hypocrisy
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
It’s not easy being a flag-waving American nationalist. In addition to having to deal with the usual disillusion, anger, and scorn from around the world incited by Washington’s endless bombings and endless wars, the nationalist is assaulted by whistle blowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, who have disclosed a steady stream of human-rights and civil-liberties scandals, atrocities, embarrassing lies, and embarrassing truths.
→ read full articleCovert Drone War: Bureau investigation finds fresh evidence of CIA drone strikes on rescuers
Chris Woods – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
5 Aug 2013
A field investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in Pakistan confirm that the CIA last year briefly revived the controversial tactic of deliberately targeting rescuers at the scene of a previous drone strike. The tactic has previously been labelled a possible war crime by two UN investigators.
→ read full articleManning, Snowden and Assange Were the Ones Who Took Risks to Expose Crime
Amy Goodman – The Guardian,
5 Aug 2013
But those who planned the wars, those who committed war crimes, those who conduct illegal spying, for now, walk free.
→ read full articleExtremely High Tritium Level Found in Water in Pit at Fukushima Plant
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said on July 28 [2013] that an extremely high level of radioactive tritium has been detected in a pit in the compound of its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The level was 8.7 million becquerels per liter of water, which was 145 times that of the permissible level stipulated under the law.
→ read full articleMarxism, the Taliban and Plato
Thomas Riggins – Political Affairs,
5 Aug 2013
The essay deals with Kieran Setiya’s attempt to defend ethical realism (objective moral knowledge is possible) which Simon Blackburn rejects in favor of ethical pragmatism (useful moral knowledge is possible). I think neither of these positions is tenable and the best way to approach ethics is from a Marxist perspective.
→ read full articleThe Discredited Prime Minister’s Unloved Visit to Tamil Nadu மதிப்பிழந்த பிரதமரின் விரும்பத்தகாத தமிழக வருகை
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy அணுசக்திக்கு எதிரான மக்கள் இயக்கம் – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy protests against the visit of the Indian Prime Minister to Tamil Nadu on August 2, 2013 to open a multi-crore power plant. The PMANE joins millions and millions of Tamil people in opposing the discredited Prime Minister’s unloved visit to our State. We observe a Black Day on August 2 here at Idinthakarai.
→ read full articleCapital Insecurity in Myanmar
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
The emerging symbiosis between global capitalist forces and the security interests of Myanmar’s ruling military-crony class has not been sufficiently weighed by most Western scholars and other Myanmar watchers. Most have ignored the hard fact that ethnic and religious minorities, 40% of the country’s total population, are being further marginalized and disenfranchised, pushed from their traditional lands or otherwise decimated.
→ read full articleDarfur: A Decade of Agony
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Spring 2013 marked a decade of violent conflict and agony in Darfur, Sudan. Although the conflict has faded from the headlines, it continues, producing many refugees, internally-displaced persons, unused farmland, and political unrest. It is a classic case of how violence gets out of control and goes beyond the aims for which it was first used.
→ read full articleIs There Never Enough?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Religious Doublespeak on Population and Poverty – The wording of the title is deliberately ambiguous, inviting various interpretations. Alternatives might have been: There is Never Enough, or Is There Ever Enough? The concern is with the nature of the doublespeak in which religions seemingly engage in order to disguise the life-endangering policies they promote.
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Viva La Vida (Music Video of the Week)
Aston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Coldplay Original Composition – Simply delightful!
→ read full articleReviving the Israel-Palestine Negotiations: The Indyk Appointment
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Appointing Martin Indyk as Special Envoy to the upcoming peace talks was to be expected. It was signaled in advance. And yet it is revealing and distressing.
→ read full articleGreen Light for City-Owned San Francisco Bank
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Last year, Bank of America and other major banks were caught rigging debt service auctions, for which they had to pay $673 million in restitution. The question is: do taxpayers want to have their public monies in a bank that has been proven to be defrauding them? Compounding the risk is the reason Cyprus “bail in” shocker, in which depositor funds were confiscated to recapitalize two bankrupt Cypriot banks.
→ read full articleA Formula for Palestinian Survival in Damascus
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Will it Work? For more than a year, Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, one of nine in Syria, has been a war zone between supporters of the Syrian government and those seeking its overthrow. But the number of camp residents actively engaged in fighting on either side is negligible.
→ read full articleChristmas Spirit
TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
On Christmas morning, a cop on horseback was sitting at a traffic light. Next to him was a kid on his shiny new bike.
→ read full articleA Hundred Years of Toxic Humanitarianism
Anna Feigenbaum – Open Democracy,
5 Aug 2013
As reports from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights and the Omega Research Foundation pile up, perhaps it is time to realize that the problem is tear gas itself. Alongside these organisations, and international campaigns like facing tear gas, it is time to insist on new terms of debate; terms that refuse the corporate rhetoric of non-lethality.
→ read full articleThe Charitable-Industrial Complex
Peter Buffett – The New York Times,
5 Aug 2013
I’m not calling for an end to capitalism; I’m calling for humanism. Is progress really Wi-Fi on every street corner? No. It’s when no 13-year-old girl on the planet gets sold for sex. But as long as most folks are patting themselves on the back for charitable acts, we’ve got a perpetual poverty machine. It’s an old story; we really need a new one.
→ read full articleThe Communist Movement and Gay Rights
Norman Markowitz – Political Affairs,
5 Aug 2013
June was International Gay Pride month. In looking at the history of what we today call Gay Rights/Gay Liberation, the Communist and Socialist contributions to the struggle deserve to be both recognized and analyzed.
→ read full articleWhat Google Knows About You
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Imagine there’s a list somewhere that contains every single webpage you visited, everything you searched for, address you looked up, email you sent, chat message, YouTube video you ever watched. Each entry is time-stamped. With all that imagined, can you think of ways a hacker with access to it could use against you? Now go to google.com/dashboard, and see it all become reality.
→ read full articleJapanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso Says Government Can Learn from Nazi’s Example
Reiji Yoshida – The Japan Times,
5 Aug 2013
Outspoken Finance Minister Taro Aso has caused another international stir by urging Japanese politicians bent on revising the Constitution to learn from the way Germany under the Nazis amended the Weimar charter.
→ read full articleClimate Change, Sustainable Development and Security Are Coming Together, and Asia Must Drive the Post-2015 Global Agenda and Global Goals
Mukul Sanwal, India Environment Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
As China re-shapes its urban future, with its planned urbanization involving 250 million farmers, its willingness to lead by example in reforming the United Nations, rather than the United States defending the current arrangements, will determine the outcome and the new global rules. It may well be a complete break with the past, equitable and democratic.
→ read full articleUruguay Votes to Create World’s First National Legal Marijuana Market
Associated Press in Montevideo - The Guardian,
5 Aug 2013
1 Aug 2013 – Legislators in the ruling coalition said putting the government at the centre of a legal marijuana industry is worth trying because the global war on drugs had been a costly and bloody failure, and displacing illegal dealers through licensed marijuana sales could save money and lives.
→ read full articleThe Bad Seed: The Health Risks of Genetically Modified Corn
Caitlin Shetterly, Elle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
With symptoms including headaches, nausea, rashes, and fatigue, Caitlin Shetterly visited doctor after doctor searching for a cure for what ailed her. What she found, after years of misery and bafflement, was as unlikely as it was utterly common.
→ read full articleNorth Korea Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Victory
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
I lived in Manhattan, but this was very different grandeur. New York was growing towards the sky, while Pyongyang consisted of tremendous open spaces and massive eclectic buildings. Outside the capital I saw green fields, and farmers walking home. Clearly, there was no malnutrition among children, and despite the embargo, everyone was decently dressed.
→ read full article(Português) O Garoto Que Desafiou o Império — E Está Vencendo
Cauê Seignemartin Ameni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
“Quando se dá conta de que o mundo que
ajudou a criar será pior para as próximas gerações
e que esta arquitetura de opressão se estendem,
você entende que é preciso aceitar qualquer risco.
Sem se preocupar com as consequências.”
Edward Snowden em sua primeira entrevista ao The Guardian
(Italiano) Sistemi di Difesa Alternativa per gli Stati
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Per un paese che basi la propria sicurezza sulla pace, non allineato, utile agli altri, invulnerabile, che si occupi di mediazione dei conflitti e dei traumi rilevanti, di grande empatia e con progetti equi, dotato solo di armi non-provocatorie, preparato a difendere i propri confini e ogni parte del proprio territorio attraverso una difesa militare e non militare e coordinato da un Ministro della Pace, un attacco è molto improbabile.
→ read full articleOne’s Burden Is One’s Freedom: Rejected Refugees in the Context of Sri Lanka
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Asylum seekers are not refugees but they are refugees without rights to be refugees.
→ read full article(Português) O Mundo Orwelliano da NSA
James Bamford, New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Onde internet e telefonia globais são interceptadas? Como Obama manteve espionagem ilegal de Bush? Por que esquema faz lembrar “1984″?
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 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 articleWhy Celebrity Activism Does More Harm Than Good
Andres Jimenez – Waging Nonviolence,
5 Aug 2013
Celebrities like Bono take up debt cancelation, the increase in foreign aid and the promotion of the Millennium Development Goals. Actor George Clooney has taken interest in Darfur; Madonna and Oprah Winfrey fight for girls’ education in Africa, while Angelina Jolie is a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. Unfortunately, many of the policies and remedies promoted by celebrity activists have been paternalistic, detached from reality and often dangerously counterproductive.
→ read full articleRise of Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq: World Health Organization Refuses to Release Data
Mozhgan Savabieasfahani – Global Research,
5 Aug 2013
The back-breaking burden of cancers and birth defects continues to weigh heavily on the Iraqi people. The joint WHO and Iraqi Ministry of Health Report on cancers and birth defect in Iraq was originally due to be released in November 2012. It has been delayed repeatedly and now has no release date whatsoever.
→ read full articleInternational Conference on “Is Science Able to Explain the Scientist?”
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
On Dec 8, 2013 an International Conference ‘Science and Scientist’ will be held at Bhubaneswar, India, organized by Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, Princeton, NJ, USA and Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute, Siliguri, West Bengal, India in collaboration with Synergy Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden in His Own Words
Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
On Sunday Jun 9, 2013 in Hong Kong, the whistleblower and source to the stories about the PRISM surveillance program revealed himself as 29-year-old Edward Snowden. This is his story, in his own words.
→ read full articleWhat Is War?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
What is war, and whom shall we ask?
Clausewitz gave his bland definition,
“nothing but the continuation
of politics by other means,”
but he did not then bleed.
What the Psychology of Suicide Prevention Teaches Us about Controlling Our Everyday Worries
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Two surprisingly simple yet effective techniques for ameliorating anxiety.
→ read full articleCourts Rule MMR & Thimerosal Containing Vaccines Caused Autism & Brain Damage
Joe Martino, Collective Evolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
All information containing new and unprecedented conclusions begins by being violently opposed by those who create the prior information and those who subscribe heavily to it. This is very much the case with the link between Autism Spectrum Disorder and vaccines; mainly the MMR vaccine and other thimerosal containing vaccines.
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have ‘Powerful and Invasive’ Search Tool
Kari Rea, ABC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
“These programs are very simple screens, like the ones that supermarket clerks use, where all a low-level analyst has to do is enter an email or an IP address, and it searches that database and lets them listen to the calls or read the emails, or look at the browsing histories or Google search terms, and it also alerts them to any further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP address do in the future.”
→ read full articleCIA Is Funding Government-Led Chemtrailing Project
Steve Watson, InfoWars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Spy Agency to Help Study “Security Impacts” of Geo-Engineering – Our skies are riddled with artificial clouds, that are patently not merely the contrails of standard air planes. These programs are already having the effect of blocking out sunlight. The emergence of the chemtrails phenomenon coincided with an average 22% drop in sunlight reaching the earth’s surface.
→ read full articleTime to Decide: Are We Ready for Economic Democracy?
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
We do know that we are in a time of transition, an era that will define the next economy. The effects of the neo-liberal economic agenda of privatization are becoming obvious. One thing is clear: it is going to take action from below to create an economy that puts people and the planet before profits.
→ read full articleHappy Birthday, Thoreau: The Beloved Transcendentalist on Friendship, Sympathy, and Animal Consciousness
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
The beloved transcendentalist, born on July 12, 1817, considers the essence of friendship, what it means to be human, and how inextricably connected we are to our fellow non-human beings, who are just as worthy of our sympathy and respect as our human friends.
→ read full articleWar against Iran, Iraq AND Syria?
Pepe Escobar - Asia Times,
29 Jul 2013
Britain, the Netherlands and France, have just branded the organization that is fighting jihadis on the ground in Syria/Lebanon “terrorists”, while the jihadis themselves get away with it. So much for European ignorance/arrogance.
→ read full articleWho Authorized Preparations for War with China?
Amitai Etzioni, Yale Journal of International Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
The United States is preparing for a war with China, a momentous decision that so far has failed to receive a thorough review from elected officials, namely the White House and Congress. This important change in the United States’ posture toward China has largely been driven by the Pentagon.
→ read full articleSyria: The Crucible
Hamid Dabashi – Al Jazeera,
29 Jul 2013
There are officers of various UN agencies who, when you tell them of a child with leishmaniasis (a disease spread by the bite of a sand fly), say they can’t because it is a single child, and they only deal with “childhood” as a whole. Antisthenes is believed once to have said to Plato, regarding the notion of Platonic forms, “A horse I see, but ‘horseness‘ I do not see”. If like those UN officers you cannot see the childhood in that individual Syrian child, then we all have a problem far worse than merely philosophical.
→ read full article(Italiano) Competizione, Cooperazione e Archetipi
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Ci sono vincitori e sconfitti; la diseguaglianza viene istituzionalizzata, anzi premiata. Qualunque competizione è un conflitto per un obiettivo da poco, vincere; più c’è competizione più c’è conflitto irrisolto.
→ read full articleToxic Groundwater Reaching Sea: NRA
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
“We must find the cause of the contamination . . . and put the highest priority on implementing countermeasures,” Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka said after examining recent studies carried out on groundwater samples at the plant that detected high levels of cesium, tritium and other radioactive contamination.
→ read full articlePolitical Dreaming in the Twenty-First Century – Where Has It Gone?
Ira Chernus - TomDispatch,
29 Jul 2013
Perhaps these days dreams feel too naïve, too unrealistic, too embarrassing. So instead, you focus on the nuts and bolts of what’s wrong with the world. But show how your outrage, policies, and politics are propelled by your dreams. Share those dreams. Describe the kind of world you are working for and show how it could be linked to policies and politics. And don’t let anyone dismiss you as an “unrealistic dreamer.”
→ read full articleRole Reversal: How the US Became the USSR
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Snowden harmed no one except the liars and traitors in the US government. Contrast Washington’s animosity against Snowden with the pardon that Bush gave to Dick Cheney aide, Libby, who took the fall for his boss for blowing the cover, a felony, on a covert CIA operative, the spouse of a former government official who exposed the Bush/Cheney/neocon lies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
→ read full articleOscar Wilde’s Stirring Love Letters to Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
“It is a marvel that those red rose-leaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.”
→ read full articleAt the Brink of Apocalyptic Terror: Fukushima Continues to Spew Its Darkness
Harvey Wasserman - CounterPunch,
29 Jul 2013
Radiation leaks, steam releases, disease and death continue to spew from Fukushima and a disaster which is far from over. Its most profound threat to the global ecology—a spent fuel fire—is still very much with us.
→ read full article(Português) A Incrível Pirâmide da Desigualdade Global
José Eustáquio Diniz Alves, EcoDeabte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Milionários são apenas 0,6% da população, mas abocanham doze vezes mais riqueza que 69,3% dos habitantes da Terra. Concentração e consumismo podem tornar civilização insustentável.
→ read full articleBDS against Israel: Victory at TIAA-CREF
Jonathan Cunningham – Socialist Worker,
29 Jul 2013
The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement that has been protesting the Israeli occupation of Palestine took another step forward this month when the giant retirement fund giant TIAA-CREF announced it was divesting $9 million from SodaStream, an Israeli company that makes its carbonation machines in the occupied West Bank.
→ read full articleSyria’s Exodus: A Refugee Crisis for the World
Martin Chulov and Mark Rice-Oxley – The Guardian,
29 Jul 2013
“When we look at the prospects, one that we all have to face is that this conflict is creating a large risk of sectarian cleansing. This is how Srebrenica happened, how Rwanda happened, by gradually building up this enormous wave that leads to catastrophic consequences. This is the [crisis] that makes me lose sleep.”
→ read full articleBankers Own the World – And Are Ultimately Destroying It
Chris Martenson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take away from them the power to create money, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money. ~ Josiah Stamp – Bank of England Chairman, 1920s
→ read full articleIsrael Blocks EU Projects in West Bank over Settlement Measures
Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Israel has blocked the European Union from aiding tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank in retaliation for Brussels’ ban on financial assistance to Israeli organizations in the occupied territories. An Israeli official said on Friday [26 Jul 1013] the move was a result of the EU decision “to sanction or boycott the settlements”.
→ read full articleUnderstanding Conflict with Prof. Johan Galtung
Asian Study Center for Peace & Conflict Transformation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Nepal is composed of 80% Hindus, whose characteristic is hierarchical caste system, 9% Buddhists who are less caste-oriented and people of more than 100 ethnic groups. They have different living conditions in terms of social organization, access to resources and satisfaction of basic needs. From peace studies point of view, inequalities are the target more than the framework of democracy theory, which otherwise remains empty of content.
→ read full articleNational Security State, Advent of Fascism: Obama’s Fanaticism over Secrecy, Surveillance and Repression
Norman Pollack – CounterPunch,
29 Jul 2013
Secrecy is the ideal camouflage for surrounding, covering, and protecting the class-state, its system of power, its elites’ hidden agenda, and the political-cultural mechanisms which engineer consent to the national purpose as defined from above, not so much to hide ordinary hanky-panky–favoritism to contractors, political contributors, etc.– but war crimes real time.
→ read full articleConstitutional Amendment in Japan — Potential Lessons from Australia
Joel Rheuben, University of Tokyo – East Asia Forum,
29 Jul 2013
Like the Japanese Constitution, Australia’s Constitution can only be amended after a popular referendum approving change. However, unlike Japan, referenda proposals can be initiated by only a simple majority of both houses. Nevertheless, constitutional referenda have succeeded only 8 times out of 44 attempts in 112 years — and not once since 1977.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 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/.
→ read full articleIndia: Army ‘Mistook Planets for Spy Drones’
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
25 Jul 2013 – India’s army reportedly spent six months watching “Chinese spy drones” violating its air space, only to find out they were actually Jupiter and Venus.
→ read full articleHalliburton Destroying Gulf Spill Evidence a ‘Misdemeanor’
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
This charge – knowingly destroying evidence during a government investigation in an attempt to cover up the cause of 11 human deaths and one of the largest disasters in the country’s history – is considered a ‘misdemeanor’ charge. Halliburton is required to pay a $200,000 fine.”
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