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Endless War
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
When a war has just begun
it can seem like lots of fun—
hunting down the evil prey,
killing bad guys every day.
“External Interference” Complicating Syrian Situation
ABC TV Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
17 June 2013 – Syrian peace activist Mother Agnès-Mariam de la Croix, head of Mussalaha (Reconciliation in Syrian), says that Syrian solutions ought to lie in the hands of the Syrian people, not of foreign governments and terrorists.
→ read full articleAn Unfolding Tale of Two Genocidal “Buddhist” Hells: Myanmar and Sri Lanka
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The Burmese Bama Buddhists are not alone in Nazi “Buddhist” Hell. They are in good company of the equally genocidal “Buddhists” of Sri Lanka.
→ read full articleGlobal Corruption Barometer 2013
Transparency International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The Global Corruption Barometer 2013 is the biggest ever survey tracking world-wide public opinion on corruption. We asked over 114,000 people in 107 countries for their views on corruption. Find out what they said in our Global Corruption Barometer 2013.
→ read full article“Everyone Is Corrupt, I Have Come to Learn”
Thomas Hedges - Salon,
15 Jul 2013
John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer who blew the whistle on Bush’s torture program and is now in prison, sent an open letter to Edward Snowden last week warning him not to trust the FBI. “DO NOT,” Kiriakou wrote, “under any circumstances, cooperate with the FBI. FBI agents will lie, trick, and deceive you. They will twist your words and play on your patriotism to entrap you.
→ read full articleThe Re-Emergence of Japanese Militarism
John Chan, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The latest Japanese defence white paper, released on Tuesday [9 Jul 2013], is another unmistakable sign of the resurgence of militarism under the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s right-wing government. The Obama administration in the United States has deliberately fostered the re-emergence of Japanese militarism as part of its “pivot to Asia” aimed at encircling China.
→ read full articleHow Microsoft Handed the NSA Access to Encrypted Messages
Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras, Spencer Ackerman and Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
15 Jul 2013
• Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism
• Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch
• Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls
• Company says it is legally compelled to comply
‘Football for All’: Dutch Stand Up for Gay Players’ Rights
Jörg Kramer and Michael Wulzinger – Der Spiegel,
15 Jul 2013
Next month, the Dutch national football team’s coach plans to take a stand for the rights of gay players at the Amsterdam Gay Pride parade. Activitists in Germany, where no professional players are out, hope their football officials will follow his lead.
→ read full articleThe Battle between Countries and Companies
Dick Pountain – Open Democracy,
15 Jul 2013
The wild profits and net worths that the internet has enabled have created a massive power shift, leaving the corporations to overbear the countries they inhabit. In light of this, what are the consequences for both parties?
→ read full articleThe Unreported War in the Congo Killing Millions with the Aid of the United States
Kambale Musavuli, Stop the War Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
So how do you get away with arming a rebel force that attacks UN peacekeepers, rapes women and recruits children? You need powerful friends.
→ read full article(Português) As Redes de Espionagem Secreta das Democracias Ocidentais
Eduardo Febbro – Carta Maior,
15 Jul 2013
O episódio infame que fez com que o avião do presidente Evo Morales fosse bloqueado em Viena com base em um rumor infundado lançado pela Espanha, segundo o qual o ex-agente da NSA norteamericana, Edward Snowden, se encontrava a bordo é a consequência de uma caçada humana lançada pelo Ocidente em nome de um novo delito: a informação. Os “aliados” se espionam entre si e espionam o mundo. Quando alguém resolve denunciar a ditadura tecnológica universal torna-se um delinquente.
→ read full articleAn Experience of Current Life in Syria
Mother Agnes Mariam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
This report was written from the monastery Mother Agnes headed in Qara, presenting a very human perspective of the ‘revolution’ in Syria.
→ read full articleThe Infrastructure of a Police State Emerges in Europe
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Former NSA employee Edward Snowden has exposed the infrastructure of a police state whose surveillance powers far exceed those of totalitarian dictatorships such as the German Nazi regime.
→ read full articleThe Emotional Lives of Animals
Marc Bekoff – YES! Magazine,
15 Jul 2013
Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience.
→ read full article(Italiano) Umanità 2050: Costruire la Pace con i Nostri Futuri
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Discorso di apertura, 40° Anniversario del World Futures Studies Federation (Federazione per gli Studi sui Futuri del Mondo) – Bucarest, Romania – “L’Islam offre solidarietà e condivisione di cui l’Occidente ha bisogno, l’Occidente offre diversità e libertà di cui l’Islam ha bisogno. Mutuo apprendimento”.
→ read full articlePutin Dresses Down the Group of Eight
Dawud Rimal – As Safir,
15 Jul 2013
Putin addressed President Obama: “Your country sent its army to Afghanistan in 2001 on the excuse that you are fighting the Taliban, al-Qa‘idah and other fundamentalist terrorists accused of the 9/11 attacks. And here you are making alliance with them in Syria and declaring your desire to send them weapons. And in Qatar, where you have your biggest base in the region, the Taliban are opening a representative office.”
→ read full articleMisreading the Snowden Affair
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
So far in the Snowden Affair it is small Latin American countries, including Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, that have risked the ire of the United States by pursuing independent policies with respect to Snowden, and acting correctly from the perspective of law and morality.
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GeoEngineering Watch – The Most Important Topic of Our Time
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Dane Wigington presents hard data that reveals what these catastrophic programs have done to our planet and what they will do if they are allowed to continue. Please take the time to watch this video and share this information far and wide.
→ read full articleHow Unchecked Capitalism Has Brought the World to the Brink of Apocalypse — and What We Must Do Now
Robert Jensen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
If there is to be a decent future, we have to give up on the imperial fantasy of endless power, the capitalist fantasy of endless growth, the technological fantasy of endless comfort. Those systems have long been celebrated as the engines of unprecedented wealth, albeit for a limited segment of the world’s population.
→ read full articleAl Jazeera Journalists Resign En Masse to Protest “Biased Coverage”
Don Irvine – Accuracy in Media,
15 Jul 2013
Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned Arabic-language broadcaster, suffered a big hit on Monday [8 Jul 2013] when 22 journalists resigned en masse to protest what they said was the network’s “biased coverage” in Egypt.
→ read full articleBoy Recovers from Autism by Removing Dairy & Gluten. Strong Evidence Links Vaccines to Autism
Joe Martino, Collective Evolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Global autism rates are on the rise and many are beginning to ask questions about how they can best treat or remedy symptoms to increase quality of life overall.
→ read full articlePeople Who Pretend to be Your Friend: Collaborators and Traitors
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
One version of this occurs when collaborators justify their collaboration with perpetrators of violence in terms of an ‘obligation to obey’, although many collaborators will characterise their obedience as ‘loyalty’, ‘support’ or ‘helpfulness’ to mask the fear driving their submissive behaviour.
→ read full articleMy Life at Guantanamo
Moath al-Alwi – Al Jazeera,
8 Jul 2013
A detainee at the US prison explains that hunger striking is the only way left to cry out for life, freedom and dignity. This article was translated from Arabic by his attorney, Ramzi Kassem.
→ read full articleFreedumbAndDemocrazy
Sharmine Narwani – Al Akhbar,
8 Jul 2013
When I hear “freedom and democracy” I instinctively look for cover – just as “Allahu Akbar” yelled loudly enough can now make Arabs and Muslims hit the ground fast.
→ read full articleThe Secret War: Cyber
Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Inside Fort Meade, Maryland-USA, a top-secret city, as if designed by Kafka and with tens of thousands of people moving through more than 50 buildings, sits among a forest of trees, surrounded by electrified fences and heavily armed guards, protected by antitank barriers, monitored by sensitive motion detectors, and watched by rotating cameras. To block electromagnetic signals the inner walls of the buildings are wrapped in copper shielding and the one-way windows are embedded with a fine copper mesh.
→ read full articleLiability Issue Puts Doubt on Rosatom Role in Next Indian Reactors
The Moscow Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
07 July 2013 – Russia’s further participation in India’s multibillion dollar Kudankulam nuclear power plant looks uncertain as the two sides have failed to resolve liability in the event of an accident, an Indian official said Friday [5 Jul 2013].
→ read full articlePeople Get Ready: ‘Unprecedented’ Weather Glimpses Century Ahead
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
8 Jul 2013
Latest Report from the World Meteorological Organization Says First Decade of Century Was Hottest, Wettest On Record with More to Come – “Carbon-dioxide concentration […] reached an average global value of 389 parts per million by the end of the decade, the highest value recorded for at least the past 10,000 years.”
→ read full articleEgypt, Brazil, Turkey: Without Politics, Protest Is at the Mercy of the Elites
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
8 Jul 2013
From Egypt to Brazil, street action is driving change, but organisation is essential if it’s not to be hijacked or disarmed.
→ read full articleThe Military Coup in Egypt: Challenges of the Transition
Dr. Lakhdar Ghettas, Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
The ousting of President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian army is a military coup d’état pure and simple. Morsi’s ousting qualifies for a military putsch which is by definition the illegal removal of the head of the state by the army or a faction within it, or the security services, through the use of force or the threat to using it.
→ read full articleHow Do We Defend Ourselves from the Corporate and Imperial Forces That Threaten Our Existence?
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Surveying the terrible conflicts in the world, it’s clear that almost all are the residue of imperial crimes and the borders they drew in their own interests. Who owns the global atmosphere being polluted by the heat-trapping gases? Who will defend the Earth? Who will uphold the rights of nature? Who will adopt the role of steward of the commons, our collective possession?
→ read full article(Français) Le Coup d’Etat en Egypte: Les Défis de la Transition
Dr. Lakhdar Ghettas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
L’éviction du président Mohamed Morsi par l’armée égyptienne est un coup d’Etat militaire pur et simple. En effet, cette éviction répond à la définition d’un renversement illégal de la tête de l’Etat par l’armée, une faction interne, ou les services de sécurité, par l’utilisation de la force ou de la menace de l’utiliser.
→ read full articleMy Drone
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
I know that I am not alone
in wishing I had my own drone.
General and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 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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Jeremy Irons Talks about the Eurocrisis (Legendas em Português)
RTP1 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
“Does anyone understand to whom we owe so much money?”
→ read full articleWhales Flee from Military Sonar Leading to Mass Strandings, Research Shows
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
8 Jul 2013
Whales flee from the loud military sonar used by navies to hunt submarines, new research has proven for the first time. The studies provide a missing link in the puzzle that has connected naval exercises around the world to unusual mass strandings of whales and dolphins.
→ read full articleDepositors Beware: Bail-In Is Now Official E.U. Policy
Ellen Brown, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Shifting the burden of a major bank collapse from the blameless taxpayer to the blameless depositor is another case of robbing Peter to pay Paul, while the real perpetrators carry on with their risky, speculative banking schemes.
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald Speaks Out
WeAreManyMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
28 June 2013 – Glenn Greenwald on Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillance program. Introductions by Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater and the filmmaker behind Dirty Wars, and Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism.
→ read full article10 Causes of Bad Breath
Dr. Edward F. Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Bad breath plagues everyone at some time or another. If you are aware of it, hopefully you try to get rid of it, or at least try to hide it. If you are not aware of it, you may be wondering why people keep their distance.
→ read full articleWorld Futures Conference as Catastrophic Question
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
How to engage with the conference of an organization held in the same academic facility as on the occasion of its foundation 50 years previously — in this case that of the World Futures Studies Federation in Bucharest (2013)? The question has a particular poignancy for a writer involved in the processes of its original creation — meeting the remaining handful of those from that time.
→ read full articleSyria’s [Armed] Rebels in Rift with Aleppo’s [Nonviolent] Civil Opposition
Edward Dark – Al Monitor,
8 Jul 2013
Aleppo’s civil opposition has been swept aside as hard-line armed groups assert their power in the city.
→ read full articleHSBC 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 articleInterview 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 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.
Egypt: 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 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 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 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.
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