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BRICS a Prototype of the Future World Order
Gevorg Mirzayan and Nikolay Surkov – Russia & India Report,
6 Jul 2015
As Russia prepares to hold the BRICS summit in Ufa, among other issues up for discussion will be the future course of the organization. Russian analysts speak to RIR about what lies ahead for BRICS and why this “interest group” has begun to play such a major role in Moscow’s foreign policy.
→ read full articleEnd U.S. Addiction to War
James Albertini, Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
War on drugs. War on poverty. War in Afghanistan. War in Iraq. War on terror. When you define something as war, violence becomes the only means.
→ read full articleGoldman Sachs Doesn’t Have Clean Hands in Greece Crisis
Pam Martens and Russ Martens – Wall Street On Parade,
6 Jul 2015
According to investigative reports that appeared in Der Spiegel, The New York Times, BBC, and Bloomberg News from 2010 through 2012, Blankfein, now Goldman Sachs CEO, played a role in structuring complex derivative deals with Greece which allowed it to hide the true extent of its debt and almost doubled the debt of Greece under the dubious derivative deals.
→ read full articleIn the Western World Capitalism Has Devolved into Looting
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
“…when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed.”
→ read full articleNo, ‘Je Suis Charleston’?: The De-Politicization of Black Oppression
Ajamu Baraka – Black Agenda Report,
6 Jul 2015
Where was the worldwide revulsion at the racist terror attack in Charleston? Obama sang ‘Amazing Grace’ and lulled into a stupefying silence black voices that should have demanded answers. The old trope of gun control – along with a new twist, removing the Confederate flag – became the new focus.
→ read full articleGermany’s Oldest Nuclear Power Plant Goes Offline
Associated Press – US News & World Report,
29 Jun 2015
28 Jun 2015 — Germany’s oldest remaining nuclear reactor has been shut down, part of a move initiated four years ago to switch off all its nuclear plants by the end of 2022.
→ read full articleComforting a Baby Is Violent
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
In essence, the expression of feelings is a vital means of communication, for babies, children and adults. Interfering with the expression of feelings, by comforting for example, simply destroys a means of communication and virtually guarantees a dysfunctional behavioural outcome.
→ read full articleHalf of Europe’s Electricity Set to Be from Renewables by 2030
Arthur Neslen – The Guardian,
29 Jun 2015
Leaked EU paper predicts fast renewables growth to around double current levels if countries meet climate objectives.
→ read full articleNYT’s Orwellian View of Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
29 Jun 2015
In the up-is-down Orwellian world that is now The New York Times’ editorial page, there was no coup in Ukraine in 2014, no U.S.-driven “regime change,” no provocation on Russia’s border, just Moscow’s aggression — a sign of how propaganda has taken over mainstream U.S. media.
→ read full articleThe Stories of Compassionate Rebels Building a Culture of Peace
Burt Berlowe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
A New Form of Journalism Is Emerging
→ read full articleThe Contrasting Fates of Tunisia and Libya
Stephen Zunes – National Catholic Reporter,
22 Jun 2015
Four years later, the current political situation in these two neighboring North African states could not be more different. The reason has much to do with how their authoritarian regimes were overthrown.
→ read full articleBDS Could Cost Israel $4.7 Billion a Year
James North, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
The Financial Times has published a big, and somewhat balanced, article on the rapid rise of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) that includes two stunning financial numbers showing how powerful the nonviolent movement for justice in Palestine/Israel is becoming.
→ read full articleMoment of Truth Nears for Nuclear Waste Time Bomb
Vera Eckert, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
• Scandinavians closest to putting waste underground
• Time needed to permission storage, start disposal
• Public need to be brought on board
U.S. House Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
15 Jun 2015
The U.S. House of Representatives has admitted an ugly truth that the U.S. mainstream media has tried to hide from the American people – that the post-coup regime in Ukraine has relied heavily on Nazi storm troopers to carry out its bloody war against ethnic Russians.
→ read full articleBathed in Blood – Evicted and Abandoned in Honduras
Sasha Chavkin - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
15 Jun 2015
World Bank’s Business-Lending Arm Backed Palm Oil Producer amid Deadly Land War
→ read full articleThe Losing War against Ungoverned Spaces
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Nathaniel Barr, Pragati – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
From whatever angle one analyses the war against ungoverned spaces, Western countries and their allies are losing. The truly remarkable thing is how quickly the situation in the Middle East and North Africa was transformed from optimism —at the start of the Arab Spring—to one where the spread of ungoverned space, and indeed jihadism writ large, appears inexorable.
→ read full articleLogistics 101: Where Do ISIS Get Their Guns?
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
ISIS’ supply lines run precisely where Syrian and Iraqi air power cannot go. To the north and into NATO-member Turkey, and to the southwest into US allies Jordan and Saudi Arabia. If an army marches on its stomach, and ISIS’ stomachs are full of NATO and Persian Gulf State supplies, ISIS will continue to march long and hard.
→ read full articleGreece – A Sad Story of the [Germany-led] European Establishment
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
The latest development in the tug of war which has been going on between Greece and a German-dominated Europe is the desire to punish an anti-establishment figure like Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and show that the radical left cannot run a country.
→ read full articleRecord Boost in New Solar Power Continues Massive Industry Growth
Arthur Neslen – The Guardian,
15 Jun 2015
UK leads European solar energy expansion to help renewables overtake output of nuclear power as industry leaders hail ‘tipping point’ for the technology.
→ read full articleExposing Lies, Telling the Truth
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
I have just read Andre Vltchek’s new book ‘Exposing Lies of the Empire’. I have one word to describe this book: Great. Superb. Excellent. Brilliant. [However,] Vltchek pays virtually no attention to the effectiveness of nonviolent strategy in resisting empire.
→ read full articleNo Progress on Nuclear Weapons Control – As Planned
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Jun 2015
US Leadership Vetoes Steps toward Nuclear Weapons-Free World
→ read full articleNuclear Fuel Cycle Cost Calculator
Robert Rosner, Jeremy Klavans and Sam Olofin – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
8 Jun 2015
Discussions of the future of nuclear power often focus on safety, proliferation, waste storage, and carbon emissions – accepting cost as a given. This tool breaks the cost of investing in nuclear power into its component parts and considers the price of three configurations of the ‘fuel cycle.’
→ read full article(Português) Cuba: Uma Nação Altiva
Laurindo Lalo Leal Filho – Carta Maior,
8 Jun 2015
Cuba vinha recebendo em média 2,5 milhões de turistas por ano. No primeiro trimestre de 2015, já chegam a 1 milhão. No entanto, em uma visão impressionista, circulando alguns dias por Havana é possível perceber que a contaminação turística não tirou dos cubanos a altivez cunhada numa longa história de lutas em busca da soberania nacional.
→ read full articleDaniel Ellsberg Credits Edward Snowden with Catalysing US Surveillance Reform
Ewen MacAskill in London, and Dan Roberts and Ben Jacobs in Washington – The Guardian,
8 Jun 2015
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden should be thanked for sparking the debate that forced Congress to change US surveillance law, Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, said Monday [1 Jun 2015].
→ read full articleWashington Politicizes Football
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
Whether or not FIFA decisions are tainted by bribery, the purpose of the “investigation” is to cast doubt on the decision to hold the World Cup in Russia. The World Cup is a global spectacle and conveys prestige on the host country. Washington intends to deny this prestige to Russia. That is what the “investigation” is about.
→ read full articleNuclear Realism
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
27 May 2015 – There’s a category of political intellectuals who proudly proclaim themselves “realists,” then proceed to defend and advance a deeply faith-based agenda that centers on the ongoing necessity to prepare for war, including nuclear war. These intellectuals, as they defend the military-industrial status quo (which often supports them financially), have made themselves the spokespersons for a deep human cancer: a soul cancer.
→ read full articleLeaked Internal Documents Show U.N. Ignored CAR Child Abuse
Roger Hamilton-Martin, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
May 29 2015 – Leaked United Nations documents show high-level staff knew of abuses by soldiers in the Central African Republic and failed to act, all while planning the removal of U.N. whistleblower Anders Kompass.
→ read full articleFinance like a Cancer Grows
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
To bail out the banks, the world has collectively spent around 4 trillion dollars of taxpayers’ money. It is astonishing that every week we see action being taken in various part of the world against the financial sector, without any noticeable reaction of public opinion. The “new ethic” is in reality a cancer, and it is metastasising rapidly
→ read full articleWhy Elites Love Drones
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Serviver,
25 May 2015
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. once said: ‘The enemy is violence.’ But I believe the true enemy is our fear: the fear of nonviolently resisting violence, in all of its manifestations. Are you afraid?
→ read full articleA Color Revolution for Macedonia
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
22 May 2015 – During the Cold War Washington was concerned about communists fomenting street protests that they could turn into revolutions, with groomed politicians waiting in the wings to take over the new government, thus expanding the Soviet empire. Today this is precisely what Washington does. Why is Washington interested in controlling Macedonia?
→ read full article(русский-Russian) Вашингтон признал, что поддерживал радикальных исламистов в Сирии
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Как отмечает в своей статье обозреватель НВО Тони Карталучи, как отмечается в одной из недавних публикаций авторитетного Брукингского института, который является одним из главных центров геополитического планирования в США, на территории Турции на протяжении долгого времени действовал (и продолжает действовать по сей день) командный центр разведки США, который осуществлял контроль за всеми операциями поддерживаемых США различных групп, включая ИГИЛ и так называемую «умеренную оппозицию».
→ read full articleEmirates Becomes Latest Airline to Ban Transport of Big Game Hunting Trophies
Taylor Hill – TakePart Magazine,
18 May 2015
15 May 2015 – Watch out, big game hunters: The options for bringing back animal trophies from your African safaris are dwindling. Emirates SkyCargo, the world’s third-largest cargo carrier behind FedEx and UPS, has announced it will stop carrying trophies of elephants, rhinos, lions, and tigers aboard its planes.
→ read full articleNuclear Proliferation Is Still the Greatest Threat We Face
Valerie Plame Wilson - Reader Supported News,
18 May 2015
Twenty-six years after the end of the Cold War, the world still has more than 15,000 nuclear weapons. Whatever other issues people care about — poverty, the environment, inequality and so many others — if we don’t get this one right, and soon, nothing else will matter. We are at a crossroads on this issue and the decisions we make over the next 10 years will set us on a course either toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons or toward expanding arsenals and proliferation.
→ read full articleHillary Clinton, Phosphates, and the Western Sahara
Stephen Zunes – National Catholic Reporter,
18 May 2015
Morocco has ignored a series of U.N. Security Council resolutions and a landmark World Court decision underscoring the right of the Western Saharan people to self-determination. In 2002, then U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Hans Corell determined that the exploitation of natural resources in Western Sahara is a “violation of the international law principles applicable to mineral resource activities in Non-Self-Governing Territories.”
→ read full articleThe Origins of That Eisenhower ‘Every Gun That Is Made…’ Quote
Robert Schlesinger – US News & World Report,
18 May 2015
The quote currently making the rounds on Facebook is genuine Eisenhower: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone… “
→ read full articleA New Dark Age of Militarism
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
13 May 2015 – “What struck me,” journalist Christian Parenti said in a recent Truthout interview, referring to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, “was the fact that these local towns and states around the region were sending the only resources they had to New Orleans: weapons and militarized gear.
→ read full articleUS “Operation Rooms” Backing Al Qaeda in Syria
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
US policy think-tank Brookings Institution confirms that contrary to propaganda, US-Saudi “moderates” and Turkey-Qatar “Islamists” have been coordinating all along.
→ read full article(Castellano) La ciencia sostiene que la felicidad está en viajar y no en comprar bienes materiales
Journal of Positive Psychology – Diario Norte,
18 May 2015
La investigación publicada en el “Journal of Positive Psychology” afirma que la gratificación instantánea generada al adquirir objetos como ropa, zapatillas o joyas caras es únicamente pasajera.
→ read full articleYarmouk and the Failures of Neutral Humanitarianism
Brent Eng & José Ciro Martínez – Al Jazeera America,
11 May 2015
Aid agencies should acknowledge their role in exacerbating the Syrian crisis. By bringing external resources into life-or-death situations characterized by scarcity, aid agencies have indirectly exacerbated the very situation that they are trying to ameliorate.
→ read full articlePeace Lessons: How to Reduce Violence
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
If you are interested in learning more about the meaning of, and the relationships among, direct, structural and cultural violence–particularly developed by Professor Johan Galtung–and how one peace studies scholar suggests we use the integrative power of nonviolence to address violence constructively, then I suggest you read the new book by historian, playwright and novelist Professor Timothy Braatz called ‘Peace Lessons’.
→ read full articleIt Is Time to Call Radio “Liberty” What It Is: Radio Gestapo Amerika
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
6 May 2015 – Radio “Liberty” has always been a propaganda ministry. Formerly its propaganda was directed against the Soviet Union. Today it is directed against distinguished Americans who are known and respected for their allegiance to the truth. It has declared America’s most distinguished Russian scholar, Stephen Cohen, to be “a Putin apologist.” He is a professor of Russian studies at both Princeton University and New York University and was advisor to President George Herbert Walker Bush. Mikhail Gorbachev also trusted Cohen, and little doubt that Cohen helped to bring about the end of the Cold War.
→ read full articleThe West and Its Self-Assumed Right to Intervene
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The ‘West’ is a concept that flourished during the Cold War. Then it was West against East in the form of the Soviet empire. The East was evil against which all democratic countries – read West – were called on to fight. Led by the United States, in the case of the Arab world, it has created situations that justify subsequent military interventions which have had a high cost in both human and financial terms.
→ read full articleA Destination, Unknown
Ashok T. Chakravarthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The clouds rain
Without selfish motives,
Be it an ocean
Or a green land
The Choice before Europe
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Washington continues to drive Europe toward one or the other of the two most likely outcomes of the orchestrated conflict with Russia. Either Europe or some European Union member government will break from Washington over the issue of Russian sanctions, thereby forcing the EU off of the path of conflict with Russia, or Europe will be pushed into military conflict with Russia.
→ read full articleCosta Rica’s Energy Nearly 100 Percent Clean
Diego Arguedas Ortiz, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
May 5 2015 – Costa Rica has almost reached its goal of an energy mix based solely on renewable sources, harnessing solar, wind and geothermal power, as well as the energy of the country’s rivers. In 2015, 97 percent of the country’s energy supply will come from clean sources.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Expertos Advierten de la Necesidad de Reconocer los Resentimientos
Carta de la Paz dirigida a la ONU– TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
“Los resentimientos son fruto del desamor y del desprecio, muchos resentimientos nacen de la comparación y de una visión subjetiva de las cosas y por eso las personas resentidas nunca se sienten satisfechas con la justicia. Para gestionar los resentimientos, en primer lugar hay que reconocerlos; y, en segundo lugar, pasar necesariamente por la justicia. Cuando no hay justicia el mal queda dentro y el resentimiento crece”.
→ read full article(Català) Els experts adverteixen de la necessitat de reconèixer els ressentiments
Carta de la Pau dirigida a l'ONU – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“La gestió dels ressentiments s’ha de fer des del llenguatge i des de les institucions creant relats de reconciliació. Aquest procés demana temps, recursos, dedicació i energies i, en contra de tot això, ara volem perdons express”.
→ read full articleThose Damned Migrants [Refugees]: Blame It All on Them!
Steve Weissman - Reader Supported News,
4 May 2015
“It is sickening to see thousands of refugees drowning on the doorstep of the world’s wealthiest continent,” declared actress Angelina Jolie, the UN’s Special Envoy for Refugees. “No one risks the lives of their children in this way except out of utter desperation.”
→ read full articleThe Day after Damascus Falls
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
4 May 2015
The Saudi-Israeli alliance has gone on the offensive, ramping up a “regime change” war in Syria and, in effect, promoting a military victory for Al-Qaeda or its spinoff, the Islamic State. But the consequences of that victory could toll the final bell for the American Republic.
→ read full articleIdiots of the World, Unite!
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“Sir, you are an idiot.” Wow, an insult wrapped in such old-fashioned politeness. I let the words hover and reach, as I always do, for peace: that is to say, for clarity, connection, common humanity. Last week I raised the idea of unarmed policing [in the US], as practiced in half a dozen countries around the world.
→ read full articleDoonesbury Cartoonist Attacked for Criticizing Charlie Hebdo
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
27 Apr 2015 – Garry Trudeau, the creator of the Doonesbury comic strip, has come under attack for publicly criticizing anti-Muslim cartoons appearing in Charlie Hebdo, calling them a form of hate speech. The central point made by Trudeau is that Charlie Hebdo was engaged, not in satirizing the powerful, but in vilifying the most oppressed section of the French population, Muslim immigrants, who face the highest levels of unemployment, poverty, police harassment and imprisonment.
→ read full articlePillar of Neoliberal Thinking Is Vacillating
Roberto Savio - Centre tricontinental-CETRI,
27 Apr 2015
From Marx to Keynes, redistribution theories were built on stable or expanding economies. Progressive parties built their success during economic expansion but the Left has not developed economic science on what to do in crisis. It mimics the Right and, when the crisis is over, it has lost its identity.
→ read full articleA Trade Rule That Makes It Illegal to Favor Local Business? Newest Leak Shows TPP Would Do That and More
David Korten - YES! Magazine,
27 Apr 2015
The leaked text is full of dense legal jargon. But a close reading makes its corporate agenda crystal clear.
→ read full articleLegacy of War
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Sometimes when we reflect on war, we talk about sacrifice for a good cause. Other times, we talk about the cost, in lives or liberties lost. Occasionally, we talk about the horror. Sometimes we talk about the gains, nationally or internationally, for freedom and democracy. And rarely, we analyse the causes of war and lament that one day we might end it.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report 6 (Apr 2015)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015 – Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
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Piano Recital: Launching of ‘Universal Abolition of Militarism’
Alberto Portugheis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
TRANSCEND Member, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and world renowned international pianist Alberto Portugheis will perform a recital to launch his International Peace Campaign. 30 May 2015, at 5pm, Wesley Centre, Harrogate, England.
→ read full articleThe Real Nuclear Threat
Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Three privatized nuclear laboratories — Los Alamos, Sandia and Livermore — are behind the immense investment (as much as $1 trillion over 30 years) in upgraded, more destructive nuclear warheads. This aggressive pressure from the American business sector is a lot more frightening than any aggression emanating from Iran, and may indicate where the real push for war comes from.
→ read full articleSaving Passengers of the Good Ship Titan… Earth
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
So what can we learn from the sinking of the Titanic and its huge death toll that can help us to avert sinking the Good Ship Earth and killing off most, if not all, humans and many other species besides? Let me consider each item above in turn.
→ read full articleSpiritual Warmth
Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Unifying the bond of human ‘love’
Pulling me from the illusion’s grove;
God! The cradle of dreams You awoke,
And on a spiritual path, I fell awake.
Nazi Extortion: Study Sheds New Light on Forced Greek Loans
Manfred Ertel, Katrin Kuntz and Walter Mayr – Der Spiegel,
30 Mar 2015
Is Germany liable to Athens for loans the Nazis forced the Greek central bank to provide during World War II? A new study in Greece could increase the pressure on Berlin to pay up.
→ read full articleA Desolate World without GMO Crops: Inside Monsanto’s Demented Spin Campaign
Anna Lappe, Earth Island Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Fifty years after “Silent Spring” hit bookstores, Big Ag is still trying to win the public’s hearts and minds.
→ read full articleVykom: Strategic Nonviolent Action against Untouchability – A Review
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
King is well qualified to undertake this study of the previously neglected Vykom satyagraha. She participated in the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1960s led by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr and has been a prominent scholar in the field of nonviolence ever since. Moreover, she is thorough, as the extensive footnotes in her book illustrate.
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(Português/Español) Bilderberg: O Clube Secreto dos Poderosos
Cristina Martín Jiménez – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
“O clube Bilderberg, que se reúne há 61 anos, congrega as individualidades mais poderosas do mundo”, afirma a jornalista sevilhana Cristina Martín Jiménez. Explica que eles “têm o poder como ideologia” e implementam “planos secretos para governar o mundo, destruindo gradualmente as soberanias nacionais e tirando aos países a capacidade de decidir.” A Grécia como teste-piloto.
→ read full articleIraq and the Media: A Critical Timeline
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting-FAIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
19 Mar 2015 – On 12th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion, Recalling Corporate Media’s Deception – It’s hardly controversial to suggest that the mainstream media’s performance in the lead-up to the Iraq War was a disaster.
→ read full articleThe “Naturalness” of the Commons
David de Ugarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Why so much sudden love for Elinor Ostrom? No, to understand the shared economy, to work together to manage the needs of all in a community economy, we don’t need great treaties or consultation with university technicians. We just need to go back home, back to basics.
→ read full articlePlanet Earth
Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
In the deep woods, stunning and beautiful
The black cuckoo sings a song, remorseful;
Spirituality in the New World Order: Is a One World Religious Authority in Formation?
Matthew Butler – The Conscious Reporter,
23 Mar 2015
Various theorists have suggested a “One World Religion” will emerge as part of a “New World Order”. Is it possible that powerful people in the global elite desire – if not an actual monolithic world faith – then a global hegemony over the world’s spirituality, so that religions, and their followers, can be influenced through a central authority?
→ read full articleLo! What Can I Do
Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
The night spreads a carpet of darkness
Over the far off hillock, the moon rises,
The eerie silence is intermittently broken
By the barking dogs from a far-off den.
CNN Is Beating the Drums of War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Wolf Blitzer (CNN, March 13) used the cover of a news program to broadcast a propaganda performance straight out of the Third Reich or perhaps from George Orwell’s 1984. The orchestration presented Russia as a massive, aggressive military threat. The screen was filled with missiles firing and an assortment of American General Strangeloves urging provocative measures to be deployed against the Russian Threat.
→ read full article(Português) Medo: matéria-prima da indústria farmacêutica
Martha Rosenberg – Outras Palavras,
16 Mar 2015
Como os laboratórios globais manipulam insegurança e desemparo quotidianos para multiplicar vendas — desrespeitando, se necessário, a saúde dos pacientes.
→ read full articleThe Untold Story of How the Sugar Industry Shaped Key Government Research about Your Teeth
Roberto A. Ferdman – The Washington Post,
16 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015 – Decades-old documents have surfaced showing that the powerful U.S. sugar industry skewed the government’s medical research on dental care. More recently, the industry attempted to influence changes to the nutrition facts label, for the inclusion of “added sugar,” to communicate how much sugar was added during processing. The industry is vehemently opposed.
→ read full articleViolence against Women: Why We Keep Getting it Wrong
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
So let me briefly explain the fundamental cause of violence in our world, including the cause of violence against women, and invite you to do something very personal and effective about it.
→ read full articleWikimedia vs. NSA: Challenge to Mass Surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act
ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are: Wikimedia Foundation, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, PEN American Center, Global Fund for Women, The Nation Magazine, The Rutherford Institute, and The Washington Office on Latin America.
→ read full articleThe Real Syrian Moderates: Voices of Reason
Eva Bartlett – Russia Today,
16 Mar 2015
While the Western-led, anti-Assad bloc mind-blowingly speaks of arming non-existent “moderates” to fight in Syria, they also continue to demonize and silence the very voices that offer a true means of bringing peace and stability back to the region.
→ read full articleWhy We Occupy: Dutch Universities at the Crossroads
Nicholas Vrousalis, Robin Celikates, Johan Hartle, and Enzo Rossi – Open Democracy,
9 Mar 2015
The upshot is the bureaucratic equivalent of a sausage-factory: the production of the knowledge-sausage at minimum cost for the maximum number of consumers. The process by which one arrives at knowing thus becomes insignificant and secondary: means (degrees) and ends (the free pursuit of knowledge) are completely inverted.
→ read full articleUnder The Sun: Australia’s Largest Solar Farm Set to Sprout in a Queensland Field
Joshua Robertson – The Guardian,
9 Mar 2015
A sea of glass panels may soon be sprawling across Queensland cranking out 100 times more energy than the largest solar farm in Australia today. “Obviously there’s a great amount of opportunity out there but it does take a fair bit of boldness as well to be able to participate in this paradigm shift.” — Angus Gemmell
→ read full articleAt Least One Country Agrees with Netanyahu: Saudi Arabia
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
9 Mar 2015
Who can the Saudis trust when they find themselves on Netanyahu’s side? In their golden palaces, the Saudis fear. They fear the Iranians. They fear the Shia. They fear Isis and al-Qaeda. They fear the Muslim Brotherhood. They fear American betrayal and Israeli plots. They even fear the “power” of tiny Qatar.
→ read full articleThe Tax Deductible Occupation
Alex Doherty - TeleSur,
9 Mar 2015
The Friends of the Israel Defence Forces (FIDF) runs a fundraising program that allows for donors to “Adopt a Brigade” of Israeli forces.
→ read full articleSilicon Valley Pioneers and Michael Jordan Join Forbes Billionaires List
Rupert Neate – The Guardian,
9 Mar 2015
3 Mar 2015 – As list swells to 1,826 global billionaires, poverty charity Oxfam calls extreme inequality a ‘moral outrage’ as billions ‘go to bed hungry every night’. Silicon Valley created 23 new billionaires last year as the global elite increased its total wealth to an obscene $7tn.
→ read full articleThe Neoconservative Threat to World Order
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
26 Feb 2015 – This week I was invited to address an important conference of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Scholars from Russia and from around the world, Russian government officials, and the Russian people seek an answer as to why Washington destroyed during the past year the friendly relations between America and Russia that President Reagan and President Gorbachev succeeded in establishing.
→ read full articleHow Gazan Natural Gas Became the Epicenter of an International Power Struggle
Michael Schwartz – CounterPunch,
2 Mar 2015
The Great Game in the Holy Land – After 25 years and five failed Israeli military efforts, Gaza’s natural gas is still underwater and, after four years, the same can be said for almost all of the Levantine gas.
→ read full article(Català-Catalán) Víctimes i Victimaris
David Álvarez – Carta de la Pau dirigida a l’ONU,
2 Mar 2015
Dialogar no és una cosa genètica, és una competència que s’ensenya i es socialitza en el procés vital de tota persona. Des de la llar fins a l’Estat, els processos de diàleg han de ser els mecanismes que hi hagi les relacions entre tots els éssers humans. Un diàleg en què ens reconeixem iguals i amb dret a expressar les nostres idees i propostes, alhora que som capaços d’escoltar i entendre les idees i propostes dels altres.
→ read full articleCommunity Response: A Danish Answer to Radical Jihad
Manfred Ertel and Ralf Hoppe – Der Spiegel,
2 Mar 2015
The murders in Copenhagen have refocused attention on a thorny question for Europe: How can radical jihadists returning from Syria be reintegrated? The Danish city of Aarhus may have found an answer.
→ read full articleGaza in Ruins after Receiving Only 5% of Pledged Reconstruction Funds
Ken Klippenstein - Reader Supported News,
2 Mar 2015
23 Feb 15 – Chris Gunness, spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), discusses the causes and consequences of the fact that only about 5% of pledged donations have reached Gaza.
→ read full article(Italiano) Perché è inevitabile l’estinzione del genere umano a breve termine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
L’espressione “estinzione umana a breve termine” è relativamente recente nella letteratura scientifica, ma a differenza di altre realtà che le ‘élite’ nazionali e i canali d’informazione dominanti sono riusciti a soffocare, questa continuerà a filtrare finché non inizierete a sentirla regolarmente. Perché?
→ read full articlePush Back the Doomsday Clock!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
We Are All Down Winders! March 1st is known as “Nuclear-Free & Independent Pacific Day.” It commemorates the tragic 15 megaton U.S. nuclear bomb test, code named Bravo, at Bikini atoll in the Marshall Islands of Micronesia, on March 1, 1954. Many people died in the Marshall Islands from radiation contamination and fallout downwind of the Bravo blast and the 66 additional U.S. nuclear weapon tests there.
→ read full articleGerman Newspaper BILD Gets inside US-NATO-Nuland Planning Session
Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Feb 19, 2015 – The Bild headline: “Cold Feet” “Bullshit,” “Angst” – What US Politicians REALLY think about the Germans in the Ukraine Crisis. Nuland set the tone at the prelude to the evening: “We can fight against the Europeans, we can fight with rhetoric against them.”
→ read full articleWhy Do We Fear Challenging Authority?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
I want to ask you three questions: Are you scared to make your own judgment (irrespective of the number of others, including experts, who make a similar judgment)? Are you scared to be labelled a ‘conspiracy theorist’ if you believe something contrary to the official (that is, the elite) narrative? And why?
→ read full articleEstablish a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy
Article 19 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
5 Feb 2015 – The undersigned organisations, a coalition of international non-governmental organisations working to protect human rights, write to encourage your government to support the creation of a new Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy at the Human Rights Council (HRC) 28th ordinary session in March [2015].
→ read full articleAlive and Bleeding
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
“We’re killing a lot of them, and we’re going to keep killing more of them. So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians — they’re in this fight with us. But we cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups, whether it’s a lack of opportunity for jobs, whether…”
→ read full articleThe Atlantic Ignores Muslim Intellectuals, Defines “True Islam” As ISIS
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
23 Feb 2015
In the piece, author Graeme Wood makes the case that the militant group represents a highly authentic version of Islam. Far from being an aberrant or deviant offshoot of traditional Islamic beliefs, it is described as being a faithful expression of them — representing “a coherent and even learned expression of Islam.”
→ read full articleShah Suleyman: The Truly Byzantine Origins of Turkey’s Operation to Rescue a Long-Dead Body from the ‘Islamic Caliphate’
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
23 Feb 2015
To begin this wondrous tale at the start. Shah Suleyman was the king who drowned in the Euphrates River in 1236. He was the father of Ertugrul, who lived by the Sea of Marmara and whose own son, Osman, founded the Ottoman empire, which lasted for 700 years and ended after Ottoman Turkey made the fatal mistake of supporting Germany in the First World War.
→ read full articleCrimea: Was It Seized by Russia, or Did Russia Block Its Seizure by the U.S.?
Eric Zuesse, Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Both before and after Crimea left Ukraine and joined Russia in a public referendum on 16 March 2014, the Gallup Organization polled Crimeans on behalf of the U.S. Government, and found them to be extremely pro-Russian and anti-American, and also anti-Ukrainian. (Neither poll was subsequently publicized, because the results of each were the opposite of what the sponsor had wished.)
→ read full articleWorld Press Freedom Index 2015: Decline on All Fronts
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that include media pluralism and independence, respect for the safety and freedom of journalists, and the legislative, institutional and infrastructural environment in which the media operate.
→ read full article700th Consecutive Weekly Hilo [Hawai’i] Peace Vigil
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Friday, Feb. 20, 2015 marks the 700th consecutive weekly Hilo, Hawaii Peace Vigil held from 3:30-5PM at the downtown Post office/federal building sponsored by Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action based in Kurtistown, Big Island, Hawai’i.
→ read full articleGuantanamo Whistleblower: Guards Rehearsed for Reporter Visits Weeks in Advance
Ken Klippenstein - Reader Supported News,
23 Feb 2015
RSN interviewed Joseph Hickman, a former Guantanamo staff sergeant and author of the recently published book, “Murder at Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant’s Pursuit of the Truth About Guantanamo Bay.” In the book, Hickman alleges that three Guantanamo detainees were murdered at a CIA black site, and that this was later covered up, the deaths portrayed as suicides.
→ read full article(Português) O Bem Comum Foi Enviado ao Limbo
Leonardo Boff – Carta Maior,
23 Feb 2015
O neoliberalismo demoliu a noção de bem comum. Em seu lugar, entraram as noções de rentabilidade, de flexibilização, de adaptação e de competitividade.
→ read full article(Português) Por que o ocidente não admite as verdadeiras raízes do terrorismo?
Mediapart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
A violência política se alimenta da violência de Estado e da violência social. O radicalismo se alimenta das presepadas geopolíticas ocidentais.
→ read full articleMarx, Syriza and the Future of Greece – The Not So Erratic Philosophy of Yanis Varoufakis
Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer - CounterPunch,
23 Feb 2015
He has just written a smashing op-ed for The New York Times that forcefully outlines his government’s approach to the negotiations. It deserves a standing ovation. Varoufakis has described himself as an “erratic Marxist.” He is far more of a Marxist than a Kantian. It’s the only moral thing to be.
→ read full articleUS “Easing Into” War with Syria Using ISIS Boogeyman
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
As early as June of last year, it was reported that ISIS would be used as a means to incrementally draw in US forces in preparation for a direct military intervention aimed at Damascus itself.
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