Archive for 2016 – Week 18


Living Peace Sign Is Happening in London!
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (ANNOUNCEMENTS | 1 Comment »)
(Português) Mauricio Lima, Fotógrafo do NYT e Ganhador do Pulitzer 2016, Denuncia a Globo e o “Golpe” no Brasil
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept
May 2nd, 2016 (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES | Comments Off on (Português) Mauricio Lima, Fotógrafo do NYT e Ganhador do Pulitzer 2016, Denuncia a Globo e o “Golpe” no Brasil)
NYT Photographer Mauricio Lima, 2016 Pulitzer Winner, Denounces Globo and the “Coup” in Brazil
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept
May 2nd, 2016 (MEDIA | Comments Off on NYT Photographer Mauricio Lima, 2016 Pulitzer Winner, Denounces Globo and the “Coup” in Brazil)
It Is Still 3 Minutes to Midnight
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION | Comments Off on It Is Still 3 Minutes to Midnight)
Andrew Bacevich and America’s Long Misguided War to Control the Greater Middle East
Charles Glass – The Intercept
May 2nd, 2016 (ANGLO AMERICA | Comments Off on Andrew Bacevich and America’s Long Misguided War to Control the Greater Middle East)
US Army’s Depleted Uranium Licencing Saga Highlights Post-Conflict Contradictions
International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (MILITARISM | Comments Off on US Army’s Depleted Uranium Licencing Saga Highlights Post-Conflict Contradictions)
(Italiano) Far prevalere il Vangelo della nonviolenza nel pensiero e nell’azione della Chiesa
Jean-Marie Muller – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES | Comments Off on (Italiano) Far prevalere il Vangelo della nonviolenza nel pensiero e nell’azione della Chiesa)
On Israel’s Recent Threats of “Civil Assassinations” of BDS Activists
Omar Barghouti, BDS South Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (PALESTINE - ISRAEL | Comments Off on On Israel’s Recent Threats of “Civil Assassinations” of BDS Activists)
Duty to Warn – Bad Science? Or Willful Ignorance at the CDC?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (ANGLO AMERICA | Comments Off on Duty to Warn – Bad Science? Or Willful Ignorance at the CDC?)
Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94
Daniel Lewis – International New York Times
May 2nd, 2016 (OBITUARIES | 1 Comment »)
The Unbearable Lightness of [Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs] Stéphane Dion
Matthew Behrens, Rabble – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (ANGLO AMERICA | Comments Off on The Unbearable Lightness of [Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs] Stéphane Dion)
Solar Impulse Pilot: ‘I Flew Over Plastic Waste As Big As a Continent’
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (ENVIRONMENT | 1 Comment »)
Sanctions and Defiance in North Korea
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (ASIA--PACIFIC | Comments Off on Sanctions and Defiance in North Korea)
11-Year-Old Twins Mack and Colby – Amazing Family Brass Band (Music Video of the Week)
Little Big Shots – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (Music Video of the Week | Comments Off on 11-Year-Old Twins Mack and Colby – Amazing Family Brass Band (Music Video of the Week))
Austria Abolishes Right to Asylum
Markus Salzmann, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (EUROPE | Comments Off on Austria Abolishes Right to Asylum)
Peace State Iceland. Meaning What?
Johan Galtung
May 2nd, 2016 (EDITORIAL | 8 Comments »)
Nothing Is Real: “It’s All Being Played to Keep People Believing the System Is Working”
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (CAPITALISM | Comments Off on Nothing Is Real: “It’s All Being Played to Keep People Believing the System Is Working”)
The Joke of U.S. Justice and “Accountability” When They Bomb a Hospital
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept
May 2nd, 2016 (ANGLO AMERICA | Comments Off on The Joke of U.S. Justice and “Accountability” When They Bomb a Hospital)
The Unrepentant Torturers
John Kiriakou - Reader Supported News
May 2nd, 2016 (ANGLO AMERICA | Comments Off on The Unrepentant Torturers)
“Us” and “Them”
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (TRANSCEND MEMBERS | 1 Comment »)
Rebuilding the EU or Breaking Free from It?
C J Polychroniou – Al Jazeera
May 2nd, 2016 (EUROPE | Comments Off on Rebuilding the EU or Breaking Free from It?)
19th World Congress of the International Association of Educators for World Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. - TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (ANNOUNCEMENTS | Comments Off on 19th World Congress of the International Association of Educators for World Peace)
How Can We Keep Press Freedom from Withering Away?
Farhana Haque Rahman – Inter Press Service-IPS
May 2nd, 2016 (MEDIA | Comments Off on How Can We Keep Press Freedom from Withering Away?)
(Italiano) La ricerca della Buona Città
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES | Comments Off on (Italiano) La ricerca della Buona Città)
Valeant CEO to Tell Senate He’s Really, Really Sorry for Raising the Price of Life-Saving Heart Drugs 700 Percent
Claire Landsbaum – New York Magazine
May 2nd, 2016 (CAPITALISM | Comments Off on Valeant CEO to Tell Senate He’s Really, Really Sorry for Raising the Price of Life-Saving Heart Drugs 700 Percent)
Washington Launches Its Attack against BRICS
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (BRICS | Comments Off on Washington Launches Its Attack against BRICS)
Celebrating Mother Jones and Labor on May Day
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (ACTIVISM | Comments Off on Celebrating Mother Jones and Labor on May Day)
From Just War to Just Peace
Bernt Jonsson – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (RELIGION | Comments Off on From Just War to Just Peace)
Can Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Preserve Our Cultural Heritage in Syria?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (SYRIA IN CONTEXT | Comments Off on Can Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Preserve Our Cultural Heritage in Syria?)
(Português) Prêmio Nobel da Paz Adolfo Pérez Esquivel traz apoio do Papa a Dilma
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES | Comments Off on (Português) Prêmio Nobel da Paz Adolfo Pérez Esquivel traz apoio do Papa a Dilma)
Why NATO Has Become One of the Most Destructive Forces on the Planet
Vijay Prashad - AlterNet
May 2nd, 2016 (MILITARISM | Comments Off on Why NATO Has Become One of the Most Destructive Forces on the Planet)
Chernobyl’s Ongoing Toll: 40,000 More Cancer Deaths?
Ian Fairlie - CounterPunch
May 2nd, 2016 (SPECIAL FEATURE, ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY | Comments Off on Chernobyl’s Ongoing Toll: 40,000 More Cancer Deaths?)
Popular Representation and Democracy in Syria – End of `Alawite Dictatorship’?
Kristian Girling – Oriental Review
May 2nd, 2016 (SYRIA IN CONTEXT | Comments Off on Popular Representation and Democracy in Syria – End of `Alawite Dictatorship’?)
Anthropologists Marshalling History: The American Anthropological Association’s Vote on the Academic Boycott of Israeli Institutions
Roberto J. González and David Price - CounterPunch
May 2nd, 2016 (PALESTINE - ISRAEL | Comments Off on Anthropologists Marshalling History: The American Anthropological Association’s Vote on the Academic Boycott of Israeli Institutions)
Death from the Sky: Searching for Ground Truth in the Kunduz Hospital Bombing
May Jeong – The Intercept
May 2nd, 2016 (ANALYSIS | Comments Off on Death from the Sky: Searching for Ground Truth in the Kunduz Hospital Bombing)
If Obama Visits Hiroshima
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (TRANSCEND MEMBERS | Comments Off on If Obama Visits Hiroshima)
Touring Tragedy: A Day of Disaster Porn in Chernobyl
Hilmar Schmundt and Phil Thoma - Der Spiegel
May 2nd, 2016 (SPECIAL FEATURE, ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY | Comments Off on Touring Tragedy: A Day of Disaster Porn in Chernobyl)
Nuclear Emergencies and the Masters of Improvisation
Sonja Schmid – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
May 2nd, 2016 (SPECIAL FEATURE, ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY | 2 Comments »)
US Military Whitewashes Attack on Afghan Hospital
Peter Symonds, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (ANALYSIS | Comments Off on US Military Whitewashes Attack on Afghan Hospital)
Kenya Burns Huge Pile of Ivory Tusks to Protest Poaching
Tom Odula, Associated Press – Reader Supported News
May 2nd, 2016 (ANIMAL RIGHTS - VEGETARIANISM | 1 Comment »)
Call of the Forests – Seeking Joy and Peace
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (TRANSCEND MEMBERS, ENVIRONMENT | Comments Off on Call of the Forests – Seeking Joy and Peace)
(Français) Réhabiliter une lecture Nord-Sud du monde
François Polet – CETRI-Centre Tricontinental
May 2nd, 2016 (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES | Comments Off on (Français) Réhabiliter une lecture Nord-Sud du monde)
In Israel, an Ugly Tide Sweeps Over Palestinians
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (PALESTINE - ISRAEL | Comments Off on In Israel, an Ugly Tide Sweeps Over Palestinians)
Obama’s War Summit in Europe
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (MILITARISM | Comments Off on Obama’s War Summit in Europe)
2016 World Press Freedom Index: Leaders Paranoid about Journalists
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (MEDIA | Comments Off on 2016 World Press Freedom Index: Leaders Paranoid about Journalists)
Debacle at Doha: The Collapse of the Old Oil Order
Michael T. Klare - TomDispatch
May 2nd, 2016 (ENERGY | Comments Off on Debacle at Doha: The Collapse of the Old Oil Order)
You’re More Likely to See an Oil Industry Ad than a Climate Report on CNN
Xian Chiang-Waren, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (MEDIA | Comments Off on You’re More Likely to See an Oil Industry Ad than a Climate Report on CNN)
Amy Goodman: How the Media Ruins Elections
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (SHORT VIDEO CLIPS | 1 Comment »)
Morbid Insecurity
M. Wuerker – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (JOKE OF THE WEEK | Comments Off on Morbid Insecurity)
Dilemma for [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi in Push for Peace Process in Burma/Myanmar
Nirmal Ghosh – The Straits Times
May 2nd, 2016 (NOBEL LAUREATES | 1 Comment »)
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (HISTORY | Comments Off on This Week in History)
Can We Feel the Heat?
Cathy Breen, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA | Comments Off on Can We Feel the Heat?)
Amid Media Megamergers, a Mosaic of Community Media Thrives
Amy Goodman and Denis Moyhihan – Democracy NOW!
May 2nd, 2016 (MEDIA | Comments Off on Amid Media Megamergers, a Mosaic of Community Media Thrives)
I Lost My Childhood
José María Lopera – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (POETRY FORMAT | Comments Off on I Lost My Childhood)
Any Way to Halt Extremism?
Baher Kamal – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (IN FOCUS | Comments Off on Any Way to Halt Extremism?)
The Constitutional Coup-Color Revolution Two-Step in Brazil
Andrew Korybko – Oriental Review
May 2nd, 2016 (BRICS | Comments Off on The Constitutional Coup-Color Revolution Two-Step in Brazil)
Contributing to the Catholic Church’s Understanding of and Commitment to Nonviolence
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (NOBEL LAUREATES | Comments Off on Contributing to the Catholic Church’s Understanding of and Commitment to Nonviolence)
Happiness Inequality Is a Better Measure of Well-Being than Income Inequality
Kira M. Newman, The Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley– TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (IN FOCUS | Comments Off on Happiness Inequality Is a Better Measure of Well-Being than Income Inequality)
The Battle over the Word ‘Rohingya’ [in Burma aka Myanmar]
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post
May 2nd, 2016 (ASIA--PACIFIC | Comments Off on The Battle over the Word ‘Rohingya’ [in Burma aka Myanmar])
Learning from Nuclear Accidents, Expanding Nuclear Energy
Augustin Simo – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
May 2nd, 2016 (SPECIAL FEATURE, ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY | Comments Off on Learning from Nuclear Accidents, Expanding Nuclear Energy)
The Story behind Prince’s Low-Profile Generosity to Green Causes
Katie Herzog, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (ACTIVISM | Comments Off on The Story behind Prince’s Low-Profile Generosity to Green Causes)
Refugee Crisis: When Is a Tragedy a Massacre?
Richard Seymour – Al Jazeera
May 2nd, 2016 (EUROPE | Comments Off on Refugee Crisis: When Is a Tragedy a Massacre?)
The Evolution of Union Co-ops and the Historical Development of Workplace Democracy
James Anderson, Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (COOPS-COOPERATION-SHARING | Comments Off on The Evolution of Union Co-ops and the Historical Development of Workplace Democracy)
Court Victory Gives Momentum to Long Struggle against London Arms Fair
Javier Gárate – Waging Nonviolence
May 2nd, 2016 (ACTIVISM | Comments Off on Court Victory Gives Momentum to Long Struggle against London Arms Fair)
The Return of the Coup in Latin America
Manuel E. Yepe - CounterPunch
May 2nd, 2016 (LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN | Comments Off on The Return of the Coup in Latin America)
Escalating U.S. Air Strikes Kill Hundreds of Civilians in Mosul, Iraq
Nicolas J S Davies, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2nd, 2016 (MILITARISM | Comments Off on Escalating U.S. Air Strikes Kill Hundreds of Civilians in Mosul, Iraq)