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Colonialism Was a Disaster and Historical Facts Prove It
Joseph McQuade – The Conversation,
2 Oct 2017
27 Sep 2017 – Recently an academic article, asserting the historical benefits of colonialism, created an outcry and a petition with over 10, 000 signatures calling for its removal. The Case for Colonialism, published in Third World Quarterly by Bruce Gilley, argues Western colonialism was both “objectively beneficial and subjectively legitimate” in most places where it existed.
→ read full articleSmart Billboards Target Individual Motorists and Spy on License Plates and Cellphones
MassPrivateI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
28 Sep 2017 – An article in McClatchy warns that a new generation of “smart digital billboards will detect the make, model and year of oncoming vehicles and project ads tailored to the motorist.” The article warns that smart billboards can guess a motorist’s home address, age, race and income level. Advertisers will be able to send messages to a person’s smartphone as they pass by a smart billboard.
→ read full article2017 Nobel Prize for Peace Activists Announced Fri 6 Oct
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Nobel´s peace prize is a wreck – serious journalists ask me whether Trump could win this year. The nomination process is no longer secret – we have published all relevant and qualified nominations. HERE.
→ read full articleMahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948)
History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury/killing of living beings (ahimsa), and vegetarianism.
→ read full articleHow US Military Outsourcing Turned Toxic
Abrahm Lustgarten | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Fraud. Bribery. Incompetence. The military’s use of contractors adds to a legacy of environmental damage.
→ read full articleToday Is the Day
Robert F. Dodge, M.D. | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Today, Sep 26, is the International Day for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. This day draws attention to the international commitment to global nuclear disarmament as expressed in Art. 6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It also highlights the lack of progress by the nine nuclear nations that hold the rest of the world hostage with their nuclear arsenals.
→ read full article(Français) Crise des Rohingya: pourquoi le Myanmar n’est pas la Syrie
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
28 Sep 2017 – De nombreux analystes et commentateurs de géopolitique ont noté pas mal de similitudes valables entre la crise syrienne et celle qui se déroule maintenant au Myanmar, dans l’Asie du Sud-Est. Toutefois, les différences sont aussi importantes que les similitudes entre ces deux crises. « Aider les lecteurs à comprendre les différents aspects de la crise actuelle au Myanmar en comparant ces différents aspects au conflit toujours en cours en Syrie peut être instructif. Cependant, tirer des conclusions complètes sur les enjeux du conflit du Myanmar en supposant simplement qu’il s’agit d’une répétition des opérations occidentales en Syrie, c’est se tromper fondamentalement ».
→ read full article(Castellano) Fidel y la Cultura
Antonio Rodríguez Salvador | La Jiribilla – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Sep 2017 – Del genio de Fidel extrañaremos bastante; quizá más que nada su especial sentido del momento histórico; esa extraordinaria capacidad de penetrar la esencia de las cosas, para emprender acciones de éxito donde otros las pospondrían escudándose en una supuesta falta de “condiciones objetivas”. Por ejemplo, ¿qué habría hecho por la cultura el común de los mortales, de haber dirigido un país como Cuba, en medio de la convulsa circunstancia de aquellos primeros años de la Revolución?
→ read full articleNobel Literature Acceptance Speech (2005)
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
The justification for the invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. We were told that Iraq had a relationship with Al Qaeda and shared responsibility for 9/11. We were told that Iraq threatened the security of the world. None of it was true. We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’.
→ read full articleMy Ethnographic Moment: In Rome
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
What struck me, in contrast to the U.S, Germany, even France, where I have recently been is that Italy, and specifically Rome, is a deep culture that works for its working and middle classes, or put less structurally, for ‘ordinary people.’ Of course, this is an impression, but for me a rather convincing one, and harmonious with a morning cappuccino and croissant.
→ read full articleCold War then. Cold War now.
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
26 Sep 2017 – The anti-Russian/anti-Soviet bias in the American media appears to have no limit. You would think that they would have enough self-awareness and enough journalistic integrity -– just enough -– to be concerned about their image. But it keeps on coming, piled higher and deeper.
→ read full articleLondon Peace Study Day & March Report
Alberto Portugheis | Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation– TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
I would like to invite our TRANSCEND friends to look at some photos of the recent Peace Study Day and March organized by HUFUD in London. We consider it a success and thank all who participated in the event. To see photos & reports please click HERE
→ read full articleWe Will Continue to Protect Assange as His Life Is Still Under Threat: Moreno
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
25 Sep 2017 – Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno said that the South American country would continue to provide asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He implied that there are looming threats to Assange’s life.
→ read full articleIn Elephant Country: Sharing Joy and Pleasure
Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
27 Sep 2017 – Elephants are huge animals — perhaps the biggest animals surviving today. They are found in tropical countries of Africa and Asia– countries that are warm and provide large amounts of trees and greenery. They largely eat leaves and occasionally some grass and grains also. They will sometimes also use the trees to scratch their bodies.
→ read full articleMaking the Rich Richer – How Big Banks Became Our Masters
Rana Foroohar – The New York Times,
2 Oct 2017
Lending to consumers or small companies is no longer a core business for large banks. Mainly they are trading assets that enrich the rich. Ten years on from the financial crisis, it’s hard not to have a sense of déjà vu.
→ read full article(Italiano) La verità di Gandhi: porre fine alla violenza umana, un passo alla volta
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
La ricorrenza di Gandhi Jayanti – il 2 Ottobre, offre l’opportunità di riflettere sulla violenza umana e di prendere in considerazione dei modi per porle fine. Ci può essere una via rapida per metter fine alla violenza umana, ma – se c’è – Gandhi non la conosceva. Né la conosco io. E neppure altri di cui ho letto o che ho interpellato. Ma questo non vuol dire che non ci siano vie per porre fine alla violenza umana.
→ read full articleVáclav Havel (5 Oct 1936 – 18 Dec 2011)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Václav Havel, Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). Havel was the son of a wealthy restaurateur whose property was confiscated by the communist government of Czechoslovakia in 1948.
→ read full articleThe Search for a New Humility: Václav Havel on Reclaiming Our Human Interconnectedness in a Globalized Yet Divided World
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
The main task in the coming era is a radical renewal of our sense of responsibility. Our conscience must catch up to our reason, otherwise we are lost. It is my profound belief that there is only one way to achieve this: we must divest ourselves of our egotistical anthropocentrism, our habit of seeing ourselves as masters of the universe who can do whatever occurs to us. We must discover a new respect for what transcends us: for the universe, for the earth, for nature, for life, and for reality.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Stories
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
29 Sep 2017 – This is the story: at 7 o’clock in the morning, an Arab approached the gate of Har Adar, took out a loaded pistol and shot three of the guards in the head at close range. But there is another story, too. The story as seen by the man himself.
→ read full article(Português) Não adianta ser vegano no mundo em que vivemos? Adianta sim!
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
— Bom, eu não acho que estou fazendo uma grande diferença, eu acredito que estou fazendo a minha diferença. Quero dizer, faço o que faço porque acredito que é certo. Se serve para motivar outras pessoas, que bom. Mas mesmo que não servisse, eu não teria motivo para não seguir esse caminho. Mesmo que todas as pessoas à minha volta me contrariassem, eu continuaria. Afinal, minhas escolhas não são baseadas no que a maioria pensa. Até porque, se fosse, provavelmente não teríamos essa conversa.
→ read full articleThe Bloodstained Levelers: Disease and Destruction
Walter Scheidel | Princeton University Press/Aeon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel, Princeton University Press – Throughout History, Plagues and Wars Have Left Greater Equality in Their Wake. Can We Get There Again without Violence?
→ read full articleModi Government Blocks Rohingya Refugees Entering India
K. Ratnayake | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
30 Sep 2017 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi has deployed security forces along India’s northeastern borders to prevent Rohingya refugees entering the country. New Delhi also plans to expel around 40,000 Rohingya already in India. Reuters reported that India’s Border Security Forces had been authorised to use “rude and crude methods” to block the refugees. “We won’t tolerate Rohingya on Indian soil,” an official said.
→ read full articleThe White Man in That Photo
Riccardo Gazzaniga - GRIOT Magazine,
2 Oct 2017
I always saw the photo as a powerful image of two barefoot black men, with their heads bowed, their black-gloved fists in the air while the US National Anthem played. It was a strong symbolic gesture – taking a stand for African American civil rights in a year of tragedies that included the death of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy.
→ read full articleThe Censored-out Truths That War Documentaries Tend to Leave on the Cutting Room Floor
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
27 Sep 2017 – I have been dutifully watching the well-publicized ten-episode, 18 hour-long PBS series on the War in Vietnam that is, as I write, just past the halfway point. The war in Vietnam was the war that I grew up being peripherally aware of, but I didn’t think much about it because I was enrolled and very busy studying in med school (1964-1968) when the Tet Offensive began.
→ read full articleReligion Is Not the Only Reason Rohingyas Are Being Forced out of Myanmar
Giuseppe Forino, Jason von Meding and Thomas Johnson – The Conversation,
2 Oct 2017
The Oil Economics and Land-Grab Politics behind the Refugee Crisis – The western media has focused on the military and Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar is home to 135 official recognised ethnic groups (the Rohingya were removed from this list in 1982).
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Can’t Ignore the People’s Tribunal
Prothom Alo [Bangladesh] | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
24 Sep 2017 – The verdict issued by the International People’s Tribunal in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Friday [22 Sep], which indicted Myanmar’s military as well as its state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi for war crimes and ethnic persecution in Myanmar, reflected the expectations of the peace-loving people of the world.
→ read full articleThe Syrian Outcome Has Departed the Script
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
1 Oct 2017 – News agencies and writers should stop referring to ISIS as “terrorists” because it connotes an independence they do not have. These so-called “terrorists” are organized, financed, and armed by Washington and Washington’s vassals. Washington uses “terrorists” as a foreign policy tool. This has been going on for decades. Yes, sometimes the “terrorists” escape Washington’s control.
→ read full articleWhere Do 50 Million Tonnes a Year of Toxic E-Waste Go?
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
2 Oct 2017
27 Sep 2017 – Each year, the electronics industry generates 41 million tonnes of e-waste, but as the lifespan of devices shrinks in response to demand , that figure could reach 50 million tonnes this year. A staggering 60-90 per cent of that –worth nearly 19 billion dollars– is illegally traded or dumped, often with the involvement of transnational criminal gangs.
→ read full article(Português) Desobediência Vegana – Por que você ainda usa produtos testados em animais?
Ellen Augusta Valer De Freitas - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
2 Oct 2017
O boicote é uma das armas do ativista vegano. Não podemos nos deixar levar por impulsos consumistas de pegar a marca mais famosa, mais fácil na prateleira. Mas e quando o sujeito é “vegano” e mesmo assim insiste em usar produtos testados em animais? Como entender esse paradoxo? Os testes realizados em animais são tão cruéis, exploratórios e degradantes quanto a morte e exploração de animais para consumo.
→ read full articleEfficiency
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
During the French Revolution, a doctor, a lawyer and an engineer were sentenced to be beheaded on the guillotine.
→ read full articleNorth Korea’s Rational Nuclear Strategy
Ted Snider – Consortium News,
2 Oct 2017
A favorite tactic of U.S. war propaganda is to label a foreign adversary “crazy” to justify a military attack — as is now happening with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un although his nuclear program really makes logical sense.
→ read full articleIndia’s Supreme Court Reins in Cow Vigilantism
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
29 Sep 2017 – India has been bedeviled by a spate of gruesome lynchings. And at the epicenter of the country’s violent upheaval is the indolent cow which is considered sacred by Hindus .The targeted communities have lately got some breathing space after being under the grip of lynch mafias only when the country’s highest court stepped into action.
→ read full articleFive Assumptions We Make about North Korea – And Why They’re Wrong
Benjamin Habib – The Conversation,
2 Oct 2017
We should interpret the threat posed by North Korea from an informed perspective based on demonstrable strategic logic, rather than on caricatured misrepresentations of its leadership.
→ read full article‘What a Rigged Economy Looks Like’: Top 10% Now Own 77% of American Wealth
Jake Johnson | Moyers & Company – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Inequality: As Trump and the GOP push massive tax cuts for the rich, new data shows that the wealthy are doing better than ever.
→ read full articleThe Facts about U.S. War on Vietnam
Films by John Pilger – Information Clearing House,
2 Oct 2017
29 Sep 2017 – None of these films was shown in the USA. This is an abridged version of an address, “Reporting War and Empire”, by John Pilger at Columbia University, New York, in company with Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass. Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US – and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Oct 2-8, 2017~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: ”The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the oppressed. In the end we will be judged in terms of love.” — Leonardo Boff
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‘Guitar Man’ & ‘Sweet Surrender’ (Music Video of the Week)
David Gates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
David Gates, founding member of BREAD, accompanied by Billy Dean and Victoria Shaw. Live in early 90’s.
→ read full articleUS Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Record $700 Billion Military Budget
Eric London | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
20 Sep 2017 – Demonstrating the bipartisan support of Democrats and Republicans for militarism and war, the US Senate voted 89 to nine on Monday [18 Sep] to authorize $700 billion in spending for the military and intelligence agencies, an $80 billion increase from 2016 and $26 billion more than President Donald Trump requested earlier this year.
→ read full articleUS H-Bomb Testing Forgotten In Media Frenzy Over North Korea Threat
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
2 Oct 2017
As the U.S. detonated nuclear bomb after nuclear bomb in the Marshall Islands – amounting to 23 tests of both fission and fusion bombs over a 12-year period – evacuated islanders and others nearby were intentionally exposed to radiation fallout from the testing, in what would become known as “Project 4.1.”
→ read full articleUN Rights Experts Urge Member States to ‘Go Beyond Statements,’ Take Action to Help Rohingya
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
26 Sep 2017 – “No one chooses, especially not in the hundreds of thousands, to leave their homes and ancestral land, no matter how poor the conditions, to flee to a strange land to live under plastic sheets and in dire circumstances except in life-threatening situations,” stressed the experts. According to estimates, more than 430,000 people have crossed into Bangladesh since the violence erupted.
→ read full articleTruths
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Truths became fragile outcasts
drowned refugees denied even their pasts
or those refugees silenced
by Zionist media murdered
Orphaned and denied futures
Transcending Nukes
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Surprisingly few people know about the historic event at the UN on 7 July 2017. A Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was approved by 122 member states. On 20 September the treaty opened for signatures and so far 53 countries have signed and three have ratified it – the Holy See, Guyana and Thailand. The treaty becomes international law 90 days after 50 states ratify it. The hard work begins now, and the TRANSCEND community has a specific and necessary contribution to make.
→ read full articleOil, Gas, Geopolitics Guide U.S. Hand in Playing the Rohingya Crisis
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
2 Oct 2017
Internal conflict, appropriately located, spells geopolitical opportunity. With U.S. ally Saudi Arabia funding and stoking Rohingya insurgencies, the U.S. creates a chance to blockade China’s oil supply and provide Aung San Suu Kyi the military cooperation needed to wrest Myanmar back from Chinese influence.
→ read full articleCartoon Explaining Colonialism
Zig Zag | Films for Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Colonialism past and present. As for the future, it’s up to us to confine colonialism to the bin of history.
→ read full articleIsraeli Support for Myanmar Is the Natural Alliance of Regimes Based on Ethnic Supremacy
David Lloyd | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
What has not been reported in the mainstream news is the fact that, even during this ongoing genocidal campaign against its Muslim population, Myanmar has been supplied with weaponry by Israel. This is by no means the first time Israel has supplied repressive regimes with the tools of their trade, from apartheid South Africa to Pinochet’s Chile and the Guatemalan dictatorship: its weapons industry, indeed, proudly boasts of the fact that its products come well “field tested”–against Palestinians.
→ read full articleSometimes We Are Hosts, Otherwise We Are Guests
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Sometimes we are hosts, otherwise we are guests,
At all times and in all places we are prisoners of life.
(Italiano) Occidente, dove stai andando?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
L’Occidente ha convertito con successo la violenza diretta della guerra nella violenza strutturale dello sfruttamento, giustificata dalla violenza culturale, utilizzando, importando, rapinando risorse, lavorandole, esportando i prodotti derivati, intascandone il valore aggiunto, brevettando ciò che era stato appreso.
→ read full article(Italiano) USA–Dove state andando?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
12 settembre 2017 – “Pentagon Study Declares American Empire Is ‘Collapsing,” (Uno studio del Pentagono sostiene che l’impero americano sta crollando) è il titolo di un saggio di Nafeez Ahmed che fa un’analisi del suddetto studio. Sembra interessante. Sottotitolo: “Rapporto sollecita una massiccia espansione del complesso militare-industriale per garantire l’accesso globale alle risorse”. Suona famigliare.
→ read full article(Português) Sofrimento em Cativeiro: Organização Denuncia por Maus-Tratos Zoológico com Orangotango Fumante
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Um orangotango se tornou fumante contumaz em um zoológico da Malásia, segundo organizações ambientalistas. Shirley, um orangotango fêmea de 25 anos, disputa com seu parceiro as pontas de cigarro jogadas.
→ read full article(Português) Magnata brasileiro corrupto entre os estrangeiros que obtiveram vistos gold em Portugal
David Pegg, Sara Farolfi, Craig Shaw e Micael Pereira - Expresso [Portugal],
25 Sep 2017
18 set 2017 – Homens de negócios envolvidos no escândalo de corrupção Lava Jato, no Brasil, e familiares de um político angolano que foi acusado de corrupção compraram de forma sigilosa o seu acesso à Europa através do Governo português, uma fuga de informação revela.
→ read full article(Italiano) Discorso di Aung San Suu Kyi sulla situazione in Myanmar
Azione Nonviolenta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Il 19 settembre Aung San Suu Kyi ha parlato al Myanmar e al mondo. Nel caos di notizie che ci arrivano da quella terra ci sembra giusto riportare le sue dichiarazioni.
→ read full articleThe Killing of History
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Reporting from New York, John Pilger describes the re-writing of the history of the Vietnam War in the 10-part television series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Millions died “in good faith”, they say. And so yet more wars are justified – as President Trump tells the world he is prepared to “totally destroy” North Korea and its 25 million people.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (14) Mahatma Gandhi
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Mahatma Gandhi, Great Soul Gandhi, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleThe Unmaking of Myanmar
Sara Perria | Centre for International Governance Innovation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas have recently crossed into Bangladesh in search of safety. Just weeks before the exodus, journalist Sara Perria went to Myanmar to understand the origins of the conflict, the complex views around the minority group and the role of the international community in their aid.
→ read full articleSlow Genocide Continues in Myanmar
Mizanur Rahman Khan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Maung Zarni said the Rohingya Muslims are being persecuted due to their ethnicity. Zarni himself introduced the idea of slow genocide in the international law. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen agreed with the view that the latest persecution of Rohingyas in Rakhine state was slow genocide.
→ read full article(Italiano) India, così grande, così sconosciuta
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
25 Sep 2017
Viene in visita a Torino un’attivista indiana di nome Medha Paktar, già nota per la sue lotte a difesa di popolazioni minacciate di essere allontanate dai loro territori in seguito alla costruzione di una grande diga sul fiume Narmada. India, alle radici dell’industrializzazione selvaggia.
→ read full articleApartheid and the Future of Israel/Palestine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
The interview, associated with my current visit to Belgium and France to speak on the report “Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid,” brings up to date the controversy generated by the UN Secretary General bowing to U.S. pressure and ordering its removal from ESCWA website. It was published in l’Humanité, Sept. 6, 2017.
→ read full articleWill Opioid Lawsuits by County Officials against Big Pharma Set Legal Precedent to Sue Vaccine Makers?
Catherine J. Frompovich - Activist Post,
25 Sep 2017
“They know what they’ve been doing. They’ve been misrepresenting the dangers of these dangerous addictive drugs for years.” – “Those pharmaceutical companies have made billions of dollars off the deaths of our children and our loved ones.”
→ read full articleCovering the Rohingya: Separating Fact from Fiction
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
We examine how Myanmar’s government and military shape the media narrative surrounding the Rohingya crisis.
→ read full articleCommon Ground
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Unity based conflict resolution does not focus on the points of disagreement, but seeks points of unity, common interest, and gradually expands from there, to arrive at a mutually acceptable solution to problems.
→ read full articleThank you, Smotrich
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Another Zionist poet once wrote that we will not become a normal nation until we have Jewish criminals and Jewish whores. Thank God we now have plenty of both. And now we also have at least one bona fide Jewish fascist.
→ read full articleReclaiming the Truth about Vietnam
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
The first set of words sickened a vast segment of the American public and caused the horror of “Vietnam Syndrome” to cripple and emasculate the military-industrial complex for a decade and a half. Slowly, the powers that be regrouped, redefined how we fought our wars: without widespread national sacrifice or a universal draft; and with smart bombs and even smarter public relations, ensuring that most of the American public could watch our clean, efficient wars in the comfort of their living rooms. What was also necessary was to marginalize the anti-war voices that shut down the Vietnam War.
→ read full articleTrump Misreads North Korea’s Sacred Dynasty at His Peril
Michael Brabazon – The Guardian,
25 Sep 2017
23 Sep 2017 – References to the regime as a cold war relic, or as communist, Stalinist, or a cult of personality, make easy and colourful soundbites. But do they really help in understanding the motivations of what appears to be a dangerous, anachronistic society? The short answer is no. In the escalating war of insults, Trump is a ‘gangster fond of playing with fire’, Kim Jong-un a ‘madman’ who will be tested as never before.
→ read full articleUS Inaugurates Its First Military Base in Israel
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
The new base adds to the U.S. garrison of the world, which accounts for some 800 military bases on soil other than its own.
→ read full articleIn the Amazon, a Catastrophic Gold Rush Looms
Chris Feliciano Arnold – The New York Times,
25 Sep 2017
18 Sep 2017 — Brazil’s interim president, Michel Temer, is willing to sacrifice millions of acres of rain forest in pursuit of a 16th-century boondoggle: fortunes of gold in the Amazon. In August, he signed a decree to open a rain forest reserve — an area larger than Denmark — to commercial mining, threatening decades of progress on environmental protection and indigenous rights in the Amazon.
→ read full articlePogrom of Minority Rohingya in Myanmar
Mohammad Amjad Hossain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
This writer suggests to the UN Secretary-general, who is fully aware of the fate of Rohingya minority in Myanmar, to send peacekeeping forces of the UN to Rakhine State to protect security of minority community apart from bring back Rohingya from around neighboring countries to their homeland. Security Council should consider imposing economic sanctions against Myanmar government as well.
→ read full articleWorld’s Largest Solar Park to Also Host World’s Tallest Solar Tower
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
19 Sep 2017 – The Dubai government has awarded a $3.9 billion contract to construct the 700-megawatt fourth and final phase of the world-record-holding Solar Park. The project also includes an 850-foot-tall solar tower that receives focused sunlight, the world’s tallest such structure.
→ read full articleFrench Pres. Macron Pulls No Punches: Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar Constitutes ‘Genocide’
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
21 Sep 2017 – French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday [20 Sep] said that France will work with other members of the U.N. Security Council for a condemnation of “this genocide which is unfolding, this ethnic cleansing,” in an interview with the French TV channel TMC.
→ read full articleIndictment of Burma/Myanmar for State Crimes
Permanent People’s Tribunal on Myanmar’s State Crimes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
State sponsored and state led massacres, extrajudicial executions, murders, disappearances, drownings, rape and sexual violence, the destruction of homes and of whole villages, the wholesale denial of civil rights, in the context of state terror. Gross, widespread and systematic violations of the right to life, economic, social and cultural rights particularly the right to health and livelihood, the right to food and food sovereignty and the right to freedom from interference with the family and home
→ read full articleEmployee Ownership and the Next System
Joseph Blasi, Thomas Hanna and Dana Brown | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
29 Aug 2017 – What role should employee ownership and profit-sharing play in the next system? Are they part of that system itself or part of the strategy to help create the transition to it? Can they be both?
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The Swan (Music Video of the Week)
Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Composer: Saint-Saëns – From Songs from the Arc of Life
→ read full articleFor an Israel-Palestine of Cantons
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Dr. Emile Nakhleh says the people of the area must jettison the two-state formula–which has produced nothing–and explore more creative possibilities that will serve the two peoples. A confederation of cantons is a starting idea. Facts shown in maps and diagrams.
→ read full articleUS Senate Backs Massive Increase in Military Spending
Patricia Zengerle | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
18 Sep 2017 – The U.S. Senate passed a $700 billion defense policy bill today, backing Donald Trump’s call for a bigger, stronger military. The Republican-controlled chamber voted 89-8 for the National Defense Authorization Act.
→ read full articleHow Do We Get Out of This Mess?
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017 – Here are my proposals for a new politics, designed for the 21st Century… We know that, if we can mobilise such silent majorities, there is nothing this small minority can do to stop us… As we rekindle our imagination, we discover our power to act. And that is the point at which we become unstoppable.
→ read full articleBeing
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
I walked my hard way,
My journey was long,
And every day I kneaded clay
Under the long heavy rain.
Alert: Nature, on the Verge of Bankruptcy
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
25 Sep 2017
12 Sep 2017 – Pressures on global land resources are now greater than ever, as a rapidly increasing population coupled with rising levels of consumption is placing ever-larger demands on the world’s land-based natural capital, warns a new United Nations report.
→ read full article(Português) Entenda por que você pode estar consumindo insetos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Você costuma ler os rótulos dos produtos que compra? Alguma vez encontrou um ingrediente discriminado como “corante natural carmim de cochonilha” ou “corante carmim”? Sabe o que isso significa? Que esse corante vermelho foi extraído do corpo e dos ovos de um inseto.
→ read full articleNestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For
Caroline Winter | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
21 Sep 2017 – In rural Mecosta County, Mich., sits a near-windowless facility with a footprint about the size of Buckingham Palace. It’s just one of Nestlé’s roughly 100 bottled water factories in 34 countries around the world. The company’s operation reveals how it’s dominated the industry by going into economically depressed areas with lax water laws.
→ read full articleThe Great Nutrient Collapse
Helena Bottemiller Evich - POLITICO,
25 Sep 2017
The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention.
→ read full articleWater Supplies Run Dry near Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Mexico
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
17 Sep 2017 – A Coca-Cola plant is said to be taking up copious amounts of water to manufacture its signature soda, in turn, drying up the wells in southern Mexico. The Mexican FEMSA-run bottling company operating the plant is said to have consumed at least 1.08 million liters of water per day in 2016.
→ read full article(Português) Pôneis são massacrados pela indústria da carne
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Durante milênios, eles percorreram Dartmoor, na Inglaterra. Os pôneis da região, com suas crinas distintas, rabos e pelugens espessos, sobreviveram e prosperaram no National Park, mas agora enfrentam uma ameaça sem precedentes para sua sobrevivência e algumas pessoas defendem que é preciso usar uma solução radical e imaginável para “salvá-los” .
→ read full articleSeptember Employee of the Month: [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi
World Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
September 2017’s “employee of the month” is Aung San Suu Kyi, awarded this month for her refusal to recognize the assault against the Rohingya population of Myanmar for what it is: a massive state-sponsored campaign of violence against a minority group. In lieu of a WPF explanation of the awardee, however, we re-post the below “Open Letter to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi” written by Burmese activists.
→ read full articleFairness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Taking his seat in his chambers, the judge faced the opposing lawyers.
→ read full articleSouth Korea Unexpectedly Approves Aid to North
Jason Ditz – Antiwar.com,
25 Sep 2017
21 Sep 2017 – As Sanctions Hit Civilians, South Korea to Send Food, Medicine to North Korea – In a move no one expected, and which puts them squarely at odds with the US, South Korea today announced the provision of a new $8 million aid package for neighboring North Korea in directly contrast with US calls for “more pressure.”
→ read full articleTribunal Finds Myanmar Guilty of Genocide against Rohingya
Radio Free Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
22 Sep 2017 – An international panel of judges, The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal of scholars and experts from around the globe, declared today in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur that the Myanmar government is guilty of committing genocide against Rohingya Muslims, who have been fleeing the country following months of military crackdowns against the minority group.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Sep 25 – Oct 1, 2017~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.” ― Walter Scott
→ read full articleNew Rules Split Palestinians from Foreign Spouses
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Sep 10, 2017 – Israel has built up a huge bureaucracy with one purpose only – to oversee and manage (prohibit) every aspect of Palestinian life. Here Amira Hass reports on an unannouced new rule demanding foreigners married to Palestinians have to jump through many hoops to get a visa to stay with their spouse. It’s to urge the families to emigrate, critics say.
→ read full articleGovernment by Goldman: Gary Cohn Is Giving Goldman Sachs Everything It Ever Wanted from the Trump Administration
Gary Rivlin and Michael Hudson – The Intercept,
25 Sep 2017
Gary Cohn and Trump’s Wall Street Agenda – “Yet now Cohn’s in charge of the economy and talking about eliminating financial reform and basically putting the country back to where it was in 2005, as if 2008 didn’t happen. I’ve started the countdown clock to the next financial crash, which will make the last one look mild.”
→ read full articleTurning Taboos into Constructive Discourses
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Freedom of expression can be severely curtailed by taboo zones in any country, outruling, sometimes also outlawing the unspeakable… To see Hitler, not his ideas, as evil, is itself an evil idea. Kill Hitler or he kills himself and the ideas are still alive, blowing in the air so to speak, in search of new carriers. The ideas have to be confronted and overcome; only killing individual carriers is naive.
→ read full articleSample Comments Regarding PolyMet’s Permit Application to Construct a Copper Mining Tailings Lagoon in Northern Minnesota
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
19 Sep 2017 – To the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, regarding PolyMet’s most recent permitting request: Here are my reasons that the DNR should reject PolyMet’s permit applications for their earthen tailings dam, their liquid slurry pipeline pumping operation and their open pit sulfide mine near the headwaters of the St Louis River:
→ read full articleIran Implementing Its Nuclear Commitments, UN Atomic Agency Chief Stresses
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
18 Sep 2017 – Iran is implementing its commitments under “the world’s most robust nuclear verification regime,” the United Nations atomic agency head said today, while at the same time voicing “grave concern” at the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) nuclear programme.
→ read full articleThe Gaza Ghetto
Jews for Justice for Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Gaza is already ‘unliveable’ causing illness, death and immiseration. If the authorities – Hamas, Israel, the PA – could accept their responsibility it might have a hope. At the moment, NGOs are proving the basics which ANY responsible regime should ensure. Save the Children is featured here for its work with children, the first to suffer from adult obduracy.
→ read full articleJohn Boyd Orr: (23 Sep 1880 – 25 Jun 1971)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
John Boyd Orr was a medical doctor and biologist from Scotland concerned with the impact of poverty and malnutrition on health. He worked on food issues with the League of Nations and during the Second World War was deeply involved in food issues in Britain, especially focused on the needs of children and youth.
→ read full articleInstant Gratification — Some Philosophical Questions
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
25 Sep 2017 – The world has become conditioned to some strange requirements — instant coffee, instant noodles, instant communication and expression of our thoughts. We are usually short of time and want instant gratification. We want to cut down on the entity TIME.
→ read full articlePoetry Steeped in Sarcasm and Politics
Sarah Irving | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
19 Sep 2017 – “Prince of Poets” star Tamim Al-Barghouti’s first collection of work translated into English. The political side of his life often comes through in witty, sarcastic, bitter poems stating observations and allegories. – In Jerusalem and Other Poems, 1997-2017, Interlink Books (2017)
→ read full articlePsychosocial Learnings from the Spiral Form of Hurricanes
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Much is known about the structure and dynamics of hurricanes. Much is also known about the helical structure of DNA and of spirals in general. The question is how such insight might be related to the intuited significance of the triadic triskelion and how it might be employed to enrich the very particular institutional preoccupations promoted under the banner of the Triple Helix model and its extensions.
→ read full articleSpy Files Russia
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Today, September 19th 2017, WikiLeaks starts publishing the series “Spy Files Russia” with documents from the Russian company Петер-Сервис (PETER-SERVICE). This release includes 209 documents (34 base documents in different versions) dated between 2007 and 2015.
→ read full articleFinancialization and the Destruction of the Real Economy
Charles Hugh Smith – Activist Post,
25 Sep 2017
Strip an economy of capital, productive incentives, talent and yes, ethics, and what are we left with? An economy spiraling toward an inevitable collapse.
→ read full articleGood-Bye, See You Later
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
We made it! Five hundred Mondays [from 3 Mar 2008] has Antonio from Brazil-Portugal posted an editorial by me from Norway and the world–sometimes with a coauthor. With the good support of the other members of our editorial committee, Malvin Gattinger from Germany, Naakow Grant-Hayford from Ghana and Erika Degortes from Italy. THANKS!
→ read full articleMantras for a New India
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
25 Sep 2017 – In India, the priorities of village people are constantly undergoing changes. These are, in fact, a result of the changes the development landscape is undergoing… We now have the techniques and resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will.
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