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Anti-Fascist Heroines Then and Now
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
25 Sep 2017
21 Sep 2017 – The history of resistance to fascism is worth recalling at this critical moment in U.S. politics. The stories of Anne Frank and Sophie Scholl — two young German women, one a Jew, another a Christian — should guide and inspire us in this darkening time.
→ read full articleA Low Enriched Uranium Bank in Kazakhstan
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – A new facility designed to help prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons – the Low Enriched Uranium Bank – was inaugurated last August 29 at Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. The inauguration coincided with the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, declared in 2009 by the United Nations.
→ read full article35 Years after the Sabra-Shatila Massacre Where’s “The Resistance”?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
This week commemorates the 35th anniversary of the Wed, Sep 15 to Sat, Sep 18, 1982 Sabra-Shatila Massacre in the Fakhani neighborhood of Beirut. For many of the families and loved ones of the victims, as is certainly the case with this observer, it seems as though the Sabra-Shatila Massacre was committed at most four or five years ago. So vivid still in our memories are the horror images of that orgy of slaughter.
→ read full article(Português) Inaugurado o Banco de Uranio no Casaquistão
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
13 Set 2017 – Uma nova instalação destinada a auxiliar a prevenção da proliferação de armas nucleares – o Banco de Urânio Levemente Enriquecido – foi inaugurada no último dia 29 de agosto, em Astana, capital do Casaquistão, a qual coincidiu com o Dia Internacional Contra os Ensaios Nucleares, declarado em 2009 pelas Nações Unidas.
→ read full articleRemembering Ebrahim Yazdi
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
For all those dedicated to the attainment of real democracy, the name and life of Ebrahim Yazdi is a precious legacy worth reflecting upon because it has so much to teach us today. Among those who struggled for an Iranian future that was Islamic, genuinely democratic, and humanly decent no one was more steadfast and clear about their commitment than Dr. Yazdi.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to [Nobel Peace Laureate] Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
As your fellow countrymen, with deep roots in our troubled birthplace, we are writing to you to share our sadness and concern about your personal legacy as the nation’s leader, the plight of our people, and the future of Myanmar as a nation. When you delivered your first speech in 1988, declaring that “as my father’s daughter I could no longer remain silent when the public remains subject to decades of oppression”, we were deeply moved and inspired by your determination and courage.
→ read full article(Français) «L’Étreinte du Serpent»: Colonialisme et Destruction
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Dans cette œuvre cinématographique qui a récolté une reconnaissance internationale unanime, le cinéaste colombien Ciro Guerra expose de manière saisissante ce que le phénomène de colonisation et le processus de domination ont toujours voulu réduire au silence. Il explique la rencontre entre les indigènes et les explorateurs européens, inversant les points de vue de ce qu’on appelle la « Découverte du Nouveau monde« , maintenant vue du côté des indigènes.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (13) Count Leo Tolstoy
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Count Leo Tolstoy, great author and humanist, pioneer of nonviolent resistance, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWhen Is a Genocide a Genocide?
Amal de Chickera | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
(Or, why is the world allowing the Rohingya to be slaughtered?) There is a genocide happening before our eyes. If only we can bear to look. A humane, compassionate, professional, incisive, and brutally honest report of the state of the world, specifically the unending failures and complicity of the UN system of nation states in cases of genocides and other crimes of barbarity.
→ read full articleHurricane Irma Unleashes the Forces of Privatization in Puerto Rico
Kate Aronoff, Angel Manuel Soto and Averie Timm – The Intercept,
18 Sep 2017
12 Sep 2017 – Vultures circling the wreckage of Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Irma are closing in on a long-sought prize.
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Where Does Your Entertainment Come From?
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Sea Shepherd Releases Powerful Video on the Same Day Japan Begins Its Annual Dolphin Hunt
→ read full article(Português) George Orwell e a crítica à exploração animal (*)
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
12 set 2017 – O homem é a única criatura que consome sem produzir. Ele não dá leite, não bota ovos, é muito fraco para puxar o arado, não corre rápido o suficiente para pegar coelhos. Sim, ele é o senhor dos animais. Ele os prepara para trabalhar, e lhes entrega o mínimo que os impedirá de morrer de fome. O resto ele mantém para si mesmo.
→ read full articleBuddhist Man Calls for Jews to Help Myanmar’s Rohingya People
Matthew Gindin – The Canadian Jewish News,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – In March, London-based Burmese Buddhist and human rights activist Maung Zarni stood on the train tracks outside of Auschwitz and asked his companion to press record on his video camera. “If anyone would understand what is happening to the Rohingya, it would be you, the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, the survivors and their families,” Zarni told.
→ read full articleFor the Love of Money: Wall Street’s Money Addiction
Sam Polk – The New York Times,
18 Sep 2017
These traders despised anything or anyone that threatened their bonuses. Ever see what a drug addict is like when he’s used up his junk? He’ll do anything — walk 20 miles in the snow, rob a grandma — to get a fix. Wall Street was like that. In the months before bonuses were handed out, the trading floor started to feel like a neighborhood in “The Wire” when the heroin runs out.
→ read full articleThe Politics of Military Ascendancy
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
15 Sep 2017 – Clearly the US has escalated the pivotal role of the military in the making of foreign and, by extension, domestic policy. The rise of ‘the Generals’ to strategic positions in the Trump regime is evident, deepening its role as a highly autonomous force determining US strategic policy agendas.
→ read full articleUrge, Splurge, Purge
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
As Milton Friedman, one of the architects of neoliberal ideology, put it, “Ecological values can find their natural space in the market, like any other consumer demand”. But there’s a flaw. Hurricanes do not respond to market signals. The plastic fibres in our oceans, food and drinking water do not respond to market signals. Nor does the collapse of insect populations, or coral reefs, or the extirpation of orangutans from Borneo.
→ read full articleWhat If the 9/11 Whistle-Blowers Are Speaking the Truth?
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Today (the day after 9-11-2017) I received an email message about my last Duty to Warn column about 9/11 that he had just read the day before. It simply said:
“Gary, if what you and Dr Fetzer say is true, aren’t you afraid of being ‘taken out’?
I’d like to see a list of important 9/11 people who have been silenced.”
Principles of Persecution: India’s Systematized Human Rights Violations
Hasnat Sheikh | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
16 Sep 2017 – Arbitrary detentions, torture, mass graves and mass rapes. These are words that describe matters recurrent in the “world’s largest democracy”, India… For the sake of humanity and fundamental human rights, the Indian government must be pressed to demolish these pillars of systematized persecution and uphold standards of law and justice.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Member Sergio Duarte Is New President of [1995 Nobel Peace Laureate] Pugwash
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
7 Sep 2017 – The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is proud to announce that Sergio Duarte, former UN Undersecretary for Disarmament Affairs and a retired career diplomat from Brazil, has become its new President. He succeeds Jayantha Dhanapala, who after ten years in the role retired at the conclusion of the 62nd Pugwash Conference in Astana, on 29 Aug 2017.
→ read full articleVenezuela Reports Oil Prices in Chinese Currency, Shunning the ‘Tyranny of the Dollar’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Venezuela, the country with the largest oil reserves in the world, began on Friday [15 Sep] to report its crude oil prices in the Chinese Yuan following the imposition of U.S. sanctions, bucking the oil market norm of pricing in the U.S dollar.
→ read full articleFollow Kenya’s Lead on Plastic Bags
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
14 Sep 2017 – Plastic bags are often used for a few minutes before enjoying an eternal afterlife, clogging storm drains, stuffing landfills, killing animals that eat them and contributing to the eight million metric tons of plastic in oceans every year. Kenya and more than 40 other countries have taxed, limited or banned plastic bags. The rest of the world should, too.
→ read full articleUnreal Dreams
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
How long I’ve dreamed,
Is it possible to take its normal course,
So that the gardens can blossom,
So that the bird’s scent does not stop,
UN Human Rights Chief Points to ‘Textbook Example of Ethnic Cleansing’ in Myanmar
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017 – He lashed out at the treatment of the Rohingya in Myanmar which has led to more than 300,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh in the past three weeks, as security forces and local militia reportedly burn villages and shoot civilians.
→ read full articleU.N. Brands Myanmar Violence a ‘Textbook’ Example of Ethnic Cleansing
Stephanie Nebehay and Simon Lewis | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017 – The United Nations’ top human rights official today slammed Myanmar for conducting a “cruel military operation” against Rohingya Muslims, branding it “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. Zeid Ra‘ad al-Hussein’s comments to the UNHRC in Geneva came as the official tally of Rohingya who have fled Myanmar and crossed into southern Bangladesh in just over two weeks soared through 300,000.
→ read full articleThe World–Where Are You Heading?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Jurisprudence and the legal model; why not, and the alternatives? Answer: A deeply rooted model seeing social reality as actors, individual or collective, responsible for their acts, answerable to the law. An indispensable perspective to be enriched with a systemic perspective: action is not only conditioned by actor intention and capability, but also by good and bad structures; hence changing bad structures, not only punishing illegal actors, or restoring them.
→ read full articleSwami Vivekananda: Relevance of His Stirring Speech in Chicago in 1893
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
His speech delivered in the Parliament of Religions in Chicago on 11 Sep 1893 was a unique and path breaking one that helped not only the delegates but also the general public to get an idea of what the Hindu religion, one of the most ancient religions of the world, signified and what was its relevance at that time to the world.
→ read full articleThe Unspoken Truth behind the Colin Kaepernick Story
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
16 Sep 2017 – Two recent sports news items have reminded me of incidents from my own athletic past. And those memories in turn have brought my reflections back to the current news regarding the failure of any NFL team to sign quarterback Colin Kaepernick to a contract, and the recent boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor.
→ read full articleHow to Fast Safely: Considerations before Starting a Fast
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
If you haven’t done the research, you might find yourself wondering if fasting is safe. You may have heard from people who’ve never even tried it that it’s crazy, dangerous, or just pointless. And yet, for thousands of years, many cultures have embraced fasting wholeheartedly. This ancient practice leads to numerous health benefits for most people—when done correctly.
→ read full articleTrue Skill
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
The yogi Raman was a true master of the art of archery. One morning, he invited his favorite disciple to watch a display of his skill. The disciple had seen this more than a hundred times before, but he nevertheless obeyed his teacher.
→ read full articleDespair of Despair
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
16 Sep 2017 – How can I be an optimist in view of what’s happening here every day in Israel? The practical annexation of occupied territories? The mistreatment of the Arabs? The implantation of poisonous settlements? But optimism is a state of mind. It does not falter in the face of evil. On the contrary, evil must be fought. And you cannot fight if you do not believe that you can win. There is nothing to despair of but despair itself.
→ read full articleWorld Law to Protect Refugees and Migrants
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
On 19 Sep 2016, the UN General Assembly held a one-day Summit on «Addressing Large Movements o Refugees and Migrants» and set a new agenda for responding to large movements of people crossing frontiers. The UN resolution is called The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. There needs to be strong cooperation among the UN and its Agencies, national governments, and NGOs to deal more adequately with current challenges and to plan for the future.
→ read full articleInterview with Edward Snowden: ‘There Is Still Hope – Even for Me’
Martin Knobbe and Jörg Schindler – Der Spiegel,
18 Sep 2017
12 Sep 2017 – Whistleblower Edward Snowden discusses his life in Russia, the power of the intelligence apparatuses and how he will continue his battle against all-encompassing surveillance by governments.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Sep 18-24, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.” – Maurice Chevalier
→ read full articleChelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For
Chelsea Manning – The New York Times,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – For seven years, I didn’t exist. While incarcerated, I had no bank statements, no bills, no credit history. In our interconnected world of big data, I appeared to be no different than a deceased person. After I was released, that lack of information about me created a host of problems, from difficulty accessing bank accounts to trouble getting a driver’s license and renting an apartment.
→ read full articleLacked and Loaded
Latuff – MintPress News,
18 Sep 2017
No comment…
→ read full articlePreferred Conclusions: The BBC, Syria and Venezuela
Media Lens | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – As the late media activist Danny Schechter wrote, when it comes to the corporate broadcast media: ‘The more you watch, the less you know.’ Schechter’s observation only fails in one key respect: ‘mainstream’ output does tell us a lot about which foreign governments are being lined up for regime change.
→ read full articleRadhika: Unheard Voices of Patriotism in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Another participant of my study was Radhika Thapa (pseudonym). I came to know that she was a conflict affected child from the CPN (Maoist) side. At that time, she was a school student and ten years armed conflict ruined her schooling so I think she was a suitable participant for my study and I decided to meet her.
→ read full articleSouth-South Trade Cooperation Key to Sustainable and Inclusive Model of Globalization
Hanif Hassan Al Qassim – Other News,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – With more than 80% of the world population living in developing countries, South-South trade has the potential to increase in the years to come and to become a vector for economic growth and prosperity for a major world region whose potential has not been fully tapped during past decades.
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Everybody Hurts (Music Video of the Week)
R.E.M. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
From R.E.M.’s best-selling 1992 album, Automatic for the People
→ read full article(Português) Inspirador: casal resgata centenas de animais de circos, laboratórios e matadouros em todo o mundo
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Uma britânica ganhou um prêmio global por seu trabalho de libertação de animais selvagens de seus captores humanos.
→ read full articleEnsuring Catastrophe: The Price of Climate Denial
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
18 Sep 2017
“For the moment, of course, Trump is ascendant with the fossil fuel industry,” said 350.org founder McKibben. “But like many things that Trump touches, I think that this is a last gasp. People are coming to associate the insanity of going full speed ahead into this greenhouse future with the most reckless and crazy president that we’ve ever had.” So as climate-change-fueled disasters ravaged the U.S., Trump — the man who called climate change a Chinese hoax — was doing all he could to ensure future catastrophes.
→ read full articleWeather Forecasters
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
A tribe of American Indians on a reservation heard on their radio that there would be a cold winter. So they stacked up plenty of firewood.
→ read full articleAnd Night
Emanuel E Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
I was watching the mist with you
It spread over the brim of the cliffs,
Eaves that drooped and disappeared
Once the sun began to show
Israeli Website Claims ISIS Commander Revealed as Mossad Agent
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
18 Sep 2017
Libyan security forces arrested a Daesh commander in the city of Benghazi — only to find out soon after that the man they had captured, Ephraim Benjamin, was also an agent of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. Was he working to defeat Daesh or to strengthen it?
→ read full articleSouth-South Cooperation Key to Overcoming Inequalities, Says UN Deputy Chief
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
12 Sep 2017 – “South-South cooperation should not be seen as a substitute for North-South cooperation but as complementary, and we invite all countries and organizations to engage in supporting triangular cooperation initiatives,” UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said today, urging all developed nations to fulfill their Official Development Assistance commitments.
→ read full articleWhy Hate Speech Is Not Free Speech
George Lakoff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
8 Sep 2017 – Freedom in a free society is supposed to be for all. Therefore, freedom rules out imposing on the freedom of others. You are free to walk down the street, but not to keep others from doing so.
→ read full articleEuropean Glyphosate Safety Report Copy-Pasted Monsanto Study
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
15 Sep 2017 – Caught red-handed: Monsanto application copy/pasted into EU food safety body. See for yourself. Dozens of pages from the Renewal Assessment Report “are identical to passages in an application submitted by Monsanto on behalf of the Glyphosate Task Force, an industry body led by the company.”
→ read full articleExamining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age: A Research Handbook
Bruce L. Cook, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
A major academic textbook on peace is scheduled for release Nov 2017. It contains a foreword by Prof. Johan Galtung and chapters by Rais Neza Boneza and Claude Shema Rutagewngwa, from the TRANSCEND Network, among other peace scholars.
→ read full articleThe World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2017
S. David Freeman, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
The debate about nuclear power was similar to talking about a religion. It was seldom grounded in all the relevant facts- each side had a religious belief in their point of view boosted by whatever ad hoc facts supported their view. Because of that history, this 2017 World Nuclear Industry Status Report is perhaps the most decisive document in the history of nuclear power. The report makes clear, in telling detail, that the debate is over. Nuclear power has been eclipsed by the sun and the wind. These renewable, free-fuel sources are no longer a dream or a projection-they are a reality that are replacing nuclear as the preferred choice for new power plants worldwide.
→ read full articleFloods, Hurricanes, Droughts… When Climate Sets the Agenda
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
18 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017 – When officials and experts from all over the world started the first-ever environmental summit hosted by China, they were already aware that climate and weather-related disasters were already seriously beginning to set the international agenda – unprecedented floods in South Asia, strongest ever hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and catastrophic droughts striking the Horn of Africa, among the most impacting recent events.
→ read full articleDear Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi
Farhana Haque Rahman - Inter Press Service-IPS,
18 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017 – So far, you have warned against “fake information” and “terrorists”. We have not, however, heard a word of support or even comfort for the people that, as amply documented by international organizations and media, are subject to a campaign leading to death, widespread suffering and desperate escapes over the border. The 1991 Nobel Prize was given to honor your heroic and unflagging efforts for peace and prosperity in your country and, let’s remember, to support efforts to achieve “ethnic conciliation by peaceful means.”
→ read full articleProfit Maximization Is Easy: Invest in Violence
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
6 Sep 2017 – For those of us committed to systematically reducing and, one day, ending human violence, it is vital to understand what is causing and driving it so that effective strategies can be developed for dealing with violence in its myriad contexts… Of course, these choices aren’t for everyone. As Gandhi observed: ‘Cowards can never be moral.’
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (12) Henry David Thoreau
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Henry David Thoreau, pioneer of nonviolent civil disobedience, pioneer of environmentalism, we need your voice today!
→ read full article(Italiano) Pace-Sviluppo-Ambiente: integrati?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Questi sono gli obiettivi delle Nazioni Unite; l’Accademia di Hardanger li ha resi tre centri d’interesse. È sorto il problema: che cos’hanno in comune? Sono tre aspetti della stessa cosa? Se così, quale “cosa”? Si sono individuati ed esplorati quattro modi per cercare di rispondere. Sono quattro per via dei quattro modi di affrontare la realtà sociale.
→ read full articleMyanmar, Moderate Your Genocide!
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
My country is committing pogroms
Pogroms against Rohingyas.
I knew this day would come. And it did come sooner!
Wait! Rohingyas don’t exist.
US Completes Anti-Missile Deployment in South Korea amid Heightened War Danger
Ben McGrath | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Despite residents’ protests, US Forces Korea began installing four more THAAD missile launchers early Thursday [7 Sep] morning in the South Korean town of Seongju. The reintroduction of tactical nuclear weapons would greatly heighten the danger of nuclear war. In the extremely tense situation on the Korean Peninsula, the two militaries would have to take into account the possibility of a nuclear attack with just minutes of warning, exacerbating the risk of miscalculations or mistakes triggering a nuclear exchange.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar Military Laying Anti-Personnel Mines in Trail of Fleeing Rohingya Refugees
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Myanmar’s military has been accused of planting land mines in the path of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in its western Rakhine state, with Amnesty International reporting two people wounded Sunday [10 Sep]. Refugee accounts of the latest spasm of violence in Rakhine have typically described shootings by soldiers and arson attacks on villages.
→ read full articleThe “Musa Sadr Is Alive” Hoax Has Deceived Lebanon’s Shia for 39 Years
Franklin Lamb | OpEd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The Libyan agents put their bags in their rooms, stayed out of site, and they said nothing about checking out to the hotel’s front desk. They simply left their bags, including Rehiby’s elevated shoes “in Imam Sadr’s room” and took a taxi to Rome’s Leonardo Da Vinci airport and returned to Libya. For years Rehiby shoes jokes passed among Gadaffi regime insiders according to friends.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi’s Response to Rakhine and Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar ‘Unconscionable’
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
6 Sep 2017 -“This is a human rights and humanitarian catastrophe. In her first comments on the crisis, instead of promising concrete action to protect the people in Rakhine state, Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be downplaying the horrific reports coming out of the area,” said Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Director.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel mentre – In giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Sembra esserci un nuovo sistema europeo per calcolare il PIL. Non solo vengono inclusi gli armamenti ma pure i fondi che vanno a ricerca e sviluppo finalizzati alla guerra. Inclusi sono pure prostituzione e droghe, sotto la voce “servizi”. E’ compresa qualunque cosa che viene offerta e richiesta per denaro. Come ci fa sentire questa novità sulla crescita economica? Di essere tra i “valori pro-capite” secondo i quali viene diviso questo mostro uscito da menti economicistiche malate?
→ read full article(Português) Oito contos de escritores consagrados para repensarmos nossa relação com os animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Com uma estilística inovadora e linear, Saramago apresenta a história de solimão (com s minúsculo mesmo), um elefante que se torna alvo da corrupção, individualismo, egocentrismo e outras falhas que permeiam a natureza humana.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il nucleare civile… tra le pieghe del militare
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
11 Sep 2017
1 settembre 2017 – Le recenti manifestazioni a favore del bando delle armi nucleari hanno dimostrato il crescente interesse della società civile ad agire per scongiurare la minaccia di una guerra atomica. Il 7 luglio a New York con 122 voti a favore, 1 astenuto e 1 contrario, è stata sancita e adottata dall’Onu la messa al bando delle armi nucleari .
→ read full articleWhat the Media Isn’t Telling You about North Korea’s Missile Tests
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
11 Sep 2017
What the media failed to mention was that, for the last three weeks, Japan, South Korea and the US have been engaged in large-scale joint-military drills on Hokkaido Island and in South Korea. These needlessly provocative war games are designed to simulate an invasion of North Korea and a “decapitation” operation to remove (Re: Kill) the regime.
→ read full articleDesmond Tutu: Dearly Beloved Younger Sister Aung San Suu Kyi
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
I am now elderly, decrepit and formally retired, but breaking my vow to remain silent on public affairs out of profound sadness about the plight of the Muslim minority in your country, the Rohingya. In my heart you are a dearly beloved younger sister. For years I had a photograph of you on my desk to remind me of the injustice and sacrifice you endured out of your love and commitment for Myanmar’s people. You symbolised righteousness. In 2010 we rejoiced at your freedom from house arrest, and in 2012 we celebrated your election as leader of the opposition.
→ read full articleMyanmar: Who Are the Rohingya Muslims?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Why are the more than one million Rohingya in Myanmar considered the ‘world’s most persecuted minority’?
→ read full articleWhy 38,000 Muslim Rohingya Refugees Have Just Fled Their Buddhist Home in Burma/Myanmar
Matthew Gindin | Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
1 Sep 2017 – Rakhine is home to 1.1 million Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority that has suffered persecution for more than 40 years. In 2012, deadly riots between Muslims and the Buddhist majority forced more than 100,000 Rohingya into displacement camps where they have remained since. On 30 Aug U Wirathu, a Buddhist monk known for his sermons inciting hatred and violence against Muslims, gave a speech demanding all international NGOs be expelled from Rakhine State and martial law be established.
→ read full articleGhostly Voices Dancing in the Rain
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
8 Sep 2017 – A solitary, early Sunday morning walk in the rain. As I like it, my only walking companion was the soothing sound of rain in the trees and on the lake. From the shallow water at the lake’s swampy edge, a blue heron, perched on one leg, froze my gaze as I stopped and stared.
→ read full articleThe Guardian View on the Slaughter in Myanmar: A Crime against Humanity
The Guardian | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
4 Sep 2017 – The brutal, bloody, and ultimately pointless mistreatment of a Muslim minority shames [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi who appeared for decades as the epitome of principled and unflinching defence of human rights, now the unfeeling figurehead of a vicious regime.
→ read full articleHoly See Steps Up Opposition to Nuclear Weapons
Nicolas Senèze | La Croix – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The Vatican cast its first ever UN vote in July when it backed a nuclear disarmament treaty. The vote signaled an evolution of the Church’s doctrine, one of taking an ever tougher stance against nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleLiving Peacefully Close to Mother Earth – A Saga of Amish and Mennonite Communities
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The brief glimpse I had of the Mennonite and Amish communities was a pleasant one. These people are peaceful and faithful to their Church. They live simply, do not exploit the natural resources and are close to the earth. Their farms are clean, well maintained and display a sense of harmony with other people and with flora and fauna.
→ read full articleThe Lady Has Turned
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Aung San Suu Kyi should lose her Nobel Peace Prize, as a result of her disgraceful complicity in genocide.
→ read full articleWorld Leaders 2017
Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Mine is bigger than yours !!
Mine reproduces more deaths than yours !!
Human Trafficking in Nepal: A Scenario, Challenges and Way Out
Shree Prasad Devkota and Indra Raj Bhattarai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Human trafficking is not only a serious concern and challenge for Nepal, it has become a global challenge particularly for developing and least developed countries. There is a long history of Nepali girls and women trafficked for sexual purpose, exploitation and abuses to India and other parts of the world.
→ read full articleVault 7: Protego
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Today, September 7th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes four secret documents from the Protego project of the CIA, along with 37 related documents. Protego is not the “usual” malware development project like all previous publications by WikiLeaks in the Vault7 series.
→ read full articleActivism Is Our Rent for Living on the Earth
Chaitanya Charan Das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
24 Aug 2017 – The idea of activism – of being a part of some cause that helps makes things better in the world – is increasingly catching on. It has become much cooler than what it was a few decades ago, when greed ruled the roost. What has led to activism’s increased appeal?
→ read full articleCognitive Implications in 3D of Triadic Symbols Valued in 2D
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Representations of the Triskelion in Virtual Reality and Implications for Quantum Consciousness
→ read full articleOur News Media Perpetuates Systemic Violence
Emeline Armitage | The Johns Hopkins News-Letter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Armitage argues that news media whitewashed the violence that occurred in Charlottesville. How we imprison more people per capita than any other nation, how our police shoot innocent black children, how we are deporting millions whose mother countries’ turmoil we caused, how we bomb civilians in the Middle East — the list can go on and on.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Sep 11–17, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.” – Thomas Hardy
→ read full articleFrom Japan for Humanity: A Tribute to Dr. Hideo Tsuchiyama
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
To atomic radiation he was exposed
The Nagasaki Peace Movement he eloquently proposed
Hurricanes Blow Away Climate Change Denial
Paul R. Pillar – Consortium News,
11 Sep 2017
The startling landfall of two giant hurricanes – feasting on especially warm water off Texas and Florida – crashes into the climate change denialism that has been politically popular on the Right, notes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
→ read full articleAppeal for Political Leaders to Make Executive and Assembly Work for the People of Northern Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
6 Sep 2017 – The vast majority of people in Northern Ireland, whose main desire is to live in peace together, earn a living and raise their families, are currently living in a no-man’s land. We are living now in a political vacuum, which leaves our community vulnerable to paramilitarism. But it does not have to be like this.
→ read full article(Français) Un million d’enfants sur le point de mourir du choléra. Qui va bouger le petit doigt?
Vijay Prashad | AlterNet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Depuis 2015, l’Arabie saoudite bombarde le pays le plus pauvre de la péninsule arabique. D’après l’UNICEF, un enfant meurt toutes les dix minutes au Yémen. Ces morts ne sont pas des tragédies, ce sont des crimes dont l’Occident est complice.
→ read full articleWorld Needs to Move beyond ‘Conceptual Debate’ and Improve Protection from Atrocities, Urges Guterres
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
6 Sep 2017 – “All of us are well aware of the grim human reality that lies behind the words, ‘war crimes’, ‘crimes against humanity’, ‘ethnic cleansing’, and ‘genocide’,” Mr. Guterres said. “It is time to move beyond the conceptual debate towards improved protection of people from atrocity crimes.”
→ read full articleCourtroom
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
A man caught in embezzlement asked his lawyer, “Would it help my case if I sent the judge a box of cigars?”
→ read full articleThe World Will Be Reborn
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Spring and Easter are a time of rebirth,
However fragile this world may be,
Someday torment will end,
In the nothingness will go the terror.
Yemen’s Cholera Outbreak Surpasses 600,000
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Yemen—the worst in the world—is product of the Saudi-led, US-backed war of aggression, the UNHCHR stated on Tuesday [5 Sep]. The war assumed near-genocidal proportions and has killed at least 14,000 civilians, maimed many thousands more, displaced 2 million and left at least 7.3 million on the brink of famine. The country is confronting the worst cholera epidemic on record, with 612,703 people infected.
→ read full article9/11: The Pentagon’s B-Movie
Graeme MacQueen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
5 Sep 2017 – The events that took place in the United States on Sep 11, 2001 were real and they were extremely violent. They also had catastrophic real-life consequences for both the US and the world. But these events were also deeply filmic (like a film) and they were presented to us through a narrative we now know to be fictional.
→ read full articleDemocracy Insurance
Hardy Merriman | International Center on Nonviolent Conflict – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
We know that a unified and mobilized population—capable of imposing costs on unaccountable power holders through nonviolent tactics such as strikes, boycotts, and civil disobedience—is often essential to protecting and expanding civic space. There is an art and a science to how ordinary people have done this and nonviolent civil resistance has proven remarkably adaptable at addressing a variety of situations relevant to democratic backsliding, including:
→ read full article(Français) Myanmar: de l’essence et du feu, mais pas le Bien contre le Mal
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
7 Sep 2017 – Longtemps persécutés dans l’ombre, les Rohingya, communauté musulmane du Myanmar, se trouvent aujourd’hui sous le feu des projecteurs médiatiques. Situation embarrassante pour Aung San Suu Kyi et ses sponsors occidentaux qui l’avaient plébiscitée pour incarner la transition démocratique du Myanmar?
→ read full articleA Confession
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
9 Sep 2017 – Today is the last day of the 93rd year of my life. Ridiculous. Am I moderately satisfied with my life until now? Yes. I am. If by a miracle I could be returned to, say, 14, and travel all this long way again, would I like that? No, I would not. Enough is enough.
→ read full article(Português) Milhares de macacos aprisionados em fazendas/quintas destinados a uma vida de tortura em laboratórios
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Em 2015, os Institutos Nacionais de Saúde anunciaram que já não era preciso usar chimpanzés em pesquisas biomédicas. Por isso, Capaldo luta para compreender por que outros primatas ainda são torturados. “A vida desses animais é completamente dissociada dos produtos que usamos e é por isso que faço essas imagens para realizar a conexão entre A e B.”
→ read full articleScience and Religion for Freedom and Happiness
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Science enables man to be free from the tyranny of the environment, but it fails to free him from the tyranny of his own nature. But its twin – the religion can complement in the role of science for making human beings free to be happy.
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Liberace Plays Tchaikovsky (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The great performer passes the test of time.
→ read full articleInvestigation: White Helmets Committing Acts of Terror across Syria
Vanessa Beeley – MintPress News,
11 Sep 2017
The supposedly Syrian NGO White Helmets were established in Turkey, not in Syria. They are largely trained in Turkey and Jordan, not inside Syria. They were established in March 2013 by a British ex-military officer with $300,000 in seed funding from Japan, the U.K. and the U.S.
→ read full article‘We Came to School and Found It Destroyed’: Israeli Forces Demolish West Bank School Hours before Children’s First Day
Sheren Khalel | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
23 Aug 2017— Israeli military jeeps came barreling down towards Jubbet al-Dhib’s first and only primary school late Tuesday [19 Aug] night, terrifying locals who had been finishing preparations for the school’s grand opening set for the next morning. Soldiers shot tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets as they cleared the way for bulldozers and flatbed trucks brought in to take down the school.
→ read full articleThe West–Where Are You Heading?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
There are no chosen individuals, with promised status. We are all chosen as humans by the precious gift of life, with guaranteed survival, wellness, freedom of options, identity. In a nature with guaranteed diversity and symbiosis; not vicious human attacks on both.
→ read full articleDenis de Rougemont (8 Sep 1906 – 6 Dec 1985): The Future Is within Us
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
For de Rougemont, revolutionaries attempting to seize power, even from the most repressive regimes, invariably fall into the power structures they hoped to eliminate. Only the power we have over ourselves is synonymous with freedom. For the first time, the person has not only the need but also the power and ability to choose his future.
→ read full articleMaking Peace
Denise Levertov | Poetry Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
A voice from the dark called out,
‘The poets must give us
imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar
imagination of disaster. Peace, not only
the absence of war.’
9/11: The Repression of Dissent and the 16th Anniversary of the Crime and Cover-up of the Century
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The Power of Big Lie Propaganda, Blind Patriotism, Ignorance and Denial
→ read full article‘Sad Day for Warmongers’ as UN Finds Iran in Total Compliance with Nuke Deal
Julia Conley – Common Dreams,
4 Sep 2017
1 Sep 2017 – On what one observer called “a sad day for warmongers,” the United Nations declared today that Iran is fully adhering to the nuclear deal reached in 2015, and that inspectors will not go looking for infractions at the request of the Trump administration.
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