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The Masque of Anarchy
Percy Bysshe Shelley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Shelley wrote his poem in response to the Peterloo Massacre, which took place in Manchester on 16 August 1819. Cavalry soldiers of the government charged a crowd of 50,000 citizens who were peacefully assembled to ask for better representation in Parliament. This poem advocating non-violent resistance to tyranny was an inspiration to Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi.
→ read full articleYemen: War Crimes the World Can No Longer Ignore
Catherine Shakdam – Russia Today,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – Beyond the many and despicable sectarian adjectives the media may have wielded since 2015 to frame Yemen’s war within a binary that has the region locked in fictitious crusadic dynamics: Shiite Iran versus self-righteous Saudi Arabia, truths have had a way of eroding at such a construct. If one can understand the pull money can hold over state officials, politics, after all, is not child’s play, empowering fanatical despots is still counter intuitive.
→ read full article(Português) Estudo mostra que a pecuária é a atividade com maior apropriação de solo na Amazônia
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 ago 2017 – O estudo mostra que nos estados da Amazônia não há atividade com maior apropriação de solo do que a pecuária, e exatamente por desempenhar papel tão determinante na região está fortemente associada com o desmatamento, inclusive sendo apontada como principal causa. E a agricultura em larga escala em vez de reduzir o impacto da pecuária no desflorestamento tem ajudado a ampliá-lo.
→ read full articlePeace to Twenty-First Century!
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
History does not learn anything,
How can this be?
We are born to suffer
Or all the same, to live?
Afghanistan Graveyard of Empires
Matson – St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
28 Aug 2017
Exercise in Futility…
→ read full articleIgnaz Semmelweis, Galileo Galilei, Andrew Wakefield and the Semmelweis Reflex
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Iatrogenesis and Big Pharma’s Lucrative Overvaccination Agendas
→ read full articleMyanmar/Burma: UN Welcomes Final Assessment of Independent Advisory Panel on Rakhine State
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – The United Nations today welcomed the release of the final report of an independent advisory body looking into the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. UN Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric acknowledged its endorsement “to address the root causes of violence and reduce inter-communal violence.”
→ read full articleThe Dilemma of a Secular Muslim in Present Day India
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – An educated, secular and liberal Indian Muslim is in a bind; he is torn between finding the right balance between loyalty to his faith and adherence to the new tests of patriotism being imposed by certain intolerant groups.
→ read full articleEdward Carpenter: (29 Aug 1844 – 28 Jun 1929)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Edward Carpenter was an English writer, educator, pacifist, and socialist reformer who came from a middle class intellectual family. As others influenced by the Theosophical Society, he gave up formal university extension work and bought a farm which became a meeting place for discussions among many in the area − an early “back to the land movement”. He stressed using hand-made clothes, the non-killing and non-eating of animals, and the use of herbs for health.
→ read full article‘Meat’ the Double-Edged Sword That Might One Day Eliminate Animals from Our Diet
Geoff Russell – New Matilda,
28 Aug 2017
There’s good GMO, and then there’s bad GMO. And there’s natural GMO as well. A simple guide to one of the really good ones which might one day remove meat from our diet.
→ read full articleMahadev: The Cost of Being Different
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Mahadev Shrestha (pseudonym) is a main participant in this study. I think his life could be of interest to my research as his education and daily life was affected by the ten-year armed conflict in Nepal.
→ read full articleThe Place Where We Are Right
Yehuda Amichai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
“From the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the Spring.
Quantitative Easing for Wealth Redistribution
Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
28 Aug 2017
22 Aug 2017 – Following the 2007-2008 global financial crisis and the Great Recession in its wake, the ‘new normal’ in monetary policy has been abnormal. At the heart of the unconventional monetary policies adopted have been ‘asset purchase’ or ‘quantitative easing’ (QE) programmes. Ostensibly needed for economic revival, QE has redistributed wealth – regressively, in favour of the rich.
→ read full articleIt’s the Opium, Stupid: ‘Afghan Surge Guarantees CIA Black-Ops Budget Boost’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
23 Aug 2017 – The CIA is also overjoyed because its black-ops budget – which is tied to the exponential growth of opium production in Afghanistan – is now secured possibly for another 20-50 years, claims Mike Raddie, co-editor of online site BSNews.
→ read full articleJohn Quincy Adams on Efficiency vs. Effectiveness, the Proper Aim of Ambition, and His Daily Routine
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Digging at the heart of modernity’s foundational disconnect between efficiency and effectiveness: our tendency to pour tremendous energy into doing things, with little reflection on whether those are the right things to do in the first place.
→ read full articlePeriodic Table of Tech
The Beacon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
You’re probably familiar with the periodic table — you may have even memorized all the elements. But do you know how they’re used outside of chemistry class?
→ read full articleWhy Does North Korea Hate Us?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless. Dean Rusk said the USA bombed ‘everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.’ After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops. And so we remain caged in military thinking and the need to win, rather than understand.
→ read full article(Português) A Solidariedade: Um Paradigma Olvidado
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
É urgente resgatarmos o significado antropológico fundamental da solidariedade. Ela é anti-sistêmica, pois o sistema imperante capitalista é individualista e se rege pela concorrência e não pela solidariedade e pela cooperação. Isso vai contra o sentido da natureza. É urgente resgatarmos o paradigma básico de nossa humanidade, tão olvidado. Fora dela desvirtuaremos nossa humanidade e a dos outros.
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1943 US War Department Anti-Fascist Public Service Announcement
TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
In 1943, the US government created and distributed an anti-fascism PSA that showed man realizing the danger in fascist propaganda and hateful rhetoric. At one point he says, “He’s talking about me.”
→ read full articleGreenland Is Burning
Daniel de Vries | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – Wildfires have raged for weeks in Greenland, the massive Arctic island known principally for its vast quantities of ice. The fires are unprecedented in size and duration, marking an ominous new stage in the warming of Greenland and the entire Arctic.
→ read full article(Castellano) Se sabrá que Venezuela se ha convertido en una dictadura el día en que los medios dejarán de hablar de ella
Viktor Dedaj | Tlaxcala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
En Venezuela (como en otros lugares), la diferencia entre una dictadura de derecha y una dictadura de izquierda es la siguiente: bajo una dictadura de derecha, los opositores «desaparecen». Bajo una dictadura de izquierda, los opositores pasan todas las noches a la tele y en todos los medios internacionales para denunciar la dictadura.
→ read full article(Français) Les fonds vautours planent toujours sur la Belgique
Renaud Vivien | Invetig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Deux ans après avoir voté sa loi contre les fonds vautours, la Belgique a encore un rôle à jouer, celui de promouvoir cette loi au sein des Nations unies et de l’Union européenne. Pourtant, elle ne le fait toujours pas.
→ read full articleCharlottesville through a Glass Darkly
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Anti-Semitism, and its links to Nazism and Fascism, and now to Trumpism, are genuinely menacing, and should encourage rational minds to reconsider any willingness to being manipulated for polemic purposes by ultra Zionists. We can also only wonder about the moral, legal, and political compass of ardent Zionists who so irresponsibly label Israel’s critics and activist opponents as anti-Semites, and thus confuse and bewilder the public as to the true nature of anti-Semitism as racial hatred directed at Jews.
→ read full articleOverthrowing Other People’s Governments: The Master List
William Blum – Information Clearing House,
21 Aug 2017
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
→ read full articleGreenland: How Rapid Climate Change on World’s Largest Island Will Affect Us All
Kathryn Adamson – The Conversation,
21 Aug 2017
The ice sheet is melting and permafrost is thawing. What’s happening in Greenland will speed up climate change across the world.
→ read full articleI’m Explaining a Few Things
Pablo Neruda, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
You are going to ask: and where are the lilacs?
and the poppy-petalled metaphysics?
and the rain repeatedly spattering
its words and drilling them full
of apertures and birds?
I’ll tell you all the news.
Release the Hounds
Latuff – MintPress News,
21 Aug 2017
So It Goes…
→ read full articleThe Deceptive Activist
Jørgen Johansen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
In The Deceptive Activist author Brian Martin introduces key ideas about lying and deception and then provides a series of case studies in which activists need to decide what to do. There are no final answers, but it is important to address the questions.
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Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Music Video of the Week)
Martynas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Virtuoso Martynas on Acordeon – Composition of Johannes Brahms – Martynas Levickis, 27, is one of the brightest young musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
There seems to be a new European system for calculating the GNP. Not only is armament included, but also the money that goes into research and development for war. Also included are prostitution and drugs, as “services.” Anything offered and demanded in return for money is in. How does that make us feel about economic growth? To be among the “per capita” by which this monster coming out of sickening economistic minds is divided?
→ read full articleCharlottesville: Myths & Questions – Fake History and Deeper Thinking
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
About the Lee statue, I had to wonder: “Why now?” Was it really necessary to remove the statue now? Wasn’t that setting up a conflict? Is it too much to expect our elected officials to exercise foresight and good judgment?
→ read full articleThe Egg of Columbus
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
19 Aug 2017 – I don’t know when the wheel was invented, or who invented it. However, I have no doubt that it was invented again and again, with many happy inventors sharing the glory. The same is true for the Israeli-Palestinian Confederation. From time to time it appears in public as a brand-new idea, with another group of inventors proudly presenting it to the public.
→ read full articleFirst Ever Egg Factory Farm Drone Exposé Reveals the Horrific Reality for Millions of Hens
Jill Ettinger | Organic Authority/Mercy for Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 – A new video released by animal rights group Mercy for Animals compiles the first publicly-released drone footage of several sprawling factory farms. The exposé serves as yet another significant reminder that modern industrial animal agriculture is not only dangerous to human health and “detrimental to the local and global environment, but it also involves animal abuse so severe that it would warrant felony cruelty charges if dogs or cats were the victims.”
→ read full articleExporting Chaos to Venezuela
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
21 Aug 2017
President Trump’s recklessness is felt around the world.
→ read full articleLatin America’s “Pink Tide” and the Challenge of Systemic Change: Venezuela
The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
7 Aug 2017 – In the late 1990s and the 2000s, Latin America experienced a “pink tide” of sorts, with a number of self-proclaimed socialist governments coming to power. By 2010, leftist governments were in power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, with Peru joining the ranks in 2011. We asked three analysts to describe some of the institutional innovations implemented in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador during this time, and to reflect on the relationship between organized citizenry and the state in these transitions in order to elicit lessons learned.
→ read full articleAl-Araqeeb Village: Palestinian Bedouins Refuse to Surrender 116 Times
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
16 Aug 2017 – On August 1, the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb was destroyed for the 116th time. As soon as Israeli bulldozers finished their ugly deed and soldiers began evacuating the premises, the village resident immediately began rebuilding their homes. 22 families, or about 101 residents, are estimated to live here. By now, they are all familiar with the painful routine, considering the first round of destruction took place in July 2010.
→ read full articleIndia’s Muslims at the Crossroads
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
In a larger landscape of increasing communalization, where Muslims continue to face social discrimination and exclusion in education, housing, employment and development schemes, the government should economically and socially empower the community so that it comes out with its own appropriate solutions for overall social reforms.
→ read full article“We Burned Down Every Town in North Korea”
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
20 Aug 2017 – The US public wants to know why North Korean leaders point their fingers at the US every time they test another rocket or bomb. “We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off, what, 20 percent of the population?”
— General Curtis LeMay
(Português) Woody Harrelson: “Todos os anos, dezenas de milhares de animais sofrem e morrem em testes laboratoriais de cosméticos e produtos domésticos”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
“Por favor, junte-se a mim e use sua voz para falar por aqueles cujos gritos estão selados para sempre na porta dos laboratórios.”
→ read full articleMinamata Convention, Curbing Mercury Use, Is Now Legally Binding
IPS-Inter Press Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
16 Aug 2016 – The Minamata Convention — a legally-binding landmark treaty, described as the first new environmental agreement in over a decade – entered into force today. The primary aim of the Convention is “to protect human health and the environment” from mercury releases, which are considered both environmental and health hazards, according to the United Nations.
→ read full articleReframing the Square Wheels of Global Governance
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Transcending Vain Hopes of Squaring the Circle in Global Decision-Making – There are many commentaries on the current inadequacy of governance, whether global, regional or national. As currently understood by those upheld as being insightful and skilled in matters of governance, it can be argued that society is proving to be increasingly ungovernable, if not inherently so.
→ read full articleHow Capitalist Banks Are Creating the Next Financial Crisis
Jack Rasmus – teleSUR,
21 Aug 2017
The Fed is on the verge of another major disastrous monetary policy shift and experiment. Anyone want to buy the Brooklyn Bridge? I think they’re also trying to sell that as well.
→ read full articleOpportunity Creation
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
A friend of mine and his wife were getting divorced. They quarreled about who should get the house. Both hired expensive lawyers and were close to spending more than the value of the house.
→ read full articleThe World Remembers 64th Anniversary of the West-Sponsored Coup in Iran
Andre Vltchek | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
19 Aug 2017 – After WWII, the West had one huge ‘problem’ on its hands: all three most populous Muslim countries on Earth – Egypt, Iran and Indonesia – were clearly moving in one similar direction, joining a group of patriotic, peaceful and tolerant nations. Iran fell first, in 1953. Actually, it did not fall; it was brutally destroyed. According to the logic of the Empire, Iran had to be derailed and ruined, in order to prevent a so-called ‘domino effect’.
→ read full articleLibya International Peace Forum: Supporting the Role of Municipalities, Civil Society & Citizens in Peacebuilding at the Local Level
PATRIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
6–7 Sep 2017 Tunis, Tunisia – The Libya International Peace Forum is committed to the recognition that local stakeholders such as municipalities, civil society organisations, professionals, women, youth and local businesses in Libya play a key role in peacebuilding in the country.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (9) Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Shelley is today considered to be one of the major English-language poets. Less well known is the fact that he was a pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny, whose ideas influenced Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi. Percy Bysshe Shelley, major poet, social reformer, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleDonald Trump and America’s Moral Crises
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Will Scientific and Theological Ignorance, Moral Blindness and Historical Illiteracy Triumph?
→ read full articleStop the Hate
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Stop the racism, stop the hate
Start with your heart – never too late
(Português) Conheça o Santuário Que Oferece Uma Segunda Chance para Gatos Cegos
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Apesar de as pessoas amarem cães e gatos, o abandono dos animais ainda é um grande problema. Somente nos Estados Unidos, há cerca de 70 milhões de animais desabrigados. Desses 70 milhões, apenas cerca de seis a oito milhões de gatos e cães entram nos 3.500 abrigos do país todos os anos, de acordo com a Humane Society of the United States.
→ read full articleFor Media, Driving Into a Crowd of Protesters Is a ‘Clash’ Not Terrorism
Adam Johnson | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
12 Aug 2017 – The Washington Post, Boston Globe, AOL News, The Hill, BBC and Sky News UK all chose to frame the ramming of a car into anti-fascist protesters as “clashes.” “Clashes” is a term designed to obscure blame, presenting a picture of two equal sides engaging in violent activities. Reading “one dead” after “clashes” at a white nationalist rally gives us no idea who died, or who did the killing.
→ read full articleDrunks
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Recently, a routine police patrol was parked outside a local neighborhood bar in Minnesota. Late in the evening, the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk.
→ read full articleA Crack Bursts at the Trunk Long Ago
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
A crack bursts at the trunk long ago,
Caught up in the past,
And the time ticks tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk…
Everything runs without blinking.
Extending Life –- Living and Dying in Peace
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
In the Jain religion some people choose to die rather than exist in the manner they are living. They choose to die when they are old and ill or sometimes even when they are relatively young, they feel that they have lived enough and would like to end their life. This practice is called Santhra and is allowed by their faith and the Indian law.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Aug 21-27, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.” – Jenn Proske
→ read full articleConflict and Violence in Africa: Causes, Sources and Types
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Conflict usually occurs primarily as a result of a clash of interests in the relationship between parties, groups or states, either because they pursuing opposing or incompatible goals. Although the term war is sometimes used as a synonym for conflict, it is more usual to restrict the meaning of war to violent conflict, involving armed forces.
→ read full articleIntl. Community Recoils as Saudi Arabia Goes on ‘Crusade’ of Mass Killing in Yemen
Catherine Shakdam – Russia Today,
14 Aug 2017
11 Aug 2017 – While few will pause upon hearing that Yemen was bombed yet again by Saudi Arabia’s U.S. supported war coalition, thus leading to many deaths, the kingdom’s propensity to concentrate its firepower on civilians has become a little hard to stomach.
→ read full articleEnd of Nuclearism or the End of the World: Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Nightmares
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 Aug 2017 – We are living amid contradictions whether we like it or not, driving expectations about the future toward opposite extremes. Increasingly plausible are fears that the ‘sixth extinction’ will encompass the human species, or at least, throw human society back to a technology of sticks and stones, with a habitat limited to caves and forests.
→ read full articleUS and UK Ally Saudi Arabia Moves to Behead 14 for Participating In Anti-Government Protests
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
26 Jul 2017 – Saudi Arabia, the Gulf kingdom ruled by an absolute monarchy, and key United States ally, is planning to behead 14 men for participating in anti-government protests after what Amnesty international called a “grossly unfair mass trial.” The condemned includes a young student named Mujtaba al-Suweyket, who was only 17 at the time of his sentencing and was about to study in a U.S. university.
→ read full articlePorto
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
To be a Portugal seagull
where the river meets the sea!
Red roofs ascend
tree-coated hills;
Animation Shows the Deadly Evolution of Nuclear Weapons
Tech Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
It’s been decades since the United States dropped the first atomic bomb. Since then, the exponential increase of the destructive power of nuclear weapons is almost unimaginable. Here’s how powerful nuclear weapons have become.
→ read full articleNuclear-Weapon States and Their Neighbors: There Is Still Work to Do
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
We thank the U.N. Missions of the US, France and the UK for reminding us that there are security challenges. We disagree that these challenges require deterrence with nuclear weapons. Rather, we think that confidence-building measures linked to creative negotiations is the best step forward.
→ read full articleAugust 9th, the 72nd Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki: Unwelcome Truths for Church and State
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
72 years ago (August 9, 1945) an all-Christian bomber crew dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki City, Japan, instantly vaporizing, incinerating, irradiating and/or otherwise annihilating tens of thousands of innocent civilians, mostly women and children. Very few Japanese soldiers were killed by the bombs.
→ read full articleThe North Korean Military Situation: A Role for People Who Care
Marc Pilisuk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Threats and provocations can only make things worse. Moves that offer time for dialogue and assurances of safety need to be pushed, since there are no good outcomes to the current conflict. Bluster, sanctions and military actions are totally irrational, not to be played by sane antagonists. This game is now being played. Nuclear reality lies before us.
→ read full articlePledge on 70 Years of Independence by People of Pakistan and India – 15 Aug 2017
Mazher Hussain | COVA Network– TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Greetings on the Eve of Pakistan-India Independence — 70 Years! Sharing a Pledge both countries can commit to while organizing Independence Days tomorrow and day after!
→ read full articleYou’re Invited to the Nuclear Denial Party!
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
6 Aug 2017 – Since marketing, omitted and fake news have – to a worrying extent – replaced knowledge and ethics, why not celebrate that the media have omitted every mention of Hiroshima Day today? Welcome to the Nuclear Denial Party!!
→ read full article(Português) A Terra entrou no cheque especial: O ser humano, Satã da Terra
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
13 ago 2017 – No dia 2 de agosto de 2017 ocorreu um fato preocupante para a humanidade e para cada um individualmente. Foi o dia da chamada “Sobrecarga da Terra” (Overshoot Day). Quer dizer: foi o dia em que gastamos todos os bens e serviços naturais, básicos para sustentar a vida. Estávamos no verde e agora entramos no vermelho ou no cheque especial.
→ read full articleHandicapping Israel’s 6th War on Lebanon (1)
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 – These days the US Congressional Israel lobby and its knee-jerk amen chorus are hyping what those still occupying Palestine refer to as its coming 3rd war in Lebanon. Reportedly, Israel is finalizing elaborate plans to once and for all eviscerate Hezbollah while accelerating the collapse of the Iranian theocracy with the claimed support of the White House and the Saudi block among many others.
→ read full articleIndia’s Path of Financial Inclusion
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
The opportunity to reach the financially excluded with a new generation of financial services has huge developmental as well as commercial potential. One of the ways for accelerating this path is through digital financial inclusion. It is perhaps the most powerful tool to unlock the most value for those at the bottom of the pyramid.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (8)Thomas Robert Malthus
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Thomas Robert Malthus, mathematician and economist, warning voice, we need your voice today!
→ read full articlePuzzles of the Soul, Reincarnation and Karma
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Most religions believe in the concept of soul or a spirit that resides in our bodies. It is also generally accepted that it is the soul that gives life to the body which it enters and then resides in. If the soul leaves the body, the person dies. For this reason, life and soul are often considered synonymous. A few questions arise about these concepts.
→ read full articleDeath
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Where was the dead body found?
Who found the dead body?
Was the dead body dead when found?
How was the dead body found?
Vault 7: CouchPotato
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Today, August 10th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the User Guide for the CoachPotato project of the CIA. CouchPotato is a remote tool for collection against RTSP/H.264 video streams.
→ read full article“Anyone but Bibi”
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
12 Aug 2017 – The vultures are circling. They can see the wounded man on the ground, and are waiting for his end. So are the human carnivores – the politicians… Like every clever (and unsure) leader, Bibi has destroyed every likely rival along the way. Now there is no obvious heir around. But many people are now repeating a slogan: “Anyone, Just Not Bibi!”
→ read full article(Português) Para Entender a Venezuela: Dois Testemunhos do Outro Lado
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 ago 2017 – Todas as coisas possuem sempre dois lados. Em direito se diz: “audiator et altera pars”: que se escute também a outra parte. Isso vale em todas as questões que envolvem destinos pessoais e de todo um povo. A questão da Venezuela é complexa e polêmica. Dificilmente poder-se-á emitir um juizo equilibrado tantos são os fatores a serem considerados.
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Piano Man (Music Video of the Week)
Billy Joel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
In 1973, Billy Joel released his legendary ‘Piano Man’ album. Listen to him perform the title track. Delightful!
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Aug 14-20, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Love is the greatest adventure. Because both life and death are present in it. When you are in love, you may live in a moment and you may die in the next.” – Unknown
→ read full articleSpain–Where Are You Heading?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
It is customary for Spaniards to add the word “crisis” to the name of the country. They are not alone in that, it may be a Western habit, one of those words driving the West on.
→ read full articleIsrael’s 6th War on Lebanon (2): What Price Will Hezbollah Pay?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
11 Aug 2017 – The price Hezbollah will pay during Israel’s coming 6th war on Lebanon will likely be less militarily consequential long term, than the near certain acceleration of the Party of God’s loss of its “Resistance” brand. The latter already being eschewed by much of its Shia base for economic, social and political reasons.
→ read full articleFormer President Jimmy Carter Releases Statement on North Korea
Fox5 Atlanta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 – Former US Pres. Jimmy Carter released the following statement today after recent back and forth comments between United States and North Korea officials:
→ read full articleThe Madman with Nuclear Weapons Is Donald Trump, Not Kim Jong-un
Mehdi Hasan – The Intercept,
14 Aug 2017
Most nonproliferation experts — as well as former President Jimmy Carter and a number of former Pentagon and State Department officials, both Republican and Democrat — agree that the brutal and murderous Kim, for all his bluster, is not irrational or suicidal, but bent on preserving his regime and preventing a U.S. attack. Nuclear weapons are a defensive, not an offensive, tool for the North Korean leadership — which, as Bill Clinton’s defense secretary William Perry observed on Fox News in April, may be “ruthless and … reckless” but “they are not crazy.” Got that? Kim is bad, not mad.
→ read full articleTerrorism for Profit
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 Aug 2017 – And suddenly there it was, the American paradox in full splendor: Oh yeah, we’re fighting terrorists. We have to keep killing people, keep pouring trillions of dollars into our wars, because bad people are out there threatening us because they hate our freedoms. And the guy reminding us of this is the founder of Blackwater, private contractor in Iraq, whose mercenaries were responsible for one of the most shocking acts of lethal aggression — a.k.a., terrorism — of the early years of that war.
→ read full articleAn Insatiable Appetite
Latuff – MintPress News,
14 Aug 2017
So It Goes…
→ read full article(Português) Sobre a Realidade dos Animais Usados como Cobaias
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Animais usados como cobaias são submetidos a isolamento social, alimentar, desidratação severa e privação de sono que podem durar dias, semanas, meses ou anos. As pesquisas com animais que visam avaliar o comportamento e o aprendizado não humano normalmente são baseadas na abertura do crânio do animal ainda consciente e na instalação de elétrodos no cérebro.
→ read full articleIllegal Settlement Activity in Occupied Palestine Triple in First Half of 2017: Report
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Israeli occupation authorities have escalated the illegal plunder of land belonging to the Palestinian people, defying international opinion.
→ read full articleAgain Come Up the Accursed Questions
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Again come up the accursed questions,
How long the blizzards will rage,
How long does humanity suffer
And be silent in the ice hummocks?
Brazil: A Hostage to Parliament, Pres. Temer Sacrifices Indigenous Rights to Save Himself
Mario Osava | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
7 Aug 2017 – Brazilians now have new reasons to yearn for and at the same time fear the parliamentary system of government. It facilitates quick solutions to political crises such as the one that is currently affecting the country, but it also further empowers reactionary forces and has led to backsliding on gains such as indigenous rights.
→ read full articleWhy Krsna Comes to This World
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
August 1973 at the Bhaktivedanta Manor, in the countryside near London. Several thousand guests (including the Indian High Commissioner) listen to Swami Prabhupada speak about the day Lord Krsna made His appearance on earth 5,000 years ago – CELEBRATED ON 15 AUGUST 2017.
→ read full articleGoogle: Search Engine or Deep State Organ?
Michael Krieger | Liberty BlitzKrieg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 Aug 2017 – Today’s post should be read as Part 3 of my ongoing series about the now infamous Google memo, and what it tells us about where our society is headed if a minority of extremely wealthy and powerful technocratic billionaires are permitted to fully socially engineer our culture to fit their ideological vision using coercion, force and manipulation.
→ read full articleYou Cannot Trap the ‘Magic Rat’: Trump, Congress and Geopolitics
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
The ‘magic rat’ is simply the mechanism by which an unconscious and terrified mind instantly switches its attention from something frightening to something more pleasant to avoid having any time to consciously engage with the presented information. The switch happens instantaneously.
→ read full articleReversing Inequality: Unleashing the Transformative Potential of an Equitable Economy
Chuck Collins | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
The US economy’s deep systemic inequalities of income, wealth, power, and opportunity are part of global inequality trends, but US-style capitalism and public policy make inequalities more acute. Their observable and felt harm to our civic and economic life is corroborated by research from many disciplines. Yet, by the same token, moving toward a more egalitarian society would realign most aspects of economic and social life for the better. So how can we bring these changes about?
→ read full articleWhen Washington Decides Democracy Is Dangerous: Stoking Opposition in Venezuela and Syria
Ramiro S. Fúnez – MintPress News,
14 Aug 2017
The opposition “movements” in Venezuela and Syria have a great deal in common: both are seeking the demise of democratically-elected governments; both resort to violence and acts of terrorism; both are tools of U.S. and Western imperialism, and both are failing.
→ read full articleThe Crop Circle Mystery: A Closer Look
Benjamin Radford | Live Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Crop circles — strange patterns that appear mysteriously overnight in farmers’ fields—provoke puzzlement, delight and intrigue among the press and public alike. The mystery has inspired countless books, blogs, fan groups, researchers (dubbed “cereologists”) and even Hollywood films. Despite having been studied for decades, the question remains: Who — or what — is making them?
→ read full articleA Key to Heaven and Hell
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
The physicist Richard Feinman once met a Buddhist monk.
→ read full articleStudent Activism Is Vital to Burma’s Future
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
In the Burmese society today so violently fractured by the regressive politics of racism, bigotry and exclusion it is these idealistic and principled students who are best positioned to serve as the moral compass. Their activism needs to be cherished and nurtured – not trampled on and repressed.
→ read full articleIQ
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
A team of psychologists has developed a new measure of intelligence, a metric measure. The basic unit is the tary.
→ read full articleNew Documents Prove Mainstream Pro-Monsanto Article Was Actually Written by Monsanto
Carey Wedler | The Anti-Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017— According to documents recently released amid a lawsuit against Monsanto regarding the safety of glyphosate, a widely used herbicide, a prominent academic from Stanford University allowed the agrochemical giant to pen an op-ed in his name. It was subsequently published in Forbes magazine.
→ read full articleThe Corruption of Modern Academic Medicine — How Your Doctor Was Bought
Dr. Jason Fung | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
27 Jul 2017 – Many doctors are genuinely puzzled why the general public does not trust what they say. They blame ignorance and the media but this is simply a patronizing attitude. The truth is: the answer is $$$$. Simply, the public does not trust doctors because they know that many doctors are on the take. A terrific study from Dr. Vinay Prasad illustrates the problem precisely.
→ read full article(Italiano) Grande Storia dalla Norvegia
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Un ratto norvegese sicuro di sé, che abbandona una nave per costruirsi la propria: difesa difensiva, neutrale tra l’Occidente e il Resto; con posti di lavoro concreti, non solo lavori finalizzati a una minore disuguaglianza; vedere il buono in tutto, per progetti che connettono buono con buono. Una Svizzera, attenta anche a una pace positiva.
→ read full article(Português) Os Portões do Desmatamento
Eduardo Pegurier | O Eco – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
19 julho 2017 – Os satélites são cronistas mecânicos do processo de desmatamento da floresta Amazônica. Dois terços da área desmatada virou pasto. Apenas 128 instalações de frigoríficos ativos, pertencentes a 99 empresas, são responsáveis por 93% do abate anual, algo como 12 milhões de cabeças de gado.
→ read full articleThe Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Jennifer Rosenberg | ThoughtCo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
On 6 Aug 1945 the atomic bomb known as “Little Boy” flattened the city of Hiroshima, killing at least 70,000 people that day and tens of thousands more from radiation poisoning. While Japan was still trying to comprehend this devastation, the United States dropped another atomic bomb, nicknamed “Fat Man,” on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people immediately and another 20,000 to 40,000 in the months following the explosion.
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