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The Farmers’ Crisis
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
5 Jul 2017 – India’s small farmers produce more diversity, more food and nutrition per acre than farmers in industrialised countries. Even today, they feed more than 1.3 billion people. Then why are Indian farmers committing suicide today? The root cause is the separation of agriculture from nutrition, and from ecology.
→ read full articleOn the Science of Vaccine Neurotoxicity: Don’t Criticize What You Can’t Understand
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
A Collection of Recent Journal Articles Solidifying the Connections Between America’s Over-Vaccination Agenda and the Epidemics of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Chronic Autoimmune Disorders
→ read full articleAmerica’s Violent Century
John Feffer| Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
The last near-century of American dominance was extraordinarily violent. Is it coming to an end?
→ read full articleMyanmar Leaders Must Nurture the Country’s Many Potential ‘Aung La Nsangs’
Maung Zarni - Coconuts Yangon,
10 Jul 2017
3 Jul 2017 – On Friday [30 Jun], in Yangon, something extraordinary happened to lift the spirit of all Myanmar’s peoples. Mixed martial arts fighter Aung La Nsang made history by becoming the first-ever world champion from Myanmar in any sport. In our long-running civil wars and waves of racial and religious violence, how many Aung La Nsangs have we killed, maimed or otherwise destroyed?
→ read full articleWhy Is Myanmar Refusing a UN Probe if There Is No Rohingya Genocide?
Carbonated TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
If Myanmar has nothing to hide, why isn’t the country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, allowing U.N. investigators to visit the country?
→ read full articleVault 7: BothanSpy
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Today, July 6th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon projects of the CIA. The implants described in both projects are designed to intercept and exfiltrate SSH credentials but work on different operating systems with different attack vectors.
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Clandestino (Music Video of the Week)
Manu Chao | Playing for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
A Classic. Enjoy.
→ read full articleDistinguishing Indigenous Sovereignty from State Sovereignty
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
It is wrong to say that natives of Hawai‘i are an indigenous people because it would imply they do not have a State of their own. This labeling is an American narrative that has no basis in historical facts or law. Rather, natives are the majority of Hawaiian subjects, being the citizenry of the Hawaiian Kingdom that has been in an unjust war by the United States since 1893.
→ read full articleViolins over Violence: Why Creative Nonviolence Still Wins
Greg Harman | Deceleration – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
8 Jul 2017—Within the first few months of the CIA-backed overthrow of Chilean socialist president Salvador Allende, an estimated 40,000 people had been detained by the military and police. There, one of 198 recognized methods of nonviolent action, was the power of deceleration. Ultimately, many would be killed as the resistance mobilized for more direct actions; but as many have argued, the use of nonviolence was the key that made the ultimate victory possible.
→ read full articleWhat Does War Generate?
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
What are the generals’ concerns and interests in Iraq and Afghanistan? How strong is their concern even for the well-being of their own troops? Several veterans of U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have written persuasive memoirs about the wastefulness of their deployments, accusing commanders of sending them on futile missions.
→ read full articleBeware the “Cides” of July
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
4 Jul 2017 – Shakespeare’s oft quoted lines from Julius Caesar are well known. They are used often in conversations to remind us of the perils lurking among auspicious and inauspicious dates and places: “Beware the Ides of March.” The lines are notable for the 15th day of Caesar’s death at the hands of those he trusted, even as he alienated their friendship.
→ read full articleIndia Set to Forgive Billions of Dollars of Farm Debts
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
10 Jul 2017 – A resurgence of the farm loan waiver culture in India has got many economists and policy makers worried. In a country where a bulk of the farmland is rain-fed, the need to offer some relief to a drought-hit farmer is serious. But it is an acknowledged fact that loan waivers are a wrong practice and have several detrimental long term implications.
→ read full articleImprove Yourself
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
In ancient times, a king walked barefoot, as it was customary at the time, to visit a neighboring town.
→ read full articleHenry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. One of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
→ read full articleIsraeli Exports into Gaza
Latuff – MintPress News,
10 Jul 2017
22 Jun 2017 – So It Goes…
→ read full articleBreaking News
Ziggy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Attribution…
→ read full articleEvensong
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Indigo petals, dew beading in their darker folds,
The memory of cinnamon like alms,
A poet’s hidden tune: all was flush
In the days of our setting out
What Is Quantum Computing? A Super-Easy Explanation for Anyone
Bernard Marr - Forbes,
10 Jul 2017
4 Jul 2017 – It’s fascinating to think about the power in our pocket—today’s smartphones have the computing power of a military computer from 50 years ago that was the size of an entire room. However, even with the phenomenal strides we made in technology and classical computers since the onset of the computer revolution, there remain problems that classical computers just can’t solve. Many believe quantum computers are the answer.
→ read full articleTrump and the Truth about Climate Change
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Tell Donald Trump: The Paris Climate Deal Is Very Good for America – Trump argues the treaty is unfair to the US but it is America that continues to impose an unfair burden on others.
→ read full articleWho’s Getting Killed Today?
Clive Stafford Smith – The Times Literary Supplement,
10 Jul 2017
28 Jun 2017 – Few people are aware that every week the White House observes “Terror Tuesday”, where the US President personally approves people for death without any legal process at all… Eventually, perhaps, we will haul the world back to the legal rule announced by Emer de Vattel a mere 259 years ago, when assassination was deemed to be simply barbaric.
→ read full articleTwo Students Just Broke a Quantum Computing World Record
Tom Ward | Futurism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
5 Jul 2017 – Researchers from Sweden have successfully simulated a 45-qubit quantum circuit, breaking the record for the greatest number of qubits to be simulated. This important milestone puts humanity one step closer to “quantum supremacy,” the point at which quantum computers could outperform any traditional computer.
→ read full articleQuantum Computers Compete for “Supremacy”
Neil Savage | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
5 Jul 2017 – Two technologies may be on the verge of surpassing even the most powerful digital computers in a year or so, but key challenges remain unsolved.
→ read full articleRex Tugwell (10 Jul 1891 – 21 Jul 1979): Planning and Action for Rural Reconstruction
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
As world-wide climate change has made the issues of land use, water, desertification, and land reform vital issues, it is useful to recall the contributions of Rexford Tugwell, an economist and advocate of government planning… When as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, I met Tugwell; he had largely left the field of economic planning to write about political leadership, especially the style and experiences of Franklin Roosevelt.
→ read full articleConcept and Definition of Civil Society Sustainability
Charles Kojo VanDyck | Center for Strategic and International Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – The global civil society ecosystem can be characterized as a complex and interconnected network of individuals and groups drawn from rich histories of associational relationships and interactions. Globally, the concept of civil society has evolved from these associational platforms to comprise a wide range of organized and organic groups of different forms, sizes, and functions. There have been significant changes over time in the civil society landscape.
→ read full articleGruesome Pic Shows Mass Slaughter of Whales in Faroe Islands Hunt
James Rogers - Fox News,
10 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – Faroe Islanders have turned the sea red after slaughtering hundreds of whales as part of a hunt that has been harshly criticized by animal rights groups. Authorities on the islands allow islanders to drive herds of pilot whales into shallow waters, where they are killed using a ‘spinal lance’ that is inserted through the animal’s neck to break its spinal cord. The grisly image shows a hunt on June 16.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Jul 10-16, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
→ read full article“Modern” Business Owns You
Johan Galtung and Malvin Gattinger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
The housing market used to be a way for people to organize themselves and share costs and risks. Now in bigger cities it seems to be mainly about selling people to housing corporations. The online markets used to be extensions of “real” ones, selling goods and services. Now the central market is ‘attention,’ essentially selling people to advertisement companies.
→ read full articleIn Myanmar, One Girl’s Plight Epitomizes Rohingya Struggle: Worse than Prison
Todd Pitman - AP News,
10 Jul 2017
Girl, 4, Becomes Face of Suffering Rohingya Children Starving to Death amid ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
→ read full articleAgain in the World Walks Whirlwind
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Again in the world walks whirlwind,
Withstand the frames of the ship?
Whether the Day of Judgment is waiting for us soon,
UN Conference Adopts Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
7 Jul 2017 – The treaty – adopted by a vote of 122 in favour to one against (Netherlands), with one abstention (Singapore) – prohibits a full range of nuclear-weapon-related activities, such as undertaking to develop, test, produce, manufacture, acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, as well as the use or threat of use of these weapons.
→ read full articleWe’ve Got a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
Ray Acheson | Reaching Critical Will – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
4 July 2017 – There are many ways to ban nuclear weapons. The draft text that the President of the conference released on Monday [3 Jul] evening is one of them. And it’s a good one. It is a categorical prohibition of nuclear weapons that also provides a framework for their elimination.
→ read full articleEyeless in Gaza
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
8 Jul 2017 – I have a unique confession to make: I like Gaza. Yes, I like this far-away corner of Palestine, the narrow strip on the way to Egypt, in which two million human beings are crowded, and which is closer to hell than to heaven. My heart goes out to them.
→ read full articleSonification of Twitter Leadership at the G20
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
8 Jul 2017 – A Surprising Musical Opportunity for Donald Trump to Sound a New Note – Written on the occasion of the G20 Summit (Hamburg, July 2017).
→ read full articleWhat Is Fasting? A Guide to the Different Types of Fasts
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
A fast is a voluntary practice in which people go for extended or structured periods without eating and drinking for spiritual, medical, or weight loss reasons. Others fast to protest or raise awareness for causes. Fasting is not starvation. For those who fast for health reasons, fasting is just a more structured way of eating. Some people may find fasting challenging, but there are many types of fasting regimens and protocols from which to choose.
→ read full articleHow al-Qaeda Became an American Ally in ‘The War on Terror’
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
10 Jul 2017
Nearly 16 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States is inexplicably finding itself in bed with al-Qaeda, its alleged sworn enemy. The group’s efforts to terrorize the population of Syria have been rewarded with U.S. arms, training and other military aid.
→ read full article(Français) À Gaza, Israël fait des expérimentations sur des humains en situation de stress et de privations
Gidéon Lévy – Middle East Eye,
10 Jul 2017
Qu’arrive-t-il à deux millions d’êtres humains privés d’électricité presque tout le temps, de nuit comme de jour ? C’est ce qu’expérimente Gaza.
→ read full article(Português) O Homem e o Urubu
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
4 julho 2017 – Um humano ficou enojado quando viu um urubu comendo carniça na beira da estrada. Se aproximou e tentou bater no animal com um galho caído sobre o asfalto quente.
→ read full articleMarwan Barghouti and the Battle of the Empty Stomachs
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Often described as the Palestinians’ Nelson Mandela, Barghouti led the recent prisoners’ hunger strike. Paradoxically, his incarceration has served only to make him more visible, a Palestinian national icon. And now he is said to be developing a new model of resistance, to replace the failed strategies of Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas.
→ read full articleYanis Varoufakis: A New Deal for the 21st Century
Yanis Varoufakis – The New York Times,
10 Jul 2017
Today’s false feud between globalization and nationalism is undermining the future of humanity, and spreading dread and loathing. It must end. A new internationalist spirit that would build institutions to serve the interests of the many is as pertinent today across the world as Roosevelt’s New Deal was for America in the 1930s.
→ read full article(Português) Galgos Explorados em Corridas São Forçados a Usar Cocaína
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Um adestrador de galgos foi suspenso após testes revelarem que 12 cães explorados por ele tinham cocaína em seus corpos. “Este é o maior caso de drogas em galgos na história americana. É assustador”.
→ read full articleTrial and Terror
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The U.S. government has prosecuted 805 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never even got close to committing an act of violence.
→ read full articleThey Kill Children, Massacre Civilians, Use Slave Labour and Human Shields, and Are Trained by Britain
Mark Farmaner – HuffPost UK,
3 Jul 2017
28 Jun 2017 – A shocking new report by Amnesty International into ongoing human rights violations in Kachin State and northern Shan State in Burma has prompted Burma Campaign UK to raise further questions about the decision of the British government to provide free training to the Burmese Army.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (3) Thomas Paine
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Thomas Paine, defender of democracy, defender of human rights, defender of ordinary citizens against the tyranny of oligarchies, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleVault 7: Elsa
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Today, June 28th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the ELSA project of the CIA. ELSA is a geo-location malware for WiFi-enabled devices like laptops running the Micorosoft Windows operating system. Once persistently installed on a target machine using separate CIA exploits, the malware scans visible WiFi access points and records the ESS identifier, MAC address and signal strength at regular intervals.
→ read full articleThe Whore Named War
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The Whore named War
lassoed the President,
let him lay
in lascivious arms;
(Italiano) Povertà rurale? Cooperative!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Lo scopo primario delle cooperative rurali è garantire il sostentamento degli associati condividendo i rischi, e i proventi. Ne sono membri sia agricoltori sia lavoranti con capacità di assumersi rischi e di condivisione. Possono aderire poveri o disoccupati urbani, quanto meno ottenendo cibo in cambio di lavoro.
→ read full articleUN Under Siege: Geopolitics in the Time of Trump
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
1 Jul 2017 – Why the Peoples of the World Need the UN: Multilateralism, International Law, Human Rights, and Ecological Sustainability – This post is a modified and enlarged version of a talk I gave in Geneva a week ago. The audience was a blend of students of all ages from around the world, with almost none from Europe and North America, and several NGO representatives with lots of UN experience.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il genere umano nel 2050 – Un ambiente per sviluppare la pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Il 2050 è soltanto 33 anni avanti; 33 anni indietro sta il 1984 di Orwell. Sono successe tante cose. Il muro di Berlino è caduto nel 1989; hanno fatto seguito l’Impero Sovietico, l’Unione Sovietica e il Comunismo. L’Impero Usa è decaduto, vecchi clienti si sono rifiutati di combattere le guerre degli Stati Uniti ma non quelle dell’Unione Europea, incrinando la NATO.
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What do These Videos Have in Common—Or, What Is the Difference?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
‘Join the National Rifle Association’
‘USA in the Eyes of North Korean TV’
You be the judge.
Barclays PLC Charged with Fraud by UK Serious Fraud Office
Jean Shaoul | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
1 Jul 2017 – The UK has charged Barclays with conspiracy to commit fraud and the provision of unlawful financial assistance. But it has nothing to do with the criminal and reckless banking behaviour that precipitated the 2008 crash—their lending practices, the selling of worthless mortgage-backed securities, false valuation and rating of debt instruments, abuse of loan foreclosure procedures, misrepresenting their financial position or any other financial skulduggery.
→ read full article‘The Hotel Tacloban:’ A Poetic Masterpiece of War and Redemption
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Part ventriloquistic non-fiction memoir, part history, part murder mystery, part war story, part confessional – wholly beyond categorization, really – The Hotel Tacloban is a mesmerizing read that will leave you stunned and shaken, but also awe-struck by the courage and depravity to which humans can rise and fall. So gripping is the story that I find it shocking that it hasn’t yet been made into a movie. Don’t miss it.
→ read full articleTrump‘s Red Line
Seymour M. Hersh - Die Welt,
3 Jul 2017
President Donald Trump ignored important intelligence reports when he decided to attack Syria after he saw pictures of dying children. Seymour M. Hersh investigated the case of the alleged Sarin gas attack.
→ read full articleThe Bizarre Case of Bashar
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
1 Jul 2017 – I am a professional investigative journalist. For 40 years of my life I was the editor-in-chief of an investigative weekly magazine, which exposed nearly all of Israel’s major scandals during those years. I have never lost a major libel suit, indeed I have rarely been sued at all. I am mentioning this not to boast, but to lend some authority to what I am going to say. It concerns the evil deeds of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator, who bombed his own people with Sarin, a nerve gas, causing gruesome deaths of the victims.
→ read full articleOn The Mainstream Media Coverage of Nuclear War Risks and Nuclear Abolition
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – Ask yourself whether you remember to have seen one or more of these essentially important initiatives and reports recently, all pertaining to nuclear weapons, the risk of nuclear war and advocacy of nuclear abolition.
→ read full articleVault 7: OutlawCountry
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Today, June 29th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the OutlawCountry project of the CIA that targets computers running the Linux operating system. It allows for the redirection of all outbound network traffic on the target computer to CIA controlled machines for ex- and infiltration purposes. The malware consists of a kernel module that creates a hidden netfilter table on a Linux target.
→ read full article(Castellano) El porqué de la violencia en el ser humano y en la sociedad
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
20 Jun 2017 – Vivimos a nivel nacional y mundial situaciones de violencia que desafían nuestro entendimiento. No solo de seres humanos contra otros seres humanos, especialmente en el Norte de África, en Sudán y en Oriente Medio, sino también contra la naturaleza y la Madre Tierra.
→ read full articleCardinal Bo Takes Aim at Minority Abuses in Eid Message
Union of Catholic Asian News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Prelate reiterates call for probe against persecution of minorities, especially Rohingya Muslims.
→ read full articleA Comparative Study of World’s Truth Commissions: From Madness to Hope
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The objective of this paper is to explore the initiatives and practices of different countries in truth seeking. Many countries during the post-conflict, colonial, slavery, anarchical and cultural genocide periods establish the Truth Commissions to respond to the past human wrongdoings: crimes and crimes against humanity. Enforced disappearances, killings, rapes and inhumane tortures are wrongdoings.
→ read full articleThe Elephant in the Sky: Chemtrails, Contrails and Climate Engineering
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The Elephant in the Room: An important, serious and obvious topic, which everyone is aware of, but which nobody wants to discuss, as such discussion is considered to be uncomfortable – or would cause cognitive dissonance (the psychological distress felt when a person is presented with a truth that contradicts a previously deeply held belief).
→ read full articlePeople Choosing Peace: Chen (Israel)
Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
One night we had to meet an agent from the security forces in order to find a wanted terrorist. My men surrounded a house and as we entered with our flashlights. People were sleeping on mattresses all over the floor. Then the agent woke someone up and dragged him to the jeep. It was a 10-year-old child. “How can this be the ‘wanted terrorist’?” I asked myself.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace Science Agenda 2017: New Dialogue for the G20 and UN
Subhash Chandra and Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The Main Objective of the New Agenda Is to Initiate a New Discourse on Global Peace in Scientific and Humanistic Harmonious Vision in Our Century
→ read full articlePeaceful Societies – Where Are They?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
There are many of them–of different kinds–in world geography. We can try to identify the characteristics of their peacefulness. Or we can start by identifying belligerent societies and then see peaceful societies as their negations. Let us try this one first.
→ read full articleTo Counter Global Warming in USA
Cafe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Efficient Tactic
→ read full articleRemove My Clip from GMO Propaganda Film
Marion Nestle | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
21 Jun 2017 – I have asked repeatedly to have my short interview clip removed from this film. In my 10-second clip, I say that I am unaware of convincing evidence that eating GM foods is unsafe—this is what I said, but it is hugely out of context.
→ read full articleAmerica at War since 9/11: Reality or Reality TV?
Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch,
3 Jul 2017
I now face students who have lived their entire conscious lives in a country we are told is “at war” since 2001 when George W. Bush declared a War on Terror. Theirs is the strangest of “wars,” one without sacrifice. It lacks the ration books, the blackouts, the shortages experienced during World War II. It lacks the fear that an enemy army will land on our coasts or descend from our skies. None of us fears that war will take away our food, electricity, water, or most precious of all, our Wi-Fi. For us, that is only an endless make-believe war, one that might as well be taking place on another planet in another universe.
→ read full articleFranz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
→ read full article(Français) ONG : dépolitisation de la résistance au néolibéralisme ?
Julie Godin | CETRI-Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Si l’« ONGisation », à savoir l’instauration de la configuration ONG comme vecteur privilégié de l’action collective pour le développement, interpelle, les facteurs de dépolitisation des discours et des pratiques de ces acteurs non gouvernementaux préoccupent. La conscience des risques d’instrumentalisation, de managérialisation, d’occidentalisation, de substitution… aide à les éviter et partant, à repolitiser les résistances au modèle dominant.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Jul 3-9, 2017~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Always choose to heal not to hurt, to forgive not to despise, to persevere not to quit, to smile not to frown, and to love not to hate! At the end of life, what really matters is not what we bought, but what we built, not what we got, but what we shared, not our competence but our character, and not our success but our significance. Live a life that matters. Live a life that cares…” – Ritu Ghatourey
→ read full articleLawyers’ Statement at the UN Nuclear Ban Negotiations
Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms | Abolition 2000 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
23 Jun 2017 – Yesterday at the United Nations, the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) released a Lawyers’ letter on the abolition of nuclear weapons in conjunction with UN negotiations on a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons. The letter has been endorsed by over 400 lawyers, law professors, attorneys, judges, law students and other legal professionals.
→ read full articleThe Petulant Prince
Horsey – Los Angeles Times,
3 Jul 2017
You are banned!
→ read full articleHermann Hesse (2 Jul 1877 – 9 Aug 1962): Revolt and Enlightenment
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Rebellion against established structures, the quest for personal values and a religious impulse are all elements in Siddhartha, published in 1922, perhaps his most widely-read book. It is not clear that Hesse found the harmony of enlightenment in his own life. In his last major work The Glass Bead Game (1943) he describes what might be an ideal Buddhist monastery devoted to the discovery, preservation and dissemination of knowledge.
→ read full articleThree CNN Journalists Resign amid False Anti-Russia Reporting Controversy
Evan Blake | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
28 Jun 2017 – Three CNN journalists resigned Monday [26 Jun] after the outlet retracted an article published on 22 Jun containing false allegations of connections between Donald Trump and Russia. It was written by Thomas Frank and edited by Pulitzer-Prize reporter Eric Lichtblau. Lex Harris, the executive editor overseeing the investigative unit, resigned alongside Frank and Lichtblau.
→ read full articleWomen in Islam: Beyond Stereotypes
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Too much of the thinking about Muslim women is done along predictable, clichéd lines. This is true of all shades of opinion, perception and scholarship .This opinion profiles Muslim women in stubborn stereotypes: supposedly powerless and oppressed, behind walls and veils, demure, voiceless and silent figures, discriminated and bereft of even basic rights.
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Vamos Vamos (Music Video of the Week)
Sistema Sonidero – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Live Version of Vamos Vamos from our concert in Berlin at the Yo Soy la Cumbia Party. Enjoy the Music.
→ read full articleReviving Old Memories for Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
One does not forget the painful old memories; but by doing some good to the people whether as a community or by individual efforts–however small they may appear to be–will usually generate a sense of fulfillment and usher in Peace and Harmony.
→ read full articleOn Make-Up, Serbian Women and a Lesbian PM
Marija Pantelic and Lana Pasic – Al Jazeera,
3 Jul 2017
29 Jun 2017 – About Serbia’s first openly gay prime minister, Balkan Insight published an article that opens with this profound observation: “I feel sorry for Serbian MPs. Yes, you heard it right. I do feel sorry for them. […] It is bad enough for them that she is a woman. It’s even worse that she apparently feels no physical attraction for that hairy mythical beast, the Serbian Male. It’s even worse, again – if it’s possible to get any worse – that she disobeys Serbian Woman’s Rule No 1 – she wears absolutely no makeup.”
→ read full articleCity of Broken Dreams
Barbara Millar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Shadows of wings fall on the streets of Aleppo.
A shower of metal explode in brains, shred arms and legs.
US State Department’s Lie about Child Soldiers
Jo Becker | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
27 Jun 2017 – Dozens of children were part of Burma’s armed forces as recently as last week. In Iraq, children have died fighting the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) with Iraqi government military units. But United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ignored these facts and took Burma and Iraq off the annual list, issued today, that identifies countries that use child soldiers or support militias that do.
→ read full articleWe Were Born to Give Light
Lara Ayvazyan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
We were born to give light,
The energy of good and happiness,
It is a pity that not everyone is in a hurry to live like this
And they do not want to reach agreement.
(Français) Terrorisme, la face cachée de la mondialisation
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
2 Jul 2017 – Faut-il s’habituer au terrorisme devenu partie intégrante de notre quotidien ? Ou bien analyser intelligemment ses causes pour le contrer ? Ancien rédacteur en chef à Radio France Internationale et aujourd’hui directeur du site spécialisé prochetmoyen-orient.ch, l’écrivain et journaliste franco-suisse Richard Labévière a publié Terrorisme, la face cachée de la mondialisation, un ouvrage remarquable qui dresse le bilan de quinze ans de « guerre contre la terreur » et apporte des clés d’analyse sur un phénomène complexe et de plus en plus répandu dans nos sociétés.
→ read full articleSalafism vs. Wahhabism: Qatar and Saudi Arabia’s Proxy War Rages in Syria Thanks to US Militarism
Steven Sahiounie – MintPress News,
3 Jul 2017
Salafi jihadist scholar Abdullah al-Muhaysini is one of many agents working on behalf of Qatar to combat Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabist ideology. Their battleground is Syria, where a so-called “civil war” is covering up a silent fight between competing political movements.
→ read full article(Português) Tom Regan: “Não há justificativa para causarmos dor aos animais”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
30 jun 2017 – Falecido em 17 de fevereiro de 2017, Tom Regan foi um importante filósofo da teoria dos direitos animais. Professor de filosofia da Universidade Estadual da Carolina do Norte, onde lecionou por 34 anos, conquistou prestígio internacional por sua produção prolífica voltada ao abolicionismo animal. Em 2006, Regan teve o seu livro “Empty Cages”, ou “Jaulas Vazias”, publicado no Brasil.
→ read full articleWashington’s New Threat against Syria, Russia and Iran: Invitation to False Flag Operation
Farhang Jahanpour | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
29 Jun 2017 – The world is poised at a very critical juncture. The events in Syria could either lead to the restoration of stability in that war-torn country whose people have gone through unimaginable hardships, or it can pave the way for a global confrontation the outcome of which is too frightening to contemplate.
→ read full articlePetya Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Computers in 65 Countries
Kevin Reed | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
29 Jun 2017 – In the second massive cyberattack in 44 days, both originating from malicious software developed by the US National Security Agency-NSA, personal computers in at least 65 countries were shut down Tuesday [27 Jun] by an epidemic of ransomware known as Petya.
→ read full articleFrom Outer Space, Three Guideposts for the Resistance
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Beware Trump’s fearmongering, blind loyalists, and divide-and-conquer tactics.
→ read full articleThe Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts into High Gear
John W. Whitehead - Waking Times,
3 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – The government has become an expert in finding ways to sidestep what it considers “inconvenient laws” aimed at ensuring accountability. It knows all too well how to hide its nefarious, covert, clandestine activities behind the classified language of national security and terrorism. And when that doesn’t suffice, it obfuscates, complicates, stymies or just plain bamboozles the public into remaining in the dark.
→ read full articleSaving a Marriage
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
A true mediation history from Johan Galtung. An Italian husband was fitting bathrooms with tiles for a living, while his wife, who was eight years younger, stayed home and took care of the household.
→ read full articleTop 300 Cooperatives Generate 2.5 Trillion Dollars in Annual Turnover
Inter Press Service-IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
3 Jul 2017 – The top 300 cooperatives alone generate 2.5 trillion dollars in annual turnover, more than the GDP of France. Cooperatives help to build inclusive economies and societies, and can help to eliminate poverty and reach the other Sustainable Development Goals, the head of the UN Labour Agency said on 1 July, marking the International Day of Cooperatives.
→ read full articleGod Gave Us Piece of Eternity as a Priceless Gift
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
God gave us piece of eternity as a priceless gift.
We may use it as we like.
The Rise of the Thought Leader
David Sessions – New Republic Magazine,
3 Jul 2017
How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual. As funding from government sources and philanthropic organizations has dried up, think tanks make up by courting donations from corporations, foreign governments, and politically minded elites. These donors, however, are less interested in supporting intellectually prestigious, nonpartisan work than they are in manufacturing political support for their preferred ideas. In other words, they want a return on their investment.”
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Orders Visa Ban on UN Investigators to Burma/Myanmar
Coconuts Yangon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – Foreign Affairs Minister Aung San Suu Kyi has ordered her ministry to reject visa requests from UN investigators appointed to report on the military’s alleged human rights atrocities in Shan, Kachin, and Rakhine states.
→ read full articleMyanmar Cardinal Bo Calls Human Rights Campaigners, Researchers and Scholars on Rohingyas “Extreme” and Joins Aung San Suu Kyi’s Genocide Denial
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
26 Jun 2017 – My response to Myanmar Cardinal Charles Maung Bo’s Statement of his public denial of Rohingya ethnic cleansing.
→ read full articleJewish Ethnicity, Palestinian Solidarity, Human Identity
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
23 Jun 2017 – The following interview with Abdo Emara, an Arab journalist, was published in Arabic. There are no substantive changes from my earlier responses. I think it worthwhile to share this text because the questions asked by Abdo Emara are often directed at me in the discussion period after talks I have given recently.
→ read full article(Português) O porquê da violência no ser humano e na sociedade
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
A existência da violência, não raro sob forma de aterradora crueldade, representa um desafio para o entendimento. Teólogos, filósofos, cientistas e sábios não encontraram até hoje uma resposta convincente.
→ read full article64 Years Later, CIA Finally Releases Details of Iranian Coup
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian | Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
20 Jun 2017 – Declassified documents released last week shed light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s central role in the 1953 coup that brought down Iranian Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh, fueling a surge of nationalism which culminated in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and poisoning U.S.-Iran relations into the 21st century.
→ read full articleVisual History of Decreasing War and Violence
Max Roser | Our World in Data – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Archaeological studies show that societies in the past were very violent. Often more than 10% of deaths were the result of one person killing another. In this chart I have included all the available archaeological evidence that I could find.
→ read full articleMost Terrorists in the USA Are Right Wing, Not Muslim: Report
Mirren Gidda – Newsweek,
26 Jun 2017
22 Jun 2017 – Right-wing extremists were not only more successful, they were often more deadly, too. From 2008 to 2016, a third of right-wing attacks involved fatalities, compared to 13 percent of Islamist attacks.
→ read full articleOn World Refugee Day 20 Jun UN Urges Support, Solidarity for Record Number of Displaced People
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
20 June 2017 – With a record 65.6 million people last year forcibly uprooted from their homes by violence and persecution, UN Secretary-General António Guterres today called on the international community to provide support and solidarity. World Refugee Day is a moment to ask what each of us can do to overcome indifference or fear and embrace the idea of inclusion, “to welcome refugees to our own communities, and to counter narratives that would seek to exclude and marginalize refugees and other uprooted people.”
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat Genocide
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
26 Jun 2017 – It is a tragic measure of the depravity of human existence that genocide is a continuing and prevalent manifestation of violence in the international system. It is not difficult to nonviolently defend a targeted population against genocide. Vitally, however, it requires a leadership that can develop a sound strategy so that people are mobilized and deployed effectively.
→ read full articleReligious Diversities and Child Marriages — A Saga of Social Change and Women’s Empowerment
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Whatever may have been the justification for early marriages the fact is that in most societies — Western, Asian or tribal, early marriages were the norm rather than the exception. There were economic, social and religious reasons for early marriages and early motherhood.
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