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On Zbigniew Brzezinski: Geopolitical Mastermind, Realist Practitioner
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
When it comes to Brzezinski’s legacy, I believe it to be mixed. He was a brilliant practitioner, always able to present his views lucidly, forcefully, and with a catchy quality of coherence. In my view, his Cold War outlook was driven toward unacceptable extremes by his anti-Soviet preoccupations. After the Cold War he seemed more prudent and sensible, especially in the last twenty years, when his perceptions of world order were far more illuminating than those of Kissinger, his geopolitical other.
→ read full articleThe Limits of Democracy and the Postcolonial Nation State: Mali’s Democratic Experiment Falters, while Jihad and Terrorism Grow in the Sahara
Ibrahim Bangura – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
By Robin Edward Poulton and Raffaella Greco Tonegutti – To enrich the arguments in this well-written book, the authors have used a unique approach of presenting conversations with key political figures, mediators, and commentators. The conversations provide deep reflections that intrinsically add to the reader’s understanding of the complexities of the Malian crisis. Furthermore, the conversations present academic and practical perspectives that are not found in any other book on Mali in the twenty-first century.
→ read full articleSatyagraha
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
A British platoon blocked a road against a Satyagraha force, one of Gandhi’s nonviolent but implacable acts of mass civil disobedience.
→ read full article(Português) Cães são explorados como meios de transporte para entreter turistas na China
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Uma nova crueldade contra animais tem se disseminado na China.
→ read full articleBeers
Submitted by Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
After the Great Britain Beer Festival in London, all the brewery presidents decided to go out for a beer.
→ read full articleUN Chief Calls World ‘a Mess’ as Trump Expected to Quit Paris Agreement
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said Tuesday [30 May] countries must “get on board or get left behind” with the agreement. While he steered clear of naming Donald Trump specifically in his speech at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Guterres told an audience member in a Q&A session that exiting the deal could have economic, social and security implications for any countries that choose to pull out.
→ read full articleIreland Set to Have Its First Openly Gay Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar
Robert Mackey – The Intercept,
5 Jun 2017
Leo Varadkar, a gay lawmaker, was elected the leader of Ireland’s ruling Fine Gael party on Friday [2 Jun 2017], making him the country’s prime minister-elect, set to take power after the Irish parliament reconvenes in 10 days. Varadkar, a doctor who served as health minister, came out about his sexuality during a live radio interview in 2015.
→ read full articleFrance Seizes Huge Shipments of ‘Jihadi Drug’ Captagon
Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Customs officials say one 70kg haul of drug, used extensively by fighters in the Syrian war, was bound for Saudi Arabia. Captagon, a type of amphetamine, is one of the most commonly used drugs among terrorists fighting the Syrian government.
→ read full articleEnvisaging NATO Otherwise — in 3D and 4D?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Potentially Hidden Faces of Global Strategy Highlighted Through Polyhedra – The question is whether new insights into the nature and potential of NATO (or The Pentagon) could be derived from depiction in 3D — or 4D, if dynamics can be reflected in suitable animations. Whether these aspects are already implicit, or could be usefully rendered explicit, remains to be investigated.
→ read full articleLet It Be!
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Let it be! Let the rich man
Lose his stolen millions.
Let the poor man stop moaning,
And let a bird fly again in the sky!
Seeking Answers to the Diversities and Inequalities in Life
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
The world is full of differences or diversities of all types – religious, economic, racial, political, geographic, flora and fauna, professional; individual likes or dislikes, size of people and so on. But are all inequalities detestable and ugly or some of them may be beautiful and desirable?
→ read full articleWant to Lose Weight? Go Vegan!
Alina Petre | Authority Nutrition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
27 May 2017 – People may choose a vegan diet for a variety of reasons, be it for the environment, animal ethics or health. However, some people give the vegan diet a try purely to lose excess weight—and perhaps for good reason.
→ read full articleToo Many Prisons Make Bad People Worse – There Is a Better Way
The Economist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
The World Can Learn from How Norway Treats Its Offenders – Turning Villains into Neighbours
→ read full articleThe ‘Water-Employment-Migration’ Explosive Nexus
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
5 Jun 2017
30 May 2017 – Water–everybody talks about it, warns against its growing scarcity, excessive waste, the impact of climate change, the frequent severe droughts and so on. Now, a global action network with over 3,000 partner organisations in 183 countries comes to unveil the dangerous nexus between water, employment and migration, in particular in the Mediterranean region.
→ read full articleFear as an Obstacle to Peace: Why Are Israelis Afraid?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
24 May 2017 – Bat-Hen Epstein Elias’s long article on Iranian Jews is interesting. Parts of it, in fact, are heartwarming. Yet, despite the lack of any serious evidence, the story is entirely framed in the language of fear.
→ read full articleTrump in Riyadh – A Gulf NATO to Gang Up against Iran and Syria
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
His visit must be seen in the light of a number of events and trends, and in what follows we do like the military when it scans the horizon for enemies: we look for patterns – not the least Saudi Arabia’s “surprising new military goals” as Forbes’ Ellen Wald appropriately calls them. Or, as they say – we connect some dots that, invariably, Western mainstream media have no capacity and probably also no interest in connecting.
→ read full articleAlternate Worldviews: Davutoğlu, Kissinger, Xi Jinping
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
This post is a much modified version of a shorter opinion piece published by the global-e online publication on May 18, 2017. It is a response to and commentary upon an essay of Ahmet Davutoğlu, former foreign minister and prime minister of Turkey.
→ read full articleInstability Widens in Mali and the Sahel Region of Africa
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
23 May 2017 – The first foreign visit of the new French President Emmanuel Macron, after a now habitual trip to Berlin, was to Gao in northern Mali as head of the French military. The visit was an attempt to be seen as paying attention to the efforts of French troops in operations in northern Mali and other states of the Sahel region of Africa.
→ read full articleThe Visitation
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
There were two Donald Trumps this week. One of them was touring the Middle East, being feted everywhere. The second was in Washington, where he was battered from all sides, denounced for incompetence and even threatened with impeachment in the future. Against the background of his troubles at home, Trump’s Arabian Nights were fantastic.
→ read full articleWAR
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
For Memorial Day USA – 29 May 2017
→ read full articleFasting for Palestinian Justice and Dignity
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
27 May 2017 – Today is the first day of Ramadan. Muslims in many parts of the world begin their month-long fast today. Most of them are not aware that 1500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are on a hunger strike that began almost six weeks ago.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire on the 2016 Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
19 May 2017 – Women’s Boat to Gaza
→ read full article(Italiano) I Baschi in Spagna: pace positiva?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
La Spagna è in una transizione che richiederà un po’ di tempo: dalla “España: Una, Grande, Libre” alla “España: Una Comunidad de naciones“. La pace positiva si struttura sulla pace negativa, costruendo sulla riconciliazione dei traumi e la risoluzione dei conflitti. C’è da fare molto lavoro. Ma la Spagna, da vera comunità di nazioni, sarà di ispirazione per tutto il mondo.
→ read full article(Italiano) Quel che manca: la creatività politica
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
L’impedimento sta nella nostra immaginazione politica così limitata. E’ necessario crescere, così che le visioni del mondo si aprano nelle nostre menti, siano condivise con altri in nuovi modi di dialogare, concretizzate in un nuovo agire. Possiamo riuscire se lo vogliamo. E lo vorremo se liberiamo l’immaginazione.
→ read full articleFasting for Education – An Inspiring Saga of Young Women’s Courage
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
When a girl does not agree and marries someone else of her own choice, catastrophic consequences may follow — even murder of both the daughter and her husband. This conservative and patriarchal attitude in Haryana is difficult to explain in this short essay.
→ read full article(Français) La machine de guerre étasunienne en Afrique
Nick Turse | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Pendant des années, AFRICOM a vendu la fiction que Djibouti est le site de sa seule « base » en Afrique. Alors que les États-Unis maintiennent un vaste réseau d’installations militaires dans le monde entier, avec des complexes militaires énormes et difficiles à ne pas voir en Europe et en Asie, les bases d’Afrique ont été mieux dissimulées.
→ read full articleKashmir
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
The problem with the status of Jammu and Kashmir and the feelings of its people towards India is an old one although the situation has become worse in recent times. It started in 1948 after India was divided into two independent states of India and Pakistan and after the more than 530 states were asked to go to either the new nation of Pakistan or to join India. The maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir (J K) was a Hindu but the majority population of the state was Muslim. He however decided to accede to India.
→ read full articleThe Idea of Living
Joyce Sutphen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
It has its attractions,
chiefly visual: all those
shapes and lines, hunks
of color and light (the way
(Français) «La grève de la faim est un combat pour la dignité et la liberté de tous les Palestiniens»
Stefano Mauro | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Ilan Pappe, juif, érudit socialiste et antisioniste, a récemment écrit que le peuple palestinien, en ce qui concerne sa ténacité, est comparable aux oliviers de son pays natal.
→ read full articleA Grisly Tale of Children Falling Easy Prey to Ruthless Smugglers
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
29 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Among a raft of alarming statistics, a new UN report has just found that children account for around 28 per cent of trafficking victims globally. And that Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America and the Caribbean have the highest share of children among detected trafficking victims, at the rates of 64 and 62 per cent, respectively.
→ read full articleWhat’s in a Name? U.S. Takes Syria’s Al-Qaeda off Terror Watchlists
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
29 May 2017
By changing its name to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda has managed to secure its removal from the U.S. and Canadian terror watchlists, allowing citizens of those countries to donate money and travel to fight with them.
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La Vie en Rose – Original (Music Video of the Week)
Edith Piaf – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
A perennial French classic by an immortal French performer: Edit Piaf –
Au cours de l’émission “La joie de vivre”, Edith Piaf interprète “La vie en rose”, le 4 mars 1954.
Exclusive: Dilma Rousseff on Her Ouster, Brazil’s Political Crisis & Fighting Dictatorship
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
29 May 2017
26 May 2017 – As Brazil is engulfed by a political crisis, we are joined in studio for an extended exclusive interview by Brazil’s former President Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached last year in what many describe as a legislative coup. Her removal ended nearly 14 years of rule by the left-leaning Workers’ Party, which had been credited with lifting millions of Brazilians out of poverty. Rousseff is a former political prisoner who took part in the underground resistance to the U.S.-backed Brazilian dictatorship in the 1960s. She was jailed from 1970 to 1972, during which time she was repeatedly tortured.
→ read full articleViewpoint
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
During the German occupation of France, a German soldier entered Picasso’s studio and saw a small reproduction of his painting “Guernica”.
→ read full article‘Dire Crisis as Gaza Faces Power Cuts, Gallons of Raw Sewage Pouring into Sea’
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
The United Nations Middle East envoy on 26 May 2017 cautioned that unless urgent measures are taken to de-escalate the crisis now spiraling out of control in the Gaza Strip, there will be devastating consequences for Palestinians and Israelis alike.
→ read full articleMikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths.
→ read full articleOn Caring
Prof. George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Author George Kent feels the theme of caring needs more attention and analysis because of its importance in all social contexts. He used “On Caring” as the foundation for his recent book, ‘Caring About Hunger,’ published by Jørgen Johansen’s Irene Publishing.
→ read full articleTake Torture off Agenda
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
If we created a U.S. Department of Peace whose mission was to non-violently address roots of violence, such a mission would gear American ingenuity and enthusiasm toward the bigger picture of conflict resolution and friendship rather than toward desperate conclusions that security requires cruelty toward enemies.
→ read full article(Português) Filme sobre grupo de direitos animais concorre à Palma de Ouro no Festival de Cannes
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
23 maio 2017 – Um grupo de ativistas pelos direitos animais foi retratado em um filme que concorre à Palma de Ouro no Festival de Cannes. O trabalho heroico do Animal Liberation Front é mostrado em “Okja”, que gira em torno do resgate de um porco geneticamente modificado.
→ read full articleMeasles Mortality Rates and How the Medical Establishment Deceives Us Concerning the Efficacy (and Safety) of Vaccines
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Critical thinkers and knowledgeable readers who have no ulterior motivation to blindly promote current over-vaccination agendas will agree that the Somali parents who have witnessed the devastating epidemic of Autistic Spectrum Disorders decimate so many of their children since coming to Minnesota, made a wise choice in refusing MMR vaccinations.
→ read full articlePortrait of Myanmar’s ‘Buddhist Bin Laden’ Chills Cannes
Fiachra Gibbons | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
“The Venerable W”, his chilling portrait of the monk who has been accused of preaching hate and inciting attacks on Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority, has been hailed by critics at the Cannes film festival as a “stirring documentary about ethnic cleansing in action”. What dismays Schroeder is that Wirathu, whom Time magazine dubbed “The face of Buddhist terror” in a 2013 cover, is utterly unfazed by the chaos and suffering he has unleashed.
→ read full articleLet the Media Coverage of Manchester Victims Be a Model for All Young Victims of War
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
29 May 2017
When a suicide bomber exploded a bomb at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester this week, those killed were almost entirely from among her immense fan base: young girls — teens — and their parents. Jump to the first week of the Trump administration: with expected hubris, Trump and his surrogates touted a “successful” raid in Yemen. What went largely unreported were the 30 civilian casualties of that attack, many of them women and children, including an 8-year-old girl, Nawar Anwar al-Awlaki.
→ read full articleIndian Establishment Lauds Military’s Use of Kashmiri Youth as “Human Shield”
Wasantha Rupasinghe | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
24 May 2017 – Indian army head General Bipin Rawat has awarded a commendation to the officer who ordered a Kashmiri youth tied to the hood of a jeep as a “human shield.” 26-year-old Farooq Dar was seized and, in flagrant violation of international law, paraded around for hours while tied to the lead vehicle of an army convoy.
→ read full articleThermodynamics and Negentropy of Spheral Classes
John Scales Avery - et al. (*) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Society, like any system that has energy, is subject to the second law of thermodynamics, which express the entropy (scattering) of all energy. Our article is devoted to this subject, but within the framework of society and from the unique position of social harmony and disharmony of its structural carriers.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
May 29-Jun 4 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I am not afraid… I was born to do this.” (“Je n’ai pas peur… Je suis né pour cela.”) – Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc)
→ read full articleHunger Strike Ends, Prisoners Declare Victory
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
27 May 2017 – After 40 days without food, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike in Israeli jails. The end of the strike came after 20 hours of intense negotiations between the strike’s leaders, including imprisoned Fatah figure Marwan Barghouti, and the Israel Prison Service, according to a statement issued Saturday [27 May] morning by the prisoners solidarity committee.
→ read full articleWalt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
The basic demands of Pyongyang can easily be met: a peace treaty, normalization of diplomatic relations to Seoul and USA, a nuclear-free, UN-inspected Korean peninsula. An afternoon job for peace, USA?
→ read full articleJohn Pilger: The White Helmets Are a “Complete Propaganda Construct”
Vanessa Beeley – MintPress News,
29 May 2017
26 May 2017 – In yesterday’s interview with RT’s Going Underground, John Pilger outed the White Helmets as nothing more than a “complete propaganda construct in Syria.”
→ read full articleBeing Seed Thrown from Universe
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Being seed thrown from universe,
I am like a farewell beam,
I’ll shine a little on the ground
And later will be lost when the time comes.
Unforgettable Journey
Lara Ayvazyan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
I tore off two red poppies
At the foot of Toledo,
And gave my heart to the country
Under the bright blue sky.
Uganda Has Benefited from Peace Journalism
Gloria Laker Aciro | D+C Development and Cooperation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Uganda has a history of conflict and violence. In particular, the strife caused by the Lord’s Resistance Army from 1995 to 2004 made peace efforts necessary. At the time, a strong foundation for peace journalism was laid. Its principles are of lasting relevance in view of unrest in border regions and the refugee population which is growing due to civil war in neighbouring countries.
→ read full articleCholera Outbreak in War-Torn Yemen Spreading at ‘Unprecedented’ Speed
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
As war-torn Yemen grapples with heavy rains, a collapsed healthcare system and crippled economy, a resurgent cholera outbreak has spread with “unprecedented” speed and taken medical professionals by surprise, the World Health Organization warned on 19 May 2017.
→ read full articleSeneca on True and False Friendship
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
“Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.” “Friendship is unnecessary,” C.S. Lewis wrote, “like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
→ read full articleTwo Sides of the Palestinian Coin: Hunger Strike/Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
28 May 2017 – The Palestinian hunger strike protesting Israeli prison conditions was suspended on May 27th after 40 days, at a time when many of the 1000 or so strikers were experiencing serious deteriorations of health, most were by then hospitalized, and the holy period of Ramadan about to commence creating continuity between the daytime fasting of the faithful and the prior desperate protest of the strikers.
→ read full articleHow Academia Uses Poverty, Oppression, and Pain for Intellectual Masturbation
Prof. Clelia O. Rodríguez | RaceBaitR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
One of the tragic consequences of a traditional system of higher education is working with colleagues who claim to have expertise on the topic of social activism, but who have never experienced any form of intervention. I am referring here to those academics who have made careers out of the pain of others by consuming knowledge obtained in marginalized communities.
→ read full articleSo It Goes
Latuff – MintPress News,
29 May 2017
Friends in High Places
→ read full article(Italiano) 26-27-28 maggio 2017 ERA UN GIORNO QUALSIASI La memoria in cammino A piedi da Avenza a Sant’Anna di Stazzema
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
La presentazione del libro di Ercole Ongaro Resistenza nonviolenta 1943-1945
→ read full articleCompetition and Collaboration in Conflict Resolution
Dr. Olga A. Vorkunova – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Peace-building is today central for shaping our human conditions, present and future. In terms of IR theory, the analytical distinction between ‘competition logic’ versus ‘cooperation logic’ implies that a realist perspective may be useful to analyze particular aspects of peace coalitions rather than military coalitions. There are no incompatible countries; there are incompatible goals of different actors.
→ read full article(Português) A fome como desafio ético e espiritual
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
A pobreza é sistêmica, pois é fruto de um tipo de sociedade que tem por objetivo acumular mais e mais bens materiais sem qualquer consideração humanitária (justiça social) e ambiental (justiça ecológica). Ela pressupõe pessoas cruéis, cínicas e sem qualquer sentido de solidariedade, portanto, num contexto de alta desumaniação e até de barbárie
→ read full articleVault 7: Athena
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Today, May 19th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the “Athena” project of the CIA. “Athena” – like the related “Hera” system – provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (from Windows XP to Windows 10).
→ read full articleThe Palestinian Hunger Strike: “Our chains will be broken before we are…”
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Even if this commitment is not carried through to a grim finality, it will not tarnish the significance of what has been undertaken, and the great reluctance of the world to focus its attention on such a display of nonviolent martyrdom. It appears to be the most consequential due to the participation of Marwan Barghouti along with so many other Palestinian prisoners as well as producing many displays of solidarity beyond the prison walls.
→ read full articleTrumped Up Diplomacy in the Middle East
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
20 May 2017 – As Trump dominates the news by his visits to Saudi Arabia and Israel we should not be tricked into thinking that his ‘achievements’ are hopeful developments. The only true beacons of hope for the peoples of the Middle East are the contrarian affirmations of the Palestinian hunger strike, the Rouhani electoral victory, and the BDS Campaign.
→ read full article(Français) Amnésies et fluctuations occidentales. Droit de la paix, droit de la guerre et « droit » à la guerre
Robert Charvin | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Les États du capitalisme, assistés par leurs multiples mercenaires (politiciens professionnels, journalistes, intellectuels de cour, etc.) ont pour force de pratiquer avec dynamisme des réorientations idéologiques, tout en cultivant certaines amnésies (chroniques ou passagères).
→ read full article“Me and My Shadow-Drone”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Me and my Shadow-Drone
went “walking” down the lane.
Looking Back
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Everything had been arranged:
A linen tablecloth,
The reckless glow of a taper,
Paintings, artefacts, our hands –
Korea: Back from the Brink, Small Steps Forward
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
The election on 9 May 2017 of Moon Jae-in as president of the Republic of Korea may have applied the brakes to a dangerous increase in tensions between the two Korean States, the USA, China, Japan, and Russia.
→ read full articleIndia’s Brexit Moment
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Sashi Tharoor has done a pretty thorough job of debunking the pretentions put forward by journalist-historians, like Niall Ferguson, that the Raj conferred several benefits on India and other colonies. However, what is yet to be written about is the destructive stranglehold imperial memories continue to have on the guardians of Whitehall and of the South Block in Delhi. As Macauley predicted we share a language, a set of laws, a form of governance, and a passion for cricket.
→ read full articleGenetically Engineered Disappointments
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Tan Zhai Gen – Inter Press Service-IPS,
22 May 2017
16 May 2017 – Advocates of genetically engineered crops have long claimed that it is necessary to raise crop yields and reduce human exposure to agrochemicals. GE promised two major improvements: improving yields affordably to feed the world, and making crops resistant to pests to reduce the use of commercial chemical herbicides and insecticides. There has been little compelling evidence to this effect after two decades.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’esempio di una buona pratica per “essere e fare comunità”. A Gavardo, Brescia. Lombardia. Italy. Report per i lettori di tutto il mondo di TRANSCEND Media Service
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
20 Mag 2017 – Come il testimoniare, nel fare storia e memoria, vuol dire essere (e fare) comunità. Dalla comunità del rancore alla comunità (della cura) curata. Verso una comunità sempre più, e progressivamente, riarmonizzata.
→ read full articleGaza’s Fishermen and Farmers Attacked from Sea and Air
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Fishermen said that Israeli forces shot at Palestinian fishing boats in two separate incidents off the northern coast of Gaza on Tuesday [9 May] morning. Meanwhile, Gaza farmers told Ma’an that Israeli drones sprayed pesticides on Palestinian crops along the border with Israel in central and southern Gaza on the same day.
→ read full articleMaking Sense of the “Super Fuse” Scare
The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
11 May 2017 – For weeks now I have been getting panicked emails with readers asking me whether the USA had developed a special technology called “super fuses” which would make it possible for the USA to successfully pull-off a (preemptive) disarming first strike against Russia.
→ read full articleThe Real Roots of the Worldwide Ransomware Outbreak: Militarism and Greed
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
22 May 2017
A runaway strain of malware hit Windows computers Friday [12 May] and spread through the weekend, rendering hundreds of thousands of computers around the world more or less useless. The big twist: The virus was made possible by U.S. government hackers at the National Security Agency. But the finger-pointing won’t stop there, and it probably shouldn’t.
→ read full articleWho Knows How Long We Will Live?
Lara Ayvazyan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Who knows how long we will live?
Do not regret on the days of the past,
Let’s replace for people the word “old age”
On the word “maturity”.
Julian Assange Claims Victory after Sweden Drops Rape Investigation
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Swedish prosecutors dropped the rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday [19 May], saying the investigation had not been able to proceed because of legal obstacles. Assange vowed that WikiLeaks would continue publishing.
→ read full articleThe Basques in Spain: Positive Peace?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Spain is in a process that will take some time, from “España: Una, Grande, Libre” to “España: Una Comunidad de naciones”—“Spain: One, Great, Free” to “Spain: A community of nations.” Positive peace builds on negative peace building on conciliation of traumas and solution of conflicts. There is much work to be done, but Spain as a true community of nations will inspire the whole world.
→ read full articleU.S. Military World’s Largest Polluter – Hundreds of Bases Gravely Contaminated
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
22 May 2017
Producing more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined, the U.S. Department of Defense has left its toxic legacy throughout the world in the form of depleted uranium, oil, jet fuel, pesticides, defoliants like Agent Orange and lead, among other pollutants.
→ read full article(Português) Vídeo flagra a extrema angústia de elefantas aprisionadas em poço de concreto
Aline Khouri - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
22 May 2017
Um vídeo de pouco mais de um minuto mostra a realidade sombria do cativeiro de animais emocionais sociais e curiosos como elefantes em zoológicos.
→ read full articleHow Boring Old Pension Funds Might Curb Global Warming
Nick Stockton | Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
18 May 2017 – Last week, some retirement funds and church endowments, along with BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, approved a proposal that Occidental Petroleum report its climate-related vulnerabilities. These aren’t save-the-planet activist shareholders, but investment companies. More than 1,500 institutional investors are members of the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, which lists accounting for climate risk among its six tenets.
→ read full articlePalestinian Hunger Strikers – An Update
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
19 May 2017 – Around 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons have entered their second month of a hunger strike over conditions and medical rights. Their demands include better and consistent access to healthcare; more liberal family visit policies; and an end to solitary confinement and administrative detention.
→ read full articleState Of Emergency in Yemen’s Sanaa over Cholera Crisis
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
More than 184 Yemenis have been killed by a cholera epidemic that is gripping the Houthi-controlled Sanaa. “With the imminent collapse of the public health system, UNICEF is taking on as much of the burden as possible, procuring essential drugs and vaccines, and covering basic operations costs such as electricity and fuel.”
→ read full articleRalph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
Ann Woodlief | Virginia Commonwealth University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
He had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adultation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
→ read full articleGetting Julian Assange: The Untold Story
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
20 May 2017 – Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not only embarrassed her colleagues and the judiciary but exposed the Swedish state’s collusion with the United States in its crimes of war and “rendition”.
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Is Russia the “Adversary” of the United States?
theREALnews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
May 19, 2017 – Moscow based [Atlantic Monthly] journalist Jeffrey Taylor and Paul Jay challenge the underlying assumption of the furor in Washington, that Russia is the enemy of the American people.
→ read full articleThe Balfour Declaration: A Century of Jewish Power
Gilad Atzmon | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
19 May 2017 – This year, Palestinians and their supporters mark the 100th anniversary of The Balfour Declaration, a written statement from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour, to Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, in favour of the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
→ read full articleAgony of Mother Earth: The Unstoppable Destruction of Forests (I)
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
22 May 2017
The world’s forests are being degraded and lost at a staggering rate of 3.3 million hectares per year. While their steady destruction in many Asian countries continues apace, deforestation of the world’s largest tropical forest – the Amazon – increased 29 per cent from last year’s numbers. And some of the most precious ecosystems in Africa are threatened by oil, gas and mineral exploration and exploitation.
→ read full articleDisposing of Nuclear Waste is a Challenge for Humanity
Behnam Taebi – Newsweek,
22 May 2017
Nuclear waste is found at hundreds of sites around the world, the product of a half century of nuclear energy production. There are thorny ethical issues that should first be addressed. The risks are difficult to calibrate, because there is no such thing as a safe level of radiation exposure, certainly not for the type of radiation emanating from plutonium and uranium as present in Hanford.
→ read full articleWorld Law
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Grenville Clark, the co-author with Louis B. Sohn of ‘World Peace Through World Law,’ gave a talk in a town in the U.S. Midwest around the year 1900. He noticed all men were carrying two loaded guns in their belt.
→ read full articleEscaping the Iron Cage of Hopelessness
Prof. Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
In a previous article I argued that those who think science can solve our major social problems – in particular, world destruction with nuclear weapons and the poisoning of the earth’s ecology and atmosphere – were delusional and in the grip of the myth of science and technology. These problems were created by science when it became untethered from any sense of limits in its embrace of instrumental rationality.
→ read full articleTruth or Delusion?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
22 May 2017 – One inevitable outcome of the phenomenal violence we all suffer as children is that most of us live in a state of delusion throughout our lives. This makes it extraordinarily difficult for accurate information, including vital information about the endangered state of our world and how to respond appropriately, to penetrate the typical human mind.
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What a Wonderful World! (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Louis Armstrong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Composed and performed by the great Louis Armstrong–perhaps his best song ever. Enjoy.
→ read full articleSartre´s Children (Senryu)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Sartre´s Children
tasting winter ice cream
(Português) “Seu nível de testosterona deve ser bem baixo, já que você é vegano”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Já ouviu falar de um médico chamado Michael Greger? Ele diz que é exatamente quem consome proteína animal em excesso que corre mais riscos de ter baixos níveis de testosterona. Claro, a não ser quem mantenha uma alta ingestão de esteroides, de sintéticos.
→ read full articleOn the Intransitive Objects of the Social (or Human) Sciences
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Jan 2017 – When Roy Bhaskar first introduced his concept of intransitive objects of knowledge in A Realist Theory of Science, his first examples of such objects were the specific gravity of mercury, the process of electrolysis, the mechanism of light propagation, sound and heavy bodies falling to earth. Such objects would continue to exist in a world where there was no science to know them. In such a world, which has existed in the past and which might come again, the causal laws that science has now discovered would prevail in the absence of knowledge of them.
→ read full articleAgony of Mother Earth: World’s Forests Depleted for Fuel (II)
Baher Kamal – Other News,
22 May 2017
Humankind is the biggest ever predator of natural resources. Just take the case of forests, the real lungs of Mother Earth, and learn that every 60 seconds humans cut down 15 hectares of trees primarily for food or energy production. And that as much as 45,000 hectares of rainforest are cleared for every million kilos of beef exported from South America.
→ read full articleYou (and Almost Everyone You Know) Owe Your Life to This Man
Robert Krulwich | National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Temperament matters. Especially when nuclear weapons are involved. The world owes an enormous debt to a quiet, steady Russian naval officer who probably saved my life. And yours. And everyone you know. Even those of you who weren’t yet born. I want to tell his story…
→ read full articleBaby Elephants, Bound and Broken: How Circuses Train Elephants (with pictures)
PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Join an elephant trainer as he takes us through the process of how he, alongside many other trainers, forced elephants to learn how to perform unnatural tricks for “entertainment.” This barbaric and violent training process goes on in secret, out of the public’s view and completely unmonitored by any federal, state, or local law-enforcement agency.
→ read full articleHow the US Empire Was Made in North Korea
Niall Bradley | Signs of the Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
I recently read The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia by James Bradley, a breathtaking panorama of US and Chinese trajectories from the Opium Wars in the mid-19th century to the birth of ‘Communist’ China and ‘Pax Americana’ a hundred years later. This naturally encompassed US involvement in Korea, so in this article I’d like to share some historical context that is either incomplete or missing from summaries of US-Korean relations I’ve seen online so far.
→ read full articleRelevance of Lord Ram for Truth, Peace and Harmony
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Among the Hindu gods and deities Lord Krishna and Lord Ram are perhaps the most popular ones all over the world. The gospel and teachings of Krishna have been spread by several international organisations including ISKCON-International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi was a deeply religious person and lived by the ideals of Gita and Ramayan. When he was shot on 30 January 1948, the last words he uttered before he passed away were “He Ram”.
→ read full articleRadical Love
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Perhaps people in the social justice movements don’t notice. The feelings of solidarity that can arise within movements can mask the ways hate for one’s opposition depletes the soul. More obvious is the effect within the opposition. Sensing hate from the movement, their hearts close off, the deficiency of love drops further, and they lash out violently, entrenching in defense of their actions.
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