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Donald Trump Is Making Europe Liberal Again
Nate Silver | FiveThirtyEight – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Donald Trump promised to “Make America Great Again,” but he might instead be “Making Europe Liberal Again.” Counter to the prevailing narrative of a swing towards right-wing parties, Silver compares politics in several European countries and finds it has become more difficult to make the case that a nationalist tide is on the rise.
→ read full articlePolitical Will, Financial Support Needed to Bolster New Approach to Cholera in Haiti – UN Deputy Chief
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – The UN deputy chief Amina Mohammed today called on Member States to fund the Organization’s new strategy to counter cholera in Haiti. “Without your political will and financial support, we have only good intentions and words.”
→ read full article(Português) Verme enviado ao espaço desenvolve segunda cabeça
O Globo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 junho 2017 — Um experimento com vermes platelmintos na Estação Espacial Internacional revelou uma possível consequência bizarra da microgravidade no processo de regeneração desse animal. Um dos exemplares enviados ao espaço desenvolveu uma segunda cabeça, em vez da cauda.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism – A Global Debate
Meah Mostafiz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
News reporting has traditionally been feeding on war, conflict and violence, often offering propaganda for one of the conflicting parties, and without any apparent intention to promote peace. For the war and conflict or ethnic violence scene, peace journalism brings reporting method that finds causes of conflict and tries to suggest solutions, instead of pouring more fuel on the fire. This research paper defines the peace journalism, the difference between traditional journalism and peace journalism and analyses the factors ‘why Peace Journalism is hard to practice in mainstream media?’
→ read full articleWar Is a Racket
Major General Smedley Butler, USMC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in currencies and the losses in lives. A racket is best described as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about.
→ read full articleFifty Years of Immoral Occupation of Palestine
Prof. Alon Ben-Meir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – Today, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank has reached the milestone of 50 years that will be recalled in shame. Fifty years that have dehumanized both the occupier and the occupied; years of failing to muster the courage to right the wrong. Fifty years that bred nothing but hatred and contempt for the other; years of illusions trying to deny the other the right to a home of their own.
→ read full articleThe Galtung-Institut’s 2017 Summer Academy
Naakow Grant-Hayford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
At the heart of the Galtung-Institut’s Summer Academy is a resolve to equip enrolled participants with the capacity to solve complex societal conflicts by using means that are nonviolent, empathetic and constructive. A resolve that has led us to become active in the field of training peace professionals.
→ read full articleThe 50-Year Setback
Hamza Abu Eltarabesh |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The 1967 War had eerily similar effects to the Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe), the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Approximately 400,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were displaced 50 years ago this month. The events of 1967 have become known as the Naksa, or setback. The war lasted six days. By the time it ended, Israel had occupied the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt’s Sinai peninsula and Syria’s Golan Heights.
→ read full articleRefining the Value of Sustainable Development Goals
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
In Quest of the Systemic Coherence of Global Attractors – In a period of global crises a frame of reference is offered by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals articulated by the UN, superseding the earlier formulation of the 8 Millennium Development Goals. How indeed are people expected to “get their heads around “the set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals?
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Antonio Carlos Jobim & Frank Sinatra: Corcovado + (Music Video of the Week)
Frank Sinatra & Tom Jobim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
A Brazilian Samba/Bossa Nova Duet in New York – Timeless, Unforgettable!
→ read full articleVault 7: Cherry Blossom
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Today, June 15th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the CherryBlossom project of the CIA that was developed and implemented with the help of the US nonprofit Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). CherryBlossom provides a means of monitoring the Internet activity of and performing software exploits on Targets of interest. In particular, CherryBlossom is focused on compromising wireless networking devices, such as wireless routers and access points (APs), to achieve these goals.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Jun 19-25 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Evelyn Beatrice Hall
→ read full articleIsrael Attempts to Block yet another UN Report
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
15 Jun 2017 – Having succeeded in blocking a recent UN report that accused Israel of maintaining a system of apartheid, Israeli officials are now attempting to remove another UN report, which has charged Tel Aviv with carrying out extrajudicial executions along with a list of other human rights violations.
→ read full articleInside the World of Indian Moneylenders
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
“I get my money where everyone else does.” “Where is that?” “Everyone knows. I get it from a five-six.” “What is a five-six?” “It is the place where you borrow five rupees in the morning, and pay back six rupees in the evening.” It is possible to get day loans in the vegetable market that provide 100 rupees in the morning but have to be repaid with 10 rupees interest by dusk.
→ read full article(Português) Considerações sobre a violência
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Agressividade, violência, são formas de descontrole. Se você não tiver controle sobre isso, isso terá controle sobre você. E quando você achar que está dominando alguma coisa ao fazer uso da agressividade ou da violência, estará apenas sendo subjugado pelo que o priva da sua própria humanidade, sem que você perceba.
→ read full articleHeartbeat
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
While the heart beats alive,
While the loopholes of the towers are silent,
While peasants are still reaping, and plowing,
Former Okinawa Governor Masahide Ota Dies on His Birthday
Japan Broadcasting Corporation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
12 Jun 2017 – Former Okinawa Governor Masahide Ota, who tackled the issue of reducing the number of US military bases on the island prefecture, died today. He was 92.
→ read full articleUN Moves on Myanmar, Too Little Too Late?
Daily Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – It could all be about to kick off in Myanmar. But this time in a good way for the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. Possibly. Hopefully. It seems that the UN is finally getting serious about the ethnic cleansing of this community that has been going on since 2012.
→ read full articleIt’s Not the Occupation – It’s the Settler Colonial System
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
This the second set of selected articles from MERIP’s admirable collation of analyses on the 50-year occupation. There are many ideas here but we’ve selected one – the settler colonialism of which the Occupation is just one manifestation. Opposing that is of a different order.
→ read full articleFrançois Houtart: A Unique Extraordinary Human Being
Alexandra Valiente | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The death of François Houtart, intellectual, political analyst, Marxist sociologist, priest and practitioner of liberation theology, the ‘pope of anti-globalization’, tireless fighter and friend, has taken us by surprise. He died on 6 Jun 2017 in Quito, Ecuador at the age of 92.
→ read full articleFeed the Hungry, Treat the Sick: A Crucial Training
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Since entering the war in Yemen, in March of 2015, the Saudi coalition’s airstrikes, with U.S. assistance, have destroyed bridges, roads, factories, farms, food trucks, animals, water infrastructure, and agricultural banks across the north, while imposing a blockade on the territory. Saudi Arabia bombed a Yemeni hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders. The airstrike went on for two hours, reducing the hospital to rubble.
→ read full articleHow BAE Sold Cyber-Surveillance Tools to Repressive Arab States
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
A year-long investigation by BBC Arabic and a Danish newspaper has uncovered evidence that the UK defence giant BAE Systems has made large-scale sales across the Middle East of sophisticated surveillance technology, including to many repressive governments. These sales have also included decryption software which could be used against the UK and its allies.
→ read full articleRural Poverty? Cooperatives!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The primary purpose of rural cooperatives is to feed themselves by sharing risks, and share gains on top of that. Members are both farmers and farm workers with risk-absorbing capacity and sharing. Poor and unemployed from towns and cities may join, at least getting food in exchange for work.
→ read full articleEU Parliament Ignores Advice and Votes for Muddled Definition of Antisemitism
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Last month the EU parliament voted 479:101 to accept the now notorious definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. A QC’s opinion found it not fit for purpose; Jewish groups wrote to the parliament urging them not to support the motion. All were ignored.
→ read full articleGeorge Orwell (25 Jun 1903 – 21 Jan 1950)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
George Orwell was a novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). Aldous Huxley was one of his masters. He worked between bouts of hospitalization for tuberculosis, of which he died in a London hospital.
→ read full articleThis Greater Song
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The trail gives way, the hills decline
And everything around me mine
Under the risen star –
Latin America in Search of an Alternative
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 2017 – The financial media present the ‘right’s’ socially regressive policies and strategies as ‘reforms’, a euphemism for the re-concentration of wealth, profits and property into the hands of foreign and domestic oligarchs. Leftwing intellectuals and journalists paint an image of socio-economic transformations under Latin America’s ‘left’ regimes where ‘the people’ take power, income is redistributed and growth flourishes.
→ read full articleJoint African Action Crucial to Protect Persons with Albinism from Violence, Highlights UN Expert
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
13 Jun 2017 – Highlighting the importance of cooperation among countries to overcome the violence and discrimination faced by persons with albinism, a United Nations rights expert has urged African nations to fully implement a regional action plan on ending attacks on persons with albinism.
→ read full articleNational Illusions and Global Realities
Lawrence Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
For as long as they have existed, nations have clung to the illusion that their military strength guarantees their security. The problem with this kind of thinking is that the military power that one nation considers vital to its security fosters other nations’ sense of insecurity. In this climate of suspicion, an arms race ensues, often culminating in military conflict. Also, sometimes the very military strength that a nation intended for protection ends up emboldening it to engage in reckless, aggressive behavior, leading to war.
→ read full article‘BRICS’ Countries Well Placed to Help Lead Global Efforts to Tackle Hunger
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 20187 – With the clock ticking toward the 2030 deadline for meeting the international goals to eradicate hunger and poverty, five of the world’s most important emerging economies are well positioned to take a leading role in helping to achieve these objectives, according to the UN: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
→ read full articleHonest Look at Historical Evidence Debunking Popular Myth That Vaccines Eliminated Childhood Infectious Diseases
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – Over the 40 plus years that I was a family practitioner and teacher (the English word “doctor” derives from the Latin verb docere [do-ke-re] which means “to teach”), I have tried to fulfill what I have regarded as my solemn professional duty to warn my patients (and anybody else who would listen) about the multitude of deceptions and myths that all-too-often come from for-profit sociopathic pharmaceutical corporations (and their hangers-on).
→ read full articleUS Criticized for Using Skin-Melting White Phosphorous: HRW
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – The United States-led coalition in Iraq and Syria is facing heavy criticism for its use of white phosphorous, an incendiary chemical that ignites on contact with atmospheric oxygen, causing severe and mortal burns to those affected.
→ read full articlePashtun Woman: Enduring the Unendurable
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The words to this lyrical poem, Pashtun Woman, are presented in a rhythm and evocative cadence to the delicate and haunting melody, A Thousand Splendid Suns. The title of this melody was adapted from a Seventeenth-Century Afghan poem, written by Saib e Tabrizi.
→ read full articleChildren Hardest Hit as Cholera Spreads in War-Torn Yemen – UNICEF
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – As the outbreak of cholera in Yemen continues to spread at an alarming rate – with terrible impact on children – the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for immediate support to enable the country’s health workers respond or risk even more deaths from the deadly disease.
→ read full articleThe Myth of Hiroshima
Peter Van Buren | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 2017 – The short version of the atomic myth, the one kneaded into public consciousness, is that the bombs were not dropped out of revenge or malice, immoral acts, but of grudging military necessity. As a result of this, the attacks have not provoked or generated deep introspection and national reflection. For President Obama to visit Hiroshima without reflecting on the why of that unfortunate loss of lives, acting as if they occurred via some natural disaster, is tragically consistent.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (1) Saint Francis of Assisi
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Saint Francis, friend of all life on earth, friend of the earth itself, true interpreter of Christian ethics, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleThe Best Pharmacist
Submitted by Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
A woman enters a pharmacy and asks for poison.
→ read full articleLife and Education of Children in Nepal
Akhil Sharma | Adroit Publishers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The book has tried to grasp the real scenario of those children on how the children were really affected by conflict during the time of school education and how they are out of school. The conflict has been driving force for the children by not letting them go to school because of various reasons. The main reasons are involvement of their parents in the armed conflict, their parent’s profession, the security threat by both the parties and political motivation.
→ read full articleWonder Women
Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Apartheid Woman vs Mother Palestine
→ read full articleUN Chief Praises ‘Vision, Tenacity’ of the Late Helmut Khol, Chancellor Who Reunited Germany
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 2017 – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has lauded the vision and tenacity of the former Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl, who died today at the age of 87.
→ read full articleThe New Wave
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
We need a principled leader like Corbyn or Sanders. A young and idealistic person like Macron. Somebody who will smash all the existing occupation-era parties and start right from the beginning. To adapt Macron’s slogan: Forward, Israel!
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The World in 2050 – Future of Earth
BBC Documentary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Can you imagine our world in 2050? By mid-century there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How will we eat in the future of Earth? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the world climate crisis?
→ read full article(Italiano) Il calendario ONU: coscienza del mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
È sorprendente. Le Nazioni Unite hanno decenni, anni, settimane e giorni, dedicati a valori, obiettivi e interessi, più di quanto ne siamo consapevoli. Lo si confronti con gli stati nazionali, di solito con un solo giorno, il loro giorno nazionale per la celebrazione di nessun altro che sé stessi… Siamo una Umanità in un mondo con molte linee di frattura; che la coscienza ONU sia la nostra.
→ read full article(Italiano) Intanto, in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Trump viola le norme internazionali come se non esistessero, che uccide in Yemen-Pakistan-Somalia con droni-bombardamenti-assalti, nonostante non fosse coinvolto in un conflitto armato né attaccato da nessuno di quei paesi. Quindi, nessun diritto di auto-difesa. Pura aggressione.
→ read full article(Français) Brésil, un an après le début du coup d’État
Nepomuceno Eric | Página 12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Les députés qui ont voté le procès politique contre Dilma Rousseff ont également voté la réduction des dépenses publiques pour les 20 prochaines années, les réformes de la loi du travail qui s’attaquent à certains droits, et l’exploitation du pétrole par les multinationales.
→ read full articleReflection on the 50th Anniversary of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Jessie Light – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
When fences become walls become concrete prisons
When tents become houses become tear gas test-sites
When days become years become decades and
the oppression swelters, endlessly.
Finding Goodness
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
• Axis 1- Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Egypt, Israel, USA
• Axis 2- Qatar, Turkey
• Axis 3- Syria, Iran, Russia, and possibly China (for now keeping a distance)
Axis 1 now decided to go after axis 2. Axis 2 is considering moving for protection to axis 3. The US is solidly behind axis 1 but keeping leverage via axis 2 (US bases both in Turkey and Qatar). The US is trying hard to undermine axis 3.
Inside the US Fight to Fix Israel’s Global Standing
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
U.S. and Israel lead a campaign of intimidation against the UN to forcibly rehabilitate Israel’s international standing.
→ read full article(Français) Reprise de la guerre froide du Golfe
Ennasri Nabil | Orient XXI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Le Qatar a annoncé dans la nuit du mardi 23 mai que son agence de presse QNA avait été piratée par une entité inconnue et qu’un faux communiqué attribué à l’émir avait été diffusé. Ce dernier affirmait que Tamim Ben Hamad Al-Thani s’était prononcé sur divers sujets sensibles mettant en cause ses voisins du Golfe. Ces déclarations, immédiatement relayées par des médias saoudiens et émiratis, ont provoqué un tollé dans la région, où une guerre médiatique bat son plein.
→ read full articleSupport the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
On June 15, more than 130 nations will re-convene at the UN for the final session of negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. SIGN THIS PETITION TODAY to tell the UN Conference that you support this essential step in the worldwide abolition of nuclear weapons.
→ read full article(Burmese- မြန်မာ) မိတ္ထီလာ အစ္စလာမ်တွေ စုဝတ်ပြုရာ နေရာတွေပိတ်
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
4 ဇွန် 2017 – ဗလီတွေ ပြန်ဖွင့်ပေးဖို့ တောင်းဆိုတာကိုတော့ တိုင်းအစိုးရ လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့်မှာ မရှိလို့ ဆိုပြီး ငြင်းဆိုလာခဲ့တယ်လို့လည်း သိရပါတယ်။ ရပ်ကွက်ထဲ ဝတ်ပြုခွင့် မရှိလို့ ဝတ်မပြုရသူတွေ ရှိတယ်လို့လည်း ဆိုပါတယ်။
→ read full articleA General Solution to Economic Problems
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
I refer to the unsolved ones, not to those that are pretty satisfactorily solved already. I focus on our two acronyms SF1 and SF2, where SF can be read as Staggering Fact or as Structural Fact.
→ read full articleOver 60 Birzeit Students Held in Israeli Prisons for Political Reasons
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Students suspect that Israeli and Palestinian authorities cooperate in keeping politically active students behind bars. To Israel they are terrorists in waiting, and to the PNA they are traitors. Support the campaign.
→ read full articleAll Languages Use for Peace: A Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
All languages are mental marvels for meaning-making,
but are they being used globally for peacemaking?
We Need Their Voices Today! (0)
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
This is a collection of biographical sketches showing people whose wise voices from the past can help to guide us today. All of the women and men, brief glimpses of whose lives and ideas are portrayed here, gave a high place to compassion. None of them was a slave to greed. We need their voices today!
[Note from TMS editor: It will be posted one biographical sketch per week]
The Unwanted ‘Bride’: Can the 1967 War Offer Opportunity for Peace?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – There is a saying that goes: “Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it.” This has been Israel’s dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement, which held its first conference in Basel, Switzerland 120 years ago, wanted Palestine but not the Palestinians. They achieved this objective 50 years later, in what Israel termed as its ‘war of independence.’
→ read full articleThe Declaration of Peace
Kent Drummond Shifferd | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
These are self-evident truths:
That all humans are a single family living on a fragile and endangered planet whose life support systems must remain intact if we are to survive; …
The Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy: Questions, Hints and Allegations
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Robert Kennedy, like his brother John, was a great danger to those virulent forces of war and oppression within his own government, and he died opposing them as a true patriot. We should honor him on this day – June 6th – that he died; honor him by pursuing the truth of why he died and why it still matters. Because it does.
→ read full articleWhat Will It Take to Ban the Bomb?
Frida Berrigan | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
The United States is in the midst of a $1 trillion modernization of its submarines, bombers, ballistic and land-based missiles over the next 30 years, which was initiated under the Obama administration. Current U.S. nuclear forces consist of submarines that launch ballistic missiles, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, long-range bomber aircraft, shorter-range tactical aircraft, and the nuclear weapons that those delivery systems carry.
→ read full articleCourage for Peace, Not for War, in Afghanistan
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
“Afghanistan, for Americans, doesn’t really exist as a country and a people,” writes William Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Air Force. “It exists only as a wasteful, winless, and endless war . . . . It’s a chance to test theories and to earn points (and decorations) for promotion for many officers. It’s hardly ever about working closely with the Afghan people to find solutions that will work for them over the long haul.”
→ read full articleInterrogating the Qatar Rift
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
7 Jun 2017 – The abrupt announcement that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE, Yemen, the Maldive Islands, and the eastern government in divided Libya have broken all economic and political ties with Qatar has given rise to a tsunami of conjecture, wild speculation, and most of all, to wishful thinking and doomsday worries… We can gain some glimmers of understanding of what is motivating these Arab governments to act against Qatar, but little sympathy.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace Science Agenda for the UN, UNESCO, G20 and EU
Global Harmony Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
The UNESCO Constitution says: “That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed; … that the peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind.”
→ read full articleCatastrophe of Aral Sea Shows ‘Men Can Destroy the Planet’, Warns UN Chief Guterres
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
António Guterres today visited Muynak, Uzebkistan in the Aral Sea – once the world’s fourth largest inland sea, that has now shrunk to a quarter of its original size due to human mismanagement– the ‘cemetery of ships’ – once a port city but now devoid of all water. “It shows that if in relation to climate change, if we are not able to act forcefully to tame this phenomenon, we might see this kind of tragedy multiply around the world,” he warned.
→ read full articleEnvy
Lara Ayvazyan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
I do not accept a sense of the word “envy”,
This word is my greatest enemy!
More Reasons Why Big Pharma’s Multinational Vaccine Manufacturers Are Not to Be Trusted
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
And Why Both Vaccine-Induced Alzheimer’s Disease AND Vaccine-Induced Autism May Have Common Root Causes
→ read full articleUnderstanding the Geopolitics of Terrorism
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
If the mass media refuses to state what has become obvious after more than a decade and a half of these incidents, it is a measure of how fully the linkage between terrorism, the Western intelligence agencies and the unending wars in the Middle East has become institutionalized. Innocent men, women and children, whether in London, Manchester, Paris, Tehran, Baghdad or Kabul, are paying the terrible price for these imperialist operations, which leave a trail of blood and destruction everywhere.
→ read full articleWhoso Confesseth and Forsaketh
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
The vote of the “peace activist Uri Avnery” for the “unification” of Jerusalem was a huge mistake. I am taking this opportunity to apologize for it again. I request for the application of the Biblical verse (Proverbs 28.13): “But whoso confesseth and forsaketh shall have mercy”.
→ read full article(Português) Investigação mostra o horror dos zoos na Grã-Bretanha
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Uma investigação revelou as condições tenebrosas dos zoológicos em toda a Grã-Bretanha e mostrou falhas graves relacionadas à segurança e ao estado dos animais.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre ser contra algumas formas de exploração e desconsiderar o veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Não há como negar que um pedaço de carne que se consome é mais do que o simbólico fim de uma vida. Representa a negação à plena existência, e até mesmo à existência verdadeiramente pacífica.
→ read full articleIdeas on Reincarnation and Karma
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
All living beings — humans, animals, fish, flora and fauna have finite lives. In other words, they are born (or grow from an egg or a seed) , live for some duration and then die. Animals and especially human beings have a sense of their identity and know that they are alive. Human beings generally would like to remain alive for as long as possible; they fear death and would like to postpone it for as long as possible.
→ read full articleDangers and Adventures in United Nations Peace Making
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
For TRANSCEND members to read and to encourage them to share their own experience of risk management.
→ read full articleThe United States and Iran: Two Tracks to Establish Hegemony
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Presented to the Conference: “United States, Human Rights and the Discourse of Domination”. Sponsored by Iranian World Studies Association. Tehran, July 2, 2017
→ read full articleOscar Winning Industry Heavy Weights Team with Sea Shepherd on Student Film Contest
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
8 Jun 2017 – Sea Shepherd Conservation Society partnered with a group of Hollywood industry heavyweights and a middle school from the Los Angeles Unified School District on a student filmmaking contest.
→ read full articleI Came into This Restless World
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
I came into this restless world,
To awaken in others the love,
To people lived with dignity,
Not to shed innocent blood.
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Jun 12-18 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “A crime against peace, in international law, is “planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of wars of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing”. This definition of crimes against peace was first incorporated into the Nuremberg Principles and later included in the United Nations Charter. This definition would play a part in defining aggression as a crime against peace. It can also refer to the core international crimes set out in Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression) which adopted crimes negotiated previously in the Draft code of crimes against the peace and security of mankind.” — Crime against peace (Wikipedia)
→ read full articleIf Israel Were Smart
Sara Roy | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
15 Jun 2017 – At what point does menace stop working as a form of coercion? What will Israel hope to gain from its next attack on Gaza, when people there already speak about entire families being wiped out as a normal topic of conversation? In August 2016 alone, 4961 babies were born, or 160 a day: more than six babies every hour and one baby every nine minutes. The distance between Gaza City and Tel Aviv is 44 miles. ‘What will Israel do when there are five million Palestinians living in Gaza?’
→ read full articleWhat is the Muslim Brotherhood?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
The Muslim Brotherhood came up frequently during the GCC rift. Here is a breakdown of the group’s ideology and roots.
→ read full articleEngaging the ISIS Threat: Time for a Method yet Untried
Marc Pilisuk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
12 Jun 2017 – Responses to the threat of terrorist attacks have been ineffective in removing these threats. Both military and diplomatic officials acknowledge that a military solution is not possible. This can be a learning moment for international conflict resolution. Before digging more deeply into endless war, an examination of some powerful nonviolent tools provides a clearer and more hopeful path. The fields of international psychology and conflict resolution suggest some effective tools. They are available to governments, NGOs and citizen groups.
→ read full article(Français) Michel Collon : « François Houtart était mon Prix Nobel de la Paix à moi »
Michel Collon | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Hier encore, Alex Anfruns, mon jeune collègue d’Investig’Action, échangeait avec François Houtart à propos de la traduction de son dernier article publié sur notre site. Et puis tombe la triste nouvelle ! Nous savions qu’il avait 92 ans, mais il semblait indestructible. Le choc est rude. Adiós compañero !
→ read full articleLet My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
12 June is a red letter day on the UN agenda of events as the World Day Against Child Labour. Child labour is often related to conditions of extreme poverty and to sectors of the society where both adults and children are marginalized such as many tribal societies in Asia, or the Roma in Europe or migrant workers in general.
→ read full articleHow Israel Torments Palestinians
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
This is a very harsh report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on how Israel cannot let Palestinians live their lives. The martial law imposed by security forces means the people they govern have no power over their own lives and resources.
→ read full articleHumankind 2050 – Peace Development Environment
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
2050 is only 33 years ahead; 33 years back is Orwell’s 1984. Much happened. The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989; the Soviet Empire, Soviet Union and Communism followed. The US Empire declined, former clients refused to fight US wars, but not EU wars; eroding NATO. The Cold war, threatening humanity with a nuclear arms race that in a hot war could obliterate the planet, melted away with a whimper.
→ read full articleAmerican Darkness vs. Bhutan Brightness
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
As Donald Trump axes America’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, the Kingdom of Bhutan finalizes Bhutan for Life, a fund that will allow the country to remain carbon neutral forever. By ignoring the pressing issue of climate change/global warming, America looks insignificant, undignified, and very weak whereas Bhutan’s carbon neutral commitment looks relevant, sophisticated, and very strong.
→ read full article(Italiano) Intervista a Marinella Coreggia sulla manifestazione nonviolenta contro Trump a Roma il 24 maggio 2017
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
10 Giu 17- Tecniche nonviolente e buone pratiche in manifestazione. Il prezzo da pagare per il dissenso. L’esposizione di striscioni è una tecnica di protesta e di persuasione nonviolenta. Così come lo sono gli slogan parlati o urlati. Sono forme di comunicazione rivolte ad un pubblico allargato.
→ read full articleErnesto ‘Che’ Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and guerrilla leader in South America, Guevara was a medical doctor specialized in leprosy. Traveling around South America, he observed conditions that spurred his revolt against poverty and capitalist exploitation, adopting Marxist ideology, theory and practices. He is revered by many as a martyred cultural hero, having become an iconic cult figure as a symbol of anti-imperialist struggles everywhere.
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Old Hippie (Music Video of the Week)
Bellamy Brothers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
A Spadecaller video presentation designed to accompany the Bellamy Brothers’ song, Old Hippie. Delightful!
→ read full articleA Right Time to Ponder over India’s Water Woes
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Realizing its dire predicament decades ago, Israel studied the “water equation” and made itself all but independent of Mother Nature. Israel took 70 years to solve its water problem; India won’t need that long, as it can emulate Israeli advances. But New Delhi must summon the political will to act before water runs out.
→ read full articleThe UN Calendar: The World’s Conscience
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2017
It is amazing. The United Nations have decades, years, weeks and days, dedicated to more values, goals and concerns than most of us are aware of. Compare it to nation-states usually with only one day, their day, their national day, celebrating nobody but themselves… We are one humanity in one world with many faultlines; let the UN conscience be ours.
→ read full articleIsrael: 50 Years of Occupation Abuses
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2017
4 Jun 2017 – Fifty years after Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it controls these areas through repression, institutionalized discrimination, and systematic abuses of the Palestinian population’s rights. Human Rights Watch has made available online publications dating back to the 1980s and early 1990s.
→ read full articleCancer Expert: EU Studies on Glyphosate Are ‘Scientifically Flawed’
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
2 Jun 2017 – Dr. Christopher Portier, a toxicologist and former director of the U.S. National Center for Environmental Health, has criticized the conclusions of European Union agencies which found that glyphosate—the active ingredient in Monsanto’s widely used weedkiller Roundup—is not carcinogenic to humans.
→ read full articleSaudi Warplanes Strike Yemen Hospital amid Cholera Epidemic
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Saudi warplanes struck a health facility in Northwest Yemen treating patients for cholera Saturday [3 Jun] night. The WHO announced Friday that nearly 73,700 people have been affected by Yemen’s cholera epidemic.
→ read full articleAvoiding Apocalypse on the Korean Peninsula
Rajan Menon | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Why Diplomacy Is Not Naïve Appeasement in the Korean Crisis – The Korean peninsula, all 85,270 square miles of it, is about the size of Idaho. It contains more soldiers (2.8 million, not counting reserves) and armaments (nearly 6,000 tanks, 31,000 artillery pieces, and 1,134 combat aircraft) than any other place on the planet. Clearly, the North’s leaders reject the proposition that American approval is required for them to build nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles.
→ read full articleNow Float Me Down….
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Let us remember the Peace Veterans, too. And let us grieve for those in all nations who share the losses of lives and hopes and dreams. During the Vietnam War, long ago (but not so long ago!), my thoughts coalesced in a poem I wrote for one I loved.
→ read full articleSowing the Seeds of Earth Democracy in Trump Times: The Planetary Crisis, Responsibilities and Rights
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
5th of June is World Environment Day. Reflections on President Trump abandoning his responsibility to the Earth and the community of nations.
→ read full articleWhy Japan Wants US Exercise Cancelled: ‘Fears of N. Korea Escalation & Relations with China’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
30 May 2017 – To reduce tension in the region following a missile test by North Korea, Japan wants the US to cancel military exercises in Okinawa. Tokyo is worried that in a confrontation Japan is the likely target, says Asian affairs specialist Andrew Leung.
→ read full articleA Bold Step toward the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Mainstream media in the central countries in general has paid little or no attention to the process of negotiation of the Convention, although specialized publications have been examining the implications of the adoption of an instrument of this kind. World public opinion and civil society organizations, particularly in the former States and their allies, have an important role to play in ensuring the success of the Convention and its ability to become a universal, legally binding instrument of codification of the repudiation of nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleThe Terror News Cycle
Des Freedman | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
We would all benefit from a slower journalism that didn’t resort to tired stereotypes and sought to expand, not to contaminate, our understanding of a violent world. The trouble is that there is neither the business model nor the political will to foster such an approach.
→ read full articleTrump, Israel and Saudi Arabia — Targeting Iran
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
29 May 2017 – In the wake of President Donald Trump’s visit to West Asia, is there even a faint glimmer of hope for peace in the most conflict-ridden region of the world? Or, has his visit to Saudi Arabia and Israel from the 20th to the 23rd of May 2017 only strained the region’s undercurrents of friction and tension? Some reflections on areas of conflict in West Asia may throw a bit of light.
→ read full article(Português) Uma Nova Convenção sobre Armas Nucleares
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
A grande imprensa internacional nos países centrais em geral tem dado pouca ou nenhuma atenção ao processo de negociação da Convenção, embora publicações especializadas venham examinando as diversas implicações da eventual adoção de um instrumento dessa natureza. A opinião pública e as organizações da sociedade civil, principalmente naqueles países e em seus aliados, tem papel importante a desempenhar para assegurar o êxito da Convenção e sua capacidade de tornar-se um instrumento universal juridicamente vinculante de codificação do repúdio às armas nucleares.
→ read full articleTrump Exempts Entire Senior Staff from White House Ethics Rules
Aldo Rovatti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Use your office to make as much money as you can, hire relatives, cut deals with corporations, form side businesses to supplement your income any way you can, (bribes are fine) and don’t worry too much about actually doing the business of government or serving any individual constituents unless they are worth a few million or billion…
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