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The Illegal Closure of Gaza
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
“The closure of Gaza is neither a siege, nor a blockade, nor an economic sanction – it is an illegal act of collective punishment and stands in violation of both international and Israeli law.”
— Gisha-Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, December 2008
“Unruly Equality”: A Brief History of Anarchism
Andrew Cornell | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
The very terms anarchy, anarchism, and anarchist are so overcoded with meanings and burdened by associations that people frequently talk past one another, or resort to awkward attempts at humor, even when attempting to discuss them in good faith.
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One Voice (Music Video of the Week)
Barry Manilow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Barry recorded his own voice some 40 times to compose this inspiring song.
→ read full articleSyria: Attack on Aid Convoy Kills Twenty, Destroys Aid…
Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
… and Obliterates US War Crimes? Only representatives of the ‘White Helmets’ organization close to the Nusra Front who found themselves at the right time in the right place by chance with their video cameras can answer who did this and why. They boasted in a video of being on the scene within “moments.” The “White Helmets”, who have had the gall to entitle themselves the Syrian Civil Defence Force, are neither Syrian, nor Civil, nor Defence.
→ read full articleResuscitating Post-Disaster Response in Nepal
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
19 Sep 2016 – Government may have several political agenda but nothing should prevent from focusing full attention to the plight of the survivors of the last years’ earthquakes. People of Nepal and the community of nations expect political parties will rise above political differences and speed up the reconstruction efforts in providing basic needs of the fellow citizens.
→ read full articleSunoco, behind the Dakota Pipeline, Has Spilled More Oil than Any Other Operator in USA: Charts
Liz Hampton | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
23 Sep 2016 – Sunoco Logistics, the [alleged] future operator of the oil pipeline delayed this month after Native American protests in North Dakota, spills crude more often than any of its competitors with more than 200 leaks since 2010.
→ read full articleNorway to Kill 47 of Its Remaining 68 Wolves
Dan Zukowski | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Norway has announced plans to kill more than two-thirds of its remaining wolves, justifying the action as protection for livestock. The plan has sparked outrage by conservationists.
→ read full articleTruth Commissions Practices Over the World and a Case of Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Since the early 1980s, the conception of the truth commission has gained prominence as a mechanism for explaining the history and addressing human rights violations. Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons 1983-84 began the process, and the 1993 report of the UN Commission on the Truth in El Salvador, From Madness to Hope, sharpened the focus on truth recovery processes.
→ read full articleInternational Meeting ‘Thirst for Peace‘
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Assisi, 18-20 Sep 2016 – The Future of Europe: Capacity to Integrate, Dialogue, and Generate
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International Peace Day in Assisi
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Update about Pope Francis’s Message
→ read full articleA Warming of US/Turkish Relations?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
There are continuing concerns in Washington and Ankara about whether and to what degree United States-Turkey relations can be restored; it depends on the behavior of the two governments, and likely will be influenced by the outcome of the American presidential elections.
→ read full articleThe Malevolence of Occupation
David Lloyd | Dublin Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
1 Sep 2016 – Boycott is, as many proudly recall, an Irish invention. The first boycott targeted a notorious land agent, the eponymous Captain Charles Boycott, for attempting to evict Mayo tenants in 1880… Above all, boycott is an instrument of civil society. We call for a boycott when the means to redress an ongoing injury are denied by the legal or political institutions that ought to intervene.
→ read full articleMost of Japanese Millennials Are Virgins: Survey
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
17 Sep 2016 – A survey of Japanese people aged 18 to 34 found that 70 percent of unmarried men and 60 percent of unmarried women are not in a relationship. It also found that around 42 percent of men and 44.2 percent of women admitted that they were virgins.
→ read full articlePoor Driver
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
After a summit meeting, Reagan, Brezhnev and Deng Xiaoping were being driven to the airport in a limousine.
→ read full articleHuman Decency Moves Civilization Forward
James A. Haught | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker asserts that rampant killing was 1,000 times worse in medieval times than today. In his classic 2011 book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” he notes that international warfare has virtually vanished in the 21st century — and that murder, rape, genocide, torture, wife-beating, lynching, gay-bashing, dueling, racial attacks, and even cruelty to animals are vastly less than in the past.
→ read full articleGreenpeace Investigation Uncovers Studies Showing Pesticides Pose Serious Harm to Honeybees
Joe Sandler Clarke | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
22 Sep 2016 – Chemical giants Bayer and Syngenta commissioned private studies which showed that their neonicotinoid pesticides can cause serious harm to bees, a Greenpeace investigation has uncovered.
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This Might Be the Coolest Visualization of Evolution Ever
Harvard Medical School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Bacteria Overcoming Antibiotics on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish
→ read full articleHow Ensuring Public Access to Information Can Help to Build Peaceful and Inclusive Societies
Univ. of Sydney Dept of Peace and Conflict Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
20 October, 2016 – 18:00-19:30h – In this webinar, Jake Lynch traces the debate over information and communication and their place in development and peace, with reference to interventions along a spectrum from journalist training, on the one end, to intended-outcome programming on the other.
→ read full article(Italiano) Wallerstein su Sinistra e Destra Globali
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Wallerstein è impareggiabile. Nessun altro ha presentato una teoria tanto coerente di quello che lui chiama il sistema-mondiale moderno, a partire “dal lungo 16° secolo” fino ad oggi; principalmente capitalista.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo, in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Auschwitz, 29 Luglio: Papa Francesco che prega e chiede a Dio la grazia per piangere (INYT, 30-31 Luglio) è stato molto, molto toccante. E così diverso dallo spettacolo che Obama ha provato ad allestire a Hiroshima.
→ read full articleThe Native American, the Palestinian: A Spirited Fight for Justice
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Palestinians are losing their lives, land and olive trees as they stand up to Israeli tanks and bulldozers. Their reality is a replay of similar experiences faced – and still being confronted – by Native Americans. Well into the 21st century, the Native American-Palestinian struggle remains one and the same.
→ read full article(Português) Atílio Borón analisa semelhanças entre o Chile de 1973 e o Brasil de 2016
María Julia Giménez | Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
11 de Setembro de 2016 – Após 43 anos do golpe de Estado que derrubou ao governo de Salvador Allende no Chile, o pensador latino-americano Atilio Borón lê, à luz do processo chileno, os recentes acontecimentos que violentam a ordem democrática da América Latina. Os limites do Estado burguês e as semelhanças dos dois golpes de Estado.
→ read full articleBayer Buys Monsanto for US $66 Bln.
Greg Roumeliotis and Ludwig Burger | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
German drug and crop chemical maker Bayer clinched a $66 billion takeover of U.S. seeds company Monsanto on Wednesday [14 Sep 2016], ending months of wrangling with a third sweetened offer that marks the largest all-cash deal on record.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Joins the Freedom Flotilla 2016 to Break the Gaza Siege
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Sep 15, 2016 – Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize winner, will join the women’s boat to Gaza. The goal of this mission is to highlight the devastating effects of the brutal blockade of the Palestinian people living in Gaza.
→ read full articleCentral Bank Digital Currencies: A Revolution in Banking?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Skeptical commentators suspect that their primary goal is to eliminate cash, setting us up for negative interest rates (we pay the bank to hold our deposits rather than the reverse).
→ read full articleContaining the United States
Edward S. Herman | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
9 Sep 2016 – “Containing the United States” is, of course, a ridiculous and self-contradictory idea in the U.S. and Western ideological and propaganda system. We all know that the United States had to “contain” the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1991, and since then has had the task of containing Russia and China. Only they threaten, bully, aggress and worry countries like Poland and Vietnam.
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America’s Murderous Legacy in Laos
TheRealNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
As Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos, The Real News brings you an interview with Fred Branfman, the man who first exposed America’s secret bombing campaign there.
→ read full articleIsn’t It Time to Ban the Bomb?
Lawrence S. Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Nuclear weapons are the most destructive devices ever created. If they are used―as two of them were used in 1945 to annihilate the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki―the more than 15,000 nuclear weapons currently in existence would destroy the world. Only an unusually firm stand by the non-nuclear nations, coupled with an uprising by an aroused public, seems likely to awaken the officials of the nuclear powers from their long sleepwalk toward catastrophe.
→ read full articleGaza-Bound Flotilla Sails Off from Spain’s Barcelona
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
A new flotilla of international activists has left for the Gaza Strip from the Spanish city of Barcelona, hoping to break a nearly decade-long Israeli blockade. Two sailing boats with 11 women on board each sailed off on Wednesday [14 Sep] under the banner “The Women’s Boat to Gaza”.
→ read full articleLiving & Resting in Peace
Jim Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Could it be the U.S. is poking around in other people’s business and taking their stuff? Or worse yet, killing them indiscriminately? Is this what the U.S. means when it calls itself the “exceptional” nation? Is this why so many people hate the U.S.?
→ read full articleIt Can Happen Here
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Some kind of free association, call it confederation or federation, is a sheer necessity. Setting it up and keeping it up needs a spirit of reconciliation. Not just a negative peace, the absence of war, a cold peace of recriminations and mutual animosity, but a positive peace, a real peace, with each side understanding the basic motives of the other side, its historical narrative, its hopes and fears. Is this possible? Well, it happened between Germany and France after many centuries of conflict, including two World Wars.
→ read full article“Abysms: On Yet another 911 Anniversary….”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Powers on chessboards, on a roll of dice,
Mass and unmask in great Darwin’s name.
War-whoops go up and towers collapse,
Reaping the whirlwind, riding our shame.
(Italiano) L’Islam oggi
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Il mondo, anche gli USA, è stanco di guerre interminabili. Si metta fine alla disputa con l’Islam. L’Occidente e il Cristianesimo hanno un lavoro urgente da portare a termine.
→ read full articleMenwith Menace: Britain’s Complicity in Saudi Arabia’s Terror Campaign against Yemen
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
13 Sep 2016 – The ‘mainstream’ Western media is, almost by definition, the last place to consult for honest reporting of Western crimes. Consider the appalling case of Yemen which is consumed by war and an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.
→ read full articleChallenges of Women Empowerment in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota, Shiba Bagale and Shreeya Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Nepal has always suffered from gender inequality. It has seen uncountable numbers of simple to worst cases of gender issues. The role of different revolutions, programs that are women focused government policies for gender empowerment has finally included the role and participation of women in the constitution.
→ read full articlePlaying Sudoku for Enjoyment and Peace
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
People have found different means of seeking peace and enjoyment—by listening to or playing music, by playing football, by reading a good novel, or by working for peace and conflict resolution. The sudokists find peace by solving these puzzles.
→ read full articleDrug-Induced Dementia IS NOT Alzheimer’s Disease
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Do, however, expect denials, dismissals, distractions, delays and ad hominem attacks against the whistle-blowers rather than honest mea culpas. So it must be up to the consumers of potentially toxic substances to do the research themselves, for those substances may not show symptoms until a tipping point is reached when their livers can no longer detoxify the cocktail of poisons that are presented to it.
→ read full articleAmericans’ Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low
Art Swift | Gallup – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
• 32% say they have “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust
• 14% of Republicans express trust, down from 32% last year
• Confidence drops among younger and older Americans
The Future Cries Out: ‘Water Is Life’
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
The tribal peoples of Earth are making their voices heard in so many ways. Their mission is to reconnect the modern world with the circle of life — a circle that much of humanity left behind maybe ten millennia ago, in pursuit of the Agricultural Revolution and dominion over nature. In the process, we’ve succeeded in changing the climate and, perhaps, establishing a troubling new geological epoch. Now it’s time to rethink “progress.” Building another pipeline is its antithesis.
→ read full articleHow Israel Aims to Redefine ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Netanyahu argues that a Palestinian demand to dismantle Jewish settlements amounts to the “ethnic cleansing” of some 650,000 Jews living in the occupied territories in violation of international law. His aim is not hard to decipher. Netanyahu can argue that when Palestinian leaders call for a state free of armed, Jewish-only colonies breaking up any hope of Palestinian territorial contiguity they should be labelled as ethnic cleansers.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Sep 19–25 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “We have all heard the saying, ‘Some people go their grave with their music still in them.’ They have had a dream but never did anything to make that dream come true. If you answered the question, “what would the one thing you would like to change”, but have done nothing to change it, start to do something. Break down the change into steps, set time frames for yourself and start taking steps to make that change a reality.” – Catherine Pulsifer
→ read full articleMy Koran Problem
Garry Wills | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
I knew really nothing about the Koran. But those who do know the Koran have quite a bit of knowledge about Torah and Gospel, since Allah sent them both to earth before he sent the Koran. They belong together. It is about time we learn something about the Koran.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Dalai Lama Criticizes [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi over Rohingya Silence at EU Meeting
Mizzima News from Myanmar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
16 Sep 2016 – The Dalai Lama has condemned attacks against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, describing them as acts of “some mischievous individuals who do not represent Buddhism.” The Tibetan Buddhist leader was speaking to the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee in Strasbourg.
→ read full articleJewish Voice for Peace – Statement on Antisemitism in the US
Jews for Justice for Palestinians | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
In the United States, as in Britain, accusations of the prevalence of antisemitism abound and are used as sticks to beat those – protesting too vigorously? – at Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. But some antisemitism is real and it is important to make the right distinctions, to clarify the difference between expressions of antisemitism and support for Palestinian human rights.
→ read full articleSaving ‘Natural Resources’ Won’t Save Us
Greg Harman | Deceleration – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
“We’re not protesters, we’re here to defend the land.” Here’s another language shift that is not small. The rejection of the term “protester” by those at and supportive of the North Dakota fight is important. In its place, “land defenders” would position protesters as a positive force, pre-dating oil and gas extraction. Land defenders are postured in advance and far beyond the current conflict. They are rooted in land, perhaps the ultimate positive anchor.
→ read full article(Français) Le Time et sa croisade anti-Venezuela
Jean Araud | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Quand on lit un magazine aussi prestigieux que le Time, on peut imaginer que ses sources d’informations internationales sont sérieusement vérifiées. Mais lorsqu’on lit un article sur le Venezuela rédigé par leur journaliste Ioan Grillo et que l’on vit au quotidien dans ce pays, on peut sérieusement se demander si ce journaliste est mal informé, s’il se trompe en toute bonne foi, ou si au lieu de nous fournir une information il ne s’agirait pas plutôt d’une désinformation, d’une manipulation ou d’une intoxication de ses lecteurs.
→ read full articleHave Big Banks Gotten Safer?
Natasha Sarin and Lawrence H. Summers | Harvard, Brookings Institution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
PhD candidate Natasha Sarin and Prof. Lawrence H. Summers, from Harvard, challenge a widely-held belief that major financial institutions in the USA and around the world are safer today than they were prior to the 2008 Recession. They find no evidence that markets regard banks as safer today than they were before the crisis, despite large decreases in leverage. In fact, measures of volatility and beta appear to be higher post-crisis than they were pre-crisis.
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Hymn for the Weekend (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
From Coldplay’s Acclaimed New Album, A Head Full of Dreams
→ read full articleRussia-America: Copernican Revolution of Relations Instead of the Insanity of Nuclear War
Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Appeal to the governments of Russia and the USA to start cooperation in the development of Global Peace Science as a common platform for “nuclear zero” and the world pacifization* providing planetary security.
→ read full articleHow Much Better Can You Eat?
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
When I read the Oxfam report, which revealed that the top 62 richest people on earth possess the wealth owned by the poorest half—yes, fifty percent!—of the world’s population, I wondered what in fact these 62 people want that they don’t already have? And if they have them, how much better can or will they live?
→ read full articleUS Illegal Immigration
Jeff Parker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Wall Solution
→ read full articleBayer-Monsanto Merger Is ‘a Disaster for Global Food System’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
The Monsanto takeover creates the world’s largest seed and pesticide company and threatens to entrench corporate control of the global food system.
→ read full articleThe Military Tries to Sell Itself as Positive Environmental Force
Chad Blair | Civil Beat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
To some conservationists, the U.S. military is one of the most destructive forces on the planet. In Hawaii alone, environmental groups have battled the military over armored vehicles that tore up the land and sonar that caused injury and death to marine wildlife. Perhaps the largest example of the military’s impact on Hawaii is the unpopulated island of Kahoolawe, which was used for target practice for decades.
→ read full articleIsraeli Settlements Have Grown During the Obama Years
Josef Federman | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
As Obama heads into the home stretch of his presidency, he leaves behind an unfulfilled vision. Not only did he fail to stop it, but he watched Israeli construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem thrive — despite repeated White House condemnations.
→ read full articleFalse Flag Terror “Has Succeeded Consistently against Audiences around the World, for Millennia, to Compel War”
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
12 Sep 2016 – In the following instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack) admit to it, either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos:
→ read full articleStudy: Scientists Who Won’t Link Pesticides to Bee Deaths Are Often Funded by Agrochemical Industry
MintPress News Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
14 Sep 2016 — Pesticide manufacturers have spent millions influencing researchers who are investigating the role of neonicotinoids, a nicotine-like chemical found in many major pesticides, in bee die-offs, according to a recent analysis by Greenpeace.
→ read full articleInterview on Israel, Palestine, and Peace
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
14 Sep 2016 –The U.S. Government and Israel have signed a military assistance agreement promising Israel $38 billion over the next ten years, the largest such commitment ever made. Again, we should grieve over the extent to which ‘reality’ and morality is sacrificed for the sake of the ‘special relationship’ while looking the other way whenever the Palestinian ordeal is mentioned.
→ read full articleCEOs Can Now Be Prosecuted Like War Criminals at The Hague
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
The International Criminal Court announced Thursday [15 Sep 2016] it will now hold corporate executives and governments legally responsible for environmental crimes. The court’s new focus on land grabbing and environmental destruction could help put a dent in corporate impunity.
→ read full articleUS Proxies and Regional Rivalries
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
US empire building depends on regional regimes’ support, especially in the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. These proxy regimes fulfill valuable military roles securing control over neighboring regions, populations and territory. In recent times, however, we witness the same proxies developing their own tendency toward expansionist policies – in pursuit of their own mini-empires.
→ read full articleFrom a Nonviolent Strategist to Brazilian Activists: An Open Letter
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
As I see and read about the ongoing massive protests, as well as calls by prominent community leaders to mobilize in defense of your country’s democracy, I feel great hope for Brazil. Having been a nonviolent activist for many years, I would like to support Brazilian activists to develop a nonviolent strategy that will increase your chances of success. Please read on.
→ read full articleWhose Finger? On What Button?
Kevin Martin | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Even a “limited” nuclear war between India and Pakistan could cause global famine on top of the deaths of hundreds of millions. How is it acceptable or legitimate for anyone to have the power to decide whether our civilization continues? We shouldn’t trust anyone with this power. Human beings are far too fallible. Unfortunately we have ceded too much power to alleged experts.
→ read full articleCan the Growing Number of Government-Rebel Reconciliation Agreements End the Bloodshed in Syria?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
The evacuation was the latest one agreed to between rebel forces and the Syrian government and implemented according to President Assad’s Amnesty Decree no. 15 issued on July 28, 2016 . Another 700 were evacuated from nearby Daraya per a similar agreement achieved on August 25. At least half of dozen similar evacuations from rebel areas are reportedly being negotiated between rebels and the government.
→ read full articleHillary Clinton Recovering from Pneumonia, Cancels California Trip
Lisa Lerer and Julie Pace | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
An ill Hillary Clinton abruptly left a 9/11 anniversary ceremony Sunday [11 Sep 2016] and needed to be held up by three people before she appeared to stumble off a curb and was helped into a van. Several hours later, her campaign revealed she had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday [9 Sep] and advised to rest.
→ read full articleCommemorate the Good September 11
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
On September 11, 1906, Mohandas Gandhi stood to speak in the Imperial Theater in white-ruled South Africa, a society completely grounded and awash in blatant, “legal” racism. Gandhi–those old enough to have seen the 1982 Hollywood version of his life may remember the scene—stood in a crowded theater and explained the new odious racial laws that ruled Hindu marriages void, that allowed police to enter the home of any Indian without a warrant or permission, and that required each Indian to carry a pass at all times.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Europa del momento – UE, Russia
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Ma l’Europa è percorsa da un altro inveterato conflitto che incombe più di prima: della UE con la Russia. O, più sostanzialmente, l’Europa cattolico-protestante contro l’Europa ortodossa, col confine all’interno dell’Ucraina. C’è qualche soluzione a parecchi conflitti che ne derivano, che possa costruire la pace? Le chiavi sono detenute da Germania e Francia, in linea di principio uguali nella guida dell’UE anche se una è più uguale dell’altra.
→ read full article(Italiano) Denaro, prassi e teoria economica
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Il denaro è la chiave: quella geniale innovazione per immagazzinare valore generale e scambiare valori specifici secondo il prezzo. Non sorprende che i capi di stato si facessero imprimere il viso su monete e biglietti di banca. Ma non sui centesimi e sugli euro. L’UE è senza volto. La Brexit non lo è.
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Maung Zarni on the Kofi Annan Commission and Persecution of Rohingya in Myanmar/Burma
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Sep 7, 2016 – Dr Maung Zarni comments on Kofi Annan Commission and Myanmar Genocide of Rohingya, Al Jazeera English News Hour.
→ read full articleImproving Galtung’s A-B-C to a Scientific Theory of All Kinds of Conflicts
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
With respect to past wisdom about conflict resolution Galtung suggested an important innovation; according to him, a conflict is essentially composed by three aspects A-B-C, i.e. Assumptions, Behaviour and Contradiction. These aspects are here defined in a more accurate way so to make them independent one of another. Three representative theories of respectively micro, meso and macro conflicts – i.e. Freud’s theory of intimate conflicts, Marx’ theory of social conflicts and Clausewitz’ theory of war conflicts – are interpreted through the improved definitions of A, B and C.
→ read full articleMonsanto and the Poisonous Cartel of GMOs in India
Vandana Shiva | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
11 Sep 2016 – Engaged in litigation on many fronts, Monsanto is trying to subvert India’s patent laws: Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Right Act, Essential Commodities Act and Competition Act. It is behaving as if there is no Parliament, no democracy, no sovereign laws in India to which it is subject. Or it simply doesn’t have any regard for them.
→ read full articleA Cinematic Approach to Drug Resistance
Ekaterina Pesheva | Harvard Gazette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Scientists film bacteria’s maneuvers as they become impervious to drugs–breakthrough.
→ read full articleThe Imperative of Consciousness
Steven M. Greer, MD | Sirius Disclosure – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Certainly as an Emergency and Trauma doctor, not a day goes by where a child or impaired adult victim of trauma could view my efforts to help him as painful and therefore motivated by a desire to do harm, even though my motives are just the opposite. That a frightened child perceives my actions as hurtful or malevolent is a function of the child’s level of awareness and knowledge, and in no way reflects my true intentions. Could not an analogous process be occurring with some ETI events which conventional wisdom has deemed hostile and therefore as evidence of malevolent intentions?
→ read full article(Français) La tragédie brésilienne
Atilio Boron | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Le trio de la réaction : juges, parlementaires et médias, tous corrompus jusqu’à la moelle, a déclenché un processus pseudo légal et clairement illégitime à travers lequel la démocratie brésilienne, avec ses défauts, comme toute démocratie, a été remplacée par une grossière ploutocratie.
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For the Love of Possibility (Inspirational)
Liz Murray | TEDTalks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
[From TMS editor: I relate profoundly with this succinct, deep reflection by Liz; close to my heart and to my own reality. I post in hopes that those who need/want will feel inspired as well.]
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Don’t Look Down [Towel Boy] (Music Video of the Week)
DJ Martin Garrix & Usher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Martin Garrix (born 14 May 1996) is a 20-year-old Dutch DJ, record producer and musician on top of his field. Winner of the 2016 MTV Millennial Awards among others.
→ read full articleBreaking: Arrest Warrant Issued for Amy Goodman in North Dakota after Covering Pipeline Protest
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
10 Sep 2016 – An arrest warrant has been issued in North Dakota for Democracy Now! host and executive producer Amy Goodman charged with criminal trespassing. On Sept. 3, Democracy Now! filmed security guards working for the Dakota Access pipeline company using dogs and pepper spray to attack protesters.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Sep 12-18 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even the smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
→ read full article(Italiano) Presentazione del libro curato da Nanni Salio e Silvia De Michelis “Giornalismo di pace”
Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Con le relazioni di Silvia De Michelis, curatrice del libro e Angela Dogliotti Marasso, presidente del CSSR. Intervengono Marinella Correggia, ecopacifista, rete No-War, Ugo Lucio Borga, fotogiornalista e Christian Elia, giornalista, condirettore di Q Code Magazine.
→ read full articleFossil Fuels: At What Price?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
An externality is the cost or benefit of some unintended consequence of an economic action. For example, tobacco companies do not really wish for their customers to die from cancer, but a large percentage of them do, and the social costs of this slaughter ought to be reflected in the price of tobacco. The true environmental costs of fossil fuel use are much greater than those of smoking.
→ read full articleThe Death of One of Washington’s Favorite Tyrants
Stephen Zunes | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
7 Sep 2016 – The death of long-time Uzbekistan dictator Islam Karimov has brought rare U.S. media attention to the Central Asian country of 30 million. Uzbekistan is ranked among the half dozen worst countries in the world for human-rights abuses. American taxpayers subsidized that regime and its brutal security apparatus for most of Karimov’s thirty-five years in power.
→ read full articlePsychiatric Condition
Cartoon Stock – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Oedipus Complex?
→ read full articleThrown under the Automated Bus
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
We can praise the timesaving efficiency of automation, but we must also deal with the unintended consequences. The potential of automation comes with a shadow side, which must be rigorously discussed and addressed in our nation and around the world. People will be replaced by machines. Profits for the already wealthy will soar. Millions will be left without jobs.
→ read full articleInternational Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: Where Is the Concern over Military’s Environmental Impact?
Kelsey Amos | Honolulu Civil Beat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
9 Sep 2016 – A week ago, a group of 15-20 activists and students gathered at the University of Hawaii to share the remarkably similar and interconnected stories of nations and peoples from around the Pacific that are struggling against the environmental destruction and limitations on sovereignty caused by the U.S. military. Despite military threats to the natural world, surprisingly few panel discussions at IUCN broached the subject.
→ read full articleFeminism and Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota, Shiba Bagale and Shreeya Devkota - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
The thing that needs to be done now is to bring feminism into action in local level. Feminism needs to reach to those places and into minds of people who need it the most. It is the unaware mind and culturally paralyzed people who are unable to bring changes in society and in their lives.
→ read full articleThe Sound of Silence: An Illustrated Serenade to the Art of Listening to One’s Inner Voice amid the Noise of Modern Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
A tender reminder that silence is not the absence of sound but the presence of an inward-listening awareness.
→ read full articleIs Privacy Necessary?
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
In our age of universal self-disclosure through the so-called social media of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and our age of universal snooping courtesy of the NSA and other like organisations throughout the world, privacy is well-worth re-examining. And it is well-worth examining in the context of adolescence.
→ read full articleSuitor: “Gentleman Caller”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Courtship
→ read full articleThe Science of the Creator and Genetics of Rebirth
Chandra P Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
The human kind is facing a crisis of faith at global level, which is manifold and multidimensional. It calls for a paradigm shift in our value perception and radical rethinking on our age old fundamental values of life.
→ read full articleTrue Love
Bhakta Joseph P. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Come, my beloved,
Let me taste your ambrosial nectar.
I have had my fill of this cruel world: tainted
The taste of misery upon my lips.
Bolivia Prepares Literacy Programs in 36 Indigenous Languages
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Since Evo Morales took office illiteracy has been reduced from 13.3 percent to 2.9 percent, the lowest rate in the history of Bolivia.
→ read full article(Français) Accord de paix signé en Colombie – «que retentisse ce cri: plus jamais! plus jamais!»
Julian Cortés | Invetig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Les accords signés, c’est désormais une lutte idéologique et culturelle qui s’annonce pour « gagner le cœur » de vastes secteurs sous-informés et manipulés durant des décennies, principalement au sein des classes moyennes qui défendent le modèle économique actuel plus que les élites elles-mêmes.
→ read full articleDag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in the Congo.
→ read full articleHere They Come Again
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
TTIP – the transatlantic trade and investment partnership – appears to be dead, booed off the stage. But another treaty, whose likely impacts are almost identical, is waiting in the wings. And this one is more advanced, wanting only final approval. If this happens before Britain leaves the EU, we are likely to be stuck with it for the next 20 years.
→ read full articleHow Silicon Valley Follows the Money
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
There’s way more in common between Wall Street and Silicon Valley than meets the untrained eye. They are two of the key strategic hubs of hyperpower global domination. The others are the industrial-military-surveillance-security complex – of which Hollywood and corporate media are the soft power extensions – and the petrodollar racket/tributary system.
→ read full article(Castellano) Las Bajas Jubilaciones en Chile
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
“Nuestro mayor problema político es la falta de imaginación”. –Michel Foucault ~ La apuesta de la economía social y solidaria es que la misma lógica cálida que rescata a los victimas del sistema es capaz de transformar el sistema.
→ read full articlePolice Do Nothing as Armed Mercenaries Attack Native American Dakota Pipeline Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray
Counter Current | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
3 Sep 2016 – Police stood idly by as private security guards who were working on behalf of the corporations building the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline turned attack dogs on peaceful protesters.
→ read full articleThe Uses and Abuses of Uncertainty: The Case of Turkey
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
9 Sep 2016 – One of the paradoxes of the digital age with its real time awareness is the degree to which information overloads clouds our imagination with cheaply achieved and false clarity, which in political contexts is often the Mad Men work of selective interpretation or deliberate manipulation.
→ read full articleUnderstanding Conflicts through Differing Belief Systems
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Conflicts arise when differing approaches and belief systems come in contact. We must respect these differing perspectives of life and act judiciously and sympathetically towards them. Gandhi worked endlessly to build bridges between different communities and promote peace harmony and goodwill. The path followed by Gandhi is as relevant today as it was when he was alive.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | The 15th Anniversary of the Crime and Cover-up of the Century (9/11/01)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
“What Really Happened”?
→ read full articleThe Great Railway Scandal
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Merkel did something that was completely opposed to her political interests. She opened the gates of Germany to almost a million refugees, mostly Muslims, many from war-torn, bleeding Syria. No people, not even a people of Angels or Angelas, can absorb a million foreigners without some misgivings. Yet Merkel had the moral and political courage to take the risk. Now she is suffering the consequences.
→ read full articleAnarchy vs. Statism: Uncontrolled Order over Controlled Chaos
Gary ‘Z’ McGee | Waking Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Caught up, as we are, in the politics of statism, it is often extremely difficult to see the forest for the trees. We’re often so busy pretending to think outside the box that we lose track of what’s “the box” and what’s not. We’re so inured by this system of exploitation that it’s often too easy to kiss each other with lies rather than smack each other with the truth.
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