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Neo-Feudal Society: Tax Havens for Big Multinationals Is ‘Robbery of Population’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
28 Mar 2017 – It’s alarming big European banks, unlike ordinary people are not paying their fair share of taxes, says Oxfam policy advisor Aurore Chardonnet. Tax dodging is a crime against the people, a robbery of the population, adds business consultant Gerald Celente.
→ read full article(Italiano) Intervista a Murat Cinar in vista dell’incontro di STORIE_Aosta 8 aprile 2017
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
1 Apr 2017 – STORIE, sezione del progetto culturale Collettivamente memoria 2017, presenta, per il quarto incontro, il giornalista, blogger, fotografo (e amico) turco Murat Cinar. In anteprima una breve intervista.
→ read full articleCan Our Social Institutions Catch Up with Advances in Science and Technology?
Lawrence Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
There is a glaring discrepancy between technological advances and the social institutions that can ensure that they are used for the benefit of humanity. The real question is whether people and nations can muster the political will to reshape their behavior and social institutions to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
→ read full articleMaya Angelou (4 Apr 1928 – 28 May 2014): On Identity and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Angelou’s timeless wisdom shines with unparalleled light in a 1977 interview by journalist Judith Rich, in which Angelou explores issues of identity and the meaning of life.
→ read full articleIndia Needs to Move Beyond Hubris
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Sometimes we filter when we listen, having a preconceived notion of the ground realties. In a country as large and diverse as India, it makes sense to connect those who live in similar climates and by tracking the effectiveness of the projects they manage and making appropriate, informed changes to those that aren’t working.
→ read full articleThe Gift of Insults
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
A great Samurai warrior, now old, had decided to teach Zen Buddhism to young people. Despite his age, the legend was that he could defeat any adversary.
→ read full articleExplaining to a Blind Person
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Someone asked Albert Einstein at a party: “Oh, you are Albert Einstein, could you please explain me your relativity theory in three or four sentences?”
→ read full articleSettled Wanderers – The Poetry of Western Sahara
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
This remarkable book is far more than a collection of poetry, little-known in the English-speaking world. It is a concise history and geography of the Saharawi people, the lives of their poets; a glossary and explanation of the unique language of this nation, Hassaniya.
→ read full articleLearning to Be Fascists
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Learning to be fascists, victims, and bystanders (and everything in-between). We learn to love, hate, kill, slaughter, rape, torture, etc. In my view, the Burmese society is undergoing this experience regarding the Rohingya victims of state terror, social ostracism/exclusion and the emerging sadistic culture of those who call themselves “Buddhists”.
→ read full articleArgentina Set to Drop US$2 Billion for Largest Weapons Acquisition since Malvinas War
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
28 Mar 2017 – [Rightwing] Argentinean President Mauricio Macri is poised to dole out US$2 billion in large military equipment from the United States in what will be the biggest weapons acquisition since the country’s Malvinas War in the 1980s.
→ read full articleHow Many Civilians Can We Kill?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
As Barbara Ehrenreich writes in her book, Blood Rites, “War has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions, rather than to just a handful of craftsmen and professional soldiers. It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures.”
→ read full articleUS Senate Votes to Let Internet Providers Share Your Web Browsing History without Permission
Jacob Kastrenakes | The Verge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
23 Mar 2017 – The US Senate has voted to overturn consumer-friendly internet privacy rules that would have prevented internet providers from sharing your web browsing history without permission. Altogether, it’s just pure bad news for consumers, whose private data is about to be open for sale again.
→ read full articleSecret Companies Allow Corrupt Cash to Flood Key Real Estate Markets
IPS World Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
30 Mar 2017 – The governments of Australia, Canada, UK and USA need to close legal loopholes to prevent the corrupt elite from laundering the proceeds of grand corruption in their local real estate markets, the Berlin-based Transparency International said on March 29 in a new report, Doors Wide Open: Corruption and Real Estate in Key Markets.
→ read full article(Français) Lettre de démission de Rima Khalaf, secrétaire exécutive de l’ESCWA (commission économique et sociale pour l’Asie de l’Ouest)
Rima Khalaf | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Lettre de démission de la secrétaire exécutive de l’ESCWA (commission économique et sociale pour l’Asie occidentale) Rima Khalaf, en réponse à la demande formelle du secrétaire général des Nations Unies pour que l’ESCWA retire la publication d’un rapport qui affirme que l’Etat d’Israël a mis en place une situation d’apartheid.
→ read full articleVincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. After having been physically and psychologically unstable, he cut off his ear and offered it to a prostitute.
→ read full articleIs Israel an Apartheid State?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
This post was originally published on March 22, 2017 by The Nation under the title “The Inside Story of Our UN Report Calling Israel an Apartheid State.” What is below is somewhat modified.
→ read full articleGenocides Have No Winners
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Genocides are what students of politics call ‘path-dependent’. Once a genocidal process is set in motion it is hard to recall. All genocides end in tears and destroy humanness in all involved in it, as perpetrators, on-lookers, whitewashers, collaborators, and victims.”
→ read full articleThe Multibillion-Dollar U.S. Spy Agency You Haven’t Heard of
James Bamford - Foreign Policy Magazine,
27 Mar 2017
On a heavily protected military base some 15 miles south of Washington, D.C., sits the massive headquarters of a spy agency few know exists. Even Barack Obama, five months into his presidency, seemed not to have recognized its name.
→ read full articleCambodia Rejects US War Debt, Slams US Imperial Brutality
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 – Following the United States’ renewed insistence that Cambodia pay back its alleged “war debts,” fury across Cambodia has been widespread. “We should raise our voices to talk about the issue of the country that has invaded other (countries) and has killed children,” said Cambodia’s prime minister. $38 Billion for Israel, but not $274 Million for Cambodia.
→ read full articleChina’s Great Leap Forward: Western Frogs Croak Dismay
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – From their dismal swamps, US academic and financial journal editorialists, the mass media and contemporary ‘Asia experts’, Western progressive and conservative politicians croak in unison about China’s environmental and impending collapse.
→ read full article(Castellano) Una ética para la Madre Tierra
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
14 mar 2017 – Hoy es un hecho científicamente reconocido que los cambios climáticos, cuya expresión mayor es el calentamiento global son de naturaleza antropogénica, con un grado de seguridad del 95%. Es decir, tienen su génesis en un tipo de comportamiento humano violento con la naturaleza.
→ read full article(Português) Pela 1ª vez desde 2004, Brasil fica estagnado no Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano da ONU
Martha Beck – O Globo,
27 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017- Pela primeira vez desde 2004, o Brasil estacionou no ranking do desenvolvimento humano. A maior recessão da história, em 2015, fez a renda da população despencar e freou o avanço constante que se observava no IDH, calculado pelas Nações Unidas desde 1990.
→ read full articleThese Two Rivers Were Just Given the Same Legal Rights as Humans in India
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
The High Court of the Indian state of Uttarakhand ruled that the Ganges and Yamuna rivers and their tributaries are “legal and living entities having the status of a legal person with all corresponding rights, duties and liabilities.” The judges noted that the once-mighty rivers are “losing their very existence.” The decision marks the first time a court has recognized a non-human as a living entity in India.
→ read full articleDon’t Understand Clouds? But You Should!
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
27 Mar 2017
Today scientists understand that clouds play a vital role in regulating the Earth’s energy balance, climate and weather, says the UN World Meteorological Organization.
→ read full articleAfter Creating Haiti’s Cholera Crisis, UN Can Barely Fight It
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
20 Mar 2017 – It was seven years ago when the outbreak first began. Haiti’s cholera outbreak has ravaged hundreds of thousands of lives — killing nearly 10,000 and sickening nearly 800,000 more. After years of dodging responsibility, the U.N. is now struggling to help fight the health scourge it created.
→ read full articleThe F.B.I. Is Investigating Trump’s Ties to Russia
Patrick Chappatte – The New York Times,
27 Mar 2017
James B. Comey, the head of the F.B.I., confirmed.
→ read full article“Total War:” Weaponizing and Exporting USA Popular Culture
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
The power of USA popular culture is vast and complex. It has been exported to virtually all nations. It is a “war-like” invasion and occupation of a way-of-life, displacing and overwhelming existing cultural values and practices. Even as the USA is subject to increasing criticism for its abusive and intrusive actions in the culture’s of other nations, USA leaders appear reluctant to accept criticism.
→ read full articleTrump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought
Henry A. Giroux | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt
Climate Breaks All Records: Hottest Year, Lowest Ice, Highest Sea Level
IPS World Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – Climate has, once more, broken all records, with the year 2016 making history-highest-ever global temperature, exceptionally low sea ice, unabated sea level rise and ocean heat. And what is an even worse– extreme and unusual trends continue in 2017.
→ read full articlePowerful Resignation Letter by UN’s Rima Khalaf about Removal of Israel Apartheid Report
If Americans Knew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
The following is the resignation letter by ESWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf in response to the formal request by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that ESCWA withdraw the publication of a scholarly report (below) that found Israel guilty of apartheid.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Mar 27-Apr 2 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Gratitude makes our sense of past, brings peace for today, creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie
→ read full articleThe Promise of a Million Utopias
Michael Shuman | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Here is a fun question guaranteed to stump your friends, family, and party guests: Can you name the leader of Switzerland? Trust me—no one ever knows the answer. And the reason is simple. It hardly matters. Switzerland is arguably the most decentralized nation in the world. Each of its twenty-six states, called cantons, retains a high degree of autonomy for governing its own affairs, including the official language spoken.
→ read full article(Italiano) En attendant Adelmo(t). Lunedì 27 marzo 2017 all’Espace Populaire di Aosta
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Storie, sezione new entry di Collettivamente Memoria 2017, è nato come un autoregalo e una festa, insieme. Per festeggiare la decima edizione di un progetto culturale autoprodotto, autogestito e autofinanziato di azione nonviolenta.
→ read full articleThe True Legacy of David Rockefeller
MintPress News Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
No one person encapsulates the enduring legacy of the “robber barons” of the Industrial Age quite like David Rockefeller, who died today [21 Mar] at the age of 101. While often remembered for his philanthropy, the last surviving grandson of America’s first billionaire leaves behind a dark legacy indicative of how American nobility often shape policy from behind the scenes.
→ read full articleFrom Democracy to Fascism!
James ‘Jim’ Albertini | Malu‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Measure the path from Democracy to Despotism/Fascism yourself. The gap between rich and poor has widened dramatically. Banks “too big to fail” have grown bigger. Power, wealth, and media are concentrated in the hands of a few. The democratic term “consent of the governed” is mere window dressing. We all need to look at our communities and nation and see how we fare on the scales of respect for one another, concentration of power, economic distribution, and access to information. Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini said: “Fascism is when the corporations and the State become one.”
→ read full articleWhat Did the UN Apartheid Report Expose in Reality?
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
27 Mar 2017
As Israel moves towards confronting apartheid, the questions raised by the report will become impossible to avoid.
→ read full articleThe Mosque That Disappeared
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
22 Mar 2017 – We committed a quiet little war crime the other day. Forty-plus people are dead, taken out with Hellfire missiles while they were praying. Or maybe not. Maybe they were just insurgents. The women and children, if there were any, were . . . come on, you know the lingo, collateral damage. The Pentagon is going to “look into” allegations that what happened last March 16 in Syria was something more serious than a terrorist takeout operation, which, if you read the official commentary, seems like the geopolitical equivalent of rodent control.
→ read full articleCordless Leash
TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Bells ringing all over the place…
→ read full articleSouth Sudan, Haiti and Ukraine Lead World in Suffering
Linda Lyons | Gallup – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
• 47% in South Sudan rate their lives poorly enough to be suffering
• Poverty, natural disasters prolong pain in Haiti, where 43% suffering
• 41% suffering in Ukraine is highest in Europe
The Politics of Water Insecurity
Majed Akhter – Al Jazeera,
27 Mar 2017
This 22 March 2017, World Water Day, we focus attention on global issues of water access. The statistics are not comforting. The poorest ninth of us – about 800 million people – do not have reliable access to clean drinking water. To achieve universal water security, we need to let politics and culture drive water planning as much as economy does.
→ read full articleMainstreaming South-South Cooperation in the UN System
Ramesh Jaura | IDN – Other News,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – How is the UN Office for South Cooperation, as the global and United Nations system-wide focal point for South-South cooperation, engaging in advocacy, policy development, knowledge sharing and innovative programmatic activities? Interview with Jorge Chediek, Director of the UNOSSC.
→ read full articleThe U.N. Has Agreed to Investigate Myanmar’s Alleged Abuse of Rohingya
Feliz Solomon – Time,
27 Mar 2017
The U.N. Human Rights Council agreed Friday [24 Mar 2017] to create an international fact-finding mission into alleged rights violations in Myanmar, particularly against the country’s Rohingya Muslims, a stateless minority that has suffered decades of persecution in the western state of Rakhine.
→ read full articleMeet the Militant Monk Spreading Islamophobia in India
Nilanjana Bhowmick – The Washington Post,
27 Mar 2017
On Monday [20 Mar], Amnesty International released an unusual statement asking the new chief minister of India’s largest state to publicly retract his anti-Muslim statements. Amnesty’s statement came after hard-line Hindu monk Yogi Adityanath took power last week in Uttar Pradesh, a state with a population of 200 million. (For reference, Brazil’s population is 200.4 million).
→ read full articleThe Most Expensive Weapon Ever Built
Daniel Soar | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
The US is expected to have spent $1.5 trillion designing, building and maintaining 2500 F-35s for its own use: enough to forgive the entire nation’s student debts, or pay for the healthcare of every low-income American family for the next three years, or build a border wall that encircles the Earth four times.
→ read full articleNOW Can We Admit the War On Terror Has Failed?
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
22 Mar 2017 – In the wake of the terror attacks in England, France, Germany and elsewhere, can we finally admit that the war on terror is an utter and complete failure? 10 Ways to Reduce Terrorism:
→ read full articleSnow, Death, and the Bewildered Herd
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Wherever you go these days, you sense a generalized panic and an inability to slow down and focus. Depression, anxiety, hopelessness fill the air. Most people sense that something is seriously wrong, but don’t know exactly what. So they rage and rant and scurry along in a frenzy. It seems so huge, so everything, so indescribable. Minds like pointilliste canvases with thousands of data dots and no connections.
→ read full articleSenate Republicans Just Sold You Out to Advertisers
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – In a 50-to-48 vote the U.S. Senate decided to kill FCC rules blocking your ISP from selling your browsing history to the advertising industry without permission. The likes of Comcast and Verizon will be able to make money disclosing what you buy, where you browse, and what you search from your own home.
→ read full articleLynne Stewart, Our Lady Mandela
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Author’s note: An earlier version of this poem appeared at various websites in December, 2013. Some notes on Lynne Stewart below….
→ read full articleGandhi’s Strategy for Success — Use More Than One Strategy
Mark Engler and Paul Engler | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
How creating a healthy “ecology of change,” as Gandhi did in India, can help propel social movements.
→ read full articleApartheid Israel
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
In its conclusion, the Falk-Tilley report establishes, “on the basis of scholarly inquiry and overwhelming evidence that Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid.” It then proposes that an international tribunal examine the report and make an assessment that will be truly authoritative. If such an authoritative assessment concurs with the finding of the report, the UN and its agencies, regional outfits and national governments should act.
→ read full articleViktor Frankl (26 Mar 1905 – 2 Sep 1997): An Inner Drive to Find a Meaning for Life
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Viktor Frankl was a leading psychotherapist in the humanistic psychotherapy school. On being released from Auschwitz death camp, he wrote in a burst of energy in nine days what became ‘Man’s Search for Meaning,’ since often translated. He remains as one who stressed the inner push to find a meaning of life and a spiritual core expressed by the voice of conscience.
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Vincent – Starry Starry Night (Music Video of the Week)
Don McLean – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
The video depicts a slide-show of van Gogh’s work set to the song. It is an art lesson for the patients of the Mississippi State Hospital compiled by artist Anthony DiFatta who also suffers from mental illness. With this beautiful song, Don McLean pays a tribute to the marvel and wonder Vincent [born 30 Mar 1853] left behind, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color – a contradiction to his troubled existence.
→ read full articleWar Correspondents Describe Recent U.S. Airstrikes in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen
Malak Habbak – The Intercept,
27 Mar 2017
22 Mar 2017 – Sentiment in Washington may not reflect that the U.S. is at war, but two war correspondents described the astonishing extent and toll of recent U.S. military strikes in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
→ read full articleWhere We Drill, We Spill: Commemorating Exxon Valdez
Franz Matzner | EcoWatch, Natural Resources Defense Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
24 Mar 2017 – Twenty eight years ago today the world experienced a massive wake-up call on the hazards and harms of oil spills when the Exxon Valdez oil tanker split open and poured oil into Alaskan waters. At the time, images of oil coated wildlife and a devastated ecosystem in one of the world’s most delicate, iconic and majestic environments drew global attention. Today, oil still lurks under the surface of Prince William Sound, impairing wildlife and human lives.
→ read full articleUN Official Says ‘Crimes against Humanity’ Could Be Unfolding in Myanmar
James Griffiths and Kristie Lu Stout - CNN,
27 Mar 2017
• Thousands have fled northern Myanmar in recent months
• The military launched a crackdown in Rakhine State after October attacks by militants
(Português) Sobre críticas equivocadas em relação ao veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Se você diz que já foi vegano e hoje se alimenta de produtos de origem animal, não nego que acho isso muito estranho, levando em conta que a maior parte dos veganos que conheço seriam incapazes de consumir carne novamente, por entenderem que se trata do cadáver de um animal que foi privado de existir à sua maneira. Tenho o claro entendimento de que um animal não existe para ser fatiado e colocado em meu prato.
→ read full articleGenocide 1971: Bangladeshi Government Moves to Get UN Recognition
Inam Ahmed and Shakhawat Liton – The Daily Star [Bangladesh],
27 Mar 2017
The world hardly paid heed to the ruthless killings going on in Bangladesh in those long nine months. The tales of the macabre were told and retold by countless many here. And yet, the world did not have time to listen. Forty-six years after the bloodbath that hardly left any family untouched, Bangladesh has finally taken initiatives to get recognition of the Pakistan army led genocide by the UN.
→ read full articleConflict: Causes, Impacts and Post-Conflict Reconciliation in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota and Navin Pandey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
In a country comprising more than one hundred ethic groups with entwining cast and creeds and similarly large number of minorities, a diversity so unique in richness but equally difficult to manage, there still persist various types of conflict in different intersections. These minor conflicts and wants hinder the peace process and overall development of the country.
→ read full articleReports Expose Widespread Use of Child Labor in the Congo
Eddie Haywood | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Sky News aired an investigative report centered on the utilization of child labor in cobalt mines. A child named Dorsen, aged 8, told he does not make enough money to buy food, and had not eaten in two days, despite toiling for 12 hours per day. His friend Richard, aged 11, said how sore he got from the intense physical labor he was forced to undertake in the mine.
→ read full articleResponding to US Budget Cuts for United Nations
Kul Chandra Gautam – Inter Press Service-IPS,
27 Mar 2017
20 Mar 2017 – Donald Trump’s budget proposing a drastic reduction in US funding for the UN has caused much alarm and anxiety. But instead of lamenting and pleading for restitution of proposed cuts, friends of UN should welcome it as a strong incentive for seriously reducing the UN’s over dependence and vulnerability to blackmail by US and occasionally by some other donors.
→ read full articleAtom, Archetype, and the Invention of Synchronicity: How Iconic Psychiatrist Carl Jung and Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli Bridged Mind and Matter
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Two of humanity’s greatest minds explore the parallels between spacetime and the psyche, the atomic nucleus and the self.
→ read full articleMonsanto Helped Write Cancer Studies on Roundup, Emails Indicate
Allen Cone | UPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
In company emails made public Tuesday [14 Mar] in federal court in San Francisco, Monsanto executives discuss ghostwriting research papers on Roundup, the company’s best-selling product, that would be signed by scientists. Two papers were eventually published, one in 2000 and one in 2013.
→ read full articleThe Israeli National Riddle
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
It’s a national riddle. The whole country is absorbed by it. The Prime Minister announces that he will “go to the very end” to achieve his end. Which end? I don’t know. I am not sure that he knows. Nobody I know knows. He threatens the worst. If he does not get his way – whatever it is – he will do something absolutely awful: announce new elections. Let the people decide whether they want the authority or the corporation. Whatever they are.
→ read full articleMemory, Fire and Hope: Five Lessons from Standing Rock
Alnoor Ladha |The Rules – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Standing Rock may have been evicted but the movement hasn’t lost. Here are five lessons activists around the world can learn from the water protectors.
→ read full articleIndia’s Village Women Glide the Development Landscape
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
27 Mar 2017 – Gender inequality is not only a pressing moral and social issue but also a critical economic challenge. India has a larger relative economic value at stake from advancing gender equality than any of the ten regions analyzed in a McKinsey Global Institute report, The Power of Parity: How Advancing Women’s Equality Can add $12 Trillion To Global Growth.
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Noam Chomsky – The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Listening Post | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy. Narrated by Amy Goodman, Executive Producer of Democracy Now! Mar 2, 2017
→ read full articleThe Road Not Taken
Robert Frost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
International Academy Global Noospheral Peace (AGNP): Regional Offices Institutionalization Project
Leo Semashko, Timi Ecimovic, Rudolf Siebert, Subhash Chandra, Ramesh Kumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
To the Global Harmony Association (GHA) for 12 years of work it became obvious that the way to achieve real global peace can be only on the basis of appropriate science and appropriate general education in the mainstream of this science. The traditional path of pacifism and its separate, even very mass actions, with all its private achievements, is not capable to ensure global peace and excluding wars from the life of society, as proved by its unsuccessful history of the last century, beginning since 1900.
→ read full articleNo Water, No Life – Don’t Waste It!
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
27 Mar 2017
This story is part of IPS coverage of World Water Day, observed on March 22. “Water is finite. It has to serve the need of more and more people and we only have one ecosystem from which to draw our water,” says the UN-Water’s Chair Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization.
→ read full articlePeace Accords or Political Surrender? Latin America, the Middle East and Ukraine
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Time and again throughout the world, imperial-brokered peace negotiations and accords have served only one goal: to disarm, demobilize, defeat and demoralize resistance fighters and their allies.
→ read full articleA Better Mousetrap?
David Krieger | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – Albert Einstein noted, “Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.” We humans have created the equivalent of a mousetrap for ourselves. And we’ve constructed tens of thousands of them over the seven decades of the Nuclear Age.
→ read full articleZen of Facticity: Bull, Ox or Otherwise?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Herding Facts and Their Alternatives in a Post-Truth-Era – In a period in which the very nature of facts has been called into question — challenged as they are by alternative facts — there is a case for exploring this condition by every means possible.
→ read full articleViolence against Women: Positive Peace
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
And as to monuments: please, not the man on horseback, wielding death, but to women giving birth to a new life. The basic point is to open the male mind to a “we together” for better marriages, also to change their “us vs them” mentality. Better than treating women as maids-prostitutes paid in “security” currency for doing the dishes, washing, caring for babies, children, the sick and the old together, and sharing their gratitude.
→ read full articleThe Futility of Secrets in the Age of Technology
Andrew Mitrovica – Al Jazeera,
27 Mar 2017
The latest CIA leak proves that state actors no longer get to decide who can be privy to information stamped ‘secret’.
→ read full articleNATO Logic: British Troops in Estonia, Good. Russian Soldiers in Russia, Bad
Bryan MacDonald – Russia Today,
27 Mar 2017
20 Mar 2017 – Supporters of NATO believe American, British and German soldiers being sent to Russia’s borders is “defensive.” But the Kremlin’s counter moves are aggressive. This delusion could be dangerous.
→ read full articleHare Krishna Community Sues DAPL Company to Protect Sacred Lands from Rover Pipeline
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, is facing a familiar legal battle over its proposed Rover Pipeline. A Hare Krishna community in West Virginia is challenging the project on religious grounds, saying that the pipeline’s planned route could cut through sacred lands.
→ read full articleMaking Solar Big Enough to Matter
Jeffrey Ball and Dan Reichermarch – The New York Times,
27 Mar 2017
China’s solar industry is expanding in ways that make it imperative for the United States to up its game.
→ read full articlePalestinians Sceptical about Banksy’s Irony
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Banksy hotel opens in Bethlehem, eliciting heated reactions by Palestinians. Adjacent to the graffiti-stained separation wall surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements and next door to the Aida refugee camp, elusive UK artist Banksy now welcomes guests to his latest project: the Walled Off Hotel.
→ read full articleReality and the U.S.-Made Famine in Yemen
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
At this critical juncture, all member states of the UN must call for an end to the blockade and airstrikes, a silencing of all guns, and a negotiated settlement to the war in Yemen. The worst malefactors, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, must abandon cynical maneuvering against rivals like Iran, in the face of such an unspeakable human cost as Yemen is being made to pay. U.S. people bear responsibility to demand a radical departure from U.S. policy which exacerbates the deadly tragedy faced by people living in Yemen.
→ read full articleAFRICOM Spearheads Escalation of US “Scramble for Africa”
Eddie Haywood | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
16 Mar 2017 – The chief of the US African Command, General Thomas Waldhauser, warned last week in an annual report to Congress that resource constraints on his forces are threatening to undermine Washington’s influence over Africa… For the African masses, already ravaged by war, poverty, and disease—intolerable social ills that are themselves the malodorous by-product of capitalism—the plans of US imperialism to escalate military intervention on the continent pose a grave new threat.
→ read full articleUN Sponsored Report on Israel’s Responsibility for Apartheid in Relation to the Palestinian People
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
19 Mar 2017 – Below is the text of a report co-authored by Virginia Tilley and myself, commissioned by the UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) that examines the argument for regarding Israel as an ‘apartheid state’ with respect to the whole of the Palestinian people, that is, not only those Palestinians living under occupation, but also those living as residents of Jerusalem, those living as a minority in Israel, and those enduring refugee camps and involuntary exile.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Anno del Karma” e conflitti in corso
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Conferenza d’inverno, Inland University, Rena, Norvegia, 16 Feb 2017 – Un Mondo Instabile: Analisi, Previsioni, Soluzioni
→ read full articleSenior U.N. Official Quits after ‘Apartheid’ Israel Report Pulled
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
17 Mar 2017 – United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary for the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Rima Khalaf, announced her resignation at a news conference in Beirut after U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked for the report to be taken off the ESCWA website.
→ read full articleFacing Famine, 20 Million People Need Food, Not Bombs
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
20 Mar 2017
16 Mar 2017 – The world is facing the most serious humanitarian catastrophe since the end of World War II. Twenty million people are at risk of starving to death in Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria and South Sudan. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is responding by slamming the door on refugees and cutting aid funding while proposing a massive expansion of the U.S. military.
→ read full articleBrazil: Temer Hikes Military Budget After Axing Social Spending
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Brazilian President Michel Temer has hiked the country’s military budget by 36 percent, local media reported Monday [13 Mar], just months after he pushed the approval of a controversial constitutional amendment to freeze public spending in the country for the next two decades. The move will hike military spending back up above education funding after Dilma Rousseff’s government pared back the defense budget.
→ read full articleUN Launches Report on Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid
UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
15 Mar 2017 – UN Under-Secretary-General Rima Khalaf noted that Israel, encouraged by the international community’s disregard for its continual violations of international law, has succeeded over the past decades in imposing and maintaining an apartheid regime that works on two levels. First, the political and geographic fragmentation of the Palestinian people…
→ read full article(Italiano) Una teoria strutturale sull’invecchiamento
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Wikipedia ha molto da offrire alla voce “invecchiamento”. Si raccomandano molto i 10 punti dell’uomo più vecchio al mondo, al momento del decesso avvenuto nel 2011, il 114enne Walter Breuning . Comunque i più anziani, come me che ho 86 anni, conoscono al meglio il proprio processo d’invecchiamento. Regola n. 1: Mantieni attivi mente e corpo; conserva una buona alimentazione.
→ read full article(Castellano) Estado y Ciudadanía: el rol de la educación en DDHH para su construcción cultural y política
Howard Richards y Alicia Cabezudo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Adelantamos la tesis de que hay una oportunidad prometedora y desafiante que tenemos los profesores para cambiar en sentido positivo el rumbo de la historia. Es una oportunidad también peligrosa. Cuando usamos la frase “rumbo de la historia” tenemos en mente la diferencia entre, por una parte, los innumerables sucesos que pasan; y, por otra, aquellos sucesos, o constelaciones de sucesos, que cambian de una manera fundamental la forma de vida de un pueblo, o de unos pueblos.
→ read full articleWhy Do Some Men Rape?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Given the overwhelming evidence that violence is rampant in our world and that the violence of the legal system simply contributes to and reinforces this cycle of violence, it seems patently obvious that we would be better off identifying the cause of violence and then designing approaches to address this cause and its many symptoms effectively. And reallocating resources away from the legal and prison systems in support of approaches that actually work.
→ read full article(Português) Será Possível Proibir as Armas Nucleares?
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Pela primeira vez desde a fundação da ONU a maioria da comunidade internacional parece estar pronta a dar um passo ousado e fundamental para a abolição do armamento nuclear. A Conferência negociadora se realizará em Nova York de 27 a 31 de março e de 15 de junho a 7 de julho de 2017, e estará aberta a todos os Estados, organizações internacionais e representantes da sociedade civil.
→ read full articleInterview with TRANSCEND Member John Scales Avery, One of the Greatest Living Intellectuals on Earth
Binu Mathew | CounterCurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
John Avery is not just an academician and scientist. He is also an active peace activist who campaigns vigorously against nuclear proliferation. Since 1990 he has been the Contact Person in Denmark for Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, which received the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the Member of the Danish Peace Commission of 1998 and Chairman of the Danish Peace Academy.
→ read full articleHonoring Rachel Corrie
International Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Today, March 16, 2017, marks 14 years since the day that Rachel Corrie had her life taken by an Israeli Caterpillar bulldozer in Gaza. And though her life ended early, her courageous heart and defiant spirit will be carried onward, and continue to inspire many activists now and into the future.
→ read full article(Português) A atualidade de Rosa Luxemburgo, uma economista política
Michael Krätke | SinPermiso, Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Rosa Luxemburgo foi uma grande oradora, uma célebre e temida polemista, foi economista e uma das grandes intelectuais do marxismo. Intervinha com discursos e discussões nas campanhas políticas do movimento social-democrata e foi uma jornalista tão famosa quanto formidável. A alternativa de Rosa Luxemburgo: Socialismo democrático e democracia econômica.
→ read full articleStatement by Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
I want to end this statement by emphasizing that I have absolutely no reason whatsoever to present a biased, one-sided report. However, I have every reason to present the situation to reflect the reality, even if some may not like what I have to say. I believe this Council expects me to do exactly that by entrusting me with this mandate.
→ read full articleCould Robots Be More Deadly Than Humans?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
The possible wider use of drones or other robotic military material such as autonomous tanks and trucks are being worked on by governments, often with the cooperation of private industry. The possibility of an “arms race” among technologically-advanced States such as the USA, Russia, China, South Korea and Israel is real, especially at a time when mutual trust is in short supply.
→ read full articleWhy the UN Branded Israel an Apartheid State
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
17Mar 2017 – A shouting match has been provoked this week by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, which issued a report this week concluding definitively that Israel is guilty of Apartheid practices toward the Palestinians. The report is careful to say that it is not using the term merely as a pejorative but is rather appealing to a body of international law with precise definitions.
→ read full articleHow to Tackle the Challenges Posed by Electronic Waste
Eric Williams – Al Jazeera,
20 Mar 2017
18 Mar 2017 – Electronic waste, or e-waste, refers to computers, mobile phones and other devices after users have thrown them away. We want to have a creative mind, a critical eye, and a helping hand if we are to find solutions.
→ read full articleClimate Change and Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota and Navin Pandey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
The outside world should learn from the progress made by Nepal in sector of forest conservation and use of clean energy in combating the climate change. Although Nepal being a small agrarian country contributing 0.016% of global Greenhouse gas emissions, the initiatives taken in such seriousness are reflective of our unfathomable love for nature and mother earth.
→ read full articleKofi Annan Interim Report on Myanmar’s Rakhine State
Kofi Annan, Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
16 Mar 2017 – Our recommendations, of course, go beyond the current situation in Northern Rakhine and include proposals relating to: the protection of rights, freedom of movement, enhanced economic and social development and the edification of Rakhine’s cultural heritage.
→ read full articleIt Is All for the Best: A Lesson in Optimism
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
A king went hunting with his adviser but lost his thumb in an unfortunate accident. His adviser told him, “It is all for the best.” The king was furious, and as soon as they arrived at the palace he put his adviser in jail.
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