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Quantum Computers Compete for “Supremacy”
Neil Savage | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
5 Jul 2017 – Two technologies may be on the verge of surpassing even the most powerful digital computers in a year or so, but key challenges remain unsolved.
→ read full articleRex Tugwell (10 Jul 1891 – 21 Jul 1979): Planning and Action for Rural Reconstruction
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
As world-wide climate change has made the issues of land use, water, desertification, and land reform vital issues, it is useful to recall the contributions of Rexford Tugwell, an economist and advocate of government planning… When as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, I met Tugwell; he had largely left the field of economic planning to write about political leadership, especially the style and experiences of Franklin Roosevelt.
→ read full articleConcept and Definition of Civil Society Sustainability
Charles Kojo VanDyck | Center for Strategic and International Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – The global civil society ecosystem can be characterized as a complex and interconnected network of individuals and groups drawn from rich histories of associational relationships and interactions. Globally, the concept of civil society has evolved from these associational platforms to comprise a wide range of organized and organic groups of different forms, sizes, and functions. There have been significant changes over time in the civil society landscape.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Jul 10-16, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
→ read full article“Modern” Business Owns You
Johan Galtung and Malvin Gattinger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
The housing market used to be a way for people to organize themselves and share costs and risks. Now in bigger cities it seems to be mainly about selling people to housing corporations. The online markets used to be extensions of “real” ones, selling goods and services. Now the central market is ‘attention,’ essentially selling people to advertisement companies.
→ read full articleAgain in the World Walks Whirlwind
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Again in the world walks whirlwind,
Withstand the frames of the ship?
Whether the Day of Judgment is waiting for us soon,
UN Conference Adopts Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
7 Jul 2017 – The treaty – adopted by a vote of 122 in favour to one against (Netherlands), with one abstention (Singapore) – prohibits a full range of nuclear-weapon-related activities, such as undertaking to develop, test, produce, manufacture, acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, as well as the use or threat of use of these weapons.
→ read full articleWe’ve Got a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
Ray Acheson | Reaching Critical Will – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
4 July 2017 – There are many ways to ban nuclear weapons. The draft text that the President of the conference released on Monday [3 Jul] evening is one of them. And it’s a good one. It is a categorical prohibition of nuclear weapons that also provides a framework for their elimination.
→ read full articleSonification of Twitter Leadership at the G20
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
8 Jul 2017 – A Surprising Musical Opportunity for Donald Trump to Sound a New Note – Written on the occasion of the G20 Summit (Hamburg, July 2017).
→ read full articleEyeless in Gaza
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
8 Jul 2017 – I have a unique confession to make: I like Gaza. Yes, I like this far-away corner of Palestine, the narrow strip on the way to Egypt, in which two million human beings are crowded, and which is closer to hell than to heaven. My heart goes out to them.
→ read full articleWhat Is Fasting? A Guide to the Different Types of Fasts
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
A fast is a voluntary practice in which people go for extended or structured periods without eating and drinking for spiritual, medical, or weight loss reasons. Others fast to protest or raise awareness for causes. Fasting is not starvation. For those who fast for health reasons, fasting is just a more structured way of eating. Some people may find fasting challenging, but there are many types of fasting regimens and protocols from which to choose.
→ read full article(Português) O Homem e o Urubu
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
4 julho 2017 – Um humano ficou enojado quando viu um urubu comendo carniça na beira da estrada. Se aproximou e tentou bater no animal com um galho caído sobre o asfalto quente.
→ read full articleMarwan Barghouti and the Battle of the Empty Stomachs
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Often described as the Palestinians’ Nelson Mandela, Barghouti led the recent prisoners’ hunger strike. Paradoxically, his incarceration has served only to make him more visible, a Palestinian national icon. And now he is said to be developing a new model of resistance, to replace the failed strategies of Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas.
→ read full article(Português) Galgos Explorados em Corridas São Forçados a Usar Cocaína
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Um adestrador de galgos foi suspenso após testes revelarem que 12 cães explorados por ele tinham cocaína em seus corpos. “Este é o maior caso de drogas em galgos na história americana. É assustador”.
→ read full articleTrial and Terror
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The U.S. government has prosecuted 805 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never even got close to committing an act of violence.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (3) Thomas Paine
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Thomas Paine, defender of democracy, defender of human rights, defender of ordinary citizens against the tyranny of oligarchies, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleVault 7: Elsa
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Today, June 28th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the ELSA project of the CIA. ELSA is a geo-location malware for WiFi-enabled devices like laptops running the Micorosoft Windows operating system. Once persistently installed on a target machine using separate CIA exploits, the malware scans visible WiFi access points and records the ESS identifier, MAC address and signal strength at regular intervals.
→ read full articleThe Whore Named War
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The Whore named War
lassoed the President,
let him lay
in lascivious arms;
(Italiano) Povertà rurale? Cooperative!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Lo scopo primario delle cooperative rurali è garantire il sostentamento degli associati condividendo i rischi, e i proventi. Ne sono membri sia agricoltori sia lavoranti con capacità di assumersi rischi e di condivisione. Possono aderire poveri o disoccupati urbani, quanto meno ottenendo cibo in cambio di lavoro.
→ read full articleUN Under Siege: Geopolitics in the Time of Trump
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
1 Jul 2017 – Why the Peoples of the World Need the UN: Multilateralism, International Law, Human Rights, and Ecological Sustainability – This post is a modified and enlarged version of a talk I gave in Geneva a week ago. The audience was a blend of students of all ages from around the world, with almost none from Europe and North America, and several NGO representatives with lots of UN experience.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il genere umano nel 2050 – Un ambiente per sviluppare la pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Il 2050 è soltanto 33 anni avanti; 33 anni indietro sta il 1984 di Orwell. Sono successe tante cose. Il muro di Berlino è caduto nel 1989; hanno fatto seguito l’Impero Sovietico, l’Unione Sovietica e il Comunismo. L’Impero Usa è decaduto, vecchi clienti si sono rifiutati di combattere le guerre degli Stati Uniti ma non quelle dell’Unione Europea, incrinando la NATO.
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What do These Videos Have in Common—Or, What Is the Difference?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
‘Join the National Rifle Association’
‘USA in the Eyes of North Korean TV’
You be the judge.
‘The Hotel Tacloban:’ A Poetic Masterpiece of War and Redemption
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Part ventriloquistic non-fiction memoir, part history, part murder mystery, part war story, part confessional – wholly beyond categorization, really – The Hotel Tacloban is a mesmerizing read that will leave you stunned and shaken, but also awe-struck by the courage and depravity to which humans can rise and fall. So gripping is the story that I find it shocking that it hasn’t yet been made into a movie. Don’t miss it.
→ read full articleBarclays PLC Charged with Fraud by UK Serious Fraud Office
Jean Shaoul | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
1 Jul 2017 – The UK has charged Barclays with conspiracy to commit fraud and the provision of unlawful financial assistance. But it has nothing to do with the criminal and reckless banking behaviour that precipitated the 2008 crash—their lending practices, the selling of worthless mortgage-backed securities, false valuation and rating of debt instruments, abuse of loan foreclosure procedures, misrepresenting their financial position or any other financial skulduggery.
→ read full articleThe Bizarre Case of Bashar
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
1 Jul 2017 – I am a professional investigative journalist. For 40 years of my life I was the editor-in-chief of an investigative weekly magazine, which exposed nearly all of Israel’s major scandals during those years. I have never lost a major libel suit, indeed I have rarely been sued at all. I am mentioning this not to boast, but to lend some authority to what I am going to say. It concerns the evil deeds of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator, who bombed his own people with Sarin, a nerve gas, causing gruesome deaths of the victims.
→ read full articleOn The Mainstream Media Coverage of Nuclear War Risks and Nuclear Abolition
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – Ask yourself whether you remember to have seen one or more of these essentially important initiatives and reports recently, all pertaining to nuclear weapons, the risk of nuclear war and advocacy of nuclear abolition.
→ read full articleVault 7: OutlawCountry
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Today, June 29th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the OutlawCountry project of the CIA that targets computers running the Linux operating system. It allows for the redirection of all outbound network traffic on the target computer to CIA controlled machines for ex- and infiltration purposes. The malware consists of a kernel module that creates a hidden netfilter table on a Linux target.
→ read full article(Castellano) El porqué de la violencia en el ser humano y en la sociedad
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
20 Jun 2017 – Vivimos a nivel nacional y mundial situaciones de violencia que desafían nuestro entendimiento. No solo de seres humanos contra otros seres humanos, especialmente en el Norte de África, en Sudán y en Oriente Medio, sino también contra la naturaleza y la Madre Tierra.
→ read full articleThe Elephant in the Sky: Chemtrails, Contrails and Climate Engineering
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The Elephant in the Room: An important, serious and obvious topic, which everyone is aware of, but which nobody wants to discuss, as such discussion is considered to be uncomfortable – or would cause cognitive dissonance (the psychological distress felt when a person is presented with a truth that contradicts a previously deeply held belief).
→ read full articleA Comparative Study of World’s Truth Commissions: From Madness to Hope
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The objective of this paper is to explore the initiatives and practices of different countries in truth seeking. Many countries during the post-conflict, colonial, slavery, anarchical and cultural genocide periods establish the Truth Commissions to respond to the past human wrongdoings: crimes and crimes against humanity. Enforced disappearances, killings, rapes and inhumane tortures are wrongdoings.
→ read full articleCardinal Bo Takes Aim at Minority Abuses in Eid Message
Union of Catholic Asian News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Prelate reiterates call for probe against persecution of minorities, especially Rohingya Muslims.
→ read full articlePeople Choosing Peace: Chen (Israel)
Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
One night we had to meet an agent from the security forces in order to find a wanted terrorist. My men surrounded a house and as we entered with our flashlights. People were sleeping on mattresses all over the floor. Then the agent woke someone up and dragged him to the jeep. It was a 10-year-old child. “How can this be the ‘wanted terrorist’?” I asked myself.
→ read full articlePeaceful Societies – Where Are They?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
There are many of them–of different kinds–in world geography. We can try to identify the characteristics of their peacefulness. Or we can start by identifying belligerent societies and then see peaceful societies as their negations. Let us try this one first.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace Science Agenda 2017: New Dialogue for the G20 and UN
Subhash Chandra and Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The Main Objective of the New Agenda Is to Initiate a New Discourse on Global Peace in Scientific and Humanistic Harmonious Vision in Our Century
→ read full articleTo Counter Global Warming in USA
Cafe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Efficient Tactic
→ read full articleRemove My Clip from GMO Propaganda Film
Marion Nestle | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
21 Jun 2017 – I have asked repeatedly to have my short interview clip removed from this film. In my 10-second clip, I say that I am unaware of convincing evidence that eating GM foods is unsafe—this is what I said, but it is hugely out of context.
→ read full articleFranz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
→ read full article(Français) ONG : dépolitisation de la résistance au néolibéralisme ?
Julie Godin | CETRI-Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Si l’« ONGisation », à savoir l’instauration de la configuration ONG comme vecteur privilégié de l’action collective pour le développement, interpelle, les facteurs de dépolitisation des discours et des pratiques de ces acteurs non gouvernementaux préoccupent. La conscience des risques d’instrumentalisation, de managérialisation, d’occidentalisation, de substitution… aide à les éviter et partant, à repolitiser les résistances au modèle dominant.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Jul 3-9, 2017~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Always choose to heal not to hurt, to forgive not to despise, to persevere not to quit, to smile not to frown, and to love not to hate! At the end of life, what really matters is not what we bought, but what we built, not what we got, but what we shared, not our competence but our character, and not our success but our significance. Live a life that matters. Live a life that cares…” – Ritu Ghatourey
→ read full articleLawyers’ Statement at the UN Nuclear Ban Negotiations
Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms | Abolition 2000 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
23 Jun 2017 – Yesterday at the United Nations, the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) released a Lawyers’ letter on the abolition of nuclear weapons in conjunction with UN negotiations on a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons. The letter has been endorsed by over 400 lawyers, law professors, attorneys, judges, law students and other legal professionals.
→ read full articleHermann Hesse (2 Jul 1877 – 9 Aug 1962): Revolt and Enlightenment
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Rebellion against established structures, the quest for personal values and a religious impulse are all elements in Siddhartha, published in 1922, perhaps his most widely-read book. It is not clear that Hesse found the harmony of enlightenment in his own life. In his last major work The Glass Bead Game (1943) he describes what might be an ideal Buddhist monastery devoted to the discovery, preservation and dissemination of knowledge.
→ read full articleThree CNN Journalists Resign amid False Anti-Russia Reporting Controversy
Evan Blake | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
28 Jun 2017 – Three CNN journalists resigned Monday [26 Jun] after the outlet retracted an article published on 22 Jun containing false allegations of connections between Donald Trump and Russia. It was written by Thomas Frank and edited by Pulitzer-Prize reporter Eric Lichtblau. Lex Harris, the executive editor overseeing the investigative unit, resigned alongside Frank and Lichtblau.
→ read full articleWomen in Islam: Beyond Stereotypes
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Too much of the thinking about Muslim women is done along predictable, clichéd lines. This is true of all shades of opinion, perception and scholarship .This opinion profiles Muslim women in stubborn stereotypes: supposedly powerless and oppressed, behind walls and veils, demure, voiceless and silent figures, discriminated and bereft of even basic rights.
→ read full articleReviving Old Memories for Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
One does not forget the painful old memories; but by doing some good to the people whether as a community or by individual efforts–however small they may appear to be–will usually generate a sense of fulfillment and usher in Peace and Harmony.
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Vamos Vamos (Music Video of the Week)
Sistema Sonidero – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Live Version of Vamos Vamos from our concert in Berlin at the Yo Soy la Cumbia Party. Enjoy the Music.
→ read full articleCity of Broken Dreams
Barbara Millar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Shadows of wings fall on the streets of Aleppo.
A shower of metal explode in brains, shred arms and legs.
(Français) Terrorisme, la face cachée de la mondialisation
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
2 Jul 2017 – Faut-il s’habituer au terrorisme devenu partie intégrante de notre quotidien ? Ou bien analyser intelligemment ses causes pour le contrer ? Ancien rédacteur en chef à Radio France Internationale et aujourd’hui directeur du site spécialisé prochetmoyen-orient.ch, l’écrivain et journaliste franco-suisse Richard Labévière a publié Terrorisme, la face cachée de la mondialisation, un ouvrage remarquable qui dresse le bilan de quinze ans de « guerre contre la terreur » et apporte des clés d’analyse sur un phénomène complexe et de plus en plus répandu dans nos sociétés.
→ read full articleWe Were Born to Give Light
Lara Ayvazyan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
We were born to give light,
The energy of good and happiness,
It is a pity that not everyone is in a hurry to live like this
And they do not want to reach agreement.
US State Department’s Lie about Child Soldiers
Jo Becker | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
27 Jun 2017 – Dozens of children were part of Burma’s armed forces as recently as last week. In Iraq, children have died fighting the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) with Iraqi government military units. But United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ignored these facts and took Burma and Iraq off the annual list, issued today, that identifies countries that use child soldiers or support militias that do.
→ read full article(Português) Tom Regan: “Não há justificativa para causarmos dor aos animais”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
30 jun 2017 – Falecido em 17 de fevereiro de 2017, Tom Regan foi um importante filósofo da teoria dos direitos animais. Professor de filosofia da Universidade Estadual da Carolina do Norte, onde lecionou por 34 anos, conquistou prestígio internacional por sua produção prolífica voltada ao abolicionismo animal. Em 2006, Regan teve o seu livro “Empty Cages”, ou “Jaulas Vazias”, publicado no Brasil.
→ read full articleWashington’s New Threat against Syria, Russia and Iran: Invitation to False Flag Operation
Farhang Jahanpour | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
29 Jun 2017 – The world is poised at a very critical juncture. The events in Syria could either lead to the restoration of stability in that war-torn country whose people have gone through unimaginable hardships, or it can pave the way for a global confrontation the outcome of which is too frightening to contemplate.
→ read full articleFrom Outer Space, Three Guideposts for the Resistance
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Beware Trump’s fearmongering, blind loyalists, and divide-and-conquer tactics.
→ read full articlePetya Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Computers in 65 Countries
Kevin Reed | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
29 Jun 2017 – In the second massive cyberattack in 44 days, both originating from malicious software developed by the US National Security Agency-NSA, personal computers in at least 65 countries were shut down Tuesday [27 Jun] by an epidemic of ransomware known as Petya.
→ read full articleSaving a Marriage
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
A true mediation history from Johan Galtung. An Italian husband was fitting bathrooms with tiles for a living, while his wife, who was eight years younger, stayed home and took care of the household.
→ read full articleTop 300 Cooperatives Generate 2.5 Trillion Dollars in Annual Turnover
Inter Press Service-IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
3 Jul 2017 – The top 300 cooperatives alone generate 2.5 trillion dollars in annual turnover, more than the GDP of France. Cooperatives help to build inclusive economies and societies, and can help to eliminate poverty and reach the other Sustainable Development Goals, the head of the UN Labour Agency said on 1 July, marking the International Day of Cooperatives.
→ read full articleGod Gave Us Piece of Eternity as a Priceless Gift
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
God gave us piece of eternity as a priceless gift.
We may use it as we like.
Myanmar Cardinal Bo Calls Human Rights Campaigners, Researchers and Scholars on Rohingyas “Extreme” and Joins Aung San Suu Kyi’s Genocide Denial
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
26 Jun 2017 – My response to Myanmar Cardinal Charles Maung Bo’s Statement of his public denial of Rohingya ethnic cleansing.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Orders Visa Ban on UN Investigators to Burma/Myanmar
Coconuts Yangon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – Foreign Affairs Minister Aung San Suu Kyi has ordered her ministry to reject visa requests from UN investigators appointed to report on the military’s alleged human rights atrocities in Shan, Kachin, and Rakhine states.
→ read full articleJewish Ethnicity, Palestinian Solidarity, Human Identity
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
23 Jun 2017 – The following interview with Abdo Emara, an Arab journalist, was published in Arabic. There are no substantive changes from my earlier responses. I think it worthwhile to share this text because the questions asked by Abdo Emara are often directed at me in the discussion period after talks I have given recently.
→ read full article(Português) O porquê da violência no ser humano e na sociedade
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
A existência da violência, não raro sob forma de aterradora crueldade, representa um desafio para o entendimento. Teólogos, filósofos, cientistas e sábios não encontraram até hoje uma resposta convincente.
→ read full article64 Years Later, CIA Finally Releases Details of Iranian Coup
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian | Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
20 Jun 2017 – Declassified documents released last week shed light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s central role in the 1953 coup that brought down Iranian Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh, fueling a surge of nationalism which culminated in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and poisoning U.S.-Iran relations into the 21st century.
→ read full articleVisual History of Decreasing War and Violence
Max Roser | Our World in Data – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Archaeological studies show that societies in the past were very violent. Often more than 10% of deaths were the result of one person killing another. In this chart I have included all the available archaeological evidence that I could find.
→ read full articleOn World Refugee Day 20 Jun UN Urges Support, Solidarity for Record Number of Displaced People
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
20 June 2017 – With a record 65.6 million people last year forcibly uprooted from their homes by violence and persecution, UN Secretary-General António Guterres today called on the international community to provide support and solidarity. World Refugee Day is a moment to ask what each of us can do to overcome indifference or fear and embrace the idea of inclusion, “to welcome refugees to our own communities, and to counter narratives that would seek to exclude and marginalize refugees and other uprooted people.”
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat Genocide
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
26 Jun 2017 – It is a tragic measure of the depravity of human existence that genocide is a continuing and prevalent manifestation of violence in the international system. It is not difficult to nonviolently defend a targeted population against genocide. Vitally, however, it requires a leadership that can develop a sound strategy so that people are mobilized and deployed effectively.
→ read full articleReligious Diversities and Child Marriages — A Saga of Social Change and Women’s Empowerment
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Whatever may have been the justification for early marriages the fact is that in most societies — Western, Asian or tribal, early marriages were the norm rather than the exception. There were economic, social and religious reasons for early marriages and early motherhood.
→ read full article(Français) Politique de la précarité
Mario Bucci | GRESEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Le concept de précarité est confus et changeant de signe. Ceci n’est pas dû à la diversité de situations individuelles et collectives qui peuvent se retrouver sous ce terme – personnes sans emploi ou dans un emploi précaire, personnes vivant sans domicile fixe, migrants sans papiers, personnes souffrant de maladies mentales ou chroniques, … C’est plutôt que ce mot se prête à deux lectures de signe opposé du conflit autour du travail et de la définition de ce qu’est l’utilité sociale de l’activité humaine.
→ read full articleInterplay of Sustainable Development Goals through Rubik Cube Variations
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Engaging Otherwise with What People Find Meaningful – The earlier argument made particular reference to Rubik’s Cube, its more complex variants, and their implementation in virtual reality applications as a means of bypassing technical and other constraints of physical construction and distribution. The focus of the World Cube Association is on speedcubing and the regulation of speedsolving competitions for Rubik’s Cube and similar puzzles.
→ read full articleHow Eating Beans Instead of Beef Will Save You and the Planet
Susan Levin | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Recently, researchers from Loma Linda University released a new study finding that if Americans simply replaced the beef in their diets with beans, the U.S. would immediately reach up to 75 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets for 2020.
→ read full articleGlobal Harmony Day & International Yoga Day Jun 21 for Peace, Harmony and Health
Subhash Chandra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Yoga for Peace and harmony: We all live our lives in search of peace, love and happiness, Yoga provides inner peace for better control over your life by balancing of energies of body, mind & soul. Yoga also imparts longevity to human beings.
→ read full articleNo Walls in Ethiopia, Rather Open Doors—Even for Its Enemy
James Jeffrey | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Ethiopia also hosts refugees from a plethora of other strife-torn countries. Its refugee population now exceeds 800,000—the highest number in Africa, and the 6th largest globally. “Ethiopia strongly believes that generous hosting of refugees will be good for regional relationships down the road.”
→ read full articlePatrice Lumumba (2 Jul 1925 – 17 Jan 1961)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Lumumba was a man of strong character who intended to pursue his policies regardless of the enemies he made within his country or abroad. Because of its wealth, size, and proximity to white-dominated southern Africa, Lumumba’s opponents feared the consequences of a radicalized Congo. Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a short time later.
→ read full articleElections: Absenteeism, Boycotts and the Class Struggle
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – The most striking characteristics of recent elections is not who won or who lost, nor is it the personalities, parties and programs. Across the world, majorities and pluralistic, of citizens of voting age, refuse to even register (unless obligated by law); refuse to turn out to vote, (abstain); or vote against all the candidates (boycott).
→ read full articleA Gift for You
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Duly Wrapped
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Soldier Boy
Keely Hutton and Anywar Ricky Richard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Greetings from Friends of Orphans in Uganda. I am delighted SOLDIER BOY has been released on June 13, 2017. I am happy that I have lived to tell the world my story, and what is happening to war victims especially the children who did not get the opportunities to tell their stories. It is my honor to represent the voice of the voiceless and I hope that many people will get to know and learn about the plight of children being used in armed forces around the world.
→ read full articleDanilo Dolci (28 Jun1924 – 30 Dec 1997)
EDDILI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Danilo Dolci was son of a devout Slav mother and a sceptical Italian father. He originally studied architecture in Rome, Milan, Switzerland, and also trained as an engineer. On Dec 30, 1997 Danilo Dolci “the Sicilian Ghandi”, winner of the Lenin peace prize (despite being explicitly catholic, non-communist), and twice a nominee for the Nobel peace prize, died at the age of seventy-three, of heart failure.
→ read full articleHow One Man Is Changing the Face of Housing in Rural India
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
26 Jun 2017 – Historians will tell you that an explosion of creativity occurs the moment the world starts complaining that there is nothing left to invent or that the search for solutions to complex problems has come to an end. This explosion is fate’s way of reminding us that there is always something just over the horizon of knowledge.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Jun 26-Jul 2 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.“ — George Bernard Shaw
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
24 Jun 2017 – When a Briton or American speaks about a “four-letter word”, he means a vulgar sexual term, a word not to be mentioned in polite society. In Israel we also have such a word, a word of four letters. A word not to mention. This word is “Shalom”, peace. For years now this word has disappeared from intercourse (except as a greeting). Every politician knows that it is deadly. Every citizen knows that it is unmentionable.
→ read full articleThe Nazis Used It, We Use It: The Return of Famine as a Weapon of War
Alex de Waal | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
15 Jun 2017 – In its primary use, the verb ‘to starve’ is transitive: it’s something people do to one another, like torture or murder. Mass starvation as a consequence of the weather has very nearly disappeared: today’s famines are all caused by political decisions, yet journalists still use the phrase ‘man-made famine’ as if such events were unusual.
→ read full articleThe Wax Is Melted and Pitcher Is Open
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
The wax is melted and pitcher is open…
Everything is known to us from fairy tale,
Antoine de Saint Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944): Solitude and Solidarity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Saint Ex for the style was influenced by Frederic Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra which he had read. However, the spirit is much closer to Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet. There is no indication that he had read Gibran in Saint Ex’s period in New York. It is more likely that both writers shared a common outlook on life.
→ read full articleFighting, While Funding, Extremists
Editorial |The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – Saudi Arabia and some of its neighbors decide to punish Qatar and some of its citizens, ostensibly for fostering and financing Islamist terrorism. But Saudi Arabia itself has been accused of underwriting extremists. No matter: President Trump, captivated by Saudi royalty, sides with the Saudis — even though the United States has two important bases in Qatar. Baffling, right? The biggest loser in all this may turn out to be the fight against the Islamic State.
→ read full articleThe CIA Paid Psychologists $81 Million to Devise Brutal Tactics for Use on Terror Suspects, and They’re Suing
Erin Brodwin | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
22 Jun 2017 – After a doctor X-rayed one prisoner’s badly broken feet, his colleague gave interrogators the go-ahead to force him to stand for 52 hours. A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of former prisoners shines new light on the grisly details of the tactics the doctors approved for use on terrorism suspects. These tactics range from water-boarding to “walling” — a method that involves pushing a person into a flexible plywood wall so hard that it creates a disturbing sound that pierces the ear.
→ read full articleWould You Like a Drink Of Water? Please Ask a Yemeni Child
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
We, likewise, can work toward justice for those who live in communities like Flint, MI; we can seek sane approaches to the climate crisis; and we can insist that those who are targets of war, like the cholera-ridden, desperately hungry children of Yemen, be spared from aerial terrorism and given full access to clean, life-saving waters.
→ read full articlePursuing Stability and a Shared Development in Euro–Mediterranean Migrations
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
The book makes deep inroads from a theoretical as well as a policymaking point of view. It brings forth many theoretical dimensions of the migration in the Euro-Mediterranean zone, and offers many nuanced perspectives. It aims to draw “a comprehensive study while using a multi-faceted analysis of the migration issue, taking into account the expertise, knowledge, background, and experiences of the authors.
→ read full articleHelen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.
→ read full articlePearl S. Buck (26 June 1892 – 6 March 1973): The Good Earth-China
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Pearl Buck was a cultural bridge-builder, bringing an understanding of Chinese rural culture to the USA and Europe, but also to Chinese urban society as at different times her books, translated into Chinese, were widely read in China. In the 1950s-1960s she was active in helping children in South Korea fathered by US soldiers and then left behind.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (2) William Blake
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
William Blake, sublime visionary poet and artist, voice of the poor. Voice of nature, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleOn Being a Vaccine Heretic Excommunicated from the Church of Big Pharma
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Big Pharma is the pejorative term given to the vast number of multinational (global) pharmaceutical corporations. It takes no Hippocratic Oath, does not insist that its sycophants give fully informed consent when their products are prescribed and it ignores the Precautionary Principle, thus affirming the sense that it has no concern for the health of its users or the health of the planet.
→ read full article(Português) Considerações Sobre Musculação, Fisiculturismo e Veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
24 Jun 2017 – Não é raro encontrar pessoas que dizem que veganos não conseguem chegar ao nível de fisiculturistas que não são veganos.
→ read full articleWhy We Leaked Hundreds of Pages of a Secret Trade Deal That Threatens Our Rights and Our Planet
Shira Stanton and Sebastian Bock | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
23 Jun 2017 – Behind closed doors and countless documents, details of a proposed deal between two of the world’s largest economies are being kept from us. Until now. Chances are that the planned trade deal between the European Union and Japan has not been on top of your mind. Governments have gone to great lengths to leave their citizens in the dark about a deal that can significantly impact our lives and the world we live in.
→ read full articleVault 7: Brutal Kangaroo
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Today, June 22nd 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the Brutal Kangaroo project of the CIA. The documents describe how a CIA operation can infiltrate a closed network (or a single air-gapped computer) within an organization or enterprise without direct access.
→ read full article(Português) Japão autoriza caça de duas novas espécies de golfinhos em massacre anual
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
O documentário de 2009 “The Cove”, de Louie Psihoyos, mostrou a brutalidade da caça de golfinhos em Taiji, no Japão, ao divulgar imagens vívidas e detalhadas dos assassinatos de golfinhos em uma entrada isolada de uma pequena cidade na prefeitura de Wakayama.
→ read full articleThe Settlers’ Goal Is Not the Settlements – It Is the Total Transformation of Israel
Noam Sheizaf | +972 Mag – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
The settlements, the settlers, and the occupation are all entirely associated with one another in the Israeli consciousness. The Left and the Right agree on this, albeit with varying considerations: the Left wants to apportion blame for Israel’s continuing control over the West Bank, while the settlers want to take credit for the settlement project and for thwarting the idea of partitioning the land.
→ read full articleIsrael vs. the United Nations: The Nikki Haley Doctrine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
21 Jun 2017 – The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel. Haley seems to truly think of herself as the new sheriff in town, who will “kick ’em every single time”, before riddling the bullies with bullets and riding into the sunset, along with Netanyahu. Since the Negroponte doctrine of 2002, thousands of Palestinians and hundreds of Israelis were killed in an occupation that seems to know no ends.
→ read full articleFreud-Einstein on Peace
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
“Why War?” was the title of an interchange of letters between Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein in 1932, 85 years ago. What can we still learn from these giants, and what might they have learned in the meantime? Let us look at their approaches, as fellow human beings searching for answers to a question for humankind at all times: the curse of war.
→ read full article(Italiano) BRESCIA, 21 giugno 2017. Dopo 43 anni la sentenza definitiva per la strage di Piazza della Loggia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
24 Giu 2017 – Riporto l’annuncio al mondo intero, dedicato ai lettori di Transcend Media Service, che dopo 43 anni e cinque processi, la Corte di cassazione ha emesso il verdetto definitivo… Non si è trattato di una festa per la vittoria, ma ancora una volta un’occasione di riflessione fra giustizia storia e memoria.
→ read full articleWhy Are Americans so Obsessed with Apocalypse—and Convinced It Will Happen in the Near Future?
Betsy Hartmann | Seven Stories Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – According to opinion polls, a staggering percentage of Americans accept that the world will end in a battle in Armageddon. In a 2010 Pew poll, 41 percent of respondents said they expected Jesus Christ to return to Earth by 2050. Unfortunately, we are more predisposed to imagine the end of the world than the end of American war-making.
→ read full articleBangladesh Cardinal Defends Rights of Rohingya Refugees
Nirmala Carvalho | Crux – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are considered to be among the world’s most persecuted peoples, subject to what the UN calls “crimes against humanity” and hundreds of thousands are now refugees in neighboring Bangladesh, where Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario is defending their right to “dignity.”
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)
Israel "IZ" KamakawiwoʻOle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole was morbidly obese and at one point weighed 348 kg standing 1.88 m tall. He died at the age of 38 on JUNE 26, 1997. The Hawaii state flag flew at half-staff on the day of his funeral. Thousands of fans gathered as his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean at Mākua Beach, Hawai’i. This video documents the event. RIP dear friend with a heart so big it weighed 348 kg.
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