Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Khim Bahadur: An Eye for an Eye in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The reasons why children participate in the ten-year conflict are numerous. Khim joined the revolution because the government security men constantly harassed his family for supporting the CPN (Maoist) party. He was tortured by the state security forces most of the time as a son of CPN (Maoist) cadre.
→ read full articleTrump Gives Military Green Light to Escalate Afghanistan War
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
22 Aug 2017 – The nationally televised address to a military audience sets the stage for a massive increase in bloodshed in a country where the United States has waged war for 16 years.
→ read full articleEvolving International Law, Political Realism, and the Illusions of Diplomacy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – International law is mainly supportive of Palestinian grievances with respect to Israel, as well as offering both Israelis and Palestinians a reliable marker as to how these two peoples could live normally together in the future if the appropriate political will existed on both sides to reach a sustainable peace.
→ read full article(Português) Amazonas: Situação Legal dos Direitos Minerários da Reserva Nacional do Cobre (RENCA)
WWF-World Wildlife Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Relatório Técnico 2017 – Desde 2015 estão sendo veiculadas diversas notícias a respeito da extinção da RENCA como forma de atração de investimentos para o setor mineral. Criada em 1984, essa área de bloqueio está situada no limite dos estados do Pará e Amapá e apresenta área de 47 mil km2, equivalente ao estado do Espírito Santo.
→ read full articleMyanmar Troops Open Fire on Civilians Fleeing Attacks
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
26 Aug 2017 – Myanmar soldiers opened fire on fleeing Rohingya civilians – mostly women and children – as they attempted to cross the border into Bangladesh and escape surging violence. Bangladeshi border guards say troops fired mortars and machine guns at Rohingya civilians trying to escape bloodshed.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (10) Robert Owen
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Robert Owen, pioneer of the cooperative movement, pioneer of social and economic reform, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleHokkaido Show Gardens (Music Video of the Week)
Ruben Mandolini | Facebook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Garden of sound! Great art! ->
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Towards a Peaceful, Fair and Prosperous Future for the People of Rakhine
Advisory Commission on Rakhine State – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Final Report – 24 Aug 2017. The Advisory Commission chaired by Kofi Annan puts forward recommendations to surmount the political, socio-economic and humanitarian challenges that currently face Rakhine State. It builds on the Commission’s interim report released in March of this year.
→ read full article(Português) A Tourada Vista por Um Médico Veterinário
Isabel A. Ferreira | Arco de Almedina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Na tourada à portuguesa há o terrível sentimento de claustrofobia e pânico que o touro sofre desde que é retirado violentamente da campina e transportado em aperto até à arena, seguido pelo maltrato para o enfraquecer física e animicamente antes de ser toureado. Na arena, o touro enfrenta a provocação e a tortura durante a lide e no fim desta, totalmente ensanguentado, com a retirada sempre violenta e muito dolorosa das bandarilhas, rasgando e cortando ainda mais o seu couro.
→ read full articleThe Best TV Ad for 2017
TV2 Denmark - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
A Must-Watch Video
→ read full articleThe Real Threat to America Comes from Americans
Kim Ghattas | Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Just as the Arab world struggles to come to grips with jihadism, the United States has failed to grapple with its own demons. It’s time to realize that no society is without darkness — and the direst threat facing the US today may well be from within, not without.
→ read full articleWhy Are All Those Racists So Terrified?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Racism – fear of, and hatred for, those of another race coupled with the beliefs that the other race is inferior and should be dominated (by your race) – is now highly visible among European populations impacted by refugee flows from the Middle East and North Africa. In addition, racism is ongoingly and highly evident among sectors of the US population but also in countries like South Africa as well as Australia and throughout Central and South America where indigenous populations are particularly impacted.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Aug 28–Sep 3, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Today is your day to dance lightly with life, sing wild songs of adventure, invite rainbows and butterflies out to play, soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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(Português) Da Fazenda/Quinta ao Frigorífico
Mercy For Animals (Brasil) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Nos próximos minutos, você terá uma visão da realidade que acontece por trás das portas fechadas de fazendas/quintas modernas, incubadoras e abatedouros–revelando o duro caminho que os animais percorrem de lá ao frigorífico. Alerta: Conteúdo com imagens repugnantes de violênicia que podem ferir sensibilidades.
→ read full articleA View of Toronto in Summer Months
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – Soon after I landed in Toronto, I was informed that Canada is celebrating its 150th anniversary of independence from British rule.
→ read full articleThese Are All the Countries the USA Has Invaded, in One Map
Joe Vesey-Byrne | indy100 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
23 Aug 2017 – From Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, the US has had a military presence across the world, from almost day one of her independence. What constitutes invasion? As one map below shows, the US has a military presence in much of the world without being an occupying force (though some would dispute that definition).
→ read full articleGauguin’s Stirring First-Hand Account of What Actually Happened the Night Van Gogh Cut off His Own Ear
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Certain relationships are charged with an intensity of feeling that incinerates the walls we habitually erect between platonic friendship, romantic attraction, and intellectual-creative infatuation. One of the most dramatic of those superfriendships unfolded between the artists Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, whose relationship was animated by an acuity of emotion so lacerating that it led to the famous and infamously mythologized incident in which Van Gogh cut off his own ear.
→ read full articleKaya, the Royal Dog
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
26 Aug 2017 – The spectacle is almost bizarre: a political party refuses to accept new members. And not just a few individuals, but tens of thousands. And not just any party, but the Likud (“Unification”), the main force in Israel’s governing coalition. Strange? But there is method in this madness.
→ read full articleVault 7: ExpressLane
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Today, August 24th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes secret documents from the ExpressLane project of the CIA that show one of the cyber operations it conducts against liaison services — which includes among many others the NSA, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Media Service Receives Prize for Peace and Social Justice
Psychologists for Social Responsibility – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
2017 Prize: Dr. Brad Olson, Chicago, Illinois and Antonio Carlos da Silva Rosa, Portugal/Brazil. PsySR’s award is given annually to recognize outstanding psychology-based contributions in scholarship and action by an individual in one or more of the following areas: Peace and Nonviolence, Poverty, Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance, Spirituality, and Social Action.
→ read full articleThe World’s Biggest Floating Solar Farm Is Now Live. And It’s on Top of a Former Coal Mine
Joe McCarthy | Global Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – Earlier this week, a new floating solar farm went live in the Chinese city of Huainan above a retired coal mine, China Daily reports. It’s more than six times as powerful as the next biggest floating solar farm.
→ read full articleIn Defense of the Nameless, Invisible Workers
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
20 Aug 2017 – In spite of the threats to our Common Home, the Earth, attacked on all fronts by the type of culture that we have developed in the last two centuries, limitless exploitation of her finite goods and services, essentially for the material accumulation of a few; in spite of everything she continues to generously offer us the beauty of the fruits, flowers, plants, animals and broad bio-diversity.
→ read full articlePeace-Development-Environment: Integrated?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
These are the goals of the United Nations; the Hardanger Academy made them three foci. The problem arose: what do they have in common? Are they three aspects of the same thing? If so, what is that “thing”? Four ways of trying to answer have been identified and explored. Four because of four ways of approaching social reality.
→ read full articleLatin America’s “Pink Tide” and the Challenge of Systemic Change: Bolivia
The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
7 Aug 2017 – In the late 1990s and the 2000s, Latin America experienced a “pink tide” of sorts, with a number of self-proclaimed socialist governments coming to power. By 2010, leftist governments were in power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, with Peru joining the ranks in 2011. We asked three analysts to describe some of the institutional innovations implemented in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador during this time, and to reflect on the relationship between organized citizenry and the state in these transitions in order to elicit lessons learned.
→ read full articleLandmark UN-Backed Treaty on Mercury Takes Effect
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
16 Aug 2017 – A ground-breaking global convention on mercury today goes into effect, the United Nations environment wing said, protecting millions of children and infants from possible neurological and health damage.
→ read full articleBrazil Opens Vast Amazon Reserve to Mining
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – Brazil’s government has abolished a vast national reserve in the Amazon to open up the area to mining. Covering 46,000 sq km (17,800 sq miles), straddles the northern states of Amapá and Pará, and is thought to be rich in gold, and other minerals. It is larger than Denmark. WWF’s report said that a “gold rush in the region could create irreversible damage to indigenous cultures”.
→ read full articleFlashers
Antonio Gaspar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Pathological Exhibitionism
→ read full article(Português) Cerca de 200 MIL PESSOAS são infectadas com vírus da hepatite após comerem linguiça
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Um supermercado do Reino Unido pode ter infectado involuntariamente milhares de pessoas com o vírus da hepatite E transmitido por meio de linguiças e produtos de porco provenientes da Europa, alertou a agência governamental Public Health England .
→ read full articleThe Masque of Anarchy
Percy Bysshe Shelley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Shelley wrote his poem in response to the Peterloo Massacre, which took place in Manchester on 16 August 1819. Cavalry soldiers of the government charged a crowd of 50,000 citizens who were peacefully assembled to ask for better representation in Parliament. This poem advocating non-violent resistance to tyranny was an inspiration to Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi.
→ read full article(Português) Estudo mostra que a pecuária é a atividade com maior apropriação de solo na Amazônia
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 ago 2017 – O estudo mostra que nos estados da Amazônia não há atividade com maior apropriação de solo do que a pecuária, e exatamente por desempenhar papel tão determinante na região está fortemente associada com o desmatamento, inclusive sendo apontada como principal causa. E a agricultura em larga escala em vez de reduzir o impacto da pecuária no desflorestamento tem ajudado a ampliá-lo.
→ read full articlePeace to Twenty-First Century!
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
History does not learn anything,
How can this be?
We are born to suffer
Or all the same, to live?
Ignaz Semmelweis, Galileo Galilei, Andrew Wakefield and the Semmelweis Reflex
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Iatrogenesis and Big Pharma’s Lucrative Overvaccination Agendas
→ read full articleMyanmar/Burma: UN Welcomes Final Assessment of Independent Advisory Panel on Rakhine State
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – The United Nations today welcomed the release of the final report of an independent advisory body looking into the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. UN Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric acknowledged its endorsement “to address the root causes of violence and reduce inter-communal violence.”
→ read full articleEdward Carpenter: (29 Aug 1844 – 28 Jun 1929)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Edward Carpenter was an English writer, educator, pacifist, and socialist reformer who came from a middle class intellectual family. As others influenced by the Theosophical Society, he gave up formal university extension work and bought a farm which became a meeting place for discussions among many in the area − an early “back to the land movement”. He stressed using hand-made clothes, the non-killing and non-eating of animals, and the use of herbs for health.
→ read full articleThe Dilemma of a Secular Muslim in Present Day India
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – An educated, secular and liberal Indian Muslim is in a bind; he is torn between finding the right balance between loyalty to his faith and adherence to the new tests of patriotism being imposed by certain intolerant groups.
→ read full articleThe Place Where We Are Right
Yehuda Amichai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
“From the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the Spring.
Mahadev: The Cost of Being Different
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Mahadev Shrestha (pseudonym) is a main participant in this study. I think his life could be of interest to my research as his education and daily life was affected by the ten-year armed conflict in Nepal.
→ read full articleJohn Quincy Adams on Efficiency vs. Effectiveness, the Proper Aim of Ambition, and His Daily Routine
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Digging at the heart of modernity’s foundational disconnect between efficiency and effectiveness: our tendency to pour tremendous energy into doing things, with little reflection on whether those are the right things to do in the first place.
→ read full articleIt’s the Opium, Stupid: ‘Afghan Surge Guarantees CIA Black-Ops Budget Boost’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
23 Aug 2017 – The CIA is also overjoyed because its black-ops budget – which is tied to the exponential growth of opium production in Afghanistan – is now secured possibly for another 20-50 years, claims Mike Raddie, co-editor of online site BSNews.
→ read full articlePeriodic Table of Tech
The Beacon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
You’re probably familiar with the periodic table — you may have even memorized all the elements. But do you know how they’re used outside of chemistry class?
→ read full articleWhy Does North Korea Hate Us?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless. Dean Rusk said the USA bombed ‘everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.’ After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops. And so we remain caged in military thinking and the need to win, rather than understand.
→ read full article(Português) A Solidariedade: Um Paradigma Olvidado
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
É urgente resgatarmos o significado antropológico fundamental da solidariedade. Ela é anti-sistêmica, pois o sistema imperante capitalista é individualista e se rege pela concorrência e não pela solidariedade e pela cooperação. Isso vai contra o sentido da natureza. É urgente resgatarmos o paradigma básico de nossa humanidade, tão olvidado. Fora dela desvirtuaremos nossa humanidade e a dos outros.
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1943 US War Department Anti-Fascist Public Service Announcement
TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
In 1943, the US government created and distributed an anti-fascism PSA that showed man realizing the danger in fascist propaganda and hateful rhetoric. At one point he says, “He’s talking about me.”
→ read full articleGreenland Is Burning
Daniel de Vries | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – Wildfires have raged for weeks in Greenland, the massive Arctic island known principally for its vast quantities of ice. The fires are unprecedented in size and duration, marking an ominous new stage in the warming of Greenland and the entire Arctic.
→ read full article(Castellano) Se sabrá que Venezuela se ha convertido en una dictadura el día en que los medios dejarán de hablar de ella
Viktor Dedaj | Tlaxcala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
En Venezuela (como en otros lugares), la diferencia entre una dictadura de derecha y una dictadura de izquierda es la siguiente: bajo una dictadura de derecha, los opositores «desaparecen». Bajo una dictadura de izquierda, los opositores pasan todas las noches a la tele y en todos los medios internacionales para denunciar la dictadura.
→ read full article(Français) Les fonds vautours planent toujours sur la Belgique
Renaud Vivien | Invetig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Deux ans après avoir voté sa loi contre les fonds vautours, la Belgique a encore un rôle à jouer, celui de promouvoir cette loi au sein des Nations unies et de l’Union européenne. Pourtant, elle ne le fait toujours pas.
→ read full articleCharlottesville through a Glass Darkly
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Anti-Semitism, and its links to Nazism and Fascism, and now to Trumpism, are genuinely menacing, and should encourage rational minds to reconsider any willingness to being manipulated for polemic purposes by ultra Zionists. We can also only wonder about the moral, legal, and political compass of ardent Zionists who so irresponsibly label Israel’s critics and activist opponents as anti-Semites, and thus confuse and bewilder the public as to the true nature of anti-Semitism as racial hatred directed at Jews.
→ read full articleI’m Explaining a Few Things
Pablo Neruda, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
You are going to ask: and where are the lilacs?
and the poppy-petalled metaphysics?
and the rain repeatedly spattering
its words and drilling them full
of apertures and birds?
I’ll tell you all the news.
The Deceptive Activist
Jørgen Johansen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
In The Deceptive Activist author Brian Martin introduces key ideas about lying and deception and then provides a series of case studies in which activists need to decide what to do. There are no final answers, but it is important to address the questions.
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Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Music Video of the Week)
Martynas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Virtuoso Martynas on Acordeon – Composition of Johannes Brahms – Martynas Levickis, 27, is one of the brightest young musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
There seems to be a new European system for calculating the GNP. Not only is armament included, but also the money that goes into research and development for war. Also included are prostitution and drugs, as “services.” Anything offered and demanded in return for money is in. How does that make us feel about economic growth? To be among the “per capita” by which this monster coming out of sickening economistic minds is divided?
→ read full articleCharlottesville: Myths & Questions – Fake History and Deeper Thinking
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
About the Lee statue, I had to wonder: “Why now?” Was it really necessary to remove the statue now? Wasn’t that setting up a conflict? Is it too much to expect our elected officials to exercise foresight and good judgment?
→ read full articleThe Egg of Columbus
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
19 Aug 2017 – I don’t know when the wheel was invented, or who invented it. However, I have no doubt that it was invented again and again, with many happy inventors sharing the glory. The same is true for the Israeli-Palestinian Confederation. From time to time it appears in public as a brand-new idea, with another group of inventors proudly presenting it to the public.
→ read full articleFirst Ever Egg Factory Farm Drone Exposé Reveals the Horrific Reality for Millions of Hens
Jill Ettinger | Organic Authority/Mercy for Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 – A new video released by animal rights group Mercy for Animals compiles the first publicly-released drone footage of several sprawling factory farms. The exposé serves as yet another significant reminder that modern industrial animal agriculture is not only dangerous to human health and “detrimental to the local and global environment, but it also involves animal abuse so severe that it would warrant felony cruelty charges if dogs or cats were the victims.”
→ read full articleLatin America’s “Pink Tide” and the Challenge of Systemic Change: Venezuela
The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
7 Aug 2017 – In the late 1990s and the 2000s, Latin America experienced a “pink tide” of sorts, with a number of self-proclaimed socialist governments coming to power. By 2010, leftist governments were in power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, with Peru joining the ranks in 2011. We asked three analysts to describe some of the institutional innovations implemented in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador during this time, and to reflect on the relationship between organized citizenry and the state in these transitions in order to elicit lessons learned.
→ read full articleAl-Araqeeb Village: Palestinian Bedouins Refuse to Surrender 116 Times
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
16 Aug 2017 – On August 1, the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb was destroyed for the 116th time. As soon as Israeli bulldozers finished their ugly deed and soldiers began evacuating the premises, the village resident immediately began rebuilding their homes. 22 families, or about 101 residents, are estimated to live here. By now, they are all familiar with the painful routine, considering the first round of destruction took place in July 2010.
→ read full articleIndia’s Muslims at the Crossroads
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
In a larger landscape of increasing communalization, where Muslims continue to face social discrimination and exclusion in education, housing, employment and development schemes, the government should economically and socially empower the community so that it comes out with its own appropriate solutions for overall social reforms.
→ read full article“We Burned Down Every Town in North Korea”
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
20 Aug 2017 – The US public wants to know why North Korean leaders point their fingers at the US every time they test another rocket or bomb. “We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off, what, 20 percent of the population?”
— General Curtis LeMay
(Português) Woody Harrelson: “Todos os anos, dezenas de milhares de animais sofrem e morrem em testes laboratoriais de cosméticos e produtos domésticos”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
“Por favor, junte-se a mim e use sua voz para falar por aqueles cujos gritos estão selados para sempre na porta dos laboratórios.”
→ read full articleMinamata Convention, Curbing Mercury Use, Is Now Legally Binding
IPS-Inter Press Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
16 Aug 2016 – The Minamata Convention — a legally-binding landmark treaty, described as the first new environmental agreement in over a decade – entered into force today. The primary aim of the Convention is “to protect human health and the environment” from mercury releases, which are considered both environmental and health hazards, according to the United Nations.
→ read full articleReframing the Square Wheels of Global Governance
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Transcending Vain Hopes of Squaring the Circle in Global Decision-Making – There are many commentaries on the current inadequacy of governance, whether global, regional or national. As currently understood by those upheld as being insightful and skilled in matters of governance, it can be argued that society is proving to be increasingly ungovernable, if not inherently so.
→ read full articleOpportunity Creation
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
A friend of mine and his wife were getting divorced. They quarreled about who should get the house. Both hired expensive lawyers and were close to spending more than the value of the house.
→ read full articleLibya International Peace Forum: Supporting the Role of Municipalities, Civil Society & Citizens in Peacebuilding at the Local Level
PATRIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
6–7 Sep 2017 Tunis, Tunisia – The Libya International Peace Forum is committed to the recognition that local stakeholders such as municipalities, civil society organisations, professionals, women, youth and local businesses in Libya play a key role in peacebuilding in the country.
→ read full articleThe World Remembers 64th Anniversary of the West-Sponsored Coup in Iran
Andre Vltchek | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
19 Aug 2017 – After WWII, the West had one huge ‘problem’ on its hands: all three most populous Muslim countries on Earth – Egypt, Iran and Indonesia – were clearly moving in one similar direction, joining a group of patriotic, peaceful and tolerant nations. Iran fell first, in 1953. Actually, it did not fall; it was brutally destroyed. According to the logic of the Empire, Iran had to be derailed and ruined, in order to prevent a so-called ‘domino effect’.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (9) Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Shelley is today considered to be one of the major English-language poets. Less well known is the fact that he was a pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny, whose ideas influenced Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi. Percy Bysshe Shelley, major poet, social reformer, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleDonald Trump and America’s Moral Crises
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Will Scientific and Theological Ignorance, Moral Blindness and Historical Illiteracy Triumph?
→ read full articleStop the Hate
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Stop the racism, stop the hate
Start with your heart – never too late
(Português) Conheça o Santuário Que Oferece Uma Segunda Chance para Gatos Cegos
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Apesar de as pessoas amarem cães e gatos, o abandono dos animais ainda é um grande problema. Somente nos Estados Unidos, há cerca de 70 milhões de animais desabrigados. Desses 70 milhões, apenas cerca de seis a oito milhões de gatos e cães entram nos 3.500 abrigos do país todos os anos, de acordo com a Humane Society of the United States.
→ read full articleFor Media, Driving Into a Crowd of Protesters Is a ‘Clash’ Not Terrorism
Adam Johnson | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
12 Aug 2017 – The Washington Post, Boston Globe, AOL News, The Hill, BBC and Sky News UK all chose to frame the ramming of a car into anti-fascist protesters as “clashes.” “Clashes” is a term designed to obscure blame, presenting a picture of two equal sides engaging in violent activities. Reading “one dead” after “clashes” at a white nationalist rally gives us no idea who died, or who did the killing.
→ read full articleDrunks
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Recently, a routine police patrol was parked outside a local neighborhood bar in Minnesota. Late in the evening, the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk.
→ read full articleA Crack Bursts at the Trunk Long Ago
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
A crack bursts at the trunk long ago,
Caught up in the past,
And the time ticks tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk…
Everything runs without blinking.
Extending Life –- Living and Dying in Peace
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
In the Jain religion some people choose to die rather than exist in the manner they are living. They choose to die when they are old and ill or sometimes even when they are relatively young, they feel that they have lived enough and would like to end their life. This practice is called Santhra and is allowed by their faith and the Indian law.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Aug 21-27, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.” – Jenn Proske
→ read full articleConflict and Violence in Africa: Causes, Sources and Types
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Conflict usually occurs primarily as a result of a clash of interests in the relationship between parties, groups or states, either because they pursuing opposing or incompatible goals. Although the term war is sometimes used as a synonym for conflict, it is more usual to restrict the meaning of war to violent conflict, involving armed forces.
→ read full articleEnd of Nuclearism or the End of the World: Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Nightmares
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 Aug 2017 – We are living amid contradictions whether we like it or not, driving expectations about the future toward opposite extremes. Increasingly plausible are fears that the ‘sixth extinction’ will encompass the human species, or at least, throw human society back to a technology of sticks and stones, with a habitat limited to caves and forests.
→ read full articleUS and UK Ally Saudi Arabia Moves to Behead 14 for Participating In Anti-Government Protests
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
26 Jul 2017 – Saudi Arabia, the Gulf kingdom ruled by an absolute monarchy, and key United States ally, is planning to behead 14 men for participating in anti-government protests after what Amnesty international called a “grossly unfair mass trial.” The condemned includes a young student named Mujtaba al-Suweyket, who was only 17 at the time of his sentencing and was about to study in a U.S. university.
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Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
To be a Portugal seagull
where the river meets the sea!
Red roofs ascend
tree-coated hills;
Nuclear-Weapon States and Their Neighbors: There Is Still Work to Do
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
We thank the U.N. Missions of the US, France and the UK for reminding us that there are security challenges. We disagree that these challenges require deterrence with nuclear weapons. Rather, we think that confidence-building measures linked to creative negotiations is the best step forward.
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Animation Shows the Deadly Evolution of Nuclear Weapons
Tech Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
It’s been decades since the United States dropped the first atomic bomb. Since then, the exponential increase of the destructive power of nuclear weapons is almost unimaginable. Here’s how powerful nuclear weapons have become.
→ read full articleAugust 9th, the 72nd Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki: Unwelcome Truths for Church and State
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
72 years ago (August 9, 1945) an all-Christian bomber crew dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki City, Japan, instantly vaporizing, incinerating, irradiating and/or otherwise annihilating tens of thousands of innocent civilians, mostly women and children. Very few Japanese soldiers were killed by the bombs.
→ read full articleThe North Korean Military Situation: A Role for People Who Care
Marc Pilisuk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Threats and provocations can only make things worse. Moves that offer time for dialogue and assurances of safety need to be pushed, since there are no good outcomes to the current conflict. Bluster, sanctions and military actions are totally irrational, not to be played by sane antagonists. This game is now being played. Nuclear reality lies before us.
→ read full articlePledge on 70 Years of Independence by People of Pakistan and India – 15 Aug 2017
Mazher Hussain | COVA Network– TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Greetings on the Eve of Pakistan-India Independence — 70 Years! Sharing a Pledge both countries can commit to while organizing Independence Days tomorrow and day after!
→ read full articleYou’re Invited to the Nuclear Denial Party!
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
6 Aug 2017 – Since marketing, omitted and fake news have – to a worrying extent – replaced knowledge and ethics, why not celebrate that the media have omitted every mention of Hiroshima Day today? Welcome to the Nuclear Denial Party!!
→ read full article(Português) A Terra entrou no cheque especial: O ser humano, Satã da Terra
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
13 ago 2017 – No dia 2 de agosto de 2017 ocorreu um fato preocupante para a humanidade e para cada um individualmente. Foi o dia da chamada “Sobrecarga da Terra” (Overshoot Day). Quer dizer: foi o dia em que gastamos todos os bens e serviços naturais, básicos para sustentar a vida. Estávamos no verde e agora entramos no vermelho ou no cheque especial.
→ read full articleHandicapping Israel’s 6th War on Lebanon (1)
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 – These days the US Congressional Israel lobby and its knee-jerk amen chorus are hyping what those still occupying Palestine refer to as its coming 3rd war in Lebanon. Reportedly, Israel is finalizing elaborate plans to once and for all eviscerate Hezbollah while accelerating the collapse of the Iranian theocracy with the claimed support of the White House and the Saudi block among many others.
→ read full articleIndia’s Path of Financial Inclusion
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
The opportunity to reach the financially excluded with a new generation of financial services has huge developmental as well as commercial potential. One of the ways for accelerating this path is through digital financial inclusion. It is perhaps the most powerful tool to unlock the most value for those at the bottom of the pyramid.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (8)Thomas Robert Malthus
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Thomas Robert Malthus, mathematician and economist, warning voice, we need your voice today!
→ read full articlePuzzles of the Soul, Reincarnation and Karma
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Most religions believe in the concept of soul or a spirit that resides in our bodies. It is also generally accepted that it is the soul that gives life to the body which it enters and then resides in. If the soul leaves the body, the person dies. For this reason, life and soul are often considered synonymous. A few questions arise about these concepts.
→ read full articleDeath
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Where was the dead body found?
Who found the dead body?
Was the dead body dead when found?
How was the dead body found?
“Anyone but Bibi”
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
12 Aug 2017 – The vultures are circling. They can see the wounded man on the ground, and are waiting for his end. So are the human carnivores – the politicians… Like every clever (and unsure) leader, Bibi has destroyed every likely rival along the way. Now there is no obvious heir around. But many people are now repeating a slogan: “Anyone, Just Not Bibi!”
→ read full articleVault 7: CouchPotato
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Today, August 10th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the User Guide for the CoachPotato project of the CIA. CouchPotato is a remote tool for collection against RTSP/H.264 video streams.
→ read full article(Português) Para Entender a Venezuela: Dois Testemunhos do Outro Lado
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 ago 2017 – Todas as coisas possuem sempre dois lados. Em direito se diz: “audiator et altera pars”: que se escute também a outra parte. Isso vale em todas as questões que envolvem destinos pessoais e de todo um povo. A questão da Venezuela é complexa e polêmica. Dificilmente poder-se-á emitir um juizo equilibrado tantos são os fatores a serem considerados.
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Piano Man (Music Video of the Week)
Billy Joel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
In 1973, Billy Joel released his legendary ‘Piano Man’ album. Listen to him perform the title track. Delightful!
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Aug 14-20, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Love is the greatest adventure. Because both life and death are present in it. When you are in love, you may live in a moment and you may die in the next.” – Unknown
→ read full articleSpain–Where Are You Heading?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
It is customary for Spaniards to add the word “crisis” to the name of the country. They are not alone in that, it may be a Western habit, one of those words driving the West on.
→ read full articleIsrael’s 6th War on Lebanon (2): What Price Will Hezbollah Pay?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
11 Aug 2017 – The price Hezbollah will pay during Israel’s coming 6th war on Lebanon will likely be less militarily consequential long term, than the near certain acceleration of the Party of God’s loss of its “Resistance” brand. The latter already being eschewed by much of its Shia base for economic, social and political reasons.
→ read full articleFormer President Jimmy Carter Releases Statement on North Korea
Fox5 Atlanta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 – Former US Pres. Jimmy Carter released the following statement today after recent back and forth comments between United States and North Korea officials:
→ read full articleTerrorism for Profit
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 Aug 2017 – And suddenly there it was, the American paradox in full splendor: Oh yeah, we’re fighting terrorists. We have to keep killing people, keep pouring trillions of dollars into our wars, because bad people are out there threatening us because they hate our freedoms. And the guy reminding us of this is the founder of Blackwater, private contractor in Iraq, whose mercenaries were responsible for one of the most shocking acts of lethal aggression — a.k.a., terrorism — of the early years of that war.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre a Realidade dos Animais Usados como Cobaias
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Animais usados como cobaias são submetidos a isolamento social, alimentar, desidratação severa e privação de sono que podem durar dias, semanas, meses ou anos. As pesquisas com animais que visam avaliar o comportamento e o aprendizado não humano normalmente são baseadas na abertura do crânio do animal ainda consciente e na instalação de elétrodos no cérebro.
→ read full articleIllegal Settlement Activity in Occupied Palestine Triple in First Half of 2017: Report
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Israeli occupation authorities have escalated the illegal plunder of land belonging to the Palestinian people, defying international opinion.
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