Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Heaven and Hell
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
St. Peter showed a visitor heaven and hell.
→ read full articleThe Hague Ruling: A Dangerous Step toward War in the South China Sea
Peter Symonds | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
The hypocrisy involved is staggering. The United States has nothing but contempt for international law and has never been called to account by any UN tribunal for its illegal wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, which have resulted in the deaths of millions. As part of its “pivot to Asia” against China, the Obama administration is chiefly responsible for transforming longstanding, low-key regional disputes in the South China Sea into a dangerous flashpoint that threatens to trigger a new and even more devastating war.
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Tears in Heaven (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Eric Clapton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
“Tears in Heaven” is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother’s friend, on March 20, 1991.
→ read full article(Français) L’Islam comme nouvel ennemi
Saïd Bouamama | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
17 Juil 2016 – Investig’Action propose à ses lecteurs de lire ou relire cet article en lien avec l’actualité.
→ read full articleRio Tinto (the River, the Mine and the Corporation): Still Polluting After All These Years (5,000 Years Later, That Is)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
BHP Billiton was responsible for Brazil’s largest environmental disaster in history when, on November 5, 2015, two of the dams encompassing its toxic tailings ponds burst, suddenly releasing uncounted millions of tons of poisonous slurry into the Rio Doce river (ironically, doce means “sweet” in Portuguese), killing all aquatic life downstream and wounding many local people. The huge amount of poisons suddenly released have likely permanently polluted the waters of the once drinkable and fishable 300 mile long river all the way to the Atlantic Ocean).
→ read full article(Italiano) il Culto Del Duce E L’arte Del Consenso. Studio Preparatorio Per Una Mostra Improbabile. Parte Seconda
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Ora, se la ripetizione per 53 volte del soggetto Mussolini, non è esaltazione di un esponente del fascismo, ancorché indiretta, che cosa è, come si configura, che cosa produce nel visitatore dell’esposizione, di cui sopra, a livello subliminale?
→ read full article(Italiano) E la Russia e la Cina oggi?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Sullo sfondo ci sono i due più importanti partiti comunisti al mondo. Il Partito Comunista-Bolscevico Russo fece la rivoluzione del 1917; dal 1922 Partito Comunista dell’Unione Sovietica, CPSU(b). Il CPC, il Partito Comunista Cinese, che sta celebrando il suo 95° anniversario, fece la rivoluzione del 1° Ottobre 1949. Avvenimenti che hanno scosso il mondo, nel più grande stato del mondo per superficie e nel più grande stato del mondo per popolazione.
→ read full articleNo Longer a Conspiracy Theory: CIA Director Admits Plans of Aerosol Spraying for Geoengineering
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
“Another example is the array of technologies—often referred to collectively as geoengineering—that potentially could help reverse the warming effects of global climate change. One that has gained my personal attention is stratospheric aerosol injection, or SAI, a method of seeding the stratosphere with particles that can help reflect the sun’s heat, in much the same way that volcanic eruptions do.”
→ read full articleThe War on Weed Part II: Monsanto, Bayer, and the Push for Corporate Cannabis
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
California’s “Adult Use of Marijuana Act” is a voter initiative characterized as legalizing marijuana use. But critics warn that it will actually make access more difficult and expensive, squeeze home growers and small farmers out of the market, heighten criminal sanctions for violations, and open the door to patented, genetically modified versions that must be purchased year after year.
→ read full articleConsciousness: Why Materialism Fails
Larry Dossey, M.D. | Open Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
A growing number of scientists are now busily rummaging around in the brain trying to explain how the trick of consciousness is done. Researchers have come forward with a range of theories that purport to explain, in one way or another, consciousness as an epiphenomenon of physical and chemical processes taking place in the brain — and all fail utterly. They fail not because their models are insufficiently accurate or detailed, but because they are trying to do what is, from the outset, impossible. — Astrophysicist David Darling
→ read full articleSocial Democracy
Lane Kenworthy | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Not Socialism, and Coming to America – What changes are needed in the current system? Here I’ll take the contemporary United States as my reference point. The chief changes lie in the realm of social policy.
→ read full articleUnintended Consequences and the Warfare State
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
As the Chilcot Commission has just concluded after a seven-year long investigation of British policy, bad judgment was multiplied by hubris, a deeply flawed decision-making process, and an unquestioned faith in the ability of military power to resolve political and economic problems…. At bottom the arrogance of power is the enemy, and the Chilcot Report provides no antidote for it.
→ read full article(Français) Fidel Castro, artisan de la paix en Colombie
teleSUR | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Que la paix en Colombie soit signée à Cuba n’est pas un hasard. La paix en Colombie a toujours été l’un des engagements du Commandant de la Révolution Cubaine. Il lui a consacré autant d ‘efforts qu’à la chute de l’Apartheid en Afrique du Sud, à la libération de l’ Angola ou à l’indépendance de la Namibie et d’autres nations africaines.
→ read full articleSmearing BDS Supporters
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
The misappropriation of anti-Semitism as a propaganda weapon to smear pro-Palestinian activists, especially those supportive of the BDS Campaign. Also the issues of representation by explaining the formal differences between the PLO and PA, which do not seem presently consequential in my understanding.
→ read full articleNetherlands Closes Down 19 Prisons for Lack of Prisoners
Stephen Zoure | Ultimate FM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
7 Jul 2016 – The Netherlands will close 19 of its prisons over the next few years because the cost of maintaining them is too high. The reason that the prisons aren’t cost-efficient, however, is something of a national blessing: thanks to the country’s steadily declining crime rate, thousands of prison cells are going unused.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Jul 11-17 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Recently, I’ve come to realize; some people have eagle potential, but a chicken mind. They are well equipped to reach maximum levels of success, but they have determined within themselves to stay in a safe place of comfort… The eagle mentality soars high going beyond the call of duty. It does not believe in impossibilities. It defies all reason and logic; taking bold risks without the fear of failure… The eagle realizes if it begins to dive, all it has to do is open its wings and it will fly… The eagle was somewhat sad for the chicken. However, having an eagle’s mentality is to know when to let those who choose to remain in a state of bareness; go… Greatness will take you to places where others do not dare or are not permitted to go. Allow your thoughts to take you to heights of greatness.” – Latrina Johnson
→ read full articleGlyphosate Sprayed on GMO Crops Linked to Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae Bloom
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Glyphosate, the controversial main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup and other herbicides, is being connected to Lake Erie’s troubling algae blooms, which has fouled drinking water and suffocated and killed marine life in recent years.
→ read full articleCampaign Nonviolence: A Growing Movement for a Culture of Nonviolence
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
From the increased involvement in Campaign Nonviolence, the grassroots movement that organized more than 375 actions in a single week in all 50 states and seven countries to end all forms of violence, it appears that many Americans are serious about creating a culture of active nonviolence.
→ read full articleBlood Spills on to the Shores of the Danish Faroe Islands in the First Pilot Whale Slaughter of the Year
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
6 Jul 2016 – The ordeal began this morning when locals spotted a pod of between 100-150 pilot whales passing by Svínoy. Several boats then drove the pod of whales approximately 11 kilometres to Hvannasund, where the whales were forced to beach, and slaughtered by locals. Faroese media outlets have confirmed between 30-50 pilot whales have been killed.
→ read full articleIf Afghan Lives Mattered, Dallas Lives Would Matter
David Swanson | Let’s Try Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
8 Jul 2016 – The man who murdered police officers in Dallas, Texas, this week had earlier been employed in a massive operation, now in its 15th year, that has killed many thousands of people in Afghanistan. He was trained to kill by the U.S. military and was conditioned to believe violence an appropriate response to violence by the examples everywhere to be found in U.S. public policy, history, entertainment, and language.
→ read full articleThe Judgement of History
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
7 Jul 2016 – Little is more corrosive of democracy than impunity. When politicians do terrible things and suffer no consequences, people lose trust in both politics and justice. Justice is inseparable from democracy. If a prime minister can avoid indictment for waging aggressive war, the entire body politic is corrupted. In the Chilcot report, there is a reckoning, firm and tough and long overdue. But it’s still not justice.
→ read full articleFemale Infanticide Worldwide: The Case for Action by the UN Human Rights Council
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
India ranked No.4, Liechtenstein No.1 in skewed child sex ratio at birth. Releasing its report, “Female Infanticide Worldwide”, the first ever global study on the issue, ACHR stated that female infanticide for son preference due to variety of reasons is a worldwide phenomenon with 1.5 million female foetuses being aborted every year.
→ read full articleNATO’s War Summit in Warsaw
Alex Lantier | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
The full list of targets identified in NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s opening remarks spans much of the globe. NATO would step up military action in Iraq and Syria and expand its deployments in the Mediterranean and across NATO’s entire “neighborhood.” NATO plans for military action in countries ranging from Libya to Georgia and Ukraine, Afghanistan and the regions bordering China are to be the subject of extensive discussion in Warsaw.
→ read full articleHenry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Born in 1817, one of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
→ read full article5 Confirmed False Flag Operations and How to Spot Them in the Future
Anti-Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
In spite of being labeled “conspiracy theories,” real, verifiable false flag events have taken place in the past. Such examples serve to dismantle the notion that false flags are meritless conspiracy theories and can help destigmatize the concept itself, providing the diagnostic lens needed to identify false flags when they arise.
→ read full articleLife after Death—Reviving Vulnerable Languages
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Like living beings, languages spoken by people also die and become extinct. There are thousands of languages and dialects in the world.
→ read full articleWhy Arms Control Is the Enemy of Nuclear Disarmament
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
No First Use: Arms Control versus Disarmament Perspectives
→ read full articleWashington’s ‘New Managers’ in Latin America: Oligarchs, Bankers and Swindlers
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Amid raging corruption, social pathologies and outright political thuggery, a new gang of vassal regimes has taken-over Latin America. The new rulers are strictly recruited as the protégé’s of US financial and banking institutions. Hence, the financial press refers to them as the “new managers” – of Wall Street.
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Another One Bites the Dust (Music Video of the Week)
QueenvsTheMiami – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Queen ~ The Miami Project performing Another One Bites the Dust. With Freddie Mercury 1st & Only.
→ read full articleBiodiversity, GMOs, Gene Drives and the Militarised Mind
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Gene Drives have been called “mutagenic chain reactions”, and are to the biological world what chain reactions are to the nuclear world. The Guardian describes Gene Drives as the “gene bomb”. Kevin Esvelt of MIT exclaims “a release anywhere is likely to be a release everywhere”, and asks “Do you really have the right to run an experiment where if you screw up, it affects the whole world?”
→ read full articleA New Declaration of Independence
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
The US has entered the Orwellian Era of permanent war—until we decide that it’s over…. Time for a Declaration of Independence from foreign military disasters.
→ read full articleVariations of Brexit
TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Domino Effect
→ read full article(Português) José Oiticica definia o consumo de carne como um vício social
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Para o escritor e anarquista, a saúde humana deve envolver a alimentação vegetariana.
→ read full articleWhite Tongue: Causes
Mayo Clinic Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
White tongue is the result of an overgrowth and swelling of the fingerlike projections (papillae) on the surface of your tongue. The appearance of a white coating is caused by debris, bacteria and dead cells getting lodged between the enlarged and sometimes inflamed papillae.
→ read full articleNew Violation Tracker Tool Helps Public Track U.S. Corporate Misconduct
Pratap Chatterjee | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Bank of America leads with $56 billion in fines. Second on this list is JP Morgan Chase which has paid out $28 billion in fines and penalties to the U.S. government while BP comes in at third place with $25.4 billion. Conclusions from 110,000 cases and $270 billion in fines and penalties since the beginning of 2010 that have been added to Violation Tracker. Most surprising is that less than one half of one percent of the cases involve criminal charges.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | Inconvenient Truths about This Weekend’s Duluth Air Show
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for Our Amusement
→ read full articleOh Brazil!
Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
A positive anticipatory view.
→ read full article(Português) O que as castanhas do Brasil têm a ver com o Colesterol?
Michael Greger M.D. | Projecto Naturopatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Um estudo avaliou o impacto que o consumo de uma única porção de castanhas do Brasil poderia ter nos níveis de colesterol em voluntários saudáveis.
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Oprah Winfrey’s Harvard Commencement 2013 Inspirational Speech
Harvard University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
”It doesn’t matter how far you might rise — at some point, you are bound to stumble. Because if you’re constantly doing what we do — raising the bar — if you’re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages predicts that you will, at some point, fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure — failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.”
→ read full articleHatred Unlimited
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
In Israel, everyone spoke about a “benevolent occupation”. The first military governor was a very humane person, Chaim Herzog, a future President of Israel and the father of the present chairman of the Labor Party. Within a few years, all this had changed. The Palestinians realized that the Israelis did not intend to leave, but that they were about to steal their land, quite literally, and cover it with their settlements.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele oggi, con sempre meno opzioni
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Le opzioni d’Israele si riducono, con una legittimità calante; le opzioni della Palestina crescono, con una legittimità crescente…. Israele, è arrivata l’ora di negoziati sotto gli auspici dell’Assemblea Generale ONU – non una pace realista mediante la sicurezza!
→ read full article(Italiano) Brexit, così sia; e poi che sarà?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Il Regno Disunito è ora costituito da Londra e dintorni, dall’Inghilterra. Le implicazioni sono enormi, per il Regno Unito, la Gran Bretagna e le isole britanniche in generale, per la UE e l’Europa in generale, per gli USA e il mondo in generale. Il cavallo di Troia USA ha deciso di lasciare l’Unione Europea il 23 giugno 2016.
→ read full articleIndia and Pakistan Join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
Alexander Mercouris |The Duran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
27 Jun 2016 – Away from the distractions caused by the Brexit vote the process of Eurasian construction has just taken another big step with the agreement of India and Pakistan to join the Chinese and Russian-led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as full members. Iran is expected to follow shortly, leaving the whole of Eurasia united under this umbrella.
→ read full articleMikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths.
→ read full articleToronto’s High Park Zoo: A Place of Wonder and Joy
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
A visit to this small zoological park in Toronto does not only give pleasure especially to children, but it is a fun filled learning experience where one has a sense of joy and wonder at the beauty of nature.
→ read full articleSchopenhauer on What Makes a Genius and the Crucial Difference between Talent and Genius
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
“Genius is the power of leaving one’s own interests, wishes, and aims entirely out of sight… so as to remain pure knowing subject, clear vision of the world.”
“Genius gives birth, talent delivers.”
Are We Heading Toward Global Autocracy, Ecological Collapse, Political Malaise?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The failures of neoliberalism, the successes of digitization, the scourge of random violence, and more broadly, the dilemmas posed by late modernity are among the root causes of this global crisis of legitimate governance, which is deepened while being mishandled by unprecedented ecological challenges, extremely irresponsible geopolitical leadership, and a variety of ultra-nationalist backlashes against the encroachments of economic globalization.
→ read full articleOn International Day of Cooperatives, UN Hails Them as Drivers of Sustainable Future
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
UN estimates: One person in six is either a member or a client of a cooperative and some 2.6 million cooperatives employ 12.6 million people worldwide. Cooperatives’ assets are worth about $20 trillion and they generate about $3 trillion in annual revenue.
→ read full article(Castellano) La vida de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, autor de El Principito
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
El 29 de junio de 1900 nació el novelista y aviador francés Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. El 6 de abril de 1943 apareció su obra cumbre, El Principito, catalogada como una las mejores creaciones literarias del siglo XX. Ha sido traducida a más de 250 idiomas y, recientemente, a la lengua aymara.
→ read full articleJuly: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
July 1, 1991 – On this date, the Warsaw Pact (established in 1955 as a response to the 1949 establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), also known in the Soviet bloc as The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance signed by Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, formally dissolved as a communist military alliance. Yet NATO, 1949-present, not only continues to exist but has grown and expanded in order to further “contain Russia and protect former Soviet republics and Eastern European nations from Russian military aggression.”
→ read full articleFranz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
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 articleDuty to Warn | Gardasil and Cervical Cancer: A Hoax in the Making?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Exploring Big Pharma’s Unproven Assertion that Gardasil Will Prevent Cervical Cancer
→ read full articleThe Double-Edged Sword: US Nuclear Command and Control Modernization
Andrew Futter | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Keeping the nuclear command and control system simple, separate, and secure may not seem very sexy in today’s digital world of extraordinary technological advance, but it might be the best way to minimize miscalculation, accidents, and even unauthorized use of nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleTranscanada’s Latest Move Perfectly Illustrates Why So Many People Hate Free-Trade Deals
Katie Herzog |Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
27 Jun 2016 – TransCanada is demanding that the U.S. fork over $15 billion to make up for the fact that the company didn’t get to build the Keystone XL pipeline. That’s one damned expensive temper tantrum.
→ read full article(Castellano) Fidel y la paz de Colombia
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Durante más de 60 años el Comandante Fidel Castro ha sido un incasable luchador por la paz de Colombia. Que el anhelo de paz de los colombianos sea sellado en Cuba no es una casualidad. A ella ha dedicado tanto esfuerzo como lo hizo por la caída del Apartheid en Sudáfrica, la liberación de Angola o la independencia de Namibia y otras naciones africanas.
→ read full article(Português) Tolstói: “O vegetarianismo é um sinal da aspiração séria e sincera da humanidade”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
22 Jun 2016 – Um dos maiores nomes da literatura mundial, Liev Tolstói, além de romancista, filósofo, humanitarista e pacifista, também chamou a atenção e conquistou muito respeito nos séculos 19 e 20 por ser um grande defensor do vegetarianismo. Levando uma vida frugal, ele se alimentava basicamente de pães, frutas e vegetais.
→ read full articleThin Slices of Anxiety: An Illustrated Meditation on What It’s Like to Live Enslaved by Worry and How to Break Free
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
A guided tour of this pernicious prison of the psyche, honest and assuring in its honesty.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Jul 4-10 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.” – Shakti Gawain
→ read full articleAnnual Strategic Brief 2016: “Geopolitics in the Middle East”
Institute for Islamic Strategic Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
There is very little understanding of what actually is happening in the region. Simple explanations and ‘quick-fix’ approaches has thus far dominated the media. Whether it’s the refugee crises, the focus on degrading the Islamic state (IS) or European security, little attention is being paid to the enormous complexity to the crises in the region. This paper seeks to understand these complex issues and challenges, and presents a broad, substantial and accurate understanding of the region.
→ read full articleThe Earth and the People Are Not Inputs to Your Capitalist System
Vandana Shiva interviewed by Ethemcan Turhan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
You have this strange asymmetry today that corporations are globally organised; they are everywhere. They control every government and governments are doing the same thing everywhere. Yet every opportunity is used to prevent citizens from connecting up.
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How Does the Commons Work?
The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
How can we use “commoning” as a process to transform the social paradigm of our current system? Economist David Bollier suggests we rethink the traditional “tragedy of the commons” argument. In this stop-motion video animation, we illustrate some of the principal features of his vision for how we can manage “the commons” in an equitable fashion to transform our current system.
→ read full article(Italiano) “La Giovine Italia”. Imperdibile. A Torino tutto esaurito al Teatro Vittoria ieri sera e l’altra sera
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Emigrare.
Immigrare.
Quasi mai sono scelte.
Spostarsi dalla propria terra di origine verso un’altra terra, significa non sapere come sarà il viaggio e soprattutto se sarà arrivo.
(Castellano) Rechazo a presidente interino de Brasil llega a 70%
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
La desaprobación de Michel Temer aumentó unos nueve puntos desde febrero a la fecha, según sondeo.
→ read full article(Castellano) 140 años de la muerte de Mijaíl Bakunin
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
El 1° de julio de 1876 murió el político ruso Mijaíl Bakunin. Fue autor de una voluminosa obra entre las que destacaron El llamamiento a los eslavos, El catecismo revolucionario y El Estado y la anarquía. El político ruso participó activamente en las revoluciones de 1848 en París y Alemania.
→ read full articleIsrael Implements Collective Punishment after the Stabbing of Teenager
Jean Shaoul | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
At the same time, the government is using the attack to expand the settlements and incorporate Area C––which is under Israeli military control––into Israel and in the process drive Palestinians living there from their homes. These measures have in turn provoked further attacks by the Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel and ever more strident demands for further repressive measures against the Palestinians by Israel’s right wing.
→ read full articleThe Time for Silence is Over: Grasping the Reality of Nonviolence
Stephanie Van Hook | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Myth One: You can’t be angry and be nonviolent.
Myth Two: You have to dislike/hate/disassociate from your opponents.
Myth Three: If you don’t get what you want, your nonviolence didn’t work.
Myth Four: Nonviolence does not have any logic. It’s signing petitions and sit-ins. Nothing else.
What’s It Like to Be a Whistleblower?
Transparency International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
On 15 June, two weeks before the verdict in the Luxembourg trial, Deltour talked to TI about his experiences as a whistleblower, the support he has received and the fact that thousands of people see unethical behaviour where they work but don’t speak out. They just go home every day and feel they compromise their personal ethics because there is no option to talk about it.
→ read full articleTop 5 Green Energy Good News Stories Today
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
3 Jul 2016 – Solar power is poised to grow 6-fold by 2030 and could constitute between 9% and 13% of world electricity production by then. Price per kilowatt hour for solar is plummeting, so that it is on the verge of being the cheapest form of energy, outstripping coal in that regard.
→ read full articleFor What Binds Us
Jane Hirshfield – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Poetic image of growth through sealing and healing.
→ read full articleBrexit and the Derivatives Time Bomb
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Brexit could trigger a $500 trillion derivatives meltdown, by forcing the EU to allow insolvent member governments and banks to write down debt. Italy is in financial crisis and is already petitioning for that concession. How to avoid collapse of the massive derivatives house of cards? Alternatives are considered.
→ read full article(Português) Ó Brasil!
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Brasil, uma imagiNAÇÃO
→ read full articleAntoine de Saint Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944): Solitude and Solidarity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
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 articleLament for Humanity: A 50 Year Reflection
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Deeply affected by the death of my two uncles in World War II, on 1 July 1966, the 24th anniversary of the USS Sturgeon sinking of the Japanese prisoner-of-war ship Montevideo Maru which killed the man after whom I am named, I decided that I would devote my life to working out why human beings are violent and then developing a strategy to end it. Here is my report on 50 years of concerted effort to understand and end human violence.
→ read full articleEconomic Democracy
David Schweickart | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
An Ethically Desirable Socialism That Is Economically Viable – The big challenges that capitalism now faces in the contemporary world include issues of inequality (especially that of grinding poverty in a world of unprecedented prosperity) and of “public goods” (that is, goods people share together, like the environment). The solution to these problems will almost certainly call for institutions that take us beyond the capitalist market economy.
→ read full articleThe Meaning of Brexit
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The Brexit vote was a triple protest: against surging immigration, City of London bankers, and European Union institutions, in that order. It will have major consequences.
→ read full articleSupport Your Digestive System with Aloe Vera
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
A healthy gut reacts positively to good nutrition and is also the result of good nutrition. Refined sugar, artificial ingredients, and artificial coloring offer no nutrition and, even worse, can upset gut balance. Aloe vera, on the other hand, is a nutrient-dense superfood that soothes, nourishes, and promotes detoxification and normal bowel movements.
→ read full articleAccusation Claims Syrian and Russian Troops Are Looting Palmyra – Indictment Not Proved!
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The Syrian army’s work and devotion to protect our shared cultural heritage might be cultural, congenital, or genetic. But it’s real. It is my submission that the current culture here in Palmyra, and the security posted throughout the area, render it very unlikely that looting has been committed here by Syrian or Russian forces.
→ read full articleYemen Negotiations Move Ahead Slowly: Post-War Planning Needed
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Thus, there is a serious need first for post-war planning to be followed by international aid for development. “Reconstruction” would be the wrong term since there was little that had been “constructed”. Rather, we need to look to a post-war socio-economic construction developed on a basic needs approach.
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Listen to the Music (Music Video of the Week)
Doobie Brothers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Song recorded on their second album Toulouse Street and their first big hit in 1972. A Classic of the 70s.
→ read full articleErdogan Abandons Gaza, Normalizes Ties with Israel for Gas
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Turkey and Israel have ended a six-year row between the two countries despite years of Ankara’s demand that Israel lifts the Gaza blockade.
→ read full articleRussia-China Strategic Partnership: On the Road to United Eurasia
Pepe Escobar |Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Whenever President Vladimir Putin stresses Russia’s “all-embracing and strategic partnership” with China, one can hear the proverbial howls of anger emanating from the neocon/neoliberalcon axis in the Beltway.
→ read full articleTen Worst Acts of the Nuclear Age
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The ten worst acts of the Nuclear Age described below have set the tone for our time. They have caused immense death and suffering; been tremendously expensive; have encouraged nuclear proliferation; have opened the door to nuclear terrorism, nuclear accidents and nuclear war; and are leading the world back into a second Cold War.
→ read full articleCriteria Justifying Recounting or Revoting in Democracy
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
It is unclear what systematic consideration is publicly given to the criteria of democratic fairness in referenda and other elections. Little has been said in this respect with respect to the process of Brexit — the democratic decision of the UK to leave the European Union. In the course of protests regarding that result, it was announced that an even closer result in a major presidential election in Austria had led to a decision to hold the election again.
→ read full article(Italiano) Gli USA oggi, peggio che mai, ma-?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Affrontate la realtà: gli USA dettero inizio alle guerre con l’Islam in Iraq, Afghanistan e in Africa. Smettetela di personalizzare e psichiatrizzare singoli combattenti musulmani, il che non farà cessare queste guerre; le guerre non sono necessarie e non si vincono. L’egemonia militare US non ritornerà. Gli USA abbisognano di una politica estera non di dominio bensì di tentativi per comporre e risolvere i conflitti. Diritti umani: unisciti al mondo, approva, trascendi i confini. Clima: segui Parigi o proponi soluzioni migliori, fa qualcosa. E le prossime elezioni? Tutto fuorché Hillary.
→ read full articleThe Chilcot Inquiry Report into the Invasion of Iraq
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The foreign policy of the US/UK governments were for regime change and about Iraqi oil, and the method used were genocidal sanctions, wars and invasion of Iraq. The ‘shock and awe’ bombings of unarmed civilians by US/UK/allied forces was not about bringing democracy and human rights to Iraq, it was about regime change, oil, imperial power, arms and total destruction of infrastructure and starvation into submission of Iraq women and children.
→ read full articleEducation for a Culture of Peace
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Peace and nonviolence education is an intellectual and psychological preparation to develop the student’s critical spirit to reflect on the stages of conflicts and their nonviolent resolution. The purpose of peace and nonviolence education is to allow students to acquire knowledge, know-how and a set of behavioral and interpersonal skills so that they may cultivate peaceful, cooperative and harmonious relations with others.
→ read full article(Português) Como o vegetarianismo entrou na vida de Franz Kafka
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Um dos escritores mais influentes do século 20, o tcheco Franz Kafka, famoso por clássicos intrapessoais como A Metamorfose, O Processo e Um Artista da Fome, é um exemplo de ser humano que, contrariando todas as expectativas, se tornou vegetariano ainda na juventude. “Agora eu posso olhar para vocês e me sentir em paz”, disse aos peixes no aquário.
→ read full articleConcept of an Ideal Society
Ramesh Kumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Bhagwad Gita envisages a welfare, prosperous, optimistic, and successful society governed by principles of firm justice. It does not support view that a spiritual enlightened society should ignore material development. Spiritual enlightenment and Science & Technology are complimentary for growth of society.
→ read full articleDestabilizing Multipolar Society through Binary Decision-making
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Alternatives to “2-Stroke Democracy” Suggested by 4-Sided Ball Games – Prepared on the occasion of the historical Brexit referendum through which the UK decided to leave the European Union — in a period in which popular concern was primarily focused on the outcome of Euro 2016 .
→ read full articleHow 100 Syrians, 200 Russians and 11 Dogs Out-Witted ISIS and Saved Palmyra
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
There has been much understandable confusion and also a bit of misinformation about the degree of damage to Palmyra’s archeological sites. Contrary to many media reports, only five percent of the area of our cultural heritage archeological treasures was damaged by ISIS.
→ read full articleNo Big Bang? Quantum Equation Predicts Universe Has No Beginning
Lisa Zyga | Physics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The model may also account for dark matter and dark energy, resolving multiple problems at once.
→ read full articleThe Danger of Outsourcing Morality
Rabbi Sacks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Morality itself was outsourced to the market. The market gives us choices, and morality itself is just a set of choices in which right or wrong have no meaning beyond the satisfaction or frustration of desire. The result is that we find it increasingly hard to understand why there might be things we want to do, can afford to do, and have a legal right to do, that nonetheless we should not do because they are unjust or dishonourable or disloyal or demeaning: in a word, unethical. Ethics was reduced to economics.
→ read full articlePromoting Peace, Nonviolence, Human Rights of the UN Charter–Role of Special Days and Weeks
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The UN charter, signed on 26 June 1945 in San Francisco, includes abolition of war and nuclear weapons, security of and friendship between nations, promoting peace, human rights, social progress, literacy and education among other aims. To commemorate these objectives the UN also celebrates some weeks and special days for this purpose.
→ read full articleWhy the British Said No to Europe
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 – The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.
→ read full article(Português) Cientistas europeus descobrem anticorpos que atacam vírus Zika
Nuno Noronha | Sapo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Cientistas europeus anunciaram esta quinta-feira[23 Jun] a descoberta de anticorpos que atacam o Zika, um passo que pode permitir o desenvolvimento de uma vacina contra o vírus que causa lesões cerebrais em fetos e distúrbios neurológicos em adultos.
→ read full articleTransCanada Files NAFTA Suit Demanding More Than $15 Billion for Keystone XL Rejection
Michael Brune | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
On Jun 24 2016, foreign oil company TransCanada filed a lawsuit against the U.S. under NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, arguing that the U.S. rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline violated NAFTA’s broad rights for foreign investors by thwarting the company’s “expectations.” As compensation, TransCanada is demanding more than $15 billion from U.S. taxpayers.
→ read full articleDanilo Dolci (28 Jun1924 – 30 Dec 1997)
EDDILI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
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 articleWait
Galway Kinnell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Pulitzer-winning poet Galway Kinnell addressed this elemental question of existence with extraordinary compassion and spiritual grace in a poem he wrote for a student of his who was contemplating suicide after the abrupt end of a romance.
→ read full articleHelen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
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 articleU.S. Policy and the Geopolitical Dynamics of the Middle East
Amb. Chas Freeman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
I have been asked to speak about the geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East, the realignments occurring among states there, and the prospects for the achievement of renewed stability in the region…. Frankly, the prospects that we will get our act and our policies together are not good. But history will not excuse us for acting out Einstein’s definition of insanity: doing more of the same and expecting different results. We won’t get them.
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