Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Delusion of Microfinance
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
8 Mar 2017 – When microfinance–providing small loans and other financial services to poor people, primarily women–made its first appearance, everyone was infatuated by its narrative: Those on the left loved its stories of transformed women and direct empowerment of the poor. Those on the right loved how it promoted grass-roots capitalism, fostered a culture of entrepreneurship, and all this by doing away subsidies.
→ read full articleA Nuclear Weapons Ban Should First Do No Harm to the NPT
Adam Mount and Richard Nephew | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Simple additions to the text of a new ban treaty would keep it from being used as a cover for non-compliance with the existing non-proliferation regime.
→ read full article8 March: Start of the Russian Revolution and International Women’s Day
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
8 March, International Women’s Day, was also the start of the Russian Revolution, which ended the rule of the Tsar. IWD had been first proposed by Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen in 1911, and the idea spread quickly. By 1917, the idea of a day calling for the equality of women within a more just society was well developed among women in Petrograd [St. Petersburg].
→ read full article(Italiano) Storia: Epoche o Andamenti – La Spagna Medievale
Johan Galtung – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
La storia si dispiega sul tempo o nel tempo, la variabile fondamentale, l’asse delle X. Gli eventi sono punti. Gli andamenti sono curve di forme diverse, non necessariamente continue, possono anche essere ‘intermittenti’. E gli stati permanenti sono linee orizzontali fissate a un determinato valore. Punti, curve, linee; con i libri a indicare relazioni altamente complesse di antefatto-fatto-effetto.
→ read full article(Italiano) Pace fra Cina e Giappone
Johan Galtung – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Tema base: Nuova visione di pace in Est-Asia – Dialogo di pace Sino-Giapponese. Nanjing, 22-23 Feb 2017 ~ Come insegna la filosofia buddhista, la pace, come la violenza e il conflitto, è una relazione; non un attributo della Cina o del Giappone. Come insegna la filosofia taoista, in un holon [=insieme, ndt] come l’Est-Asia ci sono forze e controforze, yin/yang, con yin e yang in entrambi [gli opposti], & così via.
→ read full article(Italiano) Da Trump a Gandhi. Conversando con Johan Galtung
Gary Corseri | Dialoghi Mediterranei – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Un uomo che ha pubblicato più di centocinquanta libri e millecinque- cento articoli sulla pace e su argomenti correlati; il fondatore di Trascend International: una rete di pace, sviluppo e ambiente; un uomo che ha lavorato come mediatore con le Nazioni Unite e con diverse nazioni in conflitto intorno al mondo, necessiterebbe di una non piccola presentazione…
→ read full article(Castellano) México lindo y querido
Graziella Pogolotti | Granma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Los latinoamericanos de buena ley no podemos dejar de sentir, como bofetada en la mejilla propia, la subestimación racista de quienes levantan muros en la larguísima frontera que separa a México de su vecino del norte, que califica de delincuentes y parásitos sociales a los representantes de un pueblo que ha sido llevado por la miseria a recoger frutas en California y contribuye a hacer la riqueza de quienes los desprecian.
→ read full article(Français) Quand la France colonisait le Maroc par la dette
Adam Barbe | OrientXXI ~ Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Le rôle de la dette dans l’établissement du protectorat français au Maroc n’est plus à démontrer. Guy de Maupassant y fait même allusion vingt ans plus tôt dans son roman Bel-Ami (1885) ! Du milieu du XIXe siècle à 1912, le Maroc affronte en effet des difficultés financières croissantes. L’engrenage infernal de la dette qui lui fut fatal ne commence toutefois qu’au début du XXe siècle, avec l’emprunt de 1904.
→ read full article(Português) Consumo de Ritalina, o “comprimido da inteligência,” aumentou mais de 77% em quatro anos
Jornal Económico [Portugal] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Especialistas preocupados com as consequências para a saúde pública da medicação que combate défice de atenção. A banalização do uso de metilfenidato, indicado para tratamento de problemas de concentração, hiperactividade e deficit de atenção infantil, está a preocupar psiquiatras e psicólogos.
→ read full articleThe Resurrection of Armageddon
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
This is the extreme risk to which the insane neoconservatives, the idiot liberal-progressive-left, the greedy military/security complex, and the aggressive generals have exposed life on earth. And the few voices warning of the risk are dismissed as “Russian agents.”
→ read full article(Português) Há quem não goste de saber sobre a realidade da exploração animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Há muitas pessoas que evitam confrontar esse tipo de realidade porque sabem que isso pode tirá-las da zona de conforto. Têm receio de sentirem-se péssimas e culpadas. Esse apontamento não é feito por ninguém, a não ser por quem se lança nesse tipo de experiência.
→ read full articleRole of Mass Demonstrations in History
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
I am reminded of mass demonstrations which I have experienced over the years in the United States: the gathering for civil rights at the Washington Monument in 1963 when Martin Luther King made his great speech “I have a dream!”; the mobilization of one million people for a nuclear test ban in New York’s Central Park in 1982; and the mobilizations in 2003 against the American invasion of Iraq which involved millions of people around the world.
→ read full articleHow U.S. Missile Defense Destabilizes the World
William Griffin | Zoom in Korea – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
23 Feb 2017 – Contrary to defense industry claims, missile defense does not make the world a safer place but rather destabilizes it, warned Dr. Jae-jung Suh and Ray McGovern during a recent online webinar. Tracing the history of North Korea’s responses to U.S. actions since 1994 provides useful instruction on how to move forward. Each time the U.S. was willing to engage in discussion, North Korea responded with freezing its nuclear program and even disabled it for a time. But every time the U.S. intensified military pressure, North Korea re-ignited its nuclear program.
→ read full articleAlice bin Wonderland
Evelyn Voigt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Or, The Mad Hatters Boston Tea Party with Special Guests
→ read full article‘White Helmets’ — Pawns for U.S. Militarism
Sara Flounders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
1 Mar 2017 – No Surprise! The White Helmets won an Oscar Award for best documentary short feature. The much-hyped White Helmets is not a Syrian organization, nor was it created by Syrians, nor is it educational. It is a U.S.-British creation. Former British Army officer James Le Mesurier, self-described as a British “security” specialist, founded it. He previously worked for Blackwater, the mercenary organization universally condemned for its murderous brutality in Iraq.
→ read full articleThe Cannons of Napoleon
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Napoleon came to a German town and was not welcomed with the traditional artillery salute. Furious, he summoned the mayor and demanded an explanation. The German produced a long scroll of paper and said: “I have a list of 99 reasons. Reason No. 1: we have no cannon.” “That’s enough'” Napoleon interrupted him, “You can go home!” I was reminded of this story some two weeks ago, when I read Yitzhak Herzog’s 10-point peace plan.
→ read full articleGerman Newspaper Publishes Fraudulent Refugee “Sex-Mob” Report
Marianne Arens | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
1 Mar 2017 – On February 6 in its Frankfurt local edition, the Bild newspaper ran an article with the headline “37 days after New Year, victims break their silence. Sex-mob raged in the Fressgass”—a popular city boulevard in the city. The news spread quickly but proved to be a pack of lies.
→ read full articleNo Joke…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
When it hits the fan…
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Western Media Lies about Syria
Eva Bartlett - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Press Conference at the United Nations by Independent Canadian Journalist Eva Bartlett
→ read full articleIndia’s New Push to Digital Financial Transition
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Access to the right financial tools at critical moments can determine whether a poor household is able to capture an opportunity to move out of poverty or absorb a shock without being pushed deeper into debt. However, the existing “bricks and mortar” banking system doesn’t work for poor people, in part because most of their transactions are conducted in cash. Handling cash transactions is costly for banks, utilities companies, and other institutions, which pass along the costs associated with storing, transporting, and processing cash to their customers.
→ read full articleIsrael Orders Demolition of Palestinian Village in West Bank
Doug G. Ware | UPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
22 Feb 2017 – Israel’s government this week issued demolition orders for a Palestinian encampment near Jerusalem, giving residents just a few days to evacuate their homes. Tel Aviv decided to finally move on the long-sought land after years of holding back, due mainly to international pressure.
→ read full articleEnd of Mission Statement by Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights– TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Yet in spite of what they experienced, over and again I heard that what they want is to be accepted as Rohingya, to be able to go back to their home country, to be treated equally, to be treated as human beings. There are some who said they want justice, and when I probed what they meant by justice, most said they want their homes returned to them and to be able to live in peace. One said, “I want justice for those who were murdered and raped; I want those who murdered and raped brought to justice.”
→ read full article(Português) “Falar bem do outro é mais difícil, nós gostamos mesmo é de odiar”
Leandro Karnal | Raízes Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
“Falar bem do outro é mais difícil, nós gostamos mesmo é de odiar. Amar é um pouquinho mais complicado. A espécie humana não pára o carro para ver uma árvore florida, mas sim para ver um acidente.
→ read full articleWill Trump’s America Make the World Safer or More Dangerous?
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Donald Trump’s speech to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday February 28th certainly had a different tone from his usual, irascible midnight tweets. Some of the speech sounded quite similar to speeches given by previous presidents. Some of it was even boring (which is rare for Trump: he may be a horrible misogynist, but he is seldom boring).
→ read full articleThe Economy for the Common Good
Christian Felber and Gus Hagelberg | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
An economic model that aims to establish an “ethical market economy.” By focusing on increasing the quality of life for everyone, promoting values such as human dignity and rights, ecological responsibility, and ensuring social justice, the economy can be finally controlled by the citizens to serve the public good. But the ECG is not only limited to the economic system. To fully achieve it major changes are required in institutions and practices across all areas of life.
→ read full articleRobert Muller (11 Mar 1923 – 20 Sep 2010): Crossing Frontiers for Reconciliation
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Robert Muller, whose birth anniversary we mark on 11 March, was the former Assistant Secretary-General for Economic and Social Service of the United Nations, and, after his retirement, he served as Honorary President of the Association of World Citizens.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Mar 6-12 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
→ read full articleIncrease in Arms Transfers Driven by Demand in the Middle East and Asia
SIPRI-Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
The flow of arms increased to Asia and Oceania and the Middle East between 2007–11 and 2012–16, while there was a decrease in the flow to Europe, the Americas and Africa. The five biggest exporters—the United States, Russia, China, France and Germany—together accounted for 74 per cent of the total volume of arms exports.
→ read full articleThe Binary Code of Body and Spirit: Computing Pioneer Alan Turing on Mortality
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
“The body provides something for the spirit to look after and use.” Turing’s decryption of Nazi communication code is estimated to have shortened WWII by two to four years, consequently saving anywhere between 14 and 21 million lives. But despite his wartime heroism, Turing was driven to suicide after being chemically castrated by the U.K. government for being homosexual. More than half a century after his disquieting death, Queen Elizabeth II issued royal pardon — a formal posthumous apology that somehow only amplifies the tragedy of Turing’s life and death.
→ read full articleThe Role of Biodiversity Scientists in a Troubled World
Arturo Gómez-Pompa | American Institute of Biological Sciences, Oxford University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
As a society, we are torn apart by conflicting views on issues of enormous importance. In the debate on many of these issues, both sides have persuasive arguments for their position. I hear convincing views from opposite extremes: pro-war or antiwar, pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian, pro-GMO or anti-GMO, pro-life or pro-choice, pro-bioprospecting or anti-bioprospecting. I feel the anguish of having to take sides on issues I do not know well and whose reconciliation seems impossible.
→ read full articleUS Teen Pioneers as 1st Openly Gay Football Scholarship Recruit
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
“I just don’t see how I could be living an honest, truthful life and have that in the background,” said My-King Johnson.
→ read full articleIndia Needs to Say No to Nuclear Power, Says Greenpeace
Times Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
21 Feb 2017 – India needs to “re-think” its energy policies and say no to nuclear power, Greenpeace India said after the NGO released a report highlighting high radiation levels in Fukushima in Japan. As Fukushima nuclear disaster nears its sixth anniversary, it continues to be a grim reminder of the destruction that nuclear power can cause, it said.
→ read full articleHow US Nuclear Force Modernization Is Undermining Strategic Stability: The Burst-Height Compensating Super-Fuze
Hans M. Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie and Theodore A. Postol | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
How the United States nuclear forces modernization program has been mischaracterized to the general public as a reasonable effort to update the safety of US nuclear warheads. The reality of the program is instead an implementation of revolutionary new technologies that have serious implications for strategic stability and international perceptions of US nuclear intentions.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dio odia le donne. Intervista a Giuliana Sgrena
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
4 Mar 2017 – STORIE è la sezione dedicata a cinque narrazioni che invitano a riflettere su violenza e nonviolenza, resistenze, pace e guerre.
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My Sweet Lord (Music Video of the Week)
George Harrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
George Harrison’s worldwide hit single from his brilliant ALL THINGS MUST PASS album Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qJTJNfzvr8 LYRICS My sweet Lord Hm, my Lord Hm, my LordI really want to see you Really want to be with you Really want to see […]
→ read full articleLatin America and the Caribbean Could Be First Developing Region to Eradicate Hunger
UN Food and Agriculture Organization – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States food security plan offers a clear pathway to zero hunger within ten years, FAO Director-General says.
→ read full articleSmartphones Have You Pegged, and for Better or Worse They’ll Soon ID You
Tim Johnson | McClatchy DC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Your smartphone now gathers more information about you than you probably realize. “We can tell what floor of a building you’re on. We can tell if you are inside or outside of a building,” Whaley said. “Just with a few seconds of your walking data, from your phone sitting in your pocket, we can actually identify you based on that.”
→ read full article347 Native Bee Species ‘Spiraling Toward Extinction’
Center for Biological Diversity | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
2 Mar 2017 – In the first comprehensive review of the more than 4,000 native bee species in North America and Hawaii, the Center for Biological Diversity has found that more than half the species with sufficient data to assess are declining. Nearly one in four is imperiled and at increasing risk of extinction.
→ read full articleResisting Donald Trump’s Violence Strategically
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
So what are we to do? Well, if you are inclined to resist the diabolical actions of Donald Trump (and his insane and violent equivalents in the United States and other countries around the world), I invite you to respond powerfully. This includes maintaining a large measure of empathy for the emotionally damaged individual who is now president of the US (and his many equivalents). It also includes recognizing that this individual and his equivalents are the current ‘face’ of a global system of violence and exploitation built on many long-standing structures that we must systematically dismantle.
→ read full articleHawaii: Science, Religion and Spirituality on Mauna Kea – The Thirty Meter Telescope
Millicent Cummings | Honolulu Civil Beat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
With so much at stake, the TMT project most certainly begs more than just a question or two.
→ read full articleSeven Scary Facts about Widening Gender Gap
IPS World Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Women across the globe are facing new threats, which risk dismantling decades of hard-won rights and derailing the effort to end extreme poverty, an international confederation of civil society organisations has revealed ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8.
→ read full articleThe Blindness of the Left in the Age of Power
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Reporter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
The Left has been up in arms about transgender rights and the rights of immigrants, legal or illegal—and yes, immigration policies are everywhere and there are laws about immigration for every country, by the way—but absolutely blind to the war machine. We might recall that Athens, the birthplace of (limited) democracy, was a ruthless empire in the Peloponnesian War: privilege at home, horror abroad.
→ read full articleErasing the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
We have reached a stage of human development where future prospects are tied to finding institutional mechanisms that can serve human and global interests in addition to national interests, whether pursued singly or in aggregate. In this central respect, Trump’s ardent embrace of American nationalism is an anachronistic dead end. We need a greatly empowered UN, not an erased UN.
→ read full articleUS Ramps Up Bombing Campaign In Yemen
Niles Niemuth | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
The multi-day bombardment was the heaviest so far in the undeclared US war in Yemen, which has killed or injured more than 1,700 people, including hundreds of women and children, since 2009. According to a tally maintained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the US has carried out a least 390 attacks in the last eight years.
→ read full articleWhy Should Trump―or Anyone―Be Able to Launch a Nuclear War?
Lawrence Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
The accession of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency brings us face-to-face with a question that many have tried to avoid since 1945: Should anyone have the right to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust? Ultimately, then, the only long-term solution to the problem of national leaders launching a nuclear war is to get rid of the weapons.
→ read full articleThe Three Trump Administrations
Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
24 Feb 2017 – Foreign and national defense ministries around the world, as well as embassies in Washington, DC, are struggling to ascertain who is actually in charge of the U.S. government one month after Donald Trump was sworn in as president of the United States. It is a fair question, considering the conflicting statements issuing forth from the White House, State Department, and the Pentagon.
→ read full articleColonial Mentality
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Go figure…
→ read full articleShining a Light on Rohingya Refugees
Dewey Sim | Global Journalist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
“It is probably the worst kind of habitat a human can live in.” – Hasina Begum, a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, has been shot, raped and sold as a sex slave before escaping and working as a prostitute.
→ read full articleOne Nation – Two Cubas”
Martha R. Bireda | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Cuba is an exceedingly beautiful island blessed with lush forests, pristine beaches, sapphire seas, and sunny tropical weather. It is a tourist’s paradise. It is an island that is beloved by its people, its exiles, and those who visit. There is physically only one island, but there are two Cubas; each Cuba seen through very different eyes and experienced in grossly dissimilar ways. Both Cubas are deeply loved.
→ read full articleThree Years since the Kitty Litter Disaster at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Paul DeRienzo | This Can’t Be Happening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – There is a place in the USA, almost half-a-mile underground, in a salt mine, where radioactive waste from the production of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs was to be held separate from all contact with humanity for 10,000 years, equivalent to the entire history of civilization. This separation lasted only three years, when an explosion sent the deadly contamination back to the world of humans in 2014. The still unfinished clean up has cost taxpayers $2 billion since then.
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US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard Meets with Syrian President Assad
Mox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Jan 27, 2017 Tucker Carlson, Fox News – “First, I want to make a correction to your intro. I am not a defender of Assad.”
→ read full articleWhat’s Really Happening in Syria
Robert Roth | Syria Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
5 Feb 2017 – If you try to follow events in the mainstream media, you may have noticed that they routinely refer to Syrian President Bashar al Assad as a “brutal dictator”. Assad is supposed to have responded to peaceful protests with repressive violence and by “killing his own people”. The U.S., UK, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar continue to maintain that “Assad must go”. I disagree with all of that, as I’ll explain in this article. I spent 25 years prosecuting lies in commerce for the people of New York and Oregon. I prepared this primer to help you cut through the lies and get at the truth about Syria.
→ read full articleGermany Bans Meat at Official Functions to ‘Set a Good Example for Climate Protection’
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – Eating less meat is essential to curbing climate change, which is why Germany’s Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks is only serving vegetarian food at official functions. The ministry said it wants to be a “role model” and justified their provision to fight the negative “effects of the consumption of meat.”
→ read full articleCosta Rica’s Peace Journey
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
A Bold Peace, which begins by quoting Eisenhower’s “cross of iron” speech, tells the remarkable story of war avoided, or transcended, again and again and again. Yes, there is another way for the world to live. By the film’s end, this way emerges not simply as possible, not simply as a curiosity, but as the model for the future. It’s time for the rest of the world to join Costa Rica on its journey.
→ read full articleAmerica First
Paul Larudee | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
20 Feb 2017 – Nothing in Trump’s campaign resonated with the American heartland quite like “America First”. But Trump wasn’t the first. Remember Charles Lindbergh? He put “America First” and paid the price.
→ read full articleShould the Palestinians Seek Justice NOW at the International Criminal Court?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – This post calls particular attention to the punitive treatment of recourse to international law tribunals to address perceived grievances that is meant to discourage Palestinians from seeking relief at the International Criminal Court. It seems almost certain that the Palestinian Authority will not act to take advantage of the ICC option any time soon. The PA is likely to adopt a posture of neither/nor, that is, neither explicitly ruling out recourse to the ICC, nor activating the option.
→ read full articleHawaii National Transitional Authority: Reclaiming Hawaiian Sovereignty from Colonial USA
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
The HNTA shall be an unincorporated-freely associated entity with the aim of assisting in the transition of Hawaii from its current state or condition under the rule of the USA (including its subsidiary creation of the State of Hawaii, its various county governments, its agencies and administrative/executive bodies) to its liberation as an independent nation-state.
→ read full article(Italiano) era un giorno qualsiasi …al centro studi sereno regis di torino _21 febbraio 2017
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
25 febbraio 2017 – Presentazione del libro di Lorenzo Guadagnucci “Era un giorno qualsiasi. Sant’Anna di Stazzema, la strage del’44 e la ricerca della verità. Una storia lunga tre generazioni.
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Give a Little Bit (Music Video of the Week)
Roger Hodgson | Summar Festivalur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Faroe Islands: What a night! For the first time ever, Roger Hodgson, legendary singer/songwriter and formerly of Supertramp, gave a concert at 4:00AM! Due to multiple plane delays that were out of his control, he arrived extremely late and people were waiting!
→ read full articleAnd Flight
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
I bartered for a simple skiff,
Birdsong had begun to flag when I set out
Keen again upon the open seas
The Science of Knowing God
Navina Syama Dasa | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Two doctrines present major obstacles to conventional science as a way to know God. The first is naturalism: all natural phenomena have natural causes. (Natural in this context means empirically observable, or perceivable through the five senses.) The second is the doctrine of falsification: if scientist A makes some claim but there is no way for scientist B to show that it is wrong, then the claim is considered unscientific. So where does that leave us, the spiritually inquisitive rationalists? Can the investigation of God through the method of Krishna Consciousness really be called scientific?
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Feb 27-Mar 5~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
→ read full articleFukushima: A Lurking Global Catastrophe?
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
19 Feb 2017 – Year over year, ever since 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown grows worse and worse, an ugly testimonial to the inherent danger of generating electricity via nuclear fission, which produces isotopes, some of the most deadly poisonous elements on the face of the planet.
→ read full articleDeep State
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Deep State stretched its paws over the world’s heart;
Purred…. Deep State purred in the mind’s mazes, curled
Trump Administration Revokes Transgender Rights Guidance Issued by Obama Administration
Shelley Connor | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – In May 2016 President Barack Obama instructed public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom they felt most comfortable using. On February 22, President Trump rescinded the instructions, arguing that states and public schools have a right to discriminate against transgender students without interference from the federal government.
→ read full articleUnique Aleppo Photos Seen by over 100.000 People but Not in Mainstream Media
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
21 Feb 2017 – It’s probably unusual that a research organisation’s photos go viral – and do so in spite of the mainstream media’s manifest lack of interest in their story. But the photos I took in Aleppo in Syria December 10-14, 2016 have been seen here by well over 100.000 people around the world, exclusively by organic, non-paid online sharing.
→ read full articleExpressing Needs
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
A father and mother quarreled again, as they did frequently. He had forgotten to take out the garbage, and she whined,
→ read full articleRoberto Assagioli (27 Feb 1888 – Aug 1974): Synthesis of the Kundalini Ascent
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Roberto Assagioli was an Italian psychotherapist, father of an approach called “Psychosynthesis”, a younger collaborator of C.G. Jung and S. Freud before the break in approach between Jung and Freud. Although Assagioli is closer in spirit to the work of Jung, he is often considered as the person who introduced the thinking of Freud to Italians.
→ read full articleFriendship in Defiance of War: Review of ‘Never Can I Write of Damascus’
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
21 Feb 2017 – Bringing to the fore an under-told story: Before making their home in Damascus, Gabe Huck and Theresa Kubasak had regularly visited Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, where they developed lasting friendships and deepened cultural awareness. Iraq was steadily deteriorating under thirteen years of U.S./UN imposed economic sanctions.
→ read full articleThe Health Risks of Depleted Uranium in Hawaii
Carol Murry, Douglas Rokke, Lorrin Pang and Michael Reimer | Civil Beat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
More than 50 years of bombing at Pohakuloa Training Area, increased traffic on the new Saddle Road passing through PTA, combined with strong winds in the area and occasional flash flooding have provided increased potential pathways of public exposure to DU aerosol particles and potential transport of DU around the island. Furthermore, military and civilian work forces are possibly exposed daily, families and visitors picnic in the area, and a county park and Girl Scout camps are nearby.
→ read full articleTrump Wants to Make Sure U.S. Nuclear Arsenal at ‘Top of the Pack’
Steve Holland | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
“I am the first one that would like to see … nobody have nukes, but we’re never going to fall behind any country even if it’s a friendly country, we’re never going to fall behind on nuclear power. It would be wonderful, a dream would be that no country would have nukes, but if countries are going to have nukes, we’re going to be at the top of the pack,” Trump said.
→ read full articleWe Set Foot again on Same Rake…
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
We set foot again on same rake,
We hear the clash of the same bloody swords,
North Dakota Senate Passes Bills Criminalizing Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
Shelley Connor | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
On Thursday [16 Feb 2017], North Dakota’s Senate passed three separate bills aimed directly at anti-DAPL protesters. The bills significantly curtail protest rights and impose stiff penalties on protesters who run afoul of local or state law enforcement. One bill imposes sentencing of up to 20 years in prison.
→ read full articleKeep Focus on Aleppo and Global Dimensions of Syria
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 – Three Perspectives on the Syrian Conflict Formation – The Syrian conflict formation is hugely more complicated than we’ve been told by Western politicians (all mainstream in spite of democratic features) and mainstream/dependent media.
→ read full articleUnited Nations Declaration of Human Rights – Analysing Its Benefits and Shortcomings
Dr Ravi P Bhatia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
The Committee met a few times and finally a Declaration was agreed to, encompassing the objectives of the Charter to restore peace and harmony and promote human rights. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was finally approved without any dissensions on 10 December 1948.
→ read full articleAssessing the War on Terror
Edited by Charles Webel and Mark Tomass – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
This volume is a collection of articles that critically examine the efficacy, ethics, and impact of the War on Terror as it has evolved since 9/11. It will be of much interest to students and scholars of terrorism and counter-terrorism, foreign policy, Middle Eastern politics, security studies and IR, as well as policy makers.
→ read full articleCapitalocene or Anthropocene?
Benjamin Kunkel | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Ecologically the Anthropocene is here to stay, but just how it unfolds over coming generations will be decided by whether, politically, it remains the Capitalocene (‘privileging the endless accumulation of capital’) or becomes for the first time a properly political Anthropocene, in which the interests of humanity as a whole chart our ecological course.
→ read full article(Français) Le cabinet de copains de Trump a peut-être l’air très fort, mais ces gens ont peur
Naomi Klein | Solidaire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
L’activiste canadienne Naomi Klein voit dans le nouveau gouvernement des États-Unis un coup d’État très clair des grandes entreprises. Dans un article qu’elle a écrit pour The Nation et que nous publions ci-dessous traduit en français, elle explique comment ce coup d’État a été inspiré par la peur. En effet, dans le monde entier, l’influence des mouvements sociaux qui menacent les intérêts de l’establishment ne cessent de croître. Klein estime donc que ces mouvements ont désormais une tâche difficile mais nécessaire. Et que « nous pouvons toujours les vaincre ».
→ read full articleFriendly American Fascism: It Doesn’t Seem so Friendly Anymore
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Hard right-wing political parties in American have been around forever, but they have always been numerically insignificant – until now. Citizens who meet the definition of fascist have come out of the shadows in the US since Donald Trump started campaigning for president of the United States.
→ read full articleExcuse me? Come again?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Refugees in the Americas
→ read full articlePeace between China and Japan
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Keynote: New Vision of Peace in East Asia; Sino-Japanese Peace Dialogue – Nanjing, 22-23 Feb 2017 – As Buddhist philosophy teaches, peace, like violence and conflict, is a relation; not an attribute of China or Japan. As Daoist philosophy teaches, in a holon like East Asia there are forces and counterforces, yin/yang, with yin and yang in both, &c.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre produtos de higiene pessoal e cadáveres de animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
É difícil acreditar que alguém esteja realmente se higienizando ao usar um produto que tem em sua composição algo que é extraído de cadáveres de animais.
→ read full articleHaiti 2017: From Demonstration Election to Electoral Coup
Charlie Hinton | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Haiti moves into 2017 with a “president” who would never have won an honest election. A tiny number of ruling families backed by the United States, Canada, and France, operating through a United Nations military occupation, has imposed an imperial ruler on an unwilling population through a process they call an “election.” Everyone in Haiti knows this, but outside we don’t.
→ read full articleA New Relevance for India’s Moderate Madrasas
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
West Bengal has become the first state to begin the modernization of the traditional madrasas with the support from central government. As a result nearly 600 government recognized madrasas have modern curriculum. They offer courses in physics, chemistry, biology, geography, mathematics, computer science, English language and literature and other regular subjects.
→ read full articleImpact Investing and Venture Philanthropy’s Role in Sowing the Seeds of Financial Opportunity
Tim Scott | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
17 Feb 2017 – In the late 19th century many U.S. industrialists – Andrew Carnegie, John Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and others – who amassed immense wealth through the exploitation and degradation of workers (including children), began to establish philanthropic trusts and foundations.
→ read full articleBruce Lee’s Never before Revealed Letters to Himself about Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
“I have come to accept life as a process and am satisfied that in my ever-going process, I am constantly discovering, expanding, finding the cause of my ignorance, in martial art and especially in life. In short, to be real… Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being.”
→ read full articleFamine Threatens Millions in the Horn of Africa as Washington Prepares Expanded War in Somalia
Thomas Gaist |WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
21 Feb 2017 – Even as starvation and malnutrition threaten more than 10 million lives in the Horn of Africa countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, the United States and its allies are preparing a massive expansion of military operations throughout the region.
→ read full articleThe Cancer of War: U.S. Admits to Using Radioactive Munitions in Syria
Anti-Media News Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – The innocent citizens of Syria will be forced to endure increased risks of cancer, birth defects, and other disease related to exposure to radioactive materials. Depleted uranium has a half-life in the hundreds of millions of years. Damage to Syrian territory will thus continue long after anyone involved in current hostilities is dead.
→ read full articleLines of Descent: The Emergence of Identity – Who Was W.E.B. Du Bois?
Nicholas Lemann | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
The supposedly scientific way of thinking about race predictably went along with the idea that Negroes were genetically inferior; and
another part of this package of received wisdom a century ago was the idea that Africa had no history or culture. That helped make Europeans comfortable with colonizing Africa, as they were then doing.
Meanwhile in Heaven…
Submitted by Charles Mercieca – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
After having died, George Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump show up for an interview with God.
→ read full articleInaugural Permanent People’s Tribunal on Myanmar Atrocity Crimes
Astro Awani Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 – The Rome-based Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) will be holding the inaugural session of its first-ever Tribunal on Myanmar at Queen Mary University of London International State Crime Initiative on 6 and 7 March.
→ read full article10 Questions for William Blum
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
I first met writer/journalist/historian/thinker/activist William [Bill] Blum 11 years ago. Blum and I have broken bread together, attended anti-war rallies, sometimes seeing eye-to-eye and sometimes “I”-to-“I.” In a recent piece by Theodore Sayeed, Blum is described as a kind of living encyclopedia of the “peace movement.”
→ read full articleTrump–Putin Could Rescue the World Taking the Advice of Alfred Nobel
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
In the will he used the term “the prize for the champions of peace,” and the correspondence with Bertha von Suttner, the great peace movement leader of the period, shows that it was her political ideas and political friends he wished to support – abolishing weapons and warriors as the tool to get an end to war. This means that almost all statesmen and generals who have received Nobel honors from the Oslo committee have been — considering the actual intention of Alfred Nobel — illegitimate winners.
→ read full article(Italiano) Democrazia in evoluzione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Immaginiamo un popolo che dia per scontato che ci siano due, solo due, versanti a qualunque contesa; uno giusto, uno sbagliato; ove non ci sia compromesso, la si giochi a duello, e chi vince ne decide il risultato. Questo copione controlla la gente. Potere al popolo, suona bene, ma che genere di popolo?
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Globo e Folha sofrem censura de Temer e juiz, e apagam reportagens. Nós publicamos o que foi proibido.
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Em Defesa de Uma Imprensa Livre sem a Censura do Estado – Como um dos objetivos da criação do The Intercept era defender e apoiar a liberdade de imprensa em todo o mundo, estamos publicando os materiais censurados para que possam ser analisados pelo público.
→ read full article(Français) Les risques du libre-échange
Elisabeth Beague | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Les accords de libre-échange (TTIP, CETA, TISA et tous les autres accords bilatéraux et multilatéraux sur le commerce et les investissements), concoctés « discrètement » depuis 2013 et largement contestés ces derniers temps, sont-ils compatibles avec les mesures ratifiées dans le Traité de Lisbonne par les pays constituant l’Union Européenne ? Il semble bien que non. Car, quoi que l’on pense de ce Traité de Lisbonne (qui a été signé de façon parfaitement antidémocratique), celui-ci reconnaît pourtant explicitement le principe de précaution.
→ read full articleCongress Says, Let the Mentally Ill Buy Guns
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 – For all their dysfunction, the Republican Senate and House have managed to act with lightning speed in striking down a sensible Obama administration rule designed to stop people with severe mental problems from buying guns. They did the gun lobby’s bidding in passing a regressive measure that President Trump is expected to sign.
→ read full article(Português) Defender os animais de maus-tratos é humano
Iara M.E. Marubayashi | Novo Momento – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
13 fevereiro 2017 – Recentemente houve ataques às pessoas que se indignaram e protestaram contra os maus-tratos a um cão, revelados por um vídeo que a produção diz ter sido manipulado, do filme ‘Quatro vidas de um cachorro’.
→ read full articleDisqualify “The White Helmets” for an Oscar
Paul Larudee | Syria Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The Syria Solidarity Movement® advises disqualification of the film “The White Helmets” for a 2017 Academy Award. It has been nominated in the category of Short Documentary. The problems with this film:
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Feb 20-26 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You’re never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.” – Bikram Choudhury
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