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Religious Diversities and Child Marriages — A Saga of Social Change and Women’s Empowerment
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Whatever may have been the justification for early marriages the fact is that in most societies — Western, Asian or tribal, early marriages were the norm rather than the exception. There were economic, social and religious reasons for early marriages and early motherhood.
→ read full article(Français) Politique de la précarité
Mario Bucci | GRESEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Le concept de précarité est confus et changeant de signe. Ceci n’est pas dû à la diversité de situations individuelles et collectives qui peuvent se retrouver sous ce terme – personnes sans emploi ou dans un emploi précaire, personnes vivant sans domicile fixe, migrants sans papiers, personnes souffrant de maladies mentales ou chroniques, … C’est plutôt que ce mot se prête à deux lectures de signe opposé du conflit autour du travail et de la définition de ce qu’est l’utilité sociale de l’activité humaine.
→ read full articleInterplay of Sustainable Development Goals through Rubik Cube Variations
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Engaging Otherwise with What People Find Meaningful – The earlier argument made particular reference to Rubik’s Cube, its more complex variants, and their implementation in virtual reality applications as a means of bypassing technical and other constraints of physical construction and distribution. The focus of the World Cube Association is on speedcubing and the regulation of speedsolving competitions for Rubik’s Cube and similar puzzles.
→ read full articleHow Eating Beans Instead of Beef Will Save You and the Planet
Susan Levin | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Recently, researchers from Loma Linda University released a new study finding that if Americans simply replaced the beef in their diets with beans, the U.S. would immediately reach up to 75 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets for 2020.
→ read full articleUN Report Reveals 3 Nations Producing Most Refugees Were Targets of US Intervention
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
26 Jun 2017
22 Jun 2017 – A UN report has shown that more than 65 million people were forced to leave their home countries last year, becoming refugees due to deadly conflict. The top nations from which refugees fled have one thing in common, they were all targets of US intervention.
→ read full articleGlobal Harmony Day & International Yoga Day Jun 21 for Peace, Harmony and Health
Subhash Chandra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Yoga for Peace and harmony: We all live our lives in search of peace, love and happiness, Yoga provides inner peace for better control over your life by balancing of energies of body, mind & soul. Yoga also imparts longevity to human beings.
→ read full articleNo Walls in Ethiopia, Rather Open Doors—Even for Its Enemy
James Jeffrey | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Ethiopia also hosts refugees from a plethora of other strife-torn countries. Its refugee population now exceeds 800,000—the highest number in Africa, and the 6th largest globally. “Ethiopia strongly believes that generous hosting of refugees will be good for regional relationships down the road.”
→ read full articlePatrice Lumumba (2 Jul 1925 – 17 Jan 1961)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Lumumba was a man of strong character who intended to pursue his policies regardless of the enemies he made within his country or abroad. Because of its wealth, size, and proximity to white-dominated southern Africa, Lumumba’s opponents feared the consequences of a radicalized Congo. Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a short time later.
→ read full articleElections: Absenteeism, Boycotts and the Class Struggle
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – The most striking characteristics of recent elections is not who won or who lost, nor is it the personalities, parties and programs. Across the world, majorities and pluralistic, of citizens of voting age, refuse to even register (unless obligated by law); refuse to turn out to vote, (abstain); or vote against all the candidates (boycott).
→ read full articleA Gift for You
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Duly Wrapped
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Soldier Boy
Keely Hutton and Anywar Ricky Richard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Greetings from Friends of Orphans in Uganda. I am delighted SOLDIER BOY has been released on June 13, 2017. I am happy that I have lived to tell the world my story, and what is happening to war victims especially the children who did not get the opportunities to tell their stories. It is my honor to represent the voice of the voiceless and I hope that many people will get to know and learn about the plight of children being used in armed forces around the world.
→ read full articleDanilo Dolci (28 Jun1924 – 30 Dec 1997)
EDDILI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Danilo Dolci was son of a devout Slav mother and a sceptical Italian father. He originally studied architecture in Rome, Milan, Switzerland, and also trained as an engineer. On Dec 30, 1997 Danilo Dolci “the Sicilian Ghandi”, winner of the Lenin peace prize (despite being explicitly catholic, non-communist), and twice a nominee for the Nobel peace prize, died at the age of seventy-three, of heart failure.
→ read full articleHow One Man Is Changing the Face of Housing in Rural India
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
26 Jun 2017 – Historians will tell you that an explosion of creativity occurs the moment the world starts complaining that there is nothing left to invent or that the search for solutions to complex problems has come to an end. This explosion is fate’s way of reminding us that there is always something just over the horizon of knowledge.
→ read full articleThis Week In History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Jun 26-Jul 2 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.“ — George Bernard Shaw
→ read full articleThe Four-Letter Word
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
24 Jun 2017 – When a Briton or American speaks about a “four-letter word”, he means a vulgar sexual term, a word not to be mentioned in polite society. In Israel we also have such a word, a word of four letters. A word not to mention. This word is “Shalom”, peace. For years now this word has disappeared from intercourse (except as a greeting). Every politician knows that it is deadly. Every citizen knows that it is unmentionable.
→ read full articleTrained to Kill: How Four Boy Soldiers Survived Boko Haram
Sarah A. Topol – The New York Times Magazine,
26 Jun 2017
25 Jun 2017 – The four children, from a fishing village in Nigeria, were among thousands abducted by Boko Haram and trained as soldiers. They learned to survive, but only by forgetting who they were. The names of the children in this article have been changed to protect them against retaliation from Boko Haram, the Nigerian government and their own community. No other details about the children or their situation have been changed.
→ read full articleState Sponsors of Terror
Latuff – MintPress News,
26 Jun 2017
The Club
→ read full articleThe Nazis Used It, We Use It: The Return of Famine as a Weapon of War
Alex de Waal | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
15 Jun 2017 – In its primary use, the verb ‘to starve’ is transitive: it’s something people do to one another, like torture or murder. Mass starvation as a consequence of the weather has very nearly disappeared: today’s famines are all caused by political decisions, yet journalists still use the phrase ‘man-made famine’ as if such events were unusual.
→ read full articleThe Wax Is Melted and Pitcher Is Open
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
The wax is melted and pitcher is open…
Everything is known to us from fairy tale,
Are NGOs Responsible for the Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean?
Antoine Pécoud and Marta Esperti – The Conversation,
26 Jun 2017
20 Jun 2017 – 2016 was an extraordinarily deadly year for migrants: 5,000 people perished in the Mediterranean Sea, vastly exceeding the death toll of 3,700 in 2015. And in the first six months of 2017, more than 1,000 deaths have been recorded. With calm weather conditions ideal for sea crossings, the northern summer is almost upon us. The migration debate is only just beginning and it brings with it the need for a basic rethinking of European migratory policies.
→ read full articleFighting, While Funding, Extremists
Editorial |The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – Saudi Arabia and some of its neighbors decide to punish Qatar and some of its citizens, ostensibly for fostering and financing Islamist terrorism. But Saudi Arabia itself has been accused of underwriting extremists. No matter: President Trump, captivated by Saudi royalty, sides with the Saudis — even though the United States has two important bases in Qatar. Baffling, right? The biggest loser in all this may turn out to be the fight against the Islamic State.
→ read full articleAntoine de Saint Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944): Solitude and Solidarity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Saint Ex for the style was influenced by Frederic Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra which he had read. However, the spirit is much closer to Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet. There is no indication that he had read Gibran in Saint Ex’s period in New York. It is more likely that both writers shared a common outlook on life.
→ read full articleOperation Condor: US, Latin American Slaughter, Torture Program
Edward Rhymes – teleSUR,
26 Jun 2017
The United States was a major backer of the military dictatorships during the 1970s that overthrew some Latin American democracies. [From TMS Editor: I was tortured after Brazil’s 1964 CIA military coup with electric shocks to my limbs, genitals as Operation Condor ravaged Latin America in my 20’s. For the record.]
→ read full articleThe CIA Paid Psychologists $81 Million to Devise Brutal Tactics for Use on Terror Suspects, and They’re Suing
Erin Brodwin | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
22 Jun 2017 – After a doctor X-rayed one prisoner’s badly broken feet, his colleague gave interrogators the go-ahead to force him to stand for 52 hours. A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of former prisoners shines new light on the grisly details of the tactics the doctors approved for use on terrorism suspects. These tactics range from water-boarding to “walling” — a method that involves pushing a person into a flexible plywood wall so hard that it creates a disturbing sound that pierces the ear.
→ read full articleWould You Like a Drink Of Water? Please Ask a Yemeni Child
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
We, likewise, can work toward justice for those who live in communities like Flint, MI; we can seek sane approaches to the climate crisis; and we can insist that those who are targets of war, like the cholera-ridden, desperately hungry children of Yemen, be spared from aerial terrorism and given full access to clean, life-saving waters.
→ read full articlePursuing Stability and a Shared Development in Euro–Mediterranean Migrations
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
The book makes deep inroads from a theoretical as well as a policymaking point of view. It brings forth many theoretical dimensions of the migration in the Euro-Mediterranean zone, and offers many nuanced perspectives. It aims to draw “a comprehensive study while using a multi-faceted analysis of the migration issue, taking into account the expertise, knowledge, background, and experiences of the authors.
→ read full articleHelen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.
→ read full articlePearl S. Buck (26 June 1892 – 6 March 1973): The Good Earth-China
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Pearl Buck was a cultural bridge-builder, bringing an understanding of Chinese rural culture to the USA and Europe, but also to Chinese urban society as at different times her books, translated into Chinese, were widely read in China. In the 1950s-1960s she was active in helping children in South Korea fathered by US soldiers and then left behind.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (2) William Blake
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
William Blake, sublime visionary poet and artist, voice of the poor. Voice of nature, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleHow Greece Became a Guinea Pig for a Cashless and Controlled Society
Michael Nevradakis – MintPress News,
26 Jun 2017
As Greece moves closer to becoming a cashless society, it is clear that the country’s attitude towards cash is reckless and dangerous. The supposed convenience of switching to a cash-free system comes with a great deal of risk, including needless overreach by the state.
→ read full articleIsrael Demolishes Palestinian Village for 114th Time in Seven Years
Whitney Webb - MintPress News,
26 Jun 2017
Israeli bulldozers flattened a village inhabited by the ancient Palestinian Bedouins, a tribe that has lived on the land for thousands of years. Israeli authorities have systematically run the indigenous Bedouins off of their land to pave the way for Jewish-only settlements.
→ read full article(Português) Considerações Sobre Musculação, Fisiculturismo e Veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
24 Jun 2017 – Não é raro encontrar pessoas que dizem que veganos não conseguem chegar ao nível de fisiculturistas que não são veganos.
→ read full articleWhy We Leaked Hundreds of Pages of a Secret Trade Deal That Threatens Our Rights and Our Planet
Shira Stanton and Sebastian Bock | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
23 Jun 2017 – Behind closed doors and countless documents, details of a proposed deal between two of the world’s largest economies are being kept from us. Until now. Chances are that the planned trade deal between the European Union and Japan has not been on top of your mind. Governments have gone to great lengths to leave their citizens in the dark about a deal that can significantly impact our lives and the world we live in.
→ read full articleOn Being a Vaccine Heretic Excommunicated from the Church of Big Pharma
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Big Pharma is the pejorative term given to the vast number of multinational (global) pharmaceutical corporations. It takes no Hippocratic Oath, does not insist that its sycophants give fully informed consent when their products are prescribed and it ignores the Precautionary Principle, thus affirming the sense that it has no concern for the health of its users or the health of the planet.
→ read full article(Português) Japão autoriza caça de duas novas espécies de golfinhos em massacre anual
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
O documentário de 2009 “The Cove”, de Louie Psihoyos, mostrou a brutalidade da caça de golfinhos em Taiji, no Japão, ao divulgar imagens vívidas e detalhadas dos assassinatos de golfinhos em uma entrada isolada de uma pequena cidade na prefeitura de Wakayama.
→ read full articleVault 7: Brutal Kangaroo
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Today, June 22nd 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the Brutal Kangaroo project of the CIA. The documents describe how a CIA operation can infiltrate a closed network (or a single air-gapped computer) within an organization or enterprise without direct access.
→ read full articleUN Chief: US Will Be Replaced If It Disengages from World
Edith M. Ledrer | Associated Press – Yahoo News,
26 Jun 2017
20 Jun 2017 — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Trump administration that if the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced. Guterres made clear at his first press conference since taking the reins of the UN that he is not afraid to stand up to President Donald Trump, citing his vocal opposition to the U.S. leader’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.
→ read full articleExclusive: Overruling Diplomats, U.S. to Drop Iraq, Myanmar from Child Soldiers’ List
Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick | Reuters - US News & World Report,
26 Jun 2017
23 Jun 2017 – In a highly unusual intervention, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to remove Iraq and Myanmar from a U.S. list of the world’s worst offenders in the use of child soldiers, disregarding the recommendations of State Department experts and senior U.S. diplomats.
→ read full articleIsrael vs. the United Nations: The Nikki Haley Doctrine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
21 Jun 2017 – The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel. Haley seems to truly think of herself as the new sheriff in town, who will “kick ’em every single time”, before riddling the bullies with bullets and riding into the sunset, along with Netanyahu. Since the Negroponte doctrine of 2002, thousands of Palestinians and hundreds of Israelis were killed in an occupation that seems to know no ends.
→ read full articleFreud-Einstein on Peace
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
“Why War?” was the title of an interchange of letters between Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein in 1932, 85 years ago. What can we still learn from these giants, and what might they have learned in the meantime? Let us look at their approaches, as fellow human beings searching for answers to a question for humankind at all times: the curse of war.
→ read full articleThe Settlers’ Goal Is Not the Settlements – It Is the Total Transformation of Israel
Noam Sheizaf | +972 Mag – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
The settlements, the settlers, and the occupation are all entirely associated with one another in the Israeli consciousness. The Left and the Right agree on this, albeit with varying considerations: the Left wants to apportion blame for Israel’s continuing control over the West Bank, while the settlers want to take credit for the settlement project and for thwarting the idea of partitioning the land.
→ read full article(Italiano) BRESCIA, 21 giugno 2017. Dopo 43 anni la sentenza definitiva per la strage di Piazza della Loggia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
24 Giu 2017 – Riporto l’annuncio al mondo intero, dedicato ai lettori di Transcend Media Service, che dopo 43 anni e cinque processi, la Corte di cassazione ha emesso il verdetto definitivo… Non si è trattato di una festa per la vittoria, ma ancora una volta un’occasione di riflessione fra giustizia storia e memoria.
→ read full article‘I Am Deeply Troubled by Aung San Suu Kyi and Her Denial of the Rohingya Genocide’: Maung Zarni
Adil Zaman – The Citizen (India),
26 Jun 2017
“The ugly truth is this: the world revolves around national and corporate interests and nasty struggles over these interests. Rohingya crisis is yet another inconvenient case of international crimes against the faceless, vulnerable, commercially useless human community. The failure of the international community, so-called, to end Rohingya genocide, and other atrocities in places like Sudan or Burundi, is an affront to all the decent humans around the world.”
→ read full articleWhy Are Americans so Obsessed with Apocalypse—and Convinced It Will Happen in the Near Future?
Betsy Hartmann | Seven Stories Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – According to opinion polls, a staggering percentage of Americans accept that the world will end in a battle in Armageddon. In a 2010 Pew poll, 41 percent of respondents said they expected Jesus Christ to return to Earth by 2050. Unfortunately, we are more predisposed to imagine the end of the world than the end of American war-making.
→ read full articleBangladesh Cardinal Defends Rights of Rohingya Refugees
Nirmala Carvalho | Crux – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are considered to be among the world’s most persecuted peoples, subject to what the UN calls “crimes against humanity” and hundreds of thousands are now refugees in neighboring Bangladesh, where Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario is defending their right to “dignity.”
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)
Israel "IZ" KamakawiwoʻOle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole was morbidly obese and at one point weighed 348 kg standing 1.88 m tall. He died at the age of 38 on JUNE 26, 1997. The Hawaii state flag flew at half-staff on the day of his funeral. Thousands of fans gathered as his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean at Mākua Beach, Hawai’i. This video documents the event. RIP dear friend with a heart so big it weighed 348 kg.
→ read full articleThe Climate Movement Charges On, Even without the USA
Winnie Byanyima – Al Jazeera,
26 Jun 2017
Developing nations lay claim to the mantle of leadership for a fairer, safer world.
→ read full articleBattle for Raqqa: Protests Needed on Violations of Humanitarian Law
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The battle for Raqqa, a symbolic city for the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, is underway with ever-increasing dangers to civilian populations caught in the cross-fire of ISIS and the advancing Kurd-led Syrian Democratic Forces, supported by air strikes of the US-led coalition.
→ read full articleIsraeli Occupied USA
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
18 Jun 2017 – I, who happen to be a US citizen, spent 40 hours on grueling travel between Palestine and the USA and my documents (and luggage) were checked 15-20 times along the way. US security agents were at the exit from the Amman-Chicago flight waiting for me checking IDs and when the one checking my ID announced “we got him” loud enough for the other passenger to hear, four of them escorted me to get my checked-in luggage and then to a special security area where agents went through everything I had thoroughly. They looked through my note book/diary and also copied my speaking schedule.
→ read full articleUsing Open Source Drugs to Help Treat Neglected Diseases
Gaëll Mainguy and Samir Brahmachari – The Conversation,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – The Open Source Drug Discovery project, launched in 2008 by biophysicist Samir Brahmachari, aims to develop low-cost treatments for neglected diseases using an open-source approach. Brahmachari is founding director of India’s Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology.
→ read full article(Português) François Houtart e Miguel d’Escoto: Servos dos Oprimidos – Frei Betto
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
13 junho 2017 – Associo-me ao Frei Betto na homenagem de dois grandes amigos comuns que tínhamos e que concluiram, na semana passada, a sua peregrinação por este mundo: o teólogo e sociólogo belga vivendo no Equador, François Hourtart e o ex-chanceler da Nicaragua e ex-presidente da ONU 2008-2009, o padre Miguel d’Escoto. Foram os servos dos oprimidos duante toda a vida. Dele aprendemos a política unida à espiritualidade e a reconhecer a diplomacia como caminho para a paz entre os povos.
→ read full article(Français) 50 vérités sur Ernesto « Che » Guevara
Salim Lamrani | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – Le « guérillero héroïque » cubano-argentin perdure dans la mémoire collective comme symbole de résistance à l’oppression.
→ read full articleLicense to Poison!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Fails to Protect Troops, Residents, and Visitors from Military Radiation on Hawaii Island
→ read full articleJean-Paul Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Sartre was offered, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 for his autobiography, Words, though he subsequently rejected the award based on his own notions of his integrity as a writer.
→ read full articleOvercoming Nuclear Crises: North Korea and Beyond
Richard Falk and David Krieger | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
This jointly authored essay was initially published in The Hill on May 30, 2017 under the title, Averting the Ticking Time Bomb of Nukes in North Korea. We did not choose such a title that is doubly misleading: our contention is not that North Korea is the core of the problem, but rather the retention of nuclear weapons by all of the states pose both crises in the context of counter-proliferation geopolitics and with respect to the possession, deployment, and development of the weaponry itself; a second objection is with the title given the piece by editors at The Hill. While acknowledging the practice of media outlets to decide on titles without seeking prior approval from authors, this title is particularly objectionable to me. The term ‘nukes’ gives an almost friendly shorthand to these most horrific of weapons, and strikes a tone that trivializes what should be regarded at all times with solemnity.
→ read full articleStatement by Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
There have been a number of alarming incidents of incitement of intercommunal tension and religious violence since my last update. In April, extremist Buddhist nationalists reportedly pressured authorities to close two Islamic schools in Yangon that traditionally have served as a prayer site, with no consultation and investigation. That they remain closed through Ramadan, a sacred month for Muslims when they not only observe the fasting but are also encouraged to conduct additional prayers, has resulted in a sense of greater isolation amongst the community.
→ read full articleSelf-Determination and Peace
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Self-determination is no guarantee that people will always make the optimal decision. But if they make a mistake, it is their own mistake, and they have nobody else to blame. They will learn from their mistake and make a better choice next time. However, if a central government forces them to do something against their will, and they suffer as a consequence, they will naturally turn their anger against that government. Self-determination helps avoid such conflicts.
→ read full articleUntreated Sewage Could Flood Gaza as Crippling Power Outages Worsen
MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Conditions in Gaza are worsening, with grave consequences for both human health and the environment due to untreated wastewater. Worse still, Israel has announced it will cut the electricity it supplies to Gaza by nearly half.
→ read full articleSignificance of International Day of Yoga — Promoting Peace, Harmony and Health
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The first Yoga Day was celebrated on 21 June 2015. Yoga is increasingly being practiced in many parts of the world. What is its significance in the contemporary world? One does not need to be a religious person to enjoy the benefits of Yoga… Yoga is for everyone — for promotion of peace, harmony, health and goodwill for all.
→ read full articleOldest Homo Sapiens Bones Ever Found Shake Foundations of the Human Story
Ian Sample – The Guardian,
19 Jun 2017
Idea that modern humans evolved in East Africa 200,000 years ago challenged by extraordinary discovery of 300,000-year-old remains in Moroccan mine.
→ read full articleDonald Trump Is Making Europe Liberal Again
Nate Silver | FiveThirtyEight – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Donald Trump promised to “Make America Great Again,” but he might instead be “Making Europe Liberal Again.” Counter to the prevailing narrative of a swing towards right-wing parties, Silver compares politics in several European countries and finds it has become more difficult to make the case that a nationalist tide is on the rise.
→ read full articlePolitical Will, Financial Support Needed to Bolster New Approach to Cholera in Haiti – UN Deputy Chief
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – The UN deputy chief Amina Mohammed today called on Member States to fund the Organization’s new strategy to counter cholera in Haiti. “Without your political will and financial support, we have only good intentions and words.”
→ read full article(Português) Verme enviado ao espaço desenvolve segunda cabeça
O Globo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 junho 2017 — Um experimento com vermes platelmintos na Estação Espacial Internacional revelou uma possível consequência bizarra da microgravidade no processo de regeneração desse animal. Um dos exemplares enviados ao espaço desenvolveu uma segunda cabeça, em vez da cauda.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism – A Global Debate
Meah Mostafiz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
News reporting has traditionally been feeding on war, conflict and violence, often offering propaganda for one of the conflicting parties, and without any apparent intention to promote peace. For the war and conflict or ethnic violence scene, peace journalism brings reporting method that finds causes of conflict and tries to suggest solutions, instead of pouring more fuel on the fire. This research paper defines the peace journalism, the difference between traditional journalism and peace journalism and analyses the factors ‘why Peace Journalism is hard to practice in mainstream media?’
→ read full articleFifty Years of Immoral Occupation of Palestine
Prof. Alon Ben-Meir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – Today, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank has reached the milestone of 50 years that will be recalled in shame. Fifty years that have dehumanized both the occupier and the occupied; years of failing to muster the courage to right the wrong. Fifty years that bred nothing but hatred and contempt for the other; years of illusions trying to deny the other the right to a home of their own.
→ read full articleSaudi Blockade Triggers Massive Cholera Epidemic in Yemen, Claiming One Life Each Hour
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
19 Jun 2017
Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen and its continuing blockade of Yemeni ports has virtually collapsed the country and basic necessities are in dangerously short supply. Now, Yemen finds itself unable to treat a rapidly growing cholera outbreak that claims the life of one civilian every hour.
→ read full articleWar Is a Racket
Major General Smedley Butler, USMC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in currencies and the losses in lives. A racket is best described as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about.
→ read full articleThe 50-Year Setback
Hamza Abu Eltarabesh |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The 1967 War had eerily similar effects to the Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe), the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Approximately 400,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were displaced 50 years ago this month. The events of 1967 have become known as the Naksa, or setback. The war lasted six days. By the time it ended, Israel had occupied the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt’s Sinai peninsula and Syria’s Golan Heights.
→ read full articleThe Galtung-Institut’s 2017 Summer Academy
Naakow Grant-Hayford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
At the heart of the Galtung-Institut’s Summer Academy is a resolve to equip enrolled participants with the capacity to solve complex societal conflicts by using means that are nonviolent, empathetic and constructive. A resolve that has led us to become active in the field of training peace professionals.
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Antonio Carlos Jobim & Frank Sinatra: Corcovado + (Music Video of the Week)
Frank Sinatra & Tom Jobim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
A Brazilian Samba/Bossa Nova Duet in New York – Timeless, Unforgettable!
→ read full articleVault 7: Cherry Blossom
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Today, June 15th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the CherryBlossom project of the CIA that was developed and implemented with the help of the US nonprofit Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). CherryBlossom provides a means of monitoring the Internet activity of and performing software exploits on Targets of interest. In particular, CherryBlossom is focused on compromising wireless networking devices, such as wireless routers and access points (APs), to achieve these goals.
→ read full articleRefining the Value of Sustainable Development Goals
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
In Quest of the Systemic Coherence of Global Attractors – In a period of global crises a frame of reference is offered by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals articulated by the UN, superseding the earlier formulation of the 8 Millennium Development Goals. How indeed are people expected to “get their heads around “the set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals?
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Jun 19-25 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Evelyn Beatrice Hall
→ read full articleIsrael Attempts to Block yet another UN Report
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
15 Jun 2017 – Having succeeded in blocking a recent UN report that accused Israel of maintaining a system of apartheid, Israeli officials are now attempting to remove another UN report, which has charged Tel Aviv with carrying out extrajudicial executions along with a list of other human rights violations.
→ read full articleInside the World of Indian Moneylenders
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
“I get my money where everyone else does.” “Where is that?” “Everyone knows. I get it from a five-six.” “What is a five-six?” “It is the place where you borrow five rupees in the morning, and pay back six rupees in the evening.” It is possible to get day loans in the vegetable market that provide 100 rupees in the morning but have to be repaid with 10 rupees interest by dusk.
→ read full article(Português) Considerações sobre a violência
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Agressividade, violência, são formas de descontrole. Se você não tiver controle sobre isso, isso terá controle sobre você. E quando você achar que está dominando alguma coisa ao fazer uso da agressividade ou da violência, estará apenas sendo subjugado pelo que o priva da sua própria humanidade, sem que você perceba.
→ read full articleHeartbeat
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
While the heart beats alive,
While the loopholes of the towers are silent,
While peasants are still reaping, and plowing,
Former Okinawa Governor Masahide Ota Dies on His Birthday
Japan Broadcasting Corporation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
12 Jun 2017 – Former Okinawa Governor Masahide Ota, who tackled the issue of reducing the number of US military bases on the island prefecture, died today. He was 92.
→ read full articleUN Moves on Myanmar, Too Little Too Late?
Daily Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – It could all be about to kick off in Myanmar. But this time in a good way for the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. Possibly. Hopefully. It seems that the UN is finally getting serious about the ethnic cleansing of this community that has been going on since 2012.
→ read full articleIt’s Not the Occupation – It’s the Settler Colonial System
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
This the second set of selected articles from MERIP’s admirable collation of analyses on the 50-year occupation. There are many ideas here but we’ve selected one – the settler colonialism of which the Occupation is just one manifestation. Opposing that is of a different order.
→ read full articleFrançois Houtart: A Unique Extraordinary Human Being
Alexandra Valiente | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The death of François Houtart, intellectual, political analyst, Marxist sociologist, priest and practitioner of liberation theology, the ‘pope of anti-globalization’, tireless fighter and friend, has taken us by surprise. He died on 6 Jun 2017 in Quito, Ecuador at the age of 92.
→ read full articleDirty Open Secret: US Created and Supports ISIS
Stephen Lendman – Global Research,
19 Jun 2017
It’s one of the dirtiest of dirty open secrets.
• US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) documents prove it – obtained by Judicial Watch through an FOIA lawsuit.
• They show ISIS, al-Qaeda and like-minded terrorist groups are the “major forces” used as US foot soldiers in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.
Feed the Hungry, Treat the Sick: A Crucial Training
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Since entering the war in Yemen, in March of 2015, the Saudi coalition’s airstrikes, with U.S. assistance, have destroyed bridges, roads, factories, farms, food trucks, animals, water infrastructure, and agricultural banks across the north, while imposing a blockade on the territory. Saudi Arabia bombed a Yemeni hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders. The airstrike went on for two hours, reducing the hospital to rubble.
→ read full articleHow BAE Sold Cyber-Surveillance Tools to Repressive Arab States
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
A year-long investigation by BBC Arabic and a Danish newspaper has uncovered evidence that the UK defence giant BAE Systems has made large-scale sales across the Middle East of sophisticated surveillance technology, including to many repressive governments. These sales have also included decryption software which could be used against the UK and its allies.
→ read full articleRural Poverty? Cooperatives!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The primary purpose of rural cooperatives is to feed themselves by sharing risks, and share gains on top of that. Members are both farmers and farm workers with risk-absorbing capacity and sharing. Poor and unemployed from towns and cities may join, at least getting food in exchange for work.
→ read full articleGeorge Orwell (25 Jun 1903 – 21 Jan 1950)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
George Orwell was a novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). Aldous Huxley was one of his masters. He worked between bouts of hospitalization for tuberculosis, of which he died in a London hospital.
→ read full articleEU Parliament Ignores Advice and Votes for Muddled Definition of Antisemitism
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Last month the EU parliament voted 479:101 to accept the now notorious definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. A QC’s opinion found it not fit for purpose; Jewish groups wrote to the parliament urging them not to support the motion. All were ignored.
→ read full articleThis Greater Song
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The trail gives way, the hills decline
And everything around me mine
Under the risen star –
Joint African Action Crucial to Protect Persons with Albinism from Violence, Highlights UN Expert
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
13 Jun 2017 – Highlighting the importance of cooperation among countries to overcome the violence and discrimination faced by persons with albinism, a United Nations rights expert has urged African nations to fully implement a regional action plan on ending attacks on persons with albinism.
→ read full articleLatin America in Search of an Alternative
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 2017 – The financial media present the ‘right’s’ socially regressive policies and strategies as ‘reforms’, a euphemism for the re-concentration of wealth, profits and property into the hands of foreign and domestic oligarchs. Leftwing intellectuals and journalists paint an image of socio-economic transformations under Latin America’s ‘left’ regimes where ‘the people’ take power, income is redistributed and growth flourishes.
→ read full articleNational Illusions and Global Realities
Lawrence Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
For as long as they have existed, nations have clung to the illusion that their military strength guarantees their security. The problem with this kind of thinking is that the military power that one nation considers vital to its security fosters other nations’ sense of insecurity. In this climate of suspicion, an arms race ensues, often culminating in military conflict. Also, sometimes the very military strength that a nation intended for protection ends up emboldening it to engage in reckless, aggressive behavior, leading to war.
→ read full article‘BRICS’ Countries Well Placed to Help Lead Global Efforts to Tackle Hunger
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 20187 – With the clock ticking toward the 2030 deadline for meeting the international goals to eradicate hunger and poverty, five of the world’s most important emerging economies are well positioned to take a leading role in helping to achieve these objectives, according to the UN: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
→ read full articleHonest Look at Historical Evidence Debunking Popular Myth That Vaccines Eliminated Childhood Infectious Diseases
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – Over the 40 plus years that I was a family practitioner and teacher (the English word “doctor” derives from the Latin verb docere [do-ke-re] which means “to teach”), I have tried to fulfill what I have regarded as my solemn professional duty to warn my patients (and anybody else who would listen) about the multitude of deceptions and myths that all-too-often come from for-profit sociopathic pharmaceutical corporations (and their hangers-on).
→ read full articleUS Criticized for Using Skin-Melting White Phosphorous: HRW
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – The United States-led coalition in Iraq and Syria is facing heavy criticism for its use of white phosphorous, an incendiary chemical that ignites on contact with atmospheric oxygen, causing severe and mortal burns to those affected.
→ read full articlePashtun Woman: Enduring the Unendurable
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The words to this lyrical poem, Pashtun Woman, are presented in a rhythm and evocative cadence to the delicate and haunting melody, A Thousand Splendid Suns. The title of this melody was adapted from a Seventeenth-Century Afghan poem, written by Saib e Tabrizi.
→ read full articleChildren Hardest Hit as Cholera Spreads in War-Torn Yemen – UNICEF
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – As the outbreak of cholera in Yemen continues to spread at an alarming rate – with terrible impact on children – the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for immediate support to enable the country’s health workers respond or risk even more deaths from the deadly disease.
→ read full articleThe Myth of Hiroshima
Peter Van Buren | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 2017 – The short version of the atomic myth, the one kneaded into public consciousness, is that the bombs were not dropped out of revenge or malice, immoral acts, but of grudging military necessity. As a result of this, the attacks have not provoked or generated deep introspection and national reflection. For President Obama to visit Hiroshima without reflecting on the why of that unfortunate loss of lives, acting as if they occurred via some natural disaster, is tragically consistent.
→ read full articleTanzania Forced to Embrace Seed Patents or Risk Losing Developmental Aid
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
19 Jun 2017
Agribusiness companies are taking advantage of Tanzania’s desperate need for aid to push a development plan that will allow them to dominate the country’s agriculture sector and plunge farmers into debt. A similar plan led to a suicide epidemic among Indian farmers in recent years.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (1) Saint Francis of Assisi
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Saint Francis, friend of all life on earth, friend of the earth itself, true interpreter of Christian ethics, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleThe Best Pharmacist
Submitted by Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
A woman enters a pharmacy and asks for poison.
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