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Israel Cracks the Whip on Hunger-Striking Palestinian Prisoners
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs released a statement Monday [17 Apr] saying that Israeli Prison Service officials have forcibly moved hunger-striking prisoners to different sections of Israeli jails, confiscated their clothes and personal belongings and prevented lawyers and family members from visiting them in jail. Some Israeli leaders are calling for a more blood-soaked crackdown, calling on the state to execute many of the prisoners.
→ read full article(Italiano) Resistenze oggi. Sul 25 aprile 2017 ad Aosta
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Sono le studentesse e gli studenti della scuola primaria, della scuola secondaria di primo e secondo grado e dell’università che hanno letto i Principi fondamentali della Costituzione della Repubblica italiana, dal palco delle autorità il 25 aprile.
→ read full articleVault 7: Weeping Angel
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Today, April 21st 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the User Guide for CIA’s “Weeping Angel” tool – an implant designed for Samsung F Series Smart Televisions. Based on the “Extending” tool from MI5/BTSS, the implant is designed to record audio from the built-in microphone and egress or store the data.
→ read full articleAn Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide
Alice Cowley and Maung Zarni | Middle East Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Waves of state-directed violence and communal destruction … have been occurring since 1978 and are part of a process of ‘slow-burning genocide.’ Decades of facts relating to the instrumental role of the Myanmar State in the abuses of Rohingya are buried alongside very real human corpses.
→ read full articleA Lexicon of Polity “State” Descriptors ©
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
I sought to identify and list adjectives describing nations, states, and institutions. Adjectives are powerful words used to modify or describe a noun; they help convey or enhance the noun’s possible meanings and impact. We use adjectives many times a day to communicate our feelings or attitudes about a topic. It isn’t enough to discuss a topic, we benefit from immersing the topic in adjectives.
→ read full articleReducing Urban Violence
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
World Forum on Urban Violence, Madrid, 19-21 April 2017 – To reduce direct violence in cities we have to move from urban violence culture to an urban peace culture and from urban structural violence to a structure of peace. Street names should not glorify wars and violent heroes but peace and their heroines, often women. Move warrior on horseback monuments close to the cemetery for symbolic burial.
→ read full articleWhat India’s Poor Really Need Is Microsavings, Not Microcredit
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
There’s an old saying about poverty: Give me a fish, and I’ll eat for a day. Give me a fishing rod, and I’ll eat for a lifetime. But these days, particularly in India, there’s evidence that one of the most effective tools to fight poverty may not be a fishing rod, but a savings account. What we need is a savings revolution.
→ read full articlePesticide Maker Dow Chemical Tries to Kill Risk Study
Michael Biesecker| Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
20 Apr 2017 — Dow Chemical is pushing a Trump administration open to scrapping regulations to ignore the findings of federal scientists who point to a family of widely used pesticides as harmful to about 1,800 critically threatened or endangered species.
→ read full articleMajor Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
Andy Greenberg | WIRED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Friday [14 Apr] morning, the Shadow Brokers published documents that—if legitimate—show just how thoroughly US intelligence has compromised elements of the global banking system. Also included in the data dump, as in previous Shadow Brokers releases, are a load of fresh hacking tools, this time targeting a slew of Windows versions.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Temer Confesses Rousseff’s Impeachment Was Revenge
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Brazil’s Senate-imposed President Michel Temer admitted Sunday [16 Apr 2017] in a TV interview that the former head of the lower chamber, Eduardo Cunha, opened the impeachment process against former President Dilma Rousseff because her party did not protect him from an investigation over corruption charges.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre campos de concentração para homossexuais na Tchetchênia
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
O atual presidente da Tchechênia, Ramzan Kadyrov, ele mesmo considerado um criminoso de guerra e também filho de um dos maiores criminosos da história da Tchechênia, comanda um exército privado conhecido como Kadyrovtsy, que opera uma rede de prisões secretas. De acordo com a Federação Internacional de Helsinki para Direitos Humanos, o grupo é responsável por pelo menos 75% dos crimes de guerra cometidos contra os tchetchenos.
→ read full articleAnother Vietnam, 1965-1975: Unseen Images of the War from the Winning Side
Alex Q. Arbuckle | Mashable – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Many famous images of the war were taken by Western photographers and news agencies, working alongside American or South Vietnamese troops. But the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong had hundreds of photographers of their own, who documented every facet of the war under the most dangerous conditions.
→ read full articleThe Zookeeper’s Wife: Reflections on Past and Present
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
I do honor the memory of the Holocaust as a prime experience of unrestrained evil, forever a source of mourning and foreboding, and acknowledge that I have a certain degree of ‘survivor guilt’ having been so arbitrarily spared despite my ethnic eligibility for the gas chamber. At the same time, I refuse to defer to that past by disregarding present evil, no matter the perpetrator. The Palestinian experience of victimization is severe, prolonged, ongoing, without an end in sight.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Apr 24-30 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
→ read full articleDescriptive Titles
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Someone who farms is a farmer.
→ read full articleWhy the Donald Should Cool It on N. Korea – The Fat Boy Can’t Even Deliver His “Little Boy”
David Stockman | Lew Rockwell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
When hostilities broke out between the two Korean sides in June 1950, Washington instantly transformed it into a proxy war against the Soviet Union and its fledgling ally in China, which had just fallen under Mao’s control the previous year. As Truman baldly put it, he was not going to lose another country to the “reds”… Yes, the pursuit of empire weaves a wretched plot, as it has on the Korean littoral for 67 years running.
→ read full articleExtensive Support for Nuclear Weapons Ban
Pax for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
4 Apr 2017 – Last week, 132 countries took part in the first round of negotiations at the United Nations on a nuclear weapons ban. Survivors of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, survivors of nuclear tests, civil society organizations such as PAX, and other experts actively participated in the talks.
→ read full articleCelebrating the Fifth of May
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
If you have successfully freed your twenty-first century mind from enslavement to the jurisprudence of the eighteenth century, you will have no trouble accepting the cancellation of debts. If you are a realist about the evolution of the human species on the planet earth, you will see necessary or desirable debt cancellation as just another adjustment of culture to its physical functions.
→ read full articleCooperative Commonwealth & the Partner State
John Restakis | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Among capitalism’s many critics, it is standard procedure to state that neoliberalism has failed and that unless our societies construct a new paradigm for how economies work, human societies will collapse under the weight of an unsustainable and environmentally catastrophic capitalist system.
→ read full articleLet Us Struggle Today and Dream for a Better Tomorrow
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
“My problem is that I have no problem. Yes, there are difficulties of one type or the other but I do not feel depressed or frustrated. I manage to overcome these difficulties. And that is why I do not feel any problem”. He smiled broadly. I felt puzzled but could not but agree with him. A little later when I was alone I wondered what he had said about not being burdened by any problems. I remembered a quotation of a person named Anthony Robbins who had said that every problem is a gift; without problems we would not grow.
→ read full articleEnding the U.S. Embargo on Cuba at the Grassroots
Peter Miller and Rita Barouch | NACLA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
With Cuba policy under the Trump administration still uncertain, Cuba solidarity activists seek to turn the tide against the embargo at the local and state level.
→ read full articleAn Inevitable Post-Christian Middle East with or without ISIS?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
24 Apr 2017 – “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?)” are reputedly among Jesus’ last words on the Cross at Calvary. Today Christ’s words can be said to apply to all Christians in the Middle East who in this birthplace of Christianity are increasingly facing the most intense persecutions since the Roman Empire and the Bolshevik revolution.
→ read full articleWho Will Tell the People (That Fascism Has Come to America)?
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
When Corporations Rule the World, Thank the CIA and the Media Disinformation Campaign –
“Who will tell the people that free speech is a ruse
The corporations run the country and then they make the news
Is it media or mind control, heroic victories or crimes
Who will tell the people that we’re living in these times?”
Waiting at Sea
Dr. Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Heading out was always easier:
The cleaving rush of the prow,
Songs in my ears that backward fled,
The ebb and burst of rhyme
Elisabeth Mann Borgese (24 Apr 1918 – 8 Feb 2002): Visionary of Common Oceans
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
While the resulting Convention of the Law of the Sea has not revolutionized world politics – as some of us hoped in the early 1970s – the Convention is an important building block in the development of world law. We are grateful for the values and the energy that Elisabeth Mann Borgese embodied.
→ read full article(Português) Bugios: eles não precisam de mais uma ameaça!
Leonardo Merçon | Conexão Planeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Quando parei para fotografar a cena, um destes macacos, que estava com o grupo, que dormia todo encolhido e junto para se proteger do frio, levantou a cabeça me direcionou um olhar bem profundo. Aquele olhar me comoveu. Na hora, senti que aquela foto um dia serviria para uma causa maior. Fui para casa, editei a imaem e guardei para utilizá-la no momento certo.
→ read full articleOh, that Eternal Swing
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Oh, that eternal swing,
Up into the sky, then down,
Unattainability of the desired goal,
And again the cornice of abyss…
Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire: 2016 Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Women’s Boat to Gaza
→ read full articleOur American Pravda
Ron Unz | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017 – Top academic scholars and seasoned Intelligence professionals have widely derided the alleged Syrian government Sarin gas attack as an apparent false-flag hoax. Yet our fanatically Trump-hating mainstream media has almost totally ignored these facts, instead fulsomely praising the President for immediately launching an unconstitutional missile attack upon Syria in retaliation, while congratulating him for his new-found “moderation” in potentially provoking a dangerous military confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Può darci pace la scienza empirica?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Il dito di Galileo indica due pilastri della scienza: la conoscenza scientifica deve basarsi sull’osservazione o la sperimentazione di fatti empirici; e la matematica è il linguaggio usato per esporre questa conoscenza scientifica. Prima obiezione: soltanto il passato può produrre fatti empirici; il che limita quello che potrebbe essere o che dovrebbe essere a ciò che già è manifesto in alcuni fatti. Ma gli esseri umani sono in grado di trascendere il passato e creare fatti nuovi.
→ read full article(Italiano) Frattanto, per il mondo …
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Cominciando dall’Unione Europea, 60enne, che rende importanti i piccoli stati (il Lussemburgo!) rendendoli membri di qualcosa più grosso, ma ridimensiona stati più grandi, addirittura imperiali, rendendoli semplici “membri”.
→ read full article(Português) Prisão do mais importante cientista nuclear brasileiro é questionada por políticos
Fania Rodrigues | Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
5 abril 2017 – A prisão e condenação do homem que colocou o Brasil entre os poucos países que dominam a tecnologia nuclear é assunto polêmico no meio político. O almirante da Marinha do Brasil e físico nuclear, Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva, de 77 anos foi condenado a 43 anos de prisão, em agosto de 2015, pelo juiz Sérgio Moro, no âmbito da operação Lava Jato.
→ read full articleOzymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
(Français) Mais où sont donc passés les droits de l’Homme?
Robert Charvin | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Les droits de l’homme ont progressivement quitté l’avant-scène politique : par « nécessité », l’idéologie « droitdel’hommiste » n’était plus « à la mode ». Elle ne correspondait plus aux besoins des dominants, au contraire.
→ read full articleLaw, Roads, Housing, Buses Are All Separate; It’s Called Apartheid
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Mehdi Hasan in The Intercept presents testimony from Israelis from Ben Gurion to today, and from international observers, that Israel fulfils all the criteria of being an apartheid state. This is because, by keeping Palestinians impoverished and stateless and expanding settlements, Israeli Jews and Palestinians are increasingly in the same space.
→ read full articleCrime and Punishment in Syria
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Why then are the Western powers, led by America, so certain that Assad is the culprit? Criminal investigation experts inform us that all criminals have a distinctive modus operandi, a criminal signature, by which their agency is recognized. Just as Nikki Haley held up a photo of children dying of gas attack to initial America’s direct military engagement in Syria, way back in 2003 Secretary of State Colin Powell held up a tube of anthrax in the Security Council meeting to assert Saddam Hussain had weapons of mass destruction.
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Dr Maung Zarni on the Question of Rohingya Statelessness
Burma Times TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
TRANSCEND Member Maung Zarni on the question of Rohingya statelessness and Myanmar racism. LSE Rule of Law Roundtable with Aung San Suu Kyi, 19 June 2012.
→ read full articleThe G[e]assing Game in Syria: Regime Change and Beyond
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Given conflicting accounts, an independent international inquiry should be conducted to determine what really happened on 4 April. The members of the panel should comprise credible experts who are not citizens of any of the five permanent member states of the UN Security Council. The UN Secretary-General should appoint the panel.
→ read full articleVault 7: Hive Project
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Today, April 14th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes six documents from the CIA’s HIVE project created by its “Embedded Development Branch.” HIVE is a back-end infrastructure malware with a public-facing HTTPS interface which is used by CIA implants to transfer exfiltrated information from target machines to the CIA and to receive commands from its operators to execute specific tasks on the targets.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Apr 17-23 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
“Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name
Amasses wealth by brain and hand
Becomes a power in the land
But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife
He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.”
– Unknown
Afghanistan: Elegy . . . Unfinished Tapestry?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
I write in sympathy, empathy, compassion, and shared hope.
→ read full articleHow Amateur President, Amateur Secretary of State and Amateur UN Ambassador Could Start World War III
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Throughout its history, the evidence of American military atrocities and war crimes are routinely censored-out by the American mainstream media, with sugar-coated fake news being substituted instead. We simpletons and untermenschen are only allowed to see the nefarious deeds of the “bad guys” of enemy nations, but never our own. So it is easy to believe the propagandized version of the wars that are fought by the honorable warrior sons of our “shining city on a hill”.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mezzaluna e libertà. Turchia: ancora gravi condizioni legali e politiche limitano la libertà accademica, giornalistica e politica
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Domani 16 aprile (ieri per i lettori di TMS) in Turchia si vota per il referendum. Per approvare o rifiutare un pacchetto di modifica costituzionale. Un grande carcere a cielo aperto.
→ read full articleIrish Recollections: After the Cork Conference on ‘International Law and the State of Israel’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
14 Apr 2017 – Palestinian wounds will not heal until a credible reconciliation process is established that includes Israeli official acknowledgements of historic wrongdoing centered on the nakba, conceived of as a process of dispossession, displacement, and domination.
→ read full articleGlobal Turmoil: Flatulence or Substance
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Every day and throughout the world we read and hear of turmoil, of threats, violence, divisions, wars for peace and peace for wars, freedom as oppression and oppression as freedom. In a world where words have lost their meanings and meanings have no words, how do we go about understanding turmoil?
→ read full articleDanger of Global War: On the Edge of Global Crucifixion & Martial Law
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
In the event of a hot war with either Russia or Korea, the likelihood of a rapid escalation to the use of nuclear weapons is very real. It is even conceivable that the U.S. will attempt a pre-emptive nuclear first strike on Russia and/or North Korea under the illusion that it can “win” a nuclear war. If citizens of the world do not rise up to stop this madness now before it escalates further, the missiles fly, and the death toll mounts, Martial Law will be declared for those who survive.
→ read full articleProtection of Law and Justice for Peace through Universal Peace Education
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
When we do not obey the unjust law, we plead justice for humanity. Alexis De Tocqueville rightly says, “When I refuse to obey unjust law, I do not contest the right which the majority has of commanding, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
→ read full articleSolving the Problem
TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Case closed.
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Hava Nagila – הבה נגילה (Music Video of the Week)
André Rieu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
First known as a Hasidic melody it became a perennial favorite at weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, and Jewish–and non-Jewish–cultural events around the world. André Rieu at his best.
→ read full article(Português) George Harrison: “A coisa que me repeliu em relação a comer carne foi a ideia de matar animais”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
“Seu prato favorito era Dahl, uma sopa de lentilha que, quando misturada com arroz, forma uma proteína perfeita e um substituto ideal da carne”, escreveu. O vegetarianismo de Harrison era tanto moral quanto espiritual.
→ read full articleBhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 Apr 1891 – 6 Dec 1956)
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
B R Ambedkar had seen the oppression faced by the lower castes–the so called untouchables–first hand in his place of birth in Mhow. He was aware of the struggles of Phule to bring about social justice and liberation of the oppressed masses of Maharashtra and was inspired by his writings on the subject. Subsequently he wrote extensively about the injustice and discrimination faced by the lower castes whom he called Dalits.
→ read full articleAssessment of White House Intelligence Report of April 11, 2017
Theodore A. Postol | Massachusetts Institute of Technology – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
17 April 2017 – A Quick Turnaround Assessment of the White House Intelligence Report Issued on April 11, 2017 about the Nerve Agent Attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria
→ read full articleWarmongers by Any Other Name
Sonny Lê – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
For those of us who grew up in South Vietnam, or “free Vietnam,” we saw America as an ally that was there only to help contain and defeat the “evil” Communist North Vietnam. The United States of America represented freedom, open society, the country that gave us chewing gum, Coca-Cola, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley and John Wayne. However, we never saw or understood U.S. foreign policy or how America used its military power in totality.
→ read full articleThe Easter Message
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
From Trump’s USA was not resurrection, but death. 59 Tomahawk missiles for Syria, the “mother of all bombs” for Afghanistan; Muslim states. Both attacks were based on lies: the old lie that 9/11 had its origin in Afghanistan, the new lie that Assad deliberately had used sarin . The counter-narrative–that USA had provided the gas and used the accident as pretext for an attack–may stand. Let us see if USA-NATO accept an investigation; with a clean conscience, they would.
→ read full articleIDF Stops Human Rights Workers Getting into Gaza
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
The MAG – military attorney general – responsible for investigating possible war crimes says it values input from HR groups. Such groups are not allowed into Gaza for ‘security’ reasons. Hamas does not protect HR workers in Gaza. The PNA does nothing.
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Honest Government Advert – Visit Hawai’i
TheJuiceMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Mar 22, 2017 – The US Government just released this tourism ad for Hawai’i and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. Warning: This comedy video does contain vulgar language.
→ read full articleSyria: Chemical Weapon Use, Destruction of Children, the Ethical Vacuum
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
The Association of World Citizens calls for the re-affirmation of humanitarian international law. It is a call to the soldiers and militia members in armed conflicts to refuse orders to violate humanitarian international law by refusing to use weapons outlawed by international treaties such as chemical weapons, land mines, cluster munitions or any weapon to attack civilians, especially children and women. We must defend all who use their individual conscience to refuse to follow orders to violate humanitarian international law.
→ read full article(Português) Pele legítima de animal é vendida como falsa em lojas do Reino Unido
O Globo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Moda Fake Legítima – Testes encontraram pelos de gatos, coelhos, vison e cão-guaxinim em chapéus, chaveiros, casacos e sapatos.
→ read full articleSteven Spielberg
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
When Steven Spielberg (born 1946), the award-winning movie director, was a young boy, he was plagued at school by a big bully who regularly ridiculed him, hit him, or put his head under the water fountain.
→ read full articleIndian Microfinance Needs to Pause and Reflect
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Microfinance is actually a tool in a broader development toolbox, but in certain conditions, it happens to be the most powerful tool. It has all to do with how we are using it and how we are defining the outcomes. It needs to shape a more responsible capitalism.
→ read full articleAustralia Beckons a War with China
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Australia is sleep-walking into a confrontation with China, not realizing that wars can happen suddenly in an atmosphere of mistrust and provocation, especially if a minor power, like Australia, abandons its independence for an “alliance” with an unstable superpower.
→ read full articleTalbot Mundy (23 Apr 1879 – 5 Aug 1940): The Working of Karma
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
“We act and react, do and leave undone, think and refuse to think, stand firm or are seduced while karma – incorruptible and inescapable – inscribes our spiritual progress on the rolls of destiny The Law adjusts all balances and measures, the exact effort of every thought and deed, directing each hidden motive.”
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The Big Bank Fix – Documentary
BBC Panorama – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
10 Apr 2017 – Following the acquittal of two former Barclay’s traders last week, Panorama asks if the right people are being blamed for what has been called the biggest financial fix of all time. Piecing together explosive new evidence, which calls into question the safety of other convictions, Panorama reporter Andy Verity reveals that manipulation of the world’s most important interest rate, Libor, was allowed and even ordered by people at the highest levels of the financial establishment.
→ read full articleInternational Organization for Migration: African Migrants Traded in Libya’s ‘Slave Markets’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
People are held for ransom, forced labour or sexual exploitation after being sold for up to $500, UN agency says.
→ read full articleCui Bono?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
“Who benefits?” – is the first question an experienced detective asks when investigating a crime. In Syria, the civilian population in a rebel-held town called Idlib was hit with poison gas. Dozens of civilians, including children, died a miserable death. Within a few minutes (literally) the New York Times and a host of excellent newspapers throughout the West proclaimed without hesitation: Assad did it! No need for proof. No investigation. It was just self-evident.
→ read full articleAnd the Winner is Raytheon
Rosemarie Jackowski | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
No one knows for sure who used the Sarin gas. By whom and when was it supplied? In the past, Seymour Hersh has implicated Hillary Clinton. So, once more Trump pulls a fast one on the citizens. Winning feels good. Trump wins. Raytheon wins. Babies of the world, you lose. Unintended consequences are in our future. WW3 is now just a little more likely. The Doomsday Clock is ticking.
→ read full articleLebanon’s Outlawing of Palestinian Civil Rights
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
14 Apr 2017 – It’s half a century overdue for Lebanon to grant Palestinian refugees, now the fourth post-Nakba generation, the most elementary civil rights to work and home ownership. Both fundamental rights are mandated by international law and enjoyed by every refugee on our planet. Sauf Lebanon. Lebanon’s largely dysfunctional government is unlikely to meet its international legal obligation without the immediately application of serious international pressure and sanctions including the suspension of foreign aid.
→ read full articleSimple Equation Shows How Human Activity Is Trashing the Planet
Owen Gaffney | New Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Following the maxim of keeping everything as simple as possible, but not simpler, Will Steffen from the Australian National University and I drew up an Anthropocene equation by homing in on the rate of change of Earth’s life support system: the atmosphere, oceans, forests and wetlands, waterways and ice sheets and fabulous diversity of life.
→ read full articleWant To Understand Deep State? Here Is Your Deep, Deep State
Jon Rappoport | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
If, as many people are now saying, the CIA and NSA and neocons are the unelected Deep State, then the people I’m talking about would be the Deep, Deep State. Read On…
→ read full articleU.S. and Russia Must Repel Greed, Fear
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Currently, alleged Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s underhandedness is accused of marring U.S. democracy, yet while this receives indignant attention, the hypocrisy is hard to stomach, for Americans have corrupted democracy at home and abroad far more than any Russian hacker. Like Rockefeller, the U.S. sees dishonesty only in its rivals.
→ read full articleHow Often Do We Slash Too Fast
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
How often do we slash too fast,
Forgetting that people are before us,
Our teeth knock again from fear,
And blood run out from our chests.
Conspiracy Theorists
9gag – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Forever Trying to Rock the Boat… Are them?
→ read full articleWhen Science Brought Americans and Russians Together
Siegfried S. Hecker | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
11 Apr 2017 – The first Russian explosive device to land on US soil wasn’t delivered by a Russian missile, as Americans feared might happen throughout the Cold War. It was delivered by FedEx. The device, an explosive magnetic flux compression generator, arrived at Los Alamos National Laboratory in late 1993, shipped from the Russian Federal Nuclear Center.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Johan Galtung: Mit dem IS reden
Stefan Seidel | Der Sonntag - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
9. April 2017 – Oft scheint militärische Gewalt alternativlos. Doch gelöst werde damit nichts, sagt Friedensforscher Johan Galtung. Er plädiert für einen anderen Umgang mit Konflikten.
→ read full articleLeonardo da Vinci (15 Apr 1452 – 2 May 1519)
leonardodavinci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio’s workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities.
→ read full article(Português) Um Tratado de Proibição de Armas Nucleares
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
10 abril 2017 – Os nove países possuidores de armas nucleares e a maioria de seus aliados preferiram ignorar as negociações sobre um instrumento juridicamente vinculante de proibição das armas nucleares. Essa iniciativa pioneira resultou de uma proposta da África do Sul, Áustria, Brasil, Irlanda, México e Nigéria e foi adotada pela Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas em dezembro último por esmagadora maioria de votos… É chegado o momento em que a humanidade precisa agir decisivamente em defesa de sua própria sobrevivência.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Attack on al-Shayrat Airfield
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
There are two clusters of serious questions raised. Is this a new turn toward belligerent internationalism by the Trump presidency that will shape the near future of American foreign policy in the Middle East, and possibly elsewhere? Does the reversion to unilateralism with respect to international uses of force heighten the risks of geopolitical escalation and large-scale warfare, including possibly the threat or use of nuclear weapons?
→ read full articleHugo Grotius (10 Apr 1583 – 28 Aug 1645): War and Peace
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Hugo Grotius was a jurist born in Delft, the Netherlands who laid the foundations for international law based on natural law. Grotius’ masterpiece, The Law of War and Peace (1625), was an immediate and widespread success. It has gone through at least 75 editions and has been translated 24 times. In this book, he presented his famous doctrine of the just war.
→ read full articleWorld Order and Disorder: The “Games” and “Gambles” of Life and Lives
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
In a world of lawlessness, anything goes, and does! We remain in shock at the destructive events occurring across the world. Yet we too often ignore these events as consequences of the protected policies and actions of nations, individuals, private organizations, engaged in protecting their interests. Protected from harm, the perpetrators of harm are engaged in the “games” and “gambles” of world order and disorder. To what end?
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The View from Moscow [MUST WATCH]
Maria Zakharova | Russian Foreign Affairs Spokesperson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
It is noteworthy that the only real sources of information on what took place are the videos made by the White Helmets, an infamous propaganda organization. The attack against the Syrian government, much like the Ghouta gas attack in 2013, which precipitated the Syrian civil war, is a giant facade.
→ read full articleDeir Yassin to Egypt
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
9 Apr 2017 – Today is the anniversary of the massacre at Deir Yassin [also the Norwegian day of trauma: German 1940 invasion]. Today also saw terrorists bombing Christian Churches on Palm Sunday; over 120 were killed or severely injured. Our condolences to the victims and our thoughts and prayers with the injured.
→ read full article(Français) Bombardement US en Syrie : Trois réflexions pour inciter à la prudence
Michel Collon | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
7 Avr 2017 – Quand nous sommes bombardés d’informations sur un « massacre » servant à justifier des bombardements US, on a toujours intérêt à se souvenir des précédents. En 2013, on a déjà accusé Damas. Mais l’enquête officielle de l’ONU (pourtant fort infiltrée par les USA) a conclu à l’impossibilité de désigner le camp responsable.
→ read full articleA Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons Is in the Making
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
10 Apr 2017 – The nine possessors of nuclear weapons and most of their allies chose to ignore the negotiations on a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination… It is time for mankind as a whole to act decisively in defense of its own survival.
→ read full articleThe Door Ajar
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
The door ajar
And more –
I brought so little
And the room above your garden
Was so spare
George William Russell (10 Apr 1867 – 17 Jul 1935): To See Things in the Germ, This I Call Intelligence
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
“Are there not such spirits among us ready to join in the noblest of all adventures— the building up of a civilization —so that the human might reflect the divine order? In the divine order there is both freedom and solidarity. It is the virtue of the soul to be free and its nature to love; and when it is free and acts by its own will, it is most united with all other life.”
— George Russell, The Song of the Greater Life
4 April 1984 and 4 April 1968
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
4 April 2017 – The famous date “April 4, 1984” appeared in one of the early pages of George Orwell’s most important novel, “1984”. The novel was a warning to readers about the continued threats to the world of a future totalitarian, corporatized, militarized police state. The novel was set in Oceania, once a thriving democracy which had been economically, structurally and morally torn apart by an atomic war that had become a perpetual war. The date April 4, 1984 was the first entry in the diary of Orwell’s main character, Winston Smith.
→ read full article(Português) Uma TeaParty tropical: A ascensão de uma “nova direita” no Brasil
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI-Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
22 março 2017 – Em um contexto marcado por uma abrupta desaceleração econômica e um novo escândalo de corrupção que atinge os partidos da coalizão governamental, assistimos à ascensão, no Brasil, de uma direita “nova”, radical e militante. Surgida na esteira das mobilizações de junho de 2013, ela forma um conjunto heterogêneo de origens e identidades distintas, sem vínculo aparente, a não ser uma comum aversão pela esquerda em geral e o PT em particular.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi: No Ethnic Cleansing of Myanmar Muslim Minority
BBC News Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
6 Apr 2017 – Aung San Suu Kyi has denied there is ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, despite widespread reports of abuses. Instead, Myanmar’s de-facto leader said the country would welcome any returning Rohingya with open arms.
→ read full articleSo Much for ‘Understanding’
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
The United Nations conducted a worldwide survey asking, “Would you please give your honest opinion about the solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?” Not surprisingly, it was a huge failure.
→ read full articleThe Infinite Hotel Paradox: A Brilliant Animated Thought Experiment to Help You Grasp the Mind-Bending Concept of Infinity
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
“Infinity is a demented concept,” astrophysicist Janna Levin, who studies the finitude of the universe, wrote in her spectacular diary-turned-book about the universe. Infinity is also a dementing concept.
→ read full articleThe Tunic of Nessus
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
8 Apr 2017 – In A few weeks, Israel will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War. Millions of words, most of them hollow, will be poured out. As usual. But the event deserves better. It is a drama unique in human history. Only a biblical writer could do it justice. William Shakespeare could have turned his hand to it.
→ read full articlePentagon Trained Syria’s Al Qaeda “Rebels” in the Use of Chemical Weapons
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
The Western Media Refute Their Own Lies – Not only do they confirm that the Pentagon has been training the terrorists in the use of chemical weapons, they also acknowledge the existence of a not so secret “US-backed plan to launch a chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad’s regime”
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Arrests at Maine, USA, Christening of Aegis Destroyer – 1 April 2017
Eric Herter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Today, nine peace activists were arrested while blocking the entrance to the “Christening” ceremony for a new Aegis destroyer at Bath Iron Works, a leading US naval shipyard. Aegis destroyers are an important coordinating and missile-carrying component in US nuclear and conventional war strategy.
→ read full article(Français) Et l’Etat ? Le Pérou et l’Equateur face à El Niño
Maria Florencia Pagliarione – Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Ces jours derniers, le phénomène d’El Niño a déchaîné sa fureur contre les côtes de l’Equateur et du Pérou. L’inclémence climatique comprise comme réchauffement de la surface des eaux du Pacifique se caractérise par la rentrée d’une masse superficielle d’eaux chaudes dans l’océan qui génère la hausse de la température de la masse des eaux et provoque des pluies d’une rare violence.
→ read full articleVault 7: Grasshopper Framework
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Today, April 7th 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 “Grasshopper” — 27 documents from the CIA’s Grasshopper framework, a platform used to build customized malware payloads for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
→ read full articleRohingya Killings Expose Fraud of Burmese “Democracy”
John Roberts | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
7 Apr 2017 – The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution setting up an investigation into serious crimes committed by the Burmese (Myanmar) security forces and nationalist thugs against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh. The US and its EU allies cynically exploit concerns over “human rights” in Burma and elsewhere to advance their geo-political interests.
→ read full article(Français) Guerres et terrorisme: « l’effet boomerang »
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
3 Avr 2017 – Est-ce que l’OTAN garantit notre sécurité ? Les gens s’interrogent de plus en plus à ce sujet. Aux élections présidentielles françaises, la sortie de l’OTAN figure noir sur blanc dans le programme de la France Insoumise de Jean-Luc Mélenchon. En Belgique également, quelques voix courageuses ont dressé le bilan des guerres menées au nom d’un organisme qui défend les intérêts des Etats-Unis. L’écrivain et militant pacifiste belge Ludo De Brabander en fait partie. Nous l’avons interviewé pour tirer au clair la stratégie de la France et la Belgique vis-à-vis des menaces terroristes, les intentions de l’administration Donald Trump dans le conflit syrien, ainsi que les enjeux du prochain Sommet.
→ read full articleOur Nuclear Folly
Winslow Myers | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
10 Apr 2017 – The well-established assumption that North Korea is our most difficult and dangerous foreign policy challenge is worth a little dispassionate examination. NK is a pariah nation led by a greedy Stalinist family. No one can say with any certainty whether they could be brought to the table to discuss abolition. Why can’t we admit that we ourselves harbor a similar reluctance?
→ read full articleEnjoying Education for Joy and Harmony
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Gone are the days when formal education was meant only for the prosperous and elite sections of our society. Today its importance and relevance is realized by most people even if they themselves may not have studied beyond the school level. This is so because some of the objectives of higher education as listed below are understood and appreciated and is the principal motivation to study.
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Hey There Delilah (Music Video of the Week)
Plain White T – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Simply Delightful!
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