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A Crack Bursts at the Trunk Long Ago
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
A crack bursts at the trunk long ago,
Caught up in the past,
And the time ticks tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk…
Everything runs without blinking.
Extending Life –- Living and Dying in Peace
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
In the Jain religion some people choose to die rather than exist in the manner they are living. They choose to die when they are old and ill or sometimes even when they are relatively young, they feel that they have lived enough and would like to end their life. This practice is called Santhra and is allowed by their faith and the Indian law.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Aug 21-27, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.” – Jenn Proske
→ read full articleConflict and Violence in Africa: Causes, Sources and Types
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Conflict usually occurs primarily as a result of a clash of interests in the relationship between parties, groups or states, either because they pursuing opposing or incompatible goals. Although the term war is sometimes used as a synonym for conflict, it is more usual to restrict the meaning of war to violent conflict, involving armed forces.
→ read full articleIntl. Community Recoils as Saudi Arabia Goes on ‘Crusade’ of Mass Killing in Yemen
Catherine Shakdam – Russia Today,
14 Aug 2017
11 Aug 2017 – While few will pause upon hearing that Yemen was bombed yet again by Saudi Arabia’s U.S. supported war coalition, thus leading to many deaths, the kingdom’s propensity to concentrate its firepower on civilians has become a little hard to stomach.
→ read full articleEnd of Nuclearism or the End of the World: Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Nightmares
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 Aug 2017 – We are living amid contradictions whether we like it or not, driving expectations about the future toward opposite extremes. Increasingly plausible are fears that the ‘sixth extinction’ will encompass the human species, or at least, throw human society back to a technology of sticks and stones, with a habitat limited to caves and forests.
→ read full articleUS and UK Ally Saudi Arabia Moves to Behead 14 for Participating In Anti-Government Protests
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
26 Jul 2017 – Saudi Arabia, the Gulf kingdom ruled by an absolute monarchy, and key United States ally, is planning to behead 14 men for participating in anti-government protests after what Amnesty international called a “grossly unfair mass trial.” The condemned includes a young student named Mujtaba al-Suweyket, who was only 17 at the time of his sentencing and was about to study in a U.S. university.
→ read full articlePorto
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
To be a Portugal seagull
where the river meets the sea!
Red roofs ascend
tree-coated hills;
Animation Shows the Deadly Evolution of Nuclear Weapons
Tech Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
It’s been decades since the United States dropped the first atomic bomb. Since then, the exponential increase of the destructive power of nuclear weapons is almost unimaginable. Here’s how powerful nuclear weapons have become.
→ read full articleNuclear-Weapon States and Their Neighbors: There Is Still Work to Do
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
We thank the U.N. Missions of the US, France and the UK for reminding us that there are security challenges. We disagree that these challenges require deterrence with nuclear weapons. Rather, we think that confidence-building measures linked to creative negotiations is the best step forward.
→ read full articleAugust 9th, the 72nd Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki: Unwelcome Truths for Church and State
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
72 years ago (August 9, 1945) an all-Christian bomber crew dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki City, Japan, instantly vaporizing, incinerating, irradiating and/or otherwise annihilating tens of thousands of innocent civilians, mostly women and children. Very few Japanese soldiers were killed by the bombs.
→ read full articleThe North Korean Military Situation: A Role for People Who Care
Marc Pilisuk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Threats and provocations can only make things worse. Moves that offer time for dialogue and assurances of safety need to be pushed, since there are no good outcomes to the current conflict. Bluster, sanctions and military actions are totally irrational, not to be played by sane antagonists. This game is now being played. Nuclear reality lies before us.
→ read full articlePledge on 70 Years of Independence by People of Pakistan and India – 15 Aug 2017
Mazher Hussain | COVA Network– TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Greetings on the Eve of Pakistan-India Independence — 70 Years! Sharing a Pledge both countries can commit to while organizing Independence Days tomorrow and day after!
→ read full articleYou’re Invited to the Nuclear Denial Party!
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
6 Aug 2017 – Since marketing, omitted and fake news have – to a worrying extent – replaced knowledge and ethics, why not celebrate that the media have omitted every mention of Hiroshima Day today? Welcome to the Nuclear Denial Party!!
→ read full article(Português) A Terra entrou no cheque especial: O ser humano, Satã da Terra
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
13 ago 2017 – No dia 2 de agosto de 2017 ocorreu um fato preocupante para a humanidade e para cada um individualmente. Foi o dia da chamada “Sobrecarga da Terra” (Overshoot Day). Quer dizer: foi o dia em que gastamos todos os bens e serviços naturais, básicos para sustentar a vida. Estávamos no verde e agora entramos no vermelho ou no cheque especial.
→ read full articleHandicapping Israel’s 6th War on Lebanon (1)
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 – These days the US Congressional Israel lobby and its knee-jerk amen chorus are hyping what those still occupying Palestine refer to as its coming 3rd war in Lebanon. Reportedly, Israel is finalizing elaborate plans to once and for all eviscerate Hezbollah while accelerating the collapse of the Iranian theocracy with the claimed support of the White House and the Saudi block among many others.
→ read full articleIndia’s Path of Financial Inclusion
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
The opportunity to reach the financially excluded with a new generation of financial services has huge developmental as well as commercial potential. One of the ways for accelerating this path is through digital financial inclusion. It is perhaps the most powerful tool to unlock the most value for those at the bottom of the pyramid.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (8)Thomas Robert Malthus
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Thomas Robert Malthus, mathematician and economist, warning voice, we need your voice today!
→ read full articlePuzzles of the Soul, Reincarnation and Karma
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Most religions believe in the concept of soul or a spirit that resides in our bodies. It is also generally accepted that it is the soul that gives life to the body which it enters and then resides in. If the soul leaves the body, the person dies. For this reason, life and soul are often considered synonymous. A few questions arise about these concepts.
→ read full articleDeath
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Where was the dead body found?
Who found the dead body?
Was the dead body dead when found?
How was the dead body found?
Vault 7: CouchPotato
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Today, August 10th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the User Guide for the CoachPotato project of the CIA. CouchPotato is a remote tool for collection against RTSP/H.264 video streams.
→ read full article“Anyone but Bibi”
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
12 Aug 2017 – The vultures are circling. They can see the wounded man on the ground, and are waiting for his end. So are the human carnivores – the politicians… Like every clever (and unsure) leader, Bibi has destroyed every likely rival along the way. Now there is no obvious heir around. But many people are now repeating a slogan: “Anyone, Just Not Bibi!”
→ read full article(Português) Para Entender a Venezuela: Dois Testemunhos do Outro Lado
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 ago 2017 – Todas as coisas possuem sempre dois lados. Em direito se diz: “audiator et altera pars”: que se escute também a outra parte. Isso vale em todas as questões que envolvem destinos pessoais e de todo um povo. A questão da Venezuela é complexa e polêmica. Dificilmente poder-se-á emitir um juizo equilibrado tantos são os fatores a serem considerados.
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Piano Man (Music Video of the Week)
Billy Joel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
In 1973, Billy Joel released his legendary ‘Piano Man’ album. Listen to him perform the title track. Delightful!
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Aug 14-20, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Love is the greatest adventure. Because both life and death are present in it. When you are in love, you may live in a moment and you may die in the next.” – Unknown
→ read full articleSpain–Where Are You Heading?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
It is customary for Spaniards to add the word “crisis” to the name of the country. They are not alone in that, it may be a Western habit, one of those words driving the West on.
→ read full articleIsrael’s 6th War on Lebanon (2): What Price Will Hezbollah Pay?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
11 Aug 2017 – The price Hezbollah will pay during Israel’s coming 6th war on Lebanon will likely be less militarily consequential long term, than the near certain acceleration of the Party of God’s loss of its “Resistance” brand. The latter already being eschewed by much of its Shia base for economic, social and political reasons.
→ read full articleFormer President Jimmy Carter Releases Statement on North Korea
Fox5 Atlanta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 – Former US Pres. Jimmy Carter released the following statement today after recent back and forth comments between United States and North Korea officials:
→ read full articleThe Madman with Nuclear Weapons Is Donald Trump, Not Kim Jong-un
Mehdi Hasan – The Intercept,
14 Aug 2017
Most nonproliferation experts — as well as former President Jimmy Carter and a number of former Pentagon and State Department officials, both Republican and Democrat — agree that the brutal and murderous Kim, for all his bluster, is not irrational or suicidal, but bent on preserving his regime and preventing a U.S. attack. Nuclear weapons are a defensive, not an offensive, tool for the North Korean leadership — which, as Bill Clinton’s defense secretary William Perry observed on Fox News in April, may be “ruthless and … reckless” but “they are not crazy.” Got that? Kim is bad, not mad.
→ read full articleTerrorism for Profit
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 Aug 2017 – And suddenly there it was, the American paradox in full splendor: Oh yeah, we’re fighting terrorists. We have to keep killing people, keep pouring trillions of dollars into our wars, because bad people are out there threatening us because they hate our freedoms. And the guy reminding us of this is the founder of Blackwater, private contractor in Iraq, whose mercenaries were responsible for one of the most shocking acts of lethal aggression — a.k.a., terrorism — of the early years of that war.
→ read full articleAn Insatiable Appetite
Latuff – MintPress News,
14 Aug 2017
So It Goes…
→ read full article(Português) Sobre a Realidade dos Animais Usados como Cobaias
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Animais usados como cobaias são submetidos a isolamento social, alimentar, desidratação severa e privação de sono que podem durar dias, semanas, meses ou anos. As pesquisas com animais que visam avaliar o comportamento e o aprendizado não humano normalmente são baseadas na abertura do crânio do animal ainda consciente e na instalação de elétrodos no cérebro.
→ read full articleIllegal Settlement Activity in Occupied Palestine Triple in First Half of 2017: Report
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Israeli occupation authorities have escalated the illegal plunder of land belonging to the Palestinian people, defying international opinion.
→ read full articleAgain Come Up the Accursed Questions
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Again come up the accursed questions,
How long the blizzards will rage,
How long does humanity suffer
And be silent in the ice hummocks?
Brazil: A Hostage to Parliament, Pres. Temer Sacrifices Indigenous Rights to Save Himself
Mario Osava | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
7 Aug 2017 – Brazilians now have new reasons to yearn for and at the same time fear the parliamentary system of government. It facilitates quick solutions to political crises such as the one that is currently affecting the country, but it also further empowers reactionary forces and has led to backsliding on gains such as indigenous rights.
→ read full articleWhy Krsna Comes to This World
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
August 1973 at the Bhaktivedanta Manor, in the countryside near London. Several thousand guests (including the Indian High Commissioner) listen to Swami Prabhupada speak about the day Lord Krsna made His appearance on earth 5,000 years ago – CELEBRATED ON 15 AUGUST 2017.
→ read full articleGoogle: Search Engine or Deep State Organ?
Michael Krieger | Liberty BlitzKrieg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 Aug 2017 – Today’s post should be read as Part 3 of my ongoing series about the now infamous Google memo, and what it tells us about where our society is headed if a minority of extremely wealthy and powerful technocratic billionaires are permitted to fully socially engineer our culture to fit their ideological vision using coercion, force and manipulation.
→ read full articleYou Cannot Trap the ‘Magic Rat’: Trump, Congress and Geopolitics
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
The ‘magic rat’ is simply the mechanism by which an unconscious and terrified mind instantly switches its attention from something frightening to something more pleasant to avoid having any time to consciously engage with the presented information. The switch happens instantaneously.
→ read full articleReversing Inequality: Unleashing the Transformative Potential of an Equitable Economy
Chuck Collins | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
The US economy’s deep systemic inequalities of income, wealth, power, and opportunity are part of global inequality trends, but US-style capitalism and public policy make inequalities more acute. Their observable and felt harm to our civic and economic life is corroborated by research from many disciplines. Yet, by the same token, moving toward a more egalitarian society would realign most aspects of economic and social life for the better. So how can we bring these changes about?
→ read full articleWhen Washington Decides Democracy Is Dangerous: Stoking Opposition in Venezuela and Syria
Ramiro S. Fúnez – MintPress News,
14 Aug 2017
The opposition “movements” in Venezuela and Syria have a great deal in common: both are seeking the demise of democratically-elected governments; both resort to violence and acts of terrorism; both are tools of U.S. and Western imperialism, and both are failing.
→ read full articleThe Crop Circle Mystery: A Closer Look
Benjamin Radford | Live Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Crop circles — strange patterns that appear mysteriously overnight in farmers’ fields—provoke puzzlement, delight and intrigue among the press and public alike. The mystery has inspired countless books, blogs, fan groups, researchers (dubbed “cereologists”) and even Hollywood films. Despite having been studied for decades, the question remains: Who — or what — is making them?
→ read full articleA Key to Heaven and Hell
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
The physicist Richard Feinman once met a Buddhist monk.
→ read full articleStudent Activism Is Vital to Burma’s Future
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
In the Burmese society today so violently fractured by the regressive politics of racism, bigotry and exclusion it is these idealistic and principled students who are best positioned to serve as the moral compass. Their activism needs to be cherished and nurtured – not trampled on and repressed.
→ read full articleIQ
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
A team of psychologists has developed a new measure of intelligence, a metric measure. The basic unit is the tary.
→ read full articleNew Documents Prove Mainstream Pro-Monsanto Article Was Actually Written by Monsanto
Carey Wedler | The Anti-Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017— According to documents recently released amid a lawsuit against Monsanto regarding the safety of glyphosate, a widely used herbicide, a prominent academic from Stanford University allowed the agrochemical giant to pen an op-ed in his name. It was subsequently published in Forbes magazine.
→ read full articleThe Corruption of Modern Academic Medicine — How Your Doctor Was Bought
Dr. Jason Fung | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
27 Jul 2017 – Many doctors are genuinely puzzled why the general public does not trust what they say. They blame ignorance and the media but this is simply a patronizing attitude. The truth is: the answer is $$$$. Simply, the public does not trust doctors because they know that many doctors are on the take. A terrific study from Dr. Vinay Prasad illustrates the problem precisely.
→ read full article(Italiano) Grande Storia dalla Norvegia
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Un ratto norvegese sicuro di sé, che abbandona una nave per costruirsi la propria: difesa difensiva, neutrale tra l’Occidente e il Resto; con posti di lavoro concreti, non solo lavori finalizzati a una minore disuguaglianza; vedere il buono in tutto, per progetti che connettono buono con buono. Una Svizzera, attenta anche a una pace positiva.
→ read full article(Português) Os Portões do Desmatamento
Eduardo Pegurier | O Eco – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
19 julho 2017 – Os satélites são cronistas mecânicos do processo de desmatamento da floresta Amazônica. Dois terços da área desmatada virou pasto. Apenas 128 instalações de frigoríficos ativos, pertencentes a 99 empresas, são responsáveis por 93% do abate anual, algo como 12 milhões de cabeças de gado.
→ read full articleThe Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Jennifer Rosenberg | ThoughtCo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
On 6 Aug 1945 the atomic bomb known as “Little Boy” flattened the city of Hiroshima, killing at least 70,000 people that day and tens of thousands more from radiation poisoning. While Japan was still trying to comprehend this devastation, the United States dropped another atomic bomb, nicknamed “Fat Man,” on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people immediately and another 20,000 to 40,000 in the months following the explosion.
→ read full articleThe Health Benefits of Water Fasting
Edward Group, MD | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
3 Jul 2017 – While fasting has been part of human culture for thousands of years, only recently have we begun to investigate the therapeutic benefits of the practice. Interestingly, modern science has found a variety of verifiable positive effects fasting that has on human health.
→ read full article(Italiano) Tortura e cultura
Marta Ròs Sanchez – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
7 Aug 2017
27 luglio 2017 – L’estate è arrivata e con lei, i tori. Quando parliamo di essi, è facile che ci venga in mente la Spagna, per la sua festa internazionalmente conosciuta: Los Sanfermines. Tuttavia, le “feste taurine” che si celebrano in Spagna principalmente nei mesi estivi, vanno ben oltre Sanfermin e le corride in arene. Proprio oggi, in base a quanto è successo a Foios, a nord di Valencia, vorrei mostrarvi altre feste tanto sconosciute all’estero quanto aberranti.
→ read full articleWhat Mainstream Media Got Wrong about Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Venezuelans voted Sunday [30 Jul 2017] for representatives of the National Constituent Assembly, amid what the government has called a targeted media campaign to destabilize the country and destroy its sovereignty. International media outlets rushed to discredit the vote, sharing grossly misrepresentative accounts of the historic electoral process.
→ read full articleVault 7: Dumbo
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Today, August 3rd 2017 WikiLeaks publishes documents from the Dumbo project of the CIA. Dumbo is a capability to suspend processes utilizing webcams and corrupt any video recordings that could compromise a PAG-Physical Access Group deployment.
→ read full articleBuddies
Latuff – MintPress News,
7 Aug 2017
So It Goes… Mission Accomplished
→ read full articleStudy Links Most Amazon Deforestation to 128 Slaughterhouses
Eduardo Pegurier | O Eco – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
28 Jul 2017 – Satellites are mechanical reporters of the Amazon deforestation process. By documenting the degradation and gaps created by the clear-cutting process over the years, they deliver the verdict: Two-thirds of the Amazon’s deforested area has been turned into pastures. 128 active slaughterhouses belonging to 99 companies are responsible for 93 percent of the annual slaughter—close to 12 million heads.
→ read full articleCIA’s ‘Dumbo’ Hacks PC Cameras, Microphones, Files: WikiLeaks
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
3 Aug 2017 – In a press release published today, WikiLeaks revealed the CIA’s hacking tool, ‘Dumbo,’ which allows agents to manipulate Microsoft Window’s webcams, microphones, and other devices from thousands of miles away. The whistleblower organization published everything in the Field Guide to the User’s Manual of the CIA’s hacking system.
→ read full articleIs Irrawaddy News Group Leading the Genocide Propaganda in Burma/Myanmar?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
6 Aug 2017 – Myanmar Groups whipping up Genocidal Racism against Rohingyas (& Muslims). Irrawaddy News Group has joined the likes of ex-Chief of Military Intelligence, Wirathu, & Rakhine Racist Groups.
→ read full article72 Years after Hiroshima, Where Is Japan’s Commitment to End Nuclear Weapons?
Yuko Yoneda | Greenpeace Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
On 7 July, the United Nations adopted the “Nuclear Weapons Treaty” with an overwhelming majority. To our disappointment, however, Japan did not join the 122 countries, or two-thirds of the United Nations member countries. Japan still remains an outlier, betraying the hopes of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
→ read full articleDogs
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
A man goes into a bar with his dog and tells the bartender,
“I have taught my dog how to talk.”
Towards a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
2 Aug 2017 – We need a profound reform of the UN so that it is managed more directly by the peoples of the world – through cities or parliaments instead of the present Member States that are inextricably linked to the culture of war. A significant first step towards such a reform would be the proposed parliamentary assembly of the UN (UNPA). There are proposals from the European Parliament, the Pan-African Parliament and an international conference of around 300 chief justices, judges, legal experts and ambassadors from nearly 60 countries predominantly from the Global South.
→ read full articleVictory for Non-Violent Protest
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
July 2017 – The conservative JPost called it unique. The more pro-Palestinian +972 asked how the world missed a week of Palestinian civil disobedience. Answer – this key aspect was either not reported or did not excite comment despite breaking the usual linkage of Palestinians and violence.
→ read full articleThe Hollow Men
T S Eliot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Mistah Kurtz-he dead
A penny for the Old Guy
(Português) A história do ex-palhaço do McDonald’s que se tornou um vegetariano ético
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
“Meu desejo a todos aqueles que comem carne é que entendam que é possível ser saudável e feliz sem participar da matança de animais inocentes”.
→ read full article64 Questions for the Environmental Conservationists of the World
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Raising the Question as to Why They Are Not Effectively Addressed – Produced on the occasion of Earth Overshoot Day (2 August 2017), namely the date on which humanity’s resource consumption in 2017 exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources in 2017. The date is nearly a week earlier than in 2016.
→ read full articleDogs
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Dogs live in a world of smells—
succulent, sensual: a melange
of sexuality–known and unknown,
friendly and prohibitive.
James Le Mesurier: The Former British Mercenary Who Founded the White Helmets
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
7 Aug 2017
James Le Mesurier, a British ex-mercenary, founded the White Helmets in 2013. The group has been lauded for its “humanitarian” efforts in Syria, but they have actually functioned more as a logistics and propaganda arm of Syria’s al-Qaeda branch, complete with training from Le Mesurier.
→ read full articleJodi Rudoren Admits Palestinians Experience ‘Apartheid’ – But Not in NYT
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
An obvious question arises: why have we not heard about Jodi Rudoren’s incendiary view that Israel is practising apartheid in the pages of the New York Times? In her four years as Jerusalem bureau chief, she never wrote an op-ed or analysis expressing that view, or gave a voice to experts in Israel and abroad who have reached a similar conclusion.
→ read full articleWistful Eyes
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
From whatever angle one looks at it, the death sentence is a barbaric and stupid measure. Whenever I think about this subject, the immortal lines of Oscar Wilde in his “Ballad of Reading Gaol” come to my mind. Observing a fellow prisoner, a convicted murderer, awaiting his execution, Wilde wrote: I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon the little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky…
→ read full articleWhat Are the Essential Differences between Communism and Capitalism?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Communism treats the notion of Private Property as a major obstacle to building its classless heaven on earth attempts to make Saints out of humans. In the process the Beasts inside fought back and destroyed the Communist Mission and devoured its Missionaries. In sharp contrast, Capitalism rests on the Inalienably Holy Idea of Private Property attempts to pursue its Sacred Mission of Wealth Accumulation by unleashing the Beasts in humans, thereby triggering the unstoppable process of all around destruction.
→ read full articleMillions of Women and Children for Sale for Sex, Slavery, Organs…
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
7 Aug 2017
28 Jul 2017 – It is happening now. Millions of humans are forced to flee armed conflicts, climate change, inequalities, and extreme poverty. They fall easy prey to traffickers lurking anyone who can be subjected to sexual exploitation, forced labour and even sell their skin and organs.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (7) The Marquis de Condorcet
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, definer of the idea of progress, defender of human rights and the rights of all living things, we need your voice today!
→ read full article(Italiano) Venezuela, profezie che si autoavverano
Gennaro Carotenuto | Giornalismo Partecipativo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
30 Lug 2017 – C’è un certo sadismo nel cattivo giornalismo che funge da cassa di risonanza alle posizioni dell’opposizione venezuelana, senza alcuna interpretazione critica e, va da sé, senza alcuna terzietà con le posizioni del governo legittimamente in carica. Le opposizioni dicono dittatura, i giornali fanno eco: dittatura.
→ read full articleGoogle’s New Search Protocol Is Restricting Access to 13 Leading Socialist, Progressive and Anti-War Web Sites
Andre Damon and David North | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
wsws.org fell by 67 percent
alternet.org fell by 63 percent
globalresearch.ca fell by 62 percent
consortiumnews.com fell by 47 percent
socialistworker.org fell by 47 percent
mediamatters.org fell by 42 percent
commondreams.org fell by 37 percent
internationalviewpoint.org fell by 36 percent
democracynow.org fell by 36 percent
wikileaks.org fell by 30 percent
truth-out.org fell by 25 percent
counterpunch.org fell by 21 percent
theintercept.com fell by 19 percent
Evolution of Man — Devolution of Mankind
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
The ways people lived in communities have undergone tremendous change or evolution. Is it evolution or devolution? I will discuss this point in my essay.
→ read full articleOn the Beach 2017: The Beckoning of Nuclear War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
These lines from T.S. Eliot’s poem The Hollow Men appear at the beginning of Nevil Shute’s novel On the Beach, which left me close to tears. Published in 1957 at the height of the Cold War when too many writers were silent or cowed, it is a masterpiece. At first the language suggests a genteel relic; yet nothing I have read on nuclear war is as unyielding in its warning. No book is more urgent.
Liu Xiaobo and Charter 08: Fire under the Ashes
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
4 Aug 2017 – The media reports on the recent death of Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, of cancer after years of imprisonment, have focused on his life, especially the prison years and the continued surveillance of his wife, the poet Liu Xia.
→ read full articleBerlin Calls for “Countermeasures” to US Sanctions against Russia, Hints at Trade War
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Germany economy minister Brigitte Zypries said that “we consider this as being against international law, plain and simple.” She added that “of course we don’t want a trade war. But it is important the European Commission now looks into countermeasures.” She also said that “the Americans cannot punish German companies because they operate economically in another country.”
→ read full articleWMD: American Lies, Damnable Lies and Downright Dangerous Lies
Janet Phelan | Activist Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
The U.S. lies to the international community about its secret WMD programs.
→ read full article“Just Get Your Damn Shots”
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Well-informed parents are beginning to realize – despite the aggressive propaganda campaigns from Big Pharma, Big Medicine and Big Media – that vaccines are NOT necessarily safe. Indeed they are seeing that they can be lethal. Many parents are also beginning to see that vaccines are NOT necessarily effective long-term either.
→ read full articleSurvivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Atomic Heritage Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
By the end of 1945, the atomic bombings of Japan had killed an estimated 140,000 people at Hiroshima and 74,000 at Nagasaki, including those who died from radiation poisoning. Often lost in those numbers are the experiences of the survivors, known as hibakusha (literally “atomic bomb-affected people”).
→ read full articleBritain: The End of a Fantasy
Fintan O’Toole | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
10 Jun 2017 – To understand the sensational outcome of the British election, one must ask a basic question. What happens when phony populism collides with the real thing? … The reliance on a spurious notion of the “popular will” has left Britain with no clear notion of who “the people” are and what they really want.
→ read full articleHot-Headed: How Climate Change-Induced Drought Is Destabilising Global Peace
Ruth Lyons | Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
“There is mounting evidence that climate change is creating the conditions for instability and poverty, two significant contributors to the outbreak of civil war and violence.”
→ read full articleIn Support of LBGT’s Same-Sex Marriage Campaign
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Life is a mystery and love is the greatest mystery of all and should be celebrated and freedom to choose whom to love and whom to marry is one of our basic human rights. Equality is a key priority for a genuine solution to our problems in N. Ireland and none less so for the LGBT community that for years has faced harassment and discrimination.
→ read full articleHalf-truths and Falsehoods in PBS Series ‘Inside Putin’s Russia’
Rick Sterling | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
27 Jul 2017 – The US government-supported Public Broadcasting System recently ran a five part series dubbed Inside Putin’s Russia. With a different theme each night, it purports to give a realistic look at Russia today. The image conveyed is of a Russia that is undemocratic with widespread state repression, violence and propaganda. Following are significant distortions and falsehoods in the five-part documentary.
→ read full articleTrump Finds Reason for the U.S. to Remain in Afghanistan: $1 Trillion in Untapped Mineral Deposits
Mark Landler and James Risen – The New York Times,
7 Aug 2017
25 Jul 2017 — President Trump, searching for a reason to keep the United States in Afghanistan after 16 years of war, has latched on to a prospect that tantalized previous administrations: Afghanistan’s vast mineral wealth, which his advisers and Afghan officials have told him could be profitably extracted by Western companies.
→ read full articleLiving in Dystopian Times
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
3 Aug 2017 – Twenty-five years ago there were three widely held beliefs about future trends on a global level: the assured preeminence of the United States; the continuing globalization of the world economy; and the expanding democratization of national governance arrangements. It was also assumed that these trends were more or less descriptive of regional realities, including the Middle East. Each of these trends that seemed so descriptive 25 years ago now seems to be completely out of touch with what is happening around us.
→ read full articleBeing vs. Doing
The Secrets of Yoga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Multitasking is a great technique that allows us to achieve numerous goals in any given day, and technologies such as the computer and cell phone are available almost anywhere we go… Give your complete self to a task and perform it methodically. Bhakti, or devotion, is key. In Zen Buddhism, meditation is described as just sitting. Sacred texts such as the Bhagavad-gita are full of spiritual information that can place wandering souls, giving them insight and direction.
→ read full articleWhat Is Peace Journalism?
Prof. Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Peace journalism is when editors and reporters make choices – about what to report, and how to report it – that create opportunities for society at large to consider and to value non-violent responses to conflict.
→ read full articleFidel Castro (13 Aug 1926 – 25 Nov 2016)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, political leader of Cuba (1959–2008), transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America.
→ read full articleMontreal’s Olympic Stadium Welcomes Haitians, Other Asylum Seekers from U.S.
James Rainey – NBC News,
7 Aug 2017
3 Aug 2017 – Though the newcomers are from many countries, some told journalists they were Haitian and felt less welcome in America after President Donald Trump said in May that protective status for those who fled a massive 2010 earthquake could be withdrawn, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Aug 7-13, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Life asked death, ‘Why do people love me but hate you?’ Death responded, ‘Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth.” – Author unknown
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Mr. Tambourine Man (Music Video of the Week)
Bob Dylan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1964 – A Super Classic!!
→ read full articleHas Seymour Hersh Debunked ‘Russia-gate’?
Justin Raimondo | Antiwar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
4 Aug 2017 – Journalist Seymour Hersh has given us good reason to believe what many have long suspected: that the “hacking” of the Democratic National Committee, which supposedly delivered the White House to Donald Trump, was an inside job. Hersh says Seth Rich contacted WikiLeaks.
→ read full articleIndia’s NGOs Need to Realign Their Focus
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
2 Aug 2017 – India is now all set to frame a law to curb the wild growth of NGOS following a series of strict observations of the Supreme Court. Think tanks shape the social and political conversations that mold public opinion. Money comes with strings that can undermine a revolutionary’s mission. As with any institutional structure the need for transparency and accountability is crucial.
→ read full articleIsrael Heading for a Solution?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
The world wants messages of peace from these great, old faiths [Judaism, Christianity, Islam], not everlasting belligerence. That could emanate from Jerusalem, by highlighting the traditions of togetherness and tolerance rather than the opposite: the Abrahamic faiths betraying the human hope of peace. The world is waiting. Time for this to happen is now.
→ read full articleDeadly Combination of Cholera, Hunger and Conflict Pushes Yemen to ‘Edge of a Cliff’ – Senior UN Official
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
1 Aug 2017 – Describing the situation in Yemen as “very bleak,” with “no end in sight,” a senior United Nations official envoy today said the war-torn country, already reeling from malnutrition and dwindling health care, is plummeting into further distress amid a deadly cholera outbreak and looming famine.
→ read full articleOvercoming Paranoia about Russia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Time to open the positive door to Russia with exchange for mutual and equal benefit. Trade in processed goods, and in services, cooperation in killing speculation and drug-poisoning. Above all, mutual respect not only benefit. Admiration, sympathy. Love. RUSSIA: ja tjebja ljubljo. I love you.
→ read full articleThe Bilateral Relationship That Matters
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Which is the most important bilateral relationship in the international arena today? Many analysts would argue that it is the relationship between the United States of America and China that has the greatest significance for the world.
→ read full articleU.N. Human Rights Procedures and the Role of Citizens of Non-Member States
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
In practice, it is difficult for a person who is considered as “stateless” or a citizen of a Non-Member State to be able to use the human rights procedures put into place by the United Nations, especially what are considered complaint procedures.
→ read full articleThe Surprising Economic Benefits of Peace
Mohib Iqbal and Daniel Hyslop | Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
While a small handful of individuals and companies may benefit from conflict, the majority suffer – not only in human terms, but also economically. Since 2010, the Institute for Economics and Peace has developed leading research which calculates the economic losses from violence and conflict, breaking the myth sustained by many that war is good for the economy.
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