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The Climate Change System 2017
Prof. Timi Ecimovic and Prof John Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
“The Climate Change System 2017” booklet was written for 8th Danube Academies Conference, 21-22 Sep 2017, Belgrade, by Prof Dr John Avery, Prof Dr, Dr h c Timi Ecimovic, Prof Dr Negoslav Ostojic, Prof Dr Leo Semashko, et al.
→ read full articleRegime Change Buddies: ‘Western Forces Stop Targeting ISIS Fighters once They Cross into Syria’
Mike Raddie - Russia Today,
1 May 2017
24 Apr 2017 – The US has never liberated a Middle Eastern country – ever! And the fear of the civilians in Mosul is understandable considering the indiscriminate carnage occurring there. — Mike Raddie, editor, BSNews, human rights activist.
→ read full articleEndless Atrocities: The US Role in Creating the North Korean Fortress-State
Robert J Barsocchini | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Paul Atwood, a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, provides a concise summary of the history that informs North Korea’s “relations with the United States” and “drives its determination never to submit to any American diktat”… In its full invasion of the North, the US acted under the banner of the UN. However, the UN at that time was “largely under the control of the USA”, and as Prof. Carl Boggs puts it, essentially ‘was’ the USA.
→ read full articleEuropean Country Opens First Concentration Camps for Gay People since Hitler [VIDEO]
Kerry-anne Mendoza | The Canary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
An investigative report by Novaya Gazeta has found that 100 gay men were kidnapped and imprisoned in the world’s first concentration camp for LGBT people since Nazi Germany. Three men were killed during the operation in Chechnya, in Eastern Europe. . In Nazi Germany, Jewish people were ordered to wear a yellow star. Disabled people were forced to wear black triangles. And LGBT people were ordered to wear a pink triangle.
→ read full article(Italiano) Aosta 28 aprile 1945-28 aprile 2017. Lettura collettiva della Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana in Piazza Chanoux
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Il 28 aprile 1945 AOSTA fu liberata dal fascinazismo.
Per opera delle Partigiane e dei Partigiani.
Gli Americani arrivarono il 3 maggio.
Palestinian Prisoners Show the Way in Israel
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Mahatma Gandhi used hunger strike to refocus people away from greed and selfishness to caring for each other. Hunger is painful and people will die sooner or later unless we all act. What is at stake is very high: our own self-respect (dignity) as human beings.
→ read full article“World Domestic Politics”
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
A world focus on the world’s most miserable communities, to lift up the bottom of humanity, is a welfare world we need. Doing that would already be Weltinnenpolitik. Today, not waiting 50+ more years.
→ read full articleEarth Day 2017
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Be advised: this poem may be interrupted
by a nuclear war.
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 Mar 1883)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Karl Heinrich Marx was born in Trier, Germany. His father was a lawyer who came from a long line of Rabbis, but had changed his faith to Protestantism in order to keep his job. Karl Marx went to the University of Bonn to study law when he was 17 years old.
→ read full articleDouble Standards: Do All Journalist Lives Matter?
Shafik Mandhai – Al Jazeera,
1 May 2017
Little attention is paid to reporters from the Global South who are killed, abused, or left stranded by foreign media.
→ read full articleThe Leaves Turned Yellow
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The leaves turned yellow,
Someone in the fall is again in disgrace,
The cold of January is close again,
Vietnam’s Crocodile Skin Industry
PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Warning: Graphic Images of Cruelty – This is the hidden cost of crocodile skin bags, wallets, watches, and other items. Vietnam’s exotic skins trade.
→ read full articleThe Israeli Macron
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Emmanuel Macron (Emmanuel is a Hebrew name, meaning “God is with us”) has won the first round, and there is a strong possibility that he will win the second round, too. This is not just a French affair. It concerns all mankind. First of all, it has broken a spell.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
May 1-7 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “A year from now, you will wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
→ read full articleMedia Is Free, but Is It Fair?
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
In an ideal world, journalism is a profession of incredible integrity. Good journalists are amongst the most dexterous and skilled people in the world—and also the most respected.
→ read full articleHospital Care — Physical and Spiritual
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Recently, I had an opportunity to go to an infectious disease hospital which offers treatment for various diseases for a minimal fee. I was going there with a woman called Usha who works in our home and who had got bitten by a stray dog the previous evening… Yes, in this hospital, medical science and spirituality were both at work to cure patients of their disease and to give them hope, trust and confidence.
→ read full articleVault 7: Scribbles Project
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Today, April 28 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the documentation and source code for CIA’s “Scribbles” project, a document-watermarking preprocessing system to embed “Web beacon”-style tags into documents that are likely to be copied by Insiders, Whistleblowers, Journalists or others.
→ read full articleWorse Than MRSA: Doctors Call for Urgent Action on Deadly Superbug Threat
Madlen Davies - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
1 May 2017
21 Apr 2017 – Doctors are warning that the rise of an almost untreatable superbug, immune to some of the last-line antibiotics available to hospitals, poses a grave threat and needs urgent government action.
→ read full articleAddressing Fractionation: Principles for Arbitrating the “Common Good”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
There is an urgent need for healing the divisive separation of people, societies, and nations. A continuation of the present intentional and unintentional “fractionation” forebodes a tragic future. Humans and the institutions they have created for collective living, now threaten life and lives as they assert selective group domination and control.
→ read full articleNSA-Leaking Shadow Brokers Just Dumped Its Most Damaging Release Yet
Dan Goodin | Ars Tecnica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The Shadow Brokers—the mysterious person or group that over the past eight months has leaked a gigabyte worth of the National Security Agency’s weaponized software exploits—just published its most significant release yet. Friday’s [14 Apr] dump contains potent exploits and hacking tools that target most versions of Microsoft Windows and evidence of sophisticated hacks on the SWIFT banking system of several banks across the world.
→ read full articleAwarding Saudi Arabia Chair on Women’s Rights Commission Makes UN Complicit in Crimes
Marwa Osman – Russia Today,
1 May 2017
25 Apr 2017 – The Saudi Arabia that publicly beheads women and dangles bodies from cranes was just elected to the UN Women’s Rights Commission. After the scandal of re-electing Saudi Arabia to the UN Human Rights Council in 2016, that same Saudi Arabia which has been indiscriminately bombing Yemeni civilians for more than two years, now gets ‘elected’ to the new position. This is not the punchline of a twisted joke, but the intergovernmental UN shaming itself.
→ read full articleA Public Plan for Peace
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
26 Apr 2017 – The American will to wage war — endless war, pointless war, total war — is, I fear, impervious to public opinion and even political action. I fear something is dangerously loose at the American core: a need for endless war combined with a nuclear recklessness uncontained by public scrutiny. The resistance has to go deeper than Trump. At its center we need a public plan for peace.
→ read full articleThe Great Game – Or Peace?
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Although peace has come to have a bad name, these days, although the voices of those against war are branded as traitorous, and all that is great and good seems connected to soldiering, there are many many more of us who want nothing more or less than peace, the noblest of aspirations. There are many many more of us who know that our precious world is anything but a game, “great” or small: it’s all we have.
→ read full articleAir Force One
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Stairway to Hell
→ read full articleThe Plant That Everyone Has, but Nobody Knows That it Makes Cancer Cells Disintegrate within 48 Hours
Native American’s – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Quick – what’s the best use for dandelions? If you’re like most people, you probably can’t think of an answer, or maybe think of dandelion wine – but we’re here to tell you it’s something much, much better!
→ read full articleSpiritual Voices amid the Chaos
Sayde Tawk | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
There is a considerable difference between an institutional religion and a genuine spirituality, where the former is based on rigid rules and rituals while the latter succumbs to the harmonious rhythm of life.
→ read full articleIndigenous Peoples – Best Allies or Worst Enemies?
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
1 May 2017
25 Apr 2017 – It all happened on the very same day—4 April. That day, indigenous peoples were simultaneously characterised as fundamental allies in the world’s war on hunger and poverty, while being declared as collective victims of a “tsunami” of imprisonments in Australia…. The Rome meeting of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus coincided with the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Right of Indigenous Peoples.
→ read full articleTrump versus International Liberalism: Should We Care?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Only civil society militancy on an unprecedented scale can create a mandate for the kind of global transformation in ideas and structures are necessary to enable a sustainable future resting on the values of eco-humanism. If this analysis is correct, Trumpism and liberalism are nothing but sideshows.
→ read full articleJokes to Be Taken Seriously
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The philosophers of ancient Greece concluded that by far the wisest among them was Socrates.
→ read full article(Português) O veganismo não reconhece nada de origem animal como alimento de consumo humano
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
O veganismo por defender o abolicionismo animal, naturalmente rejeita a ideia de que qualquer coisa produzida pelos animais seja legitimada como fonte de nutrição humana. Até porque, se esse discurso fosse endossado pelo veganismo, a luta não seria pela libertação animal, mas somente pela criação de animais em grandes espaços, disseminando uma ingênua ideia de liberdade.
→ read full articleA Structural Theory of Aggression (1964)
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
This theoretical essay is concerned with the conditions of aggression. We shall define aggression somewhat vaguely as ‘drives towards change, even against the will of others’. The extreme forms of this phenomenon are crimes, including homicide, between individuals; revolutions, including elimination, between groups; and wars, including genocide, between nations. These forms make aggression negative and problematic, a cause of concern and prevention. But one can also turn the coin and look at the other face: aggression as the driving force in history, as the motivational energy that moves mountains.
→ read full articleGM Products: ‘Frankenstein Foods’ or Miracle Solution for a Hungry Planet?
Tomasz Pierscionek – Russia Today,
1 May 2017
25 Apr 2017 – The manufacture of Genetically Modified Organisms is a controversial subject. Should GMO be feared or embraced? Are they the answer to solving world hunger or could their creation have consequences?
→ read full articleShutting Down American-Style Authoritarianism
Henry A. Giroux - Tikkun Magazine,
1 May 2017
It is impossible to imagine the damage Trump and his white nationalists, economic fundamentalists, and white supremacists friends will do to civil liberties, the social contract, the planet, and life itself in the next few years. Rather than address climate change, the threat of nuclear war, galloping inequality, the elimination of public goods, Trump and his vicious acolytes have accelerated the threats faced by these growing dangers.
→ read full articleNonviolence and Islamic Imperatives
Jørgen Johansen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Nonviolence and Islamic Imperatives is a timely book that provides a valuable perspective to the ongoing dialogue on Islam, peace, and Islamophobia today. It is highly relevant and critical to continuing a crucial dialogue on the subject matter.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: “Communal Violence” Argument Being Peddled Again
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
What is fundamentally wrong with the “communal violence” argument in the paper below, ‘Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar,’ by Nick Cheesman.
→ read full articleDiversifying Public Ownership
Andrew Cumbers | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
This paper advocates a form of economic democracy based around diverse forms of public ownership. It does not prioritize one particular scale but recognizes the importance of decentralized forms of public ownership, to encourage greater public participation and engagement, mixed with higher level state ownership, for strategic sectors and planning for key public policy goals (e.g. tackling climate change). It takes a deliberately pluralistic definition of public ownership, recognizing both state ownership and the role that cooperatives and employee ownership could play in a more democratic economy.
→ read full articleCorporate Pseudo-Science, Edward Bernays, and the 2017 March for Science
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of… It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”
— Edward L. Bernays, the Father of Propaganda in America and Sigmund Freud’s nephew, from his seminal book, Propaganda (1928)
Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 Apr 1955): Evolution toward World Unity
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
For Teilhard, love was not an emotion or a sentiment but the basic primal and universal psychic energy. This is a concept drawn from Chinese culture. Teilhard lived in China from 1923 to 1946. The Chinese word jen, a term translated as love, benevolence or affection, is not only an emotional-moral term, but it is also a cosmic force − a compassionate quality that is the very structure of the earth.
→ read full articleDemocratic World Federalists and the San Francisco Promise
Roger Kotila, Editor | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The truth is that the UN Charter itself is so badly designed that it is in reality the main part of a geopolitical war system. A global peace system will require replacing the UN Charter with a genuine world federal union constitution such as the Earth Constitution. The Charter is undemocratically rigged in favor of only five nations of the UN Security Council: U.S., Russia, China, France, and UK.
→ read full articleGlobal Solidarity Now!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The U.S. Military is the single largest consumer of oil and the largest emitter of CO2 in the world! Here in the center of Hawaii Island is a 133,000-acre toxic waste dump that includes lead, depleted uranium and a host of other pollutants. And to make matters worse, the military is bombing the toxic waste dump. Are we inhaling military DU oxide dust?
→ read full articleAmerica’s War-Fighting Footprint in Africa
Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
1 May 2017
Secret U.S. Military Documents Reveal a Constellation of American Military Bases across That Continent
→ read full articleWho Is Behind the State Department’s Coup Plot in Venezuela?
Misión Verdad – teleSUR,
1 May 2017
Creating a distorted image of the humanitarian crisis is the starting point. Painting a picture of a country on the verge of collapse is the alibi.
→ read full articleDoes Climate Change Increase Conflict?
Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Today’s wars are often attributed to ethnic conflict or extremism, but environmental factors could also be behind tensions. Linking climate and conflict is a controversial issue. Some scholars warn that inflating the links between conflict and climate change could be damaging to both areas of study. However, evidence on the ground appears to be increasing.
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Moscow Nights – Podmoskovnye Vechera (Music Video of the Week)
Anna Netrebko & Dmitri Hvorostovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Red Square Concert – The Russian Classic best known outside the country.
→ read full articleHow the Hunger Strike Could Bring Palestinian Prisoners Back to the Fore
Amjad Iraqi | +972 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The fixation on Barghouti’s op-ed bio distracts from the strike’s impact on Palestinians, which is as much about restoring political direction as it is about attaining prisoners’ rights.
→ read full articleA Rhymed Reflection Never Before Proclaimed
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
All types of nuclear weapons let us abhor.
The mention of any types of nuclear war let us deplore.
BP Oil Spill Damage to Natural Resources Valued at $17.2 Billion, Scientists Find
Denisse Moreno | International Business Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
20 Apr 2017 – The April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to natural resources, a study published in the journal Science said. Scientists conducted a six-year study of the impact of the 134-million gallon BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
→ read full articleTo Prevent or Stop Wars: What Can Peace Movements Do?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
We, who are part of structured (more or less) organizations for the resolution of armed conflicts, need to seek ways to meet on-going challenges, to build cooperation among groups and to reach out to the “unorganized”. The book, the first of a new peace publishing house headed by Jørgen Johansen, also of The War Resisters’ leadership, merits close reading and especially discussion of strategies.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Appeals to President Trump for Peace Leadership
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
“The people of North and South Korea want peace and they want a peace treaty. They do not want their country to be bombed or their government to bomb others. Having visited both North and South Korea last year and walked with thousands and thousands of Korean women, North and South, I am convinced that peace is possible and what is needed is the political will of all parties to the conflict to dialogue and for negotiations to move from a Korean armistice to a Korean Peace Treaty.”
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John Lennon’s Last Interview
Beatles Videos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
John Lennon sat down at the Tomorrow Show and gave his last interview ever. RIP – Listen to his first statement…
→ read full articleThe Old Familiar Faces: Poetry
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
This collection of mainly English poetry reflecting inevitably on loss, the constant of old age, has many poignant poems, but also humour, a necessity of aging well, is here. The editors have collected poems from many centuries and from the famous to the little known.
→ read full articleAustralian Anzac Day Celebrations Promote Militarism and War
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Anzac Day celebrations on April 25 were used by the Australian political and media establishment to reaffirm its commitment to US-led wars and military preparations around the world, and to try to drown out widespread anti-war sentiment among working people.
→ read full articleOver 1,000 Palestinian Prisoners Launch Mass Hunger Strike
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
On Palestinian Prisoner’s Day Monday [17 Apr 2017], hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons are staging a mass hunger strike, continuing the decades-long resistance of prisoners in the apartheid state. “Salutes of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Glory to the martyrs. Freedom for the prisoners of freedom,” stated the PFLP in support of the strikers.
→ read full articleDay of Mother Earth – 22 April
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
In traditional Indian culture, according to texts as early as the Vedas, the Earth is home to all living species that inhabit it and must not be excluded as they all contribute to the planet’s welfare and preservation. Therefore, human beings must contribute to the web of life of which they are a part and find ways of using the elements to produce food without damaging other life forms as far as possible.
→ read full articleWhy We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons
Marwan Barghouti – The New York Times,
24 Apr 2017
16 Apr 2017 — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided to resist these abuses by going on a hunger strike. Freedom and dignity are universal rights that are inherent in humanity, to be enjoyed by every nation and all human beings. Palestinians will not be an exception.
→ read full articleYemen, World’s Largest Humanitarian Crisis
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
24 Apr 2017
19 Apr 2017 – With 18.8 million people –nearly 7 in 10 inhabitants– in need of humanitarian aid, including 10.3 million requiring immediate assistance, Yemen is now the largest single-nation humanitarian crisis in the world, the UN informs. According to OCHA, over 17 million people are currently “food insecure,” of whom 6.8 million are “severely food insecure” and require immediate food assistance, and two million acutely malnourished children. The Yemeni population amounts to 27.4 million inhabitants.
→ read full articleUS Threat of War Forces North Korea into Siege State Mentality
Carlos Martinez – Russia Today,
24 Apr 2017
Many people in the West are worried about the situation not because of Donald Trump’s insane militarism, but that of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Such thinking is irrational and ahistorical, and is rooted largely in mass-media deception and good old-fashioned ‘Yellow Peril’ racism. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has invaded and bombed not a single country. The USA, on the other hand, has invaded and bombed dozens of countries – including Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Grenada, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and, yes, Korea.
→ read full articleInternational Collaboration to End Violence
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
24 Apr 2017 – While much of the world is engulfed in violence of one sort or another (whether violence in the home or on the street, exploitation, ecological destruction or war), a global network of individuals and organizations is committed to ending this violence in all of its manifestations. Here is an outline of what some of these individual signatories of ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ are doing. You are welcome to join them.
→ read full articleMountaintop Removal Site Could Become Kentucky’s Largest Solar Farm
Cassie Kelly | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Berkeley Energy is working to build a 50-100 megawatt solar farm right on top of the old coal mine. The project was announced on Tuesday [18 Apr]. “This is really a history-making project for the region,” said Ryan Johns, an executive with Berkeley Energy Group.
→ read full articleIndescribable Feeling: We Just Hit 410 ppm of CO2 – Welcome to a Whole New World
Kate Yoder | Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
21 Apr 2017 – This is not normal: We’re on track to witness a climate unseen in 50 million years by mid-century. We first hit 400 parts per million back in 2013, and that became the new norm just four years later. And on April 18 this year, as predicted, we crossed the 410 ppm threshold for the first time at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.
→ read full articleOn the Fifth Day
Jane Hirshfield – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
That common ground between poetry and science is what poet Jane Hirshfield sows with splendor in this poem written for the 2017 March for Science in Washington, D.C., protesting the anti-fact, anti-truth, anti-science political climate of the current American administration. (Maria Popova)
→ read full article(Français) Guerre de Corée : après les tapis de bombes, les mensonges
Dwight Garner | Tlaxcala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
La Corée du Nord, une menace pour les Etats-Unis? Oui, si on applique un principe fondamental de la propagande de guerre: occulter l’histoire. Par contre, si on replace les événements dans leur contexte, les tensions entre Washington et Pyongyang prennent une toute autre dimension. C’est pourquoi nous vous proposons la lecture cet article de 2010. Un historien revient sur la guerre qui a ravagé la Corée de 1950 à 1953. Utile pour remettre les pendules à l’heure.
→ read full article‘The Kurds’: Internationalists or Narrow Nationalists?
Marcel Cartier - teleSUR,
24 Apr 2017
Any imperialist plan for a “Greater Kurdistan” is incompatible with the ideology Democratic Self-Administration in Northern Syria.
→ read full articleKorea: Challenge and Response
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
In a message to the UN Secretary-General, as President of the Association of World Citizens, I stressed that a crisis can also be an opportunity for strong initiatives and action. Citizens of the World call for speedy and creative action to meet the challenge of growing Korean tensions with a response of cooperation and reconciliation.
→ read full articlePalestine’s Nelson Mandela
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
22 Apr 2017 – I have a confession to make: I like Marwan Barghouti. I have visited him at his modest Ramallah home several times. During our conversations, we discussed Israeli-Palestinian peace. Our ideas were the same: to create the State of Palestine next to the State of Israel, and to establish peace between the two states, with open borders and cooperation. I am waiting for the day when I can visit Marwan again as a free man in his home in Ramallah. Even more so if Ramallah is, by that time, a town in the free State of Palestine.
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The Success of Nonviolent Civil Resistance
Erica Chenoweth | TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Between 1900-2006, campaigns of nonviolent civil resistance were twice as successful as violent campaigns. Erica talks about her research on the impressive historical record of civil resistance in the 20th century and discusses the promise of unarmed struggle in the 21st century. In addition to explaining why nonviolent resistance has been so effective, she also shares some lessons learned about why it sometimes fails.
→ read full article“Over There”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
When the massacres came, we wondered…. –
We thought we were the “Over There” people.
George M. Cohan sang us the way home:
“We won’t come back till it’s over over there.”
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 articleTerrorists Are Terrorists and Not “Rebels” in Syria
Stephen Lendman – Information Clearing House,
24 Apr 2017
Conflict in Syria isn’t civil. All anti-government forces are US-supported terrorists (under various “jihadist” Al Qaeda affiliated labels). Names of different groups don’t matter. They’re all cut out of the same cloth. They can’t exist without foreign support. State actors bear full responsibility for turning Syria into a charnel house.
→ read full articleMarch for Science Puts Earth Day Focus on Global Opposition to Trump
Oliver Milman – The Guardian,
24 Apr 2017
More than 600 marches held around the world, with organizers saying science ‘under attack’ from a White House that dismisses the threat of climate change. • Why March for Science? Because when it is attacked, only elites benefit
→ read full articleThe Bait-and-Switch ‘War on Terror’
Gareth Porter | Middle East Eye – Consortium News,
24 Apr 2017
22 Apr 2017 – New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman outraged many readers when he wrote an opinion piece on April 12 calling on President Trump to ”back off fighting territorial ISIS in Syria.” The U.S. “war on terror” has always been a bait-and-switch scam on the American people, with Washington putting the desires of its Mideast allies ahead of defeating Al Qaeda and ISIS.
→ 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 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 articlePutting a Value on Injuries to Natural Assets: The BP Oil Spill
Richard C. Bishop, et al* | American Association for the Advancement of Science – Science Magazine,
24 Apr 2017
21 Apr 2017 – BP Oil Spill Damage to Natural Resources Valued at $17.2 Billion, Scientists Find: When large-scale accidents cause catastrophic damage to natural or cultural resources, government and industry are faced with the challenge of assessing the extent of damages and the magnitude of restoration that is warranted.
→ read full articleChechnya Opens World’s First Concentration Camp for Homosexuals since Hitler’s in the 1930s
Thomas Burrows – Daily Mail,
24 Apr 2017
• Campaigners say gay men are being tortured with electric shocks and beaten to death.
• One of those who fled said prisoners were beaten to force them to reveal other members of the gay community.
• Comes after 100 gay men were detained and three killed in Chechnya last week.
An 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 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 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 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 articleJulian Assange Strikes Back at CIA Director and Talks Trump, Russia, and Hillary Clinton
Jeremy Scahill – The Intercept,
24 Apr 2017
19 Apr 2017 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hitting back at Trump’s CIA director Mike Pompeo following a speech last week in which Pompeo accused WikiLeaks of being a “hostile nonstate intelligence agency” operating outside of the protections of the First Amendment.
→ 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 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 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 articleCybersecurity for the People: How to Protect Your Privacy at a Protest
Micah Lee and Lauren Feeney – The Intercept,
24 Apr 2017
21 Apr 2017- Planning on going to a protest? You might not be aware that just by showing up, you can open yourself up to certain privacy risks — police often spy on protesters, and the smartphones they carry, and no matter how peaceful the demonstration, there’s always a chance that you could get detained or arrested, and your devices could get searched. Watch this video for tips on how to prepare your phone before you go to a protest, how to safely communicate with your friends and document the event, and what to do if you get detained or arrested.
→ 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 articleAs the US Stops Funding UN Reproductive Health Services, China Should Step In
Tamara Nair – The Conversation,
24 Apr 2017
The US is the largest donor to the agency, which mandates access to high-quality sexual and reproductive health services and voluntary family planning. It allows people to make informed and voluntary choices about their sexual and reproductive lives.
→ 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?”
An 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 articleWaiting 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.
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