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The Simple Act of Pushing a Button
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
On one side of the ledger is everything natural and extraordinary about life with its long evolution bringing us to the present and poised to carry its processes forward into the future. On the other side of the ledger is “the button,” capable of bringing most life on the planet to a screeching halt. Also on this side of the ledger are those people who remain ignorant or apathetic to the nuclear dangers confronting humanity.
→ read full articleConscience and Consciousness
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
With uncommon courage and conviction, notable peacemakers, including Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, Helen Caldicott, Glenn Paige, Bell Hooks, Mairead McGuire, Antonio C. S. Rosa, Dalai Lama, Daisaku Ikeda, and scores of others, modeled “conscience” as a way-of-life, accepting the quest for peace must be nurtured and sustained with the totality of one’s being . . . each breath an affirmation of commitment.
→ read full article(Castellano) ¿Es la Alianza del Pacífico el caballo de troya de EE.UU. en América Latina?
Germán Gorraiz López – teleSUR,
26 Sep 2016
23 septiembre 2016 – La importancia de la Alianza del Pacífico fue destacada por el analista y economista Jorge González Izquierdo, quien dijo a la AFP que este bloque en lo político “es un contrapeso al grupo que quiso formar el presidente Hugo Chávez de Venezuela”,en alusión a la Alianza Bolivariana para las Américas (ALBA),integrada por Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Ecuador, San Vicente y Las Granadinas y Antigua y Barbuda.
→ read full article(Français) Une première dans l’Histoire du journalisme : le Washington Post demande l’inculpation de sa propre source – après avoir accepté le prix Pulitzer
Glenn Greenwald | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Ce faisant, le Washington Post a réalisé un exploit ignominieux dans l’histoire des médias US : être le premier journal à avoir explicitement demandé des poursuites pénales contre sa propre source – sur le dos de qui le journal a remporté et accepté avec empressement un Prix Pulitzer du Service Public. Mais encore plus stupéfiant que cet acte de trahison journalistique contre la propre source du journal sont les arguments avancés pour le justifier.
→ read full article(Castellano) El persistente bullying contra el PT, Lula y Dilma Rousseff
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
18 Sep 2016 – Es conocido el bullyng, es decir, el acoso político y social que están sufriendo de manera persistente el PT, Lula y la expresidenta Dilma Rousseff. Una cosa es reconocer que hubo corrupción y errores políticos del PT y otra cosa es atribuir casi exclusivamente tales hechos y más a la crisis actual, al PT y a la expresidenta.
→ read full article34 Years after the Beirut Sabra-Shatila Massacre
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
What followed were nearly three days of slaughter , rape and dismemberment of the civilian population, men, women and children as the Christian militia penetrated the camp and conducted a frenzied, partly drug fueled, killing spree slaughtering an estimated 1, 800 to 3,500. The carnage was aided by Israeli forces that surrounded Shatila, lighted the night sky with flares turning the night into day, provided heavy equipment to bury and hide bodies, communicated with the Phalange terrorists and blocked camp residents from fleeing Shatila during the carnage while ushering reinforcement killer militia inside.
→ read full articleUN General Assembly Convenes amid Global Military Escalation
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
21 Sep 2016 – The 71st United Nations General Assembly convened this week beneath the shadow of a series of global crises that threaten to throw humanity into a new world war. Obama’s proclamation that the “shadow of nuclear Armageddon” has passed flies in the face of his own $1 trillion nuclear rearmament program.
→ read full article(Português) Trituração de pintinhos vivos vai acabar nos EUA. Mas e no Brasil?
Yahoo Notícias – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
21 set 2016 – Por trás de um ovo frito, cozido ou mexido, existe uma indústria que tritura cerca de 90 milhões de pintinhos vivos todos os anos, somente no Brasil. Esses animais, com poucas horas de vida, são ‘descartados’ dessa forma cruel, pois são machos e não botam ovos.
→ read full articleO Palestine
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Your sisters stayed in their palaces
With golden chains and shameless lies
Some grinned and aided criminals…
Mahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948)
History - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury/killing of living beings (ahimsa), and vegetarianism.
→ read full articleBuilding on the UN Summit to Address Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Citizens o the world have been actively concerned with the issues of migrants, refugees, the «stateless» and those displaced by armed conflicts within their own country. Thus we welcome the spirit of the Summit Declaration with its emphasis on cooperative action, a humane sense of sharing the responsibilities for refugees and migrants and on seeking root causes of migration and refugee flows.
→ read full articleTime for Delivery of Food and Water Bombs by Drone?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
24 Sep 2016 – Voluminous Thinking to Complement the Lateral Thinking of the International Community – Media coverage of the dramatic humanitarian situation in Aleppo repeatedly makes the case for the inability of trucks with remedial food supplies to get through safely to the areas most in need.
→ read full articleDemolition of Religious Buildings in Myanmar’s Rakhine State Set to Start
Radio Free Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
20 Sep 2016 – First, they come for your identity. Then, they come for your God. Rakhine state government officials are moving to demolish more than 3,000 allegedly illegal buildings, which include 12 mosques, 35 Muslim religious schools, and more than 2,500 houses and other structures.
→ read full articleGermany and France Press Ahead with a European Military Union
Johannes Stern | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
23 Sep 2016 – Germany has released the joint military policy paper of German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen and her French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian: “Renewing the Joint Security and Defence Policy: Toward a comprehensive, realistic and reliable defence in the EU.” Under conditions of a deep social and political crisis in Europe and growing conflict between the major powers internationally, Berlin and Paris are rapidly pushing forward the militarisation of the continent.
→ read full articleNigeria’s Future: An Interview with Noo Saro-Wiwa about Her New Book
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
The book offers much more than just a report of a five-month journey around her homeland (for long time seen as the repository of all her resentment); it brings a new perspective of Nigeria itself, offering the portrait of a Country whose beauty and variety become evident. Talking about the past, mentioning unsolved conflict, honestly showing the reader the present challenges and imagining a future for Africa’s most populous Country.
→ read full articleIsrael Ramps Up House Demolitions as an Instrument of Expropriation
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions reports that Israel is demolishing Palestinian homes and livelihoods at an increasing – and alarming – rate. This destruction is explicitly linked to the advancement of new settlements, many of which are illegal under Israeli as well as International law. During July–August this year, at least 2,800 Palestinians had their livelihoods affected by displacement and demolitions, with 42 communities affected over the two months.
→ read full articleFasting for Peace and Spirituality
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
People fast for religious reasons — to attain spiritual strength and peace. They also fast as a means of protest against injustice or wrong policies of the government especially in India. Fasting as a political instrument or as a religious belief has been going on for centuries in the world. We must understand and sympathize with it and occasionally adopt it to cleanse our bodies.
→ read full articleHawaiians Openly Reject President Obama’s Invented Process to Create a Native Hawaiian Tribe
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
“Why? Because they want our land. They want to create a so-called universal land claims settlement of our Crown and Government lands, aka ‘Ceded Lands.’ The USA, that has never been respectful of indigenous peoples—as we are seeing in North Dakota, is trying to dissolve our rights as a people to self-determination as defined by international law, and our human rights as indigenous people that have also been codified by the United Nations.”
→ read full article6 Ways We’re Already Leading an Economic Revolution
Gar Alperovitz – Yes! Magazine,
26 Sep 2016
From the “buy local” movement to public banking, we’re well on our way to a more democratic, cooperative, and people-centered economy.
→ read full articleBrazil Court Moves on Corruption Probe of President Temer
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
The coup-imposed president is already barred from running for public office; now he is under investigation for illegally soliciting campaign donations.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Sep 26–Oct 2 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
→ read full articleWhy and How I Talk about 9/11
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
20 Sep 2016 – In my darker moments I sometimes wonder what’s worse: our age of an endless ‘war on terror’ ushered in by the events of September 11, 2001, or the fact that for the rest of my life I will be subjected to yearly anniversary commemorations of those events, replete with jingoistic absurdities.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the People of the United States: Election or Revolution?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
To reiterate: I am not saying ‘Don’t vote and do nothing’ (as so many people do already). I am suggesting that you ponder the dysfunctionality of your society, do some research into the secretive ‘deep state’ (or military-industrial complex or power elite or the 1% or however you wish to describe it) that controls your ‘republic’ with its electoral system designed to delude you into believing that you have a say in governing your nation, and then consider how you want to engage politically and act in accord with your conscience in doing so.
→ read full articleBrazil’s “Saddest Day”: The Parliamentary Coup
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
18 Sep 2016 – They took sadistic pleasure in hurting an incorruptible and honorable woman, on the pretext that some of her fiscal practices had been criminal, something that the great majority of legal and economics specialists denied. They staged a farce and betrayed the Constitution. Removing a President without having proven a crime is a coup. The correct term for it is: a “parliamentary coup.”
→ read full articleA Meeting
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
When Jesus and the Buddha met
in a meadow of larkspurs, on a balmy day,
the bees of the valley went mad with love,
the sky and the sun were a glaze.
(Português) O Gato da Vila Paraná
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
24 set 2016 – Querubim ouviu tiro de espingarda seguido de miado. Lá fora, na rua de terra arenosa, Ranulpho nem se mexia, estatelado sobre uma porção de folhas miúdas de sibipiruna. A boca continuava entreaberta, denunciando que a dor da morte não poupava nem os mais inocentes.
→ read full articleLeonardo da Vinci–The Genius in Milan: The Marketing of Genius
Lee Parsons | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
23 Sep 2016 – Screened in Toronto this past summer, ‘Leonardo da Vinci–The Genius in Milan’ is being distributed in over 50 countries this year and comes out of the largest exhibition ever mounted in Italy of the work of the great polymath, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
→ read full articleCarmageddon Beckons
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
There are plenty of brilliant plans for getting us moving without trashing the planet. So why aren’t they happening? It was a mistake, a monumental, world-class mistake. Cars for everyone was one of the stupidest promises that politicians ever made.
→ read full articleThe Private Person and the Public Persona: Borges on the Divided Self
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
However integrated the our layered identity may be, our twined nature stands like a stereogram — two separate and noticeably different views, composed into a single three-dimensional image of personhood only through the special focal mechanism of our own consciousness.
→ read full articleLoss of Planet Reflectivity an Impending Catastrophe
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
19 Sep 2016 – The planet’s air conditioning system is on the blink, working intermittently, losing its glinting, lustrous white reflectiveness, as it turns deep blue, absorbing 90% of sunlight rather than reflecting it back into outer space. The repercussions of Arctic sea ice loss are immense.
→ read full articleA New Refutation of Time: Borges on the Most Paradoxical Dimension of Existence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
→ read full articleAgriculture: Trade Wars and Food Wars. Obama and the Multi-Nationals
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
19 Sep 2016 – Potash Corp and Agrium have combined into a $30 billion monopoly over the world fertilizer market. Dow Chemical and DuPont combine in a $130 billion dollar deal in the seed and agricultural chemicals sector. ChemChina prepares to takeover Syngenta in a $44 billion acquisition. Bayer is preparing to buy out Monsanto for $56 billion and further concentrate control over worldwide seed and chemical markets. A quarter of a trillion dollars worth of mergers and acquisitions is poised to concentrate control of global agriculture prices, profits and markets in four directorates.
→ read full articleHeroin, Nazis, and Agent Orange: Inside the $66 Billion Merger of the Year
Lydia Mulvany | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
These companies used to sell heroin and Agent Orange. Now, they want to form the world’s largest supplier of seeds and pesticides.
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(Português) Michel Temer diz que impeachment aconteceu porque Dilma rejeitou ‘Ponte para o futuro’
The Intercept Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
22 setembro 2016 – O presidente Michel Temer deixou escapar um segredo em discurso para empresários e investidores: o impeachment de Dilma Rousseff ocorreu para implementar um plano de governo radicalmente diferente do que foi votado através das urnas em 2014, quando o PT ganhou a presidência pela quarta vez, e não por irregularidades praticadas pela ex-presidente.
→ read full articleBoutros Boutros-Ghali and the UN Vanquished
Branislav Gošović – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
In Appreciation of an Exceptional UN Secretary-General Who Dared… This essay, written as a personal homage to Boutros Boutros-Ghali, is also a comment on the United Nations, predicaments and challenges confronting those occupying the office of UN Secretary-General, and the overarching North-South entanglement in the world body.
→ read full articleThe Saga of Sisyphus
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Shimon Peres is a genius. A genius of impersonation. All his life he has worked on his public persona. The image replaced the man. Almost all the articles written about him since he fell ill are about the imagined person, not the real one. As the Americans like to say: He is so phony he is real.
→ read full articleNon-Aligned to… Nowhere?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
22 Sep 2016 – The summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) came and went in Isla Margarita, Venezuela, virtually invisible to Western corporate media. NAM nowadays congregates every African nation except South Sudan; most of Latin America – except Brazil, Argentina and Mexico (they are observers); and most of Asia and the Middle East (China is an observer).
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | Chris Hedges Tells Us Why We Keep Being Fooled by the Powers That Be
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Our job is to dismantle the machinery that is pushing toward the cliff. And this means sustained and massive civil disobedience. As exemplified by the protests at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and by prisoners across the nation who carried out work stoppages last Friday, it means doing everything possible not to cooperate with the elements of authority. It means disrupting the mechanisms of power. It means overcoming fear. It means no longer believing the lies we are told.
→ read full articleThe Illegal Closure of Gaza
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
“The closure of Gaza is neither a siege, nor a blockade, nor an economic sanction – it is an illegal act of collective punishment and stands in violation of both international and Israeli law.”
— Gisha-Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, December 2008
“Unruly Equality”: A Brief History of Anarchism
Andrew Cornell | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
The very terms anarchy, anarchism, and anarchist are so overcoded with meanings and burdened by associations that people frequently talk past one another, or resort to awkward attempts at humor, even when attempting to discuss them in good faith.
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One Voice (Music Video of the Week)
Barry Manilow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Barry recorded his own voice some 40 times to compose this inspiring song.
→ read full articleSyria: Attack on Aid Convoy Kills Twenty, Destroys Aid…
Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
… and Obliterates US War Crimes? Only representatives of the ‘White Helmets’ organization close to the Nusra Front who found themselves at the right time in the right place by chance with their video cameras can answer who did this and why. They boasted in a video of being on the scene within “moments.” The “White Helmets”, who have had the gall to entitle themselves the Syrian Civil Defence Force, are neither Syrian, nor Civil, nor Defence.
→ read full articleResuscitating Post-Disaster Response in Nepal
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
19 Sep 2016 – Government may have several political agenda but nothing should prevent from focusing full attention to the plight of the survivors of the last years’ earthquakes. People of Nepal and the community of nations expect political parties will rise above political differences and speed up the reconstruction efforts in providing basic needs of the fellow citizens.
→ read full articleHow Nuclear Power Causes Global Warming
Harvey Wasserman - Reader Supported News,
26 Sep 2016
Supporters of nuclear power like to argue that nukes are the key to combatting climate change. Here’s why they are dead wrong. Every day, large reactors like the two at Diablo Canyon, California, individually dump about 1.25 billion gallons of water into the ocean at temperatures up to 20 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the natural environment.
→ read full articleSunoco, behind the Dakota Pipeline, Has Spilled More Oil than Any Other Operator in USA: Charts
Liz Hampton | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
23 Sep 2016 – Sunoco Logistics, the [alleged] future operator of the oil pipeline delayed this month after Native American protests in North Dakota, spills crude more often than any of its competitors with more than 200 leaks since 2010.
→ read full articleNorway to Kill 47 of Its Remaining 68 Wolves
Dan Zukowski | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Norway has announced plans to kill more than two-thirds of its remaining wolves, justifying the action as protection for livestock. The plan has sparked outrage by conservationists.
→ read full articleTruth Commissions Practices Over the World and a Case of Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Since the early 1980s, the conception of the truth commission has gained prominence as a mechanism for explaining the history and addressing human rights violations. Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons 1983-84 began the process, and the 1993 report of the UN Commission on the Truth in El Salvador, From Madness to Hope, sharpened the focus on truth recovery processes.
→ read full articleInternational Meeting ‘Thirst for Peace‘
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Assisi, 18-20 Sep 2016 – The Future of Europe: Capacity to Integrate, Dialogue, and Generate
→ read full articleA Warming of US/Turkish Relations?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
There are continuing concerns in Washington and Ankara about whether and to what degree United States-Turkey relations can be restored; it depends on the behavior of the two governments, and likely will be influenced by the outcome of the American presidential elections.
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International Peace Day in Assisi
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Update about Pope Francis’s Message
→ read full articleThe Malevolence of Occupation
David Lloyd | Dublin Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
1 Sep 2016 – Boycott is, as many proudly recall, an Irish invention. The first boycott targeted a notorious land agent, the eponymous Captain Charles Boycott, for attempting to evict Mayo tenants in 1880… Above all, boycott is an instrument of civil society. We call for a boycott when the means to redress an ongoing injury are denied by the legal or political institutions that ought to intervene.
→ read full articleMost of Japanese Millennials Are Virgins: Survey
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
17 Sep 2016 – A survey of Japanese people aged 18 to 34 found that 70 percent of unmarried men and 60 percent of unmarried women are not in a relationship. It also found that around 42 percent of men and 44.2 percent of women admitted that they were virgins.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre cavalos e amizades sem peso nas costas
Caroline Chaves - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
26 Sep 2016
Cavalo, equídeo, quadrúpede qualquer, não foi feito pra nele montar. Isso pode até lhe desagradar. Mas ele não nasceu pra galopar com ninguém em cima de suas costas, percorrendo longas distâncias, ou mesmo curtas, a toda velocidade. Precisamos parar de colocar nossas vaidades e nossos desejos acima dos direitos, da liberdade dos demais seres.
→ read full articlePoor Driver
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
After a summit meeting, Reagan, Brezhnev and Deng Xiaoping were being driven to the airport in a limousine.
→ read full articleHuman Decency Moves Civilization Forward
James A. Haught | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker asserts that rampant killing was 1,000 times worse in medieval times than today. In his classic 2011 book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” he notes that international warfare has virtually vanished in the 21st century — and that murder, rape, genocide, torture, wife-beating, lynching, gay-bashing, dueling, racial attacks, and even cruelty to animals are vastly less than in the past.
→ read full articleGreenpeace Investigation Uncovers Studies Showing Pesticides Pose Serious Harm to Honeybees
Joe Sandler Clarke | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
22 Sep 2016 – Chemical giants Bayer and Syngenta commissioned private studies which showed that their neonicotinoid pesticides can cause serious harm to bees, a Greenpeace investigation has uncovered.
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This Might Be the Coolest Visualization of Evolution Ever
Harvard Medical School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Bacteria Overcoming Antibiotics on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish
→ read full articleHow Ensuring Public Access to Information Can Help to Build Peaceful and Inclusive Societies
Univ. of Sydney Dept of Peace and Conflict Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
20 October, 2016 – 18:00-19:30h – In this webinar, Jake Lynch traces the debate over information and communication and their place in development and peace, with reference to interventions along a spectrum from journalist training, on the one end, to intended-outcome programming on the other.
→ read full article(Italiano) Wallerstein su Sinistra e Destra Globali
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Wallerstein è impareggiabile. Nessun altro ha presentato una teoria tanto coerente di quello che lui chiama il sistema-mondiale moderno, a partire “dal lungo 16° secolo” fino ad oggi; principalmente capitalista.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo, in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Auschwitz, 29 Luglio: Papa Francesco che prega e chiede a Dio la grazia per piangere (INYT, 30-31 Luglio) è stato molto, molto toccante. E così diverso dallo spettacolo che Obama ha provato ad allestire a Hiroshima.
→ read full articleThe Native American, the Palestinian: A Spirited Fight for Justice
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Palestinians are losing their lives, land and olive trees as they stand up to Israeli tanks and bulldozers. Their reality is a replay of similar experiences faced – and still being confronted – by Native Americans. Well into the 21st century, the Native American-Palestinian struggle remains one and the same.
→ read full article(Português) Atílio Borón analisa semelhanças entre o Chile de 1973 e o Brasil de 2016
María Julia Giménez | Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
11 de Setembro de 2016 – Após 43 anos do golpe de Estado que derrubou ao governo de Salvador Allende no Chile, o pensador latino-americano Atilio Borón lê, à luz do processo chileno, os recentes acontecimentos que violentam a ordem democrática da América Latina. Os limites do Estado burguês e as semelhanças dos dois golpes de Estado.
→ read full articleNorth Dakota vs. Amy Goodman: Journalism Is Not a Crime
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW !,
19 Sep 2016
Last Thursday [8 Sep], an arrest warrant was issued under the header “North Dakota versus Amy Goodman.” The charge was for criminal trespass. “Charging a journalist with criminal trespassing for covering an important environmental story of significant public interest is a direct threat to freedom of the press and is absolutely unacceptable in the country of the First Amendment,” said Delphine Halgand, U.S. director of Reporters Without Borders.
→ read full articleLaw Is to Justice as Treaties Are to Native Americans
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
19 Sep 2016
Once again, it’s the American empire versus interfering outsiders. As a Yale senior joining Skull and Bones, Jeb Boasberg kissed Geronimo’s skull. That act of atavistic triumphalism shines through in his legal decision against the Standing Rock Sioux. Kissing the skull of an enemy is just another way of showing who’s in control here, whose burial is sacred, and whose is not.
→ read full articleConservation Congress Votes to Ban All Trade in Elephant Ivory
Guy Dinmore – Inter Press Service-IPS,
19 Sep 2016
11 Sep 2016 – The international conservation community has taken an important step towards saving African elephants from mass slaughter by voting at a major congress to call on all governments to ban their domestic trade in ivory.
→ read full articleBayer Buys Monsanto for US $66 Bln.
Greg Roumeliotis and Ludwig Burger | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
German drug and crop chemical maker Bayer clinched a $66 billion takeover of U.S. seeds company Monsanto on Wednesday [14 Sep 2016], ending months of wrangling with a third sweetened offer that marks the largest all-cash deal on record.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Joins the Freedom Flotilla 2016 to Break the Gaza Siege
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Sep 15, 2016 – Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize winner, will join the women’s boat to Gaza. The goal of this mission is to highlight the devastating effects of the brutal blockade of the Palestinian people living in Gaza.
→ read full articlePost-9/11 Wars Have Cost Nearly $5 Trillion (and Counting): Report
Nadia Prupis – Common Dreams,
19 Sep 2016
As nation remembers 9/11 victims, report calculates cost of military response to attacks. Dr. Neta Crawford, professor of political science at Brown University, released the figures in an independent analysis of U.S. Departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security, and Veteran Affairs spending, as well as their base and projected future spending.
→ read full articleCentral Bank Digital Currencies: A Revolution in Banking?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Skeptical commentators suspect that their primary goal is to eliminate cash, setting us up for negative interest rates (we pay the bank to hold our deposits rather than the reverse).
→ read full articleContaining the United States
Edward S. Herman | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
9 Sep 2016 – “Containing the United States” is, of course, a ridiculous and self-contradictory idea in the U.S. and Western ideological and propaganda system. We all know that the United States had to “contain” the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1991, and since then has had the task of containing Russia and China. Only they threaten, bully, aggress and worry countries like Poland and Vietnam.
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America’s Murderous Legacy in Laos
TheRealNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
As Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos, The Real News brings you an interview with Fred Branfman, the man who first exposed America’s secret bombing campaign there.
→ read full articleIsn’t It Time to Ban the Bomb?
Lawrence S. Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Nuclear weapons are the most destructive devices ever created. If they are used―as two of them were used in 1945 to annihilate the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki―the more than 15,000 nuclear weapons currently in existence would destroy the world. Only an unusually firm stand by the non-nuclear nations, coupled with an uprising by an aroused public, seems likely to awaken the officials of the nuclear powers from their long sleepwalk toward catastrophe.
→ read full articleGaza-Bound Flotilla Sails Off from Spain’s Barcelona
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
A new flotilla of international activists has left for the Gaza Strip from the Spanish city of Barcelona, hoping to break a nearly decade-long Israeli blockade. Two sailing boats with 11 women on board each sailed off on Wednesday [14 Sep] under the banner “The Women’s Boat to Gaza”.
→ read full articleLiving & Resting in Peace
Jim Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Could it be the U.S. is poking around in other people’s business and taking their stuff? Or worse yet, killing them indiscriminately? Is this what the U.S. means when it calls itself the “exceptional” nation? Is this why so many people hate the U.S.?
→ read full articleIt Can Happen Here
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Some kind of free association, call it confederation or federation, is a sheer necessity. Setting it up and keeping it up needs a spirit of reconciliation. Not just a negative peace, the absence of war, a cold peace of recriminations and mutual animosity, but a positive peace, a real peace, with each side understanding the basic motives of the other side, its historical narrative, its hopes and fears. Is this possible? Well, it happened between Germany and France after many centuries of conflict, including two World Wars.
→ read full article“Abysms: On Yet another 911 Anniversary….”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Powers on chessboards, on a roll of dice,
Mass and unmask in great Darwin’s name.
War-whoops go up and towers collapse,
Reaping the whirlwind, riding our shame.
Conservation Congress Sets Ambitious Target to Protect Oceans
Guy Dinmore – Inter Press Service-IPS,
19 Sep 2016
Without consensus, and with major nations opposed, delegates said privately the vote could prove to be largely symbolic.
→ read full articleWhat You May Not Know about the Dakota Access Pipeline
Naomi Cohen - teleSUR,
19 Sep 2016
teleSUR spoke with the lawyer coordinating legal advice and representation for protesters at the North Dakota camps.
→ read full articleHow the Sugar Lobby Skewed Health Research
Alexandra Sifferlin – TIME,
19 Sep 2016
12 Sep 2016 – The sugar industry has a long history of skewing nutrition science, a new report suggests. By combing through archival documents from the 1950s and 1960s, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, report that the sugar industry sponsored research that turned attention away from the sweetener’s link to heart disease and toward fat and cholesterol as the bigger culprits.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Islam oggi
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Il mondo, anche gli USA, è stanco di guerre interminabili. Si metta fine alla disputa con l’Islam. L’Occidente e il Cristianesimo hanno un lavoro urgente da portare a termine.
→ read full articleNew Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose
Jenna McLaughlin and Talya Cooper – The Intercept,
19 Sep 2016
In the hope that Oliver Stone’s movie will spark more widespread interest in the NSA programs Snowden helped bring to light, The Intercept has compiled its stories based on the archive of documents, which can be explored through the chart below.
→ read full articleChallenges of Women Empowerment in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota, Shiba Bagale and Shreeya Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Nepal has always suffered from gender inequality. It has seen uncountable numbers of simple to worst cases of gender issues. The role of different revolutions, programs that are women focused government policies for gender empowerment has finally included the role and participation of women in the constitution.
→ read full articleMenwith Menace: Britain’s Complicity in Saudi Arabia’s Terror Campaign against Yemen
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
13 Sep 2016 – The ‘mainstream’ Western media is, almost by definition, the last place to consult for honest reporting of Western crimes. Consider the appalling case of Yemen which is consumed by war and an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.
→ read full articlePlaying Sudoku for Enjoyment and Peace
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
People have found different means of seeking peace and enjoyment—by listening to or playing music, by playing football, by reading a good novel, or by working for peace and conflict resolution. The sudokists find peace by solving these puzzles.
→ read full articleDrug-Induced Dementia IS NOT Alzheimer’s Disease
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Do, however, expect denials, dismissals, distractions, delays and ad hominem attacks against the whistle-blowers rather than honest mea culpas. So it must be up to the consumers of potentially toxic substances to do the research themselves, for those substances may not show symptoms until a tipping point is reached when their livers can no longer detoxify the cocktail of poisons that are presented to it.
→ read full articleAmericans’ Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low
Art Swift | Gallup – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
• 32% say they have “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust
• 14% of Republicans express trust, down from 32% last year
• Confidence drops among younger and older Americans
The Future Cries Out: ‘Water Is Life’
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
The tribal peoples of Earth are making their voices heard in so many ways. Their mission is to reconnect the modern world with the circle of life — a circle that much of humanity left behind maybe ten millennia ago, in pursuit of the Agricultural Revolution and dominion over nature. In the process, we’ve succeeded in changing the climate and, perhaps, establishing a troubling new geological epoch. Now it’s time to rethink “progress.” Building another pipeline is its antithesis.
→ read full articleHow Israel Aims to Redefine ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Netanyahu argues that a Palestinian demand to dismantle Jewish settlements amounts to the “ethnic cleansing” of some 650,000 Jews living in the occupied territories in violation of international law. His aim is not hard to decipher. Netanyahu can argue that when Palestinian leaders call for a state free of armed, Jewish-only colonies breaking up any hope of Palestinian territorial contiguity they should be labelled as ethnic cleansers.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Sep 19–25 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “We have all heard the saying, ‘Some people go their grave with their music still in them.’ They have had a dream but never did anything to make that dream come true. If you answered the question, “what would the one thing you would like to change”, but have done nothing to change it, start to do something. Break down the change into steps, set time frames for yourself and start taking steps to make that change a reality.” – Catherine Pulsifer
→ read full articleMy Koran Problem
Garry Wills | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
I knew really nothing about the Koran. But those who do know the Koran have quite a bit of knowledge about Torah and Gospel, since Allah sent them both to earth before he sent the Koran. They belong together. It is about time we learn something about the Koran.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Dalai Lama Criticizes [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi over Rohingya Silence at EU Meeting
Mizzima News from Myanmar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
16 Sep 2016 – The Dalai Lama has condemned attacks against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, describing them as acts of “some mischievous individuals who do not represent Buddhism.” The Tibetan Buddhist leader was speaking to the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee in Strasbourg.
→ read full articleThe Big Difference at Standing Rock Is Native Leadership All Around
Sarah van Gelder – YES! Magazine,
19 Sep 2016
Dallas Goldtooth, a veteran organizer of the Keystone XL fight, is amazed at the historic support from tribes at Standing Rock–even tribes that rely on resource extraction.
→ read full articleJewish Voice for Peace – Statement on Antisemitism in the US
Jews for Justice for Palestinians | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
In the United States, as in Britain, accusations of the prevalence of antisemitism abound and are used as sticks to beat those – protesting too vigorously? – at Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. But some antisemitism is real and it is important to make the right distinctions, to clarify the difference between expressions of antisemitism and support for Palestinian human rights.
→ read full articleGreece: A Country for Sale
Eleni Portaliou – Jacobin Magazine,
19 Sep 2016
Alexis Tsipras didn’t just dismiss the alternatives proposed by nearly half his own party and lead his government to the most spectacular surrender ever perpetrated by a left-wing political force. He also agreed to stay in power to fully and faithfully implement the policies of his former adversaries. As a consequence, to give credibility to this left version of the “there is no alternative” argument, more self-serving arguments are necessary.
→ read full article(Italiano) Intrecci perversi: come reagire?
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
19 Sep 2016
13 settembre 2016 – E’ stato da poco pubblicato un Report di Mark Akkerman1 dal titolo: “Guerre ai confini. I produttori di armi traggono profitti dalla tragedia dei rifugiati in Europa”. L’Autore mette in luce una situazione paradossale: i produttori e venditori di armi si stanno arricchendo anche grazie ai sistemi di sicurezza messi in atto per bloccare le migrazioni.
→ read full article(Français) Le Time et sa croisade anti-Venezuela
Jean Araud | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Quand on lit un magazine aussi prestigieux que le Time, on peut imaginer que ses sources d’informations internationales sont sérieusement vérifiées. Mais lorsqu’on lit un article sur le Venezuela rédigé par leur journaliste Ioan Grillo et que l’on vit au quotidien dans ce pays, on peut sérieusement se demander si ce journaliste est mal informé, s’il se trompe en toute bonne foi, ou si au lieu de nous fournir une information il ne s’agirait pas plutôt d’une désinformation, d’une manipulation ou d’une intoxication de ses lecteurs.
→ read full articleSaving ‘Natural Resources’ Won’t Save Us
Greg Harman | Deceleration – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
“We’re not protesters, we’re here to defend the land.” Here’s another language shift that is not small. The rejection of the term “protester” by those at and supportive of the North Dakota fight is important. In its place, “land defenders” would position protesters as a positive force, pre-dating oil and gas extraction. Land defenders are postured in advance and far beyond the current conflict. They are rooted in land, perhaps the ultimate positive anchor.
→ read full articleChappatte on Hillary Clinton’s Health
Patrick Chappatte – The New York Times,
19 Sep 2016
Mrs. Clinton’s preference for privacy backfired.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Advocates Press [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi for Immediate Relief of the Rohingya Minority
Catherine Maddux – Voice of America News,
19 Sep 2016
13 Sep 2016 – When Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi meets Nobel Peace Laureate President Barack Obama at the White House this week, activists will be watching to see how the pro-democracy icon will address the plight of the country’s ethnic Rohingya, whom human rights groups say are among the world’s most persecuted minority groups.
→ read full articleHave Big Banks Gotten Safer?
Natasha Sarin and Lawrence H. Summers | Harvard, Brookings Institution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
PhD candidate Natasha Sarin and Prof. Lawrence H. Summers, from Harvard, challenge a widely-held belief that major financial institutions in the USA and around the world are safer today than they were prior to the 2008 Recession. They find no evidence that markets regard banks as safer today than they were before the crisis, despite large decreases in leverage. In fact, measures of volatility and beta appear to be higher post-crisis than they were pre-crisis.
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