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Putting 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 articleA Lexicon of Polity “State” Descriptors ©
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
I sought to identify and list adjectives describing nations, states, and institutions. Adjectives are powerful words used to modify or describe a noun; they help convey or enhance the noun’s possible meanings and impact. We use adjectives many times a day to communicate our feelings or attitudes about a topic. It isn’t enough to discuss a topic, we benefit from immersing the topic in adjectives.
→ read full articleReducing Urban Violence
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
World Forum on Urban Violence, Madrid, 19-21 April 2017 – To reduce direct violence in cities we have to move from urban violence culture to an urban peace culture and from urban structural violence to a structure of peace. Street names should not glorify wars and violent heroes but peace and their heroines, often women. Move warrior on horseback monuments close to the cemetery for symbolic burial.
→ read full articleWhat India’s Poor Really Need Is Microsavings, Not Microcredit
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
There’s an old saying about poverty: Give me a fish, and I’ll eat for a day. Give me a fishing rod, and I’ll eat for a lifetime. But these days, particularly in India, there’s evidence that one of the most effective tools to fight poverty may not be a fishing rod, but a savings account. What we need is a savings revolution.
→ read full articlePesticide Maker Dow Chemical Tries to Kill Risk Study
Michael Biesecker| Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
20 Apr 2017 — Dow Chemical is pushing a Trump administration open to scrapping regulations to ignore the findings of federal scientists who point to a family of widely used pesticides as harmful to about 1,800 critically threatened or endangered species.
→ read full 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 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 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 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 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 articleCooperative Commonwealth & the Partner State
John Restakis | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Among capitalism’s many critics, it is standard procedure to state that neoliberalism has failed and that unless our societies construct a new paradigm for how economies work, human societies will collapse under the weight of an unsustainable and environmentally catastrophic capitalist system.
→ read full articleLet Us Struggle Today and Dream for a Better Tomorrow
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
“My problem is that I have no problem. Yes, there are difficulties of one type or the other but I do not feel depressed or frustrated. I manage to overcome these difficulties. And that is why I do not feel any problem”. He smiled broadly. I felt puzzled but could not but agree with him. A little later when I was alone I wondered what he had said about not being burdened by any problems. I remembered a quotation of a person named Anthony Robbins who had said that every problem is a gift; without problems we would not grow.
→ read full articleEnding the U.S. Embargo on Cuba at the Grassroots
Peter Miller and Rita Barouch | NACLA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
With Cuba policy under the Trump administration still uncertain, Cuba solidarity activists seek to turn the tide against the embargo at the local and state level.
→ read full 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.
→ read full article(Português) Religião: uma visão da Bíblia sobre os animais
Aline Parkin - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
24 Apr 2017
“Que pecado!” Eu já ouvi muita gente dizer isso quando vê um animal sendo maltratado. O que talvez possa parecer apenas uma maneira de falar é, na verdade, uma afirmação corretíssima. Pecado, por definição, é uma ação que não está de acordo com a vontade ou lei moral de Deus e, na sua Palavra, a Bíblia, Ele diz claramente como deseja que os animais sejam tratados: “O justo importa-se com a vida do seu animal doméstico”, diz Provérbios 12:10.
→ read full article(Português) Bugios: eles não precisam de mais uma ameaça!
Leonardo Merçon | Conexão Planeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Quando parei para fotografar a cena, um destes macacos, que estava com o grupo, que dormia todo encolhido e junto para se proteger do frio, levantou a cabeça me direcionou um olhar bem profundo. Aquele olhar me comoveu. Na hora, senti que aquela foto um dia serviria para uma causa maior. Fui para casa, editei a imaem e guardei para utilizá-la no momento certo.
→ read full articleConservative Opposition to Pope Francis Spurs Talk of a Schism in the Catholic Church
Tom Kington – Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017 – Of all the recent attacks launched by conservatives against Pope Francis, one stood out more than most. The cardinal, Gerhard Mueller, the pope’s own doctrinal chief, made it clear in an interview in February that he firmly opposed Francis’ tinkering with the church’s ban on divorced and civilly remarried Catholics taking Communion.
→ read full article‘A National Disgrace’: Catalogue of Animal Suffering at Scottish Abattoirs Revealed
Andrew Wasley and Rob Edwards - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
24 Apr 2017
19 Apr 2017 – Cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens have been found injured, emaciated, diseased or dead on arrival at abattoirs. Numerous animals were slaughtered while heavily pregnant or had to be repeatedly stunned before they were killed. “It shows without a shadow of a doubt that the business of slaughtering animals is brutal and all too often is conducted without a thought for either the law or the appalling suffering of the animals involved.”
→ read full articleOh, that Eternal Swing
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Oh, that eternal swing,
Up into the sky, then down,
Unattainability of the desired goal,
And again the cornice of abyss…
Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire: 2016 Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Women’s Boat to Gaza
→ read full articleOur American Pravda
Ron Unz | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017 – Top academic scholars and seasoned Intelligence professionals have widely derided the alleged Syrian government Sarin gas attack as an apparent false-flag hoax. Yet our fanatically Trump-hating mainstream media has almost totally ignored these facts, instead fulsomely praising the President for immediately launching an unconstitutional missile attack upon Syria in retaliation, while congratulating him for his new-found “moderation” in potentially provoking a dangerous military confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Può darci pace la scienza empirica?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Il dito di Galileo indica due pilastri della scienza: la conoscenza scientifica deve basarsi sull’osservazione o la sperimentazione di fatti empirici; e la matematica è il linguaggio usato per esporre questa conoscenza scientifica. Prima obiezione: soltanto il passato può produrre fatti empirici; il che limita quello che potrebbe essere o che dovrebbe essere a ciò che già è manifesto in alcuni fatti. Ma gli esseri umani sono in grado di trascendere il passato e creare fatti nuovi.
→ read full article(Italiano) Frattanto, per il mondo …
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Cominciando dall’Unione Europea, 60enne, che rende importanti i piccoli stati (il Lussemburgo!) rendendoli membri di qualcosa più grosso, ma ridimensiona stati più grandi, addirittura imperiali, rendendoli semplici “membri”.
→ read full articleWhy Is Trump Fighting ISIS in Syria?
Thomas L. Friedman – The New York Times,
17 Apr 2017
“Trump should not defeat ISIS in Syria. The USA should use ISIS as a proxy in the same way we encouraged the mujahedeen fighters to bleed Russia in Afghanistan.” Thomas Friedman becomes aroused by war. It would be more appropriate for the NYT to let him manage this pathology from the safety of his private space than on the pages of the newspaper.
→ read full article(Português) Prisão do mais importante cientista nuclear brasileiro é questionada por políticos
Fania Rodrigues | Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
5 abril 2017 – A prisão e condenação do homem que colocou o Brasil entre os poucos países que dominam a tecnologia nuclear é assunto polêmico no meio político. O almirante da Marinha do Brasil e físico nuclear, Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva, de 77 anos foi condenado a 43 anos de prisão, em agosto de 2015, pelo juiz Sérgio Moro, no âmbito da operação Lava Jato.
→ read full articleOzymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
(Français) Mais où sont donc passés les droits de l’Homme?
Robert Charvin | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Les droits de l’homme ont progressivement quitté l’avant-scène politique : par « nécessité », l’idéologie « droitdel’hommiste » n’était plus « à la mode ». Elle ne correspondait plus aux besoins des dominants, au contraire.
→ read full articleLaw, Roads, Housing, Buses Are All Separate; It’s Called Apartheid
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Mehdi Hasan in The Intercept presents testimony from Israelis from Ben Gurion to today, and from international observers, that Israel fulfils all the criteria of being an apartheid state. This is because, by keeping Palestinians impoverished and stateless and expanding settlements, Israeli Jews and Palestinians are increasingly in the same space.
→ read full articleCrime and Punishment in Syria
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Why then are the Western powers, led by America, so certain that Assad is the culprit? Criminal investigation experts inform us that all criminals have a distinctive modus operandi, a criminal signature, by which their agency is recognized. Just as Nikki Haley held up a photo of children dying of gas attack to initial America’s direct military engagement in Syria, way back in 2003 Secretary of State Colin Powell held up a tube of anthrax in the Security Council meeting to assert Saddam Hussain had weapons of mass destruction.
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Dr Maung Zarni on the Question of Rohingya Statelessness
Burma Times TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
TRANSCEND Member Maung Zarni on the question of Rohingya statelessness and Myanmar racism. LSE Rule of Law Roundtable with Aung San Suu Kyi, 19 June 2012.
→ read full articleThe G[e]assing Game in Syria: Regime Change and Beyond
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Given conflicting accounts, an independent international inquiry should be conducted to determine what really happened on 4 April. The members of the panel should comprise credible experts who are not citizens of any of the five permanent member states of the UN Security Council. The UN Secretary-General should appoint the panel.
→ read full articleVault 7: Hive Project
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Today, April 14th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes six documents from the CIA’s HIVE project created by its “Embedded Development Branch.” HIVE is a back-end infrastructure malware with a public-facing HTTPS interface which is used by CIA implants to transfer exfiltrated information from target machines to the CIA and to receive commands from its operators to execute specific tasks on the targets.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Apr 17-23 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
“Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name
Amasses wealth by brain and hand
Becomes a power in the land
But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife
He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.”
– Unknown
Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Around the World
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
17 Apr 2017
14 Apr 2017 – The ShadowBrokers, an entity previously confirmed by The Intercept to have leaked authentic malware used by the NSA to attack computers around the world, today released another cache of what appears to be extremely potent (and previously unknown) software capable of breaking into systems running Windows. The software could give nearly anyone with sufficient technical knowledge the ability to wreak havoc on millions of Microsoft users.
→ read full articleAfghanistan: Elegy . . . Unfinished Tapestry?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
I write in sympathy, empathy, compassion, and shared hope.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mezzaluna e libertà. Turchia: ancora gravi condizioni legali e politiche limitano la libertà accademica, giornalistica e politica
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Domani 16 aprile (ieri per i lettori di TMS) in Turchia si vota per il referendum. Per approvare o rifiutare un pacchetto di modifica costituzionale. Un grande carcere a cielo aperto.
→ read full articleHow Amateur President, Amateur Secretary of State and Amateur UN Ambassador Could Start World War III
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Throughout its history, the evidence of American military atrocities and war crimes are routinely censored-out by the American mainstream media, with sugar-coated fake news being substituted instead. We simpletons and untermenschen are only allowed to see the nefarious deeds of the “bad guys” of enemy nations, but never our own. So it is easy to believe the propagandized version of the wars that are fought by the honorable warrior sons of our “shining city on a hill”.
→ read full articleIrish Recollections: After the Cork Conference on ‘International Law and the State of Israel’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
14 Apr 2017 – Palestinian wounds will not heal until a credible reconciliation process is established that includes Israeli official acknowledgements of historic wrongdoing centered on the nakba, conceived of as a process of dispossession, displacement, and domination.
→ read full articleGlobal Turmoil: Flatulence or Substance
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Every day and throughout the world we read and hear of turmoil, of threats, violence, divisions, wars for peace and peace for wars, freedom as oppression and oppression as freedom. In a world where words have lost their meanings and meanings have no words, how do we go about understanding turmoil?
→ read full articleDanger of Global War: On the Edge of Global Crucifixion & Martial Law
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
In the event of a hot war with either Russia or Korea, the likelihood of a rapid escalation to the use of nuclear weapons is very real. It is even conceivable that the U.S. will attempt a pre-emptive nuclear first strike on Russia and/or North Korea under the illusion that it can “win” a nuclear war. If citizens of the world do not rise up to stop this madness now before it escalates further, the missiles fly, and the death toll mounts, Martial Law will be declared for those who survive.
→ read full articleProtection of Law and Justice for Peace through Universal Peace Education
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
When we do not obey the unjust law, we plead justice for humanity. Alexis De Tocqueville rightly says, “When I refuse to obey unjust law, I do not contest the right which the majority has of commanding, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
→ read full articleSolving the Problem
TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Case closed.
→ read full article(Português) George Harrison: “A coisa que me repeliu em relação a comer carne foi a ideia de matar animais”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
“Seu prato favorito era Dahl, uma sopa de lentilha que, quando misturada com arroz, forma uma proteína perfeita e um substituto ideal da carne”, escreveu. O vegetarianismo de Harrison era tanto moral quanto espiritual.
→ read full articleBhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 Apr 1891 – 6 Dec 1956)
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
B R Ambedkar had seen the oppression faced by the lower castes–the so called untouchables–first hand in his place of birth in Mhow. He was aware of the struggles of Phule to bring about social justice and liberation of the oppressed masses of Maharashtra and was inspired by his writings on the subject. Subsequently he wrote extensively about the injustice and discrimination faced by the lower castes whom he called Dalits.
→ read full articleBrazil: An Impeached President, Reeling but Defiant
Ernesto Londoño – The New York Times,
17 Apr 2017
13 Apr 2017 – Nearly a year ago, Brazilian lawmakers voted to suspend President Dilma Rousseff from office. The overthrow of the former guerrilla leader who was tortured during the country’s military dictatorship in the 1970s marked the end of a 13-year period of rule by the leftist Workers’ Party. I interviewed Ms. Rousseff last weekend at the Brazil Conference at Harvard and M.I.T., during which she delivered a defiant speech warning that Brazil’s democracy is in peril.
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Hava Nagila – הבה נגילה (Music Video of the Week)
André Rieu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
First known as a Hasidic melody it became a perennial favorite at weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, and Jewish–and non-Jewish–cultural events around the world. André Rieu at his best.
→ read full articleAssessment of White House Intelligence Report of April 11, 2017
Theodore A. Postol | Massachusetts Institute of Technology – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
17 April 2017 – A Quick Turnaround Assessment of the White House Intelligence Report Issued on April 11, 2017 about the Nerve Agent Attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria
→ read full articleWarmongers by Any Other Name
Sonny Lê – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
For those of us who grew up in South Vietnam, or “free Vietnam,” we saw America as an ally that was there only to help contain and defeat the “evil” Communist North Vietnam. The United States of America represented freedom, open society, the country that gave us chewing gum, Coca-Cola, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley and John Wayne. However, we never saw or understood U.S. foreign policy or how America used its military power in totality.
→ read full articleThe Easter Message
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
From Trump’s USA was not resurrection, but death. 59 Tomahawk missiles for Syria, the “mother of all bombs” for Afghanistan; Muslim states. Both attacks were based on lies: the old lie that 9/11 had its origin in Afghanistan, the new lie that Assad deliberately had used sarin . The counter-narrative–that USA had provided the gas and used the accident as pretext for an attack–may stand. Let us see if USA-NATO accept an investigation; with a clean conscience, they would.
→ read full articleHow the Refugee Crisis Is Dealing another Blow to Europe’s Roma
Julija Sardelic and Aidan McGarry - teleSUR,
17 Apr 2017
Romani minorities like Manouche, Kale and Sinti have lived in Europe since the 14th century when they arrived from India, and have been in Europe often for as long as majority populations. You will find Roma in every European country. There are some 10-12 million Romani people on the continent and they often suffer from socio-economic marginalization. They are singled out as unwanted foreigners and deemed perpetual migrants and outsiders.
→ read full articleMLK’s Warning of America’s Spiritual Death
Gary G. Kohls – Consortium News,
17 Apr 2017
4 Apr 2017 – Martin Luther King Jr.’s Riverside Church speech was titled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” It was delivered exactly one year before his April 4, 1968 assassination in Memphis. The New York Times accused him of “slander” for decrying the Vietnam War and The Washington Post detected “unsupported fantasies” in his speech.
→ read full articleIDF Stops Human Rights Workers Getting into Gaza
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
The MAG – military attorney general – responsible for investigating possible war crimes says it values input from HR groups. Such groups are not allowed into Gaza for ‘security’ reasons. Hamas does not protect HR workers in Gaza. The PNA does nothing.
→ read full articleWho Owns the World? Tracing Half the Corporate Giants’ Shares to 30 Owners
David Peetz and Georgina Murray | Griffith University – The Conversation,
17 Apr 2017
11 Apr 2017 – When people say share ownership is highly diversified, they think most large public corporations have lots of shareholders – and often the largest shareholder has less than 15%, sometimes less than 5%, of the total shareholdings. But looking at it this way obscures the concentration that is taking place. The same organisations – usually finance capital, rarely families or individuals – own these public companies.
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Honest Government Advert – Visit Hawai’i
TheJuiceMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Mar 22, 2017 – The US Government just released this tourism ad for Hawai’i and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. Warning: This comedy video does contain vulgar language.
→ read full articleSyria: Chemical Weapon Use, Destruction of Children, the Ethical Vacuum
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
The Association of World Citizens calls for the re-affirmation of humanitarian international law. It is a call to the soldiers and militia members in armed conflicts to refuse orders to violate humanitarian international law by refusing to use weapons outlawed by international treaties such as chemical weapons, land mines, cluster munitions or any weapon to attack civilians, especially children and women. We must defend all who use their individual conscience to refuse to follow orders to violate humanitarian international law.
→ read full articleBurmese Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi Has Turned into an Apologist for Genocide against Muslims
Mehdi Hasan — The Intercept,
17 Apr 2017
The longtime prisoner of conscience now leads Myanmar and defends her government’s abuses, including killings and gang rapes, against the country’s Rohingya minority.
→ read full articleChechen Authorities Arresting and Killing Gay Men, Russian Paper Says
Andrew E. Kramer – The New York Times,
17 Apr 2017
First, two television reporters vanished. Then a waiter went missing. Over the past week, men ranging in age from 16 to 50 have disappeared from the streets of Chechnya. On Saturday [1 Apr], a leading Russian opposition newspaper confirmed a story already circulating among human rights activists: The Chechen authorities were arresting and killing gay men. An analyst of the region with her own sources confirmed that more than 100 gay men had been detained.
→ read full article(Português) Pele legítima de animal é vendida como falsa em lojas do Reino Unido
O Globo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Moda Fake Legítima – Testes encontraram pelos de gatos, coelhos, vison e cão-guaxinim em chapéus, chaveiros, casacos e sapatos.
→ read full articleSteven Spielberg
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
When Steven Spielberg (born 1946), the award-winning movie director, was a young boy, he was plagued at school by a big bully who regularly ridiculed him, hit him, or put his head under the water fountain.
→ read full articleAfrican, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States: One Billion People to Speak to Europe with One Voice
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
17 Apr 2017
14 Apr 2017 – Seventy-nine countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, which are home to around one billion people, will speak with one voice as they prepare to negotiate a major partnership agreement with the European Union (500 million inhabitants) in May.
→ read full articleIndian Microfinance Needs to Pause and Reflect
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Microfinance is actually a tool in a broader development toolbox, but in certain conditions, it happens to be the most powerful tool. It has all to do with how we are using it and how we are defining the outcomes. It needs to shape a more responsible capitalism.
→ read full articleAustralia Beckons a War with China
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Australia is sleep-walking into a confrontation with China, not realizing that wars can happen suddenly in an atmosphere of mistrust and provocation, especially if a minor power, like Australia, abandons its independence for an “alliance” with an unstable superpower.
→ read full articleTalbot Mundy (23 Apr 1879 – 5 Aug 1940): The Working of Karma
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
“We act and react, do and leave undone, think and refuse to think, stand firm or are seduced while karma – incorruptible and inescapable – inscribes our spiritual progress on the rolls of destiny The Law adjusts all balances and measures, the exact effort of every thought and deed, directing each hidden motive.”
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The Big Bank Fix – Documentary
BBC Panorama – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
10 Apr 2017 – Following the acquittal of two former Barclay’s traders last week, Panorama asks if the right people are being blamed for what has been called the biggest financial fix of all time. Piecing together explosive new evidence, which calls into question the safety of other convictions, Panorama reporter Andy Verity reveals that manipulation of the world’s most important interest rate, Libor, was allowed and even ordered by people at the highest levels of the financial establishment.
→ read full articleInternational Organization for Migration: African Migrants Traded in Libya’s ‘Slave Markets’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
People are held for ransom, forced labour or sexual exploitation after being sold for up to $500, UN agency says.
→ read full articleCui Bono?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
“Who benefits?” – is the first question an experienced detective asks when investigating a crime. In Syria, the civilian population in a rebel-held town called Idlib was hit with poison gas. Dozens of civilians, including children, died a miserable death. Within a few minutes (literally) the New York Times and a host of excellent newspapers throughout the West proclaimed without hesitation: Assad did it! No need for proof. No investigation. It was just self-evident.
→ read full articleAnd the Winner is Raytheon
Rosemarie Jackowski | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
No one knows for sure who used the Sarin gas. By whom and when was it supplied? In the past, Seymour Hersh has implicated Hillary Clinton. So, once more Trump pulls a fast one on the citizens. Winning feels good. Trump wins. Raytheon wins. Babies of the world, you lose. Unintended consequences are in our future. WW3 is now just a little more likely. The Doomsday Clock is ticking.
→ read full article(Português) Acendendo uma luz sobre animais invisíveis em um mundo humano
Por Jo-Anne McArthur - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
17 Apr 2017
Eu realmente acredito que quando olhamos para um animal acorrentado a uma janela, não estamos apenas vendo o animal, mas nossa própria moralidade refletida de volta para nós.
→ read full articleSimple Equation Shows How Human Activity Is Trashing the Planet
Owen Gaffney | New Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Following the maxim of keeping everything as simple as possible, but not simpler, Will Steffen from the Australian National University and I drew up an Anthropocene equation by homing in on the rate of change of Earth’s life support system: the atmosphere, oceans, forests and wetlands, waterways and ice sheets and fabulous diversity of life.
→ read full articleLebanon’s Outlawing of Palestinian Civil Rights
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
14 Apr 2017 – It’s half a century overdue for Lebanon to grant Palestinian refugees, now the fourth post-Nakba generation, the most elementary civil rights to work and home ownership. Both fundamental rights are mandated by international law and enjoyed by every refugee on our planet. Sauf Lebanon. Lebanon’s largely dysfunctional government is unlikely to meet its international legal obligation without the immediately application of serious international pressure and sanctions including the suspension of foreign aid.
→ read full articleRohingya Fleeing Myanmar Describe Military Tactic of Systematic Rape
Michael Sullivan and Ashley Westerman – National Public Radio-NPR,
17 Apr 2017
That evening, the soldiers came back. “They didn’t say anything,” she says. “They just came with their guns into my house.” They raped her for almost an hour that time, Zubaida says. Two days later, the military returned and rounded up all the villagers. She says they separated the men from the women, beat the men and raped the women. “Some tried to resist and got stabbed,” she says. “That’s why the rest of the women didn’t hesitate, they didn’t want to die.” Zubaida was one of those picked.
→ read full articleWant To Understand Deep State? Here Is Your Deep, Deep State
Jon Rappoport | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
If, as many people are now saying, the CIA and NSA and neocons are the unelected Deep State, then the people I’m talking about would be the Deep, Deep State. Read On…
→ read full articleU.S. and Russia Must Repel Greed, Fear
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Currently, alleged Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s underhandedness is accused of marring U.S. democracy, yet while this receives indignant attention, the hypocrisy is hard to stomach, for Americans have corrupted democracy at home and abroad far more than any Russian hacker. Like Rockefeller, the U.S. sees dishonesty only in its rivals.
→ read full articleHumanity and Social Justice, a Must for the Future of Work – Ryder
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
17 Apr 2017
10 Apr 2017 – “The future of work must be inspired by considerations of humanity, of social justice and peace. If it is not, we are going to a dark place, we are going to a dangerous place,” said the head of the leading world body specialised on labour issues.
→ read full articleConspiracy Theorists
9gag – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Forever Trying to Rock the Boat… Are them?
→ read full articleHow Often Do We Slash Too Fast
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
How often do we slash too fast,
Forgetting that people are before us,
Our teeth knock again from fear,
And blood run out from our chests.
When Science Brought Americans and Russians Together
Siegfried S. Hecker | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
11 Apr 2017 – The first Russian explosive device to land on US soil wasn’t delivered by a Russian missile, as Americans feared might happen throughout the Cold War. It was delivered by FedEx. The device, an explosive magnetic flux compression generator, arrived at Los Alamos National Laboratory in late 1993, shipped from the Russian Federal Nuclear Center.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Johan Galtung: Mit dem IS reden
Stefan Seidel | Der Sonntag - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
9. April 2017 – Oft scheint militärische Gewalt alternativlos. Doch gelöst werde damit nichts, sagt Friedensforscher Johan Galtung. Er plädiert für einen anderen Umgang mit Konflikten.
→ read full articleLeonardo da Vinci (15 Apr 1452 – 2 May 1519)
leonardodavinci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio’s workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities.
→ read full article(Português) Um Tratado de Proibição de Armas Nucleares
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
10 abril 2017 – Os nove países possuidores de armas nucleares e a maioria de seus aliados preferiram ignorar as negociações sobre um instrumento juridicamente vinculante de proibição das armas nucleares. Essa iniciativa pioneira resultou de uma proposta da África do Sul, Áustria, Brasil, Irlanda, México e Nigéria e foi adotada pela Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas em dezembro último por esmagadora maioria de votos… É chegado o momento em que a humanidade precisa agir decisivamente em defesa de sua própria sobrevivência.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Attack on al-Shayrat Airfield
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
There are two clusters of serious questions raised. Is this a new turn toward belligerent internationalism by the Trump presidency that will shape the near future of American foreign policy in the Middle East, and possibly elsewhere? Does the reversion to unilateralism with respect to international uses of force heighten the risks of geopolitical escalation and large-scale warfare, including possibly the threat or use of nuclear weapons?
→ read full articleHugo Grotius (10 Apr 1583 – 28 Aug 1645): War and Peace
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Hugo Grotius was a jurist born in Delft, the Netherlands who laid the foundations for international law based on natural law. Grotius’ masterpiece, The Law of War and Peace (1625), was an immediate and widespread success. It has gone through at least 75 editions and has been translated 24 times. In this book, he presented his famous doctrine of the just war.
→ read full articleWorld Order and Disorder: The “Games” and “Gambles” of Life and Lives
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
In a world of lawlessness, anything goes, and does! We remain in shock at the destructive events occurring across the world. Yet we too often ignore these events as consequences of the protected policies and actions of nations, individuals, private organizations, engaged in protecting their interests. Protected from harm, the perpetrators of harm are engaged in the “games” and “gambles” of world order and disorder. To what end?
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The View from Moscow [MUST WATCH]
Maria Zakharova | Russian Foreign Affairs Spokesperson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
It is noteworthy that the only real sources of information on what took place are the videos made by the White Helmets, an infamous propaganda organization. The attack against the Syrian government, much like the Ghouta gas attack in 2013, which precipitated the Syrian civil war, is a giant facade.
→ read full articleDeir Yassin to Egypt
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
9 Apr 2017 – Today is the anniversary of the massacre at Deir Yassin [also the Norwegian day of trauma: German 1940 invasion]. Today also saw terrorists bombing Christian Churches on Palm Sunday; over 120 were killed or severely injured. Our condolences to the victims and our thoughts and prayers with the injured.
→ read full article(Français) Bombardement US en Syrie : Trois réflexions pour inciter à la prudence
Michel Collon | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
7 Avr 2017 – Quand nous sommes bombardés d’informations sur un « massacre » servant à justifier des bombardements US, on a toujours intérêt à se souvenir des précédents. En 2013, on a déjà accusé Damas. Mais l’enquête officielle de l’ONU (pourtant fort infiltrée par les USA) a conclu à l’impossibilité de désigner le camp responsable.
→ read full articleA Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons Is in the Making
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
10 Apr 2017 – The nine possessors of nuclear weapons and most of their allies chose to ignore the negotiations on a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination… It is time for mankind as a whole to act decisively in defense of its own survival.
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