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Hymn for the Weekend (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
From Coldplay’s Acclaimed New Album, A Head Full of Dreams
→ read full articleJapan and South Africa Try to Block Proposed Ban on Domestic Ivory Trade
Guy Dinmore – Inter Press Service-IPS,
19 Sep 2016
8 Sep 2016 – Japan and South Africa have ignited a furore at a major conservation congress by coming out against a proposed appeal to all governments to ban domestic trade in elephant ivory.
→ read full articleRussia-America: Copernican Revolution of Relations Instead of the Insanity of Nuclear War
Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Appeal to the governments of Russia and the USA to start cooperation in the development of Global Peace Science as a common platform for “nuclear zero” and the world pacifization* providing planetary security.
→ read full articleHow Much Better Can You Eat?
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
When I read the Oxfam report, which revealed that the top 62 richest people on earth possess the wealth owned by the poorest half—yes, fifty percent!—of the world’s population, I wondered what in fact these 62 people want that they don’t already have? And if they have them, how much better can or will they live?
→ read full articleUS Illegal Immigration
Jeff Parker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Wall Solution
→ read full articleBayer-Monsanto Merger Is ‘a Disaster for Global Food System’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
The Monsanto takeover creates the world’s largest seed and pesticide company and threatens to entrench corporate control of the global food system.
→ read full articleThe Military Tries to Sell Itself as Positive Environmental Force
Chad Blair | Civil Beat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
To some conservationists, the U.S. military is one of the most destructive forces on the planet. In Hawaii alone, environmental groups have battled the military over armored vehicles that tore up the land and sonar that caused injury and death to marine wildlife. Perhaps the largest example of the military’s impact on Hawaii is the unpopulated island of Kahoolawe, which was used for target practice for decades.
→ read full articleIsraeli Settlements Have Grown During the Obama Years
Josef Federman | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
As Obama heads into the home stretch of his presidency, he leaves behind an unfulfilled vision. Not only did he fail to stop it, but he watched Israeli construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem thrive — despite repeated White House condemnations.
→ read full articleFalse Flag Terror “Has Succeeded Consistently against Audiences around the World, for Millennia, to Compel War”
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
12 Sep 2016 – In the following instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack) admit to it, either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos:
→ read full articleStudy: Scientists Who Won’t Link Pesticides to Bee Deaths Are Often Funded by Agrochemical Industry
MintPress News Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
14 Sep 2016 — Pesticide manufacturers have spent millions influencing researchers who are investigating the role of neonicotinoids, a nicotine-like chemical found in many major pesticides, in bee die-offs, according to a recent analysis by Greenpeace.
→ read full articleInterview on Israel, Palestine, and Peace
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
14 Sep 2016 –The U.S. Government and Israel have signed a military assistance agreement promising Israel $38 billion over the next ten years, the largest such commitment ever made. Again, we should grieve over the extent to which ‘reality’ and morality is sacrificed for the sake of the ‘special relationship’ while looking the other way whenever the Palestinian ordeal is mentioned.
→ read full articleCEOs Can Now Be Prosecuted Like War Criminals at The Hague
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
The International Criminal Court announced Thursday [15 Sep 2016] it will now hold corporate executives and governments legally responsible for environmental crimes. The court’s new focus on land grabbing and environmental destruction could help put a dent in corporate impunity.
→ read full article(Italiano) Giornalismo di pace: che cosa Johan Galtung chiederebbe ai Talebani
Liam McLoughlin | New Matilda – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
19 Sep 2016
Sebbene tra il 1970 e il 1990 il numero di morti per terrorismo in Europa occidentale sia stato maggiore di quello degli ultimi 25 anni, il numero complessivo di morti per atti di terrorismo è attualmente in crescita.
→ read full articleWhen Humanitarianism Became Imperialism
Gregory Afinogenov – Jacobin Magazine,
19 Sep 2016
Afghanistan did not create the Islamic State, but it did serve as the laboratory in which the destruction of Third World sovereignty came to be fitted with justifications rooted both in human rights and in regime security — the recipe for modern “humanitarian interventions.”
→ read full articleUS Proxies and Regional Rivalries
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
US empire building depends on regional regimes’ support, especially in the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. These proxy regimes fulfill valuable military roles securing control over neighboring regions, populations and territory. In recent times, however, we witness the same proxies developing their own tendency toward expansionist policies – in pursuit of their own mini-empires.
→ read full articleFrom a Nonviolent Strategist to Brazilian Activists: An Open Letter
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
As I see and read about the ongoing massive protests, as well as calls by prominent community leaders to mobilize in defense of your country’s democracy, I feel great hope for Brazil. Having been a nonviolent activist for many years, I would like to support Brazilian activists to develop a nonviolent strategy that will increase your chances of success. Please read on.
→ read full articleWhose Finger? On What Button?
Kevin Martin | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Even a “limited” nuclear war between India and Pakistan could cause global famine on top of the deaths of hundreds of millions. How is it acceptable or legitimate for anyone to have the power to decide whether our civilization continues? We shouldn’t trust anyone with this power. Human beings are far too fallible. Unfortunately we have ceded too much power to alleged experts.
→ read full articleCan the Growing Number of Government-Rebel Reconciliation Agreements End the Bloodshed in Syria?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
The evacuation was the latest one agreed to between rebel forces and the Syrian government and implemented according to President Assad’s Amnesty Decree no. 15 issued on July 28, 2016 . Another 700 were evacuated from nearby Daraya per a similar agreement achieved on August 25. At least half of dozen similar evacuations from rebel areas are reportedly being negotiated between rebels and the government.
→ read full articleHillary Clinton Recovering from Pneumonia, Cancels California Trip
Lisa Lerer and Julie Pace | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
An ill Hillary Clinton abruptly left a 9/11 anniversary ceremony Sunday [11 Sep 2016] and needed to be held up by three people before she appeared to stumble off a curb and was helped into a van. Several hours later, her campaign revealed she had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday [9 Sep] and advised to rest.
→ read full articleCommemorate the Good September 11
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
On September 11, 1906, Mohandas Gandhi stood to speak in the Imperial Theater in white-ruled South Africa, a society completely grounded and awash in blatant, “legal” racism. Gandhi–those old enough to have seen the 1982 Hollywood version of his life may remember the scene—stood in a crowded theater and explained the new odious racial laws that ruled Hindu marriages void, that allowed police to enter the home of any Indian without a warrant or permission, and that required each Indian to carry a pass at all times.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Europa del momento – UE, Russia
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Ma l’Europa è percorsa da un altro inveterato conflitto che incombe più di prima: della UE con la Russia. O, più sostanzialmente, l’Europa cattolico-protestante contro l’Europa ortodossa, col confine all’interno dell’Ucraina. C’è qualche soluzione a parecchi conflitti che ne derivano, che possa costruire la pace? Le chiavi sono detenute da Germania e Francia, in linea di principio uguali nella guida dell’UE anche se una è più uguale dell’altra.
→ read full article(Italiano) Denaro, prassi e teoria economica
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Il denaro è la chiave: quella geniale innovazione per immagazzinare valore generale e scambiare valori specifici secondo il prezzo. Non sorprende che i capi di stato si facessero imprimere il viso su monete e biglietti di banca. Ma non sui centesimi e sugli euro. L’UE è senza volto. La Brexit non lo è.
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Maung Zarni on the Kofi Annan Commission and Persecution of Rohingya in Myanmar/Burma
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Sep 7, 2016 – Dr Maung Zarni comments on Kofi Annan Commission and Myanmar Genocide of Rohingya, Al Jazeera English News Hour.
→ read full articleImproving Galtung’s A-B-C to a Scientific Theory of All Kinds of Conflicts
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
With respect to past wisdom about conflict resolution Galtung suggested an important innovation; according to him, a conflict is essentially composed by three aspects A-B-C, i.e. Assumptions, Behaviour and Contradiction. These aspects are here defined in a more accurate way so to make them independent one of another. Three representative theories of respectively micro, meso and macro conflicts – i.e. Freud’s theory of intimate conflicts, Marx’ theory of social conflicts and Clausewitz’ theory of war conflicts – are interpreted through the improved definitions of A, B and C.
→ read full articleWhat Really Happened in Chile: Sep 11, 1973 (the other 9/11)
Jack Devine – Foreign Affairs Magazine,
12 Sep 2016
The CIA, the Coup against Allende, and the Rise of Pinochet
→ read full articleMonsanto and the Poisonous Cartel of GMOs in India
Vandana Shiva | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
11 Sep 2016 – Engaged in litigation on many fronts, Monsanto is trying to subvert India’s patent laws: Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Right Act, Essential Commodities Act and Competition Act. It is behaving as if there is no Parliament, no democracy, no sovereign laws in India to which it is subject. Or it simply doesn’t have any regard for them.
→ read full articleA Cinematic Approach to Drug Resistance
Ekaterina Pesheva | Harvard Gazette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Scientists film bacteria’s maneuvers as they become impervious to drugs–breakthrough.
→ read full articleThe Imperative of Consciousness
Steven M. Greer, MD | Sirius Disclosure – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Certainly as an Emergency and Trauma doctor, not a day goes by where a child or impaired adult victim of trauma could view my efforts to help him as painful and therefore motivated by a desire to do harm, even though my motives are just the opposite. That a frightened child perceives my actions as hurtful or malevolent is a function of the child’s level of awareness and knowledge, and in no way reflects my true intentions. Could not an analogous process be occurring with some ETI events which conventional wisdom has deemed hostile and therefore as evidence of malevolent intentions?
→ read full article(Français) La tragédie brésilienne
Atilio Boron | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Le trio de la réaction : juges, parlementaires et médias, tous corrompus jusqu’à la moelle, a déclenché un processus pseudo légal et clairement illégitime à travers lequel la démocratie brésilienne, avec ses défauts, comme toute démocratie, a été remplacée par une grossière ploutocratie.
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For the Love of Possibility (Inspirational)
Liz Murray | TEDTalks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
[From TMS editor: I relate profoundly with this succinct, deep reflection by Liz; close to my heart and to my own reality. I post in hopes that those who need/want will feel inspired as well.]
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Don’t Look Down [Towel Boy] (Music Video of the Week)
DJ Martin Garrix & Usher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Martin Garrix (born 14 May 1996) is a 20-year-old Dutch DJ, record producer and musician on top of his field. Winner of the 2016 MTV Millennial Awards among others.
→ read full articleA Flimflam Impeachment: The Overthrow of Dilma Rousseff
Arshad M. Khan – teleSUR,
12 Sep 2016
Personally incorruptible, unlike her nemeses, Dilma Rousseff was impeached and dismissed on the flimsiest of charges.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Sep 12-18 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even the smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
→ read full articleBreaking: Arrest Warrant Issued for Amy Goodman in North Dakota after Covering Pipeline Protest
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
10 Sep 2016 – An arrest warrant has been issued in North Dakota for Democracy Now! host and executive producer Amy Goodman charged with criminal trespassing. On Sept. 3, Democracy Now! filmed security guards working for the Dakota Access pipeline company using dogs and pepper spray to attack protesters.
→ read full articleA Pipeline Fight and America’s Dark Past
Bill McKibben – The New Yorker,
12 Sep 2016
6 Sep 2016 – This week, thousands of Native Americans, from more than a hundred tribes, have camped out on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, which straddles the border between the Dakotas, along the Missouri River. What began as a slow trickle of people a month ago is now an increasingly angry flood. They’re there to protest plans for a proposed oil pipeline that they say would contaminate the reservation’s water; in fact, they’re calling themselves protectors, not protesters.
→ read full article(Italiano) Presentazione del libro curato da Nanni Salio e Silvia De Michelis “Giornalismo di pace”
Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Con le relazioni di Silvia De Michelis, curatrice del libro e Angela Dogliotti Marasso, presidente del CSSR. Intervengono Marinella Correggia, ecopacifista, rete No-War, Ugo Lucio Borga, fotogiornalista e Christian Elia, giornalista, condirettore di Q Code Magazine.
→ read full articleWells Fargo Fined $185M for Fake Accounts – 5,300 Were Fired
Kevin McCoy - USA Today,
12 Sep 2016
9 Sep 2016 – Wells Fargo Bank, one of the nation’s largest banks, has been hit with $185 million in civil penalties for secretly opening millions of unauthorized deposit and credit card accounts that harmed customers, federal and state officials said Thursday [8 Sep].
→ read full articleFossil Fuels: At What Price?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
An externality is the cost or benefit of some unintended consequence of an economic action. For example, tobacco companies do not really wish for their customers to die from cancer, but a large percentage of them do, and the social costs of this slaughter ought to be reflected in the price of tobacco. The true environmental costs of fossil fuel use are much greater than those of smoking.
→ read full articleThe Death of One of Washington’s Favorite Tyrants
Stephen Zunes | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
7 Sep 2016 – The death of long-time Uzbekistan dictator Islam Karimov has brought rare U.S. media attention to the Central Asian country of 30 million. Uzbekistan is ranked among the half dozen worst countries in the world for human-rights abuses. American taxpayers subsidized that regime and its brutal security apparatus for most of Karimov’s thirty-five years in power.
→ read full articleWhy Allende Had To Die – Sedition in Santiago
Gabriel García Márquez – New Statesman,
12 Sep 2016
Forty-three years have passed since the Chilean president Salvador Allende died in La Moneda Palace in Santiago, attempting to defend himself with an AK-47 he had been given by Fidel Castro. Here, in a piece from the New Statesman published in March 1974, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez explores Allende’s record in Chile, his rivals’ dealings with the United States and the rise of his successor – the army general Augusto Pinochet.
→ read full articleEmpire in Decline: When the Oligarchy Inherits the Wind
John Atcheson – Common Dreams,
12 Sep 2016
For going on three decades now, the Oligarchy has been turning elections into a game of “heads-I-win, tails-you-lose” in which candidates from either party represented them, and not us. Three studies reveal how completely the Oligarchy controls the process, what the consequences are in terms of policy, and why a citizen’s revolt was inevitable.
→ read full articlePsychiatric Condition
Cartoon Stock – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Oedipus Complex?
→ read full articleUSA: The Long-Lasting Legacy of the African-American Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson - Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Sep 2016
When millions of African-Americans fled the South in search of a better life, they remade the nation in ways that are still being felt.
→ read full articleThrown under the Automated Bus
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
We can praise the timesaving efficiency of automation, but we must also deal with the unintended consequences. The potential of automation comes with a shadow side, which must be rigorously discussed and addressed in our nation and around the world. People will be replaced by machines. Profits for the already wealthy will soar. Millions will be left without jobs.
→ read full articleInternational Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: Where Is the Concern over Military’s Environmental Impact?
Kelsey Amos | Honolulu Civil Beat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
9 Sep 2016 – A week ago, a group of 15-20 activists and students gathered at the University of Hawaii to share the remarkably similar and interconnected stories of nations and peoples from around the Pacific that are struggling against the environmental destruction and limitations on sovereignty caused by the U.S. military. Despite military threats to the natural world, surprisingly few panel discussions at IUCN broached the subject.
→ read full articleFeminism and Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota, Shiba Bagale and Shreeya Devkota - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
The thing that needs to be done now is to bring feminism into action in local level. Feminism needs to reach to those places and into minds of people who need it the most. It is the unaware mind and culturally paralyzed people who are unable to bring changes in society and in their lives.
→ read full articleIs Privacy Necessary?
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
In our age of universal self-disclosure through the so-called social media of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and our age of universal snooping courtesy of the NSA and other like organisations throughout the world, privacy is well-worth re-examining. And it is well-worth examining in the context of adolescence.
→ read full articleThe Sound of Silence: An Illustrated Serenade to the Art of Listening to One’s Inner Voice amid the Noise of Modern Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
A tender reminder that silence is not the absence of sound but the presence of an inward-listening awareness.
→ read full articleToronto Film Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’
Owen Gleiberman - Variety,
12 Sep 2016
Oliver Stone’s docudrama, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, is the director’s most exciting — and relevant — movie in years.
→ read full articleSuitor: “Gentleman Caller”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Courtship
→ read full articleColombia’s Long Road to Peace
José Antonio Ocampo – Project Syndicate,
12 Sep 2016
As Colombia’s experience (and that of many other countries) has shown, economic inequality fuels social and political instability. Addressing it effectively must be central to Colombia’s effort to achieve lasting peace. If implemented properly, the agreement’s political provisions should help to foster national reconciliation.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Die brasilianische Marie Antoinette
Beat Metzler - Tages-Anzeiger,
12 Sep 2016
Die Absetzung der linken Präsidentin Dilma Rousseff durch Michel Temer spaltet das Land. Temers Gattin Marcela vertieft den Graben. Für ihre Kritiker verkörpert sie den reaktionären Charakter der neuen Regierung, in der nur grauhaarige, reiche, weisse Männer sitzen. Kritiker haben einen neuen Vergleich für Marcela Temer gefunden: Marie Antoinette. Die französische Königin prunkte, während das von ihrem Mann regierte Volk hungerte.
→ read full articleThe Science of the Creator and Genetics of Rebirth
Chandra P Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
The human kind is facing a crisis of faith at global level, which is manifold and multidimensional. It calls for a paradigm shift in our value perception and radical rethinking on our age old fundamental values of life.
→ read full articleTrue Love
Bhakta Joseph P. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Come, my beloved,
Let me taste your ambrosial nectar.
I have had my fill of this cruel world: tainted
The taste of misery upon my lips.
Bolivia Prepares Literacy Programs in 36 Indigenous Languages
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Since Evo Morales took office illiteracy has been reduced from 13.3 percent to 2.9 percent, the lowest rate in the history of Bolivia.
→ read full articleControversial New U.S. Nuclear Bomb Moves Closer to Full-Scale Production
Len Ackland - Rocky Mountain PBS News,
12 Sep 2016
The most controversial and dangerous nuclear bomb ever planned for the U.S. arsenal has received the go ahead. The National Nuclear Security Administration announced on Aug 1 that the B61-12 – the nation’s first guided, or “smart,” nuclear bomb – had completed a four-year development and testing phase and is now in production engineering, the final phase before full-scale production slated for 2020.
→ read full article(Français) Accord de paix signé en Colombie – «que retentisse ce cri: plus jamais! plus jamais!»
Julian Cortés | Invetig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Les accords signés, c’est désormais une lutte idéologique et culturelle qui s’annonce pour « gagner le cœur » de vastes secteurs sous-informés et manipulés durant des décennies, principalement au sein des classes moyennes qui défendent le modèle économique actuel plus que les élites elles-mêmes.
→ read full articleDag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in the Congo.
→ read full articleHere They Come Again
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
TTIP – the transatlantic trade and investment partnership – appears to be dead, booed off the stage. But another treaty, whose likely impacts are almost identical, is waiting in the wings. And this one is more advanced, wanting only final approval. If this happens before Britain leaves the EU, we are likely to be stuck with it for the next 20 years.
→ read full articleHow Silicon Valley Follows the Money
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
There’s way more in common between Wall Street and Silicon Valley than meets the untrained eye. They are two of the key strategic hubs of hyperpower global domination. The others are the industrial-military-surveillance-security complex – of which Hollywood and corporate media are the soft power extensions – and the petrodollar racket/tributary system.
→ read full article(Castellano) Las Bajas Jubilaciones en Chile
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
“Nuestro mayor problema político es la falta de imaginación”. –Michel Foucault ~ La apuesta de la economía social y solidaria es que la misma lógica cálida que rescata a los victimas del sistema es capaz de transformar el sistema.
→ read full articlePolice Do Nothing as Armed Mercenaries Attack Native American Dakota Pipeline Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray
Counter Current | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
3 Sep 2016 – Police stood idly by as private security guards who were working on behalf of the corporations building the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline turned attack dogs on peaceful protesters.
→ read full articleUnderstanding Conflicts through Differing Belief Systems
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Conflicts arise when differing approaches and belief systems come in contact. We must respect these differing perspectives of life and act judiciously and sympathetically towards them. Gandhi worked endlessly to build bridges between different communities and promote peace harmony and goodwill. The path followed by Gandhi is as relevant today as it was when he was alive.
→ read full articleThe Uses and Abuses of Uncertainty: The Case of Turkey
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
9 Sep 2016 – One of the paradoxes of the digital age with its real time awareness is the degree to which information overloads clouds our imagination with cheaply achieved and false clarity, which in political contexts is often the Mad Men work of selective interpretation or deliberate manipulation.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | The 15th Anniversary of the Crime and Cover-up of the Century (9/11/01)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
“What Really Happened”?
→ read full articleThe Great Railway Scandal
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Merkel did something that was completely opposed to her political interests. She opened the gates of Germany to almost a million refugees, mostly Muslims, many from war-torn, bleeding Syria. No people, not even a people of Angels or Angelas, can absorb a million foreigners without some misgivings. Yet Merkel had the moral and political courage to take the risk. Now she is suffering the consequences.
→ read full articleAnarchy vs. Statism: Uncontrolled Order over Controlled Chaos
Gary ‘Z’ McGee | Waking Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Caught up, as we are, in the politics of statism, it is often extremely difficult to see the forest for the trees. We’re often so busy pretending to think outside the box that we lose track of what’s “the box” and what’s not. We’re so inured by this system of exploitation that it’s often too easy to kiss each other with lies rather than smack each other with the truth.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Golpe de 1964 e golpe de 2016 – A mesma natureza de classe
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
5 setembro 2016 – Entre o golpe de 1964 e o golpe de 2016 há uma conaturalidade estrutural. Ambos são golpe de classe, dos donos do dinheiro e do poder: o primeiro usa os militares, o outro o parlamento. Os meios são diferentes mas o resultado é o mesmo: um golpe com a ruptura democrática e violação da sobernia popular.
→ read full article(Português) Romain Rolland: “Milhares de animais são assassinados todos os dias, sem sombra de remorso”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Vencedor do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 1915, o escritor francês Romain Rolland dedicou sua vida também à defesa dos direitos dos animais e da dieta vegetariana. Importante pensador, Rolland influenciou Sigmund Freud e se tornou amigo de Mahatma Gandhi. Em 1922, o alemão Hermann Hesse, também vencedor do Nobel de Literatura, dedicou o livro “Sidarta”, um dos romances mais espiritualistas da literatura mundial, ao seu querido amigo Romain Rolland.
→ read full articleUS Cluster Bombs Kill Children for Decades in Laos, and Now Yemen
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
12 Sep 2016
Does anyone think America is accountable for its own actions? The preposterous ironies of President Obama’s unapologetic visit to Laos on September 6 have not yet generated the attention they deserve, but they provide an excellent measure of the self-righteousness of the monstrous continuity of American violence inflicted on the world from Viet Nam in the 1950s to Yemen more than sixty years later.
→ read full articleBhopal, India: This 9-Year-Old ‘Librarian’ Educates Kids in Her Slum
NDTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
10 Sep 2016 – Class III student Muskaan Ahirwar, who lives in a slum in Bhopal, is a firm believer in Nelson Mandela’s famous quote: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”.
→ read full articleSeptember 11, 2001: Diagnosis, Prognosis, Therapy(*)
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Today is September 11, 2016 –
The TRANSCEND Reaction to 9/11/2001
The Court That Rules the World
Chris Hamby | BuzzFeed News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
A parallel legal universe, open only to corporations and largely invisible to everyone else, helps executives convicted of crimes escape punishment. Some of them half-jokingly refer to themselves as “The Club” or “The Mafia.” – An Investigative Reporting
→ read full articleFacism as Superficial Intercultural Extremism
Anthony Judge | Laetus in praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
This is an exploration of the focus given to the challenge to French cultural identity by women there wearing the full-body burkha (burka, burqa). In the light of current media coverage of French preoccupation with the iconic bare-breasted Marianne — symbol of the French Republic. This bares comparison with the recent preoccupation in the USA with the erection in a number of cities of statues of the Republican presidential nominee — Donald Trump — bare-assed. Both cases are indicative of emerging forms of national psychosis in a period of so-called “post-truth politics” marked by bare-faced lying by the highest authorities.
→ read full article(Italiano) Lo squilibrio del potere globale
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Chi scrive, nel 1976, paragonò il declino e la caduta dell’Impero Romano a un possibile declino e caduta dell’Occidente in generale e dell’Impero USA in particolare, fondati sulla sinergia di modelli che presentano un unico obbiettivo. I Romani si consideravano straordinariamente virtuosi e invincibili nel confronto con i barbari, ma i contropoteri li stavano disunendo; e vivevano sulle glorie del passato. La Clinton, venuta dritta dal passato con qualche rimodernamento domestico, imporrà quel passato; ogni valutazione realistica è considerata quasi un tradimento contro lo stato.
→ read full articleThe Ethics and Efficacy of the War on Terrorism: Fighting Terror without Terror? Or How to Give Peace a Chance
Charles Webel | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Throwing a bomb is bad,
Dropping a bomb is good,
Terror, no need to add,
Depends on who’s wearing the hood.
— Roger Woddis
(Italiano) Riconciliazione e giustizia in Kashmir
Ashima Kaul – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
5 Sep 2016
15 luglio 2016: dal 1990 i Pandit del Kashmir sono stati esiliati dalla loro comunità, dopo che violenti attacchi li costrinsero ad abbandonare le loro case. Ora che il loro ritorno è nell’agenda dei politici, vengono alla ribalta complesse idee di identità e riconciliazione.
→ read full articleHow Alcohol Affects the Gut Microbiome
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism considers at-risk drinking to be more than four drinks per day or fourteen per week for men, and more than three drinks per day or seven per week for women. Heavy drinking can lead to an array of serious health issues. In this article, we will focus on one of the lesser known—dysbiosis—which is an imbalance in the gut microbiota.
→ read full articleFrance Demands End to Trade Talks with US amid Rising US-EU Tensions
V. Gnana and Alex Lantier | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
31 Aug 2016 – As France demanded an end to talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership deal, the EU said it would levy a €13 billion fine on Apple, a move the US Treasury said could damage US-EU ties. Two days after German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel criticized TTIP, bitterly attacking US negotiating tactics.
→ read full articleIn Post-Olympics Brazil, a Political Coup is No Game
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan - Democracy NOW!,
5 Sep 2016
1 Sep 2016 – The Olympic torch in Rio de Janeiro has been extinguished, and the global spotlight has left Brazil. In the shadow of the games, an extraordinary event has taken place, largely ignored in the U.S. media: a coup d’etat against Brazil’s democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff.
→ read full articleDemocracy Showbiz
Latuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Behind the scenes in Brazil.
→ read full articleClinton versus Trump: How It Might Matter for the Middle East
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
If voting for an American president was only about the Middle East, I would rate the candidates as a tossup, but it isn’t. When the American domestic scene is taken into account, as well the rest of the world, Clinton holds the clear edge unless one feels so disgusted her candidacy as to write in Bernie Sanders on the ballot or cast a vote of conscience for Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate. I remain uncertain as to which of these choices to make.
→ read full articleImpact of Armed Conflict on Education
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
There is a growing body of evidence that armed conflict attacks on education have occurred in countries all over the world. These attacks have targeted teachers, students, academics and ancillary staff including shuttle drivers and night watchmen. A large number of teachers, students, academics and educational personnel are killed, injured, abducted, forced to being a soldier, laborer, or are disappeared.
→ read full articleThe Whole Game Is About Containing Russia-China
Pepe Escobar | Uprooted Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
29 Aug 2016 – The next BRICS summit, in Goa, is less than two months away. Compared to only two years ago, the geopolitical tectonic plates have moved with astonishing speed. Most BRICS nations are mired in deep crisis; Brazil’s endless political/economic/institutional debacle may yield the Kafkaesque impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. BRICS is in a coma.
→ read full articleGenetic “Extinction” Technology Rejected by International Group of Scientists, Conservationists and Environmental Advocates
SynBioWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
1 Sep 2016 — The 2016 World Conservation Congress convenes in Honolulu, Hawaii this week raising awareness about the use of gene drives — a new synthetic biology technology to cause species to become extinct. Environmental leaders including Jane Goodall, David Suzuki, Fritjof Capra, Angelika Hilbeck, Vandana Shiva, Nell Newman have signed the open letter: “A Call for Conservation with a Conscience: No Place for Gene Drives in Conservation.” Please do it too.
→ read full article(Italiano) Fermenti internazionali di pace
Elena Camino – Centro Study Sereno Regis,
5 Sep 2016
Le pagine dei giornali e i media ci propongono con crescente intensità notizie e immagini di morti e distruzioni, mentre sono sempre molto parche di informazioni positive. Eppure sono sempre più numerose le iniziative che vedono centinaia o migliaia di persone, un po’ ovunque nel mondo, impegnate a costruire iniziative di pace.
→ read full articleLeo Tolstoy (9 Sep 1828 – 20 Nov 1910)
Gary Saul Morson - Encyclopædia Britannica,
5 Sep 2016
In contrast to other psychological writers, such as Dostoyevsky, who specialized in unconscious processes, Tolstoy described conscious mental life with unparalleled mastery. Oscillating between skepticism and dogmatism, he explored the most-diverse approaches to human experience. Above all, his greatest works, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina,’ endure as the summit of realist fiction.
→ read full articleReading between the Lines: Dialoguing with Text to Squeeze Out Truths
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Frankly, I am much less concerned about the “take over” of the Republican Party or the Democratic Party (which in my mind together form the “Republicratic Party”) than I am concerned about parboiled journalism of half-truths. Let us have education committed to how to think above what to think.
→ read full articleThe Russians Are Coming . . . Again?
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
But I wanted to write something about the Russians—well, some of them, those I met on a recent trip to St. Petersburg. I wanted to write something genuine and personal and unpretentious, that might help to give enough of a glimpse into a place that might as well be Mordor according to the West.
→ read full articleNew US Policy: Kill the Kurds
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
5 Sep 2016
The incoherence, insanity, and ultimate inanity of US policy in and around Syria was highlighted by Vice President Joe Biden on a state visit to Turkey August 24, when he threatened the most effective fighting force against the Islamic State – the Kurdish militias – with American punishment if they didn’t play nice with the Turks, who have spent years supporting the Islamic State (aka ISIS or ISIL), attacking “bad” Kurds in Turkey and Iraq, and who are now attacking “good” Kurds in Syria.
→ read full articleMillions of Honeybees Killed in Attempt to Prevent Zika
Dan Zukowski | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
3 Sep 2016 – Aerial spraying of the pesticide naled in a South Carolina county, done in an attempt to prevent Zika-infected mosquitoes from gaining a foothold in the state, resulted instead in the massacre of millions of honeybees. On one farm in Summerville, 46 hives were wiped out instantly, killing 2.5 million bees.
→ read full articleParaguay Enacts Law to Combat Widespread Abuse of Children
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
The new law prohibits the use of corporal punishment and all kind of cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment against children. Law enacted on Friday, 2 Sep 2016.
→ read full articleMajority of Senate That Impeached Rousseff under Investigation
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
49 of 81 Brazilian senators who ousted the president for corruption charges are themselves the targets of criminal inquiries.
→ read full articleAftermath
Leonard Roy Frank – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
With “therapeutic” fury
search-and-destroy doctors
using instruments of infamy
conduct electrical lobotomies
in little Auschwitzes called mental hospitals.
US-NATO-Turkey Invasion of Northern Syria: CIA “Failed” Turkey Coup Lays Groundwork for Broader Middle East War?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Public opinion was led to believe that relations with the US had not only deteriorated, but that Erdogan had vowed to restore “an axis of friendship” with Moscow, including “cooperation in the defence sector”. This was a hoax. The failed coup was indeed supported by the CIA, but the failure was coordinated with President Erdogan. It was an intelligence op which was meant to fail and mislead public opinion.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre vegetarianismo, veganismo e a literatura
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Meus artigos sobre vegetarianismo e veganismo reproduzem visões de escritores e pensadores que deram sua contribuição ao mundo das mais diversas formas, e muitos são desconhecidos enquanto vegetarianos ou defensores dos animais.
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The Poverty Challenge
Nuno Ramalho | Portico Brothers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Is being poor a challenge? A few insights…
→ read full articleThe Power of Imagination
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
20 Aug 2016 – Albert Einstein, the great 20th century scientist and humanitarian, wrote, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Let us exercise our imaginations.
→ read full articleTurkey’s Military Operation in Syria
Patrick Chappatte – The New York Times,
5 Sep 2016
31 Aug 2016 – Turkey sent tanks, warplanes and special operations forces into northern Syria last week.
→ read full articleHistoric Peace Accord for Colombia Is Signed in Havana
Prensa Latina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
25 Aug 2016 – After nearly four years of talks, delegations from the FARC-EP and the Colombian government have signed a final agreement in Havana for a political solution to the armed conflict in the South American country.
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