Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Facism 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
How 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 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 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 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 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.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Bureau World Congress 2016
TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Disarm! For a Climate of Peace – Creating an Action Agenda ~ 30 Sep to 2 Oct 2016, Technical University of Berlin
→ read full articleNGOs: Choice Tool of Subversion for the New World Order
Makia Freeman | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
NGOs are running amok. We don’t just have NGOs; we have an actual NGO complex which is controlled by the New World Order and is part of their psychological operations and perception management department. It ensures that American democracy and humanitarian interventions (both doublespeak oxymorons) are coated with sugar to go down well.
→ read full articleThe Good Society
Henning Meyer | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Henning Meyer argues that a values-based, social democratic system, with a mixed economy, holds considerable promise as a new model, and as the mechanism to change the current system. Such system “seeks to combine an activist cosmopolitan outlook on global issues with a re-foundation of social democracy’s communitarian roots.”
→ read full articleAfghan Opium Production 40 Times Higher since US-NATO Invasion
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
About 90 percent of the world’s illegal opium is estimated to come from Afghanistan. Profits also go to international drug cartels and Western money-laundering banks.
→ read full articleWest Bank Villagers Suffer from Sewer Politics
Clare Maxwell |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Approximately half of Israel’s environmental regulations do not apply in the occupied territory. With such lax legislation, companies producing metals, chemicals and plastics flock to settlement industrial zones. Both Israeli and international companies are drawn to areas where they can pollute more freely, often at the expense of surrounding Palestinian communities.
→ read full articleRevisiting the Lessons of the Battle of Seattle and Its Aftermath
Walden Bello | Transnational Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Walden Bello shares some reflections on the meaning of Seattle for change in knowledge systems, discusses how despite the deep crisis of neoliberalism, finance capital has managed to retain tremendous power, and appeals for a new comprehensive vision of the desirable society.
→ read full articleThe Financial Times: Megaphone for Mass Murder
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
The Financial Times editorial page carries a logo that proclaims: “Without fear and without favour”. Indeed the editors have shown no fear when it comes to. . . fabricating lies, promoting imperial wars decimating countries and impoverishing millions, whether in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and now Venezuela.
→ read full articleWebinar – How Ensuring Public Access to Information Can Help Build Peaceful and Inclusive Societies
Univ. of Sydney Department of Peace and Conflict Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Sustainable Development Goal 16 identifies the building of peaceful and inclusive societies as essential to delivering the development agenda, and one of its goals – the tenth – specifies “ensuring public access to information” as a co-requisite of peace and, therefore, development.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Sep 5-11 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | An Overdue Exposé of Electroconvulsive “Therapy”
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
“Electroshock is psychiatry’s way of burying its mistakes without killing the patients.” –Leonard Roy Frank
→ read full article(Castellano) “El dia triste” de Brasil: el golpe de clase trámite el parlamento
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
3 septiembre 2016 – Y sucedió que en aquellos días sicarios se travistieron de senadores, en gran número, no todos, y decidieron atacar a una dama honrada e incorruptible que les cortaba el atajo para llegar al poder de Estado.
→ read full articleBehind the Bolivia Miner [Fake] Cooperatives’ Protests and the killing of the Bolivian Vice-Minister
Stansfield Smith | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
The Bolivian cooperatives’ protests and their August 25 killing of the Bolivian Vice-Minister of the Interior requires us to question our assumptions about cooperatives. What are the Bolivian mining cooperatives? Regardless of their initial intentions, cooperatives existing in a surrounding capitalist environment must compete in business practices or go under. The Bolivian mining cooperatives themselves underwent this process, and have become businesses whose owners hire labor.
→ read full articleSeptember: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
September 25, 1959 – A U.S. Navy antisubmarine aircraft carrying an unarmed nuclear depth charge developed mechanical problems but was unable to reach land to make an emergency landing and crashed into the Puget Sound, Washington. The nuclear weapon was never recovered despite an extensive search. There remain deadly serious concerns about the very long-term radioactive contamination from this incident and hundreds of other similar Broken Arrows.
→ read full articleCreating the Book “Strategies for Peace”
Bruce L. Cook, Ph.D. | The Shift Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
26 Aug 2016 – Last month I was privileged to publish a trade book entitled Strategies for Peace. I joined Maria Cristina Azcona as co-editor and the book emerged as a collection of new ideas about peacebuilding.
→ read full articleThe Art of Now: Six Steps to Living in the Moment
Jay Dixit | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
You Are Not Your Thoughts – We live in the age of distraction. Yet one of life’s sharpest paradoxes is that your brightest future hinges on your ability to pay attention to the present.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the People of Brazil
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
5 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 article(Português) 29 de Agosto: Dia Internacional Contra os Ensaios Nucleares
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Existem hoje no mundo cerca de 15.000 armas atômicas em poder de nove Estados. Um vigoroso movimento liderado por um grupo de países, inclusive o Brasil, e organizações da sociedade civil propôs iniciar nas Nações Unidas em 2017 a negociação de um tratado que proíba a fabricação, armazenamento, posse e uso de armamento nuclear.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung’s Conflict Transformation Theory for Peaceful World: Top and Ceiling of Traditional Peacemaking
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media service,
29 Aug 2016
Galtung has developed the TRANSCEND Method (conflict theory and practice, violence theory and practice, peace transformation, dialogue, and negotiation) to transform the conflict by peaceful means constituting a three-step approach, generally called TRANSCEND or Galtungian method.
→ read full articleGenetic Engineering (Part 1): #SCIENCE!
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
19 Aug 2016 – A few weeks ago, global corporate PR decided to #RoundUp 107 Nobel Laureates in a bid to rescue #GoldenRice from its #Fantastic #Failure. Knights of the “pure science”, to the rescue of its Gold– the rice and a few “Scientists” even rising from the grave. Nobel – rooted in the Chemical Industry – has served as the Cathedral of Knowledge.
→ read full article(Português) Artistas e intelectuais estrangeiros divulgam carta contra impeachment de Dilma
Revista Fórum | Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
25 agosto 2016 – Assinam a carta nomes do cinema, da música e da academia como o ator Viggo Mortensen, de “O Senhor dos Anéis”, o músico Brian Eno, o cantor Harry Belafonte, cineasta Oliver Stone, a escritora Naomi Klein, o intelectual Noam Chomsky ou ainda o ator Danny Glover. “Esperamos que os senadores brasileiros respeitem o processo eleitoral de 2014″, diz documento.
→ read full articleA Disturbing Series of Events: Governments around the World Seem to Be Preparing for War
Daisy Luther | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
25 Aug 2016 – Remember how a couple of days ago the German government advised its citizens to start stockpiling food and water? Well, today they have announced that they are considering reintroducing conscription…the draft, to ‘help with any future disaster’. Do they know something we don’t?
→ read full articleGenetic Engineering (Part 2): Cloned Chemical Colonies
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
19 Aug 2016 – The Gaia footprint of chemicals has depressed the life out of our planet. Nature is resilient; when pushed, nature pushes back. Nature evolves. Greed does not. Survival of the fittest?
→ read full articleProvoking Nuclear War by Media
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
This obeisance to the United States and its collaborators as a benign force “bringing good” runs deep in western establishment journalism. It ensures that the present-day catastrophe in Syria is blamed exclusively on Bashar al-Assad, whom the West and Israel have long conspired to overthrow, not for any humanitarian concerns, but to consolidate Israel’s aggressive power in the region.
→ read full article(Français) Milosevic est disculpé mais rien n’arrête la machine de guerre de l’OTAN
Neil Clark | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Milosevic disculpé ? Officiellement, le TPIY, tribunal formé par les puissances occidentales, n’a pas rendu son verdict. Et il ne le rendra pas, la mort de l’ancien président yougoslave ayant mis un terme au procès qui se tenait à La Haye. Toutefois, un passage intriguant du verdict rendu par le même TPIY à l’encontre de Radovan Karadzic soulève des questions sur la teneur des charges qui pesaient contre Milosevic.
→ read full articleToward a Global Realignment
Zbigniew Brzezinski | The American Interest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
As its era of global dominance ends, the United States needs to take the lead in realigning the global power architecture.
→ read full article(Castellano) Hay casi 49 millones de esclavos en el mundo en pleno siglo XXI
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Cada 23 de agosto se celebra en el mundo el Día Internacional del Recuerdo de la Trata de Esclavos y de su Abolición. La esclavitud moderna se esconde al interior de las fábricas, en campos agrícolas, o dentro de los propios hogares.
→ read full article2,500 Native Americans Successfully Block Oil Pipeline Construction — State of Emergency Declared
Counter Current News Editorial Team – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 – The Camp of the Sacred Stones has swelled from a few dozen to more than 2,500, according to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe officials. They are calling for further review of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the end of July without a full environmental assessment.
→ read full articleWhy Obama Should Declare a No-First-Use Policy for Nuclear Weapons
Ramesh Thakur | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
An American no-first-use commitment would reduce the risk of nuclear war at a time when arsenals are growing and tensions are mounting, particularly in Asia
→ read full articleThe Heart of Order
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
He’d left the water running, flooding neighbors’ apartments. He’d been running around outside naked. By the time police arrived, he was standing in the window of his fourth-floor apartment threatening to jump. He pointed his finger at the cops, pretending he had a gun. “Fuck the police,” he said. The standoff lasted four hours.
→ read full articleThe Man behind the Viral ‘Boy in the Ambulance’ Image Has Brutal Skeletons in His Own Closet
Brad Hoff | The Canary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
WARNING: This article may disturb some readers. The purpose of sharing it is to convey the complexities of the Syrian conflict.
→ read full articleNonviolent Revolt in the Twenty-First Century
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
The incorrect attribution of Gandhi’s insights to others starts on page 3 of the book where Gene Sharp is credited with an ‘epiphany … that nonviolence should not be simply a moral code for a small group of true believers to live by’. But it is not exclusively the fault of the authors that they incorrectly attribute Sharp because Sharp himself claims credit for this insight and they cite his claim, from an interview conducted in 2003, on page 4.
→ read full articleOrwell Could Never Have Predicted This Level of Surveillance
Mark Nestmann | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
The creepier the technology, the more likely Big Brother will use it to keep tabs on you. A case in point is the increasing sophistication of facial recognition technology. Facial recognition combines digital images of faces with software that creates a unique “faceprint” of each one, along with a database of images against which “faceprints” can be compared.
→ read full articlePfizer Gobbles Up Cancer Drug Maker in $14 Billion Deal
Brad Dixon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
25 Aug 2016 – Drugmaker Pfizer is set to acquire the biotech company Medivation for $14 billion. The primary aim of the deal was to secure Medivation’s cancer drug Xtandi in order to better position Pfizer within the lucrative market for oncology medications. Numerous drug companies have been circling around Medivation since April, like sharks after raw meat, including Sanofi, Merck, Celgene and Gilead, as well as Pfizer.
→ read full articleThe Olympic Games: A Metaphor for a Humanized Humanity
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
In the Olympic Games another logic prevails, different from the daily logic of our capitalist culture, whose articulating axis is an excluding competition: the stronger triumphs and, in the market, if it can, devours its counterpart. In the Olympic Games there is competition, but it is an inclusive competition, because everyone participates. The competition is to be the best, while appreciating and respecting the qualities and virtuosity of the other… The Olympic Games invite us to reflect on the anthropological and social importance of play.
→ read full articleChina’s Pivot to World Markets, Washington’s Pivot to World Wars, and the Debacle of the Latin American Left
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
The US ‘pivot to Asia’, with its heavy dependence on military threats and intimidation has cost billions of dollars in lost markets and investments. China’s ‘pivot to advanced technology’ demonstrates that the future lies in Asia not the West. China’s experience offers lessons for future Latin American leftist governments. First and foremost, China emphasizes the necessity of balanced economic growth, over and above short-term benefits resulting from commodity booms and consumerist strategies.
→ read full articleUS Moves Nuclear Weapons from Turkey to Romania
Georgi Gotev and Joel Schalit | EurActiv - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
18 Aug 2016 – Two independent sources told that the US has started transferring nuclear weapons stationed in Turkey to Romania, against the background of worsening relations between Washington and Ankara.
→ read full articleDestruction of Cultural Heritage Condemned by the International Criminal Court
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
On 22 August 2016, Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi pleaded guilty to organizing and helping to carry out the destruction of nine tombs of Sufi saints in Timbuktu, northern Mali. This is the first trial of the International Criminal Court in which the destruction of UNESCO-designated cultural heritage of humanity sites is a major element of the accusation.
→ read full articleStrategies for Peace before Nuclear Aggression
Dr. Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Strategies for Peace by Bruce L. Cook and Maria Cristina Azcona (eds), 2016, 254 pp.
→ read full articleWestern Propaganda – So Simple but So Effective!
Andre Vltchek | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
The Empire is killing millions and destroying countries and continents. But California is falling off a cliff, and clouds of huge insects are invading the entire North America. While millions of alien terrorists are now engulfing the ‘tolerant’ and ‘democratic’ Europe! Plus there are those sinister monsters like Count Vlad and Comrade Kim, waiting with their daggers behind a corner! Therefore, The Empire and its people have to ‘protect’ themselves. They have to be tough, even tougher than before! And to put their interests first! America (North America) first! Germany first! France first!
→ read full articleWestern Sahara-Morocco Dispute Remains Stalemated as Federation Proposal Advanced
Stephen Zunes | TheNewArab – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Neither side is likely to back down over autonomy and independence, but that doesn’t mean both sides are equally to blame. The Moroccan plan for autonomy falls well short of what is required in bringing about a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
→ read full articleNever Give Up
Dag Hammarskjold – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Tired
And lonely, So tired
The heart aches.
Duty to Warn | The Drug-Induced Suicide of Robin Williams Two Years Later: And the Perils of Being a Drugged-up Insomniac Celebrity
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
The lessons are numerous and the teachers are available, but they are censored-out of our corporate-dominated media system. Those important lessons are there for anybody to learn, but we must first overcome the powers-that-be that know they won’t profit from our enlightenment. Spread the word. Robin Williams, Ernest Hemingway, Michael Jackson and Prince would want us to do that.
→ read full articleAge of Migration/Refugees: An Excuse for Europe’s Rising Militarization
Paul Currion | Refugees Deeply – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Increasing militarization in Europe in response to the refugee crisis is akin to an autoimmune response that could attack the very body it is supposed to protect.
→ read full articleScottish Football Fans Fly Flag of Palestine in Match against Israeli Team
Middle East Eye Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
17 Aug 2016 – Hundreds of fans at a football match between Glasgow Celtic and Israeli side Hapoel Beer Sheva turned whole sections of the stadium into a sea of Palestinian flags in a protest against the Israeli occupation, ignoring an official ban on political demonstrations.
→ read full articleSouth African Elections 2016
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Bloomberg frames the expected reforms as the efficient causes that will generate prosperity and employment. That investors are already expecting higher profits is framed as good news for the poor. The proposition that more investor-friendly reforms (on top of the many South Africa has already had) will serve the common good is treated as a given needing no proof; as if it were a joke that had already been told; as if those who did not understand the joke and did not know when to laugh, or did not know whether to laugh or cry, were not so much mistaken as left out of the conversation, deprived of voice.
→ read full article(Português) Livraria Bertrand, em Lisboa, é a mais antiga do mundo
RTP-Rádio e Televisão de Portugal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Quantas histórias guarda a livraria mais antiga do mundo? Ninguém sabe, nem pode saber. Porque são incontáveis as memórias de uma casa com quase 300 anos. Refúgio de escritores, revolucionários e conspiradores, o n.º 73 da rua Garrett está no Guiness Book.
→ read full articleWhy Americans Love Drones
Julia M. Macdonald and Jacquelyn G. Schneider | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
The authors point out that if either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is looking to US public opinion for cues on formulating drone policy, then we can expect a continued emphasis on drones as part of US foreign policy. Why does the US public love drones?
→ read full articleDag Hammarskjöld and Spirituality at the United Nations
Donald Key | Aquarian Age Community – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
It is a challenge to discuss Spirituality at the United Nations. It is a challenge because most people will think that the UN is the antithesis of spirituality. I must report, however, that I regard the United Nations as the most spiritual place in the world today. The UN is the first planetary focus at the human level.
→ read full articleFailures of Militarism in Countering Mega-Terrorism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
27 Aug 2016 – A critique of the American response that is based on a ‘war’ rather than a law enforcement paradigm. An argument is then made to adapt international law to new modalities of conflict while at the same time learning the right lessons from the repeated militarist failures of transnational counterterrorism.
→ read full articleStart with Worker Self-Directed Enterprises
Richard D. Wolff | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Richard Wolff describes a next economic system centered on worker-directed cooperatives. To transition to a non-capitalist system we must change the “who and the why of key economic decision making.” To do so he proposes changes at the “basic enterprise level” by “making workers their own bosses.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Aug 29 – Sep 4 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Thinking, studying and learning about death is not morbidity but wisdom. Having said that, to be paranoid and trying to guess our or others’ death is pathological. Relax and live each day as it were your last. Then, go in peace with yourself, your God, and the world you are leaving behind.” – Antonio C.S. Rosa
→ read full articleKarma?
Latuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Action-Reaction, Cause-Effect
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky, Oliver Stone Sign Letter against Brazil’s Coup
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
The letter is also signed by the likes of Indian novelist and activist Arundhati Roy, activist and author Naomi Klein, Viggo Mortensen, Tariq Ali, Harry Belafonte, and artist Tom Morello.
→ read full articleEdward Carpenter (29 Aug 1844 – 28 Jun 1929): The Healing of Nations
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Edward Carpenter bought a farm that became a meeting place for discussions among many in the area. He stressed using hand-made clothes, the non-killing and non-eating of animals, and the use of herbs for health. He lived in a homosexual relationship with a farmer at a time when homosexuality was considered a criminal offense. ‘The Healing of Nations’ is his most important political book − a collection of essays for the most part published in newspapers and small journals written in late 1914 and early 1915 as World War I started.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Little Billy returns home from school and says he got an F in arithmetic.
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The Greatest Show on Earth (Music Video of the Week)
Nightwish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Epic Heavy Metal – Proposed by TMS Webmaster Malvin Gattinger
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
23 Aug 2016 – It seems so important at this time for the sake of the future of Turkey that the West look at the country and its political circumstances in a far more balanced way than how the situation has been portrayed since the coup. How to explain this imbalance is another matter that should be explored at some point, but for now is largely put aside.
→ read full articlePokémons in Every House, Yard, Every Military Base
Sergey Kolyasnikov | Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
If someone wants to know what is being done in the building, say, of Parliament, Congress, Presidential Palace? Phones of dozens of MPs, representatives, janitors, journalists vibrate: “Pikachu is close!!!” And happy citizens will grab their smartphones, activating cameras, microphones, GPS, gyroscopes… spinning in place, staring at the screen, sending the video through online waves… Bingo! The world had again changed, the world is different. Welcome to a new era.
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UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
19 Aug 2016 – Reporting that 650 children have been recruited into armed groups in South Sudan since January, the United Nations Children’s Fund called today for an immediate end to recruitment and an unconditional release of all children by armed actors.
→ read full articleUN Admits Role in Haiti Cholera Outbreak for First Time Ever
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
18 Aug 2016 – The United Nations has admitted for the first time that its peacekeepers in Haiti played a role in the outbreak of the cholera epidemic in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake that sent the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation into a tailspin.
→ read full articleHonduras Is a Giant Graveyard for Human Rights Defenders
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Honduras has seen at least eight human rights activists killed in 2016, making it one the most dangerous countries in the world for human rights defenders, the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights warned Friday [19 Aug].
→ read full articleIndividual and Human Rights
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Take a cue from the days when Jesus could say “render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s.” In those days money belonged to sovereigns and sovereigns used their financial privileges to defray their expenses, mainly the expenses of waging wars. Now banks and other financial institutions have privileges that the sovereign people should have and should use to make social rights real rights.
→ read full articleFree People from the Standardised Dictatorship of the 0.01%
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Chemical corporations are trying to impose patents on all living organisms… They are trying to destroy our local food systems and replace them with industrial junk food by changing food and health safety as well as bio-safety, through ‘harmonisation’.
→ read full article19 August, World Humanitarian Day: A Need for Common Actions
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
In Memory of Sérgio Vieira de Mello (1948-2003) – 19 August was designated in memory of the 19 August 2003 bombing of the UN office building in Baghdad, Iraq in which Sérgio Vieira de Mello, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and at the time Special Representative of the UN Secretary General was killed along with 21 UN staff members. Over 200 UN employees were injured.
→ read full article(Português) Poluição luminosa: fortes reflexos na vida dos animais
Eliza Rei | ANDA-Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
A Terra manteve durante milhões de anos os ciclos de dias claros alternados com noites escuras, mas do século passado para cá isso vem se alterando drasticamente. E o que se sabe sobre os impactos da poluição luminosa na vida dos animais? Se cerca de 30% dos vertebrados e 60% dos invertebrados têm hábitos noturnos, já se infere, de início, que os impactos não devem ser poucos.
→ read full articlePhysicists Confirm Possible Discovery of Fifth Force of Nature
Phys.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
“If true, it’s revolutionary,” said Jonathan Feng, professor of physics & astronomy. “For decades, we’ve known of four fundamental forces: gravitation, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. If confirmed by further experiments, this discovery of a possible fifth force would completely change our understanding of the universe, with consequences for the unification of forces and dark matter.”
→ read full articleWhy Is Global Community Ignoring Slaughter of Yemeni Children?
Catherine Shakdam | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
I realize that truth and honesty are hard commodities to come by, but let’s momentarily see if we can stomach the reality the people of Yemen have had to endure as the global community chose to avert its gaze. Yes, a school was bombed and children were butchered. Yemen was violated and scarred beyond the tolerable and the comprehensible. What else is new? Yemen has died a thousand deaths already, and none have come to its rescue.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
20 Aug 2016 – The scene at Ben-Gurion airport this week was rather astonishing. More than a thousand young male fans came to welcome the two Israeli Judo fighters who had won a bronze medal each at the Olympic games in Rio. Yet judo is not a very popular sport in Israel. So Israeli crowds suddenly became judo fans (some called it “Jewdo”). People who did not go wild with enthusiasm were considered traitors.
→ read full articleDemocracy Education and Peace
René Wadlow - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Democracy Education and Peace, by Surya Nath Prasad and Suman Shukha (Eds) – Democracy and Peace-Interrelated but not interdependent: “Thus it may be safely, yet regretfully, assumed that Democracy does not exclude War and therefore bears no direct relationship to Peace. The reverse is equally true − Peace may reign without any consideration of democracy (cf Pax Romana).”
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Angie (Music Video of the Week)
The Rolling Stones – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
A Classic of the Stones – One of the two official promo videos for the Rolling Stones’ 1973 single “Angie”. Composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and produced by Jimmy Miller.
→ read full article(Français) La France, sponsor des terroristes? De l’esclavage au néocolonialisme, «Y’a bon la françafrique!»
Maël Alberca | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
La France en guerre contre le terrorisme? Un coup d’oeil dans le rétroviseur nous rappelle qu’elle n’a rien à envier aux méthodes de ceux qu’elle prétend combattre. Plus inquiétant, le présent n’apparaît pas vraiment plus réjouissant…
→ read full articleHuman Rights after the Failed Coup in Turkey
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
It is probably wise to separate human rights concerns from an appraisal of Turkish constitutional democracy. It is quite possible that present tendencies toward a more inclusive democracy will continue, and at the same time, denials of human rights are almost certain to persist, and justify scrutiny and vigilance.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Aug 22-28 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Where there is great love there are always miracles.” – Willa Cather
→ read full articleNorth Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux Aren’t Backing Down to Oil Pipeline Developers
Sarah Aziza | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
On Thursday [11 Ago 2016], nonviolent protesters outside North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux reservation entered their second day of confrontation with private security and local law enforcement. Armed with drums, tribal flags, and cell phones, demonstrators moved to block the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.7 billion dollar crude-oil conduit slated to cut just 1,000 feet from the perimeter of native land.
→ read full articlePresidential Elections Need Not Matter So Much
Timothy Braatz | ZNet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
So vote happily for a presidential candidate, or hold your nose and vote, or don’t vote at all, but help build a nonviolent movement to compel the president to act for human good. The greater that movement, the less presidential elections will matter. Learn from the successes and failures of the Civil Rights Movement. And keep in mind the words of Mohandas Gandhi, which Martin Luther King learned to quote: “There go my people. I must rush to catch up with them, for I am their leader.”
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Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Everything we’ve done has been destructive. We are great at destroying. Bomb refugee camps, hospitals, funerals. Bomb Iraq, and Afghanistan, also Pakistan, don’t forget Somalia, Libya or Yemen. Bomb bomb bomb… Hey, ISIS, we need to talk. Hey, my fellow American voters, we need to elect leaders who can get this done. Innovation has been abandoned to devastation—let’s fix this.
→ read full articleMédecins Sans Frontières Leaving Yemen after Saudi Airstrikes on Hospitals
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has announced that it is evacuating its staff from six hospitals in northern Yemen, saying it cannot get assurances that its hospitals will not be bombed again by Saudi warplanes. The decision was “never taken lightly,” said the Paris-based relief agency in a statement on Thursday [18 Aug 2016], condemning the Saudi “indiscriminate bombings.”
→ read full articleDemocratizing Wealth: A Next System Model for the U.S. South and Beyond
Ed Whitfield | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Ed Whitfield presents the Fund for Democratic Communities vision for a next system based on communal ownership of productive assets. The goal must be total economic democracy and community control over production, in order to place “the wealth created by human labor back into the commons for the benefit of all.”
→ read full article(Português) Pokemon, o jogo que traz espiões para dentro de casa
Sergey Kolyasnikov | Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Se alguém quiser saber o que está a ser feito no edifício, digamos, do Parlamento? Telefones de dúzias de deputados, pessoal da limpeza, jornalistas vibram: “Pikachu está próximo!!!” E cidadãos felizes agarrarão seus smartphones, activarão câmaras, microfones, GPS, giroscópios… circulando no lugar, fitando o écran e enviando o vídeo através de ondas online… Bingo! O mundo mudou outra vez, o mundo está diferente. Bem vindo a uma nova era.
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