Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Improving 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 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 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 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 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 articlePsychiatric Condition
Cartoon Stock – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Oedipus Complex?
→ 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 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 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 articleSuitor: “Gentleman Caller”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Courtship
→ 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 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 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 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 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 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
Bhopal, 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 articleThe 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
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 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 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 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.