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International 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 articlePhone Spying Made Easy for All: Check Price List, Choose a Plan
Nicole Perlroth – The New York Times,
5 Sep 2016
Want to invisibly spy on 10 iPhone owners without their knowledge? Gather their every keystroke, sound, message and location? That will cost you $650,000, plus a $500,000 setup fee with an Israeli outfit called the NSO Group. You can spy on more people if you would like — just check out the company’s price list.
→ 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 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 articleThe Broken Chessboard: Zbigniew Brzezinski Gives Up on Empire
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
5 Sep 2016
25 Aug 2016 – Brzezinski, who was the main proponent of the US hegemony idea and who drew up the blueprint for imperial expansion in his 1997 book, has done an about-face and called for a revising of the strategy: “As its era of global dominance ends, the United States is no longer the globally imperial power.”
→ 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 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 articleThe Tragedy in Yemen
Eresh Omar Jamal – The Daily Star,
5 Sep 2016
29 Aug 2016 – While the slaughter of Yemenis continues, the world remains silent in response to their screams. Why is that? Has the world lost its senses, especially to feel the sufferings of the tormented?
→ 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 articleThe Internet Should Be a Public Good
Ben Tarnoff – Jacobin Magazine,
5 Sep 2016
On October 1, the Internet will change and no one will notice. The Internet was built by public institutions — so why is it controlled by private corporations? There is nothing in the pipes or protocols of the Internet that obliges it to produce immense concentrations of corporate power. This is a political choice, and we can choose differently.
→ 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 articlePhotos Show Why the North Dakota Pipeline Is Problematic
Kate Bubacz and Daniella Zalcman - BuzzFeed News,
29 Aug 2016
17 Aug 2016 – A proposed oil pipeline is set to begin construction on tribal lands in North Dakota. Members of various Native American reservations gathered Monday [15 Aug] to try to stop it.
→ 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.
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Johan Galtung’s Positive Peace Concept
Hanno Heynitz | TRANSCENDMedia – Galtung Institut (Germany),
29 Aug 2016
Aug 26, 2016 – Positive Peace with a focus on the concepts and definitions underpinning its practical application. The underlying question really is: What are the requirements to meet in order to implement Positive Peace through Peacebuilding?
→ 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 articleU.S. Government Bans Native American Tribe from Protesting on Their Own Land – Send in Police to Remove Protesters
Jafari Tishomingo – Counter Current News,
29 Aug 2016
21 Aug 2016 – The Bakken project runs through Native American sacred sites, water sources, such as the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. When money is to be made like $3.8-billion and 570,000 barrels of sweet crude oil every day to feed America’s oil habit, we don’t let scared sites or ecosystems get in the way.
→ 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 article(Français) Comment le Sud a payé pour les crises du Nord et pour sa propre soumission
Eric Touissant | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Servicve,
29 Aug 2016
Les crises de la dette de la périphérie sont liées aux crises qui éclatent dans les pays capitalistes les plus puissants et sont utilisées pour subordonner des États. Voici une mise en perspective historique des crises de la dette des pays de la « périphérie » du 19e au 21e siècles. De l’Amérique latine à la Chine en passant par la Grèce, la Tunisie, l’Égypte et l’Empire ottoman, la dette a été utilisée comme une arme de domination et un moyen d’accumulation de richesse au profit des classes dominantes.
→ read full articleEurope: When a Swimsuit Is a Security Threat
Asma T. Uddin – The New York Times,
29 Aug 2016
To an American spectator, such bans probably appear a blatant restriction on religious liberty, or liberty generally, but what is striking is that the European jurisprudence upholding them speaks in the language of human rights. By couching prejudice and fear in the language of Article 9 exceptions, the court in effect uses human rights laws to limit human rights.
→ 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 Death Toll in Yemen Is So High the Red Cross Has Started Donating Morgues to Hospitals
Alex Emmons – The Intercept,
29 Aug 2016
25 Aug 2016 – Almost a year and a half into Saudi Arabia’s U.S.-backed bombing campaign in Yemen, the humanitarian toll has become so extensive that the International Committee of the Red Cross has taken the unusual step of donating entire morgue units to Yemeni hospitals.
→ 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 articleThe Dumbed-Down New York Times
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
29 Aug 2016
27 Aug 2016 – The Times applies a conscious double standard when reporting on the actions of the United States or one of its allies (note how Turkey’s recent invasion of Syria was just an ‘intervention’) as compared to how the Times deals with actions by U.S. adversaries, such as Russia.
→ 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 articleAs Homeless Find Refuge in Forests, ‘Anger Is Palpable’ in Nearby Towns
Jack Healy – The New York Times,
29 Aug 2016
“Yes, we’re homeless,” he said, sitting in the shade of his camper here in the Arapaho National Forest. “No, we’re not vagrants. No, we’re not beggars. We just barely are making it. What you see is by the grace of God.”
→ read full article(Português) Veganismo: quando filosofia é bem diferente de dieta
Nzinga Young - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
29 Aug 2016
Veganismo é a filosofia e modo de vida que procura excluir – o quanto for possível e praticável – todas as formas de exploração e crueldade para com os animais com objetivo de consumo, produção de roupas ou qualquer outra finalidade. Por consequência, estimula o desenvolvimento e uso de alternativas livres de crueldade em benefício dos seres humanos, animais e meio-ambiente. Na alimentação, denota a prática de dispensar todos os produtos derivados totalmente ou parcialmente de animais.
→ 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 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 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.
Saudi Arabia Kills Civilians, the U.S. Looks the Other Way
Samuel Oakfordaug – The New York Times,
29 Aug 2016
19 Aug 2016 – In the span of four days earlier this month, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in Yemen bombed a Doctors Without Borders-supported hospital, killing 19 people; a school, where 10 children, some as young as 8, died; and a vital bridge over which United Nations food supplies traveled, punishing millions.
→ read full articleDuty 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 articleNuclear Accident in New Mexico Ranks among the Costliest in U.S. History
Ralph Vartabedian – Los Angeles Times,
29 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 – When a drum containing radioactive waste blew up in an underground nuclear dump in New Mexico two years ago, the Energy Department rushed to quell concerns in the Carlsbad desert community and quickly reported progress on resuming operations. But the explosion ranks among the costliest nuclear accidents in U.S. history, according to a Times analysis. The long-term cost of the mishap could top $2 billion, an amount roughly in the range of the cleanup after the 1979 partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
→ 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 articleThe Red Line and the Rat Line
Seymour M. Hersh – London Review of Books,
29 Aug 2016
Exposé: Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian Rebels
→ read full articleTaking a Stand at Standing Rock
David Archambault II – The New York Times,
29 Aug 2016
24 Aug 2016 — Perhaps only in North Dakota, where oil tycoons wine and dine elected officials, and where the governor, Jack Dalrymple, serves as an adviser to the Trump campaign, would state and county governments act as the armed enforcement for corporate interests. In recent weeks, the state has militarized my reservation, with road blocks and license-plate checks, low-flying aircraft and racial profiling of Indians. The local sheriff and the pipeline company have both called our protest “unlawful,” and Gov. Dalrymple has declared a state of emergency.
→ read full articleWho Profited from the $440 Billion Greek Bailout? Not Greeks
Jack Rasmus – teleSUR,
29 Aug 2016
Hundreds of billions of dollars in loans haven’t helped the Greek economy or its people.
→ read full articleUpdate Your iPhone or iPad: Israeli Cyber-Spy Firm Can Hack You
Tim Johnson | McClatchy – Honolulu Star Bulletin & Advertiser,
29 Aug 2016
The much-talked-about hack that would allow governments to spy on your every move through your iPhone and iPad has become reality. Apple issued a security update for those devices Thursday [25 Aug] after researchers discovered spyware that allows remote operators to intercept all voice and data communications and pass along every photograph and video. The infection turns iPhone into a pocket undercover spy capable of employing iPhone’s camera and microphone to eavesdrop on activity in the vicinity of the device, recording WhatsApp and Viber calls, logging messages sent in mobile chat apps and tracking movements.
→ 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 articleUS Okay With Surgical Strikes on Yemen Hospitals
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
29 Aug 2016
This war is a war of aggression [on Yemen], started by Saudi Arabia in March 2015, with crucial US blessing, participation, personnel, and ordnance. The US has been a willing, guilty partner and enabler in 18 months of military atrocities in a one-sided war that everyone involved knew – or should have known – was a pure war crime.
→ read full articleVive la Difference?
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD – Intrepid Report,
29 Aug 2016
Since the dawn of human consciousness, we have described ourselves as being intrinsically apart from Nature, whether by dint of divine creation or superior intelligence or the ability to laugh. We have christened ourselves the stewards of our habitat, and we have taken no prisoners during our mission to go forth, multiply and create dominion.
→ 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.
→ read full articleArithmetic
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Little Billy returns home from school and says he got an F in arithmetic.
→ read full articleThe U.N.’s Cholera Admission and What Comes Next
Jonathan M. Katz – The New York Times Magazine,
29 Aug 2016
Scientists and researchers have repeatedly found, with overwhelming consensus, that U.N. peacekeepers introduced the disease to Haiti for the first time ever recorded by knowingly allowing their infected feces to slough into the Meille River, which locals used for drinking, bathing and washing — in violation of the U.N’s own protocols and the most basic tenets of public health.
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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.
→ read full articleOne Humanity? Millions of Children Tortured, Smuggled, Abused, Enslaved
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
22 Aug 2016
Children are being smuggled, sexually abused, maimed, killed for their vital organs, recruited as soldiers or otherwise enslaved. And 750 million women will have been married as children by 2030. These are just some of the dramatic figures that UNICEF and other UN and international bodies released few weeks ahead of the World Humanitarian Day marked every year on August 19.
→ read full articleSouth Sudan: Hundreds of Children Recruited into Armed Groups, Reports UNICEF
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 articleThe Children Are in Danger: Welcome to the ‘Kids Guantanamo’ of Egypt
Noor El-Terk – Middle East Eye,
22 Aug 2016
Electrocuted, whipped, beaten on his face, jumped on his back; the list of horrors is unending as his father fights to keep tears out of his voice. “My son was born in Japan you know, I wrote to the Japanese ambassador, if [sending him to Japan] is what it takes to keep him safe, I’ll give him up. Japan can take him as one of their own – the children here are in danger. All my son will know from this country is its dungeons. He’s seen more than what any 15-year-old should see.”
→ 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.
→ read full articlePowerful NSA Hacking Tools Have Been Revealed Online
Ellen Nakashima – The Washington Post,
22 Aug 2016
16 Aug 2016 – Possibly Stolen NSA Spy Tools May Be Auctioned Off to Any Bidder Soon – Some of the most powerful espionage tools created by the National Security Agency’s elite group of hackers have been revealed in recent days, a development that could pose severe consequences for the spy agency’s operations.
→ read full articleOlympic Jews?
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 articleInterview with Gary Corseri on US Foreign Policy
Gary Corseri – Muslim Press,
22 Aug 2016
How do you compare Bush and Obama’s policies on the Middle East?
Gary Corseri: What’s the diff? Bush and Obama are “suits.” They dress according to the fashion of the time. But, they are essentially the same–Empire-builders, Empire-expansionists, Empire-apologists and preservationists. After 911, George W. Bush could take his cowboy act on the road, act like a big sheriff, come out with his “Wanted Dead or Alive!” B.S. about Osama bin Laden.
Dieselgate in Europe: How Officials Ignored Years of Car Emissions Evidence
Markus Becker and Gerald Traufetter – Der Spiegel,
22 Aug 2016
When American authorities revealed that Volkswagen used software to trick pollution tests, it spurred widespread outrage. Documents obtained by SPIEGEL show that European officials knew about the deception for years – but didn’t act on it.
→ 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 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 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.
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