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(Italiano) La politica e l’economia mondiale in questo momento
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Un altro fattore chiave è la speculazione nell’economia finanziaria – in contrapposizione all’investimento nell’economia reale – consistente in serie di prodotti derivati con super-commissioni. Se i prodotti derivati dalla droga sono illegali e biasimati, perché non farlo anche con i derivati finanziari?
→ read full articleSelling São Paulo
Kathleen McCaul Moura | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
17 Mar 2017 – São Paulo is for sale. João Doria, mayor since 1 January, is planning to auction off South America’s biggest city piece by piece: not only the racecourse, football stadium and carnival centre, but lighting, transport, health services and even the public funeral system.
→ read full articleWashington Protests Proposal for Nuclear Disarmament
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
On Monday [27 Mar 2017], the United States, together with Britain and France, walked out of a session of the United Nations General Assembly set to discuss a global ban on nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleAn American Century of Carnage: Measuring Violence in a Single Superpower World
John W. Dower - TomDispatch,
3 Apr 2017
The projected bill for just the 30-year nuclear modernization agenda comes to over $90 million a day, or almost $4 million an hour. The $1 trillion price tag for maintaining the nation’s status as “the most powerful nation on Earth” for a single year amounts to roughly $2.74 billion a day, over $114 million an hour. Creating a capacity for violence greater than the world has ever seen is costly — and remunerative. So an era of a “new peace”? Think again.
→ read full articleIsraeli Guidelines Point to Largely Unconstrained Settlement Expansion
Peter Beaumont – The Guardian,
3 Apr 2017
31 Mar 2017 – Israel has indicated it will pursue a unilateral policy of largely unconstrained settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories, as it announced the first new settlement in two decades. Plan outlined by Benjamin Netanyahu would allow building within boundaries of existing blocks, adjacent to them, or close to the blocs.
→ read full articleStreet Art Controversy – Crime or Urban Renovation?
Giulia D’Ettorre | Wall Street International - Human Wrongs Watch,
3 Apr 2017
Since ancient times, human existence has been recorded on murals. From cave painting to street art, people have been using walls as a means to communicate and leave a sign of their own existence. Thanks to studies of ancient cave art, we have learnt a lot about our ancestors and how they lived, as well as today, graffiti can be perceived as a mirror of our society.
→ read full article“Rohingya Resistance”: The Media Is “Bigging It Up” without Analysis or Insights
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
31 Mar 2017 – For the mass media is now bigging up Rohingya Resistance, but it isn’t telling you anything I consider intelligent, analytical, researched or factual.
→ read full articleVault 7: Project Dark Matter
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Today, March 23rd 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 “Dark Matter”, which contains documentation for several CIA projects that infect Apple Mac firmware (meaning the infection persists even if the operating system is re-installed) developed by the CIA’s Embedded Development Branch.
→ read full articleCultivating Community Economies
J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, Kelly Dombroski, Stephen Healy and Ethan Miller | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Building on J.K. Gibson-Graham’s feminist critique of political economy, the CEC challenges two problematic aspects of how “the economy” is understood: seeing it as inevitably capitalist, and separating the economy from ecology. We understand the economy as comprised of diverse practices and as intimately intertwined with planetary ecosystem processes. In a complexly determined world there are multiple ways of enacting change; we are energized by possibilities that are afforded by this framing of economy.
→ read full article(Italiano) La nonviolenza oggi, tra crisi del pacifismo e legittima difesa
Mao Valpiana – Huffington Post Italia,
3 Apr 2017
27 mar 2017 – Lo scorso ottobre il servizio di consulenza linguistica dell’Accademia della Crusca, ha sentenziato che “la lessicografia contemporanea considera la forma univerbata “nonviolenza” come un’unità lessicale: esito che senza dubbio è stato favorito dalla spinta del Movimento Nonviolento, che ha attribuito un nuovo valore alla parola”.
→ read full articleHow the United Nations Should Respond in the Age of Global Dissent
Richard Falk, Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck – New Statesman,
3 Apr 2017
Three Former UN Insiders on the Future of the World’s Most Ambitious Organisation
→ read full article(Castellano) A la cultura de la violencia oponemos la cultura de la paz
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Al abordar el tema de la paz en su encíclica, el obispo de Roma, Francisco, repite lo que Gandhi y otros maestros han dicho antes: «la paz no es ausencia de guerra. La paz interior de las personas tiene mucho que ver con el cuidado, con la ecología y con el bien común, porque cuando es auténticamente vivida, se refleja en un equilibrado estilo de vida, aliado con la capacidad de admiración que lleva a la profundidad de la vida; la naturaleza está llena de palabras de amor».
→ read full articleJane Goodall: How Can We Believe It Is a Good Idea to Grow Our Food with Poisons?
Katherine Paul | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
9 Mar 2017 – Two new reports published in recent weeks add to the already large and convincing body of evidence, accumulated over more than half a century, that agricultural pesticides and other toxic chemicals are poisoning us. Both reports issue scathing indictments of U.S. and global regulatory systems that collude with chemical companies to hide the truth from the public, while they fill their coffers with ill-gotten profits.
→ read full articleJapan’s Ruling Party Calls for Military to Have Offensive Weapons
Peter Symonds | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
1 Apr 2017 – Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has called on the government to boost the country’s anti-ballistic missile systems and to consider acquiring, for the first time, weapons capable of carrying out attacks on enemy bases. The recommendations are another step towards the remilitarisation of Japan pressed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that is adding to sharp regional tensions.
→ read full articleThe West Is Becoming Irrelevant: The World Is Laughing
Andre Vltchek | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
The greatest minds of Russia, China, Latin America and the rest of the world are trying to determine what brought our world, our civilization, to this ludicrous downfall. The answer: Western imperialism (military, economic and ‘intellectual’/ ’cultural’), colonialism and neo-colonialism, as well as that dreadful byproduct of all the above – a savage form of capitalism.
→ read full article(Português) Patrik Baboumian: “A força deve construir, não destruir. Minha força não precisa de vítimas. Minha força é a minha compaixão”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Em 2011, quando conquistou o título de homem mais forte da Alemanha, o atleta abraçou o veganismo mesmo sem saber se isso iria afetar o seu desempenho como atleta e o seu grande volume muscular. Questionado se teria alguma sugestão a dar para quem está cogitando o vegetarianismo ou o veganismo, ele recomendou que as pessoas não deem ouvidos aos supostos gurus da nutrição e da indústria de suplementos que dizem que precisamos de carne, ovos e laticínios para conseguir proteínas o suficiente.
→ read full articleEveryone in Middle East Given Own Country in 317,000,000-State Solution
The Onion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
The broad and extensive compromise, which affects more than 3,000,000 square miles formerly occupied by the territories of Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Oman, Yemen, Egypt, and Jordan, will reportedly draw over 750,000,000 new borders in what experts claim will help drastically curb sectarian violence.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Next War Is Always ‘Inevitable’
Larry Derfner – The New York Times,
3 Apr 2017
What hardly any Israelis will consider and virtually no influential voices in the West will publicly suggest is that Israel — not Hezbollah in Lebanon, nor Hamas in Gaza, nor the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria — is provoking the next war. Counterintuitive though it may be, Israel, not its militant Islamist or Syrian enemies, is the aggressor in these border wars.
→ read full articleLetter to a Concerned Friend of One of the Many Victims of the Psychiatric and Psychopharmaceutical Industries
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
28 Mar 2017 – I recently had a dialogue with a person who had emailed me about a friend of hers who had been mis-treated for years by drug-prescribing psychiatrists. The psychiatrists – and their alarming and illogical drugging – had made him worse and worse and eventually totally disabled over the years.
→ read full articleAung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar’s Great Hope Fails to Live Up to Expectations
Poppy McPherson – The Guardian,
3 Apr 2017
31 Mar 2017 – It was never meant to be this way. A year after her party swept to power, the Nobel laureate faces questions over her leadership and silence on persecution of Rohingya Muslims.
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U.N. Considers a Historic Ban on Nuclear Weapons: U.S. Leads Boycott
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Mar 30, 2017 – Some 120 countries gathered at the United Nations this week to draft a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. But the United States is leading a boycott of the talks. Meanwhile, more than 2,000 scientists signed an open letter endorsing the talks, and, on Tuesday [28 Mar], Pope Francis encouraged the UN to pursue the “total elimination” of nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleU.S. Military Personnel Deployments by Country
Jeff Desjardins | Visual Capitalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
18 Mar 2017 – The U.S. spends more on defense than the next 7 countries combined. Part of that money goes to supporting 200,000 troops abroad in 177 countries. Look at the charts.
→ read full articleSyria: Armed Conflict Resolution and the Reconstruction of an Inclusive and Just Society
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
On 5 April 2017, the European Union and the United Nations will hold a joint conference on the future of Syria and its region. “Civil Society” is invited to participate, but it is not clear in advance if the Brussels meeting will be a “fundraising” one, in which case most non-governmental organizations (NGO) in consultative status with the UN will have little to contribute, or if there will be wider aims.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Apr 3-9 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “When you don’t get a miracle, you can be a miracle for someone else.” – Nick Vujicić
→ read full articleHow US Flooded the World’s Media with Psyops
Robert Parry - Consortium News,
3 Apr 2017
25 Mar 2017 – Newly declassified documents from the Reagan presidential library help explain how the U.S. government developed its sophisticated psychological operations capabilities that – over the past three decades – have created an alternative reality both for people in targeted countries and for American citizens, a structure that expanded U.S. influence abroad and quieted dissent at home.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Four Tactics for Undermining Glyphosate Science Review
Genna Reed | Union of Concerned Scientists – TRASNCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
30 Mar 2017 – Emails unsealed in a California lawsuit last week reveal that agribusiness giant Monsanto engaged in activities aimed at undermining efforts to evaluate a potential link between glyphosate—the active ingredient of the company’s popular herbicide Roundup—and cancer.
→ read full article(Castellano) ¿Y el Estado? Perú y Ecuador frente a El Niño
Maria Florencia Pagliarone | CELAG Centro Estratégico Latinoamericano de Geopolítica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
20 Mar 2017 – En los últimos días, el fenómeno de El Niño ha desatado su furia contra las costas de Ecuador y Perú. La inclemencia climática definida como un calentamiento de la superficie de las aguas del Pacífico se caracteriza por el ingreso de una masa superficial de aguas cálidas en el mar, lo que genera el aumento de la temperatura de la masa de agua e intensas lluvias.
→ read full articleLet’s Come to Our Senses on Nukes
Kevin Martin | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
So one might reasonably ask the president, who has come to their senses on nukes, and who has not? Let’s cancel the New Nuclear Arms Race, challenge the other nuclear states to do likewise, and join the talks for a treaty to once and for all close the door on the folly of nuclear weaponry.
→ read full articleThe ESCWA Report: Guterres Falls at the First Hurdle
Julie Webb-Pullman – Middle East Monitor,
3 Apr 2017
The resignation of the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Rima Khalaf, under pressure from Guterres to withdraw her agency’s report titled Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid, and the report’s subsequent removal from the website, demand serious world attention, if the UN is to retain any semblance of independence, impartiality and integrity.
→ read full articleSix Months after Hurricane Matthew, Hunger and Desperation Grip Haiti’s South
John Marion | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
1 Apr 2017 – There have been multiple reports of people eating poisonous plants or tree bark just to stave off hunger, and in the city of Jérémie people are still living under tarpaulins after the storm. According to Le Nouvelliste, an elderly couple in the town of Candache hanged themselves because of hunger. On March 22, Food for the Poor found 240 people, including 84 women and 62 children, living in a cave near Jérémie in Grand’Anse.
→ read full article“Putin Is a Killer”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
(Beginning with a line by US fake-news media honcho, Bill O’Reilly)
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Anonymous Brazilian Youth Talent (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Meu Pedacinho do Céu – Homemade Facebook video
→ read full articleThe Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices
David Dayen | The American Prospect – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
How Pharmacy Benefit Managers Morphed from Processors to Predators – Under fire for their many drug-pricing scandals, from Martin Shkreli to Valeant, the pharmaceutical industry has tried to deflect blame by citing PBMs .
→ read full articleWealth of World’s Billionaires Soars amid Stock Market Surge
Shannon Jones | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Combined, the top 10 billionaires on the Forbes list alone took in $558 billion, more than the Gross Domestic Product of Venezuela. Just eight of those billionaires control as much wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population, 3.6 billion people, according to Oxfam. More fundamentally, the increasing concentration of wealth among the world’s richest represents a social retrogression in which society’s resources are being plundered in the name of a mad pursuit of private gain, profits; unjustifiable, pernicious greed.
→ read full articleUS Navy Prepares Decapitating Attack against Russia
Alex Gorka | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
27 Mar 2017 – The US preemptive nuclear strike capability has significantly grown. The Bulletin of American Scientists reports that as a result of improvements in the killing power of US SLBMs, they carry more than three times the number of warheads needed to destroy the entire fleet of Russian land-based missiles.
→ read full articleGermany Converts Coal Mine into Giant Battery Storage for Surplus Solar and Wind Power
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
The Prosper-Haniel coal mine will be converted into a 200 megawatt pumped-storage hydroelectric reservoir that acts like a giant battery. The capacity is enough to power more than 400,000 homes.
→ read full articleVault 7: Marble Framework
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Today, March 31st 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 “Marble” — 676 source code files for the CIA’s secret anti-forensic Marble Framework. Marble is used to hamper forensic investigators and anti-virus companies from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to the CIA.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Starting with EU at 60, making small states (Luxembourg!) big by being members of something bigger, but making bigger, even imperial, states smaller by being “members”… UK outside and France inside are now paying the heavy immigration price for devastation wrought by their empires; with no EU solidarity… Trump is seen as psychotic with crazy policies: military up $54 billion at the expense of the poor, health, environment, climate, arts, culture. The US killings all over were not seen as crazy, but Trump kills at the cost of basics. He may not last 100 days, impeached or-?
→ read full articleWere There Two Buddhas?
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
In the following material, we will look at the evidence that seems to indicate that there was first the Avatara Buddha, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu who appeared near 1800 BCE, and then there was another person who became known as Gautama called Buddha, born around 560 BCE.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Reveals “Marble”: Proof CIA Disguises Their Hacks as Russian, Chinese, Arabic…
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
31 Mar 2017 – WikiLeaks’ latest Vault 7 release contains a batch of documents, named ‘Marble’, which detail CIA hacking tactics and how they can misdirect forensic investigators from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to their agency by inserted code fragments in foreign languages. The biggest malicious hacker on Earth was, and still is, the CIA.
→ read full articleNeo-Feudal Society: Tax Havens for Big Multinationals Is ‘Robbery of Population’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
28 Mar 2017 – It’s alarming big European banks, unlike ordinary people are not paying their fair share of taxes, says Oxfam policy advisor Aurore Chardonnet. Tax dodging is a crime against the people, a robbery of the population, adds business consultant Gerald Celente.
→ read full article(Italiano) Intervista a Murat Cinar in vista dell’incontro di STORIE_Aosta 8 aprile 2017
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
1 Apr 2017 – STORIE, sezione del progetto culturale Collettivamente memoria 2017, presenta, per il quarto incontro, il giornalista, blogger, fotografo (e amico) turco Murat Cinar. In anteprima una breve intervista.
→ read full articleCan Our Social Institutions Catch Up with Advances in Science and Technology?
Lawrence Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
There is a glaring discrepancy between technological advances and the social institutions that can ensure that they are used for the benefit of humanity. The real question is whether people and nations can muster the political will to reshape their behavior and social institutions to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
→ read full articleMaya Angelou (4 Apr 1928 – 28 May 2014): On Identity and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Angelou’s timeless wisdom shines with unparalleled light in a 1977 interview by journalist Judith Rich, in which Angelou explores issues of identity and the meaning of life.
→ read full articleIndia Needs to Move Beyond Hubris
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Sometimes we filter when we listen, having a preconceived notion of the ground realties. In a country as large and diverse as India, it makes sense to connect those who live in similar climates and by tracking the effectiveness of the projects they manage and making appropriate, informed changes to those that aren’t working.
→ read full articleThe Gift of Insults
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
A great Samurai warrior, now old, had decided to teach Zen Buddhism to young people. Despite his age, the legend was that he could defeat any adversary.
→ read full articleExplaining to a Blind Person
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Someone asked Albert Einstein at a party: “Oh, you are Albert Einstein, could you please explain me your relativity theory in three or four sentences?”
→ read full articleSettled Wanderers – The Poetry of Western Sahara
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
This remarkable book is far more than a collection of poetry, little-known in the English-speaking world. It is a concise history and geography of the Saharawi people, the lives of their poets; a glossary and explanation of the unique language of this nation, Hassaniya.
→ read full articleLearning to Be Fascists
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Learning to be fascists, victims, and bystanders (and everything in-between). We learn to love, hate, kill, slaughter, rape, torture, etc. In my view, the Burmese society is undergoing this experience regarding the Rohingya victims of state terror, social ostracism/exclusion and the emerging sadistic culture of those who call themselves “Buddhists”.
→ read full articleArgentina Set to Drop US$2 Billion for Largest Weapons Acquisition since Malvinas War
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
28 Mar 2017 – [Rightwing] Argentinean President Mauricio Macri is poised to dole out US$2 billion in large military equipment from the United States in what will be the biggest weapons acquisition since the country’s Malvinas War in the 1980s.
→ read full articleHow Many Civilians Can We Kill?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
As Barbara Ehrenreich writes in her book, Blood Rites, “War has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions, rather than to just a handful of craftsmen and professional soldiers. It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures.”
→ read full articleUS Senate Votes to Let Internet Providers Share Your Web Browsing History without Permission
Jacob Kastrenakes | The Verge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
23 Mar 2017 – The US Senate has voted to overturn consumer-friendly internet privacy rules that would have prevented internet providers from sharing your web browsing history without permission. Altogether, it’s just pure bad news for consumers, whose private data is about to be open for sale again.
→ read full articleSecret Companies Allow Corrupt Cash to Flood Key Real Estate Markets
IPS World Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
30 Mar 2017 – The governments of Australia, Canada, UK and USA need to close legal loopholes to prevent the corrupt elite from laundering the proceeds of grand corruption in their local real estate markets, the Berlin-based Transparency International said on March 29 in a new report, Doors Wide Open: Corruption and Real Estate in Key Markets.
→ read full article(Français) Lettre de démission de Rima Khalaf, secrétaire exécutive de l’ESCWA (commission économique et sociale pour l’Asie de l’Ouest)
Rima Khalaf | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Lettre de démission de la secrétaire exécutive de l’ESCWA (commission économique et sociale pour l’Asie occidentale) Rima Khalaf, en réponse à la demande formelle du secrétaire général des Nations Unies pour que l’ESCWA retire la publication d’un rapport qui affirme que l’Etat d’Israël a mis en place une situation d’apartheid.
→ read full articleVincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. After having been physically and psychologically unstable, he cut off his ear and offered it to a prostitute.
→ read full articleIs Israel an Apartheid State?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
This post was originally published on March 22, 2017 by The Nation under the title “The Inside Story of Our UN Report Calling Israel an Apartheid State.” What is below is somewhat modified.
→ read full articleGenocides Have No Winners
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Genocides are what students of politics call ‘path-dependent’. Once a genocidal process is set in motion it is hard to recall. All genocides end in tears and destroy humanness in all involved in it, as perpetrators, on-lookers, whitewashers, collaborators, and victims.”
→ read full articleThe Multibillion-Dollar U.S. Spy Agency You Haven’t Heard of
James Bamford - Foreign Policy Magazine,
27 Mar 2017
On a heavily protected military base some 15 miles south of Washington, D.C., sits the massive headquarters of a spy agency few know exists. Even Barack Obama, five months into his presidency, seemed not to have recognized its name.
→ read full articleCambodia Rejects US War Debt, Slams US Imperial Brutality
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 – Following the United States’ renewed insistence that Cambodia pay back its alleged “war debts,” fury across Cambodia has been widespread. “We should raise our voices to talk about the issue of the country that has invaded other (countries) and has killed children,” said Cambodia’s prime minister. $38 Billion for Israel, but not $274 Million for Cambodia.
→ read full articleChina’s Great Leap Forward: Western Frogs Croak Dismay
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – From their dismal swamps, US academic and financial journal editorialists, the mass media and contemporary ‘Asia experts’, Western progressive and conservative politicians croak in unison about China’s environmental and impending collapse.
→ read full article(Castellano) Una ética para la Madre Tierra
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
14 mar 2017 – Hoy es un hecho científicamente reconocido que los cambios climáticos, cuya expresión mayor es el calentamiento global son de naturaleza antropogénica, con un grado de seguridad del 95%. Es decir, tienen su génesis en un tipo de comportamiento humano violento con la naturaleza.
→ read full article(Português) Pela 1ª vez desde 2004, Brasil fica estagnado no Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano da ONU
Martha Beck – O Globo,
27 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017- Pela primeira vez desde 2004, o Brasil estacionou no ranking do desenvolvimento humano. A maior recessão da história, em 2015, fez a renda da população despencar e freou o avanço constante que se observava no IDH, calculado pelas Nações Unidas desde 1990.
→ read full articleThese Two Rivers Were Just Given the Same Legal Rights as Humans in India
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
The High Court of the Indian state of Uttarakhand ruled that the Ganges and Yamuna rivers and their tributaries are “legal and living entities having the status of a legal person with all corresponding rights, duties and liabilities.” The judges noted that the once-mighty rivers are “losing their very existence.” The decision marks the first time a court has recognized a non-human as a living entity in India.
→ read full articleDon’t Understand Clouds? But You Should!
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
27 Mar 2017
Today scientists understand that clouds play a vital role in regulating the Earth’s energy balance, climate and weather, says the UN World Meteorological Organization.
→ read full articleAfter Creating Haiti’s Cholera Crisis, UN Can Barely Fight It
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
20 Mar 2017 – It was seven years ago when the outbreak first began. Haiti’s cholera outbreak has ravaged hundreds of thousands of lives — killing nearly 10,000 and sickening nearly 800,000 more. After years of dodging responsibility, the U.N. is now struggling to help fight the health scourge it created.
→ read full articleThe F.B.I. Is Investigating Trump’s Ties to Russia
Patrick Chappatte – The New York Times,
27 Mar 2017
James B. Comey, the head of the F.B.I., confirmed.
→ read full article“Total War:” Weaponizing and Exporting USA Popular Culture
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
The power of USA popular culture is vast and complex. It has been exported to virtually all nations. It is a “war-like” invasion and occupation of a way-of-life, displacing and overwhelming existing cultural values and practices. Even as the USA is subject to increasing criticism for its abusive and intrusive actions in the culture’s of other nations, USA leaders appear reluctant to accept criticism.
→ read full articleClimate Breaks All Records: Hottest Year, Lowest Ice, Highest Sea Level
IPS World Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – Climate has, once more, broken all records, with the year 2016 making history-highest-ever global temperature, exceptionally low sea ice, unabated sea level rise and ocean heat. And what is an even worse– extreme and unusual trends continue in 2017.
→ read full articleTrump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought
Henry A. Giroux | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt
Powerful Resignation Letter by UN’s Rima Khalaf about Removal of Israel Apartheid Report
If Americans Knew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
The following is the resignation letter by ESWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf in response to the formal request by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that ESCWA withdraw the publication of a scholarly report (below) that found Israel guilty of apartheid.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Mar 27-Apr 2 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Gratitude makes our sense of past, brings peace for today, creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie
→ read full article(Italiano) En attendant Adelmo(t). Lunedì 27 marzo 2017 all’Espace Populaire di Aosta
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Storie, sezione new entry di Collettivamente Memoria 2017, è nato come un autoregalo e una festa, insieme. Per festeggiare la decima edizione di un progetto culturale autoprodotto, autogestito e autofinanziato di azione nonviolenta.
→ read full articleThe Promise of a Million Utopias
Michael Shuman | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Here is a fun question guaranteed to stump your friends, family, and party guests: Can you name the leader of Switzerland? Trust me—no one ever knows the answer. And the reason is simple. It hardly matters. Switzerland is arguably the most decentralized nation in the world. Each of its twenty-six states, called cantons, retains a high degree of autonomy for governing its own affairs, including the official language spoken.
→ read full articleThe True Legacy of David Rockefeller
MintPress News Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
No one person encapsulates the enduring legacy of the “robber barons” of the Industrial Age quite like David Rockefeller, who died today [21 Mar] at the age of 101. While often remembered for his philanthropy, the last surviving grandson of America’s first billionaire leaves behind a dark legacy indicative of how American nobility often shape policy from behind the scenes.
→ read full articleFrom Democracy to Fascism!
James ‘Jim’ Albertini | Malu‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Measure the path from Democracy to Despotism/Fascism yourself. The gap between rich and poor has widened dramatically. Banks “too big to fail” have grown bigger. Power, wealth, and media are concentrated in the hands of a few. The democratic term “consent of the governed” is mere window dressing. We all need to look at our communities and nation and see how we fare on the scales of respect for one another, concentration of power, economic distribution, and access to information. Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini said: “Fascism is when the corporations and the State become one.”
→ read full articleWhat Did the UN Apartheid Report Expose in Reality?
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
27 Mar 2017
As Israel moves towards confronting apartheid, the questions raised by the report will become impossible to avoid.
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TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Bells ringing all over the place…
→ read full articleThe Mosque That Disappeared
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
22 Mar 2017 – We committed a quiet little war crime the other day. Forty-plus people are dead, taken out with Hellfire missiles while they were praying. Or maybe not. Maybe they were just insurgents. The women and children, if there were any, were . . . come on, you know the lingo, collateral damage. The Pentagon is going to “look into” allegations that what happened last March 16 in Syria was something more serious than a terrorist takeout operation, which, if you read the official commentary, seems like the geopolitical equivalent of rodent control.
→ read full articleSouth Sudan, Haiti and Ukraine Lead World in Suffering
Linda Lyons | Gallup – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
• 47% in South Sudan rate their lives poorly enough to be suffering
• Poverty, natural disasters prolong pain in Haiti, where 43% suffering
• 41% suffering in Ukraine is highest in Europe
The Politics of Water Insecurity
Majed Akhter – Al Jazeera,
27 Mar 2017
This 22 March 2017, World Water Day, we focus attention on global issues of water access. The statistics are not comforting. The poorest ninth of us – about 800 million people – do not have reliable access to clean drinking water. To achieve universal water security, we need to let politics and culture drive water planning as much as economy does.
→ read full articleMainstreaming South-South Cooperation in the UN System
Ramesh Jaura | IDN – Other News,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – How is the UN Office for South Cooperation, as the global and United Nations system-wide focal point for South-South cooperation, engaging in advocacy, policy development, knowledge sharing and innovative programmatic activities? Interview with Jorge Chediek, Director of the UNOSSC.
→ read full articleThe U.N. Has Agreed to Investigate Myanmar’s Alleged Abuse of Rohingya
Feliz Solomon – Time,
27 Mar 2017
The U.N. Human Rights Council agreed Friday [24 Mar 2017] to create an international fact-finding mission into alleged rights violations in Myanmar, particularly against the country’s Rohingya Muslims, a stateless minority that has suffered decades of persecution in the western state of Rakhine.
→ read full articleMeet the Militant Monk Spreading Islamophobia in India
Nilanjana Bhowmick – The Washington Post,
27 Mar 2017
On Monday [20 Mar], Amnesty International released an unusual statement asking the new chief minister of India’s largest state to publicly retract his anti-Muslim statements. Amnesty’s statement came after hard-line Hindu monk Yogi Adityanath took power last week in Uttar Pradesh, a state with a population of 200 million. (For reference, Brazil’s population is 200.4 million).
→ read full articleNOW Can We Admit the War On Terror Has Failed?
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
22 Mar 2017 – In the wake of the terror attacks in England, France, Germany and elsewhere, can we finally admit that the war on terror is an utter and complete failure? 10 Ways to Reduce Terrorism:
→ read full articleThe Most Expensive Weapon Ever Built
Daniel Soar | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
The US is expected to have spent $1.5 trillion designing, building and maintaining 2500 F-35s for its own use: enough to forgive the entire nation’s student debts, or pay for the healthcare of every low-income American family for the next three years, or build a border wall that encircles the Earth four times.
→ read full articleSnow, Death, and the Bewildered Herd
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Wherever you go these days, you sense a generalized panic and an inability to slow down and focus. Depression, anxiety, hopelessness fill the air. Most people sense that something is seriously wrong, but don’t know exactly what. So they rage and rant and scurry along in a frenzy. It seems so huge, so everything, so indescribable. Minds like pointilliste canvases with thousands of data dots and no connections.
→ read full articleGandhi’s Strategy for Success — Use More Than One Strategy
Mark Engler and Paul Engler | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
How creating a healthy “ecology of change,” as Gandhi did in India, can help propel social movements.
→ read full articleSenate Republicans Just Sold You Out to Advertisers
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – In a 50-to-48 vote the U.S. Senate decided to kill FCC rules blocking your ISP from selling your browsing history to the advertising industry without permission. The likes of Comcast and Verizon will be able to make money disclosing what you buy, where you browse, and what you search from your own home.
→ read full articleLynne Stewart, Our Lady Mandela
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Author’s note: An earlier version of this poem appeared at various websites in December, 2013. Some notes on Lynne Stewart below….
→ read full articleApartheid Israel
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
In its conclusion, the Falk-Tilley report establishes, “on the basis of scholarly inquiry and overwhelming evidence that Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid.” It then proposes that an international tribunal examine the report and make an assessment that will be truly authoritative. If such an authoritative assessment concurs with the finding of the report, the UN and its agencies, regional outfits and national governments should act.
→ read full articleWar Correspondents Describe Recent U.S. Airstrikes in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen
Malak Habbak – The Intercept,
27 Mar 2017
22 Mar 2017 – Sentiment in Washington may not reflect that the U.S. is at war, but two war correspondents described the astonishing extent and toll of recent U.S. military strikes in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
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Vincent – Starry Starry Night (Music Video of the Week)
Don McLean – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
The video depicts a slide-show of van Gogh’s work set to the song. It is an art lesson for the patients of the Mississippi State Hospital compiled by artist Anthony DiFatta who also suffers from mental illness. With this beautiful song, Don McLean pays a tribute to the marvel and wonder Vincent [born 30 Mar 1853] left behind, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color – a contradiction to his troubled existence.
→ read full articleViktor Frankl (26 Mar 1905 – 2 Sep 1997): An Inner Drive to Find a Meaning for Life
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Viktor Frankl was a leading psychotherapist in the humanistic psychotherapy school. On being released from Auschwitz death camp, he wrote in a burst of energy in nine days what became ‘Man’s Search for Meaning,’ since often translated. He remains as one who stressed the inner push to find a meaning of life and a spiritual core expressed by the voice of conscience.
→ read full articleWhere We Drill, We Spill: Commemorating Exxon Valdez
Franz Matzner | EcoWatch, Natural Resources Defense Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
24 Mar 2017 – Twenty eight years ago today the world experienced a massive wake-up call on the hazards and harms of oil spills when the Exxon Valdez oil tanker split open and poured oil into Alaskan waters. At the time, images of oil coated wildlife and a devastated ecosystem in one of the world’s most delicate, iconic and majestic environments drew global attention. Today, oil still lurks under the surface of Prince William Sound, impairing wildlife and human lives.
→ read full articleGenocide 1971: Bangladeshi Government Moves to Get UN Recognition
Inam Ahmed and Shakhawat Liton – The Daily Star [Bangladesh],
27 Mar 2017
The world hardly paid heed to the ruthless killings going on in Bangladesh in those long nine months. The tales of the macabre were told and retold by countless many here. And yet, the world did not have time to listen. Forty-six years after the bloodbath that hardly left any family untouched, Bangladesh has finally taken initiatives to get recognition of the Pakistan army led genocide by the UN.
→ read full articleUN Official Says ‘Crimes against Humanity’ Could Be Unfolding in Myanmar
James Griffiths and Kristie Lu Stout - CNN,
27 Mar 2017
• Thousands have fled northern Myanmar in recent months
• The military launched a crackdown in Rakhine State after October attacks by militants
(Português) Sobre críticas equivocadas em relação ao veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Se você diz que já foi vegano e hoje se alimenta de produtos de origem animal, não nego que acho isso muito estranho, levando em conta que a maior parte dos veganos que conheço seriam incapazes de consumir carne novamente, por entenderem que se trata do cadáver de um animal que foi privado de existir à sua maneira. Tenho o claro entendimento de que um animal não existe para ser fatiado e colocado em meu prato.
→ read full articleConflict: Causes, Impacts and Post-Conflict Reconciliation in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota and Navin Pandey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
In a country comprising more than one hundred ethic groups with entwining cast and creeds and similarly large number of minorities, a diversity so unique in richness but equally difficult to manage, there still persist various types of conflict in different intersections. These minor conflicts and wants hinder the peace process and overall development of the country.
→ read full articleReports Expose Widespread Use of Child Labor in the Congo
Eddie Haywood | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Sky News aired an investigative report centered on the utilization of child labor in cobalt mines. A child named Dorsen, aged 8, told he does not make enough money to buy food, and had not eaten in two days, despite toiling for 12 hours per day. His friend Richard, aged 11, said how sore he got from the intense physical labor he was forced to undertake in the mine.
→ read full articleResponding to US Budget Cuts for United Nations
Kul Chandra Gautam – Inter Press Service-IPS,
27 Mar 2017
20 Mar 2017 – Donald Trump’s budget proposing a drastic reduction in US funding for the UN has caused much alarm and anxiety. But instead of lamenting and pleading for restitution of proposed cuts, friends of UN should welcome it as a strong incentive for seriously reducing the UN’s over dependence and vulnerability to blackmail by US and occasionally by some other donors.
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