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Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Born in Germany, Albert Einstein grew up in a secular, middle-class Jewish family. He developed the special and general theories of relativity and in 1921 won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
→ read full articleUS-Russian Space Cooperation: A Model for Nuclear Security
Simon Saradzhyan and William Tobey | Bulleting of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Steps Washington and Moscow took to transform their space rivalry into cooperation can serve as a model for working together to help prevent nuclear terrorism.
→ read full articleWomen’s Day and Local Events in India
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
The Women’s Day was celebrated on 8 March with the usual enthusiasm by wishing Good Wishes and sending endearing messages for the welfare and emancipation of women all over the world.
→ read full articleDemilitarizing
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
There are about 30 countries without a military in the world, most of them small, but they are doing well.
→ read full articleQuestionnaire
Wendell Berry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.
Reflections of My Life (Music Video of the Week)
The Marmalade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Reflections of My Life was recorded in London in October 1969. With hypnotic music and lyrics, what a monumental ballad it was and still is! Enjoy.
→ read full articleOur Sons-of-Bitches: Western Media and the Syrian “Rebels”
Ricardo Vaz | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
“He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he’s our son-of-a-bitch,” U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt once said about Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. We examine how the western media, always so full of editorials and columns praising western values (whatever those may be), have covered the Syrian opposition, focusing on three groups in particular.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Reveals Vast CIA Spying, Cyberwar Operation
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Amid Democrats’ claims of Russian hacking in support of Trump and Trump’s charge that he was bugged by Obama, WikiLeaks has revealed a vast CIA operation directed against the people of the US and the world.
→ read full articlePeaceful Protest as True Nationalism
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
By 1917, a hundred years ago, millions of men had already been killed in war-torn Europe, and hundreds of French villages and towns destroyed. When the war ended in November 1918, the Allies were almost on the point of surrendering but Germany succumbed first. Field-Marshall Foch called the Treaty of Versailles an ‘armistice,’ and so it proved, for another global war came within twenty years claiming several million more lives.
→ read full articleMusic and Politics: How Much Will It Matter Again?
Daniel Martin - CounterPunch,
13 Mar 2017
Back when I was in college, rock and roll historian Barry Drake came and gave a lecture titled “60’s Rock”, When the Music Mattered”. At least here in the United States, these were years of great unrest on a societal and political level. Whether it was the civil rights movement, the assassination of our greatest leaders, or the Vietnam War and its protests, these events were accompanied by and often directly interwoven with the music of the time. And heck, the decade gave us the Beatles and Motown, and birthed the sounds we currently consider “classic rock”, as well as other innovations.
→ read full articleLynne Stewart, Lifelong Fighter and People’s Lawyer, Dies
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Lynne Stewart, originally sentenced to 28 months in prison, was resentenced on July 10, 2010, to 10 years but continued to fight a government frame-up. After suffering a major stroke on March 1, she died Tuesday [7 Mar] evening at home, after being granted a compassionate release from prison three years ago due to fourth-stage breast cancer.
→ read full articleThe United States and the Russian Devil: 1917-2017
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #149 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
The transition of power to Vladimir Putin in the 21st century led to a number of reforms that curbed the disastrous looting of the nation by the oligarchic bandits. Putin and his allies vowed to build an independent, capitalist Russia that was capable of determining its own affairs free from US and Western domination. Such an orientation placed Putin in direct confrontation with US imperialism’s plans for unipolar global hegemony.
→ read full articleScience & Scientists
Richtennant – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
What is the Matter?
→ read full articleHow Anti-Vietnam War Activists Stopped Violent Protest from Hijacking Their Movement
Robert Levering | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
The tactics of isolation that kept groups like the Weathermen away from peaceful protests may help today’s activists struggling with Black Bloc disruptions.
→ read full articleTowards Gender Liberation
Cecilia Gingerich | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Asking whether we might be at the beginning of an emergent “Fourth Wave” of feminism synthesizing important elements from previous waves, the paper critically examines both existing visions for an alternative political economy and some of the steps that have been taken towards them. It calls for further work to clarify the transitional steps, models, and policies we need to adopt in order to begin moving towards a better system of gender relations in the hope of inspiring the development of still more developed visions and pathways to change.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Mar 13-19 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
→ read full articleExit through the Checkpoint: Inside Banksy’s New Bethlehem Hotel
Haggai Matar | +972 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Every room overlooks the West Bank separation wall, the lobby features a Greek statue choking on teargas, and faux-security cameras dot the corridors. Welcome to “The Walled Off Hotel,” the new Bethlehem-based project from British street artist and enfant terrible Banksy.
→ read full articleALBA Summit Begins, Honors Hugo Chavez’s Revolutionary Legacy
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
5 Mar 2017 – On the four-year death anniversary of “El Commandante” Chavez, ALBA leaders sung high praises for their former comrade ahead of the 14th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Trade Treaty of the Peoples, also known as ALBA-TCP.
→ read full articleWe’re Trashing the Arctic. Literally.
John Metcalfe – Mother Jones,
13 Mar 2017
Humanity’s trash has near-universal dominion in the ocean. It swirls in the waves in immense “garbage pathces,” drifts downward where it’s eaten by whales and turtles, and lands on the deepest sea floor to make it look like a landfill exploded on the moon. Check out the world’s coldest garbage pile.
→ read full articleEast Africa Food Crisis Indicates Urgent Need for a World Food Policy
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
2 Mar 2017 – The UN Food and Agriculture Organization in a 22 Feb 2017 alert has indicated that the States of East Africa – Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan – face famine conditions and that some 20 million people are at grave risk. The most in danger are the people in Somalia and South Sudan where armed violence has destroyed all government infrastructures and thus the possibility of government action. All that remains for action in these two countries are UN staff and NGOs.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi and the World of Buddhist Islamophobia
Maung Zarni – Al Jazeera,
13 Mar 2017
Myanmar’s Muslim minority, demonised and persecuted for decades, is facing a fresh wave of violence amid media silence. “Suu Kyi’s denial of what Human Rights Watch has called “ethnic cleansing” and “crimes against humanity” deserves international scrutiny,” writes Maung Zarni.
→ read full articleWhy Everyone but NATO Live Happily with Russia
Jonathan Power | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Jonathan Power turns around the perspective – something seldom done in Western debate: What’s the reason that NATO is the only one around the world that has a negative relation to Russia today? And insists on having it? Trump proposes a huge increase in military spending but the U.S. already spends more than the next seven biggest spenders combined, China and Russia included!
→ read full articleThe Delusion of Microfinance
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
8 Mar 2017 – When microfinance–providing small loans and other financial services to poor people, primarily women–made its first appearance, everyone was infatuated by its narrative: Those on the left loved its stories of transformed women and direct empowerment of the poor. Those on the right loved how it promoted grass-roots capitalism, fostered a culture of entrepreneurship, and all this by doing away subsidies.
→ read full articleA Nuclear Weapons Ban Should First Do No Harm to the NPT
Adam Mount and Richard Nephew | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Simple additions to the text of a new ban treaty would keep it from being used as a cover for non-compliance with the existing non-proliferation regime.
→ read full article8 March: Start of the Russian Revolution and International Women’s Day
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
8 March, International Women’s Day, was also the start of the Russian Revolution, which ended the rule of the Tsar. IWD had been first proposed by Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen in 1911, and the idea spread quickly. By 1917, the idea of a day calling for the equality of women within a more just society was well developed among women in Petrograd [St. Petersburg].
→ read full article(Italiano) Storia: Epoche o Andamenti – La Spagna Medievale
Johan Galtung – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
La storia si dispiega sul tempo o nel tempo, la variabile fondamentale, l’asse delle X. Gli eventi sono punti. Gli andamenti sono curve di forme diverse, non necessariamente continue, possono anche essere ‘intermittenti’. E gli stati permanenti sono linee orizzontali fissate a un determinato valore. Punti, curve, linee; con i libri a indicare relazioni altamente complesse di antefatto-fatto-effetto.
→ read full article(Italiano) Pace fra Cina e Giappone
Johan Galtung – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Tema base: Nuova visione di pace in Est-Asia – Dialogo di pace Sino-Giapponese. Nanjing, 22-23 Feb 2017 ~ Come insegna la filosofia buddhista, la pace, come la violenza e il conflitto, è una relazione; non un attributo della Cina o del Giappone. Come insegna la filosofia taoista, in un holon [=insieme, ndt] come l’Est-Asia ci sono forze e controforze, yin/yang, con yin e yang in entrambi [gli opposti], & così via.
→ read full article(Italiano) Da Trump a Gandhi. Conversando con Johan Galtung
Gary Corseri | Dialoghi Mediterranei – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Un uomo che ha pubblicato più di centocinquanta libri e millecinque- cento articoli sulla pace e su argomenti correlati; il fondatore di Trascend International: una rete di pace, sviluppo e ambiente; un uomo che ha lavorato come mediatore con le Nazioni Unite e con diverse nazioni in conflitto intorno al mondo, necessiterebbe di una non piccola presentazione…
→ read full articleTrump, Putin, and the New Cold War
Evan Osnos, David Remnick and Joshua Yaffa – The New Yorker,
6 Mar 2017
What lay behind Russia’s interference in the 2016 election—and what lies ahead?
→ read full article‘Worst View in the World’: Banksy Opens Hotel Overlooking Bethlehem Wall
Emma Graham-Harrison – The Guardian,
6 Mar 2017
British artist launches Walled Off hotel in hope of bringing Israeli tourists–and dialogue–to West Bank city. The Walled Off hotel may sound utilitarian, even bleak. Its owner says it has “the worst view of any hotel in the world”, while its 10 rooms get just 25 minutes of direct sunlight a day.
→ read full article(Castellano) México lindo y querido
Graziella Pogolotti | Granma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Los latinoamericanos de buena ley no podemos dejar de sentir, como bofetada en la mejilla propia, la subestimación racista de quienes levantan muros en la larguísima frontera que separa a México de su vecino del norte, que califica de delincuentes y parásitos sociales a los representantes de un pueblo que ha sido llevado por la miseria a recoger frutas en California y contribuye a hacer la riqueza de quienes los desprecian.
→ read full article(Français) Quand la France colonisait le Maroc par la dette
Adam Barbe | OrientXXI ~ Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Le rôle de la dette dans l’établissement du protectorat français au Maroc n’est plus à démontrer. Guy de Maupassant y fait même allusion vingt ans plus tôt dans son roman Bel-Ami (1885) ! Du milieu du XIXe siècle à 1912, le Maroc affronte en effet des difficultés financières croissantes. L’engrenage infernal de la dette qui lui fut fatal ne commence toutefois qu’au début du XXe siècle, avec l’emprunt de 1904.
→ read full article(Português) Consumo de Ritalina, o “comprimido da inteligência,” aumentou mais de 77% em quatro anos
Jornal Económico [Portugal] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Especialistas preocupados com as consequências para a saúde pública da medicação que combate défice de atenção. A banalização do uso de metilfenidato, indicado para tratamento de problemas de concentração, hiperactividade e deficit de atenção infantil, está a preocupar psiquiatras e psicólogos.
→ read full articleThe Dangers of the New Child Marriage Law in Bangladesh
Soumya Guha – Al Jazeera,
6 Mar 2017
This law has unimaginable impact and has the ability to change the future of millions of girls in our country.
→ read full articleThe Resurrection of Armageddon
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
This is the extreme risk to which the insane neoconservatives, the idiot liberal-progressive-left, the greedy military/security complex, and the aggressive generals have exposed life on earth. And the few voices warning of the risk are dismissed as “Russian agents.”
→ read full articleThe Predatory Presidency
Roy Eidelson – Common Dreams,
6 Mar 2017
Recent executive orders reveal the Trump White House as a ruthless predator set to prey upon the most vulnerable among us. In nature, potential prey instinctually use a wide range of strategies to ward off attacks—from camouflage to traveling in groups to alarm signals to communal defense based on strength in numbers—and they rarely succumb without a fight. Surely we must be prepared to do the same.
→ read full articleThe Cowardice of [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi
David Hutt – The Diplomat,
6 Mar 2017
1 Mar 2017 – The life of a politician is made infinitely easier when, as the saying goes, their actions are judged by their reputation, and not the other way around. Such a phrase is befitting of Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whom the media can describe with a number of glowing phrases: Nobel Peace Prize laureate, democracy icon, human rights defender, champion of the Myanmar people. But is The Lady still a champion of rights and democracy?
→ read full articleDalai Lama Adds Voice to Pope’s in Calling for the Persecution of Rohingya to End
Lindsay Murdoch | People’s Tribunal on Myanmar – The Sydney Morning Herald,
6 Mar 2017
3 Mar 2017 – The Dalai Lama has joined Pope Francis in calling for Myanmar Buddhists to end violence against Rohingya Muslims in what the United Nations says amounts to ethnic cleansing and possibly crimes against humanity.
→ read full article(Português) Há quem não goste de saber sobre a realidade da exploração animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Há muitas pessoas que evitam confrontar esse tipo de realidade porque sabem que isso pode tirá-las da zona de conforto. Têm receio de sentirem-se péssimas e culpadas. Esse apontamento não é feito por ninguém, a não ser por quem se lança nesse tipo de experiência.
→ read full articleRole of Mass Demonstrations in History
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
I am reminded of mass demonstrations which I have experienced over the years in the United States: the gathering for civil rights at the Washington Monument in 1963 when Martin Luther King made his great speech “I have a dream!”; the mobilization of one million people for a nuclear test ban in New York’s Central Park in 1982; and the mobilizations in 2003 against the American invasion of Iraq which involved millions of people around the world.
→ read full articleHow U.S. Missile Defense Destabilizes the World
William Griffin | Zoom in Korea – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
23 Feb 2017 – Contrary to defense industry claims, missile defense does not make the world a safer place but rather destabilizes it, warned Dr. Jae-jung Suh and Ray McGovern during a recent online webinar. Tracing the history of North Korea’s responses to U.S. actions since 1994 provides useful instruction on how to move forward. Each time the U.S. was willing to engage in discussion, North Korea responded with freezing its nuclear program and even disabled it for a time. But every time the U.S. intensified military pressure, North Korea re-ignited its nuclear program.
→ read full articleChina’s Strategy in Its ‘War on Terror’: Jobs Not Drones
Caleb T. Maupin – MintPress News,
6 Mar 2017
The Chinese government is employing a unique strategy to reduce the threat of terrorism in its historically unstable Tibet and Xinjiang autonomous regions. By providing new jobs and better housing, the government has managed to quell the threat of separatism.
→ read full articleAlice bin Wonderland
Evelyn Voigt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Or, The Mad Hatters Boston Tea Party with Special Guests
→ read full articleThe Cannons of Napoleon
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Napoleon came to a German town and was not welcomed with the traditional artillery salute. Furious, he summoned the mayor and demanded an explanation. The German produced a long scroll of paper and said: “I have a list of 99 reasons. Reason No. 1: we have no cannon.” “That’s enough'” Napoleon interrupted him, “You can go home!” I was reminded of this story some two weeks ago, when I read Yitzhak Herzog’s 10-point peace plan.
→ read full article‘White Helmets’ — Pawns for U.S. Militarism
Sara Flounders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
1 Mar 2017 – No Surprise! The White Helmets won an Oscar Award for best documentary short feature. The much-hyped White Helmets is not a Syrian organization, nor was it created by Syrians, nor is it educational. It is a U.S.-British creation. Former British Army officer James Le Mesurier, self-described as a British “security” specialist, founded it. He previously worked for Blackwater, the mercenary organization universally condemned for its murderous brutality in Iraq.
→ read full articleGerman Newspaper Publishes Fraudulent Refugee “Sex-Mob” Report
Marianne Arens | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
1 Mar 2017 – On February 6 in its Frankfurt local edition, the Bild newspaper ran an article with the headline “37 days after New Year, victims break their silence. Sex-mob raged in the Fressgass”—a popular city boulevard in the city. The news spread quickly but proved to be a pack of lies.
→ read full articleWhile Our Attention Is Elsewhere, Climate Change Worsens
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Sevice,
6 Mar 2017
The news of actual events—hurricanes, floods, drought, sharp temperature changes, and other distortions in weather patterns in the US and around the world—typically are being crowded out by Trump’s tantrums, fake news, and conflicts of interest. For the strong of heart, here are some important developments affecting climate change over the past several months that you may have missed.
→ read full articleEU Parliament Imposes Visas for US Citizens Visiting Europe
Laura Smith-Spark - CNN,
6 Mar 2017
4 Mar 2017 – Members of the European Parliament have called for the European Commission to impose visas on US citizens visiting Europe amid an ongoing dispute over visa restrictions against five EU nations. The resolution, approved by MEPs Thursday [2 Mar], urges the Commission to adopt the necessary legal measures “within two months.”
→ read full articleNo Joke…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
When it hits the fan…
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Western Media Lies about Syria
Eva Bartlett - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Press Conference at the United Nations by Independent Canadian Journalist Eva Bartlett
→ read full articleIndia’s New Push to Digital Financial Transition
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Access to the right financial tools at critical moments can determine whether a poor household is able to capture an opportunity to move out of poverty or absorb a shock without being pushed deeper into debt. However, the existing “bricks and mortar” banking system doesn’t work for poor people, in part because most of their transactions are conducted in cash. Handling cash transactions is costly for banks, utilities companies, and other institutions, which pass along the costs associated with storing, transporting, and processing cash to their customers.
→ read full articleIsrael Orders Demolition of Palestinian Village in West Bank
Doug G. Ware | UPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
22 Feb 2017 – Israel’s government this week issued demolition orders for a Palestinian encampment near Jerusalem, giving residents just a few days to evacuate their homes. Tel Aviv decided to finally move on the long-sought land after years of holding back, due mainly to international pressure.
→ read full articleEnd of Mission Statement by Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights– TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Yet in spite of what they experienced, over and again I heard that what they want is to be accepted as Rohingya, to be able to go back to their home country, to be treated equally, to be treated as human beings. There are some who said they want justice, and when I probed what they meant by justice, most said they want their homes returned to them and to be able to live in peace. One said, “I want justice for those who were murdered and raped; I want those who murdered and raped brought to justice.”
→ read full article(Português) “Falar bem do outro é mais difícil, nós gostamos mesmo é de odiar”
Leandro Karnal | Raízes Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
“Falar bem do outro é mais difícil, nós gostamos mesmo é de odiar. Amar é um pouquinho mais complicado. A espécie humana não pára o carro para ver uma árvore florida, mas sim para ver um acidente.
→ read full articleWill Trump’s America Make the World Safer or More Dangerous?
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Donald Trump’s speech to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday February 28th certainly had a different tone from his usual, irascible midnight tweets. Some of the speech sounded quite similar to speeches given by previous presidents. Some of it was even boring (which is rare for Trump: he may be a horrible misogynist, but he is seldom boring).
→ read full articleThe Economy for the Common Good
Christian Felber and Gus Hagelberg | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
An economic model that aims to establish an “ethical market economy.” By focusing on increasing the quality of life for everyone, promoting values such as human dignity and rights, ecological responsibility, and ensuring social justice, the economy can be finally controlled by the citizens to serve the public good. But the ECG is not only limited to the economic system. To fully achieve it major changes are required in institutions and practices across all areas of life.
→ read full articleThe Future of Fake News? ‘Refugee Crime’ in Germany
Abigail Fielding-Smith and Crofton Black – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
6 Mar 2017
A misleading map of ‘refugee crime’ in Germany distorts reality in a slick and sophisticated way.
→ read full articleIncrease in Arms Transfers Driven by Demand in the Middle East and Asia
SIPRI-Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
The flow of arms increased to Asia and Oceania and the Middle East between 2007–11 and 2012–16, while there was a decrease in the flow to Europe, the Americas and Africa. The five biggest exporters—the United States, Russia, China, France and Germany—together accounted for 74 per cent of the total volume of arms exports.
→ read full articleRobert Muller (11 Mar 1923 – 20 Sep 2010): Crossing Frontiers for Reconciliation
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Robert Muller, whose birth anniversary we mark on 11 March, was the former Assistant Secretary-General for Economic and Social Service of the United Nations, and, after his retirement, he served as Honorary President of the Association of World Citizens.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Mar 6-12 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
→ read full articleThe Binary Code of Body and Spirit: Computing Pioneer Alan Turing on Mortality
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
“The body provides something for the spirit to look after and use.” Turing’s decryption of Nazi communication code is estimated to have shortened WWII by two to four years, consequently saving anywhere between 14 and 21 million lives. But despite his wartime heroism, Turing was driven to suicide after being chemically castrated by the U.K. government for being homosexual. More than half a century after his disquieting death, Queen Elizabeth II issued royal pardon — a formal posthumous apology that somehow only amplifies the tragedy of Turing’s life and death.
→ read full articleThe Role of Biodiversity Scientists in a Troubled World
Arturo Gómez-Pompa | American Institute of Biological Sciences, Oxford University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
As a society, we are torn apart by conflicting views on issues of enormous importance. In the debate on many of these issues, both sides have persuasive arguments for their position. I hear convincing views from opposite extremes: pro-war or antiwar, pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian, pro-GMO or anti-GMO, pro-life or pro-choice, pro-bioprospecting or anti-bioprospecting. I feel the anguish of having to take sides on issues I do not know well and whose reconciliation seems impossible.
→ read full articleIndia Needs to Say No to Nuclear Power, Says Greenpeace
Times Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
21 Feb 2017 – India needs to “re-think” its energy policies and say no to nuclear power, Greenpeace India said after the NGO released a report highlighting high radiation levels in Fukushima in Japan. As Fukushima nuclear disaster nears its sixth anniversary, it continues to be a grim reminder of the destruction that nuclear power can cause, it said.
→ read full articleUS Teen Pioneers as 1st Openly Gay Football Scholarship Recruit
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
“I just don’t see how I could be living an honest, truthful life and have that in the background,” said My-King Johnson.
→ read full article“Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50:50 by 2030”
Lakshmi Puri – Inter Press Service-IPS,
6 Mar 2017
With the United Nations Observance of International Women’s Day, we celebrate the tectonic shift in the way that gender equality and women’s economic empowerment has been prioritized and valued in the international development agenda and express the resolve that we will all do everything it takes including transformative financing to achieve the ambitious goal of Planet 50/50 in the world of work by 2030.
→ read full articleHow US Nuclear Force Modernization Is Undermining Strategic Stability: The Burst-Height Compensating Super-Fuze
Hans M. Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie and Theodore A. Postol | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
How the United States nuclear forces modernization program has been mischaracterized to the general public as a reasonable effort to update the safety of US nuclear warheads. The reality of the program is instead an implementation of revolutionary new technologies that have serious implications for strategic stability and international perceptions of US nuclear intentions.
→ read full articleTrump, Putin & New Cold War: What The New Yorker Gets Wrong
Bryan MacDonald – Russia Today,
6 Mar 2017
The New Yorker made quite a splash with its uber long read on ‘Trump, Putin and the New Cold War.’ What a shame then the actual product is sloppy, misinformed tosh masquerading as something of highbrow distinction.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dio odia le donne. Intervista a Giuliana Sgrena
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
4 Mar 2017 – STORIE è la sezione dedicata a cinque narrazioni che invitano a riflettere su violenza e nonviolenza, resistenze, pace e guerre.
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My Sweet Lord (Music Video of the Week)
George Harrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
George Harrison’s worldwide hit single from his brilliant ALL THINGS MUST PASS album Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qJTJNfzvr8 LYRICS My sweet Lord Hm, my Lord Hm, my LordI really want to see you Really want to be with you Really want to see […]
→ read full articleLatin America and the Caribbean Could Be First Developing Region to Eradicate Hunger
UN Food and Agriculture Organization – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States food security plan offers a clear pathway to zero hunger within ten years, FAO Director-General says.
→ read full articleSmartphones Have You Pegged, and for Better or Worse They’ll Soon ID You
Tim Johnson | McClatchy DC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Your smartphone now gathers more information about you than you probably realize. “We can tell what floor of a building you’re on. We can tell if you are inside or outside of a building,” Whaley said. “Just with a few seconds of your walking data, from your phone sitting in your pocket, we can actually identify you based on that.”
→ read full article347 Native Bee Species ‘Spiraling Toward Extinction’
Center for Biological Diversity | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
2 Mar 2017 – In the first comprehensive review of the more than 4,000 native bee species in North America and Hawaii, the Center for Biological Diversity has found that more than half the species with sufficient data to assess are declining. Nearly one in four is imperiled and at increasing risk of extinction.
→ read full articleThe Art of the Trumpaclysm: How the U.S. Invaded, Occupied, and Remade Itself
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
6 Mar 2017
We’re now living in Donald Trump’s America (which I certainly didn’t either predict or imagine in March 2015); we’re living, that is, in an ever more chaotic and aberrant land run (to the extent it’s run at all) by billionaires and retired generals, and overseen by a distinctly aberrant president at war with aberrant parts of the national security state.
→ read full articleHawaii: Science, Religion and Spirituality on Mauna Kea – The Thirty Meter Telescope
Millicent Cummings | Honolulu Civil Beat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
With so much at stake, the TMT project most certainly begs more than just a question or two.
→ read full articleResisting Donald Trump’s Violence Strategically
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
So what are we to do? Well, if you are inclined to resist the diabolical actions of Donald Trump (and his insane and violent equivalents in the United States and other countries around the world), I invite you to respond powerfully. This includes maintaining a large measure of empathy for the emotionally damaged individual who is now president of the US (and his many equivalents). It also includes recognizing that this individual and his equivalents are the current ‘face’ of a global system of violence and exploitation built on many long-standing structures that we must systematically dismantle.
→ read full articleSeven Scary Facts about Widening Gender Gap
IPS World Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Women across the globe are facing new threats, which risk dismantling decades of hard-won rights and derailing the effort to end extreme poverty, an international confederation of civil society organisations has revealed ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8.
→ read full articleMem Fox on Being Detained by US Immigration: ‘In That Moment I Loathed America’
Mem Fox – The Guardian,
6 Mar 2017
The celebrated Australian children’s author tells how on her 117th visit to the US she was suddenly at the mercy of Donald Trump’s visa regime. I kept thinking that if this were happening to me, a person who is white, articulate, educated and fluent in English, what on earth is happening to people who don’t have my power? That’s the heartbreak of it. Remember, I wasn’t pulled out because I’m some kind of revolutionary activist, but my God, I am now. I am on the frontline.
→ read full articleThe Blindness of the Left in the Age of Power
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Reporter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
The Left has been up in arms about transgender rights and the rights of immigrants, legal or illegal—and yes, immigration policies are everywhere and there are laws about immigration for every country, by the way—but absolutely blind to the war machine. We might recall that Athens, the birthplace of (limited) democracy, was a ruthless empire in the Peloponnesian War: privilege at home, horror abroad.
→ read full articleErasing the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
We have reached a stage of human development where future prospects are tied to finding institutional mechanisms that can serve human and global interests in addition to national interests, whether pursued singly or in aggregate. In this central respect, Trump’s ardent embrace of American nationalism is an anachronistic dead end. We need a greatly empowered UN, not an erased UN.
→ read full articleBill Introduced to Ban Howard Zinn Books from Arkansas Public Schools
Max Brantley – Arkansas Times,
6 Mar 2017
Howard Zinn, who died in 2010, was a Ph.D. historian, social activist and more who wrote the best-selling “A People’s History of the United States.” A version for young readers came out in 2007. “It’s not an unbiased account; so what?” Zinn said in the Times interview. “If you look at history from the perspective of the slaughtered and mutilated, it’s a different story.” He inspired a movie, documentaries and song. Dangerous stuff for the Arkansas student in one legislator’s view.
→ read full articleAmazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back
Hiroko Tabuchi, Claire Rigby and Jeremy Whitefeb – The New York Times,
6 Mar 2017
A decade after the “Save the Rainforest” movement captured the world’s imagination, Cargill and other food giants are pushing deeper into the wilderness.
→ read full articleUS Ramps Up Bombing Campaign In Yemen
Niles Niemuth | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
The multi-day bombardment was the heaviest so far in the undeclared US war in Yemen, which has killed or injured more than 1,700 people, including hundreds of women and children, since 2009. According to a tally maintained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the US has carried out a least 390 attacks in the last eight years.
→ read full articleWhy Should Trump―or Anyone―Be Able to Launch a Nuclear War?
Lawrence Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
The accession of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency brings us face-to-face with a question that many have tried to avoid since 1945: Should anyone have the right to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust? Ultimately, then, the only long-term solution to the problem of national leaders launching a nuclear war is to get rid of the weapons.
→ read full articleThe Three Trump Administrations
Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
24 Feb 2017 – Foreign and national defense ministries around the world, as well as embassies in Washington, DC, are struggling to ascertain who is actually in charge of the U.S. government one month after Donald Trump was sworn in as president of the United States. It is a fair question, considering the conflicting statements issuing forth from the White House, State Department, and the Pentagon.
→ read full articleStudy Shows Massive Global Permafrost Melt Underway While Trump Mentions Climate Not Once
Nika Knight – Common Dreams,
6 Mar 2017
Research shows immense expanses of permafrost rapidly disintegrating and releasing huge carbon stores in Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia, and Siberia.
→ read full articleColonial Mentality
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Go figure…
→ read full articleShining a Light on Rohingya Refugees
Dewey Sim | Global Journalist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
“It is probably the worst kind of habitat a human can live in.” – Hasina Begum, a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, has been shot, raped and sold as a sex slave before escaping and working as a prostitute.
→ read full articleOne Nation – Two Cubas”
Martha R. Bireda | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Cuba is an exceedingly beautiful island blessed with lush forests, pristine beaches, sapphire seas, and sunny tropical weather. It is a tourist’s paradise. It is an island that is beloved by its people, its exiles, and those who visit. There is physically only one island, but there are two Cubas; each Cuba seen through very different eyes and experienced in grossly dissimilar ways. Both Cubas are deeply loved.
→ read full articleAvoid Patent Clauses in Trade Treaties That Can Kill Millions
Martin Khor – Inter Press Service-IPS,
6 Mar 2017
27 Feb 2017 – Recently a very interesting article on why there are inequalities in access to health care and how medicine prices are beyond the reach of many people was published in The Lancet, one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world. The authors, who are eminent experts in development and public health, pinpointed trade and investment agreements for being one of the greatest health threats.
→ read full articleChomsky’s Truth to Power
Daniel Geary – Jacobin Magazine,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – Fifty years ago today, Noam Chomsky published his landmark antiwar essay, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals.” It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth. But it is also their responsibility to show how the change we desire is possible.
→ read full articleThree Years since the Kitty Litter Disaster at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Paul DeRienzo | This Can’t Be Happening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – There is a place in the USA, almost half-a-mile underground, in a salt mine, where radioactive waste from the production of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs was to be held separate from all contact with humanity for 10,000 years, equivalent to the entire history of civilization. This separation lasted only three years, when an explosion sent the deadly contamination back to the world of humans in 2014. The still unfinished clean up has cost taxpayers $2 billion since then.
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US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard Meets with Syrian President Assad
Mox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Jan 27, 2017 Tucker Carlson, Fox News – “First, I want to make a correction to your intro. I am not a defender of Assad.”
→ read full articleWhat’s Really Happening in Syria
Robert Roth | Syria Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
5 Feb 2017 – If you try to follow events in the mainstream media, you may have noticed that they routinely refer to Syrian President Bashar al Assad as a “brutal dictator”. Assad is supposed to have responded to peaceful protests with repressive violence and by “killing his own people”. The U.S., UK, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar continue to maintain that “Assad must go”. I disagree with all of that, as I’ll explain in this article. I spent 25 years prosecuting lies in commerce for the people of New York and Oregon. I prepared this primer to help you cut through the lies and get at the truth about Syria.
→ read full articleGermany Bans Meat at Official Functions to ‘Set a Good Example for Climate Protection’
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – Eating less meat is essential to curbing climate change, which is why Germany’s Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks is only serving vegetarian food at official functions. The ministry said it wants to be a “role model” and justified their provision to fight the negative “effects of the consumption of meat.”
→ read full article(Português) Atleta e vegana pelos animais: Como me tornei uma tripla recordista mundial no Guinness
Fiona Oakes - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
27 Feb 2017
20 de fevereiro de 2017 – Meu nome é Fiona Oakes, sou vegana desde os seis anos e vegetariana desde os três. Sou vegana por instinto – uma expressão natural do meu amor pelos animais e o desejo de não querer machucar aqueles com que me importo. Meu veganismo é, e sempre foi, a força predominante e influente na minha vida. Vegana não é o que eu sou; é quem eu sou desde que consigo me lembrar.
→ read full articleCosta Rica’s Peace Journey
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
A Bold Peace, which begins by quoting Eisenhower’s “cross of iron” speech, tells the remarkable story of war avoided, or transcended, again and again and again. Yes, there is another way for the world to live. By the film’s end, this way emerges not simply as possible, not simply as a curiosity, but as the model for the future. It’s time for the rest of the world to join Costa Rica on its journey.
→ read full articleTulsi Gabbard vs. ‘Regime Change’ Wars
Ann Wright – Consortium News,
27 Feb 2017
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is a rare member of Congress willing to take heat for challenging U.S. “regime change” projects, in part, because as an Iraq War vet she saw the damage these schemes do.
→ read full articleAmerica First
Paul Larudee | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
20 Feb 2017 – Nothing in Trump’s campaign resonated with the American heartland quite like “America First”. But Trump wasn’t the first. Remember Charles Lindbergh? He put “America First” and paid the price.
→ read full articleShould the Palestinians Seek Justice NOW at the International Criminal Court?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – This post calls particular attention to the punitive treatment of recourse to international law tribunals to address perceived grievances that is meant to discourage Palestinians from seeking relief at the International Criminal Court. It seems almost certain that the Palestinian Authority will not act to take advantage of the ICC option any time soon. The PA is likely to adopt a posture of neither/nor, that is, neither explicitly ruling out recourse to the ICC, nor activating the option.
→ read full articleHawaii National Transitional Authority: Reclaiming Hawaiian Sovereignty from Colonial USA
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
The HNTA shall be an unincorporated-freely associated entity with the aim of assisting in the transition of Hawaii from its current state or condition under the rule of the USA (including its subsidiary creation of the State of Hawaii, its various county governments, its agencies and administrative/executive bodies) to its liberation as an independent nation-state.
→ read full article