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TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
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→ read full articleFalse Promises and Failures of Genetic Engineering: Avoid ‘Miracle’ Rice and Just Eat a Carrot
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Golden rice is a false miracle. It is a disease of nutritionally empty monocultures offered as a cure for nutritional deficiency. In fact, golden rice, if successful, will be 400% less efficient in providing Vitamin A…
→ read full articleFidel Castro (13 Aug 1926 – 25 Nov 2016)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, political leader of Cuba (1959–2008), transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America.
→ read full articleThis Company Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult
David Gauvey Herbert | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Every move you make. Every click you take. Every game you play. Every place you stay. They’ll be watching you. The bottom line: IDI’s marketing databases may help PIs predict people’s moves or digitally peek into their cars or medicine cabinets.
→ read full articleNATO: Increasing the Role of Nuclear Weapons
Susi Snyder | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The majority of countries are ready to end the danger posed by nuclear weapons and to start negotiations for a treaty banning them. However, both documents issued by the NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland 8-9 July 2016–the Summit Communiqué and the Warsaw Declaration on Transatlantic Security–reaffirmed the NATO commitment to nuclear weapons, and the Communiqué included a return to cold war style language on nuclear sharing.
→ read full articleOur Deteriorating Environment: Is Anybody Listening?
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
6 Aug 2016 – While the scientists have been doing their job in calling attention to the multiple ways in which environmental decline threatens the planet, we hear less and less from political leaders. Their focus is on the here-and-now—terrorism, jobs, immigration—and not on commitments to the future. Last year’s Paris Agreement on climate change seems like a distant memory.
→ read full articleFive Things Scarier Than a Nuclear-Armed Trump
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
A lot of the scariest stuff about nuclear weapons is discussed in classified briefings, things too devastating for our tender ears to hear—even though the policies and plans being discussed could turn our tender ears and the rest of our tender bodies to ash in a millisecond. Here are five things worth worrying about more than Donald Trump’s crazy.
→ read full articleErdogan Wants to ‘Smash NATO Secret Army’ Allegedly Involved in Attempted Coup
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
According to Turkish media reports, there was a secret NATO structure involved in the attempted coup that took place in Turkey on July 15, German newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten wrote. “If one wants to again create relationship of trust with the Western institutions, Gladio [clandestine NATO structure] in Turkey must be eliminated as it already was in several Western countries.”
→ read full article(Italiano) “I ragazzi sono in pericolo”: Benvenuti nella Guantanamo dei bambini
Noor el-Terk – Middle East Eye,
8 Aug 2016
“Stiamo vivendo l’impossibile, l’impensabile,” mi dice il padre di Mohamed Imad, quindici anni. Lo hanno sottoposto a elettro-shock, colpito in faccia, frustato, gli sono saltati sulla schiena: la lista degli orrori è infinita, suo padre a stento trattiene le lacrime. “Sapete, mio figlio è nato in Giappone. Ho scritto all’ambasciatore giapponese, ho chiesto se mandarlo in Giappone può servire a tenerlo al sicuro. Sarei disposto a rinunciare a mio figlio, il Giappone può prenderselo come uno dei suoi. I bambini qui sono in pericolo.”
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Military Robots and the Future of War
P.W. Singer |TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Video from 2009 Even More Relevant Today – Must Watch
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Aug 8-14 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” – Mahatma Gandhi
→ read full articleContext Matters: Turkey after the Failed Coup
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Part of the prescribed contextualization, given Turkish realities, is to avoid premature international appraisals, admit underlying uncertainties, and allow enough imaginative space to enable a hopeful future for Turkey.
→ read full article(Português) A história do veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
“Enquanto o ser humano for implacável com as criaturas vivas, ele nunca conhecerá a saúde e a paz. Enquanto os homens continuarem massacrando animais, eles também permanecerão matando uns aos outros. Na verdade, quem semeia assassinato e dor não pode colher alegria e amor”, disse o filósofo grego Pitágoras por volta de 500 anos antes de Cristo.
→ read full articleHealth Secrets of the Amish
Moises Velasquez-Manoff – The New York Times,
8 Aug 2016
Disease emerges from the dance between genes and environment. The asthma epidemic may stem, at least in part, from the decline of our “old friends” — the organisms our immune systems expect to be present in the environment. The newly sneezing upper classes in the 19th century may have been the first to find themselves without these old friends. Now most of the developed world has lost them.
→ read full articleSpeak Out Now! NO MORE WAR!
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The U.S. Military is the world’s single largest consumer of oil and the largest emitter of of CO2 greenhouse gases. It has caused extensive radioactive and chemical contamination of the planet’s air, water, and soil. August 6th and 9th are days to remember the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
→ read full articleAustralia: Appalling Abuse, Neglect of Refugees on Nauru
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Investigation on Remote Pacific Island Finds Deliberate Abuse Hidden Behind Wall of Secrecy – “Few other countries go to such lengths to deliberately inflict suffering on people seeking safety and freedom. Driving adult and even child refugees to the breaking point with sustained abuse appears to be one of Australia’s aims on Nauru.”
→ read full articleJapan Seeks Talks with U.S. over ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Policy Change
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The Japanese government has expressed concern over reports that the Obama administration may be planning to implement a policy of “No First Use,” meaning that the U.S. would pledge never to use nuclear weapons first in a conflict. A senior Japanese government official said, “From the [standpoint of] Japan’s security, it is unacceptable.”
→ read full articleNonviolence: More Fundamental than Disarmament
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
At the 71st Anniversary of 129,000 People Who Died from Two Nuclear-Weapon Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, August 1945
→ read full articlePalestinian Detainees Continue Hunger Strike amid Deteriorating Health
International Middle East Media Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The radio reported on the status of various high-profile prisoners, principally Bilal Kayed, who continued his hunger strike Saturday [30 Jul] for the 46th day, which he began after he was transferred to administrative detention — Israel’s controversial policy of detaining primarily Palestinians without charge or trial — the day he was set to be released after completing a 14-year sentence. There are currently 7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, 715 of whom are held under Israel’s policy of administrative detention.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Hydro-Apartheid Keeps West Bank Thirsty
Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
There’s no shortage of water, it’s just that Israel doesn’t let Palestinians access it.
→ read full articleBreaking the Camouflage Wall of Silence: When AFRICOM Evaluates Itself, the News Is Grim
Nick Turse – Tom Dispatch,
8 Aug 2016
What comes next for AFRICOM will play out on the continent and in briefings before the Senate Armed Services Committee for years to come. If history is any guide, the number of terror groups on the continent will not decrease, the senators will fail to ask why this is so, and the media will follow their lead.
→ read full articleInternational Conference: Gandhian Perspectives on Contemporary Conflicts and Peace
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. - Mahatma Gandhi Center for Nonviolence, Human Rights and World Peace,
8 Aug 2016
November 3-4, 2016 ~ Orlando [Florida] Campus of the Hindu University of America ~ The Conference aims at exploring Gandhian principles, their problem solving potentials, and relevance of Gandhi for addressing global problems such as inter-state and intra-state conflicts, international peace, religious extremism, degeneration of human values, social and religious discord and violation of human rights.
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Beat It – Solo Guitar Arrangement (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson | Miguel Rivera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
I decided to start working on this arrangement because it was a great challenge. When you listen to the chorus of the original song, you can hear the main riff sounding together with the Michael’s vocal melody and, of course, drums, bass and other instruments. My objective was to play all of these parts together.
→ read full articleThe Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Intelligence Agencies
Cortney Weinbaum | The National Interest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Some of society’s brightest minds have warned that artificial intelligence (AI) may lead to dangerous unintended consequences, yet leaders of the U.S. intelligence community—with its vast budgets and profound capabilities—have yet to decide who within these organizations is responsible for the ethics of their AI creations.
→ read full articleBruce Lee’s Never-Before-Seen Writings on Willpower, Emotion, Reason, Memory, Imagination, and Confidence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”
→ read full articleEvoking Castalia as Envisaged, Entoned and Embodied
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The Great Game Informed by the Bertsolaritza Cultural Process?
→ read full article(Português) Eu e as proteínas de origem animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
No meio da musculação, de cada cinco palavras ditas, uma costuma ser proteína. Dificilmente alguém toca no assunto sem dizer: “Proteína animal, proteína animal, proteína animal, alto valor biológico – filé de frango, claras de ovos…” Com isso em mente, cheguei a consumir até três gramas de proteínas por quilo corporal em uma fase da minha vida. Pode ter certeza que é muita proteína.
→ read full articleGrowing Justice: Transcending the Oppressive History of Our Food System
Michelle Stearn | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Transforming our system into one rooted in provision means more than just creating new organizations that aim to do well for the community; it will require that we rewrite the beliefs, exchanges, and rules of our own interactions.
→ read full articleProactive Philanthropy: Don’t Wait, Reach Out!
Robert J. Gould | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
If you have money to give, don’t wait for a call, an email, or a formal proposal, please reach out to a local community organization that is working on a cause you believe in, and get involved with what they do, and when you are convinced that they are doing good work, fund them!
→ read full articleMainstream Media Are Betraying Humanity
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
We need to wake up to the real dangers that are facing humanity. Terrorism is not a real danger. The number of people killed by terrorists each year is vanishingly small compared to the number killed in traffic accidents, not to mention the tens of millions who die each year from starvation and preventable diseases. But the mass media shamelessly magnify terrorist events (some of which may be false flag actions) out of all proportion in order to allow governments to abolish civil liberties and crush dissent.
→ read full articleReal Cooperation with Nations Is the Best Survival Tactic [for the USA]
John M Repp | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
In the face of this blatantly illegal activity by the highest levels of government, we have the right to rebel. We should do it nonviolently, and we should do it now. The people of America can make agreements with all our supposed enemies and order our military to stand down.
→ read full articleThe Blog That Disappeared
Roxane Gay – The New York Times,
1 Aug 2016
On June 27, Mr. Cooper’s Google account was deactivated, he has said. He lost 14 years of his blog archives, creative work, email and contacts. He has hired a lawyer and made complaints, and many of his readers and fans have tried to support his efforts. There is a petition circulating, urging Google to restore his work. Pen America, an organization that promotes free expression, has weighed in, saying that Mr. Cooper deserves a substantive response from Google.
→ read full articleIsrael and U.S. Are Close to a Deal on the Biggest Military Aid Package Ever
Carol Morello and Ruth Eglash – The Washington Post,
1 Aug 2016
29 Jul 2016 – A senior Israeli official will arrive in Washington next week for a final round of negotiations involving the largest military aid package the United States has ever given any country and that will last more than a decade after President Obama leaves office. One major obstacle to finalizing an agreement is a dispute over where the funds can be spent.
→ read full articleWhat We Wear: Another Way to “Vote”
Andrew Moss | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The exploitation and violence associated with the globalized garment industry that produces more than 95 percent of our clothes. Exposures highlight the persistent use of child labor, the absence of living wages, and the prevalence of unsafe working conditions. The latter issue was thrust dramatically into public awareness by the collapse in April, 2013 of an eight-story building in Bangladesh, which housed garment companies supplying Children’s Place, Benetton, Cato Fashions, and the parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger. The collapse of the building killed 1,139 workers and injured 2,500 more.
→ read full articleIntegrated Science and Religion for Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Science has facilitated many things for human prosperity, but it has also helped to lose humanity’s peace of mind. Science alone cannot bring peace within the individual and in the world as a whole. It has led to unrest and war simultaneously with progress.
→ read full articleIs It an Island Or a Rock? Ruling Could Cost U.S. a Huge Swath of Ocean
Peter Coy | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
A Chinese dispute has a ripple effect on exclusive economic zones around the world. The bottom line: An arbitration panel’s definition of what an island is could undermine nations’ claims of economic zones around rock outcroppings.
→ read full articleIf Russian Intelligence Did Hack the DNC, the NSA Would Know, Snowden Says
Robert Mackey – The Intercept,
1 Aug 2016
The NSA has tools that should make it possible to trace the source of the hack. Even though the Director of National Intelligence usually opposes making such evidence public, he argued, this is a case in which the agency should do so, if only to discourage future attacks.
→ read full articleNew Panama Papers: Secret Offshore Deals Deprive Africa of Billions in Natural Resource Dollars
Will Fitzgibbon - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
1 Aug 2016
New Panama Papers Series Exposes Secret Deals in Africa – Politicians and mining, oil and gas interests benefit from secrecy and dubious multimillion-dollar transfers.
→ read full articleUS Warplanes Kill At Least 28 More Civilians in Northern Syria
Barry Grey | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
In a new US atrocity in Syria, American warplanes on Thursday [28 Jul] bombed a market killing at least 28 civilians, including seven children. The latest mass killing occurred in the same region where, nine days before, the US military bombed a group of houses where nearly 200 people had gathered to seek refuge, with the reported civilian death toll varying from a low of 56 to a high of more than 200.
→ read full articleChild Prodigy? (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Unfortunately we have no info about the boy pianist. Excellent indeed!
→ read full article(Français) La propagande d’Israël (extrait)
Ilan Pappé | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
« Par une nuit chaude de juillet 1994, des centaines de personnes s’étaient rassemblées dans une salle d’université à Tel-Aviv pour écouter un débat sur le savoir et le pouvoir en Israël…
→ read full articleThere’s No Business like the Arms Business – Weapons “R” Us (But You’d Never Know It)
William D. Hartung - TomDispatch,
1 Aug 2016
26 Jul 2016 – When American firms dominate a global market worth more than $70 billion a year, you’d expect to hear about it. Not so with the global arms trade. It’s good for one or two stories a year in the mainstream media, usually when the annual statistics on the state of the business come out. From the president on down, significant parts of the government are intent on ensuring that American arms will flood the global market and companies like Lockheed and Boeing will live the good life.
→ read full articleIreland Jails Three Top Bankers Over 2008 Banking Meltdown
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Three senior Irish bankers were jailed on Friday [29 Jul] for up to three-and-a-half years for conspiring to defraud investors in the most prominent prosecution arising from the 2008 banking crisis that crippled the country’s economy.
→ read full articleThe Zika Virus Mosquito Is so Dangerous the Military Considered Using It as a Weapon
Rod Tanchanco | History News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
It is a master of stealth, stretching less than half an inch long and weighing in at 2.5 milligrams with as estimated air speed of 1 to 1.5 miles per hour. It is virtually soundless in flight, registering zero decibels from ten feet. Its tracking systems hone in on targets by detecting infrared radiation from warm bodies, chemicals such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid, body odors from as far as a hundred feet, as well as movement from fidgety hosts. It can carry an impressive array of payload: up to 32 different types of viruses, many of which are lethal to humans. And it protects itself from the same viruses with a well-developed immune system that provides a highly effective antiviral defense mechanism. The Aedes mosquito, insect vector for dozens of viruses including the Zika virus, is a near-perfect drone.
→ read full articleThe UN Human Rights Council Adopts the Declaration on the Right to Peace
Christian Guillermet Fernández and David Fernández Puyana – Inter Press Service-IPS,
1 Aug 2016
On 1 July 2016, the UN Human Rights Council adopted the Declaration on the Right to Peace by a majority of its Member States. It is the result of three years of work with all stakeholders led by Costa Rica, through its Ambassador Christian Guillermet-Fernández.
→ read full articleHenry Steel Olcott (2 Aug 1832 – 17 Feb1907): The Buddhist Bridge
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
There is, in a period of transition, a need for individuals with the specific talents of organization and the ability to translate doctrines into social policy. Henry Steel Olcott was such an individual. It is likely that today, when contacts among different schools of Buddhist thought are more common than in 1891, the area of agreement would be greater.
→ read full articleNatural and Human-Made Disasters: A Primer for Our Times ©
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The word “disasters” has become much more than a word as humanity becomes aware of the numerous natural, human-made, and human-facilitated disasters in our times…. Albert Einstein, advised: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them” Albert Einstein is no longer with us, but his words remain, and demand attention. Anything less … a disaster!
→ read full articleNice, Munich and the Terrorism of the West
Belen Fernandez – Middle East Eye,
1 Aug 2016
If you happen to exist in the vicinity of Arab/Muslim formations, you’re legitimate collateral damage – and you don’t stand a chance of being humanised post-mortem in the fashion of the Nice victims. Eighty-four lives lost in Nice is an atrocity of extreme proportions, no doubt. But what of the estimated half a million Iraqi children wiped out via US sanctions in the 1990s, before we even got down to serious business via the war on terror?
→ read full articleClimate Change Activism: A Post-Mortem
John Michael Greer | The Archdruid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
It’s not inappropriate to ask what happened to all the apparent political momentum the climate change movement had ten or fifteen years ago, and why a movement so apparently well organized, well funded, and backed by so large a scientific consensus failed so completely. In my experience, at least, if you raise this question among climate change activists, the answer you’ll get is that there was a well-funded campaign that deployed disinformation against them. So?
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Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016
Fort Russ | Inessa S – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Jul 24, 2016 – This candid conversation took place with representatives of various media outlets during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, in June 2016. Putin urged journalists to report genuinely on the impending danger that is a nuclear arms race.
→ read full articleTrump vs. Clinton vs. Sanders: The Blind Leading the Blind Leading the Blind
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
My thesis is that the proposals put forward by Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders offer no solutions to the fiscal crisis of the state, and partly for this reason do not and cannot promise social integration. I am not complaining. I am just trying to do my part as a philosopher to help generate better ideas, ideas that will work.
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The Battle for Compassion
Jonathan Leighton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
A short film by Jonathan Leighton about what matters and how we can have greater impact in shaping a gentler future for our planet. The film draws on key ideas from his book, ‘The Battle for Compassion: Ethics in an Apathetic Universe.’ He advocates the reduction of intense human and animal suffering as our highest ethical priority, and the creation of compassionate and rational decision-making structures that meet the needs of all.
→ read full articleNever Thought of That…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Gee!
→ read full articleRights of Indigenous Peoples ‘Critical’ to Combat Climate Change
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
1 Aug 2016
25 Jul 2016 – No longer it is about restoring the legitimate rights of over 370 indigenous peoples spread across 70 countries worldwide, many of them living in dire situation, but now about their central, critical role in combating climate change.
→ read full articleA Largeness of Contemplation: Bertrand Russell on Intuition, the Intellect, and the Nature of Time
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. The greatest men who have been philosophers have felt the need both of science and of mysticism: the attempt to harmonise the two was what made their life, and what always must, for all its arduous uncertainty, make philosophy, to some minds, a greater thing than either science or religion.
→ read full articleUS Government Report Exposes Exaggerated TPPA Growth Claims
Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
1 Aug 2016
28 Jul 2016 – The 2016 report by the US International Trade Commission acknowledges that the Trans-Pacific Partnership will not deliver many economic benefits promised by its cheerleaders. Implementing the TPP will greatly profit some large corporations, especially those getting IPR and financial rents.
→ read full articleAustralia: The Scourge of Youth Detention
Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The Northern Territory, Torture, and Australia’s Detention Disease – It was an image that would not have been out of place in the sickly procession of pictures that came out of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay during the ill-fated and misnamed war on terror. Here was a young man, seated, strapped in and euphemistically “restrained,” verging on catatonic; on his head, a suffocating bag.
→ read full article(Français) Les enfants sont en danger : bienvenue au Guantanamo « pour enfants » d’Égypte
Noor El-Terk – Middle East Eye,
1 Aug 2016
Électrocuté, fouetté, frappé au visage, au dos… ; la liste des horreurs que son père, luttant pour que sa voix ne tremble pas, me raconte, est sans fin. « Mon fils est né au Japon, vous savez, j’ai écrit à l’ambassadeur japonais, si [l’envoyer au Japon] est ce qu’il faut faire pour le mettre à l’abri, je renoncerai à lui. Le Japon peut le prendre comme l’un des siens – les enfants ici sont en danger. Tout ce que mon fils connaîtra de ce pays, ceux sont ses cachots. Il a vu plus que tout adolescent de 15 ans devrait avoir vu. »
→ read full articleWorld Leaders Perpetuate Failed Anti-Terror Policies
Rami G Khouri – Al Jazeera,
1 Aug 2016
After decades of failed military action we still don’t know what drives citizens to terror.
→ read full articleDispatches: Torture of Australia’s Children
Elaine Pearson | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
26 Jul 2016 | Abuse of Detained Teenagers Caught on Camera by ABC’s Four Corners Program – Teargassing, hooding, shackling, stripping. Twenty-three hours a day solitary confinement in a hot dark cell. When a 17-year-old threatens to hurt himself, guards hood him, strap him to a chair and leave him alone for two hours.
→ read full articlePalestine Youth Orchestra’s Triumphant UK Debut
Sarah Irving | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Although the Palestine Youth Orchestra has sprung from the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, which has branches in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the orchestra’s members are spread across historic Palestine, including within the State of Israel. Indeed, two musicians were unable to join this tour, despite being scheduled to perform: from Gaza, they were denied exit by Israel.
→ read full articleHow an iPhone Defeated the Tanks
David Hearst – Middle East Eye,
1 Aug 2016
Turkey’s reaction last night [15 Jul] was that of a mature democracy. The West’s was that of corrupted democracy tainted by its support of autocracy.
→ read full article(Anúncio em Português) Simpósio Internacional de Educação e Pedagogia: Paz e Cidadania Global
Maria Emanuel Melo de Almeida | Membro TRANSCEND – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Lisboa, 15 e 16 de setembro de 2016 – o Simpósio apresenta quatro eixos de reflexão que pretendem lançar o debate relacionado com o diálogo intercultural, os direitos humanos, a educação para a paz e o desenvolvimento sustentável:
1. Educação para a paz e cidadania;
2. Educação e diversidades;
3. Educação e tecnologias;
4. Educação e pedagogia.
The Psychology of Ideology and Religion
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
At the macro level, there are worldwide or regional ideologies such as capitalism, fascism, conservatism, communism, socialism, feminism, pacifism and environmentalism as well as religions including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. There are also variations of these major ideologies and religions. But even at the micro level, the local service club, neighborhood charity and sporting club operates in accordance with an ideology or religion that is shared by its members too.
→ read full articleThe Orange Man
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
So here we are. Either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be our next president. “Our”? I am not a US citizen, and have no desire to be one. But I live in a world in which the USA is the sole superpower, in which every decision of the US administration has an impact on the lives of every human being. For me as a citizen of Israel, this impact is much greater than for most and much more immediate.
→ read full articleForests: To Farm or Not to Farm? This Is the Question!
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
1 Aug 2016
19 Jul 2016 – The dilemma is critical: on the one hand, there is an absolute need to produce more food for the world’s steadily growing population; on the other, there is pressing urgency to halt -and further revert- the increasing trend to deplete the forests, which are as necessary for human survival as it is for ensuring their dietary needs. So what is at stake ?
→ read full articleKurt Vonnegut’s 1988 Letter to the Future More Relevant Today Than Ever Before
Kick Kennedy | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
In 1988, my then Hyannis Port neighbor the late Kurt Vonnegut wrote a prescient letter to the Earth’s planetary citizens of 2088 for Volkswagen’s TIME magazine ad campaign. His seven points of advice are perhaps more relevant today than at any time in human history.
→ read full articleThe Real Secret of the South China Sea
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The US is all about Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny. As it stands, more than Russia’s western borderlands, the Baltics or “Syraq”, this is where the hegemon “rules” are really being contested. And the stakes couldn’t be higher. That’ll be the day when the US Navy is “denied” from the South China Sea; and that’ll be the end of its imperial hegemony.
→ read full articleAfrica/America
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Recently I have had the great privilege to work with some of the 1,000 Mandela Washington Fellows, a select group of young sub-Saharan African leaders ages 25-35 placed for six weeks at about 40 universities around the US. The young leaders are electrifying.
→ read full articleIs Genocide a Controversial International Crime?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Why ‘Genocide’ is still a Controversial Crime? In this strikingly original, strange, and brilliant book, Philippe Sands raises a haunting question among a tangle of other intriguing issues discussed throughout East-West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (New York: Knopf, 2016).
→ read full article400 Million People Live with Hepatitis but They Do Not Know
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
1 Aug 2016
26 Jul 2016 – With some 400 million people around the world infected with hepatitis B or C, mostly without being aware, the United Nations top health agency encourages countries to boost testing and access to services and medicines for people in need to combat the ‘ignored perils’ of this disease.
→ read full article“Don’t Cry for Us Syria … The Truth Is We Shall Never Leave You!”
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Amid all the dissension and fear-mongering surrounding refugees in the midst of a bloody civil/proxy war, many of Syria’s youth are focused on helping fellow Syrians. As much of the rest of the world seemingly passes its time pontificating and posturing in padded chairs and security councils, volunteers around Syria are risking their lives to help those in dire need and who are attempting to find safety.
→ read full articleThe “Versus” Mentality of Our Times: Twenty-Five Conflicts
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
To a large extent, the “versus” mentality is exemplified in the former President George W. Bush, fateful words: “You are either for us, or against us.” Seeds were planted: “There is a good side, and a bad side.” Seeds of ignorance! How tragic! There will always be different sides; but the challenge to awakened minds is how to engage bring creative solutions to fractious challenges. At the core are differences! Failure to understand the nature and history of differences dooms humanity and the natural world future.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Aug 1-7 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “No matter what challenge is, or setbacks or disappointments that you may encounter along the way, you’ll find you in happiness and success if you have one goal that really is only one. That is this: ‘To fulfill the highest, the most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.’” – Oprah Winfrey’s Harvard Commencement 2013 Inspirational Speech.
→ read full article30 July: UN-designated Day for Developing Awareness of Human Trafficking
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
There are three sources of trafficking in persons. The first are refugees from armed conflicts. The second category are people leaving their country for economic reasons − sometimes called “economic refugees.” A third category − or a subcategory of economic migration − is the sex trade, usually of women but also children.
→ read full articleHawai’i National Holiday: Restoration Day
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Today is July 31, which is a national holiday in the Hawaiian Kingdom, called “Restoration day,” and it is directly linked to another holiday observed on November 28th called “Independence day.” Here is a brief history of these two celebrated holidays.
→ read full articleThe Power of “Nyet”
Dmitry Orlov | Club Orlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The way things are supposed to work on this planet is like this: in the United States, the power structures (public and private) decide what they want the rest of the world to do. They communicate their wishes through official and unofficial channels, expecting automatic cooperation…. It is a hopeful sign that people throughout the Washington-dominated world are discovering the power of “nyet.”
→ read full articleAedes Aegypti Mosquito: Fighting the Most Dangerous Animal in the World
Marian Blasberg, Hauke Goos and Veronika Hackenbroch – Der Spiegel,
25 Jul 2016
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries Zika, dengue fever and other illnesses, appears unstoppable. It is posing a unique threat to this year’s Olympic Games in Rio and is rapidly spreading around the world. Europe, too, is at risk.
→ read full articleHow the United States Government Obstructs Peace for Palestine/Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
The United States Government has not only taken Israel’s side in diplomatic negotiation between Israel and Palestine, but has actively opposed all moves toward the establishment of an independent sovereign state for the Palestinian people (meaning that the American endorsement of the two-state mantra as the consensus formula for peace was a deliberate official lie).
→ read full article(Italiano) Spagna: colpa della normativa, non dei numeri
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
La Spagna si è di nuovo bloccata. I numeri dei partiti in un parlamento con 350 seggi non hanno prodotto una maggioranza né il 20 dicembre 2015 né il 26 giugno 2016. L’aritmetica non ha funzionato. I numeri erano sbagliati. O invece, potrebbe essere sbagliata la Norma?
→ read full article(Português) Tazinha e a galinha Jurema
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Com cinco anos, Tazinha não imaginava que aquele molho vermelho e borbulhante cobrindo fatias grossas de batata-inglesa envolvia partes de um ser idêntico àquele que percorria o quintal com o viço de uma criança. Quando viu a garotinha de olhos amendoados e graúdos, a galinha se escondeu atrás de um pedaço de capoeira e cacarejou, mantendo os olhos castanhos e vibrantes bem esgazeados.
→ read full article(Português) No inferno todos vestem roupas brancas
Denise Terra - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
25 Jul 2016
Um funcionário tem então como tarefa cortar o máximo de pescoços de galinhas que falharam na serra automática, mas a esteira passa em uma velocidade assustadora, são muitas aves que devem morrer hoje para atender à demanda do mercado, cada vez mais voraz por carne de frango. Não há tempo para cortar o pescoço de todas as intactas, nem de abreviar o sofrimento daquelas que se debatem. As aves seguem para serem escaldadas em água fervendo.
→ read full articleRussian Olympic Committee’s Statement in Response to the World Anti-Doping Agency Report (in English and in русский-Russian)
Russian Olympic Committee | Олимпийский комитет России – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
We wholeheartedly disagree with Mr. McLaren’s view that the possible banning of hundreds of clean Russian athletes from competition in the Olympic Games is an acceptable ‘unpleasant consequence’ of the charges contained in his report.
→ read full articleOrlando… Dallas… Nice… Baton Rouge… Have You Noticed a Pattern?
Dr. Shariff Abdullah – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
I’ve been quoting Albert Einstein for a long time: “We can’t solve our problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” We read that famous quote, agree with it, then go right back to all of our old analyses, all of our old “causes”. And wonder why nothing changes. So… HERE is a way to recast our recent atrocities, a way to see them all as part of a larger Pattern of behavior.
→ read full articleDag Hammarskjold (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961) Crisis Manager and Longer-Range World Community Builder
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Dag Hammarskjold became Secretary-General of the United Nations at a moment of crisis related to the 1950-1953 war in Korea, and he died in a plane crash in 1961 on a mission dealing with the war in the Congo.
→ read full articleSocial Inequality Escalates in Denmark amid Bonanza for Banks and Corporations
Ellis Wynne | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Indeed, a sober analysis of class relationships in Denmark would confirm a growing inequality. As liberal newspaper Information put it baldly, “From 2003 to 2013 the richest tenth of Danes became 29 percent richer whilst the poorest ten percent became 1 percent poorer.”
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Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (Music Video of the Week)
The 5 Browns – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
The 5 Browns performing –in 5 pianos– the 18th Variation from Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini. Composition: Sergei Rachmaninoff
→ read full article(Castellano) Sepa por qué los atletas rusos no podrán competir en Río 2016
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
El dictamen fue anunciado este jueves [21 julio] en Lausana (Suiza) por el secretario general del TAS, Matthiue Reeb, quien precisó que la decisión puede ser apelada en un plazo de 30 días.
→ read full articleMap: The World of Coups Since 1950
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post,
25 Jul 2016
There have been around 475 coup attempts since 1950. That’s according to a dataset compiled by Jonathan Powell and Clayton Thyne, two assistant professors who work in the political science departments of the University of Central Florida and the University of Kentucky respectively.
→ read full article‘Monster’ El Niño Subsides, La Niña Hitting Soon
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
25 Jul 2016
Now that the 2015-2016 El Niño –one of the strongest on record– has subsided, La Niña – El Niño’s ‘counterpart’– could strike soon, further exacerbating a severe humanitarian crisis that is affecting millions of people in the most vulnerable communities in tens of countries worldwide, especially in Africa and Asia Pacific.
→ read full articleWe Ignore Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Livestock Industry at Our Own Peril
Risto Isomaki – Inter Press Service-IPS,
25 Jul 2016
According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, the production of meat and other animal-based products is responsible for around 18 to 20 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. If FAO’s assessment is correct, animal waste and the use of nitrogen-based fertilizers to grow fodder annually create about 6 million tons of nitrous oxide–65-70 percent of our total emissions.
→ read full articleNarrating Turkey at a Time of National Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
In times of tension, it is particularly important for the defense of what is good and identification of what would worsen the status quo, to strive for balanced assessments, always hoping for the best, while trying to identify and oppose any and all steps toward coercive authoritarianism. I have had the same reaction to conversations in the United States with friends who deem the country to have become ‘fascist.’
→ read full articleIncrease Your Life Expectancy by Sitting Less Than Three Hours a Day
Dr. Mercola | Peak Fitness – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
You may have heard talk that too much sitting is bad for your health, but these effects are not simply hearsay. Mounting research confirms that in order to stay optimally healthy, your body needs to spend the bulk of its time doing what it was designed to do: move. Sit less and move more. It’s a simple strategy that can do wonders for your health.
→ read full articleThe Power of One Peace Activist in Pakistan: Sail’s Story
Ruth Tidy | Peace Direct – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Have you ever been a situation you wanted to challenge, but did not know how? When you live in a violent, conflict affected area, the stakes are even higher. After attending Aware Girls’ training course Sail began his own peace activist network and has helped young people turn away from extremism in his community.
→ read full articleKashmir on Fire
Taimur Zulfiqar- The Manila Times,
25 Jul 2016
18 Jul 2016 – Kashmir is bleeding once again. Views and opinions apart, there was a complete blackout in the local print media about the recent incidents of human rights violations in the Indian-occupied Kashmir by the Indian military and paramilitary forces against those protesting the killing of Kashmiri leader Burhan Wani, who was extremely popular among the masses. As a result, dozens of innocent Kashmiris were killed, over 2,100 have been injured, 400 of whom critically.
→ read full articleErdoğan’s Coup: Purging Domestic Critics, Gaining External Allies
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
“President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan prepared a list of targets for arrest even before the coup (sic) was launched”, European Commission official on Turkey (FT 7/19/2016). In the end Erdoğan may have secured power and undertaken a vast domestic purge of his enemies, but he has lost the regional war while bearing the consequences of millions of war refugees and a deeply entrenched jihadi terrorist threat within Turkey.
→ read full articleThe Olympics as a Tool of the New Cold War
Andrey Fomin | Oriental Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
21 Jul 2016 – The allegations of systematic state organised doping by the Russian authorities are founded on the evidence of three compromised individuals and have been presented in a way that denies Russian athletes their fundamental rights.
→ read full articleTime Constrains
TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Acting in the Past
→ read full articleSocorro – The City of Depleted Uranium
Norbert G. Suchanek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Socorro became a national sacrifice area. People are suffering similar health effects as the local population in Iraq who were hit by DU-Weapons during the Gulf Wars. The film gives details of the abuses and transgressions on the people of Socorro whose community was downwind and downgrade of the depleted uranium testing sites active since 1972.
→ read full articleA Roadmap for Lebanon to Grant Civil Rights for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Palestinians in Lebanon suffer from more than two dozen targeted violations including ambiguous legal status, absence of protection; the outlawing of their right to work and to own a home or real property; adequate housing; health; fair trial; freedom of association; opinion and expression; freedom of movement, accommodation and travel, among others.
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