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When Science Brought Americans and Russians Together
Siegfried S. Hecker | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
11 Apr 2017 – The first Russian explosive device to land on US soil wasn’t delivered by a Russian missile, as Americans feared might happen throughout the Cold War. It was delivered by FedEx. The device, an explosive magnetic flux compression generator, arrived at Los Alamos National Laboratory in late 1993, shipped from the Russian Federal Nuclear Center.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Johan Galtung: Mit dem IS reden
Stefan Seidel | Der Sonntag - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
9. April 2017 – Oft scheint militärische Gewalt alternativlos. Doch gelöst werde damit nichts, sagt Friedensforscher Johan Galtung. Er plädiert für einen anderen Umgang mit Konflikten.
→ read full articleLeonardo da Vinci (15 Apr 1452 – 2 May 1519)
leonardodavinci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio’s workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities.
→ read full article(Português) Um Tratado de Proibição de Armas Nucleares
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
10 abril 2017 – Os nove países possuidores de armas nucleares e a maioria de seus aliados preferiram ignorar as negociações sobre um instrumento juridicamente vinculante de proibição das armas nucleares. Essa iniciativa pioneira resultou de uma proposta da África do Sul, Áustria, Brasil, Irlanda, México e Nigéria e foi adotada pela Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas em dezembro último por esmagadora maioria de votos… É chegado o momento em que a humanidade precisa agir decisivamente em defesa de sua própria sobrevivência.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Attack on al-Shayrat Airfield
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
There are two clusters of serious questions raised. Is this a new turn toward belligerent internationalism by the Trump presidency that will shape the near future of American foreign policy in the Middle East, and possibly elsewhere? Does the reversion to unilateralism with respect to international uses of force heighten the risks of geopolitical escalation and large-scale warfare, including possibly the threat or use of nuclear weapons?
→ read full articleHugo Grotius (10 Apr 1583 – 28 Aug 1645): War and Peace
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Hugo Grotius was a jurist born in Delft, the Netherlands who laid the foundations for international law based on natural law. Grotius’ masterpiece, The Law of War and Peace (1625), was an immediate and widespread success. It has gone through at least 75 editions and has been translated 24 times. In this book, he presented his famous doctrine of the just war.
→ read full articleWorld Order and Disorder: The “Games” and “Gambles” of Life and Lives
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
In a world of lawlessness, anything goes, and does! We remain in shock at the destructive events occurring across the world. Yet we too often ignore these events as consequences of the protected policies and actions of nations, individuals, private organizations, engaged in protecting their interests. Protected from harm, the perpetrators of harm are engaged in the “games” and “gambles” of world order and disorder. To what end?
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The View from Moscow [MUST WATCH]
Maria Zakharova | Russian Foreign Affairs Spokesperson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
It is noteworthy that the only real sources of information on what took place are the videos made by the White Helmets, an infamous propaganda organization. The attack against the Syrian government, much like the Ghouta gas attack in 2013, which precipitated the Syrian civil war, is a giant facade.
→ read full articleDeir Yassin to Egypt
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
9 Apr 2017 – Today is the anniversary of the massacre at Deir Yassin [also the Norwegian day of trauma: German 1940 invasion]. Today also saw terrorists bombing Christian Churches on Palm Sunday; over 120 were killed or severely injured. Our condolences to the victims and our thoughts and prayers with the injured.
→ read full article(Français) Bombardement US en Syrie : Trois réflexions pour inciter à la prudence
Michel Collon | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
7 Avr 2017 – Quand nous sommes bombardés d’informations sur un « massacre » servant à justifier des bombardements US, on a toujours intérêt à se souvenir des précédents. En 2013, on a déjà accusé Damas. Mais l’enquête officielle de l’ONU (pourtant fort infiltrée par les USA) a conclu à l’impossibilité de désigner le camp responsable.
→ read full articleA Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons Is in the Making
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
10 Apr 2017 – The nine possessors of nuclear weapons and most of their allies chose to ignore the negotiations on a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination… It is time for mankind as a whole to act decisively in defense of its own survival.
→ read full articleThe Door Ajar
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
The door ajar
And more –
I brought so little
And the room above your garden
Was so spare
George William Russell (10 Apr 1867 – 17 Jul 1935): To See Things in the Germ, This I Call Intelligence
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
“Are there not such spirits among us ready to join in the noblest of all adventures— the building up of a civilization —so that the human might reflect the divine order? In the divine order there is both freedom and solidarity. It is the virtue of the soul to be free and its nature to love; and when it is free and acts by its own will, it is most united with all other life.”
— George Russell, The Song of the Greater Life
4 April 1984 and 4 April 1968
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
4 April 2017 – The famous date “April 4, 1984” appeared in one of the early pages of George Orwell’s most important novel, “1984”. The novel was a warning to readers about the continued threats to the world of a future totalitarian, corporatized, militarized police state. The novel was set in Oceania, once a thriving democracy which had been economically, structurally and morally torn apart by an atomic war that had become a perpetual war. The date April 4, 1984 was the first entry in the diary of Orwell’s main character, Winston Smith.
→ read full article(Português) Uma TeaParty tropical: A ascensão de uma “nova direita” no Brasil
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI-Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
22 março 2017 – Em um contexto marcado por uma abrupta desaceleração econômica e um novo escândalo de corrupção que atinge os partidos da coalizão governamental, assistimos à ascensão, no Brasil, de uma direita “nova”, radical e militante. Surgida na esteira das mobilizações de junho de 2013, ela forma um conjunto heterogêneo de origens e identidades distintas, sem vínculo aparente, a não ser uma comum aversão pela esquerda em geral e o PT em particular.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi: No Ethnic Cleansing of Myanmar Muslim Minority
BBC News Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
6 Apr 2017 – Aung San Suu Kyi has denied there is ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, despite widespread reports of abuses. Instead, Myanmar’s de-facto leader said the country would welcome any returning Rohingya with open arms.
→ read full articleThe Infinite Hotel Paradox: A Brilliant Animated Thought Experiment to Help You Grasp the Mind-Bending Concept of Infinity
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
“Infinity is a demented concept,” astrophysicist Janna Levin, who studies the finitude of the universe, wrote in her spectacular diary-turned-book about the universe. Infinity is also a dementing concept.
→ read full articleSo Much for ‘Understanding’
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
The United Nations conducted a worldwide survey asking, “Would you please give your honest opinion about the solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?” Not surprisingly, it was a huge failure.
→ read full articleThe Tunic of Nessus
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
8 Apr 2017 – In A few weeks, Israel will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War. Millions of words, most of them hollow, will be poured out. As usual. But the event deserves better. It is a drama unique in human history. Only a biblical writer could do it justice. William Shakespeare could have turned his hand to it.
→ read full articlePentagon Trained Syria’s Al Qaeda “Rebels” in the Use of Chemical Weapons
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
The Western Media Refute Their Own Lies – Not only do they confirm that the Pentagon has been training the terrorists in the use of chemical weapons, they also acknowledge the existence of a not so secret “US-backed plan to launch a chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad’s regime”
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Arrests at Maine, USA, Christening of Aegis Destroyer – 1 April 2017
Eric Herter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Today, nine peace activists were arrested while blocking the entrance to the “Christening” ceremony for a new Aegis destroyer at Bath Iron Works, a leading US naval shipyard. Aegis destroyers are an important coordinating and missile-carrying component in US nuclear and conventional war strategy.
→ read full article(Français) Et l’Etat ? Le Pérou et l’Equateur face à El Niño
Maria Florencia Pagliarione – Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Ces jours derniers, le phénomène d’El Niño a déchaîné sa fureur contre les côtes de l’Equateur et du Pérou. L’inclémence climatique comprise comme réchauffement de la surface des eaux du Pacifique se caractérise par la rentrée d’une masse superficielle d’eaux chaudes dans l’océan qui génère la hausse de la température de la masse des eaux et provoque des pluies d’une rare violence.
→ read full articleVault 7: Grasshopper Framework
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Today, April 7th 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 “Grasshopper” — 27 documents from the CIA’s Grasshopper framework, a platform used to build customized malware payloads for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
→ read full articleRohingya Killings Expose Fraud of Burmese “Democracy”
John Roberts | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
7 Apr 2017 – The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution setting up an investigation into serious crimes committed by the Burmese (Myanmar) security forces and nationalist thugs against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh. The US and its EU allies cynically exploit concerns over “human rights” in Burma and elsewhere to advance their geo-political interests.
→ read full articleRighteousness and Dignity: Thoreau, Malcolm X and the Crisis of Leadership in America
Kim C. Domenico - CounterPunch,
10 Apr 2017
In these times when we are cut off from a context or a genuine culture that could nourish and encourage our humanity, many of us get trapped into taking what the consumer culture offers. Captive in a dehumanizing culture, this is the way we take care of ourselves. It is not the way free, dignified, sovereign people answer their rightful wants and needs.
→ read full article(Français) Guerres et terrorisme: « l’effet boomerang »
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
3 Avr 2017 – Est-ce que l’OTAN garantit notre sécurité ? Les gens s’interrogent de plus en plus à ce sujet. Aux élections présidentielles françaises, la sortie de l’OTAN figure noir sur blanc dans le programme de la France Insoumise de Jean-Luc Mélenchon. En Belgique également, quelques voix courageuses ont dressé le bilan des guerres menées au nom d’un organisme qui défend les intérêts des Etats-Unis. L’écrivain et militant pacifiste belge Ludo De Brabander en fait partie. Nous l’avons interviewé pour tirer au clair la stratégie de la France et la Belgique vis-à-vis des menaces terroristes, les intentions de l’administration Donald Trump dans le conflit syrien, ainsi que les enjeux du prochain Sommet.
→ read full articleOur Nuclear Folly
Winslow Myers | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
10 Apr 2017 – The well-established assumption that North Korea is our most difficult and dangerous foreign policy challenge is worth a little dispassionate examination. NK is a pariah nation led by a greedy Stalinist family. No one can say with any certainty whether they could be brought to the table to discuss abolition. Why can’t we admit that we ourselves harbor a similar reluctance?
→ read full articleEnjoying Education for Joy and Harmony
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Gone are the days when formal education was meant only for the prosperous and elite sections of our society. Today its importance and relevance is realized by most people even if they themselves may not have studied beyond the school level. This is so because some of the objectives of higher education as listed below are understood and appreciated and is the principal motivation to study.
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Hey There Delilah (Music Video of the Week)
Plain White T – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Simply Delightful!
39,248,266 YouTube Views
Towards an Integrated Progressive Agenda
Riane Eisler | The Next System Project,
10 Apr 2017
I invite you and your organizations to take leadership in forming a coalition to develop, disseminate, and implement the integrated progressive social/political agenda that is today more urgently needed than ever before. With an integrated progressive agenda focused on the four cornerstones of childhood, gender, economics, and narratives/stories, we can build the foundations for a world where all children can realize their capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity – the capacities that make us fully human.
→ read full articleSix Deceptive Arguments against a Nuclear Weapons Ban
Cesar Jaramillo | OpenCanada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Should we still strive for a world without nuclear weapons, despite global security concerns? Absolutely, writes Cesar Jaramillo, as he debunks the justifications for not taking current negotiations seriously.
→ read full articleIndia’s Pluralism under Siege
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
India follows a system of legal pluralism that allows different religious communities to be governed by their own codes of personal law as a way of protecting distinct communal identities and safeguarding the right of citizens to practice their faith, as enshrined in the constitution. But Muslims are governed by the personal law, which came into force in 1937.
→ read full articleDeath on the Prescription Plan. The ‘White Plague’ of the 21st Century
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
6 Apr 2017 – Over the past two decades hundreds of thousands of Americans have died prematurely because of irresponsibly prescribed narcotic ‘pain killers’ and other central nervous system depressants, like tranquillizers and their deadly interactions.
→ read full articleNormalization under Occupation: How Israel Understands the Arab Peace Initiative
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Trump assigned his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew and a strong supporter of Israel’s rightwing, to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Trump’s pick for US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is controversial even in the eyes of some Israelis, due to his close association with extremist Jewish parties that labor to seize Palestinian Muslim and Christian properties in Occupied East Jerusalem.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Apr 10-16 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.” – David Searls
→ read full articleHidden Gems
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
A diver was exploring caves along the seashore. In one of them he found an ancient leather bag. Curious to see what treasure might be hidden inside, he quickly opened it, but was disappointed to find nothing but a bunch of hardened clay balls.
→ read full article(Français) Une notion piégée: Quand parler de «terrorisme»?
Vincent Sizaire | Investig’Action – Le Monde Diplomatique,
10 Apr 2017
Le 14 juillet, un homme au volant d’un camion fonçait sur la foule à Nice, tuant quatre-vingt-quatre personnes et en blessant des centaines. Le massacre a aussitôt été qualifié d’attentat « terroriste ». Mais, pour lutter efficacement contre ce type d’actes, l’emploi de ce terme a-t-il une utilité quelconque ?
→ read full articleHow to Think about Vladimir Putin
Christopher Caldwell | Imprimis, Hillsdale College – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
If we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as the pre-eminent statesman of our time… He has become a symbol of national sovereignty in its battle with globalism. That turns out to be the big battle of our times. As our last election shows, that’s true even here.
→ read full articleThe Silent Cries of Hiding Children: Fifty Years after MLK’s Riverside Church Speech
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war. This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social up lift is approaching spiritual death.” — MLK
→ read full articleJoan Baez Goes Viral with ‘Nasty Man,’ a Protest Song for the Trump Era
Nika Knight – Common Dreams,
10 Apr 2017
6 Apr 2017 – Joan Baez, protest singer of the peace and civil rights movements of the 1960s, has gone viral with a protest song for today’s Trump era, called “Nasty Man.”
→ read full articleAnother Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Apr 2017
The U.S. government and the mainstream media rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities.
→ read full articleLessons from Hitler’s Rise
Christopher R. Browning | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
A major new biography—an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil. “Ullrich reveals Hitler to have been an eminently practical politician—and frighteningly so. Timely… One of the best works on Hitler and the origins of the Third Reich to appear in recent years.” —Kirkus Reviews. “An outstanding study… All the huge and terrible moments of the early Nazi era are dissected…but the real strength of this book is in disentangling the personal story of man and monster.” —The Guardian (U.K.)
→ read full articlePrescribing Crisis: Overwhelmed by a Sea of Despair
Nicole Colson | Socialist Worker – Jacobin Magazine,
10 Apr 2017
A profit-hungry pharmaceutical industry and an indifferent political class are fueling the deadly opioid epidemic.
→ read full article‘Trump Attacked the Very People Fighting Islamic State’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
A rush to judgement? A one-off attack? Or maybe the start of a major military offensive in Syria? Scholars, analysts and journalists offer their opinions on the Trump administration’s decision to attack the Syrian military on Friday [7 Apr 2017].
→ read full articleWhy These Missile Strikes Won’t Make Things Better for the Syrian People
Stephen Zunes – Yes! Magazine,
10 Apr 2017
There are serious questions as to whether Trump’s bombing of the Syrian base has anything to do with protecting civilians.
→ read full articleThe Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Is Over – What’s Needed Now Is a Boycott
Mike Merryman-Lotze | OtherWords, Institute for Policy Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
With the U.S. now firmly in the pro-settler camp, nonviolent campaigns to impose a cost on Israel’s occupation matter more than ever. The White House is creating new problems in Israel-Palestine, but ordinary people can start setting things right.
→ read full articleThe Exclusion and Structural Discrimination of Roma in Europe
Szilvia Rezmuves, Isak Skenderi & Violeta Vajda – teleSUR,
10 Apr 2017
8 Apr 2017 – We have recently seen an explosion of books, articles and reference papers finally naming the oppression of Roma as an externally constructed phenomenon, based on exclusion and structural discrimination. For International Roma Day, three writers reflect on how Roma slave labour helped build Europe’s prosperity and its legacy.
→ read full article50 Years Later, a Speech by Luther King Has Lessons for a President
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
10 Apr 2017
On April 4, 1967, a year to the day before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most powerful, controversial speeches of his life: “Beyond Vietnam: Time to Break the Silence.” The legendary orator and organizer, this young Nobel Peace laureate, laid out a bold condemnation of the U.S. war in Vietnam.
→ read full article(Português) Professora de geoquímica descobriu porque os chineses não adquirem câncer de mama!
Perfeito – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Esta é a história de uma grande mulher, uma cientista, que lutou contra uma doença fatal e venceu. Esta informação salvou a vida dela!
→ read full article(Português) Conheça cinco advogadas que estão transformando o mundo para os animais
Laura Dourado – Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
10 Apr 2017
Essas cinco mulheres possuem grande visibilidade e influência no campo da lei animal canadense nos últimos anos. Bisgould, que abriu o primeira consultório de direitos animais no Canadá, deixou de exercer a legislação animal para ensiná-la. Pippus e Labchuk passaram boa parte da vida construindo o Animal Justice, a única organização nacional de direito animal do país.
→ read full articleTrump’s Strike on Syria: A Convenient Distraction
Ibrahim Al-Marashi – Al Jazeera,
10 Apr 2017
It’s not the first time a US president launches missile strikes that do not amount to much but boost ratings.
→ read full articleMeanwhile at the Peace Conference…
Chappatte – The New York Times,
10 Apr 2017
Intruders Not Welcome
→ read full article(Français) Enjeux et devenir de la pêche
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI-Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
La hausse constante de la consommation de poisson a fait de la pêche une industrie lucrative. Mais le boom de l’halieutique s’est aussi traduit par une explosion des inégalités, une aggravation des conflits pour le contrôle de la ressource et un effondrement des stocks. Pour y faire face, les institutions internationales ont surtout fait appel à des mécanismes de marché, qui menacent les conditions de vie précaires des communautés de pêche artisanale, sans résoudre la crise.
→ read full article(Português) Propagandhi: “De alguma forma, todo mundo que come carne sabe que existe algum dano nisso”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Fundada no Canadá em 1986, a banda Propagandhi, importante nome do cenário punk rock, tem se destacado por ter como bandeira a defesa dos direitos animais e o veganismo. “Não tenho nenhuma necessidade de machucar os animais para o meu próprio prazer ou conforto”.
→ read full articleCan Empirical Science Give Us Peace?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Galileo’s finger points to two pillars for science: scientific knowledge must be based on empirical facts observed or by experiments; and the language to express scientific knowledge is mathematics. First objection: only the past can produce empirical facts; that limits what might or ought to be to what already have been facts. But humans are capable of transcending the past, and create new facts.
→ read full articleThe Future Will Be Battery-Powered
Amelia Urry | Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
The battery might be the least sexy piece of technology ever invented but the future will be battery-powered. It has to be. From electric cars to industrial-scale solar farms, batteries are the key to a cleaner, more efficient energy system.
→ read full articleTrump Has Scientists Mad Enough to March on Earth Day
The Philadelphia Inquirer | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
5 Apr 2017 – It’s not every day that scientists plan to head out of the laboratory and into the streets to protest, but on Earth Day, April 22, U.S. scientists have good reason to do exactly that. The protesters believe President Trump has no respect for the truth when it comes to well-settled science on some of the most critical questions facing the country.
→ read full articleThe World at 1°C
DemandClimateJustice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
“We are at the crossroads now: We either say: this thing is too big for us, this task cannot be done. [Then] we will be transformed by nature, because we will end up with a planet warming by 4, 5, 6 or even 12 degrees. It would be the end of the world as we know it, and I have all the evidence. Or we say: We’re doing the transformation ourselves.”
→ read full articleThe Cell Was My Canvas
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
“Art is the antithesis of conflict – conflict causes destruction; art is about creation.”
→ read full articleIn Memory of Morton Deutsch: A Rhymed Reflection
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Morton Deutsch was the main co-editor of the acclaimed The Handbook of Conflict Resolution-Theory and Practice, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2014. The renowned Columbia University psychologist passed away March 13, 2017.
→ read full articleA Huge Mining Conglomerate Wanted to Poison This Country’s Water – After a Long Fight They Lost
Pedro Cabezas | Inequality.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
After a long struggle, El Salvador just proved that with enough civil society support, even a very poor country can stand up to powerful global mining firms. In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country’s people and water supply by banning metallic mining.
→ read full articleChristian Nonviolence in Three Crucial Points
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Speech at the Prayer Vigil for the 50th World Day of Peace, Diocese of Pisa, 27 Jan 2017
→ read full articleLahore, Easter Sunday, 2016
Barbara Millar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
On this day the Taliban bombed a popular playground/park which was well attended by families and their young children. Because it was Easter, they were targeting Christian children and their families, though Muslim, Hindu, Jewish children and their families were also killed.
→ read full article(Français) Richard Falk : de nombreux dirigeants israéliens ont eux-mêmes annoncé depuis longtemps qu’Israël deviendrait un État d’apartheid…
Richard Falk | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Une enquête sur l’apartheid dans le contexte israélien n’est pas quelque chose de scandaleux, ni même de particulièrement nouveau.
→ read full articleUniversity of Terror
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
So for year after year, century after century, society has sent its criminals to Crime University, where they learn to become better and more professional criminals. Tuition with full board, all expenses paid by the state. And, of course, a huge army of prison personnel, policemen and women, experts and academics depend on this system for their livelihood. Everybody happy.
→ read full articleNet Neutrality Is Trump’s Next Target, Administration Says
Steve Lohr – The New York Times,
3 Apr 2017
The net neutrality rules, approved by the Federal Communications Commission in 2015, aimed to preserve the open internet and ensure that it could not be divided into pay-to-play fast lanes for web and media companies that can afford it and slow lanes for everyone else. Supporters of net neutrality have insisted the rules are necessary to protect equal access to content on the internet.
→ read full article16 European Nations Vote against GMO Crops
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
27 Mar 2017 – The majority of European Union governments voted against a proposal to authorize two new strains of genetically modified (GMO) maize today.
→ read full articleSlaves
Baher Kamal |Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were victims of transatlantic slave trade. Slavery is far from being a chapter of the past—it still there, with estimated 21 million victims of forced labour and extreme exploitation around the world–nearly the combined population of Scandinavian countries.
→ read full article4 Million Muslims Killed In Western Wars (Up to 2015 alone): Should We Call It Genocide?
Kit O'Connell – MintPress News,
3 Apr 2017
18 Aug 2015 — It may never be possible to know the true death toll of the modern Western wars on the Middle East, but that figure could be 4 million or higher. Since the vast majority of those killed were of Arab descent, and mostly Muslim, when would it be fair to accuse the United States and its allies of genocide?
→ read full articleThe Whole World Is Watching as Trump Trashes U.S. Climate Policy
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Questions over whether Trump’s executive order would end U.S. involvement in the Paris agreement. China showed it would continue to cement its global leadership on climate, as officials reaffirmed the country was still committed to it. “It’s important to understand that no single country, no matter how large or small, can cancel the Paris Climate Agreement.”
→ read full articleRole of Education in Preventing Violence and Promoting Peace and Welfare
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Governments and scholars now agree that education is a desirable objective in itself and is also the means for inculcating right attitudes and morality among people. It is also essential for the material development of society by reducing poverty and want. It helps to empower people especially the downtrodden ones.
→ read full articleAbbas to Award Khalaf with Palestinian Highest Medal
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday [18 Mar 2017] said he would award the highest Palestinian medal to former UN official Rima Khalaf for her courageous stand for Palestinians, local media reported.
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza contro le donne: Pace positiva
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
E in quanto ai monumenti: per favore, non l’uomo a cavallo, che brandisce la morte. Ci siano monumenti alle donne che fanno sbocciare nuova vita. Il punto fondamentale è aprire la mente maschile a un “noi insieme” per migliori matrimoni, e anche per cambiare la loro mentalità “noi contro di loro”. Meglio che trattare le donne come serve-prostitute pagate in moneta di “sicurezza” per rigovernare le stoviglie, lavare la roba, occuparsi dei bebé e insieme dei bambini, degli infermi e dei vecchi, e condividere la loro gratitudine.
→ read full article(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.
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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 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.
→ 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.
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