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Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad: Exclusive Interview
NBC Nightly News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
NBC’s Bill Neely speaks with President Bashar Al-Assad. This interview was filmed by the Presidential press office of Bashar al-Assad. No editorial changes were made to the content.
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The Roots of Terrorism: Something Is Wrong in Our Cultural Order
Prof. Al-Ansari | MEMRITVVideos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Prof. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari, former Dean of Islamic Law at Qatar University, discussed the phenomenon of terrorism and how to deal with it. Terrorism, he said, is based on ideology, not on financial distress or economic circumstances. It “begins with the sowing of hatred, the sowing of extremism,” and with “this rhetoric about a nation constantly under attack.” The first step to dealing with the phenomenon is to “let go of the culture of denial,” to “acknowledge that something is wrong in our cultural order,” and to “open up to other cultures.”
→ read full articleA Farmer and His Horse
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
How a Seemingly Bad Luck Can Turn Out to Be a Good Luck
→ read full articleKinetics of Empire
Paul Edwards – Information Clearing House,
25 Jul 2016
Whether our dissolution comes through annihilation by war or evisceration through financial meltdown, it will be the greatest act of state terrorism ever inflicted on humankind. In this catastrophic imperial suicide, the collateral damage will be the world.
→ read full article‘Fraud’ Alleged in NYT’s MH-17 Report
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
25 Jul 2016
An amateur report alleging Russian doctoring of satellite photos on the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 case – a finding embraced by The New York Times – is denounced by a forensic expert as an “outright fraud.”
→ read full articleBinarity
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Edward Said once told us we do not have to choose between a secular corrupt dictatorship and rule by Muslim Brotherhood. I do not have to support Zionism to be for Jewish rights. I do not have to support the Assad regime to be against the Saudi/US/Israel supported “rebel” groups who are nothing more than mercenary terrorists. We have many choices. It is time we exercise them.
→ read full articleRadiation Along Fukushima Rivers Up to 200 Times Higher Than Pacific Ocean Seabed
Greenpeace | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
A radiation survey team, supported by the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior, conducted underwater survey along the Fukushima coastline from Feb. 21 to March 11 this year, as well collecting samples in river systems. The samples were measured at an independent laboratory in Tokyo.
→ read full articleCairn Energy Demands India Pay $5.6 Billion or Drop Back Tax Claim
Pratap Chatterjee | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
15 Jul 2016 – The Scottish oil exploration company has demanded compensation for losses it claims are a result of a tax assessment…. Vodafone also has another pending case on taxation of offshore transactions in India…. The Indian government lost a similar case against Shell in the Bombay High Court and chose not to appeal.
→ read full articleAmerican Warplanes Slaughter Civilians in Northern Syria
Thomas Gaist | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Airstrikes by American warplanes, ordered by US Central Command (CENTCOM), killed dozens of civilians around the Syrian village of al-Tukhar on Monday [18 Jul]. An estimated 85 civilians, including at least 11 children, were killed in the strikes, with unknown numbers buried beneath the rubble.
→ read full articleBrexit Coincides with India’s and Pakistan’s Entry into the SCO
Alfredo Jalife-Rahme | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Prof. Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, leading Latin American expert in geopolitics, considers that the UK exiting the EU at the same time that India and Pakistan become members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is an acid test, proving that the world is alive. De-globalization is at work.
→ read full article(Français) Brésil: Un tribunal populaire condamne le coup d’Etat
INTAL | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Le 19 et 20 juillet 2016, la ville de Rio de Janeiro accueillait un procès symbolique sur le coup d’Etat en cours au Brésil suite à la procédure d’impeachment de la présidente Dilma Rousseff.
→ read full articleFive Conspirators in the Eradication of the Middle Class
Paul Buchheit – Common Dreams,
25 Jul 2016
Congress: The Kingpins.
Military: The Enforcers.
Lobbyists: The Con Men.
Media: The Illusionists.
Finance: The Hitmen.
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Jul 25-31~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.” – Lao Tzu
→ read full articleBeing Inconvenienced While Minding My Own Business
Bruce Lerro | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Liberals and the Social Contract Theory of Violence – Are “bystanders” to violent events neutral or complicit?
→ read full articleFascinating Graphics Show Who Owns All the Major Brands in the World
Jesus Diaz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
All the biggest product brands in the world are owned by a handful of corporations. Food, cleaning products, banks, airlines, cars, media companies… everything is in the hands of these mega corporations. The following infographics show how everything is connected.
→ read full articleAldous Huxley (26 Jul 1894 – 22 Nov 1963)
European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Aldous Huxley was a British writer born on Jul 26 1894, who died on Nov 22 1963, the same day as President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. He would become most known to the public for his fifth novel, ‘Brave New World,’ written in 1931. The 1950s would be a time of experiences with psychedelic drugs for him, especially LSD and mescaline.
→ read full article(Français) Eloge de la négociation
Robert Charvin | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Réunissons-nous autour d’une table, demande Umberto Eco, et négocions intelligemment pour trouver une solution qui force le respect de tous » … « parmi les vœux que je peux formuler pour le siècle à venir, il y a cette espérance d’une nouvelle éthique de la négociation », conclut avec lucidité l’universitaire de Bologne, angoissé du mal dont souffre l’Occident pour son deux millième anniversaire. L’Union Européenne nous donne à voir dans « l’embrouillamini des opinions toutes faites, des préjugés et des langues de bois politiques ou économiques, les clignotements de l’intelligence ».
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | Quotes from Assorted “Law and Order” Mis-Leaders – and Plagiarizers – Throughout History
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
“The streets of our country are in turmoil! The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting! Communists are seeking to destroy our country! Russia is threatening us with her might! Our republic is in danger, yes, danger from within and without! WE NEED LAW AND ORDER!” — Original quote from Adolf Hitler (essentially indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump).
→ read full articleThe Mousai House: A Cooperative Vision for a New Creative Economy
Jennifer Bryant | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Bryant’s exposition of The Mousai House gives us a glimpse into a thriving local economy rooted in Washington D.C. that has blossomed despite struggle, displacement, and oppression, exemplifying a rich cooperative culture that transcends the current system.
→ read full articleNelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in Mveso, Transkei, South Africa. Becoming actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement in his 20s, he joined the African National Congress in 1942. Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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US-NATO Border Confrontation with Russia Risks Nuclear War and Loss of European Partners by the USA
TheRealNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Michael Hudson says that the US-led confrontational approach of NATO with Russia is driving European countries to consider disbanding or leaving the military alliance due to increased security risks.
→ read full article(Português) Somos bárbaros, a dor dos animais nos diverte
Luce Pereira - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
18 Jul 2016
Uma vez que arenas e outros cenários de atrocidades continuam atraindo multidões, a conclusão parece bastante óbvia – o movimento que no século 18 iluminou a razão em nome da busca pela liberdade, deixou um lado da natureza humana às escuras. É este lado que chega aos dias de hoje e teima em chamar de cultura e tradição o que não passa de gosto pela barbárie.
→ read full article(Italiano) Ciarlataneria: “L’Indice di Pace Positiva” (PPI)
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Il PPI pretende d’essere un indice di pace positiva / di società pacifica. Ma è più che altro un indice di “ambiente positivo per gli affari”; da parte dell’ Institute for Economics & Peace, sa più di economia che di pace.
→ read full article(Português) A Violência: Uma contribuição a suas várias interpretações (1ª Parte)
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
O Brasil comparece como um dos países mais violentos do mundo. Só no ano de 2015 foram assassinados 66 mil pessoas, a maioria delas negros e habitantes pobres das periferias. Isso é mais que as vítimas das guerras do Iraque, do Afeganistão e atualmente da Síria.
→ read full articleThe Declassified ’28 Pages’ on the 9/11 Attacks
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
15 Jul 2016 – Today the US Congress declassified 28 pages of documents from the first Congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks with information about a possible Saudi government connection. Download and read the full report in pdf here.
→ read full articleThe Delusion ‘I Am Not Responsible’
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
You might have had a good laugh at some of the examples above. The real challenge is to ask yourself this question: where do I evade responsibility? And to then ponder how you will take responsibility in future.
→ read full article(Português) A Violência: Uma contribuição a suas várias interpretações (2ª Parte)
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Se a violência em uma origem histórica, cultural, social e radical, é mediante outro tipo de história, de cultura, de sociedade e de radicalidade que ela será minimizada e controlada em seu aspecto destrutivo.
→ read full articleVenezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua – Permanent Media False Positives
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
11 Jul 2016 – Member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas are natural targets for the relentless psychological warfare of Western news media, because they form a resistance front to the foreign policy imperatives of the United States government and its allies. Right now, Venezuela is the most obvious example.
→ read full articleUps and Downs in Palestine
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
16 Jul 2016 – Life in Palestine moves along with its ups and downs, like the tides of the sea. Some days we feel depressed, some days more optimistic. Some of us even feel like manic-depressives for the fact that we go through these cycles. The triggers are varied.
→ read full articleSlings and Arrows: Bernie Sanders Plays the Bard
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Sanders: (At the ramparts; in the shadows; a windy night–)
→ read full articleThe Nice Terror Attack: Mind at the End of Its Tether
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Nice is an opportunity to work on learning what we should be trying to learn anyway: how to live in peace with one another. As Baruch Spinoza pointed out in 1677 –and it was already old news then—anybody can kill anybody. Nice dramatizes the fact that peace through law enforcement is not feasible. Anybody can kill people with a truck, and there is no way to deploy police everywhere to stop that from happening. Peace is a table with four legs: justice, justice, justice, and justice.
→ read full articleFrantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos, Emory Postcolonial Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Black Skin, White Masks, originally titled “An Essay for the Disalienation of Blacks,” is part manifesto, part analysis; it both presents Fanon’s personal experience as a black intellectual in a whitened world and elaborates the ways in which the colonizer/colonized relationship is normalized as psychology.
→ read full articleMicah Johnson and a Culture of Violent Solutions
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
To curtail the epidemic of mass shootings and police homicides, U.S. citizens must address a variety of factors, including racism, insufficient gun regulation, and a depleted public sector. We must also correct a deeply-engrained culture of violent solutions—a culture which politicians from both parties mostly embrace.
→ read full articleForgotten People © – Human Lives . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
One more traffic accident; one more headline of deaths and injuries on our roads. Daily fare now! But what sealed my mind about this accident, this human tragedy, was the anonymity of death. True, many victims will be known and remembered to those whose lives were connected — grieving spouses, crying children, perhaps distant cousins and aunts living thousands of miles away. Yet still: “Forgotten People!”
→ read full articleHandling Opposites for Peace and Justice
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
16 Jul 2016 – Life is full of opposites: left and right, north and south, pleasure and pain, peace and violence and many other similar examples. It can be easily seen that some of these opposites such as south or north, or up and down are given and we cannot change them…. A tragic discourse in contemporary times is terrorism vs peace. Terrorism has taken a very ugly turn as can be seen by the latest event of a lone deranged man in Nice.
→ read full articleWelcome! Bienvenue!
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
16 Jul 2016 – For me, France is the land of liberty. When I was just 10 years old, I fled with my family from Nazi Germany to France, on our way to Palestine. We were afraid of being detained at the border. When our train crossed the Rhine, leaving Germany behind us and entering France, I breathed deeply. From tyranny to liberty, from hell to paradise.
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This Country Isn’t Just Carbon Neutral — It’s Carbon Negative
Tshering Tobgay, TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. In this illuminating talk, Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay shares his country’s mission to put happiness before economic growth and set a world standard for environmental preservation.
→ read full articleChina’s Bad Day in Court
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Perhaps in the South China Sea case China and the Philippines, now under a new president, will find their way back to the negotiating table and work out a deal that skirts the always-difficult sovereignty issue. That would be fine; but it would not address the fundamental problem of how law-abiding behavior can be promoted and enforced in an often anarchic world.
→ read full articleCan the United States Transcend White Supremacy?
Robert Jensen | Dissident Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Because the wealth and power of the United States are so deeply rooted in white supremacy, the abandonment of that pathology would inevitably lead to difficult questions about the country’s moral and material obligations to non-white people…. The United States likely will always be a white-supremacist nation because we have neither the intellectual nor moral traditions to deal with these harsh realities.
→ read full articleUruguay Defeats Philip Morris in Major Win for Anti-Smoking Advocates
Pratap Chatterjee | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
11 Jul 2016 – Uruguay has defeated Philip Morris, the global tobacco giant, in a major international lawsuit over the country’s tough anti-smoking regulations. On March 26, 2010, Philip Morris filed a complaint against Uruguay at the World Bank arbitration tribunal. The action was intended to escalate the fight to an international level and to take advantage of trade laws that typically favor major corporations by allowing them to claim damages from laws that deny them profits from their investments.
→ read full articleLebanon Escalates Its Denial of Civil Rights for Palestinian Refugees
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
16 Jul 2016 – In Lebanon today, Palestinians are being threatened by the government that ISIS (Daesh) and Al Nursa are plotting to take over Ain el-Helweh and the other eleven camps in Lebanon.
→ read full articleWhole Systems Change
Riane Eisler | The Next System Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
A Framework & First Steps for Social/Economic Transformation – Moving to a world that orients primarily to the partnership rather than domination model is a long-term enterprise. It will require time, perseverance, and the courage to challenge established beliefs and structures. But if we are to build a future where all children can realize their capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity—the capacities that make us fully human—we have to start constructing its foundations now.
→ read full articleImprovisation in Multivocal Poetic Discourse
Anthony Judge | laetus in praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Basque Lauburu and Bertsolaritza as Catalysts of Global Significance
→ read full articleNonviolent History: South Africa’s Port Elizabeth Boycott Begins July 15, 1985
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
The Port Elizabeth boycott was a powerful moment of consolidating and demonstrating the power of nonviolent action to place economic sanctions on white South Africans. This piece of the long South African anti-apartheid struggle helps us remember the scope, arc, and duration of working for change. It’s a marathon, not a sprint, and every step counts.
→ read full articleWhat Is NATO — Really?
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
NATO was founded with the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington DC on 4 April 1949. When NATO was founded, that was done in the broader context of the U.S. Marshall Plan, and the entire U.S. operation to unify the developed Atlantic countries of North America and Europe.
→ read full article21st Century Wedding
TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Husband and Wife…
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Jul 18-24 ~ QUOTES OF THE WEEK:
• “Age is nothing but a number.” – Ernestine Shephard
• “I think if one regards the age of 80 as a start, his or her life will be more interesting. You need a goal. It is not necessarily climbing a mountain.” – Yuichiro Miura
James Cousins (22 Jul 1873 – 20 Feb 1956): An Effort of Synthesis
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
James Cousins went to India as literary editor for New India and then was one of the organisers of the State University of Travancore, where he headed the Department of Fine Arts and English Studies. His A Study in Synthesis is a rich and complex study of the ways in which intuition, emotion, cognition and action structure human life.
→ read full articleHealth Dangers of Depleted Uranium
Dr. Lorrin Pang – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Hawaii’s Dr. Lorrin Pang explains in simple terms the health dangers of depleted uranium.
→ read full articleYemen Slides Closer to Famine as Frozen Bank Funds Curb Food Imports
Jonathan Saul and Maha El Dahan |Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Western banks had already cut credit lines for traders shipping food to Yemen, fearing they would not be repaid due to the security chaos and fragile financial system. Now, they are increasingly unwilling to offer letters of credit, which guarantee sellers will be paid on time. Out of Yemen’s 28 million people, 21 million need some form of humanitarian aid and over half the population suffer from malnutrition,
→ read full articleLeaked Document Reveals Alarming New Environmental Threats of TTIP
Sierra Club | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Leaked document from the EU reveals its intentions to include new, dangerous language in the proposed energy chapter of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
→ read full articleAn Unlikely AMEXIT: Pivoting Away from the Middle East
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Unfortunately, for America and the peoples throughout the Middle East the US seems incapable of extricating itself from yet another geopolitical quagmire that is partly responsible for generating extra-regional terrorism of the sort that has afflicted Europe in the last two years.
→ read full articleU.S. Plans to Saturate Globe with Weapons
David Swanson | Veterans Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
11 Jul 2016 – My headline above is a plain English translation of this Pentagonspeak found in a Reuters headline today: “International demand for U.S. weapons systems is expected to continue growing in coming years, a senior U.S. Air Force official said on Sunday [10 Jul], citing strong interest in unmanned systems, munitions and fighter jets.” Thus is the proliferation of drones around the world spun as something positive, along with bombs and jets.
→ read full articleThoreau on How to Use Civil Disobedience to Advance Justice
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Civil Disobedience is an indispensable read for every democratically minded, socially conscious human being awake to justice. “Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” — Thoreau
→ read full articleHuman Security a Must in a Chaotic, Confused World – Japan
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
18 Jul 2016
“Human security” is strongly linked to food and nutrition security. In fact, on-going man-made disasters—such as armed conflicts and climate change—are the very direct cause of the current, unprecedented levels of human suffering. The United Nations estimates that the number of refugees, migrants and forcibly displaced at home has now hit all-high record: 160 million worldwide.
→ read full articleThe Hijacking of Palestinian History
Dr. Elias Akleh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Settler colonialism, usually technologically and militarily more advanced, is based on the erasure of already existent people, their culture and their memory, and substituting it with new foreign national entity that builds new culture, new history and new memory. To do this, settler colonialists have to get rid of the native people, their physical evidence, their history and their memory.
→ read full articleThe Hague Ruling: A Dangerous Step toward War in the South China Sea
Peter Symonds | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
The hypocrisy involved is staggering. The United States has nothing but contempt for international law and has never been called to account by any UN tribunal for its illegal wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, which have resulted in the deaths of millions. As part of its “pivot to Asia” against China, the Obama administration is chiefly responsible for transforming longstanding, low-key regional disputes in the South China Sea into a dangerous flashpoint that threatens to trigger a new and even more devastating war.
→ read full articleHeaven and Hell
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
St. Peter showed a visitor heaven and hell.
→ read full articleWhen Law Is Not Justice
Brad Evans and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak – The New York Times,
18 Jul 2016
“Reasonable” versus “unreasonable” violence: When dealing with violence deemed unreasonable, the dominating groups demonize violent responses, saying that “those other people are just like that,” not just that they are worth less, but also that they are essentially evil, essentially criminal or essentially have a religion that is prone to killing. And yet, on the other side, state-legitimized violence, considered “reasonable” by many, is altogether more frightening.
→ read full articleHow a Modest Contract for ‘Applied Research’ Morphed into the CIA’s Brutal Interrogation Program
Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
18 Jul 2016
In fact, the CIA already had a specific consultant in mind, and the agreement to pay $1,000 a day to psychologist James E. Mitchell subsequently expanded into an $81 million arrangement to oversee the use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other harrowing techniques against al-Qaeda suspects in secret agency prisons overseas.
→ read full articleHow the Hague Ruling against China Could Spell Trouble for Japan
Julian Ryall – South China Morning Post,
18 Jul 2016
Japan has built structures on uninhabited rocks 1,740 km from Tokyo to mark its territory – just like China has done in the South China Sea. The Hague ruling completely delegitimises Japan’s claim to those waters. — Stephen Nagy
→ read full articleRemembering the Price of Bush, Blair’s 2003 Iraq War
Mohamed Hemish – teleSUR,
18 Jul 2016
5 Jul 2016 – “I’ll be with you, come what may.” These were the words that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair uttered in April 2002 to his partner in crime, former United States President George W. Bush, before they carried out the Iraq invasion a year later and unleashed a series of irreversible tragedies that Iraqis and neighboring Syrians are suffering from to this day.
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Tears in Heaven (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Eric Clapton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
“Tears in Heaven” is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother’s friend, on March 20, 1991.
→ read full articleRio Tinto (the River, the Mine and the Corporation): Still Polluting After All These Years (5,000 Years Later, That Is)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
BHP Billiton was responsible for Brazil’s largest environmental disaster in history when, on November 5, 2015, two of the dams encompassing its toxic tailings ponds burst, suddenly releasing uncounted millions of tons of poisonous slurry into the Rio Doce river (ironically, doce means “sweet” in Portuguese), killing all aquatic life downstream and wounding many local people. The huge amount of poisons suddenly released have likely permanently polluted the waters of the once drinkable and fishable 300 mile long river all the way to the Atlantic Ocean).
→ read full articleWhy Has NATO Chosen Russia as Its Enemy Instead of ISIS?
Bryan MacDonald – Russia Today,
18 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 – According to statements made at last weekend’s summit in Warsaw, NATO regards Russia as a bigger threat than ISIS. Of course, that’s ludicrous but when you scratch beneath the surface, the use of these falsehoods makes perverted sense.
→ read full article(Français) L’Islam comme nouvel ennemi
Saïd Bouamama | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
17 Juil 2016 – Investig’Action propose à ses lecteurs de lire ou relire cet article en lien avec l’actualité.
→ read full articleThe Religious Cult Secretly Running Japan
Jake Adelstein and Mari Yamamoto – The Daily Beast,
18 Jul 2016
10 Jul 2016 — A conservative Shinto cult dating back to the 1970s, which includes Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and many of his cabinet among its adherents, finally has been dragged out of the shadows. Nippon Kaigi aims to return Japan to pre-WWII imperial ‘glory.’ Today’s elections may further its goal.
→ read full articleThe Network: Leaked Data Reveals How the U.S. Trains Vast Numbers of Foreign Soldiers and Police with Little Oversight
Douglas Gillison, Nick Turse and Moiz Syed – The Intercept,
18 Jul 2016
A Rand Corp. analysis from 2013 found that the Pentagon alone has 71 different authorities under which it provides foreign aid as a means of “building partner capacity,” or BPC — part of a system that the report criticized as akin to “a tangled web, with holes, overlaps, and confusions.” The Pentagon, for example, maintains no master list of the people it trains nor does it keep aggregate figures.
→ read full article(Italiano) il Culto Del Duce E L’arte Del Consenso. Studio Preparatorio Per Una Mostra Improbabile. Parte Seconda
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Ora, se la ripetizione per 53 volte del soggetto Mussolini, non è esaltazione di un esponente del fascismo, ancorché indiretta, che cosa è, come si configura, che cosa produce nel visitatore dell’esposizione, di cui sopra, a livello subliminale?
→ read full article(Italiano) E la Russia e la Cina oggi?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Sullo sfondo ci sono i due più importanti partiti comunisti al mondo. Il Partito Comunista-Bolscevico Russo fece la rivoluzione del 1917; dal 1922 Partito Comunista dell’Unione Sovietica, CPSU(b). Il CPC, il Partito Comunista Cinese, che sta celebrando il suo 95° anniversario, fece la rivoluzione del 1° Ottobre 1949. Avvenimenti che hanno scosso il mondo, nel più grande stato del mondo per superficie e nel più grande stato del mondo per popolazione.
→ read full articleNo Longer a Conspiracy Theory: CIA Director Admits Plans of Aerosol Spraying for Geoengineering
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
“Another example is the array of technologies—often referred to collectively as geoengineering—that potentially could help reverse the warming effects of global climate change. One that has gained my personal attention is stratospheric aerosol injection, or SAI, a method of seeding the stratosphere with particles that can help reflect the sun’s heat, in much the same way that volcanic eruptions do.”
→ read full articleThe War on Weed Part II: Monsanto, Bayer, and the Push for Corporate Cannabis
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
California’s “Adult Use of Marijuana Act” is a voter initiative characterized as legalizing marijuana use. But critics warn that it will actually make access more difficult and expensive, squeeze home growers and small farmers out of the market, heighten criminal sanctions for violations, and open the door to patented, genetically modified versions that must be purchased year after year.
→ read full articleConsciousness: Why Materialism Fails
Larry Dossey, M.D. | Open Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
A growing number of scientists are now busily rummaging around in the brain trying to explain how the trick of consciousness is done. Researchers have come forward with a range of theories that purport to explain, in one way or another, consciousness as an epiphenomenon of physical and chemical processes taking place in the brain — and all fail utterly. They fail not because their models are insufficiently accurate or detailed, but because they are trying to do what is, from the outset, impossible. — Astrophysicist David Darling
→ read full articleSocial Democracy
Lane Kenworthy | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Not Socialism, and Coming to America – What changes are needed in the current system? Here I’ll take the contemporary United States as my reference point. The chief changes lie in the realm of social policy.
→ read full articleUnintended Consequences and the Warfare State
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
As the Chilcot Commission has just concluded after a seven-year long investigation of British policy, bad judgment was multiplied by hubris, a deeply flawed decision-making process, and an unquestioned faith in the ability of military power to resolve political and economic problems…. At bottom the arrogance of power is the enemy, and the Chilcot Report provides no antidote for it.
→ read full article(Français) Fidel Castro, artisan de la paix en Colombie
teleSUR | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Que la paix en Colombie soit signée à Cuba n’est pas un hasard. La paix en Colombie a toujours été l’un des engagements du Commandant de la Révolution Cubaine. Il lui a consacré autant d ‘efforts qu’à la chute de l’Apartheid en Afrique du Sud, à la libération de l’ Angola ou à l’indépendance de la Namibie et d’autres nations africaines.
→ read full articleSmearing BDS Supporters
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
The misappropriation of anti-Semitism as a propaganda weapon to smear pro-Palestinian activists, especially those supportive of the BDS Campaign. Also the issues of representation by explaining the formal differences between the PLO and PA, which do not seem presently consequential in my understanding.
→ read full articleGoing Green: Morocco Bans Use of Plastic Bags
Aida Alami – Al Jazeera,
11 Jul 2016
As a ban on the production and use of plastic bags comes into effect across Morocco on Friday [1 Jul], green campaigners say that the country’s consumers may need years to fully comply with the new law. A landmark bill passed by the Moroccan parliament last October banned the production, import, sale and distribution of plastic bags across the country.
→ read full articleDeath in Black and White
Michael Eric Dyson – The New York Times,
11 Jul 2016
7 Jul 2016 – We, black America, are a nation of nearly 40 million souls inside a country of more than 320 million people. And I fear now that it is clearer than ever that you, white America, will always struggle to understand us. But there’s one thing most of us agree on: We don’t want cops to be executed at a peaceful protest. We also don’t want cops to kill us without fear that they will ever face a jury, much less go to jail, even as the world watches our death on a homemade video recording. This is a difficult point to make as a racial crisis flares around us.
→ read full articleNetherlands Closes Down 19 Prisons for Lack of Prisoners
Stephen Zoure | Ultimate FM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
7 Jul 2016 – The Netherlands will close 19 of its prisons over the next few years because the cost of maintaining them is too high. The reason that the prisons aren’t cost-efficient, however, is something of a national blessing: thanks to the country’s steadily declining crime rate, thousands of prison cells are going unused.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Jul 11-17 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Recently, I’ve come to realize; some people have eagle potential, but a chicken mind. They are well equipped to reach maximum levels of success, but they have determined within themselves to stay in a safe place of comfort… The eagle mentality soars high going beyond the call of duty. It does not believe in impossibilities. It defies all reason and logic; taking bold risks without the fear of failure… The eagle realizes if it begins to dive, all it has to do is open its wings and it will fly… The eagle was somewhat sad for the chicken. However, having an eagle’s mentality is to know when to let those who choose to remain in a state of bareness; go… Greatness will take you to places where others do not dare or are not permitted to go. Allow your thoughts to take you to heights of greatness.” – Latrina Johnson
→ read full articleGlyphosate Sprayed on GMO Crops Linked to Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae Bloom
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Glyphosate, the controversial main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup and other herbicides, is being connected to Lake Erie’s troubling algae blooms, which has fouled drinking water and suffocated and killed marine life in recent years.
→ read full articleMissile Proliferation—And Ideas That Might Work
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu | Brookings India Center - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
11 Jul 2016
Missiles pose at least three sets of challenges to international peace and security, and creating a global regime to control or eliminate nuclear-capable missiles is easier said than done. Is it too late for missile nonproliferation?
→ read full articleCampaign Nonviolence: A Growing Movement for a Culture of Nonviolence
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
From the increased involvement in Campaign Nonviolence, the grassroots movement that organized more than 375 actions in a single week in all 50 states and seven countries to end all forms of violence, it appears that many Americans are serious about creating a culture of active nonviolence.
→ read full articleBlood Spills on to the Shores of the Danish Faroe Islands in the First Pilot Whale Slaughter of the Year
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
6 Jul 2016 – The ordeal began this morning when locals spotted a pod of between 100-150 pilot whales passing by Svínoy. Several boats then drove the pod of whales approximately 11 kilometres to Hvannasund, where the whales were forced to beach, and slaughtered by locals. Faroese media outlets have confirmed between 30-50 pilot whales have been killed.
→ read full articleIf Afghan Lives Mattered, Dallas Lives Would Matter
David Swanson | Let’s Try Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
8 Jul 2016 – The man who murdered police officers in Dallas, Texas, this week had earlier been employed in a massive operation, now in its 15th year, that has killed many thousands of people in Afghanistan. He was trained to kill by the U.S. military and was conditioned to believe violence an appropriate response to violence by the examples everywhere to be found in U.S. public policy, history, entertainment, and language.
→ read full articleThe Judgement of History
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
7 Jul 2016 – Little is more corrosive of democracy than impunity. When politicians do terrible things and suffer no consequences, people lose trust in both politics and justice. Justice is inseparable from democracy. If a prime minister can avoid indictment for waging aggressive war, the entire body politic is corrupted. In the Chilcot report, there is a reckoning, firm and tough and long overdue. But it’s still not justice.
→ read full articleFemale Infanticide Worldwide: The Case for Action by the UN Human Rights Council
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
India ranked No.4, Liechtenstein No.1 in skewed child sex ratio at birth. Releasing its report, “Female Infanticide Worldwide”, the first ever global study on the issue, ACHR stated that female infanticide for son preference due to variety of reasons is a worldwide phenomenon with 1.5 million female foetuses being aborted every year.
→ read full articleNATO’s War Summit in Warsaw
Alex Lantier | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
The full list of targets identified in NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s opening remarks spans much of the globe. NATO would step up military action in Iraq and Syria and expand its deployments in the Mediterranean and across NATO’s entire “neighborhood.” NATO plans for military action in countries ranging from Libya to Georgia and Ukraine, Afghanistan and the regions bordering China are to be the subject of extensive discussion in Warsaw.
→ read full articleHenry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Born in 1817, one of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
→ read full article5 Confirmed False Flag Operations and How to Spot Them in the Future
Anti-Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
In spite of being labeled “conspiracy theories,” real, verifiable false flag events have taken place in the past. Such examples serve to dismantle the notion that false flags are meritless conspiracy theories and can help destigmatize the concept itself, providing the diagnostic lens needed to identify false flags when they arise.
→ read full articleLife after Death—Reviving Vulnerable Languages
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Like living beings, languages spoken by people also die and become extinct. There are thousands of languages and dialects in the world.
→ read full articleWhy Arms Control Is the Enemy of Nuclear Disarmament
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
No First Use: Arms Control versus Disarmament Perspectives
→ read full articleWashington’s ‘New Managers’ in Latin America: Oligarchs, Bankers and Swindlers
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Amid raging corruption, social pathologies and outright political thuggery, a new gang of vassal regimes has taken-over Latin America. The new rulers are strictly recruited as the protégé’s of US financial and banking institutions. Hence, the financial press refers to them as the “new managers” – of Wall Street.
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Another One Bites the Dust (Music Video of the Week)
QueenvsTheMiami – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Queen ~ The Miami Project performing Another One Bites the Dust. With Freddie Mercury 1st & Only.
→ read full articleBiodiversity, GMOs, Gene Drives and the Militarised Mind
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Gene Drives have been called “mutagenic chain reactions”, and are to the biological world what chain reactions are to the nuclear world. The Guardian describes Gene Drives as the “gene bomb”. Kevin Esvelt of MIT exclaims “a release anywhere is likely to be a release everywhere”, and asks “Do you really have the right to run an experiment where if you screw up, it affects the whole world?”
→ read full articleA New Declaration of Independence
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
The US has entered the Orwellian Era of permanent war—until we decide that it’s over…. Time for a Declaration of Independence from foreign military disasters.
→ read full article(Português) Doença respiratória atinge cerca de 500 mil trabalhadores da mineração no Brasil
Márcio Zonta – Brasil de Fato,
11 Jul 2016
O número de trabalhadores da mineração no Brasil que têm silicose (doença respiratória que causa fibrose pulmonar pela inalação de partículas contendo dióxido de silício e poeiras minerais) chega a 500 mil nas empresas de extração mineral e garimpo. Nova Lima enterra cotidianamente vítimas de silicose; falta de indenização e ônus ao Estado são “heranças” da mineração.
→ read full articleVariations of Brexit
TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Domino Effect
→ read full article(Português) José Oiticica definia o consumo de carne como um vício social
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Para o escritor e anarquista, a saúde humana deve envolver a alimentação vegetariana.
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