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(Italiano) era un giorno qualsiasi …al centro studi sereno regis di torino _21 febbraio 2017
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
25 febbraio 2017 – Presentazione del libro di Lorenzo Guadagnucci “Era un giorno qualsiasi. Sant’Anna di Stazzema, la strage del’44 e la ricerca della verità. Una storia lunga tre generazioni.
→ read full articleUN Declares War on Ocean Plastic
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
27 Feb 2017
According to estimates, at the rate we are dumping items such as plastic bottles, bags and cups after a single use, by 2050 oceans will carry more plastic than fish and an estimated 99 per cent of seabirds will have ingested plastic. Microplastics in oceans outnumber stars in our galaxy by 500 times.
→ read full articleHarry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier: Soul Brothers
Charles M. Blow – The New York Times,
27 Feb 2017
Please allow me to divert my gaze for one day away from our national political darkness and toward two national rays of light. Monday [20 Feb] is Sidney Poitier’s 90th birthday. His best friend of 70 years, Harry Belafonte, turns 90 on March 1. This is an ode to and appreciation of the friendship — one of the most remarkable and resilient of our time — between two Hollywood royals. Happy birthday, gentlemen!
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Give a Little Bit (Music Video of the Week)
Roger Hodgson | Summar Festivalur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Faroe Islands: What a night! For the first time ever, Roger Hodgson, legendary singer/songwriter and formerly of Supertramp, gave a concert at 4:00AM! Due to multiple plane delays that were out of his control, he arrived extremely late and people were waiting!
→ read full articleAnd Flight
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
I bartered for a simple skiff,
Birdsong had begun to flag when I set out
Keen again upon the open seas
The Science of Knowing God
Navina Syama Dasa | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Two doctrines present major obstacles to conventional science as a way to know God. The first is naturalism: all natural phenomena have natural causes. (Natural in this context means empirically observable, or perceivable through the five senses.) The second is the doctrine of falsification: if scientist A makes some claim but there is no way for scientist B to show that it is wrong, then the claim is considered unscientific. So where does that leave us, the spiritually inquisitive rationalists? Can the investigation of God through the method of Krishna Consciousness really be called scientific?
→ read full articleFukushima: A Lurking Global Catastrophe?
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
19 Feb 2017 – Year over year, ever since 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown grows worse and worse, an ugly testimonial to the inherent danger of generating electricity via nuclear fission, which produces isotopes, some of the most deadly poisonous elements on the face of the planet.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Feb 27-Mar 5~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
→ read full articleTrump Administration Revokes Transgender Rights Guidance Issued by Obama Administration
Shelley Connor | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – In May 2016 President Barack Obama instructed public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom they felt most comfortable using. On February 22, President Trump rescinded the instructions, arguing that states and public schools have a right to discriminate against transgender students without interference from the federal government.
→ read full articleDeep State
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Deep State stretched its paws over the world’s heart;
Purred…. Deep State purred in the mind’s mazes, curled
Unique Aleppo Photos Seen by over 100.000 People but Not in Mainstream Media
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
21 Feb 2017 – It’s probably unusual that a research organisation’s photos go viral – and do so in spite of the mainstream media’s manifest lack of interest in their story. But the photos I took in Aleppo in Syria December 10-14, 2016 have been seen here by well over 100.000 people around the world, exclusively by organic, non-paid online sharing.
→ read full articleThe Rise of One-Person Households
Joseph Chamie – Inter Press Service-IPS,
27 Feb 2017
The proportion of people who live alone has grown steadily over the recent past. Since the 1960s one-person households in many countries have increased substantially. In many European countries as well as in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States, the proportion of one-person households has more than doubled.
→ read full articleDecade after Putin Shook Munich, Lavrov Indicates ‘Post-West’ Is Now a Thing in Moscow
Bryan MacDonald – Russia Today,
27 Feb 2017
Understanding the intentions of Russian leaders is easy these days, you just have to listen to what they say. This isn’t understood in the West, where policymakers and the media haven’t moved on from the Cold War and foolishly regard Russia as more mysterious than it is.
→ read full articleExpressing Needs
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
A father and mother quarreled again, as they did frequently. He had forgotten to take out the garbage, and she whined,
→ read full articleRoberto Assagioli (27 Feb 1888 – Aug 1974): Synthesis of the Kundalini Ascent
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Roberto Assagioli was an Italian psychotherapist, father of an approach called “Psychosynthesis”, a younger collaborator of C.G. Jung and S. Freud before the break in approach between Jung and Freud. Although Assagioli is closer in spirit to the work of Jung, he is often considered as the person who introduced the thinking of Freud to Italians.
→ read full articleFriendship in Defiance of War: Review of ‘Never Can I Write of Damascus’
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
21 Feb 2017 – Bringing to the fore an under-told story: Before making their home in Damascus, Gabe Huck and Theresa Kubasak had regularly visited Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, where they developed lasting friendships and deepened cultural awareness. Iraq was steadily deteriorating under thirteen years of U.S./UN imposed economic sanctions.
→ read full articleThe Health Risks of Depleted Uranium in Hawaii
Carol Murry, Douglas Rokke, Lorrin Pang and Michael Reimer | Civil Beat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
More than 50 years of bombing at Pohakuloa Training Area, increased traffic on the new Saddle Road passing through PTA, combined with strong winds in the area and occasional flash flooding have provided increased potential pathways of public exposure to DU aerosol particles and potential transport of DU around the island. Furthermore, military and civilian work forces are possibly exposed daily, families and visitors picnic in the area, and a county park and Girl Scout camps are nearby.
→ read full articleTrump Wants to Make Sure U.S. Nuclear Arsenal at ‘Top of the Pack’
Steve Holland | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
“I am the first one that would like to see … nobody have nukes, but we’re never going to fall behind any country even if it’s a friendly country, we’re never going to fall behind on nuclear power. It would be wonderful, a dream would be that no country would have nukes, but if countries are going to have nukes, we’re going to be at the top of the pack,” Trump said.
→ read full articleWe Set Foot again on Same Rake…
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
We set foot again on same rake,
We hear the clash of the same bloody swords,
North Dakota Senate Passes Bills Criminalizing Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
Shelley Connor | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
On Thursday [16 Feb 2017], North Dakota’s Senate passed three separate bills aimed directly at anti-DAPL protesters. The bills significantly curtail protest rights and impose stiff penalties on protesters who run afoul of local or state law enforcement. One bill imposes sentencing of up to 20 years in prison.
→ read full articleKeep Focus on Aleppo and Global Dimensions of Syria
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 – Three Perspectives on the Syrian Conflict Formation – The Syrian conflict formation is hugely more complicated than we’ve been told by Western politicians (all mainstream in spite of democratic features) and mainstream/dependent media.
→ read full articleThe Migrant Slave Trade Is Booming in Libya. Why Is the World Ignoring It?
Ross Kemp – The Guardian,
27 Feb 2017
I’ve seen the dangerous route to Europe through Libya, with thousands of people at the mercy of cruelty for profit. But our leaders prefer to keep them there.
→ read full articleUnited Nations Declaration of Human Rights – Analysing Its Benefits and Shortcomings
Dr Ravi P Bhatia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
The Committee met a few times and finally a Declaration was agreed to, encompassing the objectives of the Charter to restore peace and harmony and promote human rights. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was finally approved without any dissensions on 10 December 1948.
→ read full articleAssessing the War on Terror
Edited by Charles Webel and Mark Tomass – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
This volume is a collection of articles that critically examine the efficacy, ethics, and impact of the War on Terror as it has evolved since 9/11. It will be of much interest to students and scholars of terrorism and counter-terrorism, foreign policy, Middle Eastern politics, security studies and IR, as well as policy makers.
→ read full articleCapitalocene or Anthropocene?
Benjamin Kunkel | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Ecologically the Anthropocene is here to stay, but just how it unfolds over coming generations will be decided by whether, politically, it remains the Capitalocene (‘privileging the endless accumulation of capital’) or becomes for the first time a properly political Anthropocene, in which the interests of humanity as a whole chart our ecological course.
→ read full article(Français) Le cabinet de copains de Trump a peut-être l’air très fort, mais ces gens ont peur
Naomi Klein | Solidaire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
L’activiste canadienne Naomi Klein voit dans le nouveau gouvernement des États-Unis un coup d’État très clair des grandes entreprises. Dans un article qu’elle a écrit pour The Nation et que nous publions ci-dessous traduit en français, elle explique comment ce coup d’État a été inspiré par la peur. En effet, dans le monde entier, l’influence des mouvements sociaux qui menacent les intérêts de l’establishment ne cessent de croître. Klein estime donc que ces mouvements ont désormais une tâche difficile mais nécessaire. Et que « nous pouvons toujours les vaincre ».
→ read full articlePeace between China and Japan
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Keynote: New Vision of Peace in East Asia; Sino-Japanese Peace Dialogue – Nanjing, 22-23 Feb 2017 – As Buddhist philosophy teaches, peace, like violence and conflict, is a relation; not an attribute of China or Japan. As Daoist philosophy teaches, in a holon like East Asia there are forces and counterforces, yin/yang, with yin and yang in both, &c.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre produtos de higiene pessoal e cadáveres de animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
É difícil acreditar que alguém esteja realmente se higienizando ao usar um produto que tem em sua composição algo que é extraído de cadáveres de animais.
→ read full articleNepal: Realising Peace Potential of Constitution
Tatsushi Arai – The Kathmandu Post,
27 Feb 2017
Recognising both new and historical aspirations of New Delhi and Beijing for regional security, resource and market access, and international respect, Nepal’s foreign and defence policy must build on a balanced and practical understanding of the dynamic tension and partnership between its two giant neighbours. Shared commitment to managing divisive identity politics, inter-party competition and foreign interests is essential.
→ read full articleExcuse me? Come again?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Refugees in the Americas
→ read full articleFriendly American Fascism: It Doesn’t Seem so Friendly Anymore
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Hard right-wing political parties in American have been around forever, but they have always been numerically insignificant – until now. Citizens who meet the definition of fascist have come out of the shadows in the US since Donald Trump started campaigning for president of the United States.
→ read full articleThe Brazilian Hangover: When the Party Ends
Ramon Blanco – Al Jazeera,
27 Feb 2017
Brazil is expected to have a significant role in international politics. However, the crisis that the country is currently going through structurally prevents it from fulfilling this expectation. Brazil is melting down, to put it softly. A euphemistic image is that the country is waking up after a huge party, with a terrible hangover, and now has to face a very hard reality.
→ read full articleHow We Got Here: The Misuse of American Military Power and the Middle East in Chaos
Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch,
27 Feb 2017
21 Feb 2017 – The United States has already lost — its war for the Middle East, that is. Unfortunately, it’s evidently still not clear in Washington. Bush’s neo-imperial triumphalism failed. Obama’s quiet shift to drones, Special Forces, and clandestine executive actions didn’t turn the tide either. For all President Trump’s bluster, boasting, and threats, rest assured that, at best, he’ll barely move the needle and, at worst… but why even go there?
→ read full articleHaiti 2017: From Demonstration Election to Electoral Coup
Charlie Hinton | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Haiti moves into 2017 with a “president” who would never have won an honest election. A tiny number of ruling families backed by the United States, Canada, and France, operating through a United Nations military occupation, has imposed an imperial ruler on an unwilling population through a process they call an “election.” Everyone in Haiti knows this, but outside we don’t.
→ read full articleA New Relevance for India’s Moderate Madrasas
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
West Bengal has become the first state to begin the modernization of the traditional madrasas with the support from central government. As a result nearly 600 government recognized madrasas have modern curriculum. They offer courses in physics, chemistry, biology, geography, mathematics, computer science, English language and literature and other regular subjects.
→ read full articleImpact Investing and Venture Philanthropy’s Role in Sowing the Seeds of Financial Opportunity
Tim Scott | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
17 Feb 2017 – In the late 19th century many U.S. industrialists – Andrew Carnegie, John Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and others – who amassed immense wealth through the exploitation and degradation of workers (including children), began to establish philanthropic trusts and foundations.
→ read full articleBruce Lee’s Never before Revealed Letters to Himself about Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
“I have come to accept life as a process and am satisfied that in my ever-going process, I am constantly discovering, expanding, finding the cause of my ignorance, in martial art and especially in life. In short, to be real… Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being.”
→ read full articleDocuments Indicate Germany Spied on Foreign Journalists
Maik Baumgärtner, Martin Knobbe and Jörg Schindler – Der Spiegel,
27 Feb 2017
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, apparently spied on large numbers of foreign journalists overseas over the course of several years, including employees of the BBC, Reuters and the New York Times. Critics see a massive violation of press freedoms.
→ read full articleFamine Threatens Millions in the Horn of Africa as Washington Prepares Expanded War in Somalia
Thomas Gaist |WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
21 Feb 2017 – Even as starvation and malnutrition threaten more than 10 million lives in the Horn of Africa countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, the United States and its allies are preparing a massive expansion of military operations throughout the region.
→ read full articleThe Cancer of War: U.S. Admits to Using Radioactive Munitions in Syria
Anti-Media News Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – The innocent citizens of Syria will be forced to endure increased risks of cancer, birth defects, and other disease related to exposure to radioactive materials. Depleted uranium has a half-life in the hundreds of millions of years. Damage to Syrian territory will thus continue long after anyone involved in current hostilities is dead.
→ read full articleLines of Descent: The Emergence of Identity – Who Was W.E.B. Du Bois?
Nicholas Lemann | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
The supposedly scientific way of thinking about race predictably went along with the idea that Negroes were genetically inferior; and
another part of this package of received wisdom a century ago was the idea that Africa had no history or culture. That helped make Europeans comfortable with colonizing Africa, as they were then doing.
Meanwhile in Heaven…
Submitted by Charles Mercieca – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
After having died, George Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump show up for an interview with God.
→ read full article10 Questions for William Blum
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
I first met writer/journalist/historian/thinker/activist William [Bill] Blum 11 years ago. Blum and I have broken bread together, attended anti-war rallies, sometimes seeing eye-to-eye and sometimes “I”-to-“I.” In a recent piece by Theodore Sayeed, Blum is described as a kind of living encyclopedia of the “peace movement.”
→ read full articleSleepwalking into a Nuclear Arms Race with Russia
Pierre M. Sprey and Franklin “Chuck” Spinney - CounterPunch,
27 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 – The Nuclear Question is becoming increasingly obfuscated by spin and lobbying as the West sleepwalks into Cold War II. For patriotic Americans interested in increasing their real national security (rather than their national security budget), the nuclear issue boils down to a question of understanding.
→ read full articleInaugural Permanent People’s Tribunal on Myanmar Atrocity Crimes
Astro Awani Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 – The Rome-based Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) will be holding the inaugural session of its first-ever Tribunal on Myanmar at Queen Mary University of London International State Crime Initiative on 6 and 7 March.
→ read full articleTrump–Putin Could Rescue the World Taking the Advice of Alfred Nobel
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
In the will he used the term “the prize for the champions of peace,” and the correspondence with Bertha von Suttner, the great peace movement leader of the period, shows that it was her political ideas and political friends he wished to support – abolishing weapons and warriors as the tool to get an end to war. This means that almost all statesmen and generals who have received Nobel honors from the Oslo committee have been — considering the actual intention of Alfred Nobel — illegitimate winners.
→ read full article(Italiano) Democrazia in evoluzione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Immaginiamo un popolo che dia per scontato che ci siano due, solo due, versanti a qualunque contesa; uno giusto, uno sbagliato; ove non ci sia compromesso, la si giochi a duello, e chi vince ne decide il risultato. Questo copione controlla la gente. Potere al popolo, suona bene, ma che genere di popolo?
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Globo e Folha sofrem censura de Temer e juiz, e apagam reportagens. Nós publicamos o que foi proibido.
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Em Defesa de Uma Imprensa Livre sem a Censura do Estado – Como um dos objetivos da criação do The Intercept era defender e apoiar a liberdade de imprensa em todo o mundo, estamos publicando os materiais censurados para que possam ser analisados pelo público.
→ read full article(Français) Les risques du libre-échange
Elisabeth Beague | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Les accords de libre-échange (TTIP, CETA, TISA et tous les autres accords bilatéraux et multilatéraux sur le commerce et les investissements), concoctés « discrètement » depuis 2013 et largement contestés ces derniers temps, sont-ils compatibles avec les mesures ratifiées dans le Traité de Lisbonne par les pays constituant l’Union Européenne ? Il semble bien que non. Car, quoi que l’on pense de ce Traité de Lisbonne (qui a été signé de façon parfaitement antidémocratique), celui-ci reconnaît pourtant explicitement le principe de précaution.
→ read full articleChelsea Manning: To Those Who Kept Me Alive All These Years, Thank You
Chelsea E Manning – The Guardian,
20 Feb 2017
13 Feb 2017 – When I was afraid, you taught me how to keep going. When I was lost, you showed me the way. To those who have kept me alive for the past six years: minutes after President Obama announced the commutation of my sentence, the prison quickly moved me out of general population and into the restrictive housing unit where I am now held.
→ read full articleCongress Says, Let the Mentally Ill Buy Guns
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 – For all their dysfunction, the Republican Senate and House have managed to act with lightning speed in striking down a sensible Obama administration rule designed to stop people with severe mental problems from buying guns. They did the gun lobby’s bidding in passing a regressive measure that President Trump is expected to sign.
→ read full articleIsrael Wants Settlements, Not Peace
Rami Hamdallah – Al Jazeera,
20 Feb 2017
With each new settlement, the prospect of peace and the formation of a Palestinian state become even more unattainable. Israel is above international law, or so it seems. On Dec 23, the United Nations Security Council passed resolution 2334, re-affirming the illegality of Israeli settlements.
→ read full article(Português) Defender os animais de maus-tratos é humano
Iara M.E. Marubayashi | Novo Momento – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
13 fevereiro 2017 – Recentemente houve ataques às pessoas que se indignaram e protestaram contra os maus-tratos a um cão, revelados por um vídeo que a produção diz ter sido manipulado, do filme ‘Quatro vidas de um cachorro’.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dal mito della scienza oggettiva alla costruzione di una scienza nonviolenta
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
20 Feb 2017
8 febbraio 2017 – Questo testo riprende quanto ho esposto in una breve presentazione il 4 febbraio 2017, in occasione del Convegno “Gli occhiali di Nanni”. La mia presentazione si è basata in prevalenza su citazioni di scritti di Nanni Salio, selezionati in base a ricordi personali di una collaborazione con lui che è durata alcuni decenni.
→ read full articleDisqualify “The White Helmets” for an Oscar
Paul Larudee | Syria Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The Syria Solidarity Movement® advises disqualification of the film “The White Helmets” for a 2017 Academy Award. It has been nominated in the category of Short Documentary. The problems with this film:
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Feb 20-26 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You’re never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.” – Bikram Choudhury
→ read full articleNot So Innocent
David S. Foglesong | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Trump and Putin have an important opportunity to work together against international terrorism, nuclear proliferation, drug trafficking and other threats. That chance may be missed if journalists and politicians persist in vilifying Putin and harassing Trump with charges that he is Putin’s puppet.
→ read full article(Italiano) Seminare il futuro, seminare la libertà – un seme per volta
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
L’umanità si trova di fronte a un bivio della sua evoluzione. Possiamo scegliere la via dell’”Unità” (“Oneness”), consapevoli del nostro essere parte di Un Pianeta, di Una Umanità, e vivere celebrando le nostre molte diversità, interconnesse attraverso legami di compassione, interdipendenza, solidarietà. O…
→ read full articleSea Ice around Antarctica Hits Record Low, Preliminary U.S. Data Show
Alister Doyle | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Sea ice around Antarctica has shrunk to the smallest annual extent on record, preliminary U.S. satellite data showed on Tuesday [14 Feb 2017]. In many recent years, the average extent of sea ice around Antarctica has tended to expand despite the overall trend of global warming. People skeptical of findings by climate scientists have often pointed to Antarctic sea ice as evidence against global warming.
→ read full articleA Response to a Radio Interview with Two Academic Psychiatrists
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Tom, at the end of the radio program this morning, many of your listeners will surely have come to the mistaken conclusion that the solution to the vast problem of pervasive adolescent female sadness isn’t to logically address the obvious potentially preventable causes of mental ill health. I got the impression that the solution was to get them seem by a prescribing psychiatrist and “get them treated with drugs!”
→ read full articleCIA Espionage Orders for the 2012 French Presidential Election (in English and in French)
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
16 February, 2017 – All major French political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIA’s human (“HUMINT”) and electronic (“SIGINT”) spies in the seven months leading up to France’s 2012 presidential election. The revelations are contained within three CIA tasking orders published today by WikiLeaks as context for its forth coming CIA Vault 7 series.
→ read full articleRegional Actors Should Take a Stand against Myanmar
Priyamvada Gopal – Al Jazeera,
20 Feb 2017
15 Feb 2017 – Even by the standards of a region that has seen more than its fair share of xenophobic violence, forced migrations and displacements, the grim plight of the Rohingya of Myanmar stands out as an abomination of the worst sort. India and other South Asian nations should be unambiguous in their condemnation of Myanmar.
→ read full articleMystery Messages Engraved into Scotland’s Rocks up to 5,000 Years Ago Might Soon Be Unveiled Using 3D Scans
The Vintage News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Recently, a new project has launched an attempt to finally solve the mysteries of prehistoric stone carvings. Using 3D scanning to record and examine more than 2,000 carvings around the country, specialists are creating a new digital database of the mysterious etchings.
→ read full articleIsrael Legalizes Settlement Options as a Prelude to the Netanyahu Visit to Trumpland
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
13 Feb 2017 – Responses to four questions posed by Rodrigo Craveiro, a journalist from the Brazilian newspaper Correio Braziliense.
→ read full articleChina, the Party-Corporate Complex
Yi-Zheng Lian – The New York Times,
20 Feb 2017
In Dec 2016, 15 years after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, the European Union, the United States and Japan formally refused to grant Beijing the coveted label, denying it important concessions on tariffs and other trade restrictions. This is partly a response to economic distortions caused by government intervention.
→ read full articleThis Is What Imperialism Does to Men
Ernesto Che Guevara – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
11 Dec 1964, 19th UN General Assembly, New York – We would like to see this Assembly shake itself out of complacency and move forward. We would like to see the committees begin their work and not stop at the first confrontation. Imperialism wants to turn this meeting into a pointless oratorical tournament, instead of solving the serious problems of the world. We must prevent it from doing so. This session of the Assembly should not be remembered in the future solely by the number 19 that identifies it. Our efforts are directed to that end.
→ read full articleNew US Administration Finds Political Foundation in Creaky Culture Theory
Terence McNamee – Sunday Times,
20 Feb 2017
15 Feb 2017 – Twenty-five years have passed since Samuel Huntington first hypothesised a world torn asunder by clashing civilisations. After a lengthy sabbatical, the late Harvard political scientist is back in favour at the White House. President Donald Trump’s closest advisers are big fans. Prominent in the 1990s and resurrected after 9/11, academic’s predictions have returned.
→ read full articleThe Plight of India’s Small Farmers
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The Green Revolution in the 1970s relied on high-yielding seeds, irrigation, fertilizers and pesticides to increase agricultural productivity, but took a heavy toll on the land and water resources of the country, reducing long-term productivity levels.
→ read full articleGHA 12th Anniversary: Spherons of Global Peace and their Science
Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Looking back on the 12-year history of the Global Harmony Association, we ask ourselves: What is our main result? For 12 years we have created eight books and more than 50 projects of global peace from harmony.
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Baby I Love Your Way (Music Video of the Week)
Peter Frampton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
A Classic from ‘76 – Live on The Midnight Special…
→ read full articleHistory: Epochs or Trends–Medieval Spain
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Visions of the Past for Constructing a Future: Historiography of Spain – History unfolds over or in time, the basic variable, the X axis. The events are points. The trends are curves of any shape, not necessarily continuous, could also be “jumpy”. And the permanents are horizontal lines set at a certain value. Points, curves, lines; with texts indicative of highly complex proactio-actio-reactio relations.
→ read full article(Português) Os perigos escondidos das lâmpadas LED revelados por um especialista em fotobiologia
Dr. Alexander Wunsch | Cura pela Natureza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
“Lâmpadas LED são prejudiciais à saúde física, mental, da retina, e também aos hormônios”, diz o Dr. Alexander Wunsch.
→ read full articleIndigenous Peoples Lands Guard 80 Per Cent of World’s Biodiversity
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
20 Feb 2017
9 Feb 2017 – They are more than 370 million self-identified peoples in some 70 countries around the world. In Latin America alone there are over 400 groups, each with a distinct language and culture, though the biggest concentration is in Asia and the Pacific– with an estimated 70 per cent. And their traditional lands guard over 80 per cent of the planet’s biodiversity.
→ read full articleHow to Save the World from Fascism and Meet Human Needs in Harmony with Nature
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
President Franklin Roosevelt had declared that America was fighting for the Four Freedoms: speech, worship, from want, and from fear. Jack wrote home that the U.S. troops in Europe were called “The Four Freedoms Boys.” First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt would soon play a leading role in drafting a Universal Declaration of Human Rights that would establish social rights to education, health care, employment, and social security in old age.
→ read full articleStanding Rock and the Struggle Ahead
Julian Brave NoiseCat – Jacobin Magazine,
20 Feb 2017
14 Feb 2017 – Last week, following President Donald Trump’s executive memo, the Army Corps of Engineers granted Dakota Access an easement to drill under the Missouri River just north of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota… The indigenous movement is integral to the future of the planet and a winning left.
→ read full articleBig Pharma Really, Really Doesn’t Want You to Know the True Value of Its Drugs
David Lazarus – Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb 2017
17 Feb 2017 – The latest poster child for cruel and inhuman drug pricing is Kaleo Pharma, maker of an emergency injector for a med called naloxone, which is used as an antidote to save the lives of people who overdose on painkillers.
→ read full articleHow Factionalism Is Killing the Palestinian Struggle
Mariam Barghouti – Al Jazeera,
20 Feb 2017
19 Feb 2017 – In the first month of 2017, Gazans hit the streets to protest against the daily electricity cuts in the strip. Political leaders seized the opportunity to blame each other, turning it into a Hamas v Fatah debate. Factions have not only monopolised Palestinian politics but have also suffocated the youthful spirit of the struggle.
→ read full articleCorruption Brings Down an Empire: Odebrecht in Brazil
Mario Osava | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
6 Feb 2017 – The business empire built by three generations of the Odebrecht family is falling apart after three years of investigation by the Lava Jato (car wash) operation launched by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s office. People in Brazil have been overwhelmed by the flood of news stories about the huge web of corruption woven by the country’s biggest construction company that is active in dozens of fields and countries.
→ read full articleTrump and the Deep State
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – In his book, The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government, Mike Lofgren called attention to the fact that much of the real power in Washington is not controlled by the President and members of Congress, but is in the hands of multi-billion-dollar organizations that are not only huge, but also unelected and secret, for example the CIA, NSA and FBI.
→ read full articleThe Globalization of Environmental Degradation
George Abert and Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
13 Feb 2017 – Figuratively speaking, a ginormous asteroid is hurtling to a cataclysmic rendezvous with earth, but we are not supposed to notice. The asteroid is the rising threat from environmental degradation. Evidence is accumulating that environmental degradation is becoming global. We can either act responsibly by accepting the challenge or take refuge in denial and risk the consequences.
→ read full articleA Short History of the Trump Family
Sidney Blumenthal | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Reckoning with Trump means descending into the place that made him. What he represents, above all, is the triumph of an underworld of predators, hustlers, mobsters, clubhouse politicians and tabloid sleaze that festered in a corner of New York City.
→ read full articleWorst Joke Ever? U.S. Spy Chief Gives Saudi Prince Highest Award for “Fighting Terrorism”
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
20 Feb 2017
On Friday [10 Feb 2017], the Director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, used his first trip abroad to present Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef with the CIA’s highest award for fighting terrorism, the George Tenet Medal… One thing is certain, you’re not going to win the war on terror by handing out medals to the prime suspects.
→ read full articleParadoxes of Wilber’s Appreciation of the Trump Challenge
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Reframing Integral Possibilities for the Future – Given that a case is rapidly building against the incapacity of Trump, the following argument is topical. With respect to the perspective of Ken Wilber, it is framed by earlier consideration with regard to integral futures.
→ read full articleTrump Administration Sued for Suspending Protections for Endangered Bumble Bee
Natural Resources Defense Council | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Trump administration Tuesday [14 Feb 2017] for illegally suspending the rule to put the rusty patched bumble bee on the endangered species list. It has lost approximately 90 percent of its range in the past 20 years and is the first bumble bee ever listed under the Endangered Species Act.
→ read full articleHow Did It Start?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – So how the hell did it all start? I have seen this many times. Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: “When did it start?” Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it.
→ read full articleFryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 – 17 Oct 1849)
Barbara Smolenska-Zielinska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The musical talent of Fryderyk became apparent extremely early on, and it was compared with the childhood genius of Mozart. Already at the age of 7, Chopin was the author of two polonaises.
→ read full articleFukushima: Still Getting Worse After Six Years of Meltdowns
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
20 Feb 2017
After a week of limited coverage of “unimaginable levels” of radiation inside the remains of collapsed Unit 2 at Fukushima, Nuclear-News.net reported Feb 11, 2017 that radiation levels are actually significantly higher than “unimaginable.”
→ read full articleWashington Rules Change, Again
Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 – Over the last four decades, the Washington Consensus, promoting economic liberalization, globalization and privatization, reversed four decades of active state intervention… More than ever, it will be crucial for developing countries to work together, not only to ensure that South-South and ‘triangular’ (with the North) cooperation represents a progressive alternative to the Washington Consensus and its national chauvinist successors. Such solidarity will determine how well the South — and the world as a whole — will fare during the coming eclipse.
→ read full articleThe Man Who Let India Out of the Closet
Aatish Taseer – The New York Times,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 — The most ubiquitous man in Bollywood is under tremendous pressure to utter three simple words: “I am gay.” If these three words have acquired the force of absolution, it is because Karan Johar is by miles the most famous Indian ever to almost be openly gay.
→ read full articleThe World Will Be Saved by Beauty and Art
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
In this cruel life where coexists
Heavenly love and dreadful death,
How the US Began Its Empire
Jackson Lears | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Stephen Kinzer, Henry Holt & Co, Jan 2017 – The recovery of civic virtue and the clarification of national interest are urgently necessary goals, and the only way we can hope to achieve them is by reviving the debate over American empire.
→ read full article(Português) Jo Frederiks: Animais Não São Coisas, Não São Nossos Escravos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Jo Frederiks é uma artista australiana que cria desenhos e pinturas para conscientizar as pessoas sobre a crueldade contra os animais na indústria alimentícia, farmacêutica e de entretenimento. “Nosso próprio futuro é baseado em um reflexo de como tratamos nossos companheiros não humanos”.
→ read full articleSymmetry
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
A husband and wife spent their vacation at a lake where he enjoyed fishing.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Vision for the Future Is Terrifying – Doublespeak Abolished
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
15 Feb 2017 – Empirical historical evidence combined with little common-sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual apartheid or ethnic cleansing, or a mix of both.
→ read full articleChina and Trumpism: The Political Contradictions of Global Capitalism
William I. Robinson - teleSUR,
20 Feb 2017
14 Feb 2017 – When China’s richest man, Wang Jianlin, warned last December that a U.S. trade war against China would result in disaster for the United States, it was no idle threat. As U.S. hegemony declines and Chinese hegemony possibly rises, it is clear that the political scaffolding of world capitalism is hopelessly outdated.
→ read full articleOperation Milagro III Update: Day of the Dead Dolphins
Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – February 11th, three days before the international World Love for Dolphin’s Day, Sea Shepherd discovered 14 dolphin corpses floating in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. At least two of them showed signs of a violent death, with net marks on their bodies, stab wounds or fins crudely cut off in order for the fisherman to remove them quickly from their nets.
→ read full articleModernity
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
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→ read full articleThe Cognitive Bias President Trump Understands Better Than You
Emily Dreyfuss | Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The aberrant occurrence is the story you’ll read and the picture you’ll see. It’s news because it’s new. The problem here is not just that this singling out creates a distorted version of what’s really happening. It’s that the human psyche is predisposed to take an aberration and conflate it with the norm. This cognitive bias itself isn’t new. But in a media environment driven by clicks, where politicians can bypass journalistic filters entirely to deliver themselves straight to citizens, it’s newly exploitable.
→ read full articleThe Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Era un giorno qualsiasi. Intervista a Lorenzo Guadagnucci.
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Storie è la sezione dedicata a cinque narrazioni che invitano a riflettere su violenza e nonviolenza, resistenze, pace e guerre. La proposta è inserita nello spazio Espace memoria, all’Espace Populaire di Aosta (Italy), dove è nato 10 anni il progetto culturale Collettivamente memoria di cui sono ideatrice, conduttrice e quest’anno copromotrice.
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