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White Tongue: Causes
Mayo Clinic Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
White tongue is the result of an overgrowth and swelling of the fingerlike projections (papillae) on the surface of your tongue. The appearance of a white coating is caused by debris, bacteria and dead cells getting lodged between the enlarged and sometimes inflamed papillae.
→ read full articleNew Violation Tracker Tool Helps Public Track U.S. Corporate Misconduct
Pratap Chatterjee | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Bank of America leads with $56 billion in fines. Second on this list is JP Morgan Chase which has paid out $28 billion in fines and penalties to the U.S. government while BP comes in at third place with $25.4 billion. Conclusions from 110,000 cases and $270 billion in fines and penalties since the beginning of 2010 that have been added to Violation Tracker. Most surprising is that less than one half of one percent of the cases involve criminal charges.
→ read full articleImperial NATO: Before and After Brexit
Joseph Gerson – Common Dreams,
11 Jul 2016
Our interests and survival depend on Common Security diplomacy rather than the repeated and deadly failures of militarism. As we face the future, either/or thinking and NATO need to be left behind.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | Inconvenient Truths about This Weekend’s Duluth Air Show
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for Our Amusement
→ read full articleOh Brazil!
Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
A positive anticipatory view.
→ read full article(Português) O horror do transporte de animais vivos
Lobo Pasolini - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
11 Jul 2016
Eu tenho horror ao matadouro, a essa ideia de morte sistemática, industrializada, mecanizada – como chegamos a esse ponto? Mas o matadouro é apenas o ponto final de uma sentença de tortura, de destruição de qualquer dignidade que um ser vivo pode ter. O matadouro é o ritual final da domesticação, o rito mais explícito de uma cultura de violência.
→ read full article(Português) O que as castanhas do Brasil têm a ver com o Colesterol?
Michael Greger M.D. | Projecto Naturopatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Um estudo avaliou o impacto que o consumo de uma única porção de castanhas do Brasil poderia ter nos níveis de colesterol em voluntários saudáveis.
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Oprah Winfrey’s Harvard Commencement 2013 Inspirational Speech
Harvard University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
”It doesn’t matter how far you might rise — at some point, you are bound to stumble. Because if you’re constantly doing what we do — raising the bar — if you’re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages predicts that you will, at some point, fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure — failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.”
→ read full articleHatred Unlimited
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
In Israel, everyone spoke about a “benevolent occupation”. The first military governor was a very humane person, Chaim Herzog, a future President of Israel and the father of the present chairman of the Labor Party. Within a few years, all this had changed. The Palestinians realized that the Israelis did not intend to leave, but that they were about to steal their land, quite literally, and cover it with their settlements.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele oggi, con sempre meno opzioni
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Le opzioni d’Israele si riducono, con una legittimità calante; le opzioni della Palestina crescono, con una legittimità crescente…. Israele, è arrivata l’ora di negoziati sotto gli auspici dell’Assemblea Generale ONU – non una pace realista mediante la sicurezza!
→ read full article(Italiano) Brexit, così sia; e poi che sarà?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Il Regno Disunito è ora costituito da Londra e dintorni, dall’Inghilterra. Le implicazioni sono enormi, per il Regno Unito, la Gran Bretagna e le isole britanniche in generale, per la UE e l’Europa in generale, per gli USA e il mondo in generale. Il cavallo di Troia USA ha deciso di lasciare l’Unione Europea il 23 giugno 2016.
→ read full articleIndia and Pakistan Join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
Alexander Mercouris |The Duran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
27 Jun 2016 – Away from the distractions caused by the Brexit vote the process of Eurasian construction has just taken another big step with the agreement of India and Pakistan to join the Chinese and Russian-led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as full members. Iran is expected to follow shortly, leaving the whole of Eurasia united under this umbrella.
→ read full articleMikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths.
→ read full articleToronto’s High Park Zoo: A Place of Wonder and Joy
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
A visit to this small zoological park in Toronto does not only give pleasure especially to children, but it is a fun filled learning experience where one has a sense of joy and wonder at the beauty of nature.
→ read full articleSchopenhauer on What Makes a Genius and the Crucial Difference between Talent and Genius
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
“Genius is the power of leaving one’s own interests, wishes, and aims entirely out of sight… so as to remain pure knowing subject, clear vision of the world.”
“Genius gives birth, talent delivers.”
(Italiano) Il mondo è diventato meno pacifico nel 2015, secondo un nuovo rapporto
Dylan Mathews – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
4 Jul 2016
L’8 giugno è stato presentato il rapporto 2016 Global Peace Index (Indice Globale di Pace 2016 o GPI), che è stato una lettura ardua per chiunque nel nostro settore lavori per costruire la pace nel mondo. Secondo il rapporto, il mondo è diventato meno pacifico e più diseguale nel 2015, con i paesi meno in pace del mondo che hanno visto ulteriori conflitti e violenze.
→ read full articleAre We Heading Toward Global Autocracy, Ecological Collapse, Political Malaise?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The failures of neoliberalism, the successes of digitization, the scourge of random violence, and more broadly, the dilemmas posed by late modernity are among the root causes of this global crisis of legitimate governance, which is deepened while being mishandled by unprecedented ecological challenges, extremely irresponsible geopolitical leadership, and a variety of ultra-nationalist backlashes against the encroachments of economic globalization.
→ read full article(Français) Historique accord de paix en Colombie
Raúl Castro Ruz | InvestigAction - Granma,
4 Jul 2016
Le 23 juin dernier, la guérilla des FARC et le gouvernement colombien ont signé un accord de paix historique qui a mis fin à près d’un demi siècle de guerre civile. Cet accord, négocié et signé à la Havane marque un nouveau chapitre de l’histoire tourmentée de la Colombie.
→ read full articleOn International Day of Cooperatives, UN Hails Them as Drivers of Sustainable Future
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
UN estimates: One person in six is either a member or a client of a cooperative and some 2.6 million cooperatives employ 12.6 million people worldwide. Cooperatives’ assets are worth about $20 trillion and they generate about $3 trillion in annual revenue.
→ read full articleTheory of ‘Conspiracy Theorists’
Marcus Godwyn – Oriental Review,
4 Jul 2016
It seems to have become one of the most popular ways of ridiculing somebody’s argument or position, calling into question someone’s sanity or even somebody’s right to their very own existence in recent years are “You’re a conspiracy theorist!”, “That sounds like a conspiracy theory to me!”
→ read full article(Castellano) La vida de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, autor de El Principito
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
El 29 de junio de 1900 nació el novelista y aviador francés Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. El 6 de abril de 1943 apareció su obra cumbre, El Principito, catalogada como una las mejores creaciones literarias del siglo XX. Ha sido traducida a más de 250 idiomas y, recientemente, a la lengua aymara.
→ read full articleJuly: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
July 1, 1991 – On this date, the Warsaw Pact (established in 1955 as a response to the 1949 establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), also known in the Soviet bloc as The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance signed by Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, formally dissolved as a communist military alliance. Yet NATO, 1949-present, not only continues to exist but has grown and expanded in order to further “contain Russia and protect former Soviet republics and Eastern European nations from Russian military aggression.”
→ read full articleThe Age of Disintegration: Neoliberalism, Interventionism, the Resource Curse, and a Fragmenting World
Patrick Cockburn – TomDispatch,
4 Jul 2016
We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa. Across the vast swath of territory between Pakistan and Nigeria, there are at least seven ongoing wars — in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and South Sudan. These conflicts are extraordinarily destructive.
→ read full articleFranz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
→ read full articleThe Double-Edged Sword: US Nuclear Command and Control Modernization
Andrew Futter | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Keeping the nuclear command and control system simple, separate, and secure may not seem very sexy in today’s digital world of extraordinary technological advance, but it might be the best way to minimize miscalculation, accidents, and even unauthorized use of nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | Gardasil and Cervical Cancer: A Hoax in the Making?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Exploring Big Pharma’s Unproven Assertion that Gardasil Will Prevent Cervical Cancer
→ read full articleTranscanada’s Latest Move Perfectly Illustrates Why So Many People Hate Free-Trade Deals
Katie Herzog |Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
27 Jun 2016 – TransCanada is demanding that the U.S. fork over $15 billion to make up for the fact that the company didn’t get to build the Keystone XL pipeline. That’s one damned expensive temper tantrum.
→ read full article(Castellano) Fidel y la paz de Colombia
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Durante más de 60 años el Comandante Fidel Castro ha sido un incasable luchador por la paz de Colombia. Que el anhelo de paz de los colombianos sea sellado en Cuba no es una casualidad. A ella ha dedicado tanto esfuerzo como lo hizo por la caída del Apartheid en Sudáfrica, la liberación de Angola o la independencia de Namibia y otras naciones africanas.
→ read full article(Português) Tolstói: “O vegetarianismo é um sinal da aspiração séria e sincera da humanidade”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
22 Jun 2016 – Um dos maiores nomes da literatura mundial, Liev Tolstói, além de romancista, filósofo, humanitarista e pacifista, também chamou a atenção e conquistou muito respeito nos séculos 19 e 20 por ser um grande defensor do vegetarianismo. Levando uma vida frugal, ele se alimentava basicamente de pães, frutas e vegetais.
→ read full articleFree at Last
Chappatte - International New York Times,
4 Jul 2016
What now?
→ read full articleThin Slices of Anxiety: An Illustrated Meditation on What It’s Like to Live Enslaved by Worry and How to Break Free
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
A guided tour of this pernicious prison of the psyche, honest and assuring in its honesty.
→ read full articleDrone Warfare – Obama Drone Casualty Numbers a Fraction of Those Recorded by the Bureau
Jack Serle – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
4 Jul 2016
1 Jul 2016 – The US government today claimed it has killed between 64 and 116 “non-combatants” in 473 counter-terrorism strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya between January 2009 and the end of 2015. This is a fraction of the 380 to 801 civilian casualty range recorded by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism from reports by local and international journalists, NGO investigators, leaked government documents, court papers and the result of field investigations.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Jul 4-10 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.” – Shakti Gawain
→ read full articleAnnual Strategic Brief 2016: “Geopolitics in the Middle East”
Institute for Islamic Strategic Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
There is very little understanding of what actually is happening in the region. Simple explanations and ‘quick-fix’ approaches has thus far dominated the media. Whether it’s the refugee crises, the focus on degrading the Islamic state (IS) or European security, little attention is being paid to the enormous complexity to the crises in the region. This paper seeks to understand these complex issues and challenges, and presents a broad, substantial and accurate understanding of the region.
→ read full articleThe Earth and the People Are Not Inputs to Your Capitalist System
Vandana Shiva interviewed by Ethemcan Turhan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
You have this strange asymmetry today that corporations are globally organised; they are everywhere. They control every government and governments are doing the same thing everywhere. Yet every opportunity is used to prevent citizens from connecting up.
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How Does the Commons Work?
The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
How can we use “commoning” as a process to transform the social paradigm of our current system? Economist David Bollier suggests we rethink the traditional “tragedy of the commons” argument. In this stop-motion video animation, we illustrate some of the principal features of his vision for how we can manage “the commons” in an equitable fashion to transform our current system.
→ read full article(Italiano) “La Giovine Italia”. Imperdibile. A Torino tutto esaurito al Teatro Vittoria ieri sera e l’altra sera
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Emigrare.
Immigrare.
Quasi mai sono scelte.
Spostarsi dalla propria terra di origine verso un’altra terra, significa non sapere come sarà il viaggio e soprattutto se sarà arrivo.
Genocide in Burma [Myanmar]
Joshua Kurlantzick – Washington Monthly,
4 Jul 2016
The Rohingya may well be the most persecuted people on the planet, and nobody, including the United States, is lifting a finger to help.
→ read full article(Castellano) Rechazo a presidente interino de Brasil llega a 70%
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
La desaprobación de Michel Temer aumentó unos nueve puntos desde febrero a la fecha, según sondeo.
→ read full articleIsrael Implements Collective Punishment after the Stabbing of Teenager
Jean Shaoul | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
At the same time, the government is using the attack to expand the settlements and incorporate Area C––which is under Israeli military control––into Israel and in the process drive Palestinians living there from their homes. These measures have in turn provoked further attacks by the Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel and ever more strident demands for further repressive measures against the Palestinians by Israel’s right wing.
→ read full articleXenophobic Rhetoric, Now Socially and Politically ‘Acceptable’ ?
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
4 Jul 2016
“Xenophobic and racist rhetoric seems not only to be on the rise, but also becoming more socially and politically acceptable,” warns Mogens Lykketoft, president of the UN General Assembly. On World Refugee Day, June 20, he reacted to the just announced new record number of people displaced from their homes due to conflict and persecution.
→ read full articleThe New Burma Is Starting to Look Too Much Like the Old Burma
Elliott Prasse-Freeman – Foreign Policy,
4 Jul 2016
In Aung San Suu Kyi’s “democratic” Burma, the people are a silent partner.
→ read full article(Castellano) 140 años de la muerte de Mijaíl Bakunin
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
El 1° de julio de 1876 murió el político ruso Mijaíl Bakunin. Fue autor de una voluminosa obra entre las que destacaron El llamamiento a los eslavos, El catecismo revolucionario y El Estado y la anarquía. El político ruso participó activamente en las revoluciones de 1848 en París y Alemania.
→ read full articleThe Time for Silence is Over: Grasping the Reality of Nonviolence
Stephanie Van Hook | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Myth One: You can’t be angry and be nonviolent.
Myth Two: You have to dislike/hate/disassociate from your opponents.
Myth Three: If you don’t get what you want, your nonviolence didn’t work.
Myth Four: Nonviolence does not have any logic. It’s signing petitions and sit-ins. Nothing else.
Top 5 Green Energy Good News Stories Today
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
3 Jul 2016 – Solar power is poised to grow 6-fold by 2030 and could constitute between 9% and 13% of world electricity production by then. Price per kilowatt hour for solar is plummeting, so that it is on the verge of being the cheapest form of energy, outstripping coal in that regard.
→ read full articleWhat’s It Like to Be a Whistleblower?
Transparency International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
On 15 June, two weeks before the verdict in the Luxembourg trial, Deltour talked to TI about his experiences as a whistleblower, the support he has received and the fact that thousands of people see unethical behaviour where they work but don’t speak out. They just go home every day and feel they compromise their personal ethics because there is no option to talk about it.
→ read full articleThe Hunter –> He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I Was Willing to Listen.
Peter Maass – The Intercept,
4 Jul 2016
The sender was a hacker who had written a series of provocative memos at the National Security Agency. His secret memos had explained — with an earthy use of slang and emojis that was unusual for an operative of the largest eavesdropping organization in the world — how the NSA breaks into the digital accounts of people who manage computer networks, and how it tries to unmask people who use Tor to browse the web anonymously.
→ read full articleFor What Binds Us
Jane Hirshfield – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Poetic image of growth through sealing and healing.
→ read full articleBrexit and the Derivatives Time Bomb
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Brexit could trigger a $500 trillion derivatives meltdown, by forcing the EU to allow insolvent member governments and banks to write down debt. Italy is in financial crisis and is already petitioning for that concession. How to avoid collapse of the massive derivatives house of cards? Alternatives are considered.
→ read full article(Português) Ó Brasil!
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Brasil, uma imagiNAÇÃO
→ read full articleAntoine de Saint Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944): Solitude and Solidarity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Saint Ex for the style was influenced by Frederic Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra which he had read. However, the spirit is much closer to Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet. There is no indication that he had read Gibran in Saint Ex’s period in New York. It is more likely that both writers shared a common outlook on life.
→ read full articleEconomic Democracy
David Schweickart | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
An Ethically Desirable Socialism That Is Economically Viable – The big challenges that capitalism now faces in the contemporary world include issues of inequality (especially that of grinding poverty in a world of unprecedented prosperity) and of “public goods” (that is, goods people share together, like the environment). The solution to these problems will almost certainly call for institutions that take us beyond the capitalist market economy.
→ read full articleLament for Humanity: A 50 Year Reflection
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Deeply affected by the death of my two uncles in World War II, on 1 July 1966, the 24th anniversary of the USS Sturgeon sinking of the Japanese prisoner-of-war ship Montevideo Maru which killed the man after whom I am named, I decided that I would devote my life to working out why human beings are violent and then developing a strategy to end it. Here is my report on 50 years of concerted effort to understand and end human violence.
→ read full articleThe Meaning of Brexit
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The Brexit vote was a triple protest: against surging immigration, City of London bankers, and European Union institutions, in that order. It will have major consequences.
→ read full articleSupport Your Digestive System with Aloe Vera
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
A healthy gut reacts positively to good nutrition and is also the result of good nutrition. Refined sugar, artificial ingredients, and artificial coloring offer no nutrition and, even worse, can upset gut balance. Aloe vera, on the other hand, is a nutrient-dense superfood that soothes, nourishes, and promotes detoxification and normal bowel movements.
→ read full articleAccusation Claims Syrian and Russian Troops Are Looting Palmyra – Indictment Not Proved!
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The Syrian army’s work and devotion to protect our shared cultural heritage might be cultural, congenital, or genetic. But it’s real. It is my submission that the current culture here in Palmyra, and the security posted throughout the area, render it very unlikely that looting has been committed here by Syrian or Russian forces.
→ read full articleSri Lanka Wants the World to Forget about Justice for War Victims – Please Don’t
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – The Guardian,
4 Jul 2016
With the Sri Lankan government winding back commitments to reconciliation and justice measures, it’s up to the international community to hold them to account.
→ read full articleYemen Negotiations Move Ahead Slowly: Post-War Planning Needed
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Thus, there is a serious need first for post-war planning to be followed by international aid for development. “Reconstruction” would be the wrong term since there was little that had been “constructed”. Rather, we need to look to a post-war socio-economic construction developed on a basic needs approach.
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Listen to the Music (Music Video of the Week)
Doobie Brothers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Song recorded on their second album Toulouse Street and their first big hit in 1972. A Classic of the 70s.
→ read full articleMarx on Financial Bubbles: Much Keener Insights than Contemporary Economists
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh - CounterPunch,
4 Jul 2016
I will argue in this essay that, in fact, a careful reading of Karl Marx’s work on “fictitious capital” reveals keen insights into a better understanding of the instabilities of today’s financial markets.
→ read full articleThe Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes
Ruth Padawer – The New York Times Magazine,
4 Jul 2016
For years, international sports organizations have been policing women for “masculine” qualities — and turning their Olympic dreams into nightmares. But when Dutee Chand appealed her ban, she may have changed the rules.
→ read full articleErdogan Abandons Gaza, Normalizes Ties with Israel for Gas
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Turkey and Israel have ended a six-year row between the two countries despite years of Ankara’s demand that Israel lifts the Gaza blockade.
→ read full articleRussia-China Strategic Partnership: On the Road to United Eurasia
Pepe Escobar |Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Whenever President Vladimir Putin stresses Russia’s “all-embracing and strategic partnership” with China, one can hear the proverbial howls of anger emanating from the neocon/neoliberalcon axis in the Beltway.
→ read full articleScientists Find New Kind of Fukushima Fallout
Sam Lemonick - Forbes,
4 Jul 2016
1 July 2016 – Satoshi Utsunomiya, a geochemist at Kyushu University in Japan, announced over the weekend that he had found cesium-137 in a new form: trapped inside tiny glass particles that spewed from the damaged reactors. These particles are not water soluble, meaning we know very little about how they behave in the environment—or in our bodies. He found the particles in air filters placed around Tokyo at the time of the disaster.
→ read full articleTen Worst Acts of the Nuclear Age
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The ten worst acts of the Nuclear Age described below have set the tone for our time. They have caused immense death and suffering; been tremendously expensive; have encouraged nuclear proliferation; have opened the door to nuclear terrorism, nuclear accidents and nuclear war; and are leading the world back into a second Cold War.
→ read full articleCriteria Justifying Recounting or Revoting in Democracy
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
It is unclear what systematic consideration is publicly given to the criteria of democratic fairness in referenda and other elections. Little has been said in this respect with respect to the process of Brexit — the democratic decision of the UK to leave the European Union. In the course of protests regarding that result, it was announced that an even closer result in a major presidential election in Austria had led to a decision to hold the election again.
→ read full articleDecades Later, Sickness among Airmen after a Hydrogen Bomb Accident
Dave Philipps – The New York Times,
4 Jul 2016
Fifty Years Later, U.S. Air Force Still in Denial over Palomares Nuclear Accident – In 1966, a B-52 bomber on a Cold War nuclear patrol exploded over Spain, releasing four hydrogen bombs. Fifty years later, Air Force veterans involved with the cleanup are sick and want recognition.
→ read full article(Italiano) Gli USA oggi, peggio che mai, ma-?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Affrontate la realtà: gli USA dettero inizio alle guerre con l’Islam in Iraq, Afghanistan e in Africa. Smettetela di personalizzare e psichiatrizzare singoli combattenti musulmani, il che non farà cessare queste guerre; le guerre non sono necessarie e non si vincono. L’egemonia militare US non ritornerà. Gli USA abbisognano di una politica estera non di dominio bensì di tentativi per comporre e risolvere i conflitti. Diritti umani: unisciti al mondo, approva, trascendi i confini. Clima: segui Parigi o proponi soluzioni migliori, fa qualcosa. E le prossime elezioni? Tutto fuorché Hillary.
→ read full articleThe Chilcot Inquiry Report into the Invasion of Iraq
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The foreign policy of the US/UK governments were for regime change and about Iraqi oil, and the method used were genocidal sanctions, wars and invasion of Iraq. The ‘shock and awe’ bombings of unarmed civilians by US/UK/allied forces was not about bringing democracy and human rights to Iraq, it was about regime change, oil, imperial power, arms and total destruction of infrastructure and starvation into submission of Iraq women and children.
→ read full articleEducation for a Culture of Peace
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Peace and nonviolence education is an intellectual and psychological preparation to develop the student’s critical spirit to reflect on the stages of conflicts and their nonviolent resolution. The purpose of peace and nonviolence education is to allow students to acquire knowledge, know-how and a set of behavioral and interpersonal skills so that they may cultivate peaceful, cooperative and harmonious relations with others.
→ read full article(Português) Como o vegetarianismo entrou na vida de Franz Kafka
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Um dos escritores mais influentes do século 20, o tcheco Franz Kafka, famoso por clássicos intrapessoais como A Metamorfose, O Processo e Um Artista da Fome, é um exemplo de ser humano que, contrariando todas as expectativas, se tornou vegetariano ainda na juventude. “Agora eu posso olhar para vocês e me sentir em paz”, disse aos peixes no aquário.
→ read full articleConcept of an Ideal Society
Ramesh Kumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Bhagwad Gita envisages a welfare, prosperous, optimistic, and successful society governed by principles of firm justice. It does not support view that a spiritual enlightened society should ignore material development. Spiritual enlightenment and Science & Technology are complimentary for growth of society.
→ read full articleDestabilizing Multipolar Society through Binary Decision-making
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Alternatives to “2-Stroke Democracy” Suggested by 4-Sided Ball Games – Prepared on the occasion of the historical Brexit referendum through which the UK decided to leave the European Union — in a period in which popular concern was primarily focused on the outcome of Euro 2016 .
→ read full articleHow 100 Syrians, 200 Russians and 11 Dogs Out-Witted ISIS and Saved Palmyra
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
There has been much understandable confusion and also a bit of misinformation about the degree of damage to Palmyra’s archeological sites. Contrary to many media reports, only five percent of the area of our cultural heritage archeological treasures was damaged by ISIS.
→ read full articleXenophobia: ‘Hate Is Mainstreamed, Walls Are Back, Suspicion Kills’
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
27 Jun 2016
“The roll-back of violent extremism calls for an in-depth approach informed by the genesis and evolution of radicalisation, its link with citizenship and possible tipping point into violence… There also needs to be a better understanding of short-cuts to violent extremism that do not transit through radicalisation.” — UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
→ read full articleNo Big Bang? Quantum Equation Predicts Universe Has No Beginning
Lisa Zyga | Physics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The model may also account for dark matter and dark energy, resolving multiple problems at once.
→ read full articleThe Danger of Outsourcing Morality
Rabbi Sacks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Morality itself was outsourced to the market. The market gives us choices, and morality itself is just a set of choices in which right or wrong have no meaning beyond the satisfaction or frustration of desire. The result is that we find it increasingly hard to understand why there might be things we want to do, can afford to do, and have a legal right to do, that nonetheless we should not do because they are unjust or dishonourable or disloyal or demeaning: in a word, unethical. Ethics was reduced to economics.
→ read full articlePromoting Peace, Nonviolence, Human Rights of the UN Charter–Role of Special Days and Weeks
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The UN charter, signed on 26 June 1945 in San Francisco, includes abolition of war and nuclear weapons, security of and friendship between nations, promoting peace, human rights, social progress, literacy and education among other aims. To commemorate these objectives the UN also celebrates some weeks and special days for this purpose.
→ read full articleWhy the British Said No to Europe
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 – The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.
→ read full article(Português) Cientistas europeus descobrem anticorpos que atacam vírus Zika
Nuno Noronha | Sapo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Cientistas europeus anunciaram esta quinta-feira[23 Jun] a descoberta de anticorpos que atacam o Zika, um passo que pode permitir o desenvolvimento de uma vacina contra o vírus que causa lesões cerebrais em fetos e distúrbios neurológicos em adultos.
→ read full articleTransCanada Files NAFTA Suit Demanding More Than $15 Billion for Keystone XL Rejection
Michael Brune | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
On Jun 24 2016, foreign oil company TransCanada filed a lawsuit against the U.S. under NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, arguing that the U.S. rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline violated NAFTA’s broad rights for foreign investors by thwarting the company’s “expectations.” As compensation, TransCanada is demanding more than $15 billion from U.S. taxpayers.
→ read full articleDanilo Dolci (28 Jun1924 – 30 Dec 1997)
EDDILI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Danilo Dolci was son of a devout Slav mother and a sceptical Italian father. He originally studied architecture in Rome, Milan, Switzerland, and also trained as an engineer. On Dec 30, 1997 Danilo Dolci “the Sicilian Ghandi”, winner of the Lenin peace prize (despite being explicitly catholic, non-communist), and twice a nominee for the Nobel peace prize, died at the age of seventy-three, of heart failure.
→ read full articleWait
Galway Kinnell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Pulitzer-winning poet Galway Kinnell addressed this elemental question of existence with extraordinary compassion and spiritual grace in a poem he wrote for a student of his who was contemplating suicide after the abrupt end of a romance.
→ read full articleU.S. Policy and the Geopolitical Dynamics of the Middle East
Amb. Chas Freeman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
I have been asked to speak about the geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East, the realignments occurring among states there, and the prospects for the achievement of renewed stability in the region…. Frankly, the prospects that we will get our act and our policies together are not good. But history will not excuse us for acting out Einstein’s definition of insanity: doing more of the same and expecting different results. We won’t get them.
→ read full articleHelen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.
→ read full articleAmerica Trashes NATO Founding Act; Rushes Weapons to Russia’s Borders
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The NATO Founding Act was agreed to between the U.S. and Russia in 1997 in order to provide to Russia’s leader Boris Yeltsin some modicum of assurance that America wouldn’t invade his country. When his predecessor Mikhail Gorbachev had ended the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact military alliance in 1991, the representatives of U.S. President GHW Bush told him that NATO wouldn’t move “one inch to the east.”
→ read full article‘Unbounded Organizing in Community:’ As the Economy Fails Us, Community Calls Us
TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Now a new book, a new hands-on step-by-step guide adds an ABCD perspective from the Global South, building on theory and practice from North East Brazil, from rural Botswana, from Chile, and among many other venues South African townships where the unemployed are a majority.
→ read full articleMotivation
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
We in Palestine do not have too many answers since most of our people are still at that subsistence level. It is irritating to see the elites (including Palestinian and Israelis) who have their basic needs met refuse to rise to higher levels and get motivated to do something different to make this a better world. At least they should/could follow Howard Zinn’s advice and get off the train (His book “you can’t be neutral on a moving train”).
→ read full articlePatrice Lumumba (2 Jul 1925 – 17 Jan 1961)
Encyclopedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Lumumba was a man of strong character who intended to pursue his policies regardless of the enemies he made within his country or abroad. Because of its wealth, size, and proximity to white-dominated southern Africa, Lumumba’s opponents feared the consequences of a radicalized Congo. Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a short time later.
→ read full articleCluster Bombs Used in Sri Lanka’s Civil War, Leaked Photos Suggest
Emanuel Stoakes – The Guardian,
27 Jun 2016
Exclusive: images appear to confirm use of the indiscriminate weapon in a conflict which cost the lives of at least 100,000.
→ read full articlePalestine’s ‘Prayer for Rain’: How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
22 Jun 2016 – Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. By shutting down the water supply at a time that Israeli officials are planning to export essentially Palestinian water, Israel is once more utilizing water as a form of collective punishment.
→ read full articleThe Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
“When our senses become muffled, we no longer feel fully alive… If you have a comfortable connection with your inner sensations … you will feel in charge of your body, your feelings, and your self.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Jun 27-Jul 3 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Modern man’s besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.” – Aldous Huxley
→ read full articleWhat If Turkey Drops Its “Human Bomb” on Europe?
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
27 Jun 2016
The question is anything but trivial—it is rather a source of deep concern among the many non-governmental humanitarian organisations and the United Nations, which are making relentless efforts to fill the huge relief gaps caused by the apparent indifference of those powers who greatly contributed to creating this unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
→ read full article(Italiano) Superare la frammentazione, assumere responsabilità
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
27 Jun 2016
Allora, quando andiamo alla prossima manifestazione contro l’inquinamento da gas serra, o contro gli armamenti, o in difesa degli animali, ricordiamoci di portare con noi la borraccia piena d’acqua ‘pubblica’, prendiamo il biglietto del tram, e qualche panino senza prosciutto. E speriamo di essere in tanti, granellini di sabbia negli ingranaggi delle ‘macchine’ contro le quali manifestiamo…
→ read full articleHelen Keller: Socialist, Pacifist, Women’s & Workers’ Rights Advocate
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Helen Keller is one of the most beloved figures in American history. Few people, however, remember her as a socialist, pacifist, and activist. Wikipedia reports, “A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women’s suffrage, labor rights, socialism, and other similar causes.”
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Prof. Haunani Kay Trask: Hawai’ian Islands Stolen from Hawai’ians by the USA
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
May 29, 2016 – “You caller, need to learn about Hawai’ian history and about where you are.” Haunani-Kay Trask was featured on an episode of Island Issues discussing racism in Hawai’i. Here she responds to one of many “woefully ignorant” callers.
→ read full articleThe European Dead End
Jean Bricmont - CounterPunch,
27 Jun 2016
European construction began as the dream of European elites and has become the nightmare of European peoples. For a number of European intellectuals and politicians, the dream was to transform Europe into a sort of Superstate, capable of rivaling the United States. For others, the idea was to get rid of the Nation-State once and for all, since it was considered chiefly to blame for the woes of the 20th century.
→ read full article(Castellano) WikiLeaks: Brexit podría poner fin al exilio de Assange
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Tras conocer la salida del Reino Unido de la Unión Europea, la vocería del portal de filtraciones ha concluido que estas nuevas circunstancias pueden otorgarle la libertad al fundador del portal. “Brexit significa el desguace de la orden de detención europea utilizada como excusa para detener a Assange sin cargos en el Reino Unido durante 5,5 años”.
→ read full articlePut Restorative Justice on the Democratic Platform
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
By reducing the obsession with punishment, restorative justice programs offer hope of reducing war making. The UNESCO constitution reminds us, “war begins in the minds of men.” If schools and juvenile justice programs stop teaching the punishment imperative, if future generations learn nonviolent conflict resolution rather than “destroy your enemy,” then we can expect a decline in public support for war.
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