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The New President of the UN General Assembly
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The election of Mogens Lykketoft as the new President of the United Nations General Assembly has opened the door to the solution of several of world’s most pressing problems. For example, it may now be possible to achieve a Nuclear Weapons Convention by a direct majority vote.
→ read full articleWomen Preventing War
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
In 1905, Norway declared its independence from Sweden. Norwegian and Swedish troops faced each other along the border, ready to fight.
→ read full articleIn Memoriam: Donald Neff, Journalist (1930-2015)
Alison Weir, If Americans New – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
One of the top journalists to report on Palestine-Israel has died May 10. Many activists in the growing Palestine solidarity movement are unaware that he exposed critical facts about Palestine with unparalleled precision and elegance. Much of the information he uncovered is still significant today.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
July 13 -19 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
→ read full articleAngela Merkel Has a Red and a Yellow Button. One Ends the Crisis. Which Does She Push?
Yanis Varoufakis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The Global Minotaur of neoliberal capitalism centred on Wall Street held the world to ransom from 1971 to 2008. Now Europe’s surplus countries are trying to prop up its corpse. Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American “invention”.
→ read full articleTPP-TTIP-Tisa: A Tipping Edge from Democracy
Johan Galtung, 13 Jul 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
This editorial sees the three agreements as a tipping edge from democracy; but, to what? Away from democracy as a process ‘of and by’ the people, and away from democracy as a society ‘for’ the people, except in the sense of lower prices. Goodbye Lincoln.
→ read full articleIf the ‘Product’ Is Wrong, a Rebrand Won’t Help Israel
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Benjamin Netanyahu warns that Israel must “rebrand” itself to avoid pariah status from the growing movement calling for an international boycott. Ordinary Israelis are therefore being conscripted into an army of spin doctors in a campaign termed “hasbara” – Hebrew for “public diplomacy” or, most literally, propaganda.
→ read full articleTeenage Students Invent Condom That Detects STDs
True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
While some American authorities scratch their heads and blame social media for a sharp uptick in syphilis, British school children have invented a condom to help reduce the proliferation of sexually transmitted infections.
→ read full articleEurope: Disinventing Democracy
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
8 Jul 2015 – The assault on Greece is just the latest episode in a long history of shutting down choice on behalf of the financial elite. Greece might be financially bankrupt; the troika is politically bankrupt. Those who persecute this nation wield illegitimate, undemocratic powers: powers of the kind now afflicting us all.
→ read full articleHawaii Just Banned Plastic Bags at Grocery Checkouts
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Hawaii is the first US state to ban plastic bags from being distributed at grocery store checkouts.
→ read full articleThree Prisons
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
I was caught, gone and detained
In the prison state human made
New Study Concludes Fruit Helps Your Body Burn Stored Fat
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
2-4 fresh servings of fruit per day can help your body convert ‘bad’ fat into ‘good’ fat.
→ read full articleBRICS: A New Way of Global Partnership
Dr Alexander Yakovenko, LEAP/GEAB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of solidarity of BRICS voices calling for major cooperation on the peaceful settlement of conflicts based on the UN Charter. The world is at a turning point.
→ read full articlePentagon Concludes America Not Safe unless It Conquers the World
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The Pentagon report is sufficiently audacious in its hypocrisy to declare that Washington “supports the established institutions and processes dedicated to preventing conflict, respecting sovereignty, and furthering human rights.” This from the military of a government that has invaded, bombed, and overthrown 11 governments since the Clinton regime and is currently working to overthrow governments in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina.
→ read full articleRequisite Meta-reflection on Engagement in Systemic Change?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Fiat, Fatwa and World-Making in a Period of Existential Radicalisation – Such differences are characteristic of the increasingly sterile debate regarding the need to be “positive” versus the preoccupation of critics readily deprecated as “negative” — otherwise to be termed as “hope-mongering” versus “doom-mongering”.
→ read full articleUN Gaza Report Part I: War Crimes during Israel’s 51-Day Assault on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Exactly a year ago, for 51 days between July 7 and August 26 Israel carried out its third major military assault on Gaza in the past six years. This last one, code named Operation Protective Edge, was the most vicious, killing 2,251 Palestinians, of which 1,462 were civilians, and included 299 women and 551 children, as well as injuring 11,231, a number that includes 3,436 children, 10% of whom have permanent disabilities, and another 1,500 have been orphaned.
→ read full articleUN Gaza Report Part II: Israel’s Counterinsuurgency Apologist, Colonel Richard Kemp
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
On June 25, 2015 the New York Times published an opinion piece by Kemp assessing the UN Report. What I find scandalous and perverse on the part of this self-claiming authoritative media source, is to publish such a harsh and partisan dismissal of a prudent and overly balanced report without any kind of offsetting piece.
→ read full articleThe Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech
John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
From this point on, we have only two options: go down fighting, or capitulate and betray our loved ones, our friends and our selves by insisting that, as a brainwashed Winston Smith does at the end of Orwell’s 1984, yes, 2+2 does equal 5.
→ read full articleReading Claudia Rankine on Race
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
What Claudia Rankine shares and teaches is that every African American citizen must live with the existential concreteness of racism while even the most liberal of American white citizens live with only an abstract awareness of their own unconscious racism or, at best, their rather detached empathy with the historical victimization of our African American co-citizens.
→ read full articleThe Change Is the Time
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
If you are my world
A start is needed
For changing
An Experiment in Love: Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Six Pillars of Nonviolent Resistance and the Ancient Greek Notion of ‘Agape’
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Although Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used Christian social ethics and the New Testament concept of “love” heavily in his writings and speeches, he was as influenced by Eastern spiritual traditions, Gandhi’s political writings, Buddhism’s notion of the interconnectedness of all beings, and Ancient Greek philosophy.
→ read full articleEnd U.S. Addiction to War
James Albertini, Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
War on drugs. War on poverty. War in Afghanistan. War in Iraq. War on terror. When you define something as war, violence becomes the only means.
→ read full articleWill the Real Issues Be Discussed in 2016 US Presidential Election?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Most thoughtful people agree that the two most important issues facing humanity today are the threat of catastrophic and uncontrollable climate change, and the threat of nuclear war. Each of these threatened disasters has the potential to destroy human civilization and much of the biosphere.
→ read full article3 Artificial Sweeteners to Avoid
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
I always suggest that everyone, including healthy individuals, remove added sugars from their diet, including artificial sweeteners. Organic coconut sugar or, better yet, raw organic honey are much better alternatives to satisfy sweet cravings within the confines of a healthy diet.
→ read full articleUnited Church of Christ Votes [80%] to Boycott & Divest from Companies Profiting from Israel’s Occupation
United Church of Christ Palestine-Israel Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
June 30, 2015 – UCC PIN hopes that this modest initiative will help encourage the Israeli government to end the occupation.
→ read full articleThe 51-Day Genocide
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
6 July 2015 – Max Blumenthal’s latest book, ‘The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza,’ tells a powerful story powerfully well. I can think of a few other terms that accurately characterize the 2014 Israeli assault on Gaza in addition to “war,” among them: occupation, murder-spree, and genocide. Each serves a different valuable purpose. Each is correct.
→ read full articlePilot Whales Brutally Slaughtered in Yet another Horrific Faroe Islands Grind
Paul Watson, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
The bodies were hoisted onto the dock by a crane as each animal was disemboweled, unborn fetuses ripped from their mothers’ wombs. The bodies were decapitated one by one. One supporter of the slaughter sent me a message saying, “We could show ISIS a thing or two about decapitation, you whale-loving bastards.”
→ read full articleGreece: Only the “No” Can Save Europe
James K. Galbraith – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
The irony of the case is that the true hope – the only hope – for Europe lies in a “No” vote on Sunday, followed by renewed negotiations and a better deal. “Yes” is a vote for fear, against dignity and independence. Fear is powerful – but dignity and independence have a way of coming back.
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Spy Drones Expose Smithfield Foods Factory Farms
SpeciesismTheMovie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Since 2012, “Speciesism: The Movie” director Mark Devries has been secretly using spy drones to investigate and expose the environmental devastation caused by factory farms. In this video, the drones capture shocking aerial footage of several massive facilities that supply pigs for Smithfield Foods.
→ read full articleCommitments the American Psychological Association Should Make Today
Roy Eidelson Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
An investigation of APA collusion with the CIA is nearing completion.
→ read full articleThe Care and Feeding of a Financial Black Hole
Dmitry Orlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Anyone who knows mathematics can see that the United States is on the verge of collapse because its debt has gone exponential. These aren’t words that an American or a European politician can utter in public, and perhaps not even whisper to their significant other while lying in bed, because the American eavesdroppers might overhear them, and then the politician in question would get the Dominique Strauss-Kahn treatment.
→ read full articleOXI or NAI?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
OXI, No, made it, as expected, with 61%. A great day for Democracy, for Greece, for Europe, for the world.
→ read full articleThe “Disaster Age” and Empathy
Tedla D. Tekle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Appreciating all the encouraging efforts and initiatives to mitigate global crises, I argue that a fundamental and foundational concept in all humanitarian activities is often swept under the carpet. It is the building block, the structure and the goal of any and every humanitarian action. It is called empathy.
→ read full articleE. Coli with Your Bottled Water? Recall Affects 14 Brands
Melissa Breyer, Tree Hugger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Bad news for bottled-water drinkers, good news for the planet. And the moral of the story is? Drink tap.
→ read full articleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership, Slavery, the AME Massacre and the Emancipation Proclamation
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
If The TPP Had Been the Law of the Land for the Past 150 Years, Slavery Would Still Be Legal
→ read full articleTrade in Services Agreement-TiSA: More Secret Documents Leaked
Julian Assange, WikeaLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Today, 1 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases a modern journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the largest ‘trade deal’ in history, the TiSA (Trade In Services Agreement), whose 52 nations together comprise two-thirds of global GDP.
→ read full articleThe Entire History of the World — Really, All of It — Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart
Rebecca Onion, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
The actual picture of the march of civilization, from the mud huts of the ancients thru the monarchistic glamour of the middle ages to the living panorama of life in our present day world.
→ read full articleIn the Western World Capitalism Has Devolved into Looting
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
“…when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed.”
→ read full articleThe Moral Imperative of the BRICS Paradigm
Rahul Manchanda, The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
29 Jun 20156 – Nineteenth century historian Lord John Dalberg-Acton said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. This has never been truer than with the case of the IMF and the World Bank, and the power they hold over world governments and their people.
→ read full article(Italiano) Stiglitz: l’attacco dell’Europa alla democrazia greca
Joseph Stiglitz, Premio Nobel Economia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Il premio Nobel Joseph Stiglitz si pronuncia in maniera molto esplicita sulla crisi in corso tra la Grecia e le “istituzioni” UE: oltre alla assurda insistenza degli eurocrati su obiettivi che la maggior parte degli economisti del mondo ha condannato come inutili e punitivi, qui si rivela con chiarezza la vera faccia del progetto Uem, antitesi della democrazia, nato per favorire la concentrazione della ricchezza e schiavizzare il lavoro.
→ read full articleIn Church
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
During the sermon, a little boy kept moving in his seat and making noises.
→ read full article“People and Planet First”: Watch Naomi’s Press Statement at the Vatican
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
We are the solutions . Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Then, stop making the difficult the enemy of the possible. And join us in making the possible real.
→ read full articleThe Tunisia Massacre and the Irish-ISIS Connection
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
June 30, 2015 – “The murder of three Irish citizens at a tourist resort in north Africa has brought Islamic terrorism much closer to home,” [reporter] Cormac O’Keeffe observes in the Irish Examiner.
→ read full article(Italiano) La nemesi della razza
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Ci è stato ammannito un dibattito ombra fra “delitto d’odio” e “terrorismo razziale, interno”, l’uno che la buttava sullo psicologico, l’altro sul politico. Va bene “assassinio”, legalmente. Ma è affiorato un altro dibattito ombra, su una bandiera a piena asta in cima al massimo edificio pubblico del South Carolina. Ci si può chiedere perché qualcuno non l’abbia tolta con discrezione; nessuno l’ha fatto, finché i candidati presidenziali non hanno temuto che potesse nuocere alla loro campagna.
→ read full articleDare to Change
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
A bird barely survived in a nest on a lonely tree on a vast deserted plain.
→ read full articleThe Ku Klux Klan Has Reserved South Carolina Statehouse Grounds on July 18 for a Confederate Flag Rally
Adam B. Lerner, Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
James Spears, the Great Titan of the chapter, said the group would be rallying to protest “the Confederate flag being took down for all the wrong reasons.” “It’s part of white people’s culture,” he added.
→ read full articleHenry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Thoreau whose birth anniversary we mark on 12 July was not a systematic writer but rather one whose thoughts came in flashes of light in response to specific events. While his book ‘Walden’ is the best known, it is his short essays that have had the most lasting impact, in particular “Civil Disobedience” and “A plea for Captain John Brown”.
→ read full articleConfusion in Exchanging “Something” for “Nothing”
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Cognitive Implication in the Asymmetrical Processes of Begging and Its Surrogates
→ read full article(Deutsch) Ein missglücktes anarchistisches Farbenspiel
Sebastian Kalicha , Graswurzelrevolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Schwarz-Weiß – die Farben des gewaltfreien Anarchismus?
→ read full articleIf ISIS Doesn’t Liberate Palestine… Who Will?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
This is one of the questions ricocheting between Palestinians in Syria and Lebanon, posed also by ISIS (Da’ish) operatives. However, based on conversations with recently-arrived Palestinian refugees from Syria, as well as old friends in Lebanon’s camps, this observer is confident that today only a small percentage of Palestinians are responding to the siren-call of ISIS. But tomorrow?
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Publishes NSA Documents Detailing Economic Espionage by ‘Five Eyes’ Alliance against France
Kevin Gosztola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
29 Jun 2015 – WikiLeaks published documents from the NSA showing details of economic espionage against France by the “Five Eyes’ alliance, which consists of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
July 6–12 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” – Christopher Reeve
→ read full articleIMF Admits: We Failed to Realize the Damage Austerity Would Do to Greece
LEAP/GEAB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
The International Monetary Fund admitted it had failed to realize the damage austerity would do to Greece as the Washington-based organization catalogued mistakes made during the bailout of the stricken eurozone country.
→ read full articleGaza-Bound Flotilla Vessel Seized by Israeli Navy
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
29 Jun 2015 – Activists say the Marianne was intercepted by Israel’s military around 100 nautical miles from Gaza’s shore.
→ read full articleThe Nemesis of Race
Johan Galtung, 29 Jun 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
We have been treated to a shadow debate of “hate crime” vs “domestic, racial terrorism”, one psychologizing, one politicizing. “Murder” will do, legally. But another shadow debate came up, about a flag on full mast on top of the key public building in South Carolina. One may wonder why somebody did not discretely remove it; nobody did, till presidential candidates feared it could hurt their campaigns.
→ read full articleNew Social Media Platform Dubbed “The People’s Site” by Anonymous
True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Facebook may have finally met its match. By directly targeting the social media behemoth’s lack of messaging encryption, infamously opaque algorithms, and government and advertiser accessibility, Minds.com has earned the attention of privacy advocates, activists, and frustrated Facebook users—and has even garnered active support from Anonymous.
→ read full articleGifts for Mom
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Four brothers left home for college, and they became successful doctors and lawyers and prospered.
→ read full article(Português) O Contra-senso Comum
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Em 1926, o poeta irlandês W.B. Yeats lamentava: “Falta convicção aos melhores enquanto os piores estão cheios de apaixonada intensidade”. Vejamos 10 convicções que se vão tornando senso comum e que, por serem ilusórias e absurdas, constituem o novo contra-senso comum.
→ read full articleComforting a Baby Is Violent
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
In essence, the expression of feelings is a vital means of communication, for babies, children and adults. Interfering with the expression of feelings, by comforting for example, simply destroys a means of communication and virtually guarantees a dysfunctional behavioural outcome.
→ read full article(Português) Preservar a Perspectiva Singular do Papa: A Ecologia Integral
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
22 junho 2015 – O Papa Francisco operou uma grande virada no discurso ecológico ao passar da ecologia ambiental para a ecologia integral. Esta inclui a ecologia político-social, a mental, a cultural, a educacional, a ética e a espiritual.
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi les USA ont-ils ignoré les prédictions sur la Syrie ?
Rick Sterling, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Il y a presque 3 ans, la Defense Intelligence Agency a caractérisé de façon précise la nature du conflit en Syrie et a prédit l’émergence de l’Etat Islamique. Cette révélation bouleversante a été le résultat de la loi sur la liberté de l’information combinée à un effort du groupe « Judicial Watch » en lien avec la commission spéciale sur Benghazi pour plus de transparence sur les agissements des services secrets américains en Syrie.
→ read full articleLower the US Flag on the 4th of July!
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
For over half a century, I’ve written articles against racism and war. I was shocked and I grieved to see what happened at the Charleston Emanuel Church. Quickly, the call went out: Take down the Confederate flag! But, let’s be very clear: the Confederate flag is NOT a central issue here.
→ read full articleNew Door Handle Kills Germs on Contact!
John Vibes, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
26 Jun 2015 – Two teenage science students from Hong Kong recently won second place at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for their new invention, a door handle that kills germs on contact.
→ read full articleOpposing Construction of a Thirty Meter Telescope atop Sacred Mauna Kea Mountain in Hawai’i
Masahide T. Kato, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
We are asking the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the largest investor in the TMT, to divest from the project to save the mountain that is central to the existence of Native Hawaiians, Polynesians, and the oceanic ecosystems. Reasons:
→ read full articleWhat We Learned about Mercury from the Messenger Spacecraft
Bryan Dyne, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
On April 30, the Messenger spacecraft performed a planned impact onto the surface of Mercury, ending the four-year mission to the Solar System’s innermost planet. In the end, only 10 minutes of data was lost out of the 1,500 days worth of information collected by Messenger.
→ read full articleHonduran Democracy Still in Crisis 6 Years after Coup Sponsored by USA
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
According to a recent report, 15 assaults per month are perpetrated against journalists, human rights defenders, and political opposition. Meanwhile, gender-based violence is out of control with the femicide rate surpassing epidemic levels.
→ read full articleThe Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Manipulate Us Physicians without Our Awareness
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
“The pharmaceutical companies are an amoral bunch. They’re not a benevolent association. So they are highly unlikely to donate large amounts of money without strings attached. Once one is dancing with the devil, you don’t always get to call the steps of the dance.”
→ read full articleWorld’s Largest Offshore Wind Turbine Unveiled in Fukushima
Cole Mellino, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
22 Jun 2015 – Japan officially unveiled today its 7 megawatt (MW) wind turbine, the world’s largest offshore turbine to date. It is slated to be operational by September.
→ read full articleRightwing Radicalization, Militarization, and the Boomerang Effect
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia, rightwing governments have increasingly adopted extremist socio-economic policies, slashing social expenditures, labor and welfare legislation, while increasing corporate subsidies and reducing taxes for the elite. The euphoria, arrogance and smirks, which accompanied the rise of rightwing radicalism, are dissipating into foul sulfurous odors only waiting for a fresh wind to blow them away.
→ read full articleIceland Just Jailed 7 Bank Executives for Market Manipulation
True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
27 Jun 2015 – In one of the biggest cases of its kind, seven executives from the Kaupþing bank have been handed prison sentences for market manipulation today.
→ read full articleGoogle Chrome Listening in to Your Room Shows the Importance of Privacy Defense in Depth
Rick Falkvinge, Privacy Online News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Nobody is to be trusted with a technical capability to listen to every room in the world, with listening profiles customizable at the identified-individual level, on the mere basis of “trust us”.
→ read full articleWhy Greece Is on the Brink of Putting Life before Debt
Steve Rushton, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
22 Jun 2015 – “Greece has been and still is the victim of an attack premeditated and organized by the IMF, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission, reads the Preliminary Report of the Truth Committee on Public Debt published last week in Greece. “This violent, illegal, and immoral mission aimed exclusively at shifting private debt onto the public sector.”
→ read full articleSpain Agrees to Increased US Military Presence
Alejandro López, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
26 Jun 2015 – Spain has signed a new bilateral defence agreement to allow the US military permanent use of the Morón air base in Seville, with increased numbers of troops and aircraft.
→ read full articleMajority Rule
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
A Frenchman arrives on a South Sea island.
→ read full articleDemocracy on the Retreat in Over 96 of the 193 U.N. Member States, Says New Study
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
“Legitimate civil society activities are worryingly under threat in a huge number of countries in the global North and South, democratic and authoritarian, on all continents.”
→ read full articleInternational Yoga Day: Some Reflections
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Last year, the UN declared 21 June as International Yoga Day. The Yoga lovers all over the world rejoiced at the UN declaration. Let me briefly analyze what I understand by the term Yoga.
→ read full articleEmbodying Strategic Self-reference in a World Futures Conference
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Transcending the Wicked Problem Engendered by Projecting Negativity Elsewhere – Creative review of the 17th International Futures Conference on Tackling Wicked Problems: where futures research, education and action meet.
→ read full articleWar Crimes? Us???
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
The convenient way out is to proclaim that all UN officials are by nature anti-Semites and Israel-haters, so that answering their questions is counterproductive. We are moral. We are right. By nature. We can’t help it. Those who accuse us must be anti-Semites. Simple logic. To hell with them all!
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Nikolai Starikov: Why Putin Does Not Recognize Donetsk and Lugansk Republics
Russia Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Rising politician, leader of the Great Patriotic Party of Russia and writer Nikolai Starikov’s explanation and insights about Russia annexing or recognizing Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic. It would not be in Russia’s best national and geopolitical interest; they must stay within Ukraine.
→ read full articlePost-Capitalist Solutions: How Worker-Owned Tech Co-ops Are Boosting the Solidarity Economy
Matt Stannard, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
23 Jun 2015 – Many now agree that corporate capitalism needs to go away. But we differ about the methods of replacing it. Worker ownership is about alienation versus empowerment. For human beings to be able to be their full selves, they need to have a say in their own affairs.
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2015 Global Peace Index
Vision of Humanity - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Jun 16, 2015 – The 2015 Global Peace Index reveals a divided world, with the most peaceful countries enjoying increasing levels of peace and prosperity, while the least peaceful countries spiral into violence and conflict. Explore the state of world peace on the interactive Global Peace Index Map.
→ read full articleThe Amazing Story of What Happened When One Tiny Country Decriminalized ALL Drugs
Sophie McAdam, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Decriminalization has worked in Portugal, and should inspire governments around the world to do the same.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace Science (GPS): Subject’s Area Matrix
Leo Semashko and Subhash Chandra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Simply put, S-matrix expresses the architecture of global peace in its key structural blocks.
→ read full articleFreedom Flotilla III Leaves Greece for Gaza
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
27 Jun 2015 – Freedom Flotilla III has set sail from Greece for the Gaza Strip in a bid to break Israel’s long-time blockade of the Palestinian territory. It consists of three vessels carrying around 70 people from 20 countries who were invited by the people of Gaza though contacting international aid organizations for help.
→ read full article(Français) Les Trois Victoires du Gouvernement Grec
Jacques Sapir, RussEurope – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Il est désormais clair que le gouvernement grec, abusivement appelé « gouvernement de la gauche radicale » ou « gouvernement de SYRIZA », mais en réalité gouvernement d’union (et le fait que cette union ait été faite avec le parti souverainiste ANEL est significatif), a remporté des succès spectaculaire.
→ read full article6 Devastating Heat Waves Hitting the Planet
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
23 Jun 2015 – Need proof that we’re having the hottest year on record? Scorching heat is searing parts of the world, sparking wildfires and claiming lives due to heat stroke and dehydration.
→ read full article2015 Global Peace Index
Institute for Economics & Peace, Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
The 2015 Global Peace Index shows that the world is becoming increasingly divided with some countries enjoying unprecedented levels of peace and prosperity while others spiral further into violence and conflict.
→ read full articleThe Stories of Compassionate Rebels Building a Culture of Peace
Burt Berlowe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
A New Form of Journalism Is Emerging
→ read full articleWorld Bank Group: Project Critics Threatened, Harassed, Jailed
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
The 144-page report, “At Your Own Risk: Reprisals against Critics of World Bank Group Projects,” details how governments and powerful companies have threatened, intimidated and misused criminal laws against community members who stand to be displaced or harmed by projects financed by the WB and its private sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation.
→ read full article(Italiano) Papa Francesco: teologia spirituale, liberatoria
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Che dono per l’umanità, questo papa! Scegliere il mutamento climatico globale come tema fra i principali del suo papato è nello spirito dei tempi. Ciò che è rivoluzionario, ed egli usa sovente la parola, è il punto focale sui poveri. Grazie, papa Francesco, per il tuo punto focale: la violenza strutturale.
→ read full articleSecurity Council Action on Gaza War Crimes a Non-Starter
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
The chances of Security Council action are remote because of the traditional U.S. commitment to stand by Israel – right or wrong, mostly wrong. “When Israeli officials are put in the dock, U.S. officials ought to be right in there with them. Their conduct is inexcusable.”
→ read full articleCorporate Interests Dominate Lobbying with EU Policy-Makers
Sean Buchanan, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
“There is a strong link between the amount of money you spend and the number of meetings you get [with European Commission officials]. Those organisations with the biggest lobby budgets get a lot of access, particularly on the financial, digital and energy portfolios” – Daniel Freund, Transparency International EU
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
June 29–July 5 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” – Flavia Weedn
→ read full articleDonors Pledge Over 4.4 Billion Dollars to Nepal – But With a Caveat
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
“It is critical that the international community and Nepal learn from the mistakes of past emergencies, where up to half of pledges are never delivered on.”
→ read full articleMilitarism’s Hostages
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
The military-industrial complex sells itself by claiming to defend civilians. It justifies vast and crippling budgets by this claim; but it is a fraud. For the military-industrial complex, the only goal is money and power. Civilians like ourselves are just hostages. We are expendable.
→ read full article“Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards”: The Alice in Wonderland World of Fast-tracked Secret Trade Agreements
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
21 Jun 2015 – The terms of the TPP and the TiSA are so secret that drafts of the negotiations are to remain classified for four years or five years, respectively, after the deals have been passed into law. How can laws be enforced against people and governments who are not allowed to know what was negotiated?
→ read full articleA Bigot, a Coward, And a Nobel Laureate
Kayes Ahmed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
This award has elevated her to a position of great moral and political authority in Burma, but she has not used them for human rights, better political environment, or the advancement of the quality of life for her people. Ms. Suu Kyi is extraordinarily close-mouthed when it comes to the suffering of the Rohingya population of Burma.
→ read full articleThe University for Peace, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Oliver Rizzi Carlson, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Like an engineering school building crumbling under the weight of its own tectonic deficiencies, the University for Peace in Costa Rica is dying of its own, festering conflicts.
→ read full articlePope Francis: Spiritual, Liberating Theology
Johan Galtung, 22 Jun 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
What a gift to humanity, this Pope! To choose global climate change as a major theme of his papacy is in the spirit of the times. What is revolutionary, and he uses that word often, is the focus on the poor. Thank you, Pope Francis, for your focus–structural violence.
→ read full articleFreedom Flotilla Set to Sail to Gaza amid Safety Concerns
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Activists say that they aim to end the blockade on Gaza, but they fear an Israeli violent response to their attempt.
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