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Brexit
Brighty – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
See EU later…
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‘They Called Me Osama:’ A Short Documentary on Sikhs in America
Maneetpaul Singh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
This new documentary film released earlier this month seeks to educate people about the Sikh religion and the experiences of Sikhs in America, including bullying in schools, racism, and hate violence. The film, made by Maneetpaul Singh Chawla with funding from the University of Connecticut’s IDEA grant program, aims at preventing abuses of Sikhs and informing mainstream Americans about the centuries old Sikh religion.
→ read full articleOrlando Killings, Guns & War
James ‘Jim’ Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Like any addict, be it an addiction to alcohol, drugs, violence, video games, consumerism, etc. it is hard for an addict to admit the addiction. The U.S. is a nation addicted to violence — guns, war, and global domination. Isn’t it time to stop the killing both at home and abroad? The U.S. needs a 12-step program to recovery; to help build a world with liberty, justice, and peace for all.
→ read full article[Some Good News!] Brexit Strips World’s 400 Richest People of US$ 127bn – Bloomberg
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 – Brexit-caused losses of the world’s 400 richest people amounted to an eye- watering $USD127.4 billion in a single day, Bloomberg estimates. Rich Britons have lost a “mere” $5.5 billion, according to reports.
→ read full articleParticipatory Economics and the Next System
Robin Hahnel | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Only when a majority are sufficiently disgusted by capitalism and confident that workers and consumers can manage and coordinate their own economic affairs will it be possible to leave capitalism in the dustbin of history where it belongs.
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Liberace Plays Tchaikovsky (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The great performer passes the test of time. Dazzling one-man-show!
→ read full article(Français) Russie et Chine, un couple solide face à la contre-attaque de l’empire
Philippe Stroot | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
22 Juin 2016 – Face à l’expansion sans limite de l’OTAN qui se rapproche sans cesse de ses frontières, à la campagne de dénigrement systématique de Vladimir Poutine dans les médias occidentaux ainsi qu’à une hystérie antirusse sans équivalent même à l’époque de la guerre froide et qui n’a pratiquement plus rien d’idéologique, la Russie cherche et trouve d’autres partenaires à l’Est et au Sud.
→ read full articleWhy and in What Ways Is Myanmar Military Protecting Buddhism and Buddhist ‘Race’?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 – Now Myanmar is officially a Fascist State, with the military claiming itself as the protector of Buddhism and Race: Aung San Suu Kyi is crippled, intellectually and strategically. Why does Myanmar Tatmadaw intend to protect “Buddhism” and “Bama race”? And in what specific ways do the military strategists “protect” Buddhism?
→ read full articleGenocide Scholars Pull Out of Israel Conference
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 – The vice-president of the International Network of Genocide Scholars, Univ. of Cape Town Prof. Mohamed Adhikari, has pulled out of the group’s conference at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. British genocide scholar Martin Shaw also announced he is pulling out. South Africa’s Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation also withdrew citing concerns about Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights.
→ read full articleThe Most Impossible Job on Earth: Who Will Be the Next UN Secretary-General?
Shashi Tharoor – Le Monde Diplomatique,
27 Jun 2016
Whoever succeeds Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations will face the same frustrations as his or her predecessors — authority without decisive power.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | The Gardasil Debate/Debacle
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
All vaccines have potentially serious adverse effects, only partly because many of them contain substantial amounts of the neurotoxic, fetotoxic and teratogenic aluminum (especially when it is injected into muscle tissue). Aluminum is included in many vaccines where it acts as an adjuvant, which makes it highly likely to cause brain problems in immunologically immature infants (and fetuses) because it adversely affects the blood-brain-barrier and is a mitochondrial toxin.
→ read full article(Português) Os meus cães deram-me uma lição de humanidade
Pauls Toutonghi - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
27 Jun 2016
“[Glasgow e Seismic] foram, de certa forma, os meus primeiros filhos. Ensinaram-me a ser humano. Ou como ser um ser humano melhor, a pôr as necessidades de outra pessoa à frente das minhas. Ou talvez tenha sido a minha primeira mulher que me ensinou isso quando decidiu deixar-me com dois cães e uma casa vazia”.
→ read full articleThe Racist and Sexist Nature of Brazil’s New [Rightwing] Government
Adam Bledsoe – CounterPunch,
27 Jun 2016
Over the past several weeks critics have appropriately pointed out the various ways in which the new government has threatened the country’s most marginalized sectors—closing avenues to affordable housing, removing women and people of color from government posts, and threatening to de-fund constitutionally-guaranteed services like healthcare and education.
→ read full articleThe War on Weed Is Winding Down – But Will Monsanto Be the Winner?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The war on cannabis that began in the 1930s seems to be coming to an end. Research shows that this natural plant, rather than posing a deadly danger to health, has a wide range of therapeutic benefits. But skeptics question the sudden push for legalization, which is largely funded by wealthy investors linked to Big Ag and Big Pharma.
→ read full articleA Critique of Human Society since the Neolithic Revolution
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
There is a long history of social critics and progressive thinkers offering critiques of human society. While these and other critiques have much to offer, if we want to trace the origin of the dysfunctional and violent human behaviours that now threaten human extinction, I believe it is necessary to examine what has been happening since the Neolithic (agricultural) revolution some 12,000 years ago.
→ read full articleThe Federal Reserve Cartel (Part 2): The Banking Houses of Morgan and Rockefeller
Dean Henderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch.
→ read full article(Castellano) Masiva protesta en Okinawa contra las bases militares de EE.UU.
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
19 junio 2016 – Unas 65 mil personas protestaron hoy en la isla de Okinawa en rechazo a la presencia de bases militares estadounidenses tras el asesinato de una mujer japonesa, cometido por un contratista de la base militar de Estados Unidos en la isla. Se trata de una de las protestas más grandes desde octubre de 1995, cuando unas 85 mil personas salieron a las calles después de que tres soldados estadounidenses violaran a una niña de 12 años.
→ read full articleThe Federal Reserve Cartel (Part 3): The Freemasons and the House of Rothschild
Dean Henderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
In 1789 Alexander Hamilton became the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Hamilton was one of many Founding Fathers who were Freemasons. He had close relations with the Rothschild family which owns the Bank of England and leads the European Freemason movement. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Ethan Allen, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Brown and Roger Sherman were all Masons.
→ read full articleThe Federal Reserve Cartel (Part 4): Knights of the Roundtable and the Illuminati
Dean Henderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
According to former British intelligence agent John Coleman’s book, The Committee of 300, the Rothschilds exert political control through the secretive Business Roundtable, which they created in 1909 with the help of Lord Alfred Milner and South African industrialist Cecil Rhodes.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Giappone del momento – e gli USA
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Comunque, la demistificazione dei rapporti USA-Giappone è destinata ad arrivare. Ma solo dalla fonte accettabile al “Giappone che dice Sì” (sì-sì-sì-sì): dagli USA stessi. Da USA che perdono una guerra dopo l’altra da quella di Corea del 1953, USA affaticati dalla guerra, checché ne sia la ragione. A un Giappone molto preoccupato per Trump non solo per il [ventilato] ritiro delle truppe dal Giappone lasciandogli l’onere della propria auto-difesa, ma per il [loro] divenire Grande da soli, senza conferire ad altri grandezza indiretta. Rendendolo un Giappone ordinario.
→ read full articleThe Federal Reserve Cartel (Part 5): A Financial Parasite
Dean Henderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
New York City Mayor John Hylan in 1922 argued, “The real menace to our republic is the invisible government which, like a giant octopus, sprawls its slimy length over our city, state and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses, generally referred to as the international bankers”.
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Jean-Paul Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Sartre was offered, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 for his autobiography, Words, though he subsequently rejected the award based on his own notions of his integrity as a writer.
→ read full articleReconciliation in Bosnia
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
In Travnik, there were two communities (Bosniaks and Croats). For one and a half year of weekly lectures, they did not mingle at all. All the Croats, who are Catholics, sat on the left side of the room, along with a nun, separated by a walkway from all the Bosniaks, who are Muslims, who sat on the right side, along with an Imam. During breaks, they went to separate rooms to drink tea.
→ read full article51 U.S. Diplomats Urge Strikes against Assad in Syria
Mark Landler – The New York Times,
20 Jun 2016
16 Jun 2016 — More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of the Obama administration’s policy in Syria, urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
→ read full articleEurope Migrant Crisis: Charity Rejects EU Funds over Migration Policy
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Medical aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says it will no longer take funds from the European Union in protest at its migration policy.
→ read full articleThe End of M.A.D. — The Beginning of Madness
Eric Zuesse | The Saker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Mutually Assured Destruction, or M.A.D., isn’t only a reality in a nuclearly armed multipolar world, but it is also a mass-psychology, of belief that there cannot be any winner of a nuclear war. But the concept that we are all in this together is gone in the West. If it doesn’t exist in both the West and the ‘East’ (namely, in Russia, where it does exist), then a nuclear war is extremely likely, and the real question is: When will it be likeliest to happen?
→ read full article(Português) Touradas em Portugal
Cláudia Vantacich | RiseUp Portugal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Reportagem espectacular sobre touradas. Todos os argumentos, todos os factos, todas as razões num brilhante trabalho.
→ read full articleStatement on Massacre of LGBTQI and Latino Community Members in Orlando, USA
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
“In loving memory of all who were killed, we pledge not to seek revenge or hatred, but to work for reconciliation and building peaceful ways of living together in all our diversity and plurality as the one human family sharing our one world equally together.”
→ read full article(Português) Espiritualidade, especismo e a lacuna da simetria ética
Jonathan Dickstein - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
20 Jun 2016
O veganismo abolicionista, tal como foi desenvolvido por Gary Francione, baseia-se na ideia simples de que todos os animais, humanos e não humanos importam moralmente. Nós paramos nossos carros na frente de cães, guaxinins e veados, porque reconhecemos que estes animais têm importância.
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(Português) As Touradas: Violência, Crueldade, Ignorância, Futilidade – A Vergonha de Portugal
Cláudia Vantacich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
“A etologia como ramo da zoologia, explica que o comportamento não é determinado pela genética, mas pelo ambiente e interacções do animal. Ou seja, independentemente das características genéticas, o seu comportamento será sempre condicionado, em última análise, pelo propósito e personalidade de quem os cria, tal como acontece com os cães.”
→ read full article(Português) António: do martírio à festa, ou a alquimia da apologia da vida
Paulo Mendes Pinto – Público,
20 Jun 2016
14 junho 2016 – Era Portugal um jovem reino, e vivia-se por toda a Europa um forte espírito de martírio, quando viveu em Lisboa um jovem que viria a ser mais tarde conhecido como António, frei, santo desde 1232. Se o nome que escolheu evoca a figura matriz do eremitismo, a sua prática de vida lança-nos para o cosmopolitismo, para a cidade, para o contacto com o outro e não para a fuga mundi.
→ read full articlePutin: ‘EU Is Russia’s Friend; NATO Is the Problem’
Bryan MacDonald – Russia Today,
20 Jun 2016
19 Jun 2016 – Vladimir Putin used a keynote address in his home city of St. Petersburg this weekend to outline his belief that America uses NATO to drive a wedge between the EU and Russia. Instead, he offered an alternative vision for European unity.
→ read full articleBridges, Not Walls, Foster Peace and Security as Refugees Arrive
Jeff Pugh | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Calls for the exclusion of refugees ignore basic principles of human dignity while undermining the goal of keeping citizens safe. Extremists have used video clips of U.S. politicians’ xenophobic rhetoric as a recruiting tool, trying to convince Muslims that the United States will never welcome them, and that violence is the only way to deal with Westerners.
→ read full articleGeorge Orwell (Jun 25, 1903-Jan 21, 1950)
Encyclopedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
George Orwell was a novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). Aldous Huxley was one of his masters. He worked between bouts of hospitalization for tuberculosis, of which he died in a London hospital.
→ read full articleEnjoy These 10 Detox Water Recipes All Year Long!
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Detox water is basically water infused with fruits, vegetables, and/or herbs. Sometimes called infused water, many people use it as part of a body detox strategy. I know many people who don’t enjoy drinking water. Some say it’s tasteless and dull. That’s what makes detox water so excellent. It adds flavor to plain water while also infusing key, beneficial nutrients.
→ read full articleUndeterred: Amid Terror Attacks in Europe, US H-bombs Still Deployed There
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
A little more than 60 miles from Brussels airport, Kleine Brogel Air Base is one of six European sites where the United States still stores active nuclear weapons; these bombs “evade public attention to the extent that a post-terror attack nuclear scare in Belgium can occur without the bombs even being mentioned.” Today, only 180 — out of more than 7000 US nukes once deployed in Europe — are still kept at the ready: in Belgium, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, and Turkey. Soviet nuclear weapons have even been removed from Eastern Europe.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Interim President Temer Named in Petrobras Kickback Scandal
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
With the surfacing Wednesday [15 Jun] of charges that Brazil’s interim president, Michel Temer, solicited bribes in return for contracts with the state-run oil conglomerate Petrobras, the right-wing regime installed through the drive to impeach Workers Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff has been thrown into deeper crisis.
→ read full articleLegalized Tyranny: India’s Armed Forces Special Powers Act
Hasnat Sheikh | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
12 Jun 2016 – Thousands of extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, mass graves and recurrent incidents of violence brushed under the carpet away from plain sight. Under the power of the world’s largest democracy, an organized system of institutionalized violence has evolved, specifically in the occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
→ read full articleCounting the Crimes of the War on Terror
Rebecca Gordon – TomDispatch,
20 Jun 2016
Should George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Others Be Jailed? Maybe we’ll never see America’s torturers behind bars. They should still have to tell the truth about what they did.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Jun 20-26 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coelho
→ read full articleStanding Firm for Reform at the American Psychological Association
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016 – Abolitionist and preacher Frederick Douglass once warned, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will.” Feminist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde similarly advised, “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Their words are worth remembering as we now witness a coordinated campaign of intimidation, deception, and obfuscation targeting the American Psychological Association’s recent efforts to right its ship and institute meaningful ethical reforms in national security contexts.
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“I Refuse to Support U.S. Armed Drone Policy”: Army Chaplain Reads Resignation Letter to Obama
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
20 Jun 2016
Jun 3, 2016 – “The Executive Branch continues to claim the right to kill anyone, anywhere on earth, at any time, for secret reasons, based on secret evidence, in a secret process, undertaken by unidentified officials. I refuse to support this policy of unaccountable killing.”
→ read full articleThe Federal Reserve Cartel (Part 6): The Solution
Dean Henderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
This same cabal of trillionaire money changers – mysteriously immune from their own calls for “broad sacrifice” – utilizes the debt lever to ring concessions from the people of Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and now the United States. In their never-ending quest to subjugate the planet, the bankers’ IMF enforcer – chronic harasser of Third World governments – has turned its sites on the developed world.
→ read full articleWhy Go to Russia?
Kathy Kelly | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
“Prior to the Wall’s removal, President Reagan assured Secretary General Gorbachev that if he would support bringing down the Wall separating East and West Berlin, NATO would not move ‘a finger’s width’ closer to Russia than East Germany’s border. With this assurance Gorbachev gladly signed on. Little could he or the world have guessed that this promise would soon be broken during the next administration – and that the redeveloping distrust between the countries would threaten to become a second Cold War, due to NATO’s expansion up to Russia’s borders.”
→ read full articleNewly Released CIA Files Expose Grim Details of Agency Interrogation Program
Greg Miller, Karen DeYoung and Julie Tate – The Washington Post,
20 Jun 2016
14 Jun 2016 – The files include granular descriptions of the inner workings of the CIA’s “black site” prisons, messages sent to CIA headquarters from field officers who expressed deep misgivings with how detainees were being treated and secret memos raising objections to the roles played by doctors and psychologists in the administration of treatment later condemned as torture.
→ read full articleIt’s Time for Transparency in the US Lethal Drone Program
Rachel Stohl | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Civilian casualties have raised a number of legal and ethical questions regarding use of this technology, particularly outside of active combat zones. Central to this debate is the secrecy surrounding the US lethal drone program, including a lack of official information on casualty figures and accountability for mistakes.
→ read full articleMessage to the Wall
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Dear Wall,
Your polished surface deceives.
You appear serene, yet you are bursting with anguish and lost potential.
Pathways of Transition to Agroecological Food Systems
Adam Parsons | Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
A new report by leading sustainability experts has reaffirmed the case for a paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems – fundamental to which is a call for redistributing power back into the hands of those who feed the world.
→ read full articleMass Karma
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
On the battlefield you are supposed to try to kill a person whom you’ve never met before. You are shooting because he is wearing the enemy uniform. Under official circumstances, we glorify this sort of behavior. And this glory permeates the American social structure, creating a sort of standing permission for every troubled individual — every potential army of one — to wage war against a self-perceived wrong.
→ read full articleAssembly Line & Automation Works
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Two people went along a road with pick and shovel.
→ read full articleNATO Threatens Europe with Annihilation
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
18 Jun 2016 – NATO is supposed to be a defensive alliance, whose purpose is to “protect Europe from aggression”; but today it is an aggressive tool of the United States. In recent years, participation in NATO has made European countries accomplices in US efforts to achieve global hegemony by means of military force, in violation of international law, and especially in violation of the UN Charter, the Nuremberg Principles.
→ read full articleQueerness and the Next System: Opening Up the Discussion on Homosexuality
Erik Lampmann | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
12 Jun 2016 – For centuries, the erasure of LGBTQ people from public policy has been the norm. Trapped within the confines of our closets by regimes of sexual and gender conformity enforced by brutal violence, sterilization, and incarceration, LGBTQ people have long been denied formal political agency, legal recognition, and the ability to live as our full, authentic selves. It can be tempting to forget that, even in 2016, a presupposition of heterosexuality remains an integral component of the cultural firmament.
→ read full articleThe Confessions of Brock Turner and a Culture of Punishment
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
18 Jun 2016 – The sentencing of a convicted sex offender has recently become a topic of much discussion in the U.S. media, with the focus on the perceived leniency of the punishment and the perpetrator’s refusal to admit guilt. Generally not discussed are the deep assumptions that have elevated punishment to the first priority of the criminal justice system.
→ read full articleState Department Draft Dissent Memo on Syria
The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
17Jun 2016 – In a draft version of a dissent memo filed with the State Department’s senior leadership, dozens of diplomats and other mid-level officials called for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. The document was provided to The Times by a State Department official on condition that the names of the signers not be published.
→ read full articleUN Security Council Agrees to Military Intervention off Libyan Coast
Marianne Arens | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
20 Jun 2016 – Last week, the UN Security Council in New York adopted unanimously a resolution which empowered European member states to search all ships off the Libyan coast for weapons and munitions. With the passage of this resolution, a new war in Libya draws ever closer.
→ read full articleEthiopia-Eritrea: The Cry of the Imburi
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
The frontier issue between the two countries was taken for arbitration to the World Court, but the Court’s findings have not been put into practice. The lands contested are of no particular economic or social importance. Intelligent leadership on both sides could make of the frontier lands a bridge rather than a wall, but intelligent leadership has been in short supply. As the African Union headquarters is in Ethiopia, the AU secretariat has been inactive on the Ethiopia-Eritrea issue for fear of displeasing Ethiopia.
→ read full articleMoney’s Reach: Brexit vs EU
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
The European Union looks thoroughly rotten – until you compare it to the alternatives. Without sufficient public scrutiny, all political systems degenerate into the service of wealth. All end up controlled by the few with the cash, not the many with the votes. So the question we at the UK face next week is this: “In which political unit can money best be resisted?” We do not release ourselves from the power of money by leaving the EU. We just exchange one version for another: another that is even worse.
→ read full articleCan Suu Kyi Bring Change for Myanmar Expats?
The Nation | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
14 Jun 2016 – Aung San Suu Kyi’s stated readiness to discuss migrant issues with her counterparts here when she visits Thailand next week as state counsellor and foreign minister of Myanmar is welcome news. Optimism must be tempered, however, unless she arrives with a comprehensive plan covering not just migrant labourers but also refugees – and the benighted Rohingya in particular.
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Year of the Cat (Music Video of the Week)
Al Stewart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Official Video – A Classic of the Musical ‘70s
→ read full articleHow the Drone King Turned Assassination into Counter-Terrorism Policy
Mnar Muhawesh – MintPress News,
20 Jun 2016
Barack Obama launched more drones strikes in his first year in office than George W. Bush did in both of his terms combined. Exposing what one military scholar called a global policy of assassination. Drones, Jeremy Scahill writes, “are a tool, not a policy. The policy is assassination.”
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Dalai Lama Urges Myanmar’s [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi to Ease Rohingya Tensions
David Brunnstrom | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has a moral responsibility to try to ease tensions between majority Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, her fellow Nobel laureate, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday [13 Jun]. “She already has the Nobel Peace Prize, a Nobel Laureate, so morally she should … make efforts to reduce this tension,” he told Reuters in an interview in Washington.
→ read full article(Italiano) Est-Asia: quattro formule per la pace
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Una gara agli armamenti nucleari. Che può anche fungere da deterrente, ma più sovente finisce in guerra. La guerra vuol dire traumi per gli sconfitti e gloria per i vincitori. La sindrome da stress post-traumatico (PTSD) può portare alla sete di rivalsa, e la PGED (sindrome da esuberanza post-gloria) alla sete di più gloria. Guerra, guerra, guerra. Peggio che mai dai tempi della 2^ guerra mondiale. L’Est-Asia ha un gran bisogno di un approccio diverso. Come minimo, i quattro compiti della formula di pace TRANSCEND: la pace negativa consistente nella riconciliazione dei traumi e nella soluzione dei conflitti; la pace positiva che si basa sulla cooperazione a
→ read full articleThe Doomsday Clock: Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival
Noam Chomsky – TomDispatch,
13 Jun 2016
12 Jun 2016 – In January 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its famous Doomsday Clock to three minutes before midnight, a threat level that had not been reached for 30 years. The Bulletin’s statement explaining this advance toward catastrophe invoked the two major threats to survival: nuclear weapons and “unchecked climate change.” Prospects for decent long-term survival are not high unless there is a significant change of course. A large share of the responsibility is in our hands — the opportunities as well.
→ read full articleA Weak UN Ensures a Weak Secretary General
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
13 Jun 2016 – There are many angles of interpretation relevant to the startling admission by Ban Ki-moon that he succumbed to undisguised diplomatic pressure when removing Saudi Arabia from the ‘shame list’ of countries whose armies are found responsible the maiming and killing of children, earning them dishonorable mentioned in an annex to the annual UN report on violations of children’s rights.
→ read full articleBilderberg Group Meeting: What Actually Happens at the World’s Most Secretive Gathering of Global Elites, and Who Is Attending?
Adam Lusher – The Independent,
13 Jun 2016
The list of the rich and powerful attending this year’s Bilderberg Conference has been released – it includes bankers, prime ministers and former heads of the CIA and MI6.
→ read full articleThe Paris Peace Gambit: Everyone Gains Except the Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
8 Jun 2016 – In their defense, the Israelis seem to have figured out the whole thing and opted out. But the hapless Palestinian leadership, along with their Arab League partners, joined by the French, EU and UN representatives, and even US Secretary of State, John Kerry, decided to play along. However, the French peace initiative-turned-conference in Paris on June 3 is nothing but a charade, and they all know it, Palestinians included.
→ read full article(Português) Enquanto a corrupção em Brasília é exposta, os legisladores tentam criminalizar a dissidência
Andrew Fishman – The Intercept,
13 Jun 2016
10 Jun 2016 – O vazamento das gravações secretas envolvendo as mais poderosas figuras do Brasil causaram uma série de escândalos explosivos na atual crise política do país. Agora, os legisladores brasileiros estão tentando tornar ilegal a publicação destas gravações.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il culto del duce e l’arte del consenso. Studio preparatorio per una mostra improbabile
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
12 Giu 2016 – “Ognuno vede ciò che sa” insegnava il maestro Bruno Munari. E questo è il concetto base, il Leitmotiv, e la metodologia agiti per osservare, analizzare e decostruire, per ricostruirne il senso, oltreché per recensire l’esposizione su “Il culto del duce e l’arte del consenso, nei busti e nelle raffigurazioni di Benito Mussolini”, inaugurata a Salò, lo scorso 29 maggio.
→ read full articleJust a Trick
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Israel does not really depend on American financial aid. This aid is a luxury, not more. It needs the US veto against hostile proposals in the UN, but it can – and does – generally ignore the UN. Yet, taken all in all, Israel’s worsening international standing is worrying. Even Netanyahu is worried. Slowly but surely the world is accepting the State of Palestine as a fact of life and as a condition for peace. So Netanyahu is looking around for a new trick. And what does he see? Egypt!
→ read full articleAs Brasília’s Corruption Is Exposed, Lawmakers Try to Criminalize Dissent
Andrew Fishman – The Intercept,
13 Jun 2016
Leaked secret audio recordings of Brazil’s most powerful figures have sparked a series of explosive scandals. Now, lawmakers are trying to outlaw their publication.
→ read full articleNATO Allies Launch Large-Scale Military Exercise in Poland before Key Summit
Wiktor Szary | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
6 Jun 2016 – A large-scale military training exercise involving more than 20 NATO and partner countries kicked off in Poland on Monday [6 Jun], part of efforts to reassure east European nations rattled by Russia’s actions in nearby Ukraine.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace Index 2016
Institute for Economics & Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
This is the tenth edition of the GPI, which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. This report presents the most comprehensive analysis to date on the trends in peace and violence and includes an updated assessment of the economic value of peace and new research on the systemic nature of Positive Peace.
→ read full articleU.N. Chief Admits He Removed Saudi Arabia from Child-Killer List Due to Extortion
Alex Emmons and Zaid Jilani – The Intercept,
13 Jun 2016
9 Jun 2016 – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon publicly acknowledged today that he removed the Saudi-led coalition currently bombing Yemen from a blacklist of child killers — 72 hours after it was published — due to a financial threat to defund United Nations programs. He didn’t name the source of the threat, but news reports have indicated it came directly from the Saudi government.
→ read full articleCentral African Republic: Murder by Peacekeepers
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
7 Jun 2016 – Soldiers from the Republic of Congo killed at least 18 people, including women and children, while serving as peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. Discovery of Mass Grave Provides New Evidence
→ read full article(Français) La défense des Stups part en fumée
Emmanuel Fansten — Libération,
13 Jun 2016
Après nos révélations sur les méthodes de l’ex-patron de la lutte antidrogue, la hiérarchie policière a tenté de minimiser. Les nouveaux éléments que nous dévoilons attestent pourtant de l’existence d’un trafic contrôlé en haut lieu.
→ read full article(Italiano) Islamofobia: perché sono così tanti, così spaventati
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Infatti ora, naturalmente, i musulmani sono l’obiettivo primario di questa paura e odio di se stessi proiettati, cosa che spiega la guerra dell’Occidente al Medio Oriente guidata dagli Stati Uniti. L’islamofobia quindi permette alle élite e ad altri di proiettare la loro paura e il loro odio per se stessi contro i musulmani, cosicché le élite possano poi cercare di distruggere questa paura e questo odio. Ovviamente, questo non può funzionare. Non si può distruggere la paura, sia propria che di chiunque altro. Si può tuttavia causare un danno eccezionale a coloro contro i quali sono proiettati la propria paura e il proprio odio per se stessi. Naturalmente, non c’è nulla di intelligente in questo processo.
→ read full articleSolving Myanmar’s Ethnic Conflicts: A Proposal
Daniel Combs – The Diplomat,
13 Jun 2016
Aung San Suu Kyi can take advantage of her personal and political authority to forge a lasting peace in Myanmar. Using her malleable set of responsibilities and public image, she can implement new policies to end the civil wars in her country by appealing to the historical precedent set by her father in the Panglong Agreement of 1947.
→ read full articleWorld Oceans Day, 8 Jun – A Death Sea Called Mediterranean
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
13 Jun 2016
It is also a huge salty lake, being a semi-enclosed sea with only two tiny points of contact with open oceans-the Suez Canal in the East and the Gibraltar Straits in the West. Its waters need between 80 and 150 years to be renewed in contact with open oceans. In other words, a drop of polluted water remains there, circulating for a whole century on average.
→ read full articleIntellectual Triumph of Harmony in Collective Global Peace Science
Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
June 22, 1941 – my mom, Augusta Rumyantseva, 21 years, with me two days newborn in a maternity hospital in Grodno, on the USSR western border, at 4 o’clock in the morning wakes up from the horrible Nazi bombings. She spent all week underneath them during evacuation in a freight train to Leningrad. Their hell was vividly remembered during her lifetime and she could not remember them without tears.
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Muhammad Ali’s 1966 Antiwar Speech: “The Real Enemy of My People Is Right Here”
John Legend – Democracy NOW!,
13 Jun 2016
Jun 6, 2016 – Music legend John Legend reads Muhammad Ali’s speech against the Vietnam War in 1966.
→ read full articleWho Owns the Zika Virus?
Guillaume Kress - Global Research,
13 Jun 2016
5 Jun 2016 – This sexually-transmitted virus has been around for 69 years and is marketed by two companies: LGC Standards (headquartered in the UK) and ATCC (headquartered in the US). And who owns the patent on the virus? The Rockefeller Foundation!
→ read full articleWhat if PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological?
Robert F. Worth – The New York Times Magazine,
13 Jun 2016
A new study supports what a small group of military researchers has suspected for decades: that modern warfare destroys the brain.
→ read full articleMuhammad Ali Was a Hero, but His Enemies Have a Legacy Too
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
13 Jun 2016
At an armed forces examining station, he refused to step forward to a white line when his name was called. The awesome drama of that moment made Ali hated at the time, but also turned him into a martyr to history. The symbolism of a man who made his living fighting refusing to fight was extraordinarily powerful. His enemies learned from the mistake and spent a generation making sure that the next of his ilk, in the unlikely event that he or she ever comes along, won’t become so powerful a dissenting influence.
→ read full articleNo Recognition of ‘One Humanity’ at the World Humanitarian Forum
Rajesh Makwana | Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
In light of the overwhelming moral imperative to share planetary resources more equitably and protect the lives of those facing humanitarian emergencies, the World Humanitarian Summit is yet another reminder of the huge gulf between government priorities and the desperate reality of the world situation.
→ read full articleConnecting with Clouds for Freedom and Joy
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Clouds are our constant companions whether we realise it or not. Wherever we are under the open skies, we can see clouds of various shapes and forms. They form part of our myths, our cultures, our films and songs. They are a source of joy and freedom and objects of study of scientists.
→ read full articleErnesto ‘Che’ Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Encyclopedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and guerrilla leader in South America, Guevara was a medical doctor specialized in leprosy. Traveling around South America, he observed conditions that spurred his revolt against poverty and capitalist exploitation, adopting Marxist ideology, theory and practices. He is revered by many as a martyred cultural hero, having become an iconic cult figure as a symbol of anti-imperialist struggles everywhere.
→ read full articleLife Management
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
A professor was giving a lecture on time management.
→ read full article(Français) République centrafricaine : Des meurtres commis par des soldats de maintien de la paix
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
7 juin 2016 – Des militaires de la République du Congo ont tué au moins 18 personnes, y compris des femmes et des enfants, entre décembre 2013 et juin 2015, alors qu’ils servaient dans les forces de maintien de la paix en République centrafricaine. La découverte d’une fosse commune fournit de nouvelles preuves.
→ read full articleMorocco Continues Occupation of Western Sahara, in Defiance of UN
Stephen Zunes | National Catholic Reporter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
6 Jun 2016 – As Morocco continues to defy the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, and much of the international community in its continued occupation of Western Sahara, the United States continues supporting that autocratic government. Morocco has illegally occupied the former Spanish colony for more than 40 years.
→ read full articleWoman Breaks Silence among Fukushima Thyroid Cancer Patients
Yuri Kageyama, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
A young woman is among 173 young people with confirmed or suspected cases of thyroid cancer in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, but she’s the first to speak to media more than five years after the nuclear disaster there.
→ read full articleDorothy Day Refuses to Duck-And-Cover
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
On June 15th, 1955, Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day joined a group of pacifists in refusing to participate in the civilian defense drills scheduled on that day. In this particular case, Operation Alert was a nationwide, mandated, legally enforced drill.
→ read full articleHumanitarian Aid – Business as Unusual?
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
13 Jun 2016
9 Jun 2016 – Big business is most often seen by human rights defenders and civil society organisations as “bad news,” as those huge heartless, soulless corporations whose exclusive goal is to make the biggest profits possible. Too often and in too many cases this is a proven fact.
→ read full articleMuhammad Ali Has Passed the Torch of Justice and Peace to Us
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Muhammad Ali, who died June 3, 2016 at the age of 74, courageously took a stand against the Vietnam War risking years in prison and giving up millions of dollars in income for principles of peace and justice. He refused to be drafted to fight in Vietnam and was given the maximum sentence of 5 years in prison, stripped of his world heavyweight boxing title, and banned from boxing for nearly 4 years in the prime of his life.
→ read full articleRohingya: A Challenge for ASEAN Society
Muhammad Pizaro – The Jakarta Post,
13 Jun 2016
Myanmar’s government views the Rohingya as illegal citizens and describes them as immigrants from Bangladesh, despite the group having inhabited Rakhine state since the 16th century. Government policies bar them from praying, obtaining education or getting married. Many children have witnessed their parents killed by the junta regime, as if the Rohingya people were delinquent evildoers.
→ read full articleDo No Harm: Psychologists [in the USA] Should Reject Their Growing Role in Death-Penalty Sentencing
Sana Sheikh – Jacobin Magazine,
13 Jun 2016
Psychologists should not only refuse to participate in death-penalty sentencing but also actively communicate their dissent to the public. “Medical doctors do not engage and monitor to keep torture victims alive, they do not engage in helping with executions . . . And it is critically important that no one in a health professional engage in that.”
→ read full articleIn Search of Work
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
She came dressed in a mustard suit
with daffodils printed in turquoise
and magenta; her long scarf woven
in her plait so she doesn’t forget it in the …
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Jun 13-19 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” – Lao Tzu
→ read full articleZionism, Anti-Semitism, BDS, and the United Nations
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
The misuse of anti-Semitism by those defending Israel to deflect a rising tide of civil society activism and public criticism of Israeli policies and practices.
→ read full articleTrillions Spent on Violence as World Continues Downwards Spiral Away from Peace
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
13 Jun 2016
The Institute for Economics and Peace shows that chipping away at trillions spent on violence could render huge ‘peace dividend’. The findings are laid out in the think tank’s latest Global Peace Index, now in its 10th edition, released Wednesday [8 Jun]. It ranks 163 states and territories based on 23 indicators covering domestic and international conflict, societal safety and security, and a country’s militarization.
→ read full articleWhat Four Syrian Refugee Children Have Achieved for Humanity in Lebanon
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
10 Jun 2016 – Given the unanticipated intense interest in the subject of my article, which resulted in the receipt of more than 1000 emails, approximately 130 being requests or inquiries about adopting the children, an update about the four beauties is warranted.
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