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“Tapping the Victim Syndrome!” Voters as Victims Fuel Trump’s Appeal!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Trumpism! No magic, no mystique, no charisma, no aura of invincibility! Just an astute and calculated recognition of the nation’s many discontents, assumed causes, and an appealing public persona fuel Trump’s appeal.
→ read full articleTRUMP (Donald J.) – A Controversial 2016 Presidential Candidate in America. How Did He Get Away with It?
Claude R.Shema, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
A smart politician with articulated and calculated political friendliness or a vicious unpredictable and inexperienced ambitious billionaire? How does political psychology describe the massive rallies at Trump’s campaign events, extremely enthusiastic millions of American voters who voted for him and the world political and psychological anxiety associated with possible unwanted outcomes for whoever wins the 2016 US presidential race?
→ read full articleWorld’s Disappearance Commissions: An Inhuman Quest for Truth
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Disappearance entails violation and abuse of many fundamental human rights: the right to liberty, to personal security, to humane treatment, freedom from torture and other cruel treatment, the right to a fair trial, to legal counsel, to equal treatment before and under law, to receive correct information, and the right of innocence unless proven guilty by the national and international human rights instruments.
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Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Music Video of the Week)
Martynas Levickis & Florian Silbereisen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Martynas Levickis is one of the brightest young accordion musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards, being a Bachelor graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London.
→ read full articleBattle for Fallujah: Protests Needed against Violations of Humanitarian Law
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
ISIS had abolished in practice the frontier between Iraq and Syria, which had been created in 1916 by the agreement of Sir Mark Sykes for the UK and Francois Georges−Picot for France. Particular attention must be paid to the current battle for Fallujah and reports of mass violations of the laws of war. These grave violations by ISIS and others must be protested by as wide a coalition of concerned voices as possible. The time for action is now.
→ read full articleA Tree for the Victims
David Krieger | Global Poetry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
As far away as London, there is a solid tree,
a stately tree, I would say, casting a broad shadow
on a cool green lawn.
USA: Another Stolen Election?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
10 Jun 2016 – Many people throughout the world view recent political developments in the United States with alarm. Is the US drifting towards fascism? If so, is there a danger that the world will be plunged into an all-destroying thermonuclear war? Will political irresponsibility in the United States result in climate change denial? Will all hope of avoiding catastrophic climate change then be lost?
→ read full articleManagers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
A man is flying in a hot-air balloon and realizes he is lost.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il conflitto nella penisola coreana: una via d’uscita
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Costruire sugli obiettivi nord-coreani, prenderli in parola. Il loro regime cambierà, come tutti i regimi; anche gli USA stanno avanzando adesso verso cambiamenti sostanziali. Si progetti un trattato di pace, come con la Sud-Corea, si normalizzino i rapporti diplomatici Nord-Sud e Nord-USA; e si configuri un regime per una penisola coreana denuclearizzata, distruggendo o togliendo di mezzo le armi risultanti a uno scrupoloso monitoraggio ONU.
→ read full article(Português) Vaquejadas: risco iminente de volta à barbárie
Guilherme José Purvin de Figueiredo - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
6 Jun 2016
Ninguém ignora que haja quem considere maltratar um animal uma forma válida de diversão, uma atividade cultural ou desportiva. Da mesma forma, há também quem ache também que estuprar uma mulher é uma conquista do homem, que espancar uma criança é um direito dos pais e que encarcerar um idoso num quarto é uma solução prática para os dias atuais.
→ read full article(Français) Amérique Latine: le rôle des médias et des journalistes dans la restauration conservatrice
Cartagena J.C & Briatte Nadine | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
L’actuelle offensive réactionnaire en Amérique Latine a été préparée par des campagnes de presse qui perdurent, en vue de désinformer la population et discréditer les gouvernements que l’orthodoxie néolibérale, composée de l’empire américain, de ses larbins locaux et de ses alliés occidentaux, met à l’index.
→ read full article‘Saudi Violence in Yemen Can’t Be Ignored Any Longer’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
4 Jun 2016 – The UN has blacklisted Saudi-led coalition for killing and maiming thousands of children in Yemen. But will there be any consequences or sanctions for the House of Saud? Will their allies reconsider their support for Riyadh?
→ read full articleAnglo-America: Regression and Reversion in the Modern World
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
What does it mean when the US and British financial systems launder hundreds of billions of dollars of illicit funds stolen by world leaders while their governments turn a ‘blind eye’, and yet the very same Anglo-American officials investigate, prosecute, fine and arrest officials from rival governments, rival banks and political leaders for corruption?
→ read full articleWAR
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
For Memorial Day USA – May 30, 2016
→ read full articleA Russian Warning
Dmitry Orlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
31 May 2016 – We, the undersigned, are Russians living and working in the USA. We have been watching with increasing anxiety as the current US and NATO policies have set us on an extremely dangerous collision course with the Russian Federation, as well as with China. Many respected, patriotic Americans, such as Paul Craig Roberts, Stephen Cohen, Philip Giraldi, Ray McGovern and many others have been issuing warnings of a looming a Third World War.
→ read full articleHow the Media Spins Today’s South Africa
Hanief Haider | The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Why certain sections of SA media are more inclined toward foreign capital than Black economic empowerment?
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Meet the Bikers Who Protect Victims of Child Abuse
Crime Watch Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
A bunch of bikers are coming to the rescue of some kids who need help badly. Matt Doran hits the road with these heroes on two wheels. Legendado em PORTUGUÊS
→ read full articleMoney Merry-Go-Round: Emails Show How Wall Street Execs and Alums Crafted Trade Bill
Kathy Kiely – Common Dreams,
6 Jun 2016
FOIA disclosure documents chummy relationship between trade negotiator and big investment banks.
→ read full articleBuilding Trust in Afghanistan
Kathy Kelly | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
2 Jun 2016 – Here in Kabul, I read a recent BBC op-ed by Ahmed Rashid, urging a “diplomatic offensive” to build or repair relationships with the varied groups representing armed extremism in Afghanistan. Rashid has insisted, for years, that severe mistrust makes it almost impossible for such groups to negotiate an end to Afghanistan’s nightmare of war.
→ read full articleColonized Mind
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
One up on one sticks
To up and to roots dominates
A growing tree buds
This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
June 23, 1942 – The first nuclear weapons-related accident occurred on this date in the city of Leipzig, Germany involving Nazi atomic scientists Werner Heisenberg and Robert Doepel. While demonstrating Germany’s first neutron propagation experiment, workers checked the atomic pile for a heavy water leak. During the inspection, air leaked in igniting the uranium powder inside.
→ read full articleWildlife Trafficking Needs to Be a Policy Priority in Asia Pacific before It Is Too Late
Isabelle Louis and Jeremy Douglas – Inter Press Service-IPS,
6 Jun 2016
5 Jun 2016 – – This year’s World Environment Day on June 5 puts the spotlight on the illegal trade in wildlife. The problem has particular significance in Asia, which is the destination for most of the ivory taken from 20,000 to 25,000 elephants and the horns of more than 1,200 rhinos killed in Africa every year. Demand in the region is driven by fast growing middle and upper classes with an appetite for exotic pets, décor, food and fashion.
→ read full articleGlyphosate Found in Urine of 93 Percent of Americans Tested
Organic Consumers Association | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
29 May 2016 – Glyphosate, labeled a “probable human carcinogen” by the World Health Organization’s cancer agency IARC in 2015, has now been revealed to be ubiquitous in the first ever comprehensive and validated LC/MS/MS testing project to be carried out across America.
→ read full articleMuhammad Ali (17 Jan 1942 – 3 Jun 2016): Champion of the Human Race
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
4 Jun 2016 – Born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1942, no one would have known that he would not only become the Boxing Champion of the World 3 times, but also a champion of racial & religious rights as well as a champion of the struggle against armed conflict.
→ read full articleBuddhist Fanaticism: I Rejected It
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Recently an article appeared on the Guardian UK where a former Christian, a Jew and a Muslim wrote about quitting religion because they realised they were made to cultivate false beliefs about themselves and others. My story is about quitting the largest Buddhist organisation in the UK to reject fanaticism and the insult of diversity.
→ read full articleWho Says Nothing Is Made in the USA Anymore? America Excels in Business of Death
JP Sottile | theAntiMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Next Time Someone Says Nothing Is Made in the USA Anymore, Show Them This – America may lag behind the developed world in many categories, but it is No. 1 in the ‘merchant of death’ business, experiencing a boom in the commerce of boom, especially in areas destabilized by U.S. invasions.
→ read full articleIslamophobia: Why Are So Many People So Frightened?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
For now, of course, Muslims are the primary target for this projected fear and self-hatred, which accounts for the US-led western war on the Middle East. Islamophobia thus allows elites and others to project their fear and self-hatred onto Muslims so that elites can then seek to destroy this fear and self-hatred. Obviously, this cannot work. You cannot destroy fear, whether yours or that of anyone else. However, you can cause phenomenal damage to those onto whom your fear and self-hatred are projected. Of course, there is nothing intelligent about this process.
→ read full articleImperialism’s Junior Partners: BRICS
Patrick Bond – Jacobin Magazine,
6 Jun 2016
25 May 2016 – On May 12, Brazil’s democratic government, led by the Workers’ Party (PT), was the victim of a coup. What will the other BRICS countries (Russia, India, China, and South Africa) do? Will they stand by as the reactionaries who took power in Brasilia pivot closer to Western powers, glad to warm Dilma Rousseff’s seat at the BRICS summit in Goa, India in five months’ time?
→ read full articleAustria Elects a New Green President against the Rising Right
Rene Wadlow | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
There was a sense of relief among Europeans when it was announced that Alexander Van der Bellen won the election for President of Austria over his far right-wing opponent Norbert Hofer. Austria was split: 50.3% for Van der Bellen, leader of the Green Party and an active ecologist, and 49.7% for Hofer. The vote was also a rural-urban split that also reflected educational levels as well as a generation gap.
→ read full articlePan-African Parliament Calls on African Union to Support the Creation of a UN Parliamentary Assembly
Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
13 May 2016 – Yesterday, the Pan-African Parliament called on the African Union and Africa’s governments to support the creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, in short UNPA.
→ read full article5 of the Worst Atrocities Carried Out by the British Empire
Samuel Osborne – The Independent,
6 Jun 2016
In 1943, up to four million Bengalis starved to death when Winston Churchill diverted food to British soldiers while a deadly famine swept through Bengal. Talking about the Bengal famine, Churchill said: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.”
→ read full articleEl Niño and the Acceleration of Global Warming
Matthew MacEgan | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
1 June 2016 – New temperature records have been set in the early months of 2016, according to data compiled by NASA. A driver behind what one researcher referred to as “extraordinary” temperatures has been the presence of an abnormally long El Niño. At the same time, research over the last several years has shown how El Niño and its cool-water counterpart, La Niña, have been affected and made more extreme by human-induced climate change.
→ read full articleA Brief History of the Toilet
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
How the most appropriately named inventor in history saved humanity from a centuries-long crisis. Perhaps no word in English has undergone more transformations in its lifetime than toilet. And the final link in this chain of problem-solving came from an inventor with perhaps the most brilliantly appropriate name in history: Thomas Crapper.
→ read full articleLet Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World
Naomi Klein | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
All you morons vomiting your xenophobia … about how money should only be spent ‘on our own’ need to look at yourselves closely in the mirror. I request you ask yourselves a very important question … Am I a decent and honourable human being? Because home isn’t just the UK, home is everywhere on this planet. I think that makes for a very fine last word.
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Another Brick in the Wall – 2nd Part (Music Video of the Week)
Pink Floyd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
The official video for Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd taken from the album ‘The Wall’ originally released in 1979.
→ read full articlePeace Jobs – A Student’s Guide to Starting a Career Working for Peace
David J. Smith | George Mason University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
This book is a guide for college students exploring career options who are interested in working to promote peacebuilding and the resolution of conflict. High school students, particularly those starting to consider college and careers, can also benefited from this book. A major feature of the book is 30 stories from young professionals, most recently graduated from college, who are working in the field.
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Johan Galtung: The World beyond Global Disorder
World Public Forum | Dialogue of Civilizations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU. He has published 164 books on peace and related issues, of which 41 have been translated into 35 languages, for a total of 135 book translations, including ‘50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives,’ published by the TRANSCEND University Press-TUP.
→ read full articleDisastrous Floods as Indicators of Systemic Risk Neglect
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Implications for Authoritative Response to Future Surprises – This is an exploration of the level of neglected risk visibly and dramatically highlighted by a number of recent widely publicized floods which have been framed as unforeseeable surprises.
→ read full articleClosing the Gaps in Fight against Wildlife Trafficking in Latin America
Emilio Godoy – Inter Press Service-IPS,
6 Jun 2016
Despite the magnitude of the damage to biodiversity, Latin America and the Caribbean have made scant progress in fighting wildlife trafficking. The theme of this year’s World Environment Day, celebrated on Jun. 5, is Go Wild for Life.
→ read full articleBy the Way
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Having email is like…
→ read full articleMuhammad Ali, an American Muslim, Is Dead at 74
Sufyan bin Uzayr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
4 Jun 2016 – Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxer this world has ever known, is no more. Back in 1964, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr changed his name to Muhammad Ali. “Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn’t choose it, and I didn’t want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name — it means beloved of God — and I insist people use it when speaking to me and of me.” In Ali’s own words: I won’t miss fighting, fighting will miss me. Rest in Peace, Muhammad Ali.
→ read full articleTrade Pacts and Deregulation: Latest Leaks Reveal Core Problem with TISA
Deborah James - CounterPunch,
6 Jun 2016
30 May 2016 – The 18th round of negotiations on a secret deal to limit public oversight over the services economy starts this week at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, and negotiators will have a new item on their agenda: how to deal with the onslaught of leaks of proposals that were supposed to remain locked away in secret until five years after the deal was concluded or abandoned.
→ read full articleA Joint Declaration on the Environment, Social Inequality and Elimination of Nuclear Threat, with a Proposal for UN Reform
Joint Declaration – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
We Propose: Calling an extraordinary session of the United Nations General Assembly to adopt the necessary urgent social and environmental measures and, moreover, to establish the guidelines for the re-founding of a democratic multilateral system. The “new UN System” with a General Assembly of 50% of States representatives and 50% of representatives of civil society, and adding to the present Security Council and Environmental Council and a Socio-Economic Council, has been studied in depth. In all cases, no veto but weighted vote.
→ read full articleEastern and Western Modes of Thought – Nagarjuna and Quantum Physics
Christian Thomas Kohl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Let me take as an example the interpretation of quantum entanglement by the British mathematician Roger Penrose. Penrose discusses in the year of 2000 the experiences of quantum entanglement where light is separated over a distance of 100 kilometers and still remains connected in an unknown way. These are well known experiments in the last 30 years.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Jun 6-12 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I would like to take a moment to ask all married men, ‘Do you see your wives as the precious gift that God took the time and built just for you?’ Many men if they really assessed this question would find that truthfully they could not answer that question with a quick ‘Yes’…Many men don’t view their wives as the gift which God’s intended from the start.” – Glyniel Garner
→ read full articleFor US$ 20M, These Israeli Hackers Will Spy on Any Phone on the Planet
Thomas Fox-Brewster - Forbes,
6 Jun 2016
31 May 2016 – With just a few million dollars and a phone number, you can snoop on any call or text that phone makes – no matter where you are or where the device is located. That’s the bold claim of Israel’s Ability Inc, which offers its set of bleeding-edge spy tools to governments the world over. And it’s plotting to flog its kit to American cops in the coming months.
→ read full articleThis Chart Shows the Staggering Human Cost of Staging a World Cup in Qatar
Edwin Rios – Mother Jones,
6 Jun 2016
Allegations of bribery have long plagued FIFA, especially since its controversial decision to grant Qatar the 2022 World Cup. Comparing the number of workers who died in the run-up to several Olympics and World Cups with the number of those who have died in Qatar so far. It’s horrifying!
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – How Corporatist, Militarist and Fascist-Leaning Are Today’s Candidates?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Many concerned observers of the current political scene in America have seen alarming trends in the noisy far right-wing, Neo-Conservatives that have usurped power in the once respectable Republican Party. And, of course, the quite similar, Neo-liberals in control of the Democratic Party have been a concern of many progressives. The power behind each seems to be as amorally militarist and amorally corporatist as that which brought Hitler to power.
→ read full articleWhat Are the Benefits of Turmeric and Curcumin?
Dr Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Turmeric has been traditionally used for pulmonary and gastrointestinal system problems. Research within the 50 years has shown much of the supposed benefit of turmeric is due to curcumin, the active component, a polyphenol that has displayed activity in antioxidant, anti-redness, anti-harmful organism capacities.
→ read full articleHard Time: The U.S. Is the Only Country That Routinely Sentences Children to Life in Prison without Parole
Lisa Armstrong – The Intercept,
6 Jun 2016
Defying the Supreme Court, some states are still putting minors in prison for life despite mitigating circumstances.
→ read full articleA Moral Revolution? Reflections on President Obama’s Visit to Hiroshima
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
5 Jun 2016 – There is doubt that President Barack Obama’s visit to Hiroshima this May crossed some thresholds hitherto taboo. Above all the visit was properly heralded as the first time a sitting American president has dared such a pilgrimage… The whole idea of impunity for the victors and capital punishment for the losers is morally regressive.
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Johan Galtung 2016 Nobel Peace Prize
Vasco Horta Barata – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2016
A transcend_media super production. :)
→ read full articleTarget Russia. Target China. Target Iran
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
28 May 2016 – Not a day goes by without US Think Tankland doing what it does best; pushing all sorts of scenarios for cold – and hot – war with Russia, plus myriad confrontations with China and Iran. That fits into the Pentagon’s Top Five existential threats to the US, where Russia and China sit at the very top and Iran is in fourth place – all ahead of «terrorism» of the phony Daesh «Caliphate» variety.
→ read full articleTaiwan Recalls Quaker Oats Products Imported from US after Detecting Glyphosate
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
29 May 2016 – More bad news for Quaker Oats. A random inspection from Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) detected glyphosate in 10 out of 36 oatmeal products it tested, exceeding the country’s legal limit.
→ read full articleGoogle Wipes Palestine Off the Map
Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
After Googling around, I have discovered that when you ask what time it is in any country on earth, Google tells you – right there in that prominently-placed box above the search results. Except Palestine. Google is apparently part of the Zionist entity dedicated to wiping Palestine off the map. The only “Palestine” Google knows is a town in Texas.
→ read full article(Português) O vegetarianismo e a literatura russa desde Tolstói
Dária Amínova - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
30 May 2016
25 de maio de 2016 – De acordo com dados de uma pesquisa realizada pelo portal SuperJob, atualmente cerca de 4% da população russa é vegetariana. Porém, poucas pessoas sabem que, desde o século 19, escritores russos são alguns dos principais defensores das ideias do vegetarianismo.
→ read full articleHow the Pentagon Punished NSA Whistleblowers
Mark Hertsgaard – The Guardian,
30 May 2016
Long before Edward Snowden went public, John Crane was a top Pentagon official fighting to protect NSA whistleblowers. Instead their lives were ruined – and so was his.
• Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by Pentagon source
• Exclusive: Pentagon source goes on record against whistleblower program
Tunisia: UN Panel Condemns Forced Anal Exams
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
23 May 2016 – The UN Committee Against Torture condemned the use of forced anal examinations as an attempt to find “proof” against people accused of homosexual conduct in Tunisia, Human Rights Watch said today.
→ read full articleIndonesia: Child Tobacco Workers Suffer as Firms Profit
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Thousands of children in Indonesia, some as young as 8 years old, are at the bottom of the supply chain for many multinational and Indonesian tobacco companies. These children are getting exposed to nicotine and toxic pesticides. Child tobacco workers can absorb nicotine through their skin, and many suffer nausea, vomiting, headaches, and dizziness – all symptoms of acute nicotine poisoning.
→ read full article(Italiano) Guerra, ambiente, nonviolenza
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
30 May 2016
Riprendendo le parole di Edgan Morin – alla barbarie a noi più nota, che è quella della guerra, delle torture, della fame, se ne aggiunge un’altra fatta dal calcolo, dal profitto, dalla tecnologia al servizio dell’economia – possiamo concordare con lui nel pensare che ‘sono due demoni tra loro alleati’…
→ read full articlePutin Vows Retaliation over US Missile Shield; Warns Poland, Romania Now in the “Cross Hairs”
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
28 May 2016 – While Obama was in Hiroshima as the first standing president of the only nation to have ever used a nuclear weapon during wartime, and without offering an apology to Japan, Russian president Putin was in Greece. The Greek people have turned increasingly against remaining in the Eurogroup, a shift Putin certainly hopes to capitalize on. But it wasn’t the latest Greek pivot toward Russia that was the highlight of Putin’s trip: it was his latest warning that the Russian response to the most recent NATO provocation in Europe will be significant.
→ read full articleBayer and Monsanto: A Marriage Made in Hell
Martha Rosenberg and Ronnie Cummins | Organic Consumers Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
24 May 2016 – If Monsanto, the most hated GMO company in the world, joins hands with Bayer, one of the most hated Big Pharma corporations on Earth (whose evil deeds date back to World War I and the Nazi era), the newly formed seed-pesticide-drug behemoth would have combined annual sales of $67 billion.
→ read full articleVindication for Edward Snowden from a New Player in NSA Whistleblowing Saga
Jenna McLaughlin and Dan Froomkin – The Intercept,
30 May 2016
New key player: John Crane, a former assistant inspector general at the Pentagon who was responsible for protecting whistleblowers was forced to become one himself when the process failed.
→ read full articleHow Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right?
Gregor Aisch, Adam Pearce and Bryant Rousseau – The New York Times,
30 May 2016
The candidate for the far-right Freedom Party in Austria lost the country’s cliffhanger presidential election on Monday [16 May] by the slimmest of margins. Still, it was an example of the electoral gains made by right-wing parties in a growing number of European countries amid a migrant crisis, sluggish economic growth and growing disillusionment with the European Union.
→ read full articleHelp Line
TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Please hold the line.
→ read full articleScientists Discover How Supermassive Black Holes Keep Galaxies Turned Off
Eurasia Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
26 May 2016 – An international team of scientists has identified a common phenomenon in galaxies that could explain why huge numbers of them turn into cosmic graveyards. Galaxies begin their existence as lively and colorful spiral galaxies, full of gas and dust, and actively forming bright new stars.
→ read full article(Italiano) Marinaleda: un’utopia concreta
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Il concetto base è ben noto: le autorità hanno espropriato terre lasciate incolte nel bel mezzo di un bracciantato disoccupato e alla fame, trasformamdole in una cooperativa comunale con abitazioni molto economiche, asilo d’infanzia, scuole, cliniche. Dietro c’è stata per oltre 30 anni la visione, la sapienza, l’abilità, la volontà del sindaco, Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo. Con la mente, una realtà, e la volontà di cambiarla, quella realtà.
→ read full articleBDS Is Free Speech, Says Dutch Government
Michael Deas | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
25 May 2016 – The Netherlands has affirmed that activism calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel is a form of free speech. Dutch foreign minister Bert Koenders said that “statements or meetings concerning BDS are protected by freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, as enshrined in the Dutch constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.”
→ read full articleA Brief Chronological History of Palestine
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Palestinians are the endogenous people of the Southern Land of Canaan (Western Part of the Fertile Crescent), the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan. Key milestones in human civilization occurred in this Land of Canaan: animal and plant domestication, development of the alphabet, and development of laws and religions.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Exposes Text from Secretly Negotiated TISA Trade Deal
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
The TISA is one of three international trade deals being negotiated in secret, along with the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP, trade deal. Collectively, these agreements encompass 75 to 95 percent of global GDP.
→ read full articleFamed Feminist British Historian Refuses Prestigious Israeli Award
Haggai Matar | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Catherine Hall withdraws from $330,000 prize due to Tel Aviv University’s complicity in the occupation of Palestine.
→ read full articleNakba Survivors Share Their Stories of Loss and Hope
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
In 1948, Zionist militias attacked Palestinian cities and villages and destroyed more than 530 Palestinian villages. About 13,000 Palestinians were killed and more than 750,000 were expelled from their homes, becoming refugees. Here Palestinians share their stories of displacement, loss and hope to return to their villages.
→ read full article(Português) Suecos Criam Máquina Solar Capaz de Purificar 600 Litros de Água/Hora
CicloVivo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
O sistema elimina bactérias, vírus, amebas e parasitas e é ideal para ser aplicado em locais que não têm saneamento.
→ read full articleGalileo’s Irony
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
If the earth human survives is a globe, justice will pronounce
But the globe and the justice are contrast to the reality
If the mind well-dressed is in heart, then the humanity will beam
But the mind and the humanity are contrast to the reality
Viet Con (not a typo)
Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
With friends like these who needs an enemy?
→ read full articleWe Have Entered the Looting Stage of Capitalism: Germany’s Assault on the IMF
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
The way Germany sees it, the IMF is supposed to lend Greece the money with which to repay the private German banks. Then the IMF is to be repaid by forcing Greece to reduce or abolish old age pensions, reduce public services and employment, and use the revenues saved to repay the IMF.
→ read full articleShocking Brazil Leaks Prompt Panic in Fraud-Riddled Coup Gov’t
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Fear that more damning leaks solidifying claims that the plan to remove suspended President Dilma Rousseff was a coup is settling in around the unelected interim President Michel Temer, prompting advisors to suggest a shift of corrupt ministers as political scandal rocks the imposed government just two weeks after being installed.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
May 30–Jun 5 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.” – Marianne Williamson
→ read full articleHammering for Peace
Kathy Kelly | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Their artistic project embraces a vision from the biblical “Book of Isaiah” which longs for the day when “they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they study war anymore.” Our friends quite literally enact this vision.
→ read full article(Português) A tragédia da guerra na construção da memória e do património
Paulo Mendes Pinto - Visão,
30 May 2016
De Aleppo ao Krack des Chevaliers, a Vivência Dupla das Memórias – É dramático quando a resposta certa nos leva para um denominador comum que é a guerra, a destruição. Sim, o que mais nos espanta é a guerra destruidora que se criou. O resto? O resto são roupas que se vestem e despem conforme as culturas.
→ read full articleExistential Challenge of Detecting Today’s Big Lie
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Mysterious Black Hole Conditioning Global Civilization? If indeed there was a “big lie” conditioning the dynamics of global civilization, how might evidence of it be detected?
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Appeals to European Union and President Obama to Remove Shameful Sanctions against War-torn Syria
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
“The petitioners support ‘all humanitarian and peace initiatives that the international community is implementing, in particular through the difficult negotiations in Geneva’. But in the meantime with the hope that the expectations find concrete answers, they ask ‘that the sanctions that affect the daily lives of every Syrian are immediately removed”.
→ read full articleMajor Police Operation against Roma in Berlin
Andy Niklaus and Karola Kleinert | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
On Sunday [22 May] evening, the Berlin police conducted a brutal raid on Roma families protesting against their deportation at the memorial to the Sinti and Roma murdered by the Nazis. On April 8, a commemorative day for the murdered Sinti and Roma took place at the same place. German President Joachim Gauck along with other prominent politicians proclaimed their solidarity with Sinti and Roma. The deployment of police against a peaceful Roma protest at the same location demonstrate how hollow such words are.
→ read full article600 Tons of Melted Radioactive Fukushima Fuel Still Not Found, Clean-Up Chief Reveals
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
24 May 2016 – The Fukushima clean-up team remains in the dark about the exact locations of 600 tons of melted radioactive fuel from three devastated nuclear reactors, the chief of decommissioning said. The company hopes to locate and start removing the missing fuel from 2021.
→ read full articleIreland Latest EU State to Defend BDS
Kevin Squires | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
28 May 2016 – In another blow to the Israeli campaign to criminalize Palestine solidarity activism, the Irish government has affirmed that the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement represents a “legitimate” means of protest “intended to pressure Israel into ending the occupation.”
→ read full articleCultivating Symbols for Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
The world is full of symbols – religious, cultural, historical, archaeological, linguistic and nationalistic. Flags are a powerful symbol of a country… Let us remember and fortify our good symbols, let us avoid the pitfall of extreme negative, repressive and harmful symbolism that is becoming an inevitable part of modern life.
→ read full articleHumanitarian Summit, the Big Fiasco
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
30 May 2016
The World Humanitarian Summit held in Istanbul on May 23-24 failed to achieve the objective of attracting the massive funds needed to alleviate the humanitarian drama, as neither the leaders of the Group-of-7 richest countries nor of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council attended, with the exception of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
→ read full articleMake Serving in War an Option Not an Order
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Government has absolutely no right to demand that our sons register and prepare for blood sacrifice today. No one has the right to such power over another being. So let’s move beyond blood sacrifice and make the practical sacrifices that truly resolve conflict.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Says Secretive Trade Agreement Paves Way to ‘Corporatization of Public Services’
John Dyer – Vice News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
28 May 2016 – WikiLeaks has released thousands of documents that show how officials negotiating the Trade in Services Agreement, or TiSA, could force privatization on public institutions around the world. The most surprising revelations involve state-owned enterprises, or SOEs — government-owned corporations that often operate like private businesses but pursue public goals, experts said.
→ read full article10 Warning Signs of Vitamin C Deficiency
Baba-Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
According to a study at the University of Illinois, many fell short of consuming enough vitamin C. But getting enough of this essential vitamin is important for our overall well-being. In fact, high blood levels of vitamin C may be the ideal nutrition marker for overall health. If you are concerned that you might be deficient in vitamin C, here are some signs and indications you should be on the look-out for.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Blood on the Tracks: Vietnam Veteran Brian Willson Discusses Memorial Day [30 May] and the American Way Of Life (AWOL)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
“We fail our duties as citizens if we remain silent rather than calling our US wars for what they are – criminal and deceitful aggressions violating international and US law to assure control of geostrategic resources, deemed necessary to further our insatiable American Way Of Life.”
→ read full articleRoundup’s Toxic Chemical Glyphosate, Found in 100% of California Wines Tested
A Sheep No More – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Before you pop open a bottle of California Merlot, there is something you should know: trace amounts of glyphosate, the primary toxic chemical found in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, have been found in 100% of California wines tested by the national GMO awareness group, Moms Against Monsanto. The news comes on the heels of a report finding 14 brands of beers tested positive for the likely carcinogen in Germany.
→ read full articleSilencing America as It Prepares for War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
As the U.S. government plunges toward war with nuclear-armed Russia and/or China, there is an unsettling silence — or unnerving consensus — regarding the potential extinction of human existence. In 2009, Obama promised to help “rid the world of nuclear weapons” and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. No American president has built more nuclear warheads than Obama.
→ read full articleThe Scope for Parallel Diplomacy Has Never Been Greater
David Richmond – Foreign Policy In Focus,
30 May 2016
One of the great diplomatic breakthroughs for which the Obama presidency will undoubtedly be remembered is the re-establishment of relations with Cuba. The role of the Vatican in this rapprochement serves as a reminder that even in the era of systematised diplomacy, significant benefit can be derived from an informal process that takes place away from the limelight.
→ read full articleEconomic Costs of US Wars
Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
The USA has spent or obligated 4.4 trillion dollars on the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq paid almost entirely by borrowing, which has raised the US budget deficit, increased the national debt, and had other macroeconomic effects, such as raising consumer interest rates. We estimate that interest payments over war borrowings could total over $7 trillion by 2053.
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(Português) Entrevista de Glenn Greenwald com Dilma Rousseff: A Primeira Desde Sua Suspensão
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
May 19, 2016 – Do Palácio da Alvorada, em Brasília, a presidente suspensa do Brasil falou ao The Intercept sobre suas declarações de que é vítima de um ‘golpe’, as acusações contra ela, a guinada à direita planejada pelo governo interino, e como ela acha que os brasileiros devem protestar e lutar contra esta subversão da democracia.
→ read full articleIt’s Not Just Hiroshima: The Many Other Things America Hasn’t Apologized For
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post,
30 May 2016
26 May 2016 – This week, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, the Japanese city that the United States nearly destroyed with a nuclear bomb in 1945. It’s reasonable to ask, after more than 70 years, why not apologize for Hiroshoma? But what else has America not apologized for? Here are a few ideas.
→ read full articleDeepening National Antagonisms Dominate G7 Summit
Nick Beams | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
The G7 nations are seeking to ramp up military pressure against China, amid a deepening economic slump and divisions within their own ranks.
→ read full articleToward Democratic Eco-socialism as the Next World System
Hans A. Baer | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Hans Baer proposes a new approach to what he calls “authentic socialism.” As opposed to past experiments with socialism – associated with sudden revolutions, violence, and adverse economic contexts – democratic eco-socialism in his vision would emerge slowly through a series of “system challenging reforms” and pressures from social movements.
→ read full articleThe Great Event – A Pot Kumbha with Nectarine Drops
Prof. Chandra P Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Kumbha Mela at Ujjain with entry of sun in Aries and Jupiter in Leo has a special significance. When, sun emits gigantic radiations with nectarine drops. It is the great event on the Earth. It has given the way for origin of life with cordial atmospheric conditions on earth. To preserve the ancient wisdom, the Kumbha Mela is celebrated with every twelve years cycle.
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