Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Evolution of Union Co-ops and the Historical Development of Workplace Democracy
James Anderson, Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
“Every worker has an equal, democratic vote at weekly meetings that decide all matters of the organization. And we are all members of the Industrial Workers of the World to protect that process so that it can’t be hijacked.”
→ read full articleEscalating U.S. Air Strikes Kill Hundreds of Civilians in Mosul, Iraq
Nicolas J S Davies, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
The war commander, Lt Gen McFarland, now orders air strikes that are expected to kill up to 10 civilians without prior approval from U.S. Central Command, and U.S. officials acknowledge that air strikes are killing more civilians under the new rules. The fundamental contradiction of the militarized “war on terror” is that U.S. aggression and other war crimes only reinforce the narratives of jihadis who see themselves as a bulwark against foreign aggression and neocolonialism in the Muslim world.
→ read full articlePalestine and Zionism: The Whole Truth
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Brainwashed and idiotic Zionists in Sardinia tried and failed to have some of my lectures and debates cancelled by accusing me of being an anti-Semite who is inciting anti-Semitism. They knew nothing about my book and its contents and were reading from Zionism’s script. Their efforts resulted in increased sales of my book!
→ read full articleDon’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful Letter of Support to Marie Curie in the Midst of Scandal
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
“If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Lettura collettiva dei primi 12 articoli della Costituzione italiana. Aosta. Biblioteca regionale sezione ragazzi
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
« Se voi volete andare in pellegrinaggio nel luogo dove è nata la nostra Costituzione, andate nelle montagne dove caddero i partigiani, nelle carceri dove furono imprigionati, nei campi dove furono impiccati. Dovunque è morto un italiano per riscattare la libertà e la dignità, andate lì, o giovani, col pensiero, perché lì è nata la nostra Costituzione. »
→ read full articleOn the Coming Decline and Fall of the US Empire
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
An empire is a transborder Center-Periphery system, in macro-space and in macro-time, with a culture legitimizing a structure of unequal exchange between center and periphery:
• economically, between exploiters and exploited, as inequity;
• militarily, between killers and victims, as enforcement;
• politically, between dominators and dominated, as repression;
• culturally, between alienators and alienated, as conditioning.
UNOPS Becomes Third UN Agency in Jordan to Drop G4S Following Campaign
BDS Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
18 Apr 2016 – The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Jordan has not renewed its contract with security company G4S following a campaign over the firm’s role in Israeli human rights abuses.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Apr 25–May 1 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Ask yourself this: If I could have everything I wanted, would I want this, or continue to do that?” – Nancy Garen
→ read full articleChernobyl, and Cesium, at 30
John LaForge, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
April 26 is the 30th anniversary of the reactor meltdown and radiation disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine, which brings to mind cesium. Thirty years is how long it takes for half a given amount of cesium-137 — dispersed in huge quantities from Chernobyl (and Fukushima) — to decay into radioactive barium.
→ read full articleCan Lemon Water Detox Your Body?
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Adding a little lemon to your water is a great way to add flavor and experience the benefits offered by lemons. It’ll also help cleanse your body of toxins and waste. The American Cancer Society recommends hot lemon water for alleviating constipation and clearing the bowels. [4] Let’s look at four more benefits of lemon water.
→ read full article(Français) « L’ambassade des USA au Brésil ressemble à celle aux temps d’Allende au Chili »
Carlos Aznarez et Tarik Bouafia, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
21 avril 2016 – Après plus de quinze ans de progressisme et d’avancées sociales, l’Amérique Latine est en pleine recomposition. De l’Argentine au Venezuela en passant par le Brésil, la contre-offensive de la droite est en marche. Dans un contexte marqué par une forte crise économique et des tensions politiques, les Etats-Unis tentent de reconquérir leur ancien « pré-carré ».
→ read full articleGlyphosate Found in Popular Breakfast Foods
Alliance for Natural Health – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
“Glyphosate has been linked to increases in levels of breast, thyroid, kidney, pancreatic, liver and bladder cancers and is being served for breakfast, lunch and dinner around the world. The fact that it is showing up in foods like eggs and coffee creamer, which don’t directly contact the herbicide, shows that it’s being passed on by animals who ingest it in their feed. This is contrary to everything that regulators and industry scientists have been telling the public.”
→ read full articleCatching-Up with Cynthia McKinney… And Looking (Worriedly) Ahead
Gary S. Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
“Parrhesia” is a type of leadership that involves a special type of speech–it is a leadership that has the authority to speak and that uses that authority to speak what we would call “truth to power” and that does so despite the imminent and immanent risk posed to the speaker. Foucault explains Parrhesia in a lecture that he gave at the University of California at Berkeley and it is in that sense that I use the word.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mediazione da parte di giudici, della polizia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Polizia? I giudici hanno uno status sociale più alto ma la polizia conosce meglio la situazione locale ed eventuali trasgressori.
→ read full articleAn Anecdote about Fascism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
I tried to engage her in conversation about evolving Israeli attitudes toward the Palestinians and the related failed diplomacy, but she seemed rather uninformed and perhaps even disinterested as if the peace agenda was not really present in her active consciousness. Then all at once she said something that surprised me. “I am not looking forward to returning to Israel, it is becoming a fascist state.”
→ read full articleThe Church’s Turn toward Nonviolence
Fr. John Dear, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
For the last 1700 years, as we all know, Christians have waged war, led crusades, burned women at the stake, systematically persecuted Jews and Muslims, kept millions of people as slaves, ran concentration camps, blessed conquest, prayed for successful bombing raids, and built and used nuclear weapons. Throughout Catholic history, Jesus’ teachings of nonviolence were rarely discussed, much less implemented.
→ read full articleAP Investigation: Are Slaves Catching the Fish You Buy?
Robin Mcdowell, Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza, AP –TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Update: On 18 Apr 2016 the all-woman Associated Press team won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for this investigation [published on TMS in 30 Mar 2015].
25 Mar 2015 – The men the AP interviewed on Benjina were mostly from Myanmar, also known as Burma, one of the poorest countries in the world. They were brought to Indonesia through Thailand and forced to fish. Their catch was then shipped back to Thailand, where it entered the global stream of commerce.
DNA Instrument of Life – Phonon Beholds Life Consciousness: New Hypothesis
Prof. Chandra Prakash Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
The Phonon is earliest. It has activated the dark matter with resonance. The phonon and photon manifested with blast and light as dualistic complimentary force of vital energy. The phonon stimulates the event to happen and photon under go synthesis and degradation with time Einstein’s equation E=Mc².
→ read full articleOxfam: US Corporate Tax Cheats Hiding $1.4 Trillion in Profits in Offshore Accounts
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
The biggest tax dodger is technology giant Apple, with $181 billion held offshore. General Electric had the second-largest stash, at $119 billion, enough to repay four times over the $28 billion GE received in federal guarantees during the 2008 Wall Street crash. Microsoft had $108 billion in overseas accounts, with companies like Exxon Mobil, Pfizer, IBM, Cisco Systems, Google, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson rounding out the top ten.
→ read full articleHistory Has Knocked Very Loudly on Our Door. Will We Answer?
Jakob von Uexkull – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Opening Speech, World Future Forum, 15 Mar 2016
→ read full articleMinor Mistake
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
A new monk shows up at a monastery where the monks spend their time making copies of ancient books.
→ read full articleOPEC Oil and Climate Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
In an amazing display of collective schizophrenia, our media treat oil production and the global climate emergency as though they were totally disconnected.
→ read full article300+ Arrests as Pro-Democracy Forces Converge for Final Day of Spring Revolt
Deirdre Fulton, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Sunday saw thousands rally in Washington, D.C., while hundreds risked arrest during mass sit-in on Monday [18 Apr]. Capitol Police say 1,240 people have been arrested in the last seven days. Civil Disobedience may be more important than voting.
→ read full articleCreating the Future
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
I strongly believe that we must not allow ourselves the luxury of fatalism, especially today, when our future is darkened by the twin threats of catastrophic climate change and thermonuclear war. We must accept our responsibility for both the near and the distant futures. We must save the environment, plants and animals from extinction, and make a world in which our children and their descendants can survive.
→ read full articleDid the Vatican Just Throw Out Its Just War Doctrine?
Erica Chenoweth, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
19 Apr 2016 – The just war tradition—which contains numerous doctrines morally justifying violence and war, as well as defining appropriate conduct during war—has served for the past 1500 years as the primary normative basis to validate waging of war. Last week, eighty conference participants recommended that Pope Francis I reject Just War Doctrine as a viable or productive Catholic tradition.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – A Glossary of Terms to Help De-Mystify This and Future Political Campaigns
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
American Exceptionalism is the errant theory that the United States occupies a special niche among the nations of the world because of its alleged “generosity” to immigrants, “mercy” to persecuted religious and ethnic minorities, its “honorable” democratic ideals and its historical origins from an oppressed nation (despite its having evolved into an oppressor nation).
→ read full articlePost-Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Nepal: Bleak Future
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Analysis of the government’s response in the past year and some suggestions – as a way forward.
→ read full articleOxfam: Most of World Bank’s Private Investments Linked to Tax Havens
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Oxfam says poor countries are cheated out of an estimated US$100 billion in taxes a year by companies using offshore havens and other tax-dodging tricks.
→ read full articleIf Obama Visits Hiroshima
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Obama has this rare opportunity to choose the road not often traveled upon, and there is no better place to start such a voyage than at Hiroshima. We in civil society would then with conviction promote his nuclear legacy as ‘From Prague to Hiroshima,’ and feel comfortable that this president has finally earned the honor of the Nobel Peace Prize prematurely bestowed.
→ read full articleYemen: Is This War Necessary?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
The title of the aggression of Saudi Arabia against Yemen changed its name from “Operation Decisive Storm” to “Operation Restoring Hope” probably on the advice of the public relations firm that advises the US Pentagon on the names of its operations. Saudi bombing from the air of cities, hospitals and refugee camps, created a storm, but the results were in no way “decisive”. It is not likely that Saudi bombing will ”Restore Hope”.
→ read full articleWorld Bank Orders Venezuela to Pay Crystallex $1.4 Billion for Imataca Forest Reserve Gold Mine
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Imataca, one of four major pristine forest reserves in the country, is home to the indigenous Akawaio, Arawako, Karina, Pemon and Warao peoples. It also sits above what geologists believe to be the largest gold deposits in the continent worth some $20 billion. The court decision marks yet another milestone in corporate victories against national governments using international trade treaties.
→ read full articleEvaluating the Grossness of Gross Domestic Product
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
As a complement to the widely cited indicator of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Refugees per Kiloton (RPK) could usefully focus on the number of refugees from a country in relation to the kilotons of explosive to which the country was exposed.
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky on Organizing for a Next System
Noam Chomsky | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
24 Mar 2016 – Philosopher, linguist, and social critic Noam Chomsky recently spoke about his experiences in campus activism and his vision of a just society. An initial signatory to the Next System statement, Chomsky explores the connections between culture, mass movements, and economic experiments—which in “mutually reinforcing” interaction, may build toward a next system more quickly than you may think.
→ read full articleAn Appeal for Pope Francis to Share with the World an Encyclical on Nonviolence and Just Peace, and for the Church to Stop Teaching ‘Just War Theory’
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire from Rome: “The appeal to the Pope said that ‘we believe there is no ‘just war’. Too often the ‘just war theory’ has been used to endorse rather than prevent or limit war. Suggesting that a ‘just war’ is possible also undermines the moral imperative to develop tools and capacities for nonviolent transformation of conflict’. I hope also that Pope Francis will unambiguously proclaim that ‘violence is always wrong, it is not the way of Jesus and reject militarism thereby calling upon Catholics not to join armies and take up arms to kill people, thus becoming a true peace church.”
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What Would Happen If You Didn’t Drink Water?
TED Ed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Water is essentially everywhere in our world, and the average human is composed of between 55 and 60% water. Therefore, what role does water play in our bodies, and how much do we actually need to drink to stay healthy? The health benefits of hydration.
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Peace May Be With You (Music Video of the Week)
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter [The Horsemen of the Apocalypse] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Politically Correct Heavy Metal from Germany
→ read full articleBroken at the Top – The Oxfam Report
Oxfam America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
The gap between rich and poor is reaching new extremes. The richest 1% have accumulated more wealth than the rest of the world put together. Meanwhile, the wealth owned by the bottom half of humanity has fallen by a trillion dollars in the past five years. Just 62 individuals now have the same wealth as 3.6 billion people – half of humanity.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report #8 (April 2016)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about Charter signatories. Building a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts is quite a challenge but we are making solid progress!
→ read full articleThe Man Who Wants to Impeach Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff Named in Panama Papers
TeleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Brazilian House Speaker Eduardo Cunha, who claims he wants to root out corruption, is again exposed as a criminal. Cunha, of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party or PMDB that recently broke with Rousseff’s Workers’ Party, was paid bribes allegedly funded by Portuguese business mogul Idalecio de Castro Rodrigues de Oliveira who owned a conglomerate of 14 companies registered in the British Virgin Islands from 2003 to 2011.
→ read full articleSixty-Two Billionaires Own Half the World
Samuel Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
The latest in a series of annual reports from Oxfam, detailing the level of economic inequality in our world, is a striking example of Marx’s prediction that capitalism concentrates wealth in fewer and fewer hands.
→ read full articleWhere Are Marx and Lenin When We Need Them?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Marx and Lenin were ahead of their time. Marx wrote before offshoring of jobs and the financialization of the economy. Lenin presided over a communist revolution that jumped the gun by taking place in a country in which feudal elements still predominated over capitalism. Today capitalism is being financialized with the consequence that its productive power is being drained into the service of debt.
→ read full articleUnemployed
TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Needs help…
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Apr18-24 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Being HUMBLE is much more important than being WISE! Because GOD doesn’t need a PROUD mouth that SPEAKS much. But a KIND heart that LISTENS.” – Unknown
→ read full articleRestoring Our Cultural Heritage in Syria —The Debate over Why, How, When, By Whom, In What Order, & Who Pays? Intensifies!
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
This observer has been advised by two Congressional sources that concerns for the restoration of our shared global cultural heritage in Syria, widespread relief that Palmyra has been liberated from ISIS iconoclasm, and American public support for the repair and restoration of Palmyra’s treasures, are major reasons for moving the tough new and most welcomed ban on Syrian cultural property forward.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Democratic Transition: What Does That Mean for the Persecuted Rohingya?
Prof. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
One-Day Open Research Conference, the University of Oxford: 11 May 2016. To continue shining the spotlight of university and independent research onto Myanmar’s slow genocide of the Muslim Rohingya among international genocide and legal scholars and world’s icons such as Desmond Tutu, George Soros, Mairead Maguire, Amartya Sen, the Dalai Lama etc.
→ read full article(Italiano) Realpolitik vs Politica realistic
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Gli americani che si rivoltarono contro il colonialismo ed abolirono la propria schiavitù possono anche mettere in discussione la propria politica estera ed abolire il proprio imperialismo e la propria disinvoltura guerrafondaia. Dopo aver abolito due flagelli istituzionali dell’umanità, farebbero solo bene ad abolirne altri due. I vantaggi sono ovvi e di pronto incasso: vera grandezza, affetto, posizione guida, uscita dalla spirale di crescente irrilevanza.
→ read full articleAnokhe Lal – A Simple Man of Peace and Kindness
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Anokhe Lal was a do-gooder — a man of simple tastes and limited money. The name was appropriate since the name meant a strange person, a man whom we see rarely in society. He lived in a small hut in a poor colony.
→ read full articlePanama Papers: Reigniting the Debate for a Global Tax Body
Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Establishing a globally agreed tax body under the auspices of the United Nations and putting an end to dubious tax avoidance activities would bolster government revenues and help finance the provision of essential public services, especially in the Global South.
→ read full article22 April: On Earth Day, Commit to the Great Turning
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Hold actions to slow the destruction of human-based systems on the Earth and other beings. These activities include all the political, legislative, and legal work required to reduce the destruction, as well as direct actions–blockades, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of noncooperation and nonviolent intervention.
→ read full articleCreating Resilient Communities
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Real peace — positive peace, which transcends violence and turns conflict into opportunity — is and always has been part of who we are. We know a lot more about how to create peace than we think we do. We’re perfectly capable of transcending violent solutions to our troubles and building a sustainable future. The first step is to take our conflicts out of isolation.
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Money (Music Video of the Week)
Pink Floyd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
‘Money’ by Pink Floyd from the iconic album The Dark Side of the Moon. Originally released in 1973, it became one of the most critically acclaimed albums of all time.
In 2016, *Banksters* rule the world above governments and all other human institutions. Read the Lyrics.
The Panama Papers and the 1%
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Global companies do not simply “go abroad”; they shift capital, as well as labor and technology, to wherever the advantages are greatest. This reality of globalization is well known, and it is matched by the similar behavior of powerful, wealthy individuals, including present and former top government officials who find tax shelters abroad where their money is completely hidden from public view. It’s what the One Percent do.
→ read full articlePanama Papers: City of London Is ‘Beating Heart’ of Tax Cheats Empire
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Filmmaker and journalist Mark Donne says British tax avoidance policies amount to a second British Empire. Even the media reporting on the issue “such as News UK and the Murdoch empire have more than 192 shell companies in tax havens. The messengers that are telling you the story are absolutely using tax avoidance.”
→ read full articleWorld Military Spending Resumes Upward Course in 2015: SIPRI
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
5 Apr 2016 -World military expenditure totaled almost $1.7 trillion in 2015, an increase of 1 per cent in real terms from 2014, according to new figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The data is being released to coincide with the start of the Stockholm Forum on Security and Development.
→ read full articleShould We Vote for Hillary Clinton? A Meditation
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
14 Apr 2016 – It seems now almost inevitable that Hillary Clinton will be the candidate for the Democratic Party in November. This inevitability came about by a combination of ‘a Southern strategy’ […] Should feelings of solidarity and revolutionary patience outweigh a principled refusal to go along with militarist opportunism?
→ read full article(Castellano) Armagedón
José María Lopera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
No puedo sentir paz mientras que matan
a niños inocentes
y a mujeres y hombres desvalidos
en guerras genocidas
con crueles armas que la ciencia inventa.
Jakob Von Uexküll and the World Future Council
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
14 Apr 2016 – In a recent speech to the World Future Council, the distinguished writer, philanthropist, activist and former politician Jacob von Uexküll outlined the future dangers facing our world with an accuracy and eloquence that has seldom been equaled. Besides being a former member of the European Parliament and a leader of the German Green Party, von Uexküll himself founded both the Right Livelihood Award (sometimes called the Alternative Nobel Prize) and the World Future Council.
→ read full articleThey Would Call Me an ‘Extremist’: Why I Don’t Celebrate Or Send Anyone Any New Year’s Greetings
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
A Hindu-Buddhist New Year Note – Though a Burmese from Mandalay , Burma’s most popular site for the Thin Gyan or water throwing new year festival, I do not celebrate the New Year–because my country that likes to call itself “Buddhist” is committing a slow genocide against the Muslim Rohingya stigmatizing them as “Bengali”.
→ read full articleSingapore Family Feud
The Wall Street Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
The city-state’s reputation for meritocracy comes under attack from an unexpected source.
→ read full articleThe Zombie Doctrine
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative. So pervasive has neoliberalism become that we seldom even recognise it as an ideology. We appear to accept the proposition that this utopian, millenarian faith describes a neutral force; a kind of biological law, like Darwin’s theory of evolution.
→ read full articleRothschild Bank Now under Criminal Investigation after Baron David de Rothschild Indictment
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Last year, Baron David de Rothschild was indicted by the French government after he was accused of fraud in a scheme that allegedly embezzled large sums of money from British pensioners. It has taken many years to bring this case against Rothschild and his company the Rothschild Financial Services Group, which trapped hundreds of pensioners in a bogus loan scheme between the years of 2005 and 2008.
→ read full article(Italiano) Sul referendum del 17 aprile 2016 da Aosta, Italy
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Ora a te lettrice e a te lettore, dopo la lettura della sitografia che segue e che avevo promessa alle mie compagne e ai miei compagni attivisti, chiedo con una citazione lieve
” … damme ‘na mano a faje di’ de SI “
Reversing the Anthem of Europe to Signal Distress
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Transcending Crises of Governance via Reverse Music and Reverse Speech? Despite antipathy to the demonic, the extent of “demonisation” of those who fail to “sing from the same hymn sheet” is widely evident — most notably between political factions variously proposing alternative strategies. With respect to any anthem, “hymn sheet” may then be an especially inappropriate metaphor.
→ read full articleGround Zero Is Everywhere
Winslow Myers, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
As President Obama convened an international conference to discuss the sequester of fissile materials against terrorists, he has also quietly agreed to an obscenely expensive long-term renewal of U.S. nuclear weapons systems. Setting an example demands that citizens become more engaged with foreign policy, acknowledge that there is good and evil in all of us, and bear the truth that ground zero is everywhere on one small planet.
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald Interviews Brazil’s Ex-President Lula
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016 – Glenn Greenwald sat down with Brazil’s ex-President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva to discuss the corruption scandal that has engulfed Lula’s Worker’s Party, or PT, and Brazil’s current President Dilma Rousseff.
→ read full articleEnding Human Violence Is a Task for Each of Us
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Do you think that ending human violence is impossible? Do you believe that even aiming to do so is unrealistic? Well, you might be right. But you might also be interested to know that there are a lot of people around the world who are committed to trying. And, if you think the aim is worthwhile, you could be one of them.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks: US Government, Soros Funded Panama Papers to Attack Putin
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
7 Apr 2016 – Washington is behind the recently released offshore revelations known as the Panama Papers, WikiLeaks has claimed, saying that the attack was “produced” to target Russia and President Putin.
→ read full article‘Who’s Funding This?’ CIA & MI5 Whistleblowers Question Credibility of Panama Papers Coverage
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
7 Apr 2016 – While neither Vladimir Putin nor any members of his family were mentioned in the Panama Papers leak [more like a hack], most Western media chose to break the story with the Russian president’s photo. Ray McGovern, a former CIA officer, said that the fact that the Western media has been using Putin as the “face” of the Panama Papers leak can be easily explained by looking at the people and organizations behind these news outlets.
→ read full article(Français) L’État islamique est (aussi) un business
Raf Custers, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Comment étrangler les revenus de l’Etat Islamique (EI) ? Depuis l’automne 2015 la question semble être à l’avant-plan des stratèges et des médias en Occident. Mais les faits, têtus, n’entrent pas dans les rangs. Comme souvent, les contrebandiers d’affaires échappent à l’attention.
→ read full articleThis Hacker Rigged Elections in 9 Latin American Countries
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Andres Sepulveda hacked and spied in elections in Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela.
→ read full articleChomsky and Pilger Back teleSUR Against Macri’s Attack in Argentina
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
8 Apr 2016 – Dozens of journalists, academics and activists – including Noam Chomsky, Danny Glover, John Pilger and Cindy Sheehan –have signed a petition against the right-wing government of Argentina’s Mauricio Macri and his attempts to close the teleSUR office, effectively shutting down one of the only alternative voices in Argentina’s largely corporate media landscape.
→ read full article(Português) Dez lições da múltipla crise brasileira
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
10 abril 2016 – Toda crise acrisola, purifica e faz madurar. Que lições podemos tirar dela? Elenco algumas.
→ read full articleThe Case of Soldier A
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Under Israeli army orders, soldiers are not allowed to kill enemy attackers once they no longer constitute a danger. On the other hand, many politicians and army officers believe that “a terrorist should not be allowed to stay alive” after an attack. This was an informal order by the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (himself an outstanding former terrorist).
→ read full articleNonviolent BDS Should Be Welcomed, Not Condemned
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
6 Apr 20126 – A thousand Israelis and their supporters gathered in Jerusalem’s International Convention Center on March 28 at a conference aimed at combating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). The conference was a display of “fear, paranoia, anger and determination,” as described by Antony Loewenstein,
→ read full articleZika Mystery Deepens with Evidence of Nerve Cell Infections
Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
6 Apr 2016 – Top Zika investigators now believe that the birth defect microcephaly and the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome may be just the most obvious maladies caused by the mosquito-borne virus. Fueling that suspicion are recent discoveries of serious brain and spinal cord infections – including encephalitis, meningitis and myelitis – in people exposed to Zika.
→ read full articleNuclear Insecurity
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Mel Gurtov has been a nuclear analyst since his early days for the RAND corporation when he and Daniel Ellsberg worked together. Dr. Gurtov’s expertise–and anyone who studies these issues in depth–was affronted by President Obama’s patently false claims in his recent op-ed message in the Washington Post.
→ read full articleArmageddon
Jose Maria Lopera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
I cannot feel peace while
genocidal wars kill
innocent children,
helpless men and women
with the cruel weapons of science
Challenging Questions of Global Significance from the Young
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Can Satisfactory Answers Be Found for Savvy Kids?
Possible questions to be anticipated?
Questions about questions from the young in heart?
Potential sources of questions from the young?
Sustaining the quest for sustainable answers?
Beyond the answer economy?
(Italian) Come dovremmo trattarci vicendevolmente?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Ritiro del premio di Costruttore di Comunità Gandhi-King-Ikeda – Atlanta, 31.03.2016
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Apr 11-17 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.” – Mark Twain
→ read full articleOvarian Cancer Victims Win Talcum Powder Lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson
Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
4 Apr 2016 – Johnson & Johnson has been sued by over 1,200 women who blame the company’s talcum powder products for their ovarian cancer. Not only are U.S. courts beginning to agree with them, juries have started to award victims millions of dollars in compensation.
→ read full articleLeftist Multi-Issue Activism: Possible Ideas for Going Forward
Various Authors ,Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
We the signers of “Some Possible Ideas for Going Forward” think one high priority for progress is activists developing, discussing, and settling on priorities around which to organize multi issue activism in coming months and years. We hope this document can help inspire more conversations within groups and movements that, over time, come to a synthesis.
→ read full articleOne Humanity, One State: An Interview With Mazin Qumsiyeh
Liza Burr, Women Against Military Madness – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Qumsiyeh analyzed the regional and international context of the Palestinian-Israeli situation as orchestrated by “an elite group of people who are promoting conflicts to benefit themselves” financially.
→ read full articleImperialism, Political Corruption and the Real Face of Capitalism
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
The “Panama Papers” claimed its first casualty Tuesday [5 Apr 2016], when Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson was forced to resign. Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian legal firm at the heart of the scandal, made millions helping politicians and the super-rich evade taxation. They have exposed the criminality that pervades the financial elite and its political representatives.
→ read full articleIran and Russia Join the Global Alliance to Preserve Syria’s Endangered Heritage
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
8 Apr 2016 – The Islamic Republic of Iran announced this week that it is ready to take part in the restoration of archeological monuments damaged or destroyed by ISIS terrorists in Palmyra (Tadmor), which was named one of the six UN World Heritage Sites in Syria in 1980.
→ read full article(Castellano) Un drama de larga historia en el aún corto siglo XXI
Carta de la Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
En primer lugar, aseveramos que no es posible entender una política que sólo hable de hechos tristes y vergonzosos, sin al mismo tiempo esforzarse por poner remedio a las causas que lo producen. Afirmamos rotundamente que es necesario poner fin a las guerras causantes de esos más de 60 millones de personas en busca de refugio, vagabundeando por las tierras y las aguas del mundo.
→ read full articleGandhi’s Salt: How a Fistful of Mud and Seawater Shook the British Empire
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
On April 6th, 1930 at 6:30 a.m. after morning prayers, Mohandas K. Gandhi raised a lump of salty mud and declared, “With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.” Salt was an unexpected choice for the revolutionary nonviolent movement.
→ read full articleThe War on Savings: The Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
In an April 3 article titled “Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak,” UK blogger Craig Murray writes that the whistleblower no doubt had good intentions; but he made the mistake of leaking his 11.5 million documents to the corporate-controlled Western media, which released only those few documents incriminating opponents of Western financial interests.
→ read full article(Français) Evaluation critique de la Cour Pénale Internationale (1998 – 2002 – 2016)
Robert Charvin, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Dans un monde non consensuel où l’Occident et ses alliés « communient exclusivement dans les valeurs du marché et les droits de l’homme » civils et politiques en oubliant toujours le social et aspirent à un fédéralisme universel, une authentique justice criminelle internationale demeure une utopie difficilement accessible.
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All About That Bass (Music Video of the Week)
PostmodernJukebox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
The incredibly talented young performer is Kate Davis, and she’s the real deal. Not only does she possesses the kind of voice that will take you back to the days of Billie Holiday, she can also shred on the upright bass.
→ read full articleRomance of Names – Their Environmental and Religious Significance
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
What’s in a name? “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, Shakespeare had written in the play Romeo and Juliet.
→ read full articleSome Books and Articles on Peace
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Check them out please.
→ read full articleRemembering Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
I believe in the Irish people, in people everywhere, that we have a great future when we work together as the human family teaching our children not violence but the nonkilling/nonviolence of our great spiritual traditions and offering them the models of peacemakers such as St. Patrick who in his writings said that ‘killing cannot be with Christ,’ thereby rejecting ‘armed struggles’ militarism and war.
→ read full articleThe US Just Declared Russia a Greater Threat than ISIS — Paving the Way for Deadly Perpetual War
Matt Agorist, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
“Certainly, we have talked for a long time about China and China plays an important role as the enemy of choice for the U.S. military. But Russia is ideal in part, because we don’t import a lot of things from Russia, in part because we don’t have the debt relationship with Russia that we do with China. So, Russia makes for a very convenient enemy for the Pentagon in terms of its mission, its budgeting, and its intelligence organization.”
→ read full articleReading Jeff Halper’s ‘War against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
I believe that Jeff Halper’s book deserves the widest possible reading. It explains clearly and convincingly one of the deepest and least understood roots of Israel’s diplomatic support throughout the world, which is its role as a niche arms supplier and influential tactical specialist in waging wars against peoples who dare offer resistance to state power as variously deployed against them.
→ read full articleLetter from a Birmingham Jail: Poignant and Timely
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
In Letter From A Birmingham Jail, Dr. King responded to criticisms of nonviolent direct action on religious, moral, legal, historic, and political grounds. He chastised the attitudes of the white clergymen, and other white progressives.
→ read full articleSuccessful Skills
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
The radio announcer Daniel Shorr was considering working in television early in his career and asked someone what it would take to be successful there.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Enbridge Energy’s 2010 Kalamazoo River Oil Spill: The Worst and Most Expensive Pipeline Disaster in the History of America
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
“This investigation identified a complete breakdown of safety at Enbridge. Their employees performed like Keystone Kops and failed to recognize that their pipeline had ruptured and continued to pump crude into the environment. Despite multiple alarms and a loss of pressure in the pipeline, for more than 17 hours and through three shifts, they failed to follow their own shutdown procedures. Enbridge restarted the pipeline twice in that 17-hour period, pumping oil that would account for 81 percent of the total spill.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Consiglio regionale del Piemonte ha approvato Il Disegno di Legge 141
Contro Tutte le Discrimazioni
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
“Il Piemonte è la prima regione in Italia che ha approvato una legge che considera tutte le differenze legate al sesso, all’orientamento sessuale, all’età, alla disabilità ma anche alla provenienza etnica.Tutte le differenze sono un valore per la Regione Piemonte, non un elemento di discriminazione”
→ read full articleMississippi Governor Signs Anti-Gay Law
Evan Blake, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
6 Apr 2016 – Yesterday, Mississippi’s Republican Governor Phil Bryant enacted a sweeping anti-LGBT law that allows public and private businesses to refuse service to gay people, effectively legalizing discrimination based on sexual orientation across the state.
→ read full article