Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Cognitive Dissonance and the Psychopharmaceutical Industry
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
George Orwell understood the whistleblower’s dilemma when he said: “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” And that is where the concept of cognitive dissonance comes in. Being willfully blind, willfully uninformed or in denial is the easy path to take when confronted by new unwelcome truths that may lead to becoming ostracized by fellow humans.
→ read full articleIndependent Report Finds Sri Lankan Government Systematically Violating Human Rights of Tamils, Other Minorities
Oakland Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
28 May 2015 – Investigation Exposes Military Occupation and Colonization of Tamil Land in Sri Lanka
→ read full articleIndia: Call to End Imposition of Death Penalty
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
2 June 2015 – Report released today called for an end to imposition of death penalty by majority view of the judges of the High Courts and the Supreme Court of India. “The ratio of differences of opinion among the judges whether somebody convicted for offences punishable with death should die or live in most cases in India is 2:1. When this difference of opinion is also between acquittal and death sentence, imposition of death penalty by majority opinion becomes legally untenable and morally unconscionable.”
→ read full articleHow a Corporate Cult Captures and Destroys Our Best Graduates
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
Universities should defend students against lovebombing by banks and consultancy firms – before it ruins their lives. Undergraduates must rely on their own wavering resolve to resist peer pressure, the herd instinct, the allure of money, flattery, prestige and security. Students, rebel against these soul-suckers! Follow your dreams, however hard it may be, however uncertain success might seem.
→ read full articleSick
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
A little boy did not want to go to school.
→ read full articleDude, Where’s My Humvee? Iraq Losing Equipment to Islamic State at Staggering Rate
Peter Van Buren, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
4 Jun 2015 – Iraqi security forces lost 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles when Islamic State overran Mosul in June 2014. In addition , Iraqi forces previously abandoned significant types and numbers of heavy weapons to IS. The United States is effectively supplying IS with tools of war the militant group cannot otherwise hope to acquire from its patrons.
→ read full articleWashington Politicizes Football
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
Whether or not FIFA decisions are tainted by bribery, the purpose of the “investigation” is to cast doubt on the decision to hold the World Cup in Russia. The World Cup is a global spectacle and conveys prestige on the host country. Washington intends to deny this prestige to Russia. That is what the “investigation” is about.
→ read full articleFowl Deeds – Faeces, Bacteria, Toxins: Welcome to the Chicken Farm
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The astonishing, multiple crises caused by chicken farming. Whether it’s welfare standards, environmental impact or the emerging threat to human health, we’ve got to change our insatiable greed for this meat. Nor does free range solve the feed problem: the birds are usually fed on soya, for which rainforests are wrecked.
→ read full articleThe Full Text of the Oslo Communique on Myanmar (Burma)
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Today (28 May, 2015) the Oslo Conference to End Myanmar’s Persecution of the Rohingya ended. It was held at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Voksenaasen. The call made by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to end Myanmar’s genocide is supported by six additional Nobel Peace Laureates: Mairead Maguire, Jody Williams, Tawakkol Karman, Shirin Ebadi, Leymah Gbowee, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
→ read full articleDecipherment of Indus Valley Seals: Vedic Human Genetics & Cytology
Prof. Chandra P Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The quest of creation is quest of human mind from dawn of the Civilization on the earth. The discovery of the double helical structure of the DNA by the Watson and crick 1953 has brought the revolution in the field of Biotechnology. The same echo is coming from the well developed Indus Valley Civilization. The pictographic symbols on the seals are cytological models for teaching; they explore the cellular genetic evolution on the earth with genetic recombination.
→ read full articleNuclear Realism
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
27 May 2015 – There’s a category of political intellectuals who proudly proclaim themselves “realists,” then proceed to defend and advance a deeply faith-based agenda that centers on the ongoing necessity to prepare for war, including nuclear war. These intellectuals, as they defend the military-industrial status quo (which often supports them financially), have made themselves the spokespersons for a deep human cancer: a soul cancer.
→ read full articleLaissez Faire Water Laws Threaten Family Farming in Chile
Marianela Jarroud, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
May 27 2015 – Family farmers in Chile are pushing for the reinstatement of water as a public good, to at least partially solve the shortages caused by the privatisation of water rights by the military dictatorship in 1981.
→ read full articleHouse Arrest & Disobedience – A Review
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Although Grover is rooted in his own Indian culture there is a painful universality about the revelations in his poems. In every poem Grover writes he is holding up a mirror and asking us, the readers and his community, to dig inside our souls. That is the true role of poetry; Grover’s poems are true to the art.
Book Launch: 13 June 2015, Poetry Café, Covent Garden London.
The Escalation of Global Financial Parasitism
Nick Beams, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The rise in stock markets expresses not the health, but rather the deepening sickness, of the global economic order. The imposition of financial dictatorship is not a hypothetical issue—it has already been implemented in Greece, impoverishing millions of people.
→ read full articleThe Olive Jar
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
A merchant in 8th century Baghdad went on a long trip to the orient.
→ read full articleYes to Development, No to Environmental Degradation
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The emphasis of India today is on economic growth and development. Mahatma Gandhi often said, “Nature produces enough for peoples’ needs but not for their greed; characteristic aspect of modern civilization is an indefinite multiplicity of wants”, etc. Thus, let us have development and create jobs but not at the expense of our environment and biodiversity.
→ read full articleLeaked Internal Documents Show U.N. Ignored CAR Child Abuse
Roger Hamilton-Martin, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
May 29 2015 – Leaked United Nations documents show high-level staff knew of abuses by soldiers in the Central African Republic and failed to act, all while planning the removal of U.N. whistleblower Anders Kompass.
→ read full articleThe Map on the Wall
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
History shows us that there are (at least) two kinds of peace agreements. One kind, the stupid one, is based on power. The other, the intelligent, is based on common interest. The most notorious of the first kind is the Treaty of Versailles that followed World War I.
→ read full articleUS Kneejerk Support for Israeli Nukes Torpedoes UN Disarmament Talks
Juan Cole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
24 May 2015 – After four weeks of negotiations, a revised UN treaty on nuclear disarmament has been torpedoed by the US. In running interference for Israel’s estimated 400 warheads, the US has made the world a more dangerous place. Guess which country has requested further meetings at the UN in hopes of reviving the revised NPT? Iran.
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Women Peace Activists Cross North-South Korea Border
Al Jazeera English – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
May 23, 2015 – Group of 30 women cross heavily militarised DMZ by bus after being denied by authorities to walk across the border.
→ read full articleNon-Proliferation Treaty: Nuclear Weapons and Tension Areas
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
A major difficulty of moving to good-faith negotiations on a Middle East Nuclear-weapon Free Zone is the absence of a regional organization involving all States in the wider region. I believe that there is an urgent need to take steps toward creating a broad security and cooperation zone which has conflict resolution, arms control, human rights, and economic cooperation dimensions.
→ read full articleINSURGE’s Pentagon-Gulf States-Turkey-ISIS Axis Report Makes National Headlines in Germany
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
28 May 20125 – Last week, my crowdfunded investigative journalism project, INSURGEintelligence, was able to break into the mainstream a story about startling assertions contained in a just released declassified Pentagon intelligence report, confirming that the West, the Gulf states and Turkey had, essentially, created ISIS through their support for Islamist militant rebels in Syria.
→ read full articleWhat It Was Like to Glimpse John Nash’s Beautiful Mind
Maurice Ewing – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Nash taught me that even geniuses need other people to correct their thinking and vet their ideas (as he had done in interacting with Von Neumann). Most importantly, however, Nash taught me that anyone’s mind can be beautiful if it focuses on producing beautiful ideas.
→ read full articleRotten Science: How We Got Duped by Fake Chocolate Science
Daniela Hernandez, Fusion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
On Retraction Watch, a site dedicated to tracking scientific papers that are retracted, newly debunked studies are piling up. The reason we keep getting duped is that science isn’t just science anymore. It’s Big Business. And it’s time we start thinking about it that way because, as in any big industry, there are some disturbing things going on that most people outside of scientific circles don’t know about — but should. After all, these missteps affect our lives.
→ read full articleCorrelating a Requisite Diversity of Metaphorical Patterns
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Entuning the Dynamic of Cognitive Eases and Diseases – This is an exploration of a methodological possibility of dynamically interweaving disparate threads which might thereby offer integrative insight.
→ read full articleSolutions Movement: How Worker-Owned Co-ops Can Change the Way We Work
Derek Royden, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
21 May 2015 – As many of us watch or participate in the movement to improve the lives of service workers through raising the minimum wage, another, more radical story is being told on the margins: the story of worker-owned cooperatives, which have the potential to change the way we work.
→ read full articleMyanmar Officially Rejects the Oslo Conference to End Systematic Persecution of the Rohingya Since 1978
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Read press release from 31 May 2015.
→ read full articleUnsettling Settlements: More Wrongdoing at Banks, More Swingeing Fines, No Prosecutions
The Economist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
23 May 2015 – The scene was familiar: regulators meting out vast penalties to banks, scathing statements about gross misconduct, yet no individuals charged with any crimes and some confusion as to what exactly the banks were admitting to and what effect that would have.
→ read full articleIntegrated Peacebuilding: Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict – A Review
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Craig Zelizer of the Conflict Resolution Program of Georgetown University, Washington DC, and his colleagues have written a very useful book with extensive bibliographies and website addresses of organizations dealing with conflict resolution.
→ read full articleAmerica at Its Best Is Strange
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
America even at its best is a strange place, alive with contradictions, a Teflon political culture that has an unshakable faith in its innocent and virtuous national character and its overall impact on the world, impervious to the ghosts of slavery and of ethnic cleansing of native Americans that should be tormenting our sleep and darkening our dreams, comfortable with its robust gun culture, and with its promiscuous reliance on rogue drones engineered to kill on command and on the brutal happenings that take place in black sites immorally situated in countries whose leaders agree to avert their gaze from the dirty work taking place.
→ read full articlePeace Education for Nonviolence and Solution of Terrorism
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
We find the history of terrorism and violence since the beginning of human civilizations. In every violent act, there is terror, fear and threat as experienced by its victim, similarly in every terror attack there is violence, fear, threat and terror.
→ read full articleIndia´s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Today “governability” is standardly defined as the overall capacity for governance of any societal entity or system. This definition has the defect of being somewhat circular since it uses the word “governance” to define the word “governability.” But before busying ourselves with improving the definition of the word, let us instead look at some of the important issues at stake in governability-talk.
→ read full articleNSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store and Plant Malware on All Android Apps
TechWorm – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Spy agencies planned to target mobile phones by hacking and hijacking Google and Samsung App store to implant spyware.
→ read full article48 Countries March Against Monsanto
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Global anti-Monsanto protests have been spurred by a recent WHO warning that the company’s signature herbicide “probably” causes cancer.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
June 1-7 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Beware the bareness of a busy life.” – Socrates
→ read full articleFinance like a Cancer Grows
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
To bail out the banks, the world has collectively spent around 4 trillion dollars of taxpayers’ money. It is astonishing that every week we see action being taken in various part of the world against the financial sector, without any noticeable reaction of public opinion. The “new ethic” is in reality a cancer, and it is metastasising rapidly
→ read full articleRalph Waldo Emerson on Small Mercies, the True Measure of Wisdom, and How to Live with Maximum Aliveness
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.” In contemplating the shortness of life, Seneca considered what it takes to live wide rather than long.
→ read full article(Italiano) Sulla violenza: suicidio, omicidio – e l’uno e l’altro
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Ciò non vale per il terrorismo di stato a terra o dall’aria: l’omicidio di decine, centinaia di migliaia senza incorrere in rischi, né suicidi incorporati nell’atto, cioè più come un lavoro d’ufficio. Seppure il suicidio può arrivare in seguito, odiandosi per gli omicidi commessi.
→ read full articleUS Drops Cuba from Terrorism List
Jesse Byrnes, The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The State Department formally dropped Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism on Friday [29 May 2015] after more than three decades. Removing Cuba from the list paves the way for diplomatic recognition and the opening of embassies. Lifting the full U.S. trade embargo requires congressional action.
→ read full articleDemands
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
A group of terrorists burst into the Annual Convention of the American Bar Association at the New York Hilton Hotel and took three hundred lawyers as hostages.
→ read full articleA Bit Here a Bit There
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Get up and stand up
A bit here and a bit there
The body walks
The mind flies
Separate but together
Post Disaster Rebuilding of Nepal: Forward Thinking
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The suggested approach is timely for Nepal would not want to stagger like other countries which faced large disasters. Lessons from unsatisfactory response and weak coordination during the hurricane Katarina, earthquake in Haiti and typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines should guide response to the crisis.
→ read full articleFailure of the US Coup d’État in Macedonia
Thierry Meyssan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
23 May 2015 – Macedonia has just neutralised an armed group whose sponsors had been under surveillance for at least eight months and has prevented a new attempt at a coup d’État planned by Washington for the 17th of May. The aim was to spread the chaos already infecting Ukraine into Macedonia in order to stall the passage of a Russian gas pipeline to the European Union.
→ read full articleThe Long Shadow of War: The Struggle for Justice in Postwar Sri Lanka – Report
Oakland Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
This report, authored by Anuradha Mittal, is based on research and fieldwork conducted between January 2014 and April 2015. We are grateful to individuals who assisted with research and fieldwork in Sri Lanka, who remain unnamed to ensure their safety.
→ read full articleConsider the Octopus: A Little Boy’s Moving Case against Eating Animals
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
A ‘food’ — this exquisite masterwork of evolution, this intelligent alien with an order of consciousness so beyond ours that we can barely begin to grasp its extent with the clumsy and insensitive tentacles of our moral imagination. Disarming wisdom from a tiny-bodied, huge-hearted human animal.
→ read full articleResearchers Discover a 40.000-Year-Old Bracelet Made by an Extinct Human Species
EWAO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
May 19, 2015 – It is one of the most incredible discoveries in recent years, confirming that we have actually very little knowledge of our distant past. Researchers have discovered the bracelet at Denisova Cave in Siberia, near Russia’s border with China and Mongolia.
→ read full articleA Color Revolution for Macedonia
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
22 May 2015 – During the Cold War Washington was concerned about communists fomenting street protests that they could turn into revolutions, with groomed politicians waiting in the wings to take over the new government, thus expanding the Soviet empire. Today this is precisely what Washington does. Why is Washington interested in controlling Macedonia?
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele, Germania, e tre vicini parenti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Nel bel mezzo del Medio Oriente c’è Israele, che culla sogni di un Israele ancor più grande che quello di re Davide. Gli stati seguiranno l’autorità morale del mondo d’oggi, papa Francesco, temendo di riconoscere la Palestina troppo tardi, tanto quanto temevano di farlo troppo presto. Il sionismo di Netanyahu è sconfitto, non militarmente ma moralmente.
→ read full articleScientific Responsibility in Counting the War Dead – A Response to Washington Post and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The more I looked into the matter, the more perturbed I became by Iraq Body Count’s odd relationships to US and European government agencies, questionable public statements, and pathological obsession with defending IBC methodologies. My investigation showed, for the first time, that Spagat’s work itself is false, fraudulent, and unreliable.
→ read full articleAnthem to Human Love
Guy Crequie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
For The Harmony of Our Lives
→ read full articleThe Oak Tree and the Reed Grass
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A mighty oak tree ridiculed the soft thin reed grass bending back and forth in the lake.
→ read full articleTexans Propose to Adopt Threatened African Rhinos
Lisa Vives, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
May 13 2015 -Thefts, murders and mutilation of Africa’s wildlife, from white rhinos to elephants with their prized horns and tusks, are at an all-time high, say conservationists who are keeping track of the poaching of species by fortune-seeking hunters.
→ read full articleWhistleblower Warns on Safety of UK Nukes, Goes on the Run
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
17 May 2015 – A UK Navy Seaman has warned that the UK’s nuclear submarine system, Trident, are a “disaster waiting to happen” and is now in hiding. In coming months, the UK government will decide whether to spend £100bn (US$150bn) on upgrading its nuclear weapons system.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’anno 2015: rapporto sul primo quadrimestre
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
La Cina è proattiva nei “cortili” UE e USA; realizzando guadagni in modo nonviolento quando altri ci perdono violentemente per inazione e sfruttamento. Perché? Forse la Cina considera Africa e America Latina in ascesa come più competitive che UE e USA in declino; pensando in grande, a lungo termine, come fanno loro.
→ read full articleWomen and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The two great ecological challenges of our times are biodiversity erosion and climate change. And both are interconnected, in their causes and their solutions. Industrial agiculture is the biggest contributor to biodiversity erosion as well as to climate change. According to the United Nations, 93% of all plant variety has disappeared over the last 80 years.
→ read full articleWhy Aren’t the Banksters in Prison?
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The financial impact on JPMorgan and the other banks for pleading guilty to a felony will be effectively zero. As part of the deal, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued waivers exempting the banks from the legal repercussions arising from their status as criminal organizations, giving them continued preferential treatment in issuing debt, as well as the continued right to operate mutual funds.
→ read full articleHow to Make Use of Our Suffering: Simone Weil on Ameliorating Our Experience of Pain, Hunger, Fatigue, and All That Makes the Soul Cry
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
There is almost a Buddhist undertone to Weil’s insistence on accepting everything that is, as it is, without compounding pain with “the second arrow” of our tendency to resist any unpleasantness and judge it as a kind of personal failure, which in turn precipitates an even graver sense of dissatisfaction.
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Dear Future Generations: Sorry (Legendado em Português)
Prince Ea – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
An Apology Letter to Future Generations (Um Pedido de Desculpas às Gerações Futuras)
→ read full articleChecking for Accuracy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
→ read full articleAn Impact Assessment of a Great Earthquake in Nepal
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25, 2015 disrupted the lives of nine million people – almost a third of the population. A second one of magnitude 7.3 on May 12 further complicated getting aid to survivors mainly in the central Nepal. Thus, the challenge of quake is being turned to opportunity to make a new Nepal forming a national Government headed by a clean, dynamic and honest leadership.
→ read full articleMegadeath [Rhino-Elephant-Hippo Extinction]
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The destruction of some of the last of the huge animals that shaped us inflicts a great wound in our lives.
→ read full articleMinorities Threatened More by Governments than Terrorist Groups, Says Study
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A new study released Wednesday [20 May 2015] by the London-based Minority Rights Group International says populations in the region were more at risk from their own governments.
→ read full articleImplications for Australia of Aljazeera Program Condoning Genocide in Syria
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The program targeted an Arabic speaking audience, and it would have a significant number of viewers in Australia. The host of the Al-Jazeera program and one guest express support for the killing of Alawis in Syria. They do not exclude women and children.
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Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Overture (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Boston Symphony Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
May 25-31 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” – Richard Bach
→ read full articleU.S. Honeybee Population Plummets by More Than 40%, USDA Finds
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
According to the latest annual government study, U.S. beekeepers reported losing 42.1 percent of the total number of colonies managed from April 2014 through April 2015, much higher than the 34.2 percent from the year prior.
→ read full articlePalmyra, Syria: Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Periods of Armed Conflict
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
It seems that the ISIS forces have taken control of the city and some of the area around it. Thus, the Appeal of the Association of World Citizens must be addressed to its leadership, although the AWC has no direct communication avenues to the ISIS. The protection of the cultural heritage of humanity is an important element of world law binding on States, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals.
→ read full articleGovernor of Japan’s Okinawa to Press U.S. for Removal of Base
Elaine Lies, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The governor of the Japanese island of Okinawa said on Wednesday [20 May 2015] he will travel to the United States next week to press his demand that a U.S. military base be removed from his island to lighten the burden of a people weary of hosting U.S. troops.
→ read full articlePeace Education: Source of National Unity and Global Harmony
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Peace education consists in enabling people to lead a happy life through the development of their human resources for constructive purposes.
→ read full article(Castellano) Itaca
C. P. Cavafis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Ten siempre a Itaca en tu mente.
Llegar allí es tu destino.
Mas no apresures nunca el viaje.
US Press Blacks Out Israeli Defense Minister’s Citation of ‘Nagasaki and Hiroshima’ as Model for Dealing with Iran
Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
“I do remember the story of President Truman was asked, How do you feel after deciding to launch the nuclear bombs, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, causing at the end the fatalities of 200,000, casualties? And he said, When I heard from my officers the alternative is a long war with Japan, with potential fatalities of a couple of millions, I thought it is a moral decision. We are not there yet. But that what I’m talking about.”
→ read full articleOn Being Sane in Insane Places: “If Sanity and Insanity Exist, How Shall We Know Them?”
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The now famous (some offended or embarrassed psychiatrists preferred to call it “infamous”) experiment that was carried out involved 12 different psychiatric hospitals and 8 different people, mostly professionals (including the author). Each of the eight were totally and certifiably sane “pseudo-patients”.
→ read full articleThe Path to Zero: Dialogues on Nuclear Dangers – A Review
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The Path to Zero: Dialogues on Nuclear Dangers, by Richard Falk and David Krieger – This book ought to be required reading for college students everywhere in the world, and also for decision-makers. It shakes us out of our complacency and makes us realize that widespread, immediate and dedicated public action is urgently needed if we are to save human civilization and the biosphere from a thermonuclear catastrophe.
→ read full articleCompassion Fatigue?
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
So did humans develop compassion fatigue and does this bode ill for our future as a species? I do not know and cannot predict the future. I can only act against the negative trends and draw closer to other activists. When we do find people who still cares, we latch onto them and try to do something together to keep our sanity. We must never give up. We must “stay human” as Vittorio used to write to us.
→ read full articleFugitive Facts Escape from American Psychological Association Headquarters – Colluding with Torturers
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Although preliminary reports have now identified many of the fugitive facts, the APA continues to warn that extreme caution should be exercised until the Association has provided specific safety guidelines. Without adequate precautions, close contact has been linked to a variety of psychological symptoms, including denial, defensiveness, and despair.
→ read full article(Português) Cuba já Tem Vacina Contra Cancro [Cancer] do Pulmão
Notícias ao Minuto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Esta descoberta pode salvar milhões de vidas em todo o mundo.
→ read full articleThe Journalism and Scholarship of Attachment – Ethiopia, Africa
Tedla D. Tekle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The journalism or academia of attachment has been widely popularised by Martin Bell in the 1990s, however the genre had existed even before he officialised it. The argument of this genre of journalism, it does work well in the academic sector too, is that journalists or academics can be neutral and objective but they should not remain detached in the face of injustice.
→ read full articlePeace Is What We Make of It? Peace-Shaping Events and ‘Non-Events’
Gëzim Visoka, Pax in Nuce – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Almost all post-conflict societies that have been subject to liberal peace experiments continue to suffer from dysfunctional democracy, ethnic disagreements, and under-development. This raises the question.
→ read full article(русский-Russian) Вашингтон признал, что поддерживал радикальных исламистов в Сирии
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Как отмечает в своей статье обозреватель НВО Тони Карталучи, как отмечается в одной из недавних публикаций авторитетного Брукингского института, который является одним из главных центров геополитического планирования в США, на территории Турции на протяжении долгого времени действовал (и продолжает действовать по сей день) командный центр разведки США, который осуществлял контроль за всеми операциями поддерживаемых США различных групп, включая ИГИЛ и так называемую «умеренную оппозицию».
→ read full articleLouise Diamond: ‘The Courage for Peace’
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
24 May 2015 – From TMS editor: As a memorial to a peace worker known for her efforts at multi-track diplomacy and on the relations between inner and outer peace, we publish this review of ‘The Courage for Peace’ by Louise Diamond, who passed away this week.
→ read full articleThe 30-Meter Telescope Project on Top of Mauna Kea, Hawai’i Sacred Mountain
Karin Louise Hermes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
This isn’t about being “local” to the islands, this is about being sprung from the kalo and the earth. This is about defining oneself and one’s culture from the life of the land, the kama‘āina. The concept of cultural identity being tied to the land is shared with many indigenous cultures.
→ read full article18 May: International Museum Day – The Advancement of Learning and Culture
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
18 May has been designated by UNESCO as the International Day of Museums to highlight the role that museums play in preserving beauty, culture, and history. We have seen the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage in the museum of Mosul by ISIS factions. Today, there is deep concern for Palmyra as ISIS and government troops battle near Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
→ read full articleThai Military Sends Boat Carrying Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees “Out to Sea”
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
16 May 2015 – An aging fishing boat packed with hundreds of refugees, mostly ethnic Rohingya fleeing poverty and violent persecution in Myanmar (Burma), is drifting further out to sea on Friday [15 May 2015], after the government in Thailand prevented them from reaching land.
→ read full articleIsrael to Force Bedouin Village to Pay for Its Own Demolition
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The Israeli state is claiming that the town, razed to the ground 83 times, should pay for the 1,000 police deployed to carry out the destruction.
→ read full articleFukushima Workshop at the World Uranium Symposium in Quebec City
Fairewinds Energy Education – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
April 2015 – Fairewinds chief engineer Arnie Gundersen introduces new scientific evidence to prove high radiation exposures in Japan due to the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster.
→ read full articleThe Fog of Empire
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Surprising win for Cameron with greater mandate
Right-wing ideology dominates discourse in Britain
Transcendent Integrity via Dynamic Configuration of Sub-Understandings?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Interactive Orbital Animations of World Views Using Data-Driven Documents – The domains tentatively explored as an illustration for comprehension of some form of transcendent integration include: world religions, philosophies, natural sciences, cultural modalities, cognitive modalities, ruling elites, global governance, environmental conditions, conditions of change.
→ read full articleNGOs Urge Commission of Inquiry to Probe Sexual Abuse in U.N. Peacekeeping
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
“The truth is startling and simple: No new mechanisms, no new methods of operation, no new policies can ever work in practice to prevent or punish sex abusers on staff who commit sexual offenses at present, because the U.N. bureaucracy responsible for implementing changes is completely dysfunctional.” — Paula Donovan, co-director at AIDS-Free World
→ read full articleMay 18-UNESCO International Museum Day
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Further, the Vatican will now recognize the State of Palestine. Things are changing and Zionists need to realize that they can change nicely to move towards justice and equality or they will be forced to do so. The USA, the largest enabler of this rogue “Jewish state,” needs to change its foreign policy very quickly.
→ read full articleBoatloads of Migrants Could Soon Be ‘Floating Graveyard’ on Southeast Asian Waters
Kanya D'Almeida, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
“We don’t have a flotilla to go out and help them, but there are plenty of countries in the region that do, and plenty of reasons for them to do it – if they don’t, they’ll be dealing with a floating graveyard soon, rather than a flotilla of ships.” — Leonard Doyle, director of media and communications for the International Organisation for Migration.
→ read full articleHonesty and Insight
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
An Indian Guru realized that he was getting old and could not teach much longer.
→ read full articleU.S. Hosts Arms Bazaar at White House Arab Summit
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
According to Colin Kahl, national security advisor to Vice-President Joe Biden, the United Arab Emirates flies the most advanced U.S.-made F-16 fighter planes in the world. “They’re more advanced than the ones our Air Force flies,” he told reporters, without going into specifics.
→ read full articleDon’t Think the US Military Is Concerned with the Climate? Think Again
Dane Wigington, Geoengineering Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
All available data indicates that the US military has been experimenting with weather modification for over 60 years. Their interest and involvement with climate engineering is all about power and control. There is nothing benevolent behind manipulating Earth’s life support systems.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks: German Government Aided NSA Spying in Europe
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
A new document contradicts the German government’s claims that it was not aware of the NSA spying activities in Europe. The government of Angela Merkel actively helped the massive surveillance of the U.S. National Security Office, WikiLeaks revealed on Tuesday [12 May 2015].
→ read full articleVatican Recognizes State of Palestine in New Treaty
Nicole Winfield, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The Vatican officially recognized the state of Palestine in a new treaty finalized Wednesday [13 May 2015], immediately sparking Israeli ire and accusations that the move hurt peace prospects.
→ read full articleA New Dark Age of Militarism
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
13 May 2015 – “What struck me,” journalist Christian Parenti said in a recent Truthout interview, referring to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, “was the fact that these local towns and states around the region were sending the only resources they had to New Orleans: weapons and militarized gear.
→ read full articleAluminum Toxicity and Vaccines – Recent Basic Neuroscience Research
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Connecting Vaccine Adjuvants and Mitochondrial Injury with Autism, Alzheimer’s Dementia, Autoimmune Disorders, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Gulf War Syndrome, ASIA Syndrome, Schizophrenia, Diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
→ read full articleDrone Warfare in ‘Good Kill’
David Walsh, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
‘Good Kill’ opens in theaters in the US on May 15 [2015]. A roundtable interview with writer-director Andrew Niccol and actor Ethan Hawke. Drone strikes carried out by the US military and CIA have killed thousands of civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and other countries. The barbaric strikes are illegal under international and US law and amount to war crimes.
→ read full articleUS and China Approaching Military Standoff in the South China Sea as Obama Fights for Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Ian Ralby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The security situation in the vital Pacific basin trade route is escalating rapidly at the same time that tensions are rising in Washington over Obama’s Pacific trade pact.
→ read full articleThe Secret Corporate Takeover
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Economics Nobel Joseph E. Stiglitz shows why today’s “trade” agreements are about much more than free trade.
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