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It Took Me Two Hours to Get My Hands on an AK-47. Welcome to America
Eric Rodriguez – The Guardian,
12 Oct 2015
Until we make it harder for everyone to get guns, it looks like mommies and daddies will instead consider buying their little girls and boys backpacks with bulletproof plates inside, forcing them to carry the weight on their shoulders of our collective inaction as a nation.
→ read full articleTPP or Not TPP? What’s the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Should We Support It?
Jana Kasperkevic – The Guardian,
12 Oct 2015
Twelve Pacific rim countries have signed a sweeping trade deal but will it cut red tape and boost commerce or is it a sellout to big business that will cost jobs? Close to a decade in the making, the most important trade pact in a generation moved closer to becoming a reality on Monday [5 Oct 2015].
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Release of TPP Deal Text Stokes ‘Freedom of Expression’ Fears
Sam Thielman – The Guardian,
12 Oct 2015
9 Oct 2015 – WikiLeaks has released what it claims is the full intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the controversial agreement between 12 countries that was signed off on Monday. This chapter appears to give TPP countries greater power to stop information from going public.
→ read full articleNonagon of Toxic Conflict: Notes on the Turkish Quagmire
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The focus on Turkey, and its role with respect to Syria, PKK, and ISIS is not meant to minimize the importance of the other actors in the region that are part of the geopolitical nonogon. There are several overlapping regional proxy wars that have precluded a diplomatic resolution, including serious intraregional tensions between Saudi Arabia and Syria as well as the extraregional rivalry between the United States and Russia.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Nuclear Civil Disobedience (7)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
In the years after World War II there was a widespread belief that rational minds would prevail, and that nuclear weapons would not be further developed, and their possession as well as their threat or use prohibited.
→ read full articleThe Benefits of Ozonated Olive Oil for Toenail Fungus
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Untreated, foot fungus, also known as athlete’s foot or tinea pedis, “eats” away at the skin of the foot and can easily spread to other areas of the body, such as the groin. Toenail fungus, or onychomycosis, disfigures the toenail and creates thick discolored nails that can cause painful pressure and difficulty walking.
→ read full articleRight Livelihood Awards 2015: The Laureates
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
2015 Right Livelihood Awards honour courageous and effective solutions to secure human rights and respond to global crises.
→ read full articleThe Yemen Catastrophe: Beset by Contradictions of Will and Intellect
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The UN Security Council seems shockingly supportive of a major Saudi military intervention that started in March 2015, severely aggravating the overall situation by unanimously adopting a one-sided anti-Houthi Resolution 2216. This Saudi use of force is contrary to international law, violates the core principle of the UN Charter, and magnifies the violent disruption of Yemeni society.
→ read full articleUK and Saudi Arabia ‘in Secret Deal’ over UN Human Rights Council Place
Owen Bowcott – The Guardian,
5 Oct 2015
29 Sep 2015 – Britain conducted secret vote-trading deals with Saudi Arabia to ensure both states were elected to the UN Human Rights Council, according to leaked diplomatic cables. Riyadh has sanctioned more than a hundred beheadings so far this year – more than the Islamic State.
→ read full articleNevermind
Leonard Cohen & Patrick Leonard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The war was lost
The treaty signed
I was not caught
I crossed the line
The Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Fukushima and Beyond (6)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
We can only wonder about the lingering effects on the Japanese national psyche of being twice so severely victimized by the diabolical power of the atom? Fukushima was an exemplary tragedy of this new century, exhibiting the destructive force of nature in lethal interaction with the Promethean embrace of nuclear technology.
→ read full articleEconomic Theory and Community Development
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The discursive strategy of this chapter takes up again a central idea of dominant discourse: the idea that economic growth is and must be the aim of every nation. It seeks to destabilize the basic cultural structure. It seeks to destabilize the inter-related ways of acting, talking and seeing that cement injustice into place and make it immovable. But it does not only destabilize. It also includes a number of constructive proposals.
→ read full articleA Gaza Centric History of Palestine: Past, Present, and Future
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Jean-Pierre Filiu, ‘Gaza: A History,’ trans. John King, Oxford University Press, 2014, 440 pp., ISBN 9780190201890. This review was initially published in the Journal of the Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World.
→ read full articleJeopardizing Japanese ‘Abnormality’: Rejoining the War System
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Washington’s encouragement of Prime Minister Abe’s campaign for a ‘normal’ Japan represents a regressive move regionally and globally, and deserves critical attention from a wider geopolitical perspective as well as from the viewpoint of Japan.
→ read full articleIndustrial Farming Is One of the Worst Crimes in History
Yuval Noah Harari – The Guardian,
28 Sep 2015
The fate of industrially farmed animals is one of the most pressing ethical questions of our time. Tens of billions of sentient beings, each with complex sensations and emotions, live and die on a production line.
→ read full articleThe Magna Carta of Integral Ecology: Cry of the Earth – Cry of the Poor
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
It is the first time a pope addresses the issue of ecology in the sense of an integral ecology (as it goes beyond the environment) in such a complete way. He elaborates the subject on the new ecological paradigm, which no official document of the UN has done so far.
→ read full articleKissinger: A Hero of Our Time
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
For me, Kissinger was the anti-hero, somehow available to justify the unjustifiable, and situate himself in a tradition of statecraft that celebrated the European invention of modern international relations in the 17th-19th centuries.
→ read full articleSea Shepherd Successfully Leads Hundreds of Dolphins and Pilot Whales Away from the Killing Beaches
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
23 Sep 2015 – Over the past three months, the Sea Shepherd ships Brigitte Bardot, Sam Simon, and more recently the Bob Barker, in collaboration with the Sea Shepherd land crew, have successfully escorted hundreds of dolphins, including pilot whales, away from the killing beaches of the Faroe Islands, Denmark.
→ read full articleIt’s Not the Chinese Economy That’s on Life Support
Martin Jacques – The Guardian,
21 Sep 2015
Western markets are only panicking about China because their own economies are so fragile. The western world continues to depend on a life-support system, namely zero interest rates, combined with Chinese growth.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Sealed Documents Reveal the Truth behind Roundup’s Toxicological Dangers
Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null – Progressive Radio Network,
21 Sep 2015
Among the many cancers and diseases Monsanto’s own research found associated with glyphosate or Roundup are:
Adenoma cancer in the pituitary gland
Glioma tumors in the brain
Reticular cell sarcomas in the heart
Malignant tumors in the lungs
Salivary mandibular reticular cell carcinoma
Metastatic sarcomas of the lymph gland
Prostate carcinoma
Cancer of the bladder
Thyroid carcinoma
Adrenal reticulum cell sarcomas
Cortical adenomas
Basal cell squamous skin tumors
The Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The Weird ‘Good Fortune’ of Tsutomu Yamaguchi (5)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
“I was struck by the decision to bomb Hiroshima instead of Kyoto out of respect for Kyoto’s cultural heritage. It was the then Secretary of War, Henry L Stimson, who is credited with making the successful plea to the president to spare Kyoto.”
→ read full article(Português) Uma outra forma de resolver os conflitos
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
A humanidade, especialmente, sob o patriarcado, conheceu conflitos de toda ordem. A forma predominante de resolvê-los foi e é a utilização da violência, para dobrar o outro e enquadrá-lo numa determinada ordem. Esse é o pior dos caminhos, pois deixa nos vencidos um rastro de amargura, humilhação e de vontade de vingança.
→ read full articleThe Horrifying Syrian Dilemma Persists
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
What this prolonged dilemma in the face of mass atrocity shows is the deficiency of state-centric world order if appraised from the perspective of human wellbeing rather than national interests. The failures in Syria are not just the shortcomings of diplomacy and manipulations of geopolitics, but also a severe mismatch between structures and capabilities of global authority and the vulnerabilities of the peoples of the world.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Die Krise des Lebens und der Selbstverwirklichung
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Doch alles im Leben ist von Krise gekennzeichnet: die Krise der Geburt, der Jugend, der Wahl des Lebenspartners, der Berufswahl, des Mittagsdämons, wie Freud die Midlife-Crisis der Menschen in ihren 40er Jahren bezeichnet, wenn uns bewusst wird, dass wir schon den Gipfel erreicht haben und im Abstieg begriffen sind. Und schließlich die große Krise des Todes, wenn wir von Zeit zu Ewigkeit schreiten.
→ read full articleOutlook India: Interview on ‘Digital India’ & PM Narendra Modi
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
I am posting here an interview with the magazine OUTLOOK INDIA associated with an open letter that was signed by more than 100 Indian scholars and intellectuals, as well as those such as myself with a long research and human interest in India, expressing concern about the forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Silicon Valley to promote his vision of ‘Digital India.’
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The Iran Agreement in Perspective (4)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
This nuclear agreement reflects ‘where we are’ in dealing with global crises, not ‘where we should be.’ If we value international law, global justice, and indeed the future of the human species, then the distinction between the realm of the ‘feasible’ and the realm of the ‘desirable’ deserves energetic critical exposure by all of us who fancy ourselves as citizen pilgrims.
→ read full articleReich and the Myth of a Moral Capitalism
Richard Becker - Liberation,
14 Sep 2015
6 Sep 2015 – In a Sept. 5 blog, former Secretary of Labor and liberal commentator Robert Reich, asks, “What Happened to the Moral Center of American Capitalism?” It’s not satire. The only way to put an end to capitalist excesses is to put an end to the system itself.
→ read full articleA Moment That Changed Me – Looking a Sperm Whale in the Eye
Philip Hoare – The Guardian,
14 Sep 2015
I’d always been scared of these great creatures but while filming in the Azores, I jumped into the ocean amid a pod of whales – and met another sentient being. She looked at me, with an eye the size of a grapefruit, with absolute sentience and curiosity, wondering what I was.
→ read full articleHidden Problem of ‘Ghost Gear’: The Abandoned Fishing Nets Clogging Up Oceans
Hannah Gould – The Guardian,
14 Sep 2015
A new global initiative founded by World Animal Protection hopes to tackle the problem that’s killing animals and costing business.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Likud Troika: Burying the Oslo ‘Peace Process’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
12 Sep 2015 – Israel’s relentless accumulation of territorial facts on the ground some years ago doomed the peace process associated with the Oslo Framework of Principles adopted in 1993. It became increasingly difficult to envisage an Israeli willingness to dismantle settlements and road network or remove the separation barrier, and without such steps there could never be achieved an independent and viable Palestinian state.
→ read full articleThe Sympathetic Skeptic: Luis Cabrera’s Interview with Richard Falk On Behalf Of the World Government Research Network
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
12 Sep 2015 – The following interview was conducted by Professor Luis Cabrera, a political theorist on the faculty of Griffith University in Brisbane Australia. Cabrera has written notable books on themes of world government and global integration.
→ read full articleCheering German Crowds Greet Refugees after Long Trek from Budapest to Munich
Emma Graham-Harrison, Patrick Kingsley and Tracy McVeigh – The Guardian,
7 Sep 2015
As Europe’s politicians continue to bicker, desperate travellers are welcomed and fed as they arrive at German city.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Naasaki – Gorbachev’s Response (3)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Of course, Gorbachev is appreciated in the West mainly as having presided over a political process that led to the nonviolent ending of the Cold War, the peaceful liberation of Eastern Europe, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yet he was also perhaps the only head of an important sovereign state…
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Crises in Greece – Coping with Economic Depression and Refugees
Daniel Howden – The Guardian,
7 Sep 2015
In the islands near Turkey, such as Kos, the two phenomena have collided, turning the usually lucrative tourist season into a ‘relentless August’.
→ read full articleNuclear-Free Future Awards
Nuclear-Free Future Award,
7 Sep 2015
Tony de Brum, Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, will receive the Nuclear-Free Future Award in the category of “Solutions.” De Brum has led efforts by RMI to get the nine nuclear-armed nations to fulfill their duties under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, including serving as a co-agent in groundbreaking lawsuits against them at the International Court of Justice.
→ read full articleU.S. & Saudi Arabia War Crimes Keep Killing Yemenis
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
31 Aug 2015
30 Aug 2015 – Is There Anyone Who Believes That Yemeni Lives Matter? Saudi Arabia’s aggression against Yemen, the poorest country in the region, has been catastrophic for Yemen, which is all-but-defenseless. Backed by eight other Arab dictatorships and the US, they have committed uncounted war crimes and crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleWhen Surveillance Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Joshua Kopstein – The Guardian,
31 Aug 2015
Windows 10 heralds a future in which the cloud rules and computers snitch on us by default. New technology shouldn’t offer a choice between giving up our privacy to live like the Jetsons and defending it to live like the Flintstones.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
This is a legal issue, as this book makes clear, but it is also a moral issue, a security issue and, ultimately, a spiritual issue. Humankind must step back from the nuclear abyss now, before it is too late.
→ read full articleThatcher’s Tyrants – The Tanks, The Guns, The Christmas Cards
David Edwards – Media Lens,
31 Aug 2015
“Tyrants willing to serve the West are sent tanks, guns and Christmas cards. Their crimes are buried out of sight, protected from censure at the United Nations. Likewise, outrage at dissidents’ alleged ‘support’ for tyranny is mostly a device used to attack voices threatening power and profit. The state-corporate moral compass is not malfunctioning or broken – there is no moral compass.” – Howard Zinn
→ read full article‘I Have Become a Body without a Soul’: 13 Years Detained in Guantánamo
Pardiss Kebriaei – The Guardian,
31 Aug 2015
It’s been four years since the Obama administration promised to review indefinite detentions. For my client there, it’s been one long nightmare.
→ read full articleBurma’s Half-Hearted Commitment to Democracy
Editorial Board – The Washington Post,
31 Aug 2015
The regime of generals and former generals who began the transition away from military rule still exert a heavy hand on the political process. Burma’s regime is aggravating and exploiting ethnic conflicts in the Southeast Asian nation of 56 million people also known as Myanmar. Most egregious has been its treatment of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority that has long been persecuted and that increasingly has been subject to violence and denied citizenship.
→ read full articleWhat Are Obesogens?
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Obesogens is an umbrella term given to the dozens of endocrine disruptors that play a role in obesity. Chemicals from plastics, like BPA, are known obesogens, and these chemicals pollute our waterways and pervade our homes.
→ read full articleWhy Congress Must Support the Nuclear Agreement with Iran
Akbar Ganji & Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Akbar Ganji is an important human rights defender who spent several years for his efforts in an Iranian jail. He is a leading commentator on Iranian affairs and recipient of an International Press Association World Press Hero award. Our article stresses the critical importance of obtaining American approval of the nuclear agreement.
→ read full articleYanis Varoufakis: Bailout Deal Allows Greek Oligarchs to Maintain Grip
Phillip Inman – The Guardian,
24 Aug 2015
17 Aug 2015 – Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has accused European leaders of allowing oligarchs to maintain their stranglehold on Greek society while punishing ordinary people in a line-by-line critique of the country’s €86bn (£61bn) bailout deal.
→ read full articlePentagon to Expand Drone Flights by 50 Percent
Gordon Lubold - The Wall Street Journal,
24 Aug 2015
Expanded drone flights to give military commanders access to more intelligence and greater firepower amid more global hot spots.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The time is now ripe for the total de-linkage of nonproliferation from disarmament with respect to nuclear weapons policy. Without such a de-linkage false consciousness and confusion are unavoidable. It is time to generate populist impatience with the refusal of decades by government establishment to act on the basis of reason, ethics, and prudence.
→ read full articleThe Anarchist Impulse
Richard Swift – New Internationalist Magazine,
24 Aug 2015
The other great historic alternative to capitalism has been anarchism. Often dismissed as a dirty word, its influence ebbs and flows but its libertarian principles remain profoundly influential.
→ read full articleFree-Trade Treaties Are Anti-Free Trade
Immanuel Wallerstein - Toward Freedom,
24 Aug 2015
So-called free-trade treaties are about managing the protectionist interests of the various parties to these treaties. Whatever they do, the results are anti-free trade. To understand what is going on, we have to start with that, and evaluate any proposal with that in mind.
→ read full articleNutrition Experts Alarmed By Nonprofit Downplaying Role of Junk Food in Obesity
Joanna Walters – The Guardian,
17 Aug 2015
‘You cannot exercise your way out of overeating’ say scientists, who compare Coca-Cola’s funding of the Global Energy Balance Network to that of big tobacco and its ‘merchants of doubt’.
→ read full articleNine Banks Including RBS Settle $2bn Forex Rigging Claim in US Court
Jill Treanor – The Guardian,
17 Aug 2015
15 Aug 2015 – Nine major banks including Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Barclays have settled a US$ 2bn claim brought by investors in a US court for losses caused by the rigging of foreign exchange markets but are warned cases could be brought elsewhere.
→ read full articleUS Torturers Lose Psychologists’ Corrupt Cooperation
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
17 Aug 2015
American Psychological Association Acts to Heal Itself – American psychologists have voted overwhelmingly against helping their government torture people. In an even more radical step, the psychologists voted to obey international law, even in instances where US law tolerates war crimes or crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleLiving in the 21st Century
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
A confessional to the extent of acknowledging my own surroundings of digital devices that while liberating in some respects are repressive in others. To sustain our freedom under these ‘postmodern’ conditions requires the rechristening of meditative intelligence (as distinct from the instrumental rationality that acted as wet nurse of the ‘modern.’
→ read full articleExposing Abuse on the Factory Farm
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
17 Aug 2015
8 Aug 2015 – While most Americans enjoy eating meat, it is hard to stomach the often sadistic treatment of factory-farmed cows, pigs and chickens. Farm operators go to great lengths to hide these gruesome images from the public. A popular tactic is the so-called ag-gag law, which makes it a crime to secretly videotape industrial feedlots and slaughterhouses to expose animal mistreatment and abuse.
→ read full articleIs Artificial Intelligence Really an Existential Threat to Humanity?
Edward Moore Geist – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
17 Aug 2015
With intellectual powers beyond human comprehension, Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom prognosticates, self-improving artificial intelligences could effortlessly enslave or destroy Homo sapiens if they so wished.
→ read full articleSea Shepherd Found Guilty by Danish Court of Defending Pilot Whales
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Yesterday [6 Aug 2015] five Sea Shepherd volunteer crewmembers were found guilty in a Danish court of breaking the Faroe Islands Pilot Whaling Act for the “crime” of interfering in the slaughter of over 250 pilot whales on the killing beaches of Bøur and Tórshavn on July 23.
→ read full articleWartime Journalism: Mohammed Omer on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Omer’s prior reporting earned him the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in 2007, recognizing the excellence of his reportage on Gaza (‘a voice for the voiceless’). After receiving the award in The Netherlands, Omer on his return home received a brutal reception at the Gaza border by Israeli security guards being beaten so severely as to endure serious injury that required specialized surgery.
→ read full articleHow to Live Wisely
Richard J. Light – The New York Times,
10 Aug 2015
Imagine you are Dean for a Day. What is one actionable change you would implement to enhance the college experience on campus? I have asked students this question for years. The answers can be eye-opening. A few years ago, the responses began to move away from “tweak the history course” or “change the ways labs are structured.” A different commentary, about learning to live wisely, has emerged.
→ read full articlePondering Jonathan Pollard’s Release
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Loyalty to the state continues to be the north star of conventional patriotism. For the citizen pilgrim solidarity with an emergent eco-humanist insurgency is the keystone of 21st century political community and ethical responsibility deserving precedence when in conflict with nationalist and tribal affinities.
→ read full articleVideo Graphic Footage Shows Mass Slaughter of Pilot Whales in the Faroe Islands
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
• All five Sea Shepherd crewmembers who were detained overnight have been arrested.
• Approx. 250 pilot whales were killed yesterday. *111 killed at Bøur *130-150 killed at Tórshavn.
(Português) As Crises da Vida e a Autorealização
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
O desafio posto a cada um não é como evitar as crises. Elas são inerentes à nossa condição humana. A questão é como as enfrentamos: que lições tiramos delas e como podemos crescer com elas. Por aí passa o caminho de nossa auto-realização e de nossa maturidade como seres humano ou de nosso fracasso.
→ read full articleUN Paid Millions to Russian Aviation Firm Even after Learning of Sex Attack on Girl
Paul Lewis, Oliver Laughland and Roger Hamilton-Martin – The Guardian,
3 Aug 2015
30 Jul 2015 – Documents reveal United Nations unit uncovered possible ‘culture of sexual exploitation and abuse’ after 2010 attack by UTair crew member, but permitted company to continue receiving contracts worth millions.
→ read full articleProtecting Schools 80 Years after Roerich
Bede Sheppard, Human Rights Watch – Culture of Peace News Network,
3 Aug 2015
The Declaration is a political commitment to do more to protect students, teachers, schools and universities from attack and from military use during times of armed conflict. It calls upon armed forces to refrain from converting schools or universities into military bases, barracks, defensive positions, detention centers, and weapons caches, as well as from harassment, rape, and forced recruitment by the soldiers inside the school.
→ read full articleEco-Insurgency, Tribal Vision, and Ultra-Nationalist Geopolitics
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Thinking hopefully, the Anthropocene Age may soon witness the first species insurgency against the eco-tyrannical elites of the world, who have become the suicidal guardians of our neoliberal market forces joined in an unbreakable alliance with dominant forces of tribalism and nationalism. In moments of despair, the end-time hegemony of this unbreakable alliance are likely to retain control of species destiny.
→ read full articleHedge Funds Tell Puerto Rico: Lay Off Teachers and Close Schools to Pay Us Back
Rupert Neate – The Guardian,
3 Aug 2015
Report commissioned by 34 hedge funds says government had been ‘massively overspending on education’ despite spending only 79% of US average per pupil.
→ read full articleMusk, Wozniak and Hawking Urge Ban on Warfare AI and Autonomous Weapons
Samuel Gibbs – The Guardian,
3 Aug 2015
27 Jul 2015 – An open letter warning of a “military artificial intelligence arms race” and calling for a ban on “offensive autonomous weapons” was signed by Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Google DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis and professor Stephen Hawking along with over 1,000 AI and robotics researchers.
→ read full articleAnti-Torture Reforms Opposed within Psychology Group after Damning Report
Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
3 Aug 2015
Before the American Psychological Association meets in Toronto next Thursday [6 Aug], former military voices within the profession are urging the organization not to participate in what they describe as a witch hunt. Tempers rise as association found complicit in brutal military and CIA interrogation.
→ read full articleA Moment That Changed Me – Ditching the Diets and Embracing My Plus-Size Body
Callie Thorpe – The Guardian,
27 Jul 2015
I was disgusted by my own body, and dieting only made things worse. But then a chance Google search changed everything. I was a serial dieter. You name the diet and I’ve done it
→ read full articleGod’s Masterpiece or the Devil’s Bad Joke? Barbarians and Apes — From the Opium Wars to the Origin of the Species
Eduardo Galeano - TomDispatch,
27 Jul 2015
[The following passages are excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s ‘History of Humanity’] – Origin of Freedom of Oppression
→ read full articleAlliance Blackmail: Israel’s Opposition to the Iran Nuclear Agreement
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
JCPOA imposes more restrictions on Iranian enrichment capabilities and stockpiles, and on inspection and monitoring of compliance, than has been imposed on any country in the course of the entire nuclear era. Left out of consideration altogether was the nuclear weapons arsenal of Israel acquired with Western complicity and by covert means, as well as through operations outside the Nonproliferation Treaty regime, which is used to tie Iran’s hands and feet.
→ read full articleMystery of Kazakhstan Sleeping Sickness Solved, Says Government
Alec Luhn in Moscow – The Guardian,
27 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015 – More than 140 people in two tiny villages were hit by the illness, with sufferers drifting off for up to six days – now scientists appear to have discovered the cause.
→ read full articleYour Ancestors Didn’t Sleep the Way You Do – Are You Sleeping Correctly?
Dr. Edward F. Group III – Global Healing Center,
27 Jul 2015
Historical records, centuries-old literature, and ancient references to sleep are all revealing a completely new way we should be looking at how we slumber. -Before Reaching for That Sleeping Pill, Consider The Following-
→ read full articleTwo Sea Shepherd Crewmembers Arrested in the Faroe Islands with Assistance of Danish Navy
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015 – Two volunteer crewmembers from the Sea Shepherd ship, Sam Simon, have been arrested in the Faroe Islands. “I made multiple request of the Danish Navy today for information; about whether a grindadráp had been called; about whether our crew had been arrested; and about whether the Farley small boat had been confiscated. Each time, my requests went unanswered.”
→ read full articleDavid Graeber Interview: ‘So Many People Spend Their Working Lives Doing Jobs They Think Are Unnecessary’
Stuart Jeffries – The Guardian,
20 Jul 2015
The anarchist author, coiner of the phrase ‘We are the 99%’, talks about ‘bullshit jobs’, our rule-bound lives and the importance of play.
→ read full articleThe End of Capitalism Has Begun
Paul Mason – The Guardian,
20 Jul 2015
Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. It’s time to be utopian. Marx imagined something close to our information economy. He wrote its existence would blow capitalism sky high.
→ read full article3 Great Supplements for Gut Health
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
There are so many easy ways that you can support and maintain your gut health. Whether it’s eating healthy, taking probiotics, or even meditation. Cutting out gluten and sugar are helpful steps you can take to support the health of your gut, and consuming more raw, living foods are also great measures.
→ read full article‘Anarchism Could Help to Save the World’
David Priestland – The Guardian,
20 Jul 2015
State socialism has failed, so has the market. We need to rediscover the anarchist thinker Peter Kropotkin.
→ read full article(Italiano) Alcune riflessioni teoriche a partire dalla Grande guerra
Antonino Drago - Centro Interdisciplinare Scienze per la Pace,
20 Jul 2015
La guerra è un flagello [sociale] fatto da mano d’uomo. In realtà si fanno la guerra e la rivoluzione [violenta] perché si subiscono la miseria e la servitù [anche culturale].
→ read full articleYemeni Genocide Proceeds Apace, Enjoying World’s Silence
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
13 Jul 2015
If any of the umpteen candidates for president of the United States has said anything humane, useful, or even dimly relevant about Yemen, it is hard to find (and I have found nothing). And nowhere have I found any call to establish the appropriate International War Crimes Tribunal to judge the illegality of the multiple, heinous predations of the United States, Saudi Arabia, and their sundry allies, all members in good standing of the world peacekeeping authority.
→ read full articleWind Power Generates 140% of Denmark’s Electricity Demand
Arthur Neslen – The Guardian,
13 Jul 2015
Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs – with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too.
→ read full articleYanis Varoufakis: Germany Won’t Spare Greek Pain – It Has an Interest in Breaking Us
Yanis Varoufakis – The Guardian,
13 Jul 2015
Debt restructuring has always been our aim in negotiations – but for some eurozone leaders Grexit is the goal. The answer cannot be found in economics because it resides deep in Europe’s labyrinthine politics.
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Johan Galtung on the Greek Drama Unfolding
Naakow Grant-Hayford and Johan Galtung,
13 Jul 2015
11 Jul 2015 – Naakow Grant-Hayford’s Skype interview with Johan Galtung: OXI, NAI, Tsipras, Varoufakis, IMF, Troika, Financial Crisis, Conflict Resolution…
→ read full articleUN Gaza Report Part I: War Crimes during Israel’s 51-Day Assault on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Exactly a year ago, for 51 days between July 7 and August 26 Israel carried out its third major military assault on Gaza in the past six years. This last one, code named Operation Protective Edge, was the most vicious, killing 2,251 Palestinians, of which 1,462 were civilians, and included 299 women and 551 children, as well as injuring 11,231, a number that includes 3,436 children, 10% of whom have permanent disabilities, and another 1,500 have been orphaned.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
On June 25, 2015 the New York Times published an opinion piece by Kemp assessing the UN Report. What I find scandalous and perverse on the part of this self-claiming authoritative media source, is to publish such a harsh and partisan dismissal of a prudent and overly balanced report without any kind of offsetting piece.
→ read full articleThe Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech
John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
From this point on, we have only two options: go down fighting, or capitulate and betray our loved ones, our friends and our selves by insisting that, as a brainwashed Winston Smith does at the end of Orwell’s 1984, yes, 2+2 does equal 5.
→ read full articleReading Claudia Rankine on Race
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
What Claudia Rankine shares and teaches is that every African American citizen must live with the existential concreteness of racism while even the most liberal of American white citizens live with only an abstract awareness of their own unconscious racism or, at best, their rather detached empathy with the historical victimization of our African American co-citizens.
→ read full article3 Artificial Sweeteners to Avoid
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
I always suggest that everyone, including healthy individuals, remove added sugars from their diet, including artificial sweeteners. Organic coconut sugar or, better yet, raw organic honey are much better alternatives to satisfy sweet cravings within the confines of a healthy diet.
→ read full articleJoseph Stiglitz: How I Would Vote in the Greek Referendum
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate – The Guardian,
6 Jul 2015
A no vote would at least open the possibility that Greece, with its strong democratic tradition, might grasp its destiny in its own hands. Greeks might gain the opportunity to shape a future that, though perhaps not as prosperous as the past, is far more hopeful than the unconscionable torture of the present. I know how I would vote.
→ read full articleThis Dome in the Pacific Houses Tons of Radioactive Waste – And It’s Leaking
Coleen Jose, Kim Wall and Jan Hendrik Hinzel – The Guardian,
6 Jul 2015
3 Jul 2015 – The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising sea levels caused by climate change could cause 111,000 cubic yards of debris to spill into the ocean.
→ read full articleConfederate Flag Down, Rainbow Flag Up: This Is the American Pride We’ve Been Waiting For
Steven W Thrasher – The Guardian,
29 Jun 2015
It may not be hope and change, but isn’t it amazing how much grace there is in Barack Obama’s United States right now?
→ read full article(Português) Preservar a Perspectiva Singular do Papa: A Ecologia Integral
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
22 junho 2015 – O Papa Francisco operou uma grande virada no discurso ecológico ao passar da ecologia ambiental para a ecologia integral. Esta inclui a ecologia político-social, a mental, a cultural, a educacional, a ética e a espiritual.
→ read full articleHalf of Europe’s Electricity Set to Be from Renewables by 2030
Arthur Neslen – The Guardian,
29 Jun 2015
Leaked EU paper predicts fast renewables growth to around double current levels if countries meet climate objectives.
→ read full articlePost-Capitalist Solutions: How Worker-Owned Tech Co-ops Are Boosting the Solidarity Economy
Matt Stannard, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
23 Jun 2015 – Many now agree that corporate capitalism needs to go away. But we differ about the methods of replacing it. Worker ownership is about alienation versus empowerment. For human beings to be able to be their full selves, they need to have a say in their own affairs.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia Tells Citizens to Ignore Latest WikiLeaks Release
Ian Black – The Guardian,
29 Jun 2015
21 Jun 2015 – Saudi Arabia has warned its citizens to ignore the 61,000 diplomatic documents leaked by the transparency site WikiLeaks, which give a rare insight into the kingdom’s habit of buying influence and monitoring dissidents.
→ read full articleCIA Torture Appears to Have Broken Spy Agency Rule on Human Experimentation
Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
22 Jun 2015
A previously classified CIA document, made public by the Guardian on Monday [15 Jun], empower the agency’s director to “approve, modify, or disapprove all proposals pertaining to human subject research”. The director has never in the agency’s history been a medical doctor.
→ read full articleThe Undisclosed Second Paradox in Michael Walzer’s ‘The Paradox of Liberation’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
My contention is that Walzer’s paradox dissolves as soon as the claim to categorize Zionism as a mode of ‘national liberation’ is deconstructed while the second paradox, which dwells on the moral and political interplay of what transpires when the liberation of the self is organically linked to the dispossession of the other, remains to be explained.
→ read full article(Castellano) La era de las grandes trasformaciones
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Vivimos en la era de las Grandes Trasformaciones. Entre tantas, destaco apenas dos: la primera en el campo de la economía y la segunda en el campo de la conciencia.
→ read full articleThe Polio Vaccine: A Global Scourge Still Threatening Humanity
Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null - Global Research,
22 Jun 2015
This horribly simplistic belief that polio and smallpox are exemplary models for all other vaccines is both naïve and dangerous. Vaccinology does not follow a one-size-fits-all theory. Among some of the more alarming discoveries since the discovery of the SV40 in Salk’s and Sabin’s vaccines and its carcinogenic footprint in millions today are:
→ read full articleThat Which Is Right vs. the Political Right
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
I think that in trying to overcome the present crisis (if that is possible) two factors must be seriously considered, otherwise we risk losing everything that we hope for: the collapse of the capitalist order and the limits of the Earth that cannot be exceeded.
→ read full articleIs the Middle East America’s to Lose?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
I was appalled by the embedded colonialism of a recent issue of The Economist [June 6-12, 2015], “Losing the Middle East.” Any doubt about the intent of the magazine is removed by displaying a bedraggled American flag on the cover accompanied by the sub-title “Why American must not abandon the region.”
→ read full articleRecord Boost in New Solar Power Continues Massive Industry Growth
Arthur Neslen – The Guardian,
15 Jun 2015
UK leads European solar energy expansion to help renewables overtake output of nuclear power as industry leaders hail ‘tipping point’ for the technology.
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