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[Jeju Forum] Norwegian Scholar Johan Galtung Criticizes No ‘Exit Strategy’ on North Korea
The Korea Herald – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
23 May 2016 – Despite Pyongyang’s unabated nuclear ambitions, Seoul should seek to craft an “exit strategy” to defuse cross-border tension away from the current focus on sanctions and pressure, said Johan Galtung, founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
→ read full article(Italiano) La geopolitica di seta della Cina
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
La Cina sta cambiando la geografia mondiale, o almeno ci sta provando. Non nel senso di acqua e terra come per i Paesi Bassi, ma tessendo nuove infrastrutture di comunicazione per terra, acqua, aria, e nel cyberspazio/web. Le Vie della Seta. Non sorprende che un paese con un certo orientamento marxista focalizzi la propria politica sulle infrastrutture – ma qui come mezzo di trasporto-comunicazione, non di produzione.
→ read full article(Italiano) Basta Sanzioni alla Siria
bastasanzioniallaSiria – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
A giugno, il Consiglio dell’Unione europea dovrà pronunciarsi all’unanimità per poter rinnovare le sanzioni alla Siria. Riconoscendoci pienamente nell’appello lanciato da esponenti cattolici della comunità siriana (qui sotto riportato) chiediamo a tutti i parlamentari e ai sindaci di impegnarsi affinché il Governo italiano voti contro il rinnovo delle sanzioni alla Siria. -Questa la sottoscrizione che vi chiediamo di firmare-
→ read full articleHow Leo Tolstoy Found His Purpose: The Beloved Author on Personal Growth and the Meaning of Human Existence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
So I too shall be safe in taking for the aim of my existence a conscious striving for the universal development of everything existent. I should be the unhappiest of mortals if I could not find a purpose for my life, and a purpose at once universal and useful… Wherefore henceforth all my life must be a constant, active striving for that one purpose.
→ read full article(Português) A Volta da Classe do Privilégio e o Golpe Parlamentar no Brasil
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Segundo o Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada são apenas 71 mil pessoas (ou 1% da população que representa apenas 0,05% dos adultos), multibilionários brasileiros, que controlam praticamente nossas riquezas e nossas finanças e através delas o jogo político. Essa classe do privilégio, além de perversa socialmente, sempre consegue manobrar o poder de Estado em seu benefício.
→ read full articleThe Doomsday Clock in Fiction and Reality
David Warmflash – Discover Magazine,
23 May 2016
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic representation of the level danger on planet Earth. Since its creation at the dawn of the nuclear age, the Clock has been reset 21 times, but the only other time that it ever moved as close as two minutes to midnight was 1953. That was after the United States and Soviet Union both tested fusion weapons, or “H-bombs”, within nine months of one another.
→ read full articleDrunks
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Recently, a routine police patrol was parked outside a local neighborhood bar in Minnesota. Late in the evening, the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk.
→ read full article(Italiano) Giornata nazionale di studi “La società del non ascolto”. Oggi nella Casa di reclusione di Padova
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
20 maggio 2016 – Più di 500 persone partecipano oggi alla giornata di studi “La società del NON ASCOLTO”.
→ read full articleWorkshop: Bringing Back Nonviolence in Political Theory
MANCEPT-Manchester Centre for Political Theory – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Abstracts are invited for the workshop. Call for Papers (Deadline 1June). This workshop will be part of MANCEPT (7th-9th September at the University of Manchester).
→ read full articleA Friendly Critique of the Break Free Climate Actions
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
My friendly criticism is directed at those key organizers who planned the nonviolent actions without understanding how to make the commitment and courage of those who were mobilized have maximum strategic impact on the ongoing climate catastrophe.
→ read full articleAnatomy of a Propaganda Blitz: “Hitlergate”
Media Lens – Dissident Voice,
23 May 2016
Elites have openly advocated the ‘manufacture of consent’ for decades. In 1932, highly influential US foreign policy adviser Reinhold Niebuhr wrote of the need for ’emotionally potent oversimplifications’ and ‘necessary illusion’ to overcome the threat to elite control posed by ‘the stupidity of the average man’.
→ read full articleBillion Acts of Peace
Billion Acts - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
The “One Billion Acts of Peace” Campaign is an international global citizens’ movement designed to tackle the most important problems facing our planet.
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Noam Chomsky: Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff “Impeached by a Gang of Thieves”
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
23 May 2016
May 17, 2016 – As protests continue in Brazil over the Legislature’s vote to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and put her on trial, Noam Chomsky notes, “We have the one leading politician who hasn’t stolen to enrich herself, who’s being impeached by a gang of thieves, who have done so. That does count as a kind of soft coup.”
→ read full articleNorth Korea: Love Thy Leader
Israel Shamir – The Unz Review,
23 May 2016
12 May 2016 | Author’s Note: I returned just now from North Korea. Here is my report from this unusual land.
→ read full articleBreaking Free: A Rising Tide of Climate Resistance
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
23 May 2016
People are putting their bodies on the line, with blockades, sit-ins, banner-hangs and a whole constellation of confrontational actions, driven by the urgency of the climate crisis. Here is just a sample of some of the protests from the past two weeks, as summarized by the climate action nonprofit group 350.org.
→ read full articleHow Much It Sucks to Be a Sri Lankan Worker Making Beyoncé’s New Clothing Line
Sirin Kale | Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
According to a newspaper investigation, the sweatshop workers making the Ivy Park collection for Topshop are only making 64 cents an hour. We ask an expert on the Sri Lankan clothes industry just how bad the situation really is.
→ read full articleCommoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm
David Bollier | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change? Our challenge is not just articulating attractive alternatives, but identifying credible strategies for actualizing them. I believe the commons—at once a paradigm, a discourse, an ethic, and a set of social practices—holds great promise in transcending this conundrum.
→ read full articleHorrifying Israeli Defense Forces Brutality towards Young Boys
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Interviews with children who have been detained, video footage, and reports from lawyers reveal that Israeli security forces are using unnecessary force in arresting and detaining children, in some cases beating them, and holding them in unsafe and abusive conditions. “Palestinian children are treated in ways that would terrify and traumatize an adult. Screams, threats, and beatings are no way for the police to treat a child or to get accurate information from them.”
→ read full articleWorld Humanitarian Summit: On the Front Lines for Action
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
The World Humanitarian Summit organized by the UN opens on 23 May 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. The aim of the conference is to see what should be done “to end conflict, alleviate suffering and reduce risk and vulnerability.”
→ read full articleQuestionable Deal: EU to Work with African Despot to Keep Refugees Out
Jürgen Dahlkamp and Maximilian Popp – Der Spiegel,
23 May 2016
In an effort to help keep refugees from Africa at bay, the EU is planning to deliver personal registration equipment to Sudan, whose president is wanted on war crimes charges. Germany is leading the way.
→ read full articleNot in Your War Anymore
Ada Aharoni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
“War is as anachronistic as cannibalism,
slavery and colonialism…”
— Rosalie Bertell, No Immediate Answer
A Brief History of the ‘Nakba’ in Israel
Eitan Bronstein Aparicio | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
This text describes the discourse on the Nakba — mostly the concept but also the historical event — in Israel. When did it appear? When did it decline and was repressed? What caused these changes? It deals with the attitude towards the Nakba in Hebrew and does not attempt to describe the attitudes and changes it went through in Arabic and in the Arab world.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Senate-Imposed Government Increasingly Isolated
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
16 May 2016 – Uruguay has joined the growing list of Latin American countries that reject the Senate-imposed coup government of Michel Temer in Brazil, leaving the right-wing administration increasingly isolated in the region. Argentine President Mauricio Macri remains the only head of state to openly state support for it.
→ read full articlePandit Parmanand: Prisons as Homes for Long Periods for India’s Freedom
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Brief of Interaction between Great Patriot Global Man Pandit Parmanand and Dr. Surya Nath Prasad
→ read full article‘We Cannot Keep Jumping from Crisis to Crisis’
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 May 2016
20 May 2016 – “We cannot keep jumping from crisis to crisis. We have to invest in long-term development that helps people cope with shocks so that they can continue to grow enough food for their communities and not require emergency aid.” — Josefina Stubbs, Chief Strategist of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development message to the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul.
→ read full articleHow Big Pharma Uses Charity Programs to Cover for Drug Price Hikes
Benjamin Elgin and Robert Langreth | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
A billion-dollar system in which charitable giving is profitable.
→ read full articlePetition from Global Peace Science for the UN and UNESCO
Global Harmony Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
The UN Charter and the UNESCO Constitution have formulated the key peace idea: “That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.” If the ‘war minds’ received a powerful rooting in military science, founded more than two centuries ago, which now concentrates military intellect with invention of the most devastating weapons of mass destruction, the defences of ‘peace minds’ were left fragmented and powerless before the war without their science up to now.
→ read full articleOn (Not) Loving Henry Kissinger
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
There is an irony that would be amusing if it was not depressing about news that Donald Trump has been courting the 92-year old foreign policy sorcerer Henry Kissinger. Of course, the irony is that earlier in the presidential campaign Hilary Clinton proudly claimed Kissinger as ‘a friend,’ and acknowledged that he “relied on his counsel” while she served as Obama’s Secretary of State.
→ read full articleJan Christian Smuts (24 May 1870 – 11 Sep 1950): What Rises Converges
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
It is Smuts as an original thinker, author of Holism and Evolution and a major contributor to the structure of the League of Nations and to the Preamble of the UN Charter that I would like to highlight.
→ read full articleThoughts on Silence – on Buddha’s Anniversary
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Today, 21 May, is the anniversary on the full moon day of Lord Buddha’s birth. After he obtained enlightenment sitting beneath the bodhi tree, Buddha simply said, ‘Silence is the source of life’. In the words of Lao Tzu, the ancient Chinese mystic and philosopher, ‘Silence is a source of great strength’. And according to Chinese philosopher Confucius, ‘Silence is a true friend who never betrays’.
→ read full article(Français) Les “hotspots”, une négation de l’humanité aux portes de l’Europe
Selma Benkhelifa | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Depuis janvier, un hotspot défigure le petit port de pêche de la ville. Un hotspot c’est – en théorie- une « approche européenne améliorant le procédé servant à identifier, enregistrer et prendre les empreintes digitales des migrants arrivant en Europe. » Une sorte de centre de tri entre les bons et les mauvais réfugiés, ceux qui seront autorisés à pénétrer en Europe et ceux qui seront refoulés vers l’Afrique.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
May 23–29 | QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same. Some people come into our lives and quickly go…Some stay for a while and embrace our silent dreams. They help us become aware of the delicate winds of hope…and we discover within every human spirit there are wings yearning to fly.” — Favia Weedn
→ read full articleShakespeare’s Universe: A Nonkilling View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Shakespeare`s TO BE OR NOT TO BE is a universe of choices
to be or not to be experienced-expressed by a myriad human voices
(Italiano) Una critica amichevole alle azioni per il clima
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Ma le mie considerazioni, amichevolmente critiche, sono rivolte agli organizzatori principali, che hanno progettato quelle azioni nonviolente senza capire in che modo la dedizione e il coraggio delle persone che sono state coinvolte potessero avere il massimo impatto possibile.
→ read full articleMiddle East – The Mother of All Humanitarian Crises
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 May 2016
The Istanbul World Humanitarian Summit will focus on five key areas: to prevent and end conflict; to respect the rules of war; to leave no one behind; to work differently to end need, and to invest in humanity.
→ read full articleWill One of the World’s Most Endangered Whales Be Saved Before It’s Too Late?
Alicia Graef | Care2, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
13 May 2016 – Conservationists took legal action this week to get protection for one of the most endangered species of whales on Earth. At the time of their discovery, the best estimate of their population put their number at fewer than 50 individuals, which raised concerns that they are one of the most endangered whales on earth who will likely disappear entirely without intervention.
→ read full articleNATO, Central Banks, Refugee Crisis, TTIP, Technologies … Western Elites in Panic Mode for a Future in the Form of a Question Mark
GEAB-Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
When the world sustaining a governance system disappears, but the governance system is still “in charge”, concern is justified. The leaders have certain challenges on their agendas which completely exceed their conceptual and instrumental abilities. They must now choose among a variety of “bad solutions”, meaning they will inevitably make bad decisions. We list a series of facts revealing this growing and worrying state of panic, as well as the trends which, we believe, will worsen it even more.
→ read full articleTrauma and Deprivation Lead Syrian Youths to Extremist Groups, Says New Report
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
23 May 2016
Syrian youths overwhelmingly cite practical rather than ideological reasons for joining militant groups after five years of civil war.
→ read full articleBrazil, Europe, Iran, US, Saudi Arabia – The Return of National Sovereignty: Heading toward One Ultimate Stand?
GEAB-Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
It is the political aspect of the crisis that currently dominates the global agenda in an increasingly worrisome manner. The weakening of states because of these political crises, combined with geopolitical or economic shocks suffered by these states, leads to national retrenchment and hardening that does not bode well for democracy, from a domestic point of view, or for peace, from an international point of view. We should analyze carefully the characteristics of this multi-directional national retrenchment.
→ read full articleUSA, Stop Threatening Russia & the World! Prevent Nuclear War!
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Russia has two bases in the Middle East and a handful in Central Asia. The U.S. has 662 bases around the world and Special Forces deployed in between 70 and 90 countries at any moment. Last year SOFs were active in 147 countries. The U.S. is actively engaged in five wars and is considering a sixth in Libya. Russian military spending will fall next year, and the U.S. will out-spend Moscow by a factor of 10. Who in this comparison looks threatening?
→ read full articleThe Imperial Empire: The Sun Never Sets but the Mote Remains in the Emperor’s Eye
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Post-colonial empires are complex organizations. They are organized on a multi-tiered basis, ranging from relative autonomous national and regional allies to subservient vassal states, with variations in between.
→ read full article(Português) Papa recebe viúva de Paulo Freire e diz que leu “Pedagogia do Oprimido”
Revista Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Ana Maria Araújo foi recebida por Francisco em uma audiência privada; no encontro, ela entregou uma carta na qual elogia o papado e pede ajuda para que sejam abertos os arquivos do Vaticano, na tentativa de compreender qual a influência das ideias de Freire nos pontificados.
→ read full articleSnowden Archive——The SIDtoday Files
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
16 May 2016 – SIDtoday is the internal newsletter for the NSA’s most important division, the Signals Intelligence Directorate. After editorial review, The Intercept is releasing nine years’ worth of newsletters in batches, starting with 2003. The agency’s spies explain a surprising amount about what they were doing, how they were doing it, and why.
→ read full articleThe Superdelegates Must Vote for Sanders
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Superdelegates were introduced by the US Democratic Party in 1984 (the year in which George Orwell’s prophetic book is set). These unelected delegates are party officials, and their purpose is to circumvent the popular will. They are supposed to choose an electable candidate in case the voters choose an unelectable one.
→ read full articlePhilosophy of Science and Science of Philosophy
Chandra P Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
The universal questions before the philosophers and the scientist are related with cosmology, biology, and life consciousness, the aim of life, and ethics. The seers and prophets have followed the way of self-realization to realize the truth. The consciousness is within us, it is proof in the self.
→ read full articleU.S. Financial Regulations Increase Starvation among Syria’s Children
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
As of May 15, 2016, according to Save the Children and an assortment of UN agencies and NGO’s, nearly 7 million people are displaced within Syria, half of them are children and more than two million of the youngsters are at risk of becoming ill, malnourished, abused, or exploited. One inexcusable action that is today targeting Syria’s children, even if inadvertently, are the US economic sanctions against the country’s leadership.
→ read full articleThe Martens Clause and War Crimes in Hawai‘i
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Under the principles of international law, the USA was capable of committing war crimes when the Hawaiian Kingdom was invaded and occupied since August 12, 1898. The criminal conduct committed by German, Austrian and Bulgarian officials against Serbia and its people are very similar to the criminal conduct by the United States after 1898 against the Hawaiian Kingdom and its people.
→ read full articleAnnexing Archaeology: Will UNESCO Take On Israel?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
19 May 2016 – Israel is stepping up its efforts to seize control of Palestinian heritage sites and antiquities in the occupied territories in violation of international law. The experts echoed criticisms leveled against Israel in a recent resolution passed by the United Nations’ cultural agency, UNESCO, that accused Israel of interfering with major holy sites in occupied areas.
→ read full articleAgainst the Crowdfunding Economy
Keith A. Spencer – Jacobin Magazine,
23 May 2016
Tens of thousands have put their faith in these new digital platforms, hoping for moral outcomes from an immoral capitalist system. But crowdsourced social welfare marketplaces exist for profit. They don’t care who does or doesn’t get funded. They just care about getting a cut.
→ read full articleRealizing Peace
Heath Mitchell – Foreign Policy In Focus,
23 May 2016
A new book on conflict resolution provides a history of the subject and a counterfactual history of recent events.
→ read full articleCampaign for the Removal of the EU Sanctions on Syria
Marinella Correggia | Italian Committee for the End of the UE Sanctions on Syria – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
The renewal of the shameful European Union sanctions against the war-torn Syria is going to be discussed at the end of May by the European Council, as every year since 2011. Note: In 2012, the sanctions were removed from the opposition/armed jihadists-controlled areas (including the now Daesh/ISIS-controlled areas!). The link to the online petition:
→ read full articleHow Activists Are Restricting Use of Major Pesticide Glyphosate in Hawaii
Justin Worland - Time,
23 May 2016
Glyphosate use has risen with the adoption of GM crops, but Hawaii environmentalists have found a novel way to curb its use.
→ read full article‘Human Suffering Has Reached Staggering Levels’: UN Ban Ki-moon
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 May 2016
17 May 2016 – “Human suffering from the impacts of armed conflicts and disasters has reached staggering levels.” With these one dozen or few words, the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, briefly but sharply portrayed the current humanitarian drama, explaining why the UN has decided to hold the first ever World Humanitarian Summit on May 23-24 this year in Istanbul, Turkey.
→ read full articleDrones and the Conscientious Objector
John Kaag and Clancy Martin – Boston Globe,
23 May 2016
“When the guilt of our roles in facilitating this systematic loss of innocent life became too much, all of us succumbed to PTSD.” These words are from an open letter to the Obama administration, crafted by four former Air Force servicemen, each of whom played a role in the nation’s targeted killing program.
→ read full articleWhy I Keep Fighting
Chelsea Manning - Reader Supported News,
23 May 2016
As a military prisoner, my public persona is carefully controlled and enforced. Any interviews or statements that I make — such as this one — must be written or dictated through someone else who types it up on my behalf. I am not allowed to be recorded over the telephone, do any video interviews, or have any pictures taken — with the exception of the occasional grainy mug shot. For those living in my situation, it’s easy to start feeling invisible — left behind and dismissed by the rest of a fast-paced society. Despite these obstacles, I know I need to keep going. It is important to stay vocal. To stay creative. Active. Motivated. To keep fighting.
→ read full articleWhat Race Were the Greeks and Romans? The Evidence Is Clear — but Often Ignored
John Harrison Sims | American Renaissance – Unz Review,
23 May 2016
The Encyclopædia Britannica published in 1911, “Survival of fair hair and complexion and light eyes among the upper classes in Thebes and some other localities shows that the blond type of mankind which is characteristic of north-western Europe had already penetrated into Greek lands before classical times.” It added that the early Greeks, or Hellenes, were Nordic, one of “the fair-haired tribes of upper Europe known to the ancients as Keltoi.” Sixty years ago even Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher and socialist, believed that the Hellenes “were fair-haired invaders from the North, who brought the Greek language with them.”
→ read full articleSick Mother (Tanka)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
North South poles cry…
→ read full articleUnquestioned Bias in Governance from Direction of Reading?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Political Implications of Reading from Left-to-Right, Right-to-Left, or Top-Down – The text on which much global governance is primarily dependent is written from left-to-write (top-down), following the pattern determined in the Greece from which democracy emerged. Text is written otherwise in other cultures, notably in Arabic and Hebrew (right-to-left), or in cultures of the East (vertically, whether left-to-right, or right-to-left).
→ read full article(Italiano) Migrazione di Massa, UE, Nazionalismi Europei
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Oggi la UE è come una piramide dello sfruttamento: la Germania in cima; 8 Paesi Germanici del Nord; 5 Paesi Latini del Sud con la Francia, e poi l’Irlanda; 12 Paesi dell’Est; la Grecia al fondo. Considerando l’ingiustizia e le quote, nulla di strano che crescano i nazionalismi, disunendo la UE. Rimuovete la cause: Inghilterra-Francia, accettate di ricevere il conto; UE, appiattisci la piramide.
→ read full articleAs Palestinians Mourn Their Nakba, the UK Must Acknowledge Its Responsibility
Ahmad Samih Khalidi – The Guardian,
16 May 2016
15 May 2016 – Today marks the 68th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe): the Palestinians’ dispossession and the loss of their homeland. Next year is the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. It behooves the UK to face up to its role in the dispossession of the Palestinians. Their plight remains without redress in the UK.
→ read full articleNorth Korea, Following China and India, Pledges No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons. So Could Obama
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
15 May 2016 – North Korea’s May 7 declaration that it would not be first to use nuclear weapons was met with official derision instead of relief and applause. Not one report of the announcement I could find noted that the United States has never made such a no-first-use pledge. None of three dozen news accounts even mentioned that North Korea hasn’t got one usable nuclear warhead.
→ read full articleGeneral Golan’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Speech
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Speaking at Tel Yitzak Kibbutz, where the Massuah Institute for Holocaust Studies is located, General Golan urged that this very special day of observance in Israel be treated as an occasion for soul-searching. He placed this call in an extraordinary context by suggesting that conditions in Israel were disturbing in ways relevant to the Holocaust, horror of horrors.
→ read full article(Português) Os animais não são objetos
José Soeiro - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
16 May 2016
13 de maio de 2016 – A frase que dá título a este artigo parecerá, à maioria das pessoas, uma evidência. Mas a lei portuguesa não tem ainda esse entendimento. O nosso Código Civil continua a definir os animais como “coisas”. Soa estranho, mas é mesmo assim.
→ read full article(Français) Brésil: le coup d´Etat
Michael Löwy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Michael Löwy é um brasileiro de ascendência austríaco- francesa, sociólogo da religião e analista político. Foi por muitos anos professor na Sorbonne mas nunca deixou dar sua contribuição ao Brasil com frequentes viagens e cursos dados a distintos grupos, inclusive a grupos de base. Da França nos oferece esta pertinente análise do golpe parlamentar sofrido contra a presidenta Dilma. É um olhar de fora cuja distância permite ver melhor o interor deste processo ilegítimo. Lboff
15 mai 2016 – Appellons un chat un chat. Ce qui vient de se passer au Brésil, avec la destitution de la présidente élue, Dilma Roussef, est un coup d’état.
(Français) Amérique Latine: Fin d’un cycle ou épuisement du post-néolibéralisme
Francois Houtart | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
L’Amérique latine fut l’unique continent où des options néolibérales furent adoptées par plusieurs pays. Après une série de dictatures militaires, appuyées par les États-Unis et porteuses du projet néolibéral, les réactions ne se firent pas attendre. Le sommet fut le rejet en 2005 du Traité de Libre Échange avec les États-Unis et le Canada, fruit d’une action conjointe entre mouvements sociaux, partis politiques de gauche, ONG et Églises chrétiennes.
→ read full articleIraq, Sykes-Picot and Mr Five Percent
Ibrahim Al-Marashi – Al Jazeera,
16 May 2016
16 May 2016 – May 16 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Treaty, a secret agreement between Britain and France during World War I to carve up the domains of the Ottoman Empire upon its defeat. Mr Five Percent, the nickname of the oil broker Calouste Gulbenkian, certainly deserves attention a century later. Gulbenkian served as a midwife of sorts to not only Iraq, but also to the birth of the world’s major oil corporations.
→ read full articleWhy Set Up a Shell Company in Panama? The Psychology Driving Illicit Financial Flows
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
There is an important reason why wealthy individuals want to maximise their wealth and evade contributing to any country that gave them the opportunity to make this wealth. You might think that you know this reason too: greed. However, greed is a simplistic explanation that fails to explain, psychologically, why an individual might be greedy. So let me explain it now.
→ read full articleUnder International Law Native Hawaiians Are Victims of Genocide
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Since the occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom began during the Spanish-American War, the United States embarked on a deliberate campaign of forced denationalization in order to conceal the occupation and militarization of a neutral State. Denationalization, in its totality, is genocide. [Hawaii was annexed and became the 50th State of the USA on August 21, 1959]
→ read full articleSea-Level Rise Claims Five Islands in Solomons: Study
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Five islands have disappeared in the Pacific’s Solomon Islands due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion.
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Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation Agents, and the CIA
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
It is quite easy for a disinformation agent to spin a rich disinformation tale and then craft several different versions of the tale with new ‘facts’ to support the story in each one. These tales are usually a good mix of verifiable facts and cleverly designed lies, so that people who check the ‘facts’ tend to believe the lies that are mixed in. The disinformation agent has only to feed these versions of his tale to several of the many conspiracy-oriented websites out there, and it’s all over the Internet – but not on reliable websites. They will use pseudonyms to join in on the discussions generated by their “news” so that they can manipulate the direction that comments take.
→ read full articleJust War No More! PEACE to the Fore!
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
To war Humankind seeks a wise global solution
that is well beyond a conceptual evolution
Nonkilling – You Are Philosophic Spirits of Great Humans
Rashida Khanam - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Nonkilling You are Philosophic Spirits of Great
Humans
GPS Tracking Devices Catch Major U.S. Recyclers Exporting Toxic E-Waste
Elizabeth Grossman – The Intercept,
16 May 2016
A two-year investigation of electronics recycling revealed that about one-third of the devices were improperly exported to developing countries where equipment is often dismantled in low-tech workshops — often by children — endangering workers, their families, and contaminating the surrounding environment.
→ read full articleRichmond’s People to People Delegation: How Beautiful Is Cuba
Willie Thompson, Tarnel Abbott and Marilyn Langlois – San Francisco Bay View,
16 May 2016
We were gratified by the hospitality extended to us in an atmosphere where, by and large, people do right by each other. As the popular national song declares, “Cuba que linda es Cuba!” “How beautiful is Cuba!”
→ read full articleRadical Innovators Beware — In the Arts, Sciences and Philosophy
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Terrifying Implications of Radical New Deradicalisation Initiative in France – Despite cultivating the image of being a country renowned for its cultivation of intellectual endeavour, and most notably philosophy, Manuel Valls, Prime Minister of France, announced on 9 May 2016 a radical initiative to set up a dozen deradicalisation centres.
→ read full articleMédecins Sans Frontières Say 75 Hospitals Bombed in 2015, Leave UN Humanitarian Summit
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
The Medical Aid Organization Says It Does Not Have Hope in the “Fig Leaf” Summit – Doctors Without Borders on Thursday [5 May] pulled out of a U.N.-sponsored World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on May 23-24 saying there was no hope that the meeting would address the weaknesses in humanitarian action and emergency response, particularly in conflict areas or epidemic situations.
→ read full articleClean Clothes and Dirty Mind (Haiku)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
After dizzy hours…
→ read full articleOffshore Leaks Database
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Find out who’s behind almost 320,000 offshore companies and trusts from the Panama Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations.
→ read full articleIn Praise of the Tamed Metaphysicist: Einstein on Reality, Rationality, and the Human Passion for Comprehension
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
“Reason is a tool, a machine, which is driven by the spiritual fire,” Dostoyevsky wrote in 1838 as he contemplated how we come to know truth.
→ read full articleWhy Burma Is Trying to Stop People from Using [Rohingya] the Name of Its Persecuted Muslim Minority
Feliz Solomon - Time,
16 May 2016
9 May 2016 – The government is “not objecting [to] the term [Rohingya] but requesting not to use it.” The suggestion was made during private “courtesy calls” between Aung San Suu Kyi — in her role as Minister of Foreign Affairs — and the U.S. Ambassador to Burma Scot Marciel.
→ read full articlePeace
Jose Maria Lopera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
How terrible is the anger of the men that kill,
of the volcano that inside melts down feelings,
’til souls break in a crater of extermination!
What storm, what thunder, what flash of violence
seeks to kill or mutilate those who are innocent!
SF Int’l Film Festival: The Return, about released prisoners, and other social dramas (or comedies)
Joanne Laurier | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
The increasingly dire conditions of life are inevitably impressing themselves upon filmmakers. However, it remains a difficult task for the artist to discover the essential truths and communicate them. In some cases, there is a lack of intellectual and historical preparedness––the artist is simply over his or her head. In others, complacency and social indifference play a role, allowing the filmmakers to avoid the crisis raging before their eyes.
→ read full articleUs Defies Myanmar Government Request to Stop Using Term Rohingya
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Ambassador Scot Marciel says Washington will continue to call persecuted Muslim minority by name objected to by Aung San Suu Kyi’s administration.
→ read full articleShame on Shell: Ecocide by Oil Extraction in the Niger Delta
Cynthia McKinney – Russia Today,
16 May 2016
14 May 2016 – Millions of barrels of oil have been spilled in Nigeria’s Delta region. Tired of the abuse, Nigerians just blew up a pipeline and a platform in an attempt to rectify what politicians and courts have been slow to do.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
May 16–22 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “My brain is only a receiver; in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.” ― Nikola Tesla
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Glenn Greenwald on Brazil: Goal of Rousseff Impeachment Is to Boost Neoliberals & Protect Corruption
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
10 May 2016 – We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who lives in Brazil. “People have started to realize, internationally but also here in Brazil, that although this impeachment process has been sold, has been pitched as a way of punishing corruption, its real goal, beyond empowering neoliberals and Goldman Sachs and foreign hedge funds, the real goal is to protect corruption,” Greenwald says.
→ read full articleNeocons and Neolibs: How Dead Ideas Kill
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
16 May 2016
Hillary Clinton wants the American voters to be very afraid of Donald Trump, but there is reason to fear as well what a neoconservative/neoliberal Clinton presidency would mean for the world.
→ read full articlePutin Declines World Humanitarian Summit Invitation as Russia Cries Foul
Ben Parker | IRIN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be attending the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul as Russia is refusing to be bound by the results of a process it says failed to include its views.
→ read full articleBuilding a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth
Jessica Gordon Nembhard |The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
The next system that we need, and that hopefully we are moving toward, is a cooperative commonwealth within interlocking local solidarity economies. Such a system is created from the bottom up, building upon multiple grassroots cooperative enterprises, and democratic community-based economic practices. These networks collaborate and federate from the local to municipal, regional, national, and international levels.
→ read full articleA Perfect Storm
Andrew P. Napolitano | LewRockwell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
A below the radar yet largely known debate in the Kremlin between the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Intelligence Services to determine whether they should release some 20,000 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails they obtained either by hacking her directly or by hacking into the email of her confidante, Sid Blumenthal.
→ read full articleCivil Society Movements for Promotion of Peace and Social Justice
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Today with acute problems of environmental pollution and climate change, many movements are taking place for the protection and sustenance of the environment. Before discussing environmental movements, it is useful to refer to some prominent political and social movements.
→ read full articleCelebrating the Life and Legacy of Daniel Berrigan
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
I was privileged to know Daniel Berrigan in the last stages of the Vietnam War, not well, but well enough to appreciate his quality of moral radiance and to admire the spiritual dedication that he exhibited in opposing the Vietnam War, and later nuclearism. I also knew Dan’s brother, Phil, who shared these remarkable qualities.
→ read full articleWashington’s Military Addiction – And the Ruins Still to Come
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
16 May 2016
But don’t bother to blame the politicians and national security nabobs in Washington for this [their solution — more of the same –militarism]. They’re addicts. They can’t help themselves. What they need is rehab. Instead, they continue to run our world. Be suitably scared for the ruins still to come.
→ read full articleRussia Warns of Retaliation as NATO Plans More Deployments in Eastern Europe
Dmitry Solovyov and Lidia Kelly | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
4 May 2016 – Russia will reinforce its western and southern flanks with three new divisions by the year-end, officials said on Wednesday [4 May], threatening retaliation to NATO’s plans to boost its military presence in eastern members Poland and the Baltic States.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi’s Cowardly Stance on the Rohingya
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
16 May 2016
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi — Myanmar’s leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate — does not want to call them Rohingya, the name they use, because nationalist Buddhists want to perpetuate the myth that they are “Bengalis” who don’t belong in Myanmar. She has also asked the United States ambassador not to use the term.
→ read full article(Italiano) Memorie di guerra, memorie per la pace
Angela Dogliotti Marasso – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
16 May 2016
12 maggio 2016 – Dal 4 all’8 maggio scorso ho partecipato a un viaggio 1sul confine orientale italiano della prima guerra mondiale. La visione dei luoghi che sono stati testimoni del dolore e dell’orrore della guerra, con la visita ai camminamenti e ai resti delle trincee sul Carso, alle gelide gallerie del Monte Grappa, ai dirupi scoscesi dell’altipiano di Asiago, rende concreta l’idea dell’immane carneficina che si è consumata in quei luoghi.
→ read full article‘Fake Jewish Graves in Muslim Cemeteries’: UNESCO Slams Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Sites
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
18 Apr 2016 – The Israeli authorities are furious after a UNESCO resolution stated that the Temple Mount and holy sites in Hebron and Bethlehem are an “integral part of Palestine.” The organization also criticized Israel, “the occupying power,” for planting fake graves in Muslim cemeteries.
→ read full articleChernobyl Fatalities and the Challenges of Expert Judgment
Sonja Schmid – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
16 May 2016
As the uncertainty over Chernobyl’s death toll illustrates, “scientific opinion” is not always unanimous, and neither is “expert judgment.” Scientific expertise is not immune to controversy. And expert judgment changes over time.
→ read full articleBeekeepers Lost 44% of Honey Bee Colonies Last Year in the USA
Friends of the Earth | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
On Tuesday [10 May] the Bee Informed Partnership, in collaboration with the Apiary Inspectors of America and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, released its annual report on honey bee losses in the U.S. Beekeepers reported losing 44 percent of their total number of colonies managed over the last year. These losses are considered too high to be sustainable for U.S. agriculture and the beekeeping industry.
→ read full articleTimeout for Football Leaks: Whistleblowers Take Six-Month Break
Rafael Buschmann – Der Spiegel,
16 May 2016
The revelations exposed by soccer whistleblowing platform Football Leaks have provided tips for prosecutors and tax inspectors alike. Overwhelmed by a massive trove of data, the group says it will now take a break.
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