Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Peace May Be With You (Music Video of the Week)
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter [The Horsemen of the Apocalypse] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Politically Correct Heavy Metal from Germany
→ read full articleBroken at the Top – The Oxfam Report
Oxfam America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
The gap between rich and poor is reaching new extremes. The richest 1% have accumulated more wealth than the rest of the world put together. Meanwhile, the wealth owned by the bottom half of humanity has fallen by a trillion dollars in the past five years. Just 62 individuals now have the same wealth as 3.6 billion people – half of humanity.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report #8 (April 2016)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about Charter signatories. Building a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts is quite a challenge but we are making solid progress!
→ read full articleThe Man Who Wants to Impeach Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff Named in Panama Papers
TeleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Brazilian House Speaker Eduardo Cunha, who claims he wants to root out corruption, is again exposed as a criminal. Cunha, of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party or PMDB that recently broke with Rousseff’s Workers’ Party, was paid bribes allegedly funded by Portuguese business mogul Idalecio de Castro Rodrigues de Oliveira who owned a conglomerate of 14 companies registered in the British Virgin Islands from 2003 to 2011.
→ read full articleSixty-Two Billionaires Own Half the World
Samuel Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
The latest in a series of annual reports from Oxfam, detailing the level of economic inequality in our world, is a striking example of Marx’s prediction that capitalism concentrates wealth in fewer and fewer hands.
→ read full articleWhere Are Marx and Lenin When We Need Them?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Marx and Lenin were ahead of their time. Marx wrote before offshoring of jobs and the financialization of the economy. Lenin presided over a communist revolution that jumped the gun by taking place in a country in which feudal elements still predominated over capitalism. Today capitalism is being financialized with the consequence that its productive power is being drained into the service of debt.
→ read full articleUnemployed
TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Needs help…
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Apr18-24 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Being HUMBLE is much more important than being WISE! Because GOD doesn’t need a PROUD mouth that SPEAKS much. But a KIND heart that LISTENS.” – Unknown
→ read full articleRestoring Our Cultural Heritage in Syria —The Debate over Why, How, When, By Whom, In What Order, & Who Pays? Intensifies!
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
This observer has been advised by two Congressional sources that concerns for the restoration of our shared global cultural heritage in Syria, widespread relief that Palmyra has been liberated from ISIS iconoclasm, and American public support for the repair and restoration of Palmyra’s treasures, are major reasons for moving the tough new and most welcomed ban on Syrian cultural property forward.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Democratic Transition: What Does That Mean for the Persecuted Rohingya?
Prof. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
One-Day Open Research Conference, the University of Oxford: 11 May 2016. To continue shining the spotlight of university and independent research onto Myanmar’s slow genocide of the Muslim Rohingya among international genocide and legal scholars and world’s icons such as Desmond Tutu, George Soros, Mairead Maguire, Amartya Sen, the Dalai Lama etc.
→ read full article(Italiano) Realpolitik vs Politica realistic
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Gli americani che si rivoltarono contro il colonialismo ed abolirono la propria schiavitù possono anche mettere in discussione la propria politica estera ed abolire il proprio imperialismo e la propria disinvoltura guerrafondaia. Dopo aver abolito due flagelli istituzionali dell’umanità, farebbero solo bene ad abolirne altri due. I vantaggi sono ovvi e di pronto incasso: vera grandezza, affetto, posizione guida, uscita dalla spirale di crescente irrilevanza.
→ read full articleAnokhe Lal – A Simple Man of Peace and Kindness
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Anokhe Lal was a do-gooder — a man of simple tastes and limited money. The name was appropriate since the name meant a strange person, a man whom we see rarely in society. He lived in a small hut in a poor colony.
→ read full articlePanama Papers: Reigniting the Debate for a Global Tax Body
Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Establishing a globally agreed tax body under the auspices of the United Nations and putting an end to dubious tax avoidance activities would bolster government revenues and help finance the provision of essential public services, especially in the Global South.
→ read full article22 April: On Earth Day, Commit to the Great Turning
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Hold actions to slow the destruction of human-based systems on the Earth and other beings. These activities include all the political, legislative, and legal work required to reduce the destruction, as well as direct actions–blockades, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of noncooperation and nonviolent intervention.
→ read full articleCreating Resilient Communities
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Real peace — positive peace, which transcends violence and turns conflict into opportunity — is and always has been part of who we are. We know a lot more about how to create peace than we think we do. We’re perfectly capable of transcending violent solutions to our troubles and building a sustainable future. The first step is to take our conflicts out of isolation.
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Money (Music Video of the Week)
Pink Floyd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
‘Money’ by Pink Floyd from the iconic album The Dark Side of the Moon. Originally released in 1973, it became one of the most critically acclaimed albums of all time.
In 2016, *Banksters* rule the world above governments and all other human institutions. Read the Lyrics.
The Panama Papers and the 1%
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Global companies do not simply “go abroad”; they shift capital, as well as labor and technology, to wherever the advantages are greatest. This reality of globalization is well known, and it is matched by the similar behavior of powerful, wealthy individuals, including present and former top government officials who find tax shelters abroad where their money is completely hidden from public view. It’s what the One Percent do.
→ read full articlePanama Papers: City of London Is ‘Beating Heart’ of Tax Cheats Empire
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Filmmaker and journalist Mark Donne says British tax avoidance policies amount to a second British Empire. Even the media reporting on the issue “such as News UK and the Murdoch empire have more than 192 shell companies in tax havens. The messengers that are telling you the story are absolutely using tax avoidance.”
→ read full articleWorld Military Spending Resumes Upward Course in 2015: SIPRI
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
5 Apr 2016 -World military expenditure totaled almost $1.7 trillion in 2015, an increase of 1 per cent in real terms from 2014, according to new figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The data is being released to coincide with the start of the Stockholm Forum on Security and Development.
→ read full articleShould We Vote for Hillary Clinton? A Meditation
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
14 Apr 2016 – It seems now almost inevitable that Hillary Clinton will be the candidate for the Democratic Party in November. This inevitability came about by a combination of ‘a Southern strategy’ […] Should feelings of solidarity and revolutionary patience outweigh a principled refusal to go along with militarist opportunism?
→ read full articleJakob Von Uexküll and the World Future Council
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
14 Apr 2016 – In a recent speech to the World Future Council, the distinguished writer, philanthropist, activist and former politician Jacob von Uexküll outlined the future dangers facing our world with an accuracy and eloquence that has seldom been equaled. Besides being a former member of the European Parliament and a leader of the German Green Party, von Uexküll himself founded both the Right Livelihood Award (sometimes called the Alternative Nobel Prize) and the World Future Council.
→ read full article(Castellano) Armagedón
José María Lopera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
No puedo sentir paz mientras que matan
a niños inocentes
y a mujeres y hombres desvalidos
en guerras genocidas
con crueles armas que la ciencia inventa.
They Would Call Me an ‘Extremist’: Why I Don’t Celebrate Or Send Anyone Any New Year’s Greetings
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
A Hindu-Buddhist New Year Note – Though a Burmese from Mandalay , Burma’s most popular site for the Thin Gyan or water throwing new year festival, I do not celebrate the New Year–because my country that likes to call itself “Buddhist” is committing a slow genocide against the Muslim Rohingya stigmatizing them as “Bengali”.
→ read full articleThe Zombie Doctrine
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative. So pervasive has neoliberalism become that we seldom even recognise it as an ideology. We appear to accept the proposition that this utopian, millenarian faith describes a neutral force; a kind of biological law, like Darwin’s theory of evolution.
→ read full articleSingapore Family Feud
The Wall Street Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
The city-state’s reputation for meritocracy comes under attack from an unexpected source.
→ read full articleRothschild Bank Now under Criminal Investigation after Baron David de Rothschild Indictment
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Last year, Baron David de Rothschild was indicted by the French government after he was accused of fraud in a scheme that allegedly embezzled large sums of money from British pensioners. It has taken many years to bring this case against Rothschild and his company the Rothschild Financial Services Group, which trapped hundreds of pensioners in a bogus loan scheme between the years of 2005 and 2008.
→ read full articleReversing the Anthem of Europe to Signal Distress
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Transcending Crises of Governance via Reverse Music and Reverse Speech? Despite antipathy to the demonic, the extent of “demonisation” of those who fail to “sing from the same hymn sheet” is widely evident — most notably between political factions variously proposing alternative strategies. With respect to any anthem, “hymn sheet” may then be an especially inappropriate metaphor.
→ read full article(Italiano) Sul referendum del 17 aprile 2016 da Aosta, Italy
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Ora a te lettrice e a te lettore, dopo la lettura della sitografia che segue e che avevo promessa alle mie compagne e ai miei compagni attivisti, chiedo con una citazione lieve
” … damme ‘na mano a faje di’ de SI “
Ground Zero Is Everywhere
Winslow Myers, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
As President Obama convened an international conference to discuss the sequester of fissile materials against terrorists, he has also quietly agreed to an obscenely expensive long-term renewal of U.S. nuclear weapons systems. Setting an example demands that citizens become more engaged with foreign policy, acknowledge that there is good and evil in all of us, and bear the truth that ground zero is everywhere on one small planet.
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald Interviews Brazil’s Ex-President Lula
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016 – Glenn Greenwald sat down with Brazil’s ex-President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva to discuss the corruption scandal that has engulfed Lula’s Worker’s Party, or PT, and Brazil’s current President Dilma Rousseff.
→ read full articleEnding Human Violence Is a Task for Each of Us
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Do you think that ending human violence is impossible? Do you believe that even aiming to do so is unrealistic? Well, you might be right. But you might also be interested to know that there are a lot of people around the world who are committed to trying. And, if you think the aim is worthwhile, you could be one of them.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks: US Government, Soros Funded Panama Papers to Attack Putin
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
7 Apr 2016 – Washington is behind the recently released offshore revelations known as the Panama Papers, WikiLeaks has claimed, saying that the attack was “produced” to target Russia and President Putin.
→ read full article‘Who’s Funding This?’ CIA & MI5 Whistleblowers Question Credibility of Panama Papers Coverage
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
7 Apr 2016 – While neither Vladimir Putin nor any members of his family were mentioned in the Panama Papers leak [more like a hack], most Western media chose to break the story with the Russian president’s photo. Ray McGovern, a former CIA officer, said that the fact that the Western media has been using Putin as the “face” of the Panama Papers leak can be easily explained by looking at the people and organizations behind these news outlets.
→ read full article(Français) L’État islamique est (aussi) un business
Raf Custers, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Comment étrangler les revenus de l’Etat Islamique (EI) ? Depuis l’automne 2015 la question semble être à l’avant-plan des stratèges et des médias en Occident. Mais les faits, têtus, n’entrent pas dans les rangs. Comme souvent, les contrebandiers d’affaires échappent à l’attention.
→ read full articleThis Hacker Rigged Elections in 9 Latin American Countries
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Andres Sepulveda hacked and spied in elections in Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela.
→ read full articleChomsky and Pilger Back teleSUR Against Macri’s Attack in Argentina
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
8 Apr 2016 – Dozens of journalists, academics and activists – including Noam Chomsky, Danny Glover, John Pilger and Cindy Sheehan –have signed a petition against the right-wing government of Argentina’s Mauricio Macri and his attempts to close the teleSUR office, effectively shutting down one of the only alternative voices in Argentina’s largely corporate media landscape.
→ read full article(Português) Dez lições da múltipla crise brasileira
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
10 abril 2016 – Toda crise acrisola, purifica e faz madurar. Que lições podemos tirar dela? Elenco algumas.
→ read full articleThe Case of Soldier A
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Under Israeli army orders, soldiers are not allowed to kill enemy attackers once they no longer constitute a danger. On the other hand, many politicians and army officers believe that “a terrorist should not be allowed to stay alive” after an attack. This was an informal order by the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (himself an outstanding former terrorist).
→ read full articleNonviolent BDS Should Be Welcomed, Not Condemned
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
6 Apr 20126 – A thousand Israelis and their supporters gathered in Jerusalem’s International Convention Center on March 28 at a conference aimed at combating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). The conference was a display of “fear, paranoia, anger and determination,” as described by Antony Loewenstein,
→ read full articleZika Mystery Deepens with Evidence of Nerve Cell Infections
Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
6 Apr 2016 – Top Zika investigators now believe that the birth defect microcephaly and the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome may be just the most obvious maladies caused by the mosquito-borne virus. Fueling that suspicion are recent discoveries of serious brain and spinal cord infections – including encephalitis, meningitis and myelitis – in people exposed to Zika.
→ read full articleNuclear Insecurity
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Mel Gurtov has been a nuclear analyst since his early days for the RAND corporation when he and Daniel Ellsberg worked together. Dr. Gurtov’s expertise–and anyone who studies these issues in depth–was affronted by President Obama’s patently false claims in his recent op-ed message in the Washington Post.
→ read full articleArmageddon
Jose Maria Lopera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
I cannot feel peace while
genocidal wars kill
innocent children,
helpless men and women
with the cruel weapons of science
Challenging Questions of Global Significance from the Young
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Can Satisfactory Answers Be Found for Savvy Kids?
Possible questions to be anticipated?
Questions about questions from the young in heart?
Potential sources of questions from the young?
Sustaining the quest for sustainable answers?
Beyond the answer economy?
(Italian) Come dovremmo trattarci vicendevolmente?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Ritiro del premio di Costruttore di Comunità Gandhi-King-Ikeda – Atlanta, 31.03.2016
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Apr 11-17 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.” – Mark Twain
→ read full articleOvarian Cancer Victims Win Talcum Powder Lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson
Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
4 Apr 2016 – Johnson & Johnson has been sued by over 1,200 women who blame the company’s talcum powder products for their ovarian cancer. Not only are U.S. courts beginning to agree with them, juries have started to award victims millions of dollars in compensation.
→ read full articleLeftist Multi-Issue Activism: Possible Ideas for Going Forward
Various Authors ,Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
We the signers of “Some Possible Ideas for Going Forward” think one high priority for progress is activists developing, discussing, and settling on priorities around which to organize multi issue activism in coming months and years. We hope this document can help inspire more conversations within groups and movements that, over time, come to a synthesis.
→ read full articleOne Humanity, One State: An Interview With Mazin Qumsiyeh
Liza Burr, Women Against Military Madness – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Qumsiyeh analyzed the regional and international context of the Palestinian-Israeli situation as orchestrated by “an elite group of people who are promoting conflicts to benefit themselves” financially.
→ read full articleImperialism, Political Corruption and the Real Face of Capitalism
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
The “Panama Papers” claimed its first casualty Tuesday [5 Apr 2016], when Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson was forced to resign. Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian legal firm at the heart of the scandal, made millions helping politicians and the super-rich evade taxation. They have exposed the criminality that pervades the financial elite and its political representatives.
→ read full articleIran and Russia Join the Global Alliance to Preserve Syria’s Endangered Heritage
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
8 Apr 2016 – The Islamic Republic of Iran announced this week that it is ready to take part in the restoration of archeological monuments damaged or destroyed by ISIS terrorists in Palmyra (Tadmor), which was named one of the six UN World Heritage Sites in Syria in 1980.
→ read full article(Castellano) Un drama de larga historia en el aún corto siglo XXI
Carta de la Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
En primer lugar, aseveramos que no es posible entender una política que sólo hable de hechos tristes y vergonzosos, sin al mismo tiempo esforzarse por poner remedio a las causas que lo producen. Afirmamos rotundamente que es necesario poner fin a las guerras causantes de esos más de 60 millones de personas en busca de refugio, vagabundeando por las tierras y las aguas del mundo.
→ read full article(Français) Evaluation critique de la Cour Pénale Internationale (1998 – 2002 – 2016)
Robert Charvin, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Dans un monde non consensuel où l’Occident et ses alliés « communient exclusivement dans les valeurs du marché et les droits de l’homme » civils et politiques en oubliant toujours le social et aspirent à un fédéralisme universel, une authentique justice criminelle internationale demeure une utopie difficilement accessible.
→ read full articleGandhi’s Salt: How a Fistful of Mud and Seawater Shook the British Empire
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
On April 6th, 1930 at 6:30 a.m. after morning prayers, Mohandas K. Gandhi raised a lump of salty mud and declared, “With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.” Salt was an unexpected choice for the revolutionary nonviolent movement.
→ read full articleThe War on Savings: The Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
In an April 3 article titled “Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak,” UK blogger Craig Murray writes that the whistleblower no doubt had good intentions; but he made the mistake of leaking his 11.5 million documents to the corporate-controlled Western media, which released only those few documents incriminating opponents of Western financial interests.
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All About That Bass (Music Video of the Week)
PostmodernJukebox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
The incredibly talented young performer is Kate Davis, and she’s the real deal. Not only does she possesses the kind of voice that will take you back to the days of Billie Holiday, she can also shred on the upright bass.
→ read full articleSome Books and Articles on Peace
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Check them out please.
→ read full articleRomance of Names – Their Environmental and Religious Significance
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
What’s in a name? “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, Shakespeare had written in the play Romeo and Juliet.
→ read full articleRemembering Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
I believe in the Irish people, in people everywhere, that we have a great future when we work together as the human family teaching our children not violence but the nonkilling/nonviolence of our great spiritual traditions and offering them the models of peacemakers such as St. Patrick who in his writings said that ‘killing cannot be with Christ,’ thereby rejecting ‘armed struggles’ militarism and war.
→ read full articleThe US Just Declared Russia a Greater Threat than ISIS — Paving the Way for Deadly Perpetual War
Matt Agorist, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
“Certainly, we have talked for a long time about China and China plays an important role as the enemy of choice for the U.S. military. But Russia is ideal in part, because we don’t import a lot of things from Russia, in part because we don’t have the debt relationship with Russia that we do with China. So, Russia makes for a very convenient enemy for the Pentagon in terms of its mission, its budgeting, and its intelligence organization.”
→ read full articleReading Jeff Halper’s ‘War against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
I believe that Jeff Halper’s book deserves the widest possible reading. It explains clearly and convincingly one of the deepest and least understood roots of Israel’s diplomatic support throughout the world, which is its role as a niche arms supplier and influential tactical specialist in waging wars against peoples who dare offer resistance to state power as variously deployed against them.
→ read full articleLetter from a Birmingham Jail: Poignant and Timely
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
In Letter From A Birmingham Jail, Dr. King responded to criticisms of nonviolent direct action on religious, moral, legal, historic, and political grounds. He chastised the attitudes of the white clergymen, and other white progressives.
→ read full articleSuccessful Skills
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
The radio announcer Daniel Shorr was considering working in television early in his career and asked someone what it would take to be successful there.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Enbridge Energy’s 2010 Kalamazoo River Oil Spill: The Worst and Most Expensive Pipeline Disaster in the History of America
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
“This investigation identified a complete breakdown of safety at Enbridge. Their employees performed like Keystone Kops and failed to recognize that their pipeline had ruptured and continued to pump crude into the environment. Despite multiple alarms and a loss of pressure in the pipeline, for more than 17 hours and through three shifts, they failed to follow their own shutdown procedures. Enbridge restarted the pipeline twice in that 17-hour period, pumping oil that would account for 81 percent of the total spill.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Consiglio regionale del Piemonte ha approvato Il Disegno di Legge 141
Contro Tutte le Discrimazioni
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
“Il Piemonte è la prima regione in Italia che ha approvato una legge che considera tutte le differenze legate al sesso, all’orientamento sessuale, all’età, alla disabilità ma anche alla provenienza etnica.Tutte le differenze sono un valore per la Regione Piemonte, non un elemento di discriminazione”
→ read full articleMississippi Governor Signs Anti-Gay Law
Evan Blake, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
6 Apr 2016 – Yesterday, Mississippi’s Republican Governor Phil Bryant enacted a sweeping anti-LGBT law that allows public and private businesses to refuse service to gay people, effectively legalizing discrimination based on sexual orientation across the state.
→ read full articleAldous Huxley: Why Music Sings to Our Souls
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
From pure sensation to the intuition of beauty, from pleasure and pain to love and the mystical ecstasy and death — all the things that are fundamental, all the things that, to the human spirit, are most profoundly significant, can only be experienced, not expressed. The rest is always and everywhere silence. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
→ read full articleGlobal Military Spending Nearly $1.7T amid Mideast Conflicts
Jon Gambrell, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Global military spending rose in 2015 to nearly $1.7 trillion, the first increase in several years, driven by conflicts including the battle against the Islamic State group, the Saudi-led war in Yemen and fears about Iran, a report released Tuesday [5 Apr 2016] shows.
→ read full article(Français) Un réfugié, ça vaut combien d’euros ?
Michel Collon, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service|,
4 Apr 2016
Ainsi, l’Union Européenne vient de signer avec la Turquie cet « Accord de la honte ». Qui en fait supprime le droit d’asile, un droit fondamental pourtant garanti par l’article 14 de la Déclaration universelle des Droits de l’Homme : « Devant la persécution, toute personne a le droit de chercher asile et de bénéficier de l’asile en d’autres pays. »
→ read full articleUnder the Lime Trees
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
Since the foundation of the Zionist movement, and most certainly since the creation of the State of Israel, Israelis have dreamt of overcoming Arab resistance and inducing the Arab world to accept the “Jewish and democratic” State of Israel as a legitimate member of the region.
→ read full articleThree Unshakeable Pillars of American Foreign Policy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
3 Apr 2016 – It deserves to be noticed that it is only the two anti-establishment candidates who have challenged the foreign policy consensus that has guided American politicians ever since the end of World War II: consistently express unconditional support for the Pentagon, Wall Street, and Israel.
→ read full articleClass Struggle in Latin America
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
It is our fervent hope that our modest text will help academics and scholars shed their blinders, recognize and take account of the centrality of the class struggle, in all its variants, and how it influences the formation and decline of regimes, development models, productive systems and variations in the way countries insert in the world economy.
→ read full articleRecovering from Militarism
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
The pols cry glory and revenge. They cry security. They cry greatness. Then they stick in the needle, or the missile or the rifle shell, or the nuclear bomb. Or at least they imagine doing so. This will fix the world. And they approve more funding for war. We talk about “the Pentagon” as though it were a rational entity, hierarchically in control of what it does.
→ read full article(Italiano) Economia mondiale: che aspettarsi?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
“Il mercato speculativo dei derivati è aumentato a oltre 1 quadrilione di $ – 20 volte più dell’ economia [reale] mondiale – con gli USA che tirano l’espansione di questa grossa bolla di ricchezza – la disuguaglianza globale fra piuttosto che entro i vari paesi è diventata anche peggio che per qualunque singolo paese: 250 individui hanno più denaro che mezzo mondo”.
→ read full articleGiant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption: The Panama Papers
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists-ICIJ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
3 Apr 2016 – Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
Apr 4-10 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
→ read full articleNigeria: A Year On, No Word on 300 Abducted Children
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
29 Mar 2016 – The Nigerian government should take urgent steps to secure the release of about 400 women and children, including at least 300 elementary school students, abducted by Boko Haram from the town of Damasak a year ago. It is unclear whether the Nigerian government has made any serious effort to secure their release.
→ read full articleSeeds of Deception, by Jeffrey M. Smith
Want to Know – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
Exposing Industry and Government Deception about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating – A 10-Page Summary
→ read full articleFBI Claims Successful Hack of Apple iPhone Security Systems
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
30 Mar 2016 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Monday [28 Mar] that it successfully hacked security features embedded in the iPhone’s iOS 9 operating system, and will therefore end its legal case against the tech giant Apple. In a short court filing, the FBI informed the court that it “no longer requires the assistance of Apple, Inc” in its efforts to compromise the phone’s data protection mechanisms.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – How a Kindly Senator from Vermont Helped Save America from Fascism
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
And What Wisconsin Can Do Now to Shake Off the McCarthy Curse – Just like the candidacy of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the courageous, likeable Vermont Senator Flanders spoke up when it was his duty to do so in order to save America from fascist influences like the infamous Friendly American Fascist, Joseph R. McCarthy. The GOP Habit: Fighting Communism with Fascism.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Glyphosate Found in California Wines, Even Wines Made with Organic Grapes
Zen Honeycutt, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
Test results from Microbe Inotech Lab show 10 different wines contained glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, including wine made with organic grapes.
→ read full articleThe Dark Prisoners: Inside the CIA’s Torture Programme
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
Despite US admissions that it tortured people after 9/11, little has been heard from the victims themselves.
“There is a proverb that a human being is stronger than a stone and more tender than a flower.”
— Habib Rahman, brother of Gul Rahman (Prisoner #24) who died in CIA custody.
Yoga for Health, Peace and Amity
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
Yoga is an invaluable gift of India’s ancient tradition. It embodies unity of mind and body; thought and action; restraint and fulfilment; harmony between human and nature; a holistic approach to health and well-being…
→ read full articleNew Study Shows Mass Government Surveillance Silences Unpopular Opinions
Joseph Jankowski, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
29 Mar 2016 – The study, published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, studied the effects on the speech of its subjects after they had been reminded of government surveillance. Frighteningly, the majority of participants reacted by suppressing opinions that they perceived to be unpopular.
→ read full articleTruly Religious
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
A convent was being renovated. The workers worked hard all day practically without any breaks.
→ read full articleFools Fighting Terror with Terror
John M. LaForge, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
1 Apr 2016 – April Fools believe suicide bombers can be stopped with more body scanners and police surveillance. April Fools believe the “war on terror” can be won using bombs and bomb threats, and that bombs will end it. . When civilian victims of US military attacks are even noted, the media regularly reports that “coalition forces” caused the death and destruction. This deflects attention from US command of the warfare especially for April Fools.
→ read full articleWhat Is Nationalism? [According to Anarchists]
subMedia.tv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
It’s no secret that anarchists don’t like states. Whereas opposing physical manifestations of the state such as governments, police and prisons is certainly an important part of anarchist practice, anarchist critiques of the state go much further and include the underlying social relationships and ideologies that have historically been used to create states and to uphold their authority. One of the most important of these concepts is nationalism. So what is it, exactly, and what do anarchists have against it?
→ read full articleJean Giono (30 Mar 1895 – 8 Oct 1970) and the Energies of the Earth
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
Jean Giono was one of the most influential and original French advocates of nonviolence. Giono, a pantheist philosopher, novelist of rural life, and in his later days, a moviemaker, had fame with the wider public even among those who opposed his nonviolence.
→ read full articleInfographic: Victims of Terrorist Attacks Inside and Outside Western Europe
Statista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
Terrorism seems possible anytime and anywhere around the globe. In this intense and acute atmosphere, Statista has created two charts that attempt to broaden the perspective: one infographic looks back at the last decades in Western Europe; the other one shows the death toll of terrorism in countries outside Western Europe. These numbers do not give clear answers; they rather lead to new questions.
→ read full articleJapan Enacts Laws Allowing Combat Missions Abroad
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
Critics say military engagement in conflicts for reasons other than self-defence is breach of pacifist constitution. The legislation, which took effect on Tuesday [29 Mar] after being passed last year despite nationwide protests, have been backed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Defence Minister Gen Nakatani, who said it was needed to improve international co-operation of armed forces.
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Heal the World (Music Video of the Week)
MJJ Productions – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
Michael Jackson performing Heal the World, a moving and appealing music video against wars and violence — made in 1991.
→ read full article(Català) Un drama de llarga història a l’encara curt segle XXI
Carta de la Pau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
En primer lloc, assegurem que no és possible entendre una política que només parli de fets tristos i vergonyosos, sense al mateix temps esforçar-se per posar remei a les causes que els produeixen. Afirmem rotundament que cal posar fi a les guerres que causen aquests més de 60 milions de persones a la recerca de refugi, vagabundejant per les terres i les aigües del món.
→ read full articleThe Wounded Phoenix of Palmyra
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
31 Mar 2016 – Eyewitness accounts from the scene this morning (3/30/2016) confirm that the Syrian Army has liberated all parts of the city of Palmyra (Tadmor) including all of the ancient city, from 10 months of occupation and destruction by ISIS. This observer harbors no doubt that the Syrian people will restore Palmyra again. Indeed the process has begun.
→ read full articleThe Drive to Impeachment and the Dangers Facing the Brazilian Working Class
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
If today the predominant layers of both domestic and foreign capital are pushing for Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, it is because they see a radical change in government as the means to dramatically accelerate reactionary capitalist policies already being pursued.
→ read full articleNew Veteran-led Campaign Challenges Islamophobia
Brian Trautman, Veterans For Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
ISIL do not speak for Islam, the vast majority of their victims being Muslims. It commits horrible atrocities against Westerners because it wants us to overreact by stereotyping, dehumanizing, and alienating Muslims. Islamophobia, therefore, has the real potential of strengthening ISIL, especially if left unchallenged.
→ read full articleDespair Brazil: This Is a Class War
Alfredo Saad Filho, The BRICS Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
The judicial coup against President Dilma Rousseff is the culmination of the deepest political crisis in Brazil for 50 years. Despite strong media support for the impending coup, the PT, other left parties and many radical social movements remain strong. Further escalation is inevitable.
→ read full articleHolland: Five Prisons to Close as Falling Crime Rate Leaves Cells Empty
Dutch News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
21 Mar 2016 – More prisons will close in the next few years as the government looks to cut the cost of hundreds of empty cells, justice minister Ard van der Steur has told parliament. The downward trend in crime is expected to mean 3,000 prison cells and 300 youth detention places will be surplus to requirements in five years’ time.
→ read full articleA World War Has Begun. Break the Silence.
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
What has happened to the great tradition of popular direct action, unfettered to parties? Where are the courage, imagination and commitment required to begin the long journey to a better, just and peaceful world? Where are the dissidents in art, film, the theatre, literature? Where are those who will shatter the silence? Or do we wait until the first nuclear missile is fired?
→ read full articleThe U.S. Military Is Moving into These 5 Bases in the Philippines
Andrew Tilghman, Military Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
24 Mar 2016 – A new agreement between the United States and the Philippines clears the way for a new permanent American military presence across five bases near the contested South China Sea. The announcement comes almost two years after President Obama signed a new 10-year agreement with the former U.S colony.
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Chanda Mama (Music Video of the Week)
Playing for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
This Song around the World is a folk tune from Chennai, India. We started the track in New Orleans and added musicians from the across the globe before finally delivering it the people of its origin. The track has a feeling of perseverance and joy and features vocalists from four continents.
→ read full articleMilitary Admits Trillion Dollar F-35 Program is a Failure
Joshua Krause, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
20 Mar 2016 – For over a decade the US military has spent $1.5 trillion dollars to create an all-purpose fighter jet that would replace their diverse fleet of warplanes. Now officials with the Pentagon are admitting that this massive boondoggle is a total bust.
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