Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Nonviolent 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 articleThe War on Savings: The Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
In an April 3 article titled “Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak,” UK blogger Craig Murray writes that the whistleblower no doubt had good intentions; but he made the mistake of leaking his 11.5 million documents to the corporate-controlled Western media, which released only those few documents incriminating opponents of Western financial interests.
→ read full article(Français) Evaluation critique de la Cour Pénale Internationale (1998 – 2002 – 2016)
Robert Charvin, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Dans un monde non consensuel où l’Occident et ses alliés « communient exclusivement dans les valeurs du marché et les droits de l’homme » civils et politiques en oubliant toujours le social et aspirent à un fédéralisme universel, une authentique justice criminelle internationale demeure une utopie difficilement accessible.
→ 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.
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All About That Bass (Music Video of the Week)
PostmodernJukebox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
The incredibly talented young performer is Kate Davis, and she’s the real deal. Not only does she possesses the kind of voice that will take you back to the days of Billie Holiday, she can also shred on the upright bass.
→ read full articleRomance of Names – Their Environmental and Religious Significance
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
What’s in a name? “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, Shakespeare had written in the play Romeo and Juliet.
→ read full articleSome Books and Articles on Peace
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Check them out please.
→ read full articleRemembering Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
I believe in the Irish people, in people everywhere, that we have a great future when we work together as the human family teaching our children not violence but the nonkilling/nonviolence of our great spiritual traditions and offering them the models of peacemakers such as St. Patrick who in his writings said that ‘killing cannot be with Christ,’ thereby rejecting ‘armed struggles’ militarism and war.
→ read full articleThe US Just Declared Russia a Greater Threat than ISIS — Paving the Way for Deadly Perpetual War
Matt Agorist, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
“Certainly, we have talked for a long time about China and China plays an important role as the enemy of choice for the U.S. military. But Russia is ideal in part, because we don’t import a lot of things from Russia, in part because we don’t have the debt relationship with Russia that we do with China. So, Russia makes for a very convenient enemy for the Pentagon in terms of its mission, its budgeting, and its intelligence organization.”
→ read full articleReading Jeff Halper’s ‘War against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
I believe that Jeff Halper’s book deserves the widest possible reading. It explains clearly and convincingly one of the deepest and least understood roots of Israel’s diplomatic support throughout the world, which is its role as a niche arms supplier and influential tactical specialist in waging wars against peoples who dare offer resistance to state power as variously deployed against them.
→ read full articleLetter from a Birmingham Jail: Poignant and Timely
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
In Letter From A Birmingham Jail, Dr. King responded to criticisms of nonviolent direct action on religious, moral, legal, historic, and political grounds. He chastised the attitudes of the white clergymen, and other white progressives.
→ read full articleSuccessful Skills
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
The radio announcer Daniel Shorr was considering working in television early in his career and asked someone what it would take to be successful there.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Enbridge Energy’s 2010 Kalamazoo River Oil Spill: The Worst and Most Expensive Pipeline Disaster in the History of America
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
“This investigation identified a complete breakdown of safety at Enbridge. Their employees performed like Keystone Kops and failed to recognize that their pipeline had ruptured and continued to pump crude into the environment. Despite multiple alarms and a loss of pressure in the pipeline, for more than 17 hours and through three shifts, they failed to follow their own shutdown procedures. Enbridge restarted the pipeline twice in that 17-hour period, pumping oil that would account for 81 percent of the total spill.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Consiglio regionale del Piemonte ha approvato Il Disegno di Legge 141
Contro Tutte le Discrimazioni
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
“Il Piemonte è la prima regione in Italia che ha approvato una legge che considera tutte le differenze legate al sesso, all’orientamento sessuale, all’età, alla disabilità ma anche alla provenienza etnica.Tutte le differenze sono un valore per la Regione Piemonte, non un elemento di discriminazione”
→ read full articleMississippi Governor Signs Anti-Gay Law
Evan Blake, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
6 Apr 2016 – Yesterday, Mississippi’s Republican Governor Phil Bryant enacted a sweeping anti-LGBT law that allows public and private businesses to refuse service to gay people, effectively legalizing discrimination based on sexual orientation across the state.
→ read full 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.
New 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 articleYoga 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 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 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 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.
→ read full articleRenewable Energy Investments Set New Record, Twice That of Coal and Gas
Climate Nexus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
Global investment in renewable energy was more than twice that of coal and gas last year, according to a new report, despite plummeting fossil fuel prices.
→ read full articleU.S. Can’t See ‘Genocide’ When It Might Benefit: Analyst
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
22 Mar 2016 – The United States will not determine that the persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar is genocide because its priorities are to eventually make the Southeast Asian nation a client state as part of its long-term strategy of confronting China, an international lawyer and political analyst says.
→ read full articleReligious Festivals for Brotherhood, Joy and Peace
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
On 24 March, we celebrate the festival of Holi in North India by sprinkling coloured powder called gulal and coloured water on each other. Songs, dances and merrymaking mark this day.
→ read full articleWhile the Arctic Superheats, Pipeline Wars Continue
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
When it became clear that smoking is a serious danger to health, films and television dramas rose to their responsibility and stopped showing people with cigarettes drooping from their lips. Can we not have similar responsibility today, when the future of the biosphere depends on everyone rapidly adopting an oil-free lifestyle?
→ read full articleProtein Deficiency
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
Misnomer?
→ read full articleChina: Broken Rice Bowls, Stifled Voices
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
China, no different from any other large country, has a multitude of domestic problems, but those two are especially worrisome in that they have the potential for significant unrest. And for the Chinese leadership, social instability always raises red flags.
→ read full articleUrging UK to End Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia and Saudis to End Their Bombing Campaign in Yemen
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, today called for Britain to stop breaking national and international law by selling arms o Saudi Arabia. The British government has sold £2.8 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since it began bombing Yemen last year and continues to remain silent on the UN reports of Saudi war crimes against the civilian population of Yemen.
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Johan Galtung, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee: ‘Best Offense Is Defense against Daesh’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
24 Mar 2016 – ‘We’re at war’ with Daesh, and to get out of it, the West should use its military defensively to protect threatened areas as the previous strategy of brutality has only generated more extremists, said Prof. Johan Galtung, the father of Peace Studies and founder, among others, of the International Peace Research Institute and TRANSCEND Media Service.
→ read full article(Italiano) USA, e poi?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
Nessuno lo sa, ma nel regime presidenzialista USA i presidenti contano; non così diversi da una dittatura per un turno di governo. È lì che entra in gioco la democrazia – almeno riguardo ai delegati, a quanto pare; con un sofferto procedimento di nomina, come in nessun altro paese.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
Mar 28–Apr 3 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
→ read full articleReflections on the Brussels Attack
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
The themes addressed and the policies proposed are advanced in a tentative spirit. Debate and reflection are urgently needed with respect to the political violence that is being unleashed in various forms in the West and non-West.
→ read full articleUSA’s Persian and Arabian Wars
Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. (That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away, and you have their shoes.) In that spirit, let me offer a few thoughts as well as a question or two. What it is that we Americans are trying to accomplish? Is there no better way than warfare to protect and advance our interests? How can we finally end the many wars we have begun? On what terms should they be ended and with whom? At what point is enough enough?
→ read full articleWest Ignores Iraq and Yemen Massacres, Still Weeps for Brussels
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
25 Mar 2016 – Suicide attacks killing scores of people in Iraq and Yemen in the last few days have revealed once again the fickle nature of Western sympathies, after the bloodbath failed to produce the massive outpouring of grief prompted by the Brussel attacks.
→ read full articleRockefellers Dump Exxon Holdings That Made Family’s Fortune
Joe Carroll, Bloomberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
* Rockefeller Family Fund plans to divest all fossil fuel stocks
* Descendants of founder call company `morally reprehensible’
Charlie Chaplin’s Famous Speech Still Holds True Today
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
One of the most inspirational speeches in recorded history was given by a silent comedian by the name of Charlie Chaplin in his famous movie: ‘The Dictator’.
→ read full articleThe Art of Living: The Great Humanistic Philosopher Erich Fromm on Having vs. Being and How to Set Ourselves Free from the Chains of Our Culture
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
“The full humanization of man requires the breakthrough from the possession-centered to the activity-centered orientation, from selfishness and egotism to solidarity and altruism.”
→ read full articleHow Not to Talk about Muslims after a Fringe Terrorist Group Attacks
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
2. Call the terrorists “Muslim” if you have to characterize them, not “Islamic” or even worse, “Islamics.” There is no such thing as “Islamic” terrorism. The word “Islamic” has to do with the ideals and verities of the religion of Islam, and is analogous to “Judaic.”
→ read full articleGlobal Incomprehension of Increasing Violence
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
The question in the minds of many is “why” such irrational attacks are so unreasonably made against innocents. The title of this note is usefully ambiguous, however, for it also holds the more crucial question as to why so little effort is made to address the question of “why”.
→ read full article(Português) Tigres morrem em condições miseráveis para produção de vinho
ANDA–Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
Milhares de tigres estão morrendo em condições miseráveis em fazendas mascaradas como parques de vida selvagem da China, para sustentar um negócio multimilionário de venda de vinho feito com os seus ossos após os mesmos morrerem de fome. Novos ricos chineses que têm a falsa crença de que consumir vinho de ossos de tigres aumenta a sua potência sexual estão pagando mais de US $700 por uma garrafa.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Presidential Crisis: What’s Happening and Why You Should Care
Bryan Dewan, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
Brazil’s economy is the eighth largest in the world. A political crisis in Brazil will no doubt have implications on the nation’s economic confidence. The Eurasia Group listed Brazil’s political crisis as one of the Top 10 risks facing the globe in 2016, citing the long-term international economic implications of a Brazilian governance failure.
→ read full articleJapan Kills 333 Minke Whales Including 200 Pregnant Females
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
According to Reuters, 103 of the slaughtered whales were male and 230 were female, with 90 percent of the mature females pregnant. “This rogue act is in blatant disregard of international law and diplomacy, and sets a dangerous precedent for all nations that respect the rule of law.”
→ read full articleMonsanto vs Indian Farmers
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
If we believe in democracy, it is imperative that we have the right to choose which technologies are best for our communities, rather than having unaccountable institutions like Monsanto decide for us. Rather than technologies designed for the continued enrichment of a few, we can ground our technology in a hope of a greater harmony between our human communities and the natural world.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – “Free Speech Zones”, the Rigged Economy and Organized Crime
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
“The fascist state must not forget that all means must serve the ends; it must not let itself be confused by the drivel about so-called “freedom of the press”…it must make sure that (the media) is placed in the service of the state.”
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Interview with Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern
AcTVism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
Mar 7, 2016 – Ray McGovern talks about his experience in the agency and the reasons that led him to become an activist and outspoken critic of the US government. The interview surfaces a number of issues that include: “Enhanced interrogation techniques” a euphemism for the U.S. government’s program of systematic torture, the role that European governments played in supporting this program, Edward Snowden & the NSA, the significance of activism today, etc.
→ read full articleThe Global Refugee Crisis: Humanity’s Last Call for a Culture of Sharing and Cooperation
Rajesh Makwana, Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is likely to push the world further into social and political chaos in the months ahead.
→ read full articleJoy in the Midst of Haiti’s Election
Barbara Rhine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
If the Haitian people can find meaning in all this hardship through their resilience and determination, their refusal to endure the terms of modern economic slavery, then from my luxurious first world perch, well, so can I. If the elderly woman who got out of the fabulous gaudy tap-tap can move with grace and dignity among her fellow citizens, then surely I can take her as my model.
→ read full articleCelebrate Boycotts on St. Patrick’s Day
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
There is hardly a nonviolent movement around the world, out of hundreds of case studies, that has not used some form of a boycott! Think of Gandhi’s spinning wheel and concurrent boycott of British cloth imports, the American Independence movement’s boycott of tea, the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the United Farm Workers’ Grape Boycott, the boycott of white-owned stores in South African townships during the anti-apartheid struggle: the examples are numerous.
→ read full articleMaurice F. Strong, Marc Nerfin, Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’, SDGs and COP 21
Branislav Gosovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
The purpose of this essay is to contribute to the institutional history of the United Nations by highlighting some less known details and the continuity of the process launched in the World Organization some 50 years ago. It is written as a tribute in memoriam of Maurice F. Strong and Marc Nerfin, two remarkable and visionary United Nations personalities and leaders.
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Earth Song (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Michael Jackson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
A pungent, powerful, moving video performed by Michael Jackson showing side by side beauty and destruction, life and death. Much sadness, pain and suffering caused by humankind. What about the earth? What about the children? He asks. Are we really destined to kill the planet and every life in it? What about us? This video was forbidden in the USA when it was launched in 1995.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
Mar 21-27 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.” – Katherine Hepburn
→ read full articleSeeking Peace in a Healthy Environment
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
Peace is multi dimensional entity that does not mean just the absence of conflict or violence; it signifies friendship, sharing, harmony, beauty and tranquillity. It signifies harmony with nature, enjoying and cherishing its diversity and beauty.
→ read full article(Italiano) Sahara Occidentale: una vision
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
Ai due estremi del Mediterraneo si combattono due guerre molto simili contro due popoli arabo-musulmani: i palestinesi in Palestina – ex-colonia inglese – dal 1948; e i sahrawi nel Sahara Occidentale – ex-colonia spagnola e tuttora tale, dal 1975, mentre moriva Franco.
→ read full articleUnderstanding Self-Hatred in World Affairs
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
Conscious self-hatred is an intensely unpleasant feeling to experience and, consequently, people who feel self-hatred learn to fearfully and deeply suppress their awareness of it when they are very young. Having learned to do this, subsequent opportunities for this self-hatred to be felt are progressively more easily suppressed. I emphasise the word fearfully suppressed.
→ read full article‘Doing Nothing’ for Positive Peace
Tim Bryar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
Structural violence today is sustained by a liberal-capitalist frame that links structural transformation to individual action, participation and voice. It is in this way that Zizek claims the problem today is not passivity but over-activity in which we are active all the time to ensure that nothing really changes.
→ read full articlePlease Help Us Save the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney
Prof. Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
CPACS has a long and distinguished record of bringing the perspectives of Peace with Justice to bear on the University’s research, teaching and community outreach. We honour the tradition of speaking truth to power on vital issues where the mainstream of Australian politics and media would rather look the other way.
→ read full articleIsrael, Hillary Clinton and the Syrian Holocaust
Gilad Atzmon, Redress Information & Analysis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
19 Mar 2016 – Thanks to WikiLeaks, which has published Hillary Clinton’s email archive, we now have a clear indication of the prime suspects behind the holocaust in Syria.
→ read full articleCesar Chavez: When Real Uniters Were Among Us
José-Antonio Orosco, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
California politicians and their agri-business supporters realized that they were facing a major civil rights movement and that its leader, Cesar Chavez, was someone to contend with. The importance of the Sacramento March today is more than just historical, it is a lesson about how to use nonviolence to respond to economic hardship in a way that builds a powerful force for justice.
→ read full articleThe Trillion-Dollar Question
Lawrence S. Wittner, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
Isn’t it odd that America’s largest single public expenditure for the coming decades has received no attention in the presidential debates? It is for a 30-year program to “modernize” the U.S. nuclear arsenal and production facilities. Although President Obama began his administration with a dramatic public commitment to build a nuclear weapons-free world, that commitment has long ago dwindled and died.
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