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The TTIPing Point: Protests Threaten Trans-Atlantic Trade Deal
Dinah Deckstein, Simone Salden and Michaela Schießl – Der Spiegel,
16 May 2016
An unprecedented protest movement of a scope not seen since the Iraq war in Germany has pushed negotiations over the TTIP trans-Atlantic free trade agreement to the brink of collapse. The demonstrations are characterized by a level of professionalism not previously seen.
→ read full articlePennsylvania Township Legalizes Civil Disobedience
Tim DeChristopher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
This is a press release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund about a groundbreaking strategy of resistance by a small Pennsylvania town trying to defend itself from the fossil fuel industry.
→ read full articleDictionary Wisdom
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Ruth and Golda were walking along Hendon High Street. Ruth says,
→ read full articleSupport for Palestinians Triples among US Youth, Survey Finds
Ali Abunimah | Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
“Currently, 43 percent of Millennials, born after 1980, report sympathizing more with Israel, while 27 percent are more sympathetic to the Palestinians,” Pew states. “The share sympathizing with the Palestinians has risen significantly in recent years, from nine percent in 2006 to 20 percent in July 2014 to 27 percent today” – in other words it has tripled. Among Baby Boomers – those born between 1946 and 1964 – 61 percent are more pro-Israel, while just 14 percent back the Palestinians.
→ read full articleA Killing Nation!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
It has become increasingly clear that the U.S. is not about the business of “freedom and democracy” but rather global domination that benefits an economic corporate elite at the expense of nearly everyone else and the earth itself. Of course, the domination is disguised and fueled by fear: war on terror, regime change, destroying Al Qaeda, ISIS, etc. but increasingly the world is seeing through the disguise. So what are we to do?
→ read full articleYes to Assertive, No to Aggressive
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
10 May 2016 – I teach and write in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies, with a special focus on strategic nonviolence. It is a rich field, growing in its scholarship and its widespread usage. I’m so enthused by this—the more we wage our conflicts with nonviolence the lower the costs.
→ read full articleCall on Israeli Government to Free Mordechai Vanunu and End Thirty-Year Persecution: Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
No voices are raised in defence of his freedom and it is to all our shame that the international political/spiritual leadership continue to abide by the rule: ‘WHATEVER YOU SAY – SAY NOTHING’ when it comes to the Israeli government’s persecution of a man of conscience, a good man.”
→ read full articleZionism’s Roots Help Us Interpret Israel Today
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Recognising Zionism’s ideological roots, inspired by racial theories of peoplehood that in part fuelled the Second World War, might allow us to understand modern Israel a little better. And why it seems incapable of extending a hand of peace to the Palestinians.
→ read full articleMaking the Most of Obama’s Hiroshima Visit
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Message to President Barack Obama with Respect to Forthcoming Hiroshima Visit – 11 May 2016 | I sent the following message to the White House today, and encourage readers of this blog to do the same.
→ read full articleNew Challenges for Global Citizens
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
The Global Citizenship Commission under the leadership of the former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown presented its report ‘The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century’ to the United Nations on 18 April 2016.
→ read full articleEU: Results of Glyphosate Pee Test Are In ‘and It’s Not Good News’
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
12 May 2016 – Last month, Members of the European Parliament volunteered to take a urine test to see if glyphosate—the cancer-linked weedkiller—is in their system. Forty-eight MEPs from 13 different EU countries participated. Test results from the accredited Biocheck Laboratory in Germany: “All participants excreted glyphosate by urine.”
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Yellow (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay Official – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Video directed by James & Alex; filmed in Dorset, England.
→ read full article#TTIPleaks: Confidential TTIP Papers Unveil US Position
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Leaked text shows deliberate attempts by the U.S. to undermine EU environment and health protection laws and to change the EU democratic legislative process.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: The Media Isn’t Doing Its Job
Emily Bell | Columbia Journalism Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Edward Snowden about his experiences working with journalists and his perspective on the shifting media world. This is an excerpt of a conversation that will appear in a forthcoming book: Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State.
→ read full articleThe Value in Activism: Reflections from the Columbia University Climate Sit-In
Nikita Perumal – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
16 May 2016
I know—I have seen—the transformative power that climate justice activism can have both on Columbia’s campus and internationally. When the status quo—in this case, the political and social power of extractive and destructive industries—is too strong to be undone on its own, it sometimes needs a push. I believe, wholeheartedly, that activism is that push.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Reveal Brazil’s New Coup President Is ‘US Informant’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
13 May 2016 – Whistleblower website WikiLeaks described the Senate-imposed President of Brazil Michel Temer as a “U.S. Embassy informant” in a tweet and provided two links where Temer’s candid thoughts on Brazilian politics serve as the basis for a report by the U.S. embassy in Brazil.
→ read full articleHow Water Corruption Leaves Millions Mired in Misery
Callum Clench – The Huffington Post,
16 May 2016
While corruption permeates every walk of life, its impact on water is particularly pernicious. Corruption in the water sector is widespread, hugely underestimated and little understood. It has a profound impact on economic progress, provision of water and, in the final resort, costs million of lives. Given the complexity of water, then, and its vulnerability to graft, there are three measures which could easily be adopted at Prime Minister Cameron’s summit.
→ read full articleIsrael Imposes Travel Ban on BDS Co-Founder Omar Barghouti
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said that “Israel’s refusal to renew Barghouti’s travel document appears to be an effort to punish him for exercising his right to engage in peaceful, political activism, using its arsenal of bureaucratic control over Palestinian lives.”
→ read full articleAnatomy of a Propaganda Blitz
Media Lens – Dissident Voice,
16 May 2016
We live in a time when state-corporate interests are cooperating to produce propaganda blitzes intended to raise public support for the demonisation and destruction of establishment enemies. Below, we will examine five key components of an effective propaganda campaign of this kind.
→ read full articleDownload the TTIP Leaks
Greenpeace Netherlands – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Greenpeace Netherlands has released secret TTIP negotiation documents to provide much needed transparency and trigger an informed debate on the treaty, which is threatening to have far reaching implications for the environment and the lives of more than 800 million citizens in the EU and US. TTIP is about a huge transfer of power from people to big business.
→ read full articleOxyContin’s 12-Hour Dosing Claim Attacked in Massive Investigation
Sy Mukherjee - Fortune,
9 May 2016
Purdue Pharma’s marketing of opioid was dangerously misleading, report says. Since 1999, more than 165,000 people have died from overdosing on prescription painkillers; opioids have even been implicated in the death of superstar Prince.
→ read full article(Italiano) Stato di Pace ISLANDA. Che vuol dire che cosa?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Allora perché non capitalizzare su quell’esperienza, facendo un Centro di Mediazione di Reykjavik, politicamente e internazionalmente indipendente, e con l’ubicazione islandese fra est e ovest, USA e Russia? Guardiamo la carta geografica! A Reykjavík invitare USA e Russia, con Kiev e Donetsk. Magari anche Bruxelles, intesa come NATO e UE. Tema: il conflitto in e attorno all’Ucraina – appunto “ai confini”, fra due nazioni, l’ucraina-cattolica e la russa-ortodossa; con molto odio e violenza.
→ read full articleLargest Civil Disobedience in History of the Environmental Movement Begins Today
350.org | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
3 May 2016 – Starting today, a global wave of peaceful direct actions lasting for 12 days will take place across six continents targeting the world’s most dangerous fossil fuel projects, under the banner of Break Free.
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Fall of Empire, End to US Wars: Johan Galtung Predictions Taking Place
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, predicts the fall of the “US Empire” by 2020. Military defeats in wars of choice will generate political loss of influence and irrelevance externally, what may trigger a soul-searching internally. The Vietnam War was but a prelude. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya follow the script. Israel may become a burden to the USA.
→ read full articleThe Rohingya and [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi’s Myanmar aka Burma
Adryel Talamantes and Austin Bodetti – The Diplomat,
9 May 2016
The democratic icon’s party won a major victory last year. Will it help a beleaguered minority? Former political prisoner Wai Wai Nu, once persecuted because of her father’s political activities summed it up briefly, “It’s good that we have changes, but it’s still too early to comment.”
→ read full articleThis Is How Settlers Take Over Palestinian Land
Dror Etkes - +972 Magazine,
9 May 2016
From audacious fraud and forgery to military seizures for ‘security needs’ and the ‘public good’ to dusting off antiquated Ottoman laws, the Israeli settlement enterprise has no shortage of tools for taking over Palestinian land in the West Bank.
→ read full articleDreaming of the Next UN Secretary General
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
The Charter is astonishingly silent about the qualifications that should guide the selection of a secretary general, but it is clear on the procedure: a recommendation must be made by the Security Council to the General Assembly for its approval. This means that any one of the P-5 can use their veto to block a candidate.
→ read full articlePresident Obama Should Meet A-Bomb Survivors, and Heed Their Call to Ban the Bomb
Kevin Martin | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
5 May 2016 – President Obama is considering a visit to Hiroshima during the G-7 economic summit in Japan later this month. Remarkably, many Hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors, are still alive today, though they often suffer from various radiation-caused illnesses or other physical ailments 71 years after the bombs were dropped.
→ read full article(Italiano) NON AVERE PAURA! DONNE CHE NON SI SONO ARRESE di Cristina Monti. Torino 26 aprile 2016
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Una serata al femminile, per la collaborazione cooperativa fra l’associazione Scambiaidee, l’ANPI sezione Nicola Grosa (di San Salvario), la Circoscrizione 8 presso la cui biblioteca civica Natalia Ginzburg è stato proiettato il documentario “Non avere paura! Donne che non si sono arrese”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
May 9–15 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell
→ read full articleHaiti’s Election Verification Commission: A Step in the Right Direction
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
His [deputy political counselor at the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince] concluding remark, “When capabilities are so low and challenges are so great, where do you draw the line about how flawless the process has to be?” was indicative of the self-serving US policy of dismissing Haitian people’s intelligence, skills and aspirations.
→ read full articleThe Danger of Fascism in the United States
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
There is a real danger that Donald Trump, who is not only xenophobic, racist and hatemongering, but also misogynistic, wildly erratic and manifestly unqualified for the post, could be elected to the US Presidency in November.
→ read full articleThe Spirit of Nelson Mandela in Palestine: Is His Real Legacy Being Upheld?
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
When Nelson Mandela said, “We know all too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians,” he was not trying to be cordial or diplomatic. He meant every word. Someday, we hope that a statue of Mandela, one that represents the spirit of Resistance in Palestine, will stand tall amid the people who championed his cause and loved him most.
→ read full articleRemembering Nonviolent History: Freedom Rides
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
The Freedom Rides are a powerful example of the use of nonviolent direct action to enforce justice and fair laws.
→ read full article(Français) Faire prévaloir l’Évangile de la non-violence dans la pensée et l’action de l’Église
Jean-Marie Muller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Ce qui est remarquable, et probablement décisif, c’est que les participants ne se contentent pas d’ajouter un paragraphe sur la non-violence dans la doctrine de la légitime violence et de la guerre juste, mais qu’ils remettent en cause cette doctrine au nom de l’exigence de non-violence. « Ceux d’entre nous, est-il affirmé, qui se situent dans la tradition chrétienne sont appelés à reconnaître le caractère central de la non-violence active dans la vision et le message de Jésus.
→ read full articleAnarchism’s Mid-Century Turn
Kristian Williams | Toward Freedom - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Review & Response: Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century, By Andrew Cornell, University of California Press, 2016, 300 pages. No matter how one feels about it, the current state of anarchism has represented something of a mystery: What was once a mass movement based mainly in working class immigrant communities is now an archipelago of subcultural scenes inhabited largely by disaffected young people from the white middle class.
→ read full articleTheir Next Act: The Ringling Brothers’ Elephants Are Retiring
James Sullivan | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
—And Moving to Florida to Contribute to Cancer Research – In its 145th year on the road, the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’ is taking its biggest attraction – the symbol of the circus since P.T. Barnum, that quintessential American showman, brought the famed captive Jumbo to the States – off the road for good, finally capitulating to years of pressure from animal rights activists.
→ read full articleCowardice and Exoneration in Kunduz
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
“The aircrew appeared to be confused by the directions from the Americans on the ground. At one point, the crew was told it would need to hit a second target after the strike it was about to commence, and ‘we will also be doing the same thing of softening the target for partner forces.’” This is the reality: An action that wound up killing 42 hospital workers and patients –men, women and children, some of whom were burned alive in their beds – was instigated in order to “soften the target” . . .
→ read full articleKen Livingstone Isn’t On Trial, Zionism Is
American Herald Tribune – Mint Press News,
9 May 2016
In subjecting Ken Livingstone to trial-by-media over his comments on Zionism, his detractors have also unwittingly placed Zionism itself on trial.
→ read full article(Castellano) Y Me Perdí la Infancia
José María Lopera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Y me perdí la infancia
porque con siete años era un hombre;
un hombre de la guerra y de la muerte,
del proyectil que silba
y la bomba que estalla por sorpresa.
Good Deeds
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Scouts are supposed to do at least one good deed every day. A scout master asked three little scouts at camp in the evening, “What good deed did you do today?”
→ read full articleNobel-Winning Physicist Frank Wilczek on Complementarity as the Quantum of Life and Why Reality Is Woven of Opposing Truths
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
“You can recognize a deep truth by the feature that its opposite is also a deep truth.” When confronted with the world’s complexity, we default into navigating it by creating artificial binaries, perceiving contradiction where they might in fact only be complementarity. Wilczek points to one familiar example — the fact that light is neither inherently a particle nor inherently a wave, but can be either depending on how we measure it.
→ read full articleHonor Father Dan Berrigan: Carry the Torch of Justice & Peace!
James ‘Jim’ Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
In early 1968, Dan made international headlines when he traveled to North Vietnam with U.S. historian Howard Zinn to bring home three U.S. prisoners of war. Later that year, Dan, his brother Phil and seven others took hundreds of draft files from the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland and set the files on fire in the parking lot, using homemade napalm, to protest the Vietnam War.
→ read full articleSecurity Council Resolution 2286 Highlights a Foundation of World Law
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
On the recent Security Council resolution that we can use in support of humanitarian law. The protection of medical facilities and medical personnel is at the heart of the laws of war, currently more often called humanitarian law.
→ read full articleKenya: Court to Hear Forced Anal Testing Case
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
A Kenyan court will hear a constitutional petition challenging the use of forced anal examinations of men accused of homosexuality on May 4, 2016. Under international law, forced anal examinations are a form of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment that may amount to torture.
→ read full articleWhy the US Will Not Sign the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
Ken Meyercord – Dissident Voice,
9 May 2016
Symptomatic of our hypocrisy, we protest Chinese “aggressive” actions in the area by sailing the Seventh Fleet through atolls turned into landing-strips to demonstrate our commitment to freedom of navigation. Yet we refuse to sign the UN’s Convention on the Law of the Sea to formalize the rules of navigation that has been around since 1982 and ratified by over 160 UN members, including China, but not by the U.S. of A.
→ read full article(Português) Religião na Cidade
Paulo Mendes Pinto – Público,
9 May 2016
Transformada naquilo que a palavra tradição tão facilmente permite, a tourada fixou-se e agarrou-se a um quadro de pseudo-identidade…. Hoje temos espectáculo, com palmas e bilhetes, com negócio. O touro sofre simplesmente para que uns dos tais Sapiens sapiens possam ter um momento de adrenalina e de prazer ao ver a dor de outro animal. Eventualmente, somos os piores cuidadores que o Criador, qualquer que ele seja, colocou para cuidar do Jardim.
→ read full articleTwo Refugees Set Themselves Alight in Australia’s Nauru Detention Centre
Max Newman, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
4 May 2016 – Hodan Yasi, a young refugee woman from Somalia, is in a critical condition after setting herself alight on Nauru on Monday [2 May], just three days after a 23-year-old Iranian refugee, Omid Masoumali, died of injuries sustained in a similar act last week. These events further underscore the inhuman conditions and denial of basic legal and democratic rights inflicted on the nearly 1,500 refugees held into these facilities, which health professionals have likened to concentration camps.
→ read full articleShips to Nowhere: The Brutal Trafficking of Rohingya Refugees
Mili Mitra | Brown Political Review-Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Thus far, the global response has been limited and misguided. While the plight of the Rohingya has come into the media spotlight recently, there has been little coordinated effort to mitigate the crisis. Unless there is greater security and support for Rohingya in Myanmar and increased rehabilitation of these refugees across Southeast Asia, the Rohingya refugee crisis will continue to be one of the greatest and most overlooked humanitarian disasters of our time.
→ read full articleNorth Korea’s New Weapons: Full Speed Ahead
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
The best and only chance of dissuading Kim Jong-un from continuing on the path of weapons modernization, which is both dangerous and ruinous in terms of human development, is to put before him a package of alternative incentives— a peace treaty to end the Korean War, security guarantees, sustainable energy options, and meaningful economic aid.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Die Krise Brasiliens und die Weltgeopolitik
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Die Spionage der USA, wie von Snowden ans Licht der Öffentlichkeit gebracht, erreichte die Petrobras und die Reserven von Pré-Sal und hat auch Präsidentin Dilma Roussef nicht ausgelassen. Dies ist Teil der Strategie des Pentagon, um alle Gebiete unter dem Slogan „Eine Welt, ein Reich“ zu vereinen. Im Folgenden einige Punkte, die uns zum Nachdenken bringen.
→ read full article(Português) Descoberta uma Rede de Túneis com 12 Mil Anos Que Cruza Toda a Europa
Muito Fixe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
6 fev 2016 – Datadas de há mais de 12 mil anos, estas passagens subterrâneas ainda permanecem um verdadeiro mistério. Quem as construiu? Para quê? Como foi possível?
→ read full articleThirteen Foods That Can Replace Pills
BabaMail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Whenever we start feeling ill, the first thing we do is reach for the medicine cabinet. The problem with taking pills is that even though they’ll probably help with your predicament, they’re also bound to have unwanted side effects. The best solution is to use these 13 natural remedies, which are just as efficient as drugs:
→ read full articleZupta Scandal Causes South African Government to Intervene to Save Indian Investor
Richard Smallteacher | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
The South African government has intervened to support the Indian-born Gupta brothers, owners of a sprawling conglomerate with interests from mining to media, following a scandal that suggested that the brothers had accumulated so much power that they could dictate cabinet-level decisions in the country.
→ read full articleOnshore Tax Havens: American Elites Don’t Have to Go to Panama to Hide Their Money — They Can Go to Delaware
Josh Hoxie | Other Words – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Who needs offshore tax havens in Panama? Nearly 300,000 corporations — including some owned by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton — are incorporated at a single Delaware address.
→ read full articleThe Chernobyl Secret Protocols: Lies in the Aftermath of Disaster
Alla Yaroshinskaya | The Right Livelihood Award Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
In my journalistic archives there are mountains of classified Chernobyl documents from the USSR Communist Party and Soviet government. The price paid for these archives is tens of thousands of dead emergency responders and other victims of the fallout, as well as nine million people who lost their health and quality of life and are still surviving in the affected areas.
→ read full article(Français) The Economist met en garde : “les profits sont bien trop élevés!”
Marc Vandepitte | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Ce n’est pas nous, ni le gouvernement qui vivons au-dessus de nos moyens, ce sont les ultra-riches. Générer les méga-bénéfices des grandes entreprises n’est pas tenable, ni socialement ni économiquement. L’analyste politique Marc Vandepitte nous explique pourquoi et esquisse comment inverser la tendance.
→ read full articleCharity Justice (Haiku)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Unsold expired gifts…
→ read full articleMay: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
May 1, 1962 – A nuclear test code-named Beryl was conducted in French-occupied Algeria. However, due to improper sealing of the underground shaft, a spectacular mushroom cloud burst through the concrete cap venting highly radioactive dust and gas into the atmosphere. The plume climbed to 8,500 feet high and radiation was detected hundreds of miles away. This was just one of 210 nuclear weapons tests conducted by the French government in north Africa and the Pacific region in the period from 1960-96.
→ read full articleTTIP Leaks [for Download]
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Greenpeace Netherlands has released secret TTIP negotiation documents. We have done so to provide much needed transparency and trigger an informed debate on the treaty. This treaty is threatening to have far reaching implications for the environment and the lives of more than 800 million citizens in the EU and US. TTIP is about a huge transfer of power from people to big business.
→ read full articleDefying the Spies: Free Thought as Resistance in the Age of Surveillance
Benjamin Dangl – Toward Freedom,
9 May 2016
A brand new study from Oxford provides empirical evidence to prove that the very fact that the surveillance state exists spreads conformity and subservience. The study examines how, following whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013 about US government spying, there was “a 20 percent decline in page views on Wikipedia articles related to terrorism, including those that mentioned ‘al Qaeda,’ ‘car bomb’ or ‘Taliban.’”
→ read full articleThe Calm before the Coming Global Storm
Pepe Escobar | The International Reporter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
6 May 2016 – They have seen what Washington does offer; endless war; the progressive smashing of the nation state; democracy blasted to smithereens; and technocratic governance by the 0.00001%. Yet all this is just the calm before the geopolitical/financial storm. Let’s review the current state of play via the dilemmas afflicting the House of Saud, the EU and BRICS members Russia, Brazil and China.
→ read full articlePalmyra Witnesses Two Cultural Events on Occasions of Martyrs’ Day in Syria and Victory Day in Russia
Syrian Arab News Agency SANA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
The first event has started amid large popular turnout through the concert of the Symphony Orchestra of St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theater, headed by Maestro Valery Gergiev at Palmyra’s Roman Theater.
→ read full articleThe Possibilities of Anti-Austerity Politics: A Spanish Drama
Immanuel Wallerstein – Toward Freedom,
9 May 2016
Is there any way that any government is able to maintain an anti-austerity policy in the middle run, amidst the pressures that reduced government real revenues are imposing on states throughout the world? As this drama plays out in Spain, the world will be watching, reacting, and drawing lessons.
→ read full articleThe Brazilian Left: Business Accommodation and Social Debacle
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
In ‘Cardoso’s Brazil: A Land for Sale’ (2003) we described how President Cardoso had sold off the major public resources, banks, petroleum and iron resources to foreign capital for rock bottom prices. The 2002 election of President Lula Da Silva of the Workers’ Party did not reverse Cardoso’s sell-out. Indeed, Lula accepted his predecessor’s neo-liberal policies – embellished them – and set about forging an alliance between the Workers’ Party and the economic elites, replacing Cardoso’s Party!
→ read full articleThose Funny Anti-Semites
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Until world-war II, Hitler could not dream of killing the Jews en masse. He had to be satisfied with driving them out of Germany, or out of Europe, as had happened several times before – in Spain, in England and in many other places. The obvious destination was Palestine, but Palestine was ruled by Great Britain, which let only a handful of Jews in, for fear of Arab reactions. At the time another possibility gained popularity with the Nazi leadership: transport all the Jews to Madagascar, which was part of the French empire.
→ read full articleAn Encyclical on Nonviolence: An Anticipatory Approach
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
In his encyclical on Nonviolence, Pope Francis will be uniquely inspired :
examples of applications of Jesus` teachings will be required
About the TTIP Leaks
Binoy Kampmark – Dissident Voice,
9 May 2016
6 May 2016 – The monstrous Siamese twin of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), has been in a growing puddle of dispute after 248 pages of its content were leaked. The document continues to flicker, and it will take more than Gallic opposition, Germanic scepticism, and general European stubbornness, to sink it.
→ read full articleOcean’s Oxygen Starts Running Low
Niina Heikkinen | ClimateWire – Scientific American,
9 May 2016
Rising levels of CO2 are making it hard for fish to breathe in addition to exacerbating global warming and ocean acidification.
→ read full articleWhy Obama Prioritizes Ousting Assad over Defeating Syria’s Jihadists
Eric Zuesse | Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
That report went on to document, essentially, that U.S. President Barack Obama is continuing his efforts to replace the only secular, non-sectarian government in the Middle East, that of the Ba’athist Party, which has always been the only non-religious political party in the Arabic world — everything else in Arabia has been fundamentalist-Sunni, to at least some extent (enough for even the least-fundamentalist of America’s Arab allies to cooperate with al-Nusra, which is Al Qaeda in Syria).
→ read full articleA Civic Economy of Provisions
Marvin T. Brown | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Marvin Brown presents a model for the next system in which economic activity is based not solely on property ownership or the free market but on civic membership in a “global civil society.” He advocates a new approach to system change that would re-frame our social structures around civic relations. Oriented around families, communities, attachments, and mutual identities, this civic economy of provisions would ensure that all people have access to food, housing, health care, and education.
→ read full articleRemembering Daniel Berrigan, with Gratitude
Ken Butigan | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Daniel Berrigan has died, and so we have lost our great teacher who, flinty and generous and relentlessly persistent, taught us how to live in a culture of death and madness: “Find some people you can pray with and march with.” He pronounced this simple sentence at the end of a mesmerizing three-hour conversation he and I had in his simple Manhattan apartment in 1981.
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Hawai’i Aloha | Song Across Hawai’i (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Apr 22, 2016 – An Epic Hawai’ian Song Straight from the Hearts of the Singers – Recorded live across 27 locations, this is Hawai’iʻs most widely known and loved song, used to close important gatherings of all sizes. It is a song of unity and Aloha ‘Aina (Aloha for one’s birthplace, land and home) and features dozens of Hawai‘i’s top artists across many genres and over 1,000 youths from 10 Hawai’ian charter schools.
→ read full article(Português) Conheça o “Holocausto Animal”
Francisco José - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
9 May 2016
O empresário apenas mata o animal pois há demanda, isto é, há quem pague. Enquanto não mudarmos a ideia de que os animais existem no mundo como produtos para humanos, haverá produção de vestimenta de pele e de outras práticas de exploração animal. A produção animal é a principal forma de emissão de gás-estufa e do desmatamento da Amazônia, e não apenas isso, é também a pioneira em poluição de rios, mares e nascentes.
→ read full articleSolitary Confinement Is ‘No Touch’ Torture, And It Must Be Abolished
Chelsea E Manning – The Guardian,
9 May 2016
For 17 hours a day, I sat directly in front of at least two Marine Corps guards seated behind a one-way mirror. I was not allowed to lay down. I was not allowed to lean my back against the cell wall. I was not allowed to exercise. Sometimes, to keep from going crazy, I would stand up, walk around, or dance, as “dancing” was not considered exercise by the Marine Corps.
→ read full articleTTIP Leaked Documents Show Obama Demands Killing Paris Accord against Climate Change
Eric Zuesse, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
“248 pages of leaked Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiating texts” show that the American negotiating position, as Greenpeace put the matter, allows “No place for climate protection in TTIP,” and, though “We have known that the EU position was bad, now we see the US position is even worse.”
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Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
An exciting and much needed event is happening at Trafalgar Square on Saturday, 14 May 2016. Seeing Trafalgar Square full of people holding candles for peace, means that united we can send a very strong message to the world with our wish for ending all wars and conflicts.
→ read full articleIt Is Still 3 Minutes to Midnight
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
The Doomsday Clock is an internationally recognized design that conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own making. First and foremost among these are nuclear weapons, but the dangers include climate-changing technologies, emerging biotechnologies, and cybertechnology that could inflict irrevocable harm, whether by intention, miscalculation, or by accident, to our way of life and to the planet.
→ read full articleUS Army’s Depleted Uranium Licencing Saga Highlights Post-Conflict Contradictions
International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
The saga of the M101 contamination should serve as a reminder of the contradictory and often hypocritical approach taken by the states that employ DU weapons – and of the challenge that the use of DU weapons poses to fundamental international radiation protection norms.
→ read full article(Italiano) Far prevalere il Vangelo della nonviolenza nel pensiero e nell’azione della Chiesa
Jean-Marie Muller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
Ciò che è notevole, e probabilmente decisivo, è che i partecipanti non si contentano di aggiungere un paragrafo sulla nonviolenza nella dottrina della violenza legittima e della guerra giusta, ma mettono in discussione questa dottrina in nome dell’esigenza di nonviolenza. «Quelli tra noi – afferma il documento – che si pongono nella tradizione cristiana sono chiamati a riconoscere il carattere centrale della nonviolenza attiva nella visione e nel messaggio di Gesù.
→ read full articleOn Israel’s Recent Threats of “Civil Assassinations” of BDS Activists
Omar Barghouti, BDS South Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
18 Apr 2016 – Some, including journalists, have written to me inquiring about or voicing their concern at the recent Israeli government minister’s threat of “civil targeted killing” against BDS “leaders” and activists. Moshe Dayan once said that “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.” The current Israeli regime is scrupulously heeding Dayan’s advice. But “mad dogs” can be stopped. Indeed, mad dogs must be stopped, as there is no telling whom they may bite next.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Bad Science? Or Willful Ignorance at the CDC?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
And why It Has Lost Its Trustworthiness when It Comes to Vaccine Policy
→ read full articleDaniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94
Daniel Lewis – International New York Times,
2 May 2016
The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and poet whose defiant protests helped shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam War and landed him in prison, died on Saturday [30 Apr] in New York City. He was 94. The United States was tearing itself apart over civil rights and the war in Southeast Asia when Father Berrigan emerged in the 1960s as an intellectual star of the Roman Catholic “new left,” articulating a view that racism and poverty, militarism and capitalist greed were interconnected pieces of the same big problem: an unjust society.
→ read full articleThe Unbearable Lightness of [Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs] Stéphane Dion
Matthew Behrens, Rabble – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
On May 26, a man responsible for complicity in horrific war crimes, Henry Kissinger, will arrive in Toronto, along with another similarly shady character, Shimon Peres, to speak at the incredibly named Spirit of Hope gathering. Meanwhile, CANSEC16, the annual gathering of Canada’s war industry, along with companies that profit from mass surveillance, border control, militarization of police forces, and refugee interdiction, will take place at Ottawa’s EY Centre on May 25 and 26. It expects over 11,000 visitors and 61 international delegations.
→ read full articleSolar Impulse Pilot: ‘I Flew Over Plastic Waste As Big As a Continent’
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
As the Solar Impulse 2 made its historic 62-hour flight from Hawaii to California without fuel, pilot Bertrand Piccard personally saw the horrific amount of plastic in our oceans.While flying above the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Piccard sent out a tweet to Boyan Slat, the 21-year-old founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup.
→ read full articleSanctions and Defiance in North Korea
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
When all is said and done, the most likely scenario is that the new round of sanctions will produce no better results than previous rounds. This is so not only because North Korea has many ways to procure items needed for its military purposes, and plenty of willing private sellers.
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11-Year-Old Twins Mack and Colby – Amazing Family Brass Band (Music Video of the Week)
Little Big Shots – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
Mar 20, 2016 – Twins Mack and Colby are only 11, but that doesn’t stop them from going on stage and giving a terrific musical performance, playing one of Louis Armstrong’s greatest jazz hits. Enjoy as the New Orleans-style Dixieland child band Pelican 212 plays Armstrong’s ‘When the Saints Go Marching In’.
→ read full articleAustria Abolishes Right to Asylum
Markus Salzmann, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
The Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP)/Social Democrat (SPÖ) far-right coalition rushed a law through parliament on Wednesday [27 Apr] that practically abolishes the right to asylum.
→ read full articleNothing Is Real: “It’s All Being Played to Keep People Believing the System Is Working”
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
The entire system is built upon a fraud. The losses have been hidden and papered over with trillion dollar cash infusions by governments and central banks around the world. Every single asset now… I don’t care what asset… you want to look at currency, debt, housing, metals, the stock market… pick an asset… there’s no price discovery mechanism behind it whatsoever… it’s all fake… it’s all being distorted. It’s time to prepare for a collapse of a magnitude never before witnessed.
→ read full article“Us” and “Them”
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
NO. It’s not “us” and “them”. Not “us” – the good ones, the moral ones, the righteous ones. Or, to put it bluntly, the magnificent ones. The Jews. And not “them” – the bad ones, the evil ones. To put it bluntly again: the despicable ones. Yes, the Arabs. We, who were chosen by God, because we are so special…. “Arab lovers”? Yes. “Jew lovers”? Sure. But above all life-lovers, peace-lovers, lovers of this country.
→ read full articleHow Can We Keep Press Freedom from Withering Away?
Farhana Haque Rahman – Inter Press Service-IPS,
2 May 2016
While a free press means that a journalist has rights, it does not mean that she or he is right.
→ read full article19th World Congress of the International Association of Educators for World Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
The Conference Organizing Committee invites members from Academia, Administration, Research and Corporate Fraternity to participate in the deliberations by submitting research papers, articles, review studies, case studies on the themes/sub-themes of “Peace Education for Good Governance and Non-Violence” from 24 to 26 October, 2016.
→ read full articleValeant CEO to Tell Senate He’s Really, Really Sorry for Raising the Price of Life-Saving Heart Drugs 700 Percent
Claire Landsbaum – New York Magazine,
2 May 2016
As head of Valeant, Pearson made enormous profits through a combination of corporate inversion, swindling investors, and jacking up the prices of decades-old drugs in such a way that forced insurance companies to foot the bill.
→ read full articleWashington Launches Its Attack against BRICS
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
26 Apr 2016 – Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.
→ read full article(Italiano) La ricerca della Buona Città
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
Una semplice teoria: se una città ti fa sentire bene, a tuo agio – “E’ così piacevole vivere qui”, dicono in molti – allora qualcosa penetra in te e ti rende nonviolento. Se la città, il luogo in cui vivi, un contesto fondamentale nella tua vita, ti urta in malo modo, allora scende in te un atteggiamento aggressivo, può arrivare alla violenza, e spesso si accompagna a conflitti razziali o etnici.
→ read full articleFrom Just War to Just Peace
Bernt Jonsson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
As to the issues of war and peace there is a new focus. Now it can be stated and said firmly: The calling and the task of the church is to be a peace church. That is nothing less than a basic paradigm shift in theology and Christian ethic.
→ read full articleCelebrating Mother Jones and Labor on May Day
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
While Mother Jones sometimes used violent rhetoric in her inflammatory speeches, the actions she organized were nonviolent actions – boycotts, strikes, marches, walk-outs, work stoppages, rallies, speeches, and picketing. When she was denounced on the floor of the US Senate as the “grandmother of all agitators,” she replied: “I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.”
→ read full articleCan Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Preserve Our Cultural Heritage in Syria?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
This month’s Trafalgar Square exhibition in London of a digitally modeled replica of Syria’s 2000-year-old Roman Triumphal Arch at Palmyra, which was destroyed by ISIS in Oct 2015, is sparking yet further discussion about the rights and wrongs of restoration at ancient sites. Approximately two thirds the size of the original, the replica arch was created through the efforts of Oxford University’s Institute of Digital Archeology.
→ read full article(Português) Prêmio Nobel da Paz Adolfo Pérez Esquivel traz apoio do Papa a Dilma
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
29 de Abril de 2016 – O vencedor do prêmio Nobel da Paz em 1980, o argentino Adolfo Pérez Esquivel revelou, em entrevista ao jornalista Darío Pignotti, do jornal Página 12, que levou à presidente Dilma Rousseff o apoio do Papa Francisco. O pontífice é também argentino e mantém estreita ligação com movimentos de defesa dos direitos humanos na América Latina.
→ read full articleIf Obama Visits Hiroshima
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
As the global approach to nuclear weapons, climate change, and neoliberal globalization should make clear, we are not likely to survive as a species very much longer if we continue to base world order on a blend of state-centric national interests and dominant actor geopolitics. Obama has this rare opportunity to choose the road not often traveled upon, and there is no better place to start such a voyage than at Hiroshima.
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