Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Jul 4-10 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.” – Shakti Gawain
→ read full articleAnnual Strategic Brief 2016: “Geopolitics in the Middle East”
Institute for Islamic Strategic Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
There is very little understanding of what actually is happening in the region. Simple explanations and ‘quick-fix’ approaches has thus far dominated the media. Whether it’s the refugee crises, the focus on degrading the Islamic state (IS) or European security, little attention is being paid to the enormous complexity to the crises in the region. This paper seeks to understand these complex issues and challenges, and presents a broad, substantial and accurate understanding of the region.
→ read full articleThe Earth and the People Are Not Inputs to Your Capitalist System
Vandana Shiva interviewed by Ethemcan Turhan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
You have this strange asymmetry today that corporations are globally organised; they are everywhere. They control every government and governments are doing the same thing everywhere. Yet every opportunity is used to prevent citizens from connecting up.
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How Does the Commons Work?
The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
How can we use “commoning” as a process to transform the social paradigm of our current system? Economist David Bollier suggests we rethink the traditional “tragedy of the commons” argument. In this stop-motion video animation, we illustrate some of the principal features of his vision for how we can manage “the commons” in an equitable fashion to transform our current system.
→ read full article(Italiano) “La Giovine Italia”. Imperdibile. A Torino tutto esaurito al Teatro Vittoria ieri sera e l’altra sera
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Emigrare.
Immigrare.
Quasi mai sono scelte.
Spostarsi dalla propria terra di origine verso un’altra terra, significa non sapere come sarà il viaggio e soprattutto se sarà arrivo.
(Castellano) Rechazo a presidente interino de Brasil llega a 70%
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
La desaprobación de Michel Temer aumentó unos nueve puntos desde febrero a la fecha, según sondeo.
→ read full article(Castellano) 140 años de la muerte de Mijaíl Bakunin
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
El 1° de julio de 1876 murió el político ruso Mijaíl Bakunin. Fue autor de una voluminosa obra entre las que destacaron El llamamiento a los eslavos, El catecismo revolucionario y El Estado y la anarquía. El político ruso participó activamente en las revoluciones de 1848 en París y Alemania.
→ read full articleIsrael Implements Collective Punishment after the Stabbing of Teenager
Jean Shaoul | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
At the same time, the government is using the attack to expand the settlements and incorporate Area C––which is under Israeli military control––into Israel and in the process drive Palestinians living there from their homes. These measures have in turn provoked further attacks by the Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel and ever more strident demands for further repressive measures against the Palestinians by Israel’s right wing.
→ read full articleThe Time for Silence is Over: Grasping the Reality of Nonviolence
Stephanie Van Hook | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Myth One: You can’t be angry and be nonviolent.
Myth Two: You have to dislike/hate/disassociate from your opponents.
Myth Three: If you don’t get what you want, your nonviolence didn’t work.
Myth Four: Nonviolence does not have any logic. It’s signing petitions and sit-ins. Nothing else.
Top 5 Green Energy Good News Stories Today
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
3 Jul 2016 – Solar power is poised to grow 6-fold by 2030 and could constitute between 9% and 13% of world electricity production by then. Price per kilowatt hour for solar is plummeting, so that it is on the verge of being the cheapest form of energy, outstripping coal in that regard.
→ read full articleWhat’s It Like to Be a Whistleblower?
Transparency International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
On 15 June, two weeks before the verdict in the Luxembourg trial, Deltour talked to TI about his experiences as a whistleblower, the support he has received and the fact that thousands of people see unethical behaviour where they work but don’t speak out. They just go home every day and feel they compromise their personal ethics because there is no option to talk about it.
→ read full articleFor What Binds Us
Jane Hirshfield – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Poetic image of growth through sealing and healing.
→ read full articleBrexit and the Derivatives Time Bomb
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Brexit could trigger a $500 trillion derivatives meltdown, by forcing the EU to allow insolvent member governments and banks to write down debt. Italy is in financial crisis and is already petitioning for that concession. How to avoid collapse of the massive derivatives house of cards? Alternatives are considered.
→ read full article(Português) Ó Brasil!
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Brasil, uma imagiNAÇÃO
→ read full articleEconomic Democracy
David Schweickart | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
An Ethically Desirable Socialism That Is Economically Viable – The big challenges that capitalism now faces in the contemporary world include issues of inequality (especially that of grinding poverty in a world of unprecedented prosperity) and of “public goods” (that is, goods people share together, like the environment). The solution to these problems will almost certainly call for institutions that take us beyond the capitalist market economy.
→ read full articleAntoine de Saint Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944): Solitude and Solidarity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Saint Ex for the style was influenced by Frederic Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra which he had read. However, the spirit is much closer to Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet. There is no indication that he had read Gibran in Saint Ex’s period in New York. It is more likely that both writers shared a common outlook on life.
→ read full articleLament for Humanity: A 50 Year Reflection
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Deeply affected by the death of my two uncles in World War II, on 1 July 1966, the 24th anniversary of the USS Sturgeon sinking of the Japanese prisoner-of-war ship Montevideo Maru which killed the man after whom I am named, I decided that I would devote my life to working out why human beings are violent and then developing a strategy to end it. Here is my report on 50 years of concerted effort to understand and end human violence.
→ read full articleThe Meaning of Brexit
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The Brexit vote was a triple protest: against surging immigration, City of London bankers, and European Union institutions, in that order. It will have major consequences.
→ read full articleSupport Your Digestive System with Aloe Vera
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
A healthy gut reacts positively to good nutrition and is also the result of good nutrition. Refined sugar, artificial ingredients, and artificial coloring offer no nutrition and, even worse, can upset gut balance. Aloe vera, on the other hand, is a nutrient-dense superfood that soothes, nourishes, and promotes detoxification and normal bowel movements.
→ read full articleAccusation Claims Syrian and Russian Troops Are Looting Palmyra – Indictment Not Proved!
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The Syrian army’s work and devotion to protect our shared cultural heritage might be cultural, congenital, or genetic. But it’s real. It is my submission that the current culture here in Palmyra, and the security posted throughout the area, render it very unlikely that looting has been committed here by Syrian or Russian forces.
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Listen to the Music (Music Video of the Week)
Doobie Brothers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Song recorded on their second album Toulouse Street and their first big hit in 1972. A Classic of the 70s.
→ read full articleYemen Negotiations Move Ahead Slowly: Post-War Planning Needed
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Thus, there is a serious need first for post-war planning to be followed by international aid for development. “Reconstruction” would be the wrong term since there was little that had been “constructed”. Rather, we need to look to a post-war socio-economic construction developed on a basic needs approach.
→ read full articleErdogan Abandons Gaza, Normalizes Ties with Israel for Gas
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Turkey and Israel have ended a six-year row between the two countries despite years of Ankara’s demand that Israel lifts the Gaza blockade.
→ read full articleRussia-China Strategic Partnership: On the Road to United Eurasia
Pepe Escobar |Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Whenever President Vladimir Putin stresses Russia’s “all-embracing and strategic partnership” with China, one can hear the proverbial howls of anger emanating from the neocon/neoliberalcon axis in the Beltway.
→ read full articleCriteria Justifying Recounting or Revoting in Democracy
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
It is unclear what systematic consideration is publicly given to the criteria of democratic fairness in referenda and other elections. Little has been said in this respect with respect to the process of Brexit — the democratic decision of the UK to leave the European Union. In the course of protests regarding that result, it was announced that an even closer result in a major presidential election in Austria had led to a decision to hold the election again.
→ read full articleTen Worst Acts of the Nuclear Age
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The ten worst acts of the Nuclear Age described below have set the tone for our time. They have caused immense death and suffering; been tremendously expensive; have encouraged nuclear proliferation; have opened the door to nuclear terrorism, nuclear accidents and nuclear war; and are leading the world back into a second Cold War.
→ read full article(Italiano) Gli USA oggi, peggio che mai, ma-?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Affrontate la realtà: gli USA dettero inizio alle guerre con l’Islam in Iraq, Afghanistan e in Africa. Smettetela di personalizzare e psichiatrizzare singoli combattenti musulmani, il che non farà cessare queste guerre; le guerre non sono necessarie e non si vincono. L’egemonia militare US non ritornerà. Gli USA abbisognano di una politica estera non di dominio bensì di tentativi per comporre e risolvere i conflitti. Diritti umani: unisciti al mondo, approva, trascendi i confini. Clima: segui Parigi o proponi soluzioni migliori, fa qualcosa. E le prossime elezioni? Tutto fuorché Hillary.
→ read full articleThe Chilcot Inquiry Report into the Invasion of Iraq
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The foreign policy of the US/UK governments were for regime change and about Iraqi oil, and the method used were genocidal sanctions, wars and invasion of Iraq. The ‘shock and awe’ bombings of unarmed civilians by US/UK/allied forces was not about bringing democracy and human rights to Iraq, it was about regime change, oil, imperial power, arms and total destruction of infrastructure and starvation into submission of Iraq women and children.
→ read full articleEducation for a Culture of Peace
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Peace and nonviolence education is an intellectual and psychological preparation to develop the student’s critical spirit to reflect on the stages of conflicts and their nonviolent resolution. The purpose of peace and nonviolence education is to allow students to acquire knowledge, know-how and a set of behavioral and interpersonal skills so that they may cultivate peaceful, cooperative and harmonious relations with others.
→ read full article(Português) Como o vegetarianismo entrou na vida de Franz Kafka
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Um dos escritores mais influentes do século 20, o tcheco Franz Kafka, famoso por clássicos intrapessoais como A Metamorfose, O Processo e Um Artista da Fome, é um exemplo de ser humano que, contrariando todas as expectativas, se tornou vegetariano ainda na juventude. “Agora eu posso olhar para vocês e me sentir em paz”, disse aos peixes no aquário.
→ read full articleConcept of an Ideal Society
Ramesh Kumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Bhagwad Gita envisages a welfare, prosperous, optimistic, and successful society governed by principles of firm justice. It does not support view that a spiritual enlightened society should ignore material development. Spiritual enlightenment and Science & Technology are complimentary for growth of society.
→ read full articleDestabilizing Multipolar Society through Binary Decision-making
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Alternatives to “2-Stroke Democracy” Suggested by 4-Sided Ball Games – Prepared on the occasion of the historical Brexit referendum through which the UK decided to leave the European Union — in a period in which popular concern was primarily focused on the outcome of Euro 2016 .
→ read full articleHow 100 Syrians, 200 Russians and 11 Dogs Out-Witted ISIS and Saved Palmyra
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
There has been much understandable confusion and also a bit of misinformation about the degree of damage to Palmyra’s archeological sites. Contrary to many media reports, only five percent of the area of our cultural heritage archeological treasures was damaged by ISIS.
→ read full articleNo Big Bang? Quantum Equation Predicts Universe Has No Beginning
Lisa Zyga | Physics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The model may also account for dark matter and dark energy, resolving multiple problems at once.
→ read full articleThe Danger of Outsourcing Morality
Rabbi Sacks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Morality itself was outsourced to the market. The market gives us choices, and morality itself is just a set of choices in which right or wrong have no meaning beyond the satisfaction or frustration of desire. The result is that we find it increasingly hard to understand why there might be things we want to do, can afford to do, and have a legal right to do, that nonetheless we should not do because they are unjust or dishonourable or disloyal or demeaning: in a word, unethical. Ethics was reduced to economics.
→ read full articlePromoting Peace, Nonviolence, Human Rights of the UN Charter–Role of Special Days and Weeks
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The UN charter, signed on 26 June 1945 in San Francisco, includes abolition of war and nuclear weapons, security of and friendship between nations, promoting peace, human rights, social progress, literacy and education among other aims. To commemorate these objectives the UN also celebrates some weeks and special days for this purpose.
→ read full articleWhy the British Said No to Europe
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 – The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.
→ read full article(Português) Cientistas europeus descobrem anticorpos que atacam vírus Zika
Nuno Noronha | Sapo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Cientistas europeus anunciaram esta quinta-feira[23 Jun] a descoberta de anticorpos que atacam o Zika, um passo que pode permitir o desenvolvimento de uma vacina contra o vírus que causa lesões cerebrais em fetos e distúrbios neurológicos em adultos.
→ read full articleDanilo Dolci (28 Jun1924 – 30 Dec 1997)
EDDILI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Danilo Dolci was son of a devout Slav mother and a sceptical Italian father. He originally studied architecture in Rome, Milan, Switzerland, and also trained as an engineer. On Dec 30, 1997 Danilo Dolci “the Sicilian Ghandi”, winner of the Lenin peace prize (despite being explicitly catholic, non-communist), and twice a nominee for the Nobel peace prize, died at the age of seventy-three, of heart failure.
→ read full articleTransCanada Files NAFTA Suit Demanding More Than $15 Billion for Keystone XL Rejection
Michael Brune | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
On Jun 24 2016, foreign oil company TransCanada filed a lawsuit against the U.S. under NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, arguing that the U.S. rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline violated NAFTA’s broad rights for foreign investors by thwarting the company’s “expectations.” As compensation, TransCanada is demanding more than $15 billion from U.S. taxpayers.
→ read full articleWait
Galway Kinnell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Pulitzer-winning poet Galway Kinnell addressed this elemental question of existence with extraordinary compassion and spiritual grace in a poem he wrote for a student of his who was contemplating suicide after the abrupt end of a romance.
→ read full articleHelen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.
→ read full articleU.S. Policy and the Geopolitical Dynamics of the Middle East
Amb. Chas Freeman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
I have been asked to speak about the geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East, the realignments occurring among states there, and the prospects for the achievement of renewed stability in the region…. Frankly, the prospects that we will get our act and our policies together are not good. But history will not excuse us for acting out Einstein’s definition of insanity: doing more of the same and expecting different results. We won’t get them.
→ read full articleAmerica Trashes NATO Founding Act; Rushes Weapons to Russia’s Borders
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The NATO Founding Act was agreed to between the U.S. and Russia in 1997 in order to provide to Russia’s leader Boris Yeltsin some modicum of assurance that America wouldn’t invade his country. When his predecessor Mikhail Gorbachev had ended the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact military alliance in 1991, the representatives of U.S. President GHW Bush told him that NATO wouldn’t move “one inch to the east.”
→ read full articleMotivation
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
We in Palestine do not have too many answers since most of our people are still at that subsistence level. It is irritating to see the elites (including Palestinian and Israelis) who have their basic needs met refuse to rise to higher levels and get motivated to do something different to make this a better world. At least they should/could follow Howard Zinn’s advice and get off the train (His book “you can’t be neutral on a moving train”).
→ read full article‘Unbounded Organizing in Community:’ As the Economy Fails Us, Community Calls Us
TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Now a new book, a new hands-on step-by-step guide adds an ABCD perspective from the Global South, building on theory and practice from North East Brazil, from rural Botswana, from Chile, and among many other venues South African townships where the unemployed are a majority.
→ read full articlePatrice Lumumba (2 Jul 1925 – 17 Jan 1961)
Encyclopedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Lumumba was a man of strong character who intended to pursue his policies regardless of the enemies he made within his country or abroad. Because of its wealth, size, and proximity to white-dominated southern Africa, Lumumba’s opponents feared the consequences of a radicalized Congo. Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a short time later.
→ read full articlePalestine’s ‘Prayer for Rain’: How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
22 Jun 2016 – Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. By shutting down the water supply at a time that Israeli officials are planning to export essentially Palestinian water, Israel is once more utilizing water as a form of collective punishment.
→ read full articleThe Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
“When our senses become muffled, we no longer feel fully alive… If you have a comfortable connection with your inner sensations … you will feel in charge of your body, your feelings, and your self.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Jun 27-Jul 3 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Modern man’s besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.” – Aldous Huxley
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Prof. Haunani Kay Trask: Hawai’ian Islands Stolen from Hawai’ians by the USA
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
May 29, 2016 – “You caller, need to learn about Hawai’ian history and about where you are.” Haunani-Kay Trask was featured on an episode of Island Issues discussing racism in Hawai’i. Here she responds to one of many “woefully ignorant” callers.
→ read full articleHelen Keller: Socialist, Pacifist, Women’s & Workers’ Rights Advocate
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Helen Keller is one of the most beloved figures in American history. Few people, however, remember her as a socialist, pacifist, and activist. Wikipedia reports, “A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women’s suffrage, labor rights, socialism, and other similar causes.”
→ read full article(Castellano) WikiLeaks: Brexit podría poner fin al exilio de Assange
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Tras conocer la salida del Reino Unido de la Unión Europea, la vocería del portal de filtraciones ha concluido que estas nuevas circunstancias pueden otorgarle la libertad al fundador del portal. “Brexit significa el desguace de la orden de detención europea utilizada como excusa para detener a Assange sin cargos en el Reino Unido durante 5,5 años”.
→ read full articlePut Restorative Justice on the Democratic Platform
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
By reducing the obsession with punishment, restorative justice programs offer hope of reducing war making. The UNESCO constitution reminds us, “war begins in the minds of men.” If schools and juvenile justice programs stop teaching the punishment imperative, if future generations learn nonviolent conflict resolution rather than “destroy your enemy,” then we can expect a decline in public support for war.
→ read full articleBrexit
Brighty – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
See EU later…
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‘They Called Me Osama:’ A Short Documentary on Sikhs in America
Maneetpaul Singh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
This new documentary film released earlier this month seeks to educate people about the Sikh religion and the experiences of Sikhs in America, including bullying in schools, racism, and hate violence. The film, made by Maneetpaul Singh Chawla with funding from the University of Connecticut’s IDEA grant program, aims at preventing abuses of Sikhs and informing mainstream Americans about the centuries old Sikh religion.
→ read full articleOrlando Killings, Guns & War
James ‘Jim’ Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Like any addict, be it an addiction to alcohol, drugs, violence, video games, consumerism, etc. it is hard for an addict to admit the addiction. The U.S. is a nation addicted to violence — guns, war, and global domination. Isn’t it time to stop the killing both at home and abroad? The U.S. needs a 12-step program to recovery; to help build a world with liberty, justice, and peace for all.
→ read full articleParticipatory Economics and the Next System
Robin Hahnel | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Only when a majority are sufficiently disgusted by capitalism and confident that workers and consumers can manage and coordinate their own economic affairs will it be possible to leave capitalism in the dustbin of history where it belongs.
→ read full article[Some Good News!] Brexit Strips World’s 400 Richest People of US$ 127bn – Bloomberg
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 – Brexit-caused losses of the world’s 400 richest people amounted to an eye- watering $USD127.4 billion in a single day, Bloomberg estimates. Rich Britons have lost a “mere” $5.5 billion, according to reports.
→ read full article(Français) Russie et Chine, un couple solide face à la contre-attaque de l’empire
Philippe Stroot | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
22 Juin 2016 – Face à l’expansion sans limite de l’OTAN qui se rapproche sans cesse de ses frontières, à la campagne de dénigrement systématique de Vladimir Poutine dans les médias occidentaux ainsi qu’à une hystérie antirusse sans équivalent même à l’époque de la guerre froide et qui n’a pratiquement plus rien d’idéologique, la Russie cherche et trouve d’autres partenaires à l’Est et au Sud.
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Liberace Plays Tchaikovsky (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The great performer passes the test of time. Dazzling one-man-show!
→ read full articleWhy and in What Ways Is Myanmar Military Protecting Buddhism and Buddhist ‘Race’?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 – Now Myanmar is officially a Fascist State, with the military claiming itself as the protector of Buddhism and Race: Aung San Suu Kyi is crippled, intellectually and strategically. Why does Myanmar Tatmadaw intend to protect “Buddhism” and “Bama race”? And in what specific ways do the military strategists “protect” Buddhism?
→ read full articleGenocide Scholars Pull Out of Israel Conference
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 – The vice-president of the International Network of Genocide Scholars, Univ. of Cape Town Prof. Mohamed Adhikari, has pulled out of the group’s conference at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. British genocide scholar Martin Shaw also announced he is pulling out. South Africa’s Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation also withdrew citing concerns about Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | The Gardasil Debate/Debacle
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
All vaccines have potentially serious adverse effects, only partly because many of them contain substantial amounts of the neurotoxic, fetotoxic and teratogenic aluminum (especially when it is injected into muscle tissue). Aluminum is included in many vaccines where it acts as an adjuvant, which makes it highly likely to cause brain problems in immunologically immature infants (and fetuses) because it adversely affects the blood-brain-barrier and is a mitochondrial toxin.
→ read full articleThe War on Weed Is Winding Down – But Will Monsanto Be the Winner?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The war on cannabis that began in the 1930s seems to be coming to an end. Research shows that this natural plant, rather than posing a deadly danger to health, has a wide range of therapeutic benefits. But skeptics question the sudden push for legalization, which is largely funded by wealthy investors linked to Big Ag and Big Pharma.
→ read full articleA Critique of Human Society since the Neolithic Revolution
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
There is a long history of social critics and progressive thinkers offering critiques of human society. While these and other critiques have much to offer, if we want to trace the origin of the dysfunctional and violent human behaviours that now threaten human extinction, I believe it is necessary to examine what has been happening since the Neolithic (agricultural) revolution some 12,000 years ago.
→ read full articleThe Federal Reserve Cartel (Part 2): The Banking Houses of Morgan and Rockefeller
Dean Henderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch.
→ read full article(Castellano) Masiva protesta en Okinawa contra las bases militares de EE.UU.
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
19 junio 2016 – Unas 65 mil personas protestaron hoy en la isla de Okinawa en rechazo a la presencia de bases militares estadounidenses tras el asesinato de una mujer japonesa, cometido por un contratista de la base militar de Estados Unidos en la isla. Se trata de una de las protestas más grandes desde octubre de 1995, cuando unas 85 mil personas salieron a las calles después de que tres soldados estadounidenses violaran a una niña de 12 años.
→ read full articleThe Federal Reserve Cartel (Part 3): The Freemasons and the House of Rothschild
Dean Henderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
In 1789 Alexander Hamilton became the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Hamilton was one of many Founding Fathers who were Freemasons. He had close relations with the Rothschild family which owns the Bank of England and leads the European Freemason movement. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Ethan Allen, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Brown and Roger Sherman were all Masons.
→ read full articleThe Federal Reserve Cartel (Part 4): Knights of the Roundtable and the Illuminati
Dean Henderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
According to former British intelligence agent John Coleman’s book, The Committee of 300, the Rothschilds exert political control through the secretive Business Roundtable, which they created in 1909 with the help of Lord Alfred Milner and South African industrialist Cecil Rhodes.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Giappone del momento – e gli USA
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Comunque, la demistificazione dei rapporti USA-Giappone è destinata ad arrivare. Ma solo dalla fonte accettabile al “Giappone che dice Sì” (sì-sì-sì-sì): dagli USA stessi. Da USA che perdono una guerra dopo l’altra da quella di Corea del 1953, USA affaticati dalla guerra, checché ne sia la ragione. A un Giappone molto preoccupato per Trump non solo per il [ventilato] ritiro delle truppe dal Giappone lasciandogli l’onere della propria auto-difesa, ma per il [loro] divenire Grande da soli, senza conferire ad altri grandezza indiretta. Rendendolo un Giappone ordinario.
→ read full articleThe Federal Reserve Cartel (Part 5): A Financial Parasite
Dean Henderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
New York City Mayor John Hylan in 1922 argued, “The real menace to our republic is the invisible government which, like a giant octopus, sprawls its slimy length over our city, state and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses, generally referred to as the international bankers”.
→ read full articleReconciliation in Bosnia
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
In Travnik, there were two communities (Bosniaks and Croats). For one and a half year of weekly lectures, they did not mingle at all. All the Croats, who are Catholics, sat on the left side of the room, along with a nun, separated by a walkway from all the Bosniaks, who are Muslims, who sat on the right side, along with an Imam. During breaks, they went to separate rooms to drink tea.
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Jean-Paul Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Sartre was offered, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 for his autobiography, Words, though he subsequently rejected the award based on his own notions of his integrity as a writer.
→ read full articleEurope Migrant Crisis: Charity Rejects EU Funds over Migration Policy
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Medical aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says it will no longer take funds from the European Union in protest at its migration policy.
→ read full articleThe End of M.A.D. — The Beginning of Madness
Eric Zuesse | The Saker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Mutually Assured Destruction, or M.A.D., isn’t only a reality in a nuclearly armed multipolar world, but it is also a mass-psychology, of belief that there cannot be any winner of a nuclear war. But the concept that we are all in this together is gone in the West. If it doesn’t exist in both the West and the ‘East’ (namely, in Russia, where it does exist), then a nuclear war is extremely likely, and the real question is: When will it be likeliest to happen?
→ read full article(Português) Touradas em Portugal
Cláudia Vantacich | RiseUp Portugal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Reportagem espectacular sobre touradas. Todos os argumentos, todos os factos, todas as razões num brilhante trabalho.
→ read full articleStatement on Massacre of LGBTQI and Latino Community Members in Orlando, USA
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
“In loving memory of all who were killed, we pledge not to seek revenge or hatred, but to work for reconciliation and building peaceful ways of living together in all our diversity and plurality as the one human family sharing our one world equally together.”
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(Português) As Touradas: Violência, Crueldade, Ignorância, Futilidade – A Vergonha de Portugal
Cláudia Vantacich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
“A etologia como ramo da zoologia, explica que o comportamento não é determinado pela genética, mas pelo ambiente e interacções do animal. Ou seja, independentemente das características genéticas, o seu comportamento será sempre condicionado, em última análise, pelo propósito e personalidade de quem os cria, tal como acontece com os cães.”
→ read full articleBridges, Not Walls, Foster Peace and Security as Refugees Arrive
Jeff Pugh | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Calls for the exclusion of refugees ignore basic principles of human dignity while undermining the goal of keeping citizens safe. Extremists have used video clips of U.S. politicians’ xenophobic rhetoric as a recruiting tool, trying to convince Muslims that the United States will never welcome them, and that violence is the only way to deal with Westerners.
→ read full articleGeorge Orwell (Jun 25, 1903-Jan 21, 1950)
Encyclopedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
George Orwell was a novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). Aldous Huxley was one of his masters. He worked between bouts of hospitalization for tuberculosis, of which he died in a London hospital.
→ read full articleEnjoy These 10 Detox Water Recipes All Year Long!
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Detox water is basically water infused with fruits, vegetables, and/or herbs. Sometimes called infused water, many people use it as part of a body detox strategy. I know many people who don’t enjoy drinking water. Some say it’s tasteless and dull. That’s what makes detox water so excellent. It adds flavor to plain water while also infusing key, beneficial nutrients.
→ read full articleUndeterred: Amid Terror Attacks in Europe, US H-bombs Still Deployed There
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
A little more than 60 miles from Brussels airport, Kleine Brogel Air Base is one of six European sites where the United States still stores active nuclear weapons; these bombs “evade public attention to the extent that a post-terror attack nuclear scare in Belgium can occur without the bombs even being mentioned.” Today, only 180 — out of more than 7000 US nukes once deployed in Europe — are still kept at the ready: in Belgium, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, and Turkey. Soviet nuclear weapons have even been removed from Eastern Europe.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Interim President Temer Named in Petrobras Kickback Scandal
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
With the surfacing Wednesday [15 Jun] of charges that Brazil’s interim president, Michel Temer, solicited bribes in return for contracts with the state-run oil conglomerate Petrobras, the right-wing regime installed through the drive to impeach Workers Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff has been thrown into deeper crisis.
→ read full articleLegalized Tyranny: India’s Armed Forces Special Powers Act
Hasnat Sheikh | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
12 Jun 2016 – Thousands of extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, mass graves and recurrent incidents of violence brushed under the carpet away from plain sight. Under the power of the world’s largest democracy, an organized system of institutionalized violence has evolved, specifically in the occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Jun 20-26 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coelho
→ read full articleStanding Firm for Reform at the American Psychological Association
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016 – Abolitionist and preacher Frederick Douglass once warned, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will.” Feminist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde similarly advised, “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Their words are worth remembering as we now witness a coordinated campaign of intimidation, deception, and obfuscation targeting the American Psychological Association’s recent efforts to right its ship and institute meaningful ethical reforms in national security contexts.
→ read full articleThe Federal Reserve Cartel (Part 6): The Solution
Dean Henderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
This same cabal of trillionaire money changers – mysteriously immune from their own calls for “broad sacrifice” – utilizes the debt lever to ring concessions from the people of Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and now the United States. In their never-ending quest to subjugate the planet, the bankers’ IMF enforcer – chronic harasser of Third World governments – has turned its sites on the developed world.
→ read full articleWhy Go to Russia?
Kathy Kelly | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
“Prior to the Wall’s removal, President Reagan assured Secretary General Gorbachev that if he would support bringing down the Wall separating East and West Berlin, NATO would not move ‘a finger’s width’ closer to Russia than East Germany’s border. With this assurance Gorbachev gladly signed on. Little could he or the world have guessed that this promise would soon be broken during the next administration – and that the redeveloping distrust between the countries would threaten to become a second Cold War, due to NATO’s expansion up to Russia’s borders.”
→ read full articleIt’s Time for Transparency in the US Lethal Drone Program
Rachel Stohl | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Civilian casualties have raised a number of legal and ethical questions regarding use of this technology, particularly outside of active combat zones. Central to this debate is the secrecy surrounding the US lethal drone program, including a lack of official information on casualty figures and accountability for mistakes.
→ read full articleMessage to the Wall
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Dear Wall,
Your polished surface deceives.
You appear serene, yet you are bursting with anguish and lost potential.
Pathways of Transition to Agroecological Food Systems
Adam Parsons | Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
A new report by leading sustainability experts has reaffirmed the case for a paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems – fundamental to which is a call for redistributing power back into the hands of those who feed the world.
→ read full articleMass Karma
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
On the battlefield you are supposed to try to kill a person whom you’ve never met before. You are shooting because he is wearing the enemy uniform. Under official circumstances, we glorify this sort of behavior. And this glory permeates the American social structure, creating a sort of standing permission for every troubled individual — every potential army of one — to wage war against a self-perceived wrong.
→ read full articleNATO Threatens Europe with Annihilation
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
18 Jun 2016 – NATO is supposed to be a defensive alliance, whose purpose is to “protect Europe from aggression”; but today it is an aggressive tool of the United States. In recent years, participation in NATO has made European countries accomplices in US efforts to achieve global hegemony by means of military force, in violation of international law, and especially in violation of the UN Charter, the Nuremberg Principles.
→ read full articleQueerness and the Next System: Opening Up the Discussion on Homosexuality
Erik Lampmann | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
12 Jun 2016 – For centuries, the erasure of LGBTQ people from public policy has been the norm. Trapped within the confines of our closets by regimes of sexual and gender conformity enforced by brutal violence, sterilization, and incarceration, LGBTQ people have long been denied formal political agency, legal recognition, and the ability to live as our full, authentic selves. It can be tempting to forget that, even in 2016, a presupposition of heterosexuality remains an integral component of the cultural firmament.
→ read full articleAssembly Line & Automation Works
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Two people went along a road with pick and shovel.
→ read full articleThe Confessions of Brock Turner and a Culture of Punishment
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
18 Jun 2016 – The sentencing of a convicted sex offender has recently become a topic of much discussion in the U.S. media, with the focus on the perceived leniency of the punishment and the perpetrator’s refusal to admit guilt. Generally not discussed are the deep assumptions that have elevated punishment to the first priority of the criminal justice system.
→ read full articleState Department Draft Dissent Memo on Syria
The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
17Jun 2016 – In a draft version of a dissent memo filed with the State Department’s senior leadership, dozens of diplomats and other mid-level officials called for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. The document was provided to The Times by a State Department official on condition that the names of the signers not be published.
→ read full articleUN Security Council Agrees to Military Intervention off Libyan Coast
Marianne Arens | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
20 Jun 2016 – Last week, the UN Security Council in New York adopted unanimously a resolution which empowered European member states to search all ships off the Libyan coast for weapons and munitions. With the passage of this resolution, a new war in Libya draws ever closer.
→ read full articleEthiopia-Eritrea: The Cry of the Imburi
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
The frontier issue between the two countries was taken for arbitration to the World Court, but the Court’s findings have not been put into practice. The lands contested are of no particular economic or social importance. Intelligent leadership on both sides could make of the frontier lands a bridge rather than a wall, but intelligent leadership has been in short supply. As the African Union headquarters is in Ethiopia, the AU secretariat has been inactive on the Ethiopia-Eritrea issue for fear of displeasing Ethiopia.
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