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Myanmar’s Rohingya Continue to Suffer Systematic Extortion, Abuse
Physicians for Human Rights, Nobel Peace Laureates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Report from Physicians for Human Rights Shows Severe Persecution Contributes to Cycle of Poverty and Despair among Rohingya Minority
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Oct 24-30 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know that we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.” – Mother Teresa
→ read full articleMSF Refused a Million Free Vaccines to Stand up to Big Pharma
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
16 Oct 2016 – Doctors Without Borders said last week it had refused a donation of one million pneumonia vaccinations from the drug manufacturer Pfizer as part of a principled stand against Big Pharma’s monopolistic drug-pricing policies. While Pfizer made $6.245 billion in revenue last year, 1.4 million children die each year from the pneumonia strain.
→ read full articleI Voted
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
I voted today. …
I voted for peace and justice and sanity
In an insane world of violence and injustice.
I voted.
What Is Peace Journalism?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Profs. Jake Lynch and Dietrich Fischer reply to the question.
→ read full articleAs Honduras Activists Continue to Burn, US Backs Govt
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
21 Oct 2016 – The U.S. will continue giving millions of dollars in military funding to the Honduran government, despite the high-profile targeted assassinations and other human rights abuses documented this year in the Central American nation. The political instability plaguing the country largely followed from the U.S.-backed 2009 coup against President Elect Manuel Zelaya.
→ read full articlePeacekeeping: Fiction vs. Reality
T.J. Petrowski | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
The word peacekeeping is like the word terrorism: it is meaningless on its own and able to be molded to serve the interests of a political clique. Peacekeeping “is usually an instrument for the attempted realization of a political…project that perpetrators lacking mass support are seeking.”
→ read full articleOverview of Class Struggle in Latin America
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
17 Oct 2016 – The class struggle from below has taken different forms and directions, with greater or lesser intensity, between countries and within countries in different time periods.
→ read full articleRussia’s First Ever Monument to Tsar Ivan the Terrible Unveiled in Oryol
TASS | RBTH Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
14 Oct 2016 – The first monument to Tsar Ivan the Terrible in Russia was unveiled on Oct. 14 in the city of Oryol, founded by the Tsar. The monument was erected near the Epiphany Cathedral and Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky welcomed the decision.
→ read full articlePlan Colombia, Permanent War, and the NO Vote
Laura Carlsen – Common Dreams,
24 Oct 2016
The NO vote unexpectedly flipped the political situation back in favor of the rightwing hawks. This uprising could not only flip it back in favor of peace, but also create a social movement capable of going beyond the accords in terms of establishing social justice and human rights and addressing the enormous backlog of demands from below.
→ read full articleGood Deaths in Mosul, Bad Deaths in Aleppo
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
24 Oct 2016
Note how differently The New York Times prepares the American public for civilian casualties from the new U.S.-backed Iraqi government assault on the city of Mosul to free it from the Islamic State, compared to the unrelenting condemnation of the Russian-backed Syrian government assault on neighborhoods of east Aleppo held by Al Qaeda.
→ read full articleBattle for Mosul. Can There Be Respect for the Laws of War?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
In a situation confused by the number and nationalities of the groups in combat and the very ethnically and religiously mixed population of Mosul, what possibilities exist for respect of the laws of war? The laws of war, now often called humanitarian law, have two wings, one dealing with the treatment of medical personnel in armed conflict situations, the treatment of the military wounded and prisoners of war as well as the protection of civilians
→ read full articleFreedom of the Press Faces Judicial Harassment in Brazil
Mario Osava – Inter Press Service-IPS,
24 Oct 2016
The latest high-profile case involves the Gazeta do Povo, the main daily newspaper in Curitiba, the capital of the southern state of Paraná, which is facing 48 lawsuits from judges and public prosecutors who are suing the paper and several of its employees for reporting their incomes in February.
→ read full articleThe Funeral Ruckus
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Shimon Peres would have enjoyed it. A public battle about his funeral. The Arab members of the Knesset did not attend. So what? I did not attend, either. We never liked each other, and my attendance would have been sheer hypocrisy. I don’t like hypocrisy… One thing is quite certain: there will be no change for the better in Israel, no change of government and policy, unless the Arab citizens and their representatives become an integral part of the new peace force without which there is no hope.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Johan Vincent Galtung was born in Oslo, Norway on the same day that the UN would come to existence 15 years later. He was jailed for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to military service. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 167 books, plus.
→ read full articleThe Middle East and the Next Administration
Chas W. Freeman, Jr. | LobeLog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
The U.S. is making enemies all over the Muslim world. And every day here at home, millions pay homage to the memory of Osama as they remove their shoes to pass through metal detectors and are stripped of their dignity by body-imaging devices at airports. Americans are less secure, less prosperous, and less free than we were as this century began. In life, Osama was transformative. In death, he continues to shape the world he left behind.
→ read full articleThe Invitation
Oriah | Mountain Dreamer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing…
→ read full articleGoogle Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
Julia Angwin | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Google is the latest tech company to drop the longstanding wall between anonymous online ad tracking and user’s names.
→ read full articleOn Strip Searches and Press Freedom in North Dakota
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
24 Oct 2016
Pipeline guards unleashed pepper spray and dogs on the land and water defenders. Democracy Now! video showed one of the attack dogs with blood dripping from its nose and mouth. The video went viral, attracting more than 14 million views on Facebook alone. Five days later, North Dakota issued the arrest warrant.
→ read full articleIf the Media Too Will Become a Party
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
If the media too will become a party
Who will then resolve the conflicts?
War or Peace?
Dennis Kucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
20 Oct 2016 – The most consequential statement by Secretary Clinton in last night’s debate was her pronouncement that a no-fly zone over Syria could “save lives and hasten the end of the conflict,” that a no-fly zone would provide “safe zones on the ground” was in “the best interests of the people on the ground in Syria” and would “help us with our fight against ISIS.” It would do none of the above.
→ read full articleProspects, Hope and Strategies for the Future in Palestine
Tommaso Segantini and Norman Finkelstein – teleSUR,
24 Oct 2016
Renowned scholar and political activist Norman Finkelstein talks about a range of issues around Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
→ read full articleDrunks
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Recently, a routine police patrol was parked outside a local neighborhood bar in Minnesota. Late in the evening, the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk.
→ read full articleThe Uniform Civil Code Debate in India: Unveiling the Myths
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
The Indian government has embarked on a marathon exercise of seeking public opinion on having a Uniform Civil Code. A uniform civil code will mean that personal laws will become subservient to constitutional law. The Constitution enjoins all religions and faiths to be respected equally and adherents be free to carry out the articles of their faith.
→ read full articleDrug Resistance: How Dirty Production of UK National Health Service Drugs Helps Create Superbugs
Andrew Wasley and Madlen Davies – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
24 Oct 2016
18 Oct 2016 – The NHS is buying drugs from pharmaceutical companies in India whose dirty production methods are fuelling the rise of superbugs, and there are no checks or regulations in place to stop this happening. The growth in superbugs – infections which are resistant to antibiotics – is one of the biggest public health crises facing the world today, and pollution in drug companies’ supply chains is one of its causes.
→ read full articleFree Distribution of Two UN Books
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
At the Occasion of the 71st Anniversary of the United Nations, 24 October 2016
→ read full articleSpanish Court Overturns Catalonian Bullfighting Ban
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Spain’s Constitutional Court on Thursday [20 Oct] overturned a ban on bullfighting imposed in Catalonia, calling it a cultural asset protected under national law in a ruling likely to fuel political tensions between the region and Madrid. Bullfighting, a bloody ritual intended to ennoble both the “torero” and his victim, has been popular in Spain for generations.
→ read full articleThe Crackdown on Dakota Access Pipeline Reporters Shows the Vital Role of Independent Media
Sarah Aziza | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
The recent arrests of independent journalists have raised questions about state suppression, free speech and the line between activism and journalism.
→ read full articleWashington’s Global Economic Wars
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
18 Oct 2016 – During most of the past two decades Washington has aggressively launched military and economic wars against at least nine countries, either directly or through its military aid to regional allies and proxies. US air and ground troops have bombed or invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon.
→ read full articleWhy Wall Street’s Scandals Keep Coming
Maureen O'Hara | Market Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
It’s too easy for Wall Street to overlook ethical constraints and only care about the ends, not the means.
→ read full articleMasters of War Have Names!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Among Bob Dylan’s many songs written over decades was “Masters of War” that included these lyrics:
“Come you masters of war, You that build the big guns, You that build the death planes. You that build all the bombs. You that hide behind walls. You that hide behind desks. I just want you to know I can see through your masks…
Why Okinawa Should Matter
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
12 Oct 2016 – An earlier version of this post appeared in the Japanese publication, Ryukyu Shimpo. The article is devoted to a critical discussion of Okinawa’s role in serving American and Japanese strategic interests. Since the end of World War II Okinawa has been a mostly unhappy host of American military bases, and the issue has been prominent at times on the agenda of the Japanese peace movement.
→ read full article(Italiano) Paesaggio mediatico: una visita guidata
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
Il punto focale è su quanto i media rendano trasparente il mondo. Parole e immagini facilitano diagnosi, prognosi, terapia, (DPT), altrimenti definibili come analisi, previsione e rimedi? Sì e no.
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to End the Climate Catastrophe
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
As the evidence mounts that we are fast approaching the final point-of-no-return beyond which it will be impossible to take sufficient effective action to prevent climate catastrophe – the evidence of ineffective official responses climbs too. So what are we to do?
→ read full articleChallenge of Three Paradigm Shifts for the 8th BRICS Summit: To Facilitate an Economy of Entrepreneurs
Mazher Hussain | COVA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
There appears some orientation in BRICS for sustainable development and employment to eradicate poverty unlike most other multilateral formations like G 8, World Bank and IMF that focus on mega projects, trade and investment. Indeed it is significant that the 8th BRICS Summit in Goa Oct 15-16 also undertake finalisation of a framework for cooperation for promoting MSME Sector.
→ read full articlePanama: The Hidden Trillions
Alan Rusbridger | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
In a seminar room in Oxford, one of the reporters who worked on the Panama Papers is describing the main conclusion he drew from his months of delving into millions of leaked documents about tax evasion. “Basically, we’re the dupes in this story,” he says. “Previously, we thought that the offshore world was a shadowy, but minor, part of our economic system. What we learned from the Panama Papers is that IT IS the economic system.”
→ read full articleU.S. Military Operations Are Biggest Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds
Murtaza Hussain and Cora Currier – The Intercept,
17 Oct 2016
11 Oct 2016 – A secret FBI study found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of “homegrown” terrorism. The report also identified no coherent pattern to “radicalization,” concluding that it remained near impossible to predict future violent acts. Government officials rarely acknowledge the role that political grievances play in driving attacks.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo – In giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
11 ottobre 2016 – Il Dibattito: Qualcuno ha detto che il problema è la possibilità di ritrovarsi con Trump e la probabilità di ritrovarsi con la Clinton. Dunque una ben misera alternativa tra una persona autistica che vive nella sua bolla e una criminale di guerra che sta privatizzando persino la sua azione militare? Le notizie sull’evento hanno riguardato “chi ha vinto”, non qualche nuova linea politica.
→ read full article9 Reasons That Nobel Peace Prize to Juan M. Santos Was a Wrong Decision
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
[1] Only the government side got the prize 7 October, not FARC; the same mistake as the 1971 prize only to Willy Brandt, not also Brezhnev and the 2000 prize to Kim Dae-jung, not also to North Korea. It takes (at least) two to make a handshake; one hand is only shaking the air.
→ read full articleWhose Side is “God, god, gods, g _ d,” _ _ _ on? A Reprise and More
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
17 Oct 2016 – This paper is an expanded version of a paper first published in TMS on Jan 7, 2013, under a similar title. The focus of the first paper was the invocation of “God, god, g _ d” as a “moral” rationale for justifying wars, occupation, and invasion by empires, nations, religions, and dictators. Invoking the moral authority of “God, god, gods, g _ d” is a timeless ploy used to assure military invincibility, enlist public support, and comfort public doubts about consequences of violence, destruction, and war.
→ read full articleThe Kissinger Story
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
14 Oct 2016 – I am writing this (may God forgive me) on Yom Kippur. Exactly 43 years ago, at this exact moment, the sirens sounded… The Yom Kippur war cost many thousands of lives, Israeli, Egyptian and Syrian. Kissinger achieved his goal. The Soviets lost the Arab world to the United States. Until Vladimir Putin came along.
→ read full article(Français) La responsabilité des multinationales dans le conflit armé colombien
Jorge Freytter-Florian et Juan Hernandez Zubizarreta | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
14 Oct 2016 – Dans le conflit colombien, beaucoup d’entreprises nationales et internationales s’en prennent systématiquement aux droits de l’Homme. L’Accord Final définissant les termes de la fin du conflit et la construction d’une paix stable et durable aborde cette question.
→ read full articleFrom War to Peace
Hank Stone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
The U.S. has the technology to replace the war system with a world peace system, and has the capability to declare peace on the world, and make it stick. But a peace system is very cheap compared to the war system. This means switching to world peace is politically impossible. Beneficiaries of business as usual, including the war system, have the clout to protect themselves from change. The way to make transition to world peace possible – even easy – is to recreate the benefits of war within the peace system.
→ read full article(Castellano) BRICS debaten sobre economía, terrorismo y cambio climático
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
15 octubre 2016 – Diversos temas mundiales, con énfasis en los económicos, serán abordados desde este sábado la VIII Cumbre de los países BRICS (Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Suráfrica) a desarrollarse en Panaji, capital del estado indio de Goa.
→ read full articleSouth Asia Regional Cooperation: What Is in It for the Citizens?
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
SAARC has become an outdated and ineffective institution for the purpose it was conceived. It contributes little in creating positive climate for investment, trade, economic development and regional prosperity or in establishing socio-economic and political harmony. It has no road map on political cooperation, economic development and, above all, maintaining regional peace and security.
→ read full articleWhat Color Is The Wind? A Most Unusual Serenade to the Senses, Inspired by a Blind Child
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
“What is essential is invisible to the eye,” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote in The Little Prince. Those bereft of vision, therefore, need not be bereft of the essential — they discern it by means other than sight. An imaginative invitation to empathy and self-expansion.
→ read full articleBrazil: The Billion Dollar Coup
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was removed from office through a well-organized, carefully planned operation among the corrupt Brazilian political elite, closely linked to the stock-market, financial institutions and foreign energy companies.
→ read full articleObituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016) RIP
Rowan Jacobsen | Outside Online – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia passed away in 2016 after a long illness. It was 25 million years old. Climate change and ocean acidification have killed off one of the most spectacular features on the planet. Attempts to call attention to the reef’s plight were thwarted by the government of Australia itself.
→ read full articleUS Congressman to John Kerry: Are We Committing War Crimes in Yemen?
Daniel McAdams | Ron Paul Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
On Tuesday [11 Oct], US Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) wrote a remarkable letter to Secretary of State John Kerry. Citing the “civilian carnage caused by the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition in Yemen,” he expressed concern to Kerry that the US government might be “liable for war crimes in Yemen,” based on continued US material support for the ongoing Saudi attack on its southern neighbor.
→ read full articleOath of Office
Jonik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
I swear…
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky Unravels the Political Mechanics behind His Gradual Expulsion from Mainstream Media
Alexandra Rosenmann - AlterNet,
17 Oct 2016
Ever wonder why the prolific author and acclaimed MIT professor is never featured on major networks? Just 6 Corporations Own 90% of Media in the US.
→ read full article(Português) A violência e a tortura de animais revela desvio de personalidade
Elaine Cristine Franco - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
17 Oct 2016
Vários estudos apontam para uma íntima relação entre a criminalidade e os maus-tratos aos animais. De acordo com o artigo de Fátima Borges, há uma conexão entre maus-tratos e a criminalidade. Segundo o FBI, 80% dos assassinos começaram torturando animais.
→ read full articleJournalist Amy Goodman Shouldn’t Be Arrested for Covering Dakota Pipeline Story
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
17 Oct 2016
To the offending prosecutor, Ladd Erickson, who is apparently a fan. I don’t normally like to disagree with anyone possessing the excellent judgment to be a regular reader of mine, but Erickson is dead wrong here. Amy Goodman was clearly acting as a reporter at the protest. Moreover, she’s as close to the ideal of what it means to be a journalist as one can get in this business.
→ read full articleWhat Is a Coup? Analysing the Brazilian Impeachment Process
Aline Piva and Frederick B. Mills - CounterPunch,
17 Oct 2016
Impeachment or Coup? To understand Rousseff’s impeachment, one must understand Brazil’s history of constitutional rupture. The civil and military coup of 1964 is the most exemplary of such ruptures, but there were similar attempts in 1930, 1937, 1954, and 1961. On all these occasions, sectors from the economic and political elite resorted to unconstitutional or undemocratic means to overthrow democratically elected governments that challenged oligarchic interests.
→ read full articleLow Food Prices: Good for Your Pocket, Bad for Small Farmers
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
17 Oct 2016
10 Oct 2016 – What would be your reaction if you were told that food prices are steadily declining worldwide? Good, very good news, you may say. But do the 600 million small, family farmers, those who produce up to 80 per cent of food in some regions, think the same way? Definitely not at all.
→ read full articleDelete Your Yahoo Account
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
17 Oct 2016
4 Oct 2016 – There’s no good reason to have a Yahoo account these days. Yahoo chose to comply with a classified “directive” to build “a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials” — the NSA in particular.
→ read full articleThe Lost Cultures of Whales
Shane Gero – The New York Times,
17 Oct 2016
I could point to many reasons to protect whales, like the way they mitigate the effects of climate change by cycling nutrients that enable the ocean to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, or how top predators regulate marine food chains. But if we are to preserve life, ours and theirs, we must find ways to succeed together, and value diversity in our societies and in our ecosystems.
→ read full articleThe Network of Global Corporate Control
Stefania Vitali, James B. Glattfelder and Stefano Battiston | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
Abstract: The structure of the control network of transnational corporations affects global market competition and financial stability. So far, only small national samples were studied and there was no appropriate methodology to assess control globally. We present the first investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held by each global player. We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers.
→ read full articleOona’s Mum
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
– What is that philosophy book you were reading?
Have you written something new? Five days
I didn’t hear a word… what about your local
peace group? Be gentle, do not criticise them,
they will realise one day –
Clair de lune (Music Video of the Week)
Jia Wang, Piano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
By the French composer Claude-Achille Debussy. He and Maurice Ravel were the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though Debussy disliked the term when applied to his compositions. Wikipedia
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
Oct 17-23 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” – Saint Augustine
→ read full article(Castellano) Haití, herida abierta de América Latina
Gisela Brito | CELAG-Centro Estratégico Latinoamericano de Geopolítica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
Luego del terremoto de 2010, la Minustah, las ONG’S y una minúscula pero poderosa élite local gobiernan el país. Las consecuencias no pueden ser peores para la mayoría de la población. La debilidad institucional y los intereses predatorios se conjugan para dar lugar a un millonario negocio que florece día a día desviando fondos destinados a ayuda humanitaria y reconstrucción ante el encubridor mutismo de la «comunidad internacional»
→ read full articleRohingya Crisis: ‘Latest Violence Marks Predictable Escalation in Burma/Myanmar’s Genocidal Process’
Jacob J – International Business Times,
17 Oct 2016
15 Oct 2016 – Reports of the latest attacks against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar may signal a new phase in the “genocidal situation”, researchers at London’s Queen Mary University have said.
→ read full articleRebuilding Haiti, One Commune at a Time
Mark Schuller – CounterPunch,
17 Oct 2016
11 Oct 2016 – As Hurricane Matthew continued onto the U.S., the waters receded in Haiti, and it became apparent that the damage was immense. Just like many people who either are Haitian or work in Haiti, I’ve been asked by people who want to help for recommendations. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t simple.
→ read full article(Italiano) La visibilità delle notizie… a proposito dell’energia nucleare
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
17 Oct 2016
Swiss ban new nuclear reactors (la Svizzera mette al bando la costruzione di nuove centrali nucleari) Interessante! Sembra che i nostri vicini di casa abbiano preso una decisione importante… tuttavia, come fa notare l’autore dell’articolo, non c’è traccia di questo nei principali giornali in lingua inglese.
→ read full article
Start of Fifth Annual Maine Peace Walk
Eric Herter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
On October 11th, about twenty Peace Walkers, ages ranging from ten to seventy-nine, gathered at the Indian Island, Maine, home of the Penobscot Nation, for inspirational talks from Sherri Mitchell, a tribal lawyer, activist and writer, and from Tribal Chief Francis. The following morning they started their two-week trek to the southern border of Maine hundreds of miles to the south, a trip that will take them to many Maine communities, home-stays and community gatherings. They describe here why they feel impelled to spend a fortnight on the road speaking out for peace, and for the defense of Mother Earth.
→ read full article(Português) É o Estado, imbecis!
Emir Sader | Brasil 247 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
São governos que levam ao coração do Estado os interesses do capital financeiro, que eleva exponencialmente seus lucros, redistribuindo renda para cima, como um Robin Hood ao contrário, tomando dos pobres para dar mais ainda aos ricos.
→ read full article(Français) Les Etats-Unis devront-ils aussi payer pour leurs crimes en Irak?
Gilles Munier | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
L’Arab project in Iraq, un groupe de lobbyistes irakiens dirigé par Najeh al-Meezan, va demander au Parlement de Bagdad de voter une loi permettant aux Irakiens de réclamer des compensations aux Etats-Unis pour les «exactions » commises dans leur pays par les troupes américaines, les contractors et les escadrons de la mort créés par la CIA.
→ read full articleHaiti’s Hurricane Devastation: A Tragedy Rooted in Capitalist Oppression
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
In the wake of the 2010 earthquake, international donors pledged $10.4 billion for Haiti, including $3.9 billion from the US. The chief figure overseeing this relief effort was Bill Clinton, whose previous “gift” to the people of Haiti was a trade deal that eliminated tariffs on rice imports from the US subsidized by the American government, bankrupting Haiti’s own rice producers and leaving the country unable to feed itself.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Moral Duty in Yemen
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
17 Oct 2016
11 Oct 2016 – President Obama must cut off military aid to Saudi Arabia unless it ends the carnage and returns to peace talks. Yemen is near collapse, with 80 percent of the country in need of humanitarian aid. Al Qaeda’s affiliate there is becoming stronger and the population more radicalized. The longer the war goes on, the harder it will be to end.
→ read full articlePolitical Defamation Campaign Targets Rescue Workers in Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
The White Helmets are being attacked with all sorts of unfounded accusations and conspiracy theories that have nothing to do with who the volunteers are, what the rescue workers are actually doing, why they are doing it, and their contacts, if any at all, with members of the international public or even political factions abroad.
→ read full articleTrump, Clinton, Obama and the TPP
Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
17 Oct 2016
Americans and Europeans are increasingly convinced that while elite interests are well served by ‘globalization’, the public interests of consumers and working people are not. The strong American popular opposition to the TPP, the Brexit vote and other recent developments in the West suggest growing rejection of the myth that national public and corporate elite interests are identical.
→ read full article(Português) A Desordem Mundial: O Espectro da Total Dominação
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
A conclusão é avassaladora:”Onde quer que os Estados Unidos intervieram, como o “specific goal of bringing democracy”, a democracia constitui-se de bombardeios, destruição, terror, massacres, caos e catástrofes humanitárias…entraram para defender suas necessidades e interesses econômicos e geopolíticos, seus interesses imperiais”
→ read full articleThe Ubiquity of Joy and Poetry
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
A world in which the explorations of nature, the contemplation of art and the bringing together of people concerned not so much with what they can amass, with what fortresses they build, with what territory they can extend, but with what they may share, would prevail. A world of delight in the subtleties of the word, person to person, lip to ear. A world in which life would be all the more precious for its transience and fragility.
→ read full articleThe Surveillance State Descends on the Dakota Access Pipeline Spirit Camp
Sabrina King and Will Munger | American Civil Liberties Union-ACLU – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
10 Oct 2016 – For the past six weeks, the Morton County Sheriff’s Office has dramatically increased its surveillance of the gathering, militarized the county, and taken action to suppress the religious expression of the indigenous people gathered at Sacred Stone.
→ read full article(Castellano) La recargada colonialidad permanente en América Latina
Itzamná Ollantay - teleSUR,
17 Oct 2016
La condición de colonialidad no sólo configura en el colonizado la idealización “natural” del color, sentir, hacer y pensar del colonizador, sino que instala dispositivos nefastos en las estructuras psicológicas más profundas del primero. Las condiciones de subordinación/despojo no sólo son vistas como “realidades normales”, sino que son asumidas con gratitud como una “benevolencia” del colonizador.
→ read full articleA Milestone for America’s Culture
James A. Haught | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
When I was a young adult, the only Americans who mattered were WASPs (white Anglo-Saxon Protestants). They were the overwhelming majority. Their laws and customs dominated everything. But now, they’ve dwindled to just 16 percent among those under 30. And they’re destined to keep shrinking as nonwhite Americans rise, the Census Bureau projects.
→ read full articlePeace Education for Good Governance and Nonviolence
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
International Association of Educators for World Peace Congress: Peace Education for Good Governance and Nonviolence – October 24-26, 2016 Maharashtra, India
→ read full articleIt’s the State, Stupid!
Emir Sader – teleSUR,
17 Oct 2016
Neoliberal governments have the interests of finance capital at heart, like a backward Robin Hood, taking from the poor to give even more to the rich.
→ read full articleLeaked Clinton email Admits Saudi, Qatari Governments Funding ISIS in Syria
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
An email exchange between Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager John Podesta, posted Monday [10 Oct] by WikiLeaks, frankly acknowledges that the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is funded and supported by Washington’s chief allies in the Arab world.
→ read full articleDelusions of Worthy Wars
Nicolas J S Davies | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
When we compare our military spending to that of other countries, we are outspending the next 9 military powers in the world, and we are single-handedly spending more than 180 less militarized countries combined. Clearly it has not enabled the U.S. to win any wars. The only wars we have won since WWII were over tiny Grenada, Panama, Kuwait and Kosovo. Hillary Clinton derided those operations as “splendid little wars” in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, as she urged more ambitious uses of U.S. military force.
→ read full articleThe Convoluted Discourse: Was the Women’s Boat to Gaza an Existential Threat?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
“We will not accept any (rocket) fire, any provocation, against the citizens of Israel by whoever it might be, or any attack on Israel’s sovereignty. Not rocket fire, and not a flotilla,” Lieberman said. The activists atop the boat included Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland. In Lieberman’s logic, Maguire’s act to end a decade-long blockade on a poor region is equivalent to the firing of a rocket.
→ read full articleGeneration Adderall
Casey Schwartz - The New York Times Magazine,
17 Oct 2016
The Adderall made my life unpredictable, blowing black storm systems over my horizon with no warning at all. Still, I couldn’t give it up. The psychiatrist observed my distress calmly and prescribed Wellbutrin, an antidepressant with a slightly speedy quality that could cushion the blow of withdrawal and make it less painful to get off the Adderall. Soon enough, I was simply taking both medications.
→ read full articleThink Critically! Don’t Be Fooled!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
The U.S. Mainstream Corporate Media is very good at blaming and demonizing others, especially Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The real purpose is to attack anyone who opposes U.S. dominance as the world’s sole superpower. Somehow the U.S. believes it has the right to decide who should rule or not rule in countries all around the world.
→ read full articleChristopher Columbus, Crawl Back in Your Hole!
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
Christopher Columbus, crawl back in your hole!
Take you Nina, Pinta and Santa Magreedier!
We know what you did in Hispaniola!
We watched silver helmets glint in the sun.
We saw you claim our island for Spain!
Idiot!
(Italiano) Gandhi: ‘La mia vita è il mio messaggio’
Robert J. Burrowes | Z Net Italy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
La vita di Gandhi fu contrassegnata da molte citazioni memorabili, ma una che è meno nota è questa: “Non puoi mai sapere quali risultati produrranno le tue azioni, ma se non fai nulla non ci saranno risultati”. Fortunatamente ci sono molte persone impegnate che hanno identificato l’importanza di agire per por fine alla violenza nel nostro mondo.
→ read full articleAlcoholism [Not a Joke!]
TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
Hooked for Life
→ read full article(Italiano) Le alternative alla guerra esistono
Angela Dogliotti Marasso – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
17 Oct 2016
Ancora una volta, infatti, si sceglie di ricorrere allo strumento militare, nel tentativo di risolvere una situazione diventata sempre più caotica e degenerata, come sappiamo, proprio a seguito del precedente intervento armato, anziché percorrere altre strade, come quelle suggerite dalla Rete Disarmo e dalla Rete della Pace, di una “Conferenza internazionale con tutti i soggetti politici, sociali e civili della Libia, nell’ottica di una strategia di costruzione della Pace ‘dal basso’ che assicuri nel contempo l’incolumità delle popolazioni civili e la costruzione dello stato di diritto”.
→ read full articleA Short List of the Most Lethal CIA Interventions in Latin America
Edited by Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
In its 200 year history, the USA has intervened in, invaded or militarily occupied the following Western Hemisphere nations: Canada, Confederate States of America, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Surinam, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Grenada.
→ read full articleWhat Happens When a Small Farmer Migrates?
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
17 Oct 2016
With 2 in 3 people estimated to be living in towns and cities by the year 2030, an old “equation” jumps rapidly to mind: each time a small farmer migrates to an urban area, equals to one food producer less, and one food consumer more.
→ read full articlePutting Their Bodies on the (Pipe)line
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
17 Oct 2016
The movement to combat climate change is growing dynamically and unpredictably, and is facing increasing repression from the fossil-fuel industry and government authorities. There is perhaps no better example of this than the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
→ read full articleWas the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 Wrongly Awarded?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
My comment critical of the award is printed below, and is followed by an even more critical comment by Fredrik S. Heffermehl, a Norwegian jurist who has taken a special interest in the Nobel Peace Prize, especially making a great effort to call attention to the failure of the Norwegian committee that is responsible for deciding on recipients to adhere to the will and intentions of Alfred Nobel who established this most coveted of international awards at the end of the nineteenth century.
→ read full articlePhilippines President Rodrigo Duterte Orders US Forces Out of Country, Cutting 65 Years of Military Ties
Alexandra Sims – The Independent,
17 Oct 2016
‘Do not treat us like a doormat because you’ll be sorry for it. I will not speak with you. I can always go to China.’
→ read full articleSwiss Ban New Nuclear Reactors
Craig Morris | Energy Transition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
6 Oct 2016 – Another setback for the “nuclear renaissance”: Switzerland voted on Friday [30 Sep] to focus more on renewables and efficiency. For the first time ever, new nuclear plants are officially off the table. The Swiss just “adopted the Energiewende,” writes the Neue Züricher Zeitung. Is no one paying attention?
→ read full articleThe US Just Bombed Yemen, and No One’s Talking About It
Moustafa Bayoumi – The Guardian,
17 Oct 2016
15 Oct 2016 – What if the United States went to war and nobody here even noticed? The question is absurd, isn’t it? And yet, this almost perfectly describes what actually happened this past week. The Trump show has managed to bump all serious and necessary policy debates not just off the table but out of the room.
→ read full articleEnding Marginalization and Exclusion
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
17 October was set by the UN General Assembly as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. October 17 is the anniversary of a 1987 meeting in Paris near where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948–a reminder that the victims of extreme poverty, hunger and violence do not enjoy the rights that are set out in the Universal Declaration.
→ read full articleUS Foreign Policy: Killing People to Save Them
Dr. Arshad M Khan – teleSUR,
17 Oct 2016
What we have seen is the Middle East and large parts of North Africa on the receiving end of death, destruction and displacement over the last 15 years.
→ read full articleAntonio Guterres: New UN Secretary General
Farhana Haque Rahman – Inter Press Service-IPS,
17 Oct 2016
13 Oct 2016 – The new UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who takes office on January 1, arrives with strong credentials — both as a former Prime Minister of Portugal and an ex-UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
→ read full articleThe Great Diversion: Democrats Focus on Sex Scandal as Conflict with Russia Escalates
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
Behind a nearly total media blackout, the White House National Security Council held a closed-door meeting Friday [14 Oct] to review the US military’s campaign in Iraq and Syria. The only major media advance report on the meeting, carried by Reuters on Thursday and then quickly dropped, noted that US officials were weighing “air strikes on Syrian military bases, munitions depots or radar and anti-aircraft bases.”
→ read full articleFarewell to Florence
Emanuel E. García, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
I left a jacket
Purposefully
At the Piazza della Signoria