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Rebuilding 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 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 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.
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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(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 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 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 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 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 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 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 article(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 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!
Alcoholism [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 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 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 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 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 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 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
9 Reasons Why Nobel to Santos Was a Wrong Decision
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 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 articleConcordian Mandala as a Symbolic Nexus
Anthony Judge | Laetus in praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
Insights from Dynamics of a Pentagonal Configuration of Nonagons in 3D – The case for a “concordian mandala” was made previously. This was inspired by the social chaos purportedly addressed by the so-called Discordian Mandala. The mandala is described in the controversial Principia Discordia, elaborated by Greg Hill with Kerry Wendell, as the provocative doctrinal manifesto of Discordianism.
→ read full articleWorld Food Day: A Focus on Food Security in Yemen
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
16 October is World Food Day, so designated by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization – a yearly reminder that there are people who are constantly hungry due to inadequate agricultural methods, poor distribution, poor food storage, and armed conflict.
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(Castellano) Me llaman calle (Music Video of the Week)
Manu Chao – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
The legendary Argentinean pop group notorious for the sarcastic yet truthful socially conscious messages their music carry. This one is about prostitutes on the streets of the world.
→ read full article(Castellano) Colombia: Las víctimas votaron por el Sí
Semana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
Un vistazo a las regiones más afectadas por el conflicto permite ver una de las grandes paradojas de Colombia: quienes más muertos pusieron en la guerra apoyaron más el Acuerdo.
→ read full articleThe Geopolitics of Shimon Peres’ Legacy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
Basically, the question posed is whether to celebrate Peres’ death as that of a man dedicated to peace and reconciliation or to portray him as a wily opportunist, a skillful image-maker, and in the end, a harsh Zionist and ambitious Israeli leader.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks: 10 Years of Pushing the Boundaries of Free Speech
Nozomi Hayase | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
We are now entering WikiLeaks 10 year anniversary. The organization registered their domain on October 4, 2006 and blazed into the public limelight in the spring of 2010 with the publication of Collateral Murder. This video footage depicted the cruel scenery of modern war seen from an Apache helicopter gun-sight. It became an international sensation, with the website temporarily crashing with the massive influx of visitors.
→ read full articleStories from Returning #WomenToGaza – Struggle to End Illegal Israeli Blockade Continues
Women’s Boat to Gaza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
8 Oct 2016 – When Zaytouna-Oliva was surrounded by Israeli war ships, Mairead Maguire stated: “This is Israeli state piracy” and she continued as the yacht was illegally boarded and commandeered. The women were detained for two days–a relatively short time compared with previous flotillas–perhaps due to the enormous support from individuals, organisations, MEPs, and high profile personalities such as Pink Floyd. After being taken to Israel against their will, some of them report they were prevented from sleeping during their detention.
→ read full articleThe Secret Life of Trees: The Astonishing Science of What Trees Feel and How They Communicate
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
“A tree can be only as strong as the forest that surrounds it.” Trees dominate the world, the oldest living organisms. Hermann Hesse called them “the most penetrating of preachers.”
→ read full articleWill Politicians and the Corporate Media Say the Truth One Day?
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
In fact the truth is very simple: Eastern Aleppo will be destroyed because of the “success” of the latest attempts to broker an increase of fighters, fighting vehicles, weapons, ammunition, missiles and explosives. I shall continue my campaign for the abolition of militarism.
→ read full articleThe NYT’s Neocon ‘Downward Spiral’
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Oct 2016
Every day, The New York Times – America’s “paper of record” – sinks deeper into the swamp of propaganda, now reliably touting predictable neocon notions about the Middle East and Russia.
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The National Theatre of Norway’s Official Apology for the Cooperation with Habima of Israel
nationaltheatret beklager – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
Sep 22, 2016 – “In 2014 the National Theater of Norway collaborated with Habima, the National Theater of Israel, on the project TERRORISM organized by the European Theater Union, UTE. Habima breaks international law when they perform in illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.”
→ read full articleApple, Brussels, and Ireland’s Bruised Sovereignty
Yanis Varoufakis | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
Is the Commission’s latest intervention another example of EU bullying, in violation of Ireland’s sovereignty? Comparing Trichet’s 2009 intervention and the current standoff over Apple holds important lessons beyond Ireland and, indeed, Europe. With the EU still refusing meaningful reduction of a debt burden unfairly borne by the younger generation, the Irish remain convinced, correctly, that the EU violated their sovereignty on behalf of foreign bankers.
→ read full article(Français) Che Guevara, Inti Paredo… Pour la vengeance, la route n’est jamais trop longue
Hernando Calvo Ospina | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
8 Oct 2016 – Alors qu’Ernesto « Che » Guevara venait d’être assassiné, le colonel bolivien, Roberto Quintanilla, lui fit amputer les mains. Ce fut un outrage terrible qu’il commit le 9 octobre 1967. Il devint l’homme le plus haï de la gauche mondiale qui était à l’époque nombreuse et radicale.
→ read full articleAfter the Coup: Nonviolent Strategic Actions for Brazilians
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
As I see and read about the ongoing massive protests, as well as calls by prominent community leaders to mobilize in defense of your country’s democracy, I feel great hope for Brazil. Having been a nonviolent activist for many years, I would like to support Brazilian activists to develop a nonviolent strategy that will increase your chances of success. Please read on.
→ read full articleInside the Shadowy PR Firm That’s Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria
Max Blumenthal - AlterNet,
10 Oct 2016
Posing as a non-political solidarity organization, the Syria Campaign leverages local partners and media contacts to push the U.S. into toppling another Middle Eastern government.
→ read full articleThe Horrors of a Hurricane, Doubled by Statelessness
Skye Wheeler | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
3 Oct 2016 – My thoughts tonight are with Haitians, but also with the perhaps thousands of stateless people—including children—along Haiti’s border with the Dominican Republic. They live in make-shift camps constructed from sticks, cardboard and clothes tied or sewn together into tent-like structures. I can’t imagine many worse places to be when a hurricane dumps 40 inches of rain.
→ read full articleWhy Aleppo Is the Symptom of What Is Wrong with How We Deal with Atrocities
Patrick T. Hiller | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
It is time to follow a new path. A path that is not informed by some sort of perceived naïve pacifism, but by rigorous analysis of nonviolent alternatives without a so-called military option as part of the picture. The military option needs to be taken off the table, otherwise all the other approaches are facing a counterforce and are directly undermined.
→ read full articleGuccifer 2.0 Hacked Clinton Foundation
guccifer2 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
4 Oct 2016 – Many of you have been waiting for this, some even asked me to do it. So, this is the moment. I hacked the Clinton Foundation server and downloaded hundreds of thousands of docs and donors’ databases.
→ read full article(Português) Árvore mais antiga de Portugal tem 2850 anos
Sofia Marques Correia | Noctula Channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
A árvore mais antiga que se conhece em Portugal é uma oliveira com 2850 anos. Tem 10 metros e 15 centímetros de diâmetro e, apesar da idade, ainda dá azeitonas!
→ read full articleDoes Syria Have the Right to Defend Itself?
Rick Sterling | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
4 Oct 2016 – There is a hypocritical disconnect in Western and especially U.S. foreign policy. When it comes to Israel, the US is quick to claim “Israel has a right to defend itself”. For Syria, that same right does not seem to exist. Two things are clear:
• The public should be wary of media stories based on the claims of biased actors and not supported by solid evidence; and,
• The Syrian government has the right to defend itself against foreign-funded violent extremists seeking to destroy it.
Ring Any Bells?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
No Comment
→ read full articleNo Looking Back
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
Behind me the woods
We had traversed so long
Ringing with the din of pursuit,
I Am a Muslim, and I Love My India
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
I am a Muslim, and I love my India
Yes, unconditionally I love my India
[Despite any religious affiliation
Despite a number of allegations ,,,
Take a Deep Breath? But 9 in 10 People Worldwide Live with Excessive Air Pollution!
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
10 Oct 2016
29 Sep 2016 – The warning is sharp and the facts, alarming: 92 per cent of the world’s population lives in places where levels exceed recommended limits. And 6.5 million people die annually from air pollution: UN WHO.
→ read full articleThe Joke Is on… Who?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
The Club
→ read full articleTo Sell Weapons, Defense Contractors Make War Seem Fun
Naomi LaChance – The Intercept,
10 Oct 2016
6 Oct 2016 – A visit to the Association of the United States Army’s annual exposition. AUSA features a who’s who of the military-industrial complex, and the extreme excess of money in the industry is evident everywhere.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
Oct 10-16 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Faith allows things to happen. It is the power that comes from a fearless heart. And when a fearless heart believes, miracles happen.” – Unknown
→ read full articleDakota Access Pipeline ‘Water Protectors’ Block Construction despite National Guard Blockade, Police Harassment & Arrests
Kit O'Connell – MintPress News,
10 Oct 2016
4 Oct 2016 — Amid near continuous harassment and frequent arrests by police, members of over 300 Native American tribes gathered on native land in North Dakota continue to block construction on the Dakota Access pipeline. ‘Our intentions are to protect water for the 18 million people downstream. And we’re not protesters, we’re protectors,’ a member of the Navajo Nation living at the encampment told us.
→ read full articleFriedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus - Encyclopædia Britannica,
10 Oct 2016
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
→ read full article‘The Earth Is Not Flat; It Is Urban’
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
10 Oct 2016
4 Oct 2016 – When the United Nations elaborated its latest report on the impact of what it calls “the dramatic shift towards urban life,” it tried to draw a balanced portrait of both the opportunities and the challenges of the fact that 1 in 2 world inhabitant already lives in urban areas and what this implies.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | The Drugs May Be the Problem
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
Inconvenient Truths about Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Industry: A Tribute to Whistle-Blowing Psychiatrists Peter Breggin and Loren Mosher
→ read full articleRethinking Killing Civilians
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
We not only create more terrorists when we accidentally or mistakenly take out a hospital, almost more importantly, we create a widening, deepening pool of sympathy for any sort of insurgency against the US. Why on Earth would we continue to essentially guarantee that this global war on terror is permanent?
→ read full articleAdvancing the Next System with Advanced Manufacturing
Max Ogden, Nina Gregg, Doug Gamble, Andrew Dettmer and David Schweickart | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
27 Sep 2016 – This essay is a polemic. As such, we argue with broad strokes. We welcome debate on the broad strokes as well as the details, knowing that such an exchange will refine and improve the discussion. The foundation for a society that is economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable.
→ read full articleThe Eurasian Century Is Now Unstoppable
F. William Engdahl | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
What I’ve seen in my many visits to China, and have studied about the entirety of this enormously impressive international infrastructure project convinces me that a Eurasian Century at this point is unstoppable.
→ read full articleScience and Society
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
I would like to announce that an updated and very much enlarged edition of my book “Science and Society” will very soon be published by World Scientific (in November, 2016). Locally printed editions of it were used in courses taught not only in Denmark, but also in Sweden, Switzerland, England and Myanmar. It would be very good if the book could be used at the high-school or gymnasium level, as well as in colleges and universities.
→ read full articleThe Day After the Fall of Aleppo Will International Humanitarian Law Still Be Relevant?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
This observer rejects the arguments being heard these days that the world is not ready, legally or politically, for broader and stricter international humanitarian law accountability. On the contrary, the international judicial community has had ample experience in achieving justice for many civilian victims of war crimes by applying international humanitarian law. And over the past twenty years it has increased dramatically.
→ read full articleHurricane Matthew in Haiti: Looking Beyond the Disaster Narrative
Mark Schuller – CounterPunch,
10 Oct 2016
I hesitate to write this given how Haiti has been politicized in the most cynical way by a candidate who has expressed his hostility to immigrants and black people generally, but frankly, Haiti was not “built back better” by the $16 billion relief effort to the 2010 earthquake, as UN Special Envoy Bill Clinton cheerfully promised.
→ read full articleBarbarism in Words and Deeds
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
Barbarism: the Deed – Over the past decade and a half, the US and its allies have invaded, occupied, killed, wounded and dispossessed over ten million people, in countries from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. Military and civilian officials have systematically destroyed entire economies, fostered ethno-religious wars, undermined ancient community and family ties and placed corrupt political puppets in power.
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Michel Temer Confession on Dilma’s Impeachment
The Intercept Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
Sep 22, 2016 – Speaking to a group of U.S. business and foreign policy elites, the country’s installed president, Michel Temer, admitted that what triggered the impeachment process was not any supposed “budgetary crimes,” but rather Dilma’s opposition to the neoliberal platform of social program cuts and privatization demanded by Temer’s party and the big-business interests that fund it.
→ read full articleBeyond the T-Shirt: What Che Guevara Actually Stood For
Urooba Jamal – teleSUR,
10 Oct 2016
The famous portrait of Che Guevara graces T-shirts and posters the world over, but what did the revolutionary leader actually stand for?
→ read full articlePropaganda Techniques of Empire
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
Washington’s quest for perpetual world power is underwritten by systematic and perpetual propaganda wars. Every major and minor war has been preceded, accompanied and followed by unremitting government propaganda designed to secure public approval, exploit victims, slander critics, dehumanize targeted adversaries and justify its allies’ collaboration.
→ read full articleLegitimacy at Sea: Is Sea Shepherd a Navy or Piracy?
Joshua Tallis |Center for International Maritime Security – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
28 Sep 2016 – A recent pair of dueling articles on CIMSEC sparked a firestorm of debate. The point of contention: does the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s fleet of whaler-chasing ships constituted a navy?
→ read full article(Português) Planta Amazônica Pode Ajudar Doentes de Alzheimer a Criar Novos Neurônios
Alzheimer360 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
O caminho para um tratamento eficaz de doenças neurodegenerativas, como o Alzheimer, pode estar bem mais perto do que você pensava. Uma substância encontrada no caule de uma planta amazônica poderá ser usada em medicamentos fitoterápicos para o combate ao Alzheimer.
→ read full articleWhy Colombians Opposed the Peace Deal with FARC
Hisham Aidi – Al Jazeera,
10 Oct 2016
The outcome of the referendum on the peace accord may be shocking but it is largely a result of domestic politics. Critics of the accord have argued that, by granting amnesty to FARC, the agreement secured peace at the expense of justice.
→ read full articleExclusive: Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence – Sources
Joseph Menn | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
4 Oct 2016 – The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said three former employees and a fourth person apprised of the events.
→ read full articleOde to Turmeric!
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
Turmeric, turmeric–
coppery-golden spice!
Rubbed on fish,
rubbed on chicken–
it’s finger-lickin’
good!
(Castellano) ¿Hay una Crisis Chilena?
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
6 Oct 2016 – “Chile vive una muy profunda crisis de confianza de todas las instituciones.” La opinión arriba citada no es la opinión de cualquiera. Es la opinión de quien fue el Ministro de Economía en la transición del gobierno militar al gobierno civil de 1990.
→ read full articleA Look Back at What Snowden Told the World about the U.S.-Israel Relationship
Alex Kane | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Snowden revealed a great deal about the U.S.-Israeli relationship. His leaks provide an unprecedented look at how the U.S. and Israel share intelligence, and also reveal the tensions in the relationship. What he told the world about the U.S.-Israel relationship.
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Ain’t Got No, I Got Life (Music Video of the Week)
Nina Simone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Nina Simone Playing Live in London, 1968 – A Classic!
→ read full articleTransforming Broken Relationships: Making Peace with The Past
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Mark Salter and Zahbia Yousuf (Eds) Transforming broken relationships: Making Peace with the Past (London: Conciliation Resources, 2016) – The term “reconciliation” is used in different ways when dealing with conflicts between individuals, groups, or States.
→ read full article(Italiano) 21 settembre 2016: 10 indicazioni
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
I media sono stati aggiornati a riguardo della sanità, ma non sulla pace. Immaginiamo dei media gestiti dall’industria farmaceutica. Non sospetteremmo che un’informazione governata dai propri princìpi possa essere soppressa a favore di malattie che procedono per conto proprio fino a che sia arrivato il momento per le pillole? Le notizie sanitarie sarebbero brutte notizie; i media traboccherebbero di trattazione di malattie e minacce di malattie. Che sono appunto i media che abbiamo, sostituendo l’industria delle armi a quella farmaceutica. Le notizie sulla pace sono brutte notizie per alcuni; e i media sono zeppi di notizie di guerra e minacce di guerra. Non sanno neppure come identificare e scrivere di pace, dovesse mai succedere. D’altronde i soldi in questione sono quadrilioni.
→ read full article(Italiano) Lo stato del Mondo – secondo il giornalismo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Quello che vogliamo dai giornalisti: che ci diano la situazione del mondo, da un “luogo di guai” – teatro di violenza passata-presente-futura – a un altro. Non lo specchio del mondo, ma renderlo più trasparente. Quali domande sarebbero da porre per fare un buon lavoro, sotto la superficie?
→ read full articleGandhi: ‘My Life Is My Message’
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Gandhi’s life was dotted with many memorable quotes but one that is less well known is this: ‘You may never know what results come of your actions but if you do nothing there will be no results’. Fortunately, there are many committed people who have identified the importance of taking action to end the violence in our world – whether it occurs in the home or on the street, in wars, as a result of economic exploitation or ecological destruction – and this includes the courageous people below.
→ read full articleEngaging Proactively with the Risk of World Misleadership
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Trump vs Clinton and the potential of carpe diem in the democratic process? The future will no doubt be appalled by the current presidential campaign in the USA through which the leader of the world’s superpower will emerge. But by what exactly might the future be appalled?
→ read full articleEvery Move You Make
James Bamford – Foreign Policy,
3 Oct 2016
Over eight years, President Barack Obama has created the most intrusive surveillance apparatus in the world. To what end?
→ read full articleShimon Peres from the Perspective of His Victims
Ilan Pappe |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
28 Sep 2016 – The obituaries for Shimon Peres have already appeared, no doubt prepared in advance as the news of his hospitalization reached the media. My guess is that very few of the obituaries will examine Peres’ life and activities from the perspective of the victims of Zionism and Israel.
→ read full articleOctober: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
October 30, 1961 – The Soviet Union’s “Tsar Bomba,” the most powerful nuclear weapon ever constructed was detonated after being dropped from a TU-95 bomber at approximately four kilometers altitude over Novaya Zemlya Island in the Russian Arctic Sea. This hydrogen bomb formally designated RDS-220, which weighed about 27 tons and was eight meters long, had an estimated yield of 50 megatons or the equivalent of 3,800 Hiroshima bombs. The tremendous blast triggered a seismic shock wave, equivalent to an earthquake registered at 5.0 on the Richter Scale, that travelled around the world.
→ read full articleUS Court Protects ‘School of the Assassins’ Graduates
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Since the Cold War the infamous military school formerly known as the School of the Americas has been a training ground for dictators, death squad members, and torturers, fueling human rights abuses and coups across Latin America, earning it the moniker “the School of the Assassins.”
→ read full articleThe Long, Long Journey to Female Equality
James A. Haught | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
For millennia, female inferiority was presumed, and mandated, in virtually every human culture. Through most of history, the brawn of heavier males gave them dominance, leaving women in lesser status — often mere possessions of men, confined to the home, rarely educated, with few rights.
→ read full article(Castellano) Bolivia celebrará jornada de poesía a favor de la paz en el mundo
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
El Movimiento Poético Mundial espera organizar actividades similares en 24 países de América latina.
→ read full article(Français) Shimon Peres du point de vue de ses victimes
Ilan Pappé | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Les nécrologies de Shimon Peres ont déjà été publiées, préparées sans aucun doute à l’avance, dès que la nouvelle de son hospitalisation est parue dans les médias. Le verdict sur sa vie est très clair et a déjà été prononcé par le président américain Barack Obama : Peres était un homme qui a changé le cours de l’histoire humaine dans sa recherche incessante pour la paix au Moyen-Orient. Mon intuition est que très peu des nécrologies examineront la vie et les activités de Peres du point de vue des victimes du sionisme et d’Israël.
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