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5th Anniversary: Even Robots Can’t Stand Fukushima Radiation for Long
CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2016
Authorities don’t yet have a clear picture of each reactor. Typically, robots are used in such a scenario but the high radiation levels mean they can only work for a brief period of time. This means connecting this information with simulations to try to find out what really happened in each reactor.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2016
Mar 14-20 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.” — Ernest Hemingway
→ read full articleMajor Pharma Scandal: Whistleblowers Claim Popular Asthma Drug Was Marketed Illegally
Martha Rosenberg - AlterNet,
14 Mar 2016
Novartis, Genentech and Roche “determined as early as 2003 that they would never succeed in transforming Xolair into a blockbuster or near-blockbuster drug unless they broke the law.” And that is exactly what they have knowingly done.
→ read full articleMessage to Youth
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
You are not required
to kill on command, to wear
a uniform, to camouflage yourself,
to place medals on your chest,
How Neoliberalism Really Works: A Small Anecdote
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
27 Feb 2016 – Along with several million, I suffer from the eye disease known as glaucoma. It can be managed, rather than cured, by taking eye drops several times a day.
→ read full articleWhat Everyone Should Know about Filming (and Sharing) Injustice on Social Media
Amber van Moessner, PolicyMic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
25 Feb 2016 – Armed with mobile devices and social media, citizen journalists around the world have become essential agents of democracy, bearing witness to criminal behavior and abuses of power that might otherwise remain obscured and unseen. That genie’s not going back in the bottle.
→ read full articleHow a Little Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower
Alfred McCoy – Foreign Policy In Focus,
7 Mar 2016
24 Feb 2016 – After fighting the longest war in its history, the United States stands at the brink of defeat in Afghanistan. How can this be possible? American military technology transformed remote, landlocked Afghanistan into the world’s first true narco-state.
→ read full articleThe Benefits of Aloe Vera for Your Heart
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Aloe vera is great for flushing out toxins and waste from the digestive tract [3], which in turn helps the body to absorb nutrients more effectively. This also supports circulation and gets more oxygen-rich blood to cells throughout the body. Today, we’ll look at how aloe vera supports heart health.
→ read full article(Italiano) Imparare dalla matematica
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Rendere noiosa la Regina è un crimine contro l’umanità. Smettetela.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Mar 7-13 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Our thoughts create our reality – where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.” – Peter McWilliams
→ read full articleBrexit and the Failure of the European Union Project
Andrea Mammone – Al Jazeera,
7 Mar 2016
Granting special powers back to member states essentially mean legitimising local nationalisms.
→ read full articleThe Impossibility of Politics – And How to Make Politics Possible
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The thesis that politics today is impossible (or stated a bit less briefly, that the goals that politics sets out to achieve are unattainable) is so far more a provocation than a hypothesis. To make it into a meaningful claim I have to assign meanings to the word “politics” and to the word “impossible.”
→ read full articleSpain’s Radical Left Podemos Party Refuses to Sell Out
Robert Mackey – The Intercept,
7 Mar 2016
During an impassioned speech to parliament, Iglesias said that his radical left party, which is now Spain’s third largest, would not allow the “miserable” leader of the more mainstream Socialists, Pedro Sánchez, to become prime minister because he had adopted the economic policies of the right.
→ read full articleWhy the Arabs Don’t Want Us in Syria
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Politico – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
As we focus on the rise of the Islamic State and search for the source of the savagery that took so many innocent lives in Paris and San Bernardino, we might want to look beyond the convenient explanations of religion and ideology. Instead we should examine the more complex rationales of history and oil — and how they often point the finger of blame back at our own shores.
→ read full articleDragging Our Feet toward Disaster
Dr. Ira Helfand, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
A new policy-making body called the Open Ended Working Group will consider ways to break the current impasse in efforts to reduce the danger of nuclear war. The group was established by an overwhelming majority at the UN. The U.S. and all of the other nuclear weapons states voted against and are boycotting the meeting. Why?
→ read full article(Castellano) Nueva Histeria Nuclear en Medio Oriente
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
7 Mar 2016
Ahora que el Organismo International de Energía Atómica anunció, el 18 de enero, que había verificado que Irán completó los pasos que aseguran que su programa nuclear será exclusivamente pacifico, una nueva ola de histeria nuclear parece haberse desatado ahora en la región. Véase de que se trata.
→ read full articleRefugees Per Kiloton: RPK as a Complement to GDP
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The indicator might have the additional advantage of focusing debate on an equivalent to the Polluter Pays Principle, namely on a Provider Pays Principle, as adapted to bombing — a Bomber Pays Principle. This could reframe financial responsibility for the integration of refugees.
→ read full article(Italiano) Spagna: uno Stato, due, o cinque in alternativa?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Costruire una rete di relazioni verso altre nazioni all’interno e all’esterno, in una comunità di nazioni, è nello spirito dei nostri tempi. Imporre nazioni dominanti su altre in uno stato pretendendo l’unità, non lo è. Né lo è il potere ereditario.
→ read full articleMap
Ludo Goderis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
You are here.
→ read full articleThe Mercury Doesn’t Lie: We’ve Hit a Troubling Climate Change Milestone This Week
Bill McKibben – The Boston Globe,
7 Mar 2016
5 Mar 2016 – Thursday [3 Mar], while the nation debated the relative size of Republican genitalia, something truly awful happened. Across the northern hemisphere, the temperature, if only for a few hours, apparently crossed a line: it was more than two degrees Celsius above “normal” for the first time in recorded history and likely for the first time in the course of human civilization.
→ read full articleWho Is My Neighbour?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Among the symptoms of loss of solidarity is the drift towards violence, racism and aggressive foreign policy that can be seen in the United States. Another warning symptom is the inhospitable reception that refugees have received in Europe and elsewhere.
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Peace Train (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) plays Peace Train live on his Earth Tour, 1976.
→ read full articleA Forever Imminent Threat?
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Two towering exclamation points have been writ high on the sky, each an indelible imprint on human consciousness. Hiroshima! Nagasaki! And yet, 70 years later, through the countless wars that have followed WWII, on the surface of the fracturing social, economic and political global landscape, humanity dreams on, unaware and unforgiven.
→ read full article10 Things to Know about Nonviolent Struggle
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
4. There are more than 200 methods of nonviolent action, including marches, demonstrations, rallies, boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, blockades, noncooperation, civil disobedience, work stoppages and slowdowns, refusal to provide services and much more.
→ read full articleGrand Jury Finds 50 Priests Raped Hundreds of Philadelphia Children
Rmuse, Politicus USA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The wheels of justice didn’t turn at all in Philadelphia because the Church concealed the crimes and protected the rapists.
→ read full articleScrapping Trident and Transitioning to a Nuclear-Free World
Rajesh Makwana, Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
As the illicit trade in nuclear weapons escalates alongside the risk of geopolitical conflict, it’s high time governments decisively prioritised nuclear disarmament – and that means scrapping Trident, the UK’s inordinately expensive nuclear deterrent, which would also facilitate the redistribution of scarce public resources to fund essential services.
→ read full article(Castellano) África crea zona de intercambio para 620 millones de consumidores
Baher Kamal y Fareed Mahdy,
7 Mar 2016
24 feb 2016 – Más de 1.500 representantes de sectores financieros privados, expertos y líderes políticos decidieron el 20 y 21 de este mes lanzar el mayor bloque de intercambio comercial de África, de 26 países que suman 620 millones consumidores y un PIB de 1.200 billones de dólares.
→ read full articleWhy Democratic Party Foreign Policy Fails and Will Continue to Fail
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
5 Mar 2016 – An earlier version of this essay appeared on March 2, 2016 in The Progressive Magazine. It tries to explain the entrapment of liberal Democrats in an iron cage of militarism when it comes to international security policy.
→ read full article‘Plan B’ – Not an Enigma: Why the West Is Keen on Dividing the Arabs
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The Arab world has always been seen in western eyes as a place of conquest, to be exploited, controlled and tamed. That mindset continues to define the relationship. While Arab unity is to be dreaded, further divisions often appear as ‘Plan B’, when the current status quo, call it ‘Plan A’, seems impossible to sustain.
→ read full articleTwilight of the Idols: Rise and Fall of the Personalist Left
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Over the past three years Latin American leftist leaders, who presided over heterodox ‘free trade’ and commodity based welfare economies, lost presidential, legislative and municipal elections and referendums or faced impeachment.
→ read full articleMarch: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
7 Mar 2016
March 11, 2011 – After a large magnitude earthquake and a powerful tsunami struck northeast Japan, three of the six nuclear reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-chi facility suffered partial meltdowns resulting in the evacuation of tens of thousands of nearby residents. Five years later, the disaster which has claimed more than 15,000 lives so far is an ongoing catastrophe.
→ read full articleDuty To Warn – Big Pharma’s Nefarious Control of Health Care and the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Everybody should be aware by now of the large amount of control that for-profit multinational corporations have over both state and federal legislative bodies. But they also have a lot of control over the major media, the “defense” spending priorities, educational institutions, many of our medical schools and even what constitutes post-graduate medical education for physicians.
→ read full articleNo Standards in Mediation
Daniel Erdmann – World Mediation Organization,
7 Mar 2016
Before starting a reflection on this content, we might have to understand that mediation itself is not a newly developed healing procedure for society, but it forms part of human civilization from the very beginning of our existence.
→ read full articleA Pope, a Patriarch, a Spiritual Revolution
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The first editorial, “50 Years of Fidel Castro” 3 March 2008, celebrated a political revolution that changed the world, and spelt the end of US-Western imperialism. This editorial celebrates a spiritual revolution that may also change the world, spelling the end of Western materialism, and spread from there. Again, Cuba played a major role, as meeting place between two major parts of Christianity, Catholic and Orthodox.
→ read full article(Français) Traité transpacifique ou le règne des multinationales
Marcel Claude, Le Journal de Notre Amérique - Investig’Action,
7 Mar 2016
Le TPP (Accord de partenariat Trans-pacifique), qui a été signé le 5 octobre dernier entre les États-Unis et 11 pays (Australie, Brunei, Canada, Chili, Japon, Mexique, Malaisie, Nouvelle-Zélande, Pérou, Singapour et Vietnam) et que la Présidente du Chili, Michelle Bachelet, est sur le point de ratifier, n’est autre qu’un pas de plus vers le nouvel ordre économique mondial où les grandes puissances économiques agissent en toute impunité et jouissent d’un pouvoir sans limite.
→ read full articleInternational Day of Women: The Goddess of March
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
March 8 is the International Day of Women and is placed under the sign of the goddess of the month of March — Minerva. Minerva derives her name from the Latin mens (mind), and so she has a special relation to teachers and artists.
→ read full articleNew Nuclear Hysteria in the Middle East
Baher Kamal - Human Wrongs Watch,
7 Mar 2016
Now that the so-called P5+1group (US, UK, France, Russia and China, plus Germany) few months ago concluded an agreement with Iran to prevent the risk of an eventual military nuclear programme in exchange of lifting massive Western sanctions, a new wave of nuclear hysteria seems to be in the air.
→ read full articleThe Rape of East Timor: “Sounds like Fun”
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
25 Feb 20126 – Secret documents found in the Australian National Archives provide a glimpse of how one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century was executed and covered up. They also help us understand how and for whom the world is run. The documents refer to East Timor, now known as Timor-Leste, and were written by diplomats in the Australian embassy in Jakarta.
→ read full article(Português) São Paulo, a 1ª Cidade do Brasil a Proibir o Comércio de Peles de Animais
O Planeta Que Temos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
3 Mar 2016 – Depois de receber um abaixo-assinado com cerca de 100 mil assinaturas, a prefeitura de São Paulo atendeu à reivindicação da população e pôs fim a duas atividades de extrema crueldade animal: a fabricação e venda de foie gras e o comércio de peles de animais.
→ read full articleTop Psychologist’s Personal History of MK-ULTRA: “The CIA-LSD Story in Retrospect”
Valtin, Invictus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
MK-ULTRA – In considering the total body of classified research conducted by or for the CIA that had as its overriding aim the control and manipulation of behavior, two questions suggest themselves: what motivated the scientists to work covertly on questionable projects; and what, in the end, was the yield in knowledge of these studies?
→ read full articleNobel-Prize Economist Condemns Obama’s ‘Trade’ Deals
Eric Zuesse, Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
3 Mar 2016 – The Nobel-Prize-winning former chief economist of the World Bank, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the U.S. President, Joseph Stiglitz, went to England to warn the British public, and Parliament, that “no democracy” can support U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed trade-deals, because all of these have a feature built into them, called Investor State Dispute Resolution, or ISDS, which will establish a supra-national authority…
→ read full articleUN: Israel Demolished 41 Palestinian Homes, a School in 1 Week
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The demolition took place in a Palestinian village called Khirbet Tana, which is home to approximately 250 people who rely on herding and agriculture for their livelihood, according to the U.N. report.
→ read full article2015: When Global Governments Trampled Human Rights in Name of National Security
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
7 Mar 2016
24 Feb 2016 – Governments worldwide in 2015 capitalized on supposed national security threats to trample over human rights. That’s Amnesty International’s assessment of global human rights in its latest report.
→ read full articleMajor American Jewish Leader Changes His Mind about Israel
Rabbi Michael Lerner - Tikkun,
29 Feb 2016
The Israel of today is very far from anything I dreamed of and worked for throughout my career. I can clearly remember the day in 1948 when the State of Israel was established. I was in the fourth grade at the Yeshivah of Flatbush in Brooklyn. The entire school was summoned to the schoolyard in celebration of the momentous occasion.
→ read full articleDark Spots, Light Spots, and Apple’s Protest
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
By their logic, 1984 is finally here, and embedding security (i.e., surveillance) chips in toothbrushes, children’s toys, and everywhere else The Enemy might lurk is both necessary and proper. You’d better consider flossing regularly and having your kids play with sticks and stones. Barbie is watching, and even Tim Cook can’t stop her.
→ read full articleThe Opium War – Tasked with Combating Opium, Afghan Officials Profit from It [Part 1)
Azam Ahmed – International New York Times,
29 Feb 2016
This is the first in a two-part series examining the fight to control the Afghan drug trade. Read Part 2: Penetrating Every Stage of Afghan Opium Chain, Taliban Become a Cartel.
→ read full articleThe Opium War – Penetrating Every Stage of Afghan Opium Chain, Taliban Become a Cartel [Part 2)
Azam Ahmed – International New York Times,
29 Feb 2016
This is the second in a two-part series examining the fight to control the Afghan drug trade. Read Part 1: Tasked with Combating Opium, Afghan Officials Profit from It.
→ read full articlePublication of My Book: ‘The Need for a New Economic System’
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
The Need for a New Economic System is a new book based on the series of articles that I published on TRANSCEND Media Service during the autumn of 2015. It deals with the very urgent problems that are facing the world today, all of which are linked to our need for a reformed and sustainable economic system.
→ read full articleVariety of System Failures Engendered by Negligent Distinctions
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Global civilization is currently witness to a variety of systemic failures — and the recognized potential for more. There is an evident degree of incapacity to encompass their nature, whether or not efforts are made to frame them in terms of a global problematique, or the possibility of a global resolutique.
→ read full articleMoral Courage – Stand Up to Wall St. & the U.S. War Machine!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
“Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.”
– – Robert F. Kennedy
Meet the Scientist Connecting the Dots between Air Pollution and Dementia
Clayton Aldern, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Increasingly, research suggests a link between air pollution exposure and the risk of diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. How might this relationship be possible, and what might it mean for what the world is – or isn’t – prepared to handle in the coming decades?
→ read full articleDiplomatic Relations: A Nonkilling Perspective
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
When between two countries diplomatic relations are broken
what peace-building-reuniting language could be spoken?
Scientist Who Discovered That GMOs Cause Tumors Wins Lawsuit
JBA Healthy News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
19 Feb 2016 – A court has ruled that French Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini was correct when he concluded that GMO food, when fed to rats, caused serious health problems including tumors.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Why We Need to Be More Cautious about America’s Over-Vaccination Program
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
“PhRMA (the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America [Big Pharma’s trade association and lobbying group]) is quoted as saying that “the 271 vaccines in development span a wide array of diseases, and employ exciting new scientific strategies and technologies. These potential vaccines – all in human clinical trials or under review by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – include 137 for infectious diseases, 99 for cancer, 15 for allergies and 10 for neurological disorders.”
→ read full articleKeen Observation
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
A famous surgeon told his students,
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What’s Next with the 350,000 Soldiers, 20,000 Tanks & 2,500 Warplanes Outside of Syria
WeAreChange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Feb 17, 2016 – Luke Rudkowski breaks down the latest about threats to an all-out global war.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Feb 29–Mar 6 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.” – Richard Bach
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Telephone (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Martynas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Martynas Levickis is one of the brightest young accordion musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards, being a Bachelor graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the People of West Papua
James Burrowes & Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
We have recently been discussing your ongoing courageous struggle to liberate yourselves from more than 100 years of occupation, first by the Netherlands, briefly and brutally by Japan during World War II, and now by Indonesia. In that regard, we would each like to share a brief message with you, our friends from West Papua.
→ read full articleAfrica Launches Largest Trading Block with 620 Million Consumers
Baher Kamal – Human Wrongs Watch,
29 Feb 2016
22 Feb 2016 – More than 1,500 public and private business delegates and state leaders agreed on 20-21 February in Egypt to mobilize massive investments for the implementation of Africa’s largest trading bloc which was created last year by 26 African countries with a total of 620 million consumers and a combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) nearing 1,2 trillion dollars.
→ read full articleUpgrade Your iPhone Passcode to Defeat the FBI’s Backdoor Strategy
Micah Lee – The Intercept,
22 Feb 2016
18 Feb 2016 – Yesterday, apple CEO Tim Cook published an open letter opposing a court order to build the FBI a “backdoor” for the iPhone. By choosing a strong passcode, the FBI shouldn’t be able to unlock your encrypted phone, even if it installs a backdoored version of iOS on it. Not unless it has hundreds of years to spare.
→ read full articleHooray for Cultural Marxism
Malcolm Harris – Al Jazeera America,
22 Feb 2016
You don’t need a bedside picture of Lenin to believe in what sociologists call conflict theory, or the idea that society is composed of struggling classes. Class analysis is popular because it’s true.
→ read full articleRussian Purge: For Putin’s Censors, Only Suicide Is Worse than Homosexuality
Masha Gessen – The Intercept,
22 Feb 2016
Youths struggle with suicide in Russia but a restrictive law makes it difficult to publish articles and books about their troubles, especially for the LGBT community.
→ read full article(Português) Golfinhos, tartarugas e a desumanidade de turistas que fazem “selfie”
Alice Branco - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
22 Feb 2016
19 de fevereiro de 2016 – Golfinhos mortos pois não aguentarem ficar fora d’água, para deleite do “selfie” do turista egoísta. Tartarugas que não conseguem desovar em paz porque turistas querem fazer “selfie” em meio delas.
→ read full article(Français) 10 ans d’un processus de changement en Bolivie : un regard géopolitique
Katu Arkonada, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
En un mois, la révolution démocratique et culturelle bolivienne va connaître des moments transcendantaux de son histoire récente. D’une part, les 21 et 22 janvier a été célébré l’anniversaire de l’État plurinational ainsi que les 10 ans du processus de changement, et d’autre part, le 21 février un vote historique va avoir lieu et symbolisera la force de la nouvelle démocratie bolivienne face à la démocratie néolibérale obsolète.
→ read full articleRemembering Umberto Eco
Adam Chandler – The Atlantic,
22 Feb 2016
Umberto Eco, the influential Italian semiotician, cultural critic, philosopher, essayist, and novelist, died at 84 on Friday [19 Feb 2016]. Bompiani, his Italian publisher, along with local reports confirmed that the widely revered writer and intellectual had been battling cancer.
→ read full articleWhen God Despairs
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Right after the foundation of Israel, God appeared to David Ben-Gurion and told him: “You have done good by my people. Utter a wish and I shall grant it!” “I wish that Israel shall be Jewish, democratic and encompass all the country between the Mediterranean and the Jordan,” Ben-Gurion replied.
→ read full articleHow Can Growth Reduce Inequality?
Beninio McDonough Tranza – The New Statesman,
22 Feb 2016
Growth is inherent to an anarchic free-market system. Businesses do not face a choice whether or not to grow – they face an imperative. If a business decided not to exploit new technology or new pools of cheap labour for moral reasons (such as concern for wages or the environment), it would quickly be overtaken by competitors.
→ read full articleHaiti Rises: A Time for Solidarity
Nia Imara and Robert Roth – Haiti Action Committee,
22 Feb 2016
We say NO, WE WILL NOT OBEY ILLEGITIMATE OFFICIALS. Self-defense is a legitimate universal law. Civil-Disobedience is an accepted universal right when a people confronts an illegal regime. The right to elect a government is universally accepted as a way for people to protect its existence. Today, confronted by the danger presented by local and international colonialists, the Haitian people have started a RESISTANCE FOR EXISTENCE movement.
→ read full articleHumanity First
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
I love my nation
I love my religion
But I always trust
Humanity be first
Tim Cook: U.S. Government Wants ‘Something We Consider Too Dangerous to Create’
J. Freedom du Lac and Ellen Nakashima – The Washington Post,
22 Feb 2016
The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand.
→ read full articleTruthful
Tom Toles – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Truths and Lies
→ read full articleThe Arab Peace Initiative: Not a Framework for Negotiations Any More
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
In the Eve of Arab Coming Summit in Morocco
→ read full articleWorld Day for Social Justice 2016 – Time to Share the Wealth
Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Market Forces Are the Problem, Not the Solution – Every year since 2009, the United Nations has highlighted February 20th as the World Day for Social Justice in a bid to underscore the glaring inequalities that increasingly characterise the world today.
→ read full articleUS Remains Reluctantly Tied to Global Security Role
Mark Urban – BBC News,
22 Feb 2016
America’s military finds itself pulled in several directions – and even the $582bn (£403bn) defence budget rolled out earlier this month will not be enough to satisfy all of its needs. One of the headlines to come out of the new budget was a quadrupling of spending on US military preparations to defend allies in Europe.
→ read full articleGravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein’s Theory
Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Corum and Jason Drakeford – International New York Times,
22 Feb 2016
A team of scientists announced on Thursday [11 Feb 2016] that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
→ read full articleBig War Lords Playing Brinkmanship Game in Syria
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
22 Feb 2016
The biggest “official” warlords on Earth—the Russian military apparatus and the US Pentagon and its “allies”–Europe, the US-led NATO, the Saudi Arabia-led Gulf countries, and Turkey, have just walked a step closer to the edge of the Middle East abyss over the weekend during their Munich Security Conference.
→ read full articleHollywood’s Grotesque Animal Abuse
Michael Howard - CounterPunch,
22 Feb 2016
Exposing Hollywood’s sordid history of animal cruelty.
→ read full article‘Silk Road’ Trade Route Revived as First Train Arrives in Iran from China with Goods
ABC News Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The train, carrying 32 containers of commercial products, took 14 days to make the 9,500-kilometre journey through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. The train’s journey was 30 days shorter than the sea voyage from Shanghai to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.
→ read full articleFormer U.N. Chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali Dead at 93
Michelle Nichols, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a blunt-spoken Egyptian who led the world body through global turmoil as it defined its peacekeeping role and lost his job over disputes with Washington, died on Tuesday [16 Feb 2016]. He was 93.
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A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion between 1945 and 1998
Isao Hashimoto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions that have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998.
→ read full articleBuddhism and Conflict Transformation
Olivia Fuchs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
An Inter-disciplinary Exploration of Buddhist Resources for Peace and Conflict – 18/19 July, 2016 – University of Winchester
→ read full article(Português) Um ano após “Charlie”: A facilidade do “bode-expiatório”
Paulo Mendes Pinto – Visão,
22 Feb 2016
É tão mais fácil usar de um humor simplista e colocar Deus a matar, em vez de questionar, por exemplo, a inacção europeia até certos momentos, ou mesmo a validade dos discursos que foram usados para justificar uma série de intervenções militares verdadeiramente assassinas.
→ read full article(Italiano) I diritti umani: una sfida permanente
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
La Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti Umani del 10 dicembre 1948 fu redatta da un comitato di Uomini, Bianchi, Anziani, Borghesi, Avvocati, Francesi. Nulla sui diritti di donne e bambini. Non ci sono diritti di accesso a servizi igienici, né alla sessualità: i borghesi di buone maniere certe cose le fanno ma non ne parlano-scrivono.
→ read full articleThe Troubling Link between Economic and Political Inequality in Europe
Giulia Dotti Sani and Beatrice Magistro – Open Democracy,
22 Feb 2016
Trust in institutions is not equally distributed among populations. In general, people from higher social strata show most support for the political system, as they’re the ones who mostly benefit from it.
→ read full articleSamsung Warns Customers Not to Discuss Personal Information in Front of Smart TVs
Meghan DeMaria, The Week – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The company revealed that the voice activation feature on its smart TVs will capture all nearby conversations. The TV sets can share the information, including sensitive data, with Samsung as well as third-party services.
→ read full articleSeneca on How to Fortify Yourself against Fear and Misfortune
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
“If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.” The great Roman philosopher — a man of timeless wisdom on ‘how to stretch life’s shortness by living wide rather than long’ — took this point to its exquisite extreme in a letter to his friend Lucilius Junior.
→ read full articleLarvicide Manufactured by Sumitomo [Monsanto], Not Zika Virus, True Cause of Brazil’s Microcephaly Outbreak: Doctors
Alyssa Navarro - Tech Times,
22 Feb 2016
The Brazilian Health Ministry had injected pyriproxyfen to reservoirs in the state of Pernambuco. In the area, the proliferation of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries the Zika virus, is very high. Pernambuco is also the first state in Brazil to notice the problem. The state contains 35 percent of the total microcephaly cases in the country.
→ read full articleSocialism and the Fight against War
International Committee of the Fourth International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The great historical questions arising from the present world situation can be formulated as follows: How will the crisis of the world capitalist system be resolved? Will the contradictions wracking the system end in world war or world socialist revolution? Will the future lead to fascism, nuclear war and an irrevocable descent into barbarism?
→ read full articleContaminated Nuclear Weapons Sites
Robert Alvarez – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
22 Feb 2016
West Lake Story: An Underground Fire, Radioactive Waste, and Governmental Failure
→ read full articleFinancial Oligarchy vs. Feudal Aristocracy
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh and Anthony A. Gabb - CounterPunch,
22 Feb 2016
On oligarchies and aristocracies. The Marxist term wage-slaves refers to those who, lacking capital or means of production, have only their labor power to sell to make a living. This describes the vast majority of people in today’s capitalist societies whose sole means of subsistence is the sale of their capacity to work.
→ read full articleCorporate PR Flacks Are Trying to Convince You the Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Benefit Workers
Jim Hightower – In These Times,
22 Feb 2016
The basic problem facing the corporate and political powers that want you and me to swallow their Trans-Pacific Partnership deal is that they can’t make chicken salad out of chicken manure. But that reality hasn’t stopped their PR campaign, pitching their “salad” as good and good for you!
→ read full articleHuman Rights, Human Rights: A Poem-Plea to Humankind
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Human Rights, Human Rights
You have been violated how many thousands of days and nights?
Shipping Containers Are Becoming ‘Home, Sweet Home’ All Over the World
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
From Berlin to Bangalore to London, people all over are shacking up in shipping containers. And now a Copenhagen-based container architecture firm has designed the “CPH Village,” a planned shipping container structure aimed to help solve the area’s student housing shortage.
→ read full article(Português) Fotos raras mostram refúgio hippie no Havaí formado por pessoas que pediam a paz nos anos 60
Redação Hypeness – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
A água era cristalina, o asfalto mais próximo ficava a quilômetros de distância, o uso de roupas era opcional, não havia regras e as decisões não eram baseadas na razão, mas em vibes. Na primavera de 1969, treze jovens saíram das universidades dos Estados Unidos rumo a um refúgio onde buscavam paz, o encontro com a natureza e o desenvolvimento espiritual. Foi na região de Kauai, no Havaí.
→ read full articleEpilogue: Argentina – The End of Post Neoliberalism and the Rise of the Hard Right
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The class struggle from above found its most intense , comprehensive and retrograde expression in Argentina, with the election of Mauricio Macri (December 2015). During the first two months in office, through the arbitrary assumption of emergency powers, he reversed, by decree, a multitude of progressive socio-economic policies passed over the previous decade and sought to purge public institutions of independent voices.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los grandes señores de la guerra, listos para invadir Siria
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
22 Feb 2016
Los grandes señores de la guerra “oficiales”, es decir el aparato militar ruso y el Departamento de Defensa de Estados Unidos y sus “aliados” -Europa, la OTAN, los países del Golfo liderados por Arabia Saudita, y Turquía- dieron el último fin de semana un paso más hacia el abismo de Medio Oriente durante su Conferencia de Seguridad de Múnich.
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Air (Music Video of the Week)
David Garrett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Composition by Johann Sebastian Bach – David Garrett, born 4 Sep 1980, is a record-breaking classical violinist and recording artist. Garrett was born in Aachen, Germany to an American prima ballerina and a German lawyer and jurist.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Feb 22-28 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”
→ read full articleWith More Refugees Expected, Europe Needs to Get a Grip
Russell Merryman, The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
While financial support is still coming in for the victims of the Syrian conflict, Europe’s political signals are getting ever more contradictory.
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