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How Pharma Uses the Charge of ‘Stigma’ to Sell Psychiatric Drugs
Martha Rosenberg | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
28 Dec 2017 – Do you overeat? Did your boyfriend just break up with you? Does no one return your emails? Do you fall asleep at night and wake up in the morning? If so, you may be suffering from mental illness! Mental illness is a highly stigmatized, life-long condition, says Pharma, that millions do not even realize they have and only a pharmaceutical drug can fix.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame Is Not Papa Africa Saving Slaves
Ann Garrison and Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – African Union Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat praised Rwanda’s offer “to resettle up to 30,000 African migrants languishing in Libya.” The same story was reported across the Internet and newspapers in the US, Europe, and Africa. Rwandan President Paul Kagame is grandstanding as Papa Africa on the world stage, but nothing could be further from the truth or more preposterous than his proposal. Here are four reasons why.
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How Patients Who “Kill the Messenger” Are Pharma’s Best Salespeople
Martha Rosenberg - Intrepid Report,
25 Dec 2017
20 Dec 2017 – “Prince was not addicted to pain medication. Prince had a medical condition—chronic pain–which is criminally under-treated. . . . Physical dependence is not addiction.” So reads one of many articles that defend opioids and blame their restrictions for the nation’s opioid crisis. Right.
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What Does Corruption Mean to You? Examining the Plural Meanings of Corruption
Kanti Pertiwi – The Conversation,
18 Dec 2017
Does corruption means the same for everyone? Some social researchers argue that corruption is a social construct shaped by Western anti-corruption elites.
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If You Don’t Own any Bitcoin, Read This
Adam Taggart | Peak Prosperity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
8 Dec 2017 – Wow. Just….wow. Bitcoin’s price has gone ‘beyond exponential’ this week. Just yesterday, as I started working on this article, it shot up 22% — from $14,000 to $17,000 (hitting an intraday high of over $19,000).
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An Advent Calendar to Beat the Devil
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our ‘deceivers’ than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced. The Graphic revolution has produced new categories of experience. They are no longer simply classifiable by the old common sense tests of true or false. At no time is this more evident than in the months leading up to Christmas and the holidays.
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Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
18 Dec 2017
As much as the U.S. mainstream media insists that the Russia-gate scandal is growing, what is undeniably growing is the list of major corrections that news outlets have been forced to issue.
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(Português) Seminário – Rumo a um Mundo Livre de Armas Nucleares: Desafios e Perspectivas
Embaixador Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
Intervenção de Abertura, Ministério das Relações Exteriores, Brasília 7-8 Dez 2017 – Uma visão ampla sobre três principais temas:
• a contribuição do Tratado de Tlatelolco e da ABACC para a segurança da América Latina e do mundo em geral;
• as perspectivas para a Conferência de Exame do Tratado de Não Proliferação de Armas Nucleares, em 2020;
• e o impacto da recente adoção do Tratado de Proibição de Armas Nucleares.
Towards a World without Nuclear Weapons: Challenges and Perspectives
Ambassador Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
8 Dec 2017 – I was asked to provide a bird’s eye view of the three main topics of this Seminar, namely the contribution of the Treaty of Tlatelolco and ABACC to the security of Latin America and the world, the prospects for the 2020 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and the impact of the recent adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
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Violence against Women: Why the UN Secretary-General Got It Wrong
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – In his remarks on the recent International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women UN Secretary-General António Guterres inadvertently demonstrated why well-meaning efforts being undertaken globally to reduce violence against women fail to make any progress in addressing this pervasive crisis.
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Europe Responds: ‘If the law allows this, we need to change the law.’
Cecile S. Gallego – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
11 Dec 2017
28 Nov 2017 – A European Parliament committee has grilled Paradise Papers reporters as members grapple with how to claw back millions being lost to new, elaborate tax-reducing maneuvers.
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Palestinians Recognize Texas as Part of Mexico
Alex Huntley | The Beaverton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – In response to Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that he will recognize Texas as a state of Mexico, since it was violently annexed by the United States in the 1840s. He says that this is a new approach to Mexican-US relations, and hopes it will help ease the tension between the two countries over security and immigration.
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Plunder Capitalism
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
4 Dec 2917 – What we are witnessing is the complete looting of America and the entirety of the West. While the Western World collapses, the insouciant, submissive people sit there sucking their thumbs while they are being ruined. Nothing is left of the West except looters at work. This tax bill is an abomination, an act of brutal plunder. Its sponsors should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail, if not hung from a lamp post.
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After Trump’s Jerusalem Move, Media Worry about ‘Violence’–Not Violation of International Law
Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
8 Dec 2017 – The frame that dominated headlines as news of Trump’s announcement broke was not on the meaning of the move but on potential vague “fears of violence” from Palestinians and Muslims throughout the Middle East. This is often the case when it comes to Israel/Palestine: Media focus is on the reaction to injustice, not on the injustice itself. The illegality of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem is rarely mentioned.
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N. Korea Open to Talks if Recognized as Nuclear Power – Russian Delegation to Pyongyang
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
1 Dec 2017 – North Korea is ready to sit at the negotiating table for peace talks if it is recognized as a nuclear power, the Russian delegation to Pyongyang said, adding that the North claims that it was forced to be aggressive and will not stop its nuclear program.
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Supreme Court Allows Full Enforcement of Trump Travel Ban while Legal Challenges Continue
Robert Barnes – The Washington Post,
11 Dec 2017
4 Dec 2017 – The Supreme Court today granted President Trump’s request to fully enforce his revised order banning travel to the United States by residents of six mostly Muslim countries while legal challenges to it proceed in lower courts.
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(Castellano) Matando a la Biosfera para acelerar la extinción humana
Robert Burrowes – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
11 Dec 2017
Por lo tanto, a no ser que y hasta que se tome una decisión personal consciente de participar estratégicamente en la lucha para salvar la vida en la Tierra, serás uno de esos individuos que mata a la biosfera como un subproducto de la vida sin conciencia y compromiso: una persona que simplemente sobreexplota su camino a la extinción.
→ read full articleKilling the Biosphere to Fast-track Human Extinction
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
Unless and until you make a conscious personal decision to participate strategically in the struggle to save life on Earth, you will be one of those individuals who kills the biosphere as a byproduct of living without awareness and commitment. So next time you ponder the fate of humanity, which is inextricably tied to the fate of the Earth, it might be worth considering the unparalleled beauty of what Earth has generated.
→ read full articleWaiting for the American Dream
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
Waiting – so what’s new? Some sullen sage once said that life is what we do while we wait for death. It’s not the kind of wise-guy wisdom I would try to refute, since I was one of the precocious kids who saw the skull at his first pabulum banquet.
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Reopening the Doors of Perception
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.” These words from a William Blake’s poem gave Aldous Huxley the title of his book The Doors of Perception. Then they gave Jim Morrison the name of his rock band–Doors. And eventually they gave millions of young people a glimpse at a world beyond the cruel and small-minded order that ruled the day.
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Media Erase NATO Role in Bringing Slave Markets to Libya
Ben Norton | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
28 Nov 2017 – The American and British media have awakened to the grim reality in Libya, where African refugees are for sale in open-air slave markets. Yet a crucial detail in this scandal has been downplayed or even ignored in many corporate media reports: the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in bringing slavery to the North African nation.
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Enewetak Atoll, a Tiny Island Used as a Nuclear Dumpsite, Is About to Be Submerged by Water
Joe McCarthy | Global Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
27 Nov 2017 – For more than half a century, the atoll, which is part of the Marshall Islands, has been contaminated by nuclear explosions and waste. The decades ahead could leave it submerged by rising sea levels. In this way, Enewetak “is at the intersection of two of the biggest problems of the last century and this century, nuclear weapons and sea level rise.”
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(Português) “O império dos EUA vai acabar até 2020”
Rita Siza – Público [Portugal],
27 Nov 2017
24 Nov 2017 – Johan Galtung, fundador da disciplina de Estudos da Paz nos curriculos académicos e que já mediou mais de uma centena de conflitos, diz que já só três países estão dispostos a fazer o trabalho por Washington: Reino Unido, Dinamarca e Noruega.
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History, Education and Conflict
Alberto Andrés Aguirre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
We must make our actions as teachers in the classroom coherent, addressing the small conflicts of everyday life in the most effective and least violent manner possible , and as teachers of History, selecting the content, emphasizing moments of creation, understanding, social progress more than wars, confrontation and destruction, and on the other hand to work with this content using methodologies that promote essential personal skills for peaceful citizenship through dialogue, critical analysis, the contrasting of views, freedom of expression, creativity, imagination.
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More Than 15,000 Scientists from 184 Countries Issue ‘Warning to Humanity’
Nicole Mortillaro - CBC News,
27 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – More than 15,000 scientists around the world have issued a global warning: there needs to be change in order to save Earth. A similar warning was first issued by scientists in 1992.
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The Richest 1% Now Own More than 50% of the World’s Wealth
David Meyer – Fortune,
27 Nov 2017
14 Nov 2017 – The richest 1% now owns more than half of all the world’s household wealth, according to analysts at Credit Suisse. The Swiss bank released its latest Global Wealth Report today, together with a statement that contained the immortal phrase, “The outlook for the millionaire segment is more optimistic than for the bottom of the wealth pyramid.”
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(Castellano) ¿Por qué la policía en los Estados Unidos está tan aterrorizada?
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
27 Nov 2017
20 nov 2017 – En un incidente reciente en los Estados Unidos, otro hombre desarmado fue asesinado a tiros por la policía después de abrir su puerta principal en respuesta a su golpe. La policía iba a entregar una orden de arresto contra un sospechoso de violencia doméstica -el vecino del sujeto en cuestión- pero se equivocaron de dirección.
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Fukushima Darkness
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
27 Nov 2017
22 Nov 2017 – The radiation effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant triple meltdowns are felt worldwide, whether lodged in sea life or in humans, it cumulates over time. The growing problem of Fukushima’s radiation conundrum.
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Funding Big Pharma to Help with Millions of Addicts They Created
Martha Rosenberg - AlterNet,
27 Nov 2017
22 Nov 2017 – After decades of expanding opioid use by minimizing the dangers of addiction, Big Pharma will now receive the reward of taxpayer money to undo what it did and reverse the opioid epidemic. Imagine the government giving Big Tobacco our tax dollars to reverse the damage it did pushing cigarettes and you see how obscene this is.
→ read full articleThe Lost Journalistic Standards of Russia-gate
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
27 Nov 2017
20 Nov 2017 – A danger in both journalism and intelligence is to allow an unproven or seriously disputed fact to become part of the accepted narrative where it gets widely repeated and thus misleads policymakers and citizens alike, such as happened during the run-up to war with Iraq and is now recurring amid the frenzy over Russia-gate.
→ read full articleWhy Are Police in the USA So Terrified?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
15 Nov 2017 – For those who follow news in the United States, the routine killing of innocent civilians by the police has become a national crisis despite concerted attempts by political and legal authorities and the corporate media to obscure what is happening. So far this year, US police have killed 1,044 people. In contrast, from 1990 to 2016, police in England and Wales killed just 62 people. So why are the police so violent? you might ask.
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Texas Shooting Shows Once again That Animal Cruelty and Human Cruelty Are Strongly Linked
Martha Rosenberg - CounterPunch,
20 Nov 2017
15 Nov 2017 – What do Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Devin Kelley the Texas church killer and a host of other killers have in common? They tortured animals and delighted in the pain they inflicted. Why the Texas shooting shows that animal cruelty and human cruelty are linked.
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America’s Renegade Warfare
Nicolas J S Davies – Consortium News,
20 Nov 2017
Claiming the right to launch preemptive wars and fighting an ill-defined “global war on terror,” the U.S. government has slaughtered vast numbers of civilians in defiance of international law.
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Wealth Inequality ‘Crisis’ as Richest 1 Percent Account for Half the World’s Wealth
Spencer Woodman – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
20 Nov 2017
14 Nov 2017 – The world’s top 1 percent held 45.5 percent of all household wealth in 2000. Now, they hold 50.1 percent, according to Credit Suisse’s annual Global Wealth Report. The report highlights that Ultra High Net Worth Individuals – people who are worth more than $50 million – as being the driving force behind the gap. This group of wealth holders has grown five-fold since 2000.
→ read full articleReviving the Spirit of Existential Rebellion in a World of Propaganda, Lies, and Self Deception
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
9 Nov 2017 – In these very dark times – these end- times created by nuclear weapons – seeing the truth is dependent on the will to truth, and the will to truth only arises when people believe they are free to alter the circumstances in which they find themselves. This belief in freedom is at the core of all existential thought and is why we need to resurrect it today.
→ read full articleAbout the Paradise Papers Investigation
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
5 Nov 2017 – The Paradise Papers is a global investigation into the offshore activities of some of the world’s most powerful people and companies. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and 95 media partners explored 13.4 million leaked files from a combination of offshore service providers and the company registries of some of the world’s most secretive countries. The files were obtained by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
→ read full articleThe Resignation of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Is Not All It Seems
Robert Fisk | The Independent – Reader Supported News,
13 Nov 2017
10 Nov 2017 – He certainly did not anticipate what happened to him. Indeed, Hariri had scheduled meetings in Beirut on the following Monday – with the IMF, the World Bank and a series of discussions on water quality improvement; not exactly the action of a man who planned to resign his premiership
→ read full articleEspanya vs Catalunya, Cataluña vs España
Alberto Andrés Aguirre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
As Prof. Galtung says, sometimes it is necessary to touch the bottom, to lose all, in order to advance on the correct path of a solution: a path that is increasingly satisfactory for both parties, rather than for a single one, which is what happens if we move in the diagonal of the confrontation. Starting from “everyone loses” we can move towards the “win win” progressively seeking the achievement of the maximum legitimate objectives of each party.
→ read full articleWhy Socialism?
Albert Einstein | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1, 1949) but with undeniable relevance today. – “Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.”
→ read full articleStand Up! Speak Out! To Prevent Nuclear War!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – The world may be closer to the brink of nuclear war than at any time in history! Click here to add your name to the People’s Peace Treaty. The People’s Peace Treaty will be sent to the governments and peoples of Korea, as well as to the U.S. government.
→ read full articleRequiem for the Promised Land
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – Sometime in the early 1900s my maternal grandparents threw caution to the wind and left Italy to settle in South Philadelphia… I wonder how they would feel, were they alive today, to know that a bright hard-working kid from the lower echelons of the ninety-nine percent would now have little chance to find a way; and that, come hell, high water, or both, the one percent would rather bring us all down than relinquish one ill-gotten buck.
→ read full article(Castellano) Una estrategia noviolenta para acabar con la violencia y evitar la extinción humana
Robert Burrowes – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
6 Nov 2017
25 Oct 2017 – En todo el mundo, los activistas que son pensadores estratégicos se enfrentan a un desafío abrumador para abordar eficazmente la multitud de conflictos violentos, incluida la amenaza de extinción humana, que enfrenta la sociedad humana a principios del siglo XXI. Teniendo en cuenta la violencia abrumadora que debemos afrontar, ¿podemos tener éxito? No lo sé, pero pretendo luchar, estratégicamente, hasta el último aliento. Espero que usted también.
→ read full articleLeon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels - Encyclopædia Britannica,
6 Nov 2017
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to End Violence and Avert Human Extinction
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
24 Oct 2017 – Around the world activists who are strategic thinkers face a daunting challenge to effectively tackle the multitude of violent conflicts, including the threat of human extinction, confronting human society in the early 21st century… Given the overwhelming violence that we must tackle, can we succeed? I do not know but I intend to fight, strategically, to the last breath. I hope that you will too.
→ read full article(Català) Espanya vs Catalunya, Cataluña vs España
Alberto Andrés Aguirre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Si la independència és un fi en si mateix, poc es pot parlar ja. Si, de l’altra banda, no es reconeixen els drets històrics d’autogovern al màxim nivell, tampoc el diàleg serà possible. Però entre les dues posicions extremes hi ha un ample marge de possibilitats per aconseguir un acord de convivència, almenys per al segle XXI. Cal intentar-ho, directament o amb mediadors experimentats que els condueixin si no els és possible sols.
→ read full articlePraying for the Moths and Beetles
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 – “. . . insects as a group are in terrible trouble and the remorselessly expanding human enterprise has become too much, even for them.” And instantly I’m beyond the realm of anything I know, as I consider the gradual disappearance not of whales but of . . . beetles, moths and hoverflies, thanks to the human enterprise we call civilization.
→ read full article(Català) Una estratègia noviolenta per acabar amb la violència i evitar l’extinció humana
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
30 Oct 2017
25 octubre 2017 – A tot el món, els activistes que són pensadors estratègics s’enfronten a un desafiament aclaparant per abordar eficaçment la multitud de conflictes violents, inclosa l’amenaça d’extinció humana, que enfronta la societat humana a principis del segle XXI. Tenint en compte la violència aclaparant que hem d’afrontar, podem tenir èxit? No ho sé, però pretenc lluitar, estratègicament, fins a l’últim alè. Espero que vostè també.
→ read full articleShifting Blame as US Agenda Unfolds in Myanmar
Tony Cartalucci | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 – Suu Kyi’s regime will continue being granted relative impunity across the West despite the fact that it is her own support base carrying out anti-Rohingya violence. The crisis will be leveraged to thwart China’s economic inroads and prop up a burgeoning US-European diplomatic and military presence in the country. Voices across the media exposing US plans will make it increasingly difficult for the US and its partners to maneuver in Myanmar.
→ read full articleThe Kennedy Assassination
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
28 Oct 2017 – The medical “evidence” that Kennedy was hit from behind was falsified by medical doctors under orders. Navy medical corpsmen who helped the Navy doctors with the autopsy testified that they were dismayed by orders from Admiral Calvin Galloway to ignore entry wounds from the front. One of the corpsmen testified “all at once I understood that my country was not much better than a third world country. From that point on in time, I have had no trust, no respect for the government.”
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize for Nuclear Disarmament
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017 – The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to ICAN. This is the third time that a non-governmental organization dedicated to disarmament receives this prestigious honor. During the past decade ICAN developed intense activity in the preparation and support of the negotiation of the prohibition of nuclear weapons, leading to their elimination. A treaty to that effect was adopted last July 7 at the United Nations.
→ read full article(Castellano) Espanya vs Catalunya, Cataluña vs España
Alberto Andrés Aguirre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Si la independencia es un fin en sí mismo, poco se puede hablar ya. Si, por el otro lado, no se reconocen los derechos históricos de autogobierno al máximo nivel, tampoco el diálogo será posible. Pero entre las dos posiciones extremas hay un amplio margen de posibilidades para lograr un acuerdo de convivencia, al menos para el siglo XXI. Merece la pena intentarlo, directamente o con mediadores experimentados que les conduzcan si no les es posible solos.
→ read full article(Português) Premio Nobel da Paz para o Desarmamento Nuclear
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
23 out 2017 – O Prêmio Nobel da Paz 2017 acaba de ser conferido à organização não governamental ICAN. É a terceira vez em que uma ONG dedicada ao desarmamento nuclear recebe essa prestigiosa honraria. Durante a década passada a ICAN desenvolveu intensa atividade na preparação e apoio de um tratado de proibição de armas nucleares, adotado em 7 de julho último pelas Nações Unidas.
→ read full articleHow We Discovered Gravitational Waves from ‘Neutron Stars’ – And Why It’s Such a Huge Deal
Martin Hendry – The Conversation,
23 Oct 2017
16 Oct 2017 – The discovery of tiny ripples in space from the violent collision of dense stars could help solve many mysteries – including where the gold in our jewellery comes from. The announcement comes just weeks after three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their foundational work leading to the discovery of gravitational waves.
→ read full articleMore Than 75 Percent Decline Over 27 Years in Total Flying Insect Biomass in Protected Areas
Caspar A. Hallmann , Martin Sorg, et al. | PLOS One – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
18 Oct 2017 – German researchers have reported a rapid drop in the number of flying insects at dozens of natural reserves. Many of the reserves involved are surrounded by farms and pesticides could be to blame. According to the report, between 1989 and 2016 the biomass of flying insects captured in 63 different locations in Germany – including grasslands, swamps and sand dunes – decreased by a seasonal average of 76%.
→ read full articleHaiti in Crisis: What Next after the Stolen Election?
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
MINUSTAH, which has functioned as a colonial overseer since the 2004 coup, is set to scale down its operation, but will remain in Haiti as United Nations Mission For Justice Support. MINUJUSTH will consist of 1185 police officers, and will continue to train and support the Haitian National Police – the same police that beat, tear-gassed and shot pro-democracy protesters during the last electoral cycle.
→ read full articleThree for the Road, in Light and Shadows
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – It was getting dark on the street as the young man emerged from his high school on New York’s Upper East Side after basketball practice. He had lost track of time as he dreamed his basketball dreams and headed to the subway for the long ride home.
→ read full articleThe Psychology of Mass Killers: What Causes It? How Can You Prevent It?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
While there has been a flood of commentary on the incident, including suggestions about what might be done in response based on a variety of analyses of the cause, none that I have read explain the underlying cause of all these mass killings. And if we do not understand this, then any other suggestions, whatever their apparent merits, can have little impact.
→ read full article(Castellano) La psicología de los asesinos en masa: ¿Cuál es la causa? ¿Como se puede prevenir?
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
16 Oct 2017
Aunque ha habido una avalancha de comentarios sobre el incidente, incluyendo sugerencias sobre lo que se podría hacer en respuesta a una variedad de análisis de la causa, ninguno que haya leído explica la causa subyacente de todos estos asesinatos en masa. Y si no entendemos esto, cualquier otra sugerencia, cualquiera que sea su aparente mérito, puede tener poco impacto.
→ read full articleFinding Our Way Back to Truth by Following a String of Facts
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
14 Oct 2017 – If you find yourself lost and confused in a dark wood, then perhaps following this network of knots strung on a long string of dates listed below will help you find your way back home, where the bread of truth awaits you on the kitchen table.
→ read full articleCatalonia and the ‘Europe of Regions’
Andrew Spannaus – Consortium News,
16 Oct 2017
Catalonia’s bid for independence from Spain had a curious twist, a readiness to take its place within the supranational European Union, a further challenge to traditional nation-states.
→ read full articleTrump’s Mendacious Speech on Iran
Paul R. Pillar – Consortium News,
16 Oct 2017
President Trump, in decertifying the Iran-nuclear deal, trotted out all the tripe about the “world leading sponsor of terrorism” and ties to Al Qaeda. But his new policy is one of dangerous incoherence, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
→ read full article(Português) Seminário: “Five Decades of Peace Research – Past and Future”
Escola de Economia e Gestão da Universidade do Minho [Braga, Portugal] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
O Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política acolhe o seminário subordinado ao tema acima, o qual será proferido por Johan Galtung. Sexta-Feira, 20 outubro 2017 | Campus de Gualtar – CP II | Room B2, 10h00
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report #11 (October 2017)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ together with a sample of news about Charter signatories and organizations. Our collective effort to build a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts continues to make progress, even against rather overwhelming odds!
→ read full articleThey Thought They Were Going to Rehab. They Ended Up in Forced Labor Camps
Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter | Reveal - The Center for Investigative Reporting,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – The worst day of Brad McGahey’s life was the day a judge decided to spare him from prison. He had heard of Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery, people called it “the Chicken Farm.” Aside from daily cans of Dr Pepper, McGahey wasn’t addicted to anything. The judge knew that. But the Chicken Farm sounded better than prison.
→ read full articleJimmy Carter: What I’ve Learned from North Korea’s Leaders
Pres. Jimmy Carter – The Washington post,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – Over more than 20 years, I have spent many hours in discussions with top North Korean officials and private citizens during visits to Pyongyang and to the countryside. I found Kim Il Sung, Kim Yong Nam and other leaders to be both completely rational and dedicated to the preservation of their regime… The next step should be for the USA to offer to send a high-level delegation to Pyongyang for peace talks or to support an international conference including North and South Korea, the United States and China, at a mutually acceptable site.
→ read full articleU.S. Killing Fields
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The details of the Oct 1 massacre in Las Vegas continue to unfold. At least 59 people dead and more than 525 injured at a country music concert. The mass shooter — a white, multi-millionaire, American sniper armed to the teeth and perched in a 32nd floor luxury hotel room. The U.S. #1 export product – violence – is coming home to roost. Violence begets violence. What goes around comes around.
→ read full articleGandhi’s Truth: Ending Human Violence One Commitment at a Time
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Gandhi Jayanti – 2 October, the date of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s birth in 1869 and the International Day of Nonviolence – offers an opportunity to reflect on human violence and to ponder ways to end it. There may be a fast way to end human violence but, if there is, Gandhi did not know it. Nor do I. Nor does anyone else that I have read or asked either. But this does not mean there is no way to end human violence.
→ read full articlePugwash Welcomes the Completion of Chemical Weapons Destruction by Russia
Sergio Duarte | Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed on 27 Sep 2017 that the verified destruction of those chemical weapons possessed by the Russian Federation has been completed. Pugwash welcomes this important achievement and congratulates the Russian Federation and the OPCW for their efforts, as well as the many countries and experts who have assisted in this program.
→ read full article(Castellano) La verdad de Gandhi: Poner fin a la violencia humana. Un compromiso a la vez
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
2 Oct 2017
Gandhi Jayanti – 2 de octubre, fecha del nacimiento de Mohandas K. Gandhi en 1869 y Día Internacional de la No Violencia – ofrece una oportunidad para reflexionar sobre la violencia humana y reflexionar sobre las formas de ponerle fin. Puede haber una manera rápida de poner fin a la violencia humana pero, si la hay, Gandhi no lo sabía. Ni yo tampoco. Tampoco nadie más al que yo haya leído o preguntado. Pero esto no significa que no haya manera de poner fin a la violencia humana.
→ read full articleHow US Military Outsourcing Turned Toxic
Abrahm Lustgarten | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Fraud. Bribery. Incompetence. The military’s use of contractors adds to a legacy of environmental damage.
→ read full articleToday Is the Day
Robert F. Dodge, M.D. | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Today, Sep 26, is the International Day for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. This day draws attention to the international commitment to global nuclear disarmament as expressed in Art. 6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It also highlights the lack of progress by the nine nuclear nations that hold the rest of the world hostage with their nuclear arsenals.
→ read full article(Français) Crise des Rohingya: pourquoi le Myanmar n’est pas la Syrie
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
28 Sep 2017 – De nombreux analystes et commentateurs de géopolitique ont noté pas mal de similitudes valables entre la crise syrienne et celle qui se déroule maintenant au Myanmar, dans l’Asie du Sud-Est. Toutefois, les différences sont aussi importantes que les similitudes entre ces deux crises. « Aider les lecteurs à comprendre les différents aspects de la crise actuelle au Myanmar en comparant ces différents aspects au conflit toujours en cours en Syrie peut être instructif. Cependant, tirer des conclusions complètes sur les enjeux du conflit du Myanmar en supposant simplement qu’il s’agit d’une répétition des opérations occidentales en Syrie, c’est se tromper fondamentalement ».
→ read full articleLondon Peace Study Day & March Report
Alberto Portugheis | Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation– TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
I would like to invite our TRANSCEND friends to look at some photos of the recent Peace Study Day and March organized by HUFUD in London. We consider it a success and thank all who participated in the event. To see photos & reports please click HERE
→ read full article(Italiano) La verità di Gandhi: porre fine alla violenza umana, un passo alla volta
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
La ricorrenza di Gandhi Jayanti – il 2 Ottobre, offre l’opportunità di riflettere sulla violenza umana e di prendere in considerazione dei modi per porle fine. Ci può essere una via rapida per metter fine alla violenza umana, ma – se c’è – Gandhi non la conosceva. Né la conosco io. E neppure altri di cui ho letto o che ho interpellato. Ma questo non vuol dire che non ci siano vie per porre fine alla violenza umana.
→ read full articleThe Syrian Outcome Has Departed the Script
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
1 Oct 2017 – News agencies and writers should stop referring to ISIS as “terrorists” because it connotes an independence they do not have. These so-called “terrorists” are organized, financed, and armed by Washington and Washington’s vassals. Washington uses “terrorists” as a foreign policy tool. This has been going on for decades. Yes, sometimes the “terrorists” escape Washington’s control.
→ read full articleNorth Korea’s Rational Nuclear Strategy
Ted Snider – Consortium News,
2 Oct 2017
A favorite tactic of U.S. war propaganda is to label a foreign adversary “crazy” to justify a military attack — as is now happening with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un although his nuclear program really makes logical sense.
→ read full articleMonsanto Banned from European Parliament
Arthur Neslen – The Guardian,
2 Oct 2017
28 Sep 2017 – MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller.
→ read full article(Português) Magnata brasileiro corrupto entre os estrangeiros que obtiveram vistos gold em Portugal
David Pegg, Sara Farolfi, Craig Shaw e Micael Pereira - Expresso [Portugal],
25 Sep 2017
18 set 2017 – Homens de negócios envolvidos no escândalo de corrupção Lava Jato, no Brasil, e familiares de um político angolano que foi acusado de corrupção compraram de forma sigilosa o seu acesso à Europa através do Governo português, uma fuga de informação revela.
→ read full articleReclaiming the Truth about Vietnam
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
The first set of words sickened a vast segment of the American public and caused the horror of “Vietnam Syndrome” to cripple and emasculate the military-industrial complex for a decade and a half. Slowly, the powers that be regrouped, redefined how we fought our wars: without widespread national sacrifice or a universal draft; and with smart bombs and even smarter public relations, ensuring that most of the American public could watch our clean, efficient wars in the comfort of their living rooms. What was also necessary was to marginalize the anti-war voices that shut down the Vietnam War.
→ read full articleA Low Enriched Uranium Bank in Kazakhstan
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – A new facility designed to help prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons – the Low Enriched Uranium Bank – was inaugurated last August 29 at Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. The inauguration coincided with the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, declared in 2009 by the United Nations.
→ read full article(Português) Inaugurado o Banco de Uranio no Casaquistão
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
13 Set 2017 – Uma nova instalação destinada a auxiliar a prevenção da proliferação de armas nucleares – o Banco de Urânio Levemente Enriquecido – foi inaugurada no último dia 29 de agosto, em Astana, capital do Casaquistão, a qual coincidiu com o Dia Internacional Contra os Ensaios Nucleares, declarado em 2009 pelas Nações Unidas.
→ read full articleThe Unspoken Truth behind the Colin Kaepernick Story
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
16 Sep 2017 – Two recent sports news items have reminded me of incidents from my own athletic past. And those memories in turn have brought my reflections back to the current news regarding the failure of any NFL team to sign quarterback Colin Kaepernick to a contract, and the recent boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor.
→ read full articleInterview with Edward Snowden: ‘There Is Still Hope – Even for Me’
Martin Knobbe and Jörg Schindler – Der Spiegel,
18 Sep 2017
12 Sep 2017 – Whistleblower Edward Snowden discusses his life in Russia, the power of the intelligence apparatuses and how he will continue his battle against all-encompassing surveillance by governments.
→ read full articleProfit Maximization Is Easy: Invest in Violence
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
6 Sep 2017 – For those of us committed to systematically reducing and, one day, ending human violence, it is vital to understand what is causing and driving it so that effective strategies can be developed for dealing with violence in its myriad contexts… Of course, these choices aren’t for everyone. As Gandhi observed: ‘Cowards can never be moral.’
→ read full articleGhostly Voices Dancing in the Rain
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
8 Sep 2017 – A solitary, early Sunday morning walk in the rain. As I like it, my only walking companion was the soothing sound of rain in the trees and on the lake. From the shallow water at the lake’s swampy edge, a blue heron, perched on one leg, froze my gaze as I stopped and stared.
→ read full articleHurricanes Blow Away Climate Change Denial
Paul R. Pillar – Consortium News,
11 Sep 2017
The startling landfall of two giant hurricanes – feasting on especially warm water off Texas and Florida – crashes into the climate change denialism that has been politically popular on the Right, notes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
→ read full article(Français) Myanmar: de l’essence et du feu, mais pas le Bien contre le Mal
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
7 Sep 2017 – Longtemps persécutés dans l’ombre, les Rohingya, communauté musulmane du Myanmar, se trouvent aujourd’hui sous le feu des projecteurs médiatiques. Situation embarrassante pour Aung San Suu Kyi et ses sponsors occidentaux qui l’avaient plébiscitée pour incarner la transition démocratique du Myanmar?
→ read full articleMaking Peace
Denise Levertov | Poetry Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
A voice from the dark called out,
‘The poets must give us
imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar
imagination of disaster. Peace, not only
the absence of war.’
How History Explains the Korean Crisis
William R. Polk – Consortium News,
4 Sep 2017
Many Americans simply view North Korea and its leaders as “crazy,” but the history behind today’s crisis reveals of a more complex reality that could change those simplistic impressions, as historian William R. Polk explains.
→ read full articleThe Man Who Stood Up to Armageddon
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 Aug 2017 – Suddenly it’s possible — indeed, all too easy — to imagine one man starting a nuclear war. What’s a little harder to imagine is one human being stopping such a war. For all time. The person who came closest to this may have been Tony de Brum, former foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, who died last week of cancer at age 72.
→ read full articleSeymour Hersh Honored for Integrity
Ray McGovern- Consortium News,
4 Sep 2017
1 Sep 2017 – An organization led by former U.S. intelligence officials has selected legendary journalist Seymour Hersh to be the recipient of an annual award for integrity and truth-telling, named for the late CIA analyst Sam Adams.
→ read full articleNYT Only the Latest Corporate Media Outlet to Give Free Publicity to Mercenary Profiteer
Adam Johnson | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The New York Times (8/30/17) decided to turn over a large chunk of the most precious opinion space in the English-speaking world to mercenary entrepreneur Erik Prince, so he could promote his plan to privatize and profit from the US occupation of Afghanistan.
→ read full articleEl Salvador’s Durable Disorder: Low Intensity Postwar Democracy
Norbert Ross and Antonia Ross Sanchez - CounterPunch,
4 Sep 2017
In El Salvador violence has become a big industry. For 2015 and 2016, The Economist featured the country as the most violent country (not at war), with its capital, San Salvador, holding the dubious title of “most murderous city.” It is not surprising then, that even with a left leaning government in power prosecution of minors for gang related crimes has increased by 50%. The right-wing ARENA party even proposed reforms to the Juvenile Penal Law, seeking to try minors linked to gang activity as adult terrorists.
→ read full articleChina Has Already More Than Doubled Its 2020 Solar Power Target
Jing Yan and Lauri Myllyvirta | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
25 Aug 2017 – China has more than doubled its end-of-decade solar power target, with new installations dramatically outstripping expectation, according to the government’s energy agency.
→ read full articleHow Media Obscure US/Saudi Responsibility for Killing Yemeni Civilians
Ben Norton | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
31 Aug 2017 – A coalition of Saudi Arabia, USA, UK and UAE has relentlessly bombed Yemen since March 2015. There are no other parties bombing the country, so media cannot feign ignorance as to who is responsible for the attacks. But reports on the bloody US/Saudi coalition airstrikes were nonetheless rife with ambiguous and downright misleading language.
→ read full articlePeace Study Day & March
Alberto Portugheis | Humanity United for Universal Demilitarization – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Sat 16 Sep 2017 at The Elizabeth Fry Room, Westminster Quaker Meeting House, London, England. Speakers: John Leech, Alicia Cabezudo, Alberto Portugheis, Stefan G. Ziegler and Azadeh Chahvie. If you would like to participate only in our Peace March, please meet us at 6pm at Hop Gardens. You are also welcome to join us at any of our stopping points along the way.
→ read full articleClimate Disaster & Nuclear War!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
29 Aug 2017 – The catastrophe is still unfolding with unprecedented rainfall and flooding from Hurricane Harvey. Houston is known as “Petro Metro” and is home to more than a dozen oil refineries. The people who live closest to these industrial sites are low income and minority communities. Poor people of color bear the greatest burden of climate change, harmful pollution, and have the fewest options when natural or man-made disaster strikes. Climate disaster and nuclear war pose the two greatest threats to life on the planet.
→ read full articleEchoes of Reagan: Another Nuclear Buildup
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Thirty years ago Americans endured an absurd expansion of the US nuclear-weapon force under President Reagan. The announced weapons modernization program was accompanied by a crazy talk from his advisers about the potential to fight and win a nuclear war. So here we are evidently back to the future as the Trump administration forges ahead with nuclear “modernization,” without a set strategy for the weapons but with billions of dollars to burn.
→ read full articleThe Lies of 9/11 Miracle Workers
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
A Review of David Ray Griffin’s Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the World – David Ray Griffin is an international treasure and truth teller, who, while being ignored by the mainstream corporate media for his extraordinary series of books exposing the false flag attacks of Sep 11, 2001, will someday be lauded as a modern prophet.
→ read full article(Català) Per què tots aquests racistes estan tan aterroritzats?
Robert Burrowes – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
4 Sep 2017
El racisme – la por i l’odi als d’una altra raça, juntament amb la creença que l’altra raça és inferior i ha de ser dominat (per la seva raça) – és ara molt visible entre les poblacions europees afectades pels fluxos de refugiats d’Orient Mitjà i del Nord Àfrica. A més, el racisme és contínuament molt evident entre sectors de la població nord-americana, però també en països com Sud-Àfrica, Austràlia i en tota Amèrica Central i del Sud, on les poblacions indígenes són particularment afectades.
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