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Saudi Employer Owes Guest Workers Nearly $1 Billion in Back Pay
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
The exploitation of migrant workers is turning into a full-fledged humanitarian crisis.
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to End War
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
There is a long history of anti-war and peace activism. Much of this activism has focused on ending a particular war, other at ending a particular aspect of war, such as the use of a type of weapon. Some of it has aimed to prevent a type of war, such as ‘aggressive war’ or nuclear war. For those activists who regard war as the scourge of human existence, however, ‘the holy grail’ has always been much deeper: to end war.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Aug 15-21~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “[W]e tend to underestimate the power of one person. One committed, determined person filled with lights can move mountains.” – China Brooks
→ read full article(Castellano) Intento de Golpe de Estado en Turquía, Nueva Constitución en Chile
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
¿Qué es lo que es la democracia? Según el realismo critico la palabra “democracia” –y cualquier otra palabra—es una herramienta de acción social. Hablar es actuar. Esgrimir la palabra “democracia” es una acción. Debe ser una acción responsable. Sucesos actuales en Turquía y en Chile subrayan la importancia práctica de esta perspectiva teórica.
→ read full articleWhy Are Elites Out of Touch? They Think Anyone Who Disagrees with Them Is Crazy
Nitzan David Foucks – The National Interest Magazine,
15 Aug 2016
Not a single expert has questioned his own beliefs. Not a single word on the dysfunction of the EU, or why exactly cosmopolitanism should be embraced. And the Brexit is just one example where the experts put the blame on the general public. Another is Trump. And again, instead of questioning why their voice has become irrelevant, the elites blame the masses. This trend cannot go on.
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People Have the Power (Music Video of the Week)
pattismithVEVO– TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
“People Have the Power” is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Fred “Sonic” Smith, and released as a lead single from Patti Smith 1988 album Dream of Life. The music video is filmed mostly in black-and-white and features Patti Smith singing, writing and walking.
→ read full articleHome Demolitions Are Organized State Violence
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Over the last decade, Israel has demolished over 1,100 Palestinian homes in the West Bank, leaving homeless more than 5,199 people, including at least 2,602 minors. The extensive demolitions are part of a broader Israeli policy of forced transfer. The following speech was delivered at a conference on home demolitions held at the Knesset on July 27, 2016.
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi le fascisme ?
Annie Lacroix-Riz | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Remarques contemporaines sur la face non idéologique du fascisme : crise de surproduction et guerre aux salaires.
→ read full articleAftermath of Political Ruptures: Iran, Egypt, Turkey
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
12 Aug 2016 – This post offers a commentary of recent dramatic developments within Turkey and the largely critical international media and diplomatic responses. It compares international reactions to political ruptures in Iran (1979) and Egypt (2011, 2013), and encourages greater public attention to the importance attached by the Turkish citizenry to the defeat of the coup attempt and more sympathy with the kind of political leadership provided by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan since the coup attempt of July 15th.
→ read full articleMilitary Dissent Is Not an Oxymoron – Freeing Democracy from Perpetual War
William J. Astore | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
11 Aug 2016 – The United States is now engaged in perpetual war with victory nowhere in sight. Having spent trillions of dollars on war with such sorry results, it’s a wonder that key figures in the U.S. military or officials in any other part of America’s colossal national security state and the military-industrial complex (“the Complex” for short) haven’t spoken out forcefully and critically about the disasters on their watch.
→ read full articleThe Recarbonisation Revolution
Dr. Petri Vasara – The Economist,
15 Aug 2016
The World Needs a ‘Recarbonisation Revolution’ of Global Material Flows – Recarbonisation requires moving from fossil carbon to biocarbon. The recarbonisation revolution offers a simple way to define the bio-economy: recarbonise materials, de-carbonise energy.
→ read full articleGreenland Ice Melt Could Expose Hazardous Cold War Waste
Andrea Thompson | Climate Central, Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
The military abandoned the ice-tunnel complex with tons of chemicals and radioactive materials.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | 9 August, the 71st Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Unwelcome Truths for Church and State – 71 years ago (August 9, 1945) an all-Christian bomber crew dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki City, Japan, instantly vaporizing, incinerating, irradiating and otherwise annihilating tens of thousands of innocent civilians, men, women and children. Very few Japanese soldiers were affected and a disproportionately large number of the Nagasaki victims were Christian.
→ read full articleDreaming Again for Equality in India
Devanuru Mahadeva – Al Jazeera,
15 Aug 2016
The Dalits need to be mindful of what to expect and wise to organise the community, and continue their struggle.
→ read full articleGood Thinking: Those Who’ve Tried to Halt Nuclear Weapons
A Documentary by Anthony Donovan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
This documentary 3.5 yrs in the making was slanted for release in Film Festivals fall 2016, and it was much preferred to have people view this on the big screen with others, however with the recent dangerous, irresponsible banter by most Presidential candidates about nuclear weapons, it is being released now freely to the public, in the hopes it will shed needed light, and widen the truth.
→ read full articleTrump Apologizes, Wins over Critics
Timothy Braatz - CounterPunch,
15 Aug 2016
A parody–half of it is fact, the other half fiction. It points out the hypocrisy of US political discourse that is “scandalized” by Trump but supports murder overseas.
→ read full article(Italiano) La Norvegia oggi — Compiacenza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
USA odino ancor più la Russia, e si semplifichino la vita restringendo la realtà russa a una persona, Putin, demonizzato quindi secondo la modalità descritta da Orwell in 1984. Il libro riguarda gli sforzi di costruire società irreversibili; si cita spesso “tutti gli animali sono uguali” di Animal Farm, certo, ma meno significativo. Il titolo avrebbe dovuto essere 1985, l’anno in cui Thatcher e Reagan cercarono di costruire un mondo irreversibile, un ordine capitalista anglo-americano.
→ read full articleEarth Overshoot Day Is Aug 8, 2016
Earth Overshoot Day – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
On August 8, 2016, we will have used as much from nature as our planet can renew in the whole year. We use more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate through overfishing, overharvesting forests and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than forests can sequester.
→ read full article(Castellano) Gandhi y la desobediencia civil en India
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Mahatma Gandhi rompió los esquemas de las tradicionales protestas violentas para obtener algún fin. Este líder indio supo combinar la política, la religiosidad y su carisma hasta establecer un hito en la historia contemporánea: la independencia a través de la desobediencia civil.
→ read full articleState Dept Excuses Syria Rebel Group over Terror Attacks
Jason Ditz | AntiWar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
State Department spokesman Mark Toner downplayed the incidents, or the possibility that the US would stop arming Nour al-Din al-Zinki just because they beheaded a child and used chemical weapons. Insists ‘One Incident Here and There’ Doesn’t Make Them Terrorists’
→ read full articleThe Shot Heard All Over the Country
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The crew of an Israeli ambulance was treating the wounded soldier, ignoring the seriously wounded Arab who was lying on the ground. Several Israeli soldiers were standing around, also ignoring the Palestinian. About 10 minutes later Sergeant Elor Azaria, a medic, appeared on the scene, approached the wounded Palestinian and shot him point-blank in the head, killing him.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | Bernie Sanders and Aussie Gough Whitlam, Identical Political Twins fromTwo Eras
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Lessons for the Sanders’ Revolution of 2016 from the Doomed Progressive Politics of the Post-Vietnam Era in Australia
→ read full article(Italiano) I terroristi dell’Antropocene
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
8 Aug 2016
5 agosto 2016 – In un recente articolo sul New York Times1 l’autore, Max Fisher, riporta alcune idee espresse da due importanti figure pubbliche sullo scottante argomento delle armi nucleari. In una intervista rilasciata a marzo Donald Trump pose la domanda: “se l’ ISIS ci colpisse, non rispondereste con un ordigno nucleare?” In una successiva occasione, Trump ha chiesto ripetutamente: “Se le abbiamo, perché non possiamo usarle?”
→ read full article(Português) Leite de origem animal: o que o marketing nunca irá mostrar nos bastidores
Camila Jade Baungartel - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
8 Aug 2016
A realidade do consumo de leite de origem animal que o marketing esconde, desmistificando as falácias da medicina vinculada ao agronegócio, os malefícios que causa à saúde humana, os impactos ambientais, o equívoco do “bem-estar animal” de “vaca feliz” e o sofrimento de animais explorados por uma industria voltada exclusivamente para atender os desejos humanos.
→ read full article(Castellano) Google eliminó a Palestina del mapa y lo reemplazó por Israel
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
En un comunicado, periodistas palestinos han señalado que la acción de Google es “contraria a todas las normas y convenciones internacionales”.
→ read full articleThe Looming Financial Crisis Nobody Is Talking About, but Should Be
Shaun Bradley | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Talking heads and hedge fund managers will be eternally optimistic on the outlook for the future, even as the collapse becomes undeniably obvious. Problems for the European Union will continue to build, and the risk of the disease spreading to other economies increases by the day. Unfortunately, this Ponzi scheme system we built our societies on has left us vulnerable to any well-timed black swan event.
→ read full articleRio 2016: The “Olympic Ideal” and the Reality of Capitalism
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The Olympics are being held under conditions of military occupation in Brazil, one of the world’s must unequal countries, wracked by economic, social and political crises.
→ read full article(Français) Banque mondiale, une zone de non-droit protégée par des juges
Renaud Vivien | Comite pour l'abolition des dettes illégitimes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Un tribunal de Washington a autorisé la Banque mondiale à ne pas répondre de ses actes devant la justice étasunienne |1|. Les plaignants indiens ont déjà fait appel de cette décision qui confère à la Banque mondiale une immunité qui la place de facto au dessus des lois.
→ read full articleIs Humility Compatible with a Healthy Self-esteem?
Mahatma Das | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Aside from confusing humility with low self-esteem, people sometimes correlate the concept of high self-esteem with pride and self-absorption. But it is actually the contrary. People who exhibit high self-esteem also exemplify a more humble attitude toward others. They show a willingness to admit and correct mistakes, whereas persons with low self-esteem are often defensive and feel a need to prove they are right.
→ read full articleXi Jinping Is No Mao Zedong
Keyu Jin | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Those who fear Cultural Revolution 2.0 need to understand that China is not the country it was 50 years ago. The soil for authoritarianism and a cult of personality has been plowed under by three decades of increasing openness and economic growth. No one understands this better than Xi.
→ read full articleMicrosoft Pitches Technology That Can Read Facial Expressions at Political Rallies
Alex Emmons – The Intercept,
8 Aug 2016
Microsoft officials declined to comment on exactly what information is collected on each face and what data is retained or stored, instead referring me to their privacy policy, which does not address the question. Microsoft’s marketing did not seem to match the consent policy. “It’s difficult to envision how companies will obtain consent from people in large crowds or rallies.”
→ read full articleGlobal Surveillance Industry Database Helps Track Big Brother Worldwide
Deirdre Fulton – Common Dreams,
8 Aug 2016
“Without instruments capable of restricting transfers and shining a light on the companies and the trade, surveillance technologies developed in and traded from the West will further undermine privacy and facilitate other abuses,” says report.
→ read full articleA Guide to Online Security for Activists
Jillian C. York | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
2 Aug 2016 – The last year has seen an uptick in digital threats faced by individuals and organizations around the world. Over the past few months, there have been attacks on boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement websites, threatening emails to activists and new information emerging on Israel’s surveillance capabilities.
→ read full articleHiroshima, Presidential Campaigns and Our Nuclear Future
Robert F. Dodge, M.D. | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Seventy-one years ago on August 6th and 9th the world entered the nuclear age with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing and injuring in excess of 200,000 immediately and untold additional fatalities from lingering radiation effects.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | August 1, 2016: The 50th Anniversary of the Start of America’s Mass School Shooting Epidemic
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
It is a fact that 90% of America’s school shooters were on prescription brain-altering psychiatric drugs – drugs that are well known to cause inebriation, intoxication, loss of impulse control, rage, aggression, homicidal ideation, suicidal ideation, and temporary drug-induced mania and/or psychosis.
→ read full articleGoogle Slammed for Removing Palestine from Its Maps
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
4 Aug 2016 – The Palestinian Journalists’ Forum has denounced Google for deleting the name of Palestine from its maps and replacing it with Israel. In a statement released yesterday, the forum said Google’s decision to remove Palestine from its maps on 25 July “is part of the Israeli scheme to establish its name as a legitimate state for generations to come and abolish Palestine once and for all.”
→ read full articleTen Lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl was repeated, albeit with a different set of circumstances, at Fukushima. Have our societies yet learned any lessons that will prevent the people of the future from experiencing such devastation? As poet Maya Angelou points out, “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage doesn’t need to be lived again.”
→ read full articleThe Global Campaign for Peace Education
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The Global Campaign for Peace Education provides coverage of peace education from around the world, including original articles, research and stories cultivated from journals and independent and mass media sources.
→ read full articleAugust: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
August 8, 1994 – – In one of the twenty known incidents of the attempted illicit sale of Russian bomb-grade fissile materials in the last 25 years since the breakup of the Soviet Union, security officials at Munich International Airport in Germany arrested individuals who were caught in possession of 363.4 grams of plutonium – enough to make one or more radiological weapons or dirty bombs.
→ read full articleTeam Clinton Focuses on the Demise of Hezbollah
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The likely next American President, Hilary Clinton is fielding an array of foreign policy advisers, table scraps from the Bush administration and from Obama…. Whatever success the Clinton team will have with its goal of destroying Hezbollah and however one evaluates Obama’s policy, this region appears headed for yet more prolonged violence and many more deaths of innocent civilians.
→ read full articleSubtle Message
TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
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→ read full articleFalse Promises and Failures of Genetic Engineering: Avoid ‘Miracle’ Rice and Just Eat a Carrot
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Golden rice is a false miracle. It is a disease of nutritionally empty monocultures offered as a cure for nutritional deficiency. In fact, golden rice, if successful, will be 400% less efficient in providing Vitamin A…
→ read full articleFidel Castro (13 Aug 1926 – 25 Nov 2016)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, political leader of Cuba (1959–2008), transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America.
→ read full articleThis Company Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult
David Gauvey Herbert | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Every move you make. Every click you take. Every game you play. Every place you stay. They’ll be watching you. The bottom line: IDI’s marketing databases may help PIs predict people’s moves or digitally peek into their cars or medicine cabinets.
→ read full articleNATO: Increasing the Role of Nuclear Weapons
Susi Snyder | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The majority of countries are ready to end the danger posed by nuclear weapons and to start negotiations for a treaty banning them. However, both documents issued by the NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland 8-9 July 2016–the Summit Communiqué and the Warsaw Declaration on Transatlantic Security–reaffirmed the NATO commitment to nuclear weapons, and the Communiqué included a return to cold war style language on nuclear sharing.
→ read full articleOur Deteriorating Environment: Is Anybody Listening?
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
6 Aug 2016 – While the scientists have been doing their job in calling attention to the multiple ways in which environmental decline threatens the planet, we hear less and less from political leaders. Their focus is on the here-and-now—terrorism, jobs, immigration—and not on commitments to the future. Last year’s Paris Agreement on climate change seems like a distant memory.
→ read full articleFive Things Scarier Than a Nuclear-Armed Trump
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
A lot of the scariest stuff about nuclear weapons is discussed in classified briefings, things too devastating for our tender ears to hear—even though the policies and plans being discussed could turn our tender ears and the rest of our tender bodies to ash in a millisecond. Here are five things worth worrying about more than Donald Trump’s crazy.
→ read full articleErdogan Wants to ‘Smash NATO Secret Army’ Allegedly Involved in Attempted Coup
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
According to Turkish media reports, there was a secret NATO structure involved in the attempted coup that took place in Turkey on July 15, German newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten wrote. “If one wants to again create relationship of trust with the Western institutions, Gladio [clandestine NATO structure] in Turkey must be eliminated as it already was in several Western countries.”
→ read full article(Italiano) “I ragazzi sono in pericolo”: Benvenuti nella Guantanamo dei bambini
Noor el-Terk – Middle East Eye,
8 Aug 2016
“Stiamo vivendo l’impossibile, l’impensabile,” mi dice il padre di Mohamed Imad, quindici anni. Lo hanno sottoposto a elettro-shock, colpito in faccia, frustato, gli sono saltati sulla schiena: la lista degli orrori è infinita, suo padre a stento trattiene le lacrime. “Sapete, mio figlio è nato in Giappone. Ho scritto all’ambasciatore giapponese, ho chiesto se mandarlo in Giappone può servire a tenerlo al sicuro. Sarei disposto a rinunciare a mio figlio, il Giappone può prenderselo come uno dei suoi. I bambini qui sono in pericolo.”
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Military Robots and the Future of War
P.W. Singer |TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Video from 2009 Even More Relevant Today – Must Watch
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Aug 8-14 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” – Mahatma Gandhi
→ read full articleContext Matters: Turkey after the Failed Coup
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Part of the prescribed contextualization, given Turkish realities, is to avoid premature international appraisals, admit underlying uncertainties, and allow enough imaginative space to enable a hopeful future for Turkey.
→ read full article(Português) A história do veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
“Enquanto o ser humano for implacável com as criaturas vivas, ele nunca conhecerá a saúde e a paz. Enquanto os homens continuarem massacrando animais, eles também permanecerão matando uns aos outros. Na verdade, quem semeia assassinato e dor não pode colher alegria e amor”, disse o filósofo grego Pitágoras por volta de 500 anos antes de Cristo.
→ read full articleHealth Secrets of the Amish
Moises Velasquez-Manoff – The New York Times,
8 Aug 2016
Disease emerges from the dance between genes and environment. The asthma epidemic may stem, at least in part, from the decline of our “old friends” — the organisms our immune systems expect to be present in the environment. The newly sneezing upper classes in the 19th century may have been the first to find themselves without these old friends. Now most of the developed world has lost them.
→ read full articleSpeak Out Now! NO MORE WAR!
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The U.S. Military is the world’s single largest consumer of oil and the largest emitter of of CO2 greenhouse gases. It has caused extensive radioactive and chemical contamination of the planet’s air, water, and soil. August 6th and 9th are days to remember the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
→ read full articleAustralia: Appalling Abuse, Neglect of Refugees on Nauru
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Investigation on Remote Pacific Island Finds Deliberate Abuse Hidden Behind Wall of Secrecy – “Few other countries go to such lengths to deliberately inflict suffering on people seeking safety and freedom. Driving adult and even child refugees to the breaking point with sustained abuse appears to be one of Australia’s aims on Nauru.”
→ read full articleJapan Seeks Talks with U.S. over ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Policy Change
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The Japanese government has expressed concern over reports that the Obama administration may be planning to implement a policy of “No First Use,” meaning that the U.S. would pledge never to use nuclear weapons first in a conflict. A senior Japanese government official said, “From the [standpoint of] Japan’s security, it is unacceptable.”
→ read full articleNonviolence: More Fundamental than Disarmament
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
At the 71st Anniversary of 129,000 People Who Died from Two Nuclear-Weapon Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, August 1945
→ read full articlePalestinian Detainees Continue Hunger Strike amid Deteriorating Health
International Middle East Media Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The radio reported on the status of various high-profile prisoners, principally Bilal Kayed, who continued his hunger strike Saturday [30 Jul] for the 46th day, which he began after he was transferred to administrative detention — Israel’s controversial policy of detaining primarily Palestinians without charge or trial — the day he was set to be released after completing a 14-year sentence. There are currently 7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, 715 of whom are held under Israel’s policy of administrative detention.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Hydro-Apartheid Keeps West Bank Thirsty
Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
There’s no shortage of water, it’s just that Israel doesn’t let Palestinians access it.
→ read full articleBreaking the Camouflage Wall of Silence: When AFRICOM Evaluates Itself, the News Is Grim
Nick Turse – Tom Dispatch,
8 Aug 2016
What comes next for AFRICOM will play out on the continent and in briefings before the Senate Armed Services Committee for years to come. If history is any guide, the number of terror groups on the continent will not decrease, the senators will fail to ask why this is so, and the media will follow their lead.
→ read full articleInternational Conference: Gandhian Perspectives on Contemporary Conflicts and Peace
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. - Mahatma Gandhi Center for Nonviolence, Human Rights and World Peace,
8 Aug 2016
November 3-4, 2016 ~ Orlando [Florida] Campus of the Hindu University of America ~ The Conference aims at exploring Gandhian principles, their problem solving potentials, and relevance of Gandhi for addressing global problems such as inter-state and intra-state conflicts, international peace, religious extremism, degeneration of human values, social and religious discord and violation of human rights.
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Beat It – Solo Guitar Arrangement (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson | Miguel Rivera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
I decided to start working on this arrangement because it was a great challenge. When you listen to the chorus of the original song, you can hear the main riff sounding together with the Michael’s vocal melody and, of course, drums, bass and other instruments. My objective was to play all of these parts together.
→ read full articleThe Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Intelligence Agencies
Cortney Weinbaum | The National Interest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Some of society’s brightest minds have warned that artificial intelligence (AI) may lead to dangerous unintended consequences, yet leaders of the U.S. intelligence community—with its vast budgets and profound capabilities—have yet to decide who within these organizations is responsible for the ethics of their AI creations.
→ read full articleBruce Lee’s Never-Before-Seen Writings on Willpower, Emotion, Reason, Memory, Imagination, and Confidence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”
→ read full articleEvoking Castalia as Envisaged, Entoned and Embodied
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The Great Game Informed by the Bertsolaritza Cultural Process?
→ read full article(Português) Eu e as proteínas de origem animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
No meio da musculação, de cada cinco palavras ditas, uma costuma ser proteína. Dificilmente alguém toca no assunto sem dizer: “Proteína animal, proteína animal, proteína animal, alto valor biológico – filé de frango, claras de ovos…” Com isso em mente, cheguei a consumir até três gramas de proteínas por quilo corporal em uma fase da minha vida. Pode ter certeza que é muita proteína.
→ read full articleProactive Philanthropy: Don’t Wait, Reach Out!
Robert J. Gould | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
If you have money to give, don’t wait for a call, an email, or a formal proposal, please reach out to a local community organization that is working on a cause you believe in, and get involved with what they do, and when you are convinced that they are doing good work, fund them!
→ read full articleGrowing Justice: Transcending the Oppressive History of Our Food System
Michelle Stearn | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Transforming our system into one rooted in provision means more than just creating new organizations that aim to do well for the community; it will require that we rewrite the beliefs, exchanges, and rules of our own interactions.
→ read full articleMainstream Media Are Betraying Humanity
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
We need to wake up to the real dangers that are facing humanity. Terrorism is not a real danger. The number of people killed by terrorists each year is vanishingly small compared to the number killed in traffic accidents, not to mention the tens of millions who die each year from starvation and preventable diseases. But the mass media shamelessly magnify terrorist events (some of which may be false flag actions) out of all proportion in order to allow governments to abolish civil liberties and crush dissent.
→ read full articleReal Cooperation with Nations Is the Best Survival Tactic [for the USA]
John M Repp | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
In the face of this blatantly illegal activity by the highest levels of government, we have the right to rebel. We should do it nonviolently, and we should do it now. The people of America can make agreements with all our supposed enemies and order our military to stand down.
→ read full articleThe Blog That Disappeared
Roxane Gay – The New York Times,
1 Aug 2016
On June 27, Mr. Cooper’s Google account was deactivated, he has said. He lost 14 years of his blog archives, creative work, email and contacts. He has hired a lawyer and made complaints, and many of his readers and fans have tried to support his efforts. There is a petition circulating, urging Google to restore his work. Pen America, an organization that promotes free expression, has weighed in, saying that Mr. Cooper deserves a substantive response from Google.
→ read full articleIsrael and U.S. Are Close to a Deal on the Biggest Military Aid Package Ever
Carol Morello and Ruth Eglash – The Washington Post,
1 Aug 2016
29 Jul 2016 – A senior Israeli official will arrive in Washington next week for a final round of negotiations involving the largest military aid package the United States has ever given any country and that will last more than a decade after President Obama leaves office. One major obstacle to finalizing an agreement is a dispute over where the funds can be spent.
→ read full articleWhat We Wear: Another Way to “Vote”
Andrew Moss | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The exploitation and violence associated with the globalized garment industry that produces more than 95 percent of our clothes. Exposures highlight the persistent use of child labor, the absence of living wages, and the prevalence of unsafe working conditions. The latter issue was thrust dramatically into public awareness by the collapse in April, 2013 of an eight-story building in Bangladesh, which housed garment companies supplying Children’s Place, Benetton, Cato Fashions, and the parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger. The collapse of the building killed 1,139 workers and injured 2,500 more.
→ read full articleIntegrated Science and Religion for Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Science has facilitated many things for human prosperity, but it has also helped to lose humanity’s peace of mind. Science alone cannot bring peace within the individual and in the world as a whole. It has led to unrest and war simultaneously with progress.
→ read full articleIs It an Island Or a Rock? Ruling Could Cost U.S. a Huge Swath of Ocean
Peter Coy | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
A Chinese dispute has a ripple effect on exclusive economic zones around the world. The bottom line: An arbitration panel’s definition of what an island is could undermine nations’ claims of economic zones around rock outcroppings.
→ read full articleIf Russian Intelligence Did Hack the DNC, the NSA Would Know, Snowden Says
Robert Mackey – The Intercept,
1 Aug 2016
The NSA has tools that should make it possible to trace the source of the hack. Even though the Director of National Intelligence usually opposes making such evidence public, he argued, this is a case in which the agency should do so, if only to discourage future attacks.
→ read full articleNew Panama Papers: Secret Offshore Deals Deprive Africa of Billions in Natural Resource Dollars
Will Fitzgibbon - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
1 Aug 2016
New Panama Papers Series Exposes Secret Deals in Africa – Politicians and mining, oil and gas interests benefit from secrecy and dubious multimillion-dollar transfers.
→ read full articleUS Warplanes Kill At Least 28 More Civilians in Northern Syria
Barry Grey | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
In a new US atrocity in Syria, American warplanes on Thursday [28 Jul] bombed a market killing at least 28 civilians, including seven children. The latest mass killing occurred in the same region where, nine days before, the US military bombed a group of houses where nearly 200 people had gathered to seek refuge, with the reported civilian death toll varying from a low of 56 to a high of more than 200.
→ read full articleChild Prodigy? (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Unfortunately we have no info about the boy pianist. Excellent indeed!
→ read full articleThere’s No Business like the Arms Business – Weapons “R” Us (But You’d Never Know It)
William D. Hartung - TomDispatch,
1 Aug 2016
26 Jul 2016 – When American firms dominate a global market worth more than $70 billion a year, you’d expect to hear about it. Not so with the global arms trade. It’s good for one or two stories a year in the mainstream media, usually when the annual statistics on the state of the business come out. From the president on down, significant parts of the government are intent on ensuring that American arms will flood the global market and companies like Lockheed and Boeing will live the good life.
→ read full article(Français) La propagande d’Israël (extrait)
Ilan Pappé | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
« Par une nuit chaude de juillet 1994, des centaines de personnes s’étaient rassemblées dans une salle d’université à Tel-Aviv pour écouter un débat sur le savoir et le pouvoir en Israël…
→ read full articleIreland Jails Three Top Bankers Over 2008 Banking Meltdown
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Three senior Irish bankers were jailed on Friday [29 Jul] for up to three-and-a-half years for conspiring to defraud investors in the most prominent prosecution arising from the 2008 banking crisis that crippled the country’s economy.
→ read full articleThe Zika Virus Mosquito Is so Dangerous the Military Considered Using It as a Weapon
Rod Tanchanco | History News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
It is a master of stealth, stretching less than half an inch long and weighing in at 2.5 milligrams with as estimated air speed of 1 to 1.5 miles per hour. It is virtually soundless in flight, registering zero decibels from ten feet. Its tracking systems hone in on targets by detecting infrared radiation from warm bodies, chemicals such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid, body odors from as far as a hundred feet, as well as movement from fidgety hosts. It can carry an impressive array of payload: up to 32 different types of viruses, many of which are lethal to humans. And it protects itself from the same viruses with a well-developed immune system that provides a highly effective antiviral defense mechanism. The Aedes mosquito, insect vector for dozens of viruses including the Zika virus, is a near-perfect drone.
→ read full articleThe UN Human Rights Council Adopts the Declaration on the Right to Peace
Christian Guillermet Fernández and David Fernández Puyana – Inter Press Service-IPS,
1 Aug 2016
On 1 July 2016, the UN Human Rights Council adopted the Declaration on the Right to Peace by a majority of its Member States. It is the result of three years of work with all stakeholders led by Costa Rica, through its Ambassador Christian Guillermet-Fernández.
→ read full articleHenry Steel Olcott (2 Aug 1832 – 17 Feb1907): The Buddhist Bridge
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
There is, in a period of transition, a need for individuals with the specific talents of organization and the ability to translate doctrines into social policy. Henry Steel Olcott was such an individual. It is likely that today, when contacts among different schools of Buddhist thought are more common than in 1891, the area of agreement would be greater.
→ read full articleNatural and Human-Made Disasters: A Primer for Our Times ©
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The word “disasters” has become much more than a word as humanity becomes aware of the numerous natural, human-made, and human-facilitated disasters in our times…. Albert Einstein, advised: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them” Albert Einstein is no longer with us, but his words remain, and demand attention. Anything less … a disaster!
→ read full articleNice, Munich and the Terrorism of the West
Belen Fernandez – Middle East Eye,
1 Aug 2016
If you happen to exist in the vicinity of Arab/Muslim formations, you’re legitimate collateral damage – and you don’t stand a chance of being humanised post-mortem in the fashion of the Nice victims. Eighty-four lives lost in Nice is an atrocity of extreme proportions, no doubt. But what of the estimated half a million Iraqi children wiped out via US sanctions in the 1990s, before we even got down to serious business via the war on terror?
→ read full articleClimate Change Activism: A Post-Mortem
John Michael Greer | The Archdruid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
It’s not inappropriate to ask what happened to all the apparent political momentum the climate change movement had ten or fifteen years ago, and why a movement so apparently well organized, well funded, and backed by so large a scientific consensus failed so completely. In my experience, at least, if you raise this question among climate change activists, the answer you’ll get is that there was a well-funded campaign that deployed disinformation against them. So?
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Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016
Fort Russ | Inessa S – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Jul 24, 2016 – This candid conversation took place with representatives of various media outlets during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, in June 2016. Putin urged journalists to report genuinely on the impending danger that is a nuclear arms race.
→ read full articleTrump vs. Clinton vs. Sanders: The Blind Leading the Blind Leading the Blind
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
My thesis is that the proposals put forward by Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders offer no solutions to the fiscal crisis of the state, and partly for this reason do not and cannot promise social integration. I am not complaining. I am just trying to do my part as a philosopher to help generate better ideas, ideas that will work.
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The Battle for Compassion
Jonathan Leighton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
A short film by Jonathan Leighton about what matters and how we can have greater impact in shaping a gentler future for our planet. The film draws on key ideas from his book, ‘The Battle for Compassion: Ethics in an Apathetic Universe.’ He advocates the reduction of intense human and animal suffering as our highest ethical priority, and the creation of compassionate and rational decision-making structures that meet the needs of all.
→ read full articleNever Thought of That…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Gee!
→ read full articleRights of Indigenous Peoples ‘Critical’ to Combat Climate Change
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
1 Aug 2016
25 Jul 2016 – No longer it is about restoring the legitimate rights of over 370 indigenous peoples spread across 70 countries worldwide, many of them living in dire situation, but now about their central, critical role in combating climate change.
→ read full articleA Largeness of Contemplation: Bertrand Russell on Intuition, the Intellect, and the Nature of Time
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. The greatest men who have been philosophers have felt the need both of science and of mysticism: the attempt to harmonise the two was what made their life, and what always must, for all its arduous uncertainty, make philosophy, to some minds, a greater thing than either science or religion.
→ read full articleUS Government Report Exposes Exaggerated TPPA Growth Claims
Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
1 Aug 2016
28 Jul 2016 – The 2016 report by the US International Trade Commission acknowledges that the Trans-Pacific Partnership will not deliver many economic benefits promised by its cheerleaders. Implementing the TPP will greatly profit some large corporations, especially those getting IPR and financial rents.
→ read full articleAustralia: The Scourge of Youth Detention
Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The Northern Territory, Torture, and Australia’s Detention Disease – It was an image that would not have been out of place in the sickly procession of pictures that came out of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay during the ill-fated and misnamed war on terror. Here was a young man, seated, strapped in and euphemistically “restrained,” verging on catatonic; on his head, a suffocating bag.
→ read full article(Français) Les enfants sont en danger : bienvenue au Guantanamo « pour enfants » d’Égypte
Noor El-Terk – Middle East Eye,
1 Aug 2016
Électrocuté, fouetté, frappé au visage, au dos… ; la liste des horreurs que son père, luttant pour que sa voix ne tremble pas, me raconte, est sans fin. « Mon fils est né au Japon, vous savez, j’ai écrit à l’ambassadeur japonais, si [l’envoyer au Japon] est ce qu’il faut faire pour le mettre à l’abri, je renoncerai à lui. Le Japon peut le prendre comme l’un des siens – les enfants ici sont en danger. Tout ce que mon fils connaîtra de ce pays, ceux sont ses cachots. Il a vu plus que tout adolescent de 15 ans devrait avoir vu. »
→ read full articleWorld Leaders Perpetuate Failed Anti-Terror Policies
Rami G Khouri – Al Jazeera,
1 Aug 2016
After decades of failed military action we still don’t know what drives citizens to terror.
→ read full articleDispatches: Torture of Australia’s Children
Elaine Pearson | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
26 Jul 2016 | Abuse of Detained Teenagers Caught on Camera by ABC’s Four Corners Program – Teargassing, hooding, shackling, stripping. Twenty-three hours a day solitary confinement in a hot dark cell. When a 17-year-old threatens to hurt himself, guards hood him, strap him to a chair and leave him alone for two hours.
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