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Palestine Youth Orchestra’s Triumphant UK Debut
Sarah Irving | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Although the Palestine Youth Orchestra has sprung from the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, which has branches in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the orchestra’s members are spread across historic Palestine, including within the State of Israel. Indeed, two musicians were unable to join this tour, despite being scheduled to perform: from Gaza, they were denied exit by Israel.
→ read full articleHow an iPhone Defeated the Tanks
David Hearst – Middle East Eye,
1 Aug 2016
Turkey’s reaction last night [15 Jul] was that of a mature democracy. The West’s was that of corrupted democracy tainted by its support of autocracy.
→ read full article(Anúncio em Português) Simpósio Internacional de Educação e Pedagogia: Paz e Cidadania Global
Maria Emanuel Melo de Almeida | Membro TRANSCEND – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Lisboa, 15 e 16 de setembro de 2016 – o Simpósio apresenta quatro eixos de reflexão que pretendem lançar o debate relacionado com o diálogo intercultural, os direitos humanos, a educação para a paz e o desenvolvimento sustentável:
1. Educação para a paz e cidadania;
2. Educação e diversidades;
3. Educação e tecnologias;
4. Educação e pedagogia.
The Psychology of Ideology and Religion
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
At the macro level, there are worldwide or regional ideologies such as capitalism, fascism, conservatism, communism, socialism, feminism, pacifism and environmentalism as well as religions including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. There are also variations of these major ideologies and religions. But even at the micro level, the local service club, neighborhood charity and sporting club operates in accordance with an ideology or religion that is shared by its members too.
→ read full articleThe Orange Man
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
So here we are. Either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be our next president. “Our”? I am not a US citizen, and have no desire to be one. But I live in a world in which the USA is the sole superpower, in which every decision of the US administration has an impact on the lives of every human being. For me as a citizen of Israel, this impact is much greater than for most and much more immediate.
→ read full articleForests: To Farm or Not to Farm? This Is the Question!
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
1 Aug 2016
19 Jul 2016 – The dilemma is critical: on the one hand, there is an absolute need to produce more food for the world’s steadily growing population; on the other, there is pressing urgency to halt -and further revert- the increasing trend to deplete the forests, which are as necessary for human survival as it is for ensuring their dietary needs. So what is at stake ?
→ read full articleKurt Vonnegut’s 1988 Letter to the Future More Relevant Today Than Ever Before
Kick Kennedy | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
In 1988, my then Hyannis Port neighbor the late Kurt Vonnegut wrote a prescient letter to the Earth’s planetary citizens of 2088 for Volkswagen’s TIME magazine ad campaign. His seven points of advice are perhaps more relevant today than at any time in human history.
→ read full articleThe Real Secret of the South China Sea
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The US is all about Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny. As it stands, more than Russia’s western borderlands, the Baltics or “Syraq”, this is where the hegemon “rules” are really being contested. And the stakes couldn’t be higher. That’ll be the day when the US Navy is “denied” from the South China Sea; and that’ll be the end of its imperial hegemony.
→ read full articleAfrica/America
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Recently I have had the great privilege to work with some of the 1,000 Mandela Washington Fellows, a select group of young sub-Saharan African leaders ages 25-35 placed for six weeks at about 40 universities around the US. The young leaders are electrifying.
→ read full article400 Million People Live with Hepatitis but They Do Not Know
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
1 Aug 2016
26 Jul 2016 – With some 400 million people around the world infected with hepatitis B or C, mostly without being aware, the United Nations top health agency encourages countries to boost testing and access to services and medicines for people in need to combat the ‘ignored perils’ of this disease.
→ read full articleIs Genocide a Controversial International Crime?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Why ‘Genocide’ is still a Controversial Crime? In this strikingly original, strange, and brilliant book, Philippe Sands raises a haunting question among a tangle of other intriguing issues discussed throughout East-West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (New York: Knopf, 2016).
→ read full article“Don’t Cry for Us Syria … The Truth Is We Shall Never Leave You!”
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Amid all the dissension and fear-mongering surrounding refugees in the midst of a bloody civil/proxy war, many of Syria’s youth are focused on helping fellow Syrians. As much of the rest of the world seemingly passes its time pontificating and posturing in padded chairs and security councils, volunteers around Syria are risking their lives to help those in dire need and who are attempting to find safety.
→ read full articleThe “Versus” Mentality of Our Times: Twenty-Five Conflicts
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
To a large extent, the “versus” mentality is exemplified in the former President George W. Bush, fateful words: “You are either for us, or against us.” Seeds were planted: “There is a good side, and a bad side.” Seeds of ignorance! How tragic! There will always be different sides; but the challenge to awakened minds is how to engage bring creative solutions to fractious challenges. At the core are differences! Failure to understand the nature and history of differences dooms humanity and the natural world future.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Aug 1-7 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “No matter what challenge is, or setbacks or disappointments that you may encounter along the way, you’ll find you in happiness and success if you have one goal that really is only one. That is this: ‘To fulfill the highest, the most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.’” – Oprah Winfrey’s Harvard Commencement 2013 Inspirational Speech.
→ read full article30 July: UN-designated Day for Developing Awareness of Human Trafficking
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
There are three sources of trafficking in persons. The first are refugees from armed conflicts. The second category are people leaving their country for economic reasons − sometimes called “economic refugees.” A third category − or a subcategory of economic migration − is the sex trade, usually of women but also children.
→ read full articleThe Power of “Nyet”
Dmitry Orlov | Club Orlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The way things are supposed to work on this planet is like this: in the United States, the power structures (public and private) decide what they want the rest of the world to do. They communicate their wishes through official and unofficial channels, expecting automatic cooperation…. It is a hopeful sign that people throughout the Washington-dominated world are discovering the power of “nyet.”
→ read full articleHawai’i National Holiday: Restoration Day
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Today is July 31, which is a national holiday in the Hawaiian Kingdom, called “Restoration day,” and it is directly linked to another holiday observed on November 28th called “Independence day.” Here is a brief history of these two celebrated holidays.
→ read full articleAedes Aegypti Mosquito: Fighting the Most Dangerous Animal in the World
Marian Blasberg, Hauke Goos and Veronika Hackenbroch – Der Spiegel,
25 Jul 2016
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries Zika, dengue fever and other illnesses, appears unstoppable. It is posing a unique threat to this year’s Olympic Games in Rio and is rapidly spreading around the world. Europe, too, is at risk.
→ read full articleHow the United States Government Obstructs Peace for Palestine/Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
The United States Government has not only taken Israel’s side in diplomatic negotiation between Israel and Palestine, but has actively opposed all moves toward the establishment of an independent sovereign state for the Palestinian people (meaning that the American endorsement of the two-state mantra as the consensus formula for peace was a deliberate official lie).
→ read full article(Italiano) Spagna: colpa della normativa, non dei numeri
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
La Spagna si è di nuovo bloccata. I numeri dei partiti in un parlamento con 350 seggi non hanno prodotto una maggioranza né il 20 dicembre 2015 né il 26 giugno 2016. L’aritmetica non ha funzionato. I numeri erano sbagliati. O invece, potrebbe essere sbagliata la Norma?
→ read full article(Português) Tazinha e a galinha Jurema
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Com cinco anos, Tazinha não imaginava que aquele molho vermelho e borbulhante cobrindo fatias grossas de batata-inglesa envolvia partes de um ser idêntico àquele que percorria o quintal com o viço de uma criança. Quando viu a garotinha de olhos amendoados e graúdos, a galinha se escondeu atrás de um pedaço de capoeira e cacarejou, mantendo os olhos castanhos e vibrantes bem esgazeados.
→ read full article(Português) No inferno todos vestem roupas brancas
Denise Terra - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
25 Jul 2016
Um funcionário tem então como tarefa cortar o máximo de pescoços de galinhas que falharam na serra automática, mas a esteira passa em uma velocidade assustadora, são muitas aves que devem morrer hoje para atender à demanda do mercado, cada vez mais voraz por carne de frango. Não há tempo para cortar o pescoço de todas as intactas, nem de abreviar o sofrimento daquelas que se debatem. As aves seguem para serem escaldadas em água fervendo.
→ read full articleRussian Olympic Committee’s Statement in Response to the World Anti-Doping Agency Report (in English and in русский-Russian)
Russian Olympic Committee | Олимпийский комитет России – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
We wholeheartedly disagree with Mr. McLaren’s view that the possible banning of hundreds of clean Russian athletes from competition in the Olympic Games is an acceptable ‘unpleasant consequence’ of the charges contained in his report.
→ read full articleOrlando… Dallas… Nice… Baton Rouge… Have You Noticed a Pattern?
Dr. Shariff Abdullah – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
I’ve been quoting Albert Einstein for a long time: “We can’t solve our problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” We read that famous quote, agree with it, then go right back to all of our old analyses, all of our old “causes”. And wonder why nothing changes. So… HERE is a way to recast our recent atrocities, a way to see them all as part of a larger Pattern of behavior.
→ read full articleDag Hammarskjold (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961) Crisis Manager and Longer-Range World Community Builder
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Dag Hammarskjold became Secretary-General of the United Nations at a moment of crisis related to the 1950-1953 war in Korea, and he died in a plane crash in 1961 on a mission dealing with the war in the Congo.
→ read full articleSocial Inequality Escalates in Denmark amid Bonanza for Banks and Corporations
Ellis Wynne | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Indeed, a sober analysis of class relationships in Denmark would confirm a growing inequality. As liberal newspaper Information put it baldly, “From 2003 to 2013 the richest tenth of Danes became 29 percent richer whilst the poorest ten percent became 1 percent poorer.”
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Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (Music Video of the Week)
The 5 Browns – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
The 5 Browns performing –in 5 pianos– the 18th Variation from Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini. Composition: Sergei Rachmaninoff
→ read full article(Castellano) Sepa por qué los atletas rusos no podrán competir en Río 2016
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
El dictamen fue anunciado este jueves [21 julio] en Lausana (Suiza) por el secretario general del TAS, Matthiue Reeb, quien precisó que la decisión puede ser apelada en un plazo de 30 días.
→ read full articleMap: The World of Coups Since 1950
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post,
25 Jul 2016
There have been around 475 coup attempts since 1950. That’s according to a dataset compiled by Jonathan Powell and Clayton Thyne, two assistant professors who work in the political science departments of the University of Central Florida and the University of Kentucky respectively.
→ read full article‘Monster’ El Niño Subsides, La Niña Hitting Soon
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
25 Jul 2016
Now that the 2015-2016 El Niño –one of the strongest on record– has subsided, La Niña – El Niño’s ‘counterpart’– could strike soon, further exacerbating a severe humanitarian crisis that is affecting millions of people in the most vulnerable communities in tens of countries worldwide, especially in Africa and Asia Pacific.
→ read full articleWe Ignore Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Livestock Industry at Our Own Peril
Risto Isomaki – Inter Press Service-IPS,
25 Jul 2016
According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, the production of meat and other animal-based products is responsible for around 18 to 20 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. If FAO’s assessment is correct, animal waste and the use of nitrogen-based fertilizers to grow fodder annually create about 6 million tons of nitrous oxide–65-70 percent of our total emissions.
→ read full articleNarrating Turkey at a Time of National Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
In times of tension, it is particularly important for the defense of what is good and identification of what would worsen the status quo, to strive for balanced assessments, always hoping for the best, while trying to identify and oppose any and all steps toward coercive authoritarianism. I have had the same reaction to conversations in the United States with friends who deem the country to have become ‘fascist.’
→ read full articleIncrease Your Life Expectancy by Sitting Less Than Three Hours a Day
Dr. Mercola | Peak Fitness – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
You may have heard talk that too much sitting is bad for your health, but these effects are not simply hearsay. Mounting research confirms that in order to stay optimally healthy, your body needs to spend the bulk of its time doing what it was designed to do: move. Sit less and move more. It’s a simple strategy that can do wonders for your health.
→ read full articleThe Power of One Peace Activist in Pakistan: Sail’s Story
Ruth Tidy | Peace Direct – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Have you ever been a situation you wanted to challenge, but did not know how? When you live in a violent, conflict affected area, the stakes are even higher. After attending Aware Girls’ training course Sail began his own peace activist network and has helped young people turn away from extremism in his community.
→ read full articleKashmir on Fire
Taimur Zulfiqar- The Manila Times,
25 Jul 2016
18 Jul 2016 – Kashmir is bleeding once again. Views and opinions apart, there was a complete blackout in the local print media about the recent incidents of human rights violations in the Indian-occupied Kashmir by the Indian military and paramilitary forces against those protesting the killing of Kashmiri leader Burhan Wani, who was extremely popular among the masses. As a result, dozens of innocent Kashmiris were killed, over 2,100 have been injured, 400 of whom critically.
→ read full articleErdoğan’s Coup: Purging Domestic Critics, Gaining External Allies
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
“President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan prepared a list of targets for arrest even before the coup (sic) was launched”, European Commission official on Turkey (FT 7/19/2016). In the end Erdoğan may have secured power and undertaken a vast domestic purge of his enemies, but he has lost the regional war while bearing the consequences of millions of war refugees and a deeply entrenched jihadi terrorist threat within Turkey.
→ read full articleThe Olympics as a Tool of the New Cold War
Andrey Fomin | Oriental Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
21 Jul 2016 – The allegations of systematic state organised doping by the Russian authorities are founded on the evidence of three compromised individuals and have been presented in a way that denies Russian athletes their fundamental rights.
→ read full articleSocorro – The City of Depleted Uranium
Norbert G. Suchanek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Socorro became a national sacrifice area. People are suffering similar health effects as the local population in Iraq who were hit by DU-Weapons during the Gulf Wars. The film gives details of the abuses and transgressions on the people of Socorro whose community was downwind and downgrade of the depleted uranium testing sites active since 1972.
→ read full articleTime Constrains
TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Acting in the Past
→ read full articleA Roadmap for Lebanon to Grant Civil Rights for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Palestinians in Lebanon suffer from more than two dozen targeted violations including ambiguous legal status, absence of protection; the outlawing of their right to work and to own a home or real property; adequate housing; health; fair trial; freedom of association; opinion and expression; freedom of movement, accommodation and travel, among others.
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Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad: Exclusive Interview
NBC Nightly News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
NBC’s Bill Neely speaks with President Bashar Al-Assad. This interview was filmed by the Presidential press office of Bashar al-Assad. No editorial changes were made to the content.
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The Roots of Terrorism: Something Is Wrong in Our Cultural Order
Prof. Al-Ansari | MEMRITVVideos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Prof. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari, former Dean of Islamic Law at Qatar University, discussed the phenomenon of terrorism and how to deal with it. Terrorism, he said, is based on ideology, not on financial distress or economic circumstances. It “begins with the sowing of hatred, the sowing of extremism,” and with “this rhetoric about a nation constantly under attack.” The first step to dealing with the phenomenon is to “let go of the culture of denial,” to “acknowledge that something is wrong in our cultural order,” and to “open up to other cultures.”
→ read full articleA Farmer and His Horse
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
How a Seemingly Bad Luck Can Turn Out to Be a Good Luck
→ read full articleKinetics of Empire
Paul Edwards – Information Clearing House,
25 Jul 2016
Whether our dissolution comes through annihilation by war or evisceration through financial meltdown, it will be the greatest act of state terrorism ever inflicted on humankind. In this catastrophic imperial suicide, the collateral damage will be the world.
→ read full article‘Fraud’ Alleged in NYT’s MH-17 Report
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
25 Jul 2016
An amateur report alleging Russian doctoring of satellite photos on the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 case – a finding embraced by The New York Times – is denounced by a forensic expert as an “outright fraud.”
→ read full articleBinarity
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Edward Said once told us we do not have to choose between a secular corrupt dictatorship and rule by Muslim Brotherhood. I do not have to support Zionism to be for Jewish rights. I do not have to support the Assad regime to be against the Saudi/US/Israel supported “rebel” groups who are nothing more than mercenary terrorists. We have many choices. It is time we exercise them.
→ read full articleRadiation Along Fukushima Rivers Up to 200 Times Higher Than Pacific Ocean Seabed
Greenpeace | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
A radiation survey team, supported by the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior, conducted underwater survey along the Fukushima coastline from Feb. 21 to March 11 this year, as well collecting samples in river systems. The samples were measured at an independent laboratory in Tokyo.
→ read full articleCairn Energy Demands India Pay $5.6 Billion or Drop Back Tax Claim
Pratap Chatterjee | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
15 Jul 2016 – The Scottish oil exploration company has demanded compensation for losses it claims are a result of a tax assessment…. Vodafone also has another pending case on taxation of offshore transactions in India…. The Indian government lost a similar case against Shell in the Bombay High Court and chose not to appeal.
→ read full articleAmerican Warplanes Slaughter Civilians in Northern Syria
Thomas Gaist | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Airstrikes by American warplanes, ordered by US Central Command (CENTCOM), killed dozens of civilians around the Syrian village of al-Tukhar on Monday [18 Jul]. An estimated 85 civilians, including at least 11 children, were killed in the strikes, with unknown numbers buried beneath the rubble.
→ read full articleBrexit Coincides with India’s and Pakistan’s Entry into the SCO
Alfredo Jalife-Rahme | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Prof. Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, leading Latin American expert in geopolitics, considers that the UK exiting the EU at the same time that India and Pakistan become members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is an acid test, proving that the world is alive. De-globalization is at work.
→ read full article(Français) Brésil: Un tribunal populaire condamne le coup d’Etat
INTAL | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Le 19 et 20 juillet 2016, la ville de Rio de Janeiro accueillait un procès symbolique sur le coup d’Etat en cours au Brésil suite à la procédure d’impeachment de la présidente Dilma Rousseff.
→ read full articleFive Conspirators in the Eradication of the Middle Class
Paul Buchheit – Common Dreams,
25 Jul 2016
Congress: The Kingpins.
Military: The Enforcers.
Lobbyists: The Con Men.
Media: The Illusionists.
Finance: The Hitmen.
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Jul 25-31~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.” – Lao Tzu
→ read full articleBeing Inconvenienced While Minding My Own Business
Bruce Lerro | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Liberals and the Social Contract Theory of Violence – Are “bystanders” to violent events neutral or complicit?
→ read full articleFascinating Graphics Show Who Owns All the Major Brands in the World
Jesus Diaz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
All the biggest product brands in the world are owned by a handful of corporations. Food, cleaning products, banks, airlines, cars, media companies… everything is in the hands of these mega corporations. The following infographics show how everything is connected.
→ read full articleAldous Huxley (26 Jul 1894 – 22 Nov 1963)
European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Aldous Huxley was a British writer born on Jul 26 1894, who died on Nov 22 1963, the same day as President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. He would become most known to the public for his fifth novel, ‘Brave New World,’ written in 1931. The 1950s would be a time of experiences with psychedelic drugs for him, especially LSD and mescaline.
→ read full article(Français) Eloge de la négociation
Robert Charvin | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Réunissons-nous autour d’une table, demande Umberto Eco, et négocions intelligemment pour trouver une solution qui force le respect de tous » … « parmi les vœux que je peux formuler pour le siècle à venir, il y a cette espérance d’une nouvelle éthique de la négociation », conclut avec lucidité l’universitaire de Bologne, angoissé du mal dont souffre l’Occident pour son deux millième anniversaire. L’Union Européenne nous donne à voir dans « l’embrouillamini des opinions toutes faites, des préjugés et des langues de bois politiques ou économiques, les clignotements de l’intelligence ».
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | Quotes from Assorted “Law and Order” Mis-Leaders – and Plagiarizers – Throughout History
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
“The streets of our country are in turmoil! The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting! Communists are seeking to destroy our country! Russia is threatening us with her might! Our republic is in danger, yes, danger from within and without! WE NEED LAW AND ORDER!” — Original quote from Adolf Hitler (essentially indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump).
→ read full articleThe Mousai House: A Cooperative Vision for a New Creative Economy
Jennifer Bryant | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Bryant’s exposition of The Mousai House gives us a glimpse into a thriving local economy rooted in Washington D.C. that has blossomed despite struggle, displacement, and oppression, exemplifying a rich cooperative culture that transcends the current system.
→ read full articleNelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in Mveso, Transkei, South Africa. Becoming actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement in his 20s, he joined the African National Congress in 1942. Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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US-NATO Border Confrontation with Russia Risks Nuclear War and Loss of European Partners by the USA
TheRealNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Michael Hudson says that the US-led confrontational approach of NATO with Russia is driving European countries to consider disbanding or leaving the military alliance due to increased security risks.
→ read full article(Português) Somos bárbaros, a dor dos animais nos diverte
Luce Pereira - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
18 Jul 2016
Uma vez que arenas e outros cenários de atrocidades continuam atraindo multidões, a conclusão parece bastante óbvia – o movimento que no século 18 iluminou a razão em nome da busca pela liberdade, deixou um lado da natureza humana às escuras. É este lado que chega aos dias de hoje e teima em chamar de cultura e tradição o que não passa de gosto pela barbárie.
→ read full article(Italiano) Ciarlataneria: “L’Indice di Pace Positiva” (PPI)
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Il PPI pretende d’essere un indice di pace positiva / di società pacifica. Ma è più che altro un indice di “ambiente positivo per gli affari”; da parte dell’ Institute for Economics & Peace, sa più di economia che di pace.
→ read full article(Português) A Violência: Uma contribuição a suas várias interpretações (1ª Parte)
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
O Brasil comparece como um dos países mais violentos do mundo. Só no ano de 2015 foram assassinados 66 mil pessoas, a maioria delas negros e habitantes pobres das periferias. Isso é mais que as vítimas das guerras do Iraque, do Afeganistão e atualmente da Síria.
→ read full articleThe Declassified ’28 Pages’ on the 9/11 Attacks
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
15 Jul 2016 – Today the US Congress declassified 28 pages of documents from the first Congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks with information about a possible Saudi government connection. Download and read the full report in pdf here.
→ read full articleThe Delusion ‘I Am Not Responsible’
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
You might have had a good laugh at some of the examples above. The real challenge is to ask yourself this question: where do I evade responsibility? And to then ponder how you will take responsibility in future.
→ read full article(Português) A Violência: Uma contribuição a suas várias interpretações (2ª Parte)
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Se a violência em uma origem histórica, cultural, social e radical, é mediante outro tipo de história, de cultura, de sociedade e de radicalidade que ela será minimizada e controlada em seu aspecto destrutivo.
→ read full articleVenezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua – Permanent Media False Positives
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
11 Jul 2016 – Member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas are natural targets for the relentless psychological warfare of Western news media, because they form a resistance front to the foreign policy imperatives of the United States government and its allies. Right now, Venezuela is the most obvious example.
→ read full articleUps and Downs in Palestine
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
16 Jul 2016 – Life in Palestine moves along with its ups and downs, like the tides of the sea. Some days we feel depressed, some days more optimistic. Some of us even feel like manic-depressives for the fact that we go through these cycles. The triggers are varied.
→ read full articleSlings and Arrows: Bernie Sanders Plays the Bard
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Sanders: (At the ramparts; in the shadows; a windy night–)
→ read full articleThe Nice Terror Attack: Mind at the End of Its Tether
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Nice is an opportunity to work on learning what we should be trying to learn anyway: how to live in peace with one another. As Baruch Spinoza pointed out in 1677 –and it was already old news then—anybody can kill anybody. Nice dramatizes the fact that peace through law enforcement is not feasible. Anybody can kill people with a truck, and there is no way to deploy police everywhere to stop that from happening. Peace is a table with four legs: justice, justice, justice, and justice.
→ read full articleFrantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos, Emory Postcolonial Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Black Skin, White Masks, originally titled “An Essay for the Disalienation of Blacks,” is part manifesto, part analysis; it both presents Fanon’s personal experience as a black intellectual in a whitened world and elaborates the ways in which the colonizer/colonized relationship is normalized as psychology.
→ read full articleMicah Johnson and a Culture of Violent Solutions
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
To curtail the epidemic of mass shootings and police homicides, U.S. citizens must address a variety of factors, including racism, insufficient gun regulation, and a depleted public sector. We must also correct a deeply-engrained culture of violent solutions—a culture which politicians from both parties mostly embrace.
→ read full articleForgotten People © – Human Lives . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
One more traffic accident; one more headline of deaths and injuries on our roads. Daily fare now! But what sealed my mind about this accident, this human tragedy, was the anonymity of death. True, many victims will be known and remembered to those whose lives were connected — grieving spouses, crying children, perhaps distant cousins and aunts living thousands of miles away. Yet still: “Forgotten People!”
→ read full articleHandling Opposites for Peace and Justice
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
16 Jul 2016 – Life is full of opposites: left and right, north and south, pleasure and pain, peace and violence and many other similar examples. It can be easily seen that some of these opposites such as south or north, or up and down are given and we cannot change them…. A tragic discourse in contemporary times is terrorism vs peace. Terrorism has taken a very ugly turn as can be seen by the latest event of a lone deranged man in Nice.
→ read full articleWelcome! Bienvenue!
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
16 Jul 2016 – For me, France is the land of liberty. When I was just 10 years old, I fled with my family from Nazi Germany to France, on our way to Palestine. We were afraid of being detained at the border. When our train crossed the Rhine, leaving Germany behind us and entering France, I breathed deeply. From tyranny to liberty, from hell to paradise.
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This Country Isn’t Just Carbon Neutral — It’s Carbon Negative
Tshering Tobgay, TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. In this illuminating talk, Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay shares his country’s mission to put happiness before economic growth and set a world standard for environmental preservation.
→ read full articleChina’s Bad Day in Court
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Perhaps in the South China Sea case China and the Philippines, now under a new president, will find their way back to the negotiating table and work out a deal that skirts the always-difficult sovereignty issue. That would be fine; but it would not address the fundamental problem of how law-abiding behavior can be promoted and enforced in an often anarchic world.
→ read full articleCan the United States Transcend White Supremacy?
Robert Jensen | Dissident Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Because the wealth and power of the United States are so deeply rooted in white supremacy, the abandonment of that pathology would inevitably lead to difficult questions about the country’s moral and material obligations to non-white people…. The United States likely will always be a white-supremacist nation because we have neither the intellectual nor moral traditions to deal with these harsh realities.
→ read full articleUruguay Defeats Philip Morris in Major Win for Anti-Smoking Advocates
Pratap Chatterjee | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
11 Jul 2016 – Uruguay has defeated Philip Morris, the global tobacco giant, in a major international lawsuit over the country’s tough anti-smoking regulations. On March 26, 2010, Philip Morris filed a complaint against Uruguay at the World Bank arbitration tribunal. The action was intended to escalate the fight to an international level and to take advantage of trade laws that typically favor major corporations by allowing them to claim damages from laws that deny them profits from their investments.
→ read full articleLebanon Escalates Its Denial of Civil Rights for Palestinian Refugees
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
16 Jul 2016 – In Lebanon today, Palestinians are being threatened by the government that ISIS (Daesh) and Al Nursa are plotting to take over Ain el-Helweh and the other eleven camps in Lebanon.
→ read full articleWhole Systems Change
Riane Eisler | The Next System Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
A Framework & First Steps for Social/Economic Transformation – Moving to a world that orients primarily to the partnership rather than domination model is a long-term enterprise. It will require time, perseverance, and the courage to challenge established beliefs and structures. But if we are to build a future where all children can realize their capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity—the capacities that make us fully human—we have to start constructing its foundations now.
→ read full articleImprovisation in Multivocal Poetic Discourse
Anthony Judge | laetus in praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Basque Lauburu and Bertsolaritza as Catalysts of Global Significance
→ read full articleNonviolent History: South Africa’s Port Elizabeth Boycott Begins July 15, 1985
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
The Port Elizabeth boycott was a powerful moment of consolidating and demonstrating the power of nonviolent action to place economic sanctions on white South Africans. This piece of the long South African anti-apartheid struggle helps us remember the scope, arc, and duration of working for change. It’s a marathon, not a sprint, and every step counts.
→ read full articleWhat Is NATO — Really?
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
NATO was founded with the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington DC on 4 April 1949. When NATO was founded, that was done in the broader context of the U.S. Marshall Plan, and the entire U.S. operation to unify the developed Atlantic countries of North America and Europe.
→ read full article21st Century Wedding
TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Husband and Wife…
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Jul 18-24 ~ QUOTES OF THE WEEK:
• “Age is nothing but a number.” – Ernestine Shephard
• “I think if one regards the age of 80 as a start, his or her life will be more interesting. You need a goal. It is not necessarily climbing a mountain.” – Yuichiro Miura
James Cousins (22 Jul 1873 – 20 Feb 1956): An Effort of Synthesis
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
James Cousins went to India as literary editor for New India and then was one of the organisers of the State University of Travancore, where he headed the Department of Fine Arts and English Studies. His A Study in Synthesis is a rich and complex study of the ways in which intuition, emotion, cognition and action structure human life.
→ read full articleHealth Dangers of Depleted Uranium
Dr. Lorrin Pang – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Hawaii’s Dr. Lorrin Pang explains in simple terms the health dangers of depleted uranium.
→ read full articleYemen Slides Closer to Famine as Frozen Bank Funds Curb Food Imports
Jonathan Saul and Maha El Dahan |Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Western banks had already cut credit lines for traders shipping food to Yemen, fearing they would not be repaid due to the security chaos and fragile financial system. Now, they are increasingly unwilling to offer letters of credit, which guarantee sellers will be paid on time. Out of Yemen’s 28 million people, 21 million need some form of humanitarian aid and over half the population suffer from malnutrition,
→ read full articleLeaked Document Reveals Alarming New Environmental Threats of TTIP
Sierra Club | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Leaked document from the EU reveals its intentions to include new, dangerous language in the proposed energy chapter of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
→ read full articleAn Unlikely AMEXIT: Pivoting Away from the Middle East
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Unfortunately, for America and the peoples throughout the Middle East the US seems incapable of extricating itself from yet another geopolitical quagmire that is partly responsible for generating extra-regional terrorism of the sort that has afflicted Europe in the last two years.
→ read full articleU.S. Plans to Saturate Globe with Weapons
David Swanson | Veterans Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
11 Jul 2016 – My headline above is a plain English translation of this Pentagonspeak found in a Reuters headline today: “International demand for U.S. weapons systems is expected to continue growing in coming years, a senior U.S. Air Force official said on Sunday [10 Jul], citing strong interest in unmanned systems, munitions and fighter jets.” Thus is the proliferation of drones around the world spun as something positive, along with bombs and jets.
→ read full articleThoreau on How to Use Civil Disobedience to Advance Justice
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Civil Disobedience is an indispensable read for every democratically minded, socially conscious human being awake to justice. “Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” — Thoreau
→ read full articleHuman Security a Must in a Chaotic, Confused World – Japan
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
18 Jul 2016
“Human security” is strongly linked to food and nutrition security. In fact, on-going man-made disasters—such as armed conflicts and climate change—are the very direct cause of the current, unprecedented levels of human suffering. The United Nations estimates that the number of refugees, migrants and forcibly displaced at home has now hit all-high record: 160 million worldwide.
→ read full articleThe Hijacking of Palestinian History
Dr. Elias Akleh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Settler colonialism, usually technologically and militarily more advanced, is based on the erasure of already existent people, their culture and their memory, and substituting it with new foreign national entity that builds new culture, new history and new memory. To do this, settler colonialists have to get rid of the native people, their physical evidence, their history and their memory.
→ read full articleThe Hague Ruling: A Dangerous Step toward War in the South China Sea
Peter Symonds | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
The hypocrisy involved is staggering. The United States has nothing but contempt for international law and has never been called to account by any UN tribunal for its illegal wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, which have resulted in the deaths of millions. As part of its “pivot to Asia” against China, the Obama administration is chiefly responsible for transforming longstanding, low-key regional disputes in the South China Sea into a dangerous flashpoint that threatens to trigger a new and even more devastating war.
→ read full articleHeaven and Hell
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
St. Peter showed a visitor heaven and hell.
→ read full articleWhen Law Is Not Justice
Brad Evans and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak – The New York Times,
18 Jul 2016
“Reasonable” versus “unreasonable” violence: When dealing with violence deemed unreasonable, the dominating groups demonize violent responses, saying that “those other people are just like that,” not just that they are worth less, but also that they are essentially evil, essentially criminal or essentially have a religion that is prone to killing. And yet, on the other side, state-legitimized violence, considered “reasonable” by many, is altogether more frightening.
→ read full articleHow a Modest Contract for ‘Applied Research’ Morphed into the CIA’s Brutal Interrogation Program
Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
18 Jul 2016
In fact, the CIA already had a specific consultant in mind, and the agreement to pay $1,000 a day to psychologist James E. Mitchell subsequently expanded into an $81 million arrangement to oversee the use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other harrowing techniques against al-Qaeda suspects in secret agency prisons overseas.
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