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How 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.
→ read full articleRemembering the Price of Bush, Blair’s 2003 Iraq War
Mohamed Hemish – teleSUR,
18 Jul 2016
5 Jul 2016 – “I’ll be with you, come what may.” These were the words that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair uttered in April 2002 to his partner in crime, former United States President George W. Bush, before they carried out the Iraq invasion a year later and unleashed a series of irreversible tragedies that Iraqis and neighboring Syrians are suffering from to this day.
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Tears in Heaven (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Eric Clapton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
“Tears in Heaven” is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother’s friend, on March 20, 1991.
→ read full articleRio Tinto (the River, the Mine and the Corporation): Still Polluting After All These Years (5,000 Years Later, That Is)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
BHP Billiton was responsible for Brazil’s largest environmental disaster in history when, on November 5, 2015, two of the dams encompassing its toxic tailings ponds burst, suddenly releasing uncounted millions of tons of poisonous slurry into the Rio Doce river (ironically, doce means “sweet” in Portuguese), killing all aquatic life downstream and wounding many local people. The huge amount of poisons suddenly released have likely permanently polluted the waters of the once drinkable and fishable 300 mile long river all the way to the Atlantic Ocean).
→ read full articleWhy Has NATO Chosen Russia as Its Enemy Instead of ISIS?
Bryan MacDonald – Russia Today,
18 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 – According to statements made at last weekend’s summit in Warsaw, NATO regards Russia as a bigger threat than ISIS. Of course, that’s ludicrous but when you scratch beneath the surface, the use of these falsehoods makes perverted sense.
→ read full article(Français) L’Islam comme nouvel ennemi
Saïd Bouamama | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
17 Juil 2016 – Investig’Action propose à ses lecteurs de lire ou relire cet article en lien avec l’actualité.
→ read full articleThe Religious Cult Secretly Running Japan
Jake Adelstein and Mari Yamamoto – The Daily Beast,
18 Jul 2016
10 Jul 2016 — A conservative Shinto cult dating back to the 1970s, which includes Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and many of his cabinet among its adherents, finally has been dragged out of the shadows. Nippon Kaigi aims to return Japan to pre-WWII imperial ‘glory.’ Today’s elections may further its goal.
→ read full articleThe Network: Leaked Data Reveals How the U.S. Trains Vast Numbers of Foreign Soldiers and Police with Little Oversight
Douglas Gillison, Nick Turse and Moiz Syed – The Intercept,
18 Jul 2016
A Rand Corp. analysis from 2013 found that the Pentagon alone has 71 different authorities under which it provides foreign aid as a means of “building partner capacity,” or BPC — part of a system that the report criticized as akin to “a tangled web, with holes, overlaps, and confusions.” The Pentagon, for example, maintains no master list of the people it trains nor does it keep aggregate figures.
→ read full article(Italiano) il Culto Del Duce E L’arte Del Consenso. Studio Preparatorio Per Una Mostra Improbabile. Parte Seconda
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Ora, se la ripetizione per 53 volte del soggetto Mussolini, non è esaltazione di un esponente del fascismo, ancorché indiretta, che cosa è, come si configura, che cosa produce nel visitatore dell’esposizione, di cui sopra, a livello subliminale?
→ read full article(Italiano) E la Russia e la Cina oggi?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Sullo sfondo ci sono i due più importanti partiti comunisti al mondo. Il Partito Comunista-Bolscevico Russo fece la rivoluzione del 1917; dal 1922 Partito Comunista dell’Unione Sovietica, CPSU(b). Il CPC, il Partito Comunista Cinese, che sta celebrando il suo 95° anniversario, fece la rivoluzione del 1° Ottobre 1949. Avvenimenti che hanno scosso il mondo, nel più grande stato del mondo per superficie e nel più grande stato del mondo per popolazione.
→ read full articleNo Longer a Conspiracy Theory: CIA Director Admits Plans of Aerosol Spraying for Geoengineering
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
“Another example is the array of technologies—often referred to collectively as geoengineering—that potentially could help reverse the warming effects of global climate change. One that has gained my personal attention is stratospheric aerosol injection, or SAI, a method of seeding the stratosphere with particles that can help reflect the sun’s heat, in much the same way that volcanic eruptions do.”
→ read full articleConsciousness: Why Materialism Fails
Larry Dossey, M.D. | Open Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
A growing number of scientists are now busily rummaging around in the brain trying to explain how the trick of consciousness is done. Researchers have come forward with a range of theories that purport to explain, in one way or another, consciousness as an epiphenomenon of physical and chemical processes taking place in the brain — and all fail utterly. They fail not because their models are insufficiently accurate or detailed, but because they are trying to do what is, from the outset, impossible. — Astrophysicist David Darling
→ read full articleThe War on Weed Part II: Monsanto, Bayer, and the Push for Corporate Cannabis
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
California’s “Adult Use of Marijuana Act” is a voter initiative characterized as legalizing marijuana use. But critics warn that it will actually make access more difficult and expensive, squeeze home growers and small farmers out of the market, heighten criminal sanctions for violations, and open the door to patented, genetically modified versions that must be purchased year after year.
→ read full articleSocial Democracy
Lane Kenworthy | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Not Socialism, and Coming to America – What changes are needed in the current system? Here I’ll take the contemporary United States as my reference point. The chief changes lie in the realm of social policy.
→ read full articleUnintended Consequences and the Warfare State
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
As the Chilcot Commission has just concluded after a seven-year long investigation of British policy, bad judgment was multiplied by hubris, a deeply flawed decision-making process, and an unquestioned faith in the ability of military power to resolve political and economic problems…. At bottom the arrogance of power is the enemy, and the Chilcot Report provides no antidote for it.
→ read full article(Français) Fidel Castro, artisan de la paix en Colombie
teleSUR | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Que la paix en Colombie soit signée à Cuba n’est pas un hasard. La paix en Colombie a toujours été l’un des engagements du Commandant de la Révolution Cubaine. Il lui a consacré autant d ‘efforts qu’à la chute de l’Apartheid en Afrique du Sud, à la libération de l’ Angola ou à l’indépendance de la Namibie et d’autres nations africaines.
→ read full articleSmearing BDS Supporters
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
The misappropriation of anti-Semitism as a propaganda weapon to smear pro-Palestinian activists, especially those supportive of the BDS Campaign. Also the issues of representation by explaining the formal differences between the PLO and PA, which do not seem presently consequential in my understanding.
→ read full articleGoing Green: Morocco Bans Use of Plastic Bags
Aida Alami – Al Jazeera,
11 Jul 2016
As a ban on the production and use of plastic bags comes into effect across Morocco on Friday [1 Jul], green campaigners say that the country’s consumers may need years to fully comply with the new law. A landmark bill passed by the Moroccan parliament last October banned the production, import, sale and distribution of plastic bags across the country.
→ read full articleDeath in Black and White
Michael Eric Dyson – The New York Times,
11 Jul 2016
7 Jul 2016 – We, black America, are a nation of nearly 40 million souls inside a country of more than 320 million people. And I fear now that it is clearer than ever that you, white America, will always struggle to understand us. But there’s one thing most of us agree on: We don’t want cops to be executed at a peaceful protest. We also don’t want cops to kill us without fear that they will ever face a jury, much less go to jail, even as the world watches our death on a homemade video recording. This is a difficult point to make as a racial crisis flares around us.
→ read full articleNetherlands Closes Down 19 Prisons for Lack of Prisoners
Stephen Zoure | Ultimate FM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
7 Jul 2016 – The Netherlands will close 19 of its prisons over the next few years because the cost of maintaining them is too high. The reason that the prisons aren’t cost-efficient, however, is something of a national blessing: thanks to the country’s steadily declining crime rate, thousands of prison cells are going unused.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Jul 11-17 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Recently, I’ve come to realize; some people have eagle potential, but a chicken mind. They are well equipped to reach maximum levels of success, but they have determined within themselves to stay in a safe place of comfort… The eagle mentality soars high going beyond the call of duty. It does not believe in impossibilities. It defies all reason and logic; taking bold risks without the fear of failure… The eagle realizes if it begins to dive, all it has to do is open its wings and it will fly… The eagle was somewhat sad for the chicken. However, having an eagle’s mentality is to know when to let those who choose to remain in a state of bareness; go… Greatness will take you to places where others do not dare or are not permitted to go. Allow your thoughts to take you to heights of greatness.” – Latrina Johnson
→ read full articleGlyphosate Sprayed on GMO Crops Linked to Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae Bloom
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Glyphosate, the controversial main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup and other herbicides, is being connected to Lake Erie’s troubling algae blooms, which has fouled drinking water and suffocated and killed marine life in recent years.
→ read full articleMissile Proliferation—And Ideas That Might Work
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu | Brookings India Center - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
11 Jul 2016
Missiles pose at least three sets of challenges to international peace and security, and creating a global regime to control or eliminate nuclear-capable missiles is easier said than done. Is it too late for missile nonproliferation?
→ read full articleCampaign Nonviolence: A Growing Movement for a Culture of Nonviolence
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
From the increased involvement in Campaign Nonviolence, the grassroots movement that organized more than 375 actions in a single week in all 50 states and seven countries to end all forms of violence, it appears that many Americans are serious about creating a culture of active nonviolence.
→ read full articleBlood Spills on to the Shores of the Danish Faroe Islands in the First Pilot Whale Slaughter of the Year
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
6 Jul 2016 – The ordeal began this morning when locals spotted a pod of between 100-150 pilot whales passing by Svínoy. Several boats then drove the pod of whales approximately 11 kilometres to Hvannasund, where the whales were forced to beach, and slaughtered by locals. Faroese media outlets have confirmed between 30-50 pilot whales have been killed.
→ read full articleIf Afghan Lives Mattered, Dallas Lives Would Matter
David Swanson | Let’s Try Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
8 Jul 2016 – The man who murdered police officers in Dallas, Texas, this week had earlier been employed in a massive operation, now in its 15th year, that has killed many thousands of people in Afghanistan. He was trained to kill by the U.S. military and was conditioned to believe violence an appropriate response to violence by the examples everywhere to be found in U.S. public policy, history, entertainment, and language.
→ read full articleThe Judgement of History
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
7 Jul 2016 – Little is more corrosive of democracy than impunity. When politicians do terrible things and suffer no consequences, people lose trust in both politics and justice. Justice is inseparable from democracy. If a prime minister can avoid indictment for waging aggressive war, the entire body politic is corrupted. In the Chilcot report, there is a reckoning, firm and tough and long overdue. But it’s still not justice.
→ read full articleFemale Infanticide Worldwide: The Case for Action by the UN Human Rights Council
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
India ranked No.4, Liechtenstein No.1 in skewed child sex ratio at birth. Releasing its report, “Female Infanticide Worldwide”, the first ever global study on the issue, ACHR stated that female infanticide for son preference due to variety of reasons is a worldwide phenomenon with 1.5 million female foetuses being aborted every year.
→ read full articleNATO’s War Summit in Warsaw
Alex Lantier | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
The full list of targets identified in NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s opening remarks spans much of the globe. NATO would step up military action in Iraq and Syria and expand its deployments in the Mediterranean and across NATO’s entire “neighborhood.” NATO plans for military action in countries ranging from Libya to Georgia and Ukraine, Afghanistan and the regions bordering China are to be the subject of extensive discussion in Warsaw.
→ read full articleHenry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Born in 1817, one of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
→ read full article5 Confirmed False Flag Operations and How to Spot Them in the Future
Anti-Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
In spite of being labeled “conspiracy theories,” real, verifiable false flag events have taken place in the past. Such examples serve to dismantle the notion that false flags are meritless conspiracy theories and can help destigmatize the concept itself, providing the diagnostic lens needed to identify false flags when they arise.
→ read full articleLife after Death—Reviving Vulnerable Languages
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Like living beings, languages spoken by people also die and become extinct. There are thousands of languages and dialects in the world.
→ read full articleWhy Arms Control Is the Enemy of Nuclear Disarmament
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
No First Use: Arms Control versus Disarmament Perspectives
→ read full articleWashington’s ‘New Managers’ in Latin America: Oligarchs, Bankers and Swindlers
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Amid raging corruption, social pathologies and outright political thuggery, a new gang of vassal regimes has taken-over Latin America. The new rulers are strictly recruited as the protégé’s of US financial and banking institutions. Hence, the financial press refers to them as the “new managers” – of Wall Street.
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Another One Bites the Dust (Music Video of the Week)
QueenvsTheMiami – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Queen ~ The Miami Project performing Another One Bites the Dust. With Freddie Mercury 1st & Only.
→ read full articleBiodiversity, GMOs, Gene Drives and the Militarised Mind
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Gene Drives have been called “mutagenic chain reactions”, and are to the biological world what chain reactions are to the nuclear world. The Guardian describes Gene Drives as the “gene bomb”. Kevin Esvelt of MIT exclaims “a release anywhere is likely to be a release everywhere”, and asks “Do you really have the right to run an experiment where if you screw up, it affects the whole world?”
→ read full articleA New Declaration of Independence
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
The US has entered the Orwellian Era of permanent war—until we decide that it’s over…. Time for a Declaration of Independence from foreign military disasters.
→ read full article(Português) Doença respiratória atinge cerca de 500 mil trabalhadores da mineração no Brasil
Márcio Zonta – Brasil de Fato,
11 Jul 2016
O número de trabalhadores da mineração no Brasil que têm silicose (doença respiratória que causa fibrose pulmonar pela inalação de partículas contendo dióxido de silício e poeiras minerais) chega a 500 mil nas empresas de extração mineral e garimpo. Nova Lima enterra cotidianamente vítimas de silicose; falta de indenização e ônus ao Estado são “heranças” da mineração.
→ read full articleVariations of Brexit
TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Domino Effect
→ read full article(Português) José Oiticica definia o consumo de carne como um vício social
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Para o escritor e anarquista, a saúde humana deve envolver a alimentação vegetariana.
→ read full articleWhite Tongue: Causes
Mayo Clinic Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
White tongue is the result of an overgrowth and swelling of the fingerlike projections (papillae) on the surface of your tongue. The appearance of a white coating is caused by debris, bacteria and dead cells getting lodged between the enlarged and sometimes inflamed papillae.
→ read full articleNew Violation Tracker Tool Helps Public Track U.S. Corporate Misconduct
Pratap Chatterjee | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Bank of America leads with $56 billion in fines. Second on this list is JP Morgan Chase which has paid out $28 billion in fines and penalties to the U.S. government while BP comes in at third place with $25.4 billion. Conclusions from 110,000 cases and $270 billion in fines and penalties since the beginning of 2010 that have been added to Violation Tracker. Most surprising is that less than one half of one percent of the cases involve criminal charges.
→ read full articleImperial NATO: Before and After Brexit
Joseph Gerson – Common Dreams,
11 Jul 2016
Our interests and survival depend on Common Security diplomacy rather than the repeated and deadly failures of militarism. As we face the future, either/or thinking and NATO need to be left behind.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | Inconvenient Truths about This Weekend’s Duluth Air Show
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for Our Amusement
→ read full articleOh Brazil!
Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
A positive anticipatory view.
→ read full article(Português) O horror do transporte de animais vivos
Lobo Pasolini - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
11 Jul 2016
Eu tenho horror ao matadouro, a essa ideia de morte sistemática, industrializada, mecanizada – como chegamos a esse ponto? Mas o matadouro é apenas o ponto final de uma sentença de tortura, de destruição de qualquer dignidade que um ser vivo pode ter. O matadouro é o ritual final da domesticação, o rito mais explícito de uma cultura de violência.
→ read full article(Português) O que as castanhas do Brasil têm a ver com o Colesterol?
Michael Greger M.D. | Projecto Naturopatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Um estudo avaliou o impacto que o consumo de uma única porção de castanhas do Brasil poderia ter nos níveis de colesterol em voluntários saudáveis.
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Oprah Winfrey’s Harvard Commencement 2013 Inspirational Speech
Harvard University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
”It doesn’t matter how far you might rise — at some point, you are bound to stumble. Because if you’re constantly doing what we do — raising the bar — if you’re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages predicts that you will, at some point, fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure — failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.”
→ read full articleHatred Unlimited
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
In Israel, everyone spoke about a “benevolent occupation”. The first military governor was a very humane person, Chaim Herzog, a future President of Israel and the father of the present chairman of the Labor Party. Within a few years, all this had changed. The Palestinians realized that the Israelis did not intend to leave, but that they were about to steal their land, quite literally, and cover it with their settlements.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele oggi, con sempre meno opzioni
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Le opzioni d’Israele si riducono, con una legittimità calante; le opzioni della Palestina crescono, con una legittimità crescente…. Israele, è arrivata l’ora di negoziati sotto gli auspici dell’Assemblea Generale ONU – non una pace realista mediante la sicurezza!
→ read full article(Italiano) Brexit, così sia; e poi che sarà?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Il Regno Disunito è ora costituito da Londra e dintorni, dall’Inghilterra. Le implicazioni sono enormi, per il Regno Unito, la Gran Bretagna e le isole britanniche in generale, per la UE e l’Europa in generale, per gli USA e il mondo in generale. Il cavallo di Troia USA ha deciso di lasciare l’Unione Europea il 23 giugno 2016.
→ read full articleIndia and Pakistan Join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
Alexander Mercouris |The Duran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
27 Jun 2016 – Away from the distractions caused by the Brexit vote the process of Eurasian construction has just taken another big step with the agreement of India and Pakistan to join the Chinese and Russian-led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as full members. Iran is expected to follow shortly, leaving the whole of Eurasia united under this umbrella.
→ read full articleMikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths.
→ read full articleSchopenhauer on What Makes a Genius and the Crucial Difference between Talent and Genius
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
“Genius is the power of leaving one’s own interests, wishes, and aims entirely out of sight… so as to remain pure knowing subject, clear vision of the world.”
“Genius gives birth, talent delivers.”
Toronto’s High Park Zoo: A Place of Wonder and Joy
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
A visit to this small zoological park in Toronto does not only give pleasure especially to children, but it is a fun filled learning experience where one has a sense of joy and wonder at the beauty of nature.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il mondo è diventato meno pacifico nel 2015, secondo un nuovo rapporto
Dylan Mathews – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
4 Jul 2016
L’8 giugno è stato presentato il rapporto 2016 Global Peace Index (Indice Globale di Pace 2016 o GPI), che è stato una lettura ardua per chiunque nel nostro settore lavori per costruire la pace nel mondo. Secondo il rapporto, il mondo è diventato meno pacifico e più diseguale nel 2015, con i paesi meno in pace del mondo che hanno visto ulteriori conflitti e violenze.
→ read full articleAre We Heading Toward Global Autocracy, Ecological Collapse, Political Malaise?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The failures of neoliberalism, the successes of digitization, the scourge of random violence, and more broadly, the dilemmas posed by late modernity are among the root causes of this global crisis of legitimate governance, which is deepened while being mishandled by unprecedented ecological challenges, extremely irresponsible geopolitical leadership, and a variety of ultra-nationalist backlashes against the encroachments of economic globalization.
→ read full article(Français) Historique accord de paix en Colombie
Raúl Castro Ruz | InvestigAction - Granma,
4 Jul 2016
Le 23 juin dernier, la guérilla des FARC et le gouvernement colombien ont signé un accord de paix historique qui a mis fin à près d’un demi siècle de guerre civile. Cet accord, négocié et signé à la Havane marque un nouveau chapitre de l’histoire tourmentée de la Colombie.
→ read full articleOn International Day of Cooperatives, UN Hails Them as Drivers of Sustainable Future
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
UN estimates: One person in six is either a member or a client of a cooperative and some 2.6 million cooperatives employ 12.6 million people worldwide. Cooperatives’ assets are worth about $20 trillion and they generate about $3 trillion in annual revenue.
→ read full articleTheory of ‘Conspiracy Theorists’
Marcus Godwyn – Oriental Review,
4 Jul 2016
It seems to have become one of the most popular ways of ridiculing somebody’s argument or position, calling into question someone’s sanity or even somebody’s right to their very own existence in recent years are “You’re a conspiracy theorist!”, “That sounds like a conspiracy theory to me!”
→ read full article(Castellano) La vida de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, autor de El Principito
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
El 29 de junio de 1900 nació el novelista y aviador francés Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. El 6 de abril de 1943 apareció su obra cumbre, El Principito, catalogada como una las mejores creaciones literarias del siglo XX. Ha sido traducida a más de 250 idiomas y, recientemente, a la lengua aymara.
→ read full articleJuly: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
July 1, 1991 – On this date, the Warsaw Pact (established in 1955 as a response to the 1949 establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), also known in the Soviet bloc as The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance signed by Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, formally dissolved as a communist military alliance. Yet NATO, 1949-present, not only continues to exist but has grown and expanded in order to further “contain Russia and protect former Soviet republics and Eastern European nations from Russian military aggression.”
→ read full articleThe Age of Disintegration: Neoliberalism, Interventionism, the Resource Curse, and a Fragmenting World
Patrick Cockburn – TomDispatch,
4 Jul 2016
We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa. Across the vast swath of territory between Pakistan and Nigeria, there are at least seven ongoing wars — in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and South Sudan. These conflicts are extraordinarily destructive.
→ read full articleFranz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
→ read full articleThe Double-Edged Sword: US Nuclear Command and Control Modernization
Andrew Futter | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Keeping the nuclear command and control system simple, separate, and secure may not seem very sexy in today’s digital world of extraordinary technological advance, but it might be the best way to minimize miscalculation, accidents, and even unauthorized use of nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | Gardasil and Cervical Cancer: A Hoax in the Making?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Exploring Big Pharma’s Unproven Assertion that Gardasil Will Prevent Cervical Cancer
→ read full articleTranscanada’s Latest Move Perfectly Illustrates Why So Many People Hate Free-Trade Deals
Katie Herzog |Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
27 Jun 2016 – TransCanada is demanding that the U.S. fork over $15 billion to make up for the fact that the company didn’t get to build the Keystone XL pipeline. That’s one damned expensive temper tantrum.
→ read full article(Castellano) Fidel y la paz de Colombia
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Durante más de 60 años el Comandante Fidel Castro ha sido un incasable luchador por la paz de Colombia. Que el anhelo de paz de los colombianos sea sellado en Cuba no es una casualidad. A ella ha dedicado tanto esfuerzo como lo hizo por la caída del Apartheid en Sudáfrica, la liberación de Angola o la independencia de Namibia y otras naciones africanas.
→ read full articleFree at Last
Chappatte - International New York Times,
4 Jul 2016
What now?
→ read full article(Português) Tolstói: “O vegetarianismo é um sinal da aspiração séria e sincera da humanidade”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
22 Jun 2016 – Um dos maiores nomes da literatura mundial, Liev Tolstói, além de romancista, filósofo, humanitarista e pacifista, também chamou a atenção e conquistou muito respeito nos séculos 19 e 20 por ser um grande defensor do vegetarianismo. Levando uma vida frugal, ele se alimentava basicamente de pães, frutas e vegetais.
→ read full articleThin Slices of Anxiety: An Illustrated Meditation on What It’s Like to Live Enslaved by Worry and How to Break Free
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
A guided tour of this pernicious prison of the psyche, honest and assuring in its honesty.
→ read full articleDrone Warfare – Obama Drone Casualty Numbers a Fraction of Those Recorded by the Bureau
Jack Serle – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
4 Jul 2016
1 Jul 2016 – The US government today claimed it has killed between 64 and 116 “non-combatants” in 473 counter-terrorism strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya between January 2009 and the end of 2015. This is a fraction of the 380 to 801 civilian casualty range recorded by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism from reports by local and international journalists, NGO investigators, leaked government documents, court papers and the result of field investigations.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Jul 4-10 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.” – Shakti Gawain
→ read full articleAnnual Strategic Brief 2016: “Geopolitics in the Middle East”
Institute for Islamic Strategic Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
There is very little understanding of what actually is happening in the region. Simple explanations and ‘quick-fix’ approaches has thus far dominated the media. Whether it’s the refugee crises, the focus on degrading the Islamic state (IS) or European security, little attention is being paid to the enormous complexity to the crises in the region. This paper seeks to understand these complex issues and challenges, and presents a broad, substantial and accurate understanding of the region.
→ read full articleThe Earth and the People Are Not Inputs to Your Capitalist System
Vandana Shiva interviewed by Ethemcan Turhan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
You have this strange asymmetry today that corporations are globally organised; they are everywhere. They control every government and governments are doing the same thing everywhere. Yet every opportunity is used to prevent citizens from connecting up.
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How Does the Commons Work?
The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
How can we use “commoning” as a process to transform the social paradigm of our current system? Economist David Bollier suggests we rethink the traditional “tragedy of the commons” argument. In this stop-motion video animation, we illustrate some of the principal features of his vision for how we can manage “the commons” in an equitable fashion to transform our current system.
→ read full article(Italiano) “La Giovine Italia”. Imperdibile. A Torino tutto esaurito al Teatro Vittoria ieri sera e l’altra sera
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Emigrare.
Immigrare.
Quasi mai sono scelte.
Spostarsi dalla propria terra di origine verso un’altra terra, significa non sapere come sarà il viaggio e soprattutto se sarà arrivo.
Genocide in Burma [Myanmar]
Joshua Kurlantzick – Washington Monthly,
4 Jul 2016
The Rohingya may well be the most persecuted people on the planet, and nobody, including the United States, is lifting a finger to help.
→ read full article(Castellano) Rechazo a presidente interino de Brasil llega a 70%
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
La desaprobación de Michel Temer aumentó unos nueve puntos desde febrero a la fecha, según sondeo.
→ read full articleThe New Burma Is Starting to Look Too Much Like the Old Burma
Elliott Prasse-Freeman – Foreign Policy,
4 Jul 2016
In Aung San Suu Kyi’s “democratic” Burma, the people are a silent partner.
→ read full article(Castellano) 140 años de la muerte de Mijaíl Bakunin
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
El 1° de julio de 1876 murió el político ruso Mijaíl Bakunin. Fue autor de una voluminosa obra entre las que destacaron El llamamiento a los eslavos, El catecismo revolucionario y El Estado y la anarquía. El político ruso participó activamente en las revoluciones de 1848 en París y Alemania.
→ read full articleIsrael Implements Collective Punishment after the Stabbing of Teenager
Jean Shaoul | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
At the same time, the government is using the attack to expand the settlements and incorporate Area C––which is under Israeli military control––into Israel and in the process drive Palestinians living there from their homes. These measures have in turn provoked further attacks by the Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel and ever more strident demands for further repressive measures against the Palestinians by Israel’s right wing.
→ read full articleXenophobic Rhetoric, Now Socially and Politically ‘Acceptable’ ?
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
4 Jul 2016
“Xenophobic and racist rhetoric seems not only to be on the rise, but also becoming more socially and politically acceptable,” warns Mogens Lykketoft, president of the UN General Assembly. On World Refugee Day, June 20, he reacted to the just announced new record number of people displaced from their homes due to conflict and persecution.
→ read full articleThe Time for Silence is Over: Grasping the Reality of Nonviolence
Stephanie Van Hook | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Myth One: You can’t be angry and be nonviolent.
Myth Two: You have to dislike/hate/disassociate from your opponents.
Myth Three: If you don’t get what you want, your nonviolence didn’t work.
Myth Four: Nonviolence does not have any logic. It’s signing petitions and sit-ins. Nothing else.
Top 5 Green Energy Good News Stories Today
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
3 Jul 2016 – Solar power is poised to grow 6-fold by 2030 and could constitute between 9% and 13% of world electricity production by then. Price per kilowatt hour for solar is plummeting, so that it is on the verge of being the cheapest form of energy, outstripping coal in that regard.
→ read full articleWhat’s It Like to Be a Whistleblower?
Transparency International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
On 15 June, two weeks before the verdict in the Luxembourg trial, Deltour talked to TI about his experiences as a whistleblower, the support he has received and the fact that thousands of people see unethical behaviour where they work but don’t speak out. They just go home every day and feel they compromise their personal ethics because there is no option to talk about it.
→ read full articleFor What Binds Us
Jane Hirshfield – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Poetic image of growth through sealing and healing.
→ read full articleThe Hunter –> He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I Was Willing to Listen.
Peter Maass – The Intercept,
4 Jul 2016
The sender was a hacker who had written a series of provocative memos at the National Security Agency. His secret memos had explained — with an earthy use of slang and emojis that was unusual for an operative of the largest eavesdropping organization in the world — how the NSA breaks into the digital accounts of people who manage computer networks, and how it tries to unmask people who use Tor to browse the web anonymously.
→ read full articleBrexit and the Derivatives Time Bomb
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Brexit could trigger a $500 trillion derivatives meltdown, by forcing the EU to allow insolvent member governments and banks to write down debt. Italy is in financial crisis and is already petitioning for that concession. How to avoid collapse of the massive derivatives house of cards? Alternatives are considered.
→ read full article(Português) Ó Brasil!
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Brasil, uma imagiNAÇÃO
→ read full articleAntoine de Saint Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944): Solitude and Solidarity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Saint Ex for the style was influenced by Frederic Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra which he had read. However, the spirit is much closer to Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet. There is no indication that he had read Gibran in Saint Ex’s period in New York. It is more likely that both writers shared a common outlook on life.
→ read full articleEconomic Democracy
David Schweickart | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
An Ethically Desirable Socialism That Is Economically Viable – The big challenges that capitalism now faces in the contemporary world include issues of inequality (especially that of grinding poverty in a world of unprecedented prosperity) and of “public goods” (that is, goods people share together, like the environment). The solution to these problems will almost certainly call for institutions that take us beyond the capitalist market economy.
→ read full articleLament for Humanity: A 50 Year Reflection
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Deeply affected by the death of my two uncles in World War II, on 1 July 1966, the 24th anniversary of the USS Sturgeon sinking of the Japanese prisoner-of-war ship Montevideo Maru which killed the man after whom I am named, I decided that I would devote my life to working out why human beings are violent and then developing a strategy to end it. Here is my report on 50 years of concerted effort to understand and end human violence.
→ read full articleThe Meaning of Brexit
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The Brexit vote was a triple protest: against surging immigration, City of London bankers, and European Union institutions, in that order. It will have major consequences.
→ read full articleSupport Your Digestive System with Aloe Vera
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
A healthy gut reacts positively to good nutrition and is also the result of good nutrition. Refined sugar, artificial ingredients, and artificial coloring offer no nutrition and, even worse, can upset gut balance. Aloe vera, on the other hand, is a nutrient-dense superfood that soothes, nourishes, and promotes detoxification and normal bowel movements.
→ read full articleAccusation Claims Syrian and Russian Troops Are Looting Palmyra – Indictment Not Proved!
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The Syrian army’s work and devotion to protect our shared cultural heritage might be cultural, congenital, or genetic. But it’s real. It is my submission that the current culture here in Palmyra, and the security posted throughout the area, render it very unlikely that looting has been committed here by Syrian or Russian forces.
→ read full articleSri Lanka Wants the World to Forget about Justice for War Victims – Please Don’t
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – The Guardian,
4 Jul 2016
With the Sri Lankan government winding back commitments to reconciliation and justice measures, it’s up to the international community to hold them to account.
→ read full articleMarx on Financial Bubbles: Much Keener Insights than Contemporary Economists
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh - CounterPunch,
4 Jul 2016
I will argue in this essay that, in fact, a careful reading of Karl Marx’s work on “fictitious capital” reveals keen insights into a better understanding of the instabilities of today’s financial markets.
→ read full articleYemen Negotiations Move Ahead Slowly: Post-War Planning Needed
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Thus, there is a serious need first for post-war planning to be followed by international aid for development. “Reconstruction” would be the wrong term since there was little that had been “constructed”. Rather, we need to look to a post-war socio-economic construction developed on a basic needs approach.
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Listen to the Music (Music Video of the Week)
Doobie Brothers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Song recorded on their second album Toulouse Street and their first big hit in 1972. A Classic of the 70s.
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