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Life and Consciousness – The Vedāntic View
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
9 Oct 2015 – In the past, philosophers, scientists, and even the general opinion, had no problem in accepting the existence of consciousness in the same way as the existence of the physical world. After the advent of Newtonian mechanics, science embraced a complete materialistic conception about reality.
→ read full article(Français) Les Palestiniens sont-ils de violents terroristes nés le couteau entre les dents ?
Rudolf Bkouche, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Ainsi les Palestiniens qui s’opposent à la violence israélienne seraient violents et la violence naîtrait du refus palestinien d’accepter le fait israélien.
→ read full articleCriminal Prosecutions Won’t Change the Financial Industry
Chase Madar – Al Jazeera,
19 Oct 2015
Indictments will catch some small fish, but reforming Wall Street requires much, much more. Criminalization is a toxic heavy gas that tends to sink to the bottom of any social ladder, leaving those at the upper rungs untouched.
→ read full article(Italiano) Arabia Saudita: L’Inevitabile Collasso
Nafeez Ahmed, Middle East Eye - Come Don Chisciotte,
19 Oct 2015
In una lettera diffusa tra i principi sauditi, il suo autore, un nipote del defunto re Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, ha accusato l’attuale re Salman di provocare seri problemi che mettono in grave pericolo la sopravvivenza della monarchia.
→ read full articleDéjà Vu Again: Hot September Drives 2015 to Hottest Year on Record
Joe Romm, Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
13 Oct 2015 – Once again, it’s the hottest year on record by far through last month, NASA reports. We’re running out of headlines for this repetitive monthly warm up, but with the recent death of the legendary Yogi Berra, one of his classic lines comes to mind, “It’s like deja-vu, all over again.”
→ read full articleLewis Mumford (19 Oct 1895 – 26 Jan 1990)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
For Mumford, the primary function of the city is to transform power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. And these positive functions cannot be carried out without creating new institutions capable of controlling the immense energies at the disposal of modern man.
→ read full article(Português) Nações Unidas – 70 Anos
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Setenta anos atrás, em 24 de outubro de 1945, entrou em vigor a Carta das Nações Unidas. Toda a comunidade internacional tem o dever de esforçar-se ao máximo a fim de tornar realidade os nobres ideais que presidiram a sua fundação.
→ read full articleBlood Circulation
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
biology teacher was giving a lesson on blood circulation.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: Relying on International Law – Marshall Islands Nuclear Zero Litigation (9)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
From the time of the atomic explosions at the end of World War II, there have been two contradictory sets of tendencies at work: the repudiation of the weaponry and its contemplated uses as ultimate criminality and the secret feverish refinement of the weaponry to enhance its precision, destructive effects, battlefield capabilities, and delivery systems. To date, the latter tendency has prevailed.
→ read full articleSomaliland, Invisible Nationhood
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The Republic of Somaliland is situated in the northwest of Somalia bordering Ethiopia and Djibouti on the tip of the horn of Africa. The international community and particularly the African Union have a duty to accompany the Somalilanders in their endeavor to preserve the democratization process for a cohesive and stable Somaliland to re-affirm their nationhood.
→ read full articleFishing the Peace Fischer Is Gone
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
A tribute for a great person: Prof. Dietrich Fischer – 18 October 2015
→ read full articleWelcoming Refugees: Our Future Is Common
Jerome Roos – TeleSur,
19 Oct 2015
The EU’s external borders are rapidly becoming untenable. Rather than resist, Europe should embrace its future as a continent of great diversity. How is Europe to adapt to such dramatic patterns of human relocation and the resultant demographic changes?
→ read full articleImpacts of India’s Transit Warfare against Nepal
Professor Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The present crisis of Nepal, rather than being homegrown, has been imported from India. All agitating Tarai-Madhes leaders accepted that they are being backed by India. There is a huge voice to take stern action to Ambassador Rae against the Goebbels’-style reporting.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report #7 (October 2015)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Dear fellow signatories of the Nonviolence Charter,
Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
(Italiano) Gli accordi di pace in Colombia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Terapia: Per alleviare la sofferenza e ridurre la disuguaglianza si debbono migliorare le condizioni dei ceti sociali più bassi. Si cominci: dei 32 dipartimenti [territoriali] si selezionino i 3 più miserabili per vita media e inoltre i 3 meno violenti; dei 1.119 comuni si scelga il 10% più miserabile e il 10% meno violento.
→ read full articlePutin and the Press: The Demonology School of Journalism
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his politics and persona. There is an article (or several articles) every day in which he is personally stigmatized as a dictator, authoritarian, czar, ‘former KGB operative’ and Soviet-style ruler; anything but the repeatedly elected President of Russia.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Hintergründe zum militärischen Engagement Russlands und der USA in Syrien
Karl Grobe - Aachener Friedensmagazins,
19 Oct 2015
Es ist ratsam, über diese Beschränkung hinauszugehen und auf eine gemeinsame Friedenspolitik hinzuwirken. Darin ist die Damaszener Regierung (Assad) einzubeziehen; eine dauerhafte Konfliktlösung kann darüber hinaus nur möglich werden, wenn sie auch die irakische, die iranische und die arabischen Regierungen einbezieht – und die von den Regierungen nicht vertretenen Gruppen, Bewegungen und Völker, besonders die Kurden.
→ read full articleLawsuit Charges US Psychologists Involved in CIA Torture Program with War Crimes
Nick Barrickman, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The charges were filed by victims of the US torture program and the ACLU, and declare that the two doctors engaged in a “joint criminal enterprise” with the US government, constituting “torture, cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; non-consensual human experimentation; and war crimes, all of which violate well-established norms of customary international law.”
→ read full articleThe ‘US Way of War’ from Columbus to Kunduz
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
As we celebrate Columbus Day, we can’t help but think about the deep levels of cultural violence in the U.S. But what can be done to change a country dominated by war culture into one of a humanitarian culture?
→ read full articleThe United Nations at 70
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Seventy years ago, on October 24 1945, the Charter of the United Nations entered into force. It is the duty of the entire international community to do the utmost in order to make true the lofty ideals under which it was founded.
→ read full articleThe Sava River
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Over this river, the border of Bosnia
Over this Sava, the border of Bosnia
You are livin’
right over there.
‘Capitalism is Mother Earth’s Cancer’: World People’s Summit Issues 12 Demands
Deirdre Fulton – Common Dreams,
19 Oct 2015
12 Oct 2015 – Decrying capitalism as a “threat to life,” an estimated 7,000 environmentalists, farmers, and Indigenous activists from 40 countries convened in the Bolivian town of Tiquipaya for this weekend’s World People’s Conference on Climate Change.
→ read full articleTop 1 Percent Owns Half of All Global Wealth, Per Credit Suisse Report
Owen Davis – International Business Times,
19 Oct 2015
The top 1 percent of households “account for half of all assets in the world,” according to the 2015 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report. That’s a first since the Swiss bank began compiling the data in 2000, and a level “possibly not seen for almost a century,” the researchers write. For those on the other end of the wealth spectrum, meanwhile, the numbers are reversed. The poorest half of the world’s population owns just 1 percent of its assets.
→ read full articleNotable Issue for Canadian Voters of 2015 Is Peace and Security
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The other issues are closely tied with peace, and peace can be easily jeopardized by a handful of wrong asylum seekers who may demand the imposition of their own laws and ways which they were supposed to leave behind.
→ read full articlePalestinians Must Not Fall into This Trap, Again!
Sam Bahour – Open Democracy,
19 Oct 2015
To cover up its crimes, Israel needs to feed all the western stereotypes of Palestinians as violent and subhuman rather than hungry for freedom and equal rights. «It happened only five minutes from my house. See the Israeli soldiers (disguised as Palestinian demonstrators) instigate violence to lure real Palestinians to clash, then capture them.» — Al Bireh, Palestine, 6 Oct 2015
→ read full articleRupert Murdoch Is Deviant Scum
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
19 Oct 2015
For Murdoch and Fox, the Chickens Might Be Coming Home to Roost – Murdoch owns or controls print, cable and film outlets in so many places that his cultural and political views are fast becoming a feature of global geography.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
October 19-25 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” – Unknown
→ read full article“War Is a Racket”
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The Record U.S. Military Budget! The U.S. military receives more funding than the rest of the 10 largest militaries in the world combined (China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, U.K., France, Japan, India, Germany & South Korea): $1.3 trillion dollars per year.
→ read full articleHow Can We Win America’s Peace?
Robert Hinds, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The current map of instability in the Middle East can be traced back to the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration in World War I. The war in Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban are repercussions from the Cold War, which was itself a result of WWII. Forty-five years after Nixon’s disastrous decision to continue the war in Vietnam, the lesson should seem clear. A policy that favors warfare more than diplomacy will not bring peace.
→ read full article(Swahili-Haiti Kreyol) Hotuba ya Rais wa zamani wa Kiswahili Jean-Bertrand Aristide juu ya Maadhimisho ya 24 ya Statskupp
Dr. Jean-Bertrand Aristide – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Hai vle di non, pa. Tii vle di obeyi nan lang Swaili. Haitii vle di pa obeyi. Haïti ou Haitii vle di pa obeyi. Lontan, esklav yo te toujou ap di: Pa obeyi kolon yo. Jodia, nou di: pa obeyi moun ki pa respekte dwa moun. Haitii!
→ read full articleCommuters
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Alice used to come to the office with public transportation, and Bill, who lived a little farther away in the same direction, drove to the office by car. He offered to Alice to pick her up on his way to the office every morning and bring her home after work. Both were happy with this arrangement.
→ read full articleEconomic Theory and Community Development – An Exercise in Applied Philosophy
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The Imaginary World That Holds the Real World Captive
→ read full articleTo Johan Galtung on His Birthday
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Peacebuilders/educators/makers everywhere let’s rejoice
Today let’s acknowledge the privilege of hearing Johan Galtung’s voice.
On October 24, 85 blessed years old he will be
Linguistic Rights of the Elderly
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
A Checklist for Reflection/Research
→ read full articleProfessor Dietrich Fischer, Ph.D., Co-Founder of TRANSCEND, Passed Away Today, 18 October 2015
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
My dear friend, co-founder of TRANSCEND in 1993 with myself and Fumiko Nishimura left us today after a short hospital stay in coma, basically due to his diabetes for many years. Let us celebrate your life while deploring that you are no longer among us, in deep gratitude for all you did to inspire and help–and for peace in general.
→ read full articleReclaiming the Heart of Our Humanity: Working Together for a World of Compassion, Peace, Justice and Sustainability
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Ideological extremism and fundamentalism, whether religious/political, or of any other kind, cannot be bombed out of existence and there are no military or paramilitary solutions to many of the violent conflicts we are now living through.
→ read full articleBeyond Global Disorder
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
“The two state solution is dead (I think was always dead and a mirage but even if you think it was alive, Zionism killed it). The apartheid system we have is even worse than in South Africa as testified to by many leaders from South Africa. The resistance is the main form of combating injustice, occupation, and colonization.”
→ read full articleThe Fog of Intelligence: Or How to Be Eternally “Caught Off Guard” in the Greater Middle East
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
19 Oct 2015
1,500. That figure stunned me. I found it in the 12th paragraph of a front-page New York Times story about “senior commanders” at U.S. Central Command playing fast and loose with intelligence reports to give their air war against ISIS an unjustified sheen of success: “CENTCOM’s mammoth intelligence operation, with some 1,500 civilian, military, and contract analysts, is housed at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.
→ read full articleManipulating Reality: Facebook Is Listening to You
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
We have become all too used to our reality being manipulated. Invading another country is defensive, rigged elections are democracy in action, more guns (or nuclear weapons) ensure the peace, trade and foreign investment increase jobs at home. Orwellian logic has become commonplace.
→ read full articleFour More Carmakers Join Diesel Emissions Row
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
12 Oct 2015
Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Mazda and Mitsubishi’s cars are shown to emit significantly more NOx pollution on the road than in regulatory tests.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Civil Society Activism on Behalf of Nuclear Zero (8)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The Jeffersonian faith in the future of democracy rested on the cumulative impact of education on citizen participation encouraging a robust and vigilant civil society. The advocacy of nuclear disarmament must become joined at the hip with the recognition that global demilitarization and conventional disarmament are part of a retrofitted political package of unconditional anti-nuclearism.
→ read full articleForgotten
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
For the Dalit People of India
→ read full articleHaiti: Will Democracy Be Denied—Again?
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Haitians are in the streets demanding their votes be counted, their voices heard. International solidarity groups are demanding the same. US Congresswoman Maxine Waters, a courageous and consistent champion of the Haitian people, is demanding no less in her recent letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry.
→ read full articleAfter 70 Years: The UN Falls Short, and Yet…
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Seventy years later the UN disappoints many, and bores even more, appearing to be nothing more than a gathering place for the politically powerful. I think such a negative image has taken hold because the UN these days seems more than ever like a spectator than a political actor in the several crises that dominate the current agenda of global politics.
→ read full articleTPP Treaty: Intellectual Property Rights Chapter
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Today, 9 October, 2015 WikiLeaks releases the final negotiated text for the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The document is dated October 5, last Monday. This has been perhaps the most controversial chapter due to its wide-ranging effects on internet services, medicines, publishers, civil liberties and biological patents
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New York New York (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Frank Sinatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Nov 12, 2010 – Frank Sinatra’s “Theme from ‘New York New York'” performance from the “Sinatra: The Man and His Music ” special.
→ read full articleThe Making of a Sociopathic Killer: A List of Risk Factors for School Shooters
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
And the FBI’s Deadly, Deceptive Blind Spot – “What brain-damaging, addictive psych drug(s) was this brain-altered shooter taking or withdrawing from?”
→ read full article(Português) Alerta Ecolinguístico
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Atenção à digital descomunhão
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French Government Aligns with Russia’s War against ISIS
Paul Craig Roberts – German Economic News,
12 Oct 2015
11 Oct 2015 – The French will support Russia’s fight against terrorists in Syria. U.S. President Obama will be kept informed about developments as a permanent information exchange concerning the progress of the raids has been established. Israel is being informed as well and cooperates with the Russians on an informal basis.
→ read full articleFrom Blasphemy Law to Freedom of Speech
Dr. Khalid Sohail, The Secular Web – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Do people have the right to challenge and criticize things that other people consider holy and sacred? Do people have the right to kill those who offend their religious beliefs?
→ read full articleSchool Shootings in the USA: 10 Points
Johan Galtung, 12 Oct 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The Oregon community college was the 45th school shooting this year in America; the 142nd school shooting since the Newton massacre in 2012. 25% of women experience domestic violence, 6 million children witness it every year, 28% of children are bullied during the year and they are 2 to 9 times more likely to commit suicide. What can be done?
→ read full article(Português) Ecce Bestia: tratado de zoofilia e de outras transações descaradas entre humanos e bichos
Ezio Flavio Bazzo - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
12 Oct 2015
A Dinamarca aprovou uma lei nesta terça-feira [6 out] que veda toda forma de bestialismo. A medida foi tomada após ativistas protestarem contra brechas na legislação que estariam incentivando certo turismo sexual com animais.
→ read full articleColumbus Day, 12 October, Is a Reminder That Nothing Exists Until a White Guy “Discovers” It
Jake Flanagin, Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
We know that Native Americans were living in the Americas for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. We know their ancestors crossed the Bering Land Bridge from northeastern Asia, and in the ensuing 10,000 to 15,000 years populated the New World with civilizations as diverse and distinct as the Mayans, the Inuit, [the Tupi-Guaranis in the South], and the Mapuche.
→ read full articleThe Mystery of ISIS’ Toyota Army Solved
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Mystery Solved: Just last year it was reported that the US State Department had been sending in fleets of specifically Toyota-brand trucks into Syria to whom they claimed was the “Free Syrian Army.” Asking Toyota where the USSD’s own trucks came from is another indication of just how lost US foreign policy, legitimacy, and credibility have become.
→ read full articleNietzsche on How to Find Yourself and the True Value of Education
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!
→ read full articleThe Future of Work: Business and Community in the Information Age
Scott Meyer, 9clouds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The Information Age Reverses the Industrial Age – Sleeping next to a snoring dog ensures better sleep. So says evolutionary biologists who argue that for millennia, snoring dogs meant safety. If your dog was not worried, you didn’t have to be either. Meanwhile, the opposite is also true.
→ read full article(Italiano) Politica USA contro sfidanti: 10 punti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
La giovane repubblica degli Stati Uniti, non disposta a spartire il litorale Atlantico con Londra, emerse vittoriosamente nel 1812 con un forte esercito centrato nel Sud. Il Destino Manifesto puntava a Ovest, poi anche a Sud, e, sostituendosi al morente impero spagnolo nel 1898, al mondo intero.
→ read full articleFortune 500 Companies Stash $2.1 Trillion Offshore as US Taxpayers Foot the Bill
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
12 Oct 2015
America’s Fortune 500 companies are “playing by different rules” when it comes to the federal tax system and, according to a new report out Tuesday [6 Oct 2015], are stashing $2.1 trillion in offshore tax havens—with as much as $620 billion owed to the U.S. taxpayers who are left footing the bill.
→ read full article10 October: The Death Penalty and Human Dignity Day
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
10 October is the International Day against the Death Penalty. Since the end of World War II, there has been a gradual abolition of the death penalty due to the rather obvious recognition that putting a person to death is not justice.
→ read full articleWar on Islamic State: A New Cold War Fiction
Nafeez Ahmed – Middle East Eye,
12 Oct 2015
The Islamic State group is little more than the proxy bastard child of a New Cold War that looks set to escalate.
→ read full articleIt’s Official: 19 European Countries Say ‘No’ to GMOs
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The 19 countries opting out are: Austria, Belgium for the Wallonia region, Britain for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovenia.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’uomo bianco in quella foto
Riccardo Gazzaniga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Le fotografie, a volte, ingannano. Prendete questa immagine, per esempio. Racconta il gesto di ribellione di Tommie Smith e John Carlos il giorno della premiazione dei 200 metri alle Olimpiadi di Città del Messico e mi ha ingannato un sacco di volte.
→ read full articleOn Japan’s new Pacifism: Questions —
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The mass media say that, in Japan, pacifism is being rethought.
What kind of perspective/government policy is being sought?
Wide Range of Cars Emit More Pollution in Realistic Driving Tests, Data Shows
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
12 Oct 2015
Diesel cars made by Renault, Nissan, Hyundai, Citroen, Fiat and Volvo among others emitted far more NOx in more rigorous tests, research shows.
→ read full articleMeet the Secretive Committees That Run the Global Economy
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Bank are the two most important American institutions in global financial governance. Both institutions are headquartered in Washington, D.C., just down the street from the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group, two global financial bodies created in 1944 to manage the world economy on behalf of the rich Western nations that founded them.
→ read full articleElectroconvulsant Shock Therapy: Is It Safe or Even Effective?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
General anesthesia plus intravenous sedatives are also administered in order to eliminate any memory of the otherwise painful procedure and also to relax muscles (thus minimizing muscle damage and the possibility of fractured bones during the often violent seizure). Both drugs are brain-altering and potentially brain-damaging but are routinely given.
→ read full article#GlobalGoals? The Truth about Poverty and How to Address It
Rajesh Makwana, Share The World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Without a collective worldwide awakening to the injustice of widespread poverty amidst excessive wealth inequalities, it may remain impossible to overcome vested interests and the political inertia of governments. The responsibility for change falls squarely on the shoulders of us all.
→ read full articleOver 40 Rodent Feeding Studies Show GM Food is Disastrous to Health
Christina Sarich, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
GMO Free USA has published a listing of more than 40 rodent studies showing that animals fed GM corn and soy suffer dire results. For those who say there is no ‘science’ to prove that GMOs are unsafe, I enjoin them to peruse the following list.
→ read full articlePests, Pesticides and Propaganda: The Story of Bt Cotton
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Bt. crops are a continuation of a non-sustainable strategy for pest control, which, instead of controlling pests, creates new pests and super pests. Monsanto advertised that Bt cotton would not need pesticide sprays, clearly a case of false advertising.
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Does Free Speech Have a Palestine Exception? Dismissed Professor Steven Salaita Speaks Out
Democracy Now! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Oct 7, 2015 – A new report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal has documented hundreds of cases of Palestinian rights activists in the United States being harassed, disciplined, fired, sued, censored or threatened for their advocacy around Palestine.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
October 12–18 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” – Carl Sagan
→ read full articleTop European Court Rules That NSA Spying Makes U.S. Unsafe For Data
Jenna McLaughlin – The Intercept,
12 Oct 2015
6 Oct 2015 – The European Union no longer considers the United States a “safe harbor” for data because the National Security Agency surveillance exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden “enables interference, by United States public authorities, with the fundamental rights of persons.”
→ read full articleMissing the Target, Forgetting the Point, Forgetting the Profession
Dr Paola Manduca – Middle East Monitor,
12 Oct 2015
The “occupation” of medical journals by pro-Israel professionals without any “preoccupation” about health issues. Here I will write about facts and the lack of facts, and the absence of intellectual, moral and professional adequacy. First, though, some context behind the original letter.
→ read full articleCan Sufism Sanitize Our Planet?
Moin Qazi, New Age Islam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
In the chaos that prevails around us the most authentic hope comes from mystics whose poetry and philosophy combines the virtuous message of formal religion with the transcendental values of love and harmony. The finest exponent of this luminous philosophy was Rumi (which means daylight), the great 13th century Sufi mystic.
→ read full article(Français) Les Etats-Unis doivent-ils s’allier à Al-Qaida en Syrie ?
Robert Parry, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Aux Etats-Unis, la nouvelle « pensée collective » souligne que le président russe Poutine n’a pas tenu sa promesse d’attaquer seulement l’État islamique lorsque ses avions de guerre ont frappé d’autres cibles rebelles en Syrie. Mais Poutine n’a jamais précisé quels terroristes il allait frapper. Et la coalition des rebelles ciblés comprend des affiliés d’Al-Qaida.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Gegen die Nato: Frankreich unterstützt Russland in Syrien
Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
5. Oktober 2015 – Die Franzosen unterstützen den Kampf Russlands gegen andere Terror-Gruppen in Syrien. Sie stellen sich damit auf die Seite von US-Präsident Barack Obama, der die Russen zu ihrem Einsatz ermuntert hat und über den Fortgang informiert wird.
→ read full articleSurgical Strike: NATO’s Bombs Fall like Confetti, Not Containing Conflict but Spreading It
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Syria, Isis, Iraq … there are no easy solutions. But killing innocent civilians in Afghanistan and elsewhere draws more people into insurgencies. The US bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan is just one symptom of comprehensive military failure.
→ read full articleFormer Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on the 24th Anniversary of the Coup d’état That Deposed Him
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Hai means no, do not. Tii means obey in the Swahili language. Haiti or Haitii means do not obey. Long ago, slaves were always saying “Do not obey the colonists.” Today we say “Do not obey people who have no respect for human rights. Haitii!
→ read full articleSound and Persuasive Voice against War
Stephan E. Nikolov, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Nobel Peace Prize more than other Nobel Prizes lost most of its credibility, more and more politicized and subjected to untrustworthy interests, culminating in recent assaulting of a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders’ hospital, by another Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, US President Obama. However, my intention is to examine another Nobel Prize, controversial and sensitive too – the one in Literature. It was awarded to Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexiyevich.
→ read full articleWeather Metaphors as Whether Metaphors
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Transcending Solar Illusion via a Galilean-Style Cognitive Revolution? The argument here follows from that made separately with respect to the possibility of understanding the challenge of climate otherwise. In a period of notably shambolic global governance, that argument was presented in anticipation of the significance of the UN Climate Change Conference (Paris, November 2015).
→ read full articleMonsanto Fights Back Against Cancer Lawsuits as Company Eliminates 12% of Workforce
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
9 Oct 2015 – Monsanto is on the defensive after the agricultural giant was sued by two U.S. farm workers who claim that glyphosate—the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s weedkiller, Roundup—caused their cancers.
→ read full articleThe Power of Nonviolence
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
When Ferdinand Marcos tried to rig elections to stay in power in the Philippines in 1986, two army units defected. He sent the rest of his army to crush them, but they were surrounded and protected by half a million unarmed civilians.
→ read full articlePolitics of Good Governance for Nonviolence: The Role of Peace Education
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Peace education based on universally inherent five elements, viz. body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit in every man and woman everywhere without any discrimination should be for all including for parents, teachers, current peace educators, preachers, rulers, representatives of people, bureaucrats, judges, lawyers, personnel in army and police departments and other professionals, and all minor and adult who have no access to educational institutions for natural preparation and practice of good governance leading to nonviolence.
→ read full articleAnnoying Questions
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Little Johnny came home from the first day in school. His mother asked him how his teacher was.
→ read full articleFive Leaders Challenging Western Imperialism through Diplomacy, Persuasion and Public Pressure
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Pope Francis, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Hassan Rouhani, and Jeremy Corbyn
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Release of TPP Deal Text Stokes ‘Freedom of Expression’ Fears
Sam Thielman – The Guardian,
12 Oct 2015
9 Oct 2015 – WikiLeaks has released what it claims is the full intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the controversial agreement between 12 countries that was signed off on Monday. This chapter appears to give TPP countries greater power to stop information from going public.
→ read full articleTwenty-Five Years since the Reunification of Germany
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
On October 3, 1990 the German Democratic Republic (East Germany, known as the GDR), a state with 17 million inhabitants, was disbanded 41 years after its founding and incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany. In both East and West Germany, only a few of those affected were aware of the consequences of this step. There was no public debate and no referendum.
→ read full articleConfronting ‘Looting to Order’ and ‘Cultural Racketeering’ in Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
It is recalled that the looting following the United States-led 2003 invasion of Iraq involved organized international gangs, sometimes with corrupt “Operation Iraqi Freedom” coalition military personnel involved that were contracted to raid the National Museum in Baghdad and Mosul Museum.
→ read full articleFusion Reactors ‘Economically Viable’ Say Experts
Science Daily, Durham University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Fusion reactors could become an economically viable means of generating electricity within a few decades, and policy makers should start planning to build them as a replacement for conventional nuclear power stations, according to new research.
→ read full articleGMO-Free Zone: Germany Tells EU It Bans Genetically Modified Crops Cultivation
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
1 Oct 2015 – Germany has opted out of cultivating GMO crops on its territory, informing the EU Commission of the move and in the process joining Poland, France, Scotland and several other member states.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Oct 5-11 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It’s possible. And it’s your turn. So go for it. It’s never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.” – J. Michael Straczynski
→ read full articleNo Papal Bull: Francis Hails Peace and the Activists Who Fight for It
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Truthdig,
5 Oct 2015
Lincoln and King need little introduction. Dorothy Day was a crusading 20th-century activist who is formally being considered for Catholic sainthood. “She was a radical in her youth, underwent a conversion, and then started a movement, the Catholic Worker, to combine her faith with her commitment to social justice, the poor and the pursuit of peace.”
→ read full articlePhysicist David Bohm and Philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti on Love, Intelligence, and How to Transcend the Wall of Being
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Physicist David Bohm and Indian spiritual philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti sat down for a mind-bending, soul-stretching series of conversations about some of the most abiding human concerns: time, transcendence, compassion, death, the nature of reality, and the meaning of existence.
→ read full articleNonagon of Toxic Conflict: Notes on the Turkish Quagmire
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The focus on Turkey, and its role with respect to Syria, PKK, and ISIS is not meant to minimize the importance of the other actors in the region that are part of the geopolitical nonogon. There are several overlapping regional proxy wars that have precluded a diplomatic resolution, including serious intraregional tensions between Saudi Arabia and Syria as well as the extraregional rivalry between the United States and Russia.
→ read full articleThe Enlightenment Keeps on Winning
James A. Haught, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
If you study history, you’ll see episodes that changed civilization. For three centuries, by fits and starts, Western progress has been mostly a chronicle of progressives defeating conservative resistance. Reformers repeatedly toppled old privileges, hierarchies and establishments. Look at the historical record:
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Nuclear Civil Disobedience (7)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
In the years after World War II there was a widespread belief that rational minds would prevail, and that nuclear weapons would not be further developed, and their possession as well as their threat or use prohibited.
→ read full articleVolkswagen: EPA to Investigate Other Automakers in Wake of Emissions Cheating Scandal, Report Says
Mark Hanrahan – International Business Times,
5 Oct 2015
3 Oct 2015 – The U.S. regulator that exposed German automaker Volkswagen’s cheating on emissions testing is expanding its investigations into the sector and will scrutinize diesel vehicles produced by BWM, Chrysler, General Motors, Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz, to see if other manufacturers were engaged in similar deceptive practices.
→ read full articlePoets’ Talk: Pope Francis, Masilo, Marc Beaudin, et. al.
Gary Corseri and Charles Orloski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Artists used to know, intuitively, that they were pattern-makers and code-decoders. What’s the place, the function, of the artist in this frenetic world? Is there a place for what Wordsworth called “the philosophic mind”—the one who reflects, inquires, challenges, contemplates?
→ read full articleOctober: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
5 Oct 2015
October 4, 1957 – The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the world’s first artificial satellite, as the Space Age began. U.S. government leaders concerned that a missile capable of launching satellites might soon be able to place a nuclear warhead on U.S. or allied territory led to fears of a “missile gap.”
→ read full articleElectoral Revolution in Brazil Aimed at Neutralising Corporate Influence
Mario Osava, IPS – Human Wrongs Watch,
5 Oct 2015
29 Sep 2015 – From now on, elections in Brazil will be more democratic, without corporate interference, which had become decisive and corruptive. A September 17 Supreme Court ruling declared unconstitutional articles of the elections act that allow corporate donations to election campaigns.
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