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Poland Becomes the 14th European Nation to Officially Ban GMO’s!
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
1 Oct 2015 – The fourteenth country to opt out of growing GM crops, Poland joins the ranks of Russia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Latvia, Italy, Germany, Scotland, Wales, Lithuania, Austria, Ireland, France, and Greece.
→ read full articleHillary Clinton’s ‘Wicked’ Syrian Choice
Rick Sterling – Consortium News,
5 Oct 2015
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton bought into the neocon/liberal-hawk agenda that spread the chaos of Iraq across Libya, Syria and now into Europe. How Clinton approached those challenges suggests that she would head down the same “regime change” path as President.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Japan – 70 Jahre nach Kriegsende
Eiichi Kido - Informationsstelle Militarisierung-IMI,
5 Oct 2015
Erinnerungskultur – Pazifismus-Gebot – Remilitarisierung? Wird Deutschland damit die Militarisierung und die Verneinung der Rechtstaatlichkeit Japans weiter unterstützen? Das würde viele BürgerInnen in Japan stark enttäuschen, die für Freiheit, Frieden und Demokratie engagiert sind, weil sie in Deutschland ein Vorbild sehen.
→ read full articleHail to the Worm: Plastic-Eating Worm Might Be the Solution to Global Crisis
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
1 Oct 2015 – New research could have staggering implications for plastic waste pollution: An international team of researchers found that the Darkling Beetle larvae, the mealworm, can subsist on a diet of Styrofoam and other forms of polystyrene.
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Why Are Some People Left-Handed?
Daniel M. Abrams, TED Ed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Today, about one-tenth of the world’s population is southpaws. Why are such a small proportion of people left-handed — and why does the trait exist in the first place?
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Powerful, Inspirational True Story… Don’t Give Up!
Connie Lynne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
There is more than one way to success. Do not believe in failure beforehand.
→ read full articleNetanyahu’s Real Message Was to Israel’s Jews: “Talk Peace but Prepare for Doomsday”
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
How Israel’s Jews would react if they were put on notice that they would be subjected to complete isolation and effective sanctions? Left behind in a walled-in nuclear-armed fortress, the zealots would be prepared, as Golda Meir once said to me in a BBC Panorama interview when she was Israel’s prime minister, to take the region and the world down with them.
→ read full articleHow US Colleges Have Become Ground Zero for Suppression of Palestine Solidarity
Sarah Lazare – Common Dreams,
5 Oct 2015
Two new reports highlight the systematic intimidation, harassment, and censorship that are silencing free speech critical of Israel. The study highlights the common tactic of conflating anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel, and equating all Jews with the Israeli state, in an effort to shut down debate.
→ read full articleEffect of Germany’s Occupation on Norway
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Joint suffering can sometimes bring former opponents together if three conditions are fulfilled…
→ read full articleThe Colombia Peace Accords
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Therapy: To alleviate suffering and reduce inequality the bottom has to be lifted up. Get started, of 32 departments select the 3 most miserable by low average lifespan and the 3 least violent; of 1119 municipalities select the 10% most miserable and 10% least violent.
→ read full articleHarold Pinter’s Nobel Acceptance Speech: Art, Truth & Politics
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The justification for the invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. We were told that Iraq had a relationship with Al Qaeda and shared responsibility for 9/11. We were told that Iraq threatened the security of the world. None of it was true. We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’.
→ read full articleThe Benefits of Ozonated Olive Oil for Toenail Fungus
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Untreated, foot fungus, also known as athlete’s foot or tinea pedis, “eats” away at the skin of the foot and can easily spread to other areas of the body, such as the groin. Toenail fungus, or onychomycosis, disfigures the toenail and creates thick discolored nails that can cause painful pressure and difficulty walking.
→ read full articleCIA Interventions in Syria: A Partial Timeline
Michael S. Rozeff, Lew Rockwell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
3 Oct 2015 – This partial timeline provides evidence that the U.S. government and Obama in particular bear a significant responsibility for the Syrian war and the results of that war. The CIA meddling is distinct from the Pentagon’s failed plan to train moderate rebels, not covered in this timeline.
→ read full articleIn Gaza, No Figures Can Express the Sorrow
International Solidarity Movement - Global Research,
5 Oct 2015
Zionist aggression caused a real slaughter, the almost 70 years of Israeli occupation still remains and it will continue causing damages and death mainly among women, youth and children, as Israel’s military objectives are always homes, mosques, schools used as shelters, ambulances. The numbers speak for themselves but today I cannot contain human suffering into figures. Sorrow is not measurable, sorrow is just that and it is everything.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia’s Troubling Death Sentence
Adam Coogle, Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
On September 14, Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Ali al-Nimr for participating in protests four years ago, when he was 16. The sentence stipulates that he should be beheaded and that his headless body should be crucified for public display.
→ read full article(Português) Iliguagem e Glotopolítica: Descomunhão
Hildo do Couto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Tenho presenciado membros de uma família fisicamente juntos no restaurante, mas todos ligados no celular, WhatsApp, trocando mensagens com alguém que não está ali. O que estamos a testemunhar é o contrário da comunhão. As pessoas estão fisicamente juntas (nível natural), mas mentalmente separadas, pois cada uma está ligada a alguém ausente. Trata-se, portanto, de uma incomunhão, ou melhor, de uma descomunhão, no contexto da Linguística Ecossistêmica.
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Mas Que Nada (Music Video of the Week)
Miloš Karadaglić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Miloš, international guitar sensation, plays Brazilian composer Jorge Ben. Bossa Nova. Enjoy!
→ read full articleThe Power of False Narrative
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
5 Oct 2015
28 Sep 2015 – In this age of pervasive media, the primary method of social control is through the creation of narratives delivered to the public through newspapers, TV, radio, computers, cell phones and any other gadget that can convey information. This reality has given rise to an obsession among the power elite to control as much of this messaging as possible.
→ read full articleRight Livelihood Awards 2015: The Laureates
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
2015 Right Livelihood Awards honour courageous and effective solutions to secure human rights and respond to global crises.
→ read full articlePeace Can Be Transcended
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Rhymed Reflection
→ read full articleOur Standards and Their Standards: India vs Abolitionist Countries [Death Penalty]
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
This report is being published by the “National Campaign for Abolition of Death Penalty in India”. It shows that there are countries with fewer resources than India which faced far more protracted and deadly insurgencies and acts of terrorism but did not feel the necessity to use death penalty to ensure national security. These countries are mainly in Asia including Philippines, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
→ read full articleThe Yemen Catastrophe: Beset by Contradictions of Will and Intellect
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The UN Security Council seems shockingly supportive of a major Saudi military intervention that started in March 2015, severely aggravating the overall situation by unanimously adopting a one-sided anti-Houthi Resolution 2216. This Saudi use of force is contrary to international law, violates the core principle of the UN Charter, and magnifies the violent disruption of Yemeni society.
→ read full articleFilipino Children Diving, Dying for Gold
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Boys lowered 75 feet into mine pits, and small children, even 8, 9, or 10-years-old, handling poisonous mercury to separate the gold from the ore. Juliane Kippenberg, associate director of the children’s rights division, talks to Amy Braunschweiger about being at an underwater mine, the vertigo-inducing narrowness of some mine shafts, and the toll this takes on the Philippine children who work in gold mining.
→ read full articleJulian Assange “Winning” against Intelligence Agencies
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Julian Assange is “winning” in his conflict with the United States intelligence agencies, the WikiLeaks founder told a Latin American conference for the progressive left on Wednesday [30 Sep 2015]. “We are winning because secrets breed incompetency.”
→ read full articleRussia and Iran Are Coordinating in Syria to Preserve Regional Stability
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Strategic Culture Foundation,
5 Oct 2015
Similar to Russian-Chinese cooperation in Eastern Eurasia and Asia-Pacific region, Iran and Russia are collaborating together in the Middle East and the central portion of Eurasia. From the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus to the Levant and the Mediterranean Sea, Tehran and Moscow have been acting as forces of stability.
→ read full articleTo Protect and Serve…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Police…
→ read full articleThe ‘New Antisemitism’
Antony Lerman – Open Democracy,
5 Oct 2015
A succinct account of the use of the term ‘new anti-Semitism’ that replaces the ‘figure of the Jew’ with the state of Israel (collective Jewry) as the object of hate. Thus, anti-Zionism becomes the same as antisemitism giving Israel hegemony over checking both.
→ read full articleGandhi Jayanti, Gandhi’s Dream
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
On behalf of those of us who struggle to honor Gandhi’s legacy to the world, I would like to wish Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi ‘happy birthday!’ He was born on 2 October 1869. Gandhi’s dream of a world without violence might be fanciful. But, as John Lennon once sang, he is ‘not the only one’. Many of us share this dream. Are you a dreamer too?
→ read full articleNevermind
Leonard Cohen & Patrick Leonard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The war was lost
The treaty signed
I was not caught
I crossed the line
The Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Fukushima and Beyond (6)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
We can only wonder about the lingering effects on the Japanese national psyche of being twice so severely victimized by the diabolical power of the atom? Fukushima was an exemplary tragedy of this new century, exhibiting the destructive force of nature in lethal interaction with the Promethean embrace of nuclear technology.
→ read full articleU.S. Special Ops Forces Deployed in 135 Nations
Nick Turse – TomDispatch,
28 Sep 2015
2015 Proves to Be Record-Breaking Year for the Military’s Secret Military – These men–and they are mostly men–typically spent the better part of a decade as more conventional soldiers, sailors, marines, or airmen before making the cut.
→ read full articleWhat Is Nonviolence Anyhow?
Tom H. Hastings, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it?
→ read full articleHuman Rights and the Targeting by Drone
Robert McCorquodale - European Journal of International Law,
28 Sep 2015
“International human rights law prohibits arbitrary killing. This prohibition is reflected in specific treaty obligations and forms part of customary international law. lethal remotely piloted aircraft attacks will rarely be lawful outside a situation of armed conflict, because only in the most exceptional of circumstances would it be permissible under international human rights law for killing to be the sole or primary objective of an operation.” — UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Killings
→ read full articleEconomic Theory and Community Development
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The discursive strategy of this chapter takes up again a central idea of dominant discourse: the idea that economic growth is and must be the aim of every nation. It seeks to destabilize the basic cultural structure. It seeks to destabilize the inter-related ways of acting, talking and seeing that cement injustice into place and make it immovable. But it does not only destabilize. It also includes a number of constructive proposals.
→ read full articleSnapshots from the Democratic People’s Republic of [North] Korea (Part 2)
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
28 Sep 2015 – Last week TMS published my first account of a recent visit to North Korea, with general impressions and global context, highlighting the US role in tensions in that region. This week I will try to put a more personal and human face to this country, which received us so graciously.
→ read full articleA Gaza Centric History of Palestine: Past, Present, and Future
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Jean-Pierre Filiu, ‘Gaza: A History,’ trans. John King, Oxford University Press, 2014, 440 pp., ISBN 9780190201890. This review was initially published in the Journal of the Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World.
→ read full articleTime to Imagine: From ‘Disaster Capitalism’ to a System of Our Own
Cynthia McKinney – Russia Today,
28 Sep 2015
Why are they working so hard to save capitalism? Because there is no such thing as a broken system. Global economic structure benefits some and disadvantages others. The architects of the current system benefit immensely from it and they don’t want us to get any ideas about changing anything! In the memorable words of neocon Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
→ read full articleJeopardizing Japanese ‘Abnormality’: Rejoining the War System
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Washington’s encouragement of Prime Minister Abe’s campaign for a ‘normal’ Japan represents a regressive move regionally and globally, and deserves critical attention from a wider geopolitical perspective as well as from the viewpoint of Japan.
→ read full articleThe War on Syria
Patrick Higgins – Jacobin Magazine,
28 Sep 2015
To call events “revolutionary,” rather than a set of depressing steps backward, is to insult the intelligence and integrity of anyone who prefers that word mean something. And it prevents an understanding of what should be done — the question of what to do is actually a question of what not to do, or what to cease doing. The US and its allies must stop what they have been doing proxy-style — arming reserve forces in the region.
→ read full articleIn Myanmar, Peace for Ethnic Rights
Maung Zarni – International New York Times,
28 Sep 2015
Myanmar’s ethnic armed groups must stand together and hold out on signing the nationwide cease-fire until all of them are included in the deal and they have secured concrete military and political concessions. If the government is as serious as it claims about wanting peace, it must let go of its oppressively majoritarian mind-set and recognize ethnic minorities’ legitimate aspirations for more autonomy.
→ read full articleHeaven and Hell
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
In heaven, the cooks are French, the police officers English, the mechanics German, the Swiss run the trains and the Italians are lovers.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Sep 28–Oct 4 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
→ read full articleStructural Violence
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Structural violence is equivalent to 236 Hiroshima bombs being dropped on the children of the world each year. However, because the suffering is diffuse, not concentrated in one place at one time, it is ignored by the media and society.
→ read full articleThe Ministry of Fear
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
26 Sep 2015 – “We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” said President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was wrong.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’asse del male
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
La NATO è spaccata, con Germania e Francia in contrasto con gli USA che vogliono che l’Ucraina, neonazista o meno, contrasti la Russia e la Cina. L’opposizione franco –tedesca può voler dire liberazione dell’UE dagli USA. Leggendo i segni premonitori sul muro, i grossi stati UE possono non voler affossarsi con gli USA. Interpretando questi segni, può darsi che gli USA si preparino esattamente a tale scopo.
→ read full articleIPB 2015 MacBride Prize Awarded to Two Island Communities
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The International Peace Bureau is delighted to announce its decision to award the annual Sean MacBride Peace Prize to two island communities that, in different circumstances, show proof of a profound commitment to peace and social justice: Lampedusa (Italy) and Gangjeon Village, Jeju Island (S. Korea). It will be formally awarded on Oct 23, 2015 in Padova, Italy.
→ read full articleWhy Dorothy Day Matters Today
Eileen Fleming – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Dorothy Day was a prolific writer and 20th century Made in the USA Catholic Christian anarchist. She co-founded The Catholic Worker newspaper on May Day 1933 with Peter Maurin to educate the public about the social justice teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
→ read full articleUsing Positivizers: Focus on Verbs
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Use each verb in the appropriate blank. Then expand the list with verbal positivizers in contextualized messages. Use the set for group reflection.
→ read full articleUS Pharmaceutical Industry Price-Gouging and the Case of Martin Shkreli
Nick Barrickman, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The anger was further fueled by the stance taken by Shkreli, a 32-year-old former hedge fund manager, who unapologetically defended the move (to raise the cost of a drug to treat AIDS and cancer from $13.50 to more than $750 per pill) on the grounds that it served his company’s bottom line. “There’s no doubt, I’m a capitalist… I’m trying to create a big drug company, a successful drug company, a profitable drug company. We’re trying to flourish.”
→ read full articleAfter the Iran Nuclear Agreement: Will the Nuclear Powers also Play by the Rules?
Lawrence S. Wittner, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Despite the insistence of the nuclear powers that Iran comply with the NPT, it is pretty clear that these nuclear-armed countries do not consider themselves bound to comply with this landmark agreement, signed by 189 nations. Some of the nuclear powers, in fact, have been quite brazen in rejecting it.
→ read full articleSergeant Bowe Bergdahl and the Psychology of War
Arnold Oliver, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
It is seldom reported that rates of PTSD greatly increase for veterans that have harmed prisoners or civilians. Among Vietnam veterans, about 13 percent reported personally inflicting harm to those groups. Their rates of PTSD were quadruple those of non-harming vets according to a study by the National Institutes of Health.
→ read full article‘Race and Religion’ Law Revellers Hit Mandalay in Burma/Myanmar
Si Thu Lwin – Myanmar Times,
28 Sep 2015
The four “race and religion protection” laws include the Population Control law, which was signed off on by President U Thein Sein on May 20. The Religious Conversion Law was greenlighted in the upper house on August 27, with the Interfaith Marriage Law and the Monogamy Law also enshrined in August.
→ read full articleEric Voegelin’s ‘Leap in Being’
Andrew Hoffman, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
We may think of Eric Voegelin as a philosopher’s philosopher, the quintessential lover of wisdom, a paragon of man pursuing the quest for truth, seeking the Holy Grail, the philosopher’s stone. Among his many brilliant and poetic and philosophical formulations, perhaps none is as mesmerizing as the mystical term, “leap in being.”
→ read full articleDisaster Capitalism: Outsourcing Violence and Exploitation
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
In his just-released book, ‘Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe’, Antony Loewenstein offers us a superb description of the diminishing power of national governments and international organisations as multinational corporations consolidate their control over the political and economic life of the planet.
→ read full articlePhysicist David Bohm and Buddhist Monk Matthieu Ricard on How We Shape What We Call Reality
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
“Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe… What we believe determines what we take to be true.”
→ read full articleDebunking the Myth of American Exceptionalism
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The myth of American Exceptionalism is widely, but perhaps insincerely, believed by most American thought-leaders and political and economic elites, whether they are radical Republican Party members/voters or are members/voters of the moderate “Republican” wing of the Democratic Party.
→ read full articleYemen as Laboratory: Why Is the West So Silent about This Savage War?
Martha Mundy - CounterPunch,
28 Sep 2015
23 Sep 2015 – What is at stake in Yemen that far more systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions than in any of the recent wars which Western powers have supported in the Arab world (Iraq, Syria, Libya and Gaza) are met with resounding silence?
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Mother Agnès-Mariam of the Cross Visit Syria and Iran
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Insights into the Conflict and Military Catastrophe against Syria, Other Middle East Countries
→ read full articleThe Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
“All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle. I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of duty, but because duty has no hold on him unless he desires to be dutiful. If you wish to know what men will do, you must know not only, or principally, their material circumstances, but rather the whole system of their desires with their relative strengths.” — Bertrand Russell, Nobel Literature Laureate
→ read full articleDorothy Day: Prayer and Action
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
It has probably been some time since Dorothy Day was praised in the halls of the US Congress as she was on 24 Sep 2015 by Pope Francis who said, “In these times when social concerns are so important, I cannot fail to mention the Servant of God Dorothy Day, who founded the Catholic Worker Movement. Her social activism, her passion for justice and for the cause of the oppressed, were inspired by the Gospel, her faith, and the example of the saints.”
→ read full articleHow AIPAC-OFAC Are Working to Maintain Sanctions Targeting Iran and Her Students
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Only a small percentage of Iran and America’s population has ever met face to face. Almost none of both countries citizens under the age of 35 have ever engaged in long, often fascinating and passionate conversations.
→ read full articleThe Magna Carta of Integral Ecology: Cry of the Earth – Cry of the Poor
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
It is the first time a pope addresses the issue of ecology in the sense of an integral ecology (as it goes beyond the environment) in such a complete way. He elaborates the subject on the new ecological paradigm, which no official document of the UN has done so far.
→ read full articleThe Next American Revolution (Trailer)
Gar Alperovitz – Media Education Foundation,
28 Sep 2015
Pointing to efforts already under way in thousands of communities across the U.S., from co-ops and community land trusts to municipal, state, and federal initiatives that promote entrepreneurship and sustainability, Alperovitz marshals years of research to show how bottom-up strategies can work to check monopolistic corporate power, democratize wealth, and empower communities.
→ read full articleSea Shepherd Successfully Leads Hundreds of Dolphins and Pilot Whales Away from the Killing Beaches
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
23 Sep 2015 – Over the past three months, the Sea Shepherd ships Brigitte Bardot, Sam Simon, and more recently the Bob Barker, in collaboration with the Sea Shepherd land crew, have successfully escorted hundreds of dolphins, including pilot whales, away from the killing beaches of the Faroe Islands, Denmark.
→ read full articleKissinger: A Hero of Our Time
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
For me, Kissinger was the anti-hero, somehow available to justify the unjustifiable, and situate himself in a tradition of statecraft that celebrated the European invention of modern international relations in the 17th-19th centuries.
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Strawberry Fields Forever (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Carlos Bonell's Channel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Carlos Bonell solo guitar arrangements of Strawberry Fields Forever, a classic from Lennon & McCartney. Enjoy!
→ read full articleHumanity United For Universal Demilitarisation
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Those who share my vision are welcome to go to the microphone and address the masses of people who will be at London’s famous Trafalgar Square on 14 November 2015. Please mark your calendar.
→ read full article17 Sustainable Peace Goals [21 Sep Int’l Day of Peace]: The TRANSCEND Approach
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
The United Nations is adopting 17 Sustainable Development Goals, with nothing about peace. Here are 17 Sustainable Peace Goals, based on much experience, for consideration and comment.
→ read full article(Italiano) Giappone: Attentato Alla Costituzione Pacifista
Pressenza Int’l Press Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
18 set 2015 – A tarda notte di oggi (in realtà per i giapponesi di domani) il Senato giapponese ha approvato le controverse norme sulla sicurezza che, in realtà, minano alla base il principio pacifista sancito dall’articolo 9 della Costituzione che impedisce la formazione di un esercito e dà alle “forze di autodifesa” una funzione non belligerante.
→ read full articleOn My Beloved Wife Helen’s Dignity
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
12 September 2015
Helen`s life as a spouse was lived in dignity
enhanced by her daily spiritual activity
International Day of Peace – 21 Sep 2015
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
The United Nations invites all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities during the Day, and to otherwise commemorate the Day through education and public awareness on issues related to peace.
→ read full article(Português) O lado escuro do Chocolate – Documentário que a Nestlé se recusou a assistir
A Arte da Omissão – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Com este tipo de acções não se pretende que os produtos não sejam produzidos e vendidos. Pretende-se que as respectivas corporações tomem medidas e não façam de conta que não sabem. Por vezes tal só é conseguido, quando o mundo grita e pára de comprar o fruto dessa exploração humana. Espero que partilhem este documentário e expliquem aos vossos filhos o que se passa. Subtitulada en Español.
→ read full articleWhat Rothschild, Murdoch, Cheney, and Israel Love Most about Syria
Claire Bernish, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
OIL.
→ read full articleUN Releases War Crimes Report on Sri Lanka
K. Ratnayake, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
17 Sep 2015 – The nearly 300-page report declares that “serious war crimes” and “human right violations” were committed by the Sri Lankan military and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during the island’s 26-year war. Around 200,000 people, mainly members of the ethnic Tamil minority, were killed. An estimated 40,000 Tamil civilians trapped in the war zone were killed during the final months of the military offensive in 2009.
→ read full article(Português) Eterna Gratidão, Aplauso e Reconhecimento
Rui Afonso Silva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
O meu Pai Afonso nos deixou
Mas uma marca indelével aqui ficou
Discretamente por esta vida passou
Honesta e seriamente sempre trabalhou
Três vezes do zero a vida recomeçou
Monsanto’s Tobacco Files: University Scientists Caught Conspiring with Biotech Industry to Manipulate Public Opinion on GMOs
Dave Murphy, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
What happens when a private company with a long history of producing some of the most toxic chemicals on the planet and now produces our food starts facing public pressure from a growing national grassroots movement to label their products to conform with basic principles of democracy and transparency?
→ read full articleIt’s Not the Chinese Economy That’s on Life Support
Martin Jacques – The Guardian,
21 Sep 2015
Western markets are only panicking about China because their own economies are so fragile. The western world continues to depend on a life-support system, namely zero interest rates, combined with Chinese growth.
→ read full articleResisting the Lure of Intervention – The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence
John Feffer - TomDispatch,
21 Sep 2015
The focus on setting up a colony on Mars, instead of getting serious about climate change on Earth, is the functional equivalent of devoting close to a trillion dollars a year to the U.S. military instead of using that money to fix all that is broken at home. Talk about an advanced case of attention-deficit disorder.
→ read full articleLetter from the Democratic People’s Republic of [North] Korea: Who Is the Real Aggressor? (Part 1)
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
North Koreans, proud of the cultural heritage, artistic legacies and common language they share with fellow Koreans in the south, long for reunification of the peninsula. DPRK proposals for reunification are based on three principles: Independence (negotiated by Koreans without foreign interference), Federation (limited powers of central government with both north and south retaining autonomy in many areas), and Peaceful Means (mutual commitment to resolving issues nonviolently).
→ read full articleFrom the Dept of Sacred Satire: God Responds to Kim Davis
Rob Okun, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
To: Kim Davis
From: God
Re: My Authority
I’m writing to clarify my position on your citing Me as the reason you refused to issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
World Wide Fund for Nature Says Nearly Half the World’s Marine Animals Wiped Out in Single Generation
Lucy Cormack – The Sydney Morning Herald,
21 Sep 2015
17 Sep 2015 – Humanity’s mismanagement of the ocean has led to the loss of almost half the world’s marine mammals, birds, reptiles and fish in a single generation, a World Wide Fund for Nature report says.
→ read full articleShady Chocolate – The Dark Side of Chocolate
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Ever since it was revealed that the chocolate industry is involved with child slavery in the Ivory Coast, the industry has been busy – due to consumer demands – explaining what exactly it does to actively fight trafficking and child labour. But does the industry live up to its own promises?
→ read full articlePut a Little Love in the Next US Election
Kristin Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Amplifying love’s role in foreign policy does not involve being romantic, dreamy, duped, conquered, or unaware of other factors necessary for peace. Amplifying love’s role involves shedding naive beliefs in the false magic of threats, hatred, weapons, self-centered wealth, and one-sided triumph.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
One can distinguish between two concepts of responsibility, in the narrow sense of someone who has caused a problem, and in the wider sense of anyone who can correct a problem, even if he or she has not caused it, as the following story told by Roger Fisher illustrates.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The Weird ‘Good Fortune’ of Tsutomu Yamaguchi (5)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
“I was struck by the decision to bomb Hiroshima instead of Kyoto out of respect for Kyoto’s cultural heritage. It was the then Secretary of War, Henry L Stimson, who is credited with making the successful plea to the president to spare Kyoto.”
→ read full articleWhy Rich Gulf States Don’t Take In Syrians
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Unlike Israel, the Gulf States are not neighbours of Syria. They are Muslim and have more money than they know what to do with. But as their workforces are almost entirely immigrant, and without rights, the States don’t want to accept asylum-seekers who have internationally recognised needs and rights.
→ read full articleRefugee Mass Exodus: Need for an UN-led World Conference
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
EU members of the UNHRC requested an “Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on the human rights of migrants” which was held a month ago. However, the dialogue had not been “enhanced” by research or a longer-range perspective. Moreover, the scale of the crisis in Europe largely overshadowed other refugee flows such as those from Myanmar (Burma), which are also critical and may have long-range consequences.
→ read full articleDrowned Syrian Toddlers: Collateral Damage from America’s De-Stabilizing, Endless, Post-911 “Wars on Terror”
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
“Show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don’t care.” – Conservative Sun (a British daily newspaper) columnist Katie Hopkins, commenting on the homeless war refugees from war-torn Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc. who are fleeing their militarily de-stabilized and devastated countries after their homes and homelands had been reduced to bloody rubble.
→ read full articleIsrael Shows the Way in the Global Pacification Industry
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Any state which is fighting an insurgency or ‘radicalisation’ – and most are – is likely to be looking to Israel for its equipment, information and expertise learned in over 65 years of ‘pacifying’ the Palestinians says Jeff Halper in his powerful new book. Indeed, without Palestine to control, Israel would just be another New Zealand. Instead its ‘security’ techniques have brought it to the heart of NATO.
→ read full articleWith Official Help, Radical Buddhists Target Muslim Businesses in Burma/Myanmar [Attached: The Nazi Nuremberg Race Laws]
Swe Win, Myanmar Now – The Irrawaddy,
21 Sep 2015
Most Muslims living in the Irrawaddy delta dare not speak out against the campaign for fear of provoking Ma Ba Tha’s ire. Some said the Muslim community can only lie low, hoping the current wave of fervent Buddhist nationalism subsides. “We have no other country to flee to,” said Khin Maung, the leader of a mosque in Kyaunggon. “We are all born and raised here.”
→ read full articleThe Oldest Living Things on Earth
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
“Our overblown intellectual faculties seem to be telling us both that we are eternal and that we are not,” philosopher Stephen Cave observed in his poignant meditation on our mortality paradox. And yet we continue to long for the secrets of that ever-elusive eternity.
→ read full articleWhat Exxon Knew about Climate Change
Bill McKibben – The New Yorker,
21 Sep 2015
New documents and interviews show that Exxon, now ExxonMobil, knew its main product would heat up the planet disastrously, but it did not prevent it from spending decades to organize the campaigns of disinformation and denial that have slowed – perhaps fatally – the planet’s response to global warming.
→ read full articleHas Charlie Hebdo’s Cartoon Mocking Drowned Syrian Child Gone Too Far?
John Vibes, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
16 Sep 2015 – Charlie Hebdo, the French so-called comic magazine that creates art for the sole purpose of being offensive, has released one of its most controversial and insulting images yet, and this time many people are saying they have gone too far: making fun of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, found drowned in a Turkish beach.
→ read full article(Français) Comment les alliés des États-Unis apportent leur aide à Al-Qaïda en Syrie
Daniel Lazare, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
La stratégie de l’administration Obama visant à obtenir un « changement de régime » en Syrie renferme un secret fâcheux : elle revient à nouer une alliance de fait avec le Front Al-Nosra, branche d’Al-Qaïda tendant vers une victoire éventuelle, aidé directement et indirectement par l’Arabie Saoudite, la Turquie et l’entité sioniste.
→ read full articleUruguay Shows the Way by Leaving Secret Trade Deal TiSA
Viviana Barreto and Sam Cossar-Gilbert – Common Dreams,
21 Sep 2015
17 Sep 2015 – A strong coalition of trade unions, environmentalists and farmers working together on an effective public campaign were able to take on the interests of the world’s biggest companies and win. Last week the Uruguayan government decided to end its involvement in the secret negotiations of the Trade in Services Agreement TISA, signifying an important victory in the global fight against bad trade deals.
→ read full articleSlavoj Žižek: We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis without Confronting Global Capitalism
Slavoj Žižek – In These Times,
21 Sep 2015
The refugees won’t all make it to Norway. Nor does the Norway they seek exist. The hard lesson for the refugees is that ‘there is no Norway,’ even in Norway. They will have to learn to censor their dreams: Instead of chasing them in reality, they should focus on changing reality.
→ read full article(Português) A ingratidão de uma Universidade Norte-Americana
Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
21 Sep 2015
17 de setembro de 2015 – Na Universidade de Emory há o Centro Yerkes de Primatas, que, durante mais de 50 anos, tortura chimpanzés em experiências médicas, de acordo com interesses farmacêuticos privados.
→ read full articleThe Axis of Evil
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
NATO is split, Germany-France opposing the USA, which wants Ukraine, neo-Nazi or not, to contain Russia and China. German-French opposition may spell EU liberation from USA. Reading the signs on the wall, big EU states may not want to go down with the USA. Reading the sign-readers, the USA may prepare for exactly that.
→ read full articleMurdoch Purchases Nat Geo for Infotainment Synergy
Chris Lehmann – Al Jazeera America,
21 Sep 2015
Like The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic will lumber on; this deal is all about the boob tube. There’s no need to traffic in outright propaganda, after all, when you’ve already downgraded scientific values into infotainment ones.
→ read full article(Português) Uma outra forma de resolver os conflitos
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
A humanidade, especialmente, sob o patriarcado, conheceu conflitos de toda ordem. A forma predominante de resolvê-los foi e é a utilização da violência, para dobrar o outro e enquadrá-lo numa determinada ordem. Esse é o pior dos caminhos, pois deixa nos vencidos um rastro de amargura, humilhação e de vontade de vingança.
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