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Netherlands Bans Wild Animals in Circuses
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
It is now illegal for wild animals such as lions, bears, elephants and giraffes to be used in circuses in the Netherlands! On Sep 15, 2015 a ban on wild animals in circuses officially went into effect.
→ read full articleInternational Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons – 26 Sep 2015
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
As of 2015, some 16,000 nuclear weapons remain. Countries possessing such weapons have well-funded, long-range plans to modernize their nuclear arsenals. More than half of the world’s population still lives in countries that either have such weapons or are members of nuclear alliances.
→ read full articleOutlook India: Interview on ‘Digital India’ & PM Narendra Modi
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
I am posting here an interview with the magazine OUTLOOK INDIA associated with an open letter that was signed by more than 100 Indian scholars and intellectuals, as well as those such as myself with a long research and human interest in India, expressing concern about the forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Silicon Valley to promote his vision of ‘Digital India.’
→ read full article(Português) Para Ler em 2050
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Carta Maior - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
É estranho que uma época que começou como só tendo futuro tenha terminado como só tendo passado.
→ read full articleThe Real Menace
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
I am afraid. I am not ashamed to admit it. I am afraid of the Islamic State movement, alias ISIS, alias Daesh. It is the only real danger that threatens Israel, that threatens the world, that threatens me. Those who treat it today with equanimity, with indifference, will come to regret it.
→ read full articleIt’s Time to Reopen the American and Iranian Embassies and Promote Reconciliation
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
The rationale for opening both Iran’s and America’s embassies is compelling and goes back to the reasons for The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 to which 190 countries are signatories. Embassies contribute to the achievement of international peace and security and facilitate the work, cultural exchanges, business, travel, and development of both countries.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The Iran Agreement in Perspective (4)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
This nuclear agreement reflects ‘where we are’ in dealing with global crises, not ‘where we should be.’ If we value international law, global justice, and indeed the future of the human species, then the distinction between the realm of the ‘feasible’ and the realm of the ‘desirable’ deserves energetic critical exposure by all of us who fancy ourselves as citizen pilgrims.
→ read full article9/11 Fourteen Years Later
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Millions of refugees from Washington’s wars are currently over-running Europe. Washington’s 14-year and ongoing slaughter of Muslims and destruction of their countries are war crimes for which the US government’s official 9/11 conspiracy theory was the catalyst.
→ read full articleIslam and the West: Roads toward Peace
Johan Galtung, 14 Sep 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Major conflict: not Israel vs Palestine but Israel-USA vs the Muslim world. The unfortunate “Judeo-Christianity” formula excludes the third Abrahamic religion, Islam. USA and Israel came into being as chosen by their gods with promised lands inhabited by Others. Full autonomy and dignity for the dispossessed are minimum requirements. Migrants should be received by those who caused the problem; for Syria-Iraq, above all USA; for Africa, above all the colonial powers.
→ read full article(Português) Europa Colhe O Que Plantou
Frei Betto, Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Após extorquir riquezas naturais e sustentar ditadores sanguinários, os europeus deixaram um lastro de miséria e violência. Tivessem promovido a democracia e o desenvolvimento daqueles países, não estariam agora erguendo muros.
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Here, There and Everywhere (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The Beatles – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
John Lennon and Paul McCartney heard ‘God Only Knows’ by The Beach Boys at a party, which inspired them to go back to Lennon’s house and write this wonderful song.
→ read full articleWalter’s Search
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
He said he joined the Army
to give meaning to his life,
UN Plan to Save Earth Is “Fig Leaf” for Big Business: Insiders
Nafeez Ahmed, Insurge Intelligence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Why the new Sustainable Development agenda is “fundamentally compromised” by corporate interests. UN records reveal that the intergovernmental body has already marginalised the very groups it claims to be rescuing from poverty, hunger and climate disaster.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Sep 14-20 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.” – Osho
→ read full articleBritain’s Mafia State
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Where does legitimate business end and organised crime begin?
→ read full articleRethinking Syria
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
The current U.S. policy of simultaneously seeking to overthrow Assad and push back ISIS is simply unworkable.
→ read full articleThe Traveller’s Guide to Hawai’i – 2035 Edition
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
We begin our visit with this part of O’ahu as a “hologram” introduction to the Hawaiian nation. Travellers who last visited these jewels in the expanse of the Pacific while they were still US colonies will notice the small and large changes that have since occurred. Enjoy your visit to the newly independent Hawai’i.
→ read full articleCreative Minds: Lessons from Halfway Around the Globe
Dr. Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
8 Sep 2015 – A decade ago, as a medical student doing volunteer work at a hospital in India’s capital of New Delhi, Duncan Maru saw a young patient who changed the course of his career: a 12-year-old boy in a coma caused by advanced tuberculosis (TB).
→ read full articleChildren
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
We spend the first 2 years of children’s life teaching them to walk and talk.
→ read full articleReflections on a Summer
Oliver Stone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
10 Sep 2015 – I know there is karma. I know it will come for our country in one form or another. It already has in some ways – in the callousness of the majority’s response to other people’s suffering in wars we’ve needlessly begun. What is so much of this refugee problem in Europe about, but the people that we helped displace in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Likud Troika: Burying the Oslo ‘Peace Process’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
12 Sep 2015 – Israel’s relentless accumulation of territorial facts on the ground some years ago doomed the peace process associated with the Oslo Framework of Principles adopted in 1993. It became increasingly difficult to envisage an Israeli willingness to dismantle settlements and road network or remove the separation barrier, and without such steps there could never be achieved an independent and viable Palestinian state.
→ read full article(Italiano) Epistemologia degli studi per la pace: Descartes-Vico-Taoismo e l’Europa
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Intervento introduttivo, European Peace Research Association, Tromsö, Norvegia – L’epistemologia è la branca della filosofia che si occupa della conoscenza valida; e il punto focale di questa conferenza è la pace in Europa. Viviamo in un mondo meraviglioso benedetto da molte civiltà, ciascuna delle quali con un’epistemologia, e in un continente con una ricca varietà. Mio compito è attingere a qualcosa di tutto ciò e applicarlo alla politica di pace dell’Europa.
→ read full article(Italiano) La scottante attualità di Fanon
Raúl Zibechi, Commune Info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Alla decolonizzazione del pensiero critico e delle pratiche di emancipazione ispirate dallo psichiatra nero della Martinica, Raúl Zibechi ha dedicato il suo ultimo libro. In questo articolo riassume le cinque principali ragioni della straordinaria attualità politica della lezione antirazzista e antieurocentrica di Fanon, un pensatore lontano dall’accademia che ha messo la vita intera al servizio della lotta anticoloniale in Algeria e nel mondo.
→ read full articlePalestinian Flag to Fly at UN HQ after 119 Nations Vote ‘Yes’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
11 Sep 2015 – UN General Assembly has passed a Palestinian resolution to allow its flag fly in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York, angering Israel and giving hope to Palestinians seeking to gain full UN membership.
→ read full article‘Yemen after Five Months Looks Like Syria after Five Years’
Michael Avender, CODEPink – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
The Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen: How the Saudi-Led Coalition and the US Government Guarantee No Visible End to the War
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 8: The Cooperative Movement
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
In the future, small cooperative communities, like the Ghandian villages or Transition Towns, may be able to give us not only a more sustainable way of life, but also increased happiness, based warm life-long friendships and the pleasure of doing good to others.
→ read full articleBurma: Divisive Ceasefire Won’t Bring Peace
Maung Zarni and Saw Kapi, DVB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Burma’s leaders, particularly generals past and present, lack both genuine acceptance of multi-ethnic peace on equal terms and an appreciation for the decades of bitter experiences of war-torn communities. Without these two essential pillars, sustainable peace in my country of birth is not conceivable, formal ceasefire or not.
→ read full articleRefugees Right to Survive: A Nonkilling Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
When refugees may die while fleeing from violence where they live,
What assistance to those people do other countries give?
Why Some People Are Left-Handed
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
An evolutionary parable of how the contradictory forces of competition and cooperation shaped human destiny.
→ read full articleDe-Coding What the Perpetrators of 9/11/2001 Have Been Telling the Whistle-blowing Searchers for the Truth
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
“Der Fuhrer said: ‘The fascist state must not forget that all means must serve the ends; it must not let itself be confused by the drivel about so-called freedom of the press… it must make sure that (the media) is placed in the service of the state.’
→ read full articleBreaking the Cycle: How to Build Sustainable Peace Using Contact Theory
Thomas B. Etzel, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Contact Theory posits that negative attitudes can be reduced by promoting contact and familiarity between conflicting groups. It emphasizes the development of personal relationships on a more intimate level and works best when applied to youth and children’s peace building programs.
→ read full articleBishop Desmond Tutu
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
In 1984 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent struggle against apartheid. In 1995, one year after the first democratic elections in which all South Africans were allowed to participate, President Nelson Mandela appointed Bishop Tutu to head the 17-member South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which exposed atrocities committed by all sides during the long apartheid regime.
→ read full articleAn Appeal for Shimon Perez and the Israeli Government to Do the Right Thing and Free Vanunu
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
After 31 years of punishment, Mordechai should be allowed to leave Israel, he is no threat to Israeli security, and it is wrong of the Israeli government to continue to punish him in this way.
→ read full article(Português) Entre todas do mundo, a polícia brasileira é a que mais mata, diz Anistia Internacional
Jornal GGN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Dos homicídios registrados no Brasil, 15,6% os autores são policiais. E o perfil das vítimas permanece: jovens negros. Depois da brasileira, a polícia dos Estados Unidos está entre as três mais violentas do mundo, envolvida em vários casos de assassinatos de negros nos últimos meses.
→ read full articleElites Want More Refugees: Why?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Refugees are just one symptom of a deeper crisis. Moreover, like other symptoms of this deeper crisis, the global elite is happy to use this symptom to keep us utterly preoccupied; after all, the immediacy of the refugee problem is all too demanding of our attention and our compassion.
→ read full articleEquality in the USA: More Work to Be Done
Wim Laven, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Even though we are in the year 2015, equality is still not something many have in the U.S. We can help rediscover the dream and the passion for equality by staying vigilant and understanding that there is still work to be done to create a better system and a better society.
→ read full articleThe Continuing Tragedy in Budapest
Diana Love – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
8 Sep 2015 – Last week, I was in Budapest, Hungary, mostly for vacation and a little for work. I went to Keleti Palaudvar, the train station in Budapest where thousands of refugees were temporarily settled, making it ground zero for international coverage of the crisis.
→ read full articleThe Sympathetic Skeptic: Luis Cabrera’s Interview with Richard Falk On Behalf Of the World Government Research Network
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
12 Sep 2015 – The following interview was conducted by Professor Luis Cabrera, a political theorist on the faculty of Griffith University in Brisbane Australia. Cabrera has written notable books on themes of world government and global integration.
→ read full articleGaza Could Become Uninhabitable in Less Than Five Years Due to Ongoing ‘De-Development’– UN Report
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
1 Sep 2015 – A new report by UNCTAD warns that the Gaza Strip could become “uninhabitable” by 2020 if current economic trends persist. In addition to eight years of economic blockade, over the past six years, Gaza has endured three military operations that have shattered its ability to export and produce for the domestic market, ravaged its already debilitated infrastructure, and left no time for reconstruction and economic recovery.
→ read full articleBruce Lee on the Power of Repose and the Strength of Yielding
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Nothing in the world is more yielding and softer than water; yet it penetrates the hardest. Insubstantial, it enters where no room is. It is so fine that it is impossible to grasp a handful of it; strike it, yet it does not suffer hurt; stab it, and it is not wounded. Be the water.
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi Israël est un Etat raciste
Mohammed Bentoumi, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
La Convention internationale sur l’élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination raciale remonte à 1965. Dans les faits cependant, le racisme est toujours vivant.
→ read full article(Français) Le sort des réfugiés démasque l’hypocrisie des guerres “humanitaires”
Bassem Khouzam, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
3 septembre 2015 – Après avoir découvert la vidéo de réfugiés molestés par la police macédonienne fin août, un Syrien nous témoigne sa colère. Pour des raisons soi-disant humanitaires, la Syrie a été plongée dans le chaos. Mais lorsqu’il s’agit de gérer les conséquences de cette désastreuse entreprise, l’Europe manque à l’appel humanitaire.
→ read full articleAppeal to UK to Talk with Syrian Government and Islamic Militants to Help Solve Middle East Refugee Crisis
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire calls upon the UK government to move from military proposals, such as bombing Syria, to humanitarian solutions in tackling the refugee crisis, one of the greatest tragedies and human suffering facing Europe since the WWII.
→ read full articleAs Yemen Assault Continues, US Announces Billion-Dollar Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia
Niles Williamson, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
While the deal is ostensibly aimed at easing Saudi concerns over the US-Iran nuclear deal, it also facilitates the escalation of the Saudi monarchy’s bloody assault on Yemen.
→ read full articleThe Face of a Boy
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
The Israel that presents itself to the world now is a state of occupiers, of oppressors, of brutal colonizers, of soldiers armed to the teeth who arrest people in the middle of the night and persecute them during the day. This face changes the perception of Israel throughout the world. The terrified face of young Muhammad Tamimi may well haunt us for a long time to come.
→ read full articleThe Arab Countries Are Slowly Taking the Path towards Democracy
Joël Frei interviews Prof. Abbas Aroua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
The director of the Cordoba Foundation of Geneva and strong advocate for peace, Abbas Aroua, on the quest for fairness and balance in the Islamic tradition, the need for a secular space in the Arab countries and non-violence as the only effective way towards lasting peace.
→ read full articleInternational Community as God or Sorcerer’s Apprentice?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Are there insights to be gained from the current challenges of governance? Most evident are the refugee crisis, financial instability (and rumours of worse to come), climate change, regional conflict, and resource constraints. In this context it is strange to see the progressive marginalization of the United Nations.
→ read full articleBlack September Reflections
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow? — Kahlil Gibran
→ read full articleColombia’s Killing Fields: Peace Is War
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Colombia has received more US military aid–over $6 billion dollars in the past decade—than any country in the Western Hemisphere. For its part, Colombia allowed the Pentagon to build seven military bases, more than all the other countries in the region combined.
→ read full articleRedefining Youth as Peacebuilders – #youth4peace
Peace Is Sexy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Perhaps one of the greatest achievements of the Global Forum on Youth, Peace and Security was to bring together not only youth and policy makers, but also youth from around the world who might not otherwise have the chance to exchange and learn from colleagues.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Sep 7-13 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.” – Rabindranath Tagore
→ read full articleTwo More European Countries Ban Monsanto’s GMO Crops
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Lativia and Greece have chosen the “opt-out” clause of a European Union rule passed in March. Scotland and Germany made headlines in recent weeks for seeking a similar ban on GMOs.
→ read full articleThe G20 Summit: A Spectacle of Political Bankruptcy
Nick Beams, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
7 Sep 2015 – The meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bankers held in Ankara, Turkey over the weekend underscored the inability of the major capitalist powers to initiate any measures to halt the recessionary forces overtaking the world economy.
→ read full articleJapan: Continuing Protests against Abe Government’s Security Bills
Ben McGrath, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
The bills will formalise Abe’s “constitutional reinterpretation” last year to permit so-called collective self-defence—that is, Japan’s military involvement in US wars of aggression. Further anti-war protests took place last weekend, including in Tokyo’s Shinjuku shopping district on Sunday, as well as the cities of Sendai, Osaka and Fukuoka.
→ read full articleNuclear War Theme Parks: Mass Destruction for the Whole Family
John LaForge, Peace Voice – Transcend Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Hoping perhaps to show that the bomb from hell can be transformed from a vengeful, self-destructive, nightmare demon, into a benign, peace-loving, fairy-tale prince, nuclear propagandists and their friends in Congress are establishing nuclear war theme parks — without the taint of mass destruction — at former bomb factories and nuclear weapons launch pads all across the country.
→ read full articleToward Constructive, Peaceful, Globalizing Countries
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
A Rhymed Reflection
→ read full articleBrazilian Wasp Venom Kills Cancer Cells but Not Healthy Cells
Caroline Reid – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Wasps get their fair share of bad press. They have painful stingers, and they’re not as useful (or cute) to us as bees. However, their venom has been shown to attack cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone.
→ read full articleBy Accident
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
A car skidded on wet pavement and struck a light pole.
→ read full articleThrowing Babies on Bonfires
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Throwing babies on bonfires
doesn’t make sense to me.
I can’t imagine that they burn well,
so what’s the point?
The Refugee Crisis That Isn’t
Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
European leaders may differ about how to respond to the asylum-seekers and migrants surging their way, but they seem to agree they face a crisis of enormous proportions. But before we get carried away by such apocalyptic rhetoric, we should recognize that if there is a crisis, it is one of politics, not capacity.
→ read full articleWe Do Not Deserve You
Mosab Mostafa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
He didn’t sink.
He is asleep dreaming about his toys and picnics
He is now calm since he no longer hears
The anguished cries of his parents and siblings
Ecuador Victims Can Seek Compensation from Chevron, Canada Supreme Court Rules
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
The Supreme Court determined that Canada is an appropriate jurisdiction and victims of contamination can seek compensation from the oil company.
→ read full articleEU Migration and Refugee Crisis: in Graphics
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
3 Sep 2015 – Asylum applications in Europe have surged this year – with numbers for Germany and Hungary already exceeding their totals for 2014. Altogether, 438,000 refugees had applied for asylum by the end of July – compared with 571,000 for the whole of last year.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 7: The Global Food Crisis
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
There is a danger that just as global population reaches the unprecedented level of 9 billion or more, the agricultural base for supporting it may suddenly collapse. Ecological catastrophe, possibly compounded by war and other disorders, could produce famine and death on a scale unprecedented in history, a disaster of unimaginable proportions, involving billions rather than millions of people.
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God Only Knows (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The Beach Boys – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Paul McCartney once called God Only Knows “the greatest song ever written.”
→ read full articleThe Origins of Peace Research
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Johan Galtung, born 1930, refused to do military service in Norway. He was sentenced to six months in prison in winter 1954-55. While in prison, he completed his first book, “Gandhi’s Political Ethics”, together with his mentor, the philosopher Arne Naess.
→ read full articleSpeak the Truth!
James Albertini, Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
4 Million Muslims Killed In Western Wars: When Should We Call It Genocide? The U.S. is largely responsible for massive global migration taking place due to wars, climate catastrophe and economic injustice. The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini said, “Fascism is when the corporations and the state become one.” What do we call it when corporations supersede all state authority?
→ read full articleThere’s Nothing Collateral About a Toddler Washed Ashore
Patrick T. Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
The heartbreaking pictures of three-year-old Aylan Kurdhi symbolize everything that is wrong with war. It is a painful confrontation with what some might call the collateral damage of war. It is time to deconstruct some myths about war.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Naasaki – Gorbachev’s Response (3)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Of course, Gorbachev is appreciated in the West mainly as having presided over a political process that led to the nonviolent ending of the Cold War, the peaceful liberation of Eastern Europe, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yet he was also perhaps the only head of an important sovereign state…
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The Power of Vulnerability
The RSA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Influential author and speaker Dr Brené Brown tackles the myth that vulnerability is a weakness. Instead, she argues, it is the clearest path to courage and meaningful connection, and has the power to transform the way we engage and educate.
→ read full articleDenis De Rougemont (1906-1985): The Future Is Within Us
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
A French-speaking Swiss, after his studies of literature at the University of Geneva, at 25, he moved to Paris where he quickly became part of a group of young, unorthodox thinkers who were developing a “Personalist” philosophy.
→ read full articleThe Alleged Libido Pill for Women [Flibanserin (Addyi)]
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
The drug has been approved only for premenopausal women. The company will offer the drug in a 100 mg dose, to be swallowed once per night, no matter if sexual encounter is anticipated or not. This pill is not a female Viagra!
→ read full articleWorld Health Organization Verdict on Health Care in Gaza
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
28 Aug 2015 – The 67th World Health Assembly requested WHO to report on the health conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The result is a unique portrait of occupied Palestine told through the eyes of health-care – precarious, poverty-stricken and horribly damaged by Israel’s blockade.
→ read full articleTo Go Wide or Deep – Women’s Peace Work
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
A group of women – Women Wage Peace, set up after the carnage of Operation Protective Edge – began a fast near the PM’s home on the anniversary of the Operation and maintained it in shifts for 50 days. They were not the usual suspects – which may explain the lack of media coverage – and one participant raises the perennial questions of how to build a political movement.
→ read full articleBija Swaraj Not Bt Raj: The Future Is Organic, Not GMOs
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
31 Aug 2015 – Farmers, first of all, are breeders. They might not have the lab coats that have come to define modern plant breeding, but their wisdom, knowledge and contribution is unquestionable. To be able to continue breeding, using their own seed, is their first right, their first freedom and their first duty.
→ read full articleCentral Banks Step In to Prop Up Global Financial Bubble
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
31 August 2015 – Once again, the world’s central banks and governments have made clear that they will do whatever it takes to preserve the wealth of the financial elite.
→ read full articleIndia Village Council Orders Rape of Two Sisters
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
30 Aug 2015 – Council orders sisters to be raped and paraded naked after their brother elopes with married woman.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
This is a legal issue, as this book makes clear, but it is also a moral issue, a security issue and, ultimately, a spiritual issue. Humankind must step back from the nuclear abyss now, before it is too late.
→ read full articleBreast Fed
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
A woman and a baby came into the doctor’s office. She was told to go into the room and wait for the doctor.
→ read full articleMaria Montessori (31 Aug 1870 – 6 May 1952)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
“The child is misunderstood by the adult; parents unconsciously fight against their children instead of aiding them in their divine mission. And throughout childhood, it is misunderstanding that makes a child sullen or rebellious, neurotic or stupid, for all these faults are foreign to his true nature. In our experience with children, we have seen that the child is a ‘spiritual embryo’ able to evolve by itself and to give us actual proof of the existence of a better type of humanity.”
→ read full articleThe Camera Is Mightier Than the Sword
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
From 1936-79, Nicaragua was ruled by the corrupt Somoza family, which owned more than half of Nicaragua’s land. In the 1970s, the Sandinista guerrilla movement fought against the Somoza dictatorship.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia’s 175 ‘Mass Judicial Executions’ In 1 Year Condemned by Amnesty International
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
The report entitled ‘Killing in the Name of Justice: The Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia’ stated that between August 2014 and June 2015, at least 175 people had been put to death – an average of one person every two days.
→ read full article(Français) La finance de développement européenne et USA alimente l’Agro-colonialisme en République démocratique du Congo
Grain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Sous l’occupation coloniale belge (1908-1960), la terre a été volée aux communautés tout le long du fleuve Congo pour établir des plantations de palmiers…. Les IFD propriétaires de Feronia doivent faire ce qui est juste : rendre aux Congolais leurs terres et leur accorder une compensation pour les années de souffrance endurées et les torts commis par cent ans d’entreprise coloniale.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 6: Adverse Effects of Globalization
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
In the early 19th century, industrial society began to be governed by new rules: Traditions were forgotten and replaced by purely economic laws. Labor was viewed as a commodity, like coal or grain, and wages were paid according to the laws of supply and demand, without regard for the needs of the workers.
→ read full articleFinancial Times Calls for Abolishing Cash – “To Give More Power to Central Banks”
Paul Joseph Watson, InfoWars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
According to an article entitled ‘The Case for Retiring another Barbarous Relic,’ the Financial Times and an anonymous coward who will not reveal his/her name came out in favor of State Fascism. The plan is to eliminate cash and, thereby, private savings and private transactions. They lament that people are stockpiling cash in anticipation of another economic collapse, a factor that is causing, “a lot of distortion to the economic system.”
→ read full articleThe Korean Peninsula: A View of the Future
Johan Galtung, 31 Aug 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
I rejected any idea of one collapsing and the other taking over–“the German model”. Unification is symmetric, neutral, a nuclear-free UN-monitored Korean peninsula with non-provocative, defensive defense. However, there is a need for the Koreas to look beyond and not fall into the U-trap of unification only. They need a vision of the future beyond themselves, with projects.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Aug 31-Sep 6 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.” – Hypatia of Alexandria
→ read full articleHow Can This Be?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Hear a mother softly cry
Beneath the dark and mournful sky
War claimed her child and she asks why….
How can this be?
The Consolidation of the Mexican Narco-State
John M. Ackerman, Latino Rebels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
The forced disappearance of 43 student activists from the Ayotzinapa teacher’s college by security forces in Iguala, Guerrero, ripped the veil off of the myth of Mexico’s supposed “democratic transition” and exposed the depth of the corruption embedded in the country’s political class.
→ read full articleGlobalizing DIGNITY: An Anticipatory View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Globally, when will DIGNITY grow?
When honesty and integrity all countries sow
Roll Up Your Sleeves Folks, There Are 271 New Vaccines in Big Pharma’s Pipeline
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Into Whose Bodies Will They Be Injected? Be aware that your children may be forced to suffer untested-for and unacknowledged long-term neurological, autoimmune and chronic illness adverse effects. If an infant dies, is sickened or is made chronically ill by vaccine ingredients, parents will be forbidden to sue the guilty drug company (or the doctor that administered them).
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Yanis Varoufakis – A Modest Proposal for Transforming Europe
TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Professor Varoufakis proposes a decentralized system for Europe to transform it before being crashed by the systemic crisis. He studies different possibilities and explains why his proposal may be the best option.
→ read full articleThe Psychology of Projection in Conflict
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Unfortunately, understanding the psychology of conflict is not easy and I would like to illustrate one significant problem in this regard and explain what we can do about it. That problem is what is often called ‘projection’ or ‘transference’ and it illustrates the importance of emotional, as distinct from intellectual, content in any conflict.
→ read full articleChange Everything or Face a Global Katrina
Naomi Klein, The Leap – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Today I am posting, for the first time, the entire section on Hurricane Katrina from my last book, ‘The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.’ The same military equipment and contractors used against New Orleans’ Black residents have since been used to militarize police across the United States, contributing to the epidemic of murders of unarmed Black men and women. That is one way in which the Disaster Capitalism Complex perpetuates itself and protects its lucrative market.
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News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Secretary Kettle said that Cubans were misled into thinking their system was democratic just because they elected the people who run their government. This was not real democracy, because corporations were not allowed to vote. A problem in Cuba is that there aren’t many privately owned corporations, so it will be difficult to bring Cuban elections up to US standards.
→ read full articleWhat Are Obesogens?
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Obesogens is an umbrella term given to the dozens of endocrine disruptors that play a role in obesity. Chemicals from plastics, like BPA, are known obesogens, and these chemicals pollute our waterways and pervade our homes.
→ read full articleToward a Northeast Asian Community
Johan Galtung, 24 Aug 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Abe’s policy of “collective self-defense”, an alliance with the most belligerent country in the world, USA, with 248 military interventions abroad since 1805–78 after the Second World War– is a policy of national insecurity.
→ read full article(Français) Le véritable but de la « thérapie de choc » en Grèce
Michel Collon, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
12,5 millions d’Allemands vivent sous le seuil de pauvreté. Malgré ce bilan pitoyable, Angela Merkel prétend imposer le « modèle allemand » au monde entier. L’exemple de l’Allemagne.
→ read full article(Français) Après le politique, faut-il «tuer la géopolitique»?
Robert Charvin, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
21 août 2015 – La « révolution » conservatrice, à l’œuvre dans l’ensemble des sociétés occidentales, a pris des chemins variés d’un pays à l’autre. En Europe, elle s’appuie parfois sur la collaboration des droites traditionnelles et de mouvements de l’ultra-droite (en Hongrie, par exemple), voire dans certains cas néonazis (en Lettonie ou en Ukraine, par exemple).
→ read full articleIs the New U.S. ‘Law of War Manual’ Actually ‘Hitlerian’?
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The Obama U.S. Department of Defense has quietly issued its important Law of War Manual. This new document has been alleged specifically to allow for such attacks as the United States did on Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Iraq and elsewhere.
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