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Success as Animal Sacrifice Banned at Gadhimai Festival (Nepal)
Compassion in World Farming – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
It’s estimated that more than 500,000 buffalo, goats, chickens and other animals were decapitated at Gadhimai in 2009. In a statement released 28 Jul 2015, the Gadhimai Temple Trust stated: “The Gadhimai Temple Trust hereby declares our formal decision to end animal sacrifice. With your help, we can ensure Gadhimai 2019 is free from bloodshed. Moreover, we can ensure Gadhimai 2019 is a momentous celebration of life. “
→ read full articleCorporate Tribunals Pose Biggest Hurdle to Europe’s Vote on Transatlantic Trade Pact
Tom Lawson, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
So much public concern and controversy has been raised over investor-state dispute settlements that the E.U. suspended talks on the rules in order to open a public consultation.
→ read full articleDr. Apj Abdul Kalam Was India’s President of Uncritical Devotion—A Tribute
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam was the 11th president of India. Dr. Kalam will be remembered for his life of a harmonious marriage between art and knowledge. His ceaseless struggle in the narrow alleys of the bumpy orbits of bigotries to raise a stage for the goddess of peace to dance has set an example. He died of cardiac arrest on July 27, 2015.
→ read full articleAs Cuba Escalates Call for Guantanamo, Obama Battles Congress
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
26 Jul 2015 – The Cuban government once again demanded the U.S. to lift the 50-year-old economic blockade on the island and to return the occupied territory of Guantanamo at the 62nd anniversary of the Assault on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba.
→ read full articleAdvice to EU: Differentiate Israel from Settlements
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The EU regards Israeli settlements as outside the law; it cannot trade with them. Israel-EU trading ties are ‘thickening’ says this briefing from the European Council on Foreign Relations. Its recommendation is rigorous ‘differentiation’ between settlement and Israeli goods – for Israel’s sake. A document worth keeping.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 2: Entropy and Economics
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The disorder and statistical probability of the universe is constantly increasing, but because the earth is not a closed system, we are able to create local order, and complex, statistically improbable structures, like the works of Shakespeare, the Mona Lisa and the Internet. The human economy is driven by the free energy that we receive as income from the sun. Money is, in fact, a symbol for free energy, and free energy might be thought of as “negative entropy”. There is also a link between free energy and information.
→ read full articleAssange: The Untold Story of an Epic Struggle for Justice
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The persecution of Julian Assange is about to flare again as it enters a dangerous stage. From August 20, three quarters of the Swedish prosecutor’s case against Assange regarding sexual misconduct in 2010 will disappear as the statute of limitations expires. At the same time Washington’s obsession with Assange and WikiLeaks has intensified.
→ read full articleA Zen Master Explains Death and the Life-Force to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
“Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.” If death is so enormous a mystery that we remain unable to wrap our grownup minds around it, despite comfort from our great poets and consolation from our great philosophers, how are tiny humans to make sense of it all?
→ read full articleEliciting Memorable Spheres and Polyhedra from Hyperspace
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Integrative Connectivity of Problems, Strategies, Themes, Groups or People – Much is made of the recognition that everything is now connected to everything, especially as reflected in patterns of links in cyberspace. The particular focus here is on using analytical data on triangles of relationships in such a way as to construct memorable networks of these triangles based on any shared edges.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dalla sicurezza alla pace: un cambiamento di paradigm
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
L’accordo è stato fra un Iran con 0 bombe e i 5 membri del Consiglio di Sicurezza ONU+1 + l’UE con 16,565 bombe (con altre 20 bombe USA in Germania, 240 nell’UE, e 80? in Israele). In un accordo c’è in genere un dare e prendere da entrambe le parti; l’Iran ha dato, dall’altra hanno smesso di picchiare con le sanzioni, dando nulla. Ci diranno che “le sanzioni funzionano” e ci proporranno altre dosi di quest’approccio molto negativo.
→ read full articleRevolting World
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
‘The World Order and Revolution! Essays from the Resistance’ – Using a combination of political, legal and economic analyses [in their new book], Vltchek, Black and Koenig carefully strip away the façade that the corporate media presents to us, and which the imperial elite wants us to believe, so that we can see some of the ugly, underlying truth about our world.
→ read full articleThe Tiger’s Whisker
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
A Korean Folktale – A woman came to seek help from a famous herbalist.
→ read full articleSome Charity
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
After the church service a little boy told the pastor, “When I grow up, I’m going to give you some money.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
August 3–9 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “It’s never too late to start over. If you weren’t happy with yesterday, try something different today. Don’t stay stuck. Do better.” – Alex Elle
→ read full articleTarget Tokyo: US Spied on Japanese Government and Corporations Since 2006
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Today, Friday 31 July 2015, 9am CEST, WikiLeaks publishes “Target Tokyo”, 35 Top Secret NSA targets in Japan including the Japanese cabinet and Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, together with intercepts relating to US-Japan relations, trade negotiations and sensitive climate change strategy.
→ read full articleReturn to Ma’loula
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
1 Aug 2015 – As of today, approximately 900 Christians and 50 Muslims from the pre-2011 population of 5000 have returned to Ma’loula, their 90 AD ancient village. Ma’loula, is among the nearly 7000 historic places in Syria that have been looted, burned, bulldozed or subjected to mindless jihadist iconoclasm as being ‘un-Islamic,” or which have sustained war damage from more than one source.
→ read full articleThe Dublin-Doha Nexus: Ireland’s Key Role in the Muslim Brotherhood’s Global Jihad
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
A CNN study published in September 2014 surprisingly found that Ireland is second only to Finland among countries with the greatest percentage of Muslims who have gone to fight in Syria.
→ read full articleThe News Media as a Masterful Means of Multiple Meaning-Making
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
A Rhymed Reflection
→ read full articleEU’s Greek Debt Austerity Plan Rejected by the IMF
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
I have maintained that the imposition of austerity on Greece could not possibly work and that the only solution was to write down the debt and introduce reforms that loosen the hold the oligarchs have on the Greek economy. The current Greek government has taken the same position, and now the IMF has joined us.
→ read full articleObama Walks Fine Line in Kenya on LGBTI Rights
Aruna Dutt, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
But LGBTI [Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex] Kenyans are not in agreement about whether Obama’s presence will help or hurt their struggle, according to the Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, Jessica Stern.
→ read full articleOptimizing Web Surfing Pathways for the Overloaded
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Polyhedral Insights from the Travelling Salesman Problem of Operations Research – If one is in the habit of visiting 5,10, 20, 50 websites (or more) at various frequencies, the issue is whether there are more fruitful ways to organize such a tour? Given the challenge of information overload, does this provide a more meaningful context to explore the increasing problem of “link fatigue” — namely exposure to yet another link one is encouraged to investigate?
→ read full articleIsrael Sees Nazism in Mirror it Mistakes for Window
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
27 July 2015 – Israel is trying to expel the population of a village for the crime of not being Jewish, the same crime for which Israel bombs the people of Gaza for a month or so every few years and blockades them in between these bursts of violence. Meanwhile, Mike Huckabee declares that making peace with Iran amounts to marching Israelis “to the door of the oven.” Guess which of the two stories will get more coverage!
→ read full articleIsrael, Iran and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Any use of violence against Iran would be both insane and criminal. Such violence would violate both the UN Charter and the Nuremberg Principles. There is no hope at all for the future unless we work for a peaceful world, governed by international law, rather than a fearful world where brutal power holds sway.
→ read full articleThe Agenda behind ISIS’ Cultural Genocide
Maram Susli, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
So far ISIS has destroyed several sites across Iraq, which includes the destruction and looting of Mosul Museum, the destruction of the 3000-year-old Assyrian city of Nimrud and the bulldozing of the 2000-year-old fortress city of Hatra. Recently ISIS militants threatened to destroy Egypt’s Sphinx and pyramids.
→ read full articleMyanmar [Burma]: How the Rohingya and Other Resident Minorities Became Disenfranchised
Luicy Pedroza, European University Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015 – Over the past weeks, the plight of Rohingya refugees has caught the eye of the international media. They are emigrants from Myanmar (Burma) who were adrift for weeks in the seas of South-East Asia after having fled from appalling living conditions in their native Myanmar, only to be firmly rebuffed by neighbouring countries who refused to admit them on their shores.
→ read full article
Fix You (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
From the Album Y&Y Ghost Stories, 2011
→ read full articleJPMorgan Chase Closes at All-Time High – As Financial Crises Sprout Like ‘08
Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall Street on Parade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
JPMorgan Chase is a global bank with over $2 trillion in assets “serving corporations and individuals in over 100 countries.” In February, the U.S. Treasury Office released a report showing staggering levels of interconnected risk among global banks. JPMorgan had the highest overall score for systemic and interconnected risk.
→ read full articleBRICS Bank’s 1st Loan to Be Issued in Yuan Not Dollars
The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
July 24, 2015 – The BRICS New Development Bank will name its first investment in April next year and the first loan will be issued in yuan not dollar, top officials confirmed.
→ read full article(Português) A assombrosa previsão de Fidel Castro em 1973
Revista Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
“Estados Unidos vão dialogar com Cuba quando tiverem um presidente negro e o Papa for latino-americano”, disse o líder cubano em um encontro com jornalistas relatado pelo jornal argentino Clarín.
→ read full articleBest Exercises for Strong Bones
Elizabeth Quinn, Sports Medicine Expert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Build Stronger Bones with the Right Exercises
→ read full articleSheldon’s Stooges
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
In japan in the good old days, Binyamin Netanyahu would by now have committed hara-kiri. In England at that time, the monarch would have appointed him governor of the most remote little island in the Pacific Ocean. In Israel, his popularity rating is bound to go up. Because in our country, the old adage is getting a new twist: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure.
→ read full article(Italiano) Estetica: una strada per la pace?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
La figura centrale è un sultano, Ibrahim Adil Shah II, del regno di Bijapur nell’India Centrale, tra Mumbai e Goa; stiamo parlando dell’inizio del 17° secolo. Il sultano è descritto come “uno studioso erudito, suonatore di liuto, poeta, cantante, calligrafo, maestro di scacchi ed esteta”. Quale differenza rispetto ai governanti occidentali dotati di abilità politico-militari; quale somiglianza con i sovrani cinesi, imperatori, mandarini con poesia, calligrafia e altre arti come parte indelebile della loro legittimità.
→ read full articleFrom Security to Peace: A Paradigm Shift
Johan Galtung, 27 Jul 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
The deal was between Iran with 0 bombs and the UNSC 5+1 + EU with 16,565 (20 US bombs in Germany, 240 in EU, and Israel, 80? behind). In a deal there is usually give-and-take on both sides; Iran gave, they stopped beating with sanctions, and gave nothing. We will be told that “sanctions work” and get more of that very negative approach.
→ read full articleOnward U. S. Soldiers
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Onward, U. S. soldiers, marching off to war,
with the lure of conquest worth the blood and gore.
Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning
Eric Holthaus, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015 – In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels —written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the top in their fields.
→ read full articleInternational Election Monitors: Agents of Free Elections
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
The violent presidential election in Burundi highlights the need for UN election-monitoring services. The current UN-based election-monitoring services need to be strengthened. The UNGA should mandate a study on the means by which the UN could provide a universal election-monitoring service drawing upon the rich experience of the OSCE.
→ read full articleA Chance for Arab-Iranian Reconciliation: An Opportunity in the Iran Nuclear Deal
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Both Iran and its Arab foes could, in fact, see this as an opportunity. Instead of waiting for the cunning US to regroup and re-adapt to strike more division, Arabs and Iran should understand that it is, ultimately, their countries and peoples who will continue to suffer the consequences of war, sanctions, divisions and extremism.
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky Says US Turned to Cuba Due to Increasing Isolation
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
The U.S. was on the verge of being completely isolated from its own ‘backyard,’ Latin America, in the 2015 Summit of the Americas.
→ read full articleIran Calls for Universal Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015 – Nuclear weapons should be completely eliminated worldwide as they are “detrimental to international peace and security,” the Iranian government said in a statement following a passage of the Security Council resolution endorsing the Iran nuclear deal.
→ read full articleThe New “Red Menace” and NATO’s Plans in the Arctic
Oriental Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
NATO’s military-political expansion in Europe is generally targeted to follow a trajectory running from Washington to the Northeast, and thus the Americans’ Arctic policy continues to grow more aggressive. Washington’s increasing pressure on the nonaligned Arctic states (Finland and Sweden) is intended to promote their further rapprochement with the alliance.
→ read full articleFukushima Nuclear Disaster: ‘Radiation Will Wash Down from Mountains, Forests into Other Lands’
Russia Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015 – It’s impossible to even slightly decontaminate the area damaged by the Fukushima nuclear disaster because of the mountains and dense forests in that region, says Mycle Schneider, independent analyst on energy and nuclear policy.
→ read full articleDesertion: A Long, Proud History
CJ Hinke, World Beyond War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
There are as many reasons to desert military service as there are deserters. All countries’ militaries like to snatch young men when they are uneducated, inexperienced, and unemployed. You can do no greater good than refusing to kill. If you are in the military, anybody’s military, do the right thing: RUN AWAY!
→ read full articleAlliance Blackmail: Israel’s Opposition to the Iran Nuclear Agreement
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
JCPOA imposes more restrictions on Iranian enrichment capabilities and stockpiles, and on inspection and monitoring of compliance, than has been imposed on any country in the course of the entire nuclear era. Left out of consideration altogether was the nuclear weapons arsenal of Israel acquired with Western complicity and by covert means, as well as through operations outside the Nonproliferation Treaty regime, which is used to tie Iran’s hands and feet.
→ read full article(Italiano) TPP-TTIP-Tisa: la soglia critica per la democrazia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Questo editoriale vede i tre accordi come una soglia critica per la democrazia; ma, verso dove? Lontano dalla democrazia come processo del e da parte del popolo, e lontano dalla democrazia come società per il popolo, eccetto che nel senso di prezzi più bassi. Addio Lincoln.
→ read full articleMideast Arms Build-up Negative Fallout from Iran Nuclear Deal
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Jul 23 2015 – The nuclear agreement concluded last week between Iran and six big powers, the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, is threatening to trigger a new Middle East military build-up – not with nuclear weapons but with conventional arms, including fighter planes, combat helicopters, warships, missiles, battle tanks and heavy artillery.
→ read full articleGeorge Clooney Opposes War Profiteering—But only in Africa
David Swanson, World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Of the top 100 weapons makers in the world, not a single one is based in Africa. Only 1 is in South or Central America. Fifteen are in Western allies and protectorates in Asia (and China is not included in the list). Three are in Israel, one in Ukraine, and 13 in Russia. Sixty-six are in the United States, Western Europe, and Canada. Forty are in the U.S. alone. Seventeen of the top 30 are in the U.S. Six of the top 10 mega-profiteers are in the U.S. The other four in the top 10 are in Western Europe.
→ read full articleBreaking: Massive Pod of Pilot Whales Slaughtered in the Faroe Islands
Cole Mellino, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015 – The people of the Faroe Islands have a tradition of herding whales into a cove and slaughtering them for food and other uses, which, needless to say, draws condemnation from people worldwide who see the custom as archaic, cruel and unnecessary. GRAPHIC VIDEO
→ read full article(Français) Une étude allemande pointe les bénéfices économiques de la migration
Dario Sarmadi, EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
22 juil 2015 – La République fédérale devrait repenser son aide au développement et sa politique d’asile, estime une nouvelle étude de l’université d’Osnabrück, appelant les responsables politiques à voir la migration comme une opportunité plutôt que comme une menace.
→ read full articleTurning Enemies into Allies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
At the 1919 Versailles peace conference after World War I, the French Prime Minister Georges Clémenceau insisted that Germany be held solely responsible for starting World War I, and be forced to pay huge reparations over the next fifty years, to bring Germany to its knees, so that it would never be able again to build up its industrial capacity and become a military threat to its neighbors.
→ read full articleUS and NATO Engage in Unprecedented Military Exercises in Europe
Niles Williamson, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
A review of the ongoing exercises in the run-up to Trident Juncture gives a sense of the size and scope of the war preparations being developed by the United States and its NATO allies.
→ read full articleAccuracy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
The following joke was circulating in Moscow in 1998:
→ read full articleEurope’s Vindictive Privatization Plan for Greece
Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015 – On July 12, the summit of eurozone leaders dictated its terms of surrender to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who, terrified by the alternatives, accepted all of them. One of those terms concerned the disposition of Greece’s remaining public assets.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 1: Limits to Growth
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
The unsustainable, power-worshiping, consumption-oriented values of western society are so strongly propagandized by television, films and advertising that they overpower and sweep aside the wisdom of older societies. The wisdom of our ancestors, their respect for nature and their hospitable traditions of sharing can help us create a new economic system founded on social and environmental ethics.
→ read full article(Italiano) T-tip, il nostro futuro greco
Francesco Martone, Comune Info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
21 luglio 2015 – Per uno paradosso o una significativa coincidenza lo stesso giorno nel quale processava Alexis Tsipras, il parlamento europeo avrebbe votato il rapporto Lange sul Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-tip). Raffigurazioni plastiche ed evidenti di come il progetto europeo di spazio di cittadinanza comune abbia ceduto il passo a quello elitario dell’austerity, e dell’ordoliberismo a tutti i costi, ed agli interessi delle imprese e dei mercati anche a costo della sopravvivenza di uomini e donne in carne ed ossa.
→ read full articleHow Monsanto Wrote and Broke Laws to Enter India
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015 – Citizens of the United States are being denied the right to know what they are feeding their families despite the fact that 90% of American citizens want GMO labelling on their food. Decades before there was a “debate” over GMOs and Monsanto’s PR and law firms became the busiest of bees, India was introduced to this corrupting, corporate giant that had no respect for the laws of the land.
→ read full article(Français) Chronique de mots pervers : le “capital humain”
Elisabeth Beague, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
20 juillet 2015 – Le « capital humain » fut précédemment appelé « ressources humaines » et, il y a plus longtemps encore, « personnel ». Pourquoi cette évolution ? Sans prendre le risque de se tromper lourdement, il est permis d’avancer que la transformation du lexique est au cœur d’un vaste travail politique de marchandisation de la relation salariale.
→ read full articleGet Out of Your Own Light: Aldous Huxley on Who We Are, the Trap of Language, and the Necessity of Mind-Body Education
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
What are we in relation to our own minds and bodies — or, seeing that there is not a single word, let us use it in a hyphenated form — our own mind-bodies? What are we in relation to this total organism in which we live? The moment we begin thinking about it in any detail, we find ourselves confronted by all kinds of extremely difficult, unanswered, and maybe unanswerable questions.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Jul 27–Aug 2 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
→ read full article“Christmas in July” in Absurdityville, USA
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Why do they hate us? Americans wondered after 911. And, our Philosopher-King George W. Bush answered majestically: “They hate us for our freedoms!” And most goody-goody Americans went back to sleep. We pride ourselves on our “separation of Church and State,” but who ever proposed that we separate Morality and the State, or Wisdom and the State?
→ read full articleHomosexuality Will Never Be Eliminated. How About Eliminating Homophobia?
Neela Ghoshal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Jul 17 2015 -A report published in June by the Academy of Science of South Africa, in collaboration with the Uganda National Academy of Sciences, could help reshape understandings of human sexuality – if African policymakers take the time to consider the report’s findings.
→ read full articleMilitary Conscription Worldwide – Conscientious Objectors and Deserters
CJ Hinke, World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Incredibly, in the 21st-century, roughly half of the world’s nation-states practice military conscription. The countries on this list may still be enforcing military conscription.
→ read full articleThe Social Economic Enslavement of Japan
WeAreChange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Luke Rudkowski interviews economist Marc Abela in Tokyo, Japan. Marc has lived in Tokyo for over 25 years and reveals amazing insights and info about the hidden true social economics in Japan.
→ read full articlePhoto of ‘Mutant Daisies’ Near Fukushima Goes Viral
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015 – A recent photograph of less-than-perfect daisies near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster site is generating headlines and is making the rounds on social media.
→ read full articleBill Nye on Glyphosate: ‘We Accidentally Decimated the Monarch Butterfly Population’
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
People developed this herbicide called glyphosate that kills all the weeds, and kills all of everything except the plants that have this cool gene in them that allows them to grow right through it. So we accidentally have decimated the monarch butterfly population, reduced it over the last two decades by 90 percent.
→ read full articleBetter Sleep May Be Incredibly Important to Alzheimer’s Risk
The Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Disrupted sleep may be one of the missing pieces in explaining how a hallmark of Alzheimer’s, a sticky protein called beta-amyloid, starts its damage long before people have trouble with memory, researchers reported Monday [20 Jul] at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.
→ read full articleTwo Sea Shepherd Crewmembers Arrested in the Faroe Islands with Assistance of Danish Navy
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015 – Two volunteer crewmembers from the Sea Shepherd ship, Sam Simon, have been arrested in the Faroe Islands. “I made multiple request of the Danish Navy today for information; about whether a grindadráp had been called; about whether our crew had been arrested; and about whether the Farley small boat had been confiscated. Each time, my requests went unanswered.”
→ read full articleDag Hammarskjold (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Crisis Manager and Longer-Range World Community Builder
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Dag Hammarskjold became an expert crisis manager, to the point that there was a common slogan in the UN- “Leave it to Dag”. He liked to work alone but had created a team of people working under him who were highly competent and totally devoted to him.
→ read full article(Français) Paraguay : Terre d’ eau, grandes propriétés rurales et injustice
Leticia Marinoni, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
13 juillet 2015 – En guarani, le son humain le plus basique se réfère au son de l’ eau: « Y », une sorte de « i » latin fermé entre les dents, comme faisant référence à l’indispensable, l’élément capital pour la respiration, la simple réalité de la vie.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism – A Global Debate
Meah Mostafiz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
This research paper defines the peace journalism, the difference between traditional journalism and peace journalism, and analyses the factors why Peace Journalism is hard to practice in mainstream media.
→ read full articleIs the Ugly German Back? Flames of Hate Haunt a Nation
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
During the first six months of this year, right-wing extremists in Germany committed attacks against places housing asylum-seekers on an almost daily basis. Many refugees living in the country fear for their lives.
→ read full articleIt’s Official: New Zealand Recognizes Animals as ‘Sentient Beings’
Vegan Memo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
19 Jul 2015 – The bill also includes banning cosmetic testing on animals, which was recently put into law last month. It also provides for a penalty scheme to enable moderate offending to be handled more effectively, and gives animal welfare inspectors the power to issue compliance notices, among other capacities.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Agreement with Iran: A Nonkilling View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
A Rhymed Reflection
→ read full articleFive Reasons You Should Eat Probiotic-Rich Fermented Foods
Julia Westbrook, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
7 Jul 2015 – The best way to prevent anxiety—and the stress-induced bellyache that comes along with it—may be to balance your gut bacteria. Eating probiotic-rich fermented foods is associated with less social anxiety, according to a new study published in Psychiatry Research.
→ read full articleDead Dolphins Found Stranded in Fukushima Have White Radiated Lungs
Neon Nettle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015 – Japanese scientists are dumbfounded by the new discovery after conducting an autopsy on a large group of dolphins washed up on a beach close to the Fukushima Power Plant disaster site.
→ read full articleThe American Psychological Association, Torture, and the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial
Tom Carter, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
13 Jul 2015 – A 542-page independent report made public by the New York Times on Friday [10 Jul] implicates the American Psychological Association in the CIA torture program. The devastating report not only exposes the involvement of psychologists in torture, but also lifts the curtain on years of lies, conspiracies, and cover-ups reaching to the top of the APA and academia.
→ read full articleCivilian Killings? West Literally Gets Away with Murder
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Jul 16 2015 – The United Nations continues to come under heavy fire for singling out mostly non-Western states for human rights violations while ignoring the misdeeds of Western nations or big powers.
→ read full articleThird Industrial Revolution: In 10 Years, the Cumbersome Great Banks Will Have Disappeared
GEAB-Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The crisis that we are currently experiencing is a systemic crisis. It is affecting and radically transforming the whole system, particularly banks. In political anticipation, it’s important to position these anticipations in the short to medium term within the landscape of long-term trends.
→ read full articleWelcoming the Iran Nuclear Deal and Calling on Israel to Dismantle Its Nuclear Arsenal for a Nuclear-Free Middle East
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
This Agreement is indeed to be welcomed, and it is a triumph for dialogue and diplomacy and proves that problems can be solved at the negotiating table instead of using the unethical, immoral and counter-productive method of military threats and attacks.
→ read full articleThe Problem of Greece Is Not Only a Tragedy. It Is a Lie.
John Pilger - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
13 Jul 2015 – An historic betrayal has consumed Greece. Having set aside the mandate of the Greek electorate, the Syriza government has willfully ignored last week’s landslide “No” vote and secretly agreed a raft of repressive, impoverishing measures in return for a “bailout” that means sinister foreign control and a warning to the world.
→ read full articleThe Treaty
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
What if the wily Persians did not even dream of building an atomic bomb, but used the threat to further their real aims? One of Netanyahu’s arguments is that the Iranians can and will cheat the naive Americans and build the bomb. He is sure that this is possible. Well, he should know. We did it, didn’t we?
→ read full articleA Review of ‘Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine’
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
GAZA WRITES BACK is one of those very rare books that depict war in slow motion. The 23 stories here, written by 15 young authors (from late teens to early 30s, all but three female) were compiled to commemorate the 5-year anniversary of “Operation Cast Lead.”
→ read full articleWas the Batman Shooter a Victim of both Medical and Legal Malpractice?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
How the Aurora Massacre Could Have Been Prevented
→ read full articleGreed Is Driving Us towards Disaster
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Greed, in particular the greed of corporations and billionaire oligarchs, is driving human civilization and the biosphere towards disaster. The greed of giant fossil fuel corporations is driving us towards a tipping point after which human efforts to control climate change will be futile because feedback loops will have taken over. The greed of the military industrial complex is driving us towards a Third World War that might develop into a catastrophic thermonuclear war. The greed of our financial institutions is driving us towards economic collapse, as we see in the case of Greece.
→ read full articleCarl G. Jung (26 Jul 1875 – 6 Jun 1961): The Integration of Opposites
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
As Jung noted, Taoist thought would play an increasingly powerful role in the transition between the Piscean Period and the Age of Aquarius. “The spirit of the East is really at our gates. Therefore it seems to me that the search for Tao, for a meaning in life, has already become a collective phenomenon among us, and to a far greater extent than is generally realized.”
→ read full articleWhat Are Foreign Military Bases For?
World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Have you ever wondered and investigated how many US military bases exist in the world, where exactly, and at what cost, to what purpose, and in terms of what relationship with the host nations? A wonderfully researched new book, six years in the works, answers these questions in a manner you’ll find engaging whether you’ve ever asked them or not. It’s called ‘Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Harm America and the World’ by David Vine.
→ read full articleMalaysia Just Passed a New, Stricter Welfare Act for Animals
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
On Tuesday [14 Jul 2015], the Malaysian government passed into law a new animal welfare act that imposes harsher penalties for those torturing or neglecting animals in order to reduce the number of crimes against animals in the country.
→ read full articleThe Terms of Greece’s Surrender
Yanis Varoufakis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The Euro Summit statement (or Terms of Greece’s Surrender – as it will go down in history) follows, annotated by yours truly. The original text is untouched with my notes confined to square brackets. Read and weep…
→ read full articlePluto and Earth
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The flyby of Pluto by the spacecraft New Horizons—a scientific achievement of the first order—stands in contrast to the seemingly intractable social crises on our own planet.
→ read full articleThe Right-Left Crossfire and the Post Neo-Liberal Left
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The post neo-liberal regimes which flourished in five Latin American countries in the first decade of the 21st century were a product of three inter-related historical processes.
→ read full articleSoulless Economics
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
20 Jul 2015
Austerity, the tool of neoliberal capitalism, stands up to Greek democracy and stares it down. Oh well. We’re remarkably comfortable with soulless economics and have yielded to this economic model in thought, word and deed.
→ read full article3 Great Supplements for Gut Health
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
There are so many easy ways that you can support and maintain your gut health. Whether it’s eating healthy, taking probiotics, or even meditation. Cutting out gluten and sugar are helpful steps you can take to support the health of your gut, and consuming more raw, living foods are also great measures.
→ read full article70 Years After the Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Canada’s Gift to Japan
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The Canada Pension Plan, mandatory for all working Canadians, invests our contributions in the five largest weapons makers in the world, which make nuclear as well as non-nuclear weapons that are sold and used in many countries against civilian populations.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
July 20-26 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
→ read full articleJapan’s Abe Pushes Security Bills through Lower House, Despite Protests
Linda Sieg, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday [16 Jul 2015] pushed through parliament’s lower house legislation that could see troops sent to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two, despite protests and a risk of further damage to his sagging ratings.
→ read full article“Sowing the Wind” at Los Alamos and “Reaping the Whirlwind” at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
70 years ago this week (July 16, 1945), an assortment of foreign scientists, the original group of which was mostly refugees fleeing European fascism, succeeded in exploding the first experimental atomic bomb.
→ read full articleAn Active Peace Policy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
In the nuclear age, we can no longer afford to wait until war breaks out and then react with military force. We must pursue an active peace policy that seeks to avoid or resolve conflicts long before they lead to war.
→ read full articleObama to Out Bomb Bush!
James Albertini, Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
This is only the latest campaign in a 15-year global air war, largely ignored by U.S. media, in which the United States and its allies have conducted at least 118,000 air strikes against other countries since 2000.
→ read full articleGrexit or Jubilee? How Greek Debt Can Be Annulled
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Greece’s creditors have finally brought the country to its knees, forcing President Alexis Tsipras to agree to austerity and privatization measures more severe than those overwhelmingly rejected by popular vote a week earlier. For Greece, leaving the EU may be perilous; but it opens provocative possibilities. The government could nationalize its insolvent banks along with its central bank, and start generating the credit the country desperately needs to get back on its feet.
→ read full articleThinking Globally
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
One thing about empires that people have to know: they do not last. They get the hubris to think they can last and that they can manage affairs of other people in perpetuity but this is an illusion.
→ read full articleAgency to Enslave Greeks Is Established
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
On July 16 2015 ‘German Economic News’ headlined “Greece: Debt Restructuring Through the Back Door,” and reported that, “The majority of Greece’s national debt is to be moved in the next three years gradually to the European Stability Mechanism. The super-secretive ESM was set up in 2012, in order to handle Greece’s anticipated virtual receivership, which it now will do.
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