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Mad About THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense): An Untimely Decision
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
8 Mar 2017 – The US decision, supported by the South Korean government, to deploy an antimissile system known as THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) may be one of the most thoughtless strategic moves in a generation. The official US argument is that close-in defense against North Korean missiles is necessary. But the deployment has resulted in the following:
→ read full articlePeeping Pigs and Propaganda by Omission
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
5 Mar 2017 – While there is much talk these days about “fake news,” omitting important news is perhaps as widespread and egregiously harmful to an informed public. The following report tries to remedy the way the mainstream media have for years ignored one of the oddest but more important news stories of the last sixty years.
→ read full articleMusic and Politics: How Much Will It Matter Again?
Daniel Martin - CounterPunch,
13 Mar 2017
Back when I was in college, rock and roll historian Barry Drake came and gave a lecture titled “60’s Rock”, When the Music Mattered”. At least here in the United States, these were years of great unrest on a societal and political level. Whether it was the civil rights movement, the assassination of our greatest leaders, or the Vietnam War and its protests, these events were accompanied by and often directly interwoven with the music of the time. And heck, the decade gave us the Beatles and Motown, and birthed the sounds we currently consider “classic rock”, as well as other innovations.
→ read full articleBully Nation: Is America Hardwired for War & Aggression?
Robert Bridge – Russia Today,
13 Mar 2017
9 Mar 2017 – Watching Washington attack one sovereign state after another since the collapse of the Soviet Union prompts the question: Are we Americans behaving out of some inherent aggression, or is this just old-fashioned empire building by a global superpower?
→ read full articleThe United States and the Russian Devil: 1917-2017
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #149 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
The transition of power to Vladimir Putin in the 21st century led to a number of reforms that curbed the disastrous looting of the nation by the oligarchic bandits. Putin and his allies vowed to build an independent, capitalist Russia that was capable of determining its own affairs free from US and Western domination. Such an orientation placed Putin in direct confrontation with US imperialism’s plans for unipolar global hegemony.
→ read full articleHow Anti-Vietnam War Activists Stopped Violent Protest from Hijacking Their Movement
Robert Levering | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
The tactics of isolation that kept groups like the Weathermen away from peaceful protests may help today’s activists struggling with Black Bloc disruptions.
→ read full article(Português) Consumo de Ritalina, o “comprimido da inteligência,” aumentou mais de 77% em quatro anos
Jornal Económico [Portugal] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Especialistas preocupados com as consequências para a saúde pública da medicação que combate défice de atenção. A banalização do uso de metilfenidato, indicado para tratamento de problemas de concentração, hiperactividade e deficit de atenção infantil, está a preocupar psiquiatras e psicólogos.
→ read full articleThe Resurrection of Armageddon
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
This is the extreme risk to which the insane neoconservatives, the idiot liberal-progressive-left, the greedy military/security complex, and the aggressive generals have exposed life on earth. And the few voices warning of the risk are dismissed as “Russian agents.”
→ read full articleWhile Our Attention Is Elsewhere, Climate Change Worsens
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Sevice,
6 Mar 2017
The news of actual events—hurricanes, floods, drought, sharp temperature changes, and other distortions in weather patterns in the US and around the world—typically are being crowded out by Trump’s tantrums, fake news, and conflicts of interest. For the strong of heart, here are some important developments affecting climate change over the past several months that you may have missed.
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Western Media Lies about Syria
Eva Bartlett - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Press Conference at the United Nations by Independent Canadian Journalist Eva Bartlett
→ read full articleThe Role of Biodiversity Scientists in a Troubled World
Arturo Gómez-Pompa | American Institute of Biological Sciences, Oxford University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
As a society, we are torn apart by conflicting views on issues of enormous importance. In the debate on many of these issues, both sides have persuasive arguments for their position. I hear convincing views from opposite extremes: pro-war or antiwar, pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian, pro-GMO or anti-GMO, pro-life or pro-choice, pro-bioprospecting or anti-bioprospecting. I feel the anguish of having to take sides on issues I do not know well and whose reconciliation seems impossible.
→ read full articleResisting Donald Trump’s Violence Strategically
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
So what are we to do? Well, if you are inclined to resist the diabolical actions of Donald Trump (and his insane and violent equivalents in the United States and other countries around the world), I invite you to respond powerfully. This includes maintaining a large measure of empathy for the emotionally damaged individual who is now president of the US (and his many equivalents). It also includes recognizing that this individual and his equivalents are the current ‘face’ of a global system of violence and exploitation built on many long-standing structures that we must systematically dismantle.
→ read full articleThe Blindness of the Left in the Age of Power
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Reporter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
The Left has been up in arms about transgender rights and the rights of immigrants, legal or illegal—and yes, immigration policies are everywhere and there are laws about immigration for every country, by the way—but absolutely blind to the war machine. We might recall that Athens, the birthplace of (limited) democracy, was a ruthless empire in the Peloponnesian War: privilege at home, horror abroad.
→ read full articleAvoid Patent Clauses in Trade Treaties That Can Kill Millions
Martin Khor – Inter Press Service-IPS,
6 Mar 2017
27 Feb 2017 – Recently a very interesting article on why there are inequalities in access to health care and how medicine prices are beyond the reach of many people was published in The Lancet, one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world. The authors, who are eminent experts in development and public health, pinpointed trade and investment agreements for being one of the greatest health threats.
→ read full articleOne Nation – Two Cubas”
Martha R. Bireda | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Cuba is an exceedingly beautiful island blessed with lush forests, pristine beaches, sapphire seas, and sunny tropical weather. It is a tourist’s paradise. It is an island that is beloved by its people, its exiles, and those who visit. There is physically only one island, but there are two Cubas; each Cuba seen through very different eyes and experienced in grossly dissimilar ways. Both Cubas are deeply loved.
→ read full articleWhat’s Really Happening in Syria
Robert Roth | Syria Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
5 Feb 2017 – If you try to follow events in the mainstream media, you may have noticed that they routinely refer to Syrian President Bashar al Assad as a “brutal dictator”. Assad is supposed to have responded to peaceful protests with repressive violence and by “killing his own people”. The U.S., UK, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar continue to maintain that “Assad must go”. I disagree with all of that, as I’ll explain in this article. I spent 25 years prosecuting lies in commerce for the people of New York and Oregon. I prepared this primer to help you cut through the lies and get at the truth about Syria.
→ read full articleCosta Rica’s Peace Journey
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
A Bold Peace, which begins by quoting Eisenhower’s “cross of iron” speech, tells the remarkable story of war avoided, or transcended, again and again and again. Yes, there is another way for the world to live. By the film’s end, this way emerges not simply as possible, not simply as a curiosity, but as the model for the future. It’s time for the rest of the world to join Costa Rica on its journey.
→ read full articleTulsi Gabbard vs. ‘Regime Change’ Wars
Ann Wright – Consortium News,
27 Feb 2017
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is a rare member of Congress willing to take heat for challenging U.S. “regime change” projects, in part, because as an Iraq War vet she saw the damage these schemes do.
→ read full articleFukushima: A Lurking Global Catastrophe?
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
19 Feb 2017 – Year over year, ever since 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown grows worse and worse, an ugly testimonial to the inherent danger of generating electricity via nuclear fission, which produces isotopes, some of the most deadly poisonous elements on the face of the planet.
→ read full articleDocuments Indicate Germany Spied on Foreign Journalists
Maik Baumgärtner, Martin Knobbe and Jörg Schindler – Der Spiegel,
27 Feb 2017
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, apparently spied on large numbers of foreign journalists overseas over the course of several years, including employees of the BBC, Reuters and the New York Times. Critics see a massive violation of press freedoms.
→ read full articleThe Globalization of Environmental Degradation
George Abert and Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
13 Feb 2017 – Figuratively speaking, a ginormous asteroid is hurtling to a cataclysmic rendezvous with earth, but we are not supposed to notice. The asteroid is the rising threat from environmental degradation. Evidence is accumulating that environmental degradation is becoming global. We can either act responsibly by accepting the challenge or take refuge in denial and risk the consequences.
→ read full articleFukushima: Still Getting Worse After Six Years of Meltdowns
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
20 Feb 2017
After a week of limited coverage of “unimaginable levels” of radiation inside the remains of collapsed Unit 2 at Fukushima, Nuclear-News.net reported Feb 11, 2017 that radiation levels are actually significantly higher than “unimaginable.”
→ read full article(Português) Tratado de Tlatelolco: 50 Anos de Sucesso
Emb. Sergio Duarte e Jenifer Mackby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
No dia 14 de fevereiro de 2017 comemora-se o cinquentenário do Tratado de Proibição de Armas Nucleares na América Latina e Caribe – Tratado de Tlatelolco – que proíbe ensaios, fabricação, uso, produção ou aquisição de armas nucleares. Todos os 33 países da região são Partes desse instrumento.
→ read full articleThe Mass Grave We Call Collateral Damage
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
But the politics of our drone assassinations and our air strikes and our wars justify and soften the murders we commit. Even now, as consensus consigns the Iraq war to the status of “mistake,” we still refuse to take official responsibility for its consequences. The shattered country, the dead, the dislocated, the rise of terrorism — come on, cut us a little slack, OK? We were bringing democracy to Iraq.
→ read full articleTreaty of Tlatelolco: Fifty Years of Success
Amb. Sergio Duarte and Jenifer Mackby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
On February 14, 2017 the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean – Treaty of Tlatelolco – will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The Treaty prohibits the testing, use, manufacture, production or acquisition of nuclear weapons. All 33 countries in the region are party to it.
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Killing Me Softly With His Song (Music Video of the Week)
Roberta Flack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
This song is about Don McLean’s big hit, American Pie–The Day the Music Died.
→ read full articleSymbolic Seduction: Women’s Rights, Partisan Politics, Ethnocentrism and “American Narcissism”
Edward Curtin | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017 – In 1929, Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, U.S./CIA war and coup propagandist, and the founder of public relations, conducted a successful mind-manipulation experiment for the tobacco industry. In those days there was a taboo against women smoking in public, and Bernays was hired to change that.
→ read full articleThey Aren’t All Safe: Pharma Is Willing to Look “Unscientific” to Sell Vaccines
Martha Rosenberg - CounterPunch,
30 Jan 2017
26 Jan 2017 – Why do progressive news sites that expose government and corporate disinformation in other areas accept disinformation when it comes to vaccines–actually calling activists “unscientific”? Like all drugs aggressively marketed these days, patients and parents need to do their own research and weigh benefits and risks—never forgetting Pharma’s spotty safety record.
→ read full articleNonviolent Action: Why and How It Works
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Nonviolent action is extremely powerful. Unfortunately, however, activists do not always understand why nonviolence is so powerful and they design ‘direct actions’ that are virtually powerless. I would like to start by posing two questions.
→ read full articleSouthern European Leaders Gather in Lisbon as Populism Gains
Reuters | Fortune – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Leaders met on Saturday [28 Jan 2017] in Lisbon to discuss growing challenges, from the refugee crisis to rising borrowing costs and low economic growth, at a time when rising populism has increased political uncertainty in Europe. The group brings together France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta.
→ read full articleA Valiant Verbal Warrior Demythologizes the CIA
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Like Odysseus, Douglas Valentine is a wily warrior who managed to enter the enemy’s stronghold disguised as a gift. Not Troy, and not within a wooden horse, but in the guise of a nice young “Nobody,” he was able, thirty or so years ago, to breach the walls of the CIA through William Colby, a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
→ read full articleThe Media Is Now the Political Opposition
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
By taking the role of the political opposition to Trump, the media has discredited itself as an honest critic on topics where Trump needs criticism, such as the environment and his tolerance of oppressive methods used by police. The presstitutes have ended all chance of improving Trump’s performance with reports and criticism. Trump needs moderating on the environment, on the police, and on the war on terror.
→ read full articleJohns Hopkins’ Top Psychotherapist Releases Terrifying Diagnosis of President Trump
Olive Murphy | Bipartisan Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Malignant narcissists are determined to gratify their wishes and furious if thwarted. Their desire can be so consuming that there is little comprehension of, respect for or ability to empathize with the other. They lack guilt or remorse and tend to feel or pronounce that it is they who have been mistreated. They can be of any gender, race or social class.
→ read full articlePlease, Do Not Get Offended, But:
Roberto Savio – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 Jan 2017
With the inauguration of Donald Trump on Jan. 20, the new leadership of the most powerful nation has signaled it is breaking away from the rest of the world. Here, a few thoughts…
→ read full articleFacebook’s Zuckerberg Sues to Force Land Sales in Hawai’i
Andrew Gomes – Honolulu Star Advertiser,
23 Jan 2017
18 Jan 2017 – Mark Zuckerberg paid around $100 million for 700 acres of rural beachfront land on Kauai two years ago to create what Forbes magazine described as a secluded family sanctuary. Close to a dozen small parcels within Zuckerberg’s Kauai estate are owned by kamaaina families who have rights to traverse the billionaire’s otherwise private domain. Now the Facebook CEO is trying to enhance the seclusion of his property by filing several lawsuits aimed at forcing these families to sell their land at a public court auction to the highest bidder.
→ read full articleChelsea Manning Sentence Commuted after Seven Years of Brutal Imprisonment
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
18 Jan 2017 – President Obama commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the military intelligence analyst who made public evidence of US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, allowing Manning to go free on May 17, after completing over seven years in prison.
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Real Purpose of Intel Report on Russian Hacking: With Abby Martin & Ben Norton
Chris Hedges | On Contact – RT America,
23 Jan 2017
Jan 15, 2017 – Chris Hedges is joined by journalists Abby Martin and Ben Norton to discuss the declassified U.S. intelligence report on Russia’s alleged “influence campaign” on the U.S. presidential election. They explore the allegations and why a large portion of the report is dedicated to RT America’s programming.
→ read full articleHackers Downloaded US Government Climate Data and Stored It on European Servers as Trump Was Being Inaugurated
Zoë Schlanger | Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
As Donald Trump was sworn into office as the new president of the US on Jan. 20, a group of around 60 programmers and scientists were gathered in the Department of Information Studies building at the University of California-Los Angeles, harvesting government data.
→ read full articlePutin – Trump: Two Paradigms of Global Peace
Dr. Leo Semashko and Dr. Rudolf Siebert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
This article has specific structure. In the first part we reconstruct as synopses of the global peace paradigms of two world leaders from their many speeches to facilitate for the readers to find and understand their visions of this sharpest global challenge. In the second part we present the short comments of these paradigms and their dependence from Global Peace Science.
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Libertango (Music Video of the Week)
Marici Saxes | Saxophone Quartet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
London’s Leading Female Saxophone Quartet Performs Libertango by Astor Piazzolla
→ read full article(Português) Ilhas Marshall: Um Passo Ousado Em Prol do Desarmamento Nuclear
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Durante os doze anos de duração dos ensaios, a população de outras ilhas e atóis do arquipélago experimentaram graves danos. Alguns foram completamente evacuados pela Marinha dos Estados Unidos. Alimentos e água potável foram constantemente contaminados. As pessoas vomitavam e seus cabelos começaram a cair. A incidência de câncer aumentou consideravelmente, assim como a de deformações em recém-nascidos. As taxas de doenças cardíacas, da tireóide, pulmões, ossos e sistema digestivo também aumentaram.
→ read full articleEurope’s Courageous Journalism Voice Has Passed Away
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
On January 13, Udo Ulfkotte died, reportedly of a heart attack. Ulfkotte had been an editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitzung. He published a courageous book in which he said that the CIA had a hand on every significant journalist in Europe.
→ read full articleHow Gratitude Can Help You through Hard Times
Robert Emmons | Univ. of California, Berkeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
It’s easy to feel grateful when life is good. But when disaster strikes, gratitude is worth the effort.
→ read full articleMarshall Islands: A Bold Step towards Nuclear Disarmament
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
In 2014 the Republic of the Marshall Islands filed two legal suits: one at the International Court of Justice against the nine countries that possess nuclear weapons and another at an American federal court against the government of the United States. The suits did not seek financial compensation but rather requested a declaratory judgment of breach of obligations under Article VI the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
→ read full articleSermon on the Mount and Golden Rule: Global Peace Science Today
Rudolf J. Siebert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
While many people consider the 4th commandment of the Sermon the Mount at best merely to be a matter of private morality, President Putin and the Russian Federation have proven in the past year, in the spirit of the great Russian Orthodox tradition, that it has validity also in society, state, and history.
→ read full articleMurdering the Innocent in Order to Support the Lie
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
It is clear beyond reasonable doubt that there was no real bombing at the Boston Marathon and that the alleged terrorist event, using crisis actors, was an orchestration designed to convince dumbshit Americans that they really were under a “Muslim threat.” The entire foreign policy of the United States in the 21st century is based on an orchestrated “Muslim threat.”
→ read full articleIn the Blood
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Born in a normal time,
The periodic slaughter of millions
By the civilized nations of the earth
I grew to adulthood half-crazed
With fear and numbed wonder.
(Italiano) Riflessioni su “La rivoluzione disarmista” di Carlo Cassola (Rizzoli, 1983), a oltre trenta anni dalla sua pubblicazione
Alberto L’Abate – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
2 Jan 2017
Il libro parte dai quattro cavalieri dell’apocalisse che, nella Bibbia, annunziano quattro flagelli per l’umanità: la fame, la peste, la guerra e la morte. Scrive, a questo proposito, Cassola: “I due flagelli biblici della peste e della fame sono stati domati in epoca moderna (quello della fame solo in Europa) con sollievo generale. Il flagello biblico della guerra continua ad esistere con sopportazione generale”.
→ read full article(Turkish-Türk) Yeryüzünde Yaşam Sona Eriyor. Binlerce Tür Yok Oluyor
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Özgür Üniversite – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Sizin bu yazıyı okuduğunuz gün, yeryüzünde 200 türün ( bitki, kuş, hayvan, balık, amfibi, böcek, sürüngen ) varlığı ortadan kalkmış olacak. Ertesi gün bir 200 tür daha sonsuza kadar yok olmuş olacak.
→ read full articleA Brief History of War and Drugs: From Vikings to Nazis
Barbara McCarthy – Al Jazeera,
2 Jan 2017
From World War II to Vietnam and Syria, drugs are often as much a part of conflict as bombs and bullets.
→ read full article(Português) Por que amar um e comer o outro?
Marta Zaraska - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
26 Dec 2016
O paradoxo da carne é um bom caminho para compreender a dissonância cognitiva, um estado psicologicamente desagradável que vem à tona quando temos apreço por várias convicções mutualmente inconsistentes ou quando há uma lacuna entre nossas atitudes e nosso comportamento.
→ read full articleAmnesia at the UN: The Massacres Samantha Power Conveniently Forgot to Mention
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
26 Dec 2016
It was bizarre to watch Samantha Power at the UN conveniently forget to mention all the massacres done in America’s name. When she talked about ‘barbarism against civilians’ in Aleppo, I remembered climbing over the dead Palestinian civilians massacred at the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Beirut in 1982, slaughtered by Israel’s Lebanese militia friends while the Israeli army – Washington’s most powerful ally in the Middle East – watched.
→ read full articleUS Criminal Hypocrisy at Work in Syria and Yemen
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
26 Dec 2016
On December 13, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power offered up yet another stark exercise in imperial deceit, shedding crocodile tears for those suffering in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, while continuing her strategically amoral silence about much greater suffering in the country of Yemen. The basis for this unconscionable choice is simple. Russia, Syria, and Iran are attacking Aleppo.
→ read full articleInstead of the Two-State Solution: An Alternative Vision for Peace in Israel-Palestine
Robert L. Herbst and Jonathan Kuttab – The Huffington Post,
26 Dec 2016
We are of the view that the liberation of both peoples – Jews from being occupiers and dominators, and Palestinians from being occupied and dominated – in two separate states has now been rendered virtually impossible by the facts on the ground. “Ending the occupation” is therefore no longer sufficient to create a viable future for both.
→ read full article(Castellano) Se está acabando la vida en la tierra
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
La arremetida del ser humano en contra de la vida de la tierra no tiene precedentes en la historia. Hoy en día está ocurriendo la sexta extinción masiva del planeta, y está siendo provocada por el hombre. Y, cada vez que decides no hacer nada y dejarle el problema a alguien más, das un ejemplo de porqué nadie hace nada al respecto. La extinción se avecina. ¿Qué vas a hacer?
→ read full articleWant to Dump Your Yahoo Email? Here’s How
Corinne Iozzio | Consumer Reports – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Yahoo on Wednesday [14 Dec] said that a billion user accounts had been hacked in 2013, a crime that wasn’t discovered until law enforcement contacted the company this fall. The revelation came just three months after the company disclosed that 500 million accounts had been compromised in 2014.
→ read full article(Italiano) Praticare la disobbedienza: la giustizia sociale e ambientale dipende dalla nostra capacità di disobbedire
Max Wilbert – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
12 Dec 2016
E’ difficile resistere alle pressioni sociali, specialmente quando siamo abituati ad abbinarle alle norme. Ma è essenziale imparare a disobbedire. Un rimedio è la pratica. Come sollevare pesi o scrivere un saggio di cinque paragrafi, la resistenza è una capacità che può essere allenata.
→ read full articleIf You Are for Peace You Are a Russian Agent
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Speaking of fake news, the latest issue of the National Enquirer at the supermarket is giving the mainstream media a run for the money: “Castro’s Deathbed Confession: I Killed JFK. How I framed Oswald.” That’s almost as good as the fake news going around the presstitute media, such as the TV stations, the Washington Post, New York Times, Guardian, that the CIA has concluded that “Russian operatives covertly interfered in the election campaign in an attempt to ensure the Republican candidate’s victory.”
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons Modernization: A New Nuclear Arms Race? Who Voted for It? Who Will Benefit from It?
Kevin Martin and Paul A. Olson | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
So who will benefit? Certainly Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and the nuclear weapons contractors in other countries (and the politicians who rely on their campaign cash). Anyone else? Anyone? The children? The environment? The smart way forward is not rocket science. Instead of embarking on a plan we can’t afford and that makes our country and the world less safe, let us cancel nuclear modernization.
→ read full articleThe ‘Rebels’ of Aleppo Are No Heroes
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
12 Dec 2016
We refer to them as ‘rebels’ – as if they were the Maquis fighting in the French resistance or Partisans freeing Yugoslavia from the Nazis or, indeed, the insurgents of Warsaw struggling for freedom from the German SS. Which they clearly are not. We know that they have executed their internal enemies, slit the throats of their prisoners and that – well, since Jabhat al-Nusra is al-Qaida (and has since changed its name yet again) – they have flown passenger aircraft into very tall buildings in New York.
→ read full articleLife on Earth Is Dying
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
The human onslaught to destroy life is unprecedented in Earth’s history. Planet Earth is now experiencing its sixth mass extinction event and Homo sapiens sapiens is the cause… One of the hidden tragedies of modern human existence is that we have been terrorized into believing that we are not personally responsible. And every time you decide to do nothing and to leave it to someone else, you demonstrate why no-one else should do anything either.
→ read full article(Castellano) Buscando el camino verdadero
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Una de las manifestaciones más sutiles del vínculo íntimo entre las emociones y conductas humanas (inconscientes) se ilustra por el simple concepto de elección y cómo esto se reduce a menudo a una dicotomía entre dos malas opciones. En tales circunstancias, la mayoría de la gente elige lo que consideran ser “el mal menor”.
→ read full articleNonviolence for Brazilians: Suggested Direct Actions
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
As I see and read about the ongoing massive protests, as well as calls by prominent community leaders to mobilize in defense of your country’s democracy, I feel great hope for Brazil. Having been a nonviolent activist for many years, I would like to support Brazilian activists to develop a nonviolent strategy that will increase your chances of success.
→ read full articleA World of Difference
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
It is only in differences, however, that we sense and reach beyond ourselves. In fact, it is the ability to tolerate differences that allows for pacific cohabitation; and it is the ability to celebrate differences that leads to an appreciation of the wonderful joy of the world around us.
→ read full articleThe Treaty of Tlatelolco: Giving Thanks to Our Latin American Neighbors toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Robert F. Dodge, M.D. | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Latin American nations drafted the treaty on Feb 14, 1967 in Mexico City and it went into force on Apr 22, 1968. Today all 33 nations of Latin America and the Caribbean have signed the treaty as part of the 80 million square kilometers of the entire southern hemisphere that is free of nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleWhat’s Next? Parecon, or Participatory Economics
Michael Albert | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
People now fighting economic injustice have no right to decide how future people should live. But we do have a responsibility to provide an institutional setting that facilitates future people deciding for themselves what their own conditions of life and work should be. To this end, participatory economics, or parecon, describes the core institutions required to generate solidarity, equity, self-management, and an ecologically sound and classless economy.
→ read full articleWhat Can Go Wrong?
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #147 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
That he may not be “qualified” is unimportant. That he’s never held a government or elected position is unimportant. That on a personal level he may be a shmuck is unimportant. What counts is that he – as opposed to dear Hillary – is unlikely to start a war against Russia. His questioning of the absolute sacredness of NATO, calling it “obsolete”, and his meeting with Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, an outspoken critic of US regime-change policy, specifically Syria, are encouraging signs.
→ read full articleFood Politics: The GMO Conspiracy
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
One of the longest-standing tricks of corporations is to produce an item that is dangerous, breakable, or soon to be obsolete and then produce another that will supposedly remedy the defect. That is what is happening with GMO-laden crops: As they become resistant to Roundup and other toxins designed to keep them bug- or disease-free, the producers—such as Monsanto and Syngenta—come up with new herbicides for the farmer to apply.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Defends Military Crackdown on Burma’s Rohingya Muslims
John Roberts | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
2 Dec 2016 – State Counsellor Suu Kyi, the head of government in Burma, has dismissed mounting allegations of killings by the country’s military of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, bordering Bangladesh. Her office issued a statement declaring: “Regarding those incidents, after asking the Tatmadaw [the military] and border guard troops in those regions, it is known the information is absolutely not true.”
→ read full article(Português) A Proibição de Ensaios Nucleares
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
O atual esforço de “modernização” do armamento atômico em vários Estados possuidores gera crescente preocupação de que novos tipos de armas nucleares estejam sendo desenvolvidos a fim de tornar seu uso justificável e aceitável em uma confrontação nuclear “limitada”. Embora o CTBT permita os chamados testes subcríticos em laboratório, autoridades políticas, militares e de defesa em alguns desses Estados continuam a argumentar que detonações reais se tornarão necessárias a fim de verificar o efeito prático do armamento no teatro de operações.
→ read full articleNYT Advocates Internet Censorship
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
28 Nov 2016
In its lead editorial on Sunday [20 Nov 2016], The New York Times decried what it deemed “The Digital Virus Called Fake News” and called for Internet censorship, taking particular aim at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for letting “liars and con artists hijack his platform.” But the Times ignores its own record of publishing “fake news.”
→ read full articlePracticing Disobedience: Social and Environmental Justice Depends on Our Capacity to Disobey
Max Wilbert - CounterPunch,
28 Nov 2016
From birth, we are trained to obey authority. For most of the history, our authority figures were elders and chiefs who would be trusted, wise individuals who put the needs of the community first. Today we live in a different world, a world run by sociopaths. It is hard to resist social pressures, especially when we have become accustomed to going along with norms. But it is essential that we learn how to disobey.
→ read full articleThe Need for the Entry into Force of the CTBT
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
25 Nov 2016 – Since its adoption by the UN in 1996, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty has remained in a singular and unprecedented situation. The negotiation of a ban on nuclear weapons due to start in March 2017 at the United Nations provides a promising and authoritative forum for reaching agreement on realistic measures of nuclear disarmament as well as on a decisive push for a universal, legally binding prohibition of tests.
→ read full articleSeeking the True Path
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
One of the more subtle manifestations of the intimate link between (unconscious) human emotions and behaviour is illustrated by the simple concept of choice and how this is so often reduced to a dichotomy between two bad options. In such circumstances, most people choose whatever they consider to be ‘the lesser evil’.
→ read full articleA Collection of Thoughts about American Foreign Policy
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #146 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Louis XVI needed a revolution, Napoleon needed two historic military defeats, the Spanish Empire in the New World needed multiple revolutions, the Russian Czar needed a communist revolution, the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires needed World War I, Nazi Germany needed World War II, Imperial Japan needed two atomic bombs, the Portuguese Empire in Africa needed a military coup at home, the Soviet Empire needed Mikhail Gorbachev … What will the American Empire need?
→ read full article(Italiano) Una strategia nonviolenta per la liberazione della Siria
Robert J. Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
All’inizio del 2011, mentre le Primavere Arabe si diffondevano nel Nord Africa e nel Medio Oriente, in Siria, sottoposta alla legge marziale dal 1963, piccoli gruppi di attivisti nonviolenti iniziarono a protestare contro la dittatura brutale di Bashar al-Assad e a chiedere riforme democratiche, il rilascio dei prigionieri politici, maggiori libertà, l’abolizione della legge d’emergenza e la fine della corruzione.
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to Liberate Syria
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
It is the responsibility of the struggle’s strategic leadership to ensure that each of the strategic goals, which should be identified and prioritized according to their precise understanding of the circumstances in Syria, is being addressed. So here is a set of strategic goals to end the war in/on Syria.
→ read full articleNever Give Up! Let Your Little Light Shine!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
15 Nov 2016 – This week saw solidarity actions around the world, including actions on several Hawaiian Islands, where people stood with Native Americans to protect sacred land and water at Standing Rock. In such dark times, we must rededicate ourselves in the spirit of nonviolence – kapua aloha, toward all people and redouble our efforts for justice, peace and the earth.
→ read full articleTowards a Rational Legal Philosophy of Individual Rights
Denis Rancourt | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
I briefly describe the anthropological origin and recent statutory embodiments of human rights of individuals. I show that the modern “democratic” state moderates the rights of individuals by both: (1) violating the said rights in order to maintain and enforce the societal dominance hierarchy, and (2) preventing disproportionate violations, to avoid inciting rebellion.
→ read full article(Português) Carta Aberta aos Ativistas Brasileiros
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
A julgar pelos protestos que têm sido noticiados, bem como pelas mobilizações por influentes líderes comunitários em defesa da democracia, nutro grandes esperanças pelo Brasil. Tendo sido um ativista da não-violência por muitos anos, gostaria de oferecer o meu apoio para que os ativistas brasileiros possam desenvolver uma estratégia não-violenta que irá aumentar suas chances de sucesso.
→ read full articleThoughts on US Presidential Election Result
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
The important question before and after any election is how do we, the people, hold officials accountable? The stakes couldn’t be higher. How do we get officials to serve the interests of justice, peace, and saving civilization from total destruction from nuclear war and/or climate disaster?
→ read full articleThe ‘Victorious’ Legacy of the Vietnam War
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
The irony of the Vietnam War Memorial is no match for the irony inherent in the fact that the man who has won a Nobel Prize for Peace is the very same individual who has presided over drone-assassination, a programme whose distinction is as a kind of apex of dehumanised murder.
→ read full articlePresident Trump: Big Liar Going to Washington or Tribune of the People?
Prof. John McMurtry - Global Research,
14 Nov 2016
Trump is no working-class hero. He has long been a predatory capitalist with all the furies of greed, egoism and self-promotion that the ruling system selects for. But he is not rich from foreign wars of aggression, or from exporting the costs of labor to foreign jurisdictions with subhuman standards. He has initiated a long overdue recognition of parasite capitalism eating out and wasting the life capacities of the US itself as well as the larger world.
→ read full articleObama Is Pathetic on Human Rights in North Dakota
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
7 Nov 2016
For someone supposedly monitoring this closely, the President might be expected to know that people have already been hurt and most if not all of those hurt were nonviolent, peaceful protestors set upon by dogs and assaulted by rubber bullets, sound cannons, and chemical weapons. What fundamental, callous irrationality prompts this president to bring in Black Lives Matter? That is strange beyond comprehension.
→ read full articleLeon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels - Encyclopædia Britannica,
7 Nov 2016
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
→ read full articleBurmese Soldiers Accused of Raping and Killing Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
Esther Htusan, Martha Mendoza – The Independent,
7 Nov 2016
31 Oct 2016 – Just five months after her party took power, Burma’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is facing international pressure over recent reports that soldiers have been killing, raping and burning homes of the country’s long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims. ‘The big picture is that the government does not seem to have any influence over the military’.
→ read full articleFukushima Cover Up
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
31 Oct 2016 – It is literally impossible for the world community to get a clear understanding of, and truth about, the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This statement is based upon the Feature article in Columbia Journalism Review (“CJR”) dated October 25, 2016 entitled: “Sinking a Bold Foray into Watchdog Journalism in Japan” by Martin Fackler.
→ read full articleBalfour’s Perfidy: A Story of Betrayal
Stuart Littlewood | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
31 Oct 2016 – November 2 marks the centenary of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which began the still-ongoing colonisation of Palestine and sowed the seeds of an endless nightmare for the Palestinian people, both those who were forced to flee at gunpoint and those who have managed to remain in the shredded remains of their homeland under Israel’s brutal military occupation.
→ read full articleThreats and “Strategic Patience” Haven’t Worked with North Korea, Let’s Try Serious Diplomacy
Kevin Martin | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
Resolving tensions over North Korea’s nukes, likely by the next president at this point, will require the same commitment to diplomacy the Obama administration showed in securing the Iran nuclear agreement and opening to Cuba, but we would have much more credibility were we not preaching atomic temperance from a barstool brimming with nuclear weapons.
→ read full article(Português) A relação de uma galinha com seus ovos
Alisa Rutherford-Fortunati - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
7 Nov 2016
Galinhas, como todos os animais, têm uma linguagem única para a sua espécie. Cada sequência de sons que emitem tem um significado social, emocional ou pessoal. E se você passar tempo suficiente em torno dessas amigas emplumadas, você começará, como eu, a ouvir as histórias que estão contando.
→ read full articlePunishment Is Violent and Counterproductive
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Next time you hear a public official, judge, terrorist or police officer promising ‘justice’ (that is, retribution), remember that you are listening to an emotionally damaged individual who suffered enormous violence as a child and internalized the delusional message that ‘punishment works’. You might also ponder how bad it could be if we didn’t require obedience and use punishment to get it, but loved and nurtured children, by listening to them deeply, to become the unique, enormously loving and powerful individuals for which evolution genetically programmed them.
→ read full articleUsing Education to Normalize Horrific Acts of Violence
Gil Gertel - +972 Magazine,
31 Oct 2016
This is how the Israeli education system makes it possible for generation after generation of Israelis to accept the most brutal forms of state violence.
→ read full articleParallels Seen in Protests of Dakota Pipeline, Oregon Refuge
Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press – Reader Supported News,
31 Oct 2016
30 Oct 2016 – On the same day seven defendants celebrated their acquittal in the armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear and firing bean bag rounds arrested nearly 150 water-protectors camped out in North Dakota. “How is it that people who were seen on national media with guns having a standoff with police officials were acquitted … and we’re being treated like we’re terrorists?”
→ read full articleUnited States Nuclear Forces, 2016
Hans M. Kristensen & Robert S. Norris | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Published online: 2 March 2016
→ read full articleRich Man’s World (1%) [RAP Music]
Immortal Technique – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
[Disclaimer] Not for the faint of heart. Strong down to earth offensive obscene language—but true to reality as only art can be.
→ read full articleWhy the Rich Can’t Be Trusted with Money
Larry Beinhart – Al Jazeera,
31 Oct 2016
The members of the investor class are programmed to destroy. It is way too smart to stick under the mattress. Money is supposed to be out there making money, damn it!
→ read full articleRussian Nuclear Forces, 2016
Hans M. Kristensen & Robert S. Norris | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Published online: 15 April 2016
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report #9 (Oct 2016)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ together with a sample of news about Charter signatories and organizations. Our collective effort to build a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts continues to make progress, even against rather overwhelming odds!
→ read full articleThe Greater Evil of ‘Lesser Evilism’
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
It’s high time we freed ourselves from the politics of cronyism, fear and the greater evil of lesser evilism. If not now—when global stakes are at such a height, given nuclear weaponry, climate change, never-ending war and utter contempt for international law—when?
→ read full articleGood Deaths in Mosul, Bad Deaths in Aleppo
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
24 Oct 2016
Note how differently The New York Times prepares the American public for civilian casualties from the new U.S.-backed Iraqi government assault on the city of Mosul to free it from the Islamic State, compared to the unrelenting condemnation of the Russian-backed Syrian government assault on neighborhoods of east Aleppo held by Al Qaeda.
→ read full article