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Project for the New American Century
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
The Project for the New American Century was a neoconservative think-tank that focused on US foreign policy founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. Its stated goal was “to promote American global leadership.” The PNAC ceased to function in 2006 and was replaced by a new think-tank named the Foreign Policy Initiative, co-founded by Kristol and Kagan in 2009.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dalla regionalizzazione alla globalizzazione: problematic
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Da trattare ci sono i loro rapporti e la globalizzazione politica, culturale, militare, economica. Politicamente dovrebbe funzionare per consenso, che vuol dire uguaglianza fra le regioni e veto per tutti. Culturalmente mediante il dialogo delle civiltà, non un monologo. Militarmente l’uguaglianza potrebbe far sì che l’ORU riesca là dove non è riuscita l’ONU con un Comando Militare. Economicamente: mediante condivisione – non monopoli – su base regionale.
→ read full article(Italiano) Due Indie: Gandhi e l’India Moderna
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Gandhi era per i bisogni, la modernità per l’avidità; Gandhi per l’autosostentamento locale, la modernità per il commercio illimitato; Gandhi per costruirsi la propria identità, la modernità per l’americanizzazione come neo-nirvana; Gandhi per la risoluzione nonviolenta dei conflitti, la modernità per polizia, militari, guerra.
→ read full articleThe Very Positive Sides to Trump’s Victory: A Baker’s Dozen
Rachel Olivia O'Connor | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
I’m one of the most radical souls on earth, with many decades of having my head bashed in at the barricades (in the name of leftist causes) under my belt. I belt out what’s below now because of the highly unproductive commentary coming out of alternative media outlets and from mainstream sources freaking out about Trump’s downsides. I’m fully aware of his horrid downsides.
→ read full article(Português) Acordámos num mundo que não conhecemos
José Manuel Fernandes | Observador – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Trump assusta, mas mais assustados devíamos estar por não termos ouvido os eleitores que mobilizou. E não, não: Trump não é um fascista nem os EUA são Itália. Por isso não venham prever o apocalipse.
→ read full articleMoralizing Military Intervention
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union there has been an upsurge of international undertakings that have claimed humanitarian justifications for military interventions in foreign societies. A second kind of justification for such interventions all of which are launched by Western countries (especially the United States) was associated with the global “war on terror.”
→ read full articleInternational Conference on Gandhian Perspectives on Contemporary Conflicts and Peace
Dr. Aurobinda Mahapatra | Gandhi Center for Non-Violence, Human Rights and World Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
The Mahatma Gandhi Center for Non-Violence, Human Rights and World Peace at the Hindu University of America organized an international conference on Nov 3-4 2016, on the theme Gandhian perspectives on contemporary conflicts and peace. Speakers from Europe, Canada and India, besides the US, participated in the conference and focused on various aspects of Gandhian philosophy and its relevance for conflict resolution.
→ read full article(Français) La politique est la solution
Megan Erickson, Katherine Hill, Matt Karp, Connor Kilpatrick, & Bhaskar Sunkara | Investig’Action – Jacobin Magazine,
14 Nov 2016
Nous ne pouvons pas nous déplacer au Canada ou nous cacher sous le lit. C’est le moment d’embrasser la politique démocratique, et non de la rejeter.
→ read full article(Français) Le projet de mondialisation de Wall Street rejeté: Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead!
Diana Johnstone | Investig’Action - CounterPunch,
14 Nov 2016
Le racisme et le sexisme sont-ils les ingrédients-clés de la réussite de Donald Trump ? Pas pour Diana Johnstone. L’auteure de Hillary Cinton, la reine du chaos revient sur la campagne désastreuse de la candidate démocrate et analyse les enjeux de cette élection.
→ 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 article(Português) Abelhas entram para a lista de espécies em extinção
Helô D'Angelo | Exame – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Eventual fim das abelhas não nos deixaria só sem mel: dois terços do que comemos dependem do trabalho delas como polinizadoras.
→ read full articleUnited Nations Meet to Turn Climate Pledges into Action
Annie Sneed | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Systems to track and review each country’s progress will be put into place. The Conference of the Parties (COP 22) and the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 12) will be held in Marrakech, Morocco from 7-18 November 2016.
→ read full articleThere Is a Crack in Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In: Leonard Cohen on Democracy and Its Redemptions
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Trained as a poet and ordained as a Buddhist monk, Leonard Cohen (21 Sep 1934–10 Nov 2016) is our patron saint of sorrow and redemption. He wrote songs partway between philosophy and prayer — songs radiating the kind of prayerfulness which Simone Weil celebrated as “the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
→ read full articleTaking a Stand at Standing Rock
Rev. John Dear | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
If the Standing Rock campaign is able to stop or reroute the pipeline, it will do so because of their steadfast nonviolence and the strong movement that has grown up around them. But like every grassroots movement of nonviolence, they need help and are asking for it. Everyone can get involved to help build this movement, support their nonviolence, and reach that good outcome and transformation.
→ read full articleThe Public Loves Myanmar’s New War on Muslims
Poppy McPherson | Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
One year after a historic election put a civilian government in charge, the country’s army is using brutal methods to regain its popularity.
→ 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 articleOh My God, Trump!
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Let us be fair. Miracles do happen. President Trump may turn out quite a different person than the nasty candidate. He may be pragmatic in the good sense of the word, learn quickly, govern sensibly. As our Muslim friends say: Inshallah, if Allah wills it.
→ read full articleRadical Disaffection Engendered by Elitist Groupthink?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Democratic Rehearsal of the Final Battle between the Forces of Light and the Dark Force – Inspired by Election of Donald Trump (9 November 2016)
→ read full articleSix Theses on Saving the Planet
Richard Smith | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
From the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, workers, trade unionists, radicals, and socialists have fought against the worst depredations of capitalist development: intensifying exploitation, increasing social polarization, persistent racism and sexism, deteriorating workplace health and safety conditions, environmental ravages, and relentless efforts to suppress democratic political gains under the iron heel of capital.
→ read full articleAnticipating the Trump Presidency
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
It is wildly premature to think that this election signals that the American people have descended into the swamps of racism and nativism, but it will still take a vigilant opposition movement to prevent Trump’s government from imposing its horrendous agenda on our collective future.
→ read full articleThe Next Health System
Jamie Harvie | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
Western medicine uses the term inflammation to describe symptoms of heat, swelling, pain and loss of function. These are warning signs of an alarmed immune system, red flashing lights that our condition needs attention. One need not be a nurse or doctor to perceive from the daily news headlines or our daily interactions that modern life is grossly out of balance and discordant with how we are designed to exist. The health and well-being of individuals is inseparable from nature and inseparable from the health of community.
→ read full articleNorth Dakota Had 292 Oil Spills in 2 Years–Officials Disclosed 1 to the Public
Nathan Wellman | US Uncut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
27 Oct 2016 – From Jan 2012–Sep 2013, these pipeline spills were just a part of approximately 750 “oil field incidents” that took place in the state without the public’s knowledge, according to a report by AP. In a tense standoff with heavily armed police forces, dozens of protesters – referring to themselves as peaceful water protectors – were arrested today for demonstrating against the construction of the pipeline on what police say is private property.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Says ‘Delicate’ Myanmar Conflict Handled by Rule of Law
Minami Funakoshi | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
The Myanmar government is responding to conflict in the troubled north of Rakhine state based on rule of law, Nobel Peace Prize leader Aung San Suu Kyi was quoted as saying on Thursday [3 Nov]. She faced mounting criticism abroad for her government’s handling of a crisis in the Muslim-majority region, where soldiers have blocked access for aid workers and are accused of raping and killing civilians.
→ read full articlePrivate Prisons’ New Plan to Cover Losses Involves More Immigrants in Detention Centers
Casey Tolan | Fusion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
Executives from the two biggest private prisons in the USA told investors Thursday [3 Nov] they saw a major growth opportunity in detaining those immigrants. The GEO Group and CoreCivic both reported higher-than-expected profits due to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detaining more people. “There has been an overreaction in the market to the long-term viability of our business,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger said.
→ read full articleJerusalem and Its Walls: UNESCO Refuses to Bow to Israeli Pressure
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
1 Nov 2016 – Despite all the threats and political grandstanding, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has approved, on October 26, a new resolution that reaffirms the status of occupied Jerusalem’s Old City on the list of endangered world heritage sites.
→ 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 articleJust How Grey Are the White Helmets and Their Backers? (Part 1)
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
While thousands of humanitarian organisations around the world are struggling fiercely with diminishing support from governments and the public, one has achieved a surprising amount of support from Western governments in a surprisingly short period of time and gained a surprising attention from mainstream media and ditto political elites: The Syrian Civil Defence or White Helmets. Their name of course makes you think of the UN’s Blue Helmet and white is the colour of those who should be protected in harm’s way – and the colour of innocence.
→ 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 articleUNESCO Censures Israel’s Administration of Jerusalem
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
In response to UNESCO resolutions adopted in October that were highly critical of Israel’s protection of sacred and cultural Islamic heritage sites in Jerusalem, there is again a fiery confrontation between Israel and this UN organ whose actions have so often touched the raw nerves of Western political sensibilities.
→ read full articleWhy Campaigns, Not Protests, Get the Goods
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
Campaigns can and do generate movements with enormous power. The web-based Global Nonviolent Action Database contains over 1,100 campaigns, waged by people of many cultures, backgrounds and goals. It’s time to retire one-off protests, and step up to wins that can lay the foundation of a living revolution.
→ read full articleThe Universal Right to Capital Income
Yanis Varoufakis | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
31 Oct 2016 – The right to laziness has traditionally been only for the propertied rich, whereas the poor have had to struggle for decent wages and working conditions, unemployment and disability insurance, universal health care, and other accoutrements of a dignified life. If a universal basic income is to be legitimate, it cannot be financed by taxing Jill to pay Jack. That is why it should be funded not from taxation, but from returns on capital.
→ read full articleHeroes and Victims: Social Perceptions and Peacebuilding
Andrea Pabst and Markus Bayer | Insight on Conflict – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
Feeling like a hero or victim can lead to feelings of entitlement and drive social processes in post-conflict societies. How this has affected Namibia.
→ 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 articleThe Kapp Putsch and Modern Memory
Michael N. Nagler | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
Nonviolence in Today’s USA – Nonviolence cannot simply mean you wait for the putsch to happen, then rush to the street and non-cooperate. It has to mean a complete overhaul of the cultural factors that led to our putting more citizens in prison than any other democracy, having more guns than people and a higher rate of murder or suicide, a larger military budget than most of the world’s countries put together, and a foreign policy incapable of any but endless war.
→ read full articleIndependent Work: Choice, Necessity, and the Gig Economy
James Manyika, Susan Lund, Jacques Bughin, Kelsey Robinson, Jan Mischke, and Deepa Mahajan | McKinsey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
October 2016 – The McKinsey Global Institute examines all the ways people are earning income, as well as the challenges independent work presents.
→ read full article(Italiano) Vite più lunghe ma meno significative?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
La vita è un’espansione di un uovo fecondato a un essere umano maturo e una contrazione a uno spazio sempre più angusto attorno a sé finché il tempo finisce. La storia occidentale ha molte narrazioni riguardo all’espansione da qualche puntolino a un impero esteso e alla contrazione in spazi sempre più ristretti.
→ read full article(Italiano) Spagna “senza governo” – e poi?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Ed entro la UE, cooperazione con (gli) altri paesi marginali GIPSI, ossia Grecia-Italia-Portogallo-(Spagna)-Irlanda, per forzare il guanto di ferro tedesco sulla regione [periferica] con la solidarietà e la produzione industriale. La Spagna sta vivendo il proprio dramma. E non c’è mai una parola finale.
→ read full articleThe Gig Economy: More Than 160 Million in US and EU Rely on “Independent Work”
Genevieve Leigh | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Packaged as creating “options” for workers, as the McKinsey report suggests, the reality is that these new forms of employment provide options and increased profits for the ruling class. The push for more part-time and independent work is an attempt to curb the declining rate of profit, inherent in the capitalist system, by finding new ways to squeeze labor at a lower cost.
→ read full articleUSA: What Are We to Think?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
29 Oct 2016 – A cascade of developments should make us afraid of what seems to be emerging politically in the United States at this time. Although politicians keep telling us how great we were or will be or are.
→ read full articleEnding a Century of Ecocide and Genocide, Seeding Earth Democracy
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Hundreds of People’s Assemblies, being organized everywhere, will make commitments to create a healthy future of food and of the planet. From the People’s Assemblies we will launch a boycott campaign, to liberate our seeds and soils, our communities and societies, our planet and ourselves, from poisons and the rule of the poison cartel.
→ read full articlePaypal Brushes-Off Request from Palestinian Tech Firms to Access the Platform
Mike Butcher | TechCrunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
PayPal currently does not work for Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza, but does work for Israelis living in settlements in the West Bank, which are illegal by international law.
→ read full articleThe Israeli Trumpess
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
29 Oct 2016 – Donald Trump has already declared that he will recognize the results – but only if he wins. That is far from being a joke because Trump represents tens of millions of Americans, who belong to the lower strata of the white population, which the white elite used to call “white trash”. In more polite language they are called “blue collar workers”, meaning manual workers, unlike the “white collar workers” who occupy the offices.
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi Israël durcit le blocus de Gaza?
Ben White | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Les faits sont là, parlants, et Ben White les relèvent: Israël resserre drastiquement le blocus sur Gaza. Un blocus qui, rappelons-le, viole allègrement le droit international. Mais Israël s’en fout. Reste à savoir pourquoi l’Etat colonial durcit les restrictions maintenant.
→ read full articleSyria: A “Grim” Set of Alternatives
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Saul Isaacson and Dan Falcone | Z Net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
28 Oct 2016 – New York City teachers Saul Isaacson and Daniel Falcone recently sat down with Professor Noam Chomsky in his MIT office to discuss Syria and US foreign policy.
→ read full articleUS Uranium Weapons Have Been Used in Syria
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
28 Oct 2016 – This month, the Pentagon admitted it has used uranium weapons in attacks inside Syria — violating its public promise last year that it would not use DU there, and contradicting the claim that US bombing is done in defense of the Syrian people, according to the Int’l Campaign to Ban Uranium Weapons.
→ read full article(Português) Wind of Change, ou a Europa vista pelo saudosismo dos Scorpions
Paulo Mendes Pinto | Visão – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Com o fim da Guerra Fria, uma das verdades feitas pelo senso comum ia no sentido de um desarmamento global. Os inimigos deixariam de o ser. A corrida ao armamento já não tinha o sentido “patrioteiro” de outros tempos. Mas nada disso aconteceu. Que queremos nós, cada um dos cidadãos europeus, o que quer a Europa? Mais do que perguntar como vamos sair da crise, interessa perguntar para onde vamos sair.
→ read full article(Français) Venezuela: L’Assemblée Nationale peut-elle soumettre le Président de la République à un procès politique?
Misión Verdad | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Au Venezuela, la récente tentative de « coup d’Etat parlementaire» de l’Assemblée Nationale ouvre un nouveau chapitre dans la lutte insidieuse pour tout le pouvoir politique qu’a entreprise l’anti-chavisme depuis qu’il contrôle le Parlement. La gendarmerie politique de l’élite économique vénézuélienne a entrepris un procès politique contre le président Nicolás Maduro, en plus de la révocation du Tribunal Suprême de Justice et du Conseil National Electoral.
→ read full articleHow Power Works
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Thompson meticulously documents the innumerable ways the state oppresses the poor by discrediting their voices, turning the press into a megaphone for government propaganda and lies, stoking the negative stereotypes of black people, exalting white supremacy, ruining the lives of people who speak the truth, manipulating the courts and law enforcement, and pressuring state witnesses to lie to obstruct justice. Her book elucidates not only the past but also the present, which, she concedes, is worse.
→ 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 articleStockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, at 50. Now Change Name to SIMSI
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
I have a proposal for this mainly government-financed and not exactly independent institute. Since its work has so conspicuously little to do with peace thinking and re-search into the vast and fascinating field called world peace, perhaps change its name to Stockholm International Military Security Institute, SIMSI?
→ read full articleThe Tragedy in Yemen
Derek Royden | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Besides intelligence and targeting assistance provided to the Saudis in Yemen, since 2010 the US has sold $60 billion in arms to the country, an absolute monarchy with one of the worst human rights records in the world. Human rights groups have concluded that these weapons, including cluster munitions banned in most countries, have been used indiscriminately against civilian targets including markets, schools and hospitals.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to a Son Whose Father Has Parkinson’s Disease
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
I read an online essay by a person whose father has progressive Parkinson’s disease for decades. The tone of the essay was of despair, confusion and frustration. Given the fact that a lot of the medical information on the internet comes from Big Pharma websites, the author understandably repeated many of the myths about Parkinson’s disease, such as the “no known cause” myth or the “it might be genetic” myth.
→ read full articleThe White Helmet Controversy
Rick Sterling | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Unknown to most people, the White Helmets brand was conceived and directed by a marketing company named “The Syria Campaign” based in New York. They have managed to fool millions of people. Walt Disney might have made a great movie about this: unarmed volunteers fearlessly rescuing survivors in the midst of war without regard to religion or politics.
→ read full articleNauru, Refugees, and the Australian Torture Complex
Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
The Four Corners program was informed by a significant Amnesty International report, aptly titled Island of Despair, which was released on Monday [17 Oct] night. That report examined the rather ghoulish extent the Australian government, with its Nauru satraps, has been going about the business of “processing” boat arrivals.
→ read full articleJust 90 Companies Are Accountable for More Than 60 Percent of Greenhouse Gases
Dan Drollette Jr | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
27 Oct 2016 – There’s a tendency to think that when it comes to climate change, we’re all equally at fault—and if everyone is to blame, then no one is to blame. But now it’s possible to identify the contributions of individual companies, thanks to the work of researchers such as Richard Heede. What he found is revealing.
→ read full articleHow to Talk About #NoDAPL – A Native Perspective: Remember This about Standing Rock
Kelly Hayes | Transformative Spaces – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
27 Oct 2016 – This piece is very personal because, as an Indigenous woman, my analysis is very personal, as is the analysis that my friends on the frontlines have shared with me. Yes, everyone should be talking about climate change. But we deserve to survive because our lives are worth defending in their own right — not simply because “this affects us all.”
→ 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 articleLeonardo DiCaprio’s Climate Doc Exposes Destruction of Rainforest for Palm Oil as Huge Driver of Global Carbon Emissions
Rainforest Action Network | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
25 Oct 2016 – A new documentary produced and starring actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio premieres in Los Angeles today and will be broadcast globally in 45 languages in 171 countries on the National Geographic Channel starting Oct. 30, timed to air in advance of the November elections.
→ read full articleColombia: A Bright Light for Peace Is Extinguished
Immanuel Wallerstein | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Frankly, I do not see any way the peace accord can be saved. Colombia is now like all the other areas of unending conflict. The chaotic world situation continues unabated in what I remind you is the struggle to decide on the successor system to the capitalist system that is now in systemic crisis.
→ read full articleFukushima Radiation in the Pacific (Revisited)
RP Siegel | Triple Pundit – TRANSCEND Media Servic,
31 Oct 2016
Greenpeace’s famed ship, the Rainbow Warrior, went out to sample the waters around Fukushima in February of this year with former Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan onboard. What they found was that radiation in the seabed off Fukushima “is hundreds of times above pre-2011 levels.” They also found levels in nearby rivers that were “up to 200 times higher than ocean sediment.”
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Somewhere in Time (Music Video of the Week)
Maksim Mrvica | Piano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
John Barry’s Famous Composition – Croatian born pianist Maksim Mrvica started to play piano when he was nine and by the age of 11 he held his first concert as a soloist with an orchestra. It wasnt always easy to harbour his dream of becoming a concert pianist, especially when, at the age of 15, war broke out in Croatia.
→ read full articleInterview on Palestine for Middle East Eye with Hilary Wise
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
I want above all that Palestine will not suffer the fate of other oppressed people, and be written off as ‘a forgotten struggle,’ or worse, ‘a lost cause.’ “Apartheid, annexation, mass displacement and collective punishment have become core policies of the state of Israel.”
→ read full article10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Fluid Reflections on Keeping a Solid Center – I left Bulgaria for America lured by the liberal arts education promise of being taught how to live. As the reality fell short of that promise, I began keeping my own record of what I was reading and learning outside the classroom in mapping this academically unaddressed terra incognita of being.
→ 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 articleThe Perils of Market-Driven Education
Noam Chomsky, CJ Polychroniou and Lily Sage | ZNet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
What is the actual role of education and its link to democracy, to decent human relations and to a decent society? What defines a cultured and decent society? World-renowned linguist, social critic and activist Noam Chomsky shares his views on education and culture.
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Algarabías – (Music Video of the Week)
Vasco Hernández | ARC Music – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Algarabías (Spanish): Yelling, boisterous and confusing babble of people shouting/speaking all at the same time.
→ read full articleWhat Is Peace Journalism?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Profs. Jake Lynch and Dietrich Fischer reply to the question.
→ read full articlePeacekeeping: Fiction vs. Reality
T.J. Petrowski | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
The word peacekeeping is like the word terrorism: it is meaningless on its own and able to be molded to serve the interests of a political clique. Peacekeeping “is usually an instrument for the attempted realization of a political…project that perpetrators lacking mass support are seeking.”
→ read full articleRussia’s First Ever Monument to Tsar Ivan the Terrible Unveiled in Oryol
TASS | RBTH Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
14 Oct 2016 – The first monument to Tsar Ivan the Terrible in Russia was unveiled on Oct. 14 in the city of Oryol, founded by the Tsar. The monument was erected near the Epiphany Cathedral and Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky welcomed the decision.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Johan Vincent Galtung was born in Oslo, Norway on the same day that the UN would come to existence 15 years later. He was jailed for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to military service. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 167 books, plus.
→ read full articleThe Funeral Ruckus
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Shimon Peres would have enjoyed it. A public battle about his funeral. The Arab members of the Knesset did not attend. So what? I did not attend, either. We never liked each other, and my attendance would have been sheer hypocrisy. I don’t like hypocrisy… One thing is quite certain: there will be no change for the better in Israel, no change of government and policy, unless the Arab citizens and their representatives become an integral part of the new peace force without which there is no hope.
→ read full articleThe Middle East and the Next Administration
Chas W. Freeman, Jr. | LobeLog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
The U.S. is making enemies all over the Muslim world. And every day here at home, millions pay homage to the memory of Osama as they remove their shoes to pass through metal detectors and are stripped of their dignity by body-imaging devices at airports. Americans are less secure, less prosperous, and less free than we were as this century began. In life, Osama was transformative. In death, he continues to shape the world he left behind.
→ read full articleThe Invitation
Oriah | Mountain Dreamer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing…
→ read full articleGoogle Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
Julia Angwin | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Google is the latest tech company to drop the longstanding wall between anonymous online ad tracking and user’s names.
→ read full articleMasters of War Have Names!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Among Bob Dylan’s many songs written over decades was “Masters of War” that included these lyrics:
“Come you masters of war, You that build the big guns, You that build the death planes. You that build all the bombs. You that hide behind walls. You that hide behind desks. I just want you to know I can see through your masks…
The Crackdown on Dakota Access Pipeline Reporters Shows the Vital Role of Independent Media
Sarah Aziza | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
The recent arrests of independent journalists have raised questions about state suppression, free speech and the line between activism and journalism.
→ read full articleWhy Wall Street’s Scandals Keep Coming
Maureen O'Hara | Market Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
It’s too easy for Wall Street to overlook ethical constraints and only care about the ends, not the means.
→ read full articleWhy Okinawa Should Matter
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
12 Oct 2016 – An earlier version of this post appeared in the Japanese publication, Ryukyu Shimpo. The article is devoted to a critical discussion of Okinawa’s role in serving American and Japanese strategic interests. Since the end of World War II Okinawa has been a mostly unhappy host of American military bases, and the issue has been prominent at times on the agenda of the Japanese peace movement.
→ read full article(Italiano) Paesaggio mediatico: una visita guidata
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
Il punto focale è su quanto i media rendano trasparente il mondo. Parole e immagini facilitano diagnosi, prognosi, terapia, (DPT), altrimenti definibili come analisi, previsione e rimedi? Sì e no.
→ read full articleChallenge of Three Paradigm Shifts for the 8th BRICS Summit: To Facilitate an Economy of Entrepreneurs
Mazher Hussain | COVA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
There appears some orientation in BRICS for sustainable development and employment to eradicate poverty unlike most other multilateral formations like G 8, World Bank and IMF that focus on mega projects, trade and investment. Indeed it is significant that the 8th BRICS Summit in Goa Oct 15-16 also undertake finalisation of a framework for cooperation for promoting MSME Sector.
→ read full articlePanama: The Hidden Trillions
Alan Rusbridger | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
In a seminar room in Oxford, one of the reporters who worked on the Panama Papers is describing the main conclusion he drew from his months of delving into millions of leaked documents about tax evasion. “Basically, we’re the dupes in this story,” he says. “Previously, we thought that the offshore world was a shadowy, but minor, part of our economic system. What we learned from the Panama Papers is that IT IS the economic system.”
→ read full articleThe Kissinger Story
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
14 Oct 2016 – I am writing this (may God forgive me) on Yom Kippur. Exactly 43 years ago, at this exact moment, the sirens sounded… The Yom Kippur war cost many thousands of lives, Israeli, Egyptian and Syrian. Kissinger achieved his goal. The Soviets lost the Arab world to the United States. Until Vladimir Putin came along.
→ read full article(Français) La responsabilité des multinationales dans le conflit armé colombien
Jorge Freytter-Florian et Juan Hernandez Zubizarreta | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
14 Oct 2016 – Dans le conflit colombien, beaucoup d’entreprises nationales et internationales s’en prennent systématiquement aux droits de l’Homme. L’Accord Final définissant les termes de la fin du conflit et la construction d’une paix stable et durable aborde cette question.
→ read full articleWhat Color Is The Wind? A Most Unusual Serenade to the Senses, Inspired by a Blind Child
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
“What is essential is invisible to the eye,” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote in The Little Prince. Those bereft of vision, therefore, need not be bereft of the essential — they discern it by means other than sight. An imaginative invitation to empathy and self-expansion.
→ read full articleObituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016) RIP
Rowan Jacobsen | Outside Online – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia passed away in 2016 after a long illness. It was 25 million years old. Climate change and ocean acidification have killed off one of the most spectacular features on the planet. Attempts to call attention to the reef’s plight were thwarted by the government of Australia itself.
→ read full articleUS Congressman to John Kerry: Are We Committing War Crimes in Yemen?
Daniel McAdams | Ron Paul Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
On Tuesday [11 Oct], US Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) wrote a remarkable letter to Secretary of State John Kerry. Citing the “civilian carnage caused by the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition in Yemen,” he expressed concern to Kerry that the US government might be “liable for war crimes in Yemen,” based on continued US material support for the ongoing Saudi attack on its southern neighbor.
→ read full articleThe Network of Global Corporate Control
Stefania Vitali, James B. Glattfelder and Stefano Battiston | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
Abstract: The structure of the control network of transnational corporations affects global market competition and financial stability. So far, only small national samples were studied and there was no appropriate methodology to assess control globally. We present the first investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held by each global player. We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers.
→ read full article(Castellano) Haití, herida abierta de América Latina
Gisela Brito | CELAG-Centro Estratégico Latinoamericano de Geopolítica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
Luego del terremoto de 2010, la Minustah, las ONG’S y una minúscula pero poderosa élite local gobiernan el país. Las consecuencias no pueden ser peores para la mayoría de la población. La debilidad institucional y los intereses predatorios se conjugan para dar lugar a un millonario negocio que florece día a día desviando fondos destinados a ayuda humanitaria y reconstrucción ante el encubridor mutismo de la «comunidad internacional»
→ read full article(Português) É o Estado, imbecis!
Emir Sader | Brasil 247 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
São governos que levam ao coração do Estado os interesses do capital financeiro, que eleva exponencialmente seus lucros, redistribuindo renda para cima, como um Robin Hood ao contrário, tomando dos pobres para dar mais ainda aos ricos.
→ read full articleHaiti’s Hurricane Devastation: A Tragedy Rooted in Capitalist Oppression
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
In the wake of the 2010 earthquake, international donors pledged $10.4 billion for Haiti, including $3.9 billion from the US. The chief figure overseeing this relief effort was Bill Clinton, whose previous “gift” to the people of Haiti was a trade deal that eliminated tariffs on rice imports from the US subsidized by the American government, bankrupting Haiti’s own rice producers and leaving the country unable to feed itself.
→ read full article(Français) Les Etats-Unis devront-ils aussi payer pour leurs crimes en Irak?
Gilles Munier | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
L’Arab project in Iraq, un groupe de lobbyistes irakiens dirigé par Najeh al-Meezan, va demander au Parlement de Bagdad de voter une loi permettant aux Irakiens de réclamer des compensations aux Etats-Unis pour les «exactions » commises dans leur pays par les troupes américaines, les contractors et les escadrons de la mort créés par la CIA.
→ read full articleThe Ubiquity of Joy and Poetry
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
A world in which the explorations of nature, the contemplation of art and the bringing together of people concerned not so much with what they can amass, with what fortresses they build, with what territory they can extend, but with what they may share, would prevail. A world of delight in the subtleties of the word, person to person, lip to ear. A world in which life would be all the more precious for its transience and fragility.
→ read full articleThe Surveillance State Descends on the Dakota Access Pipeline Spirit Camp
Sabrina King and Will Munger | American Civil Liberties Union-ACLU – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
10 Oct 2016 – For the past six weeks, the Morton County Sheriff’s Office has dramatically increased its surveillance of the gathering, militarized the county, and taken action to suppress the religious expression of the indigenous people gathered at Sacred Stone.
→ read full articleA Milestone for America’s Culture
James A. Haught | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
When I was a young adult, the only Americans who mattered were WASPs (white Anglo-Saxon Protestants). They were the overwhelming majority. Their laws and customs dominated everything. But now, they’ve dwindled to just 16 percent among those under 30. And they’re destined to keep shrinking as nonwhite Americans rise, the Census Bureau projects.
→ read full articleDelusions of Worthy Wars
Nicolas J S Davies | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
When we compare our military spending to that of other countries, we are outspending the next 9 military powers in the world, and we are single-handedly spending more than 180 less militarized countries combined. Clearly it has not enabled the U.S. to win any wars. The only wars we have won since WWII were over tiny Grenada, Panama, Kuwait and Kosovo. Hillary Clinton derided those operations as “splendid little wars” in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, as she urged more ambitious uses of U.S. military force.
→ read full articleLeaked Clinton email Admits Saudi, Qatari Governments Funding ISIS in Syria
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
An email exchange between Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager John Podesta, posted Monday [10 Oct] by WikiLeaks, frankly acknowledges that the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is funded and supported by Washington’s chief allies in the Arab world.
→ read full articleThe Convoluted Discourse: Was the Women’s Boat to Gaza an Existential Threat?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
“We will not accept any (rocket) fire, any provocation, against the citizens of Israel by whoever it might be, or any attack on Israel’s sovereignty. Not rocket fire, and not a flotilla,” Lieberman said. The activists atop the boat included Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland. In Lieberman’s logic, Maguire’s act to end a decade-long blockade on a poor region is equivalent to the firing of a rocket.
→ read full articleThink Critically! Don’t Be Fooled!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
The U.S. Mainstream Corporate Media is very good at blaming and demonizing others, especially Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The real purpose is to attack anyone who opposes U.S. dominance as the world’s sole superpower. Somehow the U.S. believes it has the right to decide who should rule or not rule in countries all around the world.
→ read full article(Italiano) Gandhi: ‘La mia vita è il mio messaggio’
Robert J. Burrowes | Z Net Italy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
La vita di Gandhi fu contrassegnata da molte citazioni memorabili, ma una che è meno nota è questa: “Non puoi mai sapere quali risultati produrranno le tue azioni, ma se non fai nulla non ci saranno risultati”. Fortunatamente ci sono molte persone impegnate che hanno identificato l’importanza di agire per por fine alla violenza nel nostro mondo.
→ read full articleWas the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 Wrongly Awarded?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
My comment critical of the award is printed below, and is followed by an even more critical comment by Fredrik S. Heffermehl, a Norwegian jurist who has taken a special interest in the Nobel Peace Prize, especially making a great effort to call attention to the failure of the Norwegian committee that is responsible for deciding on recipients to adhere to the will and intentions of Alfred Nobel who established this most coveted of international awards at the end of the nineteenth century.
→ read full article