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The Sound of Silence: An Illustrated Serenade to the Art of Listening to One’s Inner Voice amid the Noise of Modern Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
A tender reminder that silence is not the absence of sound but the presence of an inward-listening awareness.
→ read full article(Français) Accord de paix signé en Colombie – «que retentisse ce cri: plus jamais! plus jamais!»
Julian Cortés | Invetig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Les accords signés, c’est désormais une lutte idéologique et culturelle qui s’annonce pour « gagner le cœur » de vastes secteurs sous-informés et manipulés durant des décennies, principalement au sein des classes moyennes qui défendent le modèle économique actuel plus que les élites elles-mêmes.
→ read full articleHow Silicon Valley Follows the Money
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
There’s way more in common between Wall Street and Silicon Valley than meets the untrained eye. They are two of the key strategic hubs of hyperpower global domination. The others are the industrial-military-surveillance-security complex – of which Hollywood and corporate media are the soft power extensions – and the petrodollar racket/tributary system.
→ read full articleThe Uses and Abuses of Uncertainty: The Case of Turkey
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
9 Sep 2016 – One of the paradoxes of the digital age with its real time awareness is the degree to which information overloads clouds our imagination with cheaply achieved and false clarity, which in political contexts is often the Mad Men work of selective interpretation or deliberate manipulation.
→ read full articlePolice Do Nothing as Armed Mercenaries Attack Native American Dakota Pipeline Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray
Counter Current | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
3 Sep 2016 – Police stood idly by as private security guards who were working on behalf of the corporations building the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline turned attack dogs on peaceful protesters.
→ read full articleThe Great Railway Scandal
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Merkel did something that was completely opposed to her political interests. She opened the gates of Germany to almost a million refugees, mostly Muslims, many from war-torn, bleeding Syria. No people, not even a people of Angels or Angelas, can absorb a million foreigners without some misgivings. Yet Merkel had the moral and political courage to take the risk. Now she is suffering the consequences.
→ read full articleAnarchy vs. Statism: Uncontrolled Order over Controlled Chaos
Gary ‘Z’ McGee | Waking Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Caught up, as we are, in the politics of statism, it is often extremely difficult to see the forest for the trees. We’re often so busy pretending to think outside the box that we lose track of what’s “the box” and what’s not. We’re so inured by this system of exploitation that it’s often too easy to kiss each other with lies rather than smack each other with the truth.
→ read full article(Português) Romain Rolland: “Milhares de animais são assassinados todos os dias, sem sombra de remorso”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Vencedor do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 1915, o escritor francês Romain Rolland dedicou sua vida também à defesa dos direitos dos animais e da dieta vegetariana. Importante pensador, Rolland influenciou Sigmund Freud e se tornou amigo de Mahatma Gandhi. Em 1922, o alemão Hermann Hesse, também vencedor do Nobel de Literatura, dedicou o livro “Sidarta”, um dos romances mais espiritualistas da literatura mundial, ao seu querido amigo Romain Rolland.
→ read full articleThe Court That Rules the World
Chris Hamby | BuzzFeed News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
A parallel legal universe, open only to corporations and largely invisible to everyone else, helps executives convicted of crimes escape punishment. Some of them half-jokingly refer to themselves as “The Club” or “The Mafia.” – An Investigative Reporting
→ read full articleFacism as Superficial Intercultural Extremism
Anthony Judge | Laetus in praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
This is an exploration of the focus given to the challenge to French cultural identity by women there wearing the full-body burkha (burka, burqa). In the light of current media coverage of French preoccupation with the iconic bare-breasted Marianne — symbol of the French Republic. This bares comparison with the recent preoccupation in the USA with the erection in a number of cities of statues of the Republican presidential nominee — Donald Trump — bare-assed. Both cases are indicative of emerging forms of national psychosis in a period of so-called “post-truth politics” marked by bare-faced lying by the highest authorities.
→ read full article(Italiano) Lo squilibrio del potere globale
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Chi scrive, nel 1976, paragonò il declino e la caduta dell’Impero Romano a un possibile declino e caduta dell’Occidente in generale e dell’Impero USA in particolare, fondati sulla sinergia di modelli che presentano un unico obbiettivo. I Romani si consideravano straordinariamente virtuosi e invincibili nel confronto con i barbari, ma i contropoteri li stavano disunendo; e vivevano sulle glorie del passato. La Clinton, venuta dritta dal passato con qualche rimodernamento domestico, imporrà quel passato; ogni valutazione realistica è considerata quasi un tradimento contro lo stato.
→ read full articleThe Ethics and Efficacy of the War on Terrorism: Fighting Terror without Terror? Or How to Give Peace a Chance
Charles Webel | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Throwing a bomb is bad,
Dropping a bomb is good,
Terror, no need to add,
Depends on who’s wearing the hood.
— Roger Woddis
How Alcohol Affects the Gut Microbiome
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism considers at-risk drinking to be more than four drinks per day or fourteen per week for men, and more than three drinks per day or seven per week for women. Heavy drinking can lead to an array of serious health issues. In this article, we will focus on one of the lesser known—dysbiosis—which is an imbalance in the gut microbiota.
→ read full articleFrance Demands End to Trade Talks with US amid Rising US-EU Tensions
V. Gnana and Alex Lantier | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
31 Aug 2016 – As France demanded an end to talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership deal, the EU said it would levy a €13 billion fine on Apple, a move the US Treasury said could damage US-EU ties. Two days after German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel criticized TTIP, bitterly attacking US negotiating tactics.
→ read full articleClinton versus Trump: How It Might Matter for the Middle East
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
If voting for an American president was only about the Middle East, I would rate the candidates as a tossup, but it isn’t. When the American domestic scene is taken into account, as well the rest of the world, Clinton holds the clear edge unless one feels so disgusted her candidacy as to write in Bernie Sanders on the ballot or cast a vote of conscience for Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate. I remain uncertain as to which of these choices to make.
→ read full articleThe Whole Game Is About Containing Russia-China
Pepe Escobar | Uprooted Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
29 Aug 2016 – The next BRICS summit, in Goa, is less than two months away. Compared to only two years ago, the geopolitical tectonic plates have moved with astonishing speed. Most BRICS nations are mired in deep crisis; Brazil’s endless political/economic/institutional debacle may yield the Kafkaesque impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. BRICS is in a coma.
→ read full articleThe Russians Are Coming . . . Again?
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
But I wanted to write something about the Russians—well, some of them, those I met on a recent trip to St. Petersburg. I wanted to write something genuine and personal and unpretentious, that might help to give enough of a glimpse into a place that might as well be Mordor according to the West.
→ read full articleMillions of Honeybees Killed in Attempt to Prevent Zika
Dan Zukowski | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
3 Sep 2016 – Aerial spraying of the pesticide naled in a South Carolina county, done in an attempt to prevent Zika-infected mosquitoes from gaining a foothold in the state, resulted instead in the massacre of millions of honeybees. On one farm in Summerville, 46 hives were wiped out instantly, killing 2.5 million bees.
→ read full articleUS-NATO-Turkey Invasion of Northern Syria: CIA “Failed” Turkey Coup Lays Groundwork for Broader Middle East War?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Public opinion was led to believe that relations with the US had not only deteriorated, but that Erdogan had vowed to restore “an axis of friendship” with Moscow, including “cooperation in the defence sector”. This was a hoax. The failed coup was indeed supported by the CIA, but the failure was coordinated with President Erdogan. It was an intelligence op which was meant to fail and mislead public opinion.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre vegetarianismo, veganismo e a literatura
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Meus artigos sobre vegetarianismo e veganismo reproduzem visões de escritores e pensadores que deram sua contribuição ao mundo das mais diversas formas, e muitos são desconhecidos enquanto vegetarianos ou defensores dos animais.
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The Poverty Challenge
Nuno Ramalho | Portico Brothers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Is being poor a challenge? A few insights…
→ read full articleThe Power of Imagination
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
20 Aug 2016 – Albert Einstein, the great 20th century scientist and humanitarian, wrote, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Let us exercise our imaginations.
→ read full articleNGOs: Choice Tool of Subversion for the New World Order
Makia Freeman | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
NGOs are running amok. We don’t just have NGOs; we have an actual NGO complex which is controlled by the New World Order and is part of their psychological operations and perception management department. It ensures that American democracy and humanitarian interventions (both doublespeak oxymorons) are coated with sugar to go down well.
→ read full articleThe Good Society
Henning Meyer | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Henning Meyer argues that a values-based, social democratic system, with a mixed economy, holds considerable promise as a new model, and as the mechanism to change the current system. Such system “seeks to combine an activist cosmopolitan outlook on global issues with a re-foundation of social democracy’s communitarian roots.”
→ read full articleRevisiting the Lessons of the Battle of Seattle and Its Aftermath
Walden Bello | Transnational Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Walden Bello shares some reflections on the meaning of Seattle for change in knowledge systems, discusses how despite the deep crisis of neoliberalism, finance capital has managed to retain tremendous power, and appeals for a new comprehensive vision of the desirable society.
→ read full articleWest Bank Villagers Suffer from Sewer Politics
Clare Maxwell |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Approximately half of Israel’s environmental regulations do not apply in the occupied territory. With such lax legislation, companies producing metals, chemicals and plastics flock to settlement industrial zones. Both Israeli and international companies are drawn to areas where they can pollute more freely, often at the expense of surrounding Palestinian communities.
→ read full articleBehind the Bolivia Miner [Fake] Cooperatives’ Protests and the killing of the Bolivian Vice-Minister
Stansfield Smith | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
The Bolivian cooperatives’ protests and their August 25 killing of the Bolivian Vice-Minister of the Interior requires us to question our assumptions about cooperatives. What are the Bolivian mining cooperatives? Regardless of their initial intentions, cooperatives existing in a surrounding capitalist environment must compete in business practices or go under. The Bolivian mining cooperatives themselves underwent this process, and have become businesses whose owners hire labor.
→ read full articleSeptember: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
September 25, 1959 – A U.S. Navy antisubmarine aircraft carrying an unarmed nuclear depth charge developed mechanical problems but was unable to reach land to make an emergency landing and crashed into the Puget Sound, Washington. The nuclear weapon was never recovered despite an extensive search. There remain deadly serious concerns about the very long-term radioactive contamination from this incident and hundreds of other similar Broken Arrows.
→ read full articleCreating the Book “Strategies for Peace”
Bruce L. Cook, Ph.D. | The Shift Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
26 Aug 2016 – Last month I was privileged to publish a trade book entitled Strategies for Peace. I joined Maria Cristina Azcona as co-editor and the book emerged as a collection of new ideas about peacebuilding.
→ read full articleThe Art of Now: Six Steps to Living in the Moment
Jay Dixit | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
You Are Not Your Thoughts – We live in the age of distraction. Yet one of life’s sharpest paradoxes is that your brightest future hinges on your ability to pay attention to the present.
→ read full article(Português) Artistas e intelectuais estrangeiros divulgam carta contra impeachment de Dilma
Revista Fórum | Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
25 agosto 2016 – Assinam a carta nomes do cinema, da música e da academia como o ator Viggo Mortensen, de “O Senhor dos Anéis”, o músico Brian Eno, o cantor Harry Belafonte, cineasta Oliver Stone, a escritora Naomi Klein, o intelectual Noam Chomsky ou ainda o ator Danny Glover. “Esperamos que os senadores brasileiros respeitem o processo eleitoral de 2014″, diz documento.
→ read full articleA Disturbing Series of Events: Governments around the World Seem to Be Preparing for War
Daisy Luther | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
25 Aug 2016 – Remember how a couple of days ago the German government advised its citizens to start stockpiling food and water? Well, today they have announced that they are considering reintroducing conscription…the draft, to ‘help with any future disaster’. Do they know something we don’t?
→ read full article(Français) Milosevic est disculpé mais rien n’arrête la machine de guerre de l’OTAN
Neil Clark | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Milosevic disculpé ? Officiellement, le TPIY, tribunal formé par les puissances occidentales, n’a pas rendu son verdict. Et il ne le rendra pas, la mort de l’ancien président yougoslave ayant mis un terme au procès qui se tenait à La Haye. Toutefois, un passage intriguant du verdict rendu par le même TPIY à l’encontre de Radovan Karadzic soulève des questions sur la teneur des charges qui pesaient contre Milosevic.
→ read full articleToward a Global Realignment
Zbigniew Brzezinski | The American Interest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
As its era of global dominance ends, the United States needs to take the lead in realigning the global power architecture.
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Johan Galtung’s Positive Peace Concept
Hanno Heynitz | TRANSCENDMedia – Galtung Institut (Germany),
29 Aug 2016
Aug 26, 2016 – Positive Peace with a focus on the concepts and definitions underpinning its practical application. The underlying question really is: What are the requirements to meet in order to implement Positive Peace through Peacebuilding?
→ read full article(Français) Comment le Sud a payé pour les crises du Nord et pour sa propre soumission
Eric Touissant | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Servicve,
29 Aug 2016
Les crises de la dette de la périphérie sont liées aux crises qui éclatent dans les pays capitalistes les plus puissants et sont utilisées pour subordonner des États. Voici une mise en perspective historique des crises de la dette des pays de la « périphérie » du 19e au 21e siècles. De l’Amérique latine à la Chine en passant par la Grèce, la Tunisie, l’Égypte et l’Empire ottoman, la dette a été utilisée comme une arme de domination et un moyen d’accumulation de richesse au profit des classes dominantes.
→ read full articleWhy Obama Should Declare a No-First-Use Policy for Nuclear Weapons
Ramesh Thakur | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
An American no-first-use commitment would reduce the risk of nuclear war at a time when arsenals are growing and tensions are mounting, particularly in Asia
→ read full articleThe Heart of Order
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
He’d left the water running, flooding neighbors’ apartments. He’d been running around outside naked. By the time police arrived, he was standing in the window of his fourth-floor apartment threatening to jump. He pointed his finger at the cops, pretending he had a gun. “Fuck the police,” he said. The standoff lasted four hours.
→ read full articleThe Man behind the Viral ‘Boy in the Ambulance’ Image Has Brutal Skeletons in His Own Closet
Brad Hoff | The Canary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
WARNING: This article may disturb some readers. The purpose of sharing it is to convey the complexities of the Syrian conflict.
→ read full articlePfizer Gobbles Up Cancer Drug Maker in $14 Billion Deal
Brad Dixon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
25 Aug 2016 – Drugmaker Pfizer is set to acquire the biotech company Medivation for $14 billion. The primary aim of the deal was to secure Medivation’s cancer drug Xtandi in order to better position Pfizer within the lucrative market for oncology medications. Numerous drug companies have been circling around Medivation since April, like sharks after raw meat, including Sanofi, Merck, Celgene and Gilead, as well as Pfizer.
→ read full articleOrwell Could Never Have Predicted This Level of Surveillance
Mark Nestmann | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
The creepier the technology, the more likely Big Brother will use it to keep tabs on you. A case in point is the increasing sophistication of facial recognition technology. Facial recognition combines digital images of faces with software that creates a unique “faceprint” of each one, along with a database of images against which “faceprints” can be compared.
→ read full articleUS Moves Nuclear Weapons from Turkey to Romania
Georgi Gotev and Joel Schalit | EurActiv - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
18 Aug 2016 – Two independent sources told that the US has started transferring nuclear weapons stationed in Turkey to Romania, against the background of worsening relations between Washington and Ankara.
→ read full articleWestern Propaganda – So Simple but So Effective!
Andre Vltchek | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
The Empire is killing millions and destroying countries and continents. But California is falling off a cliff, and clouds of huge insects are invading the entire North America. While millions of alien terrorists are now engulfing the ‘tolerant’ and ‘democratic’ Europe! Plus there are those sinister monsters like Count Vlad and Comrade Kim, waiting with their daggers behind a corner! Therefore, The Empire and its people have to ‘protect’ themselves. They have to be tough, even tougher than before! And to put their interests first! America (North America) first! Germany first! France first!
→ read full articleWestern Sahara-Morocco Dispute Remains Stalemated as Federation Proposal Advanced
Stephen Zunes | TheNewArab – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Neither side is likely to back down over autonomy and independence, but that doesn’t mean both sides are equally to blame. The Moroccan plan for autonomy falls well short of what is required in bringing about a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
→ read full articleAge of Migration/Refugees: An Excuse for Europe’s Rising Militarization
Paul Currion | Refugees Deeply – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Increasing militarization in Europe in response to the refugee crisis is akin to an autoimmune response that could attack the very body it is supposed to protect.
→ read full articleWhy Americans Love Drones
Julia M. Macdonald and Jacquelyn G. Schneider | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
The authors point out that if either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is looking to US public opinion for cues on formulating drone policy, then we can expect a continued emphasis on drones as part of US foreign policy. Why does the US public love drones?
→ read full articleDag Hammarskjöld and Spirituality at the United Nations
Donald Key | Aquarian Age Community – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
It is a challenge to discuss Spirituality at the United Nations. It is a challenge because most people will think that the UN is the antithesis of spirituality. I must report, however, that I regard the United Nations as the most spiritual place in the world today. The UN is the first planetary focus at the human level.
→ read full articleUpdate Your iPhone or iPad: Israeli Cyber-Spy Firm Can Hack You
Tim Johnson | McClatchy – Honolulu Star Bulletin & Advertiser,
29 Aug 2016
The much-talked-about hack that would allow governments to spy on your every move through your iPhone and iPad has become reality. Apple issued a security update for those devices Thursday [25 Aug] after researchers discovered spyware that allows remote operators to intercept all voice and data communications and pass along every photograph and video. The infection turns iPhone into a pocket undercover spy capable of employing iPhone’s camera and microphone to eavesdrop on activity in the vicinity of the device, recording WhatsApp and Viber calls, logging messages sent in mobile chat apps and tracking movements.
→ read full articleFailures of Militarism in Countering Mega-Terrorism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
27 Aug 2016 – A critique of the American response that is based on a ‘war’ rather than a law enforcement paradigm. An argument is then made to adapt international law to new modalities of conflict while at the same time learning the right lessons from the repeated militarist failures of transnational counterterrorism.
→ read full articleStart with Worker Self-Directed Enterprises
Richard D. Wolff | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
Richard Wolff describes a next economic system centered on worker-directed cooperatives. To transition to a non-capitalist system we must change the “who and the why of key economic decision making.” To do so he proposes changes at the “basic enterprise level” by “making workers their own bosses.”
→ read full articleThe Sky above Turkey
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
23 Aug 2016 – It seems so important at this time for the sake of the future of Turkey that the West look at the country and its political circumstances in a far more balanced way than how the situation has been portrayed since the coup. How to explain this imbalance is another matter that should be explored at some point, but for now is largely put aside.
→ read full articlePokémons in Every House, Yard, Every Military Base
Sergey Kolyasnikov | Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
If someone wants to know what is being done in the building, say, of Parliament, Congress, Presidential Palace? Phones of dozens of MPs, representatives, janitors, journalists vibrate: “Pikachu is close!!!” And happy citizens will grab their smartphones, activating cameras, microphones, GPS, gyroscopes… spinning in place, staring at the screen, sending the video through online waves… Bingo! The world had again changed, the world is different. Welcome to a new era.
→ read full article(Português) Poluição luminosa: fortes reflexos na vida dos animais
Eliza Rei | ANDA-Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
A Terra manteve durante milhões de anos os ciclos de dias claros alternados com noites escuras, mas do século passado para cá isso vem se alterando drasticamente. E o que se sabe sobre os impactos da poluição luminosa na vida dos animais? Se cerca de 30% dos vertebrados e 60% dos invertebrados têm hábitos noturnos, já se infere, de início, que os impactos não devem ser poucos.
→ read full articleWhy Is Global Community Ignoring Slaughter of Yemeni Children?
Catherine Shakdam | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
I realize that truth and honesty are hard commodities to come by, but let’s momentarily see if we can stomach the reality the people of Yemen have had to endure as the global community chose to avert its gaze. Yes, a school was bombed and children were butchered. Yemen was violated and scarred beyond the tolerable and the comprehensible. What else is new? Yemen has died a thousand deaths already, and none have come to its rescue.
→ read full articleOlympic Jews?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
20 Aug 2016 – The scene at Ben-Gurion airport this week was rather astonishing. More than a thousand young male fans came to welcome the two Israeli Judo fighters who had won a bronze medal each at the Olympic games in Rio. Yet judo is not a very popular sport in Israel. So Israeli crowds suddenly became judo fans (some called it “Jewdo”). People who did not go wild with enthusiasm were considered traitors.
→ read full article(Français) La France, sponsor des terroristes? De l’esclavage au néocolonialisme, «Y’a bon la françafrique!»
Maël Alberca | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
La France en guerre contre le terrorisme? Un coup d’oeil dans le rétroviseur nous rappelle qu’elle n’a rien à envier aux méthodes de ceux qu’elle prétend combattre. Plus inquiétant, le présent n’apparaît pas vraiment plus réjouissant…
→ read full articleNorth Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux Aren’t Backing Down to Oil Pipeline Developers
Sarah Aziza | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
On Thursday [11 Ago 2016], nonviolent protesters outside North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux reservation entered their second day of confrontation with private security and local law enforcement. Armed with drums, tribal flags, and cell phones, demonstrators moved to block the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.7 billion dollar crude-oil conduit slated to cut just 1,000 feet from the perimeter of native land.
→ read full articlePresidential Elections Need Not Matter So Much
Timothy Braatz | ZNet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
So vote happily for a presidential candidate, or hold your nose and vote, or don’t vote at all, but help build a nonviolent movement to compel the president to act for human good. The greater that movement, the less presidential elections will matter. Learn from the successes and failures of the Civil Rights Movement. And keep in mind the words of Mohandas Gandhi, which Martin Luther King learned to quote: “There go my people. I must rush to catch up with them, for I am their leader.”
→ read full articleGame Changer
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Everything we’ve done has been destructive. We are great at destroying. Bomb refugee camps, hospitals, funerals. Bomb Iraq, and Afghanistan, also Pakistan, don’t forget Somalia, Libya or Yemen. Bomb bomb bomb… Hey, ISIS, we need to talk. Hey, my fellow American voters, we need to elect leaders who can get this done. Innovation has been abandoned to devastation—let’s fix this.
→ read full article(Português) Pokemon, o jogo que traz espiões para dentro de casa
Sergey Kolyasnikov | Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Se alguém quiser saber o que está a ser feito no edifício, digamos, do Parlamento? Telefones de dúzias de deputados, pessoal da limpeza, jornalistas vibram: “Pikachu está próximo!!!” E cidadãos felizes agarrarão seus smartphones, activarão câmaras, microfones, GPS, giroscópios… circulando no lugar, fitando o écran e enviando o vídeo através de ondas online… Bingo! O mundo mudou outra vez, o mundo está diferente. Bem vindo a uma nova era.
→ read full articleDemocratizing Wealth: A Next System Model for the U.S. South and Beyond
Ed Whitfield | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Ed Whitfield presents the Fund for Democratic Communities vision for a next system based on communal ownership of productive assets. The goal must be total economic democracy and community control over production, in order to place “the wealth created by human labor back into the commons for the benefit of all.”
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Panama Papers: Corruption PSYOPS
Peter Lavelle | CrossTalk – Russia Today,
22 Aug 2016
The so-called Panama Papers are sold to us as a vast leak chronicling the financial misdeeds of the rich and powerful. But is this really the case? Certainly, we are given insight into the secretive world of offshore banking, but is it a complete and balanced story? One interpretation of the Panama Papers is the West targeting its enemies.
→ read full articleBeyond Jewish Identity: Exceptionalism Revisited
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
20 Aug 2016 – The problem with Jewish identity is Jewish identity! By this I mean, the hegemonic forms of Jewish exceptionalism to which most Jews are enthralled, including a provocative insistence on willed disaffiliation in a few rate instances… Instead of Jewish exceptionalism (or American exceptionalism) the call of this bio-political moment is for species exceptionalism.
→ read full article(Castellano) Multipolaridad e integración postneoliberal en América Latina
Sergio Martín Carrillo | CELAG - teleSUR,
22 Aug 2016
Entramos en una nueva fase de disputa geopolítica en la región. La misma se caracteriza por el cuestionamiento del liderazgo latinoamericano en el fortalecimiento de la multipolaridad.
→ read full articleNobel Prize-Winning Economist Stiglitz Tells Us Why ‘Neoliberalism Is Dead’
Will Martin | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
19 Aug 2016 – Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and former adviser to US President Bill Clinton, says the consensus surrounding neoliberal economic thought has come to an end.
→ read full articleThe Importance of Cheering for Caster Semenya
Lindsay Gibbs | ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Semenya is allegedly intersex. Ever since her world championship race in 2009 — when news unacceptably leaked that the International Association of Athletics Foundation was going to subject her to a gender test — she has been more famous for her naturally-occurring testosterone levels than her talent. When she was only 18 years old, the South African runner won gold at the 2009 world championships in the 800 meters. She went on to win the silver medal at the London Olympics, and is the overwhelming favorite in Rio.
→ read full articleCultivating the Myth of Human Equality
Anthony Judge | Laetus in praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Ignoring Complicity in the Contradictions Thereby Engendered – At the time of writing, the argument can be made otherwise with the popular appeal of the promise of one US presidential nominee to “make America great again”. How is the desperate need to “be number one” to be related to whatever is implied by human equality? The question of principle is strikingly defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that: all men are born free and equal in rights and dignity.
→ read full articleThe Ruling Class and the Spectre of Leon Trotsky
Chris Marsden | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
20 Aug 2016 – Seventy-six years ago today, the assassin Ramon Mercader plunged an ice axe into the head of Leon Trotsky at his home in Coyoacan, Mexico City. He died of his injuries the following day. Trotsky is forever associated with the incorruptible struggle against Stalinism and for international socialism.
→ read full articleEight Years
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
16 Aug 2016 – It has been 8 years since I moved back from the USA to occupied Palestine and it may be worth a brief reflection… All of this was done while struggling against not just Israeli occupation with its repression (e.g. inability to import things normally, lack of freedom of movement) but some Palestinian societal backward culture including nepotism, patriarchy, bureaucracy, and corruption. We were learning as we go how to deal with people (including the “mental occupation”).
→ read full articleLibya’s ‘Operation Odyssey Lightning’ – The Obama Doctrine is Ravaging the Middle East
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Now, wars are carried out as a matter of course. With multiple war fronts and conflicts fermenting all around, many are becoming desensitized. Americans particularly have, sadly, swallowed the serum of perpetual war, to the extent that they rarely mobilize in any serious way against it. In other words, a state of war has become the status quo.
→ read full articleAll Eyes on You
Jennifer Golbeck, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Thirty-two years after 1984, Big Brother is here. In many cases, we’ve invited him in. How does this constant surveillance affect us and what, if anything, can we do about it? There’s no question our privacy has been eroded with the help of technology. As Scott McNealy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems, famously said: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
→ read full articleHolding Monsanto to Account: The People’s Tribunal in The Hague
Heidi Chow | Global Justice Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Civil society groups from around the world are holding an international ‘people’s tribunal’ to hold Monsanto to account for its impacts on communities and the environment. The Tribunal will be held at The Hague and conducted by legal professionals and practicing judges. It will consider whether Monsanto is guilty of the following:
→ read full article(Português) Eu o/a desafio a não virar vegetariano/a…
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Muitas pessoas não assistem esses documentários porque isso significa sair da zona de conforto e confrontar a realidade que envolve a produção de alimentos de origem animal. Sim, não existe alimento de origem animal que não envolva dor ou privação. E quando alguém fala em bem-estarismo animalista penso apenas no quão insensível o ser humano é capaz de ser.
→ read full articleUnholy Secrets: The Legal Loophole That Allows Clergy to Hide Child Sexual Abuse
Jack Jenkins | Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
“Rather than help Mayeux, her lawyers say the priest told her simply to move past the abuse, suggesting she ‘sweep it under the floor and get rid of it’” because “too many people would be hurt” if she brought it out into the open.
→ read full articleThe Future Belongs to the Optimists
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
The two-state solution is not ideal, but real. It means that each of the two peoples can live in a state it calls its own, under its own flag, with its own elections, parliament and government, police and education system, its own Olympic team. The two states will, by choice or necessity, have joint institutions, that will evolve in the course of time and by free will from the necessary minimum to a much wider optimum. Perhaps it will come close to a federation, as mutual relations widen and mutual respect deepens.
→ read full articleBroadspectrum ‘Violating’ Human Rights at Australian Offshore Detention Centers
Pratap Chatterjee | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
New reports accuse employees of Broadspectrum Limited of providing appalling living conditions and neglecting the care of their charges. Broadspectrum was awarded a A$1.5 billion (US$1.2 billion) contract by the Australian government in October 2012 to manage Australia’s detention centers on Manus and Nauru islands. At the present moment, an estimated 847 people are being held on Manus and 466 people are being held in Nauru.
→ read full article‘Dreaming of Freedom:’ Palestinian Child Prisoners Speak
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
8 Aug 2016 – This is a collection of reflections by child prisoners in their own words, edited by Norma Hisham. It is a successor to her earlier volume of Palestinian prison recollections. I post below some blurbs that convey the importance of Dreaming of Freedom and the text of my Foreword. As much as anything I have read, these texts convey the reality of the experience of all Palestinians living under occupation or as exiles or as a subjugated minority.
→ read full articleCon-quest Aesthetically Reframed via the Concordian Mandala
Anthony Judge | Laetus in praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Inspired by Implications of the Systemantics of the Discordian Mandala – As discussed, of particular interest in global discourse are the controversial implications of the prefix “con”, as used with both integrative connotations and those of condemnation or opposition — of contrariness and contradiction.
→ read full articleThe New Economy: A Living Earth System Model
David Korten | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Treat the visible problem—a defective product or an underperforming employee—as the symptom of a deeper system failure. Look upstream to find and correct the system conditions responsible for the system failure. Otherwise the problem will simply reoccur. David Korten contrasts what he calls the self-destructing “suicide economy” we have and a “living Earth economy” that self-organizes toward ecosystem health and balance, shared prosperity, and living democracy.
→ read full articleCIA Breaks Its Silence on “New Silk Road”: Says Challenging the BRICS and AIIB Was a “Mistake”
Rusticus | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Morell has “left” the agency after 33 years of so-called “service” for the express intent of publicly endorsing Hillary Clinton for President, which he did by publishing a gushing ovation in The New York Times. Morell emphatically declares that a Clinton regime would be more willing to “kill Russians” and “kill Iranians,” would be more apt to escalate war in Syria, and would doubtlessly be more likely to (as Charlie Rose puts it) “arm the Mujahidden.”
→ read full article(Türk) İdeoloji ve din psikolojisi
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. | Alternatif Siyaset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Yaşantımızı sürdürmek üzere günlük kararlarımızın alınmasında etkili ve dünyevi konularda da önem arz eden iki faktör; din ve ideolojidir.
→ read full articleProust on Love and How Our Intellect Blinds Us to the Wisdom of the Heart
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
“Our intelligence, however lucid, cannot perceive the elements that compose it and remain unsuspected.”
→ read full articleDivide and Rule: How Factionalism in Palestine Is Killing Prospects for Freedom
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
In Palestine, factions perceive democracy to be a form of control, power and hegemony, not a social contract aimed at fostering dialogue and defusing conflict. Thus, it is no wonder that supporters of two Fatah factions, one loyal to PA President Mahmoud Abbas and another to Mohammed Dahlan, recently clashed in Gaza. Several were hospitalized after sustaining injuries.
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi le fascisme ?
Annie Lacroix-Riz | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Remarques contemporaines sur la face non idéologique du fascisme : crise de surproduction et guerre aux salaires.
→ read full articleAftermath of Political Ruptures: Iran, Egypt, Turkey
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
12 Aug 2016 – This post offers a commentary of recent dramatic developments within Turkey and the largely critical international media and diplomatic responses. It compares international reactions to political ruptures in Iran (1979) and Egypt (2011, 2013), and encourages greater public attention to the importance attached by the Turkish citizenry to the defeat of the coup attempt and more sympathy with the kind of political leadership provided by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan since the coup attempt of July 15th.
→ read full articleMilitary Dissent Is Not an Oxymoron – Freeing Democracy from Perpetual War
William J. Astore | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
11 Aug 2016 – The United States is now engaged in perpetual war with victory nowhere in sight. Having spent trillions of dollars on war with such sorry results, it’s a wonder that key figures in the U.S. military or officials in any other part of America’s colossal national security state and the military-industrial complex (“the Complex” for short) haven’t spoken out forcefully and critically about the disasters on their watch.
→ read full articleGreenland Ice Melt Could Expose Hazardous Cold War Waste
Andrea Thompson | Climate Central, Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
The military abandoned the ice-tunnel complex with tons of chemicals and radioactive materials.
→ read full article(Italiano) La Norvegia oggi — Compiacenza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
USA odino ancor più la Russia, e si semplifichino la vita restringendo la realtà russa a una persona, Putin, demonizzato quindi secondo la modalità descritta da Orwell in 1984. Il libro riguarda gli sforzi di costruire società irreversibili; si cita spesso “tutti gli animali sono uguali” di Animal Farm, certo, ma meno significativo. Il titolo avrebbe dovuto essere 1985, l’anno in cui Thatcher e Reagan cercarono di costruire un mondo irreversibile, un ordine capitalista anglo-americano.
→ read full articleState Dept Excuses Syria Rebel Group over Terror Attacks
Jason Ditz | AntiWar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
State Department spokesman Mark Toner downplayed the incidents, or the possibility that the US would stop arming Nour al-Din al-Zinki just because they beheaded a child and used chemical weapons. Insists ‘One Incident Here and There’ Doesn’t Make Them Terrorists’
→ read full articleThe Shot Heard All Over the Country
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The crew of an Israeli ambulance was treating the wounded soldier, ignoring the seriously wounded Arab who was lying on the ground. Several Israeli soldiers were standing around, also ignoring the Palestinian. About 10 minutes later Sergeant Elor Azaria, a medic, appeared on the scene, approached the wounded Palestinian and shot him point-blank in the head, killing him.
→ read full articleThe Looming Financial Crisis Nobody Is Talking About, but Should Be
Shaun Bradley | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Talking heads and hedge fund managers will be eternally optimistic on the outlook for the future, even as the collapse becomes undeniably obvious. Problems for the European Union will continue to build, and the risk of the disease spreading to other economies increases by the day. Unfortunately, this Ponzi scheme system we built our societies on has left us vulnerable to any well-timed black swan event.
→ read full articleRio 2016: The “Olympic Ideal” and the Reality of Capitalism
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The Olympics are being held under conditions of military occupation in Brazil, one of the world’s must unequal countries, wracked by economic, social and political crises.
→ read full article(Français) Banque mondiale, une zone de non-droit protégée par des juges
Renaud Vivien | Comite pour l'abolition des dettes illégitimes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Un tribunal de Washington a autorisé la Banque mondiale à ne pas répondre de ses actes devant la justice étasunienne |1|. Les plaignants indiens ont déjà fait appel de cette décision qui confère à la Banque mondiale une immunité qui la place de facto au dessus des lois.
→ read full articleIs Humility Compatible with a Healthy Self-esteem?
Mahatma Das | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Aside from confusing humility with low self-esteem, people sometimes correlate the concept of high self-esteem with pride and self-absorption. But it is actually the contrary. People who exhibit high self-esteem also exemplify a more humble attitude toward others. They show a willingness to admit and correct mistakes, whereas persons with low self-esteem are often defensive and feel a need to prove they are right.
→ read full articleXi Jinping Is No Mao Zedong
Keyu Jin | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Those who fear Cultural Revolution 2.0 need to understand that China is not the country it was 50 years ago. The soil for authoritarianism and a cult of personality has been plowed under by three decades of increasing openness and economic growth. No one understands this better than Xi.
→ read full articleA Guide to Online Security for Activists
Jillian C. York | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
2 Aug 2016 – The last year has seen an uptick in digital threats faced by individuals and organizations around the world. Over the past few months, there have been attacks on boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement websites, threatening emails to activists and new information emerging on Israel’s surveillance capabilities.
→ read full articleHiroshima, Presidential Campaigns and Our Nuclear Future
Robert F. Dodge, M.D. | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Seventy-one years ago on August 6th and 9th the world entered the nuclear age with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing and injuring in excess of 200,000 immediately and untold additional fatalities from lingering radiation effects.
→ read full articleTen Lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl was repeated, albeit with a different set of circumstances, at Fukushima. Have our societies yet learned any lessons that will prevent the people of the future from experiencing such devastation? As poet Maya Angelou points out, “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage doesn’t need to be lived again.”
→ read full articleAugust: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
August 8, 1994 – – In one of the twenty known incidents of the attempted illicit sale of Russian bomb-grade fissile materials in the last 25 years since the breakup of the Soviet Union, security officials at Munich International Airport in Germany arrested individuals who were caught in possession of 363.4 grams of plutonium – enough to make one or more radiological weapons or dirty bombs.
→ read full articleThis Company Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult
David Gauvey Herbert | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Every move you make. Every click you take. Every game you play. Every place you stay. They’ll be watching you. The bottom line: IDI’s marketing databases may help PIs predict people’s moves or digitally peek into their cars or medicine cabinets.
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