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NATO: Increasing the Role of Nuclear Weapons
Susi Snyder | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The majority of countries are ready to end the danger posed by nuclear weapons and to start negotiations for a treaty banning them. However, both documents issued by the NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland 8-9 July 2016–the Summit Communiqué and the Warsaw Declaration on Transatlantic Security–reaffirmed the NATO commitment to nuclear weapons, and the Communiqué included a return to cold war style language on nuclear sharing.
→ read full articleOur Deteriorating Environment: Is Anybody Listening?
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
6 Aug 2016 – While the scientists have been doing their job in calling attention to the multiple ways in which environmental decline threatens the planet, we hear less and less from political leaders. Their focus is on the here-and-now—terrorism, jobs, immigration—and not on commitments to the future. Last year’s Paris Agreement on climate change seems like a distant memory.
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Military Robots and the Future of War
P.W. Singer |TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Video from 2009 Even More Relevant Today – Must Watch
→ read full article(Português) A história do veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
“Enquanto o ser humano for implacável com as criaturas vivas, ele nunca conhecerá a saúde e a paz. Enquanto os homens continuarem massacrando animais, eles também permanecerão matando uns aos outros. Na verdade, quem semeia assassinato e dor não pode colher alegria e amor”, disse o filósofo grego Pitágoras por volta de 500 anos antes de Cristo.
→ read full articleContext Matters: Turkey after the Failed Coup
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Part of the prescribed contextualization, given Turkish realities, is to avoid premature international appraisals, admit underlying uncertainties, and allow enough imaginative space to enable a hopeful future for Turkey.
→ read full articleSpeak Out Now! NO MORE WAR!
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The U.S. Military is the world’s single largest consumer of oil and the largest emitter of of CO2 greenhouse gases. It has caused extensive radioactive and chemical contamination of the planet’s air, water, and soil. August 6th and 9th are days to remember the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Hydro-Apartheid Keeps West Bank Thirsty
Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
There’s no shortage of water, it’s just that Israel doesn’t let Palestinians access it.
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Beat It – Solo Guitar Arrangement (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson | Miguel Rivera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
I decided to start working on this arrangement because it was a great challenge. When you listen to the chorus of the original song, you can hear the main riff sounding together with the Michael’s vocal melody and, of course, drums, bass and other instruments. My objective was to play all of these parts together.
→ read full articleThe Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Intelligence Agencies
Cortney Weinbaum | The National Interest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Some of society’s brightest minds have warned that artificial intelligence (AI) may lead to dangerous unintended consequences, yet leaders of the U.S. intelligence community—with its vast budgets and profound capabilities—have yet to decide who within these organizations is responsible for the ethics of their AI creations.
→ read full articleBruce Lee’s Never-Before-Seen Writings on Willpower, Emotion, Reason, Memory, Imagination, and Confidence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”
→ read full article(Português) Eu e as proteínas de origem animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
No meio da musculação, de cada cinco palavras ditas, uma costuma ser proteína. Dificilmente alguém toca no assunto sem dizer: “Proteína animal, proteína animal, proteína animal, alto valor biológico – filé de frango, claras de ovos…” Com isso em mente, cheguei a consumir até três gramas de proteínas por quilo corporal em uma fase da minha vida. Pode ter certeza que é muita proteína.
→ read full articleProactive Philanthropy: Don’t Wait, Reach Out!
Robert J. Gould | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
If you have money to give, don’t wait for a call, an email, or a formal proposal, please reach out to a local community organization that is working on a cause you believe in, and get involved with what they do, and when you are convinced that they are doing good work, fund them!
→ read full articleGrowing Justice: Transcending the Oppressive History of Our Food System
Michelle Stearn | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Transforming our system into one rooted in provision means more than just creating new organizations that aim to do well for the community; it will require that we rewrite the beliefs, exchanges, and rules of our own interactions.
→ read full articleReal Cooperation with Nations Is the Best Survival Tactic [for the USA]
John M Repp | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
In the face of this blatantly illegal activity by the highest levels of government, we have the right to rebel. We should do it nonviolently, and we should do it now. The people of America can make agreements with all our supposed enemies and order our military to stand down.
→ read full articleWhat We Wear: Another Way to “Vote”
Andrew Moss | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The exploitation and violence associated with the globalized garment industry that produces more than 95 percent of our clothes. Exposures highlight the persistent use of child labor, the absence of living wages, and the prevalence of unsafe working conditions. The latter issue was thrust dramatically into public awareness by the collapse in April, 2013 of an eight-story building in Bangladesh, which housed garment companies supplying Children’s Place, Benetton, Cato Fashions, and the parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger. The collapse of the building killed 1,139 workers and injured 2,500 more.
→ read full articleIs It an Island Or a Rock? Ruling Could Cost U.S. a Huge Swath of Ocean
Peter Coy | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
A Chinese dispute has a ripple effect on exclusive economic zones around the world. The bottom line: An arbitration panel’s definition of what an island is could undermine nations’ claims of economic zones around rock outcroppings.
→ read full articleUS Warplanes Kill At Least 28 More Civilians in Northern Syria
Barry Grey | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
In a new US atrocity in Syria, American warplanes on Thursday [28 Jul] bombed a market killing at least 28 civilians, including seven children. The latest mass killing occurred in the same region where, nine days before, the US military bombed a group of houses where nearly 200 people had gathered to seek refuge, with the reported civilian death toll varying from a low of 56 to a high of more than 200.
→ read full article(Français) La propagande d’Israël (extrait)
Ilan Pappé | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
« Par une nuit chaude de juillet 1994, des centaines de personnes s’étaient rassemblées dans une salle d’université à Tel-Aviv pour écouter un débat sur le savoir et le pouvoir en Israël…
→ read full articleThe Zika Virus Mosquito Is so Dangerous the Military Considered Using It as a Weapon
Rod Tanchanco | History News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
It is a master of stealth, stretching less than half an inch long and weighing in at 2.5 milligrams with as estimated air speed of 1 to 1.5 miles per hour. It is virtually soundless in flight, registering zero decibels from ten feet. Its tracking systems hone in on targets by detecting infrared radiation from warm bodies, chemicals such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid, body odors from as far as a hundred feet, as well as movement from fidgety hosts. It can carry an impressive array of payload: up to 32 different types of viruses, many of which are lethal to humans. And it protects itself from the same viruses with a well-developed immune system that provides a highly effective antiviral defense mechanism. The Aedes mosquito, insect vector for dozens of viruses including the Zika virus, is a near-perfect drone.
→ read full articleClimate Change Activism: A Post-Mortem
John Michael Greer | The Archdruid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
It’s not inappropriate to ask what happened to all the apparent political momentum the climate change movement had ten or fifteen years ago, and why a movement so apparently well organized, well funded, and backed by so large a scientific consensus failed so completely. In my experience, at least, if you raise this question among climate change activists, the answer you’ll get is that there was a well-funded campaign that deployed disinformation against them. So?
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Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016
Fort Russ | Inessa S – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Jul 24, 2016 – This candid conversation took place with representatives of various media outlets during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, in June 2016. Putin urged journalists to report genuinely on the impending danger that is a nuclear arms race.
→ read full articleA Largeness of Contemplation: Bertrand Russell on Intuition, the Intellect, and the Nature of Time
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. The greatest men who have been philosophers have felt the need both of science and of mysticism: the attempt to harmonise the two was what made their life, and what always must, for all its arduous uncertainty, make philosophy, to some minds, a greater thing than either science or religion.
→ read full articleAustralia: The Scourge of Youth Detention
Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The Northern Territory, Torture, and Australia’s Detention Disease – It was an image that would not have been out of place in the sickly procession of pictures that came out of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay during the ill-fated and misnamed war on terror. Here was a young man, seated, strapped in and euphemistically “restrained,” verging on catatonic; on his head, a suffocating bag.
→ read full articleDispatches: Torture of Australia’s Children
Elaine Pearson | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
26 Jul 2016 | Abuse of Detained Teenagers Caught on Camera by ABC’s Four Corners Program – Teargassing, hooding, shackling, stripping. Twenty-three hours a day solitary confinement in a hot dark cell. When a 17-year-old threatens to hurt himself, guards hood him, strap him to a chair and leave him alone for two hours.
→ read full articlePalestine Youth Orchestra’s Triumphant UK Debut
Sarah Irving | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Although the Palestine Youth Orchestra has sprung from the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, which has branches in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the orchestra’s members are spread across historic Palestine, including within the State of Israel. Indeed, two musicians were unable to join this tour, despite being scheduled to perform: from Gaza, they were denied exit by Israel.
→ read full article(Anúncio em Português) Simpósio Internacional de Educação e Pedagogia: Paz e Cidadania Global
Maria Emanuel Melo de Almeida | Membro TRANSCEND – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Lisboa, 15 e 16 de setembro de 2016 – o Simpósio apresenta quatro eixos de reflexão que pretendem lançar o debate relacionado com o diálogo intercultural, os direitos humanos, a educação para a paz e o desenvolvimento sustentável:
1. Educação para a paz e cidadania;
2. Educação e diversidades;
3. Educação e tecnologias;
4. Educação e pedagogia.
The Orange Man
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
So here we are. Either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be our next president. “Our”? I am not a US citizen, and have no desire to be one. But I live in a world in which the USA is the sole superpower, in which every decision of the US administration has an impact on the lives of every human being. For me as a citizen of Israel, this impact is much greater than for most and much more immediate.
→ read full articleKurt Vonnegut’s 1988 Letter to the Future More Relevant Today Than Ever Before
Kick Kennedy | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
In 1988, my then Hyannis Port neighbor the late Kurt Vonnegut wrote a prescient letter to the Earth’s planetary citizens of 2088 for Volkswagen’s TIME magazine ad campaign. His seven points of advice are perhaps more relevant today than at any time in human history.
→ read full articleAfrica/America
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Recently I have had the great privilege to work with some of the 1,000 Mandela Washington Fellows, a select group of young sub-Saharan African leaders ages 25-35 placed for six weeks at about 40 universities around the US. The young leaders are electrifying.
→ read full articleThe Power of “Nyet”
Dmitry Orlov | Club Orlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The way things are supposed to work on this planet is like this: in the United States, the power structures (public and private) decide what they want the rest of the world to do. They communicate their wishes through official and unofficial channels, expecting automatic cooperation…. It is a hopeful sign that people throughout the Washington-dominated world are discovering the power of “nyet.”
→ read full articleHow the United States Government Obstructs Peace for Palestine/Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
The United States Government has not only taken Israel’s side in diplomatic negotiation between Israel and Palestine, but has actively opposed all moves toward the establishment of an independent sovereign state for the Palestinian people (meaning that the American endorsement of the two-state mantra as the consensus formula for peace was a deliberate official lie).
→ read full article(Português) Tazinha e a galinha Jurema
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Com cinco anos, Tazinha não imaginava que aquele molho vermelho e borbulhante cobrindo fatias grossas de batata-inglesa envolvia partes de um ser idêntico àquele que percorria o quintal com o viço de uma criança. Quando viu a garotinha de olhos amendoados e graúdos, a galinha se escondeu atrás de um pedaço de capoeira e cacarejou, mantendo os olhos castanhos e vibrantes bem esgazeados.
→ read full articleRussian Olympic Committee’s Statement in Response to the World Anti-Doping Agency Report (in English and in русский-Russian)
Russian Olympic Committee | Олимпийский комитет России – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
We wholeheartedly disagree with Mr. McLaren’s view that the possible banning of hundreds of clean Russian athletes from competition in the Olympic Games is an acceptable ‘unpleasant consequence’ of the charges contained in his report.
→ read full articleSocial Inequality Escalates in Denmark amid Bonanza for Banks and Corporations
Ellis Wynne | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Indeed, a sober analysis of class relationships in Denmark would confirm a growing inequality. As liberal newspaper Information put it baldly, “From 2003 to 2013 the richest tenth of Danes became 29 percent richer whilst the poorest ten percent became 1 percent poorer.”
→ read full articleIncrease Your Life Expectancy by Sitting Less Than Three Hours a Day
Dr. Mercola | Peak Fitness – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
You may have heard talk that too much sitting is bad for your health, but these effects are not simply hearsay. Mounting research confirms that in order to stay optimally healthy, your body needs to spend the bulk of its time doing what it was designed to do: move. Sit less and move more. It’s a simple strategy that can do wonders for your health.
→ read full articleNarrating Turkey at a Time of National Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
In times of tension, it is particularly important for the defense of what is good and identification of what would worsen the status quo, to strive for balanced assessments, always hoping for the best, while trying to identify and oppose any and all steps toward coercive authoritarianism. I have had the same reaction to conversations in the United States with friends who deem the country to have become ‘fascist.’
→ read full articleThe Power of One Peace Activist in Pakistan: Sail’s Story
Ruth Tidy | Peace Direct – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Have you ever been a situation you wanted to challenge, but did not know how? When you live in a violent, conflict affected area, the stakes are even higher. After attending Aware Girls’ training course Sail began his own peace activist network and has helped young people turn away from extremism in his community.
→ read full articleThe Olympics as a Tool of the New Cold War
Andrey Fomin | Oriental Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
21 Jul 2016 – The allegations of systematic state organised doping by the Russian authorities are founded on the evidence of three compromised individuals and have been presented in a way that denies Russian athletes their fundamental rights.
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The Roots of Terrorism: Something Is Wrong in Our Cultural Order
Prof. Al-Ansari | MEMRITVVideos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Prof. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari, former Dean of Islamic Law at Qatar University, discussed the phenomenon of terrorism and how to deal with it. Terrorism, he said, is based on ideology, not on financial distress or economic circumstances. It “begins with the sowing of hatred, the sowing of extremism,” and with “this rhetoric about a nation constantly under attack.” The first step to dealing with the phenomenon is to “let go of the culture of denial,” to “acknowledge that something is wrong in our cultural order,” and to “open up to other cultures.”
→ read full articleBinarity
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Edward Said once told us we do not have to choose between a secular corrupt dictatorship and rule by Muslim Brotherhood. I do not have to support Zionism to be for Jewish rights. I do not have to support the Assad regime to be against the Saudi/US/Israel supported “rebel” groups who are nothing more than mercenary terrorists. We have many choices. It is time we exercise them.
→ read full articleRadiation Along Fukushima Rivers Up to 200 Times Higher Than Pacific Ocean Seabed
Greenpeace | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
A radiation survey team, supported by the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior, conducted underwater survey along the Fukushima coastline from Feb. 21 to March 11 this year, as well collecting samples in river systems. The samples were measured at an independent laboratory in Tokyo.
→ read full articleCairn Energy Demands India Pay $5.6 Billion or Drop Back Tax Claim
Pratap Chatterjee | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
15 Jul 2016 – The Scottish oil exploration company has demanded compensation for losses it claims are a result of a tax assessment…. Vodafone also has another pending case on taxation of offshore transactions in India…. The Indian government lost a similar case against Shell in the Bombay High Court and chose not to appeal.
→ read full articleAmerican Warplanes Slaughter Civilians in Northern Syria
Thomas Gaist | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Airstrikes by American warplanes, ordered by US Central Command (CENTCOM), killed dozens of civilians around the Syrian village of al-Tukhar on Monday [18 Jul]. An estimated 85 civilians, including at least 11 children, were killed in the strikes, with unknown numbers buried beneath the rubble.
→ read full articleBrexit Coincides with India’s and Pakistan’s Entry into the SCO
Alfredo Jalife-Rahme | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Prof. Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, leading Latin American expert in geopolitics, considers that the UK exiting the EU at the same time that India and Pakistan become members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is an acid test, proving that the world is alive. De-globalization is at work.
→ read full article(Français) Brésil: Un tribunal populaire condamne le coup d’Etat
INTAL | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Le 19 et 20 juillet 2016, la ville de Rio de Janeiro accueillait un procès symbolique sur le coup d’Etat en cours au Brésil suite à la procédure d’impeachment de la présidente Dilma Rousseff.
→ read full articleBeing Inconvenienced While Minding My Own Business
Bruce Lerro | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Liberals and the Social Contract Theory of Violence – Are “bystanders” to violent events neutral or complicit?
→ read full article(Français) Eloge de la négociation
Robert Charvin | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Réunissons-nous autour d’une table, demande Umberto Eco, et négocions intelligemment pour trouver une solution qui force le respect de tous » … « parmi les vœux que je peux formuler pour le siècle à venir, il y a cette espérance d’une nouvelle éthique de la négociation », conclut avec lucidité l’universitaire de Bologne, angoissé du mal dont souffre l’Occident pour son deux millième anniversaire. L’Union Européenne nous donne à voir dans « l’embrouillamini des opinions toutes faites, des préjugés et des langues de bois politiques ou économiques, les clignotements de l’intelligence ».
→ read full articleThe Mousai House: A Cooperative Vision for a New Creative Economy
Jennifer Bryant | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Bryant’s exposition of The Mousai House gives us a glimpse into a thriving local economy rooted in Washington D.C. that has blossomed despite struggle, displacement, and oppression, exemplifying a rich cooperative culture that transcends the current system.
→ read full articleUps and Downs in Palestine
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
16 Jul 2016 – Life in Palestine moves along with its ups and downs, like the tides of the sea. Some days we feel depressed, some days more optimistic. Some of us even feel like manic-depressives for the fact that we go through these cycles. The triggers are varied.
→ read full articleWelcome! Bienvenue!
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
16 Jul 2016 – For me, France is the land of liberty. When I was just 10 years old, I fled with my family from Nazi Germany to France, on our way to Palestine. We were afraid of being detained at the border. When our train crossed the Rhine, leaving Germany behind us and entering France, I breathed deeply. From tyranny to liberty, from hell to paradise.
→ read full articleChina’s Bad Day in Court
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Perhaps in the South China Sea case China and the Philippines, now under a new president, will find their way back to the negotiating table and work out a deal that skirts the always-difficult sovereignty issue. That would be fine; but it would not address the fundamental problem of how law-abiding behavior can be promoted and enforced in an often anarchic world.
→ read full articleCan the United States Transcend White Supremacy?
Robert Jensen | Dissident Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Because the wealth and power of the United States are so deeply rooted in white supremacy, the abandonment of that pathology would inevitably lead to difficult questions about the country’s moral and material obligations to non-white people…. The United States likely will always be a white-supremacist nation because we have neither the intellectual nor moral traditions to deal with these harsh realities.
→ read full articleUruguay Defeats Philip Morris in Major Win for Anti-Smoking Advocates
Pratap Chatterjee | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
11 Jul 2016 – Uruguay has defeated Philip Morris, the global tobacco giant, in a major international lawsuit over the country’s tough anti-smoking regulations. On March 26, 2010, Philip Morris filed a complaint against Uruguay at the World Bank arbitration tribunal. The action was intended to escalate the fight to an international level and to take advantage of trade laws that typically favor major corporations by allowing them to claim damages from laws that deny them profits from their investments.
→ read full articleWhole Systems Change
Riane Eisler | The Next System Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
A Framework & First Steps for Social/Economic Transformation – Moving to a world that orients primarily to the partnership rather than domination model is a long-term enterprise. It will require time, perseverance, and the courage to challenge established beliefs and structures. But if we are to build a future where all children can realize their capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity—the capacities that make us fully human—we have to start constructing its foundations now.
→ read full articleImprovisation in Multivocal Poetic Discourse
Anthony Judge | laetus in praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Basque Lauburu and Bertsolaritza as Catalysts of Global Significance
→ read full articleNonviolent History: South Africa’s Port Elizabeth Boycott Begins July 15, 1985
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
The Port Elizabeth boycott was a powerful moment of consolidating and demonstrating the power of nonviolent action to place economic sanctions on white South Africans. This piece of the long South African anti-apartheid struggle helps us remember the scope, arc, and duration of working for change. It’s a marathon, not a sprint, and every step counts.
→ read full articleWhat Is NATO — Really?
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
NATO was founded with the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington DC on 4 April 1949. When NATO was founded, that was done in the broader context of the U.S. Marshall Plan, and the entire U.S. operation to unify the developed Atlantic countries of North America and Europe.
→ read full articleYemen Slides Closer to Famine as Frozen Bank Funds Curb Food Imports
Jonathan Saul and Maha El Dahan |Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Western banks had already cut credit lines for traders shipping food to Yemen, fearing they would not be repaid due to the security chaos and fragile financial system. Now, they are increasingly unwilling to offer letters of credit, which guarantee sellers will be paid on time. Out of Yemen’s 28 million people, 21 million need some form of humanitarian aid and over half the population suffer from malnutrition,
→ read full articleLeaked Document Reveals Alarming New Environmental Threats of TTIP
Sierra Club | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Leaked document from the EU reveals its intentions to include new, dangerous language in the proposed energy chapter of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
→ read full articleAn Unlikely AMEXIT: Pivoting Away from the Middle East
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Unfortunately, for America and the peoples throughout the Middle East the US seems incapable of extricating itself from yet another geopolitical quagmire that is partly responsible for generating extra-regional terrorism of the sort that has afflicted Europe in the last two years.
→ read full articleU.S. Plans to Saturate Globe with Weapons
David Swanson | Veterans Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
11 Jul 2016 – My headline above is a plain English translation of this Pentagonspeak found in a Reuters headline today: “International demand for U.S. weapons systems is expected to continue growing in coming years, a senior U.S. Air Force official said on Sunday [10 Jul], citing strong interest in unmanned systems, munitions and fighter jets.” Thus is the proliferation of drones around the world spun as something positive, along with bombs and jets.
→ read full articleThoreau on How to Use Civil Disobedience to Advance Justice
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Civil Disobedience is an indispensable read for every democratically minded, socially conscious human being awake to justice. “Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” — Thoreau
→ read full articleThe Hague Ruling: A Dangerous Step toward War in the South China Sea
Peter Symonds | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
The hypocrisy involved is staggering. The United States has nothing but contempt for international law and has never been called to account by any UN tribunal for its illegal wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, which have resulted in the deaths of millions. As part of its “pivot to Asia” against China, the Obama administration is chiefly responsible for transforming longstanding, low-key regional disputes in the South China Sea into a dangerous flashpoint that threatens to trigger a new and even more devastating war.
→ read full article(Français) L’Islam comme nouvel ennemi
Saïd Bouamama | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
17 Juil 2016 – Investig’Action propose à ses lecteurs de lire ou relire cet article en lien avec l’actualité.
→ read full articleNo Longer a Conspiracy Theory: CIA Director Admits Plans of Aerosol Spraying for Geoengineering
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
“Another example is the array of technologies—often referred to collectively as geoengineering—that potentially could help reverse the warming effects of global climate change. One that has gained my personal attention is stratospheric aerosol injection, or SAI, a method of seeding the stratosphere with particles that can help reflect the sun’s heat, in much the same way that volcanic eruptions do.”
→ read full articleThe War on Weed Part II: Monsanto, Bayer, and the Push for Corporate Cannabis
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
California’s “Adult Use of Marijuana Act” is a voter initiative characterized as legalizing marijuana use. But critics warn that it will actually make access more difficult and expensive, squeeze home growers and small farmers out of the market, heighten criminal sanctions for violations, and open the door to patented, genetically modified versions that must be purchased year after year.
→ read full articleConsciousness: Why Materialism Fails
Larry Dossey, M.D. | Open Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
A growing number of scientists are now busily rummaging around in the brain trying to explain how the trick of consciousness is done. Researchers have come forward with a range of theories that purport to explain, in one way or another, consciousness as an epiphenomenon of physical and chemical processes taking place in the brain — and all fail utterly. They fail not because their models are insufficiently accurate or detailed, but because they are trying to do what is, from the outset, impossible. — Astrophysicist David Darling
→ read full articleSocial Democracy
Lane Kenworthy | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Not Socialism, and Coming to America – What changes are needed in the current system? Here I’ll take the contemporary United States as my reference point. The chief changes lie in the realm of social policy.
→ read full articleUnintended Consequences and the Warfare State
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
As the Chilcot Commission has just concluded after a seven-year long investigation of British policy, bad judgment was multiplied by hubris, a deeply flawed decision-making process, and an unquestioned faith in the ability of military power to resolve political and economic problems…. At bottom the arrogance of power is the enemy, and the Chilcot Report provides no antidote for it.
→ read full article(Français) Fidel Castro, artisan de la paix en Colombie
teleSUR | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Que la paix en Colombie soit signée à Cuba n’est pas un hasard. La paix en Colombie a toujours été l’un des engagements du Commandant de la Révolution Cubaine. Il lui a consacré autant d ‘efforts qu’à la chute de l’Apartheid en Afrique du Sud, à la libération de l’ Angola ou à l’indépendance de la Namibie et d’autres nations africaines.
→ read full articleNetherlands Closes Down 19 Prisons for Lack of Prisoners
Stephen Zoure | Ultimate FM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
7 Jul 2016 – The Netherlands will close 19 of its prisons over the next few years because the cost of maintaining them is too high. The reason that the prisons aren’t cost-efficient, however, is something of a national blessing: thanks to the country’s steadily declining crime rate, thousands of prison cells are going unused.
→ read full articleGlyphosate Sprayed on GMO Crops Linked to Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae Bloom
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Glyphosate, the controversial main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup and other herbicides, is being connected to Lake Erie’s troubling algae blooms, which has fouled drinking water and suffocated and killed marine life in recent years.
→ read full articleMissile Proliferation—And Ideas That Might Work
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu | Brookings India Center - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
11 Jul 2016
Missiles pose at least three sets of challenges to international peace and security, and creating a global regime to control or eliminate nuclear-capable missiles is easier said than done. Is it too late for missile nonproliferation?
→ read full articleCampaign Nonviolence: A Growing Movement for a Culture of Nonviolence
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
From the increased involvement in Campaign Nonviolence, the grassroots movement that organized more than 375 actions in a single week in all 50 states and seven countries to end all forms of violence, it appears that many Americans are serious about creating a culture of active nonviolence.
→ read full articleIf Afghan Lives Mattered, Dallas Lives Would Matter
David Swanson | Let’s Try Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
8 Jul 2016 – The man who murdered police officers in Dallas, Texas, this week had earlier been employed in a massive operation, now in its 15th year, that has killed many thousands of people in Afghanistan. He was trained to kill by the U.S. military and was conditioned to believe violence an appropriate response to violence by the examples everywhere to be found in U.S. public policy, history, entertainment, and language.
→ read full articleNATO’s War Summit in Warsaw
Alex Lantier | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
The full list of targets identified in NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s opening remarks spans much of the globe. NATO would step up military action in Iraq and Syria and expand its deployments in the Mediterranean and across NATO’s entire “neighborhood.” NATO plans for military action in countries ranging from Libya to Georgia and Ukraine, Afghanistan and the regions bordering China are to be the subject of extensive discussion in Warsaw.
→ read full articleHenry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Born in 1817, one of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
→ read full articleWhy Arms Control Is the Enemy of Nuclear Disarmament
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
No First Use: Arms Control versus Disarmament Perspectives
→ read full articleA New Declaration of Independence
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
The US has entered the Orwellian Era of permanent war—until we decide that it’s over…. Time for a Declaration of Independence from foreign military disasters.
→ read full article(Português) José Oiticica definia o consumo de carne como um vício social
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Para o escritor e anarquista, a saúde humana deve envolver a alimentação vegetariana.
→ read full articleNew Violation Tracker Tool Helps Public Track U.S. Corporate Misconduct
Pratap Chatterjee | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Bank of America leads with $56 billion in fines. Second on this list is JP Morgan Chase which has paid out $28 billion in fines and penalties to the U.S. government while BP comes in at third place with $25.4 billion. Conclusions from 110,000 cases and $270 billion in fines and penalties since the beginning of 2010 that have been added to Violation Tracker. Most surprising is that less than one half of one percent of the cases involve criminal charges.
→ read full article(Português) O que as castanhas do Brasil têm a ver com o Colesterol?
Michael Greger M.D. | Projecto Naturopatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Um estudo avaliou o impacto que o consumo de uma única porção de castanhas do Brasil poderia ter nos níveis de colesterol em voluntários saudáveis.
→ read full articleHatred Unlimited
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
In Israel, everyone spoke about a “benevolent occupation”. The first military governor was a very humane person, Chaim Herzog, a future President of Israel and the father of the present chairman of the Labor Party. Within a few years, all this had changed. The Palestinians realized that the Israelis did not intend to leave, but that they were about to steal their land, quite literally, and cover it with their settlements.
→ read full articleIndia and Pakistan Join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
Alexander Mercouris |The Duran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
27 Jun 2016 – Away from the distractions caused by the Brexit vote the process of Eurasian construction has just taken another big step with the agreement of India and Pakistan to join the Chinese and Russian-led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as full members. Iran is expected to follow shortly, leaving the whole of Eurasia united under this umbrella.
→ read full articleMikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths.
→ read full articleSchopenhauer on What Makes a Genius and the Crucial Difference between Talent and Genius
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
“Genius is the power of leaving one’s own interests, wishes, and aims entirely out of sight… so as to remain pure knowing subject, clear vision of the world.”
“Genius gives birth, talent delivers.”
(Français) Historique accord de paix en Colombie
Raúl Castro Ruz | InvestigAction - Granma,
4 Jul 2016
Le 23 juin dernier, la guérilla des FARC et le gouvernement colombien ont signé un accord de paix historique qui a mis fin à près d’un demi siècle de guerre civile. Cet accord, négocié et signé à la Havane marque un nouveau chapitre de l’histoire tourmentée de la Colombie.
→ read full articleJuly: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
July 1, 1991 – On this date, the Warsaw Pact (established in 1955 as a response to the 1949 establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), also known in the Soviet bloc as The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance signed by Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, formally dissolved as a communist military alliance. Yet NATO, 1949-present, not only continues to exist but has grown and expanded in order to further “contain Russia and protect former Soviet republics and Eastern European nations from Russian military aggression.”
→ read full articleThe Double-Edged Sword: US Nuclear Command and Control Modernization
Andrew Futter | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Keeping the nuclear command and control system simple, separate, and secure may not seem very sexy in today’s digital world of extraordinary technological advance, but it might be the best way to minimize miscalculation, accidents, and even unauthorized use of nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleTranscanada’s Latest Move Perfectly Illustrates Why So Many People Hate Free-Trade Deals
Katie Herzog |Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
27 Jun 2016 – TransCanada is demanding that the U.S. fork over $15 billion to make up for the fact that the company didn’t get to build the Keystone XL pipeline. That’s one damned expensive temper tantrum.
→ read full article(Português) Tolstói: “O vegetarianismo é um sinal da aspiração séria e sincera da humanidade”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
22 Jun 2016 – Um dos maiores nomes da literatura mundial, Liev Tolstói, além de romancista, filósofo, humanitarista e pacifista, também chamou a atenção e conquistou muito respeito nos séculos 19 e 20 por ser um grande defensor do vegetarianismo. Levando uma vida frugal, ele se alimentava basicamente de pães, frutas e vegetais.
→ read full articleThin Slices of Anxiety: An Illustrated Meditation on What It’s Like to Live Enslaved by Worry and How to Break Free
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
A guided tour of this pernicious prison of the psyche, honest and assuring in its honesty.
→ read full articleIsrael Implements Collective Punishment after the Stabbing of Teenager
Jean Shaoul | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
At the same time, the government is using the attack to expand the settlements and incorporate Area C––which is under Israeli military control––into Israel and in the process drive Palestinians living there from their homes. These measures have in turn provoked further attacks by the Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel and ever more strident demands for further repressive measures against the Palestinians by Israel’s right wing.
→ read full articleThe Time for Silence is Over: Grasping the Reality of Nonviolence
Stephanie Van Hook | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Myth One: You can’t be angry and be nonviolent.
Myth Two: You have to dislike/hate/disassociate from your opponents.
Myth Three: If you don’t get what you want, your nonviolence didn’t work.
Myth Four: Nonviolence does not have any logic. It’s signing petitions and sit-ins. Nothing else.
Top 5 Green Energy Good News Stories Today
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
3 Jul 2016 – Solar power is poised to grow 6-fold by 2030 and could constitute between 9% and 13% of world electricity production by then. Price per kilowatt hour for solar is plummeting, so that it is on the verge of being the cheapest form of energy, outstripping coal in that regard.
→ read full articleBrexit and the Derivatives Time Bomb
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Brexit could trigger a $500 trillion derivatives meltdown, by forcing the EU to allow insolvent member governments and banks to write down debt. Italy is in financial crisis and is already petitioning for that concession. How to avoid collapse of the massive derivatives house of cards? Alternatives are considered.
→ read full articleEconomic Democracy
David Schweickart | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
An Ethically Desirable Socialism That Is Economically Viable – The big challenges that capitalism now faces in the contemporary world include issues of inequality (especially that of grinding poverty in a world of unprecedented prosperity) and of “public goods” (that is, goods people share together, like the environment). The solution to these problems will almost certainly call for institutions that take us beyond the capitalist market economy.
→ read full articleThe Meaning of Brexit
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The Brexit vote was a triple protest: against surging immigration, City of London bankers, and European Union institutions, in that order. It will have major consequences.
→ read full articleSupport Your Digestive System with Aloe Vera
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
A healthy gut reacts positively to good nutrition and is also the result of good nutrition. Refined sugar, artificial ingredients, and artificial coloring offer no nutrition and, even worse, can upset gut balance. Aloe vera, on the other hand, is a nutrient-dense superfood that soothes, nourishes, and promotes detoxification and normal bowel movements.
→ read full articleRussia-China Strategic Partnership: On the Road to United Eurasia
Pepe Escobar |Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
Whenever President Vladimir Putin stresses Russia’s “all-embracing and strategic partnership” with China, one can hear the proverbial howls of anger emanating from the neocon/neoliberalcon axis in the Beltway.
→ read full article