Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos | Emory Postcolonial Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Frantz Omar Fanon was a Martinique-born French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, and an existentialist humanist concerning the psychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.
→ read full articleThe Conditions for Human Health and Well-Being Reside in the Psycho-Social Contexts of Life
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
12 Jul 2017 – I call upon the timeless words of Henry David Thoreau, a 19th Century student of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1889-1888), to open this article on the critical consequences of the socio-cultural context for human health and well-being. It is, perhaps, coincidental today is Thoreau’s birthday; his 200th year anniversary, a reminder of the enduring power of great thoughts and words. Guide me, Sir!
→ read full article(Português) Um Novo Tratado para Levar ao Desarmamento Nuclear
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Apesar da falta generalizada de interesse e dos preconceitos profundamente entranhados dos principais órgãos de imprensa dos países possuidores de armas nucleares, a opiniã pública mundial poderá ter precepção diferente. É essencial, por esse motivo, disseminar o conhecimento do Tratado e de sua motivação.
→ read full article(Français) L’Otan, Hydre Tentaculaire
Nils Andersson | Alerte OTAN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
A la Conférence du Contre-Sommet Otan du 25 mai 2017, la première session plénière a entendu une intervention de Nils Andersson intitulée: «L’Otan, hydre tentaculaire». Ci-dessous nous publions l’essentiel de son contenu.
→ read full articleGood for the World
Wendell Berry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
We have lived our lives by the assumption that
what was good for us would be good for the world.
We have been wrong.
Anti-Populism: Ideology of the Ruling Class
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
7 Jul 2017 – Throughout the US and European corporate and state media, right and left, we are told that ‘populism’ has become the overarching threat to democracy, freedom and . . . free markets. The media’s ‘anti-populism’ campaign has been used and abused by ruling elites and their academic and intellectual camp followers as the principal weapon to distract, discredit and destroy the rising tide of mass discontent with ruling class-imposed austerity programs, the accelerating concentration of wealth and the deepening inequalities.
→ read full articleHolding Officials Accountable
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
I met Bona Malwal Madut Ring from Bahr El Ghazal in South Sudan when we were both students and lived at International House in New York. One day in 1969, he received a long phone call from London, and went there a few days later.
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Tear the Fascists Down (Music Video of the Week)
Woody Guthrie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we dont give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, thats all we wanted to do.
→ read full article“Ain’t No Such Thing as a Just War” – Ben Salmon, WWI Resister
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
If the Allies, led by France and Britain, had not won a total victory, there would have been no punitive peace treaty like that completed at Versailles, no stab-in-the back allegations by resentful Germans, and thus no rise, much less triumph, of Hitler and the Nazis. The next world war, with its 50 million deaths, would probably not have occurred.”
→ read full articleThe Sexualities Revolution
Johan Galtung and Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Kinsey played a major role. Very solid, very empirical, vast, comprehensive, fought by some churches and no doubt by some patriarchs. But science prevailed… Unfortunately sex is generally confused with love both in literature and in reality. Sex is ephemeral pleasure of the genitalia—any genitalia. Love is emotion, energy, synergy between two human beings. Love and sex complement but do not replace each other, being of utterly different natures.
→ read full articleThe Subversion of India’s Pluralist Legacy
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
17 Jul 2017 – Too much of the thinking about Muslim rulers is now being shaped along predictable, clichéd lines. This is true of all shades of opinion, perception and scholarship. There is evidence from a number of established scholarly discourses that the public perception about Muslim rulers is being increasingly manipulated to fit into a profile constructed by right wing historians.
→ read full articleYear 2017
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
New Year firecrackers died down,
The wine glasses did not ring more,
To Be or Not to Be?
Captain Paul Watson | Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
We will be the victims of our own ignorance and our own arrogance. Homo sapiens have devolved into Homo arrogantus ignoramus. We have become trapped within a matrix of our own creation, living in a world of anthropocentric fantasies and ignoring ecological realities.
→ read full articleBiological Annihilation via the Ongoing Sixth Mass Extinction Signaled by Vertebrate Population Losses and Declines
Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo | National Academy of Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Using a sample of 27,600 terrestrial vertebrate species, and a more detailed analysis of 177 mammal species, we show the extremely high degree of population decay in vertebrates, even in common “species of low concern.” Dwindling population sizes and range shrinkages amount to a massive anthropogenic erosion of biodiversity and of the ecosystem services essential to civilization. This “biological annihilation” underlines the seriousness for humanity of Earth’s ongoing sixth mass extinction event.
→ read full article777,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste to Be Dumped in Pacific
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
16 Jul 2017 – Approximately 580 barrels of radioactive water is to be released into the Pacific Ocean, according to the head of the company responsible for the Fukushima clean-up operation.
→ read full article(Português) O Encontro Bem-Aventurado da Pachamama com Gaia
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
15 julho 2017 – Quero apresentar as idéias, com as quais comungo, de um livro que sairá brevemente traduzido: A Pachamama e o Ser Humano, de Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni, um reconhecido magistrado argentino, ministro da Suprema Corte e professor emérito da Universidade de Buenos Aires. O livro, a meu ver, se inscreve entre as melhores contribuições de ordem ecológica e filosófica que se tem escrito ultimamente.
→ read full article(Italiano) In scena “La foresta che cresce”. In Evergreen. Torino. Parco della Tesoriera.
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
“Fa più rumore un albero che cade di un’intera foresta che cresce” – Il progetto è vincitore del bando MigrArti, indetto dal Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività culturali e del Turismo – direzione Spettacolo.
→ read full article(Português) Mate Coma
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
— Aqui no Mate Coma o senhor pode comer à vontade e sem pagar nada se matar o animal usado no recheio do seu lanche. O senhor pediu um X-Vitela e o seu amigo um X-Filé Mignon. Temos aqui um boi e um bezerro. Tudo é feito por nossa conta, menos o abate do animal. Quem deseja começar?
— Isso é loucura! Não posso matar um animal. Nem mesmo posso vê-lo morrer – esbravejou Ioan.
— Mas imagino que o senhor coma carne, não?
Israel Offers Tourists the Chance to Be Soldiers
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
11 Jul 2017 – Ever wanted to try and shoot a Palestinian? Israel has set up a military simulator which allows tourists to do just that. Controversial fantasy “anti-terrorism” camps set up in the occupied West Bank provide visitors with the opportunity to play the role of Israeli forces in a variety of situations, ranging from an explosion at a Jerusalem marketplace, to a stabbing attack and sniper tournament.
→ read full articleNukes and the Global Schism
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
12 Jul 2017 – The United States boycotted the U.N. negotiations to ban — everywhere across Planet Earth — nuclear weapons. So did a few other countries. Guess which ones? Armed equals scared. (And scared equals profitable.)
→ read full articleAntofagasta, Twin Metals, PolyMet and the Hidden Dangers of Modern High-Tech Copper Mining
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Rio Tinto, the corporation, was named after the Spanish river (“Red River”) that was discolored because of previous underground copper mining pollution that released iron oxide (rust) into the river. The company began its worldwide operations in the part of southwestern Spain that has been mined for copper and other metals ever since the Roman Empire started exploiting the area for copper, gold and silver.
→ read full articleNelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
→ read full articlePrefix “Re-cognition” as Prelude to Fixing Sustainability — “Pro” vs “Con”?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Speculative Review of Missing Emphases Potentially Vital for Psychosocial Balance – The contrasting roles of “pro” and “con” in the English discourse so characteristic of the current global civilization call for particular attention.
→ read full articleA New Treaty to Speed Up Nuclear Disarmament
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Despite the general lack of interest and deeply ingrained misconceptions on the part of the mainstream media in the Nuclear Weapon States and their allies, public opinion worldwide may have a different perception. It is essential, for this reason, to disseminate knowledge about the Treaty and its motivation.
→ read full articleVault 7: Highrise
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Today, July 13th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the Highrise project of the CIA. HighRise is an Android application designed for mobile devices running Android 4.0 to 4.3. It provides a redirector function for SMS messaging that could be used by a number of IOC tools that use SMS messages for communication between implants and listening posts.
→ read full articleWoody Guthrie (14 Jul 1912 – 3 Oct 1967): Dust Bowl Blues and Revolt
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was an American folksinger who had a creative influence on at least three generations of folksingers, such as those of his own generation, Pete Seeger and Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, the next generation Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and his son Arlo Guthrie and a more recent generation’s Bruce Springsteen.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Jul 17-23, 2017~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubinstein
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (4) Thomas Jefferson
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Thomas Jefferson, architect of American democracy, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleSafe Trip
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
A man went to an airline counter to buy a plane ticket.
“How likely is it that there will be a bomb on the plane,” he asked with concern.
(Português) Hipopótamo mais velho do mundo morre depois de ter vivido aprisionado por toda a vida
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Bertha, considerado o hipopótamo mais velho do mundo, morreu aos 65 anos depois de ser explorada por toda a vida pelo Manila Zoo.
→ read full articleOne Military Veteran’s Honest Opinion of Omar Khadr
Troy Hoyt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
10 Jul 2017 – As a ten-plus year veteran of the Royal Canadian Air Force, I have some rather strong opinions when it comes to Mr. Omar Khadr. I would like to begin by stating that I could not disagree more with the opinion of him shared by the majority of Canadians. I will undoubtedly lose numerous friends for voicing my opinion on this sensitive topic.
→ read full articleG20 Key Meeting and Its Future
Global Peace Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
The meeting meaning of the USA and Russia Presidents is the first step towards global peace from the “arms race to a peace race” (King), which will deliver humankind and the planet from military destruction.
→ read full articlePalestine Is Still the Issue
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
The remarkable Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions campaign is succeeding, day by day; cities and towns, trade unions and student bodies are endorsing it. These are not straws in the wind. When the Palestinians rise again, as they will, they may not succeed at first – but they will eventually if we understand that they are us, and we are them. We shouldn’t forget Palestine.
→ read full articleTenfold Increase in Cholera Cases in Yemen since April
Thomas Gaist | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
14 Jul 2017 – The war waged against Yemen by the Saudi monarchy, launched in March 2015 and supported extensively by the United States government, has produced a social catastrophe that easily ranks among the worst war crimes in history. The virtually complete destruction of Yemen’s social infrastructure, through deliberate and relentless bombing, has fueled an explosion of hunger and disease that continues to intensify with each passing day.
→ read full articleI’m Just Doing My Job – Cutting Power to Gaza Hospitals
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
What the director of Israel Electric said when asked why he didn’t stand up to the government and refuse to cut power to Gaza despite the humanitarian toll.
→ read full articleWhy War? Building on the Legacy of Einstein, Freud and Gandhi
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
In 1932, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein conducted a correspondence subsequently published under the title ‘Why War?’ In many ways, this dialogue between two giants of the 20th century is symbolic of the effort made by many humans to understand the institution of war. In a recent article, the founder of peace research, Professor Johan Galtung, reminded us of the legacy of Freud and Einstein and reflected on their dialogue, noting some shortcomings including their failure to ‘unpack conflict’.
→ read full articleDraft Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
UN General Assembly - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
6 Jul 2017 – Negotiations, pursuant to paragraph 8 of General Assembly resolution 71/258 of 23 December 2016, on a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination
→ read full articleBetwixt and Between: The Shadowy Politics of Political (In)Correctness
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
3 Jul 2017 – Assessing the exploits of Trump, and Cosby, at least raise these difficult issues of individual and collective responsibility that need to be resolved before the country can hope to recover its moral compass, and learn to respect the dignity of all of its citizens in spite of their diversities of experience and background.
→ read full article(Italiano) Freud-Einstein sulla Pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
“Perché la guerra?” era il titolo della corrispondenza tra Sigmund Freud e Albert Einstein, 1932. Tra poco saranno trascorsi 85 anni. Che cosa possiamo ancora imparare da questi giganti, e che cosa avrebbero potuto essi stessi imparare in questo lasso di tempo.
→ read full articleWorld’s Debt Over Three Times Greater Than Economic Output
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
29 Jun 2017 – Global debt levels have surged to a record $217 trillion in the first quarter of the year. This is 327 percent of the world’s annual economic output (GDP), reports the Institute of International Finance.
→ read full articleVolvo Announces ‘Historic End’ to Combustion Engine, All Cars Going Electric
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
5 Jul 2017 – Volvo Cars announced today that every car it launches from 2019 will have an electric motor, marking a “historic end” to the internal combustion engine.
→ read full articleG20: 30 Questions for the Counter-terrorism Experts of the World
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
8 Jul 2017 – Raising the Question as to Why They Are Not Effectively Addressed – Written on the occasion of the G20 Summit (Hamburg, July 2017) at which both terrorism and migration are prominent agenda items.
→ read full articleG20: Anticipating Future Migration into Europe (2018-2050)
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
8 Jul 2017 – Beyond the Irresponsibility of Current Political and Humanitarian Short-Termism – Written on the occasion of the G20 Summit (Hamburg, July 2017) at which migration and terrorism are prominent agenda items.
→ read full articleMyanmar to Humanitarian Groups: THOU SHALL NOT FEED THE MUSLIMS – without Gov Knowledge & Monitor
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
4 Jul 2017 – Thou shall not feed the Muslims without approval from NLD-Gov (and police). All food supplies to Muslims in Meikhtila and Ramadan month food donations must be distributed only under the monitoring mechanisms and with the prior knowledge of local authorities.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il perche’ della violenza nell’essere umano e nella societa’
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Stiamo vivendo, a livello nazionale e mondiale, situazioni di violenza che sfidano la nostra capacità di comprensione. Non solo di esseri umani contro altri esseri umani, specialmente nel nord Africa, in Sudan, in Medio oriente e tra noi, ma anche contro la natura e la Madre Terra.
→ read full articleOn the Science of Vaccine Neurotoxicity: Don’t Criticize What You Can’t Understand
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
A Collection of Recent Journal Articles Solidifying the Connections Between America’s Over-Vaccination Agenda and the Epidemics of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Chronic Autoimmune Disorders
→ read full articleThe Farmers’ Crisis
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
5 Jul 2017 – India’s small farmers produce more diversity, more food and nutrition per acre than farmers in industrialised countries. Even today, they feed more than 1.3 billion people. Then why are Indian farmers committing suicide today? The root cause is the separation of agriculture from nutrition, and from ecology.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Violent Century
John Feffer| Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
The last near-century of American dominance was extraordinarily violent. Is it coming to an end?
→ read full articleWhy Is Myanmar Refusing a UN Probe if There Is No Rohingya Genocide?
Carbonated TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
If Myanmar has nothing to hide, why isn’t the country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, allowing U.N. investigators to visit the country?
→ read full articleVault 7: BothanSpy
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Today, July 6th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon projects of the CIA. The implants described in both projects are designed to intercept and exfiltrate SSH credentials but work on different operating systems with different attack vectors.
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Clandestino (Music Video of the Week)
Manu Chao | Playing for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
A Classic. Enjoy.
→ read full articleViolins over Violence: Why Creative Nonviolence Still Wins
Greg Harman | Deceleration – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
8 Jul 2017—Within the first few months of the CIA-backed overthrow of Chilean socialist president Salvador Allende, an estimated 40,000 people had been detained by the military and police. There, one of 198 recognized methods of nonviolent action, was the power of deceleration. Ultimately, many would be killed as the resistance mobilized for more direct actions; but as many have argued, the use of nonviolence was the key that made the ultimate victory possible.
→ read full articleDistinguishing Indigenous Sovereignty from State Sovereignty
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
It is wrong to say that natives of Hawai‘i are an indigenous people because it would imply they do not have a State of their own. This labeling is an American narrative that has no basis in historical facts or law. Rather, natives are the majority of Hawaiian subjects, being the citizenry of the Hawaiian Kingdom that has been in an unjust war by the United States since 1893.
→ read full articleWhat Does War Generate?
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
What are the generals’ concerns and interests in Iraq and Afghanistan? How strong is their concern even for the well-being of their own troops? Several veterans of U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have written persuasive memoirs about the wastefulness of their deployments, accusing commanders of sending them on futile missions.
→ read full articleBeware the “Cides” of July
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
4 Jul 2017 – Shakespeare’s oft quoted lines from Julius Caesar are well known. They are used often in conversations to remind us of the perils lurking among auspicious and inauspicious dates and places: “Beware the Ides of March.” The lines are notable for the 15th day of Caesar’s death at the hands of those he trusted, even as he alienated their friendship.
→ read full articleIndia Set to Forgive Billions of Dollars of Farm Debts
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
10 Jul 2017 – A resurgence of the farm loan waiver culture in India has got many economists and policy makers worried. In a country where a bulk of the farmland is rain-fed, the need to offer some relief to a drought-hit farmer is serious. But it is an acknowledged fact that loan waivers are a wrong practice and have several detrimental long term implications.
→ read full articleImprove Yourself
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
In ancient times, a king walked barefoot, as it was customary at the time, to visit a neighboring town.
→ read full articleHenry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. 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 articleEvensong
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Indigo petals, dew beading in their darker folds,
The memory of cinnamon like alms,
A poet’s hidden tune: all was flush
In the days of our setting out
Breaking News
Ziggy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Attribution…
→ read full articleTrump and the Truth about Climate Change
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Tell Donald Trump: The Paris Climate Deal Is Very Good for America – Trump argues the treaty is unfair to the US but it is America that continues to impose an unfair burden on others.
→ read full articleTwo Students Just Broke a Quantum Computing World Record
Tom Ward | Futurism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
5 Jul 2017 – Researchers from Sweden have successfully simulated a 45-qubit quantum circuit, breaking the record for the greatest number of qubits to be simulated. This important milestone puts humanity one step closer to “quantum supremacy,” the point at which quantum computers could outperform any traditional computer.
→ read full articleQuantum Computers Compete for “Supremacy”
Neil Savage | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
5 Jul 2017 – Two technologies may be on the verge of surpassing even the most powerful digital computers in a year or so, but key challenges remain unsolved.
→ read full articleRex Tugwell (10 Jul 1891 – 21 Jul 1979): Planning and Action for Rural Reconstruction
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
As world-wide climate change has made the issues of land use, water, desertification, and land reform vital issues, it is useful to recall the contributions of Rexford Tugwell, an economist and advocate of government planning… When as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, I met Tugwell; he had largely left the field of economic planning to write about political leadership, especially the style and experiences of Franklin Roosevelt.
→ read full articleConcept and Definition of Civil Society Sustainability
Charles Kojo VanDyck | Center for Strategic and International Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – The global civil society ecosystem can be characterized as a complex and interconnected network of individuals and groups drawn from rich histories of associational relationships and interactions. Globally, the concept of civil society has evolved from these associational platforms to comprise a wide range of organized and organic groups of different forms, sizes, and functions. There have been significant changes over time in the civil society landscape.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Jul 10-16, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
→ read full article“Modern” Business Owns You
Johan Galtung and Malvin Gattinger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
The housing market used to be a way for people to organize themselves and share costs and risks. Now in bigger cities it seems to be mainly about selling people to housing corporations. The online markets used to be extensions of “real” ones, selling goods and services. Now the central market is ‘attention,’ essentially selling people to advertisement companies.
→ read full articleAgain in the World Walks Whirlwind
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Again in the world walks whirlwind,
Withstand the frames of the ship?
Whether the Day of Judgment is waiting for us soon,
UN Conference Adopts Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
7 Jul 2017 – The treaty – adopted by a vote of 122 in favour to one against (Netherlands), with one abstention (Singapore) – prohibits a full range of nuclear-weapon-related activities, such as undertaking to develop, test, produce, manufacture, acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, as well as the use or threat of use of these weapons.
→ read full articleWe’ve Got a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
Ray Acheson | Reaching Critical Will – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
4 July 2017 – There are many ways to ban nuclear weapons. The draft text that the President of the conference released on Monday [3 Jul] evening is one of them. And it’s a good one. It is a categorical prohibition of nuclear weapons that also provides a framework for their elimination.
→ read full articleSonification of Twitter Leadership at the G20
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
8 Jul 2017 – A Surprising Musical Opportunity for Donald Trump to Sound a New Note – Written on the occasion of the G20 Summit (Hamburg, July 2017).
→ read full articleEyeless in Gaza
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
8 Jul 2017 – I have a unique confession to make: I like Gaza. Yes, I like this far-away corner of Palestine, the narrow strip on the way to Egypt, in which two million human beings are crowded, and which is closer to hell than to heaven. My heart goes out to them.
→ read full articleWhat Is Fasting? A Guide to the Different Types of Fasts
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
A fast is a voluntary practice in which people go for extended or structured periods without eating and drinking for spiritual, medical, or weight loss reasons. Others fast to protest or raise awareness for causes. Fasting is not starvation. For those who fast for health reasons, fasting is just a more structured way of eating. Some people may find fasting challenging, but there are many types of fasting regimens and protocols from which to choose.
→ read full article(Português) O Homem e o Urubu
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
4 julho 2017 – Um humano ficou enojado quando viu um urubu comendo carniça na beira da estrada. Se aproximou e tentou bater no animal com um galho caído sobre o asfalto quente.
→ read full articleMarwan Barghouti and the Battle of the Empty Stomachs
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Often described as the Palestinians’ Nelson Mandela, Barghouti led the recent prisoners’ hunger strike. Paradoxically, his incarceration has served only to make him more visible, a Palestinian national icon. And now he is said to be developing a new model of resistance, to replace the failed strategies of Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas.
→ read full article(Português) Galgos Explorados em Corridas São Forçados a Usar Cocaína
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Um adestrador de galgos foi suspenso após testes revelarem que 12 cães explorados por ele tinham cocaína em seus corpos. “Este é o maior caso de drogas em galgos na história americana. É assustador”.
→ read full articleTrial and Terror
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The U.S. government has prosecuted 805 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never even got close to committing an act of violence.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (3) Thomas Paine
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Thomas Paine, defender of democracy, defender of human rights, defender of ordinary citizens against the tyranny of oligarchies, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleVault 7: Elsa
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Today, June 28th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the ELSA project of the CIA. ELSA is a geo-location malware for WiFi-enabled devices like laptops running the Micorosoft Windows operating system. Once persistently installed on a target machine using separate CIA exploits, the malware scans visible WiFi access points and records the ESS identifier, MAC address and signal strength at regular intervals.
→ read full articleThe Whore Named War
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The Whore named War
lassoed the President,
let him lay
in lascivious arms;
(Italiano) Povertà rurale? Cooperative!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Lo scopo primario delle cooperative rurali è garantire il sostentamento degli associati condividendo i rischi, e i proventi. Ne sono membri sia agricoltori sia lavoranti con capacità di assumersi rischi e di condivisione. Possono aderire poveri o disoccupati urbani, quanto meno ottenendo cibo in cambio di lavoro.
→ read full articleUN Under Siege: Geopolitics in the Time of Trump
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
1 Jul 2017 – Why the Peoples of the World Need the UN: Multilateralism, International Law, Human Rights, and Ecological Sustainability – This post is a modified and enlarged version of a talk I gave in Geneva a week ago. The audience was a blend of students of all ages from around the world, with almost none from Europe and North America, and several NGO representatives with lots of UN experience.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il genere umano nel 2050 – Un ambiente per sviluppare la pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Il 2050 è soltanto 33 anni avanti; 33 anni indietro sta il 1984 di Orwell. Sono successe tante cose. Il muro di Berlino è caduto nel 1989; hanno fatto seguito l’Impero Sovietico, l’Unione Sovietica e il Comunismo. L’Impero Usa è decaduto, vecchi clienti si sono rifiutati di combattere le guerre degli Stati Uniti ma non quelle dell’Unione Europea, incrinando la NATO.
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What do These Videos Have in Common—Or, What Is the Difference?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
‘Join the National Rifle Association’
‘USA in the Eyes of North Korean TV’
You be the judge.
‘The Hotel Tacloban:’ A Poetic Masterpiece of War and Redemption
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Part ventriloquistic non-fiction memoir, part history, part murder mystery, part war story, part confessional – wholly beyond categorization, really – The Hotel Tacloban is a mesmerizing read that will leave you stunned and shaken, but also awe-struck by the courage and depravity to which humans can rise and fall. So gripping is the story that I find it shocking that it hasn’t yet been made into a movie. Don’t miss it.
→ read full articleBarclays PLC Charged with Fraud by UK Serious Fraud Office
Jean Shaoul | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
1 Jul 2017 – The UK has charged Barclays with conspiracy to commit fraud and the provision of unlawful financial assistance. But it has nothing to do with the criminal and reckless banking behaviour that precipitated the 2008 crash—their lending practices, the selling of worthless mortgage-backed securities, false valuation and rating of debt instruments, abuse of loan foreclosure procedures, misrepresenting their financial position or any other financial skulduggery.
→ read full articleThe Bizarre Case of Bashar
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
1 Jul 2017 – I am a professional investigative journalist. For 40 years of my life I was the editor-in-chief of an investigative weekly magazine, which exposed nearly all of Israel’s major scandals during those years. I have never lost a major libel suit, indeed I have rarely been sued at all. I am mentioning this not to boast, but to lend some authority to what I am going to say. It concerns the evil deeds of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator, who bombed his own people with Sarin, a nerve gas, causing gruesome deaths of the victims.
→ read full articleOn The Mainstream Media Coverage of Nuclear War Risks and Nuclear Abolition
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – Ask yourself whether you remember to have seen one or more of these essentially important initiatives and reports recently, all pertaining to nuclear weapons, the risk of nuclear war and advocacy of nuclear abolition.
→ read full articleVault 7: OutlawCountry
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Today, June 29th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the OutlawCountry project of the CIA that targets computers running the Linux operating system. It allows for the redirection of all outbound network traffic on the target computer to CIA controlled machines for ex- and infiltration purposes. The malware consists of a kernel module that creates a hidden netfilter table on a Linux target.
→ read full article(Castellano) El porqué de la violencia en el ser humano y en la sociedad
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
20 Jun 2017 – Vivimos a nivel nacional y mundial situaciones de violencia que desafían nuestro entendimiento. No solo de seres humanos contra otros seres humanos, especialmente en el Norte de África, en Sudán y en Oriente Medio, sino también contra la naturaleza y la Madre Tierra.
→ read full articleThe Elephant in the Sky: Chemtrails, Contrails and Climate Engineering
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The Elephant in the Room: An important, serious and obvious topic, which everyone is aware of, but which nobody wants to discuss, as such discussion is considered to be uncomfortable – or would cause cognitive dissonance (the psychological distress felt when a person is presented with a truth that contradicts a previously deeply held belief).
→ read full articleA Comparative Study of World’s Truth Commissions: From Madness to Hope
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The objective of this paper is to explore the initiatives and practices of different countries in truth seeking. Many countries during the post-conflict, colonial, slavery, anarchical and cultural genocide periods establish the Truth Commissions to respond to the past human wrongdoings: crimes and crimes against humanity. Enforced disappearances, killings, rapes and inhumane tortures are wrongdoings.
→ read full articleCardinal Bo Takes Aim at Minority Abuses in Eid Message
Union of Catholic Asian News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Prelate reiterates call for probe against persecution of minorities, especially Rohingya Muslims.
→ read full articlePeople Choosing Peace: Chen (Israel)
Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
One night we had to meet an agent from the security forces in order to find a wanted terrorist. My men surrounded a house and as we entered with our flashlights. People were sleeping on mattresses all over the floor. Then the agent woke someone up and dragged him to the jeep. It was a 10-year-old child. “How can this be the ‘wanted terrorist’?” I asked myself.
→ read full articlePeaceful Societies – Where Are They?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
There are many of them–of different kinds–in world geography. We can try to identify the characteristics of their peacefulness. Or we can start by identifying belligerent societies and then see peaceful societies as their negations. Let us try this one first.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace Science Agenda 2017: New Dialogue for the G20 and UN
Subhash Chandra and Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The Main Objective of the New Agenda Is to Initiate a New Discourse on Global Peace in Scientific and Humanistic Harmonious Vision in Our Century
→ read full articleTo Counter Global Warming in USA
Cafe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Efficient Tactic
→ read full articleRemove My Clip from GMO Propaganda Film
Marion Nestle | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
21 Jun 2017 – I have asked repeatedly to have my short interview clip removed from this film. In my 10-second clip, I say that I am unaware of convincing evidence that eating GM foods is unsafe—this is what I said, but it is hugely out of context.
→ read full articleFranz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
→ read full article(Français) ONG : dépolitisation de la résistance au néolibéralisme ?
Julie Godin | CETRI-Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Si l’« ONGisation », à savoir l’instauration de la configuration ONG comme vecteur privilégié de l’action collective pour le développement, interpelle, les facteurs de dépolitisation des discours et des pratiques de ces acteurs non gouvernementaux préoccupent. La conscience des risques d’instrumentalisation, de managérialisation, d’occidentalisation, de substitution… aide à les éviter et partant, à repolitiser les résistances au modèle dominant.
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