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How to Fast Safely: Considerations before Starting a Fast
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
If you haven’t done the research, you might find yourself wondering if fasting is safe. You may have heard from people who’ve never even tried it that it’s crazy, dangerous, or just pointless. And yet, for thousands of years, many cultures have embraced fasting wholeheartedly. This ancient practice leads to numerous health benefits for most people—when done correctly.
→ read full articleThe Unspoken Truth behind the Colin Kaepernick Story
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
16 Sep 2017 – Two recent sports news items have reminded me of incidents from my own athletic past. And those memories in turn have brought my reflections back to the current news regarding the failure of any NFL team to sign quarterback Colin Kaepernick to a contract, and the recent boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor.
→ read full articleTrue Skill
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
The yogi Raman was a true master of the art of archery. One morning, he invited his favorite disciple to watch a display of his skill. The disciple had seen this more than a hundred times before, but he nevertheless obeyed his teacher.
→ read full articleDespair of Despair
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
16 Sep 2017 – How can I be an optimist in view of what’s happening here every day in Israel? The practical annexation of occupied territories? The mistreatment of the Arabs? The implantation of poisonous settlements? But optimism is a state of mind. It does not falter in the face of evil. On the contrary, evil must be fought. And you cannot fight if you do not believe that you can win. There is nothing to despair of but despair itself.
→ read full articleInterview with Edward Snowden: ‘There Is Still Hope – Even for Me’
Martin Knobbe and Jörg Schindler – Der Spiegel,
18 Sep 2017
12 Sep 2017 – Whistleblower Edward Snowden discusses his life in Russia, the power of the intelligence apparatuses and how he will continue his battle against all-encompassing surveillance by governments.
→ read full articleWorld Law to Protect Refugees and Migrants
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
On 19 Sep 2016, the UN General Assembly held a one-day Summit on «Addressing Large Movements o Refugees and Migrants» and set a new agenda for responding to large movements of people crossing frontiers. The UN resolution is called The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. There needs to be strong cooperation among the UN and its Agencies, national governments, and NGOs to deal more adequately with current challenges and to plan for the future.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Sep 18-24, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.” – Maurice Chevalier
→ read full articleChelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For
Chelsea Manning – The New York Times,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – For seven years, I didn’t exist. While incarcerated, I had no bank statements, no bills, no credit history. In our interconnected world of big data, I appeared to be no different than a deceased person. After I was released, that lack of information about me created a host of problems, from difficulty accessing bank accounts to trouble getting a driver’s license and renting an apartment.
→ read full articleLacked and Loaded
Latuff – MintPress News,
18 Sep 2017
No comment…
→ read full articlePreferred Conclusions: The BBC, Syria and Venezuela
Media Lens | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – As the late media activist Danny Schechter wrote, when it comes to the corporate broadcast media: ‘The more you watch, the less you know.’ Schechter’s observation only fails in one key respect: ‘mainstream’ output does tell us a lot about which foreign governments are being lined up for regime change.
→ read full articleRadhika: Unheard Voices of Patriotism in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Another participant of my study was Radhika Thapa (pseudonym). I came to know that she was a conflict affected child from the CPN (Maoist) side. At that time, she was a school student and ten years armed conflict ruined her schooling so I think she was a suitable participant for my study and I decided to meet her.
→ read full articleSouth-South Trade Cooperation Key to Sustainable and Inclusive Model of Globalization
Hanif Hassan Al Qassim – Other News,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – With more than 80% of the world population living in developing countries, South-South trade has the potential to increase in the years to come and to become a vector for economic growth and prosperity for a major world region whose potential has not been fully tapped during past decades.
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Everybody Hurts (Music Video of the Week)
R.E.M. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
From R.E.M.’s best-selling 1992 album, Automatic for the People
→ read full article(Português) Inspirador: casal resgata centenas de animais de circos, laboratórios e matadouros em todo o mundo
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Uma britânica ganhou um prêmio global por seu trabalho de libertação de animais selvagens de seus captores humanos.
→ read full articleEnsuring Catastrophe: The Price of Climate Denial
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
18 Sep 2017
“For the moment, of course, Trump is ascendant with the fossil fuel industry,” said 350.org founder McKibben. “But like many things that Trump touches, I think that this is a last gasp. People are coming to associate the insanity of going full speed ahead into this greenhouse future with the most reckless and crazy president that we’ve ever had.” So as climate-change-fueled disasters ravaged the U.S., Trump — the man who called climate change a Chinese hoax — was doing all he could to ensure future catastrophes.
→ read full articleWeather Forecasters
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
A tribe of American Indians on a reservation heard on their radio that there would be a cold winter. So they stacked up plenty of firewood.
→ read full articleAnd Night
Emanuel E Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
I was watching the mist with you
It spread over the brim of the cliffs,
Eaves that drooped and disappeared
Once the sun began to show
Israeli Website Claims ISIS Commander Revealed as Mossad Agent
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
18 Sep 2017
Libyan security forces arrested a Daesh commander in the city of Benghazi — only to find out soon after that the man they had captured, Ephraim Benjamin, was also an agent of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. Was he working to defeat Daesh or to strengthen it?
→ read full articleSouth-South Cooperation Key to Overcoming Inequalities, Says UN Deputy Chief
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
12 Sep 2017 – “South-South cooperation should not be seen as a substitute for North-South cooperation but as complementary, and we invite all countries and organizations to engage in supporting triangular cooperation initiatives,” UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said today, urging all developed nations to fulfill their Official Development Assistance commitments.
→ read full articleEuropean Glyphosate Safety Report Copy-Pasted Monsanto Study
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
15 Sep 2017 – Caught red-handed: Monsanto application copy/pasted into EU food safety body. See for yourself. Dozens of pages from the Renewal Assessment Report “are identical to passages in an application submitted by Monsanto on behalf of the Glyphosate Task Force, an industry body led by the company.”
→ read full articleWhy Hate Speech Is Not Free Speech
George Lakoff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
8 Sep 2017 – Freedom in a free society is supposed to be for all. Therefore, freedom rules out imposing on the freedom of others. You are free to walk down the street, but not to keep others from doing so.
→ read full articleThe World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2017
S. David Freeman, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
The debate about nuclear power was similar to talking about a religion. It was seldom grounded in all the relevant facts- each side had a religious belief in their point of view boosted by whatever ad hoc facts supported their view. Because of that history, this 2017 World Nuclear Industry Status Report is perhaps the most decisive document in the history of nuclear power. The report makes clear, in telling detail, that the debate is over. Nuclear power has been eclipsed by the sun and the wind. These renewable, free-fuel sources are no longer a dream or a projection-they are a reality that are replacing nuclear as the preferred choice for new power plants worldwide.
→ read full articleFloods, Hurricanes, Droughts… When Climate Sets the Agenda
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
18 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017 – When officials and experts from all over the world started the first-ever environmental summit hosted by China, they were already aware that climate and weather-related disasters were already seriously beginning to set the international agenda – unprecedented floods in South Asia, strongest ever hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and catastrophic droughts striking the Horn of Africa, among the most impacting recent events.
→ read full articleExamining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age: A Research Handbook
Bruce L. Cook, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
A major academic textbook on peace is scheduled for release Nov 2017. It contains a foreword by Prof. Johan Galtung and chapters by Rais Neza Boneza and Claude Shema Rutagewngwa, from the TRANSCEND Network, among other peace scholars.
→ read full articleDear Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi
Farhana Haque Rahman - Inter Press Service-IPS,
18 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017 – So far, you have warned against “fake information” and “terrorists”. We have not, however, heard a word of support or even comfort for the people that, as amply documented by international organizations and media, are subject to a campaign leading to death, widespread suffering and desperate escapes over the border. The 1991 Nobel Prize was given to honor your heroic and unflagging efforts for peace and prosperity in your country and, let’s remember, to support efforts to achieve “ethnic conciliation by peaceful means.”
→ read full articleProfit Maximization Is Easy: Invest in Violence
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
6 Sep 2017 – For those of us committed to systematically reducing and, one day, ending human violence, it is vital to understand what is causing and driving it so that effective strategies can be developed for dealing with violence in its myriad contexts… Of course, these choices aren’t for everyone. As Gandhi observed: ‘Cowards can never be moral.’
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (12) Henry David Thoreau
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Henry David Thoreau, pioneer of nonviolent civil disobedience, pioneer of environmentalism, we need your voice today!
→ read full article(Italiano) Pace-Sviluppo-Ambiente: integrati?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Questi sono gli obiettivi delle Nazioni Unite; l’Accademia di Hardanger li ha resi tre centri d’interesse. È sorto il problema: che cos’hanno in comune? Sono tre aspetti della stessa cosa? Se così, quale “cosa”? Si sono individuati ed esplorati quattro modi per cercare di rispondere. Sono quattro per via dei quattro modi di affrontare la realtà sociale.
→ read full articleMyanmar, Moderate Your Genocide!
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
My country is committing pogroms
Pogroms against Rohingyas.
I knew this day would come. And it did come sooner!
Wait! Rohingyas don’t exist.
US Completes Anti-Missile Deployment in South Korea amid Heightened War Danger
Ben McGrath | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Despite residents’ protests, US Forces Korea began installing four more THAAD missile launchers early Thursday [7 Sep] morning in the South Korean town of Seongju. The reintroduction of tactical nuclear weapons would greatly heighten the danger of nuclear war. In the extremely tense situation on the Korean Peninsula, the two militaries would have to take into account the possibility of a nuclear attack with just minutes of warning, exacerbating the risk of miscalculations or mistakes triggering a nuclear exchange.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar Military Laying Anti-Personnel Mines in Trail of Fleeing Rohingya Refugees
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Myanmar’s military has been accused of planting land mines in the path of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in its western Rakhine state, with Amnesty International reporting two people wounded Sunday [10 Sep]. Refugee accounts of the latest spasm of violence in Rakhine have typically described shootings by soldiers and arson attacks on villages.
→ read full articleThe “Musa Sadr Is Alive” Hoax Has Deceived Lebanon’s Shia for 39 Years
Franklin Lamb | OpEd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The Libyan agents put their bags in their rooms, stayed out of site, and they said nothing about checking out to the hotel’s front desk. They simply left their bags, including Rehiby’s elevated shoes “in Imam Sadr’s room” and took a taxi to Rome’s Leonardo Da Vinci airport and returned to Libya. For years Rehiby shoes jokes passed among Gadaffi regime insiders according to friends.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi’s Response to Rakhine and Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar ‘Unconscionable’
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
6 Sep 2017 -“This is a human rights and humanitarian catastrophe. In her first comments on the crisis, instead of promising concrete action to protect the people in Rakhine state, Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be downplaying the horrific reports coming out of the area,” said Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Director.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel mentre – In giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Sembra esserci un nuovo sistema europeo per calcolare il PIL. Non solo vengono inclusi gli armamenti ma pure i fondi che vanno a ricerca e sviluppo finalizzati alla guerra. Inclusi sono pure prostituzione e droghe, sotto la voce “servizi”. E’ compresa qualunque cosa che viene offerta e richiesta per denaro. Come ci fa sentire questa novità sulla crescita economica? Di essere tra i “valori pro-capite” secondo i quali viene diviso questo mostro uscito da menti economicistiche malate?
→ read full article(Português) Oito contos de escritores consagrados para repensarmos nossa relação com os animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Com uma estilística inovadora e linear, Saramago apresenta a história de solimão (com s minúsculo mesmo), um elefante que se torna alvo da corrupção, individualismo, egocentrismo e outras falhas que permeiam a natureza humana.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il nucleare civile… tra le pieghe del militare
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
11 Sep 2017
1 settembre 2017 – Le recenti manifestazioni a favore del bando delle armi nucleari hanno dimostrato il crescente interesse della società civile ad agire per scongiurare la minaccia di una guerra atomica. Il 7 luglio a New York con 122 voti a favore, 1 astenuto e 1 contrario, è stata sancita e adottata dall’Onu la messa al bando delle armi nucleari .
→ read full articleWhat the Media Isn’t Telling You about North Korea’s Missile Tests
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
11 Sep 2017
What the media failed to mention was that, for the last three weeks, Japan, South Korea and the US have been engaged in large-scale joint-military drills on Hokkaido Island and in South Korea. These needlessly provocative war games are designed to simulate an invasion of North Korea and a “decapitation” operation to remove (Re: Kill) the regime.
→ read full articleDesmond Tutu: Dearly Beloved Younger Sister Aung San Suu Kyi
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
I am now elderly, decrepit and formally retired, but breaking my vow to remain silent on public affairs out of profound sadness about the plight of the Muslim minority in your country, the Rohingya. In my heart you are a dearly beloved younger sister. For years I had a photograph of you on my desk to remind me of the injustice and sacrifice you endured out of your love and commitment for Myanmar’s people. You symbolised righteousness. In 2010 we rejoiced at your freedom from house arrest, and in 2012 we celebrated your election as leader of the opposition.
→ read full articleMyanmar: Who Are the Rohingya Muslims?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Why are the more than one million Rohingya in Myanmar considered the ‘world’s most persecuted minority’?
→ read full articleWhy 38,000 Muslim Rohingya Refugees Have Just Fled Their Buddhist Home in Burma/Myanmar
Matthew Gindin | Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
1 Sep 2017 – Rakhine is home to 1.1 million Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority that has suffered persecution for more than 40 years. In 2012, deadly riots between Muslims and the Buddhist majority forced more than 100,000 Rohingya into displacement camps where they have remained since. On 30 Aug U Wirathu, a Buddhist monk known for his sermons inciting hatred and violence against Muslims, gave a speech demanding all international NGOs be expelled from Rakhine State and martial law be established.
→ read full articleThe Guardian View on the Slaughter in Myanmar: A Crime against Humanity
The Guardian | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
4 Sep 2017 – The brutal, bloody, and ultimately pointless mistreatment of a Muslim minority shames [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi who appeared for decades as the epitome of principled and unflinching defence of human rights, now the unfeeling figurehead of a vicious regime.
→ read full articleGhostly Voices Dancing in the Rain
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
8 Sep 2017 – A solitary, early Sunday morning walk in the rain. As I like it, my only walking companion was the soothing sound of rain in the trees and on the lake. From the shallow water at the lake’s swampy edge, a blue heron, perched on one leg, froze my gaze as I stopped and stared.
→ read full articleHoly See Steps Up Opposition to Nuclear Weapons
Nicolas Senèze | La Croix – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The Vatican cast its first ever UN vote in July when it backed a nuclear disarmament treaty. The vote signaled an evolution of the Church’s doctrine, one of taking an ever tougher stance against nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleLiving Peacefully Close to Mother Earth – A Saga of Amish and Mennonite Communities
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The brief glimpse I had of the Mennonite and Amish communities was a pleasant one. These people are peaceful and faithful to their Church. They live simply, do not exploit the natural resources and are close to the earth. Their farms are clean, well maintained and display a sense of harmony with other people and with flora and fauna.
→ read full articleThe Lady Has Turned
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Aung San Suu Kyi should lose her Nobel Peace Prize, as a result of her disgraceful complicity in genocide.
→ read full articleWorld Leaders 2017
Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Mine is bigger than yours !!
Mine reproduces more deaths than yours !!
Human Trafficking in Nepal: A Scenario, Challenges and Way Out
Shree Prasad Devkota and Indra Raj Bhattarai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Human trafficking is not only a serious concern and challenge for Nepal, it has become a global challenge particularly for developing and least developed countries. There is a long history of Nepali girls and women trafficked for sexual purpose, exploitation and abuses to India and other parts of the world.
→ read full articleVault 7: Protego
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Today, September 7th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes four secret documents from the Protego project of the CIA, along with 37 related documents. Protego is not the “usual” malware development project like all previous publications by WikiLeaks in the Vault7 series.
→ read full articleActivism Is Our Rent for Living on the Earth
Chaitanya Charan Das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
24 Aug 2017 – The idea of activism – of being a part of some cause that helps makes things better in the world – is increasingly catching on. It has become much cooler than what it was a few decades ago, when greed ruled the roost. What has led to activism’s increased appeal?
→ read full articleOur News Media Perpetuates Systemic Violence
Emeline Armitage | The Johns Hopkins News-Letter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Armitage argues that news media whitewashed the violence that occurred in Charlottesville. How we imprison more people per capita than any other nation, how our police shoot innocent black children, how we are deporting millions whose mother countries’ turmoil we caused, how we bomb civilians in the Middle East — the list can go on and on.
→ read full articleCognitive Implications in 3D of Triadic Symbols Valued in 2D
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Representations of the Triskelion in Virtual Reality and Implications for Quantum Consciousness
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Sep 11–17, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.” – Thomas Hardy
→ read full articleAppeal for Political Leaders to Make Executive and Assembly Work for the People of Northern Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
6 Sep 2017 – The vast majority of people in Northern Ireland, whose main desire is to live in peace together, earn a living and raise their families, are currently living in a no-man’s land. We are living now in a political vacuum, which leaves our community vulnerable to paramilitarism. But it does not have to be like this.
→ read full articleFrom Japan for Humanity: A Tribute to Dr. Hideo Tsuchiyama
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
To atomic radiation he was exposed
The Nagasaki Peace Movement he eloquently proposed
Hurricanes Blow Away Climate Change Denial
Paul R. Pillar – Consortium News,
11 Sep 2017
The startling landfall of two giant hurricanes – feasting on especially warm water off Texas and Florida – crashes into the climate change denialism that has been politically popular on the Right, notes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
→ read full article(Français) Un million d’enfants sur le point de mourir du choléra. Qui va bouger le petit doigt?
Vijay Prashad | AlterNet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Depuis 2015, l’Arabie saoudite bombarde le pays le plus pauvre de la péninsule arabique. D’après l’UNICEF, un enfant meurt toutes les dix minutes au Yémen. Ces morts ne sont pas des tragédies, ce sont des crimes dont l’Occident est complice.
→ read full articleWorld Needs to Move beyond ‘Conceptual Debate’ and Improve Protection from Atrocities, Urges Guterres
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
6 Sep 2017 – “All of us are well aware of the grim human reality that lies behind the words, ‘war crimes’, ‘crimes against humanity’, ‘ethnic cleansing’, and ‘genocide’,” Mr. Guterres said. “It is time to move beyond the conceptual debate towards improved protection of people from atrocity crimes.”
→ read full articleCourtroom
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
A man caught in embezzlement asked his lawyer, “Would it help my case if I sent the judge a box of cigars?”
→ read full articleThe World Will Be Reborn
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Spring and Easter are a time of rebirth,
However fragile this world may be,
Someday torment will end,
In the nothingness will go the terror.
Yemen’s Cholera Outbreak Surpasses 600,000
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Yemen—the worst in the world—is product of the Saudi-led, US-backed war of aggression, the UNHCHR stated on Tuesday [5 Sep]. The war assumed near-genocidal proportions and has killed at least 14,000 civilians, maimed many thousands more, displaced 2 million and left at least 7.3 million on the brink of famine. The country is confronting the worst cholera epidemic on record, with 612,703 people infected.
→ read full article9/11: The Pentagon’s B-Movie
Graeme MacQueen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
5 Sep 2017 – The events that took place in the United States on Sep 11, 2001 were real and they were extremely violent. They also had catastrophic real-life consequences for both the US and the world. But these events were also deeply filmic (like a film) and they were presented to us through a narrative we now know to be fictional.
→ read full articleDemocracy Insurance
Hardy Merriman | International Center on Nonviolent Conflict – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
We know that a unified and mobilized population—capable of imposing costs on unaccountable power holders through nonviolent tactics such as strikes, boycotts, and civil disobedience—is often essential to protecting and expanding civic space. There is an art and a science to how ordinary people have done this and nonviolent civil resistance has proven remarkably adaptable at addressing a variety of situations relevant to democratic backsliding, including:
→ read full article(Français) Myanmar: de l’essence et du feu, mais pas le Bien contre le Mal
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
7 Sep 2017 – Longtemps persécutés dans l’ombre, les Rohingya, communauté musulmane du Myanmar, se trouvent aujourd’hui sous le feu des projecteurs médiatiques. Situation embarrassante pour Aung San Suu Kyi et ses sponsors occidentaux qui l’avaient plébiscitée pour incarner la transition démocratique du Myanmar?
→ read full articleA Confession
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
9 Sep 2017 – Today is the last day of the 93rd year of my life. Ridiculous. Am I moderately satisfied with my life until now? Yes. I am. If by a miracle I could be returned to, say, 14, and travel all this long way again, would I like that? No, I would not. Enough is enough.
→ read full article(Português) Milhares de macacos aprisionados em fazendas/quintas destinados a uma vida de tortura em laboratórios
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Em 2015, os Institutos Nacionais de Saúde anunciaram que já não era preciso usar chimpanzés em pesquisas biomédicas. Por isso, Capaldo luta para compreender por que outros primatas ainda são torturados. “A vida desses animais é completamente dissociada dos produtos que usamos e é por isso que faço essas imagens para realizar a conexão entre A e B.”
→ read full articleScience and Religion for Freedom and Happiness
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Science enables man to be free from the tyranny of the environment, but it fails to free him from the tyranny of his own nature. But its twin – the religion can complement in the role of science for making human beings free to be happy.
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Liberace Plays Tchaikovsky (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The great performer passes the test of time.
→ read full articleInvestigation: White Helmets Committing Acts of Terror across Syria
Vanessa Beeley – MintPress News,
11 Sep 2017
The supposedly Syrian NGO White Helmets were established in Turkey, not in Syria. They are largely trained in Turkey and Jordan, not inside Syria. They were established in March 2013 by a British ex-military officer with $300,000 in seed funding from Japan, the U.K. and the U.S.
→ read full articleThe West–Where Are You Heading?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
There are no chosen individuals, with promised status. We are all chosen as humans by the precious gift of life, with guaranteed survival, wellness, freedom of options, identity. In a nature with guaranteed diversity and symbiosis; not vicious human attacks on both.
→ read full article‘We Came to School and Found It Destroyed’: Israeli Forces Demolish West Bank School Hours before Children’s First Day
Sheren Khalel | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
23 Aug 2017— Israeli military jeeps came barreling down towards Jubbet al-Dhib’s first and only primary school late Tuesday [19 Aug] night, terrifying locals who had been finishing preparations for the school’s grand opening set for the next morning. Soldiers shot tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets as they cleared the way for bulldozers and flatbed trucks brought in to take down the school.
→ read full articleMaking Peace
Denise Levertov | Poetry Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
A voice from the dark called out,
‘The poets must give us
imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar
imagination of disaster. Peace, not only
the absence of war.’
Denis de Rougemont (8 Sep 1906 – 6 Dec 1985): The Future Is within Us
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
For de Rougemont, revolutionaries attempting to seize power, even from the most repressive regimes, invariably fall into the power structures they hoped to eliminate. Only the power we have over ourselves is synonymous with freedom. For the first time, the person has not only the need but also the power and ability to choose his future.
→ read full article9/11: The Repression of Dissent and the 16th Anniversary of the Crime and Cover-up of the Century
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The Power of Big Lie Propaganda, Blind Patriotism, Ignorance and Denial
→ read full article‘Sad Day for Warmongers’ as UN Finds Iran in Total Compliance with Nuke Deal
Julia Conley – Common Dreams,
4 Sep 2017
1 Sep 2017 – On what one observer called “a sad day for warmongers,” the United Nations declared today that Iran is fully adhering to the nuclear deal reached in 2015, and that inspectors will not go looking for infractions at the request of the Trump administration.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (11) John Stuart Mill
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
John Stuart Mill, economist with a social and ecological conscience, defender of individual liberty, pioneering advocate of the rights of women, we need your voice today!
→ read full articlePeace Poetry: A Burgeoning Movement in Pakistan’s KP Province
Hizbullah Khan – Asia Times,
4 Sep 2017
More than 300 books have been written by Pakistani poets on the subject of “peace” over the last decade and poetry gatherings are drawing large crowds. “We sell almost 1,000 ‘peace poetry’ books in a month and sales of regular and poetry books are equal.”
→ read full articleAre the Rohingya Militants Responsible for Derailing Kofi Annan Commission’s Recommendations?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
“Who is terrorising whom”” is the question that needs to be confronted head on. There is something else that needs to be called out: the mass media’s misframing of Rohingya militants as “jihadists”. Both the realities on the ground and the media narrative covering the realities are quite skewered in favour of the perpetrating Burmese regime’s framing.
→ read full article(Italiano) Spagna: dove stai andando?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Per gli spagnoli è abituale aggiungere la parola “crisi” al nome del paese. Non sono i soli in ciò, può essere una consuetudine occidentale, uno di quei termini che sospingono avanti l’Occidente.
→ read full article(Italiano) Superare la paranoia verso la Russia
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
È ora di aprire una porta positiva alla Russia con uno scambio a reciproco e uguale beneficio. Scambi di merci lavorate e di servizi, cooperazione nel sopprimere la speculazione e l’intossicazione da droghe. Soprattutto: rispetto reciproco, non solo vantaggi. Stima, simpatia. Affetto. RUSSIA: ja tjebjà ljubljù. Ti amo.
→ read full article41M Affected by South Asia Floods, but Who Knows about It?
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The flooding and landslides have swept Bangladesh, India and Nepal for weeks, killing over 1,200 people.
→ read full articleRussia, US, Iran and Israel War for Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Interview Conducted by Graduate Students from Oxford University’s Middle East Center and St Anthony’s College, August 2017 – Franklin Lamb is a Ph.D. in international law and is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict. Prof. Lamb has many years experience on the ground in the Middle East and for the past six has been in Syria dedicated to, among other activities, the grass roots human rights group Meals for Syrian Refugee Children, Lebanon.
→ read full articleHow History Explains the Korean Crisis
William R. Polk – Consortium News,
4 Sep 2017
Many Americans simply view North Korea and its leaders as “crazy,” but the history behind today’s crisis reveals of a more complex reality that could change those simplistic impressions, as historian William R. Polk explains.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele si avvia verso una soluzione?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Il mondo vuole messaggi di pace da queste grandi, antiche fedi, non guerra perpetua. Questi messaggi potrebbero venire da Gerusalemme, mettendo in evidenza le tradizioni di solidarietà e tolleranza piuttosto che il contrario: le fedi abramitiche, che rinnegano la speranza del genere umano nella pace. Il mondo è in attesa. E’ tempo che accada, ora.
→ read full articleThe Man Who Stood Up to Armageddon
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 Aug 2017 – Suddenly it’s possible — indeed, all too easy — to imagine one man starting a nuclear war. What’s a little harder to imagine is one human being stopping such a war. For all time. The person who came closest to this may have been Tony de Brum, former foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, who died last week of cancer at age 72.
→ read full articleSeymour Hersh Honored for Integrity
Ray McGovern- Consortium News,
4 Sep 2017
1 Sep 2017 – An organization led by former U.S. intelligence officials has selected legendary journalist Seymour Hersh to be the recipient of an annual award for integrity and truth-telling, named for the late CIA analyst Sam Adams.
→ read full articleRohingyas — Jihadists?
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The way Aung San Suu Kyi and her government colleagues have framed the clashes ignores the brutal massacres committed by the military over a long period of time. The oppression and persecution of the Rohingyas by the State and other forces has been thoroughly documented by the United Nations Human Rights Council and other independent human rights groups.
→ read full articleNYT Only the Latest Corporate Media Outlet to Give Free Publicity to Mercenary Profiteer
Adam Johnson | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The New York Times (8/30/17) decided to turn over a large chunk of the most precious opinion space in the English-speaking world to mercenary entrepreneur Erik Prince, so he could promote his plan to privatize and profit from the US occupation of Afghanistan.
→ read full article(Français) Les Etats-Unis et le fascisme latino-américain: ancien et nouveau modèle
Franklin Frederick | The Dawn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 Août 2017 – Les tendances fascistes sont de retour au grand jour en Amérique Latine. Elles sont clairement visibles dans l’opposition meurtrière vénézuélienne mais également dans les rues de l’Argentine et du Brésil. Ces tendances fascistes proviennent du fait que l’inégalité économique et l’égalité politique sont incompatibles, à plus forte raison sur un continent où la distribution de la richesse est à ce point inégale.
→ read full articleHow Big Pharma Greed Is Killing Tens of Thousands around the World
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Patients Are Over-Medicated and Often Given Profitable Drugs with ‘Little Proven Benefits,’ Leading Doctors Warn
→ read full articleVault 7: Angelfire
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Today, August 31st 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the Angelfire project of the CIA. Like previously published CIA projects (Grasshopper and AfterMidnight) in the Vault7 series, it is a persistent framework that can load and execute custom implants on target computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (XP or Win7).
→ read full articleCreativity, Insanity, Spirituality
Dr. K. Sohail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Reflections of a Humanist Psychotherapist on the Spiritual Autobiographies of Ghazali, Tolstoy and Jung
→ read full articleThe British Empire’s Homophobic Legacy Could Finally Be Overturned in India
Ibtisam Ahmed – The Conversation,
4 Sep 2017
1 Sep 2017 – In a landmark ruling, India’s Supreme Court has confirmed an individual’s right to privacy – including sexual orientation – under the country’s constitution. Section 377, which criminalises homosexuality, could finally be relegated to the history books.
→ read full article(Português) Investigações secretas revelam a extrema crueldade do comércio de animais
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 agosto 2017 – A decisão de receber um animal na família é emocionante e, mesmo que um número crescente de pessoas decida adotar em abrigos, muitas ainda financiam lojas de animais, o que alimenta a cruel indústria de fábricas de filhotes que condena os pais dos filhotes a uma vida miserável.
→ read full articleKofi Annan Commission Urges Myanmar/Burma to End Rohingya Restrictions
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
24 Aug 2017 – Myanmar must scrap restrictions on movement and citizenship for its persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority if it wants to avoid fuelling extremism and bring peace to Rakhine state, a commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan said today. It warns against using force and ignoring concerns of world’s ‘single biggest stateless’ community.
→ read full articleDon’t Look Now
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
2 Sep 2017 – It is not only Donald Trump’s government that censors the discussion of climate change; it is the entire body of polite opinion. This is why the majority of news reports on Hurricane Harvey have made no mention of the human contribution. The media avoids the subject of climate breakdown – to do otherwise is to bring the entire infrastructure of thought crashing down.
→ read full articleDouble
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The people of Minas Gerais in Brazil are said to love cheese. A man there met a fairy and she promised to grant him three wishes.
→ read full articleA Prayer for Houston…. And,
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Please help the people in Houston, Lord.
And, while You’re at it, in Palestine, too!
Though worlds apart, they are kindred,
as all suffering creatures are kindred.
Deception
Latuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Holocaust Business
→ read full articleWith Enormous Harvey Damage, Naomi Klein Warns against ‘Disaster Capitalism’ Redux
Julia Conley – Common Dreams,
4 Sep 2017
Now is exactly the time to speak out against free-market exploitation, says author of ‘The Shock Doctrine.’
→ read full articleDo Sierra Leonean Lives Matter?
Jugal Shah | OpenCanada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
28 Aug 2017 – When events in the US dominate the news, is there still an appetite for political and humanitarian response to crises like the mudslides in Sierra Leone and in the Democratic Republic of Congo? In Sierra Leone, more than 500 lives have been claimed. In the DRC, 200 were killed by landslides.
→ read full article