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Liu Xiaobo and Charter 08: Fire under the Ashes
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
4 Aug 2017 – The media reports on the recent death of Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, of cancer after years of imprisonment, have focused on his life, especially the prison years and the continued surveillance of his wife, the poet Liu Xia.
→ read full articleBerlin Calls for “Countermeasures” to US Sanctions against Russia, Hints at Trade War
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Germany economy minister Brigitte Zypries said that “we consider this as being against international law, plain and simple.” She added that “of course we don’t want a trade war. But it is important the European Commission now looks into countermeasures.” She also said that “the Americans cannot punish German companies because they operate economically in another country.”
→ read full articleWMD: American Lies, Damnable Lies and Downright Dangerous Lies
Janet Phelan | Activist Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
The U.S. lies to the international community about its secret WMD programs.
→ read full article“Just Get Your Damn Shots”
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Well-informed parents are beginning to realize – despite the aggressive propaganda campaigns from Big Pharma, Big Medicine and Big Media – that vaccines are NOT necessarily safe. Indeed they are seeing that they can be lethal. Many parents are also beginning to see that vaccines are NOT necessarily effective long-term either.
→ read full articleSurvivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Atomic Heritage Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
By the end of 1945, the atomic bombings of Japan had killed an estimated 140,000 people at Hiroshima and 74,000 at Nagasaki, including those who died from radiation poisoning. Often lost in those numbers are the experiences of the survivors, known as hibakusha (literally “atomic bomb-affected people”).
→ read full articleBritain: The End of a Fantasy
Fintan O’Toole | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
10 Jun 2017 – To understand the sensational outcome of the British election, one must ask a basic question. What happens when phony populism collides with the real thing? … The reliance on a spurious notion of the “popular will” has left Britain with no clear notion of who “the people” are and what they really want.
→ read full articleHot-Headed: How Climate Change-Induced Drought Is Destabilising Global Peace
Ruth Lyons | Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
“There is mounting evidence that climate change is creating the conditions for instability and poverty, two significant contributors to the outbreak of civil war and violence.”
→ read full articleIn Support of LBGT’s Same-Sex Marriage Campaign
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Life is a mystery and love is the greatest mystery of all and should be celebrated and freedom to choose whom to love and whom to marry is one of our basic human rights. Equality is a key priority for a genuine solution to our problems in N. Ireland and none less so for the LGBT community that for years has faced harassment and discrimination.
→ read full articleHalf-truths and Falsehoods in PBS Series ‘Inside Putin’s Russia’
Rick Sterling | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
27 Jul 2017 – The US government-supported Public Broadcasting System recently ran a five part series dubbed Inside Putin’s Russia. With a different theme each night, it purports to give a realistic look at Russia today. The image conveyed is of a Russia that is undemocratic with widespread state repression, violence and propaganda. Following are significant distortions and falsehoods in the five-part documentary.
→ read full articleTrump Finds Reason for the U.S. to Remain in Afghanistan: $1 Trillion in Untapped Mineral Deposits
Mark Landler and James Risen – The New York Times,
7 Aug 2017
25 Jul 2017 — President Trump, searching for a reason to keep the United States in Afghanistan after 16 years of war, has latched on to a prospect that tantalized previous administrations: Afghanistan’s vast mineral wealth, which his advisers and Afghan officials have told him could be profitably extracted by Western companies.
→ read full articleLiving in Dystopian Times
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
3 Aug 2017 – Twenty-five years ago there were three widely held beliefs about future trends on a global level: the assured preeminence of the United States; the continuing globalization of the world economy; and the expanding democratization of national governance arrangements. It was also assumed that these trends were more or less descriptive of regional realities, including the Middle East. Each of these trends that seemed so descriptive 25 years ago now seems to be completely out of touch with what is happening around us.
→ read full articleBeing vs. Doing
The Secrets of Yoga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Multitasking is a great technique that allows us to achieve numerous goals in any given day, and technologies such as the computer and cell phone are available almost anywhere we go… Give your complete self to a task and perform it methodically. Bhakti, or devotion, is key. In Zen Buddhism, meditation is described as just sitting. Sacred texts such as the Bhagavad-gita are full of spiritual information that can place wandering souls, giving them insight and direction.
→ read full articleFidel Castro (13 Aug 1926 – 25 Nov 2016)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, political leader of Cuba (1959–2008), transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America.
→ read full articleWhat Is Peace Journalism?
Prof. Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Peace journalism is when editors and reporters make choices – about what to report, and how to report it – that create opportunities for society at large to consider and to value non-violent responses to conflict.
→ read full articleMontreal’s Olympic Stadium Welcomes Haitians, Other Asylum Seekers from U.S.
James Rainey – NBC News,
7 Aug 2017
3 Aug 2017 – Though the newcomers are from many countries, some told journalists they were Haitian and felt less welcome in America after President Donald Trump said in May that protective status for those who fled a massive 2010 earthquake could be withdrawn, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Aug 7-13, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Life asked death, ‘Why do people love me but hate you?’ Death responded, ‘Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth.” – Author unknown
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Mr. Tambourine Man (Music Video of the Week)
Bob Dylan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1964 – A Super Classic!!
→ read full articleHas Seymour Hersh Debunked ‘Russia-gate’?
Justin Raimondo | Antiwar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
4 Aug 2017 – Journalist Seymour Hersh has given us good reason to believe what many have long suspected: that the “hacking” of the Democratic National Committee, which supposedly delivered the White House to Donald Trump, was an inside job. Hersh says Seth Rich contacted WikiLeaks.
→ read full articleIndia’s NGOs Need to Realign Their Focus
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
2 Aug 2017 – India is now all set to frame a law to curb the wild growth of NGOS following a series of strict observations of the Supreme Court. Think tanks shape the social and political conversations that mold public opinion. Money comes with strings that can undermine a revolutionary’s mission. As with any institutional structure the need for transparency and accountability is crucial.
→ read full articleIsrael Heading for a Solution?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
The world wants messages of peace from these great, old faiths [Judaism, Christianity, Islam], not everlasting belligerence. That could emanate from Jerusalem, by highlighting the traditions of togetherness and tolerance rather than the opposite: the Abrahamic faiths betraying the human hope of peace. The world is waiting. Time for this to happen is now.
→ read full articleDeadly Combination of Cholera, Hunger and Conflict Pushes Yemen to ‘Edge of a Cliff’ – Senior UN Official
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
1 Aug 2017 – Describing the situation in Yemen as “very bleak,” with “no end in sight,” a senior United Nations official envoy today said the war-torn country, already reeling from malnutrition and dwindling health care, is plummeting into further distress amid a deadly cholera outbreak and looming famine.
→ read full articleOvercoming Paranoia about Russia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Time to open the positive door to Russia with exchange for mutual and equal benefit. Trade in processed goods, and in services, cooperation in killing speculation and drug-poisoning. Above all, mutual respect not only benefit. Admiration, sympathy. Love. RUSSIA: ja tjebja ljubljo. I love you.
→ read full articleThe Bilateral Relationship That Matters
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Which is the most important bilateral relationship in the international arena today? Many analysts would argue that it is the relationship between the United States of America and China that has the greatest significance for the world.
→ read full articleU.N. Human Rights Procedures and the Role of Citizens of Non-Member States
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
In practice, it is difficult for a person who is considered as “stateless” or a citizen of a Non-Member State to be able to use the human rights procedures put into place by the United Nations, especially what are considered complaint procedures.
→ read full articleThe Surprising Economic Benefits of Peace
Mohib Iqbal and Daniel Hyslop | Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
While a small handful of individuals and companies may benefit from conflict, the majority suffer – not only in human terms, but also economically. Since 2010, the Institute for Economics and Peace has developed leading research which calculates the economic losses from violence and conflict, breaking the myth sustained by many that war is good for the economy.
→ read full articleThe World’s Most and Least Peaceful Countries [Infographic]
Niall McCarthy – Forbes,
31 Jul 2017
Out of all countries, the U.S. experienced the greatest decline in peace, falling 11 places. Iceland was named the world’s most peaceful nation ahead of New Zealand, Portugal, Austria and Denmark. At the opposite end, unsurprisingly, peace levels were lowest in Syria. It is preceded in the ranking by Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan and Yemen.
→ read full articleGeopolitical Dirty Dreams: Israel’s ‘Victory Caucus’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
29 Jul 2017 – The main Trump assignment within the United States will likely be to lend full support to the Congressional and state-by-state pushback against the BDS campaign, slandering this nonviolent civil society movement of militant solidarity and human rights by castigating it as ‘the anti-Semitism of our time.’
→ read full articleGlobal Peace Index 2017
Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
The 2017 Global Peace Index finds that the world became more peaceful in the last year; however, over the last decade it has become significantly less peaceful. Top 5: Iceland, New Zealand, Portugal, Austria, Denmark.
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Buying a Slave: The Hidden World of US/Philippines Trafficking (Part 1)
Abby Martin | Empire Files - teleSUR,
31 Jul 2017
Human trafficking is a hidden industry that brings in $150 billion in illegal profits every year. In the United States, tens of thousands are trafficked annually—the biggest clients being major hotel chains and foreign diplomats. The Philippines is one of the largest labor exporters in the world. 6,000 Filipinos—mostly women—leave the country every single day to work, because of mass unemployment and poverty. Tricked by placement agencies, thousands end up living as virtual slaves.
→ read full articlePlastic Garbage Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in Pacific
Shaena Montanari | National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Yet another floating mass of microscopic plastic has been discovered in the ocean, and it is mind-blowingly vast.
→ read full articleWith the European Union Livid, U.S. Congress Pushes Forward on Sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea
Alex Emmons and Ryan Grim – The Intercept,
31 Jul 2017
U.S. Congress tells the EU it doesn’t care what it thinks about its Russia sanctions.
→ read full articleBiological Annihilation on Earth Accelerating
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
26 Jul 2017 – Human beings are now waging war against life itself as we continue to destroy not just individual lives, local populations and entire species in vast numbers but also destroy the ecological systems that make life on Earth possible.
→ read full articleBiological Warfare: US & Saudis Use Cholera to Kill Yemenis
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
31 Jul 2017
29 Jul 2017 – Since March 2015, the US has supported Saudi Arabia and its allies in their criminal war of aggression against Yemen, committing daily war crimes, especially against civilians, who are now suffering a cholera epidemic with more than 400,000 victims. Cholera is caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholera and has been weaponized by the US, Japan (in World War II), South Africa (under apartheid), Iraq (under Saddam), and other states.
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Buying a Slave: The Roots of the Philippines Trafficking Epidemic (Part 2)
Abby Martin | Empire Files – teleSUR,
31 Jul 2017
In this sequel to the report on trafficked Filipina domestic workers, Damayan’s Linda Oalican provides a deeper context to the epidemic of human trafficking by guiding us through the history of colonialism, resistance and US domination of the islands. From the centuries of Spanish rule and decades of US brutality, through the evisceration of the Philippine economy, this episode is a must-watch primer on why human beings are now the nation’s top export.
→ read full articleHuman Rights & Humanitarian Law: Genocide
Jean Paul Sartre | Tamil Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Jean Paul Sartre’s Statement at the Second Session of the Bertrand Russell International War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam held in Denmark in November 1967 remains, almost 40 years later, an inspiring appeal to the conscience of humanity – inspiring not only because of the force of its reason but also because it reveals Sartre’s passionate commitment to justice.
→ read full article(Português) Novos métodos substituem o uso de animais vivos nas aulas de veterinária
USP Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Na Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, a professora Julia Matera foi pioneira no uso de técnicas substitutivas para ensino de cirurgia, projeto pelo qual foi recentemente premiada.
→ read full articleVault 7: Imperial
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Today, July 27th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the Imperial project of the CIA.
→ read full articleThe New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the Future of Plastics
World Economic Forum | Ellen MacArthur Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Applying circular economy principles to global plastic packaging flows could transform the plastics economy and drastically reduce negative externalities such as leakage into oceans, according to this new report.
→ read full articleNew Google Algorithm Restricts Access to Left-Wing, Progressive Web Sites
Andre Damon and Niles Niemuth | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
27 Jul 2017 – In the three months since Internet monopoly Google announced plans to keep users from accessing “fake news,” the global traffic rankings of a broad range of left-wing, progressive, anti-war and democratic rights organizations have fallen significantly.
→ read full articleThe March of Folly
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
One of my friends said this week: “There is no need to put cameras on the Temple Mount, as is now suggested. We should put the cameras in the cabinet room, because that is the source of the greatest danger to the future of Israel. Amen.
→ read full articleChina Seeks to Export Its Green Finance Model to the World
Daniel Gutman – Inter Press Service-IPS,
31 Jul 2017
26 Jul 2017 – Hand in hand with UN Environment and the Inter-American Development Bank, the People’s Bank of China disembarked in the Argentine capital to prompt this country to adopt and promote the agenda of so-called green finance, which supports clean or sustainable development projects and combats climate change.
→ read full articleYemen Records 400,000 Cholera Cases
Roshni Majumdar – Inter Press Service-IPS,
31 Jul 2017
27 Jul 2017 – The directors of the UN Children’s Fund, World Food Programme and World Health Organization released a joint statement today shedding light on a deadly cholera epidemic engulfing war-torn Yemen. More than 400,000 cases of cholera are suspected, and nearly 1,900 people have died from associated cases in the last three months alone.
→ read full article‘The World Outside Doesn’t Want to Know. Everyone Wants Us to Die’
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Sarah Helm talks to Palestinians in Gaza city where levels of mental and physical disability are unbearably high especially as scant medical and social services shrink even more. They feel helpless and hopeless, controlled by three rigid forces, Hamas, the PA and the IDF.
→ read full article49 Reasons for Being a Vegetarian
The Whole Earth Vegetarian Catalogue – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
“Because one species is cleverer than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species? To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak – might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the earth.” — Richard Ryder
→ read full articleWar
Lara Ayvazyan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Cruelty is degeneracy,
It should be closed in cage.
The world will not attain purification
While it rages!
We Need Their Voices Today! (6) William Godwin
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
William Godwin, believer in liberty, individual judgement, absolute honesty and unselfish service to humanity as a whole, we need your voice today!
→ read full article(Français) Faut-il détester la Russie ou faut-il réfléchir ?
Michel Collon | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Comprendre comment nous en sommes arrivés là, comprendre les «règles du jeu» entre grandes puissances est essentiel pour que chaque citoyen puisse répondre à la question «Guerre ou Paix» aujourd’hui !
→ read full articleThe Betrayal of India: A Close Look at the 2008 Mumbai Terror Attacks
Graeme MacQueen – Global Research,
31 Jul 2017
The Betrayal of India: Revisiting the 26/11 Evidence, by Elias Davidsson – These days we rush from one media story to another, trying to keep up with the latest terrorist attack. Yesterday Paris; today London; tomorrow, who knows?
→ read full articleThese Five Countries Are Conduits for the World’s Biggest Tax Havens
Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Eelke Heemskerk, Frank Takes and Jan Fichtner – The Conversation,
31 Jul 2017
Tax sheltering is not just the domain of exotic Caribbean isles. Major world powers, including the United Kingdom, play a critical and previously undisclosed role in global tax avoidance. A new study has now uncovered all the world’s corporate tax havens and, for the first time, revealed the intermediary countries that companies use to funnel their money into these places.
→ read full articleA Defense of Climate Tragedy, or What the Scientists Got Wrong about “The Uninhabitable Earth”
Genevieve Guenther | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
14 Jul 2017 – This is an essay about the furor over David Wallace-Wells’ New York Magazine article “The Uninhabitable Earth,” which conjures a specter of a planet so ruined by global warming in our children’s lifetimes that it no longer sustains, but destroys human life… During the uproar more than one scientist insisted that the truth about climate change is scary enough — there’s no reason to exaggerate it.
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Earth Song (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
A pungent, powerful, moving video performed by Michael Jackson showing side by side beauty and destruction, life and death. Much sadness, pain and suffering caused by humankind. What about the earth? What about the children? He asks. Are we really destined to kill the planet and every life in it? What about us?
→ read full articleExpertise
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
A foreign tourist’s car got stuck in a small village.
→ read full articleThe Same Earth and the Same Moon
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
The same earth and the same moon,
As it was all a thousand years ago,
Epochs were replaced, war wandered,
And everyone was happy with the truce.
How the World Missed a Week of Palestinian Civil Disobedience
Edo Konrad - +972 Magazine,
31 Jul 2017
The violence of the past week, and the media’s coverage of the bloodletting, erased a central aspect of the story: Palestinian mass civil disobedience.
→ read full articleIs Gaza-Sinai State a Possibility for Palestinians?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
The long-discussed plan could see most of Gaza’s population end up in Sinai, alongside millions of Palestinian refugees.
→ read full article(Français) Les raids saoudiens pulvérisent le patrimoine du Yémen
Chiara Cruciati | Near East News Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
La guerre contre le Yémen est une guerre occultée : plus de 4 mille morts, un million de personnes déplacées en interne, 21 millions de personnes sans accès constant à l’eau et la nourriture. Sanaa, Marib, Aden : des villes dont chaque coin raconte l’histoire du monde arabe et sa rencontre avec les peuples d’Asie et d’Afrique, sont en ruines. “Paradis”: c’est cela que signifie en arabe le nom d’Aden, la ville portuaire du sud, cible des violents raids de la coalition anti-Houthi menés par l’Arabie saoudite.
→ read full articleAn Invocation for Our Time: This Consecrated Hour
James O’Dea – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Do you not see them
the ashen ones, the grey ones
the starving orphans , the seduced innocents,
the decimated specters of conflagration,
How Do You Think the Pyramids Were Built?
Graham Hancock – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Graham Hancock is a British writer and reporter who specializes in unscientific theories involving ancient civilizations, stone monuments or megaliths, altered states of consciousness, ancient myths and astronomical and astrological data from the past. Food for Thought
→ read full articleGlobal Peace Science of Dialogue & Human Dignity: Towards 21st Century
Dr. Subhash Chandra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
In an age of globalization, the struggle for human rights & human dignity has become more complex and challenging. While protections for human rights are increasingly passed by governments and international bodies like the United Nations, grave threats to and gross violations of human rights are also on the rise.
→ read full article(Português) Tesla Motor deixa de comercializar assentos de couro e oferece opções veganas
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
A empresa automotiva Tesla Motors realizou algumas mudanças nas opções disponíveis e a principal delas foi a eliminação dos assentos de couro. A partir de agora, a Tesla só venderá assentos veganos.
→ read full articleWhen Things Fall Apart: Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation through Difficult Times
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us… We don’t set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people’s hearts.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Jul 31-Aug 6, 2017~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward
→ read full articleCorporate Sociopaths, Get Out of Northern Minnesota!
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
17 Jul 2017 – Polluting Foreign Copper Mining Corporations like Canada’s PolyMet [controlled by Switzerland’s Glencore] and Canada’s Twin Metals [controlled by Chile’s Antofagasta] Meet the Definition of Sociopathic Entities
→ read full articleAn Odyssey in India’s Bureaucratic Jungle
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
As Verghese Kurien, the father of India’s Milk Revolution repeatedly emphasized: “India’s place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals “.
→ read full articleLawmakers in Europe Want the UN to Debate a Parliamentary Assembly. When Will Governments Follow?
Andreas Bummel – Inter Press Service-IPS,
31 Jul 2017
20 Jul 2017 – The document pointed out that the EU “should play a proactive part in building a United Nations that can contribute effectively to global solutions, peace and security, human rights, development, democracy and a rule-of-law-based international order.”
→ read full articleA View of Portugal — An Outsider’s Perspective
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
26 Jul 2017 – In Portugal the stones speak more to tourists than human beings. Of course you must understand their language –in other words you must know which king ruled when, which grand stone cathedral was built and when. It is interesting to see the melange of European and Arab (or Muslim) architecture on the winding streets of Porto or Lisboa as Lisbon is called in the Portuguese language.
→ read full articleAung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace vs UN in Burma/Myanmar
TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Not Welcome Here…
→ read full articleShedding Legal Light on the Gaza Electricity Crisis
Julie Webb-Pullman – teleSUR,
31 Jul 2017
30 Jul 2017 – Israel is the main supplier of electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip, Palestine. The bowing of Israeli occupation authorities to the request of the Palestinian Authority to further reduce energy supplies does not exonerate them.
→ read full article(Italiano) La rivoluzione delle sessualità
Johan Galtung & Antonio C. S. Rosa | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
Kinsey ha avuto un ruolo importante. Molto solido, molto empirico, vasto, esauriente, avversato da qualche chiesa e senz’altro da qualche patriarca. Ma ha prevalso la scienza… Purtroppo si confonde generalmente il sesso con l’amore, sia in letteratura sia nella realtà. Il sesso è un piacere effimero dei genitali — di qualunque specie. L’amore è emozione, energia, sinergia fra due esseri umani. Amore e sesso sono complemento reciproco ma non si sostituiscono l’un l’altro, essendo di natura squisitamente differente.
→ read full article(Português) Animais Lutam para Sobreviver em Zoo Abandonado em Porto Rico
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
A crise econômica que tem atingido Porto Rico na última década também afetou o único zoológico da ilha. O número de funcionários é insuficiente e o zoo tem tido dificuldades para manter os animais que explora com um orçamento limitado.
→ read full articlePentagon Study Declares American Empire Is ‘Collapsing’
Nafeez Ahmed | INSURGE Intelligence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
17 Jul 2017 – The solution proposed to protect U.S. power in this new “post-primacy” environment is more of the same: more surveillance, more propaganda (“strategic manipulation of perceptions”) and more military expansionism. The Pentagon study’s recommendations call for an intensification of the very imperial policies that futurist Professor Johan Galtung, who accurately forecasted the demise of the USSR, predicts will accelerate the “collapse of the U.S. empire” by around 2020.
→ read full articleUK’s First ‘Slaughter-free’ Dairy Farm Gains a Permanent Home
ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
13 Jul 2017 – A dairy company which doesn’t cull its older cows, but instead “retires them”, has moved to a new permanent home. The UK’s first “slaughter-free” dairy farm is hoping its model will be picked up upon by other farms. The Ahimsa Dairy Foundation is a not-for-profit company, and produces 23,000 of litres of milk a year.
→ read full articleDonald Trump and the Coming Fall of American Empire
Jeremy Scahill – The Intercept,
24 Jul 2017
22 Jul 2017 – Under Trump, the U.S. is re-escalating its war in Afghanistan, expanding its operations in Iraq and Syria, conducting covert raids in Somalia and Yemen, and openly facilitating the Saudi’s genocidal military destruction of Yemen. Meanwhile, China has quietly and rapidly expanded its influence without deploying its military on foreign soil. A new book by the famed historian Alfred McCoy predicts that China is set to surpass the influence of the U.S. globally, both militarily and economically, by the year 2030.
→ read full article(Français) Venezuela : le bain de sang approche. Que fait la gauche internationale?
Jean Ortiz | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
« La solidarité est la tendresse des peuples » disait Che Guevara. Il faut être aveugle, ou inconséquent, pour ne pas saisir ce qui est aujourd’hui en jeu au Venezuela.
→ read full articleAt Every Door
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
Billions, perhaps trillions, will be spent to send weapons, weapon systems, fighter jets, ammunition, and military support to the Middle East region, fueling new arms races and raising the profits of U.S. weapon makers. But, we can choose to stand at the doors of our leaders and of our neighbors, honoring past sacrifices and the innocent lives we were unable to save, as we redouble efforts to stop war makers from constantly gaining the upper hand in our lives.
→ read full articleEnd of Mission Statement by Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
21 Jul 2017 – UN Special Rapp. Prof. Yanghee Lee: ‘astonished’ ‘disappointed’ ‘dismayed’ ‘delayed’ ‘denied access.’ “As ever, I stand ready to help in any way I can, to make Myanmar the rights respecting country I know it can be — to make Myanmar a country where the rights of all people are respected, upheld, and protected.”
→ read full article16 Years after Onset of U.S. Plan Colombia, Cocaine Profits Reach Record Highs
Mint Press News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
The U.S.-Colombia drug war alliance has failed to stop the country’s drug trade, with last year’s coca yield breaking records. The record harvests can be traced to the country’s government, right-wing paramilitaries and wealthy individuals who are sympathetic to U.S. business interests.
→ read full articleThe Logic in North Korean ‘Madness’
Ann Wright – Consortium News,
24 Jul 2017
North Korea’s nuclear deterrent is a logical – not crazy – reaction to U.S. “regime change” wars in Iraq and Libya, two countries attacked after they surrendered their WMD stockpiles.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (5) Mary Wollstonecraft
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
Mary Wollstonecraft, pioneering advocate of the rights of women and all human rights, we need your voice today!
→ read full article(Italiano) Perché la Guerra? Una riflessione sull’eredità lasciata da Einstein, Freud e Gandhi
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
In un articolo recente, il Professor Johan Galtung, fondatore della ricerca sulla pace, ha voluto ricordarci della riflessione lasciataci da Freud e Einstein a questo riguardo, riflettendo sul loro dialogo ed individuandone i limiti, come ad esempio il loro insuccesso a rintracciare ed elaborare le cause e tutte le componenti del conflitto. Ovviamente, Freud ed Einstein non sono stati i primi a porsi questa domanda.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
Jul 24-30, 2017~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein
→ read full articleFukushima Radiation and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Dahr Jamail | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
17 Jul 2017 – Former nuclear industry senior vice president Arnie Gunderson, who managed and coordinated projects at 70 U.S. atomic power plants, thinks it simply makes no sense to hold the Olympics in Japan. “Holding the 2020 Olympics in Japan is an effort by the Japanese government to make these ongoing atomic reactor meltdowns disappear from the public eye. I discovered highly radioactive dust on Tokyo street corners in 2016.” According to him and other nuclear experts, the crisis is even worse.
→ read full articlePeace Study Day & March
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
TRANSCEND Members, Peace Study Teachers, Students: A few slots – forty minutes to one hour – are still available, for lecturers and workshop leaders. During the March to Whitehall, Downing Street and Parliament we’ll be carrying banners. Bring your own and publicize the peace organization or movement you represent.
→ read full articleThe Killing Fields of Australia – A Matter of Routine
Chris Graham – New Matilda,
24 Jul 2017
It’s official. Mowing down a 14-year-old boy is worth three years in jail. Almost. Chris Graham looks at the outcome in the trial of the man who killed Elijah Doughty, and the litany of justice system failures that preceded it. And a warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers, this story contains images of persons who are deceased.
→ read full articleHeart Attacks
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
A married couple enjoyed their new fishing boat together, but it was always the husband who was behind the wheel operating the boat. However, he was concerned about what might happen in an emergency.
→ read full articleTime in the Throat Slips Together like a Lump
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
Time in the throat slips together like a lump,
There is no way to shout anymore:
Where are we, between Gomorrah-Sodom?
Aldous Huxley (26 Jul 1894 – 22 Nov 1963)
European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
Aldous Huxley was a British writer who would become known for his novels, and especially Brave New World, which would delineate what the perfect dictatorship would look like. It would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping.
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Cricket Sound Slowed Down 20 Times
Overtonesinging – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
This is something you have to listen to. In 1992 Jim Wilson got the idea to slow down a recording of chirping crickets. The revealed sound simply was called “Gods cricket chorus”. The hidden beauty of nature is astonishing, and we are all part of it!
→ read full articleMacro-History from Norway
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
The US Trump ship is sinking and does not serve Norway’s interests. Time for the Norwegian rat to jump ship boarding increasingly accepted EU to build its own ship: defensive defense, neutral between West and Rest; with positions, not only jobs for less inequality; seeing the good in all, for projects linking good with good.
→ read full articleMissing Link
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
How a Secretive Network Built around a Nobel Prizewinner Set Out to Curtail Our Freedoms – The Swedish Academy in 1986 awarded James Buchanan the Nobel Memorial Prize for economics. It is one of several decisions that have turned this prize toxic.
→ read full article(Italiano) GENOVA 2001. Una questione ancora aperta. Intervista a Lorenzo Guadagnucci.
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
22 lug 2017 – 16 anni dopo il G8 di Genova alla luce della legge sulla tortura. Il tuo pensiero e la tua sintesi della giornata.
→ read full articleDead Civilians and the Language of War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
19 Jul 2017 – Finally it comes down to this: Some people are expendable. They come in two categories: terrorists (good riddance!) and civilians, whose deaths often elicit official apologies (if there’s no way to deny it was our fault). The language of war is what keeps it alive. This is the language of strategy and domination: words without grief, words without compassion. Speaking truth to power — the true work of the media — cannot be done if reporters write in the language of power, this alien tongue in which some human beings are expendable.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Yemen Policy Is Creating More Terrorists
Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
18 Jul 2017 – Just as the invasion of Iraq eventually produced the Islamic State (ISIS or IS), the killing of innocent Yemenis for no moral reason at all is providing a recruitment tool for terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East and Africa.
→ read full articleThe Rise of the “Megafarm”: How British Meat Is Made
Andrew Wasley and Madlen Davies – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
24 Jul 2017
17 Jul 2017 – Intensive livestock farms have grown by a quarter in the last six years. The biggest farms house more than a million chickens, 20,000 pigs or 2,000 cows at any one time. Behind the data lies the need for a fundamental debate about what we want to eat as a nation, and what price we are prepared to pay for that food.
→ read full articleDag Hammarskjold (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961) Crisis Manager and Longer-Range World Community Builder
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
Dag Hammarskjold became Secretary-General of the UN at a moment of crisis in the 1950-1953 war in Korea and died in a plane crash in 1961 on a mission dealing with the war in the Congo. He became an expert crisis manager, to the point that there was a common slogan in the UN- “Leave it to Dag”. He liked to work alone but had created a team of people working under him who were highly competent and totally devoted to him.
→ read full articleOpen Letter of California Scholar for Academic Freedom (Palestine/Israel)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
22 Jul 2017 – Open Letter prepared under the direction of Vida Samiian of State University of California at Fresno on behalf of California scholars defending against any effort to abridge academic freedom anywhere in the world. Here the focus is on the role of the right-wing media in creating a climate of opinion that supports frantic Zionist efforts to intimidate and punish vocal critics of Israel, creating a crisis of confidence with regard to the exercise of academic freedom.
→ read full articleIslam Is Simple: Muslims Make It Hard
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
The theme of moderation in religious practice has been the leitmotif in Islamic literature from the time of Prophet Muhammad. In the Quran and the Prophetic traditions that amplify it, Muslim women and men are called upon to exercise moderation in all aspects of their religious life.
→ read full articleSoros’ Sorrows
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
22 Jul 2017 – George Soros, the American multi-billionaire, is causing Binyamin Netanyahu a lot of trouble. At this particular moment, Netanyahu does not need any more trouble. Soros is a Hungarian Jew, a Holocaust survivor.
→ read full articleThe Tiny Satellites Ushering in the New Space Revolution
Ashlee Vance | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
Planet Labs and other companies are sending hundreds of low-cost satellites into orbit. We’re only beginning to understand how that will change life on Earth.
→ read full articleDon’t Believe the Dangerous Myths of ‘Drone Warrior’
Alex Edney-Browne and Lisa Ling – Los Angeles Times,
24 Jul 2017
16 Jul 2017 – Drone pilots have been quitting the U.S. Air Force in record numbers in recent years — faster than new recruits can be selected and trained. They cite a combination of low-class status in the military, overwork and psychological trauma. But a widely publicized new memoir about America’s covert drone war fails to mention the “outflow increases,” as one internal Air Force memo calls it.
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