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Prevented from Speaking
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
Dr. Hossain B. Danesh was invited to give a series of training sessions on peace education to a group of 100 teachers in Banja Luca in 2000. Banja Luca was the capital of the Republica Srpska during the Bosnian war.
→ 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.
→ read full article(Português) O Sofrimento das Galinhas Poedeiras
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
19 Jul 2017 – Uma galinha selvagem bota 10 a 15 ovos por ano, e apenas no período natural de reprodução. Porém, as galinhas modernas, que produzem os ovos mais consumidos em todo o mundo, foram manipuladas geneticamente para botarem até 350 ovos por ano.
→ read full articlePricking the Bubble of Global Complacent Complicity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
Hyperdimensional insights from the physics of bubble blowing, bursting and collapse? Is there anything of psychosocial relevance to be learned from the extensive research on the physics of bubbles regarding the particular nature and efficacy of a “prick” as it might relate to complacent complicity?
→ read full articleVault 7: CL/Raytheon
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
Today, July 19th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the CIA contractor Raytheon Blackbird Technologies for the “UMBRAGE Component Library” project. The documents were submitted to the CIA between November 21st 2014 (just two weeks after Raytheon acquired Blackbird Technologies to build a Cyber Powerhouse) and September, 11th 2015.
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Interview with Actor James Cromwell before Entering Prison: “Capitalism Is a Cancer”
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
24 Jul 2017
Jul 17, 2017 – Watch our extended interview with Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell before he reports to jail at 4 p.m. Friday [21 Jul] in upstate New York for taking part in a nonviolent protest against a natural gas-fired power plant. Cromwell says he’ll also launch a hunger strike. The activists say the plant would promote natural gas fracking in neighboring states and contribute to climate change.
→ read full articleThe “Deep State” Then and Now
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
So much of the ongoing propaganda travels under the banner of “the war on terror,” which is, of course, an outgrowth of the attacks of September 11, 2001, appropriately named and constantly reinforced as 9/11 in a wonderful example of linguistic mind-control: a constant emergency to engender anxiety, depression, panic, and confusion, four of the symptoms that lead the DSM “experts” and their followers to diagnose and drug individuals.
→ read full article(Français) Une crise globale massive : 201 millions de personnes sans emploi
Vijay Prashad | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
Ni Miguel, ni Isabel ou Mohammed ne prospéreraient ici. Il n’y a pas de futur ici, mais seulement un présent tortueux et sans fin…
→ read full articleThe Truth about Soy – What Does the Science Actually Say?
Joey Bruno | Thrive Cuisine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
26 Jun 2017 – Soy has quickly gone from a relatively unknown in Western culture to a highly debated and controversial food. Of course, soy has not been embraced by communities that have been advocating against grain and legume consumption for decades. Even people who eat predominately plant-based diets will campaign against this humble legume. The question is: are these harsh criticisms warranted or does the scientific literature say otherwise?
→ read full articleIt’s Not only Necessary to Develop an Alternative to Globalization — It’s Entirely Possible
Walden Bello | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
It was the left who diagnosed the ills of globalization. So why is the right eating our lunch?
→ read full articleChallenging Nuclearism: The Nuclear Ban Treaty Assessed
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
As of now the NBT is a treaty text that courteously mandates the end of nuclearism, but to convert this text into an effective regime of control will require the kind of deep commitments, sacrifices, movements, and struggles that eventually achieved the impossible, ending such entrenched evils as slavery, apartheid, and colonialism.
→ read full articleAbe, Izzy & Bibi
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Does Netanyahu really believe (as I think he does) that this part of Biblical legend is history? If so, he has the mind of a 10 year old. If he does not, he is a cheat. In any case, he is a very able demagogue. But he is not alone. Far from it. The President of Israel, a very nice gentleman, reiterated Netanyahu’s accusations against UNESCO. So did the speaker of the Knesset, an immigrant from the Soviet Union.
→ read full articleExcel at Any Cost – Some Thoughts to the Contrary
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
With the intense competition to be the best, to succeed, to be rich, those young people who cannot compete are left behind. Do they feel inspired by the stories of the successful or do they feel dejected and disappointed? Everyone cannot stand first or be successful, but everyone has the right to lead a peaceful life and become a good citizen.
→ read full articleTomorrow
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
You can see him all day
asking for change: coins enough
to take him away from this wet
street of London.
Collateral Damage
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
We were sorry to hear the bombs that were meant
to fall on a home adjacent to yours
(and one more, down a block or two)
have lamentably ruined your daughter’s wedding,
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 articleWomen as Wartime Rapists: A New Book Explores ‘The Impossible’
Lara Whyte – Open Democracy,
17 Jul 2017
Academic Laura Sjoberg argues that our gendered assumptions about sexual violence in conflict limit our understanding of these crimes.
→ 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 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 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.
Holding 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.
→ read full articleAnti-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.
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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 Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells – New York Magazine,
17 Jul 2017
9 Jul 2017 – Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. The planet is not used to being provoked like this, and climate systems designed to give feedback over centuries or millennia prevent us — even those who may be watching closely — from fully imagining the damage done already to the planet.
→ 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 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 articleEarth’s Sixth Mass Extinction Event Under Way, Scientists Warn
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
17 Jul 2017
Researchers talk of ‘biological annihilation’ as study reveals billions of populations of animals have been lost in recent decades.
→ read full articleA Few More Vegetables and a Little Less Meat May Reduce Diabetes Risk
Roni Caryn Rabin – The New York Times,
17 Jul 2017
You don’t have to be a vegetarian to reap the benefits of a plant-based diet. New research shows that eating a few extra servings of healthy plant-based foods each day and slightly reducing animal-based foods like meat and dairy products can significantly lower your risk of Type 2 diabetes.
→ 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,
At Walden, Thoreau Wasn’t Really Alone with Nature
John Kaag and Clancy Martin – The New York Times,
17 Jul 2017
To “live deliberately,” in Thoreau’s words, was to wrest oneself from the diversions of this rat race, to understand the difference between the seemingly urgent matters of spending and acquiring and the truly significant ones of caring and thinking. “Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,” Thoreau instructs us. “Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”
→ read full articleTo 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?
Nukes 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 articleIsrael 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 articleMoral Corrosion of Drone Warfare
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
17 Jul 2017
The U.S. government uses drones to eliminate risk to its soldiers and thus domestic opposition to war, but that heightens the moral imperative to challenge the remote-controlled killings, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
→ 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 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 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 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 articleEnemy of My Enemy
Latuff – MintPress News,
17 Jul 2017
3 Jul 2017 – So It Goes…
→ read full articlePlatform Co-Ops Offer Urban Communities a Bigger Say in Their Lives
Liam Magee, David Sweeting and Teresa Swist – The Conversation,
17 Jul 2017
13 Jul 2017 – Digital platform companies like Facebook, Uber and Google regulate our likes, updates, schedules, locations, photos, jobs and trips. A co-operative project that maps services in Dhaka shows how communities of citizens can be more than passive users of the digital platforms that increasingly shape our daily lives.
→ 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 articleThis Palestinian Village Had Solar Power — Until Israeli Soldiers Took It Away
Anne-Marie O'Connor – The Washington Post,
17 Jul 2017
7 Jul 2017 — The residents of this dirt-poor Palestinian village waited decades for electricity. But in November, a Dutch-funded solar project finally gave them round-the-clock power. That ended last week when Israeli military sent soldiers with assault rifles and a team of workers to shut down the $400,000 project, ripping out its electrical components and driving away with 96 solar panels.
→ read full articleIgnoring the Human Disaster in Yemen
Alon Ben-Meir – Consortium News,
17 Jul 2017
The West’s protestations about human rights sound hollow when one looks at Yemen where the U.S. and U.K. place profits from arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the carnage those weapons are inflicting.
→ read full articleWhy Is Neoliberalism Back in Latin America?
Dawisson Belem Lopes – Al Jazeera,
17 Jul 2017
Neoliberalism destroyed Latin America in the 1990s. Today it is being reintroduced – and it will wreak havoc again.
→ 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 articleUniversiti Malaya, Chandra Muzaffar to Host Tribunal on Atrocities against Rohingya
Ho Kit Yen – Malaysia Today News,
10 Jul 2017
4 Jul 2017 – A tribunal that hopes to expose claims of crimes against the Rohingya and other ethnic groups by the Myanmar government will hold a hearing at the Universiti Malaya in September. Dr Chandra Muzaffar, who is organising committee chairman, says witnesses will be called to testify in court-like setting.
→ 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 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 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 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 articleNaomi Klein: How Power Profits from Disaster
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
10 Jul 2017
Take a group of people who directly profit from ongoing war and then put those same people at the heart of government. Who’s going to make the case for peace? After a crisis, private contractors move in and suck up funding for work done badly, if at all – then those billions get cut from government budgets.
→ 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 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 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 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 articleClimate Change-Poverty-Migration: The New, Inhuman ‘Bermuda Triangle’
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
10 Jul 2017
7 Jul 2017 – World organisations, experts and scientists have been repeating it to satiety: climate change poses a major risk to the poorest rural populations in developing countries, dangerously threatening their lives and livelihoods and thus forcing them to migrate.
→ 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 articleMyanmar Leaders Must Nurture the Country’s Many Potential ‘Aung La Nsangs’
Maung Zarni - Coconuts Yangon,
10 Jul 2017
3 Jul 2017 – On Friday [30 Jun], in Yangon, something extraordinary happened to lift the spirit of all Myanmar’s peoples. Mixed martial arts fighter Aung La Nsang made history by becoming the first-ever world champion from Myanmar in any sport. In our long-running civil wars and waves of racial and religious violence, how many Aung La Nsangs have we killed, maimed or otherwise destroyed?
→ 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?
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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.
→ 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 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.
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Clandestino (Music Video of the Week)
Manu Chao | Playing for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
A Classic. Enjoy.
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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.
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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 articleIsraeli Exports into Gaza
Latuff – MintPress News,
10 Jul 2017
22 Jun 2017 – So It Goes…
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Ziggy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
Attribution…
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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
What Is Quantum Computing? A Super-Easy Explanation for Anyone
Bernard Marr - Forbes,
10 Jul 2017
4 Jul 2017 – It’s fascinating to think about the power in our pocket—today’s smartphones have the computing power of a military computer from 50 years ago that was the size of an entire room. However, even with the phenomenal strides we made in technology and classical computers since the onset of the computer revolution, there remain problems that classical computers just can’t solve. Many believe quantum computers are the answer.
→ 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 articleWho’s Getting Killed Today?
Clive Stafford Smith – The Times Literary Supplement,
10 Jul 2017
28 Jun 2017 – Few people are aware that every week the White House observes “Terror Tuesday”, where the US President personally approves people for death without any legal process at all… Eventually, perhaps, we will haul the world back to the legal rule announced by Emer de Vattel a mere 259 years ago, when assassination was deemed to be simply barbaric.
→ 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 articleGruesome Pic Shows Mass Slaughter of Whales in Faroe Islands Hunt
James Rogers - Fox News,
10 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – Faroe Islanders have turned the sea red after slaughtering hundreds of whales as part of a hunt that has been harshly criticized by animal rights groups. Authorities on the islands allow islanders to drive herds of pilot whales into shallow waters, where they are killed using a ‘spinal lance’ that is inserted through the animal’s neck to break its spinal cord. The grisly image shows a hunt on June 16.
→ 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
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