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Pearl S. Buck (26 June 1892 – 6 March 1973): The Good Earth-China
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Pearl Buck was a cultural bridge-builder, bringing an understanding of Chinese rural culture to the USA and Europe, but also to Chinese urban society as at different times her books, translated into Chinese, were widely read in China. In the 1950s-1960s she was active in helping children in South Korea fathered by US soldiers and then left behind.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (2) William Blake
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
William Blake, sublime visionary poet and artist, voice of the poor. Voice of nature, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleHow Greece Became a Guinea Pig for a Cashless and Controlled Society
Michael Nevradakis – MintPress News,
26 Jun 2017
As Greece moves closer to becoming a cashless society, it is clear that the country’s attitude towards cash is reckless and dangerous. The supposed convenience of switching to a cash-free system comes with a great deal of risk, including needless overreach by the state.
→ read full articleIsrael Demolishes Palestinian Village for 114th Time in Seven Years
Whitney Webb - MintPress News,
26 Jun 2017
Israeli bulldozers flattened a village inhabited by the ancient Palestinian Bedouins, a tribe that has lived on the land for thousands of years. Israeli authorities have systematically run the indigenous Bedouins off of their land to pave the way for Jewish-only settlements.
→ read full article(Português) Considerações Sobre Musculação, Fisiculturismo e Veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
24 Jun 2017 – Não é raro encontrar pessoas que dizem que veganos não conseguem chegar ao nível de fisiculturistas que não são veganos.
→ read full articleWhy We Leaked Hundreds of Pages of a Secret Trade Deal That Threatens Our Rights and Our Planet
Shira Stanton and Sebastian Bock | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
23 Jun 2017 – Behind closed doors and countless documents, details of a proposed deal between two of the world’s largest economies are being kept from us. Until now. Chances are that the planned trade deal between the European Union and Japan has not been on top of your mind. Governments have gone to great lengths to leave their citizens in the dark about a deal that can significantly impact our lives and the world we live in.
→ read full articleOn Being a Vaccine Heretic Excommunicated from the Church of Big Pharma
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Big Pharma is the pejorative term given to the vast number of multinational (global) pharmaceutical corporations. It takes no Hippocratic Oath, does not insist that its sycophants give fully informed consent when their products are prescribed and it ignores the Precautionary Principle, thus affirming the sense that it has no concern for the health of its users or the health of the planet.
→ read full article(Português) Japão autoriza caça de duas novas espécies de golfinhos em massacre anual
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
O documentário de 2009 “The Cove”, de Louie Psihoyos, mostrou a brutalidade da caça de golfinhos em Taiji, no Japão, ao divulgar imagens vívidas e detalhadas dos assassinatos de golfinhos em uma entrada isolada de uma pequena cidade na prefeitura de Wakayama.
→ read full articleVault 7: Brutal Kangaroo
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Today, June 22nd 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the Brutal Kangaroo project of the CIA. The documents describe how a CIA operation can infiltrate a closed network (or a single air-gapped computer) within an organization or enterprise without direct access.
→ read full articleUN Chief: US Will Be Replaced If It Disengages from World
Edith M. Ledrer | Associated Press – Yahoo News,
26 Jun 2017
20 Jun 2017 — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Trump administration that if the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced. Guterres made clear at his first press conference since taking the reins of the UN that he is not afraid to stand up to President Donald Trump, citing his vocal opposition to the U.S. leader’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.
→ read full articleExclusive: Overruling Diplomats, U.S. to Drop Iraq, Myanmar from Child Soldiers’ List
Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick | Reuters - US News & World Report,
26 Jun 2017
23 Jun 2017 – In a highly unusual intervention, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to remove Iraq and Myanmar from a U.S. list of the world’s worst offenders in the use of child soldiers, disregarding the recommendations of State Department experts and senior U.S. diplomats.
→ read full articleIsrael vs. the United Nations: The Nikki Haley Doctrine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
21 Jun 2017 – The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel. Haley seems to truly think of herself as the new sheriff in town, who will “kick ’em every single time”, before riddling the bullies with bullets and riding into the sunset, along with Netanyahu. Since the Negroponte doctrine of 2002, thousands of Palestinians and hundreds of Israelis were killed in an occupation that seems to know no ends.
→ read full articleFreud-Einstein on Peace
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
“Why War?” was the title of an interchange of letters between Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein in 1932, 85 years ago. What can we still learn from these giants, and what might they have learned in the meantime? Let us look at their approaches, as fellow human beings searching for answers to a question for humankind at all times: the curse of war.
→ read full articleThe Settlers’ Goal Is Not the Settlements – It Is the Total Transformation of Israel
Noam Sheizaf | +972 Mag – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
The settlements, the settlers, and the occupation are all entirely associated with one another in the Israeli consciousness. The Left and the Right agree on this, albeit with varying considerations: the Left wants to apportion blame for Israel’s continuing control over the West Bank, while the settlers want to take credit for the settlement project and for thwarting the idea of partitioning the land.
→ read full article(Italiano) BRESCIA, 21 giugno 2017. Dopo 43 anni la sentenza definitiva per la strage di Piazza della Loggia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
24 Giu 2017 – Riporto l’annuncio al mondo intero, dedicato ai lettori di Transcend Media Service, che dopo 43 anni e cinque processi, la Corte di cassazione ha emesso il verdetto definitivo… Non si è trattato di una festa per la vittoria, ma ancora una volta un’occasione di riflessione fra giustizia storia e memoria.
→ read full article‘I Am Deeply Troubled by Aung San Suu Kyi and Her Denial of the Rohingya Genocide’: Maung Zarni
Adil Zaman – The Citizen (India),
26 Jun 2017
“The ugly truth is this: the world revolves around national and corporate interests and nasty struggles over these interests. Rohingya crisis is yet another inconvenient case of international crimes against the faceless, vulnerable, commercially useless human community. The failure of the international community, so-called, to end Rohingya genocide, and other atrocities in places like Sudan or Burundi, is an affront to all the decent humans around the world.”
→ read full articleWhy Are Americans so Obsessed with Apocalypse—and Convinced It Will Happen in the Near Future?
Betsy Hartmann | Seven Stories Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – According to opinion polls, a staggering percentage of Americans accept that the world will end in a battle in Armageddon. In a 2010 Pew poll, 41 percent of respondents said they expected Jesus Christ to return to Earth by 2050. Unfortunately, we are more predisposed to imagine the end of the world than the end of American war-making.
→ read full articleBangladesh Cardinal Defends Rights of Rohingya Refugees
Nirmala Carvalho | Crux – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are considered to be among the world’s most persecuted peoples, subject to what the UN calls “crimes against humanity” and hundreds of thousands are now refugees in neighboring Bangladesh, where Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario is defending their right to “dignity.”
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)
Israel "IZ" KamakawiwoʻOle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole was morbidly obese and at one point weighed 348 kg standing 1.88 m tall. He died at the age of 38 on JUNE 26, 1997. The Hawaii state flag flew at half-staff on the day of his funeral. Thousands of fans gathered as his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean at Mākua Beach, Hawai’i. This video documents the event. RIP dear friend with a heart so big it weighed 348 kg.
→ read full articleThe Climate Movement Charges On, Even without the USA
Winnie Byanyima – Al Jazeera,
26 Jun 2017
Developing nations lay claim to the mantle of leadership for a fairer, safer world.
→ read full articleBattle for Raqqa: Protests Needed on Violations of Humanitarian Law
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The battle for Raqqa, a symbolic city for the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, is underway with ever-increasing dangers to civilian populations caught in the cross-fire of ISIS and the advancing Kurd-led Syrian Democratic Forces, supported by air strikes of the US-led coalition.
→ read full articleIsraeli Occupied USA
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
18 Jun 2017 – I, who happen to be a US citizen, spent 40 hours on grueling travel between Palestine and the USA and my documents (and luggage) were checked 15-20 times along the way. US security agents were at the exit from the Amman-Chicago flight waiting for me checking IDs and when the one checking my ID announced “we got him” loud enough for the other passenger to hear, four of them escorted me to get my checked-in luggage and then to a special security area where agents went through everything I had thoroughly. They looked through my note book/diary and also copied my speaking schedule.
→ read full articleUsing Open Source Drugs to Help Treat Neglected Diseases
Gaëll Mainguy and Samir Brahmachari – The Conversation,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – The Open Source Drug Discovery project, launched in 2008 by biophysicist Samir Brahmachari, aims to develop low-cost treatments for neglected diseases using an open-source approach. Brahmachari is founding director of India’s Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology.
→ read full article(Português) François Houtart e Miguel d’Escoto: Servos dos Oprimidos – Frei Betto
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
13 junho 2017 – Associo-me ao Frei Betto na homenagem de dois grandes amigos comuns que tínhamos e que concluiram, na semana passada, a sua peregrinação por este mundo: o teólogo e sociólogo belga vivendo no Equador, François Hourtart e o ex-chanceler da Nicaragua e ex-presidente da ONU 2008-2009, o padre Miguel d’Escoto. Foram os servos dos oprimidos duante toda a vida. Dele aprendemos a política unida à espiritualidade e a reconhecer a diplomacia como caminho para a paz entre os povos.
→ read full article(Français) 50 vérités sur Ernesto « Che » Guevara
Salim Lamrani | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – Le « guérillero héroïque » cubano-argentin perdure dans la mémoire collective comme symbole de résistance à l’oppression.
→ read full articleLicense to Poison!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Fails to Protect Troops, Residents, and Visitors from Military Radiation on Hawaii Island
→ read full articleJean-Paul Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Sartre was offered, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 for his autobiography, Words, though he subsequently rejected the award based on his own notions of his integrity as a writer.
→ read full articleOvercoming Nuclear Crises: North Korea and Beyond
Richard Falk and David Krieger | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
This jointly authored essay was initially published in The Hill on May 30, 2017 under the title, Averting the Ticking Time Bomb of Nukes in North Korea. We did not choose such a title that is doubly misleading: our contention is not that North Korea is the core of the problem, but rather the retention of nuclear weapons by all of the states pose both crises in the context of counter-proliferation geopolitics and with respect to the possession, deployment, and development of the weaponry itself; a second objection is with the title given the piece by editors at The Hill. While acknowledging the practice of media outlets to decide on titles without seeking prior approval from authors, this title is particularly objectionable to me. The term ‘nukes’ gives an almost friendly shorthand to these most horrific of weapons, and strikes a tone that trivializes what should be regarded at all times with solemnity.
→ read full articleStatement by Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
There have been a number of alarming incidents of incitement of intercommunal tension and religious violence since my last update. In April, extremist Buddhist nationalists reportedly pressured authorities to close two Islamic schools in Yangon that traditionally have served as a prayer site, with no consultation and investigation. That they remain closed through Ramadan, a sacred month for Muslims when they not only observe the fasting but are also encouraged to conduct additional prayers, has resulted in a sense of greater isolation amongst the community.
→ read full articleSelf-Determination and Peace
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Self-determination is no guarantee that people will always make the optimal decision. But if they make a mistake, it is their own mistake, and they have nobody else to blame. They will learn from their mistake and make a better choice next time. However, if a central government forces them to do something against their will, and they suffer as a consequence, they will naturally turn their anger against that government. Self-determination helps avoid such conflicts.
→ read full articleUntreated Sewage Could Flood Gaza as Crippling Power Outages Worsen
MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Conditions in Gaza are worsening, with grave consequences for both human health and the environment due to untreated wastewater. Worse still, Israel has announced it will cut the electricity it supplies to Gaza by nearly half.
→ read full articleSignificance of International Day of Yoga — Promoting Peace, Harmony and Health
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The first Yoga Day was celebrated on 21 June 2015. Yoga is increasingly being practiced in many parts of the world. What is its significance in the contemporary world? One does not need to be a religious person to enjoy the benefits of Yoga… Yoga is for everyone — for promotion of peace, harmony, health and goodwill for all.
→ read full articleOldest Homo Sapiens Bones Ever Found Shake Foundations of the Human Story
Ian Sample – The Guardian,
19 Jun 2017
Idea that modern humans evolved in East Africa 200,000 years ago challenged by extraordinary discovery of 300,000-year-old remains in Moroccan mine.
→ read full articleDonald Trump Is Making Europe Liberal Again
Nate Silver | FiveThirtyEight – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Donald Trump promised to “Make America Great Again,” but he might instead be “Making Europe Liberal Again.” Counter to the prevailing narrative of a swing towards right-wing parties, Silver compares politics in several European countries and finds it has become more difficult to make the case that a nationalist tide is on the rise.
→ read full articlePolitical Will, Financial Support Needed to Bolster New Approach to Cholera in Haiti – UN Deputy Chief
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – The UN deputy chief Amina Mohammed today called on Member States to fund the Organization’s new strategy to counter cholera in Haiti. “Without your political will and financial support, we have only good intentions and words.”
→ read full article(Português) Verme enviado ao espaço desenvolve segunda cabeça
O Globo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 junho 2017 — Um experimento com vermes platelmintos na Estação Espacial Internacional revelou uma possível consequência bizarra da microgravidade no processo de regeneração desse animal. Um dos exemplares enviados ao espaço desenvolveu uma segunda cabeça, em vez da cauda.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism – A Global Debate
Meah Mostafiz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
News reporting has traditionally been feeding on war, conflict and violence, often offering propaganda for one of the conflicting parties, and without any apparent intention to promote peace. For the war and conflict or ethnic violence scene, peace journalism brings reporting method that finds causes of conflict and tries to suggest solutions, instead of pouring more fuel on the fire. This research paper defines the peace journalism, the difference between traditional journalism and peace journalism and analyses the factors ‘why Peace Journalism is hard to practice in mainstream media?’
→ read full articleFifty Years of Immoral Occupation of Palestine
Prof. Alon Ben-Meir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – Today, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank has reached the milestone of 50 years that will be recalled in shame. Fifty years that have dehumanized both the occupier and the occupied; years of failing to muster the courage to right the wrong. Fifty years that bred nothing but hatred and contempt for the other; years of illusions trying to deny the other the right to a home of their own.
→ read full articleSaudi Blockade Triggers Massive Cholera Epidemic in Yemen, Claiming One Life Each Hour
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
19 Jun 2017
Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen and its continuing blockade of Yemeni ports has virtually collapsed the country and basic necessities are in dangerously short supply. Now, Yemen finds itself unable to treat a rapidly growing cholera outbreak that claims the life of one civilian every hour.
→ read full articleWar Is a Racket
Major General Smedley Butler, USMC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in currencies and the losses in lives. A racket is best described as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about.
→ read full articleThe 50-Year Setback
Hamza Abu Eltarabesh |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The 1967 War had eerily similar effects to the Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe), the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Approximately 400,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were displaced 50 years ago this month. The events of 1967 have become known as the Naksa, or setback. The war lasted six days. By the time it ended, Israel had occupied the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt’s Sinai peninsula and Syria’s Golan Heights.
→ read full articleThe Galtung-Institut’s 2017 Summer Academy
Naakow Grant-Hayford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
At the heart of the Galtung-Institut’s Summer Academy is a resolve to equip enrolled participants with the capacity to solve complex societal conflicts by using means that are nonviolent, empathetic and constructive. A resolve that has led us to become active in the field of training peace professionals.
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Antonio Carlos Jobim & Frank Sinatra: Corcovado + (Music Video of the Week)
Frank Sinatra & Tom Jobim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
A Brazilian Samba/Bossa Nova Duet in New York – Timeless, Unforgettable!
→ read full articleVault 7: Cherry Blossom
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Today, June 15th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the CherryBlossom project of the CIA that was developed and implemented with the help of the US nonprofit Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). CherryBlossom provides a means of monitoring the Internet activity of and performing software exploits on Targets of interest. In particular, CherryBlossom is focused on compromising wireless networking devices, such as wireless routers and access points (APs), to achieve these goals.
→ read full articleRefining the Value of Sustainable Development Goals
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
In Quest of the Systemic Coherence of Global Attractors – In a period of global crises a frame of reference is offered by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals articulated by the UN, superseding the earlier formulation of the 8 Millennium Development Goals. How indeed are people expected to “get their heads around “the set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals?
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Jun 19-25 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Evelyn Beatrice Hall
→ read full articleIsrael Attempts to Block yet another UN Report
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
15 Jun 2017 – Having succeeded in blocking a recent UN report that accused Israel of maintaining a system of apartheid, Israeli officials are now attempting to remove another UN report, which has charged Tel Aviv with carrying out extrajudicial executions along with a list of other human rights violations.
→ read full articleInside the World of Indian Moneylenders
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
“I get my money where everyone else does.” “Where is that?” “Everyone knows. I get it from a five-six.” “What is a five-six?” “It is the place where you borrow five rupees in the morning, and pay back six rupees in the evening.” It is possible to get day loans in the vegetable market that provide 100 rupees in the morning but have to be repaid with 10 rupees interest by dusk.
→ read full article(Português) Considerações sobre a violência
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Agressividade, violência, são formas de descontrole. Se você não tiver controle sobre isso, isso terá controle sobre você. E quando você achar que está dominando alguma coisa ao fazer uso da agressividade ou da violência, estará apenas sendo subjugado pelo que o priva da sua própria humanidade, sem que você perceba.
→ read full articleHeartbeat
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
While the heart beats alive,
While the loopholes of the towers are silent,
While peasants are still reaping, and plowing,
Former Okinawa Governor Masahide Ota Dies on His Birthday
Japan Broadcasting Corporation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
12 Jun 2017 – Former Okinawa Governor Masahide Ota, who tackled the issue of reducing the number of US military bases on the island prefecture, died today. He was 92.
→ read full articleUN Moves on Myanmar, Too Little Too Late?
Daily Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – It could all be about to kick off in Myanmar. But this time in a good way for the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. Possibly. Hopefully. It seems that the UN is finally getting serious about the ethnic cleansing of this community that has been going on since 2012.
→ read full articleIt’s Not the Occupation – It’s the Settler Colonial System
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
This the second set of selected articles from MERIP’s admirable collation of analyses on the 50-year occupation. There are many ideas here but we’ve selected one – the settler colonialism of which the Occupation is just one manifestation. Opposing that is of a different order.
→ read full articleFrançois Houtart: A Unique Extraordinary Human Being
Alexandra Valiente | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The death of François Houtart, intellectual, political analyst, Marxist sociologist, priest and practitioner of liberation theology, the ‘pope of anti-globalization’, tireless fighter and friend, has taken us by surprise. He died on 6 Jun 2017 in Quito, Ecuador at the age of 92.
→ read full articleDirty Open Secret: US Created and Supports ISIS
Stephen Lendman – Global Research,
19 Jun 2017
It’s one of the dirtiest of dirty open secrets.
• US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) documents prove it – obtained by Judicial Watch through an FOIA lawsuit.
• They show ISIS, al-Qaeda and like-minded terrorist groups are the “major forces” used as US foot soldiers in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.
Feed the Hungry, Treat the Sick: A Crucial Training
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Since entering the war in Yemen, in March of 2015, the Saudi coalition’s airstrikes, with U.S. assistance, have destroyed bridges, roads, factories, farms, food trucks, animals, water infrastructure, and agricultural banks across the north, while imposing a blockade on the territory. Saudi Arabia bombed a Yemeni hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders. The airstrike went on for two hours, reducing the hospital to rubble.
→ read full articleHow BAE Sold Cyber-Surveillance Tools to Repressive Arab States
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
A year-long investigation by BBC Arabic and a Danish newspaper has uncovered evidence that the UK defence giant BAE Systems has made large-scale sales across the Middle East of sophisticated surveillance technology, including to many repressive governments. These sales have also included decryption software which could be used against the UK and its allies.
→ read full articleRural Poverty? Cooperatives!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The primary purpose of rural cooperatives is to feed themselves by sharing risks, and share gains on top of that. Members are both farmers and farm workers with risk-absorbing capacity and sharing. Poor and unemployed from towns and cities may join, at least getting food in exchange for work.
→ read full articleGeorge Orwell (25 Jun 1903 – 21 Jan 1950)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
George Orwell was a novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). Aldous Huxley was one of his masters. He worked between bouts of hospitalization for tuberculosis, of which he died in a London hospital.
→ read full articleEU Parliament Ignores Advice and Votes for Muddled Definition of Antisemitism
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Last month the EU parliament voted 479:101 to accept the now notorious definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. A QC’s opinion found it not fit for purpose; Jewish groups wrote to the parliament urging them not to support the motion. All were ignored.
→ read full articleThis Greater Song
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The trail gives way, the hills decline
And everything around me mine
Under the risen star –
Joint African Action Crucial to Protect Persons with Albinism from Violence, Highlights UN Expert
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
13 Jun 2017 – Highlighting the importance of cooperation among countries to overcome the violence and discrimination faced by persons with albinism, a United Nations rights expert has urged African nations to fully implement a regional action plan on ending attacks on persons with albinism.
→ read full articleLatin America in Search of an Alternative
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 2017 – The financial media present the ‘right’s’ socially regressive policies and strategies as ‘reforms’, a euphemism for the re-concentration of wealth, profits and property into the hands of foreign and domestic oligarchs. Leftwing intellectuals and journalists paint an image of socio-economic transformations under Latin America’s ‘left’ regimes where ‘the people’ take power, income is redistributed and growth flourishes.
→ read full articleNational Illusions and Global Realities
Lawrence Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
For as long as they have existed, nations have clung to the illusion that their military strength guarantees their security. The problem with this kind of thinking is that the military power that one nation considers vital to its security fosters other nations’ sense of insecurity. In this climate of suspicion, an arms race ensues, often culminating in military conflict. Also, sometimes the very military strength that a nation intended for protection ends up emboldening it to engage in reckless, aggressive behavior, leading to war.
→ read full article‘BRICS’ Countries Well Placed to Help Lead Global Efforts to Tackle Hunger
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 20187 – With the clock ticking toward the 2030 deadline for meeting the international goals to eradicate hunger and poverty, five of the world’s most important emerging economies are well positioned to take a leading role in helping to achieve these objectives, according to the UN: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
→ read full articleHonest Look at Historical Evidence Debunking Popular Myth That Vaccines Eliminated Childhood Infectious Diseases
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – Over the 40 plus years that I was a family practitioner and teacher (the English word “doctor” derives from the Latin verb docere [do-ke-re] which means “to teach”), I have tried to fulfill what I have regarded as my solemn professional duty to warn my patients (and anybody else who would listen) about the multitude of deceptions and myths that all-too-often come from for-profit sociopathic pharmaceutical corporations (and their hangers-on).
→ read full articleUS Criticized for Using Skin-Melting White Phosphorous: HRW
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – The United States-led coalition in Iraq and Syria is facing heavy criticism for its use of white phosphorous, an incendiary chemical that ignites on contact with atmospheric oxygen, causing severe and mortal burns to those affected.
→ read full articlePashtun Woman: Enduring the Unendurable
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The words to this lyrical poem, Pashtun Woman, are presented in a rhythm and evocative cadence to the delicate and haunting melody, A Thousand Splendid Suns. The title of this melody was adapted from a Seventeenth-Century Afghan poem, written by Saib e Tabrizi.
→ read full articleChildren Hardest Hit as Cholera Spreads in War-Torn Yemen – UNICEF
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – As the outbreak of cholera in Yemen continues to spread at an alarming rate – with terrible impact on children – the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for immediate support to enable the country’s health workers respond or risk even more deaths from the deadly disease.
→ read full articleThe Myth of Hiroshima
Peter Van Buren | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 2017 – The short version of the atomic myth, the one kneaded into public consciousness, is that the bombs were not dropped out of revenge or malice, immoral acts, but of grudging military necessity. As a result of this, the attacks have not provoked or generated deep introspection and national reflection. For President Obama to visit Hiroshima without reflecting on the why of that unfortunate loss of lives, acting as if they occurred via some natural disaster, is tragically consistent.
→ read full articleTanzania Forced to Embrace Seed Patents or Risk Losing Developmental Aid
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
19 Jun 2017
Agribusiness companies are taking advantage of Tanzania’s desperate need for aid to push a development plan that will allow them to dominate the country’s agriculture sector and plunge farmers into debt. A similar plan led to a suicide epidemic among Indian farmers in recent years.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (1) Saint Francis of Assisi
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Saint Francis, friend of all life on earth, friend of the earth itself, true interpreter of Christian ethics, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleThe Best Pharmacist
Submitted by Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
A woman enters a pharmacy and asks for poison.
→ read full articleLife and Education of Children in Nepal
Akhil Sharma | Adroit Publishers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The book has tried to grasp the real scenario of those children on how the children were really affected by conflict during the time of school education and how they are out of school. The conflict has been driving force for the children by not letting them go to school because of various reasons. The main reasons are involvement of their parents in the armed conflict, their parent’s profession, the security threat by both the parties and political motivation.
→ read full articleWonder Women
Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Apartheid Woman vs Mother Palestine
→ read full articleUN Chief Praises ‘Vision, Tenacity’ of the Late Helmut Khol, Chancellor Who Reunited Germany
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 2017 – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has lauded the vision and tenacity of the former Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl, who died today at the age of 87.
→ read full articleThe New Wave
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
We need a principled leader like Corbyn or Sanders. A young and idealistic person like Macron. Somebody who will smash all the existing occupation-era parties and start right from the beginning. To adapt Macron’s slogan: Forward, Israel!
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The World in 2050 – Future of Earth
BBC Documentary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Can you imagine our world in 2050? By mid-century there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How will we eat in the future of Earth? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the world climate crisis?
→ read full article(Italiano) Il calendario ONU: coscienza del mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
È sorprendente. Le Nazioni Unite hanno decenni, anni, settimane e giorni, dedicati a valori, obiettivi e interessi, più di quanto ne siamo consapevoli. Lo si confronti con gli stati nazionali, di solito con un solo giorno, il loro giorno nazionale per la celebrazione di nessun altro che sé stessi… Siamo una Umanità in un mondo con molte linee di frattura; che la coscienza ONU sia la nostra.
→ read full article(Italiano) Intanto, in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Trump viola le norme internazionali come se non esistessero, che uccide in Yemen-Pakistan-Somalia con droni-bombardamenti-assalti, nonostante non fosse coinvolto in un conflitto armato né attaccato da nessuno di quei paesi. Quindi, nessun diritto di auto-difesa. Pura aggressione.
→ read full article(Français) Brésil, un an après le début du coup d’État
Nepomuceno Eric | Página 12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Les députés qui ont voté le procès politique contre Dilma Rousseff ont également voté la réduction des dépenses publiques pour les 20 prochaines années, les réformes de la loi du travail qui s’attaquent à certains droits, et l’exploitation du pétrole par les multinationales.
→ read full articleReflection on the 50th Anniversary of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Jessie Light – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
When fences become walls become concrete prisons
When tents become houses become tear gas test-sites
When days become years become decades and
the oppression swelters, endlessly.
(Português) Estes alimentos aumentam o risco de cancro da próstata
Daniela Costa Teixeira – Notícias ao Minuto,
12 Jun 2017
O cancro da próstata é o que mais afeta os homens e a alimentação tem um papel determinante tanto na prevenção como no aparecimento da doença.
→ read full articleFinding Goodness
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
• Axis 1- Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Egypt, Israel, USA
• Axis 2- Qatar, Turkey
• Axis 3- Syria, Iran, Russia, and possibly China (for now keeping a distance)
Axis 1 now decided to go after axis 2. Axis 2 is considering moving for protection to axis 3. The US is solidly behind axis 1 but keeping leverage via axis 2 (US bases both in Turkey and Qatar). The US is trying hard to undermine axis 3.
Inside the US Fight to Fix Israel’s Global Standing
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
U.S. and Israel lead a campaign of intimidation against the UN to forcibly rehabilitate Israel’s international standing.
→ read full article(Français) Reprise de la guerre froide du Golfe
Ennasri Nabil | Orient XXI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Le Qatar a annoncé dans la nuit du mardi 23 mai que son agence de presse QNA avait été piratée par une entité inconnue et qu’un faux communiqué attribué à l’émir avait été diffusé. Ce dernier affirmait que Tamim Ben Hamad Al-Thani s’était prononcé sur divers sujets sensibles mettant en cause ses voisins du Golfe. Ces déclarations, immédiatement relayées par des médias saoudiens et émiratis, ont provoqué un tollé dans la région, où une guerre médiatique bat son plein.
→ read full articleSupport the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
On June 15, more than 130 nations will re-convene at the UN for the final session of negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. SIGN THIS PETITION TODAY to tell the UN Conference that you support this essential step in the worldwide abolition of nuclear weapons.
→ read full article(Burmese- မြန်မာ) မိတ္ထီလာ အစ္စလာမ်တွေ စုဝတ်ပြုရာ နေရာတွေပိတ်
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
4 ဇွန် 2017 – ဗလီတွေ ပြန်ဖွင့်ပေးဖို့ တောင်းဆိုတာကိုတော့ တိုင်းအစိုးရ လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့်မှာ မရှိလို့ ဆိုပြီး ငြင်းဆိုလာခဲ့တယ်လို့လည်း သိရပါတယ်။ ရပ်ကွက်ထဲ ဝတ်ပြုခွင့် မရှိလို့ ဝတ်မပြုရသူတွေ ရှိတယ်လို့လည်း ဆိုပါတယ်။
→ read full articleThe Worst of Donald Trump’s Toxic Agenda Is Lying in Wait – A Major U.S. Crisis Will Unleash It
Naomi Klein – The Intercept,
12 Jun 2017
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” So said Thomas Paine many years ago, neatly summarizing the dream of escaping the past that is at the heart of both the colonial project and the American Dream. The truth, however, is that we do not have this godlike power of reinvention, nor did we ever. We must live with the messes and mistakes we have made, as well as within the limits of what our planet can sustain. But we do have it in our power to change ourselves, to attempt to right past wrongs, and to repair our relationships with one another and with the planet we share. It’s this work that is the bedrock of shock resistance.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Abuses against Muslim Rohingya Minority Hang over [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Ottawa Visit
Mike Blanchfield - The Canadian Press,
12 Jun 2017
Trudeau giving Mynamar almost $9M to promote ‘peace and stability’ programs, human rights. The meeting Wednesday [7 Jun 2017] had the look of a feel-good visit between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and honorary Canadian citizen Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader of Myanmar, also known as Burma.
→ read full articleOver 60 Birzeit Students Held in Israeli Prisons for Political Reasons
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Students suspect that Israeli and Palestinian authorities cooperate in keeping politically active students behind bars. To Israel they are terrorists in waiting, and to the PNA they are traitors. Support the campaign.
→ read full articleA General Solution to Economic Problems
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
I refer to the unsolved ones, not to those that are pretty satisfactorily solved already. I focus on our two acronyms SF1 and SF2, where SF can be read as Staggering Fact or as Structural Fact.
→ read full articleUN High Commissioner Urges Termination of Israeli Occupation
Stephanie Nebehay | Reuters – The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Jun 2017
6 Jun 2017— On the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, the United Nations calls for a lasting solution that would benefit both Israelis and Palestinians.
→ read full articleAll Languages Use for Peace: A Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
All languages are mental marvels for meaning-making,
but are they being used globally for peacemaking?
We Need Their Voices Today! (0)
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
This is a collection of biographical sketches showing people whose wise voices from the past can help to guide us today. All of the women and men, brief glimpses of whose lives and ideas are portrayed here, gave a high place to compassion. None of them was a slave to greed. We need their voices today!
[Note from TMS editor: It will be posted one biographical sketch per week]
The Unwanted ‘Bride’: Can the 1967 War Offer Opportunity for Peace?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – There is a saying that goes: “Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it.” This has been Israel’s dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement, which held its first conference in Basel, Switzerland 120 years ago, wanted Palestine but not the Palestinians. They achieved this objective 50 years later, in what Israel termed as its ‘war of independence.’
→ read full articleThe Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy: Questions, Hints and Allegations
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Robert Kennedy, like his brother John, was a great danger to those virulent forces of war and oppression within his own government, and he died opposing them as a true patriot. We should honor him on this day – June 6th – that he died; honor him by pursuing the truth of why he died and why it still matters. Because it does.
→ read full articleThe Declaration of Peace
Kent Drummond Shifferd | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
These are self-evident truths:
That all humans are a single family living on a fragile and endangered planet whose life support systems must remain intact if we are to survive; …
What Will It Take to Ban the Bomb?
Frida Berrigan | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
The United States is in the midst of a $1 trillion modernization of its submarines, bombers, ballistic and land-based missiles over the next 30 years, which was initiated under the Obama administration. Current U.S. nuclear forces consist of submarines that launch ballistic missiles, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, long-range bomber aircraft, shorter-range tactical aircraft, and the nuclear weapons that those delivery systems carry.
→ read full articleInterrogating the Qatar Rift
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
7 Jun 2017 – The abrupt announcement that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE, Yemen, the Maldive Islands, and the eastern government in divided Libya have broken all economic and political ties with Qatar has given rise to a tsunami of conjecture, wild speculation, and most of all, to wishful thinking and doomsday worries… We can gain some glimmers of understanding of what is motivating these Arab governments to act against Qatar, but little sympathy.
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