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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Oct 2-8, 2017~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: ”The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the oppressed. In the end we will be judged in terms of love.” — Leonardo Boff
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‘Guitar Man’ & ‘Sweet Surrender’ (Music Video of the Week)
David Gates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
David Gates, founding member of BREAD, accompanied by Billy Dean and Victoria Shaw. Live in early 90’s.
→ read full articleUS Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Record $700 Billion Military Budget
Eric London | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
20 Sep 2017 – Demonstrating the bipartisan support of Democrats and Republicans for militarism and war, the US Senate voted 89 to nine on Monday [18 Sep] to authorize $700 billion in spending for the military and intelligence agencies, an $80 billion increase from 2016 and $26 billion more than President Donald Trump requested earlier this year.
→ read full articleUS H-Bomb Testing Forgotten In Media Frenzy Over North Korea Threat
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
2 Oct 2017
As the U.S. detonated nuclear bomb after nuclear bomb in the Marshall Islands – amounting to 23 tests of both fission and fusion bombs over a 12-year period – evacuated islanders and others nearby were intentionally exposed to radiation fallout from the testing, in what would become known as “Project 4.1.”
→ read full articleUN Rights Experts Urge Member States to ‘Go Beyond Statements,’ Take Action to Help Rohingya
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
26 Sep 2017 – “No one chooses, especially not in the hundreds of thousands, to leave their homes and ancestral land, no matter how poor the conditions, to flee to a strange land to live under plastic sheets and in dire circumstances except in life-threatening situations,” stressed the experts. According to estimates, more than 430,000 people have crossed into Bangladesh since the violence erupted.
→ read full articleTruths
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Truths became fragile outcasts
drowned refugees denied even their pasts
or those refugees silenced
by Zionist media murdered
Orphaned and denied futures
Transcending Nukes
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Surprisingly few people know about the historic event at the UN on 7 July 2017. A Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was approved by 122 member states. On 20 September the treaty opened for signatures and so far 53 countries have signed and three have ratified it – the Holy See, Guyana and Thailand. The treaty becomes international law 90 days after 50 states ratify it. The hard work begins now, and the TRANSCEND community has a specific and necessary contribution to make.
→ read full articleOil, Gas, Geopolitics Guide U.S. Hand in Playing the Rohingya Crisis
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
2 Oct 2017
Internal conflict, appropriately located, spells geopolitical opportunity. With U.S. ally Saudi Arabia funding and stoking Rohingya insurgencies, the U.S. creates a chance to blockade China’s oil supply and provide Aung San Suu Kyi the military cooperation needed to wrest Myanmar back from Chinese influence.
→ read full articleCartoon Explaining Colonialism
Zig Zag | Films for Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Colonialism past and present. As for the future, it’s up to us to confine colonialism to the bin of history.
→ read full articleIsraeli Support for Myanmar Is the Natural Alliance of Regimes Based on Ethnic Supremacy
David Lloyd | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
What has not been reported in the mainstream news is the fact that, even during this ongoing genocidal campaign against its Muslim population, Myanmar has been supplied with weaponry by Israel. This is by no means the first time Israel has supplied repressive regimes with the tools of their trade, from apartheid South Africa to Pinochet’s Chile and the Guatemalan dictatorship: its weapons industry, indeed, proudly boasts of the fact that its products come well “field tested”–against Palestinians.
→ read full articleSometimes We Are Hosts, Otherwise We Are Guests
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Sometimes we are hosts, otherwise we are guests,
At all times and in all places we are prisoners of life.
(Italiano) Occidente, dove stai andando?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
L’Occidente ha convertito con successo la violenza diretta della guerra nella violenza strutturale dello sfruttamento, giustificata dalla violenza culturale, utilizzando, importando, rapinando risorse, lavorandole, esportando i prodotti derivati, intascandone il valore aggiunto, brevettando ciò che era stato appreso.
→ read full article(Italiano) USA–Dove state andando?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
12 settembre 2017 – “Pentagon Study Declares American Empire Is ‘Collapsing,” (Uno studio del Pentagono sostiene che l’impero americano sta crollando) è il titolo di un saggio di Nafeez Ahmed che fa un’analisi del suddetto studio. Sembra interessante. Sottotitolo: “Rapporto sollecita una massiccia espansione del complesso militare-industriale per garantire l’accesso globale alle risorse”. Suona famigliare.
→ read full article(Português) Sofrimento em Cativeiro: Organização Denuncia por Maus-Tratos Zoológico com Orangotango Fumante
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Um orangotango se tornou fumante contumaz em um zoológico da Malásia, segundo organizações ambientalistas. Shirley, um orangotango fêmea de 25 anos, disputa com seu parceiro as pontas de cigarro jogadas.
→ read full article(Português) Magnata brasileiro corrupto entre os estrangeiros que obtiveram vistos gold em Portugal
David Pegg, Sara Farolfi, Craig Shaw e Micael Pereira - Expresso [Portugal],
25 Sep 2017
18 set 2017 – Homens de negócios envolvidos no escândalo de corrupção Lava Jato, no Brasil, e familiares de um político angolano que foi acusado de corrupção compraram de forma sigilosa o seu acesso à Europa através do Governo português, uma fuga de informação revela.
→ read full article(Italiano) Discorso di Aung San Suu Kyi sulla situazione in Myanmar
Azione Nonviolenta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Il 19 settembre Aung San Suu Kyi ha parlato al Myanmar e al mondo. Nel caos di notizie che ci arrivano da quella terra ci sembra giusto riportare le sue dichiarazioni.
→ read full articleThe Killing of History
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Reporting from New York, John Pilger describes the re-writing of the history of the Vietnam War in the 10-part television series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Millions died “in good faith”, they say. And so yet more wars are justified – as President Trump tells the world he is prepared to “totally destroy” North Korea and its 25 million people.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (14) Mahatma Gandhi
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Mahatma Gandhi, Great Soul Gandhi, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleThe Unmaking of Myanmar
Sara Perria | Centre for International Governance Innovation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas have recently crossed into Bangladesh in search of safety. Just weeks before the exodus, journalist Sara Perria went to Myanmar to understand the origins of the conflict, the complex views around the minority group and the role of the international community in their aid.
→ read full articleSlow Genocide Continues in Myanmar
Mizanur Rahman Khan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Maung Zarni said the Rohingya Muslims are being persecuted due to their ethnicity. Zarni himself introduced the idea of slow genocide in the international law. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen agreed with the view that the latest persecution of Rohingyas in Rakhine state was slow genocide.
→ read full article(Italiano) India, così grande, così sconosciuta
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
25 Sep 2017
Viene in visita a Torino un’attivista indiana di nome Medha Paktar, già nota per la sue lotte a difesa di popolazioni minacciate di essere allontanate dai loro territori in seguito alla costruzione di una grande diga sul fiume Narmada. India, alle radici dell’industrializzazione selvaggia.
→ read full articleApartheid and the Future of Israel/Palestine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
The interview, associated with my current visit to Belgium and France to speak on the report “Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid,” brings up to date the controversy generated by the UN Secretary General bowing to U.S. pressure and ordering its removal from ESCWA website. It was published in l’Humanité, Sept. 6, 2017.
→ read full articleCovering the Rohingya: Separating Fact from Fiction
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
We examine how Myanmar’s government and military shape the media narrative surrounding the Rohingya crisis.
→ read full articleWill Opioid Lawsuits by County Officials against Big Pharma Set Legal Precedent to Sue Vaccine Makers?
Catherine J. Frompovich - Activist Post,
25 Sep 2017
“They know what they’ve been doing. They’ve been misrepresenting the dangers of these dangerous addictive drugs for years.” – “Those pharmaceutical companies have made billions of dollars off the deaths of our children and our loved ones.”
→ read full articleCommon Ground
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Unity based conflict resolution does not focus on the points of disagreement, but seeks points of unity, common interest, and gradually expands from there, to arrive at a mutually acceptable solution to problems.
→ read full articleThank you, Smotrich
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Another Zionist poet once wrote that we will not become a normal nation until we have Jewish criminals and Jewish whores. Thank God we now have plenty of both. And now we also have at least one bona fide Jewish fascist.
→ read full articleReclaiming the Truth about Vietnam
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
The first set of words sickened a vast segment of the American public and caused the horror of “Vietnam Syndrome” to cripple and emasculate the military-industrial complex for a decade and a half. Slowly, the powers that be regrouped, redefined how we fought our wars: without widespread national sacrifice or a universal draft; and with smart bombs and even smarter public relations, ensuring that most of the American public could watch our clean, efficient wars in the comfort of their living rooms. What was also necessary was to marginalize the anti-war voices that shut down the Vietnam War.
→ read full articleTrump Misreads North Korea’s Sacred Dynasty at His Peril
Michael Brabazon – The Guardian,
25 Sep 2017
23 Sep 2017 – References to the regime as a cold war relic, or as communist, Stalinist, or a cult of personality, make easy and colourful soundbites. But do they really help in understanding the motivations of what appears to be a dangerous, anachronistic society? The short answer is no. In the escalating war of insults, Trump is a ‘gangster fond of playing with fire’, Kim Jong-un a ‘madman’ who will be tested as never before.
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teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
The new base adds to the U.S. garrison of the world, which accounts for some 800 military bases on soil other than its own.
→ read full articleIn the Amazon, a Catastrophic Gold Rush Looms
Chris Feliciano Arnold – The New York Times,
25 Sep 2017
18 Sep 2017 — Brazil’s interim president, Michel Temer, is willing to sacrifice millions of acres of rain forest in pursuit of a 16th-century boondoggle: fortunes of gold in the Amazon. In August, he signed a decree to open a rain forest reserve — an area larger than Denmark — to commercial mining, threatening decades of progress on environmental protection and indigenous rights in the Amazon.
→ read full articlePogrom of Minority Rohingya in Myanmar
Mohammad Amjad Hossain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
This writer suggests to the UN Secretary-general, who is fully aware of the fate of Rohingya minority in Myanmar, to send peacekeeping forces of the UN to Rakhine State to protect security of minority community apart from bring back Rohingya from around neighboring countries to their homeland. Security Council should consider imposing economic sanctions against Myanmar government as well.
→ read full articleWorld’s Largest Solar Park to Also Host World’s Tallest Solar Tower
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
19 Sep 2017 – The Dubai government has awarded a $3.9 billion contract to construct the 700-megawatt fourth and final phase of the world-record-holding Solar Park. The project also includes an 850-foot-tall solar tower that receives focused sunlight, the world’s tallest such structure.
→ read full articleFrench Pres. Macron Pulls No Punches: Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar Constitutes ‘Genocide’
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
21 Sep 2017 – French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday [20 Sep] said that France will work with other members of the U.N. Security Council for a condemnation of “this genocide which is unfolding, this ethnic cleansing,” in an interview with the French TV channel TMC.
→ read full articleIndictment of Burma/Myanmar for State Crimes
Permanent People’s Tribunal on Myanmar’s State Crimes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
State sponsored and state led massacres, extrajudicial executions, murders, disappearances, drownings, rape and sexual violence, the destruction of homes and of whole villages, the wholesale denial of civil rights, in the context of state terror. Gross, widespread and systematic violations of the right to life, economic, social and cultural rights particularly the right to health and livelihood, the right to food and food sovereignty and the right to freedom from interference with the family and home
→ read full articleEmployee Ownership and the Next System
Joseph Blasi, Thomas Hanna and Dana Brown | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
29 Aug 2017 – What role should employee ownership and profit-sharing play in the next system? Are they part of that system itself or part of the strategy to help create the transition to it? Can they be both?
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The Swan (Music Video of the Week)
Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Composer: Saint-Saëns – From Songs from the Arc of Life
→ read full articleFor an Israel-Palestine of Cantons
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Dr. Emile Nakhleh says the people of the area must jettison the two-state formula–which has produced nothing–and explore more creative possibilities that will serve the two peoples. A confederation of cantons is a starting idea. Facts shown in maps and diagrams.
→ read full articleUS Senate Backs Massive Increase in Military Spending
Patricia Zengerle | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
18 Sep 2017 – The U.S. Senate passed a $700 billion defense policy bill today, backing Donald Trump’s call for a bigger, stronger military. The Republican-controlled chamber voted 89-8 for the National Defense Authorization Act.
→ read full articleHow Do We Get Out of This Mess?
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017 – Here are my proposals for a new politics, designed for the 21st Century… We know that, if we can mobilise such silent majorities, there is nothing this small minority can do to stop us… As we rekindle our imagination, we discover our power to act. And that is the point at which we become unstoppable.
→ read full articleBeing
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
I walked my hard way,
My journey was long,
And every day I kneaded clay
Under the long heavy rain.
Alert: Nature, on the Verge of Bankruptcy
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
25 Sep 2017
12 Sep 2017 – Pressures on global land resources are now greater than ever, as a rapidly increasing population coupled with rising levels of consumption is placing ever-larger demands on the world’s land-based natural capital, warns a new United Nations report.
→ read full article(Português) Entenda por que você pode estar consumindo insetos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Você costuma ler os rótulos dos produtos que compra? Alguma vez encontrou um ingrediente discriminado como “corante natural carmim de cochonilha” ou “corante carmim”? Sabe o que isso significa? Que esse corante vermelho foi extraído do corpo e dos ovos de um inseto.
→ read full articleNestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For
Caroline Winter | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
21 Sep 2017 – In rural Mecosta County, Mich., sits a near-windowless facility with a footprint about the size of Buckingham Palace. It’s just one of Nestlé’s roughly 100 bottled water factories in 34 countries around the world. The company’s operation reveals how it’s dominated the industry by going into economically depressed areas with lax water laws.
→ read full articleThe Great Nutrient Collapse
Helena Bottemiller Evich - POLITICO,
25 Sep 2017
The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention.
→ read full articleWater Supplies Run Dry near Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Mexico
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
17 Sep 2017 – A Coca-Cola plant is said to be taking up copious amounts of water to manufacture its signature soda, in turn, drying up the wells in southern Mexico. The Mexican FEMSA-run bottling company operating the plant is said to have consumed at least 1.08 million liters of water per day in 2016.
→ read full article(Português) Pôneis são massacrados pela indústria da carne
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Durante milênios, eles percorreram Dartmoor, na Inglaterra. Os pôneis da região, com suas crinas distintas, rabos e pelugens espessos, sobreviveram e prosperaram no National Park, mas agora enfrentam uma ameaça sem precedentes para sua sobrevivência e algumas pessoas defendem que é preciso usar uma solução radical e imaginável para “salvá-los” .
→ read full articleSeptember Employee of the Month: [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi
World Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
September 2017’s “employee of the month” is Aung San Suu Kyi, awarded this month for her refusal to recognize the assault against the Rohingya population of Myanmar for what it is: a massive state-sponsored campaign of violence against a minority group. In lieu of a WPF explanation of the awardee, however, we re-post the below “Open Letter to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi” written by Burmese activists.
→ read full articleSouth Korea Unexpectedly Approves Aid to North
Jason Ditz – Antiwar.com,
25 Sep 2017
21 Sep 2017 – As Sanctions Hit Civilians, South Korea to Send Food, Medicine to North Korea – In a move no one expected, and which puts them squarely at odds with the US, South Korea today announced the provision of a new $8 million aid package for neighboring North Korea in directly contrast with US calls for “more pressure.”
→ read full articleFairness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Taking his seat in his chambers, the judge faced the opposing lawyers.
→ read full articleTribunal Finds Myanmar Guilty of Genocide against Rohingya
Radio Free Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
22 Sep 2017 – An international panel of judges, The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal of scholars and experts from around the globe, declared today in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur that the Myanmar government is guilty of committing genocide against Rohingya Muslims, who have been fleeing the country following months of military crackdowns against the minority group.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Sep 25 – Oct 1, 2017~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.” ― Walter Scott
→ read full articleNew Rules Split Palestinians from Foreign Spouses
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Sep 10, 2017 – Israel has built up a huge bureaucracy with one purpose only – to oversee and manage (prohibit) every aspect of Palestinian life. Here Amira Hass reports on an unannouced new rule demanding foreigners married to Palestinians have to jump through many hoops to get a visa to stay with their spouse. It’s to urge the families to emigrate, critics say.
→ read full articleGovernment by Goldman: Gary Cohn Is Giving Goldman Sachs Everything It Ever Wanted from the Trump Administration
Gary Rivlin and Michael Hudson – The Intercept,
25 Sep 2017
Gary Cohn and Trump’s Wall Street Agenda – “Yet now Cohn’s in charge of the economy and talking about eliminating financial reform and basically putting the country back to where it was in 2005, as if 2008 didn’t happen. I’ve started the countdown clock to the next financial crash, which will make the last one look mild.”
→ read full articleTurning Taboos into Constructive Discourses
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Freedom of expression can be severely curtailed by taboo zones in any country, outruling, sometimes also outlawing the unspeakable… To see Hitler, not his ideas, as evil, is itself an evil idea. Kill Hitler or he kills himself and the ideas are still alive, blowing in the air so to speak, in search of new carriers. The ideas have to be confronted and overcome; only killing individual carriers is naive.
→ read full articleSample Comments Regarding PolyMet’s Permit Application to Construct a Copper Mining Tailings Lagoon in Northern Minnesota
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
19 Sep 2017 – To the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, regarding PolyMet’s most recent permitting request: Here are my reasons that the DNR should reject PolyMet’s permit applications for their earthen tailings dam, their liquid slurry pipeline pumping operation and their open pit sulfide mine near the headwaters of the St Louis River:
→ read full articleIran Implementing Its Nuclear Commitments, UN Atomic Agency Chief Stresses
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
18 Sep 2017 – Iran is implementing its commitments under “the world’s most robust nuclear verification regime,” the United Nations atomic agency head said today, while at the same time voicing “grave concern” at the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) nuclear programme.
→ read full articleThe Gaza Ghetto
Jews for Justice for Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Gaza is already ‘unliveable’ causing illness, death and immiseration. If the authorities – Hamas, Israel, the PA – could accept their responsibility it might have a hope. At the moment, NGOs are proving the basics which ANY responsible regime should ensure. Save the Children is featured here for its work with children, the first to suffer from adult obduracy.
→ read full articleJohn Boyd Orr: (23 Sep 1880 – 25 Jun 1971)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
John Boyd Orr was a medical doctor and biologist from Scotland concerned with the impact of poverty and malnutrition on health. He worked on food issues with the League of Nations and during the Second World War was deeply involved in food issues in Britain, especially focused on the needs of children and youth.
→ read full articleInstant Gratification — Some Philosophical Questions
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
25 Sep 2017 – The world has become conditioned to some strange requirements — instant coffee, instant noodles, instant communication and expression of our thoughts. We are usually short of time and want instant gratification. We want to cut down on the entity TIME.
→ read full articlePoetry Steeped in Sarcasm and Politics
Sarah Irving | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
19 Sep 2017 – “Prince of Poets” star Tamim Al-Barghouti’s first collection of work translated into English. The political side of his life often comes through in witty, sarcastic, bitter poems stating observations and allegories. – In Jerusalem and Other Poems, 1997-2017, Interlink Books (2017)
→ read full articlePsychosocial Learnings from the Spiral Form of Hurricanes
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Much is known about the structure and dynamics of hurricanes. Much is also known about the helical structure of DNA and of spirals in general. The question is how such insight might be related to the intuited significance of the triadic triskelion and how it might be employed to enrich the very particular institutional preoccupations promoted under the banner of the Triple Helix model and its extensions.
→ read full articleSpy Files Russia
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Today, September 19th 2017, WikiLeaks starts publishing the series “Spy Files Russia” with documents from the Russian company Петер-Сервис (PETER-SERVICE). This release includes 209 documents (34 base documents in different versions) dated between 2007 and 2015.
→ read full articleFinancialization and the Destruction of the Real Economy
Charles Hugh Smith – Activist Post,
25 Sep 2017
Strip an economy of capital, productive incentives, talent and yes, ethics, and what are we left with? An economy spiraling toward an inevitable collapse.
→ read full articleGood-Bye, See You Later
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
We made it! Five hundred Mondays [from 3 Mar 2008] has Antonio from Brazil-Portugal posted an editorial by me from Norway and the world–sometimes with a coauthor. With the good support of the other members of our editorial committee, Malvin Gattinger from Germany, Naakow Grant-Hayford from Ghana and Erika Degortes from Italy. THANKS!
→ read full articleMantras for a New India
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
25 Sep 2017 – In India, the priorities of village people are constantly undergoing changes. These are, in fact, a result of the changes the development landscape is undergoing… We now have the techniques and resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will.
→ read full articleAnti-Fascist Heroines Then and Now
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
25 Sep 2017
21 Sep 2017 – The history of resistance to fascism is worth recalling at this critical moment in U.S. politics. The stories of Anne Frank and Sophie Scholl — two young German women, one a Jew, another a Christian — should guide and inspire us in this darkening time.
→ read full articleA Low Enriched Uranium Bank in Kazakhstan
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – A new facility designed to help prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons – the Low Enriched Uranium Bank – was inaugurated last August 29 at Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. The inauguration coincided with the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, declared in 2009 by the United Nations.
→ read full article35 Years after the Sabra-Shatila Massacre Where’s “The Resistance”?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
This week commemorates the 35th anniversary of the Wed, Sep 15 to Sat, Sep 18, 1982 Sabra-Shatila Massacre in the Fakhani neighborhood of Beirut. For many of the families and loved ones of the victims, as is certainly the case with this observer, it seems as though the Sabra-Shatila Massacre was committed at most four or five years ago. So vivid still in our memories are the horror images of that orgy of slaughter.
→ read full article(Português) Inaugurado o Banco de Uranio no Casaquistão
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
13 Set 2017 – Uma nova instalação destinada a auxiliar a prevenção da proliferação de armas nucleares – o Banco de Urânio Levemente Enriquecido – foi inaugurada no último dia 29 de agosto, em Astana, capital do Casaquistão, a qual coincidiu com o Dia Internacional Contra os Ensaios Nucleares, declarado em 2009 pelas Nações Unidas.
→ read full articleRemembering Ebrahim Yazdi
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
For all those dedicated to the attainment of real democracy, the name and life of Ebrahim Yazdi is a precious legacy worth reflecting upon because it has so much to teach us today. Among those who struggled for an Iranian future that was Islamic, genuinely democratic, and humanly decent no one was more steadfast and clear about their commitment than Dr. Yazdi.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to [Nobel Peace Laureate] Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
As your fellow countrymen, with deep roots in our troubled birthplace, we are writing to you to share our sadness and concern about your personal legacy as the nation’s leader, the plight of our people, and the future of Myanmar as a nation. When you delivered your first speech in 1988, declaring that “as my father’s daughter I could no longer remain silent when the public remains subject to decades of oppression”, we were deeply moved and inspired by your determination and courage.
→ read full article(Français) «L’Étreinte du Serpent»: Colonialisme et Destruction
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Dans cette œuvre cinématographique qui a récolté une reconnaissance internationale unanime, le cinéaste colombien Ciro Guerra expose de manière saisissante ce que le phénomène de colonisation et le processus de domination ont toujours voulu réduire au silence. Il explique la rencontre entre les indigènes et les explorateurs européens, inversant les points de vue de ce qu’on appelle la « Découverte du Nouveau monde« , maintenant vue du côté des indigènes.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (13) Count Leo Tolstoy
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Count Leo Tolstoy, great author and humanist, pioneer of nonviolent resistance, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWhen Is a Genocide a Genocide?
Amal de Chickera | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
(Or, why is the world allowing the Rohingya to be slaughtered?) There is a genocide happening before our eyes. If only we can bear to look. A humane, compassionate, professional, incisive, and brutally honest report of the state of the world, specifically the unending failures and complicity of the UN system of nation states in cases of genocides and other crimes of barbarity.
→ read full articleHurricane Irma Unleashes the Forces of Privatization in Puerto Rico
Kate Aronoff, Angel Manuel Soto and Averie Timm – The Intercept,
18 Sep 2017
12 Sep 2017 – Vultures circling the wreckage of Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Irma are closing in on a long-sought prize.
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Where Does Your Entertainment Come From?
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Sea Shepherd Releases Powerful Video on the Same Day Japan Begins Its Annual Dolphin Hunt
→ read full article(Português) George Orwell e a crítica à exploração animal (*)
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
12 set 2017 – O homem é a única criatura que consome sem produzir. Ele não dá leite, não bota ovos, é muito fraco para puxar o arado, não corre rápido o suficiente para pegar coelhos. Sim, ele é o senhor dos animais. Ele os prepara para trabalhar, e lhes entrega o mínimo que os impedirá de morrer de fome. O resto ele mantém para si mesmo.
→ read full articleBuddhist Man Calls for Jews to Help Myanmar’s Rohingya People
Matthew Gindin – The Canadian Jewish News,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – In March, London-based Burmese Buddhist and human rights activist Maung Zarni stood on the train tracks outside of Auschwitz and asked his companion to press record on his video camera. “If anyone would understand what is happening to the Rohingya, it would be you, the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, the survivors and their families,” Zarni told.
→ read full articleFor the Love of Money: Wall Street’s Money Addiction
Sam Polk – The New York Times,
18 Sep 2017
These traders despised anything or anyone that threatened their bonuses. Ever see what a drug addict is like when he’s used up his junk? He’ll do anything — walk 20 miles in the snow, rob a grandma — to get a fix. Wall Street was like that. In the months before bonuses were handed out, the trading floor started to feel like a neighborhood in “The Wire” when the heroin runs out.
→ read full articleThe Politics of Military Ascendancy
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
15 Sep 2017 – Clearly the US has escalated the pivotal role of the military in the making of foreign and, by extension, domestic policy. The rise of ‘the Generals’ to strategic positions in the Trump regime is evident, deepening its role as a highly autonomous force determining US strategic policy agendas.
→ read full articleUrge, Splurge, Purge
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
As Milton Friedman, one of the architects of neoliberal ideology, put it, “Ecological values can find their natural space in the market, like any other consumer demand”. But there’s a flaw. Hurricanes do not respond to market signals. The plastic fibres in our oceans, food and drinking water do not respond to market signals. Nor does the collapse of insect populations, or coral reefs, or the extirpation of orangutans from Borneo.
→ read full articleWhat If the 9/11 Whistle-Blowers Are Speaking the Truth?
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Today (the day after 9-11-2017) I received an email message about my last Duty to Warn column about 9/11 that he had just read the day before. It simply said:
“Gary, if what you and Dr Fetzer say is true, aren’t you afraid of being ‘taken out’?
I’d like to see a list of important 9/11 people who have been silenced.”
Principles of Persecution: India’s Systematized Human Rights Violations
Hasnat Sheikh | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
16 Sep 2017 – Arbitrary detentions, torture, mass graves and mass rapes. These are words that describe matters recurrent in the “world’s largest democracy”, India… For the sake of humanity and fundamental human rights, the Indian government must be pressed to demolish these pillars of systematized persecution and uphold standards of law and justice.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Member Sergio Duarte Is New President of [1995 Nobel Peace Laureate] Pugwash
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
7 Sep 2017 – The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is proud to announce that Sergio Duarte, former UN Undersecretary for Disarmament Affairs and a retired career diplomat from Brazil, has become its new President. He succeeds Jayantha Dhanapala, who after ten years in the role retired at the conclusion of the 62nd Pugwash Conference in Astana, on 29 Aug 2017.
→ read full articleVenezuela Reports Oil Prices in Chinese Currency, Shunning the ‘Tyranny of the Dollar’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Venezuela, the country with the largest oil reserves in the world, began on Friday [15 Sep] to report its crude oil prices in the Chinese Yuan following the imposition of U.S. sanctions, bucking the oil market norm of pricing in the U.S dollar.
→ read full articleFollow Kenya’s Lead on Plastic Bags
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
14 Sep 2017 – Plastic bags are often used for a few minutes before enjoying an eternal afterlife, clogging storm drains, stuffing landfills, killing animals that eat them and contributing to the eight million metric tons of plastic in oceans every year. Kenya and more than 40 other countries have taxed, limited or banned plastic bags. The rest of the world should, too.
→ read full articleUnreal Dreams
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
How long I’ve dreamed,
Is it possible to take its normal course,
So that the gardens can blossom,
So that the bird’s scent does not stop,
UN Human Rights Chief Points to ‘Textbook Example of Ethnic Cleansing’ in Myanmar
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017 – He lashed out at the treatment of the Rohingya in Myanmar which has led to more than 300,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh in the past three weeks, as security forces and local militia reportedly burn villages and shoot civilians.
→ read full articleU.N. Brands Myanmar Violence a ‘Textbook’ Example of Ethnic Cleansing
Stephanie Nebehay and Simon Lewis | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017 – The United Nations’ top human rights official today slammed Myanmar for conducting a “cruel military operation” against Rohingya Muslims, branding it “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. Zeid Ra‘ad al-Hussein’s comments to the UNHRC in Geneva came as the official tally of Rohingya who have fled Myanmar and crossed into southern Bangladesh in just over two weeks soared through 300,000.
→ read full articleThe World–Where Are You Heading?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Jurisprudence and the legal model; why not, and the alternatives? Answer: A deeply rooted model seeing social reality as actors, individual or collective, responsible for their acts, answerable to the law. An indispensable perspective to be enriched with a systemic perspective: action is not only conditioned by actor intention and capability, but also by good and bad structures; hence changing bad structures, not only punishing illegal actors, or restoring them.
→ read full articleSwami Vivekananda: Relevance of His Stirring Speech in Chicago in 1893
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
His speech delivered in the Parliament of Religions in Chicago on 11 Sep 1893 was a unique and path breaking one that helped not only the delegates but also the general public to get an idea of what the Hindu religion, one of the most ancient religions of the world, signified and what was its relevance at that time to the world.
→ read full articleHow to Fast Safely: Considerations before Starting a Fast
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
If you haven’t done the research, you might find yourself wondering if fasting is safe. You may have heard from people who’ve never even tried it that it’s crazy, dangerous, or just pointless. And yet, for thousands of years, many cultures have embraced fasting wholeheartedly. This ancient practice leads to numerous health benefits for most people—when done correctly.
→ read full articleThe Unspoken Truth behind the Colin Kaepernick Story
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
16 Sep 2017 – Two recent sports news items have reminded me of incidents from my own athletic past. And those memories in turn have brought my reflections back to the current news regarding the failure of any NFL team to sign quarterback Colin Kaepernick to a contract, and the recent boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor.
→ read full articleTrue Skill
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
The yogi Raman was a true master of the art of archery. One morning, he invited his favorite disciple to watch a display of his skill. The disciple had seen this more than a hundred times before, but he nevertheless obeyed his teacher.
→ read full articleDespair of Despair
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
16 Sep 2017 – How can I be an optimist in view of what’s happening here every day in Israel? The practical annexation of occupied territories? The mistreatment of the Arabs? The implantation of poisonous settlements? But optimism is a state of mind. It does not falter in the face of evil. On the contrary, evil must be fought. And you cannot fight if you do not believe that you can win. There is nothing to despair of but despair itself.
→ read full articleInterview with Edward Snowden: ‘There Is Still Hope – Even for Me’
Martin Knobbe and Jörg Schindler – Der Spiegel,
18 Sep 2017
12 Sep 2017 – Whistleblower Edward Snowden discusses his life in Russia, the power of the intelligence apparatuses and how he will continue his battle against all-encompassing surveillance by governments.
→ read full articleWorld Law to Protect Refugees and Migrants
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
On 19 Sep 2016, the UN General Assembly held a one-day Summit on «Addressing Large Movements o Refugees and Migrants» and set a new agenda for responding to large movements of people crossing frontiers. The UN resolution is called The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. There needs to be strong cooperation among the UN and its Agencies, national governments, and NGOs to deal more adequately with current challenges and to plan for the future.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Sep 18-24, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.” – Maurice Chevalier
→ read full articleChelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For
Chelsea Manning – The New York Times,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – For seven years, I didn’t exist. While incarcerated, I had no bank statements, no bills, no credit history. In our interconnected world of big data, I appeared to be no different than a deceased person. After I was released, that lack of information about me created a host of problems, from difficulty accessing bank accounts to trouble getting a driver’s license and renting an apartment.
→ read full articleLacked and Loaded
Latuff – MintPress News,
18 Sep 2017
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