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(Français) La machine de guerre étasunienne en Afrique
Nick Turse | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Pendant des années, AFRICOM a vendu la fiction que Djibouti est le site de sa seule « base » en Afrique. Alors que les États-Unis maintiennent un vaste réseau d’installations militaires dans le monde entier, avec des complexes militaires énormes et difficiles à ne pas voir en Europe et en Asie, les bases d’Afrique ont été mieux dissimulées.
→ read full articleKashmir
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
The problem with the status of Jammu and Kashmir and the feelings of its people towards India is an old one although the situation has become worse in recent times. It started in 1948 after India was divided into two independent states of India and Pakistan and after the more than 530 states were asked to go to either the new nation of Pakistan or to join India. The maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir (J K) was a Hindu but the majority population of the state was Muslim. He however decided to accede to India.
→ read full articleThe Idea of Living
Joyce Sutphen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
It has its attractions,
chiefly visual: all those
shapes and lines, hunks
of color and light (the way
(Français) «La grève de la faim est un combat pour la dignité et la liberté de tous les Palestiniens»
Stefano Mauro | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Ilan Pappe, juif, érudit socialiste et antisioniste, a récemment écrit que le peuple palestinien, en ce qui concerne sa ténacité, est comparable aux oliviers de son pays natal.
→ read full articleA Grisly Tale of Children Falling Easy Prey to Ruthless Smugglers
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
29 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Among a raft of alarming statistics, a new UN report has just found that children account for around 28 per cent of trafficking victims globally. And that Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America and the Caribbean have the highest share of children among detected trafficking victims, at the rates of 64 and 62 per cent, respectively.
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La Vie en Rose – Original (Music Video of the Week)
Edith Piaf – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
A perennial French classic by an immortal French performer: Edit Piaf –
Au cours de l’émission “La joie de vivre”, Edith Piaf interprète “La vie en rose”, le 4 mars 1954.
What’s in a Name? U.S. Takes Syria’s Al-Qaeda off Terror Watchlists
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
29 May 2017
By changing its name to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda has managed to secure its removal from the U.S. and Canadian terror watchlists, allowing citizens of those countries to donate money and travel to fight with them.
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Exclusive: Dilma Rousseff on Her Ouster, Brazil’s Political Crisis & Fighting Dictatorship
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
29 May 2017
26 May 2017 – As Brazil is engulfed by a political crisis, we are joined in studio for an extended exclusive interview by Brazil’s former President Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached last year in what many describe as a legislative coup. Her removal ended nearly 14 years of rule by the left-leaning Workers’ Party, which had been credited with lifting millions of Brazilians out of poverty. Rousseff is a former political prisoner who took part in the underground resistance to the U.S.-backed Brazilian dictatorship in the 1960s. She was jailed from 1970 to 1972, during which time she was repeatedly tortured.
→ read full articleViewpoint
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
During the German occupation of France, a German soldier entered Picasso’s studio and saw a small reproduction of his painting “Guernica”.
→ read full article‘Dire Crisis as Gaza Faces Power Cuts, Gallons of Raw Sewage Pouring into Sea’
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
The United Nations Middle East envoy on 26 May 2017 cautioned that unless urgent measures are taken to de-escalate the crisis now spiraling out of control in the Gaza Strip, there will be devastating consequences for Palestinians and Israelis alike.
→ read full articleMikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths.
→ read full articleOn Caring
Prof. George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Author George Kent feels the theme of caring needs more attention and analysis because of its importance in all social contexts. He used “On Caring” as the foundation for his recent book, ‘Caring About Hunger,’ published by Jørgen Johansen’s Irene Publishing.
→ read full articleTake Torture off Agenda
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
If we created a U.S. Department of Peace whose mission was to non-violently address roots of violence, such a mission would gear American ingenuity and enthusiasm toward the bigger picture of conflict resolution and friendship rather than toward desperate conclusions that security requires cruelty toward enemies.
→ read full article(Português) Filme sobre grupo de direitos animais concorre à Palma de Ouro no Festival de Cannes
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
23 maio 2017 – Um grupo de ativistas pelos direitos animais foi retratado em um filme que concorre à Palma de Ouro no Festival de Cannes. O trabalho heroico do Animal Liberation Front é mostrado em “Okja”, que gira em torno do resgate de um porco geneticamente modificado.
→ read full articleMeasles Mortality Rates and How the Medical Establishment Deceives Us Concerning the Efficacy (and Safety) of Vaccines
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Critical thinkers and knowledgeable readers who have no ulterior motivation to blindly promote current over-vaccination agendas will agree that the Somali parents who have witnessed the devastating epidemic of Autistic Spectrum Disorders decimate so many of their children since coming to Minnesota, made a wise choice in refusing MMR vaccinations.
→ read full articlePortrait of Myanmar’s ‘Buddhist Bin Laden’ Chills Cannes
Fiachra Gibbons | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
“The Venerable W”, his chilling portrait of the monk who has been accused of preaching hate and inciting attacks on Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority, has been hailed by critics at the Cannes film festival as a “stirring documentary about ethnic cleansing in action”. What dismays Schroeder is that Wirathu, whom Time magazine dubbed “The face of Buddhist terror” in a 2013 cover, is utterly unfazed by the chaos and suffering he has unleashed.
→ read full articleLet the Media Coverage of Manchester Victims Be a Model for All Young Victims of War
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
29 May 2017
When a suicide bomber exploded a bomb at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester this week, those killed were almost entirely from among her immense fan base: young girls — teens — and their parents. Jump to the first week of the Trump administration: with expected hubris, Trump and his surrogates touted a “successful” raid in Yemen. What went largely unreported were the 30 civilian casualties of that attack, many of them women and children, including an 8-year-old girl, Nawar Anwar al-Awlaki.
→ read full articleIndian Establishment Lauds Military’s Use of Kashmiri Youth as “Human Shield”
Wasantha Rupasinghe | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
24 May 2017 – Indian army head General Bipin Rawat has awarded a commendation to the officer who ordered a Kashmiri youth tied to the hood of a jeep as a “human shield.” 26-year-old Farooq Dar was seized and, in flagrant violation of international law, paraded around for hours while tied to the lead vehicle of an army convoy.
→ read full articleThermodynamics and Negentropy of Spheral Classes
John Scales Avery - et al. (*) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Society, like any system that has energy, is subject to the second law of thermodynamics, which express the entropy (scattering) of all energy. Our article is devoted to this subject, but within the framework of society and from the unique position of social harmony and disharmony of its structural carriers.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
May 29-Jun 4 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I am not afraid… I was born to do this.” (“Je n’ai pas peur… Je suis né pour cela.”) – Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc)
→ read full articleHunger Strike Ends, Prisoners Declare Victory
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
27 May 2017 – After 40 days without food, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike in Israeli jails. The end of the strike came after 20 hours of intense negotiations between the strike’s leaders, including imprisoned Fatah figure Marwan Barghouti, and the Israel Prison Service, according to a statement issued Saturday [27 May] morning by the prisoners solidarity committee.
→ read full articleWalt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
The basic demands of Pyongyang can easily be met: a peace treaty, normalization of diplomatic relations to Seoul and USA, a nuclear-free, UN-inspected Korean peninsula. An afternoon job for peace, USA?
→ read full articleJohn Pilger: The White Helmets Are a “Complete Propaganda Construct”
Vanessa Beeley – MintPress News,
29 May 2017
26 May 2017 – In yesterday’s interview with RT’s Going Underground, John Pilger outed the White Helmets as nothing more than a “complete propaganda construct in Syria.”
→ read full articleBeing Seed Thrown from Universe
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Being seed thrown from universe,
I am like a farewell beam,
I’ll shine a little on the ground
And later will be lost when the time comes.
Uganda Has Benefited from Peace Journalism
Gloria Laker Aciro | D+C Development and Cooperation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Uganda has a history of conflict and violence. In particular, the strife caused by the Lord’s Resistance Army from 1995 to 2004 made peace efforts necessary. At the time, a strong foundation for peace journalism was laid. Its principles are of lasting relevance in view of unrest in border regions and the refugee population which is growing due to civil war in neighbouring countries.
→ read full articleUnforgettable Journey
Lara Ayvazyan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
I tore off two red poppies
At the foot of Toledo,
And gave my heart to the country
Under the bright blue sky.
Cholera Outbreak in War-Torn Yemen Spreading at ‘Unprecedented’ Speed
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
As war-torn Yemen grapples with heavy rains, a collapsed healthcare system and crippled economy, a resurgent cholera outbreak has spread with “unprecedented” speed and taken medical professionals by surprise, the World Health Organization warned on 19 May 2017.
→ read full articleSeneca on True and False Friendship
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
“Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.” “Friendship is unnecessary,” C.S. Lewis wrote, “like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
→ read full articleTwo Sides of the Palestinian Coin: Hunger Strike/Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
28 May 2017 – The Palestinian hunger strike protesting Israeli prison conditions was suspended on May 27th after 40 days, at a time when many of the 1000 or so strikers were experiencing serious deteriorations of health, most were by then hospitalized, and the holy period of Ramadan about to commence creating continuity between the daytime fasting of the faithful and the prior desperate protest of the strikers.
→ read full articleHow Academia Uses Poverty, Oppression, and Pain for Intellectual Masturbation
Prof. Clelia O. Rodríguez | RaceBaitR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
One of the tragic consequences of a traditional system of higher education is working with colleagues who claim to have expertise on the topic of social activism, but who have never experienced any form of intervention. I am referring here to those academics who have made careers out of the pain of others by consuming knowledge obtained in marginalized communities.
→ read full articleSo It Goes
Latuff – MintPress News,
29 May 2017
Friends in High Places
→ read full article(Italiano) 26-27-28 maggio 2017 ERA UN GIORNO QUALSIASI La memoria in cammino A piedi da Avenza a Sant’Anna di Stazzema
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
La presentazione del libro di Ercole Ongaro Resistenza nonviolenta 1943-1945
→ read full articleCompetition and Collaboration in Conflict Resolution
Dr. Olga A. Vorkunova – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Peace-building is today central for shaping our human conditions, present and future. In terms of IR theory, the analytical distinction between ‘competition logic’ versus ‘cooperation logic’ implies that a realist perspective may be useful to analyze particular aspects of peace coalitions rather than military coalitions. There are no incompatible countries; there are incompatible goals of different actors.
→ read full article(Português) A fome como desafio ético e espiritual
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
A pobreza é sistêmica, pois é fruto de um tipo de sociedade que tem por objetivo acumular mais e mais bens materiais sem qualquer consideração humanitária (justiça social) e ambiental (justiça ecológica). Ela pressupõe pessoas cruéis, cínicas e sem qualquer sentido de solidariedade, portanto, num contexto de alta desumaniação e até de barbárie
→ read full articleVault 7: Athena
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Today, May 19th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the “Athena” project of the CIA. “Athena” – like the related “Hera” system – provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (from Windows XP to Windows 10).
→ read full articleThe Palestinian Hunger Strike: “Our chains will be broken before we are…”
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Even if this commitment is not carried through to a grim finality, it will not tarnish the significance of what has been undertaken, and the great reluctance of the world to focus its attention on such a display of nonviolent martyrdom. It appears to be the most consequential due to the participation of Marwan Barghouti along with so many other Palestinian prisoners as well as producing many displays of solidarity beyond the prison walls.
→ read full articleTrumped Up Diplomacy in the Middle East
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
20 May 2017 – As Trump dominates the news by his visits to Saudi Arabia and Israel we should not be tricked into thinking that his ‘achievements’ are hopeful developments. The only true beacons of hope for the peoples of the Middle East are the contrarian affirmations of the Palestinian hunger strike, the Rouhani electoral victory, and the BDS Campaign.
→ read full article(Français) Amnésies et fluctuations occidentales. Droit de la paix, droit de la guerre et « droit » à la guerre
Robert Charvin | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Les États du capitalisme, assistés par leurs multiples mercenaires (politiciens professionnels, journalistes, intellectuels de cour, etc.) ont pour force de pratiquer avec dynamisme des réorientations idéologiques, tout en cultivant certaines amnésies (chroniques ou passagères).
→ read full article“Me and My Shadow-Drone”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Me and my Shadow-Drone
went “walking” down the lane.
Looking Back
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Everything had been arranged:
A linen tablecloth,
The reckless glow of a taper,
Paintings, artefacts, our hands –
Korea: Back from the Brink, Small Steps Forward
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
The election on 9 May 2017 of Moon Jae-in as president of the Republic of Korea may have applied the brakes to a dangerous increase in tensions between the two Korean States, the USA, China, Japan, and Russia.
→ read full articleIndia’s Brexit Moment
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Sashi Tharoor has done a pretty thorough job of debunking the pretentions put forward by journalist-historians, like Niall Ferguson, that the Raj conferred several benefits on India and other colonies. However, what is yet to be written about is the destructive stranglehold imperial memories continue to have on the guardians of Whitehall and of the South Block in Delhi. As Macauley predicted we share a language, a set of laws, a form of governance, and a passion for cricket.
→ read full articleGenetically Engineered Disappointments
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Tan Zhai Gen – Inter Press Service-IPS,
22 May 2017
16 May 2017 – Advocates of genetically engineered crops have long claimed that it is necessary to raise crop yields and reduce human exposure to agrochemicals. GE promised two major improvements: improving yields affordably to feed the world, and making crops resistant to pests to reduce the use of commercial chemical herbicides and insecticides. There has been little compelling evidence to this effect after two decades.
→ read full articleGaza’s Fishermen and Farmers Attacked from Sea and Air
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Fishermen said that Israeli forces shot at Palestinian fishing boats in two separate incidents off the northern coast of Gaza on Tuesday [9 May] morning. Meanwhile, Gaza farmers told Ma’an that Israeli drones sprayed pesticides on Palestinian crops along the border with Israel in central and southern Gaza on the same day.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’esempio di una buona pratica per “essere e fare comunità”. A Gavardo, Brescia. Lombardia. Italy. Report per i lettori di tutto il mondo di TRANSCEND Media Service
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
20 Mag 2017 – Come il testimoniare, nel fare storia e memoria, vuol dire essere (e fare) comunità. Dalla comunità del rancore alla comunità (della cura) curata. Verso una comunità sempre più, e progressivamente, riarmonizzata.
→ read full articleMaking Sense of the “Super Fuse” Scare
The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
11 May 2017 – For weeks now I have been getting panicked emails with readers asking me whether the USA had developed a special technology called “super fuses” which would make it possible for the USA to successfully pull-off a (preemptive) disarming first strike against Russia.
→ read full articleThe Real Roots of the Worldwide Ransomware Outbreak: Militarism and Greed
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
22 May 2017
A runaway strain of malware hit Windows computers Friday [12 May] and spread through the weekend, rendering hundreds of thousands of computers around the world more or less useless. The big twist: The virus was made possible by U.S. government hackers at the National Security Agency. But the finger-pointing won’t stop there, and it probably shouldn’t.
→ read full articleWho Knows How Long We Will Live?
Lara Ayvazyan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Who knows how long we will live?
Do not regret on the days of the past,
Let’s replace for people the word “old age”
On the word “maturity”.
Julian Assange Claims Victory after Sweden Drops Rape Investigation
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Swedish prosecutors dropped the rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday [19 May], saying the investigation had not been able to proceed because of legal obstacles. Assange vowed that WikiLeaks would continue publishing.
→ read full articleThe Basques in Spain: Positive Peace?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Spain is in a process that will take some time, from “España: Una, Grande, Libre” to “España: Una Comunidad de naciones”—“Spain: One, Great, Free” to “Spain: A community of nations.” Positive peace builds on negative peace building on conciliation of traumas and solution of conflicts. There is much work to be done, but Spain as a true community of nations will inspire the whole world.
→ read full articleU.S. Military World’s Largest Polluter – Hundreds of Bases Gravely Contaminated
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
22 May 2017
Producing more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined, the U.S. Department of Defense has left its toxic legacy throughout the world in the form of depleted uranium, oil, jet fuel, pesticides, defoliants like Agent Orange and lead, among other pollutants.
→ read full article(Português) Vídeo flagra a extrema angústia de elefantas aprisionadas em poço de concreto
Aline Khouri - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
22 May 2017
Um vídeo de pouco mais de um minuto mostra a realidade sombria do cativeiro de animais emocionais sociais e curiosos como elefantes em zoológicos.
→ read full articleHow Boring Old Pension Funds Might Curb Global Warming
Nick Stockton | Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
18 May 2017 – Last week, some retirement funds and church endowments, along with BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, approved a proposal that Occidental Petroleum report its climate-related vulnerabilities. These aren’t save-the-planet activist shareholders, but investment companies. More than 1,500 institutional investors are members of the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, which lists accounting for climate risk among its six tenets.
→ read full articlePalestinian Hunger Strikers – An Update
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
19 May 2017 – Around 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons have entered their second month of a hunger strike over conditions and medical rights. Their demands include better and consistent access to healthcare; more liberal family visit policies; and an end to solitary confinement and administrative detention.
→ read full articleState Of Emergency in Yemen’s Sanaa over Cholera Crisis
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
More than 184 Yemenis have been killed by a cholera epidemic that is gripping the Houthi-controlled Sanaa. “With the imminent collapse of the public health system, UNICEF is taking on as much of the burden as possible, procuring essential drugs and vaccines, and covering basic operations costs such as electricity and fuel.”
→ read full articleRalph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
Ann Woodlief | Virginia Commonwealth University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
He had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adultation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
→ read full articleGetting Julian Assange: The Untold Story
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
20 May 2017 – Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not only embarrassed her colleagues and the judiciary but exposed the Swedish state’s collusion with the United States in its crimes of war and “rendition”.
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Is Russia the “Adversary” of the United States?
theREALnews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
May 19, 2017 – Moscow based [Atlantic Monthly] journalist Jeffrey Taylor and Paul Jay challenge the underlying assumption of the furor in Washington, that Russia is the enemy of the American people.
→ read full articleThe Balfour Declaration: A Century of Jewish Power
Gilad Atzmon | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
19 May 2017 – This year, Palestinians and their supporters mark the 100th anniversary of The Balfour Declaration, a written statement from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour, to Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, in favour of the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
→ read full articleAgony of Mother Earth: The Unstoppable Destruction of Forests (I)
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
22 May 2017
The world’s forests are being degraded and lost at a staggering rate of 3.3 million hectares per year. While their steady destruction in many Asian countries continues apace, deforestation of the world’s largest tropical forest – the Amazon – increased 29 per cent from last year’s numbers. And some of the most precious ecosystems in Africa are threatened by oil, gas and mineral exploration and exploitation.
→ read full articleDisposing of Nuclear Waste is a Challenge for Humanity
Behnam Taebi – Newsweek,
22 May 2017
Nuclear waste is found at hundreds of sites around the world, the product of a half century of nuclear energy production. There are thorny ethical issues that should first be addressed. The risks are difficult to calibrate, because there is no such thing as a safe level of radiation exposure, certainly not for the type of radiation emanating from plutonium and uranium as present in Hanford.
→ read full articleWorld Law
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Grenville Clark, the co-author with Louis B. Sohn of ‘World Peace Through World Law,’ gave a talk in a town in the U.S. Midwest around the year 1900. He noticed all men were carrying two loaded guns in their belt.
→ read full articleEscaping the Iron Cage of Hopelessness
Prof. Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
In a previous article I argued that those who think science can solve our major social problems – in particular, world destruction with nuclear weapons and the poisoning of the earth’s ecology and atmosphere – were delusional and in the grip of the myth of science and technology. These problems were created by science when it became untethered from any sense of limits in its embrace of instrumental rationality.
→ read full articleTruth or Delusion?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
22 May 2017 – One inevitable outcome of the phenomenal violence we all suffer as children is that most of us live in a state of delusion throughout our lives. This makes it extraordinarily difficult for accurate information, including vital information about the endangered state of our world and how to respond appropriately, to penetrate the typical human mind.
→ read full articleSartre´s Children (Senryu)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Sartre´s Children
tasting winter ice cream
What a Wonderful World! (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Louis Armstrong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Composed and performed by the great Louis Armstrong–perhaps his best song ever. Enjoy.
→ read full article(Português) “Seu nível de testosterona deve ser bem baixo, já que você é vegano”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Já ouviu falar de um médico chamado Michael Greger? Ele diz que é exatamente quem consome proteína animal em excesso que corre mais riscos de ter baixos níveis de testosterona. Claro, a não ser quem mantenha uma alta ingestão de esteroides, de sintéticos.
→ read full articleOn the Intransitive Objects of the Social (or Human) Sciences
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Jan 2017 – When Roy Bhaskar first introduced his concept of intransitive objects of knowledge in A Realist Theory of Science, his first examples of such objects were the specific gravity of mercury, the process of electrolysis, the mechanism of light propagation, sound and heavy bodies falling to earth. Such objects would continue to exist in a world where there was no science to know them. In such a world, which has existed in the past and which might come again, the causal laws that science has now discovered would prevail in the absence of knowledge of them.
→ read full articleYou (and Almost Everyone You Know) Owe Your Life to This Man
Robert Krulwich | National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Temperament matters. Especially when nuclear weapons are involved. The world owes an enormous debt to a quiet, steady Russian naval officer who probably saved my life. And yours. And everyone you know. Even those of you who weren’t yet born. I want to tell his story…
→ read full articleAgony of Mother Earth: World’s Forests Depleted for Fuel (II)
Baher Kamal – Other News,
22 May 2017
Humankind is the biggest ever predator of natural resources. Just take the case of forests, the real lungs of Mother Earth, and learn that every 60 seconds humans cut down 15 hectares of trees primarily for food or energy production. And that as much as 45,000 hectares of rainforest are cleared for every million kilos of beef exported from South America.
→ read full articleBaby Elephants, Bound and Broken: How Circuses Train Elephants (with pictures)
PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Join an elephant trainer as he takes us through the process of how he, alongside many other trainers, forced elephants to learn how to perform unnatural tricks for “entertainment.” This barbaric and violent training process goes on in secret, out of the public’s view and completely unmonitored by any federal, state, or local law-enforcement agency.
→ read full articleHow the US Empire Was Made in North Korea
Niall Bradley | Signs of the Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
I recently read The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia by James Bradley, a breathtaking panorama of US and Chinese trajectories from the Opium Wars in the mid-19th century to the birth of ‘Communist’ China and ‘Pax Americana’ a hundred years later. This naturally encompassed US involvement in Korea, so in this article I’d like to share some historical context that is either incomplete or missing from summaries of US-Korean relations I’ve seen online so far.
→ read full articleRelevance of Lord Ram for Truth, Peace and Harmony
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Among the Hindu gods and deities Lord Krishna and Lord Ram are perhaps the most popular ones all over the world. The gospel and teachings of Krishna have been spread by several international organisations including ISKCON-International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi was a deeply religious person and lived by the ideals of Gita and Ramayan. When he was shot on 30 January 1948, the last words he uttered before he passed away were “He Ram”.
→ read full articleRadical Love
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Perhaps people in the social justice movements don’t notice. The feelings of solidarity that can arise within movements can mask the ways hate for one’s opposition depletes the soul. More obvious is the effect within the opposition. Sensing hate from the movement, their hearts close off, the deficiency of love drops further, and they lash out violently, entrenching in defense of their actions.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
May 22-28 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it—always.” —Mahatma Gandhi
→ read full articleThe Last Love Song
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Crawling along the bloody side of a road
Among rotting leaves
I cannot reach you
And sing my last love song.
The Deal Trump Should Strike with Putin
Jeffrey Tayler | Quillette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
If Trump chooses not to pursue détente with Russia and continues with the current policy, then he would do well to recall Kissinger’s words: “the test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins.” He might also want to reflect on what President John F. Kennedy said in 1963, after the nearly catastrophic Cuban Missile Crisis: “Above all, while defending our vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.” The détente outlined above would allow us to lessen the risk of such a confrontation.
→ read full articleWhat Next for Brazil’s Decaying Kleptocracy?
Dawisson Belem Lopes – Al Jazeera,
22 May 2017
Temer’s popularity hardly reaches two digits in reliable opinion polls. Social policies are being downsized. Foreign policy chiefs are failing to explore some new windows of opportunity, insisting on same old formulas. Brazil looks desperately in need of a new beginning, of a fresh start. Very unfortunately though, political options seem scarce, vicious and chronically unfeasible. Nobody can predict what move is coming up next, but only one thing is for sure: this story is to be continued.
→ read full articleNew Convention Targets Illicit Trade in Artifacts from War Zones
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
An international convention targeting the illicit trade in cultural artifacts took effect on Friday [19 May 2017]; a move to curb what is regarded as a major source of funding to militant groups in conflict zones. The treaty aims to close loopholes and enable more effective cross-border cooperation in investigating, prosecuting and sentencing persons.
→ read full articleGreedier Than Thou
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.
→ read full articleTrump in Bethlehem
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
20 May 2017 – President Trump is in Saudi Arabia where he will instruct his puppets then go to apartheid Israel where get further instructions from his masters. He will do a token visit to Bethlehem Tuesday [23 May] and desecrate the city of the Prince of Peace with his entourage of racist Zionists. I wish I was there to join demonstrations against this symbol of hypocrisy (I am still in Europe).
→ read full articleVulture Capitalists Fight over Pickings from Bankrupt Puerto Rico
Rafael Azul | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Federal US court proceedings began May 17 in San Juan on Puerto Rico’s $123 billion bankruptcy. As with the Detroit bankruptcy of 2013-2014, the island faces privatization and cutbacks that will exacerbate a mass wave of emigration and further sink its economy into depression. They may be fighting over who will be first in line to be paid, but they all agree that workers, pensioners and the poor will have to sacrifice their jobs and living standards.
→ read full articleFraming Global Transformation through the Polyhedral Merkabah
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Neglected Implicit Cognitive Cycles in Viable Complex Systems – Despite the widely commented implications of a post-truth era, few would deny the fact that the unresolved issues between the Abrahamic religions continue to inspire violence — with no end in sight. This encourages major investment in armaments and the development and deployment of military forces.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Disturbo da Esuberanza Post-Gloria (PGED)
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Questo si apre al comportamentismo : evitare il trauma, cercare la gloria. Ma l’idea va più in profondità. Un trauma grave e ripetuto comporta un disturbo da stress, non solo stress. Una gloria intensa e ripetuta può comportare un disturbo da esuberanza: facciamo altre guerre per mietere altre vittorie! Non solo per difesa!
→ read full articleEmergency Declared at Nuclear Waste Site in Washington State
Stefanie Spear | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
The Department of Energy declared an emergency Tuesday [9 May 2017] at a plutonium-handling facility at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State after a tunnel partly collapsed. Hundreds of Workers were told to evacuate or take cover as officials responded to reports of “a cave-in of a 20 foot section of a tunnel that is hundreds of feet long that is used to store contaminated materials.”
→ read full articleBig Pharma’s Pollution Is Creating Deadly Superbugs while the World Looks the Other Way
Madlen Davies – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
15 May 2017
6 May 2017- Industrial pollution from Indian pharmaceutical companies making medicines for nearly all the world’s major drug companies is fuelling the creation of deadly superbugs, suggests new research. Global health authorities have no regulations in place to stop this happening.
→ read full articlePolitics, Power, Peril: Twenty-Four Assumptions for Discussion and Debate ©
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
I offer these 24 assumptions regarding politics, power, and peril to promote both public-forum and education-setting discussion and debate. World populations have now consciousness of the consequences of power asymmetries, especially preservation of entrenched financial interests through endless wars and military occupations by cabalistic Western powers. Cui Bono?
→ read full articleLament of the Child Soldier
Evelyn Voigt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Can you imagine pointing a gun at a child? Let alone forcing a child at gun point to lead killers to raid his home? Sad but true for captured child soldiers in Northern Uganda. A working trip to the region in 2004 tore from me these words, as I tried to put myself in the child’s bare feet.
→ read full articleA Murderous History of Korea
Bruce Cumings | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
How does a puffed-up, vainglorious narcissist, whose every other word may well be a lie (that applies to both of them, Trump and Kim Jong-un), come not only to hold the peace of the world in his hands but perhaps the future of the planet?
→ read full articleRich Celebrities vs. Individual Struggles for the Protection of Society
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
On one hand we have the celebrities selling one product or another; on the other hand we have millions of people suffering from hunger, disease, indebtedness, unemployment and violence of various types. A third category – a miniscule one — the so called do-gooders who work for the betterment of the society in one way or another. We also have the religious gurus who talk about spirituality and bring solace and hope to the millions of people.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Politica interna mondiale”
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Un’attenzione mondiale per le comunità più miserevoli, risollevare la parte di umanità più a fondo, questo è il mondo solidaristico di cui abbiamo bisogno. Fare questo sarebbe già Weltinnenpolitik. Oggi, non aspettando 50 e più anni.
→ read full articleLeaked NSA Malware Is Helping Hijack Computers around the World
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
15 May 2017
12 May 2017 – In mid-April, an arsenal of powerful software tools apparently designed by the NSA to infect and control Windows computers was leaked by an entity known only as the “Shadow Brokers.” Not even a whole month later, the hypothetical threat that criminals would use the tools against the general public has become real, and tens of thousands of computers worldwide are now crippled by an unknown party demanding ransom.
→ read full articleThe Universal Lesson of the Courage of East Timor
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
On 5 May 2017, John Pilger was presented with the Order of Timor-Leste by East Timor’s Ambassador to Australia, Abel Gutteras, in recognition of his reporting on East Timor under Indonesia’s brutal occupation, especially his landmark documentary film, Death of a Nation: the Timor Conspiracy. This was John Pilger’s response.
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Amar Pelos Dois [Portugal] (Music Video of the Week)
Salvador Sobral | Eurovision 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
May 13, 2017 – Portugal wins the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time at the 62nd event held in Kyiv, Ukraine. Two videos: The official music video from Eurovision and another with the song’s lyrics in Portuguese and English.
→ read full articleRadiation Disaster in Washington State – Evacuations Ordered – No Fly Zone Imposed
Newsroom | Superstation 95 NYC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
9 May 2017 – A train tunnel containing radioactive fuel rods and other highly radioactive products has COLLAPSED at the Hanford Nuclear Site. Employees have been evacuated,the “Emergency Operations Center” has been activated; and now, the Federal Aviation Administration has imposed a NO-FLY ZONE 5 miles in all directions from the site.
→ read full articleBDS Movement Calls for Solidarity Actions as Palestinian Prisoners Enter Fourth Week of Hunger Strike
Palestinian BDS National Committee | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media,
15 May 2017
9 May 2017 – Today, the mass hunger strike by Palestinians in Israeli prisons is in its critical fourth week, at which point the hundreds of hunger strikers may find standing up difficult or impossible. The BNC is confident that this hunger strike demanding dignity and freedom will further nourish nonviolent popular resistance to Israeli injustice and advance the BDS movement’s aspirations for freedom, justice and equality.
→ read full articleMyanmar Army Allegedly Left Rohingya Refugees with Bullet Wounds and Burns
Emanuel Stoakes – The Guardian,
15 May 2017
Shocking photographic evidence showing children among the injured adds weight to claims that military committed atrocities against Rohingya people.
→ read full articleThe Cucumber and the Cactus (A Palestinian Christian Story)
Mazin Qumsiyeh | A Human Rights Web – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
We cling to the hope and the certainty that, just as happened in South Africa, we shall someday live together in this small place called the Land of Canaan/the Holy Land. Jews, Christians, Muslims and others all did live together for hundreds of years before Britain and the great powers adopted Zionism. Then the rains that filter through the soil in which my grandfather and his Jewish friend are both buried will also nourish new fields of faqoos, sweet cucumbers, and thriving cactus.
→ read full articleNobel Women‘s Initiative Conference: 14-16 May 2017 – Monchengladbech, Germany
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
A global feminist resistance – its evolution and revolution – adapting to thrive!
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