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How Media Obscure US/Saudi Responsibility for Killing Yemeni Civilians
Ben Norton | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
31 Aug 2017 – A coalition of Saudi Arabia, USA, UK and UAE has relentlessly bombed Yemen since March 2015. There are no other parties bombing the country, so media cannot feign ignorance as to who is responsible for the attacks. But reports on the bloody US/Saudi coalition airstrikes were nonetheless rife with ambiguous and downright misleading language.
→ read full articleJournalist Interrogated, Fired for Story Linking CIA and Syria Weapons Flights
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Investigative reporter Dilyana Gaytandzhieva authored a bombshell report for Trud Newspaper, Bulgaria, which found that an Azerbaijan state airline company was regularly transporting tons of weaponry to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Turkey under diplomatic cover as part of the CIA covert program to supply anti-Assad fighters in Syria. Those weapons, Gaytandzhieva found, ended up in the hands of ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
→ read full articleHow to Stand Up to Online Trolls – and Profit – with Humour
Amira Elghawaby – The Globe and Mail,
4 Sep 2017
We have observed that humorous counter-speech can shift the dynamics of communication, de-escalate conflict, and draw much more attention to a message than it would otherwise garner. The authors point to a social media campaign that included pasting pictures of rubber ducks onto images of Daesh fighters, and to sarcastic responses to their calls for violence.
→ read full articleA Byzantine Ancestor to Same-Sex Marriage?
Mark Masterson – The Conversation,
4 Sep 2017
Brothers for life – First, how did men become spiritual brothers? In church two men would be blessed by a priest who would say a prayer over them. Many of these prayers survive and more are being located all the time. Spiritual brotherhood was popular.
→ read full articlePeace Study Day & March
Alberto Portugheis | Humanity United for Universal Demilitarization – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Sat 16 Sep 2017 at The Elizabeth Fry Room, Westminster Quaker Meeting House, London, England. Speakers: John Leech, Alicia Cabezudo, Alberto Portugheis, Stefan G. Ziegler and Azadeh Chahvie. If you would like to participate only in our Peace March, please meet us at 6pm at Hop Gardens. You are also welcome to join us at any of our stopping points along the way.
→ read full articleHow to Make Fun of Nazis
Moises Velasquez-Manoff – The New York Times,
4 Sep 2017
By undercutting the gravitas white supremacists are trying to accrue, humorous counterprotests may blunt the events’ usefulness for recruitment. Brawling with bandanna-clad antifas may seem romantic to some disaffected young men, but being mocked by clowns? Probably not so much.
→ read full articleClimate Disaster & Nuclear War!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
29 Aug 2017 – The catastrophe is still unfolding with unprecedented rainfall and flooding from Hurricane Harvey. Houston is known as “Petro Metro” and is home to more than a dozen oil refineries. The people who live closest to these industrial sites are low income and minority communities. Poor people of color bear the greatest burden of climate change, harmful pollution, and have the fewest options when natural or man-made disaster strikes. Climate disaster and nuclear war pose the two greatest threats to life on the planet.
→ read full articleThe Horrifying Tragedy of Holocaust
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 Aug 2017 – The Holocaust is undoubtedly one of the worst crimes and tragedies of the WWII. The word Holocaust comes from the Greek word holo “whole” + kaustos “burnt.” It refers to an animal sacrifice in which the entire animal is burned.
→ read full article(Português) Práticas violentas contra os animais só existem porque sempre há plateia e consumidores
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
A tauromaquia, assim como qualquer atividade considerada tradicional, e que cause mal a outros seres vivos sencientes, só existe porque há plateia e consumidores. Pessoas que não racionalizam a própria maldade, ou que não são capazes de externalizá-la, pagam para que os outros façam o que elas não conseguem. Assim, tornando-se voyeurs de anseios desasseados e perigosos.
→ read full articleHarvey Didn’t Come Out of the Blue – Now Is the Time to Talk about Climate Change
Naomi Klein – The Intercept,
4 Sep 2017
Aug 28 2017 – Now is exactly the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes. What you will hear very little about is why these kind of unprecedented, record-breaking weather events are happening with such regularity that “record-breaking” has become a meteorological cliché. In other words, you won’t hear much, if any, talk about climate change.
→ read full articleEcolinguistics: Rhymed Reflections
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Between language users and their environments,
a myriad relationships there are.
Given such oceanic diversity,
has our human ecolinguistic identity gone very far?
A Brief History of Managing Palestinians
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
This is one of the US State department’s country reviews of human rights treating the Occupied Palestinian Territories as a country governed by 3 regimes – Hamas, the PA and Israel. It is long, doesn’t spare any of the regimes but at no point does it define why Israel has the authority to control Palestinians in the way it details here. Useful for reference.
→ read full articleHell Hath No Fury like Mother Earth Scorned
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
4 Sep 2017
While the people in Texas and Louisiana suffer the final days of rain and begin recovery, over 1,200 people have been killed by massive floods in Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The planet is drowning in denial. Climate change is real, and needs to be addressed.
→ read full articleHarvard Crimson Ad Asks if Anti-BDS Harvard Profs “Only Care about Certain Lives”
If Americans Knew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 Aug 2017 – A full-page advertisement in today’s Harvard Crimson asks, “Do some Harvard Professors only care about certain lives?” The ad refers to a statement signed by 71 Harvard professors in the health, medical, and life sciences fields that opposed the international academic boycott of Israel.
→ read full article(Italiano) Solidarietà’: percorsi dimenticati
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
E’ urgente riscattare il significato antropologico fondamentale della solidarietà. Essa è antisistemica, perché il sistema imperante capitalista e individualista si regge sulla concorrenza e non sulla solidarietà e cooperazione. Questo va contro il senso della natura. Ci dicono gli etno-antropologi che è stata la solidarietà a farci passare dall’ordine dei Primati all’ordine degli umani.
→ read full articleCrusaders and Zionists
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
2 Sep 2017 – A few days ago I found myself in Caesarea, sitting in a restaurant and looking out over the sea. Caesarea was built by King Herod some 2000 years ago and named after his Roman master, Augustus Caesar. It once again became an important town under the Crusaders, who fortified it.
→ read full article(Italiano) Aosta. Ero Straniero. Iniziata ieri la raccolta firme
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
“Se voi però avete il diritto di dividere il mondo in italiani e stranieri
allora vi dirò che, nel vostro senso, io non ho Patria e reclamo il diritto di dividere il mondo in diseredati e oppressi da un lato, privilegiati e oppressori dall’altro. Gli uni sono la mia Patria, gli altri i miei stranieri”.
— don Lorenzo Milani, “L’obbedienza non è più una virtù”
Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly Now Endorsed by over 1,500 Current and Former Lawmakers from 120 Countries
Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly | Culture of Peace Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The campaign’s appeal calls for “a gradual implementation of democratic participation and representation on the global level to ensure international cooperation, secure the acceptance and enhance the legitimacy of the UN strengthening its capacity to act. People must be more effectively and directly included into the activities of the United Nations and its international organizations.”
→ read full articleAfter The Financial Crisis: How the Ultra-Wealthy Have Prospered
Nick Beams | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The 2008 crisis proved to be but a “temporary setback.” The process of wealth accumulation is not the result of any kind of economic “recovery,” nor the supposed “entrepreneurship” of its beneficiaries. Rather, it is the outcome of a system characterised, as Marx put it, by the accumulation of fabulous wealth at one pole and poverty and misery at the other.
→ read full articleLatin America’s “Pink Tide” and the Challenge of Systemic Change: Ecuador
The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
7 Aug 2017 – In the late 1990s and the 2000s, Latin America experienced a “pink tide” of sorts, with a number of self-proclaimed socialist governments coming to power. By 2010, leftist governments were in power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, with Peru joining the ranks in 2011. We asked three analysts to describe some of the institutional innovations implemented in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador during this time, and to reflect on the relationship between organized citizenry and the state in these transitions in order to elicit lessons learned.
→ read full articleEchoes of Reagan: Another Nuclear Buildup
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Thirty years ago Americans endured an absurd expansion of the US nuclear-weapon force under President Reagan. The announced weapons modernization program was accompanied by a crazy talk from his advisers about the potential to fight and win a nuclear war. So here we are evidently back to the future as the Trump administration forges ahead with nuclear “modernization,” without a set strategy for the weapons but with billions of dollars to burn.
→ read full articleThe Lies of 9/11 Miracle Workers
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
A Review of David Ray Griffin’s Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the World – David Ray Griffin is an international treasure and truth teller, who, while being ignored by the mainstream corporate media for his extraordinary series of books exposing the false flag attacks of Sep 11, 2001, will someday be lauded as a modern prophet.
→ read full articleA Word Rushes like Silver Bullet
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
A word rushes like silver bullet,
Piercing the hearts of people,
Who we are: grain, chaff,
Answer me quickly!
(Castellano) Brasil: un barco a la deriva
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
27 ago 2017 – La gravedad de nuestra crisis generalizada hace que nos sintamos como un barco a la deriva, a merced de los vientos y de las olas. El timonel, el presidente, está acusado de delitos, rodeado de marujos-piratas, en su mayoría igualmente corruptos o acusados de otros delitos. Es increíble que un presidente, detestado por el 90% de la población, sin ninguna credibilidad ni carisma, quiera gobernar un barco a la deriva.
→ read full articleArson Attacks Push Thousands More Rohingya from Myanmar: Scorched-Earth Policy as They Flee Soldiers
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
3 Sep 2017 – More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s restive northwest in the last week, as tens of thousands more refugees fled into Bangladesh over the past 24 hours. Myanmar blames armed Rohingya group for burning homes in Rakhine, but survivors pin responsibility on soldiers.
→ read full articleWork Begins Soon to Bring Haiti into ‘Silk Road’ after China Invests US$30 Billion to Develop Infrastructure
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
“Silk Road” work is expected to begin December on projects for clean water, sanitation, public bathrooms, electricity, communications, and more to Port-au-Prince.
→ read full articleUSA–Where Are You Heading?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Declare the end of the empire and explore cooperation for mutual and equal benefit with all. Make them friends, not military “allies”. USA: you are so innovative; you have so incredibly much to offer.
→ read full articleNorth Korea an Aggressor? A Reality Check
Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Siegfried Hecker is the last known American official to inspect North Korea’s nuclear facilities. He says that treating Kim Jong-un as though he is on the verge of attacking the U.S. is both inaccurate and dangerous. Trump made his crass “fire and fury” threat on the eve of the sixty second commemoration of the US nuclear attack on Nagasaki, the nauseating irony seemingly un-noticed by him. Will some adults pitch up on Capitol Hill before it is too late?
→ read full articleKhim Bahadur: An Eye for an Eye in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The reasons why children participate in the ten-year conflict are numerous. Khim joined the revolution because the government security men constantly harassed his family for supporting the CPN (Maoist) party. He was tortured by the state security forces most of the time as a son of CPN (Maoist) cadre.
→ read full articleThe Universalism of Imam Moussa Sadr: A Relevant Approach to Contemporary Uncertainty
Raed H. Charafeddine | The Yale University Council on Middle East Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The Arab world is the geographic, historic and cultural point of convergence of the Muslim World. Islam was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the Arabic language in the Arabian Peninsula and, from there, the message spread across the world. The abodes of Islam remain platforms for debate and incubators for tensions and conflicting ideologies despite the passing of fourteen centuries since the Revelation. Certain issues of contention date back to the earliest years of Islam and have, remarkably, gone unresolved to this day. Such issues include succession (the Caliphate) and alternation in power, the separation of religion and State, innovation (Ijtihad) and imitation (Taqlid), and much more. Exploring these issues is no mere intellectual luxury. Even today these are still pressing matters as current political situation is mired in turmoil, uncertainty, and lack of vision.
→ read full article(Italiano) 8 agosto 1942 – Ha inizio il Movimento nonviolento “Quit India”
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
4 Sep 2017
Il Comitato, riunito ad Allahabad in maggio 1942, approvò i punti principali proposti da Gandhi, in particolare la richiesta di non ricorrere alla violenza nelle manifestazioni. Il 14 luglio, a Wardha, fu messa a punto la Risoluzione ‘Quit India’ che autorizzava Gandhi ad avviare un movimento nonviolento di massa, che fu approvata e ratificata il 7 e 8 agosto a Bombay dall’All India Congress Committee.
→ read full articleTrump Gives Military Green Light to Escalate Afghanistan War
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
22 Aug 2017 – The nationally televised address to a military audience sets the stage for a massive increase in bloodshed in a country where the United States has waged war for 16 years.
→ read full articleEvolving International Law, Political Realism, and the Illusions of Diplomacy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – International law is mainly supportive of Palestinian grievances with respect to Israel, as well as offering both Israelis and Palestinians a reliable marker as to how these two peoples could live normally together in the future if the appropriate political will existed on both sides to reach a sustainable peace.
→ read full article(Português) Amazonas: Situação Legal dos Direitos Minerários da Reserva Nacional do Cobre (RENCA)
WWF-World Wildlife Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Relatório Técnico 2017 – Desde 2015 estão sendo veiculadas diversas notícias a respeito da extinção da RENCA como forma de atração de investimentos para o setor mineral. Criada em 1984, essa área de bloqueio está situada no limite dos estados do Pará e Amapá e apresenta área de 47 mil km2, equivalente ao estado do Espírito Santo.
→ read full article(Português) Exploração mineral na Amazônia pode levar a disputas judiciais
Manoel Ventura e Lucianne Carneiro – O Globo,
28 Aug 2017
23 ago 2017— A decisão anunciada hoje de extinguir a Reserva Nacional de Cobre e Associados (Renca) provocou protestos de políticos, ambientalistas e especialistas no setor. O decreto diz que uma região de cerca de 47 mil quilômetros quadrados entre o Pará e o Amapá está liberada para extração de ouro e outros minerais nobres. Especialistas dizem que empresas de quatro países têm interesse na região.
→ read full articleMyanmar Troops Open Fire on Civilians Fleeing Attacks
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
26 Aug 2017 – Myanmar soldiers opened fire on fleeing Rohingya civilians – mostly women and children – as they attempted to cross the border into Bangladesh and escape surging violence. Bangladeshi border guards say troops fired mortars and machine guns at Rohingya civilians trying to escape bloodshed.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (10) Robert Owen
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Robert Owen, pioneer of the cooperative movement, pioneer of social and economic reform, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleHokkaido Show Gardens (Music Video of the Week)
Ruben Mandolini | Facebook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Garden of sound! Great art! ->
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Towards a Peaceful, Fair and Prosperous Future for the People of Rakhine
Advisory Commission on Rakhine State – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Final Report – 24 Aug 2017. The Advisory Commission chaired by Kofi Annan puts forward recommendations to surmount the political, socio-economic and humanitarian challenges that currently face Rakhine State. It builds on the Commission’s interim report released in March of this year.
→ read full article“This Is Our Land”: Indigenous Rights Activists Respond to White Supremacist Rhetoric
Jenni Monet – YES! Magazine,
28 Aug 2017
At the Trump rally Tuesday [22 Aug], indigenous and Latino rights advocates stood together to protest racial inequality in Arizona’s justice system. For these groups, facing militarized police is nothing new.
→ read full article(Português) A Tourada Vista por Um Médico Veterinário
Isabel A. Ferreira | Arco de Almedina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Na tourada à portuguesa há o terrível sentimento de claustrofobia e pânico que o touro sofre desde que é retirado violentamente da campina e transportado em aperto até à arena, seguido pelo maltrato para o enfraquecer física e animicamente antes de ser toureado. Na arena, o touro enfrenta a provocação e a tortura durante a lide e no fim desta, totalmente ensanguentado, com a retirada sempre violenta e muito dolorosa das bandarilhas, rasgando e cortando ainda mais o seu couro.
→ read full articleThe Best TV Ad for 2017
TV2 Denmark - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
A Must-Watch Video
→ read full articleThe Real Threat to America Comes from Americans
Kim Ghattas | Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Just as the Arab world struggles to come to grips with jihadism, the United States has failed to grapple with its own demons. It’s time to realize that no society is without darkness — and the direst threat facing the US today may well be from within, not without.
→ read full articleWhy Are All Those Racists So Terrified?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Racism – fear of, and hatred for, those of another race coupled with the beliefs that the other race is inferior and should be dominated (by your race) – is now highly visible among European populations impacted by refugee flows from the Middle East and North Africa. In addition, racism is ongoingly and highly evident among sectors of the US population but also in countries like South Africa as well as Australia and throughout Central and South America where indigenous populations are particularly impacted.
→ read full articleBrave Congressman Explains How US Keeps Afghan Heroin Trade Alive
Matt Agorist – MintPress News,
28 Aug 2017
Congressman Thomas Massie blows the lid off the US subsidized opium trade and taxpayer funds flowing into the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Aug 28–Sep 3, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Today is your day to dance lightly with life, sing wild songs of adventure, invite rainbows and butterflies out to play, soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
→ read full article
(Português) Da Fazenda/Quinta ao Frigorífico
Mercy For Animals (Brasil) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Nos próximos minutos, você terá uma visão da realidade que acontece por trás das portas fechadas de fazendas/quintas modernas, incubadoras e abatedouros–revelando o duro caminho que os animais percorrem de lá ao frigorífico. Alerta: Conteúdo com imagens repugnantes de violênicia que podem ferir sensibilidades.
→ read full articleA View of Toronto in Summer Months
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – Soon after I landed in Toronto, I was informed that Canada is celebrating its 150th anniversary of independence from British rule.
→ read full articleThese Are All the Countries the USA Has Invaded, in One Map
Joe Vesey-Byrne | indy100 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
23 Aug 2017 – From Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, the US has had a military presence across the world, from almost day one of her independence. What constitutes invasion? As one map below shows, the US has a military presence in much of the world without being an occupying force (though some would dispute that definition).
→ read full articleGauguin’s Stirring First-Hand Account of What Actually Happened the Night Van Gogh Cut off His Own Ear
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Certain relationships are charged with an intensity of feeling that incinerates the walls we habitually erect between platonic friendship, romantic attraction, and intellectual-creative infatuation. One of the most dramatic of those superfriendships unfolded between the artists Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, whose relationship was animated by an acuity of emotion so lacerating that it led to the famous and infamously mythologized incident in which Van Gogh cut off his own ear.
→ read full articleKaya, the Royal Dog
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
26 Aug 2017 – The spectacle is almost bizarre: a political party refuses to accept new members. And not just a few individuals, but tens of thousands. And not just any party, but the Likud (“Unification”), the main force in Israel’s governing coalition. Strange? But there is method in this madness.
→ read full articleVault 7: ExpressLane
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Today, August 24th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes secret documents from the ExpressLane project of the CIA that show one of the cyber operations it conducts against liaison services — which includes among many others the NSA, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Media Service Receives Prize for Peace and Social Justice
Psychologists for Social Responsibility – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
2017 Prize: Dr. Brad Olson, Chicago, Illinois and Antonio Carlos da Silva Rosa, Portugal/Brazil. PsySR’s award is given annually to recognize outstanding psychology-based contributions in scholarship and action by an individual in one or more of the following areas: Peace and Nonviolence, Poverty, Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance, Spirituality, and Social Action.
→ read full articleThe World’s Biggest Floating Solar Farm Is Now Live. And It’s on Top of a Former Coal Mine
Joe McCarthy | Global Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – Earlier this week, a new floating solar farm went live in the Chinese city of Huainan above a retired coal mine, China Daily reports. It’s more than six times as powerful as the next biggest floating solar farm.
→ read full articleExplainer: Why Do We Get Fungal Nail Infections and How Can We Treat Them?
Jackson Thomas, Julia K. Christenson, Sam Kosari and Gregory Peterson – The Conversation,
28 Aug 2017
About 10% of us (including 20% of people over 60 and 50% of people over 70) suffer from fungal nail infections. So why do we get them, and does it matter?
→ read full articlePeace-Development-Environment: Integrated?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
These are the goals of the United Nations; the Hardanger Academy made them three foci. The problem arose: what do they have in common? Are they three aspects of the same thing? If so, what is that “thing”? Four ways of trying to answer have been identified and explored. Four because of four ways of approaching social reality.
→ read full articleIn Defense of the Nameless, Invisible Workers
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
20 Aug 2017 – In spite of the threats to our Common Home, the Earth, attacked on all fronts by the type of culture that we have developed in the last two centuries, limitless exploitation of her finite goods and services, essentially for the material accumulation of a few; in spite of everything she continues to generously offer us the beauty of the fruits, flowers, plants, animals and broad bio-diversity.
→ read full articleLatin America’s “Pink Tide” and the Challenge of Systemic Change: Bolivia
The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
7 Aug 2017 – In the late 1990s and the 2000s, Latin America experienced a “pink tide” of sorts, with a number of self-proclaimed socialist governments coming to power. By 2010, leftist governments were in power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, with Peru joining the ranks in 2011. We asked three analysts to describe some of the institutional innovations implemented in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador during this time, and to reflect on the relationship between organized citizenry and the state in these transitions in order to elicit lessons learned.
→ read full articleClimate Migrants Might Reach One Billion by 2050
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
28 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – Currently, forecasts vary from 25 million to 1 billion environmental migrants by 2050, moving either within their countries or across borders, on a permanent or temporary basis, with 200 million being the most widely cited estimate, according to a 2015 study carried out by the Institute for Environment and Human Security of the United Nations University.
→ read full articleHow Women Were at the Helm of the Black Panther Party
Manmeet Sahni – teleSUR,
28 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017 – When one looks back at the revolutionary Black Panther Party, one envisions iconic Black male leaders sporting black berets and leather coats. We talked with Mary Phillips, one of the founding members of the Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project.
→ read full articleLandmark UN-Backed Treaty on Mercury Takes Effect
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
16 Aug 2017 – A ground-breaking global convention on mercury today goes into effect, the United Nations environment wing said, protecting millions of children and infants from possible neurological and health damage.
→ read full articleBrazil Opens Vast Amazon Reserve to Mining
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – Brazil’s government has abolished a vast national reserve in the Amazon to open up the area to mining. Covering 46,000 sq km (17,800 sq miles), straddles the northern states of Amapá and Pará, and is thought to be rich in gold, and other minerals. It is larger than Denmark. WWF’s report said that a “gold rush in the region could create irreversible damage to indigenous cultures”.
→ read full articleThe Perfect Robbery, the Cashless Society
Samantha King – Activist Post,
28 Aug 2017
What seemed almost like science fiction to our parents is coming scarily close to the realm of feasibility: more and more countries are talking about stopping the production and use of cash in their economies. The message is carried by the most prominent link of the monetary chain: States. But the push is coming from somewhere else. Powerful lobbies are pushing ever stronger, in order to achieve total and absolute control of our economies.
→ read full articleFlashers
Antonio Gaspar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Pathological Exhibitionism
→ read full article(Português) Cerca de 200 MIL PESSOAS são infectadas com vírus da hepatite após comerem linguiça
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Um supermercado do Reino Unido pode ter infectado involuntariamente milhares de pessoas com o vírus da hepatite E transmitido por meio de linguiças e produtos de porco provenientes da Europa, alertou a agência governamental Public Health England .
→ read full articleThe Masque of Anarchy
Percy Bysshe Shelley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Shelley wrote his poem in response to the Peterloo Massacre, which took place in Manchester on 16 August 1819. Cavalry soldiers of the government charged a crowd of 50,000 citizens who were peacefully assembled to ask for better representation in Parliament. This poem advocating non-violent resistance to tyranny was an inspiration to Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi.
→ read full articleYemen: War Crimes the World Can No Longer Ignore
Catherine Shakdam – Russia Today,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – Beyond the many and despicable sectarian adjectives the media may have wielded since 2015 to frame Yemen’s war within a binary that has the region locked in fictitious crusadic dynamics: Shiite Iran versus self-righteous Saudi Arabia, truths have had a way of eroding at such a construct. If one can understand the pull money can hold over state officials, politics, after all, is not child’s play, empowering fanatical despots is still counter intuitive.
→ read full article(Português) Estudo mostra que a pecuária é a atividade com maior apropriação de solo na Amazônia
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 ago 2017 – O estudo mostra que nos estados da Amazônia não há atividade com maior apropriação de solo do que a pecuária, e exatamente por desempenhar papel tão determinante na região está fortemente associada com o desmatamento, inclusive sendo apontada como principal causa. E a agricultura em larga escala em vez de reduzir o impacto da pecuária no desflorestamento tem ajudado a ampliá-lo.
→ read full articlePeace to Twenty-First Century!
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
History does not learn anything,
How can this be?
We are born to suffer
Or all the same, to live?
Afghanistan Graveyard of Empires
Matson – St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
28 Aug 2017
Exercise in Futility…
→ read full articleIgnaz Semmelweis, Galileo Galilei, Andrew Wakefield and the Semmelweis Reflex
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Iatrogenesis and Big Pharma’s Lucrative Overvaccination Agendas
→ read full articleMyanmar/Burma: UN Welcomes Final Assessment of Independent Advisory Panel on Rakhine State
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – The United Nations today welcomed the release of the final report of an independent advisory body looking into the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. UN Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric acknowledged its endorsement “to address the root causes of violence and reduce inter-communal violence.”
→ read full articleEdward Carpenter: (29 Aug 1844 – 28 Jun 1929)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Edward Carpenter was an English writer, educator, pacifist, and socialist reformer who came from a middle class intellectual family. As others influenced by the Theosophical Society, he gave up formal university extension work and bought a farm which became a meeting place for discussions among many in the area − an early “back to the land movement”. He stressed using hand-made clothes, the non-killing and non-eating of animals, and the use of herbs for health.
→ read full articleThe Dilemma of a Secular Muslim in Present Day India
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – An educated, secular and liberal Indian Muslim is in a bind; he is torn between finding the right balance between loyalty to his faith and adherence to the new tests of patriotism being imposed by certain intolerant groups.
→ read full article‘Meat’ the Double-Edged Sword That Might One Day Eliminate Animals from Our Diet
Geoff Russell – New Matilda,
28 Aug 2017
There’s good GMO, and then there’s bad GMO. And there’s natural GMO as well. A simple guide to one of the really good ones which might one day remove meat from our diet.
→ read full articleThe Place Where We Are Right
Yehuda Amichai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
“From the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the Spring.
Mahadev: The Cost of Being Different
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Mahadev Shrestha (pseudonym) is a main participant in this study. I think his life could be of interest to my research as his education and daily life was affected by the ten-year armed conflict in Nepal.
→ read full articleJohn Quincy Adams on Efficiency vs. Effectiveness, the Proper Aim of Ambition, and His Daily Routine
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Digging at the heart of modernity’s foundational disconnect between efficiency and effectiveness: our tendency to pour tremendous energy into doing things, with little reflection on whether those are the right things to do in the first place.
→ read full articleQuantitative Easing for Wealth Redistribution
Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
28 Aug 2017
22 Aug 2017 – Following the 2007-2008 global financial crisis and the Great Recession in its wake, the ‘new normal’ in monetary policy has been abnormal. At the heart of the unconventional monetary policies adopted have been ‘asset purchase’ or ‘quantitative easing’ (QE) programmes. Ostensibly needed for economic revival, QE has redistributed wealth – regressively, in favour of the rich.
→ read full articleIt’s the Opium, Stupid: ‘Afghan Surge Guarantees CIA Black-Ops Budget Boost’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
23 Aug 2017 – The CIA is also overjoyed because its black-ops budget – which is tied to the exponential growth of opium production in Afghanistan – is now secured possibly for another 20-50 years, claims Mike Raddie, co-editor of online site BSNews.
→ read full articlePeriodic Table of Tech
The Beacon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
You’re probably familiar with the periodic table — you may have even memorized all the elements. But do you know how they’re used outside of chemistry class?
→ read full articleWhy Does North Korea Hate Us?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless. Dean Rusk said the USA bombed ‘everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.’ After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops. And so we remain caged in military thinking and the need to win, rather than understand.
→ read full article(Português) A Solidariedade: Um Paradigma Olvidado
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
É urgente resgatarmos o significado antropológico fundamental da solidariedade. Ela é anti-sistêmica, pois o sistema imperante capitalista é individualista e se rege pela concorrência e não pela solidariedade e pela cooperação. Isso vai contra o sentido da natureza. É urgente resgatarmos o paradigma básico de nossa humanidade, tão olvidado. Fora dela desvirtuaremos nossa humanidade e a dos outros.
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1943 US War Department Anti-Fascist Public Service Announcement
TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
In 1943, the US government created and distributed an anti-fascism PSA that showed man realizing the danger in fascist propaganda and hateful rhetoric. At one point he says, “He’s talking about me.”
→ read full articleGreenland Is Burning
Daniel de Vries | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – Wildfires have raged for weeks in Greenland, the massive Arctic island known principally for its vast quantities of ice. The fires are unprecedented in size and duration, marking an ominous new stage in the warming of Greenland and the entire Arctic.
→ read full article(Castellano) Se sabrá que Venezuela se ha convertido en una dictadura el día en que los medios dejarán de hablar de ella
Viktor Dedaj | Tlaxcala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
En Venezuela (como en otros lugares), la diferencia entre una dictadura de derecha y una dictadura de izquierda es la siguiente: bajo una dictadura de derecha, los opositores «desaparecen». Bajo una dictadura de izquierda, los opositores pasan todas las noches a la tele y en todos los medios internacionales para denunciar la dictadura.
→ read full article(Français) Les fonds vautours planent toujours sur la Belgique
Renaud Vivien | Invetig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Deux ans après avoir voté sa loi contre les fonds vautours, la Belgique a encore un rôle à jouer, celui de promouvoir cette loi au sein des Nations unies et de l’Union européenne. Pourtant, elle ne le fait toujours pas.
→ read full articleOverthrowing Other People’s Governments: The Master List
William Blum – Information Clearing House,
21 Aug 2017
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
→ read full articleCharlottesville through a Glass Darkly
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Anti-Semitism, and its links to Nazism and Fascism, and now to Trumpism, are genuinely menacing, and should encourage rational minds to reconsider any willingness to being manipulated for polemic purposes by ultra Zionists. We can also only wonder about the moral, legal, and political compass of ardent Zionists who so irresponsibly label Israel’s critics and activist opponents as anti-Semites, and thus confuse and bewilder the public as to the true nature of anti-Semitism as racial hatred directed at Jews.
→ read full articleI’m Explaining a Few Things
Pablo Neruda, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
You are going to ask: and where are the lilacs?
and the poppy-petalled metaphysics?
and the rain repeatedly spattering
its words and drilling them full
of apertures and birds?
I’ll tell you all the news.
Greenland: How Rapid Climate Change on World’s Largest Island Will Affect Us All
Kathryn Adamson – The Conversation,
21 Aug 2017
The ice sheet is melting and permafrost is thawing. What’s happening in Greenland will speed up climate change across the world.
→ read full articleRelease the Hounds
Latuff – MintPress News,
21 Aug 2017
So It Goes…
→ read full articleThe Deceptive Activist
Jørgen Johansen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
In The Deceptive Activist author Brian Martin introduces key ideas about lying and deception and then provides a series of case studies in which activists need to decide what to do. There are no final answers, but it is important to address the questions.
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Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Music Video of the Week)
Martynas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Virtuoso Martynas on Acordeon – Composition of Johannes Brahms – Martynas Levickis, 27, is one of the brightest young musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
There seems to be a new European system for calculating the GNP. Not only is armament included, but also the money that goes into research and development for war. Also included are prostitution and drugs, as “services.” Anything offered and demanded in return for money is in. How does that make us feel about economic growth? To be among the “per capita” by which this monster coming out of sickening economistic minds is divided?
→ read full articleCharlottesville: Myths & Questions – Fake History and Deeper Thinking
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
About the Lee statue, I had to wonder: “Why now?” Was it really necessary to remove the statue now? Wasn’t that setting up a conflict? Is it too much to expect our elected officials to exercise foresight and good judgment?
→ read full articleThe Egg of Columbus
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
19 Aug 2017 – I don’t know when the wheel was invented, or who invented it. However, I have no doubt that it was invented again and again, with many happy inventors sharing the glory. The same is true for the Israeli-Palestinian Confederation. From time to time it appears in public as a brand-new idea, with another group of inventors proudly presenting it to the public.
→ read full articleFirst Ever Egg Factory Farm Drone Exposé Reveals the Horrific Reality for Millions of Hens
Jill Ettinger | Organic Authority/Mercy for Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 – A new video released by animal rights group Mercy for Animals compiles the first publicly-released drone footage of several sprawling factory farms. The exposé serves as yet another significant reminder that modern industrial animal agriculture is not only dangerous to human health and “detrimental to the local and global environment, but it also involves animal abuse so severe that it would warrant felony cruelty charges if dogs or cats were the victims.”
→ read full articleExporting Chaos to Venezuela
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
21 Aug 2017
President Trump’s recklessness is felt around the world.
→ read full articleLatin America’s “Pink Tide” and the Challenge of Systemic Change: Venezuela
The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
7 Aug 2017 – In the late 1990s and the 2000s, Latin America experienced a “pink tide” of sorts, with a number of self-proclaimed socialist governments coming to power. By 2010, leftist governments were in power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, with Peru joining the ranks in 2011. We asked three analysts to describe some of the institutional innovations implemented in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador during this time, and to reflect on the relationship between organized citizenry and the state in these transitions in order to elicit lessons learned.
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