Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Français) Shimon Peres du point de vue de ses victimes
Ilan Pappé | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Les nécrologies de Shimon Peres ont déjà été publiées, préparées sans aucun doute à l’avance, dès que la nouvelle de son hospitalisation est parue dans les médias. Le verdict sur sa vie est très clair et a déjà été prononcé par le président américain Barack Obama : Peres était un homme qui a changé le cours de l’histoire humaine dans sa recherche incessante pour la paix au Moyen-Orient. Mon intuition est que très peu des nécrologies examineront la vie et les activités de Peres du point de vue des victimes du sionisme et d’Israël.
→ read full articleThree Minutes to Midnight!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
New “Dial a Nuke” weapons have various explosive power options, including smaller, more useable weapons, thus making nuclear war more thinkable in battlefield situations. The theory goes that nuclear war can now be “limited” and not necessarily “all out.” But who is going to be the referee once the nukes start flying? And won’t the losing side resort to bigger, more destructive weapons?
→ read full article(Italiano) 2 ottobre. Giornata internazionale della Nonviolenza
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Oggi le amiche e gli amici, persuasi della Nonviolenza, sono particolarmente coinvolti. Agire la nonviolenza a partire dall’affrontare, per risolvere, la propria violenza interiore. A partire da sè.
→ read full articleNGOs: Grassroots Empowerment or Tool of Information Warfare?
Daniel Deiss, J.Hawk and Edwin Watson | South Front – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Fake NGOs as Bellingcat, White Helmets, Syria Observatory for Human Rights and other self-styled “open-source information analysts” have become the tip of the spear in the ongoing information war. These fake NGOs play a leading role in what US military refers to as “shaping the information battlefield.” Their second function is allowing interested governments to refrain from directly lying to the media and the public themselves.
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Watch the Trailer for Leonardo DiCaprio’s New Documentary ‘Before the Flood’
National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Sep 27, 2016 – A riveting account of the dramatic changes now occurring around the world due to climate change. BEFORE THE FLOOD will be in theaters in NYC and LA starting October 21, and air globally on the National Geographic Channel starting Oct 30.
→ read full articleVáclav Havel (5 Oct 1936 – 18 Dec 2011)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Havel was the son of a wealthy restaurateur whose property was confiscated by the communist government of Czechoslovakia in 1948. As the son of bourgeois parents, Havel was denied easy access to education but managed to finish high school and study on the university level. He found work as a stagehand in a Prague theatrical company in 1959 and soon began writing plays with Ivan Vyskočil.
→ read full articleFeedback
TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Don’t complain…
→ read full articleThe Economist Magazine Warns of Revolutionary Consequences of Unprecedented Corporate Power
Gabriel Black | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
On Sep 17 The Economist published a special report titled “The Superstar Company: A Giant Problem” where it details the sharp growth in the economic and political power of the world’s top corporations. The editorial warns that today’s economic climate contains “worrying similarities to a much earlier era,” the period leading up to the Russian Revolution.
→ read full articleBan Ki-moon’s Legacy in Palestine: Failure in Words and Deeds
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
When the UN chief is gone, he will be missed – but certainly not by Palestinians in Gaza or refugees in Syria, or war victims in Afghanistan. In his last visit to Palestine in June, Ban Ki-Moon told distraught Gazans that the “UN will always be with you.” As tens of thousands there still stand on the rubble of their own homes, denied freedom to move or rebuild, his statement is as forgettable as the man’s legacy at the UN.
→ read full articlePalestinian Youth Art Festival in India Spotlights Hardships
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Gaza51 showcases the artwork of young Palestinians from Gaza produced after the 2014 Israeli invasion.
→ read full articleCommand & Control
TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
No Comment
→ read full articleContrasting the Foiled American Fascist Coup Plot of 1934 with the Successful Brazilian Fascist Coup Plot of 2016
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
As always, US financial elites from 80 years ago (as is true of the today’s financial elites from Brazil), met the definition of both sociopathic personality disorder AND neo-fascist. Now it is the Market that matters. Someone who wants medical treatment must go to the Market; and pay. Whoever wants to go to a University must first go to the Market and pay. Everything will be turned into merchandise to be bought and sold. Can dignity be bought? Can solidarity be bought? Must love be purchased?
→ read full articleOctober 2: Nonviolence Day, Gandhi’s Birthday
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
It doesn’t matter the amount or prevalence of violence employed or practiced anywhere anytime. It was from within a violent environment, which oppressed him both in South Africa and in India, that the Mahatma, born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, gave birth to his philosophy of nonviolence. Yin-Yang. The world is readier than ever for it. Nevertheless, besides a philosophy NV can be many things for many people depending on contexts.
→ read full articleAbu-Mazen’s Balance Sheet
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
In a nonviolent struggle of civil disobedience, many Palestinians will get killed; the general suffering will increase a lot. But such a struggle will win. It always did when applied anywhere. The world, which is expressing deep sympathy with the Palestinian people while cooperating with the occupation regime, will be compelled to intervene. The Israeli public, which is now looking at what is happening a few dozen miles from their homes as if it was happening in Honolulu, will wake up. The best of our people will join the political struggle. The weak peace camp will become strong again.
→ read full articleHow Do We ‘Package’ Peace? Can We Make It Palatable?
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
A review of Peace Plays by Johan Galtung, Vitahl Rajan, and S. P. Udayakumar; Kolofon Press, 2010. 95 pages. It is a splendid book: a lens with which to contemplate our modern world of foibles, follies, self-and-mass destruction. It’s a book to read, and re-read, and savor. It is whimsical and sobering; grating in a positive way; uplifting and transformative.
→ read full articleThe Politics of Bombing: Wholesale, Retail and Improvised
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Bombs, domestic and foreign, are defining the nature of politics in the United States, the European Union and among radical Islamist groups and individuals. The scale and scope of bomb-politics varies with the practitioner.
→ read full articleBees Added to US Endangered Species List for the First Time
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Seven types of the yellow-faced or masked bees once found in great numbers in Hawaii are under threat, federal officials say.
→ read full articleThe Enigma That Was Shimon Peres
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
My own experience of the man was direct, although rather superficial, but it did give me greater confidence to trust my reservations about his impact and influence, which collides with the adulation that he has inspired among American liberals, in particular.
→ read full article(Português) Animicídio
José Santa Rita Xisto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
As garras aceradas da desgraça
Meu corpo invisível dilaceram;
E agora que as esp’ranças já morreram,
Maior é esta dor que me trespassa!
John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliché that should have been left behind in the ’60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
—John Lennon
Death of a Toddler
Barbara Millar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
O, Syrian child, armies of refugees, huddled together
on rotting boats, on a fickle sea, washed ashore
like detritus of a shipwrecked land:
death by hunger
death by mortar …
Military-Style Raid Ends Native Prayer Against Dakota Pipeline
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Up to 21 people were arrested during a peaceful prayer service.
→ read full articleThe Wall
TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Some Celebration!
→ read full articleThe “Major and Deadly” Wars to Come
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
3 Oct 2016 – A report by a leading geopolitical strategy think tank makes clear that the US military is engaged in intensive planning for wars involving massive casualties.
→ read full articleThe World Passes 400 PPM Threshold. Permanently
Brian Kahn | Climate Central – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
2016 is the year that carbon dioxide officially passed the symbolic 400 ppm mark, never to return below it in our lifetimes, according to scientists. Because carbon pollution has been increasing since the start of the Industrial Revolution and has shown no signs of abating, it was more a question of “when” rather than “if” we would cross this threshold. The inevitability doesn’t make it any less significant, though.
→ read full articleBoycott Launched After Nestlé Outbids Drought-Stricken Town to Buy Well for Bottled Water
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
26 Sep 2016 – Nestlé’s grab of a Canadian community’s water supply has sparked international outrage and calls to boycott the company and bottled water. The multinational food and drink giant outbid the Township of Central Wellington in Ontario for water rights to a local well to ensure “future business growth.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Oct 3-9 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless
→ read full articleTeachers’ Day: 5 October
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Being a teacher calls for multiple abilities.
→ read full articleSecond October –A Day of Peace and Harmony
Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Most people know that Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat. Few people outside India would know that this day is also the day when another simple and self effacing man Lal Bahadur Shastri was born in 1904. From his simple beginnings Shastri rose to become the second Prime Minister of India when Jawaharlal Nehru died in 1964.
→ read full articleTrue Realism: From ‘I’ to ‘We’
Libby & Len Traubman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
“In the end, it cannot be doubted that each of us can see only a part of the picture. The doctor sees one, the patient another, the engineer a third, the economist a fourth, the pearl diver a fifth, the alcoholic a sixth, the cable guy a seventh, the sheep farmer an eighth, the Indian beggar a ninth, the pastor a tenth. Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
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These 13 Corporations Are “Big Pharma”: Their History, Crimes, and Products
Era of Wisdom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Sep 26, 2016 – This video provides insight into what exactly “big pharma” is. It is a preview to the documentary “Toddlers on Adderall: History of Big Pharma and the Major Players,” to be released December 28, 2016.
→ read full articleThe Internet Was Just Taken Over by a Global Monopoly, and No One Even Noticed
Claire Bernish | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
On Saturday [1 Oct], the United States ceded oversight of one of the Internet’s most basic and fundamental functions — the so-called “root zone,” which governs new domain names and addresses — handing it over to a small non-profit group by allowing a 47-year contract to expire.
→ read full articleThe Simple Act of Pushing a Button
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
On one side of the ledger is everything natural and extraordinary about life with its long evolution bringing us to the present and poised to carry its processes forward into the future. On the other side of the ledger is “the button,” capable of bringing most life on the planet to a screeching halt. Also on this side of the ledger are those people who remain ignorant or apathetic to the nuclear dangers confronting humanity.
→ read full articleConscience and Consciousness
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
With uncommon courage and conviction, notable peacemakers, including Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, Helen Caldicott, Glenn Paige, Bell Hooks, Mairead McGuire, Antonio C. S. Rosa, Dalai Lama, Daisaku Ikeda, and scores of others, modeled “conscience” as a way-of-life, accepting the quest for peace must be nurtured and sustained with the totality of one’s being . . . each breath an affirmation of commitment.
→ read full article(Français) Une première dans l’Histoire du journalisme : le Washington Post demande l’inculpation de sa propre source – après avoir accepté le prix Pulitzer
Glenn Greenwald | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Ce faisant, le Washington Post a réalisé un exploit ignominieux dans l’histoire des médias US : être le premier journal à avoir explicitement demandé des poursuites pénales contre sa propre source – sur le dos de qui le journal a remporté et accepté avec empressement un Prix Pulitzer du Service Public. Mais encore plus stupéfiant que cet acte de trahison journalistique contre la propre source du journal sont les arguments avancés pour le justifier.
→ read full article(Castellano) El persistente bullying contra el PT, Lula y Dilma Rousseff
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
18 Sep 2016 – Es conocido el bullyng, es decir, el acoso político y social que están sufriendo de manera persistente el PT, Lula y la expresidenta Dilma Rousseff. Una cosa es reconocer que hubo corrupción y errores políticos del PT y otra cosa es atribuir casi exclusivamente tales hechos y más a la crisis actual, al PT y a la expresidenta.
→ read full article34 Years after the Beirut Sabra-Shatila Massacre
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
What followed were nearly three days of slaughter , rape and dismemberment of the civilian population, men, women and children as the Christian militia penetrated the camp and conducted a frenzied, partly drug fueled, killing spree slaughtering an estimated 1, 800 to 3,500. The carnage was aided by Israeli forces that surrounded Shatila, lighted the night sky with flares turning the night into day, provided heavy equipment to bury and hide bodies, communicated with the Phalange terrorists and blocked camp residents from fleeing Shatila during the carnage while ushering reinforcement killer militia inside.
→ read full articleUN General Assembly Convenes amid Global Military Escalation
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
21 Sep 2016 – The 71st United Nations General Assembly convened this week beneath the shadow of a series of global crises that threaten to throw humanity into a new world war. Obama’s proclamation that the “shadow of nuclear Armageddon” has passed flies in the face of his own $1 trillion nuclear rearmament program.
→ read full article(Português) Trituração de pintinhos vivos vai acabar nos EUA. Mas e no Brasil?
Yahoo Notícias – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
21 set 2016 – Por trás de um ovo frito, cozido ou mexido, existe uma indústria que tritura cerca de 90 milhões de pintinhos vivos todos os anos, somente no Brasil. Esses animais, com poucas horas de vida, são ‘descartados’ dessa forma cruel, pois são machos e não botam ovos.
→ read full articleO Palestine
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Your sisters stayed in their palaces
With golden chains and shameless lies
Some grinned and aided criminals…
Mahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948)
History - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury/killing of living beings (ahimsa), and vegetarianism.
→ read full articleBuilding on the UN Summit to Address Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Citizens o the world have been actively concerned with the issues of migrants, refugees, the «stateless» and those displaced by armed conflicts within their own country. Thus we welcome the spirit of the Summit Declaration with its emphasis on cooperative action, a humane sense of sharing the responsibilities for refugees and migrants and on seeking root causes of migration and refugee flows.
→ read full articleTime for Delivery of Food and Water Bombs by Drone?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
24 Sep 2016 – Voluminous Thinking to Complement the Lateral Thinking of the International Community – Media coverage of the dramatic humanitarian situation in Aleppo repeatedly makes the case for the inability of trucks with remedial food supplies to get through safely to the areas most in need.
→ read full articleDemolition of Religious Buildings in Myanmar’s Rakhine State Set to Start
Radio Free Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
20 Sep 2016 – First, they come for your identity. Then, they come for your God. Rakhine state government officials are moving to demolish more than 3,000 allegedly illegal buildings, which include 12 mosques, 35 Muslim religious schools, and more than 2,500 houses and other structures.
→ read full articleGermany and France Press Ahead with a European Military Union
Johannes Stern | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
23 Sep 2016 – Germany has released the joint military policy paper of German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen and her French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian: “Renewing the Joint Security and Defence Policy: Toward a comprehensive, realistic and reliable defence in the EU.” Under conditions of a deep social and political crisis in Europe and growing conflict between the major powers internationally, Berlin and Paris are rapidly pushing forward the militarisation of the continent.
→ read full articleNigeria’s Future: An Interview with Noo Saro-Wiwa about Her New Book
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
The book offers much more than just a report of a five-month journey around her homeland (for long time seen as the repository of all her resentment); it brings a new perspective of Nigeria itself, offering the portrait of a Country whose beauty and variety become evident. Talking about the past, mentioning unsolved conflict, honestly showing the reader the present challenges and imagining a future for Africa’s most populous Country.
→ read full articleFasting for Peace and Spirituality
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
People fast for religious reasons — to attain spiritual strength and peace. They also fast as a means of protest against injustice or wrong policies of the government especially in India. Fasting as a political instrument or as a religious belief has been going on for centuries in the world. We must understand and sympathize with it and occasionally adopt it to cleanse our bodies.
→ read full articleIsrael Ramps Up House Demolitions as an Instrument of Expropriation
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions reports that Israel is demolishing Palestinian homes and livelihoods at an increasing – and alarming – rate. This destruction is explicitly linked to the advancement of new settlements, many of which are illegal under Israeli as well as International law. During July–August this year, at least 2,800 Palestinians had their livelihoods affected by displacement and demolitions, with 42 communities affected over the two months.
→ read full articleBrazil Court Moves on Corruption Probe of President Temer
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
The coup-imposed president is already barred from running for public office; now he is under investigation for illegally soliciting campaign donations.
→ read full articleHawaiians Openly Reject President Obama’s Invented Process to Create a Native Hawaiian Tribe
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
“Why? Because they want our land. They want to create a so-called universal land claims settlement of our Crown and Government lands, aka ‘Ceded Lands.’ The USA, that has never been respectful of indigenous peoples—as we are seeing in North Dakota, is trying to dissolve our rights as a people to self-determination as defined by international law, and our human rights as indigenous people that have also been codified by the United Nations.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Sep 26–Oct 2 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
→ read full articleWhy and How I Talk about 9/11
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
20 Sep 2016 – In my darker moments I sometimes wonder what’s worse: our age of an endless ‘war on terror’ ushered in by the events of September 11, 2001, or the fact that for the rest of my life I will be subjected to yearly anniversary commemorations of those events, replete with jingoistic absurdities.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the People of the United States: Election or Revolution?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
To reiterate: I am not saying ‘Don’t vote and do nothing’ (as so many people do already). I am suggesting that you ponder the dysfunctionality of your society, do some research into the secretive ‘deep state’ (or military-industrial complex or power elite or the 1% or however you wish to describe it) that controls your ‘republic’ with its electoral system designed to delude you into believing that you have a say in governing your nation, and then consider how you want to engage politically and act in accord with your conscience in doing so.
→ read full article(Português) O Gato da Vila Paraná
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
24 set 2016 – Querubim ouviu tiro de espingarda seguido de miado. Lá fora, na rua de terra arenosa, Ranulpho nem se mexia, estatelado sobre uma porção de folhas miúdas de sibipiruna. A boca continuava entreaberta, denunciando que a dor da morte não poupava nem os mais inocentes.
→ read full articleA Meeting
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
When Jesus and the Buddha met
in a meadow of larkspurs, on a balmy day,
the bees of the valley went mad with love,
the sky and the sun were a glaze.
Brazil’s “Saddest Day”: The Parliamentary Coup
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
18 Sep 2016 – They took sadistic pleasure in hurting an incorruptible and honorable woman, on the pretext that some of her fiscal practices had been criminal, something that the great majority of legal and economics specialists denied. They staged a farce and betrayed the Constitution. Removing a President without having proven a crime is a coup. The correct term for it is: a “parliamentary coup.”
→ read full articleCarmageddon Beckons
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
There are plenty of brilliant plans for getting us moving without trashing the planet. So why aren’t they happening? It was a mistake, a monumental, world-class mistake. Cars for everyone was one of the stupidest promises that politicians ever made.
→ read full articleLeonardo da Vinci–The Genius in Milan: The Marketing of Genius
Lee Parsons | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
23 Sep 2016 – Screened in Toronto this past summer, ‘Leonardo da Vinci–The Genius in Milan’ is being distributed in over 50 countries this year and comes out of the largest exhibition ever mounted in Italy of the work of the great polymath, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
→ read full articleThe Private Person and the Public Persona: Borges on the Divided Self
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
However integrated the our layered identity may be, our twined nature stands like a stereogram — two separate and noticeably different views, composed into a single three-dimensional image of personhood only through the special focal mechanism of our own consciousness.
→ read full articleLoss of Planet Reflectivity an Impending Catastrophe
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
19 Sep 2016 – The planet’s air conditioning system is on the blink, working intermittently, losing its glinting, lustrous white reflectiveness, as it turns deep blue, absorbing 90% of sunlight rather than reflecting it back into outer space. The repercussions of Arctic sea ice loss are immense.
→ read full articleA New Refutation of Time: Borges on the Most Paradoxical Dimension of Existence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
→ read full articleAgriculture: Trade Wars and Food Wars. Obama and the Multi-Nationals
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
19 Sep 2016 – Potash Corp and Agrium have combined into a $30 billion monopoly over the world fertilizer market. Dow Chemical and DuPont combine in a $130 billion dollar deal in the seed and agricultural chemicals sector. ChemChina prepares to takeover Syngenta in a $44 billion acquisition. Bayer is preparing to buy out Monsanto for $56 billion and further concentrate control over worldwide seed and chemical markets. A quarter of a trillion dollars worth of mergers and acquisitions is poised to concentrate control of global agriculture prices, profits and markets in four directorates.
→ read full articleHeroin, Nazis, and Agent Orange: Inside the $66 Billion Merger of the Year
Lydia Mulvany | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
These companies used to sell heroin and Agent Orange. Now, they want to form the world’s largest supplier of seeds and pesticides.
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(Português) Michel Temer diz que impeachment aconteceu porque Dilma rejeitou ‘Ponte para o futuro’
The Intercept Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
22 setembro 2016 – O presidente Michel Temer deixou escapar um segredo em discurso para empresários e investidores: o impeachment de Dilma Rousseff ocorreu para implementar um plano de governo radicalmente diferente do que foi votado através das urnas em 2014, quando o PT ganhou a presidência pela quarta vez, e não por irregularidades praticadas pela ex-presidente.
→ read full articleBoutros Boutros-Ghali and the UN Vanquished
Branislav Gošović – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
In Appreciation of an Exceptional UN Secretary-General Who Dared… This essay, written as a personal homage to Boutros Boutros-Ghali, is also a comment on the United Nations, predicaments and challenges confronting those occupying the office of UN Secretary-General, and the overarching North-South entanglement in the world body.
→ read full articleThe Saga of Sisyphus
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Shimon Peres is a genius. A genius of impersonation. All his life he has worked on his public persona. The image replaced the man. Almost all the articles written about him since he fell ill are about the imagined person, not the real one. As the Americans like to say: He is so phony he is real.
→ read full articleNon-Aligned to… Nowhere?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
22 Sep 2016 – The summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) came and went in Isla Margarita, Venezuela, virtually invisible to Western corporate media. NAM nowadays congregates every African nation except South Sudan; most of Latin America – except Brazil, Argentina and Mexico (they are observers); and most of Asia and the Middle East (China is an observer).
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | Chris Hedges Tells Us Why We Keep Being Fooled by the Powers That Be
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Our job is to dismantle the machinery that is pushing toward the cliff. And this means sustained and massive civil disobedience. As exemplified by the protests at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and by prisoners across the nation who carried out work stoppages last Friday, it means doing everything possible not to cooperate with the elements of authority. It means disrupting the mechanisms of power. It means overcoming fear. It means no longer believing the lies we are told.
→ read full articleThe Illegal Closure of Gaza
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
“The closure of Gaza is neither a siege, nor a blockade, nor an economic sanction – it is an illegal act of collective punishment and stands in violation of both international and Israeli law.”
— Gisha-Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, December 2008
“Unruly Equality”: A Brief History of Anarchism
Andrew Cornell | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
The very terms anarchy, anarchism, and anarchist are so overcoded with meanings and burdened by associations that people frequently talk past one another, or resort to awkward attempts at humor, even when attempting to discuss them in good faith.
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One Voice (Music Video of the Week)
Barry Manilow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Barry recorded his own voice some 40 times to compose this inspiring song.
→ read full articleSyria: Attack on Aid Convoy Kills Twenty, Destroys Aid…
Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
… and Obliterates US War Crimes? Only representatives of the ‘White Helmets’ organization close to the Nusra Front who found themselves at the right time in the right place by chance with their video cameras can answer who did this and why. They boasted in a video of being on the scene within “moments.” The “White Helmets”, who have had the gall to entitle themselves the Syrian Civil Defence Force, are neither Syrian, nor Civil, nor Defence.
→ read full articleResuscitating Post-Disaster Response in Nepal
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
19 Sep 2016 – Government may have several political agenda but nothing should prevent from focusing full attention to the plight of the survivors of the last years’ earthquakes. People of Nepal and the community of nations expect political parties will rise above political differences and speed up the reconstruction efforts in providing basic needs of the fellow citizens.
→ read full articleSunoco, behind the Dakota Pipeline, Has Spilled More Oil than Any Other Operator in USA: Charts
Liz Hampton | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
23 Sep 2016 – Sunoco Logistics, the [alleged] future operator of the oil pipeline delayed this month after Native American protests in North Dakota, spills crude more often than any of its competitors with more than 200 leaks since 2010.
→ read full articleNorway to Kill 47 of Its Remaining 68 Wolves
Dan Zukowski | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Norway has announced plans to kill more than two-thirds of its remaining wolves, justifying the action as protection for livestock. The plan has sparked outrage by conservationists.
→ read full articleTruth Commissions Practices Over the World and a Case of Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Since the early 1980s, the conception of the truth commission has gained prominence as a mechanism for explaining the history and addressing human rights violations. Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons 1983-84 began the process, and the 1993 report of the UN Commission on the Truth in El Salvador, From Madness to Hope, sharpened the focus on truth recovery processes.
→ read full articleInternational Meeting ‘Thirst for Peace‘
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Assisi, 18-20 Sep 2016 – The Future of Europe: Capacity to Integrate, Dialogue, and Generate
→ read full articleA Warming of US/Turkish Relations?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
There are continuing concerns in Washington and Ankara about whether and to what degree United States-Turkey relations can be restored; it depends on the behavior of the two governments, and likely will be influenced by the outcome of the American presidential elections.
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International Peace Day in Assisi
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Update about Pope Francis’s Message
→ read full articleThe Malevolence of Occupation
David Lloyd | Dublin Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
1 Sep 2016 – Boycott is, as many proudly recall, an Irish invention. The first boycott targeted a notorious land agent, the eponymous Captain Charles Boycott, for attempting to evict Mayo tenants in 1880… Above all, boycott is an instrument of civil society. We call for a boycott when the means to redress an ongoing injury are denied by the legal or political institutions that ought to intervene.
→ read full articleMost of Japanese Millennials Are Virgins: Survey
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
17 Sep 2016 – A survey of Japanese people aged 18 to 34 found that 70 percent of unmarried men and 60 percent of unmarried women are not in a relationship. It also found that around 42 percent of men and 44.2 percent of women admitted that they were virgins.
→ read full articlePoor Driver
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
After a summit meeting, Reagan, Brezhnev and Deng Xiaoping were being driven to the airport in a limousine.
→ read full articleHuman Decency Moves Civilization Forward
James A. Haught | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker asserts that rampant killing was 1,000 times worse in medieval times than today. In his classic 2011 book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” he notes that international warfare has virtually vanished in the 21st century — and that murder, rape, genocide, torture, wife-beating, lynching, gay-bashing, dueling, racial attacks, and even cruelty to animals are vastly less than in the past.
→ read full articleGreenpeace Investigation Uncovers Studies Showing Pesticides Pose Serious Harm to Honeybees
Joe Sandler Clarke | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
22 Sep 2016 – Chemical giants Bayer and Syngenta commissioned private studies which showed that their neonicotinoid pesticides can cause serious harm to bees, a Greenpeace investigation has uncovered.
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This Might Be the Coolest Visualization of Evolution Ever
Harvard Medical School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Bacteria Overcoming Antibiotics on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish
→ read full articleHow Ensuring Public Access to Information Can Help to Build Peaceful and Inclusive Societies
Univ. of Sydney Dept of Peace and Conflict Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
20 October, 2016 – 18:00-19:30h – In this webinar, Jake Lynch traces the debate over information and communication and their place in development and peace, with reference to interventions along a spectrum from journalist training, on the one end, to intended-outcome programming on the other.
→ read full article(Italiano) Wallerstein su Sinistra e Destra Globali
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Wallerstein è impareggiabile. Nessun altro ha presentato una teoria tanto coerente di quello che lui chiama il sistema-mondiale moderno, a partire “dal lungo 16° secolo” fino ad oggi; principalmente capitalista.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo, in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Auschwitz, 29 Luglio: Papa Francesco che prega e chiede a Dio la grazia per piangere (INYT, 30-31 Luglio) è stato molto, molto toccante. E così diverso dallo spettacolo che Obama ha provato ad allestire a Hiroshima.
→ read full articleThe Native American, the Palestinian: A Spirited Fight for Justice
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Palestinians are losing their lives, land and olive trees as they stand up to Israeli tanks and bulldozers. Their reality is a replay of similar experiences faced – and still being confronted – by Native Americans. Well into the 21st century, the Native American-Palestinian struggle remains one and the same.
→ read full article(Português) Atílio Borón analisa semelhanças entre o Chile de 1973 e o Brasil de 2016
María Julia Giménez | Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
11 de Setembro de 2016 – Após 43 anos do golpe de Estado que derrubou ao governo de Salvador Allende no Chile, o pensador latino-americano Atilio Borón lê, à luz do processo chileno, os recentes acontecimentos que violentam a ordem democrática da América Latina. Os limites do Estado burguês e as semelhanças dos dois golpes de Estado.
→ read full articleBayer Buys Monsanto for US $66 Bln.
Greg Roumeliotis and Ludwig Burger | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
German drug and crop chemical maker Bayer clinched a $66 billion takeover of U.S. seeds company Monsanto on Wednesday [14 Sep 2016], ending months of wrangling with a third sweetened offer that marks the largest all-cash deal on record.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Joins the Freedom Flotilla 2016 to Break the Gaza Siege
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Sep 15, 2016 – Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize winner, will join the women’s boat to Gaza. The goal of this mission is to highlight the devastating effects of the brutal blockade of the Palestinian people living in Gaza.
→ read full articleCentral Bank Digital Currencies: A Revolution in Banking?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Skeptical commentators suspect that their primary goal is to eliminate cash, setting us up for negative interest rates (we pay the bank to hold our deposits rather than the reverse).
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America’s Murderous Legacy in Laos
TheRealNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
As Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos, The Real News brings you an interview with Fred Branfman, the man who first exposed America’s secret bombing campaign there.
→ read full articleIsn’t It Time to Ban the Bomb?
Lawrence S. Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Nuclear weapons are the most destructive devices ever created. If they are used―as two of them were used in 1945 to annihilate the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki―the more than 15,000 nuclear weapons currently in existence would destroy the world. Only an unusually firm stand by the non-nuclear nations, coupled with an uprising by an aroused public, seems likely to awaken the officials of the nuclear powers from their long sleepwalk toward catastrophe.
→ read full articleContaining the United States
Edward S. Herman | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
9 Sep 2016 – “Containing the United States” is, of course, a ridiculous and self-contradictory idea in the U.S. and Western ideological and propaganda system. We all know that the United States had to “contain” the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1991, and since then has had the task of containing Russia and China. Only they threaten, bully, aggress and worry countries like Poland and Vietnam.
→ read full articleLiving & Resting in Peace
Jim Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Could it be the U.S. is poking around in other people’s business and taking their stuff? Or worse yet, killing them indiscriminately? Is this what the U.S. means when it calls itself the “exceptional” nation? Is this why so many people hate the U.S.?
→ read full articleGaza-Bound Flotilla Sails Off from Spain’s Barcelona
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
A new flotilla of international activists has left for the Gaza Strip from the Spanish city of Barcelona, hoping to break a nearly decade-long Israeli blockade. Two sailing boats with 11 women on board each sailed off on Wednesday [14 Sep] under the banner “The Women’s Boat to Gaza”.
→ read full articleIt Can Happen Here
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Some kind of free association, call it confederation or federation, is a sheer necessity. Setting it up and keeping it up needs a spirit of reconciliation. Not just a negative peace, the absence of war, a cold peace of recriminations and mutual animosity, but a positive peace, a real peace, with each side understanding the basic motives of the other side, its historical narrative, its hopes and fears. Is this possible? Well, it happened between Germany and France after many centuries of conflict, including two World Wars.
→ read full article“Abysms: On Yet another 911 Anniversary….”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Powers on chessboards, on a roll of dice,
Mass and unmask in great Darwin’s name.
War-whoops go up and towers collapse,
Reaping the whirlwind, riding our shame.