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The Silent Cries of Hiding Children: Fifty Years after MLK’s Riverside Church Speech
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war. This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social up lift is approaching spiritual death.” — MLK
→ read full articleJoan Baez Goes Viral with ‘Nasty Man,’ a Protest Song for the Trump Era
Nika Knight – Common Dreams,
10 Apr 2017
6 Apr 2017 – Joan Baez, protest singer of the peace and civil rights movements of the 1960s, has gone viral with a protest song for today’s Trump era, called “Nasty Man.”
→ read full articleAnother Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Apr 2017
The U.S. government and the mainstream media rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities.
→ read full articleLessons from Hitler’s Rise
Christopher R. Browning | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
A major new biography—an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil. “Ullrich reveals Hitler to have been an eminently practical politician—and frighteningly so. Timely… One of the best works on Hitler and the origins of the Third Reich to appear in recent years.” —Kirkus Reviews. “An outstanding study… All the huge and terrible moments of the early Nazi era are dissected…but the real strength of this book is in disentangling the personal story of man and monster.” —The Guardian (U.K.)
→ read full articlePrescribing Crisis: Overwhelmed by a Sea of Despair
Nicole Colson | Socialist Worker – Jacobin Magazine,
10 Apr 2017
A profit-hungry pharmaceutical industry and an indifferent political class are fueling the deadly opioid epidemic.
→ read full article‘Trump Attacked the Very People Fighting Islamic State’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
A rush to judgement? A one-off attack? Or maybe the start of a major military offensive in Syria? Scholars, analysts and journalists offer their opinions on the Trump administration’s decision to attack the Syrian military on Friday [7 Apr 2017].
→ read full articleWhy These Missile Strikes Won’t Make Things Better for the Syrian People
Stephen Zunes – Yes! Magazine,
10 Apr 2017
There are serious questions as to whether Trump’s bombing of the Syrian base has anything to do with protecting civilians.
→ read full articleThe Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Is Over – What’s Needed Now Is a Boycott
Mike Merryman-Lotze | OtherWords, Institute for Policy Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
With the U.S. now firmly in the pro-settler camp, nonviolent campaigns to impose a cost on Israel’s occupation matter more than ever. The White House is creating new problems in Israel-Palestine, but ordinary people can start setting things right.
→ read full articleThe Exclusion and Structural Discrimination of Roma in Europe
Szilvia Rezmuves, Isak Skenderi & Violeta Vajda – teleSUR,
10 Apr 2017
8 Apr 2017 – We have recently seen an explosion of books, articles and reference papers finally naming the oppression of Roma as an externally constructed phenomenon, based on exclusion and structural discrimination. For International Roma Day, three writers reflect on how Roma slave labour helped build Europe’s prosperity and its legacy.
→ read full article50 Years Later, a Speech by Luther King Has Lessons for a President
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
10 Apr 2017
On April 4, 1967, a year to the day before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most powerful, controversial speeches of his life: “Beyond Vietnam: Time to Break the Silence.” The legendary orator and organizer, this young Nobel Peace laureate, laid out a bold condemnation of the U.S. war in Vietnam.
→ read full article(Português) Professora de geoquímica descobriu porque os chineses não adquirem câncer de mama!
Perfeito – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Esta é a história de uma grande mulher, uma cientista, que lutou contra uma doença fatal e venceu. Esta informação salvou a vida dela!
→ read full article(Português) Conheça cinco advogadas que estão transformando o mundo para os animais
Laura Dourado – Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
10 Apr 2017
Essas cinco mulheres possuem grande visibilidade e influência no campo da lei animal canadense nos últimos anos. Bisgould, que abriu o primeira consultório de direitos animais no Canadá, deixou de exercer a legislação animal para ensiná-la. Pippus e Labchuk passaram boa parte da vida construindo o Animal Justice, a única organização nacional de direito animal do país.
→ read full articleTrump’s Strike on Syria: A Convenient Distraction
Ibrahim Al-Marashi – Al Jazeera,
10 Apr 2017
It’s not the first time a US president launches missile strikes that do not amount to much but boost ratings.
→ read full articleMeanwhile at the Peace Conference…
Chappatte – The New York Times,
10 Apr 2017
Intruders Not Welcome
→ read full article(Français) Enjeux et devenir de la pêche
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI-Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
La hausse constante de la consommation de poisson a fait de la pêche une industrie lucrative. Mais le boom de l’halieutique s’est aussi traduit par une explosion des inégalités, une aggravation des conflits pour le contrôle de la ressource et un effondrement des stocks. Pour y faire face, les institutions internationales ont surtout fait appel à des mécanismes de marché, qui menacent les conditions de vie précaires des communautés de pêche artisanale, sans résoudre la crise.
→ read full article(Português) Propagandhi: “De alguma forma, todo mundo que come carne sabe que existe algum dano nisso”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Fundada no Canadá em 1986, a banda Propagandhi, importante nome do cenário punk rock, tem se destacado por ter como bandeira a defesa dos direitos animais e o veganismo. “Não tenho nenhuma necessidade de machucar os animais para o meu próprio prazer ou conforto”.
→ read full articleCan Empirical Science Give Us Peace?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Galileo’s finger points to two pillars for science: scientific knowledge must be based on empirical facts observed or by experiments; and the language to express scientific knowledge is mathematics. First objection: only the past can produce empirical facts; that limits what might or ought to be to what already have been facts. But humans are capable of transcending the past, and create new facts.
→ read full articleThe Future Will Be Battery-Powered
Amelia Urry | Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
The battery might be the least sexy piece of technology ever invented but the future will be battery-powered. It has to be. From electric cars to industrial-scale solar farms, batteries are the key to a cleaner, more efficient energy system.
→ read full articleTrump Has Scientists Mad Enough to March on Earth Day
The Philadelphia Inquirer | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
5 Apr 2017 – It’s not every day that scientists plan to head out of the laboratory and into the streets to protest, but on Earth Day, April 22, U.S. scientists have good reason to do exactly that. The protesters believe President Trump has no respect for the truth when it comes to well-settled science on some of the most critical questions facing the country.
→ read full articleThe World at 1°C
DemandClimateJustice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
“We are at the crossroads now: We either say: this thing is too big for us, this task cannot be done. [Then] we will be transformed by nature, because we will end up with a planet warming by 4, 5, 6 or even 12 degrees. It would be the end of the world as we know it, and I have all the evidence. Or we say: We’re doing the transformation ourselves.”
→ read full articleThe Cell Was My Canvas
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
“Art is the antithesis of conflict – conflict causes destruction; art is about creation.”
→ read full articleIn Memory of Morton Deutsch: A Rhymed Reflection
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Morton Deutsch was the main co-editor of the acclaimed The Handbook of Conflict Resolution-Theory and Practice, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2014. The renowned Columbia University psychologist passed away March 13, 2017.
→ read full articleA Huge Mining Conglomerate Wanted to Poison This Country’s Water – After a Long Fight They Lost
Pedro Cabezas | Inequality.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
After a long struggle, El Salvador just proved that with enough civil society support, even a very poor country can stand up to powerful global mining firms. In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country’s people and water supply by banning metallic mining.
→ read full articleChristian Nonviolence in Three Crucial Points
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Speech at the Prayer Vigil for the 50th World Day of Peace, Diocese of Pisa, 27 Jan 2017
→ read full articleLahore, Easter Sunday, 2016
Barbara Millar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
On this day the Taliban bombed a popular playground/park which was well attended by families and their young children. Because it was Easter, they were targeting Christian children and their families, though Muslim, Hindu, Jewish children and their families were also killed.
→ read full article(Français) Richard Falk : de nombreux dirigeants israéliens ont eux-mêmes annoncé depuis longtemps qu’Israël deviendrait un État d’apartheid…
Richard Falk | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Une enquête sur l’apartheid dans le contexte israélien n’est pas quelque chose de scandaleux, ni même de particulièrement nouveau.
→ read full articleUniversity of Terror
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
So for year after year, century after century, society has sent its criminals to Crime University, where they learn to become better and more professional criminals. Tuition with full board, all expenses paid by the state. And, of course, a huge army of prison personnel, policemen and women, experts and academics depend on this system for their livelihood. Everybody happy.
→ read full articleNet Neutrality Is Trump’s Next Target, Administration Says
Steve Lohr – The New York Times,
3 Apr 2017
The net neutrality rules, approved by the Federal Communications Commission in 2015, aimed to preserve the open internet and ensure that it could not be divided into pay-to-play fast lanes for web and media companies that can afford it and slow lanes for everyone else. Supporters of net neutrality have insisted the rules are necessary to protect equal access to content on the internet.
→ read full article16 European Nations Vote against GMO Crops
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
27 Mar 2017 – The majority of European Union governments voted against a proposal to authorize two new strains of genetically modified (GMO) maize today.
→ read full articleSlaves
Baher Kamal |Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were victims of transatlantic slave trade. Slavery is far from being a chapter of the past—it still there, with estimated 21 million victims of forced labour and extreme exploitation around the world–nearly the combined population of Scandinavian countries.
→ read full article4 Million Muslims Killed In Western Wars (Up to 2015 alone): Should We Call It Genocide?
Kit O'Connell – MintPress News,
3 Apr 2017
18 Aug 2015 — It may never be possible to know the true death toll of the modern Western wars on the Middle East, but that figure could be 4 million or higher. Since the vast majority of those killed were of Arab descent, and mostly Muslim, when would it be fair to accuse the United States and its allies of genocide?
→ read full articleThe Whole World Is Watching as Trump Trashes U.S. Climate Policy
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Questions over whether Trump’s executive order would end U.S. involvement in the Paris agreement. China showed it would continue to cement its global leadership on climate, as officials reaffirmed the country was still committed to it. “It’s important to understand that no single country, no matter how large or small, can cancel the Paris Climate Agreement.”
→ read full articleRole of Education in Preventing Violence and Promoting Peace and Welfare
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Governments and scholars now agree that education is a desirable objective in itself and is also the means for inculcating right attitudes and morality among people. It is also essential for the material development of society by reducing poverty and want. It helps to empower people especially the downtrodden ones.
→ read full articleAbbas to Award Khalaf with Palestinian Highest Medal
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday [18 Mar 2017] said he would award the highest Palestinian medal to former UN official Rima Khalaf for her courageous stand for Palestinians, local media reported.
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza contro le donne: Pace positiva
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
E in quanto ai monumenti: per favore, non l’uomo a cavallo, che brandisce la morte. Ci siano monumenti alle donne che fanno sbocciare nuova vita. Il punto fondamentale è aprire la mente maschile a un “noi insieme” per migliori matrimoni, e anche per cambiare la loro mentalità “noi contro di loro”. Meglio che trattare le donne come serve-prostitute pagate in moneta di “sicurezza” per rigovernare le stoviglie, lavare la roba, occuparsi dei bebé e insieme dei bambini, degli infermi e dei vecchi, e condividere la loro gratitudine.
→ read full article(Italiano) La politica e l’economia mondiale in questo momento
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Un altro fattore chiave è la speculazione nell’economia finanziaria – in contrapposizione all’investimento nell’economia reale – consistente in serie di prodotti derivati con super-commissioni. Se i prodotti derivati dalla droga sono illegali e biasimati, perché non farlo anche con i derivati finanziari?
→ read full articleSelling São Paulo
Kathleen McCaul Moura | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
17 Mar 2017 – São Paulo is for sale. João Doria, mayor since 1 January, is planning to auction off South America’s biggest city piece by piece: not only the racecourse, football stadium and carnival centre, but lighting, transport, health services and even the public funeral system.
→ read full articleWashington Protests Proposal for Nuclear Disarmament
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
On Monday [27 Mar 2017], the United States, together with Britain and France, walked out of a session of the United Nations General Assembly set to discuss a global ban on nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleAn American Century of Carnage: Measuring Violence in a Single Superpower World
John W. Dower - TomDispatch,
3 Apr 2017
The projected bill for just the 30-year nuclear modernization agenda comes to over $90 million a day, or almost $4 million an hour. The $1 trillion price tag for maintaining the nation’s status as “the most powerful nation on Earth” for a single year amounts to roughly $2.74 billion a day, over $114 million an hour. Creating a capacity for violence greater than the world has ever seen is costly — and remunerative. So an era of a “new peace”? Think again.
→ read full articleIsraeli Guidelines Point to Largely Unconstrained Settlement Expansion
Peter Beaumont – The Guardian,
3 Apr 2017
31 Mar 2017 – Israel has indicated it will pursue a unilateral policy of largely unconstrained settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories, as it announced the first new settlement in two decades. Plan outlined by Benjamin Netanyahu would allow building within boundaries of existing blocks, adjacent to them, or close to the blocs.
→ read full articleStreet Art Controversy – Crime or Urban Renovation?
Giulia D’Ettorre | Wall Street International - Human Wrongs Watch,
3 Apr 2017
Since ancient times, human existence has been recorded on murals. From cave painting to street art, people have been using walls as a means to communicate and leave a sign of their own existence. Thanks to studies of ancient cave art, we have learnt a lot about our ancestors and how they lived, as well as today, graffiti can be perceived as a mirror of our society.
→ read full article“Rohingya Resistance”: The Media Is “Bigging It Up” without Analysis or Insights
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
31 Mar 2017 – For the mass media is now bigging up Rohingya Resistance, but it isn’t telling you anything I consider intelligent, analytical, researched or factual.
→ read full articleVault 7: Project Dark Matter
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Today, March 23rd 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 “Dark Matter”, which contains documentation for several CIA projects that infect Apple Mac firmware (meaning the infection persists even if the operating system is re-installed) developed by the CIA’s Embedded Development Branch.
→ read full articleCultivating Community Economies
J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, Kelly Dombroski, Stephen Healy and Ethan Miller | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Building on J.K. Gibson-Graham’s feminist critique of political economy, the CEC challenges two problematic aspects of how “the economy” is understood: seeing it as inevitably capitalist, and separating the economy from ecology. We understand the economy as comprised of diverse practices and as intimately intertwined with planetary ecosystem processes. In a complexly determined world there are multiple ways of enacting change; we are energized by possibilities that are afforded by this framing of economy.
→ read full article(Italiano) La nonviolenza oggi, tra crisi del pacifismo e legittima difesa
Mao Valpiana – Huffington Post Italia,
3 Apr 2017
27 mar 2017 – Lo scorso ottobre il servizio di consulenza linguistica dell’Accademia della Crusca, ha sentenziato che “la lessicografia contemporanea considera la forma univerbata “nonviolenza” come un’unità lessicale: esito che senza dubbio è stato favorito dalla spinta del Movimento Nonviolento, che ha attribuito un nuovo valore alla parola”.
→ read full articleHow the United Nations Should Respond in the Age of Global Dissent
Richard Falk, Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck – New Statesman,
3 Apr 2017
Three Former UN Insiders on the Future of the World’s Most Ambitious Organisation
→ read full article(Castellano) A la cultura de la violencia oponemos la cultura de la paz
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Al abordar el tema de la paz en su encíclica, el obispo de Roma, Francisco, repite lo que Gandhi y otros maestros han dicho antes: «la paz no es ausencia de guerra. La paz interior de las personas tiene mucho que ver con el cuidado, con la ecología y con el bien común, porque cuando es auténticamente vivida, se refleja en un equilibrado estilo de vida, aliado con la capacidad de admiración que lleva a la profundidad de la vida; la naturaleza está llena de palabras de amor».
→ read full articleJane Goodall: How Can We Believe It Is a Good Idea to Grow Our Food with Poisons?
Katherine Paul | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
9 Mar 2017 – Two new reports published in recent weeks add to the already large and convincing body of evidence, accumulated over more than half a century, that agricultural pesticides and other toxic chemicals are poisoning us. Both reports issue scathing indictments of U.S. and global regulatory systems that collude with chemical companies to hide the truth from the public, while they fill their coffers with ill-gotten profits.
→ read full articleJapan’s Ruling Party Calls for Military to Have Offensive Weapons
Peter Symonds | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
1 Apr 2017 – Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has called on the government to boost the country’s anti-ballistic missile systems and to consider acquiring, for the first time, weapons capable of carrying out attacks on enemy bases. The recommendations are another step towards the remilitarisation of Japan pressed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that is adding to sharp regional tensions.
→ read full articleThe West Is Becoming Irrelevant: The World Is Laughing
Andre Vltchek | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
The greatest minds of Russia, China, Latin America and the rest of the world are trying to determine what brought our world, our civilization, to this ludicrous downfall. The answer: Western imperialism (military, economic and ‘intellectual’/ ’cultural’), colonialism and neo-colonialism, as well as that dreadful byproduct of all the above – a savage form of capitalism.
→ read full article(Português) Patrik Baboumian: “A força deve construir, não destruir. Minha força não precisa de vítimas. Minha força é a minha compaixão”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Em 2011, quando conquistou o título de homem mais forte da Alemanha, o atleta abraçou o veganismo mesmo sem saber se isso iria afetar o seu desempenho como atleta e o seu grande volume muscular. Questionado se teria alguma sugestão a dar para quem está cogitando o vegetarianismo ou o veganismo, ele recomendou que as pessoas não deem ouvidos aos supostos gurus da nutrição e da indústria de suplementos que dizem que precisamos de carne, ovos e laticínios para conseguir proteínas o suficiente.
→ read full articleEveryone in Middle East Given Own Country in 317,000,000-State Solution
The Onion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
The broad and extensive compromise, which affects more than 3,000,000 square miles formerly occupied by the territories of Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Oman, Yemen, Egypt, and Jordan, will reportedly draw over 750,000,000 new borders in what experts claim will help drastically curb sectarian violence.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Next War Is Always ‘Inevitable’
Larry Derfner – The New York Times,
3 Apr 2017
What hardly any Israelis will consider and virtually no influential voices in the West will publicly suggest is that Israel — not Hezbollah in Lebanon, nor Hamas in Gaza, nor the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria — is provoking the next war. Counterintuitive though it may be, Israel, not its militant Islamist or Syrian enemies, is the aggressor in these border wars.
→ read full articleLetter to a Concerned Friend of One of the Many Victims of the Psychiatric and Psychopharmaceutical Industries
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
28 Mar 2017 – I recently had a dialogue with a person who had emailed me about a friend of hers who had been mis-treated for years by drug-prescribing psychiatrists. The psychiatrists – and their alarming and illogical drugging – had made him worse and worse and eventually totally disabled over the years.
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U.N. Considers a Historic Ban on Nuclear Weapons: U.S. Leads Boycott
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Mar 30, 2017 – Some 120 countries gathered at the United Nations this week to draft a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. But the United States is leading a boycott of the talks. Meanwhile, more than 2,000 scientists signed an open letter endorsing the talks, and, on Tuesday [28 Mar], Pope Francis encouraged the UN to pursue the “total elimination” of nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleAung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar’s Great Hope Fails to Live Up to Expectations
Poppy McPherson – The Guardian,
3 Apr 2017
31 Mar 2017 – It was never meant to be this way. A year after her party swept to power, the Nobel laureate faces questions over her leadership and silence on persecution of Rohingya Muslims.
→ read full articleU.S. Military Personnel Deployments by Country
Jeff Desjardins | Visual Capitalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
18 Mar 2017 – The U.S. spends more on defense than the next 7 countries combined. Part of that money goes to supporting 200,000 troops abroad in 177 countries. Look at the charts.
→ read full articleSyria: Armed Conflict Resolution and the Reconstruction of an Inclusive and Just Society
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
On 5 April 2017, the European Union and the United Nations will hold a joint conference on the future of Syria and its region. “Civil Society” is invited to participate, but it is not clear in advance if the Brussels meeting will be a “fundraising” one, in which case most non-governmental organizations (NGO) in consultative status with the UN will have little to contribute, or if there will be wider aims.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Apr 3-9 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “When you don’t get a miracle, you can be a miracle for someone else.” – Nick Vujicić
→ read full articleHow US Flooded the World’s Media with Psyops
Robert Parry - Consortium News,
3 Apr 2017
25 Mar 2017 – Newly declassified documents from the Reagan presidential library help explain how the U.S. government developed its sophisticated psychological operations capabilities that – over the past three decades – have created an alternative reality both for people in targeted countries and for American citizens, a structure that expanded U.S. influence abroad and quieted dissent at home.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Four Tactics for Undermining Glyphosate Science Review
Genna Reed | Union of Concerned Scientists – TRASNCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
30 Mar 2017 – Emails unsealed in a California lawsuit last week reveal that agribusiness giant Monsanto engaged in activities aimed at undermining efforts to evaluate a potential link between glyphosate—the active ingredient of the company’s popular herbicide Roundup—and cancer.
→ read full article(Castellano) ¿Y el Estado? Perú y Ecuador frente a El Niño
Maria Florencia Pagliarone | CELAG Centro Estratégico Latinoamericano de Geopolítica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
20 Mar 2017 – En los últimos días, el fenómeno de El Niño ha desatado su furia contra las costas de Ecuador y Perú. La inclemencia climática definida como un calentamiento de la superficie de las aguas del Pacífico se caracteriza por el ingreso de una masa superficial de aguas cálidas en el mar, lo que genera el aumento de la temperatura de la masa de agua e intensas lluvias.
→ read full articleLet’s Come to Our Senses on Nukes
Kevin Martin | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
So one might reasonably ask the president, who has come to their senses on nukes, and who has not? Let’s cancel the New Nuclear Arms Race, challenge the other nuclear states to do likewise, and join the talks for a treaty to once and for all close the door on the folly of nuclear weaponry.
→ read full articleSix Months after Hurricane Matthew, Hunger and Desperation Grip Haiti’s South
John Marion | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
1 Apr 2017 – There have been multiple reports of people eating poisonous plants or tree bark just to stave off hunger, and in the city of Jérémie people are still living under tarpaulins after the storm. According to Le Nouvelliste, an elderly couple in the town of Candache hanged themselves because of hunger. On March 22, Food for the Poor found 240 people, including 84 women and 62 children, living in a cave near Jérémie in Grand’Anse.
→ read full articleThe ESCWA Report: Guterres Falls at the First Hurdle
Julie Webb-Pullman – Middle East Monitor,
3 Apr 2017
The resignation of the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Rima Khalaf, under pressure from Guterres to withdraw her agency’s report titled Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid, and the report’s subsequent removal from the website, demand serious world attention, if the UN is to retain any semblance of independence, impartiality and integrity.
→ read full article“Putin Is a Killer”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
(Beginning with a line by US fake-news media honcho, Bill O’Reilly)
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Anonymous Brazilian Youth Talent (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Meu Pedacinho do Céu – Homemade Facebook video
→ read full articleThe Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices
David Dayen | The American Prospect – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
How Pharmacy Benefit Managers Morphed from Processors to Predators – Under fire for their many drug-pricing scandals, from Martin Shkreli to Valeant, the pharmaceutical industry has tried to deflect blame by citing PBMs .
→ read full articleWealth of World’s Billionaires Soars amid Stock Market Surge
Shannon Jones | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Combined, the top 10 billionaires on the Forbes list alone took in $558 billion, more than the Gross Domestic Product of Venezuela. Just eight of those billionaires control as much wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population, 3.6 billion people, according to Oxfam. More fundamentally, the increasing concentration of wealth among the world’s richest represents a social retrogression in which society’s resources are being plundered in the name of a mad pursuit of private gain, profits; unjustifiable, pernicious greed.
→ read full articleUS Navy Prepares Decapitating Attack against Russia
Alex Gorka | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
27 Mar 2017 – The US preemptive nuclear strike capability has significantly grown. The Bulletin of American Scientists reports that as a result of improvements in the killing power of US SLBMs, they carry more than three times the number of warheads needed to destroy the entire fleet of Russian land-based missiles.
→ read full articleGermany Converts Coal Mine into Giant Battery Storage for Surplus Solar and Wind Power
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
The Prosper-Haniel coal mine will be converted into a 200 megawatt pumped-storage hydroelectric reservoir that acts like a giant battery. The capacity is enough to power more than 400,000 homes.
→ read full articleVault 7: Marble Framework
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Today, March 31st 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 “Marble” — 676 source code files for the CIA’s secret anti-forensic Marble Framework. Marble is used to hamper forensic investigators and anti-virus companies from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to the CIA.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Starting with EU at 60, making small states (Luxembourg!) big by being members of something bigger, but making bigger, even imperial, states smaller by being “members”… UK outside and France inside are now paying the heavy immigration price for devastation wrought by their empires; with no EU solidarity… Trump is seen as psychotic with crazy policies: military up $54 billion at the expense of the poor, health, environment, climate, arts, culture. The US killings all over were not seen as crazy, but Trump kills at the cost of basics. He may not last 100 days, impeached or-?
→ read full articleWere There Two Buddhas?
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
In the following material, we will look at the evidence that seems to indicate that there was first the Avatara Buddha, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu who appeared near 1800 BCE, and then there was another person who became known as Gautama called Buddha, born around 560 BCE.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Reveals “Marble”: Proof CIA Disguises Their Hacks as Russian, Chinese, Arabic…
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
31 Mar 2017 – WikiLeaks’ latest Vault 7 release contains a batch of documents, named ‘Marble’, which detail CIA hacking tactics and how they can misdirect forensic investigators from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to their agency by inserted code fragments in foreign languages. The biggest malicious hacker on Earth was, and still is, the CIA.
→ read full articleNeo-Feudal Society: Tax Havens for Big Multinationals Is ‘Robbery of Population’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
28 Mar 2017 – It’s alarming big European banks, unlike ordinary people are not paying their fair share of taxes, says Oxfam policy advisor Aurore Chardonnet. Tax dodging is a crime against the people, a robbery of the population, adds business consultant Gerald Celente.
→ read full article(Italiano) Intervista a Murat Cinar in vista dell’incontro di STORIE_Aosta 8 aprile 2017
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
1 Apr 2017 – STORIE, sezione del progetto culturale Collettivamente memoria 2017, presenta, per il quarto incontro, il giornalista, blogger, fotografo (e amico) turco Murat Cinar. In anteprima una breve intervista.
→ read full articleCan Our Social Institutions Catch Up with Advances in Science and Technology?
Lawrence Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
There is a glaring discrepancy between technological advances and the social institutions that can ensure that they are used for the benefit of humanity. The real question is whether people and nations can muster the political will to reshape their behavior and social institutions to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
→ read full articleMaya Angelou (4 Apr 1928 – 28 May 2014): On Identity and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Angelou’s timeless wisdom shines with unparalleled light in a 1977 interview by journalist Judith Rich, in which Angelou explores issues of identity and the meaning of life.
→ read full articleThe Gift of Insults
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
A great Samurai warrior, now old, had decided to teach Zen Buddhism to young people. Despite his age, the legend was that he could defeat any adversary.
→ read full articleExplaining to a Blind Person
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Someone asked Albert Einstein at a party: “Oh, you are Albert Einstein, could you please explain me your relativity theory in three or four sentences?”
→ read full articleIndia Needs to Move Beyond Hubris
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Sometimes we filter when we listen, having a preconceived notion of the ground realties. In a country as large and diverse as India, it makes sense to connect those who live in similar climates and by tracking the effectiveness of the projects they manage and making appropriate, informed changes to those that aren’t working.
→ read full articleSettled Wanderers – The Poetry of Western Sahara
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
This remarkable book is far more than a collection of poetry, little-known in the English-speaking world. It is a concise history and geography of the Saharawi people, the lives of their poets; a glossary and explanation of the unique language of this nation, Hassaniya.
→ read full articleLearning to Be Fascists
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Learning to be fascists, victims, and bystanders (and everything in-between). We learn to love, hate, kill, slaughter, rape, torture, etc. In my view, the Burmese society is undergoing this experience regarding the Rohingya victims of state terror, social ostracism/exclusion and the emerging sadistic culture of those who call themselves “Buddhists”.
→ read full articleArgentina Set to Drop US$2 Billion for Largest Weapons Acquisition since Malvinas War
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
28 Mar 2017 – [Rightwing] Argentinean President Mauricio Macri is poised to dole out US$2 billion in large military equipment from the United States in what will be the biggest weapons acquisition since the country’s Malvinas War in the 1980s.
→ read full articleHow Many Civilians Can We Kill?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
As Barbara Ehrenreich writes in her book, Blood Rites, “War has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions, rather than to just a handful of craftsmen and professional soldiers. It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures.”
→ read full articleUS Senate Votes to Let Internet Providers Share Your Web Browsing History without Permission
Jacob Kastrenakes | The Verge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
23 Mar 2017 – The US Senate has voted to overturn consumer-friendly internet privacy rules that would have prevented internet providers from sharing your web browsing history without permission. Altogether, it’s just pure bad news for consumers, whose private data is about to be open for sale again.
→ read full articleSecret Companies Allow Corrupt Cash to Flood Key Real Estate Markets
IPS World Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
30 Mar 2017 – The governments of Australia, Canada, UK and USA need to close legal loopholes to prevent the corrupt elite from laundering the proceeds of grand corruption in their local real estate markets, the Berlin-based Transparency International said on March 29 in a new report, Doors Wide Open: Corruption and Real Estate in Key Markets.
→ read full article(Français) Lettre de démission de Rima Khalaf, secrétaire exécutive de l’ESCWA (commission économique et sociale pour l’Asie de l’Ouest)
Rima Khalaf | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Lettre de démission de la secrétaire exécutive de l’ESCWA (commission économique et sociale pour l’Asie occidentale) Rima Khalaf, en réponse à la demande formelle du secrétaire général des Nations Unies pour que l’ESCWA retire la publication d’un rapport qui affirme que l’Etat d’Israël a mis en place une situation d’apartheid.
→ read full articleVincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. After having been physically and psychologically unstable, he cut off his ear and offered it to a prostitute.
→ read full articleIs Israel an Apartheid State?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
This post was originally published on March 22, 2017 by The Nation under the title “The Inside Story of Our UN Report Calling Israel an Apartheid State.” What is below is somewhat modified.
→ read full articleGenocides Have No Winners
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Genocides are what students of politics call ‘path-dependent’. Once a genocidal process is set in motion it is hard to recall. All genocides end in tears and destroy humanness in all involved in it, as perpetrators, on-lookers, whitewashers, collaborators, and victims.”
→ read full articleThe Multibillion-Dollar U.S. Spy Agency You Haven’t Heard of
James Bamford - Foreign Policy Magazine,
27 Mar 2017
On a heavily protected military base some 15 miles south of Washington, D.C., sits the massive headquarters of a spy agency few know exists. Even Barack Obama, five months into his presidency, seemed not to have recognized its name.
→ read full articleCambodia Rejects US War Debt, Slams US Imperial Brutality
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 – Following the United States’ renewed insistence that Cambodia pay back its alleged “war debts,” fury across Cambodia has been widespread. “We should raise our voices to talk about the issue of the country that has invaded other (countries) and has killed children,” said Cambodia’s prime minister. $38 Billion for Israel, but not $274 Million for Cambodia.
→ read full articleChina’s Great Leap Forward: Western Frogs Croak Dismay
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – From their dismal swamps, US academic and financial journal editorialists, the mass media and contemporary ‘Asia experts’, Western progressive and conservative politicians croak in unison about China’s environmental and impending collapse.
→ read full article(Castellano) Una ética para la Madre Tierra
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
14 mar 2017 – Hoy es un hecho científicamente reconocido que los cambios climáticos, cuya expresión mayor es el calentamiento global son de naturaleza antropogénica, con un grado de seguridad del 95%. Es decir, tienen su génesis en un tipo de comportamiento humano violento con la naturaleza.
→ read full article(Português) Pela 1ª vez desde 2004, Brasil fica estagnado no Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano da ONU
Martha Beck – O Globo,
27 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017- Pela primeira vez desde 2004, o Brasil estacionou no ranking do desenvolvimento humano. A maior recessão da história, em 2015, fez a renda da população despencar e freou o avanço constante que se observava no IDH, calculado pelas Nações Unidas desde 1990.
→ read full articleThese Two Rivers Were Just Given the Same Legal Rights as Humans in India
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
The High Court of the Indian state of Uttarakhand ruled that the Ganges and Yamuna rivers and their tributaries are “legal and living entities having the status of a legal person with all corresponding rights, duties and liabilities.” The judges noted that the once-mighty rivers are “losing their very existence.” The decision marks the first time a court has recognized a non-human as a living entity in India.
→ read full articleDon’t Understand Clouds? But You Should!
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
27 Mar 2017
Today scientists understand that clouds play a vital role in regulating the Earth’s energy balance, climate and weather, says the UN World Meteorological Organization.
→ read full articleAfter Creating Haiti’s Cholera Crisis, UN Can Barely Fight It
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
20 Mar 2017 – It was seven years ago when the outbreak first began. Haiti’s cholera outbreak has ravaged hundreds of thousands of lives — killing nearly 10,000 and sickening nearly 800,000 more. After years of dodging responsibility, the U.N. is now struggling to help fight the health scourge it created.
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