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Escaping the Iron Cage of Hopelessness
Prof. Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
In a previous article I argued that those who think science can solve our major social problems – in particular, world destruction with nuclear weapons and the poisoning of the earth’s ecology and atmosphere – were delusional and in the grip of the myth of science and technology. These problems were created by science when it became untethered from any sense of limits in its embrace of instrumental rationality.
→ read full articleDisposing of Nuclear Waste is a Challenge for Humanity
Behnam Taebi – Newsweek,
22 May 2017
Nuclear waste is found at hundreds of sites around the world, the product of a half century of nuclear energy production. There are thorny ethical issues that should first be addressed. The risks are difficult to calibrate, because there is no such thing as a safe level of radiation exposure, certainly not for the type of radiation emanating from plutonium and uranium as present in Hanford.
→ read full articleTruth or Delusion?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
22 May 2017 – One inevitable outcome of the phenomenal violence we all suffer as children is that most of us live in a state of delusion throughout our lives. This makes it extraordinarily difficult for accurate information, including vital information about the endangered state of our world and how to respond appropriately, to penetrate the typical human mind.
→ read full articleSartre´s Children (Senryu)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Sartre´s Children
tasting winter ice cream
What a Wonderful World! (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Louis Armstrong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Composed and performed by the great Louis Armstrong–perhaps his best song ever. Enjoy.
→ read full article(Português) “Seu nível de testosterona deve ser bem baixo, já que você é vegano”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Já ouviu falar de um médico chamado Michael Greger? Ele diz que é exatamente quem consome proteína animal em excesso que corre mais riscos de ter baixos níveis de testosterona. Claro, a não ser quem mantenha uma alta ingestão de esteroides, de sintéticos.
→ read full articleOn the Intransitive Objects of the Social (or Human) Sciences
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Jan 2017 – When Roy Bhaskar first introduced his concept of intransitive objects of knowledge in A Realist Theory of Science, his first examples of such objects were the specific gravity of mercury, the process of electrolysis, the mechanism of light propagation, sound and heavy bodies falling to earth. Such objects would continue to exist in a world where there was no science to know them. In such a world, which has existed in the past and which might come again, the causal laws that science has now discovered would prevail in the absence of knowledge of them.
→ read full articleAgony of Mother Earth: World’s Forests Depleted for Fuel (II)
Baher Kamal – Other News,
22 May 2017
Humankind is the biggest ever predator of natural resources. Just take the case of forests, the real lungs of Mother Earth, and learn that every 60 seconds humans cut down 15 hectares of trees primarily for food or energy production. And that as much as 45,000 hectares of rainforest are cleared for every million kilos of beef exported from South America.
→ read full articleYou (and Almost Everyone You Know) Owe Your Life to This Man
Robert Krulwich | National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Temperament matters. Especially when nuclear weapons are involved. The world owes an enormous debt to a quiet, steady Russian naval officer who probably saved my life. And yours. And everyone you know. Even those of you who weren’t yet born. I want to tell his story…
→ read full articleBaby Elephants, Bound and Broken: How Circuses Train Elephants (with pictures)
PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Join an elephant trainer as he takes us through the process of how he, alongside many other trainers, forced elephants to learn how to perform unnatural tricks for “entertainment.” This barbaric and violent training process goes on in secret, out of the public’s view and completely unmonitored by any federal, state, or local law-enforcement agency.
→ read full articleHow the US Empire Was Made in North Korea
Niall Bradley | Signs of the Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
I recently read The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia by James Bradley, a breathtaking panorama of US and Chinese trajectories from the Opium Wars in the mid-19th century to the birth of ‘Communist’ China and ‘Pax Americana’ a hundred years later. This naturally encompassed US involvement in Korea, so in this article I’d like to share some historical context that is either incomplete or missing from summaries of US-Korean relations I’ve seen online so far.
→ read full articleRelevance of Lord Ram for Truth, Peace and Harmony
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Among the Hindu gods and deities Lord Krishna and Lord Ram are perhaps the most popular ones all over the world. The gospel and teachings of Krishna have been spread by several international organisations including ISKCON-International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi was a deeply religious person and lived by the ideals of Gita and Ramayan. When he was shot on 30 January 1948, the last words he uttered before he passed away were “He Ram”.
→ read full articleRadical Love
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Perhaps people in the social justice movements don’t notice. The feelings of solidarity that can arise within movements can mask the ways hate for one’s opposition depletes the soul. More obvious is the effect within the opposition. Sensing hate from the movement, their hearts close off, the deficiency of love drops further, and they lash out violently, entrenching in defense of their actions.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
May 22-28 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it—always.” —Mahatma Gandhi
→ read full articleThe Last Love Song
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Crawling along the bloody side of a road
Among rotting leaves
I cannot reach you
And sing my last love song.
The Deal Trump Should Strike with Putin
Jeffrey Tayler | Quillette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
If Trump chooses not to pursue détente with Russia and continues with the current policy, then he would do well to recall Kissinger’s words: “the test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins.” He might also want to reflect on what President John F. Kennedy said in 1963, after the nearly catastrophic Cuban Missile Crisis: “Above all, while defending our vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.” The détente outlined above would allow us to lessen the risk of such a confrontation.
→ read full articleWhat Next for Brazil’s Decaying Kleptocracy?
Dawisson Belem Lopes – Al Jazeera,
22 May 2017
Temer’s popularity hardly reaches two digits in reliable opinion polls. Social policies are being downsized. Foreign policy chiefs are failing to explore some new windows of opportunity, insisting on same old formulas. Brazil looks desperately in need of a new beginning, of a fresh start. Very unfortunately though, political options seem scarce, vicious and chronically unfeasible. Nobody can predict what move is coming up next, but only one thing is for sure: this story is to be continued.
→ read full articleNew Convention Targets Illicit Trade in Artifacts from War Zones
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
An international convention targeting the illicit trade in cultural artifacts took effect on Friday [19 May 2017]; a move to curb what is regarded as a major source of funding to militant groups in conflict zones. The treaty aims to close loopholes and enable more effective cross-border cooperation in investigating, prosecuting and sentencing persons.
→ read full articleGreedier Than Thou
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.
→ read full articleTrump in Bethlehem
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
20 May 2017 – President Trump is in Saudi Arabia where he will instruct his puppets then go to apartheid Israel where get further instructions from his masters. He will do a token visit to Bethlehem Tuesday [23 May] and desecrate the city of the Prince of Peace with his entourage of racist Zionists. I wish I was there to join demonstrations against this symbol of hypocrisy (I am still in Europe).
→ read full articleVulture Capitalists Fight over Pickings from Bankrupt Puerto Rico
Rafael Azul | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Federal US court proceedings began May 17 in San Juan on Puerto Rico’s $123 billion bankruptcy. As with the Detroit bankruptcy of 2013-2014, the island faces privatization and cutbacks that will exacerbate a mass wave of emigration and further sink its economy into depression. They may be fighting over who will be first in line to be paid, but they all agree that workers, pensioners and the poor will have to sacrifice their jobs and living standards.
→ read full articleFraming Global Transformation through the Polyhedral Merkabah
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Neglected Implicit Cognitive Cycles in Viable Complex Systems – Despite the widely commented implications of a post-truth era, few would deny the fact that the unresolved issues between the Abrahamic religions continue to inspire violence — with no end in sight. This encourages major investment in armaments and the development and deployment of military forces.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Disturbo da Esuberanza Post-Gloria (PGED)
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Questo si apre al comportamentismo : evitare il trauma, cercare la gloria. Ma l’idea va più in profondità. Un trauma grave e ripetuto comporta un disturbo da stress, non solo stress. Una gloria intensa e ripetuta può comportare un disturbo da esuberanza: facciamo altre guerre per mietere altre vittorie! Non solo per difesa!
→ read full articleEmergency Declared at Nuclear Waste Site in Washington State
Stefanie Spear | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
The Department of Energy declared an emergency Tuesday [9 May 2017] at a plutonium-handling facility at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State after a tunnel partly collapsed. Hundreds of Workers were told to evacuate or take cover as officials responded to reports of “a cave-in of a 20 foot section of a tunnel that is hundreds of feet long that is used to store contaminated materials.”
→ read full articleBig Pharma’s Pollution Is Creating Deadly Superbugs while the World Looks the Other Way
Madlen Davies – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
15 May 2017
6 May 2017- Industrial pollution from Indian pharmaceutical companies making medicines for nearly all the world’s major drug companies is fuelling the creation of deadly superbugs, suggests new research. Global health authorities have no regulations in place to stop this happening.
→ read full articlePolitics, Power, Peril: Twenty-Four Assumptions for Discussion and Debate ©
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
I offer these 24 assumptions regarding politics, power, and peril to promote both public-forum and education-setting discussion and debate. World populations have now consciousness of the consequences of power asymmetries, especially preservation of entrenched financial interests through endless wars and military occupations by cabalistic Western powers. Cui Bono?
→ read full articleLament of the Child Soldier
Evelyn Voigt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Can you imagine pointing a gun at a child? Let alone forcing a child at gun point to lead killers to raid his home? Sad but true for captured child soldiers in Northern Uganda. A working trip to the region in 2004 tore from me these words, as I tried to put myself in the child’s bare feet.
→ read full articleA Murderous History of Korea
Bruce Cumings | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
How does a puffed-up, vainglorious narcissist, whose every other word may well be a lie (that applies to both of them, Trump and Kim Jong-un), come not only to hold the peace of the world in his hands but perhaps the future of the planet?
→ read full articleRich Celebrities vs. Individual Struggles for the Protection of Society
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
On one hand we have the celebrities selling one product or another; on the other hand we have millions of people suffering from hunger, disease, indebtedness, unemployment and violence of various types. A third category – a miniscule one — the so called do-gooders who work for the betterment of the society in one way or another. We also have the religious gurus who talk about spirituality and bring solace and hope to the millions of people.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Politica interna mondiale”
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Un’attenzione mondiale per le comunità più miserevoli, risollevare la parte di umanità più a fondo, questo è il mondo solidaristico di cui abbiamo bisogno. Fare questo sarebbe già Weltinnenpolitik. Oggi, non aspettando 50 e più anni.
→ read full articleLeaked NSA Malware Is Helping Hijack Computers around the World
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
15 May 2017
12 May 2017 – In mid-April, an arsenal of powerful software tools apparently designed by the NSA to infect and control Windows computers was leaked by an entity known only as the “Shadow Brokers.” Not even a whole month later, the hypothetical threat that criminals would use the tools against the general public has become real, and tens of thousands of computers worldwide are now crippled by an unknown party demanding ransom.
→ read full articleThe Universal Lesson of the Courage of East Timor
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
On 5 May 2017, John Pilger was presented with the Order of Timor-Leste by East Timor’s Ambassador to Australia, Abel Gutteras, in recognition of his reporting on East Timor under Indonesia’s brutal occupation, especially his landmark documentary film, Death of a Nation: the Timor Conspiracy. This was John Pilger’s response.
→ read full articleRadiation Disaster in Washington State – Evacuations Ordered – No Fly Zone Imposed
Newsroom | Superstation 95 NYC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
9 May 2017 – A train tunnel containing radioactive fuel rods and other highly radioactive products has COLLAPSED at the Hanford Nuclear Site. Employees have been evacuated,the “Emergency Operations Center” has been activated; and now, the Federal Aviation Administration has imposed a NO-FLY ZONE 5 miles in all directions from the site.
→ read full article
Amar Pelos Dois [Portugal] (Music Video of the Week)
Salvador Sobral | Eurovision 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
May 13, 2017 – Portugal wins the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time at the 62nd event held in Kyiv, Ukraine. Two videos: The official music video from Eurovision and another with the song’s lyrics in Portuguese and English.
→ read full articleBDS Movement Calls for Solidarity Actions as Palestinian Prisoners Enter Fourth Week of Hunger Strike
Palestinian BDS National Committee | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media,
15 May 2017
9 May 2017 – Today, the mass hunger strike by Palestinians in Israeli prisons is in its critical fourth week, at which point the hundreds of hunger strikers may find standing up difficult or impossible. The BNC is confident that this hunger strike demanding dignity and freedom will further nourish nonviolent popular resistance to Israeli injustice and advance the BDS movement’s aspirations for freedom, justice and equality.
→ read full articleMyanmar Army Allegedly Left Rohingya Refugees with Bullet Wounds and Burns
Emanuel Stoakes – The Guardian,
15 May 2017
Shocking photographic evidence showing children among the injured adds weight to claims that military committed atrocities against Rohingya people.
→ read full articleNobel Women‘s Initiative Conference: 14-16 May 2017 – Monchengladbech, Germany
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
A global feminist resistance – its evolution and revolution – adapting to thrive!
→ read full articleThe Cucumber and the Cactus (A Palestinian Christian Story)
Mazin Qumsiyeh | A Human Rights Web – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
We cling to the hope and the certainty that, just as happened in South Africa, we shall someday live together in this small place called the Land of Canaan/the Holy Land. Jews, Christians, Muslims and others all did live together for hundreds of years before Britain and the great powers adopted Zionism. Then the rains that filter through the soil in which my grandfather and his Jewish friend are both buried will also nourish new fields of faqoos, sweet cucumbers, and thriving cactus.
→ read full articleConflict-sensitive Repatriation
Tatsushi Arai | ACCORD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Lessons from Displaced Communities in Northeastern Nigeria
→ read full articleWestern Reporters in Kiev Continue to Ignore the Rise of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
Bryan MacDonald – Russia Today,
15 May 2017
Since the 2013 protests in Kiev’s Maidan square there’s been a problem with what Western readers are consuming about Ukraine. The reluctance of Kiev-based hacks (and plenty in Moscow too) to call a neo-Nazi, a neo-Nazi. Instead, we read terms like “nationalists,”“right sector,”“patriots” and “militants.” And it’s rarely explained how these headbangers are the tail wagging the government dog.
→ read full articleInside the Syrian War and Its Legal Ramifications: One-on-One with Dr. Franklin Lamb
Syrian Law Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
The Syrian Law Journal took great interest in interviewing Dr. Franklin Lamb. He has served as Professor of International Law at Northwestern College of Law, as Assistant Counsel to the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, a member of the Judicial Council of the Democratic National Committee, and on the presidential campaign staff of the late Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Dr. Lamb has extensive experience in Middle East politics and has traveled widely throughout Syria since 2013.
→ read full articleThe Joyful Economy
Gus Speth | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
In this essay, I will explore the transition from a Joyless Economy to a Joyful one. In the Joyful Economy, the goal of economic life is to sustain, nourish, and restore human and natural communities, so that the material and non-material blessings of life are available to all. It is a new system of political economy that gives true and honest priority not to profit, production, and power but rather to people, place, and planet. Its watchword is caring—caring for each other, for the natural world, and for the future. I will argue that promoting the transition to such a new political economy should be the central task of a new environmentalism.
→ read full articleAfrican Migrants Bought and Sold Openly in ‘Slave Markets’ in Libya
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
15 May 2017
9 May 2017 – Hundreds of migrants along North African migration routes are being bought and sold openly in modern day ‘slave markets’ in Libya, survivors have told the United Nations migration agency, which warned that these reports “can be added to a long list of outrages” in the country. The International Criminal Court is now considering investigating.
→ read full articleElon Musk: You Can Now Pre-Order Tesla’s Solar Roof Tiles
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
10 May 2017 — Elon Musk announced via Twitter this morning that Tesla is opening orders for the company’s highly anticipated solar roof tiles. Musk said that the black smooth glass and textured glass tiles will be available for order. The Tuscan and French slate styles will be available in about six months.
→ read full articleChild Soldiers Reloaded: The Privatisation of War
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
1 May 2017 – From opportunistic guns for hire on the fringe of domestic conflicts to a global force operating within a multibillion-dollar industry – the private military sector seems to be flourishing. How private companies recruit former child soldiers for military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
→ read full articleMissing: Political Creativity
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Overfed with the developed-developing dichotomy, many believe that the former have no problems whereas the latter have only problems. Much better is a Yin-Yang perspective: something is missing in all; something has been accomplished by all. The limitation is in our limited political imagination. Grow so that world visions will open up in our minds, shared with others in new speeches, enacted in new acts. We can if we will. And we will if we imagine.
→ read full articleMonsanto PCBs May Leave Orca Pod ‘Doomed to Extinction’
Carey Wedler – MintPress News,
15 May 2017
The Guardian reported last Tuesday [9 May] that Lulu, the full-grown whale who died, “was a member of the UK’s last resident pod and a postmortem also showed she had never produced a calf. The pollutants, called PCBs, cause infertility and these latest findings add to strong evidence that the pod is doomed to extinction.” The levels of PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, found in Lulu’s blubber were “more than 100 times the 9mg/kg limit above which damage to the health of marine mammals is known to occur.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
May 15-21 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” – Earl Nightingale
→ read full articleIs Aluminum Foil Safe to Use in Cooking?
Helen West | Authority Nutrition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
5 May 2017 – Aluminum foil is a common household product that’s often used in cooking. Some claim that using aluminum foil in cooking can cause aluminum to seep into your food and put your health at risk. However, others say it’s entirely safe to use.
→ read full articleMonsanto Hires Internet Trolls to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk
Josh Gay | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
11 May 2017 — Internet trolls, paid for by Monsanto, have been scouring the internet to hide the ugly truth about the herbicide Roundup and the dangers of glyphosate, while the chemical giant worked with government regulators to declare the product safe to use, even though it “probably” causes cancer.
→ read full article(Italiano) Politica: Fantastica Intervista (Satira)
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
– Mi rallegro, Presidente, lei ha stravinto….
– Ma cosa c’è da rallegrarsi, le pare una cosa allegra?
– Come dice, scusi?
– Dico che è un incarico, non un gioco. Poi non è il caso di parlare di vittoria.
These Nuclear Breakthroughs Are Endangering the World
Conn Hallinan | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
How a growing technology gap between the U.S. and its nuclear-armed rivals could lead to the unraveling of arms control agreements — and even nuclear war.
→ read full article(Français) Israël-Arabie Saoudite: une alliance solide
Stefano Mauro | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
L’alliance entre Israël et l’Arabie Saoudite au Moyen-Orient continue d’évoluer rapidement au niveau de convergences géopolitiques, militaires et économiques. Si, il y a seulement quelques mois, les premiers médias du Moyen Orient et de l’Europe ont commencé à évoquer des relations et des contacts entre les deux Etats, il est clair qu’il s’agit maintenant d’une véritable normalisation des relations entre Israël et les Saoudiens, mais aussi d’une alliance politique et militaires avec des réunions et des contacts plus fréquents.
→ read full articleMalcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
→ read full articleIs Reconciliation Working in Rwanda?
John Oryang | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
13 May 2017 – The 1994 genocide in Rwanda claimed nearly 800,000 lives. Now, over 20 years later, the country is still healing. Peace News traveled to Rwanda to hear from the next generation about their views of the country’s violent past, and their dreams for Rwanda.
→ read full articleRed Cross Demands Access to Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
An international humanitarian aid group has asked the government of Myanmar to give it access to help the Muslim Rohingya community in the county’s troubled Rakhine State. According to a report issued by the UN last month, Myanmar’s forces have committed mass killings and gang rapes against the Rohingyas.
→ read full articleVault 7: AfterMidnight & Assassin Frameworks
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Today, May 12th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes “AfterMidnight” and “Assassin”, two CIA malware frameworks for the Microsoft Windows platform. “AfterMidnight” allows operators to dynamically load and execute malware payloads on a target machine. “Assassin” is a similar kind of malware; it is an automated implant that provides a simple collection platform on remote computers.
→ read full articleUS Bandwagon Gets Further Exposed on Myanmar Alignment amidst Rohingya Genocide
TamilNet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Ms Yanghee Lee, has said that the institutional persecution “indicates the government may be trying to expel the Rohingya population from the country altogether” and she demanded an international level probe. Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Sung Kyi, who is the de facto leader of Myanmar government has refuted the UN report. The USA, the EU and the UK have avoided taking a stand on the investigations and are apparently backing Myanmar to evade international pressure due to their geopolitical interests.
→ read full articleThe Sparrows Fight without Stay
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
The sparrows fight without stay
Looking for crumbs of bread…
Peace Is Like an Olive Tree
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Building peace takes time. There is no easy way. It is easier to start a war.
→ read full article(Português) A triste história dos chimpanzés torturados em pesquisas que sobreviveram a guerras, à fome e ao abandono
Aline Khouri - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
15 May 2017
Os chimpanzés vivem em seis ilhas da Libéria. Diariamente, aguardam à beira da água, enquanto um barco que transporta três homens chega com provisões: coco, milho, bananas, papaia picada, mangas,…
→ read full articleAn NSA-Derived Ransomware Worm Is Shutting Down Computers Worldwide
Dan Goodin | Ars Technica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
12 May 2017 – A highly virulent new strain of self-replicating ransomware shut down computers all over the world, in part by appropriating a National Security Agency exploit that was publicly released last month by the mysterious group calling itself Shadow Brokers.
→ read full articleSense of Ridicule Anyone?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Like an Alcoholic Making Fun of a Drunkard…
→ read full articleFrank Baum (15 May 1856 – 6 May 1919): The Father of the Wizard of Oz
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
As with all myths, the story can be read at different levels. However, Frank Baum had a strong interest in Asian thought, and a spiritual reading of the myth is not adding something that was not consciously there.
→ read full articleWhy the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters
Kazu Haga | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
When people talk about nonviolence in the context of social change, they’re typically talking about nonviolent organizing, nonviolent direct action, nonviolent civil resistance; arenas where the word “nonviolence” is only an adjective describing the absence of physical violence within a set of tactics and strategies. The philosophy of nonviolence and the moral question of violence are often considered too messy or complicated, even by those who do believe it to be a principle.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Jewish Nation-State Bill ‘Declaration of War’
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
New legislation to cement the definition of Israel as a state belonging exclusively to Jews around the world is a “declaration of war” on Palestinian citizens of Israel, the minority’s leaders have warned. Critics are also concerned that the Jewish Nation-State Bill is intended to stymie prospects of reviving peace talks with the Palestinians in the occupied territories.
→ read full articleAthens: Anarchists Attack Business Known for Preying on the Poor
Anarchist Collective Rouvikonas | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
In broad daylight anarchists in Athens attacked an auction house known for selling off the homes of poor families in debt. Communiqué below.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il primo movimento contro le dighe – in India quasi un secolo fa
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
15 May 2017
Una storia del passato. Come segnale della transizione da una società agraria a una società industrializzata, il Mulshi satyagraha anticipava molti dei moderni movimenti di protesta.
→ read full article(Português) C. David Coats e a ilusão dos animais felizes por “darem” carne, leite e ovos à humanidade
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Lançado em 1989, o livro Old MacDonald’s Factory Farm é bastante atual sobre a realidade da exploração animal.
→ read full articleIn the Sea Still (Haiku)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
In the sea still
a boat to the westward
evening sun
(Português) O chamado “abate humanitário” não é um retrato tão comum da realidade
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
A privação termina somente com a morte após uma curta vida de exploração.
→ read full articleHow to Stay Empathic without Suffering So Much
Amy L. Eva | The Greater Good, University of California Berkeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Here are four steps to transform your empathic distress into a healthier, more helpful, and more sustainable form of empathy.
→ read full articleIsrael’s New Cultural War of Aggression
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
A Small Battleground in a Large Culture War – The real institutional scandal is not that the UN is obsessed with Israel but rather that it is blocked from taking action that might exert sufficient pressure on Israel to induce the dismantling of apartheid structures relied upon to subjugate, displace, and dispossess the Palestinian people over the course of more than 70 years with no end in sight.
→ read full articleGrowing Inequality under Global Capitalism
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
8 May 2017
4 May 2017 – Income and wealth inequality has increased in recent decades, but recognition of the role of economic liberalization and globalization in exacerbating inequality has never been so widespread. The guardians of global capitalism are nervous, yet little has been done to check, let alone reverse the underlying forces.
→ read full articleLet’s Call Western Media Coverage of Syria by Its Real Name: Propaganda
Michael Howard – Paste Magazine,
8 May 2017
26 Apr 2017 – In his essential study of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, University of Kent Professor Richard Sakwa writes that, somewhere down the road, Western media’s reductive, ideological coverage of the conflict “will undoubtedly become the subject of many an intriguing academic study.” That’s if the human race isn’t wiped out by environmental catastrophe or nuclear holocaust first.
→ read full article(Français) Le Portugal, l’Union Européenne et l’Euro – interview avec João Ferreira
Ricardo Vaz | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
3 Mai 2017 – Au Portugal, un changement de gouvernement après les élections législatives de 2015 a mis fin à l’austérité imposée par la troïka ce qui a permis un revirement de certaines politiques. Mais des problèmes structurels persistent en raison de la nature de l’UE et de ses mécanismes, en particulier la monnaie unique. Pour discuter de la situation politique au Portugal, nous avons interviewé João Ferreira du Parti Communiste Portugais; il est membre du Comité Central du PCP, conseiller municipal à Lisbonne et deux fois élu au Parlement européen.
→ read full articleScientists and Sea Shepherd Team on Humpback Whale Research and Microplastics in Ocean
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
26 Apr 20917 – Sea Shepherd joined forces with a group of scientists last month to conduct research on two separate projects off the coast of Mexico: humpback whales and ocean plastics.
→ read full articleKorea: Leading to War?
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Given the gravity of the situation, ASEAN could perhaps have been a little more proactive. It should have rejected any military solution and argued for a negotiated diplomatic settlement of the conflict. For negotiations to begin there will have to be some preliminary gestures from both sides. North Korea should suspend all nuclear and missile tests while the US and South Korea should halt their joint military exercises.
→ read full articleKorean Tensions: Could They Slip out of Control?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
While tensions in the past have been managed by diplomatic discussions or changes in policy, there are always dangers that conflict management may fail due to miscalculations, misinterpretations of military moves, misinterpretations of aims and strategies. The misinterpretations and the failures of conflict management were important factors in the start of the Korean War in 1950 as well as the intervention of Chinese “volunteer” troops.
→ read full articleTreating India’s Suicidal Farmers
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
For every Indian farmer who takes his own life, a family is hounded by the debt he leaves behind, typically resulting in children dropping out of school to become farmhands. The Indian government’s response to the crisis—largely in the form of limited debt relief and compensation programs—has failed to address the magnitude and scope of the problem or its underlying causes.
→ read full articleUnited States Says ‘Yes’ to Nuclear Weapons Tests, ‘No’ to a Nuke Ban Treaty
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
7 May 2017 – Twice in seven days the United States shot nuclear-capable long-range missiles toward the Marshall Islands, but the same government refused in March to join negotiations for a new treaty banning nuclear weapons. US military: “We are prepared to use nuclear weapons.”
→ read full articleStephen Hawking Says Humans Have 100 Years to Move to another Planet
Julia Zorthian - Time,
8 May 2017
4 May 2017 – Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has already asserted that humans need to colonize a new planet soon — and now he’s arguing that we need to start within 100 years to keep the species alive.
→ read full articleNavigating System Transition in a Volatile Century
Michael T. Lewis | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
There is a blessed unrest roiling across the planet; millions of creative, innovative, indignant, dedicated, hopeful individuals are cogitating, communicating, animating, educating, innovating, agitating, and advocating for change. Banding together in diverse groups, organizations and movements, they are trying to figure out how to navigate the unprecedented economic, social, ecological and cultural challenges of the twenty-first century.
→ read full articleTwo Koreas: History at a Glance
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
A brief history of how North and South Korea got to where they are today.
→ read full articleThe Arts-based Approach in Peace Work: Dynamic Peace and Dynamic Art (2016)
Kyoko Okumoto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
To understand the concept of peace within the context of action, this paper proposes a new definition, “dynamic peace” as opposed to “static peace.” The “actors” play the role of dynamic peace workers. Within this approach, “dynamic art” may be defined as “art that reveals and highlights conflict.” This arts-based approach is enriched by creative dialogue, and its actors become peace workers who are in essence “citizen artists.” The analysis is based on the methods and theories of Johan Galtung, and his TRANSCEND Theory is applied here to the relation between the arts and society.
→ read full articleWe Shall Remain
Tawfiq Zayyad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
It is a thousand times easier For you
To pass an elephant through the needle’s eye
To catch fried fish in the Milky Way
To plow the sea
(Português) Dieta sem glúten para pessoas sem doença celíaca pode ser prejudicial
Cesar Baima – O Globo,
8 May 2017
Pesquisa mostra relação entre baixa ingestão destes alimentos e doenças cardíacas.
→ read full articleWar: Missing from Public Response to Trump, but Urgent
Marc Pilisuk, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
26 Apr 2017 – The US air strikes in Syria last week were conducted without Congressional authorization. As American warships move into the Korean peninsula and the isolated North Korean military regime refuses to be unilaterally defanged, we move closer to an exchange of hostilities. When bombs fly sane precautions disappear. The time to protest war is now.
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Johan Galtung’s PEACE FORMULA
Niamh O'Connor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Positive Peace – What Is That?
→ read full articleWhy Do North Koreans Hate Us? One Reason: They Remember the Korean War
Mehdi Hasan – The Intercept,
8 May 2017
3 May 2017 – “Why do they hate us?” It’s a question that has bewildered Americans again and again in the wake of 9/11, in reference to the Arab and Muslim worlds. These days, however, it’s a question increasingly asked about the reclusive North Koreans.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
May 8-14 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
→ read full article(Français) Venezuela : C’est Tout le Contraire
Pascualina Curcio | 15yultimo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
2 Mai 2017 – Devant les actes de violence organisés par des agents locaux qui cherchent à déstabiliser le pays économiquement, socialement et politiquement, le président de la République (en plein exercice de ses fonctions, dans le cadre d’un mandat de 6 ans) a invité les secteurs de l’opposition à un dialogue pour la paix. L’opposition n’a pas répondu à l’appel, elle préfère organiser des violences dans la rue.
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Occupation of the American Mind – Video Documentary
Media Education Foundation | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
March 2017 – Occupation of American media and mind by a pro-Israel narrative that has diverted attention from conflict resolution: end the occupation and the settlements so that Palestinians can finally have a state of their own. Narrator: Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)
→ read full articleKilled for Their Bones: The Trade in Human Body Parts of Albinos in Africa
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
April 2017 – In Malawi, people with albinism are being killed and their bodies harvested; children and adults hacked to death with machetes and kitchen knives. More than 115 people have been attacked in the past two years, at least 20, fatally. Those who have survived have been left with deep physical and psychological scars, and remain fearful that those who hunt them will return.
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Un Amore Cosi’ Grande (Music Video of the Week)
Il Volo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Ignazio Boschetto (18 y.o.), Piero Barone (19), Gianluca Ginoble (18)
IL VOLO – Magnifique!
Balfour’s Legacy: The Destruction of Palestine
Dr Salman Abu Sitta – Middle East Monitor,
8 May 2017
Author Salman Abu Sitta addressed the UK’s House of Lords on 28 Mar 2017 to discuss the Balfour Declaration and its consequences on the Palestinians. This year marks a century since the document was signed and the future of the State of Palestine was sealed.
→ read full articlePalestinian Hunger Strikers Cut Off from Communication
Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
2 May 2017 – As Palestinian prisoners enter day 16 of their mass hunger strike, Israeli authorities are said to be obstructing negotiations and severely impeding communication from the strikers to the outside world. As many as 1,600 Palestinians are refusing food in protest of ill treatment by Israeli prison authorities, including medical neglect and reduction of family visits.
→ read full articleThe Hypocrisy of the Religious Slaughter Ban
Mimi Bekhechi – Al Jazeera,
8 May 2017
The idea of humane slaughter is a myth and a religious slaughter ban cannot end animal suffering. Going vegan can. The meat, egg and dairy industries are hell on earth for animals, and we already have the power to put an end to this misery simply by choosing to eat plant-based meals.
→ read full articleThe Post Glory Exuberance Disorder-PGED
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
This opens for behaviorism: avoid trauma, seek glory. But the idea is deeper. Deep-repeated trauma leads to stress disorder, not only stress. Deep-repeated glory may lead to exuberance disorder: let us have more wars to enjoy more victories! Not only for defense!
→ read full articleA Buddhist Bookstore
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
A husband and wife grew increasingly apart. The husband, a businessman selling bicycles, brought his accounting books home and pored over red and black figures in the evening. His wife, who had become increasingly interested in her spiritual life and was fascinated with Buddhism, felt disgusted by her husband’s materialism.
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