Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The End of M.A.D. — The Beginning of Madness
Eric Zuesse | The Saker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Mutually Assured Destruction, or M.A.D., isn’t only a reality in a nuclearly armed multipolar world, but it is also a mass-psychology, of belief that there cannot be any winner of a nuclear war. But the concept that we are all in this together is gone in the West. If it doesn’t exist in both the West and the ‘East’ (namely, in Russia, where it does exist), then a nuclear war is extremely likely, and the real question is: When will it be likeliest to happen?
→ read full article(Português) Touradas em Portugal
Cláudia Vantacich | RiseUp Portugal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Reportagem espectacular sobre touradas. Todos os argumentos, todos os factos, todas as razões num brilhante trabalho.
→ read full articleStatement on Massacre of LGBTQI and Latino Community Members in Orlando, USA
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
“In loving memory of all who were killed, we pledge not to seek revenge or hatred, but to work for reconciliation and building peaceful ways of living together in all our diversity and plurality as the one human family sharing our one world equally together.”
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(Português) As Touradas: Violência, Crueldade, Ignorância, Futilidade – A Vergonha de Portugal
Cláudia Vantacich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
“A etologia como ramo da zoologia, explica que o comportamento não é determinado pela genética, mas pelo ambiente e interacções do animal. Ou seja, independentemente das características genéticas, o seu comportamento será sempre condicionado, em última análise, pelo propósito e personalidade de quem os cria, tal como acontece com os cães.”
→ read full articleBridges, Not Walls, Foster Peace and Security as Refugees Arrive
Jeff Pugh | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Calls for the exclusion of refugees ignore basic principles of human dignity while undermining the goal of keeping citizens safe. Extremists have used video clips of U.S. politicians’ xenophobic rhetoric as a recruiting tool, trying to convince Muslims that the United States will never welcome them, and that violence is the only way to deal with Westerners.
→ read full articleGeorge Orwell (Jun 25, 1903-Jan 21, 1950)
Encyclopedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
George Orwell was a novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). Aldous Huxley was one of his masters. He worked between bouts of hospitalization for tuberculosis, of which he died in a London hospital.
→ read full articleEnjoy These 10 Detox Water Recipes All Year Long!
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Detox water is basically water infused with fruits, vegetables, and/or herbs. Sometimes called infused water, many people use it as part of a body detox strategy. I know many people who don’t enjoy drinking water. Some say it’s tasteless and dull. That’s what makes detox water so excellent. It adds flavor to plain water while also infusing key, beneficial nutrients.
→ read full articleUndeterred: Amid Terror Attacks in Europe, US H-bombs Still Deployed There
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
A little more than 60 miles from Brussels airport, Kleine Brogel Air Base is one of six European sites where the United States still stores active nuclear weapons; these bombs “evade public attention to the extent that a post-terror attack nuclear scare in Belgium can occur without the bombs even being mentioned.” Today, only 180 — out of more than 7000 US nukes once deployed in Europe — are still kept at the ready: in Belgium, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, and Turkey. Soviet nuclear weapons have even been removed from Eastern Europe.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Interim President Temer Named in Petrobras Kickback Scandal
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
With the surfacing Wednesday [15 Jun] of charges that Brazil’s interim president, Michel Temer, solicited bribes in return for contracts with the state-run oil conglomerate Petrobras, the right-wing regime installed through the drive to impeach Workers Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff has been thrown into deeper crisis.
→ read full articleLegalized Tyranny: India’s Armed Forces Special Powers Act
Hasnat Sheikh | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
12 Jun 2016 – Thousands of extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, mass graves and recurrent incidents of violence brushed under the carpet away from plain sight. Under the power of the world’s largest democracy, an organized system of institutionalized violence has evolved, specifically in the occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Jun 20-26 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coelho
→ read full articleStanding Firm for Reform at the American Psychological Association
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016 – Abolitionist and preacher Frederick Douglass once warned, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will.” Feminist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde similarly advised, “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Their words are worth remembering as we now witness a coordinated campaign of intimidation, deception, and obfuscation targeting the American Psychological Association’s recent efforts to right its ship and institute meaningful ethical reforms in national security contexts.
→ read full articleThe Federal Reserve Cartel (Part 6): The Solution
Dean Henderson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
This same cabal of trillionaire money changers – mysteriously immune from their own calls for “broad sacrifice” – utilizes the debt lever to ring concessions from the people of Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and now the United States. In their never-ending quest to subjugate the planet, the bankers’ IMF enforcer – chronic harasser of Third World governments – has turned its sites on the developed world.
→ read full articleWhy Go to Russia?
Kathy Kelly | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
“Prior to the Wall’s removal, President Reagan assured Secretary General Gorbachev that if he would support bringing down the Wall separating East and West Berlin, NATO would not move ‘a finger’s width’ closer to Russia than East Germany’s border. With this assurance Gorbachev gladly signed on. Little could he or the world have guessed that this promise would soon be broken during the next administration – and that the redeveloping distrust between the countries would threaten to become a second Cold War, due to NATO’s expansion up to Russia’s borders.”
→ read full articleIt’s Time for Transparency in the US Lethal Drone Program
Rachel Stohl | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Civilian casualties have raised a number of legal and ethical questions regarding use of this technology, particularly outside of active combat zones. Central to this debate is the secrecy surrounding the US lethal drone program, including a lack of official information on casualty figures and accountability for mistakes.
→ read full articleMessage to the Wall
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Dear Wall,
Your polished surface deceives.
You appear serene, yet you are bursting with anguish and lost potential.
Pathways of Transition to Agroecological Food Systems
Adam Parsons | Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
A new report by leading sustainability experts has reaffirmed the case for a paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems – fundamental to which is a call for redistributing power back into the hands of those who feed the world.
→ read full articleMass Karma
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
On the battlefield you are supposed to try to kill a person whom you’ve never met before. You are shooting because he is wearing the enemy uniform. Under official circumstances, we glorify this sort of behavior. And this glory permeates the American social structure, creating a sort of standing permission for every troubled individual — every potential army of one — to wage war against a self-perceived wrong.
→ read full articleQueerness and the Next System: Opening Up the Discussion on Homosexuality
Erik Lampmann | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
12 Jun 2016 – For centuries, the erasure of LGBTQ people from public policy has been the norm. Trapped within the confines of our closets by regimes of sexual and gender conformity enforced by brutal violence, sterilization, and incarceration, LGBTQ people have long been denied formal political agency, legal recognition, and the ability to live as our full, authentic selves. It can be tempting to forget that, even in 2016, a presupposition of heterosexuality remains an integral component of the cultural firmament.
→ read full articleAssembly Line & Automation Works
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Two people went along a road with pick and shovel.
→ read full articleThe Confessions of Brock Turner and a Culture of Punishment
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
18 Jun 2016 – The sentencing of a convicted sex offender has recently become a topic of much discussion in the U.S. media, with the focus on the perceived leniency of the punishment and the perpetrator’s refusal to admit guilt. Generally not discussed are the deep assumptions that have elevated punishment to the first priority of the criminal justice system.
→ read full articleNATO Threatens Europe with Annihilation
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
18 Jun 2016 – NATO is supposed to be a defensive alliance, whose purpose is to “protect Europe from aggression”; but today it is an aggressive tool of the United States. In recent years, participation in NATO has made European countries accomplices in US efforts to achieve global hegemony by means of military force, in violation of international law, and especially in violation of the UN Charter, the Nuremberg Principles.
→ read full articleState Department Draft Dissent Memo on Syria
The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
17Jun 2016 – In a draft version of a dissent memo filed with the State Department’s senior leadership, dozens of diplomats and other mid-level officials called for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. The document was provided to The Times by a State Department official on condition that the names of the signers not be published.
→ read full articleUN Security Council Agrees to Military Intervention off Libyan Coast
Marianne Arens | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
20 Jun 2016 – Last week, the UN Security Council in New York adopted unanimously a resolution which empowered European member states to search all ships off the Libyan coast for weapons and munitions. With the passage of this resolution, a new war in Libya draws ever closer.
→ read full articleEthiopia-Eritrea: The Cry of the Imburi
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
The frontier issue between the two countries was taken for arbitration to the World Court, but the Court’s findings have not been put into practice. The lands contested are of no particular economic or social importance. Intelligent leadership on both sides could make of the frontier lands a bridge rather than a wall, but intelligent leadership has been in short supply. As the African Union headquarters is in Ethiopia, the AU secretariat has been inactive on the Ethiopia-Eritrea issue for fear of displeasing Ethiopia.
→ read full articleMoney’s Reach: Brexit vs EU
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
The European Union looks thoroughly rotten – until you compare it to the alternatives. Without sufficient public scrutiny, all political systems degenerate into the service of wealth. All end up controlled by the few with the cash, not the many with the votes. So the question we at the UK face next week is this: “In which political unit can money best be resisted?” We do not release ourselves from the power of money by leaving the EU. We just exchange one version for another: another that is even worse.
→ read full articleCan Suu Kyi Bring Change for Myanmar Expats?
The Nation | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
14 Jun 2016 – Aung San Suu Kyi’s stated readiness to discuss migrant issues with her counterparts here when she visits Thailand next week as state counsellor and foreign minister of Myanmar is welcome news. Optimism must be tempered, however, unless she arrives with a comprehensive plan covering not just migrant labourers but also refugees – and the benighted Rohingya in particular.
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Year of the Cat (Music Video of the Week)
Al Stewart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Official Video – A Classic of the Musical ‘70s
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Dalai Lama Urges Myanmar’s [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi to Ease Rohingya Tensions
David Brunnstrom | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has a moral responsibility to try to ease tensions between majority Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, her fellow Nobel laureate, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday [13 Jun]. “She already has the Nobel Peace Prize, a Nobel Laureate, so morally she should … make efforts to reduce this tension,” he told Reuters in an interview in Washington.
→ read full article(Italiano) Est-Asia: quattro formule per la pace
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Una gara agli armamenti nucleari. Che può anche fungere da deterrente, ma più sovente finisce in guerra. La guerra vuol dire traumi per gli sconfitti e gloria per i vincitori. La sindrome da stress post-traumatico (PTSD) può portare alla sete di rivalsa, e la PGED (sindrome da esuberanza post-gloria) alla sete di più gloria. Guerra, guerra, guerra. Peggio che mai dai tempi della 2^ guerra mondiale. L’Est-Asia ha un gran bisogno di un approccio diverso. Come minimo, i quattro compiti della formula di pace TRANSCEND: la pace negativa consistente nella riconciliazione dei traumi e nella soluzione dei conflitti; la pace positiva che si basa sulla cooperazione a
→ read full articleA Weak UN Ensures a Weak Secretary General
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
13 Jun 2016 – There are many angles of interpretation relevant to the startling admission by Ban Ki-moon that he succumbed to undisguised diplomatic pressure when removing Saudi Arabia from the ‘shame list’ of countries whose armies are found responsible the maiming and killing of children, earning them dishonorable mentioned in an annex to the annual UN report on violations of children’s rights.
→ read full articleThe Paris Peace Gambit: Everyone Gains Except the Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
8 Jun 2016 – In their defense, the Israelis seem to have figured out the whole thing and opted out. But the hapless Palestinian leadership, along with their Arab League partners, joined by the French, EU and UN representatives, and even US Secretary of State, John Kerry, decided to play along. However, the French peace initiative-turned-conference in Paris on June 3 is nothing but a charade, and they all know it, Palestinians included.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il culto del duce e l’arte del consenso. Studio preparatorio per una mostra improbabile
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
12 Giu 2016 – “Ognuno vede ciò che sa” insegnava il maestro Bruno Munari. E questo è il concetto base, il Leitmotiv, e la metodologia agiti per osservare, analizzare e decostruire, per ricostruirne il senso, oltreché per recensire l’esposizione su “Il culto del duce e l’arte del consenso, nei busti e nelle raffigurazioni di Benito Mussolini”, inaugurata a Salò, lo scorso 29 maggio.
→ read full articleJust a Trick
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Israel does not really depend on American financial aid. This aid is a luxury, not more. It needs the US veto against hostile proposals in the UN, but it can – and does – generally ignore the UN. Yet, taken all in all, Israel’s worsening international standing is worrying. Even Netanyahu is worried. Slowly but surely the world is accepting the State of Palestine as a fact of life and as a condition for peace. So Netanyahu is looking around for a new trick. And what does he see? Egypt!
→ read full articleNATO Allies Launch Large-Scale Military Exercise in Poland before Key Summit
Wiktor Szary | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
6 Jun 2016 – A large-scale military training exercise involving more than 20 NATO and partner countries kicked off in Poland on Monday [6 Jun], part of efforts to reassure east European nations rattled by Russia’s actions in nearby Ukraine.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace Index 2016
Institute for Economics & Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
This is the tenth edition of the GPI, which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. This report presents the most comprehensive analysis to date on the trends in peace and violence and includes an updated assessment of the economic value of peace and new research on the systemic nature of Positive Peace.
→ read full articleCentral African Republic: Murder by Peacekeepers
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
7 Jun 2016 – Soldiers from the Republic of Congo killed at least 18 people, including women and children, while serving as peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. Discovery of Mass Grave Provides New Evidence
→ read full article(Italiano) Islamofobia: perché sono così tanti, così spaventati
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Infatti ora, naturalmente, i musulmani sono l’obiettivo primario di questa paura e odio di se stessi proiettati, cosa che spiega la guerra dell’Occidente al Medio Oriente guidata dagli Stati Uniti. L’islamofobia quindi permette alle élite e ad altri di proiettare la loro paura e il loro odio per se stessi contro i musulmani, cosicché le élite possano poi cercare di distruggere questa paura e questo odio. Ovviamente, questo non può funzionare. Non si può distruggere la paura, sia propria che di chiunque altro. Si può tuttavia causare un danno eccezionale a coloro contro i quali sono proiettati la propria paura e il proprio odio per se stessi. Naturalmente, non c’è nulla di intelligente in questo processo.
→ read full articleIntellectual Triumph of Harmony in Collective Global Peace Science
Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
June 22, 1941 – my mom, Augusta Rumyantseva, 21 years, with me two days newborn in a maternity hospital in Grodno, on the USSR western border, at 4 o’clock in the morning wakes up from the horrible Nazi bombings. She spent all week underneath them during evacuation in a freight train to Leningrad. Their hell was vividly remembered during her lifetime and she could not remember them without tears.
→ read full articleNo Recognition of ‘One Humanity’ at the World Humanitarian Forum
Rajesh Makwana | Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
In light of the overwhelming moral imperative to share planetary resources more equitably and protect the lives of those facing humanitarian emergencies, the World Humanitarian Summit is yet another reminder of the huge gulf between government priorities and the desperate reality of the world situation.
→ read full articleConnecting with Clouds for Freedom and Joy
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Clouds are our constant companions whether we realise it or not. Wherever we are under the open skies, we can see clouds of various shapes and forms. They form part of our myths, our cultures, our films and songs. They are a source of joy and freedom and objects of study of scientists.
→ read full articleErnesto ‘Che’ Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Encyclopedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and guerrilla leader in South America, Guevara was a medical doctor specialized in leprosy. Traveling around South America, he observed conditions that spurred his revolt against poverty and capitalist exploitation, adopting Marxist ideology, theory and practices. He is revered by many as a martyred cultural hero, having become an iconic cult figure as a symbol of anti-imperialist struggles everywhere.
→ read full articleLife Management
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
A professor was giving a lecture on time management.
→ read full article(Français) République centrafricaine : Des meurtres commis par des soldats de maintien de la paix
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
7 juin 2016 – Des militaires de la République du Congo ont tué au moins 18 personnes, y compris des femmes et des enfants, entre décembre 2013 et juin 2015, alors qu’ils servaient dans les forces de maintien de la paix en République centrafricaine. La découverte d’une fosse commune fournit de nouvelles preuves.
→ read full articleMorocco Continues Occupation of Western Sahara, in Defiance of UN
Stephen Zunes | National Catholic Reporter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
6 Jun 2016 – As Morocco continues to defy the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, and much of the international community in its continued occupation of Western Sahara, the United States continues supporting that autocratic government. Morocco has illegally occupied the former Spanish colony for more than 40 years.
→ read full articleWoman Breaks Silence among Fukushima Thyroid Cancer Patients
Yuri Kageyama, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
A young woman is among 173 young people with confirmed or suspected cases of thyroid cancer in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, but she’s the first to speak to media more than five years after the nuclear disaster there.
→ read full articleDorothy Day Refuses to Duck-And-Cover
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
On June 15th, 1955, Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day joined a group of pacifists in refusing to participate in the civilian defense drills scheduled on that day. In this particular case, Operation Alert was a nationwide, mandated, legally enforced drill.
→ read full articleMuhammad Ali Has Passed the Torch of Justice and Peace to Us
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Muhammad Ali, who died June 3, 2016 at the age of 74, courageously took a stand against the Vietnam War risking years in prison and giving up millions of dollars in income for principles of peace and justice. He refused to be drafted to fight in Vietnam and was given the maximum sentence of 5 years in prison, stripped of his world heavyweight boxing title, and banned from boxing for nearly 4 years in the prime of his life.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Jun 13-19 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” – Lao Tzu
→ read full articleIn Search of Work
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
She came dressed in a mustard suit
with daffodils printed in turquoise
and magenta; her long scarf woven
in her plait so she doesn’t forget it in the …
Zionism, Anti-Semitism, BDS, and the United Nations
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
The misuse of anti-Semitism by those defending Israel to deflect a rising tide of civil society activism and public criticism of Israeli policies and practices.
→ read full articleWhat Four Syrian Refugee Children Have Achieved for Humanity in Lebanon
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
10 Jun 2016 – Given the unanticipated intense interest in the subject of my article, which resulted in the receipt of more than 1000 emails, approximately 130 being requests or inquiries about adopting the children, an update about the four beauties is warranted.
→ read full article“Tapping the Victim Syndrome!” Voters as Victims Fuel Trump’s Appeal!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Trumpism! No magic, no mystique, no charisma, no aura of invincibility! Just an astute and calculated recognition of the nation’s many discontents, assumed causes, and an appealing public persona fuel Trump’s appeal.
→ read full articleTRUMP (Donald J.) – A Controversial 2016 Presidential Candidate in America. How Did He Get Away with It?
Claude R.Shema, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
A smart politician with articulated and calculated political friendliness or a vicious unpredictable and inexperienced ambitious billionaire? How does political psychology describe the massive rallies at Trump’s campaign events, extremely enthusiastic millions of American voters who voted for him and the world political and psychological anxiety associated with possible unwanted outcomes for whoever wins the 2016 US presidential race?
→ read full articleWorld’s Disappearance Commissions: An Inhuman Quest for Truth
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Disappearance entails violation and abuse of many fundamental human rights: the right to liberty, to personal security, to humane treatment, freedom from torture and other cruel treatment, the right to a fair trial, to legal counsel, to equal treatment before and under law, to receive correct information, and the right of innocence unless proven guilty by the national and international human rights instruments.
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Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Music Video of the Week)
Martynas Levickis & Florian Silbereisen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Martynas Levickis is one of the brightest young accordion musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards, being a Bachelor graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London.
→ read full articleBattle for Fallujah: Protests Needed against Violations of Humanitarian Law
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
ISIS had abolished in practice the frontier between Iraq and Syria, which had been created in 1916 by the agreement of Sir Mark Sykes for the UK and Francois Georges−Picot for France. Particular attention must be paid to the current battle for Fallujah and reports of mass violations of the laws of war. These grave violations by ISIS and others must be protested by as wide a coalition of concerned voices as possible. The time for action is now.
→ read full articleA Tree for the Victims
David Krieger | Global Poetry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
As far away as London, there is a solid tree,
a stately tree, I would say, casting a broad shadow
on a cool green lawn.
USA: Another Stolen Election?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
10 Jun 2016 – Many people throughout the world view recent political developments in the United States with alarm. Is the US drifting towards fascism? If so, is there a danger that the world will be plunged into an all-destroying thermonuclear war? Will political irresponsibility in the United States result in climate change denial? Will all hope of avoiding catastrophic climate change then be lost?
→ read full articleManagers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
A man is flying in a hot-air balloon and realizes he is lost.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il conflitto nella penisola coreana: una via d’uscita
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Costruire sugli obiettivi nord-coreani, prenderli in parola. Il loro regime cambierà, come tutti i regimi; anche gli USA stanno avanzando adesso verso cambiamenti sostanziali. Si progetti un trattato di pace, come con la Sud-Corea, si normalizzino i rapporti diplomatici Nord-Sud e Nord-USA; e si configuri un regime per una penisola coreana denuclearizzata, distruggendo o togliendo di mezzo le armi risultanti a uno scrupoloso monitoraggio ONU.
→ read full article(Français) Amérique Latine: le rôle des médias et des journalistes dans la restauration conservatrice
Cartagena J.C & Briatte Nadine | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
L’actuelle offensive réactionnaire en Amérique Latine a été préparée par des campagnes de presse qui perdurent, en vue de désinformer la population et discréditer les gouvernements que l’orthodoxie néolibérale, composée de l’empire américain, de ses larbins locaux et de ses alliés occidentaux, met à l’index.
→ read full article‘Saudi Violence in Yemen Can’t Be Ignored Any Longer’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
4 Jun 2016 – The UN has blacklisted Saudi-led coalition for killing and maiming thousands of children in Yemen. But will there be any consequences or sanctions for the House of Saud? Will their allies reconsider their support for Riyadh?
→ read full articleAnglo-America: Regression and Reversion in the Modern World
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
What does it mean when the US and British financial systems launder hundreds of billions of dollars of illicit funds stolen by world leaders while their governments turn a ‘blind eye’, and yet the very same Anglo-American officials investigate, prosecute, fine and arrest officials from rival governments, rival banks and political leaders for corruption?
→ read full articleWAR
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
For Memorial Day USA – May 30, 2016
→ read full articleA Russian Warning
Dmitry Orlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
31 May 2016 – We, the undersigned, are Russians living and working in the USA. We have been watching with increasing anxiety as the current US and NATO policies have set us on an extremely dangerous collision course with the Russian Federation, as well as with China. Many respected, patriotic Americans, such as Paul Craig Roberts, Stephen Cohen, Philip Giraldi, Ray McGovern and many others have been issuing warnings of a looming a Third World War.
→ read full articleHow the Media Spins Today’s South Africa
Hanief Haider | The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Why certain sections of SA media are more inclined toward foreign capital than Black economic empowerment?
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Meet the Bikers Who Protect Victims of Child Abuse
Crime Watch Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
A bunch of bikers are coming to the rescue of some kids who need help badly. Matt Doran hits the road with these heroes on two wheels. Legendado em PORTUGUÊS
→ read full articleBuilding Trust in Afghanistan
Kathy Kelly | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
2 Jun 2016 – Here in Kabul, I read a recent BBC op-ed by Ahmed Rashid, urging a “diplomatic offensive” to build or repair relationships with the varied groups representing armed extremism in Afghanistan. Rashid has insisted, for years, that severe mistrust makes it almost impossible for such groups to negotiate an end to Afghanistan’s nightmare of war.
→ read full articleColonized Mind
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
One up on one sticks
To up and to roots dominates
A growing tree buds
This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
June 23, 1942 – The first nuclear weapons-related accident occurred on this date in the city of Leipzig, Germany involving Nazi atomic scientists Werner Heisenberg and Robert Doepel. While demonstrating Germany’s first neutron propagation experiment, workers checked the atomic pile for a heavy water leak. During the inspection, air leaked in igniting the uranium powder inside.
→ read full articleGlyphosate Found in Urine of 93 Percent of Americans Tested
Organic Consumers Association | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
29 May 2016 – Glyphosate, labeled a “probable human carcinogen” by the World Health Organization’s cancer agency IARC in 2015, has now been revealed to be ubiquitous in the first ever comprehensive and validated LC/MS/MS testing project to be carried out across America.
→ read full articleMuhammad Ali (17 Jan 1942 – 3 Jun 2016): Champion of the Human Race
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
4 Jun 2016 – Born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1942, no one would have known that he would not only become the Boxing Champion of the World 3 times, but also a champion of racial & religious rights as well as a champion of the struggle against armed conflict.
→ read full articleBuddhist Fanaticism: I Rejected It
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Recently an article appeared on the Guardian UK where a former Christian, a Jew and a Muslim wrote about quitting religion because they realised they were made to cultivate false beliefs about themselves and others. My story is about quitting the largest Buddhist organisation in the UK to reject fanaticism and the insult of diversity.
→ read full articleWho Says Nothing Is Made in the USA Anymore? America Excels in Business of Death
JP Sottile | theAntiMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Next Time Someone Says Nothing Is Made in the USA Anymore, Show Them This – America may lag behind the developed world in many categories, but it is No. 1 in the ‘merchant of death’ business, experiencing a boom in the commerce of boom, especially in areas destabilized by U.S. invasions.
→ read full articleIslamophobia: Why Are So Many People So Frightened?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
For now, of course, Muslims are the primary target for this projected fear and self-hatred, which accounts for the US-led western war on the Middle East. Islamophobia thus allows elites and others to project their fear and self-hatred onto Muslims so that elites can then seek to destroy this fear and self-hatred. Obviously, this cannot work. You cannot destroy fear, whether yours or that of anyone else. However, you can cause phenomenal damage to those onto whom your fear and self-hatred are projected. Of course, there is nothing intelligent about this process.
→ read full articleAustria Elects a New Green President against the Rising Right
Rene Wadlow | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
There was a sense of relief among Europeans when it was announced that Alexander Van der Bellen won the election for President of Austria over his far right-wing opponent Norbert Hofer. Austria was split: 50.3% for Van der Bellen, leader of the Green Party and an active ecologist, and 49.7% for Hofer. The vote was also a rural-urban split that also reflected educational levels as well as a generation gap.
→ read full articlePan-African Parliament Calls on African Union to Support the Creation of a UN Parliamentary Assembly
Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
13 May 2016 – Yesterday, the Pan-African Parliament called on the African Union and Africa’s governments to support the creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, in short UNPA.
→ read full articleEl Niño and the Acceleration of Global Warming
Matthew MacEgan | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
1 June 2016 – New temperature records have been set in the early months of 2016, according to data compiled by NASA. A driver behind what one researcher referred to as “extraordinary” temperatures has been the presence of an abnormally long El Niño. At the same time, research over the last several years has shown how El Niño and its cool-water counterpart, La Niña, have been affected and made more extreme by human-induced climate change.
→ read full articleA Brief History of the Toilet
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
How the most appropriately named inventor in history saved humanity from a centuries-long crisis. Perhaps no word in English has undergone more transformations in its lifetime than toilet. And the final link in this chain of problem-solving came from an inventor with perhaps the most brilliantly appropriate name in history: Thomas Crapper.
→ read full articleLet Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World
Naomi Klein | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
All you morons vomiting your xenophobia … about how money should only be spent ‘on our own’ need to look at yourselves closely in the mirror. I request you ask yourselves a very important question … Am I a decent and honourable human being? Because home isn’t just the UK, home is everywhere on this planet. I think that makes for a very fine last word.
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Another Brick in the Wall – 2nd Part (Music Video of the Week)
Pink Floyd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
The official video for Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd taken from the album ‘The Wall’ originally released in 1979.
→ read full articlePeace Jobs – A Student’s Guide to Starting a Career Working for Peace
David J. Smith | George Mason University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
This book is a guide for college students exploring career options who are interested in working to promote peacebuilding and the resolution of conflict. High school students, particularly those starting to consider college and careers, can also benefited from this book. A major feature of the book is 30 stories from young professionals, most recently graduated from college, who are working in the field.
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Johan Galtung: The World beyond Global Disorder
World Public Forum | Dialogue of Civilizations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU. He has published 164 books on peace and related issues, of which 41 have been translated into 35 languages, for a total of 135 book translations, including ‘50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives,’ published by the TRANSCEND University Press-TUP.
→ read full articleDisastrous Floods as Indicators of Systemic Risk Neglect
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Implications for Authoritative Response to Future Surprises – This is an exploration of the level of neglected risk visibly and dramatically highlighted by a number of recent widely publicized floods which have been framed as unforeseeable surprises.
→ read full articleBy the Way
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Having email is like…
→ read full articleMuhammad Ali, an American Muslim, Is Dead at 74
Sufyan bin Uzayr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
4 Jun 2016 – Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxer this world has ever known, is no more. Back in 1964, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr changed his name to Muhammad Ali. “Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn’t choose it, and I didn’t want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name — it means beloved of God — and I insist people use it when speaking to me and of me.” In Ali’s own words: I won’t miss fighting, fighting will miss me. Rest in Peace, Muhammad Ali.
→ read full articleA Joint Declaration on the Environment, Social Inequality and Elimination of Nuclear Threat, with a Proposal for UN Reform
Joint Declaration – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
We Propose: Calling an extraordinary session of the United Nations General Assembly to adopt the necessary urgent social and environmental measures and, moreover, to establish the guidelines for the re-founding of a democratic multilateral system. The “new UN System” with a General Assembly of 50% of States representatives and 50% of representatives of civil society, and adding to the present Security Council and Environmental Council and a Socio-Economic Council, has been studied in depth. In all cases, no veto but weighted vote.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Jun 6-12 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I would like to take a moment to ask all married men, ‘Do you see your wives as the precious gift that God took the time and built just for you?’ Many men if they really assessed this question would find that truthfully they could not answer that question with a quick ‘Yes’…Many men don’t view their wives as the gift which God’s intended from the start.” – Glyniel Garner
→ read full articleEastern and Western Modes of Thought – Nagarjuna and Quantum Physics
Christian Thomas Kohl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Let me take as an example the interpretation of quantum entanglement by the British mathematician Roger Penrose. Penrose discusses in the year of 2000 the experiences of quantum entanglement where light is separated over a distance of 100 kilometers and still remains connected in an unknown way. These are well known experiments in the last 30 years.
→ read full articleWhat Are the Benefits of Turmeric and Curcumin?
Dr Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Turmeric has been traditionally used for pulmonary and gastrointestinal system problems. Research within the 50 years has shown much of the supposed benefit of turmeric is due to curcumin, the active component, a polyphenol that has displayed activity in antioxidant, anti-redness, anti-harmful organism capacities.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – How Corporatist, Militarist and Fascist-Leaning Are Today’s Candidates?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Many concerned observers of the current political scene in America have seen alarming trends in the noisy far right-wing, Neo-Conservatives that have usurped power in the once respectable Republican Party. And, of course, the quite similar, Neo-liberals in control of the Democratic Party have been a concern of many progressives. The power behind each seems to be as amorally militarist and amorally corporatist as that which brought Hitler to power.
→ read full articleA Moral Revolution? Reflections on President Obama’s Visit to Hiroshima
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
5 Jun 2016 – There is doubt that President Barack Obama’s visit to Hiroshima this May crossed some thresholds hitherto taboo. Above all the visit was properly heralded as the first time a sitting American president has dared such a pilgrimage… The whole idea of impunity for the victors and capital punishment for the losers is morally regressive.
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Johan Galtung 2016 Nobel Peace Prize
Vasco Horta Barata – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2016
A transcend_media super production. :)
→ read full articleTarget Russia. Target China. Target Iran
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
28 May 2016 – Not a day goes by without US Think Tankland doing what it does best; pushing all sorts of scenarios for cold – and hot – war with Russia, plus myriad confrontations with China and Iran. That fits into the Pentagon’s Top Five existential threats to the US, where Russia and China sit at the very top and Iran is in fourth place – all ahead of «terrorism» of the phony Daesh «Caliphate» variety.
→ read full articleTaiwan Recalls Quaker Oats Products Imported from US after Detecting Glyphosate
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
29 May 2016 – More bad news for Quaker Oats. A random inspection from Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) detected glyphosate in 10 out of 36 oatmeal products it tested, exceeding the country’s legal limit.
→ read full articleGoogle Wipes Palestine Off the Map
Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
After Googling around, I have discovered that when you ask what time it is in any country on earth, Google tells you – right there in that prominently-placed box above the search results. Except Palestine. Google is apparently part of the Zionist entity dedicated to wiping Palestine off the map. The only “Palestine” Google knows is a town in Texas.
→ read full articleTunisia: UN Panel Condemns Forced Anal Exams
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
23 May 2016 – The UN Committee Against Torture condemned the use of forced anal examinations as an attempt to find “proof” against people accused of homosexual conduct in Tunisia, Human Rights Watch said today.
→ read full articleIndonesia: Child Tobacco Workers Suffer as Firms Profit
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Thousands of children in Indonesia, some as young as 8 years old, are at the bottom of the supply chain for many multinational and Indonesian tobacco companies. These children are getting exposed to nicotine and toxic pesticides. Child tobacco workers can absorb nicotine through their skin, and many suffer nausea, vomiting, headaches, and dizziness – all symptoms of acute nicotine poisoning.
→ read full articlePutin Vows Retaliation over US Missile Shield; Warns Poland, Romania Now in the “Cross Hairs”
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
28 May 2016 – While Obama was in Hiroshima as the first standing president of the only nation to have ever used a nuclear weapon during wartime, and without offering an apology to Japan, Russian president Putin was in Greece. The Greek people have turned increasingly against remaining in the Eurogroup, a shift Putin certainly hopes to capitalize on. But it wasn’t the latest Greek pivot toward Russia that was the highlight of Putin’s trip: it was his latest warning that the Russian response to the most recent NATO provocation in Europe will be significant.
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