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(Castellano) Estado y Ciudadanía: el rol de la educación en DDHH para su construcción cultural y política
Howard Richards y Alicia Cabezudo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Adelantamos la tesis de que hay una oportunidad prometedora y desafiante que tenemos los profesores para cambiar en sentido positivo el rumbo de la historia. Es una oportunidad también peligrosa. Cuando usamos la frase “rumbo de la historia” tenemos en mente la diferencia entre, por una parte, los innumerables sucesos que pasan; y, por otra, aquellos sucesos, o constelaciones de sucesos, que cambian de una manera fundamental la forma de vida de un pueblo, o de unos pueblos.
→ read full articleWhy Do Some Men Rape?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Given the overwhelming evidence that violence is rampant in our world and that the violence of the legal system simply contributes to and reinforces this cycle of violence, it seems patently obvious that we would be better off identifying the cause of violence and then designing approaches to address this cause and its many symptoms effectively. And reallocating resources away from the legal and prison systems in support of approaches that actually work.
→ read full article(Português) Será Possível Proibir as Armas Nucleares?
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Pela primeira vez desde a fundação da ONU a maioria da comunidade internacional parece estar pronta a dar um passo ousado e fundamental para a abolição do armamento nuclear. A Conferência negociadora se realizará em Nova York de 27 a 31 de março e de 15 de junho a 7 de julho de 2017, e estará aberta a todos os Estados, organizações internacionais e representantes da sociedade civil.
→ read full articleHonoring Rachel Corrie
International Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Today, March 16, 2017, marks 14 years since the day that Rachel Corrie had her life taken by an Israeli Caterpillar bulldozer in Gaza. And though her life ended early, her courageous heart and defiant spirit will be carried onward, and continue to inspire many activists now and into the future.
→ read full articleInterview with TRANSCEND Member John Scales Avery, One of the Greatest Living Intellectuals on Earth
Binu Mathew | CounterCurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
John Avery is not just an academician and scientist. He is also an active peace activist who campaigns vigorously against nuclear proliferation. Since 1990 he has been the Contact Person in Denmark for Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, which received the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the Member of the Danish Peace Commission of 1998 and Chairman of the Danish Peace Academy.
→ read full article(Português) A atualidade de Rosa Luxemburgo, uma economista política
Michael Krätke | SinPermiso, Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Rosa Luxemburgo foi uma grande oradora, uma célebre e temida polemista, foi economista e uma das grandes intelectuais do marxismo. Intervinha com discursos e discussões nas campanhas políticas do movimento social-democrata e foi uma jornalista tão famosa quanto formidável. A alternativa de Rosa Luxemburgo: Socialismo democrático e democracia econômica.
→ read full articleStatement by Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
I want to end this statement by emphasizing that I have absolutely no reason whatsoever to present a biased, one-sided report. However, I have every reason to present the situation to reflect the reality, even if some may not like what I have to say. I believe this Council expects me to do exactly that by entrusting me with this mandate.
→ read full articleCould Robots Be More Deadly Than Humans?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
The possible wider use of drones or other robotic military material such as autonomous tanks and trucks are being worked on by governments, often with the cooperation of private industry. The possibility of an “arms race” among technologically-advanced States such as the USA, Russia, China, South Korea and Israel is real, especially at a time when mutual trust is in short supply.
→ read full articleWhy the UN Branded Israel an Apartheid State
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
17Mar 2017 – A shouting match has been provoked this week by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, which issued a report this week concluding definitively that Israel is guilty of Apartheid practices toward the Palestinians. The report is careful to say that it is not using the term merely as a pejorative but is rather appealing to a body of international law with precise definitions.
→ read full articleHow to Tackle the Challenges Posed by Electronic Waste
Eric Williams – Al Jazeera,
20 Mar 2017
18 Mar 2017 – Electronic waste, or e-waste, refers to computers, mobile phones and other devices after users have thrown them away. We want to have a creative mind, a critical eye, and a helping hand if we are to find solutions.
→ read full articleClimate Change and Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota and Navin Pandey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
The outside world should learn from the progress made by Nepal in sector of forest conservation and use of clean energy in combating the climate change. Although Nepal being a small agrarian country contributing 0.016% of global Greenhouse gas emissions, the initiatives taken in such seriousness are reflective of our unfathomable love for nature and mother earth.
→ read full articleIt Is All for the Best: A Lesson in Optimism
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
A king went hunting with his adviser but lost his thumb in an unfortunate accident. His adviser told him, “It is all for the best.” The king was furious, and as soon as they arrived at the palace he put his adviser in jail.
→ read full articleKofi Annan Interim Report on Myanmar’s Rakhine State
Kofi Annan, Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
16 Mar 2017 – Our recommendations, of course, go beyond the current situation in Northern Rakhine and include proposals relating to: the protection of rights, freedom of movement, enhanced economic and social development and the edification of Rakhine’s cultural heritage.
→ read full article(Italiano) Un’ Etica Per la Madre Terra, Nuestra Casa Comune
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Abbiamo bisogno urgente di un’etica rigeneratrice della Terra. Questa deve restituirle la vitalità ferita, affinché possa continuare a regalarci tutto come aveva sempre fatto. Sarà un’etica della cura, del rispetto dei suoi ritmi e della responsabilità collettiva.
→ read full articleIndia’s Improbable Harbingers of Political Change
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Rural Indian women haven’t always had much by way of social agency or political power to pay an active role in the development of their community. Malnourished, suppressed, uneducated, violated, and discriminated against, Indian women had the odds badly stacked against them. Deeply entrenched stereotypical norms had relegated women to the domestic space and severely restricted their engagement in public affairs, an area largely dominated by men.
→ read full articleThe Strike Action and Human Rights Cataclysms in Anglophone Cameroon
Jean Atabong Fomeni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Abstract; This paper narrates the details of the protests going on in the English speaking part (North West and South West Regions) of Cameroon. By so doing, the paper highlights (or carves out) the human rights violations inflicted on the English speaking Cameroonians by the “almighty” government of La République du Cameroun.
→ read full articleThe Deep State Hasn’t Gone Away
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
The whole point of a democracy is to empower the public interest, which means that the public must be aware of the Deep State and hold it continually accountable. While Lofgren is adamant that there’s more to it than the military-industrial consensus and the pursuit of endless war, this to me is by far its most troubling aspect. Let’s not give it any peace.
→ read full articleGenetic Codes
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Singer Madonna proposed to physicist Stephen Hawking:
→ read full articleWill Mankind Succeed in Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons?
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
For the first time since the foundation of the UN, the majority of the international community seems prepared to take a bold and fundamental step leading to the abolition of nuclear weapons. The negotiating conference will be held in New York from March 27 to 31 and from June 15 to March 7 2017 and is open to all States, international organizations and representatives of civil society.
→ read full articleNorth Korea Tensions Pose Early, and Perilous, Test for Trump
David E. Sanger, Choe Sang-Hun, Chris Buckley and Michael R. Gordon – The New York Times,
20 Mar 2017
7 Mar 2017 – The United States began deploying a missile defense system in South Korea this week. China condemned the new antimissile system as a dangerous opening move in what it called America’s grand strategy to set up similar defenses across Asia, threatening to tilt the balance of power there against Beijing.
→ read full articleRate of Ocean Warming Quadrupled Since Late 20th Century, Study Reveals
Roz Pidcock | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
The buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases is warming the upper ocean four times faster than during the period 1960-1990, according to new research.
→ read full articleUN: Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid – Issue No. 1, Palestine and the Israeli Occupation
UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
[Note from the TMS Editor: This text has been removed from the ESCWA website. It is published here for Historical Record.]
15 Mar 2017 – Having established that the crime of apartheid has universal application, that the question of the status of the Palestinians as a people is settled in law, and that the crime of apartheid should be considered at the level of the State, the report sets out to demonstrate how Israel has imposed such a system on the Palestinians in order to maintain the domination of one racial group over others.
(Italiano) Hawaii: Scienza, Religione e Spiritualità a Mauna Kea – Il Telescopio di trenta metri
Millicent Cummings | Honolulu Civil Beat – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
20 Mar 2017
16 marzo 2017 – Con una spesa prevista di 1,4 miliardi di $, il progetto di Telescopio da Trenta Metri (TMT: Thirty Meter Telescope) solleva ben più di una questione.
→ read full articleThe East India Company: The Original Corporate Raiders
William Dalrymple – The Guardian,
20 Mar 2017
For a century, the East India Company conquered, subjugated and plundered vast tracts of south Asia. The lessons of its brutal reign have never been more relevant. It was not the British government that seized India, but a private company, run by an unstable sociopath.
→ read full articleThe Radical Jesus: How Would the Baby in a Manger Fare in the American Police State?
John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Jesus was good. He was caring. He had powerful, profound things to say—things that would change how we view people, alter government policies and change the world. He went around helping the poor. And when confronted by those in authority, he did not shy away from speaking truth to power. Jesus was born into a police state not unlike the growing menace of the American police state.
→ read full articleFatal Miscalculation…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
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→ read full articleThe Walled Off Hotel: The Struggle for Decolonization
Jamil Khader – Al Jazeera,
20 Mar 2017
13 Mar 2017 – The British street artist known as Banksy is no stranger to controversy and the recent debate over his new installation in the town of Bethlehem, the Walled Off Hotel, does not come as a surprise. It is a powerful anticolonial statement about the Zionist colonial project.
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Is Israel Imposing ‘Apartheid’ on Palestinians?
Al Jazeera | Inside Story – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Mar 16, 2017 – The UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia has issued a report which condemned the Israeli government for its treatment of Palestinians. The authors call Israel an apartheid regime, saying it operates a system of divide and rule. But the office of the UN Secretary General has distanced itself from the report.
→ read full articleSeeking Peace in Vegetarianism
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
What to eat and what not to eat is a debate that generates controversy and occasionally ill will and has been going on for a very long time in many parts of the world. In particular the debate is between eating vegetarian food or non vegetarian food that includes meat, lamb, chicken, beef, fish, etc. The debate depends on several factors – religious, geographical, ideological and of course economic.
→ read full articleU.N. Warned That Myanmar May Be Trying to Expel the Rohingya Population Entirely
Feliz Solomon – Time,
20 Mar 2017
The U.N. Human Rights Council was urged Monday [13 Mar] to establish a commission of inquiry into the persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority, a mostly stateless Muslim group living in apartheid-like conditions in the country’s western state of Rakhine. The Myanmar government, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has denied allegations of wrongdoing.
→ read full articleEarthland: Scenes from a Civilized Future
Paul Raskin | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
This essay is written as a dispatch from the future. We visit Earthland in 2084, the flourishing planetary civilization that has emerged out of the great crises and struggles that today still lie before us. We learn how decades earlier a “global citizens movement” had coalesced and gathered momentum, becoming the key agent of the Great Transition that bent the arc of history from catastrophe to renewal.
→ read full articleThe Most Moral Army
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Killing a wounded or captured enemy is a war crime. Why? For many people, this is a mystery. War is the realm of killing and destroying. Soldiers are decorated for killing. So why is it suddenly a crime to kill a wounded enemy? How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show mercy?
→ read full articleMarch 16, 1968: My Lai Massacre Takes Place in Vietnam
History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
On this day in 1968, a platoon of American soldiers brutally kills between 200 and 500 unarmed civilians at My Lai, South Vietnam. The soldiers had been advised that all in My Lai could be considered Viet Cong or active VC sympathizers, and told to destroy the village. They acted with extraordinary brutality, raping and torturing villagers before killing them and dragging dozens of people, including young children and babies, into a ditch and executing them with automatic weapons.
→ read full article“Never Forget” (For Rachel Corrie)
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Barely a woman, twenty three years old–
Soft, vulnerable…. Surely, the Monster
Will stop in its tracks!
Why Africans Can’t Just Wait for Dictators to Die
Phil Wilmot | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Family dynasties are making their mark on the continent. Burials of important African men are often characterized by luxury and pomp. Self-important patriarchs want to ensure their survivors continue their legacy. This is why Africans are so rarely shocked whenever state leadership is passed on to family members.
→ read full article(Italiano) ” Lotte per l’otto marzo ” 8 marzo 2017 ad Aosta. Action nonviolenta
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Stand-in è l’azione di stare in piedi, in modo ordinato e tranquillo, al fine di riflettere, per ottenere, in questo caso, il rispetto allargato delle donne, e di tutti gli esseri senzienti in generale, attraverso mezzi nonviolenti.
→ read full articleAreva Factory Badly Equipped to Make Nuclear Parts – French Watchdog
Geert De Clercq | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
16 Mar 2017 – Creusot Forge, a supplier of nuclear plants around the world owned by France’s Areva, is under investigation for making substandard parts and falsifying documents. France’s nuclear regulator says machinery at the plant, which was shut for commercial production last year, is not up to the job.
→ read full articleLetter from a Syrian Reader [MUST READ]: “There Is a New Sentiment of Solidarity in the Ranks of the Poor People”
WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
18 Mar 2017 – We received the following correspondence from a reader in Damascus on the situation in Syria after six years of a civil war instigated and abetted by the major imperialist powers.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Mar 20-26 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
→ read full articleMonsanto Accused of Using Ghostwriters to Cover up Cancer Risk
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
16 Mar 2017 – Agrochemical giant Monsanto used ghostwriters on scientific reports to cover up the risk of cancer from its flagship weedkiller Roundup, plaintiffs in a case in a U.S. Federal Court claimed in a lawsuit. Roundup has already been deemed a cancer risk by the World Health Organization.
→ read full articleUN Farms to Create One Million Days of Work for Mideast Migrants
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
20 Mar 2017
15 Mar 2017 – The problem is rather complex and often not recognised: in one of the major regions of both origin and destination for migrants and refugees — the Near East and North of Africa, 10 per cent of rural communities is made up of forcibly displaced persons, while more than 25 per cent of the young rural people plan to emigrate.
→ read full article(Português) Joaquin Phoenix: “Quando somos tocados pelo sofrimento dos animais, aquele sentimento fala bem de nós”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
O ator Joaquin Phoenix, indicado três vezes ao Oscar, e também muito conhecido como o narrador de um dos documentários mais controversos sobre a exploração animal – Earthlings (Terráqueos), tinha três anos quando se tornou vegano. “Os animais passavam de uma criatura viva e vibrante, lutando pela vida, para uma morte violenta.”
→ read full articleThe Peace Mask Project Celebration in Hiroshima
Robert Kowalczyk and Kimberlye ‘Kya’ Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Peace Mask Project celebrates the completion of 100 Peace Masks of 1st to 4th generation Hibakusha in an endeavor to honor their 71-year appeals for peace and to amplify their call for a future free from the threat of nuclear weapons.
March 24-26, 2017, Hiroshima
Aluminum, Autoimmunity, Autism and Alzheimer’s
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Rebutting Big Pharma’s Talking Points about the Safety of Aluminum (and Mercury) in Vaccines
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The Sweetest Taboo (Music Video of the Week)
Sade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Live TV – Simply Wonderful
→ read full articleAustralia: Great Barrier Reef Survival Relies on Halting Warming, Study Warns
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
16 Mar 2017 – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef can be saved only if urgent steps are taken to reduce global warming, new research has warned. Attempting to stop coral bleaching through any other method will not be sufficient, according to scientists.
→ read full articleWilhelm Reich (24 Mar 1897 – 3 Nov 1957): A Taoist in Freudian Disguise
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Reich, however, had a character that disturbed all his co-workers. He was expelled from the Communist Party, which felt that Reich put too much emphasis on psychological conditioning of the individual and not enough on the class struggle. He was also expelled from the Freudian circles, the Psychoanalytic Association, for putting too much emphasis on class conflict and not enough on sexuality.
→ read full article(Français) L’OTAN menace notre sécurité
Daniele Ganser, Gabriel Galice et Hans von Sponeck | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
L’OTAN masse des troupes et des armes aux marches de la Russie. Nous tenons à exprimer notre inquiétude devant la propagande qui déforme la réalité des menaces qui pèsent sur la paix. Cette propagande insidieuse fabrique des ennemis imaginaires pour justifier le surdéveloppement de dépenses militaires, des conquêtes de territoires ou de « parts de marché », des prises de contrôle d’approvisionnement énergétique et pour corroder la démocratie.
→ read full articleGlobal Nuclear Poisoning!
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
March 11, 2017 marks the 6th anniversary of the Fukushima Nuclear disaster. Six years after the initial disaster radiation readings keep increasing and the disaster spreads.
→ read full articleMalaysia and the Question of North Korea
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
10 Mar 2017 – The Malaysian government has done the right thing in keeping the channels of communication with the North Korean Government open. It wants an amicable resolution of the friction arising from the murder of Kim Jong-Nam, the elder brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Un. The North Korean government has also adopted a positive stance.
→ read full articleBulgarian Vigilantes Patrol Turkey Border to Keep Migrants Out
Mac William Bishop – NBC News,
13 Mar 2017
10 Mar 2017 — Figures in camouflage and ski masks gather at a fishing lodge. Many are armed with long knives, bayonets and hatchets. The 35 men and women are on the hunt in Strandzha Massif, a forested mountain range on Bulgaria’s border with Turkey. Migrants trying to cross into Europe are their prey.
→ read full articleVault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named “Vault 7” by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency. The first full part of the series, “Year Zero”, comprises 8,761 documents and files from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virgina.
→ read full articleAsking Foolish Questions about Serious Issues
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Serious and worrisome parallel issues are raised by recent disclosures of serious cyber attacks by the US Government on the North Korean nuclear program. The American media and government officialdom treat the conduct of cyber warfare against North Korea’s nuclear program as something to be judged exclusively by its success or failure, not whether it’s right or wrong, prudent or reckless.
→ read full article(Português) Uma ética da Mãe Terra, nossa Casa Comum
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
12 março 2017 – É um fato cientificamente reconhecido hoje que as mudanças climáticas, cuja expressão maior se dá pelo aquecimento global é, num grau de certeza de 95%, de natureza antropogênica, Quer dizer, possui sua gênese num tipo de comportamento humano violento face à natureza… Uma ética da Terra não se sustenta sozinha por muito tempo sem esse supplément d’ame que é a vida do espírito. Ele nos faz sentir parte da Mãe Terra a quem devemos amar e cuidar.
→ read full article(Français) Nous sommes tous des Mexicains
Graziella Pogolotti | Investig’Action, Granma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Nous, les Latino-américains de bonne foi, ne pouvons cesser de ressentir comme une gifle sur notre propre joue la sous-estimation raciste de ceux qui élèvent des murs sur l’immense frontière qui sépare le Mexique de son voisin du nord.
→ read full article(Français) Comment le coton OGM de Monsanto s’est transformé en fléau pour les paysans du Burkina Faso
Abdul Razac Napon, Mien de Graeve et Wouter Elsen | Observatoire des Multinationales – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
6 mars 2017 – Au Burkina Faso, les jours de Monsanto sont comptés. La multinationale se retire du pays. L’introduction de son coton OGM en 2009 ne s’y est pas vraiment passée comme prévu : présentée comme une solution miracle aux attaques de ravageurs, la nouvelle variété a surtout fini par ravager la qualité et la réputation du coton burkinabè. Mais le géant agro-chimique n’est pas seul en cause : à l’heure d’établir les responsabilités, les autorités locales sont en première ligne.
→ read full articleOn Big Vaccine’s Dis-Informers
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
8 Mar 2017 – In recent days, I have been in communication with several journalists who have been writing about issues that pertain to an issue in which I have some expertise: the alleged safety and efficacy of the huge number of neurotoxin-containing vaccines that are rather cavalierly administered to babies as young as 1 day, 2 months, 4 months and 6 months, ages in which their blood-brain barriers, their immune systems and their mitochondria are at their most immature and most vulnerable to toxins.
→ read full articlePaying for Imperialism? Fury in Cambodia as US Asks to Be Paid Back Hundreds of Millions in War Debts
Lindsay Murdoch – The Age,
13 Mar 2017
11 Mar 2017 – Half a century after United States B-52 bombers dropped more than 500,000 tonnes of explosives on Cambodia’s countryside Washington wants the country to repay a $US 500 million war debt. The demand has prompted expressions of indignation and outrage from Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh.
→ read full article(Português) John Feldmann: “Os laticínios são os piores. Cheguei a preferir que as pessoas comessem um bife do que bebessem um copo de leite”.
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
“Porque pelo menos a vaca logo estaria livre de sua vida miserável. Com o leite, a situação é outra”.
→ read full articleNationalist Secessions in EU Countries (Map)
Maps on the Web – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Map of Europe if all separatist movements were successful.
→ read full articleMad About THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense): An Untimely Decision
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
8 Mar 2017 – The US decision, supported by the South Korean government, to deploy an antimissile system known as THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) may be one of the most thoughtless strategic moves in a generation. The official US argument is that close-in defense against North Korean missiles is necessary. But the deployment has resulted in the following:
→ read full articleUK Member of Parliament Stunned by Israeli Military Trials of Children
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Sarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham, visited an Israeli military court in the West Bank and was deeply shocked by how young and defenceless these Palestinian boys on trial were.
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Maung Zarni’s Analysis of the Military in Burma/Myanmar
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Understanding Myanmar Military and Its Strategic Paradigm
→ read full articlePeeping Pigs and Propaganda by Omission
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
5 Mar 2017 – While there is much talk these days about “fake news,” omitting important news is perhaps as widespread and egregiously harmful to an informed public. The following report tries to remedy the way the mainstream media have for years ignored one of the oddest but more important news stories of the last sixty years.
→ read full articleChina Releases Human Rights Report on US: ‘Terrible Problems’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
On Thursday [9 Mar 2017], China’s State Council Information Office released a human rights report on the U.S., noting that while that country continues to act as “the judge of human rights” it continues to ignore its own “terrible problems:” the colonial history, enslavement, segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality.
→ read full articleThe Rising Tide of Militarism in the 21st Century: From Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
US militarism expanded exponentially through the first two decades of the Twenty-First Century, and was embraced by both Democratic and Republican Presidents. The mass media’s hysteria towards President Trump’s increase in military spending deliberately ignores the vast expansion of militarism, in all its facets, under President Obama and his two predecessors, Presidents ‘Bill’ Clinton and George Bush, Jr.
→ read full articleUN Experts Denounce ‘Myth’ Pesticides Are Necessary to Feed the World
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
13 Mar 2017
Report warns of catastrophic consequences and blames manufacturers for ‘systematic denial of harms’ and ‘unethical marketing tactics.’
→ read full articlePerhaps the Messiah Will Come
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
The only real solution is the much-maligned “Two States for Two peoples”, the one declared dead many times. It’s either that solution or the destruction of both peoples. So how do Israelis face this reality? They face it the Israeli way: by not facing the reality.
→ read full articleInternational Academy of Global Noospheral Peace Contest
Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
1. Definition of the key concept in the Contest: SPHERONS are four universal harmonious classes of the population, covering it as a whole, without exception, employed in four spheres of social production.
→ read full articleThe New Media World Order
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
In only a few months, the content of the Western national and international media has undergone profound change. We are witnessing the birth of an Entente about which we know almost nothing – neither the real initiators, nor the real objectives – but whose direct anti-democratic consequences can be noticed immediately.
→ read full articleThe Legend of [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi
Mary Scully – Pakistan Today,
13 Mar 2017
“… or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” – She received the first of her now nearly 150 awards and honorary degrees in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. For what? Outside of some speeches at 8888 movement rallies, signing on to the formation of the NLD, and running once for office, there isn’t a single recorded instance of Suu Kyi sticking her neck out for human rights.
→ read full articleHow Much Does It Cost to Tell a Lie That Big?
Hiroyuki Hamada | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
2 Mar 2017 – It was quite expected but I am having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that the US backed propaganda organization, the White Helmets, has effectively received an Oscar for the short documentary film about them. Which, of course, indicates that it is not just acceptable to twist facts and call a group of people with documented criminal activities “heroes”, but it is acceptable to award them with cultural, artistic and humanistic recognition.
→ read full articleReading Elisabeth Weber’s KILL BOXES
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Kill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare, by Elisabeth Weber – The purpose of this post is to recommend highly the above book addressing the interrelated issues of torture, indefinite detention, and drone warfare from a perspective that is both humanistic and deeply steeped in European philosophical thought.
→ read full articleAlbert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Born in Germany, Albert Einstein grew up in a secular, middle-class Jewish family. He developed the special and general theories of relativity and in 1921 won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
→ read full articleUS-Russian Space Cooperation: A Model for Nuclear Security
Simon Saradzhyan and William Tobey | Bulleting of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Steps Washington and Moscow took to transform their space rivalry into cooperation can serve as a model for working together to help prevent nuclear terrorism.
→ read full articleWomen’s Day and Local Events in India
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
The Women’s Day was celebrated on 8 March with the usual enthusiasm by wishing Good Wishes and sending endearing messages for the welfare and emancipation of women all over the world.
→ read full articleDemilitarizing
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
There are about 30 countries without a military in the world, most of them small, but they are doing well.
→ read full articleQuestionnaire
Wendell Berry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.
Reflections of My Life (Music Video of the Week)
The Marmalade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Reflections of My Life was recorded in London in October 1969. With hypnotic music and lyrics, what a monumental ballad it was and still is! Enjoy.
→ read full articleOur Sons-of-Bitches: Western Media and the Syrian “Rebels”
Ricardo Vaz | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
“He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he’s our son-of-a-bitch,” U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt once said about Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. We examine how the western media, always so full of editorials and columns praising western values (whatever those may be), have covered the Syrian opposition, focusing on three groups in particular.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Reveals Vast CIA Spying, Cyberwar Operation
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Amid Democrats’ claims of Russian hacking in support of Trump and Trump’s charge that he was bugged by Obama, WikiLeaks has revealed a vast CIA operation directed against the people of the US and the world.
→ read full articlePeaceful Protest as True Nationalism
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
By 1917, a hundred years ago, millions of men had already been killed in war-torn Europe, and hundreds of French villages and towns destroyed. When the war ended in November 1918, the Allies were almost on the point of surrendering but Germany succumbed first. Field-Marshall Foch called the Treaty of Versailles an ‘armistice,’ and so it proved, for another global war came within twenty years claiming several million more lives.
→ read full articleMusic and Politics: How Much Will It Matter Again?
Daniel Martin - CounterPunch,
13 Mar 2017
Back when I was in college, rock and roll historian Barry Drake came and gave a lecture titled “60’s Rock”, When the Music Mattered”. At least here in the United States, these were years of great unrest on a societal and political level. Whether it was the civil rights movement, the assassination of our greatest leaders, or the Vietnam War and its protests, these events were accompanied by and often directly interwoven with the music of the time. And heck, the decade gave us the Beatles and Motown, and birthed the sounds we currently consider “classic rock”, as well as other innovations.
→ read full articleLynne Stewart, Lifelong Fighter and People’s Lawyer, Dies
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Lynne Stewart, originally sentenced to 28 months in prison, was resentenced on July 10, 2010, to 10 years but continued to fight a government frame-up. After suffering a major stroke on March 1, she died Tuesday [7 Mar] evening at home, after being granted a compassionate release from prison three years ago due to fourth-stage breast cancer.
→ read full articleThe United States and the Russian Devil: 1917-2017
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #149 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
The transition of power to Vladimir Putin in the 21st century led to a number of reforms that curbed the disastrous looting of the nation by the oligarchic bandits. Putin and his allies vowed to build an independent, capitalist Russia that was capable of determining its own affairs free from US and Western domination. Such an orientation placed Putin in direct confrontation with US imperialism’s plans for unipolar global hegemony.
→ read full articleScience & Scientists
Richtennant – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
What is the Matter?
→ read full articleHow Anti-Vietnam War Activists Stopped Violent Protest from Hijacking Their Movement
Robert Levering | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
The tactics of isolation that kept groups like the Weathermen away from peaceful protests may help today’s activists struggling with Black Bloc disruptions.
→ read full articleTowards Gender Liberation
Cecilia Gingerich | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Asking whether we might be at the beginning of an emergent “Fourth Wave” of feminism synthesizing important elements from previous waves, the paper critically examines both existing visions for an alternative political economy and some of the steps that have been taken towards them. It calls for further work to clarify the transitional steps, models, and policies we need to adopt in order to begin moving towards a better system of gender relations in the hope of inspiring the development of still more developed visions and pathways to change.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Mar 13-19 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
→ read full articleExit through the Checkpoint: Inside Banksy’s New Bethlehem Hotel
Haggai Matar | +972 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Every room overlooks the West Bank separation wall, the lobby features a Greek statue choking on teargas, and faux-security cameras dot the corridors. Welcome to “The Walled Off Hotel,” the new Bethlehem-based project from British street artist and enfant terrible Banksy.
→ read full articleALBA Summit Begins, Honors Hugo Chavez’s Revolutionary Legacy
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
5 Mar 2017 – On the four-year death anniversary of “El Commandante” Chavez, ALBA leaders sung high praises for their former comrade ahead of the 14th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Trade Treaty of the Peoples, also known as ALBA-TCP.
→ read full articleWe’re Trashing the Arctic. Literally.
John Metcalfe – Mother Jones,
13 Mar 2017
Humanity’s trash has near-universal dominion in the ocean. It swirls in the waves in immense “garbage pathces,” drifts downward where it’s eaten by whales and turtles, and lands on the deepest sea floor to make it look like a landfill exploded on the moon. Check out the world’s coldest garbage pile.
→ read full articleEast Africa Food Crisis Indicates Urgent Need for a World Food Policy
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
2 Mar 2017 – The UN Food and Agriculture Organization in a 22 Feb 2017 alert has indicated that the States of East Africa – Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan – face famine conditions and that some 20 million people are at grave risk. The most in danger are the people in Somalia and South Sudan where armed violence has destroyed all government infrastructures and thus the possibility of government action. All that remains for action in these two countries are UN staff and NGOs.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi and the World of Buddhist Islamophobia
Maung Zarni – Al Jazeera,
13 Mar 2017
Myanmar’s Muslim minority, demonised and persecuted for decades, is facing a fresh wave of violence amid media silence. “Suu Kyi’s denial of what Human Rights Watch has called “ethnic cleansing” and “crimes against humanity” deserves international scrutiny,” writes Maung Zarni.
→ read full articleWhy Everyone but NATO Live Happily with Russia
Jonathan Power | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Jonathan Power turns around the perspective – something seldom done in Western debate: What’s the reason that NATO is the only one around the world that has a negative relation to Russia today? And insists on having it? Trump proposes a huge increase in military spending but the U.S. already spends more than the next seven biggest spenders combined, China and Russia included!
→ read full articleThe Delusion of Microfinance
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
8 Mar 2017 – When microfinance–providing small loans and other financial services to poor people, primarily women–made its first appearance, everyone was infatuated by its narrative: Those on the left loved its stories of transformed women and direct empowerment of the poor. Those on the right loved how it promoted grass-roots capitalism, fostered a culture of entrepreneurship, and all this by doing away subsidies.
→ read full articleA Nuclear Weapons Ban Should First Do No Harm to the NPT
Adam Mount and Richard Nephew | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Simple additions to the text of a new ban treaty would keep it from being used as a cover for non-compliance with the existing non-proliferation regime.
→ read full article8 March: Start of the Russian Revolution and International Women’s Day
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
8 March, International Women’s Day, was also the start of the Russian Revolution, which ended the rule of the Tsar. IWD had been first proposed by Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen in 1911, and the idea spread quickly. By 1917, the idea of a day calling for the equality of women within a more just society was well developed among women in Petrograd [St. Petersburg].
→ read full article(Italiano) Storia: Epoche o Andamenti – La Spagna Medievale
Johan Galtung – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
La storia si dispiega sul tempo o nel tempo, la variabile fondamentale, l’asse delle X. Gli eventi sono punti. Gli andamenti sono curve di forme diverse, non necessariamente continue, possono anche essere ‘intermittenti’. E gli stati permanenti sono linee orizzontali fissate a un determinato valore. Punti, curve, linee; con i libri a indicare relazioni altamente complesse di antefatto-fatto-effetto.
→ read full article(Italiano) Pace fra Cina e Giappone
Johan Galtung – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Tema base: Nuova visione di pace in Est-Asia – Dialogo di pace Sino-Giapponese. Nanjing, 22-23 Feb 2017 ~ Come insegna la filosofia buddhista, la pace, come la violenza e il conflitto, è una relazione; non un attributo della Cina o del Giappone. Come insegna la filosofia taoista, in un holon [=insieme, ndt] come l’Est-Asia ci sono forze e controforze, yin/yang, con yin e yang in entrambi [gli opposti], & così via.
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