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Why 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.
→ read full articleIslamophobia Redux in Myanmar
David Scott Mathieson – Asia Times,
8 May 2017
[Nobel Peace Laureate] National leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s studied silence amid a new uptick in anti-Muslim sentiment is the latest mark on her elected government’s rights record.
→ read full articleGermany Breaks Record: 85% of Energy Comes from Renewables Last Weekend
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
4 May 2017 – Germany’s “Energiewende”—the country’s low-carbon energy revolution—turned another successful corner last weekend when renewable energy sources nearly stamped out coal and nuclear.
→ read full articleAdapting to Doom
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
No comment…
→ read full article(Português) Estudo revela que o café pode ajudar a diminuir o risco de cancro da próstata
Sapo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
30 abril 2017 – Esta pesquisa foi realizada e concluída por especialistas do Instituto Neurologico Mediteraneo de Pozzilli, em conjunto com o Instituto Superior de Saúde e com o Instituto Dermopativo dell’Immacolata de Roma, conduzida por George Pounis e publicada na revista Internacional Journal of Cancer.
→ read full articleThe CIA Has a Long History of Killing or Trying to Kill Leaders around the World
Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
8 May 2017
US intelligence agency has since 1945 succeeded in deposing or killing a string of leaders, but was forced to cut back after a Senate investigation in the 1970s. The US never totally abandoned the strategy, simply changing the terminology from assassination to targeted killings, from aerial bombing of presidents to drone attacks on alleged terrorist leaders.
→ read full articleJust Because the Golden Arches Are in Vietnam Doesn’t Mean the US Won the War
Mark Ashwill – CounterPunch,
8 May 2017
5 May 2017 – As we reflect on the 42nd anniversary of the merciful and jubilant end of the American War in Viet Nam, I have good news to share with US Americans, especially those who remember, or came of age in, that turbulent era: Viet Nam is alive and well and, indeed, prospering in many respects. In fact, it’s faring better than the superpower it defeated in terms of optimism, dynamism, and hope.
→ read full articleOne, Two, Three – Rejoice!
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
This year’s Independence Day, last Tuesday [2 May], was not a very happy affair. The holiday was subdued, even sad. Old-timers felt that “this is not our state anymore”, that “they” have stolen Israel”. “They” – the rightists. One of the reasons may be that there is no real unity any more. Israeli society has fallen apart into a number of sub-societies, which have less and less in common.
→ read full articleMarching in Circles: Faustian Thinking and the Myth of Science
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Nature and all living creatures, including ourselves, have become our enemies and are rejected as ends in themselves. Everything and everyone is a means. We must bomb, bulldoze, manipulate, drug, control, poison, etc. – all in the service of a diabolical willfulness that brooks no resistance.
→ read full articlePsychosocial Transformation by “Pill Pushing”?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
At the time of writing, a primary theme of the cult movie The Matrix offers pointers to an unusual way of reframing engagement with the current challenges of society. The movie highlights the choice between the Red Pill and the Blue Pill, namely a choice between enabling knowledge, freedom and the sometimes painful recognition of reality — in contrast with a blue pill reinforcing more-of-the-same, namely falsehood, security and blissful ignorance of illusion.
→ read full articleChronic Fatigue Syndromes, POTS and the Dangers of Aluminum-adjuvanted Vaccines like Gardisil
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Cognitive deficits did not correlate with pain, fatigue, depression, or disease duration. Pathophysiological mechanisms underlying MACD remain to be determined. In conclusion, long-term persistence of vaccine-derived aluminum hydroxide within the body assessed by MMF is associated with cognitive dysfunction, not solely due to chronic pain, fatigue and depression.
→ read full articleThe Arctic as It Is Known Today Is Almost Certainly Gone
The Economist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
On Current Trends the Arctic Will Be Ice-Free in Summer by 2040
→ read full articleIn Yemen, Shocked to His Bones
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
5 May 2017 – Yemen stands as the worst-threatened of four countries where impending famine comprise the single-worst humanitarian crisis since the founding of the U.N. On 2 May 2017, the UN published a grim infographic detailing conditions in Yemen where 17 million Yemenis — or around 60 percent of the population — are unable to access food. The U.S. and its allies continue to bomb Yemen.
→ read full articleAn America without Nuclear Power
David Gattie and Scott Jones | Forbes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
[From TMS editor: We do not endorse the authors’ arguments and viewpoints. The point is the discussion about the nuclear—energy/weapons–issue.]
This is not an issue of nuclear versus renewables—both should occupy space in the U.S. portfolio. This is an issue of national security and global leadership, and U.S. policymakers should work aggressively with U.S. industry to ensure that nuclear power remains viable. An America without nuclear power is a less secure America and a globally less relevant America.
People Choosing Peace: Ayuel Madut, South Sudan
Ochan Hannington | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
I fought alongside the Sudan People’s Liberation Army that later took power in South Sudan. During the guerrilla war I was a child soldier. At such a young age I thought I fully understood the reasons for fighting the Khartoum government, which was our “enemy” then.
→ read full article20 Foods High in Provitamin A
Dr. Atli Arnarson | Authority Nutrition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin that plays an essential role in maintaining vision, body growth, immune function and reproductive health.
→ read full articleGroundwater Drunk by BILLIONS of People May Be Contaminated by Radioactive Material Spread across the World by Nuclear Testing in the 1950s
Shivali Best – The Daily Mail,
8 May 2017
Researchers looked at groundwater from over 6,000 wells around the globe
They found traces of radioactive tritium in over half of the wells
Even at low doses, tritium has been linked with increased risk of cancer
UN Peacekeepers: Keeping the Peace or Preventing It?
Nimmi Gowrinathan and Kate Cronin-Furman – Al Jazeera,
8 May 2017
The UN peacekeepers’ capacity to commit rape with impunity undermines prospects for sustainable peace around the world.
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American Military Cancer Spread throughout the World
ClassWarFilms – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Prof. Johan Galtung’s prophetic book The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? US Fascism or US Blossoming? is proving right on the first part of the third question.
→ read full articleHow Israel’s Violent Birth Destroyed Palestine
Ramzy Baroud – Al Jazeera,
8 May 2017
As Israel celebrates the Palestinian Nakba as its triumphant independence on May 1, it is preparing for a massive celebration for the 50th anniversary of its occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. Two dates are often used to frame the so-called Palestinian-Israeli conflict: Nakba Day on May 15 and Naksa Day on June 5.
→ read full articleLogic
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
A young man from a rural village went to study at the university in the capital.
→ read full articleVault 7: Archimedes
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Today, May 5th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes “Archimedes”, a tool used by the CIA to attack a computer inside a Local Area Network (LAN), usually used in offices. It allows the re-directing of traffic from the target computer inside the LAN through a computer infected with this malware and controlled by the CIA.
→ read full articleWe Hope for Miracle
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
We hope for miracle,
When a giant wave
Splits into chips our ship,
Oliver Stone Honored with Press Freedom Award
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
8 May 2017
4 May 2017 – Though most people know Oliver Stone as a famous screenwriter and movie director, he has also lent his talents and resources to a number of documentary films that embrace the core journalistic idea that there are usually two sides – if not more – to a story.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report 10 (Apr 2017)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ together with a sample of news about Charter signatories and organizations. Our collective effort to build a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts continues to make progress, even against rather overwhelming odds!
→ read full articleAn Encyclical That Will Dignify Humanity: An Anticipatory Plea
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Pope Francis` contribution to World Peace will never cease
if as the climax of his papacy he writes an Encyclical on Nonviolent Peace
(Italiano) Ridurre la violenza urbana
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Per ridurre la violenza diretta nelle città dobbiamo convertirci da una cultura della violenza urbana ad una cultura della pace urbana e dalla violenza strutturale urbana ad una struttura di pace. I nomi delle strade non devono glorificare guerre ed eroi violenti bensì la pace e i suoi eroi, sovente donne. Si spostino i monumenti di guerrieri a cavallo nei pressi dei cimiteri a mo’ di sepolture simboliche.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Messaggio di Pasqua
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Dagli USA di Trump non è stata resurrezione, ma morte. 59 missili Tomahawk per la Siria, la “madre di tutte le bombe” per l’Afghanistan; stati musulmani. Entrambi gli attacchi sono stati giustificati con menzogne. La vecchia menzogna che l’11 settembre 2001 aveva avuto origine in Afghanistan, la nuova menzogna che Assad aveva deliberatamente fatto uso di sarin [i]. La contro-narrazione può reggere – che gli USA hanno fornito il gas e hanno usato l’incidente quale pretesto per attaccare. Vediamo se USA-NATO acconsentono a che venga fatta una inchiesta; se avessero la coscienza pulita, dovrebbero acconsentire.
→ read full articleThe Shame of Killing Innocent People
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The U.S. Congress could put an end to U.S. complicity in the crimes against humanity being committed by military forces in Yemen. Congress could insist that the U.S. stop supplying the Saudi led coalition with weapons, stop helping Saudi jets to refuel, end diplomatic cover for Saudi Arabia, and stop providing the Saudis with intelligence support.
→ read full articleU.S. Missile Madness Hypocrisy
Bruce Gagnon | Space4Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
April 26, 2017
Today the Pentagon
will test fire
a nuclear missile
from Vandenberg AFB
in California
into the Pacific
(Português) Consumo de refrigerantes diet aumenta risco de demência e AVC
Nuno Noronha | Sapo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Bebidas adocicadas artificialmente, como o refrigerante diet, podem aumentar o risco de acidente vascular cerebral e demência, revela uma investigação da Universidade de Boston, publicada na revista científica americana Stroke.
→ read full article(Castellanto) Colaboración internacional para poner fin a la violencia
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Mientras gran parte del mundo está envuelto en violencia de uno u otro tipo (ya sea violencia en el hogar o en la calle, explotación, destrucción ecológica o la guerra), una red global de individuos y organizaciones se han comprometido a ponerle fin a la violencia en todas sus manifestaciones.
→ read full articleIntel Vets Voice Doubts on Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
VIPS-Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity – Consortium News,
1 May 2017
26 Apr 2017 – Two dozen former U.S. intelligence professionals are urging the American people to demand clear evidence that the Syrian government was behind the April 4 chemical incident before President Trump dives deeper into another war.
→ read full article(Italiano) La rete dei Musei per la Pace
Angela Dogliotti e Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
1 May 2017
Si festeggia proprio nel 2017 il 25° anniversario della Rete Internazionale dei Musei per la Pace (International Network of Museums for Peace – INMP) che offre a esperti, educatori, attivisti di ogni parte del mondo l’opportunità di scambiare informazioni, condividere progetti, rafforzare collaborazioni tra strutture – alcune grandi, ben note, finanziate da enti privali e pubblici, altre piccole e basate sul volontariato – ma tutte impegnate a far conoscere e a promuovere iniziative di pace e di riconciliazione.
→ read full articleFamine Creeps In on Africa While the World’s Media Looks Elsewhere
John R Campbell – The Conversation,
1 May 2017
The western media’s focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine that’s unfolding in Africa.
→ read full articleThe Costa Rica Lesson
John Andrews | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Just after Costa Rica had its revolution in 1948, one of the first things its new visionary leader Jose Figueres Ferrer did was scrap its army. Contrary to what one might think, this immediately increased Costa Rica’s security, rather than weakening it, and it’s the only country in an otherwise war-torn part of the world to have had sustained peace and prosperity ever since.
→ read full articleMiddle East, Engulfed by a ‘Perfect Storm’
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
1 May 2017
21 Apr 2017 -Reporting to the UN Security Council on the “dire situation across the Middle East region, marked by the largest refugee crisis since the Second World War, fractured societies, proliferation of non-State actors and unbelievable human suffering,” Nickolay Mladenov, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, reiterated the need for a surge in diplomacy for peace to ease the suffering of innocent civilians.
→ read full articleDamned by Our Victory
Gideon Levy | Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Israel must cloak itself in sorrow over what happened since that terrible summer of 1967, when it won a war and lost nearly everything. 1967 gave birth to the ongoing contempt for the world, the bragging and bullying. “To us all is permitted.”
→ read full articleThe Climate Change System 2017
Prof. Timi Ecimovic and Prof John Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
“The Climate Change System 2017” booklet was written for 8th Danube Academies Conference, 21-22 Sep 2017, Belgrade, by Prof Dr John Avery, Prof Dr, Dr h c Timi Ecimovic, Prof Dr Negoslav Ostojic, Prof Dr Leo Semashko, et al.
→ read full articleRegime Change Buddies: ‘Western Forces Stop Targeting ISIS Fighters once They Cross into Syria’
Mike Raddie - Russia Today,
1 May 2017
24 Apr 2017 – The US has never liberated a Middle Eastern country – ever! And the fear of the civilians in Mosul is understandable considering the indiscriminate carnage occurring there. — Mike Raddie, editor, BSNews, human rights activist.
→ read full articleJapan Should Be More Active Peace Contributor
Shinichi Kitaoka | The Japan News - The Yomiuri Shimbun,
1 May 2017
When Prime Minister Abe committed to making a “more proactive contribution to peace,” some commentators who criticized the new policy for being confusingly similar to the concept of “positive peace” popularized by Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, the father of peace studies. Galtung defined an ordinary state of peace with the absence of war as “negative peace” and a state of peace with the absence of structural violence, such as oppression, poverty and discrimination as “positive peace.”
→ read full articleEndless Atrocities: The US Role in Creating the North Korean Fortress-State
Robert J Barsocchini | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Paul Atwood, a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, provides a concise summary of the history that informs North Korea’s “relations with the United States” and “drives its determination never to submit to any American diktat”… In its full invasion of the North, the US acted under the banner of the UN. However, the UN at that time was “largely under the control of the USA”, and as Prof. Carl Boggs puts it, essentially ‘was’ the USA.
→ read full articleEuropean Country Opens First Concentration Camps for Gay People since Hitler [VIDEO]
Kerry-anne Mendoza | The Canary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
An investigative report by Novaya Gazeta has found that 100 gay men were kidnapped and imprisoned in the world’s first concentration camp for LGBT people since Nazi Germany. Three men were killed during the operation in Chechnya, in Eastern Europe. . In Nazi Germany, Jewish people were ordered to wear a yellow star. Disabled people were forced to wear black triangles. And LGBT people were ordered to wear a pink triangle.
→ read full article(Italiano) Aosta 28 aprile 1945-28 aprile 2017. Lettura collettiva della Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana in Piazza Chanoux
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Il 28 aprile 1945 AOSTA fu liberata dal fascinazismo.
Per opera delle Partigiane e dei Partigiani.
Gli Americani arrivarono il 3 maggio.
Palestinian Prisoners Show the Way in Israel
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Mahatma Gandhi used hunger strike to refocus people away from greed and selfishness to caring for each other. Hunger is painful and people will die sooner or later unless we all act. What is at stake is very high: our own self-respect (dignity) as human beings.
→ read full article“World Domestic Politics”
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
A world focus on the world’s most miserable communities, to lift up the bottom of humanity, is a welfare world we need. Doing that would already be Weltinnenpolitik. Today, not waiting 50+ more years.
→ read full articleEarth Day 2017
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Be advised: this poem may be interrupted
by a nuclear war.
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 Mar 1883)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Karl Heinrich Marx was born in Trier, Germany. His father was a lawyer who came from a long line of Rabbis, but had changed his faith to Protestantism in order to keep his job. Karl Marx went to the University of Bonn to study law when he was 17 years old.
→ read full articleDouble Standards: Do All Journalist Lives Matter?
Shafik Mandhai – Al Jazeera,
1 May 2017
Little attention is paid to reporters from the Global South who are killed, abused, or left stranded by foreign media.
→ read full articleThe Leaves Turned Yellow
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The leaves turned yellow,
Someone in the fall is again in disgrace,
The cold of January is close again,
Vietnam’s Crocodile Skin Industry
PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Warning: Graphic Images of Cruelty – This is the hidden cost of crocodile skin bags, wallets, watches, and other items. Vietnam’s exotic skins trade.
→ read full articleThe Israeli Macron
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Emmanuel Macron (Emmanuel is a Hebrew name, meaning “God is with us”) has won the first round, and there is a strong possibility that he will win the second round, too. This is not just a French affair. It concerns all mankind. First of all, it has broken a spell.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
May 1-7 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “A year from now, you will wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
→ read full articleMedia Is Free, but Is It Fair?
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
In an ideal world, journalism is a profession of incredible integrity. Good journalists are amongst the most dexterous and skilled people in the world—and also the most respected.
→ read full articleHospital Care — Physical and Spiritual
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Recently, I had an opportunity to go to an infectious disease hospital which offers treatment for various diseases for a minimal fee. I was going there with a woman called Usha who works in our home and who had got bitten by a stray dog the previous evening… Yes, in this hospital, medical science and spirituality were both at work to cure patients of their disease and to give them hope, trust and confidence.
→ read full articleVault 7: Scribbles Project
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Today, April 28 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the documentation and source code for CIA’s “Scribbles” project, a document-watermarking preprocessing system to embed “Web beacon”-style tags into documents that are likely to be copied by Insiders, Whistleblowers, Journalists or others.
→ read full articleWorse Than MRSA: Doctors Call for Urgent Action on Deadly Superbug Threat
Madlen Davies - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
1 May 2017
21 Apr 2017 – Doctors are warning that the rise of an almost untreatable superbug, immune to some of the last-line antibiotics available to hospitals, poses a grave threat and needs urgent government action.
→ read full articleAddressing Fractionation: Principles for Arbitrating the “Common Good”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
There is an urgent need for healing the divisive separation of people, societies, and nations. A continuation of the present intentional and unintentional “fractionation” forebodes a tragic future. Humans and the institutions they have created for collective living, now threaten life and lives as they assert selective group domination and control.
→ read full articleNSA-Leaking Shadow Brokers Just Dumped Its Most Damaging Release Yet
Dan Goodin | Ars Tecnica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The Shadow Brokers—the mysterious person or group that over the past eight months has leaked a gigabyte worth of the National Security Agency’s weaponized software exploits—just published its most significant release yet. Friday’s [14 Apr] dump contains potent exploits and hacking tools that target most versions of Microsoft Windows and evidence of sophisticated hacks on the SWIFT banking system of several banks across the world.
→ read full articleAwarding Saudi Arabia Chair on Women’s Rights Commission Makes UN Complicit in Crimes
Marwa Osman – Russia Today,
1 May 2017
25 Apr 2017 – The Saudi Arabia that publicly beheads women and dangles bodies from cranes was just elected to the UN Women’s Rights Commission. After the scandal of re-electing Saudi Arabia to the UN Human Rights Council in 2016, that same Saudi Arabia which has been indiscriminately bombing Yemeni civilians for more than two years, now gets ‘elected’ to the new position. This is not the punchline of a twisted joke, but the intergovernmental UN shaming itself.
→ read full articleA Public Plan for Peace
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
26 Apr 2017 – The American will to wage war — endless war, pointless war, total war — is, I fear, impervious to public opinion and even political action. I fear something is dangerously loose at the American core: a need for endless war combined with a nuclear recklessness uncontained by public scrutiny. The resistance has to go deeper than Trump. At its center we need a public plan for peace.
→ read full articleThe Great Game – Or Peace?
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Although peace has come to have a bad name, these days, although the voices of those against war are branded as traitorous, and all that is great and good seems connected to soldiering, there are many many more of us who want nothing more or less than peace, the noblest of aspirations. There are many many more of us who know that our precious world is anything but a game, “great” or small: it’s all we have.
→ read full articleAir Force One
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Stairway to Hell
→ read full articleThe Plant That Everyone Has, but Nobody Knows That it Makes Cancer Cells Disintegrate within 48 Hours
Native American’s – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Quick – what’s the best use for dandelions? If you’re like most people, you probably can’t think of an answer, or maybe think of dandelion wine – but we’re here to tell you it’s something much, much better!
→ read full articleSpiritual Voices amid the Chaos
Sayde Tawk | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
There is a considerable difference between an institutional religion and a genuine spirituality, where the former is based on rigid rules and rituals while the latter succumbs to the harmonious rhythm of life.
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