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India´s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Today “governability” is standardly defined as the overall capacity for governance of any societal entity or system. This definition has the defect of being somewhat circular since it uses the word “governance” to define the word “governability.” But before busying ourselves with improving the definition of the word, let us instead look at some of the important issues at stake in governability-talk.
→ read full article48 Countries March Against Monsanto
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Global anti-Monsanto protests have been spurred by a recent WHO warning that the company’s signature herbicide “probably” causes cancer.
→ read full articleNSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store and Plant Malware on All Android Apps
TechWorm – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Spy agencies planned to target mobile phones by hacking and hijacking Google and Samsung App store to implant spyware.
→ read full articleRalph Waldo Emerson on Small Mercies, the True Measure of Wisdom, and How to Live with Maximum Aliveness
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.” In contemplating the shortness of life, Seneca considered what it takes to live wide rather than long.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
June 1-7 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Beware the bareness of a busy life.” – Socrates
→ read full articleFinance like a Cancer Grows
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
To bail out the banks, the world has collectively spent around 4 trillion dollars of taxpayers’ money. It is astonishing that every week we see action being taken in various part of the world against the financial sector, without any noticeable reaction of public opinion. The “new ethic” is in reality a cancer, and it is metastasising rapidly
→ read full article(Italiano) Sulla violenza: suicidio, omicidio – e l’uno e l’altro
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Ciò non vale per il terrorismo di stato a terra o dall’aria: l’omicidio di decine, centinaia di migliaia senza incorrere in rischi, né suicidi incorporati nell’atto, cioè più come un lavoro d’ufficio. Seppure il suicidio può arrivare in seguito, odiandosi per gli omicidi commessi.
→ read full articleUS Drops Cuba from Terrorism List
Jesse Byrnes, The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The State Department formally dropped Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism on Friday [29 May 2015] after more than three decades. Removing Cuba from the list paves the way for diplomatic recognition and the opening of embassies. Lifting the full U.S. trade embargo requires congressional action.
→ read full articleA Bit Here a Bit There
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Get up and stand up
A bit here and a bit there
The body walks
The mind flies
Separate but together
Demands
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
A group of terrorists burst into the Annual Convention of the American Bar Association at the New York Hilton Hotel and took three hundred lawyers as hostages.
→ read full articlePost Disaster Rebuilding of Nepal: Forward Thinking
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
The suggested approach is timely for Nepal would not want to stagger like other countries which faced large disasters. Lessons from unsatisfactory response and weak coordination during the hurricane Katarina, earthquake in Haiti and typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines should guide response to the crisis.
→ read full articleFailure of the US Coup d’État in Macedonia
Thierry Meyssan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
23 May 2015 – Macedonia has just neutralised an armed group whose sponsors had been under surveillance for at least eight months and has prevented a new attempt at a coup d’État planned by Washington for the 17th of May. The aim was to spread the chaos already infecting Ukraine into Macedonia in order to stall the passage of a Russian gas pipeline to the European Union.
→ read full articleThe Long Shadow of War: The Struggle for Justice in Postwar Sri Lanka – Report
Oakland Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
This report, authored by Anuradha Mittal, is based on research and fieldwork conducted between January 2014 and April 2015. We are grateful to individuals who assisted with research and fieldwork in Sri Lanka, who remain unnamed to ensure their safety.
→ read full articleConsider the Octopus: A Little Boy’s Moving Case against Eating Animals
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
A ‘food’ — this exquisite masterwork of evolution, this intelligent alien with an order of consciousness so beyond ours that we can barely begin to grasp its extent with the clumsy and insensitive tentacles of our moral imagination. Disarming wisdom from a tiny-bodied, huge-hearted human animal.
→ read full articleResearchers Discover a 40.000-Year-Old Bracelet Made by an Extinct Human Species
EWAO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
May 19, 2015 – It is one of the most incredible discoveries in recent years, confirming that we have actually very little knowledge of our distant past. Researchers have discovered the bracelet at Denisova Cave in Siberia, near Russia’s border with China and Mongolia.
→ read full articleA Color Revolution for Macedonia
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
22 May 2015 – During the Cold War Washington was concerned about communists fomenting street protests that they could turn into revolutions, with groomed politicians waiting in the wings to take over the new government, thus expanding the Soviet empire. Today this is precisely what Washington does. Why is Washington interested in controlling Macedonia?
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele, Germania, e tre vicini parenti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Nel bel mezzo del Medio Oriente c’è Israele, che culla sogni di un Israele ancor più grande che quello di re Davide. Gli stati seguiranno l’autorità morale del mondo d’oggi, papa Francesco, temendo di riconoscere la Palestina troppo tardi, tanto quanto temevano di farlo troppo presto. Il sionismo di Netanyahu è sconfitto, non militarmente ma moralmente.
→ read full articleScientific Responsibility in Counting the War Dead – A Response to Washington Post and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The more I looked into the matter, the more perturbed I became by Iraq Body Count’s odd relationships to US and European government agencies, questionable public statements, and pathological obsession with defending IBC methodologies. My investigation showed, for the first time, that Spagat’s work itself is false, fraudulent, and unreliable.
→ read full articleAnthem to Human Love
Guy Crequie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
For The Harmony of Our Lives
→ read full articleThe Oak Tree and the Reed Grass
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A mighty oak tree ridiculed the soft thin reed grass bending back and forth in the lake.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’anno 2015: rapporto sul primo quadrimestre
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
La Cina è proattiva nei “cortili” UE e USA; realizzando guadagni in modo nonviolento quando altri ci perdono violentemente per inazione e sfruttamento. Perché? Forse la Cina considera Africa e America Latina in ascesa come più competitive che UE e USA in declino; pensando in grande, a lungo termine, come fanno loro.
→ read full articleTexans Propose to Adopt Threatened African Rhinos
Lisa Vives, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
May 13 2015 -Thefts, murders and mutilation of Africa’s wildlife, from white rhinos to elephants with their prized horns and tusks, are at an all-time high, say conservationists who are keeping track of the poaching of species by fortune-seeking hunters.
→ read full articleWhistleblower Warns on Safety of UK Nukes, Goes on the Run
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
17 May 2015 – A UK Navy Seaman has warned that the UK’s nuclear submarine system, Trident, are a “disaster waiting to happen” and is now in hiding. In coming months, the UK government will decide whether to spend £100bn (US$150bn) on upgrading its nuclear weapons system.
→ read full articleWomen and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The two great ecological challenges of our times are biodiversity erosion and climate change. And both are interconnected, in their causes and their solutions. Industrial agiculture is the biggest contributor to biodiversity erosion as well as to climate change. According to the United Nations, 93% of all plant variety has disappeared over the last 80 years.
→ read full articleWhy Aren’t the Banksters in Prison?
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The financial impact on JPMorgan and the other banks for pleading guilty to a felony will be effectively zero. As part of the deal, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued waivers exempting the banks from the legal repercussions arising from their status as criminal organizations, giving them continued preferential treatment in issuing debt, as well as the continued right to operate mutual funds.
→ read full articleHow to Make Use of Our Suffering: Simone Weil on Ameliorating Our Experience of Pain, Hunger, Fatigue, and All That Makes the Soul Cry
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
There is almost a Buddhist undertone to Weil’s insistence on accepting everything that is, as it is, without compounding pain with “the second arrow” of our tendency to resist any unpleasantness and judge it as a kind of personal failure, which in turn precipitates an even graver sense of dissatisfaction.
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Dear Future Generations: Sorry (Legendado em Português)
Prince Ea – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
An Apology Letter to Future Generations (Um Pedido de Desculpas às Gerações Futuras)
→ read full articleChecking for Accuracy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
→ read full articleMinorities Threatened More by Governments than Terrorist Groups, Says Study
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A new study released Wednesday [20 May 2015] by the London-based Minority Rights Group International says populations in the region were more at risk from their own governments.
→ read full articleAn Impact Assessment of a Great Earthquake in Nepal
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25, 2015 disrupted the lives of nine million people – almost a third of the population. A second one of magnitude 7.3 on May 12 further complicated getting aid to survivors mainly in the central Nepal. Thus, the challenge of quake is being turned to opportunity to make a new Nepal forming a national Government headed by a clean, dynamic and honest leadership.
→ read full articleMegadeath [Rhino-Elephant-Hippo Extinction]
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The destruction of some of the last of the huge animals that shaped us inflicts a great wound in our lives.
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Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Overture (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Boston Symphony Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
→ read full articleImplications for Australia of Aljazeera Program Condoning Genocide in Syria
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The program targeted an Arabic speaking audience, and it would have a significant number of viewers in Australia. The host of the Al-Jazeera program and one guest express support for the killing of Alawis in Syria. They do not exclude women and children.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
May 25-31 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” – Richard Bach
→ read full articlePalmyra, Syria: Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Periods of Armed Conflict
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
It seems that the ISIS forces have taken control of the city and some of the area around it. Thus, the Appeal of the Association of World Citizens must be addressed to its leadership, although the AWC has no direct communication avenues to the ISIS. The protection of the cultural heritage of humanity is an important element of world law binding on States, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals.
→ read full articleU.S. Honeybee Population Plummets by More Than 40%, USDA Finds
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
According to the latest annual government study, U.S. beekeepers reported losing 42.1 percent of the total number of colonies managed from April 2014 through April 2015, much higher than the 34.2 percent from the year prior.
→ read full articleGovernor of Japan’s Okinawa to Press U.S. for Removal of Base
Elaine Lies, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The governor of the Japanese island of Okinawa said on Wednesday [20 May 2015] he will travel to the United States next week to press his demand that a U.S. military base be removed from his island to lighten the burden of a people weary of hosting U.S. troops.
→ read full articlePeace Education: Source of National Unity and Global Harmony
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Peace education consists in enabling people to lead a happy life through the development of their human resources for constructive purposes.
→ read full articleUS Press Blacks Out Israeli Defense Minister’s Citation of ‘Nagasaki and Hiroshima’ as Model for Dealing with Iran
Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
“I do remember the story of President Truman was asked, How do you feel after deciding to launch the nuclear bombs, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, causing at the end the fatalities of 200,000, casualties? And he said, When I heard from my officers the alternative is a long war with Japan, with potential fatalities of a couple of millions, I thought it is a moral decision. We are not there yet. But that what I’m talking about.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Itaca
C. P. Cavafis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Ten siempre a Itaca en tu mente.
Llegar allí es tu destino.
Mas no apresures nunca el viaje.
On Being Sane in Insane Places: “If Sanity and Insanity Exist, How Shall We Know Them?”
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The now famous (some offended or embarrassed psychiatrists preferred to call it “infamous”) experiment that was carried out involved 12 different psychiatric hospitals and 8 different people, mostly professionals (including the author). Each of the eight were totally and certifiably sane “pseudo-patients”.
→ read full articleThe Path to Zero: Dialogues on Nuclear Dangers – A Review
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The Path to Zero: Dialogues on Nuclear Dangers, by Richard Falk and David Krieger – This book ought to be required reading for college students everywhere in the world, and also for decision-makers. It shakes us out of our complacency and makes us realize that widespread, immediate and dedicated public action is urgently needed if we are to save human civilization and the biosphere from a thermonuclear catastrophe.
→ read full articleCompassion Fatigue?
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
So did humans develop compassion fatigue and does this bode ill for our future as a species? I do not know and cannot predict the future. I can only act against the negative trends and draw closer to other activists. When we do find people who still cares, we latch onto them and try to do something together to keep our sanity. We must never give up. We must “stay human” as Vittorio used to write to us.
→ read full articleFugitive Facts Escape from American Psychological Association Headquarters – Colluding with Torturers
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Although preliminary reports have now identified many of the fugitive facts, the APA continues to warn that extreme caution should be exercised until the Association has provided specific safety guidelines. Without adequate precautions, close contact has been linked to a variety of psychological symptoms, including denial, defensiveness, and despair.
→ read full article(Português) Cuba já Tem Vacina Contra Cancro [Cancer] do Pulmão
Notícias ao Minuto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Esta descoberta pode salvar milhões de vidas em todo o mundo.
→ read full articleThe Journalism and Scholarship of Attachment – Ethiopia, Africa
Tedla D. Tekle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The journalism or academia of attachment has been widely popularised by Martin Bell in the 1990s, however the genre had existed even before he officialised it. The argument of this genre of journalism, it does work well in the academic sector too, is that journalists or academics can be neutral and objective but they should not remain detached in the face of injustice.
→ read full articlePeace Is What We Make of It? Peace-Shaping Events and ‘Non-Events’
Gëzim Visoka, Pax in Nuce – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Almost all post-conflict societies that have been subject to liberal peace experiments continue to suffer from dysfunctional democracy, ethnic disagreements, and under-development. This raises the question.
→ read full article(русский-Russian) Вашингтон признал, что поддерживал радикальных исламистов в Сирии
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Как отмечает в своей статье обозреватель НВО Тони Карталучи, как отмечается в одной из недавних публикаций авторитетного Брукингского института, который является одним из главных центров геополитического планирования в США, на территории Турции на протяжении долгого времени действовал (и продолжает действовать по сей день) командный центр разведки США, который осуществлял контроль за всеми операциями поддерживаемых США различных групп, включая ИГИЛ и так называемую «умеренную оппозицию».
→ read full articleLouise Diamond: ‘The Courage for Peace’
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
24 May 2015 – From TMS editor: As a memorial to a peace worker known for her efforts at multi-track diplomacy and on the relations between inner and outer peace, we publish this review of ‘The Courage for Peace’ by Louise Diamond, who passed away this week.
→ read full articleThe 30-Meter Telescope Project on Top of Mauna Kea, Hawai’i Sacred Mountain
Karin Louise Hermes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
This isn’t about being “local” to the islands, this is about being sprung from the kalo and the earth. This is about defining oneself and one’s culture from the life of the land, the kama‘āina. The concept of cultural identity being tied to the land is shared with many indigenous cultures.
→ read full article18 May: International Museum Day – The Advancement of Learning and Culture
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
18 May has been designated by UNESCO as the International Day of Museums to highlight the role that museums play in preserving beauty, culture, and history. We have seen the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage in the museum of Mosul by ISIS factions. Today, there is deep concern for Palmyra as ISIS and government troops battle near Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
→ read full articleFukushima Workshop at the World Uranium Symposium in Quebec City
Fairewinds Energy Education – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
April 2015 – Fairewinds chief engineer Arnie Gundersen introduces new scientific evidence to prove high radiation exposures in Japan due to the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster.
→ read full articleThai Military Sends Boat Carrying Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees “Out to Sea”
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
16 May 2015 – An aging fishing boat packed with hundreds of refugees, mostly ethnic Rohingya fleeing poverty and violent persecution in Myanmar (Burma), is drifting further out to sea on Friday [15 May 2015], after the government in Thailand prevented them from reaching land.
→ read full articleIsrael to Force Bedouin Village to Pay for Its Own Demolition
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The Israeli state is claiming that the town, razed to the ground 83 times, should pay for the 1,000 police deployed to carry out the destruction.
→ read full articleThe Fog of Empire
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Surprising win for Cameron with greater mandate
Right-wing ideology dominates discourse in Britain
Transcendent Integrity via Dynamic Configuration of Sub-Understandings?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Interactive Orbital Animations of World Views Using Data-Driven Documents – The domains tentatively explored as an illustration for comprehension of some form of transcendent integration include: world religions, philosophies, natural sciences, cultural modalities, cognitive modalities, ruling elites, global governance, environmental conditions, conditions of change.
→ read full articleMay 18-UNESCO International Museum Day
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Further, the Vatican will now recognize the State of Palestine. Things are changing and Zionists need to realize that they can change nicely to move towards justice and equality or they will be forced to do so. The USA, the largest enabler of this rogue “Jewish state,” needs to change its foreign policy very quickly.
→ read full articleNGOs Urge Commission of Inquiry to Probe Sexual Abuse in U.N. Peacekeeping
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
“The truth is startling and simple: No new mechanisms, no new methods of operation, no new policies can ever work in practice to prevent or punish sex abusers on staff who commit sexual offenses at present, because the U.N. bureaucracy responsible for implementing changes is completely dysfunctional.” — Paula Donovan, co-director at AIDS-Free World
→ read full articleBoatloads of Migrants Could Soon Be ‘Floating Graveyard’ on Southeast Asian Waters
Kanya D'Almeida, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
“We don’t have a flotilla to go out and help them, but there are plenty of countries in the region that do, and plenty of reasons for them to do it – if they don’t, they’ll be dealing with a floating graveyard soon, rather than a flotilla of ships.” — Leonard Doyle, director of media and communications for the International Organisation for Migration.
→ read full articleHonesty and Insight
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
An Indian Guru realized that he was getting old and could not teach much longer.
→ read full articleU.S. Hosts Arms Bazaar at White House Arab Summit
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
According to Colin Kahl, national security advisor to Vice-President Joe Biden, the United Arab Emirates flies the most advanced U.S.-made F-16 fighter planes in the world. “They’re more advanced than the ones our Air Force flies,” he told reporters, without going into specifics.
→ read full articleDon’t Think the US Military Is Concerned with the Climate? Think Again
Dane Wigington, Geoengineering Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
All available data indicates that the US military has been experimenting with weather modification for over 60 years. Their interest and involvement with climate engineering is all about power and control. There is nothing benevolent behind manipulating Earth’s life support systems.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks: German Government Aided NSA Spying in Europe
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
A new document contradicts the German government’s claims that it was not aware of the NSA spying activities in Europe. The government of Angela Merkel actively helped the massive surveillance of the U.S. National Security Office, WikiLeaks revealed on Tuesday [12 May 2015].
→ read full articleVatican Recognizes State of Palestine in New Treaty
Nicole Winfield, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The Vatican officially recognized the state of Palestine in a new treaty finalized Wednesday [13 May 2015], immediately sparking Israeli ire and accusations that the move hurt peace prospects.
→ read full articleA New Dark Age of Militarism
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
13 May 2015 – “What struck me,” journalist Christian Parenti said in a recent Truthout interview, referring to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, “was the fact that these local towns and states around the region were sending the only resources they had to New Orleans: weapons and militarized gear.
→ read full articleAluminum Toxicity and Vaccines – Recent Basic Neuroscience Research
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Connecting Vaccine Adjuvants and Mitochondrial Injury with Autism, Alzheimer’s Dementia, Autoimmune Disorders, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Gulf War Syndrome, ASIA Syndrome, Schizophrenia, Diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
→ read full articleDrone Warfare in ‘Good Kill’
David Walsh, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
‘Good Kill’ opens in theaters in the US on May 15 [2015]. A roundtable interview with writer-director Andrew Niccol and actor Ethan Hawke. Drone strikes carried out by the US military and CIA have killed thousands of civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and other countries. The barbaric strikes are illegal under international and US law and amount to war crimes.
→ read full articleUS and China Approaching Military Standoff in the South China Sea as Obama Fights for Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Ian Ralby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The security situation in the vital Pacific basin trade route is escalating rapidly at the same time that tensions are rising in Washington over Obama’s Pacific trade pact.
→ read full articleThe Lyric You Write and the Song You Sing
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The sky wrote an amazing lyric
The cloud composed a heavenly melody
In the night I saw the moon sings softy
With the chorus stars all around
The Secret Corporate Takeover
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Economics Nobel Joseph E. Stiglitz shows why today’s “trade” agreements are about much more than free trade.
→ read full articleLife-Saving Drugs for All
Peter Singer, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
A proposal to create incentives to develop treatments for poor people’s diseases. A company that develops a product would earn a share of reward money based on its share of the health improvements achieved by all the products competing for the available funds.
→ read full articleIsraeli Court Says Arab Village Must Make Way for Jewish Town
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
15 May 2015 – Israel’s Palestinian minority is preparing to hold a “day of rage” to protest against a court ruling last week that cleared the way to destroy an entire Bedouin village so that it can be replaced by a Jewish town. Palestinian minority fears decision will revive legislation to drive tens of thousands of Bedouin off their lands in Negev.
→ read full articleUS “Operation Rooms” Backing Al Qaeda in Syria
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
US policy think-tank Brookings Institution confirms that contrary to propaganda, US-Saudi “moderates” and Turkey-Qatar “Islamists” have been coordinating all along.
→ read full articleArriving
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
The director of a prison tells the warden, “Tomorrow, everything has to be perfectly clean, the chief justice is coming.”
→ read full articleCanada Approves Nuclear Waste Site on Great Lakes Shore
Sputinik International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
A Canadian advisory panel on Wednesday [6 May 2015] approved a plan to bury nuclear waste at a site just steps away from Lake Huron, saying it had concluded the project would pose no danger to the environment.
→ read full articleRichard Feynman on Science vs. Religion and Why Uncertainty Is Central to Morality
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
“It is impossible to find an answer which someday will not be found to be wrong. I do not believe that science can disprove the existence of God; I think that is impossible. And if it is impossible, is not a belief in science and in a God — an ordinary God of religion — a consistent possibility?”
→ read full articleProtecting and Restoring Syria’s Trains, Part of Her Cultural Heritage
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
With Daish (ISIS) advancing (5/15/2015) toward the gates of Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmur), an irreplaceable treasure for the Syrian people and for the world, where this observer has been honored to spend many inspiring awe-filled hours these past few years observing and contemplating its unique blend of Greco-Roman and Persian influences, another global archeological tragedy may be unfolding.
→ read full articleParodies of Parity: Israel & Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Peace will come to Israel and Palestine, and be sustained, if and only if the oppressor becomes ready to dismantle its oppressive regime by withdrawing, not merely by disengaging Gaza style. So long as this is not so, direct negotiations and these periodic calls issued by Washington to resume direct talks have one main effect–to free Israel to realize its ambition to establish ‘Greater Israel’ while keeping the Palestinians in chains.
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Microbeads – The Story of Stuff Project
storyofstuffproject – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
In two quick minutes we let viewers know all about microbeads—the tiny bits of plastic increasingly found in everything from facial scrubs and soap to toothpaste and makeup. Microbeads escape most water treatment plants and end up in our rivers, lakes and oceans by the billions.
→ read full articleTargeting Solutions Rather Than Crises, a San Francisco Gathering Asks, “What’s Possible?”
Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
15 May 2015 – At a time of overwhelming discontent with our leaders, our businesses, corporate media, freedom of speech and privacy, health, healthcare and wellness, could there be a brighter light at the end of the tunnel? A gathering of people from around the world at the first ever event known as PossibL, happening later this month in San Francisco, hopes the answer to be Yes.
→ read full article(Français) Partenariat Trans-Pacifique et mort de la République
Ellen Brown, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
La juge Ellen Brown relève comment cet accord ferait passer le droit des multinationales avant celui des citoyens. Un problème qui se pose aussi à travers le TTIP.
→ read full articleNepal’s Enforced Disappearance Commission: Roles of International Community
Dr. Bishnu Pathak - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Enforced disappearance has been a long, but a neglected history in Nepal. It is derived from the laws of war where a person secretly arrest, detain, torture and disappear either by a State or armed force refusing to acknowledge whereabouts of his/her fate. The force tries hard to decompose the dead body in such a way not to ever be found.
→ read full articleWhy I Teach Evolution to Muslim Students
Rana Dajani, Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
Encouraging students to challenge ideas is crucial to fostering a generation of Muslim scientists who are free thinkers. “As educators, our objective is to help students to become independent thinkers.”
→ read full articleObama Administration Approves Shell’s Plan to Drill in the Arctic
Cole Mellino, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
11 May 2015 – The Obama administration gave conditional approval today to Shell to start drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean this summer. Shell has been fighting for the right to drill in the Arctic for years, despite a number of botched forays in recent years, and it looks like they are still going to get their way.
→ read full articleVictory! Court Throws Out Nun’s Sabotage Conviction for Nuclear Site Break-In
Carrie Johnson, NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
13 May 2015 – From the moment she was taken into custody in 2012, outside a building that stores enriched uranium, Sister Megan Rice has argued she has been driven by a desire to spread a message. “We all know that nuclear energy is linked inextricably with nuclear weapons.”
→ read full articleThe Blindness of the European Union in the Face of US Military Strategy
Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
EU officials are completely wrong regarding Islamist attacks in Europe and the migration to the Union of people fleeing wars. All this is not the accidental consequence of conflict in the broader Middle East and Africa, but a strategic objective of the United States. Chaos is not an accident, it is the goal.
→ read full articleChanges to the List of States Supporting Terrorism
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Dear Mr. President, as you will be aware, your decision to remove Cuba from the List of States Supporting Terrorism leaves a depleted List, consisting of only three countries: Iran, Syria, and North Korea.
→ read full articleTechno-Financial Capital and Genocide of the Poorest of the Poor
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Today, the ‘poorest of the poor’ are superfluous to empire and thus the policy of genocide. The current world war between the classes has become a war between exterminators and those who would fight to survive!
→ read full articleThe Year 2015: First Third Report
Johan Galtung, 11 May 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A third of the year 2015 has now passed; let us take stock.
→ read full articleThe Capitalist Culture Is Contrary to Life and Happiness
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Where is the genius of capitalism found? In the exacerbation of the ego to the maximum possible extent, of the individual and of self-affirmation, neglecting the greater whole, integration and the “we”. In this way it has thrown off balance all of human existence, due to the excess of one force, ignoring the other.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Mitochondrial Collateral Damage Thanks to Big Pharma
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
About the multitude of common iatrogenic (drug- or doctor-caused) diseases that can be caused by the commonly prescribed drugs and/or commonly injected vaccine ingredients that are making many of us highly drugged, malnourished, environmentally-toxic and also thoroughly vaccinated.
→ read full articleA Blueprint for Greece’s Recovery
Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Months of negotiations have produced little progress. One reason is that all sides are focusing too much on the strings to be attached to the next liquidity injection and not enough on a vision of how Greece can recover and develop sustainably. If we are to break the current impasse, we must envisage a healthy Greek economy.
→ read full articleLove and Resistance by Theresa Wolfwood
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The poems by Theresa Wolfwood in ‘Love and Resistance’ are an historic contribution to our art of poetry, which is denied a place in the mainstream discourse on human conflicts, social justice, poverty and the bombing of civilians globally in the name of national security.
→ read full articlePeace Lessons: How to Reduce Violence
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
If you are interested in learning more about the meaning of, and the relationships among, direct, structural and cultural violence–particularly developed by Professor Johan Galtung–and how one peace studies scholar suggests we use the integrative power of nonviolence to address violence constructively, then I suggest you read the new book by historian, playwright and novelist Professor Timothy Braatz called ‘Peace Lessons’.
→ read full articleU.S. Reveals It Has Known About Israel’s Nuclear Program for Over 50 Years
The National Security Archive, George Washington University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
April 15, 2015 – Despite denials for decades, the U.S. has finally declassified information affirming its knowledge of Israel’s Dimona nuclear program since 1960. Included in the report are a myriad of other documents indicating dubious practices on the part of the U.S., Israel, the UK and even international agencies.
→ read full article(Italiano) La strana leggerezza della storia
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, ZNet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Alcune persone sono proprio troppo piccole per essere umane è forse è accaduto sempre così. Ma da quando la modernità occidentale è cresciuta tanto da abbracciare tutto il mondo grazie al colonialismo e al capitalismo, la contraddizione tra l’uguale dignità per tutti gli esseri umani e il trattamento inumano di alcuni gruppi sociali, ha assunto la forma di una frattura abissale dove moltissimo sangue è stato versato e molta ipocrisia è stata distillata.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Finally Brings Back Its Submission System for Your Secrets
Andy Greenberg, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
It’s taken close to half a decade. But WikiLeaks is back in the business of accepting truly anonymous leaks.
→ read full articleIt Is Time to Call Radio “Liberty” What It Is: Radio Gestapo Amerika
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
6 May 2015 – Radio “Liberty” has always been a propaganda ministry. Formerly its propaganda was directed against the Soviet Union. Today it is directed against distinguished Americans who are known and respected for their allegiance to the truth. It has declared America’s most distinguished Russian scholar, Stephen Cohen, to be “a Putin apologist.” He is a professor of Russian studies at both Princeton University and New York University and was advisor to President George Herbert Walker Bush. Mikhail Gorbachev also trusted Cohen, and little doubt that Cohen helped to bring about the end of the Cold War.
→ read full articleContaining Fukushima Is “Beyond Current Technology”. Worldwide Radiation is the Unspoken Consequence
Washington's Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
“The Chief of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Has Admitted That the Technology Needed to Decommission Three Melted-Down Reactors Does Not Exist, and He Has No Idea How It Will Be Developed”
→ read full articleWhite on White Violence [SATIRE]
Chris Hayes, MSNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Chris Hayes Spoofs White Power Structure Has No Clue How to Stop Culture of White on White Violence
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