Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Two Sea Shepherd Crewmembers Arrested in the Faroe Islands with Assistance of Danish Navy
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015 – Two volunteer crewmembers from the Sea Shepherd ship, Sam Simon, have been arrested in the Faroe Islands. “I made multiple request of the Danish Navy today for information; about whether a grindadráp had been called; about whether our crew had been arrested; and about whether the Farley small boat had been confiscated. Each time, my requests went unanswered.”
→ read full articleDag Hammarskjold (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Crisis Manager and Longer-Range World Community Builder
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Dag Hammarskjold became an expert crisis manager, to the point that there was a common slogan in the UN- “Leave it to Dag”. He liked to work alone but had created a team of people working under him who were highly competent and totally devoted to him.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism – A Global Debate
Meah Mostafiz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
This research paper defines the peace journalism, the difference between traditional journalism and peace journalism, and analyses the factors why Peace Journalism is hard to practice in mainstream media.
→ read full article(Français) Paraguay : Terre d’ eau, grandes propriétés rurales et injustice
Leticia Marinoni, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
13 juillet 2015 – En guarani, le son humain le plus basique se réfère au son de l’ eau: « Y », une sorte de « i » latin fermé entre les dents, comme faisant référence à l’indispensable, l’élément capital pour la respiration, la simple réalité de la vie.
→ read full articleIs the Ugly German Back? Flames of Hate Haunt a Nation
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
During the first six months of this year, right-wing extremists in Germany committed attacks against places housing asylum-seekers on an almost daily basis. Many refugees living in the country fear for their lives.
→ read full articleIt’s Official: New Zealand Recognizes Animals as ‘Sentient Beings’
Vegan Memo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
19 Jul 2015 – The bill also includes banning cosmetic testing on animals, which was recently put into law last month. It also provides for a penalty scheme to enable moderate offending to be handled more effectively, and gives animal welfare inspectors the power to issue compliance notices, among other capacities.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Agreement with Iran: A Nonkilling View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
A Rhymed Reflection
→ read full articleDead Dolphins Found Stranded in Fukushima Have White Radiated Lungs
Neon Nettle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015 – Japanese scientists are dumbfounded by the new discovery after conducting an autopsy on a large group of dolphins washed up on a beach close to the Fukushima Power Plant disaster site.
→ read full articleFive Reasons You Should Eat Probiotic-Rich Fermented Foods
Julia Westbrook, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
7 Jul 2015 – The best way to prevent anxiety—and the stress-induced bellyache that comes along with it—may be to balance your gut bacteria. Eating probiotic-rich fermented foods is associated with less social anxiety, according to a new study published in Psychiatry Research.
→ read full articleThe American Psychological Association, Torture, and the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial
Tom Carter, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
13 Jul 2015 – A 542-page independent report made public by the New York Times on Friday [10 Jul] implicates the American Psychological Association in the CIA torture program. The devastating report not only exposes the involvement of psychologists in torture, but also lifts the curtain on years of lies, conspiracies, and cover-ups reaching to the top of the APA and academia.
→ read full articleCivilian Killings? West Literally Gets Away with Murder
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Jul 16 2015 – The United Nations continues to come under heavy fire for singling out mostly non-Western states for human rights violations while ignoring the misdeeds of Western nations or big powers.
→ read full articleThird Industrial Revolution: In 10 Years, the Cumbersome Great Banks Will Have Disappeared
GEAB-Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The crisis that we are currently experiencing is a systemic crisis. It is affecting and radically transforming the whole system, particularly banks. In political anticipation, it’s important to position these anticipations in the short to medium term within the landscape of long-term trends.
→ read full articleWelcoming the Iran Nuclear Deal and Calling on Israel to Dismantle Its Nuclear Arsenal for a Nuclear-Free Middle East
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
This Agreement is indeed to be welcomed, and it is a triumph for dialogue and diplomacy and proves that problems can be solved at the negotiating table instead of using the unethical, immoral and counter-productive method of military threats and attacks.
→ read full articleThe Problem of Greece Is Not Only a Tragedy. It Is a Lie.
John Pilger - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
13 Jul 2015 – An historic betrayal has consumed Greece. Having set aside the mandate of the Greek electorate, the Syriza government has willfully ignored last week’s landslide “No” vote and secretly agreed a raft of repressive, impoverishing measures in return for a “bailout” that means sinister foreign control and a warning to the world.
→ read full articleThe Treaty
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
What if the wily Persians did not even dream of building an atomic bomb, but used the threat to further their real aims? One of Netanyahu’s arguments is that the Iranians can and will cheat the naive Americans and build the bomb. He is sure that this is possible. Well, he should know. We did it, didn’t we?
→ read full articleA Review of ‘Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine’
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
GAZA WRITES BACK is one of those very rare books that depict war in slow motion. The 23 stories here, written by 15 young authors (from late teens to early 30s, all but three female) were compiled to commemorate the 5-year anniversary of “Operation Cast Lead.”
→ read full articleWas the Batman Shooter a Victim of both Medical and Legal Malpractice?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
How the Aurora Massacre Could Have Been Prevented
→ read full articleGreed Is Driving Us towards Disaster
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Greed, in particular the greed of corporations and billionaire oligarchs, is driving human civilization and the biosphere towards disaster. The greed of giant fossil fuel corporations is driving us towards a tipping point after which human efforts to control climate change will be futile because feedback loops will have taken over. The greed of the military industrial complex is driving us towards a Third World War that might develop into a catastrophic thermonuclear war. The greed of our financial institutions is driving us towards economic collapse, as we see in the case of Greece.
→ read full articleCarl G. Jung (26 Jul 1875 – 6 Jun 1961): The Integration of Opposites
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
As Jung noted, Taoist thought would play an increasingly powerful role in the transition between the Piscean Period and the Age of Aquarius. “The spirit of the East is really at our gates. Therefore it seems to me that the search for Tao, for a meaning in life, has already become a collective phenomenon among us, and to a far greater extent than is generally realized.”
→ read full articleWhat Are Foreign Military Bases For?
World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Have you ever wondered and investigated how many US military bases exist in the world, where exactly, and at what cost, to what purpose, and in terms of what relationship with the host nations? A wonderfully researched new book, six years in the works, answers these questions in a manner you’ll find engaging whether you’ve ever asked them or not. It’s called ‘Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Harm America and the World’ by David Vine.
→ read full articleSoulless Economics
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
20 Jul 2015
Austerity, the tool of neoliberal capitalism, stands up to Greek democracy and stares it down. Oh well. We’re remarkably comfortable with soulless economics and have yielded to this economic model in thought, word and deed.
→ read full articleMalaysia Just Passed a New, Stricter Welfare Act for Animals
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
On Tuesday [14 Jul 2015], the Malaysian government passed into law a new animal welfare act that imposes harsher penalties for those torturing or neglecting animals in order to reduce the number of crimes against animals in the country.
→ read full articleThe Terms of Greece’s Surrender
Yanis Varoufakis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The Euro Summit statement (or Terms of Greece’s Surrender – as it will go down in history) follows, annotated by yours truly. The original text is untouched with my notes confined to square brackets. Read and weep…
→ read full articlePluto and Earth
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The flyby of Pluto by the spacecraft New Horizons—a scientific achievement of the first order—stands in contrast to the seemingly intractable social crises on our own planet.
→ read full articleThe Right-Left Crossfire and the Post Neo-Liberal Left
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The post neo-liberal regimes which flourished in five Latin American countries in the first decade of the 21st century were a product of three inter-related historical processes.
→ read full article3 Great Supplements for Gut Health
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
There are so many easy ways that you can support and maintain your gut health. Whether it’s eating healthy, taking probiotics, or even meditation. Cutting out gluten and sugar are helpful steps you can take to support the health of your gut, and consuming more raw, living foods are also great measures.
→ read full article70 Years After the Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Canada’s Gift to Japan
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The Canada Pension Plan, mandatory for all working Canadians, invests our contributions in the five largest weapons makers in the world, which make nuclear as well as non-nuclear weapons that are sold and used in many countries against civilian populations.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
July 20-26 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
→ read full articleJapan’s Abe Pushes Security Bills through Lower House, Despite Protests
Linda Sieg, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday [16 Jul 2015] pushed through parliament’s lower house legislation that could see troops sent to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two, despite protests and a risk of further damage to his sagging ratings.
→ read full article“Sowing the Wind” at Los Alamos and “Reaping the Whirlwind” at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
70 years ago this week (July 16, 1945), an assortment of foreign scientists, the original group of which was mostly refugees fleeing European fascism, succeeded in exploding the first experimental atomic bomb.
→ read full articleObama to Out Bomb Bush!
James Albertini, Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
This is only the latest campaign in a 15-year global air war, largely ignored by U.S. media, in which the United States and its allies have conducted at least 118,000 air strikes against other countries since 2000.
→ read full articleAn Active Peace Policy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
In the nuclear age, we can no longer afford to wait until war breaks out and then react with military force. We must pursue an active peace policy that seeks to avoid or resolve conflicts long before they lead to war.
→ read full articleGrexit or Jubilee? How Greek Debt Can Be Annulled
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Greece’s creditors have finally brought the country to its knees, forcing President Alexis Tsipras to agree to austerity and privatization measures more severe than those overwhelmingly rejected by popular vote a week earlier. For Greece, leaving the EU may be perilous; but it opens provocative possibilities. The government could nationalize its insolvent banks along with its central bank, and start generating the credit the country desperately needs to get back on its feet.
→ read full articleThinking Globally
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
One thing about empires that people have to know: they do not last. They get the hubris to think they can last and that they can manage affairs of other people in perpetuity but this is an illusion.
→ read full articleAgency to Enslave Greeks Is Established
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
On July 16 2015 ‘German Economic News’ headlined “Greece: Debt Restructuring Through the Back Door,” and reported that, “The majority of Greece’s national debt is to be moved in the next three years gradually to the European Stability Mechanism. The super-secretive ESM was set up in 2012, in order to handle Greece’s anticipated virtual receivership, which it now will do.
→ read full articleJames Cousins (22 Jul 1873 – 20 Feb 1956): An Effort of Synthesis
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
His ‘A Study in Synthesis’ is a rich and complex study of the ways in which intuition, emotion, cognition and action structure human life. He places great importance on the power of intuition as the way the individual feels the push and pressure of the Cosmos.
→ read full articleBaltimore’s Unrest and Social Injustice Hits the Back Page
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The year 1968 had also seen the assignation of MLK and it touched off racial unrest in over 100 cities in the country. Baltimore did not escape this unfortunate fate. Nor did it escape that fate in this year when yet another case of American police brutality hit on its doorstep. From MLK to Freddie Gray, we have to wonder what has changed in America (and Baltimore)?
→ read full articleDr Schäuble’s Plan for Europe: Do Europeans Approve? – English Version of My Article in Die Zeit
Yanis Varoufakis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
On 15 July 2015 Die Zeit published this piece. Here is the original English language version.
→ read full articleCollective Mea Culpa? You Must Be Joking! Them Is to Blame, Not Us!
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Published on the occasion of allegedly major mistakes regarding the European bailout of Greece and the agreement concerning the nuclear programme of Iran. Is the United Nations as such capable of confessing to error? How about the World Bank or IMF? The European Commission, the OECD, the Organization of American States, NATO, etc? And what of that mysterious entity the “international community”?
→ read full article(Português) “Eles Crucificaram Tsipras Lá Dentro”- Nos Bastidores da Cimeira
Rádio Renascença – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
“Nada poderia ser pior que a humilhação da Grécia, que não procurou caridade, mas sim solidariedade da zona euro”, afirmou Hollande. “Eles crucificaram Tsipras lá dentro”, disse ao Financial Times um responsável da Zona Euro que assistiu à cimeira. “Crucificaram-no.”
→ read full articleAesthetics as One Road to Peace?
Johan Galtung, 20 Jul 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The focus is on one Sultan, Ibrahim Adil Shah II, of the central Indian kingdom of Bijapur, between Mumbai and Goa; we are talking about early 17th century. The Sultan is described as “an erudite scholar, a lute player, poet, singer, calligrapher, chess master and aesthete”. How different from Western rulers with military-political skills; how similar to many Chinese rulers, emperors, mandarins with poetry, calligraphy and more as indelible part of their legitimacy.
→ read full articleOn Life
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
A minister, a priest and a rabbi were discussing when life begins.
→ read full article(Português) Crueldade Animal: A Venda de Líquido Biliar de Urso
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
11 de julho de 2015 – Subsiste na China antiga prática “medicinal” de se utilizar líquido produzido pela bile de ursos negros (Ursus thibetanus) para tratamento de doenças relacionadas aos olhos e ao fígado de seres humanos, assim como para fabricação de pomadas e xampus.
→ read full article“Guerrilla Warfare against a Hegemonic Power”: The Challenge and Promise of Greece
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
9 Jul 2015 – Banks create money when they make loans. Greece could restore the liquidity desperately needed by its banks and its economy by nationalizing the banks and issuing digital loans backed by government guarantees to its ailing businesses. Greece could provide an inspiring model of sustainable prosperity for the world. But it is being strangled by a hegemonic power in a financial war that is being waged against us all.
→ read full article(Italiano) OXI o NAI?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
OXI, No, ce l’ha fatta, come ci si aspettava, con il 61%. Un gran giorno per la Democrazia, per la Grecia, per l’Europa, per il mondo.
→ read full article
Samsung Unveils an Incredible See-through Safety Truck
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The incredible Safety Truck has a camera fitted to its front, which sends real time footage to a screen on the back of the vehicle- helping car drivers overtake in safety. Samsung claimed its technology would help cut down on road deaths.
→ read full articleThe Twentieth Anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
If the slogan twenty years ago was “To save one Serb’s life, kill one hundred Bosianiks”, the slogan from now on should be like this: “To save one Serb’s life, one hundred Bosniaks cooperate. To save one Bosniak’s life, one hundred Serbs cooperate.” The current trending seems to be against this new slogan. But wait. Time will tell.
→ read full articleDebt Slavery
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Usury, the charging of interest on loans, has a history of being forbidden by several major religions, including not only the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but also the ancient Vedic Scriptures of India.
→ read full articleThe Collateral Damage of Austerity
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
A bogus moral authority seems to accompany the accumulation of wealth — a sense that one deserves it, while those without wealth deserve servitude and hopelessness. Beyond this moral authority lies the desperate need not to recognize the common humanity of those who are struggling to survive.
→ read full articleGreece Says “NO MORE” to Austerity and Their Global Loan Shark Predators Are Pouting about It
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Predatory lenders “work to bankrupt the countries that received those loans so that they would be forever beholden to their creditors, and so they would be easy targets when we needed favors, including military bases, UN votes, or access to oil and other natural resources.” – John Perkins, author of “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”
→ read full articleWho Is to Blame for Greek Crisis? Goldman Sachs Takes Heat
Sputinik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Goldman Sachs Banker, who got $12 million for getting Greece into the Eurozone by falsely extolling its financial capacity, could now see a lawsuit.
→ read full articleGhost Students, Ghost Teachers, Ghost Schools: The Failure of US-Funded Schools in Afghanistan
Azmat Khan, BuzzFeed News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
9 Jul 2015 – The United States trumpets education as one of its shining successes of the war in Afghanistan. But a BuzzFeed News investigation reveals U.S. claims were often outright lies, as the government peddled numbers it knew to be false and touted schools that have never seen a single student.
→ read full articlePeace Lessons
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
I just read what may be the best introduction to peace studies I’ve ever seen. It’s called ‘Peace Lessons,’ and is a new book by Timothy Braatz. It’s not too fast or too slow, neither obscure nor boring. It does not drive the reader away from activism toward meditation and “inner peace.”
→ read full articleSome Thoughts on Banning of Cow Slaughter in India
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The Maharashtra government banned the slaughter of cows and bulls and selling and eating of beef. The ban also covers the transportation of these animals outside the state for slaughter. Why is a cow so useful and why is there so much controversy about this decision?
→ read full article2015 International Women Walk for Peace and Reunification of Korea
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Delegation Visits North/South Korea May 19–25, 2015 – On 24 May 2015, International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament, thirty women peacemakers from 15 countries, made a historic crossing of the two mile wide de-militarized zone DMZ from North to South Korea.
→ read full articleOne Lesson from Srebrenica
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
12 Jul 2015 – World is busy commemorating yet another anniversary of a genocide. One major lesson from Srebrenica is that there is no lesson learned or incorporated into today’s responses to Myanmar’s genocide. The world of power and influence is in the final instance a world of shameful deeds, dishonest policies and business-as-usual inhumanity. Sad, unconscionable and outrageous – but painfully true.
→ read full articleTo Be Greek
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Everybody has already voiced his (or her) opinion on the Greek crisis, whether he (or she) has an opinion or not. So I feel obliged to do the same. Every commentator, from Nobel prize-winning economists to my taxi driver in Tel Aviv, has a solution. Unfortunately, no one listens to them.
→ read full articleMost Attitudes and Beliefs are Outcomes of Fear
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
I routinely come across efforts to change an individual’s attitude, belief and/or value by using education to teach the ‘right’ one. I would like to explain why education cannot achieve such a change, except in the most superficial of circumstances, as the evidence clearly demonstrates.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Council Reaffirms the Safeguards for Civilians in Times of War
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
“Accountability for breaches of international humanitarian law and for human rights violations, as well as respect for human rights, are not obstacles to peace, but rather the preconditions on which trust and, ultimately, a durable peace can be built.”
→ read full articleWatching the News
Doonesbury – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Comic Satirical Strip
→ read full articleWomen Preventing War
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
In 1905, Norway declared its independence from Sweden. Norwegian and Swedish troops faced each other along the border, ready to fight.
→ read full articleThe New President of the UN General Assembly
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The election of Mogens Lykketoft as the new President of the United Nations General Assembly has opened the door to the solution of several of world’s most pressing problems. For example, it may now be possible to achieve a Nuclear Weapons Convention by a direct majority vote.
→ read full articleIn Memoriam: Donald Neff, Journalist (1930-2015)
Alison Weir, If Americans New – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
One of the top journalists to report on Palestine-Israel has died May 10. Many activists in the growing Palestine solidarity movement are unaware that he exposed critical facts about Palestine with unparalleled precision and elegance. Much of the information he uncovered is still significant today.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
July 13 -19 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
→ read full articleAngela Merkel Has a Red and a Yellow Button. One Ends the Crisis. Which Does She Push?
Yanis Varoufakis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The Global Minotaur of neoliberal capitalism centred on Wall Street held the world to ransom from 1971 to 2008. Now Europe’s surplus countries are trying to prop up its corpse. Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American “invention”.
→ read full articleTPP-TTIP-Tisa: A Tipping Edge from Democracy
Johan Galtung, 13 Jul 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
This editorial sees the three agreements as a tipping edge from democracy; but, to what? Away from democracy as a process ‘of and by’ the people, and away from democracy as a society ‘for’ the people, except in the sense of lower prices. Goodbye Lincoln.
→ read full articleIf the ‘Product’ Is Wrong, a Rebrand Won’t Help Israel
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Benjamin Netanyahu warns that Israel must “rebrand” itself to avoid pariah status from the growing movement calling for an international boycott. Ordinary Israelis are therefore being conscripted into an army of spin doctors in a campaign termed “hasbara” – Hebrew for “public diplomacy” or, most literally, propaganda.
→ read full articleTeenage Students Invent Condom That Detects STDs
True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
While some American authorities scratch their heads and blame social media for a sharp uptick in syphilis, British school children have invented a condom to help reduce the proliferation of sexually transmitted infections.
→ read full articleEurope: Disinventing Democracy
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
8 Jul 2015 – The assault on Greece is just the latest episode in a long history of shutting down choice on behalf of the financial elite. Greece might be financially bankrupt; the troika is politically bankrupt. Those who persecute this nation wield illegitimate, undemocratic powers: powers of the kind now afflicting us all.
→ read full articleThree Prisons
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
I was caught, gone and detained
In the prison state human made
Hawaii Just Banned Plastic Bags at Grocery Checkouts
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Hawaii is the first US state to ban plastic bags from being distributed at grocery store checkouts.
→ read full articleNew Study Concludes Fruit Helps Your Body Burn Stored Fat
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
2-4 fresh servings of fruit per day can help your body convert ‘bad’ fat into ‘good’ fat.
→ read full articlePentagon Concludes America Not Safe unless It Conquers the World
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The Pentagon report is sufficiently audacious in its hypocrisy to declare that Washington “supports the established institutions and processes dedicated to preventing conflict, respecting sovereignty, and furthering human rights.” This from the military of a government that has invaded, bombed, and overthrown 11 governments since the Clinton regime and is currently working to overthrow governments in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina.
→ read full articleBRICS: A New Way of Global Partnership
Dr Alexander Yakovenko, LEAP/GEAB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of solidarity of BRICS voices calling for major cooperation on the peaceful settlement of conflicts based on the UN Charter. The world is at a turning point.
→ read full articleRequisite Meta-reflection on Engagement in Systemic Change?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Fiat, Fatwa and World-Making in a Period of Existential Radicalisation – Such differences are characteristic of the increasingly sterile debate regarding the need to be “positive” versus the preoccupation of critics readily deprecated as “negative” — otherwise to be termed as “hope-mongering” versus “doom-mongering”.
→ read full articleUN Gaza Report Part I: War Crimes during Israel’s 51-Day Assault on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Exactly a year ago, for 51 days between July 7 and August 26 Israel carried out its third major military assault on Gaza in the past six years. This last one, code named Operation Protective Edge, was the most vicious, killing 2,251 Palestinians, of which 1,462 were civilians, and included 299 women and 551 children, as well as injuring 11,231, a number that includes 3,436 children, 10% of whom have permanent disabilities, and another 1,500 have been orphaned.
→ read full articleUN Gaza Report Part II: Israel’s Counterinsuurgency Apologist, Colonel Richard Kemp
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
On June 25, 2015 the New York Times published an opinion piece by Kemp assessing the UN Report. What I find scandalous and perverse on the part of this self-claiming authoritative media source, is to publish such a harsh and partisan dismissal of a prudent and overly balanced report without any kind of offsetting piece.
→ read full articleThe Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech
John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
From this point on, we have only two options: go down fighting, or capitulate and betray our loved ones, our friends and our selves by insisting that, as a brainwashed Winston Smith does at the end of Orwell’s 1984, yes, 2+2 does equal 5.
→ read full articleReading Claudia Rankine on Race
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
What Claudia Rankine shares and teaches is that every African American citizen must live with the existential concreteness of racism while even the most liberal of American white citizens live with only an abstract awareness of their own unconscious racism or, at best, their rather detached empathy with the historical victimization of our African American co-citizens.
→ read full articleThe Change Is the Time
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
If you are my world
A start is needed
For changing
An Experiment in Love: Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Six Pillars of Nonviolent Resistance and the Ancient Greek Notion of ‘Agape’
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Although Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used Christian social ethics and the New Testament concept of “love” heavily in his writings and speeches, he was as influenced by Eastern spiritual traditions, Gandhi’s political writings, Buddhism’s notion of the interconnectedness of all beings, and Ancient Greek philosophy.
→ read full articleEnd U.S. Addiction to War
James Albertini, Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
War on drugs. War on poverty. War in Afghanistan. War in Iraq. War on terror. When you define something as war, violence becomes the only means.
→ read full articleWill the Real Issues Be Discussed in 2016 US Presidential Election?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Most thoughtful people agree that the two most important issues facing humanity today are the threat of catastrophic and uncontrollable climate change, and the threat of nuclear war. Each of these threatened disasters has the potential to destroy human civilization and much of the biosphere.
→ read full article3 Artificial Sweeteners to Avoid
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
I always suggest that everyone, including healthy individuals, remove added sugars from their diet, including artificial sweeteners. Organic coconut sugar or, better yet, raw organic honey are much better alternatives to satisfy sweet cravings within the confines of a healthy diet.
→ read full articleUnited Church of Christ Votes [80%] to Boycott & Divest from Companies Profiting from Israel’s Occupation
United Church of Christ Palestine-Israel Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
June 30, 2015 – UCC PIN hopes that this modest initiative will help encourage the Israeli government to end the occupation.
→ read full articleThe 51-Day Genocide
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
6 July 2015 – Max Blumenthal’s latest book, ‘The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza,’ tells a powerful story powerfully well. I can think of a few other terms that accurately characterize the 2014 Israeli assault on Gaza in addition to “war,” among them: occupation, murder-spree, and genocide. Each serves a different valuable purpose. Each is correct.
→ read full articleGreece: Only the “No” Can Save Europe
James K. Galbraith – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
The irony of the case is that the true hope – the only hope – for Europe lies in a “No” vote on Sunday, followed by renewed negotiations and a better deal. “Yes” is a vote for fear, against dignity and independence. Fear is powerful – but dignity and independence have a way of coming back.
→ read full articlePilot Whales Brutally Slaughtered in Yet another Horrific Faroe Islands Grind
Paul Watson, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
The bodies were hoisted onto the dock by a crane as each animal was disemboweled, unborn fetuses ripped from their mothers’ wombs. The bodies were decapitated one by one. One supporter of the slaughter sent me a message saying, “We could show ISIS a thing or two about decapitation, you whale-loving bastards.”
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Spy Drones Expose Smithfield Foods Factory Farms
SpeciesismTheMovie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Since 2012, “Speciesism: The Movie” director Mark Devries has been secretly using spy drones to investigate and expose the environmental devastation caused by factory farms. In this video, the drones capture shocking aerial footage of several massive facilities that supply pigs for Smithfield Foods.
→ read full articleCommitments the American Psychological Association Should Make Today
Roy Eidelson Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
An investigation of APA collusion with the CIA is nearing completion.
→ read full articleThe Care and Feeding of a Financial Black Hole
Dmitry Orlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Anyone who knows mathematics can see that the United States is on the verge of collapse because its debt has gone exponential. These aren’t words that an American or a European politician can utter in public, and perhaps not even whisper to their significant other while lying in bed, because the American eavesdroppers might overhear them, and then the politician in question would get the Dominique Strauss-Kahn treatment.
→ read full articleOXI or NAI?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
OXI, No, made it, as expected, with 61%. A great day for Democracy, for Greece, for Europe, for the world.
→ read full articleThe “Disaster Age” and Empathy
Tedla D. Tekle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Appreciating all the encouraging efforts and initiatives to mitigate global crises, I argue that a fundamental and foundational concept in all humanitarian activities is often swept under the carpet. It is the building block, the structure and the goal of any and every humanitarian action. It is called empathy.
→ read full articleE. Coli with Your Bottled Water? Recall Affects 14 Brands
Melissa Breyer, Tree Hugger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Bad news for bottled-water drinkers, good news for the planet. And the moral of the story is? Drink tap.
→ read full articleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership, Slavery, the AME Massacre and the Emancipation Proclamation
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
If The TPP Had Been the Law of the Land for the Past 150 Years, Slavery Would Still Be Legal
→ read full articleTrade in Services Agreement-TiSA: More Secret Documents Leaked
Julian Assange, WikeaLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Today, 1 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases a modern journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the largest ‘trade deal’ in history, the TiSA (Trade In Services Agreement), whose 52 nations together comprise two-thirds of global GDP.
→ read full articleThe Entire History of the World — Really, All of It — Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart
Rebecca Onion, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
The actual picture of the march of civilization, from the mud huts of the ancients thru the monarchistic glamour of the middle ages to the living panorama of life in our present day world.
→ read full articleIn the Western World Capitalism Has Devolved into Looting
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
“…when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed.”
→ read full articleThe Moral Imperative of the BRICS Paradigm
Rahul Manchanda, The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
29 Jun 20156 – Nineteenth century historian Lord John Dalberg-Acton said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. This has never been truer than with the case of the IMF and the World Bank, and the power they hold over world governments and their people.
→ read full articleIn Church
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
During the sermon, a little boy kept moving in his seat and making noises.
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