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Grand Jury Finds 50 Priests Raped Hundreds of Philadelphia Children
Rmuse, Politicus USA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The wheels of justice didn’t turn at all in Philadelphia because the Church concealed the crimes and protected the rapists.
→ read full article‘Plan B’ – Not an Enigma: Why the West Is Keen on Dividing the Arabs
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The Arab world has always been seen in western eyes as a place of conquest, to be exploited, controlled and tamed. That mindset continues to define the relationship. While Arab unity is to be dreaded, further divisions often appear as ‘Plan B’, when the current status quo, call it ‘Plan A’, seems impossible to sustain.
→ read full article(Castellano) África crea zona de intercambio para 620 millones de consumidores
Baher Kamal y Fareed Mahdy,
7 Mar 2016
24 feb 2016 – Más de 1.500 representantes de sectores financieros privados, expertos y líderes políticos decidieron el 20 y 21 de este mes lanzar el mayor bloque de intercambio comercial de África, de 26 países que suman 620 millones consumidores y un PIB de 1.200 billones de dólares.
→ read full articleWhy Democratic Party Foreign Policy Fails and Will Continue to Fail
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
5 Mar 2016 – An earlier version of this essay appeared on March 2, 2016 in The Progressive Magazine. It tries to explain the entrapment of liberal Democrats in an iron cage of militarism when it comes to international security policy.
→ read full articleTwilight of the Idols: Rise and Fall of the Personalist Left
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Over the past three years Latin American leftist leaders, who presided over heterodox ‘free trade’ and commodity based welfare economies, lost presidential, legislative and municipal elections and referendums or faced impeachment.
→ read full articleMarch: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
7 Mar 2016
March 11, 2011 – After a large magnitude earthquake and a powerful tsunami struck northeast Japan, three of the six nuclear reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-chi facility suffered partial meltdowns resulting in the evacuation of tens of thousands of nearby residents. Five years later, the disaster which has claimed more than 15,000 lives so far is an ongoing catastrophe.
→ read full articleDuty To Warn – Big Pharma’s Nefarious Control of Health Care and the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Everybody should be aware by now of the large amount of control that for-profit multinational corporations have over both state and federal legislative bodies. But they also have a lot of control over the major media, the “defense” spending priorities, educational institutions, many of our medical schools and even what constitutes post-graduate medical education for physicians.
→ read full articleNo Standards in Mediation
Daniel Erdmann – World Mediation Organization,
7 Mar 2016
Before starting a reflection on this content, we might have to understand that mediation itself is not a newly developed healing procedure for society, but it forms part of human civilization from the very beginning of our existence.
→ read full articleA Pope, a Patriarch, a Spiritual Revolution
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The first editorial, “50 Years of Fidel Castro” 3 March 2008, celebrated a political revolution that changed the world, and spelt the end of US-Western imperialism. This editorial celebrates a spiritual revolution that may also change the world, spelling the end of Western materialism, and spread from there. Again, Cuba played a major role, as meeting place between two major parts of Christianity, Catholic and Orthodox.
→ read full article(Français) Traité transpacifique ou le règne des multinationales
Marcel Claude, Le Journal de Notre Amérique - Investig’Action,
7 Mar 2016
Le TPP (Accord de partenariat Trans-pacifique), qui a été signé le 5 octobre dernier entre les États-Unis et 11 pays (Australie, Brunei, Canada, Chili, Japon, Mexique, Malaisie, Nouvelle-Zélande, Pérou, Singapour et Vietnam) et que la Présidente du Chili, Michelle Bachelet, est sur le point de ratifier, n’est autre qu’un pas de plus vers le nouvel ordre économique mondial où les grandes puissances économiques agissent en toute impunité et jouissent d’un pouvoir sans limite.
→ read full articleInternational Day of Women: The Goddess of March
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
March 8 is the International Day of Women and is placed under the sign of the goddess of the month of March — Minerva. Minerva derives her name from the Latin mens (mind), and so she has a special relation to teachers and artists.
→ read full articleNew Nuclear Hysteria in the Middle East
Baher Kamal - Human Wrongs Watch,
7 Mar 2016
Now that the so-called P5+1group (US, UK, France, Russia and China, plus Germany) few months ago concluded an agreement with Iran to prevent the risk of an eventual military nuclear programme in exchange of lifting massive Western sanctions, a new wave of nuclear hysteria seems to be in the air.
→ read full articleThe Rape of East Timor: “Sounds like Fun”
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
25 Feb 20126 – Secret documents found in the Australian National Archives provide a glimpse of how one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century was executed and covered up. They also help us understand how and for whom the world is run. The documents refer to East Timor, now known as Timor-Leste, and were written by diplomats in the Australian embassy in Jakarta.
→ read full article(Português) São Paulo, a 1ª Cidade do Brasil a Proibir o Comércio de Peles de Animais
O Planeta Que Temos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
3 Mar 2016 – Depois de receber um abaixo-assinado com cerca de 100 mil assinaturas, a prefeitura de São Paulo atendeu à reivindicação da população e pôs fim a duas atividades de extrema crueldade animal: a fabricação e venda de foie gras e o comércio de peles de animais.
→ read full articleTop Psychologist’s Personal History of MK-ULTRA: “The CIA-LSD Story in Retrospect”
Valtin, Invictus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
MK-ULTRA – In considering the total body of classified research conducted by or for the CIA that had as its overriding aim the control and manipulation of behavior, two questions suggest themselves: what motivated the scientists to work covertly on questionable projects; and what, in the end, was the yield in knowledge of these studies?
→ read full articleNobel-Prize Economist Condemns Obama’s ‘Trade’ Deals
Eric Zuesse, Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
3 Mar 2016 – The Nobel-Prize-winning former chief economist of the World Bank, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the U.S. President, Joseph Stiglitz, went to England to warn the British public, and Parliament, that “no democracy” can support U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed trade-deals, because all of these have a feature built into them, called Investor State Dispute Resolution, or ISDS, which will establish a supra-national authority…
→ read full articleUN: Israel Demolished 41 Palestinian Homes, a School in 1 Week
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The demolition took place in a Palestinian village called Khirbet Tana, which is home to approximately 250 people who rely on herding and agriculture for their livelihood, according to the U.N. report.
→ read full article2015: When Global Governments Trampled Human Rights in Name of National Security
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
7 Mar 2016
24 Feb 2016 – Governments worldwide in 2015 capitalized on supposed national security threats to trample over human rights. That’s Amnesty International’s assessment of global human rights in its latest report.
→ read full articleMajor American Jewish Leader Changes His Mind about Israel
Rabbi Michael Lerner - Tikkun,
29 Feb 2016
The Israel of today is very far from anything I dreamed of and worked for throughout my career. I can clearly remember the day in 1948 when the State of Israel was established. I was in the fourth grade at the Yeshivah of Flatbush in Brooklyn. The entire school was summoned to the schoolyard in celebration of the momentous occasion.
→ read full articleDark Spots, Light Spots, and Apple’s Protest
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
By their logic, 1984 is finally here, and embedding security (i.e., surveillance) chips in toothbrushes, children’s toys, and everywhere else The Enemy might lurk is both necessary and proper. You’d better consider flossing regularly and having your kids play with sticks and stones. Barbie is watching, and even Tim Cook can’t stop her.
→ read full articleThe Opium War – Tasked with Combating Opium, Afghan Officials Profit from It [Part 1)
Azam Ahmed – International New York Times,
29 Feb 2016
This is the first in a two-part series examining the fight to control the Afghan drug trade. Read Part 2: Penetrating Every Stage of Afghan Opium Chain, Taliban Become a Cartel.
→ read full articleThe Opium War – Penetrating Every Stage of Afghan Opium Chain, Taliban Become a Cartel [Part 2)
Azam Ahmed – International New York Times,
29 Feb 2016
This is the second in a two-part series examining the fight to control the Afghan drug trade. Read Part 1: Tasked with Combating Opium, Afghan Officials Profit from It.
→ read full articlePublication of My Book: ‘The Need for a New Economic System’
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
The Need for a New Economic System is a new book based on the series of articles that I published on TRANSCEND Media Service during the autumn of 2015. It deals with the very urgent problems that are facing the world today, all of which are linked to our need for a reformed and sustainable economic system.
→ read full articleVariety of System Failures Engendered by Negligent Distinctions
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Global civilization is currently witness to a variety of systemic failures — and the recognized potential for more. There is an evident degree of incapacity to encompass their nature, whether or not efforts are made to frame them in terms of a global problematique, or the possibility of a global resolutique.
→ read full articleMoral Courage – Stand Up to Wall St. & the U.S. War Machine!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
“Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.”
– – Robert F. Kennedy
Meet the Scientist Connecting the Dots between Air Pollution and Dementia
Clayton Aldern, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Increasingly, research suggests a link between air pollution exposure and the risk of diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. How might this relationship be possible, and what might it mean for what the world is – or isn’t – prepared to handle in the coming decades?
→ read full articleDiplomatic Relations: A Nonkilling Perspective
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
When between two countries diplomatic relations are broken
what peace-building-reuniting language could be spoken?
Scientist Who Discovered That GMOs Cause Tumors Wins Lawsuit
JBA Healthy News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
19 Feb 2016 – A court has ruled that French Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini was correct when he concluded that GMO food, when fed to rats, caused serious health problems including tumors.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Why We Need to Be More Cautious about America’s Over-Vaccination Program
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
“PhRMA (the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America [Big Pharma’s trade association and lobbying group]) is quoted as saying that “the 271 vaccines in development span a wide array of diseases, and employ exciting new scientific strategies and technologies. These potential vaccines – all in human clinical trials or under review by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – include 137 for infectious diseases, 99 for cancer, 15 for allergies and 10 for neurological disorders.”
→ read full articleKeen Observation
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
A famous surgeon told his students,
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What’s Next with the 350,000 Soldiers, 20,000 Tanks & 2,500 Warplanes Outside of Syria
WeAreChange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Feb 17, 2016 – Luke Rudkowski breaks down the latest about threats to an all-out global war.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Feb 29–Mar 6 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.” – Richard Bach
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Telephone (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Martynas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Martynas Levickis is one of the brightest young accordion musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards, being a Bachelor graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the People of West Papua
James Burrowes & Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
We have recently been discussing your ongoing courageous struggle to liberate yourselves from more than 100 years of occupation, first by the Netherlands, briefly and brutally by Japan during World War II, and now by Indonesia. In that regard, we would each like to share a brief message with you, our friends from West Papua.
→ read full articleAfrica Launches Largest Trading Block with 620 Million Consumers
Baher Kamal – Human Wrongs Watch,
29 Feb 2016
22 Feb 2016 – More than 1,500 public and private business delegates and state leaders agreed on 20-21 February in Egypt to mobilize massive investments for the implementation of Africa’s largest trading bloc which was created last year by 26 African countries with a total of 620 million consumers and a combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) nearing 1,2 trillion dollars.
→ read full articleUpgrade Your iPhone Passcode to Defeat the FBI’s Backdoor Strategy
Micah Lee – The Intercept,
22 Feb 2016
18 Feb 2016 – Yesterday, apple CEO Tim Cook published an open letter opposing a court order to build the FBI a “backdoor” for the iPhone. By choosing a strong passcode, the FBI shouldn’t be able to unlock your encrypted phone, even if it installs a backdoored version of iOS on it. Not unless it has hundreds of years to spare.
→ read full articleHooray for Cultural Marxism
Malcolm Harris – Al Jazeera America,
22 Feb 2016
You don’t need a bedside picture of Lenin to believe in what sociologists call conflict theory, or the idea that society is composed of struggling classes. Class analysis is popular because it’s true.
→ read full articleRussian Purge: For Putin’s Censors, Only Suicide Is Worse than Homosexuality
Masha Gessen – The Intercept,
22 Feb 2016
Youths struggle with suicide in Russia but a restrictive law makes it difficult to publish articles and books about their troubles, especially for the LGBT community.
→ read full article(Português) Golfinhos, tartarugas e a desumanidade de turistas que fazem “selfie”
Alice Branco - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
22 Feb 2016
19 de fevereiro de 2016 – Golfinhos mortos pois não aguentarem ficar fora d’água, para deleite do “selfie” do turista egoísta. Tartarugas que não conseguem desovar em paz porque turistas querem fazer “selfie” em meio delas.
→ read full article(Français) 10 ans d’un processus de changement en Bolivie : un regard géopolitique
Katu Arkonada, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
En un mois, la révolution démocratique et culturelle bolivienne va connaître des moments transcendantaux de son histoire récente. D’une part, les 21 et 22 janvier a été célébré l’anniversaire de l’État plurinational ainsi que les 10 ans du processus de changement, et d’autre part, le 21 février un vote historique va avoir lieu et symbolisera la force de la nouvelle démocratie bolivienne face à la démocratie néolibérale obsolète.
→ read full articleRemembering Umberto Eco
Adam Chandler – The Atlantic,
22 Feb 2016
Umberto Eco, the influential Italian semiotician, cultural critic, philosopher, essayist, and novelist, died at 84 on Friday [19 Feb 2016]. Bompiani, his Italian publisher, along with local reports confirmed that the widely revered writer and intellectual had been battling cancer.
→ read full articleWhen God Despairs
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Right after the foundation of Israel, God appeared to David Ben-Gurion and told him: “You have done good by my people. Utter a wish and I shall grant it!” “I wish that Israel shall be Jewish, democratic and encompass all the country between the Mediterranean and the Jordan,” Ben-Gurion replied.
→ read full articleHow Can Growth Reduce Inequality?
Beninio McDonough Tranza – The New Statesman,
22 Feb 2016
Growth is inherent to an anarchic free-market system. Businesses do not face a choice whether or not to grow – they face an imperative. If a business decided not to exploit new technology or new pools of cheap labour for moral reasons (such as concern for wages or the environment), it would quickly be overtaken by competitors.
→ read full articleHaiti Rises: A Time for Solidarity
Nia Imara and Robert Roth – Haiti Action Committee,
22 Feb 2016
We say NO, WE WILL NOT OBEY ILLEGITIMATE OFFICIALS. Self-defense is a legitimate universal law. Civil-Disobedience is an accepted universal right when a people confronts an illegal regime. The right to elect a government is universally accepted as a way for people to protect its existence. Today, confronted by the danger presented by local and international colonialists, the Haitian people have started a RESISTANCE FOR EXISTENCE movement.
→ read full articleHumanity First
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
I love my nation
I love my religion
But I always trust
Humanity be first
Tim Cook: U.S. Government Wants ‘Something We Consider Too Dangerous to Create’
J. Freedom du Lac and Ellen Nakashima – The Washington Post,
22 Feb 2016
The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand.
→ read full articleThe Arab Peace Initiative: Not a Framework for Negotiations Any More
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
In the Eve of Arab Coming Summit in Morocco
→ read full articleWorld Day for Social Justice 2016 – Time to Share the Wealth
Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Market Forces Are the Problem, Not the Solution – Every year since 2009, the United Nations has highlighted February 20th as the World Day for Social Justice in a bid to underscore the glaring inequalities that increasingly characterise the world today.
→ read full articleTruthful
Tom Toles – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Truths and Lies
→ read full articleUS Remains Reluctantly Tied to Global Security Role
Mark Urban – BBC News,
22 Feb 2016
America’s military finds itself pulled in several directions – and even the $582bn (£403bn) defence budget rolled out earlier this month will not be enough to satisfy all of its needs. One of the headlines to come out of the new budget was a quadrupling of spending on US military preparations to defend allies in Europe.
→ read full articleHollywood’s Grotesque Animal Abuse
Michael Howard - CounterPunch,
22 Feb 2016
Exposing Hollywood’s sordid history of animal cruelty.
→ read full articleGravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein’s Theory
Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Corum and Jason Drakeford – International New York Times,
22 Feb 2016
A team of scientists announced on Thursday [11 Feb 2016] that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
→ read full articleBig War Lords Playing Brinkmanship Game in Syria
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
22 Feb 2016
The biggest “official” warlords on Earth—the Russian military apparatus and the US Pentagon and its “allies”–Europe, the US-led NATO, the Saudi Arabia-led Gulf countries, and Turkey, have just walked a step closer to the edge of the Middle East abyss over the weekend during their Munich Security Conference.
→ read full article‘Silk Road’ Trade Route Revived as First Train Arrives in Iran from China with Goods
ABC News Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The train, carrying 32 containers of commercial products, took 14 days to make the 9,500-kilometre journey through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. The train’s journey was 30 days shorter than the sea voyage from Shanghai to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.
→ read full articleFormer U.N. Chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali Dead at 93
Michelle Nichols, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a blunt-spoken Egyptian who led the world body through global turmoil as it defined its peacekeeping role and lost his job over disputes with Washington, died on Tuesday [16 Feb 2016]. He was 93.
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A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion between 1945 and 1998
Isao Hashimoto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions that have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998.
→ read full articleBuddhism and Conflict Transformation
Olivia Fuchs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
An Inter-disciplinary Exploration of Buddhist Resources for Peace and Conflict – 18/19 July, 2016 – University of Winchester
→ read full article(Português) Um ano após “Charlie”: A facilidade do “bode-expiatório”
Paulo Mendes Pinto – Visão,
22 Feb 2016
É tão mais fácil usar de um humor simplista e colocar Deus a matar, em vez de questionar, por exemplo, a inacção europeia até certos momentos, ou mesmo a validade dos discursos que foram usados para justificar uma série de intervenções militares verdadeiramente assassinas.
→ read full article(Italiano) I diritti umani: una sfida permanente
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
La Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti Umani del 10 dicembre 1948 fu redatta da un comitato di Uomini, Bianchi, Anziani, Borghesi, Avvocati, Francesi. Nulla sui diritti di donne e bambini. Non ci sono diritti di accesso a servizi igienici, né alla sessualità: i borghesi di buone maniere certe cose le fanno ma non ne parlano-scrivono.
→ read full articleThe Troubling Link between Economic and Political Inequality in Europe
Giulia Dotti Sani and Beatrice Magistro – Open Democracy,
22 Feb 2016
Trust in institutions is not equally distributed among populations. In general, people from higher social strata show most support for the political system, as they’re the ones who mostly benefit from it.
→ read full articleSamsung Warns Customers Not to Discuss Personal Information in Front of Smart TVs
Meghan DeMaria, The Week – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The company revealed that the voice activation feature on its smart TVs will capture all nearby conversations. The TV sets can share the information, including sensitive data, with Samsung as well as third-party services.
→ read full articleSeneca on How to Fortify Yourself against Fear and Misfortune
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
“If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.” The great Roman philosopher — a man of timeless wisdom on ‘how to stretch life’s shortness by living wide rather than long’ — took this point to its exquisite extreme in a letter to his friend Lucilius Junior.
→ read full articleLarvicide Manufactured by Sumitomo [Monsanto], Not Zika Virus, True Cause of Brazil’s Microcephaly Outbreak: Doctors
Alyssa Navarro - Tech Times,
22 Feb 2016
The Brazilian Health Ministry had injected pyriproxyfen to reservoirs in the state of Pernambuco. In the area, the proliferation of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries the Zika virus, is very high. Pernambuco is also the first state in Brazil to notice the problem. The state contains 35 percent of the total microcephaly cases in the country.
→ read full articleSocialism and the Fight against War
International Committee of the Fourth International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The great historical questions arising from the present world situation can be formulated as follows: How will the crisis of the world capitalist system be resolved? Will the contradictions wracking the system end in world war or world socialist revolution? Will the future lead to fascism, nuclear war and an irrevocable descent into barbarism?
→ read full articleContaminated Nuclear Weapons Sites
Robert Alvarez – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
22 Feb 2016
West Lake Story: An Underground Fire, Radioactive Waste, and Governmental Failure
→ read full articleFinancial Oligarchy vs. Feudal Aristocracy
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh and Anthony A. Gabb - CounterPunch,
22 Feb 2016
On oligarchies and aristocracies. The Marxist term wage-slaves refers to those who, lacking capital or means of production, have only their labor power to sell to make a living. This describes the vast majority of people in today’s capitalist societies whose sole means of subsistence is the sale of their capacity to work.
→ read full articleCorporate PR Flacks Are Trying to Convince You the Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Benefit Workers
Jim Hightower – In These Times,
22 Feb 2016
The basic problem facing the corporate and political powers that want you and me to swallow their Trans-Pacific Partnership deal is that they can’t make chicken salad out of chicken manure. But that reality hasn’t stopped their PR campaign, pitching their “salad” as good and good for you!
→ read full articleHuman Rights, Human Rights: A Poem-Plea to Humankind
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Human Rights, Human Rights
You have been violated how many thousands of days and nights?
Shipping Containers Are Becoming ‘Home, Sweet Home’ All Over the World
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
From Berlin to Bangalore to London, people all over are shacking up in shipping containers. And now a Copenhagen-based container architecture firm has designed the “CPH Village,” a planned shipping container structure aimed to help solve the area’s student housing shortage.
→ read full article(Português) Fotos raras mostram refúgio hippie no Havaí formado por pessoas que pediam a paz nos anos 60
Redação Hypeness – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
A água era cristalina, o asfalto mais próximo ficava a quilômetros de distância, o uso de roupas era opcional, não havia regras e as decisões não eram baseadas na razão, mas em vibes. Na primavera de 1969, treze jovens saíram das universidades dos Estados Unidos rumo a um refúgio onde buscavam paz, o encontro com a natureza e o desenvolvimento espiritual. Foi na região de Kauai, no Havaí.
→ read full articleEpilogue: Argentina – The End of Post Neoliberalism and the Rise of the Hard Right
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The class struggle from above found its most intense , comprehensive and retrograde expression in Argentina, with the election of Mauricio Macri (December 2015). During the first two months in office, through the arbitrary assumption of emergency powers, he reversed, by decree, a multitude of progressive socio-economic policies passed over the previous decade and sought to purge public institutions of independent voices.
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Air (Music Video of the Week)
David Garrett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Composition by Johann Sebastian Bach – David Garrett, born 4 Sep 1980, is a record-breaking classical violinist and recording artist. Garrett was born in Aachen, Germany to an American prima ballerina and a German lawyer and jurist.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los grandes señores de la guerra, listos para invadir Siria
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
22 Feb 2016
Los grandes señores de la guerra “oficiales”, es decir el aparato militar ruso y el Departamento de Defensa de Estados Unidos y sus “aliados” -Europa, la OTAN, los países del Golfo liderados por Arabia Saudita, y Turquía- dieron el último fin de semana un paso más hacia el abismo de Medio Oriente durante su Conferencia de Seguridad de Múnich.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Feb 22-28 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”
→ read full articleWith More Refugees Expected, Europe Needs to Get a Grip
Russell Merryman, The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
While financial support is still coming in for the victims of the Syrian conflict, Europe’s political signals are getting ever more contradictory.
→ read full articleA Polyamorist View of Monogamy
Michael McDonald – Together Magazine,
22 Feb 2016
We think of monogamy as natural, but it’s actually quite advanced—the trouble is we default to it out of fear instead of choosing it consciously.
→ read full articleHow Humanitarian Imperialism Led to Europe’s Refugee Crisis
Jean Bricmont and Maidhc Ó Cathail – CounterPunch,
22 Feb 2016
What I call the moral left wants to force the population to be altruistic with respect to the refugees. But the population who is never consulted on the issue of refugees and who is constantly asked to make sacrifices because “there is no money” understandably does not accept this moral discourse.
→ read full articleIndia Firm to Launch ‘World’s Cheapest’ Smartphone
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
17 Feb 2016 – Ringing Bells said their Freedom 251 phone would be priced under 500 rupees (€6.57; £5; $7.3), but Indian media reports said it would cost just 251 rupees (€3.29; $3.67; £2.56). India is the world’s second-largest mobile market and has one billion mobile phone subscribers.
→ read full articleCuba Leads the Way in Developing New Cancer Drugs
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
15 Feb 2016 – Cuba is testing drugs to turn cancer into a manageable chronic disease, adapting treatment to each tumor rather than attacking them with a one-size-fits-all cure.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Scaring People out of Their Wits over Pseudo-Pandemics (Swine Flu, Avian Flu, SARS, Ebola, and now Zika)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
“Why Aren’t Public Health Organizations Like CIDRAP Warning Pregnant Women to Abstain from Aluminum or Mercury-containing Vaccines?- I hope that you are not so naïve as to believe that biased, corporate, profit-driven ‘science’ is real science, for real science looks at all the evidence and then lets that evidence lead to conclusions that might anger those who are counting on ‘positive’ results.”
→ read full articleClimate Protection through Nuclear Power Plants? Hardly
Lutz Mez – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
22 Feb 2016
From a systemic perspective, nuclear power plants are by no means free of carbon dioxide emissions. Today, they produce up to one third of the greenhouse gases that large modern gas power plants produce.
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Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
17 Feb 2016 – For at least the last four decades now I feel like I’ve been living in Beached America: a nation that has lost its values, even as it writhes in violent agitation, inflicting its military on the vulnerable regions of the planet.
→ read full articleManipulations & Mind Games: The Secret Battle to Control How We Think
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. – New Dawn Magazine,
22 Feb 2016
Today’s media, which includes the dominant presence of advertising, extensively uses the notion of ‘attractors’ and ‘attractor patterns’ to target audience consciousness. This type of symbol-manipulation is often referred to in the business as neuro-marketing.
→ read full articleGreatest Threat to Free Speech in the West: Criminalizing Activism Against Israeli Occupation
Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman – The Intercept,
22 Feb 2016
16 Feb 2016 – The U.K. government today announced that any entities that support or participate in the global boycott of Israeli settlements will face “severe penalties.” It is, needless to say, perfectly legitimate to argue against BDS and to engage in activism to defeat it. But only advocates of tyranny could support the literal outlawing of the same type of activism that ended apartheid in South Africa merely on the grounds that this time it is aimed at Israeli occupation.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Ladies don’t forget the rummage sale.
→ read full articleUN Calls for Summit Forum on Refugees and Migrants: Role of NGO in Its Preparation
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
The role of non-governmental organizations is to remind constantly Government representatives of the seriousness of the issues and for the need for collective action. National NGOs can highlight local conditions and thus provide information to the international NGOs in consultative status with the UN who will be at the Summit in New York.
→ read full articleThe Predators behind the TPP
Karel Van Wolferen – The Japan Times,
15 Feb 2016
If signed and ratified, the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic agreements, which seek to organize business activity under one gigantic umbrella of new rules, are likely to change our living environment in ways very different from what elected officials have been misled to imagine.
→ read full article‘Internet of Things’ an Absolute Goldmine for Big Brother, Admits Top US Spy
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
15 Feb 2016
DNI James Clappers acknowledges “intelligence services might use the [web-connected home devices] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment.”
→ read full articleWhy Is Trauma Missing from Syria Refugee Debate?
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
The president of the German Chamber of Psychotherapists, which carried out the research, said that more than 70 per cent of the refugees had witnessed violence and more than 50 per cent were themselves victims of violence. Nearly half of them have nightmares and flashbacks as if their terrible ordeals “were happening all over again”.
→ read full articleAstronomers Detect Gravitational Waves Predicted by Einstein
Will Morrow, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
12 Feb 2016 – Astronomers from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Collaboration have published the first detection of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space and time. The announcement comes almost exactly a century after Albert Einstein, in mid-1916, predicted the existence of the waves on the basis of his Theory of General Relativity.
→ read full article(Português) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a vida do espírito e a ética da Terra
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Sabemos cuidar da vida do corpo, hoje um verdadeiro culto celebrado em tantas academias de ginástica. Os psicanalistas de várias tendências nos ajudam a cuidar da vida da psique. Mas na nossa cultura, praticamente, esquecemos de cultivar a vida do espírit. A vida do espírito se alimenta de bens não tangíveis como é o amor, a amizade, a compaixão, o cuidado e a abertura ao infinito. Sem a vida do espírito divagamos por aí, desenraizados e sem um sentido que nos oriente e que torna a vida apeticida.
→ read full article(Português) A liberdade de pensar a Liberdade, entre David Bowie, Emma Lazarus e a crise dos refugiados
Paulo Mendes Pinto – Visão,
15 Feb 2016
A noção de Liberdade, aplicada ao universo religioso, é das mais complexas realidades.
→ read full article(Português) A Carne
Sociedade Vegana - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
15 Feb 2016
Carne é, por definição, o tecido muscular de animais. O termo é, porém, popularmente estendido a todas as partes macias do corpo do animal, excetuando as vísceras e o tegumento (pele, pêlos, penas, escamas, etc). Há quem diga que “carne” é apenas a parte comestível de mamíferos, enquanto que frango, rã, peixe e frutos-do-mar não seriam carne, porém essa classificação não tem qualquer motivo de ser.
→ read full article(Italiano) Fondamentalismo-Estremismo-Violenza Religiosi
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Si può avere fondamentalismo senza estremismo. Si può avere estremismo senza fondamentalismo. La gran parte delle persone che fanno violenza non credono in alcunché, oltre al “fare il proprio lavoro”. Ci sono due criteri per l’”estremismo religioso”: la violenza e la legittimazione religiosa. E per quanto riguarda le controparti secolari delle religioni, le ideologie, gli ismi?
→ read full articleResearch Paper: ISIS-Turkey Links
David L. Phillips – Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights,
15 Feb 2016
Is Turkey collaborating with the Islamic State (ISIS)? Allegations range from military cooperation and weapons transfers to logistical support, financial assistance, and the provision of medical services. It is also alleged that Turkey turned a blind eye to ISIS attacks against Kobani.
→ read full articleOverview of Physicists’ Public Declarations against Nuclear Weapons -The Cold War Period
Antonino Drago and Nanni Salio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Abstract: The present paper analyses the public declarations which, after the dramatic crisis caused to the participation to the Manhattan Project, (mainly groups of) physicists have released during the Cold War period against nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleOptimism of the Will – Critics of Israel Are Antisemitic by Definition
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
So now we have another anti-Semite. His name is Ban Ki-moon, and he is the Secretary General of the UN. In practice, the highest international official, a kind of World Prime Minister. He has dared to criticize the Israeli government, as well as the Palestinian Authority, for sabotaging the peace process, and thereby making Israeli-Palestinian peace almost impossible.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Ban Ki-moon
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
We need all to realize what else should not be tolerated: while the Palestinian flag flies outside UN Headquarters, the Palestinian people have lived for almost 70 years under the daily brutalities of occupation, refugee camps, Gazan captivity, and involuntary exile. Can you bring yourself to call this ordeal ‘intolerable’? Then at least you could leave your UN post with a feeling that when your career was no longer in jeopardy you spoke truth to power.
→ read full articleNotes from Tehran: Trump, the Iranian Elections and the End of Sanctions
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Iranians will vote in twin elections for the Iranian parliament and to elect a more powerful separate body known as the Assembly of Experts. And yes, The Donald is now a factor in both of those Iranian elections.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Feb 15-21 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” – Johnny Carson
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