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Target Russia. Target China. Target Iran
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
28 May 2016 – Not a day goes by without US Think Tankland doing what it does best; pushing all sorts of scenarios for cold – and hot – war with Russia, plus myriad confrontations with China and Iran. That fits into the Pentagon’s Top Five existential threats to the US, where Russia and China sit at the very top and Iran is in fourth place – all ahead of «terrorism» of the phony Daesh «Caliphate» variety.
→ read full articleTaiwan Recalls Quaker Oats Products Imported from US after Detecting Glyphosate
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
29 May 2016 – More bad news for Quaker Oats. A random inspection from Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) detected glyphosate in 10 out of 36 oatmeal products it tested, exceeding the country’s legal limit.
→ read full articleGoogle Wipes Palestine Off the Map
Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
After Googling around, I have discovered that when you ask what time it is in any country on earth, Google tells you – right there in that prominently-placed box above the search results. Except Palestine. Google is apparently part of the Zionist entity dedicated to wiping Palestine off the map. The only “Palestine” Google knows is a town in Texas.
→ read full article(Português) O vegetarianismo e a literatura russa desde Tolstói
Dária Amínova - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
30 May 2016
25 de maio de 2016 – De acordo com dados de uma pesquisa realizada pelo portal SuperJob, atualmente cerca de 4% da população russa é vegetariana. Porém, poucas pessoas sabem que, desde o século 19, escritores russos são alguns dos principais defensores das ideias do vegetarianismo.
→ read full articleHow the Pentagon Punished NSA Whistleblowers
Mark Hertsgaard – The Guardian,
30 May 2016
Long before Edward Snowden went public, John Crane was a top Pentagon official fighting to protect NSA whistleblowers. Instead their lives were ruined – and so was his.
• Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by Pentagon source
• Exclusive: Pentagon source goes on record against whistleblower program
Tunisia: UN Panel Condemns Forced Anal Exams
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
23 May 2016 – The UN Committee Against Torture condemned the use of forced anal examinations as an attempt to find “proof” against people accused of homosexual conduct in Tunisia, Human Rights Watch said today.
→ read full articleIndonesia: Child Tobacco Workers Suffer as Firms Profit
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Thousands of children in Indonesia, some as young as 8 years old, are at the bottom of the supply chain for many multinational and Indonesian tobacco companies. These children are getting exposed to nicotine and toxic pesticides. Child tobacco workers can absorb nicotine through their skin, and many suffer nausea, vomiting, headaches, and dizziness – all symptoms of acute nicotine poisoning.
→ read full article(Italiano) Guerra, ambiente, nonviolenza
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
30 May 2016
Riprendendo le parole di Edgan Morin – alla barbarie a noi più nota, che è quella della guerra, delle torture, della fame, se ne aggiunge un’altra fatta dal calcolo, dal profitto, dalla tecnologia al servizio dell’economia – possiamo concordare con lui nel pensare che ‘sono due demoni tra loro alleati’…
→ read full articlePutin Vows Retaliation over US Missile Shield; Warns Poland, Romania Now in the “Cross Hairs”
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
28 May 2016 – While Obama was in Hiroshima as the first standing president of the only nation to have ever used a nuclear weapon during wartime, and without offering an apology to Japan, Russian president Putin was in Greece. The Greek people have turned increasingly against remaining in the Eurogroup, a shift Putin certainly hopes to capitalize on. But it wasn’t the latest Greek pivot toward Russia that was the highlight of Putin’s trip: it was his latest warning that the Russian response to the most recent NATO provocation in Europe will be significant.
→ read full articleBayer and Monsanto: A Marriage Made in Hell
Martha Rosenberg and Ronnie Cummins | Organic Consumers Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
24 May 2016 – If Monsanto, the most hated GMO company in the world, joins hands with Bayer, one of the most hated Big Pharma corporations on Earth (whose evil deeds date back to World War I and the Nazi era), the newly formed seed-pesticide-drug behemoth would have combined annual sales of $67 billion.
→ read full articleVindication for Edward Snowden from a New Player in NSA Whistleblowing Saga
Jenna McLaughlin and Dan Froomkin – The Intercept,
30 May 2016
New key player: John Crane, a former assistant inspector general at the Pentagon who was responsible for protecting whistleblowers was forced to become one himself when the process failed.
→ read full articleHow Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right?
Gregor Aisch, Adam Pearce and Bryant Rousseau – The New York Times,
30 May 2016
The candidate for the far-right Freedom Party in Austria lost the country’s cliffhanger presidential election on Monday [16 May] by the slimmest of margins. Still, it was an example of the electoral gains made by right-wing parties in a growing number of European countries amid a migrant crisis, sluggish economic growth and growing disillusionment with the European Union.
→ read full articleHelp Line
TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Please hold the line.
→ read full article(Italiano) Marinaleda: un’utopia concreta
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Il concetto base è ben noto: le autorità hanno espropriato terre lasciate incolte nel bel mezzo di un bracciantato disoccupato e alla fame, trasformamdole in una cooperativa comunale con abitazioni molto economiche, asilo d’infanzia, scuole, cliniche. Dietro c’è stata per oltre 30 anni la visione, la sapienza, l’abilità, la volontà del sindaco, Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo. Con la mente, una realtà, e la volontà di cambiarla, quella realtà.
→ read full articleBDS Is Free Speech, Says Dutch Government
Michael Deas | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
25 May 2016 – The Netherlands has affirmed that activism calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel is a form of free speech. Dutch foreign minister Bert Koenders said that “statements or meetings concerning BDS are protected by freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, as enshrined in the Dutch constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.”
→ read full articleA Brief Chronological History of Palestine
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Palestinians are the endogenous people of the Southern Land of Canaan (Western Part of the Fertile Crescent), the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan. Key milestones in human civilization occurred in this Land of Canaan: animal and plant domestication, development of the alphabet, and development of laws and religions.
→ read full articleScientists Discover How Supermassive Black Holes Keep Galaxies Turned Off
Eurasia Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
26 May 2016 – An international team of scientists has identified a common phenomenon in galaxies that could explain why huge numbers of them turn into cosmic graveyards. Galaxies begin their existence as lively and colorful spiral galaxies, full of gas and dust, and actively forming bright new stars.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Exposes Text from Secretly Negotiated TISA Trade Deal
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
The TISA is one of three international trade deals being negotiated in secret, along with the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP, trade deal. Collectively, these agreements encompass 75 to 95 percent of global GDP.
→ read full articleFamed Feminist British Historian Refuses Prestigious Israeli Award
Haggai Matar | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Catherine Hall withdraws from $330,000 prize due to Tel Aviv University’s complicity in the occupation of Palestine.
→ read full articleNakba Survivors Share Their Stories of Loss and Hope
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
In 1948, Zionist militias attacked Palestinian cities and villages and destroyed more than 530 Palestinian villages. About 13,000 Palestinians were killed and more than 750,000 were expelled from their homes, becoming refugees. Here Palestinians share their stories of displacement, loss and hope to return to their villages.
→ read full article(Português) Suecos Criam Máquina Solar Capaz de Purificar 600 Litros de Água/Hora
CicloVivo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
O sistema elimina bactérias, vírus, amebas e parasitas e é ideal para ser aplicado em locais que não têm saneamento.
→ read full articleGalileo’s Irony
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
If the earth human survives is a globe, justice will pronounce
But the globe and the justice are contrast to the reality
If the mind well-dressed is in heart, then the humanity will beam
But the mind and the humanity are contrast to the reality
Viet Con (not a typo)
Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
With friends like these who needs an enemy?
→ read full articleWe Have Entered the Looting Stage of Capitalism: Germany’s Assault on the IMF
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
The way Germany sees it, the IMF is supposed to lend Greece the money with which to repay the private German banks. Then the IMF is to be repaid by forcing Greece to reduce or abolish old age pensions, reduce public services and employment, and use the revenues saved to repay the IMF.
→ read full articleShocking Brazil Leaks Prompt Panic in Fraud-Riddled Coup Gov’t
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Fear that more damning leaks solidifying claims that the plan to remove suspended President Dilma Rousseff was a coup is settling in around the unelected interim President Michel Temer, prompting advisors to suggest a shift of corrupt ministers as political scandal rocks the imposed government just two weeks after being installed.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
May 30–Jun 5 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.” – Marianne Williamson
→ read full articleHammering for Peace
Kathy Kelly | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Their artistic project embraces a vision from the biblical “Book of Isaiah” which longs for the day when “they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they study war anymore.” Our friends quite literally enact this vision.
→ read full article(Português) A tragédia da guerra na construção da memória e do património
Paulo Mendes Pinto - Visão,
30 May 2016
De Aleppo ao Krack des Chevaliers, a Vivência Dupla das Memórias – É dramático quando a resposta certa nos leva para um denominador comum que é a guerra, a destruição. Sim, o que mais nos espanta é a guerra destruidora que se criou. O resto? O resto são roupas que se vestem e despem conforme as culturas.
→ read full articleExistential Challenge of Detecting Today’s Big Lie
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Mysterious Black Hole Conditioning Global Civilization? If indeed there was a “big lie” conditioning the dynamics of global civilization, how might evidence of it be detected?
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Appeals to European Union and President Obama to Remove Shameful Sanctions against War-torn Syria
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
“The petitioners support ‘all humanitarian and peace initiatives that the international community is implementing, in particular through the difficult negotiations in Geneva’. But in the meantime with the hope that the expectations find concrete answers, they ask ‘that the sanctions that affect the daily lives of every Syrian are immediately removed”.
→ read full articleMajor Police Operation against Roma in Berlin
Andy Niklaus and Karola Kleinert | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
On Sunday [22 May] evening, the Berlin police conducted a brutal raid on Roma families protesting against their deportation at the memorial to the Sinti and Roma murdered by the Nazis. On April 8, a commemorative day for the murdered Sinti and Roma took place at the same place. German President Joachim Gauck along with other prominent politicians proclaimed their solidarity with Sinti and Roma. The deployment of police against a peaceful Roma protest at the same location demonstrate how hollow such words are.
→ read full article600 Tons of Melted Radioactive Fukushima Fuel Still Not Found, Clean-Up Chief Reveals
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
24 May 2016 – The Fukushima clean-up team remains in the dark about the exact locations of 600 tons of melted radioactive fuel from three devastated nuclear reactors, the chief of decommissioning said. The company hopes to locate and start removing the missing fuel from 2021.
→ read full articleIreland Latest EU State to Defend BDS
Kevin Squires | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
28 May 2016 – In another blow to the Israeli campaign to criminalize Palestine solidarity activism, the Irish government has affirmed that the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement represents a “legitimate” means of protest “intended to pressure Israel into ending the occupation.”
→ read full articleCultivating Symbols for Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
The world is full of symbols – religious, cultural, historical, archaeological, linguistic and nationalistic. Flags are a powerful symbol of a country… Let us remember and fortify our good symbols, let us avoid the pitfall of extreme negative, repressive and harmful symbolism that is becoming an inevitable part of modern life.
→ read full articleHumanitarian Summit, the Big Fiasco
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
30 May 2016
The World Humanitarian Summit held in Istanbul on May 23-24 failed to achieve the objective of attracting the massive funds needed to alleviate the humanitarian drama, as neither the leaders of the Group-of-7 richest countries nor of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council attended, with the exception of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
→ read full articleMake Serving in War an Option Not an Order
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Government has absolutely no right to demand that our sons register and prepare for blood sacrifice today. No one has the right to such power over another being. So let’s move beyond blood sacrifice and make the practical sacrifices that truly resolve conflict.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Says Secretive Trade Agreement Paves Way to ‘Corporatization of Public Services’
John Dyer – Vice News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
28 May 2016 – WikiLeaks has released thousands of documents that show how officials negotiating the Trade in Services Agreement, or TiSA, could force privatization on public institutions around the world. The most surprising revelations involve state-owned enterprises, or SOEs — government-owned corporations that often operate like private businesses but pursue public goals, experts said.
→ read full article10 Warning Signs of Vitamin C Deficiency
Baba-Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
According to a study at the University of Illinois, many fell short of consuming enough vitamin C. But getting enough of this essential vitamin is important for our overall well-being. In fact, high blood levels of vitamin C may be the ideal nutrition marker for overall health. If you are concerned that you might be deficient in vitamin C, here are some signs and indications you should be on the look-out for.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Blood on the Tracks: Vietnam Veteran Brian Willson Discusses Memorial Day [30 May] and the American Way Of Life (AWOL)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
“We fail our duties as citizens if we remain silent rather than calling our US wars for what they are – criminal and deceitful aggressions violating international and US law to assure control of geostrategic resources, deemed necessary to further our insatiable American Way Of Life.”
→ read full articleRoundup’s Toxic Chemical Glyphosate, Found in 100% of California Wines Tested
A Sheep No More – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Before you pop open a bottle of California Merlot, there is something you should know: trace amounts of glyphosate, the primary toxic chemical found in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, have been found in 100% of California wines tested by the national GMO awareness group, Moms Against Monsanto. The news comes on the heels of a report finding 14 brands of beers tested positive for the likely carcinogen in Germany.
→ read full articleSilencing America as It Prepares for War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
As the U.S. government plunges toward war with nuclear-armed Russia and/or China, there is an unsettling silence — or unnerving consensus — regarding the potential extinction of human existence. In 2009, Obama promised to help “rid the world of nuclear weapons” and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. No American president has built more nuclear warheads than Obama.
→ read full articleThe Scope for Parallel Diplomacy Has Never Been Greater
David Richmond – Foreign Policy In Focus,
30 May 2016
One of the great diplomatic breakthroughs for which the Obama presidency will undoubtedly be remembered is the re-establishment of relations with Cuba. The role of the Vatican in this rapprochement serves as a reminder that even in the era of systematised diplomacy, significant benefit can be derived from an informal process that takes place away from the limelight.
→ read full articleEconomic Costs of US Wars
Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
The USA has spent or obligated 4.4 trillion dollars on the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq paid almost entirely by borrowing, which has raised the US budget deficit, increased the national debt, and had other macroeconomic effects, such as raising consumer interest rates. We estimate that interest payments over war borrowings could total over $7 trillion by 2053.
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(Português) Entrevista de Glenn Greenwald com Dilma Rousseff: A Primeira Desde Sua Suspensão
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
May 19, 2016 – Do Palácio da Alvorada, em Brasília, a presidente suspensa do Brasil falou ao The Intercept sobre suas declarações de que é vítima de um ‘golpe’, as acusações contra ela, a guinada à direita planejada pelo governo interino, e como ela acha que os brasileiros devem protestar e lutar contra esta subversão da democracia.
→ read full articleIt’s Not Just Hiroshima: The Many Other Things America Hasn’t Apologized For
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post,
30 May 2016
26 May 2016 – This week, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, the Japanese city that the United States nearly destroyed with a nuclear bomb in 1945. It’s reasonable to ask, after more than 70 years, why not apologize for Hiroshoma? But what else has America not apologized for? Here are a few ideas.
→ read full articleDeepening National Antagonisms Dominate G7 Summit
Nick Beams | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
The G7 nations are seeking to ramp up military pressure against China, amid a deepening economic slump and divisions within their own ranks.
→ read full articleToward Democratic Eco-socialism as the Next World System
Hans A. Baer | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Hans Baer proposes a new approach to what he calls “authentic socialism.” As opposed to past experiments with socialism – associated with sudden revolutions, violence, and adverse economic contexts – democratic eco-socialism in his vision would emerge slowly through a series of “system challenging reforms” and pressures from social movements.
→ read full articleThe Great Event – A Pot Kumbha with Nectarine Drops
Prof. Chandra P Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Kumbha Mela at Ujjain with entry of sun in Aries and Jupiter in Leo has a special significance. When, sun emits gigantic radiations with nectarine drops. It is the great event on the Earth. It has given the way for origin of life with cordial atmospheric conditions on earth. To preserve the ancient wisdom, the Kumbha Mela is celebrated with every twelve years cycle.
→ read full article[Jeju Forum] Norwegian Scholar Johan Galtung Criticizes No ‘Exit Strategy’ on North Korea
The Korea Herald – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
23 May 2016 – Despite Pyongyang’s unabated nuclear ambitions, Seoul should seek to craft an “exit strategy” to defuse cross-border tension away from the current focus on sanctions and pressure, said Johan Galtung, founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
→ read full article(Italiano) La geopolitica di seta della Cina
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
La Cina sta cambiando la geografia mondiale, o almeno ci sta provando. Non nel senso di acqua e terra come per i Paesi Bassi, ma tessendo nuove infrastrutture di comunicazione per terra, acqua, aria, e nel cyberspazio/web. Le Vie della Seta. Non sorprende che un paese con un certo orientamento marxista focalizzi la propria politica sulle infrastrutture – ma qui come mezzo di trasporto-comunicazione, non di produzione.
→ read full article(Italiano) Basta Sanzioni alla Siria
bastasanzioniallaSiria – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
A giugno, il Consiglio dell’Unione europea dovrà pronunciarsi all’unanimità per poter rinnovare le sanzioni alla Siria. Riconoscendoci pienamente nell’appello lanciato da esponenti cattolici della comunità siriana (qui sotto riportato) chiediamo a tutti i parlamentari e ai sindaci di impegnarsi affinché il Governo italiano voti contro il rinnovo delle sanzioni alla Siria. -Questa la sottoscrizione che vi chiediamo di firmare-
→ read full articleHow Leo Tolstoy Found His Purpose: The Beloved Author on Personal Growth and the Meaning of Human Existence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
So I too shall be safe in taking for the aim of my existence a conscious striving for the universal development of everything existent. I should be the unhappiest of mortals if I could not find a purpose for my life, and a purpose at once universal and useful… Wherefore henceforth all my life must be a constant, active striving for that one purpose.
→ read full article(Português) A Volta da Classe do Privilégio e o Golpe Parlamentar no Brasil
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Segundo o Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada são apenas 71 mil pessoas (ou 1% da população que representa apenas 0,05% dos adultos), multibilionários brasileiros, que controlam praticamente nossas riquezas e nossas finanças e através delas o jogo político. Essa classe do privilégio, além de perversa socialmente, sempre consegue manobrar o poder de Estado em seu benefício.
→ read full articleThe Doomsday Clock in Fiction and Reality
David Warmflash – Discover Magazine,
23 May 2016
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic representation of the level danger on planet Earth. Since its creation at the dawn of the nuclear age, the Clock has been reset 21 times, but the only other time that it ever moved as close as two minutes to midnight was 1953. That was after the United States and Soviet Union both tested fusion weapons, or “H-bombs”, within nine months of one another.
→ read full articleDrunks
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Recently, a routine police patrol was parked outside a local neighborhood bar in Minnesota. Late in the evening, the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk.
→ read full articleWorkshop: Bringing Back Nonviolence in Political Theory
MANCEPT-Manchester Centre for Political Theory – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Abstracts are invited for the workshop. Call for Papers (Deadline 1June). This workshop will be part of MANCEPT (7th-9th September at the University of Manchester).
→ read full article(Italiano) Giornata nazionale di studi “La società del non ascolto”. Oggi nella Casa di reclusione di Padova
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
20 maggio 2016 – Più di 500 persone partecipano oggi alla giornata di studi “La società del NON ASCOLTO”.
→ read full articleA Friendly Critique of the Break Free Climate Actions
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
My friendly criticism is directed at those key organizers who planned the nonviolent actions without understanding how to make the commitment and courage of those who were mobilized have maximum strategic impact on the ongoing climate catastrophe.
→ read full articleAnatomy of a Propaganda Blitz: “Hitlergate”
Media Lens – Dissident Voice,
23 May 2016
Elites have openly advocated the ‘manufacture of consent’ for decades. In 1932, highly influential US foreign policy adviser Reinhold Niebuhr wrote of the need for ’emotionally potent oversimplifications’ and ‘necessary illusion’ to overcome the threat to elite control posed by ‘the stupidity of the average man’.
→ read full articleBillion Acts of Peace
Billion Acts - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
The “One Billion Acts of Peace” Campaign is an international global citizens’ movement designed to tackle the most important problems facing our planet.
→ read full articleNorth Korea: Love Thy Leader
Israel Shamir – The Unz Review,
23 May 2016
12 May 2016 | Author’s Note: I returned just now from North Korea. Here is my report from this unusual land.
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Noam Chomsky: Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff “Impeached by a Gang of Thieves”
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
23 May 2016
May 17, 2016 – As protests continue in Brazil over the Legislature’s vote to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and put her on trial, Noam Chomsky notes, “We have the one leading politician who hasn’t stolen to enrich herself, who’s being impeached by a gang of thieves, who have done so. That does count as a kind of soft coup.”
→ read full articleCommoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm
David Bollier | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change? Our challenge is not just articulating attractive alternatives, but identifying credible strategies for actualizing them. I believe the commons—at once a paradigm, a discourse, an ethic, and a set of social practices—holds great promise in transcending this conundrum.
→ read full articleBreaking Free: A Rising Tide of Climate Resistance
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
23 May 2016
People are putting their bodies on the line, with blockades, sit-ins, banner-hangs and a whole constellation of confrontational actions, driven by the urgency of the climate crisis. Here is just a sample of some of the protests from the past two weeks, as summarized by the climate action nonprofit group 350.org.
→ read full articleHow Much It Sucks to Be a Sri Lankan Worker Making Beyoncé’s New Clothing Line
Sirin Kale | Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
According to a newspaper investigation, the sweatshop workers making the Ivy Park collection for Topshop are only making 64 cents an hour. We ask an expert on the Sri Lankan clothes industry just how bad the situation really is.
→ read full articleHorrifying Israeli Defense Forces Brutality towards Young Boys
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Interviews with children who have been detained, video footage, and reports from lawyers reveal that Israeli security forces are using unnecessary force in arresting and detaining children, in some cases beating them, and holding them in unsafe and abusive conditions. “Palestinian children are treated in ways that would terrify and traumatize an adult. Screams, threats, and beatings are no way for the police to treat a child or to get accurate information from them.”
→ read full articleWorld Humanitarian Summit: On the Front Lines for Action
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
The World Humanitarian Summit organized by the UN opens on 23 May 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. The aim of the conference is to see what should be done “to end conflict, alleviate suffering and reduce risk and vulnerability.”
→ read full articleNot in Your War Anymore
Ada Aharoni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
“War is as anachronistic as cannibalism,
slavery and colonialism…”
— Rosalie Bertell, No Immediate Answer
Questionable Deal: EU to Work with African Despot to Keep Refugees Out
Jürgen Dahlkamp and Maximilian Popp – Der Spiegel,
23 May 2016
In an effort to help keep refugees from Africa at bay, the EU is planning to deliver personal registration equipment to Sudan, whose president is wanted on war crimes charges. Germany is leading the way.
→ read full articleA Brief History of the ‘Nakba’ in Israel
Eitan Bronstein Aparicio | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
This text describes the discourse on the Nakba — mostly the concept but also the historical event — in Israel. When did it appear? When did it decline and was repressed? What caused these changes? It deals with the attitude towards the Nakba in Hebrew and does not attempt to describe the attitudes and changes it went through in Arabic and in the Arab world.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Senate-Imposed Government Increasingly Isolated
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
16 May 2016 – Uruguay has joined the growing list of Latin American countries that reject the Senate-imposed coup government of Michel Temer in Brazil, leaving the right-wing administration increasingly isolated in the region. Argentine President Mauricio Macri remains the only head of state to openly state support for it.
→ read full articlePandit Parmanand: Prisons as Homes for Long Periods for India’s Freedom
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Brief of Interaction between Great Patriot Global Man Pandit Parmanand and Dr. Surya Nath Prasad
→ read full article‘We Cannot Keep Jumping from Crisis to Crisis’
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 May 2016
20 May 2016 – “We cannot keep jumping from crisis to crisis. We have to invest in long-term development that helps people cope with shocks so that they can continue to grow enough food for their communities and not require emergency aid.” — Josefina Stubbs, Chief Strategist of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development message to the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul.
→ read full articleHow Big Pharma Uses Charity Programs to Cover for Drug Price Hikes
Benjamin Elgin and Robert Langreth | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
A billion-dollar system in which charitable giving is profitable.
→ read full articlePetition from Global Peace Science for the UN and UNESCO
Global Harmony Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
The UN Charter and the UNESCO Constitution have formulated the key peace idea: “That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.” If the ‘war minds’ received a powerful rooting in military science, founded more than two centuries ago, which now concentrates military intellect with invention of the most devastating weapons of mass destruction, the defences of ‘peace minds’ were left fragmented and powerless before the war without their science up to now.
→ read full articleOn (Not) Loving Henry Kissinger
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
There is an irony that would be amusing if it was not depressing about news that Donald Trump has been courting the 92-year old foreign policy sorcerer Henry Kissinger. Of course, the irony is that earlier in the presidential campaign Hilary Clinton proudly claimed Kissinger as ‘a friend,’ and acknowledged that he “relied on his counsel” while she served as Obama’s Secretary of State.
→ read full articleJan Christian Smuts (24 May 1870 – 11 Sep 1950): What Rises Converges
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
It is Smuts as an original thinker, author of Holism and Evolution and a major contributor to the structure of the League of Nations and to the Preamble of the UN Charter that I would like to highlight.
→ read full article(Français) Les “hotspots”, une négation de l’humanité aux portes de l’Europe
Selma Benkhelifa | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Depuis janvier, un hotspot défigure le petit port de pêche de la ville. Un hotspot c’est – en théorie- une « approche européenne améliorant le procédé servant à identifier, enregistrer et prendre les empreintes digitales des migrants arrivant en Europe. » Une sorte de centre de tri entre les bons et les mauvais réfugiés, ceux qui seront autorisés à pénétrer en Europe et ceux qui seront refoulés vers l’Afrique.
→ read full articleThoughts on Silence – on Buddha’s Anniversary
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Today, 21 May, is the anniversary on the full moon day of Lord Buddha’s birth. After he obtained enlightenment sitting beneath the bodhi tree, Buddha simply said, ‘Silence is the source of life’. In the words of Lao Tzu, the ancient Chinese mystic and philosopher, ‘Silence is a source of great strength’. And according to Chinese philosopher Confucius, ‘Silence is a true friend who never betrays’.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
May 23–29 | QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same. Some people come into our lives and quickly go…Some stay for a while and embrace our silent dreams. They help us become aware of the delicate winds of hope…and we discover within every human spirit there are wings yearning to fly.” — Favia Weedn
→ read full articleShakespeare’s Universe: A Nonkilling View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Shakespeare`s TO BE OR NOT TO BE is a universe of choices
to be or not to be experienced-expressed by a myriad human voices
(Italiano) Una critica amichevole alle azioni per il clima
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Ma le mie considerazioni, amichevolmente critiche, sono rivolte agli organizzatori principali, che hanno progettato quelle azioni nonviolente senza capire in che modo la dedizione e il coraggio delle persone che sono state coinvolte potessero avere il massimo impatto possibile.
→ read full articleMiddle East – The Mother of All Humanitarian Crises
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 May 2016
The Istanbul World Humanitarian Summit will focus on five key areas: to prevent and end conflict; to respect the rules of war; to leave no one behind; to work differently to end need, and to invest in humanity.
→ read full articleWill One of the World’s Most Endangered Whales Be Saved Before It’s Too Late?
Alicia Graef | Care2, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
13 May 2016 – Conservationists took legal action this week to get protection for one of the most endangered species of whales on Earth. At the time of their discovery, the best estimate of their population put their number at fewer than 50 individuals, which raised concerns that they are one of the most endangered whales on earth who will likely disappear entirely without intervention.
→ read full articleNATO, Central Banks, Refugee Crisis, TTIP, Technologies … Western Elites in Panic Mode for a Future in the Form of a Question Mark
GEAB-Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
When the world sustaining a governance system disappears, but the governance system is still “in charge”, concern is justified. The leaders have certain challenges on their agendas which completely exceed their conceptual and instrumental abilities. They must now choose among a variety of “bad solutions”, meaning they will inevitably make bad decisions. We list a series of facts revealing this growing and worrying state of panic, as well as the trends which, we believe, will worsen it even more.
→ read full articleTrauma and Deprivation Lead Syrian Youths to Extremist Groups, Says New Report
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
23 May 2016
Syrian youths overwhelmingly cite practical rather than ideological reasons for joining militant groups after five years of civil war.
→ read full articleBrazil, Europe, Iran, US, Saudi Arabia – The Return of National Sovereignty: Heading toward One Ultimate Stand?
GEAB-Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
It is the political aspect of the crisis that currently dominates the global agenda in an increasingly worrisome manner. The weakening of states because of these political crises, combined with geopolitical or economic shocks suffered by these states, leads to national retrenchment and hardening that does not bode well for democracy, from a domestic point of view, or for peace, from an international point of view. We should analyze carefully the characteristics of this multi-directional national retrenchment.
→ read full articleUSA, Stop Threatening Russia & the World! Prevent Nuclear War!
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Russia has two bases in the Middle East and a handful in Central Asia. The U.S. has 662 bases around the world and Special Forces deployed in between 70 and 90 countries at any moment. Last year SOFs were active in 147 countries. The U.S. is actively engaged in five wars and is considering a sixth in Libya. Russian military spending will fall next year, and the U.S. will out-spend Moscow by a factor of 10. Who in this comparison looks threatening?
→ read full article(Português) Papa recebe viúva de Paulo Freire e diz que leu “Pedagogia do Oprimido”
Revista Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Ana Maria Araújo foi recebida por Francisco em uma audiência privada; no encontro, ela entregou uma carta na qual elogia o papado e pede ajuda para que sejam abertos os arquivos do Vaticano, na tentativa de compreender qual a influência das ideias de Freire nos pontificados.
→ read full articleThe Imperial Empire: The Sun Never Sets but the Mote Remains in the Emperor’s Eye
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Post-colonial empires are complex organizations. They are organized on a multi-tiered basis, ranging from relative autonomous national and regional allies to subservient vassal states, with variations in between.
→ read full articleThe Superdelegates Must Vote for Sanders
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Superdelegates were introduced by the US Democratic Party in 1984 (the year in which George Orwell’s prophetic book is set). These unelected delegates are party officials, and their purpose is to circumvent the popular will. They are supposed to choose an electable candidate in case the voters choose an unelectable one.
→ read full articleSnowden Archive——The SIDtoday Files
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
16 May 2016 – SIDtoday is the internal newsletter for the NSA’s most important division, the Signals Intelligence Directorate. After editorial review, The Intercept is releasing nine years’ worth of newsletters in batches, starting with 2003. The agency’s spies explain a surprising amount about what they were doing, how they were doing it, and why.
→ read full articlePhilosophy of Science and Science of Philosophy
Chandra P Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
The universal questions before the philosophers and the scientist are related with cosmology, biology, and life consciousness, the aim of life, and ethics. The seers and prophets have followed the way of self-realization to realize the truth. The consciousness is within us, it is proof in the self.
→ read full articleU.S. Financial Regulations Increase Starvation among Syria’s Children
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
As of May 15, 2016, according to Save the Children and an assortment of UN agencies and NGO’s, nearly 7 million people are displaced within Syria, half of them are children and more than two million of the youngsters are at risk of becoming ill, malnourished, abused, or exploited. One inexcusable action that is today targeting Syria’s children, even if inadvertently, are the US economic sanctions against the country’s leadership.
→ read full articleThe Martens Clause and War Crimes in Hawai‘i
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Under the principles of international law, the USA was capable of committing war crimes when the Hawaiian Kingdom was invaded and occupied since August 12, 1898. The criminal conduct committed by German, Austrian and Bulgarian officials against Serbia and its people are very similar to the criminal conduct by the United States after 1898 against the Hawaiian Kingdom and its people.
→ read full articleAnnexing Archaeology: Will UNESCO Take On Israel?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
19 May 2016 – Israel is stepping up its efforts to seize control of Palestinian heritage sites and antiquities in the occupied territories in violation of international law. The experts echoed criticisms leveled against Israel in a recent resolution passed by the United Nations’ cultural agency, UNESCO, that accused Israel of interfering with major holy sites in occupied areas.
→ read full articleAgainst the Crowdfunding Economy
Keith A. Spencer – Jacobin Magazine,
23 May 2016
Tens of thousands have put their faith in these new digital platforms, hoping for moral outcomes from an immoral capitalist system. But crowdsourced social welfare marketplaces exist for profit. They don’t care who does or doesn’t get funded. They just care about getting a cut.
→ read full articleRealizing Peace
Heath Mitchell – Foreign Policy In Focus,
23 May 2016
A new book on conflict resolution provides a history of the subject and a counterfactual history of recent events.
→ read full articleCampaign for the Removal of the EU Sanctions on Syria
Marinella Correggia | Italian Committee for the End of the UE Sanctions on Syria – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
The renewal of the shameful European Union sanctions against the war-torn Syria is going to be discussed at the end of May by the European Council, as every year since 2011. Note: In 2012, the sanctions were removed from the opposition/armed jihadists-controlled areas (including the now Daesh/ISIS-controlled areas!). The link to the online petition:
→ read full articleHow Activists Are Restricting Use of Major Pesticide Glyphosate in Hawaii
Justin Worland - Time,
23 May 2016
Glyphosate use has risen with the adoption of GM crops, but Hawaii environmentalists have found a novel way to curb its use.
→ read full article