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‘Human Suffering Has Reached Staggering Levels’: UN Ban Ki-moon
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 May 2016
17 May 2016 – “Human suffering from the impacts of armed conflicts and disasters has reached staggering levels.” With these one dozen or few words, the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, briefly but sharply portrayed the current humanitarian drama, explaining why the UN has decided to hold the first ever World Humanitarian Summit on May 23-24 this year in Istanbul, Turkey.
→ read full articleDrones and the Conscientious Objector
John Kaag and Clancy Martin – Boston Globe,
23 May 2016
“When the guilt of our roles in facilitating this systematic loss of innocent life became too much, all of us succumbed to PTSD.” These words are from an open letter to the Obama administration, crafted by four former Air Force servicemen, each of whom played a role in the nation’s targeted killing program.
→ read full articleWhy I Keep Fighting
Chelsea Manning - Reader Supported News,
23 May 2016
As a military prisoner, my public persona is carefully controlled and enforced. Any interviews or statements that I make — such as this one — must be written or dictated through someone else who types it up on my behalf. I am not allowed to be recorded over the telephone, do any video interviews, or have any pictures taken — with the exception of the occasional grainy mug shot. For those living in my situation, it’s easy to start feeling invisible — left behind and dismissed by the rest of a fast-paced society. Despite these obstacles, I know I need to keep going. It is important to stay vocal. To stay creative. Active. Motivated. To keep fighting.
→ read full articleSick Mother (Tanka)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
North South poles cry…
→ read full articleUnquestioned Bias in Governance from Direction of Reading?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Political Implications of Reading from Left-to-Right, Right-to-Left, or Top-Down – The text on which much global governance is primarily dependent is written from left-to-write (top-down), following the pattern determined in the Greece from which democracy emerged. Text is written otherwise in other cultures, notably in Arabic and Hebrew (right-to-left), or in cultures of the East (vertically, whether left-to-right, or right-to-left).
→ read full articleWhat Race Were the Greeks and Romans? The Evidence Is Clear — but Often Ignored
John Harrison Sims | American Renaissance – Unz Review,
23 May 2016
The Encyclopædia Britannica published in 1911, “Survival of fair hair and complexion and light eyes among the upper classes in Thebes and some other localities shows that the blond type of mankind which is characteristic of north-western Europe had already penetrated into Greek lands before classical times.” It added that the early Greeks, or Hellenes, were Nordic, one of “the fair-haired tribes of upper Europe known to the ancients as Keltoi.” Sixty years ago even Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher and socialist, believed that the Hellenes “were fair-haired invaders from the North, who brought the Greek language with them.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Migrazione di Massa, UE, Nazionalismi Europei
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Oggi la UE è come una piramide dello sfruttamento: la Germania in cima; 8 Paesi Germanici del Nord; 5 Paesi Latini del Sud con la Francia, e poi l’Irlanda; 12 Paesi dell’Est; la Grecia al fondo. Considerando l’ingiustizia e le quote, nulla di strano che crescano i nazionalismi, disunendo la UE. Rimuovete la cause: Inghilterra-Francia, accettate di ricevere il conto; UE, appiattisci la piramide.
→ read full articleAs Palestinians Mourn Their Nakba, the UK Must Acknowledge Its Responsibility
Ahmad Samih Khalidi – The Guardian,
16 May 2016
15 May 2016 – Today marks the 68th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe): the Palestinians’ dispossession and the loss of their homeland. Next year is the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. It behooves the UK to face up to its role in the dispossession of the Palestinians. Their plight remains without redress in the UK.
→ read full articleNorth Korea, Following China and India, Pledges No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons. So Could Obama
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
15 May 2016 – North Korea’s May 7 declaration that it would not be first to use nuclear weapons was met with official derision instead of relief and applause. Not one report of the announcement I could find noted that the United States has never made such a no-first-use pledge. None of three dozen news accounts even mentioned that North Korea hasn’t got one usable nuclear warhead.
→ read full articleGeneral Golan’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Speech
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Speaking at Tel Yitzak Kibbutz, where the Massuah Institute for Holocaust Studies is located, General Golan urged that this very special day of observance in Israel be treated as an occasion for soul-searching. He placed this call in an extraordinary context by suggesting that conditions in Israel were disturbing in ways relevant to the Holocaust, horror of horrors.
→ read full article(Português) Os animais não são objetos
José Soeiro - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
16 May 2016
13 de maio de 2016 – A frase que dá título a este artigo parecerá, à maioria das pessoas, uma evidência. Mas a lei portuguesa não tem ainda esse entendimento. O nosso Código Civil continua a definir os animais como “coisas”. Soa estranho, mas é mesmo assim.
→ read full article(Français) Brésil: le coup d´Etat
Michael Löwy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Michael Löwy é um brasileiro de ascendência austríaco- francesa, sociólogo da religião e analista político. Foi por muitos anos professor na Sorbonne mas nunca deixou dar sua contribuição ao Brasil com frequentes viagens e cursos dados a distintos grupos, inclusive a grupos de base. Da França nos oferece esta pertinente análise do golpe parlamentar sofrido contra a presidenta Dilma. É um olhar de fora cuja distância permite ver melhor o interor deste processo ilegítimo. Lboff
15 mai 2016 – Appellons un chat un chat. Ce qui vient de se passer au Brésil, avec la destitution de la présidente élue, Dilma Roussef, est un coup d’état.
(Français) Amérique Latine: Fin d’un cycle ou épuisement du post-néolibéralisme
Francois Houtart | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
L’Amérique latine fut l’unique continent où des options néolibérales furent adoptées par plusieurs pays. Après une série de dictatures militaires, appuyées par les États-Unis et porteuses du projet néolibéral, les réactions ne se firent pas attendre. Le sommet fut le rejet en 2005 du Traité de Libre Échange avec les États-Unis et le Canada, fruit d’une action conjointe entre mouvements sociaux, partis politiques de gauche, ONG et Églises chrétiennes.
→ read full articleIraq, Sykes-Picot and Mr Five Percent
Ibrahim Al-Marashi – Al Jazeera,
16 May 2016
16 May 2016 – May 16 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Treaty, a secret agreement between Britain and France during World War I to carve up the domains of the Ottoman Empire upon its defeat. Mr Five Percent, the nickname of the oil broker Calouste Gulbenkian, certainly deserves attention a century later. Gulbenkian served as a midwife of sorts to not only Iraq, but also to the birth of the world’s major oil corporations.
→ read full articleWhy Set Up a Shell Company in Panama? The Psychology Driving Illicit Financial Flows
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
There is an important reason why wealthy individuals want to maximise their wealth and evade contributing to any country that gave them the opportunity to make this wealth. You might think that you know this reason too: greed. However, greed is a simplistic explanation that fails to explain, psychologically, why an individual might be greedy. So let me explain it now.
→ read full articleUnder International Law Native Hawaiians Are Victims of Genocide
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Since the occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom began during the Spanish-American War, the United States embarked on a deliberate campaign of forced denationalization in order to conceal the occupation and militarization of a neutral State. Denationalization, in its totality, is genocide. [Hawaii was annexed and became the 50th State of the USA on August 21, 1959]
→ read full articleSea-Level Rise Claims Five Islands in Solomons: Study
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Five islands have disappeared in the Pacific’s Solomon Islands due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion.
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Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation Agents, and the CIA
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
It is quite easy for a disinformation agent to spin a rich disinformation tale and then craft several different versions of the tale with new ‘facts’ to support the story in each one. These tales are usually a good mix of verifiable facts and cleverly designed lies, so that people who check the ‘facts’ tend to believe the lies that are mixed in. The disinformation agent has only to feed these versions of his tale to several of the many conspiracy-oriented websites out there, and it’s all over the Internet – but not on reliable websites. They will use pseudonyms to join in on the discussions generated by their “news” so that they can manipulate the direction that comments take.
→ read full articleJust War No More! PEACE to the Fore!
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
To war Humankind seeks a wise global solution
that is well beyond a conceptual evolution
Nonkilling – You Are Philosophic Spirits of Great Humans
Rashida Khanam - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Nonkilling You are Philosophic Spirits of Great
Humans
GPS Tracking Devices Catch Major U.S. Recyclers Exporting Toxic E-Waste
Elizabeth Grossman – The Intercept,
16 May 2016
A two-year investigation of electronics recycling revealed that about one-third of the devices were improperly exported to developing countries where equipment is often dismantled in low-tech workshops — often by children — endangering workers, their families, and contaminating the surrounding environment.
→ read full articleRichmond’s People to People Delegation: How Beautiful Is Cuba
Willie Thompson, Tarnel Abbott and Marilyn Langlois – San Francisco Bay View,
16 May 2016
We were gratified by the hospitality extended to us in an atmosphere where, by and large, people do right by each other. As the popular national song declares, “Cuba que linda es Cuba!” “How beautiful is Cuba!”
→ read full articleRadical Innovators Beware — In the Arts, Sciences and Philosophy
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Terrifying Implications of Radical New Deradicalisation Initiative in France – Despite cultivating the image of being a country renowned for its cultivation of intellectual endeavour, and most notably philosophy, Manuel Valls, Prime Minister of France, announced on 9 May 2016 a radical initiative to set up a dozen deradicalisation centres.
→ read full articleMédecins Sans Frontières Say 75 Hospitals Bombed in 2015, Leave UN Humanitarian Summit
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
The Medical Aid Organization Says It Does Not Have Hope in the “Fig Leaf” Summit – Doctors Without Borders on Thursday [5 May] pulled out of a U.N.-sponsored World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on May 23-24 saying there was no hope that the meeting would address the weaknesses in humanitarian action and emergency response, particularly in conflict areas or epidemic situations.
→ read full articleClean Clothes and Dirty Mind (Haiku)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
After dizzy hours…
→ read full articleOffshore Leaks Database
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Find out who’s behind almost 320,000 offshore companies and trusts from the Panama Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations.
→ read full articleIn Praise of the Tamed Metaphysicist: Einstein on Reality, Rationality, and the Human Passion for Comprehension
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
“Reason is a tool, a machine, which is driven by the spiritual fire,” Dostoyevsky wrote in 1838 as he contemplated how we come to know truth.
→ read full articleWhy Burma Is Trying to Stop People from Using [Rohingya] the Name of Its Persecuted Muslim Minority
Feliz Solomon - Time,
16 May 2016
9 May 2016 – The government is “not objecting [to] the term [Rohingya] but requesting not to use it.” The suggestion was made during private “courtesy calls” between Aung San Suu Kyi — in her role as Minister of Foreign Affairs — and the U.S. Ambassador to Burma Scot Marciel.
→ read full articlePeace
Jose Maria Lopera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
How terrible is the anger of the men that kill,
of the volcano that inside melts down feelings,
’til souls break in a crater of extermination!
What storm, what thunder, what flash of violence
seeks to kill or mutilate those who are innocent!
SF Int’l Film Festival: The Return, about released prisoners, and other social dramas (or comedies)
Joanne Laurier | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
The increasingly dire conditions of life are inevitably impressing themselves upon filmmakers. However, it remains a difficult task for the artist to discover the essential truths and communicate them. In some cases, there is a lack of intellectual and historical preparedness––the artist is simply over his or her head. In others, complacency and social indifference play a role, allowing the filmmakers to avoid the crisis raging before their eyes.
→ read full articleUs Defies Myanmar Government Request to Stop Using Term Rohingya
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Ambassador Scot Marciel says Washington will continue to call persecuted Muslim minority by name objected to by Aung San Suu Kyi’s administration.
→ read full articleShame on Shell: Ecocide by Oil Extraction in the Niger Delta
Cynthia McKinney – Russia Today,
16 May 2016
14 May 2016 – Millions of barrels of oil have been spilled in Nigeria’s Delta region. Tired of the abuse, Nigerians just blew up a pipeline and a platform in an attempt to rectify what politicians and courts have been slow to do.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
May 16–22 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “My brain is only a receiver; in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.” ― Nikola Tesla
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Glenn Greenwald on Brazil: Goal of Rousseff Impeachment Is to Boost Neoliberals & Protect Corruption
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
10 May 2016 – We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who lives in Brazil. “People have started to realize, internationally but also here in Brazil, that although this impeachment process has been sold, has been pitched as a way of punishing corruption, its real goal, beyond empowering neoliberals and Goldman Sachs and foreign hedge funds, the real goal is to protect corruption,” Greenwald says.
→ read full articleNeocons and Neolibs: How Dead Ideas Kill
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
16 May 2016
Hillary Clinton wants the American voters to be very afraid of Donald Trump, but there is reason to fear as well what a neoconservative/neoliberal Clinton presidency would mean for the world.
→ read full articlePutin Declines World Humanitarian Summit Invitation as Russia Cries Foul
Ben Parker | IRIN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be attending the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul as Russia is refusing to be bound by the results of a process it says failed to include its views.
→ read full articleBuilding a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth
Jessica Gordon Nembhard |The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
The next system that we need, and that hopefully we are moving toward, is a cooperative commonwealth within interlocking local solidarity economies. Such a system is created from the bottom up, building upon multiple grassroots cooperative enterprises, and democratic community-based economic practices. These networks collaborate and federate from the local to municipal, regional, national, and international levels.
→ read full articleA Perfect Storm
Andrew P. Napolitano | LewRockwell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
A below the radar yet largely known debate in the Kremlin between the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Intelligence Services to determine whether they should release some 20,000 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails they obtained either by hacking her directly or by hacking into the email of her confidante, Sid Blumenthal.
→ read full articleCivil Society Movements for Promotion of Peace and Social Justice
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Today with acute problems of environmental pollution and climate change, many movements are taking place for the protection and sustenance of the environment. Before discussing environmental movements, it is useful to refer to some prominent political and social movements.
→ read full articleCelebrating the Life and Legacy of Daniel Berrigan
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
I was privileged to know Daniel Berrigan in the last stages of the Vietnam War, not well, but well enough to appreciate his quality of moral radiance and to admire the spiritual dedication that he exhibited in opposing the Vietnam War, and later nuclearism. I also knew Dan’s brother, Phil, who shared these remarkable qualities.
→ read full articleWashington’s Military Addiction – And the Ruins Still to Come
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
16 May 2016
But don’t bother to blame the politicians and national security nabobs in Washington for this [their solution — more of the same –militarism]. They’re addicts. They can’t help themselves. What they need is rehab. Instead, they continue to run our world. Be suitably scared for the ruins still to come.
→ read full article(Italiano) Memorie di guerra, memorie per la pace
Angela Dogliotti Marasso – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
16 May 2016
12 maggio 2016 – Dal 4 all’8 maggio scorso ho partecipato a un viaggio 1sul confine orientale italiano della prima guerra mondiale. La visione dei luoghi che sono stati testimoni del dolore e dell’orrore della guerra, con la visita ai camminamenti e ai resti delle trincee sul Carso, alle gelide gallerie del Monte Grappa, ai dirupi scoscesi dell’altipiano di Asiago, rende concreta l’idea dell’immane carneficina che si è consumata in quei luoghi.
→ read full articleRussia Warns of Retaliation as NATO Plans More Deployments in Eastern Europe
Dmitry Solovyov and Lidia Kelly | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
4 May 2016 – Russia will reinforce its western and southern flanks with three new divisions by the year-end, officials said on Wednesday [4 May], threatening retaliation to NATO’s plans to boost its military presence in eastern members Poland and the Baltic States.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi’s Cowardly Stance on the Rohingya
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
16 May 2016
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi — Myanmar’s leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate — does not want to call them Rohingya, the name they use, because nationalist Buddhists want to perpetuate the myth that they are “Bengalis” who don’t belong in Myanmar. She has also asked the United States ambassador not to use the term.
→ read full article‘Fake Jewish Graves in Muslim Cemeteries’: UNESCO Slams Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Sites
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
18 Apr 2016 – The Israeli authorities are furious after a UNESCO resolution stated that the Temple Mount and holy sites in Hebron and Bethlehem are an “integral part of Palestine.” The organization also criticized Israel, “the occupying power,” for planting fake graves in Muslim cemeteries.
→ read full articleChernobyl Fatalities and the Challenges of Expert Judgment
Sonja Schmid – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
16 May 2016
As the uncertainty over Chernobyl’s death toll illustrates, “scientific opinion” is not always unanimous, and neither is “expert judgment.” Scientific expertise is not immune to controversy. And expert judgment changes over time.
→ read full articleBeekeepers Lost 44% of Honey Bee Colonies Last Year in the USA
Friends of the Earth | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
On Tuesday [10 May] the Bee Informed Partnership, in collaboration with the Apiary Inspectors of America and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, released its annual report on honey bee losses in the U.S. Beekeepers reported losing 44 percent of their total number of colonies managed over the last year. These losses are considered too high to be sustainable for U.S. agriculture and the beekeeping industry.
→ read full articleTimeout for Football Leaks: Whistleblowers Take Six-Month Break
Rafael Buschmann – Der Spiegel,
16 May 2016
The revelations exposed by soccer whistleblowing platform Football Leaks have provided tips for prosecutors and tax inspectors alike. Overwhelmed by a massive trove of data, the group says it will now take a break.
→ read full articleThe TTIPing Point: Protests Threaten Trans-Atlantic Trade Deal
Dinah Deckstein, Simone Salden and Michaela Schießl – Der Spiegel,
16 May 2016
An unprecedented protest movement of a scope not seen since the Iraq war in Germany has pushed negotiations over the TTIP trans-Atlantic free trade agreement to the brink of collapse. The demonstrations are characterized by a level of professionalism not previously seen.
→ read full articlePennsylvania Township Legalizes Civil Disobedience
Tim DeChristopher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
This is a press release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund about a groundbreaking strategy of resistance by a small Pennsylvania town trying to defend itself from the fossil fuel industry.
→ read full articleDictionary Wisdom
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Ruth and Golda were walking along Hendon High Street. Ruth says,
→ read full articleSupport for Palestinians Triples among US Youth, Survey Finds
Ali Abunimah | Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
“Currently, 43 percent of Millennials, born after 1980, report sympathizing more with Israel, while 27 percent are more sympathetic to the Palestinians,” Pew states. “The share sympathizing with the Palestinians has risen significantly in recent years, from nine percent in 2006 to 20 percent in July 2014 to 27 percent today” – in other words it has tripled. Among Baby Boomers – those born between 1946 and 1964 – 61 percent are more pro-Israel, while just 14 percent back the Palestinians.
→ read full articleYes to Assertive, No to Aggressive
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
10 May 2016 – I teach and write in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies, with a special focus on strategic nonviolence. It is a rich field, growing in its scholarship and its widespread usage. I’m so enthused by this—the more we wage our conflicts with nonviolence the lower the costs.
→ read full articleA Killing Nation!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
It has become increasingly clear that the U.S. is not about the business of “freedom and democracy” but rather global domination that benefits an economic corporate elite at the expense of nearly everyone else and the earth itself. Of course, the domination is disguised and fueled by fear: war on terror, regime change, destroying Al Qaeda, ISIS, etc. but increasingly the world is seeing through the disguise. So what are we to do?
→ read full articleCall on Israeli Government to Free Mordechai Vanunu and End Thirty-Year Persecution: Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
No voices are raised in defence of his freedom and it is to all our shame that the international political/spiritual leadership continue to abide by the rule: ‘WHATEVER YOU SAY – SAY NOTHING’ when it comes to the Israeli government’s persecution of a man of conscience, a good man.”
→ read full articleZionism’s Roots Help Us Interpret Israel Today
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Recognising Zionism’s ideological roots, inspired by racial theories of peoplehood that in part fuelled the Second World War, might allow us to understand modern Israel a little better. And why it seems incapable of extending a hand of peace to the Palestinians.
→ read full articleMaking the Most of Obama’s Hiroshima Visit
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Message to President Barack Obama with Respect to Forthcoming Hiroshima Visit – 11 May 2016 | I sent the following message to the White House today, and encourage readers of this blog to do the same.
→ read full articleNew Challenges for Global Citizens
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
The Global Citizenship Commission under the leadership of the former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown presented its report ‘The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century’ to the United Nations on 18 April 2016.
→ read full articleEU: Results of Glyphosate Pee Test Are In ‘and It’s Not Good News’
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
12 May 2016 – Last month, Members of the European Parliament volunteered to take a urine test to see if glyphosate—the cancer-linked weedkiller—is in their system. Forty-eight MEPs from 13 different EU countries participated. Test results from the accredited Biocheck Laboratory in Germany: “All participants excreted glyphosate by urine.”
→ read full article#TTIPleaks: Confidential TTIP Papers Unveil US Position
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Leaked text shows deliberate attempts by the U.S. to undermine EU environment and health protection laws and to change the EU democratic legislative process.
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Yellow (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay Official – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Video directed by James & Alex; filmed in Dorset, England.
→ read full articleThe Value in Activism: Reflections from the Columbia University Climate Sit-In
Nikita Perumal – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
16 May 2016
I know—I have seen—the transformative power that climate justice activism can have both on Columbia’s campus and internationally. When the status quo—in this case, the political and social power of extractive and destructive industries—is too strong to be undone on its own, it sometimes needs a push. I believe, wholeheartedly, that activism is that push.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: The Media Isn’t Doing Its Job
Emily Bell | Columbia Journalism Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Edward Snowden about his experiences working with journalists and his perspective on the shifting media world. This is an excerpt of a conversation that will appear in a forthcoming book: Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Reveal Brazil’s New Coup President Is ‘US Informant’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
13 May 2016 – Whistleblower website WikiLeaks described the Senate-imposed President of Brazil Michel Temer as a “U.S. Embassy informant” in a tweet and provided two links where Temer’s candid thoughts on Brazilian politics serve as the basis for a report by the U.S. embassy in Brazil.
→ read full articleHow Water Corruption Leaves Millions Mired in Misery
Callum Clench – The Huffington Post,
16 May 2016
While corruption permeates every walk of life, its impact on water is particularly pernicious. Corruption in the water sector is widespread, hugely underestimated and little understood. It has a profound impact on economic progress, provision of water and, in the final resort, costs million of lives. Given the complexity of water, then, and its vulnerability to graft, there are three measures which could easily be adopted at Prime Minister Cameron’s summit.
→ read full articleIsrael Imposes Travel Ban on BDS Co-Founder Omar Barghouti
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said that “Israel’s refusal to renew Barghouti’s travel document appears to be an effort to punish him for exercising his right to engage in peaceful, political activism, using its arsenal of bureaucratic control over Palestinian lives.”
→ read full articleAnatomy of a Propaganda Blitz
Media Lens – Dissident Voice,
16 May 2016
We live in a time when state-corporate interests are cooperating to produce propaganda blitzes intended to raise public support for the demonisation and destruction of establishment enemies. Below, we will examine five key components of an effective propaganda campaign of this kind.
→ read full articleDownload the TTIP Leaks
Greenpeace Netherlands – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Greenpeace Netherlands has released secret TTIP negotiation documents to provide much needed transparency and trigger an informed debate on the treaty, which is threatening to have far reaching implications for the environment and the lives of more than 800 million citizens in the EU and US. TTIP is about a huge transfer of power from people to big business.
→ read full articleOxyContin’s 12-Hour Dosing Claim Attacked in Massive Investigation
Sy Mukherjee - Fortune,
9 May 2016
Purdue Pharma’s marketing of opioid was dangerously misleading, report says. Since 1999, more than 165,000 people have died from overdosing on prescription painkillers; opioids have even been implicated in the death of superstar Prince.
→ read full article(Italiano) Stato di Pace ISLANDA. Che vuol dire che cosa?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Allora perché non capitalizzare su quell’esperienza, facendo un Centro di Mediazione di Reykjavik, politicamente e internazionalmente indipendente, e con l’ubicazione islandese fra est e ovest, USA e Russia? Guardiamo la carta geografica! A Reykjavík invitare USA e Russia, con Kiev e Donetsk. Magari anche Bruxelles, intesa come NATO e UE. Tema: il conflitto in e attorno all’Ucraina – appunto “ai confini”, fra due nazioni, l’ucraina-cattolica e la russa-ortodossa; con molto odio e violenza.
→ read full articleLargest Civil Disobedience in History of the Environmental Movement Begins Today
350.org | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
3 May 2016 – Starting today, a global wave of peaceful direct actions lasting for 12 days will take place across six continents targeting the world’s most dangerous fossil fuel projects, under the banner of Break Free.
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Fall of Empire, End to US Wars: Johan Galtung Predictions Taking Place
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, predicts the fall of the “US Empire” by 2020. Military defeats in wars of choice will generate political loss of influence and irrelevance externally, what may trigger a soul-searching internally. The Vietnam War was but a prelude. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya follow the script. Israel may become a burden to the USA.
→ read full articleThe Rohingya and [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi’s Myanmar aka Burma
Adryel Talamantes and Austin Bodetti – The Diplomat,
9 May 2016
The democratic icon’s party won a major victory last year. Will it help a beleaguered minority? Former political prisoner Wai Wai Nu, once persecuted because of her father’s political activities summed it up briefly, “It’s good that we have changes, but it’s still too early to comment.”
→ read full articleThis Is How Settlers Take Over Palestinian Land
Dror Etkes - +972 Magazine,
9 May 2016
From audacious fraud and forgery to military seizures for ‘security needs’ and the ‘public good’ to dusting off antiquated Ottoman laws, the Israeli settlement enterprise has no shortage of tools for taking over Palestinian land in the West Bank.
→ read full articlePresident Obama Should Meet A-Bomb Survivors, and Heed Their Call to Ban the Bomb
Kevin Martin | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
5 May 2016 – President Obama is considering a visit to Hiroshima during the G-7 economic summit in Japan later this month. Remarkably, many Hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors, are still alive today, though they often suffer from various radiation-caused illnesses or other physical ailments 71 years after the bombs were dropped.
→ read full article(Italiano) NON AVERE PAURA! DONNE CHE NON SI SONO ARRESE di Cristina Monti. Torino 26 aprile 2016
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Una serata al femminile, per la collaborazione cooperativa fra l’associazione Scambiaidee, l’ANPI sezione Nicola Grosa (di San Salvario), la Circoscrizione 8 presso la cui biblioteca civica Natalia Ginzburg è stato proiettato il documentario “Non avere paura! Donne che non si sono arrese”
→ read full articleDreaming of the Next UN Secretary General
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
The Charter is astonishingly silent about the qualifications that should guide the selection of a secretary general, but it is clear on the procedure: a recommendation must be made by the Security Council to the General Assembly for its approval. This means that any one of the P-5 can use their veto to block a candidate.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
May 9–15 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell
→ read full articleHaiti’s Election Verification Commission: A Step in the Right Direction
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
His [deputy political counselor at the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince] concluding remark, “When capabilities are so low and challenges are so great, where do you draw the line about how flawless the process has to be?” was indicative of the self-serving US policy of dismissing Haitian people’s intelligence, skills and aspirations.
→ read full articleThe Danger of Fascism in the United States
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
There is a real danger that Donald Trump, who is not only xenophobic, racist and hatemongering, but also misogynistic, wildly erratic and manifestly unqualified for the post, could be elected to the US Presidency in November.
→ read full articleThe Spirit of Nelson Mandela in Palestine: Is His Real Legacy Being Upheld?
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
When Nelson Mandela said, “We know all too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians,” he was not trying to be cordial or diplomatic. He meant every word. Someday, we hope that a statue of Mandela, one that represents the spirit of Resistance in Palestine, will stand tall amid the people who championed his cause and loved him most.
→ read full articleRemembering Nonviolent History: Freedom Rides
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
The Freedom Rides are a powerful example of the use of nonviolent direct action to enforce justice and fair laws.
→ read full article(Français) Faire prévaloir l’Évangile de la non-violence dans la pensée et l’action de l’Église
Jean-Marie Muller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Ce qui est remarquable, et probablement décisif, c’est que les participants ne se contentent pas d’ajouter un paragraphe sur la non-violence dans la doctrine de la légitime violence et de la guerre juste, mais qu’ils remettent en cause cette doctrine au nom de l’exigence de non-violence. « Ceux d’entre nous, est-il affirmé, qui se situent dans la tradition chrétienne sont appelés à reconnaître le caractère central de la non-violence active dans la vision et le message de Jésus.
→ read full articleAnarchism’s Mid-Century Turn
Kristian Williams | Toward Freedom - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Review & Response: Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century, By Andrew Cornell, University of California Press, 2016, 300 pages. No matter how one feels about it, the current state of anarchism has represented something of a mystery: What was once a mass movement based mainly in working class immigrant communities is now an archipelago of subcultural scenes inhabited largely by disaffected young people from the white middle class.
→ read full articleTheir Next Act: The Ringling Brothers’ Elephants Are Retiring
James Sullivan | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
—And Moving to Florida to Contribute to Cancer Research – In its 145th year on the road, the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’ is taking its biggest attraction – the symbol of the circus since P.T. Barnum, that quintessential American showman, brought the famed captive Jumbo to the States – off the road for good, finally capitulating to years of pressure from animal rights activists.
→ read full articleCowardice and Exoneration in Kunduz
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
“The aircrew appeared to be confused by the directions from the Americans on the ground. At one point, the crew was told it would need to hit a second target after the strike it was about to commence, and ‘we will also be doing the same thing of softening the target for partner forces.’” This is the reality: An action that wound up killing 42 hospital workers and patients –men, women and children, some of whom were burned alive in their beds – was instigated in order to “soften the target” . . .
→ read full articleKen Livingstone Isn’t On Trial, Zionism Is
American Herald Tribune – Mint Press News,
9 May 2016
In subjecting Ken Livingstone to trial-by-media over his comments on Zionism, his detractors have also unwittingly placed Zionism itself on trial.
→ read full articleGood Deeds
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Scouts are supposed to do at least one good deed every day. A scout master asked three little scouts at camp in the evening, “What good deed did you do today?”
→ read full articleNobel-Winning Physicist Frank Wilczek on Complementarity as the Quantum of Life and Why Reality Is Woven of Opposing Truths
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
“You can recognize a deep truth by the feature that its opposite is also a deep truth.” When confronted with the world’s complexity, we default into navigating it by creating artificial binaries, perceiving contradiction where they might in fact only be complementarity. Wilczek points to one familiar example — the fact that light is neither inherently a particle nor inherently a wave, but can be either depending on how we measure it.
→ read full article(Castellano) Y Me Perdí la Infancia
José María Lopera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Y me perdí la infancia
porque con siete años era un hombre;
un hombre de la guerra y de la muerte,
del proyectil que silba
y la bomba que estalla por sorpresa.
Kenya: Court to Hear Forced Anal Testing Case
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
A Kenyan court will hear a constitutional petition challenging the use of forced anal examinations of men accused of homosexuality on May 4, 2016. Under international law, forced anal examinations are a form of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment that may amount to torture.
→ read full articleHonor Father Dan Berrigan: Carry the Torch of Justice & Peace!
James ‘Jim’ Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
In early 1968, Dan made international headlines when he traveled to North Vietnam with U.S. historian Howard Zinn to bring home three U.S. prisoners of war. Later that year, Dan, his brother Phil and seven others took hundreds of draft files from the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland and set the files on fire in the parking lot, using homemade napalm, to protest the Vietnam War.
→ read full articleSecurity Council Resolution 2286 Highlights a Foundation of World Law
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
On the recent Security Council resolution that we can use in support of humanitarian law. The protection of medical facilities and medical personnel is at the heart of the laws of war, currently more often called humanitarian law.
→ read full articleWhy the US Will Not Sign the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
Ken Meyercord – Dissident Voice,
9 May 2016
Symptomatic of our hypocrisy, we protest Chinese “aggressive” actions in the area by sailing the Seventh Fleet through atolls turned into landing-strips to demonstrate our commitment to freedom of navigation. Yet we refuse to sign the UN’s Convention on the Law of the Sea to formalize the rules of navigation that has been around since 1982 and ratified by over 160 UN members, including China, but not by the U.S. of A.
→ read full article(Português) Religião na Cidade
Paulo Mendes Pinto – Público,
9 May 2016
Transformada naquilo que a palavra tradição tão facilmente permite, a tourada fixou-se e agarrou-se a um quadro de pseudo-identidade…. Hoje temos espectáculo, com palmas e bilhetes, com negócio. O touro sofre simplesmente para que uns dos tais Sapiens sapiens possam ter um momento de adrenalina e de prazer ao ver a dor de outro animal. Eventualmente, somos os piores cuidadores que o Criador, qualquer que ele seja, colocou para cuidar do Jardim.
→ read full articleTwo Refugees Set Themselves Alight in Australia’s Nauru Detention Centre
Max Newman, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
4 May 2016 – Hodan Yasi, a young refugee woman from Somalia, is in a critical condition after setting herself alight on Nauru on Monday [2 May], just three days after a 23-year-old Iranian refugee, Omid Masoumali, died of injuries sustained in a similar act last week. These events further underscore the inhuman conditions and denial of basic legal and democratic rights inflicted on the nearly 1,500 refugees held into these facilities, which health professionals have likened to concentration camps.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Die Krise Brasiliens und die Weltgeopolitik
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Die Spionage der USA, wie von Snowden ans Licht der Öffentlichkeit gebracht, erreichte die Petrobras und die Reserven von Pré-Sal und hat auch Präsidentin Dilma Roussef nicht ausgelassen. Dies ist Teil der Strategie des Pentagon, um alle Gebiete unter dem Slogan „Eine Welt, ein Reich“ zu vereinen. Im Folgenden einige Punkte, die uns zum Nachdenken bringen.
→ read full articleShips to Nowhere: The Brutal Trafficking of Rohingya Refugees
Mili Mitra | Brown Political Review-Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Thus far, the global response has been limited and misguided. While the plight of the Rohingya has come into the media spotlight recently, there has been little coordinated effort to mitigate the crisis. Unless there is greater security and support for Rohingya in Myanmar and increased rehabilitation of these refugees across Southeast Asia, the Rohingya refugee crisis will continue to be one of the greatest and most overlooked humanitarian disasters of our time.
→ read full articleNorth Korea’s New Weapons: Full Speed Ahead
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
The best and only chance of dissuading Kim Jong-un from continuing on the path of weapons modernization, which is both dangerous and ruinous in terms of human development, is to put before him a package of alternative incentives— a peace treaty to end the Korean War, security guarantees, sustainable energy options, and meaningful economic aid.
→ read full articleThirteen Foods That Can Replace Pills
BabaMail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Whenever we start feeling ill, the first thing we do is reach for the medicine cabinet. The problem with taking pills is that even though they’ll probably help with your predicament, they’re also bound to have unwanted side effects. The best solution is to use these 13 natural remedies, which are just as efficient as drugs:
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