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Making Peace
Denise Levertov | Poetry Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
A voice from the dark called out,
‘The poets must give us
imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar
imagination of disaster. Peace, not only
the absence of war.’
How History Explains the Korean Crisis
William R. Polk – Consortium News,
4 Sep 2017
Many Americans simply view North Korea and its leaders as “crazy,” but the history behind today’s crisis reveals of a more complex reality that could change those simplistic impressions, as historian William R. Polk explains.
→ read full articleSeymour Hersh Honored for Integrity
Ray McGovern- Consortium News,
4 Sep 2017
1 Sep 2017 – An organization led by former U.S. intelligence officials has selected legendary journalist Seymour Hersh to be the recipient of an annual award for integrity and truth-telling, named for the late CIA analyst Sam Adams.
→ read full articleThe Man Who Stood Up to Armageddon
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 Aug 2017 – Suddenly it’s possible — indeed, all too easy — to imagine one man starting a nuclear war. What’s a little harder to imagine is one human being stopping such a war. For all time. The person who came closest to this may have been Tony de Brum, former foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, who died last week of cancer at age 72.
→ read full articleNYT Only the Latest Corporate Media Outlet to Give Free Publicity to Mercenary Profiteer
Adam Johnson | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The New York Times (8/30/17) decided to turn over a large chunk of the most precious opinion space in the English-speaking world to mercenary entrepreneur Erik Prince, so he could promote his plan to privatize and profit from the US occupation of Afghanistan.
→ read full articleEl Salvador’s Durable Disorder: Low Intensity Postwar Democracy
Norbert Ross and Antonia Ross Sanchez - CounterPunch,
4 Sep 2017
In El Salvador violence has become a big industry. For 2015 and 2016, The Economist featured the country as the most violent country (not at war), with its capital, San Salvador, holding the dubious title of “most murderous city.” It is not surprising then, that even with a left leaning government in power prosecution of minors for gang related crimes has increased by 50%. The right-wing ARENA party even proposed reforms to the Juvenile Penal Law, seeking to try minors linked to gang activity as adult terrorists.
→ read full articleChina Has Already More Than Doubled Its 2020 Solar Power Target
Jing Yan and Lauri Myllyvirta | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
25 Aug 2017 – China has more than doubled its end-of-decade solar power target, with new installations dramatically outstripping expectation, according to the government’s energy agency.
→ read full articleHow Media Obscure US/Saudi Responsibility for Killing Yemeni Civilians
Ben Norton | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
31 Aug 2017 – A coalition of Saudi Arabia, USA, UK and UAE has relentlessly bombed Yemen since March 2015. There are no other parties bombing the country, so media cannot feign ignorance as to who is responsible for the attacks. But reports on the bloody US/Saudi coalition airstrikes were nonetheless rife with ambiguous and downright misleading language.
→ read full articlePeace Study Day & March
Alberto Portugheis | Humanity United for Universal Demilitarization – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Sat 16 Sep 2017 at The Elizabeth Fry Room, Westminster Quaker Meeting House, London, England. Speakers: John Leech, Alicia Cabezudo, Alberto Portugheis, Stefan G. Ziegler and Azadeh Chahvie. If you would like to participate only in our Peace March, please meet us at 6pm at Hop Gardens. You are also welcome to join us at any of our stopping points along the way.
→ read full articleClimate Disaster & Nuclear War!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
29 Aug 2017 – The catastrophe is still unfolding with unprecedented rainfall and flooding from Hurricane Harvey. Houston is known as “Petro Metro” and is home to more than a dozen oil refineries. The people who live closest to these industrial sites are low income and minority communities. Poor people of color bear the greatest burden of climate change, harmful pollution, and have the fewest options when natural or man-made disaster strikes. Climate disaster and nuclear war pose the two greatest threats to life on the planet.
→ read full articleEchoes of Reagan: Another Nuclear Buildup
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Thirty years ago Americans endured an absurd expansion of the US nuclear-weapon force under President Reagan. The announced weapons modernization program was accompanied by a crazy talk from his advisers about the potential to fight and win a nuclear war. So here we are evidently back to the future as the Trump administration forges ahead with nuclear “modernization,” without a set strategy for the weapons but with billions of dollars to burn.
→ read full articleThe Lies of 9/11 Miracle Workers
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
A Review of David Ray Griffin’s Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the World – David Ray Griffin is an international treasure and truth teller, who, while being ignored by the mainstream corporate media for his extraordinary series of books exposing the false flag attacks of Sep 11, 2001, will someday be lauded as a modern prophet.
→ read full article(Català) Per què tots aquests racistes estan tan aterroritzats?
Robert Burrowes – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
4 Sep 2017
El racisme – la por i l’odi als d’una altra raça, juntament amb la creença que l’altra raça és inferior i ha de ser dominat (per la seva raça) – és ara molt visible entre les poblacions europees afectades pels fluxos de refugiats d’Orient Mitjà i del Nord Àfrica. A més, el racisme és contínuament molt evident entre sectors de la població nord-americana, però també en països com Sud-Àfrica, Austràlia i en tota Amèrica Central i del Sud, on les poblacions indígenes són particularment afectades.
→ read full articleTrump Gives Military Green Light to Escalate Afghanistan War
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
22 Aug 2017 – The nationally televised address to a military audience sets the stage for a massive increase in bloodshed in a country where the United States has waged war for 16 years.
→ read full article(Castellano) ¿Por qué todos esos racistas están tan aterrorizados?
Robert Burrowes – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
28 Aug 2017
El racismo – el miedo y el odio a los de otra raza, junto con la creencia de que la otra raza es inferior y debe ser dominado (por su raza) – es ahora muy visible entre las poblaciones europeas afectadas por los flujos de refugiados de Oriente Medio y del Norte África. Además, el racismo es continuamente muy evidente entre sectores de la población estadounidense, pero también en países como Sudáfrica, Australia y en toda América Central y del Sur, donde las poblaciones indígenas son particularmente afectadas. Pero el racismo también es un problema en muchos otros países.
→ read full articleWhy Are All Those Racists So Terrified?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Racism – fear of, and hatred for, those of another race coupled with the beliefs that the other race is inferior and should be dominated (by your race) – is now highly visible among European populations impacted by refugee flows from the Middle East and North Africa. In addition, racism is ongoingly and highly evident among sectors of the US population but also in countries like South Africa as well as Australia and throughout Central and South America where indigenous populations are particularly impacted.
→ read full articleThe World’s Biggest Floating Solar Farm Is Now Live. And It’s on Top of a Former Coal Mine
Joe McCarthy | Global Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – Earlier this week, a new floating solar farm went live in the Chinese city of Huainan above a retired coal mine, China Daily reports. It’s more than six times as powerful as the next biggest floating solar farm.
→ read full articleWhy Does North Korea Hate Us?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless. Dean Rusk said the USA bombed ‘everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.’ After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops. And so we remain caged in military thinking and the need to win, rather than understand.
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Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Music Video of the Week)
Martynas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Virtuoso Martynas on Acordeon – Composition of Johannes Brahms – Martynas Levickis, 27, is one of the brightest young musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards.
→ read full articleFor Media, Driving Into a Crowd of Protesters Is a ‘Clash’ Not Terrorism
Adam Johnson | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
12 Aug 2017 – The Washington Post, Boston Globe, AOL News, The Hill, BBC and Sky News UK all chose to frame the ramming of a car into anti-fascist protesters as “clashes.” “Clashes” is a term designed to obscure blame, presenting a picture of two equal sides engaging in violent activities. Reading “one dead” after “clashes” at a white nationalist rally gives us no idea who died, or who did the killing.
→ read full article(Castellano) Usted no puede atrapar a la “rata mágica”: Trump, Congreso y Geopolítica
Robert Burrowes - Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
14 Aug 2017
La “rata mágica” es simplemente el mecanismo por el cual una mente inconsciente y aterrorizada cambia instantáneamente su atención de algo espantoso a algo más agradable para evitar tener cualquier tiempo para comprometerse conscientemente con la información presentada. El cambio sucede instantáneamente precisamente porque la persona está tan aterrorizada por la información, que su mente retira su atención de ella en un momento.
→ read full articleTerrorism for Profit
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 Aug 2017 – And suddenly there it was, the American paradox in full splendor: Oh yeah, we’re fighting terrorists. We have to keep killing people, keep pouring trillions of dollars into our wars, because bad people are out there threatening us because they hate our freedoms. And the guy reminding us of this is the founder of Blackwater, private contractor in Iraq, whose mercenaries were responsible for one of the most shocking acts of lethal aggression — a.k.a., terrorism — of the early years of that war.
→ read full articleGoogle: Search Engine or Deep State Organ?
Michael Krieger | Liberty BlitzKrieg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 Aug 2017 – Today’s post should be read as Part 3 of my ongoing series about the now infamous Google memo, and what it tells us about where our society is headed if a minority of extremely wealthy and powerful technocratic billionaires are permitted to fully socially engineer our culture to fit their ideological vision using coercion, force and manipulation.
→ read full articleYou Cannot Trap the ‘Magic Rat’: Trump, Congress and Geopolitics
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
The ‘magic rat’ is simply the mechanism by which an unconscious and terrified mind instantly switches its attention from something frightening to something more pleasant to avoid having any time to consciously engage with the presented information. The switch happens instantaneously.
→ read full articleIf You’re Wondering Why Saudi Arabia and Israel Have United against Al-Jazeera, Here’s the Answer
Robert Fisk – Other News,
14 Aug 2017
There are still honourable Israelis who demand a state for the Palestinians; there are well-educated Saudis who object to the crazed Wahabism upon which their kingdom is founded; there are millions of Americans, from sea to shining sea, who do not believe that Iran is their enemy nor Saudi Arabia their friend. But the problem today in both East and West is that our governments are not our friends.
→ read full article(Italiano) Tortura e cultura
Marta Ròs Sanchez – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
7 Aug 2017
27 luglio 2017 – L’estate è arrivata e con lei, i tori. Quando parliamo di essi, è facile che ci venga in mente la Spagna, per la sua festa internazionalmente conosciuta: Los Sanfermines. Tuttavia, le “feste taurine” che si celebrano in Spagna principalmente nei mesi estivi, vanno ben oltre Sanfermin e le corride in arene. Proprio oggi, in base a quanto è successo a Foios, a nord di Valencia, vorrei mostrarvi altre feste tanto sconosciute all’estero quanto aberranti.
→ read full article(Italiano) Venezuela, profezie che si autoavverano
Gennaro Carotenuto | Giornalismo Partecipativo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
30 Lug 2017 – C’è un certo sadismo nel cattivo giornalismo che funge da cassa di risonanza alle posizioni dell’opposizione venezuelana, senza alcuna interpretazione critica e, va da sé, senza alcuna terzietà con le posizioni del governo legittimamente in carica. Le opposizioni dicono dittatura, i giornali fanno eco: dittatura.
→ read full articleGoogle’s New Search Protocol Is Restricting Access to 13 Leading Socialist, Progressive and Anti-War Web Sites
Andre Damon and David North | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
wsws.org fell by 67 percent
alternet.org fell by 63 percent
globalresearch.ca fell by 62 percent
consortiumnews.com fell by 47 percent
socialistworker.org fell by 47 percent
mediamatters.org fell by 42 percent
commondreams.org fell by 37 percent
internationalviewpoint.org fell by 36 percent
democracynow.org fell by 36 percent
wikileaks.org fell by 30 percent
truth-out.org fell by 25 percent
counterpunch.org fell by 21 percent
theintercept.com fell by 19 percent
The World’s Most and Least Peaceful Countries [Infographic]
Niall McCarthy – Forbes,
31 Jul 2017
Out of all countries, the U.S. experienced the greatest decline in peace, falling 11 places. Iceland was named the world’s most peaceful nation ahead of New Zealand, Portugal, Austria and Denmark. At the opposite end, unsurprisingly, peace levels were lowest in Syria. It is preceded in the ranking by Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan and Yemen.
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Buying a Slave: The Hidden World of US/Philippines Trafficking (Part 1)
Abby Martin | Empire Files - teleSUR,
31 Jul 2017
Human trafficking is a hidden industry that brings in $150 billion in illegal profits every year. In the United States, tens of thousands are trafficked annually—the biggest clients being major hotel chains and foreign diplomats. The Philippines is one of the largest labor exporters in the world. 6,000 Filipinos—mostly women—leave the country every single day to work, because of mass unemployment and poverty. Tricked by placement agencies, thousands end up living as virtual slaves.
→ read full articleBiological Annihilation on Earth Accelerating
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
26 Jul 2017 – Human beings are now waging war against life itself as we continue to destroy not just individual lives, local populations and entire species in vast numbers but also destroy the ecological systems that make life on Earth possible.
→ read full articleBiological Warfare: US & Saudis Use Cholera to Kill Yemenis
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
31 Jul 2017
29 Jul 2017 – Since March 2015, the US has supported Saudi Arabia and its allies in their criminal war of aggression against Yemen, committing daily war crimes, especially against civilians, who are now suffering a cholera epidemic with more than 400,000 victims. Cholera is caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholera and has been weaponized by the US, Japan (in World War II), South Africa (under apartheid), Iraq (under Saddam), and other states.
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Buying a Slave: The Roots of the Philippines Trafficking Epidemic (Part 2)
Abby Martin | Empire Files – teleSUR,
31 Jul 2017
In this sequel to the report on trafficked Filipina domestic workers, Damayan’s Linda Oalican provides a deeper context to the epidemic of human trafficking by guiding us through the history of colonialism, resistance and US domination of the islands. From the centuries of Spanish rule and decades of US brutality, through the evisceration of the Philippine economy, this episode is a must-watch primer on why human beings are now the nation’s top export.
→ read full articleHuman Rights & Humanitarian Law: Genocide
Jean Paul Sartre | Tamil Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Jean Paul Sartre’s Statement at the Second Session of the Bertrand Russell International War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam held in Denmark in November 1967 remains, almost 40 years later, an inspiring appeal to the conscience of humanity – inspiring not only because of the force of its reason but also because it reveals Sartre’s passionate commitment to justice.
→ read full articlePlastic Chokes the Seas
Robert Hunziker – CounterPunch,
31 Jul 2017
28 Jul 2017 – One of the great myths of modern-day society is that people recycle in earnest… saving the environment. Au contraire! Check out the ocean. In the 1960s plastic was found in the stomachs of fewer than 5% of seabirds. By 1980 it jumped to 80%, now 90%. What’s left? National Geographic says that seabird populations dropped 67% between 1950 and 2010.
→ read full articleThe New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the Future of Plastics
World Economic Forum | Ellen MacArthur Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Applying circular economy principles to global plastic packaging flows could transform the plastics economy and drastically reduce negative externalities such as leakage into oceans, according to this new report.
→ read full article49 Reasons for Being a Vegetarian
The Whole Earth Vegetarian Catalogue – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
“Because one species is cleverer than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species? To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak – might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the earth.” — Richard Ryder
→ read full article(Français) Venezuela : le bain de sang approche. Que fait la gauche internationale?
Jean Ortiz | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
« La solidarité est la tendresse des peuples » disait Che Guevara. Il faut être aveugle, ou inconséquent, pour ne pas saisir ce qui est aujourd’hui en jeu au Venezuela.
→ read full articleThe Logic in North Korean ‘Madness’
Ann Wright – Consortium News,
24 Jul 2017
North Korea’s nuclear deterrent is a logical – not crazy – reaction to U.S. “regime change” wars in Iraq and Libya, two countries attacked after they surrendered their WMD stockpiles.
→ read full article(Italiano) Perché la Guerra? Una riflessione sull’eredità lasciata da Einstein, Freud e Gandhi
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
In un articolo recente, il Professor Johan Galtung, fondatore della ricerca sulla pace, ha voluto ricordarci della riflessione lasciataci da Freud e Einstein a questo riguardo, riflettendo sul loro dialogo ed individuandone i limiti, come ad esempio il loro insuccesso a rintracciare ed elaborare le cause e tutte le componenti del conflitto. Ovviamente, Freud ed Einstein non sono stati i primi a porsi questa domanda.
→ read full articlePeace Study Day & March
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
TRANSCEND Members, Peace Study Teachers, Students: A few slots – forty minutes to one hour – are still available, for lecturers and workshop leaders. During the March to Whitehall, Downing Street and Parliament we’ll be carrying banners. Bring your own and publicize the peace organization or movement you represent.
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Cricket Sound Slowed Down 20 Times
Overtonesinging – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
This is something you have to listen to. In 1992 Jim Wilson got the idea to slow down a recording of chirping crickets. The revealed sound simply was called “Gods cricket chorus”. The hidden beauty of nature is astonishing, and we are all part of it!
→ read full articleDead Civilians and the Language of War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
19 Jul 2017 – Finally it comes down to this: Some people are expendable. They come in two categories: terrorists (good riddance!) and civilians, whose deaths often elicit official apologies (if there’s no way to deny it was our fault). The language of war is what keeps it alive. This is the language of strategy and domination: words without grief, words without compassion. Speaking truth to power — the true work of the media — cannot be done if reporters write in the language of power, this alien tongue in which some human beings are expendable.
→ read full articleSupply-Side Economics Explained
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
17 Jul 2017 – What about the optimism in my 28-year old report? What has become of that? Unfortunately, optimism was destroyed by capitalist greed. Instead of productively restructuring the world economic system, capitalists looted it. With the Soviet collapse, the Russians’ belief during the Yeltsin era that now we were all on the same side facilitated the looting of Russia by the West. The collapse of socialism in Russia, China, and India, gave us “globalism,” that is the international arbitrage of wage rates.
→ read full articleThe “Deep State” Then and Now
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
So much of the ongoing propaganda travels under the banner of “the war on terror,” which is, of course, an outgrowth of the attacks of September 11, 2001, appropriately named and constantly reinforced as 9/11 in a wonderful example of linguistic mind-control: a constant emergency to engender anxiety, depression, panic, and confusion, four of the symptoms that lead the DSM “experts” and their followers to diagnose and drug individuals.
→ read full article(Português) Um Novo Tratado para Levar ao Desarmamento Nuclear
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Apesar da falta generalizada de interesse e dos preconceitos profundamente entranhados dos principais órgãos de imprensa dos países possuidores de armas nucleares, a opiniã pública mundial poderá ter precepção diferente. É essencial, por esse motivo, disseminar o conhecimento do Tratado e de sua motivação.
→ read full article(Français) L’Otan, Hydre Tentaculaire
Nils Andersson | Alerte OTAN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
A la Conférence du Contre-Sommet Otan du 25 mai 2017, la première session plénière a entendu une intervention de Nils Andersson intitulée: «L’Otan, hydre tentaculaire». Ci-dessous nous publions l’essentiel de son contenu.
→ read full articleAt Walden, Thoreau Wasn’t Really Alone with Nature
John Kaag and Clancy Martin – The New York Times,
17 Jul 2017
To “live deliberately,” in Thoreau’s words, was to wrest oneself from the diversions of this rat race, to understand the difference between the seemingly urgent matters of spending and acquiring and the truly significant ones of caring and thinking. “Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,” Thoreau instructs us. “Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”
→ read full articleCIA Mind Control Morphed into Psychiatry?
Jon Rappoport – Activist Post,
17 Jul 2017
The famous CIA mind-control program, MKULTRA, always used psychiatrists; often these professionals headed up projects; they carried out the bulk of the research. But what I’m talking about here is the “evolution” of MKULTRA into mainstream psychiatry that affects the lives of millions of people every day.
→ read full articleNukes and the Global Schism
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
12 Jul 2017 – The United States boycotted the U.N. negotiations to ban — everywhere across Planet Earth — nuclear weapons. So did a few other countries. Guess which ones? Armed equals scared. (And scared equals profitable.)
→ read full articleMoral Corrosion of Drone Warfare
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
17 Jul 2017
The U.S. government uses drones to eliminate risk to its soldiers and thus domestic opposition to war, but that heightens the moral imperative to challenge the remote-controlled killings, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
→ read full articleA New Treaty to Speed Up Nuclear Disarmament
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Despite the general lack of interest and deeply ingrained misconceptions on the part of the mainstream media in the Nuclear Weapon States and their allies, public opinion worldwide may have a different perception. It is essential, for this reason, to disseminate knowledge about the Treaty and its motivation.
→ read full articleIgnoring the Human Disaster in Yemen
Alon Ben-Meir – Consortium News,
17 Jul 2017
The West’s protestations about human rights sound hollow when one looks at Yemen where the U.S. and U.K. place profits from arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the carnage those weapons are inflicting.
→ read full articleWhy War? Building on the Legacy of Einstein, Freud and Gandhi
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
In 1932, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein conducted a correspondence subsequently published under the title ‘Why War?’ In many ways, this dialogue between two giants of the 20th century is symbolic of the effort made by many humans to understand the institution of war. In a recent article, the founder of peace research, Professor Johan Galtung, reminded us of the legacy of Freud and Einstein and reflected on their dialogue, noting some shortcomings including their failure to ‘unpack conflict’.
→ read full article‘The Hotel Tacloban:’ A Poetic Masterpiece of War and Redemption
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Part ventriloquistic non-fiction memoir, part history, part murder mystery, part war story, part confessional – wholly beyond categorization, really – The Hotel Tacloban is a mesmerizing read that will leave you stunned and shaken, but also awe-struck by the courage and depravity to which humans can rise and fall. So gripping is the story that I find it shocking that it hasn’t yet been made into a movie. Don’t miss it.
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat Genocide
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
26 Jun 2017 – It is a tragic measure of the depravity of human existence that genocide is a continuing and prevalent manifestation of violence in the international system. It is not difficult to nonviolently defend a targeted population against genocide. Vitally, however, it requires a leadership that can develop a sound strategy so that people are mobilized and deployed effectively.
→ read full articleAre NGOs Responsible for the Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean?
Antoine Pécoud and Marta Esperti – The Conversation,
26 Jun 2017
20 Jun 2017 – 2016 was an extraordinarily deadly year for migrants: 5,000 people perished in the Mediterranean Sea, vastly exceeding the death toll of 3,700 in 2015. And in the first six months of 2017, more than 1,000 deaths have been recorded. With calm weather conditions ideal for sea crossings, the northern summer is almost upon us. The migration debate is only just beginning and it brings with it the need for a basic rethinking of European migratory policies.
→ read full articleExclusive: Overruling Diplomats, U.S. to Drop Iraq, Myanmar from Child Soldiers’ List
Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick | Reuters - US News & World Report,
26 Jun 2017
23 Jun 2017 – In a highly unusual intervention, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to remove Iraq and Myanmar from a U.S. list of the world’s worst offenders in the use of child soldiers, disregarding the recommendations of State Department experts and senior U.S. diplomats.
→ read full articleWhy Are Americans so Obsessed with Apocalypse—and Convinced It Will Happen in the Near Future?
Betsy Hartmann | Seven Stories Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – According to opinion polls, a staggering percentage of Americans accept that the world will end in a battle in Armageddon. In a 2010 Pew poll, 41 percent of respondents said they expected Jesus Christ to return to Earth by 2050. Unfortunately, we are more predisposed to imagine the end of the world than the end of American war-making.
→ read full articleLicense to Poison!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Fails to Protect Troops, Residents, and Visitors from Military Radiation on Hawaii Island
→ read full articleDonald Trump Is Making Europe Liberal Again
Nate Silver | FiveThirtyEight – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Donald Trump promised to “Make America Great Again,” but he might instead be “Making Europe Liberal Again.” Counter to the prevailing narrative of a swing towards right-wing parties, Silver compares politics in several European countries and finds it has become more difficult to make the case that a nationalist tide is on the rise.
→ read full articleThe Best Pharmacist
Submitted by Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
A woman enters a pharmacy and asks for poison.
→ read full articleThe Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy: Questions, Hints and Allegations
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Robert Kennedy, like his brother John, was a great danger to those virulent forces of war and oppression within his own government, and he died opposing them as a true patriot. We should honor him on this day – June 6th – that he died; honor him by pursuing the truth of why he died and why it still matters. Because it does.
→ read full articleThe US Hand in the Libyan/Syrian Tragedies
Jonathan Marshall – Consortium News,
12 Jun 2017
The Obama administration’s “regime change” debacles in Libya and Syria are spreading terrorist violence into Europe, but they have inflicted vastly more bloodshed in those two tragic nations.
→ read full articleFather of Iconic Aleppo Boy Says Media Lied about His Son
Eva Bartlett – MintPress News,
12 Jun 2017
Mohammad Daqneesh, the father of the now-infamous Aleppo boy Omran Daqneesh, says his son was exploited by Syrian rebels and the media for political gain.
→ read full articleAmerican Darkness vs. Bhutan Brightness
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
As Donald Trump axes America’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, the Kingdom of Bhutan finalizes Bhutan for Life, a fund that will allow the country to remain carbon neutral forever. By ignoring the pressing issue of climate change/global warming, America looks insignificant, undignified, and very weak whereas Bhutan’s carbon neutral commitment looks relevant, sophisticated, and very strong.
→ read full articleBilderberg 2017: Should We Be Worried Yet?
Robert Bridge – Russia Today,
5 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – Just like they’ve been doing every year since 1954, influential Bilderberg members – including journalists – assembled behind closed doors to hold off-the-record talks on a number of pressing global issues. The 2017 Bilderberg Meeting takes place 1-4 June in Chantilly VA, USA. A press release including the list of topics and participants can be found here.
→ read full articleA Bold Step toward the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Mainstream media in the central countries in general has paid little or no attention to the process of negotiation of the Convention, although specialized publications have been examining the implications of the adoption of an instrument of this kind. World public opinion and civil society organizations, particularly in the former States and their allies, have an important role to play in ensuring the success of the Convention and its ability to become a universal, legally binding instrument of codification of the repudiation of nuclear weapons.
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Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
A grande imprensa internacional nos países centrais em geral tem dado pouca ou nenhuma atenção ao processo de negociação da Convenção, embora publicações especializadas venham examinando as diversas implicações da eventual adoção de um instrumento dessa natureza. A opinião pública e as organizações da sociedade civil, principalmente naqueles países e em seus aliados, tem papel importante a desempenhar para assegurar o êxito da Convenção e sua capacidade de tornar-se um instrumento universal juridicamente vinculante de codificação do repúdio às armas nucleares.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to People with ‘Mental Health’ Issues
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
So if you or someone you know is supposed to have a ‘mental illness’ such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), bipolar disorder, anorexia nervosa or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), I would like to give you the opportunity to consider an explanation and a way forward that you are unlikely to have come across.
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Submitted by Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
After the Great Britain Beer Festival in London, all the brewery presidents decided to go out for a beer.
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Robert Mackey – The Intercept,
5 Jun 2017
Leo Varadkar, a gay lawmaker, was elected the leader of Ireland’s ruling Fine Gael party on Friday [2 Jun 2017], making him the country’s prime minister-elect, set to take power after the Irish parliament reconvenes in 10 days. Varadkar, a doctor who served as health minister, came out about his sexuality during a live radio interview in 2015.
→ read full article(Français) Amnésies et fluctuations occidentales. Droit de la paix, droit de la guerre et « droit » à la guerre
Robert Charvin | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Les États du capitalisme, assistés par leurs multiples mercenaires (politiciens professionnels, journalistes, intellectuels de cour, etc.) ont pour force de pratiquer avec dynamisme des réorientations idéologiques, tout en cultivant certaines amnésies (chroniques ou passagères).
→ read full articleEscaping the Iron Cage of Hopelessness
Prof. Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
In a previous article I argued that those who think science can solve our major social problems – in particular, world destruction with nuclear weapons and the poisoning of the earth’s ecology and atmosphere – were delusional and in the grip of the myth of science and technology. These problems were created by science when it became untethered from any sense of limits in its embrace of instrumental rationality.
→ read full articleTruth or Delusion?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
22 May 2017 – One inevitable outcome of the phenomenal violence we all suffer as children is that most of us live in a state of delusion throughout our lives. This makes it extraordinarily difficult for accurate information, including vital information about the endangered state of our world and how to respond appropriately, to penetrate the typical human mind.
→ read full articleYou (and Almost Everyone You Know) Owe Your Life to This Man
Robert Krulwich | National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Temperament matters. Especially when nuclear weapons are involved. The world owes an enormous debt to a quiet, steady Russian naval officer who probably saved my life. And yours. And everyone you know. Even those of you who weren’t yet born. I want to tell his story…
→ read full articleStephen Hawking Says Humans Have 100 Years to Move to another Planet
Julia Zorthian - Time,
8 May 2017
4 May 2017 – Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has already asserted that humans need to colonize a new planet soon — and now he’s arguing that we need to start within 100 years to keep the species alive.
→ read full articleMarching in Circles: Faustian Thinking and the Myth of Science
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Nature and all living creatures, including ourselves, have become our enemies and are rejected as ends in themselves. Everything and everyone is a means. We must bomb, bulldoze, manipulate, drug, control, poison, etc. – all in the service of a diabolical willfulness that brooks no resistance.
→ read full articleOliver Stone Honored with Press Freedom Award
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
8 May 2017
4 May 2017 – Though most people know Oliver Stone as a famous screenwriter and movie director, he has also lent his talents and resources to a number of documentary films that embrace the core journalistic idea that there are usually two sides – if not more – to a story.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report 10 (Apr 2017)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ together with a sample of news about Charter signatories and organizations. Our collective effort to build a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts continues to make progress, even against rather overwhelming odds!
→ read full article(Castellanto) Colaboración internacional para poner fin a la violencia
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Mientras gran parte del mundo está envuelto en violencia de uno u otro tipo (ya sea violencia en el hogar o en la calle, explotación, destrucción ecológica o la guerra), una red global de individuos y organizaciones se han comprometido a ponerle fin a la violencia en todas sus manifestaciones.
→ read full articleIntel Vets Voice Doubts on Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
VIPS-Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity – Consortium News,
1 May 2017
26 Apr 2017 – Two dozen former U.S. intelligence professionals are urging the American people to demand clear evidence that the Syrian government was behind the April 4 chemical incident before President Trump dives deeper into another war.
→ read full articleEndless Atrocities: The US Role in Creating the North Korean Fortress-State
Robert J Barsocchini | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Paul Atwood, a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, provides a concise summary of the history that informs North Korea’s “relations with the United States” and “drives its determination never to submit to any American diktat”… In its full invasion of the North, the US acted under the banner of the UN. However, the UN at that time was “largely under the control of the USA”, and as Prof. Carl Boggs puts it, essentially ‘was’ the USA.
→ read full articleA Public Plan for Peace
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
26 Apr 2017 – The American will to wage war — endless war, pointless war, total war — is, I fear, impervious to public opinion and even political action. I fear something is dangerously loose at the American core: a need for endless war combined with a nuclear recklessness uncontained by public scrutiny. The resistance has to go deeper than Trump. At its center we need a public plan for peace.
→ read full articleGlobal Solidarity Now!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The U.S. Military is the single largest consumer of oil and the largest emitter of CO2 in the world! Here in the center of Hawaii Island is a 133,000-acre toxic waste dump that includes lead, depleted uranium and a host of other pollutants. And to make matters worse, the military is bombing the toxic waste dump. Are we inhaling military DU oxide dust?
→ read full articleDemocratic World Federalists and the San Francisco Promise
Roger Kotila, Editor | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The truth is that the UN Charter itself is so badly designed that it is in reality the main part of a geopolitical war system. A global peace system will require replacing the UN Charter with a genuine world federal union constitution such as the Earth Constitution. The Charter is undemocratically rigged in favor of only five nations of the UN Security Council: U.S., Russia, China, France, and UK.
→ read full articleUS Threat of War Forces North Korea into Siege State Mentality
Carlos Martinez – Russia Today,
24 Apr 2017
Many people in the West are worried about the situation not because of Donald Trump’s insane militarism, but that of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Such thinking is irrational and ahistorical, and is rooted largely in mass-media deception and good old-fashioned ‘Yellow Peril’ racism. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has invaded and bombed not a single country. The USA, on the other hand, has invaded and bombed dozens of countries – including Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Grenada, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and, yes, Korea.
→ read full articleInternational Collaboration to End Violence
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
24 Apr 2017 – While much of the world is engulfed in violence of one sort or another (whether violence in the home or on the street, exploitation, ecological destruction or war), a global network of individuals and organizations is committed to ending this violence in all of its manifestations. Here is an outline of what some of these individual signatories of ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ are doing. You are welcome to join them.
→ read full article‘The Kurds’: Internationalists or Narrow Nationalists?
Marcel Cartier - teleSUR,
24 Apr 2017
Any imperialist plan for a “Greater Kurdistan” is incompatible with the ideology Democratic Self-Administration in Northern Syria.
→ read full articleThe Bait-and-Switch ‘War on Terror’
Gareth Porter | Middle East Eye – Consortium News,
24 Apr 2017
22 Apr 2017 – New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman outraged many readers when he wrote an opinion piece on April 12 calling on President Trump to ”back off fighting territorial ISIS in Syria.” The U.S. “war on terror” has always been a bait-and-switch scam on the American people, with Washington putting the desires of its Mideast allies ahead of defeating Al Qaeda and ISIS.
→ read full article(Français) Mais où sont donc passés les droits de l’Homme?
Robert Charvin | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Les droits de l’homme ont progressivement quitté l’avant-scène politique : par « nécessité », l’idéologie « droitdel’hommiste » n’était plus « à la mode ». Elle ne correspondait plus aux besoins des dominants, au contraire.
→ read full articleDanger of Global War: On the Edge of Global Crucifixion & Martial Law
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
In the event of a hot war with either Russia or Korea, the likelihood of a rapid escalation to the use of nuclear weapons is very real. It is even conceivable that the U.S. will attempt a pre-emptive nuclear first strike on Russia and/or North Korea under the illusion that it can “win” a nuclear war. If citizens of the world do not rise up to stop this madness now before it escalates further, the missiles fly, and the death toll mounts, Martial Law will be declared for those who survive.
→ read full articleMLK’s Warning of America’s Spiritual Death
Gary G. Kohls – Consortium News,
17 Apr 2017
4 Apr 2017 – Martin Luther King Jr.’s Riverside Church speech was titled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” It was delivered exactly one year before his April 4, 1968 assassination in Memphis. The New York Times accused him of “slander” for decrying the Vietnam War and The Washington Post detected “unsupported fantasies” in his speech.
→ read full article(Português) Acendendo uma luz sobre animais invisíveis em um mundo humano
Por Jo-Anne McArthur - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
17 Apr 2017
Eu realmente acredito que quando olhamos para um animal acorrentado a uma janela, não estamos apenas vendo o animal, mas nossa própria moralidade refletida de volta para nós.
→ read full articleWant To Understand Deep State? Here Is Your Deep, Deep State
Jon Rappoport | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
If, as many people are now saying, the CIA and NSA and neocons are the unelected Deep State, then the people I’m talking about would be the Deep, Deep State. Read On…
→ read full article(Português) Um Tratado de Proibição de Armas Nucleares
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
10 abril 2017 – Os nove países possuidores de armas nucleares e a maioria de seus aliados preferiram ignorar as negociações sobre um instrumento juridicamente vinculante de proibição das armas nucleares. Essa iniciativa pioneira resultou de uma proposta da África do Sul, Áustria, Brasil, Irlanda, México e Nigéria e foi adotada pela Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas em dezembro último por esmagadora maioria de votos… É chegado o momento em que a humanidade precisa agir decisivamente em defesa de sua própria sobrevivência.
→ read full articleA Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons Is in the Making
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
10 Apr 2017 – The nine possessors of nuclear weapons and most of their allies chose to ignore the negotiations on a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination… It is time for mankind as a whole to act decisively in defense of its own survival.
→ read full article(Português) Uma TeaParty tropical: A ascensão de uma “nova direita” no Brasil
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI-Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
22 março 2017 – Em um contexto marcado por uma abrupta desaceleração econômica e um novo escândalo de corrupção que atinge os partidos da coalizão governamental, assistimos à ascensão, no Brasil, de uma direita “nova”, radical e militante. Surgida na esteira das mobilizações de junho de 2013, ela forma um conjunto heterogêneo de origens e identidades distintas, sem vínculo aparente, a não ser uma comum aversão pela esquerda em geral e o PT em particular.
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Arrests at Maine, USA, Christening of Aegis Destroyer – 1 April 2017
Eric Herter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Today, nine peace activists were arrested while blocking the entrance to the “Christening” ceremony for a new Aegis destroyer at Bath Iron Works, a leading US naval shipyard. Aegis destroyers are an important coordinating and missile-carrying component in US nuclear and conventional war strategy.
→ read full articleRohingya Killings Expose Fraud of Burmese “Democracy”
John Roberts | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
7 Apr 2017 – The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution setting up an investigation into serious crimes committed by the Burmese (Myanmar) security forces and nationalist thugs against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh. The US and its EU allies cynically exploit concerns over “human rights” in Burma and elsewhere to advance their geo-political interests.
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