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The Need for a New Economic System – Part 1: Limits to Growth
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
The unsustainable, power-worshiping, consumption-oriented values of western society are so strongly propagandized by television, films and advertising that they overpower and sweep aside the wisdom of older societies. The wisdom of our ancestors, their respect for nature and their hospitable traditions of sharing can help us create a new economic system founded on social and environmental ethics.
→ read full articleEurope’s Vindictive Privatization Plan for Greece
Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015 – On July 12, the summit of eurozone leaders dictated its terms of surrender to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who, terrified by the alternatives, accepted all of them. One of those terms concerned the disposition of Greece’s remaining public assets.
→ read full articleUkraine: The Mess That Nuland Made
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
27 Jul 2015
Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change in early 2014 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences. Now, as neo-Nazis turn their guns on the government, it’s hard to see how anyone can clean up the mess that Nuland made.
→ read full articlePutin and Xi Plot the Future of Eurasia
John Batchelor – Al Jazeera America,
27 Jul 2015
There is nothing to be gained by Washington pretending it can continue to project military and economic power into an ambitious Eurasia. Strengthening ties between Moscow and Beijing are tipping the world’s balance of power eastward.
→ read full article(Italiano) T-tip, il nostro futuro greco
Francesco Martone, Comune Info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
21 luglio 2015 – Per uno paradosso o una significativa coincidenza lo stesso giorno nel quale processava Alexis Tsipras, il parlamento europeo avrebbe votato il rapporto Lange sul Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-tip). Raffigurazioni plastiche ed evidenti di come il progetto europeo di spazio di cittadinanza comune abbia ceduto il passo a quello elitario dell’austerity, e dell’ordoliberismo a tutti i costi, ed agli interessi delle imprese e dei mercati anche a costo della sopravvivenza di uomini e donne in carne ed ossa.
→ read full articleHow Monsanto Wrote and Broke Laws to Enter India
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015 – Citizens of the United States are being denied the right to know what they are feeding their families despite the fact that 90% of American citizens want GMO labelling on their food. Decades before there was a “debate” over GMOs and Monsanto’s PR and law firms became the busiest of bees, India was introduced to this corrupting, corporate giant that had no respect for the laws of the land.
→ read full article(Français) Chronique de mots pervers : le “capital humain”
Elisabeth Beague, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
20 juillet 2015 – Le « capital humain » fut précédemment appelé « ressources humaines » et, il y a plus longtemps encore, « personnel ». Pourquoi cette évolution ? Sans prendre le risque de se tromper lourdement, il est permis d’avancer que la transformation du lexique est au cœur d’un vaste travail politique de marchandisation de la relation salariale.
→ read full articleGet Out of Your Own Light: Aldous Huxley on Who We Are, the Trap of Language, and the Necessity of Mind-Body Education
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
What are we in relation to our own minds and bodies — or, seeing that there is not a single word, let us use it in a hyphenated form — our own mind-bodies? What are we in relation to this total organism in which we live? The moment we begin thinking about it in any detail, we find ourselves confronted by all kinds of extremely difficult, unanswered, and maybe unanswerable questions.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Jul 27–Aug 2 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
→ read full article“Christmas in July” in Absurdityville, USA
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Why do they hate us? Americans wondered after 911. And, our Philosopher-King George W. Bush answered majestically: “They hate us for our freedoms!” And most goody-goody Americans went back to sleep. We pride ourselves on our “separation of Church and State,” but who ever proposed that we separate Morality and the State, or Wisdom and the State?
→ read full articleHomosexuality Will Never Be Eliminated. How About Eliminating Homophobia?
Neela Ghoshal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Jul 17 2015 -A report published in June by the Academy of Science of South Africa, in collaboration with the Uganda National Academy of Sciences, could help reshape understandings of human sexuality – if African policymakers take the time to consider the report’s findings.
→ read full articleMilitary Conscription Worldwide – Conscientious Objectors and Deserters
CJ Hinke, World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Incredibly, in the 21st-century, roughly half of the world’s nation-states practice military conscription. The countries on this list may still be enforcing military conscription.
→ read full articleWith Pope Francis at the Helm, World’s Mayors Pledge to Fight Climate Change
Nadia Prupis – Common Dreams,
27 Jul 2015
‘His Holiness did not convene us here to ratify the status quo, but in fact to upend it,’ said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at Vatican conference. At the Vatican on Tuesday [21 Jul 2015], mayors from around the globe pledged to fight climate change and help the world’s poor deal with the effects of a warming planet, an oath that came during a two-day conference with Pope Francis—himself a dedicated climate activist.
→ read full articleThe Social Economic Enslavement of Japan
WeAreChange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Luke Rudkowski interviews economist Marc Abela in Tokyo, Japan. Marc has lived in Tokyo for over 25 years and reveals amazing insights and info about the hidden true social economics in Japan.
→ read full articlePhoto of ‘Mutant Daisies’ Near Fukushima Goes Viral
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015 – A recent photograph of less-than-perfect daisies near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster site is generating headlines and is making the rounds on social media.
→ read full articleGreece’s Other Crisis
Mark Hetfield – Al Jazeera America,
27 Jul 2015
Refugees crossing the Aegean face hostile conditions – and no-one is helping them out. The best way to keep refugees from making perilous journeys is to protect them from what they are fleeing in the first place.
→ read full articleBill Nye on Glyphosate: ‘We Accidentally Decimated the Monarch Butterfly Population’
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
People developed this herbicide called glyphosate that kills all the weeds, and kills all of everything except the plants that have this cool gene in them that allows them to grow right through it. So we accidentally have decimated the monarch butterfly population, reduced it over the last two decades by 90 percent.
→ read full articleBetter Sleep May Be Incredibly Important to Alzheimer’s Risk
The Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Disrupted sleep may be one of the missing pieces in explaining how a hallmark of Alzheimer’s, a sticky protein called beta-amyloid, starts its damage long before people have trouble with memory, researchers reported Monday [20 Jul] at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.
→ read full articleTwo Sea Shepherd Crewmembers Arrested in the Faroe Islands with Assistance of Danish Navy
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015 – Two volunteer crewmembers from the Sea Shepherd ship, Sam Simon, have been arrested in the Faroe Islands. “I made multiple request of the Danish Navy today for information; about whether a grindadráp had been called; about whether our crew had been arrested; and about whether the Farley small boat had been confiscated. Each time, my requests went unanswered.”
→ read full articleDag Hammarskjold (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Crisis Manager and Longer-Range World Community Builder
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Dag Hammarskjold became an expert crisis manager, to the point that there was a common slogan in the UN- “Leave it to Dag”. He liked to work alone but had created a team of people working under him who were highly competent and totally devoted to him.
→ read full article(Français) Paraguay : Terre d’ eau, grandes propriétés rurales et injustice
Leticia Marinoni, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
13 juillet 2015 – En guarani, le son humain le plus basique se réfère au son de l’ eau: « Y », une sorte de « i » latin fermé entre les dents, comme faisant référence à l’indispensable, l’élément capital pour la respiration, la simple réalité de la vie.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism – A Global Debate
Meah Mostafiz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
This research paper defines the peace journalism, the difference between traditional journalism and peace journalism, and analyses the factors why Peace Journalism is hard to practice in mainstream media.
→ read full articleThe Eurasian Big Bang: How China and Russia Are Running Rings Around Washington
Pepe Escobar – TomDispatch,
27 Jul 2015
From now on, any possible future attack on Iran would essentially be an assault on the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization), the EEU (Eurasian Economic Union), the AIIB (the new Chinese-founded Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank), and the NDB (the BRICS’ New Development Bank) — the emerging new order in Eurasia.
→ read full articleIs the Ugly German Back? Flames of Hate Haunt a Nation
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
During the first six months of this year, right-wing extremists in Germany committed attacks against places housing asylum-seekers on an almost daily basis. Many refugees living in the country fear for their lives.
→ read full articleIt’s Official: New Zealand Recognizes Animals as ‘Sentient Beings’
Vegan Memo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
19 Jul 2015 – The bill also includes banning cosmetic testing on animals, which was recently put into law last month. It also provides for a penalty scheme to enable moderate offending to be handled more effectively, and gives animal welfare inspectors the power to issue compliance notices, among other capacities.
→ read full articleOutside Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds
James Risen – The New York Times,
20 Jul 2015
The report, completed this month, concludes that some of the American Psychological Association’s top officials, including its ethics director, sought to curry favor with Pentagon officials by seeking to keep the association’s ethics policies in line with the Defense Department’s interrogation policies.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Agreement with Iran: A Nonkilling View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
A Rhymed Reflection
→ read full articleFive Reasons You Should Eat Probiotic-Rich Fermented Foods
Julia Westbrook, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
7 Jul 2015 – The best way to prevent anxiety—and the stress-induced bellyache that comes along with it—may be to balance your gut bacteria. Eating probiotic-rich fermented foods is associated with less social anxiety, according to a new study published in Psychiatry Research.
→ read full articleDead Dolphins Found Stranded in Fukushima Have White Radiated Lungs
Neon Nettle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015 – Japanese scientists are dumbfounded by the new discovery after conducting an autopsy on a large group of dolphins washed up on a beach close to the Fukushima Power Plant disaster site.
→ read full articleThe American Psychological Association, Torture, and the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial
Tom Carter, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
13 Jul 2015 – A 542-page independent report made public by the New York Times on Friday [10 Jul] implicates the American Psychological Association in the CIA torture program. The devastating report not only exposes the involvement of psychologists in torture, but also lifts the curtain on years of lies, conspiracies, and cover-ups reaching to the top of the APA and academia.
→ read full articleCivilian Killings? West Literally Gets Away with Murder
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Jul 16 2015 – The United Nations continues to come under heavy fire for singling out mostly non-Western states for human rights violations while ignoring the misdeeds of Western nations or big powers.
→ read full articleThird Industrial Revolution: In 10 Years, the Cumbersome Great Banks Will Have Disappeared
GEAB-Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The crisis that we are currently experiencing is a systemic crisis. It is affecting and radically transforming the whole system, particularly banks. In political anticipation, it’s important to position these anticipations in the short to medium term within the landscape of long-term trends.
→ read full articleTorture, Impunity and the American Psychological Association
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Truthdig,
20 Jul 2015
The legal facade behind these heinous acts relied heavily on the cooperation of professional psychologists, who trained and advised the interrogators and supervised the progress of the “breaking” of prisoners. This cooperation was dependent on an official seal of approval from the American Psychological Association.
→ read full articleWelcoming the Iran Nuclear Deal and Calling on Israel to Dismantle Its Nuclear Arsenal for a Nuclear-Free Middle East
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
This Agreement is indeed to be welcomed, and it is a triumph for dialogue and diplomacy and proves that problems can be solved at the negotiating table instead of using the unethical, immoral and counter-productive method of military threats and attacks.
→ read full articleThe Problem of Greece Is Not Only a Tragedy. It Is a Lie.
John Pilger - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
13 Jul 2015 – An historic betrayal has consumed Greece. Having set aside the mandate of the Greek electorate, the Syriza government has willfully ignored last week’s landslide “No” vote and secretly agreed a raft of repressive, impoverishing measures in return for a “bailout” that means sinister foreign control and a warning to the world.
→ read full articleThe Treaty
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
What if the wily Persians did not even dream of building an atomic bomb, but used the threat to further their real aims? One of Netanyahu’s arguments is that the Iranians can and will cheat the naive Americans and build the bomb. He is sure that this is possible. Well, he should know. We did it, didn’t we?
→ read full articleRetired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
20 Jul 2015
“What we have is this continued investment in conflict,” the retired general says. “The more weapons we give, the more bombs we drop, that just … fuels the conflict.”
→ read full articleA Review of ‘Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine’
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
GAZA WRITES BACK is one of those very rare books that depict war in slow motion. The 23 stories here, written by 15 young authors (from late teens to early 30s, all but three female) were compiled to commemorate the 5-year anniversary of “Operation Cast Lead.”
→ read full articleWas the Batman Shooter a Victim of both Medical and Legal Malpractice?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
How the Aurora Massacre Could Have Been Prevented
→ read full articleGreed Is Driving Us towards Disaster
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Greed, in particular the greed of corporations and billionaire oligarchs, is driving human civilization and the biosphere towards disaster. The greed of giant fossil fuel corporations is driving us towards a tipping point after which human efforts to control climate change will be futile because feedback loops will have taken over. The greed of the military industrial complex is driving us towards a Third World War that might develop into a catastrophic thermonuclear war. The greed of our financial institutions is driving us towards economic collapse, as we see in the case of Greece.
→ read full articleWhy Greece Should Leave the Euro Zone
Michael R. Strain – The Washington Post,
20 Jul 2015
Sure, there would be short-term pain. But in the long term, the euro is an economic mistake. And leave today Greece should, beginning the painful work of rebuilding an economy and crafting public policies over which it has primary control, hopefully achieving more success than it has in the past.
→ read full articleCarl G. Jung (26 Jul 1875 – 6 Jun 1961): The Integration of Opposites
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
As Jung noted, Taoist thought would play an increasingly powerful role in the transition between the Piscean Period and the Age of Aquarius. “The spirit of the East is really at our gates. Therefore it seems to me that the search for Tao, for a meaning in life, has already become a collective phenomenon among us, and to a far greater extent than is generally realized.”
→ read full articleThe End of Capitalism Has Begun
Paul Mason – The Guardian,
20 Jul 2015
Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. It’s time to be utopian. Marx imagined something close to our information economy. He wrote its existence would blow capitalism sky high.
→ read full articleWhat Are Foreign Military Bases For?
World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Have you ever wondered and investigated how many US military bases exist in the world, where exactly, and at what cost, to what purpose, and in terms of what relationship with the host nations? A wonderfully researched new book, six years in the works, answers these questions in a manner you’ll find engaging whether you’ve ever asked them or not. It’s called ‘Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Harm America and the World’ by David Vine.
→ read full articleThe Terms of Greece’s Surrender
Yanis Varoufakis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The Euro Summit statement (or Terms of Greece’s Surrender – as it will go down in history) follows, annotated by yours truly. The original text is untouched with my notes confined to square brackets. Read and weep…
→ read full articlePluto and Earth
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The flyby of Pluto by the spacecraft New Horizons—a scientific achievement of the first order—stands in contrast to the seemingly intractable social crises on our own planet.
→ read full articleThe Right-Left Crossfire and the Post Neo-Liberal Left
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The post neo-liberal regimes which flourished in five Latin American countries in the first decade of the 21st century were a product of three inter-related historical processes.
→ read full articleMalaysia Just Passed a New, Stricter Welfare Act for Animals
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
On Tuesday [14 Jul 2015], the Malaysian government passed into law a new animal welfare act that imposes harsher penalties for those torturing or neglecting animals in order to reduce the number of crimes against animals in the country.
→ read full articleSoulless Economics
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
20 Jul 2015
Austerity, the tool of neoliberal capitalism, stands up to Greek democracy and stares it down. Oh well. We’re remarkably comfortable with soulless economics and have yielded to this economic model in thought, word and deed.
→ read full article3 Great Supplements for Gut Health
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
There are so many easy ways that you can support and maintain your gut health. Whether it’s eating healthy, taking probiotics, or even meditation. Cutting out gluten and sugar are helpful steps you can take to support the health of your gut, and consuming more raw, living foods are also great measures.
→ read full article70 Years After the Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Canada’s Gift to Japan
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The Canada Pension Plan, mandatory for all working Canadians, invests our contributions in the five largest weapons makers in the world, which make nuclear as well as non-nuclear weapons that are sold and used in many countries against civilian populations.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
July 20-26 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
→ read full articleJapan’s Abe Pushes Security Bills through Lower House, Despite Protests
Linda Sieg, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday [16 Jul 2015] pushed through parliament’s lower house legislation that could see troops sent to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two, despite protests and a risk of further damage to his sagging ratings.
→ read full articleYanis Varoufakis Full Transcript: Our Battle to Save Greece
Harry Lambert – New Statesman,
20 Jul 2015
To have ‘the powers that be’ speak to you directly and the complete lack of any democratic scruples from the supposed defenders of Europe’s democracy. The quite clear understanding on the other side that we are on the same page analytically and yet to have very powerful figures look at you in the eye and say “You’re right in what you’re saying, but we’re going to crunch you anyway.”
→ read full article“Sowing the Wind” at Los Alamos and “Reaping the Whirlwind” at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
70 years ago this week (July 16, 1945), an assortment of foreign scientists, the original group of which was mostly refugees fleeing European fascism, succeeded in exploding the first experimental atomic bomb.
→ read full articleObama to Out Bomb Bush!
James Albertini, Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
This is only the latest campaign in a 15-year global air war, largely ignored by U.S. media, in which the United States and its allies have conducted at least 118,000 air strikes against other countries since 2000.
→ read full articleAn Active Peace Policy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
In the nuclear age, we can no longer afford to wait until war breaks out and then react with military force. We must pursue an active peace policy that seeks to avoid or resolve conflicts long before they lead to war.
→ read full articleGrexit or Jubilee? How Greek Debt Can Be Annulled
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Greece’s creditors have finally brought the country to its knees, forcing President Alexis Tsipras to agree to austerity and privatization measures more severe than those overwhelmingly rejected by popular vote a week earlier. For Greece, leaving the EU may be perilous; but it opens provocative possibilities. The government could nationalize its insolvent banks along with its central bank, and start generating the credit the country desperately needs to get back on its feet.
→ read full articleThinking Globally
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
One thing about empires that people have to know: they do not last. They get the hubris to think they can last and that they can manage affairs of other people in perpetuity but this is an illusion.
→ read full articleAgency to Enslave Greeks Is Established
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
On July 16 2015 ‘German Economic News’ headlined “Greece: Debt Restructuring Through the Back Door,” and reported that, “The majority of Greece’s national debt is to be moved in the next three years gradually to the European Stability Mechanism. The super-secretive ESM was set up in 2012, in order to handle Greece’s anticipated virtual receivership, which it now will do.
→ read full articleBaltimore’s Unrest and Social Injustice Hits the Back Page
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The year 1968 had also seen the assignation of MLK and it touched off racial unrest in over 100 cities in the country. Baltimore did not escape this unfortunate fate. Nor did it escape that fate in this year when yet another case of American police brutality hit on its doorstep. From MLK to Freddie Gray, we have to wonder what has changed in America (and Baltimore)?
→ read full articleDr Schäuble’s Plan for Europe: Do Europeans Approve? – English Version of My Article in Die Zeit
Yanis Varoufakis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
On 15 July 2015 Die Zeit published this piece. Here is the original English language version.
→ read full articleJames Cousins (22 Jul 1873 – 20 Feb 1956): An Effort of Synthesis
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
His ‘A Study in Synthesis’ is a rich and complex study of the ways in which intuition, emotion, cognition and action structure human life. He places great importance on the power of intuition as the way the individual feels the push and pressure of the Cosmos.
→ read full articleCollective Mea Culpa? You Must Be Joking! Them Is to Blame, Not Us!
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Published on the occasion of allegedly major mistakes regarding the European bailout of Greece and the agreement concerning the nuclear programme of Iran. Is the United Nations as such capable of confessing to error? How about the World Bank or IMF? The European Commission, the OECD, the Organization of American States, NATO, etc? And what of that mysterious entity the “international community”?
→ read full article(Português) “Eles Crucificaram Tsipras Lá Dentro”- Nos Bastidores da Cimeira
Rádio Renascença – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
“Nada poderia ser pior que a humilhação da Grécia, que não procurou caridade, mas sim solidariedade da zona euro”, afirmou Hollande. “Eles crucificaram Tsipras lá dentro”, disse ao Financial Times um responsável da Zona Euro que assistiu à cimeira. “Crucificaram-no.”
→ read full articlePope Francis Tells World Youth to Rise Up Against Global Capitalism
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
20 Jul 2015
‘Make a mess, but then also help to tidy it up,’ Argentinian pontiff said in address to Paraguay youth.
→ read full articleAesthetics as One Road to Peace?
Johan Galtung, 20 Jul 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The focus is on one Sultan, Ibrahim Adil Shah II, of the central Indian kingdom of Bijapur, between Mumbai and Goa; we are talking about early 17th century. The Sultan is described as “an erudite scholar, a lute player, poet, singer, calligrapher, chess master and aesthete”. How different from Western rulers with military-political skills; how similar to many Chinese rulers, emperors, mandarins with poetry, calligraphy and more as indelible part of their legitimacy.
→ read full articleOn Life
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
A minister, a priest and a rabbi were discussing when life begins.
→ read full articleSchooled in Britain, Deported to Danger: UK Sends 600 Former Child Asylum Seekers Back to Afghanistan
Maeve McClenaghan- The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
20 Jul 2015
16 Jul 2015 – Hundreds of Westernised young men who grew up in Britain after fleeing war-torn Afghanistan as children have been forcibly returned to their home country due to what experts believe is an inhumane shortcoming in the UK asylum system.
→ read full article“Guerrilla Warfare against a Hegemonic Power”: The Challenge and Promise of Greece
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
9 Jul 2015 – Banks create money when they make loans. Greece could restore the liquidity desperately needed by its banks and its economy by nationalizing the banks and issuing digital loans backed by government guarantees to its ailing businesses. Greece could provide an inspiring model of sustainable prosperity for the world. But it is being strangled by a hegemonic power in a financial war that is being waged against us all.
→ read full article(Português) Crueldade Animal: A Venda de Líquido Biliar de Urso
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
11 de julho de 2015 – Subsiste na China antiga prática “medicinal” de se utilizar líquido produzido pela bile de ursos negros (Ursus thibetanus) para tratamento de doenças relacionadas aos olhos e ao fígado de seres humanos, assim como para fabricação de pomadas e xampus.
→ read full articleCNN to Broadcast Corporate Propaganda as News?
C. Robert Gibson – Al Jazeera America,
13 Jul 2015
Companies paying media outlets to produce news-like content is a new low for network TV. Once a news outlet as recognizable as CNN starts airing branded content, it has the potential to create a huge conflict of interest in editorial decisions.
→ read full article(Italiano) OXI o NAI?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
OXI, No, ce l’ha fatta, come ci si aspettava, con il 61%. Un gran giorno per la Democrazia, per la Grecia, per l’Europa, per il mondo.
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Samsung Unveils an Incredible See-through Safety Truck
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The incredible Safety Truck has a camera fitted to its front, which sends real time footage to a screen on the back of the vehicle- helping car drivers overtake in safety. Samsung claimed its technology would help cut down on road deaths.
→ read full articleThe Twentieth Anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
If the slogan twenty years ago was “To save one Serb’s life, kill one hundred Bosianiks”, the slogan from now on should be like this: “To save one Serb’s life, one hundred Bosniaks cooperate. To save one Bosniak’s life, one hundred Serbs cooperate.” The current trending seems to be against this new slogan. But wait. Time will tell.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Must Save Greece
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate – Time Magazine,
13 Jul 2015
July 9, 2015 – As the Greek saga continues, many have marveled at Germany’s chutzpah. It received, in real terms, one of the largest bailout and debt reduction in history and unconditional aid from the U.S. in the Marshall Plan. And yet it refuses even to discuss debt relief.
→ read full articleThe Collateral Damage of Austerity
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
A bogus moral authority seems to accompany the accumulation of wealth — a sense that one deserves it, while those without wealth deserve servitude and hopelessness. Beyond this moral authority lies the desperate need not to recognize the common humanity of those who are struggling to survive.
→ read full articleDebt Slavery
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Usury, the charging of interest on loans, has a history of being forbidden by several major religions, including not only the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but also the ancient Vedic Scriptures of India.
→ read full articleGreece Says “NO MORE” to Austerity and Their Global Loan Shark Predators Are Pouting about It
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Predatory lenders “work to bankrupt the countries that received those loans so that they would be forever beholden to their creditors, and so they would be easy targets when we needed favors, including military bases, UN votes, or access to oil and other natural resources.” – John Perkins, author of “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”
→ read full articleCall for Sanity on 60th Anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Emanuel Pastreich – Foreign Policy In Focus,
13 Jul 2015
July 9, 2015 – Sixty years after Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell issued their manifesto about the growing threat of world war, the globe continues to face the prospect of nuclear annihilation — coupled with the looming threat of climate change.
→ read full articleUfa, Russia at the Center of the World
Mark Sleboda - The BRICS Post,
13 Jul 2015
US press love to refer to the West as “the international community”, but in Ufa we see a truer representation of the world. Russia, with host and presidency duties of both BRICS and the SCO, is holding both summits in concert with the newly formed EAEU (Eurasian Economic Union) summit. What is most telling and definitive is not even who is present in Ufa this week – but who is not. The West is not.
→ read full articleWho Is to Blame for Greek Crisis? Goldman Sachs Takes Heat
Sputinik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Goldman Sachs Banker, who got $12 million for getting Greece into the Eurozone by falsely extolling its financial capacity, could now see a lawsuit.
→ read full articleYemeni Genocide Proceeds Apace, Enjoying World’s Silence
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
13 Jul 2015
If any of the umpteen candidates for president of the United States has said anything humane, useful, or even dimly relevant about Yemen, it is hard to find (and I have found nothing). And nowhere have I found any call to establish the appropriate International War Crimes Tribunal to judge the illegality of the multiple, heinous predations of the United States, Saudi Arabia, and their sundry allies, all members in good standing of the world peacekeeping authority.
→ read full articleGhost Students, Ghost Teachers, Ghost Schools: The Failure of US-Funded Schools in Afghanistan
Azmat Khan, BuzzFeed News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
9 Jul 2015 – The United States trumpets education as one of its shining successes of the war in Afghanistan. But a BuzzFeed News investigation reveals U.S. claims were often outright lies, as the government peddled numbers it knew to be false and touted schools that have never seen a single student.
→ read full articlePeace Lessons
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
I just read what may be the best introduction to peace studies I’ve ever seen. It’s called ‘Peace Lessons,’ and is a new book by Timothy Braatz. It’s not too fast or too slow, neither obscure nor boring. It does not drive the reader away from activism toward meditation and “inner peace.”
→ read full articleThomas Piketty: “Germany Has Never Repaid its Debts. It Has No Standing to Lecture Greece or Other Nations”
Thomas Piketty, Die Zeit – The Wire,
13 Jul 2015
8 Jul 2015 – “… Germany is really the single best example of a country that, throughout its history, has never repaid its external debt. Neither after the First nor the Second World War. However, it has frequently made other nations pay up, such as after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, when it demanded massive reparations from France and indeed received them. The French state suffered for decades under this debt. The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.”
→ read full articleSome Thoughts on Banning of Cow Slaughter in India
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The Maharashtra government banned the slaughter of cows and bulls and selling and eating of beef. The ban also covers the transportation of these animals outside the state for slaughter. Why is a cow so useful and why is there so much controversy about this decision?
→ read full article2015 International Women Walk for Peace and Reunification of Korea
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Delegation Visits North/South Korea May 19–25, 2015 – On 24 May 2015, International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament, thirty women peacemakers from 15 countries, made a historic crossing of the two mile wide de-militarized zone DMZ from North to South Korea.
→ read full articleGlobal Governance Reforms: Ufa, Russia Hosts the BRICS, EEU and SCO Summits Simultaneously
Bongani Mbindwane - The BRICS Post,
13 Jul 2015
Among all the groundbreaking decisions made at UFA this year, BRICS nations are moving to discard the dollar and euro on their $500-billion intra-trade. Further, the summits in Ufa, highlighted the geopolitical cross-pollination between BRICS and the SCO, which cannot make decisions that are disadvantageous to each other.
→ read full articleCybersecurity, Encryption and the Golden Age of Surveillance
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
13 Jul 2015
The ability of regular people to access encryption tools has prompted the governments of both the United States and the United Kingdom to propose special access to all communications. They want a master key to everyone’s digital life.
→ read full articleLondon Is Now the Global Money-Laundering Centre for the Drug Trade, Says Crime Expert
James Hanning and David Connett – The Independent,
13 Jul 2015
Interviewed by The Independent on Sunday [5 Jul 2015], Mr Saviano said of the international drugs trade that “Mexico is its heart and London is its head”. He said the cheapness and the ease of laundering dirty money through UK-based banks gave London a key role in drugs trade.
→ read full articleOne Lesson from Srebrenica
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
12 Jul 2015 – World is busy commemorating yet another anniversary of a genocide. One major lesson from Srebrenica is that there is no lesson learned or incorporated into today’s responses to Myanmar’s genocide. The world of power and influence is in the final instance a world of shameful deeds, dishonest policies and business-as-usual inhumanity. Sad, unconscionable and outrageous – but painfully true.
→ read full articleTo Be Greek
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Everybody has already voiced his (or her) opinion on the Greek crisis, whether he (or she) has an opinion or not. So I feel obliged to do the same. Every commentator, from Nobel prize-winning economists to my taxi driver in Tel Aviv, has a solution. Unfortunately, no one listens to them.
→ read full articleMost Attitudes and Beliefs are Outcomes of Fear
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
I routinely come across efforts to change an individual’s attitude, belief and/or value by using education to teach the ‘right’ one. I would like to explain why education cannot achieve such a change, except in the most superficial of circumstances, as the evidence clearly demonstrates.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Council Reaffirms the Safeguards for Civilians in Times of War
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
“Accountability for breaches of international humanitarian law and for human rights violations, as well as respect for human rights, are not obstacles to peace, but rather the preconditions on which trust and, ultimately, a durable peace can be built.”
→ read full articleSlavoj Žižek on Greece: This Is a Chance for Europe to Awaken
Slavoj Žižek – New Statesman,
13 Jul 2015
The Greeks are correct: Brussels’ denial that this is an ideological question is ideology at its purest – and symptomatic of our whole political process.
→ read full articleWatching the News
Doonesbury – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Comic Satirical Strip
→ read full articleThe New President of the UN General Assembly
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The election of Mogens Lykketoft as the new President of the United Nations General Assembly has opened the door to the solution of several of world’s most pressing problems. For example, it may now be possible to achieve a Nuclear Weapons Convention by a direct majority vote.
→ read full articleWomen Preventing War
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
In 1905, Norway declared its independence from Sweden. Norwegian and Swedish troops faced each other along the border, ready to fight.
→ read full articleIn Memoriam: Donald Neff, Journalist (1930-2015)
Alison Weir, If Americans New – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
One of the top journalists to report on Palestine-Israel has died May 10. Many activists in the growing Palestine solidarity movement are unaware that he exposed critical facts about Palestine with unparalleled precision and elegance. Much of the information he uncovered is still significant today.
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