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Yanis Varoufakis – A Modest Proposal for Transforming Europe
TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Professor Varoufakis proposes a decentralized system for Europe to transform it before being crashed by the systemic crisis. He studies different possibilities and explains why his proposal may be the best option.
→ read full articleThe Trafficking of Stateless Rohingya: A Problem of Organised Crime or State Crime?
Natalie Brinham – London International Development Centre,
31 Aug 2015
In 2013 Natalie Birnham met and interviewed a Rohingya survivor, named Jamal, in an above-shop office of a local CBO in Kuala Lumpur. He recounted his journey fleeing from Western Myanmar/Burma to Malaysia.
→ read full articleThe Psychology of Projection in Conflict
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Unfortunately, understanding the psychology of conflict is not easy and I would like to illustrate one significant problem in this regard and explain what we can do about it. That problem is what is often called ‘projection’ or ‘transference’ and it illustrates the importance of emotional, as distinct from intellectual, content in any conflict.
→ read full articleHow Google Could Rig the 2016 Election
Robert Epstein – Politico Magazine,
31 Aug 2015
It’s possible that Google decided the winner of the Indian election. Google’s own daily data on election-related search activity was subsequently removed from the Internet, but not before my colleagues and I downloaded the pages.
→ read full articleChange Everything or Face a Global Katrina
Naomi Klein, The Leap – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Today I am posting, for the first time, the entire section on Hurricane Katrina from my last book, ‘The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.’ The same military equipment and contractors used against New Orleans’ Black residents have since been used to militarize police across the United States, contributing to the epidemic of murders of unarmed Black men and women. That is one way in which the Disaster Capitalism Complex perpetuates itself and protects its lucrative market.
→ read full articleUS Urges ‛Genuine Democracy’ in Cuba
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Secretary Kettle said that Cubans were misled into thinking their system was democratic just because they elected the people who run their government. This was not real democracy, because corporations were not allowed to vote. A problem in Cuba is that there aren’t many privately owned corporations, so it will be difficult to bring Cuban elections up to US standards.
→ read full articleWhat Are Obesogens?
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Obesogens is an umbrella term given to the dozens of endocrine disruptors that play a role in obesity. Chemicals from plastics, like BPA, are known obesogens, and these chemicals pollute our waterways and pervade our homes.
→ read full articleWant a More Democratic UN? Give It a Parliament
Jo Leinen and Andreas Bummel – Foreign Policy In Focus,
31 Aug 2015
Every democracy in the world has an elected legislature. Why not the UN? As we approach the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, we’re moving further into a new century with many of the old, deficient institutions of the last century left untouched.
→ read full articleToward a Northeast Asian Community
Johan Galtung, 24 Aug 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Abe’s policy of “collective self-defense”, an alliance with the most belligerent country in the world, USA, with 248 military interventions abroad since 1805–78 after the Second World War– is a policy of national insecurity.
→ read full article(Português) Silêncios Ruidosos
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Carta Maior,
24 Aug 2015
O Estado burocrático, impessoal, não se deixa impressionar por dramas pessoais, individuais. Em tempos de imposição de austeridade aos cidadãos mais vulneráveis, qualquer pretexto é bom para reduzir os encargos do Estado, por mais ilógico e injusto que seja.
→ read full article(Português) Eles querem animais de raça! Raça?
Cynthia Gonçalves - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
24 Aug 2015
Raça tem os animais que sofrem maus tratos, que vivem perambulando pelas ruas tomando chuva, queimando as patas no asfalto quente, convivendo com a sede, a fome e o frio. Raça tem os que mínguam dia a dia esperando pela sorte de atravessar o caminho da pessoa certa, mas na maioria dos casos a pessoa certa não vem. Antes de comprar pense! Adoção é um ato de amor.
→ read full article(Français) Le véritable but de la « thérapie de choc » en Grèce
Michel Collon, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
12,5 millions d’Allemands vivent sous le seuil de pauvreté. Malgré ce bilan pitoyable, Angela Merkel prétend imposer le « modèle allemand » au monde entier. L’exemple de l’Allemagne.
→ read full article(Français) Après le politique, faut-il «tuer la géopolitique»?
Robert Charvin, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
21 août 2015 – La « révolution » conservatrice, à l’œuvre dans l’ensemble des sociétés occidentales, a pris des chemins variés d’un pays à l’autre. En Europe, elle s’appuie parfois sur la collaboration des droites traditionnelles et de mouvements de l’ultra-droite (en Hongrie, par exemple), voire dans certains cas néonazis (en Lettonie ou en Ukraine, par exemple).
→ read full articleIs the New U.S. ‘Law of War Manual’ Actually ‘Hitlerian’?
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The Obama U.S. Department of Defense has quietly issued its important Law of War Manual. This new document has been alleged specifically to allow for such attacks as the United States did on Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Iraq and elsewhere.
→ read full articleReligious Eugenics: How Saudi Arabia Is Sponsoring a Frightening New Movement in the ME
Catherine Shakdam - Russia Today,
24 Aug 2015
22 Aug 2015 – Blanketed by its wealth and protected by political alliances, Saudi Arabia has covertly run and promoted a new movement in the Middle East: religious eugenics, under the false pretense of opposing the rise of Iran. From Syria to Bahrain and Yemen, the evidence is overwhelming.
→ read full articleHere’s What Actually Gets Terrorists to Tell the Truth — And It’s Not Torture
Peter Aldhous, BuzzFeed News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Over the past five years, psychological research — some involving real terrorist suspects — has shown how to get information from people who don’t want to talk. Now Washington has the chance to put these findings into practice.
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Hiroshima Day Peace Lantern Ceremony – Canada
Nuno Ramalho, PeaceQuest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The Hiroshima Day Peace Lantern Ceremony takes place every year on August 6 to remember the atomic bombings by the United States of America over Japan.
→ read full articleMost Disgusting Game Ever
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The Nazis never reached this height of banality in the general German public, but had they done so it would be a sinister feature of tens of thousands of Hollywood movies. If Russians sat around playing a board game that involved blowing up Ukrainian children, the Washington Post would have already published several front-page articles.
→ read full articleLeading Israeli Journalist Says Israel Is an Apartheid State
Ben Norton, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
What I’m about to write will not come easily for me. I used to be one of those people who took issue with the label of apartheid as applied to Israel. I’m not one of those people any more. Not after the last few weeks.
→ read full articleA Short History Lesson: 1945
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
August 6th:
Dropped atomic bomb
On civilians
At Hiroshima.
Unspoken Death Toll of Fukushima: Nuclear Disaster Killing Japanese Slowly
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
20 Aug 2015 – The Japanese government is still in denial and refuses to recognize the disastrous consequences of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, London-based independent consultant on radioactivity Dr. Ian Fairlie states, adding that while thousands of victims have already died, thousands more will soon pass away.
→ read full articleOccupy Greece: Germany Wins Bid to Run Regional Airports
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The sale is on but the money isn’t in the bank yet. While Greece waits for European Parliaments to approve the country’s bailout package, German airport operator FRAPORT has won the bid to takeover and run 14 Greek regional airports in the first (of many) privatization deals done by the Syriza government.
→ read full articleThe Magician’s Apprentice
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
One has to choose: Binyamin Netanyahu is either incredibly shrewd or incredibly foolish. Take his Iran policy. Actually, there is little to choose from. Netanyahu has no other policy to speak off.
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Gimme Shelter (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
PlayingForChange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
This song expresses the urgency we all face to unite, together, as a planet and offers us wisdom with the words, “War, children, it’s just a shot away… Love, sister, it’s just a kiss away”. It really is that simple. We dedicate this song to all the lost, homeless and forgotten people in this world. It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
→ read full articleFrom Greece to Spain to Britain: National Debt Audits Are Challenging Austerity
Steve Rushton, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
After being ravaged by austerity measures and unjust debts for years, Ecuador’s 2008 Debt Audit Commission found a large portion to be “illegal and illegitimate.” Consequently, Ecuador cut repayments and instead redirected millions of dollars into public services.
→ read full articleTurkish State Launches Massive Assault on Kurds under Cover of Finally Tackling ISIS
AndrewNFlood, Anarchist Writers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
One very clear illustration of whom Turkey has really gone to war with is found in this record of who has been arrested in the raids over the last days (21 – 28 July). People arrested: total 1034 (36 are children).
140 ISIS member,
22 Fetullah Gülen movement,
872 PKK/KCK and other leftist groups.
30-Year-Old Trial Finds Organic Farming Outperforms Conventional Agriculture
Permaculture Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Is organic farming more resilient, higher yielding, more energy efficient, and more profitable? The Rodale Institute’s latest report of a 30-year trial says it is. Full report here.
→ read full articleWar Begets War Refugees: The Moral Bankruptcy of Italy and NATO
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
17 Aug 2015 – On April 26, 2011, a meeting that can only be described as sinister took place between the then Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and French President, Nicolas Sarkozy. The most pressing issue discussed at the meeting in Rome was how to deal with African immigrants.
→ read full articleEnhancing Strategic Discourse Systematically Using Climate Metaphors
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Widespread Comprehension of System Dynamics in Weather Patterns as a Resource – Given the psychological engagement and familiarity with weather and climate phenomena, and their use as metaphors to describe social dynamics, the question here is whether the systemic integrity of the phenomena is suggestive of insights that could be adapted to strategic discourse.
→ read full articleWhy Congress Must Support the Nuclear Agreement with Iran
Akbar Ganji & Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Akbar Ganji is an important human rights defender who spent several years for his efforts in an Iranian jail. He is a leading commentator on Iranian affairs and recipient of an International Press Association World Press Hero award. Our article stresses the critical importance of obtaining American approval of the nuclear agreement.
→ read full articleWhy You Should Be Sleeping on Your Left Side
Andrew Jenkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Did you know that how you sleep is just as important as how much you sleep? Your chosen sleep position can impact your health, help you keep your skin looking young, and improve your digestive health.
→ read full articlePeace Research Is Value-Oriented
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Imagine you are sick and visit a doctor. He takes your temperature, pulse, listens to your lungs and looks at your tongue. Then he tells you, “You have a very interesting disease, I will write it up in my next scientific publication.” You ask, “But don’t you have a cure for me?” The doctor protests, “Oh no, I am objective! I simply observe, I do not intervene.”
→ read full articleMyths of the Green Revolution and GMOs
A backgrounder by Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
15 Aug 2015 – I wrote a book for the United Nations University titled ‘The Violence of the Green Revolution’, which has been republished by many publishers globally, including the Kentucky University Press. Extracts from the book are available on Google.
→ read full articleJulian Assange and the Value of WikiLeaks
Norman Solomon, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
From the Vietnam War era to today – from aerial bombing and torture to ecological disasters and financial scams moving billions of dollars into private pockets – the high-up secrecy hiding key realities from the public has done vast damage. No wonder economic and political elites despise WikiLeaks for its disclosures.
→ read full articleEnforced Disappearance Commission: Truth, Justice and Reparation for Dignity
Prof. Bishnu Pathak - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Enforced disappearance is a prototypical continuous act. The act occurs when a person secretly arrests, detains, tortures and disappears by conflicting forces, but refuses to acknowledge whereabouts of his or her fate . The dead body decomposes in such a way as not to ever be found.
→ read full articleYanis Varoufakis: Bailout Deal Allows Greek Oligarchs to Maintain Grip
Phillip Inman – The Guardian,
24 Aug 2015
17 Aug 2015 – Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has accused European leaders of allowing oligarchs to maintain their stranglehold on Greek society while punishing ordinary people in a line-by-line critique of the country’s €86bn (£61bn) bailout deal.
→ read full articleNepal’s Constitution and Religion of State
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Religion is a personal faith and individual’s belief that cannot be imposed by a law in any modern democracy in free world. All citizens should have freedom to profess and practice whatever religion or faith one has and this should be protected and respected by law and by state without discrimination.
→ read full article“The Iranian Threat” – Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?
Noam Chomsky – TomDispatch,
24 Aug 2015
“In the eyes of much of the world, in fact, the prime rogue state today is the United States.” As we have seen, global opinion supports this judgment by a substantial margin. Furthermore, the mantle is worn with pride. The Clinton Doctrine, for instance, confirmed that the U.S. was entitled to resort to the “unilateral use of military power” even to ensure “uninhibited access to key markets, energy supplies, and strategic resources,” let alone alleged “security” or “humanitarian” concerns.
→ read full articleBanksy’s Theme Park “Dismaland” Shows Darker Side of History and Pop Culture
John Vibes, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
21 Aug 2015 – The mysterious and world famous activist and artist Banksy recently unveiled one of his largest projects to date, a mock theme park that shows the darker side of history and pop culture. The park is called “Dismaland”, which seems to be a play on words with Disneyland.
→ read full articleTwo More ‘EverySyrian’ Heroes Murdered while Protecting Our Shared Cultural Heritage
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
On 8/20/2015 this observer received a credible report from Palmyra that Da’ish (ISIS) militiamen are currently laying explosives among Palmyra’s ruins as a sort of ‘antiquities shield ‘against armed attack from the Syrian army or from the US-led anti-ISIS coalition, the latter now in its second year of targeting the jihadists with checkered results.
→ read full articleAfter the Bailout: The Spoils of Greece Are Bound for Germany
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The ‘Asset Development Plan’ for Greece is out and it’s all go for the privatization of the country. Hellenic seaports, airports, motorways, petroleum companies, water and gas supply, real estate, holiday resorts – it’s all for sale.
→ read full articleThe Five Political Prophecies of Lanza Del Vasto
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Likewise Gandhi, also his disciple Lanza del Vasto promoted a reform of the religiosity, ethics and politics of the Western context. With this in mind he wrote a book in which he elevated non-violence at an intellectual system, where his religious argumentations are paralleled by corresponding anthropological, economical, political –national and international – argumentations.
→ read full articleScotland Bans Growing GM Crops
Stephen Lendman - CounterPunch,
24 Aug 2015
12 Aug 2015 – Independent evidence shows GM foods and ingredients harm human health. UN General Assembly measures and international humanitarian laws say all nations are responsible for protecting the health, safety and welfare of their people. Harmful to human health GMOs should be universally banned. Scotland acted responsibly.
→ read full articleEurasian Counter Gambit: Sino-Russian Alliance ‘Acting as Magnet for World’
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
22 Aug 2015 – While US interventionists continue to promote a collection of policies that have repeatedly failed, China and Russia are acting as a magnet for forces of “the rest” aiming to build an entirely new economic infrastructure, US experts Dimitri K. Simes and Richard Burt note.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The time is now ripe for the total de-linkage of nonproliferation from disarmament with respect to nuclear weapons policy. Without such a de-linkage false consciousness and confusion are unavoidable. It is time to generate populist impatience with the refusal of decades by government establishment to act on the basis of reason, ethics, and prudence.
→ read full articleAmong Geniuses
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Albert Einstein met a colleague on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
→ read full articleThe Anarchist Impulse
Richard Swift – New Internationalist Magazine,
24 Aug 2015
The other great historic alternative to capitalism has been anarchism. Often dismissed as a dirty word, its influence ebbs and flows but its libertarian principles remain profoundly influential.
→ read full articleSeventy-Five Years since the Assassination of Leon Trotsky
Joseph Kishore, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The murder of Trotsky came at the high point of international political reaction that included the victory of fascism in Germany in 1933, the defeat of the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39, the Moscow Trials and Great Terror of 1936-38, and the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939.
→ read full articleOutrage at Israeli Plan to Build on Historic Muslim Cemetery
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 – Officials in Jerusalem have approved a massive construction project, including plans for housing, shops and a hotel, on one of the largest and most historically important Islamic cemeteries in the Middle East.
→ read full articleClimate Policymakers Can Learn from Germany
Paul Hockenos – Al Jazeera America,
24 Aug 2015
Germans have a decade’s worth of best practices on how to switch from fossil fuels and nuclear to renewables.
→ read full articleSingapore Challenges the Idea That Democracy Is the Best Form of Governance
Graham Allison – Harvad Belfer Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Was Lee Kuan Yew correct in his belief that Mandarins (in the tradition of Plato’s philosopher kings) who put the public good above their personal interests are necessary for good governance? If so, will Singapore be able to sustain such high levels of talent and sacrifice in its public service? As more Americans see D.C. as an acronym for “Dysfunctional Capital,” these are questions that deserve a rigorous debate.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
August 24-30 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.” – Milarepa
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The Difference between Empathy and Sympathy
The RSA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
What is the best way to ease someone’s pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 5: The Threats and Costs of War
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The costs of war, both direct and indirect, are so enormous that they are almost beyond comprehension. Can we not rid ourselves of both nuclear weapons and the institution of war itself? We must act quickly and resolutely before our beautiful world is reduced to radioactive ashes, together with the people that we love.
→ read full articleCorporate Sociopaths Out of Minnesota!
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
“Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person.” — Anonymous
→ read full articleOn Compassionate Care
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Rhymed Reflections
→ read full articleFree-Trade Treaties Are Anti-Free Trade
Immanuel Wallerstein - Toward Freedom,
24 Aug 2015
So-called free-trade treaties are about managing the protectionist interests of the various parties to these treaties. Whatever they do, the results are anti-free trade. To understand what is going on, we have to start with that, and evaluate any proposal with that in mind.
→ read full articleA New Approach to Eurozone Sovereign Debt
Yanis Varoufakis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
17 Aug 2015 – Here, then, is an idea (part of A Modest Proposal for Resolving the Euro Crisis, co-authored by Stuart Holland and James K. Galbraith) aimed at re-calibrating the rules, enhancing their spirit, and addressing the underlying economic problem.
→ read full articleOn Altruism
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Rhymed Reflections
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Is Climate Change Just a Lot of Hot Air?
MinuteEarth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
[Animation] The Consequences of Warmer Global Temperatures in Oceans and Lands
→ read full articleSustainable Debt — And West-Russia-China-Japan?
Johan Galtung, 17 Aug 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
The game is dirty and has lasted 70 years. The formula for big profit is simple: give credit to a country poor enough not to be able to pay it off quickly, yet not so poor that it cannot go on servicing the loan for years. To be worthwhile the project must be capital-intensive, like (air)ports and highways to the (air)ports for import-export, assembling cars–something for the rich.
→ read full articlePope Francis Joins Battle against Transgenic Crops
Emilio Godoy, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Aug 11 2015 – A few centuries ago, the biotechnology industry would have been able to buy a papal bull to expiate its sins and grant it redemption. But in his encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si”, Pope Francis condemns genetically modified organisms without leaving room for a pardon.
→ read full articleAn Agenda for Freedom from Hunger, Malnutrition, Disease and Farmers Suicides
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
A message for India’s Independence Day, 14 Aug 2015 – There is no reason why India should face hunger and malnutrition, and why our farmers should commit suicide.
→ read full articleThe Social Cost of Capitalism
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
11 Aug 2015 – Few, if any, corporations absorb the full cost of their operations. Corporations shove many of their costs onto the environment, the public sector, and distant third parties. For example, currently 3 million gallons of toxic waste water from a Colorado mine has escaped and is working its way down two rivers into Utah and Lake Powell. At least seven city water systems dependent on the rivers have been shut down.
→ read full articleNSA Spying Relies on AT&T’s ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’
Julia Angwin & Jeff Larson, ProPublica; Charlie Savage & James Risen, The New York Times; Henrik Moltke & Laura Poitras, special to ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
15 Aug 2015 – The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic has relied on a single company: the telecom giant AT&T. It has given the N.S.A. access, through several methods covered under different legal rules, to billions of emails as they have flowed across its domestic networks.
→ read full articleReflections on a Historic American Psychological Association Convention and the Road Ahead
Roy Eidelson Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Last Friday [7 Aug] the APA overwhelmingly approved – by a vote of 157 to 1 – a Resolution that bans psychologists from involvement in national security interrogations and adopts the UN Convention Against Torture and the judgments of UN representatives and other international bodies in determining what constitutes torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.
→ read full articleIs the Pacific Ocean Japan’s Private Dumpyard?
Nuclear News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
The most important part of the Tepco Fukushima Daiichi decommissioning plan is to be able to dump as much contaminated water as possible into the Pacific Ocean. Tepco has been doing that all along, but in a sneaky manner. With the now obtained approval of the Fukushima Prefectural Federation, Tepco will be able to do it in the open.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureates Endorse Violence
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
In a recent letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, twelve Nobel Peace laureates declared their support for the long history of US elite violence against Native Americans and enslaved Africans, as well as the US imperial violence around the world that has butchered tens of millions of people over the past 200 years.
→ read full articleHumor Defeating the Law about Conscientious Objectors
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
When [TRANSCEND member] Jorgen Johansen from Norway (born 1956) was 18, he received a letter requesting that he join the army. He wrote back that he would not do so, as a conscientious objector to military service. He was sentenced to 16 months in prison, the standard Norwegian punishment at that time for refusing military service.
→ read full articleHow Neocolonialism Works
Andy Singer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
No Exit
→ read full articleUS Torturers Lose Psychologists’ Corrupt Cooperation
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
17 Aug 2015
American Psychological Association Acts to Heal Itself – American psychologists have voted overwhelmingly against helping their government torture people. In an even more radical step, the psychologists voted to obey international law, even in instances where US law tolerates war crimes or crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleMass Layoffs Worldwide as Corporate Mergers Near New Record
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Under conditions of slowing economic growth and record amounts of cash on corporate balance sheets, mergers and acquisitions are being used to intensify the assault on the working class.
→ read full articleMeet ‘Moderates’ U.S. Is Supporting in Syria: They’re Al-Qaeda
Eric Zuesse, Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
13 Aug 2015 – Increasing evidence is coming in that the groups the U.S. is trying to install into power in Syria are actually contending groups of Sunni Islamic jihadists who seem to agree on only one thing: they want to replace the secular government of the Shiite Bashar al-Assad with a Sunni Islamic government. In Syria, al-Qaeda goes under the name Jabhat al-Nusra.
→ read full articleThe Mystery of the 500-Million-Year Old Dorchester Pot
Mïmi Benzaid, Zon News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
You would not expect to find a mobile phone during the Victorian Era, right? Because during that time, the technology to make mobile phones was non-existent – so this is in essence what oopart is all about. Accepting the logic that the Pot came from inside a rock 500 million years old, it stands to reason that the Dorchester Pot itself is at least 500 million years old.
→ read full articleEdmond Privat
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
17 August is the birth anniversary of Edmond Privat in 1889 − a leading world citizen of the first wave of world citizen action closely associated with the League of Nations. Privat is an important symbol of those who worked between the two World Wars for new positive attitudes and strong inter-governmental structures that would create a climate of peace.
→ read full article9 August: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
In 2009 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, a bill of rights attempting to guarantee political autonomy, religious freedom, access to health care, control over one’s education and conflict resolution mechanisms.
→ read full articleOfficials: Islamic State Arose from US Support for Al-Qaeda in Iraq
Nafeez Ahmed – Insurge Intelligence,
17 Aug 2015
A former Pentagon intelligence chief, Iraqi government sources, and a retired career US diplomat reveal US complicity in the rise of ISIS.
→ read full article(Italiano) Norvegia rivisitata: Due crisi – una chiazza di petrolio – e…?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
La Norvegia, in cima all’indicatore ONU per la buona vita da anni, è ora colpita da due diverse crisi; una per l’aspetto meno sviluppato e una per il più sviluppato. Eppure i cittadini sono protetti da una massiccia chiazza di petrolio, il maggior fondo sovrano al mondo, il Fondo Pensioni Governativo per una popolazione in corso d’invecchiamento quando il petrolio si prosciugherà.
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Recuerdos De La Alhambra (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Miloš Karadaglić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Guitar Magnifique
→ read full articleMediterranean Desperation: Saving Lives at the World’s Most Dangerous Border
Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Christian Werner (Photography) – Der Spiegel,
17 Aug 2015
Doctors Without Borders is the only major humanitarian organization actively rescuing refugees in the Mediterranean. So far, it has saved more than 10,000 people. But in the world’s biggest crisis region, timing is everything.
→ read full articleLiving in the 21st Century
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
A confessional to the extent of acknowledging my own surroundings of digital devices that while liberating in some respects are repressive in others. To sustain our freedom under these ‘postmodern’ conditions requires the rechristening of meditative intelligence (as distinct from the instrumental rationality that acted as wet nurse of the ‘modern.’
→ read full articleUS Psychologists’ Convention Bans Participation in Torture
Tom Carter, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
On Friday [7 Aug 2015], the American Psychological Association overwhelmingly adopted a resolution banning participation by psychologists in national security interrogations, in the face of accusations that the proposed ban on torture was “anti-government” and “anti-military.”
→ read full articleUS Military an ‘Insurmountable Obstacle to a Nuclear-Free World’
Mikhail Gorbachev – Der Spiegel,
17 Aug 2015
In a SPIEGEL interview, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev discusses morals and politics in the nuclear age, the crisis in Russian-American relations and his fear that an atomic weapon will someday be used.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 4: Neocolonialism and Resource Wars
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Our present economic system produces an endless series of resource-motivated wars. In addition to the enormous suffering, waste, injustice and ecological destruction produced by modern wars, we must recognize that in an era of thermonuclear weapons, war has become prohibitively dangerous. Therefore, we need a new economic system.
→ read full articleJewish Terrorists
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Do we approve of administrative detention, without trial and democratic safeguards, perhaps saving thereby the lives of Arabs and Jews, preventing worse disasters? Or do we uphold strict democratic principles, release all people held in administrative detention, Arabs and Jews alike, knowing that some of them will go on a killing spree?
→ read full articleThe Arab Peace Initiative’s Role in the New Context and after the Deal with Iran
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
It is not astonishing then that the Arab League released a statement after the agreement with Iran blessing that agreement in one hand and calling for it to be made as a first step towards a Middle East that is free from WMD.
→ read full articleCrisis, Emergency Measures and Failure of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement System: The Case of Argentina
Federico Lavopa, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
The way in which the ISDS system was used to handle a spate of claims from foreign investors against Argentina following its economic and financial crisis of 2001/2002 has shown up flaws in the system and the need for its reform.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Syrien: Wie Luftabwehr und Völkerrecht ausgehebelt wurden
Christoph Marischka - Informationsstelle Militarisierung,
17 Aug 2015
Planlose Außenpolitik der USA?
→ read full articleExposing Abuse on the Factory Farm
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
17 Aug 2015
8 Aug 2015 – While most Americans enjoy eating meat, it is hard to stomach the often sadistic treatment of factory-farmed cows, pigs and chickens. Farm operators go to great lengths to hide these gruesome images from the public. A popular tactic is the so-called ag-gag law, which makes it a crime to secretly videotape industrial feedlots and slaughterhouses to expose animal mistreatment and abuse.
→ read full articleScotland Completely Bans GMO Crops
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
10 Aug 2015 – Joining a growing number of nations concerned about the effects GMO’s pose, Scotland just banned the cultivation of genetically modified crops. The country’s Rural Affairs Secretary, Richard Lochhead, announced last week that the clean, green nation will no longer be permitting GM crops to be grown within its borders.
→ read full articleReality and Dreams
Fidel Castro Ruz, Granma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
13 Aug 2015 – Celebrating his 89th birthday and the reopening of an American embassy in La Habana today, the leader of the Cuban Revolution insists that, ‘We will never stop struggling for peace and the wellbeing of all human beings, for every inhabitant on the planet regardless of skin color or national origin.’
→ read full articleShifting Priorities: The Rise and Fall of Arab Revolutionary Discourse
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
11 Aug 2015 – Intellectual discussion concerning the “Arab Spring” has almost entirely shifted from one concerning freedom, justice, democracy and rights in general, into a political wrangle between various antagonist camps. The people, who revolted across various Arab countries are now marginalized in this discussion, and are only used as fodders.
→ read full articleLooking with Gandhi at Advancing Common Sense: The Necessity of Devotion, and the Role of Death
P.K. Willey, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
“Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his liberty has to be curtailed at every step.” – Gandhi (Common Sense, the Social Aspect of Conscience)
→ read full articleArt, Politics and Social Change at the Venice Biennale
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
17 Aug 2015
Venice served for centuries as the crossroads of the world, a city where East met West and art flourished. This year’s Venice Biennale, called “All the World’s Futures,” showcases a growing community of politically engaged artists, who not only reflect the beauty and brutality of the world, but might actually change it.
→ read full articleIs Artificial Intelligence Really an Existential Threat to Humanity?
Edward Moore Geist – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
17 Aug 2015
With intellectual powers beyond human comprehension, Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom prognosticates, self-improving artificial intelligences could effortlessly enslave or destroy Homo sapiens if they so wished.
→ read full articleLosing One’s Language
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
It is estimated that there are about 6500 spoken languages today of which approximately 5000 will become extinct by the end of the 21st century.
→ read full articleJapan: Why Was the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant Restarted?
Tadahiro Katsuta – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
17 Aug 2015
The decision is probably based on the “dismal science” of economics, not safety. The justification for a restart was based upon three key points. Let us look at each of these items in turn.
→ read full articleDon’t Ask
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Let a thousand flowers bloom
as we hasten to our doom.
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
August 17-23 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” – Dag Hammarskjöld
→ read full articleWarnings for Patients Taking Psych Drugs – Also for Their Families and Prescribing Practitioners
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Over the years, I have formally taught my patients (as well as many participants in my lectures and seminars) about the un-advertised dangers of psychiatric medications – especially the long-term brain alterations and drug-dependencies that drug companies don’t test for before the FDA grants them marketing approval.
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