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The Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The Iran Agreement in Perspective (4)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
This nuclear agreement reflects ‘where we are’ in dealing with global crises, not ‘where we should be.’ If we value international law, global justice, and indeed the future of the human species, then the distinction between the realm of the ‘feasible’ and the realm of the ‘desirable’ deserves energetic critical exposure by all of us who fancy ourselves as citizen pilgrims.
→ read full article9/11 Fourteen Years Later
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Millions of refugees from Washington’s wars are currently over-running Europe. Washington’s 14-year and ongoing slaughter of Muslims and destruction of their countries are war crimes for which the US government’s official 9/11 conspiracy theory was the catalyst.
→ read full articleIslam and the West: Roads toward Peace
Johan Galtung, 14 Sep 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Major conflict: not Israel vs Palestine but Israel-USA vs the Muslim world. The unfortunate “Judeo-Christianity” formula excludes the third Abrahamic religion, Islam. USA and Israel came into being as chosen by their gods with promised lands inhabited by Others. Full autonomy and dignity for the dispossessed are minimum requirements. Migrants should be received by those who caused the problem; for Syria-Iraq, above all USA; for Africa, above all the colonial powers.
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Here, There and Everywhere (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The Beatles – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
John Lennon and Paul McCartney heard ‘God Only Knows’ by The Beach Boys at a party, which inspired them to go back to Lennon’s house and write this wonderful song.
→ read full articleWalter’s Search
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
He said he joined the Army
to give meaning to his life,
(Português) Europa Colhe O Que Plantou
Frei Betto, Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Após extorquir riquezas naturais e sustentar ditadores sanguinários, os europeus deixaram um lastro de miséria e violência. Tivessem promovido a democracia e o desenvolvimento daqueles países, não estariam agora erguendo muros.
→ read full articleUN Plan to Save Earth Is “Fig Leaf” for Big Business: Insiders
Nafeez Ahmed, Insurge Intelligence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Why the new Sustainable Development agenda is “fundamentally compromised” by corporate interests. UN records reveal that the intergovernmental body has already marginalised the very groups it claims to be rescuing from poverty, hunger and climate disaster.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Sep 14-20 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.” – Osho
→ read full articleBritain’s Mafia State
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Where does legitimate business end and organised crime begin?
→ read full articleHow Neocons Destabilized Europe
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
14 Sep 2015
7 Sep 2015 – The neocon prescription of endless “regime change” is spreading chaos across the Middle East and now into Europe, yet the neocons still control the mainstream U.S. narrative and thus have diagnosed the problem as not enough “regime change.
→ read full articlePrintable Solar Panels, Developed by CSIRO and Melbourne Universities, One Step Closer to Market
Emily Stewart – ABC News Australia,
14 Sep 2015
Australian solar power scientists are one step closer to making available a cheaper and faster way to print solar cells onto plastic.
→ read full articleRethinking Syria
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
The current U.S. policy of simultaneously seeking to overthrow Assad and push back ISIS is simply unworkable.
→ read full articleThe Traveller’s Guide to Hawai’i – 2035 Edition
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
We begin our visit with this part of O’ahu as a “hologram” introduction to the Hawaiian nation. Travellers who last visited these jewels in the expanse of the Pacific while they were still US colonies will notice the small and large changes that have since occurred. Enjoy your visit to the newly independent Hawai’i.
→ read full articleCreative Minds: Lessons from Halfway Around the Globe
Dr. Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
8 Sep 2015 – A decade ago, as a medical student doing volunteer work at a hospital in India’s capital of New Delhi, Duncan Maru saw a young patient who changed the course of his career: a 12-year-old boy in a coma caused by advanced tuberculosis (TB).
→ read full articleChildren
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
We spend the first 2 years of children’s life teaching them to walk and talk.
→ read full articleReflections on a Summer
Oliver Stone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
10 Sep 2015 – I know there is karma. I know it will come for our country in one form or another. It already has in some ways – in the callousness of the majority’s response to other people’s suffering in wars we’ve needlessly begun. What is so much of this refugee problem in Europe about, but the people that we helped displace in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya.
→ read full article“Radiation Is Good for You!” And Other Tall Tales of the Nuclear Industry
Karl Grossman - CounterPunch,
14 Sep 2015
8 Sep 2015 – The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering a move to eliminate the “Linear No-Threshold” basis of radiation protection that the U.S. has used for decades and replace it with the “radiation hormesis” theory—which holds that low doses of radioactivity are good for people.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Likud Troika: Burying the Oslo ‘Peace Process’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
12 Sep 2015 – Israel’s relentless accumulation of territorial facts on the ground some years ago doomed the peace process associated with the Oslo Framework of Principles adopted in 1993. It became increasingly difficult to envisage an Israeli willingness to dismantle settlements and road network or remove the separation barrier, and without such steps there could never be achieved an independent and viable Palestinian state.
→ read full article(Italiano) Epistemologia degli studi per la pace: Descartes-Vico-Taoismo e l’Europa
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Intervento introduttivo, European Peace Research Association, Tromsö, Norvegia – L’epistemologia è la branca della filosofia che si occupa della conoscenza valida; e il punto focale di questa conferenza è la pace in Europa. Viviamo in un mondo meraviglioso benedetto da molte civiltà, ciascuna delle quali con un’epistemologia, e in un continente con una ricca varietà. Mio compito è attingere a qualcosa di tutto ciò e applicarlo alla politica di pace dell’Europa.
→ read full article(Italiano) La scottante attualità di Fanon
Raúl Zibechi, Commune Info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Alla decolonizzazione del pensiero critico e delle pratiche di emancipazione ispirate dallo psichiatra nero della Martinica, Raúl Zibechi ha dedicato il suo ultimo libro. In questo articolo riassume le cinque principali ragioni della straordinaria attualità politica della lezione antirazzista e antieurocentrica di Fanon, un pensatore lontano dall’accademia che ha messo la vita intera al servizio della lotta anticoloniale in Algeria e nel mondo.
→ read full articlePalestinian Flag to Fly at UN HQ after 119 Nations Vote ‘Yes’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
11 Sep 2015 – UN General Assembly has passed a Palestinian resolution to allow its flag fly in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York, angering Israel and giving hope to Palestinians seeking to gain full UN membership.
→ read full articleRupert Murdoch and Fox Take Control of National Geographic for a $725 Million Price Tag
Emily Steel, The New York Times -- Paul Farhi, The Washington Post,
14 Sep 2015
Murdoch is a notorious climate change denier, and his family’s Fox media empire is the world’s primary source of global warming misinformation. One of the missions of the National Geographic Society is to give grants to scientists. The group has supported pursuits as diverse as the underwater explorations of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Jane Goodall’s study of chimpanzees in Tanzania. What now?
→ read full article‘Yemen after Five Months Looks Like Syria after Five Years’
Michael Avender, CODEPink – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
The Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen: How the Saudi-Led Coalition and the US Government Guarantee No Visible End to the War
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 8: The Cooperative Movement
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
In the future, small cooperative communities, like the Ghandian villages or Transition Towns, may be able to give us not only a more sustainable way of life, but also increased happiness, based warm life-long friendships and the pleasure of doing good to others.
→ read full articleUS Stand on Sri Lanka Perverts International Justice
JS Tissainayagam – Asian Correspondent,
14 Sep 2015
8 Sep 2015 – AT the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva next week, the US is to sponsor a resolution on war crimes in Sri Lanka, in collaboration with the Colombo government. This is despite wide recognition that Sri Lankan leaders are implicated in these war crimes.
→ read full articleBurma: Divisive Ceasefire Won’t Bring Peace
Maung Zarni and Saw Kapi, DVB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Burma’s leaders, particularly generals past and present, lack both genuine acceptance of multi-ethnic peace on equal terms and an appreciation for the decades of bitter experiences of war-torn communities. Without these two essential pillars, sustainable peace in my country of birth is not conceivable, formal ceasefire or not.
→ read full articleRefugees Right to Survive: A Nonkilling Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
When refugees may die while fleeing from violence where they live,
What assistance to those people do other countries give?
Why Some People Are Left-Handed
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
An evolutionary parable of how the contradictory forces of competition and cooperation shaped human destiny.
→ read full articleDe-Coding What the Perpetrators of 9/11/2001 Have Been Telling the Whistle-blowing Searchers for the Truth
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
“Der Fuhrer said: ‘The fascist state must not forget that all means must serve the ends; it must not let itself be confused by the drivel about so-called freedom of the press… it must make sure that (the media) is placed in the service of the state.’
→ read full articleBreaking the Cycle: How to Build Sustainable Peace Using Contact Theory
Thomas B. Etzel, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Contact Theory posits that negative attitudes can be reduced by promoting contact and familiarity between conflicting groups. It emphasizes the development of personal relationships on a more intimate level and works best when applied to youth and children’s peace building programs.
→ read full articleAfter Snowden, Filmmaker Laura Poitras Takes On Julian Assange
James Vincent – The Verge,
14 Sep 2015
Poitras’ new documentary unit Field of Vision will examine Assange’s time in political asylum in its first series of short films.
→ read full articleBishop Desmond Tutu
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
In 1984 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent struggle against apartheid. In 1995, one year after the first democratic elections in which all South Africans were allowed to participate, President Nelson Mandela appointed Bishop Tutu to head the 17-member South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which exposed atrocities committed by all sides during the long apartheid regime.
→ read full articleAn Appeal for Shimon Perez and the Israeli Government to Do the Right Thing and Free Vanunu
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
After 31 years of punishment, Mordechai should be allowed to leave Israel, he is no threat to Israeli security, and it is wrong of the Israeli government to continue to punish him in this way.
→ read full article(Português) Entre todas do mundo, a polícia brasileira é a que mais mata, diz Anistia Internacional
Jornal GGN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Dos homicídios registrados no Brasil, 15,6% os autores são policiais. E o perfil das vítimas permanece: jovens negros. Depois da brasileira, a polícia dos Estados Unidos está entre as três mais violentas do mundo, envolvida em vários casos de assassinatos de negros nos últimos meses.
→ read full articleThe Migrant Crisis: Arms That Welcome, Arms That Kill
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Truthdig,
14 Sep 2015
“It’s 160,000. That’s the number that Europeans have to take in their arms.” — Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission. “It is our arms which are also killing and destroying these countries.” — Annette Groth, member of the German Parliament and spokeswoman for human rights for Germany’s Left Party.
→ read full articleElites Want More Refugees: Why?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Refugees are just one symptom of a deeper crisis. Moreover, like other symptoms of this deeper crisis, the global elite is happy to use this symptom to keep us utterly preoccupied; after all, the immediacy of the refugee problem is all too demanding of our attention and our compassion.
→ read full articleThe US Military and the Myth That Humanity Is Predisposed to Violence
Maria Santelli – Common Dreams,
14 Sep 2015
There is a science of teaching soldiers to kill and it is called killology. It is the science of circumventing the conscience. In order to get an otherwise psychologically healthy individual to kill, US military training has been developed to bypass the conscience and have the act of killing – the act of firing one’s weapon with the intent to kill — become reflexive.
→ read full articleEquality in the USA: More Work to Be Done
Wim Laven, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Even though we are in the year 2015, equality is still not something many have in the U.S. We can help rediscover the dream and the passion for equality by staying vigilant and understanding that there is still work to be done to create a better system and a better society.
→ read full articleThe Sympathetic Skeptic: Luis Cabrera’s Interview with Richard Falk On Behalf Of the World Government Research Network
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
12 Sep 2015 – The following interview was conducted by Professor Luis Cabrera, a political theorist on the faculty of Griffith University in Brisbane Australia. Cabrera has written notable books on themes of world government and global integration.
→ read full articleThe Continuing Tragedy in Budapest
Diana Love – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
8 Sep 2015 – Last week, I was in Budapest, Hungary, mostly for vacation and a little for work. I went to Keleti Palaudvar, the train station in Budapest where thousands of refugees were temporarily settled, making it ground zero for international coverage of the crisis.
→ read full articleGaza Could Become Uninhabitable in Less Than Five Years Due to Ongoing ‘De-Development’– UN Report
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
1 Sep 2015 – A new report by UNCTAD warns that the Gaza Strip could become “uninhabitable” by 2020 if current economic trends persist. In addition to eight years of economic blockade, over the past six years, Gaza has endured three military operations that have shattered its ability to export and produce for the domestic market, ravaged its already debilitated infrastructure, and left no time for reconstruction and economic recovery.
→ read full articleChildren of the Occupation
Gideon Levy – Middle East Eye,
7 Sep 2015
A video tells the world how a 12-year-old child incredibly escapes the clutch of an Israeli soldier. Hundreds more are far less fortunate, to the point of death.
→ read full articleBruce Lee on the Power of Repose and the Strength of Yielding
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Nothing in the world is more yielding and softer than water; yet it penetrates the hardest. Insubstantial, it enters where no room is. It is so fine that it is impossible to grasp a handful of it; strike it, yet it does not suffer hurt; stab it, and it is not wounded. Be the water.
→ read full article(Português) Por que a prova do laço não voltou para Barretos – ainda bem!
Elizabeth Mac Gregor - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
7 Sep 2015
A liminar considerou a tentativa de Barretos de voltar a permitir as provas de laço como um “inaceitável retrocesso”, já que própria constituição estadual de São Paulo preza pela proteção dos animais contra práticas que os submetam à crueldade. “O caminho perseguido pela sociedade é sempre o do progresso, não o do retorno à barbárie”.
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi Israël est un Etat raciste
Mohammed Bentoumi, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
La Convention internationale sur l’élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination raciale remonte à 1965. Dans les faits cependant, le racisme est toujours vivant.
→ read full article(Français) Le sort des réfugiés démasque l’hypocrisie des guerres “humanitaires”
Bassem Khouzam, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
3 septembre 2015 – Après avoir découvert la vidéo de réfugiés molestés par la police macédonienne fin août, un Syrien nous témoigne sa colère. Pour des raisons soi-disant humanitaires, la Syrie a été plongée dans le chaos. Mais lorsqu’il s’agit de gérer les conséquences de cette désastreuse entreprise, l’Europe manque à l’appel humanitaire.
→ read full articleAppeal to UK to Talk with Syrian Government and Islamic Militants to Help Solve Middle East Refugee Crisis
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire calls upon the UK government to move from military proposals, such as bombing Syria, to humanitarian solutions in tackling the refugee crisis, one of the greatest tragedies and human suffering facing Europe since the WWII.
→ read full articleUS/NATO Embrace Psy-ops and Info-War
Don North – Consortium News,
7 Sep 2015
2 Sep 2015 – The U.S. government and NATO have entered the Brave New World of “strategic communications,” merging psy-ops, propaganda and P.R. in order to manage the perceptions of Americans and the world’s public, reports veteran war correspondent Don North.
→ read full articleAs Yemen Assault Continues, US Announces Billion-Dollar Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia
Niles Williamson, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
While the deal is ostensibly aimed at easing Saudi concerns over the US-Iran nuclear deal, it also facilitates the escalation of the Saudi monarchy’s bloody assault on Yemen.
→ read full articleWhy Does the Algerian Regime Fear Rachad?
Lakhdar Ghettas – Open Democracy,
7 Sep 2015
In light of propaganda against the movement, media censorship, book banning and bogus Interpol arrest warrants against its founders, the regime clearly sees it as a threat. But why?
→ read full articleThe Face of a Boy
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
The Israel that presents itself to the world now is a state of occupiers, of oppressors, of brutal colonizers, of soldiers armed to the teeth who arrest people in the middle of the night and persecute them during the day. This face changes the perception of Israel throughout the world. The terrified face of young Muhammad Tamimi may well haunt us for a long time to come.
→ read full articleThe Arab Countries Are Slowly Taking the Path towards Democracy
Joël Frei interviews Prof. Abbas Aroua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
The director of the Cordoba Foundation of Geneva and strong advocate for peace, Abbas Aroua, on the quest for fairness and balance in the Islamic tradition, the need for a secular space in the Arab countries and non-violence as the only effective way towards lasting peace.
→ read full articleInternational Community as God or Sorcerer’s Apprentice?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Are there insights to be gained from the current challenges of governance? Most evident are the refugee crisis, financial instability (and rumours of worse to come), climate change, regional conflict, and resource constraints. In this context it is strange to see the progressive marginalization of the United Nations.
→ read full articleBlack September Reflections
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow? — Kahlil Gibran
→ read full articleMissing from Reports of Yemeni Carnage: Washington’s Responsibility
Jim Naureckas – Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting,
7 Sep 2015
Washington’s role in facilitating deaths unmentioned by mainstream media.
→ read full articleColombia’s Killing Fields: Peace Is War
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Colombia has received more US military aid–over $6 billion dollars in the past decade—than any country in the Western Hemisphere. For its part, Colombia allowed the Pentagon to build seven military bases, more than all the other countries in the region combined.
→ read full articleEl Salvador’s Gangs Have Something to Say
Magally Zelaya – Al Jazeera,
7 Sep 2015
1 Sep 2015 – The time has come for El Salvador’s government to do something it has never done before: openly engage in dialogue with the gangs that are tormenting the country. Talking to the gangs may not be the politically popular thing to do, but it will take the steam out of this two-decades-long conflict.
→ read full articleRedefining Youth as Peacebuilders – #youth4peace
Peace Is Sexy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Perhaps one of the greatest achievements of the Global Forum on Youth, Peace and Security was to bring together not only youth and policy makers, but also youth from around the world who might not otherwise have the chance to exchange and learn from colleagues.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Sep 7-13 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.” – Rabindranath Tagore
→ read full articleTwo More European Countries Ban Monsanto’s GMO Crops
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Lativia and Greece have chosen the “opt-out” clause of a European Union rule passed in March. Scotland and Germany made headlines in recent weeks for seeking a similar ban on GMOs.
→ read full articleHumankind Has Halved the Number of Trees on the Planet
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
7 Sep 2015
Trees ‘store huge amounts of carbon, are essential for the cycling of nutrients, for water and air quality, and for countless human services’.
→ read full articleThe G20 Summit: A Spectacle of Political Bankruptcy
Nick Beams, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
7 Sep 2015 – The meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bankers held in Ankara, Turkey over the weekend underscored the inability of the major capitalist powers to initiate any measures to halt the recessionary forces overtaking the world economy.
→ read full articleJapan: Continuing Protests against Abe Government’s Security Bills
Ben McGrath, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
The bills will formalise Abe’s “constitutional reinterpretation” last year to permit so-called collective self-defence—that is, Japan’s military involvement in US wars of aggression. Further anti-war protests took place last weekend, including in Tokyo’s Shinjuku shopping district on Sunday, as well as the cities of Sendai, Osaka and Fukuoka.
→ read full articleNuclear War Theme Parks: Mass Destruction for the Whole Family
John LaForge, Peace Voice – Transcend Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Hoping perhaps to show that the bomb from hell can be transformed from a vengeful, self-destructive, nightmare demon, into a benign, peace-loving, fairy-tale prince, nuclear propagandists and their friends in Congress are establishing nuclear war theme parks — without the taint of mass destruction — at former bomb factories and nuclear weapons launch pads all across the country.
→ read full articleEconomist Editorial Gets Economic With the Facts
Bongani Mbindwane - The BRICS Post,
7 Sep 2015
The policies endorsed by The Economist have only led to more chaos and severe global instability, argues Bongani Mbindwane.
→ read full articleSeptember: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
7 Sep 2015
September 4, 1978 – War Resisters League (WRL) members and their supporters demonstrated against nuclear weapons and civilian nuclear power plants simultaneously in Red Square near the Kremlin in Moscow and on the White House front lawn in Washington, DC.
→ read full articleDisposable People: Obama, the TPP, and the Betrayal of Human Rights
Jim Miller – San Diego Free Press,
7 Sep 2015
The Obama administration outraged human rights advocates on Monday [31Aug] by removing Malaysia from its list of the world’s worst human trafficking offenders simply to boost the president’s TPP trade agenda. “The Administration has turned its back on the victims of trafficking,” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said.
→ read full articleExplaining the Appeal of the Song ‘Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika’ Across Africa and Beyond
Lova Rakotomalala – Global Voices,
7 Sep 2015
“Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” (“Lord Bless Africa” in Xhosa) is the national anthem of Tanzania and, since 1994, it is also a portion of the national anthem of South Africa. Yet its universal appeal across the African continent goes beyond its familiar tune at international events.
→ read full articleBrazilian Wasp Venom Kills Cancer Cells but Not Healthy Cells
Caroline Reid – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Wasps get their fair share of bad press. They have painful stingers, and they’re not as useful (or cute) to us as bees. However, their venom has been shown to attack cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone.
→ read full articleToward Constructive, Peaceful, Globalizing Countries
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
A Rhymed Reflection
→ read full articleThrowing Babies on Bonfires
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Throwing babies on bonfires
doesn’t make sense to me.
I can’t imagine that they burn well,
so what’s the point?
By Accident
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
A car skidded on wet pavement and struck a light pole.
→ read full articleThe Refugee Crisis That Isn’t
Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
European leaders may differ about how to respond to the asylum-seekers and migrants surging their way, but they seem to agree they face a crisis of enormous proportions. But before we get carried away by such apocalyptic rhetoric, we should recognize that if there is a crisis, it is one of politics, not capacity.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Der „unsichtbare“ Krieg gegen den IS – Ein Blick auf die Folgen
Michael Haid - Informationsstelle Militarisierung,
7 Sep 2015
25. August 2015 – Der Krieg aus der Luft mit Kampfflugzeugen, Hubschraubern, Marschflugkörpern oder Drohnen für Angriffe auf Einzelpersonen oder Personengruppen sowie als Kampfunterstützung für am Boden eingesetzte eigene Einheiten oder für verbündete Kriegsparteien scheint in den vergangenen Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen zu haben.
→ read full articleTwenty-six Things about the Islamic State (ISIL) that Obama Does Not Want You to Know About
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
7 Sep 2015
The US led war against the Islamic State is a big lie. Going after”Islamic terrorists” is used to justify a military agenda. The Islamic State is a creation of US intelligence. Washington’s “Counter-terrorism Agenda” in Iraq & Syria consists in supporting the Terrorists.
→ read full articleWe Do Not Deserve You
Mosab Mostafa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
He didn’t sink.
He is asleep dreaming about his toys and picnics
He is now calm since he no longer hears
The anguished cries of his parents and siblings
Ecuador Victims Can Seek Compensation from Chevron, Canada Supreme Court Rules
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
The Supreme Court determined that Canada is an appropriate jurisdiction and victims of contamination can seek compensation from the oil company.
→ read full articleEU Migration and Refugee Crisis: in Graphics
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
3 Sep 2015 – Asylum applications in Europe have surged this year – with numbers for Germany and Hungary already exceeding their totals for 2014. Altogether, 438,000 refugees had applied for asylum by the end of July – compared with 571,000 for the whole of last year.
→ read full articleCheering German Crowds Greet Refugees after Long Trek from Budapest to Munich
Emma Graham-Harrison, Patrick Kingsley and Tracy McVeigh – The Guardian,
7 Sep 2015
As Europe’s politicians continue to bicker, desperate travellers are welcomed and fed as they arrive at German city.
→ read full articleCultural Imperialism and Perception Management: How Hollywood Hides US War Crimes
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Strategic Culture Foundation,
7 Sep 2015
There is an unspoken, yet very clear, bond between Hollywood and the US government that overtly supports US foreign policy. The movie industry in Hollywood has been active in hiding US war crimes and sanitizing the US military campaigns.
→ read full articleDr. Palmer, Why Did You Kill Cecil?
Tony Keller – The Globe and Mail,
7 Sep 2015
It is seeking out something rare and beautiful and alive – and killing it. It is searching for this beautiful thing not for the joy of being awestruck at its existence, but to be able to say that you ended its life. It is the worst of the human impulses, which is in each of us: the impulse to destroy and to glory at the destruction we have wrought.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 7: The Global Food Crisis
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
There is a danger that just as global population reaches the unprecedented level of 9 billion or more, the agricultural base for supporting it may suddenly collapse. Ecological catastrophe, possibly compounded by war and other disorders, could produce famine and death on a scale unprecedented in history, a disaster of unimaginable proportions, involving billions rather than millions of people.
→ read full articleISIS Is America’s New Terror Brand: Endless Propaganda Fuels “War on Terror”
Prof. James F. Tracy - Global Research,
7 Sep 2015
In the wake of World War I, erstwhile propagandist and political scientist Harold Lasswell famously defined propaganda as “the management of collective attitudes” and the “control over opinion” through “the manipulation of significant symbols.” The extent to which this tradition is enthusiastically upheld in the West and the United States in particular is remarkable.
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God Only Knows (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The Beach Boys – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Paul McCartney once called God Only Knows “the greatest song ever written.”
→ read full articleThe Origins of Peace Research
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Johan Galtung, born 1930, refused to do military service in Norway. He was sentenced to six months in prison in winter 1954-55. While in prison, he completed his first book, “Gandhi’s Political Ethics”, together with his mentor, the philosopher Arne Naess.
→ read full articleSpeak the Truth!
James Albertini, Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
4 Million Muslims Killed In Western Wars: When Should We Call It Genocide? The U.S. is largely responsible for massive global migration taking place due to wars, climate catastrophe and economic injustice. The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini said, “Fascism is when the corporations and the state become one.” What do we call it when corporations supersede all state authority?
→ read full articleThere’s Nothing Collateral About a Toddler Washed Ashore
Patrick T. Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
The heartbreaking pictures of three-year-old Aylan Kurdhi symbolize everything that is wrong with war. It is a painful confrontation with what some might call the collateral damage of war. It is time to deconstruct some myths about war.
→ read full articleHanford Nuclear Weapons Site Whistle-blower Wins $4.1-Million Settlement
Ralph Vartabedian – Los Angeles Times,
7 Sep 2015
When Walter Tamosaitis warned in 2011 that the Energy Department’s plans for a waste treatment plant were unsafe, he was demoted. Tamosaitis had been leading a team of 100 scientists and engineers in designing a way to immobilize millions of gallons of highly toxic nuclear sludge as thick as peanut butter.
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The Power of Vulnerability
The RSA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Influential author and speaker Dr Brené Brown tackles the myth that vulnerability is a weakness. Instead, she argues, it is the clearest path to courage and meaningful connection, and has the power to transform the way we engage and educate.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Naasaki – Gorbachev’s Response (3)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Of course, Gorbachev is appreciated in the West mainly as having presided over a political process that led to the nonviolent ending of the Cold War, the peaceful liberation of Eastern Europe, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yet he was also perhaps the only head of an important sovereign state…
→ read full articlePlans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a “New Middle East”
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
7 Sep 2015
The term “New Middle East” was introduced to the world in June 2006 in Tel Aviv by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (who was credited by the Western media for coining the term) in replacement of the older and more imposing term, the “Greater Middle East.”
→ read full articleDenis De Rougemont (1906-1985): The Future Is Within Us
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
A French-speaking Swiss, after his studies of literature at the University of Geneva, at 25, he moved to Paris where he quickly became part of a group of young, unorthodox thinkers who were developing a “Personalist” philosophy.
→ read full articleThe Day After Is Here: What the Iran Deal Means for Israel
Shemuel Meir - +972 Magazine,
7 Sep 2015
There is one consequence of disarmament in Iran that might come back to haunt Israel: its own nuclear arsenal will be thrust into the spotlight as part of a renewed push for a nuclear-free Middle East.
→ read full articleThe Alleged Libido Pill for Women [Flibanserin (Addyi)]
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
The drug has been approved only for premenopausal women. The company will offer the drug in a 100 mg dose, to be swallowed once per night, no matter if sexual encounter is anticipated or not. This pill is not a female Viagra!
→ read full articleWorld Health Organization Verdict on Health Care in Gaza
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
28 Aug 2015 – The 67th World Health Assembly requested WHO to report on the health conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The result is a unique portrait of occupied Palestine told through the eyes of health-care – precarious, poverty-stricken and horribly damaged by Israel’s blockade.
→ read full articleTo Go Wide or Deep – Women’s Peace Work
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
A group of women – Women Wage Peace, set up after the carnage of Operation Protective Edge – began a fast near the PM’s home on the anniversary of the Operation and maintained it in shifts for 50 days. They were not the usual suspects – which may explain the lack of media coverage – and one participant raises the perennial questions of how to build a political movement.
→ read full articleU.S. & Saudi Arabia War Crimes Keep Killing Yemenis
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
31 Aug 2015
30 Aug 2015 – Is There Anyone Who Believes That Yemeni Lives Matter? Saudi Arabia’s aggression against Yemen, the poorest country in the region, has been catastrophic for Yemen, which is all-but-defenseless. Backed by eight other Arab dictatorships and the US, they have committed uncounted war crimes and crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleBija Swaraj Not Bt Raj: The Future Is Organic, Not GMOs
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
31 Aug 2015 – Farmers, first of all, are breeders. They might not have the lab coats that have come to define modern plant breeding, but their wisdom, knowledge and contribution is unquestionable. To be able to continue breeding, using their own seed, is their first right, their first freedom and their first duty.
→ read full articlePesticides Killing Bees: Study Shows What ‘Everybody Suspected’
Coco McPherson – Rolling Stone,
31 Aug 2015
August 26, 2015 – It’s no secret that bees are in trouble. Last week, the results of a landmark British study tracking neonic use for over a decade showed a direct correlation between a class of these pesticides and bee colony losses.
→ read full articleCentral Banks Step In to Prop Up Global Financial Bubble
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
31 August 2015 – Once again, the world’s central banks and governments have made clear that they will do whatever it takes to preserve the wealth of the financial elite.
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