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Encyclical Letter ‘Laudato Si’ of the Holy Father Francis on Care for Our Common Home
The Vatican – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
It is my hope that this Encyclical Letter, which is now added to the body of the Church’s social teaching, can help us to acknowledge the appeal, immensity and urgency of the challenge we face. Given in Rome at Saint Peter’s on 24 May, the Solemnity of Pentecost, in the year 2015, the third of my Pontificate. — Franciscus
→ read full articleVeterans Urge Drone Operators to Refuse Orders to Fly
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
17 Jun 2015 – Letter Reinforces Call Made in National TV Ad Campaign – An increasing number of United States military veterans are counseling United States military drone operators to refuse to fly drone surveillance/attack missions – the veterans are even helping sponsor prime time television commercials urging drone operators to “refuse to fly.”
→ read full articleShould Nuclear Devices Be Used to Stop Asteroids?
Seth Baum – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
22 Jun 2015
Given that asteroids and comets pose a significant risk of a low-probability extreme catastrophe, and given that the alternative means of deflecting them do not work as well, an anti-NEOs (near-Earth objects) nuclear stockpile merits serious consideration.
→ read full articleChina Rising – Have Grandmaster, Will Travel
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
22 Jun 2015
“The US cannot stop China’s rise. It just has to live with a bigger China, which will be completely novel for the US, as no country has ever been big enough to challenge its position. China will be able to do so in 20 to 30 years.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
June 22-28 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” – Lonardo da Vinci
→ read full articleAlexander Scriabin (7 Jan 1872 – 27 Apr 1915): Ecstasy and Light
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
27 April 2015 marked the 100th anniversary of the death of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin who believed that music had the power to elevate the consciousness of people and therefore to transform social conditions. Scriabin is often described as a “mystic”, but there is no direct evidence that he personally had mystic experiences.
→ read full articleIn Imitation of Christ: Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Climate Change
Celia Deane-Drummond – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
22 Jun 2015
Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples
→ read full articleYoga: A Practical Skill in Peace Education for Nonviolence
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
22 Jun 2015
21 Jun 2015 UN International Day of Yoga – At the beginning of the ‘UN International Year of Yoga,’ let all people of the world be aware of the five elements within them and grow integrally through perpetual practice of skill of yoga for sustainable nonviolence.
→ read full articleNew Hope for Avoiding Catastrophic Climate Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Because of the astonishing properties of exponential growth, we can calculate that if these growth rates are maintained, renewable energy can give us 24.8 terawatts within only 15 years! This is far more than the world’s present use of all forms of energy. All of us must work with dedication to provide the political will needed to avoid catastrophic climate change. The strong and friendly voice of Pope Francis can give us hope and courage.
→ read full articlePope Francis’ Encyclical Urges Swift Action on Climate Change Ahead of Paris Climate Talks
Anastasia Pantsios, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
18 Jun 2015 – Today in Rome, Pope Francis released his long-anticipated encyclical on climate change, fueling precisely the international conversation the Pope hoped to drive. The widespread media coverage of the 180-plus page document, Laudato Si, or Praised Be to You, has undoubtedly increased public awareness of environmental issues dramatically.
→ read full articleWhite Phosphorous War Crimes Connect Israel to Monsanto
Kit O'Connell – MintPress News,
22 Jun 2015
16 Jun 2015 — Monsanto Corporation, the agribusiness giant best known for its pesticides and genetically-modified crops, also manufactured white phosphorous for the U.S. government over at least the past 20 years. Used in incendiary military weapons, the United States sold white phosphorous-based weapons to Israel, which used those weapons to commit brutal war crimes against Palestinians living in Gaza in 2009.
→ read full articleUkraine and the Apocalyptic Risk of Propagandized Ignorance
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
‘Ukraine: Zbig’s Grand Chessboard and How the West Was Checkmated’ – This book may very well be the best written one I’ve read this year. It puts all the relevant facts — those I knew and many I didn’t — together concisely and with perfect organization. It does it with an informed worldview. It leaves me nothing to complain about at all, which is almost unheard of in my book reviews.
→ read full articlePapal Concern for Climate Change and Refugee Care
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
A Means of Concealing Criminal Systemic Negligence? Produced on World Refugee Day — on the occasion of publication of reports on the world refugee crisis and an Environment Encyclical by Pope Francis.
→ read full articleThe Fallen of World War II
Neil Halloran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
Jaw-Dropping Visualization Will Give You New Respect for the Sheer Number Who Died in WWII – An animated data-driven documentary about war and peace, “The Fallen of World War II” looks at the human cost of the Second World War and sizes up the numbers to other wars in history, including trends in recent conflicts.
→ read full articleWhat You Should Know about the MERS Outbreak
Maggie Fox – NBC News,
15 Jun 2015
What Is MERS? And Other Questions about the Outbreak
→ read full articleU.S. House Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
15 Jun 2015
The U.S. House of Representatives has admitted an ugly truth that the U.S. mainstream media has tried to hide from the American people – that the post-coup regime in Ukraine has relied heavily on Nazi storm troopers to carry out its bloody war against ethnic Russians.
→ read full articleOn Balance and the Necessary Excesses of Life
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
On Being Too Much for Ourselves – “There are situations in which it is more dangerous to keep your balance than to lose it.”
→ read full articleAn Immodest Wish
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
A wealthy maharajah was so delighted with the game of chess that he offered the inventor of the game anything in his realm that he might wish.
→ read full articleCoca-Cola Slowly Deprives 30,000 People of Water in El Salvador
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
The main and only source of water for thousands of Salvadorans is in peril.
→ read full articleDuality
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
There are 10 kinds of people in this world:
→ read full articleKeeping Quiet
Pablo Neruda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
Pregnancy at Slaughter: What Happens to the Calves?
Stephanie Ernst, All Creatures – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
What happens when a cow is pregnant at the time of slaughter? I almost wish I didn’t know. From the calves experiencing their mother’s death from inside her, while they too suffer or die their own terrible death, to live calves being cut from their dead mother’s womb, so that their blood can be drained for science while they’re still alive–it’s all horrific, and none of it is ever talked about, even though it’s a part of the dairy and beef industries and a part of how people get their “finest” leather.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Farla franca con l’omicidio”
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
È il titolo della (come al solito) brillante analisi di Susan George sulla situazione bancaria dopo il collasso bancario USA dell’ 11 settembre 2001 e il crollo del 2008.
→ read full articleUnderage ‘Enemies’ of the US: Omar Khadr and the Juveniles of Guantánamo
Jenifer Fenton – Al Jazeera America,
15 Jun 2015
Jun 7, 2015 – “I have memories, but I don’t know if they’re mine, if they are accurate or not,” said Omar Khadr recently, recalling the events for which he was convicted by a U.S. military tribunal. Khadr, a Canadian citizen, spent almost nine years at Guantánamo Bay after being captured in Afghanistan at age 15.
→ read full articleThe US Government’s Not-So-Secret Support for Al Qaeda and ISIS
Dan Sanchez, Antiwar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
The Biggest State Sponsor of Terrorism of Them All – The general US policy of allying with the Gulf states (especially the Saudis) and Turkey in supporting radical Sunni insurgents to counter the “Shia expansion” was reported by Seymour Hersh back in 2007.
→ read full articleIssuance of Vatican Passports to Trans-Mediterranean Immigrants
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
A Modest Proposal Worthy of the 21st Century?- Produced on the occasion of announcement of the forthcoming Papal Encyclical ‘Laudato Sii’ (Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set to transform climate change debate, The Observer, 13 June 2015).
→ read full article(Français) Les Nouvelles Générations Militantes Africaines – Espoirs et Vigilances
Saïd Bouamama, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
12 juin 2015 – La jeunesse africaine est de nouveau confrontée à la découverte de sa « mission », pour reprendre l’expression de Frantz Fanon. De manière significative en Egypte, en Tunisie ou au Burkina Faso, les vastes mobilisations de la jeunesse ont été accompagnées d’une redécouverte des grandes figures des indépendances (Nasser, Sankara, N’Krumah, etc.).
→ read full articleSave Our Stones – Jihad and Vandalism
The Economist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
As well as killing people, Islamic State is smashing up ancient works of art. Only a little can be done to prevent its acts of barbarism. The scale is unprecedented. Four of Syria’s six world heritage sites lie in ruins.
→ read full articleBathed in Blood – Evicted and Abandoned in Honduras
Sasha Chavkin - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
15 Jun 2015
World Bank’s Business-Lending Arm Backed Palm Oil Producer amid Deadly Land War
→ read full articleIs the Middle East America’s to Lose?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
I was appalled by the embedded colonialism of a recent issue of The Economist [June 6-12, 2015], “Losing the Middle East.” Any doubt about the intent of the magazine is removed by displaying a bedraggled American flag on the cover accompanied by the sub-title “Why American must not abandon the region.”
→ read full articleWhy Are Threats to Civil Society Growing around the World?
Mandeep S.Tiwana, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
“It is increasingly evident that the dangers to civic freedoms come not just from state apparatuses but also from powerful non-state actors including influential business entities and extremist groups subscribing to fundamentalist ideologies”
→ read full articleNet Neutrality Rules Go into Effect
Mario Trujillo and David McCabe, The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
The new federal rules for net neutrality were allowed to take effect on Friday [12 Jun 2015] after the U.S. Court of Appeals denied a motion to stay the regulation. The ruling is not on the final merits of the challenge, but it hands an early victory to net neutrality advocates.
→ read full articleThe Losing War against Ungoverned Spaces
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Nathaniel Barr, Pragati – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
From whatever angle one analyses the war against ungoverned spaces, Western countries and their allies are losing. The truly remarkable thing is how quickly the situation in the Middle East and North Africa was transformed from optimism —at the start of the Arab Spring—to one where the spread of ungoverned space, and indeed jihadism writ large, appears inexorable.
→ read full articleEvolution to Peace through the Penance of Speech: Gandhi in Speech and Silence
P.K. Willey, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
Communications have become global in a sense that was unimaginable 30 years ago. Along with this, the ethical use of speech appears to have become buried in the snowstorm of social licenses, given to us by an increasing socialized acceptance of the abuse of speech. What is the ethical use of speech?
→ read full articleLogistics 101: Where Do ISIS Get Their Guns?
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
ISIS’ supply lines run precisely where Syrian and Iraqi air power cannot go. To the north and into NATO-member Turkey, and to the southwest into US allies Jordan and Saudi Arabia. If an army marches on its stomach, and ISIS’ stomachs are full of NATO and Persian Gulf State supplies, ISIS will continue to march long and hard.
→ read full articleA Practical Vision of a More Equal Society
Thomas Piketty – The New York Review of Books,
15 Jun 2015
Anthony Atkinson occupies a unique place among economists. During the past half-century, in defiance of prevailing trends, he managed to place the question of inequality at the center of his work while demonstrating that economics is first and foremost a social and moral science. In his new book, Inequality: What Can Be Done?—more personal than his previous ones and wholly focused on a plan of action—he provides us with the broad outlines of a new radical reformism.
→ read full articleGreece – A Sad Story of the [Germany-led] European Establishment
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
The latest development in the tug of war which has been going on between Greece and a German-dominated Europe is the desire to punish an anti-establishment figure like Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and show that the radical left cannot run a country.
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Why Are We Being Fed by [Monsanto] a Poison Expert?
The Undercurrent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
Jun 5, 2015 – Is the ‘old’ Monsanto, the one responsible for producing Agent Orange, PCB’s and DDT and a terrible record at covering up and denying the tragedies that have resulted from their use, the same as the ‘new’ Monsanto, the one at the forefront of research in plant gene technology?
→ read full articleBDS, the New Enemy
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
13 Jun 2015 – Binyamin Netanyahu was racking his brain. His whole career is based on fear mongering. Since Jews have lived in fear for millennia, it is easy to invoke it. They are addicts.
→ read full articleThe Rohingyas: The Most Persecuted People on Earth?
The Economist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
Myanmar’s Muslim minority have been attacked with impunity, stripped of the vote and driven from their homes. It could get worse.
→ read full articleKalief Browder, Albert Woodfox and the Torture of Solitary Confinement
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
15 Jun 2015
There are an estimated 80,000-100,000 prisoners held in some form of solitary confinement in the United States. The United Nations says the practice often amounts to torture. It is cruel and unusual punishment, and must be abolished, once and for all.
→ read full articleIs Stratospheric Geoengineering Worth the Risk?
Seth Baum – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
15 Jun 2015
There is at least one way that stratospheric geoengineering could be even more dangerous than regular global warming.
→ read full articleGermany Is Bluffing on Greece
Mark Weisbrot – Al Jazeera America,
15 Jun 2015
Berlin is not going to force Athens out of the eurozone anytime soon. The people primarily responsible for Greece’s deep and prolonged depression and high unemployment are pushing policies that would extend the crisis and worsen its impact on those who have suffered the most.
→ read full articleExponential Growth
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
Looking at the long-term future, we can calculate that any quantity increasing at the modest rate of 3% per year will grow by a factor of 20.1 in a century. This implies that in four centuries, whatever is growing at 3% will have increased by a factor of 163,000. These facts make it completely clear that long-continued economic growth on a finite planet is a logical absurdity.
→ read full articleAnimals Get Legal Recognition as ‘Sentient’ Beings in New Zealand
Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
8 Jun 2015- New legislation in New Zealand dictates that animals can feel both positive and negative emotions, and takes steps to improve animal welfare in research.
→ read full article(Português) “Me custa entender como um padre pode ser antissocialista”, diz Frei Betto
Vinícius Mendes, Brasileiros – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
Religioso e escritor com mais de 60 livros escritos revela como Cuba planeja tratar sua reaproximação com os EUA e revela traços de seu amigo Fidel Castro.
→ read full articleHow Highly Sensitive People Interact with the World Differently
Lindsay Holmes - The Huffington Post,
15 Jun 2015
Those with an empathetic personality are actually biologically wired to behave the way that they do. As a result, they also have an entirely different approach to their physical environment — and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
→ read full articleElon Musk: ‘We’ve Dramatically Increased the Power Capability’ of the Tesla Powerwall
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
12 Jun 2015 – Its only been a month since Elon Musk unveiled a suite of batteries to help wean the world off fossil fuels. And now, the Tesla CEO is already upping the ante with the Powerwall, a home battery that charges using electricity generated from solar power.
→ read full articleFishing and Farming in Gaza Is a Deadly Business
Mel Frykberg, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
“Gaza fishermen have come under fire and been shot, injured and killed or had their boats destroyed or confiscated … Gazan farmers trying to access their agricultural fields … are also regularly shot and injured, and sometimes killed”
→ read full articleBP and the Armed Suppression of Dissent in Colombia: Big Oil’s Ethical Violence
Lara Montesinos Coleman - Le Monde Diplomatique,
15 Jun 2015
Legal cases such as this are vital: they aim to hold corporations to account and to contest systematic impunity. Hopefully the lawsuit will open the way to hundreds of other cases on behalf of community leaders, activists and trade unionists killed or ‘disappeared’.
→ read full articleTobacco Companies Ordered to Pay C$15.6 Billion to Quebec Smokers
Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
4 Jun 2015 – Over one million people in the Canadian province of Quebec will receive a total of C$15.6 billion ($12.5 billion) in damages for smoking related diseases from three of the biggest tobacco companies in the country. The settlement is the result of a 17-year long court battle.
→ read full articleExposing Lies, Telling the Truth
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
I have just read Andre Vltchek’s new book ‘Exposing Lies of the Empire’. I have one word to describe this book: Great. Superb. Excellent. Brilliant. [However,] Vltchek pays virtually no attention to the effectiveness of nonviolent strategy in resisting empire.
→ read full article(Português) Gravidez no Matadouro: O Horror da Indústria de Laticínios Revelado
Stephanie Ernst - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
15 Jun 2015
10 de junho de 2015 – O que acontece quando uma vaca prenhe é enviada a um matadouro? Eu quase desejaria não saber. De bezerros sentindo as mortes de suas mães, enquanto eles mesmos sofrem e sentem suas próprias mortes horríveis, até bebês vivos sendo arrancados dos úteros de suas mães para que seu sangue possa ser drenado para a ciência, é tudo horrível.
→ read full articleHawaii Enacts USA’s First 100% Renewable Energy Standard
Cole Mellino, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
11 Jun 2015 – Hawaii enacted a law this week, which mandates that all of the state’s electricity come from renewable sources no later than 2045. This renewable energy standard is being hailed as “the most aggressive clean energy goal in the country.”
→ read full articleLocal Engagement with Armed Groups in the Midst of Violence
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
As the Syrian conflict enters its fifth year, it is important not to lose sight of the significant roles played by unarmed, non-state actors to develop structures for promoting local security and peace and to adapt to the constantly changing demands of the conflict.
→ read full articleGerman Companies Stop Sales of “Roundup”
Eric Zuesse, Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
12 Jun 2015 – According to Swiss supermarkets, German companies have announced halting sales of Monsanto’s glyphosate herbicide. In 1971, Monsanto patented glyphosate. Today its glyphosate (“Roundup”) constitutes two billion US dollars in annual sales.
→ read full articleChina Syndrome
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
We should stop recycling the old “Yellow Peril” myth. The people most hostile to action on climate change are American and British, not Chinese. China is the world’s excuse for cruelty and barbarism. If we don’t behave atrociously, politicians and columnists assure us, China will, so we had better do it first, before we are outcompeted.
→ read full articleTun Dr Mahathir Mohamad Calls for Myanmar to Be Expelled from Asean
D. Kanyakumari – The Star,
15 Jun 2015
12 Jun 2015 – “It would be better for Myanmar to be excluded from Asean as genocide is unacceptable. Countries like this only give a bad name to us. So, if you want to commit genocide, leave Asean,” he said.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, with Great Narratives Unfolding
Johan Galtung, 15 Jun 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
The decline and fall of the US Empire’s grip on the world; of the West; of the state-system–with the rise of the TNC-IGO-NGO system, regions, nations, local authorities; the rise of the East and the South; of China–many details cross an editor’s desk; inspiring some rethinking.
→ read full articleHackers Point Out U.S. Arming, Funding ISIS
Kit Daniels, Infowars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
8 Jun 2015 – The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for hacking the U.S. Army’s website to show that both the Pentagon and the CIA are supporting ISIS to topple Assad.
→ read full articleFast-tracking TiSA: Stealth Block to Monetary Reform
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
Money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it. So wrote David Graeber referring to a paper called “Money Creation in the Modern Economy.” The paper stated outright that most common assumptions of how banking works are simply wrong. The result was to throw the entire theoretical basis for austerity out of the window.
→ read full articleTurkish Elections: It’s Not Just Erdoğan!
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
9 Jun 2015 – The Turkish general election on June 7th ended more or less as the polls predicted. Turkey has been put back on the shelf and yet relieved that the AKP was again supported by a significant plurality of Turkish citizens in an impressively free and fair electoral process.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
June 15-21 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso
→ read full article(Português) A Era das Grandes Transformações
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
A reflexão ecológica se complexificou. Não se pode reduzi-la apenas à preservação do meio ambiente. A totalidade do sistema mundo está em jogo. Vivemos na era das Grandes Transformações. Entre tantas, destaco apenas duas: a primeira no campo da economia e a segunda no campo da consciência.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons Labs Hit with Sizable Fines for New Security Violations
Patrick Malone – The Center for Public Integrity,
8 Jun 2015
Two Nuclear Weapons Labs Accidentally Spilled Bomb Secrets for Years – A classified material was missing for years before anyone noticed, and a lab official’s public slides included bomb design data.
→ read full article8 June: World Oceans Day
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
The ocean is the heart of our planet. Like your heart pumping blood to every part of your body, the ocean connects people across the Earth, no matter where we live. It regulates the climate, feeds millions of people, produces oxygen, is the home to an incredible array of wildlife, provides us with important medicines, and so much more!
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance
Edward J. Snowden – The New York Times,
8 Jun 2015
Two years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records of nearly every phone call in the United States.
→ read full articleUS Imperialism and the FIFA Corruption Investigation
Chris Marsden, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
On Wednesday [3 Jun], the FBI stated that its investigation now encompasses allegations of corruption, bribery, and vote-rigging related to FIFA awarding the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar. This is a political move against the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin and is conceived of as a vital propaganda adjunct of the ongoing US-led NATO encirclement of Russia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Un avvertimento contro l’argomentazione di Kaplan per cui “È tempo di riportare l’imperialismo in Medio Oriente”
Johan Galtung e Naakow Hayford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
Piuttosto li si aiuti a creare un califfato con le migliori qualità del suo predecessore ottomano: la tolleranza, i millet per le minoranze, addirittura la saldatura potenziale dello squarcio fra sunniti e sciiti. Si usi il peacekeeping militare per proteggere, difensivamente, le minoranze esposte e minacciate. Si negozi uno spazio per Israele. Ma non ci si perda in sterili rivalità di potere militari; già perse dagli USA.
→ read full articleNo Progress on Nuclear Weapons Control – As Planned
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Jun 2015
US Leadership Vetoes Steps toward Nuclear Weapons-Free World
→ read full articleThe Human Rights Issue a Nobel Laureate Doesn’t Want to Touch
Michael Sullivan, NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
2 Jun 2015 – It’s not often that the Dalai Lama calls out a fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate. But that’s what happened last week when he was asked about Aung San Suu Kyi, who has declined to speak out on the worsening plight of the Rohingya minority in her homeland of Myanmar.
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky: Buzzfeed and Vice Are ‘Distorting Free Media’ with Native Advertising
Mary-Ann Russon – International Business Times,
8 Jun 2015
“Commercial media are businesses. And a business produces something for a market. The producers are major corporations,” he said. “The market is other businesses – advertisers. Their product is readers (or viewers), so these are basically major corporations providing audiences to other businesses, and that significantly shapes the nature of the institution.”
→ read full articleFilm: Costa Rica Abolished Its Military, Never Regretted It
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
In 1948 Costa Rica abolished its military, something widely deemed impossible in the United States. This film documents how that was done and what the results have been. I don’t want to give away the ending but let me just say this: there has not been a hostile Muslim takeover of Costa Rica, the Costa Rican economy has not collapsed, and Costa Rican women still seem to find a certain attraction in Costa Rican men.
→ read full articleFIFA Scandals Are Worse Than Bribes
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
The Palestinian Soccer Association was persuaded by Blatter to drop its charges, with a renewal of previously empty pledges to ameliorate conditions confronting Palestinians coupled with a surely ironic plea to keep ‘politics’ from intruding on ‘the beautiful game.’ As if the humiliations and constraints imposed on the Palestinian teams were not political!
→ read full articleNuclear Fuel Cycle Cost Calculator
Robert Rosner, Jeremy Klavans and Sam Olofin – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
8 Jun 2015
Discussions of the future of nuclear power often focus on safety, proliferation, waste storage, and carbon emissions – accepting cost as a given. This tool breaks the cost of investing in nuclear power into its component parts and considers the price of three configurations of the ‘fuel cycle.’
→ read full articleExclusive: Two Years after Snowden Revelations, Glenn Greenwald Talks about Impacts on Surveillance State
Dana Sayre, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
2 Jun 2015 – In a recent interview with Occupy.com, journalist Glenn Greenwald said a lot has changed in the two years since he exposed secret NSA surveillance programs through whistleblower Edward Snowden, foremost the sense that “Internet companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo and Microsoft are really petrified that if they don’t demonstrate a commitment to their users’ privacy and eliminate this perception that they’ve been collaborating with the NSA, it’s going to destroy their future business prospects.”
→ read full articleU.S. Shoots Itself in the Foot by ‘Accidentally’ Arming ISIS
Eric Pianin - The Fiscal Times,
8 Jun 2015
• 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles @ $70,000 per copy. Total: $161 million.
• 40 M1A1 Abram tanks @ $4.3 million per copy. Total: $172 million.
• 52 M198 Howitzer mobile gun systems @ $527,337 per copy. Total: $27.4 million.
• 74,000 Army machine guns @ $4,000 per copy. Total: $296 million.
Costa Rica: A BOLD PEACE – Documentary
Matthew Eddy and Michael Dreiling - Soul Force Media,
8 Jun 2015
Over 60 years ago, Costa Rica became one of the only nations in the world to disband their military. ‘A Bold Peace’ juxtaposes the national policy of demilitarization with their investment in education, health, and the environment. Pointed parallels and contrasts are made with recent U.S. debates over the national debt, healthcare, the environment and the escalating cost of U.S. militarism.
→ read full articleThe Difficult but Necessary Road to Negotiations in Yemen
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
The continued aggression of Saudi Arabia against civilians in Yemen, and the use of cluster munitions (in violation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions), highlight the crucial links between human rights, arms control, and the resolution of conflicts through good faith negotiations.
→ read full articleJune: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
June 3, 1980 – President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski was awakened by his military assistant, General William Odom, around 2:30 a.m. and informed that NORAD’s computers had detected a launch of 2,200 Soviet ICBMs heading for U.S. targets. The incident was one of many so-called “false warnings.”
→ read full articleIsrael Signals It’s Ready to Destroy Hezbollah – Include Iran as a Twofer?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
Yet, with all of Israel’s swelling international legitimacy problems, the Zionist regime still occupying another country, Palestine, can sound its bugle, which having no valves or other political pitch-altering complications, blast-summons its agents in Washington and elsewhere to get busy and circle the wagons.
→ read full articleThe Era of the Great Transformations
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
We live in the Era of the Great Transformations. There are many, but I will mention just two: the first relating to the economy and the second to the realm conscience.
→ read full articleThe Rohingyas: UN and Bangladesh Making Them Easy Prey to Traffickers and Terrorists?
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
That the UN and the Government of Bangladesh have been making the Rohingyas easy prey to the traffickers and terrorist groups and further that the fleeing Rohingyas have turned into perpetrators of human rights violations on the indigenous Jumma peoples of Bangladesh have been consistently ignored and/or overlooked.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
June 8-14 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “My strength didn’t come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up every time I was knocked down.” – Unknown
→ read full articleBarcelona Election Puts Social Movements in Control of the City
Jerome Roos – TeleSur English,
8 Jun 2015
Barcelona has decided that for the next four years it will be governed not by a party, but by the legitimacy we built as a radical democratic movement.
→ read full articleCanada’s Truth and Reconciliation Report and the Crimes against the Native People
Carl Bronski, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
The century-and-a-half policy of forcibly removing aboriginal children from their families and communities and herding them into faraway schools run mainly by the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches, amounted, said the report, to nothing less than a “cultural genocide.” At the height of the program in 1931 there were 80 residential schools across the country with 15,000 captive native children.
→ read full articleObama’s Cuba Legacy May Run through Venezuela
Mark Weisbrot – Al Jazeera America,
8 Jun 2015
The Cubans made it clear to Obama that normalization of relations would be limited if Washington was unwilling to normalize relations with Venezuela. The president has taken steps to normalize relations with Caracas but faces resistance at home.
→ read full articleHow Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA
Tim Shorrock – The Nation,
8 Jun 2015
A new cybersecurity elite moves between government and private practice, taking state secrets with them.
→ read full articleAs Nobel Winners Gather to Speak Out About Rohingya, Where is Myanmar’s [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi?
Robin McDowell, Associated Press – Star Tribune,
8 Jun 2015
The meeting featured video statements from Nobel laureates Desmond Tutu, José Ramos-Horta and Mairead Maguire, and others like philanthropist George Soros, who escaped Nazi-occupied Hungary.
→ read full article(Português) Cuba: Uma Nação Altiva
Laurindo Lalo Leal Filho – Carta Maior,
8 Jun 2015
Cuba vinha recebendo em média 2,5 milhões de turistas por ano. No primeiro trimestre de 2015, já chegam a 1 milhão. No entanto, em uma visão impressionista, circulando alguns dias por Havana é possível perceber que a contaminação turística não tirou dos cubanos a altivez cunhada numa longa história de lutas em busca da soberania nacional.
→ read full articleWind Energy vs. Fossil Fuels: Hurdles and Hopes for a Renewable Future
Michael Walsh, Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
5 Jun 2015 – The colossal oil spill in Southern California last month spurred many to wonder why we have not abandoned fossil fuels for wind and other sources of renewable energy. The fossil fuel industry receives billions in taxpayer subsidies as the wind industry fights to take flight.
→ read full articlePost-Earthquake to Relief Fund: Roles of Aid Agency, Nation in Nepal
Professor Bishnu Pathak - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
About six-dozen nations-states assisted on humanitarian aids and supplies in post-quake survivors. Among them, military with sniffer dogs from 18 countries arrived soon in Nepal. Nepalese Government failed to assure and maintain disaster aid diplomacy. Aid agency’s lost hope shall only be regained if a new national Government is formed soon.
→ read full articleStatus of Palestine in 2015
Compiled by Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
– It has been 67 years since the occupation of 78% of Palestine in 1948.
– It has been 48 years since the occupation of the other 22% of Palestine (WB and Gaza) that started 1967.
Fighting to Save Nature and Culture
Bruce K. Gagnon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
The fact that the US ignores the voices of 80% of the Okinawan people and plunges ahead with devastating base expansion indicates the obvious colonial status of the island people.
→ read full articleThrust into Freedom
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
A husband and wife in the city of Medellin, Colombia, had a cow on a small plot of grass land in front of their house, and they barely subsisted by feeding some of her milk to their children and selling the rest.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Releases Documents Related to Controversial US Trade Pact
Sam Thielman in New York and Phillip Inman in London – The Guardian,
8 Jun 2015
WikiLeaks on Wednesday [3 Jun 2015] released 17 different documents related to the Trade in Services Agreement (Tisa), a controversial pact currently being hashed out between the US and 23 other countries — most of them in Europe and South America — day after organization put $100,000 bounty on documents from series of US trade treaties.
→ read full article
Assange on the Untold Story of the Grounding of Evo Morales’ Plane during Edward Snowden Manhunt
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
8 Jun 2015
During the U.S. hunt for Snowden, Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane was forced to land in Austria for 14 hours after Spain, France, Portugal and Italy closed their airspace under pressure from the United States over false rumors Snowden was on board. Assange gives the inside story on why that plane was targeted.
→ read full articleAlbert Einstein, Scientist and Pacifist
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our ways of thinking, and thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophes.”
“I don’t know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones.”
— Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
New Snowden Documents Reveal Secret Memos Expanding Spying
Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Charlie Savage, Henrik Moltke - ProPublica & The New York Times,
8 Jun 2015
The Obama administration has stepped up the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program on U.S. soil to search for signs of hacking.
→ read full articleImperium?
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
Our nation’s efforts, cruel and chronic,
to reign supreme and hegemonic