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(Italiano) Nel frattempo, sbocciano grandi narrative
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Il declino e la caduta: della presa dell’Impero USA sul mondo; dell’Occidente; del sistema statuale – con il sorgere del sistema delle transnazionali, delle organizzazioni governative internazionali, delle ONG, delle regioni, delle nazioni, delle autorità locali; il sorgere dell’Est e del Sud, della Cina – molti dettagli passano per il tavolo di un capo-redattore, ispirando qualche ripensamento.
→ read full article(Castellano) La era de las grandes trasformaciones
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Vivimos en la era de las Grandes Trasformaciones. Entre tantas, destaco apenas dos: la primera en el campo de la economía y la segunda en el campo de la conciencia.
→ read full articleMoment of Truth Nears for Nuclear Waste Time Bomb
Vera Eckert, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
• Scandinavians closest to putting waste underground
• Time needed to permission storage, start disposal
• Public need to be brought on board
US Senate Votes to Ban Use of Torture
Julian Hattem, The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
The Senate on Tuesday [16 Jun 2015] overwhelmingly voted to ban the U.S. from ever again subjecting prisoners to waterboarding, “rectal feeding” and other brutal interrogation practices widely condemned as torture.
→ read full articleEcuador Just Set the World Record for Reforestation!
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
19 May 2015 – More than 45,000 people came together last weekend and set the Guinness World Record for single-day reforestation efforts.
→ read full articleIsrael Blocks Visit of UN Human Rights Envoy
AFP, Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Israel has blocked a visit to the Palestinian territories by a UN rights envoy, an official said Monday [15 Jun 2015], just ahead of the publication of a United Nations report on last year’s Gaza war.
→ read full article(Português) 23 Plantas Geométricas de Arrepiar os Fissurados em Simetria e Padrões
Diego Bravo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Os conhecimentos geométricos são muito usados por nós, seres humanos. O que nem sempre nos damos conta é que padrões, simetria e formas de todos os tipos não precisaram ser inventadas, pois fazem parte da natureza. A lista abaixo mostra 23 plantas que parecem obedecer algum tipo de fórmula matemática.
→ read full articleIsrael Govt. Report: BDS Can Devastate Economy
Alternative Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
An Israeli government report about the possible effects of BDS on the economy outlines devastating harm. No wonder Israel attempted to hide the report.
→ read full articleThe Ultimate Guide to Middle East
Sufyan bin Uzayr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Let us make it clear that “Middle East” is a term invented by the West, and is thus a product of Eurocentric definitions of geography and history. West Asia is a better term, but for the sake of clarity, and also because Middle East is more common, I will stick to that in this essay.
→ read full articleThat Which Is Right vs. the Political Right
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
I think that in trying to overcome the present crisis (if that is possible) two factors must be seriously considered, otherwise we risk losing everything that we hope for: the collapse of the capitalist order and the limits of the Earth that cannot be exceeded.
→ read full articleUSA: The Nightmare Years
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
I don’t recall hearing any of my teachers talk about American-style fascism, and none of them led me to doubt the validity of the anti-democratic, pro-fascist and very unethical Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, Laissez Faire capitalism, the Dred Scott decision, or any of the wartime atrocities that were so commonly perpetrated by American troops in any of its wars.
→ read full articleAfter Three Years, the Injustice Handed Out to Julian Assange Must End
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Julian Assange is a refugee under international law and he should be given right of passage to Ecuador. The nonsense about him “jumping bail” is just that – nonsense. If his extradition case went through the British courts today, the European Arrest Warrant would be thrown out and he would be a free man.
→ read full articleGive Dignity Back to the Rohingya
Farish A. Noor - The Straits Times,
22 Jun 2015
They are not “homeless”. They are not “boat people”. They are a people with a culture, a history and a homeland, forced out of their abode by politics.
→ read full articleThe Americas, First Region to Have Convention on Protecting Human Rights of Older Persons
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
The member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) on 15 June 2015 today approved the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons during the General Assembly of the institution, which was immediately signed by the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay at OAS headquarters in Washington DC.
→ read full articleSoil, Papered Over
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
The rhetoric for taking over food systems and seed supply is always based on ‘improved seed’. But industrial seeds are only ‘improved’ in the context of higher dependence on chemicals, and more control by corporations.
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Mysterium (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Alexander Scriabin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Ecstasy and Light – A homage to the awesomely megalomaniac and genius Russian composer Alexander Scriabin [7 Jan 1872 – 27 Apr 1915] who started out as a romantic and ended as a unique trailblazing impressionistic maverick intending to destroy the universe with his music and create a new one… and whose plan was cut short by his epically unspectacular death from septicemia.
→ read full articleIsratin or Palestrael?
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
There was this guy who had an earth-shaking invention: an airplane that flies on water. No more gas. No more pollution. No more astronomical prices. Just fill it up with water, and it will fly to the end of the world. “Wonderful!” people cried out. “Show us the plans!”
→ read full articleA Humanitarian Tragedy Imposed on Greece
Lode Vanoost, The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
The austerity program imposed on Greek society is a humanitarian tragedy. Greece has lost more than 25 per cent of its GDP over the last five years. This is without historical precedent. Even the Great Depression more than 85 years ago was not this bad.
→ read full articleForgot
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
A weed scientist goes into a shop.
→ read full articleEncyclical 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 articleOIC to Apprise UN Chief of Serious Concern over Rohingya Muslims Persecution
The Nation (Pakistan) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
17 Jun 2015 – A meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), held at UN headquarters in New York on Monday [15 Jun 2015], decided to form a delegation to apprise UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of the 57-member body’s serious concern over the continued persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and to underscore the need for step towards restoring their human rights.
→ 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 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 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 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 articleDuality
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
There are 10 kinds of people in this world:
→ 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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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 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.
→ 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
June: 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.”
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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.
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