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Ex-U.N. Official John Dugard: Israel’s Crimes Are “Infinitely Worse” Than in Apartheid South Africa
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
11 May 2015
6 May 2015 – As Palestine joins the International Criminal Court, former U.N. Special Rapporteur John Dugard talks about how an apartheid case could be brought against Israel in the ICC. “I’m a South African who lived through apartheid,” Dugard said. “I have no hesitation in saying that Israel’s crimes are infinitely worse than those committed by the apartheid regime of South Africa.”
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Finally Brings Back Its Submission System for Your Secrets
Andy Greenberg, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
It’s taken close to half a decade. But WikiLeaks is back in the business of accepting truly anonymous leaks.
→ read full articleIt Is Time to Call Radio “Liberty” What It Is: Radio Gestapo Amerika
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
6 May 2015 – Radio “Liberty” has always been a propaganda ministry. Formerly its propaganda was directed against the Soviet Union. Today it is directed against distinguished Americans who are known and respected for their allegiance to the truth. It has declared America’s most distinguished Russian scholar, Stephen Cohen, to be “a Putin apologist.” He is a professor of Russian studies at both Princeton University and New York University and was advisor to President George Herbert Walker Bush. Mikhail Gorbachev also trusted Cohen, and little doubt that Cohen helped to bring about the end of the Cold War.
→ read full articleContaining Fukushima Is “Beyond Current Technology”. Worldwide Radiation is the Unspoken Consequence
Washington's Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
“The Chief of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Has Admitted That the Technology Needed to Decommission Three Melted-Down Reactors Does Not Exist, and He Has No Idea How It Will Be Developed”
→ read full articleProtective Edge Assault: IDF Soldiers’ Testimony from Gaza
Breaking the Silence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
4 May 2015 – To increase public accessibility to the information we gather, we have developed this Internet database, which allows for keyword searches of testimonies from our archives. The database contains all testimonies that have been verified by our researchers to date, and it continues to be updated daily.
→ read full articleWhite on White Violence [SATIRE]
Chris Hayes, MSNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Chris Hayes Spoofs White Power Structure Has No Clue How to Stop Culture of White on White Violence
→ read full articleThe Semantics of Struggle
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
What is not helpful, actually diversionary, is to respond as if the struggle was between good and evil, and that is what happens as soon as the insurgent challenger is labeled ‘a terrorist.’ Such language exempts the defenders of the status quo from self-criticism and considering accommodationist tactics, proscribing negotiation and assessment of grievances.
→ read full articleThe American Dream: Living to 18
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
11 May 2015
“What do you hope to accomplish with this protest,” I asked a 13-year-old girl marching in Staten Island, N.Y. “To live until I’m 18,” the young teen, named Aniya, replied. “You want to get older. You want to experience life. You don’t want to die in a matter of seconds because of cops.” It’s that sentiment that has fueled the Black Lives Matter movement across the country.
→ read full articleDid Tesla Just Kill Nuclear Power?
Jeff McMahon - Forbes,
11 May 2015
Thursday [30 Apr 2015] night, the famed nuclear critic Arnie Gundersen had the inside scoop: Tesla Motors announced an industrial-scale battery that would cost about 2¢ per kilowatt hour, putting the final nail in the coffin of nuclear power. Solar power costs six to seven cents, he said, and wind costs four or five cents. Add 2¢ for the cost of a utility-scale Tesla battery, and renewables with reliable storage are still at half the price of new nuclear power.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il discorso del primo ministro giapponese Abe al Congress USA – e commenti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Seguono 18 punti selezionati del discorso di Abe nella seduta parlamentare congiunta USA del 30 aprile 2015, “Verso un’alleanza di speranza”, con relativi commenti.
→ read full articleThe West and Its Self-Assumed Right to Intervene
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The ‘West’ is a concept that flourished during the Cold War. Then it was West against East in the form of the Soviet empire. The East was evil against which all democratic countries – read West – were called on to fight. Led by the United States, in the case of the Arab world, it has created situations that justify subsequent military interventions which have had a high cost in both human and financial terms.
→ read full articleWorldwide Nuclear Modernization Programs
Federation of American Scientists,
11 May 2015
Hans Kristensen, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Nuclear Information Project, at the United Nations on April 28 [2015] examined in depth the “modernization” programs of Russia and the United States, and provided overviews of the nuclear weapon activities of the other seven nuclear-armed nations (United Kingdom, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea).
→ read full article(Français) Clôture du Forum social mondial : Les citoyens du monde contre le terrorisme et l’oppression des peuples
Sihem Oubraham, El Moudjahid – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
La 13e édition du Forum social mondial (FMS) 2015, qui s’est déroulée pendant quatre jours dans la capitale tunisienne, a clôturé ses travaux sous le signe d’une «solidarité tous azimuts envers tous les peuples opprimés».
→ read full articleToward a World Pedagogy of Positiveness: A Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Sad to see that in my parts of the world there is increasing negativity,
which calls for educators everywhere to enhance the power of positivity
If we look at Positiveness and Negativity in the History of Languages will be shown?
Will uses of those two concepts in spoken/written vocabulary have grown?
Pro-Capitalist “Anti-Capitalism” – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Evan Winters, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
When the word “capitalism” appears in her book, it is invariably preceded by “neo-liberal,” or “deregulated” or “predatory.” Klein is calling for a return to some sort of regulated capitalist economy.
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Johan Galtung Speaking at the World Tribunal on Iraq
Deep Dish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
World Tribunal on Iraq – Istanbul, Turkey – June 24-27, 2005
→ read full article(Français) L’Amérique latine en perspective : entre réussites et nouveau défis
Raffaele Morgantini & Tarik Bouafia, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Les cures d’austérités imposées à certains pays de la région par le Fond Monétaire International et la Banque Mondiale ont été abandonnés au profit de politique de relance où l’Etat a repris avec plus ou moins d’importance un rôle prépondérant dans la gestion de l’économie.
→ read full articleStatues of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning Unveiled in Berlin
Stefan Steinberg , WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
7 May 2015 – Bronze statues of persecuted whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning were unveiled in Berlin on May Day. The statues are an art project entitled “Anything to Say?”, of Italian artist Davide Dormino. After a month in Berlin, we will move the sculptures to the Ostrale art centre in Dresden. We are also working to organize exhibitions in America, Moscow, Switzerland, Portugal and other countries.
→ read full articleHawaii’s Mauna Kea Protectors Aim to Halt Construction of $1.4 billion, 30-meter telescope on Sacred Mountain
Imani Altemus-Williams – Waging Nonviolence,
11 May 2015
According to 17-year-old protector Kay Ala Kahaulelio, “The sacredness of Mauna Kea is beyond what we can comprehend in the human realm. It is so sacred because it is the portal and the closest temple where we can connect with our akua [god].” In Hawaiian genealogy, the mountain is revered as the piko, or center of one’s being, for Hawaii Island.
→ read full articleMathematicians
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician were stranded on an island after a shipwreck.
→ read full articleMay: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
11 May 2015
May 1, 1982 – The Washington Post featured an article by Bill Prochnau titled, “With the Bomb, There Is No Answer,” in which he reported that marijuana was discovered in one of the underground missile control launch centers of a Minuteman ICBM squadron at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana.
→ read full articleA Destination, Unknown
Ashok T. Chakravarthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The clouds rain
Without selfish motives,
Be it an ocean
Or a green land
The Choice before Europe
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Washington continues to drive Europe toward one or the other of the two most likely outcomes of the orchestrated conflict with Russia. Either Europe or some European Union member government will break from Washington over the issue of Russian sanctions, thereby forcing the EU off of the path of conflict with Russia, or Europe will be pushed into military conflict with Russia.
→ read full articleCosta Rica’s Energy Nearly 100 Percent Clean
Diego Arguedas Ortiz, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
May 5 2015 – Costa Rica has almost reached its goal of an energy mix based solely on renewable sources, harnessing solar, wind and geothermal power, as well as the energy of the country’s rivers. In 2015, 97 percent of the country’s energy supply will come from clean sources.
→ read full articleThe Five-Step Process to Privatize Everything
Paul Buchheit – Common Dreams,
11 May 2015
At the heart of privatization is a disdain for government and a distrust of society, and a mindless individualism that leaves little room for cooperation. Adherents of privatization demand ‘freedom’ unless they need the government to intervene on their behalf. These privatizers have a system.
→ read full articleWho Is Responsible for Indian Farmer Suicides?
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The present spate of farmer suicides in India unquestionably fall in the ‘anomie’ category, linked to moral confusion caused by economic ruin, failed aspirations and crushing disappointment. Many have gambled with their lives and fortunes, and put themselves and their families under tremendous risk by thoughtless borrowing to get out of their families age-old poverty trap.
→ read full articleA Template for Our Global Era: The Lexical Nexus of Proportion, Process, Ideology
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Human survival and wellbeing are now embedded in a complex interdependent global web of economic, political, social, technical, and environmental events, forces, and changes. This article is simply an effort to call attention — increase awareness — to the events, forces, and powers of our time by acknowledging and presenting the lexical nexus of global era ‘proportions,’ ‘processes,’ and ‘ideologies.’
→ read full articleThe American Psychological Association’s Disappearing History
Roy Eidelson Ph.D., Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
During a period of heightened scrutiny, APA webpages are vanishing. APA’s leaders have some difficult questions to answer. For starters, why has so much information been removed from the APA website at the very time Mr. Hoffman is being promised “full and unfettered access” for his investigation?
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Expertos Advierten de la Necesidad de Reconocer los Resentimientos
Carta de la Paz dirigida a la ONU– TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
“Los resentimientos son fruto del desamor y del desprecio, muchos resentimientos nacen de la comparación y de una visión subjetiva de las cosas y por eso las personas resentidas nunca se sienten satisfechas con la justicia. Para gestionar los resentimientos, en primer lugar hay que reconocerlos; y, en segundo lugar, pasar necesariamente por la justicia. Cuando no hay justicia el mal queda dentro y el resentimiento crece”.
→ read full articleIn Praise of the Four “R”s: Riot, Rebellion, Resistance and Revolution
J.A. Masko – CounterPunch,
11 May 2015
There are at least three potential audiences for this piece: those that are saying, “What the hell is this guy saying? Violence is good? Criminal thuggery revolutionary?” And then there are those who are wondering, what does he mean exactly? Is he just being sensationalists or radical chic? And then there are those who get it.
→ read full article3 Reasons Healthy Gut Flora Are Important
Dr. Edward F. Group III, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Your gut should be home to over 100 billion bacteria, but antibiotics, pesticides, stress, and genetically-modified foods are just a few of the things that can weaken that diversity. Your gut’s bacteria needs to stay healthy or problems like irritable bowel syndrome, gluten allergies, and even obesity can be more likely. Let’s look at just 3 reasons that healthy gut flora are so important.
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Катюша [Katusha – Katyusha] (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Ottoman Military Band and Red Army Choir - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A Russian Classic on Victory Day Celebrations against Nazism/Fascism in Europe, 9 May 1945
→ read full articleReflections from and about Palestine
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
7 May 2015 – I and two colleagues traveled to Jenin to both do field work and attend the conference in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding. Several speakers at the conference including me highlighted the devastating impact of the Oslo accords (our real Nakba) on almost liquidating the Palestinian struggle and Palestinian cause.
→ read full articleFlying Lessons
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A flock of birds that could not fly met in a nice hotel on top of a cliff overlooking the sea for a training workshop on flying.
→ read full articleCounting the Cost of US Drones: Local Wars Killing Local People
Jack Serle – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
11 May 2015
It is now 13 years since the US started its covert drone wars and it is clear its targets have expanded beyond al Qaeda. “I am not convinced that what we are doing in Yemen makes sense either politically or even that we’re striking the right people… You get more of a sense that we may be involved in a local conflict more than a global conflict.” — Former DOD official
→ read full articleDante and the Eternal Quest for Nonreligious Divinity: Physicist Margaret Wertheim on Science and God
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Centuries after Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer, contemplated the relationship between science and religion, and decades after Carl Sagan did the same in his exquisite ‘Varieties of Scientific Experience,’ physicist-turned-science-writer Margaret Wertheim offers perhaps the most elegant and emboldening reconciliation of these two frequently contrasted approaches to the human longing for truth and meaning.
→ read full articleUS Sends Hundreds of Troops to Quake-Stricken Nepal
W. A. Sunil, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
4 May 2015 – The United States has significantly increased its military presence in Nepal as part of the relief operations underway following the devastating earthquake that struck the country on April 25. As it has done in previous disasters in other countries, the Pentagon is exploiting the tragedy to forge closer ties and collaboration with its Nepalese counterparts.
→ read full articleMother’s Day
Kristin Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A poem about women’s rights, violence against women, equality, economic and political equality, mothering, school, work, environment, and, of course, war. It is about an ideal, truly meaningful Mother’s Day, not an on-the-surface-only Mother’s Day.
→ read full articleEvil Rules – Guidelines for Engaging in Armageddon Now
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
There is extensive reference to evil in the media, in political declarations, in commentary on the web, and even in academic literature: what is evil or who is evil. It is appropriate to recognize that the prophesied ultimate battle between good and evil, Armageddon, is not some time in the future. It is now, a time clearly characterized by the Biblical reference: (Matthew 10:21).
→ read full articleWe’re Citizens, Not Subjects. We Have the Right to Criticize Government without Fear
Chelsea E. Manning (formerly Bradley Manning) – The Guardian,
11 May 2015
The American public needs more access to what the government is doing in its name. That requires increasing freedom of information and transparency.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
May 11-17 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown
→ read full articleDifferent Customs
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
A Chinese man put a bowl of rice on his deceased wife’s grave every day.
→ read full articleA Third of US-Backed Afghan Forces Involved in Drug Trade
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Several reports show the production of opium has sky-rocketed since the 2001 U.S. invasion. According to Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service, a third of Afghan troops have deserted to join the country’s drug trade industry.
→ read full articleIsrael, the Bomb and Western Double-Think
Hilary Wise – Middle East Eye,
4 May 2015
Collusion with Israel’s nuclear programme, more than any other issue, exposes the West’s ambivalence and hypocrisy. While Benjamin Netanyahu continues to rant and posture about the existential threat of Iran – maybe, one day – possessing nuclear weapons, Israel is taking delivery of the latest of its state-of-the-art German submarines, capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
→ read full article(Català) Els experts adverteixen de la necessitat de reconèixer els ressentiments
Carta de la Pau dirigida a l'ONU – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“La gestió dels ressentiments s’ha de fer des del llenguatge i des de les institucions creant relats de reconciliació. Aquest procés demana temps, recursos, dedicació i energies i, en contra de tot això, ara volem perdons express”.
→ read full articleUS “Grand Strategy” for War against China Laid Out
Nick Beams, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
The Council on Foreign Relations report cites a publication produced during World War II defining “grand strategy” as one that “so integrates the policies and armaments of a nation that the resort to war is either rendered unnecessary or is undertaken with the maximum chance of victory.” This is not merely a concept of war but “an inherent element of statecraft at all times.”
→ read full articlePain versus Gain: Argentina, Greece, and Paul Volcker
Center for Economic and Policy Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
NYT Warns Greece Away from Argentina’s Seven-Year Boom – There is no doubt that 2002 was worse for the people of Argentina as a result of the default, but by the second half of the year the economy returned to growth and grew strongly for the next seven years.
→ read full articleThe Message of Anzac: Put Out More Flags, Or Shut Up
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
That a journalism professor of long standing, John Henningham, can tweet weasel words that “freedom of speech meant that journalists had the right to speak without breaking the law but did not have the right to keep their job when offending others” is a glimpse of the obstacles faced by aspiring young journalists as they navigate the university mills.
→ read full articleWant to Help Nepal Recover from the Quake? Cancel Its Debt
Kanya D’Almeida, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
One possible solution has come from the Jubilee USA Network, an alliance of over 75 U.S.-based organizations and 400 faith communities worldwide, which said that Nepal could qualify under the IMF new Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust.
→ read full articleLatin America in Perspective: Between Successes and New Challenges
Raffaele Morgantini and Tarik Bouafia – Culture of Peace News Network,
4 May 2015
Movements against governmental fiscal austerity, are they part of the global movement for a culture of peace? Austerity cures imposed on some countries in the region by the IMF and the WB have been abandoned in favor of stimulus policies where the state has taken up a key role in managing the economy.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Occidente contro se stesso
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Si prenda il 70° anniversario demarcazione della vittoria sul nazismo… La Polonia perse il 20% della sua popolazione; l’Unione Sovietica 27,1 milioni, 16%, con 1.710 città e 70.000 villaggi cancellati; il Regno Unito l’1.1%; gli USA 0.4%; la Norvegia 0.32%.
→ read full articleAfter the Earthquake – What Nepal Needs
Meenakshi Ganguly – Human Rights Watch,
4 May 2015
The world should step up its help for those affected the Nepal earthquake and ensure its aid protects the rights of the most vulnerable.
→ read full articleFeds Are Using Fear, Not Facts, in Anti-Encryption Crusade
Joshua Kopstein – Al Jazeera America,
4 May 2015
Federal agencies say encryption will doom us, but they’re already using spy tools that circumvent it. That law enforcement groups continue to ignore a broad consensus of experts speaks to how desperately their position relies on scaremongering and distortions.
→ read full articleNo Arab Bolivars: As Region Implodes, Arab Socialism Fizzles Out
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
30 Apr 2015 – A student group recently asked me to address socialism in the Arab world, with the assumption that there is indeed such a movement that is capable of overhauling inherently incompetent and utterly corrupt regimes, across the region. No such group or configuration of socialist groups exists today.
→ read full articleAll the President’s Psychologists [Full Report]
Stephen Soldz Ph.D., Nathaniel Raymond and Steven Reisner Ph.D.,
4 May 2015
The American Psychological Association’s complicity in the CIA torture program, by allowing psychologists to administer and calibrate permitted harm, undermines the fundamental ethical standards of the profession. If not carefully understood and rejected by the profession, this may portend a fundamental shift in the profession’s relationship with the people it serves.
→ read full articleCommonly Used Chemicals Come Under New Scrutiny
Eric Lipton and Rachel Abrams – The New York Times,
4 May 2015
A top US health official and hundreds of environmental scientists on Friday [1 May 2015] voiced new health concerns about chemicals used in products as varied as pizza boxes, carpet treatments, electronics, footwear, sleeping bags, tents, protective gear for firefighters and even the foams used to extinguish fires. Studies showed that some PFASs lingered in people’s bodies for years, and appeared to increase the risks of cancer and other health problems.
→ read full articleLatin American Organizations Campaign to Ban Monsanto
Kimberley Brown – TeleSur,
4 May 2015
Doctors, scientists and environmentalists across Latin America are demanding a ban on Monsanto products. Over 30,000 doctors and health professionals in Argentina are the latest to add their voice to the fight.
→ read full articleCIA’s Torture Experts Now Use Their Skills in Secret Drones Program
Trevor Timm – The Guardian,
4 May 2015
There are many similarities between CIA’s use of drones and torture: Secrecy, lack of oversight and yes, even some of the people overseeing the programs.
→ read full articleWho Counts? Body Counts, Drones, and “Collateral Damage” (aka “Bug Splat”)
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
4 May 2015
In the twenty-first-century world of drone warfare, one question with two aspects reigns supreme: Who counts? In Washington, the answers are the same: We don’t count and they don’t count.
→ read full articleSome Notes on the New WikiLeaks Next-Generation Submission System Beta
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
WikiLeaks will continue publishing, as it has since its foundation, full archives of suppressed documents in strategic global partnerships. The 2.0 public-facing submission system is an important new method in our arsenal for recovering subjugated history.
→ read full article(Castellano) 40 Años de Vietnam: Kissinger, Retrato de un “Nobel de la Paz”
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“No veo por qué debemos quedarnos cruzados de brazos y contemplar cómo un país se hace comunista debido a la irresponsabilidad de su propio pueblo.” – Kissinger. Para el Nobel a la Paz de 1973, estos riesgos de la democracia se conjuraban con sangre. Bajo el mismo padrinazgo, a Chile siguió Timor Oriental en 1975 con 200 mil muertos; luego, Argentina en 1976 con 30 mil desaparecidos…. y más.
→ read full articleDeutsche Bank Pays $2.5 Billion Fine for Interest Rate Rigging
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
27 Apr 2015 – Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay out a record $2.5 billion fine to settle U.K. and U.S. government investigations into allegations of fixing global interest rates, just months after six other banks paid out $4.3 billion on similar charges. Activists say that the banks should have faced criminal charges.
→ read full articleMy Second World Press Freedom Day [May 3] in an Egyptian Jail
Abdullah Elfakharany – Middle East Eye,
4 May 2015
3 May 2015 – Egyptian journalist Abdullah Elfakharany, founder of the online Rassd News Network, was jailed in Egypt last year and sentenced to life last month. He wrote this letter, smuggled from prison, to observe today’s World Press Freedom day.
→ read full article(Italiano) Volti, sguardi, voci dall’India… ci invitano a una difesa comune della Terra
Elena Camino e Silvano Folco - Istituto di Ricerche Interdisciplinari sulla Sostenibilità (IRIS),
4 May 2015
La perdita di suolo, e più in generale la distruzione dei sistemi naturali dai quali tutta l’umanità dipende, è in larga misura la conseguenza della realizzazione pratica di un ‘immaginario’, cioè di una visione del mondo che è nata e si è sviluppata in Occidente, basata sulla convinzione che l’uomo possa ‘dominare’ la natura.
→ read full articleWhat Makes a Hero: Joseph Campbell’s Seminal Monomyth Model for the Eleven Stages of the Hero’s Journey, Animated
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.”
→ read full articleComprehensive Ban on Nuclear Testing, a ‘Stepping Stone’ to a Nuke-Free World
Kanya D'Almeida, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
29 Apr 2015 – Interview with Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation. With the four-week-long review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty underway at the UN, hopes and frustrations are running equally high, as a binding political agreement on the biggest threat to humanity hangs in the balance.
→ read full articleClosing of the World Social Forum: Citizens of the World versus Terrorism and Oppression
Sihem Oubraham, El Moudjahid – Culture of Peace News Network,
4 May 2015
6 Apr 2015 – The 13th edition of the World Social Forum 2015, which took place over four days in the Tunisian capital, completed its work under the slogan of “all-out solidarity with all oppressed peoples.”
→ read full articleWake up! by David Krieger
Bill Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Santa Barbara, Calif: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Book, 2015 – How does one write a review of such a collection where each poem stands out drawing the reader into a vortex of inhumanity of man by man and at the same time wanting to make sense of existential themes like Truth, War, Peace, Nuclear Weapons, and even a section called Imperfection?
→ read full articleThe Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
28 Apr 2015 – The NPT Review Conference is taking place from now until May 22 in New York City. Adam Mount explains what it is and how this year’s conference is likely to be a dismal failure.
→ read full article(Français) La guerre du Vietnam n’est pas finie : les séquelles de l’Agent Orange
Hai Quang Ho, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Certes, la guerre du Vietnam s’est terminée il y a 40 ans. Mais elle continue à tuer aujourd’hui. Selon la Croix Rouge, 3 à 4 millions de Vietnamiens sont actuellement handicapés ou présentent de graves maladies liées à l’Agent Orange.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
May 4-10 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today… But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best. ” – Hermann Hesse
→ read full articleAP: Americans Strongly Support Different, Imaginary Drone Program
Dan Froomkin and Jon Schwarz – The Intercept,
4 May 2015
1 May 2015 – The headline on the Associated Press story is unambiguous: “AP Poll: 60 percent of Americans approve of drone strikes on terrorists.” Strangely enough, if you get to the story’s ninth paragraph, you learn that the AP’s own reporters have a pretty good hunch that the previous eight paragraphs were bullshit.
→ read full articleDrones, Cops, and the Unaccountable Machinery of Death
Editorial, The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
From signature strikes in Pakistan to police violence in Baltimore, the state is seemingly uninterested in even counting how many people it kills.
→ read full articleThose Damned Migrants [Refugees]: Blame It All on Them!
Steve Weissman - Reader Supported News,
4 May 2015
“It is sickening to see thousands of refugees drowning on the doorstep of the world’s wealthiest continent,” declared actress Angelina Jolie, the UN’s Special Envoy for Refugees. “No one risks the lives of their children in this way except out of utter desperation.”
→ read full articleA Century of Women Working for Peace
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
4 May 2015
One hundred years ago, more than 1,000 women gathered here in The Hague during World War I, demanding peace. Britain denied passports to more than 120 women, forbidding them from making the trip to suppress their peaceful dissent. Now, a century later, nearly 1,000 women have gathered here again, this time from Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as Europe and North America.
→ read full articleNine Things You Might Want to Know about the Massive Pacific Trade Deal
E. Tammy Kim – Al Jazeera America,
4 May 2015
All this trade talk can seem an impenetrable thicket of arcane economics and alphabet soup. Here we provide answers to some basic questions.
→ read full articleMoving Indigenous Land Rights from Paper to Reality
Valentina Ieri, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Speaking at U.N. Headquarters on Apr. 27 as part of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues – which started last week and lasts through Friday [1 May 2015] – the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz expressed disappointment with the scant efforts to enshrine Indigenous People’s rights in the post-2015 development agenda.
→ read full articleANZAC Day 2015
Kevin Clements – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Please let me be what I was;
A man of my time,
A man who knew no better,
A man killed for no purpose,
A man who died hopeful
That others
will refuse to do the same.
Please do that in my name.
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Galtung Book Launching
Perdana Global Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, launches Johan Galtung’s two new books at the closing of the International Conference The ‘New World Order: A Recipe for War or Peace!’ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia: Lost in the Sands of War
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
The constant violation of the minimum standards of the laws of armed conflict has had some impact on the perception of the conflict with a few in the USA and Western Europe. As the weapons used by Saudi Arabia are largely of foreign production, supplier States have a responsibility − at least morally − in the way the arms are used.
→ read full articleCampaign against Glyphosate Steps Up in Latin America
Fabiana Frayssinet, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“We can no longer accept the use of these poisons because they destroy biodiversity, aggravate climate change, destroy the soil’s fertility, and contaminate the water and even the air. And above all, they bring more illness, such as cancer. “
→ read full articleThe Day after Damascus Falls
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
4 May 2015
The Saudi-Israeli alliance has gone on the offensive, ramping up a “regime change” war in Syria and, in effect, promoting a military victory for Al-Qaeda or its spinoff, the Islamic State. But the consequences of that victory could toll the final bell for the American Republic.
→ read full articleMarrying Strategic White Holes with Problematic Black Holes
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Produced in celebration of the encounter of 28 April 2015 between Ban Ki-moon (Secretary-General of the United Nations) and Pope Francis (of the Catholic Church) to discuss climate change and Mediterranean migration.
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TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
In line with the above and through other considerations, the conference demands as follows:
13. The right to clean water should be enshrined in the constitutions of all African countries.
14. Governments must halt the privatisation of water and restore public control in already privatised ones.
Women, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Given the many forms that violence takes as well as the many different cultures in which armed violence is now ongoing, we can learn from the experience of each peace activity. In particular, we can be encouraged by the past 100 years of peace and conflict resolution efforts.
→ read full articleThe Rendition Project
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
The Rendition Project is a collaborative research initiative by the University of Kent, Kingston University, the legal action charity Reprieve, and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism aiming to bring academic expertise to research the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation programme.
→ read full articleApartheid and the Palestinian National Struggle
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
American citizens have a special responsibility for the long ordeal of the Palestinian people. The Jewish philosopher, Abraham Heschel observed “[f]ew are guilty, but all are responsible.” The Legitimacy War scenario gives each of us ample opportunities to exercise our individual responsibility. We owe the Palestinian people and ourselves nothing less.
→ read full articleDiscussing Islam: Western Logic Is Flawed
Sufyan Bin Uzayr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
I decided to dig deeper, and reflect on what exactly such viewpoints are trying to convey. Is Islam really at war with everyone? Or is Islam having a crisis within itself? Do Muslims need to react?
→ read full articleEinstein on the Common Language of Science in a Rare 1941 Recording
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.”
→ read full articleWhere Is the World… ?
Imani Michelle Scott, Ph.D. – The Huffington Post,
4 May 2015
I love the black men in my life. They are my brothers, my nephews, my cousins, my best friends. The politics of distraction successfully leads attention away from what occurs in the U.S. to focus on inhumanity in those nations beyond America’s borders. Where is the world when the collective of humanity is so needed to help end police violence against blacks in America?
→ read full articleA Hole in the [Capitalist] System
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
The outrageous, untold story of how big business dumps its costs on us. Corporations ream the land with giant holes, extract a stack of money, then clear out, leaving other people with the costs. There’s a briefer description: legalised theft.
→ read full articleBolivia: 15 Years after the Cochabamba Water Revolt, Echoes in New Cases of Corporate Abuse
Philippa de Boissière, Upside Down World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
27 Apr 2015 – Fifteen years ago this month the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia were victorious in their now-famous showdown with one of the most powerful multinational corporations in the world, in what has come to be known as the Cochabamba Water Revolt. Fast forward to South America 2015.
→ read full articleIdiots of the World, Unite!
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“Sir, you are an idiot.” Wow, an insult wrapped in such old-fashioned politeness. I let the words hover and reach, as I always do, for peace: that is to say, for clarity, connection, common humanity. Last week I raised the idea of unarmed policing [in the US], as practiced in half a dozen countries around the world.
→ read full articleThe Kingpin Strategy – Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed: 1990-2015
Andrew Cockburn - TomDispatch,
4 May 2015
Barack Obama’s aides considered the news that the White House had a “kill list” a point of pride well worth leaking to the press. Think of it as plausible undeniability in twenty-first-century Orwellian Washington. Key figures in the U.S. government now openly, publicly, discuss what the exact limits (and legal authority) might be for the assassination of American citizens and others abroad; and no one even flinches.
→ read full articleAnimals: The “Personhood” Issue
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
4 May 2015
29 Apr 2015 – A recent case in the USA concerning the personhood of chimpanzees and therefore bringing into question the legality of their detainment in a laboratory follows on from a ruling in India two years ago about the status of dolphins as “non-human persons” enjoying specific rights. To what extent should this apply to other animals?
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Against the Wind (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Against the Wind is a composition of Bob Seger from 1980 “about trying to move ahead, keeping your sanity and integrity at the same time.”
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Most American politicians talk as if they had been born in a log cabin…
→ read full article(Français) Hymne a l’Amour Humain [Un Poème]
Guy Crequie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Pour L’harmonie De Nos Vies
→ read full articleDoonesbury Cartoonist Attacked for Criticizing Charlie Hebdo
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
27 Apr 2015 – Garry Trudeau, the creator of the Doonesbury comic strip, has come under attack for publicly criticizing anti-Muslim cartoons appearing in Charlie Hebdo, calling them a form of hate speech. The central point made by Trudeau is that Charlie Hebdo was engaged, not in satirizing the powerful, but in vilifying the most oppressed section of the French population, Muslim immigrants, who face the highest levels of unemployment, poverty, police harassment and imprisonment.
→ read full articleAustralia: The Secret Country Again Wages War on Its Own People
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Australia’s Racist Assault on Aboriginal People – They are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of years. In Western Australia, where mining companies make billion dollar profits exploiting Aboriginal land, the state government says it can no longer afford to “support” the homelands.
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