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The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells – New York Magazine,
17 Jul 2017
9 Jul 2017 – Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. The planet is not used to being provoked like this, and climate systems designed to give feedback over centuries or millennia prevent us — even those who may be watching closely — from fully imagining the damage done already to the planet.
→ read full article(Português) Mate Coma
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
— Aqui no Mate Coma o senhor pode comer à vontade e sem pagar nada se matar o animal usado no recheio do seu lanche. O senhor pediu um X-Vitela e o seu amigo um X-Filé Mignon. Temos aqui um boi e um bezerro. Tudo é feito por nossa conta, menos o abate do animal. Quem deseja começar?
— Isso é loucura! Não posso matar um animal. Nem mesmo posso vê-lo morrer – esbravejou Ioan.
— Mas imagino que o senhor coma carne, não?
Platform Co-Ops Offer Urban Communities a Bigger Say in Their Lives
Liam Magee, David Sweeting and Teresa Swist – The Conversation,
17 Jul 2017
13 Jul 2017 – Digital platform companies like Facebook, Uber and Google regulate our likes, updates, schedules, locations, photos, jobs and trips. A co-operative project that maps services in Dhaka shows how communities of citizens can be more than passive users of the digital platforms that increasingly shape our daily lives.
→ read full article(Português) O Homem e o Urubu
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
4 julho 2017 – Um humano ficou enojado quando viu um urubu comendo carniça na beira da estrada. Se aproximou e tentou bater no animal com um galho caído sobre o asfalto quente.
→ read full article(Português) Tom Regan: “Não há justificativa para causarmos dor aos animais”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
30 jun 2017 – Falecido em 17 de fevereiro de 2017, Tom Regan foi um importante filósofo da teoria dos direitos animais. Professor de filosofia da Universidade Estadual da Carolina do Norte, onde lecionou por 34 anos, conquistou prestígio internacional por sua produção prolífica voltada ao abolicionismo animal. Em 2006, Regan teve o seu livro “Empty Cages”, ou “Jaulas Vazias”, publicado no Brasil.
→ read full articleThe Rise of the Thought Leader
David Sessions – New Republic Magazine,
3 Jul 2017
How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual. As funding from government sources and philanthropic organizations has dried up, think tanks make up by courting donations from corporations, foreign governments, and politically minded elites. These donors, however, are less interested in supporting intellectually prestigious, nonpartisan work than they are in manufacturing political support for their preferred ideas. In other words, they want a return on their investment.”
→ read full article(Português) Considerações Sobre Musculação, Fisiculturismo e Veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
24 Jun 2017 – Não é raro encontrar pessoas que dizem que veganos não conseguem chegar ao nível de fisiculturistas que não são veganos.
→ read full articleOvercoming Nuclear Crises: North Korea and Beyond
Richard Falk and David Krieger | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
This jointly authored essay was initially published in The Hill on May 30, 2017 under the title, Averting the Ticking Time Bomb of Nukes in North Korea. We did not choose such a title that is doubly misleading: our contention is not that North Korea is the core of the problem, but rather the retention of nuclear weapons by all of the states pose both crises in the context of counter-proliferation geopolitics and with respect to the possession, deployment, and development of the weaponry itself; a second objection is with the title given the piece by editors at The Hill. While acknowledging the practice of media outlets to decide on titles without seeking prior approval from authors, this title is particularly objectionable to me. The term ‘nukes’ gives an almost friendly shorthand to these most horrific of weapons, and strikes a tone that trivializes what should be regarded at all times with solemnity.
→ read full article(Português) Considerações sobre a violência
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Agressividade, violência, são formas de descontrole. Se você não tiver controle sobre isso, isso terá controle sobre você. E quando você achar que está dominando alguma coisa ao fazer uso da agressividade ou da violência, estará apenas sendo subjugado pelo que o priva da sua própria humanidade, sem que você perceba.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre ser contra algumas formas de exploração e desconsiderar o veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Não há como negar que um pedaço de carne que se consome é mais do que o simbólico fim de uma vida. Representa a negação à plena existência, e até mesmo à existência verdadeiramente pacífica.
→ read full articleAverting the Ticking Time Bomb of Nukes in North Korea
Richard Falk and David Krieger | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
5 Jun 2017
30 May 2017 – Alarmingly, tensions between the United States and North Korea have again reached crisis proportions. Until this structure of nuclearism is itself overcome, crises will almost certainly continue to occur. It is foolhardy to suppose that nuclear catastrophes can be indefinitely averted without addressing these deeper challenges that have existed ever since the original atomic attack on Hiroshima.
→ read full article(Português) “Seu nível de testosterona deve ser bem baixo, já que você é vegano”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Já ouviu falar de um médico chamado Michael Greger? Ele diz que é exatamente quem consome proteína animal em excesso que corre mais riscos de ter baixos níveis de testosterona. Claro, a não ser quem mantenha uma alta ingestão de esteroides, de sintéticos.
→ read full article(Português) C. David Coats e a ilusão dos animais felizes por “darem” carne, leite e ovos à humanidade
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Lançado em 1989, o livro Old MacDonald’s Factory Farm é bastante atual sobre a realidade da exploração animal.
→ read full article(Português) O chamado “abate humanitário” não é um retrato tão comum da realidade
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
A privação termina somente com a morte após uma curta vida de exploração.
→ read full articleIslamophobia Redux in Myanmar
David Scott Mathieson – Asia Times,
8 May 2017
[Nobel Peace Laureate] National leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s studied silence amid a new uptick in anti-Muslim sentiment is the latest mark on her elected government’s rights record.
→ read full articleAn America without Nuclear Power
David Gattie and Scott Jones | Forbes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
[From TMS editor: We do not endorse the authors’ arguments and viewpoints. The point is the discussion about the nuclear—energy/weapons–issue.]
This is not an issue of nuclear versus renewables—both should occupy space in the U.S. portfolio. This is an issue of national security and global leadership, and U.S. policymakers should work aggressively with U.S. industry to ensure that nuclear power remains viable. An America without nuclear power is a less secure America and a globally less relevant America.
Earth Day 2017
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Be advised: this poem may be interrupted
by a nuclear war.
(Português) O veganismo não reconhece nada de origem animal como alimento de consumo humano
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
O veganismo por defender o abolicionismo animal, naturalmente rejeita a ideia de que qualquer coisa produzida pelos animais seja legitimada como fonte de nutrição humana. Até porque, se esse discurso fosse endossado pelo veganismo, a luta não seria pela libertação animal, mas somente pela criação de animais em grandes espaços, disseminando uma ingênua ideia de liberdade.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre campos de concentração para homossexuais na Tchetchênia
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
O atual presidente da Tchechênia, Ramzan Kadyrov, ele mesmo considerado um criminoso de guerra e também filho de um dos maiores criminosos da história da Tchechênia, comanda um exército privado conhecido como Kadyrovtsy, que opera uma rede de prisões secretas. De acordo com a Federação Internacional de Helsinki para Direitos Humanos, o grupo é responsável por pelo menos 75% dos crimes de guerra cometidos contra os tchetchenos.
→ read full articleWhy the Donald Should Cool It on N. Korea – The Fat Boy Can’t Even Deliver His “Little Boy”
David Stockman | Lew Rockwell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
When hostilities broke out between the two Korean sides in June 1950, Washington instantly transformed it into a proxy war against the Soviet Union and its fledgling ally in China, which had just fallen under Mao’s control the previous year. As Truman baldly put it, he was not going to lose another country to the “reds”… Yes, the pursuit of empire weaves a wretched plot, as it has on the Korean littoral for 67 years running.
→ read full article(Português) George Harrison: “A coisa que me repeliu em relação a comer carne foi a ideia de matar animais”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
“Seu prato favorito era Dahl, uma sopa de lentilha que, quando misturada com arroz, forma uma proteína perfeita e um substituto ideal da carne”, escreveu. O vegetarianismo de Harrison era tanto moral quanto espiritual.
→ read full articleWho Owns the World? Tracing Half the Corporate Giants’ Shares to 30 Owners
David Peetz and Georgina Murray | Griffith University – The Conversation,
17 Apr 2017
11 Apr 2017 – When people say share ownership is highly diversified, they think most large public corporations have lots of shareholders – and often the largest shareholder has less than 15%, sometimes less than 5%, of the total shareholdings. But looking at it this way obscures the concentration that is taking place. The same organisations – usually finance capital, rarely families or individuals – own these public companies.
→ read full article(Português) Propagandhi: “De alguma forma, todo mundo que come carne sabe que existe algum dano nisso”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Fundada no Canadá em 1986, a banda Propagandhi, importante nome do cenário punk rock, tem se destacado por ter como bandeira a defesa dos direitos animais e o veganismo. “Não tenho nenhuma necessidade de machucar os animais para o meu próprio prazer ou conforto”.
→ read full article(Português) Patrik Baboumian: “A força deve construir, não destruir. Minha força não precisa de vítimas. Minha força é a minha compaixão”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Em 2011, quando conquistou o título de homem mais forte da Alemanha, o atleta abraçou o veganismo mesmo sem saber se isso iria afetar o seu desempenho como atleta e o seu grande volume muscular. Questionado se teria alguma sugestão a dar para quem está cogitando o vegetarianismo ou o veganismo, ele recomendou que as pessoas não deem ouvidos aos supostos gurus da nutrição e da indústria de suplementos que dizem que precisamos de carne, ovos e laticínios para conseguir proteínas o suficiente.
→ read full articleThe Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices
David Dayen | The American Prospect – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
How Pharmacy Benefit Managers Morphed from Processors to Predators – Under fire for their many drug-pricing scandals, from Martin Shkreli to Valeant, the pharmaceutical industry has tried to deflect blame by citing PBMs .
→ read full article(Português) Sobre críticas equivocadas em relação ao veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Se você diz que já foi vegano e hoje se alimenta de produtos de origem animal, não nego que acho isso muito estranho, levando em conta que a maior parte dos veganos que conheço seriam incapazes de consumir carne novamente, por entenderem que se trata do cadáver de um animal que foi privado de existir à sua maneira. Tenho o claro entendimento de que um animal não existe para ser fatiado e colocado em meu prato.
→ read full articleA Better Mousetrap?
David Krieger | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – Albert Einstein noted, “Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.” We humans have created the equivalent of a mousetrap for ourselves. And we’ve constructed tens of thousands of them over the seven decades of the Nuclear Age.
→ read full articleNorth Korea Tensions Pose Early, and Perilous, Test for Trump
David E. Sanger, Choe Sang-Hun, Chris Buckley and Michael R. Gordon – The New York Times,
20 Mar 2017
7 Mar 2017 – The United States began deploying a missile defense system in South Korea this week. China condemned the new antimissile system as a dangerous opening move in what it called America’s grand strategy to set up similar defenses across Asia, threatening to tilt the balance of power there against Beijing.
→ read full article(Português) Joaquin Phoenix: “Quando somos tocados pelo sofrimento dos animais, aquele sentimento fala bem de nós”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
O ator Joaquin Phoenix, indicado três vezes ao Oscar, e também muito conhecido como o narrador de um dos documentários mais controversos sobre a exploração animal – Earthlings (Terráqueos), tinha três anos quando se tornou vegano. “Os animais passavam de uma criatura viva e vibrante, lutando pela vida, para uma morte violenta.”
→ read full article(Português) John Feldmann: “Os laticínios são os piores. Cheguei a preferir que as pessoas comessem um bife do que bebessem um copo de leite”.
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
“Porque pelo menos a vaca logo estaria livre de sua vida miserável. Com o leite, a situação é outra”.
→ read full articleTrump, Putin, and the New Cold War
Evan Osnos, David Remnick and Joshua Yaffa – The New Yorker,
6 Mar 2017
What lay behind Russia’s interference in the 2016 election—and what lies ahead?
→ read full articleThe Cowardice of [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi
David Hutt – The Diplomat,
6 Mar 2017
1 Mar 2017 – The life of a politician is made infinitely easier when, as the saying goes, their actions are judged by their reputation, and not the other way around. Such a phrase is befitting of Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whom the media can describe with a number of glowing phrases: Nobel Peace Prize laureate, democracy icon, human rights defender, champion of the Myanmar people. But is The Lady still a champion of rights and democracy?
→ read full articleRole of Mass Demonstrations in History
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
I am reminded of mass demonstrations which I have experienced over the years in the United States: the gathering for civil rights at the Washington Monument in 1963 when Martin Luther King made his great speech “I have a dream!”; the mobilization of one million people for a nuclear test ban in New York’s Central Park in 1982; and the mobilizations in 2003 against the American invasion of Iraq which involved millions of people around the world.
→ read full article(Português) Há quem não goste de saber sobre a realidade da exploração animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Há muitas pessoas que evitam confrontar esse tipo de realidade porque sabem que isso pode tirá-las da zona de conforto. Têm receio de sentirem-se péssimas e culpadas. Esse apontamento não é feito por ninguém, a não ser por quem se lança nesse tipo de experiência.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre produtos de higiene pessoal e cadáveres de animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
É difícil acreditar que alguém esteja realmente se higienizando ao usar um produto que tem em sua composição algo que é extraído de cadáveres de animais.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Trump and Putin: The World Needs Nuclear Zero
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – The Hill,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 – As the leaders of the USA and Russia, the two countries with the largest nuclear arsenals, you have the grave responsibility of assuring that nuclear weapons are not used — or their use overtly threatened — during your period of leadership. We, the undersigned, implore you to commence negotiations to reduce the dangers of a nuclear war, by mistake or malice, and immediately commit your respective governments to the realizable objective of a nuclear weapons-free world.
→ read full articleNot So Innocent
David S. Foglesong | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Trump and Putin have an important opportunity to work together against international terrorism, nuclear proliferation, drug trafficking and other threats. That chance may be missed if journalists and politicians persist in vilifying Putin and harassing Trump with charges that he is Putin’s puppet.
→ read full articleBig Pharma Really, Really Doesn’t Want You to Know the True Value of Its Drugs
David Lazarus – Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb 2017
17 Feb 2017 – The latest poster child for cruel and inhuman drug pricing is Kaleo Pharma, maker of an emergency injector for a med called naloxone, which is used as an antidote to save the lives of people who overdose on painkillers.
→ read full article(Português) Jo Frederiks: Animais Não São Coisas, Não São Nossos Escravos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Jo Frederiks é uma artista australiana que cria desenhos e pinturas para conscientizar as pessoas sobre a crueldade contra os animais na indústria alimentícia, farmacêutica e de entretenimento. “Nosso próprio futuro é baseado em um reflexo de como tratamos nossos companheiros não humanos”.
→ read full article(Português) Considerações sobre a vida não humana
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Como podemos subestimar o sofrimento de um animal reduzido à comida, quando nós mesmos não estamos na mesma situação que eles? Não se pode menosprezar o sentimento de um animal diante do abate, a não ser que tenhas sentido na pele o desespero da iminência do canibalismo ou de ser morto para tornar-se comida para ser d’outra espécie.
→ read full article(Português) “Se os matadouros tivessem paredes de vidro, todos seriam vegetarianos”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
“Se os matadouros tivessem paredes de vidro, todos seriam vegetarianos” se tornou uma das citações mais populares entre vegetarianos e veganos desde 2009. A frase foi dita pelo compositor britânico Paul McCartney no documentário Glass Walls (Paredes de Vidro), apresentado voluntariamente por ele em uma produção da organização Pessoas pelo Tratamento Ético dos Animais (Peta).
→ read full articleWhy Mass Disruption, Civil Unrest Works
David S. Cohen – Rolling Stone Magazine,
6 Feb 2017
Outrage over abandonment of American values, coupled with judicial action, can deliver a powerful one-two punch.
→ read full article(Português) Jorge Luis Borges: “Comecei a perder a vista desde o momento em que comecei a enxergar”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
“Uma das primeiras cores que se perde é o negro. Perde-se a escuridão e o vermelho também. Vivo no centro de uma indefinida neblina luminosa. Mas não estou nunca na escuridão. Neste momento esta neblina não sei se é azulada, acinzentada ou rosada, mas luminosa.
→ read full article(Português) Pawel Kuczynski, um cartunista que desperta reflexões sobre a exploração animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
O artista gráfico e cartunista Pawel Kuczynski vive no Noroeste da Polônia. Lá, ele produz desenhos que despertam a atenção para temas como exploração animal, ecologia, política, pobreza, fome, ganância, novas tecnologias e vício em internet. “Nossa realidade é triste e, como consequência, meu senso de humor é mórbido”.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Exploração animal, consumo de carne e fome mundial
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
16 Jan 2017 – O mundo atualmente conta com mais de 1,5 bilhão de bovinos e pouco mais de sete bilhões de pessoas. Os seres humanos consomem 9,5 bilhões de quilos de comida e 20 bilhões de litros de água por dia. Por outro lado, o gado é alimentado com 61 bilhões de quilos de comida e 170 bilhões de litros de água por dia, segundo a Organização das Nações Unidas para Agricultura e Alimentação.
→ read full articleLame Duck’s Last Quack
Michael David Morrissey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Mr. O, failing miserably to fly,
Wants to give it one more try.
(Português) Gustav Mahler acreditava que o vegetarianismo é o caminho para a regeneração da humanidade
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
“Os efeitos morais deste estilo de vida são imensos. Você pode julgar por si mesmo…”
→ read full articleScientists Confirm: Darwinism Is Broken
Paul Nelson and David Klinghoffer | Media Research Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
13 Dec 2016 – Darwinian Theory is broken and may not be fixable. That was the takeaway from a meeting last month organized by the Royal Society in London, the world’s most distinguished and historic scientific organization. The three-day conference–mostly unreported by the media–was remarkable in confirming something that advocates of intelligent design, a controversial scientific alternative to evolution, have said for years.
→ read full article(Português) Ser Tímido
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
As pessoas subestimam a timidez quando a relacionam apenas aos aspectos negativos da vida em sociedade. Pessoas tímidas naturalmente ouvem mais e observam mais. Também refletem muito.
→ read full articleNew Report Exposes “Patient Advocacy” Groups as a Big Pharma Scam
David Dayen – The Intercept,
5 Dec 2016
A new study shows that nearly all patient advocacy groups are captured by the drug industry. Drug companies don’t only fund them, but also doctors, medical journals, university research, hospitals, and politicians.
→ read full article(Português) Élisée Reclus: “Não é um equívoco relacionar os horrores da guerra com o massacre do gado”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
“A porca chorava sem cessar, e de vez em quando soltava gemidos tão desesperadores que parecia simular a fala humana”.
→ read full articleStanding Rock Resistance: Something to Teach Us about Living Well
David Smith-Ferri - CounterPunch,
21 Nov 2016
Somehow, through all of this, almost all of the protestors remained peaceful, calling out to each other “Stand in your prayer,” and holding their ground. And where they didn’t remain peaceful, setting fires that burned a couple of cars, they were rebuked by the movement’s leadership. In a statement made after the arrests, Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II makes it clear that no form of violence by anyone is acceptable.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre textos que tentam desqualificar o veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Meu raciocínio vai ao encontro do que preconizava Donald Watson: “Minha prioridade é proporcionar o menor impacto possível aos seres vivos enquanto eu viver, e vou me adaptando às novidades sem problema algum.”
→ read full articleAdvancing the Next System with Advanced Manufacturing
Max Ogden, Nina Gregg, Doug Gamble, Andrew Dettmer and David Schweickart | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
27 Sep 2016 – This essay is a polemic. As such, we argue with broad strokes. We welcome debate on the broad strokes as well as the details, knowing that such an exchange will refine and improve the discussion. The foundation for a society that is economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable.
→ read full articleThe Simple Act of Pushing a Button
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
On one side of the ledger is everything natural and extraordinary about life with its long evolution bringing us to the present and poised to carry its processes forward into the future. On the other side of the ledger is “the button,” capable of bringing most life on the planet to a screeching halt. Also on this side of the ledger are those people who remain ignorant or apathetic to the nuclear dangers confronting humanity.
→ read full article(Português) O Gato da Vila Paraná
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
24 set 2016 – Querubim ouviu tiro de espingarda seguido de miado. Lá fora, na rua de terra arenosa, Ranulpho nem se mexia, estatelado sobre uma porção de folhas miúdas de sibipiruna. A boca continuava entreaberta, denunciando que a dor da morte não poupava nem os mais inocentes.
→ read full articleThe Malevolence of Occupation
David Lloyd | Dublin Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
1 Sep 2016 – Boycott is, as many proudly recall, an Irish invention. The first boycott targeted a notorious land agent, the eponymous Captain Charles Boycott, for attempting to evict Mayo tenants in 1880… Above all, boycott is an instrument of civil society. We call for a boycott when the means to redress an ongoing injury are denied by the legal or political institutions that ought to intervene.
→ read full article(Français) La Malveillance de l’Occupation
David Lloyd | Dublin Review of Books - Association des universitaires pour le respect du droit international en Palestine,
19 Sep 2016
Le boycott est, comme beaucoup se le rappellent fièrement, une invention irlandaise. Le premier boycott visait un célèbre propriétaire terrien, l’éponyme Captain Charles Boycott, qui avait essayé de se débarrasser de ses locataires… Avant tout, le boycott est un instrument aux mains de la société civile. Nous faisons appel au boycott lorsque les moyens de corriger une atteinte continue sont refusés par les institutions juridiques ou politiques qui devraient intervenir.
→ read full article(Português) Romain Rolland: “Milhares de animais são assassinados todos os dias, sem sombra de remorso”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Vencedor do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 1915, o escritor francês Romain Rolland dedicou sua vida também à defesa dos direitos dos animais e da dieta vegetariana. Importante pensador, Rolland influenciou Sigmund Freud e se tornou amigo de Mahatma Gandhi. Em 1922, o alemão Hermann Hesse, também vencedor do Nobel de Literatura, dedicou o livro “Sidarta”, um dos romances mais espiritualistas da literatura mundial, ao seu querido amigo Romain Rolland.
→ read full articleThe Big Problem with the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s Super Court That We’re Not Talking About
David Dayen – The Huffington Post,
5 Sep 2016
Financiers will use it to bet on lawsuits, while taxpayers foot the bill.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre vegetarianismo, veganismo e a literatura
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Meus artigos sobre vegetarianismo e veganismo reproduzem visões de escritores e pensadores que deram sua contribuição ao mundo das mais diversas formas, e muitos são desconhecidos enquanto vegetarianos ou defensores dos animais.
→ read full articleThe Power of Imagination
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
20 Aug 2016 – Albert Einstein, the great 20th century scientist and humanitarian, wrote, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Let us exercise our imaginations.
→ read full articleTaking a Stand at Standing Rock
David Archambault II – The New York Times,
29 Aug 2016
24 Aug 2016 — Perhaps only in North Dakota, where oil tycoons wine and dine elected officials, and where the governor, Jack Dalrymple, serves as an adviser to the Trump campaign, would state and county governments act as the armed enforcement for corporate interests. In recent weeks, the state has militarized my reservation, with road blocks and license-plate checks, low-flying aircraft and racial profiling of Indians. The local sheriff and the pipeline company have both called our protest “unlawful,” and Gov. Dalrymple has declared a state of emergency.
→ read full article(Português) Eu o/a desafio a não virar vegetariano/a…
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Muitas pessoas não assistem esses documentários porque isso significa sair da zona de conforto e confrontar a realidade que envolve a produção de alimentos de origem animal. Sim, não existe alimento de origem animal que não envolva dor ou privação. E quando alguém fala em bem-estarismo animalista penso apenas no quão insensível o ser humano é capaz de ser.
→ read full articleThe New Economy: A Living Earth System Model
David Korten | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Treat the visible problem—a defective product or an underperforming employee—as the symptom of a deeper system failure. Look upstream to find and correct the system conditions responsible for the system failure. Otherwise the problem will simply reoccur. David Korten contrasts what he calls the self-destructing “suicide economy” we have and a “living Earth economy” that self-organizes toward ecosystem health and balance, shared prosperity, and living democracy.
→ read full articleWhy Are Elites Out of Touch? They Think Anyone Who Disagrees with Them Is Crazy
Nitzan David Foucks – The National Interest Magazine,
15 Aug 2016
Not a single expert has questioned his own beliefs. Not a single word on the dysfunction of the EU, or why exactly cosmopolitanism should be embraced. And the Brexit is just one example where the experts put the blame on the general public. Another is Trump. And again, instead of questioning why their voice has become irrelevant, the elites blame the masses. This trend cannot go on.
→ read full articleTen Lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl was repeated, albeit with a different set of circumstances, at Fukushima. Have our societies yet learned any lessons that will prevent the people of the future from experiencing such devastation? As poet Maya Angelou points out, “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage doesn’t need to be lived again.”
→ read full articleThis Company Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult
David Gauvey Herbert | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Every move you make. Every click you take. Every game you play. Every place you stay. They’ll be watching you. The bottom line: IDI’s marketing databases may help PIs predict people’s moves or digitally peek into their cars or medicine cabinets.
→ read full article(Português) A história do veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
“Enquanto o ser humano for implacável com as criaturas vivas, ele nunca conhecerá a saúde e a paz. Enquanto os homens continuarem massacrando animais, eles também permanecerão matando uns aos outros. Na verdade, quem semeia assassinato e dor não pode colher alegria e amor”, disse o filósofo grego Pitágoras por volta de 500 anos antes de Cristo.
→ read full article(Português) Eu e as proteínas de origem animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
No meio da musculação, de cada cinco palavras ditas, uma costuma ser proteína. Dificilmente alguém toca no assunto sem dizer: “Proteína animal, proteína animal, proteína animal, alto valor biológico – filé de frango, claras de ovos…” Com isso em mente, cheguei a consumir até três gramas de proteínas por quilo corporal em uma fase da minha vida. Pode ter certeza que é muita proteína.
→ read full articleThe UN Human Rights Council Adopts the Declaration on the Right to Peace
Christian Guillermet Fernández and David Fernández Puyana – Inter Press Service-IPS,
1 Aug 2016
On 1 July 2016, the UN Human Rights Council adopted the Declaration on the Right to Peace by a majority of its Member States. It is the result of three years of work with all stakeholders led by Costa Rica, through its Ambassador Christian Guillermet-Fernández.
→ read full articleHow an iPhone Defeated the Tanks
David Hearst – Middle East Eye,
1 Aug 2016
Turkey’s reaction last night [15 Jul] was that of a mature democracy. The West’s was that of corrupted democracy tainted by its support of autocracy.
→ read full article(Português) Tazinha e a galinha Jurema
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Com cinco anos, Tazinha não imaginava que aquele molho vermelho e borbulhante cobrindo fatias grossas de batata-inglesa envolvia partes de um ser idêntico àquele que percorria o quintal com o viço de uma criança. Quando viu a garotinha de olhos amendoados e graúdos, a galinha se escondeu atrás de um pedaço de capoeira e cacarejou, mantendo os olhos castanhos e vibrantes bem esgazeados.
→ read full articleU.S. Plans to Saturate Globe with Weapons
David Swanson | Veterans Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
11 Jul 2016 – My headline above is a plain English translation of this Pentagonspeak found in a Reuters headline today: “International demand for U.S. weapons systems is expected to continue growing in coming years, a senior U.S. Air Force official said on Sunday [10 Jul], citing strong interest in unmanned systems, munitions and fighter jets.” Thus is the proliferation of drones around the world spun as something positive, along with bombs and jets.
→ read full articleIf Afghan Lives Mattered, Dallas Lives Would Matter
David Swanson | Let’s Try Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
8 Jul 2016 – The man who murdered police officers in Dallas, Texas, this week had earlier been employed in a massive operation, now in its 15th year, that has killed many thousands of people in Afghanistan. He was trained to kill by the U.S. military and was conditioned to believe violence an appropriate response to violence by the examples everywhere to be found in U.S. public policy, history, entertainment, and language.
→ read full article(Português) José Oiticica definia o consumo de carne como um vício social
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
Para o escritor e anarquista, a saúde humana deve envolver a alimentação vegetariana.
→ read full article(Português) Tolstói: “O vegetarianismo é um sinal da aspiração séria e sincera da humanidade”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
22 Jun 2016 – Um dos maiores nomes da literatura mundial, Liev Tolstói, além de romancista, filósofo, humanitarista e pacifista, também chamou a atenção e conquistou muito respeito nos séculos 19 e 20 por ser um grande defensor do vegetarianismo. Levando uma vida frugal, ele se alimentava basicamente de pães, frutas e vegetais.
→ read full articleEconomic Democracy
David Schweickart | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
An Ethically Desirable Socialism That Is Economically Viable – The big challenges that capitalism now faces in the contemporary world include issues of inequality (especially that of grinding poverty in a world of unprecedented prosperity) and of “public goods” (that is, goods people share together, like the environment). The solution to these problems will almost certainly call for institutions that take us beyond the capitalist market economy.
→ read full articleTen Worst Acts of the Nuclear Age
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
The ten worst acts of the Nuclear Age described below have set the tone for our time. They have caused immense death and suffering; been tremendously expensive; have encouraged nuclear proliferation; have opened the door to nuclear terrorism, nuclear accidents and nuclear war; and are leading the world back into a second Cold War.
→ read full article(Português) Como o vegetarianismo entrou na vida de Franz Kafka
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
Um dos escritores mais influentes do século 20, o tcheco Franz Kafka, famoso por clássicos intrapessoais como A Metamorfose, O Processo e Um Artista da Fome, é um exemplo de ser humano que, contrariando todas as expectativas, se tornou vegetariano ainda na juventude. “Agora eu posso olhar para vocês e me sentir em paz”, disse aos peixes no aquário.
→ read full articleMessage to the Wall
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Dear Wall,
Your polished surface deceives.
You appear serene, yet you are bursting with anguish and lost potential.
[Nobel Peace Laureate] Dalai Lama Urges Myanmar’s [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi to Ease Rohingya Tensions
David Brunnstrom | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has a moral responsibility to try to ease tensions between majority Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, her fellow Nobel laureate, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday [13 Jun]. “She already has the Nobel Peace Prize, a Nobel Laureate, so morally she should … make efforts to reduce this tension,” he told Reuters in an interview in Washington.
→ read full articleA Tree for the Victims
David Krieger | Global Poetry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
As far away as London, there is a solid tree,
a stately tree, I would say, casting a broad shadow
on a cool green lawn.
Peace Jobs – A Student’s Guide to Starting a Career Working for Peace
David J. Smith | George Mason University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
This book is a guide for college students exploring career options who are interested in working to promote peacebuilding and the resolution of conflict. High school students, particularly those starting to consider college and careers, can also benefited from this book. A major feature of the book is 30 stories from young professionals, most recently graduated from college, who are working in the field.
→ read full articleThe Scope for Parallel Diplomacy Has Never Been Greater
David Richmond – Foreign Policy In Focus,
30 May 2016
One of the great diplomatic breakthroughs for which the Obama presidency will undoubtedly be remembered is the re-establishment of relations with Cuba. The role of the Vatican in this rapprochement serves as a reminder that even in the era of systematised diplomacy, significant benefit can be derived from an informal process that takes place away from the limelight.
→ read full articleThe Doomsday Clock in Fiction and Reality
David Warmflash – Discover Magazine,
23 May 2016
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic representation of the level danger on planet Earth. Since its creation at the dawn of the nuclear age, the Clock has been reset 21 times, but the only other time that it ever moved as close as two minutes to midnight was 1953. That was after the United States and Soviet Union both tested fusion weapons, or “H-bombs”, within nine months of one another.
→ read full articleCommoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm
David Bollier | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change? Our challenge is not just articulating attractive alternatives, but identifying credible strategies for actualizing them. I believe the commons—at once a paradigm, a discourse, an ethic, and a set of social practices—holds great promise in transcending this conundrum.
→ read full articleTake Three Gifts on Your Journey
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
9 May 2016
Mr. President,
The word is out.
You will visit Hiroshima in May.
In Hiroshima, nuclear weapons become real.
Anthropologists Marshalling History: The American Anthropological Association’s Vote on the Academic Boycott of Israeli Institutions
Roberto J. González and David Price - CounterPunch,
2 May 2016
The AAA’s full membership now has a historic opportunity to vote on whether or not to approve the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The rank-and-file membership’s overwhelming support for the Resolution 2 was clear, but so too is the determination, resources, and willingness to use fear tactics of the minority who oppose the pro-boycott measure. Now is the time for concerned anthropologists to take action by voting to support the resolution.
→ read full articleNuclear Age Peace Foundation: A Voice for Peace
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
11 Apr 2016
I believe that complacency has four principal elements: apathy, conformity, ignorance and denial. Together these four elements form the acronym ACID, and they are corrosive to a decent human future or to any future at all. We must transform apathy to empathy; conformity to critical thinking; ignorance to wisdom; and denial to recognition of the threats that nuclear weapons pose to our common future.
→ read full articleThe Syrian Boy Soldier with a Thousand-Yard Stare: The Sad Image of Child Aged SEVEN
David Williams – Daily Mail,
4 Apr 2016
Puffing on a cigarette, a Kalashnikov AK-47 slung awkwardly across his little shoulders, seven-year-old Ahmed stands at a [NATO supported] makeshift barricade in Syria. He is one of the youngest fighters to be swept into his country’s civil war and something in his blank expression seems to hint at horrors that no child of his age should ever have to witness.
→ read full article(Português) O Brasil Está Sendo Engolido pela Corrupção — E por Uma Perigosa Subversão da Democracia
Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda – The Intercept,
21 Mar 2016
Tudo isso parece historicamente familiar, particularmente para a América Latina, onde governos de esquerda democraticamente eleitos tem sido repetidamente removidos do poder por meios não legais ou democráticos. A mídia internacional está apresentando os protestos de rua como uma revolta nobre e populista. Os fatos são muito mais complicados.
→ read full articleBrazil Is Engulfed by Ruling Class Corruption — and a Dangerous Subversion of Democracy
Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda – The Intercept,
21 Mar 2016
Western media are depicting street protests as a noble populist uprising. The facts are much more complicated. It all seems historically familiar, particular for Latin America, where democratically elected left-wing governments have been repeatedly removed by non-democratic, extra-legal means.
→ read full articleMessage to Youth
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
You are not required
to kill on command, to wear
a uniform, to camouflage yourself,
to place medals on your chest,
Air (Music Video of the Week)
David Garrett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Composition by Johann Sebastian Bach – David Garrett, born 4 Sep 1980, is a record-breaking classical violinist and recording artist. Garrett was born in Aachen, Germany to an American prima ballerina and a German lawyer and jurist.
→ read full articleScience for Sale – Making a Cancer Cluster Disappear
David Heath – The Center for Public Integrity,
22 Feb 2016
After a record number of brain tumors at a chemical plant, industry launched a flawed study that obscured the extent of the problem. The largest cluster of workplace-related brain tumors happened at a vinyl chloride plant now owned by Dow Chemical in Texas City, Texas.
→ read full articleResearch Paper: ISIS-Turkey Links
David L. Phillips – Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights,
15 Feb 2016
Is Turkey collaborating with the Islamic State (ISIS)? Allegations range from military cooperation and weapons transfers to logistical support, financial assistance, and the provision of medical services. It is also alleged that Turkey turned a blind eye to ISIS attacks against Kobani.
→ read full articleNorth Korea: How Many Wake-Up Calls Will It Take?
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
North Korea has been roundly condemned for its nuclear tests, including this one. To put this in perspective, however, the U.S. has conducted more than 1,000 nuclear tests, continues to conduct subcritical nuclear tests, has not ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, is in breach of its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, regularly tests nuclear-capable missiles, and plans to spend $1 trillion modernizing its nuclear arsenal.
→ read full articleDilema
David Sipress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Conflicting Desires
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the American People: Political Responsibility in the Nuclear Age
Richard Falk, David Krieger and Robert Laney – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
What is most notable about the Nuclear Age is that we humans, by our scientific and technological ingenuity, have created the means of our own demise. The world currently is confronted by many threats to human wellbeing, and even civilizational survival, but we focus here on the particular grave dangers posed by nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
→ read full article