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Monsters Walk the Earth. Why These Three Countries Are the Real Troika of Evil
Philip Giraldi | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2019

27 Jun 2019 – Americans, Saudis and Israelis have become monsters in the eyes of the rest of the world even if in their own minds they are endowed with special privilege due to their being “Exceptional,” “Chosen by God” or “Guardians of Mecca and Medina.” All three countries share a dishonest sense of entitlement that supports the fiction that their oppressive and illegal behavior is somehow perfectly legitimate.

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Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Cryptocurrency
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2019

2 Jul 2019 – Only a fool would trust Facebook with his or her financial wellbeing. But maybe that’s the point: with so much personal data on some 2.4 billion monthly active users, who knows better than Facebook just how many suckers are born every minute?

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The Little Known Story/History of the Chernobyl Children Cured in Cuba
Miguel Faure Polloni | Resumen – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2019

In 1990, the Cuban government headed by Fidel Castro treated more than 25,000 children, accompanied by their families, who were victims of the tragedy from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, in the Tarará pediatric hospital. Most of them had thyroid cancer and leukemia from exposition to iodine-131 or caesium-137. They also suffered from deformities, muscular atrophy, skin disease, and stomach problems.

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Understanding When Repression Will Help or Hurt a Movement
Michael Wilson-Becerril | Resistance Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2019

27 Jun 2019 – When repression backfires, it can galvanize movements. But sometimes it does the opposite. What explains these different outcomes?

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Reviving Yemen’s Ancient Coffee Legacy: An Opportunity to Facilitate Conflict Transformation and the Empowerment of Traditionally Marginalized Groups
Cameron Casenhiser | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2019

The gap between the specialty coffee industry and organizations like the CFG may be closer than one may initially think. If organizations dedicated to promoting peace in conflicted areas, such as Yemen, were to partner with organizations such as ACE, Qima, and Port of Mokhtar, the resilient coffee farming communities may be discovered as not only containing voices of hope, but also as internal resources for developing local peace actors.

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Restorative Justice in Brazil: Culture of Peace instead of Punishment
CPNN | Justica Restaurativa em Debate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2019

28 Jun 2019 – Restorative Justice is an “orderly and systemic set of principles, methods, techniques and activities of its own, aimed at raising awareness about relational, institutional and social factors motivating conflicts and violence, and through which conflicts that generate harm, concrete or abstract, are resolved in a structured way. ”

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R2P – All Member States
Vijay Prashad | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2019

In abstraction, the R2P doctrine is of great interest. But, in concrete terms, it is merely an instrument of Western power and has been used entirely to extend Western interests on the world stage. To believe that R2P can be harnessed to the cause of the Palestinians is illusionary. The doctrine of R2P needs to be withdrawn. ‘All member states’ need to find another instrument to tackle the destruction of the planet and its peoples.

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The Greatest…. What???
Christine Barie and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2019

Great? Who? What?

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Henry David Thoreau (12 Jul 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2019

Many readers mistake Henry’s tone in Walden and other works, thinking he was a cranky hermit. That was far from the case, as one of his young neighbors and Edward Emerson attest. He found greater joy in his daily life than most people ever would. He traveled often, to the Maine woods and to Cape Cod several times, and was particularly interested in the frontier and Indians.

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HUFUD Peace Summit
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2019

We, at HUFUD, believe that peace is possible and judging by the reactions of those who attended our last conference held on 17 June 2019 at the Initiatives of Change in London, the majority agree with us! You will find below some photos and a link to a short video taken from our event “Peace is Possible”.

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(Português) “Carga viva”, nossa miséria refletida nos olhos dos animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2019

2 julho 2019 — “Carga Viva” – Se sucumbem a bordo, são moídos; se escapam de um acidente, morrem afogados ou são abatidos pouco depois de chegarem às margens.

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Daoism – The Way
Judith A. Berling | Asia Society Center for Global Education – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2019

A noted Chinese anthropologist has written that Chinese religion “mirrors the social landscape of its adherents. There are as many meanings as there are vantage points.” The same could be said of the diverse tradition we call Daoism. Daoism was understood and practiced in many ways, each reflecting the historical, social, or personal situation of its adherents. While this diversity may confuse and perplex the outside observer, it accounts for the resilience of Daoism in China.

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Libra: Facebook’s Audacious Bid for Global Monetary Control
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

On June 18, Facebook unveiled a white paper outlining ambitious plans to create a new global cryptocurrency called Libra, to be launched in 2020. It has high hopes that Libra will become the foundation for a new financial system free of control by Wall Street and central banks. But it will not be competing with Visa or Mastercard, which are among its 28 soon-to-be co-founding members, including Paypal, Stripe, Uber, Lyft and eBay.

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Civil Society Coalition for Cultivation of Short-term Bias
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

International Complicity in Avoidance of Consideration of Long-term Human Suffering – In a period when much is made of the consequences of evolution of global warming over the coming decades and to the end of the century — highlighted by extreme weather conditions — virtually nothing is discussed about the evolution of migration pressure over the decades to come. Whereas statistical estimates are available on the former, none are officially available on the latter.

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Doukhobor Peace Day Message 2019
Koozma J. Tarasoff | Spirit Wrestlers – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

29 Jun 2019 – It was on the midnight of June 28-29, 1895 that 7,000 Russian Doukhobors in Transcaucasia, Russia (and now Turkey) set ablaze piles of their own and government-issued rifles, pistols and swords in the first mass protest in history against militarism and war. This year 2019 marks the 124th anniversary of this momentous pioneering happening calling for hope in creating a world without wars.

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An American Attack on Iran Would Be an Unmitigated Disaster for the US, Iran and the World: Iran War Statement
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

25 Jun 2019 – The following statement on US warmongering in relation to Iran was prepared by Mark LeVine, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine and myself. Some of the early signatories are among the leading scholars in the field of Middle East Studies. Their names are listed below.

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US Congress Calls for Facebook to Halt Cryptocurrency Project, Libra
Nivesh Rustgi | CoinGape – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

“Facebook has data on billions of people and has repeatedly shown a disregard for the protection and careful use of this data,” she said in a statement. “With the announcement that it plans to create a cryptocurrency, Facebook is continuing its unchecked expansion and extending its reach into the lives of its users.” — Maxine Waters, House Financial Services Committee Chair

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Why Does Everyone Hate Modern Money Theory?
L. Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

Money is a creature of the state. Money is effectively an IOU. Anyone can issue money; the trouble is getting it accepted. The ability to impose taxes (or other obligations) makes a country’s ‘money’ valuable.

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American Concentration Camps
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

26 Jun 2019 – Asylum seekers once had legal rights, but not anymore. As their numbers increased, due primarily to worsening conditions in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras (countries the United States helped ravage politically), virtually all the refugees started getting treated as “illegals.” These are American concentration camps. They’re not death camps, but they’re evolving, I fear, in much the same moral and political void.

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Myanmar Must Give Rohingya ‘Pathway to Citizenship’ – UN Investigator
Emma Batha | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

26 June 2019 – The Rohingya are among an estimated 10 to 15 million stateless people in the world who are not recognized as citizens of any country. Sometimes called “legal ghosts”, stateless people are deprived of basic rights from education to employment and vulnerable to exploitation, violence and arbitrary detention.

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‘Suu Kyi and Virtually the Entire Opposition Were Completely Enamoured with US Power’
Maung Zarni | The Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

24 Jun 2019 – An extended interview with Maung Zarni, an educator and political activist in exile who was closely associated with Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy and erstwhile face of democratic politics in Myanmar. Zarni recalls the hopes many vested in Suu Kyi after her father Aung San was assassinated in 1947, and his own journey towards disillusionment.

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Confucianism
Judith A. Berling | Asia Society Center for Global Education – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

Confucianism is often characterized as a system of social and ethical philosophy rather than a religion. In fact, Confucianism built on an ancient religious foundation to establish the social values, institutions, and transcendent ideals of traditional Chinese society.

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Who Deserves Your Trust?
Christine Barie and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

This is a test!

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Identifying the Vaccinology-Illiterate among Us
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

Journalists, Talking Heads, Legislators, Lobbyists, Medical School Professors/Students, Physicians, Internet Trolls, Parents of Vulnerable Infants, etc.

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Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange
Prof. Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

On the Occasion of the International Day in Support of Torture Victims, 26 June 2019 – This Op-Ed has been offered for publication to the Guardian, The Times, the Financial Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian, the Canberra Times, the Telegraph, The New York Times, the Washington Post, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and Newsweek. None responded positively.

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(Português) Mate Coma
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

Diante de uma mesa, Ioan pegou o cardápio. Grande variedade de carnes – de cavalo a jacaré.

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Giants: Who Really Rules The World?
Abby Martin | Empire Files – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

13 Apr 2019 – Abby Martin sits down with Peter Phillips, former director of Project Censored and professor of Political Sociology at Sonoma State University. His new book, Giants: The Global Power Elite, details the 17 transnational investment firms that control over $50 trillion in wealth—and how they are kept in power by their activists, facilitators and protectors.

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NY Times Admits It Sends Stories to US Government for Approval before Publication
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

24 Jun 2019 – The New York Times has publicly acknowledged that it sends some of its stories to the US government for approval from “national security officials” before publication. This confirms what veteran NYT correspondents like James Risen have said: The American newspaper of record regularly collaborates with the US government, suppressing reporting that top officials don’t want made public.

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Notes on Excessive Wealth Disorder
Paul Krugman | Nobel Economics Laureate – The New York Times, 1 Jul 2019

22 Jun 2018 – In a couple of days I’m going to be participating in an Economic Policy Institute conference on the problems and dangers created by extreme concentration of income and wealth at the top. I’ve been asked to give a short talk at the beginning of the conference, focusing on the political and policy distortions high inequality creates.

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Iran Goes for “Maximum Counter-Pressure”
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

20 Jun 2019 – Sooner or later the US “maximum pressure” on Iran would inevitably be met by “maximum counter-pressure”. Sparks are ominously bound to fly. As I previously reported, shutting down the Strait of Hormuz would destroy the American economy by detonating the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives market; and that would collapse the world banking system, crushing the world’s $80 trillion GDP and causing an unprecedented depression.

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From Shahs to the CIA: The History of Western Intervention in Iran (Part 1)
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

When Americans hear the word Iran, many have a sort of knee-jerk visceral reaction. The very mention of the word conjures up frightful images of be-turbaned bearded imams leading mobs of Kalashnikov-carrying Muslim men and women whose faces are grotesquely contorted by intense anger as they enthusiastically wave banners bearing squiggly lines, no doubt saying, “Death to America”.

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From Shahs to the CIA: The History of Western Intervention in Iran (Part 2)
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

In part 1 we examined the early history of the West’s domination of Persian natural resources, especially the establishment and rise of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company which led to multiple 20th century British interventions in Iranian politics in an attempt to ensure permanent access to oil. Part 2 tells the story of Operation Ajax.

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Tank Warfare Challenges for Global Governance
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

Extending the “Think Tank” Metaphor to Include Other Cognitive Modalities

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Costs of War
Watson Institute | Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

June 2019 – The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the related violence in Pakistan and Syria. There are many hidden or unacknowledged costs of the United States’ decision to respond to the 9/11 attacks with military force. We aim to foster democratic discussion of these wars by providing the fullest possible account of their human, economic, and political costs, and to foster better informed public policies.

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Fake Food, Fake Meat: Big Food’s Desperate Attempt to Further the Industrialisation of Food
Dr Vandana Shiva | Independent Science News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

18 Jun 2019 – Food is not a commodity, it is not “stuff” put together mechanically and artificially in labs and factories. Food is life. Food holds the contributions of all beings that make the food web, and it holds the potential of maintaining and regenerating the web of life. Food also holds the potential for health and disease, depending on how it was grown and processed. Food is therefore the living currency of the web of life.

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The U.S. Wants to Bring Back the Shah of Iran
David William Pear | The Greanville Post – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

Historical Facts, Events: During the early 20th century the British Empire had full control of Iran’s oil industry, and was paying Iran a flat fee for every barrel of oil it extracted. Iran was never allowed to look at the financial books. Prior to the CIA-led 1953 overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, the British refused any negotiated settlement. It was then that the Iranian parliament led by Mossadegh voted to nationalized Iran’s oil industry. The British responded with a naval blockade, and began plotting to overthrow Mossadegh and the parliament. The Shah of Iran was mostly a figurehead, at the time.

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Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

Alan MacLeod and Noam Chomsky discussed the origins of the classic work of media criticism (co-authored with Edward Herman) Manufacturing Consent, the role of that book’s “propaganda model” today, Google and Facebook, Donald Trump and Russia, fake news and Syria. This is a lightly edited transcript.

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U.S. Military Consumes More Hydrocarbons than Most Countries — Massive Hidden Impact on Climate
Science Daily | Lancaster University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

20 Jun 2019 – Research shows the US military is one of the largest climate polluters in history, consuming more liquid fuels and emitting more CO2e (carbon-dioxide equivalent) than most countries.

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Shifting the Paradigm to a Maternal Gift Economy
Genevieve Vaughan | Gift Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

Actually the market is limited and floating on a sea of gifts. Profit itself is a gift as it comes from the part of the labor of workers which is not covered by the salary, their so called ‘surplus labor’. But there are also the gifts of housework and of nature which are exploited by the market, which does not have to pay for the reproduction of the workers or the cleanup of pollution.

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Palestine and Historical R2P: Britain’s Special Accountability
Ilan Pappé | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

One cannot overstate the unique role Britain plays in the history of Israel and Palestine. It began in the mid 19th century, with the work of Lord Shaftsbury, London literati, in encouraging Jews to immigrate to Palestine and lobbying the British Empire to create a Jewish state there. It culminated with the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which the Zionist movement welcomed enthusiastically and the Palestinians rejected vehemently. In the Palestinian narrative, to this very day, the declaration is depicted as the first, and crucial, milestone on the road to their 1948 Nakba-catastrophe.

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The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

On Friday [14 Jun 2019] I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison, appeared on a video screen directly in front of me. He listened intently as Ben Brandon, the prosecutor, seated at a narrow wooden table, listed the crimes he allegedly had committed and called for his extradition to the United States to face charges that could result in a sentence of 175 years. The American, British and Swedish judicial systems have been manipulated and corrupted to ensure the publisher is extradited to the U.S.

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Myanmar: Building Businesses over Killing Fields
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

21 Jun 2019 – Bleak future lies ahead of Rohingya, as Myanmar is getting away with genocide amid UN ‘system failure’. Governments and firms from Canada, U.S., Australia, Norway, Switzerland, Netherlands, Spain, France, and Germany are in numerous partnerships with the country. The World Bank’s latest proposal to give Myanmar $100 million in grants is just one of many signs that it has gotten away with genocide.

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The Cart before a Dead Horse – Open Letter to Mahmoud Abbas and All Palestinians
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

23 Jun 2019 – Someone asked what is your solution? I said, ‘Go back to be a real Palestine Liberation Organization: Palestine is all of Palestine not 22% of it, Liberation is self-explanatory and it is for all 13.5 million of us Palestinians, and organization means more than one person we “pledge loyalties” to’. The well-dressed politician came after the meeting to chastise me before he got into his fancy black Mercedes (which was left running all the time) with his body guards.

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Refugees Are Finding Their Own Solutions – But Are Taking Great Risks in the Process
Dr Jeff Crisp | Refugee Law Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

19 Jun 2019 – Many of the world’s 25 million refugees are confronted with the prospect of a life in limbo. They are unable to go back to their own country because of continued persecution or violence there. They do not have the option of becoming citizens in the state that has offered them asylum. And they are unable to move on to another country because they lack the passports and visas that would allow them to do so.

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Acting Beyond the State: Toward a Cosmopolitan Awakening?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

20 Jun 2019 – The following review of Ayça Çubukçu’s For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, is scheduled to appear in a forthcoming issue of the London Review of International Law.

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Bridging the Gap between Strategic and Principled Nonviolence
Markus Bayer | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

29 May 2019 – Stellan Vinthagen’s book “A Theory of Nonviolent Action” develops a new theoretical framework for what nonviolence is. I would recommend the book for every student and scholar who is familiar with the actual debates within nonviolent resistance studies. Due to its demanding theory, it is, however, not very suitable for those who want a short and easy introduction.

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A Primer Concerning US Military War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Committed in the Middle East Post-9/11
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

18 Jun 2019 – Plus a Short List of Largely Unexamined, Unindicted and Unpunished Examples

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“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Losing a Friend
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions.”

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Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music
Gerald Horne | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

18 Jun 2019 – The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most likely in New Orleans—based on the musical traditions of Africans, newly freed from slavery. Grounded in the music known as the “blues,” which expressed the pain, sufferings, and hopes of Black folk then pulverized by Jim Crow, this new music entered the world via the instruments that had been abandoned by departing military bands after the Civil War.

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The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits from Global Violence and War
Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

The all-pervasive occurrence of violence makes it seem like an unavoidable, and ultimately incomprehensible, aspect of the human world, particularly in a modern era. But, in this detailed and expansive book, Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree demonstrate otherwise. Widespread violence, they argue, is in fact an expression of the underlying social order, and whether it is carried out by military forces or by patterns of investment, the aim is to strengthen that order for the benefit of the powerful.

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‘Some Suburb of Hell’: America’s New Concentration Camp System
Andrea Pitzer | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

On Monday [17 Jun 2019], New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to US border detention facilities as “concentration camps,” spurring a backlash in which critics accused her of demeaning the memory of those who died in the Holocaust. Debates raged over a label for what is happening along the southern border and grew louder as the week rolled on. -A Brief History of US Concentration Camps-

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(Português) Governo brasileiro já liberou 197 agrotóxicos este ano
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

21 jun 2019 – Brasil tem 2263 agrotóxicos liberados, 31 aprovados somente no mês passado.

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The World’s Largest Oil Reserves by Country
Jessica Dillinger | World Atlas – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

Proven oil reserves are those that have a reasonable certainty of being recoverable under existing economic and political conditions, with existing technology. 1 Venezuela, 2 Saudi Arabia, 3 Canada, 4 Iran, 5 Iraq, 6 Kuwait, 7 UAE, 8 Russia, 9 Libya, 10 USA

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(Français) La complexité mystique et autres mythes de la création d’Israël
Thomas Suarez | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

12 Juin 2019 – Israël, Palestine. Juifs, Arabes. Gaza, Jérusalem. Des affrontements qui remontent à la nuit des temps, insolubles, entend-on! Mais dans « Comment le terrorisme a créé Israël », Thomas Suarez examine les débuts de la question israélo-palestinienne: les centaines d’attentats à la bombe et de massacres de civils perpétrés par les mouvements sionistes juifs jusqu’en 1948 pour chasser les Palestiniens, mais aussi frapper l’administration britannique et les juifs « non-coopérants ». S’agit-il de terrorisme? Les sionistes ne faisaient-ils que se défendre? Thomas Suarez élague la question dans l’introduction de son livre que nous vous invitons à découvrir.

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The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction
John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

10 Jun 2019 – Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state. It’s been 70 years since Orwell depicted the ominous rise of ubiquitous technology, fascism and totalitarianism in ‘1984’. Who could have predicted that after Orwell typed the final words to his dystopian novel, “He loved Big Brother,” we would fail to heed his warning and come to love Big Brother.

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(Português) MapBiomas revela que 95% do desmatamento no Brasil é ilegal
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

10 jun 2019 – Já foi possível detectar no Brasil uma área desmatada de 89.741 hectares, o que equivale a duas vezes e meia o tamanho de Belo Horizonte.

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The American Dream Is Alive and Well—in China
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

14 Jun 2019 – Unlike the U.S. government, the Chinese government supports its workers and its industries. Rather than penalizing China for that “unfair” trade practice, perhaps the U.S. government should try doing the same. China’s legacy is socialist, and after opening to international trade it has continued to serve the collective good, particularly of its workers. Meanwhile, the U.S. model has been regressing into feudalism, with workers driven into slave-like conditions through debt.

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EU Blasted for Ever Closer Cooperation with Terror Regime in Israel
Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

12 Jun 2019 – One hundred and fifteen European researchers and academics have delivered a stinging rebuke to Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission. “Public funds contributed by European taxpayers are channeled to a country that not only disregards human rights but also uses the most advanced knowledge and technology for the very violation of human rights…. This is not compatible with the values Europe upholds.”

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The Thought Police Are Coming
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

11 Jun 2019 – The oppression of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange heralds a frightening new totalitarianism.

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When Secular Israelis Claim “God Gave This Land to Us”
Rabbi Brant Rosen | Shalom Rav – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

23 May 2019 – Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, created something of viral sensation last week when, during a speech in the Security Council, he dramatically brandished a Bible and declared, “This is the deed to our land.” He then continued:

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‘Mirthless Laugh’ – The Persecution and Torture of Julian Assange
Editorial | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

11 Jun 2019 – As Melzer says, corporate media have an astonishing power to influence what we think. We are all vulnerable to the impact of numerous, apparently independent and impartial journalists all insisting that Assange is a vile narcissist, that Jeremy Corbyn is a dangerous anti-semite, that Nicolas Maduro is a brutal dictator, that Gaddafi is planning a vast massacre, that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction that pose a genuine threat to the West, that Iran is working on a ‘nuclear trigger’, and so on.

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Democratic Ownership Funds: Creating Shared Wealth and Power
Peter Gowan and Mat Lawrence | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

12 Jun 2019 – A combination of concentrated wealth, the primacy of shareholder interest in shaping company behavior, and the institutional weakness of labour has helped turn many companies into engines of wealth extraction for external owners, institutional investors, and senior management, often at the expense of the workers and communities who generate value. Any attempt to transform our economy will therefore require reshaping company ownership so that it is democratic, inclusive, and purposeful by design.

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Lao Tzu on Living an Inspired and Peaceful Life
Azriel ReShel | Uplift – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

When you succeed in connecting your energy with the divine realm through high awareness and the practice of undiscriminating virtue, the transmission of the ultimate subtle truths will follow. – Lao Tzu

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Facing the Facts: Israel Cannot Escape ICC Jurisdiction
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

5 Jun 2019 – Israeli war crimes must not go unpunished; Israel’s judicial system is untrustworthy, and the ICC has the legal right and moral duty to carry out the will of the international community and hold to account those responsible for war crimes anywhere, including Israel.

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Mexico Releases the Full Text of Trump’s Immigration “Deal”
Rachel Withers | Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

15 Jun 2019 – It is less a deal and more an agreement to discuss a future agreement.

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Tax Bads, Not Goods
L. Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

We’ve long taxed various sins. While some confuse the purpose of sin taxes, it should be clear that the purpose of taxing bads is not to “raise revenue” but to “reduce sin”. We want to reduce the sin of smoking. Of polluting. Of high-speed trading. I’m always surprised when my progressive friends see the “Tobin Tax” (financial transactions tax) as a potentially great source of tax revenue to “pay for” all the goodies they’d like government to provide.

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(Italiano) La ‘vergogna’ di volare?!
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

10 Giugno 2019 – Di solito, quando dico che mi sposto più volentieri in treno, la prima domanda è «come mai, hai paura di volare?» Quando cerco di spiegare che non ho paura, e che la mia è una scelta ambientalista mi guardano con ironia e un po’ di compassione: «non è con quella scelta – dicono – che cambi la situazione…».

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Before the High Court of Australia: The Case of [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi
Rawan Arraf | OpinioJuris – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

10 Jun 2019 – In March 2018, the Attorney-General of Australia refused to consent to a private prosecution against Aung San Suu Kyi for crimes against humanity. This month, the High Court of Australia will hear a petition seeking review of this decision. On 16 March 2018, on behalf of members of the Australian Rohingya community, a private prosecution application was filed in Melbourne’s Magistrates’ Court laying an indictment for crimes against humanity offences against Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Nukes and Misdirected “Manhood” in Washington, D.C.
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | DWF News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

12 Jun 2019 – In “Unmaking War, Remaking Men” Dr. Kathleen Barry describes how many men suffer from “core masculinity,” meaning, these men psychologically experience the possession of nuclear weapons and a large military force as increasing their (unconscious) sense of manhood! Do we really want to trust our safety and that of our children to “modernized” nuclear missiles and to more plutonium pits, the triggers for nuclear bombs?

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(Italiano) L’albero di Achille
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

7 Giugno 2019 – Per prevenire i conflitti o per affrontarli e gestirli in modo umano, cioè senza violenza, è necessaria la pratica attiva della nonviolenza; e quest’ultima è possibile solo se di essa si conoscono i principi, lo spirito e le tecniche. E’ quindi necessario studiare, praticare, insegnare e propagandare questi principi e queste tecniche, adottandoli in primo luogo nella propria vita individuale e diffondendoli con il buon esempio e la coerenza di vita, prima ancora che con le parole e con gli scritti (Achille Croce, I mezzi della pace)

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Obscuring the Responsibility to Protect in Palestine
David Palumbo-Liu | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019

Clearly the spirit of the democratic revolutions linked together power and responsibility in a way radically different from noblesse oblige—the obligation of the privileged to act with generosity toward the less privileged. The revolutionaries wanted rulers in a liberal democracy to be held accountable to the citizens and established institutions and laws to solidify and disambiguate that relationship. Of course, those in power have proven over and over again their capacity to obfuscate that relationship and avoid the law.

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(Italiano) Frattanto, nel mondo
Johan Galtung e Antonio C. S. Rosa | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

In effetti, sembriamo essere giunti al punto di essere noi stessi i nostri peggiori nemici, come maggior causa di morte e di ferimento da violenza e guerra. Eppure ci riferiamo a noi stessi come “intelligenti”, in cerca ovunque di qualcosa altrettanto “intelligente”.

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(Français) Comment la guerre de l’Occident en Libye a stimulé le terrorisme dans 14 pays
Mark Curtis | Entelekheia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

4 Juin 2019 – Huit ans après la guerre de l’OTAN en Libye de 2011, alors que le pays entre dans une nouvelle phase de son conflit, j’ai fait le point sur le nombre de pays dans lesquels le terrorisme s’est propagé comme un produit direct de cette guerre. Le nombre est d’au moins 14.

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(Português) Biografia de Fernando Pessoa (13 jun 1888 – 30 nov 1935)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

Fernando Pessoa foi um poeta português, um dos mais importantes da língua portuguesa. Foi editor, astrólogo, publicitário, tradutor técnico, jornalista, empresário, crítico literário e crítico político. Nasceu e morreu em Lisboa, Portugal. Ficou órfão de pai aos 5 anos. Sua morte prematura, aos 47 anos, foi consequencia de beber álcool em excesso pois apresentou cirrose hepática.

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An Answer to the Question, ‘Why Do You Care so much about Palestine/Israel?’
Joel Doerfler | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

Had I been a staunch defender of Israel the student probably wouldn’t have found my emotional investment surprising. Especially since I was avowedly Jewish it would have seemed to him “normal” for me to be teaching a class extolling Zionism and Israel. But what could be driving a Jew to invest so much critical energy in the subject? It was an honest question.

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The Murdering of Julian Assange
Peter Koenig | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

3 Jun 2019 – Julian Assange is being slowly murdered by “Her Majesty’s Prison Service” at Belmarsh prison in the south-east of London. The prison is notorious for holding people who have never been charged with a crime indefinitely. It is also called the British version of Guantanamo, and, typically used to detain so-called terrorists.

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Forget GDP — New Zealand Is Prioritizing Gross National Well-Being
Sigal Samuel | Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

8 Jun 2019 – We usually think of a country’s wealth or capital in terms of its gross domestic product. But New Zealand challenged the world to assess it in terms of a very different commodity, as the country released the first-ever “well-being budget” on May 30.

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Kierkegaard on the Individual vs. the Crowd, Why We Conform, and the Power of the Minority
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

“Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.”

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“Peace Is Possible” All-Day Summit
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

We are happy to announce our “Peace Is Possible” All-Day Summit. A free event, held at Initiatives of Change in LONDON on 17 June 2019. Panel debates will follow each film and speech.

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Genocide Is an Act of State and Demands Response by Other States
John Packer | Open Global Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

The Myanmar state can and must be held accountable for the genocide being perpetrated against the Rohingya, a point lost in largely illusory efforts to pursue international criminal trials of individuals.

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Environmental Justice in Palestine: Rights of Natives to Their Environment versus Colonial Onslaught
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

Although Palestinians have long identified their relationship to their land as a key aspect of their struggle for self-determination, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is rarely discussed as a struggle for environmental justice. This situation is not really a conflict since the word conflict implies equal or almost equal parties. It is a colonial onslaught on natives who have little by way of self-defense abilities. It originally derived from international sources and for most of its history was internationalized. It must therefore be brought to a resolution through an international effort that returns dignity and sovereignty to the local people.

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The ‘Great Dying’ Nearly Erased Life on Earth. Scientists See Similarities to Today
Christopher Joyce | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

4 Jun 2019 – There was a time when life on Earth almost blinked out. The “Great Dying,” the biggest extinction the planet has ever seen, happened some 250 million years ago and was largely caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Now scientists are beginning to see alarming similarities between the Great Dying and what’s currently happening to our atmosphere.

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(Português) Brasil Já Perdeu 85,5% da Floresta Nativa da Mata Atlântica
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

Brasil precisa criar 262 mil quilômetros quadrados de unidades de conservação para proteger, pelo menos, 10% dos seus biomas, fora a Amazônia.

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The Climate Crisis Is Our Third World War. It Needs a Bold Response
Joseph Stiglitz | Nobel Economics Laureate – The Guardian, 10 Jun 2019

4 Jun 2019 – Advocates of the Green New Deal say there is great urgency in dealing with the climate crisis and highlight the scale and scope of what is required to combat it. They are right. They use the term “New Deal” to evoke the massive response by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the United States government to the Great Depression. An even better analogy would be the country’s mobilization to fight World War II.

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Modern Money Theory: The Basics
L. Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

So here’s an attempt to put the fears of Krugman and Post Keynesians to rest. There is a symmetry between bank lending and government spending. I also hope to help clarify things for a third group—the “debt-free money” folks who want Uncle Sam to spend “debt-free money”. Short answer: depending on how you look at it, he either already does, or cannot ever do so.

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Myanmar’s [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Is Turning Far-Right
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019

8 Jun 2019 – Pictures from Budapest of a smiling Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi shaking hands with Viktor Orban, Hungary’s president, strikes fear for my Muslim friends back home in Myanmar, including the systematically persecuted Rohingya. The two reportedly exchanged their unconcealed fear and loathing of Muslims and migrants.

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Enrolling Winnie-the-Pooh’s Companions in Climate Change Discourse
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

29 May 2019 – Produced in commemoration of the recent destruction of the Hundred Acre Wood — and in anticipation of further environmental challenges.

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What Greed Has Done
Chris Hedges | Bill Moyers – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

1 May 2019 – Real Journalism (Must Watch): Bill Moyers interviews former correspondent of New York Times Chris Hedges about his new book, Days of Destruction–Days of Revolt, on the destruction of America’s manufacturing base and the effect that unfettered and unregulated capitalism has had on the poor and vulnerable.

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Open Letter to UN SG Concerning Iran
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

27 May 2019 – The repeated threats of war against and sanctions on Iran contain very dangerous dynamics – for Iran, the region and the world – that could easily spin out of control. The situation is such that the UN Secretary-General must be urged to take action in accordance with the UN Charter.

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Court Docs: Monsanto Paid Chemical Industry Front Group to Claim Cancer-Causing Weedkiller ‘Safe’ and Attack Its Critics
Bill Walker | Environmental Working Group – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

29 May 2019 – Emails show that in February 2015, Monsanto was working with ACSH to prepare for the expected fallout from a pending report on the safety of glyphosate by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

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After Neoliberalism
Joseph E. Stiglitz | Nobel Laureate Economic Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

30 May 2019 – For the past 40 years, the United States and other advanced economies have been pursuing a free-market agenda of low taxes, deregulation, and cuts to social programs. There can no longer be any doubt that this approach has failed spectacularly; the only question is what will – and should – come next.

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(Português) Pelo de Cânhamo É Alternativa Vegana ao Pelo de Origem Animal
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais | Stylo Urbano – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

A empresa ucraniana DevoHome, fabricante de tecidos à base de fibra de cânhamo, desenvolveu um inovador pelo de cânhamo como alternativa natural e vegana ao pelo verdadeiro e pelo sintético à base de petróleo. O material é feito de 50% de cânhamo e 50% de viscose.

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The Perils of Financialization
Lyndsey Jefferson and Matthew Oxenford | Chatham House – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

28 May 2019 – The enduring risks of the financial sector in the global economy and how the mistakes of the 2008 financial crisis continue to resonate. Financialization – it’s a bit of a buzzword, but what does it actually mean? In the most general sense, it means that financial services are taking up a larger and larger portion of the global economy. There are really two different types of financialization if you want to talk about this broadly.

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Big Pharma and Organized Crime–They Are More Similar than You May Think
Carolanne Wright | Wake up World – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

If you believe pharmaceutical corporations hold the health of the general public in high regard, it’s time to reconsider. The industry is filled with examples of wrongful death, extortion, fraud, corruption, obstruction of justice, embezzlement, fake journals, harassment and hit lists that would make even the most hardened Mafia godfather blush. Big Pharma has been fined billions by the U.S. Department of Justice, but these enormous fines don’t curb the corruption, it’s just looked upon as “the cost of doing business,” similar to paying the utilities.

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Marxist Economic Theory Easily Explained
Richard Wolff | The Jimmy Dore Show – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

Richard David Wolff is an American Marxian economist known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, University of Utah, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and The Brecht Forum. In 1988 he co-founded the journal Rethinking Marxism. In 2010, Wolff published Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It, also released as a DVD.

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Creationism versus Redemptionism: How a Money-Issuer Really Lends and Spends
L. Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

I will examine three analogous questions (each of which has the same answer):
1. Does the government need to receive tax revenue before it can spend?
2. Does the central bank need to receive reserve deposits before it can lend?
3. Do private banks need to receive demand deposits before they can lend?

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How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Confidence: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Self-Esteem
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

“I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood.”

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Find a Deal, and It Goes ‘Round, ‘Round, ‘Round, as It Spins Along…
Christine Barie and Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

Dealmaker?

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The Bankers’ “Power Revolution”: How the Government Got Shackled by Debt
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

31 May 2019 – The debt-growth model has reached its limits, as even the Bank for International Settlements, the “central bankers’ bank” in Switzerland, acknowledges. The BIS said that debt levels were too high, productivity growth was too low, and the room for policy maneuver was too narrow. “The global economy cannot afford to rely any longer on the debt-fueled growth model that has brought it to the current juncture,” the BIS warned. But the solutions it proposed would continue the austerity policies long imposed on countries that cannot pay their debts.

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Jurisprudential Notes toward Empowering and Liberating International Law and the United Nations
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019

2 Jun 2019 – When law is aligned with injustice it gives rise to resistance, which historically is associated with the hallowed tradition of civil disobedience, influential with Tolstoy, Gandhi, and more recently, Martin Luther King, Jr. In these contexts civil disobedience can involve the nonviolent transgression of any legal norm that calls attention to the specific injustice.

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