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The Resignation of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Is Not All It Seems
Robert Fisk | The Independent – Reader Supported News,
13 Nov 2017
10 Nov 2017 – He certainly did not anticipate what happened to him. Indeed, Hariri had scheduled meetings in Beirut on the following Monday – with the IMF, the World Bank and a series of discussions on water quality improvement; not exactly the action of a man who planned to resign his premiership
→ read full article(Português) Por que você considera mais ético não se alimentar de animais?
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
— Porque se sou capaz de sobreviver sem me alimentar da privação, sofrimento e morte de outras criaturas sencientes, não vejo motivo para continuar contribuindo com essa violência.
→ read full articleTrump Only President Not Invited to Paris Climate Summit
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
After Syria signed on 6 Nov, the 197th country to join the treaty, the US was left the sole country in the world outside the accord.
→ read full articleWho Is the World’s Biggest Employer? The Answer Might Not Be what You Expect
Henry Taylor | World Economic Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
The U.S. Military [Department of Defense] has been named the largest employer in the world with 3.2 million employees on its payroll, according to the World Economic Forum.
→ read full articleWhy Socialism?
Albert Einstein | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1, 1949) but with undeniable relevance today. – “Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.”
→ read full articleThe Spiritual Sources of Legal Creativity: The Legacy of Father Miguel d’Escoto
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – Father Miguel d’Escoto was both the Foreign Minister of Sandinista Nicaragua and President of the UN General Assembly, as well as pastor to the poor in the spirit of Pope Francis, an extraordinary person who fused a practical engagement in the world with a deeply spiritual nature that affected all who were privileged to know and work with him.
→ read full articleBalfour: Then and Now
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
2 Nov 2017 – Today, November 2, is exactly 100 years after the issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the pledge given to the World Zionist Movement in a letter signed by the British Foreign Secretary to support the establishment of a ‘national home’ in the then Ottoman millet of Palestine. Certainly ‘a day of infamy’ for the Palestinian people and their friends around the world, while unfortunately treated as ‘a day of pride’ by the British Government, and all in the West those morally bankrupt enough to regret the passing of the colonial era, and to pretend without embarrassment that the Balfour legacy is something to celebrate, rather than to mourn, in the year 2017.
→ read full articleGood News at Last: World’s Largest Tropical Reforestation to Plant 73 Million Trees in Brazilian Amazon
Lorraine Chow| EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – The largest tropical reforestation effort in history aims to restore 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon by 2023. The multimillion dollar, six-year project, led by Conservation International, spans 30,000 hectares of land—the equivalent of the size of 30,000 soccer fields, or nearly 70,000 acres.
→ read full articleStand Up! Speak Out! To Prevent Nuclear War!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – The world may be closer to the brink of nuclear war than at any time in history! Click here to add your name to the People’s Peace Treaty. The People’s Peace Treaty will be sent to the governments and peoples of Korea, as well as to the U.S. government.
→ read full articleRequiem for the Promised Land
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – Sometime in the early 1900s my maternal grandparents threw caution to the wind and left Italy to settle in South Philadelphia… I wonder how they would feel, were they alive today, to know that a bright hard-working kid from the lower echelons of the ninety-nine percent would now have little chance to find a way; and that, come hell, high water, or both, the one percent would rather bring us all down than relinquish one ill-gotten buck.
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Ceeds of Peace 2017
Maya Soetoro-Ng, Ph.D. | Ceeds of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Maya Soetoro-Ng, Ph.D. is the founder of Ceeds of Peace. She is the maternal half-sister of the 44th U.S. President Barack Obama, has a rich background in global and multicultural education and lives in Hawaii. “We support and build bridges between families, community leaders and educators to share resources and develop action plans to strengthen our communities and improve our children’s lives.”
→ read full articleWho Is Afraid of the Iranian Bomb?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
4 Nov 2017 – I hate self-evident truths. Ideals may be self-evident. Political statements are not. When I hear about a self-evident political truth, I immediately doubt it. The most self-evident political truth at this moment concerns Iran. Iran is our deadly enemy. Iran wants to destroy us. We must destroy its capabilities first.
→ read full articleCatalunya: Culture of War or Culture of Peace?
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – It seems that the people of Catalunya will vote in December whether to declare independence from Spain, i.e. to form a separate state. If someone were to ask my advice about this election, I would say that it risks becoming a decision to move Catalunya towards the culture of war. There are good alternative for Catalunya, apart from secession.
→ read full articleIndia’s Rohingya Realpolitik
Niranjan Sahoo | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
India’s muted reaction to the Rohingya exodus from Myanmar/Burma is worthy of note, as there had been high expectations that it would help diffuse this state-orchestrated humanitarian crisis.
→ read full articleGandhi’s 1940 Letter to Adolf Hitler: Seek Peace or Someone Will ‘Beat You with Your Own Weapon’
Harrison Jacobs | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Mohandas Gandhi, frequently known by the honorific Mahatma (meaning “great soul”), was famous for advocating civil disobedience and nonviolence to achieve his goals. Here is the full version, which is the longer of Gandhi’s two letters to Hitler.
→ read full articleLao Tzu’s Four Rules for Living – How to Live an Inspired and Peaceful Life
Azriel ReShel | Films For Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
22 Oct 2017 – Many centuries ago, Lao Tzu, spoke of the four cardinal virtues, teaching that when we practice them as a way of life, we come to know the truth of the universe. The ancient Chinese master said that living and practicing these teachings can open you to higher wisdom and greater happiness, as they realign you to the source and enable you to access all the powers that source energy has to offer.
→ read full article(Français) « Le monde malade de la finance »
Henri Houben | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Jamais dans l’histoire, la finance n’a pris autant de place. Jamais elle n’a brassé des sommes aussi gigantesques. Les échanges quotidiens de devises se montent à plus de 5.000 milliards de dollars. Cela correspond à deux-trois jours de réserves dans toutes les banques centrales du monde. La dette des ménages, des entreprises et des pouvoirs publics à l’égard des établissements de crédit représente environ deux fois et demie le Produit intérieur brut (PIB) dans les Etats les plus puissants.
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Gandhian Strategy
Sunanda Sharma | Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal & Gandhi Research Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
The Gandhian strategy is the combination of truth, sacrifice, nonviolence, selfless service and cooperation. According to Gandhi one should be brave and not a coward and should present his views, suggestions and thoughts without being violent. One should fight a war with the weapons of truth and nonviolence. Gandhi said that “There is no god higher than truth.” According to his thoughts, nonviolence is ultimate solution of every kind of problem in the world.
→ read full articleHow Israel Forces Confessions from Jerusalem Boys
Maureen Clare Murphy | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
26 Oct 2017 – Abuse of child detainees part of wider aim to encourage Palestinians to leave the city.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Nach dem Ende des Dialogs – gegen den Bürgerkrieg
Mario Candeias | Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Die Erklärung der Unabhängigkeit in Katalonien und Rajoys Reaktion
→ read full articleReimagining Intercourse between the Righteous Unrightly Challenged
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Attraction and Harassment in Psychodynamic Terms beyond the Binary Blame-Game
→ read full articleNew Study Confirms High-Pesticide Produce Linked to Lower Fertility Rates
Dan Nosowitz | Modern Farmer, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
2 Nov 2017 – Studies have previously tied higher rates of exposure to pesticides to decreased male fertility. But a new study from researchers at Harvard University takes a look specifically at women who are already undergoing infertility treatment. And the results seem to have surprised even the researchers.
→ read full articleOrganizations Warn Covert Geoengineering Programs Fuel Unprecedented Firestorms
Dane Wigington | Geoengineering Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
2 Nov 2017 – The extremely destructive and deadly firestorms in California were not simply an act of nature or a result of global warming. Extensive and compelling evidence implicates “climate intervention” programs (also known as “geoengineering”) as a major factor in the firestorm catastrophes. Geoengineering is the science term that applies to processes of climate intervention on a global scale. Climate engineering programs are completely disrupting natural weather and climate cycles all over the world, destroying the ozone layer, and decreasing the overall hydrological cycle (which, in turn, fuels record drought and firestorms).
→ read full articleA Tax on the Arms Trade to Fund Peacebuilding?
Michael Brzoska | Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
An old idea has recently come up again in the search for new funds for peacebuilding.
→ read full article(Italiano) Frattanto, nel mondo…
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
18 ottobre 2017 -C’è stato quello che può risultare il più violento massacro bianco USA di sempre: 59 uccisi dal 32° piano di un albergo di Las Vegas. L’assassino viene ora criminalizzato, psichiatrizzato, individualizzato, caratterizzato. Ma il massacro è stato sistematico; con potenti forze per la competizione e per la violenza; ne consegue come la competizione USA sia la più violenta.
→ read full articlePraying for the Moths and Beetles
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 – “. . . insects as a group are in terrible trouble and the remorselessly expanding human enterprise has become too much, even for them.” And instantly I’m beyond the realm of anything I know, as I consider the gradual disappearance not of whales but of . . . beetles, moths and hoverflies, thanks to the human enterprise we call civilization.
→ read full article(Français) Élections régionales au Venezuela : large victoire du chavisme et… nouvelle défaite de la droite et des médias
Thierry Deronne | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017 – Les bolivariens remportent une large victoire avec 17 états contre 5 pour l’opposition. Celle-ci gagne notamment dans les états stratégiques de Mérida, Táchira, Zulia, proches de la Colombie, foyers de violence paramilitaire. Les bolivariens récupèrent trois états historiquement gouvernés par la droite.
→ read full articleMyanmar Shows Off Its Israeli Weapons
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017 – Myanmar has been showing off its new gunboats, confirming that Israel is supplying the country with weapons in spite of official secrecy. Amid ethnic cleansing of Rohingya, Israel envoy offers PR advice.
→ read full articleChina Just Shut Down Thousands of Factories to Fight Pollution
Global Citizen | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
24 Oct 2017 – In an unprecedented crackdown on pollution, the Chinese government shut down tens of thousands of factories in an effort to improve air quality throughout industrial regions in the country.
→ read full articleJFK Files: Cover-Up Continues of President’s Assassination
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
28 Oct 2017 – The murder of President John F Kennedy 54 years ago has been described as the “crime of the century”. If US and Western news media cannot discuss this seminal event openly and honestly, let alone investigate it, then what does that say about their credibility? Among the many crucial witnesses recorded over the years, here below are a select few. Their testimonies show that the murder of Kennedy was a much darker “crime of the century” than the mainstream media would ever explore.
→ read full articlePickled Cucumbers
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
28 Oct 2017 – HALLELUJAH! AT long last I have found a point on which I agree with Binyamin Netanyahu. Really!
→ read full articleA Polemic against Liberal Analyses of the Rohingya Crisis
Tim Frewer | Tea Circle Oxford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
19 Oct 2017 – In this time of suffering it is crucial to remain indefatigable to the political realities of a slow burning genocide. Rather than obscuring the forces and processes that allow large scale violence to occur, it is urgent to keep these forces and their effects at the centre of accounts of the unfolding tragedy. The way events are framed and talked about have important political ramifications at all levels. It is the political feebleness of liberal analysis that makes it ideal as a discursive tool on the part of so many states and actors that wish to remain apathetic towards the Rohingya cause.
→ read full articleShifting Blame as US Agenda Unfolds in Myanmar
Tony Cartalucci | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 – Suu Kyi’s regime will continue being granted relative impunity across the West despite the fact that it is her own support base carrying out anti-Rohingya violence. The crisis will be leveraged to thwart China’s economic inroads and prop up a burgeoning US-European diplomatic and military presence in the country. Voices across the media exposing US plans will make it increasingly difficult for the US and its partners to maneuver in Myanmar.
→ read full articleHow the United States Crippled Haiti’s Rice Industry
Leslie Mullin | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
The story of Haitian rice begins in Africa, where rice has sustained African peoples for centuries. Rice was so basic to the West African diet that it was an essential provision on slave ships, accompanying captive Africans to Brazil, the Caribbean and the southern United States. Today, testament to 10 million souls kidnapped from their homeland, every region touched by the African diaspora has its own unique version of rice and beans.
→ read full articleNorway’s Parliament Must Change Its Routine for Selection of the Nobel Committee and Legislators Must Comply with the Law
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017 – The Storting must choose those best suited to promote Nobel’s intention. The prize has long been disconnected from the peace ideas Nobel wished to support; it has lacked direction, idea, and of will to challenge the belief in military power. A promising winner for 2017 is reason for hope that the prize will improve. The parliament will select a new Nobel Committee only in a month’s time–and we fear the worst.
→ read full articleMyanmar Must Nurture Its People as Assets, Not Treat Them as ‘Threats’
Maung Zarni | Dainik Shiksha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
22 Oct 2017 – “In society at large, Islamophobia, dating back to the colonial era and violent anti-Rohingya racism have poisoned the minds of a generally acquiescing and decent public.”
→ read full articleMissing Links for Peace, Civility, Social Well-Being
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
We will keep missing out if we insist on relying solely on our intellect, acquired knowledge, reason and intelligence; human potential encompasses much more. The process of living peacefully rests also on degrees of spiritual-emotional [not religious] evolution. It all starts and grows within the individual and then manifests into society in myriad ways. Or not.
→ read full articleWildfires Rage through Portugal and Spain, Kill at Least 39
Climate Nexus | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017 – Wildfires have killed at least 39 people in Spain and Portugal since Sunday [15 Oct]. Sixty-four people died in a wildfire in Portugal in June, and the country has declared a state of emergency in the northern region. “We are facing new (weather) conditions” due to climate change, the Portuguese Interior Minister told the press, as she also referenced the fires blazing in California.
→ read full article(Français) La motricité mutilée. L’empreinte écomotrice, c’est quoi?
Carlos Perez | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Écologue du mouvement, Carlos Perez poursuit sa réflexion au sujet de l’impact de notre modèle de production sur la santé et le bien-être des travailleurs. Il explique en quoi l’empreinte écomotrice permet d’évaluer cet impact. Il pointe également le paradoxe du moment : alors que tout semble mis en œuvre pour préserver l’environnement, l’exploitation des travailleurs est toujours poussée plus loin. N’y aurait-il aucun lien entre la protection de la nature et celle de l’être humain ?
→ read full articleCrisis Deepens for Rohingya Refugees
Maryanne Murray Buechner | UNICEF USA – Forbes,
23 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – A newly-released report from UNICEF entitled, Outcast and Desperate: Rohingya refugee children face a perilous future. The report details the deepening crisis that is unfolding in southeast Bangladesh: an influx of more than half a million Rohingya, fleeing horrific violence in neighboring Myanmar.
→ read full articleRohingya Crisis Ruled as Genocide by Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal
Ali MC | Right Now/Human Rights in Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017 – The International Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal ruled the current Rohingya crisis as unequivocally “war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide”, denouncing the UN’s use of the term ethnic cleansing as a “euphemism.” The Tribunal also affirmed that the election of Aung San Suu Kyi had only brought about an “acceleration” of human rights abuses in an attempt to turn Myanmar into a “supreme Buddhist entity.”
→ read full article(Deutsch) Katalonienkrise: Die Staats-Nation ist das Problem
Hans-Ingo Radatz | Peira – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
In der andauernden Katalonienkrise ist stets nur von katalanischem Nationalismus die Rede; unser Autor warnt davor, darüber den spanischen Nationalismus zu übersehen, der einer Lösung vielleicht noch radikaler entgegensteht.
→ read full articleMore Than 75 Percent Decline Over 27 Years in Total Flying Insect Biomass in Protected Areas
Caspar A. Hallmann , Martin Sorg, et al. | PLOS One – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
18 Oct 2017 – German researchers have reported a rapid drop in the number of flying insects at dozens of natural reserves. Many of the reserves involved are surrounded by farms and pesticides could be to blame. According to the report, between 1989 and 2016 the biomass of flying insects captured in 63 different locations in Germany – including grasslands, swamps and sand dunes – decreased by a seasonal average of 76%.
→ read full articleNext System Media: An Urgent Necessity
Laura Flanders | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Laura Flanders, creator and host of the Laura Flanders Show, explores how new media models grounded in cooperation, community, and robust public support are needed to fight back against the corporate concentration that is strangling the public sphere.
→ read full articleWhat Everybody (Especially Pregnant Women) Should Know about Flu Shots
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
18 Oct 2017 – This column tries to de-mystify the aggressive annual campaign from Big Pharma, Big Media, Big Medicine to urge everybody to mindlessly “just get your damn shots” without being given a chance to think about it and perhaps ask about the potential downsides of getting the inoculation (look up “informed consent”).
→ read full article(Português) A perspectiva de Sócrates sobre a coisificação dos animais não humanos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Essas reflexões de Sócrates envolvendo a exploração animal e o consumo de carne vão ao encontro do estudo da virtude. Ele dizia que é mais importante a busca do desenvolvimento humano do que a busca pela riqueza material – um dos principais motivos da exploração de animais enquanto produtos.
→ read full articleIn China, a New Political Era Begins
Matthew Massee | Daily Digests – Other News,
23 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – The world has changed since modern China was founded, and it seems that China, not for the first time, is changing with it. When Mao Zedong established the republic in 1949, having fought a civil war to claim it, China was poor and unstable.
→ read full articleFraming Cyclic Revolutionary Emergence of Opposing Symbols of Identity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Eppur si muove: Biomimetic embedding of N-tuple helices in spherical polyhedral – The contrast to the geocentric model of the solar system was framed by Galileo Galilei. His much-cited phrase, ” And yet it moves” (E pur si muove or Eppur si muove) was pronounced in 1633 when he was forced to recant his claims that the Earth moves around the immovable Sun rather than the converse. The argument here assumes that much more is based on circles than is conventionally held to be the case.
→ read full articleHaiti in Crisis: What Next after the Stolen Election?
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
MINUSTAH, which has functioned as a colonial overseer since the 2004 coup, is set to scale down its operation, but will remain in Haiti as United Nations Mission For Justice Support. MINUJUSTH will consist of 1185 police officers, and will continue to train and support the Haitian National Police – the same police that beat, tear-gassed and shot pro-democracy protesters during the last electoral cycle.
→ read full articleProf. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.
→ read full article(Italiano) Trascendere le bombe atomiche
Diane Perlman | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
9 ottobre 2017 – Sorprendentemente pochi sanno dello storico evento all’ONU – New York del 7 luglio 2017. È stato approvato da 122 stati un Trattato di Proibizione delle Armi Nucleari. Tutti gli stati con capacità nucleare militare, i loro alleati e gran parte dei membri NATO hanno boicottato i negoziati per la bozza del Trattato di Esclusione.
→ read full articleThe Balfour Declaration Destroyed Palestine, Not the Palestinian People
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
11 Oct 2017 – Some promises are made and kept; others disavowed. But the ‘promise’ made by Arthur James Balfour in what became known as the ‘Balfour Declaration’ to the leaders of the Zionist Jewish community in Britain one hundred years ago, was only honored in part: it established a state for the Jews and attempted to destroy the Palestinian nation.
→ read full articleThe Terrible Problem
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
14 Oct 2017 – This formula appears in the “Arab Peace Plan” devised by Saudi Arabia and officially accepted by the entire Muslim world. How would this look in practice? It means that every refugee family would be offered a choice between actual return and adequate compensation. Return – where? In a few extraordinary instances, their original village still stands empty. I can imagine some symbolic reconstruction of such villages – say two or three – by their former inhabitants.
→ read full articleTrump Moves towards War with Iran
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
12 Oct 2017 – With his speech today–half an hour ago–U.S. President Trump has taken a huge step into uncharted territories. One that implies a 60-75% risk of leading to a US attack on Iran. Behind him stand the hardline militarists whom he has himself appointed. Indeed, God help America! Mostly from itself!
→ read full articleRoger Waters Rocks On as Film Targets Him for Palestine Advocacy
Hadani Ditmars | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
A documentary accusing the veteran rock star of anti-Semitism is part of a smear campaign discrediting the BDS movement, say activists.
→ read full article‘Sri Lanka and Myanmar Are Ethnocratic States’ – Dr Maung Zarni
Bashana Abeywardane | Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
9 Oct 2017 – ‘Enemy of the State’ screamed the banner headline of a Burmese national newspaper in September, featuring full page photograph of Maung Zarni. More hatred follows, a week later. “These publications are run by a web of cronies, military propaganda division and racist monk or laymen’s networks’, says Zarni.
→ read full articleThe End of Empire
Chris Hedge | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around the globe. It is burdened by growing deficits, along with the devastating effects of deindustrialization and global trade agreements. Our democracy has been captured and destroyed by corporations that steadily demand more tax cuts, more deregulation and impunity from prosecution for massive acts of financial fraud, all the while looting trillions from the U.S. treasury in the form of bailouts.
→ read full article(Português) “Não há nada de origem animal disponível ao consumidor que não tenha envolvido algum tipo de exploração e violência”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Quem explora animais pode alegar que “ama seus animais”, mas objetivamente sabemos que não matamos nem impomos conscientemente privação e sofrimento a quem amamos, logo isso é insinceridade. O que quem explora animais ama é o retorno financeiro que esses animais são capazes de proporcionar a partir de seu sofrimento e morte.
→ read full articleWhy Is the US at War in West Africa?
Eddie Haywood | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
14 Oct 2017 – After its establishment in 2008 as an independent command, AFRICOM has significantly expanded American military influence and troop deployments on the African continent. Measuring the breadth of US military expansion is the construction of a $100 million base in Agadez in central Niger. Augmenting the special forces contingent in the region are military personnel stationed at several dozen bases and outposts including a US base in Garoua, Cameroon.
→ read full articleThe Flawed and Corrupted Genius of American Republicanism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
15 Oct 2017 – The odiousness of Trump’s presidency gives the people of America what might be their last chance to achieve political redemption for themselves and for others now and in the future who will drawn into the circle of extreme victimization unless this dynamic of renewal suddenly takes hold.
→ read full article4 April 1984, 4 April 1968, and the Legacies of George Orwell and Martin Luther King, Jr
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
12 Oct 2017 – I recently went to a theater production of George Orwell’s “1984” and also recently viewed the Ken Burns 10-episode documentary “The Vietnam War.” Given that both the documentary and the play have relevance in our increasingly proto-fascist, increasingly militarized nation, I have decided to re-publish a slightly revised version of my April 4, 2017 column about Orwell’s work of art and King’s critique of the Vietnam War.
→ read full articleThe One and Only Path to Palestine/Israel Sustainable Peace
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
12 Oct 2017 – We should accept our human responsibility to aid and abet the Palestinian struggle for rights, self-determination, and a just peace. The attainment of such goals would also inevitably reshape the destiny of Israeli Jews toward a more humanistic and benevolent future.
→ read full article(Français) Qu’est-ce que l’Ican, le lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix ?
François d’Alançon | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Cette coalition mondiale de plusieurs centaines d’ONG s’est mobilisée pour le traité d’interdiction de l’arme atomique, adopté par 122 pays le 7 juillet 2017 à l’ONU.
→ read full article(Português) Companhias suspeitas de financiarem a semi-escravidão em países subdesenvolvidos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
29 set 2017 – Companhias que, de acordo com Human Rights Watch, não fornecem informações claras sobre a origem de seus produtos, locais onde pessoas trabalham em más condições e por longas jornadas, em um regime de semi-escravidão. Grandes companhias que têm ajudado a financiar a exploração do trabalho infantil em países subdesenvolvidos:
→ read full article(Français) CUBA : Fidel et la Culture
Antonio Rodriguez Salvador | La Jiribilla – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Qu’aurait fait pour la culture, le commun des mortels à la tête d’un pays comme Cuba, dans les circonstances convulsives des premières années de la Révolution ? Si nous suivons la maxime bien connue du philosophe espagnol José Ortega y Gasset : « Je suis moi et ma circonstance », cette conjoncture historique particulière aurait probablement polarisé les actions du leader – s’il n’avait pas été Fidel – dans des aspects éloignés de la promotion culturelle…
→ read full articleA Cuban Mystery: The US Embassy in Havana
Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Since the fall of 2016, up to 21 diplomats at the US embassy have been affected by what is now being considered an attack–previously deemed as “incidents” … “Ultrasonic waves, beyond the acoustic capacity of humans, can be broadcast with an amplifier, and the device does not need to be large, or used inside or outside the house.” Havana has expressed consternation at the moves by the Trump administration, but is still hopeful in cooperation.
→ read full articleSeparation is Beautiful
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
7 Oct 2017 – The Knesset is busy with enacting the Nation Law, intended to make clear that the Jewishness of the Jewish State takes precedence over democracy and human rights. Israel has no constitution, but until now it was assumed that Israel was equally “Jewish” and “democratic”. The new law is about to abolish that notion. As usual, we are one or two centuries behind world history.
→ read full articleThey Thought They Were Going to Rehab. They Ended Up in Forced Labor Camps
Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter | Reveal - The Center for Investigative Reporting,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – The worst day of Brad McGahey’s life was the day a judge decided to spare him from prison. He had heard of Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery, people called it “the Chicken Farm.” Aside from daily cans of Dr Pepper, McGahey wasn’t addicted to anything. The judge knew that. But the Chicken Farm sounded better than prison.
→ read full articleThe Fight Ahead: 13 Questions about the Origins, Objectives and War on BDS
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – BDS stands for ‘Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions’. The BDS Movement was the outcome of several events that shaped the Palestinian national struggle and international solidarity. Building on a decades-long tradition of civil disobedience and popular resistance, and invigorated by growing international solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, Palestinians moved into action.
→ read full articleNobel’s Peace Prize to ICAN: Thank You to the Nobel Committee!
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Our thanks to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for awarding its 2017 Prize to ICAN – the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
→ read full articleStudy: Dangerous Pesticide Found in 75 Percent of the World’s Honey
Derrick Broze | Activist Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
6 Oct 2017 – A new study published in the journal Science, “A worldwide survey of neonicotinoids in honey,” examined 198 types of honey from around the world looking for traces of neonicotinoids, a class of pesticide that has been linked to declines in bee populations.
→ read full articleMass Shootings: The Military-Entertainment Complex’s Culture of Violence Turns Deadly
John W. Whitehead | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
“Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of violence cannot be abstracted from either the culture of business or the corruption of politics. Violence runs through US society like an electric current offering instant pleasure from all cultural sources, whether it be the nightly news or a television series that glorifies serial killers.”
→ read full articleDrugs and Guns Don’t Mix: Medication Madness, Military Madness and Mass Shootings
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Last Sunday, October 1, 2017, the US achieved a new record in the Guiness Book of Records for Mass Murders (a fictitious book) when a mass murderer in Las Vegas, Nevada, ambushed a crowd 20,000 innocent country music festival attendees in the street 32 stories below his hotel room.
→ read full articlePerpetrators of Genocide Say They’re ‘Good People’
Jeff Grabmeier | Ohio State University News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
5 Oct 2017 – Study Examined Testimony of Defendants in Rwandan Violence – The men who were tried for their role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that killed up to 1 million people want you to know that they’re actually very good people. Researchers found that an “appeal to good character” was used by defendants more than all other explanations combined to say why they weren’t guilty of the horrible crimes they were accused of committing.
→ read full articleHow a 3-Day Fast Resets Your Immune System
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The benefits of fasting are many and various. Fasting supports good health by promoting a healthy body weight, encouraging normal cognitive function, and even facilitating detoxification. Now, research has also shown that fasting may help reset the immune system.
→ read full articleCoca-Cola Produced More Than 110 Billion Plastic Bottles Last Year
Andrew McMaster | Global Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Amidst growing marine pollution, Greenpeace is applying pressure on the soft drink multinational.
→ read full articleSuing Oil Companies to Pay for Climate Change?
Seth Shulman | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
A new peer-reviewed study published in the journal Climatic Change sheds new light on fossil fuel producers’ liability. While previous research had shown that a relative handful of companies were responsible for more than 60 percent of greenhouse gases, the authors of the new study succeeded in tracing specific climate damages—including increased temperatures and sea level rise—to the products sold by individual companies such as Chevron and ExxonMobil.
→ read full articleWWF: 60% of Global Biodiversity Loss Due to Land Cleared for Meat-Based Diets
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
5 Oct 2017 – A new report from the World Wildlife Fund highlights how the livestock industry gobbles up a massive amount of land, leading to wide-scale biodiversity loss. Producing the animal feed for meat- and dairy-heavy Western diets uses up a lot of the planet’s precious resources.
→ read full articleU.S. Killing Fields
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The details of the Oct 1 massacre in Las Vegas continue to unfold. At least 59 people dead and more than 525 injured at a country music concert. The mass shooter — a white, multi-millionaire, American sniper armed to the teeth and perched in a 32nd floor luxury hotel room. The U.S. #1 export product – violence – is coming home to roost. Violence begets violence. What goes around comes around.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize 2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
8 Oct 2017 – What the BAN Treaty achieves, and the Nobel Prize recognizes, is that the cleavage is now clear between international law and geopolitics with respect to nuclear weapons. The BAN Treaty provides likeminded governments and animated citizen pilgrim throughout the world with a roadmap for closing the gap from the side of law and morality.
→ read full articleVisiting Nuremberg, Reflecting on the Ambiguous Legacies of Nuremberg
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 – I spent two days at Nuremberg to attend the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award ceremony on September 22, 2017. The reason we were in Nuremberg was that my wife had been a member of an international jury that selects an awardee every second year.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mondo, dove stai andando?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
E’ morto Liu Xiaobo. Qual è la – non così occultata – verità su di lui?
Risposta: I suoi discorsi e scritti rivelano entusiasmo per i 100 anni di colonizzazione inglese di Hong Kong, auspicando 300 anni di colonizzazione della Cina, commemorando la guerra USA in Afghanistan, manifestando speranza nelle armi nucleari. Ha ottenuto il Premio Nobel per la Pace per la democratizzazione della Cina, ha avuto libertà di parola, ma il premio è stato inteso come una provocazione. Il premio avrebbe potuto essere assegnato fuor di dubbio alla loro Charta 08, non a Liu Xiaobo.
(Italiano) Arrivederci, a… (chissà)!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
29 settembre 2017 – Ce l’abbiam fatta! Per cinquecento lunedì [dal 3 Marzo 2008] Antonio del Brasile-Portogallo ha pubblicato un mio editoriale dalla Norvegia e dal mondo – talora con un coautore. Con il valido sostegno degli altri membri del nostro comitato editoriale, Malvin Gattinger della Germania, Naakow Grant-Hayford del Ghana ed Erika Degortes dell’Italia. GRAZIE!
→ read full articlePugwash Welcomes the Completion of Chemical Weapons Destruction by Russia
Sergio Duarte | Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed on 27 Sep 2017 that the verified destruction of those chemical weapons possessed by the Russian Federation has been completed. Pugwash welcomes this important achievement and congratulates the Russian Federation and the OPCW for their efforts, as well as the many countries and experts who have assisted in this program.
→ read full articleHow US Military Outsourcing Turned Toxic
Abrahm Lustgarten | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Fraud. Bribery. Incompetence. The military’s use of contractors adds to a legacy of environmental damage.
→ read full articleToday Is the Day
Robert F. Dodge, M.D. | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Today, Sep 26, is the International Day for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. This day draws attention to the international commitment to global nuclear disarmament as expressed in Art. 6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It also highlights the lack of progress by the nine nuclear nations that hold the rest of the world hostage with their nuclear arsenals.
→ read full article(Français) Crise des Rohingya: pourquoi le Myanmar n’est pas la Syrie
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
28 Sep 2017 – De nombreux analystes et commentateurs de géopolitique ont noté pas mal de similitudes valables entre la crise syrienne et celle qui se déroule maintenant au Myanmar, dans l’Asie du Sud-Est. Toutefois, les différences sont aussi importantes que les similitudes entre ces deux crises. « Aider les lecteurs à comprendre les différents aspects de la crise actuelle au Myanmar en comparant ces différents aspects au conflit toujours en cours en Syrie peut être instructif. Cependant, tirer des conclusions complètes sur les enjeux du conflit du Myanmar en supposant simplement qu’il s’agit d’une répétition des opérations occidentales en Syrie, c’est se tromper fondamentalement ».
→ read full article(Castellano) Fidel y la Cultura
Antonio Rodríguez Salvador | La Jiribilla – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Sep 2017 – Del genio de Fidel extrañaremos bastante; quizá más que nada su especial sentido del momento histórico; esa extraordinaria capacidad de penetrar la esencia de las cosas, para emprender acciones de éxito donde otros las pospondrían escudándose en una supuesta falta de “condiciones objetivas”. Por ejemplo, ¿qué habría hecho por la cultura el común de los mortales, de haber dirigido un país como Cuba, en medio de la convulsa circunstancia de aquellos primeros años de la Revolución?
→ read full articleMy Ethnographic Moment: In Rome
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
What struck me, in contrast to the U.S, Germany, even France, where I have recently been is that Italy, and specifically Rome, is a deep culture that works for its working and middle classes, or put less structurally, for ‘ordinary people.’ Of course, this is an impression, but for me a rather convincing one, and harmonious with a morning cappuccino and croissant.
→ read full articleLondon Peace Study Day & March Report
Alberto Portugheis | Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation– TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
I would like to invite our TRANSCEND friends to look at some photos of the recent Peace Study Day and March organized by HUFUD in London. We consider it a success and thank all who participated in the event. To see photos & reports please click HERE
→ read full article(Italiano) La verità di Gandhi: porre fine alla violenza umana, un passo alla volta
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
La ricorrenza di Gandhi Jayanti – il 2 Ottobre, offre l’opportunità di riflettere sulla violenza umana e di prendere in considerazione dei modi per porle fine. Ci può essere una via rapida per metter fine alla violenza umana, ma – se c’è – Gandhi non la conosceva. Né la conosco io. E neppure altri di cui ho letto o che ho interpellato. Ma questo non vuol dire che non ci siano vie per porre fine alla violenza umana.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Stories
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
29 Sep 2017 – This is the story: at 7 o’clock in the morning, an Arab approached the gate of Har Adar, took out a loaded pistol and shot three of the guards in the head at close range. But there is another story, too. The story as seen by the man himself.
→ read full articleThe Search for a New Humility: Václav Havel on Reclaiming Our Human Interconnectedness in a Globalized Yet Divided World
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
The main task in the coming era is a radical renewal of our sense of responsibility. Our conscience must catch up to our reason, otherwise we are lost. It is my profound belief that there is only one way to achieve this: we must divest ourselves of our egotistical anthropocentrism, our habit of seeing ourselves as masters of the universe who can do whatever occurs to us. We must discover a new respect for what transcends us: for the universe, for the earth, for nature, for life, and for reality.
→ read full article(Português) Não adianta ser vegano no mundo em que vivemos? Adianta sim!
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
— Bom, eu não acho que estou fazendo uma grande diferença, eu acredito que estou fazendo a minha diferença. Quero dizer, faço o que faço porque acredito que é certo. Se serve para motivar outras pessoas, que bom. Mas mesmo que não servisse, eu não teria motivo para não seguir esse caminho. Mesmo que todas as pessoas à minha volta me contrariassem, eu continuaria. Afinal, minhas escolhas não são baseadas no que a maioria pensa. Até porque, se fosse, provavelmente não teríamos essa conversa.
→ read full articleThe Bloodstained Levelers: Disease and Destruction
Walter Scheidel | Princeton University Press/Aeon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel, Princeton University Press – Throughout History, Plagues and Wars Have Left Greater Equality in Their Wake. Can We Get There Again without Violence?
→ read full articleModi Government Blocks Rohingya Refugees Entering India
K. Ratnayake | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
30 Sep 2017 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi has deployed security forces along India’s northeastern borders to prevent Rohingya refugees entering the country. New Delhi also plans to expel around 40,000 Rohingya already in India. Reuters reported that India’s Border Security Forces had been authorised to use “rude and crude methods” to block the refugees. “We won’t tolerate Rohingya on Indian soil,” an official said.
→ read full articleThe Censored-out Truths That War Documentaries Tend to Leave on the Cutting Room Floor
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
27 Sep 2017 – I have been dutifully watching the well-publicized ten-episode, 18 hour-long PBS series on the War in Vietnam that is, as I write, just past the halfway point. The war in Vietnam was the war that I grew up being peripherally aware of, but I didn’t think much about it because I was enrolled and very busy studying in med school (1964-1968) when the Tet Offensive began.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Can’t Ignore the People’s Tribunal
Prothom Alo [Bangladesh] | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
24 Sep 2017 – The verdict issued by the International People’s Tribunal in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Friday [22 Sep], which indicted Myanmar’s military as well as its state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi for war crimes and ethnic persecution in Myanmar, reflected the expectations of the peace-loving people of the world.
→ read full article‘What a Rigged Economy Looks Like’: Top 10% Now Own 77% of American Wealth
Jake Johnson | Moyers & Company – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Inequality: As Trump and the GOP push massive tax cuts for the rich, new data shows that the wealthy are doing better than ever.
→ read full articleUS Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Record $700 Billion Military Budget
Eric London | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
20 Sep 2017 – Demonstrating the bipartisan support of Democrats and Republicans for militarism and war, the US Senate voted 89 to nine on Monday [18 Sep] to authorize $700 billion in spending for the military and intelligence agencies, an $80 billion increase from 2016 and $26 billion more than President Donald Trump requested earlier this year.
→ read full article