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Cartoon Explaining Colonialism
Zig Zag | Films for Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Colonialism past and present. As for the future, it’s up to us to confine colonialism to the bin of history.
→ read full articleIsraeli Support for Myanmar Is the Natural Alliance of Regimes Based on Ethnic Supremacy
David Lloyd | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
What has not been reported in the mainstream news is the fact that, even during this ongoing genocidal campaign against its Muslim population, Myanmar has been supplied with weaponry by Israel. This is by no means the first time Israel has supplied repressive regimes with the tools of their trade, from apartheid South Africa to Pinochet’s Chile and the Guatemalan dictatorship: its weapons industry, indeed, proudly boasts of the fact that its products come well “field tested”–against Palestinians.
→ read full article(Italiano) Occidente, dove stai andando?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
L’Occidente ha convertito con successo la violenza diretta della guerra nella violenza strutturale dello sfruttamento, giustificata dalla violenza culturale, utilizzando, importando, rapinando risorse, lavorandole, esportando i prodotti derivati, intascandone il valore aggiunto, brevettando ciò che era stato appreso.
→ read full article(Italiano) USA–Dove state andando?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
12 settembre 2017 – “Pentagon Study Declares American Empire Is ‘Collapsing,” (Uno studio del Pentagono sostiene che l’impero americano sta crollando) è il titolo di un saggio di Nafeez Ahmed che fa un’analisi del suddetto studio. Sembra interessante. Sottotitolo: “Rapporto sollecita una massiccia espansione del complesso militare-industriale per garantire l’accesso globale alle risorse”. Suona famigliare.
→ read full articleThe Unmaking of Myanmar
Sara Perria | Centre for International Governance Innovation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas have recently crossed into Bangladesh in search of safety. Just weeks before the exodus, journalist Sara Perria went to Myanmar to understand the origins of the conflict, the complex views around the minority group and the role of the international community in their aid.
→ read full articleApartheid and the Future of Israel/Palestine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
The interview, associated with my current visit to Belgium and France to speak on the report “Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid,” brings up to date the controversy generated by the UN Secretary General bowing to U.S. pressure and ordering its removal from ESCWA website. It was published in l’Humanité, Sept. 6, 2017.
→ read full articleThank you, Smotrich
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Another Zionist poet once wrote that we will not become a normal nation until we have Jewish criminals and Jewish whores. Thank God we now have plenty of both. And now we also have at least one bona fide Jewish fascist.
→ read full articleReclaiming the Truth about Vietnam
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
The first set of words sickened a vast segment of the American public and caused the horror of “Vietnam Syndrome” to cripple and emasculate the military-industrial complex for a decade and a half. Slowly, the powers that be regrouped, redefined how we fought our wars: without widespread national sacrifice or a universal draft; and with smart bombs and even smarter public relations, ensuring that most of the American public could watch our clean, efficient wars in the comfort of their living rooms. What was also necessary was to marginalize the anti-war voices that shut down the Vietnam War.
→ read full articleWorld’s Largest Solar Park to Also Host World’s Tallest Solar Tower
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
19 Sep 2017 – The Dubai government has awarded a $3.9 billion contract to construct the 700-megawatt fourth and final phase of the world-record-holding Solar Park. The project also includes an 850-foot-tall solar tower that receives focused sunlight, the world’s tallest such structure.
→ read full articleEmployee Ownership and the Next System
Joseph Blasi, Thomas Hanna and Dana Brown | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
29 Aug 2017 – What role should employee ownership and profit-sharing play in the next system? Are they part of that system itself or part of the strategy to help create the transition to it? Can they be both?
→ read full articleUS Senate Backs Massive Increase in Military Spending
Patricia Zengerle | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
18 Sep 2017 – The U.S. Senate passed a $700 billion defense policy bill today, backing Donald Trump’s call for a bigger, stronger military. The Republican-controlled chamber voted 89-8 for the National Defense Authorization Act.
→ read full article(Português) Entenda por que você pode estar consumindo insetos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Você costuma ler os rótulos dos produtos que compra? Alguma vez encontrou um ingrediente discriminado como “corante natural carmim de cochonilha” ou “corante carmim”? Sabe o que isso significa? Que esse corante vermelho foi extraído do corpo e dos ovos de um inseto.
→ read full articleNestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For
Caroline Winter | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
21 Sep 2017 – In rural Mecosta County, Mich., sits a near-windowless facility with a footprint about the size of Buckingham Palace. It’s just one of Nestlé’s roughly 100 bottled water factories in 34 countries around the world. The company’s operation reveals how it’s dominated the industry by going into economically depressed areas with lax water laws.
→ read full articleSample Comments Regarding PolyMet’s Permit Application to Construct a Copper Mining Tailings Lagoon in Northern Minnesota
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
19 Sep 2017 – To the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, regarding PolyMet’s most recent permitting request: Here are my reasons that the DNR should reject PolyMet’s permit applications for their earthen tailings dam, their liquid slurry pipeline pumping operation and their open pit sulfide mine near the headwaters of the St Louis River:
→ read full articlePoetry Steeped in Sarcasm and Politics
Sarah Irving | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
19 Sep 2017 – “Prince of Poets” star Tamim Al-Barghouti’s first collection of work translated into English. The political side of his life often comes through in witty, sarcastic, bitter poems stating observations and allegories. – In Jerusalem and Other Poems, 1997-2017, Interlink Books (2017)
→ read full articlePsychosocial Learnings from the Spiral Form of Hurricanes
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Much is known about the structure and dynamics of hurricanes. Much is also known about the helical structure of DNA and of spirals in general. The question is how such insight might be related to the intuited significance of the triadic triskelion and how it might be employed to enrich the very particular institutional preoccupations promoted under the banner of the Triple Helix model and its extensions.
→ read full articleRemembering Ebrahim Yazdi
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
For all those dedicated to the attainment of real democracy, the name and life of Ebrahim Yazdi is a precious legacy worth reflecting upon because it has so much to teach us today. Among those who struggled for an Iranian future that was Islamic, genuinely democratic, and humanly decent no one was more steadfast and clear about their commitment than Dr. Yazdi.
→ read full article(Français) «L’Étreinte du Serpent»: Colonialisme et Destruction
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Dans cette œuvre cinématographique qui a récolté une reconnaissance internationale unanime, le cinéaste colombien Ciro Guerra expose de manière saisissante ce que le phénomène de colonisation et le processus de domination ont toujours voulu réduire au silence. Il explique la rencontre entre les indigènes et les explorateurs européens, inversant les points de vue de ce qu’on appelle la « Découverte du Nouveau monde« , maintenant vue du côté des indigènes.
→ read full articleWhen Is a Genocide a Genocide?
Amal de Chickera | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
(Or, why is the world allowing the Rohingya to be slaughtered?) There is a genocide happening before our eyes. If only we can bear to look. A humane, compassionate, professional, incisive, and brutally honest report of the state of the world, specifically the unending failures and complicity of the UN system of nation states in cases of genocides and other crimes of barbarity.
→ read full article(Português) George Orwell e a crítica à exploração animal (*)
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
12 set 2017 – O homem é a única criatura que consome sem produzir. Ele não dá leite, não bota ovos, é muito fraco para puxar o arado, não corre rápido o suficiente para pegar coelhos. Sim, ele é o senhor dos animais. Ele os prepara para trabalhar, e lhes entrega o mínimo que os impedirá de morrer de fome. O resto ele mantém para si mesmo.
→ read full articleWhat If the 9/11 Whistle-Blowers Are Speaking the Truth?
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Today (the day after 9-11-2017) I received an email message about my last Duty to Warn column about 9/11 that he had just read the day before. It simply said:
“Gary, if what you and Dr Fetzer say is true, aren’t you afraid of being ‘taken out’?
I’d like to see a list of important 9/11 people who have been silenced.”
Principles of Persecution: India’s Systematized Human Rights Violations
Hasnat Sheikh | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
16 Sep 2017 – Arbitrary detentions, torture, mass graves and mass rapes. These are words that describe matters recurrent in the “world’s largest democracy”, India… For the sake of humanity and fundamental human rights, the Indian government must be pressed to demolish these pillars of systematized persecution and uphold standards of law and justice.
→ read full articleFollow Kenya’s Lead on Plastic Bags
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
14 Sep 2017 – Plastic bags are often used for a few minutes before enjoying an eternal afterlife, clogging storm drains, stuffing landfills, killing animals that eat them and contributing to the eight million metric tons of plastic in oceans every year. Kenya and more than 40 other countries have taxed, limited or banned plastic bags. The rest of the world should, too.
→ read full articleU.N. Brands Myanmar Violence a ‘Textbook’ Example of Ethnic Cleansing
Stephanie Nebehay and Simon Lewis | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017 – The United Nations’ top human rights official today slammed Myanmar for conducting a “cruel military operation” against Rohingya Muslims, branding it “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. Zeid Ra‘ad al-Hussein’s comments to the UNHRC in Geneva came as the official tally of Rohingya who have fled Myanmar and crossed into southern Bangladesh in just over two weeks soared through 300,000.
→ read full articleHow to Fast Safely: Considerations before Starting a Fast
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
If you haven’t done the research, you might find yourself wondering if fasting is safe. You may have heard from people who’ve never even tried it that it’s crazy, dangerous, or just pointless. And yet, for thousands of years, many cultures have embraced fasting wholeheartedly. This ancient practice leads to numerous health benefits for most people—when done correctly.
→ read full articleDespair of Despair
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
16 Sep 2017 – How can I be an optimist in view of what’s happening here every day in Israel? The practical annexation of occupied territories? The mistreatment of the Arabs? The implantation of poisonous settlements? But optimism is a state of mind. It does not falter in the face of evil. On the contrary, evil must be fought. And you cannot fight if you do not believe that you can win. There is nothing to despair of but despair itself.
→ read full articlePreferred Conclusions: The BBC, Syria and Venezuela
Media Lens | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – As the late media activist Danny Schechter wrote, when it comes to the corporate broadcast media: ‘The more you watch, the less you know.’ Schechter’s observation only fails in one key respect: ‘mainstream’ output does tell us a lot about which foreign governments are being lined up for regime change.
→ read full articleEuropean Glyphosate Safety Report Copy-Pasted Monsanto Study
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
15 Sep 2017 – Caught red-handed: Monsanto application copy/pasted into EU food safety body. See for yourself. Dozens of pages from the Renewal Assessment Report “are identical to passages in an application submitted by Monsanto on behalf of the Glyphosate Task Force, an industry body led by the company.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Pace-Sviluppo-Ambiente: integrati?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Questi sono gli obiettivi delle Nazioni Unite; l’Accademia di Hardanger li ha resi tre centri d’interesse. È sorto il problema: che cos’hanno in comune? Sono tre aspetti della stessa cosa? Se così, quale “cosa”? Si sono individuati ed esplorati quattro modi per cercare di rispondere. Sono quattro per via dei quattro modi di affrontare la realtà sociale.
→ read full articleUS Completes Anti-Missile Deployment in South Korea amid Heightened War Danger
Ben McGrath | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Despite residents’ protests, US Forces Korea began installing four more THAAD missile launchers early Thursday [7 Sep] morning in the South Korean town of Seongju. The reintroduction of tactical nuclear weapons would greatly heighten the danger of nuclear war. In the extremely tense situation on the Korean Peninsula, the two militaries would have to take into account the possibility of a nuclear attack with just minutes of warning, exacerbating the risk of miscalculations or mistakes triggering a nuclear exchange.
→ read full articleThe “Musa Sadr Is Alive” Hoax Has Deceived Lebanon’s Shia for 39 Years
Franklin Lamb | OpEd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The Libyan agents put their bags in their rooms, stayed out of site, and they said nothing about checking out to the hotel’s front desk. They simply left their bags, including Rehiby’s elevated shoes “in Imam Sadr’s room” and took a taxi to Rome’s Leonardo Da Vinci airport and returned to Libya. For years Rehiby shoes jokes passed among Gadaffi regime insiders according to friends.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel mentre – In giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Sembra esserci un nuovo sistema europeo per calcolare il PIL. Non solo vengono inclusi gli armamenti ma pure i fondi che vanno a ricerca e sviluppo finalizzati alla guerra. Inclusi sono pure prostituzione e droghe, sotto la voce “servizi”. E’ compresa qualunque cosa che viene offerta e richiesta per denaro. Come ci fa sentire questa novità sulla crescita economica? Di essere tra i “valori pro-capite” secondo i quali viene diviso questo mostro uscito da menti economicistiche malate?
→ read full article(Português) Oito contos de escritores consagrados para repensarmos nossa relação com os animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Com uma estilística inovadora e linear, Saramago apresenta a história de solimão (com s minúsculo mesmo), um elefante que se torna alvo da corrupção, individualismo, egocentrismo e outras falhas que permeiam a natureza humana.
→ read full articleWhy 38,000 Muslim Rohingya Refugees Have Just Fled Their Buddhist Home in Burma/Myanmar
Matthew Gindin | Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
1 Sep 2017 – Rakhine is home to 1.1 million Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority that has suffered persecution for more than 40 years. In 2012, deadly riots between Muslims and the Buddhist majority forced more than 100,000 Rohingya into displacement camps where they have remained since. On 30 Aug U Wirathu, a Buddhist monk known for his sermons inciting hatred and violence against Muslims, gave a speech demanding all international NGOs be expelled from Rakhine State and martial law be established.
→ read full articleThe Guardian View on the Slaughter in Myanmar: A Crime against Humanity
The Guardian | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
4 Sep 2017 – The brutal, bloody, and ultimately pointless mistreatment of a Muslim minority shames [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi who appeared for decades as the epitome of principled and unflinching defence of human rights, now the unfeeling figurehead of a vicious regime.
→ read full articleHoly See Steps Up Opposition to Nuclear Weapons
Nicolas Senèze | La Croix – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The Vatican cast its first ever UN vote in July when it backed a nuclear disarmament treaty. The vote signaled an evolution of the Church’s doctrine, one of taking an ever tougher stance against nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleActivism Is Our Rent for Living on the Earth
Chaitanya Charan Das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
24 Aug 2017 – The idea of activism – of being a part of some cause that helps makes things better in the world – is increasingly catching on. It has become much cooler than what it was a few decades ago, when greed ruled the roost. What has led to activism’s increased appeal?
→ read full articleOur News Media Perpetuates Systemic Violence
Emeline Armitage | The Johns Hopkins News-Letter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Armitage argues that news media whitewashed the violence that occurred in Charlottesville. How we imprison more people per capita than any other nation, how our police shoot innocent black children, how we are deporting millions whose mother countries’ turmoil we caused, how we bomb civilians in the Middle East — the list can go on and on.
→ read full articleCognitive Implications in 3D of Triadic Symbols Valued in 2D
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Representations of the Triskelion in Virtual Reality and Implications for Quantum Consciousness
→ read full articleAppeal for Political Leaders to Make Executive and Assembly Work for the People of Northern Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
6 Sep 2017 – The vast majority of people in Northern Ireland, whose main desire is to live in peace together, earn a living and raise their families, are currently living in a no-man’s land. We are living now in a political vacuum, which leaves our community vulnerable to paramilitarism. But it does not have to be like this.
→ read full article(Français) Un million d’enfants sur le point de mourir du choléra. Qui va bouger le petit doigt?
Vijay Prashad | AlterNet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Depuis 2015, l’Arabie saoudite bombarde le pays le plus pauvre de la péninsule arabique. D’après l’UNICEF, un enfant meurt toutes les dix minutes au Yémen. Ces morts ne sont pas des tragédies, ce sont des crimes dont l’Occident est complice.
→ read full articleYemen’s Cholera Outbreak Surpasses 600,000
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Yemen—the worst in the world—is product of the Saudi-led, US-backed war of aggression, the UNHCHR stated on Tuesday [5 Sep]. The war assumed near-genocidal proportions and has killed at least 14,000 civilians, maimed many thousands more, displaced 2 million and left at least 7.3 million on the brink of famine. The country is confronting the worst cholera epidemic on record, with 612,703 people infected.
→ read full articleDemocracy Insurance
Hardy Merriman | International Center on Nonviolent Conflict – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
We know that a unified and mobilized population—capable of imposing costs on unaccountable power holders through nonviolent tactics such as strikes, boycotts, and civil disobedience—is often essential to protecting and expanding civic space. There is an art and a science to how ordinary people have done this and nonviolent civil resistance has proven remarkably adaptable at addressing a variety of situations relevant to democratic backsliding, including:
→ read full article(Français) Myanmar: de l’essence et du feu, mais pas le Bien contre le Mal
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
7 Sep 2017 – Longtemps persécutés dans l’ombre, les Rohingya, communauté musulmane du Myanmar, se trouvent aujourd’hui sous le feu des projecteurs médiatiques. Situation embarrassante pour Aung San Suu Kyi et ses sponsors occidentaux qui l’avaient plébiscitée pour incarner la transition démocratique du Myanmar?
→ read full articleA Confession
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
9 Sep 2017 – Today is the last day of the 93rd year of my life. Ridiculous. Am I moderately satisfied with my life until now? Yes. I am. If by a miracle I could be returned to, say, 14, and travel all this long way again, would I like that? No, I would not. Enough is enough.
→ read full article‘We Came to School and Found It Destroyed’: Israeli Forces Demolish West Bank School Hours before Children’s First Day
Sheren Khalel | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
23 Aug 2017— Israeli military jeeps came barreling down towards Jubbet al-Dhib’s first and only primary school late Tuesday [19 Aug] night, terrifying locals who had been finishing preparations for the school’s grand opening set for the next morning. Soldiers shot tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets as they cleared the way for bulldozers and flatbed trucks brought in to take down the school.
→ read full articleMaking Peace
Denise Levertov | Poetry Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
A voice from the dark called out,
‘The poets must give us
imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar
imagination of disaster. Peace, not only
the absence of war.’
9/11: The Repression of Dissent and the 16th Anniversary of the Crime and Cover-up of the Century
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The Power of Big Lie Propaganda, Blind Patriotism, Ignorance and Denial
→ read full article(Italiano) Spagna: dove stai andando?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Per gli spagnoli è abituale aggiungere la parola “crisi” al nome del paese. Non sono i soli in ciò, può essere una consuetudine occidentale, uno di quei termini che sospingono avanti l’Occidente.
→ read full article(Italiano) Superare la paranoia verso la Russia
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
È ora di aprire una porta positiva alla Russia con uno scambio a reciproco e uguale beneficio. Scambi di merci lavorate e di servizi, cooperazione nel sopprimere la speculazione e l’intossicazione da droghe. Soprattutto: rispetto reciproco, non solo vantaggi. Stima, simpatia. Affetto. RUSSIA: ja tjebjà ljubljù. Ti amo.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele si avvia verso una soluzione?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Il mondo vuole messaggi di pace da queste grandi, antiche fedi, non guerra perpetua. Questi messaggi potrebbero venire da Gerusalemme, mettendo in evidenza le tradizioni di solidarietà e tolleranza piuttosto che il contrario: le fedi abramitiche, che rinnegano la speranza del genere umano nella pace. Il mondo è in attesa. E’ tempo che accada, ora.
→ read full articleThe Man Who Stood Up to Armageddon
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 Aug 2017 – Suddenly it’s possible — indeed, all too easy — to imagine one man starting a nuclear war. What’s a little harder to imagine is one human being stopping such a war. For all time. The person who came closest to this may have been Tony de Brum, former foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, who died last week of cancer at age 72.
→ read full articleNYT Only the Latest Corporate Media Outlet to Give Free Publicity to Mercenary Profiteer
Adam Johnson | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The New York Times (8/30/17) decided to turn over a large chunk of the most precious opinion space in the English-speaking world to mercenary entrepreneur Erik Prince, so he could promote his plan to privatize and profit from the US occupation of Afghanistan.
→ read full article(Français) Les Etats-Unis et le fascisme latino-américain: ancien et nouveau modèle
Franklin Frederick | The Dawn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 Août 2017 – Les tendances fascistes sont de retour au grand jour en Amérique Latine. Elles sont clairement visibles dans l’opposition meurtrière vénézuélienne mais également dans les rues de l’Argentine et du Brésil. Ces tendances fascistes proviennent du fait que l’inégalité économique et l’égalité politique sont incompatibles, à plus forte raison sur un continent où la distribution de la richesse est à ce point inégale.
→ read full articleHow Big Pharma Greed Is Killing Tens of Thousands around the World
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Patients Are Over-Medicated and Often Given Profitable Drugs with ‘Little Proven Benefits,’ Leading Doctors Warn
→ read full articleDo Sierra Leonean Lives Matter?
Jugal Shah | OpenCanada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
28 Aug 2017 – When events in the US dominate the news, is there still an appetite for political and humanitarian response to crises like the mudslides in Sierra Leone and in the Democratic Republic of Congo? In Sierra Leone, more than 500 lives have been claimed. In the DRC, 200 were killed by landslides.
→ read full articleChina Has Already More Than Doubled Its 2020 Solar Power Target
Jing Yan and Lauri Myllyvirta | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
25 Aug 2017 – China has more than doubled its end-of-decade solar power target, with new installations dramatically outstripping expectation, according to the government’s energy agency.
→ read full articleHow Media Obscure US/Saudi Responsibility for Killing Yemeni Civilians
Ben Norton | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
31 Aug 2017 – A coalition of Saudi Arabia, USA, UK and UAE has relentlessly bombed Yemen since March 2015. There are no other parties bombing the country, so media cannot feign ignorance as to who is responsible for the attacks. But reports on the bloody US/Saudi coalition airstrikes were nonetheless rife with ambiguous and downright misleading language.
→ read full articleJournalist Interrogated, Fired for Story Linking CIA and Syria Weapons Flights
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Investigative reporter Dilyana Gaytandzhieva authored a bombshell report for Trud Newspaper, Bulgaria, which found that an Azerbaijan state airline company was regularly transporting tons of weaponry to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Turkey under diplomatic cover as part of the CIA covert program to supply anti-Assad fighters in Syria. Those weapons, Gaytandzhieva found, ended up in the hands of ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
→ read full articlePeace Study Day & March
Alberto Portugheis | Humanity United for Universal Demilitarization – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Sat 16 Sep 2017 at The Elizabeth Fry Room, Westminster Quaker Meeting House, London, England. Speakers: John Leech, Alicia Cabezudo, Alberto Portugheis, Stefan G. Ziegler and Azadeh Chahvie. If you would like to participate only in our Peace March, please meet us at 6pm at Hop Gardens. You are also welcome to join us at any of our stopping points along the way.
→ read full articleClimate Disaster & Nuclear War!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
29 Aug 2017 – The catastrophe is still unfolding with unprecedented rainfall and flooding from Hurricane Harvey. Houston is known as “Petro Metro” and is home to more than a dozen oil refineries. The people who live closest to these industrial sites are low income and minority communities. Poor people of color bear the greatest burden of climate change, harmful pollution, and have the fewest options when natural or man-made disaster strikes. Climate disaster and nuclear war pose the two greatest threats to life on the planet.
→ read full article(Português) Práticas violentas contra os animais só existem porque sempre há plateia e consumidores
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
A tauromaquia, assim como qualquer atividade considerada tradicional, e que cause mal a outros seres vivos sencientes, só existe porque há plateia e consumidores. Pessoas que não racionalizam a própria maldade, ou que não são capazes de externalizá-la, pagam para que os outros façam o que elas não conseguem. Assim, tornando-se voyeurs de anseios desasseados e perigosos.
→ read full articleCrusaders and Zionists
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
2 Sep 2017 – A few days ago I found myself in Caesarea, sitting in a restaurant and looking out over the sea. Caesarea was built by King Herod some 2000 years ago and named after his Roman master, Augustus Caesar. It once again became an important town under the Crusaders, who fortified it.
→ read full articleCampaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly Now Endorsed by over 1,500 Current and Former Lawmakers from 120 Countries
Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly | Culture of Peace Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The campaign’s appeal calls for “a gradual implementation of democratic participation and representation on the global level to ensure international cooperation, secure the acceptance and enhance the legitimacy of the UN strengthening its capacity to act. People must be more effectively and directly included into the activities of the United Nations and its international organizations.”
→ read full articleAfter The Financial Crisis: How the Ultra-Wealthy Have Prospered
Nick Beams | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The 2008 crisis proved to be but a “temporary setback.” The process of wealth accumulation is not the result of any kind of economic “recovery,” nor the supposed “entrepreneurship” of its beneficiaries. Rather, it is the outcome of a system characterised, as Marx put it, by the accumulation of fabulous wealth at one pole and poverty and misery at the other.
→ read full articleEchoes of Reagan: Another Nuclear Buildup
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Thirty years ago Americans endured an absurd expansion of the US nuclear-weapon force under President Reagan. The announced weapons modernization program was accompanied by a crazy talk from his advisers about the potential to fight and win a nuclear war. So here we are evidently back to the future as the Trump administration forges ahead with nuclear “modernization,” without a set strategy for the weapons but with billions of dollars to burn.
→ read full articleNorth Korea an Aggressor? A Reality Check
Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Siegfried Hecker is the last known American official to inspect North Korea’s nuclear facilities. He says that treating Kim Jong-un as though he is on the verge of attacking the U.S. is both inaccurate and dangerous. Trump made his crass “fire and fury” threat on the eve of the sixty second commemoration of the US nuclear attack on Nagasaki, the nauseating irony seemingly un-noticed by him. Will some adults pitch up on Capitol Hill before it is too late?
→ read full articleThe Universalism of Imam Moussa Sadr: A Relevant Approach to Contemporary Uncertainty
Raed H. Charafeddine | The Yale University Council on Middle East Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The Arab world is the geographic, historic and cultural point of convergence of the Muslim World. Islam was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the Arabic language in the Arabian Peninsula and, from there, the message spread across the world. The abodes of Islam remain platforms for debate and incubators for tensions and conflicting ideologies despite the passing of fourteen centuries since the Revelation. Certain issues of contention date back to the earliest years of Islam and have, remarkably, gone unresolved to this day. Such issues include succession (the Caliphate) and alternation in power, the separation of religion and State, innovation (Ijtihad) and imitation (Taqlid), and much more. Exploring these issues is no mere intellectual luxury. Even today these are still pressing matters as current political situation is mired in turmoil, uncertainty, and lack of vision.
→ read full articleTrump Gives Military Green Light to Escalate Afghanistan War
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
22 Aug 2017 – The nationally televised address to a military audience sets the stage for a massive increase in bloodshed in a country where the United States has waged war for 16 years.
→ read full articleEvolving International Law, Political Realism, and the Illusions of Diplomacy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – International law is mainly supportive of Palestinian grievances with respect to Israel, as well as offering both Israelis and Palestinians a reliable marker as to how these two peoples could live normally together in the future if the appropriate political will existed on both sides to reach a sustainable peace.
→ read full articleHokkaido Show Gardens (Music Video of the Week)
Ruben Mandolini | Facebook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Garden of sound! Great art! ->
→ read full article(Português) A Tourada Vista por Um Médico Veterinário
Isabel A. Ferreira | Arco de Almedina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Na tourada à portuguesa há o terrível sentimento de claustrofobia e pânico que o touro sofre desde que é retirado violentamente da campina e transportado em aperto até à arena, seguido pelo maltrato para o enfraquecer física e animicamente antes de ser toureado. Na arena, o touro enfrenta a provocação e a tortura durante a lide e no fim desta, totalmente ensanguentado, com a retirada sempre violenta e muito dolorosa das bandarilhas, rasgando e cortando ainda mais o seu couro.
→ read full articleThe Real Threat to America Comes from Americans
Kim Ghattas | Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Just as the Arab world struggles to come to grips with jihadism, the United States has failed to grapple with its own demons. It’s time to realize that no society is without darkness — and the direst threat facing the US today may well be from within, not without.
→ read full articleThese Are All the Countries the USA Has Invaded, in One Map
Joe Vesey-Byrne | indy100 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
23 Aug 2017 – From Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, the US has had a military presence across the world, from almost day one of her independence. What constitutes invasion? As one map below shows, the US has a military presence in much of the world without being an occupying force (though some would dispute that definition).
→ read full articleKaya, the Royal Dog
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
26 Aug 2017 – The spectacle is almost bizarre: a political party refuses to accept new members. And not just a few individuals, but tens of thousands. And not just any party, but the Likud (“Unification”), the main force in Israel’s governing coalition. Strange? But there is method in this madness.
→ read full articleGauguin’s Stirring First-Hand Account of What Actually Happened the Night Van Gogh Cut off His Own Ear
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Certain relationships are charged with an intensity of feeling that incinerates the walls we habitually erect between platonic friendship, romantic attraction, and intellectual-creative infatuation. One of the most dramatic of those superfriendships unfolded between the artists Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, whose relationship was animated by an acuity of emotion so lacerating that it led to the famous and infamously mythologized incident in which Van Gogh cut off his own ear.
→ read full articleThe World’s Biggest Floating Solar Farm Is Now Live. And It’s on Top of a Former Coal Mine
Joe McCarthy | Global Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – Earlier this week, a new floating solar farm went live in the Chinese city of Huainan above a retired coal mine, China Daily reports. It’s more than six times as powerful as the next biggest floating solar farm.
→ read full article(Português) Estudo mostra que a pecuária é a atividade com maior apropriação de solo na Amazônia
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 ago 2017 – O estudo mostra que nos estados da Amazônia não há atividade com maior apropriação de solo do que a pecuária, e exatamente por desempenhar papel tão determinante na região está fortemente associada com o desmatamento, inclusive sendo apontada como principal causa. E a agricultura em larga escala em vez de reduzir o impacto da pecuária no desflorestamento tem ajudado a ampliá-lo.
→ read full articleIgnaz Semmelweis, Galileo Galilei, Andrew Wakefield and the Semmelweis Reflex
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Iatrogenesis and Big Pharma’s Lucrative Overvaccination Agendas
→ read full articleJohn Quincy Adams on Efficiency vs. Effectiveness, the Proper Aim of Ambition, and His Daily Routine
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Digging at the heart of modernity’s foundational disconnect between efficiency and effectiveness: our tendency to pour tremendous energy into doing things, with little reflection on whether those are the right things to do in the first place.
→ read full articleWhy Does North Korea Hate Us?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless. Dean Rusk said the USA bombed ‘everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.’ After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops. And so we remain caged in military thinking and the need to win, rather than understand.
→ read full articleGreenland Is Burning
Daniel de Vries | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – Wildfires have raged for weeks in Greenland, the massive Arctic island known principally for its vast quantities of ice. The fires are unprecedented in size and duration, marking an ominous new stage in the warming of Greenland and the entire Arctic.
→ read full article(Castellano) Se sabrá que Venezuela se ha convertido en una dictadura el día en que los medios dejarán de hablar de ella
Viktor Dedaj | Tlaxcala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
En Venezuela (como en otros lugares), la diferencia entre una dictadura de derecha y una dictadura de izquierda es la siguiente: bajo una dictadura de derecha, los opositores «desaparecen». Bajo una dictadura de izquierda, los opositores pasan todas las noches a la tele y en todos los medios internacionales para denunciar la dictadura.
→ read full article(Français) Les fonds vautours planent toujours sur la Belgique
Renaud Vivien | Invetig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Deux ans après avoir voté sa loi contre les fonds vautours, la Belgique a encore un rôle à jouer, celui de promouvoir cette loi au sein des Nations unies et de l’Union européenne. Pourtant, elle ne le fait toujours pas.
→ read full articleCharlottesville through a Glass Darkly
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Anti-Semitism, and its links to Nazism and Fascism, and now to Trumpism, are genuinely menacing, and should encourage rational minds to reconsider any willingness to being manipulated for polemic purposes by ultra Zionists. We can also only wonder about the moral, legal, and political compass of ardent Zionists who so irresponsibly label Israel’s critics and activist opponents as anti-Semites, and thus confuse and bewilder the public as to the true nature of anti-Semitism as racial hatred directed at Jews.
→ read full articleThe Egg of Columbus
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
19 Aug 2017 – I don’t know when the wheel was invented, or who invented it. However, I have no doubt that it was invented again and again, with many happy inventors sharing the glory. The same is true for the Israeli-Palestinian Confederation. From time to time it appears in public as a brand-new idea, with another group of inventors proudly presenting it to the public.
→ read full articleFirst Ever Egg Factory Farm Drone Exposé Reveals the Horrific Reality for Millions of Hens
Jill Ettinger | Organic Authority/Mercy for Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 – A new video released by animal rights group Mercy for Animals compiles the first publicly-released drone footage of several sprawling factory farms. The exposé serves as yet another significant reminder that modern industrial animal agriculture is not only dangerous to human health and “detrimental to the local and global environment, but it also involves animal abuse so severe that it would warrant felony cruelty charges if dogs or cats were the victims.”
→ read full articleAl-Araqeeb Village: Palestinian Bedouins Refuse to Surrender 116 Times
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
16 Aug 2017 – On August 1, the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb was destroyed for the 116th time. As soon as Israeli bulldozers finished their ugly deed and soldiers began evacuating the premises, the village resident immediately began rebuilding their homes. 22 families, or about 101 residents, are estimated to live here. By now, they are all familiar with the painful routine, considering the first round of destruction took place in July 2010.
→ read full article“We Burned Down Every Town in North Korea”
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
20 Aug 2017 – The US public wants to know why North Korean leaders point their fingers at the US every time they test another rocket or bomb. “We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off, what, 20 percent of the population?”
— General Curtis LeMay
(Português) Woody Harrelson: “Todos os anos, dezenas de milhares de animais sofrem e morrem em testes laboratoriais de cosméticos e produtos domésticos”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
“Por favor, junte-se a mim e use sua voz para falar por aqueles cujos gritos estão selados para sempre na porta dos laboratórios.”
→ read full articleReframing the Square Wheels of Global Governance
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Transcending Vain Hopes of Squaring the Circle in Global Decision-Making – There are many commentaries on the current inadequacy of governance, whether global, regional or national. As currently understood by those upheld as being insightful and skilled in matters of governance, it can be argued that society is proving to be increasingly ungovernable, if not inherently so.
→ read full articleThe World Remembers 64th Anniversary of the West-Sponsored Coup in Iran
Andre Vltchek | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
19 Aug 2017 – After WWII, the West had one huge ‘problem’ on its hands: all three most populous Muslim countries on Earth – Egypt, Iran and Indonesia – were clearly moving in one similar direction, joining a group of patriotic, peaceful and tolerant nations. Iran fell first, in 1953. Actually, it did not fall; it was brutally destroyed. According to the logic of the Empire, Iran had to be derailed and ruined, in order to prevent a so-called ‘domino effect’.
→ read full articleDonald Trump and America’s Moral Crises
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Will Scientific and Theological Ignorance, Moral Blindness and Historical Illiteracy Triumph?
→ read full articleFor Media, Driving Into a Crowd of Protesters Is a ‘Clash’ Not Terrorism
Adam Johnson | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
12 Aug 2017 – The Washington Post, Boston Globe, AOL News, The Hill, BBC and Sky News UK all chose to frame the ramming of a car into anti-fascist protesters as “clashes.” “Clashes” is a term designed to obscure blame, presenting a picture of two equal sides engaging in violent activities. Reading “one dead” after “clashes” at a white nationalist rally gives us no idea who died, or who did the killing.
→ read full articleEnd of Nuclearism or the End of the World: Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Nightmares
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 Aug 2017 – We are living amid contradictions whether we like it or not, driving expectations about the future toward opposite extremes. Increasingly plausible are fears that the ‘sixth extinction’ will encompass the human species, or at least, throw human society back to a technology of sticks and stones, with a habitat limited to caves and forests.
→ read full articleAugust 9th, the 72nd Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki: Unwelcome Truths for Church and State
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
72 years ago (August 9, 1945) an all-Christian bomber crew dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki City, Japan, instantly vaporizing, incinerating, irradiating and/or otherwise annihilating tens of thousands of innocent civilians, mostly women and children. Very few Japanese soldiers were killed by the bombs.
→ read full articlePledge on 70 Years of Independence by People of Pakistan and India – 15 Aug 2017
Mazher Hussain | COVA Network– TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Greetings on the Eve of Pakistan-India Independence — 70 Years! Sharing a Pledge both countries can commit to while organizing Independence Days tomorrow and day after!
→ read full articleYou’re Invited to the Nuclear Denial Party!
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
6 Aug 2017 – Since marketing, omitted and fake news have – to a worrying extent – replaced knowledge and ethics, why not celebrate that the media have omitted every mention of Hiroshima Day today? Welcome to the Nuclear Denial Party!!
→ read full article“Anyone but Bibi”
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
12 Aug 2017 – The vultures are circling. They can see the wounded man on the ground, and are waiting for his end. So are the human carnivores – the politicians… Like every clever (and unsure) leader, Bibi has destroyed every likely rival along the way. Now there is no obvious heir around. But many people are now repeating a slogan: “Anyone, Just Not Bibi!”
→ read full articleTerrorism for Profit
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
9 Aug 2017 – And suddenly there it was, the American paradox in full splendor: Oh yeah, we’re fighting terrorists. We have to keep killing people, keep pouring trillions of dollars into our wars, because bad people are out there threatening us because they hate our freedoms. And the guy reminding us of this is the founder of Blackwater, private contractor in Iraq, whose mercenaries were responsible for one of the most shocking acts of lethal aggression — a.k.a., terrorism — of the early years of that war.
→ read full article