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(Français) Terrorisme, la face cachée de la mondialisation
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
2 Jul 2017 – Faut-il s’habituer au terrorisme devenu partie intégrante de notre quotidien ? Ou bien analyser intelligemment ses causes pour le contrer ? Ancien rédacteur en chef à Radio France Internationale et aujourd’hui directeur du site spécialisé prochetmoyen-orient.ch, l’écrivain et journaliste franco-suisse Richard Labévière a publié Terrorisme, la face cachée de la mondialisation, un ouvrage remarquable qui dresse le bilan de quinze ans de « guerre contre la terreur » et apporte des clés d’analyse sur un phénomène complexe et de plus en plus répandu dans nos sociétés.
→ read full article(Português) Tom Regan: “Não há justificativa para causarmos dor aos animais”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
30 jun 2017 – Falecido em 17 de fevereiro de 2017, Tom Regan foi um importante filósofo da teoria dos direitos animais. Professor de filosofia da Universidade Estadual da Carolina do Norte, onde lecionou por 34 anos, conquistou prestígio internacional por sua produção prolífica voltada ao abolicionismo animal. Em 2006, Regan teve o seu livro “Empty Cages”, ou “Jaulas Vazias”, publicado no Brasil.
→ read full articleWashington’s New Threat against Syria, Russia and Iran: Invitation to False Flag Operation
Farhang Jahanpour | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
29 Jun 2017 – The world is poised at a very critical juncture. The events in Syria could either lead to the restoration of stability in that war-torn country whose people have gone through unimaginable hardships, or it can pave the way for a global confrontation the outcome of which is too frightening to contemplate.
→ read full articlePetya Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Computers in 65 Countries
Kevin Reed | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
29 Jun 2017 – In the second massive cyberattack in 44 days, both originating from malicious software developed by the US National Security Agency-NSA, personal computers in at least 65 countries were shut down Tuesday [27 Jun] by an epidemic of ransomware known as Petya.
→ read full articleFrom Outer Space, Three Guideposts for the Resistance
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Beware Trump’s fearmongering, blind loyalists, and divide-and-conquer tactics.
→ read full articleJewish Ethnicity, Palestinian Solidarity, Human Identity
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
23 Jun 2017 – The following interview with Abdo Emara, an Arab journalist, was published in Arabic. There are no substantive changes from my earlier responses. I think it worthwhile to share this text because the questions asked by Abdo Emara are often directed at me in the discussion period after talks I have given recently.
→ read full article64 Years Later, CIA Finally Releases Details of Iranian Coup
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian | Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
20 Jun 2017 – Declassified documents released last week shed light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s central role in the 1953 coup that brought down Iranian Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh, fueling a surge of nationalism which culminated in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and poisoning U.S.-Iran relations into the 21st century.
→ read full articleVisual History of Decreasing War and Violence
Max Roser | Our World in Data – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Archaeological studies show that societies in the past were very violent. Often more than 10% of deaths were the result of one person killing another. In this chart I have included all the available archaeological evidence that I could find.
→ read full article(Français) Politique de la précarité
Mario Bucci | GRESEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Le concept de précarité est confus et changeant de signe. Ceci n’est pas dû à la diversité de situations individuelles et collectives qui peuvent se retrouver sous ce terme – personnes sans emploi ou dans un emploi précaire, personnes vivant sans domicile fixe, migrants sans papiers, personnes souffrant de maladies mentales ou chroniques, … C’est plutôt que ce mot se prête à deux lectures de signe opposé du conflit autour du travail et de la définition de ce qu’est l’utilité sociale de l’activité humaine.
→ read full articleInterplay of Sustainable Development Goals through Rubik Cube Variations
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Engaging Otherwise with What People Find Meaningful – The earlier argument made particular reference to Rubik’s Cube, its more complex variants, and their implementation in virtual reality applications as a means of bypassing technical and other constraints of physical construction and distribution. The focus of the World Cube Association is on speedcubing and the regulation of speedsolving competitions for Rubik’s Cube and similar puzzles.
→ read full articleHow Eating Beans Instead of Beef Will Save You and the Planet
Susan Levin | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Recently, researchers from Loma Linda University released a new study finding that if Americans simply replaced the beef in their diets with beans, the U.S. would immediately reach up to 75 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets for 2020.
→ read full articleNo Walls in Ethiopia, Rather Open Doors—Even for Its Enemy
James Jeffrey | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Ethiopia also hosts refugees from a plethora of other strife-torn countries. Its refugee population now exceeds 800,000—the highest number in Africa, and the 6th largest globally. “Ethiopia strongly believes that generous hosting of refugees will be good for regional relationships down the road.”
→ read full articleThe Four-Letter Word
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
24 Jun 2017 – When a Briton or American speaks about a “four-letter word”, he means a vulgar sexual term, a word not to be mentioned in polite society. In Israel we also have such a word, a word of four letters. A word not to mention. This word is “Shalom”, peace. For years now this word has disappeared from intercourse (except as a greeting). Every politician knows that it is deadly. Every citizen knows that it is unmentionable.
→ read full articleThe Nazis Used It, We Use It: The Return of Famine as a Weapon of War
Alex de Waal | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
15 Jun 2017 – In its primary use, the verb ‘to starve’ is transitive: it’s something people do to one another, like torture or murder. Mass starvation as a consequence of the weather has very nearly disappeared: today’s famines are all caused by political decisions, yet journalists still use the phrase ‘man-made famine’ as if such events were unusual.
→ read full articleFighting, While Funding, Extremists
Editorial |The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – Saudi Arabia and some of its neighbors decide to punish Qatar and some of its citizens, ostensibly for fostering and financing Islamist terrorism. But Saudi Arabia itself has been accused of underwriting extremists. No matter: President Trump, captivated by Saudi royalty, sides with the Saudis — even though the United States has two important bases in Qatar. Baffling, right? The biggest loser in all this may turn out to be the fight against the Islamic State.
→ read full articleThe CIA Paid Psychologists $81 Million to Devise Brutal Tactics for Use on Terror Suspects, and They’re Suing
Erin Brodwin | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
22 Jun 2017 – After a doctor X-rayed one prisoner’s badly broken feet, his colleague gave interrogators the go-ahead to force him to stand for 52 hours. A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of former prisoners shines new light on the grisly details of the tactics the doctors approved for use on terrorism suspects. These tactics range from water-boarding to “walling” — a method that involves pushing a person into a flexible plywood wall so hard that it creates a disturbing sound that pierces the ear.
→ read full articleWhy We Leaked Hundreds of Pages of a Secret Trade Deal That Threatens Our Rights and Our Planet
Shira Stanton and Sebastian Bock | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
23 Jun 2017 – Behind closed doors and countless documents, details of a proposed deal between two of the world’s largest economies are being kept from us. Until now. Chances are that the planned trade deal between the European Union and Japan has not been on top of your mind. Governments have gone to great lengths to leave their citizens in the dark about a deal that can significantly impact our lives and the world we live in.
→ read full articleOn Being a Vaccine Heretic Excommunicated from the Church of Big Pharma
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Big Pharma is the pejorative term given to the vast number of multinational (global) pharmaceutical corporations. It takes no Hippocratic Oath, does not insist that its sycophants give fully informed consent when their products are prescribed and it ignores the Precautionary Principle, thus affirming the sense that it has no concern for the health of its users or the health of the planet.
→ read full article(Português) Considerações Sobre Musculação, Fisiculturismo e Veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
24 Jun 2017 – Não é raro encontrar pessoas que dizem que veganos não conseguem chegar ao nível de fisiculturistas que não são veganos.
→ read full articleUN Chief: US Will Be Replaced If It Disengages from World
Edith M. Ledrer | Associated Press – Yahoo News,
26 Jun 2017
20 Jun 2017 — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Trump administration that if the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced. Guterres made clear at his first press conference since taking the reins of the UN that he is not afraid to stand up to President Donald Trump, citing his vocal opposition to the U.S. leader’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.
→ read full articleExclusive: Overruling Diplomats, U.S. to Drop Iraq, Myanmar from Child Soldiers’ List
Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick | Reuters - US News & World Report,
26 Jun 2017
23 Jun 2017 – In a highly unusual intervention, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to remove Iraq and Myanmar from a U.S. list of the world’s worst offenders in the use of child soldiers, disregarding the recommendations of State Department experts and senior U.S. diplomats.
→ read full articleThe Settlers’ Goal Is Not the Settlements – It Is the Total Transformation of Israel
Noam Sheizaf | +972 Mag – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
The settlements, the settlers, and the occupation are all entirely associated with one another in the Israeli consciousness. The Left and the Right agree on this, albeit with varying considerations: the Left wants to apportion blame for Israel’s continuing control over the West Bank, while the settlers want to take credit for the settlement project and for thwarting the idea of partitioning the land.
→ read full articleIsrael vs. the United Nations: The Nikki Haley Doctrine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
21 Jun 2017 – The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel. Haley seems to truly think of herself as the new sheriff in town, who will “kick ’em every single time”, before riddling the bullies with bullets and riding into the sunset, along with Netanyahu. Since the Negroponte doctrine of 2002, thousands of Palestinians and hundreds of Israelis were killed in an occupation that seems to know no ends.
→ read full articleBangladesh Cardinal Defends Rights of Rohingya Refugees
Nirmala Carvalho | Crux – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are considered to be among the world’s most persecuted peoples, subject to what the UN calls “crimes against humanity” and hundreds of thousands are now refugees in neighboring Bangladesh, where Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario is defending their right to “dignity.”
→ read full articleWhy Are Americans so Obsessed with Apocalypse—and Convinced It Will Happen in the Near Future?
Betsy Hartmann | Seven Stories Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – According to opinion polls, a staggering percentage of Americans accept that the world will end in a battle in Armageddon. In a 2010 Pew poll, 41 percent of respondents said they expected Jesus Christ to return to Earth by 2050. Unfortunately, we are more predisposed to imagine the end of the world than the end of American war-making.
→ read full article(Français) 50 vérités sur Ernesto « Che » Guevara
Salim Lamrani | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – Le « guérillero héroïque » cubano-argentin perdure dans la mémoire collective comme symbole de résistance à l’oppression.
→ read full articleLicense to Poison!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Fails to Protect Troops, Residents, and Visitors from Military Radiation on Hawaii Island
→ read full articleOvercoming Nuclear Crises: North Korea and Beyond
Richard Falk and David Krieger | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
This jointly authored essay was initially published in The Hill on May 30, 2017 under the title, Averting the Ticking Time Bomb of Nukes in North Korea. We did not choose such a title that is doubly misleading: our contention is not that North Korea is the core of the problem, but rather the retention of nuclear weapons by all of the states pose both crises in the context of counter-proliferation geopolitics and with respect to the possession, deployment, and development of the weaponry itself; a second objection is with the title given the piece by editors at The Hill. While acknowledging the practice of media outlets to decide on titles without seeking prior approval from authors, this title is particularly objectionable to me. The term ‘nukes’ gives an almost friendly shorthand to these most horrific of weapons, and strikes a tone that trivializes what should be regarded at all times with solemnity.
→ read full articleDonald Trump Is Making Europe Liberal Again
Nate Silver | FiveThirtyEight – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Donald Trump promised to “Make America Great Again,” but he might instead be “Making Europe Liberal Again.” Counter to the prevailing narrative of a swing towards right-wing parties, Silver compares politics in several European countries and finds it has become more difficult to make the case that a nationalist tide is on the rise.
→ read full articleThe 50-Year Setback
Hamza Abu Eltarabesh |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The 1967 War had eerily similar effects to the Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe), the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Approximately 400,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were displaced 50 years ago this month. The events of 1967 have become known as the Naksa, or setback. The war lasted six days. By the time it ended, Israel had occupied the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt’s Sinai peninsula and Syria’s Golan Heights.
→ read full articleRefining the Value of Sustainable Development Goals
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
In Quest of the Systemic Coherence of Global Attractors – In a period of global crises a frame of reference is offered by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals articulated by the UN, superseding the earlier formulation of the 8 Millennium Development Goals. How indeed are people expected to “get their heads around “the set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals?
→ read full article(Português) Considerações sobre a violência
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Agressividade, violência, são formas de descontrole. Se você não tiver controle sobre isso, isso terá controle sobre você. E quando você achar que está dominando alguma coisa ao fazer uso da agressividade ou da violência, estará apenas sendo subjugado pelo que o priva da sua própria humanidade, sem que você perceba.
→ read full articleFrançois Houtart: A Unique Extraordinary Human Being
Alexandra Valiente | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The death of François Houtart, intellectual, political analyst, Marxist sociologist, priest and practitioner of liberation theology, the ‘pope of anti-globalization’, tireless fighter and friend, has taken us by surprise. He died on 6 Jun 2017 in Quito, Ecuador at the age of 92.
→ read full articleNational Illusions and Global Realities
Lawrence Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
For as long as they have existed, nations have clung to the illusion that their military strength guarantees their security. The problem with this kind of thinking is that the military power that one nation considers vital to its security fosters other nations’ sense of insecurity. In this climate of suspicion, an arms race ensues, often culminating in military conflict. Also, sometimes the very military strength that a nation intended for protection ends up emboldening it to engage in reckless, aggressive behavior, leading to war.
→ read full articleHonest Look at Historical Evidence Debunking Popular Myth That Vaccines Eliminated Childhood Infectious Diseases
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – Over the 40 plus years that I was a family practitioner and teacher (the English word “doctor” derives from the Latin verb docere [do-ke-re] which means “to teach”), I have tried to fulfill what I have regarded as my solemn professional duty to warn my patients (and anybody else who would listen) about the multitude of deceptions and myths that all-too-often come from for-profit sociopathic pharmaceutical corporations (and their hangers-on).
→ read full articleThe Myth of Hiroshima
Peter Van Buren | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 2017 – The short version of the atomic myth, the one kneaded into public consciousness, is that the bombs were not dropped out of revenge or malice, immoral acts, but of grudging military necessity. As a result of this, the attacks have not provoked or generated deep introspection and national reflection. For President Obama to visit Hiroshima without reflecting on the why of that unfortunate loss of lives, acting as if they occurred via some natural disaster, is tragically consistent.
→ read full articleLife and Education of Children in Nepal
Akhil Sharma | Adroit Publishers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The book has tried to grasp the real scenario of those children on how the children were really affected by conflict during the time of school education and how they are out of school. The conflict has been driving force for the children by not letting them go to school because of various reasons. The main reasons are involvement of their parents in the armed conflict, their parent’s profession, the security threat by both the parties and political motivation.
→ read full articleWonder Women
Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Apartheid Woman vs Mother Palestine
→ read full articleThe New Wave
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
We need a principled leader like Corbyn or Sanders. A young and idealistic person like Macron. Somebody who will smash all the existing occupation-era parties and start right from the beginning. To adapt Macron’s slogan: Forward, Israel!
→ read full article(Italiano) Il calendario ONU: coscienza del mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
È sorprendente. Le Nazioni Unite hanno decenni, anni, settimane e giorni, dedicati a valori, obiettivi e interessi, più di quanto ne siamo consapevoli. Lo si confronti con gli stati nazionali, di solito con un solo giorno, il loro giorno nazionale per la celebrazione di nessun altro che sé stessi… Siamo una Umanità in un mondo con molte linee di frattura; che la coscienza ONU sia la nostra.
→ read full article(Italiano) Intanto, in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Trump viola le norme internazionali come se non esistessero, che uccide in Yemen-Pakistan-Somalia con droni-bombardamenti-assalti, nonostante non fosse coinvolto in un conflitto armato né attaccato da nessuno di quei paesi. Quindi, nessun diritto di auto-difesa. Pura aggressione.
→ read full article(Français) Brésil, un an après le début du coup d’État
Nepomuceno Eric | Página 12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Les députés qui ont voté le procès politique contre Dilma Rousseff ont également voté la réduction des dépenses publiques pour les 20 prochaines années, les réformes de la loi du travail qui s’attaquent à certains droits, et l’exploitation du pétrole par les multinationales.
→ read full articleFinding Goodness
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
• Axis 1- Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Egypt, Israel, USA
• Axis 2- Qatar, Turkey
• Axis 3- Syria, Iran, Russia, and possibly China (for now keeping a distance)
Axis 1 now decided to go after axis 2. Axis 2 is considering moving for protection to axis 3. The US is solidly behind axis 1 but keeping leverage via axis 2 (US bases both in Turkey and Qatar). The US is trying hard to undermine axis 3.
(Français) Reprise de la guerre froide du Golfe
Ennasri Nabil | Orient XXI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Le Qatar a annoncé dans la nuit du mardi 23 mai que son agence de presse QNA avait été piratée par une entité inconnue et qu’un faux communiqué attribué à l’émir avait été diffusé. Ce dernier affirmait que Tamim Ben Hamad Al-Thani s’était prononcé sur divers sujets sensibles mettant en cause ses voisins du Golfe. Ces déclarations, immédiatement relayées par des médias saoudiens et émiratis, ont provoqué un tollé dans la région, où une guerre médiatique bat son plein.
→ read full articleUN High Commissioner Urges Termination of Israeli Occupation
Stephanie Nebehay | Reuters – The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Jun 2017
6 Jun 2017— On the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, the United Nations calls for a lasting solution that would benefit both Israelis and Palestinians.
→ read full articleThe Unwanted ‘Bride’: Can the 1967 War Offer Opportunity for Peace?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – There is a saying that goes: “Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it.” This has been Israel’s dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement, which held its first conference in Basel, Switzerland 120 years ago, wanted Palestine but not the Palestinians. They achieved this objective 50 years later, in what Israel termed as its ‘war of independence.’
→ read full articleThe Declaration of Peace
Kent Drummond Shifferd | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
These are self-evident truths:
That all humans are a single family living on a fragile and endangered planet whose life support systems must remain intact if we are to survive; …
What Will It Take to Ban the Bomb?
Frida Berrigan | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
The United States is in the midst of a $1 trillion modernization of its submarines, bombers, ballistic and land-based missiles over the next 30 years, which was initiated under the Obama administration. Current U.S. nuclear forces consist of submarines that launch ballistic missiles, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, long-range bomber aircraft, shorter-range tactical aircraft, and the nuclear weapons that those delivery systems carry.
→ read full article
Aung San Suu Kyi [Nobel Peace Laureate, Buddhist]: Turning Her Back on Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar/Burma?
Mehdi Hassan | UpFront – Al Jazeera English,
12 Jun 2017
“We know that Aung San Suu Kyi does not control the armed forces,” says [TRANSCEND Member] Maung Zarni, an exiled dissident from Myanmar. “[But] she controls four other ministries that are directly involved in dismissing, denying, and legitimising the persecution of the Rohingyas.”
But former East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta disagrees, claiming Suu Kyi inherited an “extraordinarily difficult situation”.
Interrogating the Qatar Rift
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
7 Jun 2017 – The abrupt announcement that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE, Yemen, the Maldive Islands, and the eastern government in divided Libya have broken all economic and political ties with Qatar has given rise to a tsunami of conjecture, wild speculation, and most of all, to wishful thinking and doomsday worries… We can gain some glimmers of understanding of what is motivating these Arab governments to act against Qatar, but little sympathy.
→ read full articleMore Reasons Why Big Pharma’s Multinational Vaccine Manufacturers Are Not to Be Trusted
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
And Why Both Vaccine-Induced Alzheimer’s Disease AND Vaccine-Induced Autism May Have Common Root Causes
→ read full articleUnderstanding the Geopolitics of Terrorism
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
If the mass media refuses to state what has become obvious after more than a decade and a half of these incidents, it is a measure of how fully the linkage between terrorism, the Western intelligence agencies and the unending wars in the Middle East has become institutionalized. Innocent men, women and children, whether in London, Manchester, Paris, Tehran, Baghdad or Kabul, are paying the terrible price for these imperialist operations, which leave a trail of blood and destruction everywhere.
→ read full articleWhoso Confesseth and Forsaketh
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
The vote of the “peace activist Uri Avnery” for the “unification” of Jerusalem was a huge mistake. I am taking this opportunity to apologize for it again. I request for the application of the Biblical verse (Proverbs 28.13): “But whoso confesseth and forsaketh shall have mercy”.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre ser contra algumas formas de exploração e desconsiderar o veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Não há como negar que um pedaço de carne que se consome é mais do que o simbólico fim de uma vida. Representa a negação à plena existência, e até mesmo à existência verdadeiramente pacífica.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Occupation: 50 Years of Palestinian Oppression
Philip Luther | Amnesty International – Al Jazeera,
12 Jun 2017
After 50 years of Israeli war crimes on Palestinian land, the world has to act and ban Israeli settlement goods.
→ read full articleIf Israel Were Smart
Sara Roy | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
15 Jun 2017 – At what point does menace stop working as a form of coercion? What will Israel hope to gain from its next attack on Gaza, when people there already speak about entire families being wiped out as a normal topic of conversation? In August 2016 alone, 4961 babies were born, or 160 a day: more than six babies every hour and one baby every nine minutes. The distance between Gaza City and Tel Aviv is 44 miles. ‘What will Israel do when there are five million Palestinians living in Gaza?’
→ read full article(Français) Michel Collon : « François Houtart était mon Prix Nobel de la Paix à moi »
Michel Collon | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Hier encore, Alex Anfruns, mon jeune collègue d’Investig’Action, échangeait avec François Houtart à propos de la traduction de son dernier article publié sur notre site. Et puis tombe la triste nouvelle ! Nous savions qu’il avait 92 ans, mais il semblait indestructible. Le choc est rude. Adiós compañero !
→ read full articleAmerican Darkness vs. Bhutan Brightness
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
As Donald Trump axes America’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, the Kingdom of Bhutan finalizes Bhutan for Life, a fund that will allow the country to remain carbon neutral forever. By ignoring the pressing issue of climate change/global warming, America looks insignificant, undignified, and very weak whereas Bhutan’s carbon neutral commitment looks relevant, sophisticated, and very strong.
→ read full articleCancer Expert: EU Studies on Glyphosate Are ‘Scientifically Flawed’
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
2 Jun 2017 – Dr. Christopher Portier, a toxicologist and former director of the U.S. National Center for Environmental Health, has criticized the conclusions of European Union agencies which found that glyphosate—the active ingredient in Monsanto’s widely used weedkiller Roundup—is not carcinogenic to humans.
→ read full articleAvoiding Apocalypse on the Korean Peninsula
Rajan Menon | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Why Diplomacy Is Not Naïve Appeasement in the Korean Crisis – The Korean peninsula, all 85,270 square miles of it, is about the size of Idaho. It contains more soldiers (2.8 million, not counting reserves) and armaments (nearly 6,000 tanks, 31,000 artillery pieces, and 1,134 combat aircraft) than any other place on the planet. Clearly, the North’s leaders reject the proposition that American approval is required for them to build nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles.
→ read full articleThe Terror News Cycle
Des Freedman | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
We would all benefit from a slower journalism that didn’t resort to tired stereotypes and sought to expand, not to contaminate, our understanding of a violent world. The trouble is that there is neither the business model nor the political will to foster such an approach.
→ read full articleAverting the Ticking Time Bomb of Nukes in North Korea
Richard Falk and David Krieger | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
5 Jun 2017
30 May 2017 – Alarmingly, tensions between the United States and North Korea have again reached crisis proportions. Until this structure of nuclearism is itself overcome, crises will almost certainly continue to occur. It is foolhardy to suppose that nuclear catastrophes can be indefinitely averted without addressing these deeper challenges that have existed ever since the original atomic attack on Hiroshima.
→ read full articleAd Hominem Attacks and the Power of Ignorance
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
And the Dangers of Trusting Disreputable Online Fact Checkers
→ read full article(Français) L’attentat de Manchester est le résultat des interventions désastreuses de l’Occident
Max Blumenthal | AlterNet – Le Grand Soir,
5 Jun 2017
Grâce aux guerres de changement de régime et à l’armement et à la formation des groupes islamistes, les États-Unis, le Royaume-Uni et la France ont déployé leurs illusions impériales à travers le Moyen-Orient. En Syrie et en Libye, ils ont cultivé la boite de Pétri parfaite pour une insurrection djihadiste, créant ainsi des nihilistes armés comme Abedi, déterminés à rapatrier à domicile les guerres de l’Occident.
→ read full articleGreetings for Diana Buttu
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
3 Jun 2017 – A few days ago, a not so well-known Palestinian woman received an unusual honor. An article of hers was published on top of the first page of the most respected newspaper on earth: New York Times.
→ read full articleOn Zbigniew Brzezinski: Geopolitical Mastermind, Realist Practitioner
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
When it comes to Brzezinski’s legacy, I believe it to be mixed. He was a brilliant practitioner, always able to present his views lucidly, forcefully, and with a catchy quality of coherence. In my view, his Cold War outlook was driven toward unacceptable extremes by his anti-Soviet preoccupations. After the Cold War he seemed more prudent and sensible, especially in the last twenty years, when his perceptions of world order were far more illuminating than those of Kissinger, his geopolitical other.
→ read full articleEnvisaging NATO Otherwise — in 3D and 4D?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Potentially Hidden Faces of Global Strategy Highlighted Through Polyhedra – The question is whether new insights into the nature and potential of NATO (or The Pentagon) could be derived from depiction in 3D — or 4D, if dynamics can be reflected in suitable animations. Whether these aspects are already implicit, or could be usefully rendered explicit, remains to be investigated.
→ read full articleWant to Lose Weight? Go Vegan!
Alina Petre | Authority Nutrition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
27 May 2017 – People may choose a vegan diet for a variety of reasons, be it for the environment, animal ethics or health. However, some people give the vegan diet a try purely to lose excess weight—and perhaps for good reason.
→ read full articleFear as an Obstacle to Peace: Why Are Israelis Afraid?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
24 May 2017 – Bat-Hen Epstein Elias’s long article on Iranian Jews is interesting. Parts of it, in fact, are heartwarming. Yet, despite the lack of any serious evidence, the story is entirely framed in the language of fear.
→ read full articleTrump in Riyadh – A Gulf NATO to Gang Up against Iran and Syria
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
His visit must be seen in the light of a number of events and trends, and in what follows we do like the military when it scans the horizon for enemies: we look for patterns – not the least Saudi Arabia’s “surprising new military goals” as Forbes’ Ellen Wald appropriately calls them. Or, as they say – we connect some dots that, invariably, Western mainstream media have no capacity and probably also no interest in connecting.
→ read full articleAlternate Worldviews: Davutoğlu, Kissinger, Xi Jinping
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
This post is a much modified version of a shorter opinion piece published by the global-e online publication on May 18, 2017. It is a response to and commentary upon an essay of Ahmet Davutoğlu, former foreign minister and prime minister of Turkey.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
There were two Donald Trumps this week. One of them was touring the Middle East, being feted everywhere. The second was in Washington, where he was battered from all sides, denounced for incompetence and even threatened with impeachment in the future. Against the background of his troubles at home, Trump’s Arabian Nights were fantastic.
→ read full article(Italiano) I Baschi in Spagna: pace positiva?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
La Spagna è in una transizione che richiederà un po’ di tempo: dalla “España: Una, Grande, Libre” alla “España: Una Comunidad de naciones“. La pace positiva si struttura sulla pace negativa, costruendo sulla riconciliazione dei traumi e la risoluzione dei conflitti. C’è da fare molto lavoro. Ma la Spagna, da vera comunità di nazioni, sarà di ispirazione per tutto il mondo.
→ read full article(Italiano) Quel che manca: la creatività politica
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
L’impedimento sta nella nostra immaginazione politica così limitata. E’ necessario crescere, così che le visioni del mondo si aprano nelle nostre menti, siano condivise con altri in nuovi modi di dialogare, concretizzate in un nuovo agire. Possiamo riuscire se lo vogliamo. E lo vorremo se liberiamo l’immaginazione.
→ read full article(Français) La machine de guerre étasunienne en Afrique
Nick Turse | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Pendant des années, AFRICOM a vendu la fiction que Djibouti est le site de sa seule « base » en Afrique. Alors que les États-Unis maintiennent un vaste réseau d’installations militaires dans le monde entier, avec des complexes militaires énormes et difficiles à ne pas voir en Europe et en Asie, les bases d’Afrique ont été mieux dissimulées.
→ read full article(Français) «La grève de la faim est un combat pour la dignité et la liberté de tous les Palestiniens»
Stefano Mauro | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Ilan Pappe, juif, érudit socialiste et antisioniste, a récemment écrit que le peuple palestinien, en ce qui concerne sa ténacité, est comparable aux oliviers de son pays natal.
→ read full articleMikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths.
→ read full articleMeasles Mortality Rates and How the Medical Establishment Deceives Us Concerning the Efficacy (and Safety) of Vaccines
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Critical thinkers and knowledgeable readers who have no ulterior motivation to blindly promote current over-vaccination agendas will agree that the Somali parents who have witnessed the devastating epidemic of Autistic Spectrum Disorders decimate so many of their children since coming to Minnesota, made a wise choice in refusing MMR vaccinations.
→ read full articlePortrait of Myanmar’s ‘Buddhist Bin Laden’ Chills Cannes
Fiachra Gibbons | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
“The Venerable W”, his chilling portrait of the monk who has been accused of preaching hate and inciting attacks on Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority, has been hailed by critics at the Cannes film festival as a “stirring documentary about ethnic cleansing in action”. What dismays Schroeder is that Wirathu, whom Time magazine dubbed “The face of Buddhist terror” in a 2013 cover, is utterly unfazed by the chaos and suffering he has unleashed.
→ read full articleIndian Establishment Lauds Military’s Use of Kashmiri Youth as “Human Shield”
Wasantha Rupasinghe | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
24 May 2017 – Indian army head General Bipin Rawat has awarded a commendation to the officer who ordered a Kashmiri youth tied to the hood of a jeep as a “human shield.” 26-year-old Farooq Dar was seized and, in flagrant violation of international law, paraded around for hours while tied to the lead vehicle of an army convoy.
→ read full articleHunger Strike Ends, Prisoners Declare Victory
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
27 May 2017 – After 40 days without food, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike in Israeli jails. The end of the strike came after 20 hours of intense negotiations between the strike’s leaders, including imprisoned Fatah figure Marwan Barghouti, and the Israel Prison Service, according to a statement issued Saturday [27 May] morning by the prisoners solidarity committee.
→ read full articleUganda Has Benefited from Peace Journalism
Gloria Laker Aciro | D+C Development and Cooperation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Uganda has a history of conflict and violence. In particular, the strife caused by the Lord’s Resistance Army from 1995 to 2004 made peace efforts necessary. At the time, a strong foundation for peace journalism was laid. Its principles are of lasting relevance in view of unrest in border regions and the refugee population which is growing due to civil war in neighbouring countries.
→ read full articleCholera Outbreak in War-Torn Yemen Spreading at ‘Unprecedented’ Speed
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
As war-torn Yemen grapples with heavy rains, a collapsed healthcare system and crippled economy, a resurgent cholera outbreak has spread with “unprecedented” speed and taken medical professionals by surprise, the World Health Organization warned on 19 May 2017.
→ read full articleTwo Sides of the Palestinian Coin: Hunger Strike/Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
28 May 2017 – The Palestinian hunger strike protesting Israeli prison conditions was suspended on May 27th after 40 days, at a time when many of the 1000 or so strikers were experiencing serious deteriorations of health, most were by then hospitalized, and the holy period of Ramadan about to commence creating continuity between the daytime fasting of the faithful and the prior desperate protest of the strikers.
→ read full articleSeneca on True and False Friendship
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
“Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.” “Friendship is unnecessary,” C.S. Lewis wrote, “like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
→ read full articleHow Academia Uses Poverty, Oppression, and Pain for Intellectual Masturbation
Prof. Clelia O. Rodríguez | RaceBaitR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
One of the tragic consequences of a traditional system of higher education is working with colleagues who claim to have expertise on the topic of social activism, but who have never experienced any form of intervention. I am referring here to those academics who have made careers out of the pain of others by consuming knowledge obtained in marginalized communities.
→ read full articleThe Palestinian Hunger Strike: “Our chains will be broken before we are…”
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Even if this commitment is not carried through to a grim finality, it will not tarnish the significance of what has been undertaken, and the great reluctance of the world to focus its attention on such a display of nonviolent martyrdom. It appears to be the most consequential due to the participation of Marwan Barghouti along with so many other Palestinian prisoners as well as producing many displays of solidarity beyond the prison walls.
→ read full articleTrumped Up Diplomacy in the Middle East
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
20 May 2017 – As Trump dominates the news by his visits to Saudi Arabia and Israel we should not be tricked into thinking that his ‘achievements’ are hopeful developments. The only true beacons of hope for the peoples of the Middle East are the contrarian affirmations of the Palestinian hunger strike, the Rouhani electoral victory, and the BDS Campaign.
→ read full article(Français) Amnésies et fluctuations occidentales. Droit de la paix, droit de la guerre et « droit » à la guerre
Robert Charvin | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Les États du capitalisme, assistés par leurs multiples mercenaires (politiciens professionnels, journalistes, intellectuels de cour, etc.) ont pour force de pratiquer avec dynamisme des réorientations idéologiques, tout en cultivant certaines amnésies (chroniques ou passagères).
→ read full articleHow Boring Old Pension Funds Might Curb Global Warming
Nick Stockton | Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
18 May 2017 – Last week, some retirement funds and church endowments, along with BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, approved a proposal that Occidental Petroleum report its climate-related vulnerabilities. These aren’t save-the-planet activist shareholders, but investment companies. More than 1,500 institutional investors are members of the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, which lists accounting for climate risk among its six tenets.
→ read full articleRalph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
Ann Woodlief | Virginia Commonwealth University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
He had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adultation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
→ read full articleThe Balfour Declaration: A Century of Jewish Power
Gilad Atzmon | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
19 May 2017 – This year, Palestinians and their supporters mark the 100th anniversary of The Balfour Declaration, a written statement from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour, to Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, in favour of the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
→ read full article(Português) “Seu nível de testosterona deve ser bem baixo, já que você é vegano”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Já ouviu falar de um médico chamado Michael Greger? Ele diz que é exatamente quem consome proteína animal em excesso que corre mais riscos de ter baixos níveis de testosterona. Claro, a não ser quem mantenha uma alta ingestão de esteroides, de sintéticos.
→ read full articleYou (and Almost Everyone You Know) Owe Your Life to This Man
Robert Krulwich | National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Temperament matters. Especially when nuclear weapons are involved. The world owes an enormous debt to a quiet, steady Russian naval officer who probably saved my life. And yours. And everyone you know. Even those of you who weren’t yet born. I want to tell his story…
→ read full articleHow the US Empire Was Made in North Korea
Niall Bradley | Signs of the Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
I recently read The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia by James Bradley, a breathtaking panorama of US and Chinese trajectories from the Opium Wars in the mid-19th century to the birth of ‘Communist’ China and ‘Pax Americana’ a hundred years later. This naturally encompassed US involvement in Korea, so in this article I’d like to share some historical context that is either incomplete or missing from summaries of US-Korean relations I’ve seen online so far.
→ read full articleRadical Love
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Perhaps people in the social justice movements don’t notice. The feelings of solidarity that can arise within movements can mask the ways hate for one’s opposition depletes the soul. More obvious is the effect within the opposition. Sensing hate from the movement, their hearts close off, the deficiency of love drops further, and they lash out violently, entrenching in defense of their actions.
→ read full articleThe Deal Trump Should Strike with Putin
Jeffrey Tayler | Quillette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
If Trump chooses not to pursue détente with Russia and continues with the current policy, then he would do well to recall Kissinger’s words: “the test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins.” He might also want to reflect on what President John F. Kennedy said in 1963, after the nearly catastrophic Cuban Missile Crisis: “Above all, while defending our vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.” The détente outlined above would allow us to lessen the risk of such a confrontation.
→ read full articleVulture Capitalists Fight over Pickings from Bankrupt Puerto Rico
Rafael Azul | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Federal US court proceedings began May 17 in San Juan on Puerto Rico’s $123 billion bankruptcy. As with the Detroit bankruptcy of 2013-2014, the island faces privatization and cutbacks that will exacerbate a mass wave of emigration and further sink its economy into depression. They may be fighting over who will be first in line to be paid, but they all agree that workers, pensioners and the poor will have to sacrifice their jobs and living standards.
→ read full articleFraming Global Transformation through the Polyhedral Merkabah
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Neglected Implicit Cognitive Cycles in Viable Complex Systems – Despite the widely commented implications of a post-truth era, few would deny the fact that the unresolved issues between the Abrahamic religions continue to inspire violence — with no end in sight. This encourages major investment in armaments and the development and deployment of military forces.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Disturbo da Esuberanza Post-Gloria (PGED)
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Questo si apre al comportamentismo : evitare il trauma, cercare la gloria. Ma l’idea va più in profondità. Un trauma grave e ripetuto comporta un disturbo da stress, non solo stress. Una gloria intensa e ripetuta può comportare un disturbo da esuberanza: facciamo altre guerre per mietere altre vittorie! Non solo per difesa!
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