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Pentagon Trained Syria’s Al Qaeda “Rebels” in the Use of Chemical Weapons
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
The Western Media Refute Their Own Lies – Not only do they confirm that the Pentagon has been training the terrorists in the use of chemical weapons, they also acknowledge the existence of a not so secret “US-backed plan to launch a chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad’s regime”
→ read full articleRohingya Killings Expose Fraud of Burmese “Democracy”
John Roberts | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
7 Apr 2017 – The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution setting up an investigation into serious crimes committed by the Burmese (Myanmar) security forces and nationalist thugs against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh. The US and its EU allies cynically exploit concerns over “human rights” in Burma and elsewhere to advance their geo-political interests.
→ read full article(Français) Guerres et terrorisme: « l’effet boomerang »
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
3 Avr 2017 – Est-ce que l’OTAN garantit notre sécurité ? Les gens s’interrogent de plus en plus à ce sujet. Aux élections présidentielles françaises, la sortie de l’OTAN figure noir sur blanc dans le programme de la France Insoumise de Jean-Luc Mélenchon. En Belgique également, quelques voix courageuses ont dressé le bilan des guerres menées au nom d’un organisme qui défend les intérêts des Etats-Unis. L’écrivain et militant pacifiste belge Ludo De Brabander en fait partie. Nous l’avons interviewé pour tirer au clair la stratégie de la France et la Belgique vis-à-vis des menaces terroristes, les intentions de l’administration Donald Trump dans le conflit syrien, ainsi que les enjeux du prochain Sommet.
→ read full articleOur Nuclear Folly
Winslow Myers | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
10 Apr 2017 – The well-established assumption that North Korea is our most difficult and dangerous foreign policy challenge is worth a little dispassionate examination. NK is a pariah nation led by a greedy Stalinist family. No one can say with any certainty whether they could be brought to the table to discuss abolition. Why can’t we admit that we ourselves harbor a similar reluctance?
→ read full articleTowards an Integrated Progressive Agenda
Riane Eisler | The Next System Project,
10 Apr 2017
I invite you and your organizations to take leadership in forming a coalition to develop, disseminate, and implement the integrated progressive social/political agenda that is today more urgently needed than ever before. With an integrated progressive agenda focused on the four cornerstones of childhood, gender, economics, and narratives/stories, we can build the foundations for a world where all children can realize their capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity – the capacities that make us fully human.
→ read full articleSix Deceptive Arguments against a Nuclear Weapons Ban
Cesar Jaramillo | OpenCanada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Should we still strive for a world without nuclear weapons, despite global security concerns? Absolutely, writes Cesar Jaramillo, as he debunks the justifications for not taking current negotiations seriously.
→ read full articleNormalization under Occupation: How Israel Understands the Arab Peace Initiative
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Trump assigned his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew and a strong supporter of Israel’s rightwing, to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Trump’s pick for US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is controversial even in the eyes of some Israelis, due to his close association with extremist Jewish parties that labor to seize Palestinian Muslim and Christian properties in Occupied East Jerusalem.
→ read full article(Français) Une notion piégée: Quand parler de «terrorisme»?
Vincent Sizaire | Investig’Action – Le Monde Diplomatique,
10 Apr 2017
Le 14 juillet, un homme au volant d’un camion fonçait sur la foule à Nice, tuant quatre-vingt-quatre personnes et en blessant des centaines. Le massacre a aussitôt été qualifié d’attentat « terroriste ». Mais, pour lutter efficacement contre ce type d’actes, l’emploi de ce terme a-t-il une utilité quelconque ?
→ read full articleHow to Think about Vladimir Putin
Christopher Caldwell | Imprimis, Hillsdale College – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
If we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as the pre-eminent statesman of our time… He has become a symbol of national sovereignty in its battle with globalism. That turns out to be the big battle of our times. As our last election shows, that’s true even here.
→ read full articleLessons from Hitler’s Rise
Christopher R. Browning | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
A major new biography—an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil. “Ullrich reveals Hitler to have been an eminently practical politician—and frighteningly so. Timely… One of the best works on Hitler and the origins of the Third Reich to appear in recent years.” —Kirkus Reviews. “An outstanding study… All the huge and terrible moments of the early Nazi era are dissected…but the real strength of this book is in disentangling the personal story of man and monster.” —The Guardian (U.K.)
→ read full articlePrescribing Crisis: Overwhelmed by a Sea of Despair
Nicole Colson | Socialist Worker – Jacobin Magazine,
10 Apr 2017
A profit-hungry pharmaceutical industry and an indifferent political class are fueling the deadly opioid epidemic.
→ read full articleThe Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Is Over – What’s Needed Now Is a Boycott
Mike Merryman-Lotze | OtherWords, Institute for Policy Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
With the U.S. now firmly in the pro-settler camp, nonviolent campaigns to impose a cost on Israel’s occupation matter more than ever. The White House is creating new problems in Israel-Palestine, but ordinary people can start setting things right.
→ read full article(Français) Enjeux et devenir de la pêche
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI-Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
La hausse constante de la consommation de poisson a fait de la pêche une industrie lucrative. Mais le boom de l’halieutique s’est aussi traduit par une explosion des inégalités, une aggravation des conflits pour le contrôle de la ressource et un effondrement des stocks. Pour y faire face, les institutions internationales ont surtout fait appel à des mécanismes de marché, qui menacent les conditions de vie précaires des communautés de pêche artisanale, sans résoudre la crise.
→ read full article(Português) Propagandhi: “De alguma forma, todo mundo que come carne sabe que existe algum dano nisso”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Fundada no Canadá em 1986, a banda Propagandhi, importante nome do cenário punk rock, tem se destacado por ter como bandeira a defesa dos direitos animais e o veganismo. “Não tenho nenhuma necessidade de machucar os animais para o meu próprio prazer ou conforto”.
→ read full articleThe Future Will Be Battery-Powered
Amelia Urry | Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
The battery might be the least sexy piece of technology ever invented but the future will be battery-powered. It has to be. From electric cars to industrial-scale solar farms, batteries are the key to a cleaner, more efficient energy system.
→ read full articleTrump Has Scientists Mad Enough to March on Earth Day
The Philadelphia Inquirer | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
5 Apr 2017 – It’s not every day that scientists plan to head out of the laboratory and into the streets to protest, but on Earth Day, April 22, U.S. scientists have good reason to do exactly that. The protesters believe President Trump has no respect for the truth when it comes to well-settled science on some of the most critical questions facing the country.
→ read full articleA Huge Mining Conglomerate Wanted to Poison This Country’s Water – After a Long Fight They Lost
Pedro Cabezas | Inequality.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
After a long struggle, El Salvador just proved that with enough civil society support, even a very poor country can stand up to powerful global mining firms. In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country’s people and water supply by banning metallic mining.
→ read full article(Français) Richard Falk : de nombreux dirigeants israéliens ont eux-mêmes annoncé depuis longtemps qu’Israël deviendrait un État d’apartheid…
Richard Falk | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Une enquête sur l’apartheid dans le contexte israélien n’est pas quelque chose de scandaleux, ni même de particulièrement nouveau.
→ read full articleUniversity of Terror
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
So for year after year, century after century, society has sent its criminals to Crime University, where they learn to become better and more professional criminals. Tuition with full board, all expenses paid by the state. And, of course, a huge army of prison personnel, policemen and women, experts and academics depend on this system for their livelihood. Everybody happy.
→ read full article16 European Nations Vote against GMO Crops
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
27 Mar 2017 – The majority of European Union governments voted against a proposal to authorize two new strains of genetically modified (GMO) maize today.
→ read full articleSlaves
Baher Kamal |Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were victims of transatlantic slave trade. Slavery is far from being a chapter of the past—it still there, with estimated 21 million victims of forced labour and extreme exploitation around the world–nearly the combined population of Scandinavian countries.
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza contro le donne: Pace positiva
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
E in quanto ai monumenti: per favore, non l’uomo a cavallo, che brandisce la morte. Ci siano monumenti alle donne che fanno sbocciare nuova vita. Il punto fondamentale è aprire la mente maschile a un “noi insieme” per migliori matrimoni, e anche per cambiare la loro mentalità “noi contro di loro”. Meglio che trattare le donne come serve-prostitute pagate in moneta di “sicurezza” per rigovernare le stoviglie, lavare la roba, occuparsi dei bebé e insieme dei bambini, degli infermi e dei vecchi, e condividere la loro gratitudine.
→ read full article(Italiano) La politica e l’economia mondiale in questo momento
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Un altro fattore chiave è la speculazione nell’economia finanziaria – in contrapposizione all’investimento nell’economia reale – consistente in serie di prodotti derivati con super-commissioni. Se i prodotti derivati dalla droga sono illegali e biasimati, perché non farlo anche con i derivati finanziari?
→ read full articleSelling São Paulo
Kathleen McCaul Moura | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
17 Mar 2017 – São Paulo is for sale. João Doria, mayor since 1 January, is planning to auction off South America’s biggest city piece by piece: not only the racecourse, football stadium and carnival centre, but lighting, transport, health services and even the public funeral system.
→ read full articleWashington Protests Proposal for Nuclear Disarmament
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
On Monday [27 Mar 2017], the United States, together with Britain and France, walked out of a session of the United Nations General Assembly set to discuss a global ban on nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleStreet Art Controversy – Crime or Urban Renovation?
Giulia D’Ettorre | Wall Street International - Human Wrongs Watch,
3 Apr 2017
Since ancient times, human existence has been recorded on murals. From cave painting to street art, people have been using walls as a means to communicate and leave a sign of their own existence. Thanks to studies of ancient cave art, we have learnt a lot about our ancestors and how they lived, as well as today, graffiti can be perceived as a mirror of our society.
→ read full articleCultivating Community Economies
J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, Kelly Dombroski, Stephen Healy and Ethan Miller | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Building on J.K. Gibson-Graham’s feminist critique of political economy, the CEC challenges two problematic aspects of how “the economy” is understood: seeing it as inevitably capitalist, and separating the economy from ecology. We understand the economy as comprised of diverse practices and as intimately intertwined with planetary ecosystem processes. In a complexly determined world there are multiple ways of enacting change; we are energized by possibilities that are afforded by this framing of economy.
→ read full articleJane Goodall: How Can We Believe It Is a Good Idea to Grow Our Food with Poisons?
Katherine Paul | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
9 Mar 2017 – Two new reports published in recent weeks add to the already large and convincing body of evidence, accumulated over more than half a century, that agricultural pesticides and other toxic chemicals are poisoning us. Both reports issue scathing indictments of U.S. and global regulatory systems that collude with chemical companies to hide the truth from the public, while they fill their coffers with ill-gotten profits.
→ read full articleJapan’s Ruling Party Calls for Military to Have Offensive Weapons
Peter Symonds | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
1 Apr 2017 – Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has called on the government to boost the country’s anti-ballistic missile systems and to consider acquiring, for the first time, weapons capable of carrying out attacks on enemy bases. The recommendations are another step towards the remilitarisation of Japan pressed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that is adding to sharp regional tensions.
→ read full article(Português) Patrik Baboumian: “A força deve construir, não destruir. Minha força não precisa de vítimas. Minha força é a minha compaixão”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Em 2011, quando conquistou o título de homem mais forte da Alemanha, o atleta abraçou o veganismo mesmo sem saber se isso iria afetar o seu desempenho como atleta e o seu grande volume muscular. Questionado se teria alguma sugestão a dar para quem está cogitando o vegetarianismo ou o veganismo, ele recomendou que as pessoas não deem ouvidos aos supostos gurus da nutrição e da indústria de suplementos que dizem que precisamos de carne, ovos e laticínios para conseguir proteínas o suficiente.
→ read full articleThe West Is Becoming Irrelevant: The World Is Laughing
Andre Vltchek | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
The greatest minds of Russia, China, Latin America and the rest of the world are trying to determine what brought our world, our civilization, to this ludicrous downfall. The answer: Western imperialism (military, economic and ‘intellectual’/ ’cultural’), colonialism and neo-colonialism, as well as that dreadful byproduct of all the above – a savage form of capitalism.
→ read full articleLetter to a Concerned Friend of One of the Many Victims of the Psychiatric and Psychopharmaceutical Industries
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
28 Mar 2017 – I recently had a dialogue with a person who had emailed me about a friend of hers who had been mis-treated for years by drug-prescribing psychiatrists. The psychiatrists – and their alarming and illogical drugging – had made him worse and worse and eventually totally disabled over the years.
→ read full articleU.S. Military Personnel Deployments by Country
Jeff Desjardins | Visual Capitalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
18 Mar 2017 – The U.S. spends more on defense than the next 7 countries combined. Part of that money goes to supporting 200,000 troops abroad in 177 countries. Look at the charts.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Four Tactics for Undermining Glyphosate Science Review
Genna Reed | Union of Concerned Scientists – TRASNCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
30 Mar 2017 – Emails unsealed in a California lawsuit last week reveal that agribusiness giant Monsanto engaged in activities aimed at undermining efforts to evaluate a potential link between glyphosate—the active ingredient of the company’s popular herbicide Roundup—and cancer.
→ read full article(Castellano) ¿Y el Estado? Perú y Ecuador frente a El Niño
Maria Florencia Pagliarone | CELAG Centro Estratégico Latinoamericano de Geopolítica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
20 Mar 2017 – En los últimos días, el fenómeno de El Niño ha desatado su furia contra las costas de Ecuador y Perú. La inclemencia climática definida como un calentamiento de la superficie de las aguas del Pacífico se caracteriza por el ingreso de una masa superficial de aguas cálidas en el mar, lo que genera el aumento de la temperatura de la masa de agua e intensas lluvias.
→ read full articleLet’s Come to Our Senses on Nukes
Kevin Martin | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
So one might reasonably ask the president, who has come to their senses on nukes, and who has not? Let’s cancel the New Nuclear Arms Race, challenge the other nuclear states to do likewise, and join the talks for a treaty to once and for all close the door on the folly of nuclear weaponry.
→ read full articleSix Months after Hurricane Matthew, Hunger and Desperation Grip Haiti’s South
John Marion | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
1 Apr 2017 – There have been multiple reports of people eating poisonous plants or tree bark just to stave off hunger, and in the city of Jérémie people are still living under tarpaulins after the storm. According to Le Nouvelliste, an elderly couple in the town of Candache hanged themselves because of hunger. On March 22, Food for the Poor found 240 people, including 84 women and 62 children, living in a cave near Jérémie in Grand’Anse.
→ read full articleThe Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices
David Dayen | The American Prospect – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
How Pharmacy Benefit Managers Morphed from Processors to Predators – Under fire for their many drug-pricing scandals, from Martin Shkreli to Valeant, the pharmaceutical industry has tried to deflect blame by citing PBMs .
→ read full articleWealth of World’s Billionaires Soars amid Stock Market Surge
Shannon Jones | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Combined, the top 10 billionaires on the Forbes list alone took in $558 billion, more than the Gross Domestic Product of Venezuela. Just eight of those billionaires control as much wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population, 3.6 billion people, according to Oxfam. More fundamentally, the increasing concentration of wealth among the world’s richest represents a social retrogression in which society’s resources are being plundered in the name of a mad pursuit of private gain, profits; unjustifiable, pernicious greed.
→ read full articleUS Navy Prepares Decapitating Attack against Russia
Alex Gorka | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
27 Mar 2017 – The US preemptive nuclear strike capability has significantly grown. The Bulletin of American Scientists reports that as a result of improvements in the killing power of US SLBMs, they carry more than three times the number of warheads needed to destroy the entire fleet of Russian land-based missiles.
→ read full articleGermany Converts Coal Mine into Giant Battery Storage for Surplus Solar and Wind Power
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
The Prosper-Haniel coal mine will be converted into a 200 megawatt pumped-storage hydroelectric reservoir that acts like a giant battery. The capacity is enough to power more than 400,000 homes.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Reveals “Marble”: Proof CIA Disguises Their Hacks as Russian, Chinese, Arabic…
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
31 Mar 2017 – WikiLeaks’ latest Vault 7 release contains a batch of documents, named ‘Marble’, which detail CIA hacking tactics and how they can misdirect forensic investigators from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to their agency by inserted code fragments in foreign languages. The biggest malicious hacker on Earth was, and still is, the CIA.
→ read full articleCan Our Social Institutions Catch Up with Advances in Science and Technology?
Lawrence Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
There is a glaring discrepancy between technological advances and the social institutions that can ensure that they are used for the benefit of humanity. The real question is whether people and nations can muster the political will to reshape their behavior and social institutions to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
→ read full articleHow Many Civilians Can We Kill?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
As Barbara Ehrenreich writes in her book, Blood Rites, “War has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions, rather than to just a handful of craftsmen and professional soldiers. It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures.”
→ read full articleUS Senate Votes to Let Internet Providers Share Your Web Browsing History without Permission
Jacob Kastrenakes | The Verge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
23 Mar 2017 – The US Senate has voted to overturn consumer-friendly internet privacy rules that would have prevented internet providers from sharing your web browsing history without permission. Altogether, it’s just pure bad news for consumers, whose private data is about to be open for sale again.
→ read full article(Français) Lettre de démission de Rima Khalaf, secrétaire exécutive de l’ESCWA (commission économique et sociale pour l’Asie de l’Ouest)
Rima Khalaf | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Lettre de démission de la secrétaire exécutive de l’ESCWA (commission économique et sociale pour l’Asie occidentale) Rima Khalaf, en réponse à la demande formelle du secrétaire général des Nations Unies pour que l’ESCWA retire la publication d’un rapport qui affirme que l’Etat d’Israël a mis en place une situation d’apartheid.
→ read full articleIs Israel an Apartheid State?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
This post was originally published on March 22, 2017 by The Nation under the title “The Inside Story of Our UN Report Calling Israel an Apartheid State.” What is below is somewhat modified.
→ read full articleThese Two Rivers Were Just Given the Same Legal Rights as Humans in India
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
The High Court of the Indian state of Uttarakhand ruled that the Ganges and Yamuna rivers and their tributaries are “legal and living entities having the status of a legal person with all corresponding rights, duties and liabilities.” The judges noted that the once-mighty rivers are “losing their very existence.” The decision marks the first time a court has recognized a non-human as a living entity in India.
→ read full articleTrump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought
Henry A. Giroux | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt
The Promise of a Million Utopias
Michael Shuman | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Here is a fun question guaranteed to stump your friends, family, and party guests: Can you name the leader of Switzerland? Trust me—no one ever knows the answer. And the reason is simple. It hardly matters. Switzerland is arguably the most decentralized nation in the world. Each of its twenty-six states, called cantons, retains a high degree of autonomy for governing its own affairs, including the official language spoken.
→ read full articleFrom Democracy to Fascism!
James ‘Jim’ Albertini | Malu‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Measure the path from Democracy to Despotism/Fascism yourself. The gap between rich and poor has widened dramatically. Banks “too big to fail” have grown bigger. Power, wealth, and media are concentrated in the hands of a few. The democratic term “consent of the governed” is mere window dressing. We all need to look at our communities and nation and see how we fare on the scales of respect for one another, concentration of power, economic distribution, and access to information. Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini said: “Fascism is when the corporations and the State become one.”
→ read full articleThe Mosque That Disappeared
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
22 Mar 2017 – We committed a quiet little war crime the other day. Forty-plus people are dead, taken out with Hellfire missiles while they were praying. Or maybe not. Maybe they were just insurgents. The women and children, if there were any, were . . . come on, you know the lingo, collateral damage. The Pentagon is going to “look into” allegations that what happened last March 16 in Syria was something more serious than a terrorist takeout operation, which, if you read the official commentary, seems like the geopolitical equivalent of rodent control.
→ read full articleSouth Sudan, Haiti and Ukraine Lead World in Suffering
Linda Lyons | Gallup – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
• 47% in South Sudan rate their lives poorly enough to be suffering
• Poverty, natural disasters prolong pain in Haiti, where 43% suffering
• 41% suffering in Ukraine is highest in Europe
Mainstreaming South-South Cooperation in the UN System
Ramesh Jaura | IDN – Other News,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – How is the UN Office for South Cooperation, as the global and United Nations system-wide focal point for South-South cooperation, engaging in advocacy, policy development, knowledge sharing and innovative programmatic activities? Interview with Jorge Chediek, Director of the UNOSSC.
→ read full articleThe Most Expensive Weapon Ever Built
Daniel Soar | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
The US is expected to have spent $1.5 trillion designing, building and maintaining 2500 F-35s for its own use: enough to forgive the entire nation’s student debts, or pay for the healthcare of every low-income American family for the next three years, or build a border wall that encircles the Earth four times.
→ read full articleGandhi’s Strategy for Success — Use More Than One Strategy
Mark Engler and Paul Engler | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
How creating a healthy “ecology of change,” as Gandhi did in India, can help propel social movements.
→ read full articleWhere We Drill, We Spill: Commemorating Exxon Valdez
Franz Matzner | EcoWatch, Natural Resources Defense Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
24 Mar 2017 – Twenty eight years ago today the world experienced a massive wake-up call on the hazards and harms of oil spills when the Exxon Valdez oil tanker split open and poured oil into Alaskan waters. At the time, images of oil coated wildlife and a devastated ecosystem in one of the world’s most delicate, iconic and majestic environments drew global attention. Today, oil still lurks under the surface of Prince William Sound, impairing wildlife and human lives.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre críticas equivocadas em relação ao veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Se você diz que já foi vegano e hoje se alimenta de produtos de origem animal, não nego que acho isso muito estranho, levando em conta que a maior parte dos veganos que conheço seriam incapazes de consumir carne novamente, por entenderem que se trata do cadáver de um animal que foi privado de existir à sua maneira. Tenho o claro entendimento de que um animal não existe para ser fatiado e colocado em meu prato.
→ read full articleReports Expose Widespread Use of Child Labor in the Congo
Eddie Haywood | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Sky News aired an investigative report centered on the utilization of child labor in cobalt mines. A child named Dorsen, aged 8, told he does not make enough money to buy food, and had not eaten in two days, despite toiling for 12 hours per day. His friend Richard, aged 11, said how sore he got from the intense physical labor he was forced to undertake in the mine.
→ read full articleAtom, Archetype, and the Invention of Synchronicity: How Iconic Psychiatrist Carl Jung and Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli Bridged Mind and Matter
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Two of humanity’s greatest minds explore the parallels between spacetime and the psyche, the atomic nucleus and the self.
→ read full articleMonsanto Helped Write Cancer Studies on Roundup, Emails Indicate
Allen Cone | UPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
In company emails made public Tuesday [14 Mar] in federal court in San Francisco, Monsanto executives discuss ghostwriting research papers on Roundup, the company’s best-selling product, that would be signed by scientists. Two papers were eventually published, one in 2000 and one in 2013.
→ read full articleThe Israeli National Riddle
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
It’s a national riddle. The whole country is absorbed by it. The Prime Minister announces that he will “go to the very end” to achieve his end. Which end? I don’t know. I am not sure that he knows. Nobody I know knows. He threatens the worst. If he does not get his way – whatever it is – he will do something absolutely awful: announce new elections. Let the people decide whether they want the authority or the corporation. Whatever they are.
→ read full articleMemory, Fire and Hope: Five Lessons from Standing Rock
Alnoor Ladha |The Rules – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Standing Rock may have been evicted but the movement hasn’t lost. Here are five lessons activists around the world can learn from the water protectors.
→ read full article
Noam Chomsky – The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Listening Post | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy. Narrated by Amy Goodman, Executive Producer of Democracy Now! Mar 2, 2017
→ read full articleA Better Mousetrap?
David Krieger | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – Albert Einstein noted, “Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.” We humans have created the equivalent of a mousetrap for ourselves. And we’ve constructed tens of thousands of them over the seven decades of the Nuclear Age.
→ read full articleZen of Facticity: Bull, Ox or Otherwise?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Herding Facts and Their Alternatives in a Post-Truth-Era – In a period in which the very nature of facts has been called into question — challenged as they are by alternative facts — there is a case for exploring this condition by every means possible.
→ read full articleHare Krishna Community Sues DAPL Company to Protect Sacred Lands from Rover Pipeline
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, is facing a familiar legal battle over its proposed Rover Pipeline. A Hare Krishna community in West Virginia is challenging the project on religious grounds, saying that the pipeline’s planned route could cut through sacred lands.
→ read full articleAFRICOM Spearheads Escalation of US “Scramble for Africa”
Eddie Haywood | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
16 Mar 2017 – The chief of the US African Command, General Thomas Waldhauser, warned last week in an annual report to Congress that resource constraints on his forces are threatening to undermine Washington’s influence over Africa… For the African masses, already ravaged by war, poverty, and disease—intolerable social ills that are themselves the malodorous by-product of capitalism—the plans of US imperialism to escalate military intervention on the continent pose a grave new threat.
→ read full articleUN Sponsored Report on Israel’s Responsibility for Apartheid in Relation to the Palestinian People
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
19 Mar 2017 – Below is the text of a report co-authored by Virginia Tilley and myself, commissioned by the UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) that examines the argument for regarding Israel as an ‘apartheid state’ with respect to the whole of the Palestinian people, that is, not only those Palestinians living under occupation, but also those living as residents of Jerusalem, those living as a minority in Israel, and those enduring refugee camps and involuntary exile.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Anno del Karma” e conflitti in corso
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Conferenza d’inverno, Inland University, Rena, Norvegia, 16 Feb 2017 – Un Mondo Instabile: Analisi, Previsioni, Soluzioni
→ read full article(Italiano) Una teoria strutturale sull’invecchiamento
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Wikipedia ha molto da offrire alla voce “invecchiamento”. Si raccomandano molto i 10 punti dell’uomo più vecchio al mondo, al momento del decesso avvenuto nel 2011, il 114enne Walter Breuning . Comunque i più anziani, come me che ho 86 anni, conoscono al meglio il proprio processo d’invecchiamento. Regola n. 1: Mantieni attivi mente e corpo; conserva una buona alimentazione.
→ read full articleInterview with TRANSCEND Member John Scales Avery, One of the Greatest Living Intellectuals on Earth
Binu Mathew | CounterCurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
John Avery is not just an academician and scientist. He is also an active peace activist who campaigns vigorously against nuclear proliferation. Since 1990 he has been the Contact Person in Denmark for Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, which received the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the Member of the Danish Peace Commission of 1998 and Chairman of the Danish Peace Academy.
→ read full article(Português) A atualidade de Rosa Luxemburgo, uma economista política
Michael Krätke | SinPermiso, Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Rosa Luxemburgo foi uma grande oradora, uma célebre e temida polemista, foi economista e uma das grandes intelectuais do marxismo. Intervinha com discursos e discussões nas campanhas políticas do movimento social-democrata e foi uma jornalista tão famosa quanto formidável. A alternativa de Rosa Luxemburgo: Socialismo democrático e democracia econômica.
→ read full articleWhy the UN Branded Israel an Apartheid State
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
17Mar 2017 – A shouting match has been provoked this week by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, which issued a report this week concluding definitively that Israel is guilty of Apartheid practices toward the Palestinians. The report is careful to say that it is not using the term merely as a pejorative but is rather appealing to a body of international law with precise definitions.
→ read full articleThe Deep State Hasn’t Gone Away
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
The whole point of a democracy is to empower the public interest, which means that the public must be aware of the Deep State and hold it continually accountable. While Lofgren is adamant that there’s more to it than the military-industrial consensus and the pursuit of endless war, this to me is by far its most troubling aspect. Let’s not give it any peace.
→ read full articleRate of Ocean Warming Quadrupled Since Late 20th Century, Study Reveals
Roz Pidcock | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
The buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases is warming the upper ocean four times faster than during the period 1960-1990, according to new research.
→ read full article(Italiano) Hawaii: Scienza, Religione e Spiritualità a Mauna Kea – Il Telescopio di trenta metri
Millicent Cummings | Honolulu Civil Beat – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
20 Mar 2017
16 marzo 2017 – Con una spesa prevista di 1,4 miliardi di $, il progetto di Telescopio da Trenta Metri (TMT: Thirty Meter Telescope) solleva ben più di una questione.
→ read full articleThe Radical Jesus: How Would the Baby in a Manger Fare in the American Police State?
John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Jesus was good. He was caring. He had powerful, profound things to say—things that would change how we view people, alter government policies and change the world. He went around helping the poor. And when confronted by those in authority, he did not shy away from speaking truth to power. Jesus was born into a police state not unlike the growing menace of the American police state.
→ read full article
Is Israel Imposing ‘Apartheid’ on Palestinians?
Al Jazeera | Inside Story – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Mar 16, 2017 – The UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia has issued a report which condemned the Israeli government for its treatment of Palestinians. The authors call Israel an apartheid regime, saying it operates a system of divide and rule. But the office of the UN Secretary General has distanced itself from the report.
→ read full articleEarthland: Scenes from a Civilized Future
Paul Raskin | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
This essay is written as a dispatch from the future. We visit Earthland in 2084, the flourishing planetary civilization that has emerged out of the great crises and struggles that today still lie before us. We learn how decades earlier a “global citizens movement” had coalesced and gathered momentum, becoming the key agent of the Great Transition that bent the arc of history from catastrophe to renewal.
→ read full articleThe Most Moral Army
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Killing a wounded or captured enemy is a war crime. Why? For many people, this is a mystery. War is the realm of killing and destroying. Soldiers are decorated for killing. So why is it suddenly a crime to kill a wounded enemy? How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show mercy?
→ read full articleWhy Africans Can’t Just Wait for Dictators to Die
Phil Wilmot | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Family dynasties are making their mark on the continent. Burials of important African men are often characterized by luxury and pomp. Self-important patriarchs want to ensure their survivors continue their legacy. This is why Africans are so rarely shocked whenever state leadership is passed on to family members.
→ read full articleAreva Factory Badly Equipped to Make Nuclear Parts – French Watchdog
Geert De Clercq | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
16 Mar 2017 – Creusot Forge, a supplier of nuclear plants around the world owned by France’s Areva, is under investigation for making substandard parts and falsifying documents. France’s nuclear regulator says machinery at the plant, which was shut for commercial production last year, is not up to the job.
→ read full article(Português) Joaquin Phoenix: “Quando somos tocados pelo sofrimento dos animais, aquele sentimento fala bem de nós”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
O ator Joaquin Phoenix, indicado três vezes ao Oscar, e também muito conhecido como o narrador de um dos documentários mais controversos sobre a exploração animal – Earthlings (Terráqueos), tinha três anos quando se tornou vegano. “Os animais passavam de uma criatura viva e vibrante, lutando pela vida, para uma morte violenta.”
→ read full articleAluminum, Autoimmunity, Autism and Alzheimer’s
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Rebutting Big Pharma’s Talking Points about the Safety of Aluminum (and Mercury) in Vaccines
→ read full article(Français) L’OTAN menace notre sécurité
Daniele Ganser, Gabriel Galice et Hans von Sponeck | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
L’OTAN masse des troupes et des armes aux marches de la Russie. Nous tenons à exprimer notre inquiétude devant la propagande qui déforme la réalité des menaces qui pèsent sur la paix. Cette propagande insidieuse fabrique des ennemis imaginaires pour justifier le surdéveloppement de dépenses militaires, des conquêtes de territoires ou de « parts de marché », des prises de contrôle d’approvisionnement énergétique et pour corroder la démocratie.
→ read full articleGlobal Nuclear Poisoning!
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
March 11, 2017 marks the 6th anniversary of the Fukushima Nuclear disaster. Six years after the initial disaster radiation readings keep increasing and the disaster spreads.
→ read full articleAsking Foolish Questions about Serious Issues
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Serious and worrisome parallel issues are raised by recent disclosures of serious cyber attacks by the US Government on the North Korean nuclear program. The American media and government officialdom treat the conduct of cyber warfare against North Korea’s nuclear program as something to be judged exclusively by its success or failure, not whether it’s right or wrong, prudent or reckless.
→ read full article(Français) Nous sommes tous des Mexicains
Graziella Pogolotti | Investig’Action, Granma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Nous, les Latino-américains de bonne foi, ne pouvons cesser de ressentir comme une gifle sur notre propre joue la sous-estimation raciste de ceux qui élèvent des murs sur l’immense frontière qui sépare le Mexique de son voisin du nord.
→ read full article(Français) Comment le coton OGM de Monsanto s’est transformé en fléau pour les paysans du Burkina Faso
Abdul Razac Napon, Mien de Graeve et Wouter Elsen | Observatoire des Multinationales – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
6 mars 2017 – Au Burkina Faso, les jours de Monsanto sont comptés. La multinationale se retire du pays. L’introduction de son coton OGM en 2009 ne s’y est pas vraiment passée comme prévu : présentée comme une solution miracle aux attaques de ravageurs, la nouvelle variété a surtout fini par ravager la qualité et la réputation du coton burkinabè. Mais le géant agro-chimique n’est pas seul en cause : à l’heure d’établir les responsabilités, les autorités locales sont en première ligne.
→ read full articleOn Big Vaccine’s Dis-Informers
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
8 Mar 2017 – In recent days, I have been in communication with several journalists who have been writing about issues that pertain to an issue in which I have some expertise: the alleged safety and efficacy of the huge number of neurotoxin-containing vaccines that are rather cavalierly administered to babies as young as 1 day, 2 months, 4 months and 6 months, ages in which their blood-brain barriers, their immune systems and their mitochondria are at their most immature and most vulnerable to toxins.
→ read full article(Português) John Feldmann: “Os laticínios são os piores. Cheguei a preferir que as pessoas comessem um bife do que bebessem um copo de leite”.
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
“Porque pelo menos a vaca logo estaria livre de sua vida miserável. Com o leite, a situação é outra”.
→ read full articleMad About THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense): An Untimely Decision
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
8 Mar 2017 – The US decision, supported by the South Korean government, to deploy an antimissile system known as THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) may be one of the most thoughtless strategic moves in a generation. The official US argument is that close-in defense against North Korean missiles is necessary. But the deployment has resulted in the following:
→ read full articlePerhaps the Messiah Will Come
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
The only real solution is the much-maligned “Two States for Two peoples”, the one declared dead many times. It’s either that solution or the destruction of both peoples. So how do Israelis face this reality? They face it the Israeli way: by not facing the reality.
→ read full articleThe New Media World Order
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
In only a few months, the content of the Western national and international media has undergone profound change. We are witnessing the birth of an Entente about which we know almost nothing – neither the real initiators, nor the real objectives – but whose direct anti-democratic consequences can be noticed immediately.
→ read full articleHow Much Does It Cost to Tell a Lie That Big?
Hiroyuki Hamada | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
2 Mar 2017 – It was quite expected but I am having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that the US backed propaganda organization, the White Helmets, has effectively received an Oscar for the short documentary film about them. Which, of course, indicates that it is not just acceptable to twist facts and call a group of people with documented criminal activities “heroes”, but it is acceptable to award them with cultural, artistic and humanistic recognition.
→ read full articleReading Elisabeth Weber’s KILL BOXES
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Kill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare, by Elisabeth Weber – The purpose of this post is to recommend highly the above book addressing the interrelated issues of torture, indefinite detention, and drone warfare from a perspective that is both humanistic and deeply steeped in European philosophical thought.
→ read full articleUS-Russian Space Cooperation: A Model for Nuclear Security
Simon Saradzhyan and William Tobey | Bulleting of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Steps Washington and Moscow took to transform their space rivalry into cooperation can serve as a model for working together to help prevent nuclear terrorism.
→ read full articleOur Sons-of-Bitches: Western Media and the Syrian “Rebels”
Ricardo Vaz | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
“He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he’s our son-of-a-bitch,” U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt once said about Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. We examine how the western media, always so full of editorials and columns praising western values (whatever those may be), have covered the Syrian opposition, focusing on three groups in particular.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Reveals Vast CIA Spying, Cyberwar Operation
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Amid Democrats’ claims of Russian hacking in support of Trump and Trump’s charge that he was bugged by Obama, WikiLeaks has revealed a vast CIA operation directed against the people of the US and the world.
→ read full article