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(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 articleThe United States and the Russian Devil: 1917-2017
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #149 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
The transition of power to Vladimir Putin in the 21st century led to a number of reforms that curbed the disastrous looting of the nation by the oligarchic bandits. Putin and his allies vowed to build an independent, capitalist Russia that was capable of determining its own affairs free from US and Western domination. Such an orientation placed Putin in direct confrontation with US imperialism’s plans for unipolar global hegemony.
→ read full articleHow Anti-Vietnam War Activists Stopped Violent Protest from Hijacking Their Movement
Robert Levering | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
The tactics of isolation that kept groups like the Weathermen away from peaceful protests may help today’s activists struggling with Black Bloc disruptions.
→ read full articleTowards Gender Liberation
Cecilia Gingerich | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Asking whether we might be at the beginning of an emergent “Fourth Wave” of feminism synthesizing important elements from previous waves, the paper critically examines both existing visions for an alternative political economy and some of the steps that have been taken towards them. It calls for further work to clarify the transitional steps, models, and policies we need to adopt in order to begin moving towards a better system of gender relations in the hope of inspiring the development of still more developed visions and pathways to change.
→ read full articleExit through the Checkpoint: Inside Banksy’s New Bethlehem Hotel
Haggai Matar | +972 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Every room overlooks the West Bank separation wall, the lobby features a Greek statue choking on teargas, and faux-security cameras dot the corridors. Welcome to “The Walled Off Hotel,” the new Bethlehem-based project from British street artist and enfant terrible Banksy.
→ read full articleWhy Everyone but NATO Live Happily with Russia
Jonathan Power | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Jonathan Power turns around the perspective – something seldom done in Western debate: What’s the reason that NATO is the only one around the world that has a negative relation to Russia today? And insists on having it? Trump proposes a huge increase in military spending but the U.S. already spends more than the next seven biggest spenders combined, China and Russia included!
→ read full articleA Nuclear Weapons Ban Should First Do No Harm to the NPT
Adam Mount and Richard Nephew | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Simple additions to the text of a new ban treaty would keep it from being used as a cover for non-compliance with the existing non-proliferation regime.
→ read full article(Italiano) Da Trump a Gandhi. Conversando con Johan Galtung
Gary Corseri | Dialoghi Mediterranei – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Un uomo che ha pubblicato più di centocinquanta libri e millecinque- cento articoli sulla pace e su argomenti correlati; il fondatore di Trascend International: una rete di pace, sviluppo e ambiente; un uomo che ha lavorato come mediatore con le Nazioni Unite e con diverse nazioni in conflitto intorno al mondo, necessiterebbe di una non piccola presentazione…
→ read full article(Castellano) México lindo y querido
Graziella Pogolotti | Granma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Los latinoamericanos de buena ley no podemos dejar de sentir, como bofetada en la mejilla propia, la subestimación racista de quienes levantan muros en la larguísima frontera que separa a México de su vecino del norte, que califica de delincuentes y parásitos sociales a los representantes de un pueblo que ha sido llevado por la miseria a recoger frutas en California y contribuye a hacer la riqueza de quienes los desprecian.
→ read full article(Français) Quand la France colonisait le Maroc par la dette
Adam Barbe | OrientXXI ~ Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Le rôle de la dette dans l’établissement du protectorat français au Maroc n’est plus à démontrer. Guy de Maupassant y fait même allusion vingt ans plus tôt dans son roman Bel-Ami (1885) ! Du milieu du XIXe siècle à 1912, le Maroc affronte en effet des difficultés financières croissantes. L’engrenage infernal de la dette qui lui fut fatal ne commence toutefois qu’au début du XXe siècle, avec l’emprunt de 1904.
→ read full articleDalai Lama Adds Voice to Pope’s in Calling for the Persecution of Rohingya to End
Lindsay Murdoch | People’s Tribunal on Myanmar – The Sydney Morning Herald,
6 Mar 2017
3 Mar 2017 – The Dalai Lama has joined Pope Francis in calling for Myanmar Buddhists to end violence against Rohingya Muslims in what the United Nations says amounts to ethnic cleansing and possibly crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleRole of Mass Demonstrations in History
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
I am reminded of mass demonstrations which I have experienced over the years in the United States: the gathering for civil rights at the Washington Monument in 1963 when Martin Luther King made his great speech “I have a dream!”; the mobilization of one million people for a nuclear test ban in New York’s Central Park in 1982; and the mobilizations in 2003 against the American invasion of Iraq which involved millions of people around the world.
→ read full article(Português) Há quem não goste de saber sobre a realidade da exploração animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Há muitas pessoas que evitam confrontar esse tipo de realidade porque sabem que isso pode tirá-las da zona de conforto. Têm receio de sentirem-se péssimas e culpadas. Esse apontamento não é feito por ninguém, a não ser por quem se lança nesse tipo de experiência.
→ read full articleHow U.S. Missile Defense Destabilizes the World
William Griffin | Zoom in Korea – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
23 Feb 2017 – Contrary to defense industry claims, missile defense does not make the world a safer place but rather destabilizes it, warned Dr. Jae-jung Suh and Ray McGovern during a recent online webinar. Tracing the history of North Korea’s responses to U.S. actions since 1994 provides useful instruction on how to move forward. Each time the U.S. was willing to engage in discussion, North Korea responded with freezing its nuclear program and even disabled it for a time. But every time the U.S. intensified military pressure, North Korea re-ignited its nuclear program.
→ read full articleThe Cannons of Napoleon
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Napoleon came to a German town and was not welcomed with the traditional artillery salute. Furious, he summoned the mayor and demanded an explanation. The German produced a long scroll of paper and said: “I have a list of 99 reasons. Reason No. 1: we have no cannon.” “That’s enough'” Napoleon interrupted him, “You can go home!” I was reminded of this story some two weeks ago, when I read Yitzhak Herzog’s 10-point peace plan.
→ read full articleGerman Newspaper Publishes Fraudulent Refugee “Sex-Mob” Report
Marianne Arens | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
1 Mar 2017 – On February 6 in its Frankfurt local edition, the Bild newspaper ran an article with the headline “37 days after New Year, victims break their silence. Sex-mob raged in the Fressgass”—a popular city boulevard in the city. The news spread quickly but proved to be a pack of lies.
→ read full articleWhile Our Attention Is Elsewhere, Climate Change Worsens
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Sevice,
6 Mar 2017
The news of actual events—hurricanes, floods, drought, sharp temperature changes, and other distortions in weather patterns in the US and around the world—typically are being crowded out by Trump’s tantrums, fake news, and conflicts of interest. For the strong of heart, here are some important developments affecting climate change over the past several months that you may have missed.
→ read full articleIsrael Orders Demolition of Palestinian Village in West Bank
Doug G. Ware | UPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
22 Feb 2017 – Israel’s government this week issued demolition orders for a Palestinian encampment near Jerusalem, giving residents just a few days to evacuate their homes. Tel Aviv decided to finally move on the long-sought land after years of holding back, due mainly to international pressure.
→ read full article(Português) “Falar bem do outro é mais difícil, nós gostamos mesmo é de odiar”
Leandro Karnal | Raízes Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
“Falar bem do outro é mais difícil, nós gostamos mesmo é de odiar. Amar é um pouquinho mais complicado. A espécie humana não pára o carro para ver uma árvore florida, mas sim para ver um acidente.
→ read full articleThe Economy for the Common Good
Christian Felber and Gus Hagelberg | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
An economic model that aims to establish an “ethical market economy.” By focusing on increasing the quality of life for everyone, promoting values such as human dignity and rights, ecological responsibility, and ensuring social justice, the economy can be finally controlled by the citizens to serve the public good. But the ECG is not only limited to the economic system. To fully achieve it major changes are required in institutions and practices across all areas of life.
→ read full articleThe Binary Code of Body and Spirit: Computing Pioneer Alan Turing on Mortality
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
“The body provides something for the spirit to look after and use.” Turing’s decryption of Nazi communication code is estimated to have shortened WWII by two to four years, consequently saving anywhere between 14 and 21 million lives. But despite his wartime heroism, Turing was driven to suicide after being chemically castrated by the U.K. government for being homosexual. More than half a century after his disquieting death, Queen Elizabeth II issued royal pardon — a formal posthumous apology that somehow only amplifies the tragedy of Turing’s life and death.
→ read full articleThe Role of Biodiversity Scientists in a Troubled World
Arturo Gómez-Pompa | American Institute of Biological Sciences, Oxford University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
As a society, we are torn apart by conflicting views on issues of enormous importance. In the debate on many of these issues, both sides have persuasive arguments for their position. I hear convincing views from opposite extremes: pro-war or antiwar, pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian, pro-GMO or anti-GMO, pro-life or pro-choice, pro-bioprospecting or anti-bioprospecting. I feel the anguish of having to take sides on issues I do not know well and whose reconciliation seems impossible.
→ read full articleHow US Nuclear Force Modernization Is Undermining Strategic Stability: The Burst-Height Compensating Super-Fuze
Hans M. Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie and Theodore A. Postol | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
How the United States nuclear forces modernization program has been mischaracterized to the general public as a reasonable effort to update the safety of US nuclear warheads. The reality of the program is instead an implementation of revolutionary new technologies that have serious implications for strategic stability and international perceptions of US nuclear intentions.
→ read full articleSmartphones Have You Pegged, and for Better or Worse They’ll Soon ID You
Tim Johnson | McClatchy DC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Your smartphone now gathers more information about you than you probably realize. “We can tell what floor of a building you’re on. We can tell if you are inside or outside of a building,” Whaley said. “Just with a few seconds of your walking data, from your phone sitting in your pocket, we can actually identify you based on that.”
→ read full article347 Native Bee Species ‘Spiraling Toward Extinction’
Center for Biological Diversity | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
2 Mar 2017 – In the first comprehensive review of the more than 4,000 native bee species in North America and Hawaii, the Center for Biological Diversity has found that more than half the species with sufficient data to assess are declining. Nearly one in four is imperiled and at increasing risk of extinction.
→ read full articleHawaii: Science, Religion and Spirituality on Mauna Kea – The Thirty Meter Telescope
Millicent Cummings | Honolulu Civil Beat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
With so much at stake, the TMT project most certainly begs more than just a question or two.
→ read full articleThe Blindness of the Left in the Age of Power
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Reporter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
The Left has been up in arms about transgender rights and the rights of immigrants, legal or illegal—and yes, immigration policies are everywhere and there are laws about immigration for every country, by the way—but absolutely blind to the war machine. We might recall that Athens, the birthplace of (limited) democracy, was a ruthless empire in the Peloponnesian War: privilege at home, horror abroad.
→ read full articleErasing the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
We have reached a stage of human development where future prospects are tied to finding institutional mechanisms that can serve human and global interests in addition to national interests, whether pursued singly or in aggregate. In this central respect, Trump’s ardent embrace of American nationalism is an anachronistic dead end. We need a greatly empowered UN, not an erased UN.
→ read full articleUS Ramps Up Bombing Campaign In Yemen
Niles Niemuth | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
The multi-day bombardment was the heaviest so far in the undeclared US war in Yemen, which has killed or injured more than 1,700 people, including hundreds of women and children, since 2009. According to a tally maintained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the US has carried out a least 390 attacks in the last eight years.
→ read full articleWhy Should Trump―or Anyone―Be Able to Launch a Nuclear War?
Lawrence Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
The accession of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency brings us face-to-face with a question that many have tried to avoid since 1945: Should anyone have the right to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust? Ultimately, then, the only long-term solution to the problem of national leaders launching a nuclear war is to get rid of the weapons.
→ read full articleThe Three Trump Administrations
Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
24 Feb 2017 – Foreign and national defense ministries around the world, as well as embassies in Washington, DC, are struggling to ascertain who is actually in charge of the U.S. government one month after Donald Trump was sworn in as president of the United States. It is a fair question, considering the conflicting statements issuing forth from the White House, State Department, and the Pentagon.
→ read full articleShining a Light on Rohingya Refugees
Dewey Sim | Global Journalist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
“It is probably the worst kind of habitat a human can live in.” – Hasina Begum, a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, has been shot, raped and sold as a sex slave before escaping and working as a prostitute.
→ read full articleOne Nation – Two Cubas”
Martha R. Bireda | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Cuba is an exceedingly beautiful island blessed with lush forests, pristine beaches, sapphire seas, and sunny tropical weather. It is a tourist’s paradise. It is an island that is beloved by its people, its exiles, and those who visit. There is physically only one island, but there are two Cubas; each Cuba seen through very different eyes and experienced in grossly dissimilar ways. Both Cubas are deeply loved.
→ read full articleThree Years since the Kitty Litter Disaster at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Paul DeRienzo | This Can’t Be Happening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – There is a place in the USA, almost half-a-mile underground, in a salt mine, where radioactive waste from the production of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs was to be held separate from all contact with humanity for 10,000 years, equivalent to the entire history of civilization. This separation lasted only three years, when an explosion sent the deadly contamination back to the world of humans in 2014. The still unfinished clean up has cost taxpayers $2 billion since then.
→ read full articleWhat’s Really Happening in Syria
Robert Roth | Syria Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
5 Feb 2017 – If you try to follow events in the mainstream media, you may have noticed that they routinely refer to Syrian President Bashar al Assad as a “brutal dictator”. Assad is supposed to have responded to peaceful protests with repressive violence and by “killing his own people”. The U.S., UK, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar continue to maintain that “Assad must go”. I disagree with all of that, as I’ll explain in this article. I spent 25 years prosecuting lies in commerce for the people of New York and Oregon. I prepared this primer to help you cut through the lies and get at the truth about Syria.
→ read full articleGermany Bans Meat at Official Functions to ‘Set a Good Example for Climate Protection’
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – Eating less meat is essential to curbing climate change, which is why Germany’s Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks is only serving vegetarian food at official functions. The ministry said it wants to be a “role model” and justified their provision to fight the negative “effects of the consumption of meat.”
→ read full articleCosta Rica’s Peace Journey
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
A Bold Peace, which begins by quoting Eisenhower’s “cross of iron” speech, tells the remarkable story of war avoided, or transcended, again and again and again. Yes, there is another way for the world to live. By the film’s end, this way emerges not simply as possible, not simply as a curiosity, but as the model for the future. It’s time for the rest of the world to join Costa Rica on its journey.
→ read full articleAmerica First
Paul Larudee | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
20 Feb 2017 – Nothing in Trump’s campaign resonated with the American heartland quite like “America First”. But Trump wasn’t the first. Remember Charles Lindbergh? He put “America First” and paid the price.
→ read full articleShould the Palestinians Seek Justice NOW at the International Criminal Court?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – This post calls particular attention to the punitive treatment of recourse to international law tribunals to address perceived grievances that is meant to discourage Palestinians from seeking relief at the International Criminal Court. It seems almost certain that the Palestinian Authority will not act to take advantage of the ICC option any time soon. The PA is likely to adopt a posture of neither/nor, that is, neither explicitly ruling out recourse to the ICC, nor activating the option.
→ read full article
Give a Little Bit (Music Video of the Week)
Roger Hodgson | Summar Festivalur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Faroe Islands: What a night! For the first time ever, Roger Hodgson, legendary singer/songwriter and formerly of Supertramp, gave a concert at 4:00AM! Due to multiple plane delays that were out of his control, he arrived extremely late and people were waiting!
→ read full articleThe Science of Knowing God
Navina Syama Dasa | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Two doctrines present major obstacles to conventional science as a way to know God. The first is naturalism: all natural phenomena have natural causes. (Natural in this context means empirically observable, or perceivable through the five senses.) The second is the doctrine of falsification: if scientist A makes some claim but there is no way for scientist B to show that it is wrong, then the claim is considered unscientific. So where does that leave us, the spiritually inquisitive rationalists? Can the investigation of God through the method of Krishna Consciousness really be called scientific?
→ read full articleFukushima: A Lurking Global Catastrophe?
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
19 Feb 2017 – Year over year, ever since 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown grows worse and worse, an ugly testimonial to the inherent danger of generating electricity via nuclear fission, which produces isotopes, some of the most deadly poisonous elements on the face of the planet.
→ read full articleTrump Administration Revokes Transgender Rights Guidance Issued by Obama Administration
Shelley Connor | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – In May 2016 President Barack Obama instructed public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom they felt most comfortable using. On February 22, President Trump rescinded the instructions, arguing that states and public schools have a right to discriminate against transgender students without interference from the federal government.
→ read full articleUnique Aleppo Photos Seen by over 100.000 People but Not in Mainstream Media
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
21 Feb 2017 – It’s probably unusual that a research organisation’s photos go viral – and do so in spite of the mainstream media’s manifest lack of interest in their story. But the photos I took in Aleppo in Syria December 10-14, 2016 have been seen here by well over 100.000 people around the world, exclusively by organic, non-paid online sharing.
→ read full articleTrump Wants to Make Sure U.S. Nuclear Arsenal at ‘Top of the Pack’
Steve Holland | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
“I am the first one that would like to see … nobody have nukes, but we’re never going to fall behind any country even if it’s a friendly country, we’re never going to fall behind on nuclear power. It would be wonderful, a dream would be that no country would have nukes, but if countries are going to have nukes, we’re going to be at the top of the pack,” Trump said.
→ read full articleThe Health Risks of Depleted Uranium in Hawaii
Carol Murry, Douglas Rokke, Lorrin Pang and Michael Reimer | Civil Beat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
More than 50 years of bombing at Pohakuloa Training Area, increased traffic on the new Saddle Road passing through PTA, combined with strong winds in the area and occasional flash flooding have provided increased potential pathways of public exposure to DU aerosol particles and potential transport of DU around the island. Furthermore, military and civilian work forces are possibly exposed daily, families and visitors picnic in the area, and a county park and Girl Scout camps are nearby.
→ read full articleNorth Dakota Senate Passes Bills Criminalizing Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
Shelley Connor | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
On Thursday [16 Feb 2017], North Dakota’s Senate passed three separate bills aimed directly at anti-DAPL protesters. The bills significantly curtail protest rights and impose stiff penalties on protesters who run afoul of local or state law enforcement. One bill imposes sentencing of up to 20 years in prison.
→ read full articleKeep Focus on Aleppo and Global Dimensions of Syria
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 – Three Perspectives on the Syrian Conflict Formation – The Syrian conflict formation is hugely more complicated than we’ve been told by Western politicians (all mainstream in spite of democratic features) and mainstream/dependent media.
→ read full articleCapitalocene or Anthropocene?
Benjamin Kunkel | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Ecologically the Anthropocene is here to stay, but just how it unfolds over coming generations will be decided by whether, politically, it remains the Capitalocene (‘privileging the endless accumulation of capital’) or becomes for the first time a properly political Anthropocene, in which the interests of humanity as a whole chart our ecological course.
→ read full article(Français) Le cabinet de copains de Trump a peut-être l’air très fort, mais ces gens ont peur
Naomi Klein | Solidaire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
L’activiste canadienne Naomi Klein voit dans le nouveau gouvernement des États-Unis un coup d’État très clair des grandes entreprises. Dans un article qu’elle a écrit pour The Nation et que nous publions ci-dessous traduit en français, elle explique comment ce coup d’État a été inspiré par la peur. En effet, dans le monde entier, l’influence des mouvements sociaux qui menacent les intérêts de l’establishment ne cessent de croître. Klein estime donc que ces mouvements ont désormais une tâche difficile mais nécessaire. Et que « nous pouvons toujours les vaincre ».
→ read full articleFriendly American Fascism: It Doesn’t Seem so Friendly Anymore
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Hard right-wing political parties in American have been around forever, but they have always been numerically insignificant – until now. Citizens who meet the definition of fascist have come out of the shadows in the US since Donald Trump started campaigning for president of the United States.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre produtos de higiene pessoal e cadáveres de animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
É difícil acreditar que alguém esteja realmente se higienizando ao usar um produto que tem em sua composição algo que é extraído de cadáveres de animais.
→ read full articleHaiti 2017: From Demonstration Election to Electoral Coup
Charlie Hinton | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Haiti moves into 2017 with a “president” who would never have won an honest election. A tiny number of ruling families backed by the United States, Canada, and France, operating through a United Nations military occupation, has imposed an imperial ruler on an unwilling population through a process they call an “election.” Everyone in Haiti knows this, but outside we don’t.
→ read full articleImpact Investing and Venture Philanthropy’s Role in Sowing the Seeds of Financial Opportunity
Tim Scott | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
17 Feb 2017 – In the late 19th century many U.S. industrialists – Andrew Carnegie, John Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and others – who amassed immense wealth through the exploitation and degradation of workers (including children), began to establish philanthropic trusts and foundations.
→ read full articleBruce Lee’s Never before Revealed Letters to Himself about Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
“I have come to accept life as a process and am satisfied that in my ever-going process, I am constantly discovering, expanding, finding the cause of my ignorance, in martial art and especially in life. In short, to be real… Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being.”
→ read full articleFamine Threatens Millions in the Horn of Africa as Washington Prepares Expanded War in Somalia
Thomas Gaist |WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
21 Feb 2017 – Even as starvation and malnutrition threaten more than 10 million lives in the Horn of Africa countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, the United States and its allies are preparing a massive expansion of military operations throughout the region.
→ read full articleLines of Descent: The Emergence of Identity – Who Was W.E.B. Du Bois?
Nicholas Lemann | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
The supposedly scientific way of thinking about race predictably went along with the idea that Negroes were genetically inferior; and
another part of this package of received wisdom a century ago was the idea that Africa had no history or culture. That helped make Europeans comfortable with colonizing Africa, as they were then doing.
Trump–Putin Could Rescue the World Taking the Advice of Alfred Nobel
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
In the will he used the term “the prize for the champions of peace,” and the correspondence with Bertha von Suttner, the great peace movement leader of the period, shows that it was her political ideas and political friends he wished to support – abolishing weapons and warriors as the tool to get an end to war. This means that almost all statesmen and generals who have received Nobel honors from the Oslo committee have been — considering the actual intention of Alfred Nobel — illegitimate winners.
→ read full article(Italiano) Democrazia in evoluzione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Immaginiamo un popolo che dia per scontato che ci siano due, solo due, versanti a qualunque contesa; uno giusto, uno sbagliato; ove non ci sia compromesso, la si giochi a duello, e chi vince ne decide il risultato. Questo copione controlla la gente. Potere al popolo, suona bene, ma che genere di popolo?
→ read full article(Français) Les risques du libre-échange
Elisabeth Beague | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Les accords de libre-échange (TTIP, CETA, TISA et tous les autres accords bilatéraux et multilatéraux sur le commerce et les investissements), concoctés « discrètement » depuis 2013 et largement contestés ces derniers temps, sont-ils compatibles avec les mesures ratifiées dans le Traité de Lisbonne par les pays constituant l’Union Européenne ? Il semble bien que non. Car, quoi que l’on pense de ce Traité de Lisbonne (qui a été signé de façon parfaitement antidémocratique), celui-ci reconnaît pourtant explicitement le principe de précaution.
→ read full articleCongress Says, Let the Mentally Ill Buy Guns
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 – For all their dysfunction, the Republican Senate and House have managed to act with lightning speed in striking down a sensible Obama administration rule designed to stop people with severe mental problems from buying guns. They did the gun lobby’s bidding in passing a regressive measure that President Trump is expected to sign.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Trump and Putin: The World Needs Nuclear Zero
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – The Hill,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 – As the leaders of the USA and Russia, the two countries with the largest nuclear arsenals, you have the grave responsibility of assuring that nuclear weapons are not used — or their use overtly threatened — during your period of leadership. We, the undersigned, implore you to commence negotiations to reduce the dangers of a nuclear war, by mistake or malice, and immediately commit your respective governments to the realizable objective of a nuclear weapons-free world.
→ read full article(Português) Defender os animais de maus-tratos é humano
Iara M.E. Marubayashi | Novo Momento – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
13 fevereiro 2017 – Recentemente houve ataques às pessoas que se indignaram e protestaram contra os maus-tratos a um cão, revelados por um vídeo que a produção diz ter sido manipulado, do filme ‘Quatro vidas de um cachorro’.
→ read full articleDisqualify “The White Helmets” for an Oscar
Paul Larudee | Syria Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The Syria Solidarity Movement® advises disqualification of the film “The White Helmets” for a 2017 Academy Award. It has been nominated in the category of Short Documentary. The problems with this film:
→ read full articleNot So Innocent
David S. Foglesong | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Trump and Putin have an important opportunity to work together against international terrorism, nuclear proliferation, drug trafficking and other threats. That chance may be missed if journalists and politicians persist in vilifying Putin and harassing Trump with charges that he is Putin’s puppet.
→ read full articleSea Ice around Antarctica Hits Record Low, Preliminary U.S. Data Show
Alister Doyle | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Sea ice around Antarctica has shrunk to the smallest annual extent on record, preliminary U.S. satellite data showed on Tuesday [14 Feb 2017]. In many recent years, the average extent of sea ice around Antarctica has tended to expand despite the overall trend of global warming. People skeptical of findings by climate scientists have often pointed to Antarctic sea ice as evidence against global warming.
→ read full articleA Response to a Radio Interview with Two Academic Psychiatrists
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Tom, at the end of the radio program this morning, many of your listeners will surely have come to the mistaken conclusion that the solution to the vast problem of pervasive adolescent female sadness isn’t to logically address the obvious potentially preventable causes of mental ill health. I got the impression that the solution was to get them seem by a prescribing psychiatrist and “get them treated with drugs!”
→ read full articleIsrael Legalizes Settlement Options as a Prelude to the Netanyahu Visit to Trumpland
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
13 Feb 2017 – Responses to four questions posed by Rodrigo Craveiro, a journalist from the Brazilian newspaper Correio Braziliense.
→ read full article(Português) Os perigos escondidos das lâmpadas LED revelados por um especialista em fotobiologia
Dr. Alexander Wunsch | Cura pela Natureza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
“Lâmpadas LED são prejudiciais à saúde física, mental, da retina, e também aos hormônios”, diz o Dr. Alexander Wunsch.
→ read full articleCorruption Brings Down an Empire: Odebrecht in Brazil
Mario Osava | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
6 Feb 2017 – The business empire built by three generations of the Odebrecht family is falling apart after three years of investigation by the Lava Jato (car wash) operation launched by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s office. People in Brazil have been overwhelmed by the flood of news stories about the huge web of corruption woven by the country’s biggest construction company that is active in dozens of fields and countries.
→ read full articleA Short History of the Trump Family
Sidney Blumenthal | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Reckoning with Trump means descending into the place that made him. What he represents, above all, is the triumph of an underworld of predators, hustlers, mobsters, clubhouse politicians and tabloid sleaze that festered in a corner of New York City.
→ read full articleParadoxes of Wilber’s Appreciation of the Trump Challenge
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Reframing Integral Possibilities for the Future – Given that a case is rapidly building against the incapacity of Trump, the following argument is topical. With respect to the perspective of Ken Wilber, it is framed by earlier consideration with regard to integral futures.
→ read full articleHow Did It Start?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – So how the hell did it all start? I have seen this many times. Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: “When did it start?” Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it.
→ read full articleTrump Administration Sued for Suspending Protections for Endangered Bumble Bee
Natural Resources Defense Council | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Trump administration Tuesday [14 Feb 2017] for illegally suspending the rule to put the rusty patched bumble bee on the endangered species list. It has lost approximately 90 percent of its range in the past 20 years and is the first bumble bee ever listed under the Endangered Species Act.
→ read full articleHow the US Began Its Empire
Jackson Lears | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Stephen Kinzer, Henry Holt & Co, Jan 2017 – The recovery of civic virtue and the clarification of national interest are urgently necessary goals, and the only way we can hope to achieve them is by reviving the debate over American empire.
→ read full article(Português) Jo Frederiks: Animais Não São Coisas, Não São Nossos Escravos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Jo Frederiks é uma artista australiana que cria desenhos e pinturas para conscientizar as pessoas sobre a crueldade contra os animais na indústria alimentícia, farmacêutica e de entretenimento. “Nosso próprio futuro é baseado em um reflexo de como tratamos nossos companheiros não humanos”.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Vision for the Future Is Terrifying – Doublespeak Abolished
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
15 Feb 2017 – Empirical historical evidence combined with little common-sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual apartheid or ethnic cleansing, or a mix of both.
→ read full articleThe Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.”
→ read full articleThe Cognitive Bias President Trump Understands Better Than You
Emily Dreyfuss | Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The aberrant occurrence is the story you’ll read and the picture you’ll see. It’s news because it’s new. The problem here is not just that this singling out creates a distorted version of what’s really happening. It’s that the human psyche is predisposed to take an aberration and conflate it with the norm. This cognitive bias itself isn’t new. But in a media environment driven by clicks, where politicians can bypass journalistic filters entirely to deliver themselves straight to citizens, it’s newly exploitable.
→ read full articleWays of Living with ‘Alternative Facts’: An Anecdote
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
This brings me inevitably to Kellyann Conway’s reliance on ‘alternative facts’ to validate the claim that Donald Trump’s inaugural crowd was bigger than that of Barack Obama. She was contesting contrasting pictures shown by CNN and other media outlets in which even the most casual observer could tell that Trumps crowd was by far smaller.
→ read full articleExclusive: More Than 1,000 Feared Killed in Myanmar Army Crackdown on Rohingya – U.N. Officials
Antoni Slodkowski | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
8 Feb 2017 – “Where are the Men?” More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior UN officials dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death toll has been a far greater than previously reported.
→ read full article(Français) Trump et l’Amérique Latine
Silvina M. Romano | CELARG – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
10 Fév 2017 – Pendant les jours qui ont précédé l’investiture de Trump, le bruit a couru qu’il avait rencontré « des experts de l’Amérique latine » et qu’à cette occasion, on a parlé de l’Amérique centrale et du Venezuela. Avant d’approfondir sur le contenu de la réunion, il faudrait faire un commentaire sur les « experts » qui ont parlé avec Trump et qui, plus que « des experts de l’Amérique latine » sont des chefs d’entreprises qui se distinguent par leur pragmatisme et ont un parcours dont la légitimité et la légalité sont douteuses.
→ read full articleThe Uncomfortable Truth: Are We Hating Donald Trump for the Wrong Reasons?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Trump may be described with all the demeaning terminology that one’s livid imagination can muster: evil, wicked, tyrannical, misogynist, war-mongering, rich buffoon, ‘insulting our allies’, infatuating with ‘dictators’, etc. But do not miss the point. There is hardly a single bad deed that Trump has carried – or intends to carry out – that does not have roots in another policy championed by previous administrations.
→ read full articleThe Mass Grave We Call Collateral Damage
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
But the politics of our drone assassinations and our air strikes and our wars justify and soften the murders we commit. Even now, as consensus consigns the Iraq war to the status of “mistake,” we still refuse to take official responsibility for its consequences. The shattered country, the dead, the dislocated, the rise of terrorism — come on, cut us a little slack, OK? We were bringing democracy to Iraq.
→ read full articleThat’s How It Happened
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
The writers, who (I suppose) were born after the events, accuse the Zionists of starting the 1948 war in order to expel the Arab population. Since I took part in the events – I was 24 years old at the time – I feel that it is my duty to describe what really happened, as truthfully as possible. (I have written two books about it, one during the war and one immediately after.)
→ read full articleIndians? Witches? Natives? Jews? Islamists? ETs?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Eradication as Genocide — Now And Then?
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