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(Português) Considerações sobre a vida não humana
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Como podemos subestimar o sofrimento de um animal reduzido à comida, quando nós mesmos não estamos na mesma situação que eles? Não se pode menosprezar o sentimento de um animal diante do abate, a não ser que tenhas sentido na pele o desespero da iminência do canibalismo ou de ser morto para tornar-se comida para ser d’outra espécie.
→ read full articleWho Are They, Anyway? Finally Meeting the Strangers in Our Own Land
Libby and Len Traubman | Turning Point – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
In our related personal experiences of peacebuilding in the Middle East and in Nigeria, the people ask about Islamic State and Boko Haram: “Who are they, anyway?” And so it is today, in divided America and around Earth; walled-off individuals largely fearful and ignorant of unknown others, strangers to one another.
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Radetzky March (Music Video of the Week)
Johann Strauß | Maris Jansons, conductor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
ENG: New Year’s Concert Vienna 2016, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Musikverein Viena.
CAST: Orquesta Filarmónica de Viena en la interpretación de la tradicional Marcha Radetzky, de Johann Strauss, dirigida este año por Mariss Jansons en a Sala Dorada de la Musikverein de Viena. 1 jan 2016
Israel Rejoices in Unbridled Colony Expansion amid Trump’s Havoc
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
7 Feb 2017 – Within days of Donald Trump being sworn in, the Israeli government announced the approval of around 2,500 new housing units. Within the first two weeks of Trump’s presidency, the number of new housing units, all to be built illegally on Palestinian land, was raised to 5,500, including the first brand-new government-sanctioned colony in years.
→ read full articleThe Joy of Suffering Overcome: Young Beethoven’s Stirring Letter to His Brothers About the Loneliness of Living with Deafness and How Music Saved His Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?”
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza, guerra: una causa o un sintomo?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Conferimento della laurea Honoris Causa, Universidad Madrid Complutense, 27 gennaio 2017 – Per esperienza famigliare avevo qualche nozione di medicina ed ero rimasto colpito dalla feconda distinzione fra causa e sintomo. Il sintomo è alla superficie del corpo, come la febbre; ma la causa prima è più in profondità, dentro, una sepsi. Un’acquisizione importante.
→ read full article(Italiano) Donald Trump, il Presidente si è insediato
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
E la prima domanda al 45° presidente USA: ha intenzione di ammazzare, in territorio straniero? Il suo predecessore Obama ha seguito la tradizione USA, che dalla seconda guerra mondiale ha causato la morte di più di 20 milioni di persone in 37 paesi, facendo uso di bombe e droni. Pare che i suoi Reparti Speciali abbiano provocato morti ammazzati in 138 paesi. O farà l’America Più Grande interrompendo questa tradizione morbosa?
→ read full articlePolice, National Guard Raid Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp, Arrest 76
Shelley Connor | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
With assistance from the National Guard, police raided a protest camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota near the Dakota Access pipeline site on Feb 1, evicting and arresting seventy-six protesters opposed to the completion of the pipeline.
→ read full articleBREAKING: Radiation at Fukushima Spikes to Highest Levels Since 2011
Whitney Webb | True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
4 Feb 2017 – Operators of the Fukushima nuclear power plant have identified a gaping hole in a reactor containment vessel, which has resulted in a drastic spike in radiation levels.
→ read full articleBurma Loses a Key Voice for Tolerance
Linda Lakhdhir | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Murder of U Ko Ni Undermines Fight for an Inclusive Country
→ read full articleManaging National Borders ‘Cannot Be Based on Any Form of Discrimination’ – UN Chief Guterres
UN News Centre | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Refugees fleeing conflict and persecution are entitled to protection, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on 31 Jan 2017, expressing concern at decisions around the world that have undermined the integrity of the international refugee protection regime.
→ read full articleEmpowering Ineffectual Outrage with the Strategically Outrageous
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Beyond Reactive Protest, Demonstration and Resistance – From a strategic perspective, the current situation calls for careful attention to the relation between “outrage” and the “outrageous”. Most obviously, the comments and actions of Donald Trump are widely considered “outrageous”. They have evoked “outrage” on the part of those opposed to their implications.
→ read full articleWho Supplies the News?
Patrick Cockburn | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Misreporting in Syria and Iraq – The nadir of Western media coverage.
→ read full articleThe History of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Invented the Mathematical Concept of Naught and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
“If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.” –Mathematician Robert Kaplan. If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to foreign travelers, we would have no medicine, no astronomy, and no mathematics — at least not as we know them today.
→ read full articleRespect the Green Line!
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
We did not declare a boycott on Israel. And not only because it is rather awkward to boycott oneself. The main object of our boycott was to teach Israelis to differentiate between themselves and the settlements. We published and distributed many thousand copies of the list of companies located and products produced outside the Green Line. Many people are upholding the boycott.
→ read full articleInside a Settler-Run Tour of an East Jerusalem Tourist Trap
Matt Broomfield | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Visitors to so-called City of David treated to highly selective, ethnocentric version of history.
→ read full articleRuling by Chaos
Jill Richardson | OtherWords – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Trump’s made so many orders — on the environment and everything else — that it’s hard to keep track, much less resist. That’s the point.
→ read full article(Português) “Se os matadouros tivessem paredes de vidro, todos seriam vegetarianos”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
“Se os matadouros tivessem paredes de vidro, todos seriam vegetarianos” se tornou uma das citações mais populares entre vegetarianos e veganos desde 2009. A frase foi dita pelo compositor britânico Paul McCartney no documentário Glass Walls (Paredes de Vidro), apresentado voluntariamente por ele em uma produção da organização Pessoas pelo Tratamento Ético dos Animais (Peta).
→ read full articleSymbolic Seduction: Women’s Rights, Partisan Politics, Ethnocentrism and “American Narcissism”
Edward Curtin | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017 – In 1929, Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, U.S./CIA war and coup propagandist, and the founder of public relations, conducted a successful mind-manipulation experiment for the tobacco industry. In those days there was a taboo against women smoking in public, and Bernays was hired to change that.
→ read full articleThe PolyMet Project and the Lethal Risks to the St Louis River Watershed and Lake Superior
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
It’s an Acceptable Risk for Foreign Investors to Take but What about Us? “ALL tailings “ponds” are a problem. If they don’t breach and spill massive amounts of toxic sludge into the environment like at Mount Polley, they leach that contamination slowly, poisoning the waters and lands around them.”
→ read full article(Português) Eutanásia, ou a prática de ajudar os enfermos a bem morrer?
Paulo Mendes Pinto | Visão – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Há que debater, finalmente, numa sociedade que se afastou da morte, esse lugar-comum que é aquilo para que todos caminhamos.
→ read full articleThe Urgency of Slowing Down
Kazu Haga | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech in Harlem’s Riverside Church. In it, he spoke of being confronted with “the fierce urgency of now.” We need to act, but addressing this crucial moment cannot come at the expense of strategy, process, intention and remembering to slow down enough to breathe.
→ read full articleThe Efficient Absorption of Nutrients: What Is Bioavailability?
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Bioavailability is the proportion of a nutrient the human body is able to absorb and use. You might think that when you eat an apple every iota of vitamin A, every antioxidant, and every mineral it contains is used by your body with total efficiency, but that’s not exactly the case.
→ read full article(Français) Italie. Cartographie des inégalités sociales
Diego Giacchetti | A l’Encontre la Brèche – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Selon des analyses élaborées au moment où se tient le World Economic Forum de Davos, en Italie, les 20% les plus riches détiennent plus du 69% de la richesse du pays, les 20% suivants en détiennent le 18%, tandis que 60% doivent se partager le 13% restant. Selon le magazine économique new-yorkais Forbes, en 2016, parmi les 20% les plus riches, 10 Italiens détiennent en tout 86 milliards d’euros, soit l’équivalent de ce que possèdent 500’000 familles ouvrières.
→ read full articleMoscow & Washington – Last Chance to Get It Right?
Jonathan Power | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Russia and the US have never fought each other in the 200 years of their relationship. Russia aided the North during the Civil War and sent warships to prevent England and France supporting the confederacy. During the World Wars the two were close allies.
→ read full articleHow Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ Can Inspire Those Who Fear Trump’s America
Ani Kokobobo | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
31 Jan 2017 – As a professor of Russian literature, I couldn’t help but notice that comedian Aziz Ansari was inadvertently channeling novelist Leo Tolstoy when he claimed that “change doesn’t come from presidents” but from “large groups of angry people.” In one of his greatest novels, “War and Peace” (1869), Tolstoy insists that history is propelled forward not by the actions of individual leaders but by the random alignment of events and communities of people.
→ read full articleThe Global War on Cash
Jeff Desjardins | The Money Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
18 Jan 2017 – There is a global push by lawmakers to eliminate the use of physical cash around the world. This movement is often referred to as “The War on Cash”, and there are three major players involved.
→ read full articleTrump’s Pre-Fascism and Progressive Populist Opportunities
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The Dismal Cartography of the Pre-Fascist State – Listening to Donald Trump’s inaugural speech on January 20th led me to muse about what it might mean to live in a pre-fascist state.
→ read full articleSouthern European Leaders Gather in Lisbon as Populism Gains
Reuters | Fortune – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Leaders met on Saturday [28 Jan 2017] in Lisbon to discuss growing challenges, from the refugee crisis to rising borrowing costs and low economic growth, at a time when rising populism has increased political uncertainty in Europe. The group brings together France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta.
→ read full articlePresident Kong
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
28 Jan 2017 – I knew he reminded me of somebody, but I couldn’t quite place it. Who was it who pounded his chest with such vigor? It was the hero of a movie that was produced when I was 10 years old: King Kong, the giant primate with the heart of gold, who scaled huge buildings and downed airplanes with his little finger. Wow. President Kong, the mightiest being on earth.
→ read full article(Français) Israël. Des colonies et des armes pour le Myanmar
John Brown | A l’encontre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
26 janvier 2017- Les dirigeants de l’armée du Myanmar se sont livrés à une frénésie d’achats auprès des industries israéliennes d’armement. Ils ont même rencontré le président et le chef d’Etat-major israéliens. Malgré les crimes de guerre qui sont commis par ce pays du Sud-Est asiatique, Israël continue à maintenir d’importants liens avec lui dans le domaine dit de la «sécurité».
→ read full articleBuild the Wall — Move the UN HQ?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
United Nations Principles Are Not Consistent with “America First”
→ read full articleParis and the End to a Western-dominated Era in the Middle East
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
25 Jan 2017 – No, it was not just ‘another Middle East peace conference,’ as a columnist in Israeli ‘Jerusalem Post’ attempted to depict the Paris Peace Conference held on January 15, with top official representations from 70 countries attending. No, it was an end of an era. The American era in the Middle East.
→ read full articleHow NATO Is Becoming a Threat to Europe
Harry Blain | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Sometimes, Europe marches to catastrophe; often, it stumbles there.
→ read full article(Português) Jorge Luis Borges: “Comecei a perder a vista desde o momento em que comecei a enxergar”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
“Uma das primeiras cores que se perde é o negro. Perde-se a escuridão e o vermelho também. Vivo no centro de uma indefinida neblina luminosa. Mas não estou nunca na escuridão. Neste momento esta neblina não sei se é azulada, acinzentada ou rosada, mas luminosa.
→ read full articleMark Zuckerberg Is Suing to Force Native Hawaiians off Their Ancestral Land to Build an Island Resort
Nathan Wellman | US Uncut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
19 Jan 2017 – Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg ended 2016 by suing hundreds of people native to Hawaii, apparently so that he can have 700 acres of land all to himself. Those named by the lawsuit filed on December 30th were given 20 days to respond, or else forfeit all claims to the property.
→ read full articleJohns Hopkins’ Top Psychotherapist Releases Terrifying Diagnosis of President Trump
Olive Murphy | Bipartisan Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Malignant narcissists are determined to gratify their wishes and furious if thwarted. Their desire can be so consuming that there is little comprehension of, respect for or ability to empathize with the other. They lack guilt or remorse and tend to feel or pronounce that it is they who have been mistreated. They can be of any gender, race or social class.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Nominations NEW DEADLINE: 31 JANUARY 2017
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
New deadline: Please nominate by Jan. 31, 2017, 12 p.m. CET (Norwegian time). Please also, send us a copy, to nomination copy@nobelwill.org of all nominations suited you believe may be suited for inclusion in our 2017 list.
Nobel Committee postmaster@nobel.no
→ read full articleNAPF: To Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The statement below was drafted and endorsed by participants in a symposium held in Santa Barbara, CA in October 2016 under the auspices of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
→ read full article(Italiano) Economia mondiale ed economisti nel 2017
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
In questa rubrica si è sostenuta l’Elevazione dei ceti più marginali come approccio economico valido in ogni circostanza, per mitigare qualunque sofferenza e per indurne l’ingresso nell’economia come produttori e consumatori, non come “casi anomali”.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
“Coca-koloniseringens död-La morte della Colonizzazione-Coca”, la supposizione che nei paesi dove esistono Coca Cola, McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken e CNN, i valori democratici USA rimuoverebbero qualsiasi proposito di guerra. Quella teoria era un’idiozia. Il paese in cui tutte e quattro quelle aziende sono maggiormente presenti, gli USA, è il più guerrafondaio.
→ read full article(Italiano) Vecchi auspici per il Nuovo Anno, a destra e a manca
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Papa Francesco ha fatto un giro d’orizzonte per tutti i continenti, con una vibrata denuncia della violenza e per la sua alternativa preferita: il negoziato. Molta violenza è imitativa, in un modo o nell’altro, essendo alla moda. Copiare – ossia imparare – non è sbagliato. ma dipende da quel che si copia.
→ read full article(Português) Pawel Kuczynski, um cartunista que desperta reflexões sobre a exploração animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
O artista gráfico e cartunista Pawel Kuczynski vive no Noroeste da Polônia. Lá, ele produz desenhos que despertam a atenção para temas como exploração animal, ecologia, política, pobreza, fome, ganância, novas tecnologias e vício em internet. “Nossa realidade é triste e, como consequência, meu senso de humor é mórbido”.
→ read full articleIn Umm al-Hiran, Palestine, It Is a ‘Continuing Nakba’
Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Israel has advanced plans to raze the village of 150 homes and replace it with a town for Israeli Jews.
→ read full articlePublic Enemy #1 as Supreme Leader?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Thinking Otherwise about Framing the Engagement with Society’s Worst Fear – Donald Trump has just been elected 45th President of the USA, against all expectation by many sectors of society — and despite every effort to prevent this outcome. Trump won according to the rules of the American democratic system.
→ read full articleBeing There
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
21 Jan 2017 – Perhaps he is lying all the time. Perhaps he is a very shrewd manipulator, who has led us all into believing that he is a megalomaniac simpleton. Well, today is President Donald Trump’s first day in office. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP – we must get used to these three words.
→ read full articleChelsea Manning Sentence Commuted after Seven Years of Brutal Imprisonment
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
18 Jan 2017 – President Obama commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the military intelligence analyst who made public evidence of US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, allowing Manning to go free on May 17, after completing over seven years in prison.
→ read full articleEnd of Mission Statement by UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
Yanghee Lee | UN Information Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
There is one word that has hung heavily on my mind during this visit – reprisals. In every one of my visits and in every one of my meetings, I ask the Government of Myanmar to ensure that the people I speak to and even work with, do not suffer reprisals for speaking out on rights issues or expressing their opinions. Yet, distressingly several people I met during this visit would say to me, “I don’t know what will happen to me after our meeting.”
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Real Purpose of Intel Report on Russian Hacking: With Abby Martin & Ben Norton
Chris Hedges | On Contact – RT America,
23 Jan 2017
Jan 15, 2017 – Chris Hedges is joined by journalists Abby Martin and Ben Norton to discuss the declassified U.S. intelligence report on Russia’s alleged “influence campaign” on the U.S. presidential election. They explore the allegations and why a large portion of the report is dedicated to RT America’s programming.
→ read full article2017: Palestine’s Three Dark Commemorations
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Israeli expansionism, United States unconditional support, and UN impotence. These factors are combining to create dismal prospects for Palestinian self-determination and for a negotiated peace that is sensitive to the rights and grievances of both Palestinians and Jews.
→ read full articleHackers Downloaded US Government Climate Data and Stored It on European Servers as Trump Was Being Inaugurated
Zoë Schlanger | Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
As Donald Trump was sworn into office as the new president of the US on Jan. 20, a group of around 60 programmers and scientists were gathered in the Department of Information Studies building at the University of California-Los Angeles, harvesting government data.
→ read full articleWho to Believe: The CIA and Corporate Media or WikiLeaks?
Kim Petersen | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Without Substantiation, Media Integrity Suffers – We are being assaulted by mass media “news” of alleged hacks by alleged actors, allegations of politicians compromised by financial dealings, and sexual hijinks.
→ read full articleThe Tragic Story of Dr Loren Mosher’s Soteria Project and the Plot to Kill It
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
“Psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the drug companies…We’re so busy with drugs that you can’t find a nickel being spent on [non-drug] research.” – Dr Loren Mosher
→ read full articleUSA: It’s Going to Be a Wild Ride
Bruce K. Gagnon | Space4Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
This corporate takeover of the US government runs far deeper than Trump. He is not an aberration from the norm – Trump represents the norm in Washington. We are now ruled by Christian fundamentalism (the American Taliban), an economic expansion ideology that has no concern for the planet, and a military ethic that carries with it strong Puritan evangelical strains. Greatness only means domination – of everything.
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Libertango (Music Video of the Week)
Marici Saxes | Saxophone Quartet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
London’s Leading Female Saxophone Quartet Performs Libertango by Astor Piazzolla
→ read full article(Portuguese) Exploração animal, consumo de carne e fome mundial
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
16 Jan 2017 – O mundo atualmente conta com mais de 1,5 bilhão de bovinos e pouco mais de sete bilhões de pessoas. Os seres humanos consomem 9,5 bilhões de quilos de comida e 20 bilhões de litros de água por dia. Por outro lado, o gado é alimentado com 61 bilhões de quilos de comida e 170 bilhões de litros de água por dia, segundo a Organização das Nações Unidas para Agricultura e Alimentação.
→ read full articleAn Experiment in Love: Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Six Pillars of Nonviolent Resistance and the Ancient Greek Notion of ‘Agape’
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
“Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives.”
→ read full articleAleppo’s Evil Humanitarians
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Aleppo Shall Not Be Forgotten – Eyewitness to who helped the Aleppians, Dec 11-14, 2016. This eyewitness report and documentation contradicts the major Western mainstream media’s narrative. In spite of the world historic dimension of this liberation, the tragedy of these innocent war victims and the heartbreakingly vast proportions of the systematic destruction of this dynamic city, none of their media were present in Aleppo there and then.
→ read full articleConfessions of a Megalomaniac
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
14 Jan 2017 – I was invited by Mahmood Abbas, the President of the Palestinian National Authority to take part in joint Palestinian-Israeli consultations in advance of the international conference in Paris. Since Binyamin Netanyahu has refused to take part in the Paris event side by side with Mahmood Abbas, the Ramallah meeting was to demonstrate that a large part of Israeli society does support the French initiative.
→ read full articleWhat Kind of Nonviolence Training Do You Need?
Rivera Sun for Campaign Nonviolence | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Campaign Nonviolence is often contacted by people who are looking for nonviolence trainings. Frequently, they are not sure what type of training they need, or what the catch-phrases are to describe what they’re looking for. This guide is offered as a resource in identifying which type of nonviolence training supports the needs of each situation.
→ read full articleThe Drugs May Be the Problem
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Inconvenient Truths about Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Industry
→ read full article“Where Do We Go from Here?”
Dale Bryan | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
15 Jan 2017 – That question was a touchstone for The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the last year of his life. He preached on it. He delivered speeches on it. He wrote a book on it. The answers he put forward may be what got him killed.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
8 Jan 2017 – The text below is an Open Letter to the next American president urging complete nuclear disarmament as an urgent priority. The letter was prepared under the auspices of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and its current list of signatories is listed below.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Should Back Russia’s Syria Ceasefire
Christopher Bolan | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
For all its shortcomings, Obama’s seemingly improvised Syria strategy has taken advantage of unexpected opportunities. This could be the latest.
→ read full articleHow Gratitude Can Help You through Hard Times
Robert Emmons | Univ. of California, Berkeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
It’s easy to feel grateful when life is good. But when disaster strikes, gratitude is worth the effort.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Shameful Denial
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
10 Jan 2017 – Last month, President Obama lifted sanctions against Myanmar, citing “substantial progress in improving human rights” following the historic election victory of the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in November 2015. Tragically, that praise is proving premature.
→ read full articleTo Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Strip Away Their Handsome Mask
Mustafa Kibaroglu | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
The golden age of deterrence has reached its end. Nuclear weapons, once a star player on the international stage, no longer enjoy a place in the limelight.
→ read full articleNew Stories for a New Era
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
The Way Between by Rivera Sun, El Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works (2016). This novel should be read aloud to everyone, by everyone, from childhood onward. It is an auspicious beginning to a new mythology of peace, of justice, of inclusion, of conversion and transformation.
→ read full articleBlackwater Founder Claims Private Security Is the Answer to Save Europe from Refugee Crisis
Belen Fernandez | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Erik Prince, the former CEO of the firm responsible for opening fire on Iraqi civilians, has the militarised solution to Europe’s migrant problem.
→ read full articleThe Real German Submarine Scandal
Victor Gilinsky | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Israel is absorbed with a “submarine scandal” that centers on its contract with Germany. But the real scandal is that Germany supplies the submarines at all, through a loophole in the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The submarines are built to carry long-range Israeli cruise missiles armed with nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleChina Joins the Fight to Save Elephants
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
3 Jan 2017 – It is great news for elephants that China has declared a halt to commercial ivory trade by the end of 2017. The many governmental and nongovernmental organizations that have worked to protect the magnificent animals must now ensure that neither China nor the United States backslides on the bans, and that other nations will not try surreptitiously to move in.
→ read full articleGut Health 101: What Is the Microbiome?
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
The human body is a complex, interconnected ecosystem and the gut is at the center of it all. The gut is where the body converts food to energy and a major, frontline component of the immune system. It is connected to the central nervous system, brain, and can influence mood. You can’t talk about the gut or its importance without talking about the organisms that live there.
→ read full articleEvery Single Piece of Plastic Ever Made Still Exists – Here’s the Story
Diego Gonzaga | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
And it’s not just the amount of plastic being produced. Everything related to plastic is damaging the planet, from the impact of extracting the fossil fuels used to produce plastic, to the health effects of the toxins it releases into the environment when it is burned, to the devastating impact on sea life.
→ read full articleYes, We Can
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Once, a genius at the propaganda ministry devised a poster: “Who is afraid of the German Luftwaffe?” When it was posted at one of the Royal Air Force bases, an anonymous hand penned underneath: “Sign here”. Within hours, all the airmen had signed. If somebody today were to devise a poster asking “Who is afraid of the settlers?” I would be the first to sign. I am afraid. Not for myself. For the State of Israel. For everything we have built during the last 120 years.
→ read full articleA Poetic Illumination at the Start of a New Year
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
I came across a few lines of the Zen poetry of the late eighteen century Zen poet, Ryōkan. A verse from The Long Winter Night: Three Poems.
→ read full articleRighteousness & Lefteousness
Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Orchos Chaim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Chasidic leaders can often be seen clapping their hands together while praying. This practice has its source in the Kabbalah, symbolically bringing together the forces of the right and the left. These two extremes stand separate and apart preventing the prayers of Israel from ascent. The Rebbe puts his right hand and left hand together. The right and the left embrace.
→ read full articleReframing the Art of Non-Decision-Making
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
and the Manipulation of Global Categories – It has become strikingly evident that most major international conferences and summits have become exercises in non-decision-making. Indeed, as encouraged by “question avoidance”, decision avoidance has become an art form in its own right.
→ read full articleUS Senate Report Details Price-Gouging by Pharmaceutical Companies
Zaida Green | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
6 Jan 2017 – A recently-released US Senate investigation found that four major pharmaceutical companies operated like hedge funds and followed specific business models to monopolize drugs for rare, life-threatening conditions.
→ read full articleFBI Report on Russia Hacking US Election: What You Need to Know
Mark Maunder | WordFence/WordPress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
On Friday [30 Dec] we published an analysis of the FBI and DHS Grizzly Steppe report. The report was widely seen as proof that Russian intelligence operatives hacked the US 2016 election. We showed that the PHP malware in the report is old, freely available from a Ukrainian hacker group and is an administrative tool for hackers.
→ read full articleHeart of Darkness: Observations on a Torture Notebook
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
A psychologist tries to defend the indefensible, and fails.
→ read full articleMurdering the Innocent in Order to Support the Lie
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
It is clear beyond reasonable doubt that there was no real bombing at the Boston Marathon and that the alleged terrorist event, using crisis actors, was an orchestration designed to convince dumbshit Americans that they really were under a “Muslim threat.” The entire foreign policy of the United States in the 21st century is based on an orchestrated “Muslim threat.”
→ read full articleMedical Communication Companies and the Medical Propaganda Machine
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Examining One of the Many Ways That Healthcare Providers are Compelled to Over-prescribe Big Pharma’s Unaffordable, Often Toxic and Often Dependency-inducing Prescription Drugs
→ read full articleCondemning Israeli Settlement Expansion: UN Security Council Resolution 2334 and Secretary Kerry’s Speech
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
To bring together China, Russia, France, and the UK on an initiative tabled by Senegal, Malaysia, and Venezuela, is sending Israel and Washington a clear message that despite the adverse developments of recent years in the Middle East the world will not forget the Palestinians, or their struggle.
→ read full articleThe Cruel Experiments of Israel’s Arms Industry
Matt Kennard |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
The occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip are Israeli weapons manufacturers’ laboratories, and Palestinians their subjects.
→ read full articlePalestine 2017: Time to Bid Farewell to Washington and Embrace the Globe
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
There is no doubt that the UN Security Council condemnation of Israel on Friday [23 Dec] was an important and noteworthy event. True, the UN’s main chambers (the UNSC and the GA) and its various institutions, ranging from the International Court of Justice to UNESCO, have repeatedly condemned the Israeli occupation, illegal Jewish settlements and mistreatment of Palestinians.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cina ed Europa – Raffronti e Futuri
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Secondo una recente indagine di Harvard, la Cina produce il 26.7% delle automobili al mondo e gli USA ne producono il 13.3%; l’economia statunitense è più consistente ma la Cina primeggia nelle esportazioni con 8 dei 12 più grandi porti; gli USA terminano il 2016 guerreggiando 7 guerre, con basi militari un po’ dovunque, la Cina termina l’anno con nessuna guerra né basi, investendo, costruendo la Nuova Via della Seta, il Corridoio Economico. Con quale riuscita, rimane da vedere.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo, in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Norvegia: “Noi amiamo l’America–Noi odiamo la Russia–L’America odia la Russia”, equilibrato, fece cambiare la dottrina militare delle élite per attaccare la Russia. Poi “Noi amiamo l’America–Noi odiamo la Russia–L’America ama la Russia”, discordante. Dopo un periodo trascorso a odiare l’America di Trump, la Norvegia finirà per accettare la Russia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Bravo Trump – No alla CIA!!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Un presidente eletto degli USA che dica di non volere più istruzioni di intelligence è come – difficile dire: forse come un prete in procinto di essere ordinato che dica di non aver più bisogno di leggere la Bibbia, di altre parole di Dio? Qualunque cosa sia quella tal “intelligence”, è intelligente?
→ read full articleThe 500 Richest People in the World Got $237 Billion Richer in 2016
Alan Pyke | Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
As right-wing politicians around the world gathered power by scapegoating immigrants for the economic struggles of working people, the world’s richest people got nearly a quarter trillion dollars richer in 2016.
→ read full articleAnti-Semitic Zionists
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
President Barak Obama, at the very end of his presidency, dared to challenge the government of Binyamin Netanyahu, a person he detests with all his heart. And so, after years of frustration, the highest international body could adopt a resolution on Israel according to its convictions. No wonder they behaved like schoolchildren let out for vacation. A vacation that may, alas, prove to be short.
→ read full articlePalestine-Israel: The UNSC Vote
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Will Mahmoud Abbas turn success into failure (again) or will he finally show backbone to use the UNSC resolution to save what remains of Palestine?
→ read full articleHundreds of Peace Activists Are Marching from Berlin to Aleppo
Sarah Aziza | Waging Nonviolence,
2 Jan 2017
The initiative, which began in Berlin on Dec. 26, will see hundreds of marchers re-trace the 2,100-mile path between Syria and Germany that many refugees have been forced to walk. The group, comprised of 14 nationalities, took to the cold streets carrying white flags, camping gear and a message of peace.
→ read full articleIslamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam Is Reshaping the World
Mohammed Basyoni Abdulhaleem | Future for Advanced Research and Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
The region needs a reformist movement, similar to that movement of the late 19th century, to reconcile Islam and modernism and achieve a form of Islamic democracy through a different trajectory that does not necessarily have to be an identical replication of the Western trajectory, but sustains Islam as a core component in society and societal interactions.
→ read full articleFrank, Uncompromising, and Tons of Fun: What Makes George Michael an LGBT Hero
Tim Teeman | The Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
How George Michael inspired us, turning a 1998 arrest for lewd behavior into a big FU to the authorities, and a public declaration of his sexuality.
→ read full articleIt’s Official: Solar Energy Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
27 Dec 2016 – Renewable energy has reached an important milestone. The World Economic Forum has determined that in many parts of the world, solar energy is now the same price or even cheaper than fossil fuels for the first time.
→ read full article(Turkish-Türk) Yeryüzünde Yaşam Sona Eriyor. Binlerce Tür Yok Oluyor
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Özgür Üniversite – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Sizin bu yazıyı okuduğunuz gün, yeryüzünde 200 türün ( bitki, kuş, hayvan, balık, amfibi, böcek, sürüngen ) varlığı ortadan kalkmış olacak. Ertesi gün bir 200 tür daha sonsuza kadar yok olmuş olacak.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to the Japanese Prime Minister on Eve of Visit to Pearl Harbor
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
25 Dec 2016 – The press release and open letter to the Japanese Prime Minister concern the complex issues surrounding the ethos and politics of apology. I would have liked the statement to include an acknowledgement of accountability by the U.S. Government.
→ read full articleConSciences of Humanity
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
John Kerry is delusional if he thinks he can temporarily curb the appetite of those who believe in an ideology of conquest, subjugation and exceptionalism (“chosen people”) to save “Zionism”. His claim that Shimon Peres told him that 78% of Palestine is enough and that they should let the Palestinians have the other 22% is simply not believable.
→ read full article(Português) Gustav Mahler acreditava que o vegetarianismo é o caminho para a regeneração da humanidade
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
“Os efeitos morais deste estilo de vida são imensos. Você pode julgar por si mesmo…”
→ read full articleU.S. Isolation
Noam Chomsky | ZNet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Even close US allies, even the UK, flock to the China-based Asian Infrastructure Development Bank and the China-based Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, in this case including Japan. The China-based Shanghai Cooperation Organization incorporates the Central Asian states, Siberia with its rich resources, India, Pakistan, and soon probably Iran and perhaps Turkey. The SCO has rejected the US request for observer status and demanded that the US remove all military bases from the region.
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