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Week 34 // 22 Aug - 28 Aug 2016 <https://www.transcend.org/tms/>
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PEACE JOURNALISM PERSPECTIVE EDITORIAL[image: Prof. Johan Galtung] Meanwhile,
Around the World
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/meanwhile-around-the-world/> Nº 443
| Johan Galtung, 22 Aug 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service
Auschwitz, 29 July: Pope Francis praying, asking God for the ‘grace to cry’
(INYT, 30-31 July) was very, very touching. And very, very different from
the show Obama tried to put on in Hiroshima.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/meanwhile-around-the-world/>
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TMS PEACE JOURNALISM Peace Journalism: What Johan Galtung Asked the Taliban
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/peace-journalism-what-johan-galtung-asked-the-taliban/>
Liam
McLoughlin – New Matilda
The Norwegian sociologist, who helped found the field of ‘peace
journalism’, spoke about conflict, terror, and talking to the Taliban. The
scholar is a vocal critic of mainstream media coverage of violence. In his
critique of the failure to give context for events and explore the causes
of conflict, Galtung differentiates ‘war journalism’ from ‘peace
journalism’. We began the interview with a succinct explanation of the
difference.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/peace-journalism-what-johan-galtung-asked-the-taliban/>
NOBEL LAUREATES Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Stiglitz Tells Us Why
‘Neoliberalism Is Dead’
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/nobel-prize-winning-economist-stiglitz-tells-us-why-neoliberalism-is-dead/>
Will
Martin | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service
19 Aug 2016 – Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and former
adviser to US President Bill Clinton, says the consensus surrounding
neoliberal economic thought has come to an end.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/nobel-prize-winning-economist-stiglitz-tells-us-why-neoliberalism-is-dead/>
OTHER COMMENTARIES BY TRANSCEND MEMBERS Individual and Human Rights
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/individual-and-human-rights/> Howard
Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service
Take a cue from the days when Jesus could say “render unto Caesar that
which is Caesar’s.” In those days money belonged to sovereigns and
sovereigns used their financial privileges to defray their expenses, mainly
the expenses of waging wars. Now banks and other financial institutions
have privileges that the sovereign people should have and should use to
make social rights real rights.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/individual-and-human-rights/>
Free People from the Standardised Dictatorship of the 0.01%
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-standardised-dictatorship-of-the-0-01/>
Prof.
Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service
Chemical corporations are trying to impose patents on all living organisms…
They are trying to destroy our local food systems and replace them with
industrial junk food by changing food and health safety as well as
bio-safety, through ‘harmonisation’.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-standardised-dictatorship-of-the-0-01/>
19 August, World Humanitarian Day: A Need for Common Actions
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/world-humanitarian-day-a-need-for-common-actions/>
Rene
Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
In Memory of Sérgio Vieira de Mello (1948-2003) – 19 August was designated
in memory of the 19 August 2003 bombing of the UN office building in
Baghdad, Iraq in which Sérgio Vieira de Mello, UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights and at the time Special Representative of the UN Secretary
General was killed along with 21 UN staff members. Over 200 UN employees
were injured.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/world-humanitarian-day-a-need-for-common-actions/>
Olympic Jews? <https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/olympic-jews/> Uri
Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service
20 Aug 2016 – The scene at Ben-Gurion airport this week was rather
astonishing. More than a thousand young male fans came to welcome the two
Israeli Judo fighters who had won a bronze medal each at the Olympic games
in Rio. Yet judo is not a very popular sport in Israel. So Israeli crowds
suddenly became judo fans (some called it “Jewdo”). People who did not go
wild with enthusiasm were considered traitors.
Read more... <https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/olympic-jews/>
Searching for Antiquities and Uncommon Beliefs
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/searching-for-antiquities-and-uncommon-beliefs/>
Dr.
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service
Most of us have a desire to know who our grandparents or great grandparents
were — how and where they lived and what they did. This feeling is
accentuated if one has been forced to leave one’s ancestral home or village.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/searching-for-antiquities-and-uncommon-beliefs/>
Beyond Jewish Identity: Exceptionalism Revisited
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/beyond-jewish-identity-exceptionalism-revisited/>
Richard
Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service
20 Aug 2016 – The problem with Jewish identity is Jewish identity! By this
I mean, the hegemonic forms of Jewish exceptionalism to which most Jews are
enthralled, including a provocative insistence on willed disaffiliation in
a few rate instances… Instead of Jewish exceptionalism (or American
exceptionalism) the call of this bio-political moment is for species
exceptionalism.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/beyond-jewish-identity-exceptionalism-revisited/>
Cultivating the Myth of Human Equality
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/cultivating-the-myth-of-human-equality/>
Anthony
Judge | Laetus in praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service
Ignoring Complicity in the Contradictions Thereby Engendered – At the time
of writing, the argument can be made otherwise with the popular appeal of
the promise of one US presidential nominee to “make America great again”.
How is the desperate need to “be number one” to be related to whatever is
implied by human equality? The question of principle is strikingly defined
by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that: all men are born free
and equal in rights and dignity.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/cultivating-the-myth-of-human-equality/>
Eight Years <https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/eight-years/> Prof.
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service
16 Aug 2016 – It has been 8 years since I moved back from the USA to
occupied Palestine and it may be worth a brief reflection… All of this was
done while struggling against not just Israeli occupation with its
repression (e.g. inability to import things normally, lack of freedom of
movement) but some Palestinian societal backward culture including
nepotism, patriarchy, bureaucracy, and corruption. We were learning as we
go how to deal with people (including the “mental occupation”).
Read more... <https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/eight-years/>
From Negative Leadership to Healing Leadership: A Therapy Strategy to
Remedy African Instability
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/from-negative-leadership-to-healing-leadership-a-therapy-strategy-to-remedy-african-instability/>
Raïs
Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service
For Africa to address the many problems that cause conflicts – such as
widespread corruption, economic inequality and exclusion of certain ethnic
and social groups – it is essential to have democratic, well-governed
states. To achieve peace and stability, Africa must recycle its current
leadership by putting emphasis on the demilitarization of the minds and
political institutions.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/from-negative-leadership-to-healing-leadership-a-therapy-strategy-to-remedy-african-instability/>
Whose Child Is This?
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/whose-child-is-this/> Anthony
Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service
Whose child is this? Is this child an Iraqi . . . an Israeli . . . a
Chechnyan . . . an Afghani . . . a Kurd . . . a Nigerian? Is she or he
English, Indonesian, Spanish, Lebanese, Turkish, Congolese, Bosnian,
Persian? Does it matter? Is this child not a daughter or son to each of us?
Read more... <https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/whose-child-is-this/>
SPECIAL FEATURE One Humanity? Millions of Children Tortured, Smuggled,
Abused, Enslaved
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/one-humanity-millions-of-children-tortured-smuggled-abused-enslaved/>
Baher
Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS
Children are being smuggled, sexually abused, maimed, killed for their
vital organs, recruited as soldiers or otherwise enslaved. And 750 million
women will have been married as children by 2030. These are just some of
the dramatic figures that UNICEF and other UN and international bodies
released few weeks ahead of the World Humanitarian Day marked every year on
August 19.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/one-humanity-millions-of-children-tortured-smuggled-abused-enslaved/>
South Sudan: Hundreds of Children Recruited into Armed Groups, Reports
UNICEF
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/south-sudan-hundreds-of-children-recruited-into-armed-groups-reports-unicef/>
UN
News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service
19 Aug 2016 – Reporting that 650 children have been recruited into armed
groups in South Sudan since January, the United Nations Children’s Fund
called today for an immediate end to recruitment and an unconditional
release of all children by armed actors.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/south-sudan-hundreds-of-children-recruited-into-armed-groups-reports-unicef/>
Iran: Children at the Gallows
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/iran-children-at-the-gallows/> Rose
Delaney – Inter Press Service-IPS
12 Aug 2016 – Iran currently executes the highest number of juvenile
offenders in the world. Rights groups have reported it executed at least
230 people since the beginning of 2016. At least 160 youths under the age
of 18 currently await execution.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/iran-children-at-the-gallows/>
The Children Are in Danger: Welcome to the ‘Kids Guantanamo’ of Egypt
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-children-are-in-danger-welcome-to-the-kids-guantanamo-of-egypt/>
Noor
El-Terk – Middle East Eye
Electrocuted, whipped, beaten on his face, jumped on his back; the list of
horrors is unending as his father fights to keep tears out of his voice.
“My son was born in Japan you know, I wrote to the Japanese ambassador, if
[sending him to Japan] is what it takes to keep him safe, I’ll give him up.
Japan can take him as one of their own – the children here are in danger.
All my son will know from this country is its dungeons. He’s seen more than
what any 15-year-old should see.”
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-children-are-in-danger-welcome-to-the-kids-guantanamo-of-egypt/>
Why Is Global Community Ignoring Slaughter of Yemeni Children?
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/why-is-global-community-ignoring-slaughter-of-yemeni-children/>
Catherine
Shakdam | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service
I realize that truth and honesty are hard commodities to come by, but let’s
momentarily see if we can stomach the reality the people of Yemen have had
to endure as the global community chose to avert its gaze. Yes, a school
was bombed and children were butchered. Yemen was violated and scarred
beyond the tolerable and the comprehensible. What else is new? Yemen has
died a thousand deaths already, and none have come to its rescue.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/why-is-global-community-ignoring-slaughter-of-yemeni-children/>
Photo of Boy Pulled from Rubble Reminder of ‘Unimaginable Horrors’ Syrian
Children Face – UNICEF
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/photo-of-boy-pulled-from-rubble-reminder-of-unimaginable-horrors-syrian-children-face-unicef/>
UN
News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service
19 Aug 2016 –“No child in Syria [is] safe while the conflict drags on,”
Christophe Boulierac, a spokesperson for the UN Children’s Fund told the
press in Geneva, referring to the photograph which went viral on social
media yesterday and has galvanized world attention to the suffering in
Aleppo, Syria’s iconic second city.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/photo-of-boy-pulled-from-rubble-reminder-of-unimaginable-horrors-syrian-children-face-unicef/>
NONVIOLENCE Presidential Elections Need Not Matter So Much
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/presidential-elections-need-not-matter-so-much/>
Timothy
Braatz | ZNet – TRANSCEND Media Service
So vote happily for a presidential candidate, or hold your nose and vote,
or don’t vote at all, but help build a nonviolent movement to compel the
president to act for human good. The greater that movement, the less
presidential elections will matter. Learn from the successes and failures
of the Civil Rights Movement. And keep in mind the words of Mohandas
Gandhi, which Martin Luther King learned to quote: “There go my people. I
must rush to catch up with them, for I am their leader.”
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/presidential-elections-need-not-matter-so-much/>
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux Aren’t Backing Down to
Oil Pipeline Developers
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/north-dakotas-standing-rock-sioux-arent-backing-down-to-oil-pipeline-developers/>
Sarah
Aziza | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service
On Thursday [11 Ago 2016], nonviolent protesters outside North Dakota’s
Standing Rock Sioux reservation entered their second day of confrontation
with private security and local law enforcement. Armed with drums, tribal
flags, and cell phones, demonstrators moved to block the construction of
the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.7 billion dollar crude-oil conduit slated
to cut just 1,000 feet from the perimeter of native land.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/north-dakotas-standing-rock-sioux-arent-backing-down-to-oil-pipeline-developers/>
SURVEILLANCE / SPYING / WHISTLEBLOWING / BIG BROTHER Pokémons in Every
House, Yard, Every Military Base
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/pokemons-in-every-house-yard-every-military-base/>
Sergey
Kolyasnikov | Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service
If someone wants to know what is being done in the building, say, of
Parliament, Congress, Presidential Palace? Phones of dozens of MPs,
representatives, janitors, journalists vibrate: “Pikachu is close!!!” And
happy citizens will grab their smartphones, activating cameras,
microphones, GPS, gyroscopes… spinning in place, staring at the screen,
sending the video through online waves… Bingo! The world had again changed,
the world is different. Welcome to a new era.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/pokemons-in-every-house-yard-every-military-base/>
Powerful NSA Hacking Tools Have Been Revealed Online
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/powerful-nsa-hacking-tools-have-been-revealed-online/>
Ellen
Nakashima – The Washington Post
16 Aug 2016 – Possibly Stolen NSA Spy Tools May Be Auctioned Off to Any
Bidder Soon – Some of the most powerful espionage tools created by the
National Security Agency’s elite group of hackers have been revealed in
recent days, a development that could pose severe consequences for the spy
agency’s operations.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/powerful-nsa-hacking-tools-have-been-revealed-online/>
The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-nsa-leak-is-real-snowden-documents-confirm/>
Sam
Biddle – The Intercept
On Monday [15 Aug], a hacking group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers”
announced an auction for “cyber weapons” made by the NSA. Based on
never-before-published documents provided by Edward Snowden, The Intercept
can confirm that the arsenal contains authentic NSA software, part of a
powerful constellation of tools used to covertly infect computers worldwide.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-nsa-leak-is-real-snowden-documents-confirm/>
All Eyes on You
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/all-eyes-on-you/> Jennifer
Golbeck, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service
Thirty-two years after 1984, Big Brother is here. In many cases, we’ve
invited him in. How does this constant surveillance affect us and what, if
anything, can we do about it? There’s no question our privacy has been
eroded with the help of technology. As Scott McNealy, cofounder of Sun
Microsystems, famously said: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
Read more... <https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/all-eyes-on-you/>
AFRICA African Farmers Can Feed the World, If Only…
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/african-farmers-can-feed-the-world-if-only/>
Baher
Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS
Can African farmers feed the world?. Apparently the answer is “yes.” Bold
as it may sound, this statement is based on specific facts.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/african-farmers-can-feed-the-world-if-only/>
ANGLO AMERICA The ‘American Century’ Has Plunged the World into Crisis –
What Happens Now?
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-american-century-has-plunged-the-world-into-crisis-what-happens-now-2/>
Conn
Hallinan and Leon Wofsy – Foreign Policy In Focus
U.S. foreign policy is dangerous, undemocratic, deeply out of sync with
real global challenges, full of corruption, and has not done the world
well. Continuous war is inevitable if we continue to follow these same
policies. Can we change this for the better?
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-american-century-has-plunged-the-world-into-crisis-what-happens-now-2/>
Game Changer <https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/game-changer/> Tom H.
Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
Everything we’ve done has been destructive. We are great at destroying.
Bomb refugee camps, hospitals, funerals. Bomb Iraq, and Afghanistan, also
Pakistan, don’t forget Somalia, Libya or Yemen. Bomb bomb bomb… Hey, ISIS,
we need to talk. Hey, my fellow American voters, we need to elect leaders
who can get this done. Innovation has been abandoned to devastation—let’s
fix this.
Read more... <https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/game-changer/>
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN UN Admits Role in Haiti Cholera Outbreak for
First Time Ever
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/un-admits-role-in-haiti-cholera-outbreak-for-first-time-ever/>
teleSUR
– TRANSCEND Media Service
18 Aug 2016 – The United Nations has admitted for the first time that its
peacekeepers in Haiti played a role in the outbreak of the cholera epidemic
in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake that sent the
poverty-stricken Caribbean nation into a tailspin.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/un-admits-role-in-haiti-cholera-outbreak-for-first-time-ever/>
Honduras Is a Giant Graveyard for Human Rights Defenders
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/honduras-is-a-giant-graveyard-for-human-rights-defenders/>
teleSUR
– TRANSCEND Media Service
Honduras has seen at least eight human rights activists killed in 2016,
making it one the most dangerous countries in the world for human rights
defenders, the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights warned Friday [19 Aug].
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/honduras-is-a-giant-graveyard-for-human-rights-defenders/>
Does Henry Kissinger Have a Conscience?
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/does-henry-kissinger-have-a-conscience/>
Jon
Lee Anderson – The New Yorker
Latest revelations show Kissinger as the ruthless, active co-conspirator of
Latin American military regimes engaged in war crimes [Operation Condor].
In evidence that emerged from previous declassifications of documents,
Kissinger was shown not only to have been aware of what the military was
doing but to have actively encouraged it.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/does-henry-kissinger-have-a-conscience/>
The Birthday <https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-birthday/> Fidel
Castro Ruz – CounterPunch
16 Aug 2016 – Tomorrow I will turn 90 years old. I was born in a territory
called Birán, in the eastern region of Cuba… Fidel Castro pens a column
about the past, present and future on his 90th birthday.
Read more... <https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-birthday/>
MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA Human Rights after the Failed Coup in Turkey
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/human-rights-after-the-failed-coup-in-turkey/>
Richard
Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service
It is probably wise to separate human rights concerns from an appraisal of
Turkish constitutional democracy. It is quite possible that present
tendencies toward a more inclusive democracy will continue, and at the same
time, denials of human rights are almost certain to persist, and justify
scrutiny and vigilance.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/human-rights-after-the-failed-coup-in-turkey/>
Médecins Sans Frontières Leaving Yemen after Saudi Airstrikes on Hospitals
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/medecins-sans-frontieres-leaving-yemen-after-saudi-airstrikes-on-hospitals/>
PressTV
– TRANSCEND Media Service
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has announced that it is evacuating its staff
from six hospitals in northern Yemen, saying it cannot get assurances that
its hospitals will not be bombed again by Saudi warplanes. The decision was
“never taken lightly,” said the Paris-based relief agency in a statement on
Thursday [18 Aug 2016], condemning the Saudi “indiscriminate bombings.”
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/medecins-sans-frontieres-leaving-yemen-after-saudi-airstrikes-on-hospitals/>
Libya’s ‘Operation Odyssey Lightning’ – The Obama Doctrine is Ravaging the
Middle East
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/libyas-operation-odyssey-lightning-the-obama-doctrine-is-ravaging-the-middle-east/>
Ramzy
Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service
Now, wars are carried out as a matter of course. With multiple war fronts
and conflicts fermenting all around, many are becoming desensitized.
Americans particularly have, sadly, swallowed the serum of perpetual war,
to the extent that they rarely mobilize in any serious way against it. In
other words, a state of war has become the status quo.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/libyas-operation-odyssey-lightning-the-obama-doctrine-is-ravaging-the-middle-east/>
ENVIRONMENT Dieselgate in Europe: How Officials Ignored Years of Car
Emissions Evidence
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/dieselgate-in-europe-how-officials-ignored-years-of-car-emissions-evidence/>
Markus
Becker and Gerald Traufetter – Der Spiegel
When American authorities revealed that Volkswagen used software to trick
pollution tests, it spurred widespread outrage. Documents obtained by
SPIEGEL show that European officials knew about the deception for years –
but didn’t act on it.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/dieselgate-in-europe-how-officials-ignored-years-of-car-emissions-evidence/>
A World at War: We’re under Attack from Climate Change—And Our only Hope Is
to Mobilize like We Did in WWII
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/a-world-at-war-were-under-attack-from-climate-change-and-our-only-hope-is-to-mobilize-like-we-did-in-wwii/>
Bill
McKibben – New Republic
15 Aug 2016 – Enemy forces have seized huge swaths of territory; with each
passing week, another 22,000 square miles of Arctic ice disappears. Experts
dispatched to the battlefield in July saw little cause for hope, especially
since this siege is one of the oldest fronts in the war. “In 30 years, the
area has shrunk approximately by half,” said a scientist who examined the
onslaught. “There doesn’t seem anything able to stop this.”
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/a-world-at-war-were-under-attack-from-climate-change-and-our-only-hope-is-to-mobilize-like-we-did-in-wwii/>
GENETIC ENGINEERING Monsanto Just Made a Massive Mistake
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/monsanto-just-made-a-massive-mistake/>
Tom
Philpott – Mother Jones
One of its weed killers seems to be wiping out valuable crops, too. Oops.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced it had gotten an ‘unusually
high number of reports of crop damage that appear related to misuse of
herbicides containing the active ingredient dicamba.’ Complaints of
drooping and often dead crops appeared in no fewer than 10 US states.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/monsanto-just-made-a-massive-mistake/>
Holding Monsanto to Account: The People’s Tribunal in The Hague
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/holding-monsanto-to-account-the-peoples-tribunal-in-the-hague/>
Heidi
Chow | Global Justice Now – TRANSCEND Media Service
Civil society groups from around the world are holding an international
‘people’s tribunal’ to hold Monsanto to account for its impacts on
communities and the environment. The Tribunal will be held at The Hague and
conducted by legal professionals and practicing judges. It will consider
whether Monsanto is guilty of the following:
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/holding-monsanto-to-account-the-peoples-tribunal-in-the-hague/>
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION End the First-Use Policy for Nuclear Weapons
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/end-the-first-use-policy-for-nuclear-weapons/>
James
E. Cartwright and Bruce G. Blairaug – The New York Times
The United States has a policy allowing the first use of nuclear weapons.
Abolishing it will save money and make the world safer. President Obama
would be wise to follow China’s example. As commander in chief, he can
adopt no-first-use overnight and lead the way in establishing it as a
global norm among all of the nine countries with nuclear weapons.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/end-the-first-use-policy-for-nuclear-weapons/>
ACADEMIA-KNOWLEDGE-SCHOLARSHIP How ‘Think Tanks’ Generate Endless War
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/how-think-tanks-generate-endless-war/>
Todd
E. Pierce – Consortium News
U.S. “think tanks” rile up the American public against an ever-shifting
roster of foreign “enemies” to justify wars that line the pockets of
military contractors who kick back some profits to the “think tanks.”
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/how-think-tanks-generate-endless-war/>
REVIEWS Democracy Education and Peace
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/democracy-education-and-peace/> René
Wadlow - TRANSCEND Media Service
Democracy Education and Peace, by Surya Nath Prasad and Suman Shukha (Eds)
– Democracy and Peace-Interrelated but not interdependent: “Thus it may be
safely, yet regretfully, assumed that Democracy does not exclude War and
therefore bears no direct relationship to Peace. The reverse is equally
true − Peace may reign without any consideration of democracy (cf Pax
Romana).”
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/democracy-education-and-peace/>
PARADIGM CHANGES Democratizing Wealth: A Next System Model for the U.S.
South and Beyond
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/democratizing-wealth-a-next-system-model-for-the-u-s-south-and-beyond/>
Ed
Whitfield | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service
Ed Whitfield presents the Fund for Democratic Communities vision for a next
system based on communal ownership of productive assets. The goal must be
total economic democracy and community control over production, in order to
place “the wealth created by human labor back into the commons for the
benefit of all.”
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/democratizing-wealth-a-next-system-model-for-the-u-s-south-and-beyond/>
SPORTS The Importance of Cheering for Caster Semenya
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-importance-of-cheering-for-caster-semenya/>
Lindsay
Gibbs | ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service
Semenya is allegedly intersex. Ever since her world championship race in
2009 — when news unacceptably leaked that the International Association of
Athletics Foundation was going to subject her to a gender test — she has
been more famous for her naturally-occurring testosterone levels than her
talent. When she was only 18 years old, the South African runner won gold
at the 2009 world championships in the 800 meters. She went on to win the
silver medal at the London Olympics, and is the overwhelming favorite in
Rio.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-importance-of-cheering-for-caster-semenya/>
Brazil’s Uplifting Olympics
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/brazils-uplifting-olympics/> Roger
Cohen – The New York Times
Why is it the developed world has to find fault in a developing country
that organizes a major sporting event?
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/brazils-uplifting-olympics/>
Olympic Games – More Media Show than Sports Event
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/olympic-games-more-media-show-than-sports-event/>
Mario
Osava – Inter Press Service-IPS
Brazil’s first gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics gave it a new
multipurpose heroine, Rafaela Silva, whose defeat of the favourites in judo
has made her a strong voice against racism and homophobia. Not only is she
black and poor, but she just came out as gay. Colourful figures like Silva
or Jamaican runner Usain Bolt, or unbeatable U.S. swimming legend Michael
Phelps, are crucial in the Olympics, which have become a huge global media
event, more than the leading international sports competition.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/olympic-games-more-media-show-than-sports-event/>
INTERVIEW Interview with Gary Corseri on US Foreign Policy
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/interview-with-gary-corseri-on-us-foreign-policy/>
Gary
Corseri – Muslim Press
How do you compare Bush and Obama’s policies on the Middle East?
Gary Corseri: What’s the diff? Bush and Obama are “suits.” They dress
according to the fashion of the time. But, they are essentially the
same–Empire-builders, Empire-expansionists, Empire-apologists and
preservationists. After 911, George W. Bush could take his cowboy act on
the road, act like a big sheriff, come out with his “Wanted Dead or Alive!”
B.S. about Osama bin Laden.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/interview-with-gary-corseri-on-us-foreign-policy/>
HISTORY This Week in History
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/this-week-in-history-90/> Satoshi
Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service
Aug 22-28 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Where there is great love there are always
miracles.” – Willa Cather
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/this-week-in-history-90/>
The Ruling Class and the Spectre of Leon Trotsky
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-ruling-class-and-the-spectre-of-leon-trotsky/>
Chris
Marsden | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service
20 Aug 2016 – Seventy-six years ago today, the assassin Ramon Mercader
plunged an ice axe into the head of Leon Trotsky at his home in Coyoacan,
Mexico City. He died of his injuries the following day. Trotsky is forever
associated with the incorruptible struggle against Stalinism and for
international socialism.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-ruling-class-and-the-spectre-of-leon-trotsky/>
HEALTH Alzheimer’s Disease: Period Pain Drug Cures Symptoms in Mice, New
Research Shows
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/alzheimers-disease-period-pain-drug-cures-symptoms-in-mice-new-research-shows/>
Seerat
Chabba – International Business Times
Is the Cure for Alzheimer’s Already on the Market?
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/alzheimers-disease-period-pain-drug-cures-symptoms-in-mice-new-research-shows/>
Another Iatrogenic Illness Unveiled: Kris Kristofferson’s Dramatic Cure of
His “Incurable” Alzheimer’s Disease
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/another-iatrogenic-illness-unveiled-kris-kristoffersons-dramatic-cure-of-his-incurable-alzheimers-disease/>
Gary
G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service
Those labeled as the “mentally ill” are not much different from those of us
who call ourselves “normal”. But we “normals” have just been lucky enough
to have not yet decompensated because of some yet-to-happen,
desperation-inducing life situation. And thus we may not have yet been
given a billable diagnosis with a billable code number, and so we have not
yet been prescribed some unaffordable prescription drug that could put us
on the road to permanent dependence, disability and institutionalization.
“The term “iatrogenic” means doctor, drug or surgery-caused disease. It is
a taboo subject today.”
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/another-iatrogenic-illness-unveiled-kris-kristoffersons-dramatic-cure-of-his-incurable-alzheimers-disease/>
SCIENCE Physicists Confirm Possible Discovery of Fifth Force of Nature
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/physicists-confirm-possible-discovery-of-fifth-force-of-nature/>
Phys.org
– TRANSCEND Media Service
“If true, it’s revolutionary,” said Jonathan Feng, professor of physics &
astronomy. “For decades, we’ve known of four fundamental forces:
gravitation, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. If
confirmed by further experiments, this discovery of a possible fifth force
would completely change our understanding of the universe, with
consequences for the unification of forces and dark matter.”
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/physicists-confirm-possible-discovery-of-fifth-force-of-nature/>
INSPIRATIONAL The Disappearance of Silence
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-disappearance-of-silence/> Edward
Curtin - Intrepid Report
Silence is a word pregnant with multiple meanings: for many a threat; for
others a nostalgic evocation of a time rendered obsolete by technology; for
others a sentence to boredom; and for some, devotees of the ancient arts of
contemplation, reading, and writing, a word of profound, even sacred
importance. Gandhi, the revolutionary, put it perfectly, “In the attitude
of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive
and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long
and arduous quest after Truth.”
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/the-disappearance-of-silence/>
SPIRITUALITY Eternal Life [According to Millenary Vedas]
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/eternal-life-according-to-millenary-vedas/>
Prof.
Chandra P Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service
The eternal truth is one and the same for all. God is not different with
different names. All human beings have different fate and mentality in life
due to their actions of past life. We have ancestry in single DNA with
eternal Vital fundamental Energy as source of all. The life is eternal,
under the cycle of birth and death.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/eternal-life-according-to-millenary-vedas/>
IN OTHER LANGUAGES (Português) Poluição luminosa: fortes reflexos na vida
dos animais
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/portugues-poluicao-luminosa-fortes-reflexos-na-vida-dos-animais/>
Eliza
Rei | ANDA-Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service
A Terra manteve durante milhões de anos os ciclos de dias claros alternados
com noites escuras, mas do século passado para cá isso vem se alterando
drasticamente. E o que se sabe sobre os impactos da poluição luminosa na
vida dos animais? Se cerca de 30% dos vertebrados e 60% dos invertebrados
têm hábitos noturnos, já se infere, de início, que os impactos não devem
ser poucos.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/portugues-poluicao-luminosa-fortes-reflexos-na-vida-dos-animais/>
(Français) La France, sponsor des terroristes? De l’esclavage au
néocolonialisme, «Y’a bon la françafrique!»
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/francais-la-france-sponsor-des-terroristes-de-lesclavage-au-neocolonialisme-ya-bon-la-francafrique/>
Maël
Alberca | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service
La France en guerre contre le terrorisme? Un coup d’oeil dans le
rétroviseur nous rappelle qu’elle n’a rien à envier aux méthodes de ceux
qu’elle prétend combattre. Plus inquiétant, le présent n’apparaît pas
vraiment plus réjouissant…
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/francais-la-france-sponsor-des-terroristes-de-lesclavage-au-neocolonialisme-ya-bon-la-francafrique/>
(Português) Pokemon, o jogo que traz espiões para dentro de casa
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/portugues-pokemon-o-jogo-que-traz-espioes-para-dentro-de-casa/>
Sergey
Kolyasnikov | Fort Russ – TRANSCEND Media Service
Se alguém quiser saber o que está a ser feito no edifício, digamos, do
Parlamento? Telefones de dúzias de deputados, pessoal da limpeza,
jornalistas vibram: “Pikachu está próximo!!!” E cidadãos felizes agarrarão
seus smartphones, activarão câmaras, microfones, GPS, giroscópios…
circulando no lugar, fitando o écran e enviando o vídeo através de ondas
online… Bingo! O mundo mudou outra vez, o mundo está diferente. Bem vindo a
uma nova era.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/portugues-pokemon-o-jogo-que-traz-espioes-para-dentro-de-casa/>
(Castellano) Multipolaridad e integración postneoliberal en América Latina
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/castellano-multipolaridad-e-integracion-postneoliberal-en-america-latina/>
Sergio
Martín Carrillo | CELAG - teleSUR
Entramos en una nueva fase de disputa geopolítica en la región. La misma se
caracteriza por el cuestionamiento del liderazgo latinoamericano en el
fortalecimiento de la multipolaridad.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/castellano-multipolaridad-e-integracion-postneoliberal-en-america-latina/>
IN-DEPTH VIDEOS Panama Papers: Corruption PSYOPS
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/panama-papers-corruption-psyops/> Peter
Lavelle | CrossTalk – Russia Today
The so-called Panama Papers are sold to us as a vast leak chronicling the
financial misdeeds of the rich and powerful. But is this really the case?
Certainly, we are given insight into the secretive world of offshore
banking, but is it a complete and balanced story? One interpretation of the
Panama Papers is the West targeting its enemies.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/panama-papers-corruption-psyops/>
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS Angie (Music Video of the Week)
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/angie-music-video-of-the-week/> The
Rolling Stones – TRANSCEND Media Service
A Classic of the Stones – One of the two official promo videos for the
Rolling Stones’ 1973 single “Angie”. Composed by Mick Jagger and Keith
Richards, and produced by Jimmy Miller.
Read more...
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/angie-music-video-of-the-week/>
JOKE OF THE WEEK Polls <https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/polls/> Bob
Gorrell – TRANSCEND Media Service
Another way to look at the plot…
Read more... <https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/polls/>
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