PEACE JOURNALISM PERSPECTIVE
EDITORIAL
Mass Migration, EU, European Nationalisms
Nº 427 – Johan Galtung, 9 May 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service
EU today is an exploitative pyramid: Germany on top; 8 Northern-Germanic countries; 5 Southern-Latin countries with France, Ireland; 12 Eastern countries; Greece at the bottom. With inequity and quotas, not strange that nationalisms flourish, tearing EU apart. Remove the causes: England-France, pick up the bill; EU, flatten the pyramid.
TMS PEACE JOURNALISM
Cowardice and Exoneration in Kunduz
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service
“The aircrew appeared to be confused by the directions from the Americans on the ground. At one point, the crew was told it would need to hit a second target after the strike it was about to commence, and ‘we will also be doing the same thing of softening the target for partner forces.’” This is the reality: An action that wound up killing 42 hospital workers and patients –men, women and children, some of whom were burned alive in their beds – was instigated in order to “soften the target” . . .
OTHER COMMENTARIES
BY TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Dreaming of the Next UN Secretary General
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Charter is astonishingly silent about the qualifications that should guide the selection of a secretary general, but it is clear on the procedure: a recommendation must be made by the Security Council to the General Assembly for its approval. This means that any one of the P-5 can use their veto to block a candidate.
Haiti’s Election Verification Commission: A Step in the Right Direction
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service
His [deputy political counselor at the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince] concluding remark, “When capabilities are so low and challenges are so great, where do you draw the line about how flawless the process has to be?” was indicative of the self-serving US policy of dismissing Haitian people’s intelligence, skills and aspirations.
The Danger of Fascism in the United States
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service
There is a real danger that Donald Trump, who is not only xenophobic, racist and hatemongering, but also misogynistic, wildly erratic and manifestly unqualified for the post, could be elected to the US Presidency in November.
Honor Father Dan Berrigan: Carry the Torch of Justice & Peace!
James ‘Jim’ Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service
In early 1968, Dan made international headlines when he traveled to North Vietnam with U.S. historian Howard Zinn to bring home three U.S. prisoners of war. Later that year, Dan, his brother Phil and seven others took hundreds of draft files from the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland and set the files on fire in the parking lot, using homemade napalm, to protest the Vietnam War.
Security Council Resolution 2286 Highlights a Foundation of World Law
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
On the recent Security Council resolution that we can use in support of humanitarian law. The protection of medical facilities and medical personnel is at the heart of the laws of war, currently more often called humanitarian law.
Those Funny Anti-Semites
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service
Until world-war II, Hitler could not dream of killing the Jews en masse. He had to be satisfied with driving them out of Germany, or out of Europe, as had happened several times before – in Spain, in England and in many other places. The obvious destination was Palestine, but Palestine was ruled by Great Britain, which let only a handful of Jews in, for fear of Arab reactions. At the time another possibility gained popularity with the Nazi leadership: transport all the Jews to Madagascar, which was part of the French empire.
ACTIVISM
Largest Civil Disobedience in History of the Environmental Movement Begins Today
350.org | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service
3 May 2016 – Starting today, a global wave of peaceful direct actions lasting for 12 days will take place across six continents targeting the world’s most dangerous fossil fuel projects, under the banner of Break Free.
When Compassion Is Terrorism: Animal Rights in a Post-911 World
Chad Nelson - CounterPunch
They saved the lives of thousands of confined and brutalized animals. Rather than settle for the slow-drip “humane economy” reforms that aim at improving the conditions of animal confinement and reducing the barbarity of their slaughter, Buddenberg and Kissane took the direct route — they staged prison breaks — freeing the inmates and leaving messages for the prison wardens.
Remembering Daniel Berrigan, with Gratitude
Ken Butigan | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
Daniel Berrigan has died, and so we have lost our great teacher who, flinty and generous and relentlessly persistent, taught us how to live in a culture of death and madness: “Find some people you can pray with and march with.” He pronounced this simple sentence at the end of a mesmerizing three-hour conversation he and I had in his simple Manhattan apartment in 1981.
NONVIOLENCE
Remembering Nonviolent History: Freedom Rides
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Freedom Rides are a powerful example of the use of nonviolent direct action to enforce justice and fair laws.
The Life and Death of Daniel Berrigan
John Dear – The Huffington Post
Dan was my greatest friend and teacher, for over thirty five years. We traveled the nation and the world together; went to jail together; and I edited five books of his writings. But all along I considered him one of the most important religious figures of the last century, right alongside with Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day and his brother Philip.
SURVEILLANCE / SPYING / WHISTLEBLOWING / BIG BROTHER
Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance
Edward Snowden – The Intercept
One of the challenges of being a whistleblower is living with the knowledge that people continue to sit, just as you did, at those desks, in that unit, throughout the agency, who see what you saw and comply in silence, without resistance or complaint. They learn to live not just with untruths but with unnecessary untruths, dangerous untruths, corrosive untruths.
TTIP Leaks [for Download]
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service
Greenpeace Netherlands has released secret TTIP negotiation documents. We have done so to provide much needed transparency and trigger an informed debate on the treaty. This treaty is threatening to have far reaching implications for the environment and the lives of more than 800 million citizens in the EU and US. TTIP is about a huge transfer of power from people to big business.
Defying the Spies: Free Thought as Resistance in the Age of Surveillance
Benjamin Dangl – Toward Freedom
A brand new study from Oxford provides empirical evidence to prove that the very fact that the surveillance state exists spreads conformity and subservience. The study examines how, following whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013 about US government spying, there was “a 20 percent decline in page views on Wikipedia articles related to terrorism, including those that mentioned ‘al Qaeda,’ ‘car bomb’ or ‘Taliban.’”
TRADE
Leaked TTIP Documents Cast Doubt on EU-US Trade Deal
Arthur Neslen – The Guardian
1 May 2016 – Talks for a free trade deal between Europe and the US face a serious impasse with “irreconcilable” differences in some areas, according to leaked negotiating texts. The two sides are also at odds over US demands that would require the EU to break promises it has made on environmental protection.
About the TTIP Leaks
Binoy Kampmark – Dissident Voice
6 May 2016 – The monstrous Siamese twin of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), has been in a growing puddle of dispute after 248 pages of its content were leaked. The document continues to flicker, and it will take more than Gallic opposition, Germanic scepticism, and general European stubbornness, to sink it.
IN FOCUS
Smart Power & the Human Rights Industrial Complex
Patrick Henningsen - 21st Century Wire
Billionaire philanthropists, political luminaries and transnational corporations working together in the name of social justice forging a better, fairer and more accountable world. The story reads well on paper. After all, the 20th century saw a string of failures by governments to halt horrific exhibitions of genocide and crimes against humanity. As a result, the door opened for many high-profile charities and human rights organizations to play a bigger role in moderating international affairs.
The Calm before the Coming Global Storm
Pepe Escobar | The International Reporter - TRANSCEND Media Service
6 May 2016 – They have seen what Washington does offer; endless war; the progressive smashing of the nation state; democracy blasted to smithereens; and technocratic governance by the 0.00001%. Yet all this is just the calm before the geopolitical/financial storm. Let’s review the current state of play via the dilemmas afflicting the House of Saud, the EU and BRICS members Russia, Brazil and China.
ANGLO AMERICA
America’s Legacy Will Be Its Downfall: Empire Always Comes Home
Brandon Turbeville – Activist Post
Amidst the constant propaganda and dehumanizing method of reporting “news” in the West, both the humanity and the wishes of the Syrian people are lost completely.
Why the US Will Not Sign the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
Ken Meyercord – Dissident Voice
Symptomatic of our hypocrisy, we protest Chinese “aggressive” actions in the area by sailing the Seventh Fleet through atolls turned into landing-strips to demonstrate our commitment to freedom of navigation. Yet we refuse to sign the UN’s Convention on the Law of the Sea to formalize the rules of navigation that has been around since 1982 and ratified by over 160 UN members, including China, but not by the U.S. of A.
Onshore Tax Havens: American Elites Don’t Have to Go to Panama to Hide Their Money — They Can Go to Delaware
Josh Hoxie | Other Words – TRANSCEND Media Service
Who needs offshore tax havens in Panama? Nearly 300,000 corporations — including some owned by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton — are incorporated at a single Delaware address.
ASIA & THE PACIFIC
The Rohingya and [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi’s Myanmar aka Burma
Adryel Talamantes and Austin Bodetti – The Diplomat
The democratic icon’s party won a major victory last year. Will it help a beleaguered minority? Former political prisoner Wai Wai Nu, once persecuted because of her father’s political activities summed it up briefly, “It’s good that we have changes, but it’s still too early to comment.”
Two Refugees Set Themselves Alight in Australia’s Nauru Detention Centre
Max Newman, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service
4 May 2016 – Hodan Yasi, a young refugee woman from Somalia, is in a critical condition after setting herself alight on Nauru on Monday [2 May], just three days after a 23-year-old Iranian refugee, Omid Masoumali, died of injuries sustained in a similar act last week. These events further underscore the inhuman conditions and denial of basic legal and democratic rights inflicted on the nearly 1,500 refugees held into these facilities, which health professionals have likened to concentration camps.
Ships to Nowhere: The Brutal Trafficking of Rohingya Refugees
Mili Mitra | Brown Political Review-Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service
Thus far, the global response has been limited and misguided. While the plight of the Rohingya has come into the media spotlight recently, there has been little coordinated effort to mitigate the crisis. Unless there is greater security and support for Rohingya in Myanmar and increased rehabilitation of these refugees across Southeast Asia, the Rohingya refugee crisis will continue to be one of the greatest and most overlooked humanitarian disasters of our time.
BRICS
Zupta Scandal Causes South African Government to Intervene to Save Indian Investor
Richard Smallteacher | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service
The South African government has intervened to support the Indian-born Gupta brothers, owners of a sprawling conglomerate with interests from mining to media, following a scandal that suggested that the brothers had accumulated so much power that they could dictate cabinet-level decisions in the country.
The Brazilian Left: Business Accommodation and Social Debacle
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service
In ‘Cardoso’s Brazil: A Land for Sale’ (2003) we described how President Cardoso had sold off the major public resources, banks, petroleum and iron resources to foreign capital for rock bottom prices. The 2002 election of President Lula Da Silva of the Workers’ Party did not reverse Cardoso’s sell-out. Indeed, Lula accepted his predecessor’s neo-liberal policies – embellished them – and set about forging an alliance between the Workers’ Party and the economic elites, replacing Cardoso’s Party!
EUROPE
The Possibilities of Anti-Austerity Politics: A Spanish Drama
Immanuel Wallerstein – Toward Freedom
Is there any way that any government is able to maintain an anti-austerity policy in the middle run, amidst the pressures that reduced government real revenues are imposing on states throughout the world? As this drama plays out in Spain, the world will be watching, reacting, and drawing lessons.
PALESTINE / ISRAEL
This Is How Settlers Take Over Palestinian Land
Dror Etkes - +972 Magazine
From audacious fraud and forgery to military seizures for ‘security needs’ and the ‘public good’ to dusting off antiquated Ottoman laws, the Israeli settlement enterprise has no shortage of tools for taking over Palestinian land in the West Bank.
The Spirit of Nelson Mandela in Palestine: Is His Real Legacy Being Upheld?
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service
When Nelson Mandela said, “We know all too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians,” he was not trying to be cordial or diplomatic. He meant every word. Someday, we hope that a statue of Mandela, one that represents the spirit of Resistance in Palestine, will stand tall amid the people who championed his cause and loved him most.
Ken Livingstone Isn’t On Trial, Zionism Is
American Herald Tribune – Mint Press News
In subjecting Ken Livingstone to trial-by-media over his comments on Zionism, his detractors have also unwittingly placed Zionism itself on trial.
SYRIA IN DEPTH
Palmyra Witnesses Two Cultural Events on Occasions of Martyrs’ Day in Syria and Victory Day in Russia
Syrian Arab News Agency SANA – TRANSCEND Media Service
The first event has started amid large popular turnout through the concert of the Symphony Orchestra of St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theater, headed by Maestro Valery Gergiev at Palmyra’s Roman Theater.
Why Obama Prioritizes Ousting Assad over Defeating Syria’s Jihadists
Eric Zuesse | Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service
That report went on to document, essentially, that U.S. President Barack Obama is continuing his efforts to replace the only secular, non-sectarian government in the Middle East, that of the Ba’athist Party, which has always been the only non-religious political party in the Arabic world — everything else in Arabia has been fundamentalist-Sunni, to at least some extent (enough for even the least-fundamentalist of America’s Arab allies to cooperate with al-Nusra, which is Al Qaeda in Syria).
NEW / CHANGING PARADIGMS
A Civic Economy of Provisions
Marvin T. Brown | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service
Marvin Brown presents a model for the next system in which economic activity is based not solely on property ownership or the free market but on civic membership in a “global civil society.” He advocates a new approach to system change that would re-frame our social structures around civic relations. Oriented around families, communities, attachments, and mutual identities, this civic economy of provisions would ensure that all people have access to food, housing, health care, and education.
REVIEWS
Anarchism’s Mid-Century Turn
Kristian Williams – Toward Freedom
Review & Response: Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century, By Andrew Cornell, University of California Press, 2016, 300 pages. No matter how one feels about it, the current state of anarchism has represented something of a mystery: What was once a mass movement based mainly in working class immigrant communities is now an archipelago of subcultural scenes inhabited largely by disaffected young people from the white middle class.
ENVIRONMENT
Hanford’s Leaky Nuke Tanks and Sick Workers, a Never-Ending Saga in the U.S.
Joshua Frank – CounterPunch
Hanford is the most radioactive site in North America and is thereby always toxic. But what is news is how dangerous and negligent the remediation efforts at Hanford continue to be. In 2014 more than 40 workers suffered ailments caused by chemical exposures and last March 26 workers were sent to a hospital or clinic.
The Chernobyl Secret Protocols: Lies in the Aftermath of Disaster
Alla Yaroshinskaya | The Right Livelihood Award Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service
In my journalistic archives there are mountains of classified Chernobyl documents from the USSR Communist Party and Soviet government. The price paid for these archives is tens of thousands of dead emergency responders and other victims of the fallout, as well as nine million people who lost their health and quality of life and are still surviving in the affected areas.
Ocean’s Oxygen Starts Running Low
Niina Heikkinen | ClimateWire – Scientific American
Rising levels of CO2 are making it hard for fish to breathe in addition to exacerbating global warming and ocean acidification.
TTIP Leaked Documents Show Obama Demands Killing Paris Accord against Climate Change
Eric Zuesse, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service
“248 pages of leaked Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiating texts” show that the American negotiating position, as Greenpeace put the matter, allows “No place for climate protection in TTIP,” and, though “We have known that the EU position was bad, now we see the US position is even worse.”
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
President Obama Should Meet A-Bomb Survivors, and Heed Their Call to Ban the Bomb
Kevin Martin | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
5 May 2016 – President Obama is considering a visit to Hiroshima during the G-7 economic summit in Japan later this month. Remarkably, many Hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors, are still alive today, though they often suffer from various radiation-caused illnesses or other physical ailments 71 years after the bombs were dropped.
North Korea’s New Weapons: Full Speed Ahead
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
The best and only chance of dissuading Kim Jong-un from continuing on the path of weapons modernization, which is both dangerous and ruinous in terms of human development, is to put before him a package of alternative incentives— a peace treaty to end the Korean War, security guarantees, sustainable energy options, and meaningful economic aid.
MILITARISM
Solitary Confinement Is ‘No Touch’ Torture, And It Must Be Abolished
Chelsea E Manning – The Guardian
For 17 hours a day, I sat directly in front of at least two Marine Corps guards seated behind a one-way mirror. I was not allowed to lay down. I was not allowed to lean my back against the cell wall. I was not allowed to exercise. Sometimes, to keep from going crazy, I would stand up, walk around, or dance, as “dancing” was not considered exercise by the Marine Corps.
SEXUALITIES
Kenya: Court to Hear Forced Anal Testing Case
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service
A Kenyan court will hear a constitutional petition challenging the use of forced anal examinations of men accused of homosexuality on May 4, 2016. Under international law, forced anal examinations are a form of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment that may amount to torture.
ANIMAL RIGHTS / VEGETARIANISM
Their Next Act: The Ringling Brothers’ Elephants Are Retiring
James Sullivan | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service
—And Moving to Florida to Contribute to Cancer Research – In its 145th year on the road, the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’ is taking its biggest attraction – the symbol of the circus since P.T. Barnum, that quintessential American showman, brought the famed captive Jumbo to the States – off the road for good, finally capitulating to years of pressure from animal rights activists.
HEALTH
OxyContin’s 12-Hour Dosing Claim Attacked in Massive Investigation
Sy Mukherjee - Fortune
Purdue Pharma’s marketing of opioid was dangerously misleading, report says. Since 1999, more than 165,000 people have died from overdosing on prescription painkillers; opioids have even been implicated in the death of superstar Prince.
Thirteen Foods That Can Replace Pills
BabaMail – TRANSCEND Media Service
Whenever we start feeling ill, the first thing we do is reach for the medicine cabinet. The problem with taking pills is that even though they’ll probably help with your predicament, they’re also bound to have unwanted side effects. The best solution is to use these 13 natural remedies, which are just as efficient as drugs:
SCIENCE / SPIRITUALITY
Nobel-Winning Physicist Frank Wilczek on Complementarity as the Quantum of Life and Why Reality Is Woven of Opposing Truths
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
“You can recognize a deep truth by the feature that its opposite is also a deep truth.” When confronted with the world’s complexity, we default into navigating it by creating artificial binaries, perceiving contradiction where they might in fact only be complementarity. Wilczek points to one familiar example — the fact that light is neither inherently a particle nor inherently a wave, but can be either depending on how we measure it.
HISTORY
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service
May 9–15 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell
May: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service
May 1, 1962 – A nuclear test code-named Beryl was conducted in French-occupied Algeria. However, due to improper sealing of the underground shaft, a spectacular mushroom cloud burst through the concrete cap venting highly radioactive dust and gas into the atmosphere. The plume climbed to 8,500 feet high and radiation was detected hundreds of miles away. This was just one of 210 nuclear weapons tests conducted by the French government in north Africa and the Pacific region in the period from 1960-96.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
International Peace Bureau World Congress 2016
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service
Disarm! For a Climate of Peace – Creating an Action Agenda ~ 30 Sep-2 Oct 2016, Technical University of Berlin
POETRY FORMAT
(Español) Y Me Perdí la Infancia
José María Lopera – TRANSCEND Media Service
Y me perdí la infancia
porque con siete años era un hombre;
un hombre de la guerra y de la muerte,
del proyectil que silba
y la bomba que estalla por sorpresa.
Take Three Gifts on Your Journey
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Mr. President,
The word is out.
You will visit Hiroshima in May.
In Hiroshima, nuclear weapons become real.
Charity Justice (Haiku)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service
Unsold expired gifts…
An Encyclical on Nonviolence: An Anticipatory Approach
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
In his encyclical on Nonviolence, Pope Francis will be uniquely inspired :
examples of applications of Jesus` teachings will be required
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Stato di Pace ISLANDA. Che vuol dire che cosa?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service
Allora perché non capitalizzare su quell’esperienza, facendo un Centro di Mediazione di Reykjavik, politicamente e internazionalmente indipendente, e con l’ubicazione islandese fra est e ovest, USA e Russia? Guardiamo la carta geografica! A Reykjavík invitare USA e Russia, con Kiev e Donetsk. Magari anche Bruxelles, intesa come NATO e UE. Tema: il conflitto in e attorno all’Ucraina – appunto “ai confini”, fra due nazioni, l’ucraina-cattolica e la russa-ortodossa; con molto odio e violenza.
(Italiano) NON AVERE PAURA! DONNE CHE NON SI SONO ARRESE di Cristina Monti. Torino 26 aprile 2016
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service
Una serata al femminile, per la collaborazione cooperativa fra l’associazione Scambiaidee, l’ANPI sezione Nicola Grosa (di San Salvario), la Circoscrizione 8 presso la cui biblioteca civica Natalia Ginzburg è stato proiettato il documentario “Non avere paura! Donne che non si sono arrese”
(Français) Faire prévaloir l’Évangile de la non-violence dans la pensée et l’action de l’Église
Jean-Marie Muller – TRANSCEND Media Service
Ce qui est remarquable, et probablement décisif, c’est que les participants ne se contentent pas d’ajouter un paragraphe sur la non-violence dans la doctrine de la légitime violence et de la guerre juste, mais qu’ils remettent en cause cette doctrine au nom de l’exigence de non-violence. « Ceux d’entre nous, est-il affirmé, qui se situent dans la tradition chrétienne sont appelés à reconnaître le caractère central de la non-violence active dans la vision et le message de Jésus.
(Português) Religião na Cidade
Paulo Mendes Pinto – Público
Transformada naquilo que a palavra tradição tão facilmente permite, a tourada fixou-se e agarrou-se a um quadro de pseudo-identidade…. Hoje temos espectáculo, com palmas e bilhetes, com negócio. O touro sofre simplesmente para que uns dos tais Sapiens sapiens possam ter um momento de adrenalina e de prazer ao ver a dor de outro animal. Eventualmente, somos os piores cuidadores que o Criador, qualquer que ele seja, colocou para cuidar do Jardim.
(Deutsch) Die Krise Brasiliens und die Weltgeopolitik
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service
Die Spionage der USA, wie von Snowden ans Licht der Öffentlichkeit gebracht, erreichte die Petrobras und die Reserven von Pré-Sal und hat auch Präsidentin Dilma Roussef nicht ausgelassen. Dies ist Teil der Strategie des Pentagon, um alle Gebiete unter dem Slogan „Eine Welt, ein Reich“ zu vereinen. Im Folgenden einige Punkte, die uns zum Nachdenken bringen.
(Português) Descoberta uma Rede de Túneis com 12 Mil Anos Que Cruza Toda a Europa
Muito Fixe – TRANSCEND Media Service
6 fev 2016 – Datadas de há mais de 12 mil anos, estas passagens subterrâneas ainda permanecem um verdadeiro mistério. Quem as construiu? Para quê? Como foi possível?
(Français) The Economist met en garde : “les profits sont bien trop élevés!”
Marc Vandepitte | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service
Ce n’est pas nous, ni le gouvernement qui vivons au-dessus de nos moyens, ce sont les ultra-riches. Générer les méga-bénéfices des grandes entreprises n’est pas tenable, ni socialement ni économiquement. L’analyste politique Marc Vandepitte nous explique pourquoi et esquisse comment inverser la tendance.
(Italiano) Un convegno storico al Vaticano fa appello alla nonviolenza e alla ‘pace giusta’
Ken Butigan, Waging Nonviolence – Centro Studi Sereno Regis
21 aprile 2016 – Dall’inizio alla fine l’atmosfera degli incontri è stata elettrizzante: si trattava di un incontro senza precedenti presso il Vaticano – dove artefici del cambiamento provenienti da ogni parte del mondo, hanno deliberato con sacerdoti, vescovi e con i maggiori responsabili della Chiesa Cattolica per la giustizia e per la pace.
(Português) Conheça o “Holocausto Animal”
Francisco José - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais
O empresário apenas mata o animal pois há demanda, isto é, há quem pague. Enquanto não mudarmos a ideia de que os animais existem no mundo como produtos para humanos, haverá produção de vestimenta de pele e de outras práticas de exploração animal. A produção animal é a principal forma de emissão de gás-estufa e do desmatamento da Amazônia, e não apenas isso, é também a pioneira em poluição de rios, mares e nascentes.
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Fall of Empire, End to US Wars: Johan Galtung Predictions Taking Place
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service
Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, predicts the fall of the “US Empire” by 2020. Military defeats in wars of choice will generate political loss of influence and irrelevance externally, what may trigger a soul-searching internally. The Vietnam War was but a prelude. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya follow the script. Israel may become a burden to the USA.
Hawai’i Aloha | Song Across Hawai’i (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change - TRANSCEND Media Service
Apr 22, 2016 – An Epic Hawai’ian Song Straight from the Hearts of the Singers – Recorded live across 27 locations, this is Hawai’iʻs most widely known and loved song, used to close important gatherings of all sizes. It is a song of unity and Aloha ‘Aina (Aloha for one’s birthplace, land and home) and features dozens of Hawai‘i’s top artists across many genres and over 1,000 youths from 10 Hawai’ian charter schools.
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Good Deeds
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
Scouts are supposed to do at least one good deed every day. A scout master asked three little scouts at camp in the evening, “What good deed did you do today?”
“Capitalism and State sovereignty are goners. Bankism rules the world in all respects now.” “Militaries are the ultimate manifestation of direct, structural and cultural violence—a cancer that must be extirpated from humanity.” — Antonio C. S. Rosa, M.A.
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