PEACE JOURNALISM PERSPECTIVE
EDITORIAL
China’s Silk Geopolitics
Nº 428 – Johan Galtung, 16 May 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service
China is changing world geography, or at least trying to do so in the sense of weaving new infrastructures on land, on water, in the air, and on the web. The Silk Roads. It is not surprising that a country with some Marxist orientation would focus politics on infrastructure–but as means of transportation-communication, not as means of production.
NOBEL LAUREATES
[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi’s Cowardly Stance on the Rohingya
Editorial Board – The New York Times
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi — Myanmar’s leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate — does not want to call them Rohingya, the name they use, because nationalist Buddhists want to perpetuate the myth that they are “Bengalis” who don’t belong in Myanmar. She has also asked the United States ambassador not to use the term.
Call on Israeli Government to Free Mordechai Vanunu and End Thirty-Year Persecution: Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service
No voices are raised in defence of his freedom and it is to all our shame that the international political/spiritual leadership continue to abide by the rule: ‘WHATEVER YOU SAY – SAY NOTHING’ when it comes to the Israeli government’s persecution of a man of conscience, a good man.”
OTHER COMMENTARIES
BY TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Why Set Up a Shell Company in Panama? The Psychology Driving Illicit Financial Flows
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service
There is an important reason why wealthy individuals want to maximise their wealth and evade contributing to any country that gave them the opportunity to make this wealth. You might think that you know this reason too: greed. However, greed is a simplistic explanation that fails to explain, psychologically, why an individual might be greedy. So let me explain it now.
Radical Innovators Beware — In the Arts, Sciences and Philosophy
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service
Terrifying Implications of Radical New Deradicalisation Initiative in France – Despite cultivating the image of being a country renowned for its cultivation of intellectual endeavour, and most notably philosophy, Manuel Valls, Prime Minister of France, announced on 9 May 2016 a radical initiative to set up a dozen deradicalisation centres.
Richmond’s People to People Delegation: How Beautiful Is Cuba
Willie Thompson, Tarnel Abbott and Marilyn Langlois – San Francisco Bay View
We were gratified by the hospitality extended to us in an atmosphere where, by and large, people do right by each other. As the popular national song declares, “Cuba que linda es Cuba!” “How beautiful is Cuba!”
Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Daniel Berrigan
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service
I was privileged to know Daniel Berrigan in the last stages of the Vietnam War, not well, but well enough to appreciate his quality of moral radiance and to admire the spiritual dedication that he exhibited in opposing the Vietnam War, and later nuclearism. I also knew Dan’s brother, Phil, who shared these remarkable qualities.
A Killing Nation!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service
It has become increasingly clear that the U.S. is not about the business of “freedom and democracy” but rather global domination that benefits an economic corporate elite at the expense of nearly everyone else and the earth itself. Of course, the domination is disguised and fueled by fear: war on terror, regime change, destroying Al Qaeda, ISIS, etc. but increasingly the world is seeing through the disguise. So what are we to do?
New Challenges for Global Citizens
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Global Citizenship Commission under the leadership of the former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown presented its report ‘The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century’ to the United Nations on 18 April 2016.
NONVIOLENCE
Yes to Assertive, No to Aggressive
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
10 May 2016 – I teach and write in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies, with a special focus on strategic nonviolence. It is a rich field, growing in its scholarship and its widespread usage. I’m so enthused by this—the more we wage our conflicts with nonviolence the lower the costs.
ACTIVISM
Pennsylvania Township Legalizes Civil Disobedience
Tim DeChristopher – TRANSCEND Media Service
This is a press release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund about a groundbreaking strategy of resistance by a small Pennsylvania town trying to defend itself from the fossil fuel industry.
The Value in Activism: Reflections from the Columbia University Climate Sit-In
Nikita Perumal – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
I know—I have seen—the transformative power that climate justice activism can have both on Columbia’s campus and internationally. When the status quo—in this case, the political and social power of extractive and destructive industries—is too strong to be undone on its own, it sometimes needs a push. I believe, wholeheartedly, that activism is that push.
SPECIAL FEATURE
Médecins Sans Frontières Say 75 Hospitals Bombed in 2015, Leave UN Humanitarian Summit
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Medical Aid Organization Says It Does Not Have Hope in the “Fig Leaf” Summit – Doctors Without Borders on Thursday [5 May] pulled out of a U.N.-sponsored World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on May 23-24 saying there was no hope that the meeting would address the weaknesses in humanitarian action and emergency response, particularly in conflict areas or epidemic situations.
Putin Declines World Humanitarian Summit Invitation as Russia Cries Foul
Ben Parker | IRIN News – TRANSCEND Media Service
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be attending the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul as Russia is refusing to be bound by the results of a process it says failed to include its views.
CIVIL SOCIETY
Civil Society Movements for Promotion of Peace and Social Justice
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service
Today with acute problems of environmental pollution and climate change, many movements are taking place for the protection and sustenance of the environment. Before discussing environmental movements, it is useful to refer to some prominent political and social movements.
SURVEILLANCE / SPYING / WHISTLEBLOWING / BIG BROTHER
Offshore Leaks Database
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service
Find out who’s behind almost 320,000 offshore companies and trusts from the Panama Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations.
Timeout for Football Leaks: Whistleblowers Take Six-Month Break
Rafael Buschmann – Der Spiegel
The revelations exposed by soccer whistleblowing platform Football Leaks have provided tips for prosecutors and tax inspectors alike. Overwhelmed by a massive trove of data, the group says it will now take a break.
#TTIPleaks: Confidential TTIP Papers Unveil US Position
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service
Leaked text shows deliberate attempts by the U.S. to undermine EU environment and health protection laws and to change the EU democratic legislative process.
TRADE
The TTIPing Point: Protests Threaten Trans-Atlantic Trade Deal
Dinah Deckstein, Simone Salden and Michaela Schießl – Der Spiegel
An unprecedented protest movement of a scope not seen since the Iraq war in Germany has pushed negotiations over the TTIP trans-Atlantic free trade agreement to the brink of collapse. The demonstrations are characterized by a level of professionalism not previously seen.
Download the TTIP Leaks
Greenpeace Netherlands – TRANSCEND Media Service
Greenpeace Netherlands has released secret TTIP negotiation documents to provide much needed transparency and trigger an informed debate on the treaty, which 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.
IN FOCUS
Duty to Warn – Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation Agents and the CIA
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service
It is quite easy for a disinformation agent to spin a rich disinformation tale and then craft several different versions of the tale with new ‘facts’ to support the story in each one. These tales are usually a good mix of verifiable facts and cleverly designed lies, so that people who check the ‘facts’ tend to believe the lies that are mixed in. The disinformation agent has only to feed these versions of his tale to several of the many conspiracy-oriented websites out there, and it’s all over the Internet – but not on reliable websites. They will use pseudonyms to join in on the discussions generated by their “news” so that they can manipulate the direction that comments take.
AFRICA
Shame on Shell: Ecocide by Oil Extraction in the Niger Delta
Cynthia McKinney – Russia Today
14 May 2016 – Millions of barrels of oil have been spilled in Nigeria’s Delta region. Tired of the abuse, Nigerians just blew up a pipeline and a platform in an attempt to rectify what politicians and courts have been slow to do.
ANGLO AMERICA
Pfizer Cuts States Off from Execution Drugs
Bryce Covert – Think Progress
14 May 2016 – After pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced on Friday [13 May] that it will clamp down on the distribution of its drugs so that they can no longer be used in executions, any state that wants to use lethal injection will now have to resort to getting them on underground markets.
Neocons and Neolibs: How Dead Ideas Kill
Robert Parry – Consortium News
Hillary Clinton wants the American voters to be very afraid of Donald Trump, but there is reason to fear as well what a neoconservative/neoliberal Clinton presidency would mean for the world.
A Perfect Storm
Andrew P. Napolitano | LewRockwell – TRANSCEND Media Service
A below the radar yet largely known debate in the Kremlin between the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Intelligence Services to determine whether they should release some 20,000 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails they obtained either by hacking her directly or by hacking into the email of her confidante, Sid Blumenthal.
Support for Palestinians Triples among US Youth, Survey Finds
Ali Abunimah | Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service
“Currently, 43 percent of Millennials, born after 1980, report sympathizing more with Israel, while 27 percent are more sympathetic to the Palestinians,” Pew states. “The share sympathizing with the Palestinians has risen significantly in recent years, from nine percent in 2006 to 20 percent in July 2014 to 27 percent today” – in other words it has tripled. Among Baby Boomers – those born between 1946 and 1964 – 61 percent are more pro-Israel, while just 14 percent back the Palestinians.
ASIA & THE PACIFIC
Under International Law Native Hawaiians Are Victims of Genocide
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service
Since the occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom began during the Spanish-American War, the United States embarked on a deliberate campaign of forced denationalization in order to conceal the occupation and militarization of a neutral State. Denationalization, in its totality, is genocide. [Hawaii was annexed and became the 50th State of the USA on August 21, 1959]
Why Burma Is Trying to Stop People from Using [Rohingya] the Name of Its Persecuted Muslim Minority
Feliz Solomon - Time
9 May 2016 – The government is “not objecting [to] the term [Rohingya] but requesting not to use it.” The suggestion was made during private “courtesy calls” between Aung San Suu Kyi — in her role as Minister of Foreign Affairs — and the U.S. Ambassador to Burma Scot Marciel.
Us Defies Myanmar Government Request to Stop Using Term Rohingya
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service
Ambassador Scot Marciel says Washington will continue to call persecuted Muslim minority by name objected to by Aung San Suu Kyi’s administration.
BALKANS & EASTERN EUROPE
Russia Warns of Retaliation as NATO Plans More Deployments in Eastern Europe
Dmitry Solovyov and Lidia Kelly | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service
4 May 2016 – Russia will reinforce its western and southern flanks with three new divisions by the year-end, officials said on Wednesday [4 May], threatening retaliation to NATO’s plans to boost its military presence in eastern members Poland and the Baltic States.
BRICS
Brazil’s Democracy to Suffer Grievous Blow as Unelectable, Corrupt Neoliberal is Installed
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept
11 May 2016 – Brazil’s senate voted this week to begin impeachment proceedings of Dilma Rousseff, suspending the nation’s first female president as she is put on trial by politicians neck-deep in their own scandals. Our co-founder Glenn Greenwald has written blistering critiques of the political turmoil from Rio de Janeiro, where he has lived for 11 years. “They are literally dismantling — crushing — democracy in the world’s fifth-largest country,” he writes.
Dilma Out: Brazilian Plutocracy Sets 54 Million Votes on Fire
Pepe Escobar – The International Reporter
13 May 2016 – Never in modern political history has it been so easy to “abolish the people” and simply erase 54 million votes cast in a free and fair presidential election. This is a day that will live in infamy all across the Global South – when what was one of its most dynamic democracies veered into a plutocratic regime, under a flimsy parliamentary/judicial veneer, with legal and constitutional guarantees now at the mercy of lowly comprador elites.
WikiLeaks Reveal Brazil’s New Coup President Is ‘US Informant’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service
13 May 2016 – Whistleblower website WikiLeaks described the Senate-imposed President of Brazil Michel Temer as a “U.S. Embassy informant” in a tweet and provided two links where Temer’s candid thoughts on Brazilian politics serve as the basis for a report by the U.S. embassy in Brazil.
EUROPE
The EU Refugee Rescue Mission Is a Triumph of Humanitarianism – Not That You’ll Hear about It
Robert Fisk – The Independent
If Operation Sophia was designed to ‘tackle the root causes’ of the refugee crisis, we need to talk about justice, dignity and freedom for the people of the Middle East.
Greece, the Punching Ball of Germany
Roberto Savio – Inter Press Service-IPS
11 May 2016 – Greece is again in the media, because a new negotiation is due between the embattled country and its creditors. The North-South divide of Europe is coming back with force (while the East-West relationship is increasingly looking as beyond repair).
The Ugly Truth Behind the Greek Bailout
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch
IMF Queen Christine’s backroom stratagem, described in a WikiLeaks’ leaked confidential letter exclusive to Troika members, preceded the three-day nationwide strike in very strong protest against more and more, infinitely more, austerity measures burying the Greek people as quid pro quo for bailout money, which almost exclusively (95%) serves to service creditors. This is insanity of the highest order. How can Greeks at all accede to a measly 5%?
EU: Results of Glyphosate Pee Test Are In ‘and It’s Not Good News’
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service
12 May 2016 – Last month, Members of the European Parliament volunteered to take a urine test to see if glyphosate—the cancer-linked weedkiller—is in their system. Forty-eight MEPs from 13 different EU countries participated. Test results from the accredited Biocheck Laboratory in Germany: “All participants excreted glyphosate by urine.”
PALESTINE / ISRAEL
As Palestinians Mourn Their Nakba, the UK Must Acknowledge Its Responsibility
Ahmad Samih Khalidi – The Guardian
15 May 2016 – Today marks the 68th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe): the Palestinians’ dispossession and the loss of their homeland. Next year is the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. It behooves the UK to face up to its role in the dispossession of the Palestinians. Their plight remains without redress in the UK.
General Golan’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Speech
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service
Speaking at Tel Yitzak Kibbutz, where the Massuah Institute for Holocaust Studies is located, General Golan urged that this very special day of observance in Israel be treated as an occasion for soul-searching. He placed this call in an extraordinary context by suggesting that conditions in Israel were disturbing in ways relevant to the Holocaust, horror of horrors.
Zionism’s Roots Help Us Interpret Israel Today
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service
Recognising Zionism’s ideological roots, inspired by racial theories of peoplehood that in part fuelled the Second World War, might allow us to understand modern Israel a little better. And why it seems incapable of extending a hand of peace to the Palestinians.
Israel Imposes Travel Ban on BDS Co-Founder Omar Barghouti
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service
Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said that “Israel’s refusal to renew Barghouti’s travel document appears to be an effort to punish him for exercising his right to engage in peaceful, political activism, using its arsenal of bureaucratic control over Palestinian lives.”
THE UNITED NATIONS
‘Fake Jewish Graves in Muslim Cemeteries’: UNESCO Slams Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Sites
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service
18 Apr 2016 – The Israeli authorities are furious after a UNESCO resolution stated that the Temple Mount and holy sites in Hebron and Bethlehem are an “integral part of Palestine.” The organization also criticized Israel, “the occupying power,” for planting fake graves in Muslim cemeteries.
NEW / CHANGING PARADIGMS
Building a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth
Jessica Gordon Nembhard |The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service
The next system that we need, and that hopefully we are moving toward, is a cooperative commonwealth within interlocking local solidarity economies. Such a system is created from the bottom up, building upon multiple grassroots cooperative enterprises, and democratic community-based economic practices. These networks collaborate and federate from the local to municipal, regional, national, and international levels.
SOCIALISM / MARXISM
Why I Am a Communist!
Andre Vltchek - CounterPunch
Am I a Leninist, a Maoist, or a Trotskyist? Do I subscribe to the Soviet or the Chinese model? Frankly, I don’t care much for those nuances. To me, a true Communist is a fighter against imperialism, racism, ‘Western exceptionism’, colonialism and neo-colonialism. He or she is a determined Internationalist, a person who believes in equality and social justice for all people on this Earth.
CAPITALISM
The Real Target of the Panama Papers
Pepe Escobar – teleSUR
What the Panama Papers may succeed in is to eliminate competition. From now on, your fiscal paradise of choice must be in US, UK and Dutch jurisdictions. We control every global financial flow—legal or otherwise. Defy us—or else.
MEDIA
Edward Snowden: The Media Isn’t Doing Its Job
Emily Bell | Columbia Journalism Review – TRANSCEND Media Service
Edward Snowden about his experiences working with journalists and his perspective on the shifting media world. This is an excerpt of a conversation that will appear in a forthcoming book: Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State.
Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz
Media Lens – Dissident Voice
We live in a time when state-corporate interests are cooperating to produce propaganda blitzes intended to raise public support for the demonisation and destruction of establishment enemies. Below, we will examine five key components of an effective propaganda campaign of this kind.
ENVIRONMENT
Sea-Level Rise Claims Five Islands in Solomons: Study
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service
Five islands have disappeared in the Pacific’s Solomon Islands due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion.
The Political Economy of Dead Meat: Why Mad Cows are the Least of It
Jeffrey St. Clair & Alexander Cockburn – Counter Punch
Intensive meat production–these days mostly of beef, veal, pork, and chicken–is an act of violence: primarily, of course, an act of violence against the creatures involved. But it is also violence against nature and against poor people. The modern livestock industry economy and the passion for meat have radically altered the look of the planet.
GPS Tracking Devices Catch Major U.S. Recyclers Exporting Toxic E-Waste
Elizabeth Grossman – The Intercept
A two-year investigation of electronics recycling revealed that about one-third of the devices were improperly exported to developing countries where equipment is often dismantled in low-tech workshops — often by children — endangering workers, their families, and contaminating the surrounding environment.
Beekeepers Lost 44% of Honey Bee Colonies Last Year in the USA
Friends of the Earth | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service
On Tuesday [10 May] the Bee Informed Partnership, in collaboration with the Apiary Inspectors of America and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, released its annual report on honey bee losses in the U.S. Beekeepers reported losing 44 percent of their total number of colonies managed over the last year. These losses are considered too high to be sustainable for U.S. agriculture and the beekeeping industry.
How Water Corruption Leaves Millions Mired in Misery
Callum Clench – The Huffington Post
While corruption permeates every walk of life, its impact on water is particularly pernicious. Corruption in the water sector is widespread, hugely underestimated and little understood. It has a profound impact on economic progress, provision of water and, in the final resort, costs million of lives. Given the complexity of water, then, and its vulnerability to graft, there are three measures which could easily be adopted at Prime Minister Cameron’s summit.
ENERGY
Chernobyl Fatalities and the Challenges of Expert Judgment
Sonja Schmid – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
As the uncertainty over Chernobyl’s death toll illustrates, “scientific opinion” is not always unanimous, and neither is “expert judgment.” Scientific expertise is not immune to controversy. And expert judgment changes over time.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
North Korea, Following China and India, Pledges No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons. So Could Obama
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
15 May 2016 – North Korea’s May 7 declaration that it would not be first to use nuclear weapons was met with official derision instead of relief and applause. Not one report of the announcement I could find noted that the United States has never made such a no-first-use pledge. None of three dozen news accounts even mentioned that North Korea hasn’t got one usable nuclear warhead.
Making the Most of Obama’s Hiroshima Visit
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service
Message to President Barack Obama with Respect to Forthcoming Hiroshima Visit – 11 May 2016 | I sent the following message to the White House today, and encourage readers of this blog to do the same.
MILITARISM
The Great Leap Backward: America’s Illegal Wars on the World
Luciana Bohne - CounterPunch
Since 1945, America’s Manifest Destiny, posing as the Free World’s Crusade against the Red Menace, has claimed 20 to 30 million lives worldwide and bombed one-third of the earth’s people. In the 19th century, America exterminated another kind of “red menace,” writing and shredding treaties, stealing lands, massacring, and herding Native populations into concentration camps (“Indian reservations”), in the name of civilizing the “savages.” By 1890, with the massacre of Lakota at Wounded Knee, the frontier land grab—internal imperialism– was over. American external imperialism was born.
Washington’s Military Addiction – And the Ruins Still to Come
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch
But don’t bother to blame the politicians and national security nabobs in Washington for this [their solution — more of the same –militarism]. They’re addicts. They can’t help themselves. What they need is rehab. Instead, they continue to run our world. Be suitably scared for the ruins still to come.
ARTS
Israel Lobby Pushing to Ban Palestinian Film at Cannes
13 May 2016 – Munich: A Palestinian Story, is due to be screened on Monday [16 May] as a collaboration between the Cannes Festival and the Dubai International Film Festival. The unfinished documentary examines the 1972 Munich Olympics killings from a Palestinian perspective.
SF Int’l Film Festival: The Return, about released prisoners, and other social dramas (or comedies)
Joanne Laurier | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service
The increasingly dire conditions of life are inevitably impressing themselves upon filmmakers. However, it remains a difficult task for the artist to discover the essential truths and communicate them. In some cases, there is a lack of intellectual and historical preparedness––the artist is simply over his or her head. In others, complacency and social indifference play a role, allowing the filmmakers to avoid the crisis raging before their eyes.
HISTORY
Iraq, Sykes-Picot and Mr Five Percent
Ibrahim Al-Marashi – Al Jazeera
16 May 2016 – May 16 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Treaty, a secret agreement between Britain and France during World War I to carve up the domains of the Ottoman Empire upon its defeat. Mr Five Percent, the nickname of the oil broker Calouste Gulbenkian, certainly deserves attention a century later. Gulbenkian served as a midwife of sorts to not only Iraq, but also to the birth of the world’s major oil corporations.
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service
May 16–22 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “My brain is only a receiver; in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.” ― Nikola Tesla
SCIENCE / SPIRITUALITY
In Praise of the Tamed Metaphysicist: Einstein on Reality, Rationality, and the Human Passion for Comprehension
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
“Reason is a tool, a machine, which is driven by the spiritual fire,” Dostoyevsky wrote in 1838 as he contemplated how we come to know truth.
BIOGRAPHIES
Malcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
POETRY FORMAT
Just War No More! PEACE to the Fore!
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
To war Humankind seeks a wise global solution
that is well beyond a conceptual evolution
Nonkilling – You Are Philosophic Spirits of Great Humans
Rashida Khanam - TRANSCEND Media Service
Nonkilling You are Philosophic Spirits of Great
Humans
Clean Clothes and Dirty Mind (Haiku)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service
After dizzy hours…
Peace
Jose Maria Lopera – TRANSCEND Media Service
How terrible is the anger of the men that kill,
of the volcano that inside melts down feelings,
’til souls break in a crater of extermination!
What storm, what thunder, what flash of violence
seeks to kill or mutilate those who are innocent!
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Migrazione di Massa, UE, Nazionalismi Europei
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service
Oggi la UE è come una piramide dello sfruttamento: la Germania in cima; 8 Paesi Germanici del Nord; 5 Paesi Latini del Sud con la Francia, e poi l’Irlanda; 12 Paesi dell’Est; la Grecia al fondo. Considerando l’ingiustizia e le quote, nulla di strano che crescano i nazionalismi, disunendo la UE. Rimuovete la cause: Inghilterra-Francia, accettate di ricevere il conto; UE, appiattisci la piramide.
(Português) Os animais não são objetos
José Soeiro - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais
13 de maio de 2016 – A frase que dá título a este artigo parecerá, à maioria das pessoas, uma evidência. Mas a lei portuguesa não tem ainda esse entendimento. O nosso Código Civil continua a definir os animais como “coisas”. Soa estranho, mas é mesmo assim.
(Français) Brésil: le coup d´Etat
Michael Löwy – TRANSCEND Media Service
Michael Löwy é um brasileiro de ascendência austríaco- francesa, sociólogo da religião e analista político. Foi por muitos anos professor na Sorbonne mas nunca deixou dar sua contribuição ao Brasil com frequentes viagens e cursos dados a distintos grupos, inclusive a grupos de base. Da França nos oferece esta pertinente análise do golpe parlamentar sofrido contra a presidenta Dilma. É um olhar de fora cuja distância permite ver melhor o interor deste processo ilegítimo. Lboff
15 mai 2016 – Appellons un chat un chat. Ce qui vient de se passer au Brésil, avec la destitution de la présidente élue, Dilma Roussef, est un coup d’état.
(Français) Amérique Latine: Fin d’un cycle ou épuisement du post-néolibéralisme
Francois Houtart | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service
L’Amérique latine fut l’unique continent où des options néolibérales furent adoptées par plusieurs pays. Après une série de dictatures militaires, appuyées par les États-Unis et porteuses du projet néolibéral, les réactions ne se firent pas attendre. Le sommet fut le rejet en 2005 du Traité de Libre Échange avec les États-Unis et le Canada, fruit d’une action conjointe entre mouvements sociaux, partis politiques de gauche, ONG et Églises chrétiennes.
(Italiano) Memorie di guerra, memorie per la pace
Angela Dogliotti Marasso – Centro Studi Sereno Regis
12 maggio 2016 – Dal 4 all’8 maggio scorso ho partecipato a un viaggio 1sul confine orientale italiano della prima guerra mondiale. La visione dei luoghi che sono stati testimoni del dolore e dell’orrore della guerra, con la visita ai camminamenti e ai resti delle trincee sul Carso, alle gelide gallerie del Monte Grappa, ai dirupi scoscesi dell’altipiano di Asiago, rende concreta l’idea dell’immane carneficina che si è consumata in quei luoghi.
(Português) A Democracia Brasileira Sofrerá um Duro Revés com a Posse de um Inelegível e Corrupto Neoliberal
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept
O sucessor será o Vice-Presidente Michel Temer, do PMDB. Ele está submerso em corrupção: foi acusado por delatores de envolvimento em um esquema ilegal de compra de etanol, acaba de ser considerado culpado, e multado, por irregularidades nos gastos de campanha, e enfrenta a possibilidade de ficar inelegível por 8 anos. Ele é profundamente impopular: apenas 2% dos brasileiros o apoiariam como presidente, e quase 60% querem seu impeachment. Mas ele servirá fielmente aos interesses dos ricos do Brasil.
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Glenn Greenwald on Brazil: Goal of Rousseff Impeachment Is to Boost Neoliberals & Protect Corruption
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service
10 May 2016 – We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who lives in Brazil. “People have started to realize, internationally but also here in Brazil, that although this impeachment process has been sold, has been pitched as a way of punishing corruption, its real goal, beyond empowering neoliberals and Goldman Sachs and foreign hedge funds, the real goal is to protect corruption,” Greenwald says.
Yellow (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Coldplay Official – TRANSCEND Media Service
Video directed by James & Alex; filmed in Dorset, England.
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Dictionary Wisdom
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
Ruth and Golda were walking along Hendon High Street. Ruth says,
“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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