Articles by ICH
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Leprosy in Social Body
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Leprosy is primarily a disease of the nervous system, which has the effect that patients no longer feel pain.
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Liberal Internationalism: Peace, War and Democracy
Michael W. Doyle | Nobel Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Peace and democracy are just two sides of the same coin, it has often been said. In a speech before the British parliament in June of 1982, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed that governments founded on a respect for individual liberty exercise “restraint” and “peaceful intentions” in their foreign policy. He then, perhaps unaware of the contrast, announced a “crusade for freedom” and a “campaign for democratic development.”
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(Français) Comprendre les défis économiques du Venezuela
Michel Collon | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
06 Août 2018 – La crise économique que traverse le Venezuela est-elle bien la preuve de la faillite de la révolution bolivarienne? Dans Les 7 péchés d’Hugo Chavez, Michel Collon analysait le défi qui se posait: rééquilibrer une économie basée sur la rente pétrolière et disposant de maigres secteurs agricole et industriel. Contrairement à certaines idées reçues, Chavez ne s’est pas contenté de distribuer l’argent du pétrole aux pauvres à travers des programmes sociaux. L’ancien président avait entrepris de jeter les bases nécessaires au développement d’une véritable économie nationale. Un processus toujours en cours, mais dont le chemin est semé d’embûches.
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Who Is Nikola Tesla?
Nikola Tesla and Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
27 Aug 2018
25 Aug 2018 – Very few people know who Nikola Tesla is. They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with Nikola Tesla, the Serbian scientist and his path breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. Wireless technology was in large part based on Tesla inventions.
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The Downside
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
When God created the various countries, he used some balance; each country got some advantages and some disadvantages.
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A Glass of Milk
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
As a poor student, Howard Kelly supported himself by selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door. It did not always go well.
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Rufus Jones
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Rufus Jones (1863-1948), an American Quaker, who helped found the American Friends Service Committee in 1917, went to England after World War I to try and help with the reconstruction.
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Howard Zinn and Michael Powell,
20 Aug 2018
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
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Jury Finds Monsanto Liable in the First Roundup Cancer Trial – Here’s What Could Happen Next
Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens – The Conversation,
20 Aug 2018
A jury concluded on 10 Aug 2018 that exposure to the herbicide Roundup caused Dewayne Johnson’s cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages. Thousands more claims are pending.
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The Future of NATO: An Interview
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
11 Aug 2018 – An interview with Daniel Falcone on the future of NATO that considers Trump’s brazen challenges and the tepid responses of European political leaders, and what this interplay signifies for the future of world order… Alarm bells should be ringing through the night at maximum volume, but so far the silences outweigh the noise as the world slouches toward catastrophe, chaos, and cruelty.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
An English teacher wrote the words, “a woman without her man is nothing” on the blackboard and told the students to punctuate it correctly.
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‘The Arab International Forum for Justice for Palestine’ – Beirut 29 Jul 2018
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
1 Aug 2018 – The time is ripe for civil society to represent the Palestinian people in their struggle against the Israeli apartheid regime. This struggle is just and the means being pursued are legitimate. Resistance and solidarity are the vital instruments by which to challenge apartheid, and its geopolitical support structure. This was the path that led to the collapse of South African apartheid, and a similar path is now available for the Palestinian struggle.
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Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
Nathaniel Rich – The New York Times,
6 Aug 2018
1 Aug 2018 – This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history, addressing the period from 1979 to 1989: the decisive decade when humankind first came to a broad understanding of the causes and dangers of climate change. Complementing the text is a series of aerial photographs and videos, all shot over the past year; with support from the Pulitzer Center.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
A biology teacher wanted to warn his students about the harmful effects of alcohol.
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Palestine, Israel, and the UN: A PassBlue Interview
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
4 Aug 2018 – The interview was initially published on July 17, 2018, and Dulcie managed to get me to talk more about my personal background than I intended, although most of the private disclosures were not in the published text. Part of the motivation for the interview stems, I suppose, from the bewilderment of how a Jewish boy from Manhattan’s West Side should become so committed to the Palestinian national struggle.
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A Butcher Knife
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
In modern warfare, those who issue orders to kill seldom see their victims face to face.
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BRICS and the Fiction of “De-Dollarization”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
30 Jul 2018
24 Jul 2018 – This week, leaders of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) will be meeting in Johannesburg amidst an evolving trade war sponsored by the Trump administration. To what extent will the BRICS countries respond to the wave of economic sanctions and trade measures? China has intimated its resolve to implement bilateral trade deals which bypass the dollar.
→ read full articleCorrection
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
General Smith died and the local newspaper printed a eulogy.
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Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
If a frog is put into hot water, it jumps out. If it is put into tepid water, and the water is gradually heated, he remains in the water until he is boiled.
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Russia and the U.S. Are Not Condemned to Confrontation
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | Gorbachev Foundation – The Transnational,
30 Jul 2018
4 Jun 2018 – Mikhail Gorbachev’s Address to Participants in the Conference Marking the 30th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s Visit and the Moscow Summit – “Russia and the United States are not condemned to confrontation. We must now make up for lost time!”
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Support Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Swee Ang and Mazin Qumsiyeh
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 – The two statements below about the al-Awda Freedom Flotilla en route to Gaza are contributions from two heroic figures in the long Palestinian struggle, hopefully known to many TMS readers. This flotilla is on a humanitarian mission, carrying much needed medical supplies and is again dramatizing the plight of the population of Gaza, unendurable victim of vindictive Israeli measures
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A Reflection on the June 24th Turkish Elections (modified and corrected)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
18 Jul 2018 – This is slightly modified text of an earlier post that seeks to take account of responses from friends, and gave me the opportunity to express these somewhat contrarian views in a clearer way, as well as correct some mistakes. This version will also be published by Sharq Forum in Turkey.
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(Castellano) Una Lectura Económica de Los Hechos de los Apóstoles: Taller de Relectura de Pablo de Tarso
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Es necesario construir formas de vida muy distintas de la forma actualmente dominante. Entre las estructuras sociales dominantes que hay que desechar está la que subordina los procesos vitales de la vida a la existencia de ingresos, cuyos montos son fijados por un contrato de trabajo. En el plano científico, el equilibrio general, que nunca ha sido pensado como una realidad, tiene que dejar de ser pensado como un ideal en el cual el producto del trabajador corresponde al sueldo fijado en un contrato libremente negociado a la luz de las fuerzas del mercado.
→ read full articleWhat Should We Do Now?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
There is another reason why having to live in one regime of accumulation or another is unsustainable. It is because although the physicists, chemists, and biologists have explained to us very clearly what we must do to save the biosphere, we can’t do it. The causal powers that determine our behaviour are mainly in the social structures. What happens is not what humans want to happen, but what the structures compel. Nobody wants the destruction of the biosphere, but nevertheless we are compelled to destroy the biosphere. It is a systemic imperative to obey the necessity of capital accumulation and to disobey hard science.
→ read full articleReality, Perception, Truth
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
An Amish boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially were intrigued by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and back together again.
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Are the 13 Demands to Qatar a ‘Geopolitical Crime’?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
11 Jul 2018 – Assessing the international relations and international law Gulf Crisis that was initiated by a coalition of four countries, issuing a set of 13 demands directed at the government of Qatar. This essay evaluates whether the confrontation should be treated as a ‘Geopolitical Crime,” itself an innovative and controversial idea that I developed in a lecture at Queen Mary’s University in London at the end of March, 2018.
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I Was Robert Mueller’s Undergraduate Thesis Adviser—and What He Wrote Gives Some Hints about What He’ll Do as Special Counsel
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 – Rereading Robert Mueller’s Princeton thesis 52 years later with an eye as to how he will perform as Trump’s inquisitor. What makes Mueller’s thesis relevant for today is that the core of his inquiry is how a judge should interpret a legal document.
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Wider Consequences of U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
7 Jul 2018 – I think the superficial response to this latest de-internationalizing move is the tendency of the Trump Administration to align its policies in conformity with Israeli priorities and preferences, which have long focused on the Human Rights Council as a venue hostile to their policies and practices.
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Great March of Return and the Unspeakable
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
This wordless borderland
Where love and atrocity meet
The U.S. Withdraws (Again) from the UN Human Rights Council
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
24 Jun 2018 – This is a slightly edited and corrected version of what was published on TMS last week. I owe particular thanks to my distinguished collaborator, Virginia Tilley, for pointing out several shortcomings and misleading formulations in the earlier version. Of course, the essence of the indictment of the U.S. rationale for withdrawal stands as before.
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Trump, the (Shakespearean) Fool: A New Look at the Dynamics of Trumpism
Rich Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
He is not stupid, diabolical, or mentally out of control. He is not Vladimir Putin’s bitch. He is a foolish man who tends to act without calculating the consequences of his actions; a hothead who disdains polite discourse and loves to violate taboos; an actor who plays a boastful, threatening, oversexed, occasionally (but rarely) warmhearted character called Donald J. Trump in an ongoing reality drama that he seems to identify with reality itself.
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US-NATO Led Wars Have Created a Global Migrant Crisis. Solutions?
J. Michael Springmann – Global Research,
2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – Migrant Bombs Keep Exploding (Because People Can’t See the Forest for the Trees) – Solutions?
1. Stop the wars generating migrants.
2. End the herding from their home countries to the United States, Canada, and Europe.
3. Rebuild their destroyed nations.
4. Help them go home.
Reflections on the June 24th Turkish Elections
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
27 Jun 2018 – I am sensitive to the inappropriate hubris of Americans traveling the world to impart their views on how other societies should be managed and governed. Such postures of criticism and praise is particularly suspect in this time of Trump where a pre-fascist leadership in the United States pursues policies at home and abroad destructive of elemental rights of its citizens and residents as well adopts as an entirely reckless policy agenda that imperils the ethical, ecological, and economic future of not only the country but the world.
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GAZA: Ordeal & Destiny
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
30 Jun 2018 – I post below two items pertaining to Gaza—my short poem, and a collection of responses to the question “What is the Future of Gaza?” by a clever online publication called ‘One Question,’ which true to its name poses a single question to a number of people presumed to have something to say in response.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
An oil well caught fire.
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Why Cuban Doctors in Kenya Don’t Deserve the Treatment They’re Getting
Rich Warner – The Conversation,
2 Jul 2018
27 Jun 2018 – Well over 131,993 Cuban doctors have taken part in international missions in 107 countries. Kenya is the latest. The first 50 specialists arrived in the country recently, with 50 more to follow. All are expected to work in underserved rural areas. But their arrival has been met with a storm of protest. Some Kenyan health professionals have strongly opposed their arrival on the grounds that they’ll be taking away local jobs.
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The U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
22 Jun 2018 – By purporting to punish the Human Rights Council, the Trump presidency, representing the U.S. Government, is much more punishing itself, as well as the peoples of the world. We all benefit from a robust and legitimated institutional framework for the promotion and protection of vital human rights. The claim of an anti-Israeli bias in the HRC, or UN, is bogus, the daily violation of the most basic rights of the Palestinian people is a tragic reality.
→ read full articleRoseanne, Racism, and the Problem of False Dichotomies
Richard Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
It is difficult to talk sensibly and accurately about the role of racism and xenophobia in Trumpland… Rosa Luxemburg was right. A century after her death, the choice that confronts us still is “Socialism or Barbarism.”
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
When relations between the Soviet Union and China soured in the early 1960s, Khrushchev met Chu En Lai and told him,
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Over 10,000 Migrant Children Are Now in US Government Custody at 100 Shelters in 14 States
Michelle Mark – Business Insider,
25 Jun 2018
The policy means that migrant parents who cross the border with their children are forcibly separated while they await criminal prosecution.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
During the German occupation of France, a German soldier entered Picasso’s studio and saw a small reproduction of his painting “Guernica”.
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The Great March of Return: The Gaza Sniper Massacre
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
10 Jun 2018 – The Gaza Sniper Massacre in response to the Great Return March is one more milestone in Palestinian resistance and yet another frightening episode in the Israeli apartheid narrative of cruel and excessive violence, a shameful sequel of crimes for which there exists no adjudicative tribunal available to the victimized party to pursue justice.
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Affirming the Normative Imagination (up to a point!)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
16 Jun 2018 – This little essay is but a sketch drawn to help me address the often questionable enterprise of a memoir, presented as a sort of reflective selfie to invoke an idiom of our age. I would benefit from comments and criticisms, and promise on my part to listen attentively.
→ read full articleToward Benign Global Leadership in a Post-Trumpist World Order
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
7 Jun 2018 -Possible future geopolitical relationships that might provide beneficial global leadership, much needed if current world order challenges are to be met this side of catastrophe… A first step in the right direction is a recognition of the vital role that could be played by greater trust in what might be called ‘the public imagination.’
→ read full articleFor God’s Sake!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
A wife invited some people to dinner.
→ read full article“Sympathy Is Not Enough”
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
1 Jun2018 – Nadia Murad’s words contained a single message: “Sympathy is not enough. Sympathy does not create change. We need action.” Her manner as a speaker was exceptionally calm, her intonation almost without inflection. Her words were enveloped in an aura of resignation and despair, but her talk avoided the shocking details of her experience, the details where horror resides.
→ read full articleLawyers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, an honest lawyer and an old drunk are walking down the street together when they simultaneously spot a hundred dollar bill.
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Costa Rica Prospers without a Military
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
While other Central American countries have long suffered from war and military coups and squandered much of their resources on the military, Costa Rica has enjoyed peace, stable democracy, and comparative prosperity. Its per capita income is double that of its Central American neighbors.
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The Bayer-Monsanto Merger: Empowering a Life-Destroying Cartel
Dr. Vandana Shiva, Ellen Brown, Nick Meyer and Michael Welch– Global Research,
28 May 2018
20 May 2018 – This merger has implications not only for what goes on our dinner plate. There are questions of economic and political control that need to be addressed. Critics argue that the power of these economic giants is such that they have ‘captured’ regulatory agencies. Limitless financial resources permit these and similar companies to buy off academics, media and politicians.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
A tourist’s car broke down in a small village.
→ read full articleLife Management
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
A professor gave a lecture on time management. He filled a mason jar with a dozen fist-sized rocks, until no more would fit. He asked his students, “Is this jar full?”
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
International Law in a Transcivilizational World, by Onuma Yasuaki, Cambridge University Press, 2017 – This text was published in May 2018 in the Yale Journal of International Law.
→ read full articleTransforming World Order?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
20 May 2018 – Review of an important critical study of the deplorable conditions of law and politics in the current global setting. The author grounds his diagnosis and proposals on a philosophical interpretation of this subject-matter, but the radical vision although appealing gives little attention to how such a vision can become a political project, and so this learned text creates an impression of apolitical utopianism.
→ read full articleGAZA: Grief, Horror, Outrage, Remembering
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
15 May 2018 – How can one not feel intense grief for the young Palestinians who out of despair and fury joined the Great March of Return, and so often found death and severe injury awaiting them as they approached the border unarmed!!? The feeble Israeli claims of its right of self-defense or attributing Palestinian martyrdom to Hamas are as shallow and lacking in credibility as to discredit further rather than provide justifications for this exhibition of homicidal violence on a massive scale not as isolated incident but as a series of arrogant reenactments.
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A Grotesque Spectacle in Jerusalem
Michelle Goldberg – The New York Times,
21 May 2018
14 May 2018 – Religions like “Mormonism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism” lead people “to an eternity of separation from God in Hell,” Robert Jeffress, a Dallas megachurch pastor, once said. He was chosen to give the opening prayer at the embassy ceremony. John Hagee, one of America’s most prominent end-times preachers, once said that Hitler was sent by God to drive the Jews to their ancestral homeland. He gave the closing benediction. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner celebrated the relocation of the American Embassy to Jerusalem. The event was grotesque.
→ read full articleOdds
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
A man did not feel well and went to see his doctor.
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A Snowflake
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
Randy Kehler, who later became national coordinator of the Nuclear Freeze movement in the United States, was drafted into the Army in the early 1970s to go fight in Vietnam. Like many others, he refused to serve and was sentenced to prison. But unlike many others, he did more than that.
→ read full articleThe End of Democracy?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
8 May 2018 – Because of globalization in its manifest forms, it is no longer tenable to confine the ambitions of democracy to national spaces. Global democracy has become, is becoming, a matter of ultimate concern. Issues raised concern transparency, accountability, participation, and responsiveness of global policy processes, and of course, how the global is to be linked to the regional and national.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
An Irishman arrived late at night at a bar in Belfast and saw a big fight.
→ read full articleWorld Order after the Cold War
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
The aftermath of the Cold War exhibited several forms of dysfunctionality: failures by the American-led West to recognize and act upon a new global agenda that served the ‘human interest’ rather than continue to pursue ‘geopolitical ambitions’ by relying on coercive diplomacy and militarism. What is politically ‘feasible’ at this point will not do. The peoples of the world deserve and require a politics that recognizes what is ‘necessary’ and aspires to achieve what is ‘desirable.’
→ read full articleA Warm Room
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
As long as peace negotiators focus on the elimination of weapons, anyone with a gun or bomb can sabotage the peace process. Violence relates to an unresolved conflict like smoke to fire. To stop the smoke, it is necessary to quench the fire, not the other way round.
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Transforming Violent Systems: The Key to Social Peace
Dr. Richard Rubenstein | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
12 Apr 2018 – Richard E. Rubenstein is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment and a professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. His recent book, Resolving Structural Conflicts, was published by Routledge in 2017.
→ read full articleA New Friendship
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Al was walking home from school. Suddenly he saw that the boy in front of him had fallen and dropped a large pile of books and other things that he was carrying. Al bent down and helped him pick up the scattered items.
→ read full articleOpportunisms
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.
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“Creating Wealth” through Debt: The West’s Finance-Capitalist Road
Michael Hudson – CounterPunch,
7 May 2018
Speech at Peking University’s School of Marxist Studies, May 5-6, 2018 – Volumes II and III of Marx’s Capital describe how debt grows exponentially, burdening the economy with carrying charges.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
1 May 2018 – It occurs to me that two additional impressions of Indonesia seem relevant enough to be worth a short supplement to my post of a few days ago.
→ read full articleSocial Skill
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
A Swiss farmer’s son was for the first time at a ball.
→ read full articleIndonesian Impressions
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
Impressions from a Third Visit to Indonesia
→ read full articleWords Can Save Lives
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
A group of frogs were walking through a forest. Suddenly, two of them fell into a hole. All the other frogs gathered around the hole and looked down over the edge.
→ read full articleEconomic Theory and Community Development
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
22 Apr 2018 – One of several key theses of this book is the ethical principle: we should share the surplus. It is an ancient principle that in modern times the principal founder of economic theory, Adam Smith, took great pains to deny. It is present in one form or another in most of the cultures homo sapiens has constructed. It survives today in most religions. It is, implicitly at least, a centrepiece of socialism and of responsible capitalism. We do not think of ourselves as proposing a new idea, but as reviving an old one whose time is now returning.
→ read full articleAttacking Syria
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
18 Apr 2018 – These strikes raise questions of international law, domestic constitutional authorization for international uses of force, strategic logic, and moral imperatives and rationalizations. Each of these issues is capable of multiple interpretations raising further concerns about the appropriate location of the authority to decide given the nature of world order in the 21stcentury.
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“War Is Good for Business”: Insider Trading, Secret Information and the US-Led Attack against Syria
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
23 Apr 2018
21 Apr 2018 – Philip May, husband of Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May happens to be a senior executive of Capital Group which is a major holder of both Lockheed Martin and British Aerospace shares. The value of Lockheed and BAE shares soared on the World’s stock markets, on the Monday morning following the Friday April 13 bombing of Syria.
→ read full articleWhatever…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
A father told his young son, “You have gotten a little sister.”
→ read full articleLet the People, Not the Politicians or Generals, Decide
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
The province of Schleswig had changed hands between Denmark and Prussia several times during the 19th century and was under German control before World War I.
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A Socialist Economy for the 21st Century
Richard Rosen | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
Richard A. Rosen explores the changes necessary for a modern definition of “socialism” and describes key concepts and issues that arise when aiming to restructure the American economy to include social and environmental sustainability in the Twenty-First Century.
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North Korea Is Changing
Richard Javad Heydarian – Al Jazeera,
23 Apr 2018
I visited North Korea with an official delegation and here’s what I saw and learned.
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‘Super Gonorrhea’ Raises the Stakes in the War against Superbugs
Mark Blaskovich – The Conversation,
16 Apr 2018
5 Apr 2018 – Superbugs used to pose the greatest risk to people with compromised immune systems and those who had surgery. But their sexual transmission means antibiotic resistance can spread much more widely.
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Department of Homeland Security Compiling Database of Journalists and ‘Media Influencers’
Michelle Fabio – Forbes,
16 Apr 2018
6 Apr 2018 – The details of the Statement of Work outline a plan to gather and monitor the public activities of media professionals and influencers and are enough to cause nightmares of constitutional proportions, particularly as the freedom of the press is under attack worldwide. And “attack” is not hyperbolic.
→ read full articleToward the Creation of a World Parliament: Strongly Recommended Reading
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
13 Apr 2018 – This is a brief promotional comment to call attention to the publication of a truly outstanding contribution to creative and restorative world order thinking. The book is entitled A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21stCentury by Jo Leinen and Andreas Bummel.
→ read full articleNot Crazy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
A mental patient believed he was a mouse.
→ read full articleMiddle East Turmoil: Israeli Massacre, Palestinian Grievances
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
The Middle East Is Heating Up–Again – A Postscript on the Land Day Massacre (‘Great March of Return’)
→ read full articleWill ‘Democracy’ Survive? How? Whether? Hard Questions in Dark Times
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
7 Apr 2018 – Global democracy has become, is becoming, a matter of ultimate concern. Issues raised concern transparency, accountability, participation, and responsiveness of global policy processes, and of course, how the global is to be linked with the regional and national so as to pursue the goal of global humane governance: equitable, stable, sustainable, peaceful, compassionate, and above all, mindfulness.
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Social Activism Funded by Global Capitalism, Serves the Neoliberal World Order. The 2018 World Social Forum in Salvador, Brazil
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
9 Apr 2018
28 Mar 2018 – The WSF movement is largely “funded by neoliberalism”. People who participated in the WSF Venue did not know that “RESIST” GLOBAL CAPITALISM is funded by “GLOBAL CAPITALISM”. They have been misled by the WSF organizers.
→ read full articleMoral Education for Structural Change
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
The experience of the education for social responsibility program at the University of Concepción suggests the viability of large-scale moral education programmes, aimed at forming a functional, realistic, and solidary ethical conscience. Three educational principles supported by scientific findings are proposed to guide moral education: understanding, participation, and empathy. Taking as an example the ‘structural trap’ by which the good intention of complying with social human rights, such as health, ends up discouraging economic investment…
→ read full articleThe Whole Truth
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
“Seek the company of those who are searching for the truth, but avoid those who have found it.” — Vaclav Havel
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A Vedic Alternative to Darwin’s ‘Theory of Evolution’
Michael Cremo [Drutakarma dasa] | New Thinking Allowed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
The nature of a human being, the mind, consciousness, and a Vedic alternative to Darwin’s ‘theory’–not ‘science.’ Very articulate and precise explanations in a way that can be understood by everybody.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
John Kenneth Galbraith called Reaganomics “horse and sparrow economics.”
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
28 Mar 2018 – The Banality of Evil: Language Entrapment or Political Malevolence? It seems a language game is being played. Or is it better understood as a political maneuver suffused with bad intentions?
→ read full articleFollowing Foucault: The Trail of the Fox
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
A Kindle E Book on Amazon – by Howard Richards, with Catherine Odora Hoppers and Evelin Lindner, with a Foreword by Magnus Haavelsrud.‘I found this a truly fascinating work: timely, original, dynamic. There is such a huge secondary literature on Foucault; one is almost sceptical about new additions to the corpus. This, however, is certainly worth the read; partly because of the ways it also counters and contradicts many accepted ways of reading Foucault, especially on power.’
→ read full articleFraming Questions
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
The psychologists Amos and Tversky developed the theory of “framing” by demonstrating that people give different answers depending on how a question is asked. The following are two examples.
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Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Someone asked Albert Einstein at a party: “Oh, you are Albert Einstein, could you please explain me your relativity theory in three or four sentences?”
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The UN: Instrumental or Normative?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Giving the veto power to the five permanent members of the Security Council almost assured that when ideological and geopolitical views clashed, which was virtually all the time, during the first 40 years after 1945, the UN would watch unfolding war-threatening events and violent encounters between ideological adversaries from the sidelines.
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Pentagon Trained Syria’s Al Qaeda “Rebels” [Terrorists] in the Use of Chemical Weapons, Confirmed by CNN
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
26 Mar 2018
On 17 March 2018 Russia’s Ministry of Defense stated the following: “We have reliable information at our disposal that US instructors have trained a number of militant groups in the vicinity of the town of At-Tanf, to stage provocations involving chemical warfare agents in southern Syria. … The provocations will be used as a pretext by the United States and its allies to launch strikes on military and government infrastructure in Syria.’ In a bitter irony, Moscow’s allegations directed against the U.S. are confirmed by CNN.
→ read full articleRenaming the 1948 War: Partition, Dispossession, and Fragmentation–On the Politics of Language
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
24 Mar 2018 – Israel has been brilliant over the years in shaping and misdirecting the public discourse on the future of Palestine. Among its earliest achievement along these lines was the crucial propaganda victory by having the 1948 War known internationally as the ‘War of Independence.’ Such a designation erases the Palestinians from political consciousness, and distorts the deeper human and political consequences of the war. Language matters, especially in vital circumstances where there are winners and losers, a reality that applies above all to a war of displacement.
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Analog/Digital International Relations and Global Politics
Oliver P. Richmond | Global Dynamics, Univ. California Santa Barbara – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
25 Jan 2018 – This essay outlines a new, preliminary perspective of global studies resting on analog and digital processes, and discusses their implications for longstanding key debates in the discipline about war and peace, sovereignty, order, and legitimacy. Digital phenomena were initially thought to be a breakthrough for global civil society and rights. However, a brewing ‘counter-revolution’ of what might be now called the ‘ancien regime’ instead points to digital forms of governmentality closely connected to older, analog hierarchies.
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(Deutsch) Den Kaukasus wach küssen – Friedensbildung in einer eingefrorenen Region
Otto Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Hinter diesem spielpädagogischen Friedensbildungsansatz steht die von Johan Huizinga in seinem 1936 herausgegebenen, hochaktuellen Klassiker „Homo Ludens“ aufgezeigte kulturgeschichtliche Tatsache: durch 6000 Jahre Menschheitsgeschichte war es offenbar das Spiel, das die Transformation, die Übergänge in neue Formen des Zusammenlebens, unter veränderten Rahmenbedingungen, übend und gemeinsam spielend, zumindest erleichtert hat. An diese so starke und unkonventionelle Tradition des Aufbaus von Friedenskapazitäten und Friedensmentalitäten versucht das Projekt: „Peace in Caucasus“ anzuknüpfen.
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The Ocean Currents Brought Us a Lovely Gift Today…
Rich Horner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
British diver Rich Horner posted footage of his swim off Bali’s Manta Point on Sat 3 Mar 2018: “Some plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic cups, plastic sheets, plastic buckets, plastic sachets, plastic straws, plastic baskets, plastic bags, more plastic bags, plastic, plastic, so much plastic!”
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Behind Bars: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty to Aboriginal People with Disabilities—In Their Own Words (Part 2)
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
19 Mar 2018
In Part 2, Michael Brull gives voice to the victims.
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Behind Bars: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty to Aboriginal People with Disabilities–Solitary Confinement (Part 3)
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
19 Mar 2018
Part 3 of this special series looks at the use of solitary confinement against disabled Aboriginal prisoners.
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Behind Bars: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty to Aboriginal People with Disabilities–Overcrowding, No Medical Treatment, No Accessibility (Part 4)
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
19 Mar 2018
Part 4 of this special series looks at the conditions prisoners are forced to live in.
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