Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Psychiatric Drugs for Kids—A Big Pharma Revenue Stream
Martha Rosenberg | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
Millions of children who were once just considered too active are now diagnosed with ADHD, conduct disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, mixed manias, obsessive-compulsive disorders, pervasive development disorders, irritability, aggression and personality disorders and given drugs. Children who were once considered shy or moody are now diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder, mood disorders, social phobia, anxiety, borderline disorders, assorted “spectrum” disorders and even schizophrenia.
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(Português) Justine Butler: “Por que o leite é uma questão feminista”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
“Ficamos indignadas com histórias de estupro e gravidez forçada, mas essas são práticas comuns na moderna pecuária leiteira”
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
Let me illustrate and explain the nature and extent of this secret war and what we can do about it. .. We can acknowledge the painful truth that we inflict enormous violence on our children (which then manifests in a myriad complex ways) and respond powerfully to that truth. Or we can keep deluding ourselves and continue to observe, powerlessly, as the violence in our world proliferates until human beings are extinct.
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Scapegoating Iran
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
The wars in the Middle East are the worst strategic blunders in American history. But don’t expect U.S. politicians and generals to accept responsibility for the mess when they can blame it on Iran.
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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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Trump Vows to End “Provocative” War Games on Korean Peninsula after Historic Summit with Kim Jong-un
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have wrapped up a historic summit pledging to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, with President Trump announcing the end of U.S.-South Korean war games. The summit marked the first-ever meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader.
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Scoring Goals for Peace
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
On the Occasion of 2018 Football World Cup in Russia
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Morbid Researchers Imagine a ‘Best-Case Scenario’ for Nuclear War, and the Results Are Grim
George Dvorsky | Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
13 Jun 2018 – New research published today in the peer-reviewed journal Safety suggests no nation should possess more than 100 nuclear warheads. This is the maximum number, beyond which the blowback from a nuclear strike will affect the aggressor nation in the form of environmental, socioeconomic, and agricultural devastation, in addition to serious losses of life at home—even in the event the enemy doesn’t retaliate with its own nuclear missile strike.
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The International Community Should Not Stand by as Israel Abuses Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
13 Jun 2018 – What is taking place in Palestine is not a ‘conflict’. We readily utilize the term but, in fact, the word ‘conflict’ is misleading. It equates oppressed Palestinians with Israel, a military power that stands in violation of numerous United Nations Resolutions.
→ read full articleQuotable Quotes about Psychiatric Pseudoscience
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
“While there has been “no shortage of alleged biochemical explanations for psychiatric conditions…not one has been proven. Quite the contrary. In every instance where such an imbalance was thought to have been found, it was later proven false … No claim for a gene for a psychiatric condition has stood the test of time, in spite of popular misinformation.” — Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, US psychiatrist, Harvard University Medical School and author of “Prozac Backlash”
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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.
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A Mile in Their Shoes
Kathy Kelly - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
This past Friday [8 Jun 2018], Hazara girls joined young Pashto boys to sing Afghanistan’s national anthem as a welcome to Pashto men walking 400 miles from Helmand to Kabul calling on warring parties in Afghanistan to end the war. At rest stops, they must tend to their torn and blistered feet.
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Johan Galtung: The American Empire Will Fall in 2020
BGS IBMOR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
Famous prognosticator John Galtung explains his prediction of the fall of the American Empire. Podcast from Jan 2017
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William James on Consciousness and the Four Features of Transcendent Experiences
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
“Our normal waking consciousness… is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different… No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.”
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Butchery of the Planet
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
Defending the living world and its people requires a shift from meat to a plant-based diet.
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I Come From There
Mahmoud Darwish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
I come from there and I have memories
Born as mortals are, I have a mother
And a house with many windows,
I have brothers, friends,
The Urgency of Bringing Julian Assange Home
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
18 Jun 2018 – This is an abridged version of an address by John Pilger to a rally in Sydney, Australia, to mark Julian Assange’s six years’ confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
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Jean-Paul Sartre (21 Jun 1905 – 15 Apr 1980)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
Sartre was offered the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 for his autobiography, Words, though he subsequently rejected the award based on his own notions of his integrity as a writer.
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Hezbollah Claims a 20-Seat Parliamentary Majority – Now Will It Grant Palestinians the Right to Work?
Franklin Lamb – Transcend Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
15 Jun 2018 – On June 11, 2018, Gen. Qassem Solemani, Director of Iran’s Islamic Al Quds Force claimed that “Hezbollah now controls 74 out of parliament’s 128 seats and Hezbollah (Iran) now controls Lebanon’s Parliament. His boasts are accurate.
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Factsheet on the Rohingya
Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
Group Identity, Citizenship, and Persecution – Rohingyas are a native, pre-colonial ethnic minority group of Rakhine State of Western Myanmar (formerly Burma), which shares 170-miles long modern-day borders with Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan).
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Hawai’i Aloha (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
Recorded live across 27 locations, this is Hawai’i’s 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). “Hawai’i Aloha” features dozens of Hawai‘i’s top artists across many genres and over 1,000 youths from 10 Hawai’ian charter schools.
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Full Text of Trump-Kim Joint Statement at Historic Summit in Singapore
The White House – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
Joint Statement of President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at the Singapore Summit
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Korea: A Significant Summit but There Are Still Many Valleys to Cross
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
Such a Peace Treaty Conference should not be limited to government representatives. A Korean peace conference is one in which the voices of civil society are legitimate and should be heard.
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Are YOU Brainwashed?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
9 Jun 2018 – It’s frightening. Unprincipled psychologists, in the service of a malignant regime, use sophisticated techniques in order to control the mind of a person from afar. During the last few weeks we have been seeing a perfect example of this mechanism. The events on the Gaza Strip border have activated a mechanism of brainwashing that dictatorial regimes in the world can only envy.
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How to Steal a Country?
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
In the case of Zionism, it will start in the Pre-1948 by taking the state land with the British support, and buying some pieces from big owners here and there, up to six percent of the land of Palestine till 1948. The British to help by allowing the Zionist settlements to build their own economy, and their independent security forces. Easy!
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Toward 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.’
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(Castellano) Mundial 2018 Rusia: De la fiesta del fútbol a la fiesta de la educación para la no violencia y la tolerancia
Dra. Alicia Cabezudo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Tal como sucede en el futbol, los gobiernos deben disponer de un “buen equipo” en el que cada actor político contribuya desde su “posición” a la necesaria y acuciante construcción de un “resultado” armónico, equilibrado y justo para toda la ciudadanía, “jugando limpio, respetando los derechos de todos(as) y construyendo lecciones vitales de no violencia, reconciliación, trabajo y eficacia en el desarrollo del compromiso asumido.” Que así sea en el fútbol y en la vida de los pueblos del mundo entero.
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On the World Football Cup and Education for a Culture of Peace
Prof. Alicia Cabezudo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Why not transform the World Cup into a democratic education space where football “popular knowledge,” experiences, stories and practices can be approached as relevant teaching resources for a better understanding of the present world? Why not approaching the World Cup as a teaching tool giving us the chance to re-think diversity in our societies – which are usually learnt as a kind of construction over unique cultural, ethnic and geographical roots?
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(Italiano) Uccidere la Biosfera per Accelerare l’Estinzione Umana
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Un lungo articolo di non facile lettura che propone una marea di fonti di approfondimento. L’autore Robert J. Burrowes traccia un quadro complesso di un umanità follemente omicida-suicida. Cercando di individuare le cause suggerisce vie di uscita.
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Evidence of Second Genocidal Campaign in Myanmar
Sky News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
5 Jun 2018 – Active and Unfolding Genocide of Kachin Christians – A Sky News investigation has uncovered evidence that the Burmese military is targeting another ethnic minority in Myanmar.
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(Français) Le courage des Palestiniens finira-t-il par provoquer une intervention internationale ?
Rick Sterling | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Au bout de 70 ans, le conflit israélo-palestinien n’est toujours pas résolu. Les hostilités couvent pendant quelques années, puis éclatent à nouveau en de nouveaux massacres et de nouvelles violences.
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Why There Is So Much Anger
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
7 Jun 2018 – Wherever we turn, people are angry. In France and United States where I live, voters are angry and turn their anger against immigrants and people of color. And they vote for the Front National and for Donald Trump. And the struggle in the US between students protesting school massacres, gun sales and the National Rifle Association is fueled by anger on both sides. We are going through an especially dangerous period of history, and we need to analyze its causes and possible solutions.
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Gadgets and Robotics
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Not talking about its potential, the smart phone or Mobile has become an inseparable part of most of us. Whether used for speaking to one another or sending messages or pictures on WhatsApp or for even seeking Google Guru’s help, the instrument has become unique and indispensable. Is there a flip side to the omnipresence of this gadget?
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South Sudan Suffering on ‘Almost Unimaginable Scale’, Warns UN Relief Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
People are suffering “on an almost unimaginable scale” in South Sudan, the United Nations emergency relief chief said on Monday [4 Jun], adding that he welcomed the announcement by the United States that it is to review the amount of assistance it provides to the war-torn country.
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Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
11 Jun 2018 – It is the view of this observer than the coming weeks will witness substantial developments in Syria, Iran and Lebanon. If the outcomes are positive we may be in the position of crediting Russia’s President Putin.
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Celebrate World Meat Free Week – For a Healthy Planet and a Healthy You!
Dawn Bickett | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
This week [11-17 Jun] is World Meat Free Week!
Eat Less Meat, More Plants, Tell Your Friends
Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Abiding insight into the aim of human existence from the man who revolutionized science and coined the word “philosopher.”
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Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and guerrilla leader in South America, Guevara was a medical doctor specialized in leprosy. Traveling around South America, he observed conditions that spurred his revolt against poverty and capitalist exploitation, adopting Marxist ideology, theory and practices. He is revered by many as a martyred cultural hero, having become an iconic cult figure as a symbol of anti-imperialist struggles everywhere.
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Palestine Is Not Occupied, It Is Colonized
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Israel has already, and repeatedly, violated most conditions of what constitute an ‘Occupation’ from an international law perspective.
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For God’s Sake!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
A wife invited some people to dinner.
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The West Is Turning a Blind Eye to the Gaza Massacre
Jeremy Corbyn | Facebook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
5 Jun 2018 – The UK Government’s decision not to support either a UN Commission of Inquiry into the shocking scale of killings of civilian protesters in Gaza, or the more recent UN resolution condemning indiscriminate Israeli use of force – and calling for the protection of Palestinians – is morally indefensible.
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Cognitive Implication of Globality via Temporal Inversion
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Embodying the Future through Higher Derivatives of Time – Illusory projection along the arrow of time? There is a widespread, if not dominant, strategic concern with the future and its prospects. This naturally takes a variety of forms.
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Seymour Hersh on Spies, State Secrets, and the Stories He Doesn’t Tell
Elon Green | Columbia Journalism Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
4 Jun 2018 – “The CIA Is Filled with Criminals” – When a reporter has covered 50 years of American foreign policy disasters, the last great untold story may be his own.
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Stand by Me (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
This Ben E. King classic features musicians around the world recorded by the Playing For Change team during their travels. This song continues to remind us that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people.
→ read full articleRight-Wing Politics and Climate Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Conflicts and famine are interlinked. The struggle for food produces conflicts; famine is often used as an instrument of war. Food aid, when available, is often deliberately blocked or destroyed by warring factions. While making many parts of the world uninhabitable, long-term climate change will make other regions more suitable for human habitation and agriculture. For example, farming will become more possible in Siberia, Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska and Patagonia. A humane response to the refugee crisis could include the generous opening of these regions to refuges.
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Saving Seeds at Home
Prof. Vandana Shiva | The Growing Club – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Seed saving is one of the important skills that has been lost of the last century, and Dr. Shiva’s work to preserve heirloom seed varieties, encourage organic farming, and create food sovereignty is some of the most important work of our time. We hope you enjoy this video and will start saving seeds at home yourself.
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Rohingya Say Myanmar Targeted the Educated in Genocide
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
5 Jun 2018 — Mohammed Hashim hid in the hills and watched as his brother begged for his life, his arms bound behind his back as soldiers marched the 35-year-old teacher away. It was the last time he saw him alive. Soldiers targeted the educated, Rohingya teachers, elders and religious leaders said, so there would be no community leaders left willing to speak up against the pervasive abuse.
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Statement on UN-Myanmar Deal on Rohingya Return
Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
7 June 2018 – The Free Rohingya Coalition is gravely concerned about the non-inclusive, non-transparent nature of UN agencies signing a repatriation deal with Myanmar.
→ read full articleAbraham, Martin and John
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
… and Bobby and Malcolm and John Lennon and Paul Wellstone and Mohandas and Jesus, and the Multitude of Other Progressive Leaders That Have Been Assassinated over the Decades [by Deep State Conspirators]
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William Butler Yeats (13 Jun 1865 – 28 Jan 1939): The Transition to Aquarius
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, and his close colleague George Russell, who published under the name of AE, are the modern European poets most conscious of the transition within astrological cycles from the Piscean Period to the Age of Aquarius.
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Digging Deeper in Afhanistan
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
5 Jun 2018 – Ongoing battles between militants, government forces, and international allies have destroyed much of Kabul’s water infrastructure, forcing people to drill their own wells. The current population, estimated around 4.5 million, is expected to reach 9 million by 2050. The estimated groundwater potential is enough to supply only 2 million inhabitants with water.
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A Truly Global Partnership – Helping the UN to Do Itself Out of a Job
Natalie Samarasinghe | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
The model proposed brings businesses, NGOs and young people into UN governance structures. Concurrently, the UN would transfer its development-related tasks to these stakeholders, who would bid competitively for contracts. As a result, the UN could redirect its limited resources to crucial tasks such as conflict resolution, which cannot be easily performed by others.
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What Ramadan Teaches Me Every Year!
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Religious fasting traditions- from Ramadan to Ekadasi to Yom Kippur and Lent -are meant to relieve believers from many avoidable mundane compulsions, helping them replenish their spirituality, remember the poor, give up bad habits, make amends for moral deficiencies and get closer to their faith. The most prominent among these spiritual fasting customs is Ramadan.
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UN Agencies Express Outrage over Killing of Palestinian Volunteer Medic in Gaza
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
United Nations officials have expressed their outrage over Friday’s [1 Jun] killing by Israeli security forces of 21-year-old Razan al-Najjar, a Palestinian volunteer medic who was helping the injured along the Gaza border.
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Stopping Terrorism!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
One year’s U.S. military budget of 330 billion dollars (now 686 billion dollars) is equal to more than $18,000 an hour (now $36,000 an hour) for every hour since Jesus Christ was born.
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The Blatant Conspiracy behind Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s Assassination
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
June 5 is the 50th anniversary of RFK’s assassination. To honor such a man requires that we discover and speak the truth about those who killed him. The propaganda that he was killed by a crazed young Arab needs exposure. Robert Kennedy, like his brother John, was a great danger to those virulent forces of war and oppression within his own government, and he died opposing them as a true patriot.
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Divide and Rule: Balkanizing the Democratic Republic of Congo
Ann Garrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
30 May 2018 – The Democratic Republic of Congo is rarely if ever at the top of the Western headlines, but heads of state and so-called experts have long made proposals to carve out new, smaller, more homogeneous nations in Congo’s resource-rich eastern provinces. I spoke with Congolese scholar and activist Boniface Musavuli about the plans.
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“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.
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Canadian Doctor: Israeli Soldiers Shot Me in Both Legs as I Was Treating Injured Protesters in Gaza
Tarek Loubani | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
On Monday May 14, while treating patients with gunshot wounds in Gaza during the Great March of Return, Canadian physician Tarek Loubani was shot in both legs by Israeli forces. One medic on his team, Musa Abuhassanin, was killed while attempting to providing care Palestinian protesters.
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(Castellano) Teoría del conflicto y aniquilación de la biosfera
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza Int’l Press Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Me gustaría explicar el origen psicológico de este conflicto aniquilador de la biosfera y cómo este origen ha nutrido los aspectos increíblemente destructivos del capitalismo (y del socialismo, para el caso) desde el principio. También me gustaría explicar qué podemos hacer al respecto.
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Syrian Students: We Pray the “Mother” of Our Revolution Is Scylla (Part 2)
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
1 Jun 2018 – Were one to credit the notion that Bashar Assad, Ali Khamenei, Hassan Nasrallah, some Gulf countries, Israel, the USA and several countries in the West, among others, are Stepmothers of ISIS and coddled them to varying degrees since the March 2011 Syrian Revolution—Well, who’s the Mother?
→ read full articleAluminium— the Villain of Environmental Degradation
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Aluminum is causing not only environmental degradation but also leading to unspeakable misery among the indigenous peoples of India and of other countries. How is this so? Bauxite mining for the extraction of Aluminium metal has one of the most serious impacts both for the people it displaces and the degradation of the soil.
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Authoritarians, Plutocrats and the Fight for Racial Justice
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Trump’s belligerent stance toward dissent provides context for the National Football League’s decision last week: players on the field will now be required to stand during the national anthem. Trump was quick to publicly endorse the change: “You have to stand proudly for the national anthem or you shouldn’t be playing, you shouldn’t be there, maybe you shouldn’t be in the country.”
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Burmese Human Rights Activist Maung Zarni: ‘Amnesty International Has Blood on Its Hands’
France 24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
31 May 2018 – We speak to Maung Zarni, a human rights campaigner and academic, one week after Amnesty International published a report detailing a massacre carried out by Rohingya militants where nearly 100 Hindus were killed. Zarni vocally criticizes Amnesty, saying the report whips up anti-Rohingya sentiment, not just in Myanmar but across Southeast Asia.
→ read full articleStrong as Death
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
2 Jun 2018 – Oh, Gaza. Strong as death is love. Truth is that the Israeli army has no answer to non-violent resistance. In such a campaign, all the cards are in the hands of the Palestinians. World public opinion condemns Israel and praises the Palestinians. Therefore, the army’s reaction is to open fire, in order to induce the Palestinians to start violent actions. With these the army knows how to deal. Non-violent resistance is a very difficult method. It demands enormous willpower, strict self-control and moral superiority.
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(Português) A Arte da Guerra: «Soberania» de Bruxelas, não de Washington?
Manlio Dinucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
4 junho 2018 – Na semana em que a Europa se debatia arduamente sobre a “questão italiana”, desembarcava em Antuérpia (Bélgica), a 1ª Brigada Blindada da 1ª Divisão de Cavalaria dos EUA, ao mesmo tempo em que Steve Bannon incitava os italianos e os europeus a “reconquistar a sua soberania” que se encontra na posse de Bruxelas. E sobre um «basta de ordens que chegam de Washington»?
→ read full articleConsequences of the Crash of the American Empire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
1 Jun 2018 – In last month’s article, I mentioned the prediction of Johan Galtung that the American empire cannot last more than another two years. Is that likely, and if so, what will be the consequences? Having witnessed the crash of a previous empire, I think is likely.
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Growing into Silence
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Perhaps the walks I stole,
Ever slower, perhaps
The far fold where there is
Neither sea nor sky,
The Theft of Palestine in Action
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
28 May 2018 – The last two weeks’ developments in and for/against Palestine, were intensive in a way that included all the components of what was going on since the second half of the nineteenth century: the process of the displacement of the Palestinians and their replacement by colonial settlers.
→ read full articleVisualization Technology Enabling Integrative Conference Comprehension
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
1 Jun 2018 – Global Articulation of Future-Oriented Technology Analysis – Much is made of the future role of technology and artificial intelligence, especially in their relation to the evolution of the internet. Far less is made of their role in the organization of knowledge and, more particularly, in enabling higher degrees of comprehension.
→ read full articleShangri-La: Strategic Concerns Never Grow Old
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
In 1933 James Hilton, a British novelist published Lost Horizons. In the novel, he set the scene in a lost valley on the frontier of Tibet, hidden away from the world where everyone was happy and never grew old. He gave the name Shangri-La to this valley. Shangri-La was a slight transformation of the more often-used name Shambhala of the Tibetan Buddhists and those in India and China who are in contact with Tibetan traditions.
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Need More Proof of Genocide in Myanmar? It’s Being Born Right Now
Jack Packer | National Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
29 May 2018 – Nine months since the violent attacks of Aug. 25, 2017, and thereafter forced 700,000 Rohingya to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, the first of thousands of pregnancies as a result of rape are coming to term.
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Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
4 Jun 2018 – The idea that helping others is part of a meaningful life has been around for thousands of years. For Muslims, charity is a central aspect of their faith and practice. In Islam, a culture of giving is interwoven into the fabric of its forms of worship. Helping the poor is a religious mandate.
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Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Urges Trial of Myanmar Leader, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi
Sena Guler | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
31 May 2018 – Shirin Ebadi reminds de facto leader of Myanmar the moral and legal responsibility of Rohingya genocide. “I wish that Aung San Suu Kyi, as the leader of the party in power, and the Myanmar generals are tried in an international and impartial court for the accusations of committing genocide in Myanmar.”
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How and Why the US Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
3 Jun 2018 – This will document that the ‘new Cold War’ between the US and Russia did not start, as the Western myth has it, with Russia’s involvement in the breakaway of Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine, after Ukraine — next door to Russia — had suddenly turned rabidly hostile toward Russia in February 2014.
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By the Art of the Brush
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Directive senselessness, determined inattentive faces
Look! Closely!
And beyond
Specially Organised Retreat for TRANSCEND and Galtung-Institut Members in Nilgiris Hills, South India
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Vithal Rajan, a TRANSCEND and Galtung-Institut member and an old friend of Johan Galtung, will help organise your stay on concessional terms, and guide your visits to nearby historic and cultural places, and wildlife reserves in Tamilnadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and Karnataka states of India.
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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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8 Things I Learned about Palestine while Touring 8 Western Nations
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
30 May 2018 – Interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world and gained a good perspective on the ideas, perceptions, and attitudes of people in government, media, academia and civil society.
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The Art of War: Italian ‘Sovereignty’ from Brussels, but not from Washington
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
29 May 2018 – In the week in which Europe was debating the “Italian question” bitterly, the 1st Armoured Brigade of the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division landed in Antwerp (Belgium) to be deployed at five NATO bases in Poland close to Russian territory. As Steve Bannon encouraged Italians and Europeans to “recover their sovereignty” from Brussels, what about “putting an end to the rules coming from Washington?”
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From the History of Physics to the Discovery of the Foundations of Science
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
By considering these two dichotomies as the foundations of the physical theories, the choices upon them fashion four models of scientific theory, called through their most representative theories: Newtonian, Carnotian, Lagrangian, Descartesian.
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Prof. Johan Galtung: Why Humankind Will Not Relinquish Nuclear Weapons
TALKWORKS Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Talking about Nuclear [Dis]Armament
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Cry Me a River – V for Vendetta (Music Video of the Week)
Julie London – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Song immortalized by the landmark movie, V for Vendetta. A classic!
“A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.” – V.
Kiev Murder Stunt Was Absurd, but Even More So Was Western Media’s Reaction to It
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
1 Jun 2018 – The credibility of the Kiev regime imploded emphatically this week; but so too of Western governments and news media. Western propaganda as peddled by governments, their secret services and dutiful corporate media should be in the spotlight of world scrutiny. Not further perverse allegations against Russia.
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Red Red Carpet
Chappatte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Zionist Royalty
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World Affairs and Insanity as Entertainment: Are We at the End of Human Morality?
Mahboob A Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
To enhance global peace and to undo the continuing bogus war on terrorism, there is an urgent need for teamwork by all concerned across the globe. The teamwork if undertaken with unbiased mind and without pre-conceived notions could usher sustainable change and a new beginning between those who claim to be at peace and somewhat superior than the ordinary folks and those who are fighting reactionary wars of freedom against insanity and catastrophic devastation of the human habitats.
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The Best Kept Secret on Saving the World
Bob Hanson | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
I’m betting you have never heard of the World Constitution and Parliament Association, which has been working since 1958 to come up with a better way to run the world… The U.N. has probably prevented many international conflicts and has done yeoman duty in terms of refugees and humanitarian relief. However, it has failed in the task it was created for in 1945….ending war.
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Israel Approves More Than 2,000 Settlement Units in West Bank
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
31 May 2018 – The Israeli government has approved the construction of 2,070 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, local media reported. Since US President Donald Trump came to office, Israel has approved construction of more than 14,000 settlement units.
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India Rejects US Sanctions, Continues Venezuela, Iran Trade
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
India will continue to trade with Venezuela and Iran despite U.S. sanctions, according to an announcement by Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, on Monday [28 May]. “We don’t make our foreign policy under pressure from other countries.”
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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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(Português) Dia Nacional dos Direitos Animais homenageia os 100 bilhões de animais mortos nos matadouros anualmente
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
No domingo, 3 junho 2018, 32 grandes cidades, incluindo Nova York, Paris, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Saigon, Manila, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Perth e Montreal, celebram o Dia Nacional dos Direitos Animais.
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37 Million Bees Found Dead after Planting Large GMO Corn Field
Daily Native News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
11 Mar 2018 – Millions of bees dropped dead after GMO corn was planted few weeks ago in Ontario, Canada. The local bee keeper, Dave Schuit who produces honey in Elmwood lost about 37 million bees which are about 600 hives. “Once the corn started to get planted our bees died by the millions,” Schuit said.
→ read full articlePilger: Palestine Is Still the Issue
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Watch the John Pilger Film That Defied a Campaign to Ban It and Told a Timeless Truth
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Israel and Palestine: A Story of Modern Colonialism
Daniel Avelar and Bianca Ferrari | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
The foundations of Israel are rooted in a colonial project that has modernized its face but continues to subject Palestinians to military occupation, land dispossession and unequal rights.
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Children for Peace
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
A Multidimensional View
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
The world may be losing a peace opportunity in the USA-North Korea conflict. With NK nuclear-tipped missiles capable of reaching mainland USA something close to “balance of power” had been obtained, by many seen as the key to peace via “mutual and balanced” disarmament even to “general and complete disarmament”.
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UN Peacekeeping: Are There Other Avenues for Armed Conflict Resolution?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
29 May 2018 is the 70th anniversary of UN peacekeeping. Today, some 100,000 UN peacekeepers are deployed in 14 peacekeeping missions. There are two major issues concerning UN peacekeeping forces.
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Scourging Yemen
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
On March 22, 2018, Amnesty International called for an end to the flow of arms to the Saudi-led coalition attacking Yemen. “There is extensive evidence that irresponsible arms flows to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition have resulted in enormous harm to Yemeni civilians but this has not deterred the USA, the UK and other states, including France, Spain and Italy, from continuing transfers of billions of dollars’ worth of such arms.”
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths.
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Conference on Situation of Rohingyas in Bangladesh & Myanmar (Text in English & Français)
France-Bangladesh Friendship Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
Date and Time: Fri 1 June 2018, 8:30h–19:15h CEST – FREE
Location: Assemblée Nationale 75007 Paris France