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State of Palestine: Drone Footage Captures ‘Great March of Return’ Protests at Israel-Gaza Border
Ruptly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Apr 6, 2018 – Palestinians continued protesting along Gaza’s eastern border near Khan Younis today as part of the ‘Great March of Return’ movement.
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Rethink Weapons Exports
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
2 Apr 2018 – Like every organ in the body, the arms industry is valuable, but when its compulsive mission of self-aggrandizement displaces the body’s mission, deprives other organs of nutrients, and poisons the body, it’s time for surgery and healing.
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(Português) “Sob a Pata do Boi”, novo documentário mostra o impacto da pecuária no desmatamento da Amazônia
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
29 mar 2018 – O filme, que já entrou em festivais na França e na Eslováquia, mostra que a Amazônia tem hoje 85 milhões de cabeças de gado, três para cada humano. Na década de 1970 a floresta estava intacta e o gado equivalia a um décimo do rebanho da atualidade. Hoje há uma área igual à França desmatada, 66% transformada em pasto.
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Luther King: “Beyond Vietnam”
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Stanford King Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech at Riverside Church, New York, Exactly One Year before He Was Killed on 4 Apr 1968
– 4 Apr 1967: I come to this platform tonight to make a passionate plea to my beloved nation. This speech is not addressed to Hanoi, to the National Liberation Front, to China or to Russia. Tonight I wish to speak to my fellow Americans… We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action.
Deadly Oil Spill in Eastern Borneo Spreads to the Open Sea
Basten Gokkon | Mongabay [Indonesia] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
5 Apr 2018 – An oil spill in Borneo that began over the past weekend has now spread across an area greater than the city of Paris and is heading out to the open ocean, the Indonesian government says.
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Going Out
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
4 Apr 2018 – Someday it will come for our pale blue dot. The sun is scheduled to lose its fire in about four or five billion years, our lush green earth—or what’s left of it by that time—will grow cold forever. But now it’s just warming up, perhaps in anticipation of its icy future demise. The ice caps are melting, the seas are boiling, and the human species is proliferating.
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Brazil: World Social Forum Concludes in Salvador, Bahia
Comunicação CUT no Fórum | CPNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
18 Mar 2018 – The thirteenth edition of the World Social Forum came to an end on Sat 17 Mar, attracting more than 60,000 people to the various activities and debates held during the five-day event.
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Leonardo da Vinci (15 Apr 1452 – 2 May 1519)
Leonardo da Vinci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio’s workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities. Other famous painters apprenticed or associated with the workshop include Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Botticelli, and Lorenzo di Credi.
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Hugo Grotius (10 Apr 1583 – 28 Aug 1645): War and Peace
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Hugo Grotius was a jurist born in Delft, the Netherlands who laid the foundations for international law based on natural law. Grotius’ masterpiece, The Law of War and Peace (1625), was an immediate and widespread success. It has gone through at least 75 editions and has been translated 24 times. In this book, he presented his famous doctrine of the just war.
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Death of Marielle Franco Shines Light on the White Collar Criminals Running Brazil
MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Death of the New Republic: White-collar criminals in Brasília are ruling the country. Drug lords, paramilitaries, death squads, military police, and now also the army are terrorizing the population in the slums and the suburbs.
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Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” -– Upton Sinclair, anti-fascist, anti-imperialist American author. His axiom applies to every employee, investor, CEO or board of directors of every polluting, for-profit industry as well as for most of us physicians, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, drug sales reps, journalists, banker-lenders and the employees and CEOs of every company that makes or markets toxic substances, drugs and vaccines.
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The 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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New Zealand Passes Law to Clear Historical Gay Sex Convictions
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
The law will allow hundreds of men to have convictions for homosexual offences erased from their criminal records. Family members can also apply on behalf of a deceased relative to clear their criminal record.
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“The Lady of the Roses”
Andrew Quilliam Brewer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
What can be said about her?
She rose when sorrow fell.
YouTube Censors Empire Files’ Abby Martin with Max Blumenthal on Israeli Militarism
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
6 Apr 2018 – teleSUR presenter Abby Martin’s episode with Max Blumenthal highlighting Israeli military violence against Palestinians has been blocked by YouTube in 28 countries for supposedly violating “local laws,” the presenter has announced. YouTube sent the program a notice saying “We have received a legal complaint regarding your video.”
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Johan Galtung: Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict
University of California Television – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
A noted pioneer in the field of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung makes the case for incorporating human rights as key to successful peace building around the world.
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Towards a Global Movement against All Violence
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
1 Apr 2018 – The growing mobilizations by teenagers in the US and Palestine remind me of the mobilizations by youth against the War in Vietnam in the 1960’s and by youth against Apartheid in the 1970’s. The time is short. Johan Galtung has repeated his prediction, first made in 2004, that the American Empire cannot be sustained beyond the year 2020.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
While conflict theories and resolution processes advanced dramatically during the second half of the 20th century, particularly thanks to the important work of several key scholars such as Professor Johan Galtung, significant gaps remain in the conflict literature on how to deal with particular conflict configurations. Notably, these include the following four.
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Top 10 Most Popular Languages
Matt Rosenberg | ThoughtCo. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
24 Mar 2018 – There are 6,909 languages actively being spoken in the world today, although only about six percent of them have more than a million speakers each. As globalization becomes more common so does the learning of languages.
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G.W. Russell (10 Apr 1867 – 17 Jun 1935): “The Highest Minds Building One upon Another”
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
George Warren Russell was an Irish poet, painter, mystic, and reformer of agriculture. He wrote under the initials A.E. and was a close friend and co-worker with William Butler Yeats. “Such was the play of Helen which made men realise that beauty was a divinity. Such was the play of Radha and Krishna which taught lovers how to evoke god and goddess in each other.” –A.E.
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My Sweet Lord (Music Video of the Week)
George Harrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
George Harrison’s worldwide hit single from his brilliant All Things Must Pass album
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Rohingya People Need Protected Homeland in Myanmar’s Northern Arakan
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
3 Apr 2018 – By all means maintain the current talks of economic sanctions, as well as international justice and accountability regarding Myanmar perpetrators including Suu Kyi and her military partners in power. But what Rohingyas need and want more than anything is a homeland where they can live in peace and rebuild their scorch-earthed communities under international protection. The solution to Myanmar genocide will not come from the perpetrators.
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Greece, Austria, Portugal among Countries Not to Expel Russian Diplomats
Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
More than 20 countries have aligned with the UK, expelling more than 100 diplomats. It is said to be the largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers in history. However, some countries refuse to join this remarkable show of solidarity.
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PEACE Everywhere: Let’s Show We Dare. How? A Checklist
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
An important check list to help make us believe that peace is possible and a human right for all people.
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Signals, by Sumeet Grover
Balwant Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
In this eclectic collection of poems about silence, Sumeet Grover echoes thoughts of nothingness, sublime, and disquiet. Personal and social concerns are expressed that range from moments of intimacy to alienation; his poems project empathy, sensuality, wrath and personal closeness.
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US Nuclear Posturing Has Adversaries Gearing Up, Not Standing Down
David Krieger | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
3 Mar 2018 – The biggest problem with a nuclear deterrent force arises in attempts to determine its effectiveness. How can possessors of nuclear weapons assure that their nuclear weapons are effective in being a deterrent? The answer is that they cannot do so in any physical sense. The nuclear deterrent force relies instead on creating psychological barriers. Since it operates at the psychological level, one can never be sure it is effective. Or, it may only appear to be effective until it fails, and failure could be catastrophic.
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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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(Italiano) Russia, Russia, Russia: il teatro dell’assurdo USA
Gary Corseri | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
25 marzo 2018 – Il recente articolo di Matt Taibbi di Rolling Stone – v. link in calce – scorre un bel po’ di roba; con completezza, arguzia e chiarezza di pensiero. Per lo più, Taibbi puntualizza quanti guai e quanta confusione siamo riusciti a creare a noi stessi e al nostro mondo dal fatidico 11 settembre.
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A Song Is Born
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Ahed, the girl covered with blond hair, her blue eyes shining like a lighthouse. Ahed the saint. Ahed the savior. The Palestinian Jeanne d’Arc, the national symbol. The story of Ahed al-Tamimi happened in the West Bank. But it resounded in the Gaza Strip, too. For most Israelis, the Gaza Strip is something else. It is not occupied territory. It does not concern us. But the situation of the Gaza Strip is even worse than straight occupation. The strip is completely surrounded. North and east is Israel, west is the sea, where the Israeli navy shoots at everything except for fishing boats close to the shore. The south belongs to Egypt, which behaves even worse than the Israelis and in close cooperation with them.
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Statement on Gun Violence in the USA
Submitted by Prof. George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
4 Apr 2018 – The faculty of the Department of Transformative Social Change at Saybrook University believes that it is our role as scholar-activists to share with the Saybrook community, and beyond, our views on the context of contemporary events.
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Grand Design for Universal Peace Education for Global Good Governance through the New UN
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Even if all nation-states adopt democracy, and promise for better governance to the people in their respective nations, they cannot do so individually. Because no nation can develop alone economically, scientifically, educationally even socially and culturally without the mutual help of each other, and for this, global governance is a must. We find three models for global governance, viz. Cross-national Organization, Supra-national Organization and Trans-national Organization.
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By the Way…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
John Kenneth Galbraith called Reaganomics “horse and sparrow economics.”
→ read full articleNonviolence or Nonexistence? The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
2 Apr 2018 – Fifty years ago, on 4 April 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The night before he died, King gave another of his many evocative speeches; this one at the packed Mason Temple in Memphis. The speech included these words: ‘Men for years now have been talking about war and peace. Now no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and non-violence in this world, it is non-violence or non-existence. That is where we are today.’
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Syria Solidarity Movement’s Statement on the Liberation of Eastern Ghouta
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
28 Mar 2018 – The complete liberation of Eastern Ghouta is imminent. The Syrian government provided thousands of tons of humanitarian aid to the terrorist-held enclave, from which western-backed militias shelled the city of Damascus for a period of five years, killing over 10,000 civilians, including 1,500 children, and injuring over 30,000 others. During the liberation of Eastern Ghouta, the Russian air force and Syrian Arab Army declared several ceasefires during which tens of thousands of civilians were able to escape their terrorist captors and flee along humanitarian corridors created by the SAA on the ground.
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A Note on Mathematics and Curricula
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
A study is going on comparing mathematics curricula in various countries. Interesting to see ‘what’ they have picked up, and ‘why.’ What follows is some reasoning about the what and the why.
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Growth at Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection in 2016 Memo—And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed
Ryan Mac, Charlie Warzel and Alex Kantrowitz | BuzzFeed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
29 Mar 2018 – Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.
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Oh Rohingya, Who Art Thou? Where Art Thy Homeland?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
30 March 2018 – In deep disgust, I wrote the poetry this afternoon after feeling rather outraged and dismayed at what I have been observing everyday about the “Rohingya crisis” over the last 6 years. Ultimately, it is the crisis of Humanity itself, the crisis that exposes this deeply inhumane and immoral world run by those with neither the intellectual vision nor human compassion.
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Jewish Voice for Peace Horrified by Israeli Response to the #GreatReturnMarch
Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
30 Mar 2018 – Tonight, as Jews across the world gather at the Passover seder to remember our own story as a people questing for a homeland, the Israeli military has yet again unleashed disproportionate violence against demonstrating Palestinians–in the Great March of Return–the latest in a long series of deadly responses to popular protests by Palestinians. It was explicitly planned as a peaceful march along the border of Gaza and Israel, where tent cities are erected.
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(Français) La politique cubaine de Donald Trump est vouée à l’échec
Salim Lamrani | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Depuis son arrivée à la Maison-Blanche, les relations entre Cuba et les Etats-Unis n’ont cessé de se détériorer en raison de la décision de Donald Trump d’appliquer de nouveau une politique basée sur l’hostilité.
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Gabor Mate on the Myth of Normal
TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Physician/author Dr. Gabor Mate began his interview by addressing the ‘myth of normal’ that divides us into the normal and the abnormal with pathological traits. Dr. Mate mentions that he doesn’t see a division, but a continuum where mental distress, of some degree, is present in all of us. He explains how mental distress and pathology are largely a result of a materialist culture that “idealizes individualism and ignores our emotional needs”.
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(Italiano) Segni di Guerra
Edward Curtin | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Per Donald Trump stanno finendo i giorni per atteggiarsi ad anfitrione ora passivo ora aggressive di un gioco televisivo di reality. O licenzia tutti gli apprendisti lievemente esitanti a scatenare una guerra mondiale ben più vasta con una gragnuola di bombe, o sarà sostituito da uno che lo farà.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
As usual, many truths emerge, very much worth knowing. A world trying to substitute economic for military power should try to use better cultural power, also as spiritual power: “Pope Francis offers a different model of power”, with very very concrete proposals. May he reach the corridors of power; they are fortunate enough to co-exist in time with this giant.
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An Exodus of Our Time – A Reflection on the Rohingya Crisis for the Passover Table
American Jewish World Services – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
A message of Passover from the American Jewish World Services.
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Reflections on the “March for our Lives” Movement by an Aging Anti-War Activist
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Exactly 15 Years Ago Duluth Had Mass Rallies and Marches against Organized Gun Violence Similar to the One on Sat 24 Mar 2018
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20,000 Scientists Have Now Signed ‘Warning to Humanity’
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
A chilling research paper —”World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice”—was published in Nov 2017 in the journal Bioscience warning about the fate of humanity. It has received 20,000 signatures and endorsements from scientists from 184 countries and quickly became the largest-ever paper supported by scientists.
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Iran’s Gen. Qassim Solemani Pledges to “Weed the Resistance!” Is Nasrallah His Target?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
30 Mar 2018 – Since he became Tehran’s anointed leader of Syria in early 2012 with final say over Syria’s military and security agencies, Al Quds Force leader Qassim Solemani has been “Weeding the Resistance.” Solemani’s “Resistance Weeding” is also designed to help harvest his personal regional political ambitions and neutralize potential post-Assad competitors rumored to include Hassan Nasrallah among others.
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Multilateral Iran Nuclear Accord Needs Strong Active Support
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
2 Apr 2018 – The Multilateral nuclear accord with Iran, the Joint Comprehension Plan of Action, needs strong, active support especially within the US administration. The accord was negotiated among Iran and the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and coordinated by the European Union. The Accord was endorsed by the unanimous vote of the United Nations Security Council and went into force in 2016. Views on the importance of the continuing validity of the Accord should be shared widely among political representatives and foreign policy specialists.
→ read full articlePeace Education, Peace Psychology, and Peace Linguistics: Key Questions for Reflection/Research
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
1. Educationally, what is Peace? What are some of its educational distinctive features?
2. What can Education/Dignity/Human Rights contribute to an understanding of PEACE and vice-versa? How?
Disembodied Americans and the Crucifixion of the World
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Contemplation on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, 30 Mar 2018
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Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based News Agency Safa’s Account Hosting 1.3M Followers
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
26 Mar 2018 – According to a Palestinian activist, this year alone 500 pages of Palestinian journalists, activists and bloggers have been deleted.
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Evidence of Violent Extremism of Little Interest When Killer Is White
FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
29 Mar 2018 – Remember that Muslim mass murderer who belonged to an Islamic home-madrassa called INTIFADA, where knife-wielding Shari’a survivalists studied the Qur’an, guns and dangerous chemicals? And how the liberal media fawningly portrayed him as a misunderstood and under-loved young man otherwise full of promise? You don’t, because that never happened. But have you heard about the Christian Texas child-killer from an all-white sect who slaughtered the president of a homeowners’ association and a 17-year-old aspiring neurosurgeon? Both victims were African-Americans.
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At Security Council, UN Middle East Peace Envoy Reports on Israel’s Troubling Settlement Expansion
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Reporting that over the past three months, Israel has advanced 22 plans for some 1,200 housing units for one area of the West Bank, a United Nations envoy warned Monday [26 Mar] that such ongoing settlement expansion is eroding the prospect of a two-state solution to the long-standing Middle East conflict.
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Shifting Systems with Nonviolent Strategy
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
The old adage, we have more power than we think, is true. Our opportunities for successful and effective struggle are numerous. But to access them, we need to use wise analysis and careful strategic planning. We need to understand what the destructive systems require to operate and then we must deny them those resources until the demand for change is met. Simple. Complex. Effective.
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Peace Train (Music Video of the Week)
Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
One of His Biggest Hits!
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The Banality of Evil: Diverting the Palestinian Struggle
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?
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(Português) Trailer: novo documentário vegano é narrado pelo ator Joaquin Phoenix
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
27 mar 2018 – O ator vegano Joaquin Phoenix, que narrou o documentário Terráqueos – no qual é exposta a forma como os animais são explorados e torturados pelo ser humano para estimação, alimentação, vestuário, diversão e desenvolvimento científico -, é também o narrador do mais novo documentário vegano, denominado “Dominion”.
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(Português) Quando Tom Regan pediu ao Papa Francisco para falar sobre a crueldade contra os animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
27 mar 2018 – Falecido no dia 17 de fevereiro de 2017, Tom Regan, um dos mais proeminentes filósofos na luta pelos direitos animais, publicou uma carta aberta em novembro de 2014 pedindo ao Papa Francisco para falar sobre a crueldade contra os animais: Santo Padre, todos os cristãos imploram a você: fale sobre a crueldade contra as criaturas de Deus, anualmente é negado a bilhões os desígnios de Deus, e eles não são tratados nem com a misericórdia de Cristo nem com a compaixão de Deus.
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Transformative Cities Atlas of Utopia
Transformative Cities Team, via Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
26 Mar 2018 – After months of work we are excited to share with you Transformative Cities Atlas of Utopias, a global gallery that we launch today of inspiring community-led transformation. The atlas features 32 communities from 19 countries who responded to TNI’s Transformative Cities initiative which seeks to learn from cities working on radical solutions to our world’s systemic economic, social and ecological crises.
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Israel Faces the Demographic Bomb
Gilad Atzmon | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
27 Mar 2018 – I learned a decade ago from the Palestinian ambassador to Britain that while Israel has many bombs, the Palestinians have one bomb, namely the demographic one.
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Who Calls Anyone Civilized?
Cathy Breen | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
31 Mar 2018 – I was in Iraq for the month of October last year. One of the hardest things for me on that trip was the feeling I heard expressed that the country has become invisible. A doctor friend in Baghdad, his hurt palpable, told me he felt as though Iraq has been completely forgotten by the global community. War rages on in Iraq. Young boy Naomi Shihab Nye’s words should help bring us back to ourselves, fifteen years after the onset of the 2003 US-led war against Iraq. “Who calls anyone civilized?”
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The Pentagon’s Scary Plan to Militarize Ocean Life
Maia Danks | Earth Island Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
23 Mar 2018 – The U.S. military has plans to create genetically modified marine organisms that can be used as underwater spies for the military. Fantastic as this idea may seem, the Pentagon’s research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has actually launched a new program that aims to tap into the “natural sensing capabilities” of marine organisms, which are highly attuned to their surroundings, to track enemy traffic undersea.
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Infertility as a Metaphor Heralding Global Collapse
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
2 Apr 2018 – Essential Impotence Disguised by Performance and “Being Great Again” – An increasingly prominent feature of national politics and identity is the promise of “being great again”, as variously evident. This is most notable in the nation already esteemed as the most powerful on the planet and has also been taken up in Great Britain, France, and elsewhere.
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A Teachable Moment That Might Go to Waste for Parkland, Florida and the Rest of America
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
The Disastrous Over-Prescription of Psych Drugs at Various Stages of Human Brain Development
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Oxford’s Neo-Orientalism: Burma aka Myanmar
C R Abrar | The Daily Star [Bangladesh] - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
28 Mar 2018 – The People’s Tribunal on State Crimes of Myanmar unequivocally termed the atrocities committed by the Burmese government as “genocide”. The UN special rapporteur on human rights situation of the country has clearly stated that such actions bear the “hallmarks of genocide”. Without mincing his words, the French President Macron has expressed his disgust of Myanmar’s genocide. Even the unpredictable British Foreign Secretary termed it as “industrial scale ethnic cleansing”. The Holocaust Museum acknowledged it as a genocide and expressed solidarity with the victims. Nobel laureates Bishop Tutu and Amartya Sen have labelled it as “slow burning genocide.”
→ read full articlePeace Games
Peter Shutt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
The children in the yard
played war,
they played their war
loud and shrill.
The Reaction against the Reaction: The Voice That Is Raised against the Raised Hand
Juan Eugenio Corradi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
23 Mar 2018 – Yes, they have come back, as if history has not inflicted them a chastisement. They call themselves populists but they are fascists from old and new strains. They are reactionary and popular. Against this movement, as always, what stand up are the voice of reason and the report of the lie that parades in the name of the people. As almost always, the voice of reason is impotent, except as testimony and warning. I want to add my voice to such voice. Against fascism, together with Miguel de Unamuno, we must say: “You will win because you have enough brute force, but you will not convince. To convince you need to persuade and to persuade you need something you lack: reason and right in the fight.”
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The World after Trump, Netanyahu and Rajoy
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Easter 2018 – We may soon be witnessing those powerful politicians fizzling out. Trump is seen as “unleveled”, “incompetent”; Netanyahu is framed as “corrupt”; and Rajoy for pillaging the state to support his party. However, true or not, the real reasons are their failed policies.
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In the Shadows: India’s Mental Health Crisis
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
2 Apr 2018 – India is facing a possible ‘mental health epidemic’. “The number of affected in India is larger than the entire population of Japan. We need to address this gap and ensure that by 2022 at least those who are suffering from severe mental disorders have been diagnosed and have access to treatment facilities.”
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Dealing with Issues of Ageing and Death
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
2 Apr 2018 – If being born is the beginning of life, ageing or becoming old is metaphorically speaking, walking into the sunset of life. This sunset, unlike the phenomenon of the sun setting at dusk is not a beautiful sight but an occasion for anxiety and worry as to what will happen at the time of death.
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Following 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.’
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Meanwhile, in Burma aka Myanmar…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Parading
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“Pour Out Your Wrath”
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
31 Mar 2018 – I am writing this on Friday night, the eve of Passover. At this moment, all over the world, millions of Jews are gathered around the family table, observing the Seder, reading aloud from the same book: the Haggadah, which tells the story of the Exodus from Egypt.
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Deconstructing Power (Part 1)
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
2 Apr 2018 – Regular use of violence – for “external” or “internal” security – has become a salient characteristic of the modern age. The enormous capability of modern technology has been aiding the process, multiplying manifold the potential of suffering which is caused by the use of violence.
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UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
29 Mar 2018 -With relief agencies in Bangladesh struggling to assist more than a million vulnerable Rohingya refugees crowded into makeshift camps, the World Health Organization today appealed for international support to help the cash strapped health sector.
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Meet the Teenage Feminist Who Has Just Published Her First Book
Naledi Shange | Sowetan Live - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
20 Mar 2018 – Tired of reading about damsels in distress who are saved by knights in shining armour‚ Ripfumelo Nkomo says she started writing her own books shortly after learning to write. The titles of some of her manuscripts are proof of her independent thinking: ‘Queens who Don’t Need Kings‚’ ‘Single Mothers who are Supermoms’ and ‘Everyone is Crazy.’
→ read full articleProf. Johan Galtung: Peace Studies, Abolition of War, Building Peace
Andy Russell / Different Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Keynote address at Oxford University’s OxPeace, May 2010
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Framing 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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Walmart Files Patent for Robot Bees
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
16 Mar 2018 – With the mass die-off of bees spelling trouble for agriculture, the world’s largest retailer has filed patents for the use of “unmanned vehicles,” or drones, to aid with pollination and crop production.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
The UDHR is a milestone document. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the UNGA in Paris on 10 Dec 1948 as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.
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Losing More People in Gaza
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
31 Mar 2018 – I am optimistic even though sad. I am sad that the Israeli regime massacred 17 and injured nearly 1500 unarmed Palestinian civilians yesterday instead of letting them go to their homes and lands to honor Land Day.
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Political Mind Games: How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What’s Happening, What’s Right, and What’s Possible
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
20 Mar 2018 – In my new book I explain the psychology behind the success of today’s plutocrats in marketing their false claims—and what we can do to counter them. Offering a research-based framework, I show how the 1% exploit five fundamental concerns that govern our daily lives. Political Mind Games was written with a clear purpose: to help inoculate the public against the 1%’s self-serving appeals.
→ read full articleExplaining to a Blind Person [Jokes to Be Taken Seriously]
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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John Pilger: ‘Skripal Case Is a Carefully Constructed Drama’
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
18 Mar 2018 – Award-winning journalist John Pilger comments on the British government’s accusations against Russia over the poisoning of the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury.
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TRANSCEND Media Service Celebrates 10 Years as a Site of Reference in Peace Journalism
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
520 Weeks, 25 thousand Posts, 6 thousand Comments. We are proud of our record: never missed a single week! Prof. Johan Galtung’s first Editorial was on 3 Mar 2008. We are ready to carry on for the next 10—and beyond—in our mission to benefit our beleaguered planet’s humanity, fauna & flora by spreading and disseminating our trade mark: Solutions Oriented PEACE JOURNALISM. Thank you, we are in this together.
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Open Letter to People of Viet Nam
Veterans for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
The letter below has been written by members of Veterans For Peace’s Vietnam: Full Disclosure Committee. It will be delivered to the people of Viet Nam by members of Veterans For Peace. To be read at the closing of the official ceremony on March 16th at My Lai.
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Why the UK, the EU and the US Gang-Up on Russia
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
20 Mar 2018 – For the greater part of a decade the US, the UK and the EU have been carrying out a campaign to undermine and overthrow the Russia government and in particular to oust President Putin. Fundamental issues are at stake including the real possibility of a nuclear war.
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Sing the Song of Life
Christophe Barbey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
We sing the song of life,
With what we are,
Joy, seeds and fruits;
Israel Arrests over 1,300 Palestinians in Just Two Months
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
18 Mar 2018 – Israeli forces have arrested 1,319 Palestinians in the first two months of 2018, including 274 minors, 23 women, and four journalists, making the total number of Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails 6,500, as of Feb. 28, 2018. Of the 6,500 people detained, 63 were women, with 350 being children and 6 being girls.
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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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Vincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. After having been physically and psychologically unstable, he cut off his ear and offered it to a prostitute.
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Krugman: India Has Emerged as a Superpower
Other News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Saturday [17 Mar] said, “What Great Britain achieved in 150 years, India managed in just 30. The progress is extraordinary. This is a very big country, which people at some level have not fully noticed. It has overtaken Japan and is only behind US and China, and is far ahead of any European country. This is a superpower.”
→ read full articleA Plea to TMS Readers
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Dear TMS Readers,
Our dear friend, brother, colleague, and compañero, Antonio C. S. Rosa, has for many years given selflessly and generously of his time–many many hours every single week–to put together this valuable and highly informative collection of articles and commentary that you can’t find elsewhere. His expenses are minimal but they are real. if you value this resource, please take a moment to donate now, whatever you can spare, and the more of you who give a small amount the greater the collective participation in this peace-building enterprise. Now’s the time to show solidarity not only by sharing ideas but also by sharing the modest means required to keep the TMS platform alive!
— Marilyn Langlois, Member and TMS Writer
Psychiatric Drugs Create Violence & Suicide: School Shootings & Other Acts of Senseless Violence in the USA
Submitted by Gary Kohls, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
March 2018 – De-Mystifying the Uniquely American Epidemic of Mass Shootings – This extensive CCHR-Citizens Commission on Human Rights report is the very best I have read concerning psychoactive drugs and drug-induced violence, suicidality and irrational behaviors.
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(Français) Poutine, ce punching-ball bien pratique
Nico Hirtt | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
En rattachant la Crimée à la Russie, même après le référendum écrasant de la population locale, Vladimir Poutine s’est, nous dit-on, rendu coupable d’un acte inadmissible dans les relations entre États civilisés : la modification de frontières d’États reconnues par la communauté internationale. Pourtant, ceux qui lui font ce reproche en Occident sont-ils vraiment de bons donneurs de leçons ?
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Johan Galtung’s Positive Peace Concept
Hanno Heynitz | Galtung Institut Germany – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
“Positive Peace” as defined by Prof. Johan Galtung in over 50 years of uninterrupted research, refers to a very specific ‘fait social’ that requires equally specific political measures. This presentation is an effort to make the concepts and specificities underpinning the notion of Positive Peace more widely understood.
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(Português) Breve reflexão contra a vivissecção (experimentação animal)
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
16 março 2018 – A vivissecção passou a ser considerada “prática comum” no mundo ocidental a partir do século 19. Muito tempo se passou, estamos em 2018 e animais continuam sendo torturados e mortos desnecessariamente em nome da ciência. O que ajuda a postergar o banimento dessa prática já considerada obsoleta é o lobby e a politicagem que caminham lado a lado.
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Myanmar Blocks Returning Rohingya with Barbed Wire Fence, Land Mines, Security Forces
ABC RN (Australia) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
22 Mar 2018 – Myanmar is fortifying its border with Bangladesh, where thousands of Rohingya refugees are sheltering after fleeing persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The military has built a new barbed wire fence, installed land mines and placed hundreds of security forces on the shared border.
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‘The Global Elite Is Insane’ Revisited
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
21 Mar 2018 – In 2014 I wrote an article titled ‘The Global Elite Is Insane’. I want to elaborate what I explained in the earlier article so that people have a clearer sense of what we are up against in our struggle to create a world of peace, justice and ecological sustainability.
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How Low Can the U.S. Go? It’s Not Just Trump!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
21 Mar 2018 – The U.S. now has a lying, racist, warmongering, misogynist, narcissist, megalomaniac, corrupt billionaire businessman, reality TV personality as President. The mask is off. Join hands in solidarity with people in grassroots struggles. Find common ground. And most of all – never give up. No lie can live forever. The arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.
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I and Thou: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Art of Relationship and What Makes Us Real to One Another
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
The primary word I–Thou can be spoken only with the whole being. Concentration and fusion into the whole being can never take place through my agency, nor can it ever take place without me. I become through my relation to the Thou; as I become I, I say Thou. All real living is meeting.
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