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Michelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.

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Resource Sovereignty: Venezuela, Africa, and the Global South
Ann Garrison interviews Maurice Carney | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

“The Congolese people in particular and Africans in general need to learn from their brothers and their sisters in the Global South.”

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A Call for Educational Freedom in America
Submitted by P.K. Willey, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

“It’s about educational freedom! Freedom from Washington mandates. Freedom from centralized control. Freedom from a one-size-fits-all mentality. Freedom from ‘the system.’” –Betsy DeVos

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Book Launch: Revisiting the Vietnam War-The Views and Interpretations of Richard Falk, edited by Stefan Andersson
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

Revisiting the Vietnam War: The Views and Interpretations of Richard Falk, edited by Stefan Andersson, Cambridge University Press, 2017 – Why the Legal and Political Debate on the Vietnam War Still Matters

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Women in Rural India: The Long Road to Power
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

Empowering women is the solution to many problems. Societies that take the effort to empower women show better development indices; are better governed; more stable; and are less prone to violence.

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Genocide: Why We Let It Happen | Full Panel Discussion
Oxford Union – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

Genocide leaves the darkest stain on the conscience of humanity, yet today we are again witnessing international passivity in the face of the genocide in Myanmar. Why have we failed to learn our lesson from these atrocities and why do we allow this stain on our conscience to continue to grow?

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Nobel Women Peace Laureates Call for an End to Rohingya Genocide
Nobel Women’s Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

Dhaka – 28 Feb 2018 – As three Nobel peace laureates—Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, Shirin Ebadi of Iran, and Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland – conclude their visit to Bangladesh on the six-month anniversary of the current Rohingya crisis, the three women are calling for an immediate end to the “genocide” of the Rohingya people.

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Syria: From a Ceasefire to Comprehensive Negotiations?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

Mediation is the action taken by a third party to facilitate two (occasionally more) hostile parties coming together to negotiate. Mediation is not negotiation. Negotiation is the process of bargaining and compromise by which those directly in conflict can reach an agreement. The function of the mediator is to remove the obstacles to negotiation, in part by bringing the conflicting parties together for direct discussions.

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Meanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

The world is getting worse. Violence used to cluster around the global power of USA and the regional power of Israel. Now two more:
“The unstoppable growing power of China.”
“Erdögan’s Neo-Ottomanism at a Dangerous Turning Point.” And “Military buildup on the reefs” in South China Sea.

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Standing with Rohingya: 2 Nobel Peace Laureates Visit No Man’s Land
Nobel Women's Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

28 Feb 2018 – Nobel Women Delegation 2018 visited No Man’s Land between the Bangladesh and Burma border today. Here, Nobel peace laureates, Tawakkol Karman and Mairead Maguire, addressed the 6,500 refugees trapped between the two nations to not lose hope in the quest for justice for the Rohingya people.

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World’s Largest Choir – Ode to Joy (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

The Largest Choir in the world: 1000 Japanese Voices – Completed in 1824, the Symphony No. 9 was the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. It incorporated part of Ode to Joy, a poem by Friedrich Schiller written in 1785. Europe’s National Anthem.

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Wake Up and Stop Rohingya Abuses
The Daily Star, Bangladesh | IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

27 Feb 2018 – No one would realise better than a woman how it feels when a child is snatched away from the arms of a mother and slaughtered, a man is murdered before the eyes of his wife, or a girl is raped. That is what happened to countless Rohingya women back in Rakhine State of Myanmar.

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Because There Is Nothing
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

3 Mar 2018 – The flood of corruption affairs that is now engulfing the Netanyahu family and its assistants and servitors does not seem to diminish his popularity among those who call themselves “the People”. On the contrary, according to the opinion polls, the voters of the other nationalist parties are rushing to the rescue of “Bibi”.

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Terrorism
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

Right!

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(Italiano) Pace e giustizia per il popolo Palestinese: una conversazione
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

La crisi umanitaria a Gaza è entrata nell’11° anno di un assedio crippling di Israele che rende le condizioni di vita dei palestinesi via via più complicate. Il blocco di quella che si definisce popolarmente “la prigione all’aperto più grande al mondo” vuol dire disoccupazione crescente, accesso intermittente ad acqua pura, un’economia sballata e infrastrutture carenti e mancanza di fondi che rendono la popolazione di due milioni vulnerabile alle forti piogge e a fenomeni meteorologici estremi.

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Guns and Liberty
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

Guns do not protect us from tyranny. They are an instrument of tyranny.

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Zadie Smith on Optimism and Despair
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

“Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.”

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End U.S. Addiction to Killing!
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

The U.S. empire has become a culture of mass violence that has been building layer upon layer, from the massacres of Native Americans, the killing of unarmed African Americans, to the millions killed in wars for resources disguised as freedom and democracy. Now the chickens are coming home to roost with the killing of our own children.

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The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
Monthly Review Press – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

Centering his book on the Eastern Seaboard of North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and what is now Great Britain, Horne provides a deeply researched, harrowing account of the apocalyptic loss and misery that likely has no parallel in human history. This is an essential book that will not allow history to be told by the victors.

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(Français) Néolibéralisme(s) : discours, appropriations, adaptations des organisations internationales
Cédric Leterme | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

Ni dogme homogène imposé mondialement par les « élites », ni « fourre-tout » idéologique sans consistance, le néolibéralisme doit plutôt être appréhendé comme un projet de classe mis en œuvre de manière diverse, en fonction de contextes particuliers. Le rôle des organisations internationales rend compte de cette pluralité de néolibéralismes.

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Why the UK Has No Guns
Tobias Stone | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

The UK is far from perfect, and has its own problems with crime. Knife crime and occasional gun crime make the headlines, especially in parts of London. But since banning guns in 1997 it has become incredibly rare to be injured by a firearm, let alone to be killed by one. Average criminals do not use guns because they risk both a mandatory 5 year prison sentence, and being shot. Civilians don’t need guns to protect themselves, and the police are mainly unarmed too.

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Ecuador Endangered
John Seed – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

5 Mar 2018 – The tropical Andes of Ecuador are at the top of the world list of biodiversity hotspots in terms of vertebrate species, endemic vertebrates, and endemic plants. In the last year, the Ecuadorean government has quietly granted mining concessions to over 1.7 million hectares (4.25 million acres) of forest reserves and indigenous territories. These were awarded to transnational corporations in closed-door deals without public knowledge or consent.

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Odds
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

A patient did not feel well and went to see his doctor. The doctor examined and told him, “I have some bad news and some good news.”

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(Français) Haïti : le cercle vicieux de la vulnérabilité
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

La répétition des catastrophes qui frappent Haïti a de quoi décourager. Mais il n’y a là aucune malédiction. C’est la vulnérabilité du pays qui est en cause, et celle-ci n’est pas le fruit de la fatalité, mais d’une situation sociale et de choix politiques.

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Implement Universal Peace Education Forthwith to Stop Violence in Schools
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

Peace education is not a set of predetermined values to be taught. True peace education is man-making education. Hence, it should be free for all leaving none, and in all. Peace education is perpetually self-learning, self-transcending and self-revealing knowledge and practice to be integral man.

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What Is Bitcoin?
WeUseCoins – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

This video is a short animated introduction to Bitcoin.

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NGO Crimes Go Far Beyond Oxfam
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

Figures for earthquake relief range from $10bn to $13.4bn. Some of us who visited Haiti have seen little or no sign of that money, write activists.

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Five Reasons That Anarchism Would Be an Improvement in Human Governance
Gary ‘Z’ McGee | Waking Times – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

The problem, the crux, the fly in the ointment: most people are not courageous enough, and most people don’t want to learn anything that attacks their all-too-precious worldview. Yes, the very worldview that is keeping people indebted to an immoral, unhealthy, unsustainable, unjust system of human governance is precisely the worldview that the majority of people are clinging to. Indeed, most people, even though they would probably say otherwise, would rather be kissed with a lie than slapped with the truth.

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Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

26 Feb 2018 – I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. To start, just listing the types of rubbish generated by humans or the locations into which each of these is dumped is a staggering task beyond the scope of one article.

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Signs of Times
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

Adaptation… ?

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(Castellano) El miedo que impulsa la estrategia nuclear estadounidense
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

El 2 de febrero 2018, el Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos publicó su última ‘Revisión de la Postura Nuclear 2018’. Varios autores ya han expuesto de manera cuidadosa un número increíble de mentiras obvias, amenazas inventadas, fallas e ideas erróneas estratégicas, como el pensamiento falaz detrás de la “disuasión” y el riesgo significativamente mayor de guerra nuclear dado el “pensamiento” delirante en el documento, así como el miedo político en la NPR.

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Reflections on the Myths and Ethoses That Promote and Sustain War as a “Way of Life” and Acceptable Moral Code for the USA (I)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

19 Feb 2018 – The unassailable truth is that the USA is a culture of war! A culture of war is a shared set of meanings and behaviors that are socialized by macrosocial and microsocial institutions via support for certain cultural myths and ethoses that present war and associated acts of violence and aggression as an acceptable action for pursuing domestic and national goals and purposes

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Florida School Shooting and the Crisis of Humanity
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

Can we rise to the occasion? Can we provide value based education to our future generations in our families, in our societies and most importantly, in a formal way, in our educational institutions? The collective and sustained efforts to make a real difference in the education system will ensure the survival and flourishing of the human civilization.

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Palestine: The Hollowness of Public Sphere and the Absence of the Institution
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

20 Feb 2018 – The absence of elections has led to the emergence of political authority (as well as institutions) that do not respect citizens, or members of institutions and their staff as a reference to them. They do not need their opinions and advice. They rule individually, marginalize the collective decision and do not care to listen to people’s opinion because they no longer need their votes to remain in office. These are all not created by the occupation. They are our own creation.

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Hot Water
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

If a frog is put into hot water, he jumps out. If he is put into tepid water, and the water is gradually heated, he remains in the water until he is boiled.

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Not War on Terrorism but Dialogue for Solutions
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

I am sitting somewhere in Afghanistan. Across the table are three Taliban; Pashtuns like most Taliban. My opening question is standard: “What does the Afghanistan look like where you would like to live?” with some equally standard follow-up questions: “What is the worst that happened to you?”, and “Was there a good period in the past?”

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Scholars, Activists and Politicians in Germany to Hold an International Conference on Myanmar Genocide at the Jewish Museum in Berlin
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

On 26 February, a group of prominent human rights activists, genocide scholars and practitioners of international law are gathering at the Jewish Museum of Berlin for the first-ever conference in Germany on Myanmar Genocide of the Rohingya people.

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Rudolf Steiner (25 Feb 1861- 30 Mar 1925): The Laws of Nature
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

For Steiner karma – the fact that every action – and thought is an action – produces an impact and will have consequences. However, without training and close observation one does not see karma working. To see karma in operation requires an insight into the working of subtle energies. He outlines his views in his basic book: Knowledge of Higher Worlds. How is it attained?

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West Asia in Flux: Connecting the Dots
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

18 Feb 2018 – A series of events linked to West Asia in the last nine months has brought to the surface the under-currents and cross-currents in the region’s perennial struggle between occupation and hegemony, on the one hand, and resistance and liberation, on the other. It is crucial to understand how these events are related to one another, to connect the dots, as it were, in our attempt to make sense of what is unfolding in the world’s most strategic – and most dangerous — region.

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Antifa (Music Video of the Week)
Ministry | Nuclear Blast Records – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

Ministry’s official music video from the new album ‘AmeriKKKant’.

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Genocide? As Gaza Dries Out, Israel Turns Off Fresh Water Spigot
Darius Shahtahmasebi | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

Rather than heeding the warnings from the UN to open up Gaza’s blockade and allow vital aid, what we have witnessed over the course of the last decade is a periodic all-out Israeli assault on Gaza’s vital infrastructure.

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America’s ‘Liberalism’ & Other Inhumane Styles of Governance at Home and Internationally
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

25 Feb 2018 – With apologies for this long post, which attempts to situate the struggle for an ethically and ecologically viable political future for the United States and the world in the overheated preoccupation with Trump and Trumpism, which is itself a distraction from the species challenges confronting the whole of humanity at the present time. Many of us, and I include myself, have allowed the side show to become the main attraction, which is itself a reason for struggle against the enveloping darkness.

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Coca-Cola and Nestlé to Privatize the Largest Reserve of Water in South America
Amanda Froelich | Truth Theory – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

5 Feb 2018 – Private companies such as Coca-Cola and Nestlé are allegedly in the process of privatizing the largest reserve of water, known as the Guarani Aquifer, in South America. The aquifer is located beneath the surface of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay and is the second largest-known aquifer system in the world.

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Disaster Capitalism in Puerto Rico
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

21 Feb 2018 – The pattern is familiar, corporate predators profiting from natural and other disasters. Free-wheeling capitalism works this way, profiting from mass-privatizations, deregulation, unrestricted market access, along with deep cuts in social spending to help finance plunder.

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Go in Peace!
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

I Love Israel. My comrades and I created it and paid for it with our blood (literally). My heart aches when I see what is happening. But I remain an optimist. I continue to believe that somehow, somewhere, salvation will come. New political forces will emerge and come to the fore. As our Muslim friends would say: inshallah (God willing).

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Multi-phase Weaponisation of Replica Guns for Children
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

A viable alternative to the response of Donald Trump to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting (14 Feb 2018) with its focus on arming teachers. What follows is a proposal by the Notional Rifle Association — necessarily more radical than that of our colleagues in the National Rifle Association. It could be considered potentially both more politically feasible and more cost-effective.

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Is Oxford University Complicit in Aung San Suu Kyi’s Genocide Denial?
Maung Zarni | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

Just as Suu Kyi dismisses allegations of Myanmar’s international human rights crimes as designed to tarnish the image of Myanmar, the administration at Oxford University considers this a “public relations” issue.

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(Português) Jan Gerdes, o ex-produtor de leite que transformou a sua fazenda [quinta] em um santuário para os animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

22 fev 2018 – O alemão Jan Gerdes era um típico produtor de leite que via os animais apenas como fonte de renda. Inclusive evitava proximidade para não criar laços com os animais explorados em sua fazenda no Norte da Alemanha. Porém, um dia ele decidiu se questionar sobre o que estava fazendo – se aquilo era, de fato, certo.

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Evolution of Mankind and Civilizations — A Few Tentative Thoughts
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

26 Feb 2018 – The cosmos has billions of galaxies and perhaps trillions of earth-like planets revolving around their stars but astronomers who have been assiduously studying these planets have not been able to find any other planet which supports life on them or at least a form of life consisting of human beings and other living objects such as plants and animals as on earth.

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The Polar Boom: Corporations Flock to Melting Arctic for Oil and Trade Routes
Baher Kamal | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

16 Feb2018 — As the global demand for fossil fuels rises and the Arctic sea ice continues to melt, multinational corporations and governments are deepening efforts to expand oil exploration and trade routes in the region. While corporations see a profit, environmentalists see a crisis.

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Marx’s Analysis of the Laws of Capital and the Share Market Crisis
Nick Beams | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

17 Feb 2018 – Down through the years one of the most persistent attacks on Karl Marx by the high priests of bourgeois economics—the ideological guardians of the profit system—has been his contention that, in the final analysis, capitalism depends on the impoverishment of the working class.

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Spherons’ Sociocybernetic MegaScience
Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

Global Breakthrough of Policy, Business and Governance to Genetic Structural Harmony of Social Production and Universal Peace. Gene technology, engineering and therapy for pathological societies.

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Syria Conflicts Highlight Violations of Humanitarian International Law
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

21 Feb 2018 – A recent wave of fighting in Syria has highlighted the violations of humanitarian international law. Calls from U.N. officials for at least a month-long truce so that food and medical supplies could reach the civilian population have not been honored. The scale of the violations is such that they can be considered as a deliberate policy and not as events of “collateral damage.”

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Why the Experience of Ahed Tamimi Matters So Much
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

13 Feb 2018 – It is now known by virtually everyone that a 16-year-old girl, now 17, named Ahed Tamimi, confronted Israeli soldiers on her family’s land shortly after her cousin, Mohammed, was shot in the face with a rubber bullet, causing a coma. The video of her actions has gone viral, showing the world a courageous young woman engaging in nonviolent acts of resistance, and then a day later in the middle of the night being arrested in her home and then charged with a series of crimes.

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The Coming Wars to End All Wars
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

24 Feb 2018 – The Trump and Netanyahu governments have a problem: How to start a greatly expanded Middle-Eastern war without having a justifiable reason for one. No doubt they are working hard to solve this urgent problem. If they can’t find a “justification” (which they can’t), they will have to create one (which they will). Or perhaps they will find what they have already created.

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Sounds Familiar… ?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

A man is taking a walk in Central park in New York. Suddenly he sees a little girl being attacked by a pit bull dog. He runs over and starts fighting with the dog.

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In Pursuit of Peace and Justice: 100 Peace & Justice Leaders and Models (List #2)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D., & Kathie Malley-Morrison, Ed.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

14 Feb 2018 – The individuals included on our current list are from all genders, ages, roles. They are from many nations, ethnocultural groups, and “races.” There is a rising tide of commitment to peace and justice; there is an intolerance of the corruption, cronyism, and asymmetric power, sustaining current abuses. There is a new spirit of resistance to the old-world moral order, dominated too long by a limited number of oligarchs and martial nations.

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Nuclear Abolition: A Sisyphean Task?
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

15 Feb 2018 – Nuclear weapons threaten everyone and everything we love and cherish. Why do we accept and tolerate these intolerable weapons? Every thinking person on the planet should stand against these omnicidal weapons and work for their elimination. Nine leaders in nine countries have their fingers on the nuclear button.

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Playing by the Rules? Nuclear Powers Could Learn from Olympic Athletes and Fans
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

Sometimes it is regular people in unlikely places who need to show world leaders the way: ice hockey players or figure skaters here; families attending an international sports event there. People who have an innate sense of fairness and solidarity and are willing to follow sensible rules, as long as they are applied evenly. So instead of the US insisting on North Korea discontinuing its nuclear weapons program, what if the US tried listening to what people want and took a different approach?

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Extinguishing Poverty
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

Final Solution

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The US Needs “Eureka!” Moments Re: ‘Vetting’; ‘Displacement’; ‘Discernment’; ‘Integration’!
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

As with most good, apocryphal stories—the parables in the Bible, for example—there are grains of truth, lessons to be vetted and discerned—pieces to be integrated into the bigger puzzle. Here’s the story/myth: Hiero, the local tyrant, suspects a goldsmith of replacing a measure of gold with silver in a golden crown. Hiero contacts Archimedes to verify his suspicions. But…, how?

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World Day of Social Justice: The People’s Revolution Is on the March
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

The United Nations General Assembly in Resolution A/RES/62/10 proclaimed 20 February of each year as the World Day of Social Justice with an emphasis on the reduction of poverty in the spirit of the “People’s Revolution.”

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U.S. Escalates Syrian War
Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

14 Feb 2018 – Having failed in its war of regime change in Syria, the U.S. seizes the nation’s oil fields and slaughters Syrian soldiers, confident that the U.S. public doesn’t give a damn.

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Guam: America’s Best Kept Undemocratic Secret
The Peace Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

US Military Occupation of Guam & Pacific Islands

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The Berlin Conference on Myanmar Genocide
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

26 February 2018 – To Be Webcast LIVE – The conference aims to inform the German civil society and European public about the on-going genocide of Rohingya people in Myanmar/Burma.

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Bisons and Bears
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

In the past, when the main danger bisons faced were predators such as bears, the best protection they had against danger was for them to form a circle, with the strong bulls on the outside and the females and young protected inside. But when hunters with guns arrived, forming a circle was the worst thing they could do. Instead of dispersing and running away, they presented a fixed, easy target and were massacred in large numbers.

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Dr. Young Seek Choue: A Genuine Nominee for Nobel Peace Prize
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

On the 8th anniversary of the death Dr. Young Seek Choue, 18 Feb 2018, the author would like to pay him his sincere and deep tribute by sharing his peace ideas, peace studies and peace activities, and his adherence to meet the criteria laid down in the Nobel’s Will.

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Human Nature and Human Destiny
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

19 Feb 2018 – When he was between the ages of 11 and 16, Paul Gauguin attended a Catholic boarding school in France. At the school, the Bishop of Orléans himself taught the class in liturgy. The bishop had devised a catechism in which three main questions were asked: “Where does humanity come from? Where is it going? How do we proceed?”

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Derailing Trump Decision Regarding Jerusalem: What Possibilities
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

12 Feb 2018 – The tune heard from the American administration and its envoy, Jason Greenblat, in the last two weeks includes two messages:
1. Any plan that we present will be for implementation and not for negotiations.
2. If the Palestinians want a capital in Jerusalem they should go and build it the same as Israel built its Jerusalem.

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Where to Resist?
Richard Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

“I hear a lot from my students about ‘walking the talk,’” Eqbal Ahmad, a Pakistani scholar and anti-war activist said. “But I tell them that you can’t walk the talk without first having the talk. First you decide what’s real and what’s right; then you act on the basis of that understanding. Finally, the results of your action can force you to re-define what’s real and what’s right. That is what we call praxis.”

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Smile [lyrics] (Music Video of the Week)
Charles Chaplin | Nat King Cole – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

Soundtrack for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie Modern Times. Chaplin composed the music, inspired by Puccini’s Tosca. John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added the lyrics and title in 1954. Nat King Cole immortalized it. Have a smile. And enjoy!

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Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 – 17 Oct 1849)
Barbara Smolenska-Zielinska | Our Chopin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

On 17 October 1849, Chopin died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his Parisian flat in the Place Vendôme. He was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. In accordance with his will, however, his heart, taken from his body after death, was brought by his sister to Warsaw where it was placed in an urn installed in a pillar of the Holy Cross church in Krakowskie Przedmiscie.

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Israel Claims to Be a Jewish State and a Democratic State: Legalism vs Justice
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

11 Feb 2018 – The book is an important contribution to an understanding of two dimensions of the Palestinian experience within the state of Israel: first, the reliance on law to ‘legalize’ discrimination, and the accompanying denial of fundamental rights that has resulted; secondly, to develop a distinct Israeli jurisprudence that seeks to legitimize ‘ethnocracy,’ yet disguise this reality by claiming that the nationality laws and regulations distinguishing Jews and non-Jews do not invalidate Israeli claims to be a democracy.

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The Heaven’s Caravan
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

16 Feb 2018 – The Muslim world is in crisis and a biased media has added its own biased colour to it. The negative stereotyping has created an impression that everything Muslim is evil.

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The Incarceration of Tariq Ramadan — A Travesty of Justice
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

16 Feb 2018 – The unjust incarceration of Dr Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University, demeans and disgraces the French legal system.

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Celebrating Union of Man and Woman — Marriage Ceremonies Worldwide
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

All communities celebrate marriages in their own individual manner that depends on their cultures, religions, ethnicity and not least, their financial and social status.

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(Français) Les propositions de Varoufakis qui menaient à l’échec
Eric Toussaint | CADTM – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

11 Fév 2018 – Dans son dernier livre Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis donne sa version des raisons qui ont conduit à la capitulation honteuse du gouvernement Tsipras en juillet 2015. Il analyse essentiellement la période 2009-2015 tout en faisant des incursions dans des époques plus lointaines.

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A Trinity Talk with Nobel Peace Laureate &TR Member Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Leeds Trinity University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

11 Dec 2017

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Pity the Almond Tree
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

17 Feb 2018 – Pity the almond tree, especially when it is in full bloom. The bloom of the almond is, in German, Mandelblüt. That is also the name of Israel’s chief legal official, called “the Legal Advisor of the Government”.

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Stemming the Plastic Tide: 10 Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans
Prachi Patel | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

1 Feb 2018 – Our seas are choking on plastic. A recent study estimates that more than a quarter of all that waste could be pouring in from just 10 rivers, eight of them in Asia.

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What Is Bitcoin? Everything You Need to Know about Bitcoin, Explained
Daniel Frumkin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

This article will answer the common questions that newcomers have when first learning about Bitcoin. How do blockchains work? What makes Bitcoin valuable? What is decentralization? What is mining? How do you buy Bitcoin? How do you safely store it? How do you send or receive Bitcoin from somebody else? But we won’t just stop there.

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Forgetfulness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

An elderly man went for his annual checkup to the doctor. After examining him, the doctor said, “I have two bad news for you. The first is that you have cancer.”

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A Nasty Business – Why Commercial Whaling Must End
Campaign Whale – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

This report presents a compelling case against any resumption of commercial whaling. Sadly, the slaughter of whales is increasing and there is a real fear that a political compromise will be struck that will allow its resumption. That would be a total disaster for whale conservation efforts. Surely, the whales have suffered enough at our hands.

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Hope
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

Hope is thing that soils easily,
Something as white dress,
You may spill pomegranate juice

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Global Civilization through Interweaving Polyamory and Polyanimosity?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

Loving the World Otherwise Through Contractual Bonding with Any Significant Other – Much is currently made of same-sex marriage as a breakthrough in the legality of consensual bonding between those of the same gender.

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Let’s Speak PEACE: A Plea to All Language Users
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

Let´s speak PEACE wherever we may be
by teaching one another peacefully the world to see

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It’s the Rapacity, Stupid!
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

19 Feb 2018 – A greedy person holds on tight to what he or she has, hoards as much as possible, and is totally given over to the aim of “having more and more things”. Rapacity, on the other hand, refers to a tendency to snatch from others, the tendency being closely related to show of power and enjoyment in power. It may be noted that the words “rape” and “rapine” also derive from the same Latin root.

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Economic Nationalism Is Not Compatible with Globalized Economic Interdependence
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

16 Feb 2018 – In a multi-polar world of today business as usual based on failed premises is not the answer. Economic nationalism did not work in the past. How could we convince ourselves that it would be otherwise in future? We need rapid economic development for prosperity for all citizens. Democracy without economic prosperity of citizen is a mere delusion.

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Wendell Willkie (18 Feb 1892 – 8 Oct 1944): One World
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018

In order to show the unity of the American people, Republicans and Democrats, once the US had entered WW II, President Roosevelt asked Willkie to go on a “good will mission” to the Middle and Far East with a stop-over in the USSR to see Joseph Stalin. The result of the trip – a short one by today’s round-the-world standards – was the book One World.

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South Korea Minister Says Military Option ‘Unacceptable’ on North Korea Crisis
Soyoung Kim | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2018

25 Jan 2018 -“The nuclear issue has to be solved through negotiations and diplomatic endeavors. This idea of a military solution is unacceptable,” Kang Kyung-wha said at a news briefing on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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WATCH: Jellyfish Looks Like Underwater Firework in Rare Footage
E/V Nautilus – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2018

28 Jan 2018 – A stunning luminous jellyfish that resembles an exploding firework and is rarely encountered by humans has been filmed in the Pacific Ocean 4,000 feet underwater off Baja California, Mexico. The team were using their remotely operated vehicle ‘Hercules’ near the Revillagigedo Archipelago looking for crabs when they came across the jellyfish and its dazzling display.

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Today I Said Good Bye to Mom
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2018

Through the transparent cover
With her eyes closed, Mother looked at me
As if she were saying
“Why are you mourning over this biomass in this air-conditioned coffin?
It ain’t me here! Not any more, if ever there was I.”

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Letter of Concern to Oxford University Press regarding Dr Jacques Leider and ORE Asian History Series
Noam Chomsky, Johan Galtung, Maung Zarni, et al. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2018

5 Feb 2018 – Oxford University Press, Myanmar Genocide, & Its Choice of Dr Leider as the Expert on Rohingyas

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With Nuclear Weapons, Evacuation Is Not an Option
David Krieger | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2018

In our community, we have been living through radical uncertainty from forces of nature. But we also live daily with the radical uncertainty of nuclear survival, which is not a force of nature, but rather a man-made threat. It is a threat entirely of our own making, and it can be remedied by facing it and doing something about it, namely convening the nuclear-armed countries to negotiate the phased, verifiable, irreversible and transparent elimination of these weapons.

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It Is Time to End the Child Soldier Stereotype
Tim Molyneux | IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2018

Mon Feb 12 marks the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers, known as Red Hand Day. From Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo to Myanmar and Nigeria, countless children remain trapped in armed conflict.

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Home (Music Video of the Week)
Brian Eno & David Byrne – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2018

A Classic Music-Art from 2008

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Faiz Ahmed Faiz (13 Feb 1911 – 20 Nov 1984): The Fiery Conscience of Our Times
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2018

As a Marxist, Faiz rejected the notion of “art for art’s sake“. Referring to the poet Keats’s famous lines that beauty is love and love is beauty and a beautiful object is an eternal source of joy, Faiz says that, notwithstanding what Keats may have felt, beauty can only be eternal when it is creative, when it inspires the onlooker’s enthusiasm, thought and action with promoting more beauty.

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Japan Plans to Kill Hundreds of Whales AGAIN – Urge the EU to Refuse Trade Deal until This Ends!
Aleksandra Pajda | One Green Planet – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2018

8 Feb 2018 – Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister, has made his opinions about Japan’s whale hunts very clear. Abe stated that the country “will pursue all possibilities in order to resume commercial whaling” and he wants Japan to use whale meat, fat, and baleen “just like other marine resources.” His stance on the cruel practice is blatant, and he does not even try to conceal the real nature of the hunts under the typical guise of scientific research.

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Performance of Life
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2018

The day went, tomorrow’s day hurries…
There is the same smell of roses,
The same scenes of the life are rehearsed

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The Fear Driving US Nuclear Strategy
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2018

The US Department of Defense released its latest ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ on 2 February. Several authors have already thoughtfully exposed a phenomenal variety of obvious lies, invented threats, strategic misconceptions and flaws – such as the fallacious thinking behind ‘deterrence’ and significantly increased risk of nuclear war given the delusional ‘thinking’ in the document – as well as the political fear-mongering in the NPR. So what can we do? Well, I would tackle the problem at several levels and I invite you to consider participating in one or more of these.

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