Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The G20 Meeting and U.S./Russia Relations
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
2 Dec 2018 – What follows are my responses to questions addressed to me by Sputnik News Agency in Moscow. Although the focus was on the ongoing G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, the real concern was the future of U.S./Russia relations and how these relations should be managed to avoid arms races, geopolitical rivalry, and ideological tensions.
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Why Is Canada Punishing This Brave Woman?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
The Canadian government forced Damian’s mother, Christianne Boudreau, to surrender her Canadian passport. This article examines the strange circumstances and seeming irrationality. Unlike her son, who had been indoctrinated then recruited to join a terrorist group, Christianne Boudreau has worked with other parents internationally to create and promote educational programs to counter extremism. She converted her grief at the loss of Damian to help educate others how to prevent the same thing happening again.
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Israel Seizes More Land Speeding Division of Occupied Palestine
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
28 Nov 2018 – Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked confirmed today during an interview that the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in occupied Palestine will be demolished very soon. The village is situated a few kilometers from the occupied city of East Jerusalem, between two major illegal Israeli settlements, namely Ma’ale Adumim and Kfar Adumim.
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US Mass Mobilizations: Wars and Financial Plunder
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
25 Nov 2018 – This paper will begin by discussing the major wars of our time, namely the two US invasions of Iraq. We will proceed to analyze the nature of the popular response and the political consequences. In the second section we will discuss the economic crises of 2008 -2009, the government bailout and popular response. We will conclude by focusing on the potential powerful changes inherent in mass popular movements.
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230,000 “Jihadists” in 70 Countries: Since 9/11 the Number of Al Qaeda Affiliated Terrorists Has Quadrupled. Study
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
23 Nov 2018 – US taxpayers have already forked over a mind-melting $5.9 trillion to fund the massive and increasingly secretive war – but the noble pursuit of eradicating terrorism has apparently had the opposite effect.
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Human Delusion and Our Destruction of the Biosphere: We Aren’t Even Trying!
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
27 Nov 2018 – Have you heard the expression ‘climate change’? That lovely expression that suggests a holiday in a place with a more pleasant climate… Extinction beckons. The choice is yours.
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No Kidding
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
A man is stopped by the police around 2 a.m. on a Thursday and asked where he is going at that time of night.
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The Long, Brutal U.S. War on Children in the Middle East
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
When children waste away to literally nothing while fourteen million people face conflict driven famine, a hue and cry—yes, a caterwaul —most certainly should be raised, worldwide.
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An Open Letter to Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche from a Burmese Buddhist Activist
Maung Zarni and Matthew Gindin | Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
A former ally of Aung San Suu Kyi responds to the Tibetan Buddhist teacher’s support for Myanmar’s controversial leader.
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Why Henry David Thoreau Was Drawn to Yoga
Derek Beres | Big Think – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
20 Nov 2018 – Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau shared a love for the ideas behind works like the Bhagavad Gita, incorporating symbols and metaphors into their own transcendental and nature-based writings—and leading to his time on Walden Pond. Thoreau was drawn to yoga and Hinduism as forms of resistance to mainstream market capitalism.
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Island Style – ‘Oiwi E (Music Video of the Week)
Song Across Hawai'i | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Jack Johnson and dozens of artists joined more than 1,000 Hawai’i keiki (children) in this beautiful medley. Weʻre excited to present our 2nd Song Across Hawaiʻi filmed across many breathtaking Hawai’i locations.
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A Message of Indigenous Resistance and Inspiration from the Amazon
Nemonte Nenquimo | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
29 Nov 2018 – The following piece is quoted directly from the keynote address of Ceibo Alliance co-founder Nemonte Nenquimo, who traveled from her home in the remote Ecuadorian Amazon to present to a live audience at this year’s Bioneers conference in Marin, California.
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Tyranny against Humanity: Human Rights and Global Politics
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
27 Nov 2018 – The tyranny of human rights violations – planned and alleged goes unabated across the globe. Late American historian Howard Zinn must have sensed the human cries against the Nature and called “Tyranny is tyranny.”
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A 100% Organic Model Is Possible: The Indian State of Sikkim Shows Us How
Manlio Masucci | LifeGate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
14 Nov 2018 – The Indian state of Sikkim is the first to be certified as fully organic, and is now ready to export its model to the rest of the world. Its delegation told us how all this has been possible.
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Charles Ferguson | Economic Crisis Film – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
2010 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary, Inside Job provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia.
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On Sea as on Land: New Russia-Ukraine Tensions Require Mediation and Negotiations in Good Faith
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
30 Nov 2018 – The tensions arise from fears rather than from structures. Russia fears that Ukraine will join NATO. Ukraine fears that its economy will be deeply harmed by Russian economic measures such as making it difficult for cargo ships to use Mariupol port. The times call for creative proposals and open discussions.
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Peace Education, Peace Psychology, Peace Linguistics: Toward a Humanity-improving Integration
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Peace Education, Peace Psychology and Peace Linguistics interconnected they are
Their principles and applications will help Humanity go far
Peaceful, nonviolent, nonkilling human beings the world urgently needs
May peace educators, peace psychologists, and peace linguists globally plant PEACE seeds
Global Catastrophic Risks 2018 Annual Report
Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Thought Leaders Sharing What You Need to Know on Global Catastrophic Risks
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Mexico on the Eve of AMLO – “So Far from God and So Close to the United States”
Roger Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
30 Nov 2018 – Mexico is bucking an international right-wing tide, shifting its government from right to left-of-center with the presidential inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on December 1. Speaking for international capital, The Economist is worried. The other 99% of humanity is hopeful. A cautionary history of this trice conquered land follows.
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Law Group That Helped U.S. Probe Says Rohingyas Victims of Genocide
Sansara Nepal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
30 Nov 2018 – The Washington-based Public International Law and Policy Group, contracted by the State Department to interview Rohingya refugees about atrocities against Muslims in Myanmar, has found in a report to be released on Monday [3 Dec] that the Myanmar military committed crimes against humanity and war crimes, as well as genocide.
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Punctuated Biological and Social Evolution?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
2 Dec 2018 – What is the future for humans and the environment? Will average global temperature continue to rise? Have we passed the tipping point? There are now more body mass of humans and domestic vertebrates than all wild vertebrate animals on earth! In a few years there will be more plastic than fish in oceans and most coral reefs could be gone! Is it “natural” that a handful of billionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of humanity (i.e. more than 3.6 billion people)? What hope is left a sustainable earth ecosystem? What does it take to actually change things? Please share your views after you read these and other questions below.
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(Português) Ringo Starr diz que o segredo para se manter jovem e saudável é não consumir carne
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
21 nov 2018 – Aos 78 anos, o ex-baterista dos The Beatles, Ringo Starr, disse em entrevista à revista Rolling Stone que o segredo para se manter jovem e saudável é não consumir carne e se exercitar. Ele abdicou do consumo de carne depois de assistir a uma tourada na Espanha.
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Trump Administration Approves Airgun Blasting in Atlantic Harmful to Whales, Dolphins
Center for Biological Diversity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
30 Nov 2018 — The Trump administration today approved five permits that allow harm to whales, dolphins and other animals so companies can search for oil off the Atlantic Coast using loud seismic airgun blasts.
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Further Complicating the Narrative on Nicaragua
Alejandro Bendaña, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
28 Nov 2018 – The fact that one or another sector of today’s broad opposition to Ortega received USA funding should come as no surprise given the way Washington has always hedged its bets in one country or another. But to extrapolate from there that the protesters, opposition leaders–and many of us participants on the left who continue to regard ourselves as Sandinistas–are all tainted is unfair, condescending and inaccurate. We have lost neither our minds nor our principles.
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Radio Rohingya
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
26 Nov 2018 – In a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazaar, a young Rohingya refugee dreams of giving a voice to his people. “Wherever I go in the camp, everyone is waiting and looking for any news … My people need information. News about not just the camp but also the people we have left behind in Myanmar.”
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Nicole Krauss’s Beautiful Letter to Van Gogh on Fear, Bravery, and How to Break the Loop of Our Destructive Patterns
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
“Bravery is always more intelligent than fear, since it is built on the foundation of what one knows about oneself: the knowledge of one’s strength and capacity, of one’s passion.”
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About the Name “Hindu”
Sri Nandanandana das | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Most scholars feel that the name “Hindu” was developed by outsiders, invaders who could not pronounce the name of the Sindhu River properly. According to Sir Monier Williams, the Sanskrit lexicographer, you cannot find an indigenous root for the words Hindu or India. Neither are these words found in any Buddhist or Jain texts, nor any of the official 23 languages of India. Some sources report that it was Alexander the Great who first renamed the River Sindhu as the Indu, dropping the beginning “S”, thus making it easier for the Greeks to pronounce. This became known as the Indus.
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The Guardian Ups Its Vilification of Julian Assange
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
28 Nov 2018 – It is welcome that finally there has been a little pushback, including from leading journalists, to the Guardian’s long-running vilification of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. The Guardian story will prepare public opinion for the moment when Ecuador’s rightwing government under President Lenin Moreno forces Assange out of the embassy, having already withdrawn most of his rights to use digital media.
→ read full articleOn the Future of the World: Some Notes
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Two Big Words, “Future” and “World”; one small word, “notes”. To think about a dialectic holon, the world, to speak it, act it. For sure it will act upon us, so let us try a word on us upon it.
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Homo Sapiens?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
What? Excuse me?
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Peace Pagoda: Seeking Bliss and Joy
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Buddhists or not, we approach Lord Buddha for seeking peace, joy and harmony in this violent world. A Buddhist pagoda built with Japanese aid in Darjeeling in the north eastern part of India does not disappoint; it fortifies our faith and fulfils our hopes.
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To Put Humans First
Nadine Murad, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Better World Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – Nadia was named the first United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. For her invaluable work she was honored with the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Global Governance as a Riddle
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
But is a solution the answer to the question?
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The New New Anti-Semitism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Hiding Israel’s Crimes of State behind False Claims of Victimization
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Haiti: Police Repression Escalates on Anniversary of the Battle of Vertieres
Resumen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Sunday November 18, 2018, was the 215th anniversary of the victory at the battle of Vertieres when Haitians won a decisive battle against French forces in 1803, leading to the declaration of Haitian independence. People all over Haiti marked the occasion with massive protests against the theft of billions of dollars of Petrocaribe funds provided to the Haitian government by Venezuela.
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Italy: A Whole US/NATO Strategic Base
Manlio Dinucci | Pandora TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
In this well documented production, Manlio Dinucci focuses on US-NATO military deployment in Italy and around the world as a Global NATO.
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ASEAN: Trade Wars and ZOPFAN
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
20 Nov 2018 – The current trade war was triggered by Donald Trump raising tariffs on Chinese goods and the Chinese government retaliating. If it is prolonged and escalates, it may generate consequences that will go beyond trade. There may be serious implications for global politics and security. ZOPFAN-Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality’s simple goal is “to keep Southeast Asia free from any form or manner of interference by outside powers.”
→ read full articleTRANSCEND-Galtung Track Record on Conflict Solution/Mediation: 1958-2018
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
The TRANSCEND Method uses dialogues with all parties to identify their goals, testing their legitimacy, and for visions of a new social reality meeting legitimate goals. Diagnoses focus on conflict and trauma, prognoses without or with intervention, therapy on visions of solution and conciliation; proposed, propagated and realized.
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Burma Project – Situation of the Rohingyas in North Arakan State
The Irish Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
The report of the Rohingya project was officially launched on June 16 th, 2010 by Micheál Martin, the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Iveagh House.
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The Situation of the Rohingya: Is There a Role for the International Court of Justice?
Michael A Becker | European Journal of International Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 – The fact remains that Myanmar has unequivocally rejected the non-binding conclusions of the Fact-Finding Mission and a dispute about Myanmar’s compliance with the Genocide Convention persists. A case at the ICJ provides a means to resolve that legal dispute, even if addressing the broader challenges faced by the Rohingya is a far more complicated affair. Lasting solutions may require finding ways to persuade those states that are supporting and investing in Myanmar (such as China and Japan) that it is in their own interest to see Myanmar change its ways.
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Complicating the Narrative on Nicaragua
James Phillips | NACLA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Many reports on the situation in Nicaragua have failed to capture the complexity of the crisis, a product of many decades of dictatorship, revolution, youthful hope, counterrevolution, popular empowerment, compromise with hard realities, struggles for national sovereignty, and ongoing U.S. intervention.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
-13 Nov 2018-
To be almost 90
And happy
With good health
Feels criminal
(Português) George Harrison: “A coisa que me repeliu em relação a comer carne foi a ideia de matar animais”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
21 nov 2018 – Harrison era vegetariano porque sentia que era contraditório honrar a vida em muitas formas e ainda contribuir com o abate de animais. Era devoto de Krishna e membro da ISKCON-Internatioinal Society for Krishna Consciousness. Compôs seu maior êxito, My Sweet Lord, para Krishna.
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John F. Kennedy 55 Years On: Casting Light on the JFK Assassination, 9/11 and Other 21st Century Crimes
Prof. Graeme McQueen | OffGuardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
22 Nov 2018 – Fifty-five years ago, on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Although there has been a great deal written about this event over the years, I want to draw attention to one exceptionally important article. Vincent Salandria gave this talk in Dallas at the invitation of the Coalition on Political Assassinations.
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As Facebook Bans Alternative Media to ‘Promote Online Safety,’ They Allowed a Child to Be Sold in a Post
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
While Facebook was actively deleting countless pages for promoting peace and freedom, they allowed an auction to be held in which a child was for sale—for weeks.
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Solidarity Economics: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
When we are dealing with socially created realities we should bear in mind that the ways people think about the problems create them. If people are going to solve the problems, they need to think differently. Solidarity economics redefines the problems. The Roman Law iron cage of European “civilization” has got to go. Europe must demote itself to the status of a peninsula of Asia whose savants are no wiser than Gandhi, Confucius, Julius Nyerere, Nelson Mandela or Paulo Freire. Many pioneers are developing alternative economies.
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Thanksgiving 2018: Why First Nations Regard USA’s Thanksgiving Day as a National Day of Mourning
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
And Why Minnesota’s Governors Sibley and Ramsey Should Be Tried Posthumously for Crimes against Humanity
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(Français) La formule du grand capital: µ – φ = fascisme
Paulo Correia | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
22 Nov 2018 — µ – φ = fascisme: Ceci est la formule du grand capital appliquée en France, le pays du Peuple qui a su prendre la Bastille, écrire la Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen et de la devise «Liberté Égalité Fraternité».
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French Rugby to Support Gareth Thomas over Homophobic Attack
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
20 Nov 2018 – French Rugby players will wear rainbow laces during their match against Fiji in support of Gareth Thomas, after the former Wales captain was a victim of a homophobic assault last Friday [16 Nov] in Cardiff. Thomas came out as gay in 2009 and retired in 2011.
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Will Reason, Wisdom, and Justice Find Refuge?
Juan Eugenio Corradi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
21 Nov 2018 – A spectrum is cycling the globe. Neo fascism has taken over several governments and the imagination of many as well. The last to fall into this state was Brazil. It is urgent to review a not-too-distant past in which this happened and appreciate the resources of resistance and history of an eventual recovery of culture and civilization. Meanwhile, today as yesterday, the media wants to make us believe otherwise.
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Setting the Record Straight
TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
No comment…
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Olivier Giroud: Impossible to Be Gay in Football
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
French football striker Olivier Giroud, talked about homosexuality in football during an interview.
→ read full articleWhy We Hurt Each Other: Tolstoy’s Letters to Gandhi on Love, Violence, and the Truth of the Human Spirit
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
The exchange sparked an ongoing correspondence between the two that lasted until Tolstoy’s death — a meeting of two great minds and spirits, eventually collected in Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi and rivaled only by Einstein’s correspondence with Freud on violence and human nature.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
A student had just obtained his doctorate in mathematics and proudly checked into a small village hotel signing as “Dr. Smith”.
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(Français) Nicaragua : fin de régime ?
Bernard Duterme | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
13 nov 2018 – Depuis avril 2018, le Nicaragua traverse une profonde crise de régime. Fortement contesté, le couple régnant – le président Daniel Ortega et la vice-présidente Rosario Murillo, épouse du premier – s’accroche au pouvoir.
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The Dalai Lama on Science and Spirituality
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
“What science finds to be nonexistent we should all accept as nonexistent, but what science merely does not find is a completely different matter.”
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What the Paris Peace Forum Tells Us about France–And about the World
Célia Belin | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
On Sunday 11 Nov, 60 world leaders joined French President Emmanuel Macron in inaugurating the first edition of the Paris Peace Forum, a few hours after commemorating the centenary of the armistice that ended World War I. The American president’s absence at the forum reflects the American unmooring from the world of multilateralism.
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Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
22 nov 2018 – Transição da muito pequena à média escala para empreendimentos da economia popular. Pode ser encarado? Que apoios são requeridos? Temos destacado que a economia popular não é um cercado onde deixar encurralados os pobres e marginalizados mas, pelo contrário, pode se transformar em uma das colunas fundantes de um novo rumo e forma de funcionar orientados ao bem-estar geral e o cuidado ambiental.
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Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
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Friedrich Engels (28 Nov 1820 – 5 Aug 1895)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Friedrich Engels was a German author, political theorist and philosopher, most well known for his monumental work with Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.
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Black Hole Sun (Music Video of the Week)
Norah Jones – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Norah Pays Tribute to Chris Cornell at Detroit’s Fox Theatre
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India’s Farmers to March to Parliament to Highlight Agrarian Crisis
Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
‘Kisan Mukti March’ to Delhi 28/30 Nov – Rooted in the Testimonies of its Victims
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Why Are We Allowing Yemen to Starve?
J.P. Linstroth | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
22 Nov 2018 – All of us—all people across the United States and across the globe—should be very concerned about systematic starvation of civilian populations as a war tactic. This needs to stop. There needs to be accountability for such humanitarian atrocities and there needs to be passage of international law to put an end to these military practices. Otherwise, unnecessary and unfortunate suffering as is happening in Yemen will continue.
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Johan Galtung and Amy Goodman Talk Peace, Justice, Empire, Occupation
American Friends Service Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
A dialogue between sociologist Johan Galtung, “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies,” and Amy Goodman of Democracy NOW! Sponsored by the Envision Peace Museum, American Friends Service Committee.
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Colombia’s Rural Radio Stations Are a Key to Peace
Emma Heidenreich | Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Community radio stations are a hopeful medium for improving the free flow of information in Colombia, especially in the poorest and most remote regions.
→ read full articleToward a Global Peace Literacy: A Peace Linguist´s Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
One day Peace Literacy will be globalized
The right to be educated for Peace will be recognized
From the Concentration of Wealth and Decisional Power to Full Democracies
The Editors | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
21 Nov 2018 – Humanity is going through a destructive phase of unbridled concentration of wealth and decisional power; its results have been widely identified and denounced. Even though spaces for resistance and transformation desires germinate, it still remains to be seen how large majorities organize to establish new courses and ways of functioning. Will the notion of full democracy be useful?
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International Conference Against US/NATO Bases Addresses Militarism
Roger Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
On November 16-18, some 300 peace activists representing over 35 countries gathered in Dublin, Ireland for the first International Conference Against US/NATO Military Bases to address this tragic paradox of the technical ability to serve humanity and the political proclivity by the ruling circles in the West to do the opposite. Actions are being planned in Washington, D.C., around the 70th anniversary of NATO on April 4th. Coincidentally that is the date of the assassination of Martin Luther King.
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More Doctors Program: Humanity vs. Fascism in Brazil
The Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
17 Nov 2018 – In contrast with its economic potential, Brazil occupies the 125th place in the world health ranking. In 2013, given the precariousness of care in the poorest regions, Dilma Rousseff’s government created the More Doctors Program, based on an agreement with the Pan American Health Organization, and driven above all by Cuba’s response based on solidarity.
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Mahatma Gandhi and His Interest in the Stars
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Gandhi managed to see some of the phenomena of the sky with simple telescopes that people shared with him. This reinforced his love for stargazing and his belief that the sky and its numerous entities were a manifestation of God’s creation. Of course, scientists and astronomers do not agree with this belief; but the joy, the beauty the peace that a night sky bestows is shared by millions of people including the scientists.
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Autonomous Weapons Will Be Tireless, Efficient, Killing Machines—And There Is No Way to Stop Them
Andreas Kirsch | Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
The world’s next major military conflict could be over quickly. Our human soldiers will simply not stand a chance. Drones and robots will overrun our defenses and take the territory we are standing on. Even if we take out some of these machines, more of them will soon arrive to take their place, newly trained off our reactions to their last offense.
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UK Commits Extra Military Forces to Ukraine: Irresponsible Policy, Dangerous Repercussions
Arkady Savitsky | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
24 Nov 2018 – A multi-role hydrographic survey ship will be deployed in the Black Sea next year to demonstrate Britain’s support for Ukraine and ensure “freedom of navigation”. In September, Great Britain made known it planned to increase the warships’ presence in the Black Sea. NATO naval presence there is seen as provocative by Russia amid increasing tensions in the Azov Sea.
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John Scales Avery Interviews Binu Mathew
John Scales Avery | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
John Scales Avery: Dear friend and colleague in the peace movement, dear highly respected and admired Editor Binu Mathew, can you tell us what are the influences that led you to become the Editor of Countercurrents.org, one of the world’s most important and influential alternative news websites?
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Release of Top Secret CIA Document Reveals Deeper Medical Complicity in Torture Program
Physicians for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 – The 90-page document provides a chilling account of how CIA health professionals willingly participated in torture. The “Summary and Reflections” of an unnamed chief of CIA Medical Services narrates the decision-making process that led to health professionals signing off on, and participating in, interrogation and detention practices that clearly constituted torture. The document provides a cascade of self-justification and minimization of the risks and harm to detainees.
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(Français) De 1945 à aujourd’hui 20-30 millions de personnes tuées par les USA
Manlio Dinucci | Mondialisation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Une étude documente les guerres et les coups d’état effectués par les États-Unis dans plus de 30 pays asiatiques, africains, européens et latino-américains. Elle révèle que les forces militaires USA sont directement responsables de 10-15 millions de morts, provoqués par les plus grandes guerres: celles de Corée et du Vietnam et les deux contre l’Irak.
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Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power
Michael E. Tigar | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
The “Justice Department” appears, by its very nature and practice, to appropriate “justice” as the exclusive property of the federal government. In his brilliantly acerbic collection of essays, Tigar reveals, deconstructs, and eviscerates mythologies surrounding the U.S. criminal justice system, racism, free expression, workers’ rights, and international human rights.
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The International Monetary Fund Flexes Its Muscles in Latin America
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Thanks to the IMF, the pockets of the forgotten from Argentina to Mexico will suffer so that finance is left intact.
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Japan’s Abe Tells Putin He Won’t Let US Troops on Long-Disputed Islands if Russia Returns Them to Japan
Bill Bostock | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 – Abe said: “This issue, which has existed for more than 70 years since the end of the war, will be solved by Putin and me, and not left for the next generation. President Putin and I completely shared that strong desire.” But the post-war agreement between Japan and the US could prove problematic, as the US can seek to build military bases in Japan due to the Japan-US Security Treaty and Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement.
→ read full articleOn My 88th Birthday: A Reflection
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
13 Nov 2018 – I post a poem that I wrote earlier today, and read at the end of my talk, perhaps a self-indulgent conceit on my part, but I share it here as a way of thanking so many friends near and far who sent me the most moving birthday greetings throughout the day, which made me feel that we who are supporting the Palestinian struggle are part of a growing community that will prevail at some point, and the two peoples now inhabiting Palestine can finally live in peace, and with dignity and equality.
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Costs of Post-9/11 U.S. Wars to 2019: $5.9 Trillion
Neta C. Crawford | Watson Institute, Brown University - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 -The United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated $5.9 trillion on the war on terror through Fiscal Year 2019, including direct war and war-related spending and obligations for future spending on post-9/11 war veterans.
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Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
“The institutionalization of the ‘Rwandan genocide’ has been the remarkable achievement of a propaganda system sustained by both public and private power. We’re told that the US failed to stop Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, so we’re now obliged to ‘intervene’ anytime and anywhere another genocide is underway.”
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Phil Ochs and the Crucifixion of President John F. Kennedy
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Whatever the truth in this age of “not knowing,” I think his story is a parable for our times. Whenever you think you’re getting the straight scoop, think again, and then again. The CIA’s Operation Mockingbird is still singing its siren song to convince us that the crucifixion was a one-time event, when Phil knew otherwise, right from the start and right to the end. I think he tried to warn us and wouldn’t be silenced, even in death.
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Forced Return of Rohingya Crime against Humanity
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
15 Nov 1018 – From the Red Cross to the UN High Commission for Refugees, the world is screaming foul at the Bangladesh-Myanmar bilateral repatriation scheme scheduled to begin today. Red Cross’ Robert Mardini based in Myanmar told reporters that “we still believe that the conditions are not right for voluntary, safe, dignified returns …. Nobody can claim today that the security in Rakhine is so well established that people can return safely.”
→ read full articleDonetsk-Luhansk-Ukraine-Russia: Another Round in a Frozen but Deadly Struggle
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
On 11 November, while French President Emmanuel Macron was warning the assembled heads of government in Paris on the dangers of the narrow nationalism which had led to the 1914-1918 war, people in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics of eastern Ukraine were voting in an effort to strengthen narrow nationalism. Since 2014, the eastern, largely Russian-speaking populations of eastern Ukraine have created two republics: Donetsk and Luhansk.
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Dairy Cows Blasted with Flame-Thrower
Vegan News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Help spread the truth about meat & dairy. The old days of family farms are over. Today’s factories are cold, efficient money machines. That’s why we have this continual problem with abuse.
→ read full article(Italiano) La guerra per por fine alle guerre 100 anni dopo: valutazione e riorientamento della nostra resistenza alla guerra
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
L’autore e commentatore sociale britannico H.G. Wells ha forse coniato l’espressione che rese originariamente popolare la 1ª Guerra mondiale: La guerra che porrà fine alle guerre, secondo il titolo del suo libro basato su articoli scritti durante quel vasto conflitto militare. Por fine alla Guerra non è impossibile; tutt’altro, effettivamente. Ma ci vorrà una quantità fenomenale d’intelligente sforzo strategico, coraggio e dedizione.
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Multilingualism Today—Educational, Cultural, Historical Facets
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Languages are not just a means of expression – written or oral but also have their distinctive features such as cultures, cuisines and histories. Languages had earlier evolved due to several factors – colonialization by powerful countries, interaction with other language and religious groups, trade and economic relations, and today due to the large scale globalization and the impact of internet and digitization that is taking place.
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(Português) A Realidade Por Trás dos Testes em Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
“O negócio de criação de macacos foi mais do que duplicado na última década”
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Abolish Militarism and War
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Presented at the International Conference against US/NATO Military Bases, 16-18 Nov 2018, Dublin, Ireland – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization-NATO, which should have been disbanded when the Warsaw Pact was dissolved, continue to carry out wars and proxy wars in many countries pushing towards the borders of Russia and resurrecting a cold war between the East and West. I believe that NATO should be disbanded and should be made accountable and make restitutions to the millions of people in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and many others it has illegally attacked, invaded, destroyed.
→ read full articleCultural Imperialism: Linguistic Perversion and Obfuscation of Empire Building
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – In the contemporary world, western imperialist propagandists, particularly journalists and editors of the mass media, have resorted to perverting everyday concepts and the language of politics. The use and abuse of the language of politics has served to blame victims and to justify imperial aggressors. The consequences are multiple, both in legitimizing war crimes and economic plunder, as well as neutralizing domestic opposition.
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The Filter Bubble: Owen Jones and Con Coughlin
Editor | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 – There is something dreamlike about the system of mass communication sometimes described as ‘mainstream media’. Why are defence editors, defence correspondents, diplomatic editors and the like so often biased in favour of the Western defence and diplomatic establishment they are covering? And why are they allowed to demonstrate this bias without anyone so much as commenting? The filter bubble ensures that these questions can never be asked, much less answered.
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Iran Honoring Nuclear Deal as New Sanctions Hit, IAEA Report Shows
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – Iran has continued to implement the main nuclear restrictions set by its 2015 deal with major powers even as the United States reimposed sanctions against Tehran, a U.N. atomic watchdog report showed today.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
At the age of 13 Henri fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14, the right. His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54m. tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Physically unable to participate in most of the activities typically enjoyed by men of his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in his art. An alcoholic for most of his adult life, he was placed in a sanatorium shortly before his death.
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Hymn for the Weekend (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Kick back and simply enjoy…
→ read full articleSanctions as Collective Punishment
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
At present, we treat nations as though they were persons: We punish entire nations by sanctions, even when only the leaders are guilty, even though the burdens of the sanctions fall most heavily on the poorest and least guilty of the citizens, and even though sanctions often have the effect of uniting the citizens of a country behind the guilty leaders. Should we not regard sanctions as collective punishment? If we do so, then sanctions are a war crime, under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
→ read full articleThe Psychosocial Dimension of Power: An Emotional Analysis of the Davos Elite’s Discourse on Globalization
Mario D’Andreta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
I conducted an analysis of the globalization discourse of the World Economic Forum Board members by applying the methodological approach of Text Emotional Analysis’ Model of Collusion… On the basis of results, several intervention strategies can be proposed. Their implementation, however, requires an active and accountable involvement of all the interlocutors of the global elite.
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Burmese Activist Speaks Out for the Rohingya
Noriko Okada | NHK World Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018 – “Ask yourself, if you saw your wife raped and your father shot dead in front of your eyes, if your little 6-month old boy was burned alive in front of your eyes…would you like to be told that you need to go back?” Those are the words of Maung Zarni, leader of a global network of activists supporting the Rohingya refugees who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh.
→ read full articleNo Brainer
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Stalin claimed he was the greatest philosopher of all times. In Moscow in the early 1950s, the following joke circulated among physicists, who have some disdain for chemists:
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Tchaikovsky on Depression and Finding Beauty amid the Wreckage of the Soul
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
“Life is beautiful in spite of everything! … There are many thorns, but the roses are there too.”
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Bachelet: Returning Rohingya Refugees to Myanmar Would Place Them at Serious Risk of Human Rights Violations
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
13 Nov 2018 – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet today urged the Government of Bangladesh to halt plans for the repatriation of more than 2,200 Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, warning that the returns would be in violation of international law and put their lives and freedom at serious risk.
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