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The End of Democracy?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
8 May 2018 – Because of globalization in its manifest forms, it is no longer tenable to confine the ambitions of democracy to national spaces. Global democracy has become, is becoming, a matter of ultimate concern. Issues raised concern transparency, accountability, participation, and responsiveness of global policy processes, and of course, how the global is to be linked to the regional and national.
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Who Is the Vassal?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
12 May 2018 – If you are living in Israel, these days, you get the impression that the huge State of Israel is dictating to its American vassal what to do about Iran. President Donald Trump listens and complies. Bibi the Great tells him to tear up the Iranian deal for no obvious reason, and he obeys. He has no choice, poor man.
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Tango – Por Una Cabeza (Music Video of the Week)
Nicola Benedetti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
Nicola Benedetti, Ksenija Sidorova, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk. Delightful!
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Don’t Be Scared about the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next
Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk – Fast Company Magazine,
14 May 2018
Instead of fixating on a fight between capitalism and socialism, imagine innovating a future economy that transcends old binaries. We can let the ghosts go. We can allow ourselves the freedom to do what humans do best: innovate.
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Iran Deal Represents ‘Significant Verification Gain’ – UN Atomic Energy Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
9 May 2018 – Speaking the day after the United States withdrew from an international agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency made it clear that Iran has consistently stuck to its commitments.
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Malcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
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Trump Fuels Extremism and Violence!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
Donald Trump’s May 8 withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear deal and the May 14 US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital by moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem will only further isolate the U.S. European Prof. Johan Galtung who predicted the crash of the Soviet empire in 1991 now predicts the end of the American empire within the next two years.
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The American Psychological Association Speaks Out Against Gina Haspel
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
The APA took an important step last week. In key ways, the APA’s opposition to Gina Haspel’s nomination is important symbolically even if its immediate practical impact proves limited.
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For Rohingya Refugees, Imminent Surge in Births Is Traumatic Legacy of Sexual Violence – Special Report
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
11 May 2018 – Late last year, as violent repression in Myanmar sent Rohingyas fleeing to safety in Bangladesh, women from the mainly Muslim minority were subjected to what a United Nations official called “a frenzy of sexual violence”.
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Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution
Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
In a world fraught with violence, misuse of power, corruption and complex conflicts endangering human security and global peace, the book offers an outstanding contribution to rational thinking envisaging intellectual excellence and proactive vision for change and adaptability to the futuristic challenges in global affairs.
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De-Briefing Academics: Unpaid Intelligence Informants
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
3 May 2018 – Many academics are frequently engage in what government officials dub ‘de-briefing’! They meet and discuss their field-work, data collection, research finding, observations and personal contacts over lunch at the Embassy with US government officials or in Washington with State Department officials.
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A Bomber Pilot Speaks
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
The stain of death spreads below,
but from my cockpit I see none of it.
I only drop bombs as I have been trained
Business Is Booming for the U.K.’s Spy Tech Industry
Matt Kennard – The Intercept,
14 May 2018
11 May 2018 – A new “cyber corridor” in England is attracting secretive companies that are producing cutting-edge government surveillance tools.
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(Português) Somos estranhos na nossa relação com outras espécies
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
A ideia da inferiorização do que é diferente há muito embruteceu o ser humano. E mesmo hoje, quando o pretexto de suplantar o outro é mais desnecessário do que nunca, até mesmo aqueles que gozam de certas habilidades intelectuais defendem essa prática. Mas por que as coisas são assim? Encarceramos espécies que jamais nos causaram qualquer mal.
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Rosa Luxemburg: The Unsung Hero of Postcolonial Theory
Hamid Dabashi – Al Jazeera,
14 May 2018
12 May 2018 – The world at large is these days celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. Luxemburg’s work gave the postcolonial theorist a veritable voice at the global gathering of critical Marxist thinking.
→ read full articleCopper Mining Tailings Ponds Are Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things (and Neither Are Hydrofluoric Acid Storage Tanks)
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
An Open Letter to the Affected Mayors, City Councilors and Assorted Thought Leaders Who Inhabit the Areas Downstream and Downwind
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Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for World Communications Day
Pope Francis | Libreria Editrice Vaticana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
I would like to invite everyone to promote a journalism of peace. By that, I do not mean the saccharine kind of journalism that refuses to acknowledge the existence of serious problems or smacks of sentimentalism. On the contrary, I mean a journalism that is truthful and opposed to falsehoods, rhetorical slogans, and sensational headlines. A journalism less concentrated on breaking news than on exploring the underlying causes of conflicts, in order to promote deeper understanding and contribute to their resolution by setting in place virtuous processes. A journalism committed to pointing out alternatives to the escalation of shouting matches and verbal violence.
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Eclipsing Factionalism: The Missing Story from Gaza Protests
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
10 May 2018 – Palestinians, disenchanted with factional division, are laboring to create a new political space, independent from the whims of factions; because, for them, the real fight is that against Israeli Occupation, for Palestinian freedom and nothing else.
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Careless Flowering
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
Surrounded by trees,
A public garden steps away,
The autumn-angling sun stirring the roses,
The Skripals Will Most Likely Never Be Allowed to Talk
The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
11 May 2018 – It has been two months already since the Skripals are held in total secrecy by the UK authorities. What I see is this: on substance, the Skripal false flag has crashed and burned, just like MH17 or the Douma chemical attack, but unlike MH17 or Douma, the Skripals are two witnesses whose testimony has the potential to result in a gigantic scandal, not just for the May government, but for all those spineless Europeans who showed “solidarity” with Britain.
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Three More…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
An Irishman arrived late at night at a bar in Belfast and saw a big fight.
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You Can’t Handle the Truth about Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
14 May 2018
9 May 2018 – When you tell people you’ve been tracking them across the internet, they freak out and avoid buying your product, research at the Harvard Business School found.
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(עברית – Hebrew) מצעד השיבה הגדול – עזה, פלסטין
ד עזדין אבו אל עיש – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
“העסקה האולטימטיבית” היא הגשמת ארץ הקודש כארץ שלום. בשותפות, יוכלו הפלסטינים והישראלים לחיות כולם בארץ זו – מוסלמים, נוצרים ויהודים – כאזרחים שווים בני דתות אברהם. רפאו את הפצעים ומחו את הדמעות. אל תביטו לאחור, הביטו קדימה ולימדו את השיעורים.
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The Machiavellian Threefold Game of the Neoconservatives
Laurent Guyénot | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
To realize their fantasies of world domination, the neocons resorted to a triple discourse: a cynical political philosophy developed by their mentor Leo Strauss for domestic consumption; a cold analysis of Israeli strategic interests for the benefit of the leaders in Tel Aviv; and a fear-mongering warning against imaginary dangers besetting U.S. public opinion.
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Is Marx Still Relevant?
Peter Singer | Project Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
On the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth on May 5, 1818, it isn’t far-fetched to suggest that his predictions have been falsified, his theories discredited, and his ideas rendered obsolete. So why should we care about his legacy in the twenty-first century?
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Governance as “Juggling” — Juggling as “Governance”
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
14 May 2018 – Dynamics of Braiding Incommensurable Insights for Sustainable Governance – There is a case for recognizing the extent to which governance of many kinds is a matter of “juggling” parameters, variables, resources, people, schedules, risks, and disparate skills.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
The aftermath of the Cold War exhibited several forms of dysfunctionality: failures by the American-led West to recognize and act upon a new global agenda that served the ‘human interest’ rather than continue to pursue ‘geopolitical ambitions’ by relying on coercive diplomacy and militarism. What is politically ‘feasible’ at this point will not do. The peoples of the world deserve and require a politics that recognizes what is ‘necessary’ and aspires to achieve what is ‘desirable.’
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Palestinian Refugees Suffer Setback in Lebanon’s Parliamentary Election
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
10 May 2018 – Despite the recent election results, Palestinians in Lebanon will continue their struggle to achieve the elementary civil rights to work and to own a home. Their prospects will increase if more of their international supporters active on myriad internet blogs will focus on their plight in Lebanon and hopefully many will come to Lebanon to help organize an effective grassroots civil rights campaign.
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Unearthing Truths: Israel, the Nakba, and the Jewish National Fund
The Editors | Moving Forward Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
The Forward courageously reminds American Jews of the reality of the Nakba, the slogans and symbols of the Jewish project that enabled mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people – and the policies that enable it to continue today. Our hope is that pro-Israel communities will honestly confront the history and the present situation in the land, and move toward justice.
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Oliver North Will Be Next President of NRA, Organization Says
Camila Domonoske | National Public Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
7 May 2018 – Retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, infamous for his involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s, will be the next president of the National Rifle Association, the organization says in a statement.
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Waiting in Line
LATUFF – Mondoweiss,
14 May 2018
… to Satisfy the American Elite’s Addiction
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Achieving Peace
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik – University of Oslo, Norway 1975
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A Warm Room
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
As long as peace negotiators focus on the elimination of weapons, anyone with a gun or bomb can sabotage the peace process. Violence relates to an unresolved conflict like smoke to fire. To stop the smoke, it is necessary to quench the fire, not the other way round.
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Electrifying Development
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
14 May 2018 – It is hard to believe that there are still some regions in the world that are without electric power. But there are actually several regions without it. According to a recent report of the Washington Post, there are several countries in Africa and Asia which have either no electricity or suffer from electricity hunger.
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The UNO at Crossroads While Warriors Are Destroying Humanity
Mahboob A Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
Is There a UNO to Protect the Beleaguered Humanity? Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen are destroyed by design. Some of these places were the hub of ancient cultures and human civilizations and will never be rebuilt by the warmongers and raging sectarian bloodbath. It reminds us all of the man-made sadistic events leading to the First and the 2nd World Wars. As a conscientious global community, what have we learned from history?
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News from Burma/Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
11 May 2018 – Travels and intense activist work, and observing INGOs, old and new, treating the ongoing Rohingya genocide as if it were a business item among rivals, have drained me tremendously… Everyone remotely familiar with international justice–if at all–knows that by the time the lawyers arrive and the Court set up, the targets are all dead, their villages bulldozed in the case of Rohingyas, and they have nowhere to go or no place they can call ‘home’ or their homeland.
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Remediating Fukushima—“When Everything Goes to Hell, You Go Back to Basics”
William Steel | Ars Technica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
11 May 2018 – Seven years on from the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has come a long way from the state it was reduced to. It may take 40 years for the site to appear like “a normal reactor at the end of its life.” 8 trillion yen ($74.6 billion) approved by the Japanese state last May for the complete decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi.
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Military, a Most Sordid Profession
Fred Reed | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
A few thoughts on our disastrous trillion-dollar military: It is unnecessary. It does not defend the United States. The US has no military enemies. No nation has anything even close to the forces necessary to invade America, and probably none the desire. “Our boys” are not noble warriors protecting democracy, rescuing maidens, and righting wrongs. They are, like all soldiers, obedient and amoral killers. Pilots bombing Iraq or Syria know they are killing civilians.
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Transforming Violent Systems: The Key to Social Peace
Dr. Richard Rubenstein | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
12 Apr 2018 – Richard E. Rubenstein is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment and a professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. His recent book, Resolving Structural Conflicts, was published by Routledge in 2017.
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Commercializing Peace?
Gary Brumback | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
28 Apr 2018 – I’m no less skeptical and even more cynical about peace through commerce after reading this book, especially its case studies. The book risks being an insult to people who know the real story about the UN and MNCs. Were the academic contributors in some instances bamboozled or corporatized? I don’t know.
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The Latest Gaza Massacre: ‘There Is No Better Life but for Dead People’
Jakob Reimann – New Matilda,
7 May 2018
30 Apr 2018 – Over the past month, Israel has slaughtered almost 50 unarmed Palestinians protesting the theft of their land and the oppression under which they live.
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The Times Call for Radical Action!
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
1 May 2018 – Johan Galtung predicted the crash of the Soviet empire within one year, and he predicts the end of the American empire within the next two years. If he is correct, the crash of the global economy is likely to come before the threatened wars, before the full development of fascism, and before the full effects of global warming. And if he is correct, it will provide us with a window of opportunity in the next two years to refound the global political system.
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Israeli Soldiers Cheer after Shooting Unarmed Palestinian Protester in the Village of Madama
btselem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
24 Apr 2018 – Filmed by B’Tselem Volunteers Mu’awiyah Nassar and Ahmad Ziyadah.
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U.S. Should Accept Putin’s Offer to Negotiate on Nukes
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
The U.S. should take him up on this offer. As the two most powerful nuclear powers on the planet, with enough nuclear weapons to end civilization as we know it and possibly the human species, the two countries need to be engaged in productive and good-faith negotiations to end the nuclear weapons threat to each other and to all humanity.
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Is a New Intifada Possible?
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
2 May 2018 – Decades of Zionist colonialism transformed the Palestinian people from among the most economically and educationally advanced in Western Asia to
its most dependent and desperate. It is the world’s sole remaining unresolved case of colonialism, and it will be settled in the same manner as it has been in more than 140 other countries: by sharing the land and agreeing to coexist. Until this freedom and equality is achieved, Palestinians will continue to resist.
Gaza Now Has a Toxic ‘Biosphere of War’ That No One Can Escape
Mark Zeitoun and Ghassan Abu Sitta – The Conversation,
7 May 2018
27 Apr 2018 – Undrinkable drinking water is just one example of how blockades and war have permeated an entire ecosystem. A combination of repeated Israeli attacks and the sealing of its borders by Israel and Egypt have left the territory unable to process its water or waste.
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(Italiano) Parassiti in un corpo vivo
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
7 May 2018
2 maggio 2018 – Con il termine AMOC, acronimo dell’inglese Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, si intende una delle componenti più importanti del sistema climatico terrestre. E’ comunemente detto anche Sistema della Corrente del Golfo.
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(Castellano) Venezuela: preparativos mediáticos para una intervención
Romain Migus | El Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
El 20 de mayo de 2018, se celebrará la elección presidencial en Venezuela. El sistema mediático ha empezado a crear matrices de opinion negativas contra el sistema electoral con el objetivo de deslegitimizar el proceso electoral. Este artículo es para que puedas comprender la complejidad de la situación en Venezuela.
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Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
2 May 2018 – The ‘ultimate deal’ is the realization of the Holy Land is the land of peace. In partnership, Palestinians and Israelis can all live in this land – Muslims, Christians and Jews – as equal citizens of Abrahamic faiths. Heal the wounds, and wipe the tears. Do not look backwards – look forward and learn the lessons.
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Global Military Spending at Record $1.7 Trillion
Niles Niemuth | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
4 May 2018 – Global military spending hit a record of more than $1.7 trillion in 2017, the highest level since the Cold War, according to figures published yesterday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The report gives some idea of the scale of the squandering of resources for destructive ends.
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Somewhere over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)
Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Israel “Iz” Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole, in Hawaiian, The Fearless Eyed was a Hawaiian musician and sovereignty activist. Thousands of fans gathered as his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean at Mākua Beach, Hawai’i on July 12, 1997. This video documents the event. RIP dear friend, 350 kg of heart.
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Imperial Road to Conquest: Peace and Disarmament Agreements
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
In recent years US imperial strategy has sought to lessen the cost of defeating and overthrowing independent countries.
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Human Trafficking for Organs: Ending Abuse of the Poorest
Maged Srour – Inter Press Service-IPS,
7 May 2018
30 Apr 2018 – Organ trafficking, also defined as ‘illegal organ trade’, ‘transplant tourism’ or ‘organ purchase’ describes the phenomenon of trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ removal, a grim reality in the 21st century. “People who are rich are able to buy organs and it’s the poor who end up being the source of these organs.”
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Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Al was walking home from school. Suddenly he saw that the boy in front of him had fallen and dropped a large pile of books and other things that he was carrying. Al bent down and helped him pick up the scattered items.
→ read full articleThat Woman
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
5 May 2018 – Ben-Gurion said about her: “The only thing Golda knows how to do is to hate!” Golda Meir did not hate me. That would be an understatement. She detested me. The way I speak, the way I dress, the way I look. Everything.
→ read full articleHaving Bought into a Wreck — What Now?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Cognitive Challenges of Embodying Reality Otherwise
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(Português) Marca alemã desenvolve linha de calçados veganos com cogumelo
Thayná Soares - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
7 May 2018
5 maio 2018 – A empresa de engenharia alemã Nat-2 criou recentemente um sapato vegano de alta qualidade, feito de uma mistura de cogumelo e fungos que imita couro animal.
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Suicide Prevention Is Part of the Right to Life
Christophe Barbey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
The best prevention of suicide is to be able to live, in dignity, a serene and gratifying life. To choose to live and to lead a happy life is a personal choice reinforcing this prevention process. – As Such, It Is a State Duty Switzerland Recognized
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Solidarity Economy: Building an Economy for People & Planet
Emily Kawano | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
1 May 2018 – This paper presents a vision of an alternative economic system that puts people and the planet at its core. More than an academic model, Solidarity Economy is an organizing strategy that seeks to transform all sectors of our economy by proliferating and connecting existing practices outside the mainstream of capitalism. The goal is to ultimately move the system away from a focus just on what works for homo economicus and towards an economy grounded in solidarity, equity, participatory democracy, sustainability, and pluralism.
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Declaration on the Right to Peace (2)
United Nations General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Resolution 71/189 adopted by the General Assembly on 19 Dec 2016
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Latuff – MintPress News,
7 May 2018
True Identity…
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Turning on Russia (Part 1)
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould – Consortium News,
7 May 2018
29 Apr 2018 – With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the creation of the so called Wolfowitz Doctrine in 1992 during the administration of George Herbert Walker Bush, the United States claimed the mantle of the world’s first and only Unipower with the intention of crushing any nation or system that would oppose it in the future. The New World Order, foreseen just a few short years ago, becomes more disorderly by the day.
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Brooklyn Students Use ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ to Explore Solutions to Gun Violence
Anya van Wagtendonk | Youth Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
30 Apr 2018 —The inspiration comes from ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ by Nobel Peace Prize nominee, dramaturge Augusto Boal, a ramification of Paulo Freire’s seminal book, ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed.’ Both educators were Brazilian.
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The Underworld of Banksters
Gary Brumback | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
2 May 2018 – This article burrows into a sector that I call the “underworld of banksters.” A bankster is a bank or banker that relies on illegal or unethical wrongdoing in their financial dealings. The wrongdoing to be found in their underworld is monumental and incalculable in size and harm done.
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Defence Stocks Plummet amid Threats of Peace Breaking Out on Korean Peninsula
New Matilda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
War. What is it good for? Well, the economy, stupid. And conversely, if the prospects of war reduce, you can pretty much guess what happens to the fortunes of major defence companies.
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How False Flag Operations Are Carried Out Today
Philip M. Giraldi | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
30 Apr 2018 – Today’s false flag operations are generally carried out by intelligence agencies and non-government actors including terrorist groups. There is nothing honorable about them as their intention is to blame an innocent party for something that it did not do. There has been a lot of such activity lately. The CIA has developed a capability to mimic the Internet fingerprints of other foreign intelligence services. False flags can be involved in other sorts of activity as well.
→ read full articleAs Israel Kills Dozens and Maims Thousands, Palestinian ‘Violence’ Under Media Microscope
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
30 Apr 2018 – Corporate media help set the terms of debate about the issues they cover by pointing toward specific sets of questions and ignoring others. When news outlets highlight particular points of contention, they encourage audiences to see these as the central aspects of the story and discourage consideration of other facets of the topic. Recent reporting on the Palestinians’ Great Return March offers a case study in how news media establish truncated, distorted parameters of discussion.
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(Français) Crise humanitaire au Yémen: des millions de personnes sont concernées
Vijay Prashad | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
La population du Yémen a désespérément besoin de signes que cette guerre va bientôt prendre fin.
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Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism
Leeds Beckett University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Dr Jake Lynch, former BBC newsreader, Political Correspondent for Sky News and Sydney Correspondent for the Independent. Jake is now the Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney and is one of the most published authors in the field of Peace Journalism.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
The violence pandemic continues, unabated, particularly in the USA. There is interest in peace but not much in doing anything about it. And even less in what this column recommends with 60 years experience: identify and solve underlying conflicts, concile underlying traumas. Not easy. But feasible, if the will is there. A 2-point agenda.
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To Be a Palestinian Jerusalemite These Days
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
The Arab Summit held in Saudi Arabia in the 15th of April passed this year without attracting media attention. Strong decisions about Palestine and Iran, and a deep split regarding Syria. In Israel, there were almost no responses to the Arab Summit resolutions. The Israeli plans in regard to Jerusalem continued as if nothing happened.
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Big Pharma Wants People on Antidepressants for Years and It’s Working
Martha Rosenberg | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
30 Apr 2018 – Antidepressants were once considered a short-term therapy to help people get over a troubled time. All that changed with the debut of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants, drug ads on TV, and the promotion of the “chemical imbalance” theory of depression.
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(Castellano) Carta de la No-Violencia: Informe de Progreso 12 (abril 2018)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
23 abril 2018- Nuestro esfuerzo colectivo para construir un consenso mundial contra el uso de la violencia en todos los contextos continúa progresando, ¡incluso en contra de obstáculos abrumadores!
→ read full articleOpportunisms
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.
→ read full articleArcheology of War
David Krieger - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
The years of war have numbed us,
grinding us down as they pile up one upon
the other forming a burial mound not only
Leading Healthy, Spiritual, Meaningful Lives
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
7 May 2018 – Large number of people around the world are leading stressful, tension prone lives. This is due to several factors – economic, ageing and health related, racial and caste issues, violence and terrorist activities to name few principal ones. A resultant factor is poverty, loneliness and social isolation.
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Though Invisible to Us, Our Dead Are Not Absent
Edward Curtin, Jr. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Those titular words were sent to me by Fr. Daniel Berrigan shortly before he died.
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Netanyahu: Don’t Look Here Where We’re Shooting Children, Look Over There at Iran
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
1 May 2018 – Netanyahu even seems to have provoked the White House to issue a communique falsely stating that Iran has a weapons program presently, which it promptly had to retract. The incident shows how easy it is to manipulate the erratic Trump and his not-ready-for-prime-time staff.
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The Latest Act in Israel’s Iran Nuclear Disinformation Campaign
Gareth Porter - Consortium News,
7 May 2018
3 May 2018 – Benjamin Netanyahu’s stage performance about Iran seeking a nuclear weapon not only was based on old material, but evidence shows it was fabricated too.
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Twenty Arbiters for Policy Decisions and Actions: A Template for Our Times
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
5 May 2018 – Perhaps it would be helpful to keep before us the various aspirations for society’s models supportive of nature and human life. Idealistic? Of course! But, if we deny the possible, then reality fills the gaps with less than laudatory choices.
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Peace Journalism and Conflict Transformation: The Importance of Training
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Training journalists in the concepts and techniques of peace journalism, is to promote access to properly established information, to make people understand the causes and issues of conflict, and finally to encourage the participation of society in the peaceful transformation of these conflicts.
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(Français) Nicaragua: 7 similitudes entre les protestations violentes au Nicaragua et au Venezuela
Misión Verdad | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
26 Avr 2018 – Les similitudes entre l’escalade de violence qui a été menée à bien au Nicaragua ces derniers jours et les guarimbas organisées par l’anti-chavisme aussi bien en 2014 qu’en 2017 sont nombreuses. Non seulement en ce qui concerne ceux qui financent ces opérations mais aussi dans le mode opératoire, tant dans la rue que dans les médias et sur les réseaux sociaux. Ci-après, sept comparaisons qui le confirment.
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Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 Aug 1941): The Local and the Universal
René Wadlow - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
In a period of rapid change as we face today, it is often difficult to find the right balance between the cultural contributions and needs of the local, the national, and the universal. One way of finding this balance is to look at the life and work of others, who earlier confronted the same challenges. One such person was the poet, writer and cultural reformer Rabindranath Tagore.
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Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould – Consortium News,
7 May 2018
How Neo-Conservatives, Behind the Scenes, Took Control of U.S. Foreign Policy
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(Português) Moby está vendendo seus equipamentos musicais para arrecadar dinheiro para um comitê de médicos veganos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
26 abr 2018 – O renomado músico e ativista vegano Richad Melville Hall, mais conhecido como Moby, abriu hoje uma loja online depois de firmar uma parceria com o mercado online reverb.com para vender mais de 100 peças de seus instrumentos e equipamentos musicais pessoais.
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“Creating Wealth” through Debt: The West’s Finance-Capitalist Road
Michael Hudson – CounterPunch,
7 May 2018
Speech at Peking University’s School of Marxist Studies, May 5-6, 2018 – Volumes II and III of Marx’s Capital describe how debt grows exponentially, burdening the economy with carrying charges.
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Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Law Number 10 sets in motion a massive political and legal overhaul of the government land registry and gives Syrian refugees, whether inside the country or abroad just 30 days to prove ownership of their houses and property. As of today, 4 May 2018, they have one week and if they fail to do so the state will liquidate their titles and seize their holdings.
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Postscript: Additional Indonesian Impressions
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
1 May 2018 – It occurs to me that two additional impressions of Indonesia seem relevant enough to be worth a short supplement to my post of a few days ago.
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(Français) Le complexe militaro-industriel est la principale cause de la crise globale
John Scales Avery | Investig’Acion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
25 Avr 2018 – Je voudrais vous annoncer la publication d’un nouveau livre intitulé The Devil’s Dynamo [La dynamo du diable]. Il s’agit d’une collection d’articles et de textes sur la façon dont les complexes militaro-industriels du monde entier conduisent et perpétuent la guerre.
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How Long?
Raymond Nat Turner – Black Agenda Report,
30 Apr 2018
Collateral damage, civilian casualty….. how long?
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May the Korean Peace Deal Trigger Anti-Militarist, Anti-Fascist Movements in Asia–and Globally
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
Today–27 April 2018–will likely be chronicled in history as the day that gave little people like us, grassroots activists, to feel that PEACE is possible and that PEACE is the way. I hope Western mass media will stop its demonization of N. Korea which has, with good historical reasons, lived with the fear of being genocided by the United States.
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Israel Again Opens Fire on Gaza Protesters, Killing Three and Wounding Hundreds
Will Morrow | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
28 Apr 2018 – For the fifth consecutive week, the Israeli military rained live ammunition on thousands of unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza yesterday, killing three and wounding 900. Friday’s bloodletting brings the total number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army over the past five weeks to 45, including four children, with more than 6,000 wounded. Zero Israeli wounded or killed.
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UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
25 Apr 2018 – The world’s nuclear proliferation watchdog has welcomed the announcement by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to suspend its nuclear and missile tests and shut down its Punggye-ri atomic test site.
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Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
22 Apr 2018 – President Trump cancelled his attendance at the Summit of the Americas meeting of all the 35 presidents of the region and delegated VP Pence in his place. Pence, a known nonentity with zero experience and even less knowledge of Latin America–US relations, indicates the Trump regime’s disdain and low opinion of the eighth meeting of the tri-annual Summit.
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Do Animals Have Souls?
ISKCON Desire Tree – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
Is it only humans who have souls? Have you ever wondered whether animals have souls, or what happens after a pet dies? Do animals go to heaven, which is the word people commonly use to refer to the afterlife? Is an animal soul the same as a human one? What happens to animals in the afterlife? These are interesting questions.
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The Insanity at the Gaza Fence
Roger Cohen – The New York Times,
30 Apr 2018
20 Apr 2018 – When snipers shoot to kill civilians approaching a wall, there are disturbing echoes for anyone who has lived in Berlin. I lived in Berlin. I have passed several times through the fence separating the first world of Israel from the open-air prison of Gaza. Israel, through overreach, has placed itself in a morally indefensible noose.
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(Italiano) 25 aprile 2018_Il sogno concreto_Salò. Liberazione e Resistenza valori per donne libere e uomini liberi
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
IL SOGNO CONCRETO – Il testo dell’orazione è stato scritto a più mani ed è stato letto, oggi, a due voci.
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Unnecessary Suffering: The Legacy of Depleted Uranium
Carol Dudek | The World Can't Wait – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
A UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights has condemned depleted uranium munitions as weapons of indiscriminate destruction. Its effects continue after war ends and beyond military objectives; particles travel to noncombatant countries, polluting soil, water and food. In 1996 the UN passed a resolution to ban the use of DUs. The US voted no, and all abstentions were from Europe.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
A Swiss farmer’s son was for the first time at a ball.
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Panmunjom Declaration: A Glimmer of Hope
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
28 Apr 2018 – Taken pleasantly by surprise, not least because of the speed at which the joint Panmunjom Declaration has materialised, the world cannot but rejoice. Both leaders of North and South Korea have planted a tree of peace, shook hands and walked together, at one point hand in hand. Indeed, there is cause for optimism this time around and that both Washington and Beijing may yet endorse the Declaration.
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