Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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American Diplomacy with North Korea and Vietnam
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
There seems to be a stalemate, with 8 million or so in and around Seoul being as hostages to North Korean artillery should there be a US attack. North Korea will not launch a first strike, but they want to show USA-Japan-the World that they are equal to USA in offensive capability with an invulnerability of force and value–people–unmatched in human history. Mantra: “1952” NEVER AGAIN!
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Unusual People, Unusual Events in India
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
“Alone I can say, together we can talk
Alone I can smile, together we can laugh
Alone I can enjoy, together we can celebrate.”
I have added another maxim:
“Alone I can think, together we can discuss.”
Breathe [In the Air] (Music Video of the Week)
Pink Floyd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Dark Side of the Moon. Released in 1973 – FOREVER FRESH! Enjoy!
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Jack
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
A fifth grade teacher began her first day with a new class. All the students were neat and well behaved, except for Jack, a boy in the front row, who was slumped in his chair and seemed to need a bath.
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China’s Ban on Elephant Ivory Sales Goes into Effect Sun Dec 31
Karen Graham | Digital Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
China, the world’s largest importer and end user of elephant tusks, has banned the sale of ivory with the law taking effect on 31 Dec 2017. The ivory trade is responsible for the deaths of nearly 30,000 elephants every year in Africa.
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Introducing Kijima Hajime
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
In various ways, poetry is an art of digressions. One builds unexpectedly—through rhymes, metaphors, similes, assonance and consonance, etc.—not just “castles in the air”—but castles, and sometimes shacks, to live in, get the feel of, try on for size, in order to gain new awareness. Hajime-san is just such a “builder.”
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Infected
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
After an interval of four million years, two planets meet again in the universe.
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The Madrasa Myth
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Madrasas across the world have suffered a great loss of reputation recently, primarily owing to a wave of extremism. These Islamic schools have been maliciously projected as incubators of holy warriors or what has been derisorily called as ‘jihad machines’.
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Trump “Defends” the Right to Protest in Iran, Criminalizes Protest in Washington
E.P. Milligan | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
8 Jan 2018 – Trump’s self-righteous claims to defend the right to protest in Iran are sheer hypocrisy. The first act of his administration was a police crackdown against people who protested his inauguration day. Police deployed weapons on at least 191 occasions, fired 74 sting ball grenades, a total of 230 people were arrested. The first round of trials collapsed late last year, with the jury acquitting all of the defendants. One hundred and eighty-eight defendants still await trial, many facing up to 50 years in prison.
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(Português) Retrospectiva 2017 – Será que o ano foi bom para os animais?
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
31 dez 2017 – Será que 2017 foi bom para os animais? Matamos mais de 56 bilhões de animais terrestres em 2017, contabilizando apenas os animais executados em matadouros; e mais de um trilhão de animais marinhos, ou seja, sem contar os animais de água doce.
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(Português) Cidadãos Globais Podem Fazer a Diferença–Como?
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Homenagem a Johan Galtung, criador da área de Estudos de Paz.
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Child Rapist Joins Brazil’s Congress
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
6 Jan 2017 – Nelson Nahim is a politician from Rio de Janeiro who was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2016 for submitting a 15-year-old girl to prostitution, rape and intimidation. The new congressman is affiliated with President Michel Temer’s party.
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2.5 Minute to Midnight
Andrew Glikson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
On 27 Jan 2017, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the arms of its doomsday clock to 2.5 min to midnight, the closest it has been since 1953, with implications for humanity and nature. This book elaborates the reasons for the decision by the Atomic Scientists.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! To All Our Readers, Friends, Supporters
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
On behalf of Prof. Johan Galtung and all of us at TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS, I express the sincere desire that 2018 be much better than 2017 to all of you—it will not be that difficult insofar the World is concerned. Thank you for your support, …
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Peacebuilders: The Making of Mandela
Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison but upon his release, he chose reconciliation over revenge.
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Remaining Peaceful Was Their Choice
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
31 Dec 2017 – People living now in Yemen’s third largest city, Ta’iz, have endured unimaginable circumstances for the past three years. Civilians fear to go outside lest they be shot by a sniper or step on a land mine… Despite their misery, they steadfastly opted for unarmed, nonviolent struggle.
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Stepping Stones to Change in Afghanistan
Carolyn Coe | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Amrullah has studied nonviolence at the Street Kids School, in Kabul, Afghanistan, for almost three years. The school, with 94 students this year, is a project of the Afghan Peace Volunteers (APVs) at the Borderfree Nonviolence Community Centre. There, the students also gain literacy and math skills, supplementing their lessons at the government schools.
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(Français) Tuer la biosphère pour accélérer l’extinction humaine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Prepare for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Il y a plusieurs années au Cameroun, un pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest, un rhinocéros noir occidental a été tué. C’était le dernier de son genre sur Terre.
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The Evolution of the Refugee Crisis
Erik Berglöf | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
The 2015 refugee crisis is still a raw issue for millions of Europeans, and continues to serve as fodder for populist and nationalist movements. But, in reality, the situation has started to improve dramatically in many host countries, and it is now incumbent on European leaders to ensure that the trend continues.
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(Português) Retrospectiva 2017: um ano de retrocessos, inovações e esperanças
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
28 dez 2017 – O ano de 2017 foi marcado pelas contradições e anacronismos. Enquanto vimos vitórias pelos direitos animais em várias partes do mundo, tivemos que conviver com retrocessos terríveis no Brasil como emendas parlamentares para a perpetuação da exploração animal em rodeios e vaquejadas, a tentativa de legalizar a caça no país(…) Confira os destaques deste ano da ANDA.
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An Appeal to the TRANSCEND Membership by TMS Editor Antonio C. S. Rosa
Sebastian Eck, Antonio C. S. Rosa | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
“Dear colleagues, dear friends, dear TRANSCEND members, let’s grow younger. Let us bring together competent young people from across the world for Nonviolence, Mediation, and Peace Journalism.”
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A Whiter Shade of Pale (Music Video of the Week)
Procol Harum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Original from the Summer of Love 1967 Hit Record
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
A man comes home and finds his dog with the neighbor’s pet rabbit in his mouth. It is dead.
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The Denied Oppression of Myanmar’s Rohingya People
IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
An explosion of violence has driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya out of Myanmar. The continuing exodus is the culmination of decades of oppression and hostility that have stripped Rohingya of their rights, denied them an identity, and forced them from their homes. What comes next for one of the world’s most persecuted minorities?
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Trapped
Thomas Lamadieu | Roots Art – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Lamadieu takes photos of buildings then uses the sky as his canvas.
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The Unseen World
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
To be aware of the wonders of the living planet is to take on an unbearable burden of grief. What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.
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(Português) Mastite e a Exploração de Vacas
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
27 dez 2017 – Você percebe mais uma vez como estamos imersos em uma cultura especista, que encara os animais não humanos como nada mais do que produtos, quando cientistas ligados à saúde animal apontam como principal prejuízo da mastite, uma grave inflamação das glândulas mamárias, a queda na produção de leite da vaca.
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How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda
Lauren Etter, Vernon Silver and Sarah Frier |Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
21 Dec 2017 – Zuckerberg’s social network is a politically agnostic tool for its more than 2 billion users, he has said. What he hasn’t said is that his company actively works with political parties and leaders including those who use the platform to stifle opposition with the aid of “troll armies” that spread misinformation and extremist ideologies.
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Religion – A Source of Conflict or the Path to Peace? Its Role in Preventing Violence
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
A constant and widespread communication process on religious reflection, inclusion and participation should prevail as a showpiece for conflict prevention, resolution and resilience. Doing good and promoting peaceful behaviour is not enough. Extensive inclusive participation and communication on the subject matter must be undertaken in order to provide a counter-weight to toxic conversations, the spreading of violence and extremism.
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Stress Test: Democracy Confronts Climate Change
Gus Speth | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
29 Dec 2017 – Can American democracy rise to the climate occasion? Unprecedented measures must be put in place both to move completely out of fossil fuels by mid-century and also to pursue far-reaching and costly adaptation.
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Nativity: Rev Kevin Annett, the United Church of Canada, and the “Little Matter of Genocide”
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
25 Dec 2017 – The “little matter of genocide”, about which the United States of America shares considerable guilt, is the century-long history of abuse, rape and murder of tens of thousands of Canada’s aboriginal children in church-run Indian residential schools (known as mission schools in the US), a subject on which Kevin is an acknowledged world expert.
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Trump, the UN, and the Future of Jerusalem
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
31 Dec 2017 – The wider implications of the UN reaction to Trump’s Dec 6 decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and to follow this by relocating the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
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Crumbling Congo – The Making of a Humanitarian Emergency
IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
The Democratic Republic of Congo has been at war with itself for more than two decades. The scale of the humanitarian crisis requires an urgent international response – but the world is yet to step up to the challenge.
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Celebrating Christmas in Traditional and Non-Traditional Ways
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
1 Jan 2018 – Christmas is celebrated with devotion, fervor and gaiety all over the world on 25 December. I am sure there have been unusual events to celebrate Christmas this year. The ones I have written give only a glimpse of the celebrations and festivities. Perhaps other people will join the festive mood and share their unusual experiences.
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Reconciling Symbols of Islam, Judaism and Christianity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
31 Dec 2017 – Catalytic Methodology for Effective Interfaith Dialogue – Importance of the highest degree is attached by their respective believers to the symbols of the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths. Their mutual hostility over millennia is focused by and through those symbols. They are displayed and brandished on ever possible occasion.
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US Nuclear Tests Killed Far More Civilians Than We Knew
Tim Fernholz | Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
21 Dec 2017 – When the US entered the nuclear age, it did so recklessly. New research suggests that the hidden cost of developing nuclear weapons were far larger than previous estimates, with radioactive fallout responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Two basic institutions in Western history and individual lives: Christianity offering Salvation to those following Laws, Commandments, and Science offering Truth to those who believe in scientific laws. After Enlightenment ushered in a godless world, one is waning and the other vexing, seen as antithetical to each other.
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Bibi’s “Iran Will Have 100 Nukes!” Math Appears a Bit Wobbly…
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
… As Israeli Military Intelligence Evaluates USIS Claims That the IROI Acquired Three Nukes from the DRNK Last Spring
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The Jerusalem Vote and the US-Israel Link
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
1 Jan 2018 – the US-Israel link has not been able to achieve its goal of enhancing the “security” of Israel. The defeat of this diabolical link in the UN on 21 Dec merely underlines this fact. It should embolden all of us to accelerate our struggle for a just world.
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Suspected Cholera Cases in Yemen Surpass One Million, Reports UN Health Agency
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
22 Dec 2017 – The total number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has crossed one million, the World Health Organization reported today. “If we cannot bring in medicines and medical supplies, we cannot save lives.”
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Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
1) Nothing. One hand cannot clap….
2) Half the sound of 2 hands clapping….
The Man Who Jumped
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
30 Dec 2017 – Nobody described the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict better than the historian Isaac Deutscher. A man lives in a house that catches fire. To save his life, he jumps out of the window. He lands on a passer-by in the street below and injures him grievously. Between the two a bitter enmity arises. Who is to blame?
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Runaway Train towards Full Digitization of Money and Labor
Peter Koenig | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
28 Dec 2017 – The other day I was in a shopping mall looking for an ATM to get some cash. There was no ATM. Cash machines gradually but ever so faster disappear, not only from shopping malls, also from street corners. This new cashless money model is progressively but brutally introduced to the Swiss and Europeans at large as they are not told what’s really happening behind the scene.
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Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
With 17% of the world’s population, India is home to a quarter of the world’s hungry. The dismal health of Indian women and children is primarily due to lack of food security. Food security exists when all people at all times have physical, economic and social access to safe, adequate and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for a healthy and active life.
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Effigies
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Effigies is a collection of drawings by Syrian artist Lawand, accompanied by poems which were composed by the British poet Pascale Petit in response to these images. Even the verbal realm into which Petit’s poems take us has the language of some other world; such is the appeal of her words.
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(Português) Síndrome das Pernas Inquietas: Doença causa “alfinetadas” a noite inteira e não tem cura
Nuno de Noronha | SAPO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
27 Dez 2017 – A Síndrome das Pernas Inquietas é uma doença crónica e progressiva com impacto importante na qualidade de vida das pessoas. Alguns descrevem-na como uma espécie de “agonia nas pernas”, “comichão nos ossos” ou “alfinetadas”, explica o médico pneumologista Bruno Santos.
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How Pharma Uses the Charge of ‘Stigma’ to Sell Psychiatric Drugs
Martha Rosenberg | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
28 Dec 2017 – Do you overeat? Did your boyfriend just break up with you? Does no one return your emails? Do you fall asleep at night and wake up in the morning? If so, you may be suffering from mental illness! Mental illness is a highly stigmatized, life-long condition, says Pharma, that millions do not even realize they have and only a pharmaceutical drug can fix.
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Alternative Dispute Resolution or Legalism? Conflict Transformation!
Theresa Sing | Galtung Institut — Transcend Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Under the umbrella term Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), discourses around mediation and other non-judicial approaches to conflict resolution have been constrained by a predominantly legal narrative ultimately founded on an ‘either-or’ dichotomy between status quos instead of allowing a third way resting on a ‘both-and’ approach.
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Ending War Now
Jerry Alatalo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
1 Jan 2018 – Given the massive shift of world collective consciousness emergent after U.S. President Donald Trump’s arguably intended to provoke and dangerous Jerusalem announcement – and especially considering the dramatic response by member states at the UN, now would seem the perfect storm, confluence-of-events time for the world’s genuine peacemakers to conduct an energetic push towards making wars of aggression punishable.
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The Binary Code of Body and Spirit: Computing Pioneer Alan Turing on Mortality
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
When Christopher died of bovine tuberculosis in 1930 Alan fell to pieces. He was able to collect himself only through work, by burrowing so deep into the underbelly of mathematics that he emerged almost on the other side, where science and metaphysics meet. Sorrow had taken him on a crusade to make sense of reality. He wanted to understand how he could remain so attached to someone who no longer existed materially but who felt so overwhelmingly alive in his spirit.
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Life
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Everything that nature has built,
Blue sky and dark night,
Black fallow spring field,
The “Merchants of Death” Survive and Prosper
Lawrence Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
In mid-1930s, an exposé of the international arms trade had a major impact. Convinced that military contractors were stirring up weapons sales and war for their own profit, many people grew critical of these “merchants of death.” Today, some eight decades later, their successors, now more politely called “defense contractors,” are alive and well.
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Life-Saving Cancer Drug Sees 1400% Price Hike
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
The potentially life-saving medicine is used to treat patients suffering from brain tumors and Hodgkin’s lymphoma. While originally sold by Bristol-Myers Squib for decades for about US$50 a capsule, it now goes for US$768 per pill, thanks to startup NextSource’s price hikes.
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(Italiano) Lo stato dell’Impero nell’era del trumpismo
Diane Perlman | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
“Odio l’Impero USA, ma amo la Repubblica USA”. Sento da anni questo mantra da Johan Galtung, mio caro amico, mentore e collega. Con lo svolgersi degli avvenimenti, acquisisce nuovo significato.
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Mediation Perspectives: Peace, Conflict and Mediation in Islam
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Religions promote peace and provide moral guidance and legal injunctions to restrict and moderate the use of violence. Followers of a religion can comply with these guidelines or transgress against them as such followers are neither angels nor devils. Instead, they are human beings with all the complex aspirations to peace and temptations to violence that the human condition entails. In that respect, Islam is no exception.
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Galtung on Trauma, Drama: What Does North Korea Really Want?
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Prof. Johan Galtung, founder of Peace Studies, offers actionable nonviolent and dialogical solutions.
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An Irreverent Activist and His Year’s End Gift to Himself
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
‘I can’t be taken down.
For my feet have always been firmly on the ground.
My career can’t be destroyed.
For I have never pursued one.
Happiness
Steve Cutts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Nov 24, 2017 – The story of a rodent’s unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfillment. If any bells ring, it is not mere coincidence.
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Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
In 2007, Sotheby’s
auctioned a can of artist’s shit
for 180,000 dollars.
“Sophisticated,” “cultured” types
clamored to buy a tin of shit
an auction house called “Art.”
Led by U.S. Weapons Makers, Global Arms Sales Soared in 2016: Analysis
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
With U.S. weapons companies claiming more than half of global sales, and despite five previous years of decline, arms producers around the world raked in $375 billion in profits.
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1,000 Days of War Bringing ‘Apocalypse’ on Yemen: Oxfam
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
20 Dec 2017 – Yemen is on the brink of total collapse and an “apocalypse,” aid agency Oxfam said in a report today marking 1,000 days since Saudi Arabia and its regional allies began a military campaign against the poorest country in the Middle East. The British group added that one million people are suspected to have contracted cholera, a disease caused by contaminated water, in the world’s worst outbreak ever recorded.
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Jerusalem: Transforming a Hit into an Opportunity
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
President Donald Trump’s 6 Dec decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel represents a crucial shift from the previous biased mediator position to the new one as Israel’s partner. It is not only a violation to international law and UN Resolutions regarding Jerusalem, but it is also a violation to the 1993 Declaration of Principles known as Oslo Agreement.
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Syria Solidarity Movement Statement: US Coalition Out of Syria Now!
Paul Larudee | Syria Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
22 Dec 2017 – Both great powers, Russia and the USA, recently claimed victory over the Islamic State (aka Daesh, ISIS, ISIL) in Syria, but only one did the right thing in response. President Putin of the Russian Federation flew to Syria to announce deep cuts to its troop and equipment commitments in Syria.
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
For Gandhi, spiritual swaraj meant inner discipline marked by purity of intention and control over base tendencies like dishonesty, greed, aggression and violence. This entailed morality and virtues like truth, nonviolence, detachment, prayer, compassion and spirituality. These virtues and values are as important today as they were in Gandhian times.
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Why the Documentary Must Not Be Allowed to Die
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
11 Dec 2017 – “When the truth is replaced by silence,” wrote the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, “the silence is a lie.” Whenever young documentary film-makers ask me how they can “make a difference”, I reply that it is really quite simple. They need to break the silence.
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(Português) Coelhos com defeitos congênitos sofrem extrema violência em fazendas/quintas de pele
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Uma filmagem chocante expõe as terríveis condições das fazendas/quintas de coelhos usadas por algumas das mais famosas marcas de luxo do mundo.
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Dec 25-31, 2017 ~ This Week in History, which began in Dec 2014, ends on 31 Dec 2017. Thank you very much for your moral support for all those three years! May peace be with you. Have a Happy New Year! — Satoshi Ashikaga
→ read full articleOn OPTIMISM: A Peace Linguist’s Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Optimism is a powerful sea on which to sail
It challenges all ships to make PEACE prevail
Jerusalem as a Symbolic Singularity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
25 Dec 2017 – Comprehending the dynamics of hyperreality as a challenge to conventional two-state reality. Development of an argument presented previously. Later amendments to that text have been removed from there for presentation below — in the light of decisions by the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly.
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Pentagon Admits Presence of US Troops in Yemen as Cholera Cases Top One Million
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – The Pentagon admitted for the first time this week that it has “conducted multiple ground operations” in Yemen, the impoverished and war-ravaged country whose humanitarian crisis was underscored this week by the Red Cross: the number of cholera cases in Yemen had reached one million, making the ongoing epidemic by far the worst in recorded human history.
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Why Some People Resent “Do-Gooders”
Juliana Breines, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Doing well can be a double-edged sword.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame Is Not Papa Africa Saving Slaves
Ann Garrison and Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – African Union Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat praised Rwanda’s offer “to resettle up to 30,000 African migrants languishing in Libya.” The same story was reported across the Internet and newspapers in the US, Europe, and Africa. Rwandan President Paul Kagame is grandstanding as Papa Africa on the world stage, but nothing could be further from the truth or more preposterous than his proposal. Here are four reasons why.
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UN Rights Expert ‘Disappointed’ by Myanmar’s Decision to Refuse Visit
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
20 Dec 2017 – The UN expert on the human rights situation in Myanmar today expressed disappointment at the government’s decision to deny her all access to the country. “This declaration of non-cooperation with my mandate can only be viewed as a strong indication that there must be something terribly awful happening in Rakhine, as well as in the rest of the country.”
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Native Americans’ Capital City: Native Histories of Washington, D.C.
Jason Steinhauer | Library of US Congress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
As a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, historian Joseph Genetin-Pilawa is researching his forthcoming book The Indians’ Capital City: ‘Secret’ Native Histories of Washington, D.C. He sat down with Jason Steinhauer to discuss the facts, myths, and contradictions of Native presence in the nation’s capital.
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On Vaccines, Adjuvants and Autoimmunity
Christina England | Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Immunologists Survey the Research and It’s Not Reassuring – “Vaccines and autoimmunity are linked fields,” state the authors from the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases. Just as natural infections can sometimes induce autoimmune disease, so can vaccination induce autoimmunity that “may be severe and fatal.”
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Playing the Jerusalem Card in Lebanon with Deft Hypocrisy
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
21 Dec 2017 – Jerusalem just happened to be in the geographical area of the war between Arabs fighting the Byzantines. For a period, Muslims did pray towards Jerusalem because of its connections to Abraham and because Mecca was in pagan hands, but when Jews rejected Prophet Muhammad as the promised messiah, and Mecca was cleared of idols, Muslims largely lost interest in Jerusalem.
→ read full articleOh, God!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
A very good hearted young man came to the gates of heaven. He asked God, “Why have you brought me here so early? I was still in perfect health and wanted to do many more good deeds.”
→ read full articleWhy the Istanbul Declaration Must Succeed
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 – The Istanbul Declaration adopted at an Extraordinary Islamic Summit Conference in Istanbul on the 13th of December 2017 invites “the whole world to recognise East Jerusalem as the occupied capital of the State of Palestine.” It further pledges to ‘mobilize support in the name of entire humanity to strengthen the State of Palestine and its institutions in every field.”
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“Friendship Party” for Countries That Supported US in UN Israel Vote
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
22 Dec 2017 – Though at first glance it sounds straight out of The Onion, Nikki Haley has formally invited the 64 countries who either voted ‘against’ or abstained (or just didn’t show up) for Thursday’s UN General Assembly vote on the Jerusalem resolution to a “friendship” party. Hours after Haley tweeted “We appreciate these countries for not falling to the irresponsible ways of the UN.”
→ read full articleCry, Beloved Country
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – Anyone proposing the death penalty is either a complete fool, an incorrigible cynic or mentally disturbed – or all of these. There is no effective therapy for any of these defects. I wouldn’t even try.
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Remembering the Christmas Truce of 1914: (And Questioning Christian Participation in Homicide)
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
How Soldiers with Newly Attuned Consciences Almost Stopped a War – “…and the ones who call the shots won’t be among the dead and lame; and on each end of the rifle we’re the same.” — John McCutcheon
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The Jerusalem Votes at the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – What discussions gloss over is the degree to which issues of substance prevailed over matters of geopolitical alignment. Not one of America’s closest allies (UK, France, Germany, and Japan) heeded the arguments of Haley and Trump. Every important country in the world backed the GA Resolution on Dec 21 regardless of geography or political orientation (China, Russia, India, Brazil, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran).
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2018, America’s New Corporate Tax Cuts, and Future of the World
Irwin Jerome | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – It doesn’t take a mystic to look into a crystal ball. As all the corks of the champagne bottles continue to pop for the prospects of what the new year holds for the ultra-rich .01% and the rest of us, what no doubt now will follow will be a rush amongst the world’s corporate/financial structure to either implement similar corporate tax cuts within their own countries or inspire a new “offshore rush” of the world’s corporate infrastructure to re-locate within the borders of the United States to stick their heads in the pig trough along with all the other greedy ones to partake in the financial feeding frenzy that will ensue.
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Oh Holy Night (Music Video of the Week)
Il Divo with Katherine Jenkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Il Divo perform “Oh Holy Night” with Katherine Jenkins in “Steppin’ Out”
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The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.”
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Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – In India, small and marginal farmers—those who work on less than two hectares (five acres) of land—constitute 80% of all farm households, 50% of rural households and 36% of the total of all households… Within this self-perpetuating cycle of rural misery, wrapping a noose around the neck is the all-too-easy exit for an increasing number of smallholding farmers.
→ read full articleDemocracy, Development, and Reputation: Vietnam, Turkey, and International Liberalism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
The cases of Vietnam and Turkey strongly support the central claim here that national reputations of legitimacy should rest on a comprehensive assessment of material, ethical, and spiritual wellbeing of individuals and communities, and no longer be a reflection of geopolitical agendas (with respect to Turkey) and ideological arrogance (with respect to Vietnam).
→ read full articleJerusalem Is (Is Not) the Capital of Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
10 Dec 2017 – Donald Trump: “Israel is the only state in the world that is not allowed to locate its capital in a national city of its choice.” It seems like an innocent enough proclamation, and even accurate pushback against global double standards, until one considers the political, moral, and legal dimensions of the actual situation.
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Galtung on Trump’s USA: Demoralization, Destructuration, Deculturation
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Prof. Johan Galtung on the U.S. Empire’s Disintegration
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Winter Solstice: On This Day of the Longest Night . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
In 2017, Winter in the Northern hemisphere begins on Thu 21 Dec at 16:28 UTC. It is the shortest day of the year; it is the day of the longest night. For thousands of years, humans sought understanding of the cosmic wonder of day and night — the endless cycle of sun and moon.
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Heart-Wrenching Video Shows Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land
Se7en Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
8 Dec 2017 – National Geographic Official Video. When photographer Paul Nicklen and filmmakers from conservation group Sea Legacy arrived in the Baffin Islands, they came across a heartbreaking sight: a starving polar bear on its deathbed.
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
11 Dec 2017 – A new report by SIPRI revealed that despite the slump in global arms industry for five consecutive years, in 2016 arms producers world over saw US$375 billion in profits, with the U.S. weapons industry claiming over half the global sales.
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If You Don’t Own any Bitcoin, Read This
Adam Taggart | Peak Prosperity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
8 Dec 2017 – Wow. Just….wow. Bitcoin’s price has gone ‘beyond exponential’ this week. Just yesterday, as I started working on this article, it shot up 22% — from $14,000 to $17,000 (hitting an intraday high of over $19,000).
→ read full articlePalestine: Towards a Freedom from Funding
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
October 2017 – Thirty years ago I wrote a study about funding, suggesting that Palestine should not accept any funding that is not directed to the development of our economic productivity. The study called for the development of self reliance and for the rejection of any international funding that will be conducted in coordination with the Israeli Civil Administration. I feel that my 1987 message is still generally valid.
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International Migrants Day: 18 December
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Today, there are some 232 million persons who reside and work outside their country of birth. The reasons for migration are diverse − most often economic, but also refugees from armed conflicts and oppression, and increasingly what are called “ecological refugees” − persons who leave their home area due to changing environmental conditions: drought, floods, rising sea levels etc. Global warming is very likely to increase the number of these ecological refugees.
→ read full articleThe Farewell Sermon of Prophet Muhammad
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
15 Dec 2017 – The farewell sermon of Prophet Muhammad is one of the most important charters of human rights and symbolizes the inclusive character of Islam. It has great relevance in present times for both Muslims and the humanity at large.
→ read full articleChildren of Stones
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
16 Dec 2017 – For god’s sake, are they crazy? They congregate in the marketplace, boys of 15, 16 years, take stones and throw them at our soldiers, who are armed to the teeth. The soldiers shoot, sometimes over their heads, sometimes straight at them. Every day there are wounded, every few days there are dead. What for? They do not have the slightest chance of changing the policy of the Israeli occupation. Only very rarely do the boys hit a soldier and cause him a slight injury. Yet they go on. Why?
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Diane Perlman, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
“I hate the US Empire, but I love the US Republic.” For years I have been hearing this mantra from Johan Galtung my dear friend, mentor and colleague. As events unfold, it takes on new meaning.
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An Advent Calendar to Beat the Devil
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our ‘deceivers’ than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced. The Graphic revolution has produced new categories of experience. They are no longer simply classifiable by the old common sense tests of true or false. At no time is this more evident than in the months leading up to Christmas and the holidays.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Someone who farms is a farmer.
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