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The Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
22 Nov 2015 – What follows is a modified version of the Morton-Kenney annual public lecture given at the University of Southern Illinois in Carbondale on November 18, 2015 under the joint sponsorship of the Department of Political Science and the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.
→ read full articleWaiting for the Myanmar Miracle
Michael Green & Daniel Twining – Foreign Policy,
23 Nov 2015
12 Nov 2015 – Myanmar’s election is a good reminder that authoritarian elites underestimate their political opponents at their peril. The [Aung San Suu Kyi’s] National League for Democracy won nearly three-quarters of the votes cast in last Sunday’s elections.
→ read full articleOn the Phone
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
A man spoke frantically into the phone.
→ read full articleCall Me by My Name
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
French Pres. Charles De Gaulle got up in the middle of the night and went to the bathroom in the dark, wearing nothing.
→ read full articleThe Milgram Experiment
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
The “student” was led away into a cabin where he was presumably hooked to electric wires. The “teacher” was told to ask him a series of questions, and each time he gave a wrong answer, to administer to the “student” an electric shock of increasing intensity, to study if the fear of pain would improve people’s concentration and ability to think straight.
→ read full articleEdward Said’s Humanism versus the U.S. State Department’s Antisemitism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
There is an obvious tension that exists more vividly than when Edward Said was alive, and commenting on the Palestinian struggle. Israel has created on the ground a set of circumstances that seem irreversible and are institutionalizing a single apartheid Israeli state encompassing the whole of historic Palestine (minus Jordan).
→ read full articleBrain
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
George W. Bush went to see a specialist to examine his brain.
→ read full articleHopes for the Morning After in Ankara: Taking Stock (2002-2015)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
Let’s hope than when Erdoğan awakens the morning after his glowing victory, he chooses what is best for Turkey rather than to settle for becoming a grandiose figure who is certain to be both revered and feared. Only if he tames his ambitions will Erdoğan ensure his legacy as a great Turkish leader, second only to Ataturk.
→ read full articleThe Burlington 23
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
During the Vietnam war, a group of citizens in Burlington, Vermont, USA, tried for a long time in vain to persuade their Congressman to hold hearings about the legality of the war.
→ read full articleSmoke Signal
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.
→ read full articleAl Jazeera Turka Interview on Turkish Foreign and National Policy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
28 Oct 2015 – This is a modified text of an interview conducted by Semin Gumusel Guner of Al Jazeera Turka, and published online in abbreviated form on October 19, 2015. The situation in Turkey is increasingly precarious and troublesome.
→ read full articleRandom Inspections
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
If a suspected drug smuggler could tell a border guard, “You may check my trunk, but don’t open the glove compartment,” such an “inspection” would be meaningless.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: Seventy Years after Hiroshima & Nagasaki – Against Binaries (10)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
This is the last in this series of posts prompted by the 70th observance of the atomic attacks in 1945. The intention has been to explore several of the more important dimensions of what is called here ‘nuclearism,’ the securitization of nuclear weaponry in the face of international law, international morality, and simple common sense.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia, Royal Impunity, and the Quicksand of Special Relationships
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
This post challenges the geopolitics of impunity from both principled and pragmatic perspectives, and also casts doubts on ‘special relationships’ that the United States has established in the Middle East with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
→ read full articleSurvival of the Nicest? A New Theory of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive
Eric Michael Johnson – YES! Magazine,
26 Oct 2015
As worker-owned cooperatives continue to gain prominence around the world, we may ultimately witness the downfall of Carnegie’s “law of competition” and a return to the collaborative environments that the human species has long called home.
→ read full articleThe Inexorable Logic of Sharing Economy
Michael Spence, Nobel Economics Laureate – China Daily,
19 Oct 2015
The truth is that the Internet-led process of exploiting under-utilized resources－be they physical and financial capital or human capital and talent－is both unstoppable and accelerating. Indeed, those who fear the job-destroying and job-shifting power of automation should look upon the sharing economy and breathe a bit of a sigh of relief.
→ read full articleBlood Circulation
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
biology teacher was giving a lesson on blood circulation.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: Relying on International Law – Marshall Islands Nuclear Zero Litigation (9)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
From the time of the atomic explosions at the end of World War II, there have been two contradictory sets of tendencies at work: the repudiation of the weaponry and its contemplated uses as ultimate criminality and the secret feverish refinement of the weaponry to enhance its precision, destructive effects, battlefield capabilities, and delivery systems. To date, the latter tendency has prevailed.
→ read full articleCommuters
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Alice used to come to the office with public transportation, and Bill, who lived a little farther away in the same direction, drove to the office by car. He offered to Alice to pick her up on his way to the office every morning and bring her home after work. Both were happy with this arrangement.
→ read full articleEconomic Theory and Community Development – An Exercise in Applied Philosophy
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The Imaginary World That Holds the Real World Captive
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Civil Society Activism on Behalf of Nuclear Zero (8)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The Jeffersonian faith in the future of democracy rested on the cumulative impact of education on citizen participation encouraging a robust and vigilant civil society. The advocacy of nuclear disarmament must become joined at the hip with the recognition that global demilitarization and conventional disarmament are part of a retrofitted political package of unconditional anti-nuclearism.
→ read full articleAfter 70 Years: The UN Falls Short, and Yet…
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Seventy years later the UN disappoints many, and bores even more, appearing to be nothing more than a gathering place for the politically powerful. I think such a negative image has taken hold because the UN these days seems more than ever like a spectator than a political actor in the several crises that dominate the current agenda of global politics.
→ read full articleOctober 9, 1967: Che Guevara Is Executed in Bolivia
Richard Kreitner – The Nation,
12 Oct 2015
Che Guevara was executed by the Bolivian army on this day in 1967. When his self-selected executioner hesitated before firing, Guevara allegedly spat at him and shouted: “Shoot me, you coward! You are only going to kill a man!”
→ read full articleOver 40 Rodent Feeding Studies Show GM Food is Disastrous to Health
Christina Sarich, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
GMO Free USA has published a listing of more than 40 rodent studies showing that animals fed GM corn and soy suffer dire results. For those who say there is no ‘science’ to prove that GMOs are unsafe, I enjoin them to peruse the following list.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Gegen die Nato: Frankreich unterstützt Russland in Syrien
Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
5. Oktober 2015 – Die Franzosen unterstützen den Kampf Russlands gegen andere Terror-Gruppen in Syrien. Sie stellen sich damit auf die Seite von US-Präsident Barack Obama, der die Russen zu ihrem Einsatz ermuntert hat und über den Fortgang informiert wird.
→ read full articleThe Power of Nonviolence
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
When Ferdinand Marcos tried to rig elections to stay in power in the Philippines in 1986, two army units defected. He sent the rest of his army to crush them, but they were surrounded and protected by half a million unarmed civilians.
→ read full articleAnnoying Questions
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Little Johnny came home from the first day in school. His mother asked him how his teacher was.
→ read full articleNonagon of Toxic Conflict: Notes on the Turkish Quagmire
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The focus on Turkey, and its role with respect to Syria, PKK, and ISIS is not meant to minimize the importance of the other actors in the region that are part of the geopolitical nonogon. There are several overlapping regional proxy wars that have precluded a diplomatic resolution, including serious intraregional tensions between Saudi Arabia and Syria as well as the extraregional rivalry between the United States and Russia.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Nuclear Civil Disobedience (7)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
In the years after World War II there was a widespread belief that rational minds would prevail, and that nuclear weapons would not be further developed, and their possession as well as their threat or use prohibited.
→ read full articlePoland Becomes the 14th European Nation to Officially Ban GMO’s!
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
1 Oct 2015 – The fourteenth country to opt out of growing GM crops, Poland joins the ranks of Russia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Latvia, Italy, Germany, Scotland, Wales, Lithuania, Austria, Ireland, France, and Greece.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Japan – 70 Jahre nach Kriegsende
Eiichi Kido - Informationsstelle Militarisierung-IMI,
5 Oct 2015
Erinnerungskultur – Pazifismus-Gebot – Remilitarisierung? Wird Deutschland damit die Militarisierung und die Verneinung der Rechtstaatlichkeit Japans weiter unterstützen? Das würde viele BürgerInnen in Japan stark enttäuschen, die für Freiheit, Frieden und Demokratie engagiert sind, weil sie in Deutschland ein Vorbild sehen.
→ read full articleEffect of Germany’s Occupation on Norway
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Joint suffering can sometimes bring former opponents together if three conditions are fulfilled…
→ read full articleCIA Interventions in Syria: A Partial Timeline
Michael S. Rozeff, Lew Rockwell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
3 Oct 2015 – This partial timeline provides evidence that the U.S. government and Obama in particular bear a significant responsibility for the Syrian war and the results of that war. The CIA meddling is distinct from the Pentagon’s failed plan to train moderate rebels, not covered in this timeline.
→ read full articleThe Yemen Catastrophe: Beset by Contradictions of Will and Intellect
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The UN Security Council seems shockingly supportive of a major Saudi military intervention that started in March 2015, severely aggravating the overall situation by unanimously adopting a one-sided anti-Houthi Resolution 2216. This Saudi use of force is contrary to international law, violates the core principle of the UN Charter, and magnifies the violent disruption of Yemeni society.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Fukushima and Beyond (6)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
We can only wonder about the lingering effects on the Japanese national psyche of being twice so severely victimized by the diabolical power of the atom? Fukushima was an exemplary tragedy of this new century, exhibiting the destructive force of nature in lethal interaction with the Promethean embrace of nuclear technology.
→ read full articleEconomic Theory and Community Development
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The discursive strategy of this chapter takes up again a central idea of dominant discourse: the idea that economic growth is and must be the aim of every nation. It seeks to destabilize the basic cultural structure. It seeks to destabilize the inter-related ways of acting, talking and seeing that cement injustice into place and make it immovable. But it does not only destabilize. It also includes a number of constructive proposals.
→ read full articleA Gaza Centric History of Palestine: Past, Present, and Future
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Jean-Pierre Filiu, ‘Gaza: A History,’ trans. John King, Oxford University Press, 2014, 440 pp., ISBN 9780190201890. This review was initially published in the Journal of the Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World.
→ read full articleJeopardizing Japanese ‘Abnormality’: Rejoining the War System
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Washington’s encouragement of Prime Minister Abe’s campaign for a ‘normal’ Japan represents a regressive move regionally and globally, and deserves critical attention from a wider geopolitical perspective as well as from the viewpoint of Japan.
→ read full articleHeaven and Hell
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
In heaven, the cooks are French, the police officers English, the mechanics German, the Swiss run the trains and the Italians are lovers.
→ read full articleStructural Violence
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Structural violence is equivalent to 236 Hiroshima bombs being dropped on the children of the world each year. However, because the suffering is diffuse, not concentrated in one place at one time, it is ignored by the media and society.
→ read full articleKissinger: A Hero of Our Time
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
For me, Kissinger was the anti-hero, somehow available to justify the unjustifiable, and situate himself in a tradition of statecraft that celebrated the European invention of modern international relations in the 17th-19th centuries.
→ read full articleResponsibility
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
One can distinguish between two concepts of responsibility, in the narrow sense of someone who has caused a problem, and in the wider sense of anyone who can correct a problem, even if he or she has not caused it, as the following story told by Roger Fisher illustrates.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The Weird ‘Good Fortune’ of Tsutomu Yamaguchi (5)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
“I was struck by the decision to bomb Hiroshima instead of Kyoto out of respect for Kyoto’s cultural heritage. It was the then Secretary of War, Henry L Stimson, who is credited with making the successful plea to the president to spare Kyoto.”
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Sealed Documents Reveal the Truth behind Roundup’s Toxicological Dangers
Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null – Progressive Radio Network,
21 Sep 2015
Among the many cancers and diseases Monsanto’s own research found associated with glyphosate or Roundup are:
Adenoma cancer in the pituitary gland
Glioma tumors in the brain
Reticular cell sarcomas in the heart
Malignant tumors in the lungs
Salivary mandibular reticular cell carcinoma
Metastatic sarcomas of the lymph gland
Prostate carcinoma
Cancer of the bladder
Thyroid carcinoma
Adrenal reticulum cell sarcomas
Cortical adenomas
Basal cell squamous skin tumors
Iceland’s Capital Bans All Israeli Products
Itamar Eichner – Ynet News,
21 Sep 2015
Reykjavik has passed a resolution boycotting Israeli-made goods, in protest of Israel’s ‘racist apartheid policy’ towards the Palestinians.
→ read full articleThe Horrifying Syrian Dilemma Persists
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
What this prolonged dilemma in the face of mass atrocity shows is the deficiency of state-centric world order if appraised from the perspective of human wellbeing rather than national interests. The failures in Syria are not just the shortcomings of diplomacy and manipulations of geopolitics, but also a severe mismatch between structures and capabilities of global authority and the vulnerabilities of the peoples of the world.
→ read full articleGood Question
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Someone who farms is a farmer.
→ read full articleNetherlands Bans Wild Animals in Circuses
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
It is now illegal for wild animals such as lions, bears, elephants and giraffes to be used in circuses in the Netherlands! On Sep 15, 2015 a ban on wild animals in circuses officially went into effect.
→ read full articleOutlook India: Interview on ‘Digital India’ & PM Narendra Modi
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
I am posting here an interview with the magazine OUTLOOK INDIA associated with an open letter that was signed by more than 100 Indian scholars and intellectuals, as well as those such as myself with a long research and human interest in India, expressing concern about the forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Silicon Valley to promote his vision of ‘Digital India.’
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The Iran Agreement in Perspective (4)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
This nuclear agreement reflects ‘where we are’ in dealing with global crises, not ‘where we should be.’ If we value international law, global justice, and indeed the future of the human species, then the distinction between the realm of the ‘feasible’ and the realm of the ‘desirable’ deserves energetic critical exposure by all of us who fancy ourselves as citizen pilgrims.
→ read full articleReich and the Myth of a Moral Capitalism
Richard Becker - Liberation,
14 Sep 2015
6 Sep 2015 – In a Sept. 5 blog, former Secretary of Labor and liberal commentator Robert Reich, asks, “What Happened to the Moral Center of American Capitalism?” It’s not satire. The only way to put an end to capitalist excesses is to put an end to the system itself.
→ read full articleChildren
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
We spend the first 2 years of children’s life teaching them to walk and talk.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Likud Troika: Burying the Oslo ‘Peace Process’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
12 Sep 2015 – Israel’s relentless accumulation of territorial facts on the ground some years ago doomed the peace process associated with the Oslo Framework of Principles adopted in 1993. It became increasingly difficult to envisage an Israeli willingness to dismantle settlements and road network or remove the separation barrier, and without such steps there could never be achieved an independent and viable Palestinian state.
→ read full articleSanctioned Terrorism
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – Foreign Policy Journal,
14 Sep 2015
Economic Sanctions Are a Form of Terrorism – Terrorism is “viewed as a method of violence in which civilians are targeted with the objective of forcing a perceived enemy into submission by creating fear, demoralization, and political friction in the population under attack.
→ read full article‘Yemen after Five Months Looks Like Syria after Five Years’
Michael Avender, CODEPink – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
The Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen: How the Saudi-Led Coalition and the US Government Guarantee No Visible End to the War
→ read full articleBishop Desmond Tutu
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
In 1984 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent struggle against apartheid. In 1995, one year after the first democratic elections in which all South Africans were allowed to participate, President Nelson Mandela appointed Bishop Tutu to head the 17-member South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which exposed atrocities committed by all sides during the long apartheid regime.
→ read full articleThe Sympathetic Skeptic: Luis Cabrera’s Interview with Richard Falk On Behalf Of the World Government Research Network
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
12 Sep 2015 – The following interview was conducted by Professor Luis Cabrera, a political theorist on the faculty of Griffith University in Brisbane Australia. Cabrera has written notable books on themes of world government and global integration.
→ read full articleBy Accident
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
A car skidded on wet pavement and struck a light pole.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Der „unsichtbare“ Krieg gegen den IS – Ein Blick auf die Folgen
Michael Haid - Informationsstelle Militarisierung,
7 Sep 2015
25. August 2015 – Der Krieg aus der Luft mit Kampfflugzeugen, Hubschraubern, Marschflugkörpern oder Drohnen für Angriffe auf Einzelpersonen oder Personengruppen sowie als Kampfunterstützung für am Boden eingesetzte eigene Einheiten oder für verbündete Kriegsparteien scheint in den vergangenen Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen zu haben.
→ read full articleTwenty-six Things about the Islamic State (ISIL) that Obama Does Not Want You to Know About
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
7 Sep 2015
The US led war against the Islamic State is a big lie. Going after”Islamic terrorists” is used to justify a military agenda. The Islamic State is a creation of US intelligence. Washington’s “Counter-terrorism Agenda” in Iraq & Syria consists in supporting the Terrorists.
→ read full articleThe Origins of Peace Research
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Johan Galtung, born 1930, refused to do military service in Norway. He was sentenced to six months in prison in winter 1954-55. While in prison, he completed his first book, “Gandhi’s Political Ethics”, together with his mentor, the philosopher Arne Naess.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Naasaki – Gorbachev’s Response (3)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Of course, Gorbachev is appreciated in the West mainly as having presided over a political process that led to the nonviolent ending of the Cold War, the peaceful liberation of Eastern Europe, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yet he was also perhaps the only head of an important sovereign state…
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
This is a legal issue, as this book makes clear, but it is also a moral issue, a security issue and, ultimately, a spiritual issue. Humankind must step back from the nuclear abyss now, before it is too late.
→ read full articleBreast Fed
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
A woman and a baby came into the doctor’s office. She was told to go into the room and wait for the doctor.
→ read full articleThe Camera Is Mightier Than the Sword
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
From 1936-79, Nicaragua was ruled by the corrupt Somoza family, which owned more than half of Nicaragua’s land. In the 1970s, the Sandinista guerrilla movement fought against the Somoza dictatorship.
→ read full article(Français) Le véritable but de la « thérapie de choc » en Grèce
Michel Collon, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
12,5 millions d’Allemands vivent sous le seuil de pauvreté. Malgré ce bilan pitoyable, Angela Merkel prétend imposer le « modèle allemand » au monde entier. L’exemple de l’Allemagne.
→ read full articleWhy Congress Must Support the Nuclear Agreement with Iran
Akbar Ganji & Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Akbar Ganji is an important human rights defender who spent several years for his efforts in an Iranian jail. He is a leading commentator on Iranian affairs and recipient of an International Press Association World Press Hero award. Our article stresses the critical importance of obtaining American approval of the nuclear agreement.
→ read full articlePeace Research Is Value-Oriented
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Imagine you are sick and visit a doctor. He takes your temperature, pulse, listens to your lungs and looks at your tongue. Then he tells you, “You have a very interesting disease, I will write it up in my next scientific publication.” You ask, “But don’t you have a cure for me?” The doctor protests, “Oh no, I am objective! I simply observe, I do not intervene.”
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The time is now ripe for the total de-linkage of nonproliferation from disarmament with respect to nuclear weapons policy. Without such a de-linkage false consciousness and confusion are unavoidable. It is time to generate populist impatience with the refusal of decades by government establishment to act on the basis of reason, ethics, and prudence.
→ read full articleAmong Geniuses
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Albert Einstein met a colleague on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
→ read full articleThe Anarchist Impulse
Richard Swift – New Internationalist Magazine,
24 Aug 2015
The other great historic alternative to capitalism has been anarchism. Often dismissed as a dirty word, its influence ebbs and flows but its libertarian principles remain profoundly influential.
→ read full articleHumor Defeating the Law about Conscientious Objectors
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
When [TRANSCEND member] Jorgen Johansen from Norway (born 1956) was 18, he received a letter requesting that he join the army. He wrote back that he would not do so, as a conscientious objector to military service. He was sentenced to 16 months in prison, the standard Norwegian punishment at that time for refusing military service.
→ read full articleLiving in the 21st Century
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
A confessional to the extent of acknowledging my own surroundings of digital devices that while liberating in some respects are repressive in others. To sustain our freedom under these ‘postmodern’ conditions requires the rechristening of meditative intelligence (as distinct from the instrumental rationality that acted as wet nurse of the ‘modern.’
→ read full articleScotland Completely Bans GMO Crops
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
10 Aug 2015 – Joining a growing number of nations concerned about the effects GMO’s pose, Scotland just banned the cultivation of genetically modified crops. The country’s Rural Affairs Secretary, Richard Lochhead, announced last week that the clean, green nation will no longer be permitting GM crops to be grown within its borders.
→ read full articleHow Switzerland Ended Its Involvement in War
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
For the first 200 years of its history, Switzerland was involved in many wars, first to defend itself against repeated attempts by the German emperor to reconquer the cantons that had declared themselves independent in 1291, and later to acquire more territory. Two events brought an end to this involvement in war.
→ read full articleWartime Journalism: Mohammed Omer on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Omer’s prior reporting earned him the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in 2007, recognizing the excellence of his reportage on Gaza (‘a voice for the voiceless’). After receiving the award in The Netherlands, Omer on his return home received a brutal reception at the Gaza border by Israeli security guards being beaten so severely as to endure serious injury that required specialized surgery.
→ read full articleHow to Live Wisely
Richard J. Light – The New York Times,
10 Aug 2015
Imagine you are Dean for a Day. What is one actionable change you would implement to enhance the college experience on campus? I have asked students this question for years. The answers can be eye-opening. A few years ago, the responses began to move away from “tweak the history course” or “change the ways labs are structured.” A different commentary, about learning to live wisely, has emerged.
→ read full articleTruthful
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Someone was walking with the devil. The person in front of them bent down and picked something up.
→ read full articlePondering Jonathan Pollard’s Release
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Loyalty to the state continues to be the north star of conventional patriotism. For the citizen pilgrim solidarity with an emergent eco-humanist insurgency is the keystone of 21st century political community and ethical responsibility deserving precedence when in conflict with nationalist and tribal affinities.
→ read full articleEco-Insurgency, Tribal Vision, and Ultra-Nationalist Geopolitics
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
Thinking hopefully, the Anthropocene Age may soon witness the first species insurgency against the eco-tyrannical elites of the world, who have become the suicidal guardians of our neoliberal market forces joined in an unbreakable alliance with dominant forces of tribalism and nationalism. In moments of despair, the end-time hegemony of this unbreakable alliance are likely to retain control of species destiny.
→ read full articleSome Charity
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
After the church service a little boy told the pastor, “When I grow up, I’m going to give you some money.”
→ read full articleThe Tiger’s Whisker
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
A Korean Folktale – A woman came to seek help from a famous herbalist.
→ read full articleAlliance Blackmail: Israel’s Opposition to the Iran Nuclear Agreement
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
JCPOA imposes more restrictions on Iranian enrichment capabilities and stockpiles, and on inspection and monitoring of compliance, than has been imposed on any country in the course of the entire nuclear era. Left out of consideration altogether was the nuclear weapons arsenal of Israel acquired with Western complicity and by covert means, as well as through operations outside the Nonproliferation Treaty regime, which is used to tie Iran’s hands and feet.
→ read full articleTurning Enemies into Allies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
At the 1919 Versailles peace conference after World War I, the French Prime Minister Georges Clémenceau insisted that Germany be held solely responsible for starting World War I, and be forced to pay huge reparations over the next fifty years, to bring Germany to its knees, so that it would never be able again to build up its industrial capacity and become a military threat to its neighbors.
→ read full articleAccuracy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
The following joke was circulating in Moscow in 1998:
→ read full articleHow Goldman Sachs Profited from the Greek Debt Crisis
Robert B. Reich – The Nation,
20 Jul 2015
The investment bank made millions by helping to hide the true extent of the debt, and in the process almost doubled it.
→ read full articleWhy Greece Should Leave the Euro Zone
Michael R. Strain – The Washington Post,
20 Jul 2015
Sure, there would be short-term pain. But in the long term, the euro is an economic mistake. And leave today Greece should, beginning the painful work of rebuilding an economy and crafting public policies over which it has primary control, hopefully achieving more success than it has in the past.
→ read full articleMalaysia Just Passed a New, Stricter Welfare Act for Animals
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
On Tuesday [14 Jul 2015], the Malaysian government passed into law a new animal welfare act that imposes harsher penalties for those torturing or neglecting animals in order to reduce the number of crimes against animals in the country.
→ read full articleAn Active Peace Policy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
In the nuclear age, we can no longer afford to wait until war breaks out and then react with military force. We must pursue an active peace policy that seeks to avoid or resolve conflicts long before they lead to war.
→ read full articleOn Life
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
A minister, a priest and a rabbi were discussing when life begins.
→ read full articleCall for Sanity on 60th Anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Emanuel Pastreich – Foreign Policy In Focus,
13 Jul 2015
July 9, 2015 – Sixty years after Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell issued their manifesto about the growing threat of world war, the globe continues to face the prospect of nuclear annihilation — coupled with the looming threat of climate change.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
In 1905, Norway declared its independence from Sweden. Norwegian and Swedish troops faced each other along the border, ready to fight.
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Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Hawaii is the first US state to ban plastic bags from being distributed at grocery store checkouts.
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Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
2-4 fresh servings of fruit per day can help your body convert ‘bad’ fat into ‘good’ fat.
→ read full articleUN Gaza Report Part I: War Crimes during Israel’s 51-Day Assault on Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Exactly a year ago, for 51 days between July 7 and August 26 Israel carried out its third major military assault on Gaza in the past six years. This last one, code named Operation Protective Edge, was the most vicious, killing 2,251 Palestinians, of which 1,462 were civilians, and included 299 women and 551 children, as well as injuring 11,231, a number that includes 3,436 children, 10% of whom have permanent disabilities, and another 1,500 have been orphaned.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
On June 25, 2015 the New York Times published an opinion piece by Kemp assessing the UN Report. What I find scandalous and perverse on the part of this self-claiming authoritative media source, is to publish such a harsh and partisan dismissal of a prudent and overly balanced report without any kind of offsetting piece.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
What Claudia Rankine shares and teaches is that every African American citizen must live with the existential concreteness of racism while even the most liberal of American white citizens live with only an abstract awareness of their own unconscious racism or, at best, their rather detached empathy with the historical victimization of our African American co-citizens.
→ read full articleA New Mode of Warfare: The Greek Debt Crisis and Crashing Markets
Michael Hudson - CounterPunch,
6 Jul 2015
I’m in Germany now and have heard from Germans that the Greeks are lazy and don’t pay taxes. There is little recognition that what they call “the Greeks” are really the oligarchs. They have gained control of the old coalition Pasok/New Democracy parties, avoided paying taxes, avoided being prosecuted (New Democracy refused to act on the “Lagarde List” of tax evaders with nearly € 50 billion in Swiss bank accounts), orchestrated insider dealings to privatize infrastructure at corrupt prices, and used their banks as vehicles for capital flight and insider lending.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
During the sermon, a little boy kept moving in his seat and making noises.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
A bird barely survived in a nest on a lonely tree on a vast deserted plain.
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