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The Girl in the Picture
Doug Rawlings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
We have seen this picture multiple times over the years, but it was just this past fall that I found out that the little girl, Kim, was nine years old when she was scarred for life. My granddaughter was nine this past fall. I wrote this poem below out of deep remorse and with a glimmer of hope — perhaps, just perhaps, there can be some forgiveness bestowed upon us if we accept our responsibility for the suffering we have caused, and if we live our lives struggling to put an end to war.
→ read full article(Italiano) Divide et impera, a chi giova? – Gli USA e l’ex Jugoslavia
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
L’uomo è un animale sociale e la sua sopravvivenza dipende dalla cooperazione con i suoi simili e dal mutuo sostegno. Solo in un’atmosfera in cui si percepiscono scarsità, minacce e conflitti irrisolti le persone si dividono e demonizzano “l’altro”. Se continuiamo ad attingere a quest’umanità profonda e a respingere costantemente gli incentivi alla divisione, noi esseri umani possiamo sicuramente unire le forze per assicurare una vita decente a tutti.
→ read full articleWhence the Wheels of Our Desire
Emanuel E Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Tufted, shades of a healing bruise,
Now they, desultory, scatter,
Distance an imagined cleft from where we lie,
…
We Need Their Voices Today! (21) Helen Keller
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Helen Keller, who although deaf and blind, could see injustice clearly, who could hear the voices of victims of war, and who spoke eloquently for social reform, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleSelected Articles: 100 Years Ago – The Russian Revolution
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
November 7th, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. We bring to the attention of our readers a selection of articles, including Eisenstein’s 1928 film, 10 Days that Shook the World.
→ read full articleMy EGO
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
I want to understand my ego,
My conceit, egotism, my individuality,
How are we in touch with rude reality,
…
UN Security Council Calls on Myanmar to End Excessive Military Force in Rakhine State
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
6 Nov 2017 – In a statement, the 15-member body also called on the Government “to restore civilian administration and apply the rule of law, and to take immediate steps in accordance with [the Government’s] obligations and commitments to respect human rights, including the rights of women, children, and persons belonging to vulnerable groups, without discrimination and regardless of ethnicity, religion, or citizenship status.”
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Statues for Display of Power, Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Why does the world believe in construction of statues and other memorials to honor their heroes or icons — political or social? Obviously this is done not only to honor heroes of yesteryear but also to inspire ordinary mortals to follow their path of peace, harmony and human values.
→ read full articleTrailblazing Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Science, Spirituality, and the Conquest of Truth
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
“The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both,” Carl Sagan wrote shortly before his death. An entire century earlier, another patron saint of cosmic insight contemplated this enduring question with equal parts wisdom and warm wit. “Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
→ read full articleYemen: End Blockade, Avert Famine
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – The government of Saudi Arabia had imposed a total blockade of all Yemen’s seaports, airports and land crossings on the 6th of November 2017. The only institution that is in some position to bring everyone to the negotiating table is the UN; specifically Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who has been deeply concerned about the tragedy from the time he assumed office on the 1st of January 2017.
→ read full articleTwo Meetings
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
11 Nov 2017 – During the last few days, I met with two old friends: Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin. Well, the term “friends” may not quite be appropriate. Certainly, Arafat called me “my friend” in a recorded message for my 70th birthday, but Rabin called nobody “friend”. That was not his character.
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Fascism and Its Mobilizing Passions
TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Learn what fascism is, how fascists think, and what arguments motivate fascists to action. Based on the works of Robert Paxton, including “The Anatomy of Fascism” and “The Five Stages of Fascism.” Once you know the mobilizing passions, the prevalence of fascist rhetoric and behavior in America and around the world becomes much more noticeable.
→ read full articleAbout the Paradise Papers Investigation
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
5 Nov 2017 – The Paradise Papers is a global investigation into the offshore activities of some of the world’s most powerful people and companies. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and 95 media partners explored 13.4 million leaked files from a combination of offshore service providers and the company registries of some of the world’s most secretive countries. The files were obtained by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
→ read full articleVault 8: Hive
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Today, 9 Nov 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the source code and development logs to Hive, a major component of the CIA infrastructure to control its malware. Vault 8: Source code and analysis for CIA software projects including those described in the Vault7 series.This publication will enable investigative journalists, forensic experts and the general public to better identify and understand covert CIA infrastructure components.
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Viðrar vel til loftárása (Music Video of the Week)
Sigur Rós – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Violent Reaction to Deep-Structural/Cultural Homophobia
→ read full articleOn Balfour’s 100th Anniversary, Time for a New Definition of Sovereignty, Independence and the Nation-State
Mark LeVine and Mathias Mossberg | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
November 2nd marks the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the letter from Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur James Balfour to British Jewish leader Walter Rothschild in which the British Government promised Jews a “national home” in Palestine should they win the war, while offering only to safeguard the “civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities.”
→ read full articleOn LONGEVITY PLUS: a Rhymed Reflection
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
If an octogenarian you have become, how do you celebrate your longevity:
By humbling sharing your appreciation with humanity?
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Nov 13-19, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown
→ read full articleProspects for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Presentation to the International Symposium on Nuclear Weapons at the Vatican, Rome, 10-11 Nov 2017: The Peace Process in Northern Ireland
→ read full articleHundreds of Whales and Dolphins Slaughtered in Annual Faroe Islands Hunt
Sea Shepherd Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
8 Nov 2017 – Over the course of ten weeks from this July to early September, the volunteers documented nine separate grindadrap events (what these yearly hunts are called in Faroese). According to the group, 198 Atlantic white-sided dolphins and 436 pilot whales were killed.
→ read full articleChanging the “War No More” Sentiment of Armistice Day to the War-Glorifying Propaganda of Veterans Day
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
99 years ago, on 11-11-1918, at precisely 11 am Paris time, a cease-fire (aka “truce” or “armistice”) was agreed to and signed by military negotiators from France, Britain and Germany. The terms of the truce ultimately resulted in the end of the “War to End All Wars” 7 months later when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919.
→ read full articleWMD in Syria Just like Iraq in 2003?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
3 Nov 2017 – Contradictions in the UN/OPCW Report on Khan Shaykhun – The committee is “confident that the Syria is responsible for the release of sarin in Khan Shaykhun on 4 Apr 2017”. Most western “experts” were dead wrong in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Are these same “experts”, institutes, intelligence agencies and biased organizations going to take us down the road to new aggression, this time against Syria?
→ read full articleUS Brands Russia Today a “Foreign Agent:” A Chilling Move against Free Speech
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
The U.S. Justice Department’s demand is aimed at delegitimizing RT America as a news source, intimidating its journalists and guests, and setting the precedent for taking similar actions against other news outlets. The fact that RT is being targeted because of its political positions sets an ominous precedent.
→ read full articleEspanya vs Catalunya, Cataluña vs España
Alberto Andrés Aguirre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
As Prof. Galtung says, sometimes it is necessary to touch the bottom, to lose all, in order to advance on the correct path of a solution: a path that is increasingly satisfactory for both parties, rather than for a single one, which is what happens if we move in the diagonal of the confrontation. Starting from “everyone loses” we can move towards the “win win” progressively seeking the achievement of the maximum legitimate objectives of each party.
→ read full articleDivide and Conquer
David Moore and Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
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→ read full articleQuickies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
George Bush came late to a cabinet meeting. He explained that he wanted to finish a puzzle.
→ read full article(Português) Por que você considera mais ético não se alimentar de animais?
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
— Porque se sou capaz de sobreviver sem me alimentar da privação, sofrimento e morte de outras criaturas sencientes, não vejo motivo para continuar contribuindo com essa violência.
→ read full articleTrump Only President Not Invited to Paris Climate Summit
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
After Syria signed on 6 Nov, the 197th country to join the treaty, the US was left the sole country in the world outside the accord.
→ read full articleControversial Monsanto Weed-Killer Banned in Europe: Doesn’t Get Enough EU Votes for Renewal
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
9 Nov 2017 – A bid to renew a five-year license for Monsanto’s controversial weedkiller Roundup, which has been linked to cancer by the World Health Organization, has been foiled by the European Union. Recent statistics show that traces of the herbicide were found in 45 percent of Europe’s topsoil, 60 percent of grain products in the United Kingdom and in the urine of three-quarters of Germans participating in the research project.
→ read full articleSelected Articles: Mainstream Media “Fake News”, War Propaganda
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
12 Nov 2017 – We bring to the attention of our readers a selection of articles focusing on the obfuscation of truth through media manipulation as well as the routine dissemination of war propaganda. These articles show how media lies and fabrications are used as a justification to wage so-called “humanitarian wars”.
→ read full articleThree for the Week Ahead
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
A young woman suffered from cancer. Her doctor asked her what she enjoyed most in life.
→ read full articleWho Is the World’s Biggest Employer? The Answer Might Not Be what You Expect
Henry Taylor | World Economic Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
The U.S. Military [Department of Defense] has been named the largest employer in the world with 3.2 million employees on its payroll, according to the World Economic Forum.
→ read full articlePermanent Peoples’ Tribunal: State Crimes Allegedly Committed in Myanmar against the Rohingyas, Kachins and Other Groups
University of Malaya, Faculty of Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
18-22 Sep 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The PPT moved to inquire into the situation consistent with its view that genocide prevention is also a matter for the peoples of the world to be aware of and thence to demand action.
→ read full articleHandbook of Research on Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age
Bruce L. Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
6 Nov 2017 – The book covers a wide variety of concepts related to peace. I strongly feel that the main hindrance to world peace is the nearly universal failure to recognize and respect the essential role that women should take in leadership and governance. Veteran researcher and leader in peace, Prof. Johan Galtung, has written an inspiring foreword.
→ read full articleWhy Socialism?
Albert Einstein | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1, 1949) but with undeniable relevance today. – “Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.”
→ read full articleThe Spiritual Sources of Legal Creativity: The Legacy of Father Miguel d’Escoto
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – Father Miguel d’Escoto was both the Foreign Minister of Sandinista Nicaragua and President of the UN General Assembly, as well as pastor to the poor in the spirit of Pope Francis, an extraordinary person who fused a practical engagement in the world with a deeply spiritual nature that affected all who were privileged to know and work with him.
→ read full articleThe Assertion of Identity
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
While the media gives a lot of coverage to an event or action connected with the phenomenon — a referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan or a vote in the Catalonian parliament — the reasons that explain the assertion of identity are seldom analysed in depth. The unique characteristics of the assertion of identity in a specific instance and why it is different from another similar episode elsewhere are hardly discussed in the popular media.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (20) George Orwell
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
George Orwell, brilliant and honest writer, lifelong opponent of tyranny, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleBalfour: Then and Now
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
2 Nov 2017 – Today, November 2, is exactly 100 years after the issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the pledge given to the World Zionist Movement in a letter signed by the British Foreign Secretary to support the establishment of a ‘national home’ in the then Ottoman millet of Palestine. Certainly ‘a day of infamy’ for the Palestinian people and their friends around the world, while unfortunately treated as ‘a day of pride’ by the British Government, and all in the West those morally bankrupt enough to regret the passing of the colonial era, and to pretend without embarrassment that the Balfour legacy is something to celebrate, rather than to mourn, in the year 2017.
→ read full articleGood News at Last: World’s Largest Tropical Reforestation to Plant 73 Million Trees in Brazilian Amazon
Lorraine Chow| EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – The largest tropical reforestation effort in history aims to restore 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon by 2023. The multimillion dollar, six-year project, led by Conservation International, spans 30,000 hectares of land—the equivalent of the size of 30,000 soccer fields, or nearly 70,000 acres.
→ read full articleStand Up! Speak Out! To Prevent Nuclear War!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – The world may be closer to the brink of nuclear war than at any time in history! Click here to add your name to the People’s Peace Treaty. The People’s Peace Treaty will be sent to the governments and peoples of Korea, as well as to the U.S. government.
→ read full articleRequiem for the Promised Land
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – Sometime in the early 1900s my maternal grandparents threw caution to the wind and left Italy to settle in South Philadelphia… I wonder how they would feel, were they alive today, to know that a bright hard-working kid from the lower echelons of the ninety-nine percent would now have little chance to find a way; and that, come hell, high water, or both, the one percent would rather bring us all down than relinquish one ill-gotten buck.
→ read full articleWorld Votes to Lift Blockade on Cuba as US, Israel Vote ‘No’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – The U.N. General Assembly has voted 191 to 2 for the lifting of the U.S. blockade on Cuba as the United States and Israel were the only countries to vote against. Delegate after delegate called for the end of the blockade, highlighting the progressive and positive role Cuba plays in the international community.
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Ceeds of Peace 2017
Maya Soetoro-Ng, Ph.D. | Ceeds of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Maya Soetoro-Ng, Ph.D. is the founder of Ceeds of Peace. She is the maternal half-sister of the 44th U.S. President Barack Obama, has a rich background in global and multicultural education and lives in Hawaii. “We support and build bridges between families, community leaders and educators to share resources and develop action plans to strengthen our communities and improve our children’s lives.”
→ read full articleAfghanistan: From the Ground Up
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
30 Oct 2017 – On a recent Friday at the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ Borderfree Center, here in Kabul, thirty mothers sat cross-legged along the walls of a large meeting room. Masoumah, who co-coordinates the Center’s “Street Kids School” project, had invited the mothers to a parents meeting.
→ read full articleFacebook Provides Hoard of Personal Info to Authorities
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
30 Oct 2017 – Surveillance of Palestinians has always been part of Israel’s colonial project, but new technologies have made this surveillance even more intrusive and widespread. Israel particularly uses social media to monitor what individual Palestinians say and do, as well as to gather and analyze information on attitudes among the Palestinian public more broadly.
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Singin’ in the Rain (Music Video of the Week)
Gene Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
A Classic! 1952 musical-romantic comedy directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds
→ read full articleWho Is Afraid of the Iranian Bomb?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
4 Nov 2017 – I hate self-evident truths. Ideals may be self-evident. Political statements are not. When I hear about a self-evident political truth, I immediately doubt it. The most self-evident political truth at this moment concerns Iran. Iran is our deadly enemy. Iran wants to destroy us. We must destroy its capabilities first.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s “Ethnic Cleansing” of Rohingyas and the Indifference of Aung San Suu Kyi and Her Western Supporters
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
30 Oct 2017 – Feb 2006-dated Confidential Dispatch from Bangladesh High Commission in Myanmar
→ read full articleCatalunya: Culture of War or Culture of Peace?
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – It seems that the people of Catalunya will vote in December whether to declare independence from Spain, i.e. to form a separate state. If someone were to ask my advice about this election, I would say that it risks becoming a decision to move Catalunya towards the culture of war. There are good alternative for Catalunya, apart from secession.
→ read full article(Português) Adoecemos a Terra e a Terra nos adoece
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
28 out 2017 – De uma ou de outra forma, todos nos sentimos doentes física, psíquica e espiritualmente. Há muito sofrimento, desamparo, tristeza e decepção que afetam grande parte da humanidade. Já o dissemos aqui: da recessão econômica passamos à depressão psicológica. A causa principal deriva da intrínseca relação existente entre o ser humano e a Terra viva. Entre ambos vigora um envolvimento recíproco.
→ read full articleTelling the Truth about World War I
James MacLean – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
The politicians who were organizing the slaughter in the trenches knew that they had to lie. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George confided to the editor of the Guardian, C.P. Scott, on 27 December 1917, “If people really knew, the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don’t know, and can’t know.”
→ read full articleIndia’s Rohingya Realpolitik
Niranjan Sahoo | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
India’s muted reaction to the Rohingya exodus from Myanmar/Burma is worthy of note, as there had been high expectations that it would help diffuse this state-orchestrated humanitarian crisis.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Weapons Convention: An Open Letter to the Danish Parliament
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – Until now, Denmark has been slow to support the recently-adopted Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. I respectfully urge you to support the Treaty and the proposed 2018 nuclear summit meeting for the following reasons:
→ read full articleIs Israel Winning “the War between the Wars” with Iran/Hezbollah?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
3 Nov 2017 – Lebanese analysts argue that Hezbollah is paying the price for getting involved in Syria. Part of that price is its lost image as a “Resistance” organization, costing the lives of thousands of young Shia men… The destitute population in South Syria, some rebels and government supporters, those who claim to be apolitical and thousands of internally displaced Syrians are learning of Israel’s “Good Neighbor” policy and the number seeking and receiving aid is growing.
→ read full articleOn Cosmodignifiers: A Futurist Reflection
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
A Dialogue between Two Futurists, A and B
→ read full articleGandhi’s 1940 Letter to Adolf Hitler: Seek Peace or Someone Will ‘Beat You with Your Own Weapon’
Harrison Jacobs | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Mohandas Gandhi, frequently known by the honorific Mahatma (meaning “great soul”), was famous for advocating civil disobedience and nonviolence to achieve his goals. Here is the full version, which is the longer of Gandhi’s two letters to Hitler.
→ read full articleRaimon Panikkar (2 Nov 1918 – 26 Aug 2010): A Bridge between Cultures
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Raimon Panikkar, an Indian Roman Catholic theologian well versed in Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist and Western philosophical thought developed the need for “cultural disarmament.”
→ read full article(Français) « Le monde malade de la finance »
Henri Houben | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Jamais dans l’histoire, la finance n’a pris autant de place. Jamais elle n’a brassé des sommes aussi gigantesques. Les échanges quotidiens de devises se montent à plus de 5.000 milliards de dollars. Cela correspond à deux-trois jours de réserves dans toutes les banques centrales du monde. La dette des ménages, des entreprises et des pouvoirs publics à l’égard des établissements de crédit représente environ deux fois et demie le Produit intérieur brut (PIB) dans les Etats les plus puissants.
→ read full articleLao Tzu’s Four Rules for Living – How to Live an Inspired and Peaceful Life
Azriel ReShel | Films For Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
22 Oct 2017 – Many centuries ago, Lao Tzu, spoke of the four cardinal virtues, teaching that when we practice them as a way of life, we come to know the truth of the universe. The ancient Chinese master said that living and practicing these teachings can open you to higher wisdom and greater happiness, as they realign you to the source and enable you to access all the powers that source energy has to offer.
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Gandhian Strategy
Sunanda Sharma | Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal & Gandhi Research Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
The Gandhian strategy is the combination of truth, sacrifice, nonviolence, selfless service and cooperation. According to Gandhi one should be brave and not a coward and should present his views, suggestions and thoughts without being violent. One should fight a war with the weapons of truth and nonviolence. Gandhi said that “There is no god higher than truth.” According to his thoughts, nonviolence is ultimate solution of every kind of problem in the world.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Nov 6-12, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” – Unknown
→ read full articleHow Israel Forces Confessions from Jerusalem Boys
Maureen Clare Murphy | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
26 Oct 2017 – Abuse of child detainees part of wider aim to encourage Palestinians to leave the city.
→ read full articleQuality-of-life Floor and Wealth Ceiling: A House We Can All Live in
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
The house in which we all can live has a quality-of-life floor with a minimum material living standard and a ceiling of maximum material personal wealth. It can be built by harnessing the boundless energy of inclusive populism, or “people-ism”. It would need to be constructed on the most stable foundation possible, one of “equi-archy” (term Galtung uses to describe an egalitarian structure, as opposed to hierarchy and oligarchy).
→ read full articleNobility and Relevance of Lord Ram
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
We look forward to persons who are good, noble and trustworthy and who inspire us to follow in their footsteps. Ramayana is a powerful and absorbing story that reinforces the nobility and relevance of Lord Ram both as divinity and as a human being that is cherished not only by millions of Indians but by people all over the contemporary world.
→ read full articleReconciliation in Northern Nigeria – The Space for Public Apology
African Books Collective – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
In this book, Dr. Olufemi Oluniyi takes a fresh look at Muslim-Christian violence which has become synonymous with the name of Northern Nigeria. It is fresh in the sense that he takes a historical approach to the problem, dating back to the founding of Northern Nigeria. This approach inevitably brings to the fore the culpability of the colonial government for the institutionalisation of inequality.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Nach dem Ende des Dialogs – gegen den Bürgerkrieg
Mario Candeias | Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Die Erklärung der Unabhängigkeit in Katalonien und Rajoys Reaktion
→ read full articleWhat Do You Want from Me, Fatal Fate?
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
What do you want from me, fatal fate?
What’s the reason to play a double game?
Why do you think I like fame?
UNIFA, the University of the Aristide Foundation in Haiti
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
August 2017 – A Message from the Friends of UNIFA submitted by TRANSCEND, HAC member Marilyn Langlois. – The University of the Aristide Foundation is a high quality, multidiscipline, accredited university taught by Haitian and international professors prominent in their fields.
→ read full articleAn Urgent Need to Transform World’s Energy Systems
António Guterres – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Symposium on ‘Global Energy Interconnection: Advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.’ – “When we discuss global interconnection in relation to energy, we are at the centre of the two key words that express our global concerns – sustainability and inclusivity.”
→ read full articleReimagining Intercourse between the Righteous Unrightly Challenged
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Attraction and Harassment in Psychodynamic Terms beyond the Binary Blame-Game
→ read full articleJokes to Be Taken Seriously
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
The philosophers of ancient Greece concluded that by far the wisest among them was Socrates. They went to him and asked how he had become so wise.
→ read full articleNew Study Confirms High-Pesticide Produce Linked to Lower Fertility Rates
Dan Nosowitz | Modern Farmer, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
2 Nov 2017 – Studies have previously tied higher rates of exposure to pesticides to decreased male fertility. But a new study from researchers at Harvard University takes a look specifically at women who are already undergoing infertility treatment. And the results seem to have surprised even the researchers.
→ read full articleOrganizations Warn Covert Geoengineering Programs Fuel Unprecedented Firestorms
Dane Wigington | Geoengineering Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
2 Nov 2017 – The extremely destructive and deadly firestorms in California were not simply an act of nature or a result of global warming. Extensive and compelling evidence implicates “climate intervention” programs (also known as “geoengineering”) as a major factor in the firestorm catastrophes. Geoengineering is the science term that applies to processes of climate intervention on a global scale. Climate engineering programs are completely disrupting natural weather and climate cycles all over the world, destroying the ozone layer, and decreasing the overall hydrological cycle (which, in turn, fuels record drought and firestorms).
→ read full articleA Tax on the Arms Trade to Fund Peacebuilding?
Michael Brzoska | Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
An old idea has recently come up again in the search for new funds for peacebuilding.
→ read full articleMahatma Gandhi’s South African Experience – A Unique Model of Transformation
Ela Gandhi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Mahatma Gandhi was neither a philosopher nor an academic and although a prolific writer he was not an author and hence as he himself said “my life is my message”. His political strategy of Satyagraha has received much coverage, but the spiritual and personal changes have not been covered with the same degree of importance. Here I present those areas of his philosophy of life that in fact informed and developed his political thoughts.
→ read full article(Italiano) Frattanto, nel mondo…
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
18 ottobre 2017 -C’è stato quello che può risultare il più violento massacro bianco USA di sempre: 59 uccisi dal 32° piano di un albergo di Las Vegas. L’assassino viene ora criminalizzato, psichiatrizzato, individualizzato, caratterizzato. Ma il massacro è stato sistematico; con potenti forze per la competizione e per la violenza; ne consegue come la competizione USA sia la più violenta.
→ read full article(Português) A ideologia é como a sombra: sempre nos acompanha
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
24 out 2017 – O tema da ideologia está em pauta: ideologia de gênero, política, econômica, religiosa etc.Tentemos tirar a limpo esta questão.
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to End Violence and Avert Human Extinction
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
24 Oct 2017 – Around the world activists who are strategic thinkers face a daunting challenge to effectively tackle the multitude of violent conflicts, including the threat of human extinction, confronting human society in the early 21st century… Given the overwhelming violence that we must tackle, can we succeed? I do not know but I intend to fight, strategically, to the last breath. I hope that you will too.
→ read full articleLebanon’s Economy Is in Crisis – Granting Palestinians the Right to Work Will Help Fix It (Part 1)
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Is Lebanon’s Economy Heading for Free-Fall?
→ read full article(Català) Espanya vs Catalunya, Cataluña vs España
Alberto Andrés Aguirre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Si la independència és un fi en si mateix, poc es pot parlar ja. Si, de l’altra banda, no es reconeixen els drets històrics d’autogovern al màxim nivell, tampoc el diàleg serà possible. Però entre les dues posicions extremes hi ha un ample marge de possibilitats per aconseguir un acord de convivència, almenys per al segle XXI. Cal intentar-ho, directament o amb mediadors experimentats que els condueixin si no els és possible sols.
→ read full articleLebanon’s Economy Is in Crisis – Granting Palestinians the Right to Work Will Help Fix It (Part 2)
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
26 Oct 2017 – Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, the offspring of nearly 800,000 ethnically cleansed from their homes in Palestine during the 1948-50 Nakba, are today variously labeled by their Lebanese hosts as “refugees” or sometimes described as a particular category of “quasi-residents.” Or as “foreigners.”
→ read full articleStatement by Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 – What is undeniable is that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from northern Rakhine and that hundreds of their villages have been torched and burnt down. Yet Myanmar’s State Counsellor asked us to consider the 50 per cent of Muslim villages that have not been destroyed. The Commander-in-Chief then suggested the number of those who have fled has been exaggerated. And the Minister responsible for the safe return of those who have fled speculated that the hundreds of thousands of people who fled did so as a ploy to give an appearance of ethnic cleansing.
→ read full article100 Years On: The Balfour Declaration Explained
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
29 Oct 2017 – This week, Palestinians around the world are marking 100 years since the Balfour Declaration was issued on 2 Nov 1917, which turned the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine into a reality when Britain publicly pledged to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” there – paving the way for the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
→ read full articlePraying for the Moths and Beetles
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 – “. . . insects as a group are in terrible trouble and the remorselessly expanding human enterprise has become too much, even for them.” And instantly I’m beyond the realm of anything I know, as I consider the gradual disappearance not of whales but of . . . beetles, moths and hoverflies, thanks to the human enterprise we call civilization.
→ read full articleHow a Seemingly Bad Luck Can Turn Out to Be a Good Luck
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
How a Loss Can Turn into a Gain – What looked like a total disaster at first turned out to be a lucky coincidence.
→ read full article(Français) Élections régionales au Venezuela : large victoire du chavisme et… nouvelle défaite de la droite et des médias
Thierry Deronne | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017 – Les bolivariens remportent une large victoire avec 17 états contre 5 pour l’opposition. Celle-ci gagne notamment dans les états stratégiques de Mérida, Táchira, Zulia, proches de la Colombie, foyers de violence paramilitaire. Les bolivariens récupèrent trois états historiquement gouvernés par la droite.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (19) Bertha von Suttner
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Bertha von Suttner, famous antiwar author, friend and mentor of Alfred Nobel without whose advice to him the Peace Prize would not exist, early leader of the peace movement, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleMyanmar Shows Off Its Israeli Weapons
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017 – Myanmar has been showing off its new gunboats, confirming that Israel is supplying the country with weapons in spite of official secrecy. Amid ethnic cleansing of Rohingya, Israel envoy offers PR advice.
→ read full articleChina Just Shut Down Thousands of Factories to Fight Pollution
Global Citizen | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
24 Oct 2017 – In an unprecedented crackdown on pollution, the Chinese government shut down tens of thousands of factories in an effort to improve air quality throughout industrial regions in the country.
→ read full articleMediation Culture for Conflict Transformation
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Four important concepts: mediation, culture, conflict, transformation. What do they stand for and how do they relate to each other?
→ read full articlePalestinian Villages Hidden Under Israeli Forests
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Saffuriya was one of more than 500 Palestinian villages ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948, during the Nakba. Journalist Jonathan Cook explains how Israel quickly acted to raze the villages so the 750,000 refugees could not return and then covered up these war crimes by planting forests over the ruins.
→ read full articleJFK Files: Cover-Up Continues of President’s Assassination
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
28 Oct 2017 – The murder of President John F Kennedy 54 years ago has been described as the “crime of the century”. If US and Western news media cannot discuss this seminal event openly and honestly, let alone investigate it, then what does that say about their credibility? Among the many crucial witnesses recorded over the years, here below are a select few. Their testimonies show that the murder of Kennedy was a much darker “crime of the century” than the mainstream media would ever explore.
→ read full articleIndependent International Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar Conclude Visit to Bangladesh
UH High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
27 Oct 2017 – Three United Nations human rights experts concluded their first fact finding mission in Bangladesh today “deeply disturbed” by accounts of killings, torture, rape, arson and aerial attacks reportedly perpetrated against the Rohingya community in Myanmar.
→ read full articleBitter Taste of Life
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
I am rolling along endless way,
Trying to find my own place in this life,
Feeling the sharp edge of bloody knife,
Israel Maintains Robust Arms Trade with Rogue Regimes
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017- Human rights activists are stepping up efforts to expose Israel’s long and covert history of supplying weapons and military training to regimes while they actively commit massacres, ethnic cleansing and genocide. The issue of Israel’s trade with rogue regimes has been thrust into the spotlight again after revelations that it is sending weapons to Myanmar, in defiance of a US and European arms embargo.
→ read full articlePickled Cucumbers
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
28 Oct 2017 – HALLELUJAH! AT long last I have found a point on which I agree with Binyamin Netanyahu. Really!
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.” — Joyce Meyer
→ read full articleA Polemic against Liberal Analyses of the Rohingya Crisis
Tim Frewer | Tea Circle Oxford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
19 Oct 2017 – In this time of suffering it is crucial to remain indefatigable to the political realities of a slow burning genocide. Rather than obscuring the forces and processes that allow large scale violence to occur, it is urgent to keep these forces and their effects at the centre of accounts of the unfolding tragedy. The way events are framed and talked about have important political ramifications at all levels. It is the political feebleness of liberal analysis that makes it ideal as a discursive tool on the part of so many states and actors that wish to remain apathetic towards the Rohingya cause.
→ read full articleAs ISIS Flees, Syrian Troops Find Arms Cache from US, NATO
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
24 Oct 2017 – The Syrian Armed Forces have discovered a large cache of military arsenal from Western countries left behind by the Islamic State group as its forces fled the city of al-Mayadin. “We have encountered a huge arsenal of advanced U.S., British and Belgian weaponry,” said Syrian General Hasan Suhel.
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