Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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We Are the Same
Hüsamettin Olgun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
Turkish Peace Poem Translated by Talat Halman
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A Short List of the Most Lethal CIA Interventions in Latin America
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
In its 200 year history, the USA has intervened in, invaded or militarily occupied the following Western Hemisphere nations: Canada, Confederate States of America, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Surinam, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Grenada. The article below enlarges upon the 10 most lethal coups.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
Economists (with a few notable exceptions) have long behaved as though growth were synonymous with economic health. If the gross national product of a country increases steadily by 4 percent per year, most economists express approval and say that the economy is healthy. If the economy could be made to grow still faster (they maintain), it would be still healthier.
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The Pinnacle of Evolution Is Life, Not the Human Being
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
22 Jul 2018 – In the understanding of the great cosmologists who study cosmo-genetics and bio-genetics, the culmination of this process is not the human being. The great event is life, in its immense diversity, and that which is essential to it: caring. The culmination of the cosmo-genetic process is not found through anthropocentrism, as if human beings were the center of everything, and other beings are only significant to the extent they are valuable to human beings.
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World’s Transitional Justice Ironically Ensures Freedom to the Perpetrators Further Limiting Justice to the Victims
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
30 Jul 2018 – The objective of this writing is to dig out the abstract meanings from a Nepali language paper on Transitional Justice Practices in the World: Truth, Justice and Prosecution Being Shadowed. Transition is a gap period between the two-Government systems: old (past) and new (present and future). This is the situation when neither the old system (government) is completely collapsed nor a new one is fully established.
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World Citizens or World Subjects?
John O. Sutter, PhD | DWF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
27 Jul 2018 – Many of us concerned with the future viability of the Earth and its population and environment like to think of ourselves as World Citizens. But are we really “World Citizens” or “World Subjects”? Should one differentiate between aspirations and reality, especially when it comes to citizenship?
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(Português) Éguas prenhas são torturadas para extração de hormônio aplicado em outros animais
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
24 jul 2018 – A exploração das éguas ocorre para a extração do hormônio eCG (hormônio gonadotrófico equino), que é exportado da América do Sul e aplicado em animais como porcas e cabras, na Europa. As éguas são torturadas e mortas, segundo denúncia de ONGs. Alternativa ética:
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A Planned War Crime
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
25 Jul 2018 – The Israeli government is planning to demolish the village of Khan El Akhmar, next to the settlement of Kfar Adumim. This is a unilateral act of war by an army against a defenseless civilian population, contrary to international law. The security activities of the Israeli army in the occupied territories stem from the need to suppress Palestinian resistance to their ouster from their land, and to protect Israeli citizens from Palestinian revenge over their abuse by the army and the settlers.
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Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi. The text’s authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. The oldest excavated portion dates back to the late 4th century BC, but modern scholarship dates other parts of the text as having been written—or at least compiled—later than the earliest portions of the Zhuangzi.
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European Parliament Calls for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly and a UN Reform Summit in 2020
UNPA Campaign | DWF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
27 Jul 2018 – In a resolution adopted today, the European Parliament called on the EU’s governments to advocate “the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly” and to support a “UN 2020 summit” that will consider “comprehensive reform measures for a renewal and strengthening of the United Nations.”
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Diabolical Plot to Extradite Assange to US
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
24 Jul 2018 – Ecuador granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum at its London embassy in August 2012. According to an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling, it’s irrevocable under international law. Nations are obliged to uphold asylum rights, including the right of safe passage to the country granting it… He’ll likely lose asylum protection, be extradited to Washington to be prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for the “crime” of truth-telling.
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Johan Galtung: The World beyond Global Disorder
Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
Talk given on 18 Dec 2015–more relevant than ever.
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[Breaking] Freedom Boats to Gaza Intercepted, Sized, Attacked by Israeli Navy
Freedom Flotilla Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
29 July, 2018 – The motor vessel Al Awda (The Return) is sailing under a Norwegian flag carrying 22 passengers and crew from 16 nations including human rights supporters and journalists along with €13,000 worth of urgently needed medical supplies. The boat itself is a gift to Palestinian fishers in Gaza. Al Awda is being followed by the Swedish-flagged yacht Freedom, which is also carrying medical supplies and people from a number of nations. Please read on for last weekend’s developments.
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Adolf and Amin
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
28 Jul 2018 – Binyamin Netanyahu is a perfect diplomat, a clever politician, a talented leader of the army. Lately, another jewel has been added to his crown: he is also a gifted story-teller. He has provided an answer to a question that has perplexed historians for a long time: When and how did Adolf Hitler decide to exterminate the Jews? There was no agreed-upon answer.
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For Refugees in Sudan, Fears Surround Probe into UN Resettlement Fraud
Sally Hayden | IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
23 Jul 2018 – Potential witnesses worry about retaliation and complain about the lack of protection. They worry about retribution from those they’re making allegations against because of what they say is a lack of protection for witnesses and close links between some local UNHCR staff and Sudanese security officials.
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A History of Alcoholics Anonymous 1932-1971
Oliver Clark – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
In January 1935, Bill W went on a business trip to Akron, Ohio. During this trip, he was tempted to drink alcohol in the hotel’s bar. To prevent this from happening he telephoned a local minister asking if he knew of any alcoholic he could talk to. Bill W learned from Thacher that cravings could be controlled by conversing with somebody who also experienced cravings.
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With Anti-Muslim Laws, Europe Enters New Dark Age
Pinchas Goldschmidt | Politico – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
28 Jul 2018 — What has become of Europe? New laws targeting Muslims are reminiscent of a time when innocent Jewish children were abducted by masked monks and imprisoned in monasteries to “save” them from the eternal fire of hell. Leading rabbi condemns discrimination in the name of security.
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God Only Knows
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
In July of 2018, an Amnesty International report entitled “God Knows If He’s Alive,” documented the plight of dozens of families in southern Yemen whose loved ones have been tortured, killed, or forcibly disappeared by Yemeni security forces reporting to the United Arab Emirates. The UAE is part of the Saudi-led coalition that, with vital US support, has been bombarding and blockading famine and disease-ravaged Yemen for three brutal years.
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Stop the Plastic Ocean
Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
9 Jul 2018 – Marine debris is any persistent, manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment, including consumer items such as glass or plastic bottles, cans, bags, balloons, rubber, metal, fibreglass, cigarettes and other manufactured materials. It also includes fishing gear such as line, ropes, hooks, buoys and other materials lost or intentionally discarded at sea.
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The Middle East’s Cold War, Explained
Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
How two feuding countries are tearing apart the Middle East. The Saudis and Iranians have never actually declared war on each other.
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Clandestino (Music Video of the Week)
Manu Chao – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
Official Video of the Celebrated Argentinean Singer/Composer/Satirist Manu Chao
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The World is Silent as Israel Bombs Palestine
Friends of Syria | CNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018 – Israeli terror in Gaza and Palestine is barbaric; women and children are murdered for the entire world to see. Bombs are raining on Gaza and Israel blocked all entrances. People are caged to be killed. A few days before the bombing started, Netanyahu closed more border crossings into Gaza.
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Aussie Farms – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
An Animal Liberation Exposé ~ Shocking footage of duck farming in Australia has emerged showing day-old ducklings being dropped into an industrial shredder, adult ducks being kicked and thrown around a barn by workers, and ducks which should have been stunned before slaughter hanging by their feet on a conveyor belt while they bleed to death after having their throats slit.
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Myanmar: International Accountability Needed for Military-Planned Genocide against Rohingya–Report
Fortify Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
19 Jul 2018 – The Myanmar authorities made “extensive and systematic preparations” for attacks against Rohingya civilians during the weeks and months before militants attacked police on August 25, 2017, Fortify Rights said in a new report released today. The report finds “reasonable grounds” that crimes against Rohingya constitute genocide and crimes against humanity, and it identifies 22 Myanmar Army and Police officials who should be criminally investigated for their roles in atrocities.
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Support Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Swee Ang and Mazin Qumsiyeh
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 – The two statements below about the al-Awda Freedom Flotilla en route to Gaza are contributions from two heroic figures in the long Palestinian struggle, hopefully known to many TMS readers. This flotilla is on a humanitarian mission, carrying much needed medical supplies and is again dramatizing the plight of the population of Gaza, unendurable victim of vindictive Israeli measures
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The Sexual Passion of Winston Smith
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
It may sound silly to say, but language, as its etymology tells us, begins with the tongue (Latin, lingua). And the tongue is a bell, tolling out its meaning. Indeed, all language springs from the body – is body language. And when language becomes abstract and devoid of blood, it becomes etiolated and unable to convey the truth that is the mystical body of the world. It becomes a viper’s tongue, dividing the “good” people from the “bad” so the good can eliminate the bad who have become abstractions.
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Russiagate
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
17 Jul 2018 – Reality Check for Americans Obsessed with Russia – It’s meant to pump up militarism and weapons sales to benefit arms profiteers. It is ridiculous and very dangerous. I think the growing danger of American fascism and global nuclear confrontation comes as much from anti-Trump folks as pro-Trump folks.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
21 Jul 2018 – It has been said that a clever person is able to extricate himself from a trap into which a wise person would not have fallen in the first place. Stupid people do not extricate themselves. They are not even aware of the trap.
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Physicians for Human Rights Call for Crimes against Humanity Investigation in Myanmar
VOA News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
21 Jul 2018 – A physicians group working with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh says medical and scientific evidence indicates the extent of the violence they suffered at the hands of the Myanmar military and civilians.
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The Harmony of Languages and Scripts
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
The world is divided into blocs and groupings — the UNO, EU, NATO, SAARC, the Communist bloc, the Mid-East Muslim bloc, trade blocs and others such as the Nuclear group of nations. Each has their specific agendas, their special economies, cultures, strengths, liabilities, etc. But religious leanings and languages also play a dominant role in interaction within the groupings.
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USA’s Military Drops a Bomb Every 12 Minutes and No One Is Talking about It
Lee Camp | DWF News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
20 Jul 2018 – And that’s odd, because we’re technically at war with—let me think—zero countries. So that should mean zero bombs are being dropped, right? Hell no! You’ve made the common mistake of confusing our world with some sort of rational, cogent world in which our military-industrial complex is under control.
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What a Green and Peaceful Future Could Look Like
Paula Tejón Carbajal | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
19 Jul 2018 – We’re experiencing a deep systemic disconnection: an ecological, social and spiritual cultural divide. There’s a discernible disconnect between the infinite growth imperative and the finite resources of planet Earth; between private ownership and the best societal use of property; between GDP and well-being. “We cannot solve problems with the same kind of thinking that created them.” — Albert Einstein
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Your Thoughts Create Your Future
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
One thing I want to do right now before we go any farther is to explain some information that many people can use. This will show how your thinking creates your consciousness and how to help control it. It provides evidence so that you can see how your life unfolds according to what you draw to it, as dictated by your consciousness and thoughts. By taking the responsibility for yourself and your thinking process, you can make your life more positive and uplifting, and reduce or negate the influence of any hurt or negative energies you encounter.
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A Reflection on the June 24th Turkish Elections (modified and corrected)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
18 Jul 2018 – This is slightly modified text of an earlier post that seeks to take account of responses from friends, and gave me the opportunity to express these somewhat contrarian views in a clearer way, as well as correct some mistakes. This version will also be published by Sharq Forum in Turkey.
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The Massacre of Inn Din: How Rohingya Are Lynched and Held Responsible
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
18 Jul 2018 – “In my four years as High Commissioner, I have heard many preposterous claims. That claim is almost in its own category of absurdity. Have you no shame, sir, have you no shame? We are not fools.” — UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein to a Burmese official’s claim that his country is not targeting Rohingya in a genocidal campaign but is defending the rights of all its citizen.
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(Castellano) Una Lectura Económica de Los Hechos de los Apóstoles: Taller de Relectura de Pablo de Tarso
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Es necesario construir formas de vida muy distintas de la forma actualmente dominante. Entre las estructuras sociales dominantes que hay que desechar está la que subordina los procesos vitales de la vida a la existencia de ingresos, cuyos montos son fijados por un contrato de trabajo. En el plano científico, el equilibrio general, que nunca ha sido pensado como una realidad, tiene que dejar de ser pensado como un ideal en el cual el producto del trabajador corresponde al sueldo fijado en un contrato libremente negociado a la luz de las fuerzas del mercado.
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(Português) A crise brasileira, parte da crise global
Leonardo Boff | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
12 julho 2018 – Não se pode analisar o Brasil só a partir do Brasil. Nenhum país está fora das conexões internacionais, nem a fechada Coréia Norte, que a planetização inevitavelmente criou. Ademais nosso país é a sexta economia do mundo, coisa que desperta a cobiça das grande corporações que querem vir para cá, não para ajudar no nosso desenvolvimento com inclusão, mas para poder acumular mais e mais, dada a extensão de nosso mercado interno e da superabundância de commodities e de bens e serviços naturais, cada vez mais necessários para sustentar o consumismo dos países opulentos.
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Violent Coup Fails in Nicaragua, US Continues Regime Change Efforts
Kevin Zeese | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
21 Jul 2018 – The violent coup in Nicaragua has failed. This does not mean the United States and oligarchs are giving up, but this phase of their effort to remove the government did not succeed. The coup exposed the alliances who are working with the United States to put in place a neoliberal government that is controlled by the United States and serves the interests of the wealthy. People celebrated the failure of the coup but realize work needs to be done to protect the gains of the Sandinista revolution.
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Dag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in the Congo.
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The State of Our Oceans in 2018 (It’s Not Looking Good!)
FishLab – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
12 Jul 2018 – Recent studies have made startling discoveries. For example, by 2050 there will be more plastics than fish in our oceans by weight. Facts like this have helped to make the public more aware of the harm that our everyday materials can cause. But among all the bad news, there are some success stories. With sensible management, we can undo some of the damage that has already been done.
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New Import Restrictions Risk Triggering ‘Dramatic Deterioration’ in Gaza, Says UN Humanitarian Coordinator
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
17 Jul 2018 – Following further restrictions on goods and supplies that can be moved across the border of the Gaza Strip, the top United Nations humanitarian official there has called for urgent measures to prevent an already critical humanitarian situation from getting worse.
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Hawaiian Kingdom Files Lawsuit against President Trump in Washington, D.C.
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Petition for an Emergency Writ of Mandamus filed with U.S. Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., against President Trump regarding the prolonged American occupation of the Hawaiian Islands. [David Keanu Sai vs. Donald John Trump et. al, Case: 1:18-cv-01500]
→ read full articleA Short History of the Costs of Military Air Shows
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for Our Amusement
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Neocolonialism
Andy Singer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Monroe Doctrine Redux: Equity Balance Fairness… Right?
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Eva Bartlett on Spring/2018 Visit to Syria, Israeli Violence in Gaza
GlobalResearchTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
9 Jul 2018 – GRTV interviews Canadian award-winning journalist Eva Bartlett about her most recent trip to Syria. Eva also recounts her experiences in Gaza and Israel’s most recent attacks on protesters at the Israel-Gaza border wall.
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Peace May Be with You (Music Video of the Week)
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter [The Horsemen of the Apocalypse] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Politically Correct Heavy Metal from Germany
Submitted by TMS Webmaster Dr. Malvin Gattinger
What Should We Do Now?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
There is another reason why having to live in one regime of accumulation or another is unsustainable. It is because although the physicists, chemists, and biologists have explained to us very clearly what we must do to save the biosphere, we can’t do it. The causal powers that determine our behaviour are mainly in the social structures. What happens is not what humans want to happen, but what the structures compel. Nobody wants the destruction of the biosphere, but nevertheless we are compelled to destroy the biosphere. It is a systemic imperative to obey the necessity of capital accumulation and to disobey hard science.
→ read full articleCutting Greens
Lucille Clifton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Curling them around
I hold their bodies in obscene embrace
thinking of everything but kinship.
The Child and Her Diary
Laila Yaghi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Poems about Palestine
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Elaborating a Declaration on Combating Anti-otherness
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Including Anti-Science, Anti-Spiritual, Anti-Women, Anti-Gay, Anti-Socialism, Anti-Animal, and Anti-Negativity
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First Ever: 40 Jewish Groups Worldwide Oppose Equating Antisemitism with Criticism of Israel
Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Jewish Voice for Peace proud to stand in global solidarity against harmful definition of antisemitism and with human rights and freedom to protest
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The Assault on Agnivesh
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
18 Jul 2018 – It is a shame that intolerance and aggressive bigotry of this sort is gathering momentum in parts of India. It has been facilitated according to certain sources by the increasing legitimization of a narrow notion of religious identity which in a sense is a travesty of the universalism and inclusiveness of the Hindu faith.
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Aldous Huxley (26 Jul 1894 – 22 Nov 1963)
European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Aldous Huxley was a British writer who would become most specifically known to the public for his novels, and especially his fifth one, Brave New World, written in 1931 and published in 1932, which would delineate what the perfect dictatorship would look like. It would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping.
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Reality, Perception, Truth
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
An Amish boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially were intrigued by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and back together again.
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Starving and Bombed Children of Yemen Seek Entrapment in Flooded Thai Cave
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
11 Jul 2018 – While the world watched and waited with bated breath for the outcome of the substantial global effort – involving over 100 cave divers from various countries, 1,000 members of the Thai Army and 10,000 others in various roles – to rescue a team of 12 young football players and their coach, who were trapped inside a flooded cave in Thailand for 17 days, 850,000 children were killed by human adults in other parts of the world, many of them simply starved to death in Yemen or other parts of Africa, Asia and Central/South America.
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NATO’s Crisis and the Transatlantic Conflict (Part 1)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – On the occasion of the NATO Summit in Brussels and the Putin-Trump meeting in Helsinki. This analysis comes in two parts – one critical and one constructive: This one on “NATO’s crisis and the Transatlantic conflict” and the second on “Make NATO civilian and civilised.”
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Make NATO Civilian and Civilised (Part 2)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
This is the second of two articles about the coming end of NATO as we know it and what can be done.
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Protests Erupting around US RIMPAC War Games Off of Hawaii
Jon Olsen | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018 – Hawaiians Are Protesting the RIMPAC War Games and the Continued US Military Occupation of the Kingdom of Hawaii – The RIMPAC war games are igniting protests in Hawaii and once again reminding people that Hawaii is stolen land, a nation taken over illegally and made part of the United States.
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Are the 13 Demands to Qatar a ‘Geopolitical Crime’?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
11 Jul 2018 – Assessing the international relations and international law Gulf Crisis that was initiated by a coalition of four countries, issuing a set of 13 demands directed at the government of Qatar. This essay evaluates whether the confrontation should be treated as a ‘Geopolitical Crime,” itself an innovative and controversial idea that I developed in a lecture at Queen Mary’s University in London at the end of March, 2018.
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The Gaza Blockade Is Illegal– And So Is the Use of Force to Maintain It
Norman G. Finkelstein | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
7 Jul 2018 – Is it not a tad unseemly, not to say unsettling, for the representative of a respected human rights organization [Human Rights Watch] to coach Israel how to stay within the letter of the law—before resorting to bullets, you must first try “tear gas, skunk water, and rubber-coated steel pellets”—while it’s herding two million people, half of them children, in an unlivable space in which they are slowly being poisoned?
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Oslo: A Peace Proposal or a “Time Out” Till the “Full Victory” of Israel?
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
7 Jul 2018 – These plans show clearly that Israel thinks and behaves on the basis that its task in Palestine is already or almost finished by transforming it to the “Land of Israel” and ending the Palestinian effective resistance. For them it is a matter of time to create Jewish Majority in Palestine in one hand and to expand to the Arab Countries in the other, territorially and economically, by using also the Iranian claimed threat to these countries as a way to pull them towards cooperating with Israel.
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“Mysteries of the Sacred Universe” Seminar in New York
Prishni Shutton | ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
29 Jun 2018 – Murali Gopal Das presented a lively seminar at New York City’s Bhakti Center titled “Mysteries of the Sacred Universe.” Murali holds a Ph.D. in physics from Ohio University, has served an internship at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, completed his post-doctoral studies at Columbia University, and has taught Sanskrit at the University of Florida. As a member of the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies, he develops courses on Bhakti and Science, including Vedic concepts of cosmography, consciousness, and physics.
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Puerto Rico: Disaster Colonialism Strikes Again
Judith Mirkinson | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Disaster capitalism? Shock Doctrine? Whatever you want to call it. For Haiti, it was the 2010 earthquake. For Puerto Rico, it’s the recent 2017 mega-hurricane Maria… The lessons already learned by the popular movements in both places will be invaluable. The resistance and organization of the Puerto Rican and Haitian people—and the solidarity that they receive—will have a great impact on the outcome.
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Australia: The Hidden History of the Women Who Rose Up
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – John Pilger gave this address on the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the Parramatta Female Factory, a prison where women convicts from mostly Ireland and England were sent in the early 19th century. Like all colonial societies, Australia has secrets. For a long time, the fact that many Australians came from what was called ‘bad stock’ was a secret.
→ read full article“Not Enough!”
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 – The State of Israel has no oil wells. It has no gold mines. What has it got? It has the ownership of the remembrance of the Holocaust.
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How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”
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Dan Piraro | Bizarro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Pure Wisdom
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Tribute to Robert Parry: Investigative Journalist and Patriot
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – Although Robert Parry never became personally famous, many readers will recall news stories he played a key role in bringing to public consciousness. He uncovered the “Iran-Contra scandal” where the US secretly sold weapons to Iran via Israel with profits supporting mercenary “Contras” attacking the Nicaraguan government. He uncovered Lt. Col. Oliver North secretly working at the Reagan White House to supervise support for the Contras. He exposed CIA collusion with criminals sending weapons to the Contras and receiving tons of cocaine on return flights from Colombia and Central America.
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Somewhere in Time (Music Video of the Week)
Maksim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Maksim – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Julian Kershaw
| Somewhere in Time -The Old Woman
America Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
9 Jul 2018 – The US Government (with France and a few other US allies) bombs Libya, Syria, etc.; and the US regime refuses to accept any of the resulting refugees — the burdens from which are now breaking the EU, and the EU is sinking in economic competition against America’s international corporations.
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Time for Int’l Community to Come Forward for Rohingyas
Prothom Alo [Bangladesh] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
13 Jul 2018 – The military junta in Myanmar has not only snatched away the citizenship of the Rohingyas in the country’s Rakhine state, but has been perpetuating killing and torture against them for the past four decades. The United Nations and other international institutions have been totally ineffective in addressing the problem, raising questions of their complicity. Bangladesh, however, has displayed a positive moral stance by providing the Rohingyas with shelter.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Creating Strategic Dependency and Vulnerability through Confidence Tricks – Produced on the occasion of the NATO Summit (Brussels, 11-12 July 2018)
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Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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Argentina: Over 60 Social Movements Protest US ‘Military Base’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 Jul 2018 – In Argentina, political parties, social organizations, human rights groups, workers’ unions and Mapuches led a caravan to the site where a U.S. base will be built to demand respect for Argentina’s territorial sovereignty. “The base comes to fulfill a strategic intelligence objective of the U.S. military that seeks to protect their corporate interests.
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Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 Jul 2018 – Existe una percepción general de que la situación de la humanidad no es buena, pues hay una acumulación de riqueza absurda en pocas manos dentro de un mar de miseria y de hambre… Lo que se está haciendo en Europa contra los refugiados, rechazando su presencia en Italia y en Inglaterra, y peor, en Hungría y en la catoliquísima Polonia, alcanza niveles de inhumanidad.
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Johan Galtung on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Amy Goodman | Envision Peace Museum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Johan Galtung is widely considered the “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies.” A Norwegian sociologist and mathematician, Galtung has taught around the world, helped found many institutions dedicated to building peace, and been honored with the Right Livelihood Award. He serves on the advisory board of Envision Peace Museum.
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Oahu
Maureen Korp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Seeing something there
a glint, quick light rippling
in the tide
Security Council Hails ‘Historic and Significant’ Joint Peace Declaration by Ethiopia and Eritrea
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – The United Nations Security Council today described the Joint Declaration, signed by the leaders of Eritrea and Ethiopia, as “a historic and significant” move with “far-reaching consequences” for the whole Horn of Africa region and beyond.
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BDS Victory: Ireland Approves Bill Boycotting Israeli Settlement Goods
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Ireland becomes the first country to ban trade with Israel’s illegal settlements.
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(Português) Esforço compartilhado por toda a sociedade: hipocrisia e ignomínia
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 julho 2018 – Diante de situações de crise que setores dominantes geraram ou, quando menos, gravemente agigantaram, suas representações políticas convocam com hipocrisia e ignomínia a que a sociedade toda compartilha o esforço de recuperação e desenvolvimento. Enquanto pedem ao povo que aceite os sacrifícios para gerar em conjunto um futuro venturoso, seguem fugindo capitais para guaridas fiscais e impõem planos de resgate e políticas econômicas e culturais que protegem seus privilégios e negócios.
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Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos | Emory Postcolonial Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Frantz Omar Fanon was a Martinique-born French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, and an existentialist humanist concerning the psychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.
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Pia Guerra | THE NIB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Not an Accident of Nature…
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I Was Robert Mueller’s Undergraduate Thesis Adviser—and What He Wrote Gives Some Hints about What He’ll Do as Special Counsel
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 – Rereading Robert Mueller’s Princeton thesis 52 years later with an eye as to how he will perform as Trump’s inquisitor. What makes Mueller’s thesis relevant for today is that the core of his inquiry is how a judge should interpret a legal document.
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Bridging India’s Skill Gap
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Globalization and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have increased the pace of change in labour markets, putting a premium on right skills and adaptability. Public policies should now shift to empowering and enabling workers to cope with transition, via income support, and also support incentives and opportunities for deskilling and upgrading skills.
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Buckminster Fuller (12 Jul 1895 – 1 Jul 1983): A World View on Doing More with Less
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
As all the male members of his family, he began university at Harvard but was expelled twice, being more interested in women than in diplomas. He never received a university degree but was self-taught in design, mathematics and architecture. He brought all his ideas together in what he called “The Law of Progressive Order.” Today, he is best known for his geodesic domes.
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Dr. Abid Bahar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
“I don’t know why” says a Rohingya.
But I thought I didn’t know the answer to why
But I know, I know why, I know why and why
(Português) Não Tenho Necessidade de Alimentar-me de Animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
1 jul 2018 – Pratico musculação há anos e reconheço que não tenho necessidade de me alimentar de animais e também não tenho necessidade de usar esteroides.
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Dr. Ravi Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Cooking for food, cooking for peace, cooking for friendship.
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Rohingya Cannot Become ‘Forgotten Victims,’ Says UN Chief Urging World to Step Up Support
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Painting a grim picture of villages being burned to the ground and other “bone-chilling” accounts he heard from Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar, the UN chief has called on the world to answer their calls for help with real action.
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Blindness, End of Cycle, New Courses
Opinion Sur | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 July, 2018 – Neoliberal domination is approaching the limits of its reproduction. So much has been destroyed with the impious concentration of wealth and decisions that the peoples of the world and the Planet can stand no more. Inequality, poverty, indigence, environmental destruction lead to the implosion of the model of society and world that has been imposed on us.
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Europe’s Iron Curtain: The Refugee Crisis Is about to Worsen
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
11 Jul 2018 – A recent European Council summit in Brussels was meant to articulate a united policy on the burgeoning refugees and migrant crisis. Instead, it served to highlight the bitter divisions among various European countries. Considering the gravity of the matter, Europe’s self-serving policies are set to worsen an already tragic situation.
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The Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
Augusto Lopez-Claros, Arthur Lyon Dahl, and Maja P.C.E. Groff | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
May 2018 – This proposal builds upon structures for international cooperation existing at least since the creation of the UN. We propose revisions to the UN Charter that provide the legal basis for a new system of global governance, supplemented by other reforms not requiring Charter amendment.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
This TMS issue comes in the middle of three summit conferences of significance: a NATO summit held in Brussels, and two bilateral summits: US-UK and US-Russia.
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Professor Tariq Ramadan: Detention without Trial
Elma Berisha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 – When Tariq Ramadan, the respected Oxford Professor of Islamic Studies, voluntarily flew from London to Paris to be questioned over rape allegations, which he vehemently denied and for which evidence is yet nowhere to be found, he must have been confident he was not walking in through the iron gates of an Al-Shabab court somewhere in Africa.
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(Italiano) Ventimiglia città aperta. manifestazione internazionale secondo alcuni ValdAostani
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
16 luglio 2018 – Per il riconoscimento della mobilità come diritto inalienabile e “per rivendicare la necessità di un permesso di soggiorno europeo. Per ripensare l’attuale sistema della così detta “accoglienza”. Una mobilitazione contro la tratta e le violenze di genere, contro lo sfruttamento delle persone migranti, per la loro libertà e autodeterminazione.
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Israel Is Bulldozing Khan Al Ahmar – And with It the Two-State Solution
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
8 Jul 2018 – Israel finally built an access road to the West Bank village of Khan Al Ahmar last week, after half a century of delays. But the only vehicles allowed along it are the bulldozers scheduled to sweep away its 200 inhabitants’ homes. If one community has come to symbolise the demise of the two-state solution, it is Khan Al Ahmar.
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“Slow News” vs “Fast History”
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
2 Jul 2018 – This blog last month suggested that history is moving much faster than we think and that the collapse of the American empire is likely to come within the next two years. This leads me to the question: Can the slow development of the culture of peace make it possible for a transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace when the American empire crashes?
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Rohingya: The History of a Muslim Identity in Myanmar
Jacques Leider | Oxford University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
[FROM TMS EDITOR]: Oxford University Press did not heed the written and verbal protests by some 2,000 scholars, public intellectuals and citizen-activists to not publish this genocide-denying—actually, ideologically genocide-reinforcing–essay by Jacques Leider. Please read the 3 following articles (below) refuting and debunking Leider’s piece—to educate, clarify and elucidate about the ongoing Rohingya genocide in Burma/Myanmar. Another one–will we ever learn?
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Johan Galtung Wishes America a HAPPY INTERDEPENDENCE DAY 2018
Galtung-Institut for Peace Theory and Peace Practice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Video contains excerpt from Rabbi Michael “Tikkun Olam ” Lerner’s Muhammed Ali memorial speech.
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Wider Consequences of U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
7 Jul 2018 – I think the superficial response to this latest de-internationalizing move is the tendency of the Trump Administration to align its policies in conformity with Israeli priorities and preferences, which have long focused on the Human Rights Council as a venue hostile to their policies and practices.
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