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Standing with Pablo
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
Like the three tenors, like three pillars,
there are three Pablos for peace:
Picasso, Neruda and Peredes.
America’s Shkreli Problem
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
9 Mar 2018 – Martin Shkreli was sentenced today to seven years in prison. The Shkreli personality disorder can be found on Wall Street, in the executive suites of America’s largest corporations, in Hollywood, in Silicon Valley, in our prestigious universities, and in Washington, even in Trump’s White House. Face it: America has a Shkreli problem.
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Conservation Icon Jane Goodall: Stop Destroying the Planet or We May Destroy Ourselves
Owen Ullmann - USA TODAY,
19 Mar 2018
Iconic conservationist Jane Goodall has a chilling warning for all of us Earth dwellers: Stop pillaging the planet or “we may not even be on it anymore.” “We’re seeing extraordinary problems everywhere,” said Goodall,who became an international celebrity for her groundbreaking study of chimpanzees in Africa in the 1960s.
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Behind Bars: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty to Aboriginal People with Disabilities (Part 5)
Michael Brull - New Matilda,
19 Mar 2018
The abuse of Aboriginal prisoners with disabilities in Australian jails is confronting, and ongoing. In the final piece in this special 5-part series, Michael Brull makes the case for urgent action.
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The Bitter Taste of Life
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
I roll in an unknown way,
Trying to find a place for peace,
US State Dept.: “We want elections in Venezuela now, unless we’re not guaranteed a win, in which case they’re illegitimate.”
Ricardo Vaz | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
6 Mar 2018 – With presidential elections announced in Venezuela, the US State Department moved quickly to declare that the contest was illegitimate and that its results would not be recognised. But less than a year ago the tune was quite different, as a cursory look through State Department briefings and press releases will show.
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Vladimir Putin Outwitted Megyn Kelly by Weaponizing Incompetence
Masha Gessen – The New Yorker,
19 Mar 2018
13 Mar 2018 – Over the weekend, NBC released a nearly hour-long interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin that the reporter Megyn Kelly conducted over two days, earlier in March. At the same time, the Kremlin dropped its own version of the conversation, an apparently unedited video that came in at nearly an hour and a half.
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The Fake Enemy
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
17 Mar 2018 – The thought that Iran could possibly attack a nuclear power like Israel and risk its own annihilation is ludicrous. Iran is the heiress to one of the world’s most ancient civilizations, almost as ancient as Egypt. Compared to it, Jewish civilization is a younger sister. Indeed, many experts believe that the Jewish religion is heavily indebted to the Iranian civilization.
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(Português) A criação de animais em regime industrial é um dos piores crimes da humanidade
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
16 mar 2018 – O destino dos animais criados em regime industrial é uma das questões éticas mais urgentes do nosso tempo. Dezenas de bilhões de animais sencientes, cada um com sensações e emoções complexas, vivem e morrem em uma linha de produção.
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Porton Down – A Gruesome Secretive Past. Britain’s Chemical Weapons Facility
TruePublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
16 Mar 2018 – It is home to two UK Government facilities: a site of the Ministry of Defence’s Science and Technology Laboratory known for over 100 years as one of the UK’s most secretive and controversial military research facilities. The laboratory was to conduct research and development of chemical weapons agents used in the First World War such as chlorine, mustard gas, and phosgene.
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The Gulf Crisis Reassessed
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
12 Mar 2018 – The dysfunctionality of the Gulf Crisis, pitting a coalition of four countries, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt against tiny Qatar, is emblematic of the descent into multi-dimensional chaos, conflict, and coercion that afflicts much of the Middle East. Qatar may be tiny, but it is wealthy and has chosen for itself a somewhat independent path, and for this reason has experienced the wrath of the more reactionary forces operative in the region and world.
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The Cold War’s Toxic Legacy: Costly, Dangerous Cleanups at Atomic Bomb Production Sites
William J. Kinsella – The Conversation,
19 Mar 2018
5 Mar 2018 – Seventy-five years ago, in March 1943, a mysterious construction project began at a remote location in eastern Washington State. Over the next two years some 50,000 workers built an industrial site occupying half the area of Rhode Island, costing over US$230 million – equivalent to $3.1 billion today. Few of those workers, and virtually no one in the surrounding community, knew the facility’s purpose. The site was called Hanford, named for a small town whose residents were displaced to make way for the project.
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Thirsty Crops Drain India Dry
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
World Water Day: 22 March 2018 – Water is a crucial part of all societies as it has myriad uses. In India, however, it is of much more importance as over 600 million people make a living off the land. Realising its predicament decades ago, Israel studied the “water equation” and made itself all but independent from Mother Nature. Israel took 70 years to solve its water problem; India won’t need that long, as it can emulate Israeli advances.
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Mathematical LAB of Peace from Spherons’ Structural Harmony
Dr. Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
Thermodynamic / Stochastic Population Model Based on the GHA International Statistical Research
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Stephen Hawking, Renowned Scientist, Dies at 76
CNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
14 Mar 2018 – Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe, has died, according to a family spokesman. He was 76.
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Drawing Palestine from Prison: The Artwork of Palestinian Cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh
Ramona Wadi – MintPress News,
19 Mar 2018
“Most artists describe the Palestinian as a hero, even if imprisoned or killed by Israelis. I prefer to convey the message that Palestinians are human beings, so I portray suffering. The hero does not need anyone to stand with him — the hero is strong — but human beings need and demand someone to show solidarity with them.”
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(Français) Une analyse comparative des démocraties étasunienne et cubaine
teleSUR | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Le peuple cubain élit 612 membres à l’Assemblée nationale du peuple ce dimanche 11 mars. Les élections cubaines sont rarement couvertes par les médias occidentaux, tandis que les détracteurs du système économique de l’île insistent sur la nature non démocratique de son gouvernement.
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(Português) Relato de um vegano que pratica musculação
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
11 mar 2018 – Como sou vegano e pratico musculação, me perguntaram o que tenho feito no “cutting”, na fase de queima de gordura. Me alimento e treino – sem aeróbicos, termogênicos ou suplementos pré-treino. Não consumo nem cafeína nem guaraná. Não uso recursos ergogênicos sintéticos.
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In Pursuit of Peace and Justice: 100 Peace & Justice Leaders and Models (List #3)
Anthony J. Marsella and Kathleen Malley-Morrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Like other prior published Lists, the individuals cited on this List come represent a variety of demographic markers including gender, ethnicity, race, age, nation, religion, and life- style persuasion. By accessing the URL accompanying the person’s name, you can read of their peace and justice activism and advocacy.
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A Debate on Peacemaking: Ending Occupation or Apartheid?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
9 Mar 2018 – The core disagreement is whether to retain the emphasis on ending occupation as still the best, and some say, the only path to peace, and my view that a sustainable peace can only be obtained by a process of eliminating the apartheid structure by which Israel currently subjugates the Palestinian people as a whole.
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On Track for Extinction: Can Humanity Survive?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
8 Mar 2018 – The climate is not the only imminent threat to human survival. With an insane leadership in the White House we are faced with the prospect of nuclear war. And even if the climate and nuclear threats to our survival are removed, there is still a substantial range of environmental threats: rainforest destruction, the ongoing dumping of Fukushima radiation into the Pacific Ocean, extensive contamination from military violence…
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Stand Up for Justice & Peace, Not War!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
6 Mar 2018 – Both U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are on the ropes, under criminal corruption investigations. What better way to take the focus away from themselves than by waging war, creating national emergencies to solidify their power, and have the finger pointed at someone else rather than themselves.
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The Physics of Consciousness (Part 1)
John Hagelin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Dr. John Hagelin explains the physics of consciousness.
Consciousness & Superstring Unified Field Theory – How Knowledge Is Lost – The Observer
‘Follow Your Bliss’ – The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism to the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown
Editor | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
‘Forget it. Don’t write for the “mainstream”. Don’t write for money. Don’t write for prestige. Just “follow your bliss” by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.’
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(Français) Fausse nouvelle par omission : l’exemple de Haïti
William Blum | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
« Je suis fier d’avoir un président qui dira crûment la vérité dans les négociations » a déclaré Éric Prince sur Breitbart News. « Si le président dit que certains endroits sont des trous à merde, il a raison. » C’est ainsi que M. Éric Prince a rendu hommage à M. Donald Trump. Prince étant bien sûr le célèbre fondateur de Blackwater, l’armée privée qui, en septembre 2007, a ouvert le feu sur une place bondée à Bagdad, tuant 17 civils irakiens et en blessant gravement 20 autres.
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The Centrality of East Jerusalem
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
11 Mar 2018 – The Palestinian National Struggle 1967–1987
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Dispatch from Bangladesh: “This Is Gang Rape, Murder, Torture – A Genocidal Policy to Destroy a Whole People… ” — Mairead Maguire
Nobel Women’s Initiative - Human Wrongs Watch,
12 Mar 2018
27 Feb 2018 — The Nobel laureates visited No Man’s Land at the Bangladesh-Burma border today. They are calling for sister Nobel peace laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, to stop the atrocities, or resign.
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Daughters of a Lesser God
Baher Kamal – Wall Street International Magazine,
12 Mar 2018
7 Mar 2018 – Indigenous Women Raped for Land Grabbing – While women worldwide have organised massive demonstrations to claim for their due legitimate rights on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, tens of thousands of women and girls are “silenced” victims of sexual violations and all kinds of abuses without being protagonists in the news.
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Teen Solidarity against the Merchants of Death
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
1 Mar 2018 – The U.S. military remains in Afghanistan because it wants to eventually control mineral wealth and other resources. But right now, weapon manufacturers like General Atomics and Boeing — which supply the U.S. base in Kandahar with drones, missiles and bombs — are profiting from the perpetuation of war. This profit gives them common cause with arms manufacturers like Sturm Ruger and Sig Sauer earning millions from equipping U.S. police forces as well as deranged killers in U.S. classrooms.
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‘Plastic, Plastic, So Much Plastic!’: Diver Films Sea of Trash Off Bali
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
6 Mar 2018 – British diver Rich Horner posted footage of his plastic-infested swim off Bali’s Manta Point on Saturday [3 Mar].
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U.S. Holocaust Museum Revokes Award to Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi
Michael Schwirtz – The New York Times,
12 Mar 2018
7 Mar 2018 – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has revoked a prestigious human rights award it had given to the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, now Myanmar’s civilian leader, faulting her for failing to halt or even acknowledge the ethnic cleansing of her country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.
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Scandal
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
So yes, the occupation corrupts and continues to corrupt. You won’t see civil society organizations fighting against this official corruption. Nor will you see popular protests against this ongoing scandal. And the lonely few who are still outraged by this scandalous behavior are, here in Israel, called leftist extremists and traitors…
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(Português) Matar barata, ter pena de abelha
Marcio de Almeida Bueno - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
12 Mar 2018
Eu fui um bom aluno porque aprendi a ter o prazer de aprender coisas novas e desconstruir as lições ultrapassadas. Hoje sou vegano e não como mel. E não mato barata.
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Syrian Sentinels Are Daily Risking Their Lives to Save Fellow Citizens
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
7 Mar 2018 – Despite the danger, Syrian civilian Sentinels now regularly appear and risk being killed by insisting that the food and medicines convoys be allowed into Eastern Ghouta. This courage is spreading among the Syrian population to aid their neighbors and families as well as total strangers.
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The Physics of Consciousness (Part 2)
John Hagelin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Dr. John Hagelin explains the physics of consciousness.
Consciousness & Superstring Unified Field Theory – How Knowledge Is Lost – The Observer
The Jury Has Been Out on Vaccines: Harm to the Brain, Immune System, Limbic System, Life
Paul Haeder | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Two Rabbits, Twenty-Eight Days of Testing, and a 91-Year Old Salt Called Aluminum Hydroxide Captured in New Documentary
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Schooling
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
A young cowboy from Wyoming went off to college, but half way through the semester, he had foolishly squandered all his money. He called home.
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God Wills It! – The War on Terror as the Launching of an American Crusade
James Carroll - TomDispatch,
12 Mar 2018
8 Mar 2018 – America may be sinking ever deeper into the moral morass of the Trump era, but if you think the malevolence of this period began with him, think again. The moment I believe ignited the vast public disorder was no more than a casually tossed-off cliché, a passing historical reference whose implications and consequences meant nothing to the speaker. “This crusade,” said President George W. Bush just days after the 9/11 attacks, “this war on terrorism…”
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The Dirty Secret of How France Exterminates Its Dolphins
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
12 Mar 2018
Sea Shepherd France President Lamya Essemlali launches Operation Dolphin By-Catch to warn the public about the fate of dolphins along the French coast.
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Compassion, Perspicacity and Power
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Coercion implies the absence of compassion, and usually also at least some lack of perspicacity. “Leaders” and their “inner circle” tend to take the position that any feeling or view which is judged to be at variance with “collective goals and values” needs to be suppressed – or even perhaps “rooted out”. Within an individual’s psyche, power generates ambition and rapacity.
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Behind the Scenes in Venezuela
Mark Weisbrot - U.S. News & World Report,
12 Mar 2018
3 Mar 2018 – The Trump administration is intensifying its regime change efforts to potentially include torpedoing Venezuela’s presidential election.
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Addressing Violence and Extremism: The Importance of Terminology
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Jan 2018 – In recent years, “countering/combating violent extremism” or “preventing violent extremism” has become a must in most peace building programs. Yet, the fast-growing interest in this topic belies the fundamental problem of the lack of a clear and broadly accepted definition of the VE concept. This paper aims to contribute to a more accurate definition of the terms used in the context of extremism and violence, to attempt a descriptive model of the extremization process, and to discuss the various approaches to de-extremization.
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Oxymoron
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSDEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
… Peace & Capitalism
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Google’s Alliance with the Military: The Ruling Class Responds to Social Unrest in America
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
10 Mar 2018 – Last week, Google confirmed that it has provided artificial intelligence software to assist the United States military and intelligence apparatus in analyzing data as part of its drone war and assassination program in the Middle East and beyond.
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Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. “God does not play dice.”
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New Fires Relight in Eastern Congo
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
7 Mar 2018 – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights gave a cry of alarm of dangerous and worsening armed conflicts in which violations of human rights were an important factor. Along with Syria, Yemen, Myanmar, he cited the continued violence in the Kasai of the eastern Congo and the re-ignited armed conflict in the Ituri area, also in eastern RDC near Lake Albert, facing Uganda.
→ read full articleNew Momentum to India’s Financial Inclusion
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
8 Mar 2018 – Financial inclusion should not end with just opening accounts. The customer must make this account his financial diary and conduct transactions which can grow into a credit history. Or else all these accounts would remain deadweight. What needs to be done is to make more and more of these accounts actively transactional.
→ read full articleA Stream of Consciousness about Stream of Time
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
This essay about time is actually about human dignity. We are not drifting along something called time willy-nilly, like falling down pulled by something called gravity. Time is change; being masters of much change relevant to us we can create new contexts and call that moving forward in time, and recreate old contexts and call that moving backward in time.
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Slipping Onward
Susanne Still - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
When I hadn’t heard from Susanne for a few months last September, I sent an e-mail. In late February I learned from her husband, Andrew, that she had passed away soon after being diagnosed with cancer at age 61. He has shared Susanne’s last poem with me, and given permission to share it here.
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Amazing Grace (Music Video of the Week)
Il Divo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Il Divo at the Magnificent Coliseum in Rome
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I Saw a Genocide in Slow Motion in Burma/Myanmar
Nicholas Kristof – The New York Times,
12 Mar 2018
2 Mar 2018 — Sometimes Myanmar uses guns and machetes for ethnic cleansing. But it also kills more subtly and secretly by regularly denying medical care and blocking humanitarian aid to Rohingya. Myanmar and its Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, are trying to make the Rohingya’s lives unlivable, while keeping out witnesses.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
10 Mar 2018 – In the Autumn of 1948, after some eight months of continuous fighting, I was promoted to the lofty rank of corporal. After taking part in a crash course for squad leaders, I was allowed to choose my new soldiers – new immigrants from Poland or Morocco.
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Monsanto Concealed Effects of Toxic Chemical for Decades, Ohio Attorney General Alleges
Tim Stelloh – NBC News,
12 Mar 2018
6 Mar 2018 – Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday [5 Mar], alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century. The company should pay for the clean-up of what it says are dozens of rivers, lakes and other water bodies contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.
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The End of Dueling
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
During medieval times, it was a sign of honor and courage for men to challenge a rival to a duel by sword, typically someone who was in love with the same woman.
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Symbolizing Collective Remembering Otherwise
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Encompassing the Headless Hearts and Heartless Heads through Their Dynamic Entanglement
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If You Want Peace, Don’t Focus on the Violence and the Evil Guy
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
A Personal Pledge Provoked by the Debates about Syria – About 95% of all debates about conflicts and war that we see in politics, mainstream media, the Internet and social media focus on the violence, who uses more or less of it and who is, therefore, the evil party.
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(Italiano) 15 casi di politica estera USA costruttiva / distruttiva
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Una teoria è qualcosa verificabile lungo i suoi margini (Quine), quel che se ne deduce; e per me il “margine” fondamentale è l’azione implicata e le sue conseguenze.
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(Deutsch) Ohne Copyright, als Symbol des Friedens frei für alle
Thomas Carl Schwoerer - Frankfurter Allgemeine,
5 Mar 2018
Das Peace-Zeichen wird sechzig Jahre alt: Von Martin Luther King bis zu den VW-Bussen der Woodstock-Fans.
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He Predicted the 2016 Fake News Crisis – Now He’s Worried about an Information Apocalypse
Charlie Warzel | BuzzFeed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
“What happens when anyone can make it appear as if anything has happened, regardless of whether or not it did?”
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Michelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.
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Resource Sovereignty: Venezuela, Africa, and the Global South
Ann Garrison interviews Maurice Carney | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
“The Congolese people in particular and Africans in general need to learn from their brothers and their sisters in the Global South.”
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A Call for Educational Freedom in America
Submitted by P.K. Willey, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
“It’s about educational freedom! Freedom from Washington mandates. Freedom from centralized control. Freedom from a one-size-fits-all mentality. Freedom from ‘the system.’” –Betsy DeVos
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Book Launch: Revisiting the Vietnam War-The Views and Interpretations of Richard Falk, edited by Stefan Andersson
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Revisiting the Vietnam War: The Views and Interpretations of Richard Falk, edited by Stefan Andersson, Cambridge University Press, 2017 – Why the Legal and Political Debate on the Vietnam War Still Matters
→ read full articleWomen in Rural India: The Long Road to Power
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Empowering women is the solution to many problems. Societies that take the effort to empower women show better development indices; are better governed; more stable; and are less prone to violence.
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Genocide: Why We Let It Happen | Full Panel Discussion
Oxford Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Genocide leaves the darkest stain on the conscience of humanity, yet today we are again witnessing international passivity in the face of the genocide in Myanmar. Why have we failed to learn our lesson from these atrocities and why do we allow this stain on our conscience to continue to grow?
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Nobel Women Peace Laureates Call for an End to Rohingya Genocide
Nobel Women’s Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Dhaka – 28 Feb 2018 – As three Nobel peace laureates—Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, Shirin Ebadi of Iran, and Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland – conclude their visit to Bangladesh on the six-month anniversary of the current Rohingya crisis, the three women are calling for an immediate end to the “genocide” of the Rohingya people.
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Syria: From a Ceasefire to Comprehensive Negotiations?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Mediation is the action taken by a third party to facilitate two (occasionally more) hostile parties coming together to negotiate. Mediation is not negotiation. Negotiation is the process of bargaining and compromise by which those directly in conflict can reach an agreement. The function of the mediator is to remove the obstacles to negotiation, in part by bringing the conflicting parties together for direct discussions.
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Ghost Fishing?
Baher Kamal – Wall Street International Magazine,
5 Mar 2018
640.000 Tonnes of Fishing Gear Dumped in Oceans Every Year
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
The world is getting worse. Violence used to cluster around the global power of USA and the regional power of Israel. Now two more:
“The unstoppable growing power of China.”
“Erdögan’s Neo-Ottomanism at a Dangerous Turning Point.” And “Military buildup on the reefs” in South China Sea.
Standing with Rohingya: 2 Nobel Peace Laureates Visit No Man’s Land
Nobel Women's Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
28 Feb 2018 – Nobel Women Delegation 2018 visited No Man’s Land between the Bangladesh and Burma border today. Here, Nobel peace laureates, Tawakkol Karman and Mairead Maguire, addressed the 6,500 refugees trapped between the two nations to not lose hope in the quest for justice for the Rohingya people.
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World’s Largest Choir – Ode to Joy (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
The Largest Choir in the world: 1000 Japanese Voices – Completed in 1824, the Symphony No. 9 was the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. It incorporated part of Ode to Joy, a poem by Friedrich Schiller written in 1785. Europe’s National Anthem.
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Wake Up and Stop Rohingya Abuses
The Daily Star, Bangladesh | IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
27 Feb 2018 – No one would realise better than a woman how it feels when a child is snatched away from the arms of a mother and slaughtered, a man is murdered before the eyes of his wife, or a girl is raped. That is what happened to countless Rohingya women back in Rakhine State of Myanmar.
→ read full articleBecause There Is Nothing
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
3 Mar 2018 – The flood of corruption affairs that is now engulfing the Netanyahu family and its assistants and servitors does not seem to diminish his popularity among those who call themselves “the People”. On the contrary, according to the opinion polls, the voters of the other nationalist parties are rushing to the rescue of “Bibi”.
→ read full articleTerrorism
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Right!
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(Italiano) Pace e giustizia per il popolo Palestinese: una conversazione
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
La crisi umanitaria a Gaza è entrata nell’11° anno di un assedio crippling di Israele che rende le condizioni di vita dei palestinesi via via più complicate. Il blocco di quella che si definisce popolarmente “la prigione all’aperto più grande al mondo” vuol dire disoccupazione crescente, accesso intermittente ad acqua pura, un’economia sballata e infrastrutture carenti e mancanza di fondi che rendono la popolazione di due milioni vulnerabile alle forti piogge e a fenomeni meteorologici estremi.
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Guns and Liberty
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Guns do not protect us from tyranny. They are an instrument of tyranny.
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Zadie Smith on Optimism and Despair
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
“Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.”
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Using Fake Facts to Make Us Afraid
Arnold R. Isaacs - TomDispatch,
5 Mar 2018
On Immigration and Terrorism, the Trump Administration Misleads about Its Own Misleading Data
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End U.S. Addiction to Killing!
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
The U.S. empire has become a culture of mass violence that has been building layer upon layer, from the massacres of Native Americans, the killing of unarmed African Americans, to the millions killed in wars for resources disguised as freedom and democracy. Now the chickens are coming home to roost with the killing of our own children.
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The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
Monthly Review Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Centering his book on the Eastern Seaboard of North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and what is now Great Britain, Horne provides a deeply researched, harrowing account of the apocalyptic loss and misery that likely has no parallel in human history. This is an essential book that will not allow history to be told by the victors.
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(Français) Néolibéralisme(s) : discours, appropriations, adaptations des organisations internationales
Cédric Leterme | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Ni dogme homogène imposé mondialement par les « élites », ni « fourre-tout » idéologique sans consistance, le néolibéralisme doit plutôt être appréhendé comme un projet de classe mis en œuvre de manière diverse, en fonction de contextes particuliers. Le rôle des organisations internationales rend compte de cette pluralité de néolibéralismes.
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Why the UK Has No Guns
Tobias Stone | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
The UK is far from perfect, and has its own problems with crime. Knife crime and occasional gun crime make the headlines, especially in parts of London. But since banning guns in 1997 it has become incredibly rare to be injured by a firearm, let alone to be killed by one. Average criminals do not use guns because they risk both a mandatory 5 year prison sentence, and being shot. Civilians don’t need guns to protect themselves, and the police are mainly unarmed too.
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Ecuador Endangered
John Seed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
5 Mar 2018 – The tropical Andes of Ecuador are at the top of the world list of biodiversity hotspots in terms of vertebrate species, endemic vertebrates, and endemic plants. In the last year, the Ecuadorean government has quietly granted mining concessions to over 1.7 million hectares (4.25 million acres) of forest reserves and indigenous territories. These were awarded to transnational corporations in closed-door deals without public knowledge or consent.
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(Français) Haïti : le cercle vicieux de la vulnérabilité
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
La répétition des catastrophes qui frappent Haïti a de quoi décourager. Mais il n’y a là aucune malédiction. C’est la vulnérabilité du pays qui est en cause, et celle-ci n’est pas le fruit de la fatalité, mais d’une situation sociale et de choix politiques.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
A patient did not feel well and went to see his doctor. The doctor examined and told him, “I have some bad news and some good news.”
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Implement Universal Peace Education Forthwith to Stop Violence in Schools
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
Peace education is not a set of predetermined values to be taught. True peace education is man-making education. Hence, it should be free for all leaving none, and in all. Peace education is perpetually self-learning, self-transcending and self-revealing knowledge and practice to be integral man.
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What Is Bitcoin?
WeUseCoins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
This video is a short animated introduction to Bitcoin.
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NGO Crimes Go Far Beyond Oxfam
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
Figures for earthquake relief range from $10bn to $13.4bn. Some of us who visited Haiti have seen little or no sign of that money, write activists.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 – I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. To start, just listing the types of rubbish generated by humans or the locations into which each of these is dumped is a staggering task beyond the scope of one article.
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Five Reasons That Anarchism Would Be an Improvement in Human Governance
Gary ‘Z’ McGee | Waking Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
The problem, the crux, the fly in the ointment: most people are not courageous enough, and most people don’t want to learn anything that attacks their all-too-precious worldview. Yes, the very worldview that is keeping people indebted to an immoral, unhealthy, unsustainable, unjust system of human governance is precisely the worldview that the majority of people are clinging to. Indeed, most people, even though they would probably say otherwise, would rather be kissed with a lie than slapped with the truth.
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Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
Adaptation… ?
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(Castellano) El miedo que impulsa la estrategia nuclear estadounidense
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
El 2 de febrero 2018, el Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos publicó su última ‘Revisión de la Postura Nuclear 2018’. Varios autores ya han expuesto de manera cuidadosa un número increíble de mentiras obvias, amenazas inventadas, fallas e ideas erróneas estratégicas, como el pensamiento falaz detrás de la “disuasión” y el riesgo significativamente mayor de guerra nuclear dado el “pensamiento” delirante en el documento, así como el miedo político en la NPR.
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Florida School Shooting and the Crisis of Humanity
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
Can we rise to the occasion? Can we provide value based education to our future generations in our families, in our societies and most importantly, in a formal way, in our educational institutions? The collective and sustained efforts to make a real difference in the education system will ensure the survival and flourishing of the human civilization.
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Reflections on the Myths and Ethoses That Promote and Sustain War as a “Way of Life” and Acceptable Moral Code for the USA (I)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
19 Feb 2018 – The unassailable truth is that the USA is a culture of war! A culture of war is a shared set of meanings and behaviors that are socialized by macrosocial and microsocial institutions via support for certain cultural myths and ethoses that present war and associated acts of violence and aggression as an acceptable action for pursuing domestic and national goals and purposes
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Lula Da Silva as a Nightmare in Brazil
Jaime Amparo Alves – Open Democracy,
26 Feb 2018
5 Feb 2018 – The main threat to democracy in Brazil is posed by part of the judiciary; a dangerous, well-born, conservative class of mostly white men. And Lula da Silva is their worst nightmare.
→ read full articlePalestine: The Hollowness of Public Sphere and the Absence of the Institution
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
20 Feb 2018 – The absence of elections has led to the emergence of political authority (as well as institutions) that do not respect citizens, or members of institutions and their staff as a reference to them. They do not need their opinions and advice. They rule individually, marginalize the collective decision and do not care to listen to people’s opinion because they no longer need their votes to remain in office. These are all not created by the occupation. They are our own creation.
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Hot Water
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
If a frog is put into hot water, he jumps out. If he is put into tepid water, and the water is gradually heated, he remains in the water until he is boiled.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
I am sitting somewhere in Afghanistan. Across the table are three Taliban; Pashtuns like most Taliban. My opening question is standard: “What does the Afghanistan look like where you would like to live?” with some equally standard follow-up questions: “What is the worst that happened to you?”, and “Was there a good period in the past?”
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Scholars, Activists and Politicians in Germany to Hold an International Conference on Myanmar Genocide at the Jewish Museum in Berlin
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
On 26 February, a group of prominent human rights activists, genocide scholars and practitioners of international law are gathering at the Jewish Museum of Berlin for the first-ever conference in Germany on Myanmar Genocide of the Rohingya people.
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Rudolf Steiner (25 Feb 1861- 30 Mar 1925): The Laws of Nature
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
For Steiner karma – the fact that every action – and thought is an action – produces an impact and will have consequences. However, without training and close observation one does not see karma working. To see karma in operation requires an insight into the working of subtle energies. He outlines his views in his basic book: Knowledge of Higher Worlds. How is it attained?
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