Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The West–Where Are You Heading?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
There are no chosen individuals, with promised status. We are all chosen as humans by the precious gift of life, with guaranteed survival, wellness, freedom of options, identity. In a nature with guaranteed diversity and symbiosis; not vicious human attacks on both.
→ read full article‘We Came to School and Found It Destroyed’: Israeli Forces Demolish West Bank School Hours before Children’s First Day
Sheren Khalel | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
23 Aug 2017— Israeli military jeeps came barreling down towards Jubbet al-Dhib’s first and only primary school late Tuesday [19 Aug] night, terrifying locals who had been finishing preparations for the school’s grand opening set for the next morning. Soldiers shot tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets as they cleared the way for bulldozers and flatbed trucks brought in to take down the school.
→ read full articleMaking Peace
Denise Levertov | Poetry Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
A voice from the dark called out,
‘The poets must give us
imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar
imagination of disaster. Peace, not only
the absence of war.’
Denis de Rougemont (8 Sep 1906 – 6 Dec 1985): The Future Is within Us
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
For de Rougemont, revolutionaries attempting to seize power, even from the most repressive regimes, invariably fall into the power structures they hoped to eliminate. Only the power we have over ourselves is synonymous with freedom. For the first time, the person has not only the need but also the power and ability to choose his future.
→ read full article9/11: The Repression of Dissent and the 16th Anniversary of the Crime and Cover-up of the Century
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The Power of Big Lie Propaganda, Blind Patriotism, Ignorance and Denial
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (11) John Stuart Mill
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
John Stuart Mill, economist with a social and ecological conscience, defender of individual liberty, pioneering advocate of the rights of women, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleAre the Rohingya Militants Responsible for Derailing Kofi Annan Commission’s Recommendations?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
“Who is terrorising whom”” is the question that needs to be confronted head on. There is something else that needs to be called out: the mass media’s misframing of Rohingya militants as “jihadists”. Both the realities on the ground and the media narrative covering the realities are quite skewered in favour of the perpetrating Burmese regime’s framing.
→ read full article(Italiano) Spagna: dove stai andando?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Per gli spagnoli è abituale aggiungere la parola “crisi” al nome del paese. Non sono i soli in ciò, può essere una consuetudine occidentale, uno di quei termini che sospingono avanti l’Occidente.
→ read full article(Italiano) Superare la paranoia verso la Russia
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
È ora di aprire una porta positiva alla Russia con uno scambio a reciproco e uguale beneficio. Scambi di merci lavorate e di servizi, cooperazione nel sopprimere la speculazione e l’intossicazione da droghe. Soprattutto: rispetto reciproco, non solo vantaggi. Stima, simpatia. Affetto. RUSSIA: ja tjebjà ljubljù. Ti amo.
→ read full article41M Affected by South Asia Floods, but Who Knows about It?
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The flooding and landslides have swept Bangladesh, India and Nepal for weeks, killing over 1,200 people.
→ read full articleRussia, US, Iran and Israel War for Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Interview Conducted by Graduate Students from Oxford University’s Middle East Center and St Anthony’s College, August 2017 – Franklin Lamb is a Ph.D. in international law and is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict. Prof. Lamb has many years experience on the ground in the Middle East and for the past six has been in Syria dedicated to, among other activities, the grass roots human rights group Meals for Syrian Refugee Children, Lebanon.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele si avvia verso una soluzione?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Il mondo vuole messaggi di pace da queste grandi, antiche fedi, non guerra perpetua. Questi messaggi potrebbero venire da Gerusalemme, mettendo in evidenza le tradizioni di solidarietà e tolleranza piuttosto che il contrario: le fedi abramitiche, che rinnegano la speranza del genere umano nella pace. Il mondo è in attesa. E’ tempo che accada, ora.
→ read full articleThe Man Who Stood Up to Armageddon
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 Aug 2017 – Suddenly it’s possible — indeed, all too easy — to imagine one man starting a nuclear war. What’s a little harder to imagine is one human being stopping such a war. For all time. The person who came closest to this may have been Tony de Brum, former foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, who died last week of cancer at age 72.
→ read full articleRohingyas — Jihadists?
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The way Aung San Suu Kyi and her government colleagues have framed the clashes ignores the brutal massacres committed by the military over a long period of time. The oppression and persecution of the Rohingyas by the State and other forces has been thoroughly documented by the United Nations Human Rights Council and other independent human rights groups.
→ read full articleNYT Only the Latest Corporate Media Outlet to Give Free Publicity to Mercenary Profiteer
Adam Johnson | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The New York Times (8/30/17) decided to turn over a large chunk of the most precious opinion space in the English-speaking world to mercenary entrepreneur Erik Prince, so he could promote his plan to privatize and profit from the US occupation of Afghanistan.
→ read full article(Français) Les Etats-Unis et le fascisme latino-américain: ancien et nouveau modèle
Franklin Frederick | The Dawn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 Août 2017 – Les tendances fascistes sont de retour au grand jour en Amérique Latine. Elles sont clairement visibles dans l’opposition meurtrière vénézuélienne mais également dans les rues de l’Argentine et du Brésil. Ces tendances fascistes proviennent du fait que l’inégalité économique et l’égalité politique sont incompatibles, à plus forte raison sur un continent où la distribution de la richesse est à ce point inégale.
→ read full articleHow Big Pharma Greed Is Killing Tens of Thousands around the World
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Patients Are Over-Medicated and Often Given Profitable Drugs with ‘Little Proven Benefits,’ Leading Doctors Warn
→ read full articleVault 7: Angelfire
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Today, August 31st 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the Angelfire project of the CIA. Like previously published CIA projects (Grasshopper and AfterMidnight) in the Vault7 series, it is a persistent framework that can load and execute custom implants on target computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (XP or Win7).
→ read full articleCreativity, Insanity, Spirituality
Dr. K. Sohail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Reflections of a Humanist Psychotherapist on the Spiritual Autobiographies of Ghazali, Tolstoy and Jung
→ read full article(Português) Investigações secretas revelam a extrema crueldade do comércio de animais
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 agosto 2017 – A decisão de receber um animal na família é emocionante e, mesmo que um número crescente de pessoas decida adotar em abrigos, muitas ainda financiam lojas de animais, o que alimenta a cruel indústria de fábricas de filhotes que condena os pais dos filhotes a uma vida miserável.
→ read full articleKofi Annan Commission Urges Myanmar/Burma to End Rohingya Restrictions
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
24 Aug 2017 – Myanmar must scrap restrictions on movement and citizenship for its persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority if it wants to avoid fuelling extremism and bring peace to Rakhine state, a commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan said today. It warns against using force and ignoring concerns of world’s ‘single biggest stateless’ community.
→ read full articleDon’t Look Now
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
2 Sep 2017 – It is not only Donald Trump’s government that censors the discussion of climate change; it is the entire body of polite opinion. This is why the majority of news reports on Hurricane Harvey have made no mention of the human contribution. The media avoids the subject of climate breakdown – to do otherwise is to bring the entire infrastructure of thought crashing down.
→ read full articleDouble
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The people of Minas Gerais in Brazil are said to love cheese. A man there met a fairy and she promised to grant him three wishes.
→ read full articleA Prayer for Houston…. And,
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Please help the people in Houston, Lord.
And, while You’re at it, in Palestine, too!
Though worlds apart, they are kindred,
as all suffering creatures are kindred.
Do Sierra Leonean Lives Matter?
Jugal Shah | OpenCanada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
28 Aug 2017 – When events in the US dominate the news, is there still an appetite for political and humanitarian response to crises like the mudslides in Sierra Leone and in the Democratic Republic of Congo? In Sierra Leone, more than 500 lives have been claimed. In the DRC, 200 were killed by landslides.
→ read full articleDeception
Latuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Holocaust Business
→ read full articleMy Odyssey with Dairy Farmers
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
1 Sep 2017 – When I travelled for my first assignment to a village as a bank manager, I believed the best way I could help the poor villagers was by helping them with loans for purchasing livestock. A cow (or a goat) is a much better medium for income than training a poor family to learn to set up a small business.
→ read full articleCamp David
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The key to successful negotiations is to find creative solutions that give all parties what is most important to them.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Sep 4-10, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
→ read full articleClarifying Gandhi: POTUS, Rutherford, and Gandhi on Moral Economics
P.K. Wiilley, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The question of what constitutes a wonderful and advanced civilization is dependent upon Justice, which is buttressed by economics. All great philosopher-doers, concerned with the betterment of human life have recognized that the handling of the economic means for living life must be guided by ethics and morality for the good of all. Gandhi was no exception.
→ read full articleChina Has Already More Than Doubled Its 2020 Solar Power Target
Jing Yan and Lauri Myllyvirta | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
25 Aug 2017 – China has more than doubled its end-of-decade solar power target, with new installations dramatically outstripping expectation, according to the government’s energy agency.
→ read full articleTMS Editor Receives Prize for Peace and Social Justice
Psychologists for Social Responsibility – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
2017 Prize: Antonio Carlos da Silva Rosa, Portugal/Brazil and Dr. Brad Olson, Chicago, Illinois. PsySR’s award is given annually to recognize outstanding psychology-based contributions in scholarship and action by an individual in one or more of the following areas: Peace and Nonviolence, Poverty, Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance, Spirituality, and Social Action.
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Reflections of My Life (Music Video of the Week)
The Marmalade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The hypnotic music and lyrics were written by singer Dean Ford and lead guitarist Junior Campbell. What a monumental ballad it was–and still is! – Recorded in London, Oct 1969
→ read full articleHow Media Obscure US/Saudi Responsibility for Killing Yemeni Civilians
Ben Norton | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
31 Aug 2017 – A coalition of Saudi Arabia, USA, UK and UAE has relentlessly bombed Yemen since March 2015. There are no other parties bombing the country, so media cannot feign ignorance as to who is responsible for the attacks. But reports on the bloody US/Saudi coalition airstrikes were nonetheless rife with ambiguous and downright misleading language.
→ read full articleAfter 30 Years, Gazans Go to the Movies for One Night Only
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The film which debuted Saturday [26 Aug] at the Samer Cinema was shot in Gaza with a team of volunteer actors.
→ read full articleJournalist Interrogated, Fired for Story Linking CIA and Syria Weapons Flights
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Investigative reporter Dilyana Gaytandzhieva authored a bombshell report for Trud Newspaper, Bulgaria, which found that an Azerbaijan state airline company was regularly transporting tons of weaponry to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Turkey under diplomatic cover as part of the CIA covert program to supply anti-Assad fighters in Syria. Those weapons, Gaytandzhieva found, ended up in the hands of ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
→ read full articlePeace Study Day & March
Alberto Portugheis | Humanity United for Universal Demilitarization – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Sat 16 Sep 2017 at The Elizabeth Fry Room, Westminster Quaker Meeting House, London, England. Speakers: John Leech, Alicia Cabezudo, Alberto Portugheis, Stefan G. Ziegler and Azadeh Chahvie. If you would like to participate only in our Peace March, please meet us at 6pm at Hop Gardens. You are also welcome to join us at any of our stopping points along the way.
→ read full articleClimate Disaster & Nuclear War!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
29 Aug 2017 – The catastrophe is still unfolding with unprecedented rainfall and flooding from Hurricane Harvey. Houston is known as “Petro Metro” and is home to more than a dozen oil refineries. The people who live closest to these industrial sites are low income and minority communities. Poor people of color bear the greatest burden of climate change, harmful pollution, and have the fewest options when natural or man-made disaster strikes. Climate disaster and nuclear war pose the two greatest threats to life on the planet.
→ read full article(Português) Práticas violentas contra os animais só existem porque sempre há plateia e consumidores
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
A tauromaquia, assim como qualquer atividade considerada tradicional, e que cause mal a outros seres vivos sencientes, só existe porque há plateia e consumidores. Pessoas que não racionalizam a própria maldade, ou que não são capazes de externalizá-la, pagam para que os outros façam o que elas não conseguem. Assim, tornando-se voyeurs de anseios desasseados e perigosos.
→ read full articleThe Horrifying Tragedy of Holocaust
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 Aug 2017 – The Holocaust is undoubtedly one of the worst crimes and tragedies of the WWII. The word Holocaust comes from the Greek word holo “whole” + kaustos “burnt.” It refers to an animal sacrifice in which the entire animal is burned.
→ read full articleEcolinguistics: Rhymed Reflections
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Between language users and their environments,
a myriad relationships there are.
Given such oceanic diversity,
has our human ecolinguistic identity gone very far?
A Brief History of Managing Palestinians
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
This is one of the US State department’s country reviews of human rights treating the Occupied Palestinian Territories as a country governed by 3 regimes – Hamas, the PA and Israel. It is long, doesn’t spare any of the regimes but at no point does it define why Israel has the authority to control Palestinians in the way it details here. Useful for reference.
→ read full articleHarvard Crimson Ad Asks if Anti-BDS Harvard Profs “Only Care about Certain Lives”
If Americans Knew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
30 Aug 2017 – A full-page advertisement in today’s Harvard Crimson asks, “Do some Harvard Professors only care about certain lives?” The ad refers to a statement signed by 71 Harvard professors in the health, medical, and life sciences fields that opposed the international academic boycott of Israel.
→ read full article(Italiano) Solidarietà’: percorsi dimenticati
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
E’ urgente riscattare il significato antropologico fondamentale della solidarietà. Essa è antisistemica, perché il sistema imperante capitalista e individualista si regge sulla concorrenza e non sulla solidarietà e cooperazione. Questo va contro il senso della natura. Ci dicono gli etno-antropologi che è stata la solidarietà a farci passare dall’ordine dei Primati all’ordine degli umani.
→ read full articleCrusaders and Zionists
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
2 Sep 2017 – A few days ago I found myself in Caesarea, sitting in a restaurant and looking out over the sea. Caesarea was built by King Herod some 2000 years ago and named after his Roman master, Augustus Caesar. It once again became an important town under the Crusaders, who fortified it.
→ read full article(Italiano) Aosta. Ero Straniero. Iniziata ieri la raccolta firme
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
“Se voi però avete il diritto di dividere il mondo in italiani e stranieri
allora vi dirò che, nel vostro senso, io non ho Patria e reclamo il diritto di dividere il mondo in diseredati e oppressi da un lato, privilegiati e oppressori dall’altro. Gli uni sono la mia Patria, gli altri i miei stranieri”.
— don Lorenzo Milani, “L’obbedienza non è più una virtù”
Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly Now Endorsed by over 1,500 Current and Former Lawmakers from 120 Countries
Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly | Culture of Peace Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The campaign’s appeal calls for “a gradual implementation of democratic participation and representation on the global level to ensure international cooperation, secure the acceptance and enhance the legitimacy of the UN strengthening its capacity to act. People must be more effectively and directly included into the activities of the United Nations and its international organizations.”
→ read full articleAfter The Financial Crisis: How the Ultra-Wealthy Have Prospered
Nick Beams | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The 2008 crisis proved to be but a “temporary setback.” The process of wealth accumulation is not the result of any kind of economic “recovery,” nor the supposed “entrepreneurship” of its beneficiaries. Rather, it is the outcome of a system characterised, as Marx put it, by the accumulation of fabulous wealth at one pole and poverty and misery at the other.
→ read full articleLatin America’s “Pink Tide” and the Challenge of Systemic Change: Ecuador
The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
7 Aug 2017 – In the late 1990s and the 2000s, Latin America experienced a “pink tide” of sorts, with a number of self-proclaimed socialist governments coming to power. By 2010, leftist governments were in power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, with Peru joining the ranks in 2011. We asked three analysts to describe some of the institutional innovations implemented in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador during this time, and to reflect on the relationship between organized citizenry and the state in these transitions in order to elicit lessons learned.
→ read full articleEchoes of Reagan: Another Nuclear Buildup
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Thirty years ago Americans endured an absurd expansion of the US nuclear-weapon force under President Reagan. The announced weapons modernization program was accompanied by a crazy talk from his advisers about the potential to fight and win a nuclear war. So here we are evidently back to the future as the Trump administration forges ahead with nuclear “modernization,” without a set strategy for the weapons but with billions of dollars to burn.
→ read full article(Castellano) Brasil: un barco a la deriva
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
27 ago 2017 – La gravedad de nuestra crisis generalizada hace que nos sintamos como un barco a la deriva, a merced de los vientos y de las olas. El timonel, el presidente, está acusado de delitos, rodeado de marujos-piratas, en su mayoría igualmente corruptos o acusados de otros delitos. Es increíble que un presidente, detestado por el 90% de la población, sin ninguna credibilidad ni carisma, quiera gobernar un barco a la deriva.
→ read full articleA Word Rushes like Silver Bullet
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
A word rushes like silver bullet,
Piercing the hearts of people,
Who we are: grain, chaff,
Answer me quickly!
The Lies of 9/11 Miracle Workers
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
A Review of David Ray Griffin’s Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the World – David Ray Griffin is an international treasure and truth teller, who, while being ignored by the mainstream corporate media for his extraordinary series of books exposing the false flag attacks of Sep 11, 2001, will someday be lauded as a modern prophet.
→ read full articleWork Begins Soon to Bring Haiti into ‘Silk Road’ after China Invests US$30 Billion to Develop Infrastructure
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
“Silk Road” work is expected to begin December on projects for clean water, sanitation, public bathrooms, electricity, communications, and more to Port-au-Prince.
→ read full articleArson Attacks Push Thousands More Rohingya from Myanmar: Scorched-Earth Policy as They Flee Soldiers
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
3 Sep 2017 – More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s restive northwest in the last week, as tens of thousands more refugees fled into Bangladesh over the past 24 hours. Myanmar blames armed Rohingya group for burning homes in Rakhine, but survivors pin responsibility on soldiers.
→ read full articleUSA–Where Are You Heading?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Declare the end of the empire and explore cooperation for mutual and equal benefit with all. Make them friends, not military “allies”. USA: you are so innovative; you have so incredibly much to offer.
→ read full articleNorth Korea an Aggressor? A Reality Check
Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
Siegfried Hecker is the last known American official to inspect North Korea’s nuclear facilities. He says that treating Kim Jong-un as though he is on the verge of attacking the U.S. is both inaccurate and dangerous. Trump made his crass “fire and fury” threat on the eve of the sixty second commemoration of the US nuclear attack on Nagasaki, the nauseating irony seemingly un-noticed by him. Will some adults pitch up on Capitol Hill before it is too late?
→ read full articleThe Universalism of Imam Moussa Sadr: A Relevant Approach to Contemporary Uncertainty
Raed H. Charafeddine | The Yale University Council on Middle East Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The Arab world is the geographic, historic and cultural point of convergence of the Muslim World. Islam was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the Arabic language in the Arabian Peninsula and, from there, the message spread across the world. The abodes of Islam remain platforms for debate and incubators for tensions and conflicting ideologies despite the passing of fourteen centuries since the Revelation. Certain issues of contention date back to the earliest years of Islam and have, remarkably, gone unresolved to this day. Such issues include succession (the Caliphate) and alternation in power, the separation of religion and State, innovation (Ijtihad) and imitation (Taqlid), and much more. Exploring these issues is no mere intellectual luxury. Even today these are still pressing matters as current political situation is mired in turmoil, uncertainty, and lack of vision.
→ read full articleKhim Bahadur: An Eye for an Eye in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
The reasons why children participate in the ten-year conflict are numerous. Khim joined the revolution because the government security men constantly harassed his family for supporting the CPN (Maoist) party. He was tortured by the state security forces most of the time as a son of CPN (Maoist) cadre.
→ read full articleTrump Gives Military Green Light to Escalate Afghanistan War
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
22 Aug 2017 – The nationally televised address to a military audience sets the stage for a massive increase in bloodshed in a country where the United States has waged war for 16 years.
→ read full articleEvolving International Law, Political Realism, and the Illusions of Diplomacy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – International law is mainly supportive of Palestinian grievances with respect to Israel, as well as offering both Israelis and Palestinians a reliable marker as to how these two peoples could live normally together in the future if the appropriate political will existed on both sides to reach a sustainable peace.
→ read full article(Português) Amazonas: Situação Legal dos Direitos Minerários da Reserva Nacional do Cobre (RENCA)
WWF-World Wildlife Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Relatório Técnico 2017 – Desde 2015 estão sendo veiculadas diversas notícias a respeito da extinção da RENCA como forma de atração de investimentos para o setor mineral. Criada em 1984, essa área de bloqueio está situada no limite dos estados do Pará e Amapá e apresenta área de 47 mil km2, equivalente ao estado do Espírito Santo.
→ read full articleMyanmar Troops Open Fire on Civilians Fleeing Attacks
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
26 Aug 2017 – Myanmar soldiers opened fire on fleeing Rohingya civilians – mostly women and children – as they attempted to cross the border into Bangladesh and escape surging violence. Bangladeshi border guards say troops fired mortars and machine guns at Rohingya civilians trying to escape bloodshed.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (10) Robert Owen
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Robert Owen, pioneer of the cooperative movement, pioneer of social and economic reform, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleHokkaido Show Gardens (Music Video of the Week)
Ruben Mandolini | Facebook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Garden of sound! Great art! ->
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Towards a Peaceful, Fair and Prosperous Future for the People of Rakhine
Advisory Commission on Rakhine State – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Final Report – 24 Aug 2017. The Advisory Commission chaired by Kofi Annan puts forward recommendations to surmount the political, socio-economic and humanitarian challenges that currently face Rakhine State. It builds on the Commission’s interim report released in March of this year.
→ read full article(Português) A Tourada Vista por Um Médico Veterinário
Isabel A. Ferreira | Arco de Almedina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Na tourada à portuguesa há o terrível sentimento de claustrofobia e pânico que o touro sofre desde que é retirado violentamente da campina e transportado em aperto até à arena, seguido pelo maltrato para o enfraquecer física e animicamente antes de ser toureado. Na arena, o touro enfrenta a provocação e a tortura durante a lide e no fim desta, totalmente ensanguentado, com a retirada sempre violenta e muito dolorosa das bandarilhas, rasgando e cortando ainda mais o seu couro.
→ read full articleThe Best TV Ad for 2017
TV2 Denmark - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
A Must-Watch Video
→ read full articleThe Real Threat to America Comes from Americans
Kim Ghattas | Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Just as the Arab world struggles to come to grips with jihadism, the United States has failed to grapple with its own demons. It’s time to realize that no society is without darkness — and the direst threat facing the US today may well be from within, not without.
→ read full articleWhy Are All Those Racists So Terrified?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Racism – fear of, and hatred for, those of another race coupled with the beliefs that the other race is inferior and should be dominated (by your race) – is now highly visible among European populations impacted by refugee flows from the Middle East and North Africa. In addition, racism is ongoingly and highly evident among sectors of the US population but also in countries like South Africa as well as Australia and throughout Central and South America where indigenous populations are particularly impacted.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Aug 28–Sep 3, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Today is your day to dance lightly with life, sing wild songs of adventure, invite rainbows and butterflies out to play, soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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(Português) Da Fazenda/Quinta ao Frigorífico
Mercy For Animals (Brasil) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Nos próximos minutos, você terá uma visão da realidade que acontece por trás das portas fechadas de fazendas/quintas modernas, incubadoras e abatedouros–revelando o duro caminho que os animais percorrem de lá ao frigorífico. Alerta: Conteúdo com imagens repugnantes de violênicia que podem ferir sensibilidades.
→ read full articleA View of Toronto in Summer Months
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – Soon after I landed in Toronto, I was informed that Canada is celebrating its 150th anniversary of independence from British rule.
→ read full articleThese Are All the Countries the USA Has Invaded, in One Map
Joe Vesey-Byrne | indy100 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
23 Aug 2017 – From Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, the US has had a military presence across the world, from almost day one of her independence. What constitutes invasion? As one map below shows, the US has a military presence in much of the world without being an occupying force (though some would dispute that definition).
→ read full articleGauguin’s Stirring First-Hand Account of What Actually Happened the Night Van Gogh Cut off His Own Ear
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Certain relationships are charged with an intensity of feeling that incinerates the walls we habitually erect between platonic friendship, romantic attraction, and intellectual-creative infatuation. One of the most dramatic of those superfriendships unfolded between the artists Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, whose relationship was animated by an acuity of emotion so lacerating that it led to the famous and infamously mythologized incident in which Van Gogh cut off his own ear.
→ read full articleKaya, the Royal Dog
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
26 Aug 2017 – The spectacle is almost bizarre: a political party refuses to accept new members. And not just a few individuals, but tens of thousands. And not just any party, but the Likud (“Unification”), the main force in Israel’s governing coalition. Strange? But there is method in this madness.
→ read full articleVault 7: ExpressLane
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Today, August 24th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes secret documents from the ExpressLane project of the CIA that show one of the cyber operations it conducts against liaison services — which includes among many others the NSA, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Media Service Receives Prize for Peace and Social Justice
Psychologists for Social Responsibility – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
2017 Prize: Dr. Brad Olson, Chicago, Illinois and Antonio Carlos da Silva Rosa, Portugal/Brazil. PsySR’s award is given annually to recognize outstanding psychology-based contributions in scholarship and action by an individual in one or more of the following areas: Peace and Nonviolence, Poverty, Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance, Spirituality, and Social Action.
→ read full articleThe World’s Biggest Floating Solar Farm Is Now Live. And It’s on Top of a Former Coal Mine
Joe McCarthy | Global Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 Aug 2017 – Earlier this week, a new floating solar farm went live in the Chinese city of Huainan above a retired coal mine, China Daily reports. It’s more than six times as powerful as the next biggest floating solar farm.
→ read full articleIn Defense of the Nameless, Invisible Workers
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
20 Aug 2017 – In spite of the threats to our Common Home, the Earth, attacked on all fronts by the type of culture that we have developed in the last two centuries, limitless exploitation of her finite goods and services, essentially for the material accumulation of a few; in spite of everything she continues to generously offer us the beauty of the fruits, flowers, plants, animals and broad bio-diversity.
→ read full articlePeace-Development-Environment: Integrated?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
These are the goals of the United Nations; the Hardanger Academy made them three foci. The problem arose: what do they have in common? Are they three aspects of the same thing? If so, what is that “thing”? Four ways of trying to answer have been identified and explored. Four because of four ways of approaching social reality.
→ read full articleLatin America’s “Pink Tide” and the Challenge of Systemic Change: Bolivia
The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
7 Aug 2017 – In the late 1990s and the 2000s, Latin America experienced a “pink tide” of sorts, with a number of self-proclaimed socialist governments coming to power. By 2010, leftist governments were in power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, with Peru joining the ranks in 2011. We asked three analysts to describe some of the institutional innovations implemented in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador during this time, and to reflect on the relationship between organized citizenry and the state in these transitions in order to elicit lessons learned.
→ read full articleLandmark UN-Backed Treaty on Mercury Takes Effect
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
16 Aug 2017 – A ground-breaking global convention on mercury today goes into effect, the United Nations environment wing said, protecting millions of children and infants from possible neurological and health damage.
→ read full articleBrazil Opens Vast Amazon Reserve to Mining
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – Brazil’s government has abolished a vast national reserve in the Amazon to open up the area to mining. Covering 46,000 sq km (17,800 sq miles), straddles the northern states of Amapá and Pará, and is thought to be rich in gold, and other minerals. It is larger than Denmark. WWF’s report said that a “gold rush in the region could create irreversible damage to indigenous cultures”.
→ read full articleFlashers
Antonio Gaspar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Pathological Exhibitionism
→ read full article(Português) Cerca de 200 MIL PESSOAS são infectadas com vírus da hepatite após comerem linguiça
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Um supermercado do Reino Unido pode ter infectado involuntariamente milhares de pessoas com o vírus da hepatite E transmitido por meio de linguiças e produtos de porco provenientes da Europa, alertou a agência governamental Public Health England .
→ read full articleThe Masque of Anarchy
Percy Bysshe Shelley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Shelley wrote his poem in response to the Peterloo Massacre, which took place in Manchester on 16 August 1819. Cavalry soldiers of the government charged a crowd of 50,000 citizens who were peacefully assembled to ask for better representation in Parliament. This poem advocating non-violent resistance to tyranny was an inspiration to Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi.
→ read full article(Português) Estudo mostra que a pecuária é a atividade com maior apropriação de solo na Amazônia
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
21 ago 2017 – O estudo mostra que nos estados da Amazônia não há atividade com maior apropriação de solo do que a pecuária, e exatamente por desempenhar papel tão determinante na região está fortemente associada com o desmatamento, inclusive sendo apontada como principal causa. E a agricultura em larga escala em vez de reduzir o impacto da pecuária no desflorestamento tem ajudado a ampliá-lo.
→ read full articlePeace to Twenty-First Century!
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
History does not learn anything,
How can this be?
We are born to suffer
Or all the same, to live?
Ignaz Semmelweis, Galileo Galilei, Andrew Wakefield and the Semmelweis Reflex
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Iatrogenesis and Big Pharma’s Lucrative Overvaccination Agendas
→ read full articleMyanmar/Burma: UN Welcomes Final Assessment of Independent Advisory Panel on Rakhine State
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – The United Nations today welcomed the release of the final report of an independent advisory body looking into the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. UN Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric acknowledged its endorsement “to address the root causes of violence and reduce inter-communal violence.”
→ read full articleThe Dilemma of a Secular Muslim in Present Day India
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – An educated, secular and liberal Indian Muslim is in a bind; he is torn between finding the right balance between loyalty to his faith and adherence to the new tests of patriotism being imposed by certain intolerant groups.
→ read full articleEdward Carpenter: (29 Aug 1844 – 28 Jun 1929)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Edward Carpenter was an English writer, educator, pacifist, and socialist reformer who came from a middle class intellectual family. As others influenced by the Theosophical Society, he gave up formal university extension work and bought a farm which became a meeting place for discussions among many in the area − an early “back to the land movement”. He stressed using hand-made clothes, the non-killing and non-eating of animals, and the use of herbs for health.
→ read full articleMahadev: The Cost of Being Different
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Mahadev Shrestha (pseudonym) is a main participant in this study. I think his life could be of interest to my research as his education and daily life was affected by the ten-year armed conflict in Nepal.
→ read full articleThe Place Where We Are Right
Yehuda Amichai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
“From the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the Spring.
John Quincy Adams on Efficiency vs. Effectiveness, the Proper Aim of Ambition, and His Daily Routine
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Digging at the heart of modernity’s foundational disconnect between efficiency and effectiveness: our tendency to pour tremendous energy into doing things, with little reflection on whether those are the right things to do in the first place.
→ read full articleIt’s the Opium, Stupid: ‘Afghan Surge Guarantees CIA Black-Ops Budget Boost’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
23 Aug 2017 – The CIA is also overjoyed because its black-ops budget – which is tied to the exponential growth of opium production in Afghanistan – is now secured possibly for another 20-50 years, claims Mike Raddie, co-editor of online site BSNews.
→ read full articlePeriodic Table of Tech
The Beacon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
You’re probably familiar with the periodic table — you may have even memorized all the elements. But do you know how they’re used outside of chemistry class?
→ read full articleWhy Does North Korea Hate Us?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless. Dean Rusk said the USA bombed ‘everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.’ After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops. And so we remain caged in military thinking and the need to win, rather than understand.
→ read full article(Português) A Solidariedade: Um Paradigma Olvidado
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
É urgente resgatarmos o significado antropológico fundamental da solidariedade. Ela é anti-sistêmica, pois o sistema imperante capitalista é individualista e se rege pela concorrência e não pela solidariedade e pela cooperação. Isso vai contra o sentido da natureza. É urgente resgatarmos o paradigma básico de nossa humanidade, tão olvidado. Fora dela desvirtuaremos nossa humanidade e a dos outros.
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