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We Need Their Voices Today! (19) Bertha von Suttner
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Bertha von Suttner, famous antiwar author, friend and mentor of Alfred Nobel without whose advice to him the Peace Prize would not exist, early leader of the peace movement, we need your voice today!
→ read full article(Français) Élections régionales au Venezuela : large victoire du chavisme et… nouvelle défaite de la droite et des médias
Thierry Deronne | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017 – Les bolivariens remportent une large victoire avec 17 états contre 5 pour l’opposition. Celle-ci gagne notamment dans les états stratégiques de Mérida, Táchira, Zulia, proches de la Colombie, foyers de violence paramilitaire. Les bolivariens récupèrent trois états historiquement gouvernés par la droite.
→ read full articleHow a Seemingly Bad Luck Can Turn Out to Be a Good Luck
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
How a Loss Can Turn into a Gain – What looked like a total disaster at first turned out to be a lucky coincidence.
→ read full articleMyanmar Shows Off Its Israeli Weapons
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017 – Myanmar has been showing off its new gunboats, confirming that Israel is supplying the country with weapons in spite of official secrecy. Amid ethnic cleansing of Rohingya, Israel envoy offers PR advice.
→ read full articleChina Just Shut Down Thousands of Factories to Fight Pollution
Global Citizen | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
24 Oct 2017 – In an unprecedented crackdown on pollution, the Chinese government shut down tens of thousands of factories in an effort to improve air quality throughout industrial regions in the country.
→ read full articleMediation Culture for Conflict Transformation
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Four important concepts: mediation, culture, conflict, transformation. What do they stand for and how do they relate to each other?
→ read full articlePalestinian Villages Hidden Under Israeli Forests
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Saffuriya was one of more than 500 Palestinian villages ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948, during the Nakba. Journalist Jonathan Cook explains how Israel quickly acted to raze the villages so the 750,000 refugees could not return and then covered up these war crimes by planting forests over the ruins.
→ read full article(Português) Dissecação de animais é uma prática perigosa, antiética e desnecessária
Maya Lopes - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
30 Oct 2017
29 out 2017 – A dissecação animal é uma técnica arcaica feita para explorar a anatomia, vinda de uma época em que os seres humanos sabiam muito pouco sobre o que estava dentro dos animais. Existem alternativas — e elas são mais seguras, completas e eficientes.
→ read full articleJFK Files: Cover-Up Continues of President’s Assassination
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
28 Oct 2017 – The murder of President John F Kennedy 54 years ago has been described as the “crime of the century”. If US and Western news media cannot discuss this seminal event openly and honestly, let alone investigate it, then what does that say about their credibility? Among the many crucial witnesses recorded over the years, here below are a select few. Their testimonies show that the murder of Kennedy was a much darker “crime of the century” than the mainstream media would ever explore.
→ read full articleIndependent International Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar Conclude Visit to Bangladesh
UH High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
27 Oct 2017 – Three United Nations human rights experts concluded their first fact finding mission in Bangladesh today “deeply disturbed” by accounts of killings, torture, rape, arson and aerial attacks reportedly perpetrated against the Rohingya community in Myanmar.
→ read full articleBitter Taste of Life
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
I am rolling along endless way,
Trying to find my own place in this life,
Feeling the sharp edge of bloody knife,
Israel Maintains Robust Arms Trade with Rogue Regimes
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017- Human rights activists are stepping up efforts to expose Israel’s long and covert history of supplying weapons and military training to regimes while they actively commit massacres, ethnic cleansing and genocide. The issue of Israel’s trade with rogue regimes has been thrust into the spotlight again after revelations that it is sending weapons to Myanmar, in defiance of a US and European arms embargo.
→ read full articlePickled Cucumbers
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
28 Oct 2017 – HALLELUJAH! AT long last I have found a point on which I agree with Binyamin Netanyahu. Really!
→ read full articleA Polemic against Liberal Analyses of the Rohingya Crisis
Tim Frewer | Tea Circle Oxford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
19 Oct 2017 – In this time of suffering it is crucial to remain indefatigable to the political realities of a slow burning genocide. Rather than obscuring the forces and processes that allow large scale violence to occur, it is urgent to keep these forces and their effects at the centre of accounts of the unfolding tragedy. The way events are framed and talked about have important political ramifications at all levels. It is the political feebleness of liberal analysis that makes it ideal as a discursive tool on the part of so many states and actors that wish to remain apathetic towards the Rohingya cause.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.” — Joyce Meyer
→ read full articleAs ISIS Flees, Syrian Troops Find Arms Cache from US, NATO
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
24 Oct 2017 – The Syrian Armed Forces have discovered a large cache of military arsenal from Western countries left behind by the Islamic State group as its forces fled the city of al-Mayadin. “We have encountered a huge arsenal of advanced U.S., British and Belgian weaponry,” said Syrian General Hasan Suhel.
→ read full articleMicro Insurance: A Critical Need for India’s Poor
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
27 Oct 2017 – Finance is the cementing force that holds all the pieces of our life together. It enables money to be in the right place, at the right time, and for the right situation. Thus from just being a safety net, micro insurance provides benefits that earlier generations could never imagine – hope in the future.
→ read full articleMigration 2017
TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
World’s Violence/Environment Reality – Not a Joke!
→ read full article(Italiano) Antropocene e Ecocene: Due Ere Geologiche a Confronto
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
2 ottobre, 2017 – Il primo a elaborare una ecologia della Terra come un tutto è stato il geochimico russo Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky. Lui ha conferito carattere scientifico all’espressione “biosfera” creata nel 1875 dal geologo austriaco Eduard Suess. Negli anni 70, insieme a James Lovelock, si sviluppò la teoria di Gaia, la Terra che si comporta come un superorganismo vivo che sempre produce e riproduce vita. Gaia, nome greco per la Terra viva, non è argomento da New Age, ma il risultato di minuziosa osservazione scientifica.
→ read full articleShifting Blame as US Agenda Unfolds in Myanmar
Tony Cartalucci | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 – Suu Kyi’s regime will continue being granted relative impunity across the West despite the fact that it is her own support base carrying out anti-Rohingya violence. The crisis will be leveraged to thwart China’s economic inroads and prop up a burgeoning US-European diplomatic and military presence in the country. Voices across the media exposing US plans will make it increasingly difficult for the US and its partners to maneuver in Myanmar.
→ read full articleHow the United States Crippled Haiti’s Rice Industry
Leslie Mullin | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
The story of Haitian rice begins in Africa, where rice has sustained African peoples for centuries. Rice was so basic to the West African diet that it was an essential provision on slave ships, accompanying captive Africans to Brazil, the Caribbean and the southern United States. Today, testament to 10 million souls kidnapped from their homeland, every region touched by the African diaspora has its own unique version of rice and beans.
→ read full articleNorway’s Parliament Must Change Its Routine for Selection of the Nobel Committee and Legislators Must Comply with the Law
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017 – The Storting must choose those best suited to promote Nobel’s intention. The prize has long been disconnected from the peace ideas Nobel wished to support; it has lacked direction, idea, and of will to challenge the belief in military power. A promising winner for 2017 is reason for hope that the prize will improve. The parliament will select a new Nobel Committee only in a month’s time–and we fear the worst.
→ read full articleThe Kennedy Assassination
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
28 Oct 2017 – The medical “evidence” that Kennedy was hit from behind was falsified by medical doctors under orders. Navy medical corpsmen who helped the Navy doctors with the autopsy testified that they were dismayed by orders from Admiral Calvin Galloway to ignore entry wounds from the front. One of the corpsmen testified “all at once I understood that my country was not much better than a third world country. From that point on in time, I have had no trust, no respect for the government.”
→ read full article(Italiano) In memoria di Alberto L’Abate
Angela Dogliotti e Beppe Marasso – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
30 Oct 2017
Era un vero persuaso della nonviolenza: forte e mite allo stesso tempo, tenace e flessibile, fermo e dialogante. E ci ricordava sempre che Gandhi, parallelamente alla lotta, riteneva necessario avviare da subito un programma costruttivo, che non delegasse ad altri, o al domani, il compito di iniziare la costruzione di una società più equa e giusta, sostenibile e nonviolenta. Lui ci ha provato. Ci mancherà.
→ read full articleBalfour Declaration: How Britain Broke Its Feeble Promise to the Palestinians
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
30 Oct 2017 – Palestinian objections to the 2 Nov 1917 document are well-known. Britain’s Lord Balfour had no right to promise a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, on the land of another people. But Israelis have been taught a different history in which they, not the Palestinians, were betrayed.
→ read full articleMyanmar Must Nurture Its People as Assets, Not Treat Them as ‘Threats’
Maung Zarni | Dainik Shiksha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
22 Oct 2017 – “In society at large, Islamophobia, dating back to the colonial era and violent anti-Rohingya racism have poisoned the minds of a generally acquiescing and decent public.”
→ read full articleWomen Drivers
TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
No comment…
→ read full articleNew Report Reveals Damning Details of Palestinian Minors Held in Israeli Detention
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 – A new report by Israeli NGOs B’tselem and HaMoked, released today, reveals the damning details of Israeli mistreatment of detained Palestinian minors in occupied East Jerusalem. It found that Israel does not act in accordance with the law when interrogating and arresting children. “These teenagers are taken into custody in the middle of the night from their bedrooms and handcuffed,” the report spells. “They are interrogated without proper access to a lawyer or their parents, so that they do not fully understand their rights.”
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Universal Soldier (Music Video of the Week)
Buffy Sainte-Marie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Music with a Social Consciousness
→ read full articleClinton, Assange and the War on Truth
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – Wading through the Clinton book, What Happened, is an unpleasant experience, like a stomach upset. Smears and tears. Threats and enemies. “They” (voters) were brainwashed and herded against her by the odious Donald Trump in cahoots with sinister Slavs sent from the great darkness known as Russia, assisted by an Australian “nihilist”, Julian Assange.
→ read full articleWarning: iPhone Apps Can Secretly Turn On Your Camera and Take Pictures at Any Time
Mac Slavo – Activist Post,
30 Oct 2017
27 Oct 2017 – A new warning has been issued to iPhone users. Felix Krause, an Austrian developer who works for Google, built an app that was able to take pictures of its user every second and upload them, without the app or the phone ever notifying the user. He called it a “privacy loophole that can be abused by iOS apps.”
→ read full articleInsectageddon
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
The scale and speed of environmental collapse is beyond imagination. Flying insects surveyed on nature reserves in Germany have declined by 76% in 27 years. The most likely cause of this Insectageddon is that the land surrounding those reserves has become hostile to them: the volume of pesticides and the destruction of habitat have turned farmland into a wildlife desert.
→ read full articleNi Hao Ma — Learning Foreign Languages for Pleasure and Joy
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
26 Oct 2017 – Languages are often a bridge to friendship– making friends with strangers in different countries or even in a different city in a multilingual country like India. Learning languages and the associated cultures is popular all over the world. It is a joyful and pleasurable experience.
→ read full articleMissing Links for Peace, Civility, Social Well-Being
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
We will keep missing out if we insist on relying solely on our intellect, acquired knowledge, reason and intelligence; human potential encompasses much more. The process of living peacefully rests also on degrees of spiritual-emotional [not religious] evolution. It all starts and grows within the individual and then manifests into society in myriad ways. Or not.
→ read full articleA Tribute to Johan Galtung on His 87th Birthday
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
As Global Citizens, How Can We Make a Dignifying Difference?
→ read full articleHow May We Fray
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
24 Oct 2017 – In celebration of Johan Galtung’s birthday that happens to be also the author’s.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize for Nuclear Disarmament
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017 – The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to ICAN. This is the third time that a non-governmental organization dedicated to disarmament receives this prestigious honor. During the past decade ICAN developed intense activity in the preparation and support of the negotiation of the prohibition of nuclear weapons, leading to their elimination. A treaty to that effect was adopted last July 7 at the United Nations.
→ read full articleWildfires Rage through Portugal and Spain, Kill at Least 39
Climate Nexus | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017 – Wildfires have killed at least 39 people in Spain and Portugal since Sunday [15 Oct]. Sixty-four people died in a wildfire in Portugal in June, and the country has declared a state of emergency in the northern region. “We are facing new (weather) conditions” due to climate change, the Portuguese Interior Minister told the press, as she also referenced the fires blazing in California.
→ read full article(Português) Cidadãos Globais Podem Fazer a Diferença – Como?
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Uma homenagem a JOHAN GALTUNG, criador da área de ESTUDOS DA PAZ.
→ read full article(Castellano) Espanya vs Catalunya, Cataluña vs España
Alberto Andrés Aguirre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Si la independencia es un fin en sí mismo, poco se puede hablar ya. Si, por el otro lado, no se reconocen los derechos históricos de autogobierno al máximo nivel, tampoco el diálogo será posible. Pero entre las dos posiciones extremas hay un amplio margen de posibilidades para lograr un acuerdo de convivencia, al menos para el siglo XXI. Merece la pena intentarlo, directamente o con mediadores experimentados que les conduzcan si no les es posible solos.
→ read full article(Português) Premio Nobel da Paz para o Desarmamento Nuclear
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
23 out 2017 – O Prêmio Nobel da Paz 2017 acaba de ser conferido à organização não governamental ICAN. É a terceira vez em que uma ONG dedicada ao desarmamento nuclear recebe essa prestigiosa honraria. Durante a década passada a ICAN desenvolveu intensa atividade na preparação e apoio de um tratado de proibição de armas nucleares, adotado em 7 de julho último pelas Nações Unidas.
→ read full articleHumanity’s Principal Challenge
Howard Richards and Ela Gandhi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – This paper was written for a seminar in Santiago, Chile, with TRANSCEND member Ela Gandhi, a granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi who continues his work. Each participant was asked to write three pages on the topic, “What is the principal challenge facing humanity today?”
→ read full article(Português) O povo do México deu um exemplo ao mundo
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Nos dias 19 e 23 de setembro, o México foi sacudido por dois terremotos, um de magnitude 7,1 e outro de 6,1 da escala Richter. O que chamou a atenção geral foi o espírito de solidariedade e de cooperação do povo mexicano. Sem que ninguém as conclamassem, milhares de pessoas, especialmente os jovens, se puseram a remover escombros para salvar as vítimas soterradas. Organizavam-se grupos espontaneamente e este espírito de solidariedade pode salvar muitas vidas.
→ read full article‘Drug Dealers in Lab Coats’
Nicholas Kristof – The New York Times,
23 Oct 2017
18 Oct 2017 – For decades, America has waged an ineffective war on drug pushers and drug lords, regarding them as among the most contemptible specimens of humanity. One reason our efforts have failed is we ignored the biggest drug pushers of all: American pharmaceutical companies, which helped get America hooked on opioids.
→ read full article(Français) La motricité mutilée. L’empreinte écomotrice, c’est quoi?
Carlos Perez | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Écologue du mouvement, Carlos Perez poursuit sa réflexion au sujet de l’impact de notre modèle de production sur la santé et le bien-être des travailleurs. Il explique en quoi l’empreinte écomotrice permet d’évaluer cet impact. Il pointe également le paradoxe du moment : alors que tout semble mis en œuvre pour préserver l’environnement, l’exploitation des travailleurs est toujours poussée plus loin. N’y aurait-il aucun lien entre la protection de la nature et celle de l’être humain ?
→ read full articleHidden Fukushima Nuclear Waste Being Released into Ocean
ENENews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
5 Oct 2017 – ‘Surprisingly’ high levels of radiation now detected along Pacific coast and in groundwater far from reactors — Expert: No one expected this — “Alarming example of how radiation has spread.”
→ read full articleCrisis Deepens for Rohingya Refugees
Maryanne Murray Buechner | UNICEF USA – Forbes,
23 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – A newly-released report from UNICEF entitled, Outcast and Desperate: Rohingya refugee children face a perilous future. The report details the deepening crisis that is unfolding in southeast Bangladesh: an influx of more than half a million Rohingya, fleeing horrific violence in neighboring Myanmar.
→ read full articleThe Martens Clause and War Crimes in Hawai‘i
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
16 Oct 2017 – Under international law, the United States committed war crimes when the Hawaiian Kingdom was invaded and occupied in1893. The criminal conduct by German, Austrian and Bulgarian officials against Serbia during the First World War are very similar to the criminal conduct by the USA against the Hawaiian Kingdom and its people in 1893.
→ read full articleEvolutionary Computing Technology Shaping Human Behavior & Economics
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
23 Oct 2017
9 Oct 2017 – We are living in a new economic world order of shifting patterns in human behavior, innovation and the surroundings increasingly impacted by information technology and growing artificial intelligence trend; an ineluctable future to be reckoned with. This is a new journey most of us did not expect to happen so soon.
→ read full articleRohingya Crisis Ruled as Genocide by Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal
Ali MC | Right Now/Human Rights in Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017 – The International Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal ruled the current Rohingya crisis as unequivocally “war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide”, denouncing the UN’s use of the term ethnic cleansing as a “euphemism.” The Tribunal also affirmed that the election of Aung San Suu Kyi had only brought about an “acceleration” of human rights abuses in an attempt to turn Myanmar into a “supreme Buddhist entity.”
→ read full articleWhere’s the E.U. in the Catalonia Crisis?
Susi Dennison – The New York Times,
23 Oct 2017
16 Oct 2017 — The problems in Spain are just the latest chapter in the ongoing battle between populism and the European Union. The truth is, there is plenty of blame to go around for the Catalonia crisis, and the European Union certainly shares some of it.
→ read full articleHow We Discovered Gravitational Waves from ‘Neutron Stars’ – And Why It’s Such a Huge Deal
Martin Hendry – The Conversation,
23 Oct 2017
16 Oct 2017 – The discovery of tiny ripples in space from the violent collision of dense stars could help solve many mysteries – including where the gold in our jewellery comes from. The announcement comes just weeks after three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their foundational work leading to the discovery of gravitational waves.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Scramble for Africa
Finian Cunningham – Sputnik News,
23 Oct 2017
19 Oct 2017 – The ugly row over whether President Trump disrespected the young widow of a fallen American soldier has overshadowed a bigger issue. That is, the increasing number of US military operations across the African continent.
→ read full articleNuclear Survivor from Japan
TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Touching message; I don’t know who did the video–or anything else.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Katalonienkrise: Die Staats-Nation ist das Problem
Hans-Ingo Radatz | Peira – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
In der andauernden Katalonienkrise ist stets nur von katalanischem Nationalismus die Rede; unser Autor warnt davor, darüber den spanischen Nationalismus zu übersehen, der einer Lösung vielleicht noch radikaler entgegensteht.
→ read full articleMaung Zarni: Military-Controlled Ethnocracy in Myanmar Causing Exodus of 100,000 Rohingyas Every Week
Fars News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
18 Oct 2017 – Activist and scholar Maung Zarni says that the plight of Muslim Rohingyas has gotten worse under the administration of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. He said that her leadership has been the direct product of the icon manufacturing by Western media and activists which was intended to give acceptability to what, he believes, is a “military-controlled ethnocracy, wrapped in Buddhism”.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (18) Edna St. Vincent Millay
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Edna St. Vincent Millay, eloquent poet with a deep concern for the future of humanity, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleMore Than 75 Percent Decline Over 27 Years in Total Flying Insect Biomass in Protected Areas
Caspar A. Hallmann , Martin Sorg, et al. | PLOS One – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
18 Oct 2017 – German researchers have reported a rapid drop in the number of flying insects at dozens of natural reserves. Many of the reserves involved are surrounded by farms and pesticides could be to blame. According to the report, between 1989 and 2016 the biomass of flying insects captured in 63 different locations in Germany – including grasslands, swamps and sand dunes – decreased by a seasonal average of 76%.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Oct 23-29, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.” — Tupac Shakur
→ read full articleMafia World Leadership
Latuff – MintPress News,
23 Oct 2017
U.S. Warriors? Farmers? Drug Dealers? Capitalists? All of the above? What?
→ read full articleNext System Media: An Urgent Necessity
Laura Flanders | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Laura Flanders, creator and host of the Laura Flanders Show, explores how new media models grounded in cooperation, community, and robust public support are needed to fight back against the corporate concentration that is strangling the public sphere.
→ read full article(Português) Na defesa dos animais, a luta humana contra todas as tiranias
Regina Schöpke - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
23 Oct 2017
Em Jaulas Vazias, o filósofo americano Tom Regan fala do sofrimento dos animais e discute a postura do homem no mundo.
→ read full article(Português) A perspectiva de Sócrates sobre a coisificação dos animais não humanos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Essas reflexões de Sócrates envolvendo a exploração animal e o consumo de carne vão ao encontro do estudo da virtude. Ele dizia que é mais importante a busca do desenvolvimento humano do que a busca pela riqueza material – um dos principais motivos da exploração de animais enquanto produtos.
→ read full articleWhat Everybody (Especially Pregnant Women) Should Know about Flu Shots
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
18 Oct 2017 – This column tries to de-mystify the aggressive annual campaign from Big Pharma, Big Media, Big Medicine to urge everybody to mindlessly “just get your damn shots” without being given a chance to think about it and perhaps ask about the potential downsides of getting the inoculation (look up “informed consent”).
→ read full articleUN Special Advisers Statement on Crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
19 Oct 2017 – UN sources indicate that more than 530,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh. “Once again, our failure to stop atrocity crimes makes us complicit. When will we live up to our countless promises of ‘never again’?” the Special Advisers asked. The expression “atrocity crimes” refer to three crimes under international law: genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
→ read full articleThe World Is in the Front of War
Lara Ayvazyan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
It became cool. The autumn tears off
Leaves from the branches of trees…
UN Report on Rohingya Hunger Is Shelved at Myanmar’s Request
Oliver Holmes – The Guardian,
23 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017 – The United Nations food aid agency withdrew a critical report revealing desperate hunger among the persecuted Rohingya population after the Myanmar government demanded it be taken down, the Guardian has learned. Document warned of spiralling food crisis among Rohingya population.
→ read full articleInternational Support for Iran as IAEA Insists Tehran Stuck to Nuclear Deal
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
13 Oct 2017 – In response to the U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to decertify the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Tehran, the International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed that Iran adhered to the nuclear deal.
→ read full articleWhat Do You Really Eat When You Order a Steak, Fish or Chicken Filet?
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 Oct 2017
18 Oct 2017 – The world is running out of antibiotics to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, the World Health Organization warned. This was not the first time UN agencies have sounded the alarm about the misuse and abuse of antibiotics both in humans and animals.
→ read full articleUniversities for Teaching, Research and Politics
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – There are many outstanding universities in the world – Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, Toronto, La Sorbonne in France, Humboldt-Universität, Universität Freiburg, Moscow University, Tokyo University, Kyoto University etc. Perhaps no Indian University meets the standards of these institutes.
→ read full articleInternal Report Which the UN Head in Myanmar Did Not Want the World to See
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
GENEVA (11 Oct 2017) – Brutal attacks against Rohingya in northern Rakhine State have been well-organised, coordinated and systematic, with the intent of not only driving the population out of Myanmar but preventing them from returning to their homes, a new UN report based on interviews conducted in Bangladesh has found.
→ read full articleIn China, a New Political Era Begins
Matthew Massee | Daily Digests – Other News,
23 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – The world has changed since modern China was founded, and it seems that China, not for the first time, is changing with it. When Mao Zedong established the republic in 1949, having fought a civil war to claim it, China was poor and unstable.
→ read full articleDivide and Conquer, Cui Bono? – The US and Former Yugoslavia
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Human beings are social creatures whose survival depends on cooperation and mutual support. Only in an atmosphere of perceived scarcity, threats and unresolved conflicts do people divide and demonize “the other”. The common denominator in divide and conquer scenarios is increasing concentration of wealth and economic control in the hands of a greedy few to the detriment of poor and working families.
→ read full articleIndia’s Civil Code Tinderbox
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – India follows a system of legal pluralism that allows different religious communities to be governed by their own codes of personal law. This has been seen as a way of protecting distinct communal identities and safeguarding the right of citizens to practice their faith, as enshrined in the constitution. But Muslims are governed by the personal law, which came into force in 1937.
→ read full articleFraming Cyclic Revolutionary Emergence of Opposing Symbols of Identity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Eppur si muove: Biomimetic embedding of N-tuple helices in spherical polyhedral – The contrast to the geocentric model of the solar system was framed by Galileo Galilei. His much-cited phrase, ” And yet it moves” (E pur si muove or Eppur si muove) was pronounced in 1633 when he was forced to recant his claims that the Earth moves around the immovable Sun rather than the converse. The argument here assumes that much more is based on circles than is conventionally held to be the case.
→ read full articleThe Ocean Depths of My Immortal Soul
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
The ocean depths of my immortal soul,
Who understands something known to God.
Haiti in Crisis: What Next after the Stolen Election?
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
MINUSTAH, which has functioned as a colonial overseer since the 2004 coup, is set to scale down its operation, but will remain in Haiti as United Nations Mission For Justice Support. MINUJUSTH will consist of 1185 police officers, and will continue to train and support the Haitian National Police – the same police that beat, tear-gassed and shot pro-democracy protesters during the last electoral cycle.
→ read full articleBody Snatchers Redux
Vecino – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
… and happy about it.
→ read full article
Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode: Le Déserteur composed by Boris Vian in 1954. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway.
→ read full articleMacbeth Does the Stations of the Cross
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
19 Oct 2017 – It was an unlikely event. I found myself on a rare sunny day this spring in far-off New Zealand, 9000 miles from my native Philadelphia, mounting the steps to a Catholic cathedral so that I might deliver a few requested fliers for a small programme of Shakespeare excerpts in which I was involved.
→ read full articleChina’s Pivot to World Markets, Washington’s Pivot to World Wars…
Prof. James Petras – Global Research,
23 Oct 2017
15 Oct 2017 – China and the United States are moving in polar opposite directions: Beijing is rapidly becoming the center of overseas investments in high tech industries, including robotics, nuclear energy and advanced machinery with collaboration from centers of technological excellence, like Germany. In contrast, Washington is pursuing a predatory military pivot to the least productive regions with collaboration from its most barbaric allies, like Saudi Arabia.
→ read full articleThree for the Road, in Light and Shadows
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – It was getting dark on the street as the young man emerged from his high school on New York’s Upper East Side after basketball practice. He had lost track of time as he dreamed his basketball dreams and headed to the subway for the long ride home.
→ read full article(Italiano) In morte di Alberto L’Abate (1931-2017)
Movimento Nonviolento – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
23 Oct 2017
19 ottobre 2017 – Carissimo Alberto, appresa la notizia di questa tua inedita e nuova “partenza”, ti ricordiamo con grande affetto e riconoscenza e sappiamo che continuerai a esserci vicino, nella compresenza dei morti e dei viventi, a portare avanti con noi il tuo infaticabile impegno per la nonviolenza. Testimone di vita e di pensiero, di educazione e di azione ci sei stato amico, padre, fratello.
→ read full articleProf. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.
→ read full articleLucky Coincidence
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Kenneth Boulding once said, “History is like a pinball machine. A slight change in initial conditions can bring vastly different outcomes.” Johan Galtung gave an illustration of this that he had heard from André Fontaine, the editor of Le Monde, on a flight from Seoul–where they had attended a conference together–to Paris.
→ read full articleNew African Literature Is Disrupting What Western Presses Prize
Jeanne-Marie Jackson – The Conversation,
23 Oct 2017
There is a thriving counter-current of transnational African literary life that confounds rather than caters to an international taste for “digestible” fiction.
→ read full articleAn Al Jazeera Reporter Went Undercover with the Pro-Israel Lobby in Washington
Aída Chávez and Ryan Grim – The Intercept,
16 Oct 2017
9 Oct 2017 – The four-part series, “The Lobby,” dug into the Israeli embassy in London, as well as several other pro-Israel lobby groups, and their campaign to “take down” British Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan. The investigation led to the resignation of a top Israeli official in London, as well as a high-profile complaint that Al Jazeera had broken broadcasting regulations in the United Kingdom.
→ read full articleMikhail Gorbachev: My Plea to the Presidents of Russia and the United States
Mikhail Gorbachev – The Washington Post,
16 Oct 2017
11 Oct 2017 – I am making an appeal to the presidents of Russia and the United States. Relations between the two nations are in a severe crisis. A way out must be sought, and there is one well-tested means available for accomplishing this: a dialogue based on mutual respect.
→ read full articleThe Psychology of Mass Killers: What Causes It? How Can You Prevent It?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
While there has been a flood of commentary on the incident, including suggestions about what might be done in response based on a variety of analyses of the cause, none that I have read explain the underlying cause of all these mass killings. And if we do not understand this, then any other suggestions, whatever their apparent merits, can have little impact.
→ read full article(Italiano) Trascendere le bombe atomiche
Diane Perlman | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
9 ottobre 2017 – Sorprendentemente pochi sanno dello storico evento all’ONU – New York del 7 luglio 2017. È stato approvato da 122 stati un Trattato di Proibizione delle Armi Nucleari. Tutti gli stati con capacità nucleare militare, i loro alleati e gran parte dei membri NATO hanno boicottato i negoziati per la bozza del Trattato di Esclusione.
→ read full article(Castellano) La era geológica del antropoceno vs la del ecoceno
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
2 oct 2017 – El primero en elaborar una ecología de la Tierra como un todo fue el geoquímico ruso Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky. El autor confería carácter científico a la expresión “biosfera” creada en 1875 por el geólogo austriaco Eduard Suess. En los años 70, con James Lovelock, se desarrolló la teoría de Gaia, la Tierra que se comporta como un superorganismo vivo que siempre produce y reproduce vida. Gaia, nombre griego para la Tierra viva, no es un tema de la New Age, sino el resultado de minuciosas observaciones científicas.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (17) Albert Einstein
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Albert Einstein, great physicist and lifelong pacifist, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleThe Balfour Declaration Destroyed Palestine, Not the Palestinian People
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
11 Oct 2017 – Some promises are made and kept; others disavowed. But the ‘promise’ made by Arthur James Balfour in what became known as the ‘Balfour Declaration’ to the leaders of the Zionist Jewish community in Britain one hundred years ago, was only honored in part: it established a state for the Jews and attempted to destroy the Palestinian nation.
→ read full articleThe Jungian Analyst
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Too much of herself in that
sitting room:
lines etched on a bronze metal painting;
Ofcom Clears Al-Jazeera of Antisemitism in Exposé of Israeli Official
Graham Ruddick – The Guardian,
16 Oct 2017
10 Oct 2017 – Watchdog also rejects claims broadcaster broke impartiality rules in film of embassy official vowing to ‘take down’ British MPs.
→ read full articleUS Withdrawal from UNESCO ‘Loss for Multilateralism,’ Says Cultural Agency’s Chief
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
12 Oct 2017 – UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova voiced “profound regret” today over the United States’ decision to withdraw from the agency. “This is a loss to the United Nations family. This is a loss for multilateralism,” she said in a statement.
→ read full articleThe Terrible Problem
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
14 Oct 2017 – This formula appears in the “Arab Peace Plan” devised by Saudi Arabia and officially accepted by the entire Muslim world. How would this look in practice? It means that every refugee family would be offered a choice between actual return and adequate compensation. Return – where? In a few extraordinary instances, their original village still stands empty. I can imagine some symbolic reconstruction of such villages – say two or three – by their former inhabitants.
→ read full articleTrump Moves towards War with Iran
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
12 Oct 2017 – With his speech today–half an hour ago–U.S. President Trump has taken a huge step into uncharted territories. One that implies a 60-75% risk of leading to a US attack on Iran. Behind him stand the hardline militarists whom he has himself appointed. Indeed, God help America! Mostly from itself!
→ read full articleFinding Our Way Back to Truth by Following a String of Facts
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
14 Oct 2017 – If you find yourself lost and confused in a dark wood, then perhaps following this network of knots strung on a long string of dates listed below will help you find your way back home, where the bread of truth awaits you on the kitchen table.
→ read full articleReject Old Truth “From Dust to Dust”
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Reject old truth “from dust to dust”.
We are not dust, we are human beings,