Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Slow-Burning Genocide in Myanmar Continues – We Cannot Be Passive
Lubka Mieresova | RightsInfo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
As we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January) and remember the millions of people murdered by the Nazi regime, we must also pause and reflect: Slow-Burning Genocide in Myanmar.
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Summary of the 2018 U.S. National Defense Strategy
Jim Mattis | US Department of Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Sharpening the American Military’s Competitive Edge
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How Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – In a blatant example of “do as I say, not as I do,” the US government is profiting handsomely by accepting marijuana cash in the payment of taxes while imposing huge penalties on banks for accepting it as deposits.
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Conditions in Myanmar Not Yet Suitable for Rohingya Refugees to Return Safely – UN Agency
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – The necessary safeguards for Rohingyas to return to Myanmar are absent, and there are ongoing restrictions on access for aid agencies, the media and other independent observers, the UN warned today, two months after Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed on a plan for the refugees’ voluntary return to their homes.
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The 2018 US National Defense Strategy in Plain Words: Tragi-Comic!
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
26 Jan 2018 – This National Defense Strategy is as problematic as it is scary for the American people and the world. God, bless America! But before You do, please save it from itself!
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(Português) Seda, diamantes e couro produzidos em laboratório são alternativa ética à exploração animal
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
28 jan 2018 – Devido à poluição e aos abusos dos animais na indústria do couro, estima-se que uma grande quantidade de vacas precisaria ser morta para atender a demanda por couro até 2025. Por isso, uma alternativa genuína ao couro no laboratório, salvaria a vida de milhares de animais.
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Real Concerns about Rohingya Repatriation
Julian Francis | BD News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – For the Rohingya refugees there are no declared guarantees. What about their rights to citizenship, security, shelter, food, health, education and to be able to practice their religion? If they agree to move to a “Temporary Transit Camp”, it might turn into a camp for “internally displaced” or a “concentration camp”. Who is going to guarantee what?
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Policy of the Cruel and Absurd: Sleep Deprivation in California’s Prisons
Charlie Hinton, Verbena Lea and Willow Katz | Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
10 Jan 2018 – In prison isolation units throughout California, guards wake prisoners up every 30 minutes under the guise of suicide prevention. These “security/welfare checks” cause ongoing sleep deprivation. The UN and many sleep and mental health experts have long defined sleep deprivation as a form of torture.
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2018 Doomsday Clock: It Is Now Two Minutes to Midnight
Rachel Bronson, PhD | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
25 Jan 2018 – The year just past proved perilous and chaotic, a year in which many of the risks foreshadowed in our last Clock statement came into full relief. Although the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists focuses on nuclear risk, climate change, and emerging technologies, the nuclear landscape takes center stage in this year’s Clock statement.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
One thing is wealth, another is life expectancy: Japan and Spain are Nos. 1 and 2, Norway No. 14, USA No. 25. No doubt the Japanese diet based on le cru, not le cuit, and the Spanish Mediterranean diet, also based on the sea, the plains and the mountains, play major roles… A small but important signal from La Nucia in Spain: no more permits to build new houses for some time. La Nucia wants to stop growing. 30,000 inhabitants in 2030 is the limit; with no limitation on restoration, beauty, art, well-being.
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On Longevity: Reflections
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Longevity is a life-lengthening quality
Longevity is a human-dignifying seniority…
North Korea Issues Statement Calling for Breakthrough in Unification
Jason Ditz | AntiWar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Urges All Koreans to Push Bilateral Cooperation
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Gandhi’s Assassination: In the Midst of Death, Life Persists
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
On the anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, 30 January, we still try to find ways to resolve conflicts peacefully and to deal with violent religious movements and individuals. For Gandhi, the spiritual and political means were interdependent and could not be separated. Today, religious movements are often seen as promoting violence, Islam in the Middle East, Buddhism as an anti-Muslim current in Burma.
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Richest 1 Percent Bagged 82 Percent of Wealth Created Last Year – Poorest Half of Humanity Got Nothing
OXFAM International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – Eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no increase in their wealth, according to a new Oxfam report released today. The report is being launched as political and business elites gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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The Fragrance of Loss
Mary Barnet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Speaking a language other than his mother tongue Sinhala he sees his journey and arrival into a land that cannot seem to fulfill his dreams. It follows that his poems are those of himself and the other refugees who surround him. The Fragrance of Loss by Udaya R. Tennakoon, Copyright© Udaya R. Tennakoon, ISBN: 978-81-8253-056-0, First Edition: 2017, Cyberwit.net
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(Português) Plutarco e a relação entre a violência e o consumo de carne
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Autor de “De Esu Carnium”, ou “Do Consumo da Carne”, escrito no século I, que integra uma de suas obras mais importantes – “Moralia”, o filósofo platonista, biógrafo e ensaísta grego, que se voltava para a discussão das questões morais, escreveu que o “hábito selvagem” do consumo de carne inclina a mente à brutalidade, ao derramamento de sangue e à destruição.
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Permaculture in New Zealand: Joanna Santa Barbara’s Atamai Village (Part 1)
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Permaculture for Peace: Presenting the Atamai Village Project. Joanna Santa Barbara is a member of TRANSCEND International.
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In Pursuit of Peace and Justice: 100 Peace & Justice Leaders and Models (List #1)
Anthony J. Marsella and Kathleen Malley-Morrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
26 Jan 2018 – The individuals included on our list are from all genders, ages, roles. They are from many nations, ethnocultural groups, and “races.” We sense a rising tide of commitment to peace and justice, and an intolerance of the corruption, cronyism, and asymmetric power sustaining current abuses. We consider our efforts a beginning, and we will continue to publish new lists. This is because the struggle for peace and justice is endless, and each day new people are rising to the call.
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Rohingyas, the Refugees Who Don’t Want to Go Home … Yet
Jason Beaubien | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
21 Jan 2018 – This week, Bangladesh had planned to start sending Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar. Now the deal has been postponed because of logistical problems. The refugees themselves have opposed the plan. “They’ll kill us,” says Sonah Meah, 30. “If I go, they’ll kill me.”
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Trump Asks Museum for Van Gogh, Gets Offered Used Gold Toilet
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
The Guggenheim’s curator said – tongue firmly in cheek – that a satirical piece entitled “America,” a functioning 18kt solid-gold toilet, was available for “long-term loan.”
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(Français) La responsabilité de protéger le monde… des États-Unis
Ajamu Baraka | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
L’une des armes de propagande les plus ingénieuses jamais mises au point est que les puissantes nations occidentales dirigées par les États-Unis ont la responsabilité morale d’utiliser la force militaire pour protéger les droits des peuples opprimés par leurs gouvernements. Cette «responsabilité de protéger» (R2P) a toujours eu un statut juridique douteux, mais sa justification morale exigeait aussi un désengagement psychologique et historique de la réalité sanglante des 500 ans d’histoire du colonialisme américain et européen, de l’esclavage, du génocide et de la torture qui ont créé l’ «Occident ».
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I Have a Right (Music Video of the Week)
Sonata Arctica | Nuclear Blast Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
“A song about how we should not pass the burden we get from the past generation on the shoulders of our future offspring. Children’s rights subject. Not the most metal subject ever, I suppose, but then again I think it fits our band well and is pretty universal.” — Tony Kakko, song’s author
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A Genuine Actor: Francesco Serpico
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
When this honest cop was lying in a pool of his own blood on the night of February 3, 1971, having been shot in the face in a set-up carried out by fellow cops, Frank Serpico heard a voice that said, “It’s all a lie.” In that moment as he fought for his life, he realized a truth he had previously sensed but never fully grasped in its awful reality.
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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” wrote the thirty-year-old Nietzsche.
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Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for World Communications Day
Pope Francis | Libreria Editrice Vaticana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
24 Jan 2018 – “I would like to invite everyone to promote a journalism of peace. By that, I do not mean the saccharine kind of journalism that refuses to acknowledge the existence of serious problems or smacks of sentimentalism. On the contrary, I mean a journalism that is truthful and opposed to falsehoods, rhetorical slogans, and sensational headlines. A journalism less concentrated on breaking news than on exploring the underlying causes of conflicts, in order to promote deeper understanding and contribute to their resolution by setting in place virtuous processes. A journalism committed to pointing out alternatives to the escalation of shouting matches and verbal violence.”
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How Will I Explain Extremist Buddhism to My Children?
Khin Mai Aung | Lion’s Roar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Khin Mai Aung once worried her children would pick up dogmatic views from her husband’s Catholic faith. Now, she struggles to explain to them the terrible violence in Myanmar, her country of birth — incited by members of her own faith, Buddhism.
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AP Interview: Richardson Resigns from Rohingya Refugee Panel
Foster Klug | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
24 Jan 2018 — Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has resigned from an advisory panel on the massive Rohingya refugee crisis, calling it a “whitewash and a cheerleading operation” for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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How to Read the 2018 U.S. National Defense Strategy
Mara Karlin | The Brookings Institution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
21 Jan 2018 – Last week, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis released the 2018 National Defense Strategy. This NDS is a heady attempt to drive the U.S. military faster in the direction it has been heading. China and Russia should read it with a worrying eye (and perhaps a glass of baijiu or vodka).
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Animals: Endowed with Rights
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
28 Jan 2018 – Whether one acknowledges the dignity of animals depends on that person’s paradigm (vision of the world and values). Two paradigms have been handed down to us. The first understands the human being as part of nature. The second paradigm starts with the idea that the human being is the apex of evolution, and that all things are at his disposal.
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Why Fear and Self-hatred Destroy Human Sharing and Solidarity
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
24 Jan 2018 – The lack of solidarity is utterly pervasive and readily evident in our lacklustre official and personal responses to the many ongoing crises in which humanity finds itself. To mention just the most obvious: Every day governments spend $US2 billion on weapons and warfare while a billion people lack the basic resources to live a decent life (and more than 100,000 of these people starve to death)… So what can we do?
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Joke or No Joke?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Political Discourse 2018
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Here Are All the World Leaders Going to Davos This Week
Alexandra Ma | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – The world’s elite will converge upon the snowy Swiss town of Davos this week for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, a weeklong networking event peppered with talks and presentations.
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The Jumping Parliament
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
27 Jan 2018 – This is going on now, a rising tide, an Israeli voice that has not been heard for a long time. A voice that has been mute for so many years, the voice of my Israel, the voice of yesterday’s Israel – and hopefully tomorrow’s. There was a time when I could be proud to be an Israeli. Perhaps this time is returning.
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Only Beauty Will Save Our World
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
In this life, where coexists
Eternal love with fatal death,
Network Spherons: The UN of Harmony and Global Peace Replacing the UN of Disharmony
Leo Semashko et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Spheral Structure of the UN Harmony – The UN Sociocybernetic Reform Proposal
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Blackouts and Flashpoints in 2018
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
26 Jan 2018 – The prophets and forecasters for the coming year have already set out their global vision ranging from rising economies to catastrophic global wars.
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How the Establishment Undermines American Democracy
Philip M. Giraldi | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
18 Jan 2018 – There is a growing consensus among many observers in Washington that the national security agencies have become completely politicized over the past seventeen years and are now pursuing selfish agendas that actually endanger what remains of American democracy.
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Is Anyone on the Side of the Congolese Now?
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Has Anyone Ever Been on the Side of the People of Congo? Ann Garrison Speaks to Jean-Claude Maswana
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A Cure for What We Have All Been Taught Was Incurable: Obesity-related Hyperglycemia Ain’t Necessarily “Type 2 Diabetes”
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
“The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful.”
— Arnold Seymour Relman (1923-2014), Harvard Professor of Medicine and Former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine
(Italiano) Due modi d’essere Occidentali: Cristianesimo e Scienza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
5 gennaio 2018 – Due istituzioni basilari nella storia e nella vita individuale occidentali: il Cristianesimo – che offre Salvezza a coloro che seguono le leggi e i comandamenti, e la Scienza, che offre la Verità a coloro che credono alle leggi scientifiche.
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Earth as a Shithole Planet — from a Universal Perspective?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Understanding Why There Are No Extraterrestrial Visitors – The concern here is to explore the evidence for Planet Earth as a “shithole” planet, as it might be perceived in the light of various criteria. The argument is used as a means of explaining the absence of any overt contact with extraterrestrials.
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(Français) La malhonnêteté des grands médias à l’égard de la Palestine
Mariam Barghouti | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
18 Jan 2018 – La photo de l’adolescent de 16 ans, Fawzi al-Junaidi, les yeux bandés, contusionné, et entouré d’une douzaine de soldats israéliens, a fait le tour des médias sociaux. On a vu en lui un emblème de l’oppression israélienne.
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(Italiano) Leadership cinese sulla riforma ONU
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
12 gennaio 2018 – Una delle più complete proposte di riforma è appena stata emanata per la trattazione all’ONU dal governo della Cina in un documento di 27 pagine. (1) Molte delle proposte sono molto simili ai suggerimenti fatti dall’Associazione dei Cittadini de Mondo.
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2018 Portends Intensification of Syria’s Civil War
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
21 Jan 2018 – Rather than the conventional wisdom of a “wrapping up,” of Syria’s seven years of civil war, this observer calculates that the conflict is on a trajectory to expand during 2018. It’s a truism that the map of the conflict has been redrawn and currently favors the Assad government and its Russian and Iranian allies who rescued the regime over the past three years.
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Monsanto-Bayer “Combination” – Comments Submitted to Competition Commission of India
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 – I submit my comments and objections to the proposed combination between Bayer and Monsanto. The first part is substantive objections to the Bayer application in the context of the past and potential violations of the Competition Act, 2002. The Second part is my comments on the general impacts of the Bayer Monsanto merger for farmers rights, food security and sovereignty in India and globally.
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(Norsk) Bør vi innføre et øvre tak på rikdom?
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Tenk deg at trillioner av dollar blir omfordelt og fordelt utover hele økonomien, inkludert til offentlige finanser, for å tilby sterkt tiltrengte tjenester og infrastruktur. Altfor ofte investerer de svært velstående inntektene sine i eksotiske finansielle instrumenter som ikke har noe å gjøre med målbare aktiviteter. Innføring av et øvre tak på formuer kombinert med et solid gulv for livskvalitet ville føre til økt pengesirkulasjon i jobbintensive aktiviteter både i privat og offentlig sektor.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 – My first impression of Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) was that he was the exact opposite of Arafat. He looked like a schoolmaster. Arafat was an outgoing type, who liked to embrace and kiss people and to establish close relations from the outset. Abu Mazen was much more reserved and withdrawn. Yet I liked his personality.
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Virginia Woolf (25 Jan 1882 – 28 Mar 1941)
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, thought to have been what is now termed bipolar disorder, and committed suicide by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 Jan 1756 – 5 Dec 1791)
Encyclopædia Britannica– TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. His taste, his command of form, and his range of expression have made him seem the most universal of all composers.
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Nuclear Deterrence, North Korea, and Dr. King
Winslow Myers | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
If we want North Korea to change, we need to examine our own role in the creation of the echo chamber of threat and counter-threat. Dr. King’s death was a mortal blow to our greatness as a nation. He connected the dots between our racism and our militarism.
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The Earth’s Future Will Not Come from Heaven
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Even though it is based on the best scientific minds that have been studying the universe, the situation of planet Earth and her eventual collapse, or qualitative leap to another level of reality, for almost a century, it has not penetrated into either the collective consciousness or the major academic centers.
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Thyroid Gland: Functions, Symptoms, Diet, and Natural Support
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland located at the front of your neck, sort of like an internal bowtie. Part of the endocrine system, your thyroid produces and secretes the hormones T4 and T3. These essential hormones regulate growth, development, and metabolism.
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The Fragrance of Loss
Daniel Brick – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Udaya R. Tennekoon is a poet of both lyricism and witness. The lyricism is the voice of his poems, the witness is their subject. ‘The Fragrance of Loss’ by Udaya R. Tennakoon, ISBN: 978-81-8253-056-0, First Edition: 2017
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Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
We’ve of course seen it all before. It’s about bases (like, say, Kosovo), about control of resources (like, say, Iraq), about regime change (like, say Saddam Hussein and Moamar Khadafi) and it’s about the exceptionalist belief that God’s own country has God’s mandate to create US Imperial peace everywhere – no matter how many times it has already gone madly wrong and no matter how many innocent people are killed and wounded in the process.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
A man believed his wife was hard of hearing.
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How to Get New Activists to Stay Engaged for the Long Haul
Eileen Flanagan | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Deeply engaging newcomers also gives organizers a chance to counter the despair and disempowerment that easily surface when people don’t see immediate results, especially in this political climate. More than in any previous year, I have heard newcomers ask, “What will this action accomplish?” It’s a great question.
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Bruce Lee’s Never before Revealed Letters to Himself about Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being, a sort of “being” vs. having — that is, we do not “have” mind, we are simply mind. We are what we are.
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Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Being seed thrown from universe,
I am like a roaming beam,
I’ll shine a little on the earth
And later will fade in time.
Italy Embracing Populism Is a Major Headache for Europe
Tom Luongo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 – Salvini and Berlusconi, if they win, will have to then sell this idea of Germany using the euro to trap Italy, like Greece in a death spiral, for the next generation if not longer. And it is an easy sell on the campaign trail and will be an even easier sell once elected.
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(Português) O protovegetarianismo na literatura do poeta romano Ovídio
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Ovídio relata que a violência humana contra os animais começou a partir da violência e da morte das “feras selvagens”. E tal ferocidade, também citada no diálogo de Sócrates com Glauco, e registrado por Platão em “A República”, remete à ganância humana, aos homens invadindo áreas naturais cada vez maiores não para satisfazerem suas necessidades básicas, mas sim para lucrarem com suas produções.
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Gilad Atzmon on ‘Jew, Judaism, Jewishness’
Interview with Bill Alford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
The author of the runaway best seller, The Wandering Who?, discusses the three Jewish ID Categories: Religious Jew, Born a Jew, and Politicized Jew–aka Jewishness. What Is Jewishness and what are the relationships between Jews, Judaism, Zionism and Jewishness?
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Be the Change: Enter Peace Journalism
Sebastian Eck, Antonio C. S. Rosa | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
TRANSCEND Media Service editor Antonio C. S. Rosa talks about Peace Journalism as a new paradigm for journalists reporting on conflicts.
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(Italiano) Liliana Segre è Senatrice a vita
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
21 Gen 2018 – A causa delle leggi razziste Liliana Segre fu deportata ad Auschwitz. Matricola 75190. La Memoria è storia non dimenticata. Liliana, così come le altre e con gli altri Testimoni, ha trovato le parole per dire l’indicibile della deportazione e dei campi di sterminio.
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The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry Was Whipped into Industrial Wage Slaves
Yasha Levine | The eXiled – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
“…everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.” “Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society… It is the source of wealth, since without poverty, there could be no labour; there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth.”
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Full Spectrum Arrogance: US Bases Spanning the Globe – Map
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
There are 50,000 troops still in Germany, still winning World War II three quarters of a century later. Anytime you have this nation attacking another nation that is a crime that all of us can be united in opposing.
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How the First Lady of Islam Set an Example for the Generations to Come
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – The public perception of Muslim women is one of stubborn stereotypes: supposedly powerless and oppressed, behind walls and veils, demure, voiceless and silent figures, discriminated and bereft of even basic rights.
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U.S. Commits “Acts of War” against the Hawaiian Kingdom
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
17 Jan 2018 – Today marks 125 years of an Unjust War waged against the Hawaiian Kingdom by the USA. This profound and fundamental fact has been obscured through a deliberate and relentless barrage of denationalization by the US. This process, which is known as Americanization and which is a war crime, has nearly obliterated the national consciousness of the Hawaiian Kingdom in the minds of Hawai‘i’s people.
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Two Koreas Will March Together at the Olympics
Agence France-Presse | PRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
17 Jan 2018 – The two Koreas agreed today to march together under a single flag at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony and field a united women’s ice hockey team for the Games in a further sign of easing tensions on the peninsula.
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Happy New Year of 2018!
Latuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
The Jerusalem UN Vote
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Trump Regime on the Verge of Okaying Two New Warheads That Could Make Nuclear War More Likely
Timothy Lange | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
16 Jan 2018 – The Trump regime seeks to build two new nuclear weapons, one of which—a low-yield warhead for submarine-launched ballistic missiles—could make nuclear war more likely, say critics. The other warhead would be developed to be carried by submarine-launched cruise missiles, which haven’t been equipped with nukes since 2010.
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Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (21 Jan 1889 – 10 Feb 1968): The Renewal of Humanity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Sorokin was especially interested in the processes by which societies change cultural orientations, particularly the violent societies he knew, the USSR and the USA. As he wrote renewal “demands a complete change of contemporary mentality, a fundamental transformation of our system of values and the profoundest modification of our conduct towards other men, cultural values and the world at large.
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The Persons Who Changed the Lives of Terrorists and Criminals
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
If the social, religious, political, governmental and non-governmental leaders, rulers, bureaucrats, judges, and several experts and specialists in the United Nations think and realize that they can solve the problem of violence and terrorism, they being elders and guardians must treat the terrorists and perpetrators as part and parcel of the society, and they deserve to be heard and listened.
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Baby Moshe
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
What is special about Moshe? When he was two years old, his parents were among the many people killed in a ghastly terrorist attack in Chabad House (home to the Jewish Community) in Mumbai (Bombay) nine years ago. Baby Moshe could also have been killed except for the astuteness of his Nanny who escaped with him to another building.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Despite understandable degrees of disillusionment, people of good will dedicated to UN ideals should not give up on the Organization or its potentiality, but work harder to make the UN come closer to fulfilling its original promise, needed now more than ever. Justice for the Palestinian people, however long deferred, remains the defining moral prism by which to assess the shifting balance between achieving global justice and bowing to the whims of geopolitics at the UN and elsewhere.
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Alexandre Marc (19 Jan 1904 – 22 Feb 2000): Con-federalism, Cultural Renewal and Trans-frontier Cooperation
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Marc was a complex man, one of the bridges who helped younger persons to understand the debates which surrounded the Russian Revolution, the rise and decline of Fascism and Nazism, and the post-Second World War hopes for a united Europe.
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The 10 Companies That Dominate the Global Arms Trade
Jeff Desjardins | Visual Capitalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – While it is common knowledge that the United States plays a big role in the global arms trade, the numbers are still quite astounding. Of the top ten companies by sales, firms based in the U.S. make up seven of them. Whether it is guns, tanks, jets, missiles, or ships that are on your shopping list, there is a supplier for any weapon your country desires.
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The Kids the World Forgot
Ken Hannaford-Ricardi | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 – I spent much of yesterday with some kids the world forgot. Young, remarkably sturdy and resilient, they can often be naïve and almost willfully gullible. They inhabit a world that delights in tripping them up and watching them fall. They are Kabul’s Street Kids.
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Alan Hart – Peacemaker (17 Feb 1942 – 15 Jan 2018)
Susie Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
16 Jan 2018 – Alan Hart, Our Beloved Father, Passed Away Yesterday at the Age of 75. The human body – his home no more. His energy, essence and spirit – well & free. Alan Hart was engaged with events in the Middle East and their global consequences and terrifying implications for 40 years as a correspondent and as a researcher and author. Also as a participant at leadership level, working to a Security Council background briefing, in the covert diplomacy of the search for peace.
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Modern “Politics”: And They Tell Me Not to Spell Out “Sh*t”!
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
They tell me not to spell out “sh*t”!
But, nothing else quite seems to f*t!
They claim some folks will look awry
If I insert the little “i”.
Eating the Earth
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
17 Jan 2018 – We are facing an existential crisis. And it is caused, in large part, by the unsustainable ways in which we feed ourselves. While there is no single solution, by far the biggest one is switching from an animal-based to a plant-based diet. Why? Because a plant-based diet requires less land and fewer resources. When we feed animals on crops, we greatly reduce the number of people that an area of cropland can support.
→ read full articleDrug-Induced Iatrogenic Disorders – The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US and Britain
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Definition of an “iatrogenic” disorder: A disorder inadvertently induced by a health caregiver because of a surgical, medical, drug or vaccine treatment or by a diagnostic procedure.
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Reworking the Colonial-Era “Indian Peril”: Myanmar’s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims
Maung Zarni & Natalie Brinham - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Myanmar’s transition from the military dictatorship to the adoption of a Chinese model of great commercial opening with a calibrated political liberalization has one unintended consequence for the military-controlled-government: ugly things get exposed. All of a sudden, the dark secrets of this predominantly Buddhist nation of 51 million people with diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds are laid bare for all to witness.
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Ten Nuclear Wishes for the New Year
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
1. That Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s past will not become any other city’s future.
2. That the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will get at least 50 ratifications and enter into force…
Welcome to the Land of Luther King!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
15 Jan 2018 – I write today to tell you the roots of hate, ignorance and evil endure nurtured by the protective veils of government corruption, cronyism, greed, and religious prejudices sanctioned by dogma and custom. I call upon you today to join Luther King’s call to justice, now more than 50 years old as it still echoes throughout our global age. Listen! Can you hear the cries of the masses around the world leading lives of desperation, lives devoid of hope, lives existing from moment to moment, each breath lacking reflexive assurance the next breath will come bringing temporary solace to an aching body and mind.
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Hawaiian Islands: 125 Years of U.S. Occupation
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
On January 17, 1893 a coup d’état was carried out against Queen Lili’uokalani and the Hawaiian Kingdom by foreign resident business interests with the assistance of U.S. Marines from the USS Boston. An illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai’i has continued ever since.
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Joanna Santa Barbara TRANSCEND Address
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
TRANSCEND International members address present and future members.
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China Leading on World’s Clean Energy Investment, Says Report
Jocelyn Timperley | Carbon Brief – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
China is by far the largest force in global clean energy development and its firms are increasingly looking abroad for opportunities, a new report says.
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Proper Exercise Can Reverse Damage from Heart Aging
UT Southwestern Medical Center | EurekAlert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
8 Jan 2018 – Exercise can reverse damage to sedentary, aging hearts and help prevent risk of future heart failure – if it’s enough exercise, and if it’s begun in time, according to a new study by cardiologists at UT Southwestern and Texas Health Resources.
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To Liberate Cambodia
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
10 Jan 2018 – Cambodian activists require enormous courage to take nonviolent action as the possibility of violent state repression in response to popular mobilization is a real one. So what can Cambodians do? Fortunately, there is a long history of repressive regimes being overthrown by nonviolent grassroots movements. And nonviolent action has proven powerfully effective in Cambodia with Buddhist monk Maha Gosananda.
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Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young (Part 1)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
26 Dec 2017 – Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors.
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Russian-American Relations
ArmyPsyop Scott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Dr. Scott Bennett interviewed on European television discussing the psychological-political-cultural relations between America and Russia, and the deceptions that cripple truth.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 Jan 1929– 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Luther King was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
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Golden Globes Confusing Cleavage, Hype and Hypocrisy
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Produced on the occasion of media red carpet coverage of Golden Globes 2018 in anticipation of the Oscars 2018. Missing from the feminist declarations and media coverage is any sense whatsoever that there are other forms of “harassment” which may or may not involve women. By framing harassment as being exclusively male-on-female …
→ read full articleStudent Debt Slavery: Time to Level the Playing Field (Part 2)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
5 Jan 2018 – The lending business is heavily stacked against student borrowers. Bigger players can borrow for almost nothing, and if their investments don’t work out, they can put their corporate shells through bankruptcy and walk away. Not so with students.
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Let the Two-State Solution Die a Natural Death
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
7 Jan 2018 – The proper priority for genuine advocates of peace between Israelis and Palestinians should be centered around apartheid rather than be devoted to reviving an Oslo style ‘peace process’ (always a sham) or proclaiming the goal of an independent and sovereign Palestine as attainable without first dismantling the apartheid structures that subjugate the Palestinian people as a whole so as to maintain the Zionist insistence on Israel as the state of the Jewish people.
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(Português) Pitágoras, o primeiro filósofo grego a reprovar o consumo de carne e a matança de animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
“Enquanto o ser humano for implacável com as criaturas vivas, ele nunca conhecerá a saúde e a paz. Enquanto os homens continuarem massacrando animais, eles também permanecerão matando uns aos outros. Na verdade, quem semeia assassinato e dor não pode colher alegria e amor.” — Pitágoras
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To a Goddess
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Greying gleaming silk the waters of this evening,
Shroud-like mists, their white along the distant line
And closing in
MLK: The Year of “Nonviolence or Non-Existence”
Rev. John Dear | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
It was early 1968. Since the previous spring Martin Luther King, Jr. had been pursuing a course that for many was unthinkable. He had deliberately connected the dots between the movement for civil rights and the struggle to end the war in Vietnam, and had paid the price.
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A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality. Accordingly, some things torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought; and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all. We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow.
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Death at the Gate in Afghanistan
Ken Hannaford-Ricardi | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Kabul, January 2017 – The insurgents whose only weapon is violence are clearly gaining sway here, but the Afghan Peace Volunteers are adamant in their knowledge that violence solves nothing. They struggle daily to practice and teach nonviolence, which their charter maintains “is a [personal] value and a way of living, relating, and acting,” a positive force for change in our own lives and in the life of our planet.
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