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This Must Be the Place (Music Video of the Week)
Talking Heads / David Byrne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
[Naive Melody] – From the movie This Must Be the Place (2011) starring Sean Penn.
→ read full articleRoger Waters Rocks On as Film Targets Him for Palestine Advocacy
Hadani Ditmars | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
A documentary accusing the veteran rock star of anti-Semitism is part of a smear campaign discrediting the BDS movement, say activists.
→ read full articleCatalonia and the ‘Europe of Regions’
Andrew Spannaus – Consortium News,
16 Oct 2017
Catalonia’s bid for independence from Spain had a curious twist, a readiness to take its place within the supranational European Union, a further challenge to traditional nation-states.
→ read full article‘Sri Lanka and Myanmar Are Ethnocratic States’ – Dr Maung Zarni
Bashana Abeywardane | Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
9 Oct 2017 – ‘Enemy of the State’ screamed the banner headline of a Burmese national newspaper in September, featuring full page photograph of Maung Zarni. More hatred follows, a week later. “These publications are run by a web of cronies, military propaganda division and racist monk or laymen’s networks’, says Zarni.
→ read full articleMysterious Sounds and Scary Illnesses as Political Tools
Lisa Diedrich And Benjamin Tausig – The New York Times,
16 Oct 2017
10 Oct 2017 – The narrative around the “sonic attack” on the American embassy in Cuba fits a troubling pattern for Trump as the latest example of the way he has attempted to harness vague, unspecified threats to inspire fear and advance his political agenda. He has long signaled his desire to reverse President Obama’s normalization of relations with Cuba.
→ read full articleThe End of Empire
Chris Hedge | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around the globe. It is burdened by growing deficits, along with the devastating effects of deindustrialization and global trade agreements. Our democracy has been captured and destroyed by corporations that steadily demand more tax cuts, more deregulation and impunity from prosecution for massive acts of financial fraud, all the while looting trillions from the U.S. treasury in the form of bailouts.
→ read full article(Italiano) Atomi per la pace: soluzione brillante o scelta fallimentare?
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
16 Oct 2017
13 ottobre 2017 – “Greggio, nucleare e guerre, l’Arabia saudita sceglie Putin”: questo tiolo, pubblicato sul quotidiano Il Manifesto del 5 ottobre 2017 mi ha incuriosito. Dopo l’approvazione della messa al bando delle armi nucleari, e il conferimento del Premio Nobel per la Pace all’ Associazione ICAN sto cercando di capire qualcosa di più delle interconnessioni tra uso civile e uso militare dell’energia nucleare.
→ read full articleWomen’s Role in the Protection of Nature
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Several movements to protect our Earth and the people and other living beings from ill health and extinction are been carried out by scientists, activists as well as by a spirit of ecofeminism. The interaction between the latter spirit and ecology is producing a new dynamism for the overall objective of a healthy life and harmony.
→ read full article(Português) Demanda por dentes de hipopótamos atrai caçadores e deixa animais à beira da extinção
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Quando se trata do comércio mundial de animais selvagens, os ativistas possuem uma longa lista de fatos com que devem se preocupar e os hipopótamos devem estar no topo dela. A demanda por dentes de hipopótamos cresceu muito após uma proibição de 1989 sobre o comércio internacional de marfim de elefantes.
→ read full article(Português) “Não há nada de origem animal disponível ao consumidor que não tenha envolvido algum tipo de exploração e violência”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Quem explora animais pode alegar que “ama seus animais”, mas objetivamente sabemos que não matamos nem impomos conscientemente privação e sofrimento a quem amamos, logo isso é insinceridade. O que quem explora animais ama é o retorno financeiro que esses animais são capazes de proporcionar a partir de seu sofrimento e morte.
→ read full articleHamas Can Achieve the Right to Work for Palestinians in Lebanon by Reconciling with Fatah and Iran
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
13 Oct 2017 – If Hamas takes a leading role and applies its political acumen in negotiating with those who can arrange 90 minutes of Lebanon’s Parliaments’ time to enact Palestinian civil rights, it will achieve historic and much needed opportunity for Lebanon’s Palestinians and usher in a shortened timetable for Full Return to Palestine.
→ read full articleWhy Is the US at War in West Africa?
Eddie Haywood | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
14 Oct 2017 – After its establishment in 2008 as an independent command, AFRICOM has significantly expanded American military influence and troop deployments on the African continent. Measuring the breadth of US military expansion is the construction of a $100 million base in Agadez in central Niger. Augmenting the special forces contingent in the region are military personnel stationed at several dozen bases and outposts including a US base in Garoua, Cameroon.
→ read full articleAfter Nuclear Disarmament – What?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
A timeless piece worth of reflection as the [im]morality and [il]legality of nuclear weaponry made it to the UNGA resulting in the approval of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons-ICAN.
→ read full articleThe Middle East Pivot: Erdogan’s Turkey Seven Deadly Sins
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Multiple wars ravage the Middle East. Turkey has inserted itself into the middle of most of these regional conflicts and ended up a loser. Under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey has intervened and formed alliances with a rogue’s gallery of imperial warlords, terrorists-mercenaries, Zionist expansionists, feudal potentates and obscure tribal chiefs, with disastrous economic, political and military consequences for the Turkish nation.
→ read full articleThe US and Israel Kick Up a Fake Storm Over UNESCO
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
15 Oct 2017 – At first glance, the decision last week by the Trump administration, followed immediately by Israel, to quit the United Nation’s cultural agency seems strange. Why penalise a body that promotes clean water, literacy, heritage preservation and women’s rights? Washington’s claim that UNESCO is biased against Israel obscures the real crimes the agency has committed in US eyes.
→ read full articleTrump’s Mendacious Speech on Iran
Paul R. Pillar – Consortium News,
16 Oct 2017
President Trump, in decertifying the Iran-nuclear deal, trotted out all the tripe about the “world leading sponsor of terrorism” and ties to Al Qaeda. But his new policy is one of dangerous incoherence, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
→ read full articleInside the CIA’s Black Site Torture Room
Larry Siems – The Guardian,
16 Oct 2017
9 Oct 2017 – There were twenty cells inside the prison, each a stand-alone concrete box. In sixteen, prisoners were shackled to a metal ring in the wall. In four, designed for sleep deprivation, they stood chained by the wrists to an overhead bar. Those in the regular cells had a plastic bucket; those in sleep deprivation wore diapers. When diapers weren’t available, guards crafted substitutes with duct tape, or prisoners were chained naked in their cells. The cellblock was unheated, pitch black day and night, with music blaring around the clock.
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The Lobby: Young Friends of Israel (Part 1)
Al Jazeera Investigations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
10 Jan 2017 – In the first of a four-part series, Al Jazeera goes undercover inside the Israel Lobby in Britain. We expose a campaign to infiltrate and influence youth groups, including the National Union of Students, whose president faces a smear campaign coordinated by her own deputy and supported by the Israeli Embassy.
→ read full articlePicking Berries
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
This is a metaphor for work on peaceful conflict transformation. If you look at a conflict from only one point of view, you see a very limited set of problems and possible solutions.
→ read full articleWhich Direction?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
After a summit meeting, Reagan, Brezhnev and Deng Xiaoping were being driven to the airport in a limousine. The driver arrived at an intersection and asked which way to go.
→ read full articleTrump-ing Climate Change: How Narratives Can Save the Planet
Marion Osieyo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
7 Oct 2017 – Climate change is happening but there is a gap between the reality of climate change and our perception of it. One implication of this is that we have different narratives of climate change and consequently the way we act on it. Reflecting on these observations and the analysis by Welzer, I posit four existing narratives in the climate change discourse.
→ read full articleSent to Haiti to Keep the Peace, Departing UN Troops Leave a Damaged Nation in Their Wake
Siobhán Wills, Cahal McLaughlin and Ilionor Louis – The Conversation,
16 Oct 2017
13 Oct 2017 – Since the arrival of the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti in June 2004, after former President Jean-Bertrande Aristide was forced out by a coup, the island has seen neither war nor armed conflict. On the eve of its departure from Haiti the UN faces accusations that its troops used excessive force. The U.N. has admitted that its peacekeepers introduced cholera to the island and sexually abused women who lived near U.N. camps.
→ read full articleThe Flawed and Corrupted Genius of American Republicanism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
15 Oct 2017 – The odiousness of Trump’s presidency gives the people of America what might be their last chance to achieve political redemption for themselves and for others now and in the future who will drawn into the circle of extreme victimization unless this dynamic of renewal suddenly takes hold.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
What a year, this 2017! 500 years ago Luther’s theses; 150 years ago Marx’ Das Kapital, 100 years ago Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution; shaking Rome’s control of Europe, and Europe’s control of the world. Usually the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prizes are compliant with the foreign policy of Norway; this time not. The next step is to solve conflicts between nuclear powers, like USA vs N. Korea, West vs Russia.
→ read full article4 April 1984, 4 April 1968, and the Legacies of George Orwell and Martin Luther King, Jr
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
12 Oct 2017 – I recently went to a theater production of George Orwell’s “1984” and also recently viewed the Ken Burns 10-episode documentary “The Vietnam War.” Given that both the documentary and the play have relevance in our increasingly proto-fascist, increasingly militarized nation, I have decided to re-publish a slightly revised version of my April 4, 2017 column about Orwell’s work of art and King’s critique of the Vietnam War.
→ read full articleUp in Smoke
Latuff – MintPress News,
16 Oct 2017
Trump & Netanyahu, US-Iran Nuclear Agreement
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Oct 16-22, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.” — Walter Anderson
→ read full articleHow to Eradicate Rural Poverty, End Urban Malnutrition – A New Approach
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
16 Oct 2017
9 Oct 2017 – Population growth, increasing urbanisation, modern technologies, and climate change are transforming the world at a fast pace. But what direction are these transformations headed in? “Unless economic growth is made more inclusive, the global goals of ending poverty and achieving zero hunger by 2030 will not be reached,” warned FAO head Graziano da Silva.
→ read full articleThe One and Only Path to Palestine/Israel Sustainable Peace
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
12 Oct 2017 – We should accept our human responsibility to aid and abet the Palestinian struggle for rights, self-determination, and a just peace. The attainment of such goals would also inevitably reshape the destiny of Israeli Jews toward a more humanistic and benevolent future.
→ read full articleWrongful Rhetoric and Trump’s Strategy on Iran
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
In a time when 20 million people face starvation, it’s particularly obscene for any country to pour resources into nuclear weaponry.
→ read full article(Français) Qu’est-ce que l’Ican, le lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix ?
François d’Alançon | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Cette coalition mondiale de plusieurs centaines d’ONG s’est mobilisée pour le traité d’interdiction de l’arme atomique, adopté par 122 pays le 7 juillet 2017 à l’ONU.
→ read full articleSufism Can Sanitise Our Planet
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
14 Oct 2017 – The world has changed in many profound ways. Developments over the last two or three decades have been, in many cases, quite remarkable — notably the tremendous reduction in global poverty — and offers hitherto undreamt of opportunities. But all is far from well.
→ read full articleRemembering Che Guevara 50 Years after His Assassination on 9 Oct 1967
James Cockcroft – teleSUR,
9 Oct 2017
In light of a recent upsurge in denunciations of Che and the Cuban Revolution, it is important to separate fact from fiction.
→ read full article(Português) Companhias suspeitas de financiarem a semi-escravidão em países subdesenvolvidos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
29 set 2017 – Companhias que, de acordo com Human Rights Watch, não fornecem informações claras sobre a origem de seus produtos, locais onde pessoas trabalham em más condições e por longas jornadas, em um regime de semi-escravidão. Grandes companhias que têm ajudado a financiar a exploração do trabalho infantil em países subdesenvolvidos:
→ read full articleThe October Arab-Israeli War of 1973: What Happened?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Forty-four years since the October war in 1973, Israel still occupies Palestinian territories and Syrian Golan Heights.
→ read full article(Português) A era geológica do antropoceno versus a do ecoceno
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
1 out 2017 – O primeiro a elaborar uma ecologia da Terra como um todo foi o geoquímico russo Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky. Ele conferiu caráter científico à expressão “biosfera” criada em 1875 por um geólogo austríaco Eduard Suess. Nos anos 70, com James Lovelock e sua equipe se desenvolveu a teoria de Gaia, a Terra que se comporta como um sistema orgânico, portanto, um super-organismo vivo que sempre produz e reproduz vida. Gaia, nome grego para a Terra viva, não é tema da New Age mas o resultado de minuciosa observação científica.
→ read full article(Français) CUBA : Fidel et la Culture
Antonio Rodriguez Salvador | La Jiribilla – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Qu’aurait fait pour la culture, le commun des mortels à la tête d’un pays comme Cuba, dans les circonstances convulsives des premières années de la Révolution ? Si nous suivons la maxime bien connue du philosophe espagnol José Ortega y Gasset : « Je suis moi et ma circonstance », cette conjoncture historique particulière aurait probablement polarisé les actions du leader – s’il n’avait pas été Fidel – dans des aspects éloignés de la promotion culturelle…
→ read full articleMyanmar Says Refugees Must Prove Residency to Return Home
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
It remains unclear where the Rohingya would go if they did return, since many of their villages have been burnt to the ground.
→ read full articleFive decades of Peace Research: Past and Future
TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Adress [in English] by Prof. Johan Galtung at Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal), 20 Oct 2017 at 10 a.m. ~All welcome!
Then on 24 Oct we celebrate Johan’s 87th birthday in Porto. ~All welcome!
How Are You on This Greying Day
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
How are you on this greying day
The winds push, all the sky a soft,
A pressing down – it seems so gentle
It might be a smile
As it takes our little breath
John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Famed singer-songwriter John Lennon founded the Beatles, a band that impacted the popular music scene like no other before, or since.
→ read full articleKeeping Peace in Transilvania
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The media tend to report about cases where mediation fails and fighting breaks out, but they almost never report about cases where fighting has been avoided, and how this was achieved. They have turned the old adage “no news is good news” into “good news is no news.” Better coverage of success stories could encourage others to help prevent war.
→ read full articleA Cuban Mystery: The US Embassy in Havana
Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Since the fall of 2016, up to 21 diplomats at the US embassy have been affected by what is now being considered an attack–previously deemed as “incidents” … “Ultrasonic waves, beyond the acoustic capacity of humans, can be broadcast with an amplifier, and the device does not need to be large, or used inside or outside the house.” Havana has expressed consternation at the moves by the Trump administration, but is still hopeful in cooperation.
→ read full article(Português) Seminário: “Five Decades of Peace Research – Past and Future”
Escola de Economia e Gestão da Universidade do Minho [Braga, Portugal] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
O Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política acolhe o seminário subordinado ao tema acima, o qual será proferido por Johan Galtung. Sexta-Feira, 20 outubro 2017 | Campus de Gualtar – CP II | Room B2, 10h00
→ read full articleThe Key Issues to Consider Regarding Myanmar’s Official Proposal for Rohingya Repatriation
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 – After periodic waves of genocidal attacks on Rohingyas over 39 years and the displacement of 1 million internationally, this repatriation proposal by Suu Kyi-Army regime needs to be treated with extreme caution and skepticism.
Rohingyas who remain trapped in N. Rakhine’s vast open prisons are facing reduced access to food and medicine on the ground. Armed Rakhine gangs roam in these areas intimidating, harassing and looting anything of value from Rohingya families.
The Movement May Change but Cannot Die
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The movement may change but cannot die,
Eternal movement embraced by fleeting time,
Run, my free verse, and sparkle, rollicking rhyme,
Separation is Beautiful
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
7 Oct 2017 – The Knesset is busy with enacting the Nation Law, intended to make clear that the Jewishness of the Jewish State takes precedence over democracy and human rights. Israel has no constitution, but until now it was assumed that Israel was equally “Jewish” and “democratic”. The new law is about to abolish that notion. As usual, we are one or two centuries behind world history.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Voted Against a U.N. Resolution Condemning Death Penalty for LGBTQ People
Alex Emmons – The Intercept,
9 Oct 2017
3 Oct 2017 – The U.N. floated a resolution banning the use of the death penalty to punish homosexuality. The Trump administration voted “no.”
→ read full articleHarold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report #11 (October 2017)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ together with a sample of news about Charter signatories and organizations. Our collective effort to build a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts continues to make progress, even against rather overwhelming odds!
→ read full article(Português) Centenas de animais são mortos em festival religioso na Índia
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
4 out 2017 – Centenas de animais foram sacrificados em Bhawanipatna, no distrito indiano de Odishas Kalahandi por causa do famoso festival Chhatar Jatra da deusa Manikeswari, dizem as autoridades.
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Réquiem del Mediterráne (Music Video of the Week)
Theresia Bothe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Music video to remember all who lost their lives in Lampedusa on 3 Oct 2013 and all those other days in which people have lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. We stand with their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and friends.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Oct 9-15, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” –- Dorothy Canfield Fischer
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (16) Wilfred Owen
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Wilfred Owen, eloquent opponent of war, tragic victim of war, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleThey Thought They Were Going to Rehab. They Ended Up in Forced Labor Camps
Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter | Reveal - The Center for Investigative Reporting,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – The worst day of Brad McGahey’s life was the day a judge decided to spare him from prison. He had heard of Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery, people called it “the Chicken Farm.” Aside from daily cans of Dr Pepper, McGahey wasn’t addicted to anything. The judge knew that. But the Chicken Farm sounded better than prison.
→ read full articleThe Golden Rule: Eleven World Religions
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – It is indeed ironic, tragic in fact, that the Golden Rule is considered an essential truth of world religions and yet is abandoned by religions in favor of self-serving social and political goals keeping people apart separated and disconnected. As has been said by wise voices: “There is no other.”
→ read full articleHaiti’s UN Mission Ends after 13 Years of Occupation
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
One of the longest-running U.N. peacekeeping missions has been implicated in a child sex ring and a cholera outbreak in Haiti.
→ read full articleDisarmament
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
When someone argued, “We have had nuclear weapons for 50 years and nothing has happened,” Helen Caldicott replied,
→ read full articleThe Fight Ahead: 13 Questions about the Origins, Objectives and War on BDS
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – BDS stands for ‘Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions’. The BDS Movement was the outcome of several events that shaped the Palestinian national struggle and international solidarity. Building on a decades-long tradition of civil disobedience and popular resistance, and invigorated by growing international solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, Palestinians moved into action.
→ read full articleCanada’s Nuclear Diplomacy Is Make-Believe
Paul Meyer and Ramesh Thakur - The Globe and Mail,
9 Oct 2017
More than 120 states, parties of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, deemed it important for the survival of the planet to conclude a comprehensive prohibition on nuclear weapons and the use or threat of use of these devastating and indiscriminate arms. But Canada opted to join a “dissenting minority” of nuclear-armed states and U.S. allies
→ read full articleUnder Siege in Their Villages, Rohingya Still In Burma Say They’re Trapped
Max Bearak – The Washington Post,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 — Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s de facto leader, recently claimed that an unprecedented exodus of half a million Rohingya Muslims from her country in just five weeks “has quieted down” and that people are “carrying on as normal.” But there is another way to assess the ground reality for Rohingya in Burma: calling them on their cellphones. Testimony gathered last week from more than a dozen such conversations suggests that Burma’s leaders are either misinformed about events in Rakhine or intentionally misrepresenting them.
→ read full articleUncle Nazi
Latuff – MintPrewss News,
9 Oct 2017
Déjà-vu all over again?
→ read full articleNobel’s Peace Prize to ICAN: Thank You to the Nobel Committee!
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Our thanks to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for awarding its 2017 Prize to ICAN – the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
→ read full articleIndia’s Microfinance Is Losing Its Soul
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Microfinance is actually a tool in a broader development toolbox, but in certain conditions, it happens to be the most powerful tool. It has all to do with how we are using it and how we are defining the outcomes. It needs to shape a more responsible capitalism. It is certainly not an easy choice by any means, but a right choice for wise investors and society alike.
→ read full articleStudy: Dangerous Pesticide Found in 75 Percent of the World’s Honey
Derrick Broze | Activist Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
6 Oct 2017 – A new study published in the journal Science, “A worldwide survey of neonicotinoids in honey,” examined 198 types of honey from around the world looking for traces of neonicotinoids, a class of pesticide that has been linked to declines in bee populations.
→ read full articleJimmy Carter: What I’ve Learned from North Korea’s Leaders
Pres. Jimmy Carter – The Washington post,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – Over more than 20 years, I have spent many hours in discussions with top North Korean officials and private citizens during visits to Pyongyang and to the countryside. I found Kim Il Sung, Kim Yong Nam and other leaders to be both completely rational and dedicated to the preservation of their regime… The next step should be for the USA to offer to send a high-level delegation to Pyongyang for peace talks or to support an international conference including North and South Korea, the United States and China, at a mutually acceptable site.
→ read full articleThe Meat of the Matter
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – What will future generations, looking back on our age, see as its monstrosities? One of them will be the mass incarceration of animals, to enable us to eat their flesh or eggs or drink their milk. While we call ourselves animal lovers, and lavish kindness on our dogs and cats, we inflict brutal deprivations on billions of animals, which are just as capable of suffering. The hypocrisy is so rank that future generations will marvel at how we could have failed to see it.
→ read full articleIn Neoliberal Putsch, Brazil Auctions Off Indigenous Lands, Public Utilities to Foreign Interests
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
9 Oct 2017
Thursday’s [28 Sep] auction was a juicy meal for the 32 corporate bidders, which included such major Western energy giants as Shell, ExxonMobil, and BP. Unprecedented in size and in the opposition it provoked, the auction fit neatly into Temer’s neoliberal agenda for Brazil.
→ read full articleMass Shootings: The Military-Entertainment Complex’s Culture of Violence Turns Deadly
John W. Whitehead | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
“Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of violence cannot be abstracted from either the culture of business or the corruption of politics. Violence runs through US society like an electric current offering instant pleasure from all cultural sources, whether it be the nightly news or a television series that glorifies serial killers.”
→ read full articleWill Seven Million Starving Yemenis Ever Find Justice?
Catriona Murdoch and Wayne Jordash – Al Jazeera,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 – It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the control of food importation into Yemen is being used as a weapon of war, seemingly by all sides. Those responsible should be held accountable as primary perpetrators of, or accessories to, starvation.
→ read full articleGreat Hunger
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 – In relation to conflict-driven famines, the U.S., our violence, and our delusions of being indispensable stem from accepting a belief that our “way of life” is non-negotiable. Growing inequality, protected by menacing arsenals, paves a path to the graveyard: It is not a “way of life.” We still could acquire a great hunger: a transforming hunger to share justice with our planetary neighbors.
→ read full articleDrugs and Guns Don’t Mix: Medication Madness, Military Madness and Mass Shootings
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Last Sunday, October 1, 2017, the US achieved a new record in the Guiness Book of Records for Mass Murders (a fictitious book) when a mass murderer in Las Vegas, Nevada, ambushed a crowd 20,000 innocent country music festival attendees in the street 32 stories below his hotel room.
→ read full articleSpirituality among Disparities
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
9 Oct 2017 – A well-known cliché that is often repeated — India is a land of diversities of all types. Yes, there are multiple types of diversities — religious, political, economic, linguistic, geographic, ethnic, cultural and spiritual. Despite all the diversities indicated above there has been a spirituality and oneness in this region since prehistoric times.
→ read full articleMyanmar Rohingya Abuses May Be Crimes against Humanity, UN Rights Experts Warn
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – “We are particularly worried about the fate of Rohingya women and children subject to serious violations of their human rights, including killings, rape and forced displacement. Such violations may amount to crimes against humanity,” the experts said in a joint statement issued today.
→ read full articlePerpetrators of Genocide Say They’re ‘Good People’
Jeff Grabmeier | Ohio State University News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
5 Oct 2017 – Study Examined Testimony of Defendants in Rwandan Violence – The men who were tried for their role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that killed up to 1 million people want you to know that they’re actually very good people. Researchers found that an “appeal to good character” was used by defendants more than all other explanations combined to say why they weren’t guilty of the horrible crimes they were accused of committing.
→ read full articleNorth Korea: Quantum Politics, the TRANSCEND Method and Second Order Change
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Dominant thought forms shape thinking and feeling in ways that limit ideas about what is possible. We need words, frames, concepts and categories that allow us to imagine transformative solutions. The most experienced, mature, and wise people recommend beginning with a policy of “Freeze for freeze” whereby the US and South Korea stop joint military exercises in exchange of NK’s halting testing. This reduces tension, fear and humiliation, a face-saving way out and creates a field for dialogue and to apply the TRANSCEND method.
→ read full articleHow a 3-Day Fast Resets Your Immune System
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The benefits of fasting are many and various. Fasting supports good health by promoting a healthy body weight, encouraging normal cognitive function, and even facilitating detoxification. Now, research has also shown that fasting may help reset the immune system.
→ read full articleCoca-Cola Produced More Than 110 Billion Plastic Bottles Last Year
Andrew McMaster | Global Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Amidst growing marine pollution, Greenpeace is applying pressure on the soft drink multinational.
→ read full articleSuing Oil Companies to Pay for Climate Change?
Seth Shulman | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
A new peer-reviewed study published in the journal Climatic Change sheds new light on fossil fuel producers’ liability. While previous research had shown that a relative handful of companies were responsible for more than 60 percent of greenhouse gases, the authors of the new study succeeded in tracing specific climate damages—including increased temperatures and sea level rise—to the products sold by individual companies such as Chevron and ExxonMobil.
→ read full articleWWF: 60% of Global Biodiversity Loss Due to Land Cleared for Meat-Based Diets
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
5 Oct 2017 – A new report from the World Wildlife Fund highlights how the livestock industry gobbles up a massive amount of land, leading to wide-scale biodiversity loss. Producing the animal feed for meat- and dairy-heavy Western diets uses up a lot of the planet’s precious resources.
→ read full articleHannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
→ read full articleA New Shock Doctrine: In a World of Crisis, Morality Can Still Win
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
9 Oct 2017
Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders and Podemos in Spain have shown that a bold and decent strategy can be a successful one. That truth should embolden the left.
→ read full articleWhat Are the Noetic Sciences?
IONS Institute of Noetic Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The term noetic sciences was first coined in 1973 when the Institute of Noetic Sciences was founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who two years earlier became the sixth man to walk on the moon.
→ read full articleU.S. Killing Fields
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The details of the Oct 1 massacre in Las Vegas continue to unfold. At least 59 people dead and more than 525 injured at a country music concert. The mass shooter — a white, multi-millionaire, American sniper armed to the teeth and perched in a 32nd floor luxury hotel room. The U.S. #1 export product – violence – is coming home to roost. Violence begets violence. What goes around comes around.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize 2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
8 Oct 2017 – What the BAN Treaty achieves, and the Nobel Prize recognizes, is that the cleavage is now clear between international law and geopolitics with respect to nuclear weapons. The BAN Treaty provides likeminded governments and animated citizen pilgrim throughout the world with a roadmap for closing the gap from the side of law and morality.
→ read full articleThe Rising of Britain’s ‘New Politics’
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
As the Tories plot to get rid of Prime Minister Theresa May, John Pilger analyses the alternative Labour Party, specifically its foreign policy, which may not be what it seems.
→ read full articleThe Real Reason Some People Become Addicted to Drugs
Mike Robinson – The Conversation,
9 Oct 2017
29 Sep 2017 – Why do they do it? This is a question that friends and families often ask of those who are addicted. Addiction simply creates a craving that’s often stronger than any one person could overcome alone. That’s why people battling addiction deserve our support and compassion, rather than the distrust and exclusion that our society too often provides.
→ read full articleIDF Brass: Israel Faces “Catastrophic Defeat” if Next Hezbollah War Exceeds Ten Days
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 – The view of many analysts in the Israeli and American military leadership as well as among the Israeli lobby in the US Congress is that Israel must ensure that the next war is short. The shorter the better for many reasons. One being that Washington will not ‘green light’ a protracted war that kills large numbers of Lebanese civilians. Another one is that the Israeli public and politicians will not accept many Israeli military or civilian casualties.
→ read full articleVisiting Nuremberg, Reflecting on the Ambiguous Legacies of Nuremberg
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 – I spent two days at Nuremberg to attend the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award ceremony on September 22, 2017. The reason we were in Nuremberg was that my wife had been a member of an international jury that selects an awardee every second year.
→ read full articleFear Is the NRA and Gun Industry’s Deadliest Weapon
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Home invaders, drug cartels, carjackers, knockout gamers, and rapers, and haters, and campus killers, airport killers, shopping mall killers” among the threats that only assault-style rifles and other guns can stop. The NRA and gun lobby aggressively push these psychologically-potent appeals because they know nothing sells guns like fear — including the fear of not having a gun.
→ read full articleFriedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus - Encyclopædia Britannica,
9 Oct 2017
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Mondo, dove stai andando?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
E’ morto Liu Xiaobo. Qual è la – non così occultata – verità su di lui?
Risposta: I suoi discorsi e scritti rivelano entusiasmo per i 100 anni di colonizzazione inglese di Hong Kong, auspicando 300 anni di colonizzazione della Cina, commemorando la guerra USA in Afghanistan, manifestando speranza nelle armi nucleari. Ha ottenuto il Premio Nobel per la Pace per la democratizzazione della Cina, ha avuto libertà di parola, ma il premio è stato inteso come una provocazione. Il premio avrebbe potuto essere assegnato fuor di dubbio alla loro Charta 08, non a Liu Xiaobo.
Mis-informed and Ignorant, Former US Ambassador Derek Mitchell Must Not “Educate” the West about Rohingyas
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
29 Sep 2017 – Silence is golden, especially when you don’t really know what you are talking about. A case in point is former US Ambassador to my country Derek Mitchell and the genocide of Rohingyas. He claimed that he understood genocide because he is of Jewish origin. Apparently, he still doesn’t get it.
→ read full article(Italiano) Arrivederci, a… (chissà)!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
29 settembre 2017 – Ce l’abbiam fatta! Per cinquecento lunedì [dal 3 Marzo 2008] Antonio del Brasile-Portogallo ha pubblicato un mio editoriale dalla Norvegia e dal mondo – talora con un coautore. Con il valido sostegno degli altri membri del nostro comitato editoriale, Malvin Gattinger della Germania, Naakow Grant-Hayford del Ghana ed Erika Degortes dell’Italia. GRAZIE!
→ read full articleGandhi’s Truth: Ending Human Violence One Commitment at a Time
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Gandhi Jayanti – 2 October, the date of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s birth in 1869 and the International Day of Nonviolence – offers an opportunity to reflect on human violence and to ponder ways to end it. There may be a fast way to end human violence but, if there is, Gandhi did not know it. Nor do I. Nor does anyone else that I have read or asked either. But this does not mean there is no way to end human violence.
→ read full articleTaking a Step against US Impunity in Guantanamo
Elsa Meany – Al Jazeera,
2 Oct 2017
The fight against impunity in Guantanamo Bay has reached the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (15) Martin Luther King, Jr
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., great orator, champion of justice and equality, fearless opponent of war, we need your voice today!
→ read full articlePugwash Welcomes the Completion of Chemical Weapons Destruction by Russia
Sergio Duarte | Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed on 27 Sep 2017 that the verified destruction of those chemical weapons possessed by the Russian Federation has been completed. Pugwash welcomes this important achievement and congratulates the Russian Federation and the OPCW for their efforts, as well as the many countries and experts who have assisted in this program.
→ read full articleHezbollah Has Launched the Initial Phase of the Next Israel-Hezbollah War
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Israel has recently increased its targeting of claimed Hezbollah/Iranian sites followed by diplomatic warnings by Israel’s leadership that it will not accept an enhanced Iranian and Hezbollah presence on its northern borders. Israel has bombed more than 100 targets since 2011 including some Iranian positions around Damascus military airport, West and South Syria as well as in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley and down south.
→ read full articleInternational Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons – September 26
UN Office for Disarmament Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
26 Sep 2017 marked the fourth consecutive year the UN commemorated the date. Delegates took the floor to call on all States to sign and ratify both the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear weapons, the latter of which opened for signature on 20 Sep of this year.
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