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Insightfulness and Palestine
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
14 Oct 2018 – Observing the evolution of the Palestinian solidarity movement and the growing influence of Jewish bodies within this movement has provided me with the opportunity to monitor a spectacular anti-insightful operation. For many years I have wondered why the Palestinian solidarity discourse is uniquely anti-intellectual. It basically jettisons critical thinking and acts instead from a rigid activism manual.
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Post-Apocalyptic Renaissance of Global Civilization
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Engaging with Otherness Otherwise? – Part III of ‘Collapse and Renaissance of Civilization: Dilemma of Communication and Engagement Understood Otherwise’
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Rethinking Nuclearism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
6 Oct 2018 – More than thirty years ago I applied the term ‘nuclearism’ to the association between the hardware dimensions of the weaponry and their various software dimensions ranging from strategic doctrine to the infatuations of powerful men with their awesome destructive capabilities.
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John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliché that should have been left behind in the ’60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
—John Lennon
Noam Chomsky: Facebook and Google Pose a Manifest Danger
Jacob Sugarman | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
1 Oct 2018 – In “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media” (1988), authors Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky identified what they called the “five filters of editorial bias”: Size, Ownership and Profit Orientation; the Advertising License to Do Business; Sourcing Mass Media News; Flak and the Enforcers; and Anti-Communism.
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U.S. Ends 1955 Treaty with Iran, After U.N. Court Orders a Partial Lift of Sanctions
Bill Chappell | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
3 Oct 2018 – The U.N.’s top court gave a partial victory to Iran today saying the U.S. “must remove” sanctions that could stop food, medical supplies and other humanitarian products from entering Iran. In response, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that because of continuing disputes with Iran, “I am therefore announcing today that the United States is terminating the Treaty of Amity with Iran” — referring to the 1955 treaty that laid out economic relations between the two countries.
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India: Why Don’t We Talk More about Mental Health?
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
World Mental Health Day – 10 October 2018
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(Français) Le désespoir de Gandhi et la lutte pour la vérité et l’amour
Robert J Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
«Quand je désespère, je me souviens qu’au cours de toute l’histoire, les moyens de vérité et d’amour ont toujours gagnés. Il y a eu des tyrans et des meurtriers et ils peuvent sembler invincibles, mais à la fin, ils s’effondrent toujours. Pensez-y – toujours.» — M.K. Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi — An Icon of Truth, Amity, Nonviolence and Cleanliness
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
The Indian government is active in construction of toilets and encouraging the private corporate sector towards this objective. Several NGOs are also helping in the mammoth task of construction and maintenance of millions of toilets in homes, public places, in schools, etc.
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Suu Kyi and Nobel Laureates
Saudi Gazette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
8 Oct 2018 – The Norwegian Nobel Committee and Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi were very much in the news last week for two reasons. First, the committee announced this year’s NPP winners: Nadia Murad of Iraq and Denis Mukwege of Congo. Second, the announcement by the Nobel Foundation that Suu Kyi’s Peace Prize will not be withdrawn as demanded by many people around the world including some Nobel Peace Laureates.
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It Is Liberalism That Has Helped Sow the Seeds of Illiberalism
Mike Wayne | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Liberalism has lost its way because it has forgotten its own history, and the left seems similarly blindsided.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate) Aung San Suu Kyi Exclusive Interview
NHK World Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
6 Oct 2018 – In an exclusive with NHK in Tokyo today, she said, “I don’t care about the prizes and honors as such. I’m sorry that friends are not as steadfast as they might be. Because I think friendship means understanding, basically, trying to understand rather than to just make your own judgement, but prizes come and prizes go.”
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Getting Boring Already
Latuff – MintPress News,
8 Oct 2018
Autistic Crying Wolf
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U.S. Military Project Could Be Seen As a Bioweapon, Scientists Warn
NBC News | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
4 Oct 2018 – A research arm of the U.S. military is exploring the possibility of deploying insects to make plants more resilient by altering their genes. Some experts say the work may be seen as a potential biological weapon.
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman | Short Documentary
John Perkins | Zeitgeist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Many North Europeans think Greece and Europe are in crisis because the Greeks lived more luxuriously than they could afford. The truth is far from that. I can tell with certainty, Greece is not paying for its thoughtlessness. Greece is under the attack of economic hitmen. And I’m afraid so is the whole Europe, country after country.
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The Suffocation of Democracy
Christopher R. Browning | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
25 Oct 2018 – As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of fascism in Europe. I would note several troubling similarities and one important but equally troubling difference.
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Syria’s No-Fly Zone
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
6 Oct 2018 – There is then no room for doubt that Russia’s promise to bolster the security of her interests in Syria is about accomplishing a no-fly zone over most of Syria, if not all of it.
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Harold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
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.
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Hannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
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.
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Five Concrete Measures Can End Rohingya Genocide
Dr. Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Five steps can be taken towards achieving justice, repatriation and the rebuilding of Rohingya communities in Myanmar.
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Global Wealth Concentration: The Global Power Elite Drive Amazon Share Value to a Trillion Dollars
Peter Phillips | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Exciting news for capitalism was the recent achievement of trillion-dollar value for both Amazon and Apple, making them the first corporations to obtain such a lofty status. Amazon’s skyrocketing growth makes its CEO, Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person with a $160 billion net worth.
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Algorithm’s Going to Get You: The Mysterious Rules of Social Media Lead to a Strange Place
Simon Rite – RT,
8 Oct 2018
2 Oct 2018 – I make my living online, where ‘The Algorithm’ is the essential tool that no one really knows how to use. In essence it’s the ever changing set of rules the big online companies like Google programme into their systems to decide who sees what in their search results and timelines.
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One Man Could End World Hunger, but He Won’t
Lee Camp | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
3 Oct 2018 – We all know the Lex Luthor-looking head of Amazon is the richest human in the world. Did you notice I said Bezos “achieved” a net worth of $150 billion, and that seems like a normal way to phrase it? However, would you say, “Jeffrey Dahmer achieved eating the hearts of 10 different people?” No, that would sound odd to you. Yet having $150 billion is nearly as sociopathic, and still we use terminology as if it’s GREAT!
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(Português) Geração Z está mais inclinada a adotar veganismo, diz estudo
Ana Laura Essi - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
8 Oct 2018
Quase um quarto dos britânicos entre 18 e 24 anos viraram veganos no ano passado.
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How the Tentacles of the US Military Are Strangling the Planet
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
4 Oct 2018 -The overreach of the US military provides incentive for it to treat every conflict as a potential war. The US military has a staggering 883 military bases in 183 countries. In contrast, Russia has 10 such bases – eight of them in the former USSR. China has one overseas military base. These US-NATO bases provide instability and insecurity rather than peace. Tensions abound around them. Threats emanate from their presence.
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America Is on the Road to Becoming a Fascist State
Robert Scheer | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
5 Oct 2017 – In a compelling essay for The New York Review of Books this month, Christopher R. Browning, a leading historian of the Holocaust and Nazism, outlines the frightening parallels between the United States and the Weimar Republic. “No matter how and when the Trump presidency ends,” he writes, “the specter of illiberalism will continue to haunt American politics.”
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The Past Six Months in Gaza Have Been like another War
Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb – Al Jazeera,
8 Oct 2018
1 Oct 2018 – As a doctor living and working in Gaza all my life, I thought I had seen it all. I felt I knew the limits of what Gaza can endure. But the last six months have been the most difficult I have experienced in my 15 years with MSF in Gaza.
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I Just Visited Lula, the World’s Most Prominent Political Prisoner. A “Soft Coup” in Brazil’s Election Will Have Global Consequences.
Noam Chomsky – The Intercept,
8 Oct 2018
2 Oct 2018 – As the fifth most populous country, what happens in Brazil matters. The current election reflects dynamics that are globally relevant and historically familiar.
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Building Resilience Far from Home: Communal Democracy Practices amongst Urban Congolese Refugees in Uganda
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
It is possible for solution to germinate from within by working as one voice despite the differences and challenges; we reconcile and heal. This is the a testimony of resilience by displaced or sometime segregated people showed to us by the Congolese Refugee Community in deep Katwe suburb in Uganda, far from home; the very “Democratic republic of the Congo”.
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‘They’re Drug Dealers in Armani Suits’: Executives Draw Focus amid US Epidemic
Chris McGreal – The Guardian,
8 Oct 2018
30 Sep 2018 – As the pharmaceutical industry fights off a flood of lawsuits, there’s an increased call to investigate the roles of executives pushing opioid painkillers. “The more drugs they sold, the more money they made, and the more people in Massachusetts suffered and died.” — Maura Healey
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While Nestlé Extracts Millions of Litres from Their Land, Indigenous Residents Have No Drinking Water
Alexandra Shimo – The Guardian,
8 Oct 2018
Just 90 minutes from Toronto, residents of a First Nations community try to improve the water situation as the beverage company extracts from their land.
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
“Keshagesh means Greedy Guts. It’s what you call a little puppy who eats his own food and then wants everybody else’s.” –Buffy Sainte-Marie. Selfishness is the common cold we treat with parental guidance and peer pressure. Greed is a cancer that will consume us as a species unless we get serious about implementing effective interventions.
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Symposium on Global Environmental Law
Richard Falk | Univ. of Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law & Governance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
The symposium aimed to discuss whether and to what extent emerging concepts in global environmental law can help shed new light on the evolution and challenges of environmental law across different levels and sectors.
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(Português) Segundo estudo da Comissão Europeia, a dieta vegetariana é mais benéfica para o meio ambiente
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
De acordo com o trabalho, uma dieta vegetariana requer cinco vezes menos água do que uma dieta padrão (que inclui o consumo de carne).
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The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
7 Oct 2018 – I came across a piece about two meetings at the UN on the same day concerning nuclear weapons. The major nuclear states (USA, France, UK, China and Russia) all went to a meeting for non-proliferation and boycotted the meeting for nuclear disarmament. As the article correctly concludes, the nuclear states “place very little priority on their obligations to eliminate their own weapons of mass destruction, focusing instead on preventing others from acquiring such weapons.”
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Alexander Yakovlev
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
In 1958, Alexander Yakovlev was among the first thirty Soviet students who received a Fulbright scholarship to study a year in the United States.
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Stairway to Heaven (Music Video of the Week)
Led Zeppelin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
(Lyrics) ~ *Led Zeppelin for life*
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The Bigger Picture
Latuff – MintPress News,
8 Oct 2018
Media No-Show
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India, in a First, Sends Seven Rohingya for Deportation to Myanmar
Zarir Hussain | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
3 Oct 2018 – In violation of international law, India is deporting Rohingyas back to Myanmar with an ongoing genocide. Indian police bussed seven Rohingya Muslims to the border today to be deported to neighboring Myanmar for illegal entry. Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, additional director general of police, said that the seven men would be handed over to Myanmar authorities on Thursday [4 Oct].
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The Invisible Army: Explaining Private Military and Security Companies
Tea Cimini | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
2 Aug 2018 – Recent US administrations, specifically under President Obama, continued to make private military and security companies part and parcel of their military efforts abroad.
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Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
2 Oct 2018 – The United States Government is now treating Ukraine as if it were a NATO member, and on September 27th donated to Ukraine two warships for use against Russia. This is the latest indication that the US is switching to Ukraine as the locale to start World War III. Here is why Syria is no longer the US alliance’s preferred choice as a place to start WW III:
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African Feminists Emphasize Key to Global Peace
H. Patricia Hynes | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
25 Sep 2018 – Peace is quintessentially a woman’s issue, most clearly when the continuum of male violence against women in its private, social and structural dimensions is grasped. “That continuum of violence persists along a scale of force (fist to nuclear bomb); space (the home, the street, the village, the city, the battlefield and the nation); and time (pre-war, wartime and post-war).”
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The Birth of American Empire
H. Patricia Hynes | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire – A book by Stephen Kinzer
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Taibbi: Why Aren’t We Talking More about Trump’s Nihilism?
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
8 Oct 2018
1 Oct 2018 – While America was consumed with the Brett Kavanaugh drama last week, the Washington Post unearthed a crazy tidbit in the latest environmental impact statement. The White House now says we might as well pollute because global catastrophe is inevitable.
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Military and U.S. Law Enforcement Establishing Joint Communication Network for Biometric Databases
Nicholas West | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
2 Oct 2018 – Does anyone remember that it used to be considered a conspiracy theory to warn people about biometric databases? Well, now that it is an accepted reality, we should be looking even farther down the slippery slope for new signposts indicating even greater plans to track, trace and database all human beings.
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The Cruelty Is the Point
Adam Serwer - The Atlantic,
8 Oct 2018
President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.
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The Longevity Poster
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Rhymes for Reflection/Research
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Rwanda to Rohingyas: The US Genocide Whitewash
Maung Zarni – The Citizen (India),
1 Oct 2018
27 Sep 2018 – The message from Washington is loud and clear: we will not call any international state crime genocide unless doing so serves America’s commercial and strategic interests. Rohingyas, still sitting ducks for the next round of slaughter in Myanmar, are not the first victims of the failure of American leadership – and for that matter, moral and political failure of the entire post-Holocaust Human Civilization.
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Weaponizing the ‘New Anti-Semitism’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
22 Sep 2018 – This post consists of an opinion piece developed by several members of California Scholars for Academic Freedom.
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Peace Poll Reveals People Think Conflict Prevention Is Better than Cure
Harriet Lamb | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
20 Sep 2018 – Asked where their governments should spend more to promote peace, people gave top ranking to ‘dealing with the reasons why people fight in the first place’. This was strongly followed by ‘teaching peace, tolerance and conflict resolution in schools’. Again, military interventions had the least support.
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What Is Freedom?
Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Not many will dispute that ‘freedom’ is one of the more popular words in English language today — in spite of the fact that, as we shall see, this word does not even have a well-defined meaning.
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International Day of Nonviolence 2 October
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
The International Day of Nonviolence is marked on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of nonviolence: “Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man”.
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What Is Genocide?
Prof. Daniel Feierstein | Rohingya Genocide Documentation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Prof. Daniel Feierstein is president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars; director of the Centre for Genocide Studies at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero; professor in the Faculty of Genocide at the University of Buenos Aires; author of Genocide as a Social Practice: Reorganizing Society Under the Nazis and Argentina’s Military Juntas (Rutgers University Press, 2014)
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Ottawa Creating New Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security
Morgan Lowrie | The Canadian Press – CTV News,
1 Oct 2018
22 Sep 2018 – Canada will create a new ambassador position dedicated to women, peace and security, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said today. She made the announcement at a meeting of female foreign affairs ministers in Montreal.
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Mahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948)
History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury/killing of living beings (ahimsa), and vegetarianism.
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(Português) O Eclipse da Ética na Atualidade
Leonardo Boff | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
28 Set 2018 – A meu ver, dois fatores atingiram o coração da ética: o processo de globalização e a mercantilização da sociedade. A justiça não vale apenas entre os humanos mas também para com a natureza e a Terra que são portadores de direitos e por isso devem ser incluídos em nosso conceito de democracia sócio-ecológica.
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Václav Havel (5 Oct 1936 – 18 Dec 2011)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Václav Havel, Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). Havel was the son of a wealthy restaurateur whose property was confiscated by the communist government of Czechoslovakia in 1948.
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Why Are Myanmar’s Neighbors Ignoring the Rohingya Crisis?
Angshuman Choudhury – The Diplomat,
1 Oct 2018
The silence of Myanmar’s neighbors over the UN’s genocide allegations is deeply unsettling.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Paints Dismal World Picture, Underscores Need for UN Reform
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
In the 15 years since he last addressed the General Assembly, little has changed in the world and it is in far worse shape now than it was then, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad lamented in his speech to world leaders gathered at the United Nations.
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Campaign to Get ‘Peacebuilding’ in Dictionaries Gains Traction
Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
29 Sep 2018 – ‘Peacebuilding’ was coined in the 1970’s by Norwegian scholar Johan Galtung, who defines it as projects that involve “concrete action” towards peace. The word gets 7 million hits on Google, but is not in most dictionaries. Now a campaign has started to get ‘peacebuilding’ included.
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(Português) O Sofrimento Animal na Indústria do Café de Civeta
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
25 set 2018 – Kopi luwak ou café de civeta é o café mais caro do mundo, mas o que chama a atenção sobre esse produto é que a sua fabricação está associada à morte e captura de milhares de civetas, mamíferos noturnos que são nativos da Ásia e da África. Os grãos de café de civeta são comercializados livremente na internet, inclusive em sites como Amazon, Ali Baba e Mercado Livre.
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He Got Schizophrenia. He Got Cancer. And Then He Got Cured.
Moises Velasquez-Manoff – The New York Times,
1 Oct 2018
A bone-marrow transplant treated a patient’s leukemia — and his delusions, too. Some doctors think they know why.
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The Child Abuse Contrarian
David Armstrong | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Michael Holick, a renowned scientist turned expert witness, relies on his own controversial theory to help alleged abusers avoid prison and regain custody of the babies they were accused of harming.
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America First and Alone
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
In his 25 Sep address to the UNGA, U.S. President Trump set out clearly, if not eloquently, the narrow nationalist framework for political policymaking: “We reject the ideology of globalism and accept the doctrine of patriotism.”
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Are Sanctions against Myanmar’s Military Enough?
Azaera Amza | TRT World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
In one year, over 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, but the weight of the international response to their persecution has been dubious.
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Bolton’s Red Sky Worldview: ICC, International Law, and Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Bolton’s Game: Not Sovereignty, Not International Law—Clearing the Path for U.S., Geopolitical Primacy
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Meanwhile, in Yemen…
Latuff – MintPress News,
1 Oct 2018
Business as Usual…
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An Antidote to White Male Capitalist Culture: Adrienne Rich on the Liberating Power of Storytelling and How Reading Emancipates
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
“The decline in adult literacy means not merely a decline in the capacity to read and write, but a decline in the impulse to puzzle out, brood upon… argue about, turn inside-out in verbal euphoria, the ‘incomparable medium’ of language…”
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Gandhi’s Despair and the Struggle for Truth and Love
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it – always.”
— M.K. Gandhi
CAFOs in North Carolina and Copper Mines in Minnesota
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
A Photo Gallery of What Happens When State Governing Bodies Allow Foreign or Out-of-State Corporations to Build Dangerous, Environment- and Water-(polluting) Businesses in Water-rich Environments
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Promising News on Environment Front — From Europe and Elsewhere
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
It is now encouraging to read the various efforts made by the several countries to maintain a clean and green environment. Perhaps Germany is at the forefront. The country has installed solar panels for producing clean energy on many official buildings as well as in individual homes. They have also decided to stop nuclear energy production because of risks involved.
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Spanish Romance – The Romanza (Music Video of the Week)
Miloš Karadaglić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
The stunning Miloš Karadaglić performing the Spanish Romance during a trip to Australia.
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Yemen: Tackling The World’s Largest Humanitarian Crisis
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
24 Sep 2018 – The figures of the crisis are staggering and near-impossible to grasp: 22.2 million in need of assistance, 8.4 million people severely food insecure, and a further 10 million that could fall under the same category by the end of the year. In addition, more than 1.1 million cases of acute watery diarrhoea or cholera have been reported since April 2017.
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Latuff – MintPress News,
1 Oct 2018
Come to Daddy…
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Do We Simply No Longer Care about Genocide?
Matthew Gindin – The Times of Israel,
1 Oct 2018
26 Sep 2018 – When hundreds of thousands of women and girls fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh last year over field, marsh and river, many of them had difficulty walking due to torn, bleeding genitals, wounded in brutal gang rapes carried out by the infamous 33rd and 99th divisions of the Burmese Tatmadaw. WARNING: Graphic content.
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India’s Native Grassroots Health Revolution
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
25 Sep 2018 – Inclusive growth is now perhaps the strongest buzzword in development discourse. We have all been talking about growth without understanding that development interventions will not be effectual if they don’t benefit all sections of society. The illusion of trickle-down and ripple-effects of growth had kept us on the wrong track for quite long.
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There Can Be No Peace for Myanmar without Justice
Yanghee Lee and Georgia Drake – TIME,
1 Oct 2018
26 Sep 2018 – Justice has many meanings; it is a concept that is far broader than mere naming and shaming, or barefaced retribution. At its most base level, justice involves acknowledgment of responsibility. Justice processes can be holistic and encompass restoration of damaged relationships, recognition of suffering and forgiveness by sufferers, and rehabilitation and reintegration of both victims and perpetrators.
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(Português) Chicago Está a Um Passo de Proibir Carruagens Puxadas por Cavalos
Julia Cortezia - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
1 Oct 2018
Um decreto foi proposto pela Chicago Alliance for Animals que, se aprovado, irá acabar com o transporte de carruagens que utilizam cavalos.
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From Hero to Pariah, [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Dashes Hopes about Myanmar
Richard C. Paddock – The New York Times,
1 Oct 2018
29 Sep 2018 — “Rarely has the reputation of a leader fallen so far, so fast,” the International Crisis Group said of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar’s civilian leader, once a democracy icon, has become known as an enabler for the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims and a foe of the free press.
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No More Concentration of Wealth and Decisional Power
Opinion Sur | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Some argue that this process is here to stay, as it was believed by those minorities that imposed empires and dictatorships. They forget that history shows the fall and disappearance of practically every system that believed to be permanent. Such could be the destiny of this destructive phase of ruthless financial capitalism.
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Revealed: Documents Show BP Quietly Paid Just $25 Million to Mexico after the Worst Oil Spill of the Century
Nathaniel Janowitz | BuzzFeed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
28 Sep 2018 — After the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in 2010, BP paid out more than $60 billion in the US. More than eight years later, Mexico quietly settled with the oil giant for $25 million.
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World’s Top 5 ‘Most Evil’ Corporations
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Most companies become successful thanks to their stellar reputations. But not always. The most hated companies trending on the internet.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
The pandemic of violence continues. In addition, there seems to be something new and very serious coming up: a general devaluation of human life–making killing, even genocide, easier, more like disposal of garbage. Of the Right to Life, Art 3 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one hears nothing, let alone of the sacredness of human life as a divine gift.
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Comparing Cryptocurrency against the Entire World’s Wealth in One Graph
Raul Amoros | Howmuch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
What if you tried to imagine the vale of the entire world’s gold ($7.8T)? It’s also hard to imagine all the world’s physical money ($34.4T), defined as anything that can be used as a medium of exchange in the world. That’s separate and distinct from all the stock markets’ value ($67.5T), much less the theoretical value of money in the world ($86.5T), which include the funds people keep in their bank accounts.
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Activists: US Stance on Rohingya Not Strong Enough
William Gallo | VOA News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
The State Department report makes no determination that any of the violence amounts to genocide or crimes against humanity, and it recommends no specific action. “This is extremely disappointing for those of us who have no other country to look to do something humane and compassionate and principled,” said Maung Zarni.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
Much is currently made of an impending collapse, whether the focus is on that of the economic system (as some kind of replica of 1929 or 2008), of the ecosystem (notably as a consequence of climate change), or of overpopulation and other post-peak implications (notably the exhaustion of non-renewable energy resources), as can be variously recognized.
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In Search of Meaning: Thoughts on Belief, Doubt and Wellbeing
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D.,
24 Sep 2018
A Twenty-Year Anniversary Reflection: 20 Sep 1999 – 20 Sep 2018 – This paper discusses the spiritual consequences for health and wellbeing associated with a dialogical tension between meaning-making and doubt. Meaning-making is pursued via various complex belief systems: worldviews, philosophies, religions, ideologies, mythologies, and “spiritual paths.
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
William A. Schabas | UN Library of International Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
The text of the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948. After obtaining the requisite twenty ratifications required by article XIII, the Convention entered into force on 12 January 1951.
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Global Nonkilling Index Launched
Bill Bhaneja | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
‘This index reflects an advanced method of indexing peace by looking at “killing” beyond traditional murder rates, to includes suicide, capital punishment, and battlefield death rates… Because a nonkilling index provides a better correlation to peace in a broader context than simple murder rates, the adoption of a nonkilling index, such as proposed in this article, will hopefully encourage the collection of more data on killing in any form every year by the World Health Organization and others’.
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One Crazy World
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
As someone who has worked in psychoanalysis and psychiatry for the past three decades, I suppose I may be considered to possess some expertise in ‘madness’. This is not to say that I have devoted my life to determining who or who is not ‘crazy’ – the true work of a mental health clinician is not to impose totalitarian judgments but rather to accept the diverse variety of humanity in all of its manifestations and to alleviate mental and emotional suffering.
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What Does a Nuclear Bomb Explosion Feel Like?
Motherboard | Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – On the International Day against Nuclear Tests, August 29, we met up British atomic veterans who were present at test sites in Australia and the Pacific, to find out what it’s like to experience a nuclear bomb explosion up close.
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Is Genocide a Controversial International Crime?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
Why ‘Genocide’ is still a Controversial Crime? In this strikingly original, strange, and brilliant book, Philippe Sands raises a haunting question among a tangle of other intriguing issues discussed throughout East-West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity.
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A Madrasa That Promises both Heaven and Earth
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
The South Indian city of Bidar–the northernmost part of Karnataka, 145 km from Hyderabad–is a placid habitation where Hindus and Muslims peaceably coexist to the eternal rhythms of sowing and harvest. It is barely known beyond the subcontinent. However, in recent years, it has built a great reputation in the field of education.
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Specially Organised Retreat for TRANSCEND and Galtung-Institut Members in Nilgiris Hills, South India
Prof. Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
If you are going to the IPRA Conference in India in November 2018, here is an opportunity to include a stay at a Bed&Breakfast Retreat in the green and peaceful Nilgiris Hills of South India. Vithal Rajan, a TRANSCEND and Galtung-Institut member and an old friend of Johan Galtung, will help organise your stay on concessional terms, and guide your visits to nearby historic and cultural places, and wildlife reserves in Tamilnadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and Karnataka states of India.
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Can Russia’s IL-20 Be the Beginning of the End for Israeli Hubris?
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
22 Sep 2018 – None of us would be cheering on a war that could easily be the absolutely final one if President Putin had not defused the situation while clearly signalling that he holds Israel accountable for downing the Russian IL-20 reconnaissance aircraft even though it was shot down by a Syrian missile.
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A Well-Founded Fear of Environment: International Resistance to Climate Refugees
Nicole Spadotto | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
5 Aug 2018 – Ultimately, the climate refugee norm is stalled due to competing discourses surrounding environmental and migration remedies.
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The River of Blood: Water Turns Bright Red as White Sided Dolphins Are Slaughtered by Laughing Fishermen in the Faroe Islands
Sara Malm – Mail Online,
24 Sep 2018
11 Sep 2018 – Shocking video footage shows dozens of dolphins and whales being slaughtered by hand in the Faroe Islands earlier today. The brutal killing of the marine animals, who are traditionally hunted in the Danish Atlantic Ocean archipelago, was broadcast live on Facebook by marine wildlife charity Sea Shepherd.
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“The Present Crisis of Western Democracy Is a Crisis of Journalism”
Eduardo Suárez | Nieman Foundation at Harvard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
What Walter Lippmann’s early writings say about some of journalism’s most urgent contemporary challenges
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Hold the Front Page – The Reporters Are Missing
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
20 Sep 2018 – Hersh revealed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the secret bombing of Cambodia, Parry exposed Iran-Contra, a drugs and gun-running conspiracy that led to the White House. In 2016, they separately produced compelling evidence that the Assad government in Syria had not used chemical weapons. They were not forgiven.
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Energy Transition: Portugal Breaks 100% Renewables Mark
Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
19 Sep 2018 – Last month, Portugal’s renewable electricity output exceeded its monthly total grid demand, according to REN, the operator of the national transmission system. Green MEP Claude Turmes praised Portugal’s “impressive” progress, saying it was evidence that the EU should support a renewable energy target of more than 27% for 2030.
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