Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
We found 26487 results.
Assessing the War on Terror
Edited by Charles Webel and Mark Tomass – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
This volume is a collection of articles that critically examine the efficacy, ethics, and impact of the War on Terror as it has evolved since 9/11. It will be of much interest to students and scholars of terrorism and counter-terrorism, foreign policy, Middle Eastern politics, security studies and IR, as well as policy makers.
→ read full articleCapitalocene or Anthropocene?
Benjamin Kunkel | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Ecologically the Anthropocene is here to stay, but just how it unfolds over coming generations will be decided by whether, politically, it remains the Capitalocene (‘privileging the endless accumulation of capital’) or becomes for the first time a properly political Anthropocene, in which the interests of humanity as a whole chart our ecological course.
→ read full article(Français) Le cabinet de copains de Trump a peut-être l’air très fort, mais ces gens ont peur
Naomi Klein | Solidaire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
L’activiste canadienne Naomi Klein voit dans le nouveau gouvernement des États-Unis un coup d’État très clair des grandes entreprises. Dans un article qu’elle a écrit pour The Nation et que nous publions ci-dessous traduit en français, elle explique comment ce coup d’État a été inspiré par la peur. En effet, dans le monde entier, l’influence des mouvements sociaux qui menacent les intérêts de l’establishment ne cessent de croître. Klein estime donc que ces mouvements ont désormais une tâche difficile mais nécessaire. Et que « nous pouvons toujours les vaincre ».
→ read full articleFriendly American Fascism: It Doesn’t Seem so Friendly Anymore
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Hard right-wing political parties in American have been around forever, but they have always been numerically insignificant – until now. Citizens who meet the definition of fascist have come out of the shadows in the US since Donald Trump started campaigning for president of the United States.
→ read full articleExcuse me? Come again?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Refugees in the Americas
→ read full articlePeace between China and Japan
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Keynote: New Vision of Peace in East Asia; Sino-Japanese Peace Dialogue – Nanjing, 22-23 Feb 2017 – As Buddhist philosophy teaches, peace, like violence and conflict, is a relation; not an attribute of China or Japan. As Daoist philosophy teaches, in a holon like East Asia there are forces and counterforces, yin/yang, with yin and yang in both, &c.
→ read full article(Português) Sobre produtos de higiene pessoal e cadáveres de animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
É difícil acreditar que alguém esteja realmente se higienizando ao usar um produto que tem em sua composição algo que é extraído de cadáveres de animais.
→ read full articleHaiti 2017: From Demonstration Election to Electoral Coup
Charlie Hinton | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Haiti moves into 2017 with a “president” who would never have won an honest election. A tiny number of ruling families backed by the United States, Canada, and France, operating through a United Nations military occupation, has imposed an imperial ruler on an unwilling population through a process they call an “election.” Everyone in Haiti knows this, but outside we don’t.
→ read full articleA New Relevance for India’s Moderate Madrasas
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
West Bengal has become the first state to begin the modernization of the traditional madrasas with the support from central government. As a result nearly 600 government recognized madrasas have modern curriculum. They offer courses in physics, chemistry, biology, geography, mathematics, computer science, English language and literature and other regular subjects.
→ read full articleImpact Investing and Venture Philanthropy’s Role in Sowing the Seeds of Financial Opportunity
Tim Scott | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
17 Feb 2017 – In the late 19th century many U.S. industrialists – Andrew Carnegie, John Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and others – who amassed immense wealth through the exploitation and degradation of workers (including children), began to establish philanthropic trusts and foundations.
→ read full articleBruce Lee’s Never before Revealed Letters to Himself about Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
“I have come to accept life as a process and am satisfied that in my ever-going process, I am constantly discovering, expanding, finding the cause of my ignorance, in martial art and especially in life. In short, to be real… 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.”
→ read full articleFamine Threatens Millions in the Horn of Africa as Washington Prepares Expanded War in Somalia
Thomas Gaist |WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
21 Feb 2017 – Even as starvation and malnutrition threaten more than 10 million lives in the Horn of Africa countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, the United States and its allies are preparing a massive expansion of military operations throughout the region.
→ read full articleThe Cancer of War: U.S. Admits to Using Radioactive Munitions in Syria
Anti-Media News Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – The innocent citizens of Syria will be forced to endure increased risks of cancer, birth defects, and other disease related to exposure to radioactive materials. Depleted uranium has a half-life in the hundreds of millions of years. Damage to Syrian territory will thus continue long after anyone involved in current hostilities is dead.
→ read full articleLines of Descent: The Emergence of Identity – Who Was W.E.B. Du Bois?
Nicholas Lemann | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
The supposedly scientific way of thinking about race predictably went along with the idea that Negroes were genetically inferior; and
another part of this package of received wisdom a century ago was the idea that Africa had no history or culture. That helped make Europeans comfortable with colonizing Africa, as they were then doing.
Meanwhile in Heaven…
Submitted by Charles Mercieca – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
After having died, George Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump show up for an interview with God.
→ read full article10 Questions for William Blum
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
I first met writer/journalist/historian/thinker/activist William [Bill] Blum 11 years ago. Blum and I have broken bread together, attended anti-war rallies, sometimes seeing eye-to-eye and sometimes “I”-to-“I.” In a recent piece by Theodore Sayeed, Blum is described as a kind of living encyclopedia of the “peace movement.”
→ read full articleInaugural Permanent People’s Tribunal on Myanmar Atrocity Crimes
Astro Awani Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 – The Rome-based Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) will be holding the inaugural session of its first-ever Tribunal on Myanmar at Queen Mary University of London International State Crime Initiative on 6 and 7 March.
→ read full articleTrump–Putin Could Rescue the World Taking the Advice of Alfred Nobel
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
In the will he used the term “the prize for the champions of peace,” and the correspondence with Bertha von Suttner, the great peace movement leader of the period, shows that it was her political ideas and political friends he wished to support – abolishing weapons and warriors as the tool to get an end to war. This means that almost all statesmen and generals who have received Nobel honors from the Oslo committee have been — considering the actual intention of Alfred Nobel — illegitimate winners.
→ read full article(Italiano) Democrazia in evoluzione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Immaginiamo un popolo che dia per scontato che ci siano due, solo due, versanti a qualunque contesa; uno giusto, uno sbagliato; ove non ci sia compromesso, la si giochi a duello, e chi vince ne decide il risultato. Questo copione controlla la gente. Potere al popolo, suona bene, ma che genere di popolo?
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Globo e Folha sofrem censura de Temer e juiz, e apagam reportagens. Nós publicamos o que foi proibido.
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Em Defesa de Uma Imprensa Livre sem a Censura do Estado – Como um dos objetivos da criação do The Intercept era defender e apoiar a liberdade de imprensa em todo o mundo, estamos publicando os materiais censurados para que possam ser analisados pelo público.
→ read full article(Français) Les risques du libre-échange
Elisabeth Beague | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Les accords de libre-échange (TTIP, CETA, TISA et tous les autres accords bilatéraux et multilatéraux sur le commerce et les investissements), concoctés « discrètement » depuis 2013 et largement contestés ces derniers temps, sont-ils compatibles avec les mesures ratifiées dans le Traité de Lisbonne par les pays constituant l’Union Européenne ? Il semble bien que non. Car, quoi que l’on pense de ce Traité de Lisbonne (qui a été signé de façon parfaitement antidémocratique), celui-ci reconnaît pourtant explicitement le principe de précaution.
→ read full articleCongress Says, Let the Mentally Ill Buy Guns
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 – For all their dysfunction, the Republican Senate and House have managed to act with lightning speed in striking down a sensible Obama administration rule designed to stop people with severe mental problems from buying guns. They did the gun lobby’s bidding in passing a regressive measure that President Trump is expected to sign.
→ read full article(Português) Defender os animais de maus-tratos é humano
Iara M.E. Marubayashi | Novo Momento – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
13 fevereiro 2017 – Recentemente houve ataques às pessoas que se indignaram e protestaram contra os maus-tratos a um cão, revelados por um vídeo que a produção diz ter sido manipulado, do filme ‘Quatro vidas de um cachorro’.
→ read full articleDisqualify “The White Helmets” for an Oscar
Paul Larudee | Syria Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The Syria Solidarity Movement® advises disqualification of the film “The White Helmets” for a 2017 Academy Award. It has been nominated in the category of Short Documentary. The problems with this film:
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Feb 20-26 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You’re never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.” – Bikram Choudhury
→ read full article(Italiano) Seminare il futuro, seminare la libertà – un seme per volta
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
L’umanità si trova di fronte a un bivio della sua evoluzione. Possiamo scegliere la via dell’”Unità” (“Oneness”), consapevoli del nostro essere parte di Un Pianeta, di Una Umanità, e vivere celebrando le nostre molte diversità, interconnesse attraverso legami di compassione, interdipendenza, solidarietà. O…
→ read full articleNot So Innocent
David S. Foglesong | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Trump and Putin have an important opportunity to work together against international terrorism, nuclear proliferation, drug trafficking and other threats. That chance may be missed if journalists and politicians persist in vilifying Putin and harassing Trump with charges that he is Putin’s puppet.
→ read full articleSea Ice around Antarctica Hits Record Low, Preliminary U.S. Data Show
Alister Doyle | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Sea ice around Antarctica has shrunk to the smallest annual extent on record, preliminary U.S. satellite data showed on Tuesday [14 Feb 2017]. In many recent years, the average extent of sea ice around Antarctica has tended to expand despite the overall trend of global warming. People skeptical of findings by climate scientists have often pointed to Antarctic sea ice as evidence against global warming.
→ read full articleA Response to a Radio Interview with Two Academic Psychiatrists
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Tom, at the end of the radio program this morning, many of your listeners will surely have come to the mistaken conclusion that the solution to the vast problem of pervasive adolescent female sadness isn’t to logically address the obvious potentially preventable causes of mental ill health. I got the impression that the solution was to get them seem by a prescribing psychiatrist and “get them treated with drugs!”
→ read full articleCIA Espionage Orders for the 2012 French Presidential Election (in English and in French)
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
16 February, 2017 – All major French political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIA’s human (“HUMINT”) and electronic (“SIGINT”) spies in the seven months leading up to France’s 2012 presidential election. The revelations are contained within three CIA tasking orders published today by WikiLeaks as context for its forth coming CIA Vault 7 series.
→ read full articleMystery Messages Engraved into Scotland’s Rocks up to 5,000 Years Ago Might Soon Be Unveiled Using 3D Scans
The Vintage News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Recently, a new project has launched an attempt to finally solve the mysteries of prehistoric stone carvings. Using 3D scanning to record and examine more than 2,000 carvings around the country, specialists are creating a new digital database of the mysterious etchings.
→ read full articleIsrael Legalizes Settlement Options as a Prelude to the Netanyahu Visit to Trumpland
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
13 Feb 2017 – Responses to four questions posed by Rodrigo Craveiro, a journalist from the Brazilian newspaper Correio Braziliense.
→ read full articleThis Is What Imperialism Does to Men
Ernesto Che Guevara – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
11 Dec 1964, 19th UN General Assembly, New York – We would like to see this Assembly shake itself out of complacency and move forward. We would like to see the committees begin their work and not stop at the first confrontation. Imperialism wants to turn this meeting into a pointless oratorical tournament, instead of solving the serious problems of the world. We must prevent it from doing so. This session of the Assembly should not be remembered in the future solely by the number 19 that identifies it. Our efforts are directed to that end.
→ read full article
Baby I Love Your Way (Music Video of the Week)
Peter Frampton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
A Classic from ‘76 – Live on The Midnight Special…
→ read full articleGHA 12th Anniversary: Spherons of Global Peace and their Science
Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Looking back on the 12-year history of the Global Harmony Association, we ask ourselves: What is our main result? For 12 years we have created eight books and more than 50 projects of global peace from harmony.
→ read full articleThe Plight of India’s Small Farmers
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The Green Revolution in the 1970s relied on high-yielding seeds, irrigation, fertilizers and pesticides to increase agricultural productivity, but took a heavy toll on the land and water resources of the country, reducing long-term productivity levels.
→ read full article(Português) Os perigos escondidos das lâmpadas LED revelados por um especialista em fotobiologia
Dr. Alexander Wunsch | Cura pela Natureza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
“Lâmpadas LED são prejudiciais à saúde física, mental, da retina, e também aos hormônios”, diz o Dr. Alexander Wunsch.
→ read full articleHistory: Epochs or Trends–Medieval Spain
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Visions of the Past for Constructing a Future: Historiography of Spain – History unfolds over or in time, the basic variable, the X axis. The events are points. The trends are curves of any shape, not necessarily continuous, could also be “jumpy”. And the permanents are horizontal lines set at a certain value. Points, curves, lines; with texts indicative of highly complex proactio-actio-reactio relations.
→ read full articleHow to Save the World from Fascism and Meet Human Needs in Harmony with Nature
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
President Franklin Roosevelt had declared that America was fighting for the Four Freedoms: speech, worship, from want, and from fear. Jack wrote home that the U.S. troops in Europe were called “The Four Freedoms Boys.” First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt would soon play a leading role in drafting a Universal Declaration of Human Rights that would establish social rights to education, health care, employment, and social security in old age.
→ read full articleCorruption Brings Down an Empire: Odebrecht in Brazil
Mario Osava | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
6 Feb 2017 – The business empire built by three generations of the Odebrecht family is falling apart after three years of investigation by the Lava Jato (car wash) operation launched by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s office. People in Brazil have been overwhelmed by the flood of news stories about the huge web of corruption woven by the country’s biggest construction company that is active in dozens of fields and countries.
→ read full articleTrump and the Deep State
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – In his book, The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government, Mike Lofgren called attention to the fact that much of the real power in Washington is not controlled by the President and members of Congress, but is in the hands of multi-billion-dollar organizations that are not only huge, but also unelected and secret, for example the CIA, NSA and FBI.
→ read full articleThe Globalization of Environmental Degradation
George Abert and Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
13 Feb 2017 – Figuratively speaking, a ginormous asteroid is hurtling to a cataclysmic rendezvous with earth, but we are not supposed to notice. The asteroid is the rising threat from environmental degradation. Evidence is accumulating that environmental degradation is becoming global. We can either act responsibly by accepting the challenge or take refuge in denial and risk the consequences.
→ read full articleA Short History of the Trump Family
Sidney Blumenthal | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Reckoning with Trump means descending into the place that made him. What he represents, above all, is the triumph of an underworld of predators, hustlers, mobsters, clubhouse politicians and tabloid sleaze that festered in a corner of New York City.
→ read full articleParadoxes of Wilber’s Appreciation of the Trump Challenge
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Reframing Integral Possibilities for the Future – Given that a case is rapidly building against the incapacity of Trump, the following argument is topical. With respect to the perspective of Ken Wilber, it is framed by earlier consideration with regard to integral futures.
→ read full articleFryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 – 17 Oct 1849)
Barbara Smolenska-Zielinska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The musical talent of Fryderyk became apparent extremely early on, and it was compared with the childhood genius of Mozart. Already at the age of 7, Chopin was the author of two polonaises.
→ read full articleHow Did It Start?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – So how the hell did it all start? I have seen this many times. Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: “When did it start?” Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it.
→ read full articleTrump Administration Sued for Suspending Protections for Endangered Bumble Bee
Natural Resources Defense Council | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Trump administration Tuesday [14 Feb 2017] for illegally suspending the rule to put the rusty patched bumble bee on the endangered species list. It has lost approximately 90 percent of its range in the past 20 years and is the first bumble bee ever listed under the Endangered Species Act.
→ read full articleThe World Will Be Saved by Beauty and Art
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
In this cruel life where coexists
Heavenly love and dreadful death,
How the US Began Its Empire
Jackson Lears | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Stephen Kinzer, Henry Holt & Co, Jan 2017 – The recovery of civic virtue and the clarification of national interest are urgently necessary goals, and the only way we can hope to achieve them is by reviving the debate over American empire.
→ read full article(Português) Jo Frederiks: Animais Não São Coisas, Não São Nossos Escravos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Jo Frederiks é uma artista australiana que cria desenhos e pinturas para conscientizar as pessoas sobre a crueldade contra os animais na indústria alimentícia, farmacêutica e de entretenimento. “Nosso próprio futuro é baseado em um reflexo de como tratamos nossos companheiros não humanos”.
→ read full articleSymmetry
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
A husband and wife spent their vacation at a lake where he enjoyed fishing.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Vision for the Future Is Terrifying – Doublespeak Abolished
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
15 Feb 2017 – Empirical historical evidence combined with little common-sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual apartheid or ethnic cleansing, or a mix of both.
→ read full articleOperation Milagro III Update: Day of the Dead Dolphins
Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – February 11th, three days before the international World Love for Dolphin’s Day, Sea Shepherd discovered 14 dolphin corpses floating in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. At least two of them showed signs of a violent death, with net marks on their bodies, stab wounds or fins crudely cut off in order for the fisherman to remove them quickly from their nets.
→ read full articleModernity
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
No Comment
→ read full articleThe Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.”
→ read full articleThe Cognitive Bias President Trump Understands Better Than You
Emily Dreyfuss | Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The aberrant occurrence is the story you’ll read and the picture you’ll see. It’s news because it’s new. The problem here is not just that this singling out creates a distorted version of what’s really happening. It’s that the human psyche is predisposed to take an aberration and conflate it with the norm. This cognitive bias itself isn’t new. But in a media environment driven by clicks, where politicians can bypass journalistic filters entirely to deliver themselves straight to citizens, it’s newly exploitable.
→ read full article(Italiano) Era un giorno qualsiasi. Intervista a Lorenzo Guadagnucci.
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Storie è la sezione dedicata a cinque narrazioni che invitano a riflettere su violenza e nonviolenza, resistenze, pace e guerre. La proposta è inserita nello spazio Espace memoria, all’Espace Populaire di Aosta (Italy), dove è nato 10 anni il progetto culturale Collettivamente memoria di cui sono ideatrice, conduttrice e quest’anno copromotrice.
→ read full articleOfficial Text: Proclamation of Latin America and Caribbean as a Zone of Peace
CELAC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Original Signed by the Heads of Government and State of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States-CELAC – 29 Jan 2014
→ read full articleWays of Living with ‘Alternative Facts’: An Anecdote
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
This brings me inevitably to Kellyann Conway’s reliance on ‘alternative facts’ to validate the claim that Donald Trump’s inaugural crowd was bigger than that of Barack Obama. She was contesting contrasting pictures shown by CNN and other media outlets in which even the most casual observer could tell that Trumps crowd was by far smaller.
→ read full articleWe Need More Leaders like Ayatollah Khamenei in This World
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Leader Khamenei stressed a “dignified” response to threats and bullying. We need more leaders in this world who will stress the importance of “dignity” for the triumph of the human spirit.
→ read full articleSeeding the Future, Seeding Freedom, One Seed at a Time
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
8 Feb 2017 – Humanity stands at an evolutionary crossroad. We can consciously choose the path of Oneness – of our being part of One Planet, One Humanity, living and celebrating our many diversities, interconnected through bonds of compassion, interdependence, and solidarity. Or…
→ read full article(Português) Tratado de Tlatelolco: 50 Anos de Sucesso
Emb. Sergio Duarte e Jenifer Mackby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
No dia 14 de fevereiro de 2017 comemora-se o cinquentenário do Tratado de Proibição de Armas Nucleares na América Latina e Caribe – Tratado de Tlatelolco – que proíbe ensaios, fabricação, uso, produção ou aquisição de armas nucleares. Todos os 33 países da região são Partes desse instrumento.
→ read full article(Français) Trump et l’Amérique Latine
Silvina M. Romano | CELARG – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
10 Fév 2017 – Pendant les jours qui ont précédé l’investiture de Trump, le bruit a couru qu’il avait rencontré « des experts de l’Amérique latine » et qu’à cette occasion, on a parlé de l’Amérique centrale et du Venezuela. Avant d’approfondir sur le contenu de la réunion, il faudrait faire un commentaire sur les « experts » qui ont parlé avec Trump et qui, plus que « des experts de l’Amérique latine » sont des chefs d’entreprises qui se distinguent par leur pragmatisme et ont un parcours dont la légitimité et la légalité sont douteuses.
→ read full articleExclusive: More Than 1,000 Feared Killed in Myanmar Army Crackdown on Rohingya – U.N. Officials
Antoni Slodkowski | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
8 Feb 2017 – “Where are the Men?” More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior UN officials dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death toll has been a far greater than previously reported.
→ read full articleMyanmar Statement by the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
UN Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Report on the Situation in Northern Rakhine State, Myanmar
→ read full articleThe Uncomfortable Truth: Are We Hating Donald Trump for the Wrong Reasons?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Trump may be described with all the demeaning terminology that one’s livid imagination can muster: evil, wicked, tyrannical, misogynist, war-mongering, rich buffoon, ‘insulting our allies’, infatuating with ‘dictators’, etc. But do not miss the point. There is hardly a single bad deed that Trump has carried – or intends to carry out – that does not have roots in another policy championed by previous administrations.
→ read full articleSocialist Cuba, China Begin New Era of Internationalist Cinema
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
China is currently Cuba’s second largest trading partner after Venezuela, with bilateral trade surpassing US$750 million, according to the Financial Times. China has also exported goods and resources to Cuba that have allowed the socialist island to rehaul its transportation infrastructure, including the addition of energy-efficient public buses that run on electricity.
→ read full articleLand Law Is Final Nail in the Two-State Solution Coffin
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
“The train departing from here has only one stop – at The Hague,” opposition leader Isaac Herzog said in reference to the home of the International Criminal Court. If ICC prosecutors take their duties seriously, the legalisation law significantly raises the pressure on them to put Israeli officials – even Mr Netanyahu – on trial for complicity in the war crime of establishing and nurturing the settlements.
→ read full articleBelow the Surface
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
The Sky is the Limit
→ read full articleDream Theme
Dr. S. K. Jha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
It is not an easy task to delve deep into the unconscious level of the mind to explore about the phenomenon of dreaming except doing on armchair exercise. This author finds it impossible to adopt the experimental statistical method for exploring the theme of dream. He has this way collected some stark facts about the dream phenomenon. They are being enumerated and explained below.
→ read full articleThe Mass Grave We Call Collateral Damage
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
But the politics of our drone assassinations and our air strikes and our wars justify and soften the murders we commit. Even now, as consensus consigns the Iraq war to the status of “mistake,” we still refuse to take official responsibility for its consequences. The shattered country, the dead, the dislocated, the rise of terrorism — come on, cut us a little slack, OK? We were bringing democracy to Iraq.
→ read full articleEvolving Democracy
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Imagine a people taking for granted that there are two, only two, sides to any issues; one right, one wrong; if no compromise, fight it out and the victor decides the outcome. That script controls the people. Power to the people sounds fine, but what kind of people?
→ read full articleSchool in an Aleppo Factory: The Occupiers Denied Children Education – Now They Get It
Jan Oberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
With over 2 million citizens, Aleppo used to be the largest city in Syria and a magic meeting point of many cultures, people and activities situated as it were at the famous Silk Road.
→ read full articleThat’s How It Happened
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
The writers, who (I suppose) were born after the events, accuse the Zionists of starting the 1948 war in order to expel the Arab population. Since I took part in the events – I was 24 years old at the time – I feel that it is my duty to describe what really happened, as truthfully as possible. (I have written two books about it, one during the war and one immediately after.)
→ read full articleIndians? Witches? Natives? Jews? Islamists? ETs?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Eradication as Genocide — Now And Then?
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Feb 13-19 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
→ read full articleTruthful
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
An applicant was filling out a job application.
→ read full articleColombian Companies Charged with Crimes against Humanity
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
For the first time, private companies were charged with crimes against humanity as part of the transitional justice system.
→ read full article(Português) Trump viola a primeira virtude da sociedade mundial
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Para o filósofo Imanuel Kant, a hospitalidade (usa a expressão latina “die Hospitalität) é a primeira virtude desta república mundial, porque, “todos os humanos estão sobre a Terra e todos, sem exceção, têm o direito de estar nela e visitar seus lugares e povos; a Terra pertence comunitariamente a todos”. A hospitalidade é um direito e um dever de todos.
→ read full articleFreedom of Dual Dignity (Tanka)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
On a regal stage
We revel freedom yearly
Who Are They, Anyway? Finally Meeting the Strangers in Our Own Land
Libby and Len Traubman | Turning Point – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
In our related personal experiences of peacebuilding in the Middle East and in Nigeria, the people ask about Islamic State and Boko Haram: “Who are they, anyway?” And so it is today, in divided America and around Earth; walled-off individuals largely fearful and ignorant of unknown others, strangers to one another.
→ read full article(Português) Considerações sobre a vida não humana
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Como podemos subestimar o sofrimento de um animal reduzido à comida, quando nós mesmos não estamos na mesma situação que eles? Não se pode menosprezar o sentimento de um animal diante do abate, a não ser que tenhas sentido na pele o desespero da iminência do canibalismo ou de ser morto para tornar-se comida para ser d’outra espécie.
→ read full articleKuan Yin: Goddess of Compassion and Harmony
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
19 February, in countries influenced by Chinese culture, is a day devoted to honoring Kuan Yin, goddess of compassion, “she who hears the cries of the world and restores harmony.” She is a goddess for the Taoists and a bodhisattva for the Buddhists, but she represents the same values of compassion for both faiths.
→ read full articleWorld Love for Dolphins Day 2017
Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Join Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Supporters Worldwide for World Love for Dolphins Day on February 14, 2017
→ read full articleTo Bee, or Not To Bee: Will Bumblebees Become Extinct?
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Widely used pesticides and insecticides, climate change, and introduced species are factors for bumblebees as well as other species of bees being endangered.
→ read full articleEarth, You Were for Me Prison and Paradise
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Earth, you were for me prison and paradise.
Here I met your scarlet balmy morns,
Treaty of Tlatelolco: Fifty Years of Success
Amb. Sergio Duarte and Jenifer Mackby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
On February 14, 2017 the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean – Treaty of Tlatelolco – will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The Treaty prohibits the testing, use, manufacture, production or acquisition of nuclear weapons. All 33 countries in the region are party to it.
→ read full articleRecord High Fatal Radiation Levels, Hole in Reactor Detected at Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Facility
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017 – Record high radiation levels that are lethal even after brief exposure have been detected at a damaged reactor at the Fukushima power plant in Japan. Specialists also found a hole, likely caused by melted nuclear fuel.
→ read full article
Radetzky March (Music Video of the Week)
Johann Strauß | Maris Jansons, conductor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
ENG: New Year’s Concert Vienna 2016, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Musikverein Viena.
CAST: Orquesta Filarmónica de Viena en la interpretación de la tradicional Marcha Radetzky, de Johann Strauss, dirigida este año por Mariss Jansons en a Sala Dorada de la Musikverein de Viena. 1 jan 2016
Israel Rejoices in Unbridled Colony Expansion amid Trump’s Havoc
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
7 Feb 2017 – Within days of Donald Trump being sworn in, the Israeli government announced the approval of around 2,500 new housing units. Within the first two weeks of Trump’s presidency, the number of new housing units, all to be built illegally on Palestinian land, was raised to 5,500, including the first brand-new government-sanctioned colony in years.
→ read full articleThe Joy of Suffering Overcome: Young Beethoven’s Stirring Letter to His Brothers About the Loneliness of Living with Deafness and How Music Saved His Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?”
→ read full articleTo Young Americans of Syrian Origin
Kahlil Gibran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran wrote this poem to fellow Arab Americans , the majority of whom came from “Greater Syria” in Gibran’s time, comprising of today’s Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. Those timeless words in the inaugural issue of The Syrian World in 1926 couldn’t ring truer almost a century later.
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza, guerra: una causa o un sintomo?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Conferimento della laurea Honoris Causa, Universidad Madrid Complutense, 27 gennaio 2017 – Per esperienza famigliare avevo qualche nozione di medicina ed ero rimasto colpito dalla feconda distinzione fra causa e sintomo. Il sintomo è alla superficie del corpo, come la febbre; ma la causa prima è più in profondità, dentro, una sepsi. Un’acquisizione importante.
→ read full articleNonviolent Economy
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Let us start with “economy”, here conceived of as a cycle with three poles: Nature, Production, Consumption. And three processes: Extraction from Nature, Distribution from Production to Consumption, and Pollution from Production-Consumption back to Nature. The cycle flow is in that order: Nature → Production → Consumption → Nature.
→ read full articleWhy Do People Revolt?
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
India experienced two unprecedented and totally unexpected, mostly leaderless mass uprisings of the middleclass in the recent past. The latest, the so-called ‘jallikattu’ protest of the students of Tamil Nadu has just ended. The previous one was nominally led by Anna Hazare, a Gandhian ex-serviceman, and roused the people of Delhi and its environs against rampant and open corruption in government circles.
→ read full article(Italiano) Donald Trump, il Presidente si è insediato
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
E la prima domanda al 45° presidente USA: ha intenzione di ammazzare, in territorio straniero? Il suo predecessore Obama ha seguito la tradizione USA, che dalla seconda guerra mondiale ha causato la morte di più di 20 milioni di persone in 37 paesi, facendo uso di bombe e droni. Pare che i suoi Reparti Speciali abbiano provocato morti ammazzati in 138 paesi. O farà l’America Più Grande interrompendo questa tradizione morbosa?
→ read full articlePolice, National Guard Raid Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp, Arrest 76
Shelley Connor | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
With assistance from the National Guard, police raided a protest camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota near the Dakota Access pipeline site on Feb 1, evicting and arresting seventy-six protesters opposed to the completion of the pipeline.
→ read full articleDoes PEACE JOURNALISM Help…
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
The Checklist is open-ended… far from complete.
→ read full articleIn Pursuit of Peace: The Cosmic Nature of Our Inner and Outer Journey
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
To understand and to accept the mystery that life and death are one can only enrich our life, and can only promote a greater sense of responsibility to promote life. This is spiritual foundation for living amidst the trials we face as individuals, societies, and nations. It calls upon us to grasp and accept the realities of our existence as the stuff of stars, and to live according to the principles of life inherent in our creation. Let us embrace the reality that I/we/life and the universe are one!
→ read full articleBREAKING: Radiation at Fukushima Spikes to Highest Levels Since 2011
Whitney Webb | True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
4 Feb 2017 – Operators of the Fukushima nuclear power plant have identified a gaping hole in a reactor containment vessel, which has resulted in a drastic spike in radiation levels.
→ read full article