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Interpol Opens New Front in War against Wildlife Crimes
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
International police body Interpol announced a new project Friday [20 Jan 2017] that will identify and dismantle organized crime networks between Africa and Asia that have devastated wildlife and made ivory a sought-after luxury.
→ read full articlePeace: A Multidimensional View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Peace Art imagines the way
Peace Education builds the way…
Final Communiqué OIC Extraordinary Session: The Situation of the Rohingya Muslim Minority in Myanmar
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation convened an Extraordinary Session on the Situation of the Rohingya Muslim Minority in Myanmar, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 19 January 2017, under the Chairmanship of Malaysia.
→ read full articleRestless Thought
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
My restless provoking thought,
You are wandering among contrasts,
You are in doubt, you never trust
You suffer when everything comes to naught.
USA: It’s Going to Be a Wild Ride
Bruce K. Gagnon | Space4Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
This corporate takeover of the US government runs far deeper than Trump. He is not an aberration from the norm – Trump represents the norm in Washington. We are now ruled by Christian fundamentalism (the American Taliban), an economic expansion ideology that has no concern for the planet, and a military ethic that carries with it strong Puritan evangelical strains. Greatness only means domination – of everything.
→ read full articleQuickies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
George Bush came late to a cabinet meeting.
→ read full articleFlashlights for Warriors of Development Programmes
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Even when programme results are reported, the names and actions of the individuals who made the process successful on the ground are seldom known. We should really applaud and honour ordinary men and women, who have nobody to back them, yet are working doggedly to keep projects rolling.
→ read full articlePutin – Trump: Two Paradigms of Global Peace
Dr. Leo Semashko and Dr. Rudolf Siebert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
This article has specific structure. In the first part we reconstruct as synopses of the global peace paradigms of two world leaders from their many speeches to facilitate for the readers to find and understand their visions of this sharpest global challenge. In the second part we present the short comments of these paradigms and their dependence from Global Peace Science.
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Libertango (Music Video of the Week)
Marici Saxes | Saxophone Quartet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
London’s Leading Female Saxophone Quartet Performs Libertango by Astor Piazzolla
→ read full articleWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 Jan 1756 – 5 Dec 1791)
Encyclopædia Britannica– TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. His taste, his command of form, and his range of expression have made him seem the most universal of all composers.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Jan 23-29 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Don’t be sad or afraid when you start losing friends, be glad you’re getting rid of the fake ones. Stay true to yourself.” – Terry Mark
→ read full articleJallikattu and Humanity’s Petty Ethics
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
North Indians have been amazed at the 75-million strong Tamil reaction to the ban on ‘jallikattu,’ a harvest event in which village young men try to snatch the purse of money tied to the horns of a trained bull… In such an elite atmosphere it was easy and natural in Delhi circles to believe that dark-skinned poor Tamil farmers would be cruel to their bulls during jallikattu.
→ read full articleCyprus: Toward a Non-Territorial Confederation?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
16 Jan 2017 – After some 20 months of discussions and preparations, a high political-level Conference on Cyprus was opened at the UN headquarters in Geneva on 12 January 2017. In some ways this was a continuation of inconclusive negotiations that have taken place in the 43 years that the country has been divided between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots.
→ read full article(Português) Ilhas Marshall: Um Passo Ousado Em Prol do Desarmamento Nuclear
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Durante os doze anos de duração dos ensaios, a população de outras ilhas e atóis do arquipélago experimentaram graves danos. Alguns foram completamente evacuados pela Marinha dos Estados Unidos. Alimentos e água potável foram constantemente contaminados. As pessoas vomitavam e seus cabelos começaram a cair. A incidência de câncer aumentou consideravelmente, assim como a de deformações em recém-nascidos. As taxas de doenças cardíacas, da tireóide, pulmões, ossos e sistema digestivo também aumentaram.
→ read full articleMartin Luther King Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. / “I Have A Dream” speech, August 28, 1963
→ read full article(Portuguese) Exploração animal, consumo de carne e fome mundial
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
16 Jan 2017 – O mundo atualmente conta com mais de 1,5 bilhão de bovinos e pouco mais de sete bilhões de pessoas. Os seres humanos consomem 9,5 bilhões de quilos de comida e 20 bilhões de litros de água por dia. Por outro lado, o gado é alimentado com 61 bilhões de quilos de comida e 170 bilhões de litros de água por dia, segundo a Organização das Nações Unidas para Agricultura e Alimentação.
→ read full articleEurope’s Courageous Journalism Voice Has Passed Away
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
On January 13, Udo Ulfkotte died, reportedly of a heart attack. Ulfkotte had been an editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitzung. He published a courageous book in which he said that the CIA had a hand on every significant journalist in Europe.
→ read full articleAn Experiment in Love: Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Six Pillars of Nonviolent Resistance and the Ancient Greek Notion of ‘Agape’
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
“Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives.”
→ read full articleObama’s Stellar Effort to Preserve Our Cultural Heritage in Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Time will tell how Obama’s Middle East legacy is judged and no doubt the verdict will be affected by what President-elect Trump will do in the Middle East, which as of today has many of us scratching our heads. The cultural heritage law enforcement achievements of the Obama Administration must not be dismantled by the Trump Administration.
→ read full articleOh, Mother-Earth, I Am Your Offspring
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Oh, mother-earth, I am yours offspring,
I am your loving humbled son,
I spent all my life wandering,
To find new wonders, one-by-one!
Aleppo’s Evil Humanitarians
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Aleppo Shall Not Be Forgotten – Eyewitness to who helped the Aleppians, Dec 11-14, 2016. This eyewitness report and documentation contradicts the major Western mainstream media’s narrative. In spite of the world historic dimension of this liberation, the tragedy of these innocent war victims and the heartbreakingly vast proportions of the systematic destruction of this dynamic city, none of their media were present in Aleppo there and then.
→ read full articleConfessions of a Megalomaniac
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
14 Jan 2017 – I was invited by Mahmood Abbas, the President of the Palestinian National Authority to take part in joint Palestinian-Israeli consultations in advance of the international conference in Paris. Since Binyamin Netanyahu has refused to take part in the Paris event side by side with Mahmood Abbas, the Ramallah meeting was to demonstrate that a large part of Israeli society does support the French initiative.
→ read full articleThe Coming “New Year”
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
The custom of marking the beginning of a so-called new year is also simultaneously a recognition of mortality and death – of history, the past, of things destined to be forgotten or, if remembered, known as a substrate for what looms ahead.
→ read full articleIs the Myanmar Government and Military Flirting with ‘Acts of Genocide’ against the Rohingya?
Michael G. Karnavas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Take your pick of alleged crimes: persecution, rape, murder, forcible transfer, deportation, extermination, arbitrary detention and imprisonment, and arguably, apartheid. The full treatment.
→ read full articleTruthful…?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Sweden has built a new bridge to an island.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Jan 16-22 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You didn’t want to be my friend in elementary school. You didn’t want to be my friend in junior high school. And you certainly weren’t my friend in high school. Why on Earth do you want to be my Facebook friend today?” – William E Lewis Jr.
→ read full articlePierre Joseph Proudhon (15 Jan 1809 – 16 Jan 1865): Pioneer of the Civil Society
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
It is, however, Proudhon as the pioneer of the concept of ‘civil society’ and the efforts of linking ‘Europe from Below’ that I would like to stress for the contemporary importance of Proudhon. Much of the thinking of ‘Europe from Below’ grew from efforts to bridge the East-West divide of Europe and to limit the dangers of war from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1980s.
→ read full articleWhat Kind of Nonviolence Training Do You Need?
Rivera Sun for Campaign Nonviolence | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Campaign Nonviolence is often contacted by people who are looking for nonviolence trainings. Frequently, they are not sure what type of training they need, or what the catch-phrases are to describe what they’re looking for. This guide is offered as a resource in identifying which type of nonviolence training supports the needs of each situation.
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Aquarius [21 Jan 2017] (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
The earth enters Aquarius on 21 January 2017. Listen and enjoy its music…
→ read full articleThe Drugs May Be the Problem
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Inconvenient Truths about Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Industry
→ read full articleGlobal Nuclear Power Database, 1951-2017
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Our new data visualization puts a wealth of information on 60 years of nuclear power plant startups and shutdowns at your fingertips.
→ read full article“Where Do We Go from Here?”
Dale Bryan | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
15 Jan 2017 – That question was a touchstone for The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the last year of his life. He preached on it. He delivered speeches on it. He wrote a book on it. The answers he put forward may be what got him killed.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
8 Jan 2017 – The text below is an Open Letter to the next American president urging complete nuclear disarmament as an urgent priority. The letter was prepared under the auspices of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and its current list of signatories is listed below.
→ read full articleConnectivity
Nastya Nudnik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Out of touch?
→ read full articleIn Memoriam
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Dr. Hanumantha Rao’s unique gift was his discovery of the ‘Four Waters’ system for providing sustainable agricultural livelihoods to the majority of Indian and third world small and marginal farmers subsisting on dry rain-fed lands. His idea has the simplicity of genius.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Should Back Russia’s Syria Ceasefire
Christopher Bolan | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
For all its shortcomings, Obama’s seemingly improvised Syria strategy has taken advantage of unexpected opportunities. This could be the latest.
→ read full articleHow Gratitude Can Help You through Hard Times
Robert Emmons | Univ. of California, Berkeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
It’s easy to feel grateful when life is good. But when disaster strikes, gratitude is worth the effort.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Shameful Denial
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
10 Jan 2017 – Last month, President Obama lifted sanctions against Myanmar, citing “substantial progress in improving human rights” following the historic election victory of the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in November 2015. Tragically, that praise is proving premature.
→ read full articleMarshall Islands: A Bold Step towards Nuclear Disarmament
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
In 2014 the Republic of the Marshall Islands filed two legal suits: one at the International Court of Justice against the nine countries that possess nuclear weapons and another at an American federal court against the government of the United States. The suits did not seek financial compensation but rather requested a declaratory judgment of breach of obligations under Article VI the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
→ read full articleTo Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Strip Away Their Handsome Mask
Mustafa Kibaroglu | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
The golden age of deterrence has reached its end. Nuclear weapons, once a star player on the international stage, no longer enjoy a place in the limelight.
→ read full articleNew Stories for a New Era
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
The Way Between by Rivera Sun, El Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works (2016). This novel should be read aloud to everyone, by everyone, from childhood onward. It is an auspicious beginning to a new mythology of peace, of justice, of inclusion, of conversion and transformation.
→ read full article2017 World Economy and Economists
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
This column has argued Lifting the Bottom Up as economic approach in all weathers, bad, fair, good, to mitigate any suffering, and for them to enter the economy as producers and consumers, not as “cases”.
→ read full articleThe Re-affirmation of Humanitarian International Law
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
6 Jan 2017 – Current armed conflicts in Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria-Iraq-ISIS-Turkey, Libya, Somalia and elsewhere have led to repeated and conscious violations of humanitarian international law such as attacks on medical facilities and personnel, killing of prisoners-of-war, the taking and killing of hostages, the use of civilians as “human shields” and torture.
→ read full articleBlackwater Founder Claims Private Security Is the Answer to Save Europe from Refugee Crisis
Belen Fernandez | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Erik Prince, the former CEO of the firm responsible for opening fire on Iraqi civilians, has the militarised solution to Europe’s migrant problem.
→ read full articleTribalism, Nationalism and Fascism
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
A Drop of Good Sense in a Sea of Emotion
→ read full articleThe Real German Submarine Scandal
Victor Gilinsky | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Israel is absorbed with a “submarine scandal” that centers on its contract with Germany. But the real scandal is that Germany supplies the submarines at all, through a loophole in the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The submarines are built to carry long-range Israeli cruise missiles armed with nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleChina Joins the Fight to Save Elephants
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
3 Jan 2017 – It is great news for elephants that China has declared a halt to commercial ivory trade by the end of 2017. The many governmental and nongovernmental organizations that have worked to protect the magnificent animals must now ensure that neither China nor the United States backslides on the bans, and that other nations will not try surreptitiously to move in.
→ read full articleMy Beloved Earth
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
My beloved earth, I am your loving son,
I bend my head before you,
I am sleeping in your tender embraces,
I do not feel that I am alone.
Finland Becomes First Country to Provide Citizens Basic Income
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Finland kicked off its basic income program Monday [2 Jan], giving US$587 per month to 2,000 of its citizens, an amount that – if extended to the entire adult population – will be guaranteed regardless of income, wealth or employment status.
→ read full articleGut Health 101: What Is the Microbiome?
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
The human body is a complex, interconnected ecosystem and the gut is at the center of it all. The gut is where the body converts food to energy and a major, frontline component of the immune system. It is connected to the central nervous system, brain, and can influence mood. You can’t talk about the gut or its importance without talking about the organisms that live there.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
All over: the USA sidelined, no longer invited to key meetings. Not strange, given its claim to be exceptional (Obama at the UNGA), heavily inclined to violence-war; and others trying to find solutions.
→ read full articleEvery Single Piece of Plastic Ever Made Still Exists – Here’s the Story
Diego Gonzaga | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
And it’s not just the amount of plastic being produced. Everything related to plastic is damaging the planet, from the impact of extracting the fossil fuels used to produce plastic, to the health effects of the toxins it releases into the environment when it is burned, to the devastating impact on sea life.
→ read full articleYes, We Can
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Once, a genius at the propaganda ministry devised a poster: “Who is afraid of the German Luftwaffe?” When it was posted at one of the Royal Air Force bases, an anonymous hand penned underneath: “Sign here”. Within hours, all the airmen had signed. If somebody today were to devise a poster asking “Who is afraid of the settlers?” I would be the first to sign. I am afraid. Not for myself. For the State of Israel. For everything we have built during the last 120 years.
→ read full articleA Poetic Illumination at the Start of a New Year
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
I came across a few lines of the Zen poetry of the late eighteen century Zen poet, Ryōkan. A verse from The Long Winter Night: Three Poems.
→ read full articleMistakes
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
A biology teacher wanted to warn his students about the harmful effects of alcohol.
→ read full articleRighteousness & Lefteousness
Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Orchos Chaim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Chasidic leaders can often be seen clapping their hands together while praying. This practice has its source in the Kabbalah, symbolically bringing together the forces of the right and the left. These two extremes stand separate and apart preventing the prayers of Israel from ascent. The Rebbe puts his right hand and left hand together. The right and the left embrace.
→ read full articleReframing the Art of Non-Decision-Making
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
and the Manipulation of Global Categories – It has become strikingly evident that most major international conferences and summits have become exercises in non-decision-making. Indeed, as encouraged by “question avoidance”, decision avoidance has become an art form in its own right.
→ read full articleSermon on the Mount and Golden Rule: Global Peace Science Today
Rudolf J. Siebert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
While many people consider the 4th commandment of the Sermon the Mount at best merely to be a matter of private morality, President Putin and the Russian Federation have proven in the past year, in the spirit of the great Russian Orthodox tradition, that it has validity also in society, state, and history.
→ read full articleUS Senate Report Details Price-Gouging by Pharmaceutical Companies
Zaida Green | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
6 Jan 2017 – A recently-released US Senate investigation found that four major pharmaceutical companies operated like hedge funds and followed specific business models to monopolize drugs for rare, life-threatening conditions.
→ read full articleFBI Report on Russia Hacking US Election: What You Need to Know
Mark Maunder | WordFence/WordPress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
On Friday [30 Dec] we published an analysis of the FBI and DHS Grizzly Steppe report. The report was widely seen as proof that Russian intelligence operatives hacked the US 2016 election. We showed that the PHP malware in the report is old, freely available from a Ukrainian hacker group and is an administrative tool for hackers.
→ read full articleHeart of Darkness: Observations on a Torture Notebook
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
A psychologist tries to defend the indefensible, and fails.
→ read full articleWhat a Mess!
TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Curiosity
→ read full articleMurdering the Innocent in Order to Support the Lie
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
It is clear beyond reasonable doubt that there was no real bombing at the Boston Marathon and that the alleged terrorist event, using crisis actors, was an orchestration designed to convince dumbshit Americans that they really were under a “Muslim threat.” The entire foreign policy of the United States in the 21st century is based on an orchestrated “Muslim threat.”
→ read full articleAssange ‘1,000%’ Sure Russia Wasn’t Source of US Election Leaks
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Julian Assange argued that the debate about Russian influence on the U.S. election is an attempt to delegitimize Trump.
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(Castellano) Volver a los 17 (Music Video of the Week)
Mercedes Sosa, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento & Gal Costa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Mercedes Sosa (1935-2009), Argentinean star singer from Native S. American origin with Brazilian star singers. A true, delightful classic.
→ read full article(Português) Soldados israelenses são encorajados a “atirar para matar” palestinos, diz ONG
Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
A Human Rights Watch coletou declarações de políticos e oficiais israelenses desde a nova onda de ataques, em 2015.
→ read full articleMedical Communication Companies and the Medical Propaganda Machine
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Examining One of the Many Ways That Healthcare Providers are Compelled to Over-prescribe Big Pharma’s Unaffordable, Often Toxic and Often Dependency-inducing Prescription Drugs
→ read full articleThe Smoking Gun! No Question on Illegality of the U.S. Overthrow of the Hawaiian Government in 1893
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
2 Jan 2017 – In 2016, Duke University Press published Tom Coffman’s Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai‘i. While this book has been in circulation since 1998, it is the first time that an academic publisher has put its name to the book. The goal of Duke University Press is “to contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship.”
→ read full article10 Most Radioactive Places on Earth
Brainz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
While the 2011 earthquake and worries surrounding Fukushima have brought the threat of radioactivity back into the public consciousness, many people still don’t realize that radioactive contamination is a worldwide danger.
→ read full articleCondemning Israeli Settlement Expansion: UN Security Council Resolution 2334 and Secretary Kerry’s Speech
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
To bring together China, Russia, France, and the UK on an initiative tabled by Senegal, Malaysia, and Venezuela, is sending Israel and Washington a clear message that despite the adverse developments of recent years in the Middle East the world will not forget the Palestinians, or their struggle.
→ read full articleTaj Mahal
Lara Ayvazyan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
There are not so many wonders in the world,
But one of them we keep in consciousness,
I keep in my mind one road in faraway India
From Delhi to the town with miracle Taj Mahal.
Need for a Moral Confession of Political Parties in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota and Pradip Raj Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
7 Jan 2017 – We often worry about degrading political practices in Nepal. Unemployment, politicization of every institution, increased criminal activities and corruption has created a frustrated generation. Youths are migrating abroad and remittance has become life line of our economy.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Jan 9-15 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.” – Unknown –
→ read full articleIn the Blood
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Born in a normal time,
The periodic slaughter of millions
By the civilized nations of the earth
I grew to adulthood half-crazed
With fear and numbed wonder.
Opposing Discrimination, Oppression, Violence in the World: Inspiring Struggles for Equality, Justice and Liberty
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
We see that the world has seen discrimination, injustice and oppression — social, economic, racial and caste based, of poor marginalised people all over the world. This has taken several forms – forced labour, slavery, apartheid, and untouchability. Equally there have been struggles against these abhorrent practices by brave, truthful and visionary persons.
→ read full articleIntelligence Report on Russian Hacking
The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released on Friday [6 Jan 2017] a report that detailed what it called a Russian campaign to influence the election. The report is the unclassified summary of a highly sensitive assessment from American intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
→ read full articleLame Duck’s Last Quack
Michael David Morrissey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Mr. O, failing miserably to fly,
Wants to give it one more try.
US Sold $40 Billion in Weapons in 2015, Tops Global Arms Market
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
While the global arms trade declined overall, the biggest sellers of global weapons, the United States and France, saw an increase in sales.
→ read full articleJohn McAfee on Russian Hacking Allegations: “If It Looks Like the Russians Did It, Then I Can Guarantee You It Was Not the Russians”
Signs of the Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
McAfee argues that the report is a “fallacy,” explaining that hackers can fake their location, their language, and any markers that could lead back to them. Any hacker who had the skills to hack into the DNC would also be able to hide their tracks, he said. “If I was the Chinese and I wanted to make it look like the Russians did it, I would use Russian language within the code, I would use Russian techniques of breaking into the organization.”
→ read full articleElite
TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Folly
→ read full articlePeace Journalism: What, Why, Who, How, When, Where
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Imagine a blackout on everything we associate with medical practice; never to be reported in the media. Disease, however, is to be reported fully, in gruesome detail, particularly when elite persons are struck. This kind of journalism would be disease-oriented, and the journalist could refer to himself as a disease journalist or correspondent.
→ read full articleThe Cruel Experiments of Israel’s Arms Industry
Matt Kennard |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
The occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip are Israeli weapons manufacturers’ laboratories, and Palestinians their subjects.
→ read full articlePalestine 2017: Time to Bid Farewell to Washington and Embrace the Globe
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
There is no doubt that the UN Security Council condemnation of Israel on Friday [23 Dec] was an important and noteworthy event. True, the UN’s main chambers (the UNSC and the GA) and its various institutions, ranging from the International Court of Justice to UNESCO, have repeatedly condemned the Israeli occupation, illegal Jewish settlements and mistreatment of Palestinians.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cina ed Europa – Raffronti e Futuri
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Secondo una recente indagine di Harvard, la Cina produce il 26.7% delle automobili al mondo e gli USA ne producono il 13.3%; l’economia statunitense è più consistente ma la Cina primeggia nelle esportazioni con 8 dei 12 più grandi porti; gli USA terminano il 2016 guerreggiando 7 guerre, con basi militari un po’ dovunque, la Cina termina l’anno con nessuna guerra né basi, investendo, costruendo la Nuova Via della Seta, il Corridoio Economico. Con quale riuscita, rimane da vedere.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo, in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Norvegia: “Noi amiamo l’America–Noi odiamo la Russia–L’America odia la Russia”, equilibrato, fece cambiare la dottrina militare delle élite per attaccare la Russia. Poi “Noi amiamo l’America–Noi odiamo la Russia–L’America ama la Russia”, discordante. Dopo un periodo trascorso a odiare l’America di Trump, la Norvegia finirà per accettare la Russia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Bravo Trump – No alla CIA!!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Un presidente eletto degli USA che dica di non volere più istruzioni di intelligence è come – difficile dire: forse come un prete in procinto di essere ordinato che dica di non aver più bisogno di leggere la Bibbia, di altre parole di Dio? Qualunque cosa sia quella tal “intelligence”, è intelligente?
→ read full articleThe 500 Richest People in the World Got $237 Billion Richer in 2016
Alan Pyke | Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
As right-wing politicians around the world gathered power by scapegoating immigrants for the economic struggles of working people, the world’s richest people got nearly a quarter trillion dollars richer in 2016.
→ read full articleIsrael Reaps the Whirlwind
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
There’s not much point in carrying reports of Netanyahu’s response to the UNSC’s resolution on settlements. It is entirely, self-pityingly, predictable. Here he musters his troops for a fight-back against the rule of international humanitarian law.
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Stephen Toskar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
smoke rising from a snuffed-out candle
the heady scent of cinnamon
moments before you come
Anti-Semitic Zionists
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
President Barak Obama, at the very end of his presidency, dared to challenge the government of Binyamin Netanyahu, a person he detests with all his heart. And so, after years of frustration, the highest international body could adopt a resolution on Israel according to its convictions. No wonder they behaved like schoolchildren let out for vacation. A vacation that may, alas, prove to be short.
→ read full articleElevator Music
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
The wars are always with us,
Near or far,
A bass line to the splendid riffs
Sharing
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
A mother was preparing pancakes for her two sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3.
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Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Most development programmes for poor have been designed on the assumption that the poor need charities and they cannot afford to pay for the services. This is erroneous and we have witnessed how dollops of free money have stifled their initiatives.
→ read full articleRohingya in Burma/Myanmar: Nobel Laureates Urge Action over ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Submitted by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Dear President and Members of the UNSC,
As you are aware, a human tragedy amounting to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity is unfolding in Myanmar.
Palestine-Israel: The UNSC Vote
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Will Mahmoud Abbas turn success into failure (again) or will he finally show backbone to use the UNSC resolution to save what remains of Palestine?
→ read full articleThe Future of the United States of America
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
31 Dec 2016 – What I most want to say is that social chaos and ecological disaster cannot be avoided without transforming basic cultural and social structures. Otherwise no economic policy will work. For structural reasons, all economic policies lead to unacceptable results.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Settlements Are Illegal, Violation of International Law: Security Council [Full Text of Resolution 2334]
UN News & Media Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
23 Dec 2016 – The Security Council reaffirmed this afternoon that Israel’s establishment of settlements in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, had no legal validity, constituting a flagrant violation under international law. 14 Delegations in Favour of Resolution 2334 (2016) as United States Abstains.
→ read full articleWhy Rates of Human Organ Trafficking Are on the Rise in the Middle East
Future for Advanced Research and Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
27 Dec 2016 – In light of new alliances with crime mafias, gangs involved in the trafficking of human organs have increased. The trafficking network includes university professors, doctors, members of nursing staff, and owners of medical centers and labs as well as intermediaries and brokers with prior records, and those impersonating security officials.
→ read full articleThe Political Shakespeare
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
26 Dec 2016 – These last three years have been dedicated to the Bard. Dramatic political change was in the air when Shakespeare lived and wrote. The great humanist sensed these changes and mirrored them in his plays for us to make of them what we will.
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One Voice (Music Video of the Week)
Only Men Aloud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Inspirational Song of Praise to the Power of the Human Spirit
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