Articles by M
We found 35353 results.
Today I Said Good Bye to Mom
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Through the transparent cover
With her eyes closed, Mother looked at me
As if she were saying
“Why are you mourning over this biomass in this air-conditioned coffin?
It ain’t me here! Not any more, if ever there was I.”
Letter of Concern to Oxford University Press regarding Dr Jacques Leider and ORE Asian History Series
Noam Chomsky, Johan Galtung, Maung Zarni, et al. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
5 Feb 2018 – Oxford University Press, Myanmar Genocide, & Its Choice of Dr Leider as the Expert on Rohingyas
→ read full article
With Nuclear Weapons, Evacuation Is Not an Option
David Krieger | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
In our community, we have been living through radical uncertainty from forces of nature. But we also live daily with the radical uncertainty of nuclear survival, which is not a force of nature, but rather a man-made threat. It is a threat entirely of our own making, and it can be remedied by facing it and doing something about it, namely convening the nuclear-armed countries to negotiate the phased, verifiable, irreversible and transparent elimination of these weapons.
→ read full article
Myanmar Forces and Buddhist Villagers Torched Rohingya Homes, Then Killed
Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis and Antoni Slodkowski | Reuters – US News & World Report,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – Rohingya trace their presence in Rakhine back centuries. But most people in majority-Buddhist Myanmar consider them to be unwanted Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh. The army refers to the Rohingya as “Bengalis,” and most lack citizenship. In recent years, the government has confined more than 100,000 Rohingya in camps where they have limited access to food, medicine and education. Nearly 690,000 Rohingya have fled their villages and crossed the border into Bangladesh since August.
→ read full article
Home (Music Video of the Week)
Brian Eno & David Byrne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
A Classic Music-Art from 2008
→ read full article
It Is Time to End the Child Soldier Stereotype
Tim Molyneux | IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Mon Feb 12 marks the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers, known as Red Hand Day. From Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo to Myanmar and Nigeria, countless children remain trapped in armed conflict.
→ read full article
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (13 Feb 1911 – 20 Nov 1984): The Fiery Conscience of Our Times
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
As a Marxist, Faiz rejected the notion of “art for art’s sake“. Referring to the poet Keats’s famous lines that beauty is love and love is beauty and a beautiful object is an eternal source of joy, Faiz says that, notwithstanding what Keats may have felt, beauty can only be eternal when it is creative, when it inspires the onlooker’s enthusiasm, thought and action with promoting more beauty.
→ read full article
Japan Plans to Kill Hundreds of Whales AGAIN – Urge the EU to Refuse Trade Deal until This Ends!
Aleksandra Pajda | One Green Planet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister, has made his opinions about Japan’s whale hunts very clear. Abe stated that the country “will pursue all possibilities in order to resume commercial whaling” and he wants Japan to use whale meat, fat, and baleen “just like other marine resources.” His stance on the cruel practice is blatant, and he does not even try to conceal the real nature of the hunts under the typical guise of scientific research.
→ read full article
Performance of Life
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
The day went, tomorrow’s day hurries…
There is the same smell of roses,
The same scenes of the life are rehearsed
The Fear Driving US Nuclear Strategy
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
The US Department of Defense released its latest ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ on 2 February. Several authors have already thoughtfully exposed a phenomenal variety of obvious lies, invented threats, strategic misconceptions and flaws – such as the fallacious thinking behind ‘deterrence’ and significantly increased risk of nuclear war given the delusional ‘thinking’ in the document – as well as the political fear-mongering in the NPR. So what can we do? Well, I would tackle the problem at several levels and I invite you to consider participating in one or more of these.
→ read full article
How Volkswagen Paid $25 Billion for Dieselgate — And Got Off Easy
Roger Parloff | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
6 Feb 2018 – Volkswagen paid huge government penalties in the U.S., but virtually nothing in Europe. Two things now seem clear: Some very senior officials knew of the wrongdoing — and they’re not likely to face meaningful prison time.
→ read full article
Pugwash Statement on the U.S. 2018 Nuclear Posture Review
Amb. Sergio Duarte | Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
6 Feb 2018 – The expansion of the role of nuclear weapons risks triggering another round of the nuclear arms race, dramatically increases the risks of their use, and makes the road to a nuclear weapons free world even more difficult. This latest development will serve only to increase the saliency and attractiveness of nuclear weapons, and will certainly not enhance international security, let alone prospects for progress in bilateral and multilateral disarmament and non-proliferation efforts.
→ read full article
What the Hell?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
10 Feb 2018 – What the hell am I? An Israeli? A Jew? A peace activist? A Journalist? An author? An ex-combat soldier in the Israeli army? An ex-terrorist? A…? All of these and more. OK. OK. But in what order? Which is the most important component?
→ read full article
Associated Press Double Standard in Israel-Palestine Reporting
Kathryn Shihadah and Alison Weir | If Americans Knew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Associated Press is one of those news sources we expect to be objective and reliable. But when it comes to the subject of Israel-Palestine, things are not always as they seem.
→ read full article
Trump-Linked Extremist Settlers Try to Kidnap Palestinian Kids
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
The Yitzhar settlers, who received money from the Kushner foundation directed by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior advisor of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, are considered extreme by Israel itself.
→ read full article
Trickle Down Economics
Lindsay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Explained…
→ read full article
At Age 101, She’s a World Champ Runner
Chhavi Sachdev | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Man Kaur is 101, but her routine could tire most 20-somethings. Every day she wakes up at 4 a.m., bathes, washes clothes, makes tea, recites prayers. And then she goes to the track for an hour of sprinting practice. And she’s not just doing it for fun.
→ read full article
Peace and Justice for the Palestinian People: a Conversation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
This is a modified text of an interview conversation with Khourosh Ziabari, initially published on the website of the Organization for Defending Victims of Violence on February 4, 2018.
→ read full article
(Português) A passionalidade e a autoridade na crítica à exploração animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Realmente não é fácil reconhecer que existe uma desarmonia entre o que você deseja para o mundo e o que o outro deseja, quando este não considera, de fato, que os animais não merecem morrer para serem reduzidos a alimentos e outros produtos. Claro, alguém pode dizer: “Tenho dó dos animais”. Mas se essa pessoa se alimenta deles, há uma evidente inconsonância entre o que ela pensa e faz.
→ read full article
A Ticking Time Bomb of Mercury Is Hidden Beneath Earth’s Permafrost
Brandon Specktor | Live Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
According to a new study published 5 Feb 2018 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, there may be more than 15 million gallons (58 million liters) of mercury buried in the permafrost of the Northern Hemisphere — roughly twice as much mercury as can be found in the rest of Earth’s soils, ocean and atmosphere combined. And if global temperatures continue to rise, all that mercury could come pouring out.
→ read full article
How Rich Are the Rich? If Only You Knew
Gil B. Manzon Jr. – The Conversation,
12 Feb 2018
5 Feb 2018 – Income inequality, the most common way to measure the gap between the rich and the poor, only tells part of the story. Wealth inequality tells the rest.
→ read full article
A Marxist Reading of George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant with Special Reference to Dual Identity
Mahadev Devkota and Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
7 Feb 2018 – This paper is an attempt to analyze George Orwell’s groundbreaking short story in terms of Marxist perspectives, elucidates the relationship between the Great Britain and the Indian. The former is privileged and grasps the power to define, reconstruct and stereotypes the latter one. Oneof the Orwell’s major concerns during his life was an issue of dual identity, self-contradiction and conflicting feelings towards natives.
→ read full article
As Iran’s Women Continue to Rise and Fly Their Hijabs… Woe Be Unto the Mullahs
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – Increasingly Iranians are demanding the end to Supreme Leadership and to govern themselves. Under Ali Khamenei’s total control, institutions established at the beginning of the 1979 Revolution to wipe out poverty have turned into conglomerates that own half of Iran’s wealth without a supervisory organization to question their actions.
→ read full article
Koreas’ Olympic Truce: Time for Concerted Non-Governmental Efforts
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – There is a need for a coming together of NGOs that are primarily focused on the resolution of armed conflicts with those groups concerned with the abolition of nuclear weapons. The current Korean tensions are based on the development of nuclear weapons and missile systems and the pressures and threats to prevent their development. The Olympic Truce period should be taken as an opportunity to advance “Track II” efforts.
→ read full article
NYT Piece on Rohingya Survival Tactics Plays into Military’s Hands
Coconuts Yangon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
5 Feb 2018 – Two days after denying an AP report that Myanmar soldiers massacred the Rohingyas and buried their bodies in at least five mass graves, the Myanmar government is pointing to an essay by New York Times reporter Hannah Beech as evidence that the words of Rohingya refugees cannot be trusted. Shame on the NYT!
→ read full article
WikiLeaks Exposes How Council on Foreign Relations Controls Most All Mainstream Media
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
29 Jan 2018 – A single organization controls almost everything you see, hear, and read in the media and they’ve been handpicking your leaders for decades.
→ read full article
Portraits: Peacemakers, Warmongers and People Between
Bill Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
This is the sixth collection of poems by David Krieger, an American peace leader and poet who has lived through and been impacted by the events since the Second World War. This unique collection of 70 poems is not just about well known figures but also ordinary folks, the People Between.
→ read full article
(Português) Conheça histórias emocionantes de animais que demonstram empatia
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Existem inúmeros registros de que os animais demonstram empatia. Às vezes, os animais cuidam um do outro. Em outros, eles mostram sentir tristeza, e, às vezes, até cuidam dos humanos.
→ read full article
15 Cases: Constructive vs Destructive U.S. Foreign Policies
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
The right column is sadly familiar; add more recent cases. The left column also carries an element of sadness but nothing really radical; more like common sense that could easily be translated into political practice. A theory is something tested along its edges (Quine); what you deduce from the theory–and to me the key “edge”–is its action-consequences.
→ read full articleBrexit and Its Discontents
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
To the extent that grievances over inequalities in Britain drove the Leave vote, they were shooting at the wrong target. The UK cost of living crisis is due not to ‘Brussels’ but the actions of governments the British have elected to power in Westminster. The long-cherished vision of the Brexitollahs is for power to tilt still further in favour of employers and the wealthy.
→ read full article
NATO Allies… (?)
Latuff – MintPress News,
12 Feb 2018
Where (ex) Empires Clash
→ read full article
Permaculture in New Zealand: Joanna Santa Barbara’s Atamai Village (Part 2)
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Permaculture for Peace: Presenting the Atamai Village Project – Joanna Santa Barbara is a member of TRANSCEND International.
→ read full article
Is Bitcoin a True Anti-War Currency?
Wendy McElroy | Bitcoin News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
6 Feb 2018 – It is not common to speak of currency as being pro or anti-war. A freely traded currency is merely an economic tool that facilitates the exchange of goods and services by people whose intentions may be good or evil. All things being equal, the money is morally and politically neutral in whatever form it takes.
→ read full article
World’s Richest 1% Acquired 82% of Wealth in 2017: Oxfam
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
22 Jan 2018 – Nearly 82 percent of global wealth generated last year went to one percent of the population, while the bottom 50 percent saw no increase at all, according to a new Oxfam report that shows the staggering wealth gap between the ultra-rich and the rest of the world. World’s Richest Accumulated US$1 Trillion in 2017
→ read full article
Remembering Gene Sharp, a Pioneer of People Power
The Editors | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Gene Sharp, who passed away at the age of 90 on Sunday [28 Jan], was not only a key figure in the development of a whole new field of study devoted to helping people realize their own power, he was a key figure in the lives of so many who found inspiration in his work and took it in new directions. It is no exaggeration to say that Waging Nonviolence would not exist were it not for his pioneering research demonstrating the undeniable power and effectiveness of nonviolent struggle.
→ read full article
“Fake News” Is Fake News
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #155 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – The people who created Facebook and Google must be smart. They’re billionaires. Facebook hired a very large staff of people to read everything posted by users to weed out the fake stuff. That didn’t last too long before the company announced that it wasn’t “comfortable” deciding which news sources are the most trustworthy in a “world with so much division”. We all could have told them that, couldn’t we?
→ read full article
Gandhi — Challenges and Learnings in South Africa
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Gandhi had thought that he would stay for only a year in South Africa but as it turned out he remained there for 21 years and returned to India in 1914. His stay was a deeply learning experience – it had a profound effect on him in terms of observing the oppression and prejudice suffered by Indians who were working there and the racial incidents that he himself was subject to. He gradually became aware of the behavior of the white rulers towards not only the black populations but also towards Indians and other non-white people.
→ read full article
Try Learning Not to Ride a Bicycle So We Can Save the World
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
“Einstein discovered a law of physical change: the way to convert a single particle of matter into enormous physical energy. Might there not also be, as Gandhi suggested, an equally incredible and undiscovered law of spiritual change, whereby a single person or small community of persons could be converted into an enormous spiritual energy capable of transforming a society and a world? I believe that there is.”
→ read full article
2018 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review Released by Trump Administration
David Krieger and Rick Wayman | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
2 Feb 2018 –The 2018 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review, released today, represents a reckless realignment of an already dangerous U.S. nuclear policy. Trump administration plan calls for smaller nuclear weapons making nuclear war far more likely.
→ read full article
America’s National Defense Is Really Offense
Philip Giraldi | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
26 Jan 2018 – Today the Pentagon released an unclassified summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy report. Reading the summary is illuminating, to say the least, and somewhat disturbing, as it focuses very little on actual defense of the realm and relates much more to offensive military action that might be employed to further certain debatable national interests. Occasionally, it is actually delusional, as when it refers to consolidating “gains we have made in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.”
→ read full article
From Mohandas to Mahatma Gandhi
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
One of the most noted icons of the last century would undoubtedly be Mahatma Gandhi who was assassinated in New Delhi on 30 January 1948. His full name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi but worldwide he is known just as Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi.
→ read full article
A Treacherous Crossing
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
30 Jan 2018 – The “good guys” shaping and selling U.S. foreign policy and weapon sales exemplify the heartless indifference of the smugglers who gamble human life in exceedingly dangerous crossings.
→ read full article
(Italiano) Lutti. E’ Morto Gene Sharp
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
E’ morto Gene Sharp (21 gennaio 1928- 28 gennaio 2018), filosofo, politico e intellettuale statunitense. Nell’Universita’ di Harward diresse il Program of Nonviolent Sanctions e fondo’ l’Albert Einstein Istitution. Tra gli altri grandi maestri e autori, e’ sui suoi libri che ci siamo formati nella ricerca della nonviolenza.
→ read full article
(Italiano) Johan Galtung Lectio Magistralis a Brescia
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
Johan Galtung, che recentemente ha compiuto 87 anni, dimostra questo principio ogni giorno della sua vita, forte della sua inflessibile autodisciplina intellettuale e di 60 anni di dedizione professionale per la trasformazione dei conflitti. La sua biografia è intensa e interessante ma qui vorrei giusto ricordare 3 episodi.
→ read full article
Hannah Beech: “Journos’ Power without Moral Responsibility”
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
4 Feb 2018 – Hannah Beech’s select writings on Wirathu & Rohingyas (New York Times, 1 Feb 2018) have done lasting damage to Myanmar’s inter-communal relations and credibility of Rohingyas’ tales of horror while reinforcing Myanmar military’s popular misinformation against Rohingyas.
→ read full article
North Korea’s List of U.S. Human Rights Abuses Includes Inequality, Racism and Marijuana Use
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post,
5 Feb 2018
31 Jan 2018 – Shortly before President Trump used his State of the Union speech to criticize North Korean human rights abuses, Pyongyang released its own criticism of the United States as a “gross violator of human rights.” A summary of a report titled “White Paper on Human Rights Violations in the U.S. in 2017″ was released by the Korean Central News Agency today.
→ read full article
The Expert
PMC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
A Window into Corporate Reality
→ read full article
Mass Media for Culture of Peace
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – It has been the dream at CPNN from the beginning that our website and others like us would be able to attract so much readership that the mass media would need to take up the theme of the culture of peace in order to compete with us.
→ read full article
Nuclear Weapons: An Absolute Evil
Anne Baring – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
“A number of studies by meteorologists and other experts from both East and West predict that use of nuclear weapons would result in fire storms with very high winds and high temperatures. The resulting smoke and dust would block out sunlight for a period of many months. Temperatures in many places would fall far below freezing, and much of the earth’s plant life would be killed. Animals and humans would then die of starvation.”
Nuclear Weapons: An Absolute Evil, by John Scales Avery, Danish Peace Academy, 25 Jan 2018
Clever
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
President Bush was informed that there was a threat of a bird flu epidemic.
→ read full article
One State or Two States? You’re Asking the Wrong Question
Haggai Matar - +972 Magazine,
5 Feb 2018
What we desperately need now is to go back to the basics and recognize that guaranteeing Palestinians’ rights is the foundation for any political solution.
→ read full article
The Middle East Peace Process: A Cruel Joke
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – As of now, there is no honest broker and there is no peace process—facts that prolong the Israeli Occupation and further undermine Palestinian hopes for internationally recognized statehood and a better life.
→ read full article
When Is There Going to Be Accountability for US Wars and Aggression?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
2 Feb 2018 – It’s WMD all over again. Anonymous “US officials” are once again accusing a targeted “regime” of using “chemical weapons” and threatening that the U.S. military may have to “hold it accountable”. Once again, western media is broadcasting these accusations and threats without skepticism or investigation.
→ read full article
Five More Rohingya Mass Graves Found in Myanmar
Foster Klug | AP - TIME,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 — The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets. Warning: The following story contains graphic descriptions of atrocities.
→ read full article
It’s Time to Wage War against War Movies That Glorify Outdated Models of Masculinity
Peter Maass – The Intercept,
5 Feb 2018
In the #MeToo era, Hollywood should turn away from war movies like “12 Strong” that send harmful messages about masculinity and violence.
→ read full article
Hillary Clinton Email Archive
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
2 Feb 2018 – A searchable archive for over 30 thousand emails & email attachments sent to and from Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was Secretary of State. *Updated*
→ read full articleGIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out): A Reality That Is Running Rampant in the For-Profit Medical Literature Industry
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
30 Jan 2018 – Hundreds and thousands of questionable GIGO articles are published annually in professional medical journals which are mailed (or emailed) out to physicians, most of whom are never able to find the time to read and absorb their substance. Most barely have the time to read the conclusions of the abstracts which are conveniently printed at the beginning. Most of us never have the time or inclination to read the published conflicts of interest, which are usually published at the end of the article, usually in fine print.
→ read full article
North Korean Athletes Arrive in South Korea for Olympics
Hyung-Jin Kim | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 — North Korean 32-member delegation of skiers and skaters arrived today at a South Korean airport to participate in the Winter Olympics that has brought a temporary lull in tensions surrounding their country’s nuclear program. The Olympics start on 9 Feb.
→ read full article
The Top 10 Outrageous Things about ISIS the Western Mainstream Media Ignores
Robert Bridge | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
31 Jan 2018 – The top 10 very strange circumstances that led to the rise of ISIS. It seems to be an appropriate time to reflect upon a set of very strange circumstances that led to the rise of this loathsome terrorist group.
→ read full article
For Myanmar’s Army, Ethnic Bloodletting Is Key to Power and Riches
Richard C. Paddock – The New York Times,
5 Feb 2018
27 Jan 2018 – Myanmar’s army was born in blood 76 years ago and has been shedding it ever since. Its founders, known as the Thirty Comrades, established the army in 1941 with a ghoulish ceremony in Bangkok, where they drew each other’s blood with a single syringe, mixed it in a silver bowl and drank it to seal their vow of loyalty. It has spent the past seven decades warring with its own people.
→ read full article
The Ultimate Guide to Butterflies & How to Prevent Their Decline
Clive Harris | DIY Garden! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
15 Jan 2018 – Butterflies and moths have been around for millions of years. They used to be a common sight in gardens, but numbers have declined since the 1940s along with our other native wildlife species such as bees and hedgehogs.
→ read full article
(Português) Volkswagen obriga macacos a inalar fumaças de diesel
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
A Volkswagen torturou 10 macacos em um teste para enganar as autoridades britânicas alegando que um de seus veículos movidos a diesel produziu emissões menos nocivas.
→ read full article
Volkswagen: The Scandal That Never Ends
Zoya Teirstein | Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
29 Jan 2018 – The German automaker issued yet another apology today, this time for a fraudulent study the company commissioned four years ago.
→ read full article
Remembering Investigative Journalist Robert Parry
Norman Solomon – The Nation,
5 Feb 2018
What made Bob Parry a trailblazer for independent journalism also made him a bridge burner with the media establishment.
→ read full article
(Português) Será que aos olhos dos animais não somos vistos como assassinos?
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
27 Jan 2018 – Será que o famigerado Assassino do Zodíaco poderia ser considerado um executor que seguia os princípios do “abate humanitário”? Por pior que fossem suas ações, me parece que ele não deixava de ter um código de ética. Afinal, ele matava suas vítimas com tiros cirúrgicos, com precisão letal. Ele não as torturava; não tinha qualquer interesse ordinário ou especial pelo sofrimento; apenas na morte.
→ read full article
Livin’ and Dion: Fall River a Perfect Backdrop for Kennedy Response [to Trump’s State of the Union]
Marc Munroe Dion - The Herald News,
5 Feb 2018
27 Jan 2018 – We are the struggle. Fall River is one of those left-behind places, one of those forgotten, unfashionable places, one of those American places that is neither New York City nor some quiet little suburb, nor some farm town. We are not igniting any national trends. Perhaps because of this, when U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III offers the Democrats’ rebuttal to Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday [30 Jan], he will speak from Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School.
→ read full article
Before Losing Battle with Cancer, This 27-Year-Old Woman Wrote an Inspiring, Eye-Opening Letter
Holly Butcher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
3 Jan 2018 – It’s a strange thing to realise and accept your mortality at 26 years young. It’s just one of those things you ignore. That’s the thing about life; it is fragile, precious and unpredictable and each day is a gift, not a given right. I’m 27 now. I don’t want to go. I love my life. I am happy. I owe that to my loved ones. But the control is out of my hands.
→ read full article
Samba do Brasil (Music Video of the Week)
Bellini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
CARNAVAL – CARNIVAL: 9 to 13 Feb 2018 ~ Paganism par excellence, Brazilian style!
→ read full article
Gene Sharp, Advocate for Nonviolent Resistance (21 Jan 1928 – 28 Jan 2018)
AP | Deccan Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
Sharp died at his Boston home on Sunday [28 Jan], said Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution, founded by Sharp in 1983. Sharp, once referred to as the “Machiavelli of nonviolence,” by the New Statesman, has influenced resistance to regimes around the world, from Eastern Europe, to Iran and Burma.
→ read full article
The New Cold War Is Happening in Africa
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
31 Jan 2018 – There is a new Cold War that is brewing and the African continent is slated to be its epic center. With China’s impressive rise as an economic superpower and Russia’s re-emergence as a strong military contender, the United States government is giving more attention on Africa.
→ read full article
Accompanying Honduras
Ken Jones – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
3 Feb 2018 – In Honduras, police and military repression, since the fraudulent 2017 elections, has been growing more dire. Ken Jones writes about a fifty-person accompaniment delegation which just returned from Honduras.
→ read full articleClick, Click… And Screen Light Up Again
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
Click, click … And the screen lights up again,
With murders, explosions, and lies.
Artificial Intelligence May Have Finally Decoded the Bizarre, Mysterious ‘Voynich Manuscript’
Peter Dockrill | Science Alert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
30 Jan 2018 – For centuries, it’s been the book no human can understand, but we may finally now be able to read it – thanks to machines invented a half-millennia after it was written. A code that hasn’t been cracked for 600 years.
→ read full article
Doping Ban against 28 Russian Athletes Overturned
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – In a decision issued today, the Court for Arbitration for Sport said it “unanimously found” that the evidence presented against 28 athletes were “found to be insufficient to establish” that doping rules were violated. With the decision, the sanctions imposed against the athletes are “annulled” and their individual medal results in the 2014 Sochi Winter Games are “reinstated”.
→ read full article“Not Enough!”
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
3 Feb 2018 – The Polish parliament decreed that anyone who uses the words “Polish extermination camps” is committing a crime punishable by three years in prison. The right description, according to the Poles, is “Nazi extermination camps in Poland”. The rectification is quite correct. But in Israel, a storm broke out. What?! The Poles deny the Holocaust?
→ read full articleDenying the Obvious: Leftists and Crimestop
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
5 Feb 2018
3 Feb 2018 – It is well known that effective propaganda works through slow, imperceptible repetition. “The slow building up of reflexes and myths” is the way Jacques Ellul put it in his classic, Propaganda. This works through commission and omission.
→ read full article
Mr. Netanyahu and the Elimination of the Landscape
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
3 Feb 2018 – The calls for the sides to go back to negotiations only while Israel is grabbing Palestine in the ground is certainly a very bad policy. Instead of moving forward it gives “longer time out to Israel” to complete the Israelization process. Further than that association agreements with Palestine, more recognitions of it, and more elevation of it in the international arena is badly needed as a complimentary to building Palestine in the ground and not as a contrary to the latter.
→ read full article
Johan Galtung: Understanding, Fighting & Overcoming Racism
TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
What does Johan Galtung think about Racism?
→ read full articleMissing: Conflict Literacy, Peace Literacy
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
I feel sad. I feel betrayed. I am in the West, the West is in me. Unrealistic are the present US-EU policies. Whoever moves too far away from reality will be punished: USA by being isolated, EU by warfare turning potential friends into enemies. If they want to go down, continue. Alternative: join the world. So, permit me two wishes, two dreams.
→ read full article
UN Reviews 206 Firms over Their Links to Israeli Settlements
Jamey Keaten | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 — The U.N. human rights office said Wednesday [31 Jan] that 206 companies — mostly Israeli and American — are facing a review of their business practices involving Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.
→ read full article
‘Whitewashing’ Genocide in Myanmar
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
30 Jan 2018 – Although the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has gathered greater media attention in recent months, there is no indication that the international community is prepared to act in any meaningful way, thus leaving hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees stranded in border camps between Myanmar and Bangladesh.
→ read full article
The Role of Media for a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – Over the past century the control of information, especially through the mass media, has become the most important characteristic of the culture of war. Why? It is urgent that we continue to develop media for a culture of peace throughout the world, hoping that someday it will obtain an audience as great as that for the culture of war.
→ read full article
Identity and Peace
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
Until the birth of the modern nation state, people lived in tribal groups. Commerce as well as skirmishes would have been common between tribes. In those days the tribe played a crucial role in shaping a child’s identity. In the modern world, economically defined ‘class’ also plays a big role in defining a person’s identity. Therefore we may use the word ‘tribe’ with this broader meaning of ‘identity group’ — subsuming both ‘caste’ and ‘class’.
→ read full article
Are the Miserable of the Earth Aware of Davos? The Nation of Millions of Jobless Youth (Part 1)
Baher Kamal – Wall Street International Magazine,
29 Jan 2018
25 Jan 2018 – This is not about spoiling your day—not at all. Some unavoidable, pressing questions, however, impose themselves while the world’s business pundits meet (23-26 January 2018) in the icy resort of Davos in Switzerland, pronouncing thousands of ‘politically correct’ words about inequality, gender and the future of the youth.
→ read full article
The Slow-Burning Genocide in Myanmar Continues – We Cannot Be Passive
Lubka Mieresova | RightsInfo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
As we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January) and remember the millions of people murdered by the Nazi regime, we must also pause and reflect: Slow-Burning Genocide in Myanmar.
→ read full article
Summary of the 2018 U.S. National Defense Strategy
Jim Mattis | US Department of Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Sharpening the American Military’s Competitive Edge
→ read full article
Are the Miserable of the Earth Aware of Davos? Heinous Inequalities (Part 2)
Baher Kamal – Wall Street International Magazine,
29 Jan 2018
26 Jan 2018 – The richest are accumulating wealth at such an astonishing rate that the world could see its first trillionaire in just 25 years. To put this figure in perspective – you would need to spend 1 million dollars every day for 2738 years to spend 1 trillion dollars, the report alerted.
→ read full article
How Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – In a blatant example of “do as I say, not as I do,” the US government is profiting handsomely by accepting marijuana cash in the payment of taxes while imposing huge penalties on banks for accepting it as deposits.
→ read full article
(Français) Les preuves du crime économique contre le Venezuela
Alfredo Serrano Mancilla | CELAG – Investig’Action,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – Laisser de côté ce que Venezuela confronte aujourd’hui, sous forme d’une multi-agression permanente en matière économique, est un acte d’irresponsabilité délibérée. Ce serait aussi une analyse partielle et biaisée. Ce serait la même chose que d’analyser l’économie mexicaine sans considérer qu’elle a les États-Unis comme voisin du nord.
→ read full article
(Italiano) La macchina dell’apocalisse
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
29 Jan 2018
22 gennaio 2018 – Pensare l’inimmaginabile… Ispirandosi alle nuove macchine da guerra l’intrattenimento del mondo virtuale propone scenari apocalittici, e nessuno si chiede se potrebbero verificarsi davvero. Realtà e fantasia si confondono pericolosamente nella mente della gente, soprattutto dei bambini e dei giovani.
→ read full article
Conditions in Myanmar Not Yet Suitable for Rohingya Refugees to Return Safely – UN Agency
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – The necessary safeguards for Rohingyas to return to Myanmar are absent, and there are ongoing restrictions on access for aid agencies, the media and other independent observers, the UN warned today, two months after Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed on a plan for the refugees’ voluntary return to their homes.
→ read full article
The 2018 US National Defense Strategy in Plain Words: Tragi-Comic!
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
26 Jan 2018 – This National Defense Strategy is as problematic as it is scary for the American people and the world. God, bless America! But before You do, please save it from itself!
→ read full article
A Rare Glimpse into the Inner Workings of American Empire in the Middle East
Edward Hunt – MintPress News,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – Four former U.S. diplomats provided remarkably candid commentary on recent U.S. involvement in the Middle East, revealing that it is still about oil and regional dominance.
→ read full article
(Português) Seda, diamantes e couro produzidos em laboratório são alternativa ética à exploração animal
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
28 jan 2018 – Devido à poluição e aos abusos dos animais na indústria do couro, estima-se que uma grande quantidade de vacas precisaria ser morta para atender a demanda por couro até 2025. Por isso, uma alternativa genuína ao couro no laboratório, salvaria a vida de milhares de animais.
→ read full article
Real Concerns about Rohingya Repatriation
Julian Francis | BD News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – For the Rohingya refugees there are no declared guarantees. What about their rights to citizenship, security, shelter, food, health, education and to be able to practice their religion? If they agree to move to a “Temporary Transit Camp”, it might turn into a camp for “internally displaced” or a “concentration camp”. Who is going to guarantee what?
→ read full article
Policy of the Cruel and Absurd: Sleep Deprivation in California’s Prisons
Charlie Hinton, Verbena Lea and Willow Katz | Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
10 Jan 2018 – In prison isolation units throughout California, guards wake prisoners up every 30 minutes under the guise of suicide prevention. These “security/welfare checks” cause ongoing sleep deprivation. The UN and many sleep and mental health experts have long defined sleep deprivation as a form of torture.
→ read full articleOn the Way to Hell…
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
29 Jan 2018
Busy body seeding destruction…
→ read full article
Keeping Haiti in Perspective
John Carroll, M.D. - CounterPunch,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – What word Trump used to describe Haiti is not important. It is his attitude behind the word. It is the connotation that Haiti is not worth our time. This is the danger. Keeping Haiti in perspective is important. Understanding President Trump’s motives is not difficult. But after that, we need to be careful.
→ read full article
2018 Doomsday Clock: It Is Now Two Minutes to Midnight
Rachel Bronson, PhD | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
25 Jan 2018 – The year just past proved perilous and chaotic, a year in which many of the risks foreshadowed in our last Clock statement came into full relief. Although the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists focuses on nuclear risk, climate change, and emerging technologies, the nuclear landscape takes center stage in this year’s Clock statement.
→ read full article
Wealth Concentration Continues to Increase
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – As the ‘masters of the universe’ gather for their annual retreat at Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has just published its Inclusive Development Index (IDI) for the second time.
→ read full article