Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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We Need Their Voices Today! (22) And Yours!
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
At a time of crisis, with the future at stake, please don’t be silent. We urgently need your voice today!
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Why Are Police in the USA So Terrified?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
15 Nov 2017 – For those who follow news in the United States, the routine killing of innocent civilians by the police has become a national crisis despite concerted attempts by political and legal authorities and the corporate media to obscure what is happening. So far this year, US police have killed 1,044 people. In contrast, from 1990 to 2016, police in England and Wales killed just 62 people. So why are the police so violent? you might ask.
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(Castellano) Los animales, portadores de derechos y deben ser respetados
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
12 nov 2017 – La aceptación o no de la dignidad de los animales depende del paradigma (visión del mundo y valores) que cada cual asume. Hay dos paradigmas que vienen de la más remota antigüedad y perduran hasta hoy.
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(Italiano) Per TMS. La sentenza di Piazza della Loggia e il quinquennio 1969-1974 a Collettivamente memoria. Manlio Milani e Silvia Guarneri ad Aosta
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Domani, domenica 19 novembre (ieri per i lettori di TMS) e oggi, lunedì 20 novembre, sempre per i lettori di Transcend Media Service, il progetto culturale “Collettivamente memoria” – tecnicamente anche progetto-intervento – presenta due testimonianze su una vicenda storica che ha riguardato la collettività italiana: la strage di Piazza della Loggia a Brescia avvenuta il 28 maggio 1974.
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PEACE: An Ultimate Planetary Need
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Humanity needs Peace!
Who feeds Peace?
Who is fed Peace? By whom?
How? Where? When? Why?
Prisons and Policing: Beyond the Carceral Logic of Civil Commitment in the USA
Toshio Meronek and Erica R. Meiners | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
10 Nov 2017 – A key component of the current system is its reliance on imprisonment as a response to behaviors and populations which are understood as sources of actual or potential harm. How can a harm reduction lens help us understand why really protecting our communities means imagining alternatives beyond incarceration?
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
At the age of 13 Henri fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14, the right. His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54m. tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Physically unable to participate in most of the activities typically enjoyed by men of his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in his art. An alcoholic for most of his adult life, he was placed in a sanatorium shortly before his death.
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The Climate Emergency: Two Time Scales
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
20 Nov 2017 – I am working on a book with the title The Climate Emergency: Two Time Scales. A pdf file of a first draft of the book can be freely downloaded. I urge you to download this file and to send the link or file to friends who might be interested. Also, if you have a website, please publish it there. Here are some excerpts from the Introduction:
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Western Intelligence: Saad Hariri Resigned to Avoid His Father’s Fate and Salvage Lebanon
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
16 Nov 2017 – Last week’s resignation of Lebanon’s popular Prime Minister Saad Hariri has fueled a plethora of politically inspired conspiracy theories. Beirut and Washington DC sources have suggested to this observer that Hariri’s thinking and motivation for a quick departure from Lebanon was influenced by reports delivered to him personally from three Western security agencies that have for the past six months been monitoring the movements of certain security agents from Hezbollah.
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A History of Idiocy
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
18 Nov 2017 – The older I get, the more convinced I am that sheer stupidity plays a major role in the history of nations. Great Thinkers, compared to whom I am a mere intellectual dwarf, have pursued other factors to explain what has turned history into a mess.
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Democratic Rotation in Office: Political Transcendence and Transformation of Ethno-regional Identities within the 21st Century Nation State
David Tiomajou – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Prof. Tagou brings to the democratic debate bold, interesting and eye-opening proposals: Africa should proudly and positively mold its own model of democracy rooted in its socio-cultural and ethnic pluralistic context. He proposes a model based on Johan Galtung’s concepts of transcendence and transformation of conflicts: Rotative Democracy as mechanism for the election of the President of the Republic.
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Alzheimer’s: Time to Take a Closer Look
Meredith Rogers | Geriatric Nurse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
An infographic about this disease that is affecting more and more people around the world every year. Alzheimer’s is a form of dementia. It attacks the area of the brain that has to do with thoughts and language. Alzheimer’s causes problems in an otherwise healthy individual, issue severe enough to interfere with a person’s work and social life.
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Oh Life, Unknown Deity
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Oh life, unknown deity,
You modify your forms but cannot die,
Wandering along the maze of eternity,
With UN Support, More Countries Confronting Threat of Drug-Resistant ‘Superbugs’
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
17 Nov 2017 – Antibiotics, antifungals, antivirals or antiparasitics are widely used in livestock, poultry and aquaculture to treat or prevent diseases. However, their over-use and misuse, such as for “promoting growth” is leading to the emergence of microbes resistant to these drugs, making the diseases they cause impossible to treat. Humans exposed to these antimicrobial resistant pathogens are also affected in the same way.
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Nuclear Disarmament Now a ‘Moral Imperative’ as Pope Francis Rejects Deterrence
Gerard O’Connell | America Jesuit Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
In a landmark statement on nuclear arms on 10 Nov 2017, Pope Francis has categorically condemned not only “the threat of their use” but also “their very possession.” Nuclear weapons, he told participants at a Vatican symposium on “integral disarmament,” exist “in the service of a mentality of fear that affects not only the parties in conflict but the entire human race.”
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La Cavalerie Legere (Music Video of the Week)
Andre Rieu & Jso – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Rieu at His Best! Enjoy.
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Sea Shepherd and Japanese Whaling: A Message from Captain Paul Watson
Captain Paul Watson | Sea Shepherd Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
The Japanese whaling fleet has left from Japan bound for the waters of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Sea Shepherd Founder, Captain Paul Watson, explains why we will not be sending our ships to Antarctica this season. “To continue would be foolish. We would spend a few million dollars and many months only to have another failure to engage, and if we did by some miracle encounter the fleet, we would be subject to lethal force without support from our own cowardly governments.”
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(Português) “Estar vivo é ser uma alma viva. Um animal – e somos todos animais – é uma alma inserida num corpo”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
17 nov 2017 – Estar vivo é ser uma alma viva. Um animal – e somos todos animais – é uma alma inserida num corpo. Foi precisamente isso que Descartes enxergou e, por razões pessoais, escolheu negar. O animal vive, disse Descartes, da mesma forma que a máquina vive.
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An Escalating Afghan Crisis of ‘Profit’ over ‘Life’
Hakim Young, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – If our ‘thinking as usual’ and ‘business as usual’ continue, we will leave no historical traces at Mes Aynak or Kabul except for mining and digging machines, in a parched desert of war ruins.
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Nov 20-26, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
→ read full articleWhitewash
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Clean Coal?
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Did Hitler Win the War?
Harald Ofstad | Dagens Nyheter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
The simplest explanation of the situation of the world is that Hitler won the war and is directing the events from his control room. If we accept this idea, it will be intelligible that the development is consistent with his ideology and more and more seems to be characterized by his evil genius. But if we assume that Nazism was crushed 1945, how then should we explain the correspondence?
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Flu Shots, Fosamax and Pharmaceutical Fakery
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
The Common Use of Deceptive Statistics in the Vaccine and Pharmaceutical Literature
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EU Member States Take Major Step toward a European Army
Peter Schwarz | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
14 Nov 2017 – The European Union has advanced its capacity to wage war in the future independently of and, if necessary, against the USA. Along with Britain, which will leave the EU in 2019, only four smaller countries—Denmark, Ireland, Malta and Portugal—did not sign on to the deal.
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The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story
Vacy Vlazna | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – Dr. Ramzy Baroud’s new book, The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story is described simplistically as ‘non-fictional narrative of modern Palestinian history.’ It is much, much more; for us readers, it is an intimate encounter, chapter by chapter, wherein we are entertaining new friends; having the privilege of listening to, savoring and indeed cherishing the rarely heard Palestinian stories saturated with the fears, joys, suffering, triumphs of the human spirit.
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Time to Challenge the War System
Prof. Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Are these observations leading to a putative grand conspiracy involving individuals in different domains–industry, military, politics and media–scheming in secret to propel us into war in order to make money? This is where we reach for the concepts furnished by social science to locate political agency not in the words and deeds of identifiable actors but instead as a generative force that is stored in, and activated from, systems and structures.
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UN Envoy Urges Greater Support for Rohingya Victims of Sexual Violence
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
16 Nov 2017 – “My observations point to a pattern of widespread atrocities, including rape, gang-rape by multiple soldiers, forced public nudity and humiliation, and sexual slavery in military captivity directed against Rohingya women and girls,” UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten said today.
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Migrants Sold into Slavery in Libya for as Little as US$400
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Libya, which formerly had the highest standard of living on the African continent, is now in ruins and housing a major slave market—thanks to US invasion, destruction of its social fabric and institutions under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Death by a Thousand Cuts: When the Cures of Big Pharma Are Worse than the Diseases
Paul Haeder | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
The more chemicals, drugs, vaccines, additives, toxins they make, the more difficult it is to escape from big business’ straitjacket.
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Challenges Facing Academia — Restoring Understanding and Harmony
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
20 Nov 2017 – After schooling, students have to decide what stream or subjects they should pursue in higher education. There are broadly four streams of studies for College students in many countries including India:
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The Biggest Threat to World Peace Is NATO
Eric Zuesse | Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
15 Nov 2017 – On November 8th, Britain’s Daily Mail bannered “NATO tells Europe to prepare for ‘rapid deployment’:” and sub-headed “Defence chiefs say roads, bridges and rail links must be improved in case tanks and heavy vehicles need to be quickly mobilised” (to invade Russia, but the newspaper’s slant was instead that this must be done purely defensively).
→ read full articleOldest Profession
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
A surgeon, an engineer and an economist were arguing which was the oldest profession.
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‘Millions of Victims’: US Aiding Massive Genocide in Yemen at Behest of Saudi Arabia
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – The Saudi Arabian alliance, of which the US is a member, has cut off the flow of humanitarian aid into Yemen and the results are catastrophic. We’re looking at a population that is larger than Australia’s. Apparently, the cost of maintaining ‘freedom’ in America now involves aiding a terrorist nation in the starvation of an entire country.
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Lion ‘Trophy’ Importation Ban Was Quietly Lifted by Trump Administration in October
David Leestma | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
17 Nov 2017 – Last month the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began issuing hunting permits for the import of lion trophies. Although the USFSW announced Wednesday [15 Nov] it was lifting a ban on the import of elephant trophies, the new guidelines for importing sport-hunted lions have been quietly in effect since Oct. 20.
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Afghanistan Opium Production Jumps 87 Per Cent to Record Level – UN Survey
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
15 Nov 2017 – A profoundly alarming trend in the cultivation and production of opium in Afghanistan reveals an 87 per cent production increase compared to 2016, the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime said today.
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Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution: Approaches to Understand the Current Issues and Future-Making
Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
The author initiates a courageous reasoned analysis of the current global affairs to unfold how few strategic and imaginative minds are enforcing new devices, weaponry and technological sophistication focusing on dehumanized fantasies of peace and human security to control the interests and priorities of One Humanity and endangering the futuristic stability.
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Why Do Civilians Become Combatants In Wars against the U.S.A.?
Nicolas J S Davies | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
The Center for Civilians in Conflict published the results of interviews with 250 people who joined armed groups in Bosnia, Somalia, Gaza and Libya. One of its main findings was that, “The most common motivation for involvement, described by interviewees in all four case studies, was the protection of self or family.”
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The Dull Ax
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
A lumber jack worked long hours every day to exhaustion, wasting a lot of time and energy cutting trees with a dull ax.
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From Bangladesh: Bearing Witness to My Country’s Genocide & Meeting the Survivors
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
My family and I spent a week in Bangladesh visiting Rohingya survivors of Myanmar genocide.
→ read full articleNow Is Not the Time: The Social Psychological Factor Permitting Climate Change and Nuclear War
Marc Pilisuk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
After hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, those who raised the issue of the contribution of global warming were admonished. It was not the right time to talk about global warming, nor was it the right time after the tragedies of flooding in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico. Or the horrid fires of Northern California… Now is the time to insist to our Congress that the modernization of nuclear weapons be dropped from the national budget. This will buy us some time to resolve other problems and to heal a planet and human community under deep stress.
→ read full articleReviving the Spirit of Existential Rebellion in a World of Propaganda, Lies, and Self Deception
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
9 Nov 2017 – In these very dark times – these end- times created by nuclear weapons – seeing the truth is dependent on the will to truth, and the will to truth only arises when people believe they are free to alter the circumstances in which they find themselves. This belief in freedom is at the core of all existential thought and is why we need to resurrect it today.
→ read full articleAmerican Cycle
José M. Tirado – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Altruists at heart,
We forgive everything,
Including the latest remix of terror,
…
The Girl in the Picture
Doug Rawlings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
We have seen this picture multiple times over the years, but it was just this past fall that I found out that the little girl, Kim, was nine years old when she was scarred for life. My granddaughter was nine this past fall. I wrote this poem below out of deep remorse and with a glimmer of hope — perhaps, just perhaps, there can be some forgiveness bestowed upon us if we accept our responsibility for the suffering we have caused, and if we live our lives struggling to put an end to war.
→ read full article(Italiano) Divide et impera, a chi giova? – Gli USA e l’ex Jugoslavia
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
L’uomo è un animale sociale e la sua sopravvivenza dipende dalla cooperazione con i suoi simili e dal mutuo sostegno. Solo in un’atmosfera in cui si percepiscono scarsità, minacce e conflitti irrisolti le persone si dividono e demonizzano “l’altro”. Se continuiamo ad attingere a quest’umanità profonda e a respingere costantemente gli incentivi alla divisione, noi esseri umani possiamo sicuramente unire le forze per assicurare una vita decente a tutti.
→ read full articleWhence the Wheels of Our Desire
Emanuel E Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Tufted, shades of a healing bruise,
Now they, desultory, scatter,
Distance an imagined cleft from where we lie,
…
We Need Their Voices Today! (21) Helen Keller
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Helen Keller, who although deaf and blind, could see injustice clearly, who could hear the voices of victims of war, and who spoke eloquently for social reform, we need your voice today!
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Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
November 7th, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. We bring to the attention of our readers a selection of articles, including Eisenstein’s 1928 film, 10 Days that Shook the World.
→ read full articleMy EGO
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
I want to understand my ego,
My conceit, egotism, my individuality,
How are we in touch with rude reality,
…
UN Security Council Calls on Myanmar to End Excessive Military Force in Rakhine State
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
6 Nov 2017 – In a statement, the 15-member body also called on the Government “to restore civilian administration and apply the rule of law, and to take immediate steps in accordance with [the Government’s] obligations and commitments to respect human rights, including the rights of women, children, and persons belonging to vulnerable groups, without discrimination and regardless of ethnicity, religion, or citizenship status.”
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Statues for Display of Power, Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Why does the world believe in construction of statues and other memorials to honor their heroes or icons — political or social? Obviously this is done not only to honor heroes of yesteryear but also to inspire ordinary mortals to follow their path of peace, harmony and human values.
→ read full articleTrailblazing Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Science, Spirituality, and the Conquest of Truth
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
“The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both,” Carl Sagan wrote shortly before his death. An entire century earlier, another patron saint of cosmic insight contemplated this enduring question with equal parts wisdom and warm wit. “Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
→ read full articleYemen: End Blockade, Avert Famine
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – The government of Saudi Arabia had imposed a total blockade of all Yemen’s seaports, airports and land crossings on the 6th of November 2017. The only institution that is in some position to bring everyone to the negotiating table is the UN; specifically Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who has been deeply concerned about the tragedy from the time he assumed office on the 1st of January 2017.
→ read full articleTwo Meetings
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
11 Nov 2017 – During the last few days, I met with two old friends: Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin. Well, the term “friends” may not quite be appropriate. Certainly, Arafat called me “my friend” in a recorded message for my 70th birthday, but Rabin called nobody “friend”. That was not his character.
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Fascism and Its Mobilizing Passions
TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Learn what fascism is, how fascists think, and what arguments motivate fascists to action. Based on the works of Robert Paxton, including “The Anatomy of Fascism” and “The Five Stages of Fascism.” Once you know the mobilizing passions, the prevalence of fascist rhetoric and behavior in America and around the world becomes much more noticeable.
→ read full articleAbout the Paradise Papers Investigation
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
5 Nov 2017 – The Paradise Papers is a global investigation into the offshore activities of some of the world’s most powerful people and companies. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and 95 media partners explored 13.4 million leaked files from a combination of offshore service providers and the company registries of some of the world’s most secretive countries. The files were obtained by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Today, 9 Nov 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the source code and development logs to Hive, a major component of the CIA infrastructure to control its malware. Vault 8: Source code and analysis for CIA software projects including those described in the Vault7 series.This publication will enable investigative journalists, forensic experts and the general public to better identify and understand covert CIA infrastructure components.
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Viðrar vel til loftárása (Music Video of the Week)
Sigur Rós – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Violent Reaction to Deep-Structural/Cultural Homophobia
→ read full articleOn Balfour’s 100th Anniversary, Time for a New Definition of Sovereignty, Independence and the Nation-State
Mark LeVine and Mathias Mossberg | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
November 2nd marks the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the letter from Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur James Balfour to British Jewish leader Walter Rothschild in which the British Government promised Jews a “national home” in Palestine should they win the war, while offering only to safeguard the “civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Nov 13-19, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown
→ read full articleOn LONGEVITY PLUS: a Rhymed Reflection
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
If an octogenarian you have become, how do you celebrate your longevity:
By humbling sharing your appreciation with humanity?
Prospects for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Presentation to the International Symposium on Nuclear Weapons at the Vatican, Rome, 10-11 Nov 2017: The Peace Process in Northern Ireland
→ read full articleChanging the “War No More” Sentiment of Armistice Day to the War-Glorifying Propaganda of Veterans Day
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
99 years ago, on 11-11-1918, at precisely 11 am Paris time, a cease-fire (aka “truce” or “armistice”) was agreed to and signed by military negotiators from France, Britain and Germany. The terms of the truce ultimately resulted in the end of the “War to End All Wars” 7 months later when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919.
→ read full articleHundreds of Whales and Dolphins Slaughtered in Annual Faroe Islands Hunt
Sea Shepherd Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
8 Nov 2017 – Over the course of ten weeks from this July to early September, the volunteers documented nine separate grindadrap events (what these yearly hunts are called in Faroese). According to the group, 198 Atlantic white-sided dolphins and 436 pilot whales were killed.
→ read full articleWMD in Syria Just like Iraq in 2003?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
3 Nov 2017 – Contradictions in the UN/OPCW Report on Khan Shaykhun – The committee is “confident that the Syria is responsible for the release of sarin in Khan Shaykhun on 4 Apr 2017”. Most western “experts” were dead wrong in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Are these same “experts”, institutes, intelligence agencies and biased organizations going to take us down the road to new aggression, this time against Syria?
→ read full articleUS Brands Russia Today a “Foreign Agent:” A Chilling Move against Free Speech
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
The U.S. Justice Department’s demand is aimed at delegitimizing RT America as a news source, intimidating its journalists and guests, and setting the precedent for taking similar actions against other news outlets. The fact that RT is being targeted because of its political positions sets an ominous precedent.
→ read full articleEspanya vs Catalunya, Cataluña vs España
Alberto Andrés Aguirre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
As Prof. Galtung says, sometimes it is necessary to touch the bottom, to lose all, in order to advance on the correct path of a solution: a path that is increasingly satisfactory for both parties, rather than for a single one, which is what happens if we move in the diagonal of the confrontation. Starting from “everyone loses” we can move towards the “win win” progressively seeking the achievement of the maximum legitimate objectives of each party.
→ read full articleQuickies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
George Bush came late to a cabinet meeting. He explained that he wanted to finish a puzzle.
→ read full articleDivide and Conquer
David Moore and Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Fill in the blank…
→ read full article(Português) Por que você considera mais ético não se alimentar de animais?
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
— Porque se sou capaz de sobreviver sem me alimentar da privação, sofrimento e morte de outras criaturas sencientes, não vejo motivo para continuar contribuindo com essa violência.
→ read full articleTrump Only President Not Invited to Paris Climate Summit
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
After Syria signed on 6 Nov, the 197th country to join the treaty, the US was left the sole country in the world outside the accord.
→ read full articleControversial Monsanto Weed-Killer Banned in Europe: Doesn’t Get Enough EU Votes for Renewal
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
9 Nov 2017 – A bid to renew a five-year license for Monsanto’s controversial weedkiller Roundup, which has been linked to cancer by the World Health Organization, has been foiled by the European Union. Recent statistics show that traces of the herbicide were found in 45 percent of Europe’s topsoil, 60 percent of grain products in the United Kingdom and in the urine of three-quarters of Germans participating in the research project.
→ read full articleSelected Articles: Mainstream Media “Fake News”, War Propaganda
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
12 Nov 2017 – We bring to the attention of our readers a selection of articles focusing on the obfuscation of truth through media manipulation as well as the routine dissemination of war propaganda. These articles show how media lies and fabrications are used as a justification to wage so-called “humanitarian wars”.
→ read full articleThree for the Week Ahead
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
A young woman suffered from cancer. Her doctor asked her what she enjoyed most in life.
→ read full articleWho Is the World’s Biggest Employer? The Answer Might Not Be what You Expect
Henry Taylor | World Economic Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
The U.S. Military [Department of Defense] has been named the largest employer in the world with 3.2 million employees on its payroll, according to the World Economic Forum.
→ read full articlePermanent Peoples’ Tribunal: State Crimes Allegedly Committed in Myanmar against the Rohingyas, Kachins and Other Groups
University of Malaya, Faculty of Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
18-22 Sep 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The PPT moved to inquire into the situation consistent with its view that genocide prevention is also a matter for the peoples of the world to be aware of and thence to demand action.
→ read full articleWhy Socialism?
Albert Einstein | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1, 1949) but with undeniable relevance today. – “Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.”
→ read full articleHandbook of Research on Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age
Bruce L. Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
6 Nov 2017 – The book covers a wide variety of concepts related to peace. I strongly feel that the main hindrance to world peace is the nearly universal failure to recognize and respect the essential role that women should take in leadership and governance. Veteran researcher and leader in peace, Prof. Johan Galtung, has written an inspiring foreword.
→ read full articleThe Spiritual Sources of Legal Creativity: The Legacy of Father Miguel d’Escoto
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – Father Miguel d’Escoto was both the Foreign Minister of Sandinista Nicaragua and President of the UN General Assembly, as well as pastor to the poor in the spirit of Pope Francis, an extraordinary person who fused a practical engagement in the world with a deeply spiritual nature that affected all who were privileged to know and work with him.
→ read full articleThe Assertion of Identity
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
While the media gives a lot of coverage to an event or action connected with the phenomenon — a referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan or a vote in the Catalonian parliament — the reasons that explain the assertion of identity are seldom analysed in depth. The unique characteristics of the assertion of identity in a specific instance and why it is different from another similar episode elsewhere are hardly discussed in the popular media.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (20) George Orwell
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
George Orwell, brilliant and honest writer, lifelong opponent of tyranny, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleBalfour: Then and Now
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
2 Nov 2017 – Today, November 2, is exactly 100 years after the issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the pledge given to the World Zionist Movement in a letter signed by the British Foreign Secretary to support the establishment of a ‘national home’ in the then Ottoman millet of Palestine. Certainly ‘a day of infamy’ for the Palestinian people and their friends around the world, while unfortunately treated as ‘a day of pride’ by the British Government, and all in the West those morally bankrupt enough to regret the passing of the colonial era, and to pretend without embarrassment that the Balfour legacy is something to celebrate, rather than to mourn, in the year 2017.
→ read full articleGood News at Last: World’s Largest Tropical Reforestation to Plant 73 Million Trees in Brazilian Amazon
Lorraine Chow| EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – The largest tropical reforestation effort in history aims to restore 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon by 2023. The multimillion dollar, six-year project, led by Conservation International, spans 30,000 hectares of land—the equivalent of the size of 30,000 soccer fields, or nearly 70,000 acres.
→ read full articleStand Up! Speak Out! To Prevent Nuclear War!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – The world may be closer to the brink of nuclear war than at any time in history! Click here to add your name to the People’s Peace Treaty. The People’s Peace Treaty will be sent to the governments and peoples of Korea, as well as to the U.S. government.
→ read full articleRequiem for the Promised Land
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – Sometime in the early 1900s my maternal grandparents threw caution to the wind and left Italy to settle in South Philadelphia… I wonder how they would feel, were they alive today, to know that a bright hard-working kid from the lower echelons of the ninety-nine percent would now have little chance to find a way; and that, come hell, high water, or both, the one percent would rather bring us all down than relinquish one ill-gotten buck.
→ read full articleWorld Votes to Lift Blockade on Cuba as US, Israel Vote ‘No’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – The U.N. General Assembly has voted 191 to 2 for the lifting of the U.S. blockade on Cuba as the United States and Israel were the only countries to vote against. Delegate after delegate called for the end of the blockade, highlighting the progressive and positive role Cuba plays in the international community.
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Ceeds of Peace 2017
Maya Soetoro-Ng, Ph.D. | Ceeds of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Maya Soetoro-Ng, Ph.D. is the founder of Ceeds of Peace. She is the maternal half-sister of the 44th U.S. President Barack Obama, has a rich background in global and multicultural education and lives in Hawaii. “We support and build bridges between families, community leaders and educators to share resources and develop action plans to strengthen our communities and improve our children’s lives.”
→ read full articleAfghanistan: From the Ground Up
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
30 Oct 2017 – On a recent Friday at the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ Borderfree Center, here in Kabul, thirty mothers sat cross-legged along the walls of a large meeting room. Masoumah, who co-coordinates the Center’s “Street Kids School” project, had invited the mothers to a parents meeting.
→ read full articleFacebook Provides Hoard of Personal Info to Authorities
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
30 Oct 2017 – Surveillance of Palestinians has always been part of Israel’s colonial project, but new technologies have made this surveillance even more intrusive and widespread. Israel particularly uses social media to monitor what individual Palestinians say and do, as well as to gather and analyze information on attitudes among the Palestinian public more broadly.
→ read full articleWho Is Afraid of the Iranian Bomb?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
4 Nov 2017 – I hate self-evident truths. Ideals may be self-evident. Political statements are not. When I hear about a self-evident political truth, I immediately doubt it. The most self-evident political truth at this moment concerns Iran. Iran is our deadly enemy. Iran wants to destroy us. We must destroy its capabilities first.
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Singin’ in the Rain (Music Video of the Week)
Gene Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
A Classic! 1952 musical-romantic comedy directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds
→ read full articleMyanmar’s “Ethnic Cleansing” of Rohingyas and the Indifference of Aung San Suu Kyi and Her Western Supporters
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
30 Oct 2017 – Feb 2006-dated Confidential Dispatch from Bangladesh High Commission in Myanmar
→ read full articleCatalunya: Culture of War or Culture of Peace?
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – It seems that the people of Catalunya will vote in December whether to declare independence from Spain, i.e. to form a separate state. If someone were to ask my advice about this election, I would say that it risks becoming a decision to move Catalunya towards the culture of war. There are good alternative for Catalunya, apart from secession.
→ read full article(Português) Adoecemos a Terra e a Terra nos adoece
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
28 out 2017 – De uma ou de outra forma, todos nos sentimos doentes física, psíquica e espiritualmente. Há muito sofrimento, desamparo, tristeza e decepção que afetam grande parte da humanidade. Já o dissemos aqui: da recessão econômica passamos à depressão psicológica. A causa principal deriva da intrínseca relação existente entre o ser humano e a Terra viva. Entre ambos vigora um envolvimento recíproco.
→ read full articleTelling the Truth about World War I
James MacLean – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
The politicians who were organizing the slaughter in the trenches knew that they had to lie. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George confided to the editor of the Guardian, C.P. Scott, on 27 December 1917, “If people really knew, the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don’t know, and can’t know.”
→ read full articleIndia’s Rohingya Realpolitik
Niranjan Sahoo | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
India’s muted reaction to the Rohingya exodus from Myanmar/Burma is worthy of note, as there had been high expectations that it would help diffuse this state-orchestrated humanitarian crisis.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Weapons Convention: An Open Letter to the Danish Parliament
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – Until now, Denmark has been slow to support the recently-adopted Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. I respectfully urge you to support the Treaty and the proposed 2018 nuclear summit meeting for the following reasons:
→ read full articleIs Israel Winning “the War between the Wars” with Iran/Hezbollah?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
3 Nov 2017 – Lebanese analysts argue that Hezbollah is paying the price for getting involved in Syria. Part of that price is its lost image as a “Resistance” organization, costing the lives of thousands of young Shia men… The destitute population in South Syria, some rebels and government supporters, those who claim to be apolitical and thousands of internally displaced Syrians are learning of Israel’s “Good Neighbor” policy and the number seeking and receiving aid is growing.
→ read full articleGandhi’s 1940 Letter to Adolf Hitler: Seek Peace or Someone Will ‘Beat You with Your Own Weapon’
Harrison Jacobs | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Mohandas Gandhi, frequently known by the honorific Mahatma (meaning “great soul”), was famous for advocating civil disobedience and nonviolence to achieve his goals. Here is the full version, which is the longer of Gandhi’s two letters to Hitler.
→ read full articleOn Cosmodignifiers: A Futurist Reflection
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
A Dialogue between Two Futurists, A and B
→ read full articleRaimon Panikkar (2 Nov 1918 – 26 Aug 2010): A Bridge between Cultures
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Raimon Panikkar, an Indian Roman Catholic theologian well versed in Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist and Western philosophical thought developed the need for “cultural disarmament.”
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