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Iranian Students Face Kafkaesque Impediments Challenging Iran’s Theocracy
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
11 Jan 2018 – On several occasions, meeting with brilliant, tech-savvy Iranian university students who are thoroughly charming, fearless and outspoken, this observer is presented a very different picture of what Iranians are facing than what is being offered by pro-regimen internet bloggers and water carriers.
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Death at the Gate in Afghanistan
Ken Hannaford-Ricardi | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Kabul, January 2017 – The insurgents whose only weapon is violence are clearly gaining sway here, but the Afghan Peace Volunteers are adamant in their knowledge that violence solves nothing. They struggle daily to practice and teach nonviolence, which their charter maintains “is a [personal] value and a way of living, relating, and acting,” a positive force for change in our own lives and in the life of our planet.
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Yesterday’s ‘Shithole Countries’ Can Become Classy Places, Donald, and Vice Versa
Dave Lindorff | This Can’t Be Happening! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – The Shit’s Everywhere – Donald Trump referred to countries of Africa and the long-suffering island of Haiti as “shitholes.” The truth is that yesterday’s “shithole countries” often become today’s modern success stories. Norway is a case in point.
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The Empire’s “Lefty Intellectuals” Call for Regime Change. The Role of “Progressives” and the Antiwar Movement
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
15 Jan 2018
9 Jan 2018 – The anti-war movement is dead. The war on Syria is tagged as “a civil war”. The war on Yemen is also portrayed as a civil war. While the bombing is by Saudi Arabia, the insidious role of the US is downplayed or casually ignored. Funded by corporate charities, via a network of non-governmental organizations, social activism tends to be piecemeal. The economic crisis is not seen as having a relationship to US led wars.
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Washington Prepares to Deploy “Usable” Nuclear Weapons
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – The US President’s State of the Union address later this month will introduce a significant break with past policy in proposing the development of a new class of low-yield, “usable” nuclear weapons.
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Ecuador Gives Assange Citizenship, Seeks End to Embassy Stay
Alexandra Valencia and Mark Hosenball | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
11 Jan 2018 – Ecuador has given citizenship to Julian Assange as part of its efforts to allow the WikiLeaks founder to leave the country’s London embassy where he has been holed up for more than five years.
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Bibi’s Son or: Three Men in a Car
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
13 Jan 2018 – NO, I don’t want to write about the affair of Ya’ir Netanyahu. I refuse adamantly. No force in the world will compel me to do so. Yet here I am, writing about Ya’ir, damn it. Can’t resist. And perhaps it is really more than a matter of gossip. Perhaps it is something that we cannot ignore… Tell me who your son is, and I’ll tell you who you are.
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41 Hearts Beating in Guantanamo
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
January 11, 2018 marked the 16th year that Guantanamo prison has exclusively imprisoned Muslim men, subjecting many of them to torture and arbitrary detention… Forty-one hearts still beat in Guantanamo prison cells. That’s forty-one too many.
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Wrongs of Rights Activism around Rohingyas
Maung Zarni – Prothom Alo [Bangladesh],
15 Jan 2018
I do not believe in Knights in shining armour or the White Saviours. The survivors have no rescuers. They need to struggle for their own survival and beyond. I am only a supporter who offers them my uncompromising solidarity as a fellow human. This piece, I wrote based on my 30-years of non-stop activism since I joined proudly the Amnesty International campus chapter at the University of California as a youngish graduate student in early 20’s. Now I am almost 54.
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Through the Wall of Fire: Armenia-Iraq-Palestine – From Wrath to Reconciliation
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Muriel Mirak-Weissbach in her new book Through the Wall of Fire uses a sequence from Dante’s Divine Comedy to stress the need within the wider Middle East for a fundamental revolution in thinking and a far-reaching shift in moral outlook leading from wrath to reconciliation.
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Martin Luther King’s Revolutionary Dream Deferred
Maj. Danny Sjursen – Truthdig,
15 Jan 2018
13 Jan 2018 – My King is the provocative King, the critic of bigotry but also of capitalism and the Vietnam War. The King, in truth, who has been willfully concealed from view. Read, study, unearth the real King, the radical King, and take up the torch of his fight—a dream deferred—against the three evils still alive and well in the United States: racism, materialism and militarism. The owners of this country are counting on your apathy. Prove them wrong.
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Happy Birthday – Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (Music Video of the Week)
Stevie Wonder – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Pictorial Tribute to Martin Luther King from ‘Happy Birthday’ by Stevie Wonder as part of the campaign to declare MLK’s birthday a national holiday. MLK was born on 15 Jan 1929.
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‘Race Law’ Takes Jerusalem a Step Closer to Being a Jewish-Only City
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
3 Jan 2018 – The Israeli government is planning a series of measures aimed at fully denying Palestinians their legal rights in Jerusalem and precluding any future peace settlement based on sharing the city between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
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Israel: Criminalizing the Victim
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
8 Jan 2018 – In 1953 the Israeli Knesset (parliament) passed the land purchase law which stipulated, among other things, that lands not used for a certain period of time determined by the law itself were to become “state lands”. People were thus evicted and their lands taken over by the state. This was simply land-grab through legislation. In addition, the state no longer recognizes traditional ownership of land.
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
“When profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s prophetic words continue to haunt and challenge us. He would be 89 years old today, January 15.
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An Honest Oath
Jonik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
If only… on a honestly corrupted world… of today!
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Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign Reborn
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
15 Jan 2018
Among the landmarks of his activism are the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, ending segregation in public transportation; leading the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech; the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act; and marching with sanitation workers in Memphis, where he declared in his last speech, delivered on the eve of his death, “I’ve been to the mountaintop.”
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We Try To Find Truth
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
We try to find truth,
The truth that is invisible,
Cold War Redux
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
15 Jan 2018
Recycling Old Garbage
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Beyond Fire and Fury: Trump as American as Apple Pie?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Maybe Time to Appreciate the Dish – Produced on the occasion of the response to the critical commentary of Michael Wolff (Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, 2018; Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President, New York Magazine, 3 January 2018)
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Franklin Lamb - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
The first ever official census of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon was finally released on 21 Dec 2017 in Beirut. Hopefully growing pressure from the new generation of young Palestinians vying for leadership positions in the camps and the growing number of young Shia in the region who no longer want to be fodder from their leaders seeking revenge for the events at Karbala 1,500 years ago, can persuade the “Resistance” that true Resistance begins with improving the Palestinian camps and being allowed to seek a job.
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‘Catastrophic’: US Freezes Aid for Palestinian Refugees
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
The United States has frozen US$125 million in funding for a U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinian refugees, Axios news site reported Friday [5 Jan 2017] citing Western diplomats. Many Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon and Jordan stand to suffer as a result of the massive aid cut.
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To Honor Albert Camus on the Day He Died: January 4, 1960
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Albert Camus was criticized by the right, left, and center. His allegiance was to truth, not ideologies. He opposed state murder, terrorism, and warfare from all quarters. An artistic anarchist with a passionate spiritual hunger, an austere and moral Don Juan, this sensual man of conscience and honor earned his reputation by a lifelong literary meditation on death in all its guises.
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Designing a Miracle to Save South Africa
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
3 Jan 2018 – This article is an offer of new ideas, designed to be food for thought for the first group, the questers; to question the certainties of the second group, those on either the right or the left or in the centre who believe the right path is known but just not followed; and to inspire hope and clarity in the third group, those whose emotions are deep but whose thoughts are muddled and incoherent.
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Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
6 Jan 2017 – There have been a number of periods when proposals for new or different United Nations structures were proposed and discussed. One of the most complete reform proposals has just been issued for discussion at the U.N. by the Government of China in a 27-page document. The Chinese proposals merit close attention. Most are not radically new.
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Dozens of Israeli Teens: ‘We Refuse to Enlist out of a Commitment to Peace’
Haggai Matar - +972 Magazine,
8 Jan 2018
Sixty-three Israeli teenagers have published an open letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu on 28 Dec 2017, declaring their refusal to join the Israeli army due to their opposition to the occupation. “The army carries out a racist government policy that enforces one legal system for Israelis and another for Palestinian in the same territory,” they write.
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(Português) Frei Betto: ANO NOVO, VIDA NOVA
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
30 dez 2017 – Ler Frei Betto seja como analista social, escritor e homem espiritual é sempre um aprendizado. Publico este pequeno texto porque me identifico com ele. É bem isso que desejo a tantos que me seguem, ora com críticas severas,ora com benevolência. Não importa. O importante é que estejamos vivos e exerçamos a liberdade com a responsabilidade que cada um sente que pode exercer.
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Trump, Kim Need to Grasp Reality of Famed Photo’s ‘Fruit of War’
Vox Populi, Vox Dei - The Asahi Shimbun,
8 Jan 2018
5 Jan 2018 – A barefoot boy, probably around 10 years old, waits in line at a crematorium. Strapped to his back is his dead baby brother. Staring straight ahead, the boy utters no words. This photo, titled “The boy standing by the crematory,” was taken in Nagasaki at the end of World War II by U.S. Marine photographer Joe O’Donnell (1922-2007).
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Military Revealed as Top Funder of Gene Drives
Third World Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
6 Dec 2017 — Gates Foundation Paid $1.6 Million to Influence UN on Gene Drives – Over1,200 emails released under open records requests reveal that the U.S. military is now the top funder and influencer behind a controversial genetic extinction technology known as “gene drives” – pumping $100 million into the field.
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Help Secure a New Prize for Nobel Peace in 2018!!!
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Deadline for Nobel Nominations for 2018: BY JAN 31 – Our efforts to make the peace prize serve the visionary peace idea of Alfred Nobel continue.
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After 1,000 Days of Conflict, Yemen Sliding into ‘Deepening Catastrophe,’ UN Agencies Warn
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
30 Dec 2017 – As the conflict in Yemen passes the grim 1,000-day milestone, the United Nations is warning that if humanitarian workers cannot gain greater access and the violence does not subside, the cost in lives will be incalculable.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
6 Jan 2018 – I AM angry with the Mizrahi elite. Very angry indeed. Mizrah is the Hebrew word for East. Eastern Jews are those who lived for many centuries in the Islamic world. Western Jews are those who lived in Christian Europe.
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North Korea and South Korea Are Threatening to Seek Peace
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Jan 2018
6 Jan 2018 – Korean Détente Puts Decades of Failed, Corrupt US Policy at Risk – A few gestures of mutual respect between North Korea and South Korea during the first week of January are the best signs of sanity there in decades.
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Which War in 2018?
Bruce K. Gagnon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
What US-NATO-Israel will do in their sick quest to knock down Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela and many others? Mr. Big wants it all – the question is how far will he go? Some of the outcome depends on us.
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(Português) Dia Mundial da Paz: Um momento para expandir a consciência
Bruna Araújo - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
8 Jan 2018
O Dia Mundial da Paz é celebrado anualmente no dia 1 de janeiro em todo o planeta. A data foi criada pelo papa Paulo VI em 1967 tendo como proposta unir todas as religiões com o objetivo único de criar um mundo pacífico e harmonioso. Saiba mais sobre esta importante data e repense antigos hábitos.
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The Culture of War Is Hiding in Plain Sight: It Is the State
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
The state devotes its resources and is more or less controlled, overtly or covertly, by the military throughout the world. This is not new but has been true throughout history. If peace is to be obtained, it cannot be based on the state. Can the state be replaced? Yes!
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Endings and Beginnings: A Commentary on 2017 to 2018
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
1 Jan 2018 – The bad news is that the world crisis worsened during 2017, largely due to the inept and anachronistic orientation exhibited by the Trump presidency. His influence was an immense distraction from facing challenges that required urgent and creative national and global attention, including climate change, biodiversity, global migration, Middle East turmoil, nuclearism, and scandalous levels of income and wealth inequalities.
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Happy New Year 2018!
Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
The New Year arrived and knocked at my door and asked me what I am thinking. It came to me as bright as sunlight and lightened my chamber. It looked straight into my eyes and asked what I am thinking. A single word came from my mouth:
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Duke University Bamboozled by a Sociopathic Corporate Mining Giant’s Gift of Money to Help It Exploit the Indigenous People of Peru
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
3 Jan 2017 – Below are two articles that nicely illustrate the cunning methods that ALL multinational mining, exploration, drilling, energy extractive or oil transporting corporations use to try to sanitize what in reality are greedy designs to enrich corporate stakeholders by raping, stealing, exploiting and permanently polluting the land, water and air that really has always belonged to the indigenous people and who simply want to protect what has always been theirs.
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Putin Foresaw Death of US Global Power
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Like a good wine, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s famous speech delivered in Munich 10 years ago regarding global security has been rewarded with time. A decade on, the many facets contained in that address have only become all the more enhanced and tangible.
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Meet Antonio C. S. Rosa: Pioneer in Peace Journalism
Sebastian Eck, Antonio C. S. Rosa | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
“TMS HAS INTEGRITY”: Meet the man behind TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS
→ read full articleToday We Need Love
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Today we need love,
As the best reward,
When blood is poured everywhere,
Waterfalls of discords are buzzing!
Salima
Ada Aharoni – TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
8 Jan 2018
Salima, my Palestinian sister,
come, let’s build a miraculous bridge
from your fig tree and your vineyard to mine
over the boiling suffering
wars and the Intifada.
Welcome to Kabul
Ken Hannaford-Ricardi | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
31 Dec 2017 – It is a dream come true being back among friends in Kabul! Streams of dented Toyotas (They are all Toyotas!) with windscreens cracked like bolts of lightning still jockey for position on roads where traffic lights and common sense hold little sway.
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2018 Brings No End to Violence against Rohingya as Refugees Continue to Flee to Bangladesh
UN International Organization for Migration – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
5 Jan 2018 – This week, Rohingya refugees were still arriving in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – the New Year bringing no end to the reports of violence and fears, which forced them to flee their homes in Myanmar.
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Concentration Camps for African Migrants Blocked from Entering Europe Are Popping Up Across Libya
Vijay Prashad | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
“The Europeans want to move their southern border from the northern edge of the Mediterranean Sea to the southern rim of the Sahara Desert.”
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How Canada Can Lead North Korean Peace Talks at Vancouver Summit
Christopher Black and Graeme MacQueen – The Toronto Star,
8 Jan 2018
3 Jan 2018 – If we Canadians think a lasting peace with North Korea will be obtained by insulting and starving the population of that beleaguered country we are as foolish, and as heartless, as those who put their faith in bombs — getting Canadians thinking critically about the latest diplomatic initiative of their government.
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Social Media Imperialism? Facebook Bans Palestinian Content at Behest of Israel, US
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Servie,
8 Jan 2018
Facebook has been working with Israeli government officials to suppress Palestinian voices in the social media sphere. The partnership between the social media giant and officials in Tel Aviv has resulted in the censorship, removal or blocking of content.
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Carlos Latuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
A Naughty Boy!
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Does God Exist? – Scientific Spirituality
ISKCON Desire Tree – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Insightful, rational, factual and authoritative information about God’s existence and His role as a creator of the universe; a perfect blend of Science and Spirituality.
→ read full articleAmerican Diplomacy with North Korea and Vietnam
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
There seems to be a stalemate, with 8 million or so in and around Seoul being as hostages to North Korean artillery should there be a US attack. North Korea will not launch a first strike, but they want to show USA-Japan-the World that they are equal to USA in offensive capability with an invulnerability of force and value–people–unmatched in human history. Mantra: “1952” NEVER AGAIN!
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Unusual People, Unusual Events in India
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
“Alone I can say, together we can talk
Alone I can smile, together we can laugh
Alone I can enjoy, together we can celebrate.”
I have added another maxim:
“Alone I can think, together we can discuss.”
Breathe [In the Air] (Music Video of the Week)
Pink Floyd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Dark Side of the Moon. Released in 1973 – FOREVER FRESH! Enjoy!
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Jack
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
A fifth grade teacher began her first day with a new class. All the students were neat and well behaved, except for Jack, a boy in the front row, who was slumped in his chair and seemed to need a bath.
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Protected Myanmar’s Genocide and Its Impact on Bangladesh
Mohammad Zaman – The Daily Star [Bangladesh],
8 Jan 2018
“There are no viable and peaceful solutions on the horizon for Rohingyas. The United Nations system has failed the victims; again! Rohingyas are not the first nor will they be the last who will be sacrificed in the geopolitical equations and narrow self-interests of the world’s leading nations on the path of Planetary Destruction.” – Maung Zarni
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China’s Ban on Elephant Ivory Sales Goes into Effect Sun Dec 31
Karen Graham | Digital Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
China, the world’s largest importer and end user of elephant tusks, has banned the sale of ivory with the law taking effect on 31 Dec 2017. The ivory trade is responsible for the deaths of nearly 30,000 elephants every year in Africa.
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Introducing Kijima Hajime
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
In various ways, poetry is an art of digressions. One builds unexpectedly—through rhymes, metaphors, similes, assonance and consonance, etc.—not just “castles in the air”—but castles, and sometimes shacks, to live in, get the feel of, try on for size, in order to gain new awareness. Hajime-san is just such a “builder.”
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Mapping a World from Hell: 76 Countries Are Now Involved in Washington’s War on Terror
Tom Engelhardt – TomDispatch,
8 Jan 2018
4 Jan 2018 – A glance at the map tells you that the war on terror, an increasingly complex set of intertwined conflicts, is now a remarkably global phenomenon.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
After an interval of four million years, two planets meet again in the universe.
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The Madrasa Myth
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Madrasas across the world have suffered a great loss of reputation recently, primarily owing to a wave of extremism. These Islamic schools have been maliciously projected as incubators of holy warriors or what has been derisorily called as ‘jihad machines’.
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Trump “Defends” the Right to Protest in Iran, Criminalizes Protest in Washington
E.P. Milligan | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
8 Jan 2018 – Trump’s self-righteous claims to defend the right to protest in Iran are sheer hypocrisy. The first act of his administration was a police crackdown against people who protested his inauguration day. Police deployed weapons on at least 191 occasions, fired 74 sting ball grenades, a total of 230 people were arrested. The first round of trials collapsed late last year, with the jury acquitting all of the defendants. One hundred and eighty-eight defendants still await trial, many facing up to 50 years in prison.
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Africa in Review 2017: AFRICOM, Finance Capital and the Elusive Independent Policy
Abayomi Azikiwe – Global Research,
8 Jan 2018
1 Jan 2018 – The presence of Pentagon and French military personnel in Niger is indicative of the ever-widening AFRICOM and NATO efforts to maintain control over the land, resources, labor and waterways of the African continent. Throughout the Economic Community of West African States region, AFRICOM is active in conducting joint maneuvers with national armies and navies. The imperialist powers are carefully positioning themselves to serve their own strategic and economic interests.
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(Português) Retrospectiva 2017 – Será que o ano foi bom para os animais?
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
31 dez 2017 – Será que 2017 foi bom para os animais? Matamos mais de 56 bilhões de animais terrestres em 2017, contabilizando apenas os animais executados em matadouros; e mais de um trilhão de animais marinhos, ou seja, sem contar os animais de água doce.
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(Português) Cidadãos Globais Podem Fazer a Diferença–Como?
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Homenagem a Johan Galtung, criador da área de Estudos de Paz.
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Child Rapist Joins Brazil’s Congress
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
6 Jan 2017 – Nelson Nahim is a politician from Rio de Janeiro who was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2016 for submitting a 15-year-old girl to prostitution, rape and intimidation. The new congressman is affiliated with President Michel Temer’s party.
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2.5 Minute to Midnight
Andrew Glikson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
On 27 Jan 2017, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the arms of its doomsday clock to 2.5 min to midnight, the closest it has been since 1953, with implications for humanity and nature. This book elaborates the reasons for the decision by the Atomic Scientists.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! To All Our Readers, Friends, Supporters
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
On behalf of Prof. Johan Galtung and all of us at TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS, I express the sincere desire that 2018 be much better than 2017 to all of you—it will not be that difficult insofar the World is concerned. Thank you for your support, …
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Peacebuilders: The Making of Mandela
Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison but upon his release, he chose reconciliation over revenge.
→ read full articleRemaining Peaceful Was Their Choice
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
31 Dec 2017 – People living now in Yemen’s third largest city, Ta’iz, have endured unimaginable circumstances for the past three years. Civilians fear to go outside lest they be shot by a sniper or step on a land mine… Despite their misery, they steadfastly opted for unarmed, nonviolent struggle.
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Stepping Stones to Change in Afghanistan
Carolyn Coe | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Amrullah has studied nonviolence at the Street Kids School, in Kabul, Afghanistan, for almost three years. The school, with 94 students this year, is a project of the Afghan Peace Volunteers (APVs) at the Borderfree Nonviolence Community Centre. There, the students also gain literacy and math skills, supplementing their lessons at the government schools.
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(Français) Tuer la biosphère pour accélérer l’extinction humaine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Prepare for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Il y a plusieurs années au Cameroun, un pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest, un rhinocéros noir occidental a été tué. C’était le dernier de son genre sur Terre.
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The Evolution of the Refugee Crisis
Erik Berglöf | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
The 2015 refugee crisis is still a raw issue for millions of Europeans, and continues to serve as fodder for populist and nationalist movements. But, in reality, the situation has started to improve dramatically in many host countries, and it is now incumbent on European leaders to ensure that the trend continues.
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(Português) Retrospectiva 2017: um ano de retrocessos, inovações e esperanças
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
28 dez 2017 – O ano de 2017 foi marcado pelas contradições e anacronismos. Enquanto vimos vitórias pelos direitos animais em várias partes do mundo, tivemos que conviver com retrocessos terríveis no Brasil como emendas parlamentares para a perpetuação da exploração animal em rodeios e vaquejadas, a tentativa de legalizar a caça no país(…) Confira os destaques deste ano da ANDA.
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A Whiter Shade of Pale (Music Video of the Week)
Procol Harum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Original from the Summer of Love 1967 Hit Record
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An Appeal to the TRANSCEND Membership by TMS Editor Antonio C. S. Rosa
Sebastian Eck, Antonio C. S. Rosa | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
“Dear colleagues, dear friends, dear TRANSCEND members, let’s grow younger. Let us bring together competent young people from across the world for Nonviolence, Mediation, and Peace Journalism.”
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
A man comes home and finds his dog with the neighbor’s pet rabbit in his mouth. It is dead.
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The Denied Oppression of Myanmar’s Rohingya People
IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
An explosion of violence has driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya out of Myanmar. The continuing exodus is the culmination of decades of oppression and hostility that have stripped Rohingya of their rights, denied them an identity, and forced them from their homes. What comes next for one of the world’s most persecuted minorities?
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Thomas Lamadieu | Roots Art – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Lamadieu takes photos of buildings then uses the sky as his canvas.
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The Unseen World
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
To be aware of the wonders of the living planet is to take on an unbearable burden of grief. What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.
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(Português) Mastite e a Exploração de Vacas
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
27 dez 2017 – Você percebe mais uma vez como estamos imersos em uma cultura especista, que encara os animais não humanos como nada mais do que produtos, quando cientistas ligados à saúde animal apontam como principal prejuízo da mastite, uma grave inflamação das glândulas mamárias, a queda na produção de leite da vaca.
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How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda
Lauren Etter, Vernon Silver and Sarah Frier |Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
21 Dec 2017 – Zuckerberg’s social network is a politically agnostic tool for its more than 2 billion users, he has said. What he hasn’t said is that his company actively works with political parties and leaders including those who use the platform to stifle opposition with the aid of “troll armies” that spread misinformation and extremist ideologies.
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Religion – A Source of Conflict or the Path to Peace? Its Role in Preventing Violence
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
A constant and widespread communication process on religious reflection, inclusion and participation should prevail as a showpiece for conflict prevention, resolution and resilience. Doing good and promoting peaceful behaviour is not enough. Extensive inclusive participation and communication on the subject matter must be undertaken in order to provide a counter-weight to toxic conversations, the spreading of violence and extremism.
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Stress Test: Democracy Confronts Climate Change
Gus Speth | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
29 Dec 2017 – Can American democracy rise to the climate occasion? Unprecedented measures must be put in place both to move completely out of fossil fuels by mid-century and also to pursue far-reaching and costly adaptation.
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Trump, the UN, and the Future of Jerusalem
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
31 Dec 2017 – The wider implications of the UN reaction to Trump’s Dec 6 decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and to follow this by relocating the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
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Nativity: Rev Kevin Annett, the United Church of Canada, and the “Little Matter of Genocide”
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
25 Dec 2017 – The “little matter of genocide”, about which the United States of America shares considerable guilt, is the century-long history of abuse, rape and murder of tens of thousands of Canada’s aboriginal children in church-run Indian residential schools (known as mission schools in the US), a subject on which Kevin is an acknowledged world expert.
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Crumbling Congo – The Making of a Humanitarian Emergency
IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
The Democratic Republic of Congo has been at war with itself for more than two decades. The scale of the humanitarian crisis requires an urgent international response – but the world is yet to step up to the challenge.
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Reconciling Symbols of Islam, Judaism and Christianity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
31 Dec 2017 – Catalytic Methodology for Effective Interfaith Dialogue – Importance of the highest degree is attached by their respective believers to the symbols of the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths. Their mutual hostility over millennia is focused by and through those symbols. They are displayed and brandished on ever possible occasion.
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Celebrating Christmas in Traditional and Non-Traditional Ways
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
1 Jan 2018 – Christmas is celebrated with devotion, fervor and gaiety all over the world on 25 December. I am sure there have been unusual events to celebrate Christmas this year. The ones I have written give only a glimpse of the celebrations and festivities. Perhaps other people will join the festive mood and share their unusual experiences.
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US Nuclear Tests Killed Far More Civilians Than We Knew
Tim Fernholz | Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
21 Dec 2017 – When the US entered the nuclear age, it did so recklessly. New research suggests that the hidden cost of developing nuclear weapons were far larger than previous estimates, with radioactive fallout responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Two basic institutions in Western history and individual lives: Christianity offering Salvation to those following Laws, Commandments, and Science offering Truth to those who believe in scientific laws. After Enlightenment ushered in a godless world, one is waning and the other vexing, seen as antithetical to each other.
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Bibi’s “Iran Will Have 100 Nukes!” Math Appears a Bit Wobbly…
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
… As Israeli Military Intelligence Evaluates USIS Claims That the IROI Acquired Three Nukes from the DRNK Last Spring
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Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Ask What You Can Do for Your Country
Stan Shabaz | Zinda Magazine – Assyrian International News Agency,
1 Jan 2018
His most famous work, The Prophet, was first published in 1923. He has been described in many ways: “melancholic romantic”, “existentialist of the right wing”, Nietzschean rebel, revolutionary, renegade, poet-philosopher, “the William Blake of the twentieth century”, the “Lebanese prophet of New York”, a “burning genius”, etc. But who was he really?
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The Jerusalem Vote and the US-Israel Link
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
1 Jan 2018 – the US-Israel link has not been able to achieve its goal of enhancing the “security” of Israel. The defeat of this diabolical link in the UN on 21 Dec merely underlines this fact. It should embolden all of us to accelerate our struggle for a just world.
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Suspected Cholera Cases in Yemen Surpass One Million, Reports UN Health Agency
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
22 Dec 2017 – The total number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has crossed one million, the World Health Organization reported today. “If we cannot bring in medicines and medical supplies, we cannot save lives.”
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Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
1) Nothing. One hand cannot clap….
2) Half the sound of 2 hands clapping….
The Man Who Jumped
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
30 Dec 2017 – Nobody described the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict better than the historian Isaac Deutscher. A man lives in a house that catches fire. To save his life, he jumps out of the window. He lands on a passer-by in the street below and injures him grievously. Between the two a bitter enmity arises. Who is to blame?
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Runaway Train towards Full Digitization of Money and Labor
Peter Koenig | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
28 Dec 2017 – The other day I was in a shopping mall looking for an ATM to get some cash. There was no ATM. Cash machines gradually but ever so faster disappear, not only from shopping malls, also from street corners. This new cashless money model is progressively but brutally introduced to the Swiss and Europeans at large as they are not told what’s really happening behind the scene.
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Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
With 17% of the world’s population, India is home to a quarter of the world’s hungry. The dismal health of Indian women and children is primarily due to lack of food security. Food security exists when all people at all times have physical, economic and social access to safe, adequate and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for a healthy and active life.
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Effigies
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Effigies is a collection of drawings by Syrian artist Lawand, accompanied by poems which were composed by the British poet Pascale Petit in response to these images. Even the verbal realm into which Petit’s poems take us has the language of some other world; such is the appeal of her words.
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(Português) Síndrome das Pernas Inquietas: Doença causa “alfinetadas” a noite inteira e não tem cura
Nuno de Noronha | SAPO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
27 Dez 2017 – A Síndrome das Pernas Inquietas é uma doença crónica e progressiva com impacto importante na qualidade de vida das pessoas. Alguns descrevem-na como uma espécie de “agonia nas pernas”, “comichão nos ossos” ou “alfinetadas”, explica o médico pneumologista Bruno Santos.
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