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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Oct 16-22, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.” — Walter Anderson
→ read full articleHow to Eradicate Rural Poverty, End Urban Malnutrition – A New Approach
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
16 Oct 2017
9 Oct 2017 – Population growth, increasing urbanisation, modern technologies, and climate change are transforming the world at a fast pace. But what direction are these transformations headed in? “Unless economic growth is made more inclusive, the global goals of ending poverty and achieving zero hunger by 2030 will not be reached,” warned FAO head Graziano da Silva.
→ read full articleThe One and Only Path to Palestine/Israel Sustainable Peace
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
12 Oct 2017 – We should accept our human responsibility to aid and abet the Palestinian struggle for rights, self-determination, and a just peace. The attainment of such goals would also inevitably reshape the destiny of Israeli Jews toward a more humanistic and benevolent future.
→ read full articleWrongful Rhetoric and Trump’s Strategy on Iran
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
In a time when 20 million people face starvation, it’s particularly obscene for any country to pour resources into nuclear weaponry.
→ read full article(Français) Qu’est-ce que l’Ican, le lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix ?
François d’Alançon | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Cette coalition mondiale de plusieurs centaines d’ONG s’est mobilisée pour le traité d’interdiction de l’arme atomique, adopté par 122 pays le 7 juillet 2017 à l’ONU.
→ read full articleSufism Can Sanitise Our Planet
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
14 Oct 2017 – The world has changed in many profound ways. Developments over the last two or three decades have been, in many cases, quite remarkable — notably the tremendous reduction in global poverty — and offers hitherto undreamt of opportunities. But all is far from well.
→ read full articleRemembering Che Guevara 50 Years after His Assassination on 9 Oct 1967
James Cockcroft – teleSUR,
9 Oct 2017
In light of a recent upsurge in denunciations of Che and the Cuban Revolution, it is important to separate fact from fiction.
→ read full article(Português) Companhias suspeitas de financiarem a semi-escravidão em países subdesenvolvidos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
29 set 2017 – Companhias que, de acordo com Human Rights Watch, não fornecem informações claras sobre a origem de seus produtos, locais onde pessoas trabalham em más condições e por longas jornadas, em um regime de semi-escravidão. Grandes companhias que têm ajudado a financiar a exploração do trabalho infantil em países subdesenvolvidos:
→ read full articleThe October Arab-Israeli War of 1973: What Happened?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Forty-four years since the October war in 1973, Israel still occupies Palestinian territories and Syrian Golan Heights.
→ read full article(Português) A era geológica do antropoceno versus a do ecoceno
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
1 out 2017 – O primeiro a elaborar uma ecologia da Terra como um todo foi o geoquímico russo Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky. Ele conferiu caráter científico à expressão “biosfera” criada em 1875 por um geólogo austríaco Eduard Suess. Nos anos 70, com James Lovelock e sua equipe se desenvolveu a teoria de Gaia, a Terra que se comporta como um sistema orgânico, portanto, um super-organismo vivo que sempre produz e reproduz vida. Gaia, nome grego para a Terra viva, não é tema da New Age mas o resultado de minuciosa observação científica.
→ read full article(Français) CUBA : Fidel et la Culture
Antonio Rodriguez Salvador | La Jiribilla – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Qu’aurait fait pour la culture, le commun des mortels à la tête d’un pays comme Cuba, dans les circonstances convulsives des premières années de la Révolution ? Si nous suivons la maxime bien connue du philosophe espagnol José Ortega y Gasset : « Je suis moi et ma circonstance », cette conjoncture historique particulière aurait probablement polarisé les actions du leader – s’il n’avait pas été Fidel – dans des aspects éloignés de la promotion culturelle…
→ read full articleFive decades of Peace Research: Past and Future
TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Adress [in English] by Prof. Johan Galtung at Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal), 20 Oct 2017 at 10 a.m. ~All welcome!
Then on 24 Oct we celebrate Johan’s 87th birthday in Porto. ~All welcome!
Myanmar Says Refugees Must Prove Residency to Return Home
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
It remains unclear where the Rohingya would go if they did return, since many of their villages have been burnt to the ground.
→ read full articleHow Are You on This Greying Day
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
How are you on this greying day
The winds push, all the sky a soft,
A pressing down – it seems so gentle
It might be a smile
As it takes our little breath
John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Famed singer-songwriter John Lennon founded the Beatles, a band that impacted the popular music scene like no other before, or since.
→ read full articleKeeping Peace in Transilvania
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The media tend to report about cases where mediation fails and fighting breaks out, but they almost never report about cases where fighting has been avoided, and how this was achieved. They have turned the old adage “no news is good news” into “good news is no news.” Better coverage of success stories could encourage others to help prevent war.
→ read full articleA Cuban Mystery: The US Embassy in Havana
Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Since the fall of 2016, up to 21 diplomats at the US embassy have been affected by what is now being considered an attack–previously deemed as “incidents” … “Ultrasonic waves, beyond the acoustic capacity of humans, can be broadcast with an amplifier, and the device does not need to be large, or used inside or outside the house.” Havana has expressed consternation at the moves by the Trump administration, but is still hopeful in cooperation.
→ read full article(Português) Seminário: “Five Decades of Peace Research – Past and Future”
Escola de Economia e Gestão da Universidade do Minho [Braga, Portugal] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
O Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política acolhe o seminário subordinado ao tema acima, o qual será proferido por Johan Galtung. Sexta-Feira, 20 outubro 2017 | Campus de Gualtar – CP II | Room B2, 10h00
→ read full articleThe Key Issues to Consider Regarding Myanmar’s Official Proposal for Rohingya Repatriation
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 – After periodic waves of genocidal attacks on Rohingyas over 39 years and the displacement of 1 million internationally, this repatriation proposal by Suu Kyi-Army regime needs to be treated with extreme caution and skepticism.
Rohingyas who remain trapped in N. Rakhine’s vast open prisons are facing reduced access to food and medicine on the ground. Armed Rakhine gangs roam in these areas intimidating, harassing and looting anything of value from Rohingya families.
The Movement May Change but Cannot Die
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The movement may change but cannot die,
Eternal movement embraced by fleeting time,
Run, my free verse, and sparkle, rollicking rhyme,
Separation is Beautiful
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
7 Oct 2017 – The Knesset is busy with enacting the Nation Law, intended to make clear that the Jewishness of the Jewish State takes precedence over democracy and human rights. Israel has no constitution, but until now it was assumed that Israel was equally “Jewish” and “democratic”. The new law is about to abolish that notion. As usual, we are one or two centuries behind world history.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Voted Against a U.N. Resolution Condemning Death Penalty for LGBTQ People
Alex Emmons – The Intercept,
9 Oct 2017
3 Oct 2017 – The U.N. floated a resolution banning the use of the death penalty to punish homosexuality. The Trump administration voted “no.”
→ read full articleHarold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report #11 (October 2017)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ together with a sample of news about Charter signatories and organizations. Our collective effort to build a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts continues to make progress, even against rather overwhelming odds!
→ read full article(Português) Centenas de animais são mortos em festival religioso na Índia
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
4 out 2017 – Centenas de animais foram sacrificados em Bhawanipatna, no distrito indiano de Odishas Kalahandi por causa do famoso festival Chhatar Jatra da deusa Manikeswari, dizem as autoridades.
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Réquiem del Mediterráne (Music Video of the Week)
Theresia Bothe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Music video to remember all who lost their lives in Lampedusa on 3 Oct 2013 and all those other days in which people have lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. We stand with their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and friends.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Oct 9-15, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” –- Dorothy Canfield Fischer
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (16) Wilfred Owen
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Wilfred Owen, eloquent opponent of war, tragic victim of war, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleThey Thought They Were Going to Rehab. They Ended Up in Forced Labor Camps
Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter | Reveal - The Center for Investigative Reporting,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – The worst day of Brad McGahey’s life was the day a judge decided to spare him from prison. He had heard of Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery, people called it “the Chicken Farm.” Aside from daily cans of Dr Pepper, McGahey wasn’t addicted to anything. The judge knew that. But the Chicken Farm sounded better than prison.
→ read full articleThe Golden Rule: Eleven World Religions
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – It is indeed ironic, tragic in fact, that the Golden Rule is considered an essential truth of world religions and yet is abandoned by religions in favor of self-serving social and political goals keeping people apart separated and disconnected. As has been said by wise voices: “There is no other.”
→ read full articleHaiti’s UN Mission Ends after 13 Years of Occupation
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
One of the longest-running U.N. peacekeeping missions has been implicated in a child sex ring and a cholera outbreak in Haiti.
→ read full articleDisarmament
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
When someone argued, “We have had nuclear weapons for 50 years and nothing has happened,” Helen Caldicott replied,
→ read full articleThe Fight Ahead: 13 Questions about the Origins, Objectives and War on BDS
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – BDS stands for ‘Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions’. The BDS Movement was the outcome of several events that shaped the Palestinian national struggle and international solidarity. Building on a decades-long tradition of civil disobedience and popular resistance, and invigorated by growing international solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, Palestinians moved into action.
→ read full articleCanada’s Nuclear Diplomacy Is Make-Believe
Paul Meyer and Ramesh Thakur - The Globe and Mail,
9 Oct 2017
More than 120 states, parties of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, deemed it important for the survival of the planet to conclude a comprehensive prohibition on nuclear weapons and the use or threat of use of these devastating and indiscriminate arms. But Canada opted to join a “dissenting minority” of nuclear-armed states and U.S. allies
→ read full articleUnder Siege in Their Villages, Rohingya Still In Burma Say They’re Trapped
Max Bearak – The Washington Post,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 — Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s de facto leader, recently claimed that an unprecedented exodus of half a million Rohingya Muslims from her country in just five weeks “has quieted down” and that people are “carrying on as normal.” But there is another way to assess the ground reality for Rohingya in Burma: calling them on their cellphones. Testimony gathered last week from more than a dozen such conversations suggests that Burma’s leaders are either misinformed about events in Rakhine or intentionally misrepresenting them.
→ read full articleUncle Nazi
Latuff – MintPrewss News,
9 Oct 2017
Déjà-vu all over again?
→ read full articleNobel’s Peace Prize to ICAN: Thank You to the Nobel Committee!
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Our thanks to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for awarding its 2017 Prize to ICAN – the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
→ read full articleIndia’s Microfinance Is Losing Its Soul
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Microfinance is actually a tool in a broader development toolbox, but in certain conditions, it happens to be the most powerful tool. It has all to do with how we are using it and how we are defining the outcomes. It needs to shape a more responsible capitalism. It is certainly not an easy choice by any means, but a right choice for wise investors and society alike.
→ read full articleStudy: Dangerous Pesticide Found in 75 Percent of the World’s Honey
Derrick Broze | Activist Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
6 Oct 2017 – A new study published in the journal Science, “A worldwide survey of neonicotinoids in honey,” examined 198 types of honey from around the world looking for traces of neonicotinoids, a class of pesticide that has been linked to declines in bee populations.
→ read full articleJimmy Carter: What I’ve Learned from North Korea’s Leaders
Pres. Jimmy Carter – The Washington post,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – Over more than 20 years, I have spent many hours in discussions with top North Korean officials and private citizens during visits to Pyongyang and to the countryside. I found Kim Il Sung, Kim Yong Nam and other leaders to be both completely rational and dedicated to the preservation of their regime… The next step should be for the USA to offer to send a high-level delegation to Pyongyang for peace talks or to support an international conference including North and South Korea, the United States and China, at a mutually acceptable site.
→ read full articleThe Meat of the Matter
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – What will future generations, looking back on our age, see as its monstrosities? One of them will be the mass incarceration of animals, to enable us to eat their flesh or eggs or drink their milk. While we call ourselves animal lovers, and lavish kindness on our dogs and cats, we inflict brutal deprivations on billions of animals, which are just as capable of suffering. The hypocrisy is so rank that future generations will marvel at how we could have failed to see it.
→ read full articleMass Shootings: The Military-Entertainment Complex’s Culture of Violence Turns Deadly
John W. Whitehead | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
“Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of violence cannot be abstracted from either the culture of business or the corruption of politics. Violence runs through US society like an electric current offering instant pleasure from all cultural sources, whether it be the nightly news or a television series that glorifies serial killers.”
→ read full articleWill Seven Million Starving Yemenis Ever Find Justice?
Catriona Murdoch and Wayne Jordash – Al Jazeera,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 – It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the control of food importation into Yemen is being used as a weapon of war, seemingly by all sides. Those responsible should be held accountable as primary perpetrators of, or accessories to, starvation.
→ read full articleIn Neoliberal Putsch, Brazil Auctions Off Indigenous Lands, Public Utilities to Foreign Interests
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
9 Oct 2017
Thursday’s [28 Sep] auction was a juicy meal for the 32 corporate bidders, which included such major Western energy giants as Shell, ExxonMobil, and BP. Unprecedented in size and in the opposition it provoked, the auction fit neatly into Temer’s neoliberal agenda for Brazil.
→ read full articleGreat Hunger
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 – In relation to conflict-driven famines, the U.S., our violence, and our delusions of being indispensable stem from accepting a belief that our “way of life” is non-negotiable. Growing inequality, protected by menacing arsenals, paves a path to the graveyard: It is not a “way of life.” We still could acquire a great hunger: a transforming hunger to share justice with our planetary neighbors.
→ read full articleDrugs and Guns Don’t Mix: Medication Madness, Military Madness and Mass Shootings
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Last Sunday, October 1, 2017, the US achieved a new record in the Guiness Book of Records for Mass Murders (a fictitious book) when a mass murderer in Las Vegas, Nevada, ambushed a crowd 20,000 innocent country music festival attendees in the street 32 stories below his hotel room.
→ read full articleSpirituality among Disparities
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
9 Oct 2017 – A well-known cliché that is often repeated — India is a land of diversities of all types. Yes, there are multiple types of diversities — religious, political, economic, linguistic, geographic, ethnic, cultural and spiritual. Despite all the diversities indicated above there has been a spirituality and oneness in this region since prehistoric times.
→ read full articlePerpetrators of Genocide Say They’re ‘Good People’
Jeff Grabmeier | Ohio State University News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
5 Oct 2017 – Study Examined Testimony of Defendants in Rwandan Violence – The men who were tried for their role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that killed up to 1 million people want you to know that they’re actually very good people. Researchers found that an “appeal to good character” was used by defendants more than all other explanations combined to say why they weren’t guilty of the horrible crimes they were accused of committing.
→ read full articleMyanmar Rohingya Abuses May Be Crimes against Humanity, UN Rights Experts Warn
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
4 Oct 2017 – “We are particularly worried about the fate of Rohingya women and children subject to serious violations of their human rights, including killings, rape and forced displacement. Such violations may amount to crimes against humanity,” the experts said in a joint statement issued today.
→ read full articleNorth Korea: Quantum Politics, the TRANSCEND Method and Second Order Change
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Dominant thought forms shape thinking and feeling in ways that limit ideas about what is possible. We need words, frames, concepts and categories that allow us to imagine transformative solutions. The most experienced, mature, and wise people recommend beginning with a policy of “Freeze for freeze” whereby the US and South Korea stop joint military exercises in exchange of NK’s halting testing. This reduces tension, fear and humiliation, a face-saving way out and creates a field for dialogue and to apply the TRANSCEND method.
→ read full articleHow a 3-Day Fast Resets Your Immune System
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The benefits of fasting are many and various. Fasting supports good health by promoting a healthy body weight, encouraging normal cognitive function, and even facilitating detoxification. Now, research has also shown that fasting may help reset the immune system.
→ read full articleCoca-Cola Produced More Than 110 Billion Plastic Bottles Last Year
Andrew McMaster | Global Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Amidst growing marine pollution, Greenpeace is applying pressure on the soft drink multinational.
→ read full articleSuing Oil Companies to Pay for Climate Change?
Seth Shulman | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
A new peer-reviewed study published in the journal Climatic Change sheds new light on fossil fuel producers’ liability. While previous research had shown that a relative handful of companies were responsible for more than 60 percent of greenhouse gases, the authors of the new study succeeded in tracing specific climate damages—including increased temperatures and sea level rise—to the products sold by individual companies such as Chevron and ExxonMobil.
→ read full articleWWF: 60% of Global Biodiversity Loss Due to Land Cleared for Meat-Based Diets
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
5 Oct 2017 – A new report from the World Wildlife Fund highlights how the livestock industry gobbles up a massive amount of land, leading to wide-scale biodiversity loss. Producing the animal feed for meat- and dairy-heavy Western diets uses up a lot of the planet’s precious resources.
→ read full articleA New Shock Doctrine: In a World of Crisis, Morality Can Still Win
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
9 Oct 2017
Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders and Podemos in Spain have shown that a bold and decent strategy can be a successful one. That truth should embolden the left.
→ read full articleWhat Are the Noetic Sciences?
IONS Institute of Noetic Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The term noetic sciences was first coined in 1973 when the Institute of Noetic Sciences was founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who two years earlier became the sixth man to walk on the moon.
→ read full articleHannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
→ read full articleU.S. Killing Fields
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The details of the Oct 1 massacre in Las Vegas continue to unfold. At least 59 people dead and more than 525 injured at a country music concert. The mass shooter — a white, multi-millionaire, American sniper armed to the teeth and perched in a 32nd floor luxury hotel room. The U.S. #1 export product – violence – is coming home to roost. Violence begets violence. What goes around comes around.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize 2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
8 Oct 2017 – What the BAN Treaty achieves, and the Nobel Prize recognizes, is that the cleavage is now clear between international law and geopolitics with respect to nuclear weapons. The BAN Treaty provides likeminded governments and animated citizen pilgrim throughout the world with a roadmap for closing the gap from the side of law and morality.
→ read full articleThe Rising of Britain’s ‘New Politics’
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
As the Tories plot to get rid of Prime Minister Theresa May, John Pilger analyses the alternative Labour Party, specifically its foreign policy, which may not be what it seems.
→ read full articleThe Real Reason Some People Become Addicted to Drugs
Mike Robinson – The Conversation,
9 Oct 2017
29 Sep 2017 – Why do they do it? This is a question that friends and families often ask of those who are addicted. Addiction simply creates a craving that’s often stronger than any one person could overcome alone. That’s why people battling addiction deserve our support and compassion, rather than the distrust and exclusion that our society too often provides.
→ read full articleIDF Brass: Israel Faces “Catastrophic Defeat” if Next Hezbollah War Exceeds Ten Days
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 – The view of many analysts in the Israeli and American military leadership as well as among the Israeli lobby in the US Congress is that Israel must ensure that the next war is short. The shorter the better for many reasons. One being that Washington will not ‘green light’ a protracted war that kills large numbers of Lebanese civilians. Another one is that the Israeli public and politicians will not accept many Israeli military or civilian casualties.
→ read full articleVisiting Nuremberg, Reflecting on the Ambiguous Legacies of Nuremberg
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 – I spent two days at Nuremberg to attend the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award ceremony on September 22, 2017. The reason we were in Nuremberg was that my wife had been a member of an international jury that selects an awardee every second year.
→ read full articleFear Is the NRA and Gun Industry’s Deadliest Weapon
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Home invaders, drug cartels, carjackers, knockout gamers, and rapers, and haters, and campus killers, airport killers, shopping mall killers” among the threats that only assault-style rifles and other guns can stop. The NRA and gun lobby aggressively push these psychologically-potent appeals because they know nothing sells guns like fear — including the fear of not having a gun.
→ read full articleFriedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus - Encyclopædia Britannica,
9 Oct 2017
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Mondo, dove stai andando?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
E’ morto Liu Xiaobo. Qual è la – non così occultata – verità su di lui?
Risposta: I suoi discorsi e scritti rivelano entusiasmo per i 100 anni di colonizzazione inglese di Hong Kong, auspicando 300 anni di colonizzazione della Cina, commemorando la guerra USA in Afghanistan, manifestando speranza nelle armi nucleari. Ha ottenuto il Premio Nobel per la Pace per la democratizzazione della Cina, ha avuto libertà di parola, ma il premio è stato inteso come una provocazione. Il premio avrebbe potuto essere assegnato fuor di dubbio alla loro Charta 08, non a Liu Xiaobo.
Mis-informed and Ignorant, Former US Ambassador Derek Mitchell Must Not “Educate” the West about Rohingyas
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
29 Sep 2017 – Silence is golden, especially when you don’t really know what you are talking about. A case in point is former US Ambassador to my country Derek Mitchell and the genocide of Rohingyas. He claimed that he understood genocide because he is of Jewish origin. Apparently, he still doesn’t get it.
→ read full article(Italiano) Arrivederci, a… (chissà)!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
29 settembre 2017 – Ce l’abbiam fatta! Per cinquecento lunedì [dal 3 Marzo 2008] Antonio del Brasile-Portogallo ha pubblicato un mio editoriale dalla Norvegia e dal mondo – talora con un coautore. Con il valido sostegno degli altri membri del nostro comitato editoriale, Malvin Gattinger della Germania, Naakow Grant-Hayford del Ghana ed Erika Degortes dell’Italia. GRAZIE!
→ read full articleGandhi’s Truth: Ending Human Violence One Commitment at a Time
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Gandhi Jayanti – 2 October, the date of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s birth in 1869 and the International Day of Nonviolence – offers an opportunity to reflect on human violence and to ponder ways to end it. There may be a fast way to end human violence but, if there is, Gandhi did not know it. Nor do I. Nor does anyone else that I have read or asked either. But this does not mean there is no way to end human violence.
→ read full articleTaking a Step against US Impunity in Guantanamo
Elsa Meany – Al Jazeera,
2 Oct 2017
The fight against impunity in Guantanamo Bay has reached the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (15) Martin Luther King, Jr
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., great orator, champion of justice and equality, fearless opponent of war, we need your voice today!
→ read full articlePugwash Welcomes the Completion of Chemical Weapons Destruction by Russia
Sergio Duarte | Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed on 27 Sep 2017 that the verified destruction of those chemical weapons possessed by the Russian Federation has been completed. Pugwash welcomes this important achievement and congratulates the Russian Federation and the OPCW for their efforts, as well as the many countries and experts who have assisted in this program.
→ read full articleInternational Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons – September 26
UN Office for Disarmament Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
26 Sep 2017 marked the fourth consecutive year the UN commemorated the date. Delegates took the floor to call on all States to sign and ratify both the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear weapons, the latter of which opened for signature on 20 Sep of this year.
→ read full articleHezbollah Has Launched the Initial Phase of the Next Israel-Hezbollah War
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Israel has recently increased its targeting of claimed Hezbollah/Iranian sites followed by diplomatic warnings by Israel’s leadership that it will not accept an enhanced Iranian and Hezbollah presence on its northern borders. Israel has bombed more than 100 targets since 2011 including some Iranian positions around Damascus military airport, West and South Syria as well as in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley and down south.
→ read full articleColonialism Was a Disaster and Historical Facts Prove It
Joseph McQuade – The Conversation,
2 Oct 2017
27 Sep 2017 – Recently an academic article, asserting the historical benefits of colonialism, created an outcry and a petition with over 10, 000 signatures calling for its removal. The Case for Colonialism, published in Third World Quarterly by Bruce Gilley, argues Western colonialism was both “objectively beneficial and subjectively legitimate” in most places where it existed.
→ read full articleSmart Billboards Target Individual Motorists and Spy on License Plates and Cellphones
MassPrivateI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
28 Sep 2017 – An article in McClatchy warns that a new generation of “smart digital billboards will detect the make, model and year of oncoming vehicles and project ads tailored to the motorist.” The article warns that smart billboards can guess a motorist’s home address, age, race and income level. Advertisers will be able to send messages to a person’s smartphone as they pass by a smart billboard.
→ read full article2017 Nobel Prize for Peace Activists Announced Fri 6 Oct
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Nobel´s peace prize is a wreck – serious journalists ask me whether Trump could win this year. The nomination process is no longer secret – we have published all relevant and qualified nominations. HERE.
→ read full articleMahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948)
History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury/killing of living beings (ahimsa), and vegetarianism.
→ read full articleHow US Military Outsourcing Turned Toxic
Abrahm Lustgarten | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Fraud. Bribery. Incompetence. The military’s use of contractors adds to a legacy of environmental damage.
→ read full articleToday Is the Day
Robert F. Dodge, M.D. | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Today, Sep 26, is the International Day for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. This day draws attention to the international commitment to global nuclear disarmament as expressed in Art. 6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It also highlights the lack of progress by the nine nuclear nations that hold the rest of the world hostage with their nuclear arsenals.
→ read full article(Castellano) Fidel y la Cultura
Antonio Rodríguez Salvador | La Jiribilla – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Sep 2017 – Del genio de Fidel extrañaremos bastante; quizá más que nada su especial sentido del momento histórico; esa extraordinaria capacidad de penetrar la esencia de las cosas, para emprender acciones de éxito donde otros las pospondrían escudándose en una supuesta falta de “condiciones objetivas”. Por ejemplo, ¿qué habría hecho por la cultura el común de los mortales, de haber dirigido un país como Cuba, en medio de la convulsa circunstancia de aquellos primeros años de la Revolución?
→ read full article(Français) Crise des Rohingya: pourquoi le Myanmar n’est pas la Syrie
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
28 Sep 2017 – De nombreux analystes et commentateurs de géopolitique ont noté pas mal de similitudes valables entre la crise syrienne et celle qui se déroule maintenant au Myanmar, dans l’Asie du Sud-Est. Toutefois, les différences sont aussi importantes que les similitudes entre ces deux crises. « Aider les lecteurs à comprendre les différents aspects de la crise actuelle au Myanmar en comparant ces différents aspects au conflit toujours en cours en Syrie peut être instructif. Cependant, tirer des conclusions complètes sur les enjeux du conflit du Myanmar en supposant simplement qu’il s’agit d’une répétition des opérations occidentales en Syrie, c’est se tromper fondamentalement ».
→ read full articleNobel Literature Acceptance Speech (2005)
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
The justification for the invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. We were told that Iraq had a relationship with Al Qaeda and shared responsibility for 9/11. We were told that Iraq threatened the security of the world. None of it was true. We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’.
→ read full articleMy Ethnographic Moment: In Rome
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
What struck me, in contrast to the U.S, Germany, even France, where I have recently been is that Italy, and specifically Rome, is a deep culture that works for its working and middle classes, or put less structurally, for ‘ordinary people.’ Of course, this is an impression, but for me a rather convincing one, and harmonious with a morning cappuccino and croissant.
→ read full articleCold War then. Cold War now.
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
26 Sep 2017 – The anti-Russian/anti-Soviet bias in the American media appears to have no limit. You would think that they would have enough self-awareness and enough journalistic integrity -– just enough -– to be concerned about their image. But it keeps on coming, piled higher and deeper.
→ read full articleLondon Peace Study Day & March Report
Alberto Portugheis | Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation– TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
I would like to invite our TRANSCEND friends to look at some photos of the recent Peace Study Day and March organized by HUFUD in London. We consider it a success and thank all who participated in the event. To see photos & reports please click HERE
→ read full articleWe Will Continue to Protect Assange as His Life Is Still Under Threat: Moreno
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
25 Sep 2017 – Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno said that the South American country would continue to provide asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He implied that there are looming threats to Assange’s life.
→ read full articleIn Elephant Country: Sharing Joy and Pleasure
Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
27 Sep 2017 – Elephants are huge animals — perhaps the biggest animals surviving today. They are found in tropical countries of Africa and Asia– countries that are warm and provide large amounts of trees and greenery. They largely eat leaves and occasionally some grass and grains also. They will sometimes also use the trees to scratch their bodies.
→ read full articleMaking the Rich Richer – How Big Banks Became Our Masters
Rana Foroohar – The New York Times,
2 Oct 2017
Lending to consumers or small companies is no longer a core business for large banks. Mainly they are trading assets that enrich the rich. Ten years on from the financial crisis, it’s hard not to have a sense of déjà vu.
→ read full article(Italiano) La verità di Gandhi: porre fine alla violenza umana, un passo alla volta
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
La ricorrenza di Gandhi Jayanti – il 2 Ottobre, offre l’opportunità di riflettere sulla violenza umana e di prendere in considerazione dei modi per porle fine. Ci può essere una via rapida per metter fine alla violenza umana, ma – se c’è – Gandhi non la conosceva. Né la conosco io. E neppure altri di cui ho letto o che ho interpellato. Ma questo non vuol dire che non ci siano vie per porre fine alla violenza umana.
→ read full articleVáclav Havel (5 Oct 1936 – 18 Dec 2011)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Václav Havel, Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). Havel was the son of a wealthy restaurateur whose property was confiscated by the communist government of Czechoslovakia in 1948.
→ read full articleThe Search for a New Humility: Václav Havel on Reclaiming Our Human Interconnectedness in a Globalized Yet Divided World
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
The main task in the coming era is a radical renewal of our sense of responsibility. Our conscience must catch up to our reason, otherwise we are lost. It is my profound belief that there is only one way to achieve this: we must divest ourselves of our egotistical anthropocentrism, our habit of seeing ourselves as masters of the universe who can do whatever occurs to us. We must discover a new respect for what transcends us: for the universe, for the earth, for nature, for life, and for reality.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Stories
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
29 Sep 2017 – This is the story: at 7 o’clock in the morning, an Arab approached the gate of Har Adar, took out a loaded pistol and shot three of the guards in the head at close range. But there is another story, too. The story as seen by the man himself.
→ read full article(Português) Não adianta ser vegano no mundo em que vivemos? Adianta sim!
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
— Bom, eu não acho que estou fazendo uma grande diferença, eu acredito que estou fazendo a minha diferença. Quero dizer, faço o que faço porque acredito que é certo. Se serve para motivar outras pessoas, que bom. Mas mesmo que não servisse, eu não teria motivo para não seguir esse caminho. Mesmo que todas as pessoas à minha volta me contrariassem, eu continuaria. Afinal, minhas escolhas não são baseadas no que a maioria pensa. Até porque, se fosse, provavelmente não teríamos essa conversa.
→ read full articleThe Bloodstained Levelers: Disease and Destruction
Walter Scheidel | Princeton University Press/Aeon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel, Princeton University Press – Throughout History, Plagues and Wars Have Left Greater Equality in Their Wake. Can We Get There Again without Violence?
→ read full articleModi Government Blocks Rohingya Refugees Entering India
K. Ratnayake | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
30 Sep 2017 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi has deployed security forces along India’s northeastern borders to prevent Rohingya refugees entering the country. New Delhi also plans to expel around 40,000 Rohingya already in India. Reuters reported that India’s Border Security Forces had been authorised to use “rude and crude methods” to block the refugees. “We won’t tolerate Rohingya on Indian soil,” an official said.
→ read full articleThe White Man in That Photo
Riccardo Gazzaniga - GRIOT Magazine,
2 Oct 2017
I always saw the photo as a powerful image of two barefoot black men, with their heads bowed, their black-gloved fists in the air while the US National Anthem played. It was a strong symbolic gesture – taking a stand for African American civil rights in a year of tragedies that included the death of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy.
→ read full articleThe Censored-out Truths That War Documentaries Tend to Leave on the Cutting Room Floor
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
27 Sep 2017 – I have been dutifully watching the well-publicized ten-episode, 18 hour-long PBS series on the War in Vietnam that is, as I write, just past the halfway point. The war in Vietnam was the war that I grew up being peripherally aware of, but I didn’t think much about it because I was enrolled and very busy studying in med school (1964-1968) when the Tet Offensive began.
→ read full articleReligion Is Not the Only Reason Rohingyas Are Being Forced out of Myanmar
Giuseppe Forino, Jason von Meding and Thomas Johnson – The Conversation,
2 Oct 2017
The Oil Economics and Land-Grab Politics behind the Refugee Crisis – The western media has focused on the military and Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar is home to 135 official recognised ethnic groups (the Rohingya were removed from this list in 1982).
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Can’t Ignore the People’s Tribunal
Prothom Alo [Bangladesh] | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
24 Sep 2017 – The verdict issued by the International People’s Tribunal in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Friday [22 Sep], which indicted Myanmar’s military as well as its state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi for war crimes and ethnic persecution in Myanmar, reflected the expectations of the peace-loving people of the world.
→ read full article