Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Arts-based Approach in Peace Work: Dynamic Peace and Dynamic Art (2016)
Kyoko Okumoto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
To understand the concept of peace within the context of action, this paper proposes a new definition, “dynamic peace” as opposed to “static peace.” The “actors” play the role of dynamic peace workers. Within this approach, “dynamic art” may be defined as “art that reveals and highlights conflict.” This arts-based approach is enriched by creative dialogue, and its actors become peace workers who are in essence “citizen artists.” The analysis is based on the methods and theories of Johan Galtung, and his TRANSCEND Theory is applied here to the relation between the arts and society.
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Johan Galtung’s PEACE FORMULA
Niamh O'Connor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Positive Peace – What Is That?
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
May 8-14 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
→ read full article(Français) Venezuela : C’est Tout le Contraire
Pascualina Curcio | 15yultimo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
2 Mai 2017 – Devant les actes de violence organisés par des agents locaux qui cherchent à déstabiliser le pays économiquement, socialement et politiquement, le président de la République (en plein exercice de ses fonctions, dans le cadre d’un mandat de 6 ans) a invité les secteurs de l’opposition à un dialogue pour la paix. L’opposition n’a pas répondu à l’appel, elle préfère organiser des violences dans la rue.
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Occupation of the American Mind – Video Documentary
Media Education Foundation | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
March 2017 – Occupation of American media and mind by a pro-Israel narrative that has diverted attention from conflict resolution: end the occupation and the settlements so that Palestinians can finally have a state of their own. Narrator: Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)
→ read full articleKilled for Their Bones: The Trade in Human Body Parts of Albinos in Africa
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
April 2017 – In Malawi, people with albinism are being killed and their bodies harvested; children and adults hacked to death with machetes and kitchen knives. More than 115 people have been attacked in the past two years, at least 20, fatally. Those who have survived have been left with deep physical and psychological scars, and remain fearful that those who hunt them will return.
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Un Amore Cosi’ Grande (Music Video of the Week)
Il Volo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Ignazio Boschetto (18 y.o.), Piero Barone (19), Gianluca Ginoble (18)
IL VOLO – Magnifique!
Palestinian Hunger Strikers Cut Off from Communication
Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
2 May 2017 – As Palestinian prisoners enter day 16 of their mass hunger strike, Israeli authorities are said to be obstructing negotiations and severely impeding communication from the strikers to the outside world. As many as 1,600 Palestinians are refusing food in protest of ill treatment by Israeli prison authorities, including medical neglect and reduction of family visits.
→ read full articleThe Post Glory Exuberance Disorder-PGED
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
This opens for behaviorism: avoid trauma, seek glory. But the idea is deeper. Deep-repeated trauma leads to stress disorder, not only stress. Deep-repeated glory may lead to exuberance disorder: let us have more wars to enjoy more victories! Not only for defense!
→ read full articleA Buddhist Bookstore
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
A husband and wife grew increasingly apart. The husband, a businessman selling bicycles, brought his accounting books home and pored over red and black figures in the evening. His wife, who had become increasingly interested in her spiritual life and was fascinated with Buddhism, felt disgusted by her husband’s materialism.
→ read full articleGermany Breaks Record: 85% of Energy Comes from Renewables Last Weekend
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
4 May 2017 – Germany’s “Energiewende”—the country’s low-carbon energy revolution—turned another successful corner last weekend when renewable energy sources nearly stamped out coal and nuclear.
→ read full articleAdapting to Doom
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
No comment…
→ read full article(Português) Estudo revela que o café pode ajudar a diminuir o risco de cancro da próstata
Sapo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
30 abril 2017 – Esta pesquisa foi realizada e concluída por especialistas do Instituto Neurologico Mediteraneo de Pozzilli, em conjunto com o Instituto Superior de Saúde e com o Instituto Dermopativo dell’Immacolata de Roma, conduzida por George Pounis e publicada na revista Internacional Journal of Cancer.
→ read full articleOne, Two, Three – Rejoice!
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
This year’s Independence Day, last Tuesday [2 May], was not a very happy affair. The holiday was subdued, even sad. Old-timers felt that “this is not our state anymore”, that “they” have stolen Israel”. “They” – the rightists. One of the reasons may be that there is no real unity any more. Israeli society has fallen apart into a number of sub-societies, which have less and less in common.
→ read full articleMarching in Circles: Faustian Thinking and the Myth of Science
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Nature and all living creatures, including ourselves, have become our enemies and are rejected as ends in themselves. Everything and everyone is a means. We must bomb, bulldoze, manipulate, drug, control, poison, etc. – all in the service of a diabolical willfulness that brooks no resistance.
→ read full articlePsychosocial Transformation by “Pill Pushing”?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
At the time of writing, a primary theme of the cult movie The Matrix offers pointers to an unusual way of reframing engagement with the current challenges of society. The movie highlights the choice between the Red Pill and the Blue Pill, namely a choice between enabling knowledge, freedom and the sometimes painful recognition of reality — in contrast with a blue pill reinforcing more-of-the-same, namely falsehood, security and blissful ignorance of illusion.
→ read full articleChronic Fatigue Syndromes, POTS and the Dangers of Aluminum-adjuvanted Vaccines like Gardisil
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Cognitive deficits did not correlate with pain, fatigue, depression, or disease duration. Pathophysiological mechanisms underlying MACD remain to be determined. In conclusion, long-term persistence of vaccine-derived aluminum hydroxide within the body assessed by MMF is associated with cognitive dysfunction, not solely due to chronic pain, fatigue and depression.
→ read full articleThe Arctic as It Is Known Today Is Almost Certainly Gone
The Economist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
On Current Trends the Arctic Will Be Ice-Free in Summer by 2040
→ read full articleIn Yemen, Shocked to His Bones
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
5 May 2017 – Yemen stands as the worst-threatened of four countries where impending famine comprise the single-worst humanitarian crisis since the founding of the U.N. On 2 May 2017, the UN published a grim infographic detailing conditions in Yemen where 17 million Yemenis — or around 60 percent of the population — are unable to access food. The U.S. and its allies continue to bomb Yemen.
→ read full articleAn America without Nuclear Power
David Gattie and Scott Jones | Forbes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
[From TMS editor: We do not endorse the authors’ arguments and viewpoints. The point is the discussion about the nuclear—energy/weapons–issue.]
This is not an issue of nuclear versus renewables—both should occupy space in the U.S. portfolio. This is an issue of national security and global leadership, and U.S. policymakers should work aggressively with U.S. industry to ensure that nuclear power remains viable. An America without nuclear power is a less secure America and a globally less relevant America.
People Choosing Peace: Ayuel Madut, South Sudan
Ochan Hannington | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
I fought alongside the Sudan People’s Liberation Army that later took power in South Sudan. During the guerrilla war I was a child soldier. At such a young age I thought I fully understood the reasons for fighting the Khartoum government, which was our “enemy” then.
→ read full article20 Foods High in Provitamin A
Dr. Atli Arnarson | Authority Nutrition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin that plays an essential role in maintaining vision, body growth, immune function and reproductive health.
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American Military Cancer Spread throughout the World
ClassWarFilms – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Prof. Johan Galtung’s prophetic book The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? US Fascism or US Blossoming? is proving right on the first part of the third question.
→ read full articleVault 7: Archimedes
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Today, May 5th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes “Archimedes”, a tool used by the CIA to attack a computer inside a Local Area Network (LAN), usually used in offices. It allows the re-directing of traffic from the target computer inside the LAN through a computer infected with this malware and controlled by the CIA.
→ read full articleWe Hope for Miracle
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
We hope for miracle,
When a giant wave
Splits into chips our ship,
Logic
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
A young man from a rural village went to study at the university in the capital.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report 10 (Apr 2017)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 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 articleAn Encyclical That Will Dignify Humanity: An Anticipatory Plea
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Pope Francis` contribution to World Peace will never cease
if as the climax of his papacy he writes an Encyclical on Nonviolent Peace
(Italiano) Ridurre la violenza urbana
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Per ridurre la violenza diretta nelle città dobbiamo convertirci da una cultura della violenza urbana ad una cultura della pace urbana e dalla violenza strutturale urbana ad una struttura di pace. I nomi delle strade non devono glorificare guerre ed eroi violenti bensì la pace e i suoi eroi, sovente donne. Si spostino i monumenti di guerrieri a cavallo nei pressi dei cimiteri a mo’ di sepolture simboliche.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Messaggio di Pasqua
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Dagli USA di Trump non è stata resurrezione, ma morte. 59 missili Tomahawk per la Siria, la “madre di tutte le bombe” per l’Afghanistan; stati musulmani. Entrambi gli attacchi sono stati giustificati con menzogne. La vecchia menzogna che l’11 settembre 2001 aveva avuto origine in Afghanistan, la nuova menzogna che Assad aveva deliberatamente fatto uso di sarin [i]. La contro-narrazione può reggere – che gli USA hanno fornito il gas e hanno usato l’incidente quale pretesto per attaccare. Vediamo se USA-NATO acconsentono a che venga fatta una inchiesta; se avessero la coscienza pulita, dovrebbero acconsentire.
→ read full articleThe Shame of Killing Innocent People
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The U.S. Congress could put an end to U.S. complicity in the crimes against humanity being committed by military forces in Yemen. Congress could insist that the U.S. stop supplying the Saudi led coalition with weapons, stop helping Saudi jets to refuel, end diplomatic cover for Saudi Arabia, and stop providing the Saudis with intelligence support.
→ read full articleU.S. Missile Madness Hypocrisy
Bruce Gagnon | Space4Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
April 26, 2017
Today the Pentagon
will test fire
a nuclear missile
from Vandenberg AFB
in California
into the Pacific
(Português) Consumo de refrigerantes diet aumenta risco de demência e AVC
Nuno Noronha | Sapo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Bebidas adocicadas artificialmente, como o refrigerante diet, podem aumentar o risco de acidente vascular cerebral e demência, revela uma investigação da Universidade de Boston, publicada na revista científica americana Stroke.
→ read full article(Castellanto) Colaboración internacional para poner fin a la violencia
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Mientras gran parte del mundo está envuelto en violencia de uno u otro tipo (ya sea violencia en el hogar o en la calle, explotación, destrucción ecológica o la guerra), una red global de individuos y organizaciones se han comprometido a ponerle fin a la violencia en todas sus manifestaciones.
→ read full articleThe Costa Rica Lesson
John Andrews | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Just after Costa Rica had its revolution in 1948, one of the first things its new visionary leader Jose Figueres Ferrer did was scrap its army. Contrary to what one might think, this immediately increased Costa Rica’s security, rather than weakening it, and it’s the only country in an otherwise war-torn part of the world to have had sustained peace and prosperity ever since.
→ read full articleDamned by Our Victory
Gideon Levy | Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Israel must cloak itself in sorrow over what happened since that terrible summer of 1967, when it won a war and lost nearly everything. 1967 gave birth to the ongoing contempt for the world, the bragging and bullying. “To us all is permitted.”
→ read full articleThe Climate Change System 2017
Prof. Timi Ecimovic and Prof John Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
“The Climate Change System 2017” booklet was written for 8th Danube Academies Conference, 21-22 Sep 2017, Belgrade, by Prof Dr John Avery, Prof Dr, Dr h c Timi Ecimovic, Prof Dr Negoslav Ostojic, Prof Dr Leo Semashko, et al.
→ read full articleEndless Atrocities: The US Role in Creating the North Korean Fortress-State
Robert J Barsocchini | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Paul Atwood, a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, provides a concise summary of the history that informs North Korea’s “relations with the United States” and “drives its determination never to submit to any American diktat”… In its full invasion of the North, the US acted under the banner of the UN. However, the UN at that time was “largely under the control of the USA”, and as Prof. Carl Boggs puts it, essentially ‘was’ the USA.
→ read full article(Italiano) Aosta 28 aprile 1945-28 aprile 2017. Lettura collettiva della Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana in Piazza Chanoux
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Il 28 aprile 1945 AOSTA fu liberata dal fascinazismo.
Per opera delle Partigiane e dei Partigiani.
Gli Americani arrivarono il 3 maggio.
European Country Opens First Concentration Camps for Gay People since Hitler [VIDEO]
Kerry-anne Mendoza | The Canary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
An investigative report by Novaya Gazeta has found that 100 gay men were kidnapped and imprisoned in the world’s first concentration camp for LGBT people since Nazi Germany. Three men were killed during the operation in Chechnya, in Eastern Europe. . In Nazi Germany, Jewish people were ordered to wear a yellow star. Disabled people were forced to wear black triangles. And LGBT people were ordered to wear a pink triangle.
→ read full articlePalestinian Prisoners Show the Way in Israel
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Mahatma Gandhi used hunger strike to refocus people away from greed and selfishness to caring for each other. Hunger is painful and people will die sooner or later unless we all act. What is at stake is very high: our own self-respect (dignity) as human beings.
→ read full article“World Domestic Politics”
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
A world focus on the world’s most miserable communities, to lift up the bottom of humanity, is a welfare world we need. Doing that would already be Weltinnenpolitik. Today, not waiting 50+ more years.
→ read full articleEarth Day 2017
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Be advised: this poem may be interrupted
by a nuclear war.
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 Mar 1883)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Karl Heinrich Marx was born in Trier, Germany. His father was a lawyer who came from a long line of Rabbis, but had changed his faith to Protestantism in order to keep his job. Karl Marx went to the University of Bonn to study law when he was 17 years old.
→ read full articleThe Leaves Turned Yellow
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The leaves turned yellow,
Someone in the fall is again in disgrace,
The cold of January is close again,
Vietnam’s Crocodile Skin Industry
PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Warning: Graphic Images of Cruelty – This is the hidden cost of crocodile skin bags, wallets, watches, and other items. Vietnam’s exotic skins trade.
→ read full articleThe Israeli Macron
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Emmanuel Macron (Emmanuel is a Hebrew name, meaning “God is with us”) has won the first round, and there is a strong possibility that he will win the second round, too. This is not just a French affair. It concerns all mankind. First of all, it has broken a spell.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
May 1-7 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “A year from now, you will wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
→ read full articleMedia Is Free, but Is It Fair?
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
In an ideal world, journalism is a profession of incredible integrity. Good journalists are amongst the most dexterous and skilled people in the world—and also the most respected.
→ read full articleHospital Care — Physical and Spiritual
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Recently, I had an opportunity to go to an infectious disease hospital which offers treatment for various diseases for a minimal fee. I was going there with a woman called Usha who works in our home and who had got bitten by a stray dog the previous evening… Yes, in this hospital, medical science and spirituality were both at work to cure patients of their disease and to give them hope, trust and confidence.
→ read full articleVault 7: Scribbles Project
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Today, April 28 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the documentation and source code for CIA’s “Scribbles” project, a document-watermarking preprocessing system to embed “Web beacon”-style tags into documents that are likely to be copied by Insiders, Whistleblowers, Journalists or others.
→ read full articleNSA-Leaking Shadow Brokers Just Dumped Its Most Damaging Release Yet
Dan Goodin | Ars Tecnica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The Shadow Brokers—the mysterious person or group that over the past eight months has leaked a gigabyte worth of the National Security Agency’s weaponized software exploits—just published its most significant release yet. Friday’s [14 Apr] dump contains potent exploits and hacking tools that target most versions of Microsoft Windows and evidence of sophisticated hacks on the SWIFT banking system of several banks across the world.
→ read full articleAddressing Fractionation: Principles for Arbitrating the “Common Good”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
There is an urgent need for healing the divisive separation of people, societies, and nations. A continuation of the present intentional and unintentional “fractionation” forebodes a tragic future. Humans and the institutions they have created for collective living, now threaten life and lives as they assert selective group domination and control.
→ read full articleA Public Plan for Peace
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
26 Apr 2017 – The American will to wage war — endless war, pointless war, total war — is, I fear, impervious to public opinion and even political action. I fear something is dangerously loose at the American core: a need for endless war combined with a nuclear recklessness uncontained by public scrutiny. The resistance has to go deeper than Trump. At its center we need a public plan for peace.
→ read full articleThe Great Game – Or Peace?
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Although peace has come to have a bad name, these days, although the voices of those against war are branded as traitorous, and all that is great and good seems connected to soldiering, there are many many more of us who want nothing more or less than peace, the noblest of aspirations. There are many many more of us who know that our precious world is anything but a game, “great” or small: it’s all we have.
→ read full articleAir Force One
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Stairway to Hell
→ read full articleThe Plant That Everyone Has, but Nobody Knows That it Makes Cancer Cells Disintegrate within 48 Hours
Native American’s – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Quick – what’s the best use for dandelions? If you’re like most people, you probably can’t think of an answer, or maybe think of dandelion wine – but we’re here to tell you it’s something much, much better!
→ read full articleSpiritual Voices amid the Chaos
Sayde Tawk | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
There is a considerable difference between an institutional religion and a genuine spirituality, where the former is based on rigid rules and rituals while the latter succumbs to the harmonious rhythm of life.
→ read full articleTrump versus International Liberalism: Should We Care?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Only civil society militancy on an unprecedented scale can create a mandate for the kind of global transformation in ideas and structures are necessary to enable a sustainable future resting on the values of eco-humanism. If this analysis is correct, Trumpism and liberalism are nothing but sideshows.
→ read full article(Português) O veganismo não reconhece nada de origem animal como alimento de consumo humano
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
O veganismo por defender o abolicionismo animal, naturalmente rejeita a ideia de que qualquer coisa produzida pelos animais seja legitimada como fonte de nutrição humana. Até porque, se esse discurso fosse endossado pelo veganismo, a luta não seria pela libertação animal, mas somente pela criação de animais em grandes espaços, disseminando uma ingênua ideia de liberdade.
→ read full articleJokes to Be Taken Seriously
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The philosophers of ancient Greece concluded that by far the wisest among them was Socrates.
→ read full articleA Structural Theory of Aggression (1964)
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
This theoretical essay is concerned with the conditions of aggression. We shall define aggression somewhat vaguely as ‘drives towards change, even against the will of others’. The extreme forms of this phenomenon are crimes, including homicide, between individuals; revolutions, including elimination, between groups; and wars, including genocide, between nations. These forms make aggression negative and problematic, a cause of concern and prevention. But one can also turn the coin and look at the other face: aggression as the driving force in history, as the motivational energy that moves mountains.
→ read full articleNonviolence and Islamic Imperatives
Jørgen Johansen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Nonviolence and Islamic Imperatives is a timely book that provides a valuable perspective to the ongoing dialogue on Islam, peace, and Islamophobia today. It is highly relevant and critical to continuing a crucial dialogue on the subject matter.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: “Communal Violence” Argument Being Peddled Again
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
What is fundamentally wrong with the “communal violence” argument in the paper below, ‘Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar,’ by Nick Cheesman.
→ read full articleDiversifying Public Ownership
Andrew Cumbers | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
This paper advocates a form of economic democracy based around diverse forms of public ownership. It does not prioritize one particular scale but recognizes the importance of decentralized forms of public ownership, to encourage greater public participation and engagement, mixed with higher level state ownership, for strategic sectors and planning for key public policy goals (e.g. tackling climate change). It takes a deliberately pluralistic definition of public ownership, recognizing both state ownership and the role that cooperatives and employee ownership could play in a more democratic economy.
→ read full articleCorporate Pseudo-Science, Edward Bernays, and the 2017 March for Science
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of… It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”
— Edward L. Bernays, the Father of Propaganda in America and Sigmund Freud’s nephew, from his seminal book, Propaganda (1928)
Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 Apr 1955): Evolution toward World Unity
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
For Teilhard, love was not an emotion or a sentiment but the basic primal and universal psychic energy. This is a concept drawn from Chinese culture. Teilhard lived in China from 1923 to 1946. The Chinese word jen, a term translated as love, benevolence or affection, is not only an emotional-moral term, but it is also a cosmic force − a compassionate quality that is the very structure of the earth.
→ read full articleDemocratic World Federalists and the San Francisco Promise
Roger Kotila, Editor | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The truth is that the UN Charter itself is so badly designed that it is in reality the main part of a geopolitical war system. A global peace system will require replacing the UN Charter with a genuine world federal union constitution such as the Earth Constitution. The Charter is undemocratically rigged in favor of only five nations of the UN Security Council: U.S., Russia, China, France, and UK.
→ read full articleGlobal Solidarity Now!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The U.S. Military is the single largest consumer of oil and the largest emitter of CO2 in the world! Here in the center of Hawaii Island is a 133,000-acre toxic waste dump that includes lead, depleted uranium and a host of other pollutants. And to make matters worse, the military is bombing the toxic waste dump. Are we inhaling military DU oxide dust?
→ read full articleDoes Climate Change Increase Conflict?
Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Today’s wars are often attributed to ethnic conflict or extremism, but environmental factors could also be behind tensions. Linking climate and conflict is a controversial issue. Some scholars warn that inflating the links between conflict and climate change could be damaging to both areas of study. However, evidence on the ground appears to be increasing.
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Moscow Nights – Podmoskovnye Vechera (Music Video of the Week)
Anna Netrebko & Dmitri Hvorostovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Red Square Concert – The Russian Classic best known outside the country.
→ read full articleA Rhymed Reflection Never Before Proclaimed
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
All types of nuclear weapons let us abhor.
The mention of any types of nuclear war let us deplore.
How the Hunger Strike Could Bring Palestinian Prisoners Back to the Fore
Amjad Iraqi | +972 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The fixation on Barghouti’s op-ed bio distracts from the strike’s impact on Palestinians, which is as much about restoring political direction as it is about attaining prisoners’ rights.
→ read full articleTo Prevent or Stop Wars: What Can Peace Movements Do?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
We, who are part of structured (more or less) organizations for the resolution of armed conflicts, need to seek ways to meet on-going challenges, to build cooperation among groups and to reach out to the “unorganized”. The book, the first of a new peace publishing house headed by Jørgen Johansen, also of The War Resisters’ leadership, merits close reading and especially discussion of strategies.
→ read full articleBP Oil Spill Damage to Natural Resources Valued at $17.2 Billion, Scientists Find
Denisse Moreno | International Business Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
20 Apr 2017 – The April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to natural resources, a study published in the journal Science said. Scientists conducted a six-year study of the impact of the 134-million gallon BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Appeals to President Trump for Peace Leadership
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
“The people of North and South Korea want peace and they want a peace treaty. They do not want their country to be bombed or their government to bomb others. Having visited both North and South Korea last year and walked with thousands and thousands of Korean women, North and South, I am convinced that peace is possible and what is needed is the political will of all parties to the conflict to dialogue and for negotiations to move from a Korean armistice to a Korean Peace Treaty.”
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John Lennon’s Last Interview
Beatles Videos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
John Lennon sat down at the Tomorrow Show and gave his last interview ever. RIP – Listen to his first statement…
→ read full articleThe Old Familiar Faces: Poetry
Theresa Wolfwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
This collection of mainly English poetry reflecting inevitably on loss, the constant of old age, has many poignant poems, but also humour, a necessity of aging well, is here. The editors have collected poems from many centuries and from the famous to the little known.
→ read full articleAustralian Anzac Day Celebrations Promote Militarism and War
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Anzac Day celebrations on April 25 were used by the Australian political and media establishment to reaffirm its commitment to US-led wars and military preparations around the world, and to try to drown out widespread anti-war sentiment among working people.
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teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
On Palestinian Prisoner’s Day Monday [17 Apr 2017], hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons are staging a mass hunger strike, continuing the decades-long resistance of prisoners in the apartheid state. “Salutes of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Glory to the martyrs. Freedom for the prisoners of freedom,” stated the PFLP in support of the strikers.
→ read full articleDay of Mother Earth – 22 April
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
In traditional Indian culture, according to texts as early as the Vedas, the Earth is home to all living species that inhabit it and must not be excluded as they all contribute to the planet’s welfare and preservation. Therefore, human beings must contribute to the web of life of which they are a part and find ways of using the elements to produce food without damaging other life forms as far as possible.
→ read full articleInternational Collaboration to End Violence
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
24 Apr 2017 – While much of the world is engulfed in violence of one sort or another (whether violence in the home or on the street, exploitation, ecological destruction or war), a global network of individuals and organizations is committed to ending this violence in all of its manifestations. Here is an outline of what some of these individual signatories of ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ are doing. You are welcome to join them.
→ read full articleMountaintop Removal Site Could Become Kentucky’s Largest Solar Farm
Cassie Kelly | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Berkeley Energy is working to build a 50-100 megawatt solar farm right on top of the old coal mine. The project was announced on Tuesday [18 Apr]. “This is really a history-making project for the region,” said Ryan Johns, an executive with Berkeley Energy Group.
→ read full articleOn the Fifth Day
Jane Hirshfield – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
That common ground between poetry and science is what poet Jane Hirshfield sows with splendor in this poem written for the 2017 March for Science in Washington, D.C., protesting the anti-fact, anti-truth, anti-science political climate of the current American administration. (Maria Popova)
→ read full articleIndescribable Feeling: We Just Hit 410 ppm of CO2 – Welcome to a Whole New World
Kate Yoder | Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
21 Apr 2017 – This is not normal: We’re on track to witness a climate unseen in 50 million years by mid-century. We first hit 400 parts per million back in 2013, and that became the new norm just four years later. And on April 18 this year, as predicted, we crossed the 410 ppm threshold for the first time at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.
→ read full article(Français) Guerre de Corée : après les tapis de bombes, les mensonges
Dwight Garner | Tlaxcala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
La Corée du Nord, une menace pour les Etats-Unis? Oui, si on applique un principe fondamental de la propagande de guerre: occulter l’histoire. Par contre, si on replace les événements dans leur contexte, les tensions entre Washington et Pyongyang prennent une toute autre dimension. C’est pourquoi nous vous proposons la lecture cet article de 2010. Un historien revient sur la guerre qui a ravagé la Corée de 1950 à 1953. Utile pour remettre les pendules à l’heure.
→ read full articleKorea: Challenge and Response
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
In a message to the UN Secretary-General, as President of the Association of World Citizens, I stressed that a crisis can also be an opportunity for strong initiatives and action. Citizens of the World call for speedy and creative action to meet the challenge of growing Korean tensions with a response of cooperation and reconciliation.
→ read full articlePalestine’s Nelson Mandela
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
22 Apr 2017 – I have a confession to make: I like Marwan Barghouti. I have visited him at his modest Ramallah home several times. During our conversations, we discussed Israeli-Palestinian peace. Our ideas were the same: to create the State of Palestine next to the State of Israel, and to establish peace between the two states, with open borders and cooperation. I am waiting for the day when I can visit Marwan again as a free man in his home in Ramallah. Even more so if Ramallah is, by that time, a town in the free State of Palestine.
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The Success of Nonviolent Civil Resistance
Erica Chenoweth | TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Between 1900-2006, campaigns of nonviolent civil resistance were twice as successful as violent campaigns. Erica talks about her research on the impressive historical record of civil resistance in the 20th century and discusses the promise of unarmed struggle in the 21st century. In addition to explaining why nonviolent resistance has been so effective, she also shares some lessons learned about why it sometimes fails.
→ read full article“Over There”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
When the massacres came, we wondered…. –
We thought we were the “Over There” people.
George M. Cohan sang us the way home:
“We won’t come back till it’s over over there.”
Israel Cracks the Whip on Hunger-Striking Palestinian Prisoners
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs released a statement Monday [17 Apr] saying that Israeli Prison Service officials have forcibly moved hunger-striking prisoners to different sections of Israeli jails, confiscated their clothes and personal belongings and prevented lawyers and family members from visiting them in jail. Some Israeli leaders are calling for a more blood-soaked crackdown, calling on the state to execute many of the prisoners.
→ read full article(Italiano) Resistenze oggi. Sul 25 aprile 2017 ad Aosta
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Sono le studentesse e gli studenti della scuola primaria, della scuola secondaria di primo e secondo grado e dell’università che hanno letto i Principi fondamentali della Costituzione della Repubblica italiana, dal palco delle autorità il 25 aprile.
→ read full articleVault 7: Weeping Angel
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Today, April 21st 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the User Guide for CIA’s “Weeping Angel” tool – an implant designed for Samsung F Series Smart Televisions. Based on the “Extending” tool from MI5/BTSS, the implant is designed to record audio from the built-in microphone and egress or store the data.
→ read full articleAn Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide
Alice Cowley and Maung Zarni | Middle East Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Waves of state-directed violence and communal destruction … have been occurring since 1978 and are part of a process of ‘slow-burning genocide.’ Decades of facts relating to the instrumental role of the Myanmar State in the abuses of Rohingya are buried alongside very real human corpses.
→ read full articleA Lexicon of Polity “State” Descriptors ©
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
I sought to identify and list adjectives describing nations, states, and institutions. Adjectives are powerful words used to modify or describe a noun; they help convey or enhance the noun’s possible meanings and impact. We use adjectives many times a day to communicate our feelings or attitudes about a topic. It isn’t enough to discuss a topic, we benefit from immersing the topic in adjectives.
→ read full articleReducing Urban Violence
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
World Forum on Urban Violence, Madrid, 19-21 April 2017 – To reduce direct violence in cities we have to move from urban violence culture to an urban peace culture and from urban structural violence to a structure of peace. Street names should not glorify wars and violent heroes but peace and their heroines, often women. Move warrior on horseback monuments close to the cemetery for symbolic burial.
→ read full articleWhat India’s Poor Really Need Is Microsavings, Not Microcredit
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
There’s an old saying about poverty: Give me a fish, and I’ll eat for a day. Give me a fishing rod, and I’ll eat for a lifetime. But these days, particularly in India, there’s evidence that one of the most effective tools to fight poverty may not be a fishing rod, but a savings account. What we need is a savings revolution.
→ read full articlePesticide Maker Dow Chemical Tries to Kill Risk Study
Michael Biesecker| Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
20 Apr 2017 — Dow Chemical is pushing a Trump administration open to scrapping regulations to ignore the findings of federal scientists who point to a family of widely used pesticides as harmful to about 1,800 critically threatened or endangered species.
→ read full articleMajor Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
Andy Greenberg | WIRED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Friday [14 Apr] morning, the Shadow Brokers published documents that—if legitimate—show just how thoroughly US intelligence has compromised elements of the global banking system. Also included in the data dump, as in previous Shadow Brokers releases, are a load of fresh hacking tools, this time targeting a slew of Windows versions.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Temer Confesses Rousseff’s Impeachment Was Revenge
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Brazil’s Senate-imposed President Michel Temer admitted Sunday [16 Apr 2017] in a TV interview that the former head of the lower chamber, Eduardo Cunha, opened the impeachment process against former President Dilma Rousseff because her party did not protect him from an investigation over corruption charges.
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