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Meanwhile in Heaven…
Submitted by Charles Mercieca – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
After having died, George Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump show up for an interview with God.
→ read full articleLines of Descent: The Emergence of Identity – Who Was W.E.B. Du Bois?
Nicholas Lemann | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
The supposedly scientific way of thinking about race predictably went along with the idea that Negroes were genetically inferior; and
another part of this package of received wisdom a century ago was the idea that Africa had no history or culture. That helped make Europeans comfortable with colonizing Africa, as they were then doing.
Sleepwalking into a Nuclear Arms Race with Russia
Pierre M. Sprey and Franklin “Chuck” Spinney - CounterPunch,
27 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 – The Nuclear Question is becoming increasingly obfuscated by spin and lobbying as the West sleepwalks into Cold War II. For patriotic Americans interested in increasing their real national security (rather than their national security budget), the nuclear issue boils down to a question of understanding.
→ read full articleInaugural Permanent People’s Tribunal on Myanmar Atrocity Crimes
Astro Awani Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 – The Rome-based Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) will be holding the inaugural session of its first-ever Tribunal on Myanmar at Queen Mary University of London International State Crime Initiative on 6 and 7 March.
→ read full article10 Questions for William Blum
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
I first met writer/journalist/historian/thinker/activist William [Bill] Blum 11 years ago. Blum and I have broken bread together, attended anti-war rallies, sometimes seeing eye-to-eye and sometimes “I”-to-“I.” In a recent piece by Theodore Sayeed, Blum is described as a kind of living encyclopedia of the “peace movement.”
→ read full articleTrump–Putin Could Rescue the World Taking the Advice of Alfred Nobel
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
In the will he used the term “the prize for the champions of peace,” and the correspondence with Bertha von Suttner, the great peace movement leader of the period, shows that it was her political ideas and political friends he wished to support – abolishing weapons and warriors as the tool to get an end to war. This means that almost all statesmen and generals who have received Nobel honors from the Oslo committee have been — considering the actual intention of Alfred Nobel — illegitimate winners.
→ read full article(Italiano) Democrazia in evoluzione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Immaginiamo un popolo che dia per scontato che ci siano due, solo due, versanti a qualunque contesa; uno giusto, uno sbagliato; ove non ci sia compromesso, la si giochi a duello, e chi vince ne decide il risultato. Questo copione controlla la gente. Potere al popolo, suona bene, ma che genere di popolo?
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Globo e Folha sofrem censura de Temer e juiz, e apagam reportagens. Nós publicamos o que foi proibido.
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Em Defesa de Uma Imprensa Livre sem a Censura do Estado – Como um dos objetivos da criação do The Intercept era defender e apoiar a liberdade de imprensa em todo o mundo, estamos publicando os materiais censurados para que possam ser analisados pelo público.
→ read full article(Français) Les risques du libre-échange
Elisabeth Beague | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Les accords de libre-échange (TTIP, CETA, TISA et tous les autres accords bilatéraux et multilatéraux sur le commerce et les investissements), concoctés « discrètement » depuis 2013 et largement contestés ces derniers temps, sont-ils compatibles avec les mesures ratifiées dans le Traité de Lisbonne par les pays constituant l’Union Européenne ? Il semble bien que non. Car, quoi que l’on pense de ce Traité de Lisbonne (qui a été signé de façon parfaitement antidémocratique), celui-ci reconnaît pourtant explicitement le principe de précaution.
→ read full articleChelsea Manning: To Those Who Kept Me Alive All These Years, Thank You
Chelsea E Manning – The Guardian,
20 Feb 2017
13 Feb 2017 – When I was afraid, you taught me how to keep going. When I was lost, you showed me the way. To those who have kept me alive for the past six years: minutes after President Obama announced the commutation of my sentence, the prison quickly moved me out of general population and into the restrictive housing unit where I am now held.
→ read full articleCongress Says, Let the Mentally Ill Buy Guns
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 – For all their dysfunction, the Republican Senate and House have managed to act with lightning speed in striking down a sensible Obama administration rule designed to stop people with severe mental problems from buying guns. They did the gun lobby’s bidding in passing a regressive measure that President Trump is expected to sign.
→ read full articleIsrael Wants Settlements, Not Peace
Rami Hamdallah – Al Jazeera,
20 Feb 2017
With each new settlement, the prospect of peace and the formation of a Palestinian state become even more unattainable. Israel is above international law, or so it seems. On Dec 23, the United Nations Security Council passed resolution 2334, re-affirming the illegality of Israeli settlements.
→ read full article(Português) Defender os animais de maus-tratos é humano
Iara M.E. Marubayashi | Novo Momento – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
13 fevereiro 2017 – Recentemente houve ataques às pessoas que se indignaram e protestaram contra os maus-tratos a um cão, revelados por um vídeo que a produção diz ter sido manipulado, do filme ‘Quatro vidas de um cachorro’.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dal mito della scienza oggettiva alla costruzione di una scienza nonviolenta
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
20 Feb 2017
8 febbraio 2017 – Questo testo riprende quanto ho esposto in una breve presentazione il 4 febbraio 2017, in occasione del Convegno “Gli occhiali di Nanni”. La mia presentazione si è basata in prevalenza su citazioni di scritti di Nanni Salio, selezionati in base a ricordi personali di una collaborazione con lui che è durata alcuni decenni.
→ read full articleDisqualify “The White Helmets” for an Oscar
Paul Larudee | Syria Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The Syria Solidarity Movement® advises disqualification of the film “The White Helmets” for a 2017 Academy Award. It has been nominated in the category of Short Documentary. The problems with this film:
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Feb 20-26 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You’re never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.” – Bikram Choudhury
→ read full articleNot So Innocent
David S. Foglesong | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Trump and Putin have an important opportunity to work together against international terrorism, nuclear proliferation, drug trafficking and other threats. That chance may be missed if journalists and politicians persist in vilifying Putin and harassing Trump with charges that he is Putin’s puppet.
→ read full article(Italiano) Seminare il futuro, seminare la libertà – un seme per volta
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
L’umanità si trova di fronte a un bivio della sua evoluzione. Possiamo scegliere la via dell’”Unità” (“Oneness”), consapevoli del nostro essere parte di Un Pianeta, di Una Umanità, e vivere celebrando le nostre molte diversità, interconnesse attraverso legami di compassione, interdipendenza, solidarietà. O…
→ read full articleSea Ice around Antarctica Hits Record Low, Preliminary U.S. Data Show
Alister Doyle | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Sea ice around Antarctica has shrunk to the smallest annual extent on record, preliminary U.S. satellite data showed on Tuesday [14 Feb 2017]. In many recent years, the average extent of sea ice around Antarctica has tended to expand despite the overall trend of global warming. People skeptical of findings by climate scientists have often pointed to Antarctic sea ice as evidence against global warming.
→ read full articleA Response to a Radio Interview with Two Academic Psychiatrists
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Tom, at the end of the radio program this morning, many of your listeners will surely have come to the mistaken conclusion that the solution to the vast problem of pervasive adolescent female sadness isn’t to logically address the obvious potentially preventable causes of mental ill health. I got the impression that the solution was to get them seem by a prescribing psychiatrist and “get them treated with drugs!”
→ read full articleCIA Espionage Orders for the 2012 French Presidential Election (in English and in French)
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
16 February, 2017 – All major French political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIA’s human (“HUMINT”) and electronic (“SIGINT”) spies in the seven months leading up to France’s 2012 presidential election. The revelations are contained within three CIA tasking orders published today by WikiLeaks as context for its forth coming CIA Vault 7 series.
→ read full articleRegional Actors Should Take a Stand against Myanmar
Priyamvada Gopal – Al Jazeera,
20 Feb 2017
15 Feb 2017 – Even by the standards of a region that has seen more than its fair share of xenophobic violence, forced migrations and displacements, the grim plight of the Rohingya of Myanmar stands out as an abomination of the worst sort. India and other South Asian nations should be unambiguous in their condemnation of Myanmar.
→ read full articleMystery Messages Engraved into Scotland’s Rocks up to 5,000 Years Ago Might Soon Be Unveiled Using 3D Scans
The Vintage News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Recently, a new project has launched an attempt to finally solve the mysteries of prehistoric stone carvings. Using 3D scanning to record and examine more than 2,000 carvings around the country, specialists are creating a new digital database of the mysterious etchings.
→ read full articleIsrael Legalizes Settlement Options as a Prelude to the Netanyahu Visit to Trumpland
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
13 Feb 2017 – Responses to four questions posed by Rodrigo Craveiro, a journalist from the Brazilian newspaper Correio Braziliense.
→ read full articleChina, the Party-Corporate Complex
Yi-Zheng Lian – The New York Times,
20 Feb 2017
In Dec 2016, 15 years after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, the European Union, the United States and Japan formally refused to grant Beijing the coveted label, denying it important concessions on tariffs and other trade restrictions. This is partly a response to economic distortions caused by government intervention.
→ read full articleThis Is What Imperialism Does to Men
Ernesto Che Guevara – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
11 Dec 1964, 19th UN General Assembly, New York – We would like to see this Assembly shake itself out of complacency and move forward. We would like to see the committees begin their work and not stop at the first confrontation. Imperialism wants to turn this meeting into a pointless oratorical tournament, instead of solving the serious problems of the world. We must prevent it from doing so. This session of the Assembly should not be remembered in the future solely by the number 19 that identifies it. Our efforts are directed to that end.
→ read full articleNew US Administration Finds Political Foundation in Creaky Culture Theory
Terence McNamee – Sunday Times,
20 Feb 2017
15 Feb 2017 – Twenty-five years have passed since Samuel Huntington first hypothesised a world torn asunder by clashing civilisations. After a lengthy sabbatical, the late Harvard political scientist is back in favour at the White House. President Donald Trump’s closest advisers are big fans. Prominent in the 1990s and resurrected after 9/11, academic’s predictions have returned.
→ read full articleThe Plight of India’s Small Farmers
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The Green Revolution in the 1970s relied on high-yielding seeds, irrigation, fertilizers and pesticides to increase agricultural productivity, but took a heavy toll on the land and water resources of the country, reducing long-term productivity levels.
→ read full articleGHA 12th Anniversary: Spherons of Global Peace and their Science
Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Looking back on the 12-year history of the Global Harmony Association, we ask ourselves: What is our main result? For 12 years we have created eight books and more than 50 projects of global peace from harmony.
→ read full article
Baby I Love Your Way (Music Video of the Week)
Peter Frampton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
A Classic from ‘76 – Live on The Midnight Special…
→ read full articleHistory: Epochs or Trends–Medieval Spain
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Visions of the Past for Constructing a Future: Historiography of Spain – History unfolds over or in time, the basic variable, the X axis. The events are points. The trends are curves of any shape, not necessarily continuous, could also be “jumpy”. And the permanents are horizontal lines set at a certain value. Points, curves, lines; with texts indicative of highly complex proactio-actio-reactio relations.
→ read full article(Português) Os perigos escondidos das lâmpadas LED revelados por um especialista em fotobiologia
Dr. Alexander Wunsch | Cura pela Natureza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
“Lâmpadas LED são prejudiciais à saúde física, mental, da retina, e também aos hormônios”, diz o Dr. Alexander Wunsch.
→ read full articleIndigenous Peoples Lands Guard 80 Per Cent of World’s Biodiversity
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
20 Feb 2017
9 Feb 2017 – They are more than 370 million self-identified peoples in some 70 countries around the world. In Latin America alone there are over 400 groups, each with a distinct language and culture, though the biggest concentration is in Asia and the Pacific– with an estimated 70 per cent. And their traditional lands guard over 80 per cent of the planet’s biodiversity.
→ read full articleHow to Save the World from Fascism and Meet Human Needs in Harmony with Nature
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
President Franklin Roosevelt had declared that America was fighting for the Four Freedoms: speech, worship, from want, and from fear. Jack wrote home that the U.S. troops in Europe were called “The Four Freedoms Boys.” First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt would soon play a leading role in drafting a Universal Declaration of Human Rights that would establish social rights to education, health care, employment, and social security in old age.
→ read full articleStanding Rock and the Struggle Ahead
Julian Brave NoiseCat – Jacobin Magazine,
20 Feb 2017
14 Feb 2017 – Last week, following President Donald Trump’s executive memo, the Army Corps of Engineers granted Dakota Access an easement to drill under the Missouri River just north of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota… The indigenous movement is integral to the future of the planet and a winning left.
→ read full articleBig Pharma Really, Really Doesn’t Want You to Know the True Value of Its Drugs
David Lazarus – Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb 2017
17 Feb 2017 – The latest poster child for cruel and inhuman drug pricing is Kaleo Pharma, maker of an emergency injector for a med called naloxone, which is used as an antidote to save the lives of people who overdose on painkillers.
→ read full articleHow Factionalism Is Killing the Palestinian Struggle
Mariam Barghouti – Al Jazeera,
20 Feb 2017
19 Feb 2017 – In the first month of 2017, Gazans hit the streets to protest against the daily electricity cuts in the strip. Political leaders seized the opportunity to blame each other, turning it into a Hamas v Fatah debate. Factions have not only monopolised Palestinian politics but have also suffocated the youthful spirit of the struggle.
→ read full articleCorruption Brings Down an Empire: Odebrecht in Brazil
Mario Osava | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
6 Feb 2017 – The business empire built by three generations of the Odebrecht family is falling apart after three years of investigation by the Lava Jato (car wash) operation launched by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s office. People in Brazil have been overwhelmed by the flood of news stories about the huge web of corruption woven by the country’s biggest construction company that is active in dozens of fields and countries.
→ read full articleTrump and the Deep State
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – In his book, The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government, Mike Lofgren called attention to the fact that much of the real power in Washington is not controlled by the President and members of Congress, but is in the hands of multi-billion-dollar organizations that are not only huge, but also unelected and secret, for example the CIA, NSA and FBI.
→ read full articleThe Globalization of Environmental Degradation
George Abert and Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
13 Feb 2017 – Figuratively speaking, a ginormous asteroid is hurtling to a cataclysmic rendezvous with earth, but we are not supposed to notice. The asteroid is the rising threat from environmental degradation. Evidence is accumulating that environmental degradation is becoming global. We can either act responsibly by accepting the challenge or take refuge in denial and risk the consequences.
→ read full articleA Short History of the Trump Family
Sidney Blumenthal | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Reckoning with Trump means descending into the place that made him. What he represents, above all, is the triumph of an underworld of predators, hustlers, mobsters, clubhouse politicians and tabloid sleaze that festered in a corner of New York City.
→ read full articleWorst Joke Ever? U.S. Spy Chief Gives Saudi Prince Highest Award for “Fighting Terrorism”
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
20 Feb 2017
On Friday [10 Feb 2017], the Director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, used his first trip abroad to present Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef with the CIA’s highest award for fighting terrorism, the George Tenet Medal… One thing is certain, you’re not going to win the war on terror by handing out medals to the prime suspects.
→ read full articleParadoxes of Wilber’s Appreciation of the Trump Challenge
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Reframing Integral Possibilities for the Future – Given that a case is rapidly building against the incapacity of Trump, the following argument is topical. With respect to the perspective of Ken Wilber, it is framed by earlier consideration with regard to integral futures.
→ read full articleTrump Administration Sued for Suspending Protections for Endangered Bumble Bee
Natural Resources Defense Council | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Trump administration Tuesday [14 Feb 2017] for illegally suspending the rule to put the rusty patched bumble bee on the endangered species list. It has lost approximately 90 percent of its range in the past 20 years and is the first bumble bee ever listed under the Endangered Species Act.
→ read full articleHow Did It Start?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – So how the hell did it all start? I have seen this many times. Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: “When did it start?” Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it.
→ read full articleFryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 – 17 Oct 1849)
Barbara Smolenska-Zielinska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The musical talent of Fryderyk became apparent extremely early on, and it was compared with the childhood genius of Mozart. Already at the age of 7, Chopin was the author of two polonaises.
→ read full articleFukushima: Still Getting Worse After Six Years of Meltdowns
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
20 Feb 2017
After a week of limited coverage of “unimaginable levels” of radiation inside the remains of collapsed Unit 2 at Fukushima, Nuclear-News.net reported Feb 11, 2017 that radiation levels are actually significantly higher than “unimaginable.”
→ read full articleWashington Rules Change, Again
Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 – Over the last four decades, the Washington Consensus, promoting economic liberalization, globalization and privatization, reversed four decades of active state intervention… More than ever, it will be crucial for developing countries to work together, not only to ensure that South-South and ‘triangular’ (with the North) cooperation represents a progressive alternative to the Washington Consensus and its national chauvinist successors. Such solidarity will determine how well the South — and the world as a whole — will fare during the coming eclipse.
→ read full articleThe Man Who Let India Out of the Closet
Aatish Taseer – The New York Times,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 — The most ubiquitous man in Bollywood is under tremendous pressure to utter three simple words: “I am gay.” If these three words have acquired the force of absolution, it is because Karan Johar is by miles the most famous Indian ever to almost be openly gay.
→ read full articleThe World Will Be Saved by Beauty and Art
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
In this cruel life where coexists
Heavenly love and dreadful death,
How the US Began Its Empire
Jackson Lears | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Stephen Kinzer, Henry Holt & Co, Jan 2017 – The recovery of civic virtue and the clarification of national interest are urgently necessary goals, and the only way we can hope to achieve them is by reviving the debate over American empire.
→ read full article(Português) Jo Frederiks: Animais Não São Coisas, Não São Nossos Escravos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Jo Frederiks é uma artista australiana que cria desenhos e pinturas para conscientizar as pessoas sobre a crueldade contra os animais na indústria alimentícia, farmacêutica e de entretenimento. “Nosso próprio futuro é baseado em um reflexo de como tratamos nossos companheiros não humanos”.
→ read full articleSymmetry
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
A husband and wife spent their vacation at a lake where he enjoyed fishing.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Vision for the Future Is Terrifying – Doublespeak Abolished
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
15 Feb 2017 – Empirical historical evidence combined with little common-sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual apartheid or ethnic cleansing, or a mix of both.
→ read full articleChina and Trumpism: The Political Contradictions of Global Capitalism
William I. Robinson - teleSUR,
20 Feb 2017
14 Feb 2017 – When China’s richest man, Wang Jianlin, warned last December that a U.S. trade war against China would result in disaster for the United States, it was no idle threat. As U.S. hegemony declines and Chinese hegemony possibly rises, it is clear that the political scaffolding of world capitalism is hopelessly outdated.
→ read full articleOperation Milagro III Update: Day of the Dead Dolphins
Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – February 11th, three days before the international World Love for Dolphin’s Day, Sea Shepherd discovered 14 dolphin corpses floating in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. At least two of them showed signs of a violent death, with net marks on their bodies, stab wounds or fins crudely cut off in order for the fisherman to remove them quickly from their nets.
→ read full articleModernity
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
No Comment
→ read full articleThe Cognitive Bias President Trump Understands Better Than You
Emily Dreyfuss | Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The aberrant occurrence is the story you’ll read and the picture you’ll see. It’s news because it’s new. The problem here is not just that this singling out creates a distorted version of what’s really happening. It’s that the human psyche is predisposed to take an aberration and conflate it with the norm. This cognitive bias itself isn’t new. But in a media environment driven by clicks, where politicians can bypass journalistic filters entirely to deliver themselves straight to citizens, it’s newly exploitable.
→ read full articleThe Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Era un giorno qualsiasi. Intervista a Lorenzo Guadagnucci.
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Storie è la sezione dedicata a cinque narrazioni che invitano a riflettere su violenza e nonviolenza, resistenze, pace e guerre. La proposta è inserita nello spazio Espace memoria, all’Espace Populaire di Aosta (Italy), dove è nato 10 anni il progetto culturale Collettivamente memoria di cui sono ideatrice, conduttrice e quest’anno copromotrice.
→ read full articleIt’s Too Late to Stop the Senseless Capture of Palestinian Land
Sarah Helm – The Guardian,
20 Feb 2017
Spineless world leaders have failed to implement international law, stopping the expansion of Israeli settlements.
→ read full articleOfficial Text: Proclamation of Latin America and Caribbean as a Zone of Peace
CELAC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Original Signed by the Heads of Government and State of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States-CELAC – 29 Jan 2014
→ read full articleWays of Living with ‘Alternative Facts’: An Anecdote
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
This brings me inevitably to Kellyann Conway’s reliance on ‘alternative facts’ to validate the claim that Donald Trump’s inaugural crowd was bigger than that of Barack Obama. She was contesting contrasting pictures shown by CNN and other media outlets in which even the most casual observer could tell that Trumps crowd was by far smaller.
→ read full articleThe Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Muslim Woman
Erin Blakemore - Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb 2017
A little-known fact about Lady Liberty adds an intriguing twist to today’s debate about refugees from the Muslim world: The statue itself was originally intended to represent a female Egyptian peasant as a Colossus of Rhodes for the Industrial Age. That might be surprising to people more familiar with the statue’s French roots than its Arab ones.
→ read full articleWe Need More Leaders like Ayatollah Khamenei in This World
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Leader Khamenei stressed a “dignified” response to threats and bullying. We need more leaders in this world who will stress the importance of “dignity” for the triumph of the human spirit.
→ read full articleSeeding the Future, Seeding Freedom, One Seed at a Time
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
8 Feb 2017 – Humanity stands at an evolutionary crossroad. We can consciously choose the path of Oneness – of our being part of One Planet, One Humanity, living and celebrating our many diversities, interconnected through bonds of compassion, interdependence, and solidarity. Or…
→ read full article(Português) Tratado de Tlatelolco: 50 Anos de Sucesso
Emb. Sergio Duarte e Jenifer Mackby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
No dia 14 de fevereiro de 2017 comemora-se o cinquentenário do Tratado de Proibição de Armas Nucleares na América Latina e Caribe – Tratado de Tlatelolco – que proíbe ensaios, fabricação, uso, produção ou aquisição de armas nucleares. Todos os 33 países da região são Partes desse instrumento.
→ read full articleExclusive: More Than 1,000 Feared Killed in Myanmar Army Crackdown on Rohingya – U.N. Officials
Antoni Slodkowski | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
8 Feb 2017 – “Where are the Men?” More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior UN officials dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death toll has been a far greater than previously reported.
→ read full article(Français) Trump et l’Amérique Latine
Silvina M. Romano | CELARG – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
10 Fév 2017 – Pendant les jours qui ont précédé l’investiture de Trump, le bruit a couru qu’il avait rencontré « des experts de l’Amérique latine » et qu’à cette occasion, on a parlé de l’Amérique centrale et du Venezuela. Avant d’approfondir sur le contenu de la réunion, il faudrait faire un commentaire sur les « experts » qui ont parlé avec Trump et qui, plus que « des experts de l’Amérique latine » sont des chefs d’entreprises qui se distinguent par leur pragmatisme et ont un parcours dont la légitimité et la légalité sont douteuses.
→ read full articleArmy Veterans Return to Standing Rock to Form a Human Shield against Police
Sam Levin – The Guardian,
13 Feb 2017
A growing group of military veterans are willing to put their bodies between Native American activists and the police trying to remove them.
→ read full articleMyanmar Statement by the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
UN Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Report on the Situation in Northern Rakhine State, Myanmar
→ read full articleThe Uncomfortable Truth: Are We Hating Donald Trump for the Wrong Reasons?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Trump may be described with all the demeaning terminology that one’s livid imagination can muster: evil, wicked, tyrannical, misogynist, war-mongering, rich buffoon, ‘insulting our allies’, infatuating with ‘dictators’, etc. But do not miss the point. There is hardly a single bad deed that Trump has carried – or intends to carry out – that does not have roots in another policy championed by previous administrations.
→ read full articleThe Pivot to China
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
13 Feb 2017
Trump may have already understood that a trade war is a lose-lose proposition. In the absence of an Asian economic version of NATO (the dead-in-the water Trans-Pacific Partnership), the emphasis will be on “vigilant” allies/semi-disguised vassals such as Japan, South Korea and Australia. Meantime, Beijing is delivering its strategic vision for a new Pax Sinica.
→ read full articleSocialist Cuba, China Begin New Era of Internationalist Cinema
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
China is currently Cuba’s second largest trading partner after Venezuela, with bilateral trade surpassing US$750 million, according to the Financial Times. China has also exported goods and resources to Cuba that have allowed the socialist island to rehaul its transportation infrastructure, including the addition of energy-efficient public buses that run on electricity.
→ read full articleLand Law Is Final Nail in the Two-State Solution Coffin
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
“The train departing from here has only one stop – at The Hague,” opposition leader Isaac Herzog said in reference to the home of the International Criminal Court. If ICC prosecutors take their duties seriously, the legalisation law significantly raises the pressure on them to put Israeli officials – even Mr Netanyahu – on trial for complicity in the war crime of establishing and nurturing the settlements.
→ read full articleBelow the Surface
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
The Sky is the Limit
→ read full articleDream Theme
Dr. S. K. Jha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
It is not an easy task to delve deep into the unconscious level of the mind to explore about the phenomenon of dreaming except doing on armchair exercise. This author finds it impossible to adopt the experimental statistical method for exploring the theme of dream. He has this way collected some stark facts about the dream phenomenon. They are being enumerated and explained below.
→ read full articleThe Mass Grave We Call Collateral Damage
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
But the politics of our drone assassinations and our air strikes and our wars justify and soften the murders we commit. Even now, as consensus consigns the Iraq war to the status of “mistake,” we still refuse to take official responsibility for its consequences. The shattered country, the dead, the dislocated, the rise of terrorism — come on, cut us a little slack, OK? We were bringing democracy to Iraq.
→ read full articleEU Should Invest in Development, Not Security in Africa
Nassim Majidi and Herve Nicolle – Al Jazeera,
13 Feb 2017
So what is the alternative? It must espouse a transnational approach and lead transformative interventions with a clear development agenda that replaces its current security agenda.
→ read full articleEvolving Democracy
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Imagine a people taking for granted that there are two, only two, sides to any issues; one right, one wrong; if no compromise, fight it out and the victor decides the outcome. That script controls the people. Power to the people sounds fine, but what kind of people?
→ read full articleSchool in an Aleppo Factory: The Occupiers Denied Children Education – Now They Get It
Jan Oberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
With over 2 million citizens, Aleppo used to be the largest city in Syria and a magic meeting point of many cultures, people and activities situated as it were at the famous Silk Road.
→ read full articleThat’s How It Happened
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
The writers, who (I suppose) were born after the events, accuse the Zionists of starting the 1948 war in order to expel the Arab population. Since I took part in the events – I was 24 years old at the time – I feel that it is my duty to describe what really happened, as truthfully as possible. (I have written two books about it, one during the war and one immediately after.)
→ read full articleA Dire Vacuum in a World in Crisis
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
13 Feb 2017
The Geneva Centre for the Advancement of Human Rights and Global Dialogue will launch a new initiative during the current session of the UN Human Rights Council: a panel discussion around the theme “Islam and Christianity, The Great Convergence: Working jointly towards equal citizenship.”
→ read full articleIndians? Witches? Natives? Jews? Islamists? ETs?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Eradication as Genocide — Now And Then?
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Feb 13-19 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
→ read full articleTruthful
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
An applicant was filling out a job application.
→ read full articleColombian Companies Charged with Crimes against Humanity
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
For the first time, private companies were charged with crimes against humanity as part of the transitional justice system.
→ read full article(Português) Trump viola a primeira virtude da sociedade mundial
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Para o filósofo Imanuel Kant, a hospitalidade (usa a expressão latina “die Hospitalität) é a primeira virtude desta república mundial, porque, “todos os humanos estão sobre a Terra e todos, sem exceção, têm o direito de estar nela e visitar seus lugares e povos; a Terra pertence comunitariamente a todos”. A hospitalidade é um direito e um dever de todos.
→ read full article(Português) Ovos livres de gaiolas são uma falácia, não existem ovos éticos
Chas Newkey-Burden -- Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais-ANDA,
13 Feb 2017
Enquanto se matam 22 milhões de animais diariamente apenas no Reino Unido, há pessoas que usam palavras inventivas para esconder a verdade do consumidor. Entre todas as enganações, o ovo “livres de gaiolas” é talvez a mais audaciosa. Você precisa ter uma imaginação no nível da Disney para acreditar que o RU pode produzir mais de 10 bilhões de ovos por ano sem explorar galinhas.
→ read full articleFreedom of Dual Dignity (Tanka)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
On a regal stage
We revel freedom yearly
Who Are They, Anyway? Finally Meeting the Strangers in Our Own Land
Libby and Len Traubman | Turning Point – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
In our related personal experiences of peacebuilding in the Middle East and in Nigeria, the people ask about Islamic State and Boko Haram: “Who are they, anyway?” And so it is today, in divided America and around Earth; walled-off individuals largely fearful and ignorant of unknown others, strangers to one another.
→ read full article(Português) Considerações sobre a vida não humana
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Como podemos subestimar o sofrimento de um animal reduzido à comida, quando nós mesmos não estamos na mesma situação que eles? Não se pode menosprezar o sentimento de um animal diante do abate, a não ser que tenhas sentido na pele o desespero da iminência do canibalismo ou de ser morto para tornar-se comida para ser d’outra espécie.
→ read full articleKuan Yin: Goddess of Compassion and Harmony
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
19 February, in countries influenced by Chinese culture, is a day devoted to honoring Kuan Yin, goddess of compassion, “she who hears the cries of the world and restores harmony.” She is a goddess for the Taoists and a bodhisattva for the Buddhists, but she represents the same values of compassion for both faiths.
→ read full articleWorld Love for Dolphins Day 2017
Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Join Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Supporters Worldwide for World Love for Dolphins Day on February 14, 2017
→ read full articleTo Bee, or Not To Bee: Will Bumblebees Become Extinct?
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Widely used pesticides and insecticides, climate change, and introduced species are factors for bumblebees as well as other species of bees being endangered.
→ read full articleEarth, You Were for Me Prison and Paradise
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Earth, you were for me prison and paradise.
Here I met your scarlet balmy morns,
Is America’s Most Common Pesticide Responsible for Killing Our Bees?
Alison Moodie – The Guardian,
13 Feb 2017
A growing body of evidence suggests neonics threaten the health of honey bees. But some argue there’s not enough evidence to justify an outright ban.
→ read full articleTreaty of Tlatelolco: Fifty Years of Success
Amb. Sergio Duarte and Jenifer Mackby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
On February 14, 2017 the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean – Treaty of Tlatelolco – will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The Treaty prohibits the testing, use, manufacture, production or acquisition of nuclear weapons. All 33 countries in the region are party to it.
→ read full articleRecord High Fatal Radiation Levels, Hole in Reactor Detected at Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Facility
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017 – Record high radiation levels that are lethal even after brief exposure have been detected at a damaged reactor at the Fukushima power plant in Japan. Specialists also found a hole, likely caused by melted nuclear fuel.
→ read full article
Radetzky March (Music Video of the Week)
Johann Strauß | Maris Jansons, conductor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
ENG: New Year’s Concert Vienna 2016, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Musikverein Viena.
CAST: Orquesta Filarmónica de Viena en la interpretación de la tradicional Marcha Radetzky, de Johann Strauss, dirigida este año por Mariss Jansons en a Sala Dorada de la Musikverein de Viena. 1 jan 2016