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Israel Rejoices in Unbridled Colony Expansion amid Trump’s Havoc
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
7 Feb 2017 – Within days of Donald Trump being sworn in, the Israeli government announced the approval of around 2,500 new housing units. Within the first two weeks of Trump’s presidency, the number of new housing units, all to be built illegally on Palestinian land, was raised to 5,500, including the first brand-new government-sanctioned colony in years.
→ read full articleThe Joy of Suffering Overcome: Young Beethoven’s Stirring Letter to His Brothers About the Loneliness of Living with Deafness and How Music Saved His Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?”
→ read full articleTo Young Americans of Syrian Origin
Kahlil Gibran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran wrote this poem to fellow Arab Americans , the majority of whom came from “Greater Syria” in Gibran’s time, comprising of today’s Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. Those timeless words in the inaugural issue of The Syrian World in 1926 couldn’t ring truer almost a century later.
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza, guerra: una causa o un sintomo?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Conferimento della laurea Honoris Causa, Universidad Madrid Complutense, 27 gennaio 2017 – Per esperienza famigliare avevo qualche nozione di medicina ed ero rimasto colpito dalla feconda distinzione fra causa e sintomo. Il sintomo è alla superficie del corpo, come la febbre; ma la causa prima è più in profondità, dentro, una sepsi. Un’acquisizione importante.
→ read full articleNonviolent Economy
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Let us start with “economy”, here conceived of as a cycle with three poles: Nature, Production, Consumption. And three processes: Extraction from Nature, Distribution from Production to Consumption, and Pollution from Production-Consumption back to Nature. The cycle flow is in that order: Nature → Production → Consumption → Nature.
→ read full articleWhy Do People Revolt?
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
India experienced two unprecedented and totally unexpected, mostly leaderless mass uprisings of the middleclass in the recent past. The latest, the so-called ‘jallikattu’ protest of the students of Tamil Nadu has just ended. The previous one was nominally led by Anna Hazare, a Gandhian ex-serviceman, and roused the people of Delhi and its environs against rampant and open corruption in government circles.
→ read full article(Italiano) Donald Trump, il Presidente si è insediato
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
E la prima domanda al 45° presidente USA: ha intenzione di ammazzare, in territorio straniero? Il suo predecessore Obama ha seguito la tradizione USA, che dalla seconda guerra mondiale ha causato la morte di più di 20 milioni di persone in 37 paesi, facendo uso di bombe e droni. Pare che i suoi Reparti Speciali abbiano provocato morti ammazzati in 138 paesi. O farà l’America Più Grande interrompendo questa tradizione morbosa?
→ read full articlePolice, National Guard Raid Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp, Arrest 76
Shelley Connor | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
With assistance from the National Guard, police raided a protest camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota near the Dakota Access pipeline site on Feb 1, evicting and arresting seventy-six protesters opposed to the completion of the pipeline.
→ read full articleDoes PEACE JOURNALISM Help…
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
The Checklist is open-ended… far from complete.
→ read full articleIn Pursuit of Peace: The Cosmic Nature of Our Inner and Outer Journey
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
To understand and to accept the mystery that life and death are one can only enrich our life, and can only promote a greater sense of responsibility to promote life. This is spiritual foundation for living amidst the trials we face as individuals, societies, and nations. It calls upon us to grasp and accept the realities of our existence as the stuff of stars, and to live according to the principles of life inherent in our creation. Let us embrace the reality that I/we/life and the universe are one!
→ read full articleBREAKING: Radiation at Fukushima Spikes to Highest Levels Since 2011
Whitney Webb | True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
4 Feb 2017 – Operators of the Fukushima nuclear power plant have identified a gaping hole in a reactor containment vessel, which has resulted in a drastic spike in radiation levels.
→ read full articleManaging National Borders ‘Cannot Be Based on Any Form of Discrimination’ – UN Chief Guterres
UN News Centre | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Refugees fleeing conflict and persecution are entitled to protection, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on 31 Jan 2017, expressing concern at decisions around the world that have undermined the integrity of the international refugee protection regime.
→ read full articleBurma Loses a Key Voice for Tolerance
Linda Lakhdhir | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Murder of U Ko Ni Undermines Fight for an Inclusive Country
→ read full articleEmpowering Ineffectual Outrage with the Strategically Outrageous
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Beyond Reactive Protest, Demonstration and Resistance – From a strategic perspective, the current situation calls for careful attention to the relation between “outrage” and the “outrageous”. Most obviously, the comments and actions of Donald Trump are widely considered “outrageous”. They have evoked “outrage” on the part of those opposed to their implications.
→ read full articleWho Supplies the News?
Patrick Cockburn | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Misreporting in Syria and Iraq – The nadir of Western media coverage.
→ read full articleIsraeli Forces Raid Palestinian-owned Publishing House
International Middle East Media Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
30 Jan 2017 – Israeli forces raided a Palestinian publishing house in the West Bank district of Ramallah and seized equipment. In six months, Israeli forces have raided seven Palestinian-owned publishing houses.
→ read full articleKenyans Turn to Wild Fruits and Insects as Drought Looms
Miriam Gathigah – Inter Press Service-IPS,
6 Feb 2017
Too hungry to play, hundreds of starving children sit by the fire, watching the pot boil, in the hope that it is only a matter of minutes before their next meal. Unbeknownst to them, the food cooking inside the pot is actually a toxic combination of wild fruits and tubers mixed with dirty water, as surrounding rivers have all run dry.
→ read full articlePutting the Last First
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Handing the Poor the Reins of Development
→ read full articleThe History of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Invented the Mathematical Concept of Naught and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
“If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.” –Mathematician Robert Kaplan. If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to foreign travelers, we would have no medicine, no astronomy, and no mathematics — at least not as we know them today.
→ read full articleAngelina Jolie: Refugee Policy Should Be Based on Facts, Not Fear
Angelina Jolie – The New York Times,
6 Feb 2017
2 Feb 2017 – Refugees are men, women and children caught in the fury of war, or the cross hairs of persecution. Far from being terrorists, they are often the victims of terrorism themselves. I’m proud of our country’s history of giving shelter to the most vulnerable people. Americans have shed blood to defend the idea that human rights transcend culture, geography, ethnicity and religion.
→ read full articleRespect the Green Line!
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
We did not declare a boycott on Israel. And not only because it is rather awkward to boycott oneself. The main object of our boycott was to teach Israelis to differentiate between themselves and the settlements. We published and distributed many thousand copies of the list of companies located and products produced outside the Green Line. Many people are upholding the boycott.
→ read full article(Português) Experimento com vácuo quântico pára o tempo e muda definição da luz
Inovação Tecnológica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
O experimento coloca em questão a própria definição do que é a luz, ou o fóton, a menor “partícula” de luz.
→ read full articleAdlai Stevenson (5 Feb 1900 – 14 Jul 1965): Reducing Strife without Eliminating Variety
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
At a time when the narrow nationalism of Donald Trump, expressed in semi-literate style, fills the US media, we can only look back in sadness at the internationalism expressed in an elegant and humorous way by Adlai Stevenson. He was among those who prepared the conference to write the UN Charter during 1944-1945 and later from 1961 to 1965 was the US Ambassador to the United Nations.
→ read full articleCarnivores
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
RIP Cat Food
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Killing Me Softly With His Song (Music Video of the Week)
Roberta Flack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
This song is about Don McLean’s big hit, American Pie–The Day the Music Died.
→ read full article(Italiano) Che Cosa È la Non Violenza Cristiana: Tre Punti Cruciali
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
E’ con gioia allora che noi cristiani cattolici accogliamo il metodo non violento, di cui in Italia ha dato un luminoso esempio il vescovo don Tonino Bello, già presidente di Pax Christi. Quel metodo ci riporta alla caratteristica del nostro cristianesimo, l’amore per i nemici.
→ read full articleInside a Settler-Run Tour of an East Jerusalem Tourist Trap
Matt Broomfield | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Visitors to so-called City of David treated to highly selective, ethnocentric version of history.
→ read full articleKahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders
Magda Abu-Fadil – The Huffington Post,
6 Feb 2017
22 Jan 2017 – In an age of rising populism, fear and xenophobia, what better time to read a rich enlightening book on love, multiculturalism, inspiration and beauty chronicling the life and work of a man who transcends borders and generations.
→ read full articleRuling by Chaos
Jill Richardson | OtherWords – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Trump’s made so many orders — on the environment and everything else — that it’s hard to keep track, much less resist. That’s the point.
→ read full article(Castellano) Madrid dice adiós a los circos con animales
AnimaNaturalis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
1 Feb 2017 – El Pleno Municipal del Ayuntamiento de Madrid celebrado hoy ha aprobado por mayoría el fin de los circos con animales salvajes en la capital de España.
→ read full article(Português) “Se os matadouros tivessem paredes de vidro, todos seriam vegetarianos”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
“Se os matadouros tivessem paredes de vidro, todos seriam vegetarianos” se tornou uma das citações mais populares entre vegetarianos e veganos desde 2009. A frase foi dita pelo compositor britânico Paul McCartney no documentário Glass Walls (Paredes de Vidro), apresentado voluntariamente por ele em uma produção da organização Pessoas pelo Tratamento Ético dos Animais (Peta).
→ read full articleThe Anti-Empire Report #148
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
“Since Yalta, we have a long list of times we’ve tried to engage positively with Russia. We have a relatively short list of successes in that regard.” – General James Mattis, the new Secretary of Defense. If anyone knows where to find this long list please send me a copy.
→ read full articleSymbolic Seduction: Women’s Rights, Partisan Politics, Ethnocentrism and “American Narcissism”
Edward Curtin | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017 – In 1929, Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, U.S./CIA war and coup propagandist, and the founder of public relations, conducted a successful mind-manipulation experiment for the tobacco industry. In those days there was a taboo against women smoking in public, and Bernays was hired to change that.
→ read full articleIn Memoriam: Glenn Paige
Kinhide Mushakoji – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
29 Jan 2017 – I wish also to add to others who knew well Glenn my own tribute to him, as an old friend of his (old also biologically since I am also born in 1929). I met him first in 1961 when I was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center of International Studies in Princeton.
→ read full articleThe PolyMet Project and the Lethal Risks to the St Louis River Watershed and Lake Superior
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
It’s an Acceptable Risk for Foreign Investors to Take but What about Us? “ALL tailings “ponds” are a problem. If they don’t breach and spill massive amounts of toxic sludge into the environment like at Mount Polley, they leach that contamination slowly, poisoning the waters and lands around them.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Haiku for Nanni (Salio): 4 febbraio 2017
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
A little tribute for Nanni – GRAZIE NANNI!
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Feb 6-12 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Real love you feel it, you see it, you show it! But fake love is just words…” – Unknown
→ read full articleUN Report Details ‘Devastating Cruelty’ Against Rohingya Population in Myanmar’s Rakhine Province
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017 – In a report issued today, the United Nations human rights arm said that the widespread human rights violations against the Rohingya population by Myanmar’s security forces in the country’s northern Rakhine state indicate the very likely commission of crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleAlfred Adler (7 Feb 1870 – 28 May 1937): Power and Social Feeling
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Alfred Adler, a Vienna psychotherapist and medical doctor, was part of the early circle of Sigmund Freud. However, the two men disagreed on what each felt to be fundamental positions. In 1911, Adler left the Freud circle and founded his own approach, which he called “individual psychology”. For Adler, there are similarities between the evolution of man within history and the evolution of each individual.
→ read full article(Português) Eutanásia, ou a prática de ajudar os enfermos a bem morrer?
Paulo Mendes Pinto | Visão – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Há que debater, finalmente, numa sociedade que se afastou da morte, esse lugar-comum que é aquilo para que todos caminhamos.
→ read full articleWhy Mass Disruption, Civil Unrest Works
David S. Cohen – Rolling Stone Magazine,
6 Feb 2017
Outrage over abandonment of American values, coupled with judicial action, can deliver a powerful one-two punch.
→ read full article(Português) Palestina: Comunidades beduínas sofrem com despejo e violência em Israel
Júlia Dolce e Victor Labaki - Brasil de Fato e Revista Fórum,
6 Feb 2017
31 de Janeiro de 2017 – O último fim de semana foi novamente de tensão para famílias palestinas, da vila beduína de Umm Al Hiran, que tiveram suas casas destruídas no início deste ano pelo governo de Israel. No domingo (29), enquanto a reportagem estava no local, aproximadamente 12 viaturas da polícia israelense chegaram à vila para dar mais uma ordem de despejo aos moradores.
→ read full articleThe Urgency of Slowing Down
Kazu Haga | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech in Harlem’s Riverside Church. In it, he spoke of being confronted with “the fierce urgency of now.” We need to act, but addressing this crucial moment cannot come at the expense of strategy, process, intention and remembering to slow down enough to breathe.
→ read full articleUkraine: Still Divided and Tense
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
4 Feb 2017 – The start of 2017 has seen an increase in military action and tensions in the separatist areas of Ukraine, especially in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and around the city of Avdiyivka. Those of us outside the Ukraine must help facilitate discussions of national governmental structures for the Ukraine and regional security cooperation so that common interests may be found and current tensions reduced.
→ read full articleDetrimental Effects of New Executive Order on Syrian-American Physicians
Syrian American Medical Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
31 Jan 2017 – The Syrian American Medical Society-SAMS is deeply concerned that the Executive Order signed last week might compromise the ability to provide critical humanitarian and medical relief overseas, and could limit the education and professional careers of many aspiring Syrian students and physicians. There are currently more than 5,000 Syrian-American physicians working across the U.S., including about 1,000 SAMS members.
→ read full articleThe Great Tree: 3200 Years in One Photo…
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Because of its unbelievable size, this tree has never been photographed in its entirety, until now. National Geographic photographers have worked along with scientists to try and create the first photo that shows the President in all its glory.
→ read full articleEurope Should Act Fast to Preserve the Iran Nuclear Deal
Ellie Geranmayeh – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
6 Feb 2017
The Trump administration’s evolving policy on Iran has become a source of concern across the Atlantic. And that was even before National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s declaration on Wednesday [1 Feb] that the United States was “putting Iran on notice.”
→ read full articleWant to Prevent Stroke, Diabetes, Cancer? Get Moving… Now!
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
6 Feb 2017
2 Feb 2017 – Tired, lazy, bored, laying down long hours watching TV or seated checking your email? Wrong. And dangerous: not enough exercise contributes to cancer, diabetes, depression and other non-communicable diseases.
→ read full articleReality: Humanity Can’t Indefinitely Avoid Using Nuclear Weapons
Mustafa Kibaroglu – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
6 Feb 2017
Even “realists” ought to realize that most leaders controlling nuclear weapons today can’t necessarily be trusted to behave rationally. The second round closes in our debate over a UN committee’s resolution that would mandate negotiations toward a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleGive me your tired, your poor…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
You Are Fired!
→ read full articleThe Efficient Absorption of Nutrients: What Is Bioavailability?
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Bioavailability is the proportion of a nutrient the human body is able to absorb and use. You might think that when you eat an apple every iota of vitamin A, every antioxidant, and every mineral it contains is used by your body with total efficiency, but that’s not exactly the case.
→ read full article(Français) Italie. Cartographie des inégalités sociales
Diego Giacchetti | A l’Encontre la Brèche – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Selon des analyses élaborées au moment où se tient le World Economic Forum de Davos, en Italie, les 20% les plus riches détiennent plus du 69% de la richesse du pays, les 20% suivants en détiennent le 18%, tandis que 60% doivent se partager le 13% restant. Selon le magazine économique new-yorkais Forbes, en 2016, parmi les 20% les plus riches, 10 Italiens détiennent en tout 86 milliards d’euros, soit l’équivalent de ce que possèdent 500’000 familles ouvrières.
→ read full articleHow Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ Can Inspire Those Who Fear Trump’s America
Ani Kokobobo | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
31 Jan 2017 – As a professor of Russian literature, I couldn’t help but notice that comedian Aziz Ansari was inadvertently channeling novelist Leo Tolstoy when he claimed that “change doesn’t come from presidents” but from “large groups of angry people.” In one of his greatest novels, “War and Peace” (1869), Tolstoy insists that history is propelled forward not by the actions of individual leaders but by the random alignment of events and communities of people.
→ read full articleMoscow & Washington – Last Chance to Get It Right?
Jonathan Power | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Russia and the US have never fought each other in the 200 years of their relationship. Russia aided the North during the Civil War and sent warships to prevent England and France supporting the confederacy. During the World Wars the two were close allies.
→ read full articleRoles of Civil Society in Nepal’s Development
Shree Prasad Devkota and Dikendra Lal Dhakal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Although it is not easy to ‘characterize’ (post)modern civil society that encompasses unrestrained scopes and roles, in general sense civil society is the entirety of many deliberate social relationships, civic and social organization, and institutions that lay the foundation of a functioning society.
→ read full articleThe Beggar of Assisi
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
His life was a prayer, a candle, a song.
Barefoot, he trod through showers and sunshine.
Glenn D. Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Giant for Peace Leaves Behind an Indelible Mark – In Memoriam
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
His transformation from praising a killing society, USA, in the Korean War to invoking a non-killing society did not come easily. To revoke his own book on the Korea War decision, and the prize received for that book, has few equals.
→ read full articleOn an Extraordinary Pa(i)ge
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
A Rhymed Reflection in Memoriam of Prof. Glenn Paige
→ read full articleTrump Signs Executive Actions to Advance Keystone, Dakota Access Pipelines
Andrew Restuccia and Josh Dawsey – Politico Magazine,
30 Jan 2017
Keystone XL has been at the center of one of the largest opposition campaigns in the history of the environmental movement.
→ read full articleHelping Refugees Also Means Stopping the Wars Which Make Them
Max Ajl - teleSUR,
30 Jan 2017
Trump, it seems, will not ban all Muslims. He’ll only ban Muslims whose countries and homes we are bombing.
→ read full articleThe Global War on Cash
Jeff Desjardins | The Money Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
18 Jan 2017 – There is a global push by lawmakers to eliminate the use of physical cash around the world. This movement is often referred to as “The War on Cash”, and there are three major players involved.
→ read full articleThey Aren’t All Safe: Pharma Is Willing to Look “Unscientific” to Sell Vaccines
Martha Rosenberg - CounterPunch,
30 Jan 2017
26 Jan 2017 – Why do progressive news sites that expose government and corporate disinformation in other areas accept disinformation when it comes to vaccines–actually calling activists “unscientific”? Like all drugs aggressively marketed these days, patients and parents need to do their own research and weigh benefits and risks—never forgetting Pharma’s spotty safety record.
→ read full articleTrump’s Pre-Fascism and Progressive Populist Opportunities
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The Dismal Cartography of the Pre-Fascist State – Listening to Donald Trump’s inaugural speech on January 20th led me to muse about what it might mean to live in a pre-fascist state.
→ read full articlePlan Approved for 2,500 New Settler Homes in West Bank
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
24 Jan 2017 – Building plan for occupied West Bank came two days after more than 500 settlement homes were approved in East Jerusalem.
→ read full articlePresident Trump: Nationalist Capitalism, an Alternative to Globalization
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
During his inaugural speech, President Trump clearly and forcefully outlined the strategic political-economic policies he will pursue over the next four years. Anti-Trump journalist, editorialists, academics and experts, who appear in the Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal have repeatedly distorted and lied about the President’s program as well as his critique of existing and past policies.
→ read full articleNonviolent Action: Why and How It Works
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Nonviolent action is extremely powerful. Unfortunately, however, activists do not always understand why nonviolence is so powerful and they design ‘direct actions’ that are virtually powerless. I would like to start by posing two questions.
→ read full articleSouthern European Leaders Gather in Lisbon as Populism Gains
Reuters | Fortune – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Leaders met on Saturday [28 Jan 2017] in Lisbon to discuss growing challenges, from the refugee crisis to rising borrowing costs and low economic growth, at a time when rising populism has increased political uncertainty in Europe. The group brings together France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta.
→ read full articlePresident Kong
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
28 Jan 2017 – I knew he reminded me of somebody, but I couldn’t quite place it. Who was it who pounded his chest with such vigor? It was the hero of a movie that was produced when I was 10 years old: King Kong, the giant primate with the heart of gold, who scaled huge buildings and downed airplanes with his little finger. Wow. President Kong, the mightiest being on earth.
→ read full articleCaptivity?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
What is he lacking?
→ read full article(Français) Israël. Des colonies et des armes pour le Myanmar
John Brown | A l’encontre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
26 janvier 2017- Les dirigeants de l’armée du Myanmar se sont livrés à une frénésie d’achats auprès des industries israéliennes d’armement. Ils ont même rencontré le président et le chef d’Etat-major israéliens. Malgré les crimes de guerre qui sont commis par ce pays du Sud-Est asiatique, Israël continue à maintenir d’importants liens avec lui dans le domaine dit de la «sécurité».
→ read full articleLove and Economics
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
A common definition of money is that it is a store of value. But human beings value many things, principles, attitudes, beliefs, emotions, which are incommensurable. Some of the most basic human actions fall into this category – a mother’s love, a teacher’s guiding hand, a friend’s support, or even one’s own sense of beauty or duty.
→ read full articleA View from My Window — Observing Novelty, Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
27 Jan 2017 – I live in a locality of Delhi that is teeming with life of all types. One can get a glimpse of this activity both by coming out on the street or even looking at the sights from my window. The activity never ceases.
→ read full articleBuild the Wall — Move the UN HQ?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
United Nations Principles Are Not Consistent with “America First”
→ read full articleThe Muse Is My Eternal Life
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The Muse is my eternal life,
She is my love, my hope, my fire,
A Valiant Verbal Warrior Demythologizes the CIA
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Like Odysseus, Douglas Valentine is a wily warrior who managed to enter the enemy’s stronghold disguised as a gift. Not Troy, and not within a wooden horse, but in the guise of a nice young “Nobody,” he was able, thirty or so years ago, to breach the walls of the CIA through William Colby, a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
→ read full articleTrump’s Muslim Ban Emboldens Myanmar Racists: Suu Kyi’s Sole Muslim Adviser Shot Dead Upon Return from Jakarta
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
29 Jan 2017 – Shooting U Ko Ni dead in the head at a high profile place like Yangon Airport, upon arrival from the official visit to Jakarta to go and study peaceful, interfaith life in Indonesia, was, in my view, to make the point that Muslims assuming advisory positions to NLD and ASSK would cost life.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Jan 30-Feb 5 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
“All human beings are members of one frame,
Since all, at first, from the same essence came.
When time afflicts a limb with pain
The other limbs at rest cannot remain
If thou feel not for other’s misery
All human being is no name for thee.”
— Saadi Shirazi
American Pie – The Day the Music Died (Music Video of the Week)
Don McLean – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
1972 Immortal Classic. After composing this tribute song Don McLean gave up Rock ’n’ Roll. The plane crash that changed the 60’s music.
→ read full articleIndia Fails the Leprosy Test
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The World Health Organization reported that in 2015 India accounted for 212,000, or 60%, of all the new cases of leprosy worldwide. As the WHO has pointed out, medicines and treatments are available to eradicate this ancient dreadful disease, but political will has been lacking for a very long time.
→ read full articleParis and the End to a Western-dominated Era in the Middle East
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
25 Jan 2017 – No, it was not just ‘another Middle East peace conference,’ as a columnist in Israeli ‘Jerusalem Post’ attempted to depict the Paris Peace Conference held on January 15, with top official representations from 70 countries attending. No, it was an end of an era. The American era in the Middle East.
→ read full articleIs Violence-War a Cause or a Symptom?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Receiving Dr Honoris Causa, Universidad Madrid Complutense, 27 Jan 2017 – From my family I knew a little about health studies and had been struck by the fruitful distinction between cause and symptom. The symptom is on the surface of the body, like fever; but the root cause is deeper down, inside, a sepsis. A major breakthrough.
→ read full articleHow NATO Is Becoming a Threat to Europe
Harry Blain | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Sometimes, Europe marches to catastrophe; often, it stumbles there.
→ read full articleRest in Peace Prof. Glenn Paige (1929 – 2017): Pioneer of Nonkilling and Peace Researcher
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
I am very sorry to hear of the death of my good friend Prof. Glenn Paige, who passed away on Sunday 22 January, 2017. Glenn was 87 years of age and he died at the end of a struggling illness during which he was nursed by his wonderful partner, and co peacemaker, Glenda Paige.
→ read full articleAll about That Democratic Base
Gorge Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Our democracies are broken, debased and distrusted. Here are some ideas for restoring them.
→ read full articleJoint IOM-UNHCR Statement on President Trump’s Refugee Order
UNHCR UN Refugee Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
GENEVA, 28 Jan 2017 – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration believe that refugees should receive equal treatment for protection and assistance, and opportunities for resettlement, regardless of their religion, nationality or race.
→ read full articleDoomsday Clock Moves Ahead: It Is Now Two and a Half Minutes to Midnight
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
26 Jan 2017 – It is now two and a half minutes to midnight. For the first time in the 70-year history of the Doomsday Clock, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board has moved the hands of the iconic clock 30 seconds closer to midnight. In another first, the Board has decided to act, in part, based on the words of a single person: Donald Trump, the new President of the United States.
→ read full article(Português) Jorge Luis Borges: “Comecei a perder a vista desde o momento em que comecei a enxergar”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
“Uma das primeiras cores que se perde é o negro. Perde-se a escuridão e o vermelho também. Vivo no centro de uma indefinida neblina luminosa. Mas não estou nunca na escuridão. Neste momento esta neblina não sei se é azulada, acinzentada ou rosada, mas luminosa.
→ read full articleThe Media Is Now the Political Opposition
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
By taking the role of the political opposition to Trump, the media has discredited itself as an honest critic on topics where Trump needs criticism, such as the environment and his tolerance of oppressive methods used by police. The presstitutes have ended all chance of improving Trump’s performance with reports and criticism. Trump needs moderating on the environment, on the police, and on the war on terror.
→ read full articleIndividual Responsibility
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
20 Jan 2017 – There are many governments today that can be described unjust, and some that even deserve to be called fascist. What is the duty of the individual citizen, living under such a government?
→ read full articleMark Zuckerberg Is Suing to Force Native Hawaiians off Their Ancestral Land to Build an Island Resort
Nathan Wellman | US Uncut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
19 Jan 2017 – Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg ended 2016 by suing hundreds of people native to Hawaii, apparently so that he can have 700 acres of land all to himself. Those named by the lawsuit filed on December 30th were given 20 days to respond, or else forfeit all claims to the property.
→ read full articleMexico Wall: Gaza Redux?
António Gaspar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Déjà Vu All Over Again?
→ read full articleJohns Hopkins’ Top Psychotherapist Releases Terrifying Diagnosis of President Trump
Olive Murphy | Bipartisan Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Malignant narcissists are determined to gratify their wishes and furious if thwarted. Their desire can be so consuming that there is little comprehension of, respect for or ability to empathize with the other. They lack guilt or remorse and tend to feel or pronounce that it is they who have been mistreated. They can be of any gender, race or social class.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Nominations NEW DEADLINE: 31 JANUARY 2017
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
New deadline: Please nominate by Jan. 31, 2017, 12 p.m. CET (Norwegian time). Please also, send us a copy, to nomination copy@nobelwill.org of all nominations suited you believe may be suited for inclusion in our 2017 list.
Nobel Committee postmaster@nobel.no
→ read full article[Obscene, Pornographic] World’s Richest 8–All Men–as Wealthy as Half of Humanity: Oxfam
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The world will have its first trillionaire in only 25 years, the organization found. Just eight individuals, all men, own as much wealth as half of the world’s population, Oxfam said Sunday [15 Jan] night, slamming the rich for fueling global inequality by dodging taxes, driving down wages and using their power to influence politics.
→ read full articleNAPF: To Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The statement below was drafted and endorsed by participants in a symposium held in Santa Barbara, CA in October 2016 under the auspices of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
→ read full articleDonald Trump Inaugurated as President
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
And the first question to the 45th US president: Will you kill, abroad? Predecessor Obama was in the US tradition that killed more than 20 million in 37 countries since WWII, bombing and droning. His Special Forces seem to have killed in 138 countries. Make America Greater by breaking this morbid tradition?
→ read full articleAmericans Claim Role in Yeltsin’s Russian Elections Win
Eleanor Randolph - Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan 2017
Consultants say they spent months in Moscow secretly devising U.S.-style strategy.
→ read full articleAn Economy for the 99%
Oxfam - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
January 2017 Oxfam Briefing Paper – It‟s time to build a human economy that benefits everyone, not just the privileged few.
→ read full article(Italiano) Economia mondiale ed economisti nel 2017
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
In questa rubrica si è sostenuta l’Elevazione dei ceti più marginali come approccio economico valido in ogni circostanza, per mitigare qualunque sofferenza e per indurne l’ingresso nell’economia come produttori e consumatori, non come “casi anomali”.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
“Coca-koloniseringens död-La morte della Colonizzazione-Coca”, la supposizione che nei paesi dove esistono Coca Cola, McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken e CNN, i valori democratici USA rimuoverebbero qualsiasi proposito di guerra. Quella teoria era un’idiozia. Il paese in cui tutte e quattro quelle aziende sono maggiormente presenti, gli USA, è il più guerrafondaio.
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