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(Italiano) Vecchi auspici per il Nuovo Anno, a destra e a manca
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Papa Francesco ha fatto un giro d’orizzonte per tutti i continenti, con una vibrata denuncia della violenza e per la sua alternativa preferita: il negoziato. Molta violenza è imitativa, in un modo o nell’altro, essendo alla moda. Copiare – ossia imparare – non è sbagliato. ma dipende da quel che si copia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Sguardi italiani su… l’Etiopia
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
23 Jan 2017
Un po’ di storia. La guerra d’Etiopia, nota anche come campagna d’Etiopia o guerra d’Abissinia, fu condotta dal Regno d’Italia contro l’Impero d’Etiopia a partire dal 3 ottobre 1935, e si concluse dopo sette mesi di combattimenti con l’invasione totale del territorio etiope e con l’assunzione della corona imperiale da parte di Vittorio Emanuele III.
→ read full article97% of Endangered Species Threatened by Two Common Pesticides
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
The EPA released its first rigorous nationwide analysis Wednesday [18 Jan] of the effects of pesticides on endangered species, finding that 97 percent of the more than 1,800 animals and plants protected under the Endangered Species Act are likely to be harmed by malathion and chlorpyrifos, two commonly used pesticides. Another 78 percent are likely to be hurt by the pesticide diazinon. The World Health Organization last year announced that malathion and diazinon are probable carcinogens.
→ read full articleRelevance of Gandhi’s Holistic Approach for a Just and Harmonious World
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Gandhi who was killed in 1948 is relevant even today for his holistic approach in promoting a just economic and political system, skill based education and an environmentally friendly system for preserving nature and not over exploiting our earth. Talking of Gandhi, Albert Einstein said that future generations will hardly believe that such a man ever walked on this earth.
→ read full article(Português) Quem matou quem?
Por Carol Zerbato - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
23 Jan 2017
16 de janeiro de 2017 – Morre orca que matou a própria treinadora. Morre baleia assassina que matou treinadora em 2010. Morre Tilikum, a verdadeira orca assassina. Foram essas as repetidas manchetes – não só no Brasil, mas pelo mundo – sobre a morte de Tilikum, orca mantida em cativeiro pelo SeaWorld por mais de 25 anos.
→ read full article(Português) Pawel Kuczynski, um cartunista que desperta reflexões sobre a exploração animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
O artista gráfico e cartunista Pawel Kuczynski vive no Noroeste da Polônia. Lá, ele produz desenhos que despertam a atenção para temas como exploração animal, ecologia, política, pobreza, fome, ganância, novas tecnologias e vício em internet. “Nossa realidade é triste e, como consequência, meu senso de humor é mórbido”.
→ read full article(Português) O colossal saque dos europeus aos bens da América indígena: A base do capitalismo
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
17 Jan 2017 – A 26 de julho de 2013 Evo Morales Ayma, presidente do estado plurinacional da Bolívia pronunciou um discurso estarrecedor diante dos poderosos europeus, chefes de Estado e dignatários da Comunidade Européia e outros sobre a dívida que eles, os europeus, contrairam sem nunca terem pago um centavo sequer com a América indígena mediante um espantoso saque de sua riqueza:185 mil quilos de ouro e 16 milhões de quilos de prata entre os anos 1503-1600.
→ read full articleInequality (I): Half of World’s Wealth in the Pockets of These Eight Men
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 Jan 2017
Article I of a three-part series focuses on the alarmingly deepening inequality. Part II deals with the staggering impact of inequality on women, and Part III with the future and quality of jobs.
→ read full articleInequality (II): “It Will Take 170 Years for Women to Be Paid as Men Are”
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 Jan 2017
Article II of this three-part series on inequality, focuses on the impact of discrimination on women. Part III will tackle the issue of the future and quality of jobs. Part I has dealt with the alarming deepening inequality worldwide.
→ read full articleInequality (III): Less Employment… And More ‘Junk’ Jobs
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 Jan 2017
Article III of of this three-part series on inequality tackles the issue of the future and quality of jobs. Part II focused on the impact of inequality on women. Part I dealt with the alarming deepening inequality worldwide.
→ read full articleIn Umm al-Hiran, Palestine, It Is a ‘Continuing Nakba’
Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Israel has advanced plans to raze the village of 150 homes and replace it with a town for Israeli Jews.
→ read full articleThe Long Ordeal of Whistleblower Chelsea Manning
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
23 Jan 2017
Juan Mendez, who was then the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, concluded, “I believe Bradley Manning was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the excessive and prolonged isolation he was put in during the eight months he was in Quantico.” Chelsea Manning is expected to be released on May 17.
→ read full articleThe Issue Is Not Trump – It Is Ourselves
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
The lies about Russia – in whose elections the US has openly intervened – have made the world’s most self-important journalists laughing stocks. In the country with constitutionally the freest press in the world, free journalism now exists only in its honourable exceptions. The obsession with Trump is a cover for many of those calling themselves “left/liberal”, as if to claim political decency. They are not “left”, neither are they especially “liberal”.
→ read full articleJanuary 17, 1893: United States Illegally Overthrows Hawaiian Government
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
The investigation concluded that the United States diplomat and troops were directly responsible for the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian government with the ultimate goal of transferring the Hawaiian Islands to the USA. The report also detailed US government actions that violated international laws as well as Hawaiian territorial sovereignty.
→ read full articleShackles
TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
True Colors
→ read full articlePresident Trump’s UN and a Good Time Had by All
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
President Donald Trump has tweeted that “The UN has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to get together, talk, and have a good time.” Having sat through many long sessions in human rights bodies at the UN in Geneva, I could hardly wait to get out and have a good time elsewhere.
→ read full articlePublic Enemy #1 as Supreme Leader?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Thinking Otherwise about Framing the Engagement with Society’s Worst Fear – Donald Trump has just been elected 45th President of the USA, against all expectation by many sectors of society — and despite every effort to prevent this outcome. Trump won according to the rules of the American democratic system.
→ read full articleFacebook’s Zuckerberg Sues to Force Land Sales in Hawai’i
Andrew Gomes – Honolulu Star Advertiser,
23 Jan 2017
18 Jan 2017 – Mark Zuckerberg paid around $100 million for 700 acres of rural beachfront land on Kauai two years ago to create what Forbes magazine described as a secluded family sanctuary. Close to a dozen small parcels within Zuckerberg’s Kauai estate are owned by kamaaina families who have rights to traverse the billionaire’s otherwise private domain. Now the Facebook CEO is trying to enhance the seclusion of his property by filing several lawsuits aimed at forcing these families to sell their land at a public court auction to the highest bidder.
→ read full articleUS Secretary of State John Kerry Warns: “West Bank Is Slowly and Steadily Being Eaten Up by Israel”
Dana Nasi – Jerusalem Online,
23 Jan 2017
“Let me say to my friends in Israel that you cannot be a unitary state and be democratic and Jewish at the same time,” stated Kerry. “You have Palestinians in the West Bank living under Israeli military law. But Israelis living in the settlements are living under Israel civil law. So you already have two legal systems being applied to people who live in an area that’s supposed to be a state separate from Israel. […] That’s a recipe for permanent insurgency, permanent conflict.”
→ read full articleThe Truth behind the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Kamehameha Schools Ho‘okahua Cultural Vibrancy Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
On January 17, in the year 1893, the Kingdom of Hawai’i was illegally overthrown. The following remembrance recorded by Johanna Wilcox speaks of the overwhelming sadness felt by the population after the overthrow and annexation of Hawai’i to the United States of America.
→ read full articleBeing There
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
21 Jan 2017 – Perhaps he is lying all the time. Perhaps he is a very shrewd manipulator, who has led us all into believing that he is a megalomaniac simpleton. Well, today is President Donald Trump’s first day in office. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP – we must get used to these three words.
→ read full articleChelsea Manning Sentence Commuted after Seven Years of Brutal Imprisonment
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
18 Jan 2017 – President Obama commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the military intelligence analyst who made public evidence of US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, allowing Manning to go free on May 17, after completing over seven years in prison.
→ read full articleWe Must Not Demonize and Threaten Russia
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Today the world spends more than 1.7 trillion dollars ( $1,700,000,000,000) every year on armaments. This vast river of money, almost too large to be imagined, is the “devil’s dynamo” driving the institution of war. Politicians notoriously can be bought with a tiny fraction of this enormous amount; hence the decay of democracy.
→ read full articleEnd of Mission Statement by UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
Yanghee Lee | UN Information Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
There is one word that has hung heavily on my mind during this visit – reprisals. In every one of my visits and in every one of my meetings, I ask the Government of Myanmar to ensure that the people I speak to and even work with, do not suffer reprisals for speaking out on rights issues or expressing their opinions. Yet, distressingly several people I met during this visit would say to me, “I don’t know what will happen to me after our meeting.”
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Real Purpose of Intel Report on Russian Hacking: With Abby Martin & Ben Norton
Chris Hedges | On Contact – RT America,
23 Jan 2017
Jan 15, 2017 – Chris Hedges is joined by journalists Abby Martin and Ben Norton to discuss the declassified U.S. intelligence report on Russia’s alleged “influence campaign” on the U.S. presidential election. They explore the allegations and why a large portion of the report is dedicated to RT America’s programming.
→ read full article2017: Palestine’s Three Dark Commemorations
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Israeli expansionism, United States unconditional support, and UN impotence. These factors are combining to create dismal prospects for Palestinian self-determination and for a negotiated peace that is sensitive to the rights and grievances of both Palestinians and Jews.
→ read full articleHackers Downloaded US Government Climate Data and Stored It on European Servers as Trump Was Being Inaugurated
Zoë Schlanger | Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
As Donald Trump was sworn into office as the new president of the US on Jan. 20, a group of around 60 programmers and scientists were gathered in the Department of Information Studies building at the University of California-Los Angeles, harvesting government data.
→ read full articleWho to Believe: The CIA and Corporate Media or WikiLeaks?
Kim Petersen | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Without Substantiation, Media Integrity Suffers – We are being assaulted by mass media “news” of alleged hacks by alleged actors, allegations of politicians compromised by financial dealings, and sexual hijinks.
→ read full articleBurma: Four Decades of International Media Coverage on the Rohingyas
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Myanmar government has been committing crimes against humanity at best and genocide at worst.
→ read full articleRegime Change Comes Home: The CIA’s Overt Threats against Trump
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
17 Jan 2017 – The norms of US capitalist democracy include the election of presidential candidates through competitive elections, unimpeded by force and violence by the permanent institutions of the state. Voter manipulation has occurred during the recent elections, as in the case of the John F. Kennedy victory in 1960 and the George W. Bush victory over ‘Al’ Gore in 2000.
→ read full articleThe Tragic Story of Dr Loren Mosher’s Soteria Project and the Plot to Kill It
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
“Psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the drug companies…We’re so busy with drugs that you can’t find a nickel being spent on [non-drug] research.” – Dr Loren Mosher
→ read full articleInterpol Opens New Front in War against Wildlife Crimes
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
International police body Interpol announced a new project Friday [20 Jan 2017] that will identify and dismantle organized crime networks between Africa and Asia that have devastated wildlife and made ivory a sought-after luxury.
→ read full articleFrom Wounded Knee to Syria: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions
Dr. Zoltán Grossman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
The following is a partial list of U.S. military interventions from 1890 to 2014.
→ read full articlePeace: A Multidimensional View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Peace Art imagines the way
Peace Education builds the way…
Final Communiqué OIC Extraordinary Session: The Situation of the Rohingya Muslim Minority in Myanmar
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation convened an Extraordinary Session on the Situation of the Rohingya Muslim Minority in Myanmar, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 19 January 2017, under the Chairmanship of Malaysia.
→ read full articleRestless Thought
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
My restless provoking thought,
You are wandering among contrasts,
You are in doubt, you never trust
You suffer when everything comes to naught.
USA: It’s Going to Be a Wild Ride
Bruce K. Gagnon | Space4Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
This corporate takeover of the US government runs far deeper than Trump. He is not an aberration from the norm – Trump represents the norm in Washington. We are now ruled by Christian fundamentalism (the American Taliban), an economic expansion ideology that has no concern for the planet, and a military ethic that carries with it strong Puritan evangelical strains. Greatness only means domination – of everything.
→ read full articleFlashlights for Warriors of Development Programmes
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Even when programme results are reported, the names and actions of the individuals who made the process successful on the ground are seldom known. We should really applaud and honour ordinary men and women, who have nobody to back them, yet are working doggedly to keep projects rolling.
→ read full articleQuickies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
George Bush came late to a cabinet meeting.
→ read full articlePutin – Trump: Two Paradigms of Global Peace
Dr. Leo Semashko and Dr. Rudolf Siebert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
This article has specific structure. In the first part we reconstruct as synopses of the global peace paradigms of two world leaders from their many speeches to facilitate for the readers to find and understand their visions of this sharpest global challenge. In the second part we present the short comments of these paradigms and their dependence from Global Peace Science.
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Libertango (Music Video of the Week)
Marici Saxes | Saxophone Quartet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
London’s Leading Female Saxophone Quartet Performs Libertango by Astor Piazzolla
→ read full articleWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 Jan 1756 – 5 Dec 1791)
Encyclopædia Britannica– TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. His taste, his command of form, and his range of expression have made him seem the most universal of all composers.
→ read full articleJallikattu and Humanity’s Petty Ethics
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
North Indians have been amazed at the 75-million strong Tamil reaction to the ban on ‘jallikattu,’ a harvest event in which village young men try to snatch the purse of money tied to the horns of a trained bull… In such an elite atmosphere it was easy and natural in Delhi circles to believe that dark-skinned poor Tamil farmers would be cruel to their bulls during jallikattu.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Jan 23-29 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Don’t be sad or afraid when you start losing friends, be glad you’re getting rid of the fake ones. Stay true to yourself.” – Terry Mark
→ read full articleObama’s Covert Drone War in Numbers: Ten Times More Strikes than Bush
Jessica Purkiss and Jack Serle – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
23 Jan 2017
17 Jan 2017 – Obama embraced the US drone programme, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama’s two terms, compared to 57 strikes under Bush. Between 384 and 807 civilians were killed in those countries, according to reports logged by the Bureau.
→ read full articleCyprus: Toward a Non-Territorial Confederation?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
16 Jan 2017 – After some 20 months of discussions and preparations, a high political-level Conference on Cyprus was opened at the UN headquarters in Geneva on 12 January 2017. In some ways this was a continuation of inconclusive negotiations that have taken place in the 43 years that the country has been divided between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots.
→ read full article(Português) Ilhas Marshall: Um Passo Ousado Em Prol do Desarmamento Nuclear
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Durante os doze anos de duração dos ensaios, a população de outras ilhas e atóis do arquipélago experimentaram graves danos. Alguns foram completamente evacuados pela Marinha dos Estados Unidos. Alimentos e água potável foram constantemente contaminados. As pessoas vomitavam e seus cabelos começaram a cair. A incidência de câncer aumentou consideravelmente, assim como a de deformações em recém-nascidos. As taxas de doenças cardíacas, da tireóide, pulmões, ossos e sistema digestivo também aumentaram.
→ read full articleMartin Luther King Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. / “I Have A Dream” speech, August 28, 1963
→ read full article(Portuguese) Exploração animal, consumo de carne e fome mundial
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
16 Jan 2017 – O mundo atualmente conta com mais de 1,5 bilhão de bovinos e pouco mais de sete bilhões de pessoas. Os seres humanos consomem 9,5 bilhões de quilos de comida e 20 bilhões de litros de água por dia. Por outro lado, o gado é alimentado com 61 bilhões de quilos de comida e 170 bilhões de litros de água por dia, segundo a Organização das Nações Unidas para Agricultura e Alimentação.
→ read full article(Português) Como Berlim tem apoiado os direitos animais
Gero Schliess - ANDA–Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
16 Jan 2017
Nove veterinários, 60 cuidadores e muitos voluntários tomam conta de mais de 1.400 animais – cachorros, gatos, 18 macacos e um porco chamado Cristiano Ronaldo. Parabéns à Sociedade de Berlim de Prevenção à Crueldade aos Animais! Conduzindo ao próximo passo na caminhada a um mundo melhor – para os animais, e para nós.
→ read full articleEurope’s Courageous Journalism Voice Has Passed Away
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
On January 13, Udo Ulfkotte died, reportedly of a heart attack. Ulfkotte had been an editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitzung. He published a courageous book in which he said that the CIA had a hand on every significant journalist in Europe.
→ read full articleAn Experiment in Love: Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Six Pillars of Nonviolent Resistance and the Ancient Greek Notion of ‘Agape’
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
“Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives.”
→ read full articleObama’s Stellar Effort to Preserve Our Cultural Heritage in Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Time will tell how Obama’s Middle East legacy is judged and no doubt the verdict will be affected by what President-elect Trump will do in the Middle East, which as of today has many of us scratching our heads. The cultural heritage law enforcement achievements of the Obama Administration must not be dismantled by the Trump Administration.
→ read full articleOh, Mother-Earth, I Am Your Offspring
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Oh, mother-earth, I am yours offspring,
I am your loving humbled son,
I spent all my life wandering,
To find new wonders, one-by-one!
Aleppo’s Evil Humanitarians
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Aleppo Shall Not Be Forgotten – Eyewitness to who helped the Aleppians, Dec 11-14, 2016. This eyewitness report and documentation contradicts the major Western mainstream media’s narrative. In spite of the world historic dimension of this liberation, the tragedy of these innocent war victims and the heartbreakingly vast proportions of the systematic destruction of this dynamic city, none of their media were present in Aleppo there and then.
→ read full articleConfessions of a Megalomaniac
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
14 Jan 2017 – I was invited by Mahmood Abbas, the President of the Palestinian National Authority to take part in joint Palestinian-Israeli consultations in advance of the international conference in Paris. Since Binyamin Netanyahu has refused to take part in the Paris event side by side with Mahmood Abbas, the Ramallah meeting was to demonstrate that a large part of Israeli society does support the French initiative.
→ read full articleThe Coming “New Year”
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
The custom of marking the beginning of a so-called new year is also simultaneously a recognition of mortality and death – of history, the past, of things destined to be forgotten or, if remembered, known as a substrate for what looms ahead.
→ read full articleIs the Myanmar Government and Military Flirting with ‘Acts of Genocide’ against the Rohingya?
Michael G. Karnavas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Take your pick of alleged crimes: persecution, rape, murder, forcible transfer, deportation, extermination, arbitrary detention and imprisonment, and arguably, apartheid. The full treatment.
→ read full articleTruthful…?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Sweden has built a new bridge to an island.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Jan 16-22 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You didn’t want to be my friend in elementary school. You didn’t want to be my friend in junior high school. And you certainly weren’t my friend in high school. Why on Earth do you want to be my Facebook friend today?” – William E Lewis Jr.
→ read full articlePierre Joseph Proudhon (15 Jan 1809 – 16 Jan 1865): Pioneer of the Civil Society
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
It is, however, Proudhon as the pioneer of the concept of ‘civil society’ and the efforts of linking ‘Europe from Below’ that I would like to stress for the contemporary importance of Proudhon. Much of the thinking of ‘Europe from Below’ grew from efforts to bridge the East-West divide of Europe and to limit the dangers of war from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1980s.
→ read full articleWhat Kind of Nonviolence Training Do You Need?
Rivera Sun for Campaign Nonviolence | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Campaign Nonviolence is often contacted by people who are looking for nonviolence trainings. Frequently, they are not sure what type of training they need, or what the catch-phrases are to describe what they’re looking for. This guide is offered as a resource in identifying which type of nonviolence training supports the needs of each situation.
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Aquarius [21 Jan 2017] (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
The earth enters Aquarius on 21 January 2017. Listen and enjoy its music…
→ read full articleThe Drugs May Be the Problem
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Inconvenient Truths about Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Industry
→ read full articleGlobal Nuclear Power Database, 1951-2017
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Our new data visualization puts a wealth of information on 60 years of nuclear power plant startups and shutdowns at your fingertips.
→ read full article“Where Do We Go from Here?”
Dale Bryan | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
15 Jan 2017 – That question was a touchstone for The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the last year of his life. He preached on it. He delivered speeches on it. He wrote a book on it. The answers he put forward may be what got him killed.
→ read full articleConnectivity
Nastya Nudnik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Out of touch?
→ read full articleOpen Letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
8 Jan 2017 – The text below is an Open Letter to the next American president urging complete nuclear disarmament as an urgent priority. The letter was prepared under the auspices of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and its current list of signatories is listed below.
→ read full articleIn Memoriam
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Dr. Hanumantha Rao’s unique gift was his discovery of the ‘Four Waters’ system for providing sustainable agricultural livelihoods to the majority of Indian and third world small and marginal farmers subsisting on dry rain-fed lands. His idea has the simplicity of genius.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Should Back Russia’s Syria Ceasefire
Christopher Bolan | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
For all its shortcomings, Obama’s seemingly improvised Syria strategy has taken advantage of unexpected opportunities. This could be the latest.
→ read full articleHow Gratitude Can Help You through Hard Times
Robert Emmons | Univ. of California, Berkeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
It’s easy to feel grateful when life is good. But when disaster strikes, gratitude is worth the effort.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Shameful Denial
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
10 Jan 2017 – Last month, President Obama lifted sanctions against Myanmar, citing “substantial progress in improving human rights” following the historic election victory of the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in November 2015. Tragically, that praise is proving premature.
→ read full articleIran after Rafsanjani
Massoumeh Torfeh – Al Jazeera,
16 Jan 2017
Rafsanjani’s death has created power vacuum in Iran’s political centre.
→ read full articleMarshall Islands: A Bold Step towards Nuclear Disarmament
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
In 2014 the Republic of the Marshall Islands filed two legal suits: one at the International Court of Justice against the nine countries that possess nuclear weapons and another at an American federal court against the government of the United States. The suits did not seek financial compensation but rather requested a declaratory judgment of breach of obligations under Article VI the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
→ read full articleTo Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Strip Away Their Handsome Mask
Mustafa Kibaroglu | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
The golden age of deterrence has reached its end. Nuclear weapons, once a star player on the international stage, no longer enjoy a place in the limelight.
→ read full article2017 World Economy and Economists
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
This column has argued Lifting the Bottom Up as economic approach in all weathers, bad, fair, good, to mitigate any suffering, and for them to enter the economy as producers and consumers, not as “cases”.
→ read full articleNew Stories for a New Era
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
The Way Between by Rivera Sun, El Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works (2016). This novel should be read aloud to everyone, by everyone, from childhood onward. It is an auspicious beginning to a new mythology of peace, of justice, of inclusion, of conversion and transformation.
→ read full articleThe Re-affirmation of Humanitarian International Law
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
6 Jan 2017 – Current armed conflicts in Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria-Iraq-ISIS-Turkey, Libya, Somalia and elsewhere have led to repeated and conscious violations of humanitarian international law such as attacks on medical facilities and personnel, killing of prisoners-of-war, the taking and killing of hostages, the use of civilians as “human shields” and torture.
→ read full articleBlackwater Founder Claims Private Security Is the Answer to Save Europe from Refugee Crisis
Belen Fernandez | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Erik Prince, the former CEO of the firm responsible for opening fire on Iraqi civilians, has the militarised solution to Europe’s migrant problem.
→ read full articleTribalism, Nationalism and Fascism
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
A Drop of Good Sense in a Sea of Emotion
→ read full articleWhy U.S. Airstrikes in Afghanistan May Now Be Riskier for Civilians
Abigail Fielding-Smith and Ruhullah Khapalwak - Newsweek,
9 Jan 2017
With few troops on the ground to provide intel, American airstrikes in the country are now dependent on local partners and the notoriously limited insights of drones. The number of US troops in Afghanistan has declined, but the drone strikes haven’t. And they’re continuing to kill civilians.
→ read full articleTrump, the Banks and the Bomb
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
9 Jan 2017
7 Jan 2017 – When pro-nuclear disarmament organisations last October cheered the UN decision to start in 2017 negotiations on a global treaty banning these weapons, they did not expect that the US would elect Donald Trump. Much less that he would rush to advocate for increasing the US nuclear power.
→ read full articleThe Real German Submarine Scandal
Victor Gilinsky | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Israel is absorbed with a “submarine scandal” that centers on its contract with Germany. But the real scandal is that Germany supplies the submarines at all, through a loophole in the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The submarines are built to carry long-range Israeli cruise missiles armed with nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleChina Joins the Fight to Save Elephants
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
3 Jan 2017 – It is great news for elephants that China has declared a halt to commercial ivory trade by the end of 2017. The many governmental and nongovernmental organizations that have worked to protect the magnificent animals must now ensure that neither China nor the United States backslides on the bans, and that other nations will not try surreptitiously to move in.
→ read full articleMy Beloved Earth
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
My beloved earth, I am your loving son,
I bend my head before you,
I am sleeping in your tender embraces,
I do not feel that I am alone.
DECLASSIFIED: Read the Intelligence Report on Russia Interfering with US Election
Jacob Pramuk – CNBC,
9 Jan 2017
The U.S. intelligence community on Friday [6 Jan] accused Russia of interfering in the 2016 election in its strongest terms yet. Read the full report: Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections
→ read full articleGut Health 101: What Is the Microbiome?
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
The human body is a complex, interconnected ecosystem and the gut is at the center of it all. The gut is where the body converts food to energy and a major, frontline component of the immune system. It is connected to the central nervous system, brain, and can influence mood. You can’t talk about the gut or its importance without talking about the organisms that live there.
→ read full articleFinland Becomes First Country to Provide Citizens Basic Income
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Finland kicked off its basic income program Monday [2 Jan], giving US$587 per month to 2,000 of its citizens, an amount that – if extended to the entire adult population – will be guaranteed regardless of income, wealth or employment status.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
All over: the USA sidelined, no longer invited to key meetings. Not strange, given its claim to be exceptional (Obama at the UNGA), heavily inclined to violence-war; and others trying to find solutions.
→ read full articleEvery Single Piece of Plastic Ever Made Still Exists – Here’s the Story
Diego Gonzaga | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
And it’s not just the amount of plastic being produced. Everything related to plastic is damaging the planet, from the impact of extracting the fossil fuels used to produce plastic, to the health effects of the toxins it releases into the environment when it is burned, to the devastating impact on sea life.
→ read full articleYes, We Can
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Once, a genius at the propaganda ministry devised a poster: “Who is afraid of the German Luftwaffe?” When it was posted at one of the Royal Air Force bases, an anonymous hand penned underneath: “Sign here”. Within hours, all the airmen had signed. If somebody today were to devise a poster asking “Who is afraid of the settlers?” I would be the first to sign. I am afraid. Not for myself. For the State of Israel. For everything we have built during the last 120 years.
→ read full articleA Poetic Illumination at the Start of a New Year
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
I came across a few lines of the Zen poetry of the late eighteen century Zen poet, Ryōkan. A verse from The Long Winter Night: Three Poems.
→ read full articleMistakes
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
A biology teacher wanted to warn his students about the harmful effects of alcohol.
→ read full articleRighteousness & Lefteousness
Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Orchos Chaim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Chasidic leaders can often be seen clapping their hands together while praying. This practice has its source in the Kabbalah, symbolically bringing together the forces of the right and the left. These two extremes stand separate and apart preventing the prayers of Israel from ascent. The Rebbe puts his right hand and left hand together. The right and the left embrace.
→ read full articlePoliticizing Victimhood: Human Rights as a Propaganda Weapon in Aleppo and Mosul
Anthony DiMaggio - CounterPunch,
9 Jan 2017
If the human rights abuses are committed by an “enemy” state, they will be endlessly highlighted and condemned to create a polarization and dichotomy between the “righteous” home country and the “evil” enemy. If, on the other hand, the abuses are committed by an ally or by the home country itself, the abuses will be downplayed or completely swept under the rug, since they endanger romantic myths that the power in question acts heroically and selflessly, and merely to help others.
→ read full articleReframing the Art of Non-Decision-Making
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
and the Manipulation of Global Categories – It has become strikingly evident that most major international conferences and summits have become exercises in non-decision-making. Indeed, as encouraged by “question avoidance”, decision avoidance has become an art form in its own right.
→ read full articleThe Ongoing Genocide in Myanmar
Ashraful Azad – Open Democracy,
9 Jan 2017
How the international community is failing to protect the Rohingya people. Of the five acts of genocide mentioned in the 1948 Convention on Genocide, four have been committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar since 1978.
→ read full articleSermon on the Mount and Golden Rule: Global Peace Science Today
Rudolf J. Siebert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
While many people consider the 4th commandment of the Sermon the Mount at best merely to be a matter of private morality, President Putin and the Russian Federation have proven in the past year, in the spirit of the great Russian Orthodox tradition, that it has validity also in society, state, and history.
→ read full articleUS Senate Report Details Price-Gouging by Pharmaceutical Companies
Zaida Green | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
6 Jan 2017 – A recently-released US Senate investigation found that four major pharmaceutical companies operated like hedge funds and followed specific business models to monopolize drugs for rare, life-threatening conditions.
→ read full articleFBI Report on Russia Hacking US Election: What You Need to Know
Mark Maunder | WordFence/WordPress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
On Friday [30 Dec] we published an analysis of the FBI and DHS Grizzly Steppe report. The report was widely seen as proof that Russian intelligence operatives hacked the US 2016 election. We showed that the PHP malware in the report is old, freely available from a Ukrainian hacker group and is an administrative tool for hackers.
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