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Heart of Darkness: Observations on a Torture Notebook
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
A psychologist tries to defend the indefensible, and fails.
→ read full articleMurdering the Innocent in Order to Support the Lie
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
It is clear beyond reasonable doubt that there was no real bombing at the Boston Marathon and that the alleged terrorist event, using crisis actors, was an orchestration designed to convince dumbshit Americans that they really were under a “Muslim threat.” The entire foreign policy of the United States in the 21st century is based on an orchestrated “Muslim threat.”
→ read full articleWhat a Mess!
TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Curiosity
→ read full articleAssange ‘1,000%’ Sure Russia Wasn’t Source of US Election Leaks
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Julian Assange argued that the debate about Russian influence on the U.S. election is an attempt to delegitimize Trump.
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(Castellano) Volver a los 17 (Music Video of the Week)
Mercedes Sosa, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento & Gal Costa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Mercedes Sosa (1935-2009), Argentinean star singer from Native S. American origin with Brazilian star singers. A true, delightful classic.
→ read full article(Português) Soldados israelenses são encorajados a “atirar para matar” palestinos, diz ONG
Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
A Human Rights Watch coletou declarações de políticos e oficiais israelenses desde a nova onda de ataques, em 2015.
→ read full articleDonald Trump’s New Nuclear Instability
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
9 Jan 2017
29 Dec 2016 – President-elect Donald Trump exploded a half-century of U.S. nuclear-arms policy in a single tweet last week: “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” With that one vague message, Donald Trump, who hasn’t even taken office yet, may have started a new arms race.
→ read full articleMedical Communication Companies and the Medical Propaganda Machine
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Examining One of the Many Ways That Healthcare Providers are Compelled to Over-prescribe Big Pharma’s Unaffordable, Often Toxic and Often Dependency-inducing Prescription Drugs
→ read full articleThe Smoking Gun! No Question on Illegality of the U.S. Overthrow of the Hawaiian Government in 1893
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
2 Jan 2017 – In 2016, Duke University Press published Tom Coffman’s Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai‘i. While this book has been in circulation since 1998, it is the first time that an academic publisher has put its name to the book. The goal of Duke University Press is “to contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship.”
→ read full article10 Most Radioactive Places on Earth
Brainz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
While the 2011 earthquake and worries surrounding Fukushima have brought the threat of radioactivity back into the public consciousness, many people still don’t realize that radioactive contamination is a worldwide danger.
→ read full articleCondemning Israeli Settlement Expansion: UN Security Council Resolution 2334 and Secretary Kerry’s Speech
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
To bring together China, Russia, France, and the UK on an initiative tabled by Senegal, Malaysia, and Venezuela, is sending Israel and Washington a clear message that despite the adverse developments of recent years in the Middle East the world will not forget the Palestinians, or their struggle.
→ read full articleTaj Mahal
Lara Ayvazyan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
There are not so many wonders in the world,
But one of them we keep in consciousness,
I keep in my mind one road in faraway India
From Delhi to the town with miracle Taj Mahal.
Need for a Moral Confession of Political Parties in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota and Pradip Raj Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
7 Jan 2017 – We often worry about degrading political practices in Nepal. Unemployment, politicization of every institution, increased criminal activities and corruption has created a frustrated generation. Youths are migrating abroad and remittance has become life line of our economy.
→ read full articleIn the Blood
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Born in a normal time,
The periodic slaughter of millions
By the civilized nations of the earth
I grew to adulthood half-crazed
With fear and numbed wonder.
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Jan 9-15 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.” – Unknown –
→ read full articleOpposing Discrimination, Oppression, Violence in the World: Inspiring Struggles for Equality, Justice and Liberty
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
We see that the world has seen discrimination, injustice and oppression — social, economic, racial and caste based, of poor marginalised people all over the world. This has taken several forms – forced labour, slavery, apartheid, and untouchability. Equally there have been struggles against these abhorrent practices by brave, truthful and visionary persons.
→ read full articleThe World Must Learn from Cuba
Joe Emersberger - teleSUR,
9 Jan 2017
On the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, why has the small Caribbean nation outperformed many capitalist democracies in key ways despite fifty years of blockade, attacks, sanctions, injustices?
→ read full articleIntelligence Report on Russian Hacking
The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released on Friday [6 Jan 2017] a report that detailed what it called a Russian campaign to influence the election. The report is the unclassified summary of a highly sensitive assessment from American intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
→ read full articleStanding Rock and the Return of the Nonviolent Campaign
George Lakey – Yes! Magazine,
9 Jan 2017
There’s something even better than electoral politics and one-off protests when mobilizing citizen power. The good news is the reemerging art of the nonviolent campaign. Our choices are not limited to petitioning politicians or staging a protest. Instead, we can start something big.
→ read full articleLame Duck’s Last Quack
Michael David Morrissey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Mr. O, failing miserably to fly,
Wants to give it one more try.
US Sold $40 Billion in Weapons in 2015, Tops Global Arms Market
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
While the global arms trade declined overall, the biggest sellers of global weapons, the United States and France, saw an increase in sales.
→ read full articleJohn McAfee on Russian Hacking Allegations: “If It Looks Like the Russians Did It, Then I Can Guarantee You It Was Not the Russians”
Signs of the Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
McAfee argues that the report is a “fallacy,” explaining that hackers can fake their location, their language, and any markers that could lead back to them. Any hacker who had the skills to hack into the DNC would also be able to hide their tracks, he said. “If I was the Chinese and I wanted to make it look like the Russians did it, I would use Russian language within the code, I would use Russian techniques of breaking into the organization.”
→ read full articleElite
TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Folly
→ read full articlePeace Journalism: What, Why, Who, How, When, Where
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Imagine a blackout on everything we associate with medical practice; never to be reported in the media. Disease, however, is to be reported fully, in gruesome detail, particularly when elite persons are struck. This kind of journalism would be disease-oriented, and the journalist could refer to himself as a disease journalist or correspondent.
→ read full articleThe Cruel Experiments of Israel’s Arms Industry
Matt Kennard |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
The occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip are Israeli weapons manufacturers’ laboratories, and Palestinians their subjects.
→ read full articlePalestine 2017: Time to Bid Farewell to Washington and Embrace the Globe
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
There is no doubt that the UN Security Council condemnation of Israel on Friday [23 Dec] was an important and noteworthy event. True, the UN’s main chambers (the UNSC and the GA) and its various institutions, ranging from the International Court of Justice to UNESCO, have repeatedly condemned the Israeli occupation, illegal Jewish settlements and mistreatment of Palestinians.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cina ed Europa – Raffronti e Futuri
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Secondo una recente indagine di Harvard, la Cina produce il 26.7% delle automobili al mondo e gli USA ne producono il 13.3%; l’economia statunitense è più consistente ma la Cina primeggia nelle esportazioni con 8 dei 12 più grandi porti; gli USA terminano il 2016 guerreggiando 7 guerre, con basi militari un po’ dovunque, la Cina termina l’anno con nessuna guerra né basi, investendo, costruendo la Nuova Via della Seta, il Corridoio Economico. Con quale riuscita, rimane da vedere.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo, in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Norvegia: “Noi amiamo l’America–Noi odiamo la Russia–L’America odia la Russia”, equilibrato, fece cambiare la dottrina militare delle élite per attaccare la Russia. Poi “Noi amiamo l’America–Noi odiamo la Russia–L’America ama la Russia”, discordante. Dopo un periodo trascorso a odiare l’America di Trump, la Norvegia finirà per accettare la Russia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Bravo Trump – No alla CIA!!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Un presidente eletto degli USA che dica di non volere più istruzioni di intelligence è come – difficile dire: forse come un prete in procinto di essere ordinato che dica di non aver più bisogno di leggere la Bibbia, di altre parole di Dio? Qualunque cosa sia quella tal “intelligence”, è intelligente?
→ read full articleIsrael Reaps the Whirlwind
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
There’s not much point in carrying reports of Netanyahu’s response to the UNSC’s resolution on settlements. It is entirely, self-pityingly, predictable. Here he musters his troops for a fight-back against the rule of international humanitarian law.
→ read full articleThe 500 Richest People in the World Got $237 Billion Richer in 2016
Alan Pyke | Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
As right-wing politicians around the world gathered power by scapegoating immigrants for the economic struggles of working people, the world’s richest people got nearly a quarter trillion dollars richer in 2016.
→ read full articleAleppo Falls as Winter Fog Settles on the Chitose River
Stephen Toskar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
smoke rising from a snuffed-out candle
the heady scent of cinnamon
moments before you come
Anti-Semitic Zionists
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
President Barak Obama, at the very end of his presidency, dared to challenge the government of Binyamin Netanyahu, a person he detests with all his heart. And so, after years of frustration, the highest international body could adopt a resolution on Israel according to its convictions. No wonder they behaved like schoolchildren let out for vacation. A vacation that may, alas, prove to be short.
→ read full articleSharing
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
A mother was preparing pancakes for her two sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3.
→ read full articleElevator Music
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
The wars are always with us,
Near or far,
A bass line to the splendid riffs
What Makes Social Programmes That Work
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Most development programmes for poor have been designed on the assumption that the poor need charities and they cannot afford to pay for the services. This is erroneous and we have witnessed how dollops of free money have stifled their initiatives.
→ read full articlePalestine-Israel: The UNSC Vote
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Will Mahmoud Abbas turn success into failure (again) or will he finally show backbone to use the UNSC resolution to save what remains of Palestine?
→ read full articleRohingya in Burma/Myanmar: Nobel Laureates Urge Action over ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Submitted by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Dear President and Members of the UNSC,
As you are aware, a human tragedy amounting to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity is unfolding in Myanmar.
The Future of the United States of America
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
31 Dec 2016 – What I most want to say is that social chaos and ecological disaster cannot be avoided without transforming basic cultural and social structures. Otherwise no economic policy will work. For structural reasons, all economic policies lead to unacceptable results.
→ read full articleWhy Rates of Human Organ Trafficking Are on the Rise in the Middle East
Future for Advanced Research and Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
27 Dec 2016 – In light of new alliances with crime mafias, gangs involved in the trafficking of human organs have increased. The trafficking network includes university professors, doctors, members of nursing staff, and owners of medical centers and labs as well as intermediaries and brokers with prior records, and those impersonating security officials.
→ read full articleThe Political Shakespeare
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
26 Dec 2016 – These last three years have been dedicated to the Bard. Dramatic political change was in the air when Shakespeare lived and wrote. The great humanist sensed these changes and mirrored them in his plays for us to make of them what we will.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Settlements Are Illegal, Violation of International Law: Security Council [Full Text of Resolution 2334]
UN News & Media Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
23 Dec 2016 – The Security Council reaffirmed this afternoon that Israel’s establishment of settlements in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, had no legal validity, constituting a flagrant violation under international law. 14 Delegations in Favour of Resolution 2334 (2016) as United States Abstains.
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One Voice (Music Video of the Week)
Only Men Aloud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Inspirational Song of Praise to the Power of the Human Spirit
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Nazi Parallel: Merging of Power Institutions (Faith/Race, Guns & Populist Party)
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
26 Dec 2016 – Around the issue of Rohingya, the merging of the anti-Rohingya racist society (all classes), the ruling military, the semi-autonomous NLD leadership, and most influential leaders of the Buddhist Order parallels the rise of Nazism in Germany. The consequences will go beyond the destruction of the Rohingya people as a self-identified group.
→ read full articleMaurice Béjart (1 Jan 1927 – 22 Nov 2007): Starting Off the Year with a Dance
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
January first is the birth anniversary of Maurice Béjart, a innovative master of modern dance. In a world where there is both appreciation and fear of the mixing of cultural traditions he was always a champion of blending cultural influences.
→ read full articleIslamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam Is Reshaping the World
Mohammed Basyoni Abdulhaleem | Future for Advanced Research and Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
The region needs a reformist movement, similar to that movement of the late 19th century, to reconcile Islam and modernism and achieve a form of Islamic democracy through a different trajectory that does not necessarily have to be an identical replication of the Western trajectory, but sustains Islam as a core component in society and societal interactions.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Myself on New Year’s Day 2017
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
‘Clarity,’ not ‘hope,’ is the opposite of ‘despair.’ To be awake to unpleasant, even dire, realities and resist the temptations of denial demands increasing resolve in the face of the mounting evidence that the human species is facing a biopolitical moment threatening civilizational collapse and species decline and fall as never before.
→ read full article(Italiano) 2017: 10 anni di collettivamente memoria e 12 anni de I DIMENTICATI
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Collettivamente perché il solipsismo è un tarlo che divide chi lo usa. Don Lorenzo Milani diceva “Ho imparato che il problema degli altri è uguale al mio. Sortirne tutti insieme è politica. Sortirne da soli è avarizia.”
→ read full articleFrank, Uncompromising, and Tons of Fun: What Makes George Michael an LGBT Hero
Tim Teeman | The Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
How George Michael inspired us, turning a 1998 arrest for lewd behavior into a big FU to the authorities, and a public declaration of his sexuality.
→ read full articleNew Year Old Wishes Left and Right
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
This New Year announces itself with bangs all over, not whimpers.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Jan 2-8 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” – Helen Keller
→ read full articleResisting the Lynching of Haitian Liberty!
Malaika Kambon – San Francisco Bay View,
2 Jan 2017
The US, UN, EU, OAS and various hired paramilitary police have engineered a second fraudulent election in Haiti. This latest attempt to kill Haiti’s freedom by aborting her dreams of democracy via the electoral process was designed to prevent landslide victories by Fanmi Lavalas, reminiscent of the presidential victories of Jean Bertrand Aristide.
→ read full articleIt’s Official: Solar Energy Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
27 Dec 2016 – Renewable energy has reached an important milestone. The World Economic Forum has determined that in many parts of the world, solar energy is now the same price or even cheaper than fossil fuels for the first time.
→ read full articleWhat Is the Role or the Responsibility of Religious Leaders to Make World Peace?
Rui Siva (Radha-Govinda dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
20 Dec 2016 – I’d like to offer my answer to this question at two levels.
→ read full article(Turkish-Türk) Yeryüzünde Yaşam Sona Eriyor. Binlerce Tür Yok Oluyor
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Özgür Üniversite – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Sizin bu yazıyı okuduğunuz gün, yeryüzünde 200 türün ( bitki, kuş, hayvan, balık, amfibi, böcek, sürüngen ) varlığı ortadan kalkmış olacak. Ertesi gün bir 200 tür daha sonsuza kadar yok olmuş olacak.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to the Japanese Prime Minister on Eve of Visit to Pearl Harbor
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
25 Dec 2016 – The press release and open letter to the Japanese Prime Minister concern the complex issues surrounding the ethos and politics of apology. I would have liked the statement to include an acknowledgement of accountability by the U.S. Government.
→ read full articleConSciences of Humanity
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
John Kerry is delusional if he thinks he can temporarily curb the appetite of those who believe in an ideology of conquest, subjugation and exceptionalism (“chosen people”) to save “Zionism”. His claim that Shimon Peres told him that 78% of Palestine is enough and that they should let the Palestinians have the other 22% is simply not believable.
→ read full articleA Brief History of War and Drugs: From Vikings to Nazis
Barbara McCarthy – Al Jazeera,
2 Jan 2017
From World War II to Vietnam and Syria, drugs are often as much a part of conflict as bombs and bullets.
→ read full article(Português) Gustav Mahler acreditava que o vegetarianismo é o caminho para a regeneração da humanidade
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
“Os efeitos morais deste estilo de vida são imensos. Você pode julgar por si mesmo…”
→ read full articleU.S. Isolation
Noam Chomsky | ZNet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Even close US allies, even the UK, flock to the China-based Asian Infrastructure Development Bank and the China-based Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, in this case including Japan. The China-based Shanghai Cooperation Organization incorporates the Central Asian states, Siberia with its rich resources, India, Pakistan, and soon probably Iran and perhaps Turkey. The SCO has rejected the US request for observer status and demanded that the US remove all military bases from the region.
→ read full article(Italiano) Luci e ombre della tecnologia informatica
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
2 Jan 2017
Siamo incoraggiati ad ammirare le realizzazioni tecnologiche della nostra epoca, e riporre la nostra fede cieca in loro, oppure a disperarci. Dobbiamo riconoscere quanto miserevoli siano questi risultati in realtà, e quanto osceno sia il loro impatto, rispetto a ciò che è possibile.
→ read full articleAlbert Camus on Consciousness and the Lacuna between Truth and Meaning
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
“From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth. Consciousness illuminates it by paying attention to it.”
→ read full articleQuotes That Can Be Used to Resist Oval Office Tyranny in 2017
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
When Trump’s Fascist-leaning, Anti-democratic Collage of Multibillionaires, White Supremacists, Wall Street Tycoons, Washington, DC Insiders, Christian Dominionists, War-Mongering Military Generals, Holocaust Deniers, and Climate Change Deniers Try to Impose Their Will on the Voters Who Did Not Technically Vote for Fascism
→ read full articlePeace Is the Way
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
It is impossible to establish peace once and for all, and to expect that it will remain that way.
→ read full article(Português) Por que amar um e comer o outro?
Marta Zaraska - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
26 Dec 2016
O paradoxo da carne é um bom caminho para compreender a dissonância cognitiva, um estado psicologicamente desagradável que vem à tona quando temos apreço por várias convicções mutualmente inconsistentes ou quando há uma lacuna entre nossas atitudes e nosso comportamento.
→ read full articleSo Much for ‘Understanding’
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
The UN. conducted a worldwide survey asking “Would you please give your honest opinion about the solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?” Not surprisingly, it was a huge failure.
→ read full articleThis Swedish Billionaire Has Issued a $5 Million Award for Anyone Who Invents a UN 2.0
Tom Turula – Business Insider Nordic,
26 Dec 2016
Laszlo Szombatfalvy, one of Sweden’s most successful investors of all time, is urging on the younger generation to rethink global governance. Now he has issued a large award for the best idea to replace the current global governance system, through a competition called ‘A New Shape’.
→ read full articleScientists Confirm: Darwinism Is Broken
Paul Nelson and David Klinghoffer | Media Research Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
13 Dec 2016 – Darwinian Theory is broken and may not be fixable. That was the takeaway from a meeting last month organized by the Royal Society in London, the world’s most distinguished and historic scientific organization. The three-day conference–mostly unreported by the media–was remarkable in confirming something that advocates of intelligent design, a controversial scientific alternative to evolution, have said for years.
→ read full articleFood for Thought
TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Protection?
→ read full articleRealities
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
I can’t be taken down.
For my feet have always been firmly on the ground.
My career can’t be destroyed.
For I have never pursued one.
Burma: Rohingya Recount Killings, Rape, and Arson
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Video Testimony Matches Satellite Images of Attacks
→ read full articleUS Criminal Hypocrisy at Work in Syria and Yemen
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
26 Dec 2016
On December 13, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power offered up yet another stark exercise in imperial deceit, shedding crocodile tears for those suffering in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, while continuing her strategically amoral silence about much greater suffering in the country of Yemen. The basis for this unconscionable choice is simple. Russia, Syria, and Iran are attacking Aleppo.
→ read full articleComments Can Be Free, but Facts Must Be Sacred
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
The journalism of today may be bringing a lot of power and pelf to the practitioners of its trade, but, it is losing its sheen because it is becoming increasingly devoid of the essential content that earned it the honor of the Fourth Estate: trust.
→ read full articleOptimism/Pessimism: A Kafkaesque Meditation
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
I used to be an optimist.
When I was 5, someone told me,
“Santa Claus does not exist!”
Global Challenge of the Global Challenge
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
¿ In-quest of a decision-making framework appropriate to a world in crisis? This is a response to the announcement of the surprising Global Challenges Prize for a New Shape Remodelling Global Cooperation (2017).
→ read full articleRemembering Zsa Zsa Gabor
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
20 Dec 2016 – As an early teenager I came to know Zsa-Zsa Gabor and her family rather well. Indeed, her sister, Eva, lived in our New York apartment for several months. Zsa Zsa became my father’s client, and later close friend, during her high profile divorce from the pre-Trump hotel magnate, Conrad Hilton.
→ read full article(Castellano) Economía Solidaria: Clave de la Justicia, la Paz, y la Sustentabilidad
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Voy a adelantar tres tesis. Por supuesto la veracidad o falsedad de ellas no se puede evaluar sin conocer los significados de las palabras que las componen. Me voy a dedicar principalmente a explicar de qué se trata, vale decir a explicar el significado de los conceptos que componen las tesis. Después, voy a pedir a los lectores evaluar según sus luces si las tesis sean ciertas o sean falsas.
→ read full articleWhy I Kneeled Before Standing Rock Elders and Asked for Forgiveness
Sarah van Gelder – YES! Magazine,
26 Dec 2016
“We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke … But we’ve come to say that we are sorry.” — Wesley Clark Jr. during forgiveness ceremony
→ read full articleStarving Yemeni Children, Bloated US Weaponsmakers
Medea Benjamin | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
17 Dec 2016 – Despite the repressive nature of the Saudi regime, US governments have not only supported the Saudis on the diplomatic front but militarily. Under the Obama administration, this has translated into massive weapons sales of $115 billion. While Yemeni children are starving in large part because of Saudi bombings, US weapons makers, including General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin, are making a killing on the sales.
→ read full articleThe High Road of India and the Low Road of China
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Can the differences between the developmental histories of the two Asian giants have been caused on the one hand by the Indian bourgeoisie being continually empowered, while on the other Mao Zedong attempted to empower the Chinese masses for two short decades?
→ read full article2016: Year of Two Peace Revolutions — 2017: Year of Their Practical Implementation and Development
Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in Peace from Harmony!
→ read full articleHow the Everyday Use of Militaristic Jargon Makes Us More Combative
Nan Levinson | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
“War is merely the continuation of politics by other means,” wrote the Prussian Gen. Carl von Clausewitz. Lately, it’s been sounding like the other way around. That’s not likely to change soon, since the language of warfare and violence pervades Americans’ discourse, even when we’re not talking about war.
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O Holy Night (Music Video of the Week)
Libera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
The Voice of the Soul–Beauty Transcending Religion – Libera is an all-boy English vocal group. As their recordings and performances demonstrate, the music these boys produce is extraordinary–truly sounds to lift the soul. The singers are aged seven to sixteen, attend different local schools in South London and come from a variety of backgrounds.
→ read full articleA Socialist Economy for the 21st Century
Richard Rosen | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
16 Dec 2016 – Richard A. Rosen explores the changes necessary for a modern definition of “socialism” and describes key concepts and issues that arise when aiming to restructure the American economy to include social and environmental sustainability in the Twenty-First Century.
→ read full articleNocturne
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
By degree the grasses,
Bark, the sharp
Angled faces of rock,
The hanging mist around us,
All turned dark
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Dec 26-Jan 1 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
→ read full articleResisting the Mind Games of Donald Trump and the One Percent
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
When it comes to profiting off people’s hopes and fears, by far the most successful purveyors of lucrative lies and false promises are some of the denizens of this country’s palatial estates, corporate boardrooms, and corridors of political power. And unlike their small-time counterparts, they’re never on the run — despite the misery they leave in their wake. Enter Donald J. Trump, soon to be the 45th President of the United States.
→ read full article(Castellano) Se está acabando la vida en la tierra
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
La arremetida del ser humano en contra de la vida de la tierra no tiene precedentes en la historia. Hoy en día está ocurriendo la sexta extinción masiva del planeta, y está siendo provocada por el hombre. Y, cada vez que decides no hacer nada y dejarle el problema a alguien más, das un ejemplo de porqué nadie hace nada al respecto. La extinción se avecina. ¿Qué vas a hacer?
→ read full articleMyanmar Government Accused of Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
Ed Adamczyk | UPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
19 Dec 2016 – Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority is facing crimes against humanity committed by authorities, Amnesty International warned. The human rights group said police are targeting the Rohingya through looting, murder and destruction of homes and mosques.
→ read full articleChina and Europe–Comparisons and Futures
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
A recent Harvard study found 26.7% of world car production in China and 13.3% in USA; US economy bigger but China leading in export with 8 of the 12 biggest harbors; USA end 2016 fighting 7 wars with bases all over and China with no wars or bases, investing, building the New Silk Road-Lane, the Economic Belt. How successfully, it is to be seen.
→ read full articleThe 102nd Anniversary of the Christmas Truce of 1914: Questioning Christian Participation in Aggressive War
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
102 years ago this Christmas Eve something happened in the early months of the “War to End All Wars” that put a tiny little blip of hope in the historical timeline of the organized mass slaughter that is war. The event was regarded by the professional military officer class to be so profound and so important (and so disturbing) that strategies were immediately put in place that would ensure that such an event could never happen again.
→ read full article“Becoming Mars”: Destruction of Life on Earth
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Burrowes writes with informed conviction of the disastrous consequences of humankind’s presence and actions on Earth. Humanity’s brief, but ruinous period of habitation, has been labeled “The Anthropocene Era.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Commento al messaggio di papa Francesco per la Giornata della Pace
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
14 dicembre 2016 – Questo messaggio di papa Francesco, oltre la nota freschezza e chiarezza del linguaggio, mi pare che abbia l’importanza di un passo storico. Non è solo una giusta esortazione alla pace, ma indica la nonviolenza interiore, attiva e politica come via alla pace.
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Corinne Iozzio | Consumer Reports – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Yahoo on Wednesday [14 Dec] said that a billion user accounts had been hacked in 2013, a crime that wasn’t discovered until law enforcement contacted the company this fall. The revelation came just three months after the company disclosed that 500 million accounts had been compromised in 2014.
→ read full articleSyria’s Destruction – When Everybody Thinks Power and No One Thinks Peace
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
The consequences of ignoring every known and simple conflict and peace method and pursuing nationalist, racist and militarist policies. Peace was never an important factor in anything Western countries have done in and to Syria. No matter what they say. If it were, this would not be the result. It’s easy to blame Syria and Russia for the destruction of Aleppo. Far far too easy.
→ read full articleTests & Exams
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Some actual answers to test questions:
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TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Illusions…
→ read full articleAssad and Putin Order Their Forces to Again Liberate “The Jewel of the Desert”
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
16 Dec 2016 – The National Museum, Damascus – It’s a god-awful situation today in Palmyra. How much of our priceless cultural heritage will be destroyed during the expanding re-occupation by Islamic State?
→ read full articleAleppo Update: What Is Becoming of Syrian Families Fleeing East Aleppo?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
It’s not clear if the Assad government will agree to a ceasefire other than on a surrender-first basis. Some think it may have no choice in the matter given Russia’s political and military influence here but others claim that Iran and Syria will reject any Russian agreement penned with the USA and the regimes goal is total “liberation” of all of Aleppo. That will likely happen within days even as ISIS reoccupies Palmyra because Russian and Syrian troops were ordered to leave Palmyra because they were needed in Aleppo.
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Fame – Remember My Name [1980] (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Simply Delightful… The Classic from 1980
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