Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Dangers and Adventures in United Nations Peace Making
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
For TRANSCEND members to read and to encourage them to share their own experience of risk management.
→ read full articleThe United States and Iran: Two Tracks to Establish Hegemony
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Presented to the Conference: “United States, Human Rights and the Discourse of Domination”. Sponsored by Iranian World Studies Association. Tehran, July 2, 2017
→ read full articleOscar Winning Industry Heavy Weights Team with Sea Shepherd on Student Film Contest
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
8 Jun 2017 – Sea Shepherd Conservation Society partnered with a group of Hollywood industry heavyweights and a middle school from the Los Angeles Unified School District on a student filmmaking contest.
→ read full articleI Came into This Restless World
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
I came into this restless world,
To awaken in others the love,
To people lived with dignity,
Not to shed innocent blood.
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Jun 12-18 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “A crime against peace, in international law, is “planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of wars of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing”. This definition of crimes against peace was first incorporated into the Nuremberg Principles and later included in the United Nations Charter. This definition would play a part in defining aggression as a crime against peace. It can also refer to the core international crimes set out in Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression) which adopted crimes negotiated previously in the Draft code of crimes against the peace and security of mankind.” — Crime against peace (Wikipedia)
→ read full articleIf Israel Were Smart
Sara Roy | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
15 Jun 2017 – At what point does menace stop working as a form of coercion? What will Israel hope to gain from its next attack on Gaza, when people there already speak about entire families being wiped out as a normal topic of conversation? In August 2016 alone, 4961 babies were born, or 160 a day: more than six babies every hour and one baby every nine minutes. The distance between Gaza City and Tel Aviv is 44 miles. ‘What will Israel do when there are five million Palestinians living in Gaza?’
→ read full articleWhat is the Muslim Brotherhood?
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
The Muslim Brotherhood came up frequently during the GCC rift. Here is a breakdown of the group’s ideology and roots.
→ read full articleEngaging the ISIS Threat: Time for a Method yet Untried
Marc Pilisuk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
12 Jun 2017 – Responses to the threat of terrorist attacks have been ineffective in removing these threats. Both military and diplomatic officials acknowledge that a military solution is not possible. This can be a learning moment for international conflict resolution. Before digging more deeply into endless war, an examination of some powerful nonviolent tools provides a clearer and more hopeful path. The fields of international psychology and conflict resolution suggest some effective tools. They are available to governments, NGOs and citizen groups.
→ read full article(Français) Michel Collon : « François Houtart était mon Prix Nobel de la Paix à moi »
Michel Collon | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Hier encore, Alex Anfruns, mon jeune collègue d’Investig’Action, échangeait avec François Houtart à propos de la traduction de son dernier article publié sur notre site. Et puis tombe la triste nouvelle ! Nous savions qu’il avait 92 ans, mais il semblait indestructible. Le choc est rude. Adiós compañero !
→ read full articleLet My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
12 June is a red letter day on the UN agenda of events as the World Day Against Child Labour. Child labour is often related to conditions of extreme poverty and to sectors of the society where both adults and children are marginalized such as many tribal societies in Asia, or the Roma in Europe or migrant workers in general.
→ read full articleHow Israel Torments Palestinians
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
This is a very harsh report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on how Israel cannot let Palestinians live their lives. The martial law imposed by security forces means the people they govern have no power over their own lives and resources.
→ read full articleHumankind 2050 – Peace Development Environment
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
2050 is only 33 years ahead; 33 years back is Orwell’s 1984. Much happened. The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989; the Soviet Empire, Soviet Union and Communism followed. The US Empire declined, former clients refused to fight US wars, but not EU wars; eroding NATO. The Cold war, threatening humanity with a nuclear arms race that in a hot war could obliterate the planet, melted away with a whimper.
→ read full article(Italiano) Intervista a Marinella Coreggia sulla manifestazione nonviolenta contro Trump a Roma il 24 maggio 2017
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
10 Giu 17- Tecniche nonviolente e buone pratiche in manifestazione. Il prezzo da pagare per il dissenso. L’esposizione di striscioni è una tecnica di protesta e di persuasione nonviolenta. Così come lo sono gli slogan parlati o urlati. Sono forme di comunicazione rivolte ad un pubblico allargato.
→ read full articleErnesto ‘Che’ Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and guerrilla leader in South America, Guevara was a medical doctor specialized in leprosy. Traveling around South America, he observed conditions that spurred his revolt against poverty and capitalist exploitation, adopting Marxist ideology, theory and practices. He is revered by many as a martyred cultural hero, having become an iconic cult figure as a symbol of anti-imperialist struggles everywhere.
→ read full articleAmerican Darkness vs. Bhutan Brightness
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
As Donald Trump axes America’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, the Kingdom of Bhutan finalizes Bhutan for Life, a fund that will allow the country to remain carbon neutral forever. By ignoring the pressing issue of climate change/global warming, America looks insignificant, undignified, and very weak whereas Bhutan’s carbon neutral commitment looks relevant, sophisticated, and very strong.
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Old Hippie (Music Video of the Week)
Bellamy Brothers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
A Spadecaller video presentation designed to accompany the Bellamy Brothers’ song, Old Hippie. Delightful!
→ read full articleA Right Time to Ponder over India’s Water Woes
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Realizing its dire predicament decades ago, Israel studied the “water equation” and made itself all but independent of Mother Nature. Israel took 70 years to solve its water problem; India won’t need that long, as it can emulate Israeli advances. But New Delhi must summon the political will to act before water runs out.
→ read full articleThe UN Calendar: The World’s Conscience
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2017
It is amazing. The United Nations have decades, years, weeks and days, dedicated to more values, goals and concerns than most of us are aware of. Compare it to nation-states usually with only one day, their day, their national day, celebrating nobody but themselves… We are one humanity in one world with many faultlines; let the UN conscience be ours.
→ read full articleIsrael: 50 Years of Occupation Abuses
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2017
4 Jun 2017 – Fifty years after Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it controls these areas through repression, institutionalized discrimination, and systematic abuses of the Palestinian population’s rights. Human Rights Watch has made available online publications dating back to the 1980s and early 1990s.
→ read full articleCancer Expert: EU Studies on Glyphosate Are ‘Scientifically Flawed’
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
2 Jun 2017 – Dr. Christopher Portier, a toxicologist and former director of the U.S. National Center for Environmental Health, has criticized the conclusions of European Union agencies which found that glyphosate—the active ingredient in Monsanto’s widely used weedkiller Roundup—is not carcinogenic to humans.
→ read full articleSaudi Warplanes Strike Yemen Hospital amid Cholera Epidemic
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Saudi warplanes struck a health facility in Northwest Yemen treating patients for cholera Saturday [3 Jun] night. The WHO announced Friday that nearly 73,700 people have been affected by Yemen’s cholera epidemic.
→ read full articleAvoiding Apocalypse on the Korean Peninsula
Rajan Menon | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Why Diplomacy Is Not Naïve Appeasement in the Korean Crisis – The Korean peninsula, all 85,270 square miles of it, is about the size of Idaho. It contains more soldiers (2.8 million, not counting reserves) and armaments (nearly 6,000 tanks, 31,000 artillery pieces, and 1,134 combat aircraft) than any other place on the planet. Clearly, the North’s leaders reject the proposition that American approval is required for them to build nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles.
→ read full articleNow Float Me Down….
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Let us remember the Peace Veterans, too. And let us grieve for those in all nations who share the losses of lives and hopes and dreams. During the Vietnam War, long ago (but not so long ago!), my thoughts coalesced in a poem I wrote for one I loved.
→ read full articleSowing the Seeds of Earth Democracy in Trump Times: The Planetary Crisis, Responsibilities and Rights
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
5th of June is World Environment Day. Reflections on President Trump abandoning his responsibility to the Earth and the community of nations.
→ read full articleWhy Japan Wants US Exercise Cancelled: ‘Fears of N. Korea Escalation & Relations with China’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
30 May 2017 – To reduce tension in the region following a missile test by North Korea, Japan wants the US to cancel military exercises in Okinawa. Tokyo is worried that in a confrontation Japan is the likely target, says Asian affairs specialist Andrew Leung.
→ read full articleA Bold Step toward the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Mainstream media in the central countries in general has paid little or no attention to the process of negotiation of the Convention, although specialized publications have been examining the implications of the adoption of an instrument of this kind. World public opinion and civil society organizations, particularly in the former States and their allies, have an important role to play in ensuring the success of the Convention and its ability to become a universal, legally binding instrument of codification of the repudiation of nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleThe Terror News Cycle
Des Freedman | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
We would all benefit from a slower journalism that didn’t resort to tired stereotypes and sought to expand, not to contaminate, our understanding of a violent world. The trouble is that there is neither the business model nor the political will to foster such an approach.
→ read full articleTrump, Israel and Saudi Arabia — Targeting Iran
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
29 May 2017 – In the wake of President Donald Trump’s visit to West Asia, is there even a faint glimmer of hope for peace in the most conflict-ridden region of the world? Or, has his visit to Saudi Arabia and Israel from the 20th to the 23rd of May 2017 only strained the region’s undercurrents of friction and tension? Some reflections on areas of conflict in West Asia may throw a bit of light.
→ read full article(Português) Uma Nova Convenção sobre Armas Nucleares
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
A grande imprensa internacional nos países centrais em geral tem dado pouca ou nenhuma atenção ao processo de negociação da Convenção, embora publicações especializadas venham examinando as diversas implicações da eventual adoção de um instrumento dessa natureza. A opinião pública e as organizações da sociedade civil, principalmente naqueles países e em seus aliados, tem papel importante a desempenhar para assegurar o êxito da Convenção e sua capacidade de tornar-se um instrumento universal juridicamente vinculante de codificação do repúdio às armas nucleares.
→ read full articleTrump Exempts Entire Senior Staff from White House Ethics Rules
Aldo Rovatti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Use your office to make as much money as you can, hire relatives, cut deals with corporations, form side businesses to supplement your income any way you can, (bribes are fine) and don’t worry too much about actually doing the business of government or serving any individual constituents unless they are worth a few million or billion…
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to People with ‘Mental Health’ Issues
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
So if you or someone you know is supposed to have a ‘mental illness’ such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), bipolar disorder, anorexia nervosa or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), I would like to give you the opportunity to consider an explanation and a way forward that you are unlikely to have come across.
→ read full articleEthical Objectives and Values in Peace Psychology and Social Justice
Marc Pilisuk, Melissa Anderson-Hinn & Gianina Pellegrini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Ethical standards in research with human participants typically include informed consent and avoidance of physical or emotional harm. In the field of peace psychology and related social justice research, the standard of “do no harm” may need to be extended. The values of our field include going beyond the standards for integrity in methods and customary protections of human subjects and move into the obligation for our research to make an actual contribution to limit the many forms of violence and injustice that are faced by the human family.
→ read full articleUN Secretariat Designates Jammu and Kashmir as a “Separate Country” Independent of India
The aPolitical – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
1 Jun 2017 – In an unprecedented move, the UN Department of Economic Affairs has designated “Jammu and Kashmir” as a separate “country/geographical area” in its database of Non Governmental Organisations having Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council.
→ read full articleAverting the Ticking Time Bomb of Nukes in North Korea
Richard Falk and David Krieger | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
5 Jun 2017
30 May 2017 – Alarmingly, tensions between the United States and North Korea have again reached crisis proportions. Until this structure of nuclearism is itself overcome, crises will almost certainly continue to occur. It is foolhardy to suppose that nuclear catastrophes can be indefinitely averted without addressing these deeper challenges that have existed ever since the original atomic attack on Hiroshima.
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If You Eat 2 Bananas per Day for a Month, This Is What Happens to Your Body
Home Remedy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Who doesn’t love that yellow, mushy, sweet and irresistible fruit? They’ve been around for centuries and even though there’s a new, exotic fruit coming out on the market every week, bananas are still our life-long favorites. They are the perfect super-food that give us energy, make us feel full and provide our body with all the essential nutrients. They’re rich in fibers, vitamins and natural sugars like fructose and sucrose. That’s exactly why even the doctors recommend it and it’s the perfect addition to your breakfast.
→ read full articleAd Hominem Attacks and the Power of Ignorance
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
And the Dangers of Trusting Disreputable Online Fact Checkers
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How to Sell an Epidemic
National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
May 16, 2017 – Jeff Goldblum takes you around the globe for an in-depth look at Big Pharma, prescription drugs and the opioid epidemic. Explorer correspondent Bryan Christy investigates how pharmaceutical companies helped fuel the opioid crisis in America and how this epidemic is set to spread around the world.
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Malagueña Salerosa (Music Video of the Week)
Marija & Julijana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Beautiful Piano Duo
→ read full articleKashmir
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
The problem with the status of Jammu and Kashmir and the feelings of its people towards India is an old one although the situation has become worse in recent times. It started in 1948 after India was divided into two independent states of India and Pakistan and after the more than 530 states were asked to go to either the new nation of Pakistan or to join India. The maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir (J K) was a Hindu but the majority population of the state was Muslim. He however decided to accede to India.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Jun 5-11~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer
→ read full articleIndia Needs to Focus on Its Development Warriors
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – India spends more on programmes for the poor than most developing countries but is not getting the expected dividends that significant public expenditure would seem to warrant, and the needs of important population groups still remain partly addressed. This has been haunting social scientists and policy makers.
→ read full articleGreetings for Diana Buttu
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
3 Jun 2017 – A few days ago, a not so well-known Palestinian woman received an unusual honor. An article of hers was published on top of the first page of the most respected newspaper on earth: New York Times.
→ read full articleAbbas Admits Trump Yelled at Him over Incitement – Report
The Times of Israel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
1 Jun 2017 – Following insistent Palestinian denials that US President Donald Trump shouted at Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas about Palestinian incitement against Israel during their meeting last week, Abbas has conceded — in Arabic — that the story is true.
→ read full articleConflict Management in Kashmir
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – The ongoing violence in Kashmir, unless addressed, may descend into a terrible chaos as experienced in the 1990s, during which Indian forces and Pakistan backed militants engaged in cycles of violence leading to killing of thousands of Kashmiris. Modi needs to engage the moderate separatists and encourage them to play active messengers of peace.
→ read full articleThe Galtung-Institut’s 2017 Summer Academy
Naakow Grant-Hayford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
From August 7 to 13, Paul Scott (USA), Kees van Der Veer (NL), Johan Galtung (NO) & Naakow Grant-Hayford (GH), all members of the TRANSCEND International Network, will be offering an intense 7 day Summer Academy dedicated to teaching actionable skills for solution-indicative conflict analysis and conflict transformation.
→ read full articleVault 7: Pandemic
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Today, June 1st 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the “Pandemic” project of the CIA, a persistent implant for Microsoft Windows machines that share files (programs) with remote users in a local network. “Pandemic” targets remote users by replacing application code on-the-fly with a trojaned version if the program is retrieved from the infected machine.
→ read full articleOn Zbigniew Brzezinski: Geopolitical Mastermind, Realist Practitioner
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
When it comes to Brzezinski’s legacy, I believe it to be mixed. He was a brilliant practitioner, always able to present his views lucidly, forcefully, and with a catchy quality of coherence. In my view, his Cold War outlook was driven toward unacceptable extremes by his anti-Soviet preoccupations. After the Cold War he seemed more prudent and sensible, especially in the last twenty years, when his perceptions of world order were far more illuminating than those of Kissinger, his geopolitical other.
→ read full article(Italiano) Camminare cambia. Però non è sufficiente. La memoria è in cammino. 28 maggio 2017
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
La memoria in cammino – A piedi (e non solo) da Avenza a sant’Anna di Stazzema. Perché … comunque … devi proprio volerci andare a Sant’Anna di Stazzema. Devi andarci di proposito.
→ read full articleThe Limits of Democracy and the Postcolonial Nation State: Mali’s Democratic Experiment Falters, while Jihad and Terrorism Grow in the Sahara
Ibrahim Bangura – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
By Robin Edward Poulton and Raffaella Greco Tonegutti – To enrich the arguments in this well-written book, the authors have used a unique approach of presenting conversations with key political figures, mediators, and commentators. The conversations provide deep reflections that intrinsically add to the reader’s understanding of the complexities of the Malian crisis. Furthermore, the conversations present academic and practical perspectives that are not found in any other book on Mali in the twenty-first century.
→ read full article(Português) Cães são explorados como meios de transporte para entreter turistas na China
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Uma nova crueldade contra animais tem se disseminado na China.
→ read full articleSatyagraha
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
A British platoon blocked a road against a Satyagraha force, one of Gandhi’s nonviolent but implacable acts of mass civil disobedience.
→ read full articleBeers
Submitted by Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
After the Great Britain Beer Festival in London, all the brewery presidents decided to go out for a beer.
→ read full articleFrance Seizes Huge Shipments of ‘Jihadi Drug’ Captagon
Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Customs officials say one 70kg haul of drug, used extensively by fighters in the Syrian war, was bound for Saudi Arabia. Captagon, a type of amphetamine, is one of the most commonly used drugs among terrorists fighting the Syrian government.
→ read full articleUN Chief Calls World ‘a Mess’ as Trump Expected to Quit Paris Agreement
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said Tuesday [30 May] countries must “get on board or get left behind” with the agreement. While he steered clear of naming Donald Trump specifically in his speech at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Guterres told an audience member in a Q&A session that exiting the deal could have economic, social and security implications for any countries that choose to pull out.
→ read full articleEnvisaging NATO Otherwise — in 3D and 4D?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Potentially Hidden Faces of Global Strategy Highlighted Through Polyhedra – The question is whether new insights into the nature and potential of NATO (or The Pentagon) could be derived from depiction in 3D — or 4D, if dynamics can be reflected in suitable animations. Whether these aspects are already implicit, or could be usefully rendered explicit, remains to be investigated.
→ read full articleLet It Be!
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
Let it be! Let the rich man
Lose his stolen millions.
Let the poor man stop moaning,
And let a bird fly again in the sky!
Seeking Answers to the Diversities and Inequalities in Life
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
The world is full of differences or diversities of all types – religious, economic, racial, political, geographic, flora and fauna, professional; individual likes or dislikes, size of people and so on. But are all inequalities detestable and ugly or some of them may be beautiful and desirable?
→ read full articleWant to Lose Weight? Go Vegan!
Alina Petre | Authority Nutrition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
27 May 2017 – People may choose a vegan diet for a variety of reasons, be it for the environment, animal ethics or health. However, some people give the vegan diet a try purely to lose excess weight—and perhaps for good reason.
→ read full articleToo Many Prisons Make Bad People Worse – There Is a Better Way
The Economist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
The World Can Learn from How Norway Treats Its Offenders – Turning Villains into Neighbours
→ read full articleFear as an Obstacle to Peace: Why Are Israelis Afraid?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
24 May 2017 – Bat-Hen Epstein Elias’s long article on Iranian Jews is interesting. Parts of it, in fact, are heartwarming. Yet, despite the lack of any serious evidence, the story is entirely framed in the language of fear.
→ read full articleTrump in Riyadh – A Gulf NATO to Gang Up against Iran and Syria
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
His visit must be seen in the light of a number of events and trends, and in what follows we do like the military when it scans the horizon for enemies: we look for patterns – not the least Saudi Arabia’s “surprising new military goals” as Forbes’ Ellen Wald appropriately calls them. Or, as they say – we connect some dots that, invariably, Western mainstream media have no capacity and probably also no interest in connecting.
→ read full articleAlternate Worldviews: Davutoğlu, Kissinger, Xi Jinping
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
This post is a much modified version of a shorter opinion piece published by the global-e online publication on May 18, 2017. It is a response to and commentary upon an essay of Ahmet Davutoğlu, former foreign minister and prime minister of Turkey.
→ read full articleInstability Widens in Mali and the Sahel Region of Africa
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
23 May 2017 – The first foreign visit of the new French President Emmanuel Macron, after a now habitual trip to Berlin, was to Gao in northern Mali as head of the French military. The visit was an attempt to be seen as paying attention to the efforts of French troops in operations in northern Mali and other states of the Sahel region of Africa.
→ read full articleThe Visitation
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
There were two Donald Trumps this week. One of them was touring the Middle East, being feted everywhere. The second was in Washington, where he was battered from all sides, denounced for incompetence and even threatened with impeachment in the future. Against the background of his troubles at home, Trump’s Arabian Nights were fantastic.
→ read full articleWAR
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
For Memorial Day USA – 29 May 2017
→ read full articleFasting for Palestinian Justice and Dignity
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
27 May 2017 – Today is the first day of Ramadan. Muslims in many parts of the world begin their month-long fast today. Most of them are not aware that 1500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are on a hunger strike that began almost six weeks ago.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire on the 2016 Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
19 May 2017 – Women’s Boat to Gaza
→ read full article(Italiano) I Baschi in Spagna: pace positiva?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
La Spagna è in una transizione che richiederà un po’ di tempo: dalla “España: Una, Grande, Libre” alla “España: Una Comunidad de naciones“. La pace positiva si struttura sulla pace negativa, costruendo sulla riconciliazione dei traumi e la risoluzione dei conflitti. C’è da fare molto lavoro. Ma la Spagna, da vera comunità di nazioni, sarà di ispirazione per tutto il mondo.
→ read full article(Italiano) Quel che manca: la creatività politica
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
L’impedimento sta nella nostra immaginazione politica così limitata. E’ necessario crescere, così che le visioni del mondo si aprano nelle nostre menti, siano condivise con altri in nuovi modi di dialogare, concretizzate in un nuovo agire. Possiamo riuscire se lo vogliamo. E lo vorremo se liberiamo l’immaginazione.
→ read full articleFasting for Education – An Inspiring Saga of Young Women’s Courage
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
When a girl does not agree and marries someone else of her own choice, catastrophic consequences may follow — even murder of both the daughter and her husband. This conservative and patriarchal attitude in Haryana is difficult to explain in this short essay.
→ read full article(Français) La machine de guerre étasunienne en Afrique
Nick Turse | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Pendant des années, AFRICOM a vendu la fiction que Djibouti est le site de sa seule « base » en Afrique. Alors que les États-Unis maintiennent un vaste réseau d’installations militaires dans le monde entier, avec des complexes militaires énormes et difficiles à ne pas voir en Europe et en Asie, les bases d’Afrique ont été mieux dissimulées.
→ read full articleKashmir
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
The problem with the status of Jammu and Kashmir and the feelings of its people towards India is an old one although the situation has become worse in recent times. It started in 1948 after India was divided into two independent states of India and Pakistan and after the more than 530 states were asked to go to either the new nation of Pakistan or to join India. The maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir (J K) was a Hindu but the majority population of the state was Muslim. He however decided to accede to India.
→ read full articleThe Idea of Living
Joyce Sutphen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
It has its attractions,
chiefly visual: all those
shapes and lines, hunks
of color and light (the way
(Français) «La grève de la faim est un combat pour la dignité et la liberté de tous les Palestiniens»
Stefano Mauro | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Ilan Pappe, juif, érudit socialiste et antisioniste, a récemment écrit que le peuple palestinien, en ce qui concerne sa ténacité, est comparable aux oliviers de son pays natal.
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La Vie en Rose – Original (Music Video of the Week)
Edith Piaf – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
A perennial French classic by an immortal French performer: Edit Piaf –
Au cours de l’émission “La joie de vivre”, Edith Piaf interprète “La vie en rose”, le 4 mars 1954.
‘Dire Crisis as Gaza Faces Power Cuts, Gallons of Raw Sewage Pouring into Sea’
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
The United Nations Middle East envoy on 26 May 2017 cautioned that unless urgent measures are taken to de-escalate the crisis now spiraling out of control in the Gaza Strip, there will be devastating consequences for Palestinians and Israelis alike.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
During the German occupation of France, a German soldier entered Picasso’s studio and saw a small reproduction of his painting “Guernica”.
→ read full articleMikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths.
→ read full articleOn Caring
Prof. George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Author George Kent feels the theme of caring needs more attention and analysis because of its importance in all social contexts. He used “On Caring” as the foundation for his recent book, ‘Caring About Hunger,’ published by Jørgen Johansen’s Irene Publishing.
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Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
If we created a U.S. Department of Peace whose mission was to non-violently address roots of violence, such a mission would gear American ingenuity and enthusiasm toward the bigger picture of conflict resolution and friendship rather than toward desperate conclusions that security requires cruelty toward enemies.
→ read full article(Português) Filme sobre grupo de direitos animais concorre à Palma de Ouro no Festival de Cannes
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
23 maio 2017 – Um grupo de ativistas pelos direitos animais foi retratado em um filme que concorre à Palma de Ouro no Festival de Cannes. O trabalho heroico do Animal Liberation Front é mostrado em “Okja”, que gira em torno do resgate de um porco geneticamente modificado.
→ read full articlePortrait of Myanmar’s ‘Buddhist Bin Laden’ Chills Cannes
Fiachra Gibbons | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
“The Venerable W”, his chilling portrait of the monk who has been accused of preaching hate and inciting attacks on Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority, has been hailed by critics at the Cannes film festival as a “stirring documentary about ethnic cleansing in action”. What dismays Schroeder is that Wirathu, whom Time magazine dubbed “The face of Buddhist terror” in a 2013 cover, is utterly unfazed by the chaos and suffering he has unleashed.
→ read full articleMeasles Mortality Rates and How the Medical Establishment Deceives Us Concerning the Efficacy (and Safety) of Vaccines
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
22 May 2017 – Critical thinkers and knowledgeable readers who have no ulterior motivation to blindly promote current over-vaccination agendas will agree that the Somali parents who have witnessed the devastating epidemic of Autistic Spectrum Disorders decimate so many of their children since coming to Minnesota, made a wise choice in refusing MMR vaccinations.
→ read full articleIndian Establishment Lauds Military’s Use of Kashmiri Youth as “Human Shield”
Wasantha Rupasinghe | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
24 May 2017 – Indian army head General Bipin Rawat has awarded a commendation to the officer who ordered a Kashmiri youth tied to the hood of a jeep as a “human shield.” 26-year-old Farooq Dar was seized and, in flagrant violation of international law, paraded around for hours while tied to the lead vehicle of an army convoy.
→ read full articleThermodynamics and Negentropy of Spheral Classes
John Scales Avery - et al. (*) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Society, like any system that has energy, is subject to the second law of thermodynamics, which express the entropy (scattering) of all energy. Our article is devoted to this subject, but within the framework of society and from the unique position of social harmony and disharmony of its structural carriers.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
May 29-Jun 4 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I am not afraid… I was born to do this.” (“Je n’ai pas peur… Je suis né pour cela.”) – Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc)
→ read full articleHunger Strike Ends, Prisoners Declare Victory
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
27 May 2017 – After 40 days without food, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike in Israeli jails. The end of the strike came after 20 hours of intense negotiations between the strike’s leaders, including imprisoned Fatah figure Marwan Barghouti, and the Israel Prison Service, according to a statement issued Saturday [27 May] morning by the prisoners solidarity committee.
→ read full articleWalt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
The basic demands of Pyongyang can easily be met: a peace treaty, normalization of diplomatic relations to Seoul and USA, a nuclear-free, UN-inspected Korean peninsula. An afternoon job for peace, USA?
→ read full articleBeing Seed Thrown from Universe
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Being seed thrown from universe,
I am like a farewell beam,
I’ll shine a little on the ground
And later will be lost when the time comes.
Uganda Has Benefited from Peace Journalism
Gloria Laker Aciro | D+C Development and Cooperation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Uganda has a history of conflict and violence. In particular, the strife caused by the Lord’s Resistance Army from 1995 to 2004 made peace efforts necessary. At the time, a strong foundation for peace journalism was laid. Its principles are of lasting relevance in view of unrest in border regions and the refugee population which is growing due to civil war in neighbouring countries.
→ read full articleUnforgettable Journey
Lara Ayvazyan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
I tore off two red poppies
At the foot of Toledo,
And gave my heart to the country
Under the bright blue sky.
Cholera Outbreak in War-Torn Yemen Spreading at ‘Unprecedented’ Speed
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
As war-torn Yemen grapples with heavy rains, a collapsed healthcare system and crippled economy, a resurgent cholera outbreak has spread with “unprecedented” speed and taken medical professionals by surprise, the World Health Organization warned on 19 May 2017.
→ read full articleSeneca on True and False Friendship
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
“Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.” “Friendship is unnecessary,” C.S. Lewis wrote, “like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
→ read full articleTwo Sides of the Palestinian Coin: Hunger Strike/Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
28 May 2017 – The Palestinian hunger strike protesting Israeli prison conditions was suspended on May 27th after 40 days, at a time when many of the 1000 or so strikers were experiencing serious deteriorations of health, most were by then hospitalized, and the holy period of Ramadan about to commence creating continuity between the daytime fasting of the faithful and the prior desperate protest of the strikers.
→ read full articleHow Academia Uses Poverty, Oppression, and Pain for Intellectual Masturbation
Prof. Clelia O. Rodríguez | RaceBaitR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
One of the tragic consequences of a traditional system of higher education is working with colleagues who claim to have expertise on the topic of social activism, but who have never experienced any form of intervention. I am referring here to those academics who have made careers out of the pain of others by consuming knowledge obtained in marginalized communities.
→ read full article(Italiano) 26-27-28 maggio 2017 ERA UN GIORNO QUALSIASI La memoria in cammino A piedi da Avenza a Sant’Anna di Stazzema
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
La presentazione del libro di Ercole Ongaro Resistenza nonviolenta 1943-1945
→ read full articleCompetition and Collaboration in Conflict Resolution
Dr. Olga A. Vorkunova – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Peace-building is today central for shaping our human conditions, present and future. In terms of IR theory, the analytical distinction between ‘competition logic’ versus ‘cooperation logic’ implies that a realist perspective may be useful to analyze particular aspects of peace coalitions rather than military coalitions. There are no incompatible countries; there are incompatible goals of different actors.
→ read full articleVault 7: Athena
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Today, May 19th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the “Athena” project of the CIA. “Athena” – like the related “Hera” system – provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (from Windows XP to Windows 10).
→ read full article(Português) A fome como desafio ético e espiritual
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
A pobreza é sistêmica, pois é fruto de um tipo de sociedade que tem por objetivo acumular mais e mais bens materiais sem qualquer consideração humanitária (justiça social) e ambiental (justiça ecológica). Ela pressupõe pessoas cruéis, cínicas e sem qualquer sentido de solidariedade, portanto, num contexto de alta desumaniação e até de barbárie
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