Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Português) Eutanásia, ou a prática de ajudar os enfermos a bem morrer?
Paulo Mendes Pinto | Visão – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Há que debater, finalmente, numa sociedade que se afastou da morte, esse lugar-comum que é aquilo para que todos caminhamos.
→ read full articleThe Urgency of Slowing Down
Kazu Haga | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech in Harlem’s Riverside Church. In it, he spoke of being confronted with “the fierce urgency of now.” We need to act, but addressing this crucial moment cannot come at the expense of strategy, process, intention and remembering to slow down enough to breathe.
→ read full articleUkraine: Still Divided and Tense
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
4 Feb 2017 – The start of 2017 has seen an increase in military action and tensions in the separatist areas of Ukraine, especially in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and around the city of Avdiyivka. Those of us outside the Ukraine must help facilitate discussions of national governmental structures for the Ukraine and regional security cooperation so that common interests may be found and current tensions reduced.
→ read full articleDetrimental Effects of New Executive Order on Syrian-American Physicians
Syrian American Medical Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
31 Jan 2017 – The Syrian American Medical Society-SAMS is deeply concerned that the Executive Order signed last week might compromise the ability to provide critical humanitarian and medical relief overseas, and could limit the education and professional careers of many aspiring Syrian students and physicians. There are currently more than 5,000 Syrian-American physicians working across the U.S., including about 1,000 SAMS members.
→ read full articleThe Great Tree: 3200 Years in One Photo…
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Because of its unbelievable size, this tree has never been photographed in its entirety, until now. National Geographic photographers have worked along with scientists to try and create the first photo that shows the President in all its glory.
→ read full articleGive me your tired, your poor…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
You Are Fired!
→ read full articleThe Efficient Absorption of Nutrients: What Is Bioavailability?
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Bioavailability is the proportion of a nutrient the human body is able to absorb and use. You might think that when you eat an apple every iota of vitamin A, every antioxidant, and every mineral it contains is used by your body with total efficiency, but that’s not exactly the case.
→ read full article(Français) Italie. Cartographie des inégalités sociales
Diego Giacchetti | A l’Encontre la Brèche – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Selon des analyses élaborées au moment où se tient le World Economic Forum de Davos, en Italie, les 20% les plus riches détiennent plus du 69% de la richesse du pays, les 20% suivants en détiennent le 18%, tandis que 60% doivent se partager le 13% restant. Selon le magazine économique new-yorkais Forbes, en 2016, parmi les 20% les plus riches, 10 Italiens détiennent en tout 86 milliards d’euros, soit l’équivalent de ce que possèdent 500’000 familles ouvrières.
→ read full articleMoscow & Washington – Last Chance to Get It Right?
Jonathan Power | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Russia and the US have never fought each other in the 200 years of their relationship. Russia aided the North during the Civil War and sent warships to prevent England and France supporting the confederacy. During the World Wars the two were close allies.
→ read full articleHow Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ Can Inspire Those Who Fear Trump’s America
Ani Kokobobo | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
31 Jan 2017 – As a professor of Russian literature, I couldn’t help but notice that comedian Aziz Ansari was inadvertently channeling novelist Leo Tolstoy when he claimed that “change doesn’t come from presidents” but from “large groups of angry people.” In one of his greatest novels, “War and Peace” (1869), Tolstoy insists that history is propelled forward not by the actions of individual leaders but by the random alignment of events and communities of people.
→ read full articleRoles of Civil Society in Nepal’s Development
Shree Prasad Devkota and Dikendra Lal Dhakal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Although it is not easy to ‘characterize’ (post)modern civil society that encompasses unrestrained scopes and roles, in general sense civil society is the entirety of many deliberate social relationships, civic and social organization, and institutions that lay the foundation of a functioning society.
→ read full articleThe Beggar of Assisi
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
His life was a prayer, a candle, a song.
Barefoot, he trod through showers and sunshine.
Glenn D. Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Giant for Peace Leaves Behind an Indelible Mark – In Memoriam
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
His transformation from praising a killing society, USA, in the Korean War to invoking a non-killing society did not come easily. To revoke his own book on the Korea War decision, and the prize received for that book, has few equals.
→ read full articleOn an Extraordinary Pa(i)ge
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
A Rhymed Reflection in Memoriam of Prof. Glenn Paige
→ read full articleThe Global War on Cash
Jeff Desjardins | The Money Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
18 Jan 2017 – There is a global push by lawmakers to eliminate the use of physical cash around the world. This movement is often referred to as “The War on Cash”, and there are three major players involved.
→ read full articleTrump’s Pre-Fascism and Progressive Populist Opportunities
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The Dismal Cartography of the Pre-Fascist State – Listening to Donald Trump’s inaugural speech on January 20th led me to muse about what it might mean to live in a pre-fascist state.
→ read full articlePlan Approved for 2,500 New Settler Homes in West Bank
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
24 Jan 2017 – Building plan for occupied West Bank came two days after more than 500 settlement homes were approved in East Jerusalem.
→ read full articlePresident Trump: Nationalist Capitalism, an Alternative to Globalization
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
During his inaugural speech, President Trump clearly and forcefully outlined the strategic political-economic policies he will pursue over the next four years. Anti-Trump journalist, editorialists, academics and experts, who appear in the Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal have repeatedly distorted and lied about the President’s program as well as his critique of existing and past policies.
→ read full articleNonviolent Action: Why and How It Works
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Nonviolent action is extremely powerful. Unfortunately, however, activists do not always understand why nonviolence is so powerful and they design ‘direct actions’ that are virtually powerless. I would like to start by posing two questions.
→ read full articleSouthern European Leaders Gather in Lisbon as Populism Gains
Reuters | Fortune – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Leaders met on Saturday [28 Jan 2017] in Lisbon to discuss growing challenges, from the refugee crisis to rising borrowing costs and low economic growth, at a time when rising populism has increased political uncertainty in Europe. The group brings together France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta.
→ read full articlePresident Kong
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
28 Jan 2017 – I knew he reminded me of somebody, but I couldn’t quite place it. Who was it who pounded his chest with such vigor? It was the hero of a movie that was produced when I was 10 years old: King Kong, the giant primate with the heart of gold, who scaled huge buildings and downed airplanes with his little finger. Wow. President Kong, the mightiest being on earth.
→ read full articleCaptivity?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
What is he lacking?
→ read full article(Français) Israël. Des colonies et des armes pour le Myanmar
John Brown | A l’encontre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
26 janvier 2017- Les dirigeants de l’armée du Myanmar se sont livrés à une frénésie d’achats auprès des industries israéliennes d’armement. Ils ont même rencontré le président et le chef d’Etat-major israéliens. Malgré les crimes de guerre qui sont commis par ce pays du Sud-Est asiatique, Israël continue à maintenir d’importants liens avec lui dans le domaine dit de la «sécurité».
→ read full articleLove and Economics
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
A common definition of money is that it is a store of value. But human beings value many things, principles, attitudes, beliefs, emotions, which are incommensurable. Some of the most basic human actions fall into this category – a mother’s love, a teacher’s guiding hand, a friend’s support, or even one’s own sense of beauty or duty.
→ read full articleA View from My Window — Observing Novelty, Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
27 Jan 2017 – I live in a locality of Delhi that is teeming with life of all types. One can get a glimpse of this activity both by coming out on the street or even looking at the sights from my window. The activity never ceases.
→ read full articleBuild the Wall — Move the UN HQ?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
United Nations Principles Are Not Consistent with “America First”
→ read full articleThe Muse Is My Eternal Life
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The Muse is my eternal life,
She is my love, my hope, my fire,
A Valiant Verbal Warrior Demythologizes the CIA
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Like Odysseus, Douglas Valentine is a wily warrior who managed to enter the enemy’s stronghold disguised as a gift. Not Troy, and not within a wooden horse, but in the guise of a nice young “Nobody,” he was able, thirty or so years ago, to breach the walls of the CIA through William Colby, a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
→ read full articleTrump’s Muslim Ban Emboldens Myanmar Racists: Suu Kyi’s Sole Muslim Adviser Shot Dead Upon Return from Jakarta
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
29 Jan 2017 – Shooting U Ko Ni dead in the head at a high profile place like Yangon Airport, upon arrival from the official visit to Jakarta to go and study peaceful, interfaith life in Indonesia, was, in my view, to make the point that Muslims assuming advisory positions to NLD and ASSK would cost life.
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American Pie – The Day the Music Died (Music Video of the Week)
Don McLean – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
1972 Immortal Classic. After composing this tribute song Don McLean gave up Rock ’n’ Roll. The plane crash that changed the 60’s music.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Jan 30-Feb 5 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
“All human beings are members of one frame,
Since all, at first, from the same essence came.
When time afflicts a limb with pain
The other limbs at rest cannot remain
If thou feel not for other’s misery
All human being is no name for thee.”
— Saadi Shirazi
India Fails the Leprosy Test
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The World Health Organization reported that in 2015 India accounted for 212,000, or 60%, of all the new cases of leprosy worldwide. As the WHO has pointed out, medicines and treatments are available to eradicate this ancient dreadful disease, but political will has been lacking for a very long time.
→ read full articleParis and the End to a Western-dominated Era in the Middle East
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
25 Jan 2017 – No, it was not just ‘another Middle East peace conference,’ as a columnist in Israeli ‘Jerusalem Post’ attempted to depict the Paris Peace Conference held on January 15, with top official representations from 70 countries attending. No, it was an end of an era. The American era in the Middle East.
→ read full articleIs Violence-War a Cause or a Symptom?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Receiving Dr Honoris Causa, Universidad Madrid Complutense, 27 Jan 2017 – From my family I knew a little about health studies and had been struck by the fruitful distinction between cause and symptom. The symptom is on the surface of the body, like fever; but the root cause is deeper down, inside, a sepsis. A major breakthrough.
→ read full articleHow NATO Is Becoming a Threat to Europe
Harry Blain | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Sometimes, Europe marches to catastrophe; often, it stumbles there.
→ read full articleRest in Peace Prof. Glenn Paige (1929 – 2017): Pioneer of Nonkilling and Peace Researcher
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
I am very sorry to hear of the death of my good friend Prof. Glenn Paige, who passed away on Sunday 22 January, 2017. Glenn was 87 years of age and he died at the end of a struggling illness during which he was nursed by his wonderful partner, and co peacemaker, Glenda Paige.
→ read full articleAll about That Democratic Base
Gorge Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Our democracies are broken, debased and distrusted. Here are some ideas for restoring them.
→ read full articleJoint IOM-UNHCR Statement on President Trump’s Refugee Order
UNHCR UN Refugee Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
GENEVA, 28 Jan 2017 – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration believe that refugees should receive equal treatment for protection and assistance, and opportunities for resettlement, regardless of their religion, nationality or race.
→ read full articleDoomsday Clock Moves Ahead: It Is Now Two and a Half Minutes to Midnight
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
26 Jan 2017 – It is now two and a half minutes to midnight. For the first time in the 70-year history of the Doomsday Clock, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board has moved the hands of the iconic clock 30 seconds closer to midnight. In another first, the Board has decided to act, in part, based on the words of a single person: Donald Trump, the new President of the United States.
→ read full article(Português) Jorge Luis Borges: “Comecei a perder a vista desde o momento em que comecei a enxergar”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
“Uma das primeiras cores que se perde é o negro. Perde-se a escuridão e o vermelho também. Vivo no centro de uma indefinida neblina luminosa. Mas não estou nunca na escuridão. Neste momento esta neblina não sei se é azulada, acinzentada ou rosada, mas luminosa.
→ read full articleThe Media Is Now the Political Opposition
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
By taking the role of the political opposition to Trump, the media has discredited itself as an honest critic on topics where Trump needs criticism, such as the environment and his tolerance of oppressive methods used by police. The presstitutes have ended all chance of improving Trump’s performance with reports and criticism. Trump needs moderating on the environment, on the police, and on the war on terror.
→ read full articleIndividual Responsibility
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
20 Jan 2017 – There are many governments today that can be described unjust, and some that even deserve to be called fascist. What is the duty of the individual citizen, living under such a government?
→ read full articleMark Zuckerberg Is Suing to Force Native Hawaiians off Their Ancestral Land to Build an Island Resort
Nathan Wellman | US Uncut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
19 Jan 2017 – Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg ended 2016 by suing hundreds of people native to Hawaii, apparently so that he can have 700 acres of land all to himself. Those named by the lawsuit filed on December 30th were given 20 days to respond, or else forfeit all claims to the property.
→ read full articleMexico Wall: Gaza Redux?
António Gaspar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Déjà Vu All Over Again?
→ read full articleJohns Hopkins’ Top Psychotherapist Releases Terrifying Diagnosis of President Trump
Olive Murphy | Bipartisan Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Malignant narcissists are determined to gratify their wishes and furious if thwarted. Their desire can be so consuming that there is little comprehension of, respect for or ability to empathize with the other. They lack guilt or remorse and tend to feel or pronounce that it is they who have been mistreated. They can be of any gender, race or social class.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Nominations NEW DEADLINE: 31 JANUARY 2017
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
New deadline: Please nominate by Jan. 31, 2017, 12 p.m. CET (Norwegian time). Please also, send us a copy, to nomination copy@nobelwill.org of all nominations suited you believe may be suited for inclusion in our 2017 list.
Nobel Committee postmaster@nobel.no
→ read full article[Obscene, Pornographic] World’s Richest 8–All Men–as Wealthy as Half of Humanity: Oxfam
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The world will have its first trillionaire in only 25 years, the organization found. Just eight individuals, all men, own as much wealth as half of the world’s population, Oxfam said Sunday [15 Jan] night, slamming the rich for fueling global inequality by dodging taxes, driving down wages and using their power to influence politics.
→ read full articleNAPF: To Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The statement below was drafted and endorsed by participants in a symposium held in Santa Barbara, CA in October 2016 under the auspices of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
→ read full articleDonald Trump Inaugurated as President
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
And the first question to the 45th US president: Will you kill, abroad? Predecessor Obama was in the US tradition that killed more than 20 million in 37 countries since WWII, bombing and droning. His Special Forces seem to have killed in 138 countries. Make America Greater by breaking this morbid tradition?
→ read full articleAn Economy for the 99%
Oxfam - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
January 2017 Oxfam Briefing Paper – It‟s time to build a human economy that benefits everyone, not just the privileged few.
→ read full article(Italiano) Economia mondiale ed economisti nel 2017
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
In questa rubrica si è sostenuta l’Elevazione dei ceti più marginali come approccio economico valido in ogni circostanza, per mitigare qualunque sofferenza e per indurne l’ingresso nell’economia come produttori e consumatori, non come “casi anomali”.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
“Coca-koloniseringens död-La morte della Colonizzazione-Coca”, la supposizione che nei paesi dove esistono Coca Cola, McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken e CNN, i valori democratici USA rimuoverebbero qualsiasi proposito di guerra. Quella teoria era un’idiozia. Il paese in cui tutte e quattro quelle aziende sono maggiormente presenti, gli USA, è il più guerrafondaio.
→ read full article(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 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) 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 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 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 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 articleShackles
TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
True Colors
→ 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 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.”
→ 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 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 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 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.
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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.
→ 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.
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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 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 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 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 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.
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