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The New York Times’ Biased Obituary of Fidel Castro
Matt Peppe | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
After Fidel Castro passed away Friday [25 Nov] night at 90 years old, the obituaries written about him in the American press typified the U.S. government propaganda used for decades to demonize Castro and obscure the tremendous social and humanitarian advances that the Cuban Revolution was able to achieve in the face of unrelenting interference, subversion and destabilization.
→ read full articleKeynes’ Limitations and Trump’s Disasters
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
My recommended way forward will be to deepen Keynes’ macroeconomic analysis to make it an historical analysis of social structure leading to a communitarian reformulation of social and economic democracy. This theoretical move supports a flexible approach to practice called “unbounded organization.”
→ read full articleHarmony with Nature: Toward an Earth Jurisprudence
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
30 Nov 2016 – This post consists of my responses to four questions asked of 189 ‘experts’ around the world by a project of the UN Harmony with Nature Network. My own approach is based on the biopolitical imperative in this historical period of developing an ecological consciousness for the sake of human wellbeing, and possibly species survival.
→ read full articleKissinger and Brzezinski to Be Honoured by Nobel Institute and Oslo University
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
These two top officials behind major US wars (Iran/Afghanistan and Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos) and regime change (against Allende, Chile) will speak at the first of a new event, The Nobel Peace Prize Forum Oslo, created by the Nobel Institute in Oslo. One way to go: Boycott the event and let Kissinger, Brzezinski, Njölstad and Ottersen be the only ones who turn up in that huge hall on December 11th. Or, go there – students, media and civil society – and raise all the questions any independent, decent academic must.
→ read full article(Français) Barack Obama, le prix Nobel de l’hypocrisie
Ahmed Bensaada | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Il s’agissait bien sûr du prix Nobel de la paix attribué au président Barack Obama en 2009 « pour ses efforts extraordinaires pour renforcer la diplomatie et la coopération internationale entre les peuples ». Tout ça neuf mois à peine après son élection ? Comment était-ce possible ?
→ read full articleVultures over Havana
James McEnteer | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Fidel Castro and the Castration of U.S. Latin American Policy – With a few dozen men, Fidel Castro crash-landed a leaky boat in the middle of nowhere and took to the hills to oppose the entrenched, oppressive U.S.-backed Batista government. The odds were never in their favor. But their quixotic action was the spark that ignited an incipient rage for justice, in Cuba and beyond.
→ read full articleWomen in Islam: The New Paradigm
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
The portrayal of Muslim women that we glimpse in the media is grim and somber. The public perception of them is one of stubborn stereotypes: supposedly powerless and oppressed, behind walls and veils, demure, voiceless and silent figures, discriminated and bereft of even basic rights. This picture keeps reinforcing itself, largely because this is how the Western media caricatures women in Islam.
→ read full articleTraitors
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
When relations between the Soviet Union and China soured in the early 1960s, Khrushchev met Zhou En Lai and told him,
→ read full articleAn Initial Set of Sites That Reliably Echo Russian Propaganda
Is It Propaganda Or Not? – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
[Note from TMS editor: Reposting this does not mean endorsement of its content but a record of history–even historical trivia–for our public archives.]
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Trump – Blueprint for Greatness
Diane Perlman, PhD - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
I am post-partisan and outside the boxes. Your outside-the-box tendencies and pragmatic business skills can enable you to transcend incompatible contrived categories which impede deep understanding, enlightened policies and capacity for progress. As a political psychologist interested in reversing cycles of violence and retaliation, I can envision this possibility.
→ read full articleIn Myanmar, Genocide Looms as the World Waits on [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi
Tej Parikh – Asia Times,
5 Dec 2016
The Nobel Prize winner’s silent expedience (Suu Kyi considers herself primarily a politician, not an activist) is outrageously Machiavellian, and inexcusable, given the nature of warnings emanating from her country. If Syria and Yemen weren’t enough to illustrate the depressing state that global humanitarianism finds itself in today, look no further than Myanmar.
→ read full articleGenes and the Holy G: The Dark Cultural History of IQ and Why We Can’t Measure Intelligence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
“If the history of medical genetics teaches us one lesson, it is to be wary of precisely such slips between biology and culture… Genes cannot tell us how to categorize or comprehend human diversity; environments can, cultures can, geographies can, histories can.” IQ testing perilous cultural legacy is what practicing physician, research scientist, and Pulitzer-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee explores.
→ read full articleISDS Corporate Rule of Law
Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
5 Dec 2016
Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions in ostensible free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties have effectively created a powerful, privileged system of protections for foreign investors that undermine national law and institutions.
→ read full articleThe ASEAN Ulama & NGOs Declaration on the Myanmar Genocide of Rohingya
Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organization - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
29 Nov 2016 – We the delegates in the emergency meeting of Muslims scholars and NGO activists in the ASEAN region and beyond, on the 29th November 2016, after deliberating the issues and plight of the oppressed Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar conclude the following decisions:
→ read full articleAleppo: Short-Term Action Followed by Reaffirmation of Humanitarian Law
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
The Association of World Citizens stresses the need to create immediately internationally-guaranteed safe routes for the evacuation of civilians from the besieged areas of Aleppo. Such guaranteed safe routes can also serve as a model for civilians in other besieged cities.
→ read full articleStatement: UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide on the Situation in Northern Rakhine State, Myanmar
Relief Web | United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Following attacks by armed assailants against border security posts in October 2016, the response of the military has reportedly been characterized by excessive use of force and other serious human rights violations against civilian population, particularly the Rohingya Muslim population, including allegations of extrajudicial executions, torture, rape and the destruction of religious property.
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Don’t Worry Be Happy (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Bobby McFerrin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Released in Sep. 1988, the song’s title is taken from a famous quote by Meher Baba. Dancers: Bobby McFerrin, Robin Williams and Bill Irwin.
→ read full articleChildren of the ‘Others’, Sons of Minor Gods
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
5 Dec 2016
In December 1946, “faced with the reality of millions of children suffering daily deprivation after World War II,” the General Assembly created the UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). Seventy years later, as Europe copes with a refugee crisis not seen since it was founded, the organisation remains an ever-present advocate for children’s rights.
→ read full articleTrump: Peacemaking Revolution of the US Aggressive Geopolitics
20 coauthors (*) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Trump’s shocking victory has spawned a flurry of very different opinions. We, as the peacemakers, above all, interested in the peacemakers views about the US foreign policy during Trump’s presidency.
→ read full articleConfronting Genocide in Myanmar: The Urgent Need to Prevent and Protect
Katherine Southwick | Asia & the Pacific Policy Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Interethnic divisions in a young democracy cannot be downplayed or wished away, and it’s time Myanmar’s government and the international community acknowledge strong evidence that genocide is being perpetrated against the Rohingya and act to end it.
→ read full articleEdward Bernays, the Father of American Propaganda
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic (AKA “capitalist”) society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.” – Edward L. Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, from his seminal book Propaganda (1928). Bernays was the founder of the public relations industry in the US.
→ read full article(Italiano) Le lotte irrinunciabili di ieri e di oggi. Lidia Menapace ad Aosta
Sivia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
MenaPACE Lidia, alias Lidia Brisca, è una donna dinamica intellettualmente onesta e decisa. Un’intellettuale necessaria. 92 anni compiuti il 3 aprile scorso, Lidia ha percorso l’Italia per condividere la riflessione, e poi l’azione, sul referendum popolare confermativo.
→ read full articleHow Israel Privatized Its Occupation of Palestine
Antony Loewenstein and Matt Kennard – The Nation,
5 Dec 2016
It has enriched the security industry and allowed the country to evade accountability for human-rights violations.
→ read full articleWhat’s Next? Parecon, or Participatory Economics
Michael Albert | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
People now fighting economic injustice have no right to decide how future people should live. But we do have a responsibility to provide an institutional setting that facilitates future people deciding for themselves what their own conditions of life and work should be. To this end, participatory economics, or parecon, describes the core institutions required to generate solidarity, equity, self-management, and an ecologically sound and classless economy.
→ read full articleA Best Selling Author
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Sylvia Nasar was a brilliant economics student at New York University and one of four assistants of Wassily Leontief, who had won the 1973 Nobel Prize in Economic Science for his invention of input-output analysis.
→ read full articleWhat Can Go Wrong?
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #147 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
That he may not be “qualified” is unimportant. That he’s never held a government or elected position is unimportant. That on a personal level he may be a shmuck is unimportant. What counts is that he – as opposed to dear Hillary – is unlikely to start a war against Russia. His questioning of the absolute sacredness of NATO, calling it “obsolete”, and his meeting with Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, an outspoken critic of US regime-change policy, specifically Syria, are encouraging signs.
→ read full articleMosul and Imperialist “Human Rights”
James Cogan | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
2 Dec 2016 – Samantha Power’s rhetoric in the Security Council was even more grotesque given the character of the US-directed assault underway on the Iraqi city of Mosul. Bombing this week destroyed a major water pipeline cutting off water to some 650,000 people. Electricity is already largely cut. The city’s health system is dysfunctional. The university has been reduced to rubble. On Wednesday [30 Nov], coalition aircraft bombed and “disabled” four major bridges over the Tigris River that link the western and eastern sectors of Mosul.
→ read full article(Français) « Les médias font passer les coups d’Etat modernes comme étant une défense de la démocratie »
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
04 Déc 2016 – Ancien rédacteur en chef du Monde Diplomatique, Maurice Lemoine est surtout un fin connaisseur de l’histoire contemporaine latino-américaine. “Les coups d’Etat actuels peuvent être nommés de différentes façons : « golpe blando », « institutionnel », « light » ou « juridico-parlementaire », comme cela s’est passé au Brésil… En effet, depuis la fin des années 1990 et l’arrivée au pouvoir de gouvernements progressistes (le premier étant Chávez en 1998, puis Lula, les Kirchner en Argentine, Rafael Correa, Evo Morales…), quasi tous ces chefs d’Etat progressistes ont été, à un moment ou à l’autre, confrontés à des tentatives de déstabilisation ou de coups d’Etat qui ont parfois échoué, parfois réussi.”
→ read full articleFood Politics: The GMO Conspiracy
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
One of the longest-standing tricks of corporations is to produce an item that is dangerous, breakable, or soon to be obsolete and then produce another that will supposedly remedy the defect. That is what is happening with GMO-laden crops: As they become resistant to Roundup and other toxins designed to keep them bug- or disease-free, the producers—such as Monsanto and Syngenta—come up with new herbicides for the farmer to apply.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Defends Military Crackdown on Burma’s Rohingya Muslims
John Roberts | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
2 Dec 2016 – State Counsellor Suu Kyi, the head of government in Burma, has dismissed mounting allegations of killings by the country’s military of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, bordering Bangladesh. Her office issued a statement declaring: “Regarding those incidents, after asking the Tatmadaw [the military] and border guard troops in those regions, it is known the information is absolutely not true.”
→ read full articleYemen Files
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Today, Friday 25 Nov 2016, WikiLeaks releases the Yemen Files, a collection of more than 500 documents from the United States embassy in Sana’a, Yemen. Julian Assange said: “The war in Yemen has produced 3.15 million internally displaced persons. Although the United States government has provided most of the bombs and is deeply involved in the conduct of the war itself reportage on the war in English is conspicuously rare.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Discutiamo del futuro: un saggio sul tempo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Per agire sulle visioni di pace negativa senza violenza diretta-strutturale-culturale e positiva con pace diretta-strutturale-culturale, si utilizzi il dialogo. Si stabiliscano gli obiettivi – valori, interessi – degli attori e dei coinvolti; si sottopongano gli obiettivi a verifica di legittimità mediante il diritto, i diritti umani e i bisogni basilari a mo’ di guida; si crei quindi una visione di una nuova realtà sociale che soddisfi gli obiettivi legittimi.
→ read full article(Castellano) Una Propuesta Muy Importante de José Luis Corragio
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Aunque parezca una exageración, creo que señala una pista a seguir para salvar a la humanidad del caos social y para salvar la biosfera de la extinción. Es muy importante.
→ read full articleUK Passes Bill Providing Most Extreme Spying Powers in the Developed World
Darius Shahtahmasebi | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
24 Nov 2016 – The House of Lords just passed the Investigatory Powers Bill, which provides immense spying powers to the British government. The only amendment to the bill has been to ensure that MPs could not be spied on under the new legislation. “Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like arguing that you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
→ read full articleFBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot to Just Sit Back and Enjoy Collapse of United States
The Onion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back and enjoy themselves while the United States collapses of its own accord.
→ read full articleThe Art of the Protest
Tina Rosenberg – The New York Times,
28 Nov 2016
Protests can change policies and often have. In other countries and throughout American history, ordinary citizens banding together have triumphed over governments, even when a single party holds sweeping control.
→ read full articleThe Call of the Mu’ezzin
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Lovers of the Bible may find some amusement in the words of Pharaoh (Exodus 1) about the Children of Israel: “When there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies and fight against us.” By a curious turn, now we are Pharaoh, and the Arabs are the new Children of Israel. So what is the situation of Israel’s Arab citizens?
→ read full articleRohingya Tribunal Request to Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
24 November 2016 – We, the undersigned group of researchers, academics, and activists, in coalition with global Rohingya refugees, hereby request that the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal take up the urgent case of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority. We make this request in response to the well documented unfolding and escalating genocide in Rakhine state, Myanmar.
→ read full articleDakota Pipeline: Protesters Soaked with Water in Freezing Temperatures
Tim Stelloh, Molly Roecker, Chiara Sottile and Daniel A. Medina – ABC News,
28 Nov 2016
21 Nov 2016 – Tear gas, freezing cold water and rubber bullets were used to disperse a crowd of 400 protesters at the Dakota Access Pipeline in clashes late Sunday [20 Nov] and early Monday that left more than 150 activists and one law enforcement officer injured.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga –TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Nov 28-Dec 4 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “There’s always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.” – Liz Murray
→ read full articleRelentless Persecution
The Statesman | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
24 Nov 2016 – The irony is cruel. The persecution of the Rohingyas has intensified in Myanmar with the change of guard — from the junta to a democratic dispensation under [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi. The democratic world had expected quite the contrary.
→ read full article(Português) A Proibição de Ensaios Nucleares
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
O atual esforço de “modernização” do armamento atômico em vários Estados possuidores gera crescente preocupação de que novos tipos de armas nucleares estejam sendo desenvolvidos a fim de tornar seu uso justificável e aceitável em uma confrontação nuclear “limitada”. Embora o CTBT permita os chamados testes subcríticos em laboratório, autoridades políticas, militares e de defesa em alguns desses Estados continuam a argumentar que detonações reais se tornarão necessárias a fim de verificar o efeito prático do armamento no teatro de operações.
→ read full articleDr. Maung Zarni on the Rohingya Muslim Genocide in Buddhist Burma/Myanmar
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
26 Nov 2016 – A journalist asked me a few questions to get sound bites and quotes. I turned them into a more comprehensive interview. Thought this may serve as a succinct backgrounder if you are interested in the contextual view of the current annihilation phase of the Rohingya genocide.
→ read full articleFriedrich Engels (28 Nov 1820 – 5 Aug 1895)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Friedrich Engels was a German author, political theorist and philosopher, most well known for his monumental work with Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.
→ read full articleMy Life with Tourette’s Syndrome
Shane Fistell – The New York Times,
28 Nov 2016
I was born with a neurological disorder that causes involuntary movements, vocalizations and tics — sometimes mild, sometimes wildly disruptive: Tourette’s syndrome. Since my youth, I’ve often been stopped in public by the police and questioned because of my symptoms. I made the choice to sacrifice social acceptability for the freedom to be myself.
→ read full articleProtests in Asian Capitals over Violence against Rohingya
Channel News Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Angry protesters took to the streets in cities from Jakarta to Dhaka on Friday (Nov 25, 2016) to denounce Myanmar over allegations of indiscriminate killing and rape in a military crackdown on the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.
→ read full articleJesus Walks
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Christmas carols ring the bell
Fireworks above the heads illume
Lighten and brighten streets are sleepless
Along the roads and among the people, Jesus walks
No Country for the Rohingyas
The Hindu | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
25 Nov 2016 – A new humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Myanmar after the military crackdown on “Islamist jihadists” in the Rakhine State, home to more than one million Rohingya Muslims… The army denies targeting civilians, but satellite images taken after the start of the crackdown indicate that hundreds of buildings were burnt down; reports suggest that even those who tried to flee the country were shot dead. The migrants are not welcome in Myanmar’s neighbourhood either.
→ read full articleCaring about Hunger
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
In this world of abundant resources and huge wealth, hunger cannot be understood simply as a problem of food production. It is also a matter of human relations. Hunger grows out of widespread indifference and exploitation.
→ read full articleBattle of the Desert: UNCCD ‘s Louise Baker on the Silk Road (III)
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
28 Nov 2016
23 Nov 2016 – Marking this year’s World Day to Combat Desertification last June, the United Nations announced the launch of a China-United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification to curb desertification along the Silk Road.
→ read full articleStrangers as Friends — Keeping Loneliness at Bay
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
In today’s world what do we observe? Friendship is rare and occasionally we cannot even depend on the so called friends who may be putting on a facade of being your friend.
→ read full articleGifts
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Beggars we were by the looks of it,
Our hosts were gracious making way,
We might have been gods or sly kings
On Nonconformity: Artist Ben Shahn’s Spirited Defense of Nonconformists as Society’s Engine of Growth and Greatness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
“Without the nonconformist, any society of whatever degree of perfection must fall into decay.”
→ read full articleHow Harmonious Might Be Our World
Adolf Pavlovich Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
How harmonious might be our world
Full of spiritual pastoral songs
If we didn’t do wrong or go wrong,
Australia: Desperate Refugee Sets Fire to Himself in a Bank
Peter Byrne | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
22 Nov 2016 – A young Rohingya who fled Burma as an unaccompanied teenager four years ago doused himself with petrol and set himself alight in a branch of the Commonwealth Bank. Nur Islam, 21, had been living in acute poverty at Melbourne. He was on a temporary bridging visa, which not only denied him refugee status but blocked basic social and political rights, including to work.
→ read full article‘Mass Destruction’ of Ethnic Rohingya Villages Underway in Burma, Human Rights Group Warns
Nicola Smith – The Telegraph,
28 Nov 2016
New satellite imagery from Burma’s western Rakhine state reveals mass destruction in ethnic Rohingya villages, said Human Rights Watch on Monday [21 Nov 2016], calling for an urgent UN investigation. The high resolution images show that 820 structures were destroyed in five villages in the jungles of the remote state.
→ read full articleRwandan Catholic Church Admits Role in Genocide, Apologizes
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Embarrassed for its leading role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which saw more than 800,000 people massacred, the Catholic Church in that country issued a statement apologizing on Sunday [20 Nov]. The Church’s admission of guilt comes after years of denying its role in that and many other genocides around the world.
→ read full articleUNHCR in Bangladesh Accuses Myanmar Troops of Killings, Rape, Arson in Rohingya Communities
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
24 Nov 2016 – The head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the Bangladesh border with Myanmar has accused the army of crimes against Rohingya Muslim communities. Thousands have fled to Bangladesh in a growing crisis.
→ read full articleNYT Advocates Internet Censorship
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
28 Nov 2016
In its lead editorial on Sunday [20 Nov 2016], The New York Times decried what it deemed “The Digital Virus Called Fake News” and called for Internet censorship, taking particular aim at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for letting “liars and con artists hijack his platform.” But the Times ignores its own record of publishing “fake news.”
→ read full article“Nigeria Faces Worst Humanitarian Crisis on African Continent
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
With nearly 400,000 children facing starvation in Nigeria, and citizens suffering with little to no protection, security, food or access to clean water, “Nigeria is facing the worst humanitarian crisis on the African continent,” Peter Lundberg, the acting United Nations Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator, had on 26 October 2016 – warned.
→ read full articlePracticing Disobedience: Social and Environmental Justice Depends on Our Capacity to Disobey
Max Wilbert - CounterPunch,
28 Nov 2016
From birth, we are trained to obey authority. For most of the history, our authority figures were elders and chiefs who would be trusted, wise individuals who put the needs of the community first. Today we live in a different world, a world run by sociopaths. It is hard to resist social pressures, especially when we have become accustomed to going along with norms. But it is essential that we learn how to disobey.
→ read full articleTo Prevent or Stop Wars – What Can Peace Movements Do?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
The present chair of War Resisters’ International, Christine Schweitzer, and Jørgen Johansen have just published a book on one of the key questions for peace movements: Have they ever prevented or stopped a war?
→ read full articleMany Forms of Violence against Women
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
25 November is the day designated by the UN General Assembly as the “International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.” Gender inequality and the walls built around the informal sector are the marks of the “silent violence” against women. Amartya Sen defined the major challenge of human development as “broadening the limited lives into which the majority of human beings are willy-nilly imprisoned by the forces of circumstances”.
→ read full articleThe Need for the Entry into Force of the CTBT
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
25 Nov 2016 – Since its adoption by the UN in 1996, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty has remained in a singular and unprecedented situation. The negotiation of a ban on nuclear weapons due to start in March 2017 at the United Nations provides a promising and authoritative forum for reaching agreement on realistic measures of nuclear disarmament as well as on a decisive push for a universal, legally binding prohibition of tests.
→ read full articleOpportunism & Greed
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.
→ read full articleSeeking the True Path
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
One of the more subtle manifestations of the intimate link between (unconscious) human emotions and behaviour is illustrated by the simple concept of choice and how this is so often reduced to a dichotomy between two bad options. In such circumstances, most people choose whatever they consider to be ‘the lesser evil’.
→ read full article‘We Cannot Believe [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi’: Why Many in Burma Are Losing Hope of Peace
Paul Vrieze and Lawa Yang - Time Magazine,
28 Nov 2016
Burma’s de facto leader can’t control an army with a vested interest in conflict.
→ read full articleBangladesh Pushes Back Rohingya Refugees amid Collective Punishment in Myanmar
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
• Rohingya refugees and asylum-seekers being detained and forcibly returned;
• lack of water, food and medical care;
• both governments preventing thousands from accessing aid;
• harrowing details of Myanmar military attacks on villages.
A Collection of Thoughts about American Foreign Policy
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #146 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Louis XVI needed a revolution, Napoleon needed two historic military defeats, the Spanish Empire in the New World needed multiple revolutions, the Russian Czar needed a communist revolution, the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires needed World War I, Nazi Germany needed World War II, Imperial Japan needed two atomic bombs, the Portuguese Empire in Africa needed a military coup at home, the Soviet Empire needed Mikhail Gorbachev … What will the American Empire need?
→ read full articleWell-being Economy: A Scenario for a Post-Growth Horizontal Governance System
Lorenzo Fioramonti | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
For the past half century, western societies have used a narrow definition of economic growth as the route to development. Growth has become an end in itself. As a result, the true meaning of development has been lost. Rather than an end goal, development should be viewed as a process towards an improved state of existence for humanity and the ecosystem.
→ read full articleBurma Is Pursuing ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Rohingya Muslims, U.N. Official Says
Feliz Solomon – Time Magazine,
28 Nov 2016
24 Nov 2016 – Burmese authorities are carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country’s western Arakan state, a senior U.N. official said. Thousands of stateless Rohingya Muslims are trying to reach Bangladesh amid reports of abuse by the Burmese army.
→ read full articleEscaping ‘Fortress Earth’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Reading Journey to Earthland is an extraordinary experience. Paul Raskin is not only a master navigator of the complexities of our world but someone who conveys a vision of the future that manages to surmount the unprecedented challenges facing humanity at several levels of social, cultural, and ecological being.
→ read full articleUS Arms Syrian Islamists with Surface-to-Air Missiles
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
23 Nov 2016 – A US-backed Islamist militia has been armed with portable surface-to-air missiles, so-called manpads. These weapons are capable of shooting down Syrian as well as Russian warplanes. This marks a major escalation of the US-backed war for regime-change that has devastated the country, leading to the deaths of some 300,000 Syrians.
→ read full articlePower Imbalance at the Pipeline Protest
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
When injustice aligns with cruelty, and heavy weaponry is involved, the results can be shameful and bloody. Witness what happened on Sunday [20 Nov] in North Dakota, when law enforcement officers escalated their tactics against unarmed American Indians and allies who have waged months of protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (X2)
#X2 | Johan Galtung from Washington DC, 23 Nov 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Trump 5 was supposed to be the last mini-column, but things happen, calling for a Trump X for Extra. As a businessman he marketed a product, his presidency, with unlimited praise and contempt for the other product on the market. He won in the sense of monopoly for his product, and then changed the product. No sense of contract with voter-buyer based on his publicity.
→ read full articleJust How Grey Are the White Helmets and Their Backers? (Part 2)
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
• The – bizarre – White Helmet Mannequin Challenge video;
• The Swedish Institute of International Affairs’s event with the White Helmets on November 24;
• The Right Livelihood Award Foundation’s Award Ceremony to take place on November 25
Repression and Nonviolent Resistance in Africa’s Last Colony
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
28 Nov 2016
Sultana Khaya’s eyes don’t match perfectly. One of them is artificial. In 2005, a Moroccan police officer rammed his baton into her eye socket while she was peacefully protesting with fellow college students. He then gouged her eye out with his hand. Sultana is Sahrawi, the indigenous population native to Western Sahara, occupied by the Kingdom of Morocco since 1975.
→ read full article(Italiano) Una strategia nonviolenta per la liberazione della Siria
Robert J. Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
All’inizio del 2011, mentre le Primavere Arabe si diffondevano nel Nord Africa e nel Medio Oriente, in Siria, sottoposta alla legge marziale dal 1963, piccoli gruppi di attivisti nonviolenti iniziarono a protestare contro la dittatura brutale di Bashar al-Assad e a chiedere riforme democratiche, il rilascio dei prigionieri politici, maggiori libertà, l’abolizione della legge d’emergenza e la fine della corruzione.
→ read full articleIndia’s NGOs: A Mixed Blessing
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
The recent decisions of Indian government imposing stern controls on foreign nongovernmental organizations is deplorable but, sadly, not surprising. Illiberal and authoritarian governments are inherently allergic to civil society and, more broadly, to any institutions they don’t control. India and several other countries have either passed or proposed similar laws to curtail the activities of nongovernmental groups.
→ read full articleHuge Wall Built In Munich ‘to Protect Families’ from Refugees Who Will Live Next Door
The Mercury – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
16 Nov 2016 – A wall more than 3.8-meter tall is being built in Munich after locals raised fears young refugees would be moving into the area. The wall is taller than the infamous Berlin Wall, which separated West from Soviet Germany.
→ read full articleSettling the Confusion of Sovereignty and Independence
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Because international law distinguishes between “internal” and “external” sovereignties, a State would remain independent and sovereign, despite its government, which exercises its internal sovereignty, having been overthrown by another State and subsequently occupied. This is why the law of occupation mandates the occupier to administer the laws of the occupied State under Article 43 of the 1907 Hague Convention, IV.
→ read full article(Português) Élisée Reclus: “Não é um equívoco relacionar os horrores da guerra com o massacre do gado”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
“A porca chorava sem cessar, e de vez em quando soltava gemidos tão desesperadores que parecia simular a fala humana”.
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O Sole Mio (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Il Volo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
VIRTUOSI – Enjoy. Simply beautiful!
→ read full articleMyanmar’s War on the Rohingya
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
To preserve her reputation as a human rights champion, [Nobel Peace Laureate] Daw Aung San Suu Kyi needs to allow an impartial investigation into the violence.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (X)
#X | Johan Galtung - from Washington DC, 23 Nov 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2016
As a businessman he marketed a product, his presidency, with unlimited praise and contempt for the other product on the market. He won in the sense of monopoly for his product, and then changed the product. No sense of contract with voter-buyer based on his publicity.
→ read full articleCOP22 Declaration Calls for ‘Immediate Action and Mobilization’
teleSUR | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
The final declaration of the UN COP22 climate negotiations in Marrakech, issued midnight on Friday [18 Nov] after a full day extension of the talks, saw 196 countries agreeing to a two-year time limit for implementation of the Paris Accord and called on non-state actors to “join us for immediate and ambitious action and mobilization.”
→ read full articleA Changing China in a Changing World and a Changing Climate (Part 1)
Minister Hu Deping | Eco Jesuit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Paper presented by Prof. Frederick Dubee, of the TRANSCEND Network and the Beijing Genomics Institute, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Laudato si’ and the Path to COP22 at Vatican City.
→ read full articleAs the Planet Warms, Trump Sends a Chill through Marrakech
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
21 Nov 2016
17 Nov 2016 – Nowhere is the immediate and potentially devastating impact of Trump’s capture of the presidency felt more clearly than at the UN climate change summit here in Marrakech. Four years ago, Donald Trump famously tweeted, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”
→ read full articleBattle of the Desert: To Fight or to Flee? (I)
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
21 Nov 2016
“As the effects of climate change undermine livelihoods, inter-ethnic clashes are breaking out within and across states and fragile states are turning to militarisation to control the situation.” UNCCD
→ read full articleA Changing China in a Changing World and a Changing Climate (Part 2)
Minister Hu Deping | Eco Jesuit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Paper presented by Prof. Frederick Dubee, of the TRANSCEND Network and the Beijing Genomics Institute, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Laudato si’ and the Path to COP22 at Vatican City.
→ read full articleBattle of the Desert: A ‘Great Green Wall for Africa’ (II)
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
21 Nov 2016
Desertification, land degradation, drought, climate change, food insecurity, poverty, loss of biodiversity, forced migration and conflicts, are some of the key challenges facing Africa—a giant continent home to 1,2 billion people living in 54 countries.
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to Liberate Syria
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
It is the responsibility of the struggle’s strategic leadership to ensure that each of the strategic goals, which should be identified and prioritized according to their precise understanding of the circumstances in Syria, is being addressed. So here is a set of strategic goals to end the war in/on Syria.
→ read full articleWelcome to the Brave New (Trumpolitical/Trumponomic) World
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
17 Nov 2016 – We will be living among the myriad debris originated by the Trumpolitics IED. America invented the politically correct. Trump bombed politically correct. America is proud of corporate media. Trump bombed corporate media. These are already two important victories.
→ read full articleThe Lightness of Frailty
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Looking up, nothing
Like anything from here,
The constellations were unnamed,
Standing Rock Resistance: Something to Teach Us about Living Well
David Smith-Ferri - CounterPunch,
21 Nov 2016
Somehow, through all of this, almost all of the protestors remained peaceful, calling out to each other “Stand in your prayer,” and holding their ground. And where they didn’t remain peaceful, setting fires that burned a couple of cars, they were rebuked by the movement’s leadership. In a statement made after the arrests, Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II makes it clear that no form of violence by anyone is acceptable.
→ read full articleRecorded Webinar: Experiential Approaches to Peacebuilding
Bruce Dayton, John Ungerleider and Tatsushi Arai | School for International Training – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Led by three scholar-practitioners with extensive experience in the field, this webinar explores the role of experiential learning in the transformation of social conflict. It also presents real-world examples of experiential learning for peacebuilding.
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky on the Crises of Immigration
Noam Chomsky – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal,
21 Nov 2016
15 Nov 2016 — Pope Francis captured the essence of the crisis of immigration: “Migrants are not the danger. They are in danger.” We should be remediating their flight by addressing the causes of their flight, by greatly increasing humanitarian aid, by welcoming them into our midst. We should be reflecting seriously on another familiar phrase – “physician, heal thyself.”
→ read full articleR2P Palestinian Children: Proposals to Combat Drug Dealers Targeting Lebanon’s Camps (Part 2)
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
15 Nov 2016 – As cases of Palestinian camp children being targeted by drug dealers are further revealed, proposals are being put forward by the Palestinian Community, Local, Regional and International NGOs, and Civil Society organizations on how to end this scourge.
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Victory (Music Video of the Week)
Bond – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Music video by Bond performing Victory. (C) 2000 Decca Music Group Limited
→ read full articleHow a Battle over Affordable Medicine Helped Kill the TPP
James Trimarco – YES! Magazine,
21 Nov 2016
18 Nov 2016 – Amid the fallout from Donald Trump’s election is the end of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. After six years of negotiations, the controversial trade deal is dead. The debate about an exotic new kind of drug delayed the trade deal for years, thanks in part to relentless advocates who stood up to big pharma.
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