Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Optimism of the Will – Critics of Israel Are Antisemitic by Definition
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
So now we have another anti-Semite. His name is Ban Ki-moon, and he is the Secretary General of the UN. In practice, the highest international official, a kind of World Prime Minister. He has dared to criticize the Israeli government, as well as the Palestinian Authority, for sabotaging the peace process, and thereby making Israeli-Palestinian peace almost impossible.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Ban Ki-moon
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
We need all to realize what else should not be tolerated: while the Palestinian flag flies outside UN Headquarters, the Palestinian people have lived for almost 70 years under the daily brutalities of occupation, refugee camps, Gazan captivity, and involuntary exile. Can you bring yourself to call this ordeal ‘intolerable’? Then at least you could leave your UN post with a feeling that when your career was no longer in jeopardy you spoke truth to power.
→ read full articleNotes from Tehran: Trump, the Iranian Elections and the End of Sanctions
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Iranians will vote in twin elections for the Iranian parliament and to elect a more powerful separate body known as the Assembly of Experts. And yes, The Donald is now a factor in both of those Iranian elections.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Feb 15-21 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” – Johnny Carson
→ read full articleTotal Education for Good Governance and Peace: The Role of Youth
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Education in all and education for all is a must for good governance and peace. Education in all means education in all the five elements (viz. body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit). Education for all means all men and women, young and old, rich and poor leaving none.
→ read full article10 Signs That America Is the Most Corrupt Nation
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Trickle down economics
Is an excuse
For the rich to piss on the poor.
So, look up, ye wretched of the Earth!
Gandhi: A Symbol of Peace, Harmony and Joy
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace both in his lifetime and death. 30th January is observed as Gandhi’s day of martyrdom since he was assassinated in New Delhi on this date in 1948 by a fanatic who felt that Gandhi was working against the Hindu faith.
→ read full articlePreserve Do-No-Harm for Military Psychologists: Coalition Responds to Department of Defense Letter to the APA
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
The Department of Defense is now seeking to undo the changes required by the policy and undermine the American Psychological Association’s determination that the work of psychologists in national security settings must be consistent with international human rights law.
→ read full articleHow to Trap Elephant Poachers with Their Own Technology
Drazen Jorgic, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
New anti-poaching techniques follow work done in Kenya, where poaching rates have nosedived. Police have started concentrating on the poachers’ own technology – guns and phones – and using it against them. By combining that with old-fashioned detective work, they have captured more suspects.
→ read full article7 Years in Greece – 16 Years of Crisis
André Maia, EmbassyNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Having experienced the crisis twice, I think the Greeks are really brave. I admire them and I want to continue living in Greece. This country gave me space to create, to develop my artistic soul and I´m truly thankful for that. I feel at home!
→ read full articleProtesters Force Auckland Standstill as TPP Is Signed
Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
4 Feb 2016 – Central Auckland has been paralysed by thousands of protesters expressing their feeling towards the ultra-controversial Trans Pacific Partnership deal.
→ read full articleABC’s of the US Empire
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
“A” Is for “Asininity”
That’s a particular kind of stupidity.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after Earthquake and Its Impact on Education in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota and Shiba Bagale – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
The devastating earthquake has not only destroyed the physical infrastructure but also damaged the mental setting of the Nepalese people. More than 8500 people are dead, more than 16,000 are injured, more than 5 lakhs houses are damaged and destroyed. Many school buildings are destroyed; many students and teachers have lost their lives. Many have lost their houses, friends, many are missing.
→ read full articleThe Lady and the Boat Rides [in Burma/Myanmar]
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Brother, be kind, she is in a bind…
Experts say the Silence of the Lady is owing to the election maths
Her soul isn’t really dead, yet.
Waiting for Rainbows
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Below is the cover of my recently published book of poems that can be obtained from Amazon. I have received some inquiries, and although I have been writing poems for the past 60 years, I have never gathered the courage to publish them in one place before.
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A Conversation with Mother Agnes Mariam
UK Column News Special – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Jan 26, 2016 – Mike Robinson speaks to Mother Agnes Mariam about the situation in Syria, the media coverage of it and both the political peace process and her own Reconciliation Initiative.
→ read full articleWAAAHHHH…but we don’t wanna get arrested!!
Mike Ferner, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
As the macho, gun-toting, testosterone-addled cowboys who took over the wildlife refuge in Oregon call it quits, their pitiful whine can be heard all the way to Florida: “Waaahhh…but we don’t wanna get arrested…” Seems they could use a few lessons in toughness from nonviolent peace and justice activists.
→ read full articleThe List of True Nobel Candidates 2016
Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2016
Letter Feb. 2, 2016 to the Nobel Committee – LIST OF QUALIFIED CANDIDATES FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2016
→ read full articleReligious Fundamentalism-Extremism-Violence
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
We can have extremism without fundamentalism. Most people exercising violence believe in nothing, beyond “doing their job”. There are two criteria for “religious extremism”: violence and religious legitimation. How about the secular counterparts to religions, the ideologies, the isms?
→ read full articleJewish Peace Groups Reveal Role in Spoof New York Times That Criticized Paper’s Stance on Israel
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
The edition even has fake ads. Volunteers distributed 10,000 copies of the fake paper across New York City on Tuesday [2 Feb], but no group took responsibility—until now. Jane Hirschmann of Jews Say No! tells Democracy Now! her group and Jewish Voice for Peace produced the paper.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Feb 8 – 14 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you; and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.” – Steve Jobs
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Agrees with the UN Expert Panel Decision on Julian Assange’s Arbitrary Detention
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Maguire, who visited Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London several times and has been a long time supporter of Freedom and Justice for Julian Assange, said she was delighted that the UN Panel had found his arbitrary detention for over five years to be unlawful and said this decision has vindicated Julian Assange. However, she expressed her disappointment at the governments of UK and Sweden’s rejection of the verdict.
→ read full articleSix Reasons You Should Drink More Water
Baba Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
As you most likely know, water is a basic need without which we cannot survive. It is also a great way to heal the body. Here are six reasons that you should drink a few more glasses of water each day.
→ read full articleWhy Our World Needs Peace Literacy
Paul K. Chappell, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Peace literacy is the next step in the development of our global civilization, because peace literacy is necessary in an interconnected world where the fate of every nation is tied to the fate of our planet. Because of the dangers posed by nuclear weapons, war, and environmental destruction, being preliterate in peace puts humanity and our planet at great risk. During an era when humanity has the technological capacity to destroy itself, peace literacy means survival literacy.
→ read full articleNorth Korea: How Many Wake-Up Calls Will It Take?
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
North Korea has been roundly condemned for its nuclear tests, including this one. To put this in perspective, however, the U.S. has conducted more than 1,000 nuclear tests, continues to conduct subcritical nuclear tests, has not ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, is in breach of its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, regularly tests nuclear-capable missiles, and plans to spend $1 trillion modernizing its nuclear arsenal.
→ read full articleThe Russell-Einstein Manifesto [on Nuclear Weapons]
Student Pugwash University of Michigan– TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
“In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the Governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”
→ read full article(Português) Rede de Túneis de 12 mil anos que cruza toda Europa intriga pesquisadores
Tonocosmos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Datadas em mais de 12 mil anos, essas passagens subterrâneas ainda permanecem um mistério. Quem as construiu? Para quê? Como foi possível?
→ read full articleIndia Steps Up Pressure on Nepal
W. A. Sunil, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
5 Feb 2016 – A continued Indian-backed blockade of supplies to Nepal, a small landlocked country wedged between India and China, has escalated tensions between Kathmandu and New Delhi… The Nepal crisis is another expression of the aggressive US moves against China, and the harnessing of India as Washington’s partner. This drive is deepening geo-political tensions and increasing political instability throughout South Asia.
→ read full article(Italiano) In Memoriam – Nanni Salio
Roberto Minganti, Soka Gakkai Italia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Nanni Salio ci ha lasciato ieri sera, lunedì 1 febbraio 2016.
→ read full articleFreeing Julian Assange: The Last Chapter
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
5 Feb 2016 – One of the epic miscarriages of justice of our time is unravelling. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention – the international tribunal that adjudicates and decides whether governments comply with their human rights obligations – has ruled that Julian Assange has been detained unlawfully by Britain and Sweden.
→ read full articlePharaoh
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Pharaonic attraction.
→ read full article(Português) O Naufrágio de Ulisses
Prof. Paulo Mendes Pinto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Tal como com Ulisses, somos uma sociedade naufragada, com pouco de utopia em nós, recusando abrigo aos sem-abrigo que temos junto das nossas paredes. Mas ao contrário de Ulisses, somos também nós a praia onde damos à costa, sejamos Sírios desesperados a fugir da guerra que nós, Europa, possibilitámos e fomentámos, ou sejamos europeus de direito “burocrático” mas pouco cívico.
→ read full articleTaking on Nukespeak
Andrew Moss, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
“Nukespeak” is a highly militarized discourse that obscures the moral consequences of our policies and actions used by military officials, political leaders, and policy experts – as well as by journalists and citizens. The language creeps into our public discussions like an invasive species, casting shadows on the way we think about our collective present and future.
→ read full articleSocial Control Is Emerging as ISIS (Da’ish) Motive for Erasing Our Cultural Heritage in Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
5 Feb 2016 – It is widely recognized that the damage done to our cultural heritage in Syria and to the heritage of those who will follow us, cannot be calculated. Untold quantities of archaeologically vital artifacts have been looted, sold, displaced and discarded through industry-like efforts.
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Samba do Brasil (Music Video of the Week)
Bellini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Music video by Bellini performing Samba do Brasil, under exclusive license to Polydor/Island, a division of Universal Music GmbH.
→ read full articleWant Peace in Syria? Put Women at the Negotiating Table
Matthew Rycroft and Swanee Hunt, Defense One – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
That’s what the Balkan experience tells us, say current and former British and US ambassadors. Women are often best placed to spot signs of radicalization and to counter it, given their central role in the family and the community.
→ read full article(Italiano, English, Français) In morte, in death, dans la mort: Nanni Salio [TRANSCEND Member]
Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
ITALIANO: Gli amici e le amiche del Centro Studi Sereno Regis di Torino comunicano addolorati la perdita del loro Presidente, Nanni Salio, il 1 febbraio 2016.
ENGLISH: The friends of Centro Studi Sereno Regis convey the sorrowful news of their President Nanni Salio’s demise on 1st February 2016.
FRANÇAIS: Les amis de Centro Studi Sereno Regis véhiculent les nouvelles tristes de leur mort président Nanni Salio le 1er Février ici 2016.
Deadlock: North Korea’s Nuclear Test and US Policy
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Serious engagement with North Korea remains the only realistic policy option for the United States and its allies. To be effective, however, engagement must be undertaken strategically—as a calculated use of incentives with expectation of mutual rewards, namely in security and peace. And it should be undertaken in a spirit of mutual respect and with due regard for sensitivity in language and action.
→ read full articleLetter to the Canadian Government
Veterans For Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
We are writing you on behalf of Veterans For Peace, with chapters in 14O U.S. cities, United Kingdom, Ireland, Mexico, South Korea and Vietnam. Our urgent mission is to abolish war once and for all and to build a culture of peace. Our primary purpose in writing you today concerns some unfinished business stemming from the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.
→ read full articleThe Day President Obama Cried
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Yesterday on television President Obama addressed his nation
on new measures to be taken concerning gun-control legislation
Orientalisation and Manufacturing of ‘Civil Society’ in Contemporary Burma (Myanmar)
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
After two decades of post-Cold War hostilities between Burmese generals and their former Cold War ‘friends’ in London, Berlin, Washington and Tokyo, a danse macabre is set in motion. The backdrop this time is the West’s need to contain an increasingly powerful China in Burma’s eastern neighbourhood and the worsening economic decay in Europe and North America. In this new geopolitical drama both the generals in Naypyidaw and the liberals in Western capitals have found a new role for iconic Aung San Suu Kyi.
→ read full articleJulian Assange Arbitrarily Detained by Sweden and UK, UN Expert Panel Finds
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
In a public statement, the expert panel called on the Swedish and British authorities to end Mr. Assange’s deprivation of liberty, respect his physical integrity and freedom of movement, and afford him the right to compensation.
→ read full articleBehind Israel’s Campaign to Vilify Peace Groups
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Far-right activists spying on Israeli human rights community received hidden funds from Netanyahu government.
→ read full articleThe Urgent Need for Complete Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
After discussing the Bikini test and its radioactive fallout with Joseph Rotblat, Lord Russell became concerned for the future of the human gene pool if large numbers of such bombs should ever be used in a war. To warn humanity of the danger, he wrote what came to be known as the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace Science (GPS): The Book, its Authors and Significance
Dr. Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
In Russian language, the book of 432 pages by 89 coauthors from 30 countries was published in January 2015. In English language, the book of 616 pages by 174 coauthors of 34 countries was published in the early February 2016 in India, Russia and the USA.
→ read full articleEuromaidan Unmasked: Europe Shocked by the Bitter Truth on Ukraine
Oriental Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
The hard-hitting documentary by Paul Moreira “Ukraine, les masques de la révolution” [Ukraine: Masks of the Revolution], released on Monday [1 Feb 2016] by Canal+, created a turmoil both in Ukraine and France well before the premiere… One more pleasant outcome of this story is that the rumors about clinical death of independent journalism in the West are apparently somewhat exaggerated.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Security Establishment Makes Public Plea for a Two State Solution
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
7 Feb 2016 – Rarely, if ever, has a newspaper ad mobilized such influential backing for a position of prominent Israelis at odds with the elected leadership of the Israeli state. A full page add appeared in the New York Times on February 4, 2016. Its message was proclaimed in large bold type: “Israel’s Security Chiefs Agree: Separation into two States is in Israel’s vital security interest.”
→ read full articleFebruary: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
February 1, 1958 – As part of the U.S. strategy of massive (nuclear) retaliation, the UK agreed to station 60 nuclear-armed Thor intermediate-range ballistic missiles at four U.K. military bases. Royal Air Force personnel staffed the bases, but all the nuclear weapons that were provided remained in full U.S. ownership, custody, and control. These same missiles were put on high-alert status during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung Replies to Prof. Ada Aharoni’s Critique
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
There are two drawbacks that bother me in TRANSCEND and mars it from making it a true PEACE JOURNAL.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo in giro per il mondo: problemi – rimedi
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Diamo un’occhiata, e vediamo che cosa si può fare.
→ read full articleDrone, a Norwegian-made Documentary: “We Just Made Orphans Out of All These Children”
Joanne Laurier, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
The use of drones by the USA for assassinations has greatly increased the past decade. Hessen Schei’s movie brings together opponents of this specialized killing tool, including authors, commentators, human rights attorneys and investigative journalists. The real heart and strength of Drone lies in its interviews with two former drone operators from the US Air Force, Brandon Bryant and Michael Haas, both young men suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
→ read full articleThe Complex Problematics of Palestinian Representation
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
This post attempts to address the current quandary that arises from the collapse of Oslo diplomacy and the seeming continuing encroachment of Israel on the territories long believed to provide the Palestinian people with a sovereign state of their own.
→ read full articleSigning Polluter-Friendly TPP Trade Deal Is Gambling Away Our Future
Michael Brune, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
For years, the Sierra Club has reported on and campaigned against the TPP’s threats to our air, water, climate, families and communities. The U.S. Trade Representative is gambling away our jobs, our clean air and water, and our future by pushing the polluter-friendly Trans-Pacific Partnership, so it only makes sense that it was signed in a casino and convention center.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – The Zika Virus, the Brazilian Microcephaly Outbreak, Cognitive Dissonance and the Elephant in the Room
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Covering-up Another Iatrogenic Disorder (Injecting Fetotoxic Aluminum into Pregnant Women)
→ read full article(Italiano) Mediazione di polizia: un’idea ormai d’attualità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Il sistema statuale emerse nel 17° secolo, con istituzioni per l’uso della forza: una era adibita all’uso interno e un’altra per l’uso esterno, rispettivamente la polizia nazionale e l’apparato militare nazionale, intendendosi per nazionale quello della nazione dominante nello stato.
→ read full articleThe Pied Piper of Zion
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Binyamin Netanyahu is our pied piper. Enchanted by his melodies, the people of Israel are marching behind him towards the river. Those burghers who are aware of what is happening are looking on. They don’t know what to do. How to save the children?
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Samba de Janeiro (Music Video of the Week)
Bellini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Brazilian Samba — wishing you a Wonderful Carnival time.
→ read full articleTicking Toward Doomsday
Ira Helfand, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
26 Jan 2016 – Recently, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced it was keeping its famous Doomsday Clock at three minutes to midnight. In making this decision, their panel of experts, including 16 Nobel Laureates, cited the growing danger of nuclear war.
→ read full articleWorld Interfaith Harmony Week: Steps toward a Harmony Renaissance
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
The United Nations General Assembly on 20 October 2010 designated the first week of February of every year as the World Interfaith Harmony Week between all religions, faiths and beliefs.
→ read full article(Castellano) Bachelet crea Ministerio de Pueblos Indígenas en Chile
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
15 Jan 2016 – La Presidenta de Chile, Michelle Bachelet, firmó hoy en el Palacio de La Moneda las leyes que crean el Ministerio de Pueblos Indígenas, el Consejo Nacional y los Consejos de Pueblos Indígenas.
→ read full articleGandhi’s Assassination: In the Midst of Death, Life Persists
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
As has been said before, there is no guarantee that non-violent action will succeed, no more than violence is always successful. Gandhi viewed spiritual and political efforts as united through many of the people he worked with saw them as separate. For Gandhi, the spiritual and political means were interdependent and could not be separated.
→ read full articleReconciling Canada: Hard Truths, Big Opportunity
Ry Moran, Rabble – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
The Truth and Reconciliation final report: Six years. Seven volumes. Thousands of pages. The sobering realization that the systematic destruction of indigenous cultures, languages, family structures, lands and ceremonies amounted to cultural genocide. The cold hard truth is that Canada has failed indigenous peoples miserably.
→ read full articleThat Guy
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
If I come back to earth as a movie star,
I want to be that guy nobody knows.
You know who I mean, don’t you?
Meanwhile Around the World: Problems-Remedies
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Let us have a look, and see what can be done.
→ read full articleAdvice to Palestinians
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
“What would YOU advise Palestinian to do? I am genuinely curious as to how many of my readers have constructive advice based on what they know of geostrategic structures, capabilities etc.” I received dozens of answers including some really very insightful commentary.
→ read full articleDilema
David Sipress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Conflicting Desires
→ read full articleClimate Change: Post-Paris Challenges and Concerns
Hilal Elver and Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
It is time to move on from the aura of good feelings of accomplishment created by the Paris Climate Change Conference and begin asking some hard questions. Above all we need to assess whether an agreement that consists of voluntary pledges is workable and sufficient, and whether its contribution to slowing global warming should be celebrated or lamented at this stage.
→ read full articleOn Refugee Migrants` Right to Live: A Nonkilling View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Migrant
Refugee migrant
Migration
Refugee migration
What Is Happening in Haiti Is a Genuine Anti-Imperialist Popular Revolt
Carlos Aznárez, Resumen Latinoamericano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
23 Jan 2016 – Port-au-Prince and other Haitian cities are today the stage of the largest popular uprising in decades of the suffering Haitian nation.
→ read full articleRome Conference on NATO – January 2016
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
I believe we, the human family, have no less a task before us, than transforming our thinking and mind-sets of violence and war, and moving to a demilitarized Europe and World. We have imagination and genius and with confidence and trust in ourselves and each other, we can move away from nationalism and war, towards Regional solutions built on demilitarized societies of peaceful co-existence.
→ read full articlePresident Creates Ministry of Indigenous People in Chile
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
15 Jan 2016 – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signed today at La Moneda Palace the laws that create the Ministry of Indigenous People, the National Council and the Indigenous People”s Councils.
→ read full articleA Subjective Objection: Objecting to Subjection
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Interplay of Questions Enabling Transcendence of Fundamental Dilemmas?
→ read full articleMyanmar Nazi Monk Wirathu, TIME Magazine’s “Face of Buddhist Terror”
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Myanmar’s “Nazi monk” Wirathu (and networks), plot to unleash new Islamophobic waves of violence against Myanmar’s Muslims and Rohingya.
→ read full articlePolitical Correctness 2.0
Katrin Anger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
In recent times, political correctness has evolved. It lurks above us like a sword and with the smallest wrong word that may come over our lips, it threatens to defame us. In our society – and this is not only true for Germany – public speaking can sometimes feel like walking on broken glass.
→ read full articleDispossessed in the Name of ‘Security’
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
A new book, edited by Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes, both involved with The Transnational Institute, brings together a thoughtful collection of scholars, journalists and activists to explain the pre-eminence of the military and corporations in shaping the global response to the climate catastrophe as an ‘opportunity’.
→ read full articleCan the US Turn Fascist?
Şahin Alpay, Today’s Zaman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
31 Jan 2016 – Johan Galtung, the Norwegian mathematician, political scientist, sociologist and the founder of the field of peace and conflict resolution studies, argued in his book The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? (TRANSCEND University Press, 2009) that just as the Roman Empire disintegrated, the American Empire (or the US and Western hegemony over the world) would collapse not later than the year 2025.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Feb 1-7 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “In every walk in nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir
→ read full articleEngaging the ISIS Threat
Marc Pilisuk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
It is difficult to engage in direct violence against those whom you have met face-to-face, even if they have been identified as enemies. Sprinkling doubt among present ISIS followers and potential recruits may reduce killing while promoting hope. Given the alternative, this is a time to test our beliefs in the power of creative non-violence.
→ read full articleThe Radical New Face of the Jewish Settler Movement
Naomi Zeveloff, Forward – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
“There is no doubt that the hilltop youth today are outside the boundaries of normal life. That is the way it is perceived in Israel,” said Tzvi Sukkot, a former member. “Some people feel threatened by their lifestyle. They say that these people live on the fringe of society or that they were thrown out of their homes.” The so-called hilltop youth, a loosely affiliated group of Jewish settlers in their teens and 20s live away from their parents on the hilltops surrounding established settlements.
→ read full article(Português) Podem as religiões ajudar a superar a crise ecológica?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
Agora o que se pede, é ver de que forma, a partir de seu capital religioso positivo, estas religiões podem chegar a convergências para além das diferenças e ajudar a enfrentar a nova era do antropoceno (o ser humano como o meteoro rasante ameaçador) e a sexta extinção em massa que está já há muito tempo em curso e se acelera cada vez mais.
→ read full articleWealth, Influence of Gates Foundation Distorting Int’l Development – Global Justice Now
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
20 Jan 2016 – Enormous wealth and influence wielded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is distorting the direction of international development in a global vacuum of accountability, a new report claims. With assets totaling $43.5 billion, the BMGF is the world’s biggest charitable group. It is viewed by some as the most powerful actor on issues of international health, environment and agriculture, and distributes more aid for global health than any democratically elected government.
→ read full articlePolice Mediation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Johan Galtung, 25 Jan 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
The state system emerged in the 17th century, with institutions for force. One was for internal and one for external use: the national police and the national military, national standing for the dominant nation in the states… May police mediation take roots and blossom. For more peaceful societies. For peace in general.
→ read full article“Modernizing” the Opportunities for Nuclear War
Lawrence S. Wittner, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
A fight now underway over newly-designed U.S. nuclear weapons highlights how far the Obama administration has strayed from its commitment to build a nuclear-free world. The fight concerns a variety of nuclear weapons that the U.S. military is developing or, as the administration likes to say, “modernizing.”
→ read full articleMartin Luther King, Jr.’s Timeless Vision
Michael Nagler, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
He came out against the war. Against all advice. Just as Gandhi honed his nonviolence in South Africa and then felt that he was ready to carry the struggle into the heart of the empire, King here announced that he had enlarged his passion from those of his own race in one region of the country to the policies of that country itself.
→ read full articleThe US Tiger and the North Korean Mouse
John LaForge, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
The Environmental Protection Agency has recommended increased radiation exposure limits. It would save the industry a bundle to permit large human exposures, rather than shut down rickety reactors. The EPA proposal is a knock-off prompted by Fukushima, because after the triple meltdown Japan increased — by 20 times — the allowable radiation exposures deemed tolerable for humans.
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Copley News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
What are the charges?
→ read full articleEvolving to Earth Ethics: the Beginnings of Charlie Prewitt – Atom Bomb Chemist, to Educator, to Peace Maker
P.K. Willey, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
This first article on Dr. Prewitt restricts itself from childhood up to meeting his remarkable wife when he was just 18. In just a few years, he was to begin mandatory work for the US Government on the Manhattan Project, which contributed to the outrageous human, environmental, and political catastrophe of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on August 9, 1945. Charlie’s outspoken Earth ethical responses to this horrific use of human intelligence and endeavor have continued to this day.
→ read full article(Italiano) Venti pii desideri per il 2016: prestare attenzione alle menti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
Empiricamente, l’Occidente è sovente sul versante sbagliato. Tuttavia, come ogni cosa empirica, è soggetto alla legge del cambiamento. Gli occidentali non sono schiavi delle mentalità dell’Iliade e di Beowulf che si estendono per l’Europa. La liberazione è attesa da troppo tempo. Prestando attenzione alle menti.
→ read full articleAustralia’s Day for Secrets, Flags and Cowards
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
On 26 January, one of the saddest days in human history will be celebrated in Australia. The racism that allows this in one of the most privileged societies on earth runs deep. In the 1920s, a “Protector of Aborigines” oversaw the theft of mixed race children with the justification of “breeding out the colour”. Today, record numbers of Indigenous children are removed from their homes and many never see their families again.
→ read full articleA World Divided: Elites Descend on Swiss Alps amid Rising Inequality
Ben Hirschler and Noah Barkin, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
Just 62 people, 53 of them men, own as much wealth as the poorest half of the entire world population and the richest 1 percent own more than the other 99 percent put together, anti-poverty charity Oxfam said on Monday [18 Jan]. Significantly, the wealth gap is widening faster than anyone anticipated, with the 1 percent overtaking the rest one year earlier than Oxfam had predicted only a year ago.
→ read full article(Italiano) Migliorare la democrazia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
La gente può creare e riconquistare con lotte nonviolente un processo decisionale democratico. Rafforzare il livello locale. Riflettere le differenze etniche. Boicottare i deputati comprati. Più referendum. Più decisioni con dialogo-consenso, da continuarsi in coalizioni. Più decentramento. Più diversità. E molta più creatività.
→ read full articleThe Learned Helplessness of Israeli Youth
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
The passivity of Israelis, especially its youth, in the face of political injustice. Many have tried, and failed, to right the wrongs of the occupation. Now they have accepted their powerlessness as normal.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
Jan 25-31 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Render others spiritual. Irradiate your spirituality. Treat every moment of your life with divine respect.” – Robert Muller
→ read full articleDancing for Joy and Friendship
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
Another element is depiction of violence and controlling it by dance. There is violence in all of us – sometimes it is muted and sometimes it comes out in the open. Some dance forms especially of Nagaland depict dancers carrying spears and sticks and making war like sounds to terrorise an enemy. The dance is riveting and it is a means of subsuming the violence that we occasionally feel for some unspecified opponent.
→ read full articleGlobal Resources and Challenges for 2016
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
What is different this year – 2016 – is the “global stage” in which the challenges and resources are being tested and contested. It is clear to me we are unable to grasp the “global” level of events and forces. We are unprepared for the magnitude of stage! The problem is our resources, those things we have reflexively, conventionally, and traditionally relied upon (i.e., political, economic, cultural, military) are inadequate in the face of our challenges.
→ read full articleWhen ‘Your Heart Is a Muscle,’ Empathy Is a Revolutionary Act
US National Public Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
«Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist» was inspired by a real-life event; in 1999, thousands of demonstrators disrupted a meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. Badly outnumbered police resorted to using tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets.
→ read full articleGates Foundation’s “Corporate Merry-Go-Round”: Spearheading the Neo-liberal Plunder of African Agriculture
Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
Global Justice Now’s analysis of the BMGF’s programmes shows that the foundation’s senior staff are overwhelmingly drawn from corporate America. As a result, the question is: whose interests are being promoted – those of corporate America or those of ordinary people who seek social and economic justice rather than charity?
→ read full articleRelationships – Reflections on Refugees
Dr Hakim, Afghan Peace Volunteers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
As relationships are built on various aspects of love, they are powerful. If we build more and more relationships, they will be an alternative power to the abusive power of governments and corporations, and that’s when governments and corporations will become more obvious in their efforts to sabotage relationships.
→ read full articlePitirim Sorokin (21 Jan 1889 – 11 Feb 1968): The Renewal of Humanity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
The two World Wars convinced him that humanity was in a period of transition, that the guideline of earlier times had broken down and had not yet been replaced by a new set of values and motivations. To bring about real renewal, one had to work at the same time on the individual personality, on cultural values, and on the social framework.
→ read full articleExtreme, Extremer, Extremest
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
As is well-known, Israel is a “Jewish and democratic state”. That is its official designation. Well… As for Jewish, it’s a new kind of Jewishness, a mutation. Since 1967, Israel has been a hybrid creation – half democratic, half dictatorial. Like an egg that is half fresh, half rotten.
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