Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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An Open Letter to the American People: Political Responsibility in the Nuclear Age
Richard Falk, David Krieger and Robert Laney – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
What is most notable about the Nuclear Age is that we humans, by our scientific and technological ingenuity, have created the means of our own demise. The world currently is confronted by many threats to human wellbeing, and even civilizational survival, but we focus here on the particular grave dangers posed by nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
→ read full article(Français) Gouvernements populaires en Amérique latine: «fin de cycle» ou nouvelle étape politique?
Isabel Rauber, CETRI-Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
19 janvier 2016 – Quelques intellectuels qui se définissent comme étant de gauche ou de centre gauche, ont affirmé récemment que nous vivons une fin de cycle des gouvernements progressistes, caractérisée par l’épuisement de leurs programmes néo-développementistes – qui incluent l’extractivisme – et leur « inefficace » capacité de gestion.
→ read full articleThe End of Liberal Europe
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
The shift to the right by the European elites is rooted in explosive social, economic and political contradictions that have been building up since the collapse of the Soviet Union 25 years ago, and especially since the international financial crisis of 2008. German imperialism has played a crucial role in these developments.
→ read full article‘Voluntary’ International Law and the Paris Agreement
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
16 Jan 2016 – Now that the celebrations by the diplomats have ended, it is time to take a hard look at what was and was not accomplished by the Paris Agreement. What we need and should seek is a moral epistemology that reconnects knowledge with human values configured so as to achieve justice, sustainability, and the pleasures of ‘a good life.’
→ read full articleAfter the Iran Agreement: How Close Are We to “a World Free of Nuclear Weapons?”
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
The JCPOA is undoubtedly a victory for non-proliferation advocates, but the current possessors of nuclear weapons do not seem willing to apply the same logic to their own continuing programs of increase and “modernization” of their arsenals and point to the technological advancement of their rivals in order to justify their own military efforts. The nuclear arms race takes on new forms as bombs become smaller, lighter and smarter.
→ read full articleParallel Standards Offer Way Out of Violence
Kristin Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
One Step to a Change in Mideast Relations Is a Change in the U.S. Mindset
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Does Prescribing Anti-psychotic Drugs to Infants, Toddlers and Young Children Meet the Definition of Reckless Endangerment?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
When physicians (or medical paraprofessionals) prescribe psychiatric drugs to children without the parent or legal guardian’s fully informed consent, the prescribers could reasonably be charged with reckless endangerment and/or child endangerment because such drugs commonly cause a multitude of well-known adverse effects.
→ read full articleIsrael: Businesses Should End Settlement Activity
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
19 Jan 2016 – Businesses should stop operating in, financing, servicing, or trading with Israeli settlements in order to comply with their human rights responsibilities, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Those activities contribute to and benefit from an inherently unlawful and abusive system that violates the rights of Palestinians.
→ read full article(Italiano) Siria (Prestare attenzione alle menti, II)
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
La Siria ha offerto una scelta povera fra una dittatura di minoranza provvista di tolleranza e una dittatura di maggioranza – la democrazia – sprovvista. Così ha prosperato la violenza, resuscitando vecchi sospetti di guerre per procura. “Bombardiamo la Siria” è stata la panacea, dopo “bombardiamo la Libia”. Che vergogna. Fatela finita.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Persone comuni che vivono in tempi straordinari”_4
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
989. E’ il numero delle/dei sottoscrittori della petizione “Il servizio migranti di Aosta non deve chiudere” le cui firme sono state consegnate, con lettera raccomandata con ricevuta di ritorno, in data 14 gennaio 2016, al Presidente della Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta.
→ read full articleHow Does It End?
Winslow Myers, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
What makes our own arrogant and pompous leaders one whit less adolescent than theirs? We are subject like the North Koreans to the same self-perpetuating paranoia, the same lack of moral imagination, the same suppression of truth-telling, the same wildly unnecessary secrets and lies, the same demagogic rationalizations of the status quo, the same folly of an endless arms race, the same nuclear dictatorship that leaves citizens without a voice when world-ending decisions are made.
→ read full articleWest Papuans Testify
Jason MacLeod – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
We have come to testify. There is much that we want the world to know. We want you to hear stories of suffering from the mouths of ordinary people. Our memories are clear and sharp. ‘In this river our father was murdered.’ ‘On that mountain slope there used to be villages. They were destroyed by the military.’ ‘On that open field, our old men were forced to burn their koteka [penis sheaths] because they were considered primitive.’ ‘In the past that mountain was ours, now people have destroyed our mother.’ We want you to travel with us to the sites of the massacres. We want to testify about the killings and the beatings with rifles.
→ read full articleGoldman Sachs Will Pay $5 Billion to Settle Financial-Crisis Claims
Jim Zarroli, NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
14 Jan 2016 – Goldman Sachs will pay about $5 billion to resolve state and federal investigations into its handling of mortgage-backed securities in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, the bank said today. Regulators have already won large multibillion-dollar settlements from several large banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
Jan 18-24 QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
“When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are,
Anything your heart desires will come to you.
If your heart is in your dream,
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star as dreamers do.”
Encyclopedia of Evil Claims, Claimants, Counter-claims, and Sigils
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
Considerable significance is currently attached, at the highest level of authority, to the determining role of evil with respect to ongoing global crises and those recently past. As declared by Hannah Arendt in 1945: The problem of evil will be the fundamental question of postwar intellectual life in Europe (Essays in Understanding, 1994, p. 134).
→ read full articleBishnu Pathak’s Nine Freedoms Doctrine to Truth, Justice and Dignity
Meena Pathak, Bimip Pathak and Bimish Pathak - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
Transnational Professor Bishnu Pathak is the creator of the Peace-Conflict Lifecycle, the architect of Human Security Studies, the founder of the Principles of Process Documentation (End-to-End-Lifecycle) of any development project and the pioneer of Process Documentation for Interfaith Peacebuilding Cycle.
→ read full articleThe Struggle for Merdeka in West Papua
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
In Jason MacLeod’s new book, Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua, the failure to develop a comprehensive strategy of any kind, violent or nonviolent, to liberate West Papua is overwhelmingly evident. And MacLeod does an excellent job of identifying why this has happened as he provides us with an overview of the history and geopolitical circumstances of the occupation of West Papua as well as a history of the resistance, both violent and nonviolent, to this occupation.
→ read full articleOn Ghada Ageel’s Edited ‘Israeli Apartheid in Palestine’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
Ghada Ageel’s expertly edited ‘Israeli Apartheid in Palestine: Hard Laws and Harder Experiences’ has just been published by the University of Albert Press. It is an important contribution to Palestinian studies with an especially welcome linking of activism, scholarly analysis, and experiential narrative, each a vital perspective represented by excellent chapter writers.
→ read full articleA New Era of Global Protest Begins
Rajesh Makwana, Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
14 Jan 2016 – Research by Dr. David Bailey provides empirical evidence that we have entered a prolonged period of dissent characterised by an escalation in the magnitude and diversity of public protest. The catalyst was the financial crisis of 2008, which continues to have a detrimental impact for the vast majority of citizens – even while the combined wealth of the richest 1% continues to soar.
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‘O Mio Babbino Caro’ (Music Video of the Week)
Amira Willighagen & André Rieu, Talented Young Musicians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
11-year-old Amira Willighagen performs ‘O mio babbino caro’ with André Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra at a concert in Maastricht, The Netherlands. 10 thousand standing ovation…
→ read full articlePublication of My Collected Essays
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
“I know John Avery as a scholar and an advocate of peace. If the Old Testament command of an eye for an eye is followed, the whole world will be blind. A far better path for humanity, as John shows in the Essays, is to apply the tools of reason, science and morality to eliminate the underlying causes of war and poverty.” — Hon. Matt Robson
→ read full articleShould Criminalizing War Start by Pretending It’s Legal?
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
6 Jan 2015 – There’s a terrific new book on abolishing war called ‘Abolishing War: Criminalizing War, Removing War Causes, Removing War as Institution.’ Johan Galtung, who was recently on my radio show, is brilliant as always, drawing on vast knowledge and wisdom.
→ read full articleRemembering Hawaii’s Queen Lili’uokalani and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
January 17th marks the date of the illegal overthrow of Hawaii’s Queen Lili’uokalani and the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 by U.S. business interests with the assistance of U.S. Marines. January 18th marks the holiday named for Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. who was a champion for civil rights, justice, peace and the power of nonviolent action, assassinated in 1968.
→ read full articleSurveillance and Surveys in Kabul
Kathy Kelly, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
Billions of dollars have been invested in a variety of blimps which various vendors such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and Aeros have shipped to Afghanistan. All of this surveillance purportedly helps establish “patterns of life” and bring security to people living here …tax money to the insatiable appetite of the “defense” corporations and their illusions of omniscient security.
→ read full articleRobert M. Hutchins (17 Jan 1899 – 17 May 1977): Building on Earlier Foundations
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
Much of our current work for a more just and peaceful world builds on the thinking and efforts of earlier foundations. An important foundation is the leading role of Robert M. Hutchins, long-time President of the University of Chicago.
→ read full articleYemen: Five Medical Staff Dead in Third Bombing of Doctors Without Borders Facilities
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
MSF officials remained uncertain whether the explosion was caused by an airstrike or by a missile fired from ground forces. The identity of the attackers also remains contested, with reports from the Houthi-controlled SABA news agency asserting that the attack was launched by the Saudi coalition forces and US media reports maintaining that the origins of the strike are still not known.
→ read full articleNew Year’s Resolution
Bizarro Comics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
Good question…
→ read full articleSpecial Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territory Resigns Due to Continued Denial of Access by Israel
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
4 Jan 2016 –The independent expert expressed deep regret that, throughout his mandate, Israel failed to grant him access to the Occupied Palestinian Territory. “Unfortunately, my efforts to help improve the lives of Palestinian victims of violations under the Israeli occupation have been frustrated every step of the way,” said Makarim Wibisono.
→ read full articleSuu Kyi Govt Must Not Continue State Persecution of Rohingya
Dr. Maung Zarni, DVB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
As Aung San Suu Kyi prepares to take over the reins of the new government [Burma/Myanmar], the international community – of diplomats, world leaders, journalists, human rights researchers and world citizens – needs to press the Burmese leader to reflect critically on her stances on the Rohingya.
→ read full articlePolice Agent-Provocateurs Exposed at Montreal Anti-Austerity Demonstration
Carl Bronski, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Initially the police refused to admit that they had infiltrated the December 18 protest. But now they are strongly defending the actions of an undercover cop who drew his revolver and threatened protesters who had “outed” him as a police agent provocateur.
→ read full articlePharming
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
The resistance factors produced by shovelling antibiotics into animal food produces resistance factors (plasmids) which can easily be transferred to human pathogens. A related problem is the excessive use of pesticides and artificial fossil-fuel-derived fertilizers in agriculture. Pharming is not a joke. It is a serious threat.
→ read full article(Français) Les massacres sont-ils plus intéressants lorsqu’ils sont commis par des “musulmans” ?
Asma Mechakra, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Déjà presque deux mois se sont écoulés depuis les attentats meurtriers de Paris et l’émotion est encore vive. Pendant la même période, un hôpital de médecins sans frontières (MSF) a été délibérément bombardé par l’aviation Etasunienne en Afghanistan, un double attentat suicide a été perpétré dans la banlieue sud de Beyrouth et une école Irakienne au Mossoul a été bombardée par l’aviation Française.
→ read full article(Castellano) Como Entender la Política y Como Cambiarla
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Lo que distingue el político de los demás oficios y profesiones no es en fin ninguna calidad moral distinta, sino el hecho que le corresponde cumplir una tarea que en la época que nos toca vivir es imposible. La tesis que hoy la política es imposible, o –dicho de una manera menos escueta– que los objetivos que la política se propone sean inalcanzables, es hasta aquí todavía más una provocación que una hipótesis.
→ read full articleThe Nobel Peace Prize Watch 2016
Fredrik S. Heffermehl and Tomas Magnusson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Who Should Win the 2016 Nobel? Promote good nominations, of qualified candidates, for 2016, before the Feb. 1 deadline. The right to nominate is limited, to parliamentarians, certain professors, and others, all over the world. If you are not entitled to nominate, please seek out someone who is.
→ read full articleWall Street Taking Over Nonprofit Sector
Dan Wright, Shadowproof – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
4 Jan 2015 – While there has traditionally been a close relationship between Wall Street donors and nonprofit organizations like charities and universities, a new study from the Stanford Social Innovation Review reveals a growing Wall Street takeover of nonprofit boards of directors.
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What Is Genocide?
Prof. Daniel Feierstein, Rohingya Genocide Documentation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Prof. Daniel Feierstein is president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars; director of the Centre for Genocide Studies at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero; professor in the Faculty of Genocide at the University of Buenos Aires.
→ read full articleSchooling for Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
The UN Charter of Human Rights passed in 1948 has recognised education as a fundamental right in Article 26 of the Charter that states, “Everyone has the right to education. It should be free at least to the elementary and foundational levels …” “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” — Edward Everett
→ read full articleWibisono’s Resignation as UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
I am surprised, but not shocked. Surprised because he should have known that he was faced with a dilemma between doing the job properly of reporting on Israel’s crimes and human rights abuses and gaining Israel’s cooperation. Not shocked, indeed grateful, as it illuminates the difficulty confronting anyone charged with truthful reporting on the Palestinian ordeal under occupation, and by his principled resignation Wibisono doesn’t allow Israel to get away with neutering the position of special rapporteur.
→ read full articleCarl Rogers (8 Jan 1902 – 4 Feb 1987): Healing the Person and the State
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Carl Ransom Rogers was a US psychologist, educator and a leading figure of what is often called “the third wave of psychology. The first wave was Freud and Jung, and their views of psychoanalysis. The second wave was behaviorism symbolized by B.F. Skinner and the later behavior-modification specialists. The third wave, often called “humanist”, has Abraham Maslow, Rollo May, and Carl Rogers as its best-known figures.
→ read full articleDecide to Be a Spiritual Person
Robert Muller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Render others spiritual
Irradiate your spirituality
Treat every moment of your life
with divine respect
Children
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
All parents want their children to be independent.
→ read full articleKhalil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Spirits Rebellious
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Khalil Gibran is one of the most quoted prose poets, especially his 1923 work The Prophet. The book has become bedside reading for all those who consider themselves “spiritual but not religious”.
→ read full articleFree Basics: Corporate Freedom to Privatise India’s Basic Economy
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Mark Zuckerberg is in India with ₹100 crore, in pocket change, for advertising. Facebook’s Free Basics is a repackaged internet.org, or in other words, a system where Facebook decides what parts of the internet are important to users.
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Ave Maria (Music Video of the Week)
Luciano Pavarotti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian operatic tenor who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time.
→ read full articleSometimes! I wonder
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Sometimes! I wonder
There be No border
Between India and Pakistan
So that people of two nations
Live as brothers
As their fathers
Syria Is the Middle Eastern Stalingrad
Andre Vltchek, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Hundreds of thousands have died, and millions have been forced to flee abroad or have been internally displaced. In many cities and villages, not one house is left intact. But Syria is, against all odds, still standing. And the Syrian people have won. For how long, I don’t know. But it has proven that an Arab country can still defeat the mightiest murderous hordes.
→ read full articleTroubling Habits of Chronically Unhappy People
Dr. Travis Bradberry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” – Benjamin Franklin. Unhappiness is easy to identify; you know it when you see it, and you definitely know when it’s taken hold of you.
→ read full articleStarvation Imagery as Humanitarian Trump Card?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Suffering elsewhere can be more readily framed as an unacceptable evil for which others are responsible. As with universal condemnation of apartheid, however, it is especially convenient that it be a focus for attention on another continent — displacing attention from the challenge of discrimination and suffering in the immediate environment.
→ read full articleWe Are Living at the Edge of a Nuclear Precipice
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
With nuclear weapons, what could possibly go wrong? The short answer is: Everything. The ever-present dangers of nuclear proliferation, nuclear accidents and miscalculations, nuclear terrorism and nuclear war. Instead of nuclear deterrence and modernization of arsenals, we need to negotiate in good faith for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons. That is, we need to break free of our acidic complacency and commit ourselves to achieving a nuclear zero world.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – 14 Lies That Our Psychiatry Professors in Medical School Taught Us
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
In my mental health care practice, I personally treated hundreds of patients who had been given a multitude of confusing and contradictory mental illness labels, many of which had been one of the new “diseases of the month” for which there was a new psych “drug of the month” that was being heavily marketed on TV.
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Money for Nothing: Inside the U.S. Federal Reserve
TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
A Documentary about Money
→ read full articleThe Role of Peace Education
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
For Good Governance: Saints and Sages as Ministers and Judges; Inventors and Innovators as Bureaucrats
→ read full articleSyria (Minding the Minds II)
Johan Galtung, 11 Jan 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Syria offered a poor choice between a minority dictatorship with tolerance and a majority dictatorship–democracy–without. Violence flourished, attracting old suspects for proxy wars. “Bomb Syria” was the panacea, after “bomb Libya”. What a shame. Bring it to an end.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Jan 11-17 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.” – Confucius
→ read full articleTwenty Pious Wishes for 2016: Mind the Minds
Johan Galtung, 4 Jan 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Empirically, the West is often on the wrong side. Nevertheless, as anything empirical, it is subject to the law of change. Westerners are not slaves of the violent mind-sets in the Iliad and Beowulf spanning Europe. The liberation is overdue. By minding the minds.
→ read full articleThe Mass Beheadings in Saudi Arabia
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
4 Jan 2015 – Washington’s closest ally in the Arab world, the dictatorial monarchy of Saudi Arabia, ushered in the New Year with a torrent of blood, simultaneously executing 47 prisoners. This wave of state murders unfolded at 12 separate prisons across the kingdom. The barbaric killing spree was a calculated political act driven by both domestic and international objectives.
→ read full articleGITMO Clock
Andy Worthington, Close Guantánamo Campaign – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Holding President Obama to his promise to release the 48 cleared-for-release detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
As of 4 Jan 2016, 12:25 p.m. GMT:
1321 days, 11 hours, 26 minutes since the promise on May 23, 2013.
Year of Hope 2016
Ada Aharoni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
The power of women and children for peace is rising,
Democracy and the Internet are spreading,
Global poverty has been cut in half –
Never have ordinary people, like you and me,
Had more power to face challenges
And to decide our own fate of Nonkilling.
The Soul of an Octopus: How One of Earth’s Most Alien Creatures Illuminates the Wonders of Consciousness
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Montgomery begins with a seemingly simple premise. The octopus is a creature magnificently dissimilar to us — it can change shape and color, tastes with its skin, has its mouth in its armpit, and is capable of squeezing its entire body through a hole the size of an apple. And since we humans experience reality in profoundly different ways from one another, based on our individual consciousnesses, then the octopus must be inhabiting an altogether different version of what we call reality.
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Adagio in G Minor (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Albinoni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Composer: Tomaso Albinoni. Adagio in G minor for strings and organ.
Performer: Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker.
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Jan 4-10 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
→ read full articleComing Out as a Radical — or Coming In?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Risks of Cultivating Negative Capability in a Caliphate of Normality – This argument is inspired by the progressive conflation in mainstream discourse of radicalisation with Islamisation, extremism, fundamentalism and terrorism. The concern here is whether it is possible to engage in thinking, framed as radical by some, without being branded a terrorist in consequence.
→ read full articleCulture, Education and Human Solidarity
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Human nature has two sides: It has a dark side, to which nationalism and militarism appeal; but our species also has a genius for cooperation, which we can see in the growth of culture. Our modern civilization has been built up by means of a worldwide exchange of ideas and inventions.
→ read full articleA Review of Stephen Prothero’s ‘Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)’
James A. Haught, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Social progress occurs because liberal-minded reformers defeat conservative resistance.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il servizio migranti di Aosta non deve chiudere. Sulla petizione postata su change org.
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
797 Sono le voci delle/dei sostenitori della petizione “Il servizio Migranti di Aosta non deve chiudere” in dissenso con la chiusura forzata del servizio Migranti di Aosta.
Da tutto il mondo è giunta, in pochi giorni, l’espressione di solidarietà per gli stranieri che da questa mattina non hanno più un servizio di riferimento.
‘No-Grow Zone:’ Israel Admits to Spraying Poisons Inside Gaza Strip
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
The Israeli Army has admitted that they used crop-dusters to kill hundreds of acres of Palestinian crops, claiming that it was to “enable security operations.”
→ read full articleOver My Dead Body
TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Gravestone
→ read full articleInternational Monetary Fund’s Rogues Gallery: Crooks, Rapists and Swindlers
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
The IMF has been under the control of the US and Western European states and its policies have been designed to further the expansion, domination and profits of their leading multi-national corporations and financial institutions. The executive directors of the IMF are Europeans; their counterparts in the World Bank are from the US.
→ read full articleYou Say ISIL, I Say ISIS, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
Tom H. Hastings, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Who benefits? Who loses? US elites benefit. Owners of military contractors benefit the most ($711,000,000 the last day of 2015 alone, nearly $40 million per hour around the clock), and they share their largesse with those who serve them best—friendly bellicose politicians, persuasive media, high-level military officers.
→ read full article(Italiano) Anglo-America, UE, Occidente: una prognosi
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Grazie, cari studenti di Oxford, per il regalo di Natale, sfidare il culto di Cecil Rhodes – colonialista, classista, razzista. Sa di TV Reality. Gli USA reclamano il monopolio sulla “leadership” concedendo “un rapporto speciale” al Regno Unito. E la Paura dei Tedeschi divenne Paura dei Rossi, divenne Paura dei Cinesi, divenne Paura dell’Islam, divenne Paura della Russia. La paura del giorno divenne paranoia; di facile combinazione col narcisismo UK-USA.
→ read full articleA Happy & More Just and Peaceful New Year FOR ALL! -> Reduce the Great Divide between Rich and Poor
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
There are great divides that need healing. Honolulu has the largest number of homeless per capita of any city in the U.S. The gap between rich are poor widens while $50-100 million-dollar private jets crowd the Kona airport bringing the super rich to vacation in luxury homes and resorts.
→ read full articleSyria – A Light to the World
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
In November 2015 I visited Syria together with an International Peace delegation. This was my third visit to Syria in the last three years. There is hope and Syria is a light to the world as there are many people working for peace and reconciliation, dialogue and negotiations, and this is where the hope lies and what we can all support by rejecting violence and war in Syria, the Middle East and our World.
→ read full articleComments to Paris Atrocities Editorial – A Reply
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
I grew up in Norway, forced into Christianity, dedicated to Western colonialism to spread Christianity, and fought both. Against the same from Islam, I favor using the military to defend the many exposed to IS brutality. But not to kill and escalate by using their approach. And in favor of negotiation based on understanding both.
→ read full articleDespair and Hope for the New Year
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Most needed in these dark times is to hold tight to what we believe with an unruly embrace of faith, patience, and urgency. This is my most fervent New Year’s wish for 2016.
→ read full articleRenewable Energy Soars in 2015
Nathanael Greene, Natural Resources Defense Council, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
With Tax Incentives’ Renewal, Expect More of the Same in Years to Come – The truth is, 2015 has been one in a series of very good years for these pollution-free, renewable resources—years that are helping us get on track for the low-carbon future we need and need now.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cina vs. Russia vs. USA; Xi vs. Putin vs. Obama
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Cina, il più popoloso; Russia, il più vasto; USA, il più militarizzato. E qui c’è l’ipotesi chiave, presumibilmente più giusta che sbagliata: Cina-Xi: pace positiva; Russia-Putin: pace negativa; USA-Obama: guerra. Ci vogliono almeno due per fare la guerra, e due per fare la pace. La domanda è: chi cederà all’altro, Cina-Russia a una guerra estesa, o gli USA a una pace estesa?
→ read full articleSacrifice: Meat Producing Worse Than Airplanes for Environment
George Monbiot - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
A Kg of beef protein can generate the equivalent of 643 kg of carbon dioxide. A kilogramme of lamb protein can generate 749 kg. One kilo of protein from either source, in other words, causes more greenhouse gas emissions than a passenger flying from London to New York.
→ read full articleA Perfect New Year Gift: A Calendar Dedicated to the Rohingya Victims of Myanmar’s Slow Genocide
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Here is a perfect gift for this holiday season, especially for those with a social conscience. And Myanmar authorities will arrest you if it is found in your possession!
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Imagine (Music Video of the Week)
John Lennon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Remembrance on the 35th anniversary of his untimely death at the hands of an assassin on 8 Dec 1980. He was just 40 years old. RIP dearest John, your memory will live forever in our hearts and of upcoming generations of peace/music/poetry lovers throughout the world.
→ read full articleBurundi : In Moments of Crisis the Wise Build Bridges
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
On 17 December 2015, the UN Human Rights Council held a Special Session on preventing further deterioration of the human rights situation in Burundi. A Special Session is the “highest profile” measure that the Human Rights Council has to highlight a dangerous situation and to call attention to a need for action.
→ read full articleMemories of Urvashi
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Urvashi is no longer alive physically but her memories and her supreme sacrifice continue to inspire and motivate many young persons. She is a symbol of encouragement and peace.
→ read full articleLarge Pod of Bottlenose Dolphins Endures Brutal Capture and Slaughter in Taiji’s Infamous Cove
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
A large pod of approximately 85-90 bottlenose dolphins driven into Taiji, Japan’s infamous cove on Sunday, Dec. 20 was forced to endure brutal captive selection and slaughter that claimed the freedom of 30 dolphins and the lives of 28-30 others.
→ read full articleThe Art Collector’s Wife
Submitted by Robin Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
A New York attorney representing a wealthy art collector called and asked to speak to his client, “Saul, I have some good news and, I have some bad news.”
→ read full articleSlouching toward Global Disaster: Chaos and Intervention in the Middle East
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Even the more thoughtful Democrats limit their proposals to enhanced militarism, hoping to induce the Arab countries to put ‘the boots on the ground’ with nary a worry about either igniting a regional war or the imaginative collapse that can only contemplate war as the recipe for peace, again recalling the degree to which Orwellian satiric irony is relied upon to shape foreign policy prescriptions by ambitious politicians.
→ read full articleThe Roots of the Current Crisis in the Middle East
Free Haifa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
The wave of refugees that has reached Europe and the terror attacks in Paris reminded many people in Europe and beyond of the crisis in our region – but at the same time led them to forget that the main victims of this crisis are the people of the region themselves.
→ read full articleAnglo-America, EU, the West: A Prognosis
Johan Galtung, 28 Dec 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Thanks dear Oxford students for the Xmas gift, challenging the cult of Cecil Rhodes–colonialist, classist, racist. Sounds like Reality TV: The USA claims monopoly on “leadership” granting “special relation” to the UK. And German Scare became Red Scare became China Scare became Islam Scare became Russia Scare. The scare of the day paranoia; easily combined with UK-US narcissism.
→ read full articleProf. Ståle Eskeland – A Life in the Vanguard for Peace and Justice
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Oslo, December 27, 2015 – A great Norwegian scholar for peace, justice and a sane foreign policy, Ståle Eskeland, died yesterday at age 72. He was a retired professor of (Norwegian and international) criminal law at the University of Oslo, who never shied away from pointing out social and political wrongs.
→ read full articleWhere to Invade Next
Godfrey Cheshire, Roger Ebert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Moore tells us the Joint Chiefs of Staff invited him to Washington, DC to confess that all their wars since “the big one” have been disastrous and ask his advice. He responds by offering himself up as a one-man army who will “invade countries populated by Caucasians whose names I can mostly pronounce, take the things we need from them, and bring them back home to the United States of America.”
→ read full articleWhy Did You Make Me? A Pig’s Complaint to God
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
These Muslims, your Muslims
Why they hate me so much
They don’t want to see me
They don’t call even my name
What did I do to them?
Radical Localization in a Global Systemic Context
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Distinguishing Normality Using Playing Card Suits as a Pattern Language – There is currently considerable confusion as to what is to be distinguished as “radical” in contrast to “fundamental”, “extraordinary”, “exceptional” and “extreme”.
→ read full articleWhy Did Brookings Institution Hold a Secret Panel Countering BDS?
Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Americans should be asking why such a conference is taking place behind closed doors at a leading liberal thinktank– and why it’s tackling BDS, which Israeli leaders have termed an “existential” threat to Israel. The gathering is a reflection of the power of the Israel lobby in Washington.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Das Weihnachtswunder von 1914
MMNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Deutsche und britische Soldaten legten zu Heiligabend 1914 die Waffen nieder und feierten an der Front ein spontanes Friedensfest. Das als “Christmas Truce” (“Weihnachtsfrieden”) in die Geschichte eingegangene Ereignis zeigt die Sinnlosigkeit von Kriegen.
→ read full articleA Christmas Message in Dark Times
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Christmas has an ecumenical resonance that calls for bright lights, ornamented trees, celebration, and wishes for peace on earth and good will toward all, bringing together those of diverse faith or no faith at all. The legions of ‘the politically correct’ determined to avoid offending those, especially Jews, who are not Christians, will carefully express their good wishes with such phrases as ‘happy holidays!’
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Nativity: Rev Kevin Annett and the “Little Matter of Aboriginal Genocide”
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
One of the most meaningful Christmas stories that I have ever read came from my friend from Vancouver, Canada, Reverend Kevin Annett. His story is titled “Nativity” and is printed further below.
→ read full articleGot Fascism? The 1942 Norwegian Teachers’ Nonviolent Resistance to Nazis Has Answers
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
In April 1940, the Nazis invaded Norway and occupied the country. In 1942, as part of an attempt to implement a fascist curriculum in the schools, Minister-President Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian collaborator, disbanded the existing teachers’ union and required all teachers to register with the new Norwegian Teachers’ Union by February 5.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il servizio Migranti di Aosta non deve chiudere. Petizione-appello alla comunità politica globale
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Da pochi giorni la comunità straniera e la comunità valdostana hanno appreso dai media che il servizio Migranti di Aosta dal 4 gennaio 2016 non sarà più operativo. Dopo 25 anni.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Dec 28–Jan 3 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.” – George Santayana
→ read full articlePre-Deciding about Violence
Elizabeth Traubman and Lionel Traubman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
What does smacking your child have in common with the fast-spreading violence we read about in headlines from every continent like terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut, and Jerusalem, and drone strikes that kill innocent women and children? They all are part of the cycle of cruelty. Yet as today’s headlines clarify for us, violence primarily fuels more flames of hostility.
→ read full articleOh Little Town of Bethlehem
Francis A. Boyle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Israel, Palestine and American Christian Hypocrites
→ read full articleSurveillance Techniques: How Your Data Becomes Our Data
Domestic Surveillance Directorate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
We’ve turned our nation’s Internet and telecommunications companies into collection partners by installing filters in their facilities, serving them with secret court orders, building back doors into their software and acquiring keys to break their encryption.
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