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Toni Morrison on the Power of Language: Her Spectacular Nobel Acceptance Speech after Becoming the First African American Woman Awarded the Accolade
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Morrison took the podium at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm and accepted the accolade with a spectacular speech about the power of language — its power to oppress and to liberate, to scar and to sanctify, to plunder and to redeem. Morrison’s address remains perhaps our most powerful manifesto for the responsibility embedded in how we wield the tool that stands as the hallmark of our species.
→ read full articlePoisoned Snow Geese in Butte: The New “Canaries” Warning Us Humans about the Toxic Nature of Copper Mining
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Lessons from the Most Toxic Open Pit Copper Mine in the World
→ read full articleThe Modern Destruction of Ancient Aleppo
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
17 Dec 2016 – If the English poet, John William Burgon, called Petra ‘half as old as time,’ Aleppo is a lot older. One of the world’s earliest cities, it ended the bronze age by discovering iron ore. A centre of Christianity almost two-thousand years ago, Aleppo sent evangelists as far afield as the western shores of India.
→ read full articleThe Value in Activism: Reflections from the Columbia University Climate Sit-In
Nikita Perumal | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
When the status quo—in this case, the political and social power of extractive and destructive industries—is too strong to be undone on its own, it sometimes needs a push. I believe, wholeheartedly, that activism is that push. It is our way of reclaiming power, and catalyzing the policy changes that we so desperately need for a more just world.
→ read full articlePresident Donald Trump—Israel’s Pick for War in Iran?
James M. (“Mel”) Rockefeller | Hidden Tax on Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
As can be proven by my life experience as the out-of-wedlock son of Nelson Rockefeller, Jewish elites and extremists are the source of serial wars and crises dating to no later than 1850 when Rothschild-affiliate Hallgarten & Company investment bankers opened their Manhattan office to finance both sides in the Civil War. A century later, my Uncle David Rockefeller razed Hallgarten’s headquarters to build One Chase Manhattan Plaza.
→ read full articleThe Fortifying Commons
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
In the first of a series of columns about possible solutions, I explore how commons could transform society and the distribution of wealth.
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Fame – Remember My Name [2009] (Music Video of the Week)
MGM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
The Other Classic from 2009
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Dec 19-25 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
→ read full articleOn the Death of Fidel Castro
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
I have been bemused by the captious tone and condescending assessments of mainstream media in the West reacting to Fidel Castro’s death. The lead editorial in The Economist went on even to mock the reverence ordinary Cubans felt for Castro: “Cubans say Mr. Castro was ‘like a father” to them. They are right: he infantilized a nation. Anyone with initiative found ways to leave for exile abroad.”
→ read full articleEurope Must Not Be a Vassal to Trump’s USA
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Today human civilization and the biosphere face two existential threats: catastrophic climate change, and thermonuclear war. Each of these disasters could cause mass extinctions, and each could make large portions of the earth permanently uninhabitable.
→ read full articleRethinking the Arab Spring: Uprisings, Counterrevolution, Chaos, and Global Reverberations
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
At this point, following the election of Donald Trump as the next American president, there are likely to be significant geopolitical adjustments with related regional impacts. It is possible that cooperation between Russia and the United States will be forthcoming for the purpose of ending civil strife in Syria and Yemen, defeating religious extremism in the region, and maintaining the Iran nuclear agreement.
→ read full articleDecades of Denial as Rohingya Genocide Continues
Nancy Hudson-Rodd | New Mandala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Recent violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state has led to an increase in the persecution of the Rohingya people, but the international community continues to turn a blind eye.
→ read full article(Italiano) What Is Home? Ipotesi per cambiamenti collettivi possibili
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Community engagement. Questa l’ouverture, invito e proposta programmatica insieme, del progetto-intervento per cambiamenti collettivi possibili, con azioni e obiettivi ad assetto variabile.
→ read full articleGlobal Economy of Truth as a Ponzi Scheme
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Personal Cognitive Implication in Globalization? Conventionally a Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from profit. The term “Ponzi scheme” is used primarily in the United States , while other English-speaking countries do not distinguish colloquially between this scheme and pyramid schemes.
→ read full articlePermanent Peoples’ Tribunal (Rome) Takes Up ‘Urgent Case’ of Myanmar’s Rohingya
International State Crime Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
PPT is in keeping with this People-centered Justice, as opposed to Power-dictated “justice”.
→ read full articlePropOrNot’s Grandiose Fabrications
Yves Smith | Naked Capitalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016 – The fake news site about fake news known as PropOrNot has been roundly derided, most recently by the New Yorker and the media watchdog FAIR, as an inept propaganda effort that has gotten far more attention that it ever deserved. PropOrNot’s efforts, as Ben Norton and Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept, and Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone pointed out, were so obviously childish and overreaching that no reputable reporter should ever have regarded them as credible.
→ read full articleBitter Harvest for Indian Farmers
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
15 Dec 2016 – The naked and cruel truth about India is that agriculture remains its Achilles’ heel. It is a source of livelihood for hundreds of millions of people but a fraction of the nation’s total economy and a symbol of its perennial distress.
→ read full articleDisparities around Us—Living Together in Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
What is striking not only for foreigners but also for some observant local people in the so called developing countries including India is the disparity and inequity that is out in the open in major towns… Gandhi’s life and his message of living together, truth, nonviolence, and not over-exploiting nature are as relevant today as it was in his time. His message is important not only for the poor but also for the rich and the elites of our society.
→ read full article(Italiano) Un mondo migliore ha meno violenza e guerra
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
The National Society of High School Scholars, Premio per il Miglioramento del Mondo Claes Nobel, Centro Carter, 3 dicembre 2016 – Manco a dirlo, non monetizzare mai. Le vite umane non hanno prezzo; recano in sé il più prezioso di tutti i doni, la vita. Non toglierla, crearla, preservarla, alla fine sarà la natura a porle fine. L’impagabile non ha prezzo.
→ read full article(Italiano) Lo Stato del Mondo Oggi: uno Sguardo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Quel mondo è oggi fondamentalmente multi-polare, forse con 8 poli: Anglo-America, America Latina-Caraibi, Unità Africana, Islam-OIC da Casablanca a Mindanao, Unione Europea, Russia più una regione che uno stato, SAARC dal Nepal allo Sri Lanka, ASEAN, Australia-Nuova Zelanda. E multi-regionale: l’Organizzazione di Shangai per la cooperazione, SCO, con Cina e Russia, paesi islamici, India e Pakistan.
→ read full articleOn the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade | UN Library of International Law - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
When the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted, on 10 December 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in one of the brief spells of enlightenment in the twentieth century, one could hardly anticipate that a historical process of generalization of the international protection of human rights was being launched, on a truly universal scale.
→ read full articleUS Power Will Decline under Trump Says Johan Galtung, Futurist Who Predicted Soviet Collapse
Nafeez Ahmed | Vice Motherboard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
The Norwegian professor at the University of Hawaii and Transcend Peace University is recognized as the ‘founding father’ of peace and conflict studies as a scientific discipline. He has made numerous accurate predictions of major world events, most notably the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
→ read full articleHonoring Henry Kissinger at Oslo
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
What is equally distressing is the Orwellian insensitivity of the Nobel authorities to the inappropriateness of treating Kissinger as though he is a highly trusted source of guidance and wisdom with respect to world peace. Kissinger has applauded the worst excesses of dictators, especially in Latin America, and backed the most immoral geopolitical policies throughout his long career.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Hare Krishna Movement, at 50, Is a Testament to Adaptability
The Economist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
It is a commonplace of religious history that every big spiritual movement seems to travel along a path, sometimes backward and forward, between ecstatic religious experience and settling down as an permanent, conventionally organised institution. The followers of Krishna appear to be no exception.
→ read full articleJapan’s Center for Glocal Studies Publishes Article on the Acting Government of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
10 Dec 2016 – Japan’s Seijo University’s Center for Glocal Studies has published an article authored by Dennis Riches titled “This is not America: The Acting Government of the Hawaiian Kingdom Goes Global with Legal Challenges to End Occupation.” The study focused on the American occupation of Hawai‘i and its global impact, which includes war crimes.
→ read full articleLaurens van der Post (13 Dec 1906 – 16 Dec 1996): Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Laurens van der Post was an Afrikaner, South African writer but who wrote in English. Deeply influenced by his friendship with the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, van der Post could also call his collected writings after the title of Jung’s autobiographic Memories, Dreams, Reflections. The debt to Jung is developed in van der Post’s Jung and the Story of Our Time.
→ read full articleSpherons of Harmony
Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Deep Societal Structure-Copernican Revolution of Social Science, Peacebuilding and Militaristic Civilization
→ read full articleStanding Rock Sioux Tribe’s Statement on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Decision to Not Grant Easement
Stand With Standing Rock – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
4 Dec 2016 – Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it will not be granting the easement to cross Lake Oahe for the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline. Instead, the Corps will be undertaking an environmental impact statement to look at possible alternative routes. We wholeheartedly support the decision of the administration and commend with the utmost gratitude the courage it took on the part of President Obama, the Army Corps, the Department of Justice and the Department of the Interior to take steps to correct the course of history and to do the right thing.
→ read full articleUnveiling Islamic Polygamy
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
One of the most contentious issues that come up in any debate on Islam’s gender practices is polygamy. Contrary to various myths, polygamy is a unique and revolutionary social safety and security net that has unfortunately been maligned on account of its abuse.
→ read full articleThe ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Myanmar’s Rohingya Community Is Underway
Public Radio International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is often seen as a place of military rule, gradually moving towards democracy. But in recent weeks, a new story has emerged: what one UN official called the “ethnic cleansing” of a religious minority.
→ read full articleIf You Are for Peace You Are a Russian Agent
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Speaking of fake news, the latest issue of the National Enquirer at the supermarket is giving the mainstream media a run for the money: “Castro’s Deathbed Confession: I Killed JFK. How I framed Oswald.” That’s almost as good as the fake news going around the presstitute media, such as the TV stations, the Washington Post, New York Times, Guardian, that the CIA has concluded that “Russian operatives covertly interfered in the election campaign in an attempt to ensure the Republican candidate’s victory.”
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons Modernization: A New Nuclear Arms Race? Who Voted for It? Who Will Benefit from It?
Kevin Martin and Paul A. Olson | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
So who will benefit? Certainly Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and the nuclear weapons contractors in other countries (and the politicians who rely on their campaign cash). Anyone else? Anyone? The children? The environment? The smart way forward is not rocket science. Instead of embarking on a plan we can’t afford and that makes our country and the world less safe, let us cancel nuclear modernization.
→ read full articleLittle Known Facets of Fidel Castro
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
The first is the negation of TINA (There is No Alternative ). The prevailing capitalist system maintains that “there is no alternative to capitalism.” A second point worth noting was Fidel Castro’s interest in the Theology of Liberation. Another was his invitation, during the time of “polite silence” that was imposed on me in 1984 by the former Holy Office (the Inquisition). Fidel invited me to spend 15 days with him on the Island to explore questions of religion.
→ read full articleHaiti Elections: Human Rights and Alternative Media Delegation Report
Pierre Labossiere and Margaret Prescod – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Observations of voting activities on the day of the election lead to the conclusion that there was widespread organized voter suppression which impacted the reported election results. Eligible voters were kept from voting, this negatively impacted the number of voters declared to have cast their ballots.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Dec 12-18 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?” – Ayn Rand
→ read full articleLudwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Ludwig van Beethoven was a deaf German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras.
→ read full articlePsychiatrists
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
A psychiatrist needed a plumber.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Day: A Call to Care
Kathy Kelly | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
December 10th marks the U.N. Human Rights Day, celebrating and upholding the indispensable and crucial declaration of universal human rights. On the eve of this event, I visited a refugee camp housing 700 families in Kabul.
→ read full articleThe 21st Century Cures Act: A Gift to the US Pharmaceutical Industry
Brad Dixon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
12 Dec 2016 – The 21st Century Cures Act is an early Christmas gift from the US Congress to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. The bill guts the regulatory powers of the Food and Drug Administration, weakening the standards used to judge the safety and efficacy of drugs and medical devices. Notably, the bill does nothing to address skyrocketing drug prices.
→ read full articleThis Is What American Fascism Is Going to Look Like
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
“You drop bombs on seven Muslim countries and then you wonder why Muslims are upset. Or you drop bombs on innocent Muslim children with U.S. drones and then you wonder why the gangsters, the fascists that are coming out of the Muslim world, are organizing.”
– Dr Cornel West – in a recent interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!
(Français) « Ce qui a été omis à la mort de Fidel Castro » par Noam Chomsky
Marc De Miramon et Jérôme Skalski | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Le linguiste et philosophe Noam Chomsky, figure majeure du paysage intellectuel états-unien, nous a livré ses réflexions exclusives après la mort de Fidel Castro à l’occasion d’une rencontre dans les locaux de « l’Humanité » et de « l’Humanité Dimanche ».
→ read full articleWalking up a Tower — A Simple Conversation on God, Truth and Knowledge
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Four men had to go to their office on the 20th floor of a tall tower in a big city. When they reached the staircase they were disappointed to see that both the elevators were out of order. What to do?
→ read full articleUS Court Hands Standing Rock another Victory
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Another victory came for demonstrators against the Dakota Access pipeline this Friday [9 Dec] when a federal judge denied the company’s request to force the federal government to approve the controversial 1,172-mile pipeline’s final easement. Resistance won’t stop, and starting Jan. 2, dissatisfied investors will have the option of pulling out of the controversial, money-losing project.
→ read full article(Italiano) Lettera a me stessa di Paola Cattelino
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Lettera a me stessa è un libro necessario. Per i destinatari collettivi. Per NOI che, con l’autrice, “roccia” e cristallo insieme, siamo coinvolti nel difficile, talvolta faticoso, ma irrinunciabile compito di comunicare.
→ read full articleChange of Guard
TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Immortality Revisited: Insanity?
→ read full articleThe Greatest Science Books of 2016
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
From the sound of spacetime to time travel to the microbiome, by way of polar bears, dogs, and trees.
→ read full articleThe Golden Arches Theory of Decline
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Why is there a worldwide revolt against politics as usual? Because corporate globalisation has crushed democratic choice. One of the answers is to rescue democracy from transnational corporations. It is to defend the crucial political unit that’s under assault by banks, monopolies and chainstores: community. It is to recognise that there is no greater hazard to peace between nations than a corporate model which crushes democratic choice.
→ read full articleThe Violent Poet
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
What? Violence and the sweetest of arts cannot be connected in the same breath, can they?
→ read full articleCorporate Media: The Real Fake News Specialists
John Andrews | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016 – A lot has recently been said about “fake” news. Social media and alternative news websites have been especially blamed. But what about our corporate news providers? Consider, for example, a front page story in last week’s Times.
→ read full articleEU Desperate to Raises Taxes Starts Cashless Society Project
Graham Vanbergen | True Publica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
A few months back The Guardian ran an article stating that “Swedes are blazing a trail in Europe, with banks, buses, street vendors and even churches expecting plastic or virtual payment” as if the cashless society was something to be celebrated by modern society.
→ read full articleThe Russians Are Hacking My Poems!!!
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Dah! It’s true!
Every time I come upon
some clever turn-of-phrase,
they’re in my brain,
they’re at my screen—
hacking, hacking, hacking!
Fake News about “Fake News”: The Media Performance Pyramid
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016 – In the wake of Brexit and Trump, “mainstream” media have done the formerly unthinkable by focusing on media bias. The intensity of focus has been such that the Oxford Dictionaries have announced that ‘post-truth’ is their ‘Word of the Year 2016’.
→ read full article(Português) Ser Tímido
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
As pessoas subestimam a timidez quando a relacionam apenas aos aspectos negativos da vida em sociedade. Pessoas tímidas naturalmente ouvem mais e observam mais. Também refletem muito.
→ read full articleFive Years after the Arab Spring: A Critical Evaluation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
A new political geography has emerged in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) after the Arab Spring. The transformative impact of the popular upheavals appeared to put an end to long-term authoritarian regimes. Today, the region is far from stable since authoritarian resilience violently pushed back popular demands for good governance and is pushing to restore former state structures.
→ read full articleMyanmar Must Strengthen Effort to Diffuse Tension in Northern Rakhine State – UN Special Adviser
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
The UN said that authorities need to take proactive measures to protect the local civilian population and allow humanitarian access to the areas of conflict. This call follows last month’s visit by nine local ambassadors, the UN Resident and various UN agencies who voiced their concerns after a trip to the Rakhine state.
→ read full articleLife on Earth Is Dying
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
The human onslaught to destroy life is unprecedented in Earth’s history. Planet Earth is now experiencing its sixth mass extinction event and Homo sapiens sapiens is the cause… One of the hidden tragedies of modern human existence is that we have been terrorized into believing that we are not personally responsible. And every time you decide to do nothing and to leave it to someone else, you demonstrate why no-one else should do anything either.
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The Romanza – Spanish Romance (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Miloš Karadaglić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
The stunning Miloš Karadaglić during a trip to Australia.
→ read full articleAleppo Update: An Inspiring Return to the Oft-Bombed National Museum
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
7 Dec 2016 – Of Syria’s 28 museums, the one that holds the record to date for being the most targeted by rebel bombs, mortars, and snipers is probably the Aleppo National Museum, which was opened in 1931, expanded in 1966 and is located just outside of the boundaries of the Ancient City of Aleppo, a World Heritage property.
→ read full articleIs Peace Possible? A Dialogue with Johan Galtung on Ukraine, Trump, Putin, Gandhi, and…
Dr. Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
I was particularly interested in a statement made by a member of the Trump team about the 200-year relationship between Russia and the United States: the point was made that Russia supported what became the United States, against the French and the English empires. And that was Tsar Alexander I! So, from the beginning of the American War of Independence in Concord, up to the end of it in 1812….
→ read full articleThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
→ read full article(Norsk-Norwegian) Sørkoreansk avhopper: – Vi lurte Nobelkomiteen
Vilde Helljesen | NRK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
4. desember 2016 – I flere år skal det ha pågått en storstilt og velregissert kampanje med ett mål for øye: Å skaffe Nobels fredspris til Sør-Koreas president Kim Dae-jung. Norske samfunnstopper ble brukt som brikker i et spill i jakten på verdens mest prestisjefulle pris, ifølge ny bok basert på sørkoreanske etterretningsdokumenter.
→ read full article(Castellano) Buscando el camino verdadero
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Una de las manifestaciones más sutiles del vínculo íntimo entre las emociones y conductas humanas (inconscientes) se ilustra por el simple concepto de elección y cómo esto se reduce a menudo a una dicotomía entre dos malas opciones. En tales circunstancias, la mayoría de la gente elige lo que consideran ser “el mal menor”.
→ read full articleThe Political Legacy of Fidel Castro
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Castro’s legacy cannot be evaluated solely through the prism of Cuba, but must take into account the impact of his politics internationally and, above all, in Latin America.
→ read full articleThe Misinformation Machine
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Donald Trump’s staff are drawn from an opaque network of corporate-funded thinktanks and fake grassroots campaigns. You cannot confront a power until you know what it is. Our first task in this struggle is to understand what we face. Only then can we work out what to do.
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The Alzheimer’s Laboratory
CBS News | 60 Minutes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
27 Nov 2016 – Colombia is home to the largest concentration of people in the world who carry a rare gene that makes them 100 percent certain to develop Alzheimer’s disease. It strikes when people are in their mid-40s and leads to demise a few decades later–generations on end.
→ read full articleCircle of Poison
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
A look at the powerful pesticide industry, its effect on the developing world and how small farmers are fighting back.
→ read full articleEngaging an Opposing Ideology via Martial Arts Philosophy
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016 – Reframing the Challenge of Trump and Jihadism as Worthy Opponents – Much is now made of the increasing challenge of right-wing populism, especially as it is articulated by unconventional leaders held to have dubious associations with dangerous political strategies.
→ read full articleNonviolence for Brazilians: Suggested Direct Actions
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
As I see and read about the ongoing massive protests, as well as calls by prominent community leaders to mobilize in defense of your country’s democracy, I feel great hope for Brazil. Having been a nonviolent activist for many years, I would like to support Brazilian activists to develop a nonviolent strategy that will increase your chances of success.
→ read full articleThe Arabs Did It
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
When my parents married in Germany, just before World War I, among the gifts was a document attesting that a tree had been planted in their name in Palestine. Popular Jewish humor in Germany at that time had it that “a Zionist is a Jew who wants to take money from another Jew in order to settle a third Jew in Palestine.” My father certainly was not planning to go to Palestine himself.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Dec 5-11 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours.” – Tom Hopkins
→ read full articleA World of Difference
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
It is only in differences, however, that we sense and reach beyond ourselves. In fact, it is the ability to tolerate differences that allows for pacific cohabitation; and it is the ability to celebrate differences that leads to an appreciation of the wonderful joy of the world around us.
→ read full articlePentagon: Looking for a Few Good Hackers
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
The last thing the Pentagon would seem to need is more hackers. But Defense Department officials are inviting them in.
→ read full articleSurvival of the Fittest
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Evolution… ?
→ read full articleThe Treaty of Tlatelolco: Giving Thanks to Our Latin American Neighbors toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Robert F. Dodge, M.D. | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Latin American nations drafted the treaty on Feb 14, 1967 in Mexico City and it went into force on Apr 22, 1968. Today all 33 nations of Latin America and the Caribbean have signed the treaty as part of the 80 million square kilometers of the entire southern hemisphere that is free of nuclear weapons.
→ read full article‘Palestinian Gandhi’ Issa Amro Charged with ‘Hurting a Soldier’s Dignity’
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
24 Nov 2016 – Issa Hamro has done exactly what the political doctor ordered: opposed the Israeli occupation with an absolute commitment to non-violence. No trumped up charges of terrorism can be brought against him. That doesn’t inhibit Israeli authorities from frequently arresting “the Palestinian Gandhi”. His latest trial has just opened.
→ read full articleHaiti 1791: the Cradle of African Nationalism and Internationalism
T.P. Wilkinson | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Recovering the Virtue of Jacobins – Dr. Wilkinson delivered this paper about Haiti to a colloquium commemorating 40 years of study of African literature at the University of Porto, Portugal.
→ read full articleTurkish Realignment: Prospects amid Uncertainty
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
3 Dec 2016 – In recent months the Turkish President, Recep Teyipp Erdoğan, and his principal advisors have not made it a secret that they are reconsidering Turkey’s relations with neighbors, with the countries of the region, and with leading geopolitical actors.
→ 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 articleThe 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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