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Perception of What Happens in Complex Realities
Editorial | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
Societies frequently accept what is harmful, fearful or hindered to address the necessary changes. Concentrated Power manipulates opinions and colonizes minds, formatting subjectivities. Fear of changing, legitimate or induced, facilitates Concentrated Power domination. Lifting the veils and uncovering the deceits create conditions to choose different courses and ways of functioning.
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Fairness, Justice, Solidarity, Not Even Mercy or Compassion?
Editorial | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
18 May 2021 – No person, no economic group, no country could have accumulate so excessively wealth and decisional power just with their own effort. Always, openly or concealed, they have done it taking advantage of other persons, other economic groups, other countries. It is impossible to explain not moderate but enormous inequalities without considering some degree, some modality of appropriating what others had generated.
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(Português) Poder Político versus Poder Financeiro
Editorial | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
16 maio 2021 – O poder financeiro apoderou-se do leme da marcha da humanidade. Ele tem acumulado tanta riqueza e o consequente poder de decisão que somente Black Rock -o maior fundo global de investimentos- qualifica, por tamanho, como terceiro “país” do mundo, apenas atrás dos Estados Unidos e da China. Isto é inaudito e, a na nossa opinião, inaceitável.
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In the Eyes of the Beholder
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
“What are you looking at?”
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Richard Falk’s Autobiography, Memoirs
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
“Public Intellectual is officially published on February 15th. The book (Clarity Press) is 465 pages in length, available in either paperback or Kindle formats, and can be obtained from leading booksellers, including Amazon. It attempts to blend my personal and political engagements in an overall search for why I departed from the worldview and commitments of those with whom I shared a class, ethnic, and educational background in urban USA.” — Prof. Richard Falk
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2021 Doomsday Clock Statement: It Is 100 Seconds to Midnight
John Mecklin | Editor - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
1 Feb 2021
27 Jan 2021 – The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains.
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The Energy Bulletin
Tom Whipple and Steve Andrews | Editors – Post Carbon Institute,
25 Jan 2021
“It may be counterintuitive to say that the oil demand crash and the resulting glut in 2020 could lead to an oil supply crunch in just a few years. Yet, a growing number of experts and international agencies warn that the world could be headed for an oil shortage when oil demand finally recovers from the COVID-inflicted crisis in late 2022 or 2023.”
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Contesting Aspects of COVID-19
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue: The Flip Side of the Discourse/Narrative–not on the streets but confined to human dwellings.
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Christmas Truce of 1914, World War I – For Sharing, For Peace
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Peace at the war front on Christmas day during World War I. A real story. An inspiration. Made in partnership with The Royal British Legion, it commemorates the extraordinary events of Christmas Day, 1914, when the guns fell silent and two armies met in no-man’s land, sharing gifts – and even playing football together.
→ read full articleMy Way… OUT(ch)!
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Parody: When Trump Does Sinatra…
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
The ‘Father of Peace Studies’ completes 90 years of age. At 24, he was jailed for 6 months as a Conscientious Objector in Norway. In jail he wrote, with Arne Næss, his first book: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. Today he has contributed more than 170 books; over 1500 papers, articles and book chapters; and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service on peace and conflict studies, mediation, and related issues.
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
Injustice!
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Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
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(Português) Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Siga tranquilamente por entre a agitação e a pressa e lembre-se da Paz que pode haver no silêncio. Procure, o mais que possa, viver em harmonia com as pessoas ao seu redor, sem abrir mão das suas próprias convicções.
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Press in His Pocket: Bill Gates Buys Media to Control the Messaging
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
3 Sep 2020 – A Columbia Journalism Review expose reveals that, to control global journalism, Bill Gates has steered over $250 million to the BBC, NPR, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National Journal, The Guardian, the New York Times, Univision, Medium, the Financial Times, The Atlantic, the Texas Tribune, Gannett, Washington Monthly, Le Monde, Center for Investigative Reporting, Pulitzer Center, National Press Foundation, International Center for Journalists, and a host of other groups. His press bribes have paid off.
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Three Years since Their Genocide Began, the Rohingya Remain Desperate for Help
Editorial Board | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
13 Aug 2020 – The Rohingya Muslims three years after 750,000 of them were terrorized and torched out of their homes by Myanmar’s security forces and forced into miserable camps in Bangladesh. Using the word ‘genocide’ won’t bring the Rohingya home. But it will serve as a reminder to [Nobel Peace laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi – and to the world – of what happened.
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Write Your Own Caption
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Hear any bells ringing? Or the sand prevents it?
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
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Science Approved, Safe: Buy, Use, Consume It!
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
You probably don’t remember such Marvels of Science…
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COVID-19 and China: Lessons and the Way Forward
Editorial | The Lancet - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
25 Jul 2020 – China has largely controlled COVID-19. A country of 1.4 billion people now reports only clusters of cases rather than widespread community transmission. The rest of the world can still learn from China’s successes in bringing its outbreak under control. Tackling a global health emergency like a pandemic requires open collaboration. The lack of global solidarity to address COVID-19 amid geopolitical instability is a threat to us all.
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Small Talk…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
… Not So Small
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Right, Moral, Ethical… vs Legal
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Rule of law? What law?
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
You the judge…
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Charlie Chaplin’s Famous ‘The Great Dictator’ Speech
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
Inspirational speech given by silent-movies comedian Charlie Chaplin in his celebrated film, The Great Dictator.
→ read full articleAre We Having Fun Yet?
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Click on the link below and join/enjoy the Heavy Duty party…
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Unity in Diversity
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
A Picture Is Worth 8 Billion Words–Or as many God Manifestations
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Remembering Carl Sagan on Earth Day
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
22 Apr 2020 – The excerpt below is from Carl Sagan’s book, Pale Blue Dot, and it was inspired by an image recorded by Voyager-1 on 14 Feb 1990. As the spacecraft was leaving the solar system for its no-return outer-space exploration trip, NASA technicians redirected the camera for a last photo of Planet Earth behind. Voyager was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away when it captured this unique, historical, unflattering portrait of the world. Among light rays from the Sun, our Earth appears as a tiny, almost invisible point of light 0.12 pixel in size in the beam to the right of the frame. The landmark photo was by Sagan’s request.
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(Castellano) La Granja del Dr Frankenstein
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Documentary on the Use of Genetic Engineering in Animals
Documental sobre el Uso de la Ingeniería Genética en Animales
One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution, by Mahboob A. Khawaja, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 12/2019, 537 Pages – While science and technology have advanced immensely human thoughts, pleasure-seeking sports and entertainment, comforts and lifestyles, mankind remains disconnected to the imperatives of its own origins, purpose of life and relationships to the Nature of Things within a splendid Universe.
→ read full articleWhat Goes around Comes around…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
There!
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Nothing will be the same again…
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A New Book on Iran
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
A new book entitled Politics of Oil and Nuclear Technology in Iran has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. In it, Johan Galtung’s version of the Center Periphery model, described in his article entitled “A Structural Theory of Imperialism,” has been used as an analytical framework.
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Civilized, Barbarians, Savages
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.
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Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.
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(Português) Civilizados, Bárbaros e Selvagens
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – Uma civilização ou cultura é definida como o conjunto de costumes, tradições, éticas, valores, língua, música, dança, cozinha, vestuário, religião, e organização social e política de um povo, grupo étnico, tribo, ou nação.
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Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, is currently detained in Belmarsh high-security prison in the United Kingdom and faces extradition to the United States and criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. He risks up to 175 years imprisonment for his part in making public the leak of US military documents from Afghanistan and Iraq, and a trove of US State Department cables.
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World-Wide Journalists Condemn Court Action against Julian Assange
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – 1242 journalists from 99 countries (as of 21 Feb 2020 10:30 a.m. GMT) have released a joint statement today in defence of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, in the lead up to proceedings in a UK court to extradite him to the United States to face the espionage charges. The court case begins on 24 February.
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As Usual, Western Media Grossly Distort Syria’s Conflict
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
21 Feb 2020 – It is by now untenable for Western corporate media to spin the fictional narrative about “moderate rebels” fighting against a “cruel dictatorship”. The dominant component is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly Al Nusra Front, an offshoot of Al Qaeda, like Islamic State. Unable any longer to launder the bloody image of the terrorists and retail them as “moderate rebels”, the mainstream media are now laying on the “humanitarian emotion” as a way to undermine the sovereign right of the Syrian Army to defeat and rid the country of the terror scourge.
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COVID-19: Fighting Panic with Information
Editorial | The Lancet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
22 Feb 2020 – As governments and health officials worldwide grapple with the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, new developments in the accounting of and response to cases are occurring as part of a swiftly evolving crisis… There may be no way to prevent a COVID-19 pandemic in this globalised time, but verified information is the most effective prevention against the disease of panic.
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More Damning Evidence of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Cover-up in Syria
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
14 Feb 2020 – More evidence has emerged to indict the OPCW in carrying out a despicable cover-up in Syria. Even more damning is that the cover-up has been orchestrated in response to pressure from the US and Western allies. This is a grave matter considering the UN-affiliated body is supposed to be a neutral, technical watchdog overseeing the implementation of the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention banning the use of such weapons of mass destruction.
→ read full article2020: Deepening the Clarification
Editorial | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
13 Jan 2020 – Understanding what happens requires passing through information barriers that real power establishes to ignore or obscure facts; they only inform about what is functional to their interests. But that is not enough, we also need to work on our capacity for interpreting what happens because they have colonized our minds brutally, formatting subjectivities to numb and tie down free wills.
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Growth
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
YES!
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Sigh!
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TMS Promotion: We need someone to Double the Donations received in a given period–Please Come Forward!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Let’s talk. Thank you! OUR HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTE TO OUR WORK!
→ read full articleNo Joke
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
YES!
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(Italiano) Immorale il Possesso di Armi Nucleari
Editoriale | Il Foglio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
«L’uso dell’energia atomica per fini di guerra è immorale, come allo stesso modo è immorale il possesso delle armi atomiche, come ho già detto due anni fa. Saremo giudicati per questo dalle nuove generazioni. Come possiamo parlare di pace mentre costruiamo nuove e formidabili armi di guerra? E mentre giustifichiamo determinate azioni illegittime con discorsi di discriminazione e di odio?» — Papa Francesco
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Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
8 Dec 2019 – Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, is currently detained in the UK and faces extradition to the USA and criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. WikiLeaks’ War Diaries provided evidence that the US government committed war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. We, journalists and journalistic organizations around the globe, express our grave concern for Mr Assange’s wellbeing, for his continued detention and for the draconian espionage charges. This case stands at the heart of the principle of free speech and free press.
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NATO Splits Reveal Alliance Is Redundant
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
6 Dec 2019 – The 70th anniversary summit-turned-circus this week would seem to be a portent for NATO’s overdue redundancy.
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Capitalism & Robbery
Editorial | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
1 Dec 2019 – Bloomberg insists that we need to get our priorities straight: the economy comes before the earth, capitalism before nature. Yet, it is clear that we are faced with two irreversible crises: one threatening to destabilize the world capitalist economy, the other promising to destroy the planet as a home to humanity. Both represent the culmination of capitalist contradictions and point to the need to transform society. It is the coevolution of economic and ecological contradictions under global monopoly-finance capital that defines the crisis of our times.
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UN Envoy’s Grim Warning over Assange’s Life in British Prison
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
8 Nov 2019 – A UN expert in torture diagnosis has issued a stark warning that Australian whistleblower Julian Assange is in danger of dying from extreme prison conditions in Britain. It is testimony to the rank hypocrisy of British and American governments that lecture others around the world about democracy, human rights and international law. One can only imagine the hysterical outcry among Western governments and media if somehow Assange was being detained in a Russian, Chinese or Iranian prison.
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Don’t Railroad Julian Assange to Virginia
Consortium News | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
22 Oct 2019 – The WikiLeaks legal team has a strong case to throw out Assange’s extradition request after the government that wants him extradited got hold of surveillance video of his privileged attorney-client conversations.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.
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Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode, Le Déserteur, composed by Boris Vian in 1954. The exquisite artwork is by Xiaonan. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (over 170 books in his 89 years, +++).
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How Many Horrible Leaders!
Opinion Sur | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
How did we get to choose so many mediocre leaders, disoriented, coopted by power, horrible in terms of ethics and their motivations, able in forcing perks for themselves and their own, very far from state-persons orientated towards general wellbeing, environment protection, pacific solutions! Perhaps democracies were born captured by those who kept control over the instruments used for colonizing minds and formatting subjectivities.
→ read full articleWorld Population Growth
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
Eye-opening
→ read full articleAt $716 Billion, the US Military Budget Is Bigger Than Those of 144 Countries Combined and Largest Contributor to Climate Change
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
“State sovereignty is a goner. Bankism and Military Capitalism rule the world in all respects now. Militaries are the ultimate manifestation of direct, structural and cultural violence—a cancer that must be extirpated from humanity.”
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Do You Hear the People Sing? (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
The emblematic song of the movie and musical ‘Les Miserables’ based on the novel by Victor Hugo [with lyrics]
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Nelson Mandela’s Inspirational Message
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
The Simplicity of Wisdom [3 min]
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Conflict Management in Kashmir: State–People Relations and Peace
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
Conflict Management in Kashmir: State–People Relations and Peace, by Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Cambridge University Press – The book examines the intersections of political violence, deprivation and conflict and explores the prospects of conflict management by studying one of the world’s most multifaceted and complex political turmoils – Kashmir.
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“The ‘Enemy of the State’ Speaks–Irreverent Essays and Interviews:” Maung Zarni on Burma/Myanmar
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
“The Enemy of the State” Speaks: Irreverent Essays and Interviews, by Maung Zarni, Gerakbudaya: 2019 – “Maung Zarni speaks truth to power and his words are powerful because they come from his own lived and personal experience.” — Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Peace Activist and Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment
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Reconstructing Nonviolence: A New Theory and Action for a Post-Secular Society
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
Nonviolent methods of action have been a powerful tool since the early 20th century for social protest and revolutionary social and political change, and there is diffuse awareness that nonviolence is an efficient spontaneous choice of movements, individuals, and whole nations. Yet from a conceptual standpoint, nonviolence struggles to engage with key contemporary political issues: the role of religion in a post-secular world; the crisis of democracy; and the use of supposedly ‘nonviolent techniques’ for violent aims.
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US Reprehensibly Inciting New Global Arms Race
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
23 Aug 2019 – Russia and China are right to condemn the testing this week of an INF-busting new ground-based cruise missile off the coast of California under the usual cynical guise of “defense”. It was reportedly a Tomahawk-type nuclear-capable warhead, but the Pentagon said it was conventionally armed.
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Seesaws at Trump’s US-Mexico Border Fence
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Children-teachers Defy Evil-minded Structures and Policies – Seesaw connections installed along the steel border fence between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
→ read full articleWater in Equator
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Very revealing and interesting experiment… In Spanish but Understandable.
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Terrorism American Style
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
The 19-year-old opened fire on innocent people at the outdoor Gilroy Garlic Festival in California on Sun 29 Jul 2019, killing three people and wounding 12 others, according to Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee.
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(Português) 10 Razões para Não Frequentar Touradas
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Por favor, não vá à tourada!
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Scientists Identify Malaria’s Achilles’ Heel
James Ives, Editor | News Medical – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
29 Jun 2019 – Scientists have finally found malaria’s Achilles’ heel, a neurotoxin that isn’t harmful to any living thing except Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria.
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Indian Child Lydian Nadhaswaram Plays the Piano Masterfully (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Word in the streets is that Lydian Nadhaswaram is an incarnation of Chopin… Who am I to judge or contradict? Just enjoy…
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‘Mirthless Laugh’ – The Persecution and Torture of Julian Assange
Editorial | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
11 Jun 2019 – As Melzer says, corporate media have an astonishing power to influence what we think. We are all vulnerable to the impact of numerous, apparently independent and impartial journalists all insisting that Assange is a vile narcissist, that Jeremy Corbyn is a dangerous anti-semite, that Nicolas Maduro is a brutal dictator, that Gaddafi is planning a vast massacre, that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction that pose a genuine threat to the West, that Iran is working on a ‘nuclear trigger’, and so on.
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(Português) Biografia de Fernando Pessoa (13 jun 1888 – 30 nov 1935)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Fernando Pessoa foi um poeta português, um dos mais importantes da língua portuguesa. Foi editor, astrólogo, publicitário, tradutor técnico, jornalista, empresário, crítico literário e crítico político. Nasceu e morreu em Lisboa, Portugal. Ficou órfão de pai aos 5 anos. Sua morte prematura, aos 47 anos, foi consequencia de beber álcool em excesso pois apresentou cirrose hepática.
→ read full articleSharing Efforts with Fair Distribution of Results
Editorial | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
29 Apr 2019 – The outrageous concentration of wealth and the consequent decisional power will blow out of proportion more and more. Neither the fiscal restructuring nor the dismantling of the sovereign over-indebtedness should be charged on the most vulnerable: make the great evaders that flight their ill-gotten capitals cope with it.
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Why Ukraine’s Comedian President Is Likely to Be More Joke than Solution
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
26 Apr 2019 – The ordinary Ukrainian people are so sick and tired of the militaristic nationalism as well as endemic corruption in Kiev that they voted for someone, anyone, who appears slightly more reasonable.
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(Português) Bolsonaro decreta fim das faculdades de Filosofia e Sociologia no Brasil: “Objetivo é focar em áreas que gerem retorno imediato”
Editorial | Revista Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Enquanto os filhos – e ele próprio – são doutrinados pelo “filósofo” Olavo de Carvalho, Bolsonaro decreta fim dos estudos de humanas alegando que a educação deve servir para ensinar “leitura, escrita e a fazer conta e depois um ofício que gere renda para a pessoa”
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The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange and the Corporate Media
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
19 March 2019 – The corporate media is institutionally opposed to the interests of the vast majority of the public; that is why we reject the label ‘mainstream’. The corporate media including BBC News, systematically promotes imperialist and exploitative state interests, together with private power in the form of big business, financial speculation, military forces, the arms industry, the fossil fuel lobby, destructive agribusiness, unsustainable food production and rampant global consumerism that is destroying ecosystems, ramping up mass loss of species and endangering human survival through climate chaos.
→ read full articleVenezuela Blitz (Part 1): Tyrants Don’t Have Free Elections
Editorial | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
5 Feb 2019 – A ‘Propaganda Blitz’ is a fast-moving campaign to persuade the public of the need for ‘action’ or ‘intervention’ furthering elite interests. Affecting great moral outrage, corporate media line up to insist that a watershed moment has arrived – something must be done! A classic propaganda blitz was triggered on January 23, when Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself ‘interim President’.
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Democracy or Extinction
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
22 Jan 2019 – What will it take for governments to take real action on climate? When will they declare an emergency and do what needs to be done? How much concerted, peaceful public action will be required to disrupt the current economic and political system that is driving humanity to the brink of extinction? Meanwhile, climate records continue to tumble. 2018 was the hottest for the world’s oceans since records began in the 1950s, continuing a deeply worrying trend. Moreover, the last five years were the five hottest.
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The Guardian View on Israel’s Democracy: Killing with Impunity, Lying without Consequence?
Editorial – The Guardian,
28 Jan 2019
22 Jan 2019 – In the last nine months of 2018, according to the UN, hundreds of Palestinians – many of them children – were killed and many thousands injured. They included medics and journalists. Most of the dead were unarmed and posed no danger to anyone, with little more than rocks in their hands and slogans on their lips. Yet Israel continued with an immoral and unlawful policy that sees soldiers of its military teargas, shoot and kill protesters, including those who pose no credible threat. Hospitals in Gaza, which already struggle under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade, have been stretched to breaking point in dealing with the flood of patients ferried in from the protests.
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Remembrance – The Dehumanised Human
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
“From infancy, by every possible means–class books, church services, sermons, speeches, books, papers, songs, poetry, monuments– the people are stupefied in one direction: unquestioning patriotism.” — Leo Tolstoy
“The average individual does not permit himself to be aware of thoughts or feelings which are incompatible with the patterns of his culture, and hence he is forced to repress them.” — Erich Fromm
Concentration of Wealth and Decisional Power
Editorial | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
19 Dec 2018 – Among so many questions and circumstances that are intermingled in the world, one of the most significant processes is the concentration of wealth and decisional power. Elitist forces influence in such a way that almost every national economic system and, of course, the global functioning have adjusted, and to a great extent subordinated, to serve the interests of these elites, the dominators of the world and countries’ course.
→ read full articleLimits of Dissent – Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian
Editorial | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
6 Dec 2018 – Even a comparatively honest, Chomskyite journalist like Greenwald is either not willing or not able to tell the whole truth about a paper that has done enormous harm in promoting Perpetual War with endless nonsense about ‘our’ supposed ‘responsibility to protect’ civilians in oil-rich countries like Iraq and Libya. The Guardian has, at last, begun responding to the climate extinction crisis, but it has long downplayed the gravity of the crisis and the truth of corporate denialism, while promoting high status consumerism and fossil fuel advertising.
→ read full articleFrom the Concentration of Wealth and Decisional Power to Full Democracies
The Editors | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
21 Nov 2018 – Humanity is going through a destructive phase of unbridled concentration of wealth and decisional power; its results have been widely identified and denounced. Even though spaces for resistance and transformation desires germinate, it still remains to be seen how large majorities organize to establish new courses and ways of functioning. Will the notion of full democracy be useful?
→ read full articleThe Filter Bubble: Owen Jones and Con Coughlin
Editor | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 – There is something dreamlike about the system of mass communication sometimes described as ‘mainstream media’. Why are defence editors, defence correspondents, diplomatic editors and the like so often biased in favour of the Western defence and diplomatic establishment they are covering? And why are they allowed to demonstrate this bias without anyone so much as commenting? The filter bubble ensures that these questions can never be asked, much less answered.
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Facebook Must Do More to Prevent 21st-Century Genocide
Editorial Board – The Washington Post,
5 Nov 2018
28 Oct 201 – In Myanmar, Facebook is more than a website. For many residents, it is the entire Internet. So when the nation’s military used the site as a conduit for a campaign against Muslims, there were no guardrails to stop the hatred from spreading — except the company itself. The grim reality on the ground in Myanmar, from which more than 700,000 members of the Rohingya minority have now fled, shows Facebook failed.
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Open Cruelty
Editorial |The News [Pakistan] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
4 Nov 2018 – With the Rohingya set to be sent back to the killing fields of Myanmar, it is stunning how little difference a UN declaration that a genocide was committed against them has made. Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start repatriating Rohingya refugees next month. A list of 8,000 Rohingya refugees has been processed by the Myanmar government and their return has been ‘approved’.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.
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Johan Galtung, a Pioneer: Conceptualizing Peace Journalism
Antonio C. S. Rosa, M.A. | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Before the 19th century, we had “disease journalists” who reported in detail how epidemics were spreading and how people suffered. Today we have “health journalists” who write about current research on new cures and therapies, and inform about healthy lifestyles promoting health as a value. Similarly, the time has come for “peace journalists” to write not only about war, but also about its causes, prevention, and ways to restore peace by nonviolent means and promoting peace as a value. They need not invent themselves solutions to conflicts–in the same way that health journalists need not invent cures for diseases themselves; they ask specialists.
→ read full articleNo More Concentration of Wealth and Decisional Power
Opinion Sur | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Some argue that this process is here to stay, as it was believed by those minorities that imposed empires and dictatorships. They forget that history shows the fall and disappearance of practically every system that believed to be permanent. Such could be the destiny of this destructive phase of ruthless financial capitalism.
→ read full article‘The Onion’ Has Chosen to Publish an Anonymous Op-Ed from Two Sources Close to Trump Who Think Their Dad Is the Best President Ever
The Onion | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 – Today, The Onion is making an unusual editorial decision, and we want to explain why. As turmoil continues to increase within the Trump White House, this essay offers an invaluable high-level perspective into the administration’s inner workings. Due to the sensitive nature of this op-ed, revealing the identities of the writers could jeopardize their positions in the administration. We believe, however, that any issues with the writers’ identities or their motivations for writing this piece are overridden by the necessity of informing the public about what it’s like to work for the president. That is why The Onion has chosen to publish an anonymous op-ed from two sources close to Mr. Trump who think their dad is the best president ever.
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Israel’s Dirty Arms Deals with Myanmar
Haaretz | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – A United Nations report issued this week found that the Myanmar military committed genocide and crimes against humanity, including rape, torture, enslavement, violence against children and the destruction of entire villages, against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. Such reports have not kept the Israeli government from cooperating with those war criminals.
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A Journalism of Peace: The Media’s Indispensable Social Function
Editorial – National Catholic Reporter,
20 Aug 2018
16 Aug 2018 – Earlier this year, to mark World Communications Day, Pope Francis issued a stern warning against the dangers of “fake news” and an equally firm endorsement of what he called the “journalism for peace.” Journalism must be “at the service of all, especially those — and they are the majority in our world — who have no voice,” Francis wrote. Journalism of service, he said, explores the underlying causes of conflict so as to contribute to its resolution.
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Blindness, End of Cycle, New Courses
Opinion Sur | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 July, 2018 – Neoliberal domination is approaching the limits of its reproduction. So much has been destroyed with the impious concentration of wealth and decisions that the peoples of the world and the Planet can stand no more. Inequality, poverty, indigence, environmental destruction lead to the implosion of the model of society and world that has been imposed on us.
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A New Data Breach May Have Exposed Personal Information of Almost Every American Adult
Mike Murphy, Editor | Market Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Wired reported Wednesday [27 Jun] that Exactis, a Palm Coast, Fla.-based marketing and data-aggregation company, had exposed a database containing almost 2 terabytes of data, containing nearly 340 million individual records, on a public server. That included records of 230 million consumers and 110 million businesses.
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Why TMS Weekly Digest was delivered 2 days later this week
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
TMS came out late this week for two reasons:
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Kiev Murder Stunt Was Absurd, but Even More So Was Western Media’s Reaction to It
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
1 Jun 2018 – The credibility of the Kiev regime imploded emphatically this week; but so too of Western governments and news media. Western propaganda as peddled by governments, their secret services and dutiful corporate media should be in the spotlight of world scrutiny. Not further perverse allegations against Russia.
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Unearthing Truths: Israel, the Nakba, and the Jewish National Fund
The Editors | Moving Forward Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
The Forward courageously reminds American Jews of the reality of the Nakba, the slogans and symbols of the Jewish project that enabled mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people – and the policies that enable it to continue today. Our hope is that pro-Israel communities will honestly confront the history and the present situation in the land, and move toward justice.
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Too Many Are Looking Away from Burma’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign
Editorial – The Washington Post,
16 Apr 2018
7 Apr 2018 – The situation is deteriorating. Burma has been razing the Rohingya villages, leaving the population stranded in Bangladesh. The coming monsoon season threatens the displaced Rohingya with even more misery in refugee camps. The question must be asked of everyone concerned: What did you do when faced with the horrors of ethnic cleansing in 2018? Too many are looking away.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Media Service Celebrates 10 Years as a Site of Reference in Peace Journalism
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
520 Weeks, 25 thousand Posts, 6 thousand Comments. We are proud of our record: never missed a single week! Prof. Johan Galtung’s first Editorial was on 3 Mar 2008. We are ready to carry on for the next 10—and beyond—in our mission to benefit our beleaguered planet’s humanity, fauna & flora by spreading and disseminating our trade mark: Solutions Oriented PEACE JOURNALISM. Thank you, we are in this together.
→ read full article‘Follow Your Bliss’ – The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism to the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown
Editor | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
‘Forget it. Don’t write for the “mainstream”. Don’t write for money. Don’t write for prestige. Just “follow your bliss” by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.’
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Hiding Evidence of Massacre in Rakhine
Editorial – The Daily Star (Bangladesh),
26 Feb 2018
23 Feb 2018 – The report that Myanmar is ‘bulldozing’ Rohingya mass grave to hide evidence of killing comes as no surprise to us. It is only natural the perpetrators of genocide will try to cover up following the exposés that appeared in the media.
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