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How the US Began Its Empire
Jackson Lears | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Stephen Kinzer, Henry Holt & Co, Jan 2017 – The recovery of civic virtue and the clarification of national interest are urgently necessary goals, and the only way we can hope to achieve them is by reviving the debate over American empire.
→ read full article(Português) Jo Frederiks: Animais Não São Coisas, Não São Nossos Escravos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Jo Frederiks é uma artista australiana que cria desenhos e pinturas para conscientizar as pessoas sobre a crueldade contra os animais na indústria alimentícia, farmacêutica e de entretenimento. “Nosso próprio futuro é baseado em um reflexo de como tratamos nossos companheiros não humanos”.
→ read full articleSymmetry
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
A husband and wife spent their vacation at a lake where he enjoyed fishing.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Vision for the Future Is Terrifying – Doublespeak Abolished
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
15 Feb 2017 – Empirical historical evidence combined with little common-sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual apartheid or ethnic cleansing, or a mix of both.
→ read full articleChina and Trumpism: The Political Contradictions of Global Capitalism
William I. Robinson - teleSUR,
20 Feb 2017
14 Feb 2017 – When China’s richest man, Wang Jianlin, warned last December that a U.S. trade war against China would result in disaster for the United States, it was no idle threat. As U.S. hegemony declines and Chinese hegemony possibly rises, it is clear that the political scaffolding of world capitalism is hopelessly outdated.
→ read full articleOperation Milagro III Update: Day of the Dead Dolphins
Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – February 11th, three days before the international World Love for Dolphin’s Day, Sea Shepherd discovered 14 dolphin corpses floating in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. At least two of them showed signs of a violent death, with net marks on their bodies, stab wounds or fins crudely cut off in order for the fisherman to remove them quickly from their nets.
→ read full articleModernity
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
No Comment
→ read full articleThe Cognitive Bias President Trump Understands Better Than You
Emily Dreyfuss | Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The aberrant occurrence is the story you’ll read and the picture you’ll see. It’s news because it’s new. The problem here is not just that this singling out creates a distorted version of what’s really happening. It’s that the human psyche is predisposed to take an aberration and conflate it with the norm. This cognitive bias itself isn’t new. But in a media environment driven by clicks, where politicians can bypass journalistic filters entirely to deliver themselves straight to citizens, it’s newly exploitable.
→ read full articleThe Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Era un giorno qualsiasi. Intervista a Lorenzo Guadagnucci.
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Storie è la sezione dedicata a cinque narrazioni che invitano a riflettere su violenza e nonviolenza, resistenze, pace e guerre. La proposta è inserita nello spazio Espace memoria, all’Espace Populaire di Aosta (Italy), dove è nato 10 anni il progetto culturale Collettivamente memoria di cui sono ideatrice, conduttrice e quest’anno copromotrice.
→ read full articleIt’s Too Late to Stop the Senseless Capture of Palestinian Land
Sarah Helm – The Guardian,
20 Feb 2017
Spineless world leaders have failed to implement international law, stopping the expansion of Israeli settlements.
→ read full articleOfficial Text: Proclamation of Latin America and Caribbean as a Zone of Peace
CELAC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Original Signed by the Heads of Government and State of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States-CELAC – 29 Jan 2014
→ read full articleWays of Living with ‘Alternative Facts’: An Anecdote
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
This brings me inevitably to Kellyann Conway’s reliance on ‘alternative facts’ to validate the claim that Donald Trump’s inaugural crowd was bigger than that of Barack Obama. She was contesting contrasting pictures shown by CNN and other media outlets in which even the most casual observer could tell that Trumps crowd was by far smaller.
→ read full articleThe Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Muslim Woman
Erin Blakemore - Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb 2017
A little-known fact about Lady Liberty adds an intriguing twist to today’s debate about refugees from the Muslim world: The statue itself was originally intended to represent a female Egyptian peasant as a Colossus of Rhodes for the Industrial Age. That might be surprising to people more familiar with the statue’s French roots than its Arab ones.
→ read full articleWe Need More Leaders like Ayatollah Khamenei in This World
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Leader Khamenei stressed a “dignified” response to threats and bullying. We need more leaders in this world who will stress the importance of “dignity” for the triumph of the human spirit.
→ read full articleSeeding the Future, Seeding Freedom, One Seed at a Time
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
8 Feb 2017 – Humanity stands at an evolutionary crossroad. We can consciously choose the path of Oneness – of our being part of One Planet, One Humanity, living and celebrating our many diversities, interconnected through bonds of compassion, interdependence, and solidarity. Or…
→ read full article(Português) Tratado de Tlatelolco: 50 Anos de Sucesso
Emb. Sergio Duarte e Jenifer Mackby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
No dia 14 de fevereiro de 2017 comemora-se o cinquentenário do Tratado de Proibição de Armas Nucleares na América Latina e Caribe – Tratado de Tlatelolco – que proíbe ensaios, fabricação, uso, produção ou aquisição de armas nucleares. Todos os 33 países da região são Partes desse instrumento.
→ read full article(Français) Trump et l’Amérique Latine
Silvina M. Romano | CELARG – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
10 Fév 2017 – Pendant les jours qui ont précédé l’investiture de Trump, le bruit a couru qu’il avait rencontré « des experts de l’Amérique latine » et qu’à cette occasion, on a parlé de l’Amérique centrale et du Venezuela. Avant d’approfondir sur le contenu de la réunion, il faudrait faire un commentaire sur les « experts » qui ont parlé avec Trump et qui, plus que « des experts de l’Amérique latine » sont des chefs d’entreprises qui se distinguent par leur pragmatisme et ont un parcours dont la légitimité et la légalité sont douteuses.
→ read full articleExclusive: More Than 1,000 Feared Killed in Myanmar Army Crackdown on Rohingya – U.N. Officials
Antoni Slodkowski | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
8 Feb 2017 – “Where are the Men?” More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior UN officials dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death toll has been a far greater than previously reported.
→ read full articleMyanmar Statement by the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
UN Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Report on the Situation in Northern Rakhine State, Myanmar
→ read full articleThe Uncomfortable Truth: Are We Hating Donald Trump for the Wrong Reasons?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Trump may be described with all the demeaning terminology that one’s livid imagination can muster: evil, wicked, tyrannical, misogynist, war-mongering, rich buffoon, ‘insulting our allies’, infatuating with ‘dictators’, etc. But do not miss the point. There is hardly a single bad deed that Trump has carried – or intends to carry out – that does not have roots in another policy championed by previous administrations.
→ read full articleThe Pivot to China
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
13 Feb 2017
Trump may have already understood that a trade war is a lose-lose proposition. In the absence of an Asian economic version of NATO (the dead-in-the water Trans-Pacific Partnership), the emphasis will be on “vigilant” allies/semi-disguised vassals such as Japan, South Korea and Australia. Meantime, Beijing is delivering its strategic vision for a new Pax Sinica.
→ read full articleArmy Veterans Return to Standing Rock to Form a Human Shield against Police
Sam Levin – The Guardian,
13 Feb 2017
A growing group of military veterans are willing to put their bodies between Native American activists and the police trying to remove them.
→ read full articleSocialist Cuba, China Begin New Era of Internationalist Cinema
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
China is currently Cuba’s second largest trading partner after Venezuela, with bilateral trade surpassing US$750 million, according to the Financial Times. China has also exported goods and resources to Cuba that have allowed the socialist island to rehaul its transportation infrastructure, including the addition of energy-efficient public buses that run on electricity.
→ read full articleLand Law Is Final Nail in the Two-State Solution Coffin
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
“The train departing from here has only one stop – at The Hague,” opposition leader Isaac Herzog said in reference to the home of the International Criminal Court. If ICC prosecutors take their duties seriously, the legalisation law significantly raises the pressure on them to put Israeli officials – even Mr Netanyahu – on trial for complicity in the war crime of establishing and nurturing the settlements.
→ read full articleBelow the Surface
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
The Sky is the Limit
→ read full articleDream Theme
Dr. S. K. Jha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
It is not an easy task to delve deep into the unconscious level of the mind to explore about the phenomenon of dreaming except doing on armchair exercise. This author finds it impossible to adopt the experimental statistical method for exploring the theme of dream. He has this way collected some stark facts about the dream phenomenon. They are being enumerated and explained below.
→ read full articleThe Mass Grave We Call Collateral Damage
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
But the politics of our drone assassinations and our air strikes and our wars justify and soften the murders we commit. Even now, as consensus consigns the Iraq war to the status of “mistake,” we still refuse to take official responsibility for its consequences. The shattered country, the dead, the dislocated, the rise of terrorism — come on, cut us a little slack, OK? We were bringing democracy to Iraq.
→ read full articleEU Should Invest in Development, Not Security in Africa
Nassim Majidi and Herve Nicolle – Al Jazeera,
13 Feb 2017
So what is the alternative? It must espouse a transnational approach and lead transformative interventions with a clear development agenda that replaces its current security agenda.
→ read full articleEvolving Democracy
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Imagine a people taking for granted that there are two, only two, sides to any issues; one right, one wrong; if no compromise, fight it out and the victor decides the outcome. That script controls the people. Power to the people sounds fine, but what kind of people?
→ read full articleSchool in an Aleppo Factory: The Occupiers Denied Children Education – Now They Get It
Jan Oberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
With over 2 million citizens, Aleppo used to be the largest city in Syria and a magic meeting point of many cultures, people and activities situated as it were at the famous Silk Road.
→ read full articleThat’s How It Happened
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
The writers, who (I suppose) were born after the events, accuse the Zionists of starting the 1948 war in order to expel the Arab population. Since I took part in the events – I was 24 years old at the time – I feel that it is my duty to describe what really happened, as truthfully as possible. (I have written two books about it, one during the war and one immediately after.)
→ read full articleA Dire Vacuum in a World in Crisis
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
13 Feb 2017
The Geneva Centre for the Advancement of Human Rights and Global Dialogue will launch a new initiative during the current session of the UN Human Rights Council: a panel discussion around the theme “Islam and Christianity, The Great Convergence: Working jointly towards equal citizenship.”
→ read full articleIndians? Witches? Natives? Jews? Islamists? ETs?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Eradication as Genocide — Now And Then?
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Feb 13-19 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
→ read full articleTruthful
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
An applicant was filling out a job application.
→ read full articleColombian Companies Charged with Crimes against Humanity
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
For the first time, private companies were charged with crimes against humanity as part of the transitional justice system.
→ read full article(Português) Trump viola a primeira virtude da sociedade mundial
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Para o filósofo Imanuel Kant, a hospitalidade (usa a expressão latina “die Hospitalität) é a primeira virtude desta república mundial, porque, “todos os humanos estão sobre a Terra e todos, sem exceção, têm o direito de estar nela e visitar seus lugares e povos; a Terra pertence comunitariamente a todos”. A hospitalidade é um direito e um dever de todos.
→ read full article(Português) Ovos livres de gaiolas são uma falácia, não existem ovos éticos
Chas Newkey-Burden -- Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais-ANDA,
13 Feb 2017
Enquanto se matam 22 milhões de animais diariamente apenas no Reino Unido, há pessoas que usam palavras inventivas para esconder a verdade do consumidor. Entre todas as enganações, o ovo “livres de gaiolas” é talvez a mais audaciosa. Você precisa ter uma imaginação no nível da Disney para acreditar que o RU pode produzir mais de 10 bilhões de ovos por ano sem explorar galinhas.
→ read full articleFreedom of Dual Dignity (Tanka)
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
On a regal stage
We revel freedom yearly
Who Are They, Anyway? Finally Meeting the Strangers in Our Own Land
Libby and Len Traubman | Turning Point – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
In our related personal experiences of peacebuilding in the Middle East and in Nigeria, the people ask about Islamic State and Boko Haram: “Who are they, anyway?” And so it is today, in divided America and around Earth; walled-off individuals largely fearful and ignorant of unknown others, strangers to one another.
→ read full article(Português) Considerações sobre a vida não humana
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Como podemos subestimar o sofrimento de um animal reduzido à comida, quando nós mesmos não estamos na mesma situação que eles? Não se pode menosprezar o sentimento de um animal diante do abate, a não ser que tenhas sentido na pele o desespero da iminência do canibalismo ou de ser morto para tornar-se comida para ser d’outra espécie.
→ read full articleKuan Yin: Goddess of Compassion and Harmony
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
19 February, in countries influenced by Chinese culture, is a day devoted to honoring Kuan Yin, goddess of compassion, “she who hears the cries of the world and restores harmony.” She is a goddess for the Taoists and a bodhisattva for the Buddhists, but she represents the same values of compassion for both faiths.
→ read full articleWorld Love for Dolphins Day 2017
Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Join Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Supporters Worldwide for World Love for Dolphins Day on February 14, 2017
→ read full articleTo Bee, or Not To Bee: Will Bumblebees Become Extinct?
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Widely used pesticides and insecticides, climate change, and introduced species are factors for bumblebees as well as other species of bees being endangered.
→ read full articleEarth, You Were for Me Prison and Paradise
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Earth, you were for me prison and paradise.
Here I met your scarlet balmy morns,
Is America’s Most Common Pesticide Responsible for Killing Our Bees?
Alison Moodie – The Guardian,
13 Feb 2017
A growing body of evidence suggests neonics threaten the health of honey bees. But some argue there’s not enough evidence to justify an outright ban.
→ read full articleTreaty of Tlatelolco: Fifty Years of Success
Amb. Sergio Duarte and Jenifer Mackby – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
On February 14, 2017 the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean – Treaty of Tlatelolco – will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The Treaty prohibits the testing, use, manufacture, production or acquisition of nuclear weapons. All 33 countries in the region are party to it.
→ read full articleRecord High Fatal Radiation Levels, Hole in Reactor Detected at Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Facility
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017 – Record high radiation levels that are lethal even after brief exposure have been detected at a damaged reactor at the Fukushima power plant in Japan. Specialists also found a hole, likely caused by melted nuclear fuel.
→ read full article
Radetzky March (Music Video of the Week)
Johann Strauß | Maris Jansons, conductor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
ENG: New Year’s Concert Vienna 2016, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Musikverein Viena.
CAST: Orquesta Filarmónica de Viena en la interpretación de la tradicional Marcha Radetzky, de Johann Strauss, dirigida este año por Mariss Jansons en a Sala Dorada de la Musikverein de Viena. 1 jan 2016
The Joy of Suffering Overcome: Young Beethoven’s Stirring Letter to His Brothers About the Loneliness of Living with Deafness and How Music Saved His Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?”
→ read full articleIsrael Rejoices in Unbridled Colony Expansion amid Trump’s Havoc
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
7 Feb 2017 – Within days of Donald Trump being sworn in, the Israeli government announced the approval of around 2,500 new housing units. Within the first two weeks of Trump’s presidency, the number of new housing units, all to be built illegally on Palestinian land, was raised to 5,500, including the first brand-new government-sanctioned colony in years.
→ read full articleTo Young Americans of Syrian Origin
Kahlil Gibran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran wrote this poem to fellow Arab Americans , the majority of whom came from “Greater Syria” in Gibran’s time, comprising of today’s Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. Those timeless words in the inaugural issue of The Syrian World in 1926 couldn’t ring truer almost a century later.
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza, guerra: una causa o un sintomo?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Conferimento della laurea Honoris Causa, Universidad Madrid Complutense, 27 gennaio 2017 – Per esperienza famigliare avevo qualche nozione di medicina ed ero rimasto colpito dalla feconda distinzione fra causa e sintomo. Il sintomo è alla superficie del corpo, come la febbre; ma la causa prima è più in profondità, dentro, una sepsi. Un’acquisizione importante.
→ read full articleNonviolent Economy
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Let us start with “economy”, here conceived of as a cycle with three poles: Nature, Production, Consumption. And three processes: Extraction from Nature, Distribution from Production to Consumption, and Pollution from Production-Consumption back to Nature. The cycle flow is in that order: Nature → Production → Consumption → Nature.
→ read full articleWhy Do People Revolt?
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
India experienced two unprecedented and totally unexpected, mostly leaderless mass uprisings of the middleclass in the recent past. The latest, the so-called ‘jallikattu’ protest of the students of Tamil Nadu has just ended. The previous one was nominally led by Anna Hazare, a Gandhian ex-serviceman, and roused the people of Delhi and its environs against rampant and open corruption in government circles.
→ read full article(Italiano) Donald Trump, il Presidente si è insediato
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
E la prima domanda al 45° presidente USA: ha intenzione di ammazzare, in territorio straniero? Il suo predecessore Obama ha seguito la tradizione USA, che dalla seconda guerra mondiale ha causato la morte di più di 20 milioni di persone in 37 paesi, facendo uso di bombe e droni. Pare che i suoi Reparti Speciali abbiano provocato morti ammazzati in 138 paesi. O farà l’America Più Grande interrompendo questa tradizione morbosa?
→ read full articlePolice, National Guard Raid Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp, Arrest 76
Shelley Connor | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
With assistance from the National Guard, police raided a protest camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota near the Dakota Access pipeline site on Feb 1, evicting and arresting seventy-six protesters opposed to the completion of the pipeline.
→ read full articleDoes PEACE JOURNALISM Help…
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
The Checklist is open-ended… far from complete.
→ read full articleIn Pursuit of Peace: The Cosmic Nature of Our Inner and Outer Journey
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
To understand and to accept the mystery that life and death are one can only enrich our life, and can only promote a greater sense of responsibility to promote life. This is spiritual foundation for living amidst the trials we face as individuals, societies, and nations. It calls upon us to grasp and accept the realities of our existence as the stuff of stars, and to live according to the principles of life inherent in our creation. Let us embrace the reality that I/we/life and the universe are one!
→ read full articleBREAKING: Radiation at Fukushima Spikes to Highest Levels Since 2011
Whitney Webb | True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
4 Feb 2017 – Operators of the Fukushima nuclear power plant have identified a gaping hole in a reactor containment vessel, which has resulted in a drastic spike in radiation levels.
→ read full articleBurma Loses a Key Voice for Tolerance
Linda Lakhdhir | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Murder of U Ko Ni Undermines Fight for an Inclusive Country
→ read full articleManaging National Borders ‘Cannot Be Based on Any Form of Discrimination’ – UN Chief Guterres
UN News Centre | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Refugees fleeing conflict and persecution are entitled to protection, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on 31 Jan 2017, expressing concern at decisions around the world that have undermined the integrity of the international refugee protection regime.
→ read full articleEmpowering Ineffectual Outrage with the Strategically Outrageous
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Beyond Reactive Protest, Demonstration and Resistance – From a strategic perspective, the current situation calls for careful attention to the relation between “outrage” and the “outrageous”. Most obviously, the comments and actions of Donald Trump are widely considered “outrageous”. They have evoked “outrage” on the part of those opposed to their implications.
→ read full articleIsraeli Forces Raid Palestinian-owned Publishing House
International Middle East Media Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
30 Jan 2017 – Israeli forces raided a Palestinian publishing house in the West Bank district of Ramallah and seized equipment. In six months, Israeli forces have raided seven Palestinian-owned publishing houses.
→ read full articleWho Supplies the News?
Patrick Cockburn | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Misreporting in Syria and Iraq – The nadir of Western media coverage.
→ read full articlePutting the Last First
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Handing the Poor the Reins of Development
→ read full articleKenyans Turn to Wild Fruits and Insects as Drought Looms
Miriam Gathigah – Inter Press Service-IPS,
6 Feb 2017
Too hungry to play, hundreds of starving children sit by the fire, watching the pot boil, in the hope that it is only a matter of minutes before their next meal. Unbeknownst to them, the food cooking inside the pot is actually a toxic combination of wild fruits and tubers mixed with dirty water, as surrounding rivers have all run dry.
→ read full articleThe History of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Invented the Mathematical Concept of Naught and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
“If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.” –Mathematician Robert Kaplan. If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to foreign travelers, we would have no medicine, no astronomy, and no mathematics — at least not as we know them today.
→ read full articleRespect the Green Line!
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
We did not declare a boycott on Israel. And not only because it is rather awkward to boycott oneself. The main object of our boycott was to teach Israelis to differentiate between themselves and the settlements. We published and distributed many thousand copies of the list of companies located and products produced outside the Green Line. Many people are upholding the boycott.
→ read full articleAngelina Jolie: Refugee Policy Should Be Based on Facts, Not Fear
Angelina Jolie – The New York Times,
6 Feb 2017
2 Feb 2017 – Refugees are men, women and children caught in the fury of war, or the cross hairs of persecution. Far from being terrorists, they are often the victims of terrorism themselves. I’m proud of our country’s history of giving shelter to the most vulnerable people. Americans have shed blood to defend the idea that human rights transcend culture, geography, ethnicity and religion.
→ read full article(Português) Experimento com vácuo quântico pára o tempo e muda definição da luz
Inovação Tecnológica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
O experimento coloca em questão a própria definição do que é a luz, ou o fóton, a menor “partícula” de luz.
→ read full articleAdlai Stevenson (5 Feb 1900 – 14 Jul 1965): Reducing Strife without Eliminating Variety
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
At a time when the narrow nationalism of Donald Trump, expressed in semi-literate style, fills the US media, we can only look back in sadness at the internationalism expressed in an elegant and humorous way by Adlai Stevenson. He was among those who prepared the conference to write the UN Charter during 1944-1945 and later from 1961 to 1965 was the US Ambassador to the United Nations.
→ read full articleCarnivores
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
RIP Cat Food
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Killing Me Softly With His Song (Music Video of the Week)
Roberta Flack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
This song is about Don McLean’s big hit, American Pie–The Day the Music Died.
→ read full article(Italiano) Che Cosa È la Non Violenza Cristiana: Tre Punti Cruciali
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
E’ con gioia allora che noi cristiani cattolici accogliamo il metodo non violento, di cui in Italia ha dato un luminoso esempio il vescovo don Tonino Bello, già presidente di Pax Christi. Quel metodo ci riporta alla caratteristica del nostro cristianesimo, l’amore per i nemici.
→ read full articleInside a Settler-Run Tour of an East Jerusalem Tourist Trap
Matt Broomfield | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Visitors to so-called City of David treated to highly selective, ethnocentric version of history.
→ read full articleKahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders
Magda Abu-Fadil – The Huffington Post,
6 Feb 2017
22 Jan 2017 – In an age of rising populism, fear and xenophobia, what better time to read a rich enlightening book on love, multiculturalism, inspiration and beauty chronicling the life and work of a man who transcends borders and generations.
→ read full articleRuling by Chaos
Jill Richardson | OtherWords – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Trump’s made so many orders — on the environment and everything else — that it’s hard to keep track, much less resist. That’s the point.
→ read full article(Castellano) Madrid dice adiós a los circos con animales
AnimaNaturalis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
1 Feb 2017 – El Pleno Municipal del Ayuntamiento de Madrid celebrado hoy ha aprobado por mayoría el fin de los circos con animales salvajes en la capital de España.
→ read full article(Português) “Se os matadouros tivessem paredes de vidro, todos seriam vegetarianos”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
“Se os matadouros tivessem paredes de vidro, todos seriam vegetarianos” se tornou uma das citações mais populares entre vegetarianos e veganos desde 2009. A frase foi dita pelo compositor britânico Paul McCartney no documentário Glass Walls (Paredes de Vidro), apresentado voluntariamente por ele em uma produção da organização Pessoas pelo Tratamento Ético dos Animais (Peta).
→ read full articleSymbolic Seduction: Women’s Rights, Partisan Politics, Ethnocentrism and “American Narcissism”
Edward Curtin | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017 – In 1929, Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, U.S./CIA war and coup propagandist, and the founder of public relations, conducted a successful mind-manipulation experiment for the tobacco industry. In those days there was a taboo against women smoking in public, and Bernays was hired to change that.
→ read full articleIn Memoriam: Glenn Paige
Kinhide Mushakoji – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
29 Jan 2017 – I wish also to add to others who knew well Glenn my own tribute to him, as an old friend of his (old also biologically since I am also born in 1929). I met him first in 1961 when I was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center of International Studies in Princeton.
→ read full articleThe Anti-Empire Report #148
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
“Since Yalta, we have a long list of times we’ve tried to engage positively with Russia. We have a relatively short list of successes in that regard.” – General James Mattis, the new Secretary of Defense. If anyone knows where to find this long list please send me a copy.
→ read full articleThe PolyMet Project and the Lethal Risks to the St Louis River Watershed and Lake Superior
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
It’s an Acceptable Risk for Foreign Investors to Take but What about Us? “ALL tailings “ponds” are a problem. If they don’t breach and spill massive amounts of toxic sludge into the environment like at Mount Polley, they leach that contamination slowly, poisoning the waters and lands around them.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Haiku for Nanni (Salio): 4 febbraio 2017
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
A little tribute for Nanni – GRAZIE NANNI!
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Feb 6-12 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Real love you feel it, you see it, you show it! But fake love is just words…” – Unknown
→ read full articleUN Report Details ‘Devastating Cruelty’ Against Rohingya Population in Myanmar’s Rakhine Province
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017 – In a report issued today, the United Nations human rights arm said that the widespread human rights violations against the Rohingya population by Myanmar’s security forces in the country’s northern Rakhine state indicate the very likely commission of crimes against humanity.
→ read full article(Português) Eutanásia, ou a prática de ajudar os enfermos a bem morrer?
Paulo Mendes Pinto | Visão – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Há que debater, finalmente, numa sociedade que se afastou da morte, esse lugar-comum que é aquilo para que todos caminhamos.
→ read full articleAlfred Adler (7 Feb 1870 – 28 May 1937): Power and Social Feeling
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Alfred Adler, a Vienna psychotherapist and medical doctor, was part of the early circle of Sigmund Freud. However, the two men disagreed on what each felt to be fundamental positions. In 1911, Adler left the Freud circle and founded his own approach, which he called “individual psychology”. For Adler, there are similarities between the evolution of man within history and the evolution of each individual.
→ read full articleWhy Mass Disruption, Civil Unrest Works
David S. Cohen – Rolling Stone Magazine,
6 Feb 2017
Outrage over abandonment of American values, coupled with judicial action, can deliver a powerful one-two punch.
→ read full article(Português) Palestina: Comunidades beduínas sofrem com despejo e violência em Israel
Júlia Dolce e Victor Labaki - Brasil de Fato e Revista Fórum,
6 Feb 2017
31 de Janeiro de 2017 – O último fim de semana foi novamente de tensão para famílias palestinas, da vila beduína de Umm Al Hiran, que tiveram suas casas destruídas no início deste ano pelo governo de Israel. No domingo (29), enquanto a reportagem estava no local, aproximadamente 12 viaturas da polícia israelense chegaram à vila para dar mais uma ordem de despejo aos moradores.
→ read full articleThe Urgency of Slowing Down
Kazu Haga | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech in Harlem’s Riverside Church. In it, he spoke of being confronted with “the fierce urgency of now.” We need to act, but addressing this crucial moment cannot come at the expense of strategy, process, intention and remembering to slow down enough to breathe.
→ read full articleUkraine: Still Divided and Tense
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
4 Feb 2017 – The start of 2017 has seen an increase in military action and tensions in the separatist areas of Ukraine, especially in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and around the city of Avdiyivka. Those of us outside the Ukraine must help facilitate discussions of national governmental structures for the Ukraine and regional security cooperation so that common interests may be found and current tensions reduced.
→ read full articleThe Great Tree: 3200 Years in One Photo…
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Because of its unbelievable size, this tree has never been photographed in its entirety, until now. National Geographic photographers have worked along with scientists to try and create the first photo that shows the President in all its glory.
→ read full articleDetrimental Effects of New Executive Order on Syrian-American Physicians
Syrian American Medical Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
31 Jan 2017 – The Syrian American Medical Society-SAMS is deeply concerned that the Executive Order signed last week might compromise the ability to provide critical humanitarian and medical relief overseas, and could limit the education and professional careers of many aspiring Syrian students and physicians. There are currently more than 5,000 Syrian-American physicians working across the U.S., including about 1,000 SAMS members.
→ read full articleEurope Should Act Fast to Preserve the Iran Nuclear Deal
Ellie Geranmayeh – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
6 Feb 2017
The Trump administration’s evolving policy on Iran has become a source of concern across the Atlantic. And that was even before National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s declaration on Wednesday [1 Feb] that the United States was “putting Iran on notice.”
→ read full articleWant to Prevent Stroke, Diabetes, Cancer? Get Moving… Now!
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
6 Feb 2017
2 Feb 2017 – Tired, lazy, bored, laying down long hours watching TV or seated checking your email? Wrong. And dangerous: not enough exercise contributes to cancer, diabetes, depression and other non-communicable diseases.
→ read full articleReality: Humanity Can’t Indefinitely Avoid Using Nuclear Weapons
Mustafa Kibaroglu – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
6 Feb 2017
Even “realists” ought to realize that most leaders controlling nuclear weapons today can’t necessarily be trusted to behave rationally. The second round closes in our debate over a UN committee’s resolution that would mandate negotiations toward a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleGive me your tired, your poor…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
You Are Fired!
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