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President Kong
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
28 Jan 2017 – I knew he reminded me of somebody, but I couldn’t quite place it. Who was it who pounded his chest with such vigor? It was the hero of a movie that was produced when I was 10 years old: King Kong, the giant primate with the heart of gold, who scaled huge buildings and downed airplanes with his little finger. Wow. President Kong, the mightiest being on earth.
→ read full article(Français) Israël. Des colonies et des armes pour le Myanmar
John Brown | A l’encontre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
26 janvier 2017- Les dirigeants de l’armée du Myanmar se sont livrés à une frénésie d’achats auprès des industries israéliennes d’armement. Ils ont même rencontré le président et le chef d’Etat-major israéliens. Malgré les crimes de guerre qui sont commis par ce pays du Sud-Est asiatique, Israël continue à maintenir d’importants liens avec lui dans le domaine dit de la «sécurité».
→ read full articleLove and Economics
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
A common definition of money is that it is a store of value. But human beings value many things, principles, attitudes, beliefs, emotions, which are incommensurable. Some of the most basic human actions fall into this category – a mother’s love, a teacher’s guiding hand, a friend’s support, or even one’s own sense of beauty or duty.
→ read full articleA View from My Window — Observing Novelty, Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
27 Jan 2017 – I live in a locality of Delhi that is teeming with life of all types. One can get a glimpse of this activity both by coming out on the street or even looking at the sights from my window. The activity never ceases.
→ read full articleBuild the Wall — Move the UN HQ?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
United Nations Principles Are Not Consistent with “America First”
→ read full articleThe Muse Is My Eternal Life
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The Muse is my eternal life,
She is my love, my hope, my fire,
A Valiant Verbal Warrior Demythologizes the CIA
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Like Odysseus, Douglas Valentine is a wily warrior who managed to enter the enemy’s stronghold disguised as a gift. Not Troy, and not within a wooden horse, but in the guise of a nice young “Nobody,” he was able, thirty or so years ago, to breach the walls of the CIA through William Colby, a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
→ read full articleTrump’s Muslim Ban Emboldens Myanmar Racists: Suu Kyi’s Sole Muslim Adviser Shot Dead Upon Return from Jakarta
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
29 Jan 2017 – Shooting U Ko Ni dead in the head at a high profile place like Yangon Airport, upon arrival from the official visit to Jakarta to go and study peaceful, interfaith life in Indonesia, was, in my view, to make the point that Muslims assuming advisory positions to NLD and ASSK would cost life.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Jan 30-Feb 5 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
“All human beings are members of one frame,
Since all, at first, from the same essence came.
When time afflicts a limb with pain
The other limbs at rest cannot remain
If thou feel not for other’s misery
All human being is no name for thee.”
— Saadi Shirazi
American Pie – The Day the Music Died (Music Video of the Week)
Don McLean – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
1972 Immortal Classic. After composing this tribute song Don McLean gave up Rock ’n’ Roll. The plane crash that changed the 60’s music.
→ read full articleIndia Fails the Leprosy Test
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The World Health Organization reported that in 2015 India accounted for 212,000, or 60%, of all the new cases of leprosy worldwide. As the WHO has pointed out, medicines and treatments are available to eradicate this ancient dreadful disease, but political will has been lacking for a very long time.
→ read full articleParis and the End to a Western-dominated Era in the Middle East
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
25 Jan 2017 – No, it was not just ‘another Middle East peace conference,’ as a columnist in Israeli ‘Jerusalem Post’ attempted to depict the Paris Peace Conference held on January 15, with top official representations from 70 countries attending. No, it was an end of an era. The American era in the Middle East.
→ read full articleIs Violence-War a Cause or a Symptom?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Receiving Dr Honoris Causa, Universidad Madrid Complutense, 27 Jan 2017 – From my family I knew a little about health studies and had been struck by the fruitful distinction between cause and symptom. The symptom is on the surface of the body, like fever; but the root cause is deeper down, inside, a sepsis. A major breakthrough.
→ read full articleHow NATO Is Becoming a Threat to Europe
Harry Blain | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Sometimes, Europe marches to catastrophe; often, it stumbles there.
→ read full articleRest in Peace Prof. Glenn Paige (1929 – 2017): Pioneer of Nonkilling and Peace Researcher
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
I am very sorry to hear of the death of my good friend Prof. Glenn Paige, who passed away on Sunday 22 January, 2017. Glenn was 87 years of age and he died at the end of a struggling illness during which he was nursed by his wonderful partner, and co peacemaker, Glenda Paige.
→ read full articleAll about That Democratic Base
Gorge Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Our democracies are broken, debased and distrusted. Here are some ideas for restoring them.
→ read full articleJoint IOM-UNHCR Statement on President Trump’s Refugee Order
UNHCR UN Refugee Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
GENEVA, 28 Jan 2017 – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration believe that refugees should receive equal treatment for protection and assistance, and opportunities for resettlement, regardless of their religion, nationality or race.
→ read full articleDoomsday Clock Moves Ahead: It Is Now Two and a Half Minutes to Midnight
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
26 Jan 2017 – It is now two and a half minutes to midnight. For the first time in the 70-year history of the Doomsday Clock, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board has moved the hands of the iconic clock 30 seconds closer to midnight. In another first, the Board has decided to act, in part, based on the words of a single person: Donald Trump, the new President of the United States.
→ read full article(Português) Jorge Luis Borges: “Comecei a perder a vista desde o momento em que comecei a enxergar”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
“Uma das primeiras cores que se perde é o negro. Perde-se a escuridão e o vermelho também. Vivo no centro de uma indefinida neblina luminosa. Mas não estou nunca na escuridão. Neste momento esta neblina não sei se é azulada, acinzentada ou rosada, mas luminosa.
→ read full articleThe Media Is Now the Political Opposition
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
By taking the role of the political opposition to Trump, the media has discredited itself as an honest critic on topics where Trump needs criticism, such as the environment and his tolerance of oppressive methods used by police. The presstitutes have ended all chance of improving Trump’s performance with reports and criticism. Trump needs moderating on the environment, on the police, and on the war on terror.
→ read full articleIndividual Responsibility
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
20 Jan 2017 – There are many governments today that can be described unjust, and some that even deserve to be called fascist. What is the duty of the individual citizen, living under such a government?
→ read full articleMark Zuckerberg Is Suing to Force Native Hawaiians off Their Ancestral Land to Build an Island Resort
Nathan Wellman | US Uncut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
19 Jan 2017 – Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg ended 2016 by suing hundreds of people native to Hawaii, apparently so that he can have 700 acres of land all to himself. Those named by the lawsuit filed on December 30th were given 20 days to respond, or else forfeit all claims to the property.
→ read full articleMexico Wall: Gaza Redux?
António Gaspar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Déjà Vu All Over Again?
→ read full articleJohns Hopkins’ Top Psychotherapist Releases Terrifying Diagnosis of President Trump
Olive Murphy | Bipartisan Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Malignant narcissists are determined to gratify their wishes and furious if thwarted. Their desire can be so consuming that there is little comprehension of, respect for or ability to empathize with the other. They lack guilt or remorse and tend to feel or pronounce that it is they who have been mistreated. They can be of any gender, race or social class.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Nominations NEW DEADLINE: 31 JANUARY 2017
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
New deadline: Please nominate by Jan. 31, 2017, 12 p.m. CET (Norwegian time). Please also, send us a copy, to nomination copy@nobelwill.org of all nominations suited you believe may be suited for inclusion in our 2017 list.
Nobel Committee postmaster@nobel.no
→ read full article[Obscene, Pornographic] World’s Richest 8–All Men–as Wealthy as Half of Humanity: Oxfam
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The world will have its first trillionaire in only 25 years, the organization found. Just eight individuals, all men, own as much wealth as half of the world’s population, Oxfam said Sunday [15 Jan] night, slamming the rich for fueling global inequality by dodging taxes, driving down wages and using their power to influence politics.
→ read full articleNAPF: To Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
The statement below was drafted and endorsed by participants in a symposium held in Santa Barbara, CA in October 2016 under the auspices of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
→ read full articleDonald Trump Inaugurated as President
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
And the first question to the 45th US president: Will you kill, abroad? Predecessor Obama was in the US tradition that killed more than 20 million in 37 countries since WWII, bombing and droning. His Special Forces seem to have killed in 138 countries. Make America Greater by breaking this morbid tradition?
→ read full articleAmericans Claim Role in Yeltsin’s Russian Elections Win
Eleanor Randolph - Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan 2017
Consultants say they spent months in Moscow secretly devising U.S.-style strategy.
→ read full articleAn Economy for the 99%
Oxfam - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
January 2017 Oxfam Briefing Paper – It‟s time to build a human economy that benefits everyone, not just the privileged few.
→ read full article(Italiano) Economia mondiale ed economisti nel 2017
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
In questa rubrica si è sostenuta l’Elevazione dei ceti più marginali come approccio economico valido in ogni circostanza, per mitigare qualunque sofferenza e per indurne l’ingresso nell’economia come produttori e consumatori, non come “casi anomali”.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
“Coca-koloniseringens död-La morte della Colonizzazione-Coca”, la supposizione che nei paesi dove esistono Coca Cola, McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken e CNN, i valori democratici USA rimuoverebbero qualsiasi proposito di guerra. Quella teoria era un’idiozia. Il paese in cui tutte e quattro quelle aziende sono maggiormente presenti, gli USA, è il più guerrafondaio.
→ read full article(Italiano) Vecchi auspici per il Nuovo Anno, a destra e a manca
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Papa Francesco ha fatto un giro d’orizzonte per tutti i continenti, con una vibrata denuncia della violenza e per la sua alternativa preferita: il negoziato. Molta violenza è imitativa, in un modo o nell’altro, essendo alla moda. Copiare – ossia imparare – non è sbagliato. ma dipende da quel che si copia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Sguardi italiani su… l’Etiopia
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
23 Jan 2017
Un po’ di storia. La guerra d’Etiopia, nota anche come campagna d’Etiopia o guerra d’Abissinia, fu condotta dal Regno d’Italia contro l’Impero d’Etiopia a partire dal 3 ottobre 1935, e si concluse dopo sette mesi di combattimenti con l’invasione totale del territorio etiope e con l’assunzione della corona imperiale da parte di Vittorio Emanuele III.
→ read full article97% of Endangered Species Threatened by Two Common Pesticides
EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
The EPA released its first rigorous nationwide analysis Wednesday [18 Jan] of the effects of pesticides on endangered species, finding that 97 percent of the more than 1,800 animals and plants protected under the Endangered Species Act are likely to be harmed by malathion and chlorpyrifos, two commonly used pesticides. Another 78 percent are likely to be hurt by the pesticide diazinon. The World Health Organization last year announced that malathion and diazinon are probable carcinogens.
→ read full articleRelevance of Gandhi’s Holistic Approach for a Just and Harmonious World
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Gandhi who was killed in 1948 is relevant even today for his holistic approach in promoting a just economic and political system, skill based education and an environmentally friendly system for preserving nature and not over exploiting our earth. Talking of Gandhi, Albert Einstein said that future generations will hardly believe that such a man ever walked on this earth.
→ read full article(Português) Quem matou quem?
Por Carol Zerbato - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
23 Jan 2017
16 de janeiro de 2017 – Morre orca que matou a própria treinadora. Morre baleia assassina que matou treinadora em 2010. Morre Tilikum, a verdadeira orca assassina. Foram essas as repetidas manchetes – não só no Brasil, mas pelo mundo – sobre a morte de Tilikum, orca mantida em cativeiro pelo SeaWorld por mais de 25 anos.
→ read full article(Português) Pawel Kuczynski, um cartunista que desperta reflexões sobre a exploração animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
O artista gráfico e cartunista Pawel Kuczynski vive no Noroeste da Polônia. Lá, ele produz desenhos que despertam a atenção para temas como exploração animal, ecologia, política, pobreza, fome, ganância, novas tecnologias e vício em internet. “Nossa realidade é triste e, como consequência, meu senso de humor é mórbido”.
→ read full article(Português) O colossal saque dos europeus aos bens da América indígena: A base do capitalismo
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
17 Jan 2017 – A 26 de julho de 2013 Evo Morales Ayma, presidente do estado plurinacional da Bolívia pronunciou um discurso estarrecedor diante dos poderosos europeus, chefes de Estado e dignatários da Comunidade Européia e outros sobre a dívida que eles, os europeus, contrairam sem nunca terem pago um centavo sequer com a América indígena mediante um espantoso saque de sua riqueza:185 mil quilos de ouro e 16 milhões de quilos de prata entre os anos 1503-1600.
→ read full articleInequality (I): Half of World’s Wealth in the Pockets of These Eight Men
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 Jan 2017
Article I of a three-part series focuses on the alarmingly deepening inequality. Part II deals with the staggering impact of inequality on women, and Part III with the future and quality of jobs.
→ read full articleInequality (II): “It Will Take 170 Years for Women to Be Paid as Men Are”
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 Jan 2017
Article II of this three-part series on inequality, focuses on the impact of discrimination on women. Part III will tackle the issue of the future and quality of jobs. Part I has dealt with the alarming deepening inequality worldwide.
→ read full articleInequality (III): Less Employment… And More ‘Junk’ Jobs
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 Jan 2017
Article III of of this three-part series on inequality tackles the issue of the future and quality of jobs. Part II focused on the impact of inequality on women. Part I dealt with the alarming deepening inequality worldwide.
→ read full articleIn Umm al-Hiran, Palestine, It Is a ‘Continuing Nakba’
Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Israel has advanced plans to raze the village of 150 homes and replace it with a town for Israeli Jews.
→ read full articleThe Long Ordeal of Whistleblower Chelsea Manning
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
23 Jan 2017
Juan Mendez, who was then the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, concluded, “I believe Bradley Manning was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the excessive and prolonged isolation he was put in during the eight months he was in Quantico.” Chelsea Manning is expected to be released on May 17.
→ read full articleThe Issue Is Not Trump – It Is Ourselves
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
The lies about Russia – in whose elections the US has openly intervened – have made the world’s most self-important journalists laughing stocks. In the country with constitutionally the freest press in the world, free journalism now exists only in its honourable exceptions. The obsession with Trump is a cover for many of those calling themselves “left/liberal”, as if to claim political decency. They are not “left”, neither are they especially “liberal”.
→ read full articleJanuary 17, 1893: United States Illegally Overthrows Hawaiian Government
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
The investigation concluded that the United States diplomat and troops were directly responsible for the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian government with the ultimate goal of transferring the Hawaiian Islands to the USA. The report also detailed US government actions that violated international laws as well as Hawaiian territorial sovereignty.
→ read full articleShackles
TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
True Colors
→ read full articlePresident Trump’s UN and a Good Time Had by All
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
President Donald Trump has tweeted that “The UN has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to get together, talk, and have a good time.” Having sat through many long sessions in human rights bodies at the UN in Geneva, I could hardly wait to get out and have a good time elsewhere.
→ read full articleUS Secretary of State John Kerry Warns: “West Bank Is Slowly and Steadily Being Eaten Up by Israel”
Dana Nasi – Jerusalem Online,
23 Jan 2017
“Let me say to my friends in Israel that you cannot be a unitary state and be democratic and Jewish at the same time,” stated Kerry. “You have Palestinians in the West Bank living under Israeli military law. But Israelis living in the settlements are living under Israel civil law. So you already have two legal systems being applied to people who live in an area that’s supposed to be a state separate from Israel. […] That’s a recipe for permanent insurgency, permanent conflict.”
→ read full articlePublic Enemy #1 as Supreme Leader?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Thinking Otherwise about Framing the Engagement with Society’s Worst Fear – Donald Trump has just been elected 45th President of the USA, against all expectation by many sectors of society — and despite every effort to prevent this outcome. Trump won according to the rules of the American democratic system.
→ read full articleFacebook’s Zuckerberg Sues to Force Land Sales in Hawai’i
Andrew Gomes – Honolulu Star Advertiser,
23 Jan 2017
18 Jan 2017 – Mark Zuckerberg paid around $100 million for 700 acres of rural beachfront land on Kauai two years ago to create what Forbes magazine described as a secluded family sanctuary. Close to a dozen small parcels within Zuckerberg’s Kauai estate are owned by kamaaina families who have rights to traverse the billionaire’s otherwise private domain. Now the Facebook CEO is trying to enhance the seclusion of his property by filing several lawsuits aimed at forcing these families to sell their land at a public court auction to the highest bidder.
→ read full articleThe Truth behind the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Kamehameha Schools Ho‘okahua Cultural Vibrancy Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
On January 17, in the year 1893, the Kingdom of Hawai’i was illegally overthrown. The following remembrance recorded by Johanna Wilcox speaks of the overwhelming sadness felt by the population after the overthrow and annexation of Hawai’i to the United States of America.
→ read full articleBeing There
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
21 Jan 2017 – Perhaps he is lying all the time. Perhaps he is a very shrewd manipulator, who has led us all into believing that he is a megalomaniac simpleton. Well, today is President Donald Trump’s first day in office. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP – we must get used to these three words.
→ read full articleChelsea Manning Sentence Commuted after Seven Years of Brutal Imprisonment
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
18 Jan 2017 – President Obama commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the military intelligence analyst who made public evidence of US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, allowing Manning to go free on May 17, after completing over seven years in prison.
→ read full articleWe Must Not Demonize and Threaten Russia
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Today the world spends more than 1.7 trillion dollars ( $1,700,000,000,000) every year on armaments. This vast river of money, almost too large to be imagined, is the “devil’s dynamo” driving the institution of war. Politicians notoriously can be bought with a tiny fraction of this enormous amount; hence the decay of democracy.
→ read full article2017: Palestine’s Three Dark Commemorations
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Israeli expansionism, United States unconditional support, and UN impotence. These factors are combining to create dismal prospects for Palestinian self-determination and for a negotiated peace that is sensitive to the rights and grievances of both Palestinians and Jews.
→ read full articleEnd of Mission Statement by UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
Yanghee Lee | UN Information Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
There is one word that has hung heavily on my mind during this visit – reprisals. In every one of my visits and in every one of my meetings, I ask the Government of Myanmar to ensure that the people I speak to and even work with, do not suffer reprisals for speaking out on rights issues or expressing their opinions. Yet, distressingly several people I met during this visit would say to me, “I don’t know what will happen to me after our meeting.”
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Real Purpose of Intel Report on Russian Hacking: With Abby Martin & Ben Norton
Chris Hedges | On Contact – RT America,
23 Jan 2017
Jan 15, 2017 – Chris Hedges is joined by journalists Abby Martin and Ben Norton to discuss the declassified U.S. intelligence report on Russia’s alleged “influence campaign” on the U.S. presidential election. They explore the allegations and why a large portion of the report is dedicated to RT America’s programming.
→ read full articleHackers Downloaded US Government Climate Data and Stored It on European Servers as Trump Was Being Inaugurated
Zoë Schlanger | Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
As Donald Trump was sworn into office as the new president of the US on Jan. 20, a group of around 60 programmers and scientists were gathered in the Department of Information Studies building at the University of California-Los Angeles, harvesting government data.
→ read full articleWho to Believe: The CIA and Corporate Media or WikiLeaks?
Kim Petersen | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Without Substantiation, Media Integrity Suffers – We are being assaulted by mass media “news” of alleged hacks by alleged actors, allegations of politicians compromised by financial dealings, and sexual hijinks.
→ read full articleBurma: Four Decades of International Media Coverage on the Rohingyas
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Myanmar government has been committing crimes against humanity at best and genocide at worst.
→ read full articleRegime Change Comes Home: The CIA’s Overt Threats against Trump
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
17 Jan 2017 – The norms of US capitalist democracy include the election of presidential candidates through competitive elections, unimpeded by force and violence by the permanent institutions of the state. Voter manipulation has occurred during the recent elections, as in the case of the John F. Kennedy victory in 1960 and the George W. Bush victory over ‘Al’ Gore in 2000.
→ read full articleThe Tragic Story of Dr Loren Mosher’s Soteria Project and the Plot to Kill It
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
“Psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the drug companies…We’re so busy with drugs that you can’t find a nickel being spent on [non-drug] research.” – Dr Loren Mosher
→ read full articleInterpol Opens New Front in War against Wildlife Crimes
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
International police body Interpol announced a new project Friday [20 Jan 2017] that will identify and dismantle organized crime networks between Africa and Asia that have devastated wildlife and made ivory a sought-after luxury.
→ read full articleFrom Wounded Knee to Syria: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions
Dr. Zoltán Grossman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
The following is a partial list of U.S. military interventions from 1890 to 2014.
→ read full articlePeace: A Multidimensional View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Peace Art imagines the way
Peace Education builds the way…
Final Communiqué OIC Extraordinary Session: The Situation of the Rohingya Muslim Minority in Myanmar
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation convened an Extraordinary Session on the Situation of the Rohingya Muslim Minority in Myanmar, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 19 January 2017, under the Chairmanship of Malaysia.
→ read full articleRestless Thought
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
My restless provoking thought,
You are wandering among contrasts,
You are in doubt, you never trust
You suffer when everything comes to naught.
USA: It’s Going to Be a Wild Ride
Bruce K. Gagnon | Space4Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
This corporate takeover of the US government runs far deeper than Trump. He is not an aberration from the norm – Trump represents the norm in Washington. We are now ruled by Christian fundamentalism (the American Taliban), an economic expansion ideology that has no concern for the planet, and a military ethic that carries with it strong Puritan evangelical strains. Greatness only means domination – of everything.
→ read full articleQuickies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
George Bush came late to a cabinet meeting.
→ read full articleFlashlights for Warriors of Development Programmes
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Even when programme results are reported, the names and actions of the individuals who made the process successful on the ground are seldom known. We should really applaud and honour ordinary men and women, who have nobody to back them, yet are working doggedly to keep projects rolling.
→ read full articlePutin – Trump: Two Paradigms of Global Peace
Dr. Leo Semashko and Dr. Rudolf Siebert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
This article has specific structure. In the first part we reconstruct as synopses of the global peace paradigms of two world leaders from their many speeches to facilitate for the readers to find and understand their visions of this sharpest global challenge. In the second part we present the short comments of these paradigms and their dependence from Global Peace Science.
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Libertango (Music Video of the Week)
Marici Saxes | Saxophone Quartet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
London’s Leading Female Saxophone Quartet Performs Libertango by Astor Piazzolla
→ read full articleWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 Jan 1756 – 5 Dec 1791)
Encyclopædia Britannica– TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. His taste, his command of form, and his range of expression have made him seem the most universal of all composers.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Jan 23-29 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Don’t be sad or afraid when you start losing friends, be glad you’re getting rid of the fake ones. Stay true to yourself.” – Terry Mark
→ read full articleJallikattu and Humanity’s Petty Ethics
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
North Indians have been amazed at the 75-million strong Tamil reaction to the ban on ‘jallikattu,’ a harvest event in which village young men try to snatch the purse of money tied to the horns of a trained bull… In such an elite atmosphere it was easy and natural in Delhi circles to believe that dark-skinned poor Tamil farmers would be cruel to their bulls during jallikattu.
→ read full articleObama’s Covert Drone War in Numbers: Ten Times More Strikes than Bush
Jessica Purkiss and Jack Serle – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
23 Jan 2017
17 Jan 2017 – Obama embraced the US drone programme, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama’s two terms, compared to 57 strikes under Bush. Between 384 and 807 civilians were killed in those countries, according to reports logged by the Bureau.
→ read full articleCyprus: Toward a Non-Territorial Confederation?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
16 Jan 2017 – After some 20 months of discussions and preparations, a high political-level Conference on Cyprus was opened at the UN headquarters in Geneva on 12 January 2017. In some ways this was a continuation of inconclusive negotiations that have taken place in the 43 years that the country has been divided between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots.
→ read full article(Português) Ilhas Marshall: Um Passo Ousado Em Prol do Desarmamento Nuclear
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Durante os doze anos de duração dos ensaios, a população de outras ilhas e atóis do arquipélago experimentaram graves danos. Alguns foram completamente evacuados pela Marinha dos Estados Unidos. Alimentos e água potável foram constantemente contaminados. As pessoas vomitavam e seus cabelos começaram a cair. A incidência de câncer aumentou consideravelmente, assim como a de deformações em recém-nascidos. As taxas de doenças cardíacas, da tireóide, pulmões, ossos e sistema digestivo também aumentaram.
→ read full articleMartin Luther King Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. / “I Have A Dream” speech, August 28, 1963
→ read full article(Portuguese) Exploração animal, consumo de carne e fome mundial
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
16 Jan 2017 – O mundo atualmente conta com mais de 1,5 bilhão de bovinos e pouco mais de sete bilhões de pessoas. Os seres humanos consomem 9,5 bilhões de quilos de comida e 20 bilhões de litros de água por dia. Por outro lado, o gado é alimentado com 61 bilhões de quilos de comida e 170 bilhões de litros de água por dia, segundo a Organização das Nações Unidas para Agricultura e Alimentação.
→ read full article(Português) Como Berlim tem apoiado os direitos animais
Gero Schliess - ANDA–Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
16 Jan 2017
Nove veterinários, 60 cuidadores e muitos voluntários tomam conta de mais de 1.400 animais – cachorros, gatos, 18 macacos e um porco chamado Cristiano Ronaldo. Parabéns à Sociedade de Berlim de Prevenção à Crueldade aos Animais! Conduzindo ao próximo passo na caminhada a um mundo melhor – para os animais, e para nós.
→ read full articleEurope’s Courageous Journalism Voice Has Passed Away
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
On January 13, Udo Ulfkotte died, reportedly of a heart attack. Ulfkotte had been an editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitzung. He published a courageous book in which he said that the CIA had a hand on every significant journalist in Europe.
→ read full articleAn Experiment in Love: Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Six Pillars of Nonviolent Resistance and the Ancient Greek Notion of ‘Agape’
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
“Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives.”
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Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Time will tell how Obama’s Middle East legacy is judged and no doubt the verdict will be affected by what President-elect Trump will do in the Middle East, which as of today has many of us scratching our heads. The cultural heritage law enforcement achievements of the Obama Administration must not be dismantled by the Trump Administration.
→ read full articleOh, Mother-Earth, I Am Your Offspring
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Oh, mother-earth, I am yours offspring,
I am your loving humbled son,
I spent all my life wandering,
To find new wonders, one-by-one!
Aleppo’s Evil Humanitarians
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Aleppo Shall Not Be Forgotten – Eyewitness to who helped the Aleppians, Dec 11-14, 2016. This eyewitness report and documentation contradicts the major Western mainstream media’s narrative. In spite of the world historic dimension of this liberation, the tragedy of these innocent war victims and the heartbreakingly vast proportions of the systematic destruction of this dynamic city, none of their media were present in Aleppo there and then.
→ read full articleConfessions of a Megalomaniac
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
14 Jan 2017 – I was invited by Mahmood Abbas, the President of the Palestinian National Authority to take part in joint Palestinian-Israeli consultations in advance of the international conference in Paris. Since Binyamin Netanyahu has refused to take part in the Paris event side by side with Mahmood Abbas, the Ramallah meeting was to demonstrate that a large part of Israeli society does support the French initiative.
→ read full articleThe Coming “New Year”
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
The custom of marking the beginning of a so-called new year is also simultaneously a recognition of mortality and death – of history, the past, of things destined to be forgotten or, if remembered, known as a substrate for what looms ahead.
→ read full articleIs the Myanmar Government and Military Flirting with ‘Acts of Genocide’ against the Rohingya?
Michael G. Karnavas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Take your pick of alleged crimes: persecution, rape, murder, forcible transfer, deportation, extermination, arbitrary detention and imprisonment, and arguably, apartheid. The full treatment.
→ read full articleTruthful…?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Sweden has built a new bridge to an island.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Jan 16-22 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You didn’t want to be my friend in elementary school. You didn’t want to be my friend in junior high school. And you certainly weren’t my friend in high school. Why on Earth do you want to be my Facebook friend today?” – William E Lewis Jr.
→ read full articlePierre Joseph Proudhon (15 Jan 1809 – 16 Jan 1865): Pioneer of the Civil Society
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
It is, however, Proudhon as the pioneer of the concept of ‘civil society’ and the efforts of linking ‘Europe from Below’ that I would like to stress for the contemporary importance of Proudhon. Much of the thinking of ‘Europe from Below’ grew from efforts to bridge the East-West divide of Europe and to limit the dangers of war from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1980s.
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Aquarius [21 Jan 2017] (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
The earth enters Aquarius on 21 January 2017. Listen and enjoy its music…
→ read full articleWhat Kind of Nonviolence Training Do You Need?
Rivera Sun for Campaign Nonviolence | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Campaign Nonviolence is often contacted by people who are looking for nonviolence trainings. Frequently, they are not sure what type of training they need, or what the catch-phrases are to describe what they’re looking for. This guide is offered as a resource in identifying which type of nonviolence training supports the needs of each situation.
→ read full articleThe Drugs May Be the Problem
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Inconvenient Truths about Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Industry
→ read full articleGlobal Nuclear Power Database, 1951-2017
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Our new data visualization puts a wealth of information on 60 years of nuclear power plant startups and shutdowns at your fingertips.
→ read full article“Where Do We Go from Here?”
Dale Bryan | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
15 Jan 2017 – That question was a touchstone for The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the last year of his life. He preached on it. He delivered speeches on it. He wrote a book on it. The answers he put forward may be what got him killed.
→ read full articleConnectivity
Nastya Nudnik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Out of touch?
→ read full articleOpen Letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
8 Jan 2017 – The text below is an Open Letter to the next American president urging complete nuclear disarmament as an urgent priority. The letter was prepared under the auspices of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and its current list of signatories is listed below.
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