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Not a Joke At All
Singer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Satirical Strip Cartoon
→ read full articleStatement of the 15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
15 Nov 2015 The Barcelona Declaration – Refugees: Meeting the Challenge to Our Humanity
→ read full articleI offer my sincere apologies for the delay…
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2015
… to the 10-thousand-strong subscribers to our TMS Weekly Digest. In short:
→ read full articleParis Attacks: Symbols and Choices
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2015
Within a short time period, the terrorist teams have destroyed a Russian plane with tourists returning from Egypt, badly damaged a Hezbollah center in Lebanon, and attacked symbolic sites in Paris on a Friday the 13th. Three symbolic sites in Paris were chosen by a well-coordinated team of some 12 active agents and an unknown number of “helpers.”
→ read full articlePutin: ISIS Financed from 40 Countries, Including G20 Members
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2015
President Vladimir Putin says he’s shared Russian intelligence data on Islamic State financing with his G20 colleagues: the terrorists appear to be financed from 40 countries, including some G20 member states.
→ read full articleBeirut’s Explosion: The Sunni-Shia Bellum Sanctum Returns to Hezbollah’s Security Zone
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
At least 46 confirmed deaths and nearly 250 wounded, many seriously, are being treated at hospitals. All are victims of the 6 p.m. rush hour terrorist bombings deep inside Hezbollah’s security zone on Nov 12, 2015 that targeted civilians who were shopping at street markets or gathering at the local mosque for the fourth of the five daily prayers. The extremist Islamic State (ISIS/Da’ish) group claimed the attack.
→ read full articleParis at Midnight: Attempt to Push France Out of Anti-ISIL Coalition in Syria?
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Paris was hit by at least two well-trained and -equipped terrorist cells in a coordinated attack on 6 or 7 soft targets on Friday [13 Nov 2015] night. Some fear that these strikes will spell the end of Schengen open borders and will negatively affect the refugees that have come to Europe in the thousands recently. The terrorists may have been attempting to replicate the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which also aimed at soft targets, and which convinced Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
→ read full articleParis: Who Profits?
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
14 Nov 2015 – There’s no evidence this is a false flag – at least for now. What this seems to be proving is that Daesh is a certified pro ops with badass connections. Scouring a ton of reports, I found a Danish citizen describing one of the attackers to a Paris café; ultra-pro, black-clad head to toe, AK-47, very well trained. These are not your usual al-Zawahiri underwear bombers; these are precision killers.
→ read full articleAcademics and Israel
The Irish Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
4 Nov 2015 – Sir, As scholars associated with Irish institutions of higher education, north and south, and responding to the appeal from Palestinian civil society, we declare that we will not accept invitations to visit Israeli academic institutions; act as referees in any of their processes; participate in conferences funded, organised or sponsored by them, or otherwise co-operate with them.
→ read full articleMiddle East: The Way Forward
Sufyan bin Uzayr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
For the Middle East to truly blossom and bloom, it is essential that fake borders be abolished. That said, it seems highly unlikely that any form of unification or integration might happen during the oil era, especially because both domestic dictators and foreign hegemons are eager to keep the falsely drawn borders intact. How or when can unification happen? This question, unfortunately, still lacks an answer.
→ read full articleCall Me by My Name
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
French Pres. Charles De Gaulle got up in the middle of the night and went to the bathroom in the dark, wearing nothing.
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Johan Galtung & Keil Eggers: The World beyond Global Disorder
TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
13th Session World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” – Rhodes, Greece, 9 Oct 2015
→ read full articleNew Socialist Government Keeps Portuguese People under the Whip
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Portuguese Revolution Falls Far Short – In the Western world democracy has been decapitated. In Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Latvia, and the United States itself, there is no connection between the will of the people and the policies of the government. Only in tiny Iceland did the people prevail over the banks. Everywhere else the people are forced to pay for the gambling losses and leveraged debts of the financial sector.
→ read full article5 Reasons That I’m a Christian Who Stopped Supporting Israel
Benjamin L. Corey, Patheos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
5. I realized that loving Jewish people was completely different from supporting the modern, secular state of Israel.
→ read full articleSpanish Court Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Other Officials
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
A Spanish court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials for their role in the 2010 attack on the Freedom Flotilla heading to Gaza, local media reported on Friday [13 Nov 2015].
→ read full articleThe Dolphin Killers of Cardigan Bay
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Why does the Welsh government propose this gratuitous act of destruction? It refuses to say.
→ read full articleMyanmar Rulers Exit, Successfully
Swe Mon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
People, let me be blunt.
Un-ashamed, the usurpers seem to have stopped their election game,
Having chosen the moral high ground and leaving the landsliders to be blamed – for a country lying in ruins.
Smart Resistance: A Palestinian Call for ‘Unarmed Warfare’
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Some Palestinian intellectuals are advocating non-violent resistance as they warn against an armed uprising. Palestinians have a right in international law to resist the occupation, even violently, but this group emphasises the futility of violence faced with Israel’s military superiority. Theirs is a pragmatic argument.
→ read full article(Português) Incêndio destrói acampamento de refugiados na França
R7 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
14 novembro 2015 – Um grande incêndio atingiu um acampamento de refugiados na cidade portuária de Calais, na França, horas após os atentados terroristas em Paris.
→ read full articleCuba Leading Eradication of HIV/AIDS, UN Says
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Cuba is an example for the world to follow on how to eradicate AIDS, the executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS said Friday [13 Nov 2015].
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Agent Orange, Monsanto, Dow Chemical and Other Ugly Legacies of the Vietnam War
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
The following currently accepted list of diseases that can be caused by exposure to Agent Orange applies to American veterans, but the consequences are a hundred times worse for the Vietnamese people who were sprayed and who are still being exposed to it in the soil for the last 50 years.
→ read full articleHere is What a Solidarity Economy Looks Like – from Quebec to Chicago to Mexico
Derek Royden, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Defining the term “solidarity economy” can be difficult: it has become a kind of catchall to describe everything from worker-owned cooperatives to open source software to complementary currencies. Surprisingly, the ideas promoted in the solidarity economy are not very well known in the English-speaking world.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Nov 16-22 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Life is short; live it. Love is rare; grab it. Anger is bad; dump it. Fear is awful; face it. Memories are sweet; cherish them.” – Anonymous
→ read full articleEnding the Era of Wars
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates – Barcelona, 13-15 November 2015
→ read full article(Italiano) Culture di guerra, culture di pace
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Abbiamo guerra e pace, teoria e pratica. E più in fondo culture di guerra e di pace, nozioni di com’è o potrebbe essere il mondo. Una cultura di pace non è necessariamente pace, potrebbe anche voler dire rimozione degli ostacoli per la guerra.
→ read full articleDying to Live, Living to Die, Lying to Live, and Living a Lie: Should American li(v)es be saved at all costs?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
The principal slogan of American foreign policy appears to be “Saving American Lives”. It is used to justify interventions in countries around the world perceived as a threat to American full-spectrum dominance. There is also a case for exploring the slogan by which American foreign policy might well be framed, namely “Saving American Lies”.
→ read full article(Português) “Portugal errou ao querer ganhar o concurso de beleza da austeridade”, diz economista Paul de Grauwe
Público e Lusa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
O economista Paul de Grauwe , professor na London School of Economics, defende que o país não deverá conseguir fugir a uma reestruturação da dívida e entende que Portugal cometeu o “erro” de ser o melhor aluno da troika, quando a economia estaria melhor se assim não fosse; defende um lobby do Sul da Europa para mudar políticas europeias.
→ read full article(Italiano) Quo Vadis Europa, dove stai andando?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Molto addentro erano invece gli USA che, isolati dietro ai loro due oceani, provocarono devastazioni in Europa Occidentale e Asia Orientale. Facciamo ospitare agli USA molti migranti, molti di più. Comunque, aldilà di ciò consideriamo i migranti come risorse, non solo una minaccia: poiché riempiono gravi vuoti di popolazione, come manodopera che sviluppa molte zone dell’Europa, come portatori di altre culture per dialoghi e apprendimento reciproco.
→ read full articleThe Milgram Experiment
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
The “student” was led away into a cabin where he was presumably hooked to electric wires. The “teacher” was told to ask him a series of questions, and each time he gave a wrong answer, to administer to the “student” an electric shock of increasing intensity, to study if the fear of pain would improve people’s concentration and ability to think straight.
→ read full articleArming Dictators: An American Tradition
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
10 Nov 2015 – Recently the Obama administration announced another military aid package for Pakistan: eight F-16 fighter jets. Once again considerations of human rights and democratic values have been sacrificed to strategic calculations.
→ read full articleVietnamese Child Prodigy Plays Traditional Harp (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
16,640,056 Views on Facebook – 6 Nov 2015
→ read full articleMonsanto Handed ‘Double Whammy’ by Mexican Courts over Planting GMOs
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
9 Nov 2015 – Two separate court decisions in Mexico have blocked cultivation of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn in the country and soy in two states.
→ read full articleFrom Taiji to Tanks: Dolphin Captures Show Captive Industry’s Link to Slaughter
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
12 Nov 2015 – On November 10 (Japan time), the captive industry’s inextricable link to the slaughter of dolphins and small whales in the infamous cove was on full display once again in Taiji, Japan.
→ read full articleNicole Krauss’s Beautiful Letter to Van Gogh on Fear, Bravery, and How to Break the Loop of Our Destructive Patterns
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
“Bravery is always more intelligent than fear, since it is built on the foundation of what one knows about oneself: the knowledge of one’s strength and capacity, of one’s passion.”
[NOTE FROM TMS EDITOR: Last week we posted: Vincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, and How Making Inspired Mistakes Moves Us Forward. Here Nicole Krauss answers to Van Gogh. Delightful dialogue of minds.]
Edward Said’s Humanism versus the U.S. State Department’s Antisemitism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
There is an obvious tension that exists more vividly than when Edward Said was alive, and commenting on the Palestinian struggle. Israel has created on the ground a set of circumstances that seem irreversible and are institutionalizing a single apartheid Israeli state encompassing the whole of historic Palestine (minus Jordan).
→ read full article(Português) Madeira ilegal da Amazônia chega impunemente à Europa
Greenpeace Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Nova investigação expõe 26 empresas europeias que estão importando produtos de fornecedor ligado ao comércio de madeira ilegal da Amazônia.
→ read full articleQuo Vadis Europe, Where Are You Going?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The enormous move of people from devastated countries must be handled by those who caused it… Very much in it was the USA, causing havoc in Western Europe and Eastern Asia from behind its two oceans. Make USA take many, many more. However, beyond that see the people on the move as assets not only threats: as filling serious population gaps, as labor developing many areas of Europe, as carriers of other cultures for dialogues, mutual learning.
→ read full articleBrain
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
George W. Bush went to see a specialist to examine his brain.
→ read full articleText of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The text of the Agreement was released by TPP Parties on 5 November 2015 and can be accessed by chapter below. The text will continue to undergo legal review and will be translated into French and Spanish language versions prior to signature.
→ read full articleTo Derryn Hinch [in Australia]: Yes, Stand Up Against the Killing Fields in Syria – But Research Syria First
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
On Nov 3, 2015 The AGE, one of two leading local newspapers in Melbourne, published a comment piece by Derryn Hinch, “Bashar al-Assad: Australia must not help keep this murderer in charge”. Derryn is a veteran broadcaster/commentator who is known to take strong stands on issues and has even gone to prison for his principles. He is a maverick, a rebel.
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Rondo Alla Turca (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The 5 Browns – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The 5 Browns playing an arrangement and rift of Mozart’s Alla Turca by Greg Anderson. The video was filmed while playing the international street pianos art installment called “Play Me, I’m Yours.”
→ read full articleRussia: Homophobic, Abusive Bill
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
Proposes Fines, Jail Time for “Coming Out”
→ read full articleThe Relevancy of New Political Force in Nepal in Terms of Development
Shree Prasad Devkota and Shiba Bagale – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
There is political conflict in the use of the local resources too. So the corruption has been increased as the political parties are being money minded. There is no hidden interest to develop the nation rather they prefer individual development.
→ read full article‘Intolerance Is the Wrong Word for the Lynching and Mass Murder of Human Beings’ in India
Arundhati Roy, Conscientious Objector – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
5 Nov 2015 – The respected author has issued a statement about her decision to return the national film award she won in 1989 for writing the screenplay of ‘In which Annie Gives It Those Ones’.
→ read full articleVincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, and How Making Inspired Mistakes Moves Us Forward
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
“However meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth … steps in and does something.”
→ read full articleConstructive Conflict Applications in Obama’s Foreign Policies
Prof. Louis Kriesberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The approach taken by Obama vis-a-vis Cuba and Iran are examples of constructive conflict methods that showed positive outcomes, writes sociologist Louis Kriesberg.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
Nov 9–15 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Decide to be happy. Render others happy. Proclaim your joy. Love passionately your miraculous life. Do not listen to promises. Do not wait for a better world. Be grateful for every moment of life.” – Robert Müller
→ read full articleThe Pentagon’s Law of War Manual (Parts 1-4)
Tom Carter, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The new US Department of Defense ‘Law of War Manual’ is essentially a guidebook for violating international and domestic law and committing war crimes. The 1,165-page document is not a statement of existing law as much as a compendium of what the Pentagon wishes the law to be.
→ read full articleThe Punishment Society
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
With our public schools and police forces working overtime to teach the children who will comprise the future generations that violence is the solution and submission is the only alternative, expect the United States to be unliveable at home and an even worse danger to the rest of the world.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Part 3)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
Antipsychotic Drugs and Brain Shrinkage
→ read full articleHow to Build a Crisis
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
Banks and corporations are being liberated from the rule of law, and are ripping the world apart. Restraining the electorate, releasing the powerful: this is a perfectly designed formula for a multi-dimensional crisis. And boy, are we reaping it!
→ read full articleSorry, JK Rowling, You’re Wrong over the Israel Boycott
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
What is appropriate for South Africa should be appropriate for Palestine, too, even if J K Rowling and her respected peers find that too objectionable.
→ read full articleHopes for the Morning After in Ankara: Taking Stock (2002-2015)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
Let’s hope than when Erdoğan awakens the morning after his glowing victory, he chooses what is best for Turkey rather than to settle for becoming a grandiose figure who is certain to be both revered and feared. Only if he tames his ambitions will Erdoğan ensure his legacy as a great Turkish leader, second only to Ataturk.
→ read full articleWe Don’t Need Ketchum in Our Mustard
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
It saddens me to think that a woman is unable to see the destruction we are causing to the world our children will inherit. I hope, for the sake of Kavin’s child/ren (if any) that the future of food we pick, as humanity, is nourishing, sustainable, equitable, climate mitigating and diverse – a future of food based on Agroecology.
→ read full articleThe “War on Terror” Is the Hoax Foundation of the Police/Spy State
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The “war on terror” was a hoax. Americans were deceived by policymakers, who are pursuing a hegemonic agenda. Who can possibly believe that a handful of Saudi Arabians acting without the support of any state and any intelligence service could outwit the entire apparatus of the American National Security State and inflict a humiliating defeat on the world’s only superpower?
→ read full articleNovember: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
November 16, 1994 – After receiving formal promises of security assurances from the leaders of the U.S., Russia, and Britain, President Leonid Kuchma recommended that Ukraine formally accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a nonnuclear weapons state and agree to transfer its stockpile of strategic nuclear warheads to Russia, which was accomplished on June 1, 1996.
→ read full articleRené Girard: The Scapegoat and the Lamb of God
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
René Girard’s reflections on the role of the scapegoat, sacrifice, and the need to end violent disorder merits being read more widely. Desires are likely to keep the Wheel of Life turning for some time to come.
→ read full articleThese Five Countries Account for 60 Percent of Plastic Pollution in Oceans
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
Roughly 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into the world’s oceans every year, and according to a new study, the majority of this waste comes from just five countries: China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
→ read full article(Italiano) Corruzione: teoria, prognosi, soluzioni?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
La definizione di corruzione si basa su una distinzione fra aspetti palesi o nascosti delle transazioni, “sopra o sotto il tavolo”, dove il nascosto è anche illegale o almeno illegittimo. Aggiungere alla trasparenza e al castigo le modalità positive verso l’integrità, rendendo la corruzione su vasta scala un episodio triste ma breve.
→ read full articleVW Rigged Emissions Systems on Porsches, Audis Too
Keith Laing, The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday [2 Nov] that Volkswagen installed software on diesel models of its 2014-2016 cars that violates the Clean Air Act by activating required air pollution protections only during emissions tests, including cars marketed under its Audi and Porsche brands.
→ read full articleThe Emperor’s Poem
Mark Frutkin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The iron mountain towers above us
robed in mist, its crags
reach through the clouds into heaven,
Exposed by WikiLeaks: The US Empire According to Itself
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
In the book ‘The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire’ we are taken on a journey to understand just how the world works if we read the ‘top secret’ correspondence of those who regard themselves as our masters. Following a thoughtful contextual introduction by Julian Assange, our journey is guided by eighteen first-rate scholars who carefully explain the significance of a range of WikiLeaks-released documents in relation to the region of the world in which they specialize.
→ read full article“Into the Heart of the Sacred”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
“I was born into a culture defined by its lack of culture. A middle-of-the-block house in a midsized mid-Michigan Midwestern town. Dragged to a Methodist church where the singing was flat and muttered, and the slightest show of religious fervor made everyone uncomfortable. Communion felt as spiritual as the coffee and cookies after the service. For the rest of my week, school was little more than a daily taste of prison….”
→ read full articleThe Burlington 23
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
During the Vietnam war, a group of citizens in Burlington, Vermont, USA, tried for a long time in vain to persuade their Congressman to hold hearings about the legality of the war.
→ read full articleColombia: “The Peace Process Involves Everyone”
Prof. Alicia Cabezudo, CPNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The two-day meeting discussed the current context of peace, in the framework of the dialogue and agreements in Havana, the demands of educators, students, sectors and social movements, as well as the need for truth and reconciliation, in the context of education for peace.
→ read full articleCommunication and Appreciation
Tom H. Hastings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
This is the beauty and magic of adaptive conflict communication. It can attenuate damage and increase gain for good ethical and moral practices. Rosenberg, a clinical psychologist, worked his entire professional career on these concepts.
→ read full articleEarly Experiments in Sovereign Debt Rollover
Gary Larson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology– TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Power by Politics
→ read full articleAdolf, Amin and Bibi
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
It is not very pleasant when serious people around the world – historians, psychiatrists, diplomats – ask themselves if my prime minister is completely sane. And not only abroad. More and more people in Israel are asking themselves the same question.
→ read full articleCultures of War, Cultures of Peace
Johan Galtung, 2 Nov 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
We have war and peace, theory and practice. And deeper down cultures of war and peace, notions of what the world is or could be. The latter is not necessarily peace, could also mean removing obstacles to war.
→ read full articleBen Hecht on Greatness, the Radiance of Realness, and the Rewards of Keeping in Touch with the Soul of Your Childhood
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
In a culture that continually mistakes prestige for purpose and defines who we are by what we do, what remains of our being when the doing is stripped away and what does success really mean to those innermost selves buried beneath layers of cultural conditioning?
→ read full articleCampaigns of Violence towards Rohingya Are Highly Organised and Genocidal in Intent
Queen Mary University of London – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Persecution of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has been orchestrated by the government, state-level officials and Buddhist monks, according to the findings of an 18-month investigation into state crime in Myanmar.
→ read full articleA New and Sweeping Utopia of Life: Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
“A new and sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second opportunity on earth.”
→ read full articleBeyond the Sustainable Development Goals: Uncovering the Truth about Global Poverty and Demanding the Universal Realisation of Article 25
Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The Sustainable Development Goals – despite their positive and progressive rhetoric – by no means constitute a transformative agenda for meeting the basic needs of all people within the means of our shared planet. This report argues that we may never see an end to poverty “in all its forms everywhere” unless…
→ read full articleUN Votes in Favor of Ending Cuban Blockade 191-2
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of lifting the blockade against Cuba Tuesday [27 Oct 2015], with only the U.S. and Israel voting against.
→ read full articleTotal Literacy for World Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
On the eve of National Unity Day on 31 October.
→ read full articleBreaking Down Genocide in Myanmar
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
For eight months, a Yale University Law clinic assessed evidence obtained by Al Jazeera and Fortify Rights.
→ read full articleExploding Radioactive Waste Warning: Keep It above Ground
John LaForge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Early on Sunday Oct. 25 [2015], an underground fire caused an explosion in a low-level nuclear waste site in the desert 10 miles from Beatty, Nevada, and 115 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Unfortunately authorities don’t know what sorts of radioactive isotopes are buried in the trenches there. Nor does anyone know either how the fire started or how much radioactive waste burned.
→ read full articleSmoke Signal
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.
→ read full articleWe Won’t Torture Anymore: American Psychological Association Tells U.S. to Withdraw Psychologists from Nat. Sec. Interrogations
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
30 Oct 2015 – In a new letter to the White House and top federal officials, the APA asks the government to withdraw psychologists from any interrogation or prison setting that could put them in violation of the new ethics policy.
→ read full articleIs GDP Over?
Sam Pizzigati, Institute of Policy Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Have We Finally Moved Beyond GDP? Economists from rich countries increasingly agree: Sustainable development and reducing inequality matter more than economic growth. To help overcome inequality we need to do much more than total up an economy’s goods and services.
→ read full article‘They Don’t Care Who Gets Killed’: Ex-US Drone Pilot Turned Whistleblower
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
17 Oct 2015 – Guilt-ridden American drone pilots continue to quit in unprecedented numbers. One former secret mission operator, Brandon Bryant, who’s received a whistleblower award, spoke of the horrors of indiscriminate killing from a safe distance.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Part 2)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
I was taught in my medical school training that before prescribing a treatment, the physician was ethically and medico-legally obliged to fully inform the patient about the potential hazards of a drug (or a surgical procedure). Then the patient was to be given an opportunity to refuse or accept the recommended prescription or procedure.
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2-Minute Speech Dedicated to Rohingya Victims of Burma/Myanmar’s Genocide
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire was the presenter on behalf of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Salt Lake City, Utah, 18 Oct 2015. Both Dr. Zarni and Mrs. Maguire are members of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.
→ read full articleSyria’s ‘Monument Citizens’ Taking Risks Saving the Future of Our Past
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Increasing numbers of Syria’s women and men, considered by this observer as this war-torn country’s ‘Monument Citizens’ have recently expanded the scope and range of cultural heritage site protection and preservation on behalf of humanity.
→ read full article(Português) “Transgênicos não são alimentos, e sim mercadorias”, aponta médico argentino
Saúde Popular – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
29 out 2015 – Médico argentino analisa os danos causados por alimentos geneticamente modificados e agrotóxicos para as pessoas e a sociedade.
→ read full articleFact-finding Delegation Reports an Electoral Coup Now in Process in Haiti
Report from the Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Most international observers of the election have focused on the day of the election, but not on the vital final stage of the electoral process – the counting and tabulation of the votes. Although multiple political parties are protesting the post-election counting process, Haiti’s ruling party is praising the vote and objecting to critiques of the tabulation process.
→ read full articleAl Jazeera Turka Interview on Turkish Foreign and National Policy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
28 Oct 2015 – This is a modified text of an interview conducted by Semin Gumusel Guner of Al Jazeera Turka, and published online in abbreviated form on October 19, 2015. The situation in Turkey is increasingly precarious and troublesome.
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Libertango (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Bel Suono – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Piano Show Bel Suono – These three virtuosos pianists were educated in the best music universities in Russia and are winners of national and international competitions.
→ read full articleFrom European Union to Just a Common Market
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Europe will have to accept that it is not going to be the homogenous and white society that the right wing and xenophobic parties dream of reestablishing. The lack of global governability has created a staggering figure of 60 million refugees. Solidarity or not, Europe demography will require the arrival of some million. What will be the Europe of 2030?
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Majed Bamya, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Dans la plupart des médias occidentaux, certains termes semblent s’appliquer uniquement à ce conflit : “regain de violence sur l’esplanade des mosquées”, “Israël entame un nouveau cycle de négociations”, “le processus de paix au Proche-Orient”… Loin d’être anodins, ces termes recouvrent un sens caché au service d’une rhétorique trompeuse.
→ read full articleMaking a Choice – American Psychological Association: Reform or Business as Usual?
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The real divide here is not between psychologists who are employed by the military and those who work in the civil sector. Nor is it between psychologists who are healthcare practitioners and those who work in non-clinical areas. The divide that matters is the one between psychologists who recognize the urgent need for accountability and reform and those who instead insist that no wrongdoing took place and that business as usual should prevail.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Nov 2-8 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain.
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Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Hitler won.
He has converted the Jews,
Palestinians, Russians, Chechens,
Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans,
even his nemesis, the
Holy Americans.
The Drone Papers – The Alphabet of Assassination (9-Glossary of Terms)
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
A guide to the acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms used in The Drone Papers. We defer to definitions provided in the source text where available; other interpretations are based on open source material.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
If a suspected drug smuggler could tell a border guard, “You may check my trunk, but don’t open the glove compartment,” such an “inspection” would be meaningless.
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Gouthama Siddarthan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
20 Oct 2015 – The Nobel committee is at it again, proving for the umpteenth time that it has been a playground for the international political game of chess.
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Dr. Walid Salem, Center for Democracy and Community Development – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Jerusalem, 21 Oct 2015 – After the collapse of the Kerry initiative last year and the deterioration that followed, leading to the current escalation, what the today situation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is? Where are we in the peace process? What is the situation on the ground? What this wave of violence in Jerusalem means? What decisions will be taken by the Palestinians now? And what are the proposed ways out.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
18 ottobre 2015 – Cari Membri di Transcend – molti di voi proposti da Dieter! – il mio caro amico, cofondatore di Transcend nel 1993 con me e Fumiko Nishimura, ci ha lasciato oggi dopo una breve degenza ospedaliera in coma, sostanzialmente a causa del suo diabete da molti anni.
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Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Democratic critics of military seizures of power commonly refer to them as military coups. They adopt a very narrow and misleading conception of what is taking place.
→ read full articleA Tribute to Prof. Johan Galtung’s 85th Birthday
Erika Degortes and Naakow Grant-Hayford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
We are here not to offer you a gift dear Johan, but to celebrate the gift you have given to all those interested in bringing about peace as a sociological and as a political responsibility in our multipolar and multicultural world.
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