Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Enlightenment Keeps on Winning
James A. Haught, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
If you study history, you’ll see episodes that changed civilization. For three centuries, by fits and starts, Western progress has been mostly a chronicle of progressives defeating conservative resistance. Reformers repeatedly toppled old privileges, hierarchies and establishments. Look at the historical record:
→ read full articleNonagon of Toxic Conflict: Notes on the Turkish Quagmire
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The focus on Turkey, and its role with respect to Syria, PKK, and ISIS is not meant to minimize the importance of the other actors in the region that are part of the geopolitical nonogon. There are several overlapping regional proxy wars that have precluded a diplomatic resolution, including serious intraregional tensions between Saudi Arabia and Syria as well as the extraregional rivalry between the United States and Russia.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Nuclear Civil Disobedience (7)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
In the years after World War II there was a widespread belief that rational minds would prevail, and that nuclear weapons would not be further developed, and their possession as well as their threat or use prohibited.
→ read full articlePoets’ Talk: Pope Francis, Masilo, Marc Beaudin, et. al.
Gary Corseri and Charles Orloski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Artists used to know, intuitively, that they were pattern-makers and code-decoders. What’s the place, the function, of the artist in this frenetic world? Is there a place for what Wordsworth called “the philosophic mind”—the one who reflects, inquires, challenges, contemplates?
→ read full articlePoland Becomes the 14th European Nation to Officially Ban GMO’s!
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
1 Oct 2015 – The fourteenth country to opt out of growing GM crops, Poland joins the ranks of Russia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Latvia, Italy, Germany, Scotland, Wales, Lithuania, Austria, Ireland, France, and Greece.
→ read full articleHail to the Worm: Plastic-Eating Worm Might Be the Solution to Global Crisis
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
1 Oct 2015 – New research could have staggering implications for plastic waste pollution: An international team of researchers found that the Darkling Beetle larvae, the mealworm, can subsist on a diet of Styrofoam and other forms of polystyrene.
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Why Are Some People Left-Handed?
Daniel M. Abrams, TED Ed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Today, about one-tenth of the world’s population is southpaws. Why are such a small proportion of people left-handed — and why does the trait exist in the first place?
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Powerful, Inspirational True Story… Don’t Give Up!
Connie Lynne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
There is more than one way to success. Do not believe in failure beforehand.
→ read full articleNetanyahu’s Real Message Was to Israel’s Jews: “Talk Peace but Prepare for Doomsday”
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
How Israel’s Jews would react if they were put on notice that they would be subjected to complete isolation and effective sanctions? Left behind in a walled-in nuclear-armed fortress, the zealots would be prepared, as Golda Meir once said to me in a BBC Panorama interview when she was Israel’s prime minister, to take the region and the world down with them.
→ read full articleEffect of Germany’s Occupation on Norway
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Joint suffering can sometimes bring former opponents together if three conditions are fulfilled…
→ read full articleThe Colombia Peace Accords
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Therapy: To alleviate suffering and reduce inequality the bottom has to be lifted up. Get started, of 32 departments select the 3 most miserable by low average lifespan and the 3 least violent; of 1119 municipalities select the 10% most miserable and 10% least violent.
→ read full articleHarold Pinter’s Nobel Acceptance Speech: Art, Truth & Politics
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The justification for the invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. We were told that Iraq had a relationship with Al Qaeda and shared responsibility for 9/11. We were told that Iraq threatened the security of the world. None of it was true. We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’.
→ read full articleThe Benefits of Ozonated Olive Oil for Toenail Fungus
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Untreated, foot fungus, also known as athlete’s foot or tinea pedis, “eats” away at the skin of the foot and can easily spread to other areas of the body, such as the groin. Toenail fungus, or onychomycosis, disfigures the toenail and creates thick discolored nails that can cause painful pressure and difficulty walking.
→ read full articleCIA Interventions in Syria: A Partial Timeline
Michael S. Rozeff, Lew Rockwell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
3 Oct 2015 – This partial timeline provides evidence that the U.S. government and Obama in particular bear a significant responsibility for the Syrian war and the results of that war. The CIA meddling is distinct from the Pentagon’s failed plan to train moderate rebels, not covered in this timeline.
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Mas Que Nada (Music Video of the Week)
Miloš Karadaglić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Miloš, international guitar sensation, plays Brazilian composer Jorge Ben. Bossa Nova. Enjoy!
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia’s Troubling Death Sentence
Adam Coogle, Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
On September 14, Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Ali al-Nimr for participating in protests four years ago, when he was 16. The sentence stipulates that he should be beheaded and that his headless body should be crucified for public display.
→ read full article(Português) Iliguagem e Glotopolítica: Descomunhão
Hildo do Couto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Tenho presenciado membros de uma família fisicamente juntos no restaurante, mas todos ligados no celular, WhatsApp, trocando mensagens com alguém que não está ali. O que estamos a testemunhar é o contrário da comunhão. As pessoas estão fisicamente juntas (nível natural), mas mentalmente separadas, pois cada uma está ligada a alguém ausente. Trata-se, portanto, de uma incomunhão, ou melhor, de uma descomunhão, no contexto da Linguística Ecossistêmica.
→ read full articleRight Livelihood Awards 2015: The Laureates
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
2015 Right Livelihood Awards honour courageous and effective solutions to secure human rights and respond to global crises.
→ read full articlePeace Can Be Transcended
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Rhymed Reflection
→ read full articleOur Standards and Their Standards: India vs Abolitionist Countries [Death Penalty]
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
This report is being published by the “National Campaign for Abolition of Death Penalty in India”. It shows that there are countries with fewer resources than India which faced far more protracted and deadly insurgencies and acts of terrorism but did not feel the necessity to use death penalty to ensure national security. These countries are mainly in Asia including Philippines, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
→ read full articleThe Yemen Catastrophe: Beset by Contradictions of Will and Intellect
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The UN Security Council seems shockingly supportive of a major Saudi military intervention that started in March 2015, severely aggravating the overall situation by unanimously adopting a one-sided anti-Houthi Resolution 2216. This Saudi use of force is contrary to international law, violates the core principle of the UN Charter, and magnifies the violent disruption of Yemeni society.
→ read full articleFilipino Children Diving, Dying for Gold
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Boys lowered 75 feet into mine pits, and small children, even 8, 9, or 10-years-old, handling poisonous mercury to separate the gold from the ore. Juliane Kippenberg, associate director of the children’s rights division, talks to Amy Braunschweiger about being at an underwater mine, the vertigo-inducing narrowness of some mine shafts, and the toll this takes on the Philippine children who work in gold mining.
→ read full articleTo Protect and Serve…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Police…
→ read full articleJulian Assange “Winning” against Intelligence Agencies
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Julian Assange is “winning” in his conflict with the United States intelligence agencies, the WikiLeaks founder told a Latin American conference for the progressive left on Wednesday [30 Sep 2015]. “We are winning because secrets breed incompetency.”
→ read full articleGandhi Jayanti, Gandhi’s Dream
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
On behalf of those of us who struggle to honor Gandhi’s legacy to the world, I would like to wish Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi ‘happy birthday!’ He was born on 2 October 1869. Gandhi’s dream of a world without violence might be fanciful. But, as John Lennon once sang, he is ‘not the only one’. Many of us share this dream. Are you a dreamer too?
→ read full articleNevermind
Leonard Cohen & Patrick Leonard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The war was lost
The treaty signed
I was not caught
I crossed the line
The Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Fukushima and Beyond (6)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
We can only wonder about the lingering effects on the Japanese national psyche of being twice so severely victimized by the diabolical power of the atom? Fukushima was an exemplary tragedy of this new century, exhibiting the destructive force of nature in lethal interaction with the Promethean embrace of nuclear technology.
→ read full articleWhat Is Nonviolence Anyhow?
Tom H. Hastings, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it?
→ read full articleEconomic Theory and Community Development
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The discursive strategy of this chapter takes up again a central idea of dominant discourse: the idea that economic growth is and must be the aim of every nation. It seeks to destabilize the basic cultural structure. It seeks to destabilize the inter-related ways of acting, talking and seeing that cement injustice into place and make it immovable. But it does not only destabilize. It also includes a number of constructive proposals.
→ read full articleSnapshots from the Democratic People’s Republic of [North] Korea (Part 2)
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
28 Sep 2015 – Last week TMS published my first account of a recent visit to North Korea, with general impressions and global context, highlighting the US role in tensions in that region. This week I will try to put a more personal and human face to this country, which received us so graciously.
→ read full articleA Gaza Centric History of Palestine: Past, Present, and Future
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Jean-Pierre Filiu, ‘Gaza: A History,’ trans. John King, Oxford University Press, 2014, 440 pp., ISBN 9780190201890. This review was initially published in the Journal of the Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World.
→ read full articleJeopardizing Japanese ‘Abnormality’: Rejoining the War System
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Washington’s encouragement of Prime Minister Abe’s campaign for a ‘normal’ Japan represents a regressive move regionally and globally, and deserves critical attention from a wider geopolitical perspective as well as from the viewpoint of Japan.
→ read full articleHeaven and Hell
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
In heaven, the cooks are French, the police officers English, the mechanics German, the Swiss run the trains and the Italians are lovers.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’asse del male
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
La NATO è spaccata, con Germania e Francia in contrasto con gli USA che vogliono che l’Ucraina, neonazista o meno, contrasti la Russia e la Cina. L’opposizione franco –tedesca può voler dire liberazione dell’UE dagli USA. Leggendo i segni premonitori sul muro, i grossi stati UE possono non voler affossarsi con gli USA. Interpretando questi segni, può darsi che gli USA si preparino esattamente a tale scopo.
→ read full articleStructural Violence
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Structural violence is equivalent to 236 Hiroshima bombs being dropped on the children of the world each year. However, because the suffering is diffuse, not concentrated in one place at one time, it is ignored by the media and society.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Sep 28–Oct 4 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
→ read full articleThe Ministry of Fear
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
26 Sep 2015 – “We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” said President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was wrong.
→ read full articleIPB 2015 MacBride Prize Awarded to Two Island Communities
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The International Peace Bureau is delighted to announce its decision to award the annual Sean MacBride Peace Prize to two island communities that, in different circumstances, show proof of a profound commitment to peace and social justice: Lampedusa (Italy) and Gangjeon Village, Jeju Island (S. Korea). It will be formally awarded on Oct 23, 2015 in Padova, Italy.
→ read full articleWhy Dorothy Day Matters Today
Eileen Fleming – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Dorothy Day was a prolific writer and 20th century Made in the USA Catholic Christian anarchist. She co-founded The Catholic Worker newspaper on May Day 1933 with Peter Maurin to educate the public about the social justice teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
→ read full articleUsing Positivizers: Focus on Verbs
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Use each verb in the appropriate blank. Then expand the list with verbal positivizers in contextualized messages. Use the set for group reflection.
→ read full articleUS Pharmaceutical Industry Price-Gouging and the Case of Martin Shkreli
Nick Barrickman, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The anger was further fueled by the stance taken by Shkreli, a 32-year-old former hedge fund manager, who unapologetically defended the move (to raise the cost of a drug to treat AIDS and cancer from $13.50 to more than $750 per pill) on the grounds that it served his company’s bottom line. “There’s no doubt, I’m a capitalist… I’m trying to create a big drug company, a successful drug company, a profitable drug company. We’re trying to flourish.”
→ read full articleAfter the Iran Nuclear Agreement: Will the Nuclear Powers also Play by the Rules?
Lawrence S. Wittner, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Despite the insistence of the nuclear powers that Iran comply with the NPT, it is pretty clear that these nuclear-armed countries do not consider themselves bound to comply with this landmark agreement, signed by 189 nations. Some of the nuclear powers, in fact, have been quite brazen in rejecting it.
→ read full articleSergeant Bowe Bergdahl and the Psychology of War
Arnold Oliver, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
It is seldom reported that rates of PTSD greatly increase for veterans that have harmed prisoners or civilians. Among Vietnam veterans, about 13 percent reported personally inflicting harm to those groups. Their rates of PTSD were quadruple those of non-harming vets according to a study by the National Institutes of Health.
→ read full articleEric Voegelin’s ‘Leap in Being’
Andrew Hoffman, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
We may think of Eric Voegelin as a philosopher’s philosopher, the quintessential lover of wisdom, a paragon of man pursuing the quest for truth, seeking the Holy Grail, the philosopher’s stone. Among his many brilliant and poetic and philosophical formulations, perhaps none is as mesmerizing as the mystical term, “leap in being.”
→ read full articleDisaster Capitalism: Outsourcing Violence and Exploitation
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
In his just-released book, ‘Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe’, Antony Loewenstein offers us a superb description of the diminishing power of national governments and international organisations as multinational corporations consolidate their control over the political and economic life of the planet.
→ read full articlePhysicist David Bohm and Buddhist Monk Matthieu Ricard on How We Shape What We Call Reality
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
“Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe… What we believe determines what we take to be true.”
→ read full articleDebunking the Myth of American Exceptionalism
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The myth of American Exceptionalism is widely, but perhaps insincerely, believed by most American thought-leaders and political and economic elites, whether they are radical Republican Party members/voters or are members/voters of the moderate “Republican” wing of the Democratic Party.
→ read full articleThe Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
“All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle. I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of duty, but because duty has no hold on him unless he desires to be dutiful. If you wish to know what men will do, you must know not only, or principally, their material circumstances, but rather the whole system of their desires with their relative strengths.” — Bertrand Russell, Nobel Literature Laureate
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Mother Agnès-Mariam of the Cross Visit Syria and Iran
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Insights into the Conflict and Military Catastrophe against Syria, Other Middle East Countries
→ read full articleThe Magna Carta of Integral Ecology: Cry of the Earth – Cry of the Poor
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
It is the first time a pope addresses the issue of ecology in the sense of an integral ecology (as it goes beyond the environment) in such a complete way. He elaborates the subject on the new ecological paradigm, which no official document of the UN has done so far.
→ read full articleDorothy Day: Prayer and Action
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
It has probably been some time since Dorothy Day was praised in the halls of the US Congress as she was on 24 Sep 2015 by Pope Francis who said, “In these times when social concerns are so important, I cannot fail to mention the Servant of God Dorothy Day, who founded the Catholic Worker Movement. Her social activism, her passion for justice and for the cause of the oppressed, were inspired by the Gospel, her faith, and the example of the saints.”
→ read full articleHow AIPAC-OFAC Are Working to Maintain Sanctions Targeting Iran and Her Students
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Only a small percentage of Iran and America’s population has ever met face to face. Almost none of both countries citizens under the age of 35 have ever engaged in long, often fascinating and passionate conversations.
→ read full articleKissinger: A Hero of Our Time
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
For me, Kissinger was the anti-hero, somehow available to justify the unjustifiable, and situate himself in a tradition of statecraft that celebrated the European invention of modern international relations in the 17th-19th centuries.
→ read full articleSea Shepherd Successfully Leads Hundreds of Dolphins and Pilot Whales Away from the Killing Beaches
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
23 Sep 2015 – Over the past three months, the Sea Shepherd ships Brigitte Bardot, Sam Simon, and more recently the Bob Barker, in collaboration with the Sea Shepherd land crew, have successfully escorted hundreds of dolphins, including pilot whales, away from the killing beaches of the Faroe Islands, Denmark.
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Strawberry Fields Forever (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Carlos Bonell's Channel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Carlos Bonell solo guitar arrangements of Strawberry Fields Forever, a classic from Lennon & McCartney. Enjoy!
→ read full articleHumanity United For Universal Demilitarisation
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Those who share my vision are welcome to go to the microphone and address the masses of people who will be at London’s famous Trafalgar Square on 14 November 2015. Please mark your calendar.
→ read full article17 Sustainable Peace Goals [21 Sep Int’l Day of Peace]: The TRANSCEND Approach
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
The United Nations is adopting 17 Sustainable Development Goals, with nothing about peace. Here are 17 Sustainable Peace Goals, based on much experience, for consideration and comment.
→ read full article(Italiano) Giappone: Attentato Alla Costituzione Pacifista
Pressenza Int’l Press Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
18 set 2015 – A tarda notte di oggi (in realtà per i giapponesi di domani) il Senato giapponese ha approvato le controverse norme sulla sicurezza che, in realtà, minano alla base il principio pacifista sancito dall’articolo 9 della Costituzione che impedisce la formazione di un esercito e dà alle “forze di autodifesa” una funzione non belligerante.
→ read full articleOn My Beloved Wife Helen’s Dignity
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
12 September 2015
Helen`s life as a spouse was lived in dignity
enhanced by her daily spiritual activity
(Português) O lado escuro do Chocolate – Documentário que a Nestlé se recusou a assistir
A Arte da Omissão – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Com este tipo de acções não se pretende que os produtos não sejam produzidos e vendidos. Pretende-se que as respectivas corporações tomem medidas e não façam de conta que não sabem. Por vezes tal só é conseguido, quando o mundo grita e pára de comprar o fruto dessa exploração humana. Espero que partilhem este documentário e expliquem aos vossos filhos o que se passa. Subtitulada en Español.
→ read full articleInternational Day of Peace – 21 Sep 2015
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
The United Nations invites all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities during the Day, and to otherwise commemorate the Day through education and public awareness on issues related to peace.
→ read full articleWhat Rothschild, Murdoch, Cheney, and Israel Love Most about Syria
Claire Bernish, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
OIL.
→ read full articleUN Releases War Crimes Report on Sri Lanka
K. Ratnayake, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
17 Sep 2015 – The nearly 300-page report declares that “serious war crimes” and “human right violations” were committed by the Sri Lankan military and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during the island’s 26-year war. Around 200,000 people, mainly members of the ethnic Tamil minority, were killed. An estimated 40,000 Tamil civilians trapped in the war zone were killed during the final months of the military offensive in 2009.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Tobacco Files: University Scientists Caught Conspiring with Biotech Industry to Manipulate Public Opinion on GMOs
Dave Murphy, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
What happens when a private company with a long history of producing some of the most toxic chemicals on the planet and now produces our food starts facing public pressure from a growing national grassroots movement to label their products to conform with basic principles of democracy and transparency?
→ read full article(Português) Eterna Gratidão, Aplauso e Reconhecimento
Rui Afonso Silva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
O meu Pai Afonso nos deixou
Mas uma marca indelével aqui ficou
Discretamente por esta vida passou
Honesta e seriamente sempre trabalhou
Três vezes do zero a vida recomeçou
Letter from the Democratic People’s Republic of [North] Korea: Who Is the Real Aggressor? (Part 1)
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
North Koreans, proud of the cultural heritage, artistic legacies and common language they share with fellow Koreans in the south, long for reunification of the peninsula. DPRK proposals for reunification are based on three principles: Independence (negotiated by Koreans without foreign interference), Federation (limited powers of central government with both north and south retaining autonomy in many areas), and Peaceful Means (mutual commitment to resolving issues nonviolently).
→ read full articleFrom the Dept of Sacred Satire: God Responds to Kim Davis
Rob Okun, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
To: Kim Davis
From: God
Re: My Authority
I’m writing to clarify my position on your citing Me as the reason you refused to issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Shady Chocolate – The Dark Side of Chocolate
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Ever since it was revealed that the chocolate industry is involved with child slavery in the Ivory Coast, the industry has been busy – due to consumer demands – explaining what exactly it does to actively fight trafficking and child labour. But does the industry live up to its own promises?
→ read full articlePut a Little Love in the Next US Election
Kristin Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Amplifying love’s role in foreign policy does not involve being romantic, dreamy, duped, conquered, or unaware of other factors necessary for peace. Amplifying love’s role involves shedding naive beliefs in the false magic of threats, hatred, weapons, self-centered wealth, and one-sided triumph.
→ read full articleResponsibility
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
One can distinguish between two concepts of responsibility, in the narrow sense of someone who has caused a problem, and in the wider sense of anyone who can correct a problem, even if he or she has not caused it, as the following story told by Roger Fisher illustrates.
→ read full articleWhy Rich Gulf States Don’t Take In Syrians
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Unlike Israel, the Gulf States are not neighbours of Syria. They are Muslim and have more money than they know what to do with. But as their workforces are almost entirely immigrant, and without rights, the States don’t want to accept asylum-seekers who have internationally recognised needs and rights.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The Weird ‘Good Fortune’ of Tsutomu Yamaguchi (5)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
“I was struck by the decision to bomb Hiroshima instead of Kyoto out of respect for Kyoto’s cultural heritage. It was the then Secretary of War, Henry L Stimson, who is credited with making the successful plea to the president to spare Kyoto.”
→ read full articleRefugee Mass Exodus: Need for an UN-led World Conference
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
EU members of the UNHRC requested an “Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on the human rights of migrants” which was held a month ago. However, the dialogue had not been “enhanced” by research or a longer-range perspective. Moreover, the scale of the crisis in Europe largely overshadowed other refugee flows such as those from Myanmar (Burma), which are also critical and may have long-range consequences.
→ read full articleDrowned Syrian Toddlers: Collateral Damage from America’s De-Stabilizing, Endless, Post-911 “Wars on Terror”
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
“Show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don’t care.” – Conservative Sun (a British daily newspaper) columnist Katie Hopkins, commenting on the homeless war refugees from war-torn Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc. who are fleeing their militarily de-stabilized and devastated countries after their homes and homelands had been reduced to bloody rubble.
→ read full articleIsrael Shows the Way in the Global Pacification Industry
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Any state which is fighting an insurgency or ‘radicalisation’ – and most are – is likely to be looking to Israel for its equipment, information and expertise learned in over 65 years of ‘pacifying’ the Palestinians says Jeff Halper in his powerful new book. Indeed, without Palestine to control, Israel would just be another New Zealand. Instead its ‘security’ techniques have brought it to the heart of NATO.
→ read full articleThe Oldest Living Things on Earth
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
“Our overblown intellectual faculties seem to be telling us both that we are eternal and that we are not,” philosopher Stephen Cave observed in his poignant meditation on our mortality paradox. And yet we continue to long for the secrets of that ever-elusive eternity.
→ read full articleHas Charlie Hebdo’s Cartoon Mocking Drowned Syrian Child Gone Too Far?
John Vibes, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
16 Sep 2015 – Charlie Hebdo, the French so-called comic magazine that creates art for the sole purpose of being offensive, has released one of its most controversial and insulting images yet, and this time many people are saying they have gone too far: making fun of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, found drowned in a Turkish beach.
→ read full article(Français) Comment les alliés des États-Unis apportent leur aide à Al-Qaïda en Syrie
Daniel Lazare, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
La stratégie de l’administration Obama visant à obtenir un « changement de régime » en Syrie renferme un secret fâcheux : elle revient à nouer une alliance de fait avec le Front Al-Nosra, branche d’Al-Qaïda tendant vers une victoire éventuelle, aidé directement et indirectement par l’Arabie Saoudite, la Turquie et l’entité sioniste.
→ read full articleThe Axis of Evil
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
NATO is split, Germany-France opposing the USA, which wants Ukraine, neo-Nazi or not, to contain Russia and China. German-French opposition may spell EU liberation from USA. Reading the signs on the wall, big EU states may not want to go down with the USA. Reading the sign-readers, the USA may prepare for exactly that.
→ read full article(Português) Uma outra forma de resolver os conflitos
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
A humanidade, especialmente, sob o patriarcado, conheceu conflitos de toda ordem. A forma predominante de resolvê-los foi e é a utilização da violência, para dobrar o outro e enquadrá-lo numa determinada ordem. Esse é o pior dos caminhos, pois deixa nos vencidos um rastro de amargura, humilhação e de vontade de vingança.
→ read full articleYemen: A War Crime Made in America
Niles Williamsonm, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
On Sunday [20 Sep 2015], a Saudi-led coalition air strike ripped through a market in Sanaa, Yemen, killing 69 civilians and injuring dozens of others. In the 24 hour period between Friday and Saturday morning, at least 57 civilians were killed and a further 130 people wounded in coalition air strikes throughout the country. President Obama welcomed Saudi King Salman to the White House with open arms earlier this month, even as Saudi war planes were slaughtering and terrorizing men, women and children throughout Yemen.
→ read full articleThe Horrifying Syrian Dilemma Persists
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
What this prolonged dilemma in the face of mass atrocity shows is the deficiency of state-centric world order if appraised from the perspective of human wellbeing rather than national interests. The failures in Syria are not just the shortcomings of diplomacy and manipulations of geopolitics, but also a severe mismatch between structures and capabilities of global authority and the vulnerabilities of the peoples of the world.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Sep 21-27 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
→ read full article(Deutsch) Die Krise des Lebens und der Selbstverwirklichung
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Doch alles im Leben ist von Krise gekennzeichnet: die Krise der Geburt, der Jugend, der Wahl des Lebenspartners, der Berufswahl, des Mittagsdämons, wie Freud die Midlife-Crisis der Menschen in ihren 40er Jahren bezeichnet, wenn uns bewusst wird, dass wir schon den Gipfel erreicht haben und im Abstieg begriffen sind. Und schließlich die große Krise des Todes, wenn wir von Zeit zu Ewigkeit schreiten.
→ read full articleWhen Senegalese Writer Fatou Diome Kicked European Union Butt
Oumar Ba, Africa Is a Country – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
“It’s as if letting them drown is used as a deterrent to prevent migrants from coming to Europe. But let me tell you something: that doesn’t deter anyone… because the individual who is migrating as a survival instinct, who believes that the life they are living isn’t worth much, he’s not afraid of death. Sir, you guys will not remain like little goldfish in the European fortress. “
→ read full articleGood Question
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Someone who farms is a farmer.
→ read full article33 Years After the Sabra-Shatila Massacre Takfiri Calls for “Intifada!” Waft from Lebanon’s Camps
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Denying justice and blocking elementary civil rights for Palestinians in Lebanon is subverting peace in this region and the “terrorist-takfiri” elements are manipulating this reality to establish bases in Lebanon’s camps.
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Zorba’s Dance [Sirtaki] (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
André Rieu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
André Rieu & his Johann Strauss Orchestra performing Zorba’s Dance (Sirtaki) live in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Simply Beautiful! A Greek Classic
Mordechai Vanunu: What the World Needs to Know about Israel’s Nuclear Whistle-blower
Eileen Fleming – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Because Vanunu was a good worker, he was cross-trained in many areas and when he realized he was a cog in the making of weapons of mass destruction he decided to document the facts by photographing the evidence.
→ read full articleUS Seek Control of EU Elites via Refugee Crisis
Oriental Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Exclusive English translation of the interview given by Andrew Korybko to the Iranian FARS News agency on the origins of Syrian war, refugee crisis in the EU and the US interest in making radicals infiltrate Europe.
→ read full articleResonant Chamber (Music Video)
Animusic HD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Stunning Computer-Animated Music
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 9: A New Economic System; a New Society
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
We need a new economic system, a new society, a new social contract, a new way of life. Here are the great tasks that history has given to our generation:
→ read full article(Italiano) Islam e Occidente: strade verso la pace
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Conflitto principale: non Israele contro Palestina, ma Israele-USA contro il mondo musulmano. La sciagurata formula “giudaico-cristiana” esclude la terza religione abramitica, l’Islam. USA e Israele si costituirono come paesi scelti dalle loro divinità con terre promesse abitate da Altri. Requisiti minimi qui sono la piena autonomia e dignità per gli spossessati.
→ read full articleNetherlands Bans Wild Animals in Circuses
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
It is now illegal for wild animals such as lions, bears, elephants and giraffes to be used in circuses in the Netherlands! On Sep 15, 2015 a ban on wild animals in circuses officially went into effect.
→ read full articleInternational Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons – 26 Sep 2015
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
As of 2015, some 16,000 nuclear weapons remain. Countries possessing such weapons have well-funded, long-range plans to modernize their nuclear arsenals. More than half of the world’s population still lives in countries that either have such weapons or are members of nuclear alliances.
→ read full articleOutlook India: Interview on ‘Digital India’ & PM Narendra Modi
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
I am posting here an interview with the magazine OUTLOOK INDIA associated with an open letter that was signed by more than 100 Indian scholars and intellectuals, as well as those such as myself with a long research and human interest in India, expressing concern about the forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Silicon Valley to promote his vision of ‘Digital India.’
→ read full article(Português) Para Ler em 2050
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Carta Maior - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
É estranho que uma época que começou como só tendo futuro tenha terminado como só tendo passado.
→ read full articleThe Real Menace
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
I am afraid. I am not ashamed to admit it. I am afraid of the Islamic State movement, alias ISIS, alias Daesh. It is the only real danger that threatens Israel, that threatens the world, that threatens me. Those who treat it today with equanimity, with indifference, will come to regret it.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The Iran Agreement in Perspective (4)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
This nuclear agreement reflects ‘where we are’ in dealing with global crises, not ‘where we should be.’ If we value international law, global justice, and indeed the future of the human species, then the distinction between the realm of the ‘feasible’ and the realm of the ‘desirable’ deserves energetic critical exposure by all of us who fancy ourselves as citizen pilgrims.
→ read full article9/11 Fourteen Years Later
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Millions of refugees from Washington’s wars are currently over-running Europe. Washington’s 14-year and ongoing slaughter of Muslims and destruction of their countries are war crimes for which the US government’s official 9/11 conspiracy theory was the catalyst.
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