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Why 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 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 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 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.
→ read full articleIt’s Time to Reopen the American and Iranian Embassies and Promote Reconciliation
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
The rationale for opening both Iran’s and America’s embassies is compelling and goes back to the reasons for The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 to which 190 countries are signatories. Embassies contribute to the achievement of international peace and security and facilitate the work, cultural exchanges, business, travel, and development of both countries.
→ read full articleIslam and the West: Roads toward Peace
Johan Galtung, 14 Sep 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Major conflict: not Israel vs Palestine but Israel-USA vs the Muslim world. The unfortunate “Judeo-Christianity” formula excludes the third Abrahamic religion, Islam. USA and Israel came into being as chosen by their gods with promised lands inhabited by Others. Full autonomy and dignity for the dispossessed are minimum requirements. Migrants should be received by those who caused the problem; for Syria-Iraq, above all USA; for Africa, above all the colonial powers.
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Here, There and Everywhere (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The Beatles – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
John Lennon and Paul McCartney heard ‘God Only Knows’ by The Beach Boys at a party, which inspired them to go back to Lennon’s house and write this wonderful song.
→ read full articleWalter’s Search
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
He said he joined the Army
to give meaning to his life,
(Português) Europa Colhe O Que Plantou
Frei Betto, Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Após extorquir riquezas naturais e sustentar ditadores sanguinários, os europeus deixaram um lastro de miséria e violência. Tivessem promovido a democracia e o desenvolvimento daqueles países, não estariam agora erguendo muros.
→ read full articleUN Plan to Save Earth Is “Fig Leaf” for Big Business: Insiders
Nafeez Ahmed, Insurge Intelligence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Why the new Sustainable Development agenda is “fundamentally compromised” by corporate interests. UN records reveal that the intergovernmental body has already marginalised the very groups it claims to be rescuing from poverty, hunger and climate disaster.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Sep 14-20 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.” – Osho
→ read full articleBritain’s Mafia State
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Where does legitimate business end and organised crime begin?
→ read full articleRethinking Syria
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
The current U.S. policy of simultaneously seeking to overthrow Assad and push back ISIS is simply unworkable.
→ read full articleThe Traveller’s Guide to Hawai’i – 2035 Edition
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
We begin our visit with this part of O’ahu as a “hologram” introduction to the Hawaiian nation. Travellers who last visited these jewels in the expanse of the Pacific while they were still US colonies will notice the small and large changes that have since occurred. Enjoy your visit to the newly independent Hawai’i.
→ read full articleCreative Minds: Lessons from Halfway Around the Globe
Dr. Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
8 Sep 2015 – A decade ago, as a medical student doing volunteer work at a hospital in India’s capital of New Delhi, Duncan Maru saw a young patient who changed the course of his career: a 12-year-old boy in a coma caused by advanced tuberculosis (TB).
→ read full articleChildren
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
We spend the first 2 years of children’s life teaching them to walk and talk.
→ read full articleReflections on a Summer
Oliver Stone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
10 Sep 2015 – I know there is karma. I know it will come for our country in one form or another. It already has in some ways – in the callousness of the majority’s response to other people’s suffering in wars we’ve needlessly begun. What is so much of this refugee problem in Europe about, but the people that we helped displace in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Likud Troika: Burying the Oslo ‘Peace Process’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
12 Sep 2015 – Israel’s relentless accumulation of territorial facts on the ground some years ago doomed the peace process associated with the Oslo Framework of Principles adopted in 1993. It became increasingly difficult to envisage an Israeli willingness to dismantle settlements and road network or remove the separation barrier, and without such steps there could never be achieved an independent and viable Palestinian state.
→ read full article(Italiano) Epistemologia degli studi per la pace: Descartes-Vico-Taoismo e l’Europa
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Intervento introduttivo, European Peace Research Association, Tromsö, Norvegia – L’epistemologia è la branca della filosofia che si occupa della conoscenza valida; e il punto focale di questa conferenza è la pace in Europa. Viviamo in un mondo meraviglioso benedetto da molte civiltà, ciascuna delle quali con un’epistemologia, e in un continente con una ricca varietà. Mio compito è attingere a qualcosa di tutto ciò e applicarlo alla politica di pace dell’Europa.
→ read full article(Italiano) La scottante attualità di Fanon
Raúl Zibechi, Commune Info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Alla decolonizzazione del pensiero critico e delle pratiche di emancipazione ispirate dallo psichiatra nero della Martinica, Raúl Zibechi ha dedicato il suo ultimo libro. In questo articolo riassume le cinque principali ragioni della straordinaria attualità politica della lezione antirazzista e antieurocentrica di Fanon, un pensatore lontano dall’accademia che ha messo la vita intera al servizio della lotta anticoloniale in Algeria e nel mondo.
→ read full articlePalestinian Flag to Fly at UN HQ after 119 Nations Vote ‘Yes’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
11 Sep 2015 – UN General Assembly has passed a Palestinian resolution to allow its flag fly in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York, angering Israel and giving hope to Palestinians seeking to gain full UN membership.
→ read full article‘Yemen after Five Months Looks Like Syria after Five Years’
Michael Avender, CODEPink – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
The Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen: How the Saudi-Led Coalition and the US Government Guarantee No Visible End to the War
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 8: The Cooperative Movement
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
In the future, small cooperative communities, like the Ghandian villages or Transition Towns, may be able to give us not only a more sustainable way of life, but also increased happiness, based warm life-long friendships and the pleasure of doing good to others.
→ read full articleBurma: Divisive Ceasefire Won’t Bring Peace
Maung Zarni and Saw Kapi, DVB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Burma’s leaders, particularly generals past and present, lack both genuine acceptance of multi-ethnic peace on equal terms and an appreciation for the decades of bitter experiences of war-torn communities. Without these two essential pillars, sustainable peace in my country of birth is not conceivable, formal ceasefire or not.
→ read full articleRefugees Right to Survive: A Nonkilling Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
When refugees may die while fleeing from violence where they live,
What assistance to those people do other countries give?
Why Some People Are Left-Handed
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
An evolutionary parable of how the contradictory forces of competition and cooperation shaped human destiny.
→ read full articleDe-Coding What the Perpetrators of 9/11/2001 Have Been Telling the Whistle-blowing Searchers for the Truth
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
“Der Fuhrer said: ‘The fascist state must not forget that all means must serve the ends; it must not let itself be confused by the drivel about so-called freedom of the press… it must make sure that (the media) is placed in the service of the state.’
→ read full articleBreaking the Cycle: How to Build Sustainable Peace Using Contact Theory
Thomas B. Etzel, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Contact Theory posits that negative attitudes can be reduced by promoting contact and familiarity between conflicting groups. It emphasizes the development of personal relationships on a more intimate level and works best when applied to youth and children’s peace building programs.
→ read full articleBishop Desmond Tutu
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
In 1984 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent struggle against apartheid. In 1995, one year after the first democratic elections in which all South Africans were allowed to participate, President Nelson Mandela appointed Bishop Tutu to head the 17-member South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which exposed atrocities committed by all sides during the long apartheid regime.
→ read full articleAn Appeal for Shimon Perez and the Israeli Government to Do the Right Thing and Free Vanunu
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
After 31 years of punishment, Mordechai should be allowed to leave Israel, he is no threat to Israeli security, and it is wrong of the Israeli government to continue to punish him in this way.
→ read full article(Português) Entre todas do mundo, a polícia brasileira é a que mais mata, diz Anistia Internacional
Jornal GGN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Dos homicídios registrados no Brasil, 15,6% os autores são policiais. E o perfil das vítimas permanece: jovens negros. Depois da brasileira, a polícia dos Estados Unidos está entre as três mais violentas do mundo, envolvida em vários casos de assassinatos de negros nos últimos meses.
→ read full articleElites Want More Refugees: Why?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Refugees are just one symptom of a deeper crisis. Moreover, like other symptoms of this deeper crisis, the global elite is happy to use this symptom to keep us utterly preoccupied; after all, the immediacy of the refugee problem is all too demanding of our attention and our compassion.
→ read full articleEquality in the USA: More Work to Be Done
Wim Laven, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Even though we are in the year 2015, equality is still not something many have in the U.S. We can help rediscover the dream and the passion for equality by staying vigilant and understanding that there is still work to be done to create a better system and a better society.
→ read full articleThe Sympathetic Skeptic: Luis Cabrera’s Interview with Richard Falk On Behalf Of the World Government Research Network
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
12 Sep 2015 – The following interview was conducted by Professor Luis Cabrera, a political theorist on the faculty of Griffith University in Brisbane Australia. Cabrera has written notable books on themes of world government and global integration.
→ read full articleThe Continuing Tragedy in Budapest
Diana Love – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
8 Sep 2015 – Last week, I was in Budapest, Hungary, mostly for vacation and a little for work. I went to Keleti Palaudvar, the train station in Budapest where thousands of refugees were temporarily settled, making it ground zero for international coverage of the crisis.
→ read full articleGaza Could Become Uninhabitable in Less Than Five Years Due to Ongoing ‘De-Development’– UN Report
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
1 Sep 2015 – A new report by UNCTAD warns that the Gaza Strip could become “uninhabitable” by 2020 if current economic trends persist. In addition to eight years of economic blockade, over the past six years, Gaza has endured three military operations that have shattered its ability to export and produce for the domestic market, ravaged its already debilitated infrastructure, and left no time for reconstruction and economic recovery.
→ read full articleBruce Lee on the Power of Repose and the Strength of Yielding
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Nothing in the world is more yielding and softer than water; yet it penetrates the hardest. Insubstantial, it enters where no room is. It is so fine that it is impossible to grasp a handful of it; strike it, yet it does not suffer hurt; stab it, and it is not wounded. Be the water.
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi Israël est un Etat raciste
Mohammed Bentoumi, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
La Convention internationale sur l’élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination raciale remonte à 1965. Dans les faits cependant, le racisme est toujours vivant.
→ read full article(Français) Le sort des réfugiés démasque l’hypocrisie des guerres “humanitaires”
Bassem Khouzam, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
3 septembre 2015 – Après avoir découvert la vidéo de réfugiés molestés par la police macédonienne fin août, un Syrien nous témoigne sa colère. Pour des raisons soi-disant humanitaires, la Syrie a été plongée dans le chaos. Mais lorsqu’il s’agit de gérer les conséquences de cette désastreuse entreprise, l’Europe manque à l’appel humanitaire.
→ read full articleAppeal to UK to Talk with Syrian Government and Islamic Militants to Help Solve Middle East Refugee Crisis
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire calls upon the UK government to move from military proposals, such as bombing Syria, to humanitarian solutions in tackling the refugee crisis, one of the greatest tragedies and human suffering facing Europe since the WWII.
→ read full articleAs Yemen Assault Continues, US Announces Billion-Dollar Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia
Niles Williamson, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
While the deal is ostensibly aimed at easing Saudi concerns over the US-Iran nuclear deal, it also facilitates the escalation of the Saudi monarchy’s bloody assault on Yemen.
→ read full articleThe Face of a Boy
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
The Israel that presents itself to the world now is a state of occupiers, of oppressors, of brutal colonizers, of soldiers armed to the teeth who arrest people in the middle of the night and persecute them during the day. This face changes the perception of Israel throughout the world. The terrified face of young Muhammad Tamimi may well haunt us for a long time to come.
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