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Gifts
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Beggars we were by the looks of it,
Our hosts were gracious making way,
We might have been gods or sly kings
Strangers as Friends — Keeping Loneliness at Bay
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
In today’s world what do we observe? Friendship is rare and occasionally we cannot even depend on the so called friends who may be putting on a facade of being your friend.
→ read full articleOn Nonconformity: Artist Ben Shahn’s Spirited Defense of Nonconformists as Society’s Engine of Growth and Greatness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
“Without the nonconformist, any society of whatever degree of perfection must fall into decay.”
→ read full articleHow Harmonious Might Be Our World
Adolf Pavlovich Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
How harmonious might be our world
Full of spiritual pastoral songs
If we didn’t do wrong or go wrong,
Australia: Desperate Refugee Sets Fire to Himself in a Bank
Peter Byrne | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
22 Nov 2016 – A young Rohingya who fled Burma as an unaccompanied teenager four years ago doused himself with petrol and set himself alight in a branch of the Commonwealth Bank. Nur Islam, 21, had been living in acute poverty at Melbourne. He was on a temporary bridging visa, which not only denied him refugee status but blocked basic social and political rights, including to work.
→ read full article‘Mass Destruction’ of Ethnic Rohingya Villages Underway in Burma, Human Rights Group Warns
Nicola Smith – The Telegraph,
28 Nov 2016
New satellite imagery from Burma’s western Rakhine state reveals mass destruction in ethnic Rohingya villages, said Human Rights Watch on Monday [21 Nov 2016], calling for an urgent UN investigation. The high resolution images show that 820 structures were destroyed in five villages in the jungles of the remote state.
→ read full articleRwandan Catholic Church Admits Role in Genocide, Apologizes
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Embarrassed for its leading role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which saw more than 800,000 people massacred, the Catholic Church in that country issued a statement apologizing on Sunday [20 Nov]. The Church’s admission of guilt comes after years of denying its role in that and many other genocides around the world.
→ read full articleUNHCR in Bangladesh Accuses Myanmar Troops of Killings, Rape, Arson in Rohingya Communities
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
24 Nov 2016 – The head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the Bangladesh border with Myanmar has accused the army of crimes against Rohingya Muslim communities. Thousands have fled to Bangladesh in a growing crisis.
→ read full article“Nigeria Faces Worst Humanitarian Crisis on African Continent
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
With nearly 400,000 children facing starvation in Nigeria, and citizens suffering with little to no protection, security, food or access to clean water, “Nigeria is facing the worst humanitarian crisis on the African continent,” Peter Lundberg, the acting United Nations Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator, had on 26 October 2016 – warned.
→ read full articleNYT Advocates Internet Censorship
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
28 Nov 2016
In its lead editorial on Sunday [20 Nov 2016], The New York Times decried what it deemed “The Digital Virus Called Fake News” and called for Internet censorship, taking particular aim at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for letting “liars and con artists hijack his platform.” But the Times ignores its own record of publishing “fake news.”
→ read full articlePracticing Disobedience: Social and Environmental Justice Depends on Our Capacity to Disobey
Max Wilbert - CounterPunch,
28 Nov 2016
From birth, we are trained to obey authority. For most of the history, our authority figures were elders and chiefs who would be trusted, wise individuals who put the needs of the community first. Today we live in a different world, a world run by sociopaths. It is hard to resist social pressures, especially when we have become accustomed to going along with norms. But it is essential that we learn how to disobey.
→ read full articleTo Prevent or Stop Wars – What Can Peace Movements Do?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
The present chair of War Resisters’ International, Christine Schweitzer, and Jørgen Johansen have just published a book on one of the key questions for peace movements: Have they ever prevented or stopped a war?
→ read full articleMany Forms of Violence against Women
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
25 November is the day designated by the UN General Assembly as the “International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.” Gender inequality and the walls built around the informal sector are the marks of the “silent violence” against women. Amartya Sen defined the major challenge of human development as “broadening the limited lives into which the majority of human beings are willy-nilly imprisoned by the forces of circumstances”.
→ read full articleThe Need for the Entry into Force of the CTBT
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
25 Nov 2016 – Since its adoption by the UN in 1996, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty has remained in a singular and unprecedented situation. The negotiation of a ban on nuclear weapons due to start in March 2017 at the United Nations provides a promising and authoritative forum for reaching agreement on realistic measures of nuclear disarmament as well as on a decisive push for a universal, legally binding prohibition of tests.
→ read full articleOpportunism & Greed
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.
→ read full articleBangladesh Pushes Back Rohingya Refugees amid Collective Punishment in Myanmar
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
• Rohingya refugees and asylum-seekers being detained and forcibly returned;
• lack of water, food and medical care;
• both governments preventing thousands from accessing aid;
• harrowing details of Myanmar military attacks on villages.
Seeking the True Path
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
One of the more subtle manifestations of the intimate link between (unconscious) human emotions and behaviour is illustrated by the simple concept of choice and how this is so often reduced to a dichotomy between two bad options. In such circumstances, most people choose whatever they consider to be ‘the lesser evil’.
→ read full article‘We Cannot Believe [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi’: Why Many in Burma Are Losing Hope of Peace
Paul Vrieze and Lawa Yang - Time Magazine,
28 Nov 2016
Burma’s de facto leader can’t control an army with a vested interest in conflict.
→ read full articleA Collection of Thoughts about American Foreign Policy
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #146 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Louis XVI needed a revolution, Napoleon needed two historic military defeats, the Spanish Empire in the New World needed multiple revolutions, the Russian Czar needed a communist revolution, the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires needed World War I, Nazi Germany needed World War II, Imperial Japan needed two atomic bombs, the Portuguese Empire in Africa needed a military coup at home, the Soviet Empire needed Mikhail Gorbachev … What will the American Empire need?
→ read full articleWell-being Economy: A Scenario for a Post-Growth Horizontal Governance System
Lorenzo Fioramonti | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
For the past half century, western societies have used a narrow definition of economic growth as the route to development. Growth has become an end in itself. As a result, the true meaning of development has been lost. Rather than an end goal, development should be viewed as a process towards an improved state of existence for humanity and the ecosystem.
→ read full articleBurma Is Pursuing ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Rohingya Muslims, U.N. Official Says
Feliz Solomon – Time Magazine,
28 Nov 2016
24 Nov 2016 – Burmese authorities are carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country’s western Arakan state, a senior U.N. official said. Thousands of stateless Rohingya Muslims are trying to reach Bangladesh amid reports of abuse by the Burmese army.
→ read full articleEscaping ‘Fortress Earth’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Reading Journey to Earthland is an extraordinary experience. Paul Raskin is not only a master navigator of the complexities of our world but someone who conveys a vision of the future that manages to surmount the unprecedented challenges facing humanity at several levels of social, cultural, and ecological being.
→ read full articleUS Arms Syrian Islamists with Surface-to-Air Missiles
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
23 Nov 2016 – A US-backed Islamist militia has been armed with portable surface-to-air missiles, so-called manpads. These weapons are capable of shooting down Syrian as well as Russian warplanes. This marks a major escalation of the US-backed war for regime-change that has devastated the country, leading to the deaths of some 300,000 Syrians.
→ read full articlePower Imbalance at the Pipeline Protest
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
When injustice aligns with cruelty, and heavy weaponry is involved, the results can be shameful and bloody. Witness what happened on Sunday [20 Nov] in North Dakota, when law enforcement officers escalated their tactics against unarmed American Indians and allies who have waged months of protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (X2)
#X2 | Johan Galtung from Washington DC, 23 Nov 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Trump 5 was supposed to be the last mini-column, but things happen, calling for a Trump X for Extra. As a businessman he marketed a product, his presidency, with unlimited praise and contempt for the other product on the market. He won in the sense of monopoly for his product, and then changed the product. No sense of contract with voter-buyer based on his publicity.
→ read full articleRepression and Nonviolent Resistance in Africa’s Last Colony
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
28 Nov 2016
Sultana Khaya’s eyes don’t match perfectly. One of them is artificial. In 2005, a Moroccan police officer rammed his baton into her eye socket while she was peacefully protesting with fellow college students. He then gouged her eye out with his hand. Sultana is Sahrawi, the indigenous population native to Western Sahara, occupied by the Kingdom of Morocco since 1975.
→ read full articleJust How Grey Are the White Helmets and Their Backers? (Part 2)
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
• The – bizarre – White Helmet Mannequin Challenge video;
• The Swedish Institute of International Affairs’s event with the White Helmets on November 24;
• The Right Livelihood Award Foundation’s Award Ceremony to take place on November 25
(Italiano) Una strategia nonviolenta per la liberazione della Siria
Robert J. Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
All’inizio del 2011, mentre le Primavere Arabe si diffondevano nel Nord Africa e nel Medio Oriente, in Siria, sottoposta alla legge marziale dal 1963, piccoli gruppi di attivisti nonviolenti iniziarono a protestare contro la dittatura brutale di Bashar al-Assad e a chiedere riforme democratiche, il rilascio dei prigionieri politici, maggiori libertà, l’abolizione della legge d’emergenza e la fine della corruzione.
→ read full articleIndia’s NGOs: A Mixed Blessing
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
The recent decisions of Indian government imposing stern controls on foreign nongovernmental organizations is deplorable but, sadly, not surprising. Illiberal and authoritarian governments are inherently allergic to civil society and, more broadly, to any institutions they don’t control. India and several other countries have either passed or proposed similar laws to curtail the activities of nongovernmental groups.
→ read full articleHuge Wall Built In Munich ‘to Protect Families’ from Refugees Who Will Live Next Door
The Mercury – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
16 Nov 2016 – A wall more than 3.8-meter tall is being built in Munich after locals raised fears young refugees would be moving into the area. The wall is taller than the infamous Berlin Wall, which separated West from Soviet Germany.
→ read full articleSettling the Confusion of Sovereignty and Independence
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Because international law distinguishes between “internal” and “external” sovereignties, a State would remain independent and sovereign, despite its government, which exercises its internal sovereignty, having been overthrown by another State and subsequently occupied. This is why the law of occupation mandates the occupier to administer the laws of the occupied State under Article 43 of the 1907 Hague Convention, IV.
→ read full article(Português) Élisée Reclus: “Não é um equívoco relacionar os horrores da guerra com o massacre do gado”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
“A porca chorava sem cessar, e de vez em quando soltava gemidos tão desesperadores que parecia simular a fala humana”.
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O Sole Mio (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Il Volo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
VIRTUOSI – Enjoy. Simply beautiful!
→ read full articleMyanmar’s War on the Rohingya
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
To preserve her reputation as a human rights champion, [Nobel Peace Laureate] Daw Aung San Suu Kyi needs to allow an impartial investigation into the violence.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (X)
#X | Johan Galtung - from Washington DC, 23 Nov 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2016
As a businessman he marketed a product, his presidency, with unlimited praise and contempt for the other product on the market. He won in the sense of monopoly for his product, and then changed the product. No sense of contract with voter-buyer based on his publicity.
→ read full articleCOP22 Declaration Calls for ‘Immediate Action and Mobilization’
teleSUR | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
The final declaration of the UN COP22 climate negotiations in Marrakech, issued midnight on Friday [18 Nov] after a full day extension of the talks, saw 196 countries agreeing to a two-year time limit for implementation of the Paris Accord and called on non-state actors to “join us for immediate and ambitious action and mobilization.”
→ read full articleA Changing China in a Changing World and a Changing Climate (Part 1)
Minister Hu Deping | Eco Jesuit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Paper presented by Prof. Frederick Dubee, of the TRANSCEND Network and the Beijing Genomics Institute, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Laudato si’ and the Path to COP22 at Vatican City.
→ read full articleAs the Planet Warms, Trump Sends a Chill through Marrakech
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
21 Nov 2016
17 Nov 2016 – Nowhere is the immediate and potentially devastating impact of Trump’s capture of the presidency felt more clearly than at the UN climate change summit here in Marrakech. Four years ago, Donald Trump famously tweeted, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”
→ read full articleBattle of the Desert: To Fight or to Flee? (I)
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
21 Nov 2016
“As the effects of climate change undermine livelihoods, inter-ethnic clashes are breaking out within and across states and fragile states are turning to militarisation to control the situation.” UNCCD
→ read full articleA Changing China in a Changing World and a Changing Climate (Part 2)
Minister Hu Deping | Eco Jesuit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Paper presented by Prof. Frederick Dubee, of the TRANSCEND Network and the Beijing Genomics Institute, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Laudato si’ and the Path to COP22 at Vatican City.
→ read full articleBattle of the Desert: A ‘Great Green Wall for Africa’ (II)
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
21 Nov 2016
Desertification, land degradation, drought, climate change, food insecurity, poverty, loss of biodiversity, forced migration and conflicts, are some of the key challenges facing Africa—a giant continent home to 1,2 billion people living in 54 countries.
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to Liberate Syria
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
It is the responsibility of the struggle’s strategic leadership to ensure that each of the strategic goals, which should be identified and prioritized according to their precise understanding of the circumstances in Syria, is being addressed. So here is a set of strategic goals to end the war in/on Syria.
→ read full articleWelcome to the Brave New (Trumpolitical/Trumponomic) World
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
17 Nov 2016 – We will be living among the myriad debris originated by the Trumpolitics IED. America invented the politically correct. Trump bombed politically correct. America is proud of corporate media. Trump bombed corporate media. These are already two important victories.
→ read full articleThe Lightness of Frailty
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Looking up, nothing
Like anything from here,
The constellations were unnamed,
Standing Rock Resistance: Something to Teach Us about Living Well
David Smith-Ferri - CounterPunch,
21 Nov 2016
Somehow, through all of this, almost all of the protestors remained peaceful, calling out to each other “Stand in your prayer,” and holding their ground. And where they didn’t remain peaceful, setting fires that burned a couple of cars, they were rebuked by the movement’s leadership. In a statement made after the arrests, Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II makes it clear that no form of violence by anyone is acceptable.
→ read full articleRecorded Webinar: Experiential Approaches to Peacebuilding
Bruce Dayton, John Ungerleider and Tatsushi Arai | School for International Training – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Led by three scholar-practitioners with extensive experience in the field, this webinar explores the role of experiential learning in the transformation of social conflict. It also presents real-world examples of experiential learning for peacebuilding.
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky on the Crises of Immigration
Noam Chomsky – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal,
21 Nov 2016
15 Nov 2016 — Pope Francis captured the essence of the crisis of immigration: “Migrants are not the danger. They are in danger.” We should be remediating their flight by addressing the causes of their flight, by greatly increasing humanitarian aid, by welcoming them into our midst. We should be reflecting seriously on another familiar phrase – “physician, heal thyself.”
→ read full articleR2P Palestinian Children: Proposals to Combat Drug Dealers Targeting Lebanon’s Camps (Part 2)
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
15 Nov 2016 – As cases of Palestinian camp children being targeted by drug dealers are further revealed, proposals are being put forward by the Palestinian Community, Local, Regional and International NGOs, and Civil Society organizations on how to end this scourge.
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Victory (Music Video of the Week)
Bond – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Music video by Bond performing Victory. (C) 2000 Decca Music Group Limited
→ read full articleHow a Battle over Affordable Medicine Helped Kill the TPP
James Trimarco – YES! Magazine,
21 Nov 2016
18 Nov 2016 – Amid the fallout from Donald Trump’s election is the end of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. After six years of negotiations, the controversial trade deal is dead. The debate about an exotic new kind of drug delayed the trade deal for years, thanks in part to relentless advocates who stood up to big pharma.
→ read full articleVolkswagen Charged with Aiding Brazilian Dictatorship in Torturing Workers
Armando Cruz | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
In 1980, when Lula led a 41-day strike for a 15 percent wage rise, the political police unit DOPS received a list of 436 workers from plants that belonged to VW, Mercedes-Benz and the steelmaker Villares. While there are also reports that these latter two companies (and others) collaborated with the regime, VW is the first one to be charged, to officially accept the charges and to negotiate for judicial reparations.
→ read full articleIndia: Terrorism, Elections, Corruption
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
When the British left India in 1947 the country was clean of any corruption. The bitter truth is that it was allowed to infect the system starting to rot from the top, first under Nehru, who was too romantic to notice the machinations of his satraps. His daughter made corruption a part of political policy. All political parties and leaders have happily followed suit since buying the votes of poor people is far easier than delivering development.
→ read full articleMyanmar: UN Expert Warns of Worsening Rights Situation after “Lockdown” in Rakhine State
United Nations Information Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
18 Nov 2016 – The Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, criticized the authorities for placing the region on “lockdown” for six weeks. She said a Government-led two-day visit to the area in early November by a UN official and nine ambassadors had produced only limited results in terms of addressing the humanitarian crisis.
→ read full articleHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54 m (5 ft 1 in) tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs, which were 0.70 m (27.5 in) long. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Toulouse-Lautrec is known along with Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gaugin as one of the greatest painters of the Post-Impressionist period.
→ read full articleVisualization in 3D of Dynamics of Toroidal Helical Coils
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
… in Quest of Optimum Designs for a Concordian Mandala
→ read full articleExamining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age
Bruce L. Cook, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
I am in the process of editing a forthcoming publication entitled Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age, to be published by IGI Global, an international publisher of progressive academic research. I would like to take this opportunity to cordially invite you to submit your work for consideration in this publication.
→ read full articleEarly Education
TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Caste Education
→ read full article(Português) Sobre textos que tentam desqualificar o veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Meu raciocínio vai ao encontro do que preconizava Donald Watson: “Minha prioridade é proporcionar o menor impacto possível aos seres vivos enquanto eu viver, e vou me adaptando às novidades sem problema algum.”
→ read full articleTowards a New, Green Economy
Peter A. Victor and Tim Jackson | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
This paper explores what we will call the green economy as a potential solution to the multiple challenges from climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource scarcity to social injustice, and financial instability.
→ read full articleWhat Standing Rock Tells Us about Civil Disobedience
Melissa Hellmann - YES! Magazine,
21 Nov 2016
The militarized response to communities of color signals a possible double standard in law enforcement’s acceptance of civil disobedience.
→ read full articleBruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
→ read full articleNever Give Up! Let Your Little Light Shine!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
15 Nov 2016 – This week saw solidarity actions around the world, including actions on several Hawaiian Islands, where people stood with Native Americans to protect sacred land and water at Standing Rock. In such dark times, we must rededicate ourselves in the spirit of nonviolence – kapua aloha, toward all people and redouble our efforts for justice, peace and the earth.
→ read full article(Français) Les accords commerciaux et la mondialisation du fascisme
Franklin Frederik | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
« Au cours des dernières années, il y a eu une tendance vers la démocratie et l’économie de marché. Cela a diminué le rôle du gouvernement, ce à quoi les milieux d’affaires sont tendanciellement favorables. Mais le revers de la médaille c’est que quelqu’un doit prendre la place des gouvernements, et les entreprises me semble être une entité logique pour le faire ». (David Rockefeller)
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Forbidden Archaeology: A Hidden History of the Human Race?
43 Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Researchers Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson have uncovered an incredible, irrefutable amount of archaeological evidence calling into question Darwin’s theory of evolution. Michael Cremo discusses this evidence over the last 150 years and gives several examples of archaeological evidence that has been systematically suppressed by the Western scientific establishment.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Nov 21-27 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table.’” – Tom Hanks
→ read full articleFiltering the Election
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
When the likes of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar Assad, and now Donald Trump, are declared the latest ‘New Hitler’, we learn little except that they are enemies of the establishment. It means the ‘On’ button has been pressed on a propaganda machine designed for maximal demonisation, leaving no room for public doubt.
→ read full articleThe Tyranny of Democracy
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
In fact, compliance with US economic and strategic interests is a far greater factor in US intervention than promotion of democracy, which gets mere lip service. Most of Europe is part of NATO and accepts US “leadership”, which is a bit like the mafia leadership of Sicily. Costa Rica is considered one of the most democratic Latin American countries, but it finds itself in a similar situation, as do most Latin American countries, whether democratic or not.
→ read full articleProject for the New American Century
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
The Project for the New American Century was a neoconservative think-tank that focused on US foreign policy founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. Its stated goal was “to promote American global leadership.” The PNAC ceased to function in 2006 and was replaced by a new think-tank named the Foreign Policy Initiative, co-founded by Kristol and Kagan in 2009.
→ read full articleTowards a Rational Legal Philosophy of Individual Rights
Denis Rancourt | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
I briefly describe the anthropological origin and recent statutory embodiments of human rights of individuals. I show that the modern “democratic” state moderates the rights of individuals by both: (1) violating the said rights in order to maintain and enforce the societal dominance hierarchy, and (2) preventing disproportionate violations, to avoid inciting rebellion.
→ read full articleLet It Cool Down
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
A folktale from Uganda told by TRANSCEND member Stella Sabiiti. A king had a beautiful daughter. Many men asked to marry her, but the king gave them a difficult test.
→ read full articleWhat If Nuclear Weapons Are Used?
Victor Gilinsky – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
21 Nov 2016
In the 1959 movie, On the Beach, a survivor of nuclear war asks, “If everyone was so smart, why didn’t they see this coming?” Exactly. Stop and think about what may be coming if we don’t act. Above all, when it comes to nuclear weapons, we should not allow ourselves to just drift into the future. We need to look ahead as best we can and steer in a safer direction.
→ read full articleTroubling Study Says Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Who Will Be Criminals Based on Facial Features
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
21 Nov 2016
18 Nov 2016 – The fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning are moving so quickly that any notion of ethics is lagging decades behind, or left to works of science fiction. This might explain a new study out of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which says computers can tell whether you will be a criminal based on nothing more than your facial features.
→ read full articleA Pic Is Worth a Thousand Words
TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
21st Century Journalism
→ read full articleGive Praise Whenever You Can
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Give praise whenever you can. Praise:
Sunrise on snow-capped mountains;
Sunsets on marigold fields. Praise:
Every act of kindness and solicitude;
Children smiling in beneficence. Praise:
Myanmar Urged by U.N. Expert to Let Aid Flow to Mainly Muslim State
Nick Cumming-Bruce – The New York Times,
21 Nov 2016
18 Nov 2016 — Amid mounting reports of violent unrest and brutal reprisals by Myanmar’s army in the mainly Muslim state of Rakhine, a United Nations expert said on Friday that the country’s government should let aid agencies into the area and investigate allegations of abuse instead of brushing them aside with blanket denials.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (1)
Johan Galtung - from Washington DC, 9 Nov 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
And vast categories had suffered what the Greeks call a-timia, the loss of status, white-male-workers-Americans. 5-2 in favor of Trump. And the rust belt, the big mid-Western de-industrializing states, Ohio, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Trump catered to their interests in revival, indeed also in hitting their negations in very unacceptable ways: women, colored, elites, immigrants.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (2)
Johan Galtung - from Washington DC, 10 Nov 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
The focus turns to foreign policy, particularly China and Russia. Allies, but very different. China is bilateral, negotiating deals for mutual and equal benefit and good at it (Vietnam); Trump should go for the same. Russia is multilateral, they want a European House from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with US understanding of Crimea and Ukraine, cooperating with everybody for mutual benefit, but not meddling.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dalla regionalizzazione alla globalizzazione: problematic
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Da trattare ci sono i loro rapporti e la globalizzazione politica, culturale, militare, economica. Politicamente dovrebbe funzionare per consenso, che vuol dire uguaglianza fra le regioni e veto per tutti. Culturalmente mediante il dialogo delle civiltà, non un monologo. Militarmente l’uguaglianza potrebbe far sì che l’ORU riesca là dove non è riuscita l’ONU con un Comando Militare. Economicamente: mediante condivisione – non monopoli – su base regionale.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (3)
Johan Galtung - from Washington DC, 11 Nov 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Trump and his inner circle of executives now work hard on a presidency “for all Americans”, after having insulted most of them. His business model calls for a President Trump different from the Candidate Trump.
→ read full article(Italiano) Due Indie: Gandhi e l’India Moderna
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Gandhi era per i bisogni, la modernità per l’avidità; Gandhi per l’autosostentamento locale, la modernità per il commercio illimitato; Gandhi per costruirsi la propria identità, la modernità per l’americanizzazione come neo-nirvana; Gandhi per la risoluzione nonviolenta dei conflitti, la modernità per polizia, militari, guerra.
→ read full article(Português) Carta Aberta aos Ativistas Brasileiros
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
A julgar pelos protestos que têm sido noticiados, bem como pelas mobilizações por influentes líderes comunitários em defesa da democracia, nutro grandes esperanças pelo Brasil. Tendo sido um ativista da não-violência por muitos anos, gostaria de oferecer o meu apoio para que os ativistas brasileiros possam desenvolver uma estratégia não-violenta que irá aumentar suas chances de sucesso.
→ read full articleThe Very Positive Sides to Trump’s Victory: A Baker’s Dozen
Rachel Olivia O'Connor | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
I’m one of the most radical souls on earth, with many decades of having my head bashed in at the barricades (in the name of leftist causes) under my belt. I belt out what’s below now because of the highly unproductive commentary coming out of alternative media outlets and from mainstream sources freaking out about Trump’s downsides. I’m fully aware of his horrid downsides.
→ read full article(Italiano) La guerra che distrugge
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
14 Nov 2016
• 60 milioni di persone dislocate
• 125 milioni in situazioni di crisi
• Gli attuali costi per aiuti umanitari: 25 miliardi di $ annui
• Fondi mancanti 15 miliardi di $
In una comunicazione il SIPRI informa che “la spesa militare nel 2015 è stata di 1,7 migliaia di miliardi di $, con un aumento dell’1% rispetto al 2014”.
The Trump Presidency (4)
Johan Galtung - from Washington DC, 12 Nov 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
The Washington Post listed on 11 Nov “Donald Trump’s Campaign Promises”; and on 12 Nov, “Trump advisors play down some of his campaign promises”. Trump’s new focus: health care, jobs, borders, tax reform. The 12:
→ read full article(Português) Acordámos num mundo que não conhecemos
José Manuel Fernandes | Observador – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Trump assusta, mas mais assustados devíamos estar por não termos ouvido os eleitores que mobilizou. E não, não: Trump não é um fascista nem os EUA são Itália. Por isso não venham prever o apocalipse.
→ read full articleMoralizing Military Intervention
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union there has been an upsurge of international undertakings that have claimed humanitarian justifications for military interventions in foreign societies. A second kind of justification for such interventions all of which are launched by Western countries (especially the United States) was associated with the global “war on terror.”
→ read full articleInternational Conference on Gandhian Perspectives on Contemporary Conflicts and Peace
Dr. Aurobinda Mahapatra | Gandhi Center for Non-Violence, Human Rights and World Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
The Mahatma Gandhi Center for Non-Violence, Human Rights and World Peace at the Hindu University of America organized an international conference on Nov 3-4 2016, on the theme Gandhian perspectives on contemporary conflicts and peace. Speakers from Europe, Canada and India, besides the US, participated in the conference and focused on various aspects of Gandhian philosophy and its relevance for conflict resolution.
→ read full article(Français) La politique est la solution
Megan Erickson, Katherine Hill, Matt Karp, Connor Kilpatrick, & Bhaskar Sunkara | Investig’Action – Jacobin Magazine,
14 Nov 2016
Nous ne pouvons pas nous déplacer au Canada ou nous cacher sous le lit. C’est le moment d’embrasser la politique démocratique, et non de la rejeter.
→ read full articleClimate Change Is Intergenerational Theft. That’s Why My Son Is Part of This Story
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
14 Nov 2016
We still have both the time and power to force our politicians to change course. It’s too late for most of the world’s coral reefs but it’s not too late for all of them. And it’s not too late to keep temperatures below levels that would save millions of lives and livelihoods. For that kind of rapid change to happen, however, we are all going to have to stop being so impeccably calm and reasonable. We’re going to have to find that part of ourselves that feels this threat in our hearts, as well as our heads.
→ read full articleCaught in the Act: NGOs Deal in Migrant Smuggling
Gefira – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
10 Nov 2016 – Ship-tracking software and reports from journalists prove that NGOs, the Italian Coast Guard and smugglers coordinate their actions. The Automatic Identification System exposes NGOs operating in Libyan territorial waters.
→ read full articleThoughts on US Presidential Election Result
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
The important question before and after any election is how do we, the people, hold officials accountable? The stakes couldn’t be higher. How do we get officials to serve the interests of justice, peace, and saving civilization from total destruction from nuclear war and/or climate disaster?
→ read full articlePolice Departments Refuse Participation in Dakota Access Pipeline Crackdown
Isiah Holmes – MintPress News,
14 Nov 2016
8 Nov 2016 — In addition to the general retreat of departments, two officers have already turned in their badges in support of the protesters. As if that wasn’t enough, an army of sympathizers is re-purposing social media to combat police efforts in Standing Rock.
→ read full articleTrump Threatens Us with Climate Disaster
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
The participants in the current UN climate talks in Marrakech are extremely worried about the effect that his election will have on the viability of the Paris climate agreement. Trump has stated in his campaign speeches that, if elected, he would pull the United States out of the Paris agreement.
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Parents of the Peace/Conflict Research Field: Johan Galtung
George Mason University School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Starting with founding the Peace Research Institute Oslo in Norway when he was only 29 years old, Johan Galtung became the ‘founding father’ of peace research in Europe and ultimately had a worldwide impact on our modern understanding of peace and the structure of conflict.
→ read full articleTrump – The Symptom
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
14 Nov 2016
11 Nov 2016 – The electoral victory of U.S. Republican Donald Trump — many have said — is an alarming signal that heralds new, difficult times. Maybe. Anyway, this victory could –and should-be seen as a symptom not as a disease. Such disease consists of a widespread malaise, the feeling of frustration and even oppression that the majority of citizens shelter in their hearts and minds worldwide.
→ read full article(Português) Abelhas entram para a lista de espécies em extinção
Helô D'Angelo | Exame – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Eventual fim das abelhas não nos deixaria só sem mel: dois terços do que comemos dependem do trabalho delas como polinizadoras.
→ read full articleUnderstanding Trump
George Lakoff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
As a longtime researcher in cognitive science and linguistics, I bring a perspective from these sciences to an understanding of the Trump phenomenon. Similar to Wilhelm Reich’s analysis of Hitler’s resonance with Germans holding the Authoritarian Father archetype (in “Mass Psychology of Fascism”). Important for an understanding of where the American right is coming from.
→ read full articleAfrica’s Challenge to the ICC
Solomon Dersso – Al Jazeera,
14 Nov 2016
On November 16, the signatories to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court will come together and for the first time they’ll have to face defections. In a matter of weeks three states withdrew from the ICC. The scrutiny of the three African withdrawals from the ICC should not be reduced to accusations of seeking impunity.
→ read full articleRupture, Loss and Living: Minority Women Speak About Post-Conflict Life
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
This reviewer discovered another message as he closed the book. Though he had shared the same time-space as the authors, he had not been aware of the delicacy with which women could unravel the tragic aspects of the human condition through the living narratives of other women, which could only be read through eyes blurred with tears.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il “Mio” Segni, I “Miei ” Segni
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Il Festival di teatro, arte e spettacolo, giunto alla sua XI edizione, rinominato nel 2016 con New generations Festival, che si è svolto a Mantova dal 26 ottobre al 2 novembre scorsi.
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