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The Dark Alliance of Global Philanthropy and Capitalism
William G Moseley – Al Jazeera,
7 Dec 2015
It’s a problem if endowment investments generate the very poverty foundations are trying to alleviate.
→ read full articleImpeachment against Rousseff Might Be a Matter of Personal Vengeance
Sputinik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Impeachment proceedings against Brazil’s President launched by speaker of the lower house Eduardo Cunha is a matter of his personal vengeance, Deputy Leader of the Workers Party in the Brazilian parliament Margarida Salomao told Sputnik Thursday [3 Dec 2015].
→ read full articleMore Pilot Whales Slaughtered on the Shores of the Faroe Islands
Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
1 Dec 2015 – Yesterday, a pod of 11 pilot whales was slaughtered at the killing beach of Fuglafirði in the Faroe Islands. It is the sixth grindadráp in the archipelago this year, and brings the total number of pilot whales slaughtered in the 2015 drive hunts to 501.
→ read full articleThe Over-Written, Under-Reported Middle East – Part I: Of Arabs and Muslims
Baher Kamal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Egyptian-born, Spanish-national, secular journalist Baher Kamal tries to demystify some of the most common stereotypes circulating around the Middle East region.
→ read full articleThe Over-Written, Under-Reported Middle East – Part II: 99.5 Years of (Imposed) Solitude
Baher Kamal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Baher Kamal tries to demystify some of the most common stereotypes circulating around the Middle East region. Here he explains some of the roots of its drama.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il clima con occhi diversi
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
7 Dec 2015
Sara Flaunders, in un articolo del 2009, sosteneva che “il Pentagono è il maggior consumatore istituzionale di prodotti petroliferi e di energia in generale. Ma il Pentagono gode di una implicita esenzione in tutti gli accordi internazionali sul clima”.
→ read full articleIt Figures…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Johnny and Billy, who sat next to each other at school, both had 17 mistakes in their dictation, and all in the same places.
→ read full articleWhat Next After Paris? Nonviolent Solutions to Violent Politics
Kevin Clements – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Bettelheim said that, “Violence is the behaviour of someone incapable of imagining other solutions to the problem at hand.” And Gandhi said, “I oppose all violence because the good it does is always temporary but the harm it does is permanent”. So what might be some nonviolent solutions to Paris? There are some short, medium and long-term things that we could contemplate.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Dec 7-13 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “One day you’re seventeen and planning for someday. And then quietly and without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And that someday is yesterday. And this is your life.” – One Tree Hill
→ read full articleParis, India, and Coal
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
The MIT Technology Review recently published an important article entitled “India’s Energy Crisis”. Have India’s economic planners really thought about the long-term future? Have they considered the fact that drastic climate change could make India completely uninhabitable?
→ read full articleA Big Win for Cheap, Clean Energy
Bill Gates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
30 Nov 2015 – I’m in Paris. Two related initiatives are being announced at today’s COP21 event. One is Mission Innovation, a commitment by more than ten countries to invest more in research on clean energy. The other is the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a global group of private investors who will support companies that are taking innovative clean-energy ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace.
→ read full articleLocal Engagement with Armed Groups in the Midst of Violence
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
It is certain that insider mediators can play a key role in informal peace processes if they have “space” for action. Local populations are not just passive actors, simply coerced by armed actors. Yet the violent tactics of armed groups can overwhelm and silence voices for peace.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Weshalb ein überstürztes Eingreifen in Syrien falsch ist
Deutschen Fachschaften Friedens- und Konfliktforschung an der Philipps-Universität Marburg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
eine Antwort der deutschen Fachschaften Friedens- und Konfliktforschung auf das Vorhaben des Militäreinsatzes der Bundesregierung.
→ read full article600 Refugees Detained by Australia Say They Want to Die
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
3 Dec 2015 – Six hundred refugees and asylum seekers detained by the Australia government on Manus Island, part of Papua New Guinea, have written a letter to the Australian prime minister saying they want assistance to die.
→ read full articleConflict and Cooperation
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
During World War I, Muzafer Sherif from Turkey was in a group of civilians who were massacred by enemy soldiers. He was the only survivor, because he lay motionless under a pile of bodies and the soldiers thought he was dead. After that horrible experience, he decided to do everything he could to understand better the sources of hostility and ways to overcome them.
→ read full articleHaitians Denounce US-Funded Denial of Democracy
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
If you happen upon one of the few international news articles about the October 25 first round presidential election in Haiti, and it fails to mention Fanmi Lavalas, Haiti’s largest and most popular political party, and its candidate, Maryse Narcisse, you can be sure the report is part of a well-orchestrated media black-out.
→ read full articleWhy Did the “Retired” Senior General Than Shwe Meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
5 Dec 2015 – The prevailing view is that the Old Man wants to ensure that he is safe from any form of retribution, that his extended family are safe and that their ill-gotten gains – estimated at US$ billions – remain intact. And for the Rohingya, the deal excludes their genocide.
→ read full articleThe Entire ‘War on Terror’ Has Been a Lie – And These Charts Prove It
Rebecca Sumner – The Canary,
7 Dec 2015
We were told long ago that the “war on terror” would make the world a safer place. But after 14 years of permanent warfare, terrorist attacks around the world have escalated by a staggering 6,500%. See charts.
→ read full articleMessage to Menkind by the Great Lao-Tzu
TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
“It is only when you see a mosquito landing on your testicles…
→ read full articleThe Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Is a Marketing Tool, Not a Charity
Emily Baselt Steiger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
2 Dec 2015 – This week, the internet exploded with news stories that Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan pledged to donate 99% of their wealth to charity through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
→ read full article(Italiano) Giornalismo di pace: funziona?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
In breve: No. Gli avvenimenti di Parigi hanno innescato un giornalismo di guerra; non si è osservato alcun giornalismo di pace. Dubitare che la violenza anti-IS funzionerà non è giornalismo di pace, solo giornalismo di guerra con degli interrogativi.
→ read full articleCrossing Cultural and Linguistic Boundaries: International Volunteer Day
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
5 December has been selected as the International Volunteer Day by a 1985 UN General Assembly resolution. This year 5 December comes as government representatives and volunteers of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are meeting in Paris to develop a new international climate agreement, COP 21.
→ read full articleUnearthing America’s Deep Network of Climate Change Deniers
Eric Roston - Bloomberg,
7 Dec 2015
A new study attempts the first tally of those driving the peculiarly American strain of climate change denial.
→ read full articleCompassion, Humanity Better Resolve Conflicts
Kristin Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Constructive Intelligence a Smarter Choice to Finding Peace in the World – Alienated murderers may stand at the tip of an iceberg of countless people who are alienated but who react, not with homicide, but with depression, anxiety, callousness, misbehavior, or suicide, or who get murdered themselves. Constructive intelligence illuminates nonviolent actions critical for peace.
→ read full articleWe Must Stop the Madness of Brinkmanship
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Brinksmanship is an insane and immoral game played by our arrogant and power-mad leaders. It is a game that the world could all too easily lose. We know from histories of the start of World War I how easily a small incident can escalate uncontrollably into a catastrophic global conflict. With thermonuclear weapons, the stakes are much higher today. The future of humanity and the biosphere are at stake.
→ read full articleThe Clouds Are Getting Dark
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
As Robert Savio points out, “They all fight to the last Syrian.” Only hope among the Big Powers: Russia. Bombing and reacting with moderation, it could get Shia Assad-Iraq-Iran-Bahrain to arrive at a cease-fire, opening for negotiations. Putin has done it before. Nevertheless, the West may prefer war to have Putin solve problems for them.
→ read full articleHuge: Monsanto Going to Trial for Crimes against Humanity
Christina Sarich, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
3 Dec 2015 – In The Hague, Netherlands, International Criminal Court. If you’ve been waiting to finally see Monsanto – one of the most hated companies in the world – to pay for its ecocide, knowing harm of human life, and devastation of our pollinators, then you won’t have to wait much longer.
→ read full articleWampis Nation of Peruvian Amazon Declares Creation of First Autonomous Indigenous Government in Peru
Forest Peoples Programme - Global Research,
7 Dec 2015
The Wampis nation of the Peruvian Amazon declares the creation of the first autonomous indigenous government in Peru to defend the totality of their ancestral territory covering 1.3 million hectares of tropical forest.
→ read full articleDoes Eleven Plus One Equal Sixty?
Nick Turse - TomDispatch,
7 Dec 2015
The U.S. military has built an extensive archipelago of African outposts, transforming the continent into a laboratory for a new kind of war.
→ read full articleTrade in Services Agreement TiSA – Secret Documents Revealed
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Today, Thursday, December 3, WikiLeaks releases new secret documents from the huge Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for 2/3rds of global GDP.
→ read full articleNo to War! Call for Peaceful Nonviolent Resistance to United Kingdom’s Air Strikes against Syria
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
On 2nd December, 2015 the United Kingdom Parliament voted to bomb Syria and the world watched as British planes, equipped with the latest bombs aptly named ‘Brimstone’ were dropped on Syrian targets.
→ read full articleWhen Psychologists Deny Guantanamo’s Abuses
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
It’s now time to discard the carefully crafted fiction that these psychologists have a legitimate, ethical role to play in supporting the interrogation and detention operations there. Until they are removed, psychologists remain key actors in an environment that was aptly called “the gulag of our time” a decade ago, and where abuses still persist today.
→ read full articleInsurgents East and West
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
We’re having a problem here
with the occupiers sent
by a foreign ruler named George.
Confessions of a Terrorist Sympathiser
Richard Jackson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Recovering sympathy for the terrorist, recognising their humanity, their politics, their suffering, their aspirations, their sense of self in this particular historical epoch, is essential for understanding the roots of their violent actions. It is also essential for reconstituting our own shattered sense of collective morality, and for recognising and acknowledging our own role in the constitutive violence of the current system.
→ read full article(Português) Biografia de Fernando Pessoa (13 jun 1888 – 30 nov 1935)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Fernando Pessoa foi um poeta português, um dos mais importantes da língua portuguesa. Teve diversas profissões: foi editor, astrólogo, publicitário, tradutor técnico, jornalista, empresário, crítico literário e crítico político.
→ read full article(Français) 40ème anniversaire du Plan Condor : globalisation et terrorisme d’état (I)
Alex Anfruns & Martin Almada, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Le professeur Almada a été victime de la torture et de la répression militaire dans le cadre de l’ « Opération Condor » en Amérique du Sud. Malgré cela, Martin Almada n’a jamais renoncé à ses idéaux et il a été celui qui, en 1992, a découvert au Paraguay les « Archives de la Terreur », mettant au jour les preuves de l’existence d’un vaste réseau et d’un système de répression coordonné à l’échelle internationale entre les dictatures militaires, appuyé par la CIA.
→ read full article(Français) 40ème anniversaire du Plan Condor : globalisation et terrorisme d’état (II)
Alex Anfruns & Martin Almada, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
C’est pourquoi il est urgent de mondialiser les luttes contre l’Impunité du Terrorisme d’État. Le capital prédateur s’est mondialisé ces dernières années. Maintenant, c’est à notre tour de mondialiser nos convictions en faveur d’une citoyenneté active, d’une authentique démocratie adaptée à nos réalités. Il nous faut surtout vivre solidairement pour empêcher que la moribonde ALCA ne ressuscite.
→ read full articleChem Trails, Etc.
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
And they’re laughing all the goddamn way
to their bank accounts in foreign lands
(probably some Switzerlands!)
2016: The Year of India… And the Last Chance for an Organized Systemic Global Transition
Global European Anticipation Bulletin-GEAB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
The central argument is as follows: in 2016 India will combine the characteristics which should enable it to interconnect with two other “major” BRICS – Russia and China – and tip the scales towards a multi-polar world irresistible to Western eyes, with Europe in the front row.
→ read full articleForget ‘Fighting Demons’. We Must Learn How to Talk Properly about Alcoholism
Liam Byrne – The Guardian,
30 Nov 2015
My dad was an alcoholic – and what every child of someone with this disease learns is that we can’t change things for our parents. But we can for our children.
→ read full articleEducation for Environment and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
On the eve of Paris 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference
→ read full articleParis: A Sense of Proportion Is Urgently Needed
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
For more than a week after the terrorist attacks in Paris on 13 November, every television news program of any kind was completely dominated by non-stop day-and-night coverage of the “breaking news”. Let us hope that attention of the world and the focus of the delegates at the Paris Climate Conference will not be distracted by pseudo-threats, and will instead look seriously at the real threats that the world is facing. We urgently need a sense of proportion.
→ read full articleRaqqa’s Rockefellers: How Islamic State Oil Flows to Israel
Al-Araby al-Jadeed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Oil produced by the Islamic State group finances its bloodlust. But how is it extracted, transported and sold? Who is buying it, and how does it reach Israel?
→ read full article(Castellano) Producción de heroína en Afganistán aumenta 50 veces desde invasión liderada por EEUU
HispanTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
La producción de heroína en Afganistán ha aumentado 50 veces desde el comienzo de la invasión extranjera liderada por EE.UU., que supuestamente tenía como objetivo combatir el terrorismo.
→ read full articleForget Daesh: Humanity Is at Stake
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
When the Americans and their allies claimed that they had left the region [M.E.], they left behind bleeding, impoverished nations, licking their wounds and searching for bodies under rubble in diverse and macabre landscapes. Yet, the Americans, the British, the French and the Israelis, continue to stage their democratic elections around the debate of who will hit us [Arabs] the hardest, humiliate us the most, teach the most unforgettable lesson and, in their late night comedies, they mock our pain.
→ read full articleCleanliness and Sanitation
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
India has a lot of poverty and environmental pollution. This is caused by several factors such as development activities of the government, production of electric power and not least by peoples’ attitude of polluting the atmosphere. It is also caused by lack of toilets in the homes of poor people which results in people defecating in the open.
→ read full articlePortugal Goes Left
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
30 Nov 2015
After four years of austerity, or better, social terrorism, with pensions slashed, salaries reduced, taxation increased and no hope of anything better for the future, the Left Parties united and said a resounding NO! and refused to accept the Government presented by the PP-PSD, which fell in a vote of no confidence with the majority of Parliament against.
→ read full articleDreamables, Deniables, Deliverables and Duende
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Global Dynamics “At the Table” Inspired by Dining and Wining in Practice – Produced on the occasion of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Paris, 2015)
→ read full articleHow the Gates Foundation Reflects the Good and the Bad of “Hacker Philanthropy”
Michael Massing – The Intercept,
30 Nov 2015
A new book by Linsey McGoey reveals the influence over public policy that a massive philanthropy can wield.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism: Is It Working?
Johan Galtung, 30 Nov 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Short answer: No. The Paris event triggered war journalism; no peace journalism was observed. To doubt that anti-IS violence will work is not peace journalism, only war journalism with question marks.
→ read full articleI Have Never Punished My Child – Parenting for a Nonviolent World
Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
The reason I have never punished my child is that it does not help me achieve my main aim as a parent. My mission as a parent is to maintain a loving, respectful, empowering and clear relationship with my son, so that he can have a relationship with himself based on self-love, self-respect, self-empowerment and self-understanding.
→ read full articleThe Reign of Absurdiocy
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Terrorism is a weapon. Like cannon. We would laugh at somebody who declares war on “international artillery”. Terrorism is a method of operation often used by oppressed peoples, including the French Resistance to the Nazis in WW II. We would laugh at anyone who declared war on “international resistance”. Carl von Clausewitz might have said: “Terrorism is a continuation of policy by other means.”
→ read full articleReflections about the Dam Burst in Brazil and the (In)Visibility of Structural Violence
Roberta Holanda Maschietto, Peace Reflections – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
In a 1969 article, Johan Galtung stated that violence is “the cause of the difference between the potential and the actual, between what could have been and what is”. If a political system allows corporate interests to determine the path of a country’s economic development, this system is not democratic. It is a privatized political system that responds to the interests of a rich minority.
→ read full article(Português) O Capitalismo Será Derrotado pela Terra
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Depois que a sociedade passou a ser de mercado e tudo virou oportunidade de ganho, até as coisas mais sagradas como órgãos humanos, água e a capacidade de polinização das flores, os chefes de Estados, em sua grande parte, são forçados a gerir a macroeconomia globalmente integrada e menos atender ao bem comum de seu povo.
→ read full article(Português) Ótima notícia! Nigéria proíbe a mutilação genital das meninas
Melhor com Saúde – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
A mutilação genital, ou “circuncisão feminina”, como é chamada em muitos países, é uma prática que consiste na eliminação parcial ou total do tecido dos órgãos genitais femininos, especificamente do clitóris.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Delegation to Syria 24-30 Nov. 2015
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
These are the findings of our delegation, consisting of eleven peace and human rights advocates from six countries. Over the course of five days, we met with internally displaced persons, refugees, affected communities, religious leaders, combatants, government representatives and many others in Syria.
→ read full articleMontgomery
Andrew Moss, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery city bus on her way home from work, and, fatigued, refused to give up her seat to a white man when the bus had filled up. Parks was arrested for violating the city’s segregation statutes, and within a few days, the African-American leaders of Montgomery responded with a highly successful boycott of the city’s bus system.
→ read full articleJoyce Carol Oates on Twitter: Is Nothing ‘Joyous’ in ISIS?
Daniel Victornov – International New York Times,
30 Nov 2015
“If you don’t recognize that for at least some of the Islamic State’s young volunteers there is a feeling of joy and celebration involved in joining up, then you’re a very long way from understanding the caliphate’s remarkable appeal,”
→ read full articleAutomatism
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Two people went along a road with pick and shovel.
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza a Parigi e da Parigi: quale via d’uscita?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Immagino che Occidente e Islam si focalizzino non sul peggio, come la violenza occidentale per la prevenzione e quella islamica per la rappresaglia, ma sul meglio; come la capacità d’innovazione e di libertà in Occidente, di solidarietà e condivisione nell’Islam. Immagino che dialoghino pubblicamente ad alto livello su “come poter imparare vicendevolmente”?
→ read full articleWhy a Climate Deal Is the Best Hope for Peace
Jason Box and Naomi Klein – The New Yorker,
30 Nov 2015
The last time atmospheric CO2 was this high, global sea levels were at least six metres higher. We find ourselves confronted with ice-sheet disintegration that, in some susceptible areas, already appears unstoppable. In the currently overloaded CO2 climate, it’s just a matter of time until hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from coastal regions, their agricultural lands and groundwater destroyed by saltwater intrusion from sea rise.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Nov 30–Dec 6 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
→ read full articleBuckminster Fuller
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) studied aerospace engineering, and later changed to architecture. One morning he decided to figure out how a house would look like if it was built according to the principles he had learned in aerospace engineering.
→ read full articleMeet the Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, the Son of Turkey’s President
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Bilal Erdogan owns several maritime companies. He has allegedly signed contracts with European operating companies to carry Iraqi stolen oil to different Asian countries. The Turkish government buys Iraqi plundered oil which is being produced from the Iraqi seized oil wells.
→ read full articleThe Tardigrade Genome Has Been Sequenced, and It Has the Most Foreign DNA of Any Animal
Fiona Macdonald , Science Alert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
25 Nov 2015 – Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of the tardigrade, AKA the water bear, for the first time. And it turns out that this weird little creature has the most foreign genes of any animal studied so far – or to put it another way, roughly one-sixth of the tardigrade’s genome was stolen from other species.
→ read full articleTalk Nation Radio: Johan Galtung on ISIS and Alternative to War
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
24 Nov 2015 – Johan Galtung is the founder of the discipline of peace studies. He founded the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo in 1959 and the Journal of Peace Research in 1964, and has helped found dozens of peace centers. He has taught peace studies at universities all over the world, and mediated hundreds of conflicts. He is author or coauthor of over 160 books, and is cited and discussed in many thousands. He is the founder of TRANSCEND Media Service, TRANSCEND Peace University and TRANSCEND International.
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Maurice Strong (29 Apr 1929 – 28 Nov 2015) – The UN Voice for Environmental Action
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Just on the eve of the Paris Climate Conference (COP 21) and the coming discussions on climate change and a sustainable world society, Maurice Strong died on 28 November 2015. Strong more than any other person in the United Nations system had been the driving force to put action on the environment on the “world agenda” for both government and non-governmental action.
→ read full articleAn Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind
John Dear, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
To start paying for nonviolent solutions, we can close all our nuclear weapons plants, disarm our nuclear arsenal, and allocate those many billions of dollars to the many problems we face in the world. We have spent some seven trillion dollars on nuclear weapons since Hiroshima. It’s time we instead spent serious money on nonviolent conflict resolution instead.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Why Minnesota Governors Ramsey and Sibley Should Be Posthumously Tried for Crimes against Humanity
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
And Why First Nations People Regard Thanksgiving Day as a National Day of Mourning
→ read full article(Português) Organização Sea Shepherd alerta Japão contra o recomeço da caça a baleia
Sapo24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
A organização ambiental Sea Shepherd alertou hoje o Japão contra o recomeço da “caça para fins científicos” no Antártico, apelando ao Governo australiano que intervenha.
→ read full articleAurelio Peccei and Daisaku Ikeda, “Before It Is Too Late”
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
I would like to suggest to SGI and to The Club of Rome that, because of the great importance of the book, it would be very desirable to re-issue “Before It Is Too Late” in a less expensive edition, and also to make it available as an e-book. The message and wisdom of the two famous and distinguished authors is much too valuable to be lost.
→ read full articleCanada’s Deluded Wars of November
Matthew Behrens, Rabble – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Many studies equate militarism with hypersexualized notions of masculinity with a terminology that is all about the “wargasm” (deep penetration, missile erections, our mission makes us “stand tall,” etc.). The confused, violence-soaked sexuality that underlies the masculinist culture of the military and other institutions of violence is also revealed in the epidemic of violence against women in those same organizations.
→ read full articleHow Africa’s Fastest Solar Power Project Is Lighting Up Rwanda
David Smith – The Guardian,
30 Nov 2015
East African plant is completed in less than a year – creating jobs and setting the country on the path to providing half its population with electricity by 2017.
→ read full article‘Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs,’ by Lisa Randall
Maria Popova - International New York Times,
30 Nov 2015
Dark matter is the invisible cosmic stuff that, like ordinary matter — which makes up the stars and the stardust, you and me and everything we know — interacts with gravity but, unlike ordinary matter, doesn’t interact with light. Although scientists know that dark matter exists and accounts for a staggering 85 percent of the universe.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mediazione scolastica: problemi, e soluzioni?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
L’ondata mondiale della mediazione ha raggiunto i sistemi scolastici un po’ dappertutto; meno in qualche paese, più in altri.
→ read full articleRohingya vs the Generals: How To Forge a Democracy and Get Away with It
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
With Myanmar climbing to the world top five countries of proven oil and gas reserves, terms such as genocides, military juntas and human rights are omitted from the new discourse. A whole new narrative is being written jointly by the Myanmar army, nationalist parties, Suu Kyi’s NLD, western investors and anyone else who stands to benefit from the treasures of one of the world’s worst human rights violators.
→ read full articleMore Paris Puzzles
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Why assume that the suicide bombers knew who was organizing the attack? There seems to be abundant evidence that ISIL is a US creation, one that is still dependent on US active or passive support—thus the conflict between Putin and Washington over attacking ISIL.
→ read full articleFrom Pol Pot to ISIS: The Blood Never Dried
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
17 Nov 2015 – Following the ISIS outrages in Beirut and Paris, John Pilger updates this prescient essay on the root causes of terrorism and what we can do about it.
→ read full articleParis and Beirut: Journalism’s Selective Compassion
Des Freedman – Open Democracy,
23 Nov 2015
Is it editors, journalists or audiences to blame? “A life is a life” said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reflecting on the disparity between blanket media coverage of the atrocities in Paris last Friday and what he perceived as a distinct lack of attention to the loss of life in other parts of the world.
→ read full articleSyria’s War: A 5-Minute History
Ezra Klein, Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
To understand the bloody, convoluted war happening inside and outside of Syria’s borders, you need to watch this. It is a most instructive video clip – less than 5 minutes – explaining what ISIS is, who its backers are, and in what context it was born and operates.
→ read full articleDrone Strikes Fuel the Hatred That Led to Paris Attacks, Ex-Drone Pilots Say
Joshua Kopstein, Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
In his squad, children spotted from a Predator drone’s high-resolution camera were called “fun-sized terrorists” or “TITs,” for “Terrorist In Training,” while launching a strike was “cutting the grass before it grows too tall” or “pulling the weeds before they take over the lawn. It was anything you could do to remove their humanity, but in the process you lose your own humanity.”
→ read full articleLiberated
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
There she lies at midday in the square
as if resting from her errands,
shopping bag in hand, wool gloves, sturdy shoes,
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
The War on Cash is advancing on all fronts. One region that has hogged the headlines with its war against physical currency is Scandinavia. Sweden became the first country to enlist its own citizens as largely willing guinea pigs in a dystopian economic experiment: negative interest rates in a cashless society. As Credit Suisse reports, no matter where you go or what you want to purchase, you will find a small ubiquitous sign saying “Vi hanterar ej kontanter” (“We don’t accept cash”) . . . .
→ read full articleWhen the News Reads You Back: Why Journalists Need to Stand Up for Reader Privacy
Josh Stearns – Freedom of the Press Foundation,
23 Nov 2015
16 Nov 2015 – When you are reading the news, it is reading you back. According to new research out of the University of Pennsylvania visiting news websites exposes you to more than twice as much tracking software as the rest of the web.
→ read full articleReformed, Disciplined and Humiliated UNESCO
Andre Vltchek, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
“Japan threatens to halt UNESCO funding over Nanjing massacre listing.” UNESCO staff should insist on defending original values of its organization. It should be once again serving humanity, not the bullies in Washington or Tokyo!
→ read full articleWill Chess, Not Battleship, Be the Game of the Future in Eurasia? Silk Roads, Night Trains, and the Third Industrial Revolution in China
Pepe Escobar – TomDispatch,
23 Nov 2015
The U.S. is transfixed by its multibillion-dollar electoral circus. The European Union is paralyzed by austerity, fear of refugees, and now all-out jihad in the streets of Paris. So the West might be excused if it’s barely caught the echoes of a Chinese version of Roy Orbison’s “All I Have to Do Is Dream.” And that new Chinese dream even comes with a road map.
→ read full articleWars: US Militarist Factions in Command
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
19 Nov 2015 – Over the past 15 years the US has been engaged in a series of wars, which has led many writers to refer to the ‘rise of militarism’ – the growth of an empire, built primarily by and for the projection of military power – and only secondarily to advance economic imperialism.
→ read full articleAmerican Anthropologists Vote to Boycott Israel
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
American Anthropological Association passes resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions in landslide vote; Pro BDS groups praise ‘historic result.’
→ read full articleAlfred Nobel
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Sometimes, mistakes, even lies, can have a serendipitous effect.
→ read full articleEscalation Is Escalation Is Escalation: Lesson of Viet-Nam War
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
23 Nov 2015
Too much truth has not been the traditional path to the White House. But too little truth, as we have seen too often, makes the achievement bitter and pointless. The problem is to put peace on the table in a way that is hard to oppose without seeming to be a monster. And there is an easy approach.
→ read full articleEnd the Cycle of Violence
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
The U.S. likes to see itself as the “exceptional” nation, a bastion of freedom and democracy, the world’s benevolent “good guy.” Evil is out there in others – the terrorists. But much of the world sees the U.S. (and its ally France) as a dangerous racist empire of domination out to exploit and control labor and resources to benefit corporate interests and a wealthy elite at the expense of the earth and everyone else. ISIS obviously sees itself as the “good guys” and the problem of evil focused in France, the US, etc. Both sides appear to agree on “by any means necessary.” Terrorism against terrorism is terrorism.
→ read full articleThree Harsh Realities to Help You Make Sense of Middle East Anger and the Paris Attacks
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
23 Nov 2015
15 Nov 2015 – There can be nothing but condemnation of the attacks in Paris. But there can – and should – also be understanding about why they occurred, and who created the conditions. The short answer is us.
→ read full articleWill Suu Kyi Pose a Threat to a Democratic Myanmar?
Suhas Chakma, Asian Centre for Human Rights – Bangkok Post,
23 Nov 2015
Since her release from house arrest, Ms Suu Kyi has shown glimpses of authoritarianism. While she may still find a rubber-stamp president, the rule of the majority is unlikely to be handy for dealing with the ethnic minorities who have been waging wars against the majority Burmese for the past five decades.
→ read full articleNATO Is Harbouring the Islamic State
Nafeez Ahmed – INSURGE Intelligence,
23 Nov 2015
Why is the UNSC ignoring NATO partner Turkey’s brazen sponsorship of the Islamic State? France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Nov 23-29 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “When in doubt, tell the truth.” – Mark Twain
→ read full articleThe Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
22 Nov 2015 – What follows is a modified version of the Morton-Kenney annual public lecture given at the University of Southern Illinois in Carbondale on November 18, 2015 under the joint sponsorship of the Department of Political Science and the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.
→ read full articleThe Climate Talks in Paris Will Fail. Why?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
As a nonviolent activist, I have never asked elites (or their governments and corporations) to change their behaviour. Instead, I have invited them to respond powerfully to circumstances that I create that compel change. If I invite others to participate in the action I am taking and enough do so, elites have no choice but to act as I prefer. Let me give some examples to explain this.
→ read full articleWaiting for the Myanmar Miracle
Michael Green & Daniel Twining – Foreign Policy,
23 Nov 2015
12 Nov 2015 – Myanmar’s election is a good reminder that authoritarian elites underestimate their political opponents at their peril. The [Aung San Suu Kyi’s] National League for Democracy won nearly three-quarters of the votes cast in last Sunday’s elections.
→ read full articleContradictions in the Whirlwind: The Refugees Crisis, Paris Attacks, Wars without End
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
The best thing in Samuel P. Huntington was not news of an inexorable “clash,” but delving into the roots of it: “In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.” Half a million dead kids in Iraq. 129 dead in Paris. There’s no equivalencies in war, of course. But, one wonders if Stalin’s cynicism was right: one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.
→ read full articleNeed Pragmatism and Prudence in Bilateral Relations with Neighbours
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
If Nepal and India’s leaders cannot manage themselves no one should shy away from seeking friendly nation/person help defuse stand-offs and resolve the crisis situation.
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