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These Five Countries Account for 60 Percent of Plastic Pollution in Oceans
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
Roughly 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into the world’s oceans every year, and according to a new study, the majority of this waste comes from just five countries: China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
→ read full articleTobacco’s Children: Brazil Sets an Example for the U.S.
Margaret Wurth, The Progressive – Human Rights Watch,
9 Nov 2015
Brazil and the United States are among the top five global tobacco producers. The US has no restrictions on children working in tobacco farming, despite many known dangers. But Brazil has banned children under 18 from working on the farms. How do the two countries compare now?
→ read full articleThe Stubborn Regime
Maung Zarni - Himal Southasian, Nepal,
9 Nov 2015
2015 Elections in Burma Will Be neither Historic nor Consequential – The military has internalised the self-serving justification that without its strong hand – that is, concentration of power and control in the military and its loyalists – the multi-ethnic country is going to disintegrate.
→ read full article(Português) Vaquejada: abuso de bois e cavalos no Brasil
Lisa Kemmerer, Francisco Matos, Eloah Vieira e Tiago Barreto - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
9 Nov 2015
Aterrorizados e desesperados, os bois sobem uns nas costas dos outros, se derrubam, se pisoteiam como se tentassem escapar, enquanto urinam continuamente uma urina de medo. Como os bois não têm para onde ir, presos pela frente e por trás, tudo se transforma em uma grande confusão de pernas, cabeças, pescoços e rabos se contorcendo.
→ read full articleVW Rigged Emissions Systems on Porsches, Audis Too
Keith Laing, The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday [2 Nov] that Volkswagen installed software on diesel models of its 2014-2016 cars that violates the Clean Air Act by activating required air pollution protections only during emissions tests, including cars marketed under its Audi and Porsche brands.
→ read full article(Italiano) Corruzione: teoria, prognosi, soluzioni?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
La definizione di corruzione si basa su una distinzione fra aspetti palesi o nascosti delle transazioni, “sopra o sotto il tavolo”, dove il nascosto è anche illegale o almeno illegittimo. Aggiungere alla trasparenza e al castigo le modalità positive verso l’integrità, rendendo la corruzione su vasta scala un episodio triste ma breve.
→ read full article“Into the Heart of the Sacred”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
“I was born into a culture defined by its lack of culture. A middle-of-the-block house in a midsized mid-Michigan Midwestern town. Dragged to a Methodist church where the singing was flat and muttered, and the slightest show of religious fervor made everyone uncomfortable. Communion felt as spiritual as the coffee and cookies after the service. For the rest of my week, school was little more than a daily taste of prison….”
→ read full articleThe Emperor’s Poem
Mark Frutkin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The iron mountain towers above us
robed in mist, its crags
reach through the clouds into heaven,
Exposed by WikiLeaks: The US Empire According to Itself
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
In the book ‘The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire’ we are taken on a journey to understand just how the world works if we read the ‘top secret’ correspondence of those who regard themselves as our masters. Following a thoughtful contextual introduction by Julian Assange, our journey is guided by eighteen first-rate scholars who carefully explain the significance of a range of WikiLeaks-released documents in relation to the region of the world in which they specialize.
→ read full articleThe Burlington 23
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
During the Vietnam war, a group of citizens in Burlington, Vermont, USA, tried for a long time in vain to persuade their Congressman to hold hearings about the legality of the war.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Punk Rockers Challenge Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
Hanna Hindstrom – Al Jazeera,
9 Nov 2015
Ahead of crucial election, musicians rail against government-sanctioned repression of persecuted Rohingya minority. Some musicians in Myanmar are risking their lives and freedom to sing out against injustice.
→ read full articleNetanyahu, War Crimes and the Future of Palestinian State
Iqbal Alimohamed – Oriental Review,
9 Nov 2015
While history abounds with tales of brutal occupation, never has an occupying power presented itself as a victim, and as the only victim around. A Jewish mindset has thus developed to not recognize Palestinians as human beings worthy of equal treatment. In this scenario, it is hard to see how a peaceful solution to the conflict can be achieved.
→ read full articleIsrael Demolishes Bedouin Village of Al Araqib — For the 90th Time!
Avi Blecherman - +972 Magazine,
2 Nov 2015
28 Oct 2015 – Things have been quiet in the Negev lately. So the authorities decided to take advantage of this period of relative calm and, while everybody’s attention was elsewhere, sent the bulldozers to destroy the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al Araqib — for the 90th time.
→ read full articleColombia: “The Peace Process Involves Everyone”
Prof. Alicia Cabezudo, CPNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The two-day meeting discussed the current context of peace, in the framework of the dialogue and agreements in Havana, the demands of educators, students, sectors and social movements, as well as the need for truth and reconciliation, in the context of education for peace.
→ read full articleCommunication and Appreciation
Tom H. Hastings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
This is the beauty and magic of adaptive conflict communication. It can attenuate damage and increase gain for good ethical and moral practices. Rosenberg, a clinical psychologist, worked his entire professional career on these concepts.
→ read full articleEarly Experiments in Sovereign Debt Rollover
Gary Larson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology– TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Power by Politics
→ read full articleAdolf, Amin and Bibi
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
It is not very pleasant when serious people around the world – historians, psychiatrists, diplomats – ask themselves if my prime minister is completely sane. And not only abroad. More and more people in Israel are asking themselves the same question.
→ read full articleCultures of War, Cultures of Peace
Johan Galtung, 2 Nov 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
We have war and peace, theory and practice. And deeper down cultures of war and peace, notions of what the world is or could be. The latter is not necessarily peace, could also mean removing obstacles to war.
→ read full articleBen Hecht on Greatness, the Radiance of Realness, and the Rewards of Keeping in Touch with the Soul of Your Childhood
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
In a culture that continually mistakes prestige for purpose and defines who we are by what we do, what remains of our being when the doing is stripped away and what does success really mean to those innermost selves buried beneath layers of cultural conditioning?
→ read full articleCampaigns of Violence towards Rohingya Are Highly Organised and Genocidal in Intent
Queen Mary University of London – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Persecution of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has been orchestrated by the government, state-level officials and Buddhist monks, according to the findings of an 18-month investigation into state crime in Myanmar.
→ read full articleA New and Sweeping Utopia of Life: Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
“A new and sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second opportunity on earth.”
→ read full articleBeyond the Sustainable Development Goals: Uncovering the Truth about Global Poverty and Demanding the Universal Realisation of Article 25
Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The Sustainable Development Goals – despite their positive and progressive rhetoric – by no means constitute a transformative agenda for meeting the basic needs of all people within the means of our shared planet. This report argues that we may never see an end to poverty “in all its forms everywhere” unless…
→ read full articleUN Votes in Favor of Ending Cuban Blockade 191-2
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of lifting the blockade against Cuba Tuesday [27 Oct 2015], with only the U.S. and Israel voting against.
→ read full articleTotal Literacy for World Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
On the eve of National Unity Day on 31 October.
→ read full articleNew York Times Ignores Root Cause of Violence in Palestine. Dismisses Israeli State Terror against an Entire Population
Stephen Lendman - Global Research,
2 Nov 2015
29 Oct 2015 – Honest observers know longstanding Israeli occupation harshness is the root cause of current violence – instigated by Israel, responded to courageously by Palestinians, largely youths and children. Not according to Times Jerusalem correspondent Jodi Rudoren, discussing what she calls “dueling narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
→ read full articleBreaking Down Genocide in Myanmar
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
For eight months, a Yale University Law clinic assessed evidence obtained by Al Jazeera and Fortify Rights.
→ read full articleUSA: Historic Election Could Return Sovereignty to Native Hawaiians
Brittany Lyte – Al Jazeera America,
2 Nov 2015
30 Oct 2015 — In 1893, Queen Liliuokalani, the last monarch of Hawaii, yielded power to a group of businessmen backed by Marines in order to avoid the bloodshed of her people. She did so believing that the U.S. government, when presented with the facts, would eventually restore the Hawaiian kingdom. Instead, the coup led to the dissolution of Hawaiian sovereignty and the tropical archipelago’s eventual admission to statehood.
→ read full articleExploding Radioactive Waste Warning: Keep It above Ground
John LaForge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Early on Sunday Oct. 25 [2015], an underground fire caused an explosion in a low-level nuclear waste site in the desert 10 miles from Beatty, Nevada, and 115 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Unfortunately authorities don’t know what sorts of radioactive isotopes are buried in the trenches there. Nor does anyone know either how the fire started or how much radioactive waste burned.
→ read full articleSmoke Signal
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.
→ read full articleWe Won’t Torture Anymore: American Psychological Association Tells U.S. to Withdraw Psychologists from Nat. Sec. Interrogations
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
30 Oct 2015 – In a new letter to the White House and top federal officials, the APA asks the government to withdraw psychologists from any interrogation or prison setting that could put them in violation of the new ethics policy.
→ read full articleCome Hack on SecureDrop and Celebrate the Third Annual Aaron Swartz Day
Trevor Timm – Freedom of the Press Foundation,
2 Nov 2015
Saturday November 7 [2015] is the third annual Aaron Swartz Day, which celebrates the life of Aaron and the many wonderful Internet projects he created or worked on during his brief but brilliant life. One of Aaron’s last projects was SecureDrop, the open-source whistleblower submission system, which Freedom of the Press Foundation adopted after his untimely passing in 2013.
→ read full articleIs GDP Over?
Sam Pizzigati, Institute of Policy Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Have We Finally Moved Beyond GDP? Economists from rich countries increasingly agree: Sustainable development and reducing inequality matter more than economic growth. To help overcome inequality we need to do much more than total up an economy’s goods and services.
→ read full article‘They Don’t Care Who Gets Killed’: Ex-US Drone Pilot Turned Whistleblower
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
17 Oct 2015 – Guilt-ridden American drone pilots continue to quit in unprecedented numbers. One former secret mission operator, Brandon Bryant, who’s received a whistleblower award, spoke of the horrors of indiscriminate killing from a safe distance.
→ read full articleTransparency International: Mideast and North African Military Corruption “Critical”
Yasmine Ryan – The Intercept,
2 Nov 2015
29 Oct 2015 – Western nations, primarily the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, and Russia, have helped increase corruption among Middle Eastern and North African states by selling them vast quantities of weapons with little oversight. “Corruption is endemic within the arms trade, and that’s because of the individuals and companies involved.”
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Part 2)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
I was taught in my medical school training that before prescribing a treatment, the physician was ethically and medico-legally obliged to fully inform the patient about the potential hazards of a drug (or a surgical procedure). Then the patient was to be given an opportunity to refuse or accept the recommended prescription or procedure.
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2-Minute Speech Dedicated to Rohingya Victims of Burma/Myanmar’s Genocide
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire was the presenter on behalf of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Salt Lake City, Utah, 18 Oct 2015. Both Dr. Zarni and Mrs. Maguire are members of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.
→ read full articleStorming the Bastille at the Paris Climate Summit
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Truthdig,
2 Nov 2015
Since the dawn of the industrial age, humans have been dumping pollutants into the sky as if the atmosphere is a bottomless pit, able to absorb an infinite amount of our smoke and exhaust. Protest organizers have called for global actions on Nov. 28 and 29, demanding a fair, ambitious and binding agreement to confront, and ultimately reverse, the potential for catastrophic, human-induced climate change. If the leaders fail, many will be there to storm the Bastille.
→ read full articleSyria’s ‘Monument Citizens’ Taking Risks Saving the Future of Our Past
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Increasing numbers of Syria’s women and men, considered by this observer as this war-torn country’s ‘Monument Citizens’ have recently expanded the scope and range of cultural heritage site protection and preservation on behalf of humanity.
→ read full articleCan Haiti’s Corrupt President Hold On to Power?
James North – The Nation,
2 Nov 2015
Michel Martelly is trying to impose a successor amid widespread public anger at government repression and failure to rebuild after the earthquake.
→ read full article(Português) “Transgênicos não são alimentos, e sim mercadorias”, aponta médico argentino
Saúde Popular – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
29 out 2015 – Médico argentino analisa os danos causados por alimentos geneticamente modificados e agrotóxicos para as pessoas e a sociedade.
→ read full articleFact-finding Delegation Reports an Electoral Coup Now in Process in Haiti
Report from the Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Most international observers of the election have focused on the day of the election, but not on the vital final stage of the electoral process – the counting and tabulation of the votes. Although multiple political parties are protesting the post-election counting process, Haiti’s ruling party is praising the vote and objecting to critiques of the tabulation process.
→ read full articleSouth Sudan: ‘A Level of Human Suffering I Have Never Seen Anywhere Else’
Sam Jones – The Guardian,
2 Nov 2015
Children are paying the highest price for 22-month conflict that has displaced millions of people and pushed the world’s youngest country close to famine.
→ read full articleAl Jazeera Turka Interview on Turkish Foreign and National Policy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
28 Oct 2015 – This is a modified text of an interview conducted by Semin Gumusel Guner of Al Jazeera Turka, and published online in abbreviated form on October 19, 2015. The situation in Turkey is increasingly precarious and troublesome.
→ read full article
Libertango (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Bel Suono – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Piano Show Bel Suono – These three virtuosos pianists were educated in the best music universities in Russia and are winners of national and international competitions.
→ read full articleFrom European Union to Just a Common Market
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Europe will have to accept that it is not going to be the homogenous and white society that the right wing and xenophobic parties dream of reestablishing. The lack of global governability has created a staggering figure of 60 million refugees. Solidarity or not, Europe demography will require the arrival of some million. What will be the Europe of 2030?
→ read full article(Français) Dictionnaire utilisé par les médias pour décrire la situation en Palestine
Majed Bamya, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Dans la plupart des médias occidentaux, certains termes semblent s’appliquer uniquement à ce conflit : “regain de violence sur l’esplanade des mosquées”, “Israël entame un nouveau cycle de négociations”, “le processus de paix au Proche-Orient”… Loin d’être anodins, ces termes recouvrent un sens caché au service d’une rhétorique trompeuse.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Neo-Nazi Buddhists Get Free Rein
Maung Zarni, Ph.D. – Asia Times,
2 Nov 2015
As a new nationalist movement with a clear message of ”racial and religious purity”, a false sense of Buddhist victimhood, and cultural and economic nationalism – not dissimilar to Germany’s Nazism in the 1930s – 969 is gaining popularity for three main reasons.
→ read full articleMaking a Choice – American Psychological Association: Reform or Business as Usual?
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The real divide here is not between psychologists who are employed by the military and those who work in the civil sector. Nor is it between psychologists who are healthcare practitioners and those who work in non-clinical areas. The divide that matters is the one between psychologists who recognize the urgent need for accountability and reform and those who instead insist that no wrongdoing took place and that business as usual should prevail.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Nov 2-8 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain.
→ read full article(Português) O Que Está em Causa
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Carta Maior,
2 Nov 2015
27 out 2015 – O fenómeno não é português. É global, embora em cada país assuma uma manifestação específica. Consiste na agressividade inusitada com que a direita enfrenta qualquer desafio à sua dominação, uma agressividade expressa em linguagem abusiva, manipulação do medo de modo a eliminar a esperança, falsidades proclamadas como verdades sociológicas, destempero emocional no confronto de ideias, etc., etc.
→ read full articleHitler Won
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Hitler won.
He has converted the Jews,
Palestinians, Russians, Chechens,
Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans,
even his nemesis, the
Holy Americans.
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
Prof. Edward Curtin – Information Clearing House,
2 Nov 2015
The continuing Killing Deep State within the U.S. Empire. David Talbot has exposed the face of evil incarnate in Allen Dulles, the hitman for the power elite.
→ read full articleThe Drone Papers – Firing Blind (6 of 8)
Cora Currier and Peter Maass – The Intercept,
26 Oct 2015
Flawed Intelligence and the Limits of Drone Technology
→ read full articleThe Drone Papers – The Alphabet of Assassination (9-Glossary of Terms)
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
A guide to the acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms used in The Drone Papers. We defer to definitions provided in the source text where available; other interpretations are based on open source material.
→ read full articleHow the West Broke Libya and Returned It to the Hatred of the Past
Yasmina Khadra – The Guardian,
26 Oct 2015
When Muammar Gaddafi was toppled the bastion he built crumbled too. Who can restore national unity now? You cannot simply launch an attack on a country without any knowledge of the mindset or character of its inhabitants.
→ read full articleRandom Inspections
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
If a suspected drug smuggler could tell a border guard, “You may check my trunk, but don’t open the glove compartment,” such an “inspection” would be meaningless.
→ read full articleThe War Politics behind Nobel Prize
Gouthama Siddarthan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
20 Oct 2015 – The Nobel committee is at it again, proving for the umpteenth time that it has been a playground for the international political game of chess.
→ read full articlePalestine/Israel: Summary of the Current Situation and Ways Out
Dr. Walid Salem, Center for Democracy and Community Development – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Jerusalem, 21 Oct 2015 – After the collapse of the Kerry initiative last year and the deterioration that followed, leading to the current escalation, what the today situation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is? Where are we in the peace process? What is the situation on the ground? What this wave of violence in Jerusalem means? What decisions will be taken by the Palestinians now? And what are the proposed ways out.
→ read full articleState Terror or Capitalist Terror, Military Coup or Capitalist Coup
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Democratic critics of military seizures of power commonly refer to them as military coups. They adopt a very narrow and misleading conception of what is taking place.
→ read full article(Italiano) In memoria di Dietrich Fischer
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
18 ottobre 2015 – Cari Membri di Transcend – molti di voi proposti da Dieter! – il mio caro amico, cofondatore di Transcend nel 1993 con me e Fumiko Nishimura, ci ha lasciato oggi dopo una breve degenza ospedaliera in coma, sostanzialmente a causa del suo diabete da molti anni.
→ read full articleA Tribute to Prof. Johan Galtung’s 85th Birthday
Erika Degortes and Naakow Grant-Hayford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
We are here not to offer you a gift dear Johan, but to celebrate the gift you have given to all those interested in bringing about peace as a sociological and as a political responsibility in our multipolar and multicultural world.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Oct 26–Nov 1 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.” – Sarah Dessen
→ read full articleEmeritus Prof. Dr. DIETRICH FISCHER (1941 – 2015)
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Those of us whom he groomed, at EPU and other numerous institutions, will eternally cherish appreciated that he embraced us all as his own friends. Apart from his professional calling, Dietrich was also known to many as a philanthropist. His generosity included financial, food and other gifts to numerous students and people.
→ read full articleCorruption: Theory, Prognosis, Solutions?
Johan Galtung, 26 Oct 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
The definition of corruption rests on a distinction between open and hidden transaction aspects, “above and under the table”, when the hidden is also illegal or at least illegitimate… Add to transparency and punishment the positive ways to integrity, making large-scale corruption a sad, but a short episode.
→ read full articleScientists: Geological Evidence Shows the Great Sphinx Is 800,000 Years Old
EWAO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Two Ukrainian researchers have proposed a new provocative theory that the Great Sphinx of Egypt is around 800,000 years old. A revolutionary theory that is backed up by science.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: Seventy Years after Hiroshima & Nagasaki – Against Binaries (10)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
This is the last in this series of posts prompted by the 70th observance of the atomic attacks in 1945. The intention has been to explore several of the more important dimensions of what is called here ‘nuclearism,’ the securitization of nuclear weaponry in the face of international law, international morality, and simple common sense.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Part 1)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
The readers of my weekly Duty to Warn columns know that I often write about some of the concerns that I have regarding the once honorable medical profession that I called my own for 40 years. Actually, my major concerns haven’t been solely about physicians, but about the for-profit systems that have arisen since I was a medical student.
→ read full articleGaltung’s Wheel
Gary Larson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
A Current Affair…
→ read full articleWar Wounded
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
I cannot see you.
I do not want to hear you.
Go away–
Striking Distance: The Violence We See, and Don’t See, Onstage
Russell Vandenbroucke – American Theatre,
26 Oct 2015
From the Greeks to ‘Disgraced,’ direct violence has been a theatrical staple. Structural violence, though harder to stage, is also the stuff of drama. —“Structural violence refers to inequalities built into the social system.” The term is usually attributed to Norwegian scholar Johan Galtung, who also coined “cultural violence.”
→ read full articleThe Tide Is Turning against Zionist Extremism
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
26 Oct 2015
The inherent contradiction of Israel as both a modern democratic state and brutal occupier is becoming clear to all. Anti-BDS initiatives are doomed to fail, particularly when they attempt to bully universities and even Jewish students into muting criticism.
→ read full article(Français) Dietrich Fischer, un homme de paix
Abbas Aroua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Dieter, que j’ai eu la chance de connaitre depuis une dizaine d’années, était une leçon vivante d’humilité. Totalement dévoué à la non-violence et engagé dans la formation des promoteurs de la paix, il y mettait de son énergie, son temps et son argent, et surtout de son intelligence, son humour et sa compassion.
→ read full article(Italiano) Sparatorie nelle scuole USA: 10 punti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Al Community College dell’Oregon “la 45^ sparatoria scolastica quest’anno negli USA; la 142^ dal massacro di Newton nel 2012” . 25% delle donne subiscono violenza domestica, 6 milioni di bambini vi assistono ogni anno, 28% dei bambini subiscono atti di bullismo ogni anno esponendosi a una probabilità di suicidio da 2 a 9 volte maggiore della media. Che cosa si può fare?
→ read full articleThere Are Now 100 Scientific Studies That Prove Cannabis Cures Cancer
Higher Perspective – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Marijuana has been shown in some cases to effectively treat numerous types of cancer, improve immunity, and fight anxiety and pain.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia, Royal Impunity, and the Quicksand of Special Relationships
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
This post challenges the geopolitics of impunity from both principled and pragmatic perspectives, and also casts doubts on ‘special relationships’ that the United States has established in the Middle East with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
→ read full articleSurvival of the Nicest? A New Theory of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive
Eric Michael Johnson – YES! Magazine,
26 Oct 2015
As worker-owned cooperatives continue to gain prominence around the world, we may ultimately witness the downfall of Carnegie’s “law of competition” and a return to the collaborative environments that the human species has long called home.
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All About That Bass (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
PostmodernJukebox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Delightful! We got some of the cast together to record this special version of one of our biggest covers – Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass,” in the style of PMJ ft. Kate Davis, of course.
→ read full articleHaiti: UN Security Council Votes to Extend by a Year Its Occupying Military Presence
John Marion, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Cholera was introduced into Haiti in 2010 by MINUSTAH troops from Nepal because of UN negligence. Instead of admitting responsibility—either legal or moral—the UN has hidden behind a mixture of committees, short-term programs, and verbiage about “coordination with other actors to continue to support the Government of Haiti in addressing the structural weaknesses.”
→ read full articleSee Jerusalem through Palestinian Eyes
Yousef Munayyer – Al Jazeera,
26 Oct 2015
Israel should take concrete steps to reverse its Judaization efforts in occupied East Jerusalem. For Palestinians, Israel’s actions – past and present – leave an impression that the walls are closing in on them and what little is left of their sacred city, including the holy sites.
→ read full articleFiles in Lawsuit against CIA Stolen in ‘Disturbing’ University Break-In
Nadia Prupis – Common Dreams,
26 Oct 2015
22 Oct 2015 – University of Washington police are investigating a break-in after files from a lawsuit against the CIA were stolen. “About 90 percent of the information” was taken in the break-in. There are backups of the stolen files but the concern now is how the data might be used against rights workers in El Salvador who are involved in the lawsuit.
→ read full articleThe Pantomime of Democracy: Portugal’s Coup against Anti-Austerity
Binoy Kampmark - Global Research,
26 Oct 2015
The combined Left bloc won 50.7 percent of the vote (122 seats), while the conservative premier Right-wing coalition gained 38.5 percent – a loss of 28 seats. One would have to be a rather brave and foolish individual to let the latter form government. This, in fact, is what Aníbal Cavaco Silva, the country’s Right-wing president, did.
→ read full articleCredit Suisse Wealth Report: There Are More Poor People in America Than in China
Tim Worstall - Forbes,
26 Oct 2015
This is a wonderfully counter intuitive finding from the new Credit Suisse Wealth Report. There’re more poor people in America than there are in China. No, really, this is true, when measuring by wealth.
→ read full articleIs Putin Iran’s “Senior Partner” in Syria?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
The conversation returned to Russia’s new ‘vitality’ in Syria. The commander explained: “All Syrians love Putin. He is known to us as ‘Abu Ali Putin’” And as my friends effusively recited praise for Valdmir Putin, I couldn’t get a word in sideways, and was reminded of Elizabeth Barrett Bowning’s poem, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
→ read full article(Castellano) “La paz consiste en hacer preguntas y los especialistas en hacer preguntas son los periodistas”: Johan Galtung
Yo vivo de preguntar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Cuando el sociólogo y matemático noruego Johan Galtung visitó Bogotá a finales de septiembre 2015, invitado por la Universidad Santo Tomás de Bogotá para su IV Congreso Internacional de Comunicación para la Paz, los pocos medios de comunicación que lo entrevistaron ahondaron en preguntas en las que le pedían su opinión sobre la creación de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, que hacía pocos días habían anunciado el Gobierno y las FARC en La Habana.
→ read full articleWoman as Peacemakers: A 31 October Anniversary
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Seeing with eyes that are gender aware, women tend to make connections between the oppression that is the ostensible cause of conflict (ethnic or national oppression) in the light of another crosscutting one: that of gender regime.
→ read full articleJohn Pilger’s Film ‘Cambodia Year Zero’ Named as One of ITV’s 60 Greatest Programmes
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
‘Cambodia Year Zero’, as it became known, was credited with alerting the world to the suffering of the people of Cambodia under the fanatical regime of Pol Pot. It raised tens of millions of pounds for Cambodia’s children – mostly unsolicited – and became the most watched documentary throughout the world.
→ read full articleFaulty Analysis and Conclusions on Syria
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
In tandem with “Obama is weak” goes “Russia is strong” or “Russia looks strong” or “Putin looks strong because Obama is weak”. The media warmongers are like kids on a school playground, trying to egg on a fight. Except in this case it’s not a bloody nose at stake; it’s the lives of tens of thousands of Syrians and potentially millions in World War 3.
→ read full articleNonkiling: A Checklist for Family Use
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
This checklist has a dual purpose:
→ read full articleIDF Punish Families of Attackers by Destroying Their Homes
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
The ‘most moral army in the world’ resumed the demolition of Palestinian homes as a punishment in September 2014. This is quite clearly illegal on several counts – though the Supreme Court has left it to the Commanding Officer to decide as Charlotte SIlver, Electronic Intifada, and B’Tselem explain.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il mondo oltre il disordine globale
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Relazione introduttiva, 13^ Sessione del Forum Pubblico Mondiale “Dialogo di Civiltà” – Rodi, Grecia, 9 ottobre 2015 – La forza di questo forum è la sua attenzione focalizzata sulle civiltà; usiamola per l’analisi e i rimedi. Le principali forme di disordine utilizzano la violenza; la guerra è violenza di stato organizzata. Gli stati più bellicosi sono gli Stati Uniti d’America e Israele, ambedue con radici di civiltà.
→ read full articleA Bank to Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank for International Settlements (Part I)
Devon Douglas-Bowers, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an organization shrouded in mystery. This may be due mainly to the fact that the majority of people don’t even know of its existence. According to the BIS itself, the main purpose of the Bank is “to promote the cooperation of central banks and to provide additional facilities for international financial operations.”
→ read full articleA Bank to Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank for International Settlements (Part II)
Devon Douglas-Bowers, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The idea for an international bank had already been explored to some extent by people like the economist John Maynard Keynes. But the idea for the bank truly took off during the Young Conference in 1929, when the Allies were attempting to exact Germany’s reparations debts for WWI.
→ read full articleA Bank to Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank for International Settlements (Part III)
Devon Douglas-Bowers, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
In the current age of austerity, the question remains: how much devastation will result from the influence wielded by the BIS and the decisions that it made?
→ read full articleThe Drone Papers – The Assassination Complex (1 of 8)
Jeremy Scahill - The Intercept,
19 Oct 2015
Secret military documents expose the inner workings of Obama’s drone wars. There has been intense focus on the technology of remote killing, but that often serves as a surrogate for what should be a broader examination of the state’s power over life and death.
→ read full articleThe Drone Papers – Find, Fix, Finish (4 of 8)
Jeremy Scahill – The Intercept,
19 Oct 2015
For the Pentagon, creating an architecture of assassination meant navigating a turf war with the CIA.
→ read full articleThe World beyond Global Disorder
Johan Galtung, 19 Oct 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Keynote, 13th Session World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” – Rhodes, Greece, 9 Oct 2015 – The strength of this forum is its civilization focus; let us use it for analysis and remedies. Major forms of disorder use violence; war is state organized violence. The most belligerent states are the United States of America and Israel, both with civilization roots.
→ read full article“Nothing about Us without Us”: South Africa Set to Quit the International Criminal Court
Bongani Mbindwane - The BRICS Post,
19 Oct 2015
The ICC has been seen by many as a proxy tool of the US to further its narrow global hegemonic political interests.
→ read full articleThe Boom and Bust of CIA’s Secret Torture Sites
Crofton Black and Sam Raphael – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
19 Oct 2015
In nine months of research, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and The Rendition Project have pieced together the hidden history of the CIA’s secret sites. Although many published accounts of individual journeys through the black site network exist, this is the first comprehensive portrayal of the system’s inner dynamics from beginning to end.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Refugee Problem: It’s Not Just the Rohingya
Kirsten McConnachie – The Diplomat,
19 Oct 2015
Other ethnic groups from Myanmar are facing an increasingly difficult situation too.
→ read full articleThe Inexorable Logic of Sharing Economy
Michael Spence, Nobel Economics Laureate – China Daily,
19 Oct 2015
The truth is that the Internet-led process of exploiting under-utilized resources－be they physical and financial capital or human capital and talent－is both unstoppable and accelerating. Indeed, those who fear the job-destroying and job-shifting power of automation should look upon the sharing economy and breathe a bit of a sigh of relief.
→ read full article