Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Reflections 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) 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 articleAlfred Nobel
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Sometimes, mistakes, even lies, can have a serendipitous effect.
→ 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 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 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 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 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 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.
→ read full articleU.S. Successfully Tests New Nuclear Gravity Bomb in Nevada
Brendan Byrne, ValueWalk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
17 Nov 2015 – The newly upgraded B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb was successfully tested for the third time in the Nevada desert on October 20. Non-proliferation advocates appear to have lost the fight to keep the B61-12 from being deployed, and now it must be hoped that future military officials are not tempted to use it.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – People Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
There will likely be an escalation of the ongoing and bankrupting perpetual wars with the inevitable worsening of the suffering of the refugees, continued chaos on the ground, and a global war-induced economic instability that will eventually come crashing down – literally or figuratively – on American heads, just like the too-heavy throne that fell through the second story of the grass house.
→ read full articleCorporate Imperialism – The Only Reason for GMOs
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
The Papal Bull of 1493 -Inter Caetera- and the concept of Terra Nullius allowed the Catholic Church, and the Empires of the time, to change the destiny of millions of people and their cultures around the world, by allowing Europe to grab what it wanted from faraway lands. Terra Nullius, Latin, meaning ‘empty lands’ or ‘lands that belong to no one’ was a novel concept.
→ read full articleSmoking Out a Boko Haram Closet Supporter
Rev. Olufemi Oluniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Boko Haram, the terrorist Islamic organisation crashed into the Nigerian national stage with fury (2002), fire (2007) and firestorm (2009). The word Boko, a Hausa adulteration of the English word “book,” and haram, the Hausa word for forbidden, together mean ‘aversion to Western education.’
→ read full articleMeetings in Germany Mark the 75th Anniversary of the Death of Leon Trotsky
World Socialist Web Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
23 Nov 2015 – More than 200 people attended meetings in Germany marking the 75th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky, held by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality in the German cities of Berlin, Frankfurt and Bochum.
→ read full articleDefiant Haiti – “We won’t let you steal these elections!”
Dave Welsh, Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Hooded Gangs Attack Protest March as Police Turn a Blind Eye – Haitians, determined to thwart what they see as an ongoing “electoral coup d’etat,” have been in the streets almost daily in their tens of thousands since the Oct. 25th first round Presidential elections.
→ read full articleReligion and Science – An Interdisciplinary Approach
Dr.Chandra P. Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Mostly the people are confused about the existence of God, and contradictory statements of the intellectuals have confused further at a length. Although all the religious scriptures are saying the same, the religion is based on the existence of one God and Indian concept of polytheism based on swa dharma, self duty, with the view that God is present everywhere.
→ read full article25 November: Silent Violence Against Women
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
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 circumstance.” On 25 November, this day for the elimination of violence against women, we need to look closely at the social, cultural and economic walls that imprison.
→ read full articleViolence In and By Paris: Any Way Out?
Johan Galtung, 23 Nov 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
I have a dream. Like an American from Atlanta, Georgia, MLK Jr. Imagine West and Islam focusing not on the worst, like Western violence for prevention and Islamic for retribution, but on the best. Like the capacity for innovation and freedom in the West, togetherness and sharing in Islam. Imagine them dialoguing publicly at a high level “how can we learn from each other”?
→ read full articleOn the Phone
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
A man spoke frantically into the phone.
→ read full articleThe Dangers of the Gates Foundation: Displacing Seeds and Farmers
Mariam Mayet, Other Worlds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Our seed systems in Africa are being criminalized by a corporate green revolution project. How the African Centre for Biodiversity is fighting back effectively to keep seeds in the hands of farmers and out of the multinational corporations.
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The Lady Is a Tramp (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Frank Sinatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
In Concert Live
→ read full articleResearchers Confirm: Giant Ancient Egyptian Underground Labyrinth Exists and Could Rewrite History
EWAO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
The Incredible Ancient Egyptian underground Labyrinth has been found and confirmed but has been suppressed by mainstream history. It can be easily considered as one of the greatest discoveries of Ancient Egypt, yet only a few know about its existence.
→ read full articleLike the Germans, Israeli Jews Don’t Want to Know about Persecuted People
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Many Germans were appalled by the scale of the madness, cruelty and barbarism, but they didn’t lift a finger. Apart from a few who hid Jewish neighbours in their homes, or had the courage to help the wounded, most saw what was happening, heard the cries and turned away. They were frightened. They shut themselves up at home. They closed their windows.
→ read full article(Français) Vingt ans après Dayton, rendre la Bosnie aux Bosniens ?
Georges Berghezan, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
18 novembre 2015 – Le 21 novembre 1995, un accord conclu sur la base étatsunienne de Dayton (Ohio) mettait fin à la guerre en Bosnie-Herzégovine. Vingt ans plus tard, si le pays a quasiment disparu des écrans des téléviseurs, il continue à vivoter dans le moule de l’accord, officiellement signé le 14 décembre à Paris.
→ read full articleNot a Joke At All
Singer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Satirical Strip Cartoon
→ read full articleStatement of the 15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
15 Nov 2015 The Barcelona Declaration – Refugees: Meeting the Challenge to Our Humanity
→ read full articleI offer my sincere apologies for the delay…
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2015
… to the 10-thousand-strong subscribers to our TMS Weekly Digest. In short:
→ read full articleParis Attacks: Symbols and Choices
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2015
Within a short time period, the terrorist teams have destroyed a Russian plane with tourists returning from Egypt, badly damaged a Hezbollah center in Lebanon, and attacked symbolic sites in Paris on a Friday the 13th. Three symbolic sites in Paris were chosen by a well-coordinated team of some 12 active agents and an unknown number of “helpers.”
→ read full articlePutin: ISIS Financed from 40 Countries, Including G20 Members
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2015
President Vladimir Putin says he’s shared Russian intelligence data on Islamic State financing with his G20 colleagues: the terrorists appear to be financed from 40 countries, including some G20 member states.
→ read full articleBeirut’s Explosion: The Sunni-Shia Bellum Sanctum Returns to Hezbollah’s Security Zone
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
At least 46 confirmed deaths and nearly 250 wounded, many seriously, are being treated at hospitals. All are victims of the 6 p.m. rush hour terrorist bombings deep inside Hezbollah’s security zone on Nov 12, 2015 that targeted civilians who were shopping at street markets or gathering at the local mosque for the fourth of the five daily prayers. The extremist Islamic State (ISIS/Da’ish) group claimed the attack.
→ read full articleParis at Midnight: Attempt to Push France Out of Anti-ISIL Coalition in Syria?
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Paris was hit by at least two well-trained and -equipped terrorist cells in a coordinated attack on 6 or 7 soft targets on Friday [13 Nov 2015] night. Some fear that these strikes will spell the end of Schengen open borders and will negatively affect the refugees that have come to Europe in the thousands recently. The terrorists may have been attempting to replicate the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which also aimed at soft targets, and which convinced Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
→ read full articleParis: Who Profits?
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
14 Nov 2015 – There’s no evidence this is a false flag – at least for now. What this seems to be proving is that Daesh is a certified pro ops with badass connections. Scouring a ton of reports, I found a Danish citizen describing one of the attackers to a Paris café; ultra-pro, black-clad head to toe, AK-47, very well trained. These are not your usual al-Zawahiri underwear bombers; these are precision killers.
→ read full articleAcademics and Israel
The Irish Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
4 Nov 2015 – Sir, As scholars associated with Irish institutions of higher education, north and south, and responding to the appeal from Palestinian civil society, we declare that we will not accept invitations to visit Israeli academic institutions; act as referees in any of their processes; participate in conferences funded, organised or sponsored by them, or otherwise co-operate with them.
→ read full articleMiddle East: The Way Forward
Sufyan bin Uzayr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
For the Middle East to truly blossom and bloom, it is essential that fake borders be abolished. That said, it seems highly unlikely that any form of unification or integration might happen during the oil era, especially because both domestic dictators and foreign hegemons are eager to keep the falsely drawn borders intact. How or when can unification happen? This question, unfortunately, still lacks an answer.
→ read full articleCall Me by My Name
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
French Pres. Charles De Gaulle got up in the middle of the night and went to the bathroom in the dark, wearing nothing.
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Johan Galtung & Keil Eggers: The World beyond Global Disorder
TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
13th Session World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” – Rhodes, Greece, 9 Oct 2015
→ read full articleNew Socialist Government Keeps Portuguese People under the Whip
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Portuguese Revolution Falls Far Short – In the Western world democracy has been decapitated. In Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Latvia, and the United States itself, there is no connection between the will of the people and the policies of the government. Only in tiny Iceland did the people prevail over the banks. Everywhere else the people are forced to pay for the gambling losses and leveraged debts of the financial sector.
→ read full article5 Reasons That I’m a Christian Who Stopped Supporting Israel
Benjamin L. Corey, Patheos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
5. I realized that loving Jewish people was completely different from supporting the modern, secular state of Israel.
→ read full articleSpanish Court Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Other Officials
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
A Spanish court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials for their role in the 2010 attack on the Freedom Flotilla heading to Gaza, local media reported on Friday [13 Nov 2015].
→ read full articleThe Dolphin Killers of Cardigan Bay
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Why does the Welsh government propose this gratuitous act of destruction? It refuses to say.
→ read full articleMyanmar Rulers Exit, Successfully
Swe Mon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
People, let me be blunt.
Un-ashamed, the usurpers seem to have stopped their election game,
Having chosen the moral high ground and leaving the landsliders to be blamed – for a country lying in ruins.
Smart Resistance: A Palestinian Call for ‘Unarmed Warfare’
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Some Palestinian intellectuals are advocating non-violent resistance as they warn against an armed uprising. Palestinians have a right in international law to resist the occupation, even violently, but this group emphasises the futility of violence faced with Israel’s military superiority. Theirs is a pragmatic argument.
→ read full article(Português) Incêndio destrói acampamento de refugiados na França
R7 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
14 novembro 2015 – Um grande incêndio atingiu um acampamento de refugiados na cidade portuária de Calais, na França, horas após os atentados terroristas em Paris.
→ read full articleCuba Leading Eradication of HIV/AIDS, UN Says
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Cuba is an example for the world to follow on how to eradicate AIDS, the executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS said Friday [13 Nov 2015].
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Agent Orange, Monsanto, Dow Chemical and Other Ugly Legacies of the Vietnam War
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
The following currently accepted list of diseases that can be caused by exposure to Agent Orange applies to American veterans, but the consequences are a hundred times worse for the Vietnamese people who were sprayed and who are still being exposed to it in the soil for the last 50 years.
→ read full articleHere is What a Solidarity Economy Looks Like – from Quebec to Chicago to Mexico
Derek Royden, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Defining the term “solidarity economy” can be difficult: it has become a kind of catchall to describe everything from worker-owned cooperatives to open source software to complementary currencies. Surprisingly, the ideas promoted in the solidarity economy are not very well known in the English-speaking world.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Nov 16-22 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Life is short; live it. Love is rare; grab it. Anger is bad; dump it. Fear is awful; face it. Memories are sweet; cherish them.” – Anonymous
→ read full articleEnding the Era of Wars
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates – Barcelona, 13-15 November 2015
→ read full article(Italiano) Culture di guerra, culture di pace
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Abbiamo guerra e pace, teoria e pratica. E più in fondo culture di guerra e di pace, nozioni di com’è o potrebbe essere il mondo. Una cultura di pace non è necessariamente pace, potrebbe anche voler dire rimozione degli ostacoli per la guerra.
→ read full articleDying to Live, Living to Die, Lying to Live, and Living a Lie: Should American li(v)es be saved at all costs?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
The principal slogan of American foreign policy appears to be “Saving American Lives”. It is used to justify interventions in countries around the world perceived as a threat to American full-spectrum dominance. There is also a case for exploring the slogan by which American foreign policy might well be framed, namely “Saving American Lies”.
→ read full article(Português) “Portugal errou ao querer ganhar o concurso de beleza da austeridade”, diz economista Paul de Grauwe
Público e Lusa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
O economista Paul de Grauwe , professor na London School of Economics, defende que o país não deverá conseguir fugir a uma reestruturação da dívida e entende que Portugal cometeu o “erro” de ser o melhor aluno da troika, quando a economia estaria melhor se assim não fosse; defende um lobby do Sul da Europa para mudar políticas europeias.
→ read full article(Italiano) Quo Vadis Europa, dove stai andando?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Molto addentro erano invece gli USA che, isolati dietro ai loro due oceani, provocarono devastazioni in Europa Occidentale e Asia Orientale. Facciamo ospitare agli USA molti migranti, molti di più. Comunque, aldilà di ciò consideriamo i migranti come risorse, non solo una minaccia: poiché riempiono gravi vuoti di popolazione, come manodopera che sviluppa molte zone dell’Europa, come portatori di altre culture per dialoghi e apprendimento reciproco.
→ read full articleThe Milgram Experiment
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
The “student” was led away into a cabin where he was presumably hooked to electric wires. The “teacher” was told to ask him a series of questions, and each time he gave a wrong answer, to administer to the “student” an electric shock of increasing intensity, to study if the fear of pain would improve people’s concentration and ability to think straight.
→ read full articleArming Dictators: An American Tradition
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
10 Nov 2015 – Recently the Obama administration announced another military aid package for Pakistan: eight F-16 fighter jets. Once again considerations of human rights and democratic values have been sacrificed to strategic calculations.
→ read full articleVietnamese Child Prodigy Plays Traditional Harp (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
16,640,056 Views on Facebook – 6 Nov 2015
→ read full articleMonsanto Handed ‘Double Whammy’ by Mexican Courts over Planting GMOs
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
9 Nov 2015 – Two separate court decisions in Mexico have blocked cultivation of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn in the country and soy in two states.
→ read full articleFrom Taiji to Tanks: Dolphin Captures Show Captive Industry’s Link to Slaughter
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
12 Nov 2015 – On November 10 (Japan time), the captive industry’s inextricable link to the slaughter of dolphins and small whales in the infamous cove was on full display once again in Taiji, Japan.
→ read full articleNicole Krauss’s Beautiful Letter to Van Gogh on Fear, Bravery, and How to Break the Loop of Our Destructive Patterns
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
“Bravery is always more intelligent than fear, since it is built on the foundation of what one knows about oneself: the knowledge of one’s strength and capacity, of one’s passion.”
[NOTE FROM TMS EDITOR: Last week we posted: Vincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, and How Making Inspired Mistakes Moves Us Forward. Here Nicole Krauss answers to Van Gogh. Delightful dialogue of minds.]
Edward Said’s Humanism versus the U.S. State Department’s Antisemitism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
There is an obvious tension that exists more vividly than when Edward Said was alive, and commenting on the Palestinian struggle. Israel has created on the ground a set of circumstances that seem irreversible and are institutionalizing a single apartheid Israeli state encompassing the whole of historic Palestine (minus Jordan).
→ read full article(Português) Madeira ilegal da Amazônia chega impunemente à Europa
Greenpeace Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Nova investigação expõe 26 empresas europeias que estão importando produtos de fornecedor ligado ao comércio de madeira ilegal da Amazônia.
→ read full articleQuo Vadis Europe, Where Are You Going?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The enormous move of people from devastated countries must be handled by those who caused it… Very much in it was the USA, causing havoc in Western Europe and Eastern Asia from behind its two oceans. Make USA take many, many more. However, beyond that see the people on the move as assets not only threats: as filling serious population gaps, as labor developing many areas of Europe, as carriers of other cultures for dialogues, mutual learning.
→ read full articleBrain
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
George W. Bush went to see a specialist to examine his brain.
→ read full articleText of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The text of the Agreement was released by TPP Parties on 5 November 2015 and can be accessed by chapter below. The text will continue to undergo legal review and will be translated into French and Spanish language versions prior to signature.
→ read full articleTo Derryn Hinch [in Australia]: Yes, Stand Up Against the Killing Fields in Syria – But Research Syria First
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
On Nov 3, 2015 The AGE, one of two leading local newspapers in Melbourne, published a comment piece by Derryn Hinch, “Bashar al-Assad: Australia must not help keep this murderer in charge”. Derryn is a veteran broadcaster/commentator who is known to take strong stands on issues and has even gone to prison for his principles. He is a maverick, a rebel.
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Rondo Alla Turca (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The 5 Browns – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The 5 Browns playing an arrangement and rift of Mozart’s Alla Turca by Greg Anderson. The video was filmed while playing the international street pianos art installment called “Play Me, I’m Yours.”
→ read full articleRussia: Homophobic, Abusive Bill
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
Proposes Fines, Jail Time for “Coming Out”
→ read full articleThe Relevancy of New Political Force in Nepal in Terms of Development
Shree Prasad Devkota and Shiba Bagale – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
There is political conflict in the use of the local resources too. So the corruption has been increased as the political parties are being money minded. There is no hidden interest to develop the nation rather they prefer individual development.
→ read full article‘Intolerance Is the Wrong Word for the Lynching and Mass Murder of Human Beings’ in India
Arundhati Roy, Conscientious Objector – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
5 Nov 2015 – The respected author has issued a statement about her decision to return the national film award she won in 1989 for writing the screenplay of ‘In which Annie Gives It Those Ones’.
→ read full articleVincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, and How Making Inspired Mistakes Moves Us Forward
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
“However meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth … steps in and does something.”
→ read full articleConstructive Conflict Applications in Obama’s Foreign Policies
Prof. Louis Kriesberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The approach taken by Obama vis-a-vis Cuba and Iran are examples of constructive conflict methods that showed positive outcomes, writes sociologist Louis Kriesberg.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
Nov 9–15 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Decide to be happy. Render others happy. Proclaim your joy. Love passionately your miraculous life. Do not listen to promises. Do not wait for a better world. Be grateful for every moment of life.” – Robert Müller
→ read full articleThe Pentagon’s Law of War Manual (Parts 1-4)
Tom Carter, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The new US Department of Defense ‘Law of War Manual’ is essentially a guidebook for violating international and domestic law and committing war crimes. The 1,165-page document is not a statement of existing law as much as a compendium of what the Pentagon wishes the law to be.
→ read full articleThe Punishment Society
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
With our public schools and police forces working overtime to teach the children who will comprise the future generations that violence is the solution and submission is the only alternative, expect the United States to be unliveable at home and an even worse danger to the rest of the world.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Part 3)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
Antipsychotic Drugs and Brain Shrinkage
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