Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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To Johan Galtung on His Birthday
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Peacebuilders/educators/makers everywhere let’s rejoice
Today let’s acknowledge the privilege of hearing Johan Galtung’s voice.
On October 24, 85 blessed years old he will be
Linguistic Rights of the Elderly
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
A Checklist for Reflection/Research
→ read full articleProfessor Dietrich Fischer, Ph.D., Co-Founder of TRANSCEND, Passed Away Today, 18 October 2015
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
My dear friend, co-founder of TRANSCEND in 1993 with myself and Fumiko Nishimura left us today after a short hospital stay in coma, basically due to his diabetes for many years. Let us celebrate your life while deploring that you are no longer among us, in deep gratitude for all you did to inspire and help–and for peace in general.
→ read full articleReclaiming the Heart of Our Humanity: Working Together for a World of Compassion, Peace, Justice and Sustainability
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Ideological extremism and fundamentalism, whether religious/political, or of any other kind, cannot be bombed out of existence and there are no military or paramilitary solutions to many of the violent conflicts we are now living through.
→ read full articleBeyond Global Disorder
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
“The two state solution is dead (I think was always dead and a mirage but even if you think it was alive, Zionism killed it). The apartheid system we have is even worse than in South Africa as testified to by many leaders from South Africa. The resistance is the main form of combating injustice, occupation, and colonization.”
→ read full articleManipulating Reality: Facebook Is Listening to You
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
We have become all too used to our reality being manipulated. Invading another country is defensive, rigged elections are democracy in action, more guns (or nuclear weapons) ensure the peace, trade and foreign investment increase jobs at home. Orwellian logic has become commonplace.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Civil Society Activism on Behalf of Nuclear Zero (8)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The Jeffersonian faith in the future of democracy rested on the cumulative impact of education on citizen participation encouraging a robust and vigilant civil society. The advocacy of nuclear disarmament must become joined at the hip with the recognition that global demilitarization and conventional disarmament are part of a retrofitted political package of unconditional anti-nuclearism.
→ read full articleForgotten
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
For the Dalit People of India
→ read full articleHaiti: Will Democracy Be Denied—Again?
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Haitians are in the streets demanding their votes be counted, their voices heard. International solidarity groups are demanding the same. US Congresswoman Maxine Waters, a courageous and consistent champion of the Haitian people, is demanding no less in her recent letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry.
→ read full articleAfter 70 Years: The UN Falls Short, and Yet…
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Seventy years later the UN disappoints many, and bores even more, appearing to be nothing more than a gathering place for the politically powerful. I think such a negative image has taken hold because the UN these days seems more than ever like a spectator than a political actor in the several crises that dominate the current agenda of global politics.
→ read full articleTPP Treaty: Intellectual Property Rights Chapter
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Today, 9 October, 2015 WikiLeaks releases the final negotiated text for the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The document is dated October 5, last Monday. This has been perhaps the most controversial chapter due to its wide-ranging effects on internet services, medicines, publishers, civil liberties and biological patents
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New York New York (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Frank Sinatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Nov 12, 2010 – Frank Sinatra’s “Theme from ‘New York New York'” performance from the “Sinatra: The Man and His Music ” special.
→ read full articleThe Making of a Sociopathic Killer: A List of Risk Factors for School Shooters
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
And the FBI’s Deadly, Deceptive Blind Spot – “What brain-damaging, addictive psych drug(s) was this brain-altered shooter taking or withdrawing from?”
→ read full article(Português) Alerta Ecolinguístico
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Atenção à digital descomunhão
Cuidado com a desagregadora WhatsApptidão:
From Blasphemy Law to Freedom of Speech
Dr. Khalid Sohail, The Secular Web – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Do people have the right to challenge and criticize things that other people consider holy and sacred? Do people have the right to kill those who offend their religious beliefs?
→ read full articleSchool Shootings in the USA: 10 Points
Johan Galtung, 12 Oct 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The Oregon community college was the 45th school shooting this year in America; the 142nd school shooting since the Newton massacre in 2012. 25% of women experience domestic violence, 6 million children witness it every year, 28% of children are bullied during the year and they are 2 to 9 times more likely to commit suicide. What can be done?
→ read full articleColumbus Day, 12 October, Is a Reminder That Nothing Exists Until a White Guy “Discovers” It
Jake Flanagin, Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
We know that Native Americans were living in the Americas for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. We know their ancestors crossed the Bering Land Bridge from northeastern Asia, and in the ensuing 10,000 to 15,000 years populated the New World with civilizations as diverse and distinct as the Mayans, the Inuit, [the Tupi-Guaranis in the South], and the Mapuche.
→ read full articleThe Mystery of ISIS’ Toyota Army Solved
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Mystery Solved: Just last year it was reported that the US State Department had been sending in fleets of specifically Toyota-brand trucks into Syria to whom they claimed was the “Free Syrian Army.” Asking Toyota where the USSD’s own trucks came from is another indication of just how lost US foreign policy, legitimacy, and credibility have become.
→ read full articleNietzsche on How to Find Yourself and the True Value of Education
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!
→ read full article(Italiano) Politica USA contro sfidanti: 10 punti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
La giovane repubblica degli Stati Uniti, non disposta a spartire il litorale Atlantico con Londra, emerse vittoriosamente nel 1812 con un forte esercito centrato nel Sud. Il Destino Manifesto puntava a Ovest, poi anche a Sud, e, sostituendosi al morente impero spagnolo nel 1898, al mondo intero.
→ read full articleThe Future of Work: Business and Community in the Information Age
Scott Meyer, 9clouds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The Information Age Reverses the Industrial Age – Sleeping next to a snoring dog ensures better sleep. So says evolutionary biologists who argue that for millennia, snoring dogs meant safety. If your dog was not worried, you didn’t have to be either. Meanwhile, the opposite is also true.
→ read full article10 October: The Death Penalty and Human Dignity Day
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
10 October is the International Day against the Death Penalty. Since the end of World War II, there has been a gradual abolition of the death penalty due to the rather obvious recognition that putting a person to death is not justice.
→ read full articleIt’s Official: 19 European Countries Say ‘No’ to GMOs
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The 19 countries opting out are: Austria, Belgium for the Wallonia region, Britain for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovenia.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’uomo bianco in quella foto
Riccardo Gazzaniga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Le fotografie, a volte, ingannano. Prendete questa immagine, per esempio. Racconta il gesto di ribellione di Tommie Smith e John Carlos il giorno della premiazione dei 200 metri alle Olimpiadi di Città del Messico e mi ha ingannato un sacco di volte.
→ read full articleOn Japan’s new Pacifism: Questions —
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The mass media say that, in Japan, pacifism is being rethought.
What kind of perspective/government policy is being sought?
Meet the Secretive Committees That Run the Global Economy
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Bank are the two most important American institutions in global financial governance. Both institutions are headquartered in Washington, D.C., just down the street from the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group, two global financial bodies created in 1944 to manage the world economy on behalf of the rich Western nations that founded them.
→ read full articleElectroconvulsant Shock Therapy: Is It Safe or Even Effective?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
General anesthesia plus intravenous sedatives are also administered in order to eliminate any memory of the otherwise painful procedure and also to relax muscles (thus minimizing muscle damage and the possibility of fractured bones during the often violent seizure). Both drugs are brain-altering and potentially brain-damaging but are routinely given.
→ read full articleOver 40 Rodent Feeding Studies Show GM Food is Disastrous to Health
Christina Sarich, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
GMO Free USA has published a listing of more than 40 rodent studies showing that animals fed GM corn and soy suffer dire results. For those who say there is no ‘science’ to prove that GMOs are unsafe, I enjoin them to peruse the following list.
→ read full article#GlobalGoals? The Truth about Poverty and How to Address It
Rajesh Makwana, Share The World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Without a collective worldwide awakening to the injustice of widespread poverty amidst excessive wealth inequalities, it may remain impossible to overcome vested interests and the political inertia of governments. The responsibility for change falls squarely on the shoulders of us all.
→ read full articlePests, Pesticides and Propaganda: The Story of Bt Cotton
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Bt. crops are a continuation of a non-sustainable strategy for pest control, which, instead of controlling pests, creates new pests and super pests. Monsanto advertised that Bt cotton would not need pesticide sprays, clearly a case of false advertising.
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Does Free Speech Have a Palestine Exception? Dismissed Professor Steven Salaita Speaks Out
Democracy Now! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Oct 7, 2015 – A new report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal has documented hundreds of cases of Palestinian rights activists in the United States being harassed, disciplined, fired, sued, censored or threatened for their advocacy around Palestine.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
October 12–18 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” – Carl Sagan
→ read full articleCan Sufism Sanitize Our Planet?
Moin Qazi, New Age Islam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
In the chaos that prevails around us the most authentic hope comes from mystics whose poetry and philosophy combines the virtuous message of formal religion with the transcendental values of love and harmony. The finest exponent of this luminous philosophy was Rumi (which means daylight), the great 13th century Sufi mystic.
→ read full article(Français) Les Etats-Unis doivent-ils s’allier à Al-Qaida en Syrie ?
Robert Parry, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Aux Etats-Unis, la nouvelle « pensée collective » souligne que le président russe Poutine n’a pas tenu sa promesse d’attaquer seulement l’État islamique lorsque ses avions de guerre ont frappé d’autres cibles rebelles en Syrie. Mais Poutine n’a jamais précisé quels terroristes il allait frapper. Et la coalition des rebelles ciblés comprend des affiliés d’Al-Qaida.
→ read full articleSurgical Strike: NATO’s Bombs Fall like Confetti, Not Containing Conflict but Spreading It
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Syria, Isis, Iraq … there are no easy solutions. But killing innocent civilians in Afghanistan and elsewhere draws more people into insurgencies. The US bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan is just one symptom of comprehensive military failure.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Gegen die Nato: Frankreich unterstützt Russland in Syrien
Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
5. Oktober 2015 – Die Franzosen unterstützen den Kampf Russlands gegen andere Terror-Gruppen in Syrien. Sie stellen sich damit auf die Seite von US-Präsident Barack Obama, der die Russen zu ihrem Einsatz ermuntert hat und über den Fortgang informiert wird.
→ read full articleFormer Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on the 24th Anniversary of the Coup d’état That Deposed Him
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Hai means no, do not. Tii means obey in the Swahili language. Haiti or Haitii means do not obey. Long ago, slaves were always saying “Do not obey the colonists.” Today we say “Do not obey people who have no respect for human rights. Haitii!
→ read full articleSound and Persuasive Voice against War
Stephan E. Nikolov, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Nobel Peace Prize more than other Nobel Prizes lost most of its credibility, more and more politicized and subjected to untrustworthy interests, culminating in recent assaulting of a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders’ hospital, by another Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, US President Obama. However, my intention is to examine another Nobel Prize, controversial and sensitive too – the one in Literature. It was awarded to Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexiyevich.
→ read full articleWeather Metaphors as Whether Metaphors
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Transcending Solar Illusion via a Galilean-Style Cognitive Revolution? The argument here follows from that made separately with respect to the possibility of understanding the challenge of climate otherwise. In a period of notably shambolic global governance, that argument was presented in anticipation of the significance of the UN Climate Change Conference (Paris, November 2015).
→ read full articleMonsanto Fights Back Against Cancer Lawsuits as Company Eliminates 12% of Workforce
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
9 Oct 2015 – Monsanto is on the defensive after the agricultural giant was sued by two U.S. farm workers who claim that glyphosate—the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s weedkiller, Roundup—caused their cancers.
→ read full articleThe Power of Nonviolence
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
When Ferdinand Marcos tried to rig elections to stay in power in the Philippines in 1986, two army units defected. He sent the rest of his army to crush them, but they were surrounded and protected by half a million unarmed civilians.
→ read full articlePolitics of Good Governance for Nonviolence: The Role of Peace Education
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Peace education based on universally inherent five elements, viz. body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit in every man and woman everywhere without any discrimination should be for all including for parents, teachers, current peace educators, preachers, rulers, representatives of people, bureaucrats, judges, lawyers, personnel in army and police departments and other professionals, and all minor and adult who have no access to educational institutions for natural preparation and practice of good governance leading to nonviolence.
→ read full articleFive Leaders Challenging Western Imperialism through Diplomacy, Persuasion and Public Pressure
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Pope Francis, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Hassan Rouhani, and Jeremy Corbyn
→ read full articleAnnoying Questions
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Little Johnny came home from the first day in school. His mother asked him how his teacher was.
→ read full articleTwenty-Five Years since the Reunification of Germany
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
On October 3, 1990 the German Democratic Republic (East Germany, known as the GDR), a state with 17 million inhabitants, was disbanded 41 years after its founding and incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany. In both East and West Germany, only a few of those affected were aware of the consequences of this step. There was no public debate and no referendum.
→ read full articleConfronting ‘Looting to Order’ and ‘Cultural Racketeering’ in Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
It is recalled that the looting following the United States-led 2003 invasion of Iraq involved organized international gangs, sometimes with corrupt “Operation Iraqi Freedom” coalition military personnel involved that were contracted to raid the National Museum in Baghdad and Mosul Museum.
→ read full articleGMO-Free Zone: Germany Tells EU It Bans Genetically Modified Crops Cultivation
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
1 Oct 2015 – Germany has opted out of cultivating GMO crops on its territory, informing the EU Commission of the move and in the process joining Poland, France, Scotland and several other member states.
→ read full articleFusion Reactors ‘Economically Viable’ Say Experts
Science Daily, Durham University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Fusion reactors could become an economically viable means of generating electricity within a few decades, and policy makers should start planning to build them as a replacement for conventional nuclear power stations, according to new research.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Oct 5-11 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It’s possible. And it’s your turn. So go for it. It’s never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.” – J. Michael Straczynski
→ read full articlePhysicist David Bohm and Philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti on Love, Intelligence, and How to Transcend the Wall of Being
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Physicist David Bohm and Indian spiritual philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti sat down for a mind-bending, soul-stretching series of conversations about some of the most abiding human concerns: time, transcendence, compassion, death, the nature of reality, and the meaning of existence.
→ read full articleNonagon of Toxic Conflict: Notes on the Turkish Quagmire
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The focus on Turkey, and its role with respect to Syria, PKK, and ISIS is not meant to minimize the importance of the other actors in the region that are part of the geopolitical nonogon. There are several overlapping regional proxy wars that have precluded a diplomatic resolution, including serious intraregional tensions between Saudi Arabia and Syria as well as the extraregional rivalry between the United States and Russia.
→ read full articleThe Enlightenment Keeps on Winning
James A. Haught, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
If you study history, you’ll see episodes that changed civilization. For three centuries, by fits and starts, Western progress has been mostly a chronicle of progressives defeating conservative resistance. Reformers repeatedly toppled old privileges, hierarchies and establishments. Look at the historical record:
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Nuclear Civil Disobedience (7)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
In the years after World War II there was a widespread belief that rational minds would prevail, and that nuclear weapons would not be further developed, and their possession as well as their threat or use prohibited.
→ read full articlePoets’ Talk: Pope Francis, Masilo, Marc Beaudin, et. al.
Gary Corseri and Charles Orloski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Artists used to know, intuitively, that they were pattern-makers and code-decoders. What’s the place, the function, of the artist in this frenetic world? Is there a place for what Wordsworth called “the philosophic mind”—the one who reflects, inquires, challenges, contemplates?
→ read full articlePoland Becomes the 14th European Nation to Officially Ban GMO’s!
Amanda Froelich, True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
1 Oct 2015 – The fourteenth country to opt out of growing GM crops, Poland joins the ranks of Russia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Latvia, Italy, Germany, Scotland, Wales, Lithuania, Austria, Ireland, France, and Greece.
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Why Are Some People Left-Handed?
Daniel M. Abrams, TED Ed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Today, about one-tenth of the world’s population is southpaws. Why are such a small proportion of people left-handed — and why does the trait exist in the first place?
→ read full articleHail to the Worm: Plastic-Eating Worm Might Be the Solution to Global Crisis
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
1 Oct 2015 – New research could have staggering implications for plastic waste pollution: An international team of researchers found that the Darkling Beetle larvae, the mealworm, can subsist on a diet of Styrofoam and other forms of polystyrene.
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Powerful, Inspirational True Story… Don’t Give Up!
Connie Lynne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
There is more than one way to success. Do not believe in failure beforehand.
→ read full articleNetanyahu’s Real Message Was to Israel’s Jews: “Talk Peace but Prepare for Doomsday”
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
How Israel’s Jews would react if they were put on notice that they would be subjected to complete isolation and effective sanctions? Left behind in a walled-in nuclear-armed fortress, the zealots would be prepared, as Golda Meir once said to me in a BBC Panorama interview when she was Israel’s prime minister, to take the region and the world down with them.
→ read full articleEffect of Germany’s Occupation on Norway
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Joint suffering can sometimes bring former opponents together if three conditions are fulfilled…
→ read full articleThe Colombia Peace Accords
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Therapy: To alleviate suffering and reduce inequality the bottom has to be lifted up. Get started, of 32 departments select the 3 most miserable by low average lifespan and the 3 least violent; of 1119 municipalities select the 10% most miserable and 10% least violent.
→ read full articleHarold Pinter’s Nobel Acceptance Speech: Art, Truth & Politics
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The justification for the invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. We were told that Iraq had a relationship with Al Qaeda and shared responsibility for 9/11. We were told that Iraq threatened the security of the world. None of it was true. We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’.
→ read full articleThe Benefits of Ozonated Olive Oil for Toenail Fungus
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Untreated, foot fungus, also known as athlete’s foot or tinea pedis, “eats” away at the skin of the foot and can easily spread to other areas of the body, such as the groin. Toenail fungus, or onychomycosis, disfigures the toenail and creates thick discolored nails that can cause painful pressure and difficulty walking.
→ read full articleCIA Interventions in Syria: A Partial Timeline
Michael S. Rozeff, Lew Rockwell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
3 Oct 2015 – This partial timeline provides evidence that the U.S. government and Obama in particular bear a significant responsibility for the Syrian war and the results of that war. The CIA meddling is distinct from the Pentagon’s failed plan to train moderate rebels, not covered in this timeline.
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Mas Que Nada (Music Video of the Week)
Miloš Karadaglić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Miloš, international guitar sensation, plays Brazilian composer Jorge Ben. Bossa Nova. Enjoy!
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia’s Troubling Death Sentence
Adam Coogle, Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
On September 14, Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Ali al-Nimr for participating in protests four years ago, when he was 16. The sentence stipulates that he should be beheaded and that his headless body should be crucified for public display.
→ read full article(Português) Iliguagem e Glotopolítica: Descomunhão
Hildo do Couto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Tenho presenciado membros de uma família fisicamente juntos no restaurante, mas todos ligados no celular, WhatsApp, trocando mensagens com alguém que não está ali. O que estamos a testemunhar é o contrário da comunhão. As pessoas estão fisicamente juntas (nível natural), mas mentalmente separadas, pois cada uma está ligada a alguém ausente. Trata-se, portanto, de uma incomunhão, ou melhor, de uma descomunhão, no contexto da Linguística Ecossistêmica.
→ read full articleRight Livelihood Awards 2015: The Laureates
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
2015 Right Livelihood Awards honour courageous and effective solutions to secure human rights and respond to global crises.
→ read full articlePeace Can Be Transcended
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Rhymed Reflection
→ read full articleOur Standards and Their Standards: India vs Abolitionist Countries [Death Penalty]
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
This report is being published by the “National Campaign for Abolition of Death Penalty in India”. It shows that there are countries with fewer resources than India which faced far more protracted and deadly insurgencies and acts of terrorism but did not feel the necessity to use death penalty to ensure national security. These countries are mainly in Asia including Philippines, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
→ read full articleThe Yemen Catastrophe: Beset by Contradictions of Will and Intellect
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The UN Security Council seems shockingly supportive of a major Saudi military intervention that started in March 2015, severely aggravating the overall situation by unanimously adopting a one-sided anti-Houthi Resolution 2216. This Saudi use of force is contrary to international law, violates the core principle of the UN Charter, and magnifies the violent disruption of Yemeni society.
→ read full articleJulian Assange “Winning” against Intelligence Agencies
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Julian Assange is “winning” in his conflict with the United States intelligence agencies, the WikiLeaks founder told a Latin American conference for the progressive left on Wednesday [30 Sep 2015]. “We are winning because secrets breed incompetency.”
→ read full articleFilipino Children Diving, Dying for Gold
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Boys lowered 75 feet into mine pits, and small children, even 8, 9, or 10-years-old, handling poisonous mercury to separate the gold from the ore. Juliane Kippenberg, associate director of the children’s rights division, talks to Amy Braunschweiger about being at an underwater mine, the vertigo-inducing narrowness of some mine shafts, and the toll this takes on the Philippine children who work in gold mining.
→ read full articleTo Protect and Serve…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Police…
→ read full articleGandhi Jayanti, Gandhi’s Dream
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
On behalf of those of us who struggle to honor Gandhi’s legacy to the world, I would like to wish Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi ‘happy birthday!’ He was born on 2 October 1869. Gandhi’s dream of a world without violence might be fanciful. But, as John Lennon once sang, he is ‘not the only one’. Many of us share this dream. Are you a dreamer too?
→ read full articleNevermind
Leonard Cohen & Patrick Leonard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The war was lost
The treaty signed
I was not caught
I crossed the line
The Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Fukushima and Beyond (6)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
We can only wonder about the lingering effects on the Japanese national psyche of being twice so severely victimized by the diabolical power of the atom? Fukushima was an exemplary tragedy of this new century, exhibiting the destructive force of nature in lethal interaction with the Promethean embrace of nuclear technology.
→ read full articleWhat Is Nonviolence Anyhow?
Tom H. Hastings, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it?
→ read full articleSnapshots from the Democratic People’s Republic of [North] Korea (Part 2)
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
28 Sep 2015 – Last week TMS published my first account of a recent visit to North Korea, with general impressions and global context, highlighting the US role in tensions in that region. This week I will try to put a more personal and human face to this country, which received us so graciously.
→ read full articleEconomic Theory and Community Development
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The discursive strategy of this chapter takes up again a central idea of dominant discourse: the idea that economic growth is and must be the aim of every nation. It seeks to destabilize the basic cultural structure. It seeks to destabilize the inter-related ways of acting, talking and seeing that cement injustice into place and make it immovable. But it does not only destabilize. It also includes a number of constructive proposals.
→ read full articleA Gaza Centric History of Palestine: Past, Present, and Future
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Jean-Pierre Filiu, ‘Gaza: A History,’ trans. John King, Oxford University Press, 2014, 440 pp., ISBN 9780190201890. This review was initially published in the Journal of the Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World.
→ read full articleJeopardizing Japanese ‘Abnormality’: Rejoining the War System
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Washington’s encouragement of Prime Minister Abe’s campaign for a ‘normal’ Japan represents a regressive move regionally and globally, and deserves critical attention from a wider geopolitical perspective as well as from the viewpoint of Japan.
→ read full articleHeaven and Hell
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
In heaven, the cooks are French, the police officers English, the mechanics German, the Swiss run the trains and the Italians are lovers.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Sep 28–Oct 4 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
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Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
26 Sep 2015 – “We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” said President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was wrong.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’asse del male
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
La NATO è spaccata, con Germania e Francia in contrasto con gli USA che vogliono che l’Ucraina, neonazista o meno, contrasti la Russia e la Cina. L’opposizione franco –tedesca può voler dire liberazione dell’UE dagli USA. Leggendo i segni premonitori sul muro, i grossi stati UE possono non voler affossarsi con gli USA. Interpretando questi segni, può darsi che gli USA si preparino esattamente a tale scopo.
→ read full articleStructural Violence
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Structural violence is equivalent to 236 Hiroshima bombs being dropped on the children of the world each year. However, because the suffering is diffuse, not concentrated in one place at one time, it is ignored by the media and society.
→ read full articleIPB 2015 MacBride Prize Awarded to Two Island Communities
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The International Peace Bureau is delighted to announce its decision to award the annual Sean MacBride Peace Prize to two island communities that, in different circumstances, show proof of a profound commitment to peace and social justice: Lampedusa (Italy) and Gangjeon Village, Jeju Island (S. Korea). It will be formally awarded on Oct 23, 2015 in Padova, Italy.
→ read full articleWhy Dorothy Day Matters Today
Eileen Fleming – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Dorothy Day was a prolific writer and 20th century Made in the USA Catholic Christian anarchist. She co-founded The Catholic Worker newspaper on May Day 1933 with Peter Maurin to educate the public about the social justice teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
→ read full articleUsing Positivizers: Focus on Verbs
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Use each verb in the appropriate blank. Then expand the list with verbal positivizers in contextualized messages. Use the set for group reflection.
→ read full articleUS Pharmaceutical Industry Price-Gouging and the Case of Martin Shkreli
Nick Barrickman, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The anger was further fueled by the stance taken by Shkreli, a 32-year-old former hedge fund manager, who unapologetically defended the move (to raise the cost of a drug to treat AIDS and cancer from $13.50 to more than $750 per pill) on the grounds that it served his company’s bottom line. “There’s no doubt, I’m a capitalist… I’m trying to create a big drug company, a successful drug company, a profitable drug company. We’re trying to flourish.”
→ read full articleAfter the Iran Nuclear Agreement: Will the Nuclear Powers also Play by the Rules?
Lawrence S. Wittner, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Despite the insistence of the nuclear powers that Iran comply with the NPT, it is pretty clear that these nuclear-armed countries do not consider themselves bound to comply with this landmark agreement, signed by 189 nations. Some of the nuclear powers, in fact, have been quite brazen in rejecting it.
→ read full articleSergeant Bowe Bergdahl and the Psychology of War
Arnold Oliver, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
It is seldom reported that rates of PTSD greatly increase for veterans that have harmed prisoners or civilians. Among Vietnam veterans, about 13 percent reported personally inflicting harm to those groups. Their rates of PTSD were quadruple those of non-harming vets according to a study by the National Institutes of Health.
→ read full articleEric Voegelin’s ‘Leap in Being’
Andrew Hoffman, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
We may think of Eric Voegelin as a philosopher’s philosopher, the quintessential lover of wisdom, a paragon of man pursuing the quest for truth, seeking the Holy Grail, the philosopher’s stone. Among his many brilliant and poetic and philosophical formulations, perhaps none is as mesmerizing as the mystical term, “leap in being.”
→ read full articleDisaster Capitalism: Outsourcing Violence and Exploitation
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
In his just-released book, ‘Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe’, Antony Loewenstein offers us a superb description of the diminishing power of national governments and international organisations as multinational corporations consolidate their control over the political and economic life of the planet.
→ read full articlePhysicist David Bohm and Buddhist Monk Matthieu Ricard on How We Shape What We Call Reality
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
“Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe… What we believe determines what we take to be true.”
→ read full articleDebunking the Myth of American Exceptionalism
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The myth of American Exceptionalism is widely, but perhaps insincerely, believed by most American thought-leaders and political and economic elites, whether they are radical Republican Party members/voters or are members/voters of the moderate “Republican” wing of the Democratic Party.
→ read full articleThe Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
“All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle. I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of duty, but because duty has no hold on him unless he desires to be dutiful. If you wish to know what men will do, you must know not only, or principally, their material circumstances, but rather the whole system of their desires with their relative strengths.” — Bertrand Russell, Nobel Literature Laureate
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Mother Agnès-Mariam of the Cross Visit Syria and Iran
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Insights into the Conflict and Military Catastrophe against Syria, Other Middle East Countries
→ read full articleHow AIPAC-OFAC Are Working to Maintain Sanctions Targeting Iran and Her Students
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Only a small percentage of Iran and America’s population has ever met face to face. Almost none of both countries citizens under the age of 35 have ever engaged in long, often fascinating and passionate conversations.
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