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The Opposite of Evil Is No Longer Goodness
Frances Moore Lappé – Common Dreams,
10 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018 – My point is simple. It’s now time to focus on courage. Goodness without courage is no longer good enough.
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Chinese Researcher Claims First Gene-Edited Babies
Marilynn Marchione | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
26 Nov 2018 — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics.
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Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
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Burmese Activist Speaks Out for the Rohingya
Noriko Okada | NHK World Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018 – “Ask yourself, if you saw your wife raped and your father shot dead in front of your eyes, if your little 6-month old boy was burned alive in front of your eyes…would you like to be told that you need to go back?” Those are the words of Maung Zarni, leader of a global network of activists supporting the Rohingya refugees who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh.
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Confucius (c. 551 BC – 21 Nov 479 BC)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure known for his popular aphorisms and for his models of social interaction. Confucianism is not an organized religion, but it does provide rules for thinking and living that focus on love for humanity, worship of ancestors, respect for elders, self-discipline and conformity to rituals. Confucius lived during a time of ideological crisis in China.
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Why Do Myanmar Public Hate Rohingya So Much?
Dr. Maung Zarni | Japan National Press Club – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
25 Oct 2018 – During the Q and A at the National Press Club of Japan, the country’s ruling class venue, a Japanese reporter asked me this question in English. She had been to Burma and said she found difficult to understand the palpable and pervasive hatred that Burmese public display towards Rohingyas.
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Activist for Rohingya Muslims, Zarni Calls on Tokyo to Speak Out over Refugee Crisis
Chisato Tanaka – The Japan Times,
29 Oct 2018
25 Oct 2018 – Maung Zarni, leader of a global network of activists for Rohingya Muslims, today called on Japan to actively speak out against the alleged abuse and genocide against Myanmar’s ethnic minority by the country’s military and strongly criticized Tokyo for its relative silence on a crisis that has become a major international concern.
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Japan Continues to Rely on Coal-fired Plants despite Global Criticism
Chisato Tanaka – The Japan Times,
29 Oct 2018
Japan may be feeling the effects of global warming more than ever with the series of natural disasters that hit the archipelago this summer, but this resource-poor country is sticking with coal-fired energy production that emits more than double the carbon dioxide generated by liquid natural gas-fueled plants.
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John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliché that should have been left behind in the ’60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
—John Lennon
U.S. Ends 1955 Treaty with Iran, After U.N. Court Orders a Partial Lift of Sanctions
Bill Chappell | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
3 Oct 2018 – The U.N.’s top court gave a partial victory to Iran today saying the U.S. “must remove” sanctions that could stop food, medical supplies and other humanitarian products from entering Iran. In response, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that because of continuing disputes with Iran, “I am therefore announcing today that the United States is terminating the Treaty of Amity with Iran” — referring to the 1955 treaty that laid out economic relations between the two countries.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate) Aung San Suu Kyi Exclusive Interview
NHK World Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
6 Oct 2018 – In an exclusive with NHK in Tokyo today, she said, “I don’t care about the prizes and honors as such. I’m sorry that friends are not as steadfast as they might be. Because I think friendship means understanding, basically, trying to understand rather than to just make your own judgement, but prizes come and prizes go.”
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Harold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Hannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
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A Warning from Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come
Anne Applebaum – The Atlantic,
17 Sep 2018
Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well.
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Only [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Has the Moral Authority to Bring an End to Genocide of the Rohingya People
Alban Maginness – Belfast Telegraph,
10 Sep 2018
5 Sep 2018 – On August 25, supported by Mairead Maguire, the Nobel Peace laureate, an event entitled Rohingya Genocide Day took place at Belfast City Hall. This quiet, dignified event, organised by the Peace People, drew attention to the truly awful violence perpetrated by Myanmar government military forces against the civilian Muslim minority of Rohingyas.
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Judges Rule ICC Has Jurisdiction over Rohingya Deportations
Mike Corder | AP – The Washington Post,
10 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 — Judges at the International Criminal Court ruled today that the court has jurisdiction to investigate Myanmar forces that have driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from their homes. The decision opens up the possibility of Myanmar being prosecuted at the Hague-based court even without being a member.
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Google Tracks Your Movements, Like It or Not
Ryan Nakashima | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
13 Aug 2018 — An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from doing so. Computer-science researchers at Princeton confirmed these findings at the AP’s request.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 7 Things You Should Know
ICAN-Int’l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
This week (6-9 Aug 2018) marks 73 years since two atomic bombs were dropped over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and maimed, and the effects are still being felt today. But while the mushroom clouds became iconic symbols of mass destruction there are many things you may not know – or may have forgotten – that are really important if we’re going to make sure this never happens again.
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India Strips Four Million People of Citizenship in Assam as Modi’s BJP ‘Targets’ Muslim Minority
Rahul Bedi – The Telegraph,
6 Aug 2018
30 Jul 2018 – India was braced for unrest in its north eastern Assam state today after the authorities declared some four million residents to be foreigners, stripping them of their citizenship. The residents, mostly Muslims of Bangladeshi origin, were deemed ‘stateless’ as deemed to have entered the country before 1971, when millions fled Bangladesh’s war of independence into the state.
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India Must Stand by the Rohingya in Their Hour of Need
Tapan Bose | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
1 Aug 2018 – On Tuesday (July 30) Mr. Rijiju, the Minister of State for Home said some of the Rohingya living in India do not have the status of “refugee” but are “illegal migrants” who would be deported once their details have been prepared. Rohingyas are the most persecuted people in the world. Let us not add to their misfortune. It is possible that a few individual Rohingya refugees might have committed some crime. But that should not be the reason to classify the entire community as “criminals”.
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Your Thoughts Create Your Future
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
One thing I want to do right now before we go any farther is to explain some information that many people can use. This will show how your thinking creates your consciousness and how to help control it. It provides evidence so that you can see how your life unfolds according to what you draw to it, as dictated by your consciousness and thoughts. By taking the responsibility for yourself and your thinking process, you can make your life more positive and uplifting, and reduce or negate the influence of any hurt or negative energies you encounter.
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Peace May Be with You (Music Video of the Week)
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter [The Horsemen of the Apocalypse] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Politically Correct Heavy Metal from Germany
Submitted by TMS Webmaster Dr. Malvin Gattinger
Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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Facts about What Is Happening in Nicaragua and a Challenge to “Left Intellectuals”
Jorge Capelán | Correo de Nicaragua - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
1 Jun 2018 – Author and Editor’s Note: The following text was originally written to counteract a propaganda campaign launched in Sweden and the rest of Scandinavian countries by toxic soft coup operators against the Sandinista Government of Nicaragua. Until very recently, Nicaragua was an exemplary country in Central America, one of the most violent regions in the world.
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Franz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
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(Castellano) ¿Qué pasa en Nicaragua?
Jorge Capelán – Correo de Nicaragua,
2 Jul 2018
29 mayo 2018 – El siguiente texto fue originalmente escrito para contrarrestar una campaña de propaganda lanzada en Suecia y el resto de países escandinavos por operadores tóxicos de golpe blando en curso contra el Gobierno Sandinista de Nicaragua. Hasta hace muy poco, Nicaragua era un país ejemplar en Centroamérica, una de las regiones más violentas del mundo.
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Trump and Jong-un, USA-North Korea, War and Peace: A Gandhian Phase in International Politics
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
13 Jun 2018 – Mahatma Gandhi must be turning in his grave, smiling. It is the Gandhian spirit that worked a sort of miracle in Singapore! Gandhi rightly said, ‘there is no path to peace, peace is the path.’ It is only in peaceful environment that positive peace can be realized.
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Red Red Carpet
Chappatte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Zionist Royalty
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Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
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Operazione Colomba
Nonviolent Peace Corps of the Association Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
Descriptive Document on the Phenomenon of “Hakmarrja” and “Gjakmarrja” to Raise Awareness among Albanian and International Institutions
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(Português) Um Jornalismo de Paz Não É um “Jornalismo Bonzinho”, e É por Ele que Francisco Quer Lutar
Alexandra Antunes | Sapo 24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
13 maio 2018 – Dia Mundial das Comunicações Sociais, proposto pelo Papa Francisco e celebrado hoje. É preciso “um jornalismo que não se limite a queimar notícias, mas se comprometa com a procura das causas reais dos conflitos, para favorecer a sua compreensão e a sua superação através de processos virtuosos; um jornalismo empenhado a indicar soluções alternativas ao aumento do clamor e da violência verbal”, disse o Papa Francisco [aludindo ao Prof. Johan Galtung].
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Malcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
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US/UK-Backed Saudi-Led Airstrike at Yemen Wedding Killed at least 20
AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
24 Apr 2018 — An airstrike by the US/UK-Backed Saudi-led coalition hit a wedding party in northern Yemen, killing at least 20 people including the bride, health officials said Monday [23 Apr], as harrowing images emerged on social media of the deadly bombing, the third to hit Yemeni civilians since the weekend.
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Weaning African Leaders off Addiction to Power Is an Ongoing Struggle
Kealeboga J Maphunye – The Conversation,
23 Apr 2018
16 Apr 2018 – Some African leaders continue to disregard their countries’ own constitutions and laws governing presidential tenure. Their refusal to step down at the appointed time flies in the face of governance blueprints adopted from liberation politics to the new post independence struggle for democracy in the early 2000s. What, then, is the solution?
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These Whales Will Be Extinct in 25 Years, Scientists Say — Unless We Act Now to Save Them
Sarah Kaplan – The Washington Post,
23 Apr 2018
20 Apr 2018 — A century ago, humans had slaughtered nearly every right whale in the Atlantic. Now climate change seems to be shifting the animals’ food source. Their habitat has been polluted with sewage and made noisy by construction and seismic tests. Speeding ships and tangles of hard-to-break fishing rope pose deadly threats.
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Vincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. After having been physically and psychologically unstable, he cut off his ear and offered it to a prostitute.
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East West Street, by Philippe Sands – Putting Genocide into Words
Lisa Appignanesi – The Guardian,
19 Mar 2018
“Lawyers should be the last group of people on earth who should be allowed the final word on genocides”. — UCL Professor Philippe Sand
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Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. “God does not play dice.”
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Michelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.
→ read full articleFlorida School Shooting and the Crisis of Humanity
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
Can we rise to the occasion? Can we provide value based education to our future generations in our families, in our societies and most importantly, in a formal way, in our educational institutions? The collective and sustained efforts to make a real difference in the education system will ensure the survival and flourishing of the human civilization.
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Smile [lyrics] (Music Video of the Week)
Charles Chaplin | Nat King Cole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
Soundtrack for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie Modern Times. Chaplin composed the music, inspired by Puccini’s Tosca. John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added the lyrics and title in 1954. Nat King Cole immortalized it. Have a smile. And enjoy!
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Five More Rohingya Mass Graves Found in Myanmar
Foster Klug | AP - TIME,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 — The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets. Warning: The following story contains graphic descriptions of atrocities.
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Gene Sharp, Advocate for Nonviolent Resistance (21 Jan 1928 – 28 Jan 2018)
AP | Deccan Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
Sharp died at his Boston home on Sunday [28 Jan], said Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution, founded by Sharp in 1983. Sharp, once referred to as the “Machiavelli of nonviolence,” by the New Statesman, has influenced resistance to regimes around the world, from Eastern Europe, to Iran and Burma.
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UN Reviews 206 Firms over Their Links to Israeli Settlements
Jamey Keaten | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 — The U.N. human rights office said Wednesday [31 Jan] that 206 companies — mostly Israeli and American — are facing a review of their business practices involving Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.
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The 10 Companies That Dominate the Global Arms Trade
Jeff Desjardins | Visual Capitalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – While it is common knowledge that the United States plays a big role in the global arms trade, the numbers are still quite astounding. Of the top ten companies by sales, firms based in the U.S. make up seven of them. Whether it is guns, tanks, jets, missiles, or ships that are on your shopping list, there is a supplier for any weapon your country desires.
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Time to Call out US Militarism for What It Is: The Key Threat to America’s Security
Dave Lindorff | This Can't Be Happening! – Nation of Change,
15 Jan 2018
The evidence clearly shows that national security is far better achieved by intelligent diplomacy than by war.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 Jan 1929– 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Luther King was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
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Yesterday’s ‘Shithole Countries’ Can Become Classy Places, Donald, and Vice Versa
Dave Lindorff | This Can’t Be Happening! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – The Shit’s Everywhere – Donald Trump referred to countries of Africa and the long-suffering island of Haiti as “shitholes.” The truth is that yesterday’s “shithole countries” often become today’s modern success stories. Norway is a case in point.
→ read full articleHappy New Year 2018!
Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
The New Year arrived and knocked at my door and asked me what I am thinking. It came to me as bright as sunlight and lightened my chamber. It looked straight into my eyes and asked what I am thinking. A single word came from my mouth:
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(Português) Síndrome das Pernas Inquietas: Doença causa “alfinetadas” a noite inteira e não tem cura
Nuno de Noronha | SAPO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
27 Dez 2017 – A Síndrome das Pernas Inquietas é uma doença crónica e progressiva com impacto importante na qualidade de vida das pessoas. Alguns descrevem-na como uma espécie de “agonia nas pernas”, “comichão nos ossos” ou “alfinetadas”, explica o médico pneumologista Bruno Santos.
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We Saved Net Neutrality Once. We Can Do It Again
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen - YES! Magazine,
18 Dec 2017
12 Dec 2017 – Democracy lives or dies on the quality of public conversation. Just a few years ago, powerful grassroots pressure rose up to protect a free and open internet.
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ICAN Statement on Nobel Peace Prize 2017
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
6 Oct 2017 – The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is a coalition of non-governmental organizations in one hundred countries. By harnessing the power of the people, we have worked to bring an end to the most destructive weapon ever created – the only weapon that poses an existential threat to all humanity.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar1827)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
Ludwig van Beethoven was a deaf German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He was baptized on Dec 17, 1770 in Bonn, Holy Roman Empire. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear.
→ read full articleMoralizing International Politics
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
This article makes an appeal to bridge the chasm between the practice of international politics and the universal moral principles. Violation of moral principles has emerged a norm than exception in international politics. States and global institutions have proved ineffective to checkmate violent conflicts and wanton killings as in Syria. It is not they are incapable or lack resources. The problem lies elsewhere. Ego is a major cause behind much of the hazards in international politics. The article problematizes ego and calls for a broader thinking in international politics.
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(Français) La “peur” des Israéliens et l’inversion des rôles dans la propagande de l’occupant
Samah Jabr | CAPJPO/EuroPalestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
Ce n’est pas nouveau, mais Samah Jabr, psychiatre et psychothérapeute à Jérusalem, en tournée pour la présentation du film “Derrière les fronts”, ne supporte plus les questions tendant à justifier le comportement des occupants israéliens par la “peur” éprouvée par ces derniers, et par la “haine” que leur voueraient les Palestiniens.
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Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
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Sea Shepherd and Japanese Whaling: A Message from Captain Paul Watson
Captain Paul Watson | Sea Shepherd Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
The Japanese whaling fleet has left from Japan bound for the waters of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Sea Shepherd Founder, Captain Paul Watson, explains why we will not be sending our ships to Antarctica this season. “To continue would be foolish. We would spend a few million dollars and many months only to have another failure to engage, and if we did by some miracle encounter the fleet, we would be subject to lethal force without support from our own cowardly governments.”
→ read full articleJohn Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Famed singer-songwriter John Lennon founded the Beatles, a band that impacted the popular music scene like no other before, or since.
→ read full articleHarold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
→ read full articleHannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
→ read full articleFrench Pres. Macron Pulls No Punches: Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar Constitutes ‘Genocide’
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
21 Sep 2017 – French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday [20 Sep] said that France will work with other members of the U.N. Security Council for a condemnation of “this genocide which is unfolding, this ethnic cleansing,” in an interview with the French TV channel TMC.
→ read full articleTyphoon Hato Leaves 16 Dead as 27,000 Evacuated in China
Neil Connor – The Telegraph,
4 Sep 2017
24 Aug 2017 – The strongest storm to hit parts of southern China in half a century continued to wreak havoc today, leaving 16 people dead, dozens injured and forcing tens of thousands to be evacuated from their homes. Powerful Typhoon Hato had brought widespread destruction to the gambling mecca of Macau and the nearby city of Hong Kong on 23 Aug.
→ read full article72 Years after Hiroshima, Where Is Japan’s Commitment to End Nuclear Weapons?
Yuko Yoneda | Greenpeace Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
On 7 July, the United Nations adopted the “Nuclear Weapons Treaty” with an overwhelming majority. To our disappointment, however, Japan did not join the 122 countries, or two-thirds of the United Nations member countries. Japan still remains an outlier, betraying the hopes of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
→ read full articlePlastic Garbage Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in Pacific
Shaena Montanari | National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
Yet another floating mass of microscopic plastic has been discovered in the ocean, and it is mind-blowingly vast.
→ read full articleTo Be or Not to Be?
Captain Paul Watson | Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
We will be the victims of our own ignorance and our own arrogance. Homo sapiens have devolved into Homo arrogantus ignoramus. We have become trapped within a matrix of our own creation, living in a world of anthropocentric fantasies and ignoring ecological realities.
→ read full articleCIA Mind Control Morphed into Psychiatry?
Jon Rappoport – Activist Post,
17 Jul 2017
The famous CIA mind-control program, MKULTRA, always used psychiatrists; often these professionals headed up projects; they carried out the bulk of the research. But what I’m talking about here is the “evolution” of MKULTRA into mainstream psychiatry that affects the lives of millions of people every day.
→ read full articleNelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
→ read full articleHow Economics Became a Religion
John Rapley – The Guardian,
17 Jul 2017
Its moral code promises salvation, its high priests uphold their orthodoxy. But perhaps too many of its doctrines are taken on faith.
→ read full articleIn Myanmar, One Girl’s Plight Epitomizes Rohingya Struggle: Worse than Prison
Todd Pitman - AP News,
10 Jul 2017
Girl, 4, Becomes Face of Suffering Rohingya Children Starving to Death amid ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
→ read full articleFranz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
→ read full articlePursuing Stability and a Shared Development in Euro–Mediterranean Migrations
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
The book makes deep inroads from a theoretical as well as a policymaking point of view. It brings forth many theoretical dimensions of the migration in the Euro-Mediterranean zone, and offers many nuanced perspectives. It aims to draw “a comprehensive study while using a multi-faceted analysis of the migration issue, taking into account the expertise, knowledge, background, and experiences of the authors.
→ read full articleFormer Okinawa Governor Masahide Ota Dies on His Birthday
Japan Broadcasting Corporation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
12 Jun 2017 – Former Okinawa Governor Masahide Ota, who tackled the issue of reducing the number of US military bases on the island prefecture, died today. He was 92.
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AP – MintPress News,
5 Jun 2017
Many of South Korean President’s supporters don’t want the missile system, which Donald Trump suggested Seoul should pay for.
→ read full articleUN Secretariat Designates Jammu and Kashmir as a “Separate Country” Independent of India
The aPolitical – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
1 Jun 2017 – In an unprecedented move, the UN Department of Economic Affairs has designated “Jammu and Kashmir” as a separate “country/geographical area” in its database of Non Governmental Organisations having Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council.
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How to Sell an Epidemic
National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
May 16, 2017 – Jeff Goldblum takes you around the globe for an in-depth look at Big Pharma, prescription drugs and the opioid epidemic. Explorer correspondent Bryan Christy investigates how pharmaceutical companies helped fuel the opioid crisis in America and how this epidemic is set to spread around the world.
→ read full articleConflict Management in Kashmir
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – The ongoing violence in Kashmir, unless addressed, may descend into a terrible chaos as experienced in the 1990s, during which Indian forces and Pakistan backed militants engaged in cycles of violence leading to killing of thousands of Kashmiris. Modi needs to engage the moderate separatists and encourage them to play active messengers of peace.
→ read full articleWalt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
→ read full articleYou (and Almost Everyone You Know) Owe Your Life to This Man
Robert Krulwich | National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Temperament matters. Especially when nuclear weapons are involved. The world owes an enormous debt to a quiet, steady Russian naval officer who probably saved my life. And yours. And everyone you know. Even those of you who weren’t yet born. I want to tell his story…
→ read full articleMalcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
→ read full article(Português) Estudo revela que o café pode ajudar a diminuir o risco de cancro da próstata
Sapo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
30 abril 2017 – Esta pesquisa foi realizada e concluída por especialistas do Instituto Neurologico Mediteraneo de Pozzilli, em conjunto com o Instituto Superior de Saúde e com o Instituto Dermopativo dell’Immacolata de Roma, conduzida por George Pounis e publicada na revista Internacional Journal of Cancer.
→ read full article(Português) Consumo de refrigerantes diet aumenta risco de demência e AVC
Nuno Noronha | Sapo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Bebidas adocicadas artificialmente, como o refrigerante diet, podem aumentar o risco de acidente vascular cerebral e demência, revela uma investigação da Universidade de Boston, publicada na revista científica americana Stroke.
→ read full articleJapan Should Be More Active Peace Contributor
Shinichi Kitaoka | The Japan News - The Yomiuri Shimbun,
1 May 2017
When Prime Minister Abe committed to making a “more proactive contribution to peace,” some commentators who criticized the new policy for being confusingly similar to the concept of “positive peace” popularized by Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, the father of peace studies. Galtung defined an ordinary state of peace with the absence of war as “negative peace” and a state of peace with the absence of structural violence, such as oppression, poverty and discrimination as “positive peace.”
→ read full articleWant To Understand Deep State? Here Is Your Deep, Deep State
Jon Rappoport | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
If, as many people are now saying, the CIA and NSA and neocons are the unelected Deep State, then the people I’m talking about would be the Deep, Deep State. Read On…
→ read full articleMeanwhile at the Peace Conference…
Chappatte – The New York Times,
10 Apr 2017
Intruders Not Welcome
→ read full articleU.S. Military Personnel Deployments by Country
Jeff Desjardins | Visual Capitalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
18 Mar 2017 – The U.S. spends more on defense than the next 7 countries combined. Part of that money goes to supporting 200,000 troops abroad in 177 countries. Look at the charts.
→ read full articleWere There Two Buddhas?
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
In the following material, we will look at the evidence that seems to indicate that there was first the Avatara Buddha, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu who appeared near 1800 BCE, and then there was another person who became known as Gautama called Buddha, born around 560 BCE.
→ read full articleVincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. After having been physically and psychologically unstable, he cut off his ear and offered it to a prostitute.
→ read full articleThe F.B.I. Is Investigating Trump’s Ties to Russia
Patrick Chappatte – The New York Times,
27 Mar 2017
James B. Comey, the head of the F.B.I., confirmed.
→ read full article(Français) Comment le coton OGM de Monsanto s’est transformé en fléau pour les paysans du Burkina Faso
Abdul Razac Napon, Mien de Graeve et Wouter Elsen | Observatoire des Multinationales – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
6 mars 2017 – Au Burkina Faso, les jours de Monsanto sont comptés. La multinationale se retire du pays. L’introduction de son coton OGM en 2009 ne s’y est pas vraiment passée comme prévu : présentée comme une solution miracle aux attaques de ravageurs, la nouvelle variété a surtout fini par ravager la qualité et la réputation du coton burkinabè. Mais le géant agro-chimique n’est pas seul en cause : à l’heure d’établir les responsabilités, les autorités locales sont en première ligne.
→ read full articleNationalist Secessions in EU Countries (Map)
Maps on the Web – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Map of Europe if all separatist movements were successful.
→ read full articleAlbert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Born in Germany, Albert Einstein grew up in a secular, middle-class Jewish family. He developed the special and general theories of relativity and in 1921 won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
→ read full articleThree Years since the Kitty Litter Disaster at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Paul DeRienzo | This Can’t Be Happening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 – There is a place in the USA, almost half-a-mile underground, in a salt mine, where radioactive waste from the production of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs was to be held separate from all contact with humanity for 10,000 years, equivalent to the entire history of civilization. This separation lasted only three years, when an explosion sent the deadly contamination back to the world of humans in 2014. The still unfinished clean up has cost taxpayers $2 billion since then.
→ read full articleMartin Luther King Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. / “I Have A Dream” speech, August 28, 1963
→ read full articleWhy U.S. Airstrikes in Afghanistan May Now Be Riskier for Civilians
Abigail Fielding-Smith and Ruhullah Khapalwak - Newsweek,
9 Jan 2017
With few troops on the ground to provide intel, American airstrikes in the country are now dependent on local partners and the notoriously limited insights of drones. The number of US troops in Afghanistan has declined, but the drone strikes haven’t. And they’re continuing to kill civilians.
→ read full articlePropOrNot’s Grandiose Fabrications
Yves Smith | Naked Capitalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016 – The fake news site about fake news known as PropOrNot has been roundly derided, most recently by the New Yorker and the media watchdog FAIR, as an inept propaganda effort that has gotten far more attention that it ever deserved. PropOrNot’s efforts, as Ben Norton and Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept, and Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone pointed out, were so obviously childish and overreaching that no reputable reporter should ever have regarded them as credible.
→ read full article(Français) Désobéissance – Etats-Unis : victoire des Sioux face au projet d’oléoduc qui menace leurs terres
Sophie Chapelle – Basta! Magazine,
12 Dec 2016
Les Sioux de la réserve de Standing Rock, dans le Dakota du Nord, viennent de remporter une grande victoire le 4 décembre. Depuis le 1er avril, ils ont établi un camp de résistance pour bloquer un projet d’oléoduc, le Dakota Access Pipeline d’une longueur de 1800 kilomètres, qui menace des sites culturels ancestraux et leurs sources d’eau.
→ read full articleLudwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Ludwig van Beethoven was a deaf German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras.
→ read full articleAngel of Peace, No More!
Eric DeCruz – The Independent [Singapore],
12 Dec 2016
Aung Sang Suu Kyi joins the list of Nobel Laureates, the likes of Henry Kissinger, Shimon Peres and Woodrow Wilson, who have a dubious record of implementing peace programmes. Aung Sang Suu Kyi is an angel no more. She has become an angel of death instead.
→ read full article‘Mass Destruction’ of Ethnic Rohingya Villages Underway in Burma, Human Rights Group Warns
Nicola Smith – The Telegraph,
28 Nov 2016
New satellite imagery from Burma’s western Rakhine state reveals mass destruction in ethnic Rohingya villages, said Human Rights Watch on Monday [21 Nov 2016], calling for an urgent UN investigation. The high resolution images show that 820 structures were destroyed in five villages in the jungles of the remote state.
→ read full articleBruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
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