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(Norsk-Norwegian) Professor Johan Galtung in Memoriam 24.10.1930-17.2.2024
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024
Johan døde i Bærum lørdag 17. februar 2024. Han var 93. RIP kjære venn og mentor. Vi snakket sist sammen på telefon i oktober 2023 da han var i Alicante i Spania.
→ read full articleMemorial Prof. Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024) RIP
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024
19 Feb 2024 – Johan wrote the inaugural TMS editorial on 3 Mar 2008, when our pioneer Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism website was launched. Thus, TMS’ 16th anniversary will be celebrated exactly two weeks from today. Johan passed away in Oslo, Norway on Sat 17 Feb 2024 at 8 a.m. He was 93. RIP dear friend and mentor.
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Whose Child Is This?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024
Whose Child is This? Whose child is this? Is this child an Iraqi . . . an Israeli . . . a Chechnyan . . . an Afghani . . . a Kurd . . . a Nigerian? Is she or he English, Indonesian, Spanish, Lebanese, Turkish, Congolese, Bosnian, Persian? Does it matter? Is this child not a daughter or son to each of us?
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Useful Quotes Resisting Corporate, Congressional, Police State, Judicial, or Oval Office Tyranny
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jan 2024
8 Jan 2024 – When Fascist-leaning, Anti-democratic Collage of Multibillionaires, White Supremacists, Wall Street Tycoons, Washington-DC Insiders, Christian Dominionists, War-Mongering Military Generals, and Climate Change Deniers Try to Impose Their Will on the Voters Who Did Not Technically Vote for Fascism
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Alphabetical list of TMS supporters who donated at least once in 2023. Alessio Putzu Anthony Marsella Antonino Drago Billie Knighton Branislav Gosovic Caroline Hurley Caroline Knepper Dennis Almeida Dennis Wong Dewakar Bhatia Eva Marianne Tennfjord Frances M Jeffries Frederic Herter Fredrik S. Heffermehl Gary Corseri Geir Bye George Kent George McKinney George Paxton Gregg Rooten […]
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(Italiano) L’uomo allo specchio: Uno sguardo al cuore e alla mente dietro TRANSCEND Media Service
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Nov 2023
Rincantucciati in un appartamentino all’ottavo piano di un caseggiato non lontano dal fiume Douro a Porto, in Portogallo, ci sono uno scrittoio, due computer laptop e una poltrona ortopedica. “Questo è il TMS!” proclama Antonio, l’uomo allo specchio, con ostentazione.
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Universal Peace Education for Justice and Peace, Prevention and Remedy of War
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Oct 2023
28 Oct 2023 – Peace is more complicated than war because peace is tried to achieve through war.
→ read full articleThe Man in the Mirror: A Glimpse at the Heart and Mind behind TRANSCEND Media Service
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Oct 2023
After spending a year of military service guarding the Brazilian President in Brasilia, he was arrested and tortured by agents of the 1964 coup d’état regime who suspected him of being a Communist based on a membership card to the Brazil-Russia Cultural Union. The 20-year-old had joined to learn how to play chess… Antonio told me he felt rage, powerlessness and the urge for revenge… But he found another way.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023
The ‘Father of Peace Studies’ celebrates his 93rd birthday. At 24, he was jailed for 6 months as a Conscientious Objector in Norway. In jail he wrote, with Arne Næss, his first book: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. Today he has contributed more than 170 books; over 1500 papers, articles and book chapters; and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service on peace and conflict studies, mediation, and related issues. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR JOHAN!
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Pertinent Concerns about Artificial Intelligence (AI): Friend or Foe?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023
31 Jul 2023 – Intelligence or… what? What are AI possibilities, vis-a-vis its human counterpart? A new human master? You be the judge.
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Age? . . . Really? Distinctions, Degrees, Nuances
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023
Age is a major topic of discussion and debate. But age is many things. What is your age? We are more and less than our chronological age! We are, simultaneously, many different ages!
→ read full articleGuidelines for Living a Spiritual Life
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023
1. Awareness
I resolve to be more aware and responsive to the spiritual dimensions of my being and my nature.
My Mother’s Day
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!
14 May 2023
Offerings
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023
Efforts after Resolving Questions and Answers: Obligations, Duties, Responsibilities
→ read full articleBeware the “Cides” of March
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – Reflections on Human Frailties, Virtues, and Betrayal: Finding Solace in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”
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TRANSCEND Members February Birthdays
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Feb 2023
We at TRANSCEND Media Service wish our distinguished members a HAPPY BIRTHDAY with many returns. We take this opportunity to thank them for all their contributions to the world and to TMS. Bless your lives!
* Richard E. Rubenstein 24 Feb 1938 –> 85 years
* Antonio C. S. Rosa, 8 Feb 1946 –> 77 years
The Winter of Our Discontent: Mind’s Accommodation to Disparate Experiences
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jan 2023
A Personal Essay – MIND, MEANING, CHANCE . . .
→ read full articleHope . . . An Implacable Cosmos-Endowed Vitalism
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2023
A 2023 national Gallup Poll in the USA revealed that North Americans are very pessimistic regarding 2023. Across all demographic markers, a majority “predict negative conditions in 12 of 13 economic, political, societal and international arenas.” ‘Hope’ appears to be absent or insufficient for mediating or mollifying pessimism.
→ read full article2022 Supporters
Alphabetical list of TMS supporters who donated at least once in 2022. Aklea Althoff Alberto Portugheis Anthony Judge Anthony Marsella Anthony Mendola Antonino Drago Billie Knighton Branislav Gosovic Candice Carter Caroline Hurley Dennis Wong Dewakar Bhatia Diane Perlman Discover Rubin Elizabeth Cullen Frederic Herter Fredrik S. Heffermehl Geir Bye George Kent George Paxton Hayden F […]
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Fredspioneren Johan Galtung 92 år!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Redaktør – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2023
‘Fader of Peace Studies’ feirer sin 92-årsdag. Som 24-åring ble han fengslet i 6 måneder som militærnekter i Norge. I fengsel skrev han, sammen med Arne Næss, sin første bok: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. I dag har han bidratt med mer enn 170 bøker; over 1500 artikler, artikler og bokkapitler; og over 500 redaksjoner for TRANSCEND Media Service om freds- og konfliktstudier, mekling og relaterte spørsmål. GRATULERER med dagen, JOHAN!
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Memorial Prose Poem
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022
I write in memory of a tragic day in history that changed the destiny of the USA and the world. With the assassination of JFK, the path was open for presidential deceit and deception, for abuses of national purpose and moral authority. Say what you will, JFK was our nation’s last hope for principled charismatic leadership capable of inspiring hope and sacrifice for higher purpose.
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (20 Aug 1896 – 14 Nov 1977)
Gaurakisora dasa (ACBSP) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Aug 2022
Swami Prabhupada was a spiritual teacher (guru) and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the “Hare Krishna Movement”. Over half a billion books authored by him were distributed since 1965. He has been described as a charismatic leader with followers scattered throughout the world.
→ read full articlePanorama: A Compilation of Situational, Acute, and Chronic Global Challenges
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jul 2022
29 Jun 2022 – Limits of Human and Nature Life-Form Survival
→ read full article“The Winter of Our Discontent:” Mind’s Accommodation to Disparate Experiences
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 May 2022
A Personal Essay – 20 May 2022 – MIND, MEANING, CHANCE . . .
→ read full articleA Panorama of Global Challenges ©
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 May 2022
A Compilation of Situational, Acute, and Chronic Global Challenges–A Journey into Brain, Mind, Meaning, and Doubt
→ read full articleNow, Perhaps . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Mar 2022
5 Mar 2022 – In this personal response to the invasion of Ukraine, I composed a continuous commentary, unbroken by conventional grammatical punctuations and sentence structure, save a comma, in an effort to stifle and restrain the inequities of division, and instead, to sear minds with a plaintive, mournful, rhythmic statement, sanctioned by shared horror.
→ read full article2021 Supporters
Alphabetical list of TMS supporters who donated at least once in 2021. Abigail Abysalh Alberto Portugheis Ali Durmaz Amedeo Cottino Anthony Judge Anthony Marsella Antonino Drago Barry Deutsch Billie Knighton Branislav Gosovic Candice Carter Dennis Almeida Dewakar Bhatia Diane Perlman Emanuel Garcia Frederic Herter Gary Steven Corseri Gaye Bennett Geir Bye George Kent Howard Richards […]
→ read full articleWinter Solstice: “The Day of the Longest Night . . .”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Dec 2021
I write in awe and reverence of Time! I write with respect for ancients pursuing mastery and control of Time’s mysterious cycles, determining life and lives. On “The Day of the Longest Night,” today calendarized as December 21, uncertainty of light’s return once brought chants, prayers, and sacrifices. Shrines, columns, and monuments were erected to map the past… So, let it be written . . . so, let it be sung . . . So let us honor, Time!
→ read full articleA Great Loneliness Has Befallen…
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – A great loneliness has befallen the world’s people. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic and global challenges of climate change, toxic pollutions, and risks of extinction, humanity is faced with harsh choices between compliance with authority-imposed restraints on individual rights and human rights. There is considerable conflict regarding choice.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Oct 2021
The ‘Father of Peace Studies’ celebrates his 91st birthday. At 24, he was jailed for 6 months as a Conscientious Objector in Norway. In jail he wrote, with Arne Næss, his first book: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. Today he has contributed more than 170 books; over 1500 papers, articles and book chapters; and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service on peace and conflict studies, mediation, and related issues. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHAN!
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (31 Aug 1896 – 14 Nov 1977)
Posted by Gaurakisora dasa (ACBSP) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Aug 2021
Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was a Gaudiya Vaishnavism spiritual teacher (guru) and the founder preceptor (acharya) of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the “Hare Krishna Movement”. In February 2014, ISKCON’s news agency reported to have reached a milestone of distributing over half a billion books authored by Prabhupada, since 1965. He has been described as a charismatic leader, in the sense used by sociologist Max Weber, as he was successful in acquiring followers in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, India and elsewhere.
→ read full articleReflections on the Myths and Ethoses That Promote and Sustain War as a “Way of Life” and Acceptable Moral Code for the USA (II)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 – Never before has the USA been revealed to be the greatest danger to world peace, as it pursues its own corrupt, criminal, venal goals. Why does the USA abide these acts, which speak directly to inept national leaders and hidden oligarchs? Still we celebrate Presidents, and permit them to build enduring libraries to their immorality and incompetence.
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Afghanistan: Elegy . . . Unfinished Tapestry?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jul 2021
I write in sympathy, empathy, compassion, and shared hope.
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2021
“This oration stands with the most inspirational addresses in US history. The erudition, eloquence, and elocution are unmatched. Douglass’ words should bring shame and guilt to those zealots who deny the importance and essential inclusion of Critical Race Theory in US education as it is the authentic history of the USA.”
— Anthony Marsella, Ph.D. – Member of TRANSCEND
“Governments are vassals of Bankism and Military Capitalism, the Mafia that controls human affairs through Cyber-information manipulation.”
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2021
Antonio C.S. Rosa, born 1946, is founder-editor of the pioneering Peace Journalism website, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS (from 2008), an assistant to Prof. Johan Galtung at the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, and recipient of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility’s 2017 Anthony J. Marsella Prize for the Psychology of Peace and Social Justice. He is on the Global Advisory Board of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies and completed his B.A., M.A., and graduate Ph.D. work in the fields of Communication-Journalism and Political Science-Peace Studies/International Relations at the University of Hawai’i. Originally from Brazil, he lives presently in Porto, Portugal. Antonio was educated in the USA where he lived for 20 years; in Europe-India since 1994.
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Meet Antonio C. S. Rosa: Pioneer in Peace Journalism
Sebastian Eck – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jun 2021
“TMS HAS INTEGRITY”: Meet the man behind TRANSCEND Media Service
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WAR
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 May 2021
For Memorial Day USA – 31 May 2021
→ read full article“The Time Has Come . . .”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 May 2021
“It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only themselves. It is not the helpless, subject to terror, who initiate terror, but the violent, who with their power. create the concrete situation which begets the ‘rejects of life.’ It is not the tyrannized who initiate despotism, but the tyrants. It is not those whose humanity is denied them who negate humankind, but those who denied that humanity (thus negating their own as well). Force is used not by those who have become weak under the preponderance of the strong, but by the strong who have emasculated them.” (Paulo Freire, 1970)
→ read full articlePashtun Woman: Enduring the Unendurable
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jan 2021
It is said 90% of the world’s opium is grown in Afghanistan. It is alleged Taliban forces, exacting tolls religious fanaticism, ended opium production, while the presence of United States and NATO occupation increased this percentage. There is too much money to be made by nations and cartels to yield control. Shame!
→ read full article2020 Supporters
Alphabetical list of supporters who donated at least once in 2020: Alberto Portugheis Alejandro Bendana Anne Dietrich Anthony Judge Anthony Marsella Antonino Drago Bertil Sandén Billie Knighton Björn Lindgren Caroline Knepper Charles Webel Dennis Almeida Dennis Wong Dewakar Bhatia Diane Perlman Elizabeth Sarfaty Ellen Turgasen Emanuel Garcia Erin Watters Eva Marianne Tennfjord Frederic Herter Fredrik […]
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Winter Solstice 21 December: “The Day of the Longest Night . . .”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Dec 2020
I write in awe and reverence of Time! I write with respect for ancients pursuing mastery and control of Time’s mysterious cycles, determining life and lives. On “The Day of the Longest Night,” today calendarized as December 21, uncertainty of light’s return once brought chants, prayers, and sacrifices. Shrines, columns, and monuments were erected to map the past… So, let it be written . . . so, let it be sung . . . So let us honor, Time!
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Afghanistan: Elegy . . . Unfinished Tapestry?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Nov 2020
I write in sympathy, empathy, compassion, and shared hope.
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Remembering JFK: Voices from a Smoldering Grave . . . Memorial Prose Poem
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Nov 2020
I write in memory of a tragic day in history that changed the destiny of the USA and the world. With the assassination of JFK, the path was open for presidential deceit and deception, for abuses of national purpose and moral authority. Say what you will, JFK was our nation’s last hope for principled charismatic leadership capable of inspiring hope and sacrifice for higher purpose.
→ read full article(Italiano) Memorie di sogni passati: Hawaii come “Ginevra del Pacifico”
Anthony J. Marsella | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Oct 2020
24 ottobre 2020 – Buon compleanno, Johan Galtung! Passeranno gli anni, ma non la tua eredità come voce per la pace e la giustizia! Le orme dei tuoi giorni alle Hawaii restano.
→ read full articleMemories of Dreams Past: Hawaii as the “Geneva of the Pacific”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – Happy Birthday, Johan Galtung! Years will pass, but your legacy as a voice for peace and justice will not! The footprints of your days in Hawaii remain. “Footprints in Hawaii’s sands, escaping incoming tides–indelible footprints!”
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Oct 2020
The ‘Father of Peace Studies’ completes 90 years of age. At 24, he was jailed for 6 months as a Conscientious Objector in Norway. In jail he wrote, with Arne Næss, his first book: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. Today he has contributed more than 170 books; over 1500 papers, articles and book chapters; and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service on peace and conflict studies, mediation, and related issues.
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The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits from Global Violence and War
Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Oct 2020
In this detailed and expansive book, the authors demonstrate that widespread violence is in fact an expression of the underlying social order, and whether it is carried out by military forces or by patterns of investment, the aim is to strengthen that order for the benefit of the powerful.
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Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1 Sep 1896 – 14 Nov 1977)
Gaurakisora dasa (ACBSP) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Aug 2020
Srila Prabhupada was an Indian spiritual teacher who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). He is among the most prominent Vedic scholars, translators, and teachers of the modern era. Credited with translating and commenting on over 80 volumes of the Vedas, including the Bhagavad Gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, he is regarded as the world’s most prominent contemporary authority on bhakti-yoga.
→ read full articleThe Days Pass Quickly Now ….
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jun 2020
The days pass quickly now.
I recall how long each day seemed in my youth.
How I yearned to be an adult,
Able to enjoy the freedoms of age!
WAR!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020
U.S. Memorial Day 2020:
War!
Side pitted against other!
Human against human!
Primitive!
Civilized, Barbarians, Savages
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.
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Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.
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(Português) Civilizados, Bárbaros e Selvagens
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – Uma civilização ou cultura é definida como o conjunto de costumes, tradições, éticas, valores, língua, música, dança, cozinha, vestuário, religião, e organização social e política de um povo, grupo étnico, tribo, ou nação.
→ read full articleBecoming God! “Controlling Human Ontology:” Ambitions of the “Secret-State Confederation”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2020
9 Jan 2020 – I use the word “Confederation” because I do believe no single group, no single nation, and no single concern is capable of controlling and dominating humanity, nations, and the world. Defining characteristics of sinister “Confederation” of individuals, groups, and organizations include:
→ read full articleUSA Military Veteran Plight: Macro- and Micro-Level Considerations
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2019
The tragic plight of USA military veterans is discussed within the context of four critical and reciprocal macro-level determinants followed by a descriptive equation of micro-level considerations in military veteran quality care.
→ read full article2019 Supporters
Alphabetical list of TMS supporters who donated at least once in 2019. Alberto Portugheis Alejandro Bendana Amedeo Cottino Anne Dietrich Anthony Judge Anthony Marsella Antonino Drago Barbara Melamed Bertil Sandén Billie Knighton Carolyn Schwebel Chandra Muzaffar Christoph Besemer Dennis Almeida Dewakar Bhatia Ellen Turgasen Emanuel Garcia Eva Marianne Tennfjord Frank Kling Frederic Herter Fredrik S. […]
→ read full articleThoughts about Thoughts: Journey into Machine Mind
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2019
We seek respite from a relentless assault of information bombarding our senses. An onslaught of daily life trials, media, commercials, TV/radio/music, ambient noise levels, demanding response. Consciousness, conscience beg retreat.
→ read full articleRemembering JFK: Voices from a Smoldering Grave . . . Memorial Prose Poem
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2019
I write in memory of a tragic day in history that changed the destiny of the USA and the world. With the assassination of JFK, the path was open for presidential deceit and deception, for abuses of national purpose and moral authority. Say what you will, JFK was our nation’s last hope for principled charismatic leadership capable of inspiring hope and sacrifice for higher purpose. — 22 Nov 2019
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2019
Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.
→ read full articleAt $716 Billion, the US Military Budget Is Bigger Than Those of 144 Countries Combined and Largest Contributor to Climate Change
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2019
“State sovereignty is a goner. Bankism and Military Capitalism rule the world in all respects now. Militaries are the ultimate manifestation of direct, structural and cultural violence—a cancer that must be extirpated from humanity.”
→ read full articlePrivilege and Education Advantage
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2019
In a democratic society, theoretically based upon equality of opportunity and resources, the “advantage” ethic represents a serious problem. While individual variations among citizens’ abilities and capacities must be acknowledged and valued, variations based on wealth, power, and position provide “advantages” which ultimately destroy the fabric of the “democratic” society. The playing field of life is not level! Unethical, Immoral, Illegal Abuses of “Privilege”
→ read full articleA. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1 Sep 1896 – 14 Nov 1977)
Posted by Gaurakisora dasa (ACBSP) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2019
Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was a Gaudiya Vaishnavism spiritual teacher (guru) and the founder preceptor (acharya) of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the “Hare Krishna Movement”. In February 2014, ISKCON’s news agency reported to have reached a milestone of distributing over half a billion books authored by Prabhupada, since 1965. He has been described as a charismatic leader, in the sense used by sociologist Max Weber, as he was successful in acquiring followers in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, India and elsewhere.
→ read full articleGlobal Challenges 2019: Amidst a World in Peril and Collapse
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2019
If ever there was a time for citizen action for peace, justice, sustainability, caring and compassion – it is now! If ever there was a time for creative and imaginative ideas, products, and collective actions to reduce the human burden on Earth, it is now. If ever there was a time to grasp the sheer magnificence of the beauty before us being lost, it is now! Sacrifices appeasing greed and mammon abound, and their consequences threaten life.
→ read full articleQuotes from Courageous Anti-Authoritarians, Anti-Imperialists, Anti-Corporatists, Anti-Militarists and Anti-Fascists through History
Compiled by Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2019
These quotes are intended to inspire and give courage to the cloud of witnesses who are seeking justice, peace and prosperity and environmental and human rights for the impoverished, the outcasts, the bullied, the displaced, the victimized and the enslaved. Use them early and often.
→ read full articleMeet Antonio C. S. Rosa: Pioneer in Peace Journalism
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2019
Peace Journalism, a New Paradigm for Journalists Covering Conflict Situations: Meet the man behind TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE-TMS
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“Omnipresent Surveillance:” Dystopian Society in Our Global Era
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2019
Imposing Authoritarian Control, Domination, and Rule: Strategies, Methods, Techniques, Tactics
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Cogito Ergo Sum! . . . Perhaps!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2019
I think!
Therefore, I am!
I am!
Therefore, I think!
I think I am!
The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits from Global Violence and War
Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019
The all-pervasive occurrence of violence makes it seem like an unavoidable, and ultimately incomprehensible, aspect of the human world, particularly in a modern era. But, in this detailed and expansive book, Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree demonstrate otherwise. Widespread violence, they argue, is in fact an expression of the underlying social order, and whether it is carried out by military forces or by patterns of investment, the aim is to strengthen that order for the benefit of the powerful.
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(Italiano) Frattanto, nel mondo
Johan Galtung e Antonio C. S. Rosa | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2019
In effetti, sembriamo essere giunti al punto di essere noi stessi i nostri peggiori nemici, come maggior causa di morte e di ferimento da violenza e guerra. Eppure ci riferiamo a noi stessi come “intelligenti”, in cerca ovunque di qualcosa altrettanto “intelligente”.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung and Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019
In fact, we seem to have come to the point that we ourselves, as the major cause of death and being wounded through violence and war, are our own worst enemies. And yet we refer to ourselves as being “intelligent”, searching all over for something equally “intelligent”.
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Walt Whitman Returns. . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2019
May 31, 2019 is the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth in West Hills, New York. I wonder what Walt Whitman would say if he appeared in our time? I know he would recognize the betrayal of history’s lessons, humanity’s continued infatuation with violence and war, and our limited empathy. He would scold us! Reprimand us! Remind us solutions are to be found in compassion and connection, not metal.
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Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2019
For Memorial Day USA – 27 May 2019
→ read full articleReflections on Government Change, Reform, Renewal (Part 2)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2019
Suggested Topics for Discussion, Dialog and Debate
→ read full articleUSA Foreign Policy and Action Choices, Options, Alternatives (Part 1)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2019
Assassinations/death squads/drones
Bounties for info/capture/murder
Bribery/blackmail
Celebration of national “morality”/necessity of torture
Central-banking network (Debt)
Legacy: Portal to Immortality!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2019
29 Mar 2019 – A legacy is an act, known and unknown, to ourselves and to others, in which we assert presence as identity, thoughts, and feeling. Legacy is, in some respects, an effort to preserve immortality. In contrast to consciousness legacy, much of our life is passed unaware each day, we create legacy in what we do; legacy has profound implications for ourselves and others.
→ read full articleHarbingers
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2019
I wrote Harbingers to remind myself and others, of the 1950s and 1960s, years of our youth, there were people who warned us of the costs of silence and passivity. Sometimes, courage comes late in life. I did not want to waste another chance. We squander time!
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GODOT (Reconsidered)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2019
“Waiting for Godot,” emerged amidst the “beat generation,” in which the absurdities of the time, the sheer contradictions, were captured in ironies, cynicism, despair, and ambivalence. I need express my feelings about current times. Finding in them, parallel, the same absurdities; but the risks, dangers, threats, greater! Does it ever change?
→ read full articleWAR!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2019
War!
Side pitted against other!
Human against human!
Primitive!
Arms against arms!
Belief against belief!
Life, lives, time, … lost!
Artist in Agony: My Step-Father, Stefano
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Feb 2019
My step-father, Stefano, died in my arms at home at age 66. In the days before his death, he said to me: “The great tragedy of life is so few people have an opportunity to develop their talents.” He knew the agony!
→ read full articleAfrican American Female Vocalists
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Feb 2019
14 Feb 2019 – I share this tribute to African American female vocalists on Valentine’s Day because they sing and sang of every meaning of love in one way or another: joys, pleasures, struggles, pain, and recovery. Imagine; two centuries of unparalleled talent as individuals and as a group. I have heard many, and many are new to me. Listening to African American Female Vocalists fashioning a song, watching them command presence, and reading about their lives fills me with appreciation and awe.
→ read full articleAge? . . . Really? Distinctions, Degrees, Nuances
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jan 2019
28 Jan 2018 – We are more and less than our chronological age! We are, simultaneously, many different ages! Regardless of our chronological age, “distinctions” can be made that position us at younger, older, or “consonant” with our chronological ages as a function of different dimensions of our behavior and existence.
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More Than an “Icon:” Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Enduring Legacy
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jan 2019
Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for Civil Rights and Social Justice. King adhered to Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence. In 1955 he began his struggle to persuade the US Government to declare the policy of racial discrimination in the southern states unlawful. The racists responded with violence to the black people’s nonviolent initiatives. (The Norwegian Nobel Institute)
→ read full article2018 Supporters
Alphabetical list of TMS supporters who donated at least once in 2018. Alberto Portugheis Anthony J. Marsella Amedeo Cottino Angela Dogliotti Anthony Judge Arlene Hetherington Baher Kamal Billie Knighton Björn Lindgren Branislav Gosovic Centro Studi Sereno Regis Chandra Muzaffar Charles Webel Chowdhury Abrar Dennis August Almeida Dennis Wong Dewakar Bhatia Ellen Turgasen Emanuel Garcia Enrico […]
→ read full articleNuclear War and Me: Annihilation Inscribed Across Time and Place
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018
Time awaits Poet T.S. Elliot’s prophetic words! And who would be left to affirm Elliot’s insights amidst a nuclear “wasteland?” Why T.S. Elliot’s claim of a “whimper?” “Whimper!” “Whimper” murmurs! Whimper is subdued, timorous, surrender, like a final gasp! “Whimper” a sound preceding silence! I imagined myself “whimpering” in a final surge of life. Annihilation!
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Whose Child Is This?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Dec 2018
Whose Child is This? Whose child is this? Is this child an Iraqi . . . an Israeli . . . a Chechnyan . . . an Afghani . . . a Kurd . . . a Nigerian? Is she or he English, Indonesian, Spanish, Lebanese, Turkish, Congolese, Bosnian, Persian? Does it matter? Is this child not a daughter or son to each of us?
→ read full articleWinter Solstice: “The Day of the Longest Night . . .”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Dec 2018
I write in awe and reverence of Time! I write with respect for ancients pursuing mastery and control of Time’s mysterious cycles, determining life and lives. On “The Day of the Longest Night,” today calendarized as December 21, uncertainty of light’s return once brought chants, prayers, and sacrifices. Shrines, columns, and monuments were erected to map the past… So, let it be written . . . so, let it be sung . . . So let us honor, Time!
→ read full articleMeet Antonio C. S. Rosa, Pioneer in Peace Journalism – Be the Change: Enter Peace Journalism (Parts 1 & 2)
Sebastian Eck, Antonio C. S. Rosa | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Dec 2018
Introducing the TMS editor: Peace Journalism, a new paradigm for journalists covering conflict situations.
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Memorial Prose Poem
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (29 May 1917 – 22 Nov 1963)
Remembering JFK: Voices from a Smoldering Grave . . .
Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Oct 2018
Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.
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Johan Galtung, a Pioneer: Conceptualizing Peace Journalism
Antonio C. S. Rosa, M.A. | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Oct 2018
Before the 19th century, we had “disease journalists” who reported in detail how epidemics were spreading and how people suffered. Today we have “health journalists” who write about current research on new cures and therapies, and inform about healthy lifestyles promoting health as a value. Similarly, the time has come for “peace journalists” to write not only about war, but also about its causes, prevention, and ways to restore peace by nonviolent means and promoting peace as a value. They need not invent themselves solutions to conflicts–in the same way that health journalists need not invent cures for diseases themselves; they ask specialists.
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Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report #13 (Oct 2018)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Oct 2018
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ together with a sample of news about Charter signatories and organizations. Our collective effort to build a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts continues to make progress, even against rather overwhelming odds!
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In Search of Meaning: Thoughts on Belief, Doubt and Wellbeing
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D., 24 Sep 2018
A Twenty-Year Anniversary Reflection: 20 Sep 1999 – 20 Sep 2018 – This paper discusses the spiritual consequences for health and wellbeing associated with a dialogical tension between meaning-making and doubt. Meaning-making is pursued via various complex belief systems: worldviews, philosophies, religions, ideologies, mythologies, and “spiritual paths.
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Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism
Kimberlye Kowalczyk and Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Aug 2018
Presentation on Peace Journalism at Point of Peace Summit in Stavanger, Norway
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100 Living Peace and Justice Leaders and Models (List #4)
Anthony J. Marsella and Kathleen Malley-Morrison – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Aug 2018
3 Aug 2018 – As in prior published Lists, individuals cited on List #4 represent a variety of demographic markers, including gender, ethnicity, race, age, nation, religion, and life-style persuasion and preference. By accessing the URL accompanying the person’s name, you can read of their peace and justice activism and advocacy. Our choice of the number,100, is arbitrary, for there are thousands of individuals who deserve citation.
→ read full articleIdentity in a Global Era: Individual, Collective, National, “Existential” Considerations
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jul 2018
30 Jul 2018 – This paper is an overview of a complex topic, “Identity,” an essential concern in a number disciplines (e.g., anthropology, child development, medicine, politics, psychology, sociology). There is considerable debate within and across the disciplines regarding the nature of identity and its dynamics. This paper summarizes some of the major dimensions.
→ read full articleAcculturation and Human Relationships: Essential Encounters of “Cultural Constructions of Reality”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018
Acculturation is the key to understanding the dynamics and consequences of all human relationships. Acculturation, is in my opinion the most important “concept” for understanding the nature, meaning, and outcome of human being encounters and interactions, and perhaps, in a way yet to be determined, also for animal species.
→ read full articleWar
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018
What more can be said of war
That has not already been said,
That has not already been written,
That has not already been sung in song,
Recited in verse, shared in epic tales?
Genocide: The Ecology of Pathways to Ending Lives and Life
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018
21 May 2018 – This may be a tough read for some. It was difficult for me to write. I dislike being a Cassandra, Jeremiah, or any other voice that keeps calling attention to the many challenges ahead for humanity and for the world. And yet, it seems to me that if I do not, then somehow I have betrayed my responsibilities, duties, and obligations as professional psychologist, citizen, and human being.
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(Castellano) Carta de la No-Violencia: Informe de Progreso 12 (abril 2018)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 May 2018
23 abril 2018- Nuestro esfuerzo colectivo para construir un consenso mundial contra el uso de la violencia en todos los contextos continúa progresando, ¡incluso en contra de obstáculos abrumadores!
→ read full articleTwenty Arbiters for Policy Decisions and Actions: A Template for Our Times
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 May 2018
5 May 2018 – Perhaps it would be helpful to keep before us the various aspirations for society’s models supportive of nature and human life. Idealistic? Of course! But, if we deny the possible, then reality fills the gaps with less than laudatory choices.
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