Articles by John Scales Avery, Ph.D.
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(Italiano) Guerre perpetue degli Stati Uniti d’America
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Settembre 2023 – Guerre perpetue… Il complesso militar-industriale ha bisogno di nemici. Senza di loro avvizzirebbe. Non possiamo sbarazzare il mondo di queste pazzesche armi antiumane prima che tutto ciò che vale nel nostro magnifico mondo venga ridotto a ceneri radioattive? Non possiamo sgombrare il mondo dall’istituzione della guerra?
→ read full articlePerpetual Wars of the United States of America
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
The military-industrial complex needs enemies. Without them it would wither. Can we not rid the world of these insane and anti-human weapons before everything of value is reduced to radioactive ashes? Can we not rid the world of the institution of war?
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(Italiano) L’Ucraina e il pericolo di guerra nucleare
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
La guerra in Ucraina è da sempre una guerra per procura fra NATO e Russia, benché combattuta su suolo ucraino e comporti gran sofferenze per gli ucraini. La guerra sta diventando sempre più un confronto diretto fra Russia e Stati Uniti, entrambe potenze con armamenti nucleari.
→ read full articleBackground of the War in Ukraine
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
Project for a New American Century
→ read full articleUkraine and the Danger of Nuclear War
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
The war in Ukraine has always been a proxy war between NATO and Russia, although it involves great suffering for the Ukrainian people. It is increasingly becoming a direct confrontation between Russia and the United States, both nuclear armed powers.
→ read full articleLiteracy
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
I would like to announce the publication of a new ebook, which may be downloaded and circulated free of charge. Here are some of the topics discussed in the book:
→ read full articleNew Book: Collected Essays VII
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
I would like to announce the publication of my recent ebook. It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link:
→ read full articleTribalism
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Ethology: The Study of Inherited Behavior Patterns – Charles Darwin’s observations convinced him that in humans, just as in other mammals, the emotions and their expression are to a very large extent inherited universal characteristics of the species.
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Why War?
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Albert Einstein’s Letter to Sigmund Freud – In 1931, Albert Einstein decided to write to Sigmund Freud asking his opinion about how humanity could free itself from the curse of war.
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Avoiding Climate Disaster: Our Last Chance?
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Despite promises made at each COP climate conference, the Keeling Curve, which registers carbon dioxide concentrations in our atmosphere, keeps increasing, indicating that the nations of the world have by no means stopped emitting greenhouse gases.
→ read full articleSecrecy versus Democracy: New Developments
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
In a democracy, the citizens must control the actions of their government. If they are unable to do so because those actions are secret, then any claim to democratic government is lost.
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Fire and Ice
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
In 1923, Robert Frost wrote a short poem entitled “Fire and Ice”. Frost’s Poem Takes on a New Meaning Today
→ read full articleBiden’s Aggressive Foreign Policy
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
The United States has a motive: to cut off from Russia a source of income. Recently Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh described in great detail how the United States sabotaged the two pipelines. The decision to do so must have been made by President Biden.
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Prosecuting Donald Trump
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
11 Apr 2023 – Donald Trump Is Currently Being Charged with 34 Felonies
→ read full articleThe Great Importance of the ICC
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
In 1998, in Rome, representatives of 120 countries signed a statute establishing an International Criminal Court, with jurisdiction over the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. By 11 Apr 2002, 66 countries had ratified it, 6 more than the 60 needed to make the court permanent.
→ read full articleUS Wars
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
20 Mar 2023 – Over 300 Wars! As documented in the Wikipedia timeline of U.S. wars, and in the Wikipedia list of wars involving the USA, the country has been continuously at war since the Revolutionary War of 1775-1783 to establish it as a nation. Often several wars took place simultaneously.
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Our Global Water Crisis
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
In its home-page on World Water Day, 22 Mar 2021, the United Nations pointed out the following facts.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Must Stop Threatening China!
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
The US Aggressive Military-Industrial Complex – The great danger is that the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict will result in nuclear war. However, politicians from both U.S. political parties are so blinded by nationalism that they believe the risks to be necessary in order to “weaken Russia”, thus asserting American global hegemony.
→ read full articleNATO’s Aggressive Militarism
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
The Illegality of NATO: Violation of the UN Charter and the Nuremberg Principles
→ read full articleLives in Acting
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “Lives in Molecular Biology”. The pdf file of the book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
→ read full articleGreed Is Driving Us Towards Disaster
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Compassion and Greed: Two Sides of Human Nature
→ read full articleTrying to Predict the Future
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
3 Jan 2023 – I announce the publication of a new eBook entitled “Trying to Predict the Future”. It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
→ read full articleThe War in Ukraine Must Stop Now
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
After his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert. The threat brought back memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis. We are once again reminded of the urgent need for the world to rid itself of nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleMilitarism of the United States
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
The U.S. Government Aims at Global Hegemony through Military Force – The military-industrial complex, against which President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned, has bipartisan support in the United States Congress and Senate. The amount of money involved is enormous.
→ read full articleIran, Past and Present
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
20 Dec 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a new eBook entitled “Iran, Past and Present”. It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge. Below is some discussion of its contents.
→ read full articleThe Climate Emergency
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Immediate and drastic action is needed to prevent irreversible climate change. However, the worst effects of climate change lie in the distant future, perhaps as much as a thousand years from today. It is part of our human nature to see what is near to us. We accept the comfort and convenience provided by fossil fuels.
→ read full articleLives of Some Great Philosophers
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
I announce the publication of a new book, “Lives of Some Great Philosophers.” It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
→ read full articleWe Are Demanding Too Much
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
6 Nov 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which may be downloaded and circulated free of charge. We Are Demanding More from Nature Than Nature Can Restore
→ read full articleAgainst Nationalism
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
New e-book free of charge – Nationalism has become a dangerous anachronism. History is centered on the country where it is being taught. Our own country is the most important and is always in the right. Patriotic soldiers and generals are exalted.
→ read full articleLives of Some Great Film Directors
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a new e-book. The PDF file may be downloaded and circulated free of charge. It is part of my series of books on cultural history.
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Reforming the United Nations
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
It is becoming clear that the concept of the absolutely sovereign nation-state is a dangerous anachronism in a world of thermonuclear weapons, instantaneous communication, and economic interdependence. Probably our best hope for the future lies in developing the United Nations into a World Federation.
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Who Sabotaged Nordstream 2?
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
30 Sep 2022 – Russia had no motive for sabotaging Nordstream 2. If they wanted to stop the flow of natural gas, they could have simply turned it off at the Russian end. But the USA has a motive for sabotaging Nordstream 2: to weaken Russia by reducing its income from the sale of natural gas. Washington’s aim throughout the Ukraine war has been to weaken Russia.
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(Italiano) Fare soldi con la guerra
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Secondo l’Istituto Internazionale di Ricerca sulla Pace di Stoccolma (SIPRI), nel 2021 il mondo ha speso 2,113 trilioni di dollari in armamenti. Di questa cifra quasi incomprensibile, gli Stati Uniti hanno speso quasi la metà del totale, 801 miliardi di dollari. Ecco come fare soldi con la guerra.
→ read full articleSteps towards Avoiding a Climate Catastrophe
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Climate-related threats are becoming more severe: record-breaking heat waves in Europe, Americas and China; drought and falling water tables; the poles are warming four times faster than the remainder of the world. What actions can we take to avoid a catastrophe? Below is a list of helpful actions that can and should be taken.
→ read full articleLives in Molecular Biology
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
A New, Freely Downloadable Book: “Lives in Molecular Biology” – The PDF of the book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link:
→ read full articleMaking Money from War
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
In the United States the arms industry has been privatized, which is not the case in China or Russia. In the US, selling weapons and death is a business. It is a business, on which capitalist investors can make enormous profits, selling weapons and selling war.
→ read full articleFamine, Disease and War
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
I would like to announce the publication of a book which deals in detail with the issues discussed above. It may be downloaded free of charge.
→ read full articleA Better World Is Possible
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
In the future, we will be faced with many important challenges and tasks. We need a new economic system, a new society, a new social contract, a new way of life. Here are the great tasks that history has given to our generation:
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Selling Weapons, Selling War
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
War was always madness, always immoral, always the cause of unspeakable suffering, economic waste and widespread destruction, and always a source of poverty, hate, barbarism and endless cycles of revenge and counter-revenge. A Freely Downloadable Book
→ read full article(Italiano) Una carestia su vasta scala
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
Fra i maggiori pericoli per la civiltà umana ci sono la guerra nucleare e un mutamento climatico catastrofico, pericoli che minacciano anche la biosfera. Inoltre, siamo di fronte alla minaccia di una carestia su vasta scala, che coinvolge miliardi di persone, non solo milioni.
→ read full articleLives of Some Great Dramatists
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
18 Jun 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents the lives and work of some great dramatists throughout history. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link:
→ read full articleThe Threat of a Large-Scale Famine
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Among the greatest dangers to human civilization are nuclear war and catastrophic climate change, dangers which also threaten the biosphere. In addition to these two existential threats, humans also face the threat of an extremely large-scale famine, involving billions of people, rather than millions.
→ read full articleHomo Sapiens
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
A Book Announcement – Humans, in their arrogance, call themselves “Homo sapiens sapiens”, the “wisest of the wise”! Admittedly, our species has enormous technical, cultural, and scientific progress to its credit. But wisdom? That is another matter entirely.
→ read full articleSocial Systems in Scandinavia
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders describes himself as a democratic socialist. When asked to explain, he says that he believes that the United States would benefit from having a social system more like those found in the Scandinavian countries.
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Lives in Prehistory
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
30 Apr 2022 – I announce the publication of a book that describes the early history of the earth and the evolution of humans. It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
→ read full articleEliminating the Causes of War
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses the causes of war, and how they may be eliminated. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
→ read full articleThe Urgent Need for Climate Action
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
One reason that the Glasgow Climate conference failed so miserably to produce urgently needed climate action was that humans tend to react to what is close to them. Money to pay the rent is urgent, while a climate catastrophe seems to be a distant threat. A second reason is cultural inertia.
→ read full articleLives in the Middle Ages
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
19 Mar 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents many aspects of culture in the Middle Ages. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
→ read full articleWe Must Abolish Nuclear Weapons
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
In addition to illegally invading Ukraine, Russian leaders have put their nuclear forces on high alert, thus illegally threatening nuclear war. This recent crisis emphasizes the urgent need for the world to somehow rid itself of nuclear weapons before human civilization is destroyed by them, together with much of the biosphere.
→ read full articleCorporations versus Democracy
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses the ways in which giant corporations control both governments and media, thus undermining democracy. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
→ read full articleWhat Russia Wants
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Both Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Secretary Sergey Laverov have repeatedly stated that Russia does not intend to invade Ukraine. Logic also tells us that if they had wished to do so, they would have done it long ago. The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is a western invention.
→ read full articleLives in the Renaissance
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
18 Feb 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a book that presents many aspects of science and culture in the Renaissance (meaning “Re-birth”), a period of excitement and innovation in Europe. It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
→ read full articleAttacks on Democracy in the United States
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – The worst crime of the Republican Party is obstruction of action to prevent catastrophic climate change, which Donald Trump called “a hoax” pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement. Trump’s party continues to echo his denialism and his obstruction of climate action.
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(Italiano) Ostaggi del militarismo
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Gennaio 2022 – I nostri “Ministeri della Difesa” ci difendono davvero? Assolutamente no! Il lor stesso nome è una bugia. C’è pericolo che il nostro mondo, con tutta la sua bellezza e la preziosità che contiene, venga distrutto da questo cinico gioco per il potere e il denaro in cui i civili sono ostaggi del militarismo. Lasceremo che succeda?
→ read full articleWarnings from the Poles
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses worrying recent developments in the Antarctic and the Arctic, which warn us of catastrophic consequences if we neglect urgent climate action. The book may be downloaded free of charge from the following link:
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The Illegality of NATO
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Jan 2022 – Russia understandably fears the eastward expansion of NATO. Recently NATO countries, led by the United States, have supplied arms to Ukraine. There is a threat that the tensions building up in the region will lead to war. Such a development would be catastrophic for the entire world. Against this backdrop, we examine the question of NATO’s illegality.
→ read full articleWe Are Militarism’s Hostages
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Do our “Defense Departments” really defend us? Absolutely not! Their very title is a lie. There is a danger that our world, with all the beauty and value that it contains, will be destroyed by this cynical game for power and money, in which civilians are militarism’s hostages. Will we let this happen?
→ read full articleLives in the 20th Century
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – Human History as Cultural History – I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents many aspects of science and culture in the 20th century. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
→ read full article(Italiano) La minaccia di una carestia diffusa entro metà secolo
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
23 Dicembre 2021 – A meno che vengano fatti sforzi per stabilizzare e infine ridurre la popolazione globale, c’è una grave minaccia che il cambiamento climatico, la crescita demografica e la fine dell’era dei combustibili fossili possano combinarsi nel produrre una carestia di casta scala per la metà del secolo in corso.
→ read full articleHumanity’s Massive Footprint on the Face of Nature
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
I would like to announce the publication of a new book which discusses the reasons for our human encroachment on the earth’s ecological systems, and the possible consequences if we do not take steps to correct the problem. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
→ read full articleLives in the 17th Century
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents many aspects of science and culture in the 17th century. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
→ read full articleThe Threat of a Large-Scale Famine
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
The Threat of a Large-Scale Global Famine by the Middle of the 21st Century
→ read full articleLet’s Get Money out of Politics
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
Why COP26 Failed Future Generations – In discussing the threat of catastrophic climate change, we need to be aware of the contrast between the short-term future and the long-term future. Unless we take immediate and drastic action, we risk passing environmental tipping points, beyond which uncontrollable feedback loops will take over, making human efforts useless.
→ read full articleTasks for the Future
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
A New Freely Downloadable Book – Today the world is facing several threats, and to avoid them we need to act. The greatest threats are catastrophic climate change and thermonuclear war, but a large-scale global famine also has to be considered.
→ read full article(Italiano) Bugie che hanno condotto a guerre
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – Avviene molto spesso che capi politici dicano bugie per ottenere sostegno pubblico prima di dare inizio a guerre. Per esempio, Adolf Hitler mentì sulla persecuzione di minoranze tedesche per giustificare le sue invasioni di Polonia e Cecoslovacchia. Ecco le bugie che hanno condotto a guerre.
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(Italiano) Predizioni del futuro
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), scrittore inglese estremamente prolifico che scrisse romanza, novella, libri di storia, manuali di biologia, scenari utopici e così via, è stato chiamato “lo Shake-speare della fantascienza”. Durante la sua carriera face varie predizioni del futuro, molte fra le quali sorpendentemente precise.
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We Need Their Voices Today! (22) And Yours!
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
At a time of crisis, with the future at stake, please don’t be silent. We urgently need your voice today!
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We Need Their Voices Today! (21) Helen Keller
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Helen Keller, who although deaf and blind, could see injustice clearly, who could hear the voices of victims of war, and who spoke eloquently for social reform, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (20) George Orwell
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
George Orwell, brilliant and honest writer, lifelong opponent of tyranny, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Weapons Convention: An Open Letter to the Danish Parliament
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – Until now, Denmark has been slow to support the recently-adopted Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. I respectfully urge you to support the Treaty and the proposed 2018 nuclear summit meeting for the following reasons:
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (19) Bertha von Suttner
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Bertha von Suttner, famous antiwar author, friend and mentor of Alfred Nobel without whose advice to him the Peace Prize would not exist, early leader of the peace movement, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (18) Edna St. Vincent Millay
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Edna St. Vincent Millay, eloquent poet with a deep concern for the future of humanity, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (17) Albert Einstein
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Albert Einstein, great physicist and lifelong pacifist, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (16) Wilfred Owen
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Wilfred Owen, eloquent opponent of war, tragic victim of war, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (15) Martin Luther King, Jr
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., great orator, champion of justice and equality, fearless opponent of war, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (14) Mahatma Gandhi
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Mahatma Gandhi, Great Soul Gandhi, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (13) Count Leo Tolstoy
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
Count Leo Tolstoy, great author and humanist, pioneer of nonviolent resistance, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (12) Henry David Thoreau
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Henry David Thoreau, pioneer of nonviolent civil disobedience, pioneer of environmentalism, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (11) John Stuart Mill
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
John Stuart Mill, economist with a social and ecological conscience, defender of individual liberty, pioneering advocate of the rights of women, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (10) Robert Owen
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
Robert Owen, pioneer of the cooperative movement, pioneer of social and economic reform, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (9) Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Shelley is today considered to be one of the major English-language poets. Less well known is the fact that he was a pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny, whose ideas influenced Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi. Percy Bysshe Shelley, major poet, social reformer, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (8)Thomas Robert Malthus
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Thomas Robert Malthus, mathematician and economist, warning voice, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (7) The Marquis de Condorcet
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, definer of the idea of progress, defender of human rights and the rights of all living things, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (5) Mary Wollstonecraft
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
Mary Wollstonecraft, pioneering advocate of the rights of women and all human rights, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (4) Thomas Jefferson
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Thomas Jefferson, architect of American democracy, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (3) Thomas Paine
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Thomas Paine, defender of democracy, defender of human rights, defender of ordinary citizens against the tyranny of oligarchies, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (2) William Blake
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
William Blake, sublime visionary poet and artist, voice of the poor. Voice of nature, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleScience and Society
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
I would like to announce that an updated and very much enlarged edition of my book “Science and Society” will very soon be published by World Scientific (in November, 2016). Locally printed editions of it were used in courses taught not only in Denmark, but also in Sweden, Switzerland, England and Myanmar. It would be very good if the book could be used at the high-school or gymnasium level, as well as in colleges and universities.
→ read full articleParis: A Sense of Proportion Is Urgently Needed
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
For more than a week after the terrorist attacks in Paris on 13 November, every television news program of any kind was completely dominated by non-stop day-and-night coverage of the “breaking news”. Let us hope that attention of the world and the focus of the delegates at the Paris Climate Conference will not be distracted by pseudo-threats, and will instead look seriously at the real threats that the world is facing. We urgently need a sense of proportion.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 9: A New Economic System; a New Society
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
We need a new economic system, a new society, a new social contract, a new way of life. Here are the great tasks that history has given to our generation:
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 8: The Cooperative Movement
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
In the future, small cooperative communities, like the Ghandian villages or Transition Towns, may be able to give us not only a more sustainable way of life, but also increased happiness, based warm life-long friendships and the pleasure of doing good to others.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 7: The Global Food Crisis
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
There is a danger that just as global population reaches the unprecedented level of 9 billion or more, the agricultural base for supporting it may suddenly collapse. Ecological catastrophe, possibly compounded by war and other disorders, could produce famine and death on a scale unprecedented in history, a disaster of unimaginable proportions, involving billions rather than millions of people.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 6: Adverse Effects of Globalization
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
In the early 19th century, industrial society began to be governed by new rules: Traditions were forgotten and replaced by purely economic laws. Labor was viewed as a commodity, like coal or grain, and wages were paid according to the laws of supply and demand, without regard for the needs of the workers.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 5: The Threats and Costs of War
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The costs of war, both direct and indirect, are so enormous that they are almost beyond comprehension. Can we not rid ourselves of both nuclear weapons and the institution of war itself? We must act quickly and resolutely before our beautiful world is reduced to radioactive ashes, together with the people that we love.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 3: Climate Change and the Urgent Need for Renewable Energy
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
These considerations point to a battle that will have to be fought by the people of the world who are concerned about the long-term future of human civilization and the biosphere, against the vested interests of our oligarchic rulers. This fight will require wide public discussion of the dangers of runaway climate change. At present, our corporate-controlled mass media hardly mention the long-term dangers, such as the methane hydrate feedback loop, so the battle will have to be fought in the alternative media.
→ read full articleThe Need for a New Economic System – Part 2: Entropy and Economics
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The disorder and statistical probability of the universe is constantly increasing, but because the earth is not a closed system, we are able to create local order, and complex, statistically improbable structures, like the works of Shakespeare, the Mona Lisa and the Internet. The human economy is driven by the free energy that we receive as income from the sun. Money is, in fact, a symbol for free energy, and free energy might be thought of as “negative entropy”. There is also a link between free energy and information.
→ read full articleThe Future of International Law
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Abstract: After the invention of agriculture, roughly 10,000 years ago, humans began to live in progressively larger groups, which were sometimes multi-ethnic. In order to make towns, cities and finally nations function without excessive injustice and violence, both ethical and legal systems were needed. Today, in an era of global economic interdependence, instantaneous worldwide communication and all-destroying thermonuclear weapons, we urgently need new global ethical principles and a just and enforceable system of international laws.
→ read full articleRemember Your Humanity
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
This year, 2015, marks the 60th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which contains the following words: “There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise. If you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.”
→ read full articleQuick Action Is Needed to Save the Long-Term Future
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
We must save the long-term future of our beautiful planet, not only for ourselves, and our children and grandchildren, but also for all future generations of humans, and for the dazzling diversity of plants and animals with which we share the gift of life.
→ read full articleSome Contributions of Islamic Culture
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
At a time when the corporate-controlled media of Europe and the United States are doing everything that they can to fill us with poisonous Islamophobia, it is perhaps a useful antidote to remember the great role that Islamic civilization played in preserving, enlarging and transmitting to us the knowledge and culture of the ancient world.
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