Articles by Pressenza
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The Threat of Para-state Power Called International Banking
Partido Humanista de Chile/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Banking is the main accumulator of resources and the real power behind formal power. It has become the most powerful sector of Big Capital, being an area of the economy that produces nothing and should have only an instrumental role.
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What Can “the Invisibles” Do to Make Wars Stop?
Victoria Barceló | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
It is said that in a war everyone loses, but that is not true at all. There are those who make huge profits from the death and suffering of other human beings, of men, women and children like us: the Elites
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World Hunger Doubles
IPS | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
29 Apr 2023 – Some 345 million people are acutely food insecure worldwide, more than twice as many as before the covid-19 pandemic, said a new report by the UN World Food Programme.
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The Risk of ChatGPT
Ricardo Baeza Weinmann | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
12 Apr 2023 – Would anyone ask a talented actor not only to act and talk like a skilled surgeon in a convincing manner, but then allow him to take a scalpel and operate on him? It would seem stupid, wouldn’t it? Well, that is precisely what many are doing with ChatGPT.
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Yanis Varoufakis Brutally Attacked by Group of Thugs in Athens
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
12 Mar 2023 – Last night Yanis Varoufakis, secretary of the Greek Party MeRA25 and founder of DiEM25, was attacked in Athens and taken to hospital with injuries. The condemnation of the violence towards the Greek MP came from (almost) everywhere.
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Battle for the Earth
Fred Hageneder | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
6 Mar 2023 – An accurately researched [10-part] account of the effort by industry to cover up the impact of fossil fuels to the environment and public health and to manipulate public opinion. The networks behind this and the truth between big media influence and so called conspiracy theories–and those who truly benefit from them.
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ARD’s (German Public Television) Fact Finder, Genetic Engineering and Vandana Shiva
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – Those who buy “organic” do so in order to obtain food and products that are free of genetic engineering and pesticides and that have also been produced in a more environmentally friendly and sustainable way. The organic market has grown enormously in recent decades and continues to rise.
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Roger Waters Questioned in Depth about Ukraine, Russia, Israel, U.S.
Berliner Zeitung | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – Roger Waters can rightly claim to be the mastermind behind Pink Floyd. He came up with the concept of and wrote all the lyrics for the masterpiece “The Dark Side of the Moon”. A musical genius turned activist.
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Fany Kuiru Elected as COICA’s First Woman Coordinator
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
29 Jan 2023 – It is the first time in the 38-year history of ‘COICA-Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin’ that a woman will preside over the NGO that represents more than 500 indigenous peoples from 9 Amazonian countries.
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Nonviolence as the Only Way
Maria Giovanna Farina | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
29 Jan 2023 – Nonviolence seems distant and agonizing in a historical situation where only Pope Francis makes appeals for peace. Nonviolence seems to have become an empty word and this cannot, must not, be accepted. I must point out the “amnesia” of those who forget history and the wars that have bloodied it.
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Free Julian Assange: The Belmarsh Tribunal at the National Press Club Washington DC
Pressenza Int'l Press Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – Chaired by Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) and Srećko Horvat (philosopher co-founder of DiEM25), the Tribunal included testimony from Julian’s father John Shipton.
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New US Nuclear Weapons on European Soil: A Violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Tica Font | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – The US has begun to replace its nuclear weapons on European soil with more modern ones. It is replacing the B61-3, B61-4 and B61-7 thermonuclear bombs with the B61-12, which has become the main US and NATO air-launched nuclear weapon.
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COP27 Sponsor, Coca-Cola, Named Worst Plastic Polluter for the Last Five Years
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and Nestlé come in as the world’s top plastic polluters for five years running, according to Break Free From Plastic’s 2022 global brand audit report.
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A World Cup Stained with Blood and Bribery
Aram Aharonian | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
14 Nov 2022 – Qatar is a Soccer World Cup tainted by blood and corruption. The spread of these facts preoccupies the FIFA leadership which, less than 20 days before the start, asked the teams to focus on soccer and not on “sermons” on morality, dragging soccer “into ideological or political battles that exist”.
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Letter from Manuel Zelaya, former President of Honduras, to the British PM about Julian Assange
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
11 Nov 2022 – Your Excellency PM Sunak, I am writing to you in my capacity as Former President of the Republic of Honduras to request the review of the extradition to the USA and the immediate release of the Australian cyber journalist and activist Julian Assange. I base this request on humanitarian reasons, since as is public knowledge the prolonged confinement and the current conditions of detention have seriously affected Mr. Assange’s health; also on reasons that warn of the violation of rights not only of the aforementioned but of civilised society as a whole.
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Meta Threaten to End Canadian News Content on Its Platform
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
27 Oct 2022 – The federal government’s proposed law requiring internet giants to negotiate commercial agreements with Canadian media disturbs Meta, WhatsApp and Facebook’s parent company, which threatens to end the sharing of Canadian news content on its platform.
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War through the Media and the Role of Journalism
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – From a journalist who covered wars for 30 years in Latin America, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia, the book “Truth Is Bombed: Media and War through the Eyes of a War Correspondent” is the result of a long-term research on the role of powerful news organizations in the coverage of armed conflicts, fake news, propaganda and censorship in the major wars from the 19th to the 21st century.
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The Democratic Party, Now the Leading Party of War
John V. Walsh | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
The prowar mentality among the progressive Dem pols is not limited to Biden’s cruel proxy war to the last Ukrainian. It extends to a second proxy war now being ginned up in Taiwan. When Nancy Pelosi recently visited the island to stir up secessionist sentiment, not a single progressive Democrat in Congress made so much as a peep of protest.
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Colombia: Nonviolent Journalism Book Launched
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
22 Sep 2022 – Students, journalists and non-violence activists met at the launch of the book ‘Nonviolent Journalism’ in Bogotá and talked with its authors about the importance of thinking about new forms of journalistic treatment in Latin America,
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Social Media: The Socially Acceptable Addiction
Pressenza | TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
The Internet is like a bottle of wine: you can lift your mood, appear more confident, do things you wouldn’t normally. A key difference: we don’t let children consume alcohol. Why then are children allowed such free reign on the Internet, despite the mounting research into the negative impact of social media addiction? — Trigger Warning // addiction, depression, suicide
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Rise of the New Decadents
Mark Lesseraux | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
21 Sep 2022 – Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Donald Trump (USA) and Giorgia Meloni (Italy) are just a few examples amongst dozens of right-wing nationalist political leaders. There has been no shortage of mainstream media pontification about the recent rise of these politicians.
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The Other 9/11 in Chile
Carolina Vásquez Araya | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
11 Sep 1973 – It was very early in the morning when I heard the first shots in the centre of Santiago, where I lived. Through the radio I became aware of the scale of the attack and realised that the coup d’état was already a reality. In front of my window, I could observe the movement of soldiers and the exchange of gunfire.
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(Italiano) Per una politica di pace: ripudiare la guerra
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Sereno Regis/Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Per assicurare una pace giusta e stabile è necessario negare collaborazione politica, economica, culturale, emotiva, psicologica, alle politiche di guerra, di qualunque stato o potenza. Per la pace è necessario uscire dalle culture politiche militari e dalle alleanze militari di difesa offensiva.
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Tradition vs. Modernity? Humans vs. Animals? The Truth behind the Violations of Animal Rights
Carolina Gomes | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Over the past years animal exploitation became a popular subject but not in a good way. Music, documentaries, and news channels helped bring more public awareness but animal rights are still violated left and right, and we are not even close to some solution.
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Blue Helmets Shoot and Kill Civilians in Congo: Nobody Talks about the Failure of the UN
Cecilia Capanna | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – There are some facts happening in the world that are extremely serious, but very few media talk about them. Few weeks ago, for example, shocking news from the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed silently.
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(Português) Beleza virtual, liberdade virtual, amor virtual: o Metaverso é o nosso futuro?
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Quando foi a última vez que você saiu de manhã para fazer parte de um glorioso nascer do sol? Ou você se sentou em uma praia vendo o sol se pôr no horizonte? O que você sente quando toca a pele de um ente querido? Um avô, um pai, um amante ou um filho?
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Singularity: Attractors and Scenarios (Part 2)
Javier E Belda - IHPS | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022 -The approaching evolutionary crisis is evidently not a regular evolutionary crisis like the many others in the history of the planet-system. It is the total crisis of an evolutionary path of 4,000 million years. It can be said to be a crisis of the very critical character of the preceding evolution, a crisis of crises.
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Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
¿Cuándo fue la última vez que saliste afuera por la mañana para ser parte de un glorioso amanecer? ¿O te sentaste en una playa a ver la puesta de sol en el horizonte? ¿Qué sientes cuando tocas la piel de un ser querido? ¿Un abuelo, un padre, un amante o un hijo?
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The Dalai Lama – ‘Ocean of Wisdom’ and Man of Peace – Celebrates His 87th Birthday
Anna Lamboglia | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Today, 6 July 2022 marks the 87th birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. “The past is past; nothing can change it. But the future depends on the present; we still have the opportunity to shape it. This is not a matter of employing technology or spending more money, it’s a question of developing a sense of concern for others’ well-being…”
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My Name Is ARMFIN. I Am the God of Total Power
Riccardo Petrella | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – My identity code is UCT. It stands for Universal Capitalist Theology. It is a theology because I talk about myself, about God. It is universal because it cannot be otherwise. Theology has no boundaries of time and space, it is ‘one’, and human history tends ‘towards the one’ (universal).
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Either We Will All Be Saved or We Will All Disappear Equally! That, Is the Dilemma
Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
2 Jul 2022 – Following the recent strategy decided by NATO at its Madrid Summit, which states that China “challenges its interests, security and values”, and that Russia is “the most significant and direct threat” to its interests, the world is moving very quickly towards its partition in terms of the structure of the international system.
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Progressive International: The Athens Declaration on Ukraine
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
Today, 13 May 2022, three members of the Progressive International, Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn and Ece Temelkuran, called a press conference to make public the Athens Declaration on the Russian invasion and the war in Ukraine. Here is the text.
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Wars Lie!
Eduardo Galeano | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – Wars always invoke noble motives. They kill in the name of peace. In the name of God. In the name of civilisation. In the name of progress. In the name of democracy… And just in case, if so many lies are not enough… the mass media are ready to invent imaginary enemies to justify the conversion of the world into a great madhouse and an immense slaughterhouse.
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BioBiden
María Zakharova | Pressenza Argentina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – An idea of the US political elites’ involvement in the military biological activity in Ukraine. Below is an attempt to reconstruct the chronology of this involvement, though not a comprehensive one. There are many gaps in this truly diabolical plan that are still to be filled.
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A Guide for Peace in Ukraine: A Humanist and Nonviolent Proposal from Portugal
Redação Portugal | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – The Centre for Humanist Studies “Exemplary Actions”, the Portuguese branch of the World Centre for Humanist Studies, an organism of the Humanist Movement, is disseminating a non-violent proposal for the restoration of peace in Ukraine, inviting citizens and non-governmental organisations who identify with it to sign it and send it.
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Haiti, San Martin and the Odious Foreign Debt
Miguel Julio Rodríguez Villafañe | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
7 Feb 2022 – The colonising logic of the centres of conditioning capital, from the very beginning, sought to take over Latin America, dominating it in different ways, according to their interests, beyond the principles that were proclaimed and the freedom that was promised.
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All the Wars on the Planet
Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
27 Jan 2022 – There are 34 wars currently declared in the world; dozens of low-intensity conflicts and situations of crisis; there are 13 UN peacekeeping missions, the permanence of which, often lasting several years, signals states of tension only apparently resolved.
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Julian Assange Files Appeal to UK Supreme Court
Stella Moris | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
23 Dec 2021 – Official statement from Stella Moris and Don’t Extradite Assange campaign. This morning Julian Assange filed an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court the High Court’s ruling that he can be extradited to the US on three grounds.
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Approved in Brazil, Argentinean GM Wheat Advances: Warnings and Rejections of an Unprecedented Experiment in the World
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
16 Nov 2021 – The decision unleashes effects that are yet to be seen: not only socio-environmental movements and more than 1,400 scientists denounce that this variety is resistant to a herbicide 15 times more toxic than glyphosate. “It is inevitable that this wheat generates a process of contamination of non-genetically modified wheat”.
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Nonviolent Struggle Wins: Three Anti-Farmer Indian Laws to Be Repealed
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
19 Nov 2021 – The Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi announced the Government of India’s decision to repeal all three anti-farmer, pro-corporate black laws first brought in as Ordinances in June 2020.
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On the Sidelines of COP-26, People’s Summit for Climate Justice Takes Place in Glasgow
Redacción Argentina | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
From 7-10 November 2021, as world leaders gathered to debate our future, the COP26 Coalition hosted the People’s Summit for Climate Justice.
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“Nonviolent Journalism” Book Presented at the Open World Meeting of New Humanism 2021
Javier Tolcachier | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
10 Nov 2021 – “And, by the way, Press people in contact with daily tragedy are today in a position to act in a humanist direction.” With this significant phrase Nelsy Lizarazo began the presentation of the book “Nonviolent Journalism”, the brand-new production of the Pressenza News Agency with a focus on Peace and Nonviolence at the Open World Meeting of New Humanism 2021.
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Mother Nature, Inc.
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
9 Nov 2021 – Wall Street investors have hit the jackpot. Soon they’ll be able to buy, own, and dictate The Commons, public lands, the world of Mother Nature. In fact, a pilot project is already in the works with ecosystems up for sale…
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The Excuse of Job Creation in Military Investments
Redacción Barcelona | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
6 Nov 2021 – When the General State Budget is presented, the Minister of Defence of the day insists that the multimillion-dollar expenditure dedicated to the purchase of armaments generates employment. But, as the authors point out, a comparison of the jobs created in the military and in other areas allows us to question the dominant narrative.
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People’s Court Tries US and Asks for Assange’s Freedom
Prensa Latina | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
25 Oct 2021 – A people’s court here today condemned the United States for war crimes committed in the name of the fight against terrorism, and demanded the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The symbolic hearing was organised a week before the British judiciary hears an appeal by US prosecutors to extradite the Australian journalist.
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Celebrating the 2021 National Indigenous Peoples Month
Genevieve Balance Kupang | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
10 Oct 2021 – Capitalizing on inclusion, cultural heritage, shared commonalities, and recognition of contribution to the Kiwi community, the New Zealand tangata whenua (locals) welcomed indigenous peoples from the Philippines and other migrants who work in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
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David Swanson | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
13 Sep 2021 – In 2002, U.S. women’s groups sent a joint letter to then-President George W. Bush in support of the war on Afghanistan to benefit women. Gloria Steinem (formerly of the CIA), Eve Ensler, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, and many others signed. The National Organization for Women, Hillary Clinton, and Madeline Albright supported the war.
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Are We Out of Options on Myanmar?
Nayd Riham | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
22 Aug 2021 – Rohima Kadu’s idyllic village of Rakhine was visited by Myanmar’s much-dreaded military, the Tatmadaw and its local Buddhist militia associates. A helpless Rohingya widow of 50, Rohima’s eldest daughter was bedridden with malaria and too weak to run. So, Rohima grabbed her grandchildren and fled to the nearby forest. She returned when the pillaging was over, but all that remained was a charred skull of her daughter lying on the ground.
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Chomsky on Secret Bolsonaro Meeting with C.I.A Director: A ‘Soft Coup’ May Be Underway
Edu Montesanti | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – Like the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff by a Bunch of Corrupt Gangsters on Fraudulent Grounds – “A military coup does not seem out of the question,” says Noam Chomsky. The meeting in Brasilia on July 1 was at least “suggestive,” he says in an exclusive interview.
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The Rif Republic: A Self-Proclaimed and Internationally Unrecognized State
Rabah Arkam | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
The Rif Republic (Tagduda n Arrif) in Berber, is a state bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Algeria to the east, the plains separating it from Morocco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Composed of mountains and plains, the Rif stretches for nearly 500 km from Tangier to Berkane and Kebdana (border between Algeria and Morocco).
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29 May 2021: First Meeting of the Council of Wisdoms of the Earth’s Peoples
Multiconvergence of Global Networks | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
25 May 2021 – The Multiconvergence of Global Networks (MRG) is an articulation that aggregates global networks for mutual support, dialogue, development of common strategies and planning of joint actions. It is not an institution, but a confluence of global civil society networks that explores new ways of doing politics through interarticulation, communication and cooperation between various processes that seek to strengthen planetary citizenship.
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Seaspiracy’s Nightmarish Odyssey
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
16 May 2021 – Seaspiracy is a powerful new documentary about the hazardous, unruly world of industrial fishing and stomach-churning abuse, overuse, disregard for life. Released by Disrupt Studios on 24 Mar 2021. {Official Trailer | Netflix}
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Collateral Crucifixion – Pressuring for Julian Assange’s Release!
Sabine Bock | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
2 Apr 2021 -The artist duo Captain Borderline has created on the theme of “Collateral Crucifixion” a huge, artistic mural on a complete house facade directly in front of the SPD headquarters, the Willy Brandt House. In conversation with the two artists, they explained to us the reason for creating the revolutionary, crucifix-like work of art.
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The European Council against the Trade in Instruments of Torture
Riccardo Noury | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
On 31 Mar the European Council adopted a recommendation, long solicited by Amnesty International and Omega Research Foundation, by which the 47 member states will effectively fight the trade in torture equipment. It provides a total ban to the trading of any instruments aimed to cause pain and requires stricter controls on the trade in police items potentially used to torture.
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Women Who Build the Future: Vandana Shiva
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
8 Mar 2021 – We open the series “Women who Build the Future: Towards a Nonviolent Culture“, with Vandana Shiva‘s interview. The renowned physicist, thinker and activist proposes ecofeminism as a response to the current moment, in which the capitalist patriarchy is leading us to destruction and death, after having colonized nature, women and the future.
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No to the Privatization of the Brazilian Central Bank
Marcos Arruda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
24 Feb 2021 – Central banks are by nature public because they formulate and administer the country’s Monetary Policy and invest in the “real economy”, i.e. the part of the economy concerned with socioeconomic development and the production of goods and services. The CB does not have itself as an end but is a means to guarantee the adequate quantity of money and its circulation for the good of all.
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The Great Divorce of the Century
David Andersson | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
13 Feb 2021 – Millions lost their jobs and their money, some kept their jobs and their money, and others got even more money without doing much. This situation didn’t start with the pandemic, but it became more ‘in your face.’ COVID has pushed the close-knit relationship between work and money towards a bitter divorce.
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What If Oumuamua Is the Real Deal?
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021 – If Oumuamua is a real alien craft, then Earthlings are doing some really weird stuff on the scale of alien intelligence. Think about it… If it’s an alien craft or drone there’s no way it entered the sun’s solar system, swooping within 15M miles of Earth, powered by fossil fuels. It is the first known interstellar object in our solar system. It’s estimated to be between 330 and 3,280 feet long and between 115 and 548 feet wide and dark red in color, and it tumbles.
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World: Positive News in the Difficult Year of The Pandemic
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
3 Jan 2020 – Is there any positive news in this era that was accompanied by the outbreak of a pandemic? Here are some news and texts that, as human beings, fill us with pride. Because, they allow us to move forward, breaking down the walls of intolerance and racism, lighting the way and bringing hope, solidarity and cooperation.
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Water, “the Ultimate Commodity”, (*) Has Entered the Stock Market. Poor Water!
Riccardo Petrella | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
31 Dec 2020 – Entering the stock exchange is the result of a long series of steps. In the beginning there was …. the ‘petrolization’ of water. They announced it, proclaimed it since the 1970s. The “petrolization of water” (1) has driven the way we imagine and see water in industrialized and “developed” societies. Thus, in 2020, black gold […]
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Education for Peace and Nonviolence in Times of Crisis
Pía Figueroa | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
21 Nov 2020 – Doris Balvín, senior researcher at the New Civilization Humanist Studies Center in Lima, Peru and a specialist in social ecology, speaks about education for peace and nonviolence in times of social and ecological crisis.
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Edward Snowden Is Granted Permanent Residence in Russia
Pressenza Athens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
29 Oct 2020 – Edward Snowden has been living in exile in Russia since 2013 when he disclosed the American secret services’ programs of massive surveillance. The USA has requested his extradition for violating espionage laws. Today’s decision ensures he will not be extradited.
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#FREEASSANGE: Video Testimony from Yanis Varoufakis
Pressenza IPA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing up to 175 years in prison for publishing truthful information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Countless journalists, legal scholars, and human rights groups have condemned the politically motivated U.S. efforts to prosecute him. Under the campaign 1′ 4ASSANGE we publish short testimonies and start with Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek ex minister of finance and founder of the European political movement DiEM25.
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The Dying Planet Report 2020
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
24 Sep 2020 – The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of humanity versus life in nature, the Living Planet Report 2020, but the report should really be entitled the Dying Planet Report 2020 because that’s what’s happening in the real world. Not much remains alive.
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Bolsonaro and WHO United in the Same Fight?
Maria Antonietta Bàlzola, M.D. | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
10 Aug 2020 – Jair Bolsonaro, just like Trump, claims that there is no epidemic from COVID-19 and shows himself smiling as he swallows chloroquine, thus projecting the image of a good-tempered and decidedly stupid despot. A lot of people make a simple reasoning: if he takes chloroquine, it must certainly be a stupid thing to do.
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Statement on the 75th Anniversary of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
International Peace Bureau | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
In just two days, the two primitive atomic bombs dropped over Japan killed a quarter of a million women, children and men. Yet from the atomic ruins, an unwavering resolve has survived to bear witness to the personal human tragedy. For 75 years, the Hibakusha have spoken out as the voice of experience and hope for the urgent imperative of eliminating all nuclear weapons.
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Julian Assange Is Awarded the 2020 Stuttgart Peace Prize
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
29 Jul 2020 – Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks imprisoned in London for a year, received the Stuttgart Peace Prize 2020. It is awarded by Die Anstifter and aims to promote the right to unconditional freedom of information and of the press.
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July in History: Anniversaries of Russell-Einstein Manifesto, ICJ Verdict on Illegality of Nuclear Weapons, State-Terrorist Bombing of Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior
Alyn Ware | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
These three anniversaries provide inspiration to consider the roles of science, law and diplomacy to advance peace, security and nuclear disarmament.
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Germany’s Farewell to US Troops: Fewer Soldiers Means More Peace
Reto Thumiger | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
11 Jun 2020 – The President of the United States has decided to withdraw up to 15,000 soldiers from Germany. This announcement by Der Spiegel at the end of last week struck the transatlantic states almost like a bomb. For half of the population in Germany, which is in favor of a complete withdrawal of American troops, the news looks more like a dove of peace on the horizon.
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Are We before the Possible ‘Awakening’ of Mankind?
Juana Pérez Montero | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020 – A door has been opened and it is worthy to work on a new impulse for the humanization of the world. If we can be silent in this isolation, perhaps we will advance towards the awakening of the human being, towards the arrival of the Winged Lion.
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Abrupt Ecosystem Collapse
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
A new study in Nature Magazine 8 Apr 2020 casts a disturbing light on the prospects of abrupt ecosystem collapse. The report analyzes the probabilities of collapsing ecosystems en masse, and not simply the loss of individual species.
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(Français) Le coup d’État de l’Élite contre une humanité terrorisée: Comment montrer une résistance puissante
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Je continuerai à attirer l’attention sur ce qui se passe et à encourager les gens à résister par les moyens stratégiques que j’ai exposés ci-dessus. Et je ferai ensuite tout mon possible pour que le plus grand nombre possible de personnes, qui sont assez puissantes pour le faire, réagissent avant qu’il ne soit trop tard.
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(Castellano) Los humanos aman la violencia: Gandhi y el Foro Económico Mundial
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
Al conmemorar el 72º aniversario del asesinato de Mohandas K. Gandhi ocurrido el 30 de enero de 1948. Como él, que hilaba los paños de su propia ropa, señaló hace más de 100 años: «La Tierra provee lo suficiente para las necesidades de cada persona, pero no para la codicia de cada persona». Esto es algo que los asistentes al Foro Económico Mundial no pueden entender ya que están demasiado dañados psicológicamente. ¿Y tú?
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(Italiano) Il nostro mondo che svanisce: fauna e flora selvatica
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
Nel corso della sua storia, la Terra ha vissuto cinque estinzioni di massa. Ora sta vivendo la sesta.
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(Castellano) Nuestro Mundo que se Desvanece: Insectos
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
Desde la revolución industrial que comenzó alrededor de 1750, hace sólo 270 años, los seres humanos han estado destruyendo la biosfera de la Tierra con una ferocidad tan tremenda que la Tierra que heredamos al comienzo de la Época Holocena se está desvaneciendo ante nuestros ojos. Y la vida se desvanece con ella.
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(Castellano) El Movimiento Climático Mundial está fracasando: ¿Por qué?
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
Aunque estoy encantado de que estas campañas hayan logrado finalmente movilizar a un número significativo de personas en torno a la amenaza existencial que la catástrofe climática representa para la vida en la Tierra. Me gustaría plantear brevemente algunas cuestiones para su consideración por parte de cada uno de los que participan en el movimiento climático, así como de los que están considerando la posibilidad de participar.
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(Castellano) Liderazgo Político Comparativo: Gandhi vs. Líderes Contemporáneos
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
El 2 de octubre de 2019 se cumple el 150º aniversario del nacimiento de Mohandas K. Gandhi en Gujarat, India. Me gustaría reflexionar sobre el liderazgo visionario que Gandhi ofreció al mundo, comparándolo brevemente con algunos líderes nacionales de hoy en día, e invitarlos a emular el liderazgo de Gandhi.
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(Castellano) Nuestro Mundo que se Desvanece: Glaciares
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
Algo está causando que los glaciares y los campos de hielo de las montañas del mundo se derritan. Y, a pesar de su primer pensamiento, no es la catástrofe climática en curso.
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(Castellano) Defendiendo a Julian Assange -> Defendiendo la Verdad
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Debido a mi propio interés de larga data en desarrollar estrategias no violentas cuidadosamente diseñadas en nuestra lucha por hacer de nuestro mundo un mundo de paz, justicia y sostenibilidad ecológica, permítame sugerir una forma estratégica de avanzar que honre el coraje de Julian y Chelsea maximizando el impacto de su relato de la verdad en las luchas a más largo plazo que se acaban de mencionar, al tiempo que se toman medidas por separado para ejercer una presión adicional para ayudarles en el corto y mediano plazo.
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(Castellano) Por qué fracasan los activistas
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
Los sistemas formales de gobernanza humana en la Tierra -es decir, los gobiernos y las organizaciones intergubernamentales como las Naciones Unidas- están controlados por la élite mundial, que es invisible para la mayoría de las personas, incluidos los activistas, y por lo tanto no es considerada por ellos. Así, por supuesto, es como la élite lo quiere y uno todavía puede encontrar fácilmente cuentas que preguntan si la élite (por el nombre que se le dé) realmente existe e incluso le atribuyen una cualidad mística. Si es que la idea no es simplemente descartada como una “teoría de la conspiración”.
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(Castellano) Banca de élite a sus expensas: Cómo se utilizan los paraísos fiscales secretos para robarle su dinero
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
18 Mar 2019 – Los paraísos fiscales son lugares en todo el mundo donde las personas ricas, los delincuentes y los terroristas, así como los gobiernos y los organismos gubernamentales (como la CIA), los bancos, las empresas, los fondos de cobertura, las organizaciones internacionales (como el Vaticano) y los sindicatos del crimen (como la Mafia), pueden esconder su dinero para evitar la regulación y la supervisión y, muy a menudo, evadir impuestos.
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(Castellano) Una estrategia no violenta para derrotar el intento de golpe de Estado de EE.UU. en Venezuela
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
Al pueblo de Venezuela: Una vez más, la élite de los Estados Unidos ha decidido tratar de imponer su voluntad en el pueblo de otra nación, en este caso, y no por primera vez, su país, Venezuela.Por supuesto, este golpe es perfectamente consistente con la política exterior estadounidense de los últimos dos siglos, cuyo enfoque esencial ha sido asegurar su control en áreas geoestratégicas clave del mundo y robar los recursos de naciones extranjeras.
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(Castellano) Aprendiendo de Gandhi
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
Aunque creía que la acción personal era muy importante, Gandhi también era un extraordinario estratega político y sabía que tenemos que hacer algo más que transformar nuestras vidas personales. Tenemos que ofrecer oportunidades que obliguen a otros a considerar hacer lo mismo. Gandhi fue asesinado el 30 de enero de 1948. Pero su legado perdura. Usted también puede aprender de él, si lo desea.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los seres humanos estamos destruyendo la vida en la Tierra, pero nos engañamos a nosotros mismos de que no es así
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
A pesar del hecho obvio de que son los seres humanos los que están infligiendo toda esta violencia, es virtualmente imposible hacer que la gente preste atención a este hecho simple e incontrovertible y preguntarse por qué, precisamente, los seres humanos se están comportando de manera tan violenta y destructiva. ¿Y podemos abordar eficazmente esta causa?
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(Castellano) Reflexiones sobre 2018, Pronósticos 2019
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
31 diciembre 2018 – En muchos sentidos es doloroso reflexionar sobre el año 2018, un año de oportunidades vitales perdidas cuando tanto está en juego. Ya sea política, militar, social, económica, financiera o ecológicamente, la humanidad dio algunos grandes pasos hacia atrás mientras dejaba pasar un sinfín de oportunidades para hacer una diferencia positiva en nuestro mundo.
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Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Trágicamente, es la más sagrada de las instituciones -la escuela- que yo llamo “prisión para niños”, donde se produce gran parte del daño. Diseñada para aterrorizar a los niños para que obedezcan y se conformen, sobre la base de que “una sola talla sirve para todos”, la escuela destruye las capacidades físicas, sensoriales, intelectuales y emocionales de los niños, produciendo individuos con una capacidad casi nula de sentir algo profundo, pensar creativamente y comportarse poderosamente con integridad.
→ read full article(Castellano) El engaño humano y nuestra destrucción de la biósfera: ¡Ni siquiera lo estamos intentando!
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
3 diciembre 2018 – ¿Ha escuchado la expresión “cambio climático”? Esa encantadora expresión que sugiere unas vacaciones en un lugar con un clima más agradable… La extinción nos llama. La elección es suya.
→ read full article(Castellano) ¿Extinción Humana para el 2026? Una última estrategia para luchar por la supervivencia humana
Robert Burrowes – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
20 Aug 2018
Las pruebas en relación con la destrucción de la biósfera de la Tierra, que conduce a la degradación continua y rápida de todos los ecosistemas y sus servicios, están fácilmente disponibles y son abrumadoras. Las múltiples y variadas formas de destrucción están teniendo efectos sinérgicos. Una cantidad insignificante de la vasta evidencia en relación con esta destrucción se muestra arriba.
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(Castellano) Los Niños Hambrientos Y Bombardeados De Yemen Desearían Estar Atrapados En Una Cueva Tailandesa Inundada
Robert Burrowes - Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
16 Jul 2018
13 Jul 2018 – ¿Estoy contento de que los 12 niños y su entrenador hayan sido rescatados en Tailandia? Por supuesto que lo estoy. Desearía que se hiciera un esfuerzo equivalente para rescatar a cada uno de los 50.000 niños que mataremos hoy, mañana, pasado mañana y tras pasado mañana…
→ read full article(Castellano) Teoría del conflicto y aniquilación de la biosfera
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza Int’l Press Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Me gustaría explicar el origen psicológico de este conflicto aniquilador de la biosfera y cómo este origen ha nutrido los aspectos increíblemente destructivos del capitalismo (y del socialismo, para el caso) desde el principio. También me gustaría explicar qué podemos hacer al respecto.
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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!
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(Castellano) ¿No violencia o No existencia? El legado de Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert Burrowes – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
9 Apr 2018
“Durante años los hombres han estado hablando sobre la guerra y la paz. Ahora no se puede simplemente hablar de ellas. Ya no se trata de escoger entre la violencia y la no-violencia en este mundo, se trata de vivir sin violencia o dejar de existir en este mundo. Ese es el lugar en donde estamos ahora”. — MLK
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(Castellano) El miedo que impulsa la estrategia nuclear estadounidense
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
El 2 de febrero 2018, el Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos publicó su última ‘Revisión de la Postura Nuclear 2018’. Varios autores ya han expuesto de manera cuidadosa un número increíble de mentiras obvias, amenazas inventadas, fallas e ideas erróneas estratégicas, como el pensamiento falaz detrás de la “disuasión” y el riesgo significativamente mayor de guerra nuclear dado el “pensamiento” delirante en el documento, así como el miedo político en la NPR.
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(Castellano) Matando a la Biosfera para acelerar la extinción humana
Robert Burrowes – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
11 Dec 2017
Por lo tanto, a no ser que y hasta que se tome una decisión personal consciente de participar estratégicamente en la lucha para salvar la vida en la Tierra, serás uno de esos individuos que mata a la biosfera como un subproducto de la vida sin conciencia y compromiso: una persona que simplemente sobreexplota su camino a la extinción.
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(Castellano) ¿Por qué la policía en los Estados Unidos está tan aterrorizada?
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
27 Nov 2017
20 nov 2017 – En un incidente reciente en los Estados Unidos, otro hombre desarmado fue asesinado a tiros por la policía después de abrir su puerta principal en respuesta a su golpe. La policía iba a entregar una orden de arresto contra un sospechoso de violencia doméstica -el vecino del sujeto en cuestión- pero se equivocaron de dirección.
→ read full article(Castellano) Una estrategia noviolenta para acabar con la violencia y evitar la extinción humana
Robert Burrowes – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
6 Nov 2017
25 Oct 2017 – En todo el mundo, los activistas que son pensadores estratégicos se enfrentan a un desafío abrumador para abordar eficazmente la multitud de conflictos violentos, incluida la amenaza de extinción humana, que enfrenta la sociedad humana a principios del siglo XXI. Teniendo en cuenta la violencia abrumadora que debemos afrontar, ¿podemos tener éxito? No lo sé, pero pretendo luchar, estratégicamente, hasta el último aliento. Espero que usted también.
→ read full article(Català) Una estratègia noviolenta per acabar amb la violència i evitar l’extinció humana
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
30 Oct 2017
25 octubre 2017 – A tot el món, els activistes que són pensadors estratègics s’enfronten a un desafiament aclaparant per abordar eficaçment la multitud de conflictes violents, inclosa l’amenaça d’extinció humana, que enfronta la societat humana a principis del segle XXI. Tenint en compte la violència aclaparant que hem d’afrontar, podem tenir èxit? No ho sé, però pretenc lluitar, estratègicament, fins a l’últim alè. Espero que vostè també.
→ read full article(Castellano) La psicología de los asesinos en masa: ¿Cuál es la causa? ¿Como se puede prevenir?
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
16 Oct 2017
Aunque ha habido una avalancha de comentarios sobre el incidente, incluyendo sugerencias sobre lo que se podría hacer en respuesta a una variedad de análisis de la causa, ninguno que haya leído explica la causa subyacente de todos estos asesinatos en masa. Y si no entendemos esto, cualquier otra sugerencia, cualquiera que sea su aparente mérito, puede tener poco impacto.
→ read full article(Castellano) La verdad de Gandhi: Poner fin a la violencia humana. Un compromiso a la vez
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
2 Oct 2017
Gandhi Jayanti – 2 de octubre, fecha del nacimiento de Mohandas K. Gandhi en 1869 y Día Internacional de la No Violencia – ofrece una oportunidad para reflexionar sobre la violencia humana y reflexionar sobre las formas de ponerle fin. Puede haber una manera rápida de poner fin a la violencia humana pero, si la hay, Gandhi no lo sabía. Ni yo tampoco. Tampoco nadie más al que yo haya leído o preguntado. Pero esto no significa que no haya manera de poner fin a la violencia humana.
→ read full article(Català) Per què tots aquests racistes estan tan aterroritzats?
Robert Burrowes – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
4 Sep 2017
El racisme – la por i l’odi als d’una altra raça, juntament amb la creença que l’altra raça és inferior i ha de ser dominat (per la seva raça) – és ara molt visible entre les poblacions europees afectades pels fluxos de refugiats d’Orient Mitjà i del Nord Àfrica. A més, el racisme és contínuament molt evident entre sectors de la població nord-americana, però també en països com Sud-Àfrica, Austràlia i en tota Amèrica Central i del Sud, on les poblacions indígenes són particularment afectades.
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