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Albert Camus on Consciousness and the Lacuna between Truth and Meaning
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
“From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth. Consciousness illuminates it by paying attention to it.”
→ read full articleQuotes That Can Be Used to Resist Oval Office Tyranny in 2017
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
When Trump’s Fascist-leaning, Anti-democratic Collage of Multibillionaires, White Supremacists, Wall Street Tycoons, Washington, DC Insiders, Christian Dominionists, War-Mongering Military Generals, Holocaust Deniers, and Climate Change Deniers Try to Impose Their Will on the Voters Who Did Not Technically Vote for Fascism
→ read full articleScientists Confirm: Darwinism Is Broken
Paul Nelson and David Klinghoffer | Media Research Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
13 Dec 2016 – Darwinian Theory is broken and may not be fixable. That was the takeaway from a meeting last month organized by the Royal Society in London, the world’s most distinguished and historic scientific organization. The three-day conference–mostly unreported by the media–was remarkable in confirming something that advocates of intelligent design, a controversial scientific alternative to evolution, have said for years.
→ read full articleGlobal Challenge of the Global Challenge
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
¿ In-quest of a decision-making framework appropriate to a world in crisis? This is a response to the announcement of the surprising Global Challenges Prize for a New Shape Remodelling Global Cooperation (2017).
→ read full articleRemembering Zsa Zsa Gabor
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
20 Dec 2016 – As an early teenager I came to know Zsa-Zsa Gabor and her family rather well. Indeed, her sister, Eva, lived in our New York apartment for several months. Zsa Zsa became my father’s client, and later close friend, during her high profile divorce from the pre-Trump hotel magnate, Conrad Hilton.
→ read full articleStarving Yemeni Children, Bloated US Weaponsmakers
Medea Benjamin | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
17 Dec 2016 – Despite the repressive nature of the Saudi regime, US governments have not only supported the Saudis on the diplomatic front but militarily. Under the Obama administration, this has translated into massive weapons sales of $115 billion. While Yemeni children are starving in large part because of Saudi bombings, US weapons makers, including General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin, are making a killing on the sales.
→ read full articleThe Confused Russian Hacking Debate, Trump Victory, and U.S. Global State
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century,
26 Dec 2016
I have long opposed American interferences in the political life of foreign countries, believe in accepting the outcome of the dynamics of self-determination, and have long thought the United States and the rest of the world would be better off if the government accepted the discipline of international law as setting limits on foreign policy options.
→ read full articleHow the Everyday Use of Militaristic Jargon Makes Us More Combative
Nan Levinson | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
“War is merely the continuation of politics by other means,” wrote the Prussian Gen. Carl von Clausewitz. Lately, it’s been sounding like the other way around. That’s not likely to change soon, since the language of warfare and violence pervades Americans’ discourse, even when we’re not talking about war.
→ read full articleA Socialist Economy for the 21st Century
Richard Rosen | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
16 Dec 2016 – Richard A. Rosen explores the changes necessary for a modern definition of “socialism” and describes key concepts and issues that arise when aiming to restructure the American economy to include social and environmental sustainability in the Twenty-First Century.
→ read full article(Castellano) Se está acabando la vida en la tierra
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
La arremetida del ser humano en contra de la vida de la tierra no tiene precedentes en la historia. Hoy en día está ocurriendo la sexta extinción masiva del planeta, y está siendo provocada por el hombre. Y, cada vez que decides no hacer nada y dejarle el problema a alguien más, das un ejemplo de porqué nadie hace nada al respecto. La extinción se avecina. ¿Qué vas a hacer?
→ read full articleMyanmar Government Accused of Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
Ed Adamczyk | UPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
19 Dec 2016 – Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority is facing crimes against humanity committed by authorities, Amnesty International warned. The human rights group said police are targeting the Rohingya through looting, murder and destruction of homes and mosques.
→ read full articleThe 102nd Anniversary of the Christmas Truce of 1914: Questioning Christian Participation in Aggressive War
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
102 years ago this Christmas Eve something happened in the early months of the “War to End All Wars” that put a tiny little blip of hope in the historical timeline of the organized mass slaughter that is war. The event was regarded by the professional military officer class to be so profound and so important (and so disturbing) that strategies were immediately put in place that would ensure that such an event could never happen again.
→ read full articleWant to Dump Your Yahoo Email? Here’s How
Corinne Iozzio | Consumer Reports – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Yahoo on Wednesday [14 Dec] said that a billion user accounts had been hacked in 2013, a crime that wasn’t discovered until law enforcement contacted the company this fall. The revelation came just three months after the company disclosed that 500 million accounts had been compromised in 2014.
→ read full articleSyria’s Destruction – When Everybody Thinks Power and No One Thinks Peace
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
The consequences of ignoring every known and simple conflict and peace method and pursuing nationalist, racist and militarist policies. Peace was never an important factor in anything Western countries have done in and to Syria. No matter what they say. If it were, this would not be the result. It’s easy to blame Syria and Russia for the destruction of Aleppo. Far far too easy.
→ read full article(Português) Alepo, o Exercício Forçado da Perda da Memória
Paulo Mendes Pinto | Público – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Quando falamos, a respeito da Síria, de destruição de património, falamos, em especial, de património imaterial naquilo que ele tem de mais valioso: o pensamento e a vivência.
→ read full articleToni Morrison on the Power of Language: Her Spectacular Nobel Acceptance Speech after Becoming the First African American Woman Awarded the Accolade
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Morrison took the podium at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm and accepted the accolade with a spectacular speech about the power of language — its power to oppress and to liberate, to scar and to sanctify, to plunder and to redeem. Morrison’s address remains perhaps our most powerful manifesto for the responsibility embedded in how we wield the tool that stands as the hallmark of our species.
→ read full articlePoisoned Snow Geese in Butte: The New “Canaries” Warning Us Humans about the Toxic Nature of Copper Mining
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Lessons from the Most Toxic Open Pit Copper Mine in the World
→ read full articleThe Value in Activism: Reflections from the Columbia University Climate Sit-In
Nikita Perumal | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
When the status quo—in this case, the political and social power of extractive and destructive industries—is too strong to be undone on its own, it sometimes needs a push. I believe, wholeheartedly, that activism is that push. It is our way of reclaiming power, and catalyzing the policy changes that we so desperately need for a more just world.
→ read full articlePresident Donald Trump—Israel’s Pick for War in Iran?
James M. (“Mel”) Rockefeller | Hidden Tax on Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
As can be proven by my life experience as the out-of-wedlock son of Nelson Rockefeller, Jewish elites and extremists are the source of serial wars and crises dating to no later than 1850 when Rothschild-affiliate Hallgarten & Company investment bankers opened their Manhattan office to finance both sides in the Civil War. A century later, my Uncle David Rockefeller razed Hallgarten’s headquarters to build One Chase Manhattan Plaza.
→ read full articleOn the Death of Fidel Castro
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
I have been bemused by the captious tone and condescending assessments of mainstream media in the West reacting to Fidel Castro’s death. The lead editorial in The Economist went on even to mock the reverence ordinary Cubans felt for Castro: “Cubans say Mr. Castro was ‘like a father” to them. They are right: he infantilized a nation. Anyone with initiative found ways to leave for exile abroad.”
→ read full articleRethinking the Arab Spring: Uprisings, Counterrevolution, Chaos, and Global Reverberations
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
At this point, following the election of Donald Trump as the next American president, there are likely to be significant geopolitical adjustments with related regional impacts. It is possible that cooperation between Russia and the United States will be forthcoming for the purpose of ending civil strife in Syria and Yemen, defeating religious extremism in the region, and maintaining the Iran nuclear agreement.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il sionismo nella sua espressione migliore
Amira Hass | Haaretz – Zeitun,
19 Dec 2016
La terra che Israele ha destinato ai giubilanti coloni si chiama Atir/Umm al Hiran e per 60 anni ha ospitato i membri della tribù beduina di Al-Qi’an.
→ read full articleDecades of Denial as Rohingya Genocide Continues
Nancy Hudson-Rodd | New Mandala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Recent violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state has led to an increase in the persecution of the Rohingya people, but the international community continues to turn a blind eye.
→ read full articleGlobal Economy of Truth as a Ponzi Scheme
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Personal Cognitive Implication in Globalization? Conventionally a Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from profit. The term “Ponzi scheme” is used primarily in the United States , while other English-speaking countries do not distinguish colloquially between this scheme and pyramid schemes.
→ read full articlePropOrNot’s Grandiose Fabrications
Yves Smith | Naked Capitalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016 – The fake news site about fake news known as PropOrNot has been roundly derided, most recently by the New Yorker and the media watchdog FAIR, as an inept propaganda effort that has gotten far more attention that it ever deserved. PropOrNot’s efforts, as Ben Norton and Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept, and Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone pointed out, were so obviously childish and overreaching that no reputable reporter should ever have regarded them as credible.
→ read full article(Italiano) Un mondo migliore ha meno violenza e guerra
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
The National Society of High School Scholars, Premio per il Miglioramento del Mondo Claes Nobel, Centro Carter, 3 dicembre 2016 – Manco a dirlo, non monetizzare mai. Le vite umane non hanno prezzo; recano in sé il più prezioso di tutti i doni, la vita. Non toglierla, crearla, preservarla, alla fine sarà la natura a porle fine. L’impagabile non ha prezzo.
→ read full article(Italiano) Lo Stato del Mondo Oggi: uno Sguardo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Quel mondo è oggi fondamentalmente multi-polare, forse con 8 poli: Anglo-America, America Latina-Caraibi, Unità Africana, Islam-OIC da Casablanca a Mindanao, Unione Europea, Russia più una regione che uno stato, SAARC dal Nepal allo Sri Lanka, ASEAN, Australia-Nuova Zelanda. E multi-regionale: l’Organizzazione di Shangai per la cooperazione, SCO, con Cina e Russia, paesi islamici, India e Pakistan.
→ read full articleOn the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade | UN Library of International Law - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
When the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted, on 10 December 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in one of the brief spells of enlightenment in the twentieth century, one could hardly anticipate that a historical process of generalization of the international protection of human rights was being launched, on a truly universal scale.
→ read full articleUS Power Will Decline under Trump Says Johan Galtung, Futurist Who Predicted Soviet Collapse
Nafeez Ahmed | Vice Motherboard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
The Norwegian professor at the University of Hawaii and Transcend Peace University is recognized as the ‘founding father’ of peace and conflict studies as a scientific discipline. He has made numerous accurate predictions of major world events, most notably the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
→ read full articleHonoring Henry Kissinger at Oslo
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
What is equally distressing is the Orwellian insensitivity of the Nobel authorities to the inappropriateness of treating Kissinger as though he is a highly trusted source of guidance and wisdom with respect to world peace. Kissinger has applauded the worst excesses of dictators, especially in Latin America, and backed the most immoral geopolitical policies throughout his long career.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons Modernization: A New Nuclear Arms Race? Who Voted for It? Who Will Benefit from It?
Kevin Martin and Paul A. Olson | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
So who will benefit? Certainly Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and the nuclear weapons contractors in other countries (and the politicians who rely on their campaign cash). Anyone else? Anyone? The children? The environment? The smart way forward is not rocket science. Instead of embarking on a plan we can’t afford and that makes our country and the world less safe, let us cancel nuclear modernization.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Day: A Call to Care
Kathy Kelly | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
December 10th marks the U.N. Human Rights Day, celebrating and upholding the indispensable and crucial declaration of universal human rights. On the eve of this event, I visited a refugee camp housing 700 families in Kabul.
→ read full articleThe 21st Century Cures Act: A Gift to the US Pharmaceutical Industry
Brad Dixon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
12 Dec 2016 – The 21st Century Cures Act is an early Christmas gift from the US Congress to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. The bill guts the regulatory powers of the Food and Drug Administration, weakening the standards used to judge the safety and efficacy of drugs and medical devices. Notably, the bill does nothing to address skyrocketing drug prices.
→ read full articleThis Is What American Fascism Is Going to Look Like
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
“You drop bombs on seven Muslim countries and then you wonder why Muslims are upset. Or you drop bombs on innocent Muslim children with U.S. drones and then you wonder why the gangsters, the fascists that are coming out of the Muslim world, are organizing.”
– Dr Cornel West – in a recent interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!
(Français) « Ce qui a été omis à la mort de Fidel Castro » par Noam Chomsky
Marc De Miramon et Jérôme Skalski | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Le linguiste et philosophe Noam Chomsky, figure majeure du paysage intellectuel états-unien, nous a livré ses réflexions exclusives après la mort de Fidel Castro à l’occasion d’une rencontre dans les locaux de « l’Humanité » et de « l’Humanité Dimanche ».
→ read full articleThe Greatest Science Books of 2016
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
From the sound of spacetime to time travel to the microbiome, by way of polar bears, dogs, and trees.
→ read full articleEU Desperate to Raises Taxes Starts Cashless Society Project
Graham Vanbergen | True Publica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
A few months back The Guardian ran an article stating that “Swedes are blazing a trail in Europe, with banks, buses, street vendors and even churches expecting plastic or virtual payment” as if the cashless society was something to be celebrated by modern society.
→ read full articleCorporate Media: The Real Fake News Specialists
John Andrews | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016 – A lot has recently been said about “fake” news. Social media and alternative news websites have been especially blamed. But what about our corporate news providers? Consider, for example, a front page story in last week’s Times.
→ read full articleFake News about “Fake News”: The Media Performance Pyramid
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016 – In the wake of Brexit and Trump, “mainstream” media have done the formerly unthinkable by focusing on media bias. The intensity of focus has been such that the Oxford Dictionaries have announced that ‘post-truth’ is their ‘Word of the Year 2016’.
→ read full article(Português) Ser Tímido
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
As pessoas subestimam a timidez quando a relacionam apenas aos aspectos negativos da vida em sociedade. Pessoas tímidas naturalmente ouvem mais e observam mais. Também refletem muito.
→ read full articleFive Years after the Arab Spring: A Critical Evaluation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
A new political geography has emerged in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) after the Arab Spring. The transformative impact of the popular upheavals appeared to put an end to long-term authoritarian regimes. Today, the region is far from stable since authoritarian resilience violently pushed back popular demands for good governance and is pushing to restore former state structures.
→ read full article(Norsk-Norwegian) Sørkoreansk avhopper: – Vi lurte Nobelkomiteen
Vilde Helljesen | NRK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
4. desember 2016 – I flere år skal det ha pågått en storstilt og velregissert kampanje med ett mål for øye: Å skaffe Nobels fredspris til Sør-Koreas president Kim Dae-jung. Norske samfunnstopper ble brukt som brikker i et spill i jakten på verdens mest prestisjefulle pris, ifølge ny bok basert på sørkoreanske etterretningsdokumenter.
→ read full article(Castellano) Buscando el camino verdadero
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Una de las manifestaciones más sutiles del vínculo íntimo entre las emociones y conductas humanas (inconscientes) se ilustra por el simple concepto de elección y cómo esto se reduce a menudo a una dicotomía entre dos malas opciones. En tales circunstancias, la mayoría de la gente elige lo que consideran ser “el mal menor”.
→ read full articleThe Political Legacy of Fidel Castro
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Castro’s legacy cannot be evaluated solely through the prism of Cuba, but must take into account the impact of his politics internationally and, above all, in Latin America.
→ read full article
The Alzheimer’s Laboratory
CBS News | 60 Minutes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
27 Nov 2016 – Colombia is home to the largest concentration of people in the world who carry a rare gene that makes them 100 percent certain to develop Alzheimer’s disease. It strikes when people are in their mid-40s and leads to demise a few decades later–generations on end.
→ read full articleEngaging an Opposing Ideology via Martial Arts Philosophy
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016 – Reframing the Challenge of Trump and Jihadism as Worthy Opponents – Much is now made of the increasing challenge of right-wing populism, especially as it is articulated by unconventional leaders held to have dubious associations with dangerous political strategies.
→ read full articleThe Arabs Did It
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
When my parents married in Germany, just before World War I, among the gifts was a document attesting that a tree had been planted in their name in Palestine. Popular Jewish humor in Germany at that time had it that “a Zionist is a Jew who wants to take money from another Jew in order to settle a third Jew in Palestine.” My father certainly was not planning to go to Palestine himself.
→ read full articleA World of Difference
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
It is only in differences, however, that we sense and reach beyond ourselves. In fact, it is the ability to tolerate differences that allows for pacific cohabitation; and it is the ability to celebrate differences that leads to an appreciation of the wonderful joy of the world around us.
→ read full articlePentagon: Looking for a Few Good Hackers
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
The last thing the Pentagon would seem to need is more hackers. But Defense Department officials are inviting them in.
→ read full articleThe People of Haiti Are Under Attack as They Fight for Their Liberation!
Pierre Labossiere | Haiti Action Committee – San Francisco Bay View,
5 Dec 2016
30 Nov 2016 – The following is a compilation of two breaking news reports that have come in from Haiti within the past two days. Even as we speak, bullets are flying and people are dying in the streets. The presidential elections on Nov. 20 were a repeat of the October 2015 fraudulent elections.
→ read full articleThe Treaty of Tlatelolco: Giving Thanks to Our Latin American Neighbors toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Robert F. Dodge, M.D. | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Latin American nations drafted the treaty on Feb 14, 1967 in Mexico City and it went into force on Apr 22, 1968. Today all 33 nations of Latin America and the Caribbean have signed the treaty as part of the 80 million square kilometers of the entire southern hemisphere that is free of nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleTurkish Realignment: Prospects amid Uncertainty
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
3 Dec 2016 – In recent months the Turkish President, Recep Teyipp Erdoğan, and his principal advisors have not made it a secret that they are reconsidering Turkey’s relations with neighbors, with the countries of the region, and with leading geopolitical actors.
→ read full articleHaiti 1791: the Cradle of African Nationalism and Internationalism
T.P. Wilkinson | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Recovering the Virtue of Jacobins – Dr. Wilkinson delivered this paper about Haiti to a colloquium commemorating 40 years of study of African literature at the University of Porto, Portugal.
→ read full articleThe New York Times’ Biased Obituary of Fidel Castro
Matt Peppe | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
After Fidel Castro passed away Friday [25 Nov] night at 90 years old, the obituaries written about him in the American press typified the U.S. government propaganda used for decades to demonize Castro and obscure the tremendous social and humanitarian advances that the Cuban Revolution was able to achieve in the face of unrelenting interference, subversion and destabilization.
→ read full articleHarmony with Nature: Toward an Earth Jurisprudence
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
30 Nov 2016 – This post consists of my responses to four questions asked of 189 ‘experts’ around the world by a project of the UN Harmony with Nature Network. My own approach is based on the biopolitical imperative in this historical period of developing an ecological consciousness for the sake of human wellbeing, and possibly species survival.
→ read full articleKissinger and Brzezinski to Be Honoured by Nobel Institute and Oslo University
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
These two top officials behind major US wars (Iran/Afghanistan and Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos) and regime change (against Allende, Chile) will speak at the first of a new event, The Nobel Peace Prize Forum Oslo, created by the Nobel Institute in Oslo. One way to go: Boycott the event and let Kissinger, Brzezinski, Njölstad and Ottersen be the only ones who turn up in that huge hall on December 11th. Or, go there – students, media and civil society – and raise all the questions any independent, decent academic must.
→ read full article(Français) Barack Obama, le prix Nobel de l’hypocrisie
Ahmed Bensaada | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Il s’agissait bien sûr du prix Nobel de la paix attribué au président Barack Obama en 2009 « pour ses efforts extraordinaires pour renforcer la diplomatie et la coopération internationale entre les peuples ». Tout ça neuf mois à peine après son élection ? Comment était-ce possible ?
→ read full articleVultures over Havana
James McEnteer | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Fidel Castro and the Castration of U.S. Latin American Policy – With a few dozen men, Fidel Castro crash-landed a leaky boat in the middle of nowhere and took to the hills to oppose the entrenched, oppressive U.S.-backed Batista government. The odds were never in their favor. But their quixotic action was the spark that ignited an incipient rage for justice, in Cuba and beyond.
→ read full articleGenes and the Holy G: The Dark Cultural History of IQ and Why We Can’t Measure Intelligence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
“If the history of medical genetics teaches us one lesson, it is to be wary of precisely such slips between biology and culture… Genes cannot tell us how to categorize or comprehend human diversity; environments can, cultures can, geographies can, histories can.” IQ testing perilous cultural legacy is what practicing physician, research scientist, and Pulitzer-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee explores.
→ read full articleStatement: UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide on the Situation in Northern Rakhine State, Myanmar
Relief Web | United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Following attacks by armed assailants against border security posts in October 2016, the response of the military has reportedly been characterized by excessive use of force and other serious human rights violations against civilian population, particularly the Rohingya Muslim population, including allegations of extrajudicial executions, torture, rape and the destruction of religious property.
→ read full articleConfronting Genocide in Myanmar: The Urgent Need to Prevent and Protect
Katherine Southwick | Asia & the Pacific Policy Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Interethnic divisions in a young democracy cannot be downplayed or wished away, and it’s time Myanmar’s government and the international community acknowledge strong evidence that genocide is being perpetrated against the Rohingya and act to end it.
→ read full articleEdward Bernays, the Father of American Propaganda
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic (AKA “capitalist”) society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.” – Edward L. Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, from his seminal book Propaganda (1928). Bernays was the founder of the public relations industry in the US.
→ read full articleWhat’s Next? Parecon, or Participatory Economics
Michael Albert | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
People now fighting economic injustice have no right to decide how future people should live. But we do have a responsibility to provide an institutional setting that facilitates future people deciding for themselves what their own conditions of life and work should be. To this end, participatory economics, or parecon, describes the core institutions required to generate solidarity, equity, self-management, and an ecologically sound and classless economy.
→ read full articleWhat Can Go Wrong?
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #147 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
That he may not be “qualified” is unimportant. That he’s never held a government or elected position is unimportant. That on a personal level he may be a shmuck is unimportant. What counts is that he – as opposed to dear Hillary – is unlikely to start a war against Russia. His questioning of the absolute sacredness of NATO, calling it “obsolete”, and his meeting with Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, an outspoken critic of US regime-change policy, specifically Syria, are encouraging signs.
→ read full articleMosul and Imperialist “Human Rights”
James Cogan | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
2 Dec 2016 – Samantha Power’s rhetoric in the Security Council was even more grotesque given the character of the US-directed assault underway on the Iraqi city of Mosul. Bombing this week destroyed a major water pipeline cutting off water to some 650,000 people. Electricity is already largely cut. The city’s health system is dysfunctional. The university has been reduced to rubble. On Wednesday [30 Nov], coalition aircraft bombed and “disabled” four major bridges over the Tigris River that link the western and eastern sectors of Mosul.
→ read full article(Français) « Les médias font passer les coups d’Etat modernes comme étant une défense de la démocratie »
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
04 Déc 2016 – Ancien rédacteur en chef du Monde Diplomatique, Maurice Lemoine est surtout un fin connaisseur de l’histoire contemporaine latino-américaine. “Les coups d’Etat actuels peuvent être nommés de différentes façons : « golpe blando », « institutionnel », « light » ou « juridico-parlementaire », comme cela s’est passé au Brésil… En effet, depuis la fin des années 1990 et l’arrivée au pouvoir de gouvernements progressistes (le premier étant Chávez en 1998, puis Lula, les Kirchner en Argentine, Rafael Correa, Evo Morales…), quasi tous ces chefs d’Etat progressistes ont été, à un moment ou à l’autre, confrontés à des tentatives de déstabilisation ou de coups d’Etat qui ont parfois échoué, parfois réussi.”
→ read full articleFood Politics: The GMO Conspiracy
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
One of the longest-standing tricks of corporations is to produce an item that is dangerous, breakable, or soon to be obsolete and then produce another that will supposedly remedy the defect. That is what is happening with GMO-laden crops: As they become resistant to Roundup and other toxins designed to keep them bug- or disease-free, the producers—such as Monsanto and Syngenta—come up with new herbicides for the farmer to apply.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Defends Military Crackdown on Burma’s Rohingya Muslims
John Roberts | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
2 Dec 2016 – State Counsellor Suu Kyi, the head of government in Burma, has dismissed mounting allegations of killings by the country’s military of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, bordering Bangladesh. Her office issued a statement declaring: “Regarding those incidents, after asking the Tatmadaw [the military] and border guard troops in those regions, it is known the information is absolutely not true.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Discutiamo del futuro: un saggio sul tempo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Per agire sulle visioni di pace negativa senza violenza diretta-strutturale-culturale e positiva con pace diretta-strutturale-culturale, si utilizzi il dialogo. Si stabiliscano gli obiettivi – valori, interessi – degli attori e dei coinvolti; si sottopongano gli obiettivi a verifica di legittimità mediante il diritto, i diritti umani e i bisogni basilari a mo’ di guida; si crei quindi una visione di una nuova realtà sociale che soddisfi gli obiettivi legittimi.
→ read full articleUK Passes Bill Providing Most Extreme Spying Powers in the Developed World
Darius Shahtahmasebi | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
24 Nov 2016 – The House of Lords just passed the Investigatory Powers Bill, which provides immense spying powers to the British government. The only amendment to the bill has been to ensure that MPs could not be spied on under the new legislation. “Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like arguing that you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
→ read full articleThe Call of the Mu’ezzin
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Lovers of the Bible may find some amusement in the words of Pharaoh (Exodus 1) about the Children of Israel: “When there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies and fight against us.” By a curious turn, now we are Pharaoh, and the Arabs are the new Children of Israel. So what is the situation of Israel’s Arab citizens?
→ read full articleRelentless Persecution
The Statesman | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
24 Nov 2016 – The irony is cruel. The persecution of the Rohingyas has intensified in Myanmar with the change of guard — from the junta to a democratic dispensation under [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi. The democratic world had expected quite the contrary.
→ read full articleNo Country for the Rohingyas
The Hindu | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
25 Nov 2016 – A new humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Myanmar after the military crackdown on “Islamist jihadists” in the Rakhine State, home to more than one million Rohingya Muslims… The army denies targeting civilians, but satellite images taken after the start of the crackdown indicate that hundreds of buildings were burnt down; reports suggest that even those who tried to flee the country were shot dead. The migrants are not welcome in Myanmar’s neighbourhood either.
→ read full articleOn Nonconformity: Artist Ben Shahn’s Spirited Defense of Nonconformists as Society’s Engine of Growth and Greatness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
“Without the nonconformist, any society of whatever degree of perfection must fall into decay.”
→ read full articleAustralia: Desperate Refugee Sets Fire to Himself in a Bank
Peter Byrne | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
22 Nov 2016 – A young Rohingya who fled Burma as an unaccompanied teenager four years ago doused himself with petrol and set himself alight in a branch of the Commonwealth Bank. Nur Islam, 21, had been living in acute poverty at Melbourne. He was on a temporary bridging visa, which not only denied him refugee status but blocked basic social and political rights, including to work.
→ read full articleA Collection of Thoughts about American Foreign Policy
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #146 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Louis XVI needed a revolution, Napoleon needed two historic military defeats, the Spanish Empire in the New World needed multiple revolutions, the Russian Czar needed a communist revolution, the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires needed World War I, Nazi Germany needed World War II, Imperial Japan needed two atomic bombs, the Portuguese Empire in Africa needed a military coup at home, the Soviet Empire needed Mikhail Gorbachev … What will the American Empire need?
→ read full articleWell-being Economy: A Scenario for a Post-Growth Horizontal Governance System
Lorenzo Fioramonti | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
For the past half century, western societies have used a narrow definition of economic growth as the route to development. Growth has become an end in itself. As a result, the true meaning of development has been lost. Rather than an end goal, development should be viewed as a process towards an improved state of existence for humanity and the ecosystem.
→ read full articleEscaping ‘Fortress Earth’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Reading Journey to Earthland is an extraordinary experience. Paul Raskin is not only a master navigator of the complexities of our world but someone who conveys a vision of the future that manages to surmount the unprecedented challenges facing humanity at several levels of social, cultural, and ecological being.
→ read full articlePower Imbalance at the Pipeline Protest
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
When injustice aligns with cruelty, and heavy weaponry is involved, the results can be shameful and bloody. Witness what happened on Sunday [20 Nov] in North Dakota, when law enforcement officers escalated their tactics against unarmed American Indians and allies who have waged months of protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
→ read full articleUS Arms Syrian Islamists with Surface-to-Air Missiles
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
23 Nov 2016 – A US-backed Islamist militia has been armed with portable surface-to-air missiles, so-called manpads. These weapons are capable of shooting down Syrian as well as Russian warplanes. This marks a major escalation of the US-backed war for regime-change that has devastated the country, leading to the deaths of some 300,000 Syrians.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (X2)
#X2 | Johan Galtung from Washington DC, 23 Nov 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Trump 5 was supposed to be the last mini-column, but things happen, calling for a Trump X for Extra. As a businessman he marketed a product, his presidency, with unlimited praise and contempt for the other product on the market. He won in the sense of monopoly for his product, and then changed the product. No sense of contract with voter-buyer based on his publicity.
→ read full articleJust How Grey Are the White Helmets and Their Backers? (Part 2)
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
• The – bizarre – White Helmet Mannequin Challenge video;
• The Swedish Institute of International Affairs’s event with the White Helmets on November 24;
• The Right Livelihood Award Foundation’s Award Ceremony to take place on November 25
(Italiano) Una strategia nonviolenta per la liberazione della Siria
Robert J. Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
All’inizio del 2011, mentre le Primavere Arabe si diffondevano nel Nord Africa e nel Medio Oriente, in Siria, sottoposta alla legge marziale dal 1963, piccoli gruppi di attivisti nonviolenti iniziarono a protestare contro la dittatura brutale di Bashar al-Assad e a chiedere riforme democratiche, il rilascio dei prigionieri politici, maggiori libertà, l’abolizione della legge d’emergenza e la fine della corruzione.
→ read full article(Português) Élisée Reclus: “Não é um equívoco relacionar os horrores da guerra com o massacre do gado”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
“A porca chorava sem cessar, e de vez em quando soltava gemidos tão desesperadores que parecia simular a fala humana”.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s War on the Rohingya
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
To preserve her reputation as a human rights champion, [Nobel Peace Laureate] Daw Aung San Suu Kyi needs to allow an impartial investigation into the violence.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (X)
#X | Johan Galtung - from Washington DC, 23 Nov 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2016
As a businessman he marketed a product, his presidency, with unlimited praise and contempt for the other product on the market. He won in the sense of monopoly for his product, and then changed the product. No sense of contract with voter-buyer based on his publicity.
→ read full articleCOP22 Declaration Calls for ‘Immediate Action and Mobilization’
teleSUR | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
The final declaration of the UN COP22 climate negotiations in Marrakech, issued midnight on Friday [18 Nov] after a full day extension of the talks, saw 196 countries agreeing to a two-year time limit for implementation of the Paris Accord and called on non-state actors to “join us for immediate and ambitious action and mobilization.”
→ read full articleA Changing China in a Changing World and a Changing Climate (Part 1)
Minister Hu Deping | Eco Jesuit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Paper presented by Prof. Frederick Dubee, of the TRANSCEND Network and the Beijing Genomics Institute, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Laudato si’ and the Path to COP22 at Vatican City.
→ read full articleA Changing China in a Changing World and a Changing Climate (Part 2)
Minister Hu Deping | Eco Jesuit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Paper presented by Prof. Frederick Dubee, of the TRANSCEND Network and the Beijing Genomics Institute, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Laudato si’ and the Path to COP22 at Vatican City.
→ read full articleWelcome to the Brave New (Trumpolitical/Trumponomic) World
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
17 Nov 2016 – We will be living among the myriad debris originated by the Trumpolitics IED. America invented the politically correct. Trump bombed politically correct. America is proud of corporate media. Trump bombed corporate media. These are already two important victories.
→ read full articleRecorded Webinar: Experiential Approaches to Peacebuilding
Bruce Dayton, John Ungerleider and Tatsushi Arai | School for International Training – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Led by three scholar-practitioners with extensive experience in the field, this webinar explores the role of experiential learning in the transformation of social conflict. It also presents real-world examples of experiential learning for peacebuilding.
→ read full articleVolkswagen Charged with Aiding Brazilian Dictatorship in Torturing Workers
Armando Cruz | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
In 1980, when Lula led a 41-day strike for a 15 percent wage rise, the political police unit DOPS received a list of 436 workers from plants that belonged to VW, Mercedes-Benz and the steelmaker Villares. While there are also reports that these latter two companies (and others) collaborated with the regime, VW is the first one to be charged, to officially accept the charges and to negotiate for judicial reparations.
→ read full articleVisualization in 3D of Dynamics of Toroidal Helical Coils
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
… in Quest of Optimum Designs for a Concordian Mandala
→ read full article(Português) Sobre textos que tentam desqualificar o veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Meu raciocínio vai ao encontro do que preconizava Donald Watson: “Minha prioridade é proporcionar o menor impacto possível aos seres vivos enquanto eu viver, e vou me adaptando às novidades sem problema algum.”
→ read full articleTowards a New, Green Economy
Peter A. Victor and Tim Jackson | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
This paper explores what we will call the green economy as a potential solution to the multiple challenges from climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource scarcity to social injustice, and financial instability.
→ read full articleNever Give Up! Let Your Little Light Shine!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
15 Nov 2016 – This week saw solidarity actions around the world, including actions on several Hawaiian Islands, where people stood with Native Americans to protect sacred land and water at Standing Rock. In such dark times, we must rededicate ourselves in the spirit of nonviolence – kapua aloha, toward all people and redouble our efforts for justice, peace and the earth.
→ read full article(Français) Les accords commerciaux et la mondialisation du fascisme
Franklin Frederik | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
« Au cours des dernières années, il y a eu une tendance vers la démocratie et l’économie de marché. Cela a diminué le rôle du gouvernement, ce à quoi les milieux d’affaires sont tendanciellement favorables. Mais le revers de la médaille c’est que quelqu’un doit prendre la place des gouvernements, et les entreprises me semble être une entité logique pour le faire ». (David Rockefeller)
→ read full articleWhy Fighting Donald Trump on Climate Change Is a Waste of Time
Captain Paul Watson | Sea Shepherd – The Huffington Post,
21 Nov 2016
Donald Trump’s denial of Climate Change is irrelevant. It is a scientific reality and its denial as a problem does not make the threat go away. The reality cannot be changed by the personal beliefs of the president of the United States. This is akin to King Canute demanding that the tide cease to rise. When he failed to force the ocean to his will, he proclaimed, “let all men know how empty and worthless the power of kings is.” Presidents, like kings, have no authority over Nature.
→ read full articleFiltering the Election
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
When the likes of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar Assad, and now Donald Trump, are declared the latest ‘New Hitler’, we learn little except that they are enemies of the establishment. It means the ‘On’ button has been pressed on a propaganda machine designed for maximal demonisation, leaving no room for public doubt.
→ read full articleTowards a Rational Legal Philosophy of Individual Rights
Denis Rancourt | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
I briefly describe the anthropological origin and recent statutory embodiments of human rights of individuals. I show that the modern “democratic” state moderates the rights of individuals by both: (1) violating the said rights in order to maintain and enforce the societal dominance hierarchy, and (2) preventing disproportionate violations, to avoid inciting rebellion.
→ read full article