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Transition from a Unipolar to a Multipolar Octagonal World
Johan Galtung | World Public Forum, Dialogue of Civilizations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University. He was awarded among others the 1987 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize. Galtung has mediated in over 150 conflicts in more than 150 countries, and written more than 170 books on peace and related issues, 96 as the sole author. More than 40 have been translated to other languages. He has published more than 1700 articles and book chapters and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service.
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US Sanctions Have Cost Venezuelan Economy $130 Billion
Countercurrents Team – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
22 May 2019 – Sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Venezuela have cost the Bolivarian country billions of dollars while human suffering in the country is increasing, turning the sanctions a crime against humanity.
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UN Health Agency Highlights Lifestyle Choices That Can Prevent Onset of Dementia, as Millions More Succumb Each Year
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
14 May 2019 -Key lifestyle choices such as getting regular exercise, not smoking or drinking too much, can reduce the risk of dementia and cognitive decline, the UN health agency said today. Today, around 50 million people globally suffer from dementia and there are nearly 10 million new cases every year.
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Myanmar: Conflict Resolution at ‘Total Standstill’, Military Commanders Must Answer for Crimes against Humanity
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
14 May 2019 – Myanmar’s military commanders must answer charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in a credible court, a United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFM) said today, urging the international community to cut off all financial and other support to them.
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Registration Gives Many Rohingya Refugees Identification for the First Time
Alex St-Denis | UNHCR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
17 May 2019 – More than 270,000 stateless refugees from Myanmar provided with identity cards in an ongoing registration drive.
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The Cocoyoc Declaration
Johan Galtung, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
October 8-12, 1974 a symposium on “Patterns of Resource Use, Environment and Development Strategies” was convened in Cocoyoc, Mexico by the directors of UN Environment Programme and the UN Conference on Trade and Development. The Rapporteurs were Barbara Ward and Johan Galtung. The Cocoyoc Declaration is reproduced below, with certain sadness: it is as valid today, more than 40 years later. The two directors received a three-feet-long cable, from the US State Department, rejecting the declaration entirely. Signed by Henry Kissinger.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
Emerson had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adulation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
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A World without Walls
Johan Galtung | Academy for Cultural Diplomacy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
Berlin, Nov 2010 – International Conference on Peacebuilding, Reconciliation and Globalization in an Interdependent World
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No Direction Home: The Journey of Frantz Fanon
Adam Shatz | Raritan Quarterly, Rutgers University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
Winter 2019 – Reading Fanon, one sometimes has the impression that mere expository prose cannot do justice to the impulsive movement of his thought. I use the word “movement” advisedly: Fanon did not write his texts; he dictated them while pacing back and forth, either to his wife, Josie, or to his secretary, Marie-Jeanne Manuellan (who has just published a memoir about the experience). This method of composition lends his writings an electrifying musicality: restless, searching, and, as he fell prey to the leukemia that would kill him, otherworldly in its call for a new planetary order, cleansed of racism and oppression.
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Why Ukraine’s Comedian President Is Likely to Be More Joke than Solution
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
26 Apr 2019 – The ordinary Ukrainian people are so sick and tired of the militaristic nationalism as well as endemic corruption in Kiev that they voted for someone, anyone, who appears slightly more reasonable.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
What more is needed, beyond “dialogue of civilizations”? Like for man-woman: creating something new. A real dialogue goes beyond getting to know each other to mutual learning, beyond mutual learning to mutual visions, and beyond that to mutual practice.
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At China’s Belt and Road Forum, Guterres Calls for ‘Inclusive, Sustainable and Durable’ Development
UN News – TRANSEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
26 Apr 2019 – China’s international trade and economic development plan – known as the Belt and Road Initiative – could contribute to a more equitable, prosperous world, and to reversing the negative impact of climate change, Secretary-General António Guterres said today, speaking in Beijing, China.
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Poroshenko Out, Zelensky In. Will Things Change in Ukraine?
Tom Luongo | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
25 Apr 2019 – The incalculable damage that’s been done to the region for cynical geopolitical goals can never be undone but it can stop.
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UNESCO Brisbane Declaration – Freedom of Information: The Right to Know
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
We, the participants at the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day conference in Brisbane, Australia, 3 May 2010:
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Planning Can Save the Planet: China Chooses Renewable Energy
Sara Flounders | Workers World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
23 Apr 2019 – The United States and China are the largest consumers of coal and oil. The choices made by the leaders of the two largest industrialized economies are having an impact on climate and on air quality for everyone. But the decisions being made in these two countries are going in totally different directions. Their choices reveal a lot about the different social and political bases of each country.
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(Português) Einstein e Freud: Guerra e Paz Num Diálogo Interdisciplinar
Luis Henrique Beust | Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
O presente trabalho busca situar a relevância das ideias de Albert Einstein e de Sigmund Freud sobre a guerra e a paz para os esforços contemporaneos de construção de uma Cultura de Paz. Argumenta-se que suas contribuições são especialmente relevantes para fortalecer a ideia fundamental por trás dos esforços de educação para tal Cultura, qual seja, de que a guerra não é intrínseca à natureza humana, e que, portanto, pode ser eliminada.
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Luis Henrique Beust | Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
The present work makes a case for the relevance of Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud’s exchange on war and peace for current efforts towards establishing a Culture of Peace. The author concludes by suggesting that the exchange between them is directly in line with, and contributes towards, current efforts to promote such Culture — particularly regarding their shared view that war is not intrinsic to human nature and therefore can be eliminated.
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How ‘Never Again!’ World Deals with Modern Genocides
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
9 Apr 2019 – If your people suffer genocide, here is the package deal you will get from our indifferent world:
The mass media will descend on the crime scene as long as there is blood to be filmed;
Western media corporations will send your spokesperson a chauffeured Mercedes for a three-minute TV interview;
The UN General Assembly will pass a resolution or annual resolutions — as long as the genocide has not stopped — in order to try to appear to be doing something for the victims;
The Security Council will debate and adopt a non-binding resolution;
The secretary-general, the glorified chief clerk of the world’s most bloated bureaucracy whose purpose is long gone, will mention “Never again!” and lament his — never her — impotence;
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8 Things You May Not Know about Leonardo Da Vinci, on the 500th Anniversary of His Death
Richard Gunderman – The Conversation,
15 Apr 2019
10 Apr 2019 – Dead five centuries, Leonardo retains a rock star’s fame, well known around the world by just one name. Here, some facts about the man and his legacy.
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Rohingya Genocide Survivor Censored by American Patrons in His Testimony before the US Senate
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
9 Apr 2019 – It came to my attention that Tun Khin was, in effect, instructed to NOT mention the Genocide Convention in his testimony, because it would undermine a Burma legislation that IS SUPPOSED TO help Rohingyas. When a fact such as that the Genocide Convention exists – and was envisaged as a tool to actualize this post-Holocaust mantra “never again!” – is unwelcome at one of the most powerful chambers of power, US Senate – it becomes categorically questionable why the Senate sub-committee even holds such a hearing, wasting American taxpayers’ money and giving millions of victims FALSE HOPES – not just Rohingyas, but Uyghurs and Tibetans.
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UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – Today the Security Council looked at the key role played by women in the UN’s peacekeeping operations. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be exposed to “serious human rights violations”, following his arrest in the United Kingdom, according a UN independent human rights expert. Fighting continues to escalate in Tripoli, Libya, and in Idlib, Syria, and 10,000 conflict-affected people were forcibly relocated in Nigeria and are in dire need of humanitarian aid.
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Facebook Removes Page of Ecuador’s Former President on Same Day as Assange’s Arrest
Elias Marat | The Mind Unleashed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – Facebook has unpublished the page of Ecuador’s former president, Rafael Correa. The removal of his page for violating Facebook’s “community standards” is an unprecedented move, and the former statesman is the most high-profile public political figure to ever be removed from the social platform–placing him in the same unlikely category as right-wing conspiracy theorist and broadcaster Alex Jones.
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UN Web TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
26 Mar 2019 – Press briefing by:
–Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve, Belgium
–François Delattre, France
–Christoph Heusgen, Germany
–Karen Pierce, United Kingdom
–Joanna Wronecka, Poland
The Communitarianism of Violence in the Sahel: States Confronted with the Challenge of Identity
Abdoulaye Bâ | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
31 Mar 2019 – The new violent intrusion of “jihadism” in the Sahel in the early 2000s has plunged the region into a new, atypical phase of insecurity, which is putting a strain on social cohesion in these countries. Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon, among others, have increasingly been hit in the last decade, and to varying degrees, by groups proclaiming “jihad”.
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(Français) Golan: Trump bafoue le droit international et plonge encore plus le Moyen-Orient dans l’instabilité
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
2 Avr 2019 – Donald Trump a reconnu la souveraineté d’Israël sur le Golan, plateau syrien occupé illégalement depuis 1967. Motivée par des enjeux politiciens, sa décision pourrait créer un dangereux précédent au regard du droit international. Cette reconnaissance pourrait également avoir de graves répercussions sur tout le Moyen-Orient, une région déjà instable.
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Teach Your Children (Music Video of the Week)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
From the 1970 Album “Déjà Vu” – A classic for teachers & parents.
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UN Agencies Urge Brunei to Repeal New ‘Extreme and Unjustified’ Penal Code
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
4 Apr 2019 – New criminal laws in Brunei that impose the death penalty for same-sex relationships, adultery and childbirth out of marriage, “breach international human rights norms”, and should be suspended or repealed said the heads of two United Nations agencies today.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2019
What is needed is a system where negative, violent relations are changing to neutral or no relations, where neutral or no relations are changing to positive, peaceful relations, and where positive, peaceful relations become even more peaceful and positive. The Octagon World might be one such system. But for this to work, the state system is not sufficient.
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Everywhere You Go in Gaza, You See People Wounded in the Return March
Rami Younis - +972 Magazine,
1 Apr 2019
28 Mar 2019 – According to figures released by the United Nations this week, since the protests began last March 30th, Israeli forces have shot and killed 195 participants, including 41 children. More than 29,000 protesters were injured or wounded, more than half of them by Israeli gunfire. Some estimate even higher numbers.
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It’s Cheaper to Replace Most Coal Plants with Renewables than Keep Them Open: Report
E.A. Crunden | Think Progress,
1 Apr 2019
New research finds that replacing 74 percent of coal plants with renewables would immediately reduce costs.
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Scientists from Around the World Call for Immediate Halt to ‘Genetically Altered Children’
Derrick Broze | The Mind Unleashed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
21 Mar 2019 – Scientists and ethicists from around the world are warning of the consequences of failing to implement a temporary global halt on gene editing of human eggs, embryos, and sperm.
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Fukushima at Eight: Ongoing Cover-Up of the Nuclear Hazards in Japan and Abroad
Michael Welch, Dr. Helen Caldicott, and Arnie Gundersen – Global Research,
25 Mar 2019
As of November 2018, 18,434 people are known to have died from the March 11, 2011 earthquake and the follow-up tsunami which struck the nuclear facility. When the generators failed, three units experienced catastrophic meltdowns. Radioactive water has for years now been draining into the Pacific Ocean. Toxic debris spewed into the Earth’s atmosphere. More than 73,000 people remain evacuated and fully 3,600 die from causes like illness and suicide linked to the aftermath of the event.
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Primitive Accumulation
Daniel Little | Understanding Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
It is Marx’s account of the historical processes of change in rural life of the fifteenth through eighteenth century in Britain and Ireland, through which peasants were forced off their land and the commons were enclosed. Marx believes that this separation of the peasantry from the land was a necessary condition for the development of capitalism, in that it created the conditions in which there was a pliable and abundant proletariat. This “free” proletariat was needed for the creation of the factory system and the development of manufacturing cities. So the process of primitive accumulation created the changes in social relations, property relations, and the accumulation of wealth that permitted the creation of the capital-labor relation and factory-based capitalism.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.
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UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar Advances Accountability and Initiates New Investigations
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
14 Mar 2019 – As a result of the serious nature of the findings of the Fact-Finding Mission, the Human Rights Council also established the Independent Mechanism on Myanmar. The new mechanism will build on the important work of the FFM by collecting, consolidating, preserving and analysing evidence of the most serious crimes and violations of international law committed in Myanmar since 2011.
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Dozens Killed and Injured by New Airstrikes in Western Yemen, UN Coordinator Condemns ‘Outrageous’ Toll
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – Reports from Yemen’s Hajjah Governorate indicate that scores of civilians have been killed following airstrikes that hit residential areas over the past two days. Medical sources suggest that at least 22 have died, with more than 30 injured during the aerial bombardment.
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
• Law affects traditional communities who passed down land for generations
• Revenues from resource extraction going to army and its allies
• Alleged crimes committed in Myanmar must be referred to ICC
Human Rights Council Discusses the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN Human Rights Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – The Human Rights Council held an interactive dialogue with Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
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UN Rights Expert Calls for End to ‘Purgatory’ of ‘International Inaction’ Facing Myanmar’s Remaining Rohingya
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – A humanitarian crisis fuelled by the suppression of basic human rights is continuing across Myanmar’s Rakhine state, a UN Human Rights Council-appointed expert said today, in an appeal for alleged atrocities there to be referred to the International Criminal Court.
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3-5°C Temperature Rise Is Now ‘Locked-in’ for the Arctic
UN Environment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
• Even if Paris Agreement goals met, Arctic winter temperatures will increase 3-5°C by 2050 compared to 1986-2005 levels.
• Thawing permafrost could wake ‘sleeping giant’ of more greenhouse gases, potentially derailing global climate goals.
• Ocean acidification and pollution also posing major threats to Arctic
Blood Money: Meet the Top 20 Companies Profiting from Endless War
Elias Marat | The Mind Unleash – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
4 Mar 2019 – U.S. arms expenditures rose by $9.6 billion, driving the global rise and further consolidating the status of the United States as the world’s top spender on the military–by far. The U.S. spending on war is rooted in post-World War II “new Pentagon capitalism” that eventually became known as the military-industrial complex.
→ read full articleReport of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
UN Human Rights Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
25 Feb 2019 – Human Rights Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories – The commission was mandated to focus on accountability and identifying those responsible for violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The commission found reasonable grounds to believe that some violations may constitute international crimes.
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Health and Development in Norway — A New Old Book from TRANSCEND University Press
TRANSCEND University Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
With great pleasure TRANSCEND University Press (TUP) publishes a new book which is both the most modern and the oldest book from TUP as of today: Health and Development in Norway by Johan Galtung and Dag Viljen Poleszynski is the first ebook published by TUP and based on an unpublished manuscript from 1982. Most of the text has been reformatted and the book is now available for free in modern ebook formats.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
The task of journalists is to mirror reality, empirical reality, not some potential reality desired by some and-or predicted by some. It is not to mediate to change empirical reality in favor a new social reality. The task of journalists mirroring reality would include information about communities handling successfully natural and-or social disasters and how; not only all those that did not.
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A Conspiracy of Decency
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
We will conspire to keep this blue dot floating and alive,
to keep the soldiers from gunning down the children;
to make the water clean and clear and plentiful,
Why Myanmar Must Develop an Identity of Inclusion
Khin Mai Aung| Lion’s Roar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
28 Feb 2019 – Report from the International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma, which called attention to the ongoing human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims and other religious minorities in the Buddhist-majority country of Myanmar.
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Conference Calls for Action to End Rohingya Genocide
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
16 Feb 2019 – On Feb. 8 and 9 at Barnard College in New York City, the Free Rohingya Coalition held an extremely productive conference, drawing an audience of 200 researchers, activists and renowned academics from around 12 countries. Victims demand that ‘Never again!’ must be more than an empty slogan.
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UN Alliance of Civilizations Call for Applications for 2019 Fellowship Programme
UNAOC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
The theme of the Fellowship 2019 is “The role of women in peacemaking and conflict prevention”. Candidates must be able to present professional achievements in these fields and have until Sunday March 10th 2019 to apply.
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Training in Conflict Transformation, Morocco
The Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
The Cordoba Foundation of Geneva’s work in Morocco has focused on building the capacity of university activists in conflict transformation with the aim of equipping them with the skills to alleviate violence between political groups in university campuses. When we asked these activists how their participation in our workshops changed their awareness about conflict and peace promotion, this is what they said.
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The Misuses of Histories and Historiography by the state in Myanmar: The Case of Rakhine and Rohingya
Michael W. Charney | SOAS University of London – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
10 Feb 2019 – I am not a lawyer but a historian so my talk will be a little different than the others we listened to yesterday. While everyone else is looking for solutions, I am not doing that necessarily. Ultimately, some look to find solutions in holding Myanmar to account through international law. That’s what they can do.
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Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen Remains the Worst in the World, Warns UN
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
14 Feb 2019 – An estimated 24 million people – close to 80 per cent of the population – need assistance and protection in Yemen, the UN warned today. With famine threatening hundreds of thousands of lives, humanitarian aid is increasingly becoming the only lifeline for millions across the country.
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Venezuela: U.S.A.’s 68th Regime Change Disaster
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies - Counterpunch,
11 Feb 2019
6 Feb 2019 – In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died Dec 2018, wrote accounts of 55 U.S. regime change operations around the world. Noam Chomsky’s blurb on the back says simply, “Far and away the best book on the topic.” We agree. Since Killing Hope was published in 1995, the U.S. has conducted at least 13 more regime change operations.
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Million across Yemen ‘just a Step Away from Famine’, with Food Available but Inaccessible
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
7 Feb 2019 – While nearly 10 million people across Yemen remain “just a step away from famine”, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator has spoken of his deep concern that a large food storage depot on the outskirts of the crucial port city of Hudaydah, has been out of bounds since last September.
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Trump Withdraws U.S. from INF Treaty
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
1 Feb 2019 – The Trump administration announced the USA will suspend the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty effective 2 Feb. This crucial treaty requires the USA and Russia to eliminate all nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers. Where does this leave us?
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The Maduro Government Is Not Illegitimate
Pasqualina Curcio | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
28 Jan 2019 – Why illegitimate? Have those who claim that Nicolas Maduro is a dictator, a usurper and that the 2019-2025 presidential period lacks legitimacy asked themselves this question? The strategy is clear: to repeat the lie a thousand times in order to turn it into truth. Let us dismantle the lie:
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Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony
Michael Hudson | Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
1 Feb 2019 – A must read on US foreign policy: “The end of America’s unchallenged global economic dominance has arrived sooner than expected, thanks to the very same Neocons who gave the world the Iraq, Syria and the dirty wars in Latin America. Where is the left in all this?”
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Venezuela: What Activists Need to Know about the US-Led Coup
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance - Countercurrents,
4 Feb 2019
28 Jan 2019 – First, we will correct the falsehoods so readers are all working from the same facts. Second, we will describe how this coup is being defeated. It will be another major embarrassment for the Trump administration and US foreign policy. It is important to understand Venezuela has become a geopolitical conflict as Russia and China are closely allied with Venezuela.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
My Syria is profoundly Muslim, run by the imams. And my Syria is profoundly Ottoman; 400 years with tolerance for the other religions of the kitab, and for non-Arabic minorities. Wanting to learn “what Syria is about today” I want them to tell me directly; not indirectly, in writing or orally, via “experts”. So, going to Syria, what touched my senses?
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State-of-the-art Climate Model Shows How We Can Solve Crisis
University of Technology, Sydney – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – After two years of research and modelling, scientists have come up with a groundbreaking new framework for achieving – and even beating – the target of limiting warming to 1.5°C. The research has been funded by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation as part of its new One Earth initiative.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
The Nobel Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
December 11, 1964 – The Quest for Peace and Justice
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Environment and Health at Increasing Risk from Growing Weight of ‘E-Waste’
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
24 Jan 2019 – Around 50 million tonnes of electronic waste, or e-waste, is being thrown away each year, according to a new joint United Nations report – which exceeds the combined weight of all the commercial airliners ever made, or alternatively, enough Eiffel Towers to fill the whole of Manhattan.
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Pakistan and Bangladesh: Responsible to Disclose the Rohingya Genocide
Aung Aung | AAS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
16 Jan 2019 – Myanmar government is systematically and repeatedly terrorizing the Rohingya minority since 1965.
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Israeli Culture Minister: I’m Happy to Be Fascist
News Punch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
13 Dec 2018 – Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev says she is proud to be “fascist” and considers fascism an integral part of Israeli culture.
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News Avoidance
Antonis Kalogeropoulos | Univ. of Oxford – Reuters Institute,
21 Jan 2019
The issue of news avoidance is a matter of concern if it means that citizens are not sufficiently equipped to take decisions in elections or referendums. There are also concerns that the abundance of other types of media (e.g. entertainment) may be squeezing exposure to news for less interested news consumers.
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‘Historic’ Moment: Palestine Takes Reins of UN Coalition of Developing Countries
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
15 Jan 2019 – Acknowledging “a long road ahead” on the United Nations ambitious agenda, Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed today “the historic leadership of the state of Palestine” as the new Chair of the Group of 77’s (G77).
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Entering a Major Regional Re-set: The Syria Outcome Will Haunt Those Who Started This War
Alastair Crooke | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
14 Jan 2019 – The Middle East is metamorphosing. New faultlines are emerging, yet Trump’s foreign policy ‘hawks’ still try to stage ‘old movies’ in a new ‘theatre’.
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Rising Human Trafficking Takes on ‘Horrific Dimensions’: Almost a Third of Victims Are Children
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
7 Jan 2019 – A new UN report published today shows that human trafficking is on the rise and taking on “horrific dimensions”, with sexual exploitation of victims the main driver. Children now account for 30 per cent of those being trafficked, and far more girls are detected than boys.
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International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma
Columbia University & Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
This conference is designed to call world’s attention to and educate the international public at large about the twofold need for protection and accountability which Rohingya genocide survivors and other ethnic and religious minorities such as Kachin, Shan, Karen, Myanmar Muslims, etc. demand and deserve. 8-9 Feb 2019, Columbia University, Barnard Hall
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From Child Refugee in Mozambique to School Principal in the United States
Marta Martinez | UNHCR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
Growing up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bertine Bahige was studying hard to become a doctor. At 13, he had his life figured out. Or so he thought. Resettlement gave Bertine Bahige a new chance in life. The former Congolese refugee would have never imagined he would one day call Wyoming home.
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Storms and Snow in Lebanon Worsen Plight for Syrian Refugees
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
10 Jan 2019 – Storm-force winds and snow across Lebanon have worsened the plight for tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who’ve been forced from their homes by nearly eight years of conflict, a top UN humanitarian official said today.
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Amid Troop Build-Up in Rohingya’s Home State, UN Appeals to Myanmar for Peaceful Solution
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
9 Jan 2019 – Major fighting in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state has so far been avoided following clashes between armed separatists and national security forces that are increasing troop numbers there, a top UN humanitarian official there said today.
→ read full articleWelcome, 2019! A Year for Health
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
Being 88 and suffering from nothing, what is my health formula? Food low on carbs: low on bread, easy; on sugar-sweets, not easy. Health from food? Yes, but with taste, and with beauty. Health from exercise? Yes, but also with taste, and with beauty. TRANSCEND wishes our 70,000+ contacts around the world and everybody else a 2019 with Health. Have much fun–basic to health.
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Game Theory and Disarmament: Thinking Beyond the Table
Max Willner-Giwerc | E-IR, Northeastern University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
18 Dec 2018 – Game theory and disarmament have a long and rich history together. Though the logic of game theory has been used for millennia, it was not formalized until the violence of World War II, and the nascent field was popularized extensively during the Cold War. Indeed, it was pursued mainly for military purposes, especially to model the nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States. These models were studied “exhaustively” during the Cold War, and they led to a rich body of literature and theory that has become integral to economics, philosophy, mathematics, international relations, business, and evolutionary biology.
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The Sound of Silence (Music Video of the Week)
Simon & Garfunkel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert – Madison Square Garden, NYC
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MH17 Turnabout: Ukraine’s Guilt Now Proven
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
31 Dec 2018 – Finally, a clear and convincing — and unrefuted — case can now be presented to the public, as to precisely whom the guilty party was, that downed the MH17 Malaysian airliner over Ukraine on 17 July 2014, and why it was done. The complete case, which will be fully documented here, displays unequivocally who needed the MH17 murders (of 298 persons) to be perpetrated.
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Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism
Leeds Beckett University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
Dr Jake Lynch, former BBC newsreader, political correspondent for Sky News and Sydney correspondent for the Independent, is the director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney and one of the most published authors in the field of Peace Journalism.
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In Rare Move, Indian State to Return Unused Land to Farmers
Rina Chandran | Thomson Reuters Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
26 Dec 2018 – Farmers in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh are getting back land that was taken from them more than a decade ago by the government because it was not used, a rare move in a country riven by conflict over land. About 660 disputes over land have stalled hundreds of projects and forced millions of people from their farms across India, say experts.
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What’s Behind U.S. Troop Withdrawals Announced for Syria and Afghanistan?
Sara Flounders | Workers World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
24 Dec 2018 – The announced withdrawal of the remaining 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria and a partial withdrawal from Afghanistan does not mean an end to the Pentagon’s aggressive militarism and endless U.S. wars. The U.S. military has 170,000 troops stationed outside the U.S. in 150 countries, in more than 800 overseas bases. Nearly 40,000 are assigned to classified missions in locations that Washington refuses to even disclose.
→ read full articleHacking Nuclear Weapon Systems: A New Weakness in Nuclear Deterrence Theory
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
There are many ways a nuclear attack could be initiated. These include the four “Ms” of Malice, Madness, Mistake and Miscalculation. Of these ways of initiating a nuclear attack, only malice could possibly be inhibited by nuclear deterrence (fear of nuclear retaliation), and such an inhibition from attack would not be reliable due to psychological and communication issues that are required for nuclear deterrence to be effective.
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Point of No Return: Erasing the Rohingya
Poppy McPherson, Simon Lewis, Thu Thu Aung, Shoon Naing and Zeba Siddiqui | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
18 Dec 2018 – Having fled waves of violence, more than 900,000 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority now languish in refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. A Reuters investigation has found the Myanmar government is taking steps that threaten to make the purge of the Rohingya permanent.
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Get Ready for These Political Mind Games in 2019
Roy Eidelson - CounterPunch,
24 Dec 2018
20 Dec 2018 – In my research as a psychologist, I’ve found that manipulative appeals from the 1% are often designed to target issues of vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority, and helplessness. Are we safe? Are we treated fairly? Who should we trust? Are we good enough? Can we control what happens to us? By offering disingenuous answers to these questions, self-serving one-percenters aim to shape ‘our’ understanding of what’s happening, what’s right, and what’s possible to ‘their’ own advantage.
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US Genocide Resolution Welcome, but Rohingya Need More
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
US will not intercede, and Myanmar’s neighbors see it through economic lens, so international coalition for Rohingya needed.
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A Message to Today’s Young People: Put an End to the Nuclear Weapons Era
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Nuclear weapons were created to kill indiscriminately. That means women, men, children – everyone. Even during war, under the rules of international law, that kind of mass killing is illegal. It is also immoral.
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Meet Antonio C. S. Rosa, Pioneer in Peace Journalism – Be the Change: Enter Peace Journalism (Parts 1 & 2)
Sebastian Eck, Antonio C. S. Rosa | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Introducing the TMS editor: Peace Journalism, a new paradigm for journalists covering conflict situations.
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Governments Adopt UN Global Migration Pact to Help ‘Prevent Suffering and Chaos’
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
The Global Compact for Migration was adopted on Monday [10 Dec] by leading representatives from 164 Governments at an international conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, in an historic move described by UN Chief António Guterres as the creation of a “roadmap to prevent suffering and chaos”.
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Washington Using Legal Cover to Conceal Economic Banditry
Finian Cunningham - RT,
17 Dec 2018
12 Dec 2018 – The blatant arrest of a Chinese telecoms executive in Canada on behalf of the US is shrouded in obscure legalistic claims. But the bottom line is clear; the US is abusing the legal process to pursue lawless economic interests. Increasingly in the eyes of the world, it is a renegade state which absurdly justifies its criminality with lofty claims of rule of law.
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(Français) Les Gilets jaunes, révélateur d’un modèle de société en crise
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
6 Déc 2018 – Il est temps de faire un premier bilan et de revenir sur les dessous de cette affaire, à la croisée des enjeux sur le modèle énergétique, l’urgence sociale, le défi climatique ainsi que la géopolitique mondiale.
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UNGA President Launches New Initiative to Purge Plastics and Purify Oceans
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
The President of the UN General Assembly launched a new global call to action on Tuesday [4 Dec] to help end the scourge of plastic pollution in the ocean.
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Don’t Let [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Off the Hook for Her Role in the Myanmar Genocide
Khin Mai Aung | Lion’s Roar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
6 Dec 2018 – Last week, a prominent Buddhist teacher defended Aung San Suu Kyi, the Buddhist Nobel Peace Prize laureate, against criticism that she is party to genocide. Why that defense doesn’t hold up. Suu Kyi lived in Bhutan where her late husband was working as the English tutor for the Bhutanese royal family. This lama moves in that ruling class circle.
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How Big Brother Grips Americans’ Minds to Support Invasions
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
U.S. the World’s Invasion Nation
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COP24: Here’s What Must Be Agreed to Keep Warming at 1.5°C
Hugh Hunt – The Conversation,
10 Dec 2018
1. Reduce fossil carbon emissions.
2. Remove carbon from the atmosphere (NETs).
3. Halt the rise of emissions of non-CO₂ greenhouses cases (Methane, Nitrous oxide, CFCs).
4. Investigate techniques for geoengineering, including Solar Radiation Management.
All four of these must proceed simultaneously and in parallel. COP24 must make this perfectly clear. There is utmost urgency and no time to “wait and see”.
India’s Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution Rejects GM Crops
Colin Todhunter | Asia Pacific Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
2 Dec 2018 – “Genetically Modified cotton in India is a failure. India should reject GM mustard. GM agriculture poses risks and is unsustainable. Regulatory bodies are dogged by incompetency and conflicts of interest. GM crops should therefore be banned.”
— M.S. Swaminathan, renowned agricultural scientist/geneticist and the father of the Green Revolution in India
An Open Letter to Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche from a Burmese Buddhist Activist
Maung Zarni and Matthew Gindin | Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
A former ally of Aung San Suu Kyi responds to the Tibetan Buddhist teacher’s support for Myanmar’s controversial leader.
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For China, Islam Is a ‘Mental Illness’ That Needs to Be ‘Cured’
Khaled A Beydoun – Al Jazeera,
3 Dec 2018
28 Nov 2018 – China’s relentless campaign to erase the identity of the Uighurs continues, as the world remains silent.
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Global Catastrophic Risks 2018 Annual Report
Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Thought Leaders Sharing What You Need to Know on Global Catastrophic Risks
→ read full articleOn the Future of the World: Some Notes
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Two Big Words, “Future” and “World”; one small word, “notes”. To think about a dialectic holon, the world, to speak it, act it. For sure it will act upon us, so let us try a word on us upon it.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND-Galtung Track Record on Conflict Solution/Mediation: 1958-2018
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
The TRANSCEND Method uses dialogues with all parties to identify their goals, testing their legitimacy, and for visions of a new social reality meeting legitimate goals. Diagnoses focus on conflict and trauma, prognoses without or with intervention, therapy on visions of solution and conciliation; proposed, propagated and realized.
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Business as Usual: Washington’s Regime Change Strategy in Venezuela
Garry Leech - CounterPunch,
26 Nov 2018
23 Nov 2018 – A great summary of what has happened in Venezuela and in all of Latin America. Besides Venezuela and the recent attempts by the Trump administration to affect regime change there, it draws on lessons from Operation Condor, Chile and Haiti. Washington’s strategy of regime change in Venezuela is almost identical to the approach it has taken in Latin America on numerous occasions since World War Two.”
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Ecuador’s Soft Coup and Political Persecution
Rafael Correa - CounterPunch,
26 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 – This anatomy of the soft coup that is taking place in Ecuador is written by perhaps the most authoritative of sources, which is Rafael Correa, the former president of Ecuador.
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India’s Farmers to March to Parliament to Highlight Agrarian Crisis
Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
‘Kisan Mukti March’ to Delhi 28/30 Nov – Rooted in the Testimonies of its Victims
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