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U.S. Commits to “Indefinite” Occupation of Syria; Controls Region the Size of Croatia
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
15 Dec 2018 – Like the “forever war” in Afghanistan, will we be having the same discussion over the indefinite occupation of Syria stretching two decades from now? A new unusually frank assessment in Stars and Stripes bluntly lays out the basic facts concerning the White House decision to “stay the course” until the war’s close.
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(Português) A tolice do Anti-globalismo
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
9 dez 2018 – Está ocorrendo pelo mundo afora uma onda anti-globalista. Talvez haja poucas coisas mais regressivas e disparatadas no mundo atual do que esta. Por que se trata de um disparate dos mais insensatos? Porque vai diretamente contra a lógica do processo histórico irrefreável. Alcançamos um patamar novo da história da Terra e da Humanidade.
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(Italiano) I Rohingya a Montecitorio
Emanuele Giordana | Lettera22 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Le prove raccolte dal Tribunale Permanente dei Popoli andranno all’Aja alla Corte penale internazionale.
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Thomas Piketty’s Proposal to Remake Europe: Three Comments and a Suggestion
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
13 Dec 2018 – In the midst of more than one crisis, a stellar group of left-leaning intellectuals led by Thomas Piketty has written a proposal to remake Europe. It includes a manifesto, a treaty establishing what would amount to a new European legislature, and a budget. As its authors say, the greatest merit of their proposal is that it exists. Everyone is invited to comment on it and to suggest improvements. Taking them at their word, here are three comments and one suggestion.
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On the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
10 Dec 2018 – This Declaration was a notable step in the direction of asserting that persons by virtue of their humanness are entitled to protection in the exercise of a broad spectrum of rights, and hence, that sovereignty is subject to certain constraining limitations. Much progress has been made since 1948, although we live in a period of mounting pressure on human rights deriving from a surge of right-wing populism combined with the effects of an insufficiently regulated capitalism.
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The Foolishness of Anti-Globalism
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
15 Dec 2018 – An anti-globalist wave is breaking out around the world. This is perhaps one of the most regressive and absurd things in the world today. Why is this a senseless blunder? Because it contravenes the logic of an uncontrollable historical process. We have reached a new phase in the history of the Earth and Humanity.
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(Português) Esperança: Indignação e Coragem
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
3 dez 2018 – Vivemos no Brasil nos últimos dois anos dois grandes golpes: o primeiro, o impeachment e a deposição de Dilma Rousseff e neste ano de 2018 a ascensão da extrema-direita com a eleição de Jair Bolosonário a presidente do Brasil. Não foi Bolsonaro que ganhou. Foi o PT que perdeu e com ele o Brasil.
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Sometimes a Pair of Pants Can Give You Vertigo
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
6 Dec 2018 – Between my desire for a changed world and the world that seemed to change only for the worse lay the desolation Berger identified. Many people feel it, I know, especially dissidents who fight in various ways against the powerful. But we prefer not to go there, to see what it consists of and how we may transmute it into acts and words that might make a difference.
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We All Buy Slave-Made Products: Here’s How We Avoid Feeling Guilty
Michal Carrington, Andreas Chatzidakis and Deirdre Shaw – The Conversation,
10 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018 – Hidden slavery is a growing global problem but we continue to turn a blind eye and embrace a seemingly insatiable demand for fast, cheap goods and services.
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Genome-Edited Baby Claim Provokes International Outcry
David Cyranoski & Heidi Ledford | Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
26 Nov 2018 – He Jiankui, a genome-editing researcher at the Southern University of Science and Technology of China in Shenzhen, says that he impregnated a woman with embryos that had been edited to disable the genetic pathway HIV uses to infect cells. The announcement has provoked shock and outrage among scientists around the world.
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We Shouldn’t Rush to Save the Liberal Order – We Should Remake It
Yanis Varoufakis and David Adler – The Guardian,
3 Dec 2018
1 Dec 2018 – From Viktor Orbán in the north to Jair Bolsonaro in the south, Rodrigo Duterte in the east to Donald Trump in the west, a coalition of nationalist strongmen are cracking down on civil rights, scapegoating minorities and facilitating widespread corruption for their family and friends. The UN Security Council, the IMF, the World Bank and the ILO were conceived as agencies of change – they can be again.
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The G20 Meeting and U.S./Russia Relations
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
2 Dec 2018 – What follows are my responses to questions addressed to me by Sputnik News Agency in Moscow. Although the focus was on the ongoing G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, the real concern was the future of U.S./Russia relations and how these relations should be managed to avoid arms races, geopolitical rivalry, and ideological tensions.
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Why We Stopped Trusting Elites
William Davies – The Guardian,
3 Dec 2018
The credibility of establishment figures has been demolished by technological change and political upheavals. But it’s too late to turn back the clock.
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The New New Anti-Semitism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Hiding Israel’s Crimes of State behind False Claims of Victimization
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
-13 Nov 2018-
To be almost 90
And happy
With good health
Feels criminal
John F. Kennedy 55 Years On: Casting Light on the JFK Assassination, 9/11 and Other 21st Century Crimes
Prof. Graeme McQueen | OffGuardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
22 Nov 2018 – Fifty-five years ago, on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Although there has been a great deal written about this event over the years, I want to draw attention to one exceptionally important article. Vincent Salandria gave this talk in Dallas at the invitation of the Coalition on Political Assassinations.
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Solidarity Economics: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
When we are dealing with socially created realities we should bear in mind that the ways people think about the problems create them. If people are going to solve the problems, they need to think differently. Solidarity economics redefines the problems. The Roman Law iron cage of European “civilization” has got to go. Europe must demote itself to the status of a peninsula of Asia whose savants are no wiser than Gandhi, Confucius, Julius Nyerere, Nelson Mandela or Paulo Freire. Many pioneers are developing alternative economies.
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The Famine Facing Yemen Is a War Crime – It Must Be Investigated
Emily Thornberry – The Guardian,
26 Nov 2018
22 Nov 2018 – The Saudi-led coalition has deliberately targeted civilians. The UN must press for answers–not be complicit in a cover-up.
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(Français) Nicaragua : fin de régime ?
Bernard Duterme | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
13 nov 2018 – Depuis avril 2018, le Nicaragua traverse une profonde crise de régime. Fortement contesté, le couple régnant – le président Daniel Ortega et la vice-présidente Rosario Murillo, épouse du premier – s’accroche au pouvoir.
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System Error: Japan Cybersecurity Minister Admits He Has Never Used a Computer
Justin McCurry – The Guardian,
26 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018 – A Japanese minister in charge of cybersecurity has provoked astonishment by admitting he has never used a computer in his professional life, and appearing confused by the concept of a USB drive. Yoshitaka Sakurada, 68, is the deputy chief of the government’s cybersecurity strategy office and also the minister in charge of the Olympic and Paralympic Games that Tokyo will host in 2020.
→ read full articleOn My 88th Birthday: A Reflection
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
13 Nov 2018 – I post a poem that I wrote earlier today, and read at the end of my talk, perhaps a self-indulgent conceit on my part, but I share it here as a way of thanking so many friends near and far who sent me the most moving birthday greetings throughout the day, which made me feel that we who are supporting the Palestinian struggle are part of a growing community that will prevail at some point, and the two peoples now inhabiting Palestine can finally live in peace, and with dignity and equality.
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Costs of Post-9/11 U.S. Wars to 2019: $5.9 Trillion
Neta C. Crawford | Watson Institute, Brown University - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 -The United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated $5.9 trillion on the war on terror through Fiscal Year 2019, including direct war and war-related spending and obligations for future spending on post-9/11 war veterans.
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Phil Ochs and the Crucifixion of President John F. Kennedy
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Whatever the truth in this age of “not knowing,” I think his story is a parable for our times. Whenever you think you’re getting the straight scoop, think again, and then again. The CIA’s Operation Mockingbird is still singing its siren song to convince us that the crucifixion was a one-time event, when Phil knew otherwise, right from the start and right to the end. I think he tried to warn us and wouldn’t be silenced, even in death.
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Khmer Rouge Leaders Found Guilty of Genocide in Cambodia’s ‘Nuremberg’ Moment
Hannah Ellis-Petersen – The Guardian,
19 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 – The two most senior Khmer Rouge leaders still alive today have been found guilty of genocide, almost 40 years since Pol Pot’s brutal regime fell. Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea were leaders of a regime that presided over deaths of at least 1.7 million in Cambodia.
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(Italiano) Trascendere le regressioni nell’ordine mondiale
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
“In contrasto con i poteri governativo ed economico — del Principe e del Mercante — c’è un potere immediato e autonomo, talora evidente, talaltra latente: quello della gente. Alcuni ne sviluppano consapevolezza, si associano e agiscono con altri, divenendo così davvero cittadini. Essi e le loro associazioni, quando non cerchino il potere governativo o quello economico, costituiscono il Terzo Sistema”.
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Accountability Alone Will Not Solve Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis
Bill Richardson - TIME,
12 Nov 2018
5 Nov 2018 – At long last, momentum is building to hold the perpetrators of the gruesome atrocities against the Rohingya in Myanmar to account. A U.N.-mandated fact-finding mission concluded that senior military officials should be investigated and prosecuted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. But a singular focus on accountability risks overshadowing the need to bring about tangible improvements in Rohingyas’ lives now.
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Stop Saying ‘Migrant Caravan’: They’re Asylum Seekers Escaping a Conflict That the US Created
Kelli Korducki | Yahoo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
There is no migrant crisis. There is, however, a refugee crisis. That crisis is the effect of at least a half-century (and, arguably, twice that) of calamitous US political intervention in Central America, and not — as President Trump would have us believe — the inevitable byproduct of “bad hombres” who may as well be “animals.” US-funded military coups, resource exploitation, and American policies of economic neoliberalism in El Salvador have destabilized the entire region, and effectively created a climate where paramilitary-aligned drug cartels can thrive.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Grande Frente de Valores Ético-Sociais
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
1 nov 2018 – Estamos vivendo tempos política e socialmente dramáticos. Nunca se viu em nossa história ódio e raiva tão difundidos, principalmente através das mídias sociais. Foi eleito para presidente uma figura amedrontadora que encarnou a dimensão de sombra e do recalcado de nossa história. Ele contaminou boa parte de seus eleitores. Essa figura conseguiu trazer à tona o dia-bólico (que separa e divide) que sempre acompanha o sim-bólico (o que une e congrega) de uma forma tão avassaladora que o dia-bólico inundou a consciência de muitos e enfraqueceu o sim-bólico a ponto de dividir famílias, romper com amigos e liberar a violência verbal e também física.
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Rohingyas to Be Repatriated Despite UN Genocide Warning
Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Shaikh Azizur Rahman – The Guardian,
5 Nov 2018
30 Oct 2018 – Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start the repatriation of Rohingya refugees next month, less than a week after UN investigators warned that a genocide against the Muslim minority was continuing.
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The Seafloor Is Dissolving Because of Climate Change
Caroline Haskins | Motherboard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
1 Nov 2018 – According to a new study, ocean acidification is setting off a dangerous feedback loop that’s dissolving the very bottom of the ocean. Carbon emissions are acidifying the ocean so quickly that the seafloor is disintegrating.
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Facebook Must Do More to Prevent 21st-Century Genocide
Editorial Board – The Washington Post,
5 Nov 2018
28 Oct 201 – In Myanmar, Facebook is more than a website. For many residents, it is the entire Internet. So when the nation’s military used the site as a conduit for a campaign against Muslims, there were no guardrails to stop the hatred from spreading — except the company itself. The grim reality on the ground in Myanmar, from which more than 700,000 members of the Rohingya minority have now fled, shows Facebook failed.
→ read full articleWhy Vote on Tuesday: The Menacing Challenges of Trump and Trumpism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
4 Nov 2018 – World Order in the Age of Trump and Trumpism – This piece is based on a lecture given at West Chester University in Pennsylvania on 24 Oct. I have no great expectations about improvements in American foreign policy of Congress if it is fully or partially controlled by Democratic majorities after the November 6thmidterm elections. Nevertheless, I share the widely held anti-fascist view that any show of opposition to Trump and Trumpism at this time deserves priority on an urgent basis.
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Humanity Has Wiped Out 60% of Animal Populations since 1970, Report Finds
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
5 Nov 2018
30 Oct 2018 – Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilisation.
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Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
“When they will sell you even your rain,” he said sadly. “They sold me a bill of goods. The American dream! What a bad joke, here I am, a college graduate, not a drunk or drug addict, and I’m living in a tent in the woods in a ravine by a golf course. Some nights I think they make it rain on me for fun, as if to say: here’s your free water, you loser.”
→ read full articleTranscending World Order Regressions
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
Without even attempting to offer reassurances, Trump champions a law-free sovereignty that is unapologetically dedicated to maximizing its national wealth and influence, backed up by escalating government investments avowedly designed to producing an all-powerful, globally capable military dominance that will last forever.
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What the Closure of the US Consulate in East Jerusalem Means
James J. Zogby – The Jordan Times,
29 Oct 2018
22 Oct 2018 – This month’s prize for dangerous moves and disingenuous announcements goes to the US State Department. The statement by Michael Pompeo that the US consulate in East Jerusalem was being closed was the dangerous part. The disingenuous part was the secretary’s claim that this move had no political meaning since it was merely a cost-saving measure.
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Single-Use Plastics Ban Approved by European Parliament
Lucy Purdy | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
25 Oct 2018 – The European parliament has voted for a sweeping ban on a wide range of single-use plastics in a bid to tackle pollution of oceans and waterways.
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Trump Says US Will Withdraw from Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia
Julian Borger and Martin Pengelly – The Guardian,
22 Oct 2018
21 Oct 2018 – Experts warn of ‘most severe crisis in nuclear arms control since the 1980s’ as Trump confirms US will leave INF agreement. “We’ll have to develop those weapons,” the president told reporters in Nevada after a rally. “We’re going to terminate the agreement and we’re going to pull out.”
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The Loss of Two Unsung Heroes of International Relations: A Tale of Two ‘Bobs’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
21 Oct 2018 – Two giants of International Relations scholarship died, leaving behind a corpus of work and a legacy of influence. I was fortunate to have enjoyed the friendship of both Robert Gilpin and Robert W. Cox, learning from both of these masters of the field despite their seemingly divergent worldviews.
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Brazil: Even These Rough Winds Will Lead Us to a Safe Harbor
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
15 Oct 2018 – The Brazilian people are still being birthed. We inherited Brazil the Enterprise, with an enslaving elite and destitute masses. But from the core of the masses, leaders and social movements with consciousness and organization were born. Their dream? To reinvent Brazil. The process began from below and no longer can be stopped, either by the successive coups, such as the civic-military one of 1964, and the parliamentary-juridical-mass communications-media coup of 2016.
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Yemen on Brink of ‘World’s Worst Famine in 100 Years’ if War Continues
Hannah Summers – The Guardian,
22 Oct 2018
15 Oct 2018 – Yemen could be facing the worst famine in 100 years if airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition are not halted, the UN has warned. Famine could overwhelm country in next three months, with 13 million people at risk of starvation.
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Yemen Is Not a Wedge Issue, It’s an Ongoing Nexus of War Crimes
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
22 Oct 2018
20 Oct 2018 – Political assassination is a common and useful tool for tyrants. The US assassinates people all the time, most ruthlessly by remote drone killings with little care for collateral damage. That’s one reason the US has special forces deployed in more than a hundred countries. This was most recently illustrated by the BuzzFeed News report of American mercenaries assassinating “undesirables” in southern Yemen, the part of Yemen the Saudis are not bombing.
→ read full articleTrump’s Idea of World Order Endangers the Human Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
This is an interview with Daniel Falcone that was published in slightly modified form in Counterpunch on October 4, 2018. Question: What are your general thoughts on Trump’s recent UN talk and how world opinion received it?
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(Português) Brasil: A democracia diante do abismo
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
10 out 2018 – Há momentos na vida em que temos que escolher de que lado politicamente nos colocamos. Ou do lado da democracia que respeita as liberdades, permite a manifestação dos cidadãos. Ou do lado de quem a nega, exalta a ditadura militar de 1964, magnifica seus torturadores, que, segundo ele, nem deviam torturar, mas simplesmente fuzilar, …
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My Grandfather Nelson Mandela Fought Apartheid. I See the Parallels with Israel
Nkosi Zwelivelile – The Guardian,
15 Oct 2018
It took an international effort to end institutionalised racism in my country – now it must happen again, for Palestinian people.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
6 Oct 2018 – More than thirty years ago I applied the term ‘nuclearism’ to the association between the hardware dimensions of the weaponry and their various software dimensions ranging from strategic doctrine to the infatuations of powerful men with their awesome destructive capabilities.
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‘They’re Drug Dealers in Armani Suits’: Executives Draw Focus amid US Epidemic
Chris McGreal – The Guardian,
8 Oct 2018
30 Sep 2018 – As the pharmaceutical industry fights off a flood of lawsuits, there’s an increased call to investigate the roles of executives pushing opioid painkillers. “The more drugs they sold, the more money they made, and the more people in Massachusetts suffered and died.” — Maura Healey
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While Nestlé Extracts Millions of Litres from Their Land, Indigenous Residents Have No Drinking Water
Alexandra Shimo – The Guardian,
8 Oct 2018
Just 90 minutes from Toronto, residents of a First Nations community try to improve the water situation as the beverage company extracts from their land.
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Symposium on Global Environmental Law
Richard Falk | Univ. of Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law & Governance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
The symposium aimed to discuss whether and to what extent emerging concepts in global environmental law can help shed new light on the evolution and challenges of environmental law across different levels and sectors.
→ read full articleWeaponizing the ‘New Anti-Semitism’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
22 Sep 2018 – This post consists of an opinion piece developed by several members of California Scholars for Academic Freedom.
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(Português) O Eclipse da Ética na Atualidade
Leonardo Boff | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
28 Set 2018 – A meu ver, dois fatores atingiram o coração da ética: o processo de globalização e a mercantilização da sociedade. A justiça não vale apenas entre os humanos mas também para com a natureza e a Terra que são portadores de direitos e por isso devem ser incluídos em nosso conceito de democracia sócio-ecológica.
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Bolton’s Red Sky Worldview: ICC, International Law, and Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Bolton’s Game: Not Sovereignty, Not International Law—Clearing the Path for U.S., Geopolitical Primacy
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From Hero to Pariah, [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Dashes Hopes about Myanmar
Richard C. Paddock – The New York Times,
1 Oct 2018
29 Sep 2018 — “Rarely has the reputation of a leader fallen so far, so fast,” the International Crisis Group said of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar’s civilian leader, once a democracy icon, has become known as an enabler for the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims and a foe of the free press.
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What Does a Nuclear Bomb Explosion Feel Like?
Motherboard | Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – On the International Day against Nuclear Tests, August 29, we met up British atomic veterans who were present at test sites in Australia and the Pacific, to find out what it’s like to experience a nuclear bomb explosion up close.
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Is Genocide a Controversial International Crime?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
Why ‘Genocide’ is still a Controversial Crime? In this strikingly original, strange, and brilliant book, Philippe Sands raises a haunting question among a tangle of other intriguing issues discussed throughout East-West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity.
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“The Present Crisis of Western Democracy Is a Crisis of Journalism”
Eduardo Suárez | Nieman Foundation at Harvard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
What Walter Lippmann’s early writings say about some of journalism’s most urgent contemporary challenges
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(Português) Um aborto a cada quatro grávidas: A cidade em que o agrotóxico glifosato contamina o leite materno e mata até quem ainda nem nasceu
Nayara Felizardo – The Intercept Brasil,
24 Sep 2018
17 Set 2018 – O mesmo veneno que garante a riqueza dos fazendeiros da cidade está provocando uma epidemia de intoxicação em mães e bebês. Estima-se que uma em cada quatro grávidas da cidade tenha sofrido aborto, que 14% dos bebês nasçam com baixo peso (quase do dobro da média nacional) e que 83% das mães tenham o leite materno contaminado. Os dados são do sanitarista Inácio Pereira Lima na sua tese de mestrado em saúde da mulher pela Universidade Federal do Piauí.
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Human Rights, State Sovereignty, and International Law: An Interview
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
20 Sep 2018 – The interview below conducted by my friend, journalist and author C.J. Polychroniou was initially published in the Global Policy Journal, on 11 Sep 2018, the 17thanniversary of the World Trade Center attacks and the 45thanniversary of the Pinochet coup in Chile that assassinated the elected president of the country Salvador Allende.
→ read full articleThe Empire-Lovers Strike Back!
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
Trump, Putin, and the Anti-Russian Coalition in the U.S. – Looking a bit more closely at what holds the anti-Trump foreign policy coalition together, one discovers a missing reality that virtually no one will acknowledge directly: the existence of a beleaguered but still potent American Empire whose junior partner is Europe. What motivates a broad range of the President’s opponents is not so much the fear that he is anti-American as the suspicion that he is anti-Empire. Of course, neither liberals nor conservatives dare to utter the “E-word.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Educación Moral para el Cambio Estructural
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
Se proponen tres principios educativos respaldados por hallazgos científicos para orientar la educación moral: la comprensión, la participación, y la empatía. Tomando como ejemplo la ‘trampa estructural’ por la cual la buena intención de cumplir con los DDHH sociales, como la salud, termina desincentivando la inversión económica, se sugiere que la buena y masiva educación moral es capaz de facilitar la resolución de obstáculos estructurales que traban las soluciones a los problemas sociales y ecológicos
→ read full article(Português) Um problema nunca resolvido: o sofrimento dos inocentes
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
14 Set 2018 – Sejamos sinceros: até hoje não identificamos nenhuma resposta satisfatória por mais que grandes nomes, desde Agostinho, Tomás de Aquino, Leibnitz até Gustavo Gutiérrez entre nós, tentassem elaborar uma teodicéia, quer dizer, um esforço de não ligar Deus ao sofrimento humano. A culpa estaria apenas do nosso lado. Mas em vão, pois o sofrimento continua e a pergunta permanece irrespondível.
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Chile: Remembering September 11 1973
Tito Tricot – The Guardian,
24 Sep 2018
Were the lives of those killed at the World Trade Centre more valuable than the innocents murdered in Chile’s US-backed, Kissinger engineered coup?
→ read full articleDecoding the Pipes/Trump/Kushner ‘Deal of the Century’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
True, Oslo diplomacy was a failure that worked to the political benefit of Israel, and was rightly abandoned. But the Trump response to this failure amount to the criminalization of diplomacy that violates the most basic precepts of international law, as spelled out in the UN Charter. It amounts to waging an aggressive war against a vulnerable and helpless people. If the UN and the leading governments watch this dismal spectacle in stony silence it can only be fervently hoped that the peoples of the world will recognize the need for radical reform to avoid a catastrophic future, not just for the Palestinians, but for all of humanity.
→ read full articleIn Praise of Serena Williams
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Seervice,
17 Sep 2018
13 Sep 2018 – In this time of Trump and Trumpism, we should seize the opportunity to celebrate the luminous presence of Serena Williams in our midst: a champion, a warrior for women and against racism, a woman of great charm and warmth, and a beacon of decency.
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The Story of Stuff
Annie Leonard | The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
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The Current Demise of Ethics
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – In 1944, Karl Polanyi called the phenomenon of transitioning from a market economy to a society of pure commerce, “The Great Transformation”. Everything is transformed into merchandise, which Karl Marx already foresaw in his 1848 text The Poverty of Philosophy, where he noted that the most sacred things, such as truth and consciousness, would be commercialized; and this would be the “time of great corruption and universal venality”. We are now living in that time. The economy, especially the speculative sector, dictates the path of politics and of society as a whole. Competition is its trademark and solidarity has practically disappeared.
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Oslo Accords: The Morning After
Edward Said | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
Edward Said wrote in Oct 1993 a remarkably accurate portrayal of the level of capitulation that was done via the so-called Oslo Accords. This piece is remarkable and still worth reading. Oslo II of 1994 was even worse and we saw the ramification of all of this in the past 25 years. No wonder the Trump administration cut all aid to Palestinians except the money for the “Vichy style” Palestinian Authority security services–the Dayton Forces.
→ read full articleThe Fakest Fake News: The U.S. Government’s 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
If you want to fathom today’s world, absolutely nothing is more important than to understand the truth about the attacks of September 11, 2001… 9/11 Unmasked is the definitive book on the defining event of the 21st century.
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Investigation Exposes Animal Abuse at US Supplier to World’s Largest Meat Company
Reynard Loki | Mercy For Animals - Independent Media Institute,
17 Sep 2018
13 Sep 2018 – An undercover investigator with Mercy for Animals witnessed extreme animal abuse at Tosh Farms in Kentucky, where workers ripped out the testicles of piglets without providing any pain relief, and smashing their heads against the ground to kill them. Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions and images of animal abuse.
→ read full article(Português) O golpe de 2016 interrompeu construção de um Brasil autônomo
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
9 set 2018 – Tudo está a clamar para uma refundação do Brasil sobre outras bases porque as vigentes são altamente antipovo, destrutivas das pessoas, desrespeitosas da natureza, espoliadoras dos bens públicos, violadoras da soberania nacional e negadores de um futuro melhor. A atual sociedade brasileira, há que se reconhecer, conheceu avanços significativos sob os governos do Partido dos Trabalhadores e de seus aliados .
→ read full articleOn Qatar and Gulf Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – This is a slightly modified text of an interview by the Tunisian journalist Awatef Ben Ali on behalf of the Qatar newspaper, Al Sharq, August 26, 2018.
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(Français) Autour de la tentative d’assassinat du président Maduro: Comprendre les mécanismes d’une guerre non-conventionnelle
Misión Verdad | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
7 Sep 2018 – Les enquêtes menées par les services officiels vénézuéliens sur l’attentat manqué contre la vie du président Maduro le 4 août dernier suivent leurs cours. A ce stade des recherches, les preuves accumulées et les protagonistes dûment identifiés permettent déjà de définir les contours de l’opération terroriste/mercenaire qui a pu se développer dans le pays avec les résultats que l’on connaît ; elles permettent également d’anticiper et d’évaluer les mesures cruciales et nécessaires à prendre pour la sécurité du pays.
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Syria & Russia Accuse U.S. Coalition, ‘White Helmets’, of Preparing Chemical Weapons Attacks in Idlib
Eric Zuesse | Off Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
8 Sep 2018 – The Governments of Syria and Russia claim to have proofs that the U.S. coalition that has invaded and now occupies Syria has prepared chlorine and sarin gas attacks for Idlib and other areas where Syria and Russia are trying to destroy all jihadists — prepared attacks designed to be blamed against Syria’s Government.
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A Diabolic False Flag Empire
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – No one is more emblematic of this noble effort [to report the truth about America’s demonic history] than David Ray Griffin, who, in book after book since the attacks of 11 Sep 2001, has meticulously exposed the underside of the American empire and its evil masters. His persistence in trying to reach people and to warn them of the horrors that have resulted is extraordinary. Excluding his philosophical and theological works, this is his fifteenth book since 2004 on these grave issues of life and death and the future of the world.
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India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History
Bernard D’Mello | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
India After Naxalbari is about a thread of Indian history that mainstream historians have tended to either ignore or misrepresent. This account puts it squarely into our history books. –Arundhati Roy, author, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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Judges Rule ICC Has Jurisdiction over Rohingya Deportations
Mike Corder | AP – The Washington Post,
10 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 — Judges at the International Criminal Court ruled today that the court has jurisdiction to investigate Myanmar forces that have driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from their homes. The decision opens up the possibility of Myanmar being prosecuted at the Hague-based court even without being a member.
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The Real Goldfinger: The London Banker Who Broke the World
Oliver Bullough – The Guardian,
10 Sep 2018
The true story of how the City of London invented offshore banking – and set the rich free.
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Solidarity for Full Employment (whole paper)
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
1. Analysis of the Bottleneck Problem
2. Examples (showing how to solve the bottleneck problem)
3. The Road from Here to There (generalizing from the examples)
4. The Imperative to Maximize Profits (blocks the road from here to there)
5. The Fiscal Crisis of the State (blocks the road from here to there)
6. Unbounded Organization (a way forward)
Solidarity for Full Employment
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
The problems of drug addiction, gangs, crime, ethnic nationalism, racism, sexism, chronic depression, immigration issues, poverty in old age, mental illness, war, inner city schools, taking necessary measures to save the biosphere that cost jobs, and many others will not be reduced to manageable proportions, much less solved, until human life is reorganized so that most people who need decent employment are able to find it. Would you agree? I call employment a bottleneck problem. If it is not solved, many other problems will not be solved either.
→ read full articleRevisiting the Earth Charter
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Ron Engel has articulated an insider review of the Earth Charter so thoughtfully, urbanely, and persuasively that my initial temptation was to restrict my response to a single word: ‘Amen!’ Yet I am familiar enough with the academic ways of gathering diverse voices to explore a topic or to evaluate the scholarship of a distinguished author, as to discard my one-word option.
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US Bombs Are Killing Children in Yemen. Does Anybody Care?
Moustafa Bayoumi – The Guardian,
3 Sep 2018
25 Aug 2018 – This is not a column about Donald Trump. It’s also not about Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen or Robert Mueller, and it’s certainly not about Rudolph Giuliani and his way with words. On the contrary, this is a column about the things we are not paying attention to, and why we should. A lot of bad things can happen when people aren’t looking. The lack of outrage at the US’s key role in this humanitarian disaster raises troubling questions.
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Philippines’ Duterte Shops for Arms on Controversial Israel Trip
Oliver Holmes – The Guardian,
3 Sep 2018
2 Sep 2018 – The Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, who once compared himself to Hitler and his bloody war on drugs to the Holocaust, will meet the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday [3 Sep] on a first visit by a Filipino head of state to Israel.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il neo–fascismo, ondata planetaria
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
13 agosto 2018 – Il fascismo è una derivazione del fondamentalismo portata all’estremo, con ampia tradizione in quasi tutte le culture. L’Occidente come uno dei più violenti fondamentalisti. Immagina che la sua cultura è la migliore del mondo, possiede la religione migliore l’unica vera, la miglior forma di governo, la democrazia, il migliore apparato tecnico scientifico che ha cambiato la faccia del pianeta e che ha dato la capacità di distruggere tutti gli esseri umani e parte della biosfera con le sue armi letali.
→ read full articleThe Cell Phone and the Virgin (2018): A Montreal Odyssey
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Curtin’s primary odyssey was to try to unmask the true font of power in the contemporary world. The world had suffered a series of radical breaks with historical continuity and loss of identity with place, starting shortly after Adams was born in the mid-nineteenth century. Space and time had been contracted by the new technology. Adams had contemplated the dynamo. The computerized cell phone was its current symbol, and its evil twin the concentrated power of nuclear weapons. The modern mind had suffered severe dislocation and confusion.
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BDS: How a Controversial Non-Violent Movement Has Transformed the Israeli-Palestinian Debate
Nathan Thrall – The Guardian,
27 Aug 2018
14 Aug 2018 – Israel sees the international boycott campaign as an existential threat to the Jewish state. Palestinians regard it as their last resort.
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(Français) Proche conseiller d’Obama, Ben Rhodes reconnait que les Etats-Unis ont armé les jihadistes en Syrie
Tyler Durden | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
20 Août 2018 – Quelqu’un a finalement osé demander à des officiels du gouvernement Obama d’assumer leur responsabilité dans l’aide à Daesh et l’armement des jihadistes en Syrie. Au cours d’un large entretien intitulé « Examen des conséquences de la politique étrangère d’Obama », l’analyste Mehdi Hasan pose la question à Ben Rhodes, longtemps conseiller national à la sécurité à la Maison Blanche sous Obama.
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Europe to Ban Halogen Lightbulbs
Arthur Neslen – The Guardian,
27 Aug 2018
23 Aug 2018 – After nearly 60 years of brightening our homes and streets, halogen lightbulbs will finally be banned across Europe on 1 September.
→ read full articleIt Is Confusing, but I Dream
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
12 Aug 2018 – “It is dark, but I sing because tomorrow will come”, poet Thiago de Mello proclaimed in the somber epoch of the 1964 civil-military dictatorship in Brazil. “It is confusing but I dream”, I say in these, no less somber, times. No one can take our dreams away. Dreams anticipate the future and announce the tomorrow.
→ read full article(Castellano) El neo-fascismo, ola mundial
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
12 agosto 2018 – El fascismo es una derivación extrema del fundamentalismo que tiene una larga tradición en casi todas las culturas. El Occidente imagina que su cultura es la mejor del mundo, que tiene la mejor religión, la única verdadera, la mejor forma de gobierno, la democracia, la mejor tecnociencia, que ha cambiado la faz del planeta y que le ha conferido la capacidad de destruir a todos los seres humanos y parte de la biosfera con sus armas letales.
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A Writer’s Last Port of Call: V.S. Naipaul
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
V. S. Naipaul, the Nobel winning author who just died, was, like so many people, an enigma, at least in his writing. He once said that fiction never lies, and while this may or may not be true, it is true that writers whose politics one may find repulsive can also, despite their conscious intentions, write books that glow with an extraordinary prose luminescence that mesmerizes and reveals deep insights.
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Howard Zinn and Michael Powell,
20 Aug 2018
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
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Jury Finds Monsanto Liable in the First Roundup Cancer Trial – Here’s What Could Happen Next
Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens – The Conversation,
20 Aug 2018
A jury concluded on 10 Aug 2018 that exposure to the herbicide Roundup caused Dewayne Johnson’s cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages. Thousands more claims are pending.
→ read full articleThe Future of NATO: An Interview
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
11 Aug 2018 – An interview with Daniel Falcone on the future of NATO that considers Trump’s brazen challenges and the tepid responses of European political leaders, and what this interplay signifies for the future of world order… Alarm bells should be ringing through the night at maximum volume, but so far the silences outweigh the noise as the world slouches toward catastrophe, chaos, and cruelty.
→ read full articleThe Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
Unless we enter into deep contemplation of the evil that was released into the world with those bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we are lost in a living hell without escape. And we will pay. Nemesis always demands retribution. We have gradually been accepting rule by those for whom the killing of innocents is child’s play, and we have been masquerading as innocent and good children for whom the truth is too much to bear.
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Dengue Fever Outbreak Halted by Release of Special Mosquitoes
Sarah Boseley – The Guardian,
13 Aug 2018
Insects unable to transmit viruses halted disease in Australian city – now scientists hope same technique could help tackle Zika and malaria.
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‘I Still Have Flashbacks’: The ‘Global Epidemic’ of LGBT Conversion Therapy
Chitra Ramaswamy – The Guardian,
13 Aug 2018
8 Aug 2018 – Mathew Shurka was 16 when he sat down with his father and told him he was gay. He ended up in conversion therapy for five years and saw four therapists in four states at a cost of $35,000. He was instructed to use Viagra when having sex with women. He was told he was a “classic case” of someone with too many female role models and was instructed to avoid his mother and sisters. “As part of my treatment, I didn’t talk to them for three years,” despite living under the same roof.
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‘The Arab International Forum for Justice for Palestine’ – Beirut 29 Jul 2018
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
1 Aug 2018 – The time is ripe for civil society to represent the Palestinian people in their struggle against the Israeli apartheid regime. This struggle is just and the means being pursued are legitimate. Resistance and solidarity are the vital instruments by which to challenge apartheid, and its geopolitical support structure. This was the path that led to the collapse of South African apartheid, and a similar path is now available for the Palestinian struggle.
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Palestine, Israel, and the UN: A PassBlue Interview
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
4 Aug 2018 – The interview was initially published on July 17, 2018, and Dulcie managed to get me to talk more about my personal background than I intended, although most of the private disclosures were not in the published text. Part of the motivation for the interview stems, I suppose, from the bewilderment of how a Jewish boy from Manhattan’s West Side should become so committed to the Palestinian national struggle.
→ read full articleA Threat, Self Destruction and Peace
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
30 Jul 2018 – There is a general perception that humanity is not well situated, because an absurd accumulation of wealth in few hands exists in the midst of a sea of misery and hunger. The tragedies that touch us in the depth of our soul invite us to rethink the fundamentals of human coexistence in this new planetary phase and to care for our Common Home, the Earth.
→ read full articleThe Pinnacle of Evolution Is Life, Not the Human Being
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
22 Jul 2018 – In the understanding of the great cosmologists who study cosmo-genetics and bio-genetics, the culmination of this process is not the human being. The great event is life, in its immense diversity, and that which is essential to it: caring. The culmination of the cosmo-genetic process is not found through anthropocentrism, as if human beings were the center of everything, and other beings are only significant to the extent they are valuable to human beings.
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