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Good News at Last: World’s Largest Tropical Reforestation to Plant 73 Million Trees in Brazilian Amazon
Lorraine Chow| EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – The largest tropical reforestation effort in history aims to restore 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon by 2023. The multimillion dollar, six-year project, led by Conservation International, spans 30,000 hectares of land—the equivalent of the size of 30,000 soccer fields, or nearly 70,000 acres.
→ read full articleStand Up! Speak Out! To Prevent Nuclear War!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – The world may be closer to the brink of nuclear war than at any time in history! Click here to add your name to the People’s Peace Treaty. The People’s Peace Treaty will be sent to the governments and peoples of Korea, as well as to the U.S. government.
→ read full articleRequiem for the Promised Land
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – Sometime in the early 1900s my maternal grandparents threw caution to the wind and left Italy to settle in South Philadelphia… I wonder how they would feel, were they alive today, to know that a bright hard-working kid from the lower echelons of the ninety-nine percent would now have little chance to find a way; and that, come hell, high water, or both, the one percent would rather bring us all down than relinquish one ill-gotten buck.
→ read full articleWorld Votes to Lift Blockade on Cuba as US, Israel Vote ‘No’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – The U.N. General Assembly has voted 191 to 2 for the lifting of the U.S. blockade on Cuba as the United States and Israel were the only countries to vote against. Delegate after delegate called for the end of the blockade, highlighting the progressive and positive role Cuba plays in the international community.
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Ceeds of Peace 2017
Maya Soetoro-Ng, Ph.D. | Ceeds of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Maya Soetoro-Ng, Ph.D. is the founder of Ceeds of Peace. She is the maternal half-sister of the 44th U.S. President Barack Obama, has a rich background in global and multicultural education and lives in Hawaii. “We support and build bridges between families, community leaders and educators to share resources and develop action plans to strengthen our communities and improve our children’s lives.”
→ read full articleAfghanistan: From the Ground Up
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
30 Oct 2017 – On a recent Friday at the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ Borderfree Center, here in Kabul, thirty mothers sat cross-legged along the walls of a large meeting room. Masoumah, who co-coordinates the Center’s “Street Kids School” project, had invited the mothers to a parents meeting.
→ read full articleFacebook Provides Hoard of Personal Info to Authorities
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
30 Oct 2017 – Surveillance of Palestinians has always been part of Israel’s colonial project, but new technologies have made this surveillance even more intrusive and widespread. Israel particularly uses social media to monitor what individual Palestinians say and do, as well as to gather and analyze information on attitudes among the Palestinian public more broadly.
→ read full articleWho Is Afraid of the Iranian Bomb?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
4 Nov 2017 – I hate self-evident truths. Ideals may be self-evident. Political statements are not. When I hear about a self-evident political truth, I immediately doubt it. The most self-evident political truth at this moment concerns Iran. Iran is our deadly enemy. Iran wants to destroy us. We must destroy its capabilities first.
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Singin’ in the Rain (Music Video of the Week)
Gene Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
A Classic! 1952 musical-romantic comedy directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds
→ read full articleMyanmar’s “Ethnic Cleansing” of Rohingyas and the Indifference of Aung San Suu Kyi and Her Western Supporters
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
30 Oct 2017 – Feb 2006-dated Confidential Dispatch from Bangladesh High Commission in Myanmar
→ read full articleCatalunya: Culture of War or Culture of Peace?
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – It seems that the people of Catalunya will vote in December whether to declare independence from Spain, i.e. to form a separate state. If someone were to ask my advice about this election, I would say that it risks becoming a decision to move Catalunya towards the culture of war. There are good alternative for Catalunya, apart from secession.
→ read full article(Português) Adoecemos a Terra e a Terra nos adoece
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
28 out 2017 – De uma ou de outra forma, todos nos sentimos doentes física, psíquica e espiritualmente. Há muito sofrimento, desamparo, tristeza e decepção que afetam grande parte da humanidade. Já o dissemos aqui: da recessão econômica passamos à depressão psicológica. A causa principal deriva da intrínseca relação existente entre o ser humano e a Terra viva. Entre ambos vigora um envolvimento recíproco.
→ read full articleTelling the Truth about World War I
James MacLean – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
The politicians who were organizing the slaughter in the trenches knew that they had to lie. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George confided to the editor of the Guardian, C.P. Scott, on 27 December 1917, “If people really knew, the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don’t know, and can’t know.”
→ read full articleIndia’s Rohingya Realpolitik
Niranjan Sahoo | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
India’s muted reaction to the Rohingya exodus from Myanmar/Burma is worthy of note, as there had been high expectations that it would help diffuse this state-orchestrated humanitarian crisis.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Weapons Convention: An Open Letter to the Danish Parliament
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
31 Oct 2017 – Until now, Denmark has been slow to support the recently-adopted Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. I respectfully urge you to support the Treaty and the proposed 2018 nuclear summit meeting for the following reasons:
→ read full articleIs Israel Winning “the War between the Wars” with Iran/Hezbollah?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
3 Nov 2017 – Lebanese analysts argue that Hezbollah is paying the price for getting involved in Syria. Part of that price is its lost image as a “Resistance” organization, costing the lives of thousands of young Shia men… The destitute population in South Syria, some rebels and government supporters, those who claim to be apolitical and thousands of internally displaced Syrians are learning of Israel’s “Good Neighbor” policy and the number seeking and receiving aid is growing.
→ read full articleGandhi’s 1940 Letter to Adolf Hitler: Seek Peace or Someone Will ‘Beat You with Your Own Weapon’
Harrison Jacobs | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Mohandas Gandhi, frequently known by the honorific Mahatma (meaning “great soul”), was famous for advocating civil disobedience and nonviolence to achieve his goals. Here is the full version, which is the longer of Gandhi’s two letters to Hitler.
→ read full articleOn Cosmodignifiers: A Futurist Reflection
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
A Dialogue between Two Futurists, A and B
→ read full articleRaimon Panikkar (2 Nov 1918 – 26 Aug 2010): A Bridge between Cultures
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Raimon Panikkar, an Indian Roman Catholic theologian well versed in Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist and Western philosophical thought developed the need for “cultural disarmament.”
→ read full article(Français) « Le monde malade de la finance »
Henri Houben | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Jamais dans l’histoire, la finance n’a pris autant de place. Jamais elle n’a brassé des sommes aussi gigantesques. Les échanges quotidiens de devises se montent à plus de 5.000 milliards de dollars. Cela correspond à deux-trois jours de réserves dans toutes les banques centrales du monde. La dette des ménages, des entreprises et des pouvoirs publics à l’égard des établissements de crédit représente environ deux fois et demie le Produit intérieur brut (PIB) dans les Etats les plus puissants.
→ read full articleLao Tzu’s Four Rules for Living – How to Live an Inspired and Peaceful Life
Azriel ReShel | Films For Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
22 Oct 2017 – Many centuries ago, Lao Tzu, spoke of the four cardinal virtues, teaching that when we practice them as a way of life, we come to know the truth of the universe. The ancient Chinese master said that living and practicing these teachings can open you to higher wisdom and greater happiness, as they realign you to the source and enable you to access all the powers that source energy has to offer.
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Gandhian Strategy
Sunanda Sharma | Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal & Gandhi Research Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
The Gandhian strategy is the combination of truth, sacrifice, nonviolence, selfless service and cooperation. According to Gandhi one should be brave and not a coward and should present his views, suggestions and thoughts without being violent. One should fight a war with the weapons of truth and nonviolence. Gandhi said that “There is no god higher than truth.” According to his thoughts, nonviolence is ultimate solution of every kind of problem in the world.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Nov 6-12, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” – Unknown
→ read full articleQuality-of-life Floor and Wealth Ceiling: A House We Can All Live in
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
The house in which we all can live has a quality-of-life floor with a minimum material living standard and a ceiling of maximum material personal wealth. It can be built by harnessing the boundless energy of inclusive populism, or “people-ism”. It would need to be constructed on the most stable foundation possible, one of “equi-archy” (term Galtung uses to describe an egalitarian structure, as opposed to hierarchy and oligarchy).
→ read full articleNobility and Relevance of Lord Ram
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
We look forward to persons who are good, noble and trustworthy and who inspire us to follow in their footsteps. Ramayana is a powerful and absorbing story that reinforces the nobility and relevance of Lord Ram both as divinity and as a human being that is cherished not only by millions of Indians but by people all over the contemporary world.
→ read full articleHow Israel Forces Confessions from Jerusalem Boys
Maureen Clare Murphy | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
26 Oct 2017 – Abuse of child detainees part of wider aim to encourage Palestinians to leave the city.
→ read full articleReconciliation in Northern Nigeria – The Space for Public Apology
African Books Collective – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
In this book, Dr. Olufemi Oluniyi takes a fresh look at Muslim-Christian violence which has become synonymous with the name of Northern Nigeria. It is fresh in the sense that he takes a historical approach to the problem, dating back to the founding of Northern Nigeria. This approach inevitably brings to the fore the culpability of the colonial government for the institutionalisation of inequality.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Nach dem Ende des Dialogs – gegen den Bürgerkrieg
Mario Candeias | Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Die Erklärung der Unabhängigkeit in Katalonien und Rajoys Reaktion
→ read full articleWhat Do You Want from Me, Fatal Fate?
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
What do you want from me, fatal fate?
What’s the reason to play a double game?
Why do you think I like fame?
UNIFA, the University of the Aristide Foundation in Haiti
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
August 2017 – A Message from the Friends of UNIFA submitted by TRANSCEND, HAC member Marilyn Langlois. – The University of the Aristide Foundation is a high quality, multidiscipline, accredited university taught by Haitian and international professors prominent in their fields.
→ read full articleReimagining Intercourse between the Righteous Unrightly Challenged
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Attraction and Harassment in Psychodynamic Terms beyond the Binary Blame-Game
→ read full articleAn Urgent Need to Transform World’s Energy Systems
António Guterres – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Symposium on ‘Global Energy Interconnection: Advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.’ – “When we discuss global interconnection in relation to energy, we are at the centre of the two key words that express our global concerns – sustainability and inclusivity.”
→ read full articleJokes to Be Taken Seriously
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
The philosophers of ancient Greece concluded that by far the wisest among them was Socrates. They went to him and asked how he had become so wise.
→ read full articleNew Study Confirms High-Pesticide Produce Linked to Lower Fertility Rates
Dan Nosowitz | Modern Farmer, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
2 Nov 2017 – Studies have previously tied higher rates of exposure to pesticides to decreased male fertility. But a new study from researchers at Harvard University takes a look specifically at women who are already undergoing infertility treatment. And the results seem to have surprised even the researchers.
→ read full articleOrganizations Warn Covert Geoengineering Programs Fuel Unprecedented Firestorms
Dane Wigington | Geoengineering Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
2 Nov 2017 – The extremely destructive and deadly firestorms in California were not simply an act of nature or a result of global warming. Extensive and compelling evidence implicates “climate intervention” programs (also known as “geoengineering”) as a major factor in the firestorm catastrophes. Geoengineering is the science term that applies to processes of climate intervention on a global scale. Climate engineering programs are completely disrupting natural weather and climate cycles all over the world, destroying the ozone layer, and decreasing the overall hydrological cycle (which, in turn, fuels record drought and firestorms).
→ read full articleA Tax on the Arms Trade to Fund Peacebuilding?
Michael Brzoska | Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
An old idea has recently come up again in the search for new funds for peacebuilding.
→ read full articleMahatma Gandhi’s South African Experience – A Unique Model of Transformation
Ela Gandhi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Mahatma Gandhi was neither a philosopher nor an academic and although a prolific writer he was not an author and hence as he himself said “my life is my message”. His political strategy of Satyagraha has received much coverage, but the spiritual and personal changes have not been covered with the same degree of importance. Here I present those areas of his philosophy of life that in fact informed and developed his political thoughts.
→ read full article(Italiano) Frattanto, nel mondo…
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
18 ottobre 2017 -C’è stato quello che può risultare il più violento massacro bianco USA di sempre: 59 uccisi dal 32° piano di un albergo di Las Vegas. L’assassino viene ora criminalizzato, psichiatrizzato, individualizzato, caratterizzato. Ma il massacro è stato sistematico; con potenti forze per la competizione e per la violenza; ne consegue come la competizione USA sia la più violenta.
→ read full article(Português) A ideologia é como a sombra: sempre nos acompanha
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
24 out 2017 – O tema da ideologia está em pauta: ideologia de gênero, política, econômica, religiosa etc.Tentemos tirar a limpo esta questão.
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to End Violence and Avert Human Extinction
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
24 Oct 2017 – Around the world activists who are strategic thinkers face a daunting challenge to effectively tackle the multitude of violent conflicts, including the threat of human extinction, confronting human society in the early 21st century… Given the overwhelming violence that we must tackle, can we succeed? I do not know but I intend to fight, strategically, to the last breath. I hope that you will too.
→ read full articleLebanon’s Economy Is in Crisis – Granting Palestinians the Right to Work Will Help Fix It (Part 1)
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Is Lebanon’s Economy Heading for Free-Fall?
→ read full article(Català) Espanya vs Catalunya, Cataluña vs España
Alberto Andrés Aguirre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Si la independència és un fi en si mateix, poc es pot parlar ja. Si, de l’altra banda, no es reconeixen els drets històrics d’autogovern al màxim nivell, tampoc el diàleg serà possible. Però entre les dues posicions extremes hi ha un ample marge de possibilitats per aconseguir un acord de convivència, almenys per al segle XXI. Cal intentar-ho, directament o amb mediadors experimentats que els condueixin si no els és possible sols.
→ read full articleLebanon’s Economy Is in Crisis – Granting Palestinians the Right to Work Will Help Fix It (Part 2)
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
26 Oct 2017 – Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, the offspring of nearly 800,000 ethnically cleansed from their homes in Palestine during the 1948-50 Nakba, are today variously labeled by their Lebanese hosts as “refugees” or sometimes described as a particular category of “quasi-residents.” Or as “foreigners.”
→ read full articleStatement by Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 – What is undeniable is that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from northern Rakhine and that hundreds of their villages have been torched and burnt down. Yet Myanmar’s State Counsellor asked us to consider the 50 per cent of Muslim villages that have not been destroyed. The Commander-in-Chief then suggested the number of those who have fled has been exaggerated. And the Minister responsible for the safe return of those who have fled speculated that the hundreds of thousands of people who fled did so as a ploy to give an appearance of ethnic cleansing.
→ read full article100 Years On: The Balfour Declaration Explained
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
29 Oct 2017 – This week, Palestinians around the world are marking 100 years since the Balfour Declaration was issued on 2 Nov 1917, which turned the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine into a reality when Britain publicly pledged to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” there – paving the way for the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
→ read full articlePraying for the Moths and Beetles
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 – “. . . insects as a group are in terrible trouble and the remorselessly expanding human enterprise has become too much, even for them.” And instantly I’m beyond the realm of anything I know, as I consider the gradual disappearance not of whales but of . . . beetles, moths and hoverflies, thanks to the human enterprise we call civilization.
→ read full article(Français) Élections régionales au Venezuela : large victoire du chavisme et… nouvelle défaite de la droite et des médias
Thierry Deronne | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017 – Les bolivariens remportent une large victoire avec 17 états contre 5 pour l’opposition. Celle-ci gagne notamment dans les états stratégiques de Mérida, Táchira, Zulia, proches de la Colombie, foyers de violence paramilitaire. Les bolivariens récupèrent trois états historiquement gouvernés par la droite.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (19) Bertha von Suttner
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Bertha von Suttner, famous antiwar author, friend and mentor of Alfred Nobel without whose advice to him the Peace Prize would not exist, early leader of the peace movement, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleHow a Seemingly Bad Luck Can Turn Out to Be a Good Luck
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
How a Loss Can Turn into a Gain – What looked like a total disaster at first turned out to be a lucky coincidence.
→ read full articleMyanmar Shows Off Its Israeli Weapons
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017 – Myanmar has been showing off its new gunboats, confirming that Israel is supplying the country with weapons in spite of official secrecy. Amid ethnic cleansing of Rohingya, Israel envoy offers PR advice.
→ read full articleChina Just Shut Down Thousands of Factories to Fight Pollution
Global Citizen | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
24 Oct 2017 – In an unprecedented crackdown on pollution, the Chinese government shut down tens of thousands of factories in an effort to improve air quality throughout industrial regions in the country.
→ read full articleMediation Culture for Conflict Transformation
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Four important concepts: mediation, culture, conflict, transformation. What do they stand for and how do they relate to each other?
→ read full articlePalestinian Villages Hidden Under Israeli Forests
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Saffuriya was one of more than 500 Palestinian villages ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948, during the Nakba. Journalist Jonathan Cook explains how Israel quickly acted to raze the villages so the 750,000 refugees could not return and then covered up these war crimes by planting forests over the ruins.
→ read full articleJFK Files: Cover-Up Continues of President’s Assassination
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
28 Oct 2017 – The murder of President John F Kennedy 54 years ago has been described as the “crime of the century”. If US and Western news media cannot discuss this seminal event openly and honestly, let alone investigate it, then what does that say about their credibility? Among the many crucial witnesses recorded over the years, here below are a select few. Their testimonies show that the murder of Kennedy was a much darker “crime of the century” than the mainstream media would ever explore.
→ read full articleIndependent International Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar Conclude Visit to Bangladesh
UH High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
27 Oct 2017 – Three United Nations human rights experts concluded their first fact finding mission in Bangladesh today “deeply disturbed” by accounts of killings, torture, rape, arson and aerial attacks reportedly perpetrated against the Rohingya community in Myanmar.
→ read full articleBitter Taste of Life
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
I am rolling along endless way,
Trying to find my own place in this life,
Feeling the sharp edge of bloody knife,
Israel Maintains Robust Arms Trade with Rogue Regimes
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017- Human rights activists are stepping up efforts to expose Israel’s long and covert history of supplying weapons and military training to regimes while they actively commit massacres, ethnic cleansing and genocide. The issue of Israel’s trade with rogue regimes has been thrust into the spotlight again after revelations that it is sending weapons to Myanmar, in defiance of a US and European arms embargo.
→ read full articlePickled Cucumbers
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
28 Oct 2017 – HALLELUJAH! AT long last I have found a point on which I agree with Binyamin Netanyahu. Really!
→ read full articleA Polemic against Liberal Analyses of the Rohingya Crisis
Tim Frewer | Tea Circle Oxford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
19 Oct 2017 – In this time of suffering it is crucial to remain indefatigable to the political realities of a slow burning genocide. Rather than obscuring the forces and processes that allow large scale violence to occur, it is urgent to keep these forces and their effects at the centre of accounts of the unfolding tragedy. The way events are framed and talked about have important political ramifications at all levels. It is the political feebleness of liberal analysis that makes it ideal as a discursive tool on the part of so many states and actors that wish to remain apathetic towards the Rohingya cause.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.” — Joyce Meyer
→ read full articleAs ISIS Flees, Syrian Troops Find Arms Cache from US, NATO
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
24 Oct 2017 – The Syrian Armed Forces have discovered a large cache of military arsenal from Western countries left behind by the Islamic State group as its forces fled the city of al-Mayadin. “We have encountered a huge arsenal of advanced U.S., British and Belgian weaponry,” said Syrian General Hasan Suhel.
→ read full articleMicro Insurance: A Critical Need for India’s Poor
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
27 Oct 2017 – Finance is the cementing force that holds all the pieces of our life together. It enables money to be in the right place, at the right time, and for the right situation. Thus from just being a safety net, micro insurance provides benefits that earlier generations could never imagine – hope in the future.
→ read full articleMigration 2017
TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
World’s Violence/Environment Reality – Not a Joke!
→ read full article(Italiano) Antropocene e Ecocene: Due Ere Geologiche a Confronto
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
2 ottobre, 2017 – Il primo a elaborare una ecologia della Terra come un tutto è stato il geochimico russo Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky. Lui ha conferito carattere scientifico all’espressione “biosfera” creata nel 1875 dal geologo austriaco Eduard Suess. Negli anni 70, insieme a James Lovelock, si sviluppò la teoria di Gaia, la Terra che si comporta come un superorganismo vivo che sempre produce e riproduce vita. Gaia, nome greco per la Terra viva, non è argomento da New Age, ma il risultato di minuziosa osservazione scientifica.
→ read full articleShifting Blame as US Agenda Unfolds in Myanmar
Tony Cartalucci | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 – Suu Kyi’s regime will continue being granted relative impunity across the West despite the fact that it is her own support base carrying out anti-Rohingya violence. The crisis will be leveraged to thwart China’s economic inroads and prop up a burgeoning US-European diplomatic and military presence in the country. Voices across the media exposing US plans will make it increasingly difficult for the US and its partners to maneuver in Myanmar.
→ read full articleHow the United States Crippled Haiti’s Rice Industry
Leslie Mullin | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
The story of Haitian rice begins in Africa, where rice has sustained African peoples for centuries. Rice was so basic to the West African diet that it was an essential provision on slave ships, accompanying captive Africans to Brazil, the Caribbean and the southern United States. Today, testament to 10 million souls kidnapped from their homeland, every region touched by the African diaspora has its own unique version of rice and beans.
→ read full articleThe Kennedy Assassination
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
28 Oct 2017 – The medical “evidence” that Kennedy was hit from behind was falsified by medical doctors under orders. Navy medical corpsmen who helped the Navy doctors with the autopsy testified that they were dismayed by orders from Admiral Calvin Galloway to ignore entry wounds from the front. One of the corpsmen testified “all at once I understood that my country was not much better than a third world country. From that point on in time, I have had no trust, no respect for the government.”
→ read full articleNorway’s Parliament Must Change Its Routine for Selection of the Nobel Committee and Legislators Must Comply with the Law
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017 – The Storting must choose those best suited to promote Nobel’s intention. The prize has long been disconnected from the peace ideas Nobel wished to support; it has lacked direction, idea, and of will to challenge the belief in military power. A promising winner for 2017 is reason for hope that the prize will improve. The parliament will select a new Nobel Committee only in a month’s time–and we fear the worst.
→ read full articleBalfour Declaration: How Britain Broke Its Feeble Promise to the Palestinians
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
30 Oct 2017 – Palestinian objections to the 2 Nov 1917 document are well-known. Britain’s Lord Balfour had no right to promise a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, on the land of another people. But Israelis have been taught a different history in which they, not the Palestinians, were betrayed.
→ read full articleMyanmar Must Nurture Its People as Assets, Not Treat Them as ‘Threats’
Maung Zarni | Dainik Shiksha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
22 Oct 2017 – “In society at large, Islamophobia, dating back to the colonial era and violent anti-Rohingya racism have poisoned the minds of a generally acquiescing and decent public.”
→ read full articleWomen Drivers
TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
No comment…
→ read full articleNew Report Reveals Damning Details of Palestinian Minors Held in Israeli Detention
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 – A new report by Israeli NGOs B’tselem and HaMoked, released today, reveals the damning details of Israeli mistreatment of detained Palestinian minors in occupied East Jerusalem. It found that Israel does not act in accordance with the law when interrogating and arresting children. “These teenagers are taken into custody in the middle of the night from their bedrooms and handcuffed,” the report spells. “They are interrogated without proper access to a lawyer or their parents, so that they do not fully understand their rights.”
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Universal Soldier (Music Video of the Week)
Buffy Sainte-Marie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
Music with a Social Consciousness
→ read full articleClinton, Assange and the War on Truth
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – Wading through the Clinton book, What Happened, is an unpleasant experience, like a stomach upset. Smears and tears. Threats and enemies. “They” (voters) were brainwashed and herded against her by the odious Donald Trump in cahoots with sinister Slavs sent from the great darkness known as Russia, assisted by an Australian “nihilist”, Julian Assange.
→ read full articleInsectageddon
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
The scale and speed of environmental collapse is beyond imagination. Flying insects surveyed on nature reserves in Germany have declined by 76% in 27 years. The most likely cause of this Insectageddon is that the land surrounding those reserves has become hostile to them: the volume of pesticides and the destruction of habitat have turned farmland into a wildlife desert.
→ read full articleNi Hao Ma — Learning Foreign Languages for Pleasure and Joy
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
26 Oct 2017 – Languages are often a bridge to friendship– making friends with strangers in different countries or even in a different city in a multilingual country like India. Learning languages and the associated cultures is popular all over the world. It is a joyful and pleasurable experience.
→ read full articleMissing Links for Peace, Civility, Social Well-Being
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
We will keep missing out if we insist on relying solely on our intellect, acquired knowledge, reason and intelligence; human potential encompasses much more. The process of living peacefully rests also on degrees of spiritual-emotional [not religious] evolution. It all starts and grows within the individual and then manifests into society in myriad ways. Or not.
→ read full articleA Tribute to Johan Galtung on His 87th Birthday
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
As Global Citizens, How Can We Make a Dignifying Difference?
→ read full articleHow May We Fray
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
24 Oct 2017 – In celebration of Johan Galtung’s birthday that happens to be also the author’s.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize for Nuclear Disarmament
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017 – The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to ICAN. This is the third time that a non-governmental organization dedicated to disarmament receives this prestigious honor. During the past decade ICAN developed intense activity in the preparation and support of the negotiation of the prohibition of nuclear weapons, leading to their elimination. A treaty to that effect was adopted last July 7 at the United Nations.
→ read full articleWildfires Rage through Portugal and Spain, Kill at Least 39
Climate Nexus | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017 – Wildfires have killed at least 39 people in Spain and Portugal since Sunday [15 Oct]. Sixty-four people died in a wildfire in Portugal in June, and the country has declared a state of emergency in the northern region. “We are facing new (weather) conditions” due to climate change, the Portuguese Interior Minister told the press, as she also referenced the fires blazing in California.
→ read full article(Português) Cidadãos Globais Podem Fazer a Diferença – Como?
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Uma homenagem a JOHAN GALTUNG, criador da área de ESTUDOS DA PAZ.
→ read full article(Castellano) Espanya vs Catalunya, Cataluña vs España
Alberto Andrés Aguirre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Si la independencia es un fin en sí mismo, poco se puede hablar ya. Si, por el otro lado, no se reconocen los derechos históricos de autogobierno al máximo nivel, tampoco el diálogo será posible. Pero entre las dos posiciones extremas hay un amplio margen de posibilidades para lograr un acuerdo de convivencia, al menos para el siglo XXI. Merece la pena intentarlo, directamente o con mediadores experimentados que les conduzcan si no les es posible solos.
→ read full article(Português) Premio Nobel da Paz para o Desarmamento Nuclear
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
23 out 2017 – O Prêmio Nobel da Paz 2017 acaba de ser conferido à organização não governamental ICAN. É a terceira vez em que uma ONG dedicada ao desarmamento nuclear recebe essa prestigiosa honraria. Durante a década passada a ICAN desenvolveu intensa atividade na preparação e apoio de um tratado de proibição de armas nucleares, adotado em 7 de julho último pelas Nações Unidas.
→ read full articleHumanity’s Principal Challenge
Howard Richards and Ela Gandhi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – This paper was written for a seminar in Santiago, Chile, with TRANSCEND member Ela Gandhi, a granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi who continues his work. Each participant was asked to write three pages on the topic, “What is the principal challenge facing humanity today?”
→ read full article(Português) O povo do México deu um exemplo ao mundo
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Nos dias 19 e 23 de setembro, o México foi sacudido por dois terremotos, um de magnitude 7,1 e outro de 6,1 da escala Richter. O que chamou a atenção geral foi o espírito de solidariedade e de cooperação do povo mexicano. Sem que ninguém as conclamassem, milhares de pessoas, especialmente os jovens, se puseram a remover escombros para salvar as vítimas soterradas. Organizavam-se grupos espontaneamente e este espírito de solidariedade pode salvar muitas vidas.
→ read full article(Français) La motricité mutilée. L’empreinte écomotrice, c’est quoi?
Carlos Perez | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Écologue du mouvement, Carlos Perez poursuit sa réflexion au sujet de l’impact de notre modèle de production sur la santé et le bien-être des travailleurs. Il explique en quoi l’empreinte écomotrice permet d’évaluer cet impact. Il pointe également le paradoxe du moment : alors que tout semble mis en œuvre pour préserver l’environnement, l’exploitation des travailleurs est toujours poussée plus loin. N’y aurait-il aucun lien entre la protection de la nature et celle de l’être humain ?
→ read full articleHidden Fukushima Nuclear Waste Being Released into Ocean
ENENews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
5 Oct 2017 – ‘Surprisingly’ high levels of radiation now detected along Pacific coast and in groundwater far from reactors — Expert: No one expected this — “Alarming example of how radiation has spread.”
→ read full articleThe Martens Clause and War Crimes in Hawai‘i
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
16 Oct 2017 – Under international law, the United States committed war crimes when the Hawaiian Kingdom was invaded and occupied in1893. The criminal conduct by German, Austrian and Bulgarian officials against Serbia during the First World War are very similar to the criminal conduct by the USA against the Hawaiian Kingdom and its people in 1893.
→ read full articleRohingya Crisis Ruled as Genocide by Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal
Ali MC | Right Now/Human Rights in Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017 – The International Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal ruled the current Rohingya crisis as unequivocally “war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide”, denouncing the UN’s use of the term ethnic cleansing as a “euphemism.” The Tribunal also affirmed that the election of Aung San Suu Kyi had only brought about an “acceleration” of human rights abuses in an attempt to turn Myanmar into a “supreme Buddhist entity.”
→ read full articleNuclear Survivor from Japan
TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Touching message; I don’t know who did the video–or anything else.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Katalonienkrise: Die Staats-Nation ist das Problem
Hans-Ingo Radatz | Peira – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
In der andauernden Katalonienkrise ist stets nur von katalanischem Nationalismus die Rede; unser Autor warnt davor, darüber den spanischen Nationalismus zu übersehen, der einer Lösung vielleicht noch radikaler entgegensteht.
→ read full articleMaung Zarni: Military-Controlled Ethnocracy in Myanmar Causing Exodus of 100,000 Rohingyas Every Week
Fars News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
18 Oct 2017 – Activist and scholar Maung Zarni says that the plight of Muslim Rohingyas has gotten worse under the administration of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. He said that her leadership has been the direct product of the icon manufacturing by Western media and activists which was intended to give acceptability to what, he believes, is a “military-controlled ethnocracy, wrapped in Buddhism”.
→ read full articleWe Need Their Voices Today! (18) Edna St. Vincent Millay
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Edna St. Vincent Millay, eloquent poet with a deep concern for the future of humanity, we need your voice today!
→ read full articleMore Than 75 Percent Decline Over 27 Years in Total Flying Insect Biomass in Protected Areas
Caspar A. Hallmann , Martin Sorg, et al. | PLOS One – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
18 Oct 2017 – German researchers have reported a rapid drop in the number of flying insects at dozens of natural reserves. Many of the reserves involved are surrounded by farms and pesticides could be to blame. According to the report, between 1989 and 2016 the biomass of flying insects captured in 63 different locations in Germany – including grasslands, swamps and sand dunes – decreased by a seasonal average of 76%.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Oct 23-29, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.” — Tupac Shakur
→ read full articleNext System Media: An Urgent Necessity
Laura Flanders | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Laura Flanders, creator and host of the Laura Flanders Show, explores how new media models grounded in cooperation, community, and robust public support are needed to fight back against the corporate concentration that is strangling the public sphere.
→ read full articleWhat Everybody (Especially Pregnant Women) Should Know about Flu Shots
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
18 Oct 2017 – This column tries to de-mystify the aggressive annual campaign from Big Pharma, Big Media, Big Medicine to urge everybody to mindlessly “just get your damn shots” without being given a chance to think about it and perhaps ask about the potential downsides of getting the inoculation (look up “informed consent”).
→ read full article(Português) A perspectiva de Sócrates sobre a coisificação dos animais não humanos
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Essas reflexões de Sócrates envolvendo a exploração animal e o consumo de carne vão ao encontro do estudo da virtude. Ele dizia que é mais importante a busca do desenvolvimento humano do que a busca pela riqueza material – um dos principais motivos da exploração de animais enquanto produtos.
→ read full articleUN Special Advisers Statement on Crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
19 Oct 2017 – UN sources indicate that more than 530,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh. “Once again, our failure to stop atrocity crimes makes us complicit. When will we live up to our countless promises of ‘never again’?” the Special Advisers asked. The expression “atrocity crimes” refer to three crimes under international law: genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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