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Interview with TRANSCEND Member John Scales Avery, One of the Greatest Living Intellectuals on Earth
Binu Mathew | CounterCurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
John Avery is not just an academician and scientist. He is also an active peace activist who campaigns vigorously against nuclear proliferation. Since 1990 he has been the Contact Person in Denmark for Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, which received the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the Member of the Danish Peace Commission of 1998 and Chairman of the Danish Peace Academy.
→ 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,
20 Mar 2017
I want to end this statement by emphasizing that I have absolutely no reason whatsoever to present a biased, one-sided report. However, I have every reason to present the situation to reflect the reality, even if some may not like what I have to say. I believe this Council expects me to do exactly that by entrusting me with this mandate.
→ read full articleNorth Korea Tensions Pose Early, and Perilous, Test for Trump
David E. Sanger, Choe Sang-Hun, Chris Buckley and Michael R. Gordon – The New York Times,
20 Mar 2017
7 Mar 2017 – The United States began deploying a missile defense system in South Korea this week. China condemned the new antimissile system as a dangerous opening move in what it called America’s grand strategy to set up similar defenses across Asia, threatening to tilt the balance of power there against Beijing.
→ read full articleUN: Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid – Issue No. 1, Palestine and the Israeli Occupation
UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
[Note from the TMS Editor: This text has been removed from the ESCWA website. It is published here for Historical Record.]
15 Mar 2017 – Having established that the crime of apartheid has universal application, that the question of the status of the Palestinians as a people is settled in law, and that the crime of apartheid should be considered at the level of the State, the report sets out to demonstrate how Israel has imposed such a system on the Palestinians in order to maintain the domination of one racial group over others.
India, Brazil, Germany and Japan Open to Forgo Veto for Now if Granted UNSC Membership
Ajay Ghosh – The Universal News Network,
20 Mar 2017
In a joint statement delivered by India’s Representative to the UN on March 8, the G4 nations emphasized that an overwhelming majority of the UN member states supports the expansion of both permanent and non-permanent membership in a reformed UN Security Council.
→ read full articleWorld Politics-Economics Right Now
Johan Galtung,
20 Mar 2017
The net conclusion? The enormous US imbalance: no longer winning wars, less political clout, economically bankrupt but still powerful, shaping the world culturally. Wise US policy would celebrate the last two; unwise policy would Make America Great Again-military-political, as Trump wants. Drop “Again” Mr. Trump, Make America Great! Will do. And wise world policy? Celebrate the military-political decline of the last superpower, fight lex americana, treat US$ like any other currency–in baskets with others or not–and the US federal reserve bank like other central banks. Normalize the USA from the outside.
→ read full articleThe Sustaining Fires of Standing Rock: A Movement Grows
Roy Eidelson – CounterPunch,
20 Mar 2017
Regardless of the pipeline’s final disposition in the federal courts, Energy Transfer Partners and its cronies have unleashed a counterforce that may well exceed their comprehension and control. While digging for dollars they’ve awakened a movement that combines a long-overdue commitment to addressing the trampled rights of Native Americans with a reinvigorated call for climate justice and environmental action.
→ read full articleLeading Psychiatrists Follow Top-Dog Bankers’ Guide to Career Advancement
Bruce E. Levine – CounterPunch,
20 Mar 2017
14 Mar 2017 – It should not be surprising that cynicism is increasingly the U.S. national pastime, as we regularly observe top-dog bankers avoiding criminal prosecution for crimes they preside over, and we see prominent psychiatrists gaining career advancement after disgraceful actions. In 2008, Delbello was included in a Congressional investigation on psychiatrists violating federal and university regulations in their receipt of large sums of money from drug companies.
→ read full articleA Structural Theory of Aging
Johan Galtung,
13 Mar 2017
Wikipedia has much to offer under “aging”. Highly recommended are the 10 points by the world’s oldest living man, 114, Walter Breuning. However, older persons, like me at 86, know their own aging best. Rule no. 1: Keep mind and body active; maintain a good nutrition.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks’ Latest CIA Data Dump Undermines Case against Russia Election Hack
Dave Lindorff - CounterPunch,
13 Mar 2017
10 Mar 2017 – The so-called Deep State and Democratic Party campaign to demonize Russia for allegedly “hacking the US election,” and delivering the country into the hands of Donald Trump suffered a huge and probably mortal blow this week with the release by WikiLeaks of over 7000 secret CIA documents disclosing secret CIA hacking technologies.
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Maung Zarni’s Analysis of the Military in Burma/Myanmar
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Understanding Myanmar Military and Its Strategic Paradigm
→ read full articleMusic and Politics: How Much Will It Matter Again?
Daniel Martin - CounterPunch,
13 Mar 2017
Back when I was in college, rock and roll historian Barry Drake came and gave a lecture titled “60’s Rock”, When the Music Mattered”. At least here in the United States, these were years of great unrest on a societal and political level. Whether it was the civil rights movement, the assassination of our greatest leaders, or the Vietnam War and its protests, these events were accompanied by and often directly interwoven with the music of the time. And heck, the decade gave us the Beatles and Motown, and birthed the sounds we currently consider “classic rock”, as well as other innovations.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi and the World of Buddhist Islamophobia
Maung Zarni – Al Jazeera,
13 Mar 2017
Myanmar’s Muslim minority, demonised and persecuted for decades, is facing a fresh wave of violence amid media silence. “Suu Kyi’s denial of what Human Rights Watch has called “ethnic cleansing” and “crimes against humanity” deserves international scrutiny,” writes Maung Zarni.
→ read full articleWhy Everyone but NATO Live Happily with Russia
Jonathan Power | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Jonathan Power turns around the perspective – something seldom done in Western debate: What’s the reason that NATO is the only one around the world that has a negative relation to Russia today? And insists on having it? Trump proposes a huge increase in military spending but the U.S. already spends more than the next seven biggest spenders combined, China and Russia included!
→ read full articleA Nuclear Weapons Ban Should First Do No Harm to the NPT
Adam Mount and Richard Nephew | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Simple additions to the text of a new ban treaty would keep it from being used as a cover for non-compliance with the existing non-proliferation regime.
→ read full article(Italiano) Storia: Epoche o Andamenti – La Spagna Medievale
Johan Galtung – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
La storia si dispiega sul tempo o nel tempo, la variabile fondamentale, l’asse delle X. Gli eventi sono punti. Gli andamenti sono curve di forme diverse, non necessariamente continue, possono anche essere ‘intermittenti’. E gli stati permanenti sono linee orizzontali fissate a un determinato valore. Punti, curve, linee; con i libri a indicare relazioni altamente complesse di antefatto-fatto-effetto.
→ read full article(Italiano) Pace fra Cina e Giappone
Johan Galtung – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Tema base: Nuova visione di pace in Est-Asia – Dialogo di pace Sino-Giapponese. Nanjing, 22-23 Feb 2017 ~ Come insegna la filosofia buddhista, la pace, come la violenza e il conflitto, è una relazione; non un attributo della Cina o del Giappone. Come insegna la filosofia taoista, in un holon [=insieme, ndt] come l’Est-Asia ci sono forze e controforze, yin/yang, con yin e yang in entrambi [gli opposti], & così via.
→ read full articleDalai Lama Adds Voice to Pope’s in Calling for the Persecution of Rohingya to End
Lindsay Murdoch | People’s Tribunal on Myanmar – The Sydney Morning Herald,
6 Mar 2017
3 Mar 2017 – The Dalai Lama has joined Pope Francis in calling for Myanmar Buddhists to end violence against Rohingya Muslims in what the United Nations says amounts to ethnic cleansing and possibly crimes against humanity.
→ read full article‘White Helmets’ — Pawns for U.S. Militarism
Sara Flounders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
1 Mar 2017 – No Surprise! The White Helmets won an Oscar Award for best documentary short feature. The much-hyped White Helmets is not a Syrian organization, nor was it created by Syrians, nor is it educational. It is a U.S.-British creation. Former British Army officer James Le Mesurier, self-described as a British “security” specialist, founded it. He previously worked for Blackwater, the mercenary organization universally condemned for its murderous brutality in Iraq.
→ read full articleEnd of Mission Statement by Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights– TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Yet in spite of what they experienced, over and again I heard that what they want is to be accepted as Rohingya, to be able to go back to their home country, to be treated equally, to be treated as human beings. There are some who said they want justice, and when I probed what they meant by justice, most said they want their homes returned to them and to be able to live in peace. One said, “I want justice for those who were murdered and raped; I want those who murdered and raped brought to justice.”
→ read full articleThe Role of Biodiversity Scientists in a Troubled World
Arturo Gómez-Pompa | American Institute of Biological Sciences, Oxford University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
As a society, we are torn apart by conflicting views on issues of enormous importance. In the debate on many of these issues, both sides have persuasive arguments for their position. I hear convincing views from opposite extremes: pro-war or antiwar, pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian, pro-GMO or anti-GMO, pro-life or pro-choice, pro-bioprospecting or anti-bioprospecting. I feel the anguish of having to take sides on issues I do not know well and whose reconciliation seems impossible.
→ read full articleLatin America and the Caribbean Could Be First Developing Region to Eradicate Hunger
UN Food and Agriculture Organization – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States food security plan offers a clear pathway to zero hunger within ten years, FAO Director-General says.
→ read full articleThe “Karma Year” and Current Conflicts
Johan Galtung,
6 Mar 2017
An Unstable World: Analysis, Forecasting, Solutions
→ read full articleThe Three Trump Administrations
Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
24 Feb 2017 – Foreign and national defense ministries around the world, as well as embassies in Washington, DC, are struggling to ascertain who is actually in charge of the U.S. government one month after Donald Trump was sworn in as president of the United States. It is a fair question, considering the conflicting statements issuing forth from the White House, State Department, and the Pentagon.
→ read full articleFukushima: A Lurking Global Catastrophe?
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
19 Feb 2017 – Year over year, ever since 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown grows worse and worse, an ugly testimonial to the inherent danger of generating electricity via nuclear fission, which produces isotopes, some of the most deadly poisonous elements on the face of the planet.
→ read full articleUnique Aleppo Photos Seen by over 100.000 People but Not in Mainstream Media
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
21 Feb 2017 – It’s probably unusual that a research organisation’s photos go viral – and do so in spite of the mainstream media’s manifest lack of interest in their story. But the photos I took in Aleppo in Syria December 10-14, 2016 have been seen here by well over 100.000 people around the world, exclusively by organic, non-paid online sharing.
→ read full articleKeep Focus on Aleppo and Global Dimensions of Syria
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 – Three Perspectives on the Syrian Conflict Formation – The Syrian conflict formation is hugely more complicated than we’ve been told by Western politicians (all mainstream in spite of democratic features) and mainstream/dependent media.
→ read full articleCapitalocene or Anthropocene?
Benjamin Kunkel | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Ecologically the Anthropocene is here to stay, but just how it unfolds over coming generations will be decided by whether, politically, it remains the Capitalocene (‘privileging the endless accumulation of capital’) or becomes for the first time a properly political Anthropocene, in which the interests of humanity as a whole chart our ecological course.
→ read full articlePeace between China and Japan
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Keynote: New Vision of Peace in East Asia; Sino-Japanese Peace Dialogue – Nanjing, 22-23 Feb 2017 – As Buddhist philosophy teaches, peace, like violence and conflict, is a relation; not an attribute of China or Japan. As Daoist philosophy teaches, in a holon like East Asia there are forces and counterforces, yin/yang, with yin and yang in both, &c.
→ read full articleSleepwalking into a Nuclear Arms Race with Russia
Pierre M. Sprey and Franklin “Chuck” Spinney - CounterPunch,
27 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 – The Nuclear Question is becoming increasingly obfuscated by spin and lobbying as the West sleepwalks into Cold War II. For patriotic Americans interested in increasing their real national security (rather than their national security budget), the nuclear issue boils down to a question of understanding.
→ read full article(Italiano) Democrazia in evoluzione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Immaginiamo un popolo che dia per scontato che ci siano due, solo due, versanti a qualunque contesa; uno giusto, uno sbagliato; ove non ci sia compromesso, la si giochi a duello, e chi vince ne decide il risultato. Questo copione controlla la gente. Potere al popolo, suona bene, ma che genere di popolo?
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Trump and Putin: The World Needs Nuclear Zero
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – The Hill,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 – As the leaders of the USA and Russia, the two countries with the largest nuclear arsenals, you have the grave responsibility of assuring that nuclear weapons are not used — or their use overtly threatened — during your period of leadership. We, the undersigned, implore you to commence negotiations to reduce the dangers of a nuclear war, by mistake or malice, and immediately commit your respective governments to the realizable objective of a nuclear weapons-free world.
→ read full articleNew US Administration Finds Political Foundation in Creaky Culture Theory
Terence McNamee – Sunday Times,
20 Feb 2017
15 Feb 2017 – Twenty-five years have passed since Samuel Huntington first hypothesised a world torn asunder by clashing civilisations. After a lengthy sabbatical, the late Harvard political scientist is back in favour at the White House. President Donald Trump’s closest advisers are big fans. Prominent in the 1990s and resurrected after 9/11, academic’s predictions have returned.
→ read full article(Português) Os perigos escondidos das lâmpadas LED revelados por um especialista em fotobiologia
Dr. Alexander Wunsch | Cura pela Natureza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
“Lâmpadas LED são prejudiciais à saúde física, mental, da retina, e também aos hormônios”, diz o Dr. Alexander Wunsch.
→ read full articleHistory: Epochs or Trends–Medieval Spain
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Visions of the Past for Constructing a Future: Historiography of Spain – History unfolds over or in time, the basic variable, the X axis. The events are points. The trends are curves of any shape, not necessarily continuous, could also be “jumpy”. And the permanents are horizontal lines set at a certain value. Points, curves, lines; with texts indicative of highly complex proactio-actio-reactio relations.
→ read full articleU.S. Imperial War Personified
Ron Jacobs – CounterPunch,
20 Feb 2017
17 Feb 2017 – Modern warfare is both extremely personal and robotically impersonal. Those who profit from the warfare go about the business of developing ever more murderous weaponry often designed to create even more distance between the killer and the killed; the general and the soldier.
→ read full articleWorst Joke Ever? U.S. Spy Chief Gives Saudi Prince Highest Award for “Fighting Terrorism”
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
20 Feb 2017
On Friday [10 Feb 2017], the Director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, used his first trip abroad to present Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef with the CIA’s highest award for fighting terrorism, the George Tenet Medal… One thing is certain, you’re not going to win the war on terror by handing out medals to the prime suspects.
→ read full articleTrump Administration Sued for Suspending Protections for Endangered Bumble Bee
Natural Resources Defense Council | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Trump administration Tuesday [14 Feb 2017] for illegally suspending the rule to put the rusty patched bumble bee on the endangered species list. It has lost approximately 90 percent of its range in the past 20 years and is the first bumble bee ever listed under the Endangered Species Act.
→ read full articleWashington Rules Change, Again
Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 – Over the last four decades, the Washington Consensus, promoting economic liberalization, globalization and privatization, reversed four decades of active state intervention… More than ever, it will be crucial for developing countries to work together, not only to ensure that South-South and ‘triangular’ (with the North) cooperation represents a progressive alternative to the Washington Consensus and its national chauvinist successors. Such solidarity will determine how well the South — and the world as a whole — will fare during the coming eclipse.
→ read full articleMyanmar Statement by the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
UN Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Report on the Situation in Northern Rakhine State, Myanmar
→ read full articleEvolving Democracy
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Imagine a people taking for granted that there are two, only two, sides to any issues; one right, one wrong; if no compromise, fight it out and the victor decides the outcome. That script controls the people. Power to the people sounds fine, but what kind of people?
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza, guerra: una causa o un sintomo?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Conferimento della laurea Honoris Causa, Universidad Madrid Complutense, 27 gennaio 2017 – Per esperienza famigliare avevo qualche nozione di medicina ed ero rimasto colpito dalla feconda distinzione fra causa e sintomo. Il sintomo è alla superficie del corpo, come la febbre; ma la causa prima è più in profondità, dentro, una sepsi. Un’acquisizione importante.
→ read full articleNonviolent Economy
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Let us start with “economy”, here conceived of as a cycle with three poles: Nature, Production, Consumption. And three processes: Extraction from Nature, Distribution from Production to Consumption, and Pollution from Production-Consumption back to Nature. The cycle flow is in that order: Nature → Production → Consumption → Nature.
→ read full article(Italiano) Donald Trump, il Presidente si è insediato
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
E la prima domanda al 45° presidente USA: ha intenzione di ammazzare, in territorio straniero? Il suo predecessore Obama ha seguito la tradizione USA, che dalla seconda guerra mondiale ha causato la morte di più di 20 milioni di persone in 37 paesi, facendo uso di bombe e droni. Pare che i suoi Reparti Speciali abbiano provocato morti ammazzati in 138 paesi. O farà l’America Più Grande interrompendo questa tradizione morbosa?
→ read full articleManaging National Borders ‘Cannot Be Based on Any Form of Discrimination’ – UN Chief Guterres
UN News Centre | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Refugees fleeing conflict and persecution are entitled to protection, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on 31 Jan 2017, expressing concern at decisions around the world that have undermined the integrity of the international refugee protection regime.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency: The First Week
Johan Galtung,
6 Feb 2017
There is no greatness in what Trump does, he makes USA smaller. Trying rebirth instead of rust, canceling stupid deals like TPP: OK. But retracting into a self-glorifying strong state is not greatness, it is isolation. Greatness is not in what you are but in how you relate. And Trump relates very badly.
→ read full articleUN Report Details ‘Devastating Cruelty’ Against Rohingya Population in Myanmar’s Rakhine Province
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017 – In a report issued today, the United Nations human rights arm said that the widespread human rights violations against the Rohingya population by Myanmar’s security forces in the country’s northern Rakhine state indicate the very likely commission of crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleThe Gospel of Winning: Trump’s Philosophy, and Its Policy Implications
Stephen B. Young – Star Tribune,
6 Feb 2017
In Trump’s mind, his appointees are all “winners.” So what does Trump’s Gospel of Winning imply for his policy agenda? Domestically, first, it will not validate government entitlements to “victims.” It rejects the founding premise of the entitlement state that the government must take from those who succeed to advantage those who have failed. The victim-first vision was offered early on by Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution.
→ read full articleMoscow & Washington – Last Chance to Get It Right?
Jonathan Power | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Russia and the US have never fought each other in the 200 years of their relationship. Russia aided the North during the Civil War and sent warships to prevent England and France supporting the confederacy. During the World Wars the two were close allies.
→ read full articleGlenn D. Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Giant for Peace Leaves Behind an Indelible Mark – In Memoriam
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
His transformation from praising a killing society, USA, in the Korean War to invoking a non-killing society did not come easily. To revoke his own book on the Korea War decision, and the prize received for that book, has few equals.
→ read full articleThey Aren’t All Safe: Pharma Is Willing to Look “Unscientific” to Sell Vaccines
Martha Rosenberg - CounterPunch,
30 Jan 2017
26 Jan 2017 – Why do progressive news sites that expose government and corporate disinformation in other areas accept disinformation when it comes to vaccines–actually calling activists “unscientific”? Like all drugs aggressively marketed these days, patients and parents need to do their own research and weigh benefits and risks—never forgetting Pharma’s spotty safety record.
→ read full articleSouthern European Leaders Gather in Lisbon as Populism Gains
Reuters | Fortune – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Leaders met on Saturday [28 Jan 2017] in Lisbon to discuss growing challenges, from the refugee crisis to rising borrowing costs and low economic growth, at a time when rising populism has increased political uncertainty in Europe. The group brings together France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta.
→ read full articleTrump’s Muslim Ban Emboldens Myanmar Racists: Suu Kyi’s Sole Muslim Adviser Shot Dead Upon Return from Jakarta
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
29 Jan 2017 – Shooting U Ko Ni dead in the head at a high profile place like Yangon Airport, upon arrival from the official visit to Jakarta to go and study peaceful, interfaith life in Indonesia, was, in my view, to make the point that Muslims assuming advisory positions to NLD and ASSK would cost life.
→ read full articleUS Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D) Visits Syria
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
30 Jan 2017
26 Jan 2017 – Tulsi Gabbard and former peace presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich have just visited Aleppo and Damascus in Syria and met citizens, religious leaders and President Assad. A brilliant blow to US/NATO policies and mainstream media.
→ read full articleIs Violence-War a Cause or a Symptom?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Receiving Dr Honoris Causa, Universidad Madrid Complutense, 27 Jan 2017 – From my family I knew a little about health studies and had been struck by the fruitful distinction between cause and symptom. The symptom is on the surface of the body, like fever; but the root cause is deeper down, inside, a sepsis. A major breakthrough.
→ read full articleJoint IOM-UNHCR Statement on President Trump’s Refugee Order
UNHCR UN Refugee Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
GENEVA, 28 Jan 2017 – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration believe that refugees should receive equal treatment for protection and assistance, and opportunities for resettlement, regardless of their religion, nationality or race.
→ read full articleThe Facts behind the Assassination of Gandhi on 30 Jan 1948
Chunibhai Vaidya – Gandhi Research Foundation,
30 Jan 2017
The assassination of Gandhiji was a culmination of decades of systematic brain-washing. Gandhiji had become a thorn in the flesh of the hard core Hindus and in course of time this resentment turned into a phobia. Beginning with the year 1934 over a period of 14 years on as many as six occasions attempts were made to kill Gandhiji.
→ read full articleMark Zuckerberg Is Suing to Force Native Hawaiians off Their Ancestral Land to Build an Island Resort
Nathan Wellman | US Uncut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
19 Jan 2017 – Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg ended 2016 by suing hundreds of people native to Hawaii, apparently so that he can have 700 acres of land all to himself. Those named by the lawsuit filed on December 30th were given 20 days to respond, or else forfeit all claims to the property.
→ read full articleDonald Trump Inaugurated as President
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
And the first question to the 45th US president: Will you kill, abroad? Predecessor Obama was in the US tradition that killed more than 20 million in 37 countries since WWII, bombing and droning. His Special Forces seem to have killed in 138 countries. Make America Greater by breaking this morbid tradition?
→ read full article(Italiano) Economia mondiale ed economisti nel 2017
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
In questa rubrica si è sostenuta l’Elevazione dei ceti più marginali come approccio economico valido in ogni circostanza, per mitigare qualunque sofferenza e per indurne l’ingresso nell’economia come produttori e consumatori, non come “casi anomali”.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
“Coca-koloniseringens död-La morte della Colonizzazione-Coca”, la supposizione che nei paesi dove esistono Coca Cola, McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken e CNN, i valori democratici USA rimuoverebbero qualsiasi proposito di guerra. Quella teoria era un’idiozia. Il paese in cui tutte e quattro quelle aziende sono maggiormente presenti, gli USA, è il più guerrafondaio.
→ read full article(Italiano) Vecchi auspici per il Nuovo Anno, a destra e a manca
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Papa Francesco ha fatto un giro d’orizzonte per tutti i continenti, con una vibrata denuncia della violenza e per la sua alternativa preferita: il negoziato. Molta violenza è imitativa, in un modo o nell’altro, essendo alla moda. Copiare – ossia imparare – non è sbagliato. ma dipende da quel che si copia.
→ read full articleEnd of Mission Statement by UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
Yanghee Lee | UN Information Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
There is one word that has hung heavily on my mind during this visit – reprisals. In every one of my visits and in every one of my meetings, I ask the Government of Myanmar to ensure that the people I speak to and even work with, do not suffer reprisals for speaking out on rights issues or expressing their opinions. Yet, distressingly several people I met during this visit would say to me, “I don’t know what will happen to me after our meeting.”
→ read full articleBurma: Four Decades of International Media Coverage on the Rohingyas
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
Myanmar government has been committing crimes against humanity at best and genocide at worst.
→ read full articleAleppo’s Evil Humanitarians
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Aleppo Shall Not Be Forgotten – Eyewitness to who helped the Aleppians, Dec 11-14, 2016. This eyewitness report and documentation contradicts the major Western mainstream media’s narrative. In spite of the world historic dimension of this liberation, the tragedy of these innocent war victims and the heartbreakingly vast proportions of the systematic destruction of this dynamic city, none of their media were present in Aleppo there and then.
→ read full articleWhat Kind of Nonviolence Training Do You Need?
Rivera Sun for Campaign Nonviolence | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Campaign Nonviolence is often contacted by people who are looking for nonviolence trainings. Frequently, they are not sure what type of training they need, or what the catch-phrases are to describe what they’re looking for. This guide is offered as a resource in identifying which type of nonviolence training supports the needs of each situation.
→ read full articleHow Gratitude Can Help You through Hard Times
Robert Emmons | Univ. of California, Berkeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
It’s easy to feel grateful when life is good. But when disaster strikes, gratitude is worth the effort.
→ read full article2017 World Economy and Economists
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
This column has argued Lifting the Bottom Up as economic approach in all weathers, bad, fair, good, to mitigate any suffering, and for them to enter the economy as producers and consumers, not as “cases”.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
All over: the USA sidelined, no longer invited to key meetings. Not strange, given its claim to be exceptional (Obama at the UNGA), heavily inclined to violence-war; and others trying to find solutions.
→ read full articleTilikum and the Fall of SeaWorld
Jason Hribal - CounterPunch,
9 Jan 2017
6 Jan 2017 – Tilikum the orca died prematurely this week still in captivity. He was 33. But his attack on a SeaWorld trainer 6 years ago sparked the downfall of the notorious animal amusement park. Long live Tilikum!
→ read full articlePoliticizing Victimhood: Human Rights as a Propaganda Weapon in Aleppo and Mosul
Anthony DiMaggio - CounterPunch,
9 Jan 2017
If the human rights abuses are committed by an “enemy” state, they will be endlessly highlighted and condemned to create a polarization and dichotomy between the “righteous” home country and the “evil” enemy. If, on the other hand, the abuses are committed by an ally or by the home country itself, the abuses will be downplayed or completely swept under the rug, since they endanger romantic myths that the power in question acts heroically and selflessly, and merely to help others.
→ read full articleFBI Report on Russia Hacking US Election: What You Need to Know
Mark Maunder | WordFence/WordPress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
On Friday [30 Dec] we published an analysis of the FBI and DHS Grizzly Steppe report. The report was widely seen as proof that Russian intelligence operatives hacked the US 2016 election. We showed that the PHP malware in the report is old, freely available from a Ukrainian hacker group and is an administrative tool for hackers.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism: What, Why, Who, How, When, Where
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Imagine a blackout on everything we associate with medical practice; never to be reported in the media. Disease, however, is to be reported fully, in gruesome detail, particularly when elite persons are struck. This kind of journalism would be disease-oriented, and the journalist could refer to himself as a disease journalist or correspondent.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cina ed Europa – Raffronti e Futuri
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Secondo una recente indagine di Harvard, la Cina produce il 26.7% delle automobili al mondo e gli USA ne producono il 13.3%; l’economia statunitense è più consistente ma la Cina primeggia nelle esportazioni con 8 dei 12 più grandi porti; gli USA terminano il 2016 guerreggiando 7 guerre, con basi militari un po’ dovunque, la Cina termina l’anno con nessuna guerra né basi, investendo, costruendo la Nuova Via della Seta, il Corridoio Economico. Con quale riuscita, rimane da vedere.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo, in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Norvegia: “Noi amiamo l’America–Noi odiamo la Russia–L’America odia la Russia”, equilibrato, fece cambiare la dottrina militare delle élite per attaccare la Russia. Poi “Noi amiamo l’America–Noi odiamo la Russia–L’America ama la Russia”, discordante. Dopo un periodo trascorso a odiare l’America di Trump, la Norvegia finirà per accettare la Russia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Bravo Trump – No alla CIA!!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Un presidente eletto degli USA che dica di non volere più istruzioni di intelligence è come – difficile dire: forse come un prete in procinto di essere ordinato che dica di non aver più bisogno di leggere la Bibbia, di altre parole di Dio? Qualunque cosa sia quella tal “intelligence”, è intelligente?
→ read full articleIsrael’s Settlements Are Illegal, Violation of International Law: Security Council [Full Text of Resolution 2334]
UN News & Media Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
23 Dec 2016 – The Security Council reaffirmed this afternoon that Israel’s establishment of settlements in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, had no legal validity, constituting a flagrant violation under international law. 14 Delegations in Favour of Resolution 2334 (2016) as United States Abstains.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Nazi Parallel: Merging of Power Institutions (Faith/Race, Guns & Populist Party)
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
26 Dec 2016 – Around the issue of Rohingya, the merging of the anti-Rohingya racist society (all classes), the ruling military, the semi-autonomous NLD leadership, and most influential leaders of the Buddhist Order parallels the rise of Nazism in Germany. The consequences will go beyond the destruction of the Rohingya people as a self-identified group.
→ read full articleNew Year Old Wishes Left and Right
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
This New Year announces itself with bangs all over, not whimpers.
→ read full article(Turkish-Türk) Yeryüzünde Yaşam Sona Eriyor. Binlerce Tür Yok Oluyor
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Özgür Üniversite – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Sizin bu yazıyı okuduğunuz gün, yeryüzünde 200 türün ( bitki, kuş, hayvan, balık, amfibi, böcek, sürüngen ) varlığı ortadan kalkmış olacak. Ertesi gün bir 200 tür daha sonsuza kadar yok olmuş olacak.
→ read full articleRealities
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
I can’t be taken down.
For my feet have always been firmly on the ground.
My career can’t be destroyed.
For I have never pursued one.
China and Europe–Comparisons and Futures
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
A recent Harvard study found 26.7% of world car production in China and 13.3% in USA; US economy bigger but China leading in export with 8 of the 12 biggest harbors; USA end 2016 fighting 7 wars with bases all over and China with no wars or bases, investing, building the New Silk Road-Lane, the Economic Belt. How successfully, it is to be seen.
→ read full articleSyria’s Destruction – When Everybody Thinks Power and No One Thinks Peace
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
The consequences of ignoring every known and simple conflict and peace method and pursuing nationalist, racist and militarist policies. Peace was never an important factor in anything Western countries have done in and to Syria. No matter what they say. If it were, this would not be the result. It’s easy to blame Syria and Russia for the destruction of Aleppo. Far far too easy.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il sionismo nella sua espressione migliore
Amira Hass | Haaretz – Zeitun,
19 Dec 2016
La terra che Israele ha destinato ai giubilanti coloni si chiama Atir/Umm al Hiran e per 60 anni ha ospitato i membri della tribù beduina di Al-Qi’an.
→ read full articleBravo Trump–No to CIA!!
Johan Galtung,
19 Dec 2016
A President-Elect of the USA saying he wants no more intelligence briefings is like–like what? Hearing a priest about to be ordained saying he needs no more, not Bible readings, words from God? Whatever this “intelligence” may be is it intelligent?
→ read full article(Italiano) Un mondo migliore ha meno violenza e guerra
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
The National Society of High School Scholars, Premio per il Miglioramento del Mondo Claes Nobel, Centro Carter, 3 dicembre 2016 – Manco a dirlo, non monetizzare mai. Le vite umane non hanno prezzo; recano in sé il più prezioso di tutti i doni, la vita. Non toglierla, crearla, preservarla, alla fine sarà la natura a porle fine. L’impagabile non ha prezzo.
→ read full article(Italiano) Lo Stato del Mondo Oggi: uno Sguardo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
Quel mondo è oggi fondamentalmente multi-polare, forse con 8 poli: Anglo-America, America Latina-Caraibi, Unità Africana, Islam-OIC da Casablanca a Mindanao, Unione Europea, Russia più una regione che uno stato, SAARC dal Nepal allo Sri Lanka, ASEAN, Australia-Nuova Zelanda. E multi-regionale: l’Organizzazione di Shangai per la cooperazione, SCO, con Cina e Russia, paesi islamici, India e Pakistan.
→ read full articleOn the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade | UN Library of International Law - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
When the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted, on 10 December 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in one of the brief spells of enlightenment in the twentieth century, one could hardly anticipate that a historical process of generalization of the international protection of human rights was being launched, on a truly universal scale.
→ read full articleSorry, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Rohingya Crisis Is No Laughing Matter
Maung Zarni and Gregory Stanton – The Wire,
12 Dec 2016
The world is reacting with horror to the massacre of Rohingyas in Rakhine State, but Suu Kyi and her government continue to turn a blind eye to what increasingly appears like a genocide.
→ read full articleMyanmar Must Strengthen Effort to Diffuse Tension in Northern Rakhine State – UN Special Adviser
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
The UN said that authorities need to take proactive measures to protect the local civilian population and allow humanitarian access to the areas of conflict. This call follows last month’s visit by nine local ambassadors, the UN Resident and various UN agencies who voiced their concerns after a trip to the Rakhine state.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung,
12 Dec 2016
Ian Buruma in “The End of the Anglo-American Order”, NYT Magazine, praises the post-world war “vision of democracy and freedom”. There is something to that. But only as long as they voted correctly; not for Allende in Chile, Muslims in Algeria, for Brexit in UK, for Duterte in the Philippines leaning away from the USA toward an Asian neighbor, China, for Erdögan in Turkey leaning away from the USA toward a European neighbor, Russia. And worst of all: not for Trump in the USA.
→ read full articleAnd Now We Sit and Watch in Disbelief
Garrison Keillor – The Salt Lake Tribune,
12 Dec 2016
6 Dec 2016 – It’s a wonderful satire right out of Twain or Thurber, a minority of the electorate goes for the loosest and least knowledgeable candidate, certain that he will lose and their votes will only be harmless protest, a middle finger to Washington, and then — Whoa. The joke comes true. You put a whoopee cushion on your father’s chair and he sits down and it barks and he has a massive coronary. You wanted to get a rise out of him and instead he falls down dead. Very funny.
→ read full articleEntrenching Capitalist Agriculture in India under the Guise of “Development”
Colin Todhunter –Global Research,
12 Dec 2016
Washington’s long-term plan has been to restructure indigenous agriculture across the world and tie it to an international system of trade based on export-oriented mono-cropping, commodity production for the international market and indebtedness to international financial institutions (IMF/World Bank).
→ read full articleThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
→ read full articleA Better World Has Less Violence, War
Johan Galtung,
5 Dec 2016
The National Society of High School Scholars, Claes Nobel World Betterment Award, Carter Center, 3 Dec 2016 – Needless to say, never monetize. Human lives do not carry price tags; they carry the most precious of all gifts, life. Do not take it, create it, preserve it, eventually nature will end it. The priceless has no price. In so doing, do not compete with anybody. The Buddhist line is better: compete with yourself. Ask yourself how what you do can be done better.
→ read full articleKissinger and Brzezinski to Be Honoured by Nobel Institute and Oslo University
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
These two top officials behind major US wars (Iran/Afghanistan and Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos) and regime change (against Allende, Chile) will speak at the first of a new event, The Nobel Peace Prize Forum Oslo, created by the Nobel Institute in Oslo. One way to go: Boycott the event and let Kissinger, Brzezinski, Njölstad and Ottersen be the only ones who turn up in that huge hall on December 11th. Or, go there – students, media and civil society – and raise all the questions any independent, decent academic must.
→ read full articleISDS Corporate Rule of Law
Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
5 Dec 2016
Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions in ostensible free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties have effectively created a powerful, privileged system of protections for foreign investors that undermine national law and institutions.
→ read full articleThe ASEAN Ulama & NGOs Declaration on the Myanmar Genocide of Rohingya
Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organization - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
29 Nov 2016 – We the delegates in the emergency meeting of Muslims scholars and NGO activists in the ASEAN region and beyond, on the 29th November 2016, after deliberating the issues and plight of the oppressed Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar conclude the following decisions:
→ read full articleStatement: UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide on the Situation in Northern Rakhine State, Myanmar
Relief Web | United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
Following attacks by armed assailants against border security posts in October 2016, the response of the military has reportedly been characterized by excessive use of force and other serious human rights violations against civilian population, particularly the Rohingya Muslim population, including allegations of extrajudicial executions, torture, rape and the destruction of religious property.
→ read full article(Français) « Les médias font passer les coups d’Etat modernes comme étant une défense de la démocratie »
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
04 Déc 2016 – Ancien rédacteur en chef du Monde Diplomatique, Maurice Lemoine est surtout un fin connaisseur de l’histoire contemporaine latino-américaine. “Les coups d’Etat actuels peuvent être nommés de différentes façons : « golpe blando », « institutionnel », « light » ou « juridico-parlementaire », comme cela s’est passé au Brésil… En effet, depuis la fin des années 1990 et l’arrivée au pouvoir de gouvernements progressistes (le premier étant Chávez en 1998, puis Lula, les Kirchner en Argentine, Rafael Correa, Evo Morales…), quasi tous ces chefs d’Etat progressistes ont été, à un moment ou à l’autre, confrontés à des tentatives de déstabilisation ou de coups d’Etat qui ont parfois échoué, parfois réussi.”
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