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Palestine 2017: Time to Bid Farewell to Washington and Embrace the Globe
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
There is no doubt that the UN Security Council condemnation of Israel on Friday [23 Dec] was an important and noteworthy event. True, the UN’s main chambers (the UNSC and the GA) and its various institutions, ranging from the International Court of Justice to UNESCO, have repeatedly condemned the Israeli occupation, illegal Jewish settlements and mistreatment of Palestinians.
→ 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 articleThe 500 Richest People in the World Got $237 Billion Richer in 2016
Alan Pyke | Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
As right-wing politicians around the world gathered power by scapegoating immigrants for the economic struggles of working people, the world’s richest people got nearly a quarter trillion dollars richer in 2016.
→ read full articleIsrael Reaps the Whirlwind
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
There’s not much point in carrying reports of Netanyahu’s response to the UNSC’s resolution on settlements. It is entirely, self-pityingly, predictable. Here he musters his troops for a fight-back against the rule of international humanitarian law.
→ read full articleAleppo Falls as Winter Fog Settles on the Chitose River
Stephen Toskar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
smoke rising from a snuffed-out candle
the heady scent of cinnamon
moments before you come
Anti-Semitic Zionists
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
President Barak Obama, at the very end of his presidency, dared to challenge the government of Binyamin Netanyahu, a person he detests with all his heart. And so, after years of frustration, the highest international body could adopt a resolution on Israel according to its convictions. No wonder they behaved like schoolchildren let out for vacation. A vacation that may, alas, prove to be short.
→ read full articleSharing
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
A mother was preparing pancakes for her two sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3.
→ read full articleElevator Music
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
The wars are always with us,
Near or far,
A bass line to the splendid riffs
What Makes Social Programmes That Work
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Most development programmes for poor have been designed on the assumption that the poor need charities and they cannot afford to pay for the services. This is erroneous and we have witnessed how dollops of free money have stifled their initiatives.
→ read full articlePalestine-Israel: The UNSC Vote
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Will Mahmoud Abbas turn success into failure (again) or will he finally show backbone to use the UNSC resolution to save what remains of Palestine?
→ read full articleRohingya in Burma/Myanmar: Nobel Laureates Urge Action over ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Submitted by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Dear President and Members of the UNSC,
As you are aware, a human tragedy amounting to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity is unfolding in Myanmar.
The Future of the United States of America
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
31 Dec 2016 – What I most want to say is that social chaos and ecological disaster cannot be avoided without transforming basic cultural and social structures. Otherwise no economic policy will work. For structural reasons, all economic policies lead to unacceptable results.
→ read full articleWhy Rates of Human Organ Trafficking Are on the Rise in the Middle East
Future for Advanced Research and Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
27 Dec 2016 – In light of new alliances with crime mafias, gangs involved in the trafficking of human organs have increased. The trafficking network includes university professors, doctors, members of nursing staff, and owners of medical centers and labs as well as intermediaries and brokers with prior records, and those impersonating security officials.
→ read full articleThe Political Shakespeare
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
26 Dec 2016 – These last three years have been dedicated to the Bard. Dramatic political change was in the air when Shakespeare lived and wrote. The great humanist sensed these changes and mirrored them in his plays for us to make of them what we will.
→ 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.
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One Voice (Music Video of the Week)
Only Men Aloud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Inspirational Song of Praise to the Power of the Human Spirit
→ 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 articleMaurice Béjart (1 Jan 1927 – 22 Nov 2007): Starting Off the Year with a Dance
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
January first is the birth anniversary of Maurice Béjart, a innovative master of modern dance. In a world where there is both appreciation and fear of the mixing of cultural traditions he was always a champion of blending cultural influences.
→ read full articleIslamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam Is Reshaping the World
Mohammed Basyoni Abdulhaleem | Future for Advanced Research and Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
The region needs a reformist movement, similar to that movement of the late 19th century, to reconcile Islam and modernism and achieve a form of Islamic democracy through a different trajectory that does not necessarily have to be an identical replication of the Western trajectory, but sustains Islam as a core component in society and societal interactions.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Myself on New Year’s Day 2017
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
‘Clarity,’ not ‘hope,’ is the opposite of ‘despair.’ To be awake to unpleasant, even dire, realities and resist the temptations of denial demands increasing resolve in the face of the mounting evidence that the human species is facing a biopolitical moment threatening civilizational collapse and species decline and fall as never before.
→ read full article(Italiano) 2017: 10 anni di collettivamente memoria e 12 anni de I DIMENTICATI
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Collettivamente perché il solipsismo è un tarlo che divide chi lo usa. Don Lorenzo Milani diceva “Ho imparato che il problema degli altri è uguale al mio. Sortirne tutti insieme è politica. Sortirne da soli è avarizia.”
→ 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 articleFrank, Uncompromising, and Tons of Fun: What Makes George Michael an LGBT Hero
Tim Teeman | The Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
How George Michael inspired us, turning a 1998 arrest for lewd behavior into a big FU to the authorities, and a public declaration of his sexuality.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Jan 2-8 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” – Helen Keller
→ read full articleResisting the Lynching of Haitian Liberty!
Malaika Kambon – San Francisco Bay View,
2 Jan 2017
The US, UN, EU, OAS and various hired paramilitary police have engineered a second fraudulent election in Haiti. This latest attempt to kill Haiti’s freedom by aborting her dreams of democracy via the electoral process was designed to prevent landslide victories by Fanmi Lavalas, reminiscent of the presidential victories of Jean Bertrand Aristide.
→ read full articleIt’s Official: Solar Energy Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
27 Dec 2016 – Renewable energy has reached an important milestone. The World Economic Forum has determined that in many parts of the world, solar energy is now the same price or even cheaper than fossil fuels for the first time.
→ read full articleWhat Is the Role or the Responsibility of Religious Leaders to Make World Peace?
Rui Siva (Radha-Govinda dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
20 Dec 2016 – I’d like to offer my answer to this question at two levels.
→ 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 articleOpen Letter to the Japanese Prime Minister on Eve of Visit to Pearl Harbor
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
25 Dec 2016 – The press release and open letter to the Japanese Prime Minister concern the complex issues surrounding the ethos and politics of apology. I would have liked the statement to include an acknowledgement of accountability by the U.S. Government.
→ read full articleConSciences of Humanity
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
John Kerry is delusional if he thinks he can temporarily curb the appetite of those who believe in an ideology of conquest, subjugation and exceptionalism (“chosen people”) to save “Zionism”. His claim that Shimon Peres told him that 78% of Palestine is enough and that they should let the Palestinians have the other 22% is simply not believable.
→ read full articleA Brief History of War and Drugs: From Vikings to Nazis
Barbara McCarthy – Al Jazeera,
2 Jan 2017
From World War II to Vietnam and Syria, drugs are often as much a part of conflict as bombs and bullets.
→ read full article(Português) Gustav Mahler acreditava que o vegetarianismo é o caminho para a regeneração da humanidade
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
“Os efeitos morais deste estilo de vida são imensos. Você pode julgar por si mesmo…”
→ read full articleU.S. Isolation
Noam Chomsky | ZNet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Even close US allies, even the UK, flock to the China-based Asian Infrastructure Development Bank and the China-based Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, in this case including Japan. The China-based Shanghai Cooperation Organization incorporates the Central Asian states, Siberia with its rich resources, India, Pakistan, and soon probably Iran and perhaps Turkey. The SCO has rejected the US request for observer status and demanded that the US remove all military bases from the region.
→ read full article(Italiano) Luci e ombre della tecnologia informatica
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
2 Jan 2017
Siamo incoraggiati ad ammirare le realizzazioni tecnologiche della nostra epoca, e riporre la nostra fede cieca in loro, oppure a disperarci. Dobbiamo riconoscere quanto miserevoli siano questi risultati in realtà, e quanto osceno sia il loro impatto, rispetto a ciò che è possibile.
→ read full articleQuotes That Can Be Used to Resist Oval Office Tyranny in 2017
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
When Trump’s Fascist-leaning, Anti-democratic Collage of Multibillionaires, White Supremacists, Wall Street Tycoons, Washington, DC Insiders, Christian Dominionists, War-Mongering Military Generals, Holocaust Deniers, and Climate Change Deniers Try to Impose Their Will on the Voters Who Did Not Technically Vote for Fascism
→ read full articleAlbert Camus on Consciousness and the Lacuna between Truth and Meaning
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
“From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth. Consciousness illuminates it by paying attention to it.”
→ read full articlePeace Is the Way
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
It is impossible to establish peace once and for all, and to expect that it will remain that way.
→ read full article(Português) Por que amar um e comer o outro?
Marta Zaraska - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
26 Dec 2016
O paradoxo da carne é um bom caminho para compreender a dissonância cognitiva, um estado psicologicamente desagradável que vem à tona quando temos apreço por várias convicções mutualmente inconsistentes ou quando há uma lacuna entre nossas atitudes e nosso comportamento.
→ read full articleSo Much for ‘Understanding’
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
The UN. conducted a worldwide survey asking “Would you please give your honest opinion about the solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?” Not surprisingly, it was a huge failure.
→ read full articleThis Swedish Billionaire Has Issued a $5 Million Award for Anyone Who Invents a UN 2.0
Tom Turula – Business Insider Nordic,
26 Dec 2016
Laszlo Szombatfalvy, one of Sweden’s most successful investors of all time, is urging on the younger generation to rethink global governance. Now he has issued a large award for the best idea to replace the current global governance system, through a competition called ‘A New Shape’.
→ read full articleScientists Confirm: Darwinism Is Broken
Paul Nelson and David Klinghoffer | Media Research Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
13 Dec 2016 – Darwinian Theory is broken and may not be fixable. That was the takeaway from a meeting last month organized by the Royal Society in London, the world’s most distinguished and historic scientific organization. The three-day conference–mostly unreported by the media–was remarkable in confirming something that advocates of intelligent design, a controversial scientific alternative to evolution, have said for years.
→ read full articleFood for Thought
TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Protection?
→ 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.
Burma: Rohingya Recount Killings, Rape, and Arson
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Video Testimony Matches Satellite Images of Attacks
→ read full articleUS Criminal Hypocrisy at Work in Syria and Yemen
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
26 Dec 2016
On December 13, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power offered up yet another stark exercise in imperial deceit, shedding crocodile tears for those suffering in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, while continuing her strategically amoral silence about much greater suffering in the country of Yemen. The basis for this unconscionable choice is simple. Russia, Syria, and Iran are attacking Aleppo.
→ read full articleOptimism/Pessimism: A Kafkaesque Meditation
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
I used to be an optimist.
When I was 5, someone told me,
“Santa Claus does not exist!”
Comments Can Be Free, but Facts Must Be Sacred
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
The journalism of today may be bringing a lot of power and pelf to the practitioners of its trade, but, it is losing its sheen because it is becoming increasingly devoid of the essential content that earned it the honor of the Fourth Estate: trust.
→ read full articleGlobal Challenge of the Global Challenge
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
¿ In-quest of a decision-making framework appropriate to a world in crisis? This is a response to the announcement of the surprising Global Challenges Prize for a New Shape Remodelling Global Cooperation (2017).
→ read full articleRemembering Zsa Zsa Gabor
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
20 Dec 2016 – As an early teenager I came to know Zsa-Zsa Gabor and her family rather well. Indeed, her sister, Eva, lived in our New York apartment for several months. Zsa Zsa became my father’s client, and later close friend, during her high profile divorce from the pre-Trump hotel magnate, Conrad Hilton.
→ read full article(Castellano) Economía Solidaria: Clave de la Justicia, la Paz, y la Sustentabilidad
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Voy a adelantar tres tesis. Por supuesto la veracidad o falsedad de ellas no se puede evaluar sin conocer los significados de las palabras que las componen. Me voy a dedicar principalmente a explicar de qué se trata, vale decir a explicar el significado de los conceptos que componen las tesis. Después, voy a pedir a los lectores evaluar según sus luces si las tesis sean ciertas o sean falsas.
→ read full articleWhy I Kneeled Before Standing Rock Elders and Asked for Forgiveness
Sarah van Gelder – YES! Magazine,
26 Dec 2016
“We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke … But we’ve come to say that we are sorry.” — Wesley Clark Jr. during forgiveness ceremony
→ read full articleStarving Yemeni Children, Bloated US Weaponsmakers
Medea Benjamin | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
17 Dec 2016 – Despite the repressive nature of the Saudi regime, US governments have not only supported the Saudis on the diplomatic front but militarily. Under the Obama administration, this has translated into massive weapons sales of $115 billion. While Yemeni children are starving in large part because of Saudi bombings, US weapons makers, including General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin, are making a killing on the sales.
→ read full articleThe High Road of India and the Low Road of China
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Can the differences between the developmental histories of the two Asian giants have been caused on the one hand by the Indian bourgeoisie being continually empowered, while on the other Mao Zedong attempted to empower the Chinese masses for two short decades?
→ read full article2016: Year of Two Peace Revolutions — 2017: Year of Their Practical Implementation and Development
Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in Peace from Harmony!
→ read full articleHow the Everyday Use of Militaristic Jargon Makes Us More Combative
Nan Levinson | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
“War is merely the continuation of politics by other means,” wrote the Prussian Gen. Carl von Clausewitz. Lately, it’s been sounding like the other way around. That’s not likely to change soon, since the language of warfare and violence pervades Americans’ discourse, even when we’re not talking about war.
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O Holy Night (Music Video of the Week)
Libera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
The Voice of the Soul–Beauty Transcending Religion – Libera is an all-boy English vocal group. As their recordings and performances demonstrate, the music these boys produce is extraordinary–truly sounds to lift the soul. The singers are aged seven to sixteen, attend different local schools in South London and come from a variety of backgrounds.
→ read full articleA Socialist Economy for the 21st Century
Richard Rosen | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
16 Dec 2016 – Richard A. Rosen explores the changes necessary for a modern definition of “socialism” and describes key concepts and issues that arise when aiming to restructure the American economy to include social and environmental sustainability in the Twenty-First Century.
→ read full articleNocturne
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
By degree the grasses,
Bark, the sharp
Angled faces of rock,
The hanging mist around us,
All turned dark
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Dec 26-Jan 1 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
→ read full articleResisting the Mind Games of Donald Trump and the One Percent
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
When it comes to profiting off people’s hopes and fears, by far the most successful purveyors of lucrative lies and false promises are some of the denizens of this country’s palatial estates, corporate boardrooms, and corridors of political power. And unlike their small-time counterparts, they’re never on the run — despite the misery they leave in their wake. Enter Donald J. Trump, soon to be the 45th President of the United States.
→ read full article(Castellano) Se está acabando la vida en la tierra
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
La arremetida del ser humano en contra de la vida de la tierra no tiene precedentes en la historia. Hoy en día está ocurriendo la sexta extinción masiva del planeta, y está siendo provocada por el hombre. Y, cada vez que decides no hacer nada y dejarle el problema a alguien más, das un ejemplo de porqué nadie hace nada al respecto. La extinción se avecina. ¿Qué vas a hacer?
→ read full articleMyanmar Government Accused of Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
Ed Adamczyk | UPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
19 Dec 2016 – Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority is facing crimes against humanity committed by authorities, Amnesty International warned. The human rights group said police are targeting the Rohingya through looting, murder and destruction of homes and mosques.
→ read full articleChina 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 articleThe 102nd Anniversary of the Christmas Truce of 1914: Questioning Christian Participation in Aggressive War
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
102 years ago this Christmas Eve something happened in the early months of the “War to End All Wars” that put a tiny little blip of hope in the historical timeline of the organized mass slaughter that is war. The event was regarded by the professional military officer class to be so profound and so important (and so disturbing) that strategies were immediately put in place that would ensure that such an event could never happen again.
→ read full article“Becoming Mars”: Destruction of Life on Earth
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Burrowes writes with informed conviction of the disastrous consequences of humankind’s presence and actions on Earth. Humanity’s brief, but ruinous period of habitation, has been labeled “The Anthropocene Era.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Commento al messaggio di papa Francesco per la Giornata della Pace
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
14 dicembre 2016 – Questo messaggio di papa Francesco, oltre la nota freschezza e chiarezza del linguaggio, mi pare che abbia l’importanza di un passo storico. Non è solo una giusta esortazione alla pace, ma indica la nonviolenza interiore, attiva e politica come via alla pace.
→ read full articleWant to Dump Your Yahoo Email? Here’s How
Corinne Iozzio | Consumer Reports – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2016
Yahoo on Wednesday [14 Dec] said that a billion user accounts had been hacked in 2013, a crime that wasn’t discovered until law enforcement contacted the company this fall. The revelation came just three months after the company disclosed that 500 million accounts had been compromised in 2014.
→ read full articleSyria’s Destruction – When Everybody Thinks Power and No One Thinks Peace
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
The consequences of ignoring every known and simple conflict and peace method and pursuing nationalist, racist and militarist policies. Peace was never an important factor in anything Western countries have done in and to Syria. No matter what they say. If it were, this would not be the result. It’s easy to blame Syria and Russia for the destruction of Aleppo. Far far too easy.
→ read full articleTests & Exams
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Some actual answers to test questions:
→ read full articleIn Charge…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Illusions…
→ read full articleAssad and Putin Order Their Forces to Again Liberate “The Jewel of the Desert”
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
16 Dec 2016 – The National Museum, Damascus – It’s a god-awful situation today in Palmyra. How much of our priceless cultural heritage will be destroyed during the expanding re-occupation by Islamic State?
→ read full articleAleppo Update: What Is Becoming of Syrian Families Fleeing East Aleppo?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
It’s not clear if the Assad government will agree to a ceasefire other than on a surrender-first basis. Some think it may have no choice in the matter given Russia’s political and military influence here but others claim that Iran and Syria will reject any Russian agreement penned with the USA and the regimes goal is total “liberation” of all of Aleppo. That will likely happen within days even as ISIS reoccupies Palmyra because Russian and Syrian troops were ordered to leave Palmyra because they were needed in Aleppo.
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Fame – Remember My Name [1980] (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Simply Delightful… The Classic from 1980
→ read full article(Português) Alepo, o Exercício Forçado da Perda da Memória
Paulo Mendes Pinto | Público – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Quando falamos, a respeito da Síria, de destruição de património, falamos, em especial, de património imaterial naquilo que ele tem de mais valioso: o pensamento e a vivência.
→ read full articleWinter Solstice: On This Day of the Longest Night
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
In 2016, Winter in the Northern hemisphere begins on Wed, 21 Dec, 10:44 a.m. GMT–shortest day of the year. What was this mystery, visible but elusive, recurrent but changing, cyclical but subject to interference from clouds and storms. Cosmic battles! Struggles in the heavens! Messages for those below on Earth, watching!
→ read full articleToni Morrison on the Power of Language: Her Spectacular Nobel Acceptance Speech after Becoming the First African American Woman Awarded the Accolade
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Morrison took the podium at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm and accepted the accolade with a spectacular speech about the power of language — its power to oppress and to liberate, to scar and to sanctify, to plunder and to redeem. Morrison’s address remains perhaps our most powerful manifesto for the responsibility embedded in how we wield the tool that stands as the hallmark of our species.
→ read full articlePoisoned Snow Geese in Butte: The New “Canaries” Warning Us Humans about the Toxic Nature of Copper Mining
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Lessons from the Most Toxic Open Pit Copper Mine in the World
→ read full articleThe Modern Destruction of Ancient Aleppo
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
17 Dec 2016 – If the English poet, John William Burgon, called Petra ‘half as old as time,’ Aleppo is a lot older. One of the world’s earliest cities, it ended the bronze age by discovering iron ore. A centre of Christianity almost two-thousand years ago, Aleppo sent evangelists as far afield as the western shores of India.
→ read full articleThe Value in Activism: Reflections from the Columbia University Climate Sit-In
Nikita Perumal | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
When the status quo—in this case, the political and social power of extractive and destructive industries—is too strong to be undone on its own, it sometimes needs a push. I believe, wholeheartedly, that activism is that push. It is our way of reclaiming power, and catalyzing the policy changes that we so desperately need for a more just world.
→ read full articleLast Surviving Nuremberg Prosecutor Aims to ‘Save the World’
Lulu Ramadan - Palm Beach Post,
19 Dec 2016
Ben Ferencz once worked under the glare of the world spotlight seeking the semblance of justice for crimes that claimed millions of lives. Today, seven decades later, his arena is a home office in a retirement village in suburban Delray Beach, but he says his battle is not won and he works daily to make sure someone will make the arguments against hate and war even when he’s gone.
→ read full articlePresident Donald Trump—Israel’s Pick for War in Iran?
James M. (“Mel”) Rockefeller | Hidden Tax on Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
As can be proven by my life experience as the out-of-wedlock son of Nelson Rockefeller, Jewish elites and extremists are the source of serial wars and crises dating to no later than 1850 when Rothschild-affiliate Hallgarten & Company investment bankers opened their Manhattan office to finance both sides in the Civil War. A century later, my Uncle David Rockefeller razed Hallgarten’s headquarters to build One Chase Manhattan Plaza.
→ read full articleThe Fortifying Commons
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
In the first of a series of columns about possible solutions, I explore how commons could transform society and the distribution of wealth.
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Fame – Remember My Name [2009] (Music Video of the Week)
MGM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
The Other Classic from 2009
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Dec 19-25 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
→ read full articleOn the Death of Fidel Castro
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
I have been bemused by the captious tone and condescending assessments of mainstream media in the West reacting to Fidel Castro’s death. The lead editorial in The Economist went on even to mock the reverence ordinary Cubans felt for Castro: “Cubans say Mr. Castro was ‘like a father” to them. They are right: he infantilized a nation. Anyone with initiative found ways to leave for exile abroad.”
→ read full articleEurope Must Not Be a Vassal to Trump’s USA
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Today human civilization and the biosphere face two existential threats: catastrophic climate change, and thermonuclear war. Each of these disasters could cause mass extinctions, and each could make large portions of the earth permanently uninhabitable.
→ read full articleRethinking the Arab Spring: Uprisings, Counterrevolution, Chaos, and Global Reverberations
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
At this point, following the election of Donald Trump as the next American president, there are likely to be significant geopolitical adjustments with related regional impacts. It is possible that cooperation between Russia and the United States will be forthcoming for the purpose of ending civil strife in Syria and Yemen, defeating religious extremism in the region, and maintaining the Iran nuclear agreement.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi’s ‘Buddy’ Solution
M. Adil Khan – The Daily Star,
19 Dec 2016
13 Dec 2016 – Persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar is continuing with impunity and without a break. Dieng and Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, have confirmed these atrocities and “requested independent UN investigations on the alleged ‘ethnic cleansing’ and other mass atrocities in the Rohingya region of Rakhine State”.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il sionismo nella sua espressione migliore
Amira Hass | Haaretz – Zeitun,
19 Dec 2016
La terra che Israele ha destinato ai giubilanti coloni si chiama Atir/Umm al Hiran e per 60 anni ha ospitato i membri della tribù beduina di Al-Qi’an.
→ read full articleDecades of Denial as Rohingya Genocide Continues
Nancy Hudson-Rodd | New Mandala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Recent violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state has led to an increase in the persecution of the Rohingya people, but the international community continues to turn a blind eye.
→ read full article(Italiano) What Is Home? Ipotesi per cambiamenti collettivi possibili
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Community engagement. Questa l’ouverture, invito e proposta programmatica insieme, del progetto-intervento per cambiamenti collettivi possibili, con azioni e obiettivi ad assetto variabile.
→ read full articleGlobal Economy of Truth as a Ponzi Scheme
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
Personal Cognitive Implication in Globalization? Conventionally a Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from profit. The term “Ponzi scheme” is used primarily in the United States , while other English-speaking countries do not distinguish colloquially between this scheme and pyramid schemes.
→ read full articlePermanent Peoples’ Tribunal (Rome) Takes Up ‘Urgent Case’ of Myanmar’s Rohingya
International State Crime Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
PPT is in keeping with this People-centered Justice, as opposed to Power-dictated “justice”.
→ read full articlePropOrNot’s Grandiose Fabrications
Yves Smith | Naked Capitalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016 – The fake news site about fake news known as PropOrNot has been roundly derided, most recently by the New Yorker and the media watchdog FAIR, as an inept propaganda effort that has gotten far more attention that it ever deserved. PropOrNot’s efforts, as Ben Norton and Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept, and Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone pointed out, were so obviously childish and overreaching that no reputable reporter should ever have regarded them as credible.
→ read full articleBitter Harvest for Indian Farmers
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
15 Dec 2016 – The naked and cruel truth about India is that agriculture remains its Achilles’ heel. It is a source of livelihood for hundreds of millions of people but a fraction of the nation’s total economy and a symbol of its perennial distress.
→ read full articleDisparities around Us—Living Together in Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
What is striking not only for foreigners but also for some observant local people in the so called developing countries including India is the disparity and inequity that is out in the open in major towns… Gandhi’s life and his message of living together, truth, nonviolence, and not over-exploiting nature are as relevant today as it was in his time. His message is important not only for the poor but also for the rich and the elites of our society.
→ 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.
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