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Civilized, Barbarians, Savages
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.
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(Português) Civilizados, Bárbaros e Selvagens
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – Uma civilização ou cultura é definida como o conjunto de costumes, tradições, éticas, valores, língua, música, dança, cozinha, vestuário, religião, e organização social e política de um povo, grupo étnico, tribo, ou nação.
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Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, is currently detained in Belmarsh high-security prison in the United Kingdom and faces extradition to the United States and criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. He risks up to 175 years imprisonment for his part in making public the leak of US military documents from Afghanistan and Iraq, and a trove of US State Department cables.
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World-Wide Journalists Condemn Court Action against Julian Assange
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – 1242 journalists from 99 countries (as of 21 Feb 2020 10:30 a.m. GMT) have released a joint statement today in defence of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, in the lead up to proceedings in a UK court to extradite him to the United States to face the espionage charges. The court case begins on 24 February.
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As Usual, Western Media Grossly Distort Syria’s Conflict
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
21 Feb 2020 – It is by now untenable for Western corporate media to spin the fictional narrative about “moderate rebels” fighting against a “cruel dictatorship”. The dominant component is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly Al Nusra Front, an offshoot of Al Qaeda, like Islamic State. Unable any longer to launder the bloody image of the terrorists and retail them as “moderate rebels”, the mainstream media are now laying on the “humanitarian emotion” as a way to undermine the sovereign right of the Syrian Army to defeat and rid the country of the terror scourge.
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COVID-19: Fighting Panic with Information
Editorial | The Lancet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
22 Feb 2020 – As governments and health officials worldwide grapple with the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, new developments in the accounting of and response to cases are occurring as part of a swiftly evolving crisis… There may be no way to prevent a COVID-19 pandemic in this globalised time, but verified information is the most effective prevention against the disease of panic.
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More Damning Evidence of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Cover-up in Syria
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
14 Feb 2020 – More evidence has emerged to indict the OPCW in carrying out a despicable cover-up in Syria. Even more damning is that the cover-up has been orchestrated in response to pressure from the US and Western allies. This is a grave matter considering the UN-affiliated body is supposed to be a neutral, technical watchdog overseeing the implementation of the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention banning the use of such weapons of mass destruction.
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2020: Deepening the Clarification
Editorial | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
13 Jan 2020 – Understanding what happens requires passing through information barriers that real power establishes to ignore or obscure facts; they only inform about what is functional to their interests. But that is not enough, we also need to work on our capacity for interpreting what happens because they have colonized our minds brutally, formatting subjectivities to numb and tie down free wills.
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Growth
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
YES!
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Update
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Sigh!
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TMS Promotion: We need someone to Double the Donations received in a given period–Please Come Forward!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Let’s talk. Thank you! OUR HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTE TO OUR WORK!
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
YES!
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(Italiano) Immorale il Possesso di Armi Nucleari
Editoriale | Il Foglio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
«L’uso dell’energia atomica per fini di guerra è immorale, come allo stesso modo è immorale il possesso delle armi atomiche, come ho già detto due anni fa. Saremo giudicati per questo dalle nuove generazioni. Come possiamo parlare di pace mentre costruiamo nuove e formidabili armi di guerra? E mentre giustifichiamo determinate azioni illegittime con discorsi di discriminazione e di odio?» — Papa Francesco
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Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
8 Dec 2019 – Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, is currently detained in the UK and faces extradition to the USA and criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. WikiLeaks’ War Diaries provided evidence that the US government committed war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. We, journalists and journalistic organizations around the globe, express our grave concern for Mr Assange’s wellbeing, for his continued detention and for the draconian espionage charges. This case stands at the heart of the principle of free speech and free press.
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NATO Splits Reveal Alliance Is Redundant
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
6 Dec 2019 – The 70th anniversary summit-turned-circus this week would seem to be a portent for NATO’s overdue redundancy.
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Capitalism & Robbery
Editorial | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
1 Dec 2019 – Bloomberg insists that we need to get our priorities straight: the economy comes before the earth, capitalism before nature. Yet, it is clear that we are faced with two irreversible crises: one threatening to destabilize the world capitalist economy, the other promising to destroy the planet as a home to humanity. Both represent the culmination of capitalist contradictions and point to the need to transform society. It is the coevolution of economic and ecological contradictions under global monopoly-finance capital that defines the crisis of our times.
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UN Envoy’s Grim Warning over Assange’s Life in British Prison
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
8 Nov 2019 – A UN expert in torture diagnosis has issued a stark warning that Australian whistleblower Julian Assange is in danger of dying from extreme prison conditions in Britain. It is testimony to the rank hypocrisy of British and American governments that lecture others around the world about democracy, human rights and international law. One can only imagine the hysterical outcry among Western governments and media if somehow Assange was being detained in a Russian, Chinese or Iranian prison.
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Don’t Railroad Julian Assange to Virginia
Consortium News | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
22 Oct 2019 – The WikiLeaks legal team has a strong case to throw out Assange’s extradition request after the government that wants him extradited got hold of surveillance video of his privileged attorney-client conversations.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.
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Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode, Le Déserteur, composed by Boris Vian in 1954. The exquisite artwork is by Xiaonan. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (over 170 books in his 89 years, +++).
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How Many Horrible Leaders!
Opinion Sur | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
How did we get to choose so many mediocre leaders, disoriented, coopted by power, horrible in terms of ethics and their motivations, able in forcing perks for themselves and their own, very far from state-persons orientated towards general wellbeing, environment protection, pacific solutions! Perhaps democracies were born captured by those who kept control over the instruments used for colonizing minds and formatting subjectivities.
→ read full articleWorld Population Growth
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
Eye-opening
→ read full articleAt $716 Billion, the US Military Budget Is Bigger Than Those of 144 Countries Combined and Largest Contributor to Climate Change
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
“State sovereignty is a goner. Bankism and Military Capitalism rule the world in all respects now. Militaries are the ultimate manifestation of direct, structural and cultural violence—a cancer that must be extirpated from humanity.”
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Do You Hear the People Sing? (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
The emblematic song of the movie and musical ‘Les Miserables’ based on the novel by Victor Hugo [with lyrics]
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Nelson Mandela’s Inspirational Message
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
The Simplicity of Wisdom [3 min]
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Conflict Management in Kashmir: State–People Relations and Peace
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
Conflict Management in Kashmir: State–People Relations and Peace, by Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Cambridge University Press – The book examines the intersections of political violence, deprivation and conflict and explores the prospects of conflict management by studying one of the world’s most multifaceted and complex political turmoils – Kashmir.
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“The ‘Enemy of the State’ Speaks–Irreverent Essays and Interviews:” Maung Zarni on Burma/Myanmar
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
“The Enemy of the State” Speaks: Irreverent Essays and Interviews, by Maung Zarni, Gerakbudaya: 2019 – “Maung Zarni speaks truth to power and his words are powerful because they come from his own lived and personal experience.” — Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Peace Activist and Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment
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Reconstructing Nonviolence: A New Theory and Action for a Post-Secular Society
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
Nonviolent methods of action have been a powerful tool since the early 20th century for social protest and revolutionary social and political change, and there is diffuse awareness that nonviolence is an efficient spontaneous choice of movements, individuals, and whole nations. Yet from a conceptual standpoint, nonviolence struggles to engage with key contemporary political issues: the role of religion in a post-secular world; the crisis of democracy; and the use of supposedly ‘nonviolent techniques’ for violent aims.
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US Reprehensibly Inciting New Global Arms Race
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
23 Aug 2019 – Russia and China are right to condemn the testing this week of an INF-busting new ground-based cruise missile off the coast of California under the usual cynical guise of “defense”. It was reportedly a Tomahawk-type nuclear-capable warhead, but the Pentagon said it was conventionally armed.
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Seesaws at Trump’s US-Mexico Border Fence
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Children-teachers Defy Evil-minded Structures and Policies – Seesaw connections installed along the steel border fence between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
→ read full articleWater in Equator
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Very revealing and interesting experiment… In Spanish but Understandable.
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Terrorism American Style
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
The 19-year-old opened fire on innocent people at the outdoor Gilroy Garlic Festival in California on Sun 29 Jul 2019, killing three people and wounding 12 others, according to Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee.
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(Português) 10 Razões para Não Frequentar Touradas
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Por favor, não vá à tourada!
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Scientists Identify Malaria’s Achilles’ Heel
James Ives, Editor | News Medical – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
29 Jun 2019 – Scientists have finally found malaria’s Achilles’ heel, a neurotoxin that isn’t harmful to any living thing except Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria.
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Indian Child Lydian Nadhaswaram Plays the Piano Masterfully (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Word in the streets is that Lydian Nadhaswaram is an incarnation of Chopin… Who am I to judge or contradict? Just enjoy…
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‘Mirthless Laugh’ – The Persecution and Torture of Julian Assange
Editorial | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
11 Jun 2019 – As Melzer says, corporate media have an astonishing power to influence what we think. We are all vulnerable to the impact of numerous, apparently independent and impartial journalists all insisting that Assange is a vile narcissist, that Jeremy Corbyn is a dangerous anti-semite, that Nicolas Maduro is a brutal dictator, that Gaddafi is planning a vast massacre, that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction that pose a genuine threat to the West, that Iran is working on a ‘nuclear trigger’, and so on.
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(Português) Biografia de Fernando Pessoa (13 jun 1888 – 30 nov 1935)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Fernando Pessoa foi um poeta português, um dos mais importantes da língua portuguesa. Foi editor, astrólogo, publicitário, tradutor técnico, jornalista, empresário, crítico literário e crítico político. Nasceu e morreu em Lisboa, Portugal. Ficou órfão de pai aos 5 anos. Sua morte prematura, aos 47 anos, foi consequencia de beber álcool em excesso pois apresentou cirrose hepática.
→ read full articleSharing Efforts with Fair Distribution of Results
Editorial | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
29 Apr 2019 – The outrageous concentration of wealth and the consequent decisional power will blow out of proportion more and more. Neither the fiscal restructuring nor the dismantling of the sovereign over-indebtedness should be charged on the most vulnerable: make the great evaders that flight their ill-gotten capitals cope with it.
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Why Ukraine’s Comedian President Is Likely to Be More Joke than Solution
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
26 Apr 2019 – The ordinary Ukrainian people are so sick and tired of the militaristic nationalism as well as endemic corruption in Kiev that they voted for someone, anyone, who appears slightly more reasonable.
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(Português) Bolsonaro decreta fim das faculdades de Filosofia e Sociologia no Brasil: “Objetivo é focar em áreas que gerem retorno imediato”
Editorial | Revista Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Enquanto os filhos – e ele próprio – são doutrinados pelo “filósofo” Olavo de Carvalho, Bolsonaro decreta fim dos estudos de humanas alegando que a educação deve servir para ensinar “leitura, escrita e a fazer conta e depois um ofício que gere renda para a pessoa”
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The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange and the Corporate Media
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
19 March 2019 – The corporate media is institutionally opposed to the interests of the vast majority of the public; that is why we reject the label ‘mainstream’. The corporate media including BBC News, systematically promotes imperialist and exploitative state interests, together with private power in the form of big business, financial speculation, military forces, the arms industry, the fossil fuel lobby, destructive agribusiness, unsustainable food production and rampant global consumerism that is destroying ecosystems, ramping up mass loss of species and endangering human survival through climate chaos.
→ read full articleVenezuela Blitz (Part 1): Tyrants Don’t Have Free Elections
Editorial | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
5 Feb 2019 – A ‘Propaganda Blitz’ is a fast-moving campaign to persuade the public of the need for ‘action’ or ‘intervention’ furthering elite interests. Affecting great moral outrage, corporate media line up to insist that a watershed moment has arrived – something must be done! A classic propaganda blitz was triggered on January 23, when Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself ‘interim President’.
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Democracy or Extinction
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
22 Jan 2019 – What will it take for governments to take real action on climate? When will they declare an emergency and do what needs to be done? How much concerted, peaceful public action will be required to disrupt the current economic and political system that is driving humanity to the brink of extinction? Meanwhile, climate records continue to tumble. 2018 was the hottest for the world’s oceans since records began in the 1950s, continuing a deeply worrying trend. Moreover, the last five years were the five hottest.
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The Guardian View on Israel’s Democracy: Killing with Impunity, Lying without Consequence?
Editorial – The Guardian,
28 Jan 2019
22 Jan 2019 – In the last nine months of 2018, according to the UN, hundreds of Palestinians – many of them children – were killed and many thousands injured. They included medics and journalists. Most of the dead were unarmed and posed no danger to anyone, with little more than rocks in their hands and slogans on their lips. Yet Israel continued with an immoral and unlawful policy that sees soldiers of its military teargas, shoot and kill protesters, including those who pose no credible threat. Hospitals in Gaza, which already struggle under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade, have been stretched to breaking point in dealing with the flood of patients ferried in from the protests.
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Remembrance – The Dehumanised Human
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
“From infancy, by every possible means–class books, church services, sermons, speeches, books, papers, songs, poetry, monuments– the people are stupefied in one direction: unquestioning patriotism.” — Leo Tolstoy
“The average individual does not permit himself to be aware of thoughts or feelings which are incompatible with the patterns of his culture, and hence he is forced to repress them.” — Erich Fromm
Concentration of Wealth and Decisional Power
Editorial | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
19 Dec 2018 – Among so many questions and circumstances that are intermingled in the world, one of the most significant processes is the concentration of wealth and decisional power. Elitist forces influence in such a way that almost every national economic system and, of course, the global functioning have adjusted, and to a great extent subordinated, to serve the interests of these elites, the dominators of the world and countries’ course.
→ read full articleLimits of Dissent – Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian
Editorial | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
6 Dec 2018 – Even a comparatively honest, Chomskyite journalist like Greenwald is either not willing or not able to tell the whole truth about a paper that has done enormous harm in promoting Perpetual War with endless nonsense about ‘our’ supposed ‘responsibility to protect’ civilians in oil-rich countries like Iraq and Libya. The Guardian has, at last, begun responding to the climate extinction crisis, but it has long downplayed the gravity of the crisis and the truth of corporate denialism, while promoting high status consumerism and fossil fuel advertising.
→ read full articleFrom the Concentration of Wealth and Decisional Power to Full Democracies
The Editors | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
21 Nov 2018 – Humanity is going through a destructive phase of unbridled concentration of wealth and decisional power; its results have been widely identified and denounced. Even though spaces for resistance and transformation desires germinate, it still remains to be seen how large majorities organize to establish new courses and ways of functioning. Will the notion of full democracy be useful?
→ read full articleThe Filter Bubble: Owen Jones and Con Coughlin
Editor | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 – There is something dreamlike about the system of mass communication sometimes described as ‘mainstream media’. Why are defence editors, defence correspondents, diplomatic editors and the like so often biased in favour of the Western defence and diplomatic establishment they are covering? And why are they allowed to demonstrate this bias without anyone so much as commenting? The filter bubble ensures that these questions can never be asked, much less answered.
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Facebook Must Do More to Prevent 21st-Century Genocide
Editorial Board – The Washington Post,
5 Nov 2018
28 Oct 201 – In Myanmar, Facebook is more than a website. For many residents, it is the entire Internet. So when the nation’s military used the site as a conduit for a campaign against Muslims, there were no guardrails to stop the hatred from spreading — except the company itself. The grim reality on the ground in Myanmar, from which more than 700,000 members of the Rohingya minority have now fled, shows Facebook failed.
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Open Cruelty
Editorial |The News [Pakistan] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
4 Nov 2018 – With the Rohingya set to be sent back to the killing fields of Myanmar, it is stunning how little difference a UN declaration that a genocide was committed against them has made. Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start repatriating Rohingya refugees next month. A list of 8,000 Rohingya refugees has been processed by the Myanmar government and their return has been ‘approved’.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.
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Johan Galtung, a Pioneer: Conceptualizing Peace Journalism
Antonio C. S. Rosa, M.A. | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Before the 19th century, we had “disease journalists” who reported in detail how epidemics were spreading and how people suffered. Today we have “health journalists” who write about current research on new cures and therapies, and inform about healthy lifestyles promoting health as a value. Similarly, the time has come for “peace journalists” to write not only about war, but also about its causes, prevention, and ways to restore peace by nonviolent means and promoting peace as a value. They need not invent themselves solutions to conflicts–in the same way that health journalists need not invent cures for diseases themselves; they ask specialists.
→ read full articleNo More Concentration of Wealth and Decisional Power
Opinion Sur | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Some argue that this process is here to stay, as it was believed by those minorities that imposed empires and dictatorships. They forget that history shows the fall and disappearance of practically every system that believed to be permanent. Such could be the destiny of this destructive phase of ruthless financial capitalism.
→ read full article‘The Onion’ Has Chosen to Publish an Anonymous Op-Ed from Two Sources Close to Trump Who Think Their Dad Is the Best President Ever
The Onion | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 – Today, The Onion is making an unusual editorial decision, and we want to explain why. As turmoil continues to increase within the Trump White House, this essay offers an invaluable high-level perspective into the administration’s inner workings. Due to the sensitive nature of this op-ed, revealing the identities of the writers could jeopardize their positions in the administration. We believe, however, that any issues with the writers’ identities or their motivations for writing this piece are overridden by the necessity of informing the public about what it’s like to work for the president. That is why The Onion has chosen to publish an anonymous op-ed from two sources close to Mr. Trump who think their dad is the best president ever.
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Israel’s Dirty Arms Deals with Myanmar
Haaretz | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – A United Nations report issued this week found that the Myanmar military committed genocide and crimes against humanity, including rape, torture, enslavement, violence against children and the destruction of entire villages, against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. Such reports have not kept the Israeli government from cooperating with those war criminals.
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A Journalism of Peace: The Media’s Indispensable Social Function
Editorial – National Catholic Reporter,
20 Aug 2018
16 Aug 2018 – Earlier this year, to mark World Communications Day, Pope Francis issued a stern warning against the dangers of “fake news” and an equally firm endorsement of what he called the “journalism for peace.” Journalism must be “at the service of all, especially those — and they are the majority in our world — who have no voice,” Francis wrote. Journalism of service, he said, explores the underlying causes of conflict so as to contribute to its resolution.
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Blindness, End of Cycle, New Courses
Opinion Sur | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 July, 2018 – Neoliberal domination is approaching the limits of its reproduction. So much has been destroyed with the impious concentration of wealth and decisions that the peoples of the world and the Planet can stand no more. Inequality, poverty, indigence, environmental destruction lead to the implosion of the model of society and world that has been imposed on us.
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A New Data Breach May Have Exposed Personal Information of Almost Every American Adult
Mike Murphy, Editor | Market Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Wired reported Wednesday [27 Jun] that Exactis, a Palm Coast, Fla.-based marketing and data-aggregation company, had exposed a database containing almost 2 terabytes of data, containing nearly 340 million individual records, on a public server. That included records of 230 million consumers and 110 million businesses.
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Why TMS Weekly Digest was delivered 2 days later this week
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
TMS came out late this week for two reasons:
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Kiev Murder Stunt Was Absurd, but Even More So Was Western Media’s Reaction to It
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
1 Jun 2018 – The credibility of the Kiev regime imploded emphatically this week; but so too of Western governments and news media. Western propaganda as peddled by governments, their secret services and dutiful corporate media should be in the spotlight of world scrutiny. Not further perverse allegations against Russia.
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Unearthing Truths: Israel, the Nakba, and the Jewish National Fund
The Editors | Moving Forward Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
The Forward courageously reminds American Jews of the reality of the Nakba, the slogans and symbols of the Jewish project that enabled mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people – and the policies that enable it to continue today. Our hope is that pro-Israel communities will honestly confront the history and the present situation in the land, and move toward justice.
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Too Many Are Looking Away from Burma’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign
Editorial – The Washington Post,
16 Apr 2018
7 Apr 2018 – The situation is deteriorating. Burma has been razing the Rohingya villages, leaving the population stranded in Bangladesh. The coming monsoon season threatens the displaced Rohingya with even more misery in refugee camps. The question must be asked of everyone concerned: What did you do when faced with the horrors of ethnic cleansing in 2018? Too many are looking away.
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Media Service Celebrates 10 Years as a Site of Reference in Peace Journalism
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
520 Weeks, 25 thousand Posts, 6 thousand Comments. We are proud of our record: never missed a single week! Prof. Johan Galtung’s first Editorial was on 3 Mar 2008. We are ready to carry on for the next 10—and beyond—in our mission to benefit our beleaguered planet’s humanity, fauna & flora by spreading and disseminating our trade mark: Solutions Oriented PEACE JOURNALISM. Thank you, we are in this together.
→ read full article‘Follow Your Bliss’ – The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism to the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown
Editor | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
‘Forget it. Don’t write for the “mainstream”. Don’t write for money. Don’t write for prestige. Just “follow your bliss” by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.’
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Hiding Evidence of Massacre in Rakhine
Editorial – The Daily Star (Bangladesh),
26 Feb 2018
23 Feb 2018 – The report that Myanmar is ‘bulldozing’ Rohingya mass grave to hide evidence of killing comes as no surprise to us. It is only natural the perpetrators of genocide will try to cover up following the exposés that appeared in the media.
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Remembering Gene Sharp, a Pioneer of People Power
The Editors | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Gene Sharp, who passed away at the age of 90 on Sunday [28 Jan], was not only a key figure in the development of a whole new field of study devoted to helping people realize their own power, he was a key figure in the lives of so many who found inspiration in his work and took it in new directions. It is no exaggeration to say that Waging Nonviolence would not exist were it not for his pioneering research demonstrating the undeniable power and effectiveness of nonviolent struggle.
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(Italiano) Scenari di pace per il 2018
Angela Dogliotti | Gennaio 2018 Editoriale #01 – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
22 Jan 2018
6 gennaio 2018 – Il 2018 si apre su uno scenario inquietante: crescenti diseguaglianze, squilibri, guerre, in un contesto di forte competizione per il controllo economico e politico mondiale tra Occidente e nuove potenze emergenti a Oriente; scarsità delle risorse e cambiamenti climatici che acuiscono le crisi, rivelando la fragilità di sistemi sociali e modelli di sviluppo intrisi di violenza diretta, strutturale, culturale, e insostenibili dal punto di vista ambientale.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! To All Our Readers, Friends, Supporters
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
On behalf of Prof. Johan Galtung and all of us at TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS, I express the sincere desire that 2018 be much better than 2017 to all of you—it will not be that difficult insofar the World is concerned. Thank you for your support, …
→ 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.
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Editorial Board - The Washington Post,
23 Oct 2017
14 Oct 2017 – No single fire can be specifically linked to climate change, and certainly other factors, such as increased development or logging and grazing activities, are involved. But scientists say there is a clear connection between global warming and the increase in recent years in the severity and frequency of wildfires in the West.
→ read full articleProf. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Can’t Ignore the People’s Tribunal
Prothom Alo [Bangladesh] | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
24 Sep 2017 – The verdict issued by the International People’s Tribunal in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Friday [22 Sep], which indicted Myanmar’s military as well as its state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi for war crimes and ethnic persecution in Myanmar, reflected the expectations of the peace-loving people of the world.
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The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
14 Sep 2017 – Plastic bags are often used for a few minutes before enjoying an eternal afterlife, clogging storm drains, stuffing landfills, killing animals that eat them and contributing to the eight million metric tons of plastic in oceans every year. Kenya and more than 40 other countries have taxed, limited or banned plastic bags. The rest of the world should, too.
→ read full articleThe Guardian View on the Slaughter in Myanmar: A Crime against Humanity
The Guardian | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
4 Sep 2017 – The brutal, bloody, and ultimately pointless mistreatment of a Muslim minority shames [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi who appeared for decades as the epitome of principled and unflinching defence of human rights, now the unfeeling figurehead of a vicious regime.
→ read full articleExporting Chaos to Venezuela
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
21 Aug 2017
President Trump’s recklessness is felt around the world.
→ read full articleBurma Covers Up Its Systematic Abuse of the Rohingya Minority Group
Editorial Board - The Washington Post,
21 Aug 2017
It is becoming increasingly clear that Burma’s partially democratic government bears many similarities to its autocratic predecessor: It is overly sensitive to criticism, repressive toward minorities and willing to go to great lengths to protect the military.
→ read full articleFighting, While Funding, Extremists
Editorial |The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017 – Saudi Arabia and some of its neighbors decide to punish Qatar and some of its citizens, ostensibly for fostering and financing Islamist terrorism. But Saudi Arabia itself has been accused of underwriting extremists. No matter: President Trump, captivated by Saudi royalty, sides with the Saudis — even though the United States has two important bases in Qatar. Baffling, right? The biggest loser in all this may turn out to be the fight against the Islamic State.
→ read full articleUndoing All the Good Work on Cuba
Editorial – The New York Times,
5 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – To spite his predecessor, the president will further isolate America, hurt business interests and impede the push for greater democracy.
→ read full articleDemocratic World Federalists and the San Francisco Promise
Roger Kotila, Editor | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The truth is that the UN Charter itself is so badly designed that it is in reality the main part of a geopolitical war system. A global peace system will require replacing the UN Charter with a genuine world federal union constitution such as the Earth Constitution. The Charter is undemocratically rigged in favor of only five nations of the UN Security Council: U.S., Russia, China, France, and UK.
→ read full articleTrump Has Scientists Mad Enough to March on Earth Day
The Philadelphia Inquirer | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
5 Apr 2017 – It’s not every day that scientists plan to head out of the laboratory and into the streets to protest, but on Earth Day, April 22, U.S. scientists have good reason to do exactly that. The protesters believe President Trump has no respect for the truth when it comes to well-settled science on some of the most critical questions facing the country.
→ read full articleCongress Says, Let the Mentally Ill Buy Guns
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017 – For all their dysfunction, the Republican Senate and House have managed to act with lightning speed in striking down a sensible Obama administration rule designed to stop people with severe mental problems from buying guns. They did the gun lobby’s bidding in passing a regressive measure that President Trump is expected to sign.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Shameful Denial
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
10 Jan 2017 – Last month, President Obama lifted sanctions against Myanmar, citing “substantial progress in improving human rights” following the historic election victory of the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in November 2015. Tragically, that praise is proving premature.
→ read full articleChina Joins the Fight to Save Elephants
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
3 Jan 2017 – It is great news for elephants that China has declared a halt to commercial ivory trade by the end of 2017. The many governmental and nongovernmental organizations that have worked to protect the magnificent animals must now ensure that neither China nor the United States backslides on the bans, and that other nations will not try surreptitiously to move in.
→ read full articleFake News about “Fake News”: The Media Performance Pyramid
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
5 Dec 2016 – In the wake of Brexit and Trump, “mainstream” media have done the formerly unthinkable by focusing on media bias. The intensity of focus has been such that the Oxford Dictionaries have announced that ‘post-truth’ is their ‘Word of the Year 2016’.
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The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
The last thing the Pentagon would seem to need is more hackers. But Defense Department officials are inviting them in.
→ read full articleRelentless Persecution
The Statesman | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
24 Nov 2016 – The irony is cruel. The persecution of the Rohingyas has intensified in Myanmar with the change of guard — from the junta to a democratic dispensation under [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi. The democratic world had expected quite the contrary.
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The Hindu | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
25 Nov 2016 – A new humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Myanmar after the military crackdown on “Islamist jihadists” in the Rakhine State, home to more than one million Rohingya Muslims… The army denies targeting civilians, but satellite images taken after the start of the crackdown indicate that hundreds of buildings were burnt down; reports suggest that even those who tried to flee the country were shot dead. The migrants are not welcome in Myanmar’s neighbourhood either.
→ read full articlePower Imbalance at the Pipeline Protest
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
When injustice aligns with cruelty, and heavy weaponry is involved, the results can be shameful and bloody. Witness what happened on Sunday [20 Nov] in North Dakota, when law enforcement officers escalated their tactics against unarmed American Indians and allies who have waged months of protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s War on the Rohingya
The New York Times | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
To preserve her reputation as a human rights champion, [Nobel Peace Laureate] Daw Aung San Suu Kyi needs to allow an impartial investigation into the violence.
→ read full articleFiltering the Election
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
When the likes of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar Assad, and now Donald Trump, are declared the latest ‘New Hitler’, we learn little except that they are enemies of the establishment. It means the ‘On’ button has been pressed on a propaganda machine designed for maximal demonisation, leaving no room for public doubt.
→ read full articleProject for the New American Century
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
The Project for the New American Century was a neoconservative think-tank that focused on US foreign policy founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. Its stated goal was “to promote American global leadership.” The PNAC ceased to function in 2006 and was replaced by a new think-tank named the Foreign Policy Initiative, co-founded by Kristol and Kagan in 2009.
→ read full articleWhat Is Peace Journalism?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Profs. Jake Lynch and Dietrich Fischer reply to the question.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
Johan Vincent Galtung was born in Oslo, Norway on the same day that the UN would come to existence 15 years later. He was jailed for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to military service. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 167 books, plus.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Moral Duty in Yemen
Editorial Board – The New York Times,
17 Oct 2016
11 Oct 2016 – President Obama must cut off military aid to Saudi Arabia unless it ends the carnage and returns to peace talks. Yemen is near collapse, with 80 percent of the country in need of humanitarian aid. Al Qaeda’s affiliate there is becoming stronger and the population more radicalized. The longer the war goes on, the harder it will be to end.
→ read full articleOctober 2: Nonviolence Day, Gandhi’s Birthday
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
It doesn’t matter the amount or prevalence of violence employed or practiced anywhere anytime. It was from within a violent environment, which oppressed him both in South Africa and in India, that the Mahatma, born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, gave birth to his philosophy of nonviolence. Yin-Yang. The world is readier than ever for it. Nevertheless, besides a philosophy NV can be many things for many people depending on contexts.
→ read full articlePolice Do Nothing as Armed Mercenaries Attack Native American Dakota Pipeline Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray
Counter Current | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
3 Sep 2016 – Police stood idly by as private security guards who were working on behalf of the corporations building the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline turned attack dogs on peaceful protesters.
→ read full article2,500 Native Americans Successfully Block Oil Pipeline Construction — State of Emergency Declared
Counter Current News Editorial Team – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 – The Camp of the Sacred Stones has swelled from a few dozen to more than 2,500, according to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe officials. They are calling for further review of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the end of July without a full environmental assessment.
→ read full articleThe Declassified ’28 Pages’ on the 9/11 Attacks
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
15 Jul 2016 – Today the US Congress declassified 28 pages of documents from the first Congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks with information about a possible Saudi government connection. Download and read the full report in pdf here.
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