Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Impossibility of Politics – And How to Make Politics Possible
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The thesis that politics today is impossible (or stated a bit less briefly, that the goals that politics sets out to achieve are unattainable) is so far more a provocation than a hypothesis. To make it into a meaningful claim I have to assign meanings to the word “politics” and to the word “impossible.”
→ read full articleWhy the Arabs Don’t Want Us in Syria
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Politico – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
As we focus on the rise of the Islamic State and search for the source of the savagery that took so many innocent lives in Paris and San Bernardino, we might want to look beyond the convenient explanations of religion and ideology. Instead we should examine the more complex rationales of history and oil — and how they often point the finger of blame back at our own shores.
→ read full articleDragging Our Feet toward Disaster
Dr. Ira Helfand, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
A new policy-making body called the Open Ended Working Group will consider ways to break the current impasse in efforts to reduce the danger of nuclear war. The group was established by an overwhelming majority at the UN. The U.S. and all of the other nuclear weapons states voted against and are boycotting the meeting. Why?
→ read full articleRefugees Per Kiloton: RPK as a Complement to GDP
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The indicator might have the additional advantage of focusing debate on an equivalent to the Polluter Pays Principle, namely on a Provider Pays Principle, as adapted to bombing — a Bomber Pays Principle. This could reframe financial responsibility for the integration of refugees.
→ read full article(Italiano) Spagna: uno Stato, due, o cinque in alternativa?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Costruire una rete di relazioni verso altre nazioni all’interno e all’esterno, in una comunità di nazioni, è nello spirito dei nostri tempi. Imporre nazioni dominanti su altre in uno stato pretendendo l’unità, non lo è. Né lo è il potere ereditario.
→ read full articleMap
Ludo Goderis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
You are here.
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Peace Train (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) plays Peace Train live on his Earth Tour, 1976.
→ read full articleWho Is My Neighbour?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Among the symptoms of loss of solidarity is the drift towards violence, racism and aggressive foreign policy that can be seen in the United States. Another warning symptom is the inhospitable reception that refugees have received in Europe and elsewhere.
→ read full articleA Forever Imminent Threat?
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Two towering exclamation points have been writ high on the sky, each an indelible imprint on human consciousness. Hiroshima! Nagasaki! And yet, 70 years later, through the countless wars that have followed WWII, on the surface of the fracturing social, economic and political global landscape, humanity dreams on, unaware and unforgiven.
→ read full article10 Things to Know about Nonviolent Struggle
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
4. There are more than 200 methods of nonviolent action, including marches, demonstrations, rallies, boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, blockades, noncooperation, civil disobedience, work stoppages and slowdowns, refusal to provide services and much more.
→ read full articleGrand Jury Finds 50 Priests Raped Hundreds of Philadelphia Children
Rmuse, Politicus USA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The wheels of justice didn’t turn at all in Philadelphia because the Church concealed the crimes and protected the rapists.
→ read full articleScrapping Trident and Transitioning to a Nuclear-Free World
Rajesh Makwana, Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
As the illicit trade in nuclear weapons escalates alongside the risk of geopolitical conflict, it’s high time governments decisively prioritised nuclear disarmament – and that means scrapping Trident, the UK’s inordinately expensive nuclear deterrent, which would also facilitate the redistribution of scarce public resources to fund essential services.
→ read full article‘Plan B’ – Not an Enigma: Why the West Is Keen on Dividing the Arabs
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The Arab world has always been seen in western eyes as a place of conquest, to be exploited, controlled and tamed. That mindset continues to define the relationship. While Arab unity is to be dreaded, further divisions often appear as ‘Plan B’, when the current status quo, call it ‘Plan A’, seems impossible to sustain.
→ read full articleWhy Democratic Party Foreign Policy Fails and Will Continue to Fail
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
5 Mar 2016 – An earlier version of this essay appeared on March 2, 2016 in The Progressive Magazine. It tries to explain the entrapment of liberal Democrats in an iron cage of militarism when it comes to international security policy.
→ read full articleTwilight of the Idols: Rise and Fall of the Personalist Left
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Over the past three years Latin American leftist leaders, who presided over heterodox ‘free trade’ and commodity based welfare economies, lost presidential, legislative and municipal elections and referendums or faced impeachment.
→ read full articleDuty To Warn – Big Pharma’s Nefarious Control of Health Care and the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Everybody should be aware by now of the large amount of control that for-profit multinational corporations have over both state and federal legislative bodies. But they also have a lot of control over the major media, the “defense” spending priorities, educational institutions, many of our medical schools and even what constitutes post-graduate medical education for physicians.
→ read full articleA Pope, a Patriarch, a Spiritual Revolution
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The first editorial, “50 Years of Fidel Castro” 3 March 2008, celebrated a political revolution that changed the world, and spelt the end of US-Western imperialism. This editorial celebrates a spiritual revolution that may also change the world, spelling the end of Western materialism, and spread from there. Again, Cuba played a major role, as meeting place between two major parts of Christianity, Catholic and Orthodox.
→ read full articleInternational Day of Women: The Goddess of March
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
March 8 is the International Day of Women and is placed under the sign of the goddess of the month of March — Minerva. Minerva derives her name from the Latin mens (mind), and so she has a special relation to teachers and artists.
→ read full articleThe Rape of East Timor: “Sounds like Fun”
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
25 Feb 20126 – Secret documents found in the Australian National Archives provide a glimpse of how one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century was executed and covered up. They also help us understand how and for whom the world is run. The documents refer to East Timor, now known as Timor-Leste, and were written by diplomats in the Australian embassy in Jakarta.
→ read full article(Português) São Paulo, a 1ª Cidade do Brasil a Proibir o Comércio de Peles de Animais
O Planeta Que Temos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
3 Mar 2016 – Depois de receber um abaixo-assinado com cerca de 100 mil assinaturas, a prefeitura de São Paulo atendeu à reivindicação da população e pôs fim a duas atividades de extrema crueldade animal: a fabricação e venda de foie gras e o comércio de peles de animais.
→ read full articleTop Psychologist’s Personal History of MK-ULTRA: “The CIA-LSD Story in Retrospect”
Valtin, Invictus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
MK-ULTRA – In considering the total body of classified research conducted by or for the CIA that had as its overriding aim the control and manipulation of behavior, two questions suggest themselves: what motivated the scientists to work covertly on questionable projects; and what, in the end, was the yield in knowledge of these studies?
→ read full articleNobel-Prize Economist Condemns Obama’s ‘Trade’ Deals
Eric Zuesse, Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
3 Mar 2016 – The Nobel-Prize-winning former chief economist of the World Bank, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the U.S. President, Joseph Stiglitz, went to England to warn the British public, and Parliament, that “no democracy” can support U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed trade-deals, because all of these have a feature built into them, called Investor State Dispute Resolution, or ISDS, which will establish a supra-national authority…
→ read full articleUN: Israel Demolished 41 Palestinian Homes, a School in 1 Week
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
The demolition took place in a Palestinian village called Khirbet Tana, which is home to approximately 250 people who rely on herding and agriculture for their livelihood, according to the U.N. report.
→ read full articleDark Spots, Light Spots, and Apple’s Protest
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
By their logic, 1984 is finally here, and embedding security (i.e., surveillance) chips in toothbrushes, children’s toys, and everywhere else The Enemy might lurk is both necessary and proper. You’d better consider flossing regularly and having your kids play with sticks and stones. Barbie is watching, and even Tim Cook can’t stop her.
→ read full articlePublication of My Book: ‘The Need for a New Economic System’
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
The Need for a New Economic System is a new book based on the series of articles that I published on TRANSCEND Media Service during the autumn of 2015. It deals with the very urgent problems that are facing the world today, all of which are linked to our need for a reformed and sustainable economic system.
→ read full articleVariety of System Failures Engendered by Negligent Distinctions
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Global civilization is currently witness to a variety of systemic failures — and the recognized potential for more. There is an evident degree of incapacity to encompass their nature, whether or not efforts are made to frame them in terms of a global problematique, or the possibility of a global resolutique.
→ read full articleMoral Courage – Stand Up to Wall St. & the U.S. War Machine!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
“Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.”
– – Robert F. Kennedy
Meet the Scientist Connecting the Dots between Air Pollution and Dementia
Clayton Aldern, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Increasingly, research suggests a link between air pollution exposure and the risk of diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. How might this relationship be possible, and what might it mean for what the world is – or isn’t – prepared to handle in the coming decades?
→ read full articleDiplomatic Relations: A Nonkilling Perspective
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
When between two countries diplomatic relations are broken
what peace-building-reuniting language could be spoken?
Scientist Who Discovered That GMOs Cause Tumors Wins Lawsuit
JBA Healthy News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
19 Feb 2016 – A court has ruled that French Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini was correct when he concluded that GMO food, when fed to rats, caused serious health problems including tumors.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Why We Need to Be More Cautious about America’s Over-Vaccination Program
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
“PhRMA (the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America [Big Pharma’s trade association and lobbying group]) is quoted as saying that “the 271 vaccines in development span a wide array of diseases, and employ exciting new scientific strategies and technologies. These potential vaccines – all in human clinical trials or under review by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – include 137 for infectious diseases, 99 for cancer, 15 for allergies and 10 for neurological disorders.”
→ read full articleKeen Observation
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
A famous surgeon told his students,
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What’s Next with the 350,000 Soldiers, 20,000 Tanks & 2,500 Warplanes Outside of Syria
WeAreChange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Feb 17, 2016 – Luke Rudkowski breaks down the latest about threats to an all-out global war.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Feb 29–Mar 6 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.” – Richard Bach
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Telephone (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Martynas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Martynas Levickis is one of the brightest young accordion musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards, being a Bachelor graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the People of West Papua
James Burrowes & Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
We have recently been discussing your ongoing courageous struggle to liberate yourselves from more than 100 years of occupation, first by the Netherlands, briefly and brutally by Japan during World War II, and now by Indonesia. In that regard, we would each like to share a brief message with you, our friends from West Papua.
→ read full article(Français) 10 ans d’un processus de changement en Bolivie : un regard géopolitique
Katu Arkonada, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
En un mois, la révolution démocratique et culturelle bolivienne va connaître des moments transcendantaux de son histoire récente. D’une part, les 21 et 22 janvier a été célébré l’anniversaire de l’État plurinational ainsi que les 10 ans du processus de changement, et d’autre part, le 21 février un vote historique va avoir lieu et symbolisera la force de la nouvelle démocratie bolivienne face à la démocratie néolibérale obsolète.
→ read full articleWhen God Despairs
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Right after the foundation of Israel, God appeared to David Ben-Gurion and told him: “You have done good by my people. Utter a wish and I shall grant it!” “I wish that Israel shall be Jewish, democratic and encompass all the country between the Mediterranean and the Jordan,” Ben-Gurion replied.
→ read full articleHumanity First
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
I love my nation
I love my religion
But I always trust
Humanity be first
World Day for Social Justice 2016 – Time to Share the Wealth
Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Market Forces Are the Problem, Not the Solution – Every year since 2009, the United Nations has highlighted February 20th as the World Day for Social Justice in a bid to underscore the glaring inequalities that increasingly characterise the world today.
→ read full articleTruthful
Tom Toles – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Truths and Lies
→ read full articleThe Arab Peace Initiative: Not a Framework for Negotiations Any More
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
In the Eve of Arab Coming Summit in Morocco
→ read full article‘Silk Road’ Trade Route Revived as First Train Arrives in Iran from China with Goods
ABC News Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The train, carrying 32 containers of commercial products, took 14 days to make the 9,500-kilometre journey through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. The train’s journey was 30 days shorter than the sea voyage from Shanghai to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.
→ read full articleFormer U.N. Chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali Dead at 93
Michelle Nichols, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a blunt-spoken Egyptian who led the world body through global turmoil as it defined its peacekeeping role and lost his job over disputes with Washington, died on Tuesday [16 Feb 2016]. He was 93.
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A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion between 1945 and 1998
Isao Hashimoto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions that have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998.
→ read full articleBuddhism and Conflict Transformation
Olivia Fuchs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
An Inter-disciplinary Exploration of Buddhist Resources for Peace and Conflict – 18/19 July, 2016 – University of Winchester
→ read full article(Italiano) I diritti umani: una sfida permanente
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
La Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti Umani del 10 dicembre 1948 fu redatta da un comitato di Uomini, Bianchi, Anziani, Borghesi, Avvocati, Francesi. Nulla sui diritti di donne e bambini. Non ci sono diritti di accesso a servizi igienici, né alla sessualità: i borghesi di buone maniere certe cose le fanno ma non ne parlano-scrivono.
→ read full articleSamsung Warns Customers Not to Discuss Personal Information in Front of Smart TVs
Meghan DeMaria, The Week – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The company revealed that the voice activation feature on its smart TVs will capture all nearby conversations. The TV sets can share the information, including sensitive data, with Samsung as well as third-party services.
→ read full articleSeneca on How to Fortify Yourself against Fear and Misfortune
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
“If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.” The great Roman philosopher — a man of timeless wisdom on ‘how to stretch life’s shortness by living wide rather than long’ — took this point to its exquisite extreme in a letter to his friend Lucilius Junior.
→ read full articleSocialism and the Fight against War
International Committee of the Fourth International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The great historical questions arising from the present world situation can be formulated as follows: How will the crisis of the world capitalist system be resolved? Will the contradictions wracking the system end in world war or world socialist revolution? Will the future lead to fascism, nuclear war and an irrevocable descent into barbarism?
→ read full articleHuman Rights, Human Rights: A Poem-Plea to Humankind
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Human Rights, Human Rights
You have been violated how many thousands of days and nights?
Shipping Containers Are Becoming ‘Home, Sweet Home’ All Over the World
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
From Berlin to Bangalore to London, people all over are shacking up in shipping containers. And now a Copenhagen-based container architecture firm has designed the “CPH Village,” a planned shipping container structure aimed to help solve the area’s student housing shortage.
→ read full article(Português) Fotos raras mostram refúgio hippie no Havaí formado por pessoas que pediam a paz nos anos 60
Redação Hypeness – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
A água era cristalina, o asfalto mais próximo ficava a quilômetros de distância, o uso de roupas era opcional, não havia regras e as decisões não eram baseadas na razão, mas em vibes. Na primavera de 1969, treze jovens saíram das universidades dos Estados Unidos rumo a um refúgio onde buscavam paz, o encontro com a natureza e o desenvolvimento espiritual. Foi na região de Kauai, no Havaí.
→ read full articleEpilogue: Argentina – The End of Post Neoliberalism and the Rise of the Hard Right
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The class struggle from above found its most intense , comprehensive and retrograde expression in Argentina, with the election of Mauricio Macri (December 2015). During the first two months in office, through the arbitrary assumption of emergency powers, he reversed, by decree, a multitude of progressive socio-economic policies passed over the previous decade and sought to purge public institutions of independent voices.
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Air (Music Video of the Week)
David Garrett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Composition by Johann Sebastian Bach – David Garrett, born 4 Sep 1980, is a record-breaking classical violinist and recording artist. Garrett was born in Aachen, Germany to an American prima ballerina and a German lawyer and jurist.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
Feb 22-28 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”
→ read full articleWith More Refugees Expected, Europe Needs to Get a Grip
Russell Merryman, The BRICS Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
While financial support is still coming in for the victims of the Syrian conflict, Europe’s political signals are getting ever more contradictory.
→ read full articleIndia Firm to Launch ‘World’s Cheapest’ Smartphone
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
17 Feb 2016 – Ringing Bells said their Freedom 251 phone would be priced under 500 rupees (€6.57; £5; $7.3), but Indian media reports said it would cost just 251 rupees (€3.29; $3.67; £2.56). India is the world’s second-largest mobile market and has one billion mobile phone subscribers.
→ read full articleCuba Leads the Way in Developing New Cancer Drugs
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
15 Feb 2016 – Cuba is testing drugs to turn cancer into a manageable chronic disease, adapting treatment to each tumor rather than attacking them with a one-size-fits-all cure.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Scaring People out of Their Wits over Pseudo-Pandemics (Swine Flu, Avian Flu, SARS, Ebola, and now Zika)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
“Why Aren’t Public Health Organizations Like CIDRAP Warning Pregnant Women to Abstain from Aluminum or Mercury-containing Vaccines?- I hope that you are not so naïve as to believe that biased, corporate, profit-driven ‘science’ is real science, for real science looks at all the evidence and then lets that evidence lead to conclusions that might anger those who are counting on ‘positive’ results.”
→ read full articleBeached America
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
17 Feb 2016 – For at least the last four decades now I feel like I’ve been living in Beached America: a nation that has lost its values, even as it writhes in violent agitation, inflicting its military on the vulnerable regions of the planet.
→ read full articleChurch Announcements
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Ladies don’t forget the rummage sale.
→ read full articleUN Calls for Summit Forum on Refugees and Migrants: Role of NGO in Its Preparation
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
The role of non-governmental organizations is to remind constantly Government representatives of the seriousness of the issues and for the need for collective action. National NGOs can highlight local conditions and thus provide information to the international NGOs in consultative status with the UN who will be at the Summit in New York.
→ read full articleWhy Is Trauma Missing from Syria Refugee Debate?
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
The president of the German Chamber of Psychotherapists, which carried out the research, said that more than 70 per cent of the refugees had witnessed violence and more than 50 per cent were themselves victims of violence. Nearly half of them have nightmares and flashbacks as if their terrible ordeals “were happening all over again”.
→ read full articleAstronomers Detect Gravitational Waves Predicted by Einstein
Will Morrow, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
12 Feb 2016 – Astronomers from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Collaboration have published the first detection of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space and time. The announcement comes almost exactly a century after Albert Einstein, in mid-1916, predicted the existence of the waves on the basis of his Theory of General Relativity.
→ read full article(Português) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a vida do espírito e a ética da Terra
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Sabemos cuidar da vida do corpo, hoje um verdadeiro culto celebrado em tantas academias de ginástica. Os psicanalistas de várias tendências nos ajudam a cuidar da vida da psique. Mas na nossa cultura, praticamente, esquecemos de cultivar a vida do espírit. A vida do espírito se alimenta de bens não tangíveis como é o amor, a amizade, a compaixão, o cuidado e a abertura ao infinito. Sem a vida do espírito divagamos por aí, desenraizados e sem um sentido que nos oriente e que torna a vida apeticida.
→ read full article(Italiano) Fondamentalismo-Estremismo-Violenza Religiosi
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Si può avere fondamentalismo senza estremismo. Si può avere estremismo senza fondamentalismo. La gran parte delle persone che fanno violenza non credono in alcunché, oltre al “fare il proprio lavoro”. Ci sono due criteri per l’”estremismo religioso”: la violenza e la legittimazione religiosa. E per quanto riguarda le controparti secolari delle religioni, le ideologie, gli ismi?
→ read full articleOverview of Physicists’ Public Declarations against Nuclear Weapons -The Cold War Period
Antonino Drago and Nanni Salio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Abstract: The present paper analyses the public declarations which, after the dramatic crisis caused to the participation to the Manhattan Project, (mainly groups of) physicists have released during the Cold War period against nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleOptimism of the Will – Critics of Israel Are Antisemitic by Definition
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
So now we have another anti-Semite. His name is Ban Ki-moon, and he is the Secretary General of the UN. In practice, the highest international official, a kind of World Prime Minister. He has dared to criticize the Israeli government, as well as the Palestinian Authority, for sabotaging the peace process, and thereby making Israeli-Palestinian peace almost impossible.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Ban Ki-moon
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
We need all to realize what else should not be tolerated: while the Palestinian flag flies outside UN Headquarters, the Palestinian people have lived for almost 70 years under the daily brutalities of occupation, refugee camps, Gazan captivity, and involuntary exile. Can you bring yourself to call this ordeal ‘intolerable’? Then at least you could leave your UN post with a feeling that when your career was no longer in jeopardy you spoke truth to power.
→ read full articleNotes from Tehran: Trump, the Iranian Elections and the End of Sanctions
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Iranians will vote in twin elections for the Iranian parliament and to elect a more powerful separate body known as the Assembly of Experts. And yes, The Donald is now a factor in both of those Iranian elections.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Feb 15-21 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” – Johnny Carson
→ read full articleTotal Education for Good Governance and Peace: The Role of Youth
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Education in all and education for all is a must for good governance and peace. Education in all means education in all the five elements (viz. body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit). Education for all means all men and women, young and old, rich and poor leaving none.
→ read full article10 Signs That America Is the Most Corrupt Nation
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Trickle down economics
Is an excuse
For the rich to piss on the poor.
So, look up, ye wretched of the Earth!
Gandhi: A Symbol of Peace, Harmony and Joy
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace both in his lifetime and death. 30th January is observed as Gandhi’s day of martyrdom since he was assassinated in New Delhi on this date in 1948 by a fanatic who felt that Gandhi was working against the Hindu faith.
→ read full articleHow to Trap Elephant Poachers with Their Own Technology
Drazen Jorgic, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
New anti-poaching techniques follow work done in Kenya, where poaching rates have nosedived. Police have started concentrating on the poachers’ own technology – guns and phones – and using it against them. By combining that with old-fashioned detective work, they have captured more suspects.
→ read full articlePreserve Do-No-Harm for Military Psychologists: Coalition Responds to Department of Defense Letter to the APA
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
The Department of Defense is now seeking to undo the changes required by the policy and undermine the American Psychological Association’s determination that the work of psychologists in national security settings must be consistent with international human rights law.
→ read full article7 Years in Greece – 16 Years of Crisis
André Maia, EmbassyNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Having experienced the crisis twice, I think the Greeks are really brave. I admire them and I want to continue living in Greece. This country gave me space to create, to develop my artistic soul and I´m truly thankful for that. I feel at home!
→ read full articleABC’s of the US Empire
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
“A” Is for “Asininity”
That’s a particular kind of stupidity.
Protesters Force Auckland Standstill as TPP Is Signed
Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
4 Feb 2016 – Central Auckland has been paralysed by thousands of protesters expressing their feeling towards the ultra-controversial Trans Pacific Partnership deal.
→ read full articlePost-Traumatic Stress Disorder after Earthquake and Its Impact on Education in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota and Shiba Bagale – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
The devastating earthquake has not only destroyed the physical infrastructure but also damaged the mental setting of the Nepalese people. More than 8500 people are dead, more than 16,000 are injured, more than 5 lakhs houses are damaged and destroyed. Many school buildings are destroyed; many students and teachers have lost their lives. Many have lost their houses, friends, many are missing.
→ read full articleThe Lady and the Boat Rides [in Burma/Myanmar]
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Brother, be kind, she is in a bind…
Experts say the Silence of the Lady is owing to the election maths
Her soul isn’t really dead, yet.
Waiting for Rainbows
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Below is the cover of my recently published book of poems that can be obtained from Amazon. I have received some inquiries, and although I have been writing poems for the past 60 years, I have never gathered the courage to publish them in one place before.
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A Conversation with Mother Agnes Mariam
UK Column News Special – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Jan 26, 2016 – Mike Robinson speaks to Mother Agnes Mariam about the situation in Syria, the media coverage of it and both the political peace process and her own Reconciliation Initiative.
→ read full articleWAAAHHHH…but we don’t wanna get arrested!!
Mike Ferner, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
As the macho, gun-toting, testosterone-addled cowboys who took over the wildlife refuge in Oregon call it quits, their pitiful whine can be heard all the way to Florida: “Waaahhh…but we don’t wanna get arrested…” Seems they could use a few lessons in toughness from nonviolent peace and justice activists.
→ read full articleThe List of True Nobel Candidates 2016
Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2016
Letter Feb. 2, 2016 to the Nobel Committee – LIST OF QUALIFIED CANDIDATES FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2016
→ read full articleReligious Fundamentalism-Extremism-Violence
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
We can have extremism without fundamentalism. Most people exercising violence believe in nothing, beyond “doing their job”. There are two criteria for “religious extremism”: violence and religious legitimation. How about the secular counterparts to religions, the ideologies, the isms?
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Feb 8 – 14 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you; and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.” – Steve Jobs
→ read full articleJewish Peace Groups Reveal Role in Spoof New York Times That Criticized Paper’s Stance on Israel
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
The edition even has fake ads. Volunteers distributed 10,000 copies of the fake paper across New York City on Tuesday [2 Feb], but no group took responsibility—until now. Jane Hirschmann of Jews Say No! tells Democracy Now! her group and Jewish Voice for Peace produced the paper.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Agrees with the UN Expert Panel Decision on Julian Assange’s Arbitrary Detention
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Maguire, who visited Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London several times and has been a long time supporter of Freedom and Justice for Julian Assange, said she was delighted that the UN Panel had found his arbitrary detention for over five years to be unlawful and said this decision has vindicated Julian Assange. However, she expressed her disappointment at the governments of UK and Sweden’s rejection of the verdict.
→ read full articleSix Reasons You Should Drink More Water
Baba Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
As you most likely know, water is a basic need without which we cannot survive. It is also a great way to heal the body. Here are six reasons that you should drink a few more glasses of water each day.
→ read full articleWhy Our World Needs Peace Literacy
Paul K. Chappell, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Peace literacy is the next step in the development of our global civilization, because peace literacy is necessary in an interconnected world where the fate of every nation is tied to the fate of our planet. Because of the dangers posed by nuclear weapons, war, and environmental destruction, being preliterate in peace puts humanity and our planet at great risk. During an era when humanity has the technological capacity to destroy itself, peace literacy means survival literacy.
→ read full articleNorth Korea: How Many Wake-Up Calls Will It Take?
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
North Korea has been roundly condemned for its nuclear tests, including this one. To put this in perspective, however, the U.S. has conducted more than 1,000 nuclear tests, continues to conduct subcritical nuclear tests, has not ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, is in breach of its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, regularly tests nuclear-capable missiles, and plans to spend $1 trillion modernizing its nuclear arsenal.
→ read full articleThe Russell-Einstein Manifesto [on Nuclear Weapons]
Student Pugwash University of Michigan– TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
“In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the Governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”
→ read full article(Português) Rede de Túneis de 12 mil anos que cruza toda Europa intriga pesquisadores
Tonocosmos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Datadas em mais de 12 mil anos, essas passagens subterrâneas ainda permanecem um mistério. Quem as construiu? Para quê? Como foi possível?
→ read full articleIndia Steps Up Pressure on Nepal
W. A. Sunil, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
5 Feb 2016 – A continued Indian-backed blockade of supplies to Nepal, a small landlocked country wedged between India and China, has escalated tensions between Kathmandu and New Delhi… The Nepal crisis is another expression of the aggressive US moves against China, and the harnessing of India as Washington’s partner. This drive is deepening geo-political tensions and increasing political instability throughout South Asia.
→ read full articleFreeing Julian Assange: The Last Chapter
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
5 Feb 2016 – One of the epic miscarriages of justice of our time is unravelling. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention – the international tribunal that adjudicates and decides whether governments comply with their human rights obligations – has ruled that Julian Assange has been detained unlawfully by Britain and Sweden.
→ read full article(Italiano) In Memoriam – Nanni Salio
Roberto Minganti, Soka Gakkai Italia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Nanni Salio ci ha lasciato ieri sera, lunedì 1 febbraio 2016.
→ read full articlePharaoh
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Pharaonic attraction.
→ read full article(Português) O Naufrágio de Ulisses
Prof. Paulo Mendes Pinto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Tal como com Ulisses, somos uma sociedade naufragada, com pouco de utopia em nós, recusando abrigo aos sem-abrigo que temos junto das nossas paredes. Mas ao contrário de Ulisses, somos também nós a praia onde damos à costa, sejamos Sírios desesperados a fugir da guerra que nós, Europa, possibilitámos e fomentámos, ou sejamos europeus de direito “burocrático” mas pouco cívico.
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