Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Communication and Appreciation
Tom H. Hastings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
This is the beauty and magic of adaptive conflict communication. It can attenuate damage and increase gain for good ethical and moral practices. Rosenberg, a clinical psychologist, worked his entire professional career on these concepts.
→ read full articleEarly Experiments in Sovereign Debt Rollover
Gary Larson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology– TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Power by Politics
→ read full articleAdolf, Amin and Bibi
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
It is not very pleasant when serious people around the world – historians, psychiatrists, diplomats – ask themselves if my prime minister is completely sane. And not only abroad. More and more people in Israel are asking themselves the same question.
→ read full articleCultures of War, Cultures of Peace
Johan Galtung, 2 Nov 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
We have war and peace, theory and practice. And deeper down cultures of war and peace, notions of what the world is or could be. The latter is not necessarily peace, could also mean removing obstacles to war.
→ read full articleBen Hecht on Greatness, the Radiance of Realness, and the Rewards of Keeping in Touch with the Soul of Your Childhood
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
In a culture that continually mistakes prestige for purpose and defines who we are by what we do, what remains of our being when the doing is stripped away and what does success really mean to those innermost selves buried beneath layers of cultural conditioning?
→ read full articleCampaigns of Violence towards Rohingya Are Highly Organised and Genocidal in Intent
Queen Mary University of London – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Persecution of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has been orchestrated by the government, state-level officials and Buddhist monks, according to the findings of an 18-month investigation into state crime in Myanmar.
→ read full articleA New and Sweeping Utopia of Life: Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
“A new and sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second opportunity on earth.”
→ read full articleBeyond the Sustainable Development Goals: Uncovering the Truth about Global Poverty and Demanding the Universal Realisation of Article 25
Share the World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The Sustainable Development Goals – despite their positive and progressive rhetoric – by no means constitute a transformative agenda for meeting the basic needs of all people within the means of our shared planet. This report argues that we may never see an end to poverty “in all its forms everywhere” unless…
→ read full articleTotal Literacy for World Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
On the eve of National Unity Day on 31 October.
→ read full articleUN Votes in Favor of Ending Cuban Blockade 191-2
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of lifting the blockade against Cuba Tuesday [27 Oct 2015], with only the U.S. and Israel voting against.
→ read full articleBreaking Down Genocide in Myanmar
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
For eight months, a Yale University Law clinic assessed evidence obtained by Al Jazeera and Fortify Rights.
→ read full articleExploding Radioactive Waste Warning: Keep It above Ground
John LaForge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Early on Sunday Oct. 25 [2015], an underground fire caused an explosion in a low-level nuclear waste site in the desert 10 miles from Beatty, Nevada, and 115 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Unfortunately authorities don’t know what sorts of radioactive isotopes are buried in the trenches there. Nor does anyone know either how the fire started or how much radioactive waste burned.
→ read full articleSmoke Signal
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.
→ read full articleWe Won’t Torture Anymore: American Psychological Association Tells U.S. to Withdraw Psychologists from Nat. Sec. Interrogations
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
30 Oct 2015 – In a new letter to the White House and top federal officials, the APA asks the government to withdraw psychologists from any interrogation or prison setting that could put them in violation of the new ethics policy.
→ read full articleIs GDP Over?
Sam Pizzigati, Institute of Policy Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Have We Finally Moved Beyond GDP? Economists from rich countries increasingly agree: Sustainable development and reducing inequality matter more than economic growth. To help overcome inequality we need to do much more than total up an economy’s goods and services.
→ read full article‘They Don’t Care Who Gets Killed’: Ex-US Drone Pilot Turned Whistleblower
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
17 Oct 2015 – Guilt-ridden American drone pilots continue to quit in unprecedented numbers. One former secret mission operator, Brandon Bryant, who’s received a whistleblower award, spoke of the horrors of indiscriminate killing from a safe distance.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Part 2)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
I was taught in my medical school training that before prescribing a treatment, the physician was ethically and medico-legally obliged to fully inform the patient about the potential hazards of a drug (or a surgical procedure). Then the patient was to be given an opportunity to refuse or accept the recommended prescription or procedure.
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2-Minute Speech Dedicated to Rohingya Victims of Burma/Myanmar’s Genocide
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire was the presenter on behalf of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Salt Lake City, Utah, 18 Oct 2015. Both Dr. Zarni and Mrs. Maguire are members of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.
→ read full articleSyria’s ‘Monument Citizens’ Taking Risks Saving the Future of Our Past
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Increasing numbers of Syria’s women and men, considered by this observer as this war-torn country’s ‘Monument Citizens’ have recently expanded the scope and range of cultural heritage site protection and preservation on behalf of humanity.
→ read full articleFact-finding Delegation Reports an Electoral Coup Now in Process in Haiti
Report from the Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Most international observers of the election have focused on the day of the election, but not on the vital final stage of the electoral process – the counting and tabulation of the votes. Although multiple political parties are protesting the post-election counting process, Haiti’s ruling party is praising the vote and objecting to critiques of the tabulation process.
→ read full article(Português) “Transgênicos não são alimentos, e sim mercadorias”, aponta médico argentino
Saúde Popular – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
29 out 2015 – Médico argentino analisa os danos causados por alimentos geneticamente modificados e agrotóxicos para as pessoas e a sociedade.
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Libertango (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Bel Suono – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Piano Show Bel Suono – These three virtuosos pianists were educated in the best music universities in Russia and are winners of national and international competitions.
→ read full articleFrom European Union to Just a Common Market
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Europe will have to accept that it is not going to be the homogenous and white society that the right wing and xenophobic parties dream of reestablishing. The lack of global governability has created a staggering figure of 60 million refugees. Solidarity or not, Europe demography will require the arrival of some million. What will be the Europe of 2030?
→ read full articleAl Jazeera Turka Interview on Turkish Foreign and National Policy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
28 Oct 2015 – This is a modified text of an interview conducted by Semin Gumusel Guner of Al Jazeera Turka, and published online in abbreviated form on October 19, 2015. The situation in Turkey is increasingly precarious and troublesome.
→ read full article(Français) Dictionnaire utilisé par les médias pour décrire la situation en Palestine
Majed Bamya, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Dans la plupart des médias occidentaux, certains termes semblent s’appliquer uniquement à ce conflit : “regain de violence sur l’esplanade des mosquées”, “Israël entame un nouveau cycle de négociations”, “le processus de paix au Proche-Orient”… Loin d’être anodins, ces termes recouvrent un sens caché au service d’une rhétorique trompeuse.
→ read full articleMaking a Choice – American Psychological Association: Reform or Business as Usual?
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
The real divide here is not between psychologists who are employed by the military and those who work in the civil sector. Nor is it between psychologists who are healthcare practitioners and those who work in non-clinical areas. The divide that matters is the one between psychologists who recognize the urgent need for accountability and reform and those who instead insist that no wrongdoing took place and that business as usual should prevail.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Nov 2-8 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain.
→ read full articleHitler Won
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Hitler won.
He has converted the Jews,
Palestinians, Russians, Chechens,
Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans,
even his nemesis, the
Holy Americans.
The Drone Papers – The Alphabet of Assassination (9-Glossary of Terms)
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
A guide to the acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms used in The Drone Papers. We defer to definitions provided in the source text where available; other interpretations are based on open source material.
→ read full articleRandom Inspections
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
If a suspected drug smuggler could tell a border guard, “You may check my trunk, but don’t open the glove compartment,” such an “inspection” would be meaningless.
→ read full articleThe War Politics behind Nobel Prize
Gouthama Siddarthan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
20 Oct 2015 – The Nobel committee is at it again, proving for the umpteenth time that it has been a playground for the international political game of chess.
→ read full articlePalestine/Israel: Summary of the Current Situation and Ways Out
Dr. Walid Salem, Center for Democracy and Community Development – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Jerusalem, 21 Oct 2015 – After the collapse of the Kerry initiative last year and the deterioration that followed, leading to the current escalation, what the today situation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is? Where are we in the peace process? What is the situation on the ground? What this wave of violence in Jerusalem means? What decisions will be taken by the Palestinians now? And what are the proposed ways out.
→ read full article(Italiano) In memoria di Dietrich Fischer
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
18 ottobre 2015 – Cari Membri di Transcend – molti di voi proposti da Dieter! – il mio caro amico, cofondatore di Transcend nel 1993 con me e Fumiko Nishimura, ci ha lasciato oggi dopo una breve degenza ospedaliera in coma, sostanzialmente a causa del suo diabete da molti anni.
→ read full articleState Terror or Capitalist Terror, Military Coup or Capitalist Coup
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Democratic critics of military seizures of power commonly refer to them as military coups. They adopt a very narrow and misleading conception of what is taking place.
→ read full articleA Tribute to Prof. Johan Galtung’s 85th Birthday
Erika Degortes and Naakow Grant-Hayford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
We are here not to offer you a gift dear Johan, but to celebrate the gift you have given to all those interested in bringing about peace as a sociological and as a political responsibility in our multipolar and multicultural world.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Oct 26–Nov 1 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.” – Sarah Dessen
→ read full articleEmeritus Prof. Dr. DIETRICH FISCHER (1941 – 2015)
Adeleye Oyeniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Those of us whom he groomed, at EPU and other numerous institutions, will eternally cherish appreciated that he embraced us all as his own friends. Apart from his professional calling, Dietrich was also known to many as a philanthropist. His generosity included financial, food and other gifts to numerous students and people.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Part 1)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
The readers of my weekly Duty to Warn columns know that I often write about some of the concerns that I have regarding the once honorable medical profession that I called my own for 40 years. Actually, my major concerns haven’t been solely about physicians, but about the for-profit systems that have arisen since I was a medical student.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: Seventy Years after Hiroshima & Nagasaki – Against Binaries (10)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
This is the last in this series of posts prompted by the 70th observance of the atomic attacks in 1945. The intention has been to explore several of the more important dimensions of what is called here ‘nuclearism,’ the securitization of nuclear weaponry in the face of international law, international morality, and simple common sense.
→ read full articleScientists: Geological Evidence Shows the Great Sphinx Is 800,000 Years Old
EWAO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Two Ukrainian researchers have proposed a new provocative theory that the Great Sphinx of Egypt is around 800,000 years old. A revolutionary theory that is backed up by science.
→ read full articleCorruption: Theory, Prognosis, Solutions?
Johan Galtung, 26 Oct 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
The definition of corruption rests on a distinction between open and hidden transaction aspects, “above and under the table”, when the hidden is also illegal or at least illegitimate… Add to transparency and punishment the positive ways to integrity, making large-scale corruption a sad, but a short episode.
→ read full articleGaltung’s Wheel
Gary Larson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
A Current Affair…
→ read full articleWar Wounded
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
I cannot see you.
I do not want to hear you.
Go away–
(Français) Dietrich Fischer, un homme de paix
Abbas Aroua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Dieter, que j’ai eu la chance de connaitre depuis une dizaine d’années, était une leçon vivante d’humilité. Totalement dévoué à la non-violence et engagé dans la formation des promoteurs de la paix, il y mettait de son énergie, son temps et son argent, et surtout de son intelligence, son humour et sa compassion.
→ read full articleThere Are Now 100 Scientific Studies That Prove Cannabis Cures Cancer
Higher Perspective – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Marijuana has been shown in some cases to effectively treat numerous types of cancer, improve immunity, and fight anxiety and pain.
→ read full article(Italiano) Sparatorie nelle scuole USA: 10 punti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Al Community College dell’Oregon “la 45^ sparatoria scolastica quest’anno negli USA; la 142^ dal massacro di Newton nel 2012” . 25% delle donne subiscono violenza domestica, 6 milioni di bambini vi assistono ogni anno, 28% dei bambini subiscono atti di bullismo ogni anno esponendosi a una probabilità di suicidio da 2 a 9 volte maggiore della media. Che cosa si può fare?
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia, Royal Impunity, and the Quicksand of Special Relationships
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
This post challenges the geopolitics of impunity from both principled and pragmatic perspectives, and also casts doubts on ‘special relationships’ that the United States has established in the Middle East with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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All About That Bass (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
PostmodernJukebox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Delightful! We got some of the cast together to record this special version of one of our biggest covers – Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass,” in the style of PMJ ft. Kate Davis, of course.
→ read full articleHaiti: UN Security Council Votes to Extend by a Year Its Occupying Military Presence
John Marion, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Cholera was introduced into Haiti in 2010 by MINUSTAH troops from Nepal because of UN negligence. Instead of admitting responsibility—either legal or moral—the UN has hidden behind a mixture of committees, short-term programs, and verbiage about “coordination with other actors to continue to support the Government of Haiti in addressing the structural weaknesses.”
→ read full articleIs Putin Iran’s “Senior Partner” in Syria?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
The conversation returned to Russia’s new ‘vitality’ in Syria. The commander explained: “All Syrians love Putin. He is known to us as ‘Abu Ali Putin’” And as my friends effusively recited praise for Valdmir Putin, I couldn’t get a word in sideways, and was reminded of Elizabeth Barrett Bowning’s poem, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
→ read full article(Castellano) “La paz consiste en hacer preguntas y los especialistas en hacer preguntas son los periodistas”: Johan Galtung
Yo vivo de preguntar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Cuando el sociólogo y matemático noruego Johan Galtung visitó Bogotá a finales de septiembre 2015, invitado por la Universidad Santo Tomás de Bogotá para su IV Congreso Internacional de Comunicación para la Paz, los pocos medios de comunicación que lo entrevistaron ahondaron en preguntas en las que le pedían su opinión sobre la creación de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, que hacía pocos días habían anunciado el Gobierno y las FARC en La Habana.
→ read full articleJohn Pilger’s Film ‘Cambodia Year Zero’ Named as One of ITV’s 60 Greatest Programmes
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
‘Cambodia Year Zero’, as it became known, was credited with alerting the world to the suffering of the people of Cambodia under the fanatical regime of Pol Pot. It raised tens of millions of pounds for Cambodia’s children – mostly unsolicited – and became the most watched documentary throughout the world.
→ read full articleWoman as Peacemakers: A 31 October Anniversary
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Seeing with eyes that are gender aware, women tend to make connections between the oppression that is the ostensible cause of conflict (ethnic or national oppression) in the light of another crosscutting one: that of gender regime.
→ read full articleFaulty Analysis and Conclusions on Syria
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
In tandem with “Obama is weak” goes “Russia is strong” or “Russia looks strong” or “Putin looks strong because Obama is weak”. The media warmongers are like kids on a school playground, trying to egg on a fight. Except in this case it’s not a bloody nose at stake; it’s the lives of tens of thousands of Syrians and potentially millions in World War 3.
→ read full articleNonkiling: A Checklist for Family Use
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
This checklist has a dual purpose:
→ read full articleIDF Punish Families of Attackers by Destroying Their Homes
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
The ‘most moral army in the world’ resumed the demolition of Palestinian homes as a punishment in September 2014. This is quite clearly illegal on several counts – though the Supreme Court has left it to the Commanding Officer to decide as Charlotte SIlver, Electronic Intifada, and B’Tselem explain.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il mondo oltre il disordine globale
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Relazione introduttiva, 13^ Sessione del Forum Pubblico Mondiale “Dialogo di Civiltà” – Rodi, Grecia, 9 ottobre 2015 – La forza di questo forum è la sua attenzione focalizzata sulle civiltà; usiamola per l’analisi e i rimedi. Le principali forme di disordine utilizzano la violenza; la guerra è violenza di stato organizzata. Gli stati più bellicosi sono gli Stati Uniti d’America e Israele, ambedue con radici di civiltà.
→ read full articleA Bank to Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank for International Settlements (Part I)
Devon Douglas-Bowers, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an organization shrouded in mystery. This may be due mainly to the fact that the majority of people don’t even know of its existence. According to the BIS itself, the main purpose of the Bank is “to promote the cooperation of central banks and to provide additional facilities for international financial operations.”
→ read full articleA Bank to Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank for International Settlements (Part II)
Devon Douglas-Bowers, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The idea for an international bank had already been explored to some extent by people like the economist John Maynard Keynes. But the idea for the bank truly took off during the Young Conference in 1929, when the Allies were attempting to exact Germany’s reparations debts for WWI.
→ read full articleA Bank to Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank for International Settlements (Part III)
Devon Douglas-Bowers, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
In the current age of austerity, the question remains: how much devastation will result from the influence wielded by the BIS and the decisions that it made?
→ read full articleThe World beyond Global Disorder
Johan Galtung, 19 Oct 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Keynote, 13th Session World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” – Rhodes, Greece, 9 Oct 2015 – The strength of this forum is its civilization focus; let us use it for analysis and remedies. Major forms of disorder use violence; war is state organized violence. The most belligerent states are the United States of America and Israel, both with civilization roots.
→ read full article(Français) Les Palestiniens sont-ils de violents terroristes nés le couteau entre les dents ?
Rudolf Bkouche, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Ainsi les Palestiniens qui s’opposent à la violence israélienne seraient violents et la violence naîtrait du refus palestinien d’accepter le fait israélien.
→ read full articleLife and Consciousness – The Vedāntic View
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
9 Oct 2015 – In the past, philosophers, scientists, and even the general opinion, had no problem in accepting the existence of consciousness in the same way as the existence of the physical world. After the advent of Newtonian mechanics, science embraced a complete materialistic conception about reality.
→ read full articleDéjà Vu Again: Hot September Drives 2015 to Hottest Year on Record
Joe Romm, Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
13 Oct 2015 – Once again, it’s the hottest year on record by far through last month, NASA reports. We’re running out of headlines for this repetitive monthly warm up, but with the recent death of the legendary Yogi Berra, one of his classic lines comes to mind, “It’s like deja-vu, all over again.”
→ read full articleLewis Mumford (19 Oct 1895 – 26 Jan 1990)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
For Mumford, the primary function of the city is to transform power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. And these positive functions cannot be carried out without creating new institutions capable of controlling the immense energies at the disposal of modern man.
→ read full article(Português) Nações Unidas – 70 Anos
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Setenta anos atrás, em 24 de outubro de 1945, entrou em vigor a Carta das Nações Unidas. Toda a comunidade internacional tem o dever de esforçar-se ao máximo a fim de tornar realidade os nobres ideais que presidiram a sua fundação.
→ read full articleSomaliland, Invisible Nationhood
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The Republic of Somaliland is situated in the northwest of Somalia bordering Ethiopia and Djibouti on the tip of the horn of Africa. The international community and particularly the African Union have a duty to accompany the Somalilanders in their endeavor to preserve the democratization process for a cohesive and stable Somaliland to re-affirm their nationhood.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: Relying on International Law – Marshall Islands Nuclear Zero Litigation (9)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
From the time of the atomic explosions at the end of World War II, there have been two contradictory sets of tendencies at work: the repudiation of the weaponry and its contemplated uses as ultimate criminality and the secret feverish refinement of the weaponry to enhance its precision, destructive effects, battlefield capabilities, and delivery systems. To date, the latter tendency has prevailed.
→ read full articleBlood Circulation
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
biology teacher was giving a lesson on blood circulation.
→ read full articleFishing the Peace Fischer Is Gone
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
A tribute for a great person: Prof. Dietrich Fischer – 18 October 2015
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report #7 (October 2015)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Dear fellow signatories of the Nonviolence Charter,
Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
Impacts of India’s Transit Warfare against Nepal
Professor Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The present crisis of Nepal, rather than being homegrown, has been imported from India. All agitating Tarai-Madhes leaders accepted that they are being backed by India. There is a huge voice to take stern action to Ambassador Rae against the Goebbels’-style reporting.
→ read full article(Italiano) Gli accordi di pace in Colombia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Terapia: Per alleviare la sofferenza e ridurre la disuguaglianza si debbono migliorare le condizioni dei ceti sociali più bassi. Si cominci: dei 32 dipartimenti [territoriali] si selezionino i 3 più miserabili per vita media e inoltre i 3 meno violenti; dei 1.119 comuni si scelga il 10% più miserabile e il 10% meno violento.
→ read full articlePutin and the Press: The Demonology School of Journalism
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his politics and persona. There is an article (or several articles) every day in which he is personally stigmatized as a dictator, authoritarian, czar, ‘former KGB operative’ and Soviet-style ruler; anything but the repeatedly elected President of Russia.
→ read full articleLawsuit Charges US Psychologists Involved in CIA Torture Program with War Crimes
Nick Barrickman, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The charges were filed by victims of the US torture program and the ACLU, and declare that the two doctors engaged in a “joint criminal enterprise” with the US government, constituting “torture, cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; non-consensual human experimentation; and war crimes, all of which violate well-established norms of customary international law.”
→ read full articleThe ‘US Way of War’ from Columbus to Kunduz
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
As we celebrate Columbus Day, we can’t help but think about the deep levels of cultural violence in the U.S. But what can be done to change a country dominated by war culture into one of a humanitarian culture?
→ read full articleThe United Nations at 70
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Seventy years ago, on October 24 1945, the Charter of the United Nations entered into force. It is the duty of the entire international community to do the utmost in order to make true the lofty ideals under which it was founded.
→ read full articleThe Sava River
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Over this river, the border of Bosnia
Over this Sava, the border of Bosnia
You are livin’
right over there.
Notable Issue for Canadian Voters of 2015 Is Peace and Security
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The other issues are closely tied with peace, and peace can be easily jeopardized by a handful of wrong asylum seekers who may demand the imposition of their own laws and ways which they were supposed to leave behind.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
October 19-25 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” – Unknown
→ read full article“War Is a Racket”
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The Record U.S. Military Budget! The U.S. military receives more funding than the rest of the 10 largest militaries in the world combined (China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, U.K., France, Japan, India, Germany & South Korea): $1.3 trillion dollars per year.
→ read full articleHow Can We Win America’s Peace?
Robert Hinds, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The current map of instability in the Middle East can be traced back to the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration in World War I. The war in Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban are repercussions from the Cold War, which was itself a result of WWII. Forty-five years after Nixon’s disastrous decision to continue the war in Vietnam, the lesson should seem clear. A policy that favors warfare more than diplomacy will not bring peace.
→ read full article(Swahili-Haiti Kreyol) Hotuba ya Rais wa zamani wa Kiswahili Jean-Bertrand Aristide juu ya Maadhimisho ya 24 ya Statskupp
Dr. Jean-Bertrand Aristide – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Hai vle di non, pa. Tii vle di obeyi nan lang Swaili. Haitii vle di pa obeyi. Haïti ou Haitii vle di pa obeyi. Lontan, esklav yo te toujou ap di: Pa obeyi kolon yo. Jodia, nou di: pa obeyi moun ki pa respekte dwa moun. Haitii!
→ read full articleCommuters
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Alice used to come to the office with public transportation, and Bill, who lived a little farther away in the same direction, drove to the office by car. He offered to Alice to pick her up on his way to the office every morning and bring her home after work. Both were happy with this arrangement.
→ read full articleEconomic Theory and Community Development – An Exercise in Applied Philosophy
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The Imaginary World That Holds the Real World Captive
→ read full articleTo Johan Galtung on His Birthday
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Peacebuilders/educators/makers everywhere let’s rejoice
Today let’s acknowledge the privilege of hearing Johan Galtung’s voice.
On October 24, 85 blessed years old he will be
Linguistic Rights of the Elderly
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
A Checklist for Reflection/Research
→ read full articleProfessor Dietrich Fischer, Ph.D., Co-Founder of TRANSCEND, Passed Away Today, 18 October 2015
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
My dear friend, co-founder of TRANSCEND in 1993 with myself and Fumiko Nishimura left us today after a short hospital stay in coma, basically due to his diabetes for many years. Let us celebrate your life while deploring that you are no longer among us, in deep gratitude for all you did to inspire and help–and for peace in general.
→ read full articleReclaiming the Heart of Our Humanity: Working Together for a World of Compassion, Peace, Justice and Sustainability
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Ideological extremism and fundamentalism, whether religious/political, or of any other kind, cannot be bombed out of existence and there are no military or paramilitary solutions to many of the violent conflicts we are now living through.
→ read full articleBeyond Global Disorder
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
“The two state solution is dead (I think was always dead and a mirage but even if you think it was alive, Zionism killed it). The apartheid system we have is even worse than in South Africa as testified to by many leaders from South Africa. The resistance is the main form of combating injustice, occupation, and colonization.”
→ read full articleManipulating Reality: Facebook Is Listening to You
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
We have become all too used to our reality being manipulated. Invading another country is defensive, rigged elections are democracy in action, more guns (or nuclear weapons) ensure the peace, trade and foreign investment increase jobs at home. Orwellian logic has become commonplace.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Civil Society Activism on Behalf of Nuclear Zero (8)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The Jeffersonian faith in the future of democracy rested on the cumulative impact of education on citizen participation encouraging a robust and vigilant civil society. The advocacy of nuclear disarmament must become joined at the hip with the recognition that global demilitarization and conventional disarmament are part of a retrofitted political package of unconditional anti-nuclearism.
→ read full articleForgotten
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
For the Dalit People of India
→ read full articleHaiti: Will Democracy Be Denied—Again?
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Haitians are in the streets demanding their votes be counted, their voices heard. International solidarity groups are demanding the same. US Congresswoman Maxine Waters, a courageous and consistent champion of the Haitian people, is demanding no less in her recent letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry.
→ read full articleAfter 70 Years: The UN Falls Short, and Yet…
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Seventy years later the UN disappoints many, and bores even more, appearing to be nothing more than a gathering place for the politically powerful. I think such a negative image has taken hold because the UN these days seems more than ever like a spectator than a political actor in the several crises that dominate the current agenda of global politics.
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New York New York (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Frank Sinatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Nov 12, 2010 – Frank Sinatra’s “Theme from ‘New York New York'” performance from the “Sinatra: The Man and His Music ” special.
→ read full articleTPP Treaty: Intellectual Property Rights Chapter
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Today, 9 October, 2015 WikiLeaks releases the final negotiated text for the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The document is dated October 5, last Monday. This has been perhaps the most controversial chapter due to its wide-ranging effects on internet services, medicines, publishers, civil liberties and biological patents
→ read full articleThe Making of a Sociopathic Killer: A List of Risk Factors for School Shooters
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
And the FBI’s Deadly, Deceptive Blind Spot – “What brain-damaging, addictive psych drug(s) was this brain-altered shooter taking or withdrawing from?”
→ read full article(Português) Alerta Ecolinguístico
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Atenção à digital descomunhão
Cuidado com a desagregadora WhatsApptidão:
From Blasphemy Law to Freedom of Speech
Dr. Khalid Sohail, The Secular Web – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Do people have the right to challenge and criticize things that other people consider holy and sacred? Do people have the right to kill those who offend their religious beliefs?
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