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Thirty States Ratify Establishment of African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
African Union – Human Wrongs Watch,
15 Feb 2016
Chad becomes 30th AU Member State to ratify the Protocol on the establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
→ read full articleThe Case for Radical Modernity
Jeremy Gilbert – Popular Resistance,
15 Feb 2016
The left should embrace technological innovation and new class alliances as part of a strategy for 21st-century socialism.
→ 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 articleRestructuring Rather Than Dividing Syria
Ghassan Michel Rubeiz – The Arab Daily News,
15 Feb 2016
8 Feb 2016 – Syrians are no longer in charge of their future; outsiders seem to be. The threat to divide Syria, as a solution, is tempting but fatal. Syria ought to be restructured and “reinvented” to allow healing and gradual reunification.
→ 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 articleBanned in America, Soaring Use in Britain: The Poultry Farm Drugs That Put Human Lives at Risk
Andrew Wasley and Victoria Parsons – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
15 Feb 2016
7 Feb 2016 – Antibiotics banned in US chicken farms a decade ago over links to the spread of potentially deadly bacteria in humans have been used in significantly increased quantities by Britain’s poultry industry, an investigation reveals today.
→ read full articleProtesters 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 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.
Post-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 article(Italiano) Ridurre la spesa militare, aumentare la sicurezza e vivere più felici
Nanni Salio – Il Manifesto,
15 Feb 2016
4 febbraio 2016 – Nanni Salio, Maestro della Pace, presidente del Centro Studi Sereno Regis, è mancato il 1 febbraio. Chi scrive, come tanti, era un suo amico personale ed aveva condiviso con lui molte iniziative, battaglie, conferenze, bei momenti. Pubblichiamo qui un suo pezzo parzialmente inedito; crediamo non ci sia modo migliore per ricordarlo, di far leggere cosa scriveva, e come, lo scriveva. Con affetto, Nanni, da Massimo Zucchetti.
→ read full articleMorgan Stanley to Pay $3.2 Billion over Contributors to ’08 Crisis
Michael Virtanen, Associated Press – Reader Supported News,
15 Feb 2016
Morgan Stanley will pay $3.2 billion in a settlement over bank practices that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, including misrepresentations about the value of mortgage-backed securities, authorities announced Thursday [11 Feb 2016].
→ 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 articleThe Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten “White” Slaves
John Martin - Global Research,
8 Feb 2016
They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.
→ 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 Lessons of Zapatista Women Activists for Today’s Social Movements
James Tracy – In These Times,
8 Feb 2016
Images of the Zapatistas have always been striking—indigenous peasants with wooden rifles declaring war on the Mexican government; with their faces covered by black ski masks or red bandanas, they symbolically became the face of the faceless, the voice of the voiceless.
→ 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 articleSeeing Flight as a Nonviolent Option
Erica Chenoweth and Hakim Young – CounterPunch,
8 Feb 2016
Why we must challenge the conventional refuge narrative. Seeing flight as a nonviolent option will better equip the informed public to contest exclusionary rhetoric and policies, elevate a new discourse that empowers more moderate politicians, and widen the range of policy options available to respond to the current crisis.
→ read full articleThe Legacy of George W Bush: 10 Million Refugees and 250,000 Deaths over the Past Five Years
Anthony Bellchambers - Global Research,
8 Feb 2016
This is a man who had difficulty speaking English: who had no known personal assets but was elected to high office by an accident of history and thereby changed the world irrevocably for the worse. Millions have died as a consequence of the actions of this one single American cowboy who still personifies the banality of US politics at its worst.
→ read full articleWhy Prosecutors Don’t Target Thieving CEOs
Ian Salisbury – Time,
8 Feb 2016
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren issued a stinging broadside against federal prosecutors on Friday [29 Jan 2016], charging U.S. courts with throwing the book at mixed-up teenagers, while letting wealthy corporate executives who commit much larger and sometimes deadly crimes off with essentially no chance of punishment.
→ read full articleWall Street Worldview: Why Are People Upset?
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Feb 2016
Multi-billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman says he’s puzzled by the discontent felt by other Americans these days. He is a bland-looking, somewhat paunchy, not unattractive, balding man of benign demeanor. He’s worth $12 billion, give or take a few hundred million, and a poster boy for Wall Street success and self-esteem and cluelessness.
→ read full articleBad Blood: The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement – A Book Review
Kristian Williams – Toward Freedom,
8 Feb 2016
Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the canonical authority of Marxism has been much less certain. Yet anarchists have not stepped forward to fill the organizational and philosophical vacuum left behind. The reasons for that failing are numerous, but among them must certainly be counted the fact that we have become accustomed to our own marginalization and have largely ceased to think in terms of mass movements and international revolution.
→ read full articleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership Fraud
Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
8 Feb 2016
The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement privileges foreign investors while imposing substantial costs on partner countries. The TPP has, in fact already been used to try to kill the Doha ‘Development’ Round of multilateral trade talks, but may well also undermine multilateralism more broadly in the near future.
→ 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 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 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 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 articlePharaoh
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Pharaonic attraction.
→ read full articleFor the Love of Money: Wall Street’s Money Addiction
Sam Polk – International New York Times,
8 Feb 2016
In my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million — and I was angry because it wasn’t big enough. I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was addicted.
→ 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.
→ read full articleTaking on Nukespeak
Andrew Moss, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
“Nukespeak” is a highly militarized discourse that obscures the moral consequences of our policies and actions used by military officials, political leaders, and policy experts – as well as by journalists and citizens. The language creeps into our public discussions like an invasive species, casting shadows on the way we think about our collective present and future.
→ read full articleSocial Control Is Emerging as ISIS (Da’ish) Motive for Erasing Our Cultural Heritage in Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
5 Feb 2016 – It is widely recognized that the damage done to our cultural heritage in Syria and to the heritage of those who will follow us, cannot be calculated. Untold quantities of archaeologically vital artifacts have been looted, sold, displaced and discarded through industry-like efforts.
→ read full articleCameron At Large: Want Not to Become a Terrorist? Speak Fluent English!
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
8 Feb 2016
4 Feb 2016 – “Do you speak English fluently? No? Then you risk becoming a terrorist.” IPS posed this dilemma to some young Muslim women living in Cairo, while explaining that this appears to be David Cameron’s formula to judge the level of Muslim women’s risk to fall, passively, into the horrific trap of extremism.
→ read full articleWhy Biology Is Beyond Physical Sciences?
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D. and Bhakti Vijnana Muni, Ph.D. - Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute, Scientific & Academic Publishing,
8 Feb 2016
In the modern era, to study an organism, scientists have mainly adopted Descartes’ ontological view of the organism as a complex machine. The continued usage of physicalist science to comprehend biological systems is the biggest hurdle in the path of understanding life. The materialistic understanding of reality depends on natural laws, mathematics, determinism, and reductionism. This materialistic science has continually failed to provide a theory for biology.
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Samba do Brasil (Music Video of the Week)
Bellini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Music video by Bellini performing Samba do Brasil, under exclusive license to Polydor/Island, a division of Universal Music GmbH.
→ read full articleVW, GM and Takata: The Case for Jailing Corporate Executives
Russell Mokhiber – CounterPunch,
8 Feb 2016
2 Feb 2016 – The Center for Auto Safety’s Clarence Ditlow wants executives at VW, Takata and General Motors jailed for corporate crime. Ditlow says that the Volkswagen diesel case, for example, is one of the most egregious corporate crime cases in history.
→ read full article(Italiano, English, Français) In morte, in death, dans la mort: Nanni Salio [TRANSCEND Member]
Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
ITALIANO: Gli amici e le amiche del Centro Studi Sereno Regis di Torino comunicano addolorati la perdita del loro Presidente, Nanni Salio, il 1 febbraio 2016.
ENGLISH: The friends of Centro Studi Sereno Regis convey the sorrowful news of their President Nanni Salio’s demise on 1st February 2016.
FRANÇAIS: Les amis de Centro Studi Sereno Regis véhiculent les nouvelles tristes de leur mort président Nanni Salio le 1er Février ici 2016.
Women’s Rights First — African Summit
Baher Kamal - Human Wrongs Watch,
8 Feb 2016
1 Feb 2016 – Despite the enormous challenges facing Africa now, the leaders of its 1.2 billion plus inhabitants have decided to spotlight the issue of Human Rights with a Particular Focus on the Rights of Women in their 26th summit held in Addis Ababa on 21-31 January this year. Why?
→ read full articleWant Peace in Syria? Put Women at the Negotiating Table
Matthew Rycroft and Swanee Hunt, Defense One – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
That’s what the Balkan experience tells us, say current and former British and US ambassadors. Women are often best placed to spot signs of radicalization and to counter it, given their central role in the family and the community.
→ read full articleDeadlock: North Korea’s Nuclear Test and US Policy
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Serious engagement with North Korea remains the only realistic policy option for the United States and its allies. To be effective, however, engagement must be undertaken strategically—as a calculated use of incentives with expectation of mutual rewards, namely in security and peace. And it should be undertaken in a spirit of mutual respect and with due regard for sensitivity in language and action.
→ read full articleU.S. Joins the Chorus of Countries Taking Steps to Distinguish between Israel and Its Illegal Settlements
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man - +972 Magazine,
8 Feb 2016
The end of normalcy for Israeli settlements? Stricter trade guidelines, harsher rhetoric and corporate responsibility campaigns all send a clear message: Israel’s closest allies are no longer willing to passively accept the occupation, and the only consensus on settlements is that they are illegal.
→ read full articleThe Day President Obama Cried
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Yesterday on television President Obama addressed his nation
on new measures to be taken concerning gun-control legislation
Letter to the Canadian Government
Veterans For Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
We are writing you on behalf of Veterans For Peace, with chapters in 14O U.S. cities, United Kingdom, Ireland, Mexico, South Korea and Vietnam. Our urgent mission is to abolish war once and for all and to build a culture of peace. Our primary purpose in writing you today concerns some unfinished business stemming from the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.
→ read full articleOrientalisation and Manufacturing of ‘Civil Society’ in Contemporary Burma (Myanmar)
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
After two decades of post-Cold War hostilities between Burmese generals and their former Cold War ‘friends’ in London, Berlin, Washington and Tokyo, a danse macabre is set in motion. The backdrop this time is the West’s need to contain an increasingly powerful China in Burma’s eastern neighbourhood and the worsening economic decay in Europe and North America. In this new geopolitical drama both the generals in Naypyidaw and the liberals in Western capitals have found a new role for iconic Aung San Suu Kyi.
→ read full articleJulian Assange Arbitrarily Detained by Sweden and UK, UN Expert Panel Finds
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
In a public statement, the expert panel called on the Swedish and British authorities to end Mr. Assange’s deprivation of liberty, respect his physical integrity and freedom of movement, and afford him the right to compensation.
→ read full articleBehind Israel’s Campaign to Vilify Peace Groups
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Far-right activists spying on Israeli human rights community received hidden funds from Netanyahu government.
→ read full articleThe Urgent Need for Complete Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
After discussing the Bikini test and its radioactive fallout with Joseph Rotblat, Lord Russell became concerned for the future of the human gene pool if large numbers of such bombs should ever be used in a war. To warn humanity of the danger, he wrote what came to be known as the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace Science (GPS): The Book, its Authors and Significance
Dr. Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
In Russian language, the book of 432 pages by 89 coauthors from 30 countries was published in January 2015. In English language, the book of 616 pages by 174 coauthors of 34 countries was published in the early February 2016 in India, Russia and the USA.
→ read full articleEuromaidan Unmasked: Europe Shocked by the Bitter Truth on Ukraine
Oriental Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
The hard-hitting documentary by Paul Moreira “Ukraine, les masques de la révolution” [Ukraine: Masks of the Revolution], released on Monday [1 Feb 2016] by Canal+, created a turmoil both in Ukraine and France well before the premiere… One more pleasant outcome of this story is that the rumors about clinical death of independent journalism in the West are apparently somewhat exaggerated.
→ read full articleWhy We Joined ISIS: To Make Friends and Earn a Good Wage
Erin Banco – International Business Times,
8 Feb 2016
While experts say some members of the group join because they believe in its extremist ideology, many sign up because they are young, uneducated, poor and vulnerable, not dissimilar to gang members in cities across the United States [and many other countries around the world].
→ read full articleIsrael’s Security Establishment Makes Public Plea for a Two State Solution
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
7 Feb 2016 – Rarely, if ever, has a newspaper ad mobilized such influential backing for a position of prominent Israelis at odds with the elected leadership of the Israeli state. A full page add appeared in the New York Times on February 4, 2016. Its message was proclaimed in large bold type: “Israel’s Security Chiefs Agree: Separation into two States is in Israel’s vital security interest.”
→ read full articleFebruary: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
February 1, 1958 – As part of the U.S. strategy of massive (nuclear) retaliation, the UK agreed to station 60 nuclear-armed Thor intermediate-range ballistic missiles at four U.K. military bases. Royal Air Force personnel staffed the bases, but all the nuclear weapons that were provided remained in full U.S. ownership, custody, and control. These same missiles were put on high-alert status during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung Replies to Prof. Ada Aharoni’s Critique
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
There are two drawbacks that bother me in TRANSCEND and mars it from making it a true PEACE JOURNAL.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo in giro per il mondo: problemi – rimedi
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Diamo un’occhiata, e vediamo che cosa si può fare.
→ read full articleDrone, a Norwegian-made Documentary: “We Just Made Orphans Out of All These Children”
Joanne Laurier, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
The use of drones by the USA for assassinations has greatly increased the past decade. Hessen Schei’s movie brings together opponents of this specialized killing tool, including authors, commentators, human rights attorneys and investigative journalists. The real heart and strength of Drone lies in its interviews with two former drone operators from the US Air Force, Brandon Bryant and Michael Haas, both young men suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
→ read full articleThe Complex Problematics of Palestinian Representation
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
This post attempts to address the current quandary that arises from the collapse of Oslo diplomacy and the seeming continuing encroachment of Israel on the territories long believed to provide the Palestinian people with a sovereign state of their own.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – The Zika Virus, the Brazilian Microcephaly Outbreak, Cognitive Dissonance and the Elephant in the Room
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Covering-up Another Iatrogenic Disorder (Injecting Fetotoxic Aluminum into Pregnant Women)
→ read full articleObama and the Pentagon Plan Massive Military Escalation and the Media Barely Seem to Care
Adam Johnson - AlterNet,
8 Feb 2016
U.S. troops are going back into Iraq, our presence in Libya is escalating, and Obama has widened the war in Afghanistan—all without much of a public debate.
→ read full articleSigning Polluter-Friendly TPP Trade Deal Is Gambling Away Our Future
Michael Brune, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
For years, the Sierra Club has reported on and campaigned against the TPP’s threats to our air, water, climate, families and communities. The U.S. Trade Representative is gambling away our jobs, our clean air and water, and our future by pushing the polluter-friendly Trans-Pacific Partnership, so it only makes sense that it was signed in a casino and convention center.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mediazione di polizia: un’idea ormai d’attualità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Il sistema statuale emerse nel 17° secolo, con istituzioni per l’uso della forza: una era adibita all’uso interno e un’altra per l’uso esterno, rispettivamente la polizia nazionale e l’apparato militare nazionale, intendendosi per nazionale quello della nazione dominante nello stato.
→ read full articleThe Pied Piper of Zion
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Binyamin Netanyahu is our pied piper. Enchanted by his melodies, the people of Israel are marching behind him towards the river. Those burghers who are aware of what is happening are looking on. They don’t know what to do. How to save the children?
→ read full articleTime to Heed Warnings of Syriza’s Ex-Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis
Cynthia McKinney – Russia Today,
1 Feb 2016
31 Jan 2016 – The former finance minister of Greece says people must work to save democracy from capitalism, otherwise the voracious economic system will completely devour the fragile political philosophy, he warned in a recent talk.
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Samba de Janeiro (Music Video of the Week)
Bellini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Brazilian Samba — wishing you a Wonderful Carnival time.
→ read full articleTicking Toward Doomsday
Ira Helfand, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
26 Jan 2016 – Recently, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced it was keeping its famous Doomsday Clock at three minutes to midnight. In making this decision, their panel of experts, including 16 Nobel Laureates, cited the growing danger of nuclear war.
→ read full articleDoomsday Clock Hands Remain Unchanged, Despite Iran Deal and Paris Talks
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEDEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
January 26, 2016 – The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board announced today that the minute hand of its closely watched Doomsday Clock will remain at three minutes to midnight, since recent progress in the Iran nuclear agreement and the Paris climate accord “constitute only small bright spots in a darker world situation full of potential for catastrophe.”
→ read full articleWorld Interfaith Harmony Week: Steps toward a Harmony Renaissance
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
The United Nations General Assembly on 20 October 2010 designated the first week of February of every year as the World Interfaith Harmony Week between all religions, faiths and beliefs.
→ read full article(Castellano) Bachelet crea Ministerio de Pueblos Indígenas en Chile
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
15 Jan 2016 – La Presidenta de Chile, Michelle Bachelet, firmó hoy en el Palacio de La Moneda las leyes que crean el Ministerio de Pueblos Indígenas, el Consejo Nacional y los Consejos de Pueblos Indígenas.
→ read full articleGandhi’s Assassination: In the Midst of Death, Life Persists
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
As has been said before, there is no guarantee that non-violent action will succeed, no more than violence is always successful. Gandhi viewed spiritual and political efforts as united through many of the people he worked with saw them as separate. For Gandhi, the spiritual and political means were interdependent and could not be separated.
→ read full articleReconciling Canada: Hard Truths, Big Opportunity
Ry Moran, Rabble – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
The Truth and Reconciliation final report: Six years. Seven volumes. Thousands of pages. The sobering realization that the systematic destruction of indigenous cultures, languages, family structures, lands and ceremonies amounted to cultural genocide. The cold hard truth is that Canada has failed indigenous peoples miserably.
→ read full articleThat Guy
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
If I come back to earth as a movie star,
I want to be that guy nobody knows.
You know who I mean, don’t you?
Meanwhile Around the World: Problems-Remedies
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Let us have a look, and see what can be done.
→ read full articleAdvice to Palestinians
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
“What would YOU advise Palestinian to do? I am genuinely curious as to how many of my readers have constructive advice based on what they know of geostrategic structures, capabilities etc.” I received dozens of answers including some really very insightful commentary.
→ read full articleEnding the Horror of Myanmar’s Abuse of Muslims
Editorial Board – International New York Times,
1 Feb 2016
By the hundreds of thousands, Muslims in Myanmar have been stripped of their citizenship, sent to concentration camps where they are deprived of basic medical care, jobs and even food, and held prisoners in villages they are not allowed to leave. Thousands more have fled the camps by risking their lives at the hands of criminal syndicates that traffic them to Malaysia and Bangladesh or force them into servitude on fishing boats.
→ read full articleDilema
David Sipress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Conflicting Desires
→ read full articleClimate Change: Post-Paris Challenges and Concerns
Hilal Elver and Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
It is time to move on from the aura of good feelings of accomplishment created by the Paris Climate Change Conference and begin asking some hard questions. Above all we need to assess whether an agreement that consists of voluntary pledges is workable and sufficient, and whether its contribution to slowing global warming should be celebrated or lamented at this stage.
→ read full articleTime for Justice in Sri Lanka
Editorial Board – International New York Times,
1 Feb 2016
The wounds of war cannot be healed until a transitional justice process demanded by the UN in a resolution last October moves forward. On that score, President Maithripala Sirisena says his government will not act “in haste.” This is unacceptable.
→ read full articleWhat Is Happening in Haiti Is a Genuine Anti-Imperialist Popular Revolt
Carlos Aznárez, Resumen Latinoamericano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
23 Jan 2016 – Port-au-Prince and other Haitian cities are today the stage of the largest popular uprising in decades of the suffering Haitian nation.
→ read full articleOn Refugee Migrants` Right to Live: A Nonkilling View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Migrant
Refugee migrant
Migration
Refugee migration
Rome Conference on NATO – January 2016
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
I believe we, the human family, have no less a task before us, than transforming our thinking and mind-sets of violence and war, and moving to a demilitarized Europe and World. We have imagination and genius and with confidence and trust in ourselves and each other, we can move away from nationalism and war, towards Regional solutions built on demilitarized societies of peaceful co-existence.
→ read full articlePresident Creates Ministry of Indigenous People in Chile
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
15 Jan 2016 – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signed today at La Moneda Palace the laws that create the Ministry of Indigenous People, the National Council and the Indigenous People”s Councils.
→ read full articleA Subjective Objection: Objecting to Subjection
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Interplay of Questions Enabling Transcendence of Fundamental Dilemmas?
→ read full articleMyanmar Nazi Monk Wirathu, TIME Magazine’s “Face of Buddhist Terror”
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Myanmar’s “Nazi monk” Wirathu (and networks), plot to unleash new Islamophobic waves of violence against Myanmar’s Muslims and Rohingya.
→ read full articlePolitical Correctness 2.0
Katrin Anger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
In recent times, political correctness has evolved. It lurks above us like a sword and with the smallest wrong word that may come over our lips, it threatens to defame us. In our society – and this is not only true for Germany – public speaking can sometimes feel like walking on broken glass.
→ read full articleDispossessed in the Name of ‘Security’
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
A new book, edited by Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes, both involved with The Transnational Institute, brings together a thoughtful collection of scholars, journalists and activists to explain the pre-eminence of the military and corporations in shaping the global response to the climate catastrophe as an ‘opportunity’.
→ read full articleCan the US Turn Fascist?
Şahin Alpay, Today’s Zaman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
31 Jan 2016 – Johan Galtung, the Norwegian mathematician, political scientist, sociologist and the founder of the field of peace and conflict resolution studies, argued in his book The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? (TRANSCEND University Press, 2009) that just as the Roman Empire disintegrated, the American Empire (or the US and Western hegemony over the world) would collapse not later than the year 2025.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Feb 1-7 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “In every walk in nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir
→ read full articleEngaging the ISIS Threat
Marc Pilisuk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
It is difficult to engage in direct violence against those whom you have met face-to-face, even if they have been identified as enemies. Sprinkling doubt among present ISIS followers and potential recruits may reduce killing while promoting hope. Given the alternative, this is a time to test our beliefs in the power of creative non-violence.
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