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Reflections about the Dam Burst in Brazil and the (In)Visibility of Structural Violence
Roberta Holanda Maschietto, Peace Reflections – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
In a 1969 article, Johan Galtung stated that violence is “the cause of the difference between the potential and the actual, between what could have been and what is”. If a political system allows corporate interests to determine the path of a country’s economic development, this system is not democratic. It is a privatized political system that responds to the interests of a rich minority.
→ read full article(Português) O Capitalismo Será Derrotado pela Terra
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Depois que a sociedade passou a ser de mercado e tudo virou oportunidade de ganho, até as coisas mais sagradas como órgãos humanos, água e a capacidade de polinização das flores, os chefes de Estados, em sua grande parte, são forçados a gerir a macroeconomia globalmente integrada e menos atender ao bem comum de seu povo.
→ read full article(Português) Ótima notícia! Nigéria proíbe a mutilação genital das meninas
Melhor com Saúde – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
A mutilação genital, ou “circuncisão feminina”, como é chamada em muitos países, é uma prática que consiste na eliminação parcial ou total do tecido dos órgãos genitais femininos, especificamente do clitóris.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Delegation to Syria 24-30 Nov. 2015
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
These are the findings of our delegation, consisting of eleven peace and human rights advocates from six countries. Over the course of five days, we met with internally displaced persons, refugees, affected communities, religious leaders, combatants, government representatives and many others in Syria.
→ read full articleMontgomery
Andrew Moss, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery city bus on her way home from work, and, fatigued, refused to give up her seat to a white man when the bus had filled up. Parks was arrested for violating the city’s segregation statutes, and within a few days, the African-American leaders of Montgomery responded with a highly successful boycott of the city’s bus system.
→ read full articleJoyce Carol Oates on Twitter: Is Nothing ‘Joyous’ in ISIS?
Daniel Victornov – International New York Times,
30 Nov 2015
“If you don’t recognize that for at least some of the Islamic State’s young volunteers there is a feeling of joy and celebration involved in joining up, then you’re a very long way from understanding the caliphate’s remarkable appeal,”
→ read full articleAutomatism
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Two people went along a road with pick and shovel.
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza a Parigi e da Parigi: quale via d’uscita?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Immagino che Occidente e Islam si focalizzino non sul peggio, come la violenza occidentale per la prevenzione e quella islamica per la rappresaglia, ma sul meglio; come la capacità d’innovazione e di libertà in Occidente, di solidarietà e condivisione nell’Islam. Immagino che dialoghino pubblicamente ad alto livello su “come poter imparare vicendevolmente”?
→ read full articleWhy a Climate Deal Is the Best Hope for Peace
Jason Box and Naomi Klein – The New Yorker,
30 Nov 2015
The last time atmospheric CO2 was this high, global sea levels were at least six metres higher. We find ourselves confronted with ice-sheet disintegration that, in some susceptible areas, already appears unstoppable. In the currently overloaded CO2 climate, it’s just a matter of time until hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from coastal regions, their agricultural lands and groundwater destroyed by saltwater intrusion from sea rise.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Nov 30–Dec 6 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
→ read full articleBuckminster Fuller
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) studied aerospace engineering, and later changed to architecture. One morning he decided to figure out how a house would look like if it was built according to the principles he had learned in aerospace engineering.
→ read full articleMeet the Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, the Son of Turkey’s President
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Bilal Erdogan owns several maritime companies. He has allegedly signed contracts with European operating companies to carry Iraqi stolen oil to different Asian countries. The Turkish government buys Iraqi plundered oil which is being produced from the Iraqi seized oil wells.
→ read full articleThe Tardigrade Genome Has Been Sequenced, and It Has the Most Foreign DNA of Any Animal
Fiona Macdonald , Science Alert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
25 Nov 2015 – Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of the tardigrade, AKA the water bear, for the first time. And it turns out that this weird little creature has the most foreign genes of any animal studied so far – or to put it another way, roughly one-sixth of the tardigrade’s genome was stolen from other species.
→ read full articleTalk Nation Radio: Johan Galtung on ISIS and Alternative to War
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
24 Nov 2015 – Johan Galtung is the founder of the discipline of peace studies. He founded the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo in 1959 and the Journal of Peace Research in 1964, and has helped found dozens of peace centers. He has taught peace studies at universities all over the world, and mediated hundreds of conflicts. He is author or coauthor of over 160 books, and is cited and discussed in many thousands. He is the founder of TRANSCEND Media Service, TRANSCEND Peace University and TRANSCEND International.
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Maurice Strong (29 Apr 1929 – 28 Nov 2015) – The UN Voice for Environmental Action
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Just on the eve of the Paris Climate Conference (COP 21) and the coming discussions on climate change and a sustainable world society, Maurice Strong died on 28 November 2015. Strong more than any other person in the United Nations system had been the driving force to put action on the environment on the “world agenda” for both government and non-governmental action.
→ read full articleAn Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind
John Dear, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
To start paying for nonviolent solutions, we can close all our nuclear weapons plants, disarm our nuclear arsenal, and allocate those many billions of dollars to the many problems we face in the world. We have spent some seven trillion dollars on nuclear weapons since Hiroshima. It’s time we instead spent serious money on nonviolent conflict resolution instead.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Why Minnesota Governors Ramsey and Sibley Should Be Posthumously Tried for Crimes against Humanity
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
And Why First Nations People Regard Thanksgiving Day as a National Day of Mourning
→ read full article(Português) Organização Sea Shepherd alerta Japão contra o recomeço da caça a baleia
Sapo24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
A organização ambiental Sea Shepherd alertou hoje o Japão contra o recomeço da “caça para fins científicos” no Antártico, apelando ao Governo australiano que intervenha.
→ read full articleAurelio Peccei and Daisaku Ikeda, “Before It Is Too Late”
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
I would like to suggest to SGI and to The Club of Rome that, because of the great importance of the book, it would be very desirable to re-issue “Before It Is Too Late” in a less expensive edition, and also to make it available as an e-book. The message and wisdom of the two famous and distinguished authors is much too valuable to be lost.
→ read full articleCanada’s Deluded Wars of November
Matthew Behrens, Rabble – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Many studies equate militarism with hypersexualized notions of masculinity with a terminology that is all about the “wargasm” (deep penetration, missile erections, our mission makes us “stand tall,” etc.). The confused, violence-soaked sexuality that underlies the masculinist culture of the military and other institutions of violence is also revealed in the epidemic of violence against women in those same organizations.
→ read full articleHow Africa’s Fastest Solar Power Project Is Lighting Up Rwanda
David Smith – The Guardian,
30 Nov 2015
East African plant is completed in less than a year – creating jobs and setting the country on the path to providing half its population with electricity by 2017.
→ read full article‘Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs,’ by Lisa Randall
Maria Popova - International New York Times,
30 Nov 2015
Dark matter is the invisible cosmic stuff that, like ordinary matter — which makes up the stars and the stardust, you and me and everything we know — interacts with gravity but, unlike ordinary matter, doesn’t interact with light. Although scientists know that dark matter exists and accounts for a staggering 85 percent of the universe.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mediazione scolastica: problemi, e soluzioni?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
L’ondata mondiale della mediazione ha raggiunto i sistemi scolastici un po’ dappertutto; meno in qualche paese, più in altri.
→ read full articleRohingya vs the Generals: How To Forge a Democracy and Get Away with It
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
With Myanmar climbing to the world top five countries of proven oil and gas reserves, terms such as genocides, military juntas and human rights are omitted from the new discourse. A whole new narrative is being written jointly by the Myanmar army, nationalist parties, Suu Kyi’s NLD, western investors and anyone else who stands to benefit from the treasures of one of the world’s worst human rights violators.
→ read full articleMore Paris Puzzles
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Why assume that the suicide bombers knew who was organizing the attack? There seems to be abundant evidence that ISIL is a US creation, one that is still dependent on US active or passive support—thus the conflict between Putin and Washington over attacking ISIL.
→ read full articleFrom Pol Pot to ISIS: The Blood Never Dried
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
17 Nov 2015 – Following the ISIS outrages in Beirut and Paris, John Pilger updates this prescient essay on the root causes of terrorism and what we can do about it.
→ read full articleParis and Beirut: Journalism’s Selective Compassion
Des Freedman – Open Democracy,
23 Nov 2015
Is it editors, journalists or audiences to blame? “A life is a life” said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reflecting on the disparity between blanket media coverage of the atrocities in Paris last Friday and what he perceived as a distinct lack of attention to the loss of life in other parts of the world.
→ read full articleSyria’s War: A 5-Minute History
Ezra Klein, Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
To understand the bloody, convoluted war happening inside and outside of Syria’s borders, you need to watch this. It is a most instructive video clip – less than 5 minutes – explaining what ISIS is, who its backers are, and in what context it was born and operates.
→ read full articleDrone Strikes Fuel the Hatred That Led to Paris Attacks, Ex-Drone Pilots Say
Joshua Kopstein, Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
In his squad, children spotted from a Predator drone’s high-resolution camera were called “fun-sized terrorists” or “TITs,” for “Terrorist In Training,” while launching a strike was “cutting the grass before it grows too tall” or “pulling the weeds before they take over the lawn. It was anything you could do to remove their humanity, but in the process you lose your own humanity.”
→ read full articleLiberated
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
There she lies at midday in the square
as if resting from her errands,
shopping bag in hand, wool gloves, sturdy shoes,
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
The War on Cash is advancing on all fronts. One region that has hogged the headlines with its war against physical currency is Scandinavia. Sweden became the first country to enlist its own citizens as largely willing guinea pigs in a dystopian economic experiment: negative interest rates in a cashless society. As Credit Suisse reports, no matter where you go or what you want to purchase, you will find a small ubiquitous sign saying “Vi hanterar ej kontanter” (“We don’t accept cash”) . . . .
→ read full articleWhen the News Reads You Back: Why Journalists Need to Stand Up for Reader Privacy
Josh Stearns – Freedom of the Press Foundation,
23 Nov 2015
16 Nov 2015 – When you are reading the news, it is reading you back. According to new research out of the University of Pennsylvania visiting news websites exposes you to more than twice as much tracking software as the rest of the web.
→ read full articleReformed, Disciplined and Humiliated UNESCO
Andre Vltchek, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
“Japan threatens to halt UNESCO funding over Nanjing massacre listing.” UNESCO staff should insist on defending original values of its organization. It should be once again serving humanity, not the bullies in Washington or Tokyo!
→ read full articleWill Chess, Not Battleship, Be the Game of the Future in Eurasia? Silk Roads, Night Trains, and the Third Industrial Revolution in China
Pepe Escobar – TomDispatch,
23 Nov 2015
The U.S. is transfixed by its multibillion-dollar electoral circus. The European Union is paralyzed by austerity, fear of refugees, and now all-out jihad in the streets of Paris. So the West might be excused if it’s barely caught the echoes of a Chinese version of Roy Orbison’s “All I Have to Do Is Dream.” And that new Chinese dream even comes with a road map.
→ read full articleWars: US Militarist Factions in Command
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
19 Nov 2015 – Over the past 15 years the US has been engaged in a series of wars, which has led many writers to refer to the ‘rise of militarism’ – the growth of an empire, built primarily by and for the projection of military power – and only secondarily to advance economic imperialism.
→ read full articleAlfred Nobel
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Sometimes, mistakes, even lies, can have a serendipitous effect.
→ read full articleAmerican Anthropologists Vote to Boycott Israel
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
American Anthropological Association passes resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions in landslide vote; Pro BDS groups praise ‘historic result.’
→ read full articleEnd the Cycle of Violence
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
The U.S. likes to see itself as the “exceptional” nation, a bastion of freedom and democracy, the world’s benevolent “good guy.” Evil is out there in others – the terrorists. But much of the world sees the U.S. (and its ally France) as a dangerous racist empire of domination out to exploit and control labor and resources to benefit corporate interests and a wealthy elite at the expense of the earth and everyone else. ISIS obviously sees itself as the “good guys” and the problem of evil focused in France, the US, etc. Both sides appear to agree on “by any means necessary.” Terrorism against terrorism is terrorism.
→ read full articleEscalation Is Escalation Is Escalation: Lesson of Viet-Nam War
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
23 Nov 2015
Too much truth has not been the traditional path to the White House. But too little truth, as we have seen too often, makes the achievement bitter and pointless. The problem is to put peace on the table in a way that is hard to oppose without seeming to be a monster. And there is an easy approach.
→ read full articleThree Harsh Realities to Help You Make Sense of Middle East Anger and the Paris Attacks
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
23 Nov 2015
15 Nov 2015 – There can be nothing but condemnation of the attacks in Paris. But there can – and should – also be understanding about why they occurred, and who created the conditions. The short answer is us.
→ read full articleWill Suu Kyi Pose a Threat to a Democratic Myanmar?
Suhas Chakma, Asian Centre for Human Rights – Bangkok Post,
23 Nov 2015
Since her release from house arrest, Ms Suu Kyi has shown glimpses of authoritarianism. While she may still find a rubber-stamp president, the rule of the majority is unlikely to be handy for dealing with the ethnic minorities who have been waging wars against the majority Burmese for the past five decades.
→ read full articleNATO Is Harbouring the Islamic State
Nafeez Ahmed – INSURGE Intelligence,
23 Nov 2015
Why is the UNSC ignoring NATO partner Turkey’s brazen sponsorship of the Islamic State? France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Nov 23-29 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “When in doubt, tell the truth.” – Mark Twain
→ read full articleThe Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
22 Nov 2015 – What follows is a modified version of the Morton-Kenney annual public lecture given at the University of Southern Illinois in Carbondale on November 18, 2015 under the joint sponsorship of the Department of Political Science and the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.
→ read full articleThe Climate Talks in Paris Will Fail. Why?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
As a nonviolent activist, I have never asked elites (or their governments and corporations) to change their behaviour. Instead, I have invited them to respond powerfully to circumstances that I create that compel change. If I invite others to participate in the action I am taking and enough do so, elites have no choice but to act as I prefer. Let me give some examples to explain this.
→ read full articleWaiting for the Myanmar Miracle
Michael Green & Daniel Twining – Foreign Policy,
23 Nov 2015
12 Nov 2015 – Myanmar’s election is a good reminder that authoritarian elites underestimate their political opponents at their peril. The [Aung San Suu Kyi’s] National League for Democracy won nearly three-quarters of the votes cast in last Sunday’s elections.
→ read full articleContradictions in the Whirlwind: The Refugees Crisis, Paris Attacks, Wars without End
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
The best thing in Samuel P. Huntington was not news of an inexorable “clash,” but delving into the roots of it: “In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.” Half a million dead kids in Iraq. 129 dead in Paris. There’s no equivalencies in war, of course. But, one wonders if Stalin’s cynicism was right: one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.
→ read full articleNeed Pragmatism and Prudence in Bilateral Relations with Neighbours
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
If Nepal and India’s leaders cannot manage themselves no one should shy away from seeking friendly nation/person help defuse stand-offs and resolve the crisis situation.
→ read full articleU.S. Successfully Tests New Nuclear Gravity Bomb in Nevada
Brendan Byrne, ValueWalk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
17 Nov 2015 – The newly upgraded B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb was successfully tested for the third time in the Nevada desert on October 20. Non-proliferation advocates appear to have lost the fight to keep the B61-12 from being deployed, and now it must be hoped that future military officials are not tempted to use it.
→ read full articleCorporate Imperialism – The Only Reason for GMOs
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
The Papal Bull of 1493 -Inter Caetera- and the concept of Terra Nullius allowed the Catholic Church, and the Empires of the time, to change the destiny of millions of people and their cultures around the world, by allowing Europe to grab what it wanted from faraway lands. Terra Nullius, Latin, meaning ‘empty lands’ or ‘lands that belong to no one’ was a novel concept.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – People Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
There will likely be an escalation of the ongoing and bankrupting perpetual wars with the inevitable worsening of the suffering of the refugees, continued chaos on the ground, and a global war-induced economic instability that will eventually come crashing down – literally or figuratively – on American heads, just like the too-heavy throne that fell through the second story of the grass house.
→ read full articleSmoking Out a Boko Haram Closet Supporter
Rev. Olufemi Oluniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Boko Haram, the terrorist Islamic organisation crashed into the Nigerian national stage with fury (2002), fire (2007) and firestorm (2009). The word Boko, a Hausa adulteration of the English word “book,” and haram, the Hausa word for forbidden, together mean ‘aversion to Western education.’
→ read full articleAung San Suu Kyi: ‘I’m going to be the one who is managing the government’ in Burma/Myanmar
Lally Weymouth – The Washington Post,
23 Nov 2015
The woman who endured house arrest for the better part of 20 years heads the party that won a landslide election victory this month over the very generals who held her captive. In her office she talked about launching a democracy, ending ethnic violence, sharing power with the military and changing the constitution so that she can become president. Edited excerpts follow.
→ read full article(Português) Ecocídios, uma outra consequência da postura humana de proprietarizar a Natureza e inferiorizar e matar animais
Robson Fernando de Souza - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
23 Nov 2015
19 de novembro de 2015 – A catástrofe de Mariana/MG e do Rio Doce, resultante de crime ambiental de larga escala, resultou numa mortandade sem precedentes, com a morte dolorosa, estima-se, de milhões ou mesmo bilhões de animais na bacia hidrográfica da região.
→ read full articleMeetings in Germany Mark the 75th Anniversary of the Death of Leon Trotsky
World Socialist Web Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
23 Nov 2015 – More than 200 people attended meetings in Germany marking the 75th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky, held by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality in the German cities of Berlin, Frankfurt and Bochum.
→ read full articleWhat Is Really at Stake at the Paris Climate Conference Now That Marches Are Banned
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
23 Nov 2015
By banning protest at COP21, Hollande is silencing those facing the worst impacts of climate change and its monstrous violence. Once again, the message is: our security is non-negotiable, yours is up for grabs.
→ read full articleDefiant Haiti – “We won’t let you steal these elections!”
Dave Welsh, Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Hooded Gangs Attack Protest March as Police Turn a Blind Eye – Haitians, determined to thwart what they see as an ongoing “electoral coup d’etat,” have been in the streets almost daily in their tens of thousands since the Oct. 25th first round Presidential elections.
→ read full articleReligion and Science – An Interdisciplinary Approach
Dr.Chandra P. Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Mostly the people are confused about the existence of God, and contradictory statements of the intellectuals have confused further at a length. Although all the religious scriptures are saying the same, the religion is based on the existence of one God and Indian concept of polytheism based on swa dharma, self duty, with the view that God is present everywhere.
→ read full article25 November: Silent Violence Against Women
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Amartya Sen defined the major challenge of human development as “broadening the limited lives into which the majority of human beings are willy-nilly imprisoned by the forces of circumstance.” On 25 November, this day for the elimination of violence against women, we need to look closely at the social, cultural and economic walls that imprison.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia, an ISIS That Succeeded
Kamel Daoud – International New York Times,
23 Nov 2015
Daesh has a mother: the invasion of Iraq. But it also has a father: Saudi Arabia and its religious-industrial complex. Until that point is understood, battles may be won, but the war will be lost. Jihadists will be killed, only to be reborn again in future generations and raised on the same books. The attacks in Paris have exposed this contradiction again, but as happened after 9/11, it risks being erased from our analyses and our consciences.
→ read full articleViolence In and By Paris: Any Way Out?
Johan Galtung, 23 Nov 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
I have a dream. Like an American from Atlanta, Georgia, MLK Jr. Imagine West and Islam focusing not on the worst, like Western violence for prevention and Islamic for retribution, but on the best. Like the capacity for innovation and freedom in the West, togetherness and sharing in Islam. Imagine them dialoguing publicly at a high level “how can we learn from each other”?
→ read full articleThe Dangers of the Gates Foundation: Displacing Seeds and Farmers
Mariam Mayet, Other Worlds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Our seed systems in Africa are being criminalized by a corporate green revolution project. How the African Centre for Biodiversity is fighting back effectively to keep seeds in the hands of farmers and out of the multinational corporations.
→ read full articleOn the Phone
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
A man spoke frantically into the phone.
→ read full article
The Lady Is a Tramp (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Frank Sinatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
In Concert Live
→ read full articleLike the Germans, Israeli Jews Don’t Want to Know about Persecuted People
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Many Germans were appalled by the scale of the madness, cruelty and barbarism, but they didn’t lift a finger. Apart from a few who hid Jewish neighbours in their homes, or had the courage to help the wounded, most saw what was happening, heard the cries and turned away. They were frightened. They shut themselves up at home. They closed their windows.
→ read full articleThe Dayton Miracle: Bosnia Armistice, still Alive at 20
Nebojsa Malic – Russia Today,
23 Nov 2015
21 Nov 2015 – Twenty years after it stopped the bloodshed, the historic agreement reached in Dayton, Ohio still survives in Bosnia. More of an armistice than a peace treaty, it is under attack by the very powers sworn to uphold it.
→ read full articleResearchers Confirm: Giant Ancient Egyptian Underground Labyrinth Exists and Could Rewrite History
EWAO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
The Incredible Ancient Egyptian underground Labyrinth has been found and confirmed but has been suppressed by mainstream history. It can be easily considered as one of the greatest discoveries of Ancient Egypt, yet only a few know about its existence.
→ read full article(Français) L’Arabie saoudite, un Daesh qui a réussi
Kamel Daoud – International New York Times,
23 Nov 2015
Daesh a une mère : l’invasion de l’Irak. Mais il a aussi un père : l’Arabie saoudite et son industrie idéologique. Si l’intervention occidentale a donné des raisons aux désespérés dans le monde arabe, le royaume saoudien leur a donné croyances et convictions. Si on ne comprend pas cela, on perd la guerre même si on gagne des batailles. On tuera des djihadistes mais ils renaîtront dans de prochaines générations, et nourris des mêmes livres.
→ read full article(Français) Vingt ans après Dayton, rendre la Bosnie aux Bosniens ?
Georges Berghezan, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
18 novembre 2015 – Le 21 novembre 1995, un accord conclu sur la base étatsunienne de Dayton (Ohio) mettait fin à la guerre en Bosnie-Herzégovine. Vingt ans plus tard, si le pays a quasiment disparu des écrans des téléviseurs, il continue à vivoter dans le moule de l’accord, officiellement signé le 14 décembre à Paris.
→ read full articleNot a Joke At All
Singer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Satirical Strip Cartoon
→ read full articleStatement of the 15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
15 Nov 2015 The Barcelona Declaration – Refugees: Meeting the Challenge to Our Humanity
→ read full articleI offer my sincere apologies for the delay…
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2015
… to the 10-thousand-strong subscribers to our TMS Weekly Digest. In short:
→ read full articleParis Attacks: Symbols and Choices
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2015
Within a short time period, the terrorist teams have destroyed a Russian plane with tourists returning from Egypt, badly damaged a Hezbollah center in Lebanon, and attacked symbolic sites in Paris on a Friday the 13th. Three symbolic sites in Paris were chosen by a well-coordinated team of some 12 active agents and an unknown number of “helpers.”
→ read full article(Deutsch) Die Regierung blieb Antworten schuldig
Bernard Schmid, Paris - neues deutschland,
17 Nov 2015
Der »Krieg« ist erklärt, nicht aber das Phänomen des Abdriftens junger Leute in den Dschihadismus. Ein halbes Dutzend mal fiel das Wort »Krieg« in der Ansprache von Frankreichs Präsident. Der Begriff wird sonst für zwischenstaatliche Konflikte gebraucht, weshalb seine Verwendung Aufsehen erregte.
→ read full articlePutin: ISIS Financed from 40 Countries, Including G20 Members
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2015
President Vladimir Putin says he’s shared Russian intelligence data on Islamic State financing with his G20 colleagues: the terrorists appear to be financed from 40 countries, including some G20 member states.
→ read full articleCalais Migrant Camp on Fire as France Reels from Paris Terror Attacks
Mikey Smith – Mirror Online,
16 Nov 2015
14 Nov 2015 – Fire broke out in the ‘Jungle’ refugee camp near Calais last night – just hours after the terror attacks in Paris. One video shows emergency service vehicles arriving at the camp, which houses around 6,000 migrants – mainly young men from Syria and North Africa.
→ read full articleBeirut’s Explosion: The Sunni-Shia Bellum Sanctum Returns to Hezbollah’s Security Zone
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
At least 46 confirmed deaths and nearly 250 wounded, many seriously, are being treated at hospitals. All are victims of the 6 p.m. rush hour terrorist bombings deep inside Hezbollah’s security zone on Nov 12, 2015 that targeted civilians who were shopping at street markets or gathering at the local mosque for the fourth of the five daily prayers. The extremist Islamic State (ISIS/Da’ish) group claimed the attack.
→ read full articleParis at Midnight: Attempt to Push France Out of Anti-ISIL Coalition in Syria?
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Paris was hit by at least two well-trained and -equipped terrorist cells in a coordinated attack on 6 or 7 soft targets on Friday [13 Nov 2015] night. Some fear that these strikes will spell the end of Schengen open borders and will negatively affect the refugees that have come to Europe in the thousands recently. The terrorists may have been attempting to replicate the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which also aimed at soft targets, and which convinced Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
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Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
14 Nov 2015 – There’s no evidence this is a false flag – at least for now. What this seems to be proving is that Daesh is a certified pro ops with badass connections. Scouring a ton of reports, I found a Danish citizen describing one of the attackers to a Paris café; ultra-pro, black-clad head to toe, AK-47, very well trained. These are not your usual al-Zawahiri underwear bombers; these are precision killers.
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The Irish Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
4 Nov 2015 – Sir, As scholars associated with Irish institutions of higher education, north and south, and responding to the appeal from Palestinian civil society, we declare that we will not accept invitations to visit Israeli academic institutions; act as referees in any of their processes; participate in conferences funded, organised or sponsored by them, or otherwise co-operate with them.
→ read full article(Português) O que me levou a abrir um santuário para cavalos abusados
Karyn Boswell, One Green Planet - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
16 Nov 2015
Começar um santuário de cavalos tem sido uma batalha que me acompanha desde pequena. Para ser bem honesta, tem sido uma espécie de montanha russa com várias voltas. Todo dia é uma experiência incrível e eu não troco isso por nada no mundo.
→ read full articleWhy Aung San Suu Kyi’s ‘Mandela Moment’ Is a Victory for Myanmar’s Generals
Maung Zarni – The Guardian,
16 Nov 2015
With a constitution that safeguards its immense power and wealth, the military knows that, unlike in 1990, it doesn’t need a crackdown to keep its regime intact.
→ read full articleEven War Has Rules
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan - Truthdig,
16 Nov 2015
Three weeks after the attack in Kunduz, another MSF hospital was struck, this time in Yemen. The hospital was hit multiple times over a two-hour period last week, even though the roof was marked with the MSF logo and its GPS coordinates had been shared multiple times with the Saudi-led coalition. Every indication is that the Saudi Arabian military, using U.S.-provided bombers and arms, launched the strike.
→ read full articleMiddle East: The Way Forward
Sufyan bin Uzayr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
For the Middle East to truly blossom and bloom, it is essential that fake borders be abolished. That said, it seems highly unlikely that any form of unification or integration might happen during the oil era, especially because both domestic dictators and foreign hegemons are eager to keep the falsely drawn borders intact. How or when can unification happen? This question, unfortunately, still lacks an answer.
→ read full articleCall Me by My Name
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
French Pres. Charles De Gaulle got up in the middle of the night and went to the bathroom in the dark, wearing nothing.
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Johan Galtung & Keil Eggers: The World beyond Global Disorder
TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
13th Session World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” – Rhodes, Greece, 9 Oct 2015
→ read full articleNew Socialist Government Keeps Portuguese People under the Whip
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Portuguese Revolution Falls Far Short – In the Western world democracy has been decapitated. In Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Latvia, and the United States itself, there is no connection between the will of the people and the policies of the government. Only in tiny Iceland did the people prevail over the banks. Everywhere else the people are forced to pay for the gambling losses and leveraged debts of the financial sector.
→ read full article5 Reasons That I’m a Christian Who Stopped Supporting Israel
Benjamin L. Corey, Patheos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
5. I realized that loving Jewish people was completely different from supporting the modern, secular state of Israel.
→ read full articleSpanish Court Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Other Officials
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
A Spanish court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials for their role in the 2010 attack on the Freedom Flotilla heading to Gaza, local media reported on Friday [13 Nov 2015].
→ read full articleThe Dolphin Killers of Cardigan Bay
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Why does the Welsh government propose this gratuitous act of destruction? It refuses to say.
→ read full article(Français) Portugal : la droite veut changer la constitution pour rester au pouvoir
Romaric Godin - La Tribune,
16 Nov 2015
Le premier ministre lusitanien, renversé mardi [10 nov] par le parlement, demande une modification d’urgence de la constitution pour permettre de nouvelles élections.
→ read full articleMyanmar Rulers Exit, Successfully
Swe Mon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
People, let me be blunt.
Un-ashamed, the usurpers seem to have stopped their election game,
Having chosen the moral high ground and leaving the landsliders to be blamed – for a country lying in ruins.
Smart Resistance: A Palestinian Call for ‘Unarmed Warfare’
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Some Palestinian intellectuals are advocating non-violent resistance as they warn against an armed uprising. Palestinians have a right in international law to resist the occupation, even violently, but this group emphasises the futility of violence faced with Israel’s military superiority. Theirs is a pragmatic argument.
→ read full article(Português) Incêndio destrói acampamento de refugiados na França
R7 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
14 novembro 2015 – Um grande incêndio atingiu um acampamento de refugiados na cidade portuária de Calais, na França, horas após os atentados terroristas em Paris.
→ read full articleCuba Leading Eradication of HIV/AIDS, UN Says
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Cuba is an example for the world to follow on how to eradicate AIDS, the executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS said Friday [13 Nov 2015].
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Agent Orange, Monsanto, Dow Chemical and Other Ugly Legacies of the Vietnam War
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
The following currently accepted list of diseases that can be caused by exposure to Agent Orange applies to American veterans, but the consequences are a hundred times worse for the Vietnamese people who were sprayed and who are still being exposed to it in the soil for the last 50 years.
→ read full articleNow the Truth Emerges: How the US Fuelled the Rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
16 Nov 2015
The sectarian terror group won’t be defeated by the western states that incubated it in the first place. American forces bomb one set of rebels while backing another in Syria.
→ read full articleHere is What a Solidarity Economy Looks Like – from Quebec to Chicago to Mexico
Derek Royden, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Defining the term “solidarity economy” can be difficult: it has become a kind of catchall to describe everything from worker-owned cooperatives to open source software to complementary currencies. Surprisingly, the ideas promoted in the solidarity economy are not very well known in the English-speaking world.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Decision Is Clear. But Will the Military Let Aung San Suu Kyi Govern?
Simon Tisdall – The Guardian,
16 Nov 2015
9 Nov 2015 – The last time Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide election victory, the army generals who rule Myanmar rejected the result, placed her under house arrest and jailed thousands of her supporters, many of whom were brutally tortured. That was in 1990. But 25 years later, with “Amay Suu” (Mother Suu) once again triumphant, the key question is whether the men in uniform will accept the people’s verdict and allow her to govern.
→ read full articleA Milestone for Myanmar’s Democracy
The Editorial Board – International New York Times,
16 Nov 2015
The 2008 Constitution also bars Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, from becoming president, because her children are foreign nationals. Nobody doubts that this twisted provision was aimed at excluding her from the nation’s top job. Even so, dismissing the Constitution as “very silly,” she has asserted defiantly that she will be “making all the decisions” behind the scenes.
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