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Be Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
Nothing is weaker than water,
But when it attacks something hard
Or resistant, then nothing withstands it,
And nothing will alter its way.
Close Guantanamo—Then Give It Back to Cuba
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
12 Jan 2015
7 Jan 2015 – This week marks the 13th anniversary of the arrival of the first post-9/11 prisoners to Guantanamo Bay, the most notorious prison on the planet. This grim anniversary, and the beginning of normalization of diplomatic relations between the U.S and Cuba, serves as a reminder that we need to permanently close the prison and return the land to its rightful owners, the Cuban people.
→ read full article(Italiano) Pace positiva: che cos’è?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Sì, che cos’è? – cominciamo quest’anno nuovo con una nota positiva. Tenendo a mente che la pace è una parola d’onore, come la salute una salvezza per molti: un centro focale di sogni e desideri, un sommo bene che dev’essere sia molto preciso sia riconducibile a un lavoro di pace professionale e mantenuto aperto, riempito di nuovi sogni ed aspirazioni.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Has More Jails Than Colleges – Here’s a Map of Where Those Prisoners Live
Christopher Ingraham – The Washington Post,
12 Jan 2015
To put these figures in context, we have slightly more jails and prisons in the U.S. — 5,000 plus — than we do degree-granting colleges and universities. In many parts of America, particularly the South, there are more people living in prisons than on college campuses.
→ read full articleRiyadh’s Oil Play: Why the Kingdom is Keeping Prices Low
Bilal Y. Saab and Robert A. Manning – Foreign Affairs,
12 Jan 2015
Although some analysts are puzzled by the Saudi strategy shift, pure economic logic may well be driving Saudi behavior. Yet in the end, the motivations behind the Kingdom’s new oil strategy matter less than its likely outcomes, some of which could be quite negative.
→ read full articleAbolishing Nuclear Weapons – Useful and Not-So-Useful First Steps
Milan Rai - TeleSur,
12 Jan 2015
The most urgently-required negative security assurance (NSA) is a promise by all the declared nuclear weapon states never to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear weapon state.
→ read full articleRemembering Victims of Terror–And Forgetting Some Others
Jim Naureckas - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting,
12 Jan 2015
Describing the attack on the French satirical paper, CBS News’ Morell said: “The motive here is absolutely clear. Trying to shut down a media organization that lampooned the prophet Mohammed. So no doubt in my mind this is terrorism.” Breivik’s motive was certainly not shutting anyone down for lampooning Mohammed. So perhaps, in Morrell’s mind, it doesn’t count as terrorism?
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
January 12–18 – Quote of the Week:
“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” — Mahatma Gandhi
In ‘Epic’ Chase, Sea Shepherd Vows to Pursue Poachers to ‘Ends of the Earth’
Deirdre Fulton – Common Dreams,
12 Jan 2015
9 Jan 2015 – The dramatic chase, which has gone on for 22 days, is thought to be the world’s longest pursuit of an illegal fishing vessel. Sea Shepherd’s sister ship, the Sam Simon, retrieved what it described as a “monster” gillnet more than 30 miles long.
→ read full articleTribute to Patrice Lumumba on the 54th Anniversary of His Assassination [17 Jan 1961]
Carlos Martinez – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Malcolm X, speaking at a rally of the Organisation of Afro-American Unity in 1964, described Patrice Emery Lumumba as ’the greatest black man who ever walked the African continent. He didn’t fear anybody. He had those people [the colonialists] so scared they had to kill him. They couldn’t buy him, they couldn’t frighten him, they couldn’t reach him.’
→ read full articleParis–And Then?
Johan Galtung, 12 Jan 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
There is another value, norm, in the land of expression: consideration. Decency. Respect for life. We have libel laws asking not only “is it true?” but “is it relevant?” to cut down nastiness in for instance political “debate”. We rule out hate speech, propaganda for torture, genocide, war, child pornography. Many, unable to understand or argue with converts to Islam in France, overstep norms of decency instead. The easy way out.
→ read full articlePalestine Recognizes ICC Jurisdiction for Period Covering Gaza War
Ma’an News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
6 Jan 2015 – The International Criminal Court said Palestinian authorities had formally recognized the court’s jurisdiction to investigate crimes allegedly committed during last summer’s Gaza war.
→ read full articleCaptain Paul Watson: If I Were CEO of SeaWorld
Paul Watson, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
There is no justification for the enslavement of animals. None. There never has been and there never can be. Slavery is slavery—unjustifiable, cruel, evil and soul-destroying, both for the victims and the oppressors. Circuses and places like SeaWorld are despicable places, and the only zoos that should exist are those that rehabilitate wildlife, contribute to the conservation of habitat and provide medical facilities for animals in the wild.
→ read full article(Castellano) La Palabra
Pablo Neruda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Nació
la palabra en la sangre,
creció en el cuerpo oscuro, palpitando,
y voló con los labios y la boca.
Who Should Be Blamed for Muslim Terrorism?
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Islam is not only a religion; it is also an enormous culture, one of the greatest on Earth, which has enriched our humanity with some of the paramount scientific and architectural achievements, and with countless discoveries in the field of medicine.
→ read full articleTheir Unpardonable Crime Is That They Are Syrian
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Unlike Jordan and Turkey, Lebanon has rejected the advice of the UN and has refused to create refugee camps, meaning refugees are dispersed throughout the country and setting the stage for a humanitarian nightmare. Lebanon’s complex sectarian make-up also plays a role.
→ read full articleThe New U.S. Congress Is 80 Percent White, 80 Percent Male and 92 Percent Christian
Philip Bump – The Washington Post,
12 Jan 2015
Trying to predict the gender and race of a member of Congress is like trying to predict who would win in an arithmetic competition between you and a talking horse. Which is to say: It is like trying to guess how many jellybeans are in a glass jar that contains two jellybeans. Which is to say: It is easy.
→ read full articleChanging Patterns Using Transformation Pathways
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Exploring “Camp-Us” Inspiration by an Alien World View as a Metaphor – As with the Catholic view of Protestants over centuries (duly reciprocated), “they” are considered beyond the pale, lacking any reasonable intelligence, sense of honour, or other values worthy of respect. The savagery of “them” is highlighted by every means, for purposes of propaganda; that of “us” is effectively censored. The basic message of “camp-us” is: Nothing for us to learn; we know all that needs to be known.
→ read full articleLearning from the Taliban: A Message to the Western Anti-War Movement
Rev. Aaron Doncaster – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
By learning from the strategic effectiveness of the Taliban, it does not at all mean that we are accepting their ideology. If this were the case, then I guess I should stop going to marches with theists. Those who refuse to see the differences between tactics, strategies and ideologies deserve to be looked upon with suspicion.
→ read full articleStopping the Biggest Corporate Power Grab Ever, the TPP
Arthur Stamoulis – Foreign Policy In Focus,
12 Jan 2015
How fighting back against one arcane, Nixon-era trade negotiating procedure could put a stop to a global corporate coup. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a corporate power grab clearly worthy of Seattle-caliber mobilization. But the fight against this reprehensible deal requires different types of tactics.
→ read full articlePalestine Joins the International Criminal Court
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
8 Jan 2015 – The ICC has accepted the Palestinian Authority’s request to join the Rome Statute. A statement said that “the deposit of the instruments of accession by the State of Palestine,” effected as of January 2 [2015], had brought the number of state parties to 123.
→ read full articleBefore & After the Fact
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Before marriage…
→ read full article11 January: UN-designated Day for Developing Awareness of Human Trafficking
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
The recent interception by the Italian Navy of two ships filled with refugees from Syria and other migrants has highlighted in a dramatic way the ever-growing trade in persons. On both ships, the captain and crew had abandoned the ships which were heading toward a rocky shore when the ships were boarded by the Italian Navy.
→ read full articleChallenges Ahead: Sri Lanka’s Mass Atrocities and International Justice
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka,
12 Jan 2015
After execution of mass atrocities and their failure to stop it, international actors have accepted their failure. Sri Lanka’s forthcoming presidential election will be the litmus test. Will international actors bring perpetrators of mass atrocity crimes in Sri Lanka to international justice and prove “Never Again” to be more than just a slogan?
→ read full articleAnne Lamott on Writing and Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft.
→ read full articleHow Clint Eastwood Ignores History in ‘American Sniper’
Peter Maass – The Intercept,
12 Jan 2015
“A lot of people, myself included, called the enemy ‘savages,’” he wrote. “I only wish I had killed more. Not for bragging rights, but because I believe the world is a better place without savages out there taking American lives.” A decorated Navy SEAL, Kyle killed more than 150 “savages” in Iraq, becoming the deadliest sniper in the annals of American warfare.
→ read full article(Nederlands-Dutch) Ondanks twee regeringen tegelijk is in Libië iedere burger vogelvrij
Maite Vermeulen – De Correspondent,
12 Jan 2015
Wat doe je als je dochter op klaarlichte dag in een nette buurt van Tripoli wordt vermoord? Niets. Want de politie komt toch niet kijken. In Libië heerst, na de val van dictator Khadafi, nu totale wetteloosheid. Gastcorrespondent Eva Ludemann laat de noodkreet van de Libische bevolking horen.
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Refugee Child Prodigy from Damascus Plays Piano for Peace (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Tambi Assad Cimuk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
When 15-year-old Tambi Asaad Cimuk walked into a music store last year he had never played the piano before. The teenager, who left everything behind in Syria when his family fled to Turkey two years ago, says he hopes his music will somehow help foster peace. He will perform at Carnegie Hall in January 2015.
→ read full article(Castellano) Descubren ciudad de 500 mil años en Turquía
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
La Administración para el Desarrollo Habitacional de Turquía (TOKI) realizó el mayor descubrimiento arqueológico del país este año, una ciudad subterránea de 500 mil años de antigüedad en la región turca de Anatolia Central.
→ read full articleBlowback in Paris
Nafeez Ahmed – Middle East Eye,
12 Jan 2015
Recognising that the Paris atrocity is predictable blowback does not absolve the perpetrators of responsibility for their terrible crimes; but it might help us find a path to safety based on co-existence, renunciation of violence, and unity in adversity.
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Johan Galtung on Denmark, Mohammed Cartoons, and Peacework
EnvisionPeaceMuseum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Johan Galtung is widely considered the “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies.” A Norwegian sociologist and mathematician, Galtung has taught around the world, helped found many institutions dedicated to building peace, and been honored with the Right Livelihood Award.
→ read full articleIndia is Building the World’s Largest Solar Plant — And That’s Terrible News
Justin Loiseau, The Motley Fool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
6 Jan 2015 – India is gearing up to build 20,000 MW of solar farms, including the world’s largest solar plant to date. But are India’s electricity eyes bigger than its solar stomach? Here’s why having the world’s biggest solar facility may not be the best option for India.
→ read full articleFear of Government Spying ‘Chilling’ Writers’ Speech Worldwide
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
12 Jan 2015
‘If writers avoid exploring topics for fear of possible retribution, the material available to readers—particularly those seeking to understand the most controversial and challenging issues facing the world today—may be greatly impoverished.’
→ read full articleJournal of Resistance Studies Is Calling for Papers
Jørgen Johansen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
The articles we want to publish focus on critical understandings of resistance strategies, discourses, tactics, effects, causes, contexts and experiences. Our aim is to advance an understanding of how resistance might undermine repression, injustices and domination of any kind.
→ read full articleAl Qaeda Source: AQAP Directed Paris Attack
Jeremy Scahill – The Intercept,
12 Jan 2015
9 Jan 2015 — A source within al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has provided The Intercept with a full statement claiming responsibility for the attack against the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
→ read full articleReport: Erdogan Trying to Hide Evidence of Supporting ISIS
The Tower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
6 Jan 2015 – Turkey’s regime is trying to hide any evidence that holds Turkish leaders responsible for the support of terrorist groups, especially the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Turkish media is reporting.
→ read full articleNuclear Power in India
World Nuclear Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Updated 31 December 2014 – India’s primary energy consumption more than doubled between 1990 and 2011 to nearly 25,000 PJ. India’s dependence on imported energy resources and the inconsistent reform of the energy sector are challenges to satisfying rising demand.
→ read full articleDoubling Down on Dictatorship in the Middle East
Amanda Ufheil-Somers, Other Words – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Even the collapse of multiple governments failed to upend the decades-long U.S. policy of backing friendly dictators. Washington has doubled down on maintaining a steady supply of weapons and funding to governments willing to support U.S. strategic interests, regardless of how they treat their citizens.
→ read full articleThe Imperial Collapse Playbook
Dmitry Orlov, Cluborlov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
The largest development of 2014 is, very broadly, this: the Anglo-imperialists are finally being forced out of Eurasia. How can we tell? Well, here is the Big Picture.
→ read full articleCuba under the Long Shadow of Castro Brothers
Stephan E. Nikolov, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
We are still to see details behind the lofty statements, that are coming just in time both for the unalterable Cuban leadership, and for the incapacitated President Obama. I believe that transition in Cuba will not be that similar to that familiar here in my country, Bulgaria, and in the Eastern Europe after 1989.
→ read full articleParis: A Dastardly Act of Terror
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Was some group sending a warning to the elite that it should not have supported Palestine’s recent failed bid to obtain an independent sovereign state? Was that group the master-mind behind 7th January? Questions of this sort strengthen the case for an independent investigation preferably by the UN.
→ read full articleAmerican Aircraft Dropped Weapons to ISIS, Says MP
Amre Sarhan – Iraqi News,
12 Jan 2015
On Saturday [3 Jan 2015], MP Majid al-Ghraoui said that an American aircraft dropped a load of weapons and equipment into the hands of the ISIS group militants in southeast of Tikrit, located in Salahuddin province.
→ read full article(Português) Je ne suis pas Charlie, eu não sou Charlie
Leonardo Boff – Carta Maior,
12 Jan 2015
Alguns chamam os cartunistas mortos de “heróis” ou de os “gigantes do humor politicamente incorreto”, ou de “mártires da liberdade de expressão”. As charges polêmicas do Charlie Hebdo são de péssimo gosto, mas isso não está em questão. O fato é que elas são perigosas, criminosas até, por dois motivos.
→ read full articleThe New York Times and Washington’s “Propaganda Bubble” on Ukraine
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
In 2002–2003, the stable of State Department propagandists at the Times played a crucial role in paving the way for a war that claimed the lives of over a million Iraqis and some 4,500 US troops. Now they are involved in an even more sinister propaganda operation that threatens to ignite a Third World War.
→ read full articlePoliteness in Multi-Ethnic Societies
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
The attack on Charlie Hebdo, in which 10 people were killed, claimed massive media attention worldwide. In Denmark, it was proposed that the offending cartoons of the prophet Mohammad should be reprinted in major newspapers. I believe [that] Denmark has not yet had time to learn that politeness is essential for preventing conflicts in a multi-ethnic society.
→ read full articleThis Doctor Moved Her Clinic to the Middle of the Ocean to Help Women Get Safe Abortions
Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
“How could we create a space in which the only permission a woman needs is her own?”
→ read full articlePaving Path towards Climate Goal, Denmark Sets World Record for Wind Power
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
12 Jan 2015
‘It shows that we can reach our ultimate goal, namely to stop global warming,’ said climate minister.
→ read full articleChina-CELAC Forum a ‘New Beginning,’ Says Xi
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Chinese President Xi Jinping opened a historic meeting with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States Thursday [8 Jan 2015]. Representatives of more than 30 countries are meeting in Beijing to discuss South-South cooperation.
→ read full articleCambodia – Always Remember January 7
Kok-Thay Eng – The Phnom Penh Post,
12 Jan 2015
Today, January 7, marks the day in 1979 when Cambodians were liberated from genocide.
→ read full articlePositive Peace – What Is That?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Yes, what is it?–let us start this New Year on a positive note. Keeping in mind that peace is an honor word, like health, salvation for many: a focus of dreams and wishes, a summum bonum that should be both very precise and amenable to professional peace work and kept open, filled with new dreams and aspirations.
→ read full articleU.S. Twists Arms to Help Defeat Resolution on Palestine
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
31 Dec 2014 – The United States re-asserted its political and economic clout – and its ability to twist arms and perhaps metaphorically break kneecaps – when it successfully lobbied to help defeat a crucial Security Council resolution on the future of Palestine this week.
→ read full articleWe Have So Much to Learn From Cuba
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
“It seems stupid to pursue a U.S. foreign policy by repeating a strategy that has proved a monumental failure for six decades. The definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over, and expecting different results. In this sense, the [Cuba] embargo is insane.”
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Michael Büker: What Ever Happened to Nuclear Weapons?
media.ccc.de – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Dec 29, 2014 – An overview of 70 years of nuclear weapons, focusing on some of the underlying physics, the international politics that surround the topic, modern technology for nuclear weapons detection and monitoring, and what everyone can do to help nuclear disarmament.
→ read full articleTorture Reports: Brazil and the United States Release Reports Documenting Systematic Human Rights Abuses
Kara Rochelle Martinez, Upside Down World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
2 Jan 2015 – One day after the U.S. Senate released its Executive Summary of the CIA’s policy of torture, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff unveiled her country’s investigatory National Truth Commission Report, identifying human rights atrocities committed in Brazil during the military dictatorship, 1964-1988. [She was tortured too.]
→ read full article(Português) De volta para a Igreja: Cuba restitui templos cristãos
O Globo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
De maneira discreta, as autoridades cubanas vêm acelerando a restituição de antigas propriedades da Igreja Católica, que por muitos anos manteve uma relação conturbada com os Castro.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
January 5-11 — Quote of the Week: “It isn’t enough to talk about peace; one must believe it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it; one must work for it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
→ read full articleNew Level: Monsanto Tries Patenting Natural Tomatoes
Christina Sarich, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Stealing a Tomato with No Biotech Traits
→ read full articleAs Aleppo Goes, So Goes Syria? – A Strategic Area
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Freezing hostilities in Aleppo could possibly achieve the same for Syria. It’s worth a try.
→ read full articleWhy Do Men Stupefy Themselves? Leo Tolstoy on Why We Drink
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Decades before the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous and nearly a century before alcohol abuse was recognized as a disease by the World Health Organization, Tolstoy writes: “What is the explanation of the fact that people use things that stupefy them: vodka, wine, beer, hashish, opium, tobacco, and other things less common: ether, morphia, fly-agaric, etc.?”
→ read full articleConventional Prompt Global Strike Weapons
Amy F. Woolf, Congressional Research Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
CPGS weapons represent Washington’s preparation for military aggression for maintenance of world hegemony. They would allow the United States to strike targets anywhere on Earth in as little as an hour.
→ read full articleFor the Occupied and Oppressed Palestinians UN Means Useless Nations
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
What President Truman feared could happen did happen. On dealing with the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel the Security Council was put out of business by Zionism.
→ read full articleA Gazan’s Wishes for 2015
Alaa Radwan, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Medi a Service,
5 Jan 2015
Why can’t we dream of things other than having a year without another bloody war with Israel, having 24/7-electricity, and having the freedom to travel abroad? Why can’t Gazans just have a normal life? Why can’t we enjoy a festive beginning to the New Year as all other people around the world do?
→ read full articleAfghanistan: Skulking Away from a Failed War
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
The ceremony, commemorating the war’s shutdown, was secret because authorities feared the possibility of a Taliban attack. The USA and NATO, as everyone knows, are the losers, despite the bloated enormity of their military superiority. What a mockery the reality of war makes of the rhetoric that blesses it.
→ read full articleRichard Jackson: Terrorism, Torture, and the Problem of Evil in Our Time
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Richard Jackson, a professor of peace studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, has written a probing political essay that takes the form of an imagined dialogue between a British interrogator and an Egyptian terrorist who is apparently thought at the time of their conversation to be the mastermind of an imminent attack on Great Britain.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Arundhati Roy by an American
P.K. Willey Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
I now see that a misinformed view of his thought and action has led you to misrepresent Gandhi unfairly to the public around the planet. Churchill said, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Thoughts are another type of food, and our food, both mental and physical, determines our health, as individuals and as a society.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Stellungnahme des friedenspolitischen Sprechers des Komitees für Grundrechte und Demokratie zur Situation der deutschen Friedensbewegung
Prof. Dr. Andreas Buro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Zum Jahreswechsel werden viele Fragen zur Situation und Zukunft der deutschen Friedensbewegung gestellt. Hier der Versuch zu antworten.
→ read full articleCan GMOs Save the World?
Anna Lappé – Al Jazeera America,
5 Jan 2015
Monsanto Claims That Biotech Can Feed the Planet. Here’s Why It Won’t
→ read full articleMonks & Politicians
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
A politician was campaigning for reelection and visited all kinds of people, trying to be folksy.
→ read full articleDeliberation on Post MDG (2015) Development Agenda
Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development-CSEND – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
CSEND, a think tank focusing on the development nexus of trade, poverty, employment and social equity, is contributing to these deliberations through its engagement in both the global, national and regional levels.
→ read full articleThe Limitations of Strategic Nonviolence
Timothy Braatz, Peace Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
If the goal is to reduce violence of all types, to create a society where tomorrow is less violent than today, strategic nonviolence is insufficient and, thus, not pragmatic. For such a transformation, the principled approach—identifying and rejecting any and all forms of violence—is also the pragmatic one.
→ read full article(Italiano) 2014 nulla di buono. 2015 meglio?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
La tragedia del 2014 è stata la mancanza di autentici amici degli USA che gli dicessero: guarda, questo non funzionerà – meglio cambiare; prendetevi miglior cura della vostra meravigliosa società e dei vostri vicini, ritrattate. La speranza per il 2015 è che molti alleati lo facciano.
→ read full articleUN Security Council Rejects Resolution on Palestinian State
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Bid to end Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by 2017 garners eight votes, one short of total needed to pass:
YES: Jordan, China, France, Russia, Luxembourg, Chad, Chile, Argentina.
NO: United States, Australia.
ABSTAINED: United Kingdom, Lithuania, Nigeria, South Korea, Rwanda.
Climate Deniers, like Big Tobacco, Thrive behind a Smoke Screen of Doubt
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
5 Jan 2015
“Doubt is our product,” states a 1969 memo from the tobacco giant Brown and Williamson, “since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public.” It was a member of “Big Tobacco,” with Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard Tobacco Company, U.S. Tobacco, Liggett Group, and American Tobacco.
→ read full article(Italiano) AOSTA. “ANTEPRIMA ASSOLUTA de IO STO CON LA SPOSA all’ Espace Populaire”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Il loro passaporto nelle ambasciate europee vale carta straccia. Così ogni mese, migliaia di Siriani e Palestinesi si affidano ai contrabbandieri libici ed egiziani, per attraversare il Mediterraneo su imbarcazioni di fortuna. Fuggono dalla guerra in Siria e vengono a chiedere asilo politico in Europa.
→ read full article2015: Defending Humanity by Reason or Force
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Ideals are being spat on, dragged through dirt by the omnipotent manufacturers of obedience and by their most powerful tools – the mass media, religious entrepreneurs, the private education system, and the pop entertainment machine. Only consumerism, commercialism, business achievements and loyalty to the regime are glorified. There is nothing that encourages people to dream of a much better world, or to struggle for a new, just and egalitarian society.
→ read full articleInstitutional and Cultural Inertia
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Today we are faced with multiple interrelated crises, for example the threat of catastrophic climate change or equally catastrophic thermonuclear war, and the threat of widespread famine. These threats to human existence and to the biosphere demand a prompt and rational response; but because of institutional and cultural inertia, we are failing to take the steps that are necessary to avoid disaster.
→ read full article5,000 Year Old Subterranean City Found in Turkey
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
A massive 5,000 year old underground city has been discovered in Turkey according to reports Sunday [28 Dec 2014]. The finding has been regarded as the biggest archeological discovery of 2014.
→ read full articleThe Rock of Our Existence
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
On the connection between Archeology and Ideology. The Bible is not real history. It is a monumental religious and literary document, that has inspired untold millions throughout the centuries. It has formed the minds of many generation of Jews, Christians and Muslims. But history is something else. History tells us what really happened. Archeology is a tool of history, an invaluable tool for the understanding of what took place.
→ read full articleCuban Province Records World’s Lowest Infant Mortality Rate
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
The central province of Cienfuegos, Cuba, ended 2014 with a rate of infant mortality of three deaths per thousand live births, the lowest in the world, local health authorities reported Friday [2 Jan 2015].
→ read full articleOn the New Year
Stephen Gill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
What then
if it is a New Year.
This day is the same
as any other day of last week
even last year.
Obama’s Lists: A Dubious History of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan
SPIEGEL Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Combat operations in Afghanistan may be coming to an end, but a look at secret NATO documents reveals that the US and the UK were far less scrupulous in choosing targets for killing than previously believed. Drug dealers were also on the lists.
→ read full article(Português) Ecolinguagem
Francisco Gomes de Matos, Elza Kioko N. N. do Couto, Adilson Marques & Hildo Honório do Couto, A Arvinha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
A primeira ideia que vem à mente quando ouvimos a palavra ‘ecolinguagem’ é a de que ela seria a “linguagem ecologicamente correta”. Essa é a opinião do leigo. Porém, ela é apenas parcialmente correta e pode levar a interpretações equivocadas, como sói acontecer. Usar ecolinguagem é admitir e assimilar a visão ecológica do mundo.
→ read full articleLeonardo’s Brain: What a Posthumous Brain Scan Six Centuries Later Reveals about the Source of Da Vinci’s Creativity
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
An astonishing intellectual, and at times spiritual, journey into the particular brain of one undereducated, left-handed, nearly ambidextrous, vegetarian, pacifist, gay, singularly creative Renaissance male who was able to attain a different state of consciousness than “practically all other humans.”
→ read full articleWhen Is Civil Society a Force for Social Transformation?
Michael Edwards – Open Democracy,
5 Jan 2015
There are more civil society organizations in the world today than at any other time in history, so why isn’t their impact growing?
→ read full articleThe Irrelevance of Liberal Zionism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Frustrated by Israeli settlement expansion, excessive violence, AIPAC maximalism, Netanyahu’s arrogance, Israel’s defiant disregard of international law, various Jewish responses claim to seek a middle ground.
→ read full articleWho’s The True Enemy of Internet Freedom – China, Russia, or the US?
Evgeny Morozov – The Guardian,
5 Jan 2015
Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens’ online access – but it’s the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty. One’s man internet freedom is another man’s internet imperialism.
→ read full articleSuicides Spread Through a Brazilian Tribe
Charles Lyons – The New York Times,
5 Jan 2015
The 15-year-old boy, Dedson Garcete, had hanged himself — one of 36 suicides among tribe members in 2014 through September. Indigenous peoples suffer the greatest suicide risk among cultural or ethnic groups worldwide.
→ read full article2015, Conversion to Hinduism
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
India currently has witnessed intense debates on religious conversion particularly after some people converted into Hinduism. I am against forceful conversion. I apply this principle to all religions. Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, Jews, and people without religion, have all called India their home. This is the beauty of India.
→ read full articleAmerica Stumbles through another Year, Spreading Chaos and Trivia Everywhere in Its Path
John Chuckman – Pravda,
5 Jan 2015
In another example of chaos mixed with farce, the United States pretends to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and while that charade continues, planes loaded with American weapons keep flying out of Turkey to make the seeming lunatics even stronger.
→ read full articleIs Cancer Risk Mostly Affected by Genes, Lifestyle, or Just Plain Bad Luck?
Jenna Birch, Yahoo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
While cancer can strike anyone — young or old, unhealthy and healthy — we do have some idea of what can affect risk.
→ read full articleWind Supplied 98% of Scotland’s Household Power in 2014 and Other Amazing Green Energy Stories
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
Scotland is well on its way to getting 100% of its energy from renewable sources by 2022. Germany is rapidly replacing nuclear and coal with wind and solar, so much so that coal use was down 11% last year.
→ read full article(Português) Passagem de Ano
Tereza Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
O fim do ano e o começo do outro deve ter a marca de uma alegria interior, que dispensa agitação e multidão, embora a presença das pessoas queridas seja coisa boa. A celebração da mudança de ano não precisa conter amargor de desejos não realizados ou cenários irreais.
→ read full articlePeru Is Now Giving Free Solar Power to Its 2 Million Poorest Citizens
Bill Ottman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Dec 21, 2014 – The National Photovoltaic Household Electrification Program will cost about $200 million, which is basically nothing in the scheme of most international budgets. Peru also leads the way in national dedication to organic food and doesn’t allow GMO.
→ read full articlePalestinians Granted Observer Status at International Criminal Court
JNS-Jewish and Israel News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
The ICC upgraded the Palestinians’ status to “non-state observer” at its summit meeting in New York on Monday [8 Dec 2014]. While largely symbolic, the move gives the Palestinians the right to ratify the Rome Statue, the founding treaty of the ICC.
→ read full article(Castellano) Decir Todo, Decir Nada (LA Guerra Que No Es)
Fernando Montiel T. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
En la novela clásica del más importante ensayista inglés del siglo XX el Ministerio del Amor era el encargado de torturar a los disidentes, el Ministerio de la Verdad escondía los hechos y tergiversaba la información y el Ministerio de la Paz se encargaba de hacer la guerra. Las fantasías del literato devinieron en realidad cuando se normalizaron conceptos como comunidad internacional, terrorismo y comunismo. ¿Qué significan estas palabras?
→ read full articleHow Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us to Greater Harm
Cory Doctorow, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
The Internet isn’t just the world’s most perfect video-on-demand service. It’s not simply a better way to get pornography. It’s not merely a tool for planning terrorist attacks. Those are only use cases for the net; what the net is, is the nervous system of the 21st century. It’s time we started acting like it.
→ read full articleThe NY Court of Appeals Granted the Vulture Funds Request of Information on Argentine Assets
Télam - Agencia Nacional de Noticias de la República Argentina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
28 Dec 2014 – The New York Second Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed Judge Thomas Griesa’s ruling, which had granted to vulture funds their request of seeking official information (discovery) on Argentine assets in the United States, as part of their litigation against the Argentine Republic.
→ read full articleFox Affiliate Apologizes to Editing Protesters’ Chants to Say ‘Kill a Cop’
Walter Einenkel, Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
23 Dec 2014 – A Baltimore Fox station had to apologize to Black Lives Matter protester, Tawanda Jones, after they were busted for deceptively editing a protest chant to say “Kill a cop.”
→ read full articleChina Steps In as World’s New Bank
William Pesek – Bloomberg View,
29 Dec 2014
Beijing’s move to bail out Russia, on top of its recent aid for Venezuela and Argentina, signals the death of the post-war Bretton Woods world. It’s also marks the beginning of the end for America’s linchpin role in the global economy and Japan’s influence in Asia.
→ read full articleDisdain and Belligerence Define IDF Leaders’ View of Palestinians
Jews For Justice For Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Palestinians may feel anger and hatred towards their oppressors – but those oppressors regard them as contemptible sub-humans who can be ignored – if not rushed. Ya’alon in particular regards all filmed evidence of police and IDF brutality as faked. The refusal to deal with reality infects the whole country.
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