PEACE JOURNALISM PERSPECTIVE
EDITORIAL
From Regionalization to Globalization: Problematic
Nº 453 | Johan Galtung, 31 Oct 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service
The answer is a United Regions, UR; 8 with North America, 11 with West Asia, Israel-Palestine and the Kurds, Central Asia split by the Durand line and East Asia by the East and South China Seas. 7, 8, 11 are good numbers around a table, better than the UN at 193. Mirroring global reality with diversity, UR stands a better chance than the UN.
NOBEL LAUREATES
International Women’s Boat to Gaza
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service
I was a participant onboard the Zaytouna-Oliva boat | 29 Sep-5 Oct 2016. To the Palestinian people of Gaza, please keep your hopes high and believe that freedom and peace will come. Thank you for your perseverance and ongoing inspiration to us all.
[Nobel Peace Laureate] Gorbachev Appeals for Sanity
John Scales Avery, Pugwash Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service
28 Oct 2016 – President Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union and recipient of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, has appealed to world leaders to reduce the dangerous the tensions which today threaten to plunge human civilization and the biosphere into an all-destroying nuclear war.
OTHER COMMENTARIES
BY TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Punishment Is Violent and Counterproductive
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service
Next time you hear a public official, judge, terrorist or police officer promising ‘justice’ (that is, retribution), remember that you are listening to an emotionally damaged individual who suffered enormous violence as a child and internalized the delusional message that ‘punishment works’. You might also ponder how bad it could be if we didn’t require obedience and use punishment to get it, but loved and nurtured children, by listening to them deeply, to become the unique, enormously loving and powerful individuals for which evolution genetically programmed them.
Women as Peacemakers: A 31 October Anniversary
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
There is growing recognition that it is important to have women in politics, in decision-making processes and in leadership positions. The strategies women have adapted to get to the negotiating table are testimony to their ingenuity, patience and determination. Solidarity and organization are crucial elements. The path may yet be long but the direction is set.
USA: What Are We to Think?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service
29 Oct 2016 – A cascade of developments should make us afraid of what seems to be emerging politically in the United States at this time. Although politicians keep telling us how great we were or will be or are.
Ending a Century of Ecocide and Genocide, Seeding Earth Democracy
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service
Hundreds of People’s Assemblies, being organized everywhere, will make commitments to create a healthy future of food and of the planet. From the People’s Assemblies we will launch a boycott campaign, to liberate our seeds and soils, our communities and societies, our planet and ourselves, from poisons and the rule of the poison cartel.
The Israeli Trumpess
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service
29 Oct 2016 – Donald Trump has already declared that he will recognize the results – but only if he wins. That is far from being a joke because Trump represents tens of millions of Americans, who belong to the lower strata of the white population, which the white elite used to call “white trash”. In more polite language they are called “blue collar workers”, meaning manual workers, unlike the “white collar workers” who occupy the offices.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, at 50. Now Change Name to SIMSI
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service
I have a proposal for this mainly government-financed and not exactly independent institute. Since its work has so conspicuously little to do with peace thinking and re-search into the vast and fascinating field called world peace, perhaps change its name to Stockholm International Military Security Institute, SIMSI?
Delhi – My Dilli
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service
Delhi is the capital of India but is also a beloved of many old people including myself who have been living here for decades. We call the city Dilli which has a reference to the word Dil (heart). Many books and accounts of this grand city have been written by historians, novelists and ordinary people. It has a long, tortuous history built, destroyed and rebuilt innumerable number of times by one invading kingdom or another.
ACTIVISM
Parallels Seen in Protests of Dakota Pipeline, Oregon Refuge
Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press – Reader Supported News
30 Oct 2016 – On the same day seven defendants celebrated their acquittal in the armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear and firing bean bag rounds arrested nearly 150 water-protectors camped out in North Dakota. “How is it that people who were seen on national media with guns having a standoff with police officials were acquitted … and we’re being treated like we’re terrorists?”
How to Talk About #NoDAPL – A Native Perspective: Remember This about Standing Rock
Kelly Hayes | Transformative Spaces – TRANSCEND Media Service
27 Oct 2016 – This piece is very personal because, as an Indigenous woman, my analysis is very personal, as is the analysis that my friends on the frontlines have shared with me. Yes, everyone should be talking about climate change. But we deserve to survive because our lives are worth defending in their own right — not simply because “this affects us all.”
Standing Rock Water-Protectors Waterboarded While the Cleveland Indians Romped
Paul Street – CounterPunch
Native Americans suffered their own Holocaust on the lands that were swallowed up as the United States. By some estimates more than 15 million First Nations people inhabited North America (most of them on land later seized as U.S. territory) before Columbus. Thanks to white-imposed disease, displacement, eco-cide, and murder, the number of “Indians” alive in the United States fell to less than 250,000 by 1890.
IN FOCUS
Washington’s ‘Pivot to Asia’: A Debacle Unfolding
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service
In 2012 President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Ashton Carter launched a new chapter in their quest for global dominance: a realignment of policies designed to shift priorities from the Middle East to Asia. Dubbed the ‘Pivot to Asia’, it suggested that the US would concentrate its economic, military and diplomatic resources toward strengthening its dominant position and undercutting China’s rising influence in the region.
The White Helmet Controversy
Rick Sterling | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service
Unknown to most people, the White Helmets brand was conceived and directed by a marketing company named “The Syria Campaign” based in New York. They have managed to fool millions of people. Walt Disney might have made a great movie about this: unarmed volunteers fearlessly rescuing survivors in the midst of war without regard to religion or politics.
ANGLO AMERICA
Cliton Suggested Rigging Palestine Election
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service
Unhappy with the election result, Clinton suggested that the U.S. should have used their power to help its preferred party.
ASIA & THE PACIFIC
Nauru, Refugees, and the Australian Torture Complex
Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Four Corners program was informed by a significant Amnesty International report, aptly titled Island of Despair, which was released on Monday [17 Oct] night. That report examined the rather ghoulish extent the Australian government, with its Nauru satraps, has been going about the business of “processing” boat arrivals.
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Murder of Activists in Latin America ‘Out of Control’: Oxfam
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service
The number of human rights activists and environmentalists killed in Latin America has dramatically skyrocketed in recent years, found a report called “El Riesgo de Defender,” or the Risk to Defend, released Tuesday [25 Oct] by Oxfam, while extractive projects have spread in rural and Indigenous areas.
The US and Canada Have Blood on Their Hands in Honduras
Grahame Russell – teleSUR
The international community needs to be held to account for propping up and subsidizing the murderous regime in Honduras.
Colombia: A Bright Light for Peace Is Extinguished
Immanuel Wallerstein | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service
Frankly, I do not see any way the peace accord can be saved. Colombia is now like all the other areas of unending conflict. The chaotic world situation continues unabated in what I remind you is the struggle to decide on the successor system to the capitalist system that is now in systemic crisis.
MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA
The Tragedy in Yemen
Derek Royden | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
Besides intelligence and targeting assistance provided to the Saudis in Yemen, since 2010 the US has sold $60 billion in arms to the country, an absolute monarchy with one of the worst human rights records in the world. Human rights groups have concluded that these weapons, including cluster munitions banned in most countries, have been used indiscriminately against civilian targets including markets, schools and hospitals.
PALESTINE / ISRAEL
Israel: 1984 Everlasting
Stanley L. Cohen – CounterPunch
Empty Declarations of Democracy… Vacant Boasts of Humanity
Why Is Israel Tightening the Gaza Blockade?
Ben White - Middle East Monitor
21 Oct 2016 – Let us begin with the facts: Israeli authorities have tightened the long-standing blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli blockade – an illegal policy of collective punishment in the words of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – is continuing to severely harm the lives of Gaza’s two million residents, furthering the enclave’s de-development.
How Thousands of Palestinian and Israeli Women Are Waging Peace
Riman Barakat - +972 Magazine
The thousands of Palestinian and Israeli women who marched in Jerusalem and Jericho this month are not only demanding peace from their societies, they are reaching through stereotypes and artificial boundaries to find true partners.
Why Boycott Apartheid Israel: A Response to a Liberal Friend
Haidar Eid – The Palestine Chronicle
21 Oct 2016 – I am writing this piece in response to a questions raised by a Western, liberal friend of mine who wanted to “understand” as to why I have been calling for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against apartheid Israel.
SYRIA IN DEPTH
Syria: A “Grim” Set of Alternatives
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Saul Isaacson and Dan Falcone | Z Net – TRANSCEND Media Service
28 Oct 2016 – New York City teachers Saul Isaacson and Daniel Falcone recently sat down with Professor Noam Chomsky in his MIT office to discuss Syria and US foreign policy.
THE UNITED NATIONS
Russia Loses UN Human Rights Council Place, Saudi Arabia Re-Elected
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service
29 Oct 2016 – Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International produced a joint statement earlier this year condemning Saudi Arabia for “an appalling record of violations” in Yemen. Saudi Arabia carried out 157 executions domestically last year – the highest number in two decades, and is on pace to match the number this year. Critics of the regime have often faced detention, while women do not enjoy autonomy and equal status before the law.
UN Unanimously Rejects Cuba Blockade as US Abstains for First Time
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service
Only two countries, the United States and Israel, abstained from the vote, while 191 of the 193 member states in the assembly voted in favor of the resolution for the 25th consecutive year. Last year, only the USA and Israel voted against it.
EDUCATION
Using Education to Normalize Horrific Acts of Violence
Gil Gertel - +972 Magazine
This is how the Israeli education system makes it possible for generation after generation of Israelis to accept the most brutal forms of state violence.
TECHNOLOGY
Paypal Brushes-Off Request from Palestinian Tech Firms to Access the Platform
Mike Butcher | TechCrunch – TRANSCEND Media Service
PayPal currently does not work for Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza, but does work for Israelis living in settlements in the West Bank, which are illegal by international law.
MEDIA
Inside the Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton & Trump
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service
Double standard, essence of propaganda: The current siege of the city of Mosul by the government forces of Iraq, who are backed by the United States and Britain vs the siege of Aleppo by the government forces of Syria, backed by Russia. One is good; the other is bad. Both cities would not be occupied by the same fanatics and ravaged by war if Britain and the United States had not invaded Iraq in 2003.
Compare the Coverage of Mosul and East Aleppo and It Tells You a Lot about the Propaganda We Consume
Patrick Cockburn – The Independent
In both countries, two large Sunni Arab urban centres – East Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq – are being besieged by pro-government forces strongly supported by foreign airpower. Yet the coverage is very different.
ENVIRONMENT
Wildlife Populations Have Dropped by Almost 60% in 40 Years, WWF Says
TIME Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service
Global wildlife populations have plummeted by 58% between 1970 and 2012, according to the latest Living Planet Report published by conservation group WWF on Wednesday [26 Oct].
Living Planet Report 2016
WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service
Risk and Resilience in a New Era | 26 Oct 2016 – Global biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate, putting the survival of other species and our own future at risk. This latest edition of the Report brings home the enormity of the situation – and how we can start to put it right.
Living Planet Index 2016
WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service
26 Oct 2016 – The world’s biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate. Population sizes of vertebrate species have more than halved in little more than 40 years. The LPI, which measures trends in thousands of populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish across the globe shows a decline of 58 per cent between 1970 and 2012. If current trends continue, the decline could reach two-thirds by 2020.
Climate Doomsday – Another Step Closer
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS
Globally averaged concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has surged again to new records in 2016… and will not dip below pre-2015 levels for many generations. The warning comes from the United Nations weather agency–the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and further confirms the alarm of climate experts and world specialised organisations.
Just 90 Companies Are Accountable for More Than 60 Percent of Greenhouse Gases
Dan Drollette Jr | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service
27 Oct 2016 – There’s a tendency to think that when it comes to climate change, we’re all equally at fault—and if everyone is to blame, then no one is to blame. But now it’s possible to identify the contributions of individual companies, thanks to the work of researchers such as Richard Heede. What he found is revealing.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Climate Doc Exposes Destruction of Rainforest for Palm Oil as Huge Driver of Global Carbon Emissions
Rainforest Action Network | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service
25 Oct 2016 – A new documentary produced and starring actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio premieres in Los Angeles today and will be broadcast globally in 45 languages in 171 countries on the National Geographic Channel starting Oct. 30, timed to air in advance of the November elections.
Fukushima Radiation in the Pacific (Revisited)
RP Siegel | Triple Pundit – TRANSCEND Media Servic
Greenpeace’s famed ship, the Rainbow Warrior, went out to sample the waters around Fukushima in February of this year with former Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan onboard. What they found was that radiation in the seabed off Fukushima “is hundreds of times above pre-2011 levels.” They also found levels in nearby rivers that were “up to 200 times higher than ocean sediment.”
MILITARISM
US Uranium Weapons Have Been Used in Syria
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
28 Oct 2016 – This month, the Pentagon admitted it has used uranium weapons in attacks inside Syria — violating its public promise last year that it would not use DU there, and contradicting the claim that US bombing is done in defense of the Syrian people, according to the Int’l Campaign to Ban Uranium Weapons.
The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’: Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
Matthew Rosenberg and John Markoff – The New York Times
The United States has put artificial intelligence at the center of its defense strategy, with weapons that can identify targets and make decisions.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
United States Nuclear Forces, 2016
Hans M. Kristensen & Robert S. Norris | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service
Published online: 2 March 2016
Russian Nuclear Forces, 2016
Hans M. Kristensen & Robert S. Norris | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service
Published online: 15 April 2016
CAPITALISM
Independent Work: Choice, Necessity, and the Gig Economy
James Manyika, Susan Lund, Jacques Bughin, Kelsey Robinson, Jan Mischke, and Deepa Mahajan | McKinsey – TRANSCEND Media Service
October 2016 – The McKinsey Global Institute examines all the ways people are earning income, as well as the challenges independent work presents.
The Gig Economy: More Than 160 Million in US and EU Rely on “Independent Work”
Genevieve Leigh | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service
Packaged as creating “options” for workers, as the McKinsey report suggests, the reality is that these new forms of employment provide options and increased profits for the ruling class. The push for more part-time and independent work is an attempt to curb the declining rate of profit, inherent in the capitalist system, by finding new ways to squeeze labor at a lower cost.
Why the Rich Can’t Be Trusted with Money
Larry Beinhart – Al Jazeera
The members of the investor class are programmed to destroy. It is way too smart to stick under the mattress. Money is supposed to be out there making money, damn it!
REVIEWS
How Power Works
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service
Thompson meticulously documents the innumerable ways the state oppresses the poor by discrediting their voices, turning the press into a megaphone for government propaganda and lies, stoking the negative stereotypes of black people, exalting white supremacy, ruining the lives of people who speak the truth, manipulating the courts and law enforcement, and pressuring state witnesses to lie to obstruct justice. Her book elucidates not only the past but also the present, which, she concedes, is worse.
The U.S. and Russia Ensure a Balance of Terror in Syria
Charles Glass – The Intercept
The Russians, having lost Aden, Egypt, and Libya years earlier, backed their only client regime in the Arab world when it came under threat. The U.S. gave rhetorical and logistical support to rebels, raising false hopes — as it had done among the Hungarian patriots it left in the lurch in 1956 — that it would intervene with force to help them. Regional allies, namely Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey, were left to dispatch arms, money, and men, while disagreeing on objectives and strategy.
HEALTH
An Open Letter to a Son Whose Father Has Parkinson’s Disease
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service
I read an online essay by a person whose father has progressive Parkinson’s disease for decades. The tone of the essay was of despair, confusion and frustration. Given the fact that a lot of the medical information on the internet comes from Big Pharma websites, the author understandably repeated many of the myths about Parkinson’s disease, such as the “no known cause” myth or the “it might be genetic” myth.
OBITUARIES
Tom Hayden, Preeminent 1960s Political Radical and Antiwar Protester, Dies at 76
Elaine Woo – The Washington Post
Tom Hayden, the preeminent 1960s radical who roused a generation of alienated young Americans, became a symbol of militancy by leading riotous protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and added Hollywood glamour to his mystique with an activist partnership and marriage to film star Jane Fonda, died Oct. 23 in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 76.
HISTORY
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service
Oct 31- Nov 6 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” – Steve Jobs
APPEALS
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: PayPal
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service
31 Oct 2016 – Palestinians being denied access to PayPal means they cannot use their services to run a business, or raise money for a charity, or send cash to a relative, or make everyday purchases online. Getting access to PayPal can make a real difference in the lives of so many Palestinians as the struggle for freedom, justice, and equality continues. We are partnering with member group Jewish Voice for Peace and SumOfUs on this campaign, which already has been supported by more than 65,000 people.
INSPIRATIONAL
A World Unifying Vision
Dr. Hooshmand Kalayeh – TRANSCEND Media Service
We, regardless of race, religion, nationality, and gender, have common basic needs. We need oxygen to breath, food to eat, water to drink, a safe home and community to raise our children, and a moral compass to live in harmony with one another and with the natural world. But the world’s equilibrium has been moving toward a state of instability and humanity is facing many challenging problems.
POETRY FORMAT
The Struggle Within
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service
Facing life’s challenges and insecurity
The heart yearns for serenity
How can we ignore the oppressor’s meanness
And simply understand his weakness
Artemis or You
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service
I couldn’t blame the moon,
Though tempted, for mistaking you
In Artemis, or Artemis in you,
Who could tell, she was so swift,
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Vite più lunghe ma meno significative?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service
La vita è un’espansione di un uovo fecondato a un essere umano maturo e una contrazione a uno spazio sempre più angusto attorno a sé finché il tempo finisce. La storia occidentale ha molte narrazioni riguardo all’espansione da qualche puntolino a un impero esteso e alla contrazione in spazi sempre più ristretti.
(Italiano) Spagna “senza governo” – e poi?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service
Ed entro la UE, cooperazione con (gli) altri paesi marginali GIPSI, ossia Grecia-Italia-Portogallo-(Spagna)-Irlanda, per forzare il guanto di ferro tedesco sulla regione [periferica] con la solidarietà e la produzione industriale. La Spagna sta vivendo il proprio dramma. E non c’è mai una parola finale.
(Italiano) Donne che fomentano disordini… o forti donne nonviolente?
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis
Il ridicolo di cui si copre il potere consolidato è dappertutto… e … ci offre una bella opportunità di dimostrare la sua stupidità, e di stabilire – o ri-stabilire, libertà di parola e diritto al dissenso.
(Français) Pourquoi Israël durcit le blocus de Gaza?
Ben White | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service
Les faits sont là, parlants, et Ben White les relèvent: Israël resserre drastiquement le blocus sur Gaza. Un blocus qui, rappelons-le, viole allègrement le droit international. Mais Israël s’en fout. Reste à savoir pourquoi l’Etat colonial durcit les restrictions maintenant.
(Português) Os Direitos Humanos (que não temos)
Alexandre Honrado – Jornal Tornado
Vivemos sob ditaduras, algumas assumidas, outras simplesmente estruturas autoritárias, todas vergadas aos interesses pragmáticos e totalitários, utilitaristas, dos radicalismos do capital e da sua elite económica.
(Português) Wind of Change, ou a Europa vista pelo saudosismo dos Scorpions
Paulo Mendes Pinto | Visão – TRANSCEND Media Service
Com o fim da Guerra Fria, uma das verdades feitas pelo senso comum ia no sentido de um desarmamento global. Os inimigos deixariam de o ser. A corrida ao armamento já não tinha o sentido “patrioteiro” de outros tempos. Mas nada disso aconteceu. Que queremos nós, cada um dos cidadãos europeus, o que quer a Europa? Mais do que perguntar como vamos sair da crise, interessa perguntar para onde vamos sair.
(Français) Venezuela: L’Assemblée Nationale peut-elle soumettre le Président de la République à un procès politique?
Misión Verdad | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service
Au Venezuela, la récente tentative de « coup d’Etat parlementaire» de l’Assemblée Nationale ouvre un nouveau chapitre dans la lutte insidieuse pour tout le pouvoir politique qu’a entreprise l’anti-chavisme depuis qu’il contrôle le Parlement. La gendarmerie politique de l’élite économique vénézuélienne a entrepris un procès politique contre le président Nicolás Maduro, en plus de la révocation du Tribunal Suprême de Justice et du Conseil National Electoral.
(Português) Onde está o poder hoje no mundo?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service
Há um fato que deve preocupar todos os cidadãos do mundo: o deslocamento do poder dos Estados-nações para o lado do poder de uns poucos conglomerados financeiros que atuam a nível planetário, cujo poder é maior que qualquer Estado tomado individualmente. Estes de fato detém o poder real em todas as suas ramificações: financeira, politica, tecnológica, comercial, mediática e militar.
(Italiano) Pericolo di guerra. Che fare?
Enrico Peyretti – Centro Studi Sereno Regis
L’azione più profonda che può avvenire è l’evoluzione mentale-morale (ciascuno in se stesso perché cresca in tutti) dalla ideologia della fatalità della guerra alla capacità di trasformazione-soluzione nonviolenta dei conflitti. Non è utopia disperata.
(Português) Senciência Animal
Ética Animal - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais
A senciência é a capacidade de ser afetado positiva ou negativamente, isto é, a capacidade de receber e reagir a um estímulo de forma consciente, experimentando-o a partir de dentro. É a capacidade de ter experiências. Não é a mera capacidade para perceber um estímulo ou reagir a uma dada ação, como no caso de uma máquina que desempenha certas funções quando pressionamos um botão.
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Rich Man’s World (1%) [RAP Music]
Immortal Technique – TRANSCEND Media Service
[Disclaimer] Not for the faint of heart. Strong down to earth offensive obscene language—but true to reality as only art can be.
Somewhere in Time (Music Video of the Week)
Maksim Mrvica | Piano – TRANSCEND Media Service
John Barry’s Famous Composition – Croatian born pianist Maksim Mrvica started to play piano when he was nine and by the age of 11 he held his first concert as a soloist with an orchestra. It wasnt always easy to harbour his dream of becoming a concert pianist, especially when, at the age of 15, war broke out in Croatia.
SATIRE
Queen Offers to Restore British Rule Over United States
Andy Borowitz – The New Yorker
In an unexpected televised address on Saturday [29 Oct 2016], Queen Elizabeth II offered to restore British rule over the United States of America. Addressing the American people from her office in Buckingham Palace, the Queen said that she was making the offer “in recognition of the desperate situation you now find yourselves in.”
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Clean Politicians
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
A cannibal was walking through the jungle and came upon a restaurant operated by a fellow cannibal.
“Capitalism and State sovereignty are goners. Bankism rules the world in all respects now.” “Militaries are the ultimate manifestation of direct, structural and cultural violence—a cancer that must be extirpated from humanity.” — Antonio C. S. Rosa, M.A.
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