Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism
Week 15 // 09 Apr - 15 Apr 2018
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PEACE JOURNALISM PERSPECTIVE
EDITORIAL
Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service
While conflict theories and resolution processes advanced dramatically during the second half of the 20th century, particularly thanks to the important work of several key scholars such as Professor Johan Galtung, significant gaps remain in the conflict literature on how to deal with particular conflict configurations. Notably, these include the following four.
TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Johan Galtung: Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict
University of California Television – TRANSCEND Media Service
A noted pioneer in the field of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung makes the case for incorporating human rights as key to successful peace building around the world.
FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
The World after Trump, Netanyahu and Rajoy
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service
Easter 2018 – We may soon be witnessing those powerful politicians fizzling out. Trump is seen as “unleveled”, “incompetent”; Netanyahu is framed as “corrupt”; and Rajoy for pillaging the state to support his party. However, true or not, the real reasons are their failed policies.
TMS PEACE JOURNALISM
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service
Inaugural Conference, Association of Media Educators of Lebanon, Lebanese American University, Beirut 7-11 Dec 2017 — Lebanon is a country in acute need of Peace Journalism. In a general sense, there is a hunger among both journalists and their readers and audiences for ways to engage with social and political issues in the public sphere that do not exacerbate the tensions inherent in a diverse society, still coming to terms with the legacy of a vicious civil war.
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Stanford King Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech at Riverside Church, New York, Exactly One Year before He Was Killed on 4 Apr 1968
– 4 Apr 1967: I come to this platform tonight to make a passionate plea to my beloved nation. This speech is not addressed to Hanoi, to the National Liberation Front, to China or to Russia. Tonight I wish to speak to my fellow Americans… We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action.
BY TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service
A Memorial Commentary on the April 4, 2018 Anniversary of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination – Ladies and Gentlemen, I write to you today from Atlanta, Georgia, USA, birthplace and national shrine of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), clergyman, civil rights leader, social activist, Nobel Prize Laureate, and martyr to the cause of justice.
False Flag Operations Will Start New War? Towards a U.S.-Israeli Attack on Syria and Lebanon?
Edward Curtin and Geopolitics and Empire – Global Research
An interview with Edward Curtin – All signs point toward an upcoming large-scale Israeli/U.S. attack on Syria and Lebanon, with Russia and Iran as the ultimate objectives. As always, the corporate media play along as if they don’t yet know what’s coming. Everyone in the know knows what is, just not exactly when. And the media wait with baited breath as they count down to the dramatic moment when they can report the incident that will compel the “innocent” to attack the “guilty.”
Will ‘Democracy’ Survive? How? Whether? Hard Questions in Dark Times
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service
7 Apr 2018 – Global democracy has become, is becoming, a matter of ultimate concern. Issues raised concern transparency, accountability, participation, and responsiveness of global policy processes, and of course, how the global is to be linked with the regional and national so as to pursue the goal of global humane governance: equitable, stable, sustainable, peaceful, compassionate, and above all, mindfulness.
Moral Education for Structural Change
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service
The experience of the education for social responsibility program at the University of Concepción suggests the viability of large-scale moral education programmes, aimed at forming a functional, realistic, and solidary ethical conscience. Three educational principles supported by scientific findings are proposed to guide moral education: understanding, participation, and empathy. Taking as an example the ‘structural trap’ by which the good intention of complying with social human rights, such as health, ends up discouraging economic investment…
Celebrities and Ordinary Persons
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service
While the number of billionaires is increasing, the number of impoverished people without adequate nutrition, education and health care is showing no signs of decline in India and neighbouring countries. These poor people look at the photos or hoardings with awe and wonder why the Gods are so kind to them whereas they cannot even feed their families adequately.
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service
4 Apr 2018 – Someday it will come for our pale blue dot. The sun is scheduled to lose its fire in about four or five billion years, our lush green earth—or what’s left of it by that time—will grow cold forever. But now it’s just warming up, perhaps in anticipation of its icy future demise. The ice caps are melting, the seas are boiling, and the human species is proliferating.
Psych Drugs and Guns Don’t Mix
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” -– Upton Sinclair, anti-fascist, anti-imperialist American author. His axiom applies to every employee, investor, CEO or board of directors of every polluting, for-profit industry as well as for most of us physicians, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, drug sales reps, journalists, banker-lenders and the employees and CEOs of every company that makes or markets toxic substances, drugs and vaccines.
Rohingya People Need Protected Homeland in Myanmar’s Northern Arakan
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service
3 Apr 2018 – By all means maintain the current talks of economic sanctions, as well as international justice and accountability regarding Myanmar perpetrators including Suu Kyi and her military partners in power. But what Rohingyas need and want more than anything is a homeland where they can live in peace and rebuild their scorch-earthed communities under international protection. The solution to Myanmar genocide will not come from the perpetrators.
US Nuclear Posturing Has Adversaries Gearing Up, Not Standing Down
David Krieger | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service
3 Mar 2018 – The biggest problem with a nuclear deterrent force arises in attempts to determine its effectiveness. How can possessors of nuclear weapons assure that their nuclear weapons are effective in being a deterrent? The answer is that they cannot do so in any physical sense. The nuclear deterrent force relies instead on creating psychological barriers. Since it operates at the psychological level, one can never be sure it is effective. Or, it may only appear to be effective until it fails, and failure could be catastrophic.
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service
Ahed, the girl covered with blond hair, her blue eyes shining like a lighthouse. Ahed the saint. Ahed the savior. The Palestinian Jeanne d’Arc, the national symbol. The story of Ahed al-Tamimi happened in the West Bank. But it resounded in the Gaza Strip, too. For most Israelis, the Gaza Strip is something else. It is not occupied territory. It does not concern us. But the situation of the Gaza Strip is even worse than straight occupation. The strip is completely surrounded. North and east is Israel, west is the sea, where the Israeli navy shoots at everything except for fishing boats close to the shore. The south belongs to Egypt, which behaves even worse than the Israelis and in close cooperation with them.
HUMAN RIGHTS
The Isolation of Julian Assange Is the Silencing of Us All
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service
1 Apr 2018 – In this letter, twenty-eight writers, journalists, film-makers, artists, academics, former intelligence officers and democrats call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech. If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights, it is now.
NONVIOLENCE
Towards a Global Movement against All Violence
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service
1 Apr 2018 – The growing mobilizations by teenagers in the US and Palestine remind me of the mobilizations by youth against the War in Vietnam in the 1960’s and by youth against Apartheid in the 1970’s. The time is short. Johan Galtung has repeated his prediction, first made in 2004, that the American Empire cannot be sustained beyond the year 2020.
ACTIVISM
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research
28 Mar 2018 – The WSF movement is largely “funded by neoliberalism”. People who participated in the WSF Venue did not know that “RESIST” GLOBAL CAPITALISM is funded by “GLOBAL CAPITALISM”. They have been misled by the WSF organizers.
Brazil: World Social Forum Concludes in Salvador, Bahia
Comunicação CUT no Fórum | CPNN – TRANSCEND Media Service
18 Mar 2018 – The thirteenth edition of the World Social Forum came to an end on Sat 17 Mar, attracting more than 60,000 people to the various activities and debates held during the five-day event.
ANGLO AMERICA
Trump’s Syria “Withdrawal” Was Textbook US Deception
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service
8 Apr 2018 – The US media is now priming the global public for US intervention in Syria following alleged “chemical attacks” carried out in the remaining pocket of US-backed militants in Douma, just northeast of Damascus.
Statement on Gun Violence in the USA
Submitted by Prof. George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service
4 Apr 2018 – The faculty of the Department of Transformative Social Change at Saybrook University believes that it is our role as scholar-activists to share with the Saybrook community, and beyond, our views on the context of contemporary events.
ASIA & THE PACIFIC
An Open Letter to Burmese Buddhists Concerning the Rohingya
Buddhists for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service
2 Apr 2018 – Letter with 72 cosigners “of Burmese Buddhist Upbringing” Denouncing Persecution of Rohingya and All Ethnic Minorities – “Ultranationalist monks routinely harass interfaith activists and journalists, and rally against the Rohingya and other Burmese Muslims in the country. We have struggled to reconcile these events as adults, when as children we were taught to pay respects to monks at Buddhist monasteries.”
Burmese Dissident Speaks Frankly about His Country’s Persecution of the Rohingya
Samantha Rideout – UC Observer
April 2018 – Human rights activist Maung Zarni has been exiled from his native Myanmar (Burma) for speaking out against the military’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims. On a recent Canadian tour he talked about the need for truth.
BRICS
Lula’s Conviction Turns Brazil into Model of Regional Control
Bruno Sgarzini – teleSUR
6 Apr 2018 – It is becoming less of a secret that operation Car Wash was brought about under the auspices of the U.S. State and Justice Departments via links with Sergio Moro, the Attorney General’s office and the federal police in charge of the investigation. Its most self-evident result has been to isolate the main political threat to the United States, namely the coalition of politicians – supported by the Workers’ Party – who favored strengthening Brazil’s multinational companies as global competitors. The following categorical example sums this up.
Death of Marielle Franco Shines Light on the White Collar Criminals Running Brazil
MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service
Death of the New Republic: White-collar criminals in Brasília are ruling the country. Drug lords, paramilitaries, death squads, military police, and now also the army are terrorizing the population in the slums and the suburbs.
EUROPE
Greece, Austria, Portugal among Countries Not to Expel Russian Diplomats
Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge – TRANSCEND Media Service
More than 20 countries have aligned with the UK, expelling more than 100 diplomats. It is said to be the largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers in history. However, some countries refuse to join this remarkable show of solidarity.
PALESTINE - ISRAEL
Israelis Gather by Gaza Border to Watch and Cheer as Military Uses Live Fire against Palestinians
Daily Sabah (Istanbul) – TRANSCEND Media Service
7 Apr 2018 – A disturbing image of young Israelis sitting by the Gaza border, cheering and watching as bombs fall on Palestinians just a few miles away has evoked widespread condemnation as it circulated on social media. The scene is unfortunately not unfamiliar.
Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel
Askiah Adam | International Movement for a JUST World – TRANSCEND Media Service
5 Apr 2018 – Palestine, that enclave of humanity occupied, brutalised and without any form of military defence against aggressors is conveniently perceived as a threat by the Jewish state, Israel, the undeclared, sole nuclear power in West Asia and North Africa. This occupying power is a usurper legitimised by Britain and unconditionally supported and armed by the USA.
Middle East Turmoil: Israeli Massacre, Palestinian Grievances
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Middle East Is Heating Up–Again – A Postscript on the Land Day Massacre (‘Great March of Return’)
Israel: Gaza Killings Unlawful, Calculated
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service
3 Apr 2018 – Senior Israeli officials who unlawfully called for use of live ammunition against Palestinian demonstrations who posed no imminent threat to life bear responsibility for the killings of 14 demonstrators in Gaza and the injuring of hundreds on March 30, 2018, Human Rights Watch said today.
The Good Friday Massacre: We Are All Palestinians, Now!
Brett Redmayne-Titley – Global Research
6 Apr 2018 – Eighteen more Palestinians were unapologetically murdered this past “Good Friday” by the Israeli military. They were unarmed. They were on their own land. They were desperate. They screamed their desperation as they marched. Then, they shouted their daily reality of personal horrors too close to Israel’s attention. So, they were killed.
THE UNITED NATIONS
Yemen the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis, Says UN Chief
António Guterres | The United Nations – Inter Press Service-IPS
4 Apr 2018 – Yemen is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. As the conflict enters its fourth year, more than 22 million people – three-quarters of the population – need humanitarian aid and protection. Some 18 million people are food insecure. And a horrifying 8.4 million of these people do not know how they will obtain their next meal. Millions of Yemenis do not have access to safe drinking water. Last year, 1 million people suffered from watery diarrhea and cholera. Half of all health facilities are shut or not working properly, meaning there is a high risk of another cholera epidemic.
Grand Design for Universal Peace Education for Global Good Governance through the New UN
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service
Even if all nation-states adopt democracy, and promise for better governance to the people in their respective nations, they cannot do so individually. Because no nation can develop alone economically, scientifically, educationally even socially and culturally without the mutual help of each other, and for this, global governance is a must. We find three models for global governance, viz. Cross-national Organization, Supra-national Organization and Trans-national Organization.
MEDIA
US Isn’t Leaving Syria—but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised
Gregory Shupak - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting-FAIR
6 Apr 2018 – The very possibility of US withdrawal from Syria rendered apoplectic journalists who are convinced of the legitimacy of Washington’s domination of the country—international law be damned. Some writers want America to occupy Syria to weaken Russia. In the Washington Post, Josh Rogin claimed that “there are a lot of good arguments for maintaining an American presence in Syria after the fall of the Islamic State.”
When Facebook Becomes ‘The Beast’: Myanmar Activists Say Social Media Aids Genocide
Euan McKirdy – CNN
7 Apr 2018 – Hatemongers have taken advantage of the social network to disseminate inflammatory, anti-Muslim speech in Myanmar. The rhetoric is aimed exclusively at the disenfranchised Rohingya Muslim minority. Human rights activists inside the country and out tell CNN that posts range from recirculated news articles from pro-government outlets, to misrepresented or faked photos and anti-Rohingya cartoons.
Are You Ready? Here Is All the Data Facebook and Google Have on You
Dylan Curran – The Guardian
30 Mar 2018 – The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look.
YouTube Censors Empire Files’ Abby Martin on Israeli Militarism
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service
6 Apr 2018 – teleSUR presenter Abby Martin’s episode highlighting Israeli military violence against Palestinians has been blocked by YouTube in 28 countries for supposedly violating “local laws,” the presenter has announced. YouTube sent the program a notice saying “We have received a legal complaint regarding your video.”
EXPOSURES - EXPOSÉS
How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe: A Special Investigation
Mark Hertsgaard and Mark Dowie – The Nation
23 Apr 2018 Issue – The disinformation campaign—and massive radiation increase—behind the 5G rollout. As happened earlier with Big Tobacco and Big Oil, the wireless industry’s own scientists privately warned about the risks… The World Health Organization classifies cell-phone radiation as a “possible” carcinogen… “Everyone knows that if your research results show that radiation has effects, the funding flow dries up.”
ENVIRONMENT
The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service
4 Apr 2018 – Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitors but to ensure human and planetary survival.
Deadly Oil Spill in Eastern Borneo Spreads to the Open Sea
Basten Gokkon | Mongabay [Indonesia] – TRANSCEND Media Service
5 Apr 2018 – An oil spill in Borneo that began over the past weekend has now spread across an area greater than the city of Paris and is heading out to the open ocean, the Indonesian government says.
MILITARISM
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service
2 Apr 2018 – Like every organ in the body, the arms industry is valuable, but when its compulsive mission of self-aggrandizement displaces the body’s mission, deprives other organs of nutrients, and poisons the body, it’s time for surgery and healing.
CAPITALISM
New Lows Reached with Drug Ads
Martha Rosenberg | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service
26 Mar 2018 – .” Creon, AbbVie’s drug to treat the hitherto unknown disease of EPI is priced at over $500 a prescription. Selling obscure diseases to sell obscenely priced drugs is unethical for two reasons. It doesn’t just raise everyone’s health care costs and raise their taxes through government programs. It makes a mockery of the entire health care system by aggressively seeking people who are not sick to “treat” while ignoring millions who really are sick but for whom there is no profit in treating.
The World’s Most Dangerous Terrorist Group and Its Leader
Rob Kall – OpEdNews
24 Mar 2018 – The propaganda efforts of this terrorist group have been so effective that many of its victims actually support it enthusiastically, even while it kills their family members and impoverishes them. But what exactly is terrorism? Wikipedia’s page on terrorism offers this:
SEXUALITIES
New Zealand Passes Law to Clear Historical Gay Sex Convictions
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service
The law will allow hundreds of men to have convictions for homosexual offences erased from their criminal records. Family members can also apply on behalf of a deceased relative to clear their criminal record.
REVIEWS
Balwant Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service
In this eclectic collection of poems about silence, Sumeet Grover echoes thoughts of nothingness, sublime, and disquiet. Personal and social concerns are expressed that range from moments of intimacy to alienation; his poems project empathy, sensuality, wrath and personal closeness.
HEALTH
Parkinson’s Disease: Causes, Symptoms & Treatments
Rebecca Evans | Geriatric Nursing – TRANSCEND Media Service
World Parkinson’s Day for public awareness is on Wed, 11 Apr 2018–on the birthday of James Parkinson, who first mentioned the illness in 1817. Infographic and full article.
SCIENCE - SPIRITUALITY
Teaching Evolution in Schools: What Science Explains and What Explains Science
Chaitanya Charan Das | Spiritual Scientist – ISKCON News
“When evolution becomes an all-explaining truth-claim, it no longer remains a science, but becomes an ideology.” Before examining the tenability of this statement, we need to understand what is implied by the word evolution. It refers to different things in different contexts.
INSPIRATIONAL
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
“Seek the company of those who are searching for the truth, but avoid those who have found it.” — Vaclav Havel
TRIVIA
Matt Rosenberg | ThoughtCo. – TRANSCEND Media Service
24 Mar 2018 – There are 6,909 languages actively being spoken in the world today, although only about six percent of them have more than a million speakers each. As globalization becomes more common so does the learning of languages.
BIOGRAPHIES
Leonardo da Vinci (15 Apr 1452 – 2 May 1519)
Leonardo da Vinci – TRANSCEND Media Service
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio’s workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities. Other famous painters apprenticed or associated with the workshop include Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Botticelli, and Lorenzo di Credi.
Hugo Grotius (10 Apr 1583 – 28 Aug 1645): War and Peace
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service
Hugo Grotius was a jurist born in Delft, the Netherlands who laid the foundations for international law based on natural law. Grotius’ masterpiece, The Law of War and Peace (1625), was an immediate and widespread success. It has gone through at least 75 editions and has been translated 24 times. In this book, he presented his famous doctrine of the just war.
G.W. Russell (10 Apr 1867 – 17 Jun 1935): “The Highest Minds Building One upon Another”
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
George Warren Russell was an Irish poet, painter, mystic, and reformer of agriculture. He wrote under the initials A.E. and was a close friend and co-worker with William Butler Yeats. “Such was the play of Helen which made men realise that beauty was a divinity. Such was the play of Radha and Krishna which taught lovers how to evoke god and goddess in each other.” –A.E.
POETRY FORMAT
Andrew Quilliam Brewer – TRANSCEND Media Service
What can be said about her?
She rose when sorrow fell.
PEACE Everywhere: Let’s Show We Dare. How? A Checklist
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
An important check list to help make us believe that peace is possible and a human right for all people.
IN ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Français) Gleisi Hoffmann : “Lula est le plus grand leader politique de notre histoire”
Le Journal de Notre Amérique – TRANSCEND Media Service
“L’emprisonnement du président serait une injustice (…) Nous considérerons cet emprisonnement comme un acte politique”.
(Ialiano) Striscia di Gaza: La nuova strategia dei palestinesi
Catherine Cornet, | Internazionale – TRANSCEND Media Service
5 aprile 2018 – Erano mesi che la società palestinese preparava “la grande Marcia del ritorno”, una manifestazione pacifica rivolta all’opinione pubblica mondiale per riportare l’attenzione sulla causa palestinese. Per l’occasione i palestinesi volevano mostrarsi uniti e pacifici. Il massacro del 30 marzo invece ha fatto vedere in diretta l’uccisione di 17 giovani disarmati e il ferimento di 1.400 persone da parte dei cecchini israeliani.
(Français) Comment faire des reportages à Gaza
Vijay Prashad | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service
Si vous êtes un journaliste occidental et que vous devez faire un reportage à Gaza, la meilleure chose à faire est de traiter les Palestiniens comme une menace. Leurs corps sont des armes, leur existence est dangereuse. Si un Palestinien est tué par un soldat israélien, le terme le plus approprié pour qualifier cela est “affrontement”. Normalement, des affrontements se produisent lorsque deux forces armées entrent en confrontation.
(Castellano) ¿No violencia o No existencia? El legado de Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert Burrowes – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency
“Durante años los hombres han estado hablando sobre la guerra y la paz. Ahora no se puede simplemente hablar de ellas. Ya no se trata de escoger entre la violencia y la no-violencia en este mundo, se trata de vivir sin violencia o dejar de existir en este mundo. Ese es el lugar en donde estamos ahora”. — MLK
Regard Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service
Le fait d’acheter des poissons provenant d’une animalerie n’est pas une activité ou un hobby banal et contribue à faire fructifier une industrie génératrice de souffrance et de dommages environnementaux. Au niveau de l’individu, il est important de rappeler que le poisson, bien que n’attirant généralement que peu la compassion chez la plupart des gens, est un être animal sentient, social et intelligent qui a le désir et l’intérêt à vivre dans son milieu naturel plutôt qu’en captivité.
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service
29 mar 2018 – O filme, que já entrou em festivais na França e na Eslováquia, mostra que a Amazônia tem hoje 85 milhões de cabeças de gado, três para cada humano. Na década de 1970 a floresta estava intacta e o gado equivalia a um décimo do rebanho da atualidade. Hoje há uma área igual à França desmatada, 66% transformada em pasto.
Martha Follain - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais
As lagartixas são répteis acinzentados, originárias do sudeste asiático e norte da África. Vivem cerca de 5 anos e são uma espécie de hábitos noturnos. Não possuem veneno e são inofensivas para o ser humano, alimentando-se de moscas, baratas, aranhas, pernilongos, traças, formigas, cupins, etc. ingerindo vários (dezenas) insetos de uma só vez.
(Italiano) Russia, Russia, Russia: il teatro dell’assurdo USA
Gary Corseri | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service
25 marzo 2018 – Il recente articolo di Matt Taibbi di Rolling Stone – v. link in calce – scorre un bel po’ di roba; con completezza, arguzia e chiarezza di pensiero. Per lo più, Taibbi puntualizza quanti guai e quanta confusione siamo riusciti a creare a noi stessi e al nostro mondo dal fatidico 11 settembre.
IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
A Vedic Alternative to Darwin’s ‘Theory of Evolution’
Michael Cremo [Drutakarma dasa] | New Thinking Allowed – TRANSCEND Media Service
The nature of a human being, the mind, consciousness, and a Vedic alternative to Darwin’s ‘theory’–not ‘science.’ Very articulate and precise explanations in a way that can be understood by everybody.
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
State of Palestine: Drone Footage Captures ‘Great March of Return’ Protests at Israel-Gaza Border
Ruptly – TRANSCEND Media Service
Apr 6, 2018 – Palestinians continued protesting along Gaza’s eastern border near Khan Younis today as part of the ‘Great March of Return’ movement.
My Sweet Lord (Music Video of the Week)
George Harrison – TRANSCEND Media Service
George Harrison’s worldwide hit single from his brilliant All Things Must Pass album
EDITORIAL CARTOON / SATIRE
Latuff – MintPress News
29 Mar 2018 – Trump in Bad Company
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
John Kenneth Galbraith called Reaganomics “horse and sparrow economics.”
“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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