Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism
Week 14 // 02 Apr - 08 Apr 2018
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PEACE JOURNALISM PERSPECTIVE
EDITORIAL
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service
As usual, many truths emerge, very much worth knowing. A world trying to substitute economic for military power should try to use better cultural power, also as spiritual power: “Pope Francis offers a different model of power”, with very very concrete proposals. May he reach the corridors of power; they are fortunate enough to co-exist in time with this giant.
TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Prof. Johan Galtung: Peace Studies, Abolition of War, Building Peace
Andy Russell / Different Films – TRANSCEND Media Service
Keynote address at Oxford University’s OxPeace, May 2010
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.
OTHER COMMENTARIES
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HUMAN RIGHTS
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service
The UDHR is a milestone document. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the UNGA in Paris on 10 Dec 1948 as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.
BY TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Nonviolence or Nonexistence? The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service
2 Apr 2018 – Fifty years ago, on 4 April 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The night before he died, King gave another of his many evocative speeches; this one at the packed Mason Temple in Memphis. The speech included these words: ‘Men for years now have been talking about war and peace. Now no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and non-violence in this world, it is non-violence or non-existence. That is where we are today.’
Syria Solidarity Movement’s Statement on the Liberation of Eastern Ghouta
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media Service
28 Mar 2018 – The complete liberation of Eastern Ghouta is imminent. The Syrian government provided thousands of tons of humanitarian aid to the terrorist-held enclave, from which western-backed militias shelled the city of Damascus for a period of five years, killing over 10,000 civilians, including 1,500 children, and injuring over 30,000 others. During the liberation of Eastern Ghouta, the Russian air force and Syrian Arab Army declared several ceasefires during which tens of thousands of civilians were able to escape their terrorist captors and flee along humanitarian corridors created by the SAA on the ground.
Reflections on the “March for our Lives” Movement by an Aging Anti-War Activist
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service
Exactly 15 Years Ago Duluth Had Mass Rallies and Marches against Organized Gun Violence Similar to the One on Sat 24 Mar 2018
Iran’s Gen. Qassim Solemani Pledges to “Weed the Resistance!” Is Nasrallah His Target?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service
30 Mar 2018 – Since he became Tehran’s anointed leader of Syria in early 2012 with final say over Syria’s military and security agencies, Al Quds Force leader Qassim Solemani has been “Weeding the Resistance.” Solemani’s “Resistance Weeding” is also designed to help harvest his personal regional political ambitions and neutralize potential post-Assad competitors rumored to include Hassan Nasrallah among others.
Multilateral Iran Nuclear Accord Needs Strong Active Support
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
2 Apr 2018 – The Multilateral nuclear accord with Iran, the Joint Comprehension Plan of Action, needs strong, active support especially within the US administration. The accord was negotiated among Iran and the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and coordinated by the European Union. The Accord was endorsed by the unanimous vote of the United Nations Security Council and went into force in 2016. Views on the importance of the continuing validity of the Accord should be shared widely among political representatives and foreign policy specialists.
Disembodied Americans and the Crucifixion of the World
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service
Contemplation on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, 30 Mar 2018
The Banality of Evil: Diverting the Palestinian Struggle
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service
28 Mar 2018 – The Banality of Evil: Language Entrapment or Political Malevolence? It seems a language game is being played. Or is it better understood as a political maneuver suffused with bad intentions?
Transformative Cities Atlas of Utopia
Transformative Cities Team, via Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service
26 Mar 2018 – After months of work we are excited to share with you Transformative Cities Atlas of Utopias, a global gallery that we launch today of inspiring community-led transformation. The atlas features 32 communities from 19 countries who responded to TNI’s Transformative Cities initiative which seeks to learn from cities working on radical solutions to our world’s systemic economic, social and ecological crises.
Infertility as a Metaphor Heralding Global Collapse
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service
2 Apr 2018 – Essential Impotence Disguised by Performance and “Being Great Again” – An increasingly prominent feature of national politics and identity is the promise of “being great again”, as variously evident. This is most notable in the nation already esteemed as the most powerful on the planet and has also been taken up in Great Britain, France, and elsewhere.
In the Shadows: India’s Mental Health Crisis
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service
2 Apr 2018 – India is facing a possible ‘mental health epidemic’. “The number of affected in India is larger than the entire population of Japan. We need to address this gap and ensure that by 2022 at least those who are suffering from severe mental disorders have been diagnosed and have access to treatment facilities.”
Following Foucault: The Trail of the Fox
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service
A Kindle E Book on Amazon – by Howard Richards, with Catherine Odora Hoppers and Evelin Lindner, with a Foreword by Magnus Haavelsrud.‘I found this a truly fascinating work: timely, original, dynamic. There is such a huge secondary literature on Foucault; one is almost sceptical about new additions to the corpus. This, however, is certainly worth the read; partly because of the ways it also counters and contradicts many accepted ways of reading Foucault, especially on power.’
Dealing with Issues of Ageing and Death
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service
2 Apr 2018 – If being born is the beginning of life, ageing or becoming old is metaphorically speaking, walking into the sunset of life. This sunset, unlike the phenomenon of the sun setting at dusk is not a beautiful sight but an occasion for anxiety and worry as to what will happen at the time of death.
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service
31 Mar 2018 – I am writing this on Friday night, the eve of Passover. At this moment, all over the world, millions of Jews are gathered around the family table, observing the Seder, reading aloud from the same book: the Haggadah, which tells the story of the Exodus from Egypt.
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service
31 Mar 2018 – I am optimistic even though sad. I am sad that the Israeli regime massacred 17 and injured nearly 1500 unarmed Palestinian civilians yesterday instead of letting them go to their homes and lands to honor Land Day.
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service
20 Mar 2018 – In my new book I explain the psychology behind the success of today’s plutocrats in marketing their false claims—and what we can do to counter them. Offering a research-based framework, I show how the 1% exploit five fundamental concerns that govern our daily lives. Political Mind Games was written with a clear purpose: to help inoculate the public against the 1%’s self-serving appeals.
NONVIOLENCE
Shifting Systems with Nonviolent Strategy
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
The old adage, we have more power than we think, is true. Our opportunities for successful and effective struggle are numerous. But to access them, we need to use wise analysis and careful strategic planning. We need to understand what the destructive systems require to operate and then we must deny them those resources until the demand for change is met. Simple. Complex. Effective.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION
Pathways for Peace: A Call to Rethink the Prevention of Violent Conflict in a Turbulent World
Alexandre Marc | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Servive
26 Mar 2018 – The joint UN–World Bank report, Pathways for Peace, was published on 1 Mar 2018. It is the first report that these two organizations have prepared in concert. It reflects the sense of urgency that many of us feel at organizations with a global reach to find common solutions to address violent conflict in the twenty-first century.
EDUCATION
A Note on Mathematics and Curricula
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service
A study is going on comparing mathematics curricula in various countries. Interesting to see ‘what’ they have picked up, and ‘why.’ What follows is some reasoning about the what and the why.
Peace Education, Peace Psychology, and Peace Linguistics: Key Questions for Reflection/Research
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
1. Educationally, what is Peace? What are some of its educational distinctive features?
2. What can Education/Dignity/Human Rights contribute to an understanding of PEACE and vice-versa? How?
ANALYSIS
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service
2 Apr 2018 – Regular use of violence – for “external” or “internal” security – has become a salient characteristic of the modern age. The enormous capability of modern technology has been aiding the process, multiplying manifold the potential of suffering which is caused by the use of violence.
AFRICA
Africa’s Big New Free Trade Agreement, Explained
Landry Signé – The Washington Post
29 Mar 2018 – There is a new global trade player, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). On 21 March, 44 African heads of state met in Rwanda to sign the framework of this initiative of the African Union. What is the AfCFTA and how did it come about?
ANGLO AMERICA
Evidence of Violent Extremism of Little Interest When Killer Is White
FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service
29 Mar 2018 – Remember that Muslim mass murderer who belonged to an Islamic home-madrassa called INTIFADA, where knife-wielding Shari’a survivalists studied the Qur’an, guns and dangerous chemicals? And how the liberal media fawningly portrayed him as a misunderstood and under-loved young man otherwise full of promise? You don’t, because that never happened. But have you heard about the Christian Texas child-killer from an all-white sect who slaughtered the president of a homeowners’ association and a 17-year-old aspiring neurosurgeon? Both victims were African-Americans.
A Teachable Moment That Might Go to Waste for Parkland, Florida and the Rest of America
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Disastrous Over-Prescription of Psych Drugs at Various Stages of Human Brain Development
Fewer Diplomats, More Armed Force Defines US Leadership Today
Monica Duffy Toft – The Conversation
26 Mar 2018 – The author of ‘Securing the Peace,’ explains what’s wrong with having US ambassadors operating in one-third of the world’s capitals while special operations forces are active in three-fourths.
EXPOSURES - EXPOSÉS
A Brief History of the U.S. Relationship to Jihadists and al-Qaeda across the World
Brandon Turbeville – Activist Post
22 Mar 2018 – Even when many Americans can clearly see that the United States is funding extremists in order to destroy Assad, it is difficult for them to grasp that the most frightening enemy of all, ISIS itself, is also being directed by Western intelligence, the GCC, and Israel.
ASIA & THE PACIFIC
An Exodus of Our Time – A Reflection on the Rohingya Crisis for the Passover Table
American Jewish World Services – TRANSCEND Media Service
A message of Passover from the American Jewish World Services.
BRICS
Six Signs China Wants to Avoid a Trade War
Qing Shan Ding – The Conversation
26 Mar 2018 – China has made numerous signals that it does not want to start a trade war with the US.
Peter Koenig — Countercurrents
31 Mar 2018 – What if the current UK virulent and violent Russia slandering campaign is but a dry-run for much worse to come? – By now the mental state of western society is at the level of Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, Goebbels’, statement – “Let me control the media, and I will turn any Nation into a herd of Pigs”. Yes, that’s what the west has become, a herd of pigs.
Leandro Demori, Bruna de Lara, Carolina Moura, Juliana Gonçalves, Yuri Eiras – The Intercept
21 Mar 2018 – Marielle Franco’s assassins wanted to silence her cause.
EUROPE
Oxford’s Neo-Orientalism: Burma aka Myanmar
C R Abrar – The Daily Star [Bangladesh]
28 Mar 2018 – The People’s Tribunal on State Crimes of Myanmar unequivocally termed the atrocities committed by the Burmese government as “genocide”. The UN special rapporteur on human rights situation of the country has clearly stated that such actions bear the “hallmarks of genocide”. Without mincing his words, the French President Macron has expressed his disgust of Myanmar’s genocide. Even the unpredictable British Foreign Secretary termed it as “industrial scale ethnic cleansing”. The Holocaust Museum acknowledged it as a genocide and expressed solidarity with the victims. Nobel laureates Bishop Tutu and Amartya Sen have labelled it as “slow burning genocide.”
MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA
Cathy Breen | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service
31 Mar 2018 – I was in Iraq for the month of October last year. One of the hardest things for me on that trip was the feeling I heard expressed that the country has become invisible. A doctor friend in Baghdad, his hurt palpable, told me he felt as though Iraq has been completely forgotten by the global community. War rages on in Iraq. Young boy Naomi Shihab Nye’s words should help bring us back to ourselves, fifteen years after the onset of the 2003 US-led war against Iraq. “Who calls anyone civilized?”
PALESTINE - ISRAEL
Israel Opens Fire on Palestinian Protesters in Gaza; Trump Envoy Blames “Hostile March”
Robert Mackey – The Intercept
Updated: Saturday, March 31, 9:09 a.m. EDT – This report was updated with more video of unarmed Palestinian protesters being shot by Israeli snipers in Gaza on Friday [30 Mar], a revised death toll, statements from rights groups, Israel’s military and Hamas.
Jewish Voice for Peace Horrified by Israeli Response to the #GreatReturnMarch
Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service
30 Mar 2018 – Tonight, as Jews across the world gather at the Passover seder to remember our own story as a people questing for a homeland, the Israeli military has yet again unleashed disproportionate violence against demonstrating Palestinians–in the Great March of Return–the latest in a long series of deadly responses to popular protests by Palestinians. It was explicitly planned as a peaceful march along the border of Gaza and Israel, where tent cities are erected.
Palestinians Hold Day of Mourning after 773 ‘Shot with Live Ammunition’
Hazem Balousha and Oliver Holmes – The Guardian
31 Mar 2018 – Gaza hospitals, running low on blood and overstretched by the huge number of wounded, were reeling after one of the enclave’s bloodiest days outside of open war, in which Israeli soldiers shot 773 people with live ammunition, according to the ministry of health.
Should Israeli Settlers Be Considered Civilians?
Robert Inlakesh – MintPress News
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”
Israel Faces the Demographic Bomb
Gilad Atzmon | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service
27 Mar 2018 – I learned a decade ago from the Palestinian ambassador to Britain that while Israel has many bombs, the Palestinians have one bomb, namely the demographic one.
THE UNITED NATIONS
At Security Council, UN Middle East Peace Envoy Reports on Israel’s Troubling Settlement Expansion
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service
Reporting that over the past three months, Israel has advanced 22 plans for some 1,200 housing units for one area of the West Bank, a United Nations envoy warned Monday [26 Mar] that such ongoing settlement expansion is eroding the prospect of a two-state solution to the long-standing Middle East conflict.
UN Appeals for Support to Tackle ‘Massive’ Health Needs of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service
29 Mar 2018 -With relief agencies in Bangladesh struggling to assist more than a million vulnerable Rohingya refugees crowded into makeshift camps, the World Health Organization today appealed for international support to help the cash strapped health sector.
MEDIA
As Feds Launch Probe, Users Discover ‘Horrifying’ Reach of Facebook’s Data Mining
Jake Johnson – Common Dreams
Facebook “had the phone number of my late grandmother who never had a Facebook account, or even an email address,” one long-time user wrote after downloading an archive of her data from the platform.
Ryan Mac, Charlie Warzel and Alex Kantrowitz | BuzzFeed – TRANSCEND Media Service
29 Mar 2018 – Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.
Elliott Gabriel – MintPress News
23 Mar 2018 – The “new media” monopolists of Silicon Valley and the once-dominant traditional print media have clearly agreed that the “fake news” frenzy is a convenient pretext to step up their censorship of the internet through new algorithms, allowing them to boost their profit margins and silence opposition through a new framework of “algorithmic censorship.”
Chris Hedges – Truthdig
18 Mar 2018 – The ominous assault on the final redoubts of a free press, through an attempt to brand dissidents, independent journalists and critics of corporate power and imperialism as agents of a foreign power, has begun. Those who challenge the dominant corporate narrative already struggle on the margins of the media landscape. The handful of independent websites and news outlets are the few platforms left that examine corporate power and empire, the curtailment of our civil liberties, lethal police violence and the ecocide carried out by the fossil fuel and animal agriculture industries, as well as cover the war crimes committed by Israel and the U.S. military in the Middle East.
Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based News Agency Safa’s Account Hosting 1.3M Followers
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service
26 Mar 2018 – According to a Palestinian activist, this year alone 500 pages of Palestinian journalists, activists and bloggers have been deleted.
ENVIRONMENT
Three Mile Island Accident Deaths, Location: Facts on Nuclear Meltdown’s Anniversary
Elana Glowatz - Newsweek
28 Mar 2018 – It has been 39 years since a meltdown at Three Mile Island became the most significant nuclear accident in U.S. history. On March 28, 1979, one of the reactors at that power plant partially melted down, releasing radiation and revealing flaws within both the system and in how authorities respond to emergencies.
20,000 Scientists Have Now Signed ‘Warning to Humanity’
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service
A chilling research paper —”World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice”—was published in Nov 2017 in the journal Bioscience warning about the fate of humanity. It has received 20,000 signatures and endorsements from scientists from 184 countries and quickly became the largest-ever paper supported by scientists.
Insect Decimation Upstages Global Warming
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch
27 Mar 2018 – Everybody’s heard about global warming. It is one of the most advertised existential events of all time. However, there’s a new kid on the block. An alarming loss of insects will likely take down humanity before global warming hits maximum velocity.
Plastic within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is ‘Increasing Exponentially,’ Scientists Find
Chris Mooney – The Washington Post
22 Mar 2018 – Seventy-nine thousand tons of plastic debris, in the form of 1.8 trillion pieces, now occupy an area three times the size of France in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, a scientific team reported today. The amount of plastic found in this area, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is “increasing exponentially.”
MILITARISM
The Pentagon’s Scary Plan to Militarize Ocean Life
Maia Danks | Earth Island Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service
23 Mar 2018 – The U.S. military has plans to create genetically modified marine organisms that can be used as underwater spies for the military. Fantastic as this idea may seem, the Pentagon’s research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has actually launched a new program that aims to tap into the “natural sensing capabilities” of marine organisms, which are highly attuned to their surroundings, to track enemy traffic undersea.
IN FOCUS
The Reaction against the Reaction: The Voice That Is Raised against the Raised Hand
Juan Eugenio Corradi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service
23 Mar 2018 – Yes, they have come back, as if history has not inflicted them a chastisement. They call themselves populists but they are fascists from old and new strains. They are reactionary and popular. Against this movement, as always, what stand up are the voice of reason and the report of the lie that parades in the name of the people. As almost always, the voice of reason is impotent, except as testimony and warning. I want to add my voice to such voice. Against fascism, together with Miguel de Unamuno, we must say: “You will win because you have enough brute force, but you will not convince. To convince you need to persuade and to persuade you need something you lack: reason and right in the fight.”
TECHNOLOGY
Walmart Files Patent for Robot Bees
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service
16 Mar 2018 – With the mass die-off of bees spelling trouble for agriculture, the world’s largest retailer has filed patents for the use of “unmanned vehicles,” or drones, to aid with pollination and crop production.
LITERATURE
Meet the Teenage Feminist Who Has Just Published Her First Book
Naledi Shange | Sowetan Live - TRANSCEND Media Service
20 Mar 2018 – Tired of reading about damsels in distress who are saved by knights in shining armour‚ Ripfumelo Nkomo says she started writing her own books shortly after learning to write. The titles of some of her manuscripts are proof of her independent thinking: ‘Queens who Don’t Need Kings‚’ ‘Single Mothers who are Supermoms’ and ‘Everyone is Crazy.’
INSPIRATIONAL
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
The psychologists Amos and Tversky developed the theory of “framing” by demonstrating that people give different answers depending on how a question is asked. The following are two examples.
BIOGRAPHIES
Maya Angelou (4 Apr 1928 – 28 May 2014): Identity and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
Angelou’s timeless wisdom shines with unparalleled light in a 1977 interview by journalist Judith Rich, in which Angelou explores issues of identity and the meaning of life.
POETRY FORMAT
Oh Rohingya, Who Art Thou? Where Art Thy Homeland?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service
30 March 2018 – In deep disgust, I wrote the poetry this afternoon after feeling rather outraged and dismayed at what I have been observing everyday about the “Rohingya crisis” over the last 6 years. Ultimately, it is the crisis of Humanity itself, the crisis that exposes this deeply inhumane and immoral world run by those with neither the intellectual vision nor human compassion.
Peter Shutt – TRANSCEND Media Service
The children in the yard
played war,
they played their war
loud and shrill.
IN ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Français) La politique cubaine de Donald Trump est vouée à l’échec
Salim Lamrani | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service
Depuis son arrivée à la Maison-Blanche, les relations entre Cuba et les Etats-Unis n’ont cessé de se détériorer en raison de la décision de Donald Trump d’appliquer de nouveau une politique basée sur l’hostilité.
Edward Curtin | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service
Per Donald Trump stanno finendo i giorni per atteggiarsi ad anfitrione ora passivo ora aggressive di un gioco televisivo di reality. O licenzia tutti gli apprendisti lievemente esitanti a scatenare una guerra mondiale ben più vasta con una gragnuola di bombe, o sarà sostituito da uno che lo farà.
(Português) Trailer: novo documentário vegano é narrado pelo ator Joaquin Phoenix
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service
27 mar 2018 – O ator vegano Joaquin Phoenix, que narrou o documentário Terráqueos – no qual é exposta a forma como os animais são explorados e torturados pelo ser humano para estimação, alimentação, vestuário, diversão e desenvolvimento científico -, é também o narrador do mais novo documentário vegano, denominado “Dominion”.
(Português) Quando Tom Regan pediu ao Papa Francisco para falar sobre a crueldade contra os animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service
27 mar 2018 – Falecido no dia 17 de fevereiro de 2017, Tom Regan, um dos mais proeminentes filósofos na luta pelos direitos animais, publicou uma carta aberta em novembro de 2014 pedindo ao Papa Francisco para falar sobre a crueldade contra os animais: Santo Padre, todos os cristãos imploram a você: fale sobre a crueldade contra as criaturas de Deus, anualmente é negado a bilhões os desígnios de Deus, e eles não são tratados nem com a misericórdia de Cristo nem com a compaixão de Deus.
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Gabor Mate on the Myth of Normal
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service
Physician/author Dr. Gabor Mate began his interview by addressing the ‘myth of normal’ that divides us into the normal and the abnormal with pathological traits. Dr. Mate mentions that he doesn’t see a division, but a continuum where mental distress, of some degree, is present in all of us. He explains how mental distress and pathology are largely a result of a materialist culture that “idealizes individualism and ignores our emotional needs”.
Peace Train (Music Video of the Week)
Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam – TRANSCEND Media Service
One of His Biggest Hits!
EDITORIAL CARTOON / SATIRE
Meanwhile, in Burma aka Myanmar…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service
Parading
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Explaining to a Blind Person [Jokes to Be Taken Seriously]
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
Someone asked Albert Einstein at a party: “Oh, you are Albert Einstein, could you please explain me your relativity theory in three or four sentences?”
UPDATES ON MYANMAR ROHINGYA GENOCIDE
An Exodus of Our Time – A Reflection on the Rohingya Crisis for the Passover Table
American Jewish World Services – TRANSCEND Media Service
A message of Passover from the American Jewish World Services.
“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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