PEACE JOURNALISM PERSPECTIVE
EDITORIAL
Bringing In the Future: An Essay on Time
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media ServiceTo work on visions of negative peace without direct-structural-cultural violence and positive peace with direct-structural-cultural peace, use dialogue. Establish the goals–values, interests–of actors and parties; test the goals for legitimacy using law, human rights and basic needs as guides; then create a vision of a new social reality meeting the legitimate goals.
OTHER COMMENTARIES
BY TRANSCEND MEMBERS
A Changing China in a Changing World and a Changing Climate (Part 1)
Minister Hu Deping | Eco Jesuit – TRANSCEND Media ServicePaper presented by Prof. Frederick Dubee, of the TRANSCEND Network and the Beijing Genomics Institute, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Laudato si’ and the Path to COP22 at Vatican City.
A Changing China in a Changing World and a Changing Climate (Part 2)
Minister Hu Deping | Eco Jesuit – TRANSCEND Media ServicePaper presented by Prof. Frederick Dubee, of the TRANSCEND Network and the Beijing Genomics Institute, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Laudato si’ and the Path to COP22 at Vatican City.
A Nonviolent Strategy to Liberate Syria
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIt is the responsibility of the struggle’s strategic leadership to ensure that each of the strategic goals, which should be identified and prioritized according to their precise understanding of the circumstances in Syria, is being addressed. So here is a set of strategic goals to end the war in/on Syria.
India: Terrorism, Elections, Corruption
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWhen the British left India in 1947 the country was clean of any corruption. The bitter truth is that it was allowed to infect the system starting to rot from the top, first under Nehru, who was too romantic to notice the machinations of his satraps. His daughter made corruption a part of political policy. All political parties and leaders have happily followed suit since buying the votes of poor people is far easier than delivering development.
Visualization in 3D of Dynamics of Toroidal Helical Coils
Anthony Judge |Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service… in Quest of Optimum Designs for a Concordian Mandala
Never Give Up! Let Your Little Light Shine!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Nov 2016 – This week saw solidarity actions around the world, including actions on several Hawaiian Islands, where people stood with Native Americans to protect sacred land and water at Standing Rock. In such dark times, we must rededicate ourselves in the spirit of nonviolence – kapua aloha, toward all people and redouble our efforts for justice, peace and the earth.
The Tyranny of Democracy
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn fact, compliance with US economic and strategic interests is a far greater factor in US intervention than promotion of democracy, which gets mere lip service. Most of Europe is part of NATO and accepts US “leadership”, which is a bit like the mafia leadership of Sicily. Costa Rica is considered one of the most democratic Latin American countries, but it finds itself in a similar situation, as do most Latin American countries, whether democratic or not.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Towards a Rational Legal Philosophy of Individual Rights
Denis Rancourt | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media ServiceI briefly describe the anthropological origin and recent statutory embodiments of human rights of individuals. I show that the modern “democratic” state moderates the rights of individuals by both: (1) violating the said rights in order to maintain and enforce the societal dominance hierarchy, and (2) preventing disproportionate violations, to avoid inciting rebellion.
ACTIVISM
Standing Rock Resistance: Something to Teach Us about Living Well
David Smith-Ferri - CounterPunchSomehow, through all of this, almost all of the protestors remained peaceful, calling out to each other “Stand in your prayer,” and holding their ground. And where they didn’t remain peaceful, setting fires that burned a couple of cars, they were rebuked by the movement’s leadership. In a statement made after the arrests, Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II makes it clear that no form of violence by anyone is acceptable.
What Standing Rock Tells Us about Civil Disobedience
Melissa Hellmann - YES! MagazineThe militarized response to communities of color signals a possible double standard in law enforcement’s acceptance of civil disobedience.
IN FOCUS
Welcome to the Brave New (Trumpolitical/Trumponomic) World
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Nov 2016 – We will be living among the myriad debris originated by the Trumpolitics IED. America invented the politically correct. Trump bombed politically correct. America is proud of corporate media. Trump bombed corporate media. These are already two important victories.
Noam Chomsky on the Crises of Immigration
Noam Chomsky – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal15 Nov 2016 — Pope Francis captured the essence of the crisis of immigration: “Migrants are not the danger. They are in danger.” We should be remediating their flight by addressing the causes of their flight, by greatly increasing humanitarian aid, by welcoming them into our midst. We should be reflecting seriously on another familiar phrase – “physician, heal thyself.”
ANGLO AMERICA
Goodbye, American Neoliberalism. A New Era Is Here
Prof. Cornel West – The GuardianTrump’s election was enabled by the policies that overlooked the plight of our most vulnerable citizens. We gird ourselves for a frightening future.
Filtering the Election
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWhen the likes of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar Assad, and now Donald Trump, are declared the latest ‘New Hitler’, we learn little except that they are enemies of the establishment. It means the ‘On’ button has been pressed on a propaganda machine designed for maximal demonisation, leaving no room for public doubt.
Project for the New American Century
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Project for the New American Century was a neoconservative think-tank that focused on US foreign policy founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. Its stated goal was “to promote American global leadership.” The PNAC ceased to function in 2006 and was replaced by a new think-tank named the Foreign Policy Initiative, co-founded by Kristol and Kagan in 2009.
ASIA & THE PACIFIC
This Muslim Purge in Myanmar Is So Awful You Can See It from Space
Patrick Winn - Public Radio International15 Nov 2016 – Along Myanmar’s marshy coastline, villages keep going up in flames. All of them belong to the Rohingya, a horribly persecuted Muslim group. The arsonists? Muslims themselves, according to the army. The Rohingya, we are told, are burning their own homes to attract well-armed government platoons — and then sprinting at them with knives, berserker style, so that they can get mowed down by the dozens.
Myanmar Urged by U.N. Expert to Let Aid Flow to Mainly Muslim State
Nick Cumming-Bruce – The New York Times18 Nov 2016 — Amid mounting reports of violent unrest and brutal reprisals by Myanmar’s army in the mainly Muslim state of Rakhine, a United Nations expert said on Friday that the country’s government should let aid agencies into the area and investigate allegations of abuse instead of brushing them aside with blanket denials.
BRICS
Volkswagen Charged with Aiding Brazilian Dictatorship in Torturing Workers
Armando Cruz | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn 1980, when Lula led a 41-day strike for a 15 percent wage rise, the political police unit DOPS received a list of 436 workers from plants that belonged to VW, Mercedes-Benz and the steelmaker Villares. While there are also reports that these latter two companies (and others) collaborated with the regime, VW is the first one to be charged, to officially accept the charges and to negotiate for judicial reparations.
The Fight for Brazil’s Future
Rodrigo Nunes – Al JazeeraThe Brazilian youth is leading the resistance to legislation that would reverse social gains and protect wealthy elites. If one could speak of a coup in Brazil, it was not against Rousseff, but against Brazilian society.
MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA
R2P Palestinian Children: Proposals to Combat Drug Dealers Targeting Lebanon’s Camps (Part 2)
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Nov 2016 – As cases of Palestinian camp children being targeted by drug dealers are further revealed, proposals are being put forward by the Palestinian Community, Local, Regional and International NGOs, and Civil Society organizations on how to end this scourge.
THE UNITED NATIONS
Myanmar: UN Expert Warns of Worsening Rights Situation after “Lockdown” in Rakhine State
United Nations Information Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Nov 2016 – The Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, criticized the authorities for placing the region on “lockdown” for six weeks. She said a Government-led two-day visit to the area in early November by a UN official and nine ambassadors had produced only limited results in terms of addressing the humanitarian crisis.
ENVIRONMENT
COP22 Declaration Calls for ‘Immediate Action and Mobilization’
teleSUR | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe final declaration of the UN COP22 climate negotiations in Marrakech, issued midnight on Friday [18 Nov] after a full day extension of the talks, saw 196 countries agreeing to a two-year time limit for implementation of the Paris Accord and called on non-state actors to “join us for immediate and ambitious action and mobilization.”
As the Planet Warms, Trump Sends a Chill through Marrakech
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!17 Nov 2016 – Nowhere is the immediate and potentially devastating impact of Trump’s capture of the presidency felt more clearly than at the UN climate change summit here in Marrakech. Four years ago, Donald Trump famously tweeted, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”
Battle of the Desert: To Fight or to Flee? (I)
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS“As the effects of climate change undermine livelihoods, inter-ethnic clashes are breaking out within and across states and fragile states are turning to militarisation to control the situation.” UNCCD
Battle of the Desert: A ‘Great Green Wall for Africa’ (II)
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPSDesertification, land degradation, drought, climate change, food insecurity, poverty, loss of biodiversity, forced migration and conflicts, are some of the key challenges facing Africa—a giant continent home to 1,2 billion people living in 54 countries.
Why Fighting Donald Trump on Climate Change Is a Waste of Time
Captain Paul Watson | Sea Shepherd – The Huffington PostDonald Trump’s denial of Climate Change is irrelevant. It is a scientific reality and its denial as a problem does not make the threat go away. The reality cannot be changed by the personal beliefs of the president of the United States. This is akin to King Canute demanding that the tide cease to rise. When he failed to force the ocean to his will, he proclaimed, “let all men know how empty and worthless the power of kings is.” Presidents, like kings, have no authority over Nature.
SURVEILLANCE / SPYING / WHISTLEBLOWING / BIG BROTHER
In the Trump Era, Leaking and Whistleblowing Are More Urgent, and More Noble, Than Ever
Glenn Greenwald – The InterceptTrump has not yet been inaugurated, but all signs point to a presidency that will be deeply hostile to basic precepts of transparency. The Intercept is determined to enable sources to work with journalists in the safest way possible.
TRADE
How a Battle over Affordable Medicine Helped Kill the TPP
James Trimarco – YES! Magazine18 Nov 2016 – Amid the fallout from Donald Trump’s election is the end of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. After six years of negotiations, the controversial trade deal is dead. The debate about an exotic new kind of drug delayed the trade deal for years, thanks in part to relentless advocates who stood up to big pharma.
PARADIGM CHANGES
Towards a New, Green Economy
Peter A. Victor and Tim Jackson | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis paper explores what we will call the green economy as a potential solution to the multiple challenges from climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource scarcity to social injustice, and financial instability.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
What If Nuclear Weapons Are Used?
Victor Gilinsky – Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsIn the 1959 movie, On the Beach, a survivor of nuclear war asks, “If everyone was so smart, why didn’t they see this coming?” Exactly. Stop and think about what may be coming if we don’t act. Above all, when it comes to nuclear weapons, we should not allow ourselves to just drift into the future. We need to look ahead as best we can and steer in a safer direction.
SCIENCE
Troubling Study Says Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Who Will Be Criminals Based on Facial Features
Sam Biddle – The Intercept18 Nov 2016 – The fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning are moving so quickly that any notion of ethics is lagging decades behind, or left to works of science fiction. This might explain a new study out of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which says computers can tell whether you will be a criminal based on nothing more than your facial features.
Seeding Doubt: How Self-Appointed Guardians of “Sound Science” Tip the Scales toward Industry
Liza Gross – The Intercept15 Nov 2016 – At a time when public mistrust of science runs high, non-experts are hard-pressed to separate fact from industry-sponsored spin. A nonprofit purports to help the misinformed public sift through alarmist claims about the environment. But it has a disturbing history of promoting industry experts.
INSPIRATIONAL
Let It Cool Down
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media ServiceA folktale from Uganda told by TRANSCEND member Stella Sabiiti. A king had a beautiful daughter. Many men asked to marry her, but the king gave them a difficult test.
BIOGRAPHIES
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media ServiceHis legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54 m (5 ft 1 in) tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs, which were 0.70 m (27.5 in) long. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Toulouse-Lautrec is known along with Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gaugin as one of the greatest painters of the Post-Impressionist period.
Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media ServiceBruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
HISTORY
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media ServiceNov 21-27 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table.’” – Tom Hanks
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Recorded Webinar: Experiential Approaches to Peacebuilding
Bruce Dayton, John Ungerleider and Tatsushi Arai | School for International Training – TRANSCEND Media ServiceLed by three scholar-practitioners with extensive experience in the field, this webinar explores the role of experiential learning in the transformation of social conflict. It also presents real-world examples of experiential learning for peacebuilding.
Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age
Bruce L. Cook, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceI am in the process of editing a forthcoming publication entitled Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age, to be published by IGI Global, an international publisher of progressive academic research. I would like to take this opportunity to cordially invite you to submit your work for consideration in this publication.
POETRY FORMAT
The Lightness of Frailty
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media ServiceLooking up, nothing
Like anything from here,
The constellations were unnamed,
Give Praise Whenever You Can
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media ServiceGive praise whenever you can. Praise:
Sunrise on snow-capped mountains;
Sunsets on marigold fields. Praise:
Every act of kindness and solicitude;
Children smiling in beneficence. Praise:
IN ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Português) Sobre textos que tentam desqualificar o veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media ServiceMeu raciocínio vai ao encontro do que preconizava Donald Watson: “Minha prioridade é proporcionar o menor impacto possível aos seres vivos enquanto eu viver, e vou me adaptando às novidades sem problema algum.”
(Français) Les accords commerciaux et la mondialisation du fascisme
Franklin Frederik | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service« Au cours des dernières années, il y a eu une tendance vers la démocratie et l’économie de marché. Cela a diminué le rôle du gouvernement, ce à quoi les milieux d’affaires sont tendanciellement favorables. Mais le revers de la médaille c’est que quelqu’un doit prendre la place des gouvernements, et les entreprises me semble être une entité logique pour le faire ». (David Rockefeller)
(Português) A Memória como auxiliar do Futuro
Alexandre Honrado – Jornal TornadoRecordar o Mundo com a Recordação de Cohen – Não choro Cohen, judeu de nascimento, budista por opção, canadiano de origem, poeta por destino – porque ele somava os risos como forma de vida – e isso é retemperador, didático e contagiante.
IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Forbidden Archaeology: A Hidden History of the Human Race?
43 Focus – TRANSCEND Media ServiceResearchers Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson have uncovered an incredible, irrefutable amount of archaeological evidence calling into question Darwin’s theory of evolution. Michael Cremo discusses this evidence over the last 150 years and gives several examples of archaeological evidence that has been systematically suppressed by the Western scientific establishment.
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Victory (Music Video of the Week)
Bond – TRANSCEND Media ServiceMusic video by Bond performing Victory. (C) 2000 Decca Music Group Limited
SATIRE
Early Education
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media ServiceCaste Education
JOKE OF THE WEEK
A Pic Is Worth a Thousand Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service21st Century Journalism
“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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