PEACE JOURNALISM PERSPECTIVE
EDITORIAL
Searching for the Good Town
Nº 425 – Johan Galtung, 25 Apr 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service
A simple theory: if a town makes you feel well, at ease–“it is so easy to live here”, many people say–then something seeps into you and makes you nonviolent. If the town, your habitat, a key context in your life, hits you badly, then aggression seeps into you, violence may follow, and often across racial or ethnic faultlines.
NOBEL LAUREATES
An Appeal for Pope Francis to Share with the World an Encyclical on Nonviolence and Just Peace, and for the Church to Stop Teaching ‘Just War Theory’
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire from Rome: “The appeal to the Pope said that ‘we believe there is no ‘just war’. Too often the ‘just war theory’ has been used to endorse rather than prevent or limit war. Suggesting that a ‘just war’ is possible also undermines the moral imperative to develop tools and capacities for nonviolent transformation of conflict’. I hope also that Pope Francis will unambiguously proclaim that ‘violence is always wrong, it is not the way of Jesus and reject militarism thereby calling upon Catholics not to join armies and take up arms to kill people, thus becoming a true peace church.”
OTHER COMMENTARIES
BY TRANSCEND MEMBERS
OPEC Oil and Climate Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service
In an amazing display of collective schizophrenia, our media treat oil production and the global climate emergency as though they were totally disconnected.
If Obama Visits Hiroshima
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service
Obama has this rare opportunity to choose the road not often traveled upon, and there is no better place to start such a voyage than at Hiroshima. We in civil society would then with conviction promote his nuclear legacy as ‘From Prague to Hiroshima,’ and feel comfortable that this president has finally earned the honor of the Nobel Peace Prize prematurely bestowed.
Yemen: Is This War Necessary?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
The title of the aggression of Saudi Arabia against Yemen changed its name from “Operation Decisive Storm” to “Operation Restoring Hope” probably on the advice of the public relations firm that advises the US Pentagon on the names of its operations. Saudi bombing from the air of cities, hospitals and refugee camps, created a storm, but the results were in no way “decisive”. It is not likely that Saudi bombing will ”Restore Hope”.
Evaluating the Grossness of Gross Domestic Product
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service
As a complement to the widely cited indicator of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Refugees per Kiloton (RPK) could usefully focus on the number of refugees from a country in relation to the kilotons of explosive to which the country was exposed.
NONVIOLENCE
The Church’s Turn toward Nonviolence
Fr. John Dear, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
For the last 1700 years, as we all know, Christians have waged war, led crusades, burned women at the stake, systematically persecuted Jews and Muslims, kept millions of people as slaves, ran concentration camps, blessed conquest, prayed for successful bombing raids, and built and used nuclear weapons. Throughout Catholic history, Jesus’ teachings of nonviolence were rarely discussed, much less implemented.
ACTIVISM
300+ Arrests as Pro-Democracy Forces Converge for Final Day of Spring Revolt
Deirdre Fulton, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service
Sunday saw thousands rally in Washington, D.C., while hundreds risked arrest during mass sit-in on Monday [18 Apr]. Capitol Police say 1,240 people have been arrested in the last seven days. Civil Disobedience may be more important than voting.
IN FOCUS
History Has Knocked Very Loudly on Our Door. Will We Answer?
Jakob von Uexkull – TRANSCEND Media Service
Opening Speech, World Future Forum, 15 Mar 2016
SPECIAL FEATURE
Oxfam: US Corporate Tax Cheats Hiding $1.4 Trillion in Profits in Offshore Accounts
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service
The biggest tax dodger is technology giant Apple, with $181 billion held offshore. General Electric had the second-largest stash, at $119 billion, enough to repay four times over the $28 billion GE received in federal guarantees during the 2008 Wall Street crash. Microsoft had $108 billion in overseas accounts, with companies like Exxon Mobil, Pfizer, IBM, Cisco Systems, Google, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson rounding out the top ten.
Oxfam: Most of World Bank’s Private Investments Linked to Tax Havens
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service
Oxfam says poor countries are cheated out of an estimated US$100 billion in taxes a year by companies using offshore havens and other tax-dodging tricks.
SPOTLIGHT
What the Panama Papers Mean for Global Development
Tharanga Yakupitiyage – Inter Pres Service-IPS
The financial secrecy and tax evasion revealed by the Panama Papers has an extraordinary human cost in developing countries. “Tax havens are at the heart of a global system that allows large corporations and wealthy individuals to avoid paying their fair share, depriving governments – rich and poor – of the resources they need to provide vital public services and tackle rising inequality,”
AFRICA
The Rwanda Genocide: The Israeli Connection
Gilad Atzmon – Dissident Voice
16 Apr 2016 – It would be encouraging to imagine a genocide that is totally free of any Jewish involvement. Sadly, the Rwanda genocide doesn’t fit into this mythical category. Haaretz reported last week that the Israeli Supreme Court decided to uphold the denial of a Freedom of Information request to make public documents about Israeli ‘defense’ exports to Rwanda at the time of the 1994 genocide in that country.
Climate: Africa’s Human Existence Is at Severe Risk
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS
This is how clear the Nairobi-based United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is when it comes to assessing the negative impact of climate change on this continent of 54 countries with a combined population of over 1,200 billion inhabitants. “No continent will be struck as severely by the impacts of climate change as Africa.”
ANGLO AMERICA
On the Coming Decline and Fall of the US Empire
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service
An empire is a transborder Center-Periphery system, in macro-space and in macro-time, with a culture legitimizing a structure of unequal exchange between center and periphery:
• economically, between exploiters and exploited, as inequity;
• militarily, between killers and victims, as enforcement;
• politically, between dominators and dominated, as repression;
• culturally, between alienators and alienated, as conditioning.
The New Gilded Age: Close to Half of All Super-PAC Money Comes from 50 Donors
Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy – The Washington Post
15 Apr 2016 – A small core of super-rich individuals is responsible for the record sums cascading into the coffers of super PACs for the 2016 elections, a dynamic that harks back to the financing of presidential campaigns in the Gilded Age.
Duty to Warn – A Glossary of Terms to Help De-Mystify This and Future Political Campaigns
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service
American Exceptionalism is the errant theory that the United States occupies a special niche among the nations of the world because of its alleged “generosity” to immigrants, “mercy” to persecuted religious and ethnic minorities, its “honorable” democratic ideals and its historical origins from an oppressed nation (despite its having evolved into an oppressor nation).
“Anti Semitism”: The Most Abused Word in Canada
Yves Engler – Dissident Voice
Almost entirely divorced from its dictionary definition – “discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews” – it is now primarily invoked to uphold Jewish/white privilege. While howls of “anti-Semitism” are usually an effort to deter Palestinian solidarity, the shrill claims may also represent what a Freudian psychologist would call a “projection”. Prejudice against Arabs and Muslims appears rampant in the Jewish community.
ASIA & THE PACIFIC
It’s Way Past Time to Stop Mistreating Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
Syed Hamid Albar – Los Angeles Times
The Rohingya are the indigenous people of southwestern Myanmar, or so-called Rakhine State. For years now, they have taken to overcrowded and leaky boats on the open sea, submitted to dangerous human trafficking networks, and seen their families split apart in a desperate bid to find safety somewhere, anywhere. Like many of the world’s refugees, they are Muslim.
Boat Tragedy Highlights Myanmar’s Treatment of Rohingyas
John Zaw – UCA News
21 Apr 2016 – The deaths of over 20 Rohingyas in a boating accident have again put the focus on Myanmar’s ill treatment of the Muslim minority. Nine children were among the 21 confirmed dead from the accident that occurred in rough seas off the coast of Rakhine state April 19. Tens of thousands are held in internment camps where they face severe restrictions on their freedom of movement.
The Shame of Anzac Day: An Aotearoan Perspective
Kieran Kelly – Dissident Voice
In our fatuous nationalistic self-love we are telling our children that the war was a noble endeavour. History is being rewritten in the most offensive and disgusting manner and we need to finally confront the fact that Anzac Day should be a day of shame, not of pride.
Post-Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Nepal: Bleak Future
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service
Analysis of the government’s response in the past year and some suggestions – as a way forward.
Nauru: Suicide and Punishment
Binoy Kampmark – Dissident Voice
Nauru has ceased being a country of any worth. It has assumed value as a (non)processing centre for asylum seekers and refugees Australia does not want. A camp designed for criminalising and for condemning, it has become the cruelest exemplar of treatment of refugees. News emerged from the Nauru detention centre of “suicide pacts”. “There was a group of teenage girls, there was a group of fathers, there was a group of mothers.”
BRICS
“Neoliberal Restoration”: Hybrid War Hyenas Tear Brazil Apart
Pepe Escobar – The International Reporter
The coup has been sponsored by a certified crook, president of the lower house Eduardo Cunha; holder of 11 illegal accounts in Switzerland, listed in the Panama Papers and under investigation by the Supreme Court. Car Wash’s not so hidden agenda was always regime change. Who cares if in the process the nation is left on the verge of being controlled exactly by many of those indicted by the anti-corruption drive?
To See the Real Story in Brazil, Look at Who Is Being Installed as President — and Finance Chiefs
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept
One recent poll found that only 2 percent of Brazilians would vote for Michel Temer, Brazil’s vice president. He is under scrutiny over testimony linking him to a colossal graft scandal. And a high court justice ruled that Congress should consider impeachment proceedings against him. He is preparing to take the helm of Brazil next month if the Senate decides to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial.
BRICS, Multipolarity and Membership: The 100-200 Million Club
Kristian Girling – Oriental Review
Since 2010 the BRICS grouping has developed as a focus of organisation. That it has come into existence is indicative of a broader shift towards a multipolar world in international affairs. The success of BRICS so far, other than as a novel attempt at reorientation of states away from Western led and dominated international organisations, is disputed. Nonetheless, it is an increasingly significant grouping and is sufficiently attractive for other states to express interest in membership.
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Violence Is at the Heart of US Drug War Policy in the Americas
Dawn Paley - teleSUR
The militarization of the enforcement of prohibition has contributed to violence in Latin America and allowed the U.S. government to push policies of social control.
Tough Questions about Haiti for Hillary Clinton
Mark Schuller - CounterPunch
Obviously Haitian people must hold their government accountable, and are, but one must pause to ask why Clinton intervened in this election. And why the so-called international community looked the other way while four years of elections did not occur. And why the U.S. government pre-empted Haiti’s independent electoral commission investigating massive fraud.
PALESTINE / ISRAEL
Palestine and Zionism: The Whole Truth
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service
Brainwashed and idiotic Zionists in Sardinia tried and failed to have some of my lectures and debates cancelled by accusing me of being an anti-Semite who is inciting anti-Semitism. They knew nothing about my book and its contents and were reading from Zionism’s script. Their efforts resulted in increased sales of my book!
Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine: Home Demolitions on the Rise
Richard Hardigan - CounterPunch
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that during the years 2012-2015, an average of 50 homes were demolished in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem every month. So far this year, the army has destroyed 539 structures, a rate that is more than three times higher. In all of 2015, 453 buildings were demolished, so the sharp surge in this kind of activity is an extremely recent phenomenon.
UNOPS Becomes Third UN Agency in Jordan to Drop G4S Following Campaign
BDS Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service
18 Apr 2016 – The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Jordan has not renewed its contract with security company G4S following a campaign over the firm’s role in Israeli human rights abuses.
An Anecdote about Fascism
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service
I tried to engage her in conversation about evolving Israeli attitudes toward the Palestinians and the related failed diplomacy, but she seemed rather uninformed and perhaps even disinterested as if the peace agenda was not really present in her active consciousness. Then all at once she said something that surprised me. “I am not looking forward to returning to Israel, it is becoming a fascist state.”
SYRIA IN DEPTH
Syrian Elections Prove again That Washington and Its Presstitutes Lie through Their Teeth
Paul Craig Roberts – Dissident Voice
On April 14 2016, Syria held parliamentary elections at 7,000 polling stations, keeping the voting open an extra five hours to accommodate the massive turnout. Washington is angry, because Syria held elections before Washington had time to purchase its slate of politicians and Washington-funded NGOs to claim that Assad had stolen the election. Putin and Assad should take note that Washington still intends to overthrow the Syrian government and to install either a puppet or chaos as in Iraq and Libya.
MILITARISM
Still in the Bush Embrace – What Really Stands in the Way of Closing Guantánamo
Karen J. Greenberg – TomDispatch
19 Apr 2016 – Can you believe it? We’re in the last year of the presidency of the man who, on his first day in the Oval Office, swore that he would close Guantánamo. In case, despite the odds, it should be closed in this presidency, Donald Trump has already sworn to reopen it and “load it up with bad dudes,” while Ted Cruz has warned against returning the naval base on which it’s located to the Cubans.
Drone Whistleblowers Step Out of the Shadows: In Washington’s Drone Wars, Collateral Damage Comes Home
Pratap Chatterjee – TomDispatch
“I just want people to know that not everybody is a freaking terrorist and we need to just get out of that mindset. And we just need to see these people as people — families, communities, brothers, mothers, and sisters, because that’s who they are,” says Lisa. In addition to those they kill, Washington’s drones turn out to wound (in ways both physical and psychological) their own operators and the populations who live under their constant surveillance.
ENVIRONMENT
Climate Change: Will the Middle East Become ‘Uninhabitable’? (I)
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS
This is the first of a two-part series of reports focusing on the impact of climate change on the Middle East & North of Africa region, ahead of the signing ceremony of the Paris climate agreement, on 22 April 2016 in New York.
Climate Change and the Middle East: No Water in the Kingdom of the Two Seas—Nor Elsewhere (II)
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS
This is part II of a two-part series of reports focusing on the impact of climate change on the Middle East & North of Africa region, ahead of the signing ceremony of the Paris climate agreement, on 22 April 2016 in New York.
The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers Is Starting an Economic Revolution
Bren Smith - YES! Magazine
I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of 14. Over my lifetime, I’ve spent many nights in jail. I’m an epileptic. I’m asthmatic. I don’t even know how to swim. This is my story. It’s a story of ecological redemption. Ocean farming isn’t just about food, it’s about transforming a workforce and restoring the sea.
Creating the Future
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service
I strongly believe that we must not allow ourselves the luxury of fatalism, especially today, when our future is darkened by the twin threats of catastrophic climate change and thermonuclear war. We must accept our responsibility for both the near and the distant futures. We must save the environment, plants and animals from extinction, and make a world in which our children and their descendants can survive.
GENETIC ENGINEERING
Glyphosate Found in Popular Breakfast Foods
Alliance for Natural Health – TRANSCEND Media Service
“Glyphosate has been linked to increases in levels of breast, thyroid, kidney, pancreatic, liver and bladder cancers and is being served for breakfast, lunch and dinner around the world. The fact that it is showing up in foods like eggs and coffee creamer, which don’t directly contact the herbicide, shows that it’s being passed on by animals who ingest it in their feed. This is contrary to everything that regulators and industry scientists have been telling the public.”
ENERGY
Chernobyl, and Cesium, at 30
John LaForge, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
April 26 is the 30th anniversary of the reactor meltdown and radiation disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine, which brings to mind cesium. Thirty years is how long it takes for half a given amount of cesium-137 — dispersed in huge quantities from Chernobyl (and Fukushima) — to decay into radioactive barium.
MEDIA
AP Investigation: Are Slaves Catching the Fish You Buy?
Robin Mcdowell, Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza, AP –TRANSCEND Media Service
Update: On 18 Apr 2016 the all-woman Associated Press team won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for this investigation [published on TMS in 30 Mar 2015].
25 Mar 2015 – The men the AP interviewed on Benjina were mostly from Myanmar, also known as Burma, one of the poorest countries in the world. They were brought to Indonesia through Thailand and forced to fish. Their catch was then shipped back to Thailand, where it entered the global stream of commerce.
Syrian Independent Media Offers Bold Challenge to Extremism
Julia Taleb – Waging Nonviolence
In Syria, the Union of Revolutionary Bureaus is empowering women and children to uphold their rights and freedom through education, job training and art.
SOCIALISM / MARXISM
Fidel Castro Speaks at Cuban Congress, Invokes Communist Spirit
Fidel Castro Ruz - teleSUR
The leader of the Cuban Revolution gave a rare public speech during the closure of the seventh Congress of the Communist Party. “Perhaps, the greatest danger hanging over the earth today derives from the destructive power of modern weaponry which could undermine the peace of the planet and make human life on earth’s surface impossible.”
TRADE
World Bank Orders Venezuela to Pay Crystallex $1.4 Billion for Imataca Forest Reserve Gold Mine
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service
Imataca, one of four major pristine forest reserves in the country, is home to the indigenous Akawaio, Arawako, Karina, Pemon and Warao peoples. It also sits above what geologists believe to be the largest gold deposits in the continent worth some $20 billion. The court decision marks yet another milestone in corporate victories against national governments using international trade treaties.
INTERVIEW
Catching-Up with Cynthia McKinney… And Looking (Worriedly) Ahead
Gary S. Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service
“Parrhesia” is a type of leadership that involves a special type of speech–it is a leadership that has the authority to speak and that uses that authority to speak what we would call “truth to power” and that does so despite the imminent and immanent risk posed to the speaker. Foucault explains Parrhesia in a lecture that he gave at the University of California at Berkeley and it is in that sense that I use the word.
Seymour Hersh Dishes on Saudi Oil Money Bribes and the Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Ken Klippenstein - AlterNet
A wide-ranging interview tied to his new book, The Killing of Osama Bin Laden.
Noam Chomsky on Organizing for a Next System
Noam Chomsky, The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service
24 Mar 2016 – Philosopher, linguist, and social critic Noam Chomsky recently spoke about his experiences in campus activism and his vision of a just society. An initial signatory to the Next System statement, Chomsky explores the connections between culture, mass movements, and economic experiments—which in “mutually reinforcing” interaction, may build toward a next system more quickly than you may think.
RELIGION
Did the Vatican Just Throw Out Its Just War Doctrine?
Erica Chenoweth, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
19 Apr 2016 – The just war tradition—which contains numerous doctrines morally justifying violence and war, as well as defining appropriate conduct during war—has served for the past 1500 years as the primary normative basis to validate waging of war. Last week, eighty conference participants recommended that Pope Francis I reject Just War Doctrine as a viable or productive Catholic tradition.
HEALTH
Can Lemon Water Detox Your Body?
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service
Adding a little lemon to your water is a great way to add flavor and experience the benefits offered by lemons. It’ll also help cleanse your body of toxins and waste. The American Cancer Society recommends hot lemon water for alleviating constipation and clearing the bowels. [4] Let’s look at four more benefits of lemon water.
ANIMAL RIGHTS / VEGETARIANISM
People Still Don’t Get the Link between Meat Consumption and Climate Change
Annick de Witt – Scientific American
A new kind of messaging could make it easier to appreciate the enormous benefits of moving away from a meat-heavy diet. Considering that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time, wouldn’t we want people to know the power of a simple solution that is in their own hands?
The Inhumane Economy
Chad Nelson – Center for a Stateless Society
The so-called Humane Economy is anything but. Like the criminal who abstains from violence based solely on the fear of being caught and punished, business executives implement “humane” practices in food production and entertainment industries only after having their hands forced, once their corporate balance sheets or forecasts are impacted by gruesome exposés on their practices.
HISTORY
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service
Apr 25–May 1 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Ask yourself this: If I could have everything I wanted, would I want this, or continue to do that?” – Nancy Garen
BIOGRAPHIES
Common Oceans: The Vision of Elisabeth Mann Borgese (24 Apr 1918 – 8 Feb 2002)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
While the resulting Convention of the Law of the Sea has not revolutionized world politics – as some of us hoped in the early 1970s – the Convention is an important building block in the development of world law. We are grateful for the values and the energy that Elisabeth Mann Borgese embodied.
OTHER THAN POLITICS
Don’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful Letter of Support to Marie Curie in the Midst of Scandal
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
“If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.”
DNA Instrument of Life – Phonon Beholds Life Consciousness: New Hypothesis
Prof. Chandra Prakash Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Phonon is earliest. It has activated the dark matter with resonance. The phonon and photon manifested with blast and light as dualistic complimentary force of vital energy. The phonon stimulates the event to happen and photon under go synthesis and degradation with time Einstein’s equation E=Mc².
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Lettura collettiva dei primi 12 articoli della Costituzione italiana. Aosta. Biblioteca regionale sezione ragazzi
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service
« Se voi volete andare in pellegrinaggio nel luogo dove è nata la nostra Costituzione, andate nelle montagne dove caddero i partigiani, nelle carceri dove furono imprigionati, nei campi dove furono impiccati. Dovunque è morto un italiano per riscattare la libertà e la dignità, andate lì, o giovani, col pensiero, perché lì è nata la nostra Costituzione. »
(Português) Para Entender a Verdade no Brasil, Veja Quem Está Sendo Implantado na Presidência — e na Chefia das Finanças
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept
Uma pesquisa recente mostrou que apenas 2% dos brasileiros votariam no Vice-Presidente do Brasil Michel Temer. Ele está sob suspeita por conta de um depoimento que ligou seu nome a um enorme escândalo de propina. E uma alta corte da justiça decidiu que o Congresso deve considerar a abertura de impeachment contra ele. No entanto, está se preparando para assumir o Brasil no próximo mês se o Senado decidir depor a Presidente Dilma Roussef em julgamento.
(Danish-Dansk) Hvorfor araberne ikke ønsker USA i Syrien
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Berlingske
De millioner af flygtninge, der strømmer ind i Europa, er ofre for en krig om en rørledning og CIAs adskillige fadæser. Lad os se i øjnene: Det, vi kalder »krigen mod terror«, er i virkeligheden blot endnu en oliekrig.
(Français) « L’ambassade des USA au Brésil ressemble à celle aux temps d’Allende au Chili »
Carlos Aznarez et Tarik Bouafia, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service
21 avril 2016 – Après plus de quinze ans de progressisme et d’avancées sociales, l’Amérique Latine est en pleine recomposition. De l’Argentine au Venezuela en passant par le Brésil, la contre-offensive de la droite est en marche. Dans un contexte marqué par une forte crise économique et des tensions politiques, les Etats-Unis tentent de reconquérir leur ancien « pré-carré ».
(Italiano) Mediazione da parte di giudici, della polizia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service
Polizia? I giudici hanno uno status sociale più alto ma la polizia conosce meglio la situazione locale ed eventuali trasgressori.
(Italiano) La storia ha bussato molto forte alla nostra porta. Riusciremo a rispondere?
Jakob von Uexkull - Centro Studi Sereno Regis
In un discorso tenuto al World Future Council il 15 marzo 2016 il noto scrittore, filantropo e attivista Jacob von Uexküll mette in luce – con grande accuratezza ed eloquenza – i futuri pericoli che il nostro mondo dovrà affrontare. von Uexküll ha fondato sia il Premio “Right Livelihood” (conosciuto anche come Premio Nobel Alternativo) sia il World Future Council.
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
What Would Happen If You Didn’t Drink Water?
TED Ed – TRANSCEND Media Service
Water is essentially everywhere in our world, and the average human is composed of between 55 and 60% water. Therefore, what role does water play in our bodies, and how much do we actually need to drink to stay healthy? The health benefits of hydration.
Peace May Be With You (Music Video of the Week)
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter [The Horsemen of the Apocalypse] – TRANSCEND Media Service
Politically Correct Heavy Metal from Germany
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Minor Mistake
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
A new monk shows up at a monastery where the monks spend their time making copies of ancient books.
“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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