Empathy: What Our Dysfunctional World Needs

Published on Dissident Voice, by Adnan Al-Daini, January 3, 2017.

Our species is capable of great compassion, kindness and tolerance; it is also capable of cruelty, selfishness and hate. Which of these characteristics dominate depends on another characteristic, namely empathy, defined as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another”. This sharing of feeling could so easily be switched off if the “other” happens to have a different colour, religion or culture. Continuer la lecture de « Empathy: What Our Dysfunctional World Needs »

Organspende: Die verheimlichte Wahrheit

Organspende, die verheimlichte Wahrheit, 34.23 min,
……. von Welt im Wandel.TV am 29. Nov 2016 auf YouTube hochgeladen … Der bekannte Jurist Dr. Georg Meinecke ist entschieden anderer Meinung. Jahrzehntelang galt er als Deutschlands Patientenanwalt Nummer 1 und setzt sich seit seiner Pensionierung unter anderem dafür ein, dass über die wahren Hintergründe der Organspende aufgeklärt wird. Meinecke zufolge gebe es erhebliche Zweifel daran, ob der Hirntod tatsächlich das Lebensende eines Menschen markiert …(ganzer Text).

The East Aleppo Syndrome

Published on Voltairenet.org, by Thierry Meyssan, Dec 20, 2016.

While the major powers who were supervising the jihadists in East Aleppo pretend to take interest in the fate of the inhabitants of the city – so as to exfiltrate their own soldiers – no-one seems to understand the drama that these Syrians have endured. Contrary to Western declarations, they have not suffered from the bombing so much as they have from the occupation of foreign jihadists and the reign of their «sharia». Some citizens suffer from a serious psychotic problem, the East Aleppo Syndrome … // Continuer la lecture de « The East Aleppo Syndrome »