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The Landmark Ruling against Chiquita Exposes the Failure of Voluntary “Corporate Social Responsibility”
Manpreet Kaur Kalra and Anna Canning | In These Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
20 Jun 2024 – Chiquita’s financing of a Colombian paramilitary group, although claiming to be a “responsible corporate citizen,” shows the need for robust civil society institutions. Chiquita inspired the derogatory label, Banana Republic.
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The UN Security Council Has Approved a Cease-Fire Resolution for Gaza
Jaclyn Diaz and Michele Kelemen | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
25 Mar 2024 – The UNSC has voted 14-0 in favor of a resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza for the rest of Ramadan. The US abstained from the vote, clearing the way for the measure to pass.
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3 Things to Know about the Current Crisis in Haiti
Eyder Peralta | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
6 Mar 2024 – Haiti is entering its second day of a state of emergency, after gangs attacked the capital city’s prisons releasing thousands of inmates. The country’s airport is under siege, and on Monday, 4 Mar, evening, it was still not clear whether Haiti’s prime minister had made it back into the country.
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European Leaders Pledge Support for Israel, Condemn Hamas and Halt Palestinian Aid
Fatima Al-Kassab | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
9 Oct 2023 – Landmark buildings around Europe, including 10 Downing Street in London and the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, have lit up with the Israeli flag — and some cities have seen pro-Palestinian protests — as governments across the continent convened emergency meetings to respond to the conflict in Israel and Gaza.
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Thousands of Authors Urge AI Companies to Stop Using Their Works without Permission
Chloe Veltman | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Thousands of writers have signed a letter asking artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI and Meta to stop using their work without permission or compensation. But protecting writers from the negative impacts of these technologies is not an easy proposition.
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US House Republicans Vote to Remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee
Lexie Schapitl | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – House Republicans have voted to remove Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, citing past controversial comments she made about Israel and concerns over her objectivity.
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This 22-Year-Old Is Trying to Save Us from ChatGPT before It Changes Writing Forever
Greg Rosalsky and Emma Peaslee | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
18 Jan 2023 – While many were nursing hangovers on New Year’s Day, 22-year-old Edward Tian was working feverishly on a new app to combat misuse of a powerful, new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT. The technology is both awesome — and terrifying.
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Did the World Make Progress on Climate Change? Here’s What Was Decided at CP27
Nathan Rott et al. | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
20 Nov 2022 – Contentious climate negotiations ended in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, as negotiators from around the world finalized a modest deal to help control global warming and pay for the costs of a hotter Earth.
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The U.S. Has Seen At Least 601 Mass Shootings This Year Alone
Ashley Ahn | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
20 Nov 2022 – In 2022 the US has seen at least 601 mass shootings, an average of 13 shootings a week according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident where at least four people are shot or killed. The year 2021 saw 690 mass shootings, 2020 had 610, and 2019 had 417.
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U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Roe V. Wade, Ending Right to Abortion Upheld for Decades
Nina Totenberg and Sarah McCammon | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
24 Jun 2022 – In a historic and far reaching decision, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade today, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists.
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A Texas Team Comes Up with a COVID Vaccine That Could Be a Global Game Changer
Joe Palca | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – The vaccine is called CORBEVAX. It uses old but proven vaccine technology and can be manufactured easier than all of the COVID-19 vaccines in use today. “And it’s cheap, a dollar, dollar fifty a dose,” Hotez says. The real beauty is that the intellectual property of this vaccine will be available to everybody.
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Goodbye, Columbus? Here’s What Indigenous Peoples’ Day Means to Native Americans
Emma Bowman | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
President Biden issued a proclamation on Friday [8 Oct] to observe this Oct. 11 as a day to honor Native Americans, their resilience and their contributions to American society even as they faced assimilation, discrimination and genocide. The move shifts focus from Columbus Day, the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus.
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Biden Administration Seeks a Contractor for a Migrant Facility at Guantanamo
Joel Rose | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
23 Sep 2021 – As the Biden administration scrambles to relocate thousands of Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town, it’s also looking for a private contractor to help operate a migrant detention facility at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — and to hire at least some guards who speak Spanish and Haitian Creole.
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1,428 Dolphins Were Slaughtered as Part of a Tradition–Activists Say It’s Cruel
The Associated Press | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
15 Sep 2021 – The slaughter of 1,428 white-sided dolphins over the weekend, part of a four-century-old traditional drive of sea mammals into shallow water where they are killed for their meat and blubber, has reignited a debate on the small Faeroe Islands.
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Supreme Court Says a $2 Billion Verdict in a Baby Powder Cancer Case Should Remain
Associated Press | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
1 Jun 2021 – The Supreme Court is leaving in place a $2 billion verdict in favor of women who claim they developed ovarian cancer from using Johnson & Johnson talc products.
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Death Row Inmates Sue after They’re Asked to Pick Firing Squad or Electric Chair
Victoria Hansen | All Things Considered, NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – Two death row inmates in South Carolina, now required by law to choose between a yet-to-be-formed firing squad and a 109-year-old electric chair, have decided to sue instead. They call the state’s recently signed legislation unconstitutional because lethal injection was the main method of execution when they were sentenced.
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Biden Administration Ends U.S. Support of Saudi-Led Offensive in Yemen
Mark Katkov | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – President Biden announced today that the U.S. will no longer support offensive military operations led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen, reversing a policy started by the Obama administration and continued by Trump despite widespread accusations of Saudi war crimes.
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Pelosi Asks Military to Limit Trump’s Nuclear Authority–Here’s How That System Works
Geoff Brumfiel | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked the Pentagon’s leadership to limit President Trump’s ability to use nuclear weapons during his final days in office. In a letter to her Democratic House colleagues today, Pelosi said that she had spoken with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley.
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Americans Are Dying in the Pandemic at Rates Far Higher Than in Other Countries
Jason Beaubien | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 – Overall deaths in the U.S. are more than 85% higher than in places such as Germany, Israel and Denmark adjusting for population size. Deaths in the U.S. are 29% higher than even in Sweden, “which ignored everything for so long,” refusing to order social restrictions and a lockdown. “We have 29% more mortality than we should have if we’d followed Sweden’s path and Sweden virtually did nothing.”
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Colin Dwyer | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
7 Jul 2020 – The Brazilian president, who has consistently downplayed the dangers of the virus, revealed his positive test result during nationally televised remarks today. “It came back positive,” he told reporters from behind a mask. He is just the second major world leader, after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to confirm he contracted the virus.
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In South Korea and China, Loosening Restrictions Brings Coronavirus Resurgence
NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
13 May 2020 – South Korea is grappling with its largest infection clusters after social distancing restrictions were loosened this month. In Wuhan, China, authorities announced yesterday they will test the city’s entire population of 11 million after new cases cropped up. Both countries are responding to the resurgence of cases with aggressive contact tracing.
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CIA Used Prisoner as ‘Training Prop’ for Torture, Psychologist Testifies
Sacha Pfeiffer | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
23 Jan 2020 – A man accused of helping finance the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was subjected to “excessive” abuse at the hands of CIA interrogators who used him as a training tool for employees learning the agency’s torture techniques, according to testimony from James Mitchell , the psychologist who helped design the torture program.
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Amazon Rainforest Sees Biggest Spike in Deforestation in Over a Decade
Colin Dwyer | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
18 Nov 2019 – Picture, for a second, just how vast New York City is. All told, including Staten Island, the Bronx and every block in between, the massive metropolis takes up more than 300 square miles. Now, try to picture a hunk of land more than 12 times that size. That’s about how much of the Amazon rainforest was destroyed in just the span of a year, according to Brazilian authorities.
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The Mysterious Death of the Hacker Who Turned in Chelsea Manning
Dina Temple-Raston | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
19 Sep 2019 – Debbie Scroggin and her husband live at the end of a series of gravel roads in a lonesome part of Kansas. It is the kind of place where, Debbie says, “you have to drive 15 minutes to get anywhere.” It was easy to think that someone might come here to either get lost or be forgotten. Scroggin remembers Adrian Lamo arriving on a night train with nothing but a broken suitcase and a hangdog expression.
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The ‘Great Dying’ Nearly Erased Life on Earth. Scientists See Similarities to Today
Christopher Joyce | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
4 Jun 2019 – There was a time when life on Earth almost blinked out. The “Great Dying,” the biggest extinction the planet has ever seen, happened some 250 million years ago and was largely caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Now scientists are beginning to see alarming similarities between the Great Dying and what’s currently happening to our atmosphere.
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Remote Island Chain Has Few People — But Hundreds of Millions of Pieces of Plastic
Christopher Joyce | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
16 May 2019 – When a marine biologist from Australia traveled to a remote string of islands in the Indian Ocean to see how much plastic waste had washed up on the beaches, here’s just part of what she found: “373,000 toothbrushes and around 975,000 shoes, largely flip-flops. And that’s only what was on the surface.
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U.S. Closes Jerusalem Consulate That Gave Palestinians a Link to Washington
Bill Chappell | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
4 Mar 2019 – The U.S. officially shut down its Jerusalem Consulate General today, severing a connection that for decades served as a direct link between Palestinians and Washington. The consulate’s work is being folded into the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem — a move Palestinian officials have condemned.
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U.S. Ends 1955 Treaty with Iran, After U.N. Court Orders a Partial Lift of Sanctions
Bill Chappell | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
3 Oct 2018 – The U.N.’s top court gave a partial victory to Iran today saying the U.S. “must remove” sanctions that could stop food, medical supplies and other humanitarian products from entering Iran. In response, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that because of continuing disputes with Iran, “I am therefore announcing today that the United States is terminating the Treaty of Amity with Iran” — referring to the 1955 treaty that laid out economic relations between the two countries.
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The Rich Will Not Save Us
Rob Meiksins | Nonprofit Quarterly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
27 Aug 2018 – Philanthropic plutocracy is the use of donations from the ultra-wealthy to shift the overall allocation of resources in society. The philanthropy of today’s ultra-wealthy rests on a paradox of wanting to have a positive impact on society’s inequity but using money earned from businesses that take advantage of that very inequity to do so. Stiglitz argues that the rich will continue to use their wealth to maintain their power and that philanthropists are their enablers. Ultimately, it is up to civil society to intervene and build a more just and equitable economy if we want these patterns to change.
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At Age 101, She’s a World Champ Runner
Chhavi Sachdev | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Man Kaur is 101, but her routine could tire most 20-somethings. Every day she wakes up at 4 a.m., bathes, washes clothes, makes tea, recites prayers. And then she goes to the track for an hour of sprinting practice. And she’s not just doing it for fun.
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Rohingyas, the Refugees Who Don’t Want to Go Home … Yet
Jason Beaubien | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
21 Jan 2018 – This week, Bangladesh had planned to start sending Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar. Now the deal has been postponed because of logistical problems. The refugees themselves have opposed the plan. “They’ll kill us,” says Sonah Meah, 30. “If I go, they’ll kill me.”
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U.S.A: FCC Repeals ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules for Internet Providers
Alina Selyukh | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
14 Dec 2017 – U.S. telecom regulators have voted to repeal net neutrality rules, which restrict the power of Internet service providers to influence loading speeds for specific websites or apps. Net neutrality: It’s a principle that Internet providers should be neutral gateways that provide equal access to all legal web content.
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Michael Sullivan and Ashley Westerman – National Public Radio-NPR,
17 Apr 2017
That evening, the soldiers came back. “They didn’t say anything,” she says. “They just came with their guns into my house.” They raped her for almost an hour that time, Zubaida says. Two days later, the military returned and rounded up all the villagers. She says they separated the men from the women, beat the men and raped the women. “Some tried to resist and got stabbed,” she says. “That’s why the rest of the women didn’t hesitate, they didn’t want to die.” Zubaida was one of those picked.
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Jim Zarroli, NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
14 Jan 2016 – Goldman Sachs will pay about $5 billion to resolve state and federal investigations into its handling of mortgage-backed securities in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, the bank said today. Regulators have already won large multibillion-dollar settlements from several large banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup.
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Caitlin Dickerson – National Public Radio-NPR,
21 Sep 2015
5 Sep 2015 – American service members used in chemical and biological testing have some questions: What exactly were they exposed to? And how is it affecting their health?
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Michael Sullivan, NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
2 Jun 2015 – It’s not often that the Dalai Lama calls out a fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate. But that’s what happened last week when he was asked about Aung San Suu Kyi, who has declined to speak out on the worsening plight of the Rohingya minority in her homeland of Myanmar.
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Justin Elliott and Laura Sullivan - ProPublica & NPR,
8 Jun 2015
Even as the group has publicly celebrated its work, insider accounts detail a string of failures. The Red Cross says 91% of donations went to help Haitians. That’s not true. The Red Cross says it provided homes to more than 130,000 Haitians. But they didn’t. Where did the half billion raised for Haiti go? The Red Cross won’t say.
→ read full articleVictory! Court Throws Out Nun’s Sabotage Conviction for Nuclear Site Break-In
Carrie Johnson, NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
13 May 2015 – From the moment she was taken into custody in 2012, outside a building that stores enriched uranium, Sister Megan Rice has argued she has been driven by a desire to spread a message. “We all know that nuclear energy is linked inextricably with nuclear weapons.”
→ read full articleDeploying Drones to Get an Overview of Factory Farms
Peggy Lowe, NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
An independent journalist says he’s found a way around the so-called “ag-gag” laws by flying drones over large livestock operations to document animal welfare problems and pollution.
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Eyder Peralta, NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday [14 June 2013] that he opposes the U.S. decision to provide Syrian rebels with military support. “The United Nations, and in particular I, have been making it consistently clear that providing arms to either side would not address this current situation. There is no such military solution.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Belicismo en el Premio Nobel por la paz
Manuel E. Yepe – Argenpress,
13 Dec 2010
Noruega tiene un per cápita de tropas en la OTAN mayor que cualquiera otro de los 28 Estados miembros. En una conferencia de parlamentarios europeos que tuvo lugar el pasado año, el actual presidente del Comité del Premio Nobel por la Paz expuso con crudeza: “Cuando no somos capaces de detener a una tiranía, la guerra comienza. Es por ello que la OTAN es indispensable.
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