Articles by Vox
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s Disastrous Trump Immunity Decision, Explained
Ian Millhiseris | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
1 Jul 2024 – The Court’s decision is a blueprint for dictatorship. The six Republicans handed down a decision today that gives Donald Trump sweeping immunity from prosecution without any legal checks on his behavior if he returns to the White House.
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Did the Media Botch the Biden Age Story?
Brian Stelter | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
3 Jul 2024 – Asleep at the wheel? Complicit in a cover-up? The real story is far more complicated — and more interesting. [With a rebuttal from Matt Taibbi]
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Whiter Shades of Pale (Music Video of the Week)
Bevox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Exquisite!!
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New Investigation Exposes a Stomach-Churning Practice to Make Your Bacon
Kenny Torrella | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
5 Aug 2023 – The pork industry’s forced cannibalism, explained. Why they feed feces and raw intestines to pigs.
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The “Humanewashing” of Meat and Dairy, Explained
Jessica Scott-Reid | Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
21 Dec 2021 – Why you can’t trust claims of humane treatment on meat and dairy labels. Most meat, dairy, and eggs sold in the US come from factory farms, where animals are tightly packed together in dark, unsanitary warehouses. But you wouldn’t know it while browsing the meat, dairy, and egg aisles at the grocery store.
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20 Years, $6 Trillion, 900,000 Lives: The Enormous Costs and Elusive Benefits of the War on Terror
Dylan Matthews | VOX - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
11 Sep 2021 – The costs of the war in Iraq, and indeed of every other front in the war on terror, are relatively easy to relate: hundreds of thousands of lost lives, trillions in dollars spent, incalculable damage to the US’s reputation in the world. So let’s start with a harder question: What, if any, benefits accrued to the US and the world as a result of the war on terror?
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The US Just Left the Paris Climate Agreement
Umair Irfan | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
4 Nov 2020 – The United States left the Paris climate agreement today, making the US the only country in the world to back out of the accord. But the next occupant of the White House will be the far bigger determinant of the future of international action on climate change. Pulling out of the accord was one of President Donald Trump’s signature campaign promises in 2016.
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How to Prevent the Looming Sovereign-Debt Crisis
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate, and Hamid Rashid | Vox EU – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
3 Aug 2020 – From Latin America’s lost decade in the 1980s to the more recent Greek crisis, there are plenty of painful reminders of what happens when countries cannot service their debts. This column argues that a global debt crisis today would likely push millions of people into unemployment and fuel instability and violence around the world, and proposes a multilateral sovereign debt buyback facility which could be managed by the IMF.
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How Technology Literally Changes Our Brains
Ezra Klein | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
On Deep Reading and Digital Thinking – “In the long run, a medium’s content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act. Or, put more simply: Media work their magic, or their mischief, on the nervous system itself.” — Marshall McLuhan
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Why Native Hawaiians Are Fighting to Protect Maunakea from a Telescope
Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Pundits have said the Native Hawaiian resistance to the Thirty Meter Telescope project is a conflict between science and culture. But the protectors are not against science; they just believe the telescope does not belong on Maunakea’s sacred lands. The mountain is among the most sacred sites in Hawaiian cosmology.
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Mexico Releases the Full Text of Trump’s Immigration “Deal”
Rachel Withers | Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
15 Jun 2019 – It is less a deal and more an agreement to discuss a future agreement.
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Forget GDP — New Zealand Is Prioritizing Gross National Well-Being
Sigal Samuel | Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
8 Jun 2019 – We usually think of a country’s wealth or capital in terms of its gross domestic product. But New Zealand challenged the world to assess it in terms of a very different commodity, as the country released the first-ever “well-being budget” on May 30.
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Top Executives at Major Opioid Company Found Guilty of Criminal Racketeering
German Lopez | Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
3 May 2019 – Big Pharma Billionaire Guilty of Bribing Doctors to Prescribe Drug – The verdict could send the former executives to prison for years for their role in the nationwide opioid epidemic.
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The Middle East’s Cold War, Explained
Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
How two feuding countries are tearing apart the Middle East. The Saudis and Iranians have never actually declared war on each other.
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Marx and Modern Microeconomics
Samuel Bowles | Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
21 Apr 2018 – This column argues that Marx’s representation of the power relationship between capital and labour in the firm is an essential insight for understanding and improving modern capitalism.
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Trump, Kim Need to Grasp Reality of Famed Photo’s ‘Fruit of War’
Vox Populi, Vox Dei - The Asahi Shimbun,
8 Jan 2018
5 Jan 2018 – A barefoot boy, probably around 10 years old, waits in line at a crematorium. Strapped to his back is his dead baby brother. Staring straight ahead, the boy utters no words. This photo, titled “The boy standing by the crematory,” was taken in Nagasaki at the end of World War II by U.S. Marine photographer Joe O’Donnell (1922-2007).
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Ezra Klein, Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
To understand the bloody, convoluted war happening inside and outside of Syria’s borders, you need to watch this. It is a most instructive video clip – less than 5 minutes – explaining what ISIS is, who its backers are, and in what context it was born and operates.
→ read full article(Français) Créer un Fonds Monétaire EuroBRICS (EuroBRICS monetary fund ou EBMF)
Agoravox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2014
Les pays du BRICS ont annoncé récemment qu’ils entendaient mettre en place dans les prochains mois l’équivalent du FMI et de la Banque mondiale dans le cadre de l’association qu’ils ont décidé de créer entre eux il y a environ un an.
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