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(Português) Brasil: Estudantes protestam contra interferência de evangélicos em cultura e religião indígenas
Araguaia Notícia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
21 jan 2020 – Estudantes Apyãwa – Tapirapé do Aranowa’yao – Ensino Médio, da Escola Indígena Estadual “Tapi’itãwa” da Terra Indígena Urubu Branco em Confresa escreveram carta de protesto contra a ingerência de evangélicos sobre sua cultura e sua religião.
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An Alternative View of Human Nature: Rebecca Solnit on Disaster as a Catalyst for Dignity, Agency, and Human Goodness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
“The constellations of solidarity, altruism, and improvisation are within most of us and reappear at these times.”
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Ancient Never-Before-Seen Viruses Discovered Locked up in Tibetan Glacier
Laura Geggel | Live Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – For the past 15,000 years, a glacier on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau has hosted a party for some unusual guests: an ensemble of frozen viruses. Scientists recently took a look at two ice cores from this melting Tibetan glacier, revealing the existence of 28 never-before-seen virus groups unknown to modern science.
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(Português) A História Foi Escrita pela Mão Branca
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – Uma das realidades mais perversas da história humana foi o milenar estatuto da escravidão. Aí se mostra o que também podemos ser: não só sapiens, portadores de amor, empatia, respeito e devoção, mas também demens, odientos, agressivos, cruéis e sem piedade. Este nosso lado sombrio parece dominar a cena social de nosso tempo e também do Brasil.
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(Português) PETA e Greenpeace São Classificados como Grupos Terroristas no Reino Unido
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
17 jan 2020 – A organização Pessoas Pelo Tratamento Ético dos Animais (PETA), Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd e Stop The Cull, que atuam em defesa dos animais e do meio ambiente, foram incluídas em uma lista de grupos terroristas no Reino Unido, de acordo com edição de hoje (17) do jornal inglês The Guardian.
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Crowdsourcing Just Punishment for Julian Assange
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
In a period of so-called just war, with which forms of “just torture” are increasingly evident, the concern in what follow is how best to reflect the highest democratic principles in those countries most inspired by the highest Christian values — and most implicated in the outcome of the trial of Julian Assange for having spoken truth to power.
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Reconciling Dr. King’s 1968 Dream and Our 2020 Nightmare
Bob Hennelly | Salon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
12 Jan 2020 – Debt servitude, endless wars, and our economic turmoil was all prophesied by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Russian Political Earthquake: Putin Sets out Plan for Kremlin Departure & Medvedev Resigns
Bryan MacDonald - RT,
20 Jan 2020
15 Jan, 2020 – A seemingly routine ‘state-of-the-nation’ address by Vladimir Putin unexpectedly turned into one of the most memorable afternoons in recent Russian political history. Today, Russia’s government resigned. Dmitry Medvedev departed the political frontline, Vladimir Putin effectively confirmed he will leave the presidency at the end of his present term, and Mikhail Mishustin became the new Russian prime minister.
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(Français) La Chine et la Destinée du Monde
Marc Vandepitte | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
13 janvier 2020 – Si l’on veut en croire ce qui s’écrit à droite comme à gauche, pour la Chine, la messe est dite ! Le pays aurait capitulé et serait devenu capitaliste, quoi que le régime chinois lui-même puisse prétendre. C’est précisément cette opinion quasi unanime, que les économistes Rémy Herrera et Zhiming Long combattent avec verve dans leur livre ‘La Chine est-elle capitaliste?’.
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Facing the Global Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
16 Jan 2020 – This is an amplified version of an interview published on 7 Jan in the online journal, Global Policy. As the interview was conducted in Dec 2019, it fails to address the various disruptive consequences of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, including the violation of Iraqi sovereignty, Baghdad being the site of the drone attack, as well as the risks of war arising from an escalating tit-for-tat cycle of actions and reactions.
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The Art of Listening
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Dr. Bernard Lown, Professor of Cardiology emeritus at the Harvard School of Public Health and co-recipient with Yevgeniy Chazov of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize as Chairman of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, said that he once toured a hospital as a young intern with other interns observing their professor.
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America, an Empire on Its Last Leg: To Be Kicked Out from the Middle East?
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
20 Jan 2020
7 Jan 2020
• A US president committed to war crimes,
• A failing “War on Terrorism” narrative,
• Weakened military command structures,
• Failing alliances,
• Sleeping with the enemy,
• Unpredictable foreign policy analysts,
• Deception and mistakes.
At this juncture: The US’ most powerful weapon remains dollarization, neoliberal economic reforms and the ability to manipulate financial markets.
Growing Gardens of Diversity Weaving Gardens of Love
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020 – Diversity is the Hindustan Way. In these times of limitless greed and manufactured division and hate, we resist by living and thinking through, and with, our diversities as one humanity on one planet. We grow gardens of Diversity. We weave garlands of love.
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Smart Power & the Human Rights Industrial Complex
Patrick Henningsen | UK Column – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Human rights in the West: does the reality live up to the rhetoric? Billionaire philanthropists, political luminaries and transnational corporations, all work for social justice, forging a better, fairer and more accountable world…. Along with military invasions and missionaries, NGOs help crack countries open like ripe nuts, paving the way for exploitation and extraction. If the international community is to go beyond neocolonialist paradigms, it will need to place compassion ahead of policy, and humanity ahead of profits. Only then can the reality live up to the rhetoric.
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(Italiano) Lo Schema di Pensiero della Laudato Sii di Papa Francesco
Antonino Drago - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Lo schema di pensiero della Laudato sii di Papa Francesco non è quello classico della dottrina sociale della Chiesa, per la quale i testi sacri interpretati dal Magistero prescrivono ai fedeli un determinato comportamento. Questo schema si chiama integrista, perché fa discendere dall’alto di principi e di norme il giusto comportamento degli appartenenti alla istituzione Chiesa.
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New Pair of Jeans
Ravi Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Buying a new pair of jeans
With her hard earned means
The teenager Tanu put them on
For her friends to like her taste
Brazil: Bolsonaro Leads 2019 Record for Attacks on the Press
teleSUR | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
17 Jan 2020 — The far-right former Capitan accounted for three out of five press attacks in 2019.
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Myanmar Continues to Make Mistakes of the Past
Maung Zarni | Free Rohingya Coalition – Asia Times,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – January 4 marked the 72nd anniversary of Myanmar’s independence from Britain. The story of Myanmar today is a textbook example of a multi-ethnic country where the spectacular failures on the part of the successive breeds of the ruling nationalists have created the very real conditions for ethnic balkanization, something the Burmese nationalists say they are most concerned about.
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Jeremy Scahill | Intercepted – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – The Trump administration’s assassination of Iranian military official Qassim Suleimani in Iraq was an act of aggression and an offensive act of war. What the latest developments mean for Iran and the U.S. and how tensions have rapidly escalated since Donald Trump came to office? Will Trump’s current posture hold, or will he order more violence?
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(Português) Brasil: Documento confidencial mostra que Cultura vai continuar pregando ideais nazistas mesmo sem o Secretário Roberto Alvim
Amanda Audi – The Intercept,
20 Jan 2020
17 Jan 2020 – Roberto Alvim foi demitido da Secretaria Especial da Cultura após copiar um discurso do chefe da propaganda nazista, Joseph Goebbels. Mas isso não quer dizer que os colegas do dramaturgo, que continuam trabalhando e orientando a política cultural do país, pensem diferente dele.
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How Democracies Die
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
13 Jan 2020 – The United States’ descent toward tyranny mirrors the experience of Germany and Italy in the 1930s.
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Iran Jet Disaster Setup
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich and Finian Cunningham | Sputnik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – The 19-second video published by the New York Times last week showing the moment an Iranian missile hit a passenger jet has prompted much social media skepticism. Questions arise about the improbable timing and circumstances of recording the precise moment when the plane was hit.
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Luanda Leaks: How Africa’s Richest Woman Exploited Family Ties, Shell Companies and inside Deals to Build an Empire
Sydney P. Freedberg, Scilla Alecci, Will Fitzgibbon, Douglas Dalby and Delphine Reuter - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
20 Jan 2020
19 Jan 2020 – Isabel dos Santos made a fortune at the expense of the Angolan people, Luanda Leaks reveals. She spun a story the world wanted to believe: a self-made billionaire who had risen in a male-dominated business world in an African country ravaged by civil war and poverty.
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Structured Dialogue
Prof. George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Under some circumstances discussions of major public issues could be more productive if the participants prepared a joint analysis about the issues, including observations about the historical background, the major relevant facts, the points of contention, and proposed actions. Even for the most contentious of issues, there would be a great deal about which the participants could agree. Conflicts can be addressed in constructive ways. One path to peace is to work toward a jointly imagined peace.
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Grace under Fire: Getting Arrested with Jane Fonda
Diane Perlman | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – Following Jane Fonda’s 11th weekly Fire Drill Friday rally on the Capitol, we marched over the Hart Senate Office Building where 138 of us risked arrest and spent the rest of December 20 celebrating Jane Fonda’s 82nd birthday in a very cold warehouse, hosted by friendly DC police officers.
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James Murdoch Criticises Father’s News Outlets for Climate Crisis Denial
Jim Waterson – The Guardian,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – Rupert Murdoch’s son has strongly criticised his family’s news outlets for downplaying the impact of the climate crisis, as bushfires continue to burn in Australia. James Murdoch and his wife, Kathryn, issued a rare joint statement directly criticising his father’s businesses for their “ongoing denial” on the issue, which has been reflected in the family’s newspapers repeatedly casting doubt on the link between the climate emergency and the bushfires.
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The Man Who Murdered Rosa Luxemburg
Klaus Gietinger | Jacobin Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020 – On January 15, 1919, the leaders of the German revolution were murdered by far-right soldiers enraged by the rising socialist movement. The man who masterminded the killings was Waldemar Pabst — a fanatical nationalist officer whose paramilitaries became the rank and file for Nazism.
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10 Years Ago, We Pledged to Help Haiti Rebuild. Then What Happened?
Isabel Macdonald – In These Times,
20 Jan 2020
12 Jan 2020 – Hundreds of millions in aid went to U.S. corporations and the U.S. military. A fraction went to Haitian institutions.
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Beethoven 5th Symphony-Ode to Europe (Music Video of the Week)
Literatube Multimídia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
European Union’s Anthem
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(Português) Insecta Aposta em Sandálias de “Couro de Abacaxi”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 jan 2020 – Nova coleção da marca é baseada na tecnologia Piñatex, tecido criado a partir de fibras de abacaxi e que imita o couro.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Resigns from Nobel Women’s Initiative
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
1 Jan 2020 – Press Release. Mairead Maguire Resigned Today from the Nobel Women’s Initiative Board and Organization
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2020 U.S. Presidential Elections: Reflections outside the Box
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – Four Reflections on What Would Help Democrats Defeat Trump
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JPMorgan Chase Records the Biggest Profit of any Bank in US History
Gabriel Black | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
18 Jan 2020 – JPMorgan Chase made $36.4 billion in 2019, the biggest annual profit of any bank in American history. The six largest US banks revealed that they saved a combined $32 billion from Trump’s corporate tax cut. JPMorgan’s profit is more than half the education budget of the US federal government.
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The Prosecution of Julian Assange, the Destruction of Legality and the Rise of the National Security State
Richard Hoffman | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020 – It is worthwhile to consider briefly the lawless character of Assange’s persecution by Britain, the United States and Sweden. Since the beginning, Assange has been subjected to endless procedural abuses and political interference in the legal process. Virtually every customary precept, practice and procedural protection, which an accused is traditionally afforded, has been discarded in the effort to railroad him. The disintegration of the democratic system and the rise of the national security state are hallmarks of the deepening crisis of imperialism.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
The greed of giant fossil fuel corporations is driving us towards a tipping point after which human efforts to control climate change will be futile because feedback loops will have taken over. The greed of the military industrial complex is driving us towards a Third World War that might develop into a catastrophic thermonuclear war. The greed of our financial institutions is also driving us towards economic collapse.
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Why Myanmar’s Genocide Denial Will Come Back to Haunt It
Maung Zarni | Free Rohingya Coalition/The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
17 Jan 2020 – As the International Criminal Court proceeds with its own separate investigation into Myanmar’s crimes against the Rohingya, it is imperative that the prosecutor name Aung San Suu Kyi, along with the generals, as partners in crime. The international community must stand firm in holding her to account.
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A Hundred Reasons That Make Vaccine Hesitancy Logical and Compatible with the Actual Science of Vaccinology
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Even if Big Pharma’s Investors/Wall Street and the Pseudo Scientists at the CDC and AAP Complain – On Aluminum-adjuvanted Vaccines, Autoimmunity, Alzheimer’s Dementia and Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Under US Pressure, Social Media Companies Censor Critical Content and Suspend Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian Accounts
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
12 Jan 2020 – As the US escalates its hybrid wars, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are suspending accounts and censoring content that conflicts with Washington’s pro-war narrative. We spoke to several people silenced in these social media purges.
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Qatar: End of Abusive Exit Permits for Migrant Workers
Human Rights Watch | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
20 Jan 2020 — Qatar announced on Jan 16 that most migrant workers previously prevented from leaving the country without their employer’s permission will no longer need an exit permit, Human Rights Watch said today. But domestic workers will have to notify employers before leaving.
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Greenpeace Included with Neo-Nazis on UK Counter-Terror List
Vikram Dodd and Jamie Grierson – The Guardian,
20 Jan 2020
17 Jan 2020 – Extinction Rebellion, Sea Shepherd, Stop the Cull and PETA also named in anti-extremism briefing alongside Combat 18 and National Action.
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(Português) Área com Alertas de Desmatamento na Amazônia Aumenta 85% em 2019
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 jan 2020 – De janeiro a dezembro de 2019 foram registrados 9.165,6 km² de área com alertas de desmatamento na Amazônia Legal.
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Update
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Sigh!
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Will We Always Be This Way?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – “The people do not want war!” Perhaps this sanguinary legacy is why, in survey after international survey, the United States is perennially voted the world’s greatest threat to peace in most of the world’s nations. After Soleimani’s assassination, Trump boasted that ‘his bloody rampage is forever gone.’ If only the same were true of Trump. . .
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Human Extinction Now Imminent and Inevitable? A Report on the State of Planet Earth
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
There are at least four distinct paths to imminent (that is, within five years) human extinction: nuclear war (possibly started regionally), biodiversity collapse (already well advanced and teetering on the brink), the deployment of 5G (commenced recently) and the climate catastrophe. Needless to say, each of these four paths might unfold in a variety of ways.
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On The Brink of War?
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – Are we on the brink of a Third World War? There are signs that demand that we ask this question. Three clusters of signs compel us to probe a question that could well determine the future of our civilisation.
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Satellite Constellation and Crown Chakra as Complementary Global Metaphors?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
13 Jan 2020 – An earlier document focused on the imminent launch into orbit of the Starlink satellite constellation of some 12,500 communication satellites, and especially on their problematic psycho-social and symbolic implications. Experimental Representation of Crown Chakra in Virtual Reality
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(Italiano) La tecnologia 5G: verità a confronto… e le ambiguità della Scienza
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
9 Gennaio 2020 – L’introduzione di questa nuova tecnologia riguarderà un numero enorme di persone: non solo quelle direttamente coinvolte nelle fasi di progettazione, implementazione e commercializzazione, e gli utenti che vorranno utilizzarla, ma milioni di cittadini e cittadine che, senza averlo scelto e spesso a loro insaputa, si troveranno immersi in una fitta rete di segnali elettromagnetici. Il pubblico sta ricevendo ormai da tempo messaggi pubblicitari che danno per scontata la diffusione del sistema a 5G.
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Two-Nation Theory Re-examined–and a Few Reflections on India’s Citizenship (Amendment) Bill
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
30 Dec 2019 – The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill would revive the two-nation theory, which implied Hindus and Muslims are two different nations, hence they cannot stay together. The architects of this theory were Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Muhammad Iqbal, and on the basis of this theory British India was partitioned into India and Pakistan. Jinnah and Iqbal must be smiling in their graves as their TNT idea gets new adherents, and Gandhi must be turning in pain.
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Pity the Nation
Kahlil Gibran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave
and eats a bread it does not harvest.
(Français) Comment Haïti est devenu la « république des ONG »
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
9 janvier 2020 – Le désastre de la reconstruction de l’un des pays les plus pauvres au monde, après le séisme meurtrier du 12 janvier 2010, est l’histoire d’un rendez-vous manqué des acteurs de l’humanitaire avec le peuple haïtien.
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Becoming God! “Controlling Human Ontology:” Ambitions of the “Secret-State Confederation”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
9 Jan 2020 – I use the word “Confederation” because I do believe no single group, no single nation, and no single concern is capable of controlling and dominating humanity, nations, and the world. Defining characteristics of sinister “Confederation” of individuals, groups, and organizations include:
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Lives in Astronomy
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
3 Jan 2020 – At present, history is taught as though power struggles were its most important aspect. Furthermore, the present teaching of history is indoctrination in nationalism. We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a growth to which all nations and ethnic groups have contributed.
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Open Letter to Members of the U.S. Congress
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – I listened to Trump from my own perspective and with an attempt to hear his words as if I were an Iranian living in Iran. I found the statement belligerent, and formulated in an imperialist/hegemonic language, avoiding a diplomatic sequel, and instead resuming the ‘maximum pressure’ approach involving threats and further intensified sanctions and other coercive moves that will bring additional suffering to the Iranian people.
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(Português) Joaquin Phoenix é preso durante protesto em Washington
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
12 jan 2020 – O ator vegano Joaquin Phoenix, que recentemente recebeu o prêmio de Melhor Ator no 77º Globo de Ouro por sua interpetração em “Coringa”, foi preso na última sexta-feira (10) logo após discursar em protesto em Washington DC contra as mudanças climáticas.
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For Western Press, the Only Coup in Venezuela Is against Guaidó
Lucas Koerner | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – The international corporate media have entered crisis mode following the replacement of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as head of the country’s National Assembly. In headline after headline, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro “Takes Over”, “Claims Control of” or “Seizes” parliament, and “Ousts” Guaidó in the process. However, the elementary if inconvenient fact is that Guaidó failed to secure the necessary votes from his own coalition’s deputies to continue as president of the legislature.
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The Current U.S. Approach to Nuclear Weapons Can Only Lead to Armageddon
Prabir Purkayastha | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – The U.S. is returning to its post-World War II U.S. vision of a Pax Americana. This is embedded in its nuclear doctrine, its strategic vision of controlling all theaters of war, and defining its competition in regional theaters as “revisionist powers.” That the U.S. and its leaders do not understand the world would not have mattered so much in an earlier era. Today, any war, let alone a nuclear one, will inevitably have global consequences. Arms Control Provides the Only Path to Peace
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The Gene Drive Dilemma: We Can Alter Entire Species, but Should We?
Jennifer Kahn – The New York Times,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it. “It’s not just a question of whether or not we should use gene drives. It’s about coming to grips with our failures.”
→ read full article(Français) Le Schéma de la Pensée de L’Encyclique Laudato Sii du Pape François
Antonino Drago - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Le schéma de la pensée de la Laudato Sii du pape François n’est pas le classique de la doctrine sociale de l’Église : les textes sacrés, interprétés par le Magistère, prescrivent aux fidèles de précis comportements. Ce schéma est appelé intégriste, car il fait descendre du haut de principes et de normes l’entière comportement des membres de l’institution ecclésiale.
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Activism, Nonviolence, Direct Action: Strategy, Tactics, Organizing
Glen Perusek | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – The word “strategy” is overused and is often confused with tactics. This is a problem not just for organized labor and progressive movements; it is also endemic in business and many other realms of organized activity. This seems odd, given that the literature on strategy and tactics is thousands of years old. This article draws on some of that classical literature.
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Welcome to Hawaii’s ‘Plastic Beach’, One of the World’s Dirtiest Places
Liz Barney and Michelle Broder Van Dyke – The Guardian,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – Hawaii has long evoked images of a Pacific paradise but Kamilo Beach, located on the Big Island, presents a starkly different reality.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
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Alan Turing: Gay Man Who Saved the World yet Died in Disgrace
Craig A. James | Church and State – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Alan Turing was the inventor of the modern digital computer, laying down the mathematical foundation for all computer science. In World War II, his genius at breaking Nazi secret codes saved the world from Nazi domination– not figuratively, but in actuality. But in 1954 homosexuality was illegal in England; Turing was given a choice between imprisonment and chemical castration. He committed suicide. If Turing hadn’t been homosexual, his name might be a household word like Einstein, Newton and Galileo.
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India: A Dangerous New Low in State-Sponsored Hate
Harsh Mander | The Hindu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
7 Jan 2020 – In Uttar Pradesh, police bias and the scale of violence against the minorities are plumbing new depths. It may not be an exaggeration to say that the Chief Minister has declared war on the minority communities of his State, inciting and encouraging his police forces to unleash upon them an unlawful and brutal reign of terror.
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From Resistance to Assistance: Little Pushback to Trump’s Iran Assassination
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
9 Jan 2020 – The allegation is that he targeted US troops or “contractors”—i.e., mercenaries—stationed not at home, but in a region on the other side of the world that the US illegally attacked and has occupied for most of this century. “Soleimani provided effective military resistance to foreign occupying forces,” though, sounds very different from “killed hundreds of Americans.”
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Nonkilling Paradigm
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
21 Dec 2019 – Springer academic publishers has just released The Nonkilling Paradigm: For World Peace and Enlightenment by Dr. Katyayani Singh and Dr. Anoop Swarup. The book addresses the human civilizational ethos and explores the concept of the nonkilling paradigm concerning human dignity, human rights, affirmative nonkilling, positive peace and the advancement of human existence.
→ read full articleThe Propaganda Multiplier: How Global News Agencies and Western Media Report on Geopolitics
A Study by Swiss Propaganda Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
2016 / 2019 – It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris. The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world.
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India’s New Citizenship Act Legalizes a Hindu Nation
Anil Varughese | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
India’s recently passed Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 is a frontal assault on the idea of India as a secular, pluralist democracy. The new law makes religious affiliation one of the grounds for citizenship, violating the basic structure of the Indian constitution.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2020–Nomination Info in English, Français, Deutsch, Русский, Castellano, Svenska–Deadline: 31 Jan
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Please nominate for the 2020 Nobel Prize – Information below in English, French, German, Russian, Castellano and Swedish
→ read full articleIran/USA: Assassination Aftermath–Is There a Win-Win Way Out?
Diane Perlman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Is there a way to create a new reality that addresses the interests of major parties? The TRANSCEND Method is based on the central thesis that to prevent violence and develop the creative potential of a conflict, there has to be transformation. Normal conflicts are complex and involve many actors, goals and issues.
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Total Plan of Structural Transformation for Eradicating Conflicts in Africa
Daisuke Nojima – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Usually Japanese people would dream a dream, “Yume”, on the second night of a new year, in order to forecast fortune of the year, and would talk its content to family and friends. And, “Yume” also means ideal future plan of a person. So, let me indicate my own idea of solution for major conflicts in African continent. Here is simply a “Yume” also, if you might regard this as too unrealistic or just dreamy, please be generous.
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Pity the Nation (after Kahlil Gibran)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Richard Falk at the First Global Conference on Israeli Apartheid
If Americans Knew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
29 Nov 2019 – “The policies and practices used by Israel to exercise control over the Palestinian people constitute apartheid under international criminal law. Perceiving the conflict through the prism of occupation rather than apartheid blocks all efforts to achieve a sustainable and just peace while giving Israel time needed to turn the occupation into a full-fledged annexation.”
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TMS Promotion: We need someone to Double the Donations received in a given period–Please Come Forward!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Let’s talk. Thank you! OUR HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTE TO OUR WORK!
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34,000 Haitians Still Displaced 10 Years on from Quake
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – In the camps, the head of the IOM’s mission in Haiti reported that there was no electricity for most of the day, access to waters if difficult, there are areas that are very overcrowded, overpopulated. They are not either willing or do not have the possibility to move out of the displacement site, while some are even doing construction, trying to settle in these areas.
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Over 1 Billion Animals Feared Dead in Australian Bushfires
Brittney Deguara | Stuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – It’s estimated over a billion animals have now died in the bushfires ravaging Australia. The original, conservative estimate of half a billion animal deaths in the state of New South Wales was recently raised by University of Sydney ecologist Chris Dickman.
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A Call to US Catholics: Let Us End Our Complicity in War
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – United States wars have literally set the Middle East on fire. Several million people in the Middle East and North Africa have been killed, and tens of millions maimed, traumatized, and made into refugees. Catholic taxpayers should make every effort to avoid paying for war and weapons. Rather, embrace Jesus, who calls us to love our enemies, put up the sword, and take up the cross.
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UN – Iran – USA
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
I hope the world will wake up and destroy, bankrupt the Death Industry thus frustrating the ambitions and immorality of many politicians, diplomats and bankers, helping all working in the Military Industry to find other jobs.
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
YES!
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(Português) Couro contribui com a matança de um bilhão de animais ao ano
David Arioch - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
13 Jan 2020
10 jan 2020 – Muitas pessoas que repudiam o uso de casacos de pele não veem problema em usar couro, que é resultante do violento abate de animais.
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The Fed Protects Gamblers at the Expense of the Economy
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – This does not serve the real economy, in which products, services and jobs are created. However, the Fed is trapped into this speculative monetary expansion to avoid a cascade of defaults of the sort it was facing with the long-term capital management crisis in 1998 and the Lehman crisis in 2008. The repo market is a fragile house of cards waiting for a strong wind to blow it down, propped up by misguided monetary policies that have forced central banks to underwrite its highly risky ventures.
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Robotics and Artbeings — Fact or Fiction
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
9 Jan 2020 – One has heard of Robots that can perform many tasks which humans can, and sometimes even better. Now there are reports of building artificial men and women — not robots, but human beings look-alikes, similarly dressed, that can speak some languages. What was the basic idea of inventing such artbeings (artificial human beings) has not been made clear.
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Fragmentation in the Axis of Resistance Led to Soleimani’s Death
Elijah J Magnier – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
5 Jan 2020 – Iran invested 40 years building the “Axis of the Resistance”. It cannot remain idle, faced with the assassination of the Leader of this axis. Would a suitable price be the US exit from Iraq and condemnation in the Security Council? Would that, together with withdrawal from the nuclear deal, be enough for Iran to avenge its General? All sides, friend and foe, are awaiting its response.
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Antonino Drago - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
The pattern of thought of Pope Francis’ Encyclic Laudato Sii is not the classical one of the social doctrine of the Church, for which the sacred texts, interpreted by the Magisterium prescribe the precise behavior to a faithful. This pattern of though is called integralist, because it brings down from the top of principles and norms the right behavior of the members of the Church institution.
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The Context That Goes Unmentioned in Coverage of the Soleimani Assassination
Rob Lipton | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – There are two primary issues I want to look at: how this event is playing out in the mainstream media (MSM), and the coverage (or lack thereof) of Israeli state actors, U.S. based support, and individual Trump supporters who pushed for and/or were instrumental in implementing this blatant act of war.
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Iran Ends Nuclear Deal Commitments as Fallout from Suleimani Killing Spreads
Martin Chulov and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad – The Guardian,
13 Jan 2020
5 Jan 2020 – Iran has announced that it will no longer abide by any of the limits imposed by the unravelling 2015 nuclear deal, and Iraq’s parliament urged its leaders to expel troops from the US-led coalition, as the aftershocks of the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Suleimani reverberated through the Middle East.
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Overcoming Evil: Interview with Noam Chomsky on the Future of Humanity
Thomas Pogge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
3 Nov 2019 – Interview with Noam Chomsky on the Targets, Prospects and Tactics of Political Action Today
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(Português) Mais de Três Mil Golfinhos Sofrem em Cativeiro no Mundo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
9 jan 2020 – Há 3.029 golfinhos mantidos em cativeiros e usados como atrações em 54 países, e confinados em espaços até 200 mil vezes menores que seu habitat.
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Canny AI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Imagine All the Politicians…
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Soap Opera USA: When the Truth Topples the Trickster’s Tactics
Joe Kandra and Kathie Malley-Morrison – Engaging Peace,
13 Jan 2020
Yawn…
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Myanmar’s For-Profit Genocide
Wendy Bone | The Investigative Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – Brutal operations against the Rohingya minority and stealing their land in Rakhine are crimes under international law — violations supported by Myanmar’s military business ties, foreign companies and arms deals.
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Olympic Committee Bans Athletes from Making Political Protests during 2020 Games
Joe Jurado | The Root – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – Any Olympic athlete thinking of taking a knee or raising a fist in Tokyo during the 2020 Olympic Games may have to think twice. The International Olympic Committee released new guidelines on 9 Jan that specify what protests will not be accepted. Mainly, all of them.
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‘If You Are Wondering Who Benefits’: Weapons Makers See Stocks Surge as Trump Moves Closer to War with Iran
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Almost immediately after the United States assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike on 2 Jan, major American weapons manufacturers and defense contractors—from Northrop Grumman to Lockheed Martin to Raytheon—saw their stocks surge as investors sensed the growing likelihood of another war in the Middle East.
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Changing Perceptions on Homosexuality
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Until the mid-1970s, Swedish law defined homosexuality as a disease.
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Attacks on Iran–Past and Present
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
On Fri 3 Jan 2020, progressives in the United States and all peace-loving people throughout the world were horrified to learn that Donald Tromp had added to his long list of crimes and imbecilities by ordering the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, who is a hero in his own country, Iran.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
2 Jan 2020 – The state is a culture of war. In this case the state is the United States and their culture of war is shown in their role in the overthrow of President Morales of Bolivia (precisely because he was promoting a culture of peace) and their threat to punish Julian Assange (precisely because he revealed the secrets of their culture of war.) Not to mention that the states of the world are unable to seriously attack the problem of global warming, and the USA is the worst in this regard.
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A New Decade
Mazin Qumsiyeh– TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
2 Jan 2020 – We entered 2020, a year that heralded an unlivable situation in Gaza according to the UN and a new decade that many are predicting will radically transform the world (either make it or break it on many fronts from world peace to climate change). Freedom is never given to oppressed people from outside. It must be generated by resistance and via pressure primarily from inside (outside help is welcome as with BDS just like in South Africa).
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Why US Assassinated General Qassem Soleimani
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
The Pentagon said US President Donald Trump had ordered Gen. Soleimani’s assassination on 3 Jan. All US attempts to isolate Iran by abrogating the nuclear deal “and imposing stringent, unwarranted and illegal economic sanctions on Iran have failed dismally,” and the attempt to destabilize the Islamic Republic “internally have also recently been met with defeat.”
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Militarism: Social Cancer–Cold, Sobering Reality of Undeniable Facts
Fred Dubee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
1 Jan 2020 – As we start the New Year, it might be worthwhile having a glimpse of what might be assumed to be priorities of one nation and think a bit about the implications for the rest of the world. Numbers don’t lie.
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Unlawful Dog and Monkey Suffering Uncovered at German Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Cruelty Free International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES – Dogs left bleeding and dying, and monkeys being routinely abused has lifted the lid of secrecy on regulatory safety testing. This abuse and the unimaginable suffering of cats, dogs and monkeys are unlawful. Yet this is the reality of laboratory life for animals.
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(Castellano) Bolivia: Por Hablar de Golpe de Estado Te Catalogan como ‘Sedicioso’ y Te Persiguen Penalmente
Alex Anfruns – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
28 Dic 2019 – En Bolivia hay que tener cuidado con lo que se dice y se hace, si no quiere que un juez le acuse de “sedición y terrorismo” para meterle entre rejas. Fue el caso de periodistas argentinos y venezolanos que visitaron el país para informar sobre las masacres.
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